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r BRING BACK TO ME. You ask me what?since we must part? You shaii bring home to me; Bring back a pare and faithful heart, As true as nine to thee. I a?k not wealth nor fam*, 1 only ash for thee, Thysei'?and that dear self :he same? My love brim; bach to me. L You tatk of gems from foreign lands, Of treasure, spoil an 1 priz*. Ah, love, I shall nor search your hauls. But look into your eyes. I ask no: wealth nor fame, I only ask for the-, Thyself?and that dear self the same? My love bring back to me. You speak of glory and renown. With me to share your pride. Unbroken ?ai;h is ail the crown 1 rsk for as your bride. I ask no: wealth nor fame, I oa.y ask for theo. Thyself?an 1 that dear self the same? Sly love Dria,- oxzs. to me. You bid me with hope's eager gaze Behol I fair fortune comet ?. I only dream I see vour face Beside the h a?h at home. I ash not wealth nor fame, I do but a-k for thee. Thyself?an 1 tha: dear self the same? My God re.-tore to me. ?Ju iana Horatio Ewing. TRUSTING IMPROVIDENCE. BT HELXN* FOBSE8T GRAVES. ~ UESS it's goin' to be a snappin' 1 /v0kf co^ n MJ h 1? f\^VIj mother," said Miy? Eis* Rob' CVf&VM b*D8> warming SSSIl ber fingers over jWmfl > the blaze of an v^-t? armful of pine V^o!o?AW~r/ri 8'le i,5St ^aDsr on tb? fire. "And Tm very glad, mother, that we've got the rusaet apples safe into the cellar, for it's on them I place my main dependence for the interest money this year." Mrs. Rob'nos sat knitting in the cushioned rocker?a wrinkled, brighteyed little old woman, whose caps were always spot esslv clean, and whose dresses never seemed to wear oat. "Frost, eh?" said she. ," "! rather guess so," responded Elsa, with a soiver. "Stars shinin' like so xoanj little diamond specks, and a new moon bebin 1 the pines." "Well, it's a good thing we ain't stinted for wood," cheer (ally observed Mrs. Bobbins. "loa're always hading oat some good thing or other, mother," said Elsa, a little petulantly. "La, chilu. the world is fall of *em!"said Mrs. Bobbins, who had a sweet, plaintive voice. "The Lord, He's a deal better to as than we deserve I" "Well, then," quaintly remarked Elsa, "1 may as well tell yon, now, as ever, that the roof's leakm' dreadful bad." "Leakin*, is it?"said Mrs. Bobbins. "Where?" "Up garret," said Elsa. "Over the west store room." "Well, it's lackv it ain't leakin' orer the rooms we live in," said the inveterate old optimist "If it was to leak at all, it couldn't hare selected a better spot" "And the fence is down in the north lot,'* remarked Elsa, "and neighbor Carter's cattle are all in!" "Bless me!" said Mrs. Bobbins. "Well, there ain't much bat rock and mullein-stalks in that lot,anyhow, and Neighbor Carter don't half feed his cattle. I'm glad the poor creetors can hare a good bite for once in their lives." "And I've had a letter from Walter's widow,"added Elsa; "and she wants to oome here with her children." "Tell her to come," said Mrs. Bobbins. "It ain't a tine citj place, and maybe she and the little ones will find it hard to make ont on mash and molaaaes and baked potatoes, as we do. But ahe's my nephew's widow, and he'll be welcome here." "But, mother," said Elsa, "think what you are doing. Another family in this cramped-up little honse?a lot of noisy children, racing and screaming about?a tine lady to be waited on, who is certain 17 as able to take care of herself as we are to take care of her. And jon know that we owe a large bill at the grooer's, and we haven't paid for the cow yet, and the tailoreaa business is getting dnlier ever year, now that folks hare taken the notion to go to the city for their little boys' suits." Well, child?well," serenely interposed the old lady, **God will provide. He always does. And it's a dreadful thing to be a widow and homeless. Write to her, Elsa, and tell her to come." 'Bat she n&s no money to travel with,** bluntly added Elsa. "She wants as to send her twenty dollars. She has written to Consin Marrett, up at the grange, and they won't even answer her letter." "Dear, dear 1 that's bad 1" oooed Mrs. Bobbins. "No money at all. * Poor soul I poor soul!" "Well?but, mother," pleaded Elsa, "we haven't got any money,either?to spare!" 'There's the chicken money," saia Mrs. Bobbins, looking wistiully up. Bat, that was to Day yoa a warm, new cloak, mother." "Weli, I'll make the old gray shawl do for another year," said Mrs. Bobbins. "And Walter's wiiow must have money to pay her traveling expenses? poor thing! It was very wrong of Olivia Marrett not to answer her letter?very. Bat Olivia and her husband waa always close. It's their nature, I do s'poee." * And Elsa broke out laughing, with f tears in the corners ot her hard, gray | eyes. "You dear, old mother!" said she. Let Walter's widow and her children come. We're poor, and in debt, and | ran't find brea 1 for oar owa two ! selves; bat 1 believe, for oa?e, I'll follow your example,mother,and trast ! i in Providence." And she sat down and wrote to Wal| tcr Robbms* window, inclosing that last ! twenty-dollar bill, with which she was ! to have boa*ht the warm winter cloak for the old ladv, who was so contentedly knitting in the coral glow of the firelight. Mrs. Walter Rabbins was sitting by '< - c 1? V..., > 1. ? ?? il. I lUC Uic Q13U) UUI UUk nuv. u cm ua? n? * i lnmines the farmhouse kitchen with a softer ehioe than any electric light. It was a mere handful of coals, in a rustic grate, over which she bent with a shudder, as the wind howled by, shaking the window-panes and rattling the paper shades She was mending the children's st%ick ngs, and as she worked a little girl crept oat of the I bed and stole across the floor to her side. "Mamma, I can't get warm," said she. "Isn t there any tire?" "There's a fire, dear," said Mrs. Bobbins; "but weoan't have much,for there's only a peck of coal left in the t>ox." "Mamma," went on thechild, "why don't our fires shine red and bright like the fires I see through other people's windows, sometimes?" "We can't aflord it, dear," sighed the widow. "If yon let the coal blaze and crackle it soon turns into ashes, and we most economize." "Mamma,"spoke up a tiny voice from the bed, "i didn't eat qnite enough supper. Can't I have another half slice of bread?" "There is no more, Bessie," said Afro "Rrthhine wilh a nan?, fihftroer than idt serpent's tooth, at her heart. ,4Go to s.eep, dear; you'll 6oon forget that you aro hungry, an! in the morning wo are to start for the eoantrj, yon know." Bessie's eyes sparkled. "We can have all the milk we want then, mamma, can't we?" said she. "And pick up nnts where they grow among the leaves anient apples without paying twocentsapieoe for them," chimed in Lillie. "Oh, mamma, why don't every one lire ip the oonntry? Mamma, don't yon love Consin Elsa and her mother? Is Cocsin Elsa a little girl? Will she play with as?" "I don't know," said ifrs. Bobbins, with a qniver in her voice. "No, she is not a child; she is a woman, like me. Bat I think she mast be an angel in her heart" For Elsa Bobbins' had been the first helping hand which had been stretched oat to lift the poor little widow oat of the abyss of troables which had almost overwhelmed her sinoe her hasKanrl /liar) in tka (kr.kntv Mori^nn lands whither he had gone to make the fortnne which, alas I was never made. She had become sadly used to sharp words and cold glances, bnt kindness, sympathy, tender recognitions of her claims to kinship, were new and precious to her. Jnstthen there eame a heavy, creaking footstep on the floor?a Up at the door. Little Lillie jumped up and scampered back to bed. Bessie drew her early yellow head under the sheets. "It's a mistake," said Mrs. Bobbins, spiritlessly. "Nobody ever comes here." Bat she rose and opened the door. Thers stood a stoat, middle-aged man, with oheerfnl bine eyes, a ruddy oomplexion, and leg-of-mutton whiskers, slightly sprinkled with gray. "Does Mrs. Walter Bobbins live here?" he asked. Miss Elsa had made waffles for supper, and had fried some fresh cruller a, brown snd light as butterfly wings. She had brought in the parlor lamp, and bunted up two little ohioa mugs, UuM.lIaIaoo anil tvitk tlio nrilf ineesin. ubuuioivo^I ami wi^u kua ^u? IUOUI'r* tion faded off, whioh had been hers and her dead sister's, as children, long ago. "They'll please the little ones," she thonght. And Mrs. Bobbins, in her clean cap, sat smiling by the hearthstone, when Walter's widow came in, her black dress powdered over wjth the snow which had began to fall at the gathering of dask, and with the two little girls clinging to her hand. "My dear," said Mrs. Bobbins, "yon are welcome?kindly welcome? yon and the dear little girls 1" And Elsa came in,* her face softened for the moment, and led them hospitably to the tire. , "It's a poor place," said she; "bat mother is right?yon ue weloome 1" The children looked timidly aroaad at the black beams which traversed the roof oTerhe&d?the deep-set windows, with their broad ledges filled with mtnk plants and fish geraniums?the strings of red peppers above the mantel?and the brass oandlestieks, whioh glittered as if they were made of gold. And then the tire?the great, open chimney pieoe?the blazingjogs?the f n n n I I ? ckAnA/1 n n /) , m n k #v n ? .1 iuuuiij duopcu aumruus, wuu iuuuu i beads, aad the great Maltese cat, asleep upon the gaudy rag rug. Was it all true? or were they dreaming? Bat when it came to hot waffles, and maple molars cookies, with f .snnelsee ls in them, and miik?jast as maoh as they could drink oat of these dear little antique mugs?the children de- j cided the matter in their own minds, that they were not dreaming at all. ' And alter they had gone to sleep in a bed room just oJ th9 kitchen, where j the sheets smeiled of sweet clover, and the wallpaper was covered with bunches of cabbage roses, with impos- j sibiy green leaves, and bine ribbon fillets around the stems, Mis. Walter : Bobbins found courage to thank the ! friends who Lad been so good to her in her necessity. "Bat there's something I haven't } L told you yet," she said, timidly. "I couldn't write it, because I did not know it myself at the tjme that I appealed to you. I am not so poor as everyone thought. Poor, dear Walter's mining ventures have turned out better than anvone expected. A lawyer from the South came to see nie last night, and told me that I am to have at least a thousand dollars a year." "Eh?"' said E!sa, almost incredulously. "It ain't possible?" chirped Mrs. Bobbins. "And," went on Mrs. Walter, "if you will allow me to live here and share it with you?" "Mo," said Miss Elsa. "We have no right to it!" "But," plea led the widow, "yon 11 1 fkaf rATI V* liH wore Willi uy lu sumo HI luat with me." "That's quite another thing," 6aid Elsa. 'No, it isn't," said Mrs. Walter. "It's the same exactly. And I have always longed for a home in the country, and it is so lovely here; and?and I feel that I love yon already, and I should be miserable anywhere else. Please?please let me stay!" And what could Mrs. Bobbins and Miss Elsa say but "Yes." And when the gentle widow retired to her room. Miss Elsa looked at the old lady with tears in her eyes. "Mother," said she, "you were right. Providence has provided. The moment I made up my mind to leave od oaring and planning, and trust in God, lie has laid a blessing at my feet. I think I will never doubt or despair again."?Saturday Night. Salaries of High Official?. An American Cabinet officer gets $3000 a year, and baa an allowance lor stationery and for a private secretary. As principal Secretary of State foi Foreign Affairs, Lord Salisbury drew ? 3 AA AAA * . 1 3-u.uuu a Tear aaa 5:uuu iur a private secretary. The salary of the First Lord of the Treasarj is $23,0J0. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also receives $25,000. The salary of the Lord Chancellor if 310,000. The English Attorney General is not a member of the Cabinet, bat he drawt $21,000 a year and about $20,000 extra in fees. The Lord President of the Coaneil draws $10,000 a year, and so do the presidents of the Boards of Trade and Agriculture. In addition to the Prime Minister, the Foreign Affairs Minister and the Lords of the Admiralty get residences in Downing street. When an English Minister's term expires he may receive an annuity ol $10,000 if he makes affidavit that he actually needs it The English Minister of Foreign Affairs is Bnpposed to give three receptions a year. If he is a poor man he gives only the great dinner aqd hall on the occasion of the Oueen'e birthday. This sometimes costs $5000. The Queen's household often helps out by supplying the flowers from the royal conservatories. The She rill's "Poser." * When Jaok Bingo was Sheriff oi > Menefee County, Kentuoky, and a { good one by the way, says the Hazel Green Herald, he found that the own-i er of soL\e property in that county had not paid his taxes and was a nonresident, as he lived in the adjoining oounty of PowelL So Jaok, finding nothing in his own county upon which to levy for the taxes rode over into Powell and drove one of the delinquent's cows into Menefee to secure the debt. Subsequently be met with the lamented Congressman Wiok Kendall, who was then Proseouting Attorney of that district, and put the question: "Wick, can the Sheriff in one conn-' ty, where taxes are due, go into an' adjoining county, and levy on pioperty to satisfy the claim?" . "Why, of coarse not," replied Wiok. "Weil, I know better," said Jsek. "Bat I tell yon it can't be done," persisted Wiok. '*1 know better,"retoited Jack, "for, by gam, I hare just done that very thing," and Wiok admitted his defeat in the argument. His Definition. The beat definition of good housekeeping that I ever heard was that given by a little slip of a boy, who, after listening a long time to a very learned discussion from some of hn mother's olub associates on the best way to order a home, was asked: "WeD, my iittle man, what kind of a homn do yon think is best?" A beautiful light eame to the child's eyes. He tossed baok his yellow hair and ahook his head: "I don't know much a boat it. Jast the ouiy kind that I like is the home that it's nice to go tow" And when all the philosophy, theory, science and wisdom of the subject bad been exhausted, the women there assembled had to agree that the j very best home, after all, was the homo that?it was nice to go to.? Philadelphia Press. Prince of Wales Buying Land. The Prince of Wales is baying largo tracts of land in the Dartmoor district of Eugland, apparently intending to form an extensive ileer forest in t hunting region. To obtain the necessary purchase money he has through his agerts, disposed of South African and other securities. There are sigDs of a marked clearing np in the Prince's financial affairs. Any snms he owed to Baron Hirsoh, Sir Aloert Sa?soon and others have been paid off. These debts never amounted to anything like the large snms generally reported. The Prinoe is now able to invest largely in land,?New York Tribute. * .MKr. -Iv'.. PROGRESS If I HI. River Continues to Rise in Louisiana Levee District. PEOPLE SUFFERING FOR FOOD. At Kansas City the River is Above the Danger Line?Vicksburg Asks for Two Thousand Tents. While the condition of affairs in the overflowed Mississippi delta is reported brighter, the situation betw een Vicksburg and New Orleans is causing the greatest apprehension. The river continues to rise in the Louisiana levee district and weak spots in the levee ar? being strengthened. The water at Kosedale, M:ss., has not receded. The first train that has entered Clarksdale for many days has arrived there. Trains are also being run from Clarksdale tc Minter City aid Phillips, from Lulu to Jonestown. At Helena the situation is unchanged. At a meeting of the property owners of that city it was decided to begin t he erection of a new levee around the city. At Memphis the river rose one-tenth of a foot in 24 hoars. An additional s! ight rise is looked for. The uews that came to the War Department at Washington, from the lower Mississippi valley is conflicting. Be'.ow Yicksburg the conditions A t (i>Am flincn aKnrA 1 h A Bf CCUi W 1AVU1 %. LIW'V r.vvv.v. most alarming statement is as to the number of people suffering for food, while the prospecting officers in Louisiana counsel against too li >eral assistance as likelv to lead to bad labor conditions. ,1 ust before the cl t>5? of office hours, Secretary Alger recei ved another telegram from Vicksburg, representing that the people in the Sun h lower district were cut off from dry land and in great need of food and forage. He immediately called his bureau: officers in conference and then ordered another steamboat to take on snppl ies and start for the seene of distress. The Situation at Kansas City. A special from Kansas City of the 15th inst, says: 'The river has risen eight inches since yesterday, marking three inches above the danger line, and is still coming up slowly. Two miles up the river the Burlington tracks are endangered. The last of the families on Lewis Island, a small place at the month of the Kansas river, has moved out. The place is entirely submerged and the water at the ^ow^st point touches the eaves of the houses." Two Thousand Want Tents. A mtkss moeting was hell at Ticksburg. Miss., and a request sent to Washington, through Governor McLaurin, for tents to shelter 2,000 refugees from the flood The city nnnnil ?u al?n rPOTlPsted to aDDrOTOl at? $.">0) and private subscriptions will be solicited. There are reports of additional losn of life on parts of Davis island, not vinted by relief boats. At Rosedalc, Miss., Mary Robinson, colored, 14 years old, was drowned by the sinking of a canoe. This makes the sixth victim claimed by the flood in two weeks in this vicinity. At Omaha, Neb., the flood situation is grave. The torrents poured from the Missouri across the North Omaha Gardens, into Florence and cut off lakes. The former has lost its identity in the general flood and the latter may be seen. N12 WOK LEAN'S BIG FIRE. Nearly Half a Million Dollars LossFire at Kansas City* One of the most picturesque business structures in New Orleans, known as the Moresque building, owned by Qauch k Sons, was totally destroyed by fire Thuwday afternoon. The conflagration broke ont shortly before 1 o'clock, and in an incredibly short apace of tr-e the whole bttilding was a mass of flames that burnt ivith a velocity absolutely astonishing. At 2:80 the ed ifice had collapsed and npwards of $400,000 had gone np in smoke. The Moresque building occupied one block, bounded by (tanp, Periodas and Church streets and LaFayette Square, and its walls were built entirely of iron, in a design known as the Moorish. The Montgomery Furniture Company and Gauch & Sons, crockery merchants, were the occupants, and both firms carried full stocks. The fire is supposed i to have originated on the top floor cf the Montgomery section. The following is the estimate of losses , and insurance: Gauch k Sons $100,000 on building, $00,000 on stock, insurance $125,000; Montgomery Furniture Co. ' loss <100,000, insurance $80,000; German Gazette loss $25,000, insurance i $12,090; EveningTelegran:, loss $20,000, i no insurance: \\ arren hotel and saloon loss $10,000, insorance $5,000; James i Aiken, plumber, loss $10,(100, insurance $5,000; Heath, Schwartz Sons' Wall Paper Company loss $15,000, insnranoe $10,000. The insurance is about equally divided between local and foreign companies. Outside the specified case s of losts the damage to adjacent property is estimated to be adjacent property is estimated 1 to be SOU,000, all fnlly insured. Total loss $400,000, with "an Insurance of i 5393,000. _ 3Iothrr of Senator Ha una Dead. A special from Asheville, N. C., says that Mrs. S. M. Hauna, I he mother of Senator Hanna, died at that city, from pneumonia. Mrs. Hanna had only l>een sick about a week, and was S4 years old. Ker remains will be taken to Cleveland for interment. Colored Cadet at Annapolis. Congressman Shattuo, of Ohio, nominated D. J. Bundy, a colored lad of Cincinnati, to a cadetship at Annapolis. He has been urged to withdraw the name, but says he will stand by the appointment. There hare been some rumors of disapproval from the Naval Academy and threats of the students to resign. It is the first time a negro has been appointed to such cadetship and trouble is expected at the Academy. A WOMAN HOB >2 TRADES. Probably the only woman horse dealer in the country is now living in Idaho. She recently sold a number of carloads of horses in Georgia and Louisiana at Yery high prices. She has found tho South a good market, owing to the demand fox hgm> gPJQd by the war in Caba. TRAINED MIL LITERS,' In a first-class establishment a good maker receives from $12 to $15 per week; a trimmer from $20 to $30. This trade, once learned, is one which a woman may resume at any time in her life?should she marry in yonth and leave it, as so many women do leave occupations by 1 which they have earned their maiden % % l ? J L I Dreaa?since u may ue purnaeu m uer own homo. Many "parlor" milliner* earn vory consider able incomes.?St. Louis Star. JfTLLTN-EBY MATTERS. S>ome of the new French millinery the * very oddly shaped nats formed of gilt-straw talle and green, violet, or brilliant red Milan braid. Light, airy tnlles will be greatly lavored on Ea.vter hats as well as for models for the entire summer, and the most suitable and satisfactory qualities are the tnll9 laces, with appliqne patterns, | which are well adapted for the effects now required by fashion. Odd and ' very striking colors are still used on ail fashionable headgear, and flowers, < ribbons, laces, tnlle pom-poos and fancy clasps and sides are heaped in bewildering profusion on the latest French creations. TFTE COIF TUBE'S SETWABD TETOEJtCT. Fashion, like history, is ever repeating itseir. The present mode of hair dressing,though in itself so becoming, brings with it the premonition of the high powdered coiffure worn by our great grandmothers in colonial days. * . - - av? ? I xae lenaency 10 pue me uau- uiku uu tho bead ie vary marked, and the ornaments added to oomplete an evening ' toilet?aigrettes and feathers held in place by jeweled pins, or high bows spangled with jewels and flowers?increase the height of the ooiffare. The straight banded hair, with its smooth patting, has qnite disappeared, and in its place reigus the pompadour with light carls straying on the forehead. Fashion is sufficiently lenient, however, to ]>ermit, in individual cases, the survival of the most becoming. With a long face, the hair will always look best when arranged in soft loops below tho crown of the head.?The Puritan. THE USB or RIBBONS. Very rich and beautiful ribbons, in plain ancl fancy patterns and colorings, appoar upon some of the richest | and moat beautiful Parisian models now exhibited by leading city houses. The nee of ribbons this season are manifold, and there is hardly a dressy toilet wit boat some toaqh of ribbon oti the l>odioe at least. No matter what shirring, pleating, eording, milliners' folds, lsoe, or passementerie are used elsewhere on the gown; gathered girdles, braoes, bow knots, plastrons, blouse effects, bolero fronts, stripes, raches, inserted puffs, and bands?all these and far more does ribbon supply. In Paris, wide oddly plaided and Pompado xr ribbons are in great use. White and violet and white and vivid green plaids are used on silk, liberty satin, organdie, or cnallie gowns, in colors to match. One more word respecting riboons: It is very fashionable to wear a sash going over one shoulder from the oelt The sash disappears under the folded waistband, bait a very large butterfly bow with upstanding loops marks its introdnelion. The ribbon reappears below the belt, and then falls low on the skirt ander too Rage bow. The so-called 'Trilby" bow covers the shoulder for several inohes front and baok; and in many casos, on fall dress evening toiletii, the istin or moire ribbon falls in thiee ends on eaoh side, nearly to the waist.? .hew York Post BARB EMBROIDERY. Perhaps the most accomplished designer an i needlewoman in the world ts Mme. St. George, who has oharge of the classes in the Government Art dchool of Embroidery at Vienna. This institution is the glory of the Austrian c&p'.t&L The entire coarse of instruction, which is free, lasts tire years, but many pnpils leave after two or three years, especially ladies who do not intend to make art work a profession and are satisfied with knowing the rudiments of either lace work or embroidery, for every year has its special conrse. Every year's coarse has its special rot m and instructress, and the pnpils cannot go from one to ' the other nutil the year expires. The pupils of the last year's conrse were busily mending a magnificent canopy, i the work of Empress Maria Theresa, i in idea may be formed of the magni- 1 tude of the task a hen it is said that ten girls under Mme. St. George's superintendence had been working at < it for ten years already, and she exoeoted it wonld take two years mere 10 complete it. Every kind of embroidery, including Persian, Indian, 1 | ul'tj YpBaefflft -? b^ww |pLD Japanese, Tufvrsb, ete., is done here, and the visitor is astonished to see tome beautiful samples of the "nan? duty," or spider's web, made by the Guarini jromen of Paraguay and rare* ly seen in Europe. This laoe ia made oi toe nore 01 xne aioe ana is so uu that it is made inside of the bnt% with the door shot, so that not the least breath of wind can toaoh it? MBS. ASTOB'S CHAIB C0VSBS. When Mrs. John Jacob Astor went to Genoa, Italy, a year ago, she left word that her chairs in the parlor, | library, guest and sleeping rooms | shonld be covered with a tine cretonne | to preserve them from dast. There were 309 of them. A few days before sailing she revoked the order and aent for the material. She also ordered that a "slip-cntter" be sent to her i house. "Now," said she to the slipcntter, "I want yon to mea.?nre these chairs and sew one cover. Then give me the patterns and we will make the remainder of the covers at home." | The slip cutter, though loth to loee so excellent a job for his establishment, complied with the wishes of this indnstrions homemakir and sent the cnt-ont slips. Next day Mrs. Astor sat in her sew' ing room personally superintending the making of the chair covers. With a small model npon a stand in front of her, she basted the covers and in' strncted her maids how to pnt them together. Bv that little eoonomiesl move the wife of s millionaire kept her home staff employed and fitted oat 1 til. ftf ill*n. Li CI UUUdC w l?u IUO J/IVI..VW. V* covprs. Thay were so ornamental that they have remained upon the chairs ever since. To make covers for chairs?and many people desire to do so for a change as well as to save the more expensive <-f jj , covering?it will be found tnat the ! secret lies in the treatment of the . edges. A strictly "tailor-made" look mast prevail. With loose-threaded fabrics it is a good plan to ran ? mucilage brash, wet with photographer's glue, along the raw edges before stitcning. All the sewing mn-t be done by machine. ?Boston Herald* g fashio.v norm. Besides plenty of lace and ribbon large buttons matching the keynote of co'or will be used on the pretty cot- r ion frocks. Fronts of bodices and tops of sleeves sre quaintly decorated with tucking. The close-fitting parts ol some eleevee are trimmed with lenathwise tneka, developing near the shoulder into-a short pnC Fancy buttons of strass and enamel are mnoh need, and daily grow more attractive. A pretty medallion bottoi ' is edged with a row of brilliants while others in odd shapes are seen. Barat ivory combined with brilliants forms a nrettv button. While one large buckle is very effective on e girdle, a namber of small ones may be olostered on a belt ma way that is very fetching. These tiny bnokles are formed almost entirely of precious stones, and are arranged in a ' decorative way, as one would use buttons. Ribbons from four to six inches in ' width are undoubtedly olaiming drat lavor as trimming. Valenciennes lace ranking next, then small "lingerie" '( tucks. Three raffles of the goods or of lace arranged separately or in overlapping style are popular as garni tore on skirts. Plain silver and gold bnokles have almost entirely disappeared, bat those f of Koasian enamel or eet with amethysts are greatly in demand. The tarqnoise is also used to a great extent on belt buckles, and can be secured at amneh lower prioe than the various enamels. Brilliants and eat steel are .. . fashionable, the former particularly en. The ribbons in plain colors, floral designs and stripes are chiefly in taffeta weaves, and will be worn in largo snoalder bows, belts, sashes having long ends, collars and bows across the boat. An entire pieoe of ribbon lavished upon a dimity gown or dainty organdie is not nnnsoal?a stylo for which ribbon manufacturers should bo dnlv thankful. The aooepted drees pet*era for gowns of sheer materials is twelve yards of tbirty-inoh goods, no less several lace-edged raffles ere required for skirt, sleeves and front of bodice, in which case about fifteen yards are necessary. If changeable taffeta be not used as a lining a silky cotton imitation or a fine lawn is required, the prominent shades tut* year being brilliant piuks and greens, reds aod turquoise, navy and yellow, clear white and violet. Skirts are not nearly so fnll at the sides aod fronts as lormerly, bat are fitted with greater care. There are cunning devices for making skirts stand oat well at the back. flexible steels are placed in the hems of the skirtaend sometimes about a quarter of a yard below the waist Upstanding eollare are now wired, and even laces in nuuiy of (he bows, also a few of the silk bolero jackets. Many skirts now have three cordings on the hips to make them set very fiat below the waist and make them stand oak gracefully beyond.