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and the pointed bodice. The girdle
and pointed bodice are features of
the gown of today.
For weeks and months the full
ness of the sleeve has been moving
higher up the arm. The style of
1880 came through the same changes
to the well known lego mutton,
which is to be the seasons popular
sleeve.
Here is shown a reproduction of
the style of 1880. A short skirt of
black satin, With a deep hem, the ell
bow lego mutton sleeve, a white
muslin collarette trimmed with en-
broidered ruffles and a reticule or old
fashioned wrist bag, of mouse col
ored satin.
The long shoulder has prepared
us for the long lines which the leg
o-mutton demands Today, as a cen
fury ago, we find the costume but
the natural outgrowth of styles that
| we have known.
Today the skirts which the inter
national says we must wear follows
period of closely fitted skirts II
was the same in the days of old.
Fashion magazines of 1880 show
us Ildl III suGldilS Lnt uCNtlOD-
ment of the 1880 costume of today
has followed in the footsteps of the
costume of years ago Just before
the eg-o-mutton sleeve of 1880,
came the woven bead chains, so pop
ular a year ago. The old magazines
show the use of the crocheted ring
as an ornamentation. The fancy for
the ring in trimming is just now IN
| its MONDAY.
So it is with the 1880. For months
we have had touches of 1880, COM
bined with touches" of 1860, with
decided touches" from 1904. All
this has prepared the women of the
moment for the 30-yard skirt, with
measurement at the floor of 80
| feet.
Next comes the polonaise and then
the hoopskirt. All, today we smile
and shake our heads. Just watt
When the day comes it will find us
prepared. Dame Fashion knows her
| trade.
a fine thread. The mouse is nearly
always caught.
To make glass sparkle sprinkle
with sawdust and then rub with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

yesterday morning But their engine
broke down several times, and most
of the night they drifted about the
Sound. Eight hours later than they
expected they sighted Everett.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20
FOR SALE-KEAL ESTATE
BOOTHROYD & co

lots, improved, on street near
9th, $500.
The best hotel corner in Tacoma,
$500.
Ranches at low rates in good To-
cations.
Room 6. 1901 Pacific Ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

Opening announcement. Showing
latest designs in Pattern Hats and
all kinds of Millinery, commencing
Monday and continuing all week.
Nine. ChaDlbers. 100 So. G.. go
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20
Furnished Houses.
Unfurnished Houses.
Furnished Rooms.
Unfinished Rooms.

Three 50-foot lots near the Whit
man school. all for $3.50.
40 acres good land with timber,
near Puyallup, $500.
70-acre ranch, good buildings, IL
acres cleared, mile water line, $500
down, the remainder 500 per year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

a letter from Goldbeck, the famous
Chicago composer in which he states
that he will produce an orchestral
work entitled "The Song of Orpheus'
at the st. Louis fair early in Oc-
tober.
The ladies of st. Luke's guild have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

WI o IL -. IlCN nOluS ISIuIuGu last
evening after a pleasant visit of two
weeks among the Sound cities.
Mrs. James Wickersham, wife of
Judge Wickersham, arrived in Taco
ma yesterday, after having spent the
summer with her husband in Alaska.
She is guest at the Irving.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the A. o.
H. will give card and dancing party
Thursday evening in Parker hall.
John S. Baker and Miss Bernice
Baker left today for New York CITY,
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Murray
arrived home from San Francisco and
Los Angeles last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lee are en-
PERTAINING Mrs. Jencon of Spokane.
Miss Turrell left last evening for
Pennsylvania for the third year of
her course at Ogontz seminary, near
Philadelphia.
Miss Lila Kelly left today for a
trip to San Francisco.
Miss Olive Algeo will leave Thurs
day for Pittsburg, Pa. where she ex-
poets to spend the winter with rela-
tives.
Robert Weisbach recently received
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20
MRS. HUMPHREY TO SPEAK.

Mfrs. Humphrey of Seattle will
speak at Alliance hall, Eleventh
street and Yakima avenue, tomorrow
afternoon at 1880.
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postponed until the first week in Oc-
tober the social which was to have
been held tomorrow afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Stallcup.
Mrs. Hargear and Miss Hargear
are spending a month in San Fran
cisco.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20
EASY SAVINGS PLAN

$3.50; $25 down and SIS a month.
for brand new Ar. house and 2 lots:
call on d. B. Hunter. 1924 Aims
worth, between Center st. and bicycle
path
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Social and
Personal
. o. sees Q Q . 0 s0easoos

Mrs. H. c. Reynolds returned last
evening after pleasant visit of two
weeks among the Sound cities.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

Several very desirable residences
in choice locations.
Building lots and residence sites
in all parts of the city.
APARTMENT HOUSE, 6. Z. cor.
18th and G streets. will be sold at
price to make a fine investment.
Joshua Peirce, 726 Pacific Avenue
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

OUT OF THE FASHION BOOKS SEVENTY
Comes the Fair Maid Who Obeys Edicts Modern
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enc Of the best hotels in the city Room
and board $3.50 to 5000 per week. An
the accommodation of a high-priced hotel
Corner 18th and Z, on Cable Line.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

houce gown, az well as the street
gown, which the international asso-
citation promises, will barely reach
the ground
In 1880 there was the wide girdle
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

Opening announcement. Showing
latest designs I'M Pattern Hats and
all kinds of illinery, commencing
Monday and continuing all week.
Nine. Chambers, 100 So. C.. **#
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FOR RENT-HOUSES-

Two suites of rooms in the Grandin
Apartments. at 1884, c. street.
Two suites of rooms in large build
ing, 1921 South Yakima avenue.
House, six rooms and bath, 1912
ID street.
House, six rooms and bath, ". e.
corner Jefferson avenue and 25th
street.
House, six rooms, 2Si5 A street,
Joshua PeiTee. 726 Pacific Avenue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

a fine thread. The mouse is nearly
always caught.
To make glass sparkle sprinkle
with sawdust and then rub with
channels.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20
COSY NEW COTTAGE

For sale. the above brand new
property, with lots, for only $3.50.
Buyer must have good steady job. To
such a one will sell $25 down and
SIS month. This is little more than
you are now paying for rent. Start
in, right away, and enjoy that "sweet
feeling of ownership" D. B. Hunter.
1924 Ainsworth, near bicycle path.
NEW HOUSE, rooms, 2 lots, suit
able for poor man who wants to get
ahead. Terms: SIS a month for so
months, and you receive warranty
deed. No interest. No taxes. The
place will be yours in five years, and
you will have paid but little more
than rent installments. D. B. Hunt
er, 1924 Ainsworth, near Center
street.
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The Ladies' Auxiliary of the A. o.
H. will give card and dancing party
Thursday evening in Parker hall
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20
HUNTERS HAVE RUN
OF REAL HARD LUCK

EVERETT, Sept. 20--After drift
ing around a greater part of the
night in a helpless launch on the
Sound, between Hoods canal and Ev-
erett, party of nine Everett hunters
arrived home about 1 o'clock yester-
day afternoon. Just as they were in
side the harbor. as "a finale to their
chapter of accidents, their tender was
capsized, one of the party was thrown
into the water and all their game was
lost.
The party after hunting for two
days near Hama Hama, on Hood S
canal, started for, home early Sunday
evening, expecting to reach Everett
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

John S. Baker and Miss Bernice
Baker left today for New York city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

Robert Weisbach recently received
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-20

ALL KINDS of goods bought and.
sold' furniture upholstered and
repaired. Sewing machines cleaned
Black 1905
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

cities people keep in closer touch with their acquaintances.
 "There is another reason why 1 say New York is a city of strangers. The fundamental home element is largely lacking, because the average New Yorker was not born in New York. True home-love' can only be felt for ones birthplace How many of your New York friends were born here? Not many, I'll wager. People come to New York to make money, to carve out careers, to see life or for ansuse- ment. None of those aims tend to foster the love of home or the forming of close and lasting friendships. Then, again, conditions themselves fcster unsociability. Our chief amuse- ment is the theatre, in money getting competition is too keen for intimacies, and in every day life we are far too busy to think much of our neighbors.
 We are strangers to the men we rub elbows with every day; we are strangers to our housemates; we are by birth strangers to the city we live in. Is it too much to say that New York's most fitting nickname is 'The City of Strangers ?"
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O.Ct.ss.Ss.Es.ts.s,.<,.<s.t,.t}
CITY OF STRANGERS.
New Names That Is Given to New
 York

From the New York World.
 'I have read at various times that New York, the greatest city of the country, has no nickname" said Play wright William C. de Mile at the Play. CTS club the other evening.
 Boston is called ne Hub;' Brook lyn, The City of Churches; New Ha- ven, The City of Elms;' Chicago, The Windy City, and so on through the whole list, each city being nicknamed because of some more or less pleasant attribute. It has been claimed that New York is too cosmopolitan to have any one distinctive trait sufficiently salient to form a soubriquet for the whole city, l do not agree with this claim.
 "If I might, in all modesty, make n suggestion as to distinctive title for little old New York, l should name it The City of Strangers Not only be- cause there are daily more out-of-town people and more foreigners passing through Manhattan than through any other city in America, nor because so many persons merely spend a brief holiday or business season here and then depart without having had time or opportunity for forming acquaint- ances.
 q base my suggested nickname on a far more self-evidclt phase of New York life than either of the foregoing, a phase that seems for some reason to have been neglected by writers and
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played in almost every pantomime slhcs at Drury Lane, though of late ne nau forsaken he role of the woman. Du' whether a man or womon he was SUI preme. Every expression, every trich. every tone of voice was such an earnest imitation of the real thing that one was carried away. No time to think or mere acting. Dan Leno was thorough Tn whatever he did. and he always appeared surprised at the screams of laughter he provoked. Anything more absurd than his serenade with a guitar as big as himself. in the pantomime. ''The Forty Thieves" cannot be imagined. It was a cure for all miseries, large and small.
 Leno had seven children. His oldest daughter, Georgiana, is a pantomime actress of ability in London. He ap- pea-ed before King Edward at the lat ter's invitation. the only music hall artist at that time ever given such an invita- tion. The king gave to him handsome pin, and made one of the pleasant little speeches which he knows how to utter on such occasions. And then 'Dan" up and confessed to the king that he had been guilty of larceny-he had taken six biscuits from the royal supper table that had been laid for him and Mir. and Mrs. Seymour Hicks-a biscuit for each of the little ones at home. And the king heartily laughed. of course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
cIRcUMsTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
Case Where Innocent Man Would
 Have Been Accused.

From the Kansas City Star.
 Several years ago I took a late train from Boston to New York;" said a man in business in Kansas City. Tn the morning l was awakened earlier than usual by the porter. who said that rob- bery had peen committed on the sleeper during the night and that all the passen- gers would have to get up. Some one had taken six $1OO bills from the clothing of a gentleman who occupied berth in the middle of the car.
 Every section had been taken before he left Boston, and as the train had been almost constantly in motion. it seemed certain that the person who had commit ted the theft was still on the car. The porter said no one had been aboard but the passengers, and that none of them had left It was proposed to search everybody.
 "A man who had birth directly op- posite from the one who had been robbed objected. He told his name and said any one might easily find that he was man of good reputation. In the mean time some officers boarded the car, and after a little swearing got the money from the colored porter, who was the guilty one.
 "Then the passenger who had refused to be searched asked the officers to ex- anime his pockets This seemed strange, but he insisted. In an inside pocket they found six slO0 bills. It was merely coincidence that he should have the same amount of money as the other passenger had lost, and in exactly the same denomi- nations. but he knew that under the cir- cumstances he could hardly establish his innocence. How was that for case of circumstan.ial evidenceg'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
ONLY DAN" LENO.
Incidents in the Life of Drury Lane
 Star.

From the Memphis Seimitar.
 The only Dan Leno. the Drury Lane star. who was really funny in spite of the fact that he was English, has passed to the gerat beyond. His death was a cause for universal sorrow in England, where he had made laughs for years and made laughs every minute. Leno was the most renowned music hall com edian that ever lived in England. and probably few members of his profession ever had the comedy game in hand with such natural easiness and nicety as had "Dan.'
 MT. Leno probably inherited his tall ents. His parents were theatrical people and it was in early childhood that Dan opened his career upon the stage. His first work was as a juvenile clog dancer, and as his years piled up he became the champion of England. Like many others, he rapidly advanced to parody song work and ultimately to pantomine, in which his later successes were scored.
 Leno suffered a mental breakdown about a year ago and has only appeared once or twice since He was born in 1861 in England and was consequently 43 years of age.
 It has always been said of ''Dan" Leno that his laugh-making antics were ire sistible. It was necessary merely for him to appear before an audience to set it to laughing. Sometimes. when he es- saved seriousness, he produced the same effect. Once he had been called upon by a friend to participate in show, the Guild of High Endeavor." whose pur- pose was to keep the young people of a certain church from the theatre. Leno had been scheduled to sing "The Lost Chord" He was rather frightened at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

1 idea, but after his own turn, where he was playing, parted his hair down the middle, put on a Shakespeare collar and sad smile, and appeared on the plat form of the other hall.
 We sat in a row" he explained at the time, with me, as the only professional, near the chairman in the middle. Some of us were singers, some of us were story tellers, and some of us were in the last stages of recitationates. And the gloom was as thick as pea soup. The chairman was parson with a face like suet- pudding that had fallen on doormat and picked up some whiskers."
 When 1t came to his turn, the chairman announced, MT. Daniel Leno, a brand, may l say, plucked from the burning, will now sing that beautiful toned picture, The Lost Chord, And, ohl'' he went on. let us trust, my friends. that some of may find that chord tonight
 Dan" cleared his voice with a heart rending sob, coughed. and finally started ed singing 'The Lost Chord" as it had never been sung beforel He was in a cold precipitation, and when. at last, he looked at the audience some were shak- ing like jelies. the chairman was hold ing his jaws hard in both hands, the women were chewing their handker- chiefs. and, at last. one and all reoared ana ScnredmeU Ike children. Dan disgusted. This he said. isn't comic song. You said l was to sing The Lost Chord, and I did" But they applauded him all the same
 Leno's first great success was made as distressed woman singing ballad called Milk for the Twins'
 In 1888 he first appeared at Drury Lane as the Baroness in the pantomine Babes in the Woods" Those who saw Leno as the Baroness will never forget him. His dancing, his makeup, his ec- centricities were absolutely side-split- ting. In 1889 he was Jacks mother in Jack and the Beanstalk,'' and he had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

sociologists alike. It is a fact, how. ever that we are a cityfull of strang. CTS, strangers to our next-door neigh; bors, strangers to the occupants of the flats above and below us, strangers practically to most of the people with whom we are thrown into daily con. tact, and, most ol all, strangers to the very city which we are proud to call our Home
 Take, for instance, the smaller cities. Occupants of most of the houses were either born in them or have lived in them for many years. In either case they are acquainted with at least half of the other people on their block and know the rest by sight and name. They also knew as boys the townsfolk they now know as men. They went to kindergarten with the girls they later marry,
 How about New Yorks? How many of us have been able to keep in touch with our boyhod friends? How many of us can say today what has become of most of the boys and girls with whom We went to school? Yet in many cities We would know the life histories of three-fourths of them and would have continued our acquaint- | ance with more than half of them. We would also know the business, trade or profession of nearly every one liv- ing on the same street with us. Yet we scarcely know the names, to say nothing of the employment of the peo- pie who live in the same apartment house with us.
 We meet pleasant people. We see them several times during the season. But we know of their doings between times, and as a rule they sooner or later drop out of our lives. In other
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What else may the Average Person look forward to in the day of air ships? There will be so many of him by that time, that all the air shin rapid transit routes will be so crowded as the transportation routes on the surface are now. It is only too certain that the Average Person of the future, like the Average Person of to-, day, will hang to strap. There won't never will be.
 Revival of Piracy.
 In his voyages to business and back, his crowded way will be beset by all the present dangers and added to them will be the new ones of gravity and wind and lightning. Furthermore, the chances are that the fine o.u profession of piracy will have a great revival The rakish craft of twentieth century Bluebeards or Mor- gans may hover over everywhere and hold up whole shploads or, descending to the Average Persons home on terra tirma at night, lay his house by the board. de- part with his plate and perhaps make the unhappy owner walk the plank out of his own windows in good old style.
 Even without the pirate, the Average Persons privacy will vanish with the arrival of the ships of the atmosphere. High walls will give him no exclusive ress. Merry chowder parties and picnic crowds will lean gayly over the taffrails of their excursion barges and lightly drop banana peels and sandwich erusts and other rubbish all over his property, and his head, too. Probably whenever he walks in his garden, a bombproof metal helmet will have to take the place of the broadbrimmed straw hat uf today
 The Average Person won't get any fun out of air navigation himself any more than he does now out of the water. He won't be able to own a private air yacht any more than he can own private sea yacht now.
 The new aerial police to enforce the new speed laws and rules of the aerial roads; the new aerial fire and ambulance services; the aerial anchorages and life saving stations the boards of aerial in- spectors of everything aerial and more too-all will be paid for by the Average Person in increased taxes.
 And in return he will get an occasional fractured skull from an empty bottle tossed pleasantly overheard by an un- known speed maniac who is racing In his air auto out of sight four miles up in the blue.
 Copyright 1904. byJulius W. Muller)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27

nations to make war. And quite without this stimulus, the occasion for quarres will be vastly increased by the new ves- sel. When men get dominion of the air their interests will conflict in hundreds of different ways. There will be no artificial geographical and political boundaries to restrain them. They will be far beyond the hand of law.
 TEe lightness of the air ship if the future will demand an entirely new form of armament. Of course it will not be enough for the fighting air ship to carry only explosives to drop from height It must carry guns that it can direct against other air ships These guns must be featherweight, yet they must have tre- mendous range; for the flying ships will be able to sight each other at incredible distances, since once they rise a mile or more above the ground, the curvature of the earth will not limit the range of vision
 Perhaps the warships of the sky will use radium or some even more wonderful element still to be discovered for it's fight ing.
 Men will invent and find all the neees- sary things. as they have always man aged to invent and find what they needed. Does anybody believe that they are going to miss the chance to use the fruits of their ingenuity? New weapons. new ex- plosves, a wiery and wonderful theatre of war, with ranges beyond the imagina ton of men of today-where will the white dove of peace be in air ship year.?
 Poor Average Person.
 Now what will that useful and worthy and universally ignored creature, the Average Person, get out )f it?
 If naval engagement suddenly breaks loose over the place where he lives, he f,tI of seeing what hits him. The spectacle of battle will not be for him. It will be too high up. But the projectiles that go wild and everything that is smashed up there will fall down on him with simple directness.