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Evening star., 1898-10-15
HOW TO SIT DOWN.
Here AIe Some Pointers Which May
he Useful to You.

Here AIe Some Pointers Which May
he Useful to You.
From the New York Herald
For many years it has been asserted that
the American girl does not know Row 20
enter room and sit down properly. I'm
fortunately, many careful mother tells
her young daughter to be sure and keep
her knees well in when standing. walking
or sitting. The result is that when The giri
grows to womanhood she has a pair of
tightly locked knees. She lacks tie free
easy swing Of her less well-bred country
cousin. and realizes that she has become
stilted and awkward by too much caltiva-
tion and care. She cannot sit on a chair
without doing so awkwardly. Now, We
have a simple little remedy for all this. 1t
is to force out the knees, making each knee
follow in the direction of its ankle.
This Is the new way to Sit on a chair
properly: Learn to locate the seats in
room without appearing 10 do SO. Observe
a chair OF sofa before walking to it, and do
not look at it before sitting down. Place
the weight of the body on the foot nearest
the chair. Cross the free foot in front of
the other. and pivot around until the leg
" hich has the weight of the body upon IL
rests against the side of the chair. Cross
one foot over. the other, allowing the rear
foot to rest on the floor, and the instep of
the forward foot to rest against the ankle
of the rear foot
Many young women say they can sit
upon an ordinary chair properly, but wher.
1t comes 10 a low, high or oddly fashioned
chair they fail, as far as gracefulness is
concerned.
Girls of the coming winter will have to
acquire the art of sitting upon all sorts
and kinds of chairs, because parlo-s and
reception rooms Of the fashionable houses
will be filled with low camp stools and
high broad seats.
Each chair serves its special purpose The
dainty gilt chair may be used by the So
ciey girl, who throws herself back in It
and carelessly toys with her fan as she en-
tertains a room full Of guests, or by the
debutante who sits only upon the edge, al
lowing her back to remain unsupported,
thereby giving to herself that delightfully."-
expectant air that betrays to her admirers
that she has just started out on her little
journey through the social world.
Where is the girl who can sit on the floor
properly? She is the girl to envy. for she
will be in her glory this winter, when seat
ed on an immense bear skin rug, before an
old-fashioned, blazing fire, looking through
big books filled with pictures of the war
books too heavy to be handled anywhere
except upon the floor.
And for the languid girl-the easy chair
girl-there is a favorite position. She
throws her head back on the soft. rounded
top OF the chair and relaxes every muscle.
Evening star., 1898-10-15
The First Cards,

From the Philadelphia Press.
Each year that passes brings some new
fad for the baby. and the advent of this
tiny stranger means round of festivities
at which the little bundle of pink chubbi-
ness is the center of attention. The tiny
Dimples arrived in this mundane sphere
are crested and monogramed and wholly
elegant and correct. They bear the baby's
full name and the date of Its birth in the
lower left-hand corner. The card is in
clos I'd in an envelope with the mothers
visiting card. upon which Is engraved her
day at home or the special and particular
date of the baby's christening party. The
recipients of these cards are, of course. ex-
pected to pay homage to the newcomer and
call upon him. when they will be received
by mamma in her prettiest tea gown and
permitted to drink the cherub's health in
CUPS of tea,
Evening star., 1898-10-15
The Plaid Stocking.

From the Boston Herald.
The plaid stocking is this year such a
beauty that the travelling girl wears 81
without fail. She chooses, If she can afford
1t, the sandal stocking, which has the ap-
pearance of white ribbon twisted around
the foot and ankle like the Roman sandal
of old. 1t continues from the toe TO the
top, and is quite the most remarkable stock
ing Of the season. Small flowers of deli
cate design are scattered over the ground
work of the stocking proper
The other popular type of stocking IA
much less expensive than the sandal stoclS-
ing, which is a novelty. 1t is a double plaid
in red, green, blue, yellow black and white.
There are stocking parties. Have you
never heard of them. when young women
of expensive hosiery tastes gather of an
afternoon to sew and gossip and exhibit
stockings2
Evening star., 1898-10-15

SILK or satin Many are strictly tailor-rneJe,
with simple garniture rows 0f wnl., silk
stltchngs or stranpngs or appliqued
hgurfs of white cloth, while Others show
garnitures of Euipurc or embroiderirs in
gold thread and borders Of fur
Oar handsome model fits Very tightly It
the shoulders, and has a wide sernantfna
fiounce. Hired with white duchess satin. ike
the cape. The front has two long reIeres Of
white SATIN Veiled with gold embroidered
gulpure lace. The high flaring collar. as
We'll as the Marie Antoinette hood, is
llned with the same Suipure covered satin,
and a narrow band of sable borders tho
hood, collar, reveres ana serpa1una fiuunce.
OF Cream-CoIored Cloth.
Still another elegant model is made of
ceep cream-colnred cloth, with the same
glossy surface. There is no hounce, but the
front and back are cut in deep shawl-l!ke
points, reaching beyond tn knees. The
lining Is of white satin, and the trimming
consists Of alternate clus er.s of cry small
trcks and bands Of narrow whit, satin rih-
bon and insertions of ValencIonnes lace.
! he Medici collar is trimmed 20 match A
DAINTY little toque Of cream-color,d velvet
win TWO large white rlUmes held with a
StraSS agraffe. completes the hite effect
ana adaPts the costume particularly well
for theater wear
That Fashion is inclined Ia make the
coming season a white" one is evident IN
another proclamation to her followers rs
SardinS the wearing Of white gloves The
acme OF elegance is no longer 10 match Tho
costume in the shade Of the hand cover
ing; but the white glove will I>c, worn rnr
all occasions and at all times rar very
ordinary, the common white washable cha
ihplS glove VIII conceal madame'S dainty
hand IN its ugly folds: with the taflor-nada
gown. the glace glove. with wide stitched
black seams, Will be CONNIE il fart while
Tor evening Wear, the choice is allowed he
tween the white glace or the immaculate
white undTessed.
For Autumn ErocLs.
Next to white, silver gray and male "a,
range in public favor for outside garments
while purple. hriotrope ana nauve are
seen in SOME of the newest and prettiest
Irocks OF the season.
Velvet, which Will play an important role
in the new fan and winter gowns. shows
up particularly well in these rich shades of
purple.
novelty in this line consists Of yeI,-at
embroidered with little stars, polka dots,
or tiny c0nVcnti0nalizcd flowers done in
some contrasting shade. and used princi-
pally for millinery purposes
The taste for spotted velvet is followed
by the choice of spcckled plumage for ,leco-
rative purposes in winter ruilltuerv al
though ostrich plumes entirely suprrsede
the palmer wings and quills for very
dreSSy wear.
Hats are again made in shades to match
the gowns with which they are to lie
worn.
FeiJ will be much worn with tailor-made
and street gowns, while the velvet hat or
bonnet will be de rgueur for more drossv
wear.
Fashion tends in the direction of capotes
ana small toques. and strings or "barhes''
of velvet or tulle are shown on MANY ~
the most stylish capotes.
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Evening star., 1898-10-15

OF an ocean trip by a man with whom he
has had no shore acquaintanceship and who
appears to be unknown by all the rest of
the passengers he is liable to conclude,
toward the end Of the voyage, that he has
been had" by a professional card player,
and he is also pretty likely to tell his wife
of this, in order to palliate his purse-fabby
condition. While he himself always feels
too small after arriving at the determina-
ton that he has been done by sharp either
to denounce the gambler or TO complain
to the steamship company, his wife, II she
be of the proper militant sort. probably has
no such hesitancy, and 1t Is from wives of
this character that the steamship companies
receive complaints, of the gamblers
Large Sums Lost.
Large sums of money have been lost to
the professional gamblers on the liners
within very recent years without the
knowledge of the losings ever becoming
public property Since the prof1igate son
Of a wealthy piano manufacturer lost his
reason on account of sex extraordinary dissi-
pations about Year ago number of we'll
known New YorKsmenswho happened to be
aboard the same Southampton steamship
with the swift youth about three years ago
have been telling.how he lost nearly ZOO
to one of the sharpers in the course OF the
six-day cruise. The young man, up to the
time his mind went7back on him. had not,
on his own admission, been quite sober for
a matter of nearly eight years. AT the be-
ginning of this costly voyage he met in
the smoking room a thoroughly we'll
groomed. clever and even brilliant man of
thirty-five or thereabout. for whom he con-
ceived q great liking, This man had not
long been operating ON the steamers, and
he had switched ships. on every cruise he
made for profit. so that he was not known
to any of the steamship Officers. 1t after
ward came out that he had been the head
clerk of one of the most famous of the Chi
cago hotels and that he had lost this posi-
ton owing to his penchant for Sseducing
foreign tourists into seances at the great
American game of draw, at which he
f1eeced many famous men who came from
Europe to see the worlds fair and who put
up at the hostelry of which he was the
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-26
WITH A oRoAN HE TURNED AND GAVE CHASE

rades nerves to fddle-srings-dong the Long Ede lay stretched by the bun de of skins reading his only book the Bible open now at trousers rolled himself in his hammock whence he through the little trap doors and chvyng the layers smoke Whenever Lashman broke out into fresh till the nails dug hard into the palm He groaned at 7Oh stow it. George! Damn it all, man.
 He checked himself sharp and short repentant and re- men all and tender dealing with sick shipmate was part Lashman's voice, querelous than ever. cut into the like m dnTe 6e thought it for weeks and now you say it. I've knowed 1t all along m just an encumbrance and the you're shut of me the better you You of Bin |O'99''e
 Easy there. matey. The snpe glanced his
 It'll make quiet, you mean. PlucRy deal about easin' me, any of yer!
 Get out with your nonsense Dan didr't ti The saGgsd Re pillow m of sins and gunny bags se' ana
 Let him say it. Let him say he didn't mean it, the
 Cooney flung leg wearily over the side his ham, mock .rked himself out and shufed across to the sick
 Av coorge didn't nane it It just took me, ye see ness swear to ye & s9ge & and yen just yet youF throat up nanikn from the floor beside the bunk. pulled hot iron from the fire and stirred the frozen drink The Cooney repeated; He set down the pankn and shufed
 The Gaffer blew a long cloud stared at the fre the smoke mounting and the ash dropping-drop thumb between each Long Ede shifted from one cranped eP9w to anoneT ana m pushed his 6pe nearer ] the blaze our vines
 BaSa fsed s sPPs Pad the qS in his cheek The cards humbed and tattered that the backs sed Yet they went on playing hi night after night the
 Play away, man: What ais yer, he asked sat Rhistl HR Sttff aud ontsdt listeaies fhe door
 listened. nothing" aft ter
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TN one-roomed hut high within Arctic Circle and
 were sittEg-much they had sat, evening after
 eR9 e 6 f Pe bd I6 hs da had and n6 f96k m a9d @
 of fact 1t was always night. But the clock said
 The hut was built Of logs with inner of rough boarding, daubed with pitch It measured IT feet two beow-tools yard off the length and this made the doors with brass atches inner side; the owner chose, himself up and go sleep ony-that by his feet The other swung pack with it's brass latch showing. The men kept these latches in
 Across the angle of the wall. to left door, one a6oVe the other No one siept in the 9ppermost
 But the feature of the hut was it's fireplace and this mountain of soft gray ash the fire burned always chimney and So the men lost none of it's warmth smoke ascended steadily and spread itself under the black about IS inches below the spring of the roof there
 cold air, below the almost of smoke A newcomers eyes might have smarted but and crevce in the bboard1e be65y tbe trapdonrs
 with moss and paved the seams with pitch The fire they fed from stack of drift wood piled right I 6d 1e and 5oe f2g the Lehng G seweq the 1zen @ 6efTs axes & and M 2shed hther from they Kg & not what & the R. MacNeil which had brought them from Dundee known as The Gaer David Faed also of Dundee George Lashmag of Cardiff Long Ede of Ha91ei in Cornwall; thereabouts and Daniel Cooney shipped From soc six weeks before the wreck, Irish-Amer1can by
 The Gaffer reclned his bunk reading by the light J. R. MacNe and was now captain as well as patriarch d S5 the Bar5g He possessed s m hree n9 m @ Bbe MI gh Spy Just now he was reading The Turkish Spy the slvery hairs beard the slack of which he had tucked under the edge of his blanket. His lips at Faed and the Snpe who busy beside the fire with bling of Eashman inthe bunk below him pV .
 Lashna9 had taken to his bed six weeks before with hardly knew 1t, these complaints wearing his
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The Gaer ceased and the act of rising caught sight Of Long Fdes face While the others Ietcnea tel Dra fast cans he stepped over and bent ana "hispereo'
 s'Tell me what!
 Seer? % Long Ede echoed, |. .1. ,-9n
 Ay, what? Speak loWWaS II 5iS ias en bs ,nz 1 his face grew fi of uncomprehending It frightened the Gaffer .,... .o,5 'sYei the of snatch of sleep said he and he turned when Long Eoe stllleo ia4-u Nie1 le edge of his
 .sSeven-count' he whispered .... ,, Lord have mercy us the & Carer @ mueeeo Z 10 his yet though hour two ago this was the worst fu the others, they like different men all day through the three days that followed Even Iashman ceased complain, and, unless their eyes played them Q trick had taken for the better T declare don't feel like pitching to sing the Snpe announced the second evening much to his own wonder as theirs Then why in thunder don't you up? answered Dan Cooney, and fetched hs con The Snpe struck then and there NlAiklns and his Dinah What is more the Gaer looked up rom his Paradise Lost" and joined the chorus
 By the end of the second day Long Ede was up and
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 9a GiSedng E5h h We're soy feene bo e as ii uWRng connsJ t sfeafa foatpg & Hf ice and frozen
 breath from them G9rSa eous circle T % de d Ts bs hs g0 aoT a in thin G wSps of They could almost
 the ins RSsFh voice aan and ne1 deip f ebsgP be my oF told eg M He battered prayer his voice and 'Hush!'' Commanded the Gafer gently and Lash +no t d an't bears cooney reported st his ear to foxee aye Weye e had bears before The Long Ede murmured Take the foxes the little f,v believe @ Es you're % right the aer cheer ng The Was n 5 or 4 6eres no tell FRPetfy F6eSg thick dn ie outside pdo and If him corner fat is pretty 5ql by this time he there
 ike breath It's gone now SS eome etne here, naFs Here Ss 6a9 y6a4 Sssa down nothing notice sod The snPe bent his head And that the door ,a and faeringly descend the staple. They heard ,ae. The door secured by two stout bars
 Bnt the ae Was not fted sa sga sfas SfSsf f399sy fy oT TGy his a feet B 5se e % a dd gn I m ehoH on 2dSk into & hs r0 of @ his bunk ia and the look qsietiy 9 5e Long haeS @ it s hs @ of bs c shot gg Te trap his 9ng eap s ed ghfa @ his Ga pPe tied @ down ts n qGety mounted His head a6d s5oe ungeT MeTr ns arm @ grew sight smoke wTeaths Heard any- r a thng m2re2' he asked Nothing since answered the They saw his head framed in panel of moonlight, with Pitch him seepngbag somsbody, GaTer Or: dered and Cooney ran with 'Thankee said They heard his feet sealthily crunehing the frozen Overlapping the door Their sseDe y h s ed for the explosion of his None The the caves It mounted to the blunt ridge overhead He will have seen aught,' David Faed muttered in snar yop Listen H by the door agan They talked They crept back to the fire and stood there warming them
 e oneT 9n of f to M a not an9 % his bunk, alongside Lashman's The Gafer picked up blaze and remained beside it. covering With his o ars 1ns @ ad down 9 o h bunf s bd h a6 acress -6 the ire & he S still stared , at the the latch
 not him the they Eants Bi! TRegre after i didn't qpen7 T1 I R iIyi's te iG sss 'n Why ague;
 cant sleep It's Bill, tell See his poor hammock cooney tumbed out with oath and thud Hush went behind him to his knfe-sheath "I wont. sir. Not unless"
 efh 6 bao aRa Rod for the third time t,, rsn oon
 The Garer leaned over the ledge and George. went to Bis, grave not SIX hours agone but only God can break up the hard earth he lies sleep eO - Long Ede crouched the frozen ridge of the hut with o M t snl n s hs ra his Tawn and the name that had tried the door was nowhere to be seen m but he had decided to wait few minutes the chance h Was dng h % ae gbg a m w m m az and the his mind had the
The San Francisco call., 1898-06-26

mental art is considerably developed They how curves ana spiras and they combine geometrical lines In such way obtain harmonious results they tattoo very complicated and beautiful designs. Tn New Zealand the figures supercharged and parallel curves, which surround the mouth, ' " "
 In the Marquesas Islands travellers have admired the perfection ana nneness of the lines of tatoong theTe and and Tn which figures of animals are haroniousy mixed With geometrfcal designs the well sculptured objects These tattoong designs
 like the ornamental art of the natives. have according
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LAl. THAN.
NEW GUINEA.

of these islands ~ o'eA5
 The ornamental of Guinea is highly deveoped but tatoong is not much practiced the women or the Motu tribe tattoo themselves, do t wifh perfection that cedes in nothing as practiced by the Poynesans. VI - - p.Se4Seo
 The Americans have taught to admire the very original art or the Haidah, Colombia who represent & man & and the animals according regular designs Their taoong is in every respect like the despna which they sculpture upon wood and sufces to see
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HAlDAH.
HAlDAH.

specimen of 1t in order to recognize it among thousand
 Iattooing therefore constitutes artistic manifesto
 on ana not one or the least primitive races happens mat as regards the Guanches the Canary isanos IS the principal of remains & 10 ns dnese people did not tattoo themselves in the proper sense or the word (which signifies of the d skin ldo wach eoloTng substance is ntoduced but pTinteo deslSI upon the body by matrices or ,pintaaderos. pint ae The Museum of Las Pamas Canary lsandsl possesses fine collection matrices in Wnlen we can see what was the ornamental Of this race. which has disanpeared,
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its art the handsomer be tattooing. Austra-
 Hans are acquainted with the primitive drawing only They trace straight parallel lines their arms and their few utensils They have reached the ignorant of symmetry alternaon and the various cp that preside the grouping of ornamental designs 50 their tattoong is rude and composed simply of few African worshpers of fetiches whose Is crude make very little of curves.
 Opposed to these the Polynesians whose orna-
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T- ATTOOING been studied from many points of view. It is very widely practced and has various
 origins. It is due to religious ideas distinc-
 tive signs among tribes, is offered recompense
 the valiant. or. finally. is true initiation mark
 passage from childhood to the adult practiced In different by burns which form scars Austraans); Gas among the Afrcans) finally, by fine p.nctures Is from the latter viewpoint that desire examine it.
 The greater the perfection which brought
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WREATHS.

about again. He went about with a look his He counting, counting hmself-aIWays counting. The Gaffer watched him furtfvefy.
 recovery, though his lips moved frequently Long Ede had scarcely uttered word. But toward on the fourth day he said extraordinary thing.
 There's that sleeping bag took with the other night wonder 1T the still. It will be frozen pretty stiff by this You might nip and see, Snpe' he paused-'if you find it, it up wonder Bills hammock
 Gaffer opened his mouth again without speaking. The Snipe the ladder.
 minute passed, and then they heard a he roof-a that fetched them all trembling choking weeping, cheering, the footaof the ladder: Boys! boys! the sun!"
 Months later-it June, and even George Iashman had recovered his strengththe Snpe running with news of the whaling fleet. And the beach, as they Satehed the vessels come to anchor Long Ede told the t-I reckon l was crazed eh?p The Carers eyes wan: boulders and away to the fowl wheeling shps ana then game to bis mind tale he had in the Turkish Spy. 'I wouldn't he swered slowly. Any way, said Long Ede 1T believe the Lord sent miracle to wouldn't just that either the objected 'T doubt if was meant just for and the were nre- sairved, as you say, inceedentaly' f
 Copyright, 1898, by Arthur Quller Crunch
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-26
Busy Time For Tattooists.

The various Bowery professors
who make living by tattooing Ameri-
can flags on the arms and chests Of the
rising generation are exceedingly busy
at this time, Hundreds of youths are
having symbols of patriotism affixed to
their skins with india ink. The pain
Of the operation makes them hate our
country's foes worse than ever. Some
Of the tattooists' clients like to have
pictures on theiiae.rms' of Uncle Sam
throttling villainous looking Spanish
don in regulation bullfghter's costume.
On the Bowery there are regular tattoo
ing establishments. some of which en-
ploy several professors. and they have
had to take on new hands since the war
fever broke out. A rough sketch is made
on paper and adapted to suit the taste
OF the customer before IL is transferred
to his epidefmis. New York World.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-26
SimIa's Idea of Fun.

One of the most amusing incidents of
the recent Simla season was the imper-
sonation of two foreign noblemen by
two gentlemen we'll known in Simla So
ciety, one of them posing as the war
correspondent of the Italian paper
Roma. Skillful was the disguise, and SO
admirably were their parts kept up that
the two distinguished foreigners spent
the evening with party in the COM
mander in chiefs box and afterward had
supper on the stage with the actors
without their identity being discovered.
At supper the count appeared to find
the wines Of the English more potent
than those of his own country, and the
speechless horror of the mamma when
he commenced to pay marked court to
her daughter very nearly caused the
baron to die of suppressed laughter and
apoplexy. Next day, when the hoax
was discovered, there was some hutter-
ing in the dovecots as to what they had
said to the foreign noblemen and what
the wicked count had said to them. The
rest OF Simla roared. Lahore Civic and
Military Gazette