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cuff of white linen on a colored skirt that
folds back in three bag-shaped or wedge
like pieces, becoming to all hands, and
lastly captivating new necktie of a mar
now bank of polka dotted silk ending in
two brave little tassels. This and the big
bandanna cravat in four-in-hand, are
destined 10 rule by majority during the
coming months.
summer NegIiGees.
The weather is ripe for the easy breeze
inviting neg.igee. ana she who lounges in
her own room under the shade of awnings
wears a wide Japanese jacket of WASH
silk If she knows where the mercury is
going. Habutai silk, in white stripes on
a pale tinted background. or cool white
linen lawn, is the usual choice for The in
comparable little garment that is shaped
exactly like a kimouo. barring the long.
narrow skirts. Falling wide aud loose
about the body the front and big sleeves
are faced with silk or muslin IN some
solid tint, that harmonizes with the wear
er's complexion. For very hot days there
are especially designed luncheon jackets
to which can be made most simply and
inexpensive, or deliberately and costly. The
model jackets brought from Paris are
made chiefly of wool, uniined foulard OF
spotted crepe de chine. and the fulness
of the garments is drawn INTO the waist
by a broad 2irdle OF shirring. The fronts
fan loose and pointed often to the knees
are garnshed with lace, and the neck Is
open in point under the chin, where a
four-in-hand bow OF chiffon or liberty
silk is knotted.
With all tea and luncheon and invalid
neglgees of the season. the sleeves in
varably show elbow length of transparent
material. and touched off with pointed
frill of lace or pleated lace. Lovely tea
gowns are made very like the luncheon
jackets of crepe silky wolfe, and more
costly still of lace aud white muslin
striped with the almost ubiquitous insert
ing of narrow black net.
The summer veranda gowns. as these
stately wrappers are euphemistioally cali
ed, were the first mediums for the whole
sale introduction of tinted and rainbow
lace that women have adopted with ac-
claim, This new ornamentation oftenest
appears IN torchon. imitation Venetian
point and Honiton. done in the internlin-
gled threads of white cream, dark brown
and orange yellow Used on a gown OF
daffodil yellow liberty silk or crepe de
chine, the rainbow lace is daiatily snowy.
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MILLIONAIRE BABIES.
TINY GOULDS, AsTORs, WHITNEYS
AND HOOKER HAMMERSLY.

Fashionable New York Mothers Pay
Close Attention to What They
Call the Encourage of Their Ba-
bies-SpeciaI Lines of Photography
the MOde-AIiss Helen Benedict De-
votes Herself to Yachts Under
Way, Mrs. Jonathan Thorn to
Studies in Animal Life, Miss Flea
nor Hewitt to Interesting street
Scenes, and at Newport This SUM
mer MOOnIight-Scapes VIII Be the
Craze-Misses Webb, Dodge and
sloan Are Preparing to shoot
Grizzlies as Soon as the Rocky
Mountain Season Opens.
New York, June ,, 1S99.-There are sever
al morsels of humanity, whose ages range
from six months TO three years, who never
drive in Central park or wheef about in
the sunshine without creating a respectful
stir among the recognizing crowd. These
are the infant millionaires such as Harry
Paine Whitney, Jr., William Aston, GeorGe
Gould, Jr, Hooker Hammersly, Jr., and a
dozen or so more, and number of them
AlllilutS Ludb6IilOlScl-SS. / Ici IOLtuu0S run
all the way from one to dozen millions
apiece, and an happy inconsistencies of
The curse of gold they get through life in
luxurious nurseries and swell about the
park in a style that makes their perambu
Gator riding contemporaries stare.
The young New York mothers give a
good deal of time and thought to what
they call the encourage of their babies, and
few young princehngs live in one-half of
the sumptuous artistic security enjoyed by
these infant Croesuses. There is, for ex-
ample, the heir apparent of the House of
Aston. He has never been a very hale,
hearty individual, but he is the very ap-
pie of his mothers eye. During the winter
in New York she spends a goodly portion
of every day in the nursery with her boy,
and for his nursery young Aston
is 10 be certainly envied. That big, sunny
room is done up in pink with while dotted
muslin. AS high as a tan mans shoulders
a wainscoting in white terra Gotta covers
the walls, and in relief on this are raised
a wonderful procession of juvenile charac-
ters from Mother Goose, Greek mythology
and history, truly charming work of art.
Above the terra Gotta the walls are colored
pink, and upon this is gathered many
yards of dotted swiss which are put on
freshly Numbered every week, just as the
days. A white velvet rug adorned with a
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SHE HAS OUTLINED THEM ALL.
The Queen Has Seen Nearly Every
Notable Man of Her Time Gathered
to His Fathers.

Notable Man of Her Time Gathered
to His Fathers.
Here are some statistics suggested nv
her majesty's celebrating her birthday
The following list of men prominent in
English public life, whom Queen Veto
ria has outlived, is only another illusira-
ton of her abnormal reign:
All members of the privy council who
We're alive in 1917.
All the peers who held their titles in
1887 except the Earl of Darnley, who was
10, and Earl Nelson, who was IA in that
year.
All the members who sat in the House
of Commons on her accession to the
throne except the Earl of Mexborough
and John Temple Leader.
Her majesty has seen eleven lord chan
cellors, ten prime ministers, six speakers
of the House of Commons, at least three
bishops of every see and five or six or
many sees, five archbishops of Canterbury
and six Archbishops of York and five com
manders-in-chief.
She has seen five Dukes of Norfolk
succeed each other as earl marshals. and
has outlived every duke and duchess ana
every marquis and marchioness who bore
that rank in 1897.
She has outlived every member of the
Jockey Club and every master of the
hounds that hourished in 1887
She has seen seventeen Presidents of the
United States. ten viceroys of Canada fif-
teen viceroys of India and France sue
cessively ruled by one King, one Emperor
and seven presidents of a republic.
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THE SIXTH MRs. wAsHANE.
The First Woman Able to Conquer
and Subdue One of the Cranl<iest
Men in PottsviIIe.


and Subdue One of the Crankiest
Men in POttsviIIe.
BY Bertha Bartlett.
People generally in Pottsville pitied the
new Mrs. Washane that was to be. Not
that Pottsvile people were acquainted with
her and allowed their acquaintship 10 run
riot with their sympa MES; not so, they
knew of her by hearsay only, as a widow,
Widow Douglas, they believed, of Green
Meadows.
Bat they did know John Washane. That
was enough to know. John Washane who
had placed less than a year ago the plain
yet touchingly inscribed stone TO the tfftn
Mrs. Washane. The first Mrs Washane's
stone testified that None knew her but 10
love her." the second Her price was
above rubies. Mrs. Washane, third. was
iamented at one who had done what she
could" the fourth, as one whom the
heart of her husband could safely trust
in;' while number hves epitaph was She
always made home happy" And now
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oWOMAN'S PAGE Q;

and few Of these costumes for elegant
lauguOr are made without a touch of
green. Lily leaf green IS the tint the de-
signers prefer, advocating it as the cool
est in the present wea Their and when
brought against the face color least
likely to highten the shine of a flushed,
greasy surface that even the fairest coun-
tenances now show Mary Dean.
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well, I only hope" remarked Mrs.
Browne, that our new neighbors win be
as satisfactory as our old ones"
"Oh, they're way ahead of EN-. maj"
exclaimed her young hopeful They've
got ten children and only three OF 'em
are girls, ana the cook gives you tarls
when you don't even tease for EN-
Harpers Bazaar.
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There's a little expansionlst living In
the upper section of the city whose father
IS am officer in Gen. OTIS army. She was
recently taken out to dinner, and in re-
ply to a query as to where her father was
replied: ooh, he's away off there" point
ing to the East, lighting the Philistinesr'
-Philadelphia North American.
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-Champrosay, the famous property of
late Alphonse Daudet. on the banks of the
river near CorbeI, has been sold for lit
tie over 5000 IL IS supposed TO have been
bought in by the family of the celebrated
novelist who was IN the habit of spending
his summer days there, and wrote under
the shade of its trees some of his most
fascinating works Of fcuon,
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pattern of pink roses lies on the, floor.
pants putting out pink blossoms only
STAND on the broad window sill. and A
downy cockatoo, with a pink topknot.
broods in white porcelain cage.
The children of Mrs. George Gould rornD
in nursery of no less studied fovelness
than this, and the nurses for Master willy
Astor and his social equals are Obliged 70
dress, winter and summer, in pure white
while over the TwombIy, Kane. Whitney
and Stanley Mortimer and other fashiona-
bic nurseries il is usual for Two nurses 70
preside. There is head nurse who is a
trained certiticated person, and then her
assistant, but after all tbs when the baby
millionaire takes mis- airing he creates the
profoundest impression. His perambulator
is white, usually tufted and lined in pink.
This is in immediate charge of his nurse
in her Immaculate costume
Behind the nurse, at a respectful dis
lance, steps the baby's groom. a snrv
youngster in white breeches, TOP boots.
a belted coat and cockaded hat He is
there to look out for the safety of all
concerned. when the Decentralization
crosses thoroughfares, and to hold back
the impetuouS bicyclist Aft of the groom,
comes the baby's dog, usually Russian
hound, Newfoundland st. Bernard or a
collie, wearing silver collar, with a
large white satin favor and guaranteed
to fly at the throat of any one who offers
the precious infant violence Ii is an i'm
pressive procession, and may be the STYLE
and luxury of At are quite essential TO the
safety and happiness of the new cron of
young Americans who are so painf,ilIv
overweighted with wealth and social pres
tige
New Craze for Photography.
The whims of society move in cvcles
This summer all women who do nor en-
Enthusiastically golf have returned 10 The
camera for occupation but for the time
there is very clear-cut method in tho
Photographic madness. Every woman has
chosen a subject of which she makes
speciality, and even the veriest tyro dis
dams to draw her snap shot on every
willing and unwilling Photographic sub-
ject that crosses her path.
The woman who elects to perfect ber-
self as landseapist looks for views and
nothing else, while another who is collier
ing studies of athletic subjects in ana
out of action wouldn't waste nlate on
the noblest view that ever wrl1ne- verses
from poet. Mrs. Jonathan Thorne for
example, studies animal life alone and
viii drive twenty miles 60 get a shot at a
group of fine livestock, or sit all dav in
the bushes for chance at deer NT,ss
Eleanor Hewitt carries her camera onlv
for street scenes, and Miss Helen Benedict
devotes all her talents to photographinr
yachts under way.
10 such an extent has the Photographic
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wonderfuI ResembIances.

An Englishman of high degree spent
the springtime in New York, whose Wo-
men he found notably beautiful, but many
of them, he assured his gratified hostesses'
might pass as the twin sister of ladies'
who by portrait or their existent selves
enjoy an almost international fame Tor
loneliness of feature. So strongly was ne
impressed with some of the likenesses that
he is collecting photographs of the ldr
doubles merely to prove his interesting as
sertion. He has found that Miss bdlIh
Clapp might easily be taken for the tWlH
sister of that famous Duchess of Devon
shire, whose beauty Gainsboro's brush I'M
mortalized, while opposite a handsome
photograph of the Vicerene of India ne
has placed portrait of the Empress OF
Russia and the most careless glance can
at once detect a startling likeness be-
tween these two. Mrs. Charles Have
meyer shows almost feature for feature
the counterpart of those in the beauuIul
Duchess of Portlands face, and 1t ga
not take this Englishman long to discover
that Mrs. Burke Roche and Lady de Grey
are as like as the proverbial two peas.
But as a matter of fact" insists TINS
enterprising BrtisheT, mature so otIen
repeats herself i'm the process Of MAKING
her fair women that when | see a pIeVy
American l nave not iong 10 wait H1lV'0
can find her almost perfect double across
the water. Perhaps you do not know t1at
Mrs, Lawrence Tunure, whose maiue"
name was Romano Stone and who was
celebrated beauty in London as wei a.
New York, is a perfect counterpart Oh NHo
celebrated Nine. Recamier, and II you
were to see the Grand Duchess serge VI
Russia and Mrs. Edwin NJ. Post tose'Hg'
you would be surprised at the likeness De-
tween them.
ITO follow this up, I've found tnl,'
though one is blonde and the other ua,N,
the Princess of Wales and MISS h'nls I'M,
Hoffman are like enough TO have hau '.'o
same parents, and the portraits OF Que
Louise of Prussia show an amazlhs
semblance to every contour in the lalS
Mrs. John Jacob Aston. Now, at -
this seems rather amazing and cou'i'.
quite figure it out, but I've come 10
conclusion that the mixture OF races
exemplified in America is wonderIunS ,,
tile in good looks and il is sad put -
enough that in single city ana 30
ton the American soil does deVe!oP W.,
men who, in feature and colorlns' ~
rival the finest product of luxury anu IN
tocracy not only in a century OF lo' ~
cultivation. but in the very cream "a
our European capitals and courts
Emily Hot
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with black silk. else fine floss fringe Dor
ders the uile.
Not one Of the boas Is so long that its
ends viii reach more than few inches
below the waist line, and the majority are
fat and fun in the center. taperng TO very
pointed ends. A finely accordion-p.eated
boa Of white taffeta mOusseleine edged
with narrow rows OF black lace, white
spiral lace bOas, and those Of liberty gauze
gathered up with rutlles of silk muslin or
chiffon, are ali doing active duty in the
realm OF the well dressed. ana no one can
fail 10 remark the conspicuous absence
everywhere Of the long-trusted feather
boa. Evidently this is not a feather sea
son.
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The wedding ceremony was over Mrs.
Washane sixth, was an accomplished
fact, and the twain. now one. having driv
en- in their own hired hack all the wav
from Green Meadows to Pottsville were
about TO enter the house which Sally Lam
caster had with indignant vehemence got.
ten in readiness to receive the bride.
And now, John as soon as we can ger
our clothes changed | think that you had
better hang that gate while am getting
supper-l noticed it Says"
Observation-Disclosures John Washane
was plainly astonished at the admonitol-,
tone of his new-made helpmate. Mrs
Nashane's answer was a trife disturbed
in tone, though sweet"
II hope, John, that you're not going 10
annoy me by causing me 10 repeat NV
words-my dear departed husband ALWAYS
paid close attention when I spoke. | said
You'd better hang that gate as soon as
you get your everyday clothes on as n
says so
Thus was The beginning of John WASH
ane's sixth marital venture; when he came
into the house ne was urged 10 take of
his boots at the threshold and reminded
Never did 1 thus have to address nv
hrst husband Constantly was the state
ments made: What would my dear Part
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GA year ago 1 was a great sufferer
from painful inenstruation. I co,I3
not lie down or sit down for the dra,d
full pain each month. l wrote 10 Won
and took twelve bottles of lydia 2
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. and
it has helped me so l cannot find
words to express my gratitude toward
Mrs. Pinkham. l am to-day well and
hearty Miss JOE SAUL. Dovrp
CLARE Co., MICH.
More than a million women bava
been helped by Mrs. Pinkham's advios
and medicine.
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Further EXECUTIONS of the Shirt
Waist.

II is a season Of continued evolution.
however. in the shirt vast, and all that
pertains thereuntO. Indeed il requires a
sharp eye and busy brain 10 keep pace
with the protean movements of this cher
ished little garment One of its newest
is a tail This is an APP
pendage to most of the pique shirts ana
the tail spr ngs at the back extending as
far forward only as the hips and being
cut in three or four hatchet-shaped tabs.
is edged with embroidery or made rigid
with close-set stitchings.
The yoked waist nof only has come 10
stay but its finely tucked bib must be so
cut as 10 form the TOP of the sleeve. or
fail as a cap over the sleeve. Then, TOO.
mention must be made of the skirt thar
has its own washable belt braced with a
linen lining puncuHed with white enamel
or buttoned-hole worked eyelets, and APP
phcable TO any buckle. Finally we have a
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4 New York Physician Advises
His Patient to Take lydia F
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
[LErrER 10 MRs. P1NknAM nn -,


DEAR Mrs. PiNKHAM-I have a.
children and suffered with fallinc, ~
the womb and flooding. My physician
scraped the womb, still the fiooding
continued and L was no better A,
last he advised me to use lydia p
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Tben
L thought would write to Mrs. PM,
ham for she could advise me betta,
than any one if l was to take her REM
dies. received her reply and followed
all her directions and | am very OLA
to send you this testimonial. for T'Ydia
Z. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound ig
just what 1T is recommended to be. 7
advise all women who suffer from
these complaints to try it."-M1 p1a
LEMP, los I'd AVE, NEW YORK CRY
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mania seized on the inhabitants of Naor
port, Bar Harbor, etc, that the owners ~
valuable lenses drive themselves tn and
fro in light runabouts, their cameras scr
up before them over the dashboards
searching with eagle glance, and the aid
of a devoted masculine retainer. for some
new and alluring subject in the cherished
individual line.
Perhaps no subject, however has more
profound attraction for these ambitions
photographers than the study of moon.
light scenes. Miss Elsie Mitchell. Miss
Clews and almost a score of girls. are de-
voting themselves to lunar effects with
praiseworthy ambition of fidelity. Some Of
them. indeed, will gladly sit up all night
in order 20 watch the progress of a promis-
ing exposure, and already this occupa-
ton has been productive of several NOON
light picnics about the cameras and in
teresting engagements as will have de-
veloped, not on the sensitive plates of the
cameras, but between the fair enthusiasts
and their masculine sympathizers who also
elect to sit up through long watches on
cold, dewy lawns to ward off any fears
of the darkness and loneliness that might
menace the gentle young artists.
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number six was about TO be offered at the
connuhial altar-to said Pottsvillians.
It was talked over at the various sew
ing circles, and suggestions were offered
motions made and carried as to the best
way in which 10 apDrise the new Mrs
Washane-to-be of her unenviable pros
pect; and one day-as it happened only a
week prior 10 the marriage-an anonymous
cpiste found its way to the Widow Doug
las of Green Meadows.
Dear F'riend'-thus ran the letter
Dear Friend, though strangers 10 you
we feel il incumbent upon US to write
you, ere you take upon yourself the vows
of connubial obedience to one John Wa
shane of Pottsyille. He is a good man
He is an honest man. He is a generous
man. But truth compels us 10 state that
in spite of many virtues he has worried
his many former wives into untimely
graves by nagging and bossing. That this
may not be your fate is the wish and
prayer of Your Well Wisbers "
The Widow Douglas read the letter. a
curious little frown which was half a
smile, showing itself as she perused the
anonymous mssive.
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ionable younger set of women that al
ready rides, drives, golfs and photographs
have found a new mode of making sum-
mer holidays fly. 1t is the ambition of
this set to organize small parties of MIN
rods and Dianas to go out for the shoot
ing season in the Rocky mountains, and
the girls who hope to make gun record
this summer have been quietly pracdc-
ing all spring at a shooting gallery in
New York. Their chosen resort is not
in any one of the stately sporting clubs,
but a little basement gallery where twice
a week group of them in soft silk frOcks
and daintily coiffuIed heads drop in with
their cousins, brothers, etc, and do some
really remarkable rife work. AT the end
of the gallery swinging glass birds, glass
eggs on jets of water, animal automatons
and crystal halls supply target practice
for the Misses Webb, Stokes, Hodge and
others who use these as mere stepping
stones to higher things in the shape Of
Rocky mountain goats, grizzlies and their
ferocious friends.
BY the time the Western shooting sea-
son begins these markswonen hope 10 be
proficient enough to take their part in the
long hunts, and just as soon as the Adron-
dack season opens they will undertake TO
bring down the noble stag or even go up
INTO Canada, later on, Tor carlDoo anu
moose. To so lofty a point has the am
bition of some of these fair huntresses
mounted that rumors of nothing less than
a trip to India for a try at tigers is whis-
pered about Perhaps that exploit will be
successfully carried out in time, but just
at the moment the chief thrill of the stu
alton is felt over the getting up of the
new hunting dress and the discovery that
the proper costume for the Adirondack
shooting season is to be brown canvas
cut exactly like the uniform of the Rough
Riders. with the addition, Of course, OF
a canvas skirt just to the knees.
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
GEORGE LADD DEAD.

George Ladd. who was retired jeweller, died on
Wednesday night al his home. No. 81 Seventh-ave.
He eghty-two years olds Mr.. Ladd was born
IN England on September TO- 1917. and when seven
teen years old he came 10 this country. He
for some time employed by his brother. william F.
Ladd. the well s;nown jeweller, and later he en-
gagged in business for himself. About 1850 he went
California. where he remained for about ten
years on his return he opened a jewelry store
with John A Read which was known as the Dia-
mond Parlor a Eleventh-st and Broadway. They
did business at that place until Mr.. Read failed
Mr. Ladd then entered the well known jewelry
house Of Tiffany g. Co. which was then at Prince
St and Broadway. He remained in its employ until
about FIVE years ago. He expert da-
monds
Mr. Ladd leaves son. A. Wilson Ladd and a
daughter Mrs Theodore Nelson both OF whom
live in this city. The funeral will take place to-
morrow at the house.