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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

gorgeously gowned woman In bus or
footing 1t along a dusty street is sure to
be from America or England.
A French woman begins to cherish a
fondness for fine plumage as soon as
she is able to ride in her carriage, and
when she reaches that point she scorns
to wear ready-made frocks. The good
dressmakers of various prices are too
plenteous for that, and when q French
woman is distinctly rich one-haIf her
shopping is done at home. II is possible
to shop around for years in. Paris and
never lay eyes on one of the great social
or theatrical lights. They go, of course,
occasionally 10 the great modistes sit in
big armchairs and after watching, the
models solemnly parade up and down In
the newest costumes, make their selec-
tions, but all the work of fitting Is done
in madam's own boudoir, and every morn
ing madam devotes an hour or two to
a corps of keen-eyed women, carrying
black boxes or baskets, who are puryey-
ors, to a private and valuable cleantel
of delicate specialties.
One OF the most prosperous dealers in
handkerchiefs and lace In Paris, who sells
often hundreds of dollars worth OF goods
daily, has no shop at all Her shop really
is square case that looks like an English
dispatch box, and every morning this Is
filled with samples of novelties and Madam
Max goes the rounds of her wealthy and
deliver goods and display new models. She
takes all the output of the hand-spun and
hand-woven linen from one province and
keeps a number of expert needle women
constantly at work In her top floor rooms
on the Rue des PeHtes Champs.
In exactly the same case are numbers of
lingieres, for IL there is one extrava-
gance the Frenchwoman of every class
leans toward 1t is not only fine but ex-
ceedingly elaborate under linen. woman
who allows herself but one new gown a
year is willing to spend the price of half
a dozen more costumes on white petucoats
covered with lace and night robes fit for
a duchess. There Is the lingiere who whips
real lace onto hand-woven linen for the
ladies of the Champs Elysees district. and
down along such questionable thorough
fares as the Boulevard ST. Michael there
are shops presided over by fierce looking
heavily moustached old women who sell
marvels of complicated needlework and
cheap imitation lace to POOR actresses and
frivolous dressmakers girls who share
with the great ladies this love OF delicate
dressing. This Is what makes Paris the
most famous spot in the world for
cheap and beautiful muslin underwear
not manufactured in noisy workrooms &c
the music of hundreds of sewing machines
but in the badly lighted back closets OF
the shops and in the garrets, by needle
women who put in every stitch by hand
and receive for a lace loaded night dress,
that requires two days and half a night
TO make no more than fifty-hve cents.
Emily Holt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

In summer, when the fireplace has ceas-
ed to be thing of use, it may easily be
made a thing of beauty with a minimum
of expenditure of time and money.
For example, the country house may APP
proprlately have a rustic archway formed
of the height of the top of the fireplace
and with firm standards made steady. AT
about eight inches from the ground, a
kind of shelf of rustic work should be
made both for use and stability.
To give it rustic appearance the wood
might have the bark left on. The fender
should be removed and the arch placed
on the hearthstone. From a hook at the
top. suspended a hanging flower basket
and utilize the ledge below for plants. The
effect is really charming.
A rush screen fitted into the fireplace
may be made pretty with shelves for jars
of flowers.
A wood trellised two-leaf screen, thir-
ty-eight inches high and thdrty-six wide,
with four shelves for holding china,
enamelled in color and lined with satin
of liberty silk is the device of one inven-
tive housewife.
Upright tubes of bamboo arranged in
groups of three, made TO hold water, Is
another device. a large glass dish placed
in front of it, in which water-lilies float,
and all round the edge of the fender, long
glass troughs filed with lycopodium and
roses, is another suggestion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

rule and with the exception of gloves and
a few other articles, specialties of French
art, simple clothes, custom made gowns,
cotton underwear, shoes, hsndkerchiefs,
stockings, etc, are actually cheaper i'm
the United States. Low priced French
labor can not do SO well, so abundantly
or SO economically the work of American
machinery, besides Frenchwomen of bur
one class dress as well as the average
American woman or care one-half so
much about fine raiment.
American Women Lead the World.
In spite of the fact that the fashions
of Paris lead the world. the women seen
daily on streets are dressed with an eco
nominal simplicity that serves as a strik-
ing contrast when the traveller comes
directly from an American city. To tell
the truth, with the exception of the dis
tinctly rich women and the actresses the
average Parisienne cares very little what
she wears, provided her costume is tidy.
The wife of a small tradesman Is too
keen about boarding to waste the familys
income In foolish fine feathers She likes
a good black gown and a plain dark bon
net while the laboring classes cling to
dark dresses and crisp white caps and
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

detectives so as 10 discover the meeting
place, found themselves barred from the
arena. They had to hire ladders at RE-
posterous prices from enterprising yok s
and mount a wall topped with broken
glass sitting straddlewise on this sad en-
inence with their field glasses and note
books and cameras about them, they got
through the trees, a precarious view Of the
encounter. Their articles the next day
We're pitifully comic. Sometimes. on the
other hand, the combatants desire nothing
more than notoriety. The journals an
nounce the meeting place a week before
the event, and all the world may go and
see the fun from whatever point OF van
tage may be available. Even in these
cases, though the general public is not adj
mitted to the actual arena where an aD-
plauding or derisive crowd would certainly
embarrass the gladiators. the curious take
potluck so to speak, going in vehicles OF
any and every description which they
moor against the outer walls or fences
wherever they can find a good view
AT Saint Ouen the other day cinemato-
graph was brought into play and the duel
was reproduced nightly in all its phases
at a music hall for the delectation OF the
populace.
Occasionally encounters take place in pri-
vate properties even within the forlinca-
tions. Thus for example, there Is the gar
den of Aurelien Scholl, the writer and wit.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

joyed and haggling is reduced to a fine
art literally so long as there is a posi-
BILE buyer floating along the street the
dealers in a small way keep open until 8
o'clock every night. II there comes In a
customer, and most of them are prepared
10 sell all day Sunday.
There is no law IN France against Sun
day selling, and though merchants who
can afford employees put up their shutters
and take holiday, the Jewel dealers
around the Louvre waste no precious
hours idling They are usually stout, oily
voiced women who keep these little shops,
wear their hair In huge pompadour Golf
fures heavily powder their fat faces,
rouge their lips. and when lay pedestrian
stops TO admire The tw1nkilng ornaments
In the window swoop out like spiders on
their prey to coax the potential customer
In
"Will madame buy something to-day?"
Has madam noticed how sweet these lit
tie pins are?" Perhaps / could show
madam a few charming watch chains"
coos the fat temptress, holding the door
open invitingly while madam fees from
temptation or slowly succumbs.
Their Complicated ways.
What the traveller in France quickly
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

learns is to shop in the morning If she
wishes TO do so in peace and quiet, but
in the afternoon IL she wishes to see the
Parisians abroad. 1t is well on toward
3 O'Clock before the stores in Paris are
opeH and ready for customers, but not
until she has had her midday breakfast
does the native sally forth TO bargain and
visit her dressmaker. In the afternoon
the Partisan department stores are a
seething tempest of eager women and
overworked clerks, and to the Ameri-
can womans idea the business of buy
ing and selling is conducted on very
much simpler and easier plan at home.
There is one huge store in Paris where
1t is possible 10 secure at the door a
bookful of little tickets that serve ex-
actly the same purpose as the convenient
transfer card but at all other stores of
an equal size when the clerks concludes
a sale he carries the article purchased 10
the nearest caisse or desk and followed
by the customer recites the amount and
nature of the purchase to the bookkeep-
err who puts * all down in his big ledger,
makes the change and then waves madam
and the clerk off TO the parcel counter
where the article is wrapped up. 1t is
an amazingly complicated system, but the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27
REV. MIR. JEFFRIEs ON PUGILIsM
Quotes Scriptures to Show SONS Vo-
cation Is All Right.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Chicago. ILL.,, May 2O.-Jim Jeffries' ia
Their, who is minister. finds Justification
in the Bible for his sons vocation.
God had two sons, and one was against
the other" said Rev. Mr.. Jeffries. zone
was the son of light the Lord Of Hosts,
and the other was the son of darkness,
the prince of the bottomless pit. One was
opposed 10 the other, and they fought, and
the best son won"
Most of those present had never heard
OF that fight before. and they crowded ca
gerly about him. II was In the training
quarters where Tommy RYAN Is training
for his fight with Kid Mccoy, and he, To-
gether with Jack Jeffries, stopped work
to listen.
Then Adam had two sons. and they
fought" continued Mr.. Jeffries.
(which got the decislon?" asked one
And there was Abraham. who had two
sons" Mr.. Jeffries went on, without an
swering One Of them was against the
other, and Jacob had two sons, and one &c
them was a bond son. So II goes on down
through the Jewish history"
Mr. Jeffries denied he was opposed 10
prize fighting. and was only afraid his
sons would work too hard, or get to drink
ing. .,t-.. -.-. q
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

81 nrst view. The Enclosure of turf is laid
, Vel ana kept in order with the same min
w care that an English cricketing club
eNpeHds upon its crease" The greatest
S nun Is taken to insure an absolute level.
ine surface is watered and rolled regu-
,,bIy an the year round, the grass kept
s.'eh put short, so that the surface shall
perfectly firm all the way along TO
a. ~ d secure footing and enable each of
az 'oinbatants in sword duel to lunge
a. retreat with perfect ease and without
ts 'seI OF slipping. Generally the ground
~, sHeitered from prying eyes by dense
sso,!as-' and the trees are an endless
le OF trouble and thought. Their
b." IN mas to be kept in due bounds so
~, we shade Is not too heavy; neither
.a,, lAey stand in such a way that either
sd,.ol the fighting line offers an undue
~ en'ase in point of light and shade.
nc y, more favored dueling resorts, such
fa 'Nouln Tour, the Moulin of La Grande
o,,, ana the Tour de Villebore, are laid
tla nNe pleasure gardens. There are lit
ne, wooden summer houses of rustic as
IL Where the doctors store Their medl-
M cases. where the combatants strip for
d. ray where the seconds make the
l o,e arrangements examining the weap-
~ 3pping the combatants' chests-to see
s,e, mere Is no protective armor under the
Shirts, which are de rigueur-and
where lots are drawn for positions. Uu-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

Paris. May 16.-This is the duelling sea-
son in Paris. Whatever the reason may
be. it is always in the spring and early
summer that the Gallo propensity for
finding deliberate insult in every chance
word of disagreement and avenging it with
sword or pistol brings most custom to the
"Field of Honor''-the Champ d Honneur.
The word custom" may seem little
strange But it is the right word all the
same The maintenance and letting out
on hire of duelling grounds is a regular
trade in Paris, or rather in the near neigh
borhood of the great city. Beyond the
fortihcations, in the green suburbs, where
the bourgeoisie goes to amuse itself on
Sunday, there are many cafes and pleasure
gardens, whose proprietors look upon their
share of the years duelling bouts as an
important element in their prosperity.
AT the more famous of these places,
where really fashionable people meet to
so through the farcical pretense of trying
to kill each other, the hire of the Field
of Honor" is rather expensive, according
to French views of moneys worth. About
$50 is usually given to the proprietor for
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

likes the fattering attention and courte-
Gus gratitude that attends her smallest
purchase.
In Paris the politest saluta tons between
purchaser and salesman or woman are
exchanged and this is expected in the big
well as the little shops and what at
first shocks and amazes while il eventually
pleases the traveller from the States is the
possibility OF beating down prices on some
occasions and the temptation TO buy on
Sunday. 1t is along the Rue de Rivoli and
the Palais Royale, where the enticing i'm
itation jewelry photographs, etc., are sold,
that the keen thrill of getting a thing at
less than its ticketed price may be en-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

der the trees which surround the arena
there are little tables where spectators
who may be Invited smoke their cigarettes
and sip their coffee or book while they
watch the fighting.
EARLY Morning Picnics.
As every one knows, the duel to the
death of the old days is almost unknown
to the degenerate modern, and every sea-
son the ouelling party becomes more and
more mere early morning picnic with
just the faintest spice Ct danger thrown
in to give it interest There is scarcely
ever duel in these days which does not
ass mble round the little tables under the
trees at least some two score spectators
chosen from among the intimate friends
of both parties. Cards~of invitation are
not lnfrequently issued just as to after
noon receptions or evening musicales
Even ladies appear in fresh morning
toilette to make the scene still more fes-
tive. At a recent affair d'honneur at
Levallois Perrett there were 300 people
of the best society present, and the re-
turn home to the city in carriages, cabs
automobiles and bicycles made a ling and
joyous procession, which caused windows
to be. thrown up and wondering faces to
project from them in all the villages en-
route.
OF course, the general public is as a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

who, in his green old age. does his best
to keep up the tradition of the Partisan
journalist of Balzac's days. In ScholPs
garden in the Rue de Clichy half the writ
ers of Paris have at one time or another
stripped off their coats and lunged at their
man. And, better than anybody Gle.
Schou knows how to reconcile his quarrel
ing friends once the swords have playei.
The invariable end to an encounter at
ScholPs is a slight scratch. jovial break
fast, and the arm-in-arm departure of the
belligerents for the Grands boulevard and
the offices of their respective journals. The
only kind of duel which is barred in the
gardens of the Rue Clichy is duel TO the
DEATH" as a duel with pistols might turn
out TO be. Pistols are forbidden, because
the master of the house was once threaten
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

the use of his grounds, and it is under
stood that the incidental "consomma-
tons"-in American, drinks with incident
als-cost about three times the usual price.
The walters get S. to divide amongst them
selves. Not infrequently, also, when no
accident more grave than the usual wrist
scratch has marred the joy of the proceed
ings, the whole crowd-combat ants, sec
onds, doctors and invited guests-takes
breakfast on the ground, and the popping
Of champagne corks celebrates the recon-
citation of the "high contending parties"
Then the proprietor is content; he repays
himself in one mornings takings for all
the expenditure of time and labor and
thought which his ground has cost him.
Maintenance of DueIinS Grounds.
For the due maintenance of a duelling
ground is not so easy as it might seem
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

ed with expulsion if ever again the sound
of shots were heard from his garden. And
Scholl is fond of his house, which, through
The reunions of politicians, journalists, ar
lists, poets and foreign celebrities which
have taken place there, has become as IL
were a part of the history of Paris. RS
There are one or two cafes in the very
heart of the city whose proprietors, for a.
consideration, allow an encounter in a long
bare upper room on an emergency. But
such impromptu unadOrned affairs are not
favorably looked upon by the beau monde,
which likes it's duelling to be decorative in
setting and festive in It's firale.
Stephen MacKenna
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27
PARIS SH0PKEEPERS.
THE SMALL ray DO BUSINESS ALI.
DAY SUNDAY.

The Only bargains to he Found To-
day Are i'm Old Paris Where Wo-
men Deal In Cast on Model Gowns.
Low Priced French HaRdwOrIS Can
Not Compete with the Work of
American Machinery-French Ac-
tresses and the wives of Rich Men
Are the Only Women Who Care
Much for Dress-The Bourgeoisie
Are Too Saving to Wear Extrava-
giant Clothes and the Average OF
Dressing Is Much Higher in This
Country Thnn in France-The Re
markabIe story of an Eight-Year
Old Card Case.
Copyright, 1900, by r. Burns).
Paris, May lit requires cast iron res
olutions allied to a New England con-
science and combined with a Franciscan
monks indifference to the vanity and fine
raiment for an American woman TO visit
Paris and withstand the temptations to
shop. She may go prepared to devote all
her powers, physical and financial to
churches and picture galleries, but the Pa
risian purveyor of fihery has not been
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27
THE SEASON OF DUELS
IN GAY PARIS TOWN
More Personal Encounters in the Spring
Than at Any Other Time

for
Regular H6nOr NoreI
walls Most
Are Fought Outside, ncoun
Are Famous
CoDyrigh by Stephe Sc<enn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

rule vigorously excluded from these ini-
tation bslicose smusements. Only the in
vited guests, be they a dozen or three
hundred, know where the encouni err will
take place. If an invited guest should give
away the repdezy Gus he would almost
certainly be "called out" by one of the
seconds chosen by lot from among the
four. Not long ago a well known society
woman, invited to attend an encounter,
"blabbed' to some friends. Her husband
was imm adiate'y called to account for her
indiscretion, and within a week had to
make the central figure on the turf
Reporters on Ladders.
At the duel which took place in he sec
ond week of April between the Marquis de
Lubersac and the Comte de Sicn. even the
reporters of the society jouroals, after
tracking the seconds day and night Ike
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-10-19
LINsEED OIL GOES UP.
Greatest Furry on Record Rapid Ad-
yances DsmoraIize the Market,

Chicngo, Oct is--Mannfaetnrors In
every line In which liDseod oil figures
nv mn important raw material were In
n furry oil over the country this after.
noon and they kept telegraph and telo.
phone lines warm In their frantic nt.
tomptB ~ secure thomelyes against
record breaking market fluctuations,
At noon the American Linseod OH
company marked the price OF linsoed
oil up 70 70 cents, tho highest figure
known since the infancy Of tho IN
dnstFy.
Before noon the price was down TO
80 cents. This advance Of 10 cents Dor
" tho largest single price for
finotuation ever known IN linseod oil,
aud IN about the equivalent Of 40 or
bO cents per bushel advance IN tho
price Of wheat,
Flax seod IN now selling nj yl,B2 or
M advance during tho last ton days OF
Db cents per bushel,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-10-19
WOOL MARKET ACTIVE,


Boston, Got, T--ThD American
Wool md Cotton Reporter will tOmOr-
row say Of tho wool trade,
Tho wool market has boon more
ngtivo, tho snios ut tho wociy aggregat-
Ing B,Bli,B0 pounds, Moro Of tho
purchasing has bonn done by tho mills
Of moderate sizo, Some Of Tho largo
consumers have boon around and have
made offers, but those were In mbye
INSTANCES below tho id0as nj tho hold
ors, ann tho result Nv that they secured
but little wool.
Tho Influence OF tho political cam
pAiRn IN still being fOlf In tho wool
market and large CONSUMERS M
whole hays evidently made WI their
minds 10 wait until after tho 0lGetiOn
before laying In any largo limos,
HGre aud thoN may bo noted indi-
oation ofa speculative tendency IN
anticipation OF md0rn tor goods aftor
election, but this cuts but little AgHr0
nv yot IN tho market,
In tho west holders still v0,Doin
firm and attempts have bnan made by
representatives OF tho enstorn trade tn
break prices, but they have failed,
Tho snlos OF tho week In Boston
amounted 10 1904, 300 pounds dnmns-
tiG and 10000 pounds foreign max
Ing u total 0f MBl4, 900 pounds against
" total ~ 1881, 600 pounds tor tho
previous week and u total NJ 5000, 900
pounds tor tho corresponding week NJ
Inst ynW,
Tho sales since January amount
W lO4, MOI, 900 pounds, against 1885,
V7i,OOO pounds f0r corresponding time
NJ Inst year,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-10-19
4 FEW FACTS ABOUT REGISTRATION
Which " VIII ~ Well for Voters 10
Study Carefully,

Vhe facts given hal0w arN pHhlishad
w. the banedt ~ voters WIN may mi
fully understand tho registration laW,
HegistFAtiNn has now hHen I'm W0gpGss
four DAYS and IN that time only ahnHf
mo voters have registered,
u you live IN nm Incorporated city
NJ town which M tho general HAetinD
~ lhah contained mare fhan 1000 Hagr
lRfaFaa voters, YOU must Fagisfer This
month ~ yen faRn0f vote,
" y0H 1--WE IN n repatriation district
nat included In n Gffg M fAWR con-
taininH more Than 1000 voters, and
weFerhgtRamd IN That district In laRa,
yen. IN nat have M FaHistGr HIS gagE
pha repatriation MEan On Monday,
0at0lHp n, and VIII close IN Ratirr
dagi nat0hW ~ Tim Registry OliM
WIN M 0Ien fF0W \ NJ M NJ n M
W. Monday, 0af0hy w, tliaM GniRfs
WIN aHain w 0I@n fr Vim registration
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-10-19
\ N GRANDCHILDREN
Emperor william Compliments Hohsnlohs,
Won Ruel0w's Policy.

Berlin, Dot, l8--Imporor William
has written W Prince HohenlohO M
autograph letter, yielding 10 tho
lhRpnell0ps' request Tor relief from
his Official duties and expressing his
thanks tor tho distinguished services,
Mselesh Apd solf-sacriaoing devotion
and NHynryiHg faihfplnass.
The retirement Of Prince H0honloh0
N the principal theme Of discussion
here, The Agrarinn and Liberal press
says Tint Prince H0hnnloho has long
been ont ~ tho ehanoollory, Tho
press adopts an attitude 0f curiosity IN
" tho future policy ~ CONT Won
Bnel0W,
The general feeling ~ that u strong
Young statesman now becomes rospol-
slhle W chief IN command ~ Tho state
and empire,