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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-15
ANOTHER EUROPEAN NOTE.
Movement on Notwithstanding i"r
snniu-WiII All Powers Join:

WASHINGTON, April lit was
learned tonight in high diplomatic quar-
ters that an exchange Of notes had De-
gun between the European capitals WIN
a view to making strong representations
on the Spanish-American situation. III
the same connection. al informal meeting
of the ambassadors and ministers IN TINS
city of the six great Powers OF Europe
was held late in the day. Several OF tue
foreign establishments received cable ad-
vices from their governments to-nigh'
as to the opening of the exchange OF
notes.
II is understood that the present move
ment is not of the same mild character
as the former one. simultaneously WIN
the rumor of the exchange word came
from Madrid that the Spanish Govern
ment was about to issue another appeal
to the great Powers of Europe. 1t Is
understood that this appeal is initiatory
TO the concert of the Powers, and there
is an apparent agreement in advance that
the appeal will receive favorable con-
sideratiOn.
SPANS APPEAL.
1t is said that Spains appeal will recite
her grievances against the United States,
stating in detail the many concessions
she has made and pointing out that Il
was in response to the urgent representa-
ton of the six joint Powers that the
last concession Of an armstice was
| granted.
II the Powers determine to act in the
matter their efforts will probably be d.
rected toward inducing the United states
to grant Spain sufficient time in which tc
try the armistice recently proclaimed.
PRESSURE AT WASHINGTON.
The present movement contemplateS
that influence shall be exerted at Wash
ington. rather than at Madrid, as It Is
the common belief in diplomatic quarters
that the Madrid authorities have reached
the limit OF concessions. There is no sug'
gestion. however, that this influence at
present will be of material character
but il is said TO be an assertion of al
the moral influence of the Powers II
checking tendencies which 1t is believed
inevitably will lead 70 war.
Up to late hour tonight word ha'
not been received at the various foreign
establishments that any common basis
of joint action had been reached, al
though It was the general impression tina
there would be little difficulty in ar
riving at this common ground, in view
of the prevailing sentiment abroad. II i
not so certain, however. that all of tn
Powers are ready for step of thi
| character. Germany has Of late shown
disposition TO avoid eXerting strong in
huence on the United States. Russia i
also thought to be somewhat Indifferent
as it was in the former case. Whethe
all of the six great Powers are ready 4
join in the movement is In doubt AM
without this united action it is telt tn
force of such influence would be lost
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-15
positfous VIII lie kept for Them.

WASHINGTON. April H.-Postmaster-
General Gary to-day issued an order that
employees of his department who enlist.
i'm case Of war. shall be granted leaves OF
absence, without pay, their positions TO
be held open for them.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-15
New Cruiser Mt New York.

NEW YORK. April 1.-THE United
States cruisers San Francisco and New
Orleans passed Sandy Hook at 1:i5 L. NJ,
and later on anchored OF Tompkinsville.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-15
Removal.

The Richmond Perpetual Building.
Loan and Trust Company have removed
10 1904 east Main street
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-15
4 Large Picture of Gen. Fiixhugn Leo

given to customers Saturday April 18th,
at c. ID. Kenny's two city stores-north-
west corner Broad and Sixth streets:
southeast corner Main and Seventeenth
streets.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-15
See
See
auction notices for
Sale Of Plants and Flowers
at
300 east Broad street.
Eireyyood Cheap.

The Virginia and North Carolina Wheel
Company is Offering Kiln-Dried Hickory
and oak Wood in suitable lengths FOR
cooking-stoves and heaters. This wood
is unsurpassed for cooking purposes.
and IL you use IL once YOU VIII uso
nothing else. Drop us card, or 'phone
us. Old phone. All: new phone iloo.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-15

be sure and use that Old and we.l-tried
remedy. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup.
for children teething IL soothes the
child, softens the gums. allays all pain.
cures wind collie, and Is the best remedy
for diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-07

numbers OF women who would gladly eI-
change their diamond tiaras and necklaces
for her ancient imitation stones, but fine
paste, though the thing most desired by
the feminine collectors today is the most
difficult article to procure.
1t Is Mrs. oliver Belmont who comes Oft
enest to the shops of bric-a-brac dealers
with a fashionable friend to pass Judgment
on some piece Of mahogany which the friend
has under consideration, for Mrs. Belmont
In one Of the few persons who can literally,
when blindfolded, put her hands on a piece
of this wood and tell In an instant whether
1t Is old and good or new and green. A part
OF her gifts from her parents at her mar
riage were wonderful sets OF mahogany bed
room and dining room furniture, taken from
their old home in the south. With this as
q starter she began to buy good mahogany
here and there, until the dealers In antiques,
learning of this taste, fell into the way Of
sending her word when any special prize
came into their hands. AS a collector she
is unique among women, for she never dis
putes a price. She prefers mahogany from
the south, and, after carefully examining a
chair or table, passing her white hands
caressingly over the wood, she puts down
the first price named, or drops the whole
matter then and there.
Another equally intelligent and delightful
collector, from the dealers standpoint, Is
Miss Maud Adams, whose taste Is exclusively
for miniatures. Miss Adams is not so well
known to the trade, though, as a tall, gray
haired woman who always looks over the
last bits OF old English plate one may have
in, inquiries II any relics of famous actresses
have turned up, and who has all an Irish
woman's genius for blarney when she wants
to hammer down a set price. This Is Miss
Ada Rehap. who has put thousands of dol
lars into these two fads of hers. In England
she has got together relics of the Siddons,
Kitty Give, Wellington and Rachel that are
worthy Of a place in a museum and her col
lection of plate fairly overflows both her
New York and English homes.
A strange development has come about In
our trade since women have cultivated a
taste for bric-a-brac. Prior to this new
interest of theirs we never had employed
women as travelling buyers for us through
the country, but in the south and New En-
gland, whence our best stock comes, our
most valued and expert buyers are two
young women. They were both Of them
country girls, in out-of-the-wa districts
looking for the means of earning a living
An inspiration came TO them to work thl
rich field Of antique furniture, brasses, cera-
mics, etc, stored In the farm and plantation
houses of the neighborhood.
So ~cleverly did they put through theil
project and such valuable stock do they con
trive to lay hands on that they COMMAND
their own wages, even in the very depths
of summer, when all other professions, save
that of the bric-a-brac buyer, is flatter thar
a stale griddle cake.
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which plainly enough indicates that this and
all the other new styles of toques must be
waited for until the autumn. Meantime, II
you wish to run shoulder to shoulder with
the fashions, you can adopt a pretty black
lace Napoleon toque, set far back on your
head and waving with large light plumes.
Very far down on the ears come the points
of this lace or tulle cap, but to most women
the effect is becoming.
LeEhOrns to the Fore.
There is n pretty plague of white leg
horns raging in the country settlements this
month-wide brimmed children's shapes and
Invariably trimmed one of two ways. Either
a scarf of mousseline b%rilliante, striped with
many rows OF narrow yellow lace, rufied
on, is wound and knotted about the crown
or a vatican wreath of pink roses e~ncircles
one-half OF crown and low hanging brim
with tufts OF green grenadine ribbon com
plotting the decoration. One would think the
period "of dotage was falling earlier thar
hitherto on our women, II the wearing OF
these babyish hats can be taken as an in
dication. Mothers OF we'll seasoned daugh.
tiers pin these white and rose CONNECTIONS
fit for school girls, on their grizzling heads
and go forth content, conspicuous ant
ridiculous.
Besides the leghorn flats, women, whc
gather on green lawns at the thresholds OF
club houses OF bright afternoons, displa,
rather widish hats OF deep yellow broom
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" be about the furtherest underdog in the
business OF buying and selling. but his boom
began about six years ago. IL has been a
rising boom ever since and he gratefully
admits that the women did 1t all. He can
prove It by showing you on his books a
dozen feminine for every masculine name.
at was the ultra fashionable women who
went in for antiques and bric-a-brac first,
said one dealer, who does a whirling busi-
ness in the winter. They and the actresses
who grow rich are our most valued patrons
and the shrewdest and most intelligent buy
ers, too, though feminine-like they exhibit
very marked eccentricities in selecting and
purchasing. For example, it is rarely we
find a woman who interests herself in more
than one species of bric-a-brac at a time.
Then, too, true TO their sex, they dearly
love to bargain, to hammer down the price
of everything they buy to the lowest posi-
bic figure and nine-tenths of our customers
won't buy at all until they have had the
article under discussion sent home, TO try
its effect among the remainder of their be-
longings. But the speciality system is what
exerts the largest influence on the woman
who treasures antiques-to be known and
envied for having the finest collection of
this or that particular style of plate, for
Vernis Martin or Sheraton furniture, for
Fifteenth century tapestries or Florentine
carved oak is the true goal of her ambition.
Profitable customers as they prove in the
long run, the women are not on this very
account easy to deal with. They are so apt
to know whereof they buy, they are Keen
eyed, incredulous, and among them are
recognized authorities on every species Of
bric-a-brac, who are as quick as hawks for
detecting the true from the false. Now,
when it comes to tapestries and French fur
niture Of other. days, a dealer must rise
early in the morning to get ahead of Miss
Hewett, the ex-mayor's daughter. She was
one of the first women in New York to go
in for this sort of thing and in her two
spetialties her decision is valued as that of
Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-07

a professional expert. From an artistic and
technical standpoint she knows pretty much
all there is to know Of the famous tapes
tries in this country and Europe, besides
herself possessing one of the choicest col
~lections in America, to which she adds
from time to time.
Next after Miss Hewett I doubt If there
Is a woman for whom bric-a-brac, dealers
cherish a deeper respect than Miss Elsie de
Wolf. Years before the taste for souvenirs
of other centuries was cultivated at all,
Miss de Wolf slowly and carefully gathered
up out of shops in New York and Paris bits
OF old French and Spanish paste, odd ex-
amples of gold and silver work in jewelry,
combs, rings, buckles, etc, and then she
added to this a really splendid array of
fans.
Her possessions of seventeenth and
eighteenth century paste alone could hardly
be matched now outside a European muse
UNI and now that this ardor for collecting
faf gr'nn so earnest, the value of her array
OF antique jewelry has increased to the
! proportions Of a small fortune. There are
Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-07

by constant contact with warm human
flesh. 1t is King Humbert who buys the
pearls for his wife, and he is, like Queen
Victoria, an expert in jewels.
The queen of Austria owns the greatest
emerald in the world and a necklace of
emeralds that is quite unrivaled. They, like
Margaret Of Italy's pearls, are now crown
property. The empress of Russia wears next
after Queen Victoria the largest diamond
and rubies of surprising splendor, but all
of these belong to the nation, though the
richest and most varied aggregation of pre-
cious stones are owned by the Russian
church. Not all the queens of Europe own
jewels to half the value of those set in the
statues, crosses, affairs and vestments at
the cathedrals of Moscow or st. Peters,
burg.
That quiet, domestic lady, queen of Dres-
den, enjoys the ownership of four sapphires
equal in size and beauty to the one that
CLOVIS in the crown of England, and the
~favorlte wives of the shah of Persia and
the sultan OF Turkey wear turquoises the
like OF which no western queen can boast.
Mrs. Langtry at one time owned the most
perfect set Of turquoises in Europe, but her
necklace and bracelets were sold at length
and the finest stones came to America. The
duchess of Westminster still wears, how:
ever, the largest flawless turquoise owned
by any private individual, the duchess OF
Sutherland possesses the only complete
necklace OF black pearls, and 1t is said by
jewelers. that Mrs. Potter Palmer's star
sapphires are still unrivaled.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-07

prospective, filled by her descendants. EN-
peror William is her grandson; his sister,
Princess Sophie, will one day be queen Of
Greece, unless Greece gets out Of the way
OF having queens. Emperor william has
six sons, one Of whom Is slated to marry
the young queen of Holland. Failing a
Frussian prince, W~ilhelmina may be mated
with one of her English cousins, who are
the queens grandsons, children Of the dead
Prince Leopold. Their mother, a princess
OF Waldeck-P yrmont, refused old King Will
liam OF Holland, who turned for consolation
to her sister, the present queen regent.
Even should an earthquake engulf the six
young Prussian princes, Victoria's blood
would hold the throne. Prince Henry is
not merely her grandson, but married to her
granddaughter, Irene OF Hesse. The Hesse
princelings indeed have been trump cards
for the royal match maker. Princess Eliz-
abeth is a Russian grand duchess, with only
three lives, none of them robust. between
her husband and the throne. 1t was by her
help-she is witty, and beautiful. and just
the least bit wicked-that Queen Victoria
was enabled to make Princess Alix, Tsarina.
The Tsar Nicholas, an impassive and some
what cold blooded young person, was deep in
forbidden tolls. Alix herself, poor as prin-
cess could be and willful as she was beau
tiful, did not care to have greatness thrust
upon her, along with an Indifferent hus-
band. But grandmamma persisted-so the
wedding came off-and that in spite of a
heap Of diplomatic effort to prevent it.
OF the half-Russian Edinburgh princesses
one is queen of Roumania-at least fer so
long as Roumania will tolerate her new
Hohenzollern king. The other is grand
duchess of H~esse-havtns married her
cousin, the Grand Duke Louisiana re-
pented 1t rather bitterly. The grand duke
doms Of Hesse and Saxe-Coburg are, for
size and revenues, hardly worth reckoning.
but their possessors can hold up their heads
with the greatest rulers of Europe.
Opportunity considered, Queen Louisa of
Denmark has distanced Victoria in the
matter of matchmaking. She was middle
aged before her husband began to reign
she had been poor always; she was neither
brilliant nor beautiful-beyond all hat her
realm was n brummagem second rate sort
of kingdom. notwithstanding, one of her
daughters, Princess Dagmar, was c~zarina;
one of her grandsons is car of all the Rus.
sias; her daughter Alexandra will be queen
of England; her third daughter, Thyra,
duchess of Cumberland, is mistress of the
greatest private fortune in Europe. OF her
sons, the crown prince, who will reign after
his father, married one Of the enormously
rich Bourbon princesses; the second OF
them, Prince George, married a Russian
grand duchess and became king of Greece.
Thus it will be seen that through a progeny
far less numerous Queen Louisa can fairly
reckon thrones with Queen Victoria. In
the final accounting, when the balance
sheets of ages come to adjustment. it will
be not a little curious to discover how far
the personal equation, as represented by
these two arch match makers, goes ahead
of the wiles of statesmen and the deep
laid schemes of diplomacy.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-07

is dressed after the last orders from Paris.
That is, very high on the head in a small
curly tuft that is braced by two bands of
pearls.
Not less refreshing, for It's departure in
detail from all well copied modes, is the
second design. The taffeta silk skirt Of this
subject Is Of a popular color known as violet
and silver. That Is, a pure violet shot with
silver and its rear breadths are bounced up
to the waist with white muslin brilliante.
Draped over the top of the low cut body is
a scarf of white muslin, while the shoulder
straps are formed of a series of gold cameo
brooches, set about with pearls.
A trained dinner gown of white satin is
showed in the third figure. Garnishment in
the form of white Limerick lace is displayed
in a fan drapery on the long rear folds Of
satin and a similar arrangement of lace on
the body is caught with a jeweled pin at
the waist line.
A suggestion In evening wraps is afforded
by the fourth figure. Here we have the
usual shawl shape and the wrap Is made
either Of satin or white summer weight
broadcloth with a satin flounce on the edge.
Full frills of silk muslin line the high col
lar and a kerchief of the same falls over
the shoulders.
A simple study in white swiss is offered
by the last figure. Flounces edged with
narrow white satin ribbon are set on panier
fashion, a bunch of yellow roses is fastened
amid the front drapery of the bodice, while
quillings Of narrow yellow ribbon form a
Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-07
FRIVOLOUS CUBAN BELLIES.
Know More of Complexion Powder
Than of linking Powder.

Than Of baking Powder.
1.-THE bellies OF the island often bedeck
themselves with frehies In lieu Of ~costlier
but paler Jewel lights" writes Edward Page
CASTOR describing the sights to be seen up
and Down a Cuban Street" in the August
Woman's Home Companion.
"These insects are nearly four times as
large as are the lightning bugs in the
United States and emit a beautiful glow from
their breasts and underwings, The young
women dearly love to imprison them In the
gauzy folds of their summerland costumes
and enmesh them in the hair in mock cor
onets. Sometimes a senorita will wear a
brilliant freely or two imprisoned in a tiny
cage of gold or silver wire hanging as a ban
gle to her bracelet. 1t is an astonishing sight
to see a light bedecked southern beauty
%shimmering in soft night as If clad in a
thousand gems, but having no other adorn-
ment than this economical one OF frefiies.
The poor use them in a more practical way
for lighting their houses by putting then
under wire screens. or in bottles, and they
prove quite successful in this office OF utility.
At one time the laws OF Spain forbade the
poor in Cuba using any other means for
housekeeping than %hrefies, and the practice
is still a common one, long after this strange
law has been abolished.
THE life OF the women OF the upper
classes is a very narrow one and the average
girl has little else than marriage TO look
forward to. 1t behOoyes her to make an
early marriage, too. while the charms OF
youth abide. for she is likely to begin "a
fade at 30. Handsome matrons are infre-
quent. as in all tropic lands. Her mother
teaches her very little else than in the way
Of personal accomplishments. and the nat
nrsi result Sc that the pvo-a~o Tt-i -
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TWO ROYAL MATCH MAKERS.
Rivalry Between Victoria of England
and Louisa of Denmark.

vi I'm
and LOuisn of
Queen Victoria is the chiefest of them.
She comes honestly by her matchmaking
knack-which Thackeray says inheres in all
good women.
In the life settlement Of her own young
lings the queen was much hampered by re-
ligious considerations. After she had Sc
cured the crown prince of Prussia for her
eldest daughter she was a sort of hymeneal
Alexander, weeping for more Protestant
princes to conquer. AS the temporal head Of
the English church 1t would never, never
have done to have her sons and daughters
go off into Catholicism, or even the Greek
church. The British taxpayer and the
"nonconformist conscience" would have
made a pretty pother over such a thing,
That disposed of various matrimonial po-'
tentialities among continental royalties.
The prince Of Wales may have made 4 love
m~atch-but 1t is beyond question that 1t
was her Lutheran. faith more than Ter
beauty and charm which recommended Alex
andra of Denmark. The nation might have
grown turbulent and heady at the prospect
of a Catholic future queen. At any rate
the r~eigning queen did not choose 10 risk
it then any more than she chose to do
it thirty years later, when the luckloss
uuhS VI iSii ~ i'a''y =" wv
with the beautiful Princess Helen dor
leans.
Alfred, duke of Edinburgh, now duke Of
~Saxe-Coburg, handsomest, stingiest and most
gifted OF the queens children, She man
aged to mate exactly to her mind. He Vas
sent to st. Petersburg-of course there was
no talk of wife hunting-and so captivated
the Russian emperor's daughter nothing
would do her but to marry him, although
the marriage ran counter to every line of
of Russian policy, interest and tradition
Grand Duchess Marie was her fathers idol
he could gainsay her nothing. But for his
untimely taking off by an anarchist bomb
it Ia unlikely the relations between the
two countries would ever have reached
their present tension.
In matching her grandchildren the queen
has had a very much freer hand. There she
could leave out Of account the non conform
list conscience. How well she has realized
the fact may be CLEANED from this incom-
! plete reckoning of thrones present and
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