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The times., 1899-02-19
SOCIETY FARMERS.
New Workers Who Give Employment,
to Many Workmcn.

! New York, Feb. 1S.-Every fad of the
| immensely wealthy cannot be condemned
as an extravaganza, but often gladly hailed
as means of circulating hard cash and
giving occupation 10 many working foil.
| That is the way you should regard the al
most absorbing passion the well do New
Workers show for supplying themselves
with uDheard-of Injuries from their own
country places
The luXuries, to specify, are chiefly flow
ers and fruits and vegetables out of season.
While the January SHOWS lay deep on the
| ground and turnips froze in their cellars,
Mrs. Samuel Thorne, Mrs Goddard, and
scores of other women were serving straw
| berries as big as plover eggs for dessert,
and artichokes for salad, and they had not
! ransacked the city markets for these dain-
/ ties. The best food on the rich mans ta-
! bic now comes from his own farm, and at
| a Lenten luncheon your conscience is rath-
| er overwhelmed when you realize that one
! course of fresh green peas or string beans
| has cost your hostess at the rate of 81 per
pea pod and about so cents per bean.
However, farming. is the fashion, and
everyone who goes into it is expected to
study q speciality. Mrs. William AstoT's
speciality is the pink violet. a marvellous
flower, the recent secret of its production
| is known only TO the gardener on her
Rhinebeck place, and very few OF them
al 10 cents apiece ever find their way into
the market. Mrs Robert Millbank stands
unrivaled with her peaches. that she Offers
for eating in Lent, and that are produced
under glass at the rate of one peach to
tree. Just as in Mrs. Constable's huge
greenhouse only one rose is ever asked of
a bush.
To display flower or serve dish at the
table that your neighbors cannot rival and
that is the product of your country place
is the keenest excitement in society during
Lent. This is what has inspired the culti-
walton of specialties and the hiring of gar
deners at fabulous prices.
Mrs. Elliott Shepard, at Scarborough.
pays in salaries something near 81, 900 a
year to her head gardeners and laborers
under them. In return they produce for
her bigger gooseberries than you can find
In English gardens and remarkable little
golden tomatoes, absolute spheres in shape
and that are served at her table as relishes
with meat. Pierpont Morgan gladly pours
out thousands year at Highland Falls, on
the Hudson. in order to raise more gigantic
chrysanthemums than any professional or
amateur gardener in the United States,
while Mrs. Ernest Crosby cultivates with
her own hands and an expert Frenchman's
aid green grape, the punches OF which
must weigh twelve pounds each.
The miniature painters have rival in
the oval portrait painted on glass. Alma
Tadema demonstrated the beauty and
effectiveness of the glass portrait by
painting one for the Princess of Wales,
another for the beautiful Lady Naylor
Layland, and now all the rich American
women who go to London pay Tadema
$1,000 to catch their likenesses on polished
crystal ovals. Lady Terence Blackwood
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certs readings, the theatre. opera, we'd
dings, and TO balls and dinners.
well-provided woman owns at least
dozen types of bag; from big net thing
OF knitted silk or twine to n delicious lit
tie perfumed nest-like affair of rosy bro
cade Nobody has a pocket nowadays, and
on the ruins of the pocket the bag has
risen It is usually made Of tough green
cloth. quite unlike the pretty double bag
of dark silk, hung on a silver ring, that
the sample hatcher gaily carries in place
of the silk retcule with an expanding
metal gate top, so popular a year ago.
Very small leather catches of more or less
splendor of material and makeup are in
exceeding favor with shoppers, too, and
some women. who have an absent minded
way of leaving purses. etc. on counters,
have their little shopping bags locked to
their wrists like bank messengers.
The sort of bag that goes calling and TO
concerts is a tiny elongated satchel of the
finest leather mounted on gold or silver
frame, and to the leather exterior the
owners initials in silver are fastened
Such a bag is always carried on the arm
for its handle is made sufficiently large
10 admit of its being pushed up as high
as the elbow, and many of them have Sc
cret locks where a key is not concerned.
Cards, purse, smelling salts, handkerchief
etc, are carried n-such bag, while those
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SHE MAKES CIGARETTES.
The Fair Cuban and the Doc
dndhlcS.,

New York, Feb. 1S.-From among the
Cuban refugees in New York city one, and
woman at that, has found her exile in
the United States a blessing unmixed.
This pretty little lady lived in Havana
and what she did not know about tobac-
co was hardly worth knowing, so when in
New York her money gave out, and she
went humbly about seeking some remu-
nerative occupation, her one accomplish
ment was remarkable facility for pre-
pairing and rolling the most delicious lit
tie cigarettes. She made a few as a thank
offering to n fashionable, tender hearted
young woman who had sent her very
substantial aid. The young woman smok-
ed them in the dainty secrecy of her own
chamber, but so exquisite not only was the
flavor but the effect of the wee tissue paper
cylinders of tobacco that she cOnlided her
delight and few cigarettes TO few bosom
friends.
To make long story short, the little
Cuban has more orders for cigarettes than
she can fill, and the debutantes, this win
ter, with their mothers and their maiden
aunts, all smoke and carry not at all the
sort of cigarette cases the average would
be emancipated woman affects Their
cases are very small. because the ciga-
rettes are small, and the cigarettes are also
most expensive. They cost about % cents
apiece, and hold just enough tobacco to
give the smoker four or six delicious puffs
after a meal. Only after a meal are they
smoked, for the reason that a fashionable
physician has boldly announced the vir-
tue of the postprandial cigarette as di-
gestive.
With the tobacco an aromatic herb is
mixed, and it leaves the room where these
charming smokers have been redolent of
a most sweet and delicate perfume. while
their lips are as fresh as roses after the
harmless dissipation.
If the cigarettes are adopted for health's
sake. the cases that hold them are Sc
lected for their richness and beauty. They
are small, usually of gold, and the exterior
is almost covered with what the smart girl
calls her ''doodaddles. A doodaddle is a
minute trinket, miniature jeweled souve-
mir of some memorable occasion or local
ity, or a memento of someone, and they are
all offerings from the young woman's
friends of both sexes. perfectly new
English threepenny piece, its pierced cen
ire filled with a small gem, tiny gold
golf ball and such like trifes, fastened by a
few fine gold links to any part of the ex-
terror of the case is where the fashionable
young woman wears her doodaddles instead
of on a chain around her neck.
To such a pitch has this passion for col
lecting trinkets arisen in society that in
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1 Mhiie Luncheon.

A bride of one year has Just celebrated
her wedding anniversary by a pure white
luncheon. save for the tleck of rose pink
given by the place cards which were
curled rose petals that seemed to have
drifted from a year of rosy happiness to
each guest. bearing her name in gold
The table was richly set with the silver
and cut glass wedding gifts. In the cen-
tire was a low-cut bowl filled with hya-
cinths The bowl rested on a square of
lace over white satin. The wax tapers in
silver candelabra were pure white. and a
prettier picture could not have been found
than the hostess arranged in her white
satin wedding gown. One recalls the beau
tiful dining room effect attained at debut
party where the table was broidered in
tall palms and plants set about to heighten
its personal decorations of glowing Grim
son, an arrangement very new and very
beautiful. And yet another sweet table
was displayed. bride-iike and beautiful. al
an elegant afternoon, where all stiffness
gave place to grouping of beautiful white
and green in the massed style.
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GIRLS AS FARMERS.
Fifty Young Women Who Are study
ing Practical Agriculture.

Fifty girls have taken up the study of
scientific farming at the Minneapolis Col
Iege of Agriculture and the result of the
new departure will be watched with inter
est throughout the country as effecting the
welfare of the sex. II the innovation shall
prove successful it will naturally spread
to other agricultural States, and its most
important results may turn out to be So
cial rather than directly agricultural in
character Heretofore one great drawback
to farming has been the difficulty of keep
ing the boys upon the farm. With trained
and educated girls taking up the profess
sion, the old homestead farming would
| take on a new charm and the hegira of
farmers sons to the cities would be check
ed If not entirely done away with.
In speaking about the course the other
day, Prof H. W. Brewster, the principal
of the school, said: "Our plan embraces
| work designed not only TO make boys more
skillful In planning and executing farm
work, and girls more skilful in the work
of the house, but also disciplinary studies
and culture studies as well. Boys and
girls work together throughout about two
thirds of the course which includes work
in language, mathematics, science, clVlcs
and considerable OF the technical work
But while the boys taking carpentry,
bIacksmithing and veterinary science, the
| girls are taking COOKING, lauhdrylhB anu
sewing Also while the boys are giving
| closer attention to some of the business
| aspects OF farming the girls are giving
| attention to such subjects as household
! art home economy and domestic hygiene.
| The basis of the work throughout the
! course is scientific. Botany and physiolo-
| gy are made the foundation for all the
technical work in plant and animal life,
| chemistry for soil fertilization and cul-
| ture and for compromising of feeding ra-
tions while physics enters into many Of the
processes of farming with reference to ami
NAL and vegetable life cultivation and the
use of machinery.
| In the technical lines we emphasize dai-
rying, poulty. breeding, and feeding OF
animals, veterinary science, field agricul-
| ture, fruit culture, and forestry. Both in
| our course of study and in the general
/ handling of the school we plan to make
both boys and girls interested in farming.
farm life the farm house, and farm socie-
ty Both boys and girls learn in their
ings and how to lay out the grounds
around them. We then give considerable
| attention to the furnishing of houses, TO
literature. music and social culture.
THE general thought of the whole
course is to make the farm home the most
| attractive spot on earth.
THE school has now been running for
| ten years. but the girls have been admit
ted lately. The enrolment of boys is
therefore much greater than that cf the
girls. AT present we have about 200 boys
and something over fifty girls"
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and about the dairy is secured clean, a
sprg of fairywort nailed over the door.
and no milk brought in until after sunrise
the next morning. The next churning
gives double yield, and the butter stealer
is commonly laid up for a week-whether
in chagrin, or from the turning upon her
self OF her ill-practices, nobody is quite
certain.
Southern negroes have cognate belief
In the bewitchment OF the churn to make
the milk 'cry for silver The butter will
come without It, heavy and golden yellow,
but will never, never gather until silver
spoon or coin is dropped in and churned
vigorously for five minutes. The wise folk
explain that the silver in the acid of the
milk sets up sort OF remedial galvanic
action. But they cannot explain away the
belief likewise current among black dairy
maids that If heifer's first milk be milked
on the ground not only will the flow fail,
but the animal herself will soon peak and
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CHOOSE YOUR coLoRS.
Here Is Safe Authority TO Go b.,
I'm Making Your Selection

Tell you how to choose becoming col
ors?" said William Chase, the famous ar
tist- DO you know that is about The hard
est question ] have ever been called upon
to answer? Why. artists study years to ac-
quire such knowledge. and many OF us de-
scend to our graves feeling we have not
mastered the secret.
The art of dressing well does not de-
pend on the selection of cOlors alone, but
on the form. | will Illustrate Take the
costumes worn in 'Trelawney of the Wells.
The colors are beautiful and the effect at
tractve, but they are not graceful. The
old Greeks are the ones women should
study when seeking graceful effects. and
II they wish harmony of colors. let them
study old Japanese prints.
'Of course blondes should always choose
what are known among artists cool col
ors; for example, blues pinks. greens the
many shades of violet also white or black.
Brunettes have all the warm tones. yellow.
orange. red with a few puppies and blues
to select from
1t is more difficult for a blonde than a
brunette to dress becomingly All women
with light hair or eyes fancy they should
wear blue, especially delicate tints of azure.
whereas very few of them can attempt it
successfully. Only blondes with perfect
compilations ought ever attempt pale blues
Yet 1t is very generally becoming to bru-
nettes. Such women do not need perfect
compleXions, as it throws out what little
color they may have in cheeks and lips and
| has the effect of clearing the skin.
The same may be said of delicate
shades OF yellow, while the reverse is true
OF pink Almost any type excepting n
very red biOnde-I mean one with horid
skin-may wear pink safely, whereas the
brunette or brown haired woman has to be
/ 10
needs pink with a suggestion of yellow.
Another thing to remember about pink.
II is shocking telltale. revealing the
ravages Of time in the cruelest way.
Whenever the concealment of age is a
consideration, il should be avoided.
Moreover, let every woman bear in
mind that pink and red should be worn
above in preference to below the face
never saw woman who was improved
by one of these pink or red collars they
are wearing now-what do you call them ?
Stocks. Well, red and pink stocks take
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and Miss Emily Hoffman were the first
of the New Workers TO sit for glass por-
traits, and TO set the fashion on this side
of the water of every woman's wearing
her own picture.
One of these novelty likenesses is done
on an oval of faultless crystal about a
fourth of an inch thick, about four or FIVE
inches long, and three inches wide. The
crystal is slightly convex. and the paint
ing is done on the concave side so artfully
that the face looks at you through the flaw
less glass.
The crystal has a back of gold and a
frame work of gold beads, pearls or bril-
liants. By n ring in the top of the picture
an inch wide ribbon or a beautiful chain
is run, and the work OF art is allowed to
hang free nearly 10 the knees, or can fit
into little satin bag at the waist. How
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the color out of the face. and as a rule
make the complexion yellow
But the strangest mistake to me is that
women insist on wearing color simply
because it is fashionable and without any
regard to becomngness. | remember once
being called on to paint a girl, quite a
pretty Jewess, she was, and dark. of
course, who wore a horrible blue waist.
| mean horrible for her. Why, | couldn't
see the girls face, for that detestable
bodice seemed to shrek and scream at me.
l demonstrated, but she declined to make
change. owing to the extreme fashion
ableness OF the color. What can We artists
do when ladies think more Of fashion than
taste,
If you clever shoppers would only take
the goods before buying throw it against
the face and use your eyes. you could
easily decide whether or no a color was
becoming. When you do chance TO have
an unbecoming tone the effect can be modi-
ned by using white or cream near the face.
White for blondes and cream for bruuettes.
That is a point which all women would do
well to remember. only the fairest and
best cared for blondes should risk ivory
white. All others had best cling TO cream
tints.
Dark greens, blues, and puppies must
never be attempted by women who have
dark circles under their eyes. or whose
faces have a tendency to hollows. Such
women need flame red. for instance.
"A red haired woman had best shun all
the reds. Though missing some beautiful
shades. | think she has a wider range to
select from than any other type, unless it
is the brilliant brunette.
Pale or delicate looking women seldom
look well in any of the grays tans or
fawns, unless they are very skilfully com
bined with warm colors
'Of course no woman whose hair has
the slightest suggestion OF gold or Sunshine
should wear yellow next it, Nothing takes
away the color and lustre so completely.
From the standpoint Of an artist | ad
mire white and black gowns more than
any other. When properly designed
have never seen a woman to whom such
a dress was unhecomingr
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dwindle away, a belief that skeptic own
ers have sometimes proved TO their own
cost.
II instead the first milk is caught in a
metal or earthen vessel-wOOd will not do
at all-poured on the heifer's back and
rubbed in with soothing words. she will
thrive, become gentle almost instantly, and
be good milker. secure from anybody's g
spells.
The spells themselves are most pictur-
esque. Put a red rag in the gap where
your enemy's cows must pass over it, or
a blue one on bush they must pass under,
and you will dry up their milk. Horse
hairs. knotted in threes. and laid in the
water, are particularly malevolent The
sickness they bring has but one cure-a
roasted nubbin. With a rabbits tail tied
fast to it, which the COW must be induced
TO swallow tail foremost. The great pre-
ventive is peeled wands OF alder or witch
hazel scattered about where the cows lie
down to sleep.
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DAIRY MAIDS SPELLS"
SupcrstitiOus That Hang Around
Milk stools and Churns.

One of the odlest'comes from the west
coast of Ireland. There, when churn-
ing of rich. foamy milk returns only an in
significant scrap of butter the dairy maid
never lays it to the weather or the pas
ture. She knows instead that her cows
have been Overlooked" That is to say,
some greedy and constituencies rival has
magically stolen her butter. First the
greedy neighbor waited for a saints day.
Then she went at daylight to the highest
point outside the pasture, turned her back
on the sun, and Just as it rose walked
backward three times in circle, waving
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nedrnom Auin White.

Nothing looks daintier than white in n
bedroom, especially where it is likely to
remain neat and clean. The bedstead
should be enameled white: also the chairs
and other furniture On the floor plain
Indian mating should be laid or. better
still white rugs. just by the crate. toilet
table washstand and bedside, and the
floor should be enameled white like the
furniture. Such a room would only be
suitable in the country. where SCOT Is rare
and far between. OF course bedspreads
hangings. and table covers should be white
also
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her hands toward the grazing cows, and
saying: Come all to me, Come all to
me,'
The Uiests know all about the bewitch-
ment. since it falls to them to remedy the
trouble. Some of them tell astonishing
tales regarding it. To undo the charm the
priest first blesses a sprig of parsley, which
is laid secretly where the butter stealer
must step over 1t. Then at the next churn
ing in the robbed dairy the priest comes in
repeating Latin anathema upon evil spir-
its and all their works. Pretty soon the
milk in the churn turns apparently to
blood. 1t is poured into newly dug pit
and carefully buried Then everything in
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sent her." she tenaciously persists in say
ing.
And what did you do then, Aunt Char
lotte?"
Why, chile, when she'd gone jest
watched her down the street, and then l
look up and say, Mighty good of you, Mis-
ter Jesus an l stan right up thar in the
roadway and drap a sweepin' curtsey to
the I-awd.
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some instances the really pretty cigarette
case has become the foundation merely for
bunch OF iingling trifles and at dinner
parties the cigarette cases are passed
about the table, ostensibly that your
friends may try your cigarettes, but in
reality 10 afford an opportunity OF display
ing the number and great splendor OF your
keepsakes.
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that go to weddings and balls are long
beaded or brocaded silk affairs, mounted
on mouths of metal and fastening like
wallet. By a gold chain they hang from
the earn, else by means OF stout pin hx-
ture, your bag can be made fast to your
side as you dance.
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ever you elect to wear one OF these por-
traits, swinging from ribbon or chain, or
pinned as a pendant on the front of your
gown, you always make a point of carry
ing none but YOUR own likeness.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-30
Elizabeth College,

The second annual catalogue of Eliza
beth College, Charlotte, N. c., is out
with its announcement for the closing of
the second term and for next year.
The growth of this institution has been
great. Its aim is to afford a broad and
liberal education for women. The range
of studies in the college. both as regards
the regular degree courses and special
branches, is comprehensive and up to the
highest standard of modern education
Elizabeth College is located in a bean
tiful part of Charlotte, on an elevation
of twenty acres, in the finest section of
the Piedmont bet, midway between New
York and New Orleans, $50 feet above the
sea. 1t is within ninety miles of Ashe-
Vile
The building is one of the best an.
pointed IN the country. 1t is commodous
-l5O rooms for occupants. Is heated bv
steam and provided ample fire exits
The next term begins Sept. IA.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-30
Welded by LAW AND CHURCH.
Mr.. ormOnd ID. Strong and Miss Marie
BIois Twice Married.

Mr.. Ormond Butler Strong and Miss
Ada Marie Blois were married yesterday
morning at II O'Clock by Justice Bevans
at his Office 81 whitaker street The
news of the marriage created general sur
prise Both the young people are very
well known, and are very highly esteem
ed. 1t had been announced that their
marriage would take place next Satur-
day, and It was their precipitancy which
created surprise.
1t Is supposed that the determination to
have the ceremony performed yesterday
was the result of parental objections on
account of the youthfulness of the young
couple. Mr.. Strong became of age last
month, and the ages of both the contract
ing parties are stated in the marriage IL
cense to be q years old.
The intention was 10 have the ceremony
performed by a clergyman. but the min
listers who were sought we're not at home
and Justice Bevans' office being quiet
and convenient spot he was called upon
to tie the knot. On second thought the
couple decided to have the ceremony per-
formed by Rev. w. A. Nesbit of the Sec
ond Presbyterian Church, which was done.
1t was some time later in the day when
the friends of the young people learned
of their marriage and they at once has
tened TO offer their congratulations. The
groom is the second son of Rev. c. II.
Strong, rector of ST Johns Church, and
is young man of much promise. The
bride is very lovely and charming young
lady, the daughter Of Capt. William F..
Ilois, and with a large circle of friends
and admirers. The young people have
the best wishes of host Of friends for
their future happiness. Now that their
union is an accomplished fact parental
objections will doubtless be withdrawn and
both families will unite in bestowing their
blessing. The bride and groom spent the
afternoon at Tybee.