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The times., 1899-08-13
Croauet 20 he a Fad.

With the growth of the Trelawnsy fad.
croquet has come into favor. At the period
when Trelawney fashions were most popu-
lar. croquet was at its height, and SO In
the natural course of events the game has
found renewed favor among the maidens
who are gowned in Trelawney costumes
The present method of playing the game IS
more complicated than the old More skin
Is called for, more technique needed in the
manipulation Of the many eolored balls.
Even the wire hoops are set out by differ
ent rule. The heretofore straight lines OF
the rings are done away with. and they
are crossed and angled until it requires
long practice to guide the mallet for the
different strokes.
Lovely woman never looks loyelier or
more bewitching than when. gowned in
diaphanous muslin. with billows OF lace
and gay streamers Of delicate hued rib
bons, she stood. her dainty shod foot poised
on a ball. malIet raised. and with an earn
est set expression on her pretty face she
considered just how hard to make the
stroke which would send her opponent S
ball flying over the field and far away.
The times., 1899-08-13

is gained A button and buttonhole make
the skirt fast in the rear. On number
OF the handsomeskirts the deep lace firing
ed fiounce is fixed to the foundation by
beaded heading and some of these fiounees
show to what fine point dressmakers
have carried the art of giving the proper
hang 10 the prevailing dress skirt. Nothing
underneath must impede the gracious sway
of the upper drapery, and yet in some
cases. where a certain buoyancy is needed,
undeTskirts of cotton are worn, showing
fiounees of white taffeta alternating with
those of lawn. The taffeta founces, OF
course, are merely tackled on TO enable
their easy removal when the petticoat
goes TO the wash.
You can turn over some hundred or
more pieces of the newest lingerie from
Paris, and scarce a tuck will you find In
their place yokes of chemise and night
dresses fiounces, etc, are made up OF In
sertions of lace and embroidery whipped
together Another favorite substitute for
tucking is putting. or we might call 1t half
inch wide insertions OF gathered nainsook
between narrow lace or embroidery bead
ings. The pufings are not one-half so
difficult to put in as the baby tucks were,
but the needlewoman's gain is the wash
woman's despair. for it takes the patience
of Job and the hand of an artist to laun-
der puff-trimmed garment to the queen S
taste.
The times., 1899-08-13
A Novel Tfn,e-KilIer.

A new and clever card-and-pencil game,
says the Boston Journal" Is called THE
Musical Romance"
The questions are written down the left
side of the cards before they are distri-
buted to the players, who are expected to
write the answers opposite, both being
carefully numbered to correspond Every
question is answered by the title OF song
well known and popular in the past and
present. Players must not confer with
each other by word or glance during the
game The card with the greatest number
of correct answers wins first prize, and SO
on. Prizes appropriate and highly valued
are little busts or photographs of promi-
nent musicians, or dainty volumes contain
ing biographies of them. Questions.
What was the name of her lover9
2-Who was his sweetheart2
3-In what country were they born2
4-On what river was her home?
5-WhRt was his native StateS
6-She was Of Irish descent; what was the
name Of her grandfather
Where IS the old gentleman nowr
s-where did the young man first meet his
sweetheaTt2
g.-What part OF the day was 1t?
I0-How was her hair arrangedf
li-what flower did he offer her?
12-When did he propose to her2
I3-What did ne say to her?
lion what day and at what time were they
married?
15-Her maid OF honor was from Scotland;
what was her naine2
l6-The best man was an army officer; who
was her
I7-When in the late war did the groom and
best man become scquaintedf
Is-A little sister Of the bride was fower-girl;
!, what her namef
l9-who performed the ceremony?
! 20--In what church was the marriage solem-
nized7
| 2I-on what did they take their wedding trip
22-What did the groom's friends say of the
| bride?
2s-what motto greeted them as they entered
their new dwelling7
The times., 1899-08-13
are Thing He Forgot.

There are moments in some mems lives
that may never be duplicated-mements
of wild exhilaration, of that serene and
growing triumph over obstacles that hith-
erto have seemed insurmountabie. To
Hiflber a moment like this had come, as,
rising from the breakfast table. he ap-
preached his wife, and putting his hand
in his waistcoat pocket, pulled out ten
new crisp one-hundred dollar bills, which
he placed before her
Eleanor" he said, the tones of his
voice indicating depth OF emotion that
since he had come home the night be-
fore. he had succeeded In suppressing, ''by
one of those chance lucky turns in the
market / have just made one thousand
dollars. and l want you TO go out and
satisfy your craving for shopping. ! wan
you TO reyel in department stores, dry
goods efnporiums, dressmakers and millin-
ers Go out and have a good time Al
your married life you have complained
that you have never really enjoyed a sin
gle days shopping. as you have alway!
been cramped and fettered. Let this day
be yours alone. If you see anything yo,
want but don't need, buy 1t. II there i.
ANYTHING you know you can get aloni
without, buy it, Go out and revel for on'
day. Here. take the money. II is yours
to blow in.
Mrs. Hillber took the bills from hi!
hands and. counting them carefully. pu
them in a purse. while slight look o
anxiety crept into her eyes.
You dear thing" she said smiling
"It is ever so good Of you, but do yoi
know you haven't given me a cent 70
car e,"-Harper's Bazaar.
The times., 1899-08-13

makes practical use OF her laces is Miss
Lena Mortor, former Governor Morton's
daughter. Her knowledge of lace is very
wide, her love of 1t sincere, and her pur-
chase of both antique and modern pieces
very frequent. The majority OF her even
ing dresses are drapsd with founces,
shawls, and berthas worth many times
their weight in gold. for this decoration she
prefers to any mcdish invention in frilis
and panels and lapels. Mrs. George Gould
is conceded to have the most remarkable
collection of lace handkerchiefs in the
United States. Cobweb-iiSe mouchoirs
owned by Louis XIV and his Queen, by Ma
rie Antoinette. and the Empress Eugene
are in her possession, and she never makes
a trip abroad without adding modern du-
chess point Bruges, point d dAngliterre, and
Honitca handkerchiefs TO her lovely hoard,
and $500 is paid without question for a
handkerchief that Mrs. Gould's train
ed glance approves.
The times., 1899-08-13
A FLATIRoN FAD.
Gowns Are Now s.Pressedv on Their
Owners, Racks.

Women are now their own ironing
boards-that is, society women who can
afford to be. Instead of having gown
fitted and then pressed on hard and un-
sympathetic piece of wood, they have them
ironed on their own pretty backs.
The buds. land matrons have discovered
wonderful man in Chicago, says ex-
change His name is Hugo Nelson. His
coats and gowns fit as if madam were
melted and run into the costume Not
bit OF a curve is lost, and every Inc is like
that of the most perfect woman. Taking
up raw cloth, this man of original ideas
holds il against the figure which is 10 he
fitted precisely after the manner usual
with artist designers of his kind. Then
the gown is made, fitted, and almost I'm
! ished when the new and original scheme
! is brought into play.
The customer is wrapped in long, wet
overwhelmingly they are known as
sheets''-and the new tai.or-made gown
is put on. Then over and over the hips
and shoulders and around and around the
waist. and up and down in carefully ae-
oentuated lines goes the kot iron Instead
of being pressed on board, the suit Is
pressed on the lady herself. On, yes, to
/ be sure. the hot vapcr arises, and the poor
I lady often cries out in alarm lest she be
parboiled then and there, but what matter
these trivial things if ones gown is to FIT
sublimely and beautifully. and TO have a
style that is actually heart-wringing?
The costume is literally molded to the
/ figure inside il. The woman is instructed
that she must continue TO keep the dress
/ on until the seams are quite dry, but the
effect is so lovely that il is with difficulty
she is induced to take il off. To be blessed
with a new garment that is an exact re-
production of ones figure, with never sim
/ gle line or curve lost or out of place, is a
new experience to even the luckiest of fem
| mime humans. The effect is everything that
is graceful and lovely.
The man who is responsible for this new
and startling departure in the way of gown
fitting is a Swedish -Englishman. He
claims that the Princess of Wales was his
! inspiration for the initial attempt along thi:
line When fitting gown for her one das
| the idea occurred to him 10 try pressing II
! upon the figure.
why not try it, exclaimed the graciou:
and kindly princess, Of whom the artist
designer is never tired Of speaking.
The experiment was great success
| After that the gown and outer garment:
pressed in this way for English ladies wert
many. About year ago the young mai
who had originated the idea came TO Chica
go TO put it into practice there. New forl
women have never yet had the opportunit.
of being nodded into their gowns in thi
manner In Chicago it was Mrs. Richart
Harding Davis, then Miss Cecilia Clark, wit
was the first woman TO seize upon the op
portunity of outshining her sister women IL
this manner.
Adjusting a garment to her tall svelt
figure, Hugo Nelson requested the privileg
OF trying his cherished inspiration. Ono
more it proved a success.
| So great has the fad become already Il
Chicago that there are sometimes as man
as twenty women waiting for their turn t
| be ..pressed -
The times., 1899-08-13
A MODERN MOTHER sHIPToN.
A Frenchwoman Predicts Wonders
by the Wholesale.

BY the "
Nile Henriette Couedon. the prophecies,
OF the Rue de Paradis. has been prophesy-
ing about the United States She says
that the Archangel Gabriel has informed
her that Columbia will some day be mis-
tress OF the world.
Mile. Couedon is a young woman VINO
has achieved notoriety in France on ac-
count OF the success with which she has
predicted public events. In making her
predictions the young woman goes into
sort OF trance, delivering her phopneeies
with great rapidity in verse. Among her
predictions which have been verified may
be mentioned the sudden death OF Presi-
dent Faure. the Dreyfus trouble. the char
ity bazaar fire and the Spanish American
war. She never accepts pay
OF the Dreyfus scandal Mile Couedon
has lust stated that the end of the trouble
is not vet that still further and more ter
ribIe revelations will be made. that day
of great sorrow and trouble Is not Tar us
tant for France, and with IL viii come a
social upheaval that VIII put a King upon
the throne OF France.
uer most recent utterances concern
America. She predicts that President Nc
| Kin!ey will be reelected for second term
Beyond this she seems to see nothing but
war for this country, wars that viii event.
uaIly unite the whole continent IN great
republic The American navy VIII De tne
greatest in the world, and Britannia VIII
cease 10 rule rot only the wave but the
| land also. for In the wars in which the
limited States is to be involved Canada
will become matter Of dispute. and the
most terrible war ever waged viii begin
between England and America Great
Britain will be defeated. and after the
war there is to be a great reunion OF the
Anglo Saxon race. with America at the
mead. Germany following In the alliance
Russia, France, and China viii form the
onnosite alliance, and great struggle Tor
commercial supremacy viii begin The
Anglo Saxon alliance will eventually win.
and America VII become the richest eoun-
trv in the world. for in beT Chinese pos
sessions she will realize wealth untold
The times., 1899-08-13
German Brides.

AS soon as a maiden is betrothsd in Ger
many she Is called bride BY her sweet
heart who addresses her thus until it be-
comes time to call her wife Immediately
upon betrothal the lovers exchange rings,
which, IL the course OF true love runs
smooth, are TO be worn ever aIter"ara tiil
death uarts them. The woman wears her
hetrothal ring on the third finger OF her
left right hand. The husband continues 10
wear the ring just as the wife wore hers
when she was bride; SO that one can tell
easily at a glance If q man be or be ncS
mortgaged as TO his affections.
The times., 1899-08-13
yictoria Finger Rings.

There are three rings which Queen Victo-
ria never by any chance removes from her
hand. and it is superfuous to add that they
are closely connected with her courtship
and marriage. One Is the little enamel
ring set with single diamond, given to
her when quite q child by Prince Albert;
another is her betrothal ring. a beautiful
snake of emoralds, and the third is plain.
narrow band-her wedding ring.
The times., 1899-08-13
| MRS. M'KIHLEY'S RAREFAN
1t Once Belonged to the Wife Of a
Spanish Hiealgo.

Mrs. Howard Gould Owns a Ffutter-
ThouSnnd-Tbe Countess of Ions
dale the Proud Possessor of the
Finest Feather Fan In the World.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-02
GREAT
RACING.
A Tremendous Crowd Sees
Good Contests at the Lake.
TEN EYCK Is THE STAR.
Makes New Record For the Course Wa
chusett Crew Lost On Foul Kubic
Wins From Lewis Through Acct
dent rescents of Waltham
Take Both Canoe Events.

Trial neat fourblade
by crescent Canoe Club Of Waltham, (stroe
Meisel w B. Whelpey
OF Worcester A H. LANCE (stroke)
Am
Ir heat single SOULS she'll onehalf
y Amos tuc Springfield
H. Lewis Wachusett Boat Club Time,
Final
by Canoe Club
Mse W. g. Whelpley H. B. Arnold defeated
Of Worcester W. G. Whiting sroke J. E. b
Ames.
Final neat single souls she'll
by Edward H Ten Eyck
man. Amos Kubc Springfield
Final heat
Canoe Club of Watham
Donovan F. w White, H f w Willis
Wilcox and William Whelpy (hemsman)
Boat Club Worcester. A
A H. Lagne l. H. Very, somes and
w. H. Fuller (helmsman). Time I'M
Won by schoolboys (bowl Richard
Mitchell a. T. j. oooe 49, ( Glare av
Tor @ e B. s. Jackson ~ FrankJ
SWAMI defeated
(bow) John Kelley ( Chas Thorn
81 John F. Herbert
49, James PTS The race was
Wachu
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Carpenters and Join
ers Will Enter Cen
trail Labor Union.
SALVATION OF THE ORDER.
Dissatisfaction With the
National Organ
ization.

The meeting of the Carpenters and
Joiners' Union in labor headquarters
last evening, was crammed full of en-
thusiasm and enthusiasts. The cause
ror the unusual manifestation of ac-
tivity was the exclusive story in Mon
days Spy, in which President P. B.
keefe was quoted. After the meeting
last night, cessation from the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
seems the last resort of the organiza-
ton to enter the field as a labor instead
of benefit society.
AS means whereby the local union
VIII be strengthened and backed up in
US Appeals to the national organiza-
tlon, aft1liation with the Central Labor
Union was heralded as the salvation of
the union. After a session Of several
hours, It was voted to send delegates
to the Central Labor Union. The fol-
lowing were elected: P. ]. Keefe, Will
liam A. Rossley, j. Beaudreau, ]. H.
Barran and Timothy Sullivan.
Then the president, P. B. Keefe, came
in for his share. BY the constitution
OF the union, it is a serious offense to
give out information as to what things
are revolving in the minds of the mem
bers. The president had told The Spy
man of the dissatisfaction with the ma
tional organization. He had also adj
mitted the well-known fact among la
Dor organizations, that the carpenters
were weak, inasmuch as the union had
a membership of less than one-third
the total number of carpenters in the
city. President Keefe twisted out of
any concern in the matter by signing
statement in which he declared that
all he had told The Spy man was a
lie.
Later, Mr.. Keefe admitted that he
had told of the troubles of the carpen-
tiers to The Spy man, but wound up
by saying: IF 1 had imagined that it
would go in print, I wouldn't have said
word. I didn't really mean that the
union thought of seeding; I meant that
some of the members had talked Of it,
The carpenters voted to continue the
fight against Drs. Kelley and Delehan-
ty, in which they will be following in
the wake of the Plumbers Union and
all labor organizations interested in
the boycott declared on the physicians.
and the block being erected by them.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-02
BRYAN's OPINION.
What the Silver Leader Has To Say On
Expansion.

EApdnSlOHs
New York, Aug. William Jennings
Bryan discusses the Philippine question
in this weeks Independent. In part,
he says:
THE Declaration of Independence as
serts that governments derive just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned, and this is the doctrine to which
we have adhered for more than cen
fury. 1t is the doctrine which has dis
tinguished us from European coun-
tries, and has made our nation the hope
Of humanity.
IF the doctrine set forth in the Dec
laration of Independence is sound how
can we Fightfuliy acquire sovereignty
over the Filipinos by a war of con-
quest? If the doctrine set forth in the
Declaration Of Independence is sound
how can we rightfully purchase SOW
ereignty from a Spanish sovereign
whose title we disputed in Cuba, and
whose rebellious subjects we armed in
the Philippines?
TN the resolution of Intervention,
congress declared that the Cubans
were and of right ought to be free.
Why? because governments derive
their just powers from the consent of
respect the wishes of the Cubans. If
the Cubans were and of right ought to
be free, why not the Filipinos?
I'm the beginning of the Spanish war,
congress denied that our nation had
any thought of extending its territory
by war. If we, then, had no thought
of securing by conquest new territory
ir the western hemisphere. why should
we now think of securing in the east
ern hemisphere new races for sub1uga-
ton?
'tIt is not sufficient to say that the
forcible annexation of the Philippine
islands is a benevolent undertaking en-
tered upon for the good of the Filipinos.
Lincoln pointed out that this has al
ways been the argument of kings. To
use his words: They always bestrode
the necks Of the people, not that they
wanted to do it, but because the people
were better off for being ridden"
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the box they secured nearly $3.50, it is
thought, although, as one of the con-
ductors who left his money in it had a
day off yesterday, and could not be
found, the amount could not be deter
mined. The robbers had obtained about
$3.50 from the men held UP in the con-
ductors' room. Then they went back
again into thS~Aarger room and an
nounced that they intended to use dy-
Mantle on the safe and blow the front
of the building cut.
While one man watched the men
bound in the car as well as he could
in the darkness the others went away
again and never came back. After a
few minutes the last man retired also
and then Sullivan, who had been twist
ing his hands out of the ropes around
his wrists, was soon free for the second
time
He cut the leather cords on his legs
released his companions and then
dropping into one of the car pits be-
tween the rails, made his way, out OF
the building through a small back door
below the floor, with Faron, and ran
to arouse Superintendent r. H. Fill
more, Jr., who lives in one of a group
of four houses, about 200 yards down
the road from the barn.
1t was 1:20 o'clock when the thieves
left the barn, for one of them looked
at Sullivan's watch to tell the time
The deeper the detectives got into
the case the greater the indication that
it is the same gang that the post office
department is after, and it will not be
surprising if it is eventually found thai
the gang Is from the west.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-02

! Great was Diana of EpEesus. Great
er is Ten Eyck of the Wachusetts.
Like a great central sun he shone by
his own light at the races of the Quin-
sigamond international regatta at the
lake yesterday afternoon.
When he came down the course in q
race with Kubic of Springfield, and
again as the stroke of the Wachusett
eight, each time to victory, he received
the homage and applause of a hero, and
indeed he must have felt something Of
the exultation OF the hero, something in
mated Miltiades at Marathon, Bruce al
Bannockburn, Napoleon at Austerlitz
Dewey at Manila.
Yet, with characteristic modesty
whatever his hidden emotions might
have been, he maintained an immobility
Of feature that the keenest physiogno-
mist would find it hard to penetrate
Ned has established new record for
the course, GAG 3-5. 1t was 9.5S 2-5.
The name of Ten Eyck is mighty to
conjure with, and despite the backdown
of the Pennsylvania Barge and other
crack crews that had entered, the an
nouncement In The Spy that Ten Eyck
would show his PAGES on the water was
sufficient to line the shores of the lake
at every point of vantage from which
the races could be viewed
Whatever listlessness and inattention
the crowd might have displayed early
in the afternoon was dispelled when
Ten Eyck came out in his shell and
dipped his SOULS in the water.
Then there went forth cheer that
awohe the echoes of sleepy old Shrews-
bury again and again. 1t was a trib-
ute worthy of the sturdy young Wor-
cester oarsman that first wrested the
Diamond souls from the insular Brit
ons.
The crowd was large enough to have
satisfied the regatta management, even
though their original program had been
carried through without break or the
withdrawal of Single entering club.
1t was a holiday crowd out for pleasure.
To Anglicize classic old Ovid, They
came to see; they came that they
themselves might be seem
Estimates as to the number of people
that witnessed the races varied, but
conservative judges that have seen re-
gatta crowds before say that there were
~NtNVV PCi Scho VA hllC 5&lOlC anu III lllG
clubhouses
They represented all sorts and condi-
lions of humanity. There was happy,
laughing youth, and dignifed old age.
There were pretty girls and stately ma
irons They came by all sorts of con-
veyances. BY far the greater number
came down in the cars of the Consoli-
dated Street Railway Company, and
the conductors say that they never
worked harder in their lives or found 1t
more difficult problem to handle
crowds than they did yesterday. Car
after car in a long procession went
dowa to the course, and it would be out
of the question for the traditional one
more to find place to even hang on at
the edges The sporty girl and her
sunshade was "numerously present." as
one conductor put 1t
But there were scores Of hacks. car
riages and myriads of bicycles. A good
sized regiment, too, came down afoot
The festive fakir, with his lemonade,
peanuts and other wares and refresh
ments to tempt the tongue Of the pleas
ure-secker was out in force and took
good care that the races did not draw
attention altogether from him. He
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-02
GUILD MEN MEET.

If the sentiment expressed by ward
men who assembled in the office Of
Frank L. Dean last night amounts to
anything, the second ward may be safe
ly placed in the Guild column. The
meeting resembled that of the previous
evening, In that it was purely informal
and called merely for the sake of dis
cussing plans for the campaign which
Is to be taken UP in the near future.
About 10 neutrality-suspicious. of
ward attended the meeting, and talked
over plans for work in the ward. MANY
of the men who will take an active part
are away from the city at present, and
the meetings held thus far as well as
those to follow in the near future. will
be merely to get representatives of the
different wards together. Formal Dr.
ganization will be perfected later, when
the real work Of the campaign Will be
taken up.