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In Washington Inst week It was re
ported Hint a young gentlewoman, Mrs.
Thomas F. Lane, ilaHghter of Senator
Blackburn, had nttcmptcil sulcltk. Sub
hequcntly the occuirenee was attrib
uted to an accident, and the report de
nied. The Incident may, therefore, be
dismissed, lint a text remains. A
month ago Miss Leila Herbert, daugh
ter of the former secretary of the navy,
threw herself from 11 window. A fort
night later Miss Mary Walt.', dnughter
of the ex-governor of Colorado, took
poison. Meanwhile Miss Wells put a
bullet through her brain. Anteriorly
Miss Kato Bayard killed herself; so,
too. did Mln3 Daisy Garland; so, also,
did Miss Bessie Hlllycr. Miss Uayard
waB the daughter of tho secretary of
Btate. Miss Daisy Garland was tho
daughter of tho attorney general. The
father of Miss Hlllycr Is a millionaire.
These young women moved In what It
Is colloquial to term tho best set. In
dividually their deathn are recent.
Knch Is without apparent motive. All
occurred In Washington. Why?
That question It Is the purpose of this
nrtlclo to consider.
By way of preliminary, a definition
or two may help. Mme. do Staol a
lady whoso graces Hyron described as
not those of the person commended
suicide. She declared It to bo Urn act
of one who hag conquered even the fear
of death. Suicide, however, Is little
else than assassination driven In. Those
who want to die usually do so because
others don't. When they happen to
liavo another reason It Is more often
than not because they really want to
live. What they don't want are the
miseries attendant on their own par
ticular existence. Abolish them and
they will swear by Methuselah.
"I do not know," said Voltaire, "what
life eternal may be, but I do know that
this one Is n very poor joke. Happi
ness," he added, "Is a dream. Only
pain Is real. I havo thought so for
eight odd years, and I havo hit on no
better plan than to resign myself to
the Inevitable and reflect that 11 lea were
born to be devoured by spldera and
man to be consumed by care."
Voltaire's views were not original.
They have been
running about the
bookshelves ever
elnco books were
shelved. Through
them tho theory or
iginated that a bo
ing superior to man
could not exist.
With higher Intelli
gence ho would re
fuso to put up with
what we have 1
Misery manifestly is Immedicable. Life
Is a valo of tears. Wo resplro, aspire,
perspire and expire. Solomon told us
that; other things, too. Hut ho was un
acquainted with modern society. Theio
is the reverse of tho medal.
Society is an elixir of bon-bons. It
represents tho Joy of being alive, tho
presence, of beauty, usually of birth,
occasionally of brains, but always
.alth, and with it every opportunity
for fastidious delight. Urcathed
through tho newspapers.tho ntmosphcro
eeeras a trifle heady. One fancies It to
be tho real air of the heights, a com
pound of tho exhllarant and the seda
tive, the mixture of osclllant suavities,
ambient harmonies and exalting refine
ments fused luto one. When it does
not happen to bo otherwise such is tho
case. Society is the happy hunting
ground of tho elect.
Society In New York, In Doston, In
.Philadelphia, and In Ilaltlmoro Is rela
tively tho samo. It constitutes a frco
masonry of which tho lodges vary but
In location and Importance. They dif
fer In degrees. Tho object of each Is
Identlcnl. That object Is tho enjoy
ment of life.
Tlicso premises admitted, It becomes
Important to determine what thero Is
In tho Washington chapter which can
ho defeat that object as to Induce 0110
young woman after nnothcr to kill her
self. Without entering Into personali
ties, and putting aside tho cases recited,
)t may be noticed that suicides of. tho
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character which havo occurred there
arc duo to a pathological condition of a !
morbld type. Hut It should he noted,
too, that whllo now and again men of
position kill themselves, the suicide of
n girl of position is so unusual that
when It comes to a siuves-don of them,
six, one right after tin? other, the cir
cumstance ceases to lie unusual, It be
comes unexampled. In tho history of
ntnilatod cities, In tho social chronicles
of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, nothing of the kind Is to be
found. Washington, however, Is an
other kettle of fish. New Yorkers. Bos
tonlaus, Ualtlmorcans, Plilladclphlans
particularly Phlladelphlans speak of
their good old families. A good old
Washington family Is a thing which
genealogy has to hear of yet. Society
there is heterogeneous and conglom
erate. Composed of women from all
over the globe, them Is none as varie
gated. There Is none as unstable. It
Is In process not of constant evolution,
but of constant transformation. The
origin of the members Is elsewhere. It
Is not u home, It Is an Inn one, par
enthetically, which, conducted on the
European plan, lacks Kuiopcau re
straints. Tho young girls whom the
varldus administrations gather there
bring their beauty and sometimes lose
their heads. That Is natural. In the
diplomatic act thoy encounter men who
differ entirely from those of their race.
Tho girls, too, differ from any whom
these men have met.
It is tho it-hashing of platitudes to
state that society as it is constituted
on the other side differs radically from
society as constituted here, but tho re
hashing Is necessary for tho conveni
ence of tho point which is sought. Over
there the young girl Is a ncglectablo
and neglected quantity. Practically,
until she niarrle:", Mie can't be said to
exist. Hor parents, guardians and
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enna Is forever at hor side. Even with
her brother alio may not walk alone.
She might bo seen by third parties,
who, knowing him, but not knowing
her, would take her for what sho Is
not. At tho entertainments scvcrnlly
known as tho "five o'clock" and the
"white, ball," she may flirt If she likes,
or, rather, if sho knows how, but ohc
does ho under tho noso of all. Thero
la no getting her away, taildng in her
ear and examining tho lines In her
hand. It Is tho married women who
enjoy such attentions. Tho young girl
passes from tho schoolroom to tho al
tar, delayed at most but by a surrep
titious squeeze. Tho passago la mado
as opportunely as her pcoplo can man
age. Sho la dowered and married In
season,
Tho custom Is not admired here, but
It has Its advantages. Do that 113 It
may, tho foreigner who lands In Wash
ington finds a collection of demolaellci
who aro not only prettier far than any
he has seen, but who possess all the
liberty, Bometlraes much more liberty,
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than Is enjoyed by tho married at
home. The fact surprises, and no won-
dor. Then, presently, beforo the sur
prlso can subside, It has occurred that
without effort, almost without knock
ing, ho finds himself admitted Into the
Intimacy of a young girl's heart.
Before him arc candors such as ho
has no.vor piesumed to approach, op
portunities for Investigating them such
as ho has never known. Ucforc ncr is
the easy glitter of suggested scones,
ovoratlons of sumptuous courts; tho ro
mance of the i emote, the spangle of a
title, perhaps, and, with It, tho reso
nance of a sonorous name.
Such things affect a girl. In their
absence there arc the tcrrlblo chaps,
fiom the departments of tho Navy and
the War. Tho sword Is yet to bo
forged that can work swifter havoc
than the gleam of brass buttons, tho
sheen of gold braid and shimmering
blue. Such things affcet a girl also.
But not Infrequently tho foreigner Is
preferred. In addition to other attrac
tions, Washington provides htm with
a background of political thimblerlg
gcrs and provincial scum. It seta him
off.
There, too. a title can be divided. A
count makes n countess. There is a
magic In that. It has happened, how
ever, that the title has alre.uly been
divided. It has occuned that the own
er Is not dividing just then. Tho In
evitable does not necessarily ensue.
There Is an effect that does. That It
should lead to suicide Is pathetic.
It Is worse. There Is nothing as dis
mal as a young girl's death. Sho has
lived so little. In her heart Is the
longing and the dream of beautiful
to-morrows. "Wait for me," alio crl:s
"I am coming." When a malady
pounces and carries her off what Is It
but one of Death's assassinations? Yet,
when, instead of tho unexpected, tho
unnatural supervenes, when tho dream
of tho morrow retreats, and the long
ing subsides, when the future narrows
I Into a blind alley, when some form
less thing she knows not what conies to
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whispers to her ami
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herself from life,
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In another city In
which such things
can occur thcro
must bo something wrong. The
Individual cases recited belong to
tho domain fllof private life, anil
as such exempt themselves from
examination. It Is tho society that
produced them which la serviceable to
consider. Apart from tho conglomer
ate and t'oo foreign, thcro must bo n
screw I0030 somewhere. If it la not
tho heterogeneous that Is at fault, It
must bo tho climate, unless, Indeed,
It bo possible to regard Washington as
ono regards Monaco a resort to which
curious passions converge, and to
which tho aulcldo gravitates. Tho sup
position would bo tenablo wqro tho
other acx concerned. It would be oven
satisfactory. Tho elimination of a few
political thlmble-rlggera, tho evapora
tion of a llttlo of that scum and tho
country would not deteriorate. Wash
ington would oven Improve. But It t
young girls that aro concerned, In
view of which, tho only conclusion do
ductule from tho premises Is that a so
ciety conducted on tho European plan
but without Europoan restraints, must
In certnln natures produce a patho
logical condition of which suPIdo Is tht
climax. EDGAH SALTUS.
Minor In tlm HrltUli Armjr,
More than half tho lufantry recrutta
of tho British nrmy for tho past year
liuvo been under 18 ycaru old-.
SAND SET TILEiL FKEE.
SOLDIERS GAINED LIBERTY
A PECULIAR MANNER.
IN
Where tlm lilnt I'ninr from A I.ltllo
lMcci. of Ni'TMnprr I'limlliiK on tlm
SurfiMC of 11 htrruui lu! Olio of llir
Moll Hie Suircmtlon.
"When wo were s'.atto icd at Port
Conway, below !'rodcilcksburg a si out
ing patt of our people had what might
bo called a vriy narr.nv escape from
.in Involuntary trip to Ulchmoud as
priFOiHMs," remarked a sergeant of the
5th Pennslvnnl.i cavalry, who, with
other enlisted men, was relating his
expel lcnets to a Philadelphia Time ic
porter. "You see," said he, "we had
been sent out by Gen. Hayard to see
what the enemy wcro doing. Wo mini
ucroit all told thirty-six men, under the
command of a lieutenant, and our In
structions were to go as far an the old
wart houses on tho river below us, and
then return the way wo had gom
Eorythlng went right until about I
o'clock; we hadn't seen any of the
enemy and were marching to camp
again, when the lieutenant thought
ho'd sec what was In a house over on
our right. When wo arrived nt the
hcuse wo found no 0110 at home but
an old woman, two young girls, and
halt a dozen female slaves. Wo dis
mounted and asked for something to
eat. There wasn't a mouthful of any
thing In the house; the women were
fed b 11 son-in-law over by Port Con
way. There wasn't a horse or other
animal to be seen about tho whole
place.
"Aro there no men about?" asked
the lieutenant.
" 'Not one,' leplicd the lady with dig
nity. 'Thej are all In tho confederate
a: my. If yon are after them you'll
lme to go where they aie to find them.'
" 'Thanks,' laughingly replied the
nontenant, 'we hao no particular wish
to go on the other side of the river nt
present.'
" 'Perhaps you may go,' said the
lady, 'without any desire.'
"Wo mounted and were soon on our
wny to Port Conway, distant about six
miles. Aa we rode along I thought
over what the lady had said. Did sho
mean a threat or was It only woman's
talk? 1 rode up to the lieutenant and
was jur.t about to mention tho thing to
him when from a clump of bushes there
sounded such a shout as 1 had never
heard before. Our men were scattered
over about half a mile of road and
thero was no chance to get them to
gether; as It was, I don't believe any
effort was made, for each man seemed
to bo taking earn of himself. As I
pulled up I saw about a dozen John
nies making toward me.
" 'Surrender, yon Yankee , or
we'll fill you full of holes.' I could do
nothing, so thought discretion tho bet
ter part of valor and pulled up where
I stood.
" 'Dismount:, cried a big fellow, aim
ing his gun at mo.
' I dismounted and was led Into the
woods, where I found a number of our
men who had been previously captured.
Thcro was another sergeant beside my
self and I asked him how many there
wore of us. Ho told mo that nine 11
been captured with him. Wo did not
halt long In tho woods, but were soon
taken over the river, thero to wait
until the others came In. Only three
men wero left to guard us, but as
wo were without arms that was quite
enough. While wo wero sitting on tho
river bank bemoaning our fate I no
ticed a little piece of newspaper float
ing on tho surfaco of tho water. I
played with it awhile, then drew It
forth. Glad to do anything to pas the
tlmo I eat down nnd looked it over.
Down in ono corner I read tho story
of a woman throwing vitriol nto an
other's eyes.
"When you have given up In despilr,
when nothing but a rebel prison stands
beforo you, your thoughts aro j-ome-what
lively. Mlno were, at nny rate,
and I prayed for an ounco of vitriol nt
that moment. Hut tho prnyer was in
vain; I bad no vitriol and nothing to
take Its place. Wo wero sitting lu tho
sand and the guards wero talking to
us llke'old friends. All nt once I start
ed up. I had an Idea that looked feas
ible. What's tho matter with csnd? If
wo could manage to get a handful of
sand In each guard's eyes wo might
escape. It was an inspiration. The
more I thought of It tho more feasible
It became, and I got so nervous th
Ing over It that I couldn't alt Btll
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sat down and got up. I walked as far
as I dared and sat down again. Wo
) prisoners wcro
all together and I
thought of somo plan by which I might
communlcato with tho others. The
guard surrounded us nnd It looked to
bo Impossible. I mado sly motions to
tho other sergeant, but ho was so much
taken up with his own nffalrs that he
couldn't understand, and I gave up the
Idea of attracting his attention. Right
next to mo was a little York county
Dutchman. I'd try him. 1 whispered
that If wo could only cast n handful
tho others would get In ua soon ns
thoy saw tho point.
"Wo had been waiting for half nn
hour and tho guards wero becoming
rofctless. They stood about and talked
of sand Into each guard's oyes wo
might escape. Ho was a cunning Utile
duck and Instantly grasped tho Idea
and signaled that It was all right. I
saw him look for innd right away.
Then I whispered to another man and
ho signaled that ho understood and ho
looked for oaud. In this way I man
aged to communicate the Idea to tho
others and in a little whllo I had six
men In the secret. I had no doubt fiat
to each other and to ua. Then I on-
invu iiiiw u wu ri riiiit u mi iiirui
about tho war and saw tho York coun
ty man gather a double-handful of
wind, then some of tho others did tho
same and ono would havo thought that
ua Yanks were niud-plo makers with
out doubt had they seen tho industry
of those men. I hail not got my sand
yet, but I determined to bo In It and
soon left the guard and collected my
nand. Tho other men wcro sitting
about thinking of their trip to rebel
lion!, when I suddenly nrnso as If to
depart, which caused my guaid to look
about. The next Instant 1 had dashed
a handful of sand directly Into his
eyes and ho was swearing as only a
trooper can. 1 looked about and saw
that the. other guards had been taken
care of by our fellows and wore scam
pering about nibbing their eyes like
madmen. We were not long In dis
arming them and making them pris
oner; it was ull over lu less than two
minutes. When wo had nhared their
sabers, pistols and carbines among us
and wcro masters of the situation wo
walked them down to the river and as
sisted them to get the wind out of their
eyes. Then we took theJr lariats and
tied them.
"Thus far there hadn't been n loud
word spoken, except when we dashed
the sand Into their eyes. They sat for
a tlmo in stoical silence; then, as If
tho comical side of the affair had Just
occurred to them, they Bet up a laugh,
in which we all Joined.
'"You all got us this time, Yanks,'
said one of them.
"'I've often beard that the Yanks
were ciinnln'. but I su'ar If this wasn't
tho ('uuiilu'("U thing I ever heard of.'
Mid nnothcr. 'How in did you
ever think of such a thing?'
" 'That gave met the Idea,' said I.
and 1 showed them the piece of paper
I had fished out of tho river.
" 'It ain't much,' said the first speak
er, 'but it dono tho business, didn't
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FREEDOM OF BURMESE WOMEN.
TIiIiikh Aro Str.iiiK'l' Ui'ti'rm'il III Tluit
t'omilry.
Women In Hiirina aro probably freer
and happier than they arc anywhere
else In tho world, says the Philadelphia
Ledger. Though Htirnia Is bordered
on one side by China, where women
are held In contempt, and on the other
by Indian, where they nre kept In tho
strictest seclusion, Hurmc30 women
have achieved for themselves and have
been permitted by their men to at
tain a freedom of life and action that
has no parallel among oriental peoples.
The secret Ilea, perhaps, In tho fact
that the Hurmese woman Is active and
Industrious, whllo the Hiirnieso ninn Is
Indolent and often a recluse. Becoming,
thetefoie. both by tnsto and by habit,
the money earner, tho bargainer and
tho financier of the household, bho has
asserted and obtained for herself the
right to hold what sho wins nnd tho
respect duo to one who1 can and doc.i
direct and control. Things aro strange
ly reversed lu Burma, for hero wo see
n man as tho religious soul of tho na
tion and woman Its brain. Hurmosn
women are born traders, and It Is moro
often tho wlfo than the husband who
drives the bargain with tho English
buyer for Hie paddy harvest, or, at
any rate, sho Is present on tho occa
sion and helps her easy-going husband
to stand firm. So highly Is trading
esteemed that a daughter of well-to-do
parents, and oven a young married wo
man, will set up a booth In tho bazaar,
and, dressed in n bright silk taniuln
(skirt) nnd whlto Jacket, with a llowcr
jauntily stuck Into her colled black
tresses, sho will start every morning
with a tray of sweetmeats, fruit or toys
on her head, and, with a gayety and
grace bom of tho sunshine nnd the
bouutenusuess of tho laud, will push n
brisk trade all thiough tho short and
sunny day. Tho earnings thus made
aro tho woman's own, nnd cannot bo
touched by her husband.
MAKING
RATS WORK.
St. I.oiiIh I'lriu (Set It
Dr.itu
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Clcituril (Iriitla.
There aro 150 men In North St. Louis
who defy nny ono to dlsputo the fact
that Tom Magulro Is a genius, says the
St. Louh Post-Dispatch. Mr. Magulre
Is a yard foreman nt a gas company's
plant. Tho enthusiastic proclalmers of
his genius aro his fellow-workers In ;ho
big yard. A sower pipe leading from
ono of tho buildings to the river bank,
ICO foot away, became clogged. Tho
pipo la sixteen feet below tho surface.
It was not known Just where tho ob
struction wns, so arrangements wcro
mado to open tho trench. Then Ma
gulro brought Into play what proved
to bo the trump card viz.; rats. Ho
had been thinking about tho plan for
several days. One night, by tho aid of
generous hunks of fresh cheese, ho
mnnaged to entrap two big gray ro
dents and these he determined to put
Into tho sewer. They were taken to
tho mouth nt tho river bank and re
leased. Tho opening was then closed
securely behind them, leaving tho anl
mals with only one chance of life. That
was to go straight ahead. And they
did. Several more rats were caught,
each succeeding day nnd turned Into
tho sower, until a dozen fine specimens
wero gnnwing away In tho pipe. Tho
morning nftcr the last detachment
joined tho main rodent army water
commenced to trickle from tho pipe.
Iron rods and steam wcro applied. In
ton minutes the bewer wns clear.
Drllnltlon.
Tommy Paw, what sort of a fighter
lo a "cyjdone fighter?"
Mr. l'lgg I don't know much about
lighters, but I suppose he Is ono who
goes blowing around. Indianapolis
Journal.
A person should never go out waiktag
In a driving rain.
FRENCHMAN SAW ONE TRAIT,
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Hiniillrnt Onc, lln yy.
l'rom Invention: A Ercnch cnglncet
who has been on a tour of Inspection In,
the stale, was not Impressed by tho big
t.'liiRU of tho country. "I shall report
to my government," says ho, "that tho
biggest things In America aro tho llttlo
things. The French pcoplo nro cspcrta
in domestic economy, and llvo comfort
ably by saving what avcrago families
In tho states throw away. But Amer
icans nre, on tho other hand. expcrtB In
Industrial economy. Thoy make monoy
by saving wnstago In tho business and
lose some of It by wastage In domcstlo
economy. Tho attention paid to small
details lu big works Is amazing to mo;
I have visited somo establishment
where I bellovo that tho profits nro
mado not In tho manufacture proper,
but In tho saving of materials and labor
by close attention to dctnils that aro
with us unconsidered trifles. For ox
n tuple, I biiw a grindstone In opcrntlon
at a big works automatically sharpen
ing lathe and planer tools. This ma
chine costs probably as much as 100 ot
our ordinary grindstones cost, but I rcb
that It automatically grinds nil tho
tools for 300 hlgh-prlccd mechanics,
and It only works a few hours each
day. The skilled mechanics In our
country frequently stop their regular
work to grind their own tools, and then
do It Imperfectly. In tho states tools
nro all accurately ground to tho best
shape by the machine, so that they do
more and better work on this nccount
in a given time. I believe that that ma
chine has brains the brnlns of tho Inventor-
and It has no doubt 1 evolution
Ized work of this kind In American ma
chine shops. This Is but ono enso out
of many that I havo noted." Tho vis
itor correctly defined a peculiar charac
teristic of American inventive genius.
The gieat engineering undertakings,
tho immense manufacturing establish
ments and the leviathan ninchlncry nro,
of course, most conspicuous nnd Im
pressive, hut these big things a. com
paratively few In number, whllo tho
novel Improvements In llttlo things
usually classed as "yankee notions'
are legion, and each ono contributes Its
mlto toward tho general sum of pro
polity of the business of tho country.
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FOR ARCHITECTS
TO LEARN.
llcnlcnlui; mill
Hood Tusto
Cannot H
tiliiclit.
Sound and ready knowledge of bul1il
Ing, dextrous readiness and somo ap
proach to excellence na n free-hand
draughtsman and somo skill ns a mod
elerthese aro tho three thlngi vhlcli
tho students should bo taught, saya tho
Atlantic. All else is a part i,f his high
er education, of his training as a man
rather than as an architect. Tlmo was
when there existed no such distinction;
when thcro wero living traditions
which tho young architect had to learn,
which ho would learn naturally ns nni
apprentice (cxactly as tlio apprentice
painter picked up his nit of painting
naturally and ground his master's col
ors and swept out his master's work
shop tho while. Those days are gone
Thero Is no tradition now which ought
to be learned, because thcro Is no tra
dition which Is not that of somo school
or coterie, nono which binds the world
of building men. There Is no tradition
now which should not bo avoided, be
cause thero Is no tradition which lu
not tolling against n healthy growth
of tho flno art of building. Tho tra
ditions now aro of the most mischiev
ous character, and nothing can coma
of a familiarity with them but pro
longation of tho sterile years, the ycarB
ot the lean kino, through which the
European world goes starving In spirit
for food of tho solid nnd wholcuoma
sort known to men of old. Designing
cannot bo taught; good taste cannot
be taught, and yet It Is well for tho ar
tist In nny department to learn what
other artists have done, nnd to learn
how they designed nnd to seo what
they accounted good taste. ,
ODDS AND ENDS OP FASHION.
A striking visiting gown Is of red
silk checked with alternate squares ot
black-and-whito satin nnd trimmed
around tho hips with a scroll design.
In black satin ribbon, this trimming
being repeated on tho bodlco, whera
It outlines n white satin vest tucked.
A black cloth dress has a skirt made
with a flounce nt tho back, a plain
front scam, nnd bands of cloth, elab
orately hemstitched, extending their
Influence from tho front round to tho
back. There Is scarcely any fullness
In the flounce nt the back, but It gives
just that sweep which makes for grace.
A beautiful yet simple evening gown
has n skirt of shot gray and white silk,
with a surface like Terry velvet, and
tho bodlco ot Ivory llsso set into many
tucks, striped with pale-yellow laco
and edged with chinchilla. Round tho
waist of this Is n belt of pale-blua
moire, fastened with diamond buttons;
In regard to underskirts red Is a
very popular shado In which theso, for
day wear, nro shown, whllo pink and
yellow hold the field for evening skirts.
Red Is, Indeed, becoming almost at
popular as It was last season, d la
beginning to supersede the beaittlfu-1
violet shades, of which, however, w
cannot but bo rather tired now. Boeing
how much they have been overdone.
Every garment, more or less, la as
sisted to its effects by chiffon. Even
ing capes ot tho short order, which
nre still in favor, by reason, no doubt,
of tholr usefulness, havo second short
er capea, or panels, or .Vandykes, .all ot
which are profusely flounced with tho
ever-dccoratlve chiffon; whllo the
opronB of party-going gowns are out
lined again with frills and ruchlnga
of tho same, which, brought up over
the hips, aro continued In wide sashea
to the end ot tho skirt at back.
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