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FEBRUARY 23, 1896.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE. SUNDAY
H LIFE Of PERIL.
A $200,1100 ROBE,
BOOMERS FOO HIRE.
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They have not found it necessary to ■ homeward-bound theatregoers.
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Matinee euchres are all the rage.
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ARDUOUS WORK OF UNCLE
COAST GUARDS.
FASHION ABIE WOMEN WHO CLEV-
ERLY ADD TO THEIR INCOMES.
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mackintosh
rules, and
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held responsible for the
a patrol of six
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the greatest empire on the earth are
quired, through their representatives, to as-
sist, while the spectacle is made still more
brilliant by the presence of the Ambassadors
of every power on the globe, and of large
and is interesting if not instructive.
THE FIZZ-BOOMER.
The woman wine-boomer is a new prod-
and is entitled to be called a New
She moves in the swagger set,
close to it, and is nightly to be
the dining . places frequented by
. She has a
feet, . knows
"~d is. He h
as flat as a billiard
was a
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and occa-
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with the need of the lifeboat, however,
except in cases where a vessel goes ashore
too far out to be reached by the life line.-
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WHAT THE CZARINA WILL WEAR
AT THE CORONATION.
Undressed leather, with “burnt on” decora-
tions, make some of the newest photograph
frames, two, four and six fold. They can be
spread out with fine effect on an upright piano.
Some one should tell the wild, Western, ele-
ment in fashionable society this season, by th®
grace of cash, that it is no evidence of personal
superiority or distinction to arrive late at ft
dinner party.
It looks as if the reefer jacket will soon have
had its day. It is as “common” as the tradi-
tional mud. and can be had at prices that ap-
peal even to the hired girl whose wages are
small.
fortable chilliness,
uncomfortably cl '
not realize it.
“harden” the little chaps,
clad.
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Too many literary worthless, so-called “so-
ciety novels” are talked about and tolerated
because written by some women of prominence
m fashionable circles, whose schoolgirl com-
ncfeitlons were probably better.
Preparatory prattle and tattle about the
corfiing weddings of Easter week is heard all
along the fashionable line. It is evidently in-
tended to raise fashionable expectation un-
usually high.
thing of its kind possible, for the c
tion promises to be the grandest
display ever witnessed in Europe.
Russian coronations are not numerous.
An occasion of this kind comes but once in a
lifetime, and the policy of? the Russian im-
The Cuban rebellion is now one year old
though, strictly speaking, it is as old as
Snanish .domination in Cuba. The chances are
that it will last as long as that domination con-
tinues.—Boston Journal.
The little mothers,! Will they win
The bitter-sweet of elder years?
Will love protect them from the sin.
And faith gleam dauntless through the tears?
God grant some guerdon for the loss
Of childly joy, and when they come
To woman ways and woman’s cross,
Give them.a. fate more frolicsome.
—Richard Burton in the February Century.
Genius is martyrdom and grief to them
Who feel its tireless and despotic will;
With cruel rage or subtle stratagem
It bids them dream or sing or die or kill;
It bids them live—live as no others live,
Quickest to love, to suffer, to forgive.
—G. E. Montgomery, in the February Qentury.
The Southbound contingent does not yet
make a crowd too large for railroad or steam-
ship facilities. Nearby resorts and country
house parties cut into business in magnolia
land.
Strange mockery of motherhood!
They who should feel the fostering
Maternal, and .the tender good
Of home when, fondling arms are there,
Must, ere their time, in mimic show
Of age and sacred duties, be
Thus wise to guide, thus deep to know,
The artless needs of infancy.
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Girls of the period are giving much of their
time and attention to autograph pillows. They
are unmistakably a fad, and a unique one, too.
After the autographs have been inscribed on
a square piece ot silk they are embroidered
and ultimately the silk goes on a down pillow,
which, even among the stupid, is always a
topic of conversation.
’ The most elegant
dames of St. Petersburg and Moscow have
decided that all fashionable feminine cos-
tumes are irrational and have joined the
cause of reform.”
This may be true, but it is not at all
likely that it will prevent the Czarina from
wearing the wonderful gown which is now
being made in Paris for her coronation.
It is to be the most magnificent robe of
state in the world, and the cost will be
$200,000. Of course it would not be possi-
LU . ble to use the equivalent of this fortune in
Qf I gold brocade and cobweb-like lace to drape
the piece, suggest appropriate costumes, drill the slender, girlish figure of Alix.
reasons in younger life from learning the
game. This teacher will not accept more
than six pupils at a time, and by giving
two lessons a week she earns a goodly in-
come. She finds the work very wearing, as
any one who has undertaken to teach the
mysteries of cards to an innocent can easily
understand.
AN AGED APPLICANT.
One of her recent applicants was an ener-
getic old lady of nearly seventy, who was
determined to learn whist before she died.
The teacher said each lesson would cost $10,
for she knew the amount of trouble in store
for her. The old lady’s hearing was defec-
tive, her eyesight was weak and her memory
was falling. By much labor and the expendi-
Unlike the policeman he
, He has to keep moving all
the time or it would be the last of him.
It is not necessary to have any one out to
see that he attends to his patrol because
there is no place where he can seek shelter.
The stations are placed only in exposed
places, where people don’t live in winter
time.
When it is possible the stations are con-
i nected with each other by telephone. The
; little houses are well built and have many
1 small comforts. Nearly all of them have
The principal room is the
It serves as parlor, d.ning room,
The kitchen ad-
joins it on one side and the captain’s bed
room on the other. The upper floor is
one large room fitted \vith sleeping booths
for the men.
Some of the most important stations have
a horse. This is a recent acquisition, but a
necessary one. -At times when a vessel
had gone ashore a couple of miles
llijwnt ■ ’f
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fate: ! II!!; ’•!
has been quietly following.] This, coming from a woman with such a
Ru-1 reputation for beauty and. fine gowns, is
.-..-.1 1 gure to have the desired effect, and one
more rich patron is added to the list at the
dressmaker’s.
ATHLETIC GIRL’S CHANCE.
The athletic girl who does not mind open
employment finds it an easy matter to se-
cure a well paying position in any of the
large stores. If she can wear fine clothes
gracefully and can carry herself well, and
moreover has a pretty face, she is certain to
make a success of it.
Girls of this~icind are employed to exhibit
fine gowns, wraps and .hats in the large
shops. A woman purchaser does not care
to go to the trouble of trying on a variety
of clothes, and she is better able to judge
of their effect by seeing them on some one
else. This is where the finely proportioned
girl comes in.. She puts on the dress, or the patrons of the newly organized ‘Society
show off better on her than on the prospect-
ive purchaser. Such a girl is of immense
value to the firm employing her, and is
worth many times the $20 or $25 a week
paid her.
Actresses and Amateurs.
Well known actresses add materially to their
incomes by coaching amateurs and “stage-
managing” the public performances given by
schools of dramatic art. These actress-teach-
ers are paid by the hour at about the same
rate commanded by good tutors, from $2 to
$5 an hour. They devise the “business” c-
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.
There are scores of women in town who
make a fat, easy living from one year’s end
to another, and they are not New Women
either. r _
invade the field of masculinity in the effort
But the men in charge of the Life Savipg
Department at
the most of
their disposal.
Move than Six Hundred Persons Had
a Part in Its Construction—Hun-
dreds of Rare Jewels Used.
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Some men disdain it, this transmuting power:
Yet genius, like a holy herald, bears
Its deathless glory to the world, and wears
Bravely its laurel and its passion-flower.
Talent is still a rich, yet common, dower,
Marking the many from the few. and fares
With not too eager heart, nor with despairs .
That sear the soul and make it thrill and I
cower.
I persons were placed in jeopardy and all ,
A- ho »-»», m/m,. i but r-wenty of them were saved- The nllK>-l and with
„ ber of vessels totally lost was seventy-three. -
r various life .saving stations the un-
fortunates who suffered by the shipwrecks
were cared for, and the number of days’
succor afforded them aggregates 2,232. Yet
the total annual cost of the department is
less than $1,350,000.
These are dry statistics, but they tell
the story convincingly. By the expenditure
of $1,350,000 hundreds of lives were saved
and many times that amount of property
rescued from destruction. Better invest-
ments by the Government for the public'
Department and Sumner I. Kimball is the
general superintendent. The establishment
embraces 251 stations.. The average station
is composed of six men and each station is
held responsible for the care of a certain
number of miles of the coast. On the At-
lantic coast there are 184 stations, while
there are but thirteen on the Pacific coast.
Of course the amount of ocean traffic on
the Atlantic is many times greater than
that on the Pacific, to say nothing of the
larger number of important harbors to be
protected,
fifty-three stations,
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Property Worth Many Times the
Yearly Outlay Saved, to Say Noth-
ing- of Hundreds of Lives.
Uncle Sam has something like 1,800 men to
guard 10,000 miles of sea and lake coast from
the dangers of gale and storm. The figures
of the former seem away out of proportion
to those of the latter, yet from the official
records at Washington property and life
. which have been placed in jeopardy have
been ably protected.
This is a tribute to the men who make up
the Life Saving Corps, particularly as the
parsimony of the Government only allows
of their employment from Oct. 1 to May 1.
The rest of the time the unfortunates who
may be caught in a wreck are supposed to
shift for themselves or depend upon the
efforts of unorganized aid ashore.
4-1-. vvx in /ill-i v* ci’rx <->-r PPlzn T .1 .Qq-VITI^
Washington have made
the slim means at
Complete protection Has
been given the coast near the important
harbors of the country, but thousands of
miles have been left uncovered. The Life
Saving Service is a part of the Treasury
Women Discuss Boy C riminals.
“What Can Be Done for Our Criminal
Boys?” was the subject discussed by the
Chicago Medical Women’s Club at the monthly
dinner meeting held Monday afternoon. The
president, Dr. Gertrude Wellington, presided.
Several members have recently visited the
Bridewell, and their papers gave much valu-
able information. Dr. Sarah Hogan said: “In
twenty-four years 18,000 boys have be^h re-
leased from the Bridewell, and only a small
per cent, ever lead honest lives. Between the
ages of 7 and 18 a boy should have the most I
humane care, under a physician, instead of
being herded with hardened criminals.”
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She Instructs in the Mysteries of ( Lue setiile LUC1JJDClvcra.
Cards—Champagne Houses Employ i ticon throws each play on the white cloth,
the Swagger Girl—A Modiste’s Tout.
numbers of princes of the reigning houses,
for royalty always assembles on these oc-
casions to congratulate the newly crowned
monarch.
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS.
The preparations for a Russian coronation
are very elaborate, and comprise, among
other things, the laying up of great stores
of provisions in Moscow, for the houses of
that venerable city are compelled, on coro-
nation occasions, to entertain from 500,000 to
600,000 strangers who journey to witness the
ceremonies.
Every province in the empire sends a
deputation; every tribe in the far-awray
districts of Siberia, on the steppes of Cen-
.tral Asia, from the Khivans to the Esqui-
maux along the shores of Behring Strait,
sends one or more representatives to pre-
sent the homage of the tribe to the great
White Czar. Poles, Finlanders, Laplanders,
Ccssacks, Russians of a dozen names, Cir-
cassians, Georgians, Bashkirs, Turks—for
the Russian Empire contains millions of
Mohammedans, Tcherkesses, Abassians, Cal-
mucks, Tartars, Karapapaks, Daghistanis,
Armenians, Kurds, Chinese from the dis-
tricts conquered by Russia from China,
Mongols, deputies from dozens-of wandering
nations in the heart of Asia; for over fifty
languages and double that number of dia-
lects are spoken in the Russian dominions,
and the people of every language must pre-
sent their homage to the Czar in their own
tongue.
The imperial coronations always take
place in the Cathedral of the Assumption,
one of the many in the Kremlin.
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for a lesson lasting an hour. Years ago
her forefathers were well up the social
ladder of old New York, but under the
pressure of the newly rich, and failing family
resources, she found herseslf crowded to the
thing for her own support. Being finely
“Excuse my back,” said a woman in a box
at the opera, to a man visitor, who sat be-
hind her. When he looked at the great, white
bare place, he thought the apology quite ap-
propriate.
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A Nursery Dessert.
A wholesome nursery sweet for a dinner
dessert is made from cold apple sauce. Take
a small dish of it, beat the white of an egg
to a froth, then beat the sauce itself until
fine and light; add the white of the egg
gradually to the apple, season with orange or
lemon juice, sweeten a little more if neces-
sary, and serve with or without cream.
1 to put a velvet collar on a
or storm coat, but fashion so
, “they go.” One of these days
night gowns may be trimmed with fur instead
of lace.
. The horse now does
the work in a few minutes, where it former-
ly took hours.
DIFFICULTY OF LAUNCHING.
No means have yet been discovered by
which the lifeboat can be launched when
the surf is running very high. Experiments
: have been made with a tower-like structure
j. erected as close to the water ac possible,
“i a set of tracks running from
the top into the water. The lifeboat rests
on a platform .fitted with wheels. The plat-
form toboggans down the tracks with a
momentum sufficient to send it into deep
water. This combination has worked sat-
isfactorily in some places in Europe, but on
the Atlantic or Pacific coast it is at a
disadvantage, because a vessel does not
select its precise locality when she is
blown ashore. As the structure must be
firmly erected, it is not possible to move
it from one place to another.
The breeches buoy has largely done away
Many times efforts have been made in
Washington to provide a pension for the
life savers and to give them work twelve
months in the year, but without result.
Don’t Be a Spartan Mother.
More careful protection from, the cold air
should be given to a child of delicate constitu-
tion than is desirable for one more vigorous.
It is true that cold air is a healthy tonic for
the skin when it does not produce an uncom-
- -,ss, but many little tots are
ihilly when their mothers ' do
Do not be too anxious to
Keep them warmly
Mrs. Grundy, writing from Paris, tells of a
French nobleman, evidently sordid, but im-
pecunious, who broke his engagement with an
American girl because her father would not
iaise her marriage portion to the sum he de-
mandtd. Of course, we shall hear that the girl
rias gone to a convent.
The prerogatives of the wealthy and liberal
increase. They can sail for Europe without
having their names published in the passenger
list; patronize hotels without registering, and,
now, can have record of ^marriage deferred
long after the ceremony. In the latter case,
the assistance of an obliging clergyman is
necessary. They can be had, however.
to the influence she wields.
There are fully half a dozen women who
mingle with the smart set, and who are
employed by the leading champagne houses.
Most of them are the daughters, or wives,
of men who are entitled by family connec-
tions to a place in the charmed circle, but
whose pocketbooks are not robust enough
to stand the pace.
HOW SHE DRESSES.
One of New York’s famous beauties of
a few years ago, a woman with a magnifi-
cent figure and the reputation of dressing
better than almost any one else, earns two
fine winter gowns and three summer dresses
in a. unique way. In the .heydey of her
beauty she could have married almost any
one in town, but she fell in love wpb a poor
man, who was just able to pay his club
dues, and married him, to the disgust of
her relatives.
To gown his wife In the magnificent finery
to which she had been accustomed was a
financial burden too heavy to support She
solved the problem, however, by having a
Cliarles Dana Gibson Began by C-nt-
tii’g,- Fig-tires From Paper.
Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick in the
February “St. Nicholas,” describes the
clever work that C. D, Gibson did as a boy
in cutting figures from paper. Of his boy-
hood she writes:
Until Dana was 10 years old he
rather quiet, stay-at-home little fellow,
was full of fun of a dry kind, a;
sionally there would come a flash
casm that showed his wits were not
fined to his finger tips. /
and became interested in out-door sports
and made boyish friendships, hits paper cut-
tings began to be neglected, and when he
_! he laid down his
In their place he took up the pen-
j about them by the hour.
She knows “all about the rare vintages; ex-
actly how many bottles there are left of
them and their owners.
She usually talks loud enough for the
people at the nearby tables to hear what
she says, and, of course, much of her talk
is devoted to the peculiarly fine qualities
of the wine she is booming. She asserts
that it is the only proper brand of cham-
fer a woman to drink, and gives
countless reasons, which, to the women
who know nothing at all abo-ut the subject,
seem absolutely convincing.
If she is invited out to a late supper by
some of her men friends, they, of course,
ask her what brand of wine she prefers.
She makes a selection, pleasing, of course,
to her employer, about whose existence,
however, the luckless escort knows nothing.
When she is not invited out she goes any-
way, accompanied by some friend, or rela-
tive, who knows the secret of her wine con-
nection. Her favorite brand is ordered,
and is charged to the account of the mak-
ers, for like the fashionable men who are
employed by the wine houses,. she has a
liberal allowance for expenses.
She is a woman who is invited to small
I dinner parties by wealthy friends, and she
An Ancient Table Custom.
Finger bowls are unknown on the table of
Mrs. Clara Louise KellogglStrakosch. At the
end of dinner an exquisitely wrought basin
of old English silver, which is half filled with
fragrant rose water, is passed. Into this each :
person dips a corner of his or her napkin,
which is then used to wipe the fingers. The
revival of this ancient custom caused some
embarrassment on one occasion, when a
guest (of the male sex), upon being intro-
duced to it for the first time, washed both
hands in the rose water. Now it is passed to
the hostess first.
welfare have been made, but it will take
a meet ’diligent search of the records to
unearth them.
A DREARY LIFE.
The life of the coast guard is not
citing. It is drearw and monotonous,
almost welcomes a shipwreck because it
gives him something to do and breaks into
the lonely routine of his cheerless labor.
For seven months in the year he is almost
as lonely as a hermit or a castaway on a
desert island. He is paid $60 a month by the
Government, and the hardships of his work
incapacitate him at a comparatively early
age. Rheumatism, and its kindred ailments,
due to exposure, make a wreck of his hardy
constitution, and when he is worn out the
Government casts him aside as a farmer
throws away a toothless rake. No pension
awaits him either. No provision is made
for the life saver in his old age, although
he is certainly the equal of the soldier and
risks his life and health In the public cause
often er.
was about 14 years vf age
shears. In p’-’"? bo
?il.
This slight sketch must close at the very
cutset of Mr. Gibson’s artistic career,
was only 16 years old -when he entered the ,
New York Art League as a pupil, and he I
!s not yet 30. No one can say how much I
of his wonderful skill he owes to the train-
ing in. eye and hand be unconsciously gave
himself as a boy; but it is easy to trace ir.
his scissors silhouettes the power he pos-
sesses in an eminent degree of giving a
picture in a few clear, telling trokes. The
direct vision of his childhood he has never
lost.
ALL ABOUT HER.
. s?5°r> I th® C0£it of the material is slight in ccmpari-
of the ' son the value of the precio-us stones
I with which the satin is generously embroid-
i ered.
I Although made in Paris, all of the material
’ comes from Russia; the brocade is woven
a sluiv «•„.« -- - after an especial design which was de
London who tamed a wi. ze r ue stroyed after the once using. The r.c:
7 She ; laces are the handiwork of the meat skilled
as sue ; lace weavers in all Russia, and the magni
'' —' ’ ficeut designs of leaves, vines and flowers,
in delicate.y hammered gold, studded with,
diamonds, rubies, sapphires and the sem.-
I precious stones, were wrought by the most
] ekillful Russian goldsmiths.
] The gown is cut in princes fashion, and
j the train is fully five yards long. The
: bodice is cut moderately high in the throa;
to meet a magnificent collarette of dia-
monds, and iffie sleeves’of the brocade are
short end full.
A GLITTERING GARMENT.
The front of the corsage shows the mag-
nificent jeweled embroidery, and bands of
the seme priceless stuff reach to the hem
of the stately garment; extending in grace-
ful lines around the long full train.
The Czarina will Wehr on her sunny hair
the peculiar. Russian crown, from which
will hang a magnificent veil of lace, match-
ing in pattern that used upon the body of
the gown. The Satin slippers wrought
in pearls and gold as well as the gloves
with thei'r jeweled buttons will be of
Parisian make.
It took six months to make the gown
and more than six hundred men and women
had a part in the making of the materials.
It is not often that $200,000 is spent on
a single dress, even by the richest of
Queens, and this" coronation robe bids fair
to become historical.
The Czarina has never tried any part of
the dress to see if the fit is perfect and she
will not put it on until May 24 next, the
day on which the coronation ceremony
will be performed in the great cathedral
in Moscow.
The Queen of Belgium is said to have a
lace gown which cost a fabulous sum, but
it does not approach in magnificence the
coronation robe of the Czarina. But it is
fitting that the gown should be the finest
thing of its kind possible, for the corona-
state
They impatiently waited an hour at a danc-
ing class, recently, for the coming of the man
selected to lead the' cotillon. When he did
arrive, the malicious said he should have been
in an ambulance instead of a hansom cab.
It is as difficult to keep these little social
episodes down as the mercury in extremely
hot weather.
little chat with the modiste who had been
delighted with her patronage in former
times. To be known as the dressmaker
of such a woman was an advertisement
of inestimable value, and to have her as a
customer was always a thorn in the sides
of rival firms.
A simple arrangement was made which
settled everything. For , the five gowns
yearly, worth between $1,200 and $1,800, the
I society woman agreed to praise the wares
i of the dressmaker and do everything possi-
ble to boom the business. This was easily
done. A pretty debutante was always
seized upon to help pay for the gowns. The
clever woman says:
“My dear, your gown does not do
It is suspected that fairies must have some-
thing to do with the preparation of the ac-
counts sent to this country of the social doings
of Americans abroad. Would-be fashionable
people, not honored in their own country to
any remarkable extent, are not likely to
bring reigning monarchs to their knees be-
fore them. Children enjoy fairy tales much
more than adul.s.
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lifetime, and the policy of the Russian
perial family has always been to dazzle the
eyes of their subjects by magnificent court
dramas, in which the Czar is really a Czar.
To this end Russian coronations have been
made as splendid as the resources of the
empire could permit.
The coronation of the late Emperor cost
over $4,000,000; that of his predecessor con-
siderably over $5,000,000; but in each case
a show was provided for the people of Rus-
sia that was vividly remembered until sup-
planted in the popular mind by the splen-
dors of the next.
The coronation is regarded as much more
than the simple act of placing a bauble on
the head of the first man in the State; it is
a series of gorgeous ceremonials, and the
people of every nation that forms a part of
the greatest empire on the earth are re-
to follow a profitable enterprise, but by giv- ' entertainingly
ing a little study to the needs and foibles ' i-nnw.- aii
of their own sex they have originated nu- j
merous little industries which afford them
a fair income in a quiet way.
From time to time news crops out about
the existence of a woman blacksmith, a
woman deputy sheriff, a woman trolley car
conductor, a woman bridge builder, a
woman undertaker, a woman contractor, a
woman barber, a woman bootblack, a woman pagne
grave digger and women of all kinds and
sorts. They are all said to be doing very
well in their respective callings, and some of
their sex point to them with encouraging
pride. They all come under the head of
New Women and are esteemed as such.
But the women who have the easiest
time and who make the best money avoid
the timehonored callings associated with
the barber’s chair, the grave, the forge of
the smithy, the hearse, bridges and street
cars. They steer clear of the trodden path-
ways, and in addition, to the monetary gains
enjoy the satisfaction of following a unique
calling into which the sword of competition
has not yet penetrated.
There is the woman, for instance, who
teaches the maids and matrons of society
how to play whist scientifically. She gets $5
ture of $150, the old lady was finally induced I justice. You are too pretty to be dressed
to remember the trump, to follow suit and that way. If you wish I will take you to
to appreciate the respective values of the my dressmaker. She is really an artist,
thirteen cards, but as to the fine points of and makes the most of one’s best points,
the game she said she cared nothing.’ I I don’t know what I would do but for her.”
This woman bar been quietly f“”
her vocation for the last two years. 1
mors of her success have recently inspired
others to enter the field, and one of her
competitors is a man who expects to cap-
ture all the trade flying around. He has
started a’whist school, and with the aid. of
: a big stereopticon counts upon teaching
■ forty or more pupils at a time. Of course
i the rates will be much lower and the pupils
I will learn considerably less than if they
I played the game themselves. The stereop-
Soft, Mousseline Fiehus.
In Venetian and Pompadour laces, chiffon,
point d’esprit and silk wrought mousseline de
sole the graceful and picturesque Marie An-
toinette fichu is now in the highest favor
It forms a most becoming and effective addi-
tion to toilets for indoor wear, and during
’he coming summer it will be used as
model for light, dressy out-of-door wraps.
the performers line by line, and,
hold themselves responsible as far as
“material” warrants, for the success <
production.
Plie Lady and tlie Zel»Ta.
A storv is told of a woman ridingmaster in
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so that he consented to stand still, and be
photographed with her on his back,
teaches her punils in knickerbockers, ao
believes that the correct position o£ tne tegs
is the most important thing to learn. She
never gives the reins to a pupil until the latiei
is quite secure in her seat, and she thinks
a goed woman rider is safer and locks more
graceful properly seated on a side saddle than
she would be riding astride.
Think of Such a Bath!
The elegance of the modern bath room in-
creases with every one built. One described
lately was lighted in a novel and highly ef-
fective manner. The bath vzas sunk in the
I floor after the old Roman and now revived,
style. The walls were done in marble panels
with massive moldings, :be slabs used for the
panels presented a rounded surface, while the
back of one of the blocks had been eaten out
with acids till only a shell of marble re-
mained. Behind these thin curves were placed
powerful electric lights, whose glow shone
through, flooding the bath room with a soft,’
subdued radiance that was untraceable.
never neglects an opportunity to say some-
thing, always in a well-bred, aristocratic
way, about the brand she is booming. None
of her many friends suspect the impdsi-
------------------ ------- tion. Yet this clever woman earns any-
wall and under the necessity of1 doing some-1 where from $100 to $200 a week, according
thing for her own support. Being finely *■"
reared, the average work of the New Woman ‘
had no attraction for her. She has unique
notions, and she believed that as a whist i
teacher she might build up a paying and
pleasant clientele.
A WHIST LIBRARY.
She was naturally a fine card player, but
ehe elaborated her knowledge by studying
the game with the same assiduity given by
the young doctor to medicine or the young
lawyer to legal lore. She collected a fine
library of books devoted exclusively to the
subject of whist. Most people imag-
ine that Hoyle was the only man who ever
wrote about whist. Yet this teacher has
. between 150 and 160 books, some big and
some little, some useful and some useless,
ell on the subject of whist. In recent years
an average of six books a year have been
brought out on this subject.
This whist teacher (she does not call her-
self professor) found little trouble in secur-
ing pupils, and most of them are middle-
aged women who were debarred by various
The tailor-made girl is in her glory.
The modernized poke bonnet is the spring
model par excellence.
Have a dish of bran on your washstand if
you want white hands.
A postal card may be very economical, but
it is horribly bad form.
Fur-lined overcoats have been a drug on
the market so far this winter.
The correct handshake is more sincere than
the awkward grasp of recent date.
The best dressed women sometimes have
only car tare in their pocketbooks.
A black satin gown is no indication that its
wearer possesses the dignity of years.
'Anything fluffy and becoming is worn as a
neck piece by the up-to-date young woman.
Lacey linens to be made up over white silk
cost $3.50 per yard. Rather steep for linens.
The swell man presses up his bov^ necktie
into butterfly shape by the air of two pearl
pins.
Mandarins that at Nice are almost given
away sell at our fruiterers for five and six
cents apiece.
uct,
Woman,
or very
seen in
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complete knowledge of wines, and can talk
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This paragraph was recently printed in a
London society paper:
“Dress reform has received a special
boom in Russia from the action of the
Czarina, who has agreed to becomejme of
and nine times Out of ten the clothes i for Rational Costume.’
iff hptfp.r nn hp-r than nn thp nrnisnp.r.r- on- Po-torchnr
ive purchaser.
Louisville, Ky., | shot
cause it boasts of a life saving station at the • ter, as the beach
falls of the Ohio River.
Within the past month some
examples have been given of the efficiency
of the life savers, notably when the great
American liner St. Paul ran ashore at Long
Branch, and again when the tramp steam-
er I ’ „ ; ’ ” ’
erous Leng Island sands near the Fire Island ; never loiters,
light. It was due to the clever work of
W’
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Economy has always been the cry, but when
a popular Senator dies four or five thousand
dollars are freely voted for a fine Congres-
sional funeral.
In summer time the life saver supports
himself and family by fishing, by sailing
pleasure craft or by working at a bathing
resort as life saver. When in the employ of
the Government he is absolutely cut off
from his family. He must be on duty
twenty-four hours a day and seven days in
the week,
average station,
captain. He is
work of the me^
The hardest work they have to do is to
patrol the beach at night time. Any one
who has walked on a flat sandy beach in
winter time, with the wind blowing a gale
On the great lakes there are and hurling salt spray with the force of gun
iiiiy-iuree stations, and Louisville, Ky., | shot hundreds of feet, . knows that the
stands unique among the inland cities be- I work of the coast guard is. He has no shel-
------sx ---ot i-ho terj as tpe teach jS as flat as a billiard
I table, and wnen a heavy snowstorm is on
thrilling I the work is infinitely worse.
'------ A LONG PATROL.
Each man muct cover
miles during the night,
miles in either direction, from the station
Lamington was driven upon the treach- ' and then back.
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It was due to the clever work of
the life savers near the latter place that
the twenty souls in the Lamington were
saved. Not only did they bring the men
safely ashore, but they also rescued a little
Spanish pony from the steamer by the aid of
the breeches buoy.
Had it not been for the vigilance of the
coast guard, who burned a danger signal,
the Cunarder Campania would have gone
ashore in the fog at-the same time the St.
Paul struck her-unlucky nose against New small libraries.
Jersey. The Cunard Company was saved mess room,
something between $100,000 and $200,000 by , sitting room and library,
the red light thrown out by the life savers.
This is the kind of work the coast guards
are doing all the time, but unless there is
actually a disaster no record of it appears
in statistics gathered in. Washington.
SOME TELLING FIGURES.
But even taking those, statistics; the rec-
ord of the service is a fine one. The depart-
ment year does not end until June 30, and ; from the station it was found impossible to
taking the completed records for the year | move the lifeboat on the sand cart up to
ending June 30, 1895, some, idea of the the point of danger. The horse now does
work accomplished by these men can be ob- 1 tha wnrk tn a tow minnfps whpro it fnrmpr.
tained. There were 483 disasters in that
year on the coast, and the amount of prop-
erty involved was $10,647,235. Owing to the
life savers, of this vast sum $9,145,085 was
saved, leaving $1,502,150 which was lost.
By the 483 disasters the lives of .5,402
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Ousley, Clarence. Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 23, 1896, newspaper, February 23, 1896; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1264699/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.