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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
THE LITTLE MIMIC.
Some Ones Playing at Some Previous
Time Impressed Her.

She lives in the opposite fiat, tiny
maid Of about three years, golden
haired and always dressed in white,
says the New York Commercial Adj
verttser She seems to go out very
little. She evidently has nothing to do
but to wander aimlessly about the
two front rooms, in one of which is
desk where a gentleman sits and
writes, writes, writes all day. The ia
Their presumably. Sometimes he gives
her the waste-paper basket to play
with and then she takes a chair and
makes desk of 1t beside his and with
his cast-off sheets of paper she pre-
tends to write, too. There would
seem to be no mother. At least, the
only woman who ever shows herself
is the plain, elderly person, apparent
~ nurse, who comes in and sits
near the desk, with her sewing, when
the gentleman writer disappears. In
the other room an upright piano
stands so close to the window that it's
keyboard shows across the street.
Yesterday, when, as usual, the cur
tains We're swept back for the airing,
the little maid could be seen gazing
meditatively at the keyboard. At last
thought or a memory evidently
struck her. She bridled. smoothed her
dress, put her hand to her hair, then
climbed upon the piano stool. There
she composed herself deliberately.
rubbed her little hands together and
then proceeded to perform on the in
strument in q perfect imitation of the
conventional piano style. Beginning on
the middle keys, she ran up the key
board till her arms were spread out
to their farthest reach, her little
blonde head bobbing up and down and
her small body swaying like an enrap-
tured players. Then her hands came
travelling down the keys from bass
and treble till they met together again,
when up they went high in the air, as
the professional does when he draws
the tone out fine, and her head was
flung back, in the far-away, dreamy
look proper to that position. Then
there were few more gyrations and
finally her hands came down in a
grand concluding crash, with her lit
tie, white nose almost on them. 1t
was such good mimicry and such a
pretty picture that it was quite a
shock to see the gentleman who
! writes, and who was writing at the
time, come striding in from the next
room to snatch the clever young MINI
Is y
piano lid with what was evidently a
bang. However, perhaps it hadn't
sounded as pretty as it looked.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
And Rues 1t.

edo you approve of coeducational
schools?" asked the father of three live
ly boys.
'Oh, they have their advantages and
their disadvantages Of course, said
the person to whom he appealed. 81
Judge from your course with Harold
that you are in favor of the system.
Professor James tells me he is very
bright scholar"
Perhaps so" said the father doubt
fully. '.But had little conversation
with Harold yesterday that stays in
my mind. I said pleasantly to him,
Harold, somebody told me the other
day that the girls and boys at Goldman
hall were better known for caricatures
and puns fhan for scholarship
"'Oh, said Harold, that all comes
of the story that's leaked out about the
sketch made on the blackboard by Ann
Drew; Ann drew Andrew Andrews and
rues it'll Youths Companion.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
Palaces of Versailles.

The Paris exposition of 1900 will be
the means of bringing about the res
toration of the palace of Versailles and
a thousand dollars have been voted by
the French parliament for renovations
of these royal abodes, in which their
restored condition will constitute one
of the lasting monuments of the sex
position. The famous crystal gallery,
where the kaiser's grandfather was
proclaimed emperor. will be renovat-
ed, the orangerie will be repaired and
the facades of the palace the park.
now thoroughly dilapidated, will all
be, so far as possible, restored to their
condition of former beauty.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
example, !" she cried.

"But know your provocation-your
highly nervous state over Captain Jer-
myn. That explains the whole situa.
ton to me, and it must to Mr.. Peale.
Come, will go now. and. despite mat
tiers, will wait long enough tomorrow
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
"What oood does his life do ,,ouf"

HUC UOOU QOeS ms tIJC 40 nOEf"
to give him another sitting. That ought
to be enough after the number CT times
he has tried his hand on me-
Giving an order, he led her to her
waiting coach, and staring folk on the
street saw the great man driving with
Miss Ronald and guessed and gossiped.
'sYou are the greatest man INN
the world" she was saying.
''Next to Captain Jermyn." he said.
smiling.
eyes, after Captain Jermyn," she
said. "You know that the easiest way
to make woman think you are great
man is to try to please her. -
then" said he
"But, oh, your excellency, how can
face Mr.. Pealef''
Don't mind, said he. "We will
together. don't believe he can be
worse than the kings men at Long Is
land"
At the door Burton met them and
stared suspiciously at the young lady
OF course he knew, she said to herself
and involuntarily she caught her es-
cort's arm. and SO, clinging to the gem
eral. she entered the studio
Mr.. Peale looked around from the
canvas on the easel. If he started at
first, his face fell into courteous indif-
ference
''Nlr. Peale, she began. anticipating
the general IT did it,"
Her voice, her bowed head, declared
self abasement
what? said he.
'4Let me explain, the general inter
rupted. ''You heard the conversation
when Miss Ronald asked my favor for
Captain Jermyn2"
Eyes,
Returning here to apologize to you
for having forced herself on my pres
ence in your studio, she saw the pic
ture, and, forgetting that it was not
the original, daubed it.
She listened with beating heart, and
heard Mr.. Peale say easily:
"Why, the portrait is untouched!
There it is.
She raised her head and saw in won
der the full length of the general.
"And then dreamed iti" she cried.
''Yes,> think you dreamed it, and
don't be bothered, please" Mr.. Peale
went on. 81 know how you were
wrought up about Captain Jermyn. l
understood perfectly.
81 did it, then 2" she asked abject-
eddy.
ooh, it will only make me but lit
tie troubled"
81 am so, so sorry, and yet it is there
untouched, she added. staring at the
portrait.
81 don t see what you mean, Peale p
the general himself said. .'You have
fixed it upagain?'
"No, said Mr.. Peale, looking at he,
uneasily. 1.-The fact is, had replace
the original on the easel by copy |
was making for Don Juan Mirialles. +"
"You dear, dear Mr. Pealel' she
cried, and, stepping up to him. to his
embarrassed delight she kissed him,
which Captain Jermyn forgave when,
long after she confessed it.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
THOROUGHBRED
DUROC- JERSEY HOGS
FOR SALE.

A choice lot of Fall Bears and
Sows from my celebrated Duroc
Jersey herd are for sale. Bears
ready for service and sows are
bred for September farrow. These
animals are from the herd which
took first premium at the last
county fair. Many have been
sold in this county and have given
splendid satisfaction. All pigs
guaranteed free from disease.
For particulars address
M. E. EDWARDS,
43-3m Defiance, Iowa.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
Morgan's Rinemen,

The rifle corps which Morgan formed
from marksmep from the whole Revo-
lutionary army is usually referred to
as "Morgan's Virginians, but as a
matter of fact, two-thirds of them were
Pennsylvanians, including consider
able number of Pennsylvania Germans.
One of the latter, Mr.. Lauk, who was
with Morgan from the beginning to the
end of the war, was the last survivor
of the corps. Once, when Morgan was
asked which race of those composing
the American armies made the best SOL
diers, he replied: ".As for the fighting
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
Bismarck,s Hair.

According to the Frankfurter lei
tung, a brisk trade is likely to spring
up in Bismarck's hair. From May 1,
1890, till March %, 1897, the duty of
the coiffeur to the chancellor devolved
upon Herr Rohring Of Bergedorf. He
was permitted to take away the snip
pings, which he Enclosed in envelopes.
These packets, with the letters Of
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04

part Of the matter, the men Of all races
are pretty much alike; they fight as
much as they find necessary, and no
more. But. sir, for the grand essential
in the composition Of good soldier.
give me the 'Dutchman' -he starves
well. "-Harper's Magazine.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04

Bismarck's valet asking him to attend
his master, and his own declaration of
the facts upon oath, were duly depos-
tied with a notary of Reinback, who
attests their reception and safe-keep-
ing. 1t is proposed to enshrine the
precious relics in scarfpins and similar
articles of personal adornment, with
an enameled portrait of Bismarck.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
Republican State Convention.
To the Republican Electors of the State

Republican State Convention.
To the Republican Electors of the State
of Iowa:
There will be a delegate convention
OF the republicans OF Iowa held in the
city OF Des MOines, Iowa, on Wednes-
day, August 2, at IL O'Clock q. m. for
the purpose OF placing in nomination a
candidate for each of the following Of
fees, viz:
For governor,
For lieutenant governor,
For Judge of the supreme court,
For superintendent of public instruc-
ton,
For railroad commissioner,
and for the transaction OF any other
business that may properly come before
a republican state convention.
All voters of the state believing in re-
policy of the republican party are in
vited to unite under this cali for the
election Of delegates to said convention.
The ratio of representation will be as
ollows:
One delegate at large from each coul-
ty, and one additional delegate for each
two hundred (20O) votes or fraction of
one hundred (10O) or over cast for Hon.
Geo. l.. Dobson, republican candidate
for secretary of state at the general
election held November s. 1898.
1t is especially recommended and
urged by the state central committee
that the several counties in the state
reorganize their county committees at
the convention held for the purpose of
electing delegates to the state conven-
ton. The representation to which the
several counties will be entitled under
this ooll 10 nc fnllnWc
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
side Lights ON History,

The mole connecting the mainland
with the island on which that mighty
city Tyre had stood invulnerable for
centuries was at last complete. and
Alexander the Great was overseeing in
person the work Of the great battering
rams that had been placed in position
and were laundering against the walls
of the beleaguered city.
.'Your majesty" said a funky. re-
specially touching his pasteboard he'll
met, "dinner is served in the royal
tent"
Il shall eat no dinner. replied Alex
ander, with look of noble resolve on
his youthful but majestic face, sstill
have punctured the enemy's Tyrel"
Out of this incident grew the custom
of alluding to Tyre as the Windy City.
title that has come down with the
ages.-Chicago Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04
Recruitment.

"Clementine is awfully matter o.
fact"
ssshe is?''
Eyes; she quit speaking to me be-
cause she dreamed I said whols. lot Of
mean things about her. Chicago
Record.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-04

G. L. HANCOCK,
Chairman Republican State
Central Comite.
G. wv. PHILLIPS, Secretary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28

lost unless she wore a jet cOlored glass or
coral bead chain, is now confident that a
VALERIE is. as essential 10 her happiness.
Even with white linen shirt collars tn0
rather quantity pretty chin Jewel drops,
so TO speak. are used, though every wo-
man has her own particular notion of now
a Naniere should be used.
When they first came out in Paris last
autumn. two diamonds of equal light, but
different tints, else two pearls, were fas-
tened at either end Of a bit of hair with
q fine gold chain about four inches long.
This chain was tucked and fastened in
side high lace and silk dress collar and
then the jewel ends were drawn out TO
hang and sparkle or glow under the chin
Now we see lie Valliere put to newer
uses. The gold chain is finished often as
not, by cut crystal balls. mock pearls OF
abnormal sizes or a couple of wee jeWeled
bees or frogs. The ornament. though en-
ployed as in Paris, has more frequently
its chain slipped moose wise round the
knot of lace, satin or chiffon jabot four
INLAND the ends then allowed to hang
free in the jabots frills.
BY another method. La Valliere also
serves as a watch fob. A tiny jeweled
watch. hardly larger than a scent piece,
is tucked inside the neck of a decollete cor
sage for balls and dinners, and the little
decorated chain, made fast TO the ring
over the stem winder, hangs out and
answers a corsage ornament.
All of the new buckles buttons and
belt slides, copied after the styles of an
tique ornaments, are set with square cut
brilliauts and paste gems such as were
the mode in George the Third and Louis
Fifteen's day. Most of the brooches and
shoe buckles, etc, also have their paste
jewels set in silver, as was the mode of
the eighteenth century. A gentle infatu-
alton has been conveyed from Paris for
beautiful intagio rings cut in amethyst,
sapphire, moonstone or semi-precioG3
stones, or even crystal. The intaglio is
not put in a band or crown setting, but,
like the ordinary scarabeus ring, is pivot
ed on a silver or gold circlet.
1t Is n Lace Season.
In the evolution of dress we have never
before had so essentially a season of lace
as this Every goods you buy is merely
a foundation to hang lace on or insert lace
in and no woman will dare hold up her
head at any summer resort who has not
complete white lace over frock to wear
upon her colored silk foundations.
More lace actually is sold this season by
the yard, from fourteen to twenty inches
wide, having a selvage like Bingham, than
lace founcing and edging. Yards upon
yards of HERE, imitation point de venire,
Brussels. Bruges, Limerick Duchess etc.
have been cut off for skirts, for make it
how you viii you simply cannot make an
ugly lace gown. There are laces woven
in skirts of one seam in order to econo-
mise loss in material when sloping out,
and the lace jackets are always bought
ready made.
There are also complete tea gowns of
lace, with serpentlne trains, sleeves, wide
collars and jabot fronts woven in detail
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
THE SILENT ROOM.
1t Is a New Dim Secluded Apartment,
Set Apart to SOOthe the Nerves.

Set Apart to SOOthe the Nerves.
The silent room is one of the new fea-
lures of an up-to-date establishment. Its
presence is not so much an indication OF
added luxury as it is that some place has
at last been set aside in answer to long
felt need of the nervous American wo-
man. 1t is to afford a retreat to those
who lead busy lives, when they find them
selves almost overcome by the rush of
things about them. They then seek its
seclusion, and for perhaps fifteen or twen-
ty minutes every day, go into a stiffness
that cannot but prove both mentally and
physically refreshing. In fact, the idea
of going into a silent room is, to throw
off the things about us that are unreal
and to let those things, within us, that
are real, find expression.
Although fashionable women have been
the first to appreciate the desirability of,
and to introduce the silent room into their
homes, it can be safely prophesied that
they will soon be found in all houses
where the family income and space make
them possible.
The first requisite of the new apartment
is that 1t be situated at the top, or N
some part of the house where it will he
free from all noise. Unless the room is
naturally dark one, il should be heavily
curtained, as much light is distractiug to
CONTINUOUS thought, ana II is not desirable
to have the decorations conspicuous. Green
uncovered by any conventional design or
some equally restful color is a good choice
for the sidewalks
Few pieces of furniture seem best to suit
silent room, and they are generally in
accordance with the taste of the individual
by whom it is to be used. comfortable
chair and a footstool a couch, perhaps
table and a few books are enough to dis.
pei any sensation of loneliness, and if sim
pie in character they will not attract the
eye or attention. When one has any dis
tinct talent, it is well to have it suggested;
a piano would appeal strongly to a mu-
stefan and a desk TO one that is literary.
Again, several have been heard to say
that they had the room absolutely dark
and sat in 1t for a certain length of time
every day with a slate and pencil on their
laps. If not of other value, the habit Of
concentration. which is formed, is good
and strengthens the mind.
How much the teachings of mental sci
ence had had to do with the advent of
the silent room in fashionable houses is
not certain. From whatever source, how
ever, they have come it is evident that
they are bent on a long stay and will 10
doubt be blessing to their overstrained
visitors. Those who number them among
their apartments are already noticed to
possess a poise and calmness of bearing
that is most pleasing
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28

aids, have taken generously to the ear
ring movement. OF course all such patent
fasteners are liable, while a woman dances
or even emphatcally mods her head, to
shake free from their hold, and in conse-
quence there are amazingly few earrings
made up of genuine gems. There Is no
loss in brilliancy or beauty because the
mock pearls, diamonds and rubies are en-
ployed, and though older women have to
an important extent reassumed their pearl
ear studs the youthful generation have
adopted, in all good taste, the 'conceit of
the Neapolitan ear hoop. A thread of
gold, strung with FIVE small tinted pearls.
is the choice oftenest made, and girls are
fully and softly pompadour their hair, let
ting the sillSen tress droop over the ear
tops, gel very interesting effects with their
pearl circlets bobbing over muslin clad
shoulders
This whim for earrings has had a decid-
ed effect upon the dress loving sex. Wo-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28

They are his paper dolls or soldiers. and
while apparently playing, he learns the
name of the doll, its appearance, position
and voice-in reality, the sound, position
and name of the note. Although large,
the characters are somewhat reduced in
size from the blocks.
The next process is sewing on cardboard
with bright colored worsteds. cleffs, notes.
chords etc, that have been previously
pricked in-an adaptation of kindergarten
methods Again the characters have been
reduced in size, By this time, however,
the children have become so familiar with
the dots, curves, hooks and lines that they
recognize them instantly under almost any
guse or in any size. and are ready for the
blackboard work which follows.
After these four presentations, with their
unique games, the child is so familiar with
everything pertaining TO notation that he
can name note, no matter what its po-
siton without any process of counting
up or down. To no class is this readiness
more amazing than to musicians, as nine
out of ten of them, after years of expert
ence, are obliged to make mental calcu-
lation when a note is much above or below
the staff. In some subtle way the children
have been taught positively instead of
relatively AT a recent demonstration of
the work, for instance the teacher would
point TO a note perhaps four spaces be-
low the bass cleff. Instantly, with no
pause for counting, would come the re-
scponse &c below" From that she would
pass to three or four lines above the t-e-
BILE cleft and almost simultaneously with
the poise of the pointer would come the
correct name' the particular octave being
frequently identified by some curious ap-
pelation taken from their games-"tum-l
bledown a." for examples.
Time and rhymth are taught in an equal
ly simple. practical and delightful man
ner. The child is given ferrules when
fold up by means Of hinges, so that he
can divide them into different measures
Then he has boxes of blocks of all sizes,
each marked with the note or rest whish
it represents. With these he builds many
sorts of things and plays numberless
games. all with view TO teaching him
the relative values of the different sizes.
Incidentally, ne learns a lot about frac-
tons and really becomes so familiar with
the division of time in music that there is
no mental strain involved IN decipherlng
very complicated measures. AT the end OF
the seventh week, the teacher may put on
tn blackboard an intricate Bach fugue or
Beethoven sonata, without any division of
the measures and the children supply
bars with perfect ease and correctness.
Games of tapping and clapping serve TO
crystalize the mental conception.
One of the most delightful games is that,
with the "Tonleiter." small horizontal bars
in black and white provided with slots
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
MASTERING THE PIANO.

Games That Tench Children Notation
without Work on the Part of the
Teacher or Pupil.
BY the introduction of fascinating toys
and games. Miss Evelyn Ashton Fletcher
has succeeded in absolutely obliterating
the difficulties met with by children when
beginning their work at the piano. Not
only so, but it has Transformed the teacher
from a patient drudge into an animated
comrade. Barely a year of regular, well
directed play, and the seeming miracle is
accomplished.
AS the initial step in this method, the
children are given "A large box filed with
pretty, queer-shaped toys, cut out of fine
thin wood, and painted black on one side.
Perhaps child first picks out of the box
curiously interesting scroll-like figure,
which he is told he may call Mrs. Ire
bic Cleft" and that il is rather fun to
play that she is the mother of quite a
family of little children. Then comes
circular sort of affair. Mr.. Bass Cleft"
who is also the happy possessor of a fam
lily. Or he may take up an elliptical ring,
or stem seven or eight inches long with
"a similar ring attached something like
a pipe; again the elipse may be solid, ana
there may be one, two three or more
hooks on the stem. These the child takes
into his hands and plays with in all
sorts of ways. They are his dolls, his
soldiers, or what not. and it is easy to
name them half-note or eighth-note as
anything else.
But all these imaginary little folks must
nave a house to live in, and how shall we
build 1t? All! Here is a strong piece of
wood with five large enclosed wheels pro
Vided with springs-on the same principle
as tape measure-attached to it. The
tape lines are long and black, and we may
pull them out TO any length-across three
or four tables, if we like, and fasten them
at the end to another block provided with
hooks After constructing our house, we
may add any number of extra stories by
means of some nice little wooden bars
Oedger lines) which we shall find in the
box Then follows a variety of merry and
interesting games in which the dollies
and soldiers are located in their respec-
tive houses and rooms. In the box of
WOODEN toys, every sign and character
made use of in the entire repertoire of
music are represented; forte, piano, che
sceudo, stacattoo. slur, etc, etc, and the
charming little games introduced bring
out their significance while really anus
ing the child. When later, therefore, he
looks into a music book, he sees nothing
that he has not played. with and handled
Before he has had time to become tired
of this set of materials, he is given an en-
tirely new set and introduced to the past
ing game. Large sheets of paper contain
ing all the characters with which he is
familiar-notes, quavers, rests and bars,
are put into his hands, and he cuts them
out and pastes them on to large staff.