THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 17, 1892- ? TWENTY PAGES.10
FADS liPR ETT V FOIBLES OF THE FAIR.Shirley Dare's Homely Ad- 1 Sex and Age Should Never j Inquiry Into the Momentous
vice on the Care of the Hamper Intellectual Question, "Should Worn-
Complexion. Achievement. en Propose?"
DAWN OF THE OPEN SEASON FOR LOVELY SUMMER GIRLS.
Carnest Plea for the Greatly Beneficial Advice to the Lean Directions for Neatly Making
Abused, but Useful Moth- Girl Who Desires Plump- Up a Most Becoming
er-in-Law. ness. House Dress.
noappertite. Ihad ?he hardest workto get her anything t%it she could re-alize. iionestiy. when Igot her homeshe was almost an individual.*"J Perhaps it was this woman's husbandwho said that "Hen Peters got killed jthis morning, and ther corner has jest |gone out to hold an insect on him.''
A COMPLETE CHANGE.
The Angular, Bony Girl the OneThat Becomes a Beauty.
ISS DORA-Iam
naturally fair, butmy face, always sal-low, la coarse andmuddy, with a fewpimples and mothpatches. Small pim-ples lately appear inmy eyebrows amirenter of cheeks.They do not showmuch unless warm.When overneatedmy i.n looks readyto 'break out allover. 1 have live
children, from four to sixteen, do allmy own work;and get pretty tired. Donot eat much meal or rich food.
Have never used lace powder. Ifyou can tell me anything to whiten andsoften my skiu J will be grateful, al*tliougli at thirly-eight Ido not expect tolook like a young girl. Answer Itismore satisfaction giving hints to womennear forty than to younger one-, who doled alwaj * I.now their own lie**d .saysShirley Dare in tne Philadelphia In-quirer. Women should know the weakjoints of their temperament and guardthese through early life. Hills who arefallow early may expect to add moth?patches and freckles by and by fromincreasing congestion of the liver. It'suseless to think of improving a muddyspotted complexion by any outward ap-plication, for the discoloration is in thelower layers of the skin, and calls for?alterative treatment. The first thingneeded in this ease is mere rest. Awoman with five children ought to haveat least lour help*, among them. Themother is evidently hearing a crisis Inhealth, which may light up erysipelas,or a lingering, tedious breaking down.The daughter of sixteen willbe the bet-ter and happier for life if she relieve-,
her mother and gives 'iei a year's holi-day. It would probably be better if sheale more meat, lean, Juicy beef andmuiton, to supply strength. She needstime for systematic bathing and rest.andwhen strength returns she should havedrive-; on sunny days, or take easywalk-., tor this woman is not suffering
for exercise. The only cosmetic 1shouldventure to recommend her Is hot cider.made by diluting cider jelly,bailingandskimming it, drinking a glass warmon going to bed and in the morning, ifagreeable* It can be made pleasant byadding half a teaspoonful of good roseWater to the glass; which makes a mostlady like tipple, and the rose water Issedative. Hot, sharp, unfermentedcider is sponged on the face and driedon isa good wash for the skin. Applepulp was one of the /ddest and best ofcosmetics? cooling ami detersive, betterthan cucumber or strawberry cream, asMild. Bleaching lotions are more orless irritant, and where there is biliousor malarial disorder in the blood, corro-sive sublimate washes, carbonate ofpotash creams or benzine lotions bringout tedious eruptions on face and hands.The Irritation of the skin "Dora" en-dures is aggravated by the heat ofcooking and bending over a stove, whichBends the blood to tho lace. Cookingstoves should be set high enough to al-low of standing upright when usingthem, and forks and spoons lor cookingshould have wooden handles fifteen toeighteen incites long. These are veryconvenient, and permit of cooking with-out roasting the housekeeper. A damp,close cellar often has much to do with amuddy, coarse complexion.
Edith lam but thirty-live, yet Isnorein my sleep, and am anxious to preventthe habit. Answer: Snoring resultsfrom two or three causes, perhaps alltogether. The inner membrane of theair passages thickens by disease or ad-vanced years, -, nd will not allow thebreath to pass freely. Or, there is ca-tarrhal obstruction, or a heavy, undi-gested supper oppresses ihe sleeper. Tobreak' up the habit of snoring one mustbe very careful to take early suppers,and wholesome ones. To keep the nasalmembranes in condition thin andhealthy, draw hot .saltwater up the nosethree limes a day, snuffing it for liveminutes, a-- hot as can be borne. Hotwater promotes the absorption of morbidtissues. Hot compresses on the noseare also very good. On retiring tbe noseshould be cleared, bathed and annnlntedthickly with soli pomade, vaseline orsweet oil,which keeps down obstruc-tions within, This should always bedone in case of a ''stuffed cold." Any-one convicted of snoring ought to prac-tice these cares faithfully,which are nottoo much to avoid becoming a publicand family affliction.
Bella? What shall Ido for my face?Itis well enough in summer, but whenthe cold weather comes and Igo out. orride out. my nose turns red or purpleund swells afterward. It has troubledme this way tor several winters. An-swer?This sounds like frost-bite orPlains. Chilblains on Hie nose are recog-nized ailments, Ilebra. the great Ger-man doctor, speaks of those who insmart, freezing weather suffer fromfrosting ol nose, hands or feet, andwho are cither ainemic or lorOticThereis great difference in physicalsusceptibility to cold. One of the bestremedies to restore tone to the skin is aliniment of two eggs, four tablespoon-ful spirits of turpentine and as muchdistilled vinegar shaken together. Iftoo strong weaken with vinegar. Aspoonful of decoction of poppy seed or ahalf teaspoonful of laudanum makesthis more soothing. Before .going outin the cold see that all wraps, shoes andgloves are well warmed, not to takefrom the vigor of the weak circulation,and rub the nose with camphor or a lo-tion of a dessert spoonful of aluminapint of wafer, letting it dry, and thenusing cold cream over it. Hot footbaths may relieve the red ness and swell-ing ofthe nose, and a course of tonictreatment lor tlie general health shouldbe taken.
A Woman's Good Name.Many people who would recoil with
horror from cutting a human creature'sthroat, which really does uot hurt verymuch and only last a moment, willmur-der a woman's good name without re-morse or compunction, and ,that hurtsworse than death tor a lifetime. Itis ameaner crime than murder, writes Bob-ert J. Burdette In his department in theAprilLadies' Home Journal. We cry-out, and rightly, too, against the sensa-tional and depraving habit of makingheroes of robbers and cutthroats. Itisa horrible thing to do. And yet 1haveless of hatred and loathing for the lateJesse James than 1 have for some peo-ple who have never been convicted of acapital crime, but whose tongues weknow are worse than any knife thatever severed a human jugular.
Mary Wilkins.Kew York World.
Miss Mary Wllkins, the writer, is aBlender little woman, with a fair skin,blue eyes, clean-cut features and a nosethat might be called sharp but for thegentleness and refinement of the face.She wears her hair in a knot at the napeof a neck which is simply perfect. .Toemphasize this good point the bodicesof her evening dresses are invariablycut very much V in the back.
Iand for this thn press Is m a great meas-ure responsible, for the mother-in-lawhas been the standard joke for years.Others pale and vanish from our sight,but there is hardly a paper you can pick
{ up at any time but has some allusion tohis hackneyed subject.
Now. why should a man's mother-in-law be made the subject of jest? Ofcourse, there are notable examples thatare tryingand exasperating enough totax the patience of Job, but just look atthe army of patient, loving women whohave been to scores of husbands as ten-der and devoted as their own mothers,and yet who, owing to their title, aremade the subjects of idle jests and sar-castic mention.
How many men, if they only would,could tell a tale of the dear old ladywho cared for her married daughterthrough a longsiege of illness, therebysaving the expense of a nurse and giv-ingher loving, constant attention thatno price could obtain.
Who also, when the babies came,cared for them at night, so that thebread-winner's rest should not be dis-turbed, and slaved for them by day,mending clothes, getting -them readyfor school, and taking upon herselfburdens that should rest on the parents'shoulders?
Cannot many a man testify to delight-fuldishes prepared expressly for him bythe much-maligned mother-in-law? Doesshe not mend his clothes, darn his stock-ings, and many times help him in finan-cial straits by offers of her savings? *'*
Altogether is not your wife's motherone of your best friends, and if she issuch why not staud*up for her and say:"1 have the best mother-in-law in thoworld," instead of sitting quietly by andthrough your silence sanction the rudejokes of those who know nothing what-ever about her or what she has done foryou. ?
One Among.? Detroit Free Press.
He (tenderly)? Ah, Miss Maria, youare the one among ten thousand alto-gether lovely.
She (pouting)?ldon't think that's abit nice, Mr. Stockson-Bonds.
He (insurprise)? lbeg your pardon.She (energetically)? why dou't you
say oue among Four Hundred?
wrong side of the market, says the De-troit Free Press.If you are going to make it yourself,
as of course you are or you wouldn't bereading fashions, and are using cash-mere lor the material, buy the yellow-est tan that you can find. Of courseyou make the skirt plain, and cut In theprevailing umbrella shape. "Around thebottom put two rows of velvet ribbon,golden brown, witha row of brocadedribbon in yellow and gold, with just athread of red and blue to make itrichand Oriental iv effect.
This ribbon may be broad oritmay behalt an inch wide, as you prefer. Makea simple little waist fulled In at the beltor laid in little plaits and stitched down,ifyou prefer, lt is easy to do, becauseitIs covered at the waist witha gir-dle of the fancy ribbon, with loops ofvelvet set close together all around itand pretelles of the velvet tying oneither shoulder in long, looped bows.Ifyou waut it eayer still put'a yokeaud epaulets of the much used point deGene on the bodice* Ifyou like graygowns try the same model in gray, withsoft green velvet aud a white and silverbrocaded ribbon between.-;
; HER OWN VOCABULARY.
She Was Evidently a Relative ofthe Famons Mrs. Partington.
A certain Maine woman, who hasplenty of dollars but a very hazy ideaof English orthography, returned froma visit to New York la3t week, says theLewiston Journal. Said she to a friend:
"Oh, 1 had such a perfectly lovelytime, everything was so convened, youknow. We stopped in a house wherewe rode up toour room in a refrigera-tor, and Ialways bad my washing doneat the foundry right there in the house.Itwas awful nice.
*Then there wasn't
nostove and no clutter In' the rooms.There was one of those legislators rightIn the floor, and the heat poured rightup throegh."
"How did it happen that you cameback so quickly?"
"Ob, well, you 6ee, Salry didu'thave l
Do Not Be Deceived.Persons with weak lungs? who are
constantly catching cold ? should wear anAllcock's Porous Plaster over the chestand another between the shoulder blades dur-ing the cold weather. Remember it alwaysstrengthens and never weakens the part to whichit is applied. Do not be deceived by imaginingany other plasters like it? they are not ?
may look it,but looks deceive. ? Insist alwayson having Allcock's, the only reliable plasterever produced.
NEW ENGLAND SHOE GO'SGrand Round-Up of the Great Parker, Holmes &. Co.
WE OPEN for Monday two hundred cases of this great stock,and will make one grand slaughter throughout the week.
The people of St. Paul know thai we sell only reliable Shoes, thathave long been tested, and the stock we now offer has bigger andbetter values than were ever offered in this city, and this week willbe the greatest of them all.
? ?THE
BARGAINSWe Offer Are Genuine.
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Ladies ,Misses' and Chil- Ladies' Fine Dongola Men's Fine B.Calf Shoes,dren's Hand-Turned Slip- Lace Shoes, patent leatherpere, tip, QRp
33 C$1.4*8. , ... , ,
Wwvsa 'See this Shoe and wonder;Worth S3. . __
MiccW T?,-T,n nnnt.T-inr Men's Finn Calf Shoes,MiSSeS ijllie UOat'XilU- TnrliAH' Vint* P.-r-ih Ton tii +i,-- . nll +rt o -Ladies iMne iop, solid leather,ton, sizes 11 to J. iPatent Leather Tip, But-
_?n ton',k- a? $1.48.
69C. $1.98. Worth ,2.50.
Children's Fine Goat A biS bargain - '
Men's Calf Shoes, Don-Button, sizes 6to 10,
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?ola top, allstyles,Ladies' Pine French Kid n V J '
6Q Butt hand-turned kM' $1,98.J/ C a common sense, M
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"? (bO AQ A genuine bargain
Children's Hand-Turned <_? .TO? ~Z~T7. '. Z?
KidButton, sizes 4to 8, ; . Men's Genuine KangarooLadies' Fine Dongola Hand-Welt Shoes,
/|_C_/\ Button, patent leather tip, .rur^ ar^____________ . &1 48 $2.48.
Children's Kangaroo Vl/ " i^wi
Spring Heel Button,~~~~ ~ ~ ~"
Our business for thoBigger and better bar three < weeks was Him.
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eTer M'T Ply immense. The peopleDUG. VllS in', ':'k r?USt lH' appreciate
. cleaned entirely out
oS KM and Goat This week. Genuine Bargains,
4-9 CLadies' Hand-Turned Ox- Boys' Shoes,tSrxta fords, J
Misses' Fine Kid Hand- 69C. 69C?Turned Oxfords, patent
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-leather tip, ugM Fjne Uongo|a Boys' Fine Button Shoes,
j_u^ Cloth Top, Patent Leather ,->,--*
98C. Tip Oxfords, 98C.4*l 9*3 '
Ladies' Spring Heel But- vt> I.<? O. B,
Fine yeal Calf Buftiton, sizes 2$ to 5, \u25a0 ?
QnLadies' Fine Oxfords in
$1.48. all? -11/10l 1/10
$1-48. -U*-?1 xlS**^
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These prices are copied . The Genuine Fire Saloby competitors, but the Ladies' Kid and Goat a^^ Reliable New En-
\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0-%- \u25a0*_ _r i Bntton glaild is .Big Values Buttou/Are not. 98C. The Place for Bargains.
We have thousands of bargains for you if'you will rapidly carrythem away.
CEIISIEOF THE PARKER, HOLMES &. CO. FIRE STOCK.
NEW ENGLAND SHOE CO133, 135 AND137 EAST SEVENTH STREET.
11, no, there's noharm In It at all;
L l,nt 1 think it so\u25a0 strange that aIyoung girl-should'have written sucha thing!"
Saints preserveus! Ithink it isbard enough that*,*..* female scrib-blers have to suf-
fer under disad-vantage because ofour womanhood,writes DixieilltheI*hi1 ade Iphla
Times. But when our age, or lack of
it is used as a weapon against us, it ishigh time to begin to talk about wom-an's rights.
My opening sentence Is quoted froman Intellectual woman, and was said inreference to the introduction of thebook, ''Judith," written by my talentedtownswoman, Margaret K.O'Brien. ,
No, surely, there was no harm in it at-
all. Then" why Should she, though awoman, and a very young one, not usethat material which Is the BtoCK iiitrade
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of humanity, provided she use itaright? jItis surprising how many intelligent
persons associate the personality and Jcircumstances of an author with hisbrain product.
The idea of sex and age should nothamper intellectual achievement, iidii;. i* \u25a0*. of sex makes a difference In jminds, it is a difference oi quality andcapacity only ; and the privileges of oneshould be granted the other in so tar asthey are capable of using them.
I,'nder no circumstances should wedrag physical laws Intorealms that arepurely intellectual.
Youth has its natural drawback of in-experience; let no false Ideas furtherencumber its usefulness.
A writer who takes uphis pen should,like the physician entering the sickroom, divest himself of his personalityand neve*" hesitate at anything that Ins I
calling demands. Then here's with the \u25a0
Frenchman ? "Honl ?oit gui mal ypense!"
To right and left you hear youngwomen chattering about then com-panions who write, and wonder wherewhere they learned so much Oil cer-tain subjects. W by, bless your souls,you dear little critics? they learned itfrom what you sco and hear and readabout every day, and many of youcould enlighten them a little further.
A letter from a writer whose shortarticles have appeared In some of ourbest periodicals says: "1 shall bringout my book under a man's name."There itIs again! And yet there arepeople who blame Dr. Mary Walkerfor wearing pants. The only thing 1have against her is that she didn't turnout a beard and learn to swear.
Boast as we may of woman's presentsphere, a man's name is still the magicwand that opens witha touch the brazengates of public interest And it Is anargument in favor of the strength of the ifeminine mind, that a masculine norndeplume is often a complete disguise.Some women still consider it expedientto arm their intellect with this figura-tive jawbone (now some mean oldbachelor is going to say that tl:ey havetoo much jawbone already) in order tosurprise and destroy the ten-thousandsof the enemy.
Inmy opinion it is a double pity thatwe were not all christened JohnThomases and William Henrys.
The disadvantage of being a MaryAnn can easily be canceled by a mascu-line alias; but our lovingirluids willstill continue to make it uncomfortablefor us if we trespass on the unhallowedground Unit lies just across tlie borderof "prunes, poetry and prisms."
The question Is, shall we allow our i
usefulness to be restricted within thesenarrow bounds? A thousand times no!Let us be confined alone to "Whatsoeverthings are true, whatsoever tilingsarejust, whatsoever things are of good re-port."
THB MOTHER-IN-LAW._____________Why Should She He the Subject of
Jests?
wealth a uarrier to their union by geiu-
lv hinting that she cares nothing forriches, and makes eyes at him In such amanner that he would be a goose it liedid not understand her meaning, saysthe Baltimore Herald. This is Innovels? real life money neveriiany objection, thou,'!) the lack of itfrequently raises obstacles that cannotbe overcome, even though the youngpair in the first flush or their newhappiness fondly imagine that gold Is asordid consideration, the open enemy oflove and romance. However, they soonlearn that the romance vanishes whenflO a week fail to supply the house andtable with furniture and creature com-forts. One chair may have been enough
before marriage, but it loses Itscharm when there are no othersto use if you want to. We verilybelieve that it was ordained man shouldpropose in order to preserve life weeklittle wife from the inevitable "it wasyour fault" If things did not turn outright Now, in the usual order a manlias only himself to blame, for a girlseldom comes right out and asks a manto many her, save under very excep-tional circumstances.'IIn- proposal of the queen of England
to Prince Albert, which she has record-ed herself, Is a notable instance in reallire.
Mrs. Hopkins Searles not only pro-posed once to Mr.Searles, but manytimes, and. though rejected at first, wasnot discouraged, out tried again? a glo-rious example to the men who considera girl's -no" as filial and Irrevocable.
A woman need not ask a man pointblank to marry her, but she can, if shebe the sort of a girl be wants and sheknows he wants her. make it easier forhim, so that by gradual stages she hasled him up to the proper point which hewill find not half so awful as he im-agined after all.
ARE YOU TOO rillN?
Then Go to Bed and AllowYour-self to Ue Fed Up.
and shoulders are ? pointed and whose Ihands and feet seem to possess length i
without breadth, that sometimes sur-prises every one by rising to a celestial \u25a0
power of feminine grace and beauty." j?1 have often noticed that." saida lady who had read aloud these com-ments. "Iwent to school with Lady ".,who we considered the must beau-tiful American eirl in Europe atone |time, and when she was fifteen shequite filled Trollope's description. 1shall never forget my lirst sight of herhalf a dozen years later, Itwas at theopera, and she was in Mrs.
-'s box,
surrounded by half a dozen men. 'Whois that lovely creature?' 1 asked myhostess, and 1 was amazed beyond de-scription when I heard It was Mollie
,with whom 1 had once been so In-timate. 'It is quite impossible,' 1 as-serted, butIwas wrong. It was noneother than herself, but transmogrified,glorified in a way that was simply in-comprehensible."
ADVICE TO STOUT WOMEN.
The Mnterlil .-is Well as Color ofa Dress Must He Looked To.
MONO a certainclass of men ithas always been,and in all prob-ability itwillal-ways be, consid-ered a rare joke
) to ridicule andJjibo the mother'of their wife,says the Phila-delphia Times.
This style ofhumor is bythem consideredlegitimate- andcom me ndable.
of mastication is done for you. Youdon't even wash yourself. Besides be-ing washed you are. massaged andrubbed withoil. This last operation Isan intelligible part of the process ofputting on fat, but not quite bo clear asthe electricity. This sort of thing isdone continuously for three months,and the woman who has gone throughthe operation that she may make a morepresentable figure gets up with a light-er heart and a body perhaps two stoneheavier. .Some women go through thisprocess for the cure of nervous com-plaints. Do you think you would bewillingto submit to this treatment forthe sake ofacquiring a plumpness whichyou do not now possess?
PRETTY HOUSE DRESS.
Directions for Making Up a PrettyCombination.
V. B HAPS noquestion evercomes before thepublic more fre-quently than thehackneyed "Dowoman pro-pose?" Innov-els - sometimesthe heroine. whois enormouslywealthy, assiststhe deservingyoung man whoconsiders her >
HE you painfully thin.1)0 you ever stand be-fore your mirror andheave a sigh of regretat your lack of round-ness of face and formwhich isso apparent? Ifyon doso you may findconsolation at hearingofa system of '"puttingon flesh" as employedwithsatisfactory resultsby a number of people.Briefly,you go to bedand allowyourself to beled up, says the DetroitFice Press. Intwenty-four hours yon haveeight glasses of milkwithcream, and threehuge meals. That thefattening effect of allthis food may not be al-lowed to be worked offyou are allowed to makeno exertion. Everythingshort of tin- process i
? YOU want tomake a prettyhouse dress,take somewarm, bright,soft material,that will makelife seem morecheerful by its
Uvery bright-\u25a0 ness, even to a"husband thathas bet on the
er that is on the
at least an inch shorter, consequently,you want to avoid tliat. On stout wom-en, generally, a smooth, plain clothIs most desirable, but I do notadvise either the light grays,the biscuits or tiie wood colors, for theyseem to add to the flesh, take away fromthe height and be everything but whatthey should be, becoming. Anotherthing that the stout woman must be-ware of is the overlapping seams andlarge bullous noted especially on theEnglish !?>*; coats.
The light cloths are most becoming towomen who have dark hair and clear,rosy skin; they make pale women looksallow, and sallow women resemble alemon. Here is another suggestion forthe stout woman. Do not make themistake of having too loug a coat, elseyou willlook as if you were all bodyand no legs. The slender girl will bewise If, in a smooth-fitting coat, she hasInserted a waistcoat, for then she willapparently gain breadth, and the long,well-fitting outline is not ?interferedwith.
DOES A MAN OWN HIS WIFK ?:
A Woman Protest** Against a Cur-rent Doctrine.
Just at this moment, when so manywomen seem to have determined to be alaw unto themselves in things matri-monial, willyou allow one woman to en-ter a word of protest against the atrocityof separating a mother from her chil-dren just because she is suspected oreven proven guilty of preferring someother man to her husband?
A child belongs by every law of nat-ure to the mother, says the BaltimoreHerald, itis not in obedience to thelaws of man that she brings it into the '.world in anguish inconceivable to thosewho have not Buffered it, and no law of!man, Hod or nature can alter the rela-tion. Because she proves a "bad wife."\whatever that may mean, she may allthe more be a good mother, and betterable to do her duty by her child if herown surroundings are harmonious.'For. ifa woman be in a state of revoltaud hatred aga'nst the father, who suf-fers from itso much as the child?
And one word as to this idea of own-ership in a wife, for fancied interfer-ence with which some men shoot othermen. ls itnot a mistake? Since slav-ery was abolished, if,indeed, it be abol-ished, no human being can own anoth-er. A woman is, to my thinking, bornfree and equal to man in all respects,and owns herself.
Men talk about stealing a wife fromher husband as though she were somesort of a prize animal, bought and paidfor. A woman belongs to herself, nomatter under what social conditions shemay be living,and the children shebears "are hers, as well. There seemssomething shortsighted in the law thatgives au illegal mother the right to herchild tliat the wife does not possess.
< 'Ininbrays and Batistes.New York Press.
The daintily toned chambray and bat-istes of this season are going to be madeup with.more self-colored embroiderythan has ever entered before into theconstruction of wash gown. Washgowns, by the way,is a wrongfully ap-plied term,for few of them are intendedto be washed. The shirrings alonemake the washtub an impossible futurefor them to' contemplate. They mustgo to the French cleaners or be thrownaway. This one, for iustauce has ashirred yoke defined by a strip ofembroidery, and a turn-back cuffand lower sleeve are also of embroidery.The sleeves are puffed on toa liningwhicii would pull every which way-were they washed, and the girdle is ofthe dress material. When "the dearestgirl in the world"robes herself inagown like this, in pale pink, blue orcream, pins to her curls a shirred mullhat and lets somebody In flannels and ablazer walk around under some treeswith her, he will prove himself tooutterly commonplace for toleration ifhedoes not at least try to write thingsabout her and pin them up to trees orcarve hearts on the bark, or conducthimself generally in an Orlando-likefashion.
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A GAME OF WHIPSAW.\u25a0
Western Railroads ExercisedOver the Effects of the
Rate War.
: Deprived of the Benefit ofthe Cut on Chicago-Ohio
River Rates.
Interstate Commerce AgentsHustling for Evidence of
Violations.
Some Startling DevelopmentsPromised in Several Cities
at an Early Date.
Chicago, April16.? The roads In theWestern Passenger association are con-siderably exercised today because of theeffect the Chicago and Ohio river ratewar is having upon their business.
1 With each reduction announced by the1 Pennsylvania and Monon comes ? ten-\ der to them, through Chairman Finley'soflice, of the new tariff on which to base
Ithrough rates from Western points toIndianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati and
|Columbus.Before being adopted the members
are asked to send in their votes on thequestion. Wlien the latest propositionwas submitted one line, supposed to bethe Missouri Pacific, winch is averse tohaving the business go through Chi-cago, voted against it. Consequentlythe chairman announced today that theproposition was negatived, and thatthrough rates must remain unchanged.
The Chicago _; Alton, however, whiciiis not a member of the association, hasalready adopted the new scale for bas-in? purposes, and the Rock Island andother roads willuo the same, regardlessof the chairman's ruling.
VIOLATIONS OF LAW.
Interstate Agents on the Hustlefor Evidence.
Chicago, April ifi.*?lt is reportedthai more Investigations into allegedviolations of the Interstate commerce
;law willbe made by llie federal grandjury which has been called to convene
! here May 3. Special Agent Kretsehmer,j who represents the commission,i has been seriously at workigathering evidence against vari-
ous freight agents and ship-pers, and there Is a promise of de-velopments far more sensational thananything that has yet been brought tolight. In the meantime those whoareindicted by the last federal grand juryhave piepared no defense and enteredno plea, and itis believed they will fallback upon the supreme court's decisionin the Cou nselman case as a sufficientsafeguard against conviction.L.This decision was practically thatneither the shipper nor the representa-tive of any railroad with which he deals
i can be compelled to criminate himselfinany case under the Interstate com-
] merce law. Itis practically impossible'
to obtain evidence to convict under thati law. For answer to this the Tribune:this morning prints more than a full
page of fac siinilles of documents andattested copies, all of which, it claims,
!are admissible lv evidence, showingnumerous violations of the law. itsummarizes the results of its investiga-
Ition* as follows:The proof is herewith presented of the
1 payment to J. V. Far well &Co.. by thu;Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
company, of a rebate tor (6,681. Proof;is given* that Swift & Co.. through a!confidential clerk named A. It.Hay,
have received extensive rebates fromthe Lackawanna line. The rebates
. were paid to this clerk under the guise
lof cogiiii-ttslon*. Convincing testimonyover the signature of the oflicial who
1 granted the rebate is presented whichjproves that the West Shore road ar-!ranged to pay back a direct rebateof 1 cent a hundred pounds ou
ilarge shipments of marble fromthe" Rutland quarries to Philadelphia.
The Standard Oil company and thesugar trust are show to have receivedpayments in the shape oi rebates forlighterage, which would bear a rigid in-vestigation. Rebates in the form ofcartage allowances have been paid to J.15. Manning, of Buffalo. N. V., ou ashipment ot malt to Weehawken. N. .1.
Evidence is given showing specialrates on shipments of paper from Sa u-gerlies to Minneapolis and St. Paul, indirect violation of the interstate law.Proof is given of extensive discrimina-tion iv the making of deep cuts by spe-cial rales in favor ofC. <". C. Oterson, alarge broom manufacturer, Itis shownthat the New York Central has madeextensive cuts by means of underbillingthe weight of cars.
Evidence is at hand which proves thatthe large meat shippers, includingMessrs. Armour, Swift and Morris, areallowed to bill their goods to New Yorkcity, and, by stopping them nt JerseyCity, a point whicii carries the samerailroad tariff as New York, are given arefund, alleged to bo for lighteragecharges, because the products werenever lightered, this refund amounts tothree cents per 100 pounds and isa direct cut of the rate. Theseshippers are also obtaining paymentof one-quarter cent per mile extramileage upon the railroad cars ownedby them. This form of rebate has beendeclared by the interstate commercecommission to be particularly obnox-ious, and they have said that .they willmove in the prosecution of persons ob-taining such a rebate it they can securethe evidence.
Evidence willbe found of the pay-ment of rebates by direct arrangementto refund a certain proportion of thecharges by manipulation of elevatorcharges; by the repayment of lighter-age charges; by making cartage allow-ances, and in a number of other wayswhich the ingenuity of the railway menand the shippers have devised.
Omaha, April 15.? Special AgentKietchmar. of the interstate commercecommission, is in Omaha, and in rail-road circles it is said trouble is aheadfor some oflicials. Kretchmar was herelast November with evidence tendingto show that the Missouri Pacific hadmanipulated rates on meats shippedfrom South Omaha to Kansas City, andthat the Burlington and Missouri hadgiven favored shippers preferences onconsignment of stone from Omaha.He proposed taking the cases to theUnited Statesgrand jurythen in ses-sion, but was prevented because severalof the most important witnesses eludedthe service of subpoenas..Another grand jury will nuj-'t in .
Omaha on May 12, which explains thespecial agent"' ? preseuce here at thistime.*: Mr. Kretschmar admits that heisjhere; for the purpose of laying im-portant
'railroad matters before the
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