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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

usually the darker-in the plaid This is a
fashion bound to be ephemeraI and one try
ing TO any but tall thin figures. Last sum
Tner a few women coming from abroad
wore skirts Of shepherd platds with plain
coats matching the dark color of the check.
Mrs. John Jacob Aston had one in dark
green and white, topped by small dark
green coat matching the green IN the skirt.
and few others were noted
The plaids however are quite different
from the tiny shepherd check. and the eff
feet Is altogether different. When, however,
money IS no object and love or variety
present. one of these mixed costumes VIII
come IN very well for knock-about wear
~
Plated skirts. including the accordion and
sunray pIaits. are still worn in Paris ana
will be-and are-here and are always
graceful. They seem to be as lasting in
fashion as the ever-present Elton Jacket and
are wise investment for economical
women
Soaking OF Elton jackets recalls the fact
that long coats save In the fancy French
affairs for formal dressing, are not being
made up at all save for shopping. morning
wear and travelling. They are inappropri-
ate 70 warm wear, when their greater
weight Is burdensome
In Etous the short variety, coming barely
10 the top Of a wide girdle or just over It,
lead. and nearly every one is made that
way. In nearly every costume for no mat
ter what occasion there is some sort or
Jacket or bolero or coat In effect, II not In
reality
A decidedly rev touch Is the drapInx of
fun sleeves back on the bodice at their top.
30 that they seem TO be a part OF the cor
sage drapery rather than sleeves
In Paris the short skirts are very short.
while the long ones trail around the feet in
the usual distressing Partisan fasmon-dls-
tressing 10 the wearer, / mean, for In the
house trailing skirts are infinitely more
graceful and artistic than the short ones
One Partisan house is showing new fichu
effect In the wide Powered ribbons men,
toned above. Some OF thes, G,bbons are
drawn down over the corsage and under the
several inches below the waist line, form
ing coat tail effects that distinctiyeiy
chic.
In other examples the ribbons are fas-
tened quite high in the center back and
are then draped TO form graceful cascade
effect, ending In long trailing ends falling
10 the hem OF the skirts These fichus are
high and square. as they give the dropping
shoulder effect.
Ribbons are being used In quantities not
only to trim gowns. but for millinery pur-
poses. and never have ribbons been better
in variety. suppleness OF weave and beauty
Of coloring and design.
one Partisan house uses ribbons OF liberty
satin TO trim many OF its skirts These ruff
hes are often put on In curved lines or
serrated points. while others are straight
In many cases these come to the knee
Nne-Some above II,
Partisan novelty ia the decolletts dinner
coat tn silver and gold gauze. Sometimes
= 7"'ir"ly of one or the other; In other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08

The hat In the cut is a pretty model to
grace the Eastertide. It il of fine black
Neapolitan chip with dome crown ana
high rolling brim. About the crown Is .
smart roll CT black velvet drawn through
q round jet buckle. The bandeau Is filed
up with plated Waite malinA and the
paradise plume aigr0t b whitA
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
Robes of the Pope.

The outward robe of the pope is red
and made from the wool of the lambs
of the convent of st. Agnes, near the
Porta Pia. The cloak and cape are
lined with purple and trimmed with
gold lace; the sombrero, or hat, is
red, and has gold cord and tassel.
Beneath the cloak is worn an alb,
made also of wool of the lambs of st.
Agnes, and girt about the waist with
a sash of white moire antique, gar
nished with gold fringe. The pope's
hands are burdened with kit mittens,
and his feet are burdened with a pair
of slippers worn over his ordinary
shoes. The total value of his ward
robe is said to be s150,000.-Kansas
City Journal.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
Queens Are Tallest.

There IS hardly king in Christen-
dom to-day whose wife does not over
top him by q head. The czar is over
topped a fun head by the czarina
Kaiser Wilhelm is of medium height
but the German empress is tall. and
that is why the proud kaiser will nev-
er consent to be photographed beside
his wife unless she sits while he
stands. The king of Italy, short and
squat, hardly comes up to the shoul-
ders of the tall, athletic Queen Hele-
ma. The king of Portugal, though fat
ter, is less tall than his queen. Even
the prince of Wales is Il good four
inches shorter than the princess. The
young king of Spain Is several inches
shorter than Queen Victoria. The
queen of Denmark towers above her
royal spouse.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
Care for the Birds.

During the last year the Audubon
society of Louisiana has rented some
II bird-breeding islands, located in
the waters of the gulf. Last year the
islands were watched by two wardens
whose wages were paid by the ma
tional committee of Audubon socie-
ties, and although they were not
wholly able to prevent trespassing
and egg-stealing, nevertheless the re-
suit sattained were well-nigh marvel
Gus. On their own and the neighbor-
ing islands of Breton reservation,
owned by the federal government, by
these simple preventive measures
there were hatched and raised all of
10000 birds, composed of the follow
ing species: Common terms, forsters,
terms, royal terms, laughing gu!ls,
black kimmers.-Country Life in
America.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
College Men in Gold Fields.

College men fairly swarm in the
gold camps. and many Of them flocked
IN as soldiers of fortune.
Soon fool threw a football into
the middle of the main street of Cold
field one day" said a prospector.
Then he gave a college yell. and 20
men piled out of the stores and ho-
tells and saloons so fast you couldn't
count 'em. They lined up without
anybody's giving the word, and played
n game right on the jump. They clean
wore that football out in no time"
While the college-bred man may find
only disappointment. and hardship in
such a stormy tide of life as this, he
quits it, at any rate, with a new re-
spect for mankind, bedrock democ-
racy of viewpoint and a stock of ele-
mental courage and self-reliance. For
there is this to be said of the men Of
the desert and mountains. that they
know how to take defeat with smile
for the future and a firmer set of the
jaw for the present. While there are
prodigal and foolish deeds among the
few who find bewildering wealth in
the earth, finer wealth of manhood
is developed in the hearts of the many
who fail to find that which they seek.
Outing Magazine.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
On Canadian Soil.

King Edward once said that he spent
the most exciting and nervous mo-
ment of his life on a prairie in Canada
when he visited that country as a
youth. He was in no danger of be-
ing scalped by red Indian or eaten
by wolves or gored by a ma1dened
bison. His anxiety and nervousness
were simply due to his efforts to light
a match. The prince and his party
were miles away from human habita-
tions; they wanted to smoke and
had only one match between them.
Lots were cast as to who would strike
it. The lot fell on the prince, and
with great difficulty he managed to
get the light which was to supply
them with fire till their return to civ.
ilizatlon.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
HEAD HUNTERS OF FoRMosA.
Race of Man Eaters Whose Cry la
for Blood.

The mountainous interior of For.
mosa is inhabited by a race of blood
thirsty savages, whose chief delight
is to sally forth on head hunting raids.
Few strangers (the exceptions being
some intrepid Japanese eXplorers)
have ever penetrated far into the wild
mountain country which is the home
of these savages.
They appear to be akin to the
Dyaks of Borneo, but no definite study
Of their language or habits has yet
been made, though interesting de-
tails will be found in Consul David
sons voluminous book on Formosa
For hundreds of years the tribes, eight
in number, have withstood their enc
mics, who have never been able to
penetrate to their fastnesses. 1t re-
mains to be seen what success the
more systematic Japanese will
achieve.
1t seems almost incredible that the
station of a military force should not
be safe from the raids of these head
hunters, but it was the case few
years ago. At that time one of the
LTIDeS crept III tne nlSnC upon posi-
of the Japanese and made off with a
score of heads.
Their more usual method is to stalk
the Chinese of either sex when they
are engaged in tea picking. The saw
age creeps up unobserved to his VIC
tim, transfiXes him with his spear, Sc
cures his head and he is lost in a
moment in the neighboring jungle
Macmillan's Magazine.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
RETIRED BAL PLAYERS.
They Are Found in All Lines of Busi-
ness Life.

But when the old ball player has
done with the game that does not
mean that he has done with the world.
When | have fielded my last ball l will
practice dentistry, says Capt. (Dr)
Casey, in the Independent.
The old players who have long re-
tired are in all sorts of business.
Some are lawyers, like Johnny Ward
and Dave Fultz; some physicians, like
Cunning; Amos Rusie is working in
a lumber yard in Vincennes, Ind;
Mike Sullivan was on the governors
staff in Boston till he died; Charley
Cancel, the Boston's old catcher, is 4
travelling salesman; Jim O'Rourke,
formerly of the New Yorks, is play
ing ball to-day. He owns his own club
and grounds and has a son playing on
the same team with him-Connecticut
State league. Roger O'Conner. the
New York's old catcher, is & large
property owner in Cincinnati. Buck
Ewing is in business in Cincinnati.
People who remember Arlie Latham
will be glad to learn his fate. Arlie
was one of the greatest Hckers ever
seen, the leader of riots and plague
of umpires. So they've made him al
umpire, and crowds now daily heap
contumely upon him.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
UNWILLING GIFTS.
How a New England Preacher Beat
Stingy Parishioner.

When Elder John Malvern, the we'll
known Free Baptist preacher, was a
young man, in charge of the parish at
Gilmanton, N. H., he was rewarded
for his pastoral faithfulness by fire.
quent gifts of farm produce. He once
called on a rich but stingy parishioner.
He praised his crops, and especially
one variety of winter apple. AS he
got into his buggy, he again repeated
his wish that he might have some
of those apples"
The farmer, wishing to get credit
for generosity, said: 'If you had a
bag I'd fill it,
Much to the farmers surprise, the
elder drew from under his cushion a
large bag, which the sllinhint filed
with evident lack of enthusiasm
Then, deeming himself safe, he add
ed: you could have more If you had
another bag"
Certainly, 1 have another bag, >,
promptly answered the preacher as
he sprang out of the carriage and re
moved the old bag which he used un.
der the saddle to prevent the horse
from chafing his back. The second
bag was loosely filed and the minis
ter drove off, with no additional sug
gestion of more bags that might be
filed.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
CARRIERS IN MOROCCO.
Rural Free Delivery Basis of System
Remarkable Postmen.

The rural free delivery system in
America is the outgrowth of many
years experience, says the Youths
Companion. 1t comes as late result
in the process of development. In
Morocco, on the other hand, it seems
to be the basis of a system yet to be
formed; only there is one respect in
which the two methods differ; that
of the United States is maintained at
an expense to the government, but
the Moroccan system is a source of
revenue, according to the following
account given by the author of Moor
ish Lotus Leaves:
Swinging along at jogtrot ma
tive courier-a barelegged and bare
headed fellow, with a pair of coarse
slippers thrust into the hood of his
ragged cloak and wallet on his back
approached our party, and, halting,
leaned upon his long staff, while he
informed us that the head of Cid
Meloods oppressor adorned gate
way in the principal market OF Mara
kesh.
Mail trains and native post Offices
being noneXistent, these hardy letter
carriers represent the whole postal
system of Morocco. Superintendent by
a government commissioner, corps
of couriers, as trustworthy as they
are indefatigable, is to be found in
every town.
Ready at an hours notice to under
take the longest journey, perhaps
through disturbed districts, always
over miserable roads, generally sleep
ing in the open air, the courier has
been known to do the double trip from
Mogador to Marakesh-about 270
miles-within five days and half,
the fee, a small portion of which
goes to the government, being just 81.
This, it should be borne in mind, is
the pay of special courier. On any
additional chance letters he may car
ry the charge is something under two
cents.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
PAY OF STATESMEN.
Denmark Is stineiest of All with Her
Legislators.

The Norwegian member of parlia-
ment gets only 13 shilings a day, and
If the hard-working legislator takes
n day off he loses his pay, says Lon
don Answers. The same is the case
with members of the Swiss diet. They
are rewarded with 16 shillings day,
on condition that they do not absent
themselves from work.
To go fulther east, we find that
Roumania thinks her lawmakers
worth one pound sterling day. Six
teen shillings a day is the salary of
those who compose the Bulgarian sob
ranje, but members who live in the
capital get u shillings daily.
Denmark is about the stingiest of
all European countries, so far as re-
munerating her lawmakers is con
cerned. Danish members of parlia-
ment get but six shillings eight
pence a day; but, on the other hand,
they have the odd privilege of a free
seat in the Royal theater at Copen-
hagen.
While the members OF the German
reichstag are not salaried, yet the
lawmakers of the various German
states do not work for nothing. SAKE
Coburg members of parliament are
paid 13 shillings, of Bavaria ten, and
of Hesse nine.
AT first sight Hungary seems to do
her lawmaking on the cheap plan, for
her members get $500 a year in cash.
But they are not so badly off, after
all, for liberal allowance is made
into the bargain for house rent. Aus
tria-Hungary's two legislative assem-
blies cost the country about e160000
year in all. Both the Austrian and
Hungarian legislators can travel first
class with second-class tickets.
Besides the United Kingdom, Italy
and Spain are the only countries
which pay nothing to their members
of parliament. Nevertheless, the cost
of the Italian parliament is estimated
at eS5,000 a year.
In Portugal, also, the state does not
remunerate legislators, but they re-
.ceive free railway passes, and their
constituencies are legally permitted
to pay those who represent them a
sum of about Is shillings for each
day OF the session.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
HumoR OF FRISCO DlsAs7ER
How the Spirit of the People Mani
tested Itself in Hour of Trial.

The spirit of the San Francisco peo
itself in lighter ways, too, writes
French Strother, in the Worlds Work.
A steel building on Van Ness avenue,
with every window space gaping from
a gutted interior, bore freshly paint
ed sign-"The Hotel Baltimore Is Now
Open for Business"
1t was-wide open.
In front of every house was a stove
set up in the street and shielded from
the wind, because no fires were al
lowed in the houses until the chin
neys could be inspected. These wind
breaks almost invariably bore some
iocular legend. Some were named
'Zinkands" or 'Taits' or THE Poodle
Dog" after famous restaurants of the
city. One sign read, well Shaken"
and below it a finger pointed to the
next shack, on which was painted:
Same Alive" There were dozens of
Happy Homes" In San Jose | saw
building, completely wrecked from
which sign announced that-"E. w.
Jack Has Been 'Earthquaked' to Is
West st. John Street Gust Around the
CorneD." Another-"From These
Ruins Will Rise San Jose's Greatest
Grocery Store"
But perhaps the most effective ex-
preston l saw of the spirit with which
losses were borne was on street car
on Devisadero street. A well-dressed
young woman recognized young man
standing by seat several feet away.
Burned out?' she inquired.
He smiled pleasantly and answered
quite simply, yes" Nothing more
was said.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
Popularity of Turks.

Turks are eeXtremelypeculiar," writes
a traveller, ''in regard to the quality
of water they drink, and are willing to
be at much trouble and expense to OBJ
tain water of the kind they prefer.
To be a perfect beverage, water must
issue from a rock, fall from a height,
be of medium temperature, flow rap
idly and copiously, taste sweet, spring
in high and lonely ground and run
from south to north or east to west.
The excellence of any water is accord
ingly determined by the number of
these conditions it fulfills. 1t is re-
markable how much pleasure Turks
find in visiting a famous spring in the
country, to spend the whole day beside
it, under the shade of trees, doing
little else but drink carafe after carafe
of the water, as the elixir of life. Re-
sorts of this description abound on
the shores of the upper Bosporus un.
der such names as the Water of Life,
the Silver Water the Water Under the
Chestnut Tree, the Water Beside the
Hazels The spectacle of the great
gatherings there on Fridays, arrayed
in bridal colors, seated tier above
tier on the terraced platforms built
against the green slope of the HILL the
women above, the men below, all in
the deep shade of the branches meet
ing overhead, forms picture beyond
a painters power to reproduce
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
cooneratlon in Germany.

There are In Germany 2.50S cooper.
at!ye stores societies, having a mem.
bershlp of over 100000. The value
of goods sold by them Increased from
147,000000 marks (mark 23.S cents)
in 1903 to 230,000,000 in 1905. The
profits realized (Which accrue to the
benefit of the members) were 12,O0O,.
600 and 1S000,000 marks respectively
for the years mentioned. Many of
these various retail cooperative stores
have their wholesale purchasing com
panie7 which supply them at original
cost; hey are thereby enabled to Sc
cure lowest Wholesale prices.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
COUNTRY OF cow PuNcHER.
Life in a Little Town in the Untamed
It.. Land Out West.

On all sides of the little town lay
the glorious sweep of untamed coun-
try. To find another railroad to the
northward was to ride $50 miles to
the Canadian Pacific, to find rail
road to the southwest meant as long
ride to the Northern Pacific, says
Outing. On the ridge of the town n
freighters' outfit was making ready
to pull out four days to a camp near
the Little Rockies. Ten horses led the
string OF laden wagons, behind which
trailed the covered chuck-wagon,
equipped for sleeping and cooking, for
there were no hotels ON this route.
The boss and his two helpers were
wrestling with a broncho which, until
this ill-fated day, had never felt a
harness across his back. He was need
ed as an off-wheeler, and he had to
so. He fought like a hero possessed
of seven devils, and three men toiled
for an hour to get him into the traces
and to keep clear from his Internally
active heels
At length his nine comrades jumped
into their collars and the rebel simply
and was dragged on his ear until his
added wits perceived there was moth
ing in this sort of mutiny. He rose
and slid stiff-legged until, outnum-
bered, outvoted and outgeneraled, he
surged into the collar like a thunder
bolt and thereafter tried to pull the
whole load in the vain hope of tearing
something out by the roots.
The long string of horses and wag-
ons wound out into the open country
and in a little while dipped across a
grassy undulation and was gone, A
swirl of dust marked its progress for
several miles, this plodding caravan,
with it's tanned and bearded men, un-
lettered and slow of speech, used to
living out under the sky, seeing few
of their kind. 1t was thus the pio-
neers crossed the plains half cen
tury ago.
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
WHY HE WANTED TO KNOW.
Had a Reason for His Request for
information.

The steamer Morning Star, COM
manded by Capt. Brown, in the sum-
mer of 1904, while on a trip up the
Maine coast with party of excursion
lists, was caught in a severe storm,
and the waves washed the decks re-
passengers that there was no immedi-
ate danger Most of the passengers
were satisfied with this answer, but a
little gentleman with an excited face
stepped forward and asked the cap
tain, time and time again, the same
question: do you think we shall be
wrecked?"
After the captain answered many
times, he at last became tired at the
persistent passenger, and said: Don't
you hear what l say? Look at the 9TH
er passengers, they do not seem at all
disturbed. If there should be danger,
| will inform you in time
The passenger, in reply, said: 81
want to know in time, if we are going
to be lost, because there is friend of
mine on board"
''Do you want to say good-by to
him?" inquired the captain.
mo, not exactly that" answered the
frightened man. You see, the thing
of it is, he has shamefully deceived
me, and if we are going to the bottom
/ just want to tell him what think of
him"
Gilpin observer., 1906-10-18
ENGLISH TO BE WORLD SPEECH.
All Other Tongues Give Way to Mod.
ern Demand for Homely Language.

From the Columbia State.-By
"homely' we here mean partaking OF
the nature of home, and not plain or
ugly. Wordsworth thus speaks of
''the homely beauty of the good old
cause" So often in life we find that
it is the homely, the thing soiled and
perhaps stained with daily use, rather
than the fine thing, the great and the
high thing, thar endures. Why? Be-
cause it is humanized; it's very stains
revealing to all that it is fit for daily
use. Affection has touched it, love has
handled it, and it is immortal.
This principle has often been Illus
trated in history, and it is being illus
trated every day by one of the most
remarkable phenomena in all history
the endurance of language apparent
ly the least fitted to survive OF all the
widely spoken tongues of the human
race. We see that in Japan, in China,
in India, in France, in Germany
throughout the world-people are
ieurning English. The language that
has no grammar, only mass of ex-
ceptions to every rule and principle of
human speech; a language that has
no system Of spelling, that is unspell-
able, that is harsh, is supplanting the
languages of people that outnumber
the English speakers as four to one,
Is driving German from the chancel-
leries. 1t seems vain to devise new
tongues to render intercourse more
facile; they can make no inroads up
on our homely English speech. 1t is
homely, and it survives.
All the smooth an beautiful and per-
feet languages pass away The ex-
quisite idiomeof Iran, or ancient Per-
sia, has lost its tongue; Arabic, the
most elastic and, in many respects,
the most wonderful of all languages,
is passing swiftly from desert and tent
and mosque; and Greek, finest of all
languages, richest in meaning, in
fruits is spoken in a decadent dialect
by decadent people. The hard.
rough languages that CRATE the tongue
like file, that would have made Quin-
lillian stare and gasp. these have some
chance of survival, and of these the
English is the most uncouth and cha
otic. 1t will, therefore, endure and it
may yet become the speech of the
whole civilized world.