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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-06

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-06
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-06

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the Holiday season.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-06

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-06
EVERY NIGHT At $40 O'CLOCK

only ave sights this seek. oas Of
town Saturday,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

The great portrait painters. who we're
usually great fashion artists, illustrate this
point perfectly They recorded tho small
est detail Of the costume of their day and
Of its company manners.
The early portrait painters were taught
to disregard the body. Anatomy was
snathema, and they drew attenuated, poor
creatures with woe-begone faces, while
their skill was expended on the most
minute representations of the costume of
the peroid. Every little fancy in head
dress or embroidery, every fold OF drapery,
was palnstaSingly recorded, and the women
were all posed in what must have been
the fashionable attitude of the time, a sort
Of reversed Grecian bend so peculiar that
it's like has never been seen.
1t would have been impossible for Hol-
bien or one Of his school to be other than
absolutely truthful, but the homely dignity
and power Of the faces in Holbien's pictures
decidedly overshadow the costume. These
great women and men with gravely folded
hands appear as though they had sat to
the painter in their everyday clothes.
The portraits Of the next hundred years,
during which the queen of three thousand
dresses ran her race, seem to be nothing
more than highly wrought fashion plates,
so deeply buried was the individual in the
monstrosties and excessive ornamentatiou
of costume. Van Dixie, whose sitters al
ways came to him in gala array, was the
happy recorder of costumes at once stately
and picturesque.
He tells us that there were restrictions
In the use Of jewels In his time for the
long taper fingers with which he delighted
to endow his sitters are guiltless of rings.
From this time on It was often the fashion
to dispense with formal costume.
The Lely school painted the languid beau
ties OF the restoration in a more or less
indiscreet undress. but how fashionable was
its indiscretionl Only to be matched by the
extreme modishness Of the wearers lam
gushing mien and deliberately careless Golf
fure.
The eighteenth century was the golden
age of portrait painting. 1t was at the
same time the age Of masquerades and,
above all, the age Of sentiment.
Ladies were painted in formal costume.
the height of the mode. and still were pro-
digiously fashionable when they chose to
be painted in classical drapeTies. In peasant
dress or in charming print morning gowns
and in the act of feeding the chickens. But
It must be remembered that portrait paint
ers were merely faithful copyists OF fash
ions that were already current and had
first been spread broadcast by some other
agency.
Just what form the first fashion plates
took is not recorded, but we do know that
as early as the fourteenth century France
sent puppets dressed in the newest modes
to other countries and IL Is likely that this
effective means Of disseminating the fash
ions was of very ancient origin, perhaps
as old as dolls themselves. In England
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12
A Drenrv Life.

cannot describe the dreariness OF COM
mon everyday life in these Saharan GASES.
About the only green thing one sees in
the streets is the palm leaves overhead
Inside a garden there may be patches of
vegetables and grass with trees bearing
various kinds of fruit; but in the villages
themselves everything is as bare as the
middle of the road, and that in a land
which might be a tropical paradise. The
houses have no gardens in or about them.
They are Joined close together, and are
more like catacombs than place where
people live, move and have their being
There are few signs of life during much
of the day. There are no windows facing
the streets, and the only means of ventila-
ton on that side OF the house are little
holes about the size of a paving brick up
near the roof.
In villages like these the people look
squalid and dirty but the dirtiest of them
are loaded with jewelry. / photographed
one middle aged dame of a swarthy COM
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

these quaint fashion plates were called lit
tie ladies or babies, mademoiselles or mop
pets instead Of dolls until the middle of the
eighteenth century.
Henri ~ of France writes TO Marie de
Medicis in 1900: "Frontenao tells me that
you desire patterns of our fashions in
dress 1 send you, therefore, some model
dolls" No. 2T of the Spectator. for Janu-
airy II, iii, is devoted to a description Of a
jointed wooden baby which came regularly
over once a month habited after the man
ner of the most eminent toasts in Paris Z"
This mademoiselle was complete in every
particular OF her costume even to the way
the carriers were tied and also as to the
couture, the complexion and the very new
est place to put patch. The coming Of
this dear moppet' had been somewhat de-
layed at this time owing to the war with
France, though no matter how tightly
closed English ports might be during war
times there was always loophole left for
the fashion dolls to creep in.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

G|Ew YORK, May 11.-"Know your
N fashion platesl II will save you
- from being cheated in more ways
spt than one II you have an intimate
acquaintance with fashion plates,
past and present"
30 said an authority, ana TO point the
warning she showed some recent reproduce
lions Of prints Of early New York.
Here is a print labeled such and such
a street about 17S5." she said 'The about
Is the only saving grace in this dating,
which is about forty years out of the way,
as any student Of fashion plates would
know. The people walking on the street
the men in full bottomed trousers. the
woman and the little girl in lego mutton
sleeves and other unmistakable signs, mark
the period as somewhere near 1880
THE mistake in dating another print
1900 should be plain to anyone, as It is
pretty we'll known that women at that
time had waists so short as to come Just
below the armpits, while the woman walk
ing by famous old New York building in
the picture has the long, slim, trinity belted
waist, which was not in vogue until at
least twenty-five years later The dating
OF the third print is a curious attempt to
turn time backward in its flight.
''The picture purports to show how a
well known business street looked in 1862
when It was the center Of the shopping
district At this date women sported stu
pendous hoops. but the women In the print
are gowned like those OF the other two in
the demure fashions of 1880 or a little
earlier while the men wear the very long
swallowtail coat OF that period.
'Of course, this Is of no real moment
except as an exposure OF some ones igno-
rance but II you were collecting historical
prints you would find that the study OF
fashion plates and a general knowledge Of
costume was we'll worth having to make
sure that your treasures were dated cor
rectly. Then. too, there is a bit of ma
licious fund to be got from your acquaint-
ance with fashion plates.
Family albums still exist and you have
only to study the bygone photographs of
the person who hates like poison TO have
her age known in order to arrive at the
fatal number within two or three years"
These are generally unsupported uses for
the fashion plate. It has still other merits
in its own peculiar province which are not
usually appreciated I'm an ungrateful world
II has Other functions besides its obvious
one OF teaching the newest fashion in dress
Permeating this is the more subtle. but
fashion in airs and graces
The good fashion plate invariably gives
Just the correct air, neither more nor less.
The DOise OF the figure, the turn OF the
head. the manner of sitting or walking. OF
holding up the gown, OF disposing the hands
are 80 important in creating a fashionable
appearance that one is tempted to think
that style radiates from the mien rather
than the costume
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

course the fountainhead in this matter,
and the only good prints were those re-
drawn from French plates, which were
delightful little works OF art, beautifully
drawn and colored.
Indeed, there are few modern fashion
plates which can approach in excellence
the French plates of the first quarter of
the nineteenth century. But would the
Anglo Saxon adopt anything from Paris
without fling? Not II he could help It,
and here in woman's magazine OF this
period we have plates side by side, one
showing the Paris fashion, the other the
fashion In London.
The London design is fondly supposed
to be a modification, a toning down, OF the
frivolities of French dress more acceptable
to the modest good sense of Englishwomen.
1t was the same with our own Cooley of
blessed memory. After procuring at i'm
mense pains and expense. as he was careful
to assure us, some beautiful French fashion
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

This privilege was taken away during
the Napoleonic wars. however, and then,
said Mrs. Bury Palliser, English women,
deprived of French aid for whole genera
ton, began to dress badly Pitt has much
to answer for
Mrs. Earle finds many illusions in old
letters to fashion dolls and gives a chap
ter to them in her book on American cos
tune. for. Of course, they were of the
first Importance to ladies on this side of the
water. The poor souls seem to have got
them second hand by way Of London and
then to have sent copies of them to still
more benighted beings in remote inland
districts.
1t is TO fancied that the little dolls
were somewhat rare also, for Mrs Hannah
Teatt, mantua maker at the head Of Sum-
mer street, Boston, advertises "a baby
drest after the newest fashion latily ar
rived from Leondon. Any ladies that desire
to see It may either come or send, she will
be ready to walt on EN-, If they come to
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

plates he had them redrawn and carefully
modified or Americanized, as he put It.
which means that the waists were enlarged,
the low bodices made higher and the gem
eral air made more demure.
There is still a curious display OF ma
tional sentiment to be noted in fashion
plates Though the latest modes from
France may be followed in England. Ger
many and the United States, there is as
much difference in the general air Of their
respective fashion women as there is in the
racial characteristics of their women.
The French fashion dame is always suave
and graceful, though much corsetted, the
German rather square and stiff, the Eng
lish wilowy, billowy thing; the American
shades of the departed Cooley, what stylei
Here Is to be found a slight degree of ex-
aggeration, probably to be accounted for
by the national self-confdence and nervous
energy of pose and action.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

were making plows and farther on saddles.
In the street OF the tailors i saw several
men using American sewing machines, but
nowhere did l see any American goods,
On the sides of the streets were mud
lodges built out from the mud walls. These
lodges were filed with white-gowned mep
chatting or sleeping. Some were Keeling
cotton and some sewing. At night III
lodges are filled with sleepers
Many. of these poorer Arabs have no
homes. They eat at the cafes and sleep in7
the streets. This is especially so in the
cities. The men always sleep with their
heads covered and in fact, with every BIT
Of bare skin hidden. One reason for this
is on account OF the flies. They fairly
swarm in all the GASES, making one pray
for the Caliph Adalmelic, the father OF
flies, to breathe upon them and drive them
away. This old caliph had breath SO
fatal to flies that every one dropped dead
that flew over his mouth.
During my stay ! visited the famous
mosque. 1t is an ordinary building with
perhaps half a dozen rooms. including the
place OF worship. 1t was filled with Mo-
hammedans when 1 entered It this after
noon and / heard the Mohammedan youths
singing out verses from the Koran in the
school rooms on each side. l spent a while
watching the men at their prayers and
although 1 was known to be a Christian I
was not molested.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

the house It is Two Shllings g. If she
waits on 'em 1t is Seven Shillings." This
was in 1893
The genuine fashion plate came into being
with the woman's magazine. As was natu-
raj these fashion plates came earlier and
were better In France than in England.
In the latter country though there had
been an effort made as early as 1000, the
woman's magazine was not launched on
a successful career until ITO.
These quaint periodicals contained some
general news, tales which. according to
the fashion OF the day, were impartially
composed of sentiment and vulgarity
some tedious essays. much mawkish poetry,
some acrostics and cookery recipes. The
embellishments consisted of a few poor
woodcuts and copperplate engravings, with
patterns for needlework.
II was some years even then before there
were added to these attractions descrip-
lions of London and Paris modes, accom-
panied by colored plates. Paris was Of
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12
New MexiCO'S New Governor

ii took them over six streams and through
many gorges from 3Oe TO 500 feet high. The
volunteers got ahead; every evening the
head Of the column halted for supper, after
a little brush with the Filipinos, and before
the march was taken up again the tinkle
of the bell mare of Curry's pack train
was heard In the distance and he was right
with us ready for the start the next day.
1.-THE race was kept up with the volun-
teers In the lead until in crossing the last
gorge one OF the mules Of Curry's pack
train slipped and broke its neck. Instead
of abandoning that pack Captain Curry I'M
packed the mule and men handled the pack
out to the top OF the gorge, but he could
not overtake the regiment for night had
come. He ordered his mules unpacked and
made a breastworks Of the packs outside
the mules, and Curry and his men, armed
only with six-shooters-there was not
carbdne in the bunch-sat there the night
through before a big, blazing ire. shouting
and yelling themselves hoarse, hourly ex-
pecting 70 be rushed by the natives any
moment but endeavoring TO frighten them
away by making enough noise for regi-
ment. The pack train overlook the regi-
ment in the town the next day. Hayes got
in with his men about 9 o'clock. but the
pack train in charge Of the regulars oid
not arrive for two days.
'It was a remarkable performance, the
promptness with which Curry got that pack
train through. The story OF It Is told In
the islands today to all newcomers.
Characteristic OF the man was his com
ment to his commanding officer when he
arrived: 4 would be obliged, sir, If you
would issue some carbines TO me and my
men the next time we start on a hike; we
might have a little trouble in handling
the situation II we were attacked and had
only six-shoOters "
Since then Curry has been in the thick
OF many a fight and when peace times
came he was in the customs service In
Manila for time and later was appointed
governor OF Samar He was lost for a
while last year when he went out with
some school teachers to conduct negotia-
tions with the natives and the party was
attacked by insurrectos When the party
returned Governor Curry was missing. he
turned up some time later. When the at
tack came he had jumped into the river
and ducked out OF sight on the other side
ana set about accommodating for himself
20 md out who the trouble makers were
Later he turned up and went down with
the troops to restore order.
The president has never forgotten Curry
and has kept In touch with him through
men who have served In the Philippines
and have seen the kind OF work he has
been doing out there. At last his reward
has oome.-Boston Transcript
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12
Life and Nature of Sahara

after dinner coffee cup saucer, and as she
turned around l noticed that she wore
anklets of white metal as wide as a tin
cup is high. Indeed, they looked like tin
cups without bottoms or handles. Even
the children were loaded with jewelry.
Some of them were not averse to being
photographed, although both women and
children held out their hands for money
as soon as their pictures were taken
AS l walked through the town 1 passed
several Moorish coffee houses in which
were Arabs sitting on the floor, smoking
and chatting, drinking coffee or playing
dominoes. The coffee houses look not I'M
like an American stable. Their only light
comes in through the door and the peo-
pie sit on the mud floor.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

the saint and the mosque containing 1t is
said to be the oldest Mohammedan build
ing i'm Africa. The town is the religious
capital of this part of the world, so holy
that the people make pilgrimages to it as
they do to Kairouan. in Tunisia. and to
Mecca and Medina, in Arabia.
rode across the desert this afternoon
and visited 1t. The way is over a country
covered with scanty vegetation of thorny
scrub, through sandy and stony wastes
and by the cases of F1liach and Chetma.
SIdi Okba itself has 5000 palm trees and
the town has several thousand people. The
plantations are surrounded by mud walls
like those OF Biskra. but the houses are
better and some Of the streets are so wide
that one can drive through them. On our
way there we passed some caravans Of
camels and donkeys. We saw many tent
villages and great hocks Of black goats
watched by shepherds.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12

II
Philippine instruction when he
g heard of the appointment of Cap
- tain George Curry governor Of
samar province, to be governor of the
territory Of New Mexico. The announce
ment Of Currys elevation to the governor
ship Of a territory came without any warn
ing, and It was said at the White House
that probably no one would be more sur
prised than Captain Curry. to whom news
Of his appointment was cabled last week.
There's an adjective in Greek" contin-
ued this Philippine veteran, which aptly
describes Curry; 1t has slipped my mind
for the moment, but freely translated it
means walk up to anything That's the
sort of man the new governor Of New
Mexico is; he will walk up to anything; he
does not know the meaning of the word
fear and things that would brighten even
brave man out Of his boots merely make
curry's little blue eyes twinkle the faster.
Some people wear their years well; some
badly. Curry does not wear his at all.
You never think how old he is; you often
wonder how young he may be. 1 have
known him long time, but 1 never
thought OF his age until you asked; he is
probably IS years young, not old. Curry
was At JUG AAAllc eutEll OF u county IN
Arizona He Is western born and brought
up, and there IL no better type OF that
section OF country. He was a captain in
the Rough Riders, but he had the hard luck
to belong to that battalion which was left
behind and did not get TO the front. He
did not get to Cuba, and II was about the
hardest lick Curry ever had When in the
Rough Riders he had the promise OF his
cOlonePs assistance and was thereby en-,
abled to get a second lieutenancy in the
Eleventh cavalry. He wanted a captaincy,
but that was not TO be had, 50 Curry took
the Job at hand. He went TO the Philip
pines with that regiment, expecting TO see
some fun. He received another disappoint-
ment when he was placed In charge OF the
regimental pack train. but it was always
Curry's way to do the days work. whether
the work was to his liking or not. The
Eleventh cavalry was attached TO General
Bates division. which was at that time
engaged In the occupation OF CaYits and
Batangas provinces. jack Hayes wa
lieutenant colonel OF the Fourth cavalry
The volunteers and the regulars set out
from two points about five miles apart to
hike II across the island and stretch a line
into which General Wheaton was to drive
the enemy Curry was in charge Of one
pack train and the other was made up OF
regulars. The line Of march taken by tbs
volunteers was as rough a bit Of hiking a.
ever fen 70 a soldiers lot In the islands
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12
Business of an oasis.

Entering the gate we rode between the
mud walls to the public square, which is
surrounded by petty stores or bazars.
Every store Is a box-lke room no wider
than the door which leads into it and so
low that the merchants can hardly stand
upright within II. The stores are lighted
from the front and the customers stand in
the street as they bargain.
There was considerable industry going
on. Here men were weaving. here they
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-12
Chateau Landon.

In THE Garden of Allah the novel to
which I referred at the beginning Of this
letter, some vivid descriptions are made of
the Chateau Landon. wonderful date
plantation belonging to a wealthy French
nobleman. If one would know just how
much water means in the desert he may
learn by visiting this place. 1t contains
about fifteen acres and lie a wonderful
botanical garden right here on the edge