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CHAPTER XXVII?Continued.
! Lieutenant Hedges tried to induce
Untilia to go below and occupy Captain
Denham's cabin, but to his solicitations
she replied:
"Why lie down when I am not weary
Knd cannot sl^ep. No; I shall stand
and drink in your daring with my eyes
If I cannot help with my hands. l)ay
Will soon be here, and the Alontauks
/ must find me ready."
I "But surely, Untilia, you will not exf
pose yourself to danger. We have
plenty of men to do the work, and your
' ?ra/?imia fcn in A
1113 lb piouiuua *cij j?4uv4vv?>? ? ?
to all of us."
"The Great Spirit commands; I wear
the plumes and carry the spear of the
mighty Wyandauch. Where they are
Been the Montauks will follow; and
where could they be seen but in my'
keeping. To-morrow's sun will see mo
9.3 now standing by your side," said the
heroic princess.
( "Ah, Untilla, would that It were my
fate to stand by your side through all
the suns of ray life."
j Alarmed at his own boldness, and
- /perhaps struck by the Incongruity of
[ tinting at love on such an occasion,
Mr. Hedges turned and left
! The men not directly engaged in the
sailing of the ship at once made preparations
for the morrow's battle. All laid
away their caps and bound kerchiefs
about their heads; and as the night was
warm, many of them stripped to the
waist and tightened their belts.
The long gun was cleaned and loadj
?d, and the. broadside guns were doubly
/ shotted.
I The boarding pikes in tne racxs aoout
I the masts and the cutlasses which the |
) men girded on were all examined by
i Mr. Dayton.
, The tire buckets were filled and placed
\rtthln rea h, and In the cockpit the
ship's surgeon and his assistants made
every preparation for the reception and
treatment of the wounded.
Rations were cooked for the men, to
be used on the morrow, and then the
fire in the galley was extinguished.
While these preparations were going
on, Lieutenant Hedges, who with Untilla
stood near the helm, saw the
lights on board the Wanderer off Gardner's
Island.
"There Is the ship we are looking for," i
Bald Untllla.
"I see her; but we shall keep on till
we see the Montauk beacon, then 'bout
Chip and comeback; by that time it will
be daylight," replied Mr. Hedges.
The Sea Hawk bounded away, the
waves hissing Irom her prow like the
voice of an angry serpent, and herrope3
straining like the muscles of a creature
huugerlng for the contest that lay before
her.
"Montauk light on the starboard bow,"
repeated the officer of the watch.
/Bear away one point to the east,"
jflid Lieutenant Hedges to the two men
^placed at the wheel.
h On sped the Sea Hawk with the eager
r flight of the bird after whom she was
' named. Montauk light rose up bold and
clear from the headland; and as the
ea.ijle in wild speed stops and wheels
back on the course he has come, so
wheeled and turned the ship.
A gray streak of dawn in the east,
but the Sea Hawk faced the darkness
to the west. Gardner's Island was now
dead ahead.
More light filling land and sea, and
the Sea Hawk turned the point, and up
A" 1 nr\fir?n aP fKa rvfAW
TO ner pwuti iau mo cusigu ui wo (/iv.ince.
There at anchor, not a mile away lay
t&e Wanderer, her boats alongside after
l&oding her visitors.
Xn alaim Captain Fox ran forward
aqd shouted to the coming ship.
-I*rboard, you lubbers! Larboard!"
ji shot from the loDg gun of the Sea
H%wk was the only reply.
Ike ships were now only a hundred
wards apart. Fox saw his danger and
touted to his boatswain, and then rang
out the shrill whistle calling the
tartled crew of the Wanderer to arms.
The Sea Hawk folded her wings.1
She was alongside, and her grappling
irnns. liko creat talons, were fastened
in her victim. Down went the anchors,
and^ He.lges' guns and ^he ch^er^of Ins
neve^erxiii:ted himsel^' to betaken ) y
surprise. But he was certainly surprised
now.
He could not credit his eyes and ears
when he saw the Sea Hawk grappling
with the Wanderer, and heard the shot
that came from the signal gun crashing
through the hull of his own ship.
( Quick-brained, he took in the danger,
rand his first thought was that one of the
men he had sent on board the Sea Hawk
had betrayed him. In no other way, he
was sure, could his personality and
schemes bo detected.
But there was no time for guessing;
no time for anything but to shake off
the foe that had swooped down on him
and fastened her sharp talons in his
side in a death grip.
So well trained were his men that
they threw off their jackets, tore the
pikes from the racks, and rushed to
their posts while yet the shrill whistle
of the boatswain was piping all hands
to quarters.
The Wanderer was always ready for
action: her guns were shotted at all
times, and never lett unloaded except
when tho charges were drawn to clean
them.
Now the great gun amidship turned
her muzzle to the neck of the Sea.
Hawk, and its fiery breath blazed
through tho shrou'ls of both ships.
The fifteen broadside guns were run
out until they touched the black side of
the Sea Haw',i. close to the water line,
and then the solid shot went tear.ng a-id
crashing through her timbers, a fountain
of splinters flying up from the
shock.
Lieutenant Hodges had hoped, from
the sudd^nn^ss of the attarx, to fin-'
t})u Wandew whollv unt>j spared for *e
slstance. He thought to board the foo
and overpower him before he could
ptrike a blow; but now, as ho saw the
wonderlul alacrity with which tho pirates
rushed to their posts, he almost
? forgot, in the momentary admiration of
the act, the all-important mission on
1 which he had come.
! It was agreed between him and Untilla
that her people should remain out
of sight till his men had gained the
deck of the foe, where they expected to
meet Ralph Denham, when the MonItauks
were to swarm on board shouting
the battle cry of their tribe.
In accordance witn this plan. Lieutenant
Hedges, sword in hand, was the
Qfst jnan to leap on the deck of the
Wanderer, Mr. Dayton remaining baok
to direct matters on board.
With the quick bound of tigers two
score stalwart young men Imitated their
daring leader, and, quicker than the
heroic deed can be recorded, they made
for the long gun amidships, and drove
back or killed the men who were fighting
it.
i With thatquickness of perception and
action that would have made him the'
foremost seaman in the world, had he
been engaged in a righteous cause,
Captain Fox saw his opportunity.
ami of i-l ? " Ua A
iarow wu untj giuppies; un iuucu.
"Leave the deck to me, Frenauld!
Hurrah for the men of the Wanderer!"
High over the clash of swords, the
roar of cannon, and the quick, narsh.
Crashing of firelooks, rang out the voice
bf the pirate chief; his men heard his
words and seemed transformed Into
fiends.
Frenauld ran to part the ships; an-;
other instant and the tide and wind1
would have separated them, so far that,!
though they were anchored neariy head'
to head, boarders could not pro from one
to the other.
But before the axes could sever the
last ropes a high, shrill cheer rose up'
from the deck of the Sea Hawk. It wa3
like the united cries of a hundred
eagles when circling in mid-heaven
they see far beneath them the robbers
"despoiling their nests, and they sweep
down to defend and destroy.
"I wear the plumes of Wyandauch!;
Men of Montauk, follow your queen!"
Untilla stood on the bulwark of the
Wanderer and waved the glittering
blade above her head.
"We come! Our princess, we come!"
Bhouted the Montauks.
Untilla leaped to the deck, ana when
8De raised tne spear 01 nyanaauca
again it was redder than the waves,
blushing in the light of the rising sun.
In the meantime Frenauld's men
swung their axe9 with all their might;
?nd when about one-half the Montauks
reached the Wanderer's deck the gap
between the ship had increased so much
that the others were forced to remain
behind.
Wondering why Captain Denham, who
must have heard the signal given, did
not respoud, Lieutenant Hedges, with
a view to cheering his own men as well
a? to attract the attention of his commander,
raised the cry:
"Kalph Denham! Ralph Denham!"
Fox heard him, and pressing his men
to one side, he replied:
"Itaipn .ueinium is ut's i, uuiotj joui
The next instant he was before Lieutenant
Hedges.
"Murderer, you lie!" retorted the gallant
sailor, and with a leap that would
have been surprising even in an athlete,;
he stood face to face with the pirate, j
There was no time for taunt or ex-'
pression of rage. The red swords circled
and fell; glanced, flashed, and rose
again, and Hedges, the stronger of the
men, pressed on, and bore back his assailant.
At the be?t, the contest between
the men would have been uncertain,
had not one of the pirates
leaped at the first officer of the Sea
Hawk, struck him over the head, and
sent him reeling and bleeding to the
aecK.
Untllla saw the act, and, with a cry of
rase that appalled those who came In
her way, her spear gleamed like the
lightning, and, like its bolt, transfixed
the man who had stricken down the
Lieutenant.
"While this was going on Capt. Denham
and his men, at the sound of the
signal gun, had made their way through
the opening, which Don had arranged.
But the very shot that had called
them to action had so torn the timbers'
in the advance as to virtually block
them In.
In the dim light they worked like
giants to release themselves, but whenever
they lifted one timber from their
front another dropped in behind it
Capt. Denham heard his name shouted
on the deck, and he recognized the
voice of Lieut. Hedges. He felt like
answering back, but checked himself.
Still the Captain and his men worked,;
and 8till rose and fell the tramping of
/eet, the oath and shout, and the clashing
of arms overhead, while the ships,
though no longer side by side, used
their cannon on each other with murderous
effect.
In despair, Capt. Denham was about
to turn back, for the purpose of finding!
some other way to the deck. If that were.
?*rk an K a K ao Tb/^r> in frnn 4
IJU591U1U, ucu uo uvcti v* i/vu iu uvui
calling out:
"Patience, men of the Sea Hawkj
patience!"
By the dim light they could catch the
gleam of an ax in the hands of the
youth, ana they saw that It rose and
fell.
A few minutes, and there came a
crash, followed by a cloud of dust. Don
haflfcjggi.jthe key-piece, and the whole
'mjjpHyypbbish came down.
\&9$htWt6n, eager to speed to the aid of
.thpr ?f&rades, could not restrain the
rtfSerffcat leaped to their lips.
"God bless you!" was all the Captain
could say, as he ran past Don Into the
armory, the walls of which were lined
with cut'asses and guns. For the latter
the sailors cared nothing. They flew
for the cutlasses, drew the blades, and
flung away the scabbards, and then
rushed after the Captain, who was on
the stairs leadine to the deck.
The sight that met Captain Denham's
eye would have appalled a heart less
resolute.
The handful of men that Lieutenant
Hedges had led^to the ship were gathered
about the prostrate form ot their
leader, tlghtin^ desperately, though
against overwhelming odds.
The Montauk.'* under I ntilia had just
charged ovpr ihe deck. and were repulsed,
and the pirates, confident that
the tide of battle/VfM. turning In their
:avor, cheere4tJWf<Hig'nt Uke incarnate
demons.
As Ralph Denhaavhurried to the deck
he threw off his '(ilsgulse, and though
dressed exactly like his crew, there was
no mistaking hlm^-jf ?
The Sea Hawk.j men and the Montauks,
on the forward part of the ship,
saw and recognize^., him before the
pirates did.
"Ralph D en ham! & Ralph Denham!"
wmt up the cry troife the gallant sailors
who saw victory doming, personified in
the i erson of their beloved leader.
"Men of the Se&JBfe.wki To the rescue!
Charge!" thund^ted* Ralph.
There was only iyeed to follow his
examplo.
Those who ha$p?en? turning with
anxiety to get lov'thid*aeck, now suw
their chance.
In the front FrenUuld wheeled his
men, and tried to stem the unexpected
onset.
He fell beneath Dereham's blade, and
many of his followera7]to avoid the fury
of that irresistible onset, leaped into
the sea.
That part of the d&ok was speedily
cloared, and Ralph knfelt to raise his
old friend, but Lieutenant Hedges
grasDed his hand, and to.-a voice still
Btrong, though he wafrW^eding to death,
"Don't mind me! DonTt itop till the
Telling one of the sailoji&Jto call Mr.
Dayton to send the ;*U?jMgO on board
the Wanderer at Qno^j^nMa J)enhapi
enjoined his men to follow again, for It
was all important that the pirates
4lmn ir\ rannvor frnm t.hA
DilU U ill UVl>UU?C vv WW ? W.
demoralization which his coming had
caused.
"Never mind your pistols, my lads!"
cried Denham, when he saw his men
idi'awint? the weapons they had concealed
on their persons. "Give them the cold
steel, and drive thom into the sea."
"Aye, aye, sir!"
"Sweep the quarter deck; capture
Kidd alive!" This Captain Denham
Bhouted, as, with Untilla by his side,
and the sailors and warriors pressing
close behind, they sped to the place
where the pirates, rallied by their desperate
leader, were to make their last
stand.
Fox saw Ralph Denham, looked into
his blazing eyes, but still he could not
credit the evidence of his senses.
Ghost or man, he would try him.
And Fox did try, with a heroism worthy
of a better cause, to defend or cheok the
onset.
But his men had lost heart. They
went down before the flashing blades as
the ripe jrrain drops before the sickle
of the reaper, and the pirate chief was
loft nearly alone on the quarter-deck of
the Wanderer.
"Surrender, Kldd! Surrender!" shouted
Halph.
For answer the pirate with a horrible
oath, discharged his remaining pistol at
his conqueror, and waiting only long
enough to note that the shot had no effect,
he turned and Hung himself into
the sea.
It will be remembered that the boats
In which the visitors wore landed, were
still alongside, there not having been
time to hoist them on deck before
Lieutenant Hedges made his daring attack.
Captain Fox found a number of the
pirates in one of these boats, and they
had 6eizel the oars and were in the act
of cutting the rope when he crawled on
board.
He never for an Instant lost the power
to command. Seizing the tiller he called
out to his men:
"Better luck next time, my lads. We
have booty enough or. shore to at out a
score of ships like the Wanderer. Pull
away!"
The pirates took the oars and obeyed
him, for obedience is a habit that clinga
to men after she power to enforce it has
gone.
So busy were Captain Denham and
his men, that they did not see this act
of the pirate chief, an act that was not
destined to be of great advantage.
Within a few minutes after the disappearance
of Fox, every pirate on the
Wanderer not dead was a prisoner and
under guard.
Mr. Dayton had by this time worked
his ship alongside the Wanderer and
again they were made fast, with theii
shattered hulls grating against each
other.
Captain Denham was about to go forward
to where the surgeon was dressing
T UoWrraa' WnilTlH whpf! T) DTI
JJ1C U 1/CilCfcll V V*^s, ? .. .. ? ?
touched him on the arm and said:
"If you please, air, there's some ladies
in the cabin that was locked up
till I release;! them. They wished to
come on deck, but I advised them not,
and they want to see you."
Ralph Denham did not wait to ask
who they wero; his heart told him, eo
he ran at once below.
He bounded down the companion-way
and into the cabin, with its piotures and
articles of luxury untouched, and h6
saw In tho middle of the floor, with
their arms enslrciing each other as 11
lor mutual protection, Lea Hedges and
Ellen Condlt.
[to be continued.]
CURIOUS FACTS.
Gla?s bricks gain favor.
Norway taxes commercial travelers.
Eiffel tower in Paris weighs 7000
tons.
Father Danforth, of Springfield,
Ohio, ha3 two cowj whioh he drives in
harness.
In France the doctor's claim on the
estate of a deceased patient has precedence
of all others.
The Imperial Society for Acclimatization
has succeeded in raising
ostnobes m tne soacn or Jttussia.
Each year about $30,000 is expe&attd
in sprinkling the streets of London
with sand, to prevent the horses from
slipping. \
A hen that laid an egg smaller than
a robin's egg at Cottage Grove, Oregon,
cackled just as though she had
done her whole dntv.
A North Dakota farmer claims that
strips of newspapers soaked in soar
milk and fdd to hems greatly increases
their laying qualities.
The highest inhabited spot in the
world is a mining camp in the Andes
?16,158 feet above sea level?where
some 200 miners live in good health
all tne year round.
A canary owned by a Baltimore
musician is said to sing at a signal
from him, given on the violin, the
"Popagano" from Mozait's "Magio
flute." He has had the Dird two
years.
Anything black will produce more
disturbance in your baby's mind than
anything white. A child refusing to
go to a relative in dark clothes would
not Hesitate it tnc suit were cnangeu
to a light color.
The cat came baok to Samuel Ward,
of Waynesboro, Penn., not in song,
but in fact, a few weeks ago, Mr.
Ward had cot seen it since July, 1894,
vrhen he had dropped it from a train
near Frederick, Md.
Sarah Thomas, a lively woman, 100
years old, in Wales, possesses all her
faculties, but is a dangerous somnambulist.
The Princess of Wales annu- j
ally sends her on her birthday as.many j
shillings as she has lived years.
A man who shaves regularly until he j
is eighty years old cuts off aboul i
thirty-five feet of hair, although if he j
doesn't shave it doesn't necessarily
follow that his whiskers will be thirtyfive
feet long when he is eighty.
Fioridians in the neighborhood of I
Kissimmee carry on a profitable but j
straggling winter industry disposing J
of otter skins at $4 or $5 eaoh. In !
Kissimmee two firms this season have j
purchased 1200. But there is no sys- i
tematic effort to make the most of the
industry.
A wedding ceremony took place in
Trenton, Mo., the other day which
was a notable one for the reason that
both the contracting parties had
passed the age of three score and ten, j
and that the marriage was theculmina- j
tion of a courtship that extended over |
a period of more than forty years.
A Stubborn Maine Farmer.
William Davis, a farmer of Penobscot ;
County. Maine, has spent 83^ years iu jull j
for contempt of court. He was Qnod tor i
thrashing a boy who teasel him and,though
i man of moans, vowe 1 he would never pay !
the flue. He was put in jail and has re- ,
malned there ever slnoe. An effort is now
being made to securs his release. j
QUEER CLOTHES.
THE UGLY COSTUMES OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
WHw.t Children Wore Seventy-Five
jl cuio ?a lie i au'.aivibv j
and the Relsn of the
Ked Shoe.
(( | \0 I remember how we used
I 1 to dress when I was a child ?
I J Indeed, I do, raj dear; I
G can see every one of those
queer little frocks?you would certainly
think them so now, at any rate
?as plainly as if I had them .before
my eyes." The speaker, says the New
York Tribune, was a white-haired,
sweet-faced old lady of eighty, whose
remarkably faithful memory, not only
on the subject of clothes, bat concerning
nearly every incident of her rather
eventful life, is a constant source of
1 1^
LLltirvci L'J UCl IIICUVACJ.
"The first dress of which I hava a
distinct impression was made for me
when I was four years old. That was
in the year 1821; so you are hearing
now of the styles of seventy-five years
ago. It is a long period to look back
upon, but the time doesn't seem so far
away to me. Well, the frock was given
to me by my godmother?for :cny
name, you know. It wan made of rattinet?I
don't suppose you ever
heard the word before?but it was the
name of a kind of thin woolen goods
very fashionable at the time. The
color wa3 scarlet, and as I had never
had anything so gay before, you may
be sure I was proud of is. There was
a litt.ln filoak to match, and a red
bonnet, trimmed with nwanadown.
"The next dressea I remember were
two Sunday frocks, made exactly
alike, which my sister and I wore, perhaps
a year or two later than the time
of the red rattiuet. You will laugh
when I tell you that these dresses,
which were considered especially
beautiful and elaborate, were made of
?oalioo. It was French calico, though;
much finer and prettier than anything
of the kind to be bought nowadays,
and it Cost from fifty to seventy-live
oents a yard. All materials were dear
then, and you saw very few silk dresses,
particularly for children, except
the wealthy families. You could have
a silk gown now for what Frenoh calicoes
used to coat. I can even remember
the exact pattern of the calico in
J "'-i'
EARLY VIC1
those two frocks. There was a white
ground, divided into squares, with a
vine and leaf design in purple, running
all over it. We thought it was
wonderfully handsome, and I believe
it would be considered very dainty
even to-day, among the variety of
pretty, thin goods which are shown.
All children wore low-necked and
short-sleeved dresses in those days,
and, indeed, for many years after
girl's costume, javuart, 1841.
ward. It would have been considered
ridiculously inappropriate to put
anything different on them, even in
winter. So our little frocks were, of
course, made according to the fashion,
leaving our necks and shoulders bare,
and looking, I must confess, as 1 examine
the old daguerreotypes, as if
they were in constant danger of slipping
off over our arms. The sleeves
were tiny, circular pufis, not more
than three or four inches deep, so that
v,o had almost nothing on our arms
either. The little waists were very
short, much resembling the Empire
styles seen now, and were usuallv
made with considerable fulness. The
skirts, always sewed fast to the waists,
were straight, and reached to about
half way between the knee and ankle.
Really short dresses, as children wear
them now, wero never seen. Below
our skirts, anil hanging down to our
very feef, were our pantalettes?plain
yellow nankeen ones for every day, and
fine white embroidered ones for Sundays.
With theso particular frocks I
am speaking of we always wora our
best pantalette?.
."Our shoes were made of soft,green
morocco leather. And that reminds
me of the aggrieved feeling we children
always cherished because we were
obliged to wear that color. The two
fashionable shades for shoes were tea
green and bright red. My mother,
whose taste in her own dress was subdued,
clothed her children accordingly,
and would never allow us to have
I the scarlet ehoea. bo my Bister and I
I were obliged to wear the green, and
I to craze with hopeless envy at the
gayer footgear of most of oar playmates.
Hi1
boy's costume in vogue .tune, 1811.
"There were different styles of hats,
bat, if I remember rightly, those that
went with our purple and white
French calicoes were bonnets of green
silk. The/ were shirred very full and
cat so that the edge around the face
was bias. This was then fringed out
to some lepth as a border, and the
bonnet was trimmed with lace and a.
ribbon bow at the baok. 1 think that
is a complete account of the way we
looked, or?have I forgotten anything?
Oh, yes; our gloves. They
wereof ptraw colored silk, and pretty
short, scarcely reaching above our
wrists.
"The time I am telling you of was
long before the days of hoopskirts,
you know. We children wore a number
of stiff, quilted petticoats, though,
to make our dresses 'set out' in the
proper way. I can't remember that
we were ever really uncomfortable on
account of our odd olothes, though I'm
afraid children would complain nowadays
at the heavy skirts and the
dangling pantalettes. These pantalettes
were sometimes a nuisance even
to us, accustomed as we were to them,
when we wanted to play some aotive
game. 1 recall one of our playmates
who was regarded by the rest of us as
a marvel of daring because she had
been known on different occasions to
ftmmrsr^ jU i/>1,.
'ORIAN DRESS. '
I untie her pantalettes deliberately from
i i i - i_ _ l.:_u ii. ? t,.
ner siocKings, so wuiuu iubj woio motened,
and bundle them in Home convenient
corner nntil she had finished
her play and was ready to go home.
"The boy's clothes at that time
were almost as funny, when compared
with modern Btyles, as were those of
the girls. No knickerbockers in the
days when my brothers were little fellows
! Boyti wore Ions?, loose trousers,
similar to those of their fathers, and
usually made at home from an old pair
which the head of the family had discarded.
Their queer little jaokets
were sometimes belted in at the waist,
with the skirt hanging a few inches
below in blouse style, and sometimes
they wore open coate, very short and
elaborately braided, in military fashion.
They wore various kinds of caps,
and I remember a flat-shaped one,
with a long tassel hanging down behind,
which was regarded as very
stylish.
"Fashions did not change eo often
then, my dear, as they do now. When
? i? J . j ?I;J ?
you nau a ureas jou vumu num m iui
years, just the same?unless you wore
it out. Fine clothes could even be
handed down from one generation to
another. Years later than the time I
have been taking about, when 1 had a
small family of my own, the styles in
children's frocks were not greatly
altered. The materials had changed
more than anything else, showing
I ^
OIKLS' COSTUMES, FEDRDA11Y, 1843.
much more variety, and the woolen
goods in particular being finer in
quality."
The Forth Bridge, in Scotland,
is constantly being repainted; in fact,
no sooner have the painters reached
one end than they have to commence
again at the other. It takes fifty tons
of paint to give it one coat, and the
area dealt with is something like 120
acres.
At Athens, Greece, a small potsherd
has been found whioh bears the name
of Themistocles, and is supposed to
have been used when the ostracism of
Aristldes took place. |
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t;?e dining boom. (
Its Furolnhlox and Decoratia^?Colonial
Effects the Most Becoming.
There is no more barbarous contrivance
than the basement diningroom
in the ordinary oity house;
although it may be made necessary by
considerations of economy and convenience.
these faots do not make it
any more admirable. Architectural
limitations are aucb that the basement
dining-room must of necessity have a
low ceiling, little natnral light, and an
unattractive outlook. These are drawbacks
very difficult to overcome by
any scheme of decoration or furnishing.
For various leasons rooms of
this kind may be dismissed from consideration
in the present article. City
houses are always bnilt with certain
restrictions and limitations in mind,
and eaah house must be a law unto itself.
But aside from the question of
meats, the builder of a detached villa
house has free rein, and can consult
his own taste and inclination in the
arrangement of the various rooms.
One who plans the ereotion of such
a house will be wise if he gives his
greatest care and attention to the
dining-room, for no room is more important,
nor contributes more to the
PERSPECTIVE VIEW.
character of the house. No handso
mer room was ever designed than a
oolonial dining-room, and it will be
well to follow its general style unless
it forms too violent a oontrast with
the remainder of the house. For this
reason it is well to have a cluster of
narrow windows at one end of the
room, opening with hinges, perhaps,
glazed with diamond panes of glass in !
leads. This gives et mpst beautiful effect,
if the remainder of the room can
be brought at all in keeping. As the 1
room should be warm in the severest
weather, an open fireplace with brass
fira docs must be in evidence. The
trimming should be walnut or oak
with colonial ornaments, unless these ]
are found too expensive. The mantel
should be simple, so that it will not detract
from the orvstal and plate
with which the room will naturally be
ornamented. The walls ehoald be a
warm, red brown tint, or be covered
with some warm colored paper with a
simple, formal design.
By far the most effeotive furniture
for the dining room is mahogany, but
thi3 is costly, if one has the good
lack to inherit old pieoes of mahogany
the problem of furnishing is made
easy, for these can be made more
beautiful than any modern pieces at
very little expense, no matter how
much they may have been marred by
usage. With mahogany out of the
question, pretty efifeots oan be had,
which will make the room rioh, with
well-made oak furniture, provided it
is simple in design and not disfigured
with maohine carving and glued ornaments.
A hard wood floor costs no more
than a fine carpet, and is far more appropriate.
In this case a large rug
will be wanted, but it need not be expensive
; extremely pretty designs are
to be had in what are known as "art
squares," which are nothing more than
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reversible ingrain carpets. There is
no need for ornamentation other than
pure and simple porcelain, glass and
silver ware, which can be made to do
good servioe if not huddled away in
closets, and a few good pictures in
modern frames, chosen with some idea
of the "eternal fiitness of things."
The accompanying design shows a
diniug room which lends itself readily
to the treatment described in this article.
The width of this house is 34 feet,
6 inches, and the depth, including
veranda, 50 feet, 4 inches. With first
story 9 feet, 6 inches, and second
story 9 feet with attic 8 feet. This is '
a comfortable dwelling, easily heated. 1
The size of the dining room is shown '
by the floor plans. .
The room is finished iu oak, with |
oak fioor. The two windows are leaded
with diamond-shaped panes looking
out over the veranda. The walls are
covered with paper of yellow brown
color, with a stiff, formal design in red
brown. This rims to the ceiling, with
no frieze, but with oak picture rail
about twenty inches below the cornice.
The ceiling repeats the side ,
wall colors, though the pattern of the '
paper is not so pronounced. The fireplace
is faced with dark brown brick.
The furniture is rich mahogaDy with
brass mountings. The sideboard, on
which are a few pieces of fine glass
reflected by the firelight, glistens a
welcome. Bright china gives points
of rich color for the eye to rest upon, i
A Smyrna rug in deep reds and browns c
laid on the polished oak fioor adds i
still more color to the room, and a few (
choice hunting scenes finish tho
walls.
The cost to baild the house illustrated
in this artiole in the vioinity of
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New York City, is 83500, not including
the heating apparatus. In many
sections of the country the cost should
be much less.?Copyright 1897.
The Milky Way.
The milky way, says Miss Agnes M.
Clerke, in Popular Astronomy, is made
np of a finite number of star collections,
each of finite dimensions; while
the remainder of the sky, instead o!
being veiled with shining orbs, thiokeet
in endless backward files, shows *
clear baokgronnd sprinkled with stars,
the proportionate numbers of which
diminish rapidly with penetration in- .
to the ethereal abysses. The star '
depths, as Sir John Hersobel distinctly
perceived, are open,. but, beyond
certain point, empty. The stars and
nebnlte form together a stupendous
system, framed on lines dimly significant
of an origin and progressive rela- .
tions. But a system oannot be infinite . 3
?not, at any rate, in a sense intelligible
to the human intellect. Both observation
and rational inferenoe indeed.
while setting no boands to the
display of creative energy, enforce
belief in a terminated siderell world;
only a certain horror vacui in the
human mind shrinks baok from the
void beyond, and evokes imaginary i
stellar populaces to inhabit imaginary - "
wildernesses.
An Extraordinary Growth or flair.
This astonishing growth of humaa
liair is known as the Plica Polonioe,
from its prevalence in Poland. The
Plica oonsisted of hair closely matted
~
together; and the above example was
sent to Dresden in 1780, after adorning
the head of a peasant woman for a
space of fifty-two years. It was over
twelve feet in length, and nearly
foot in circumference. It was considered
fatal to cut it, hence the dimensions
it sometimes attained.
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Origin of Fear and Terror. ,
President G. Stanley Hall, of Olark
University, has lately been studying
the origin of the various forms of fear
and terror, and he suggests that the .
common fear of high places, which
many animals exhibit and which is
very acute with some human beings,
may be "a vestigial trace, like the gillslits
under the skin of our necks, ante*
dating limbs and inherited from our
swimming ancestors." In reply to this,
Professor Wesley Mills, of MoGill
TT?.;<rAvaifir Suva that while the vounir*
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est mammals and birds exhibit peoaliar
manifestations when placed near the
edge of an elevated surface, yet a tartie
will walk off any elevated supportagain
and again, and a frog, "will
jump almost any where." These exceptions,
he thinks, present a difficulty
to the acceptance of President Hall's
theory.
A Surprise for Pa.
1. Tommy was sent to sow the lawn
slot with grass seed. Pa and the
poodle were having a siesta out there.
Is Tommy daren't wake them he scatered
the seed everywhere bat where
;hey lay.
2. When the grass began to come
ip, those bald places looked?well,
luaint. The neighbors thought they
rere new designs for flower beds!?
2omic Cats.
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