Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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0 Hints About UairdrrMlnr* Modern coiffures are truly “fear fully aud wonderfully made.” The hair is either crimped to excess or worn so smooth that it causes dis comfort even to look at it. A certain A FRENCH COIFFURE. set of young girls has adopted the most impossible arrangement of the hair, which is made only more gro tesque by the fact that the most cas ual observer can discover that it has been curled on a hot iron. What the foundation of this particular coiffure is, it is not feasible to state, as it looks like a bird’s netf and seev** to be a succession of waves and curls that stand out about the face, forming any thing but a becoming frame. The and when the aigrettes, feathers or ribbons are added, the arrangement is quite eight inches tall. The wearing of flowers in the hair is one of the newest fads, and exceedingly dainty are some of the confections the mil liners are making up. Boses are the favorite flowers. The prettiest ar rangement consists of one rose and a few leaves, which are put close against the knot cf hair at the left side, and from this stands up a straight spray of one rose, some small buds and the leaves. Another sty e is of red roses in a cluster. Doubtless by next sea son the hair will be powdered, and even diamond dust may sparkle in the locks of our fashionables. Attractive Suit For a Little Boy. Navy blue cloth, says May Mauton, made this attractive suit, the broad sailor collar, cuffs and shield being of white serge, decorated with rows of narrow blue braid. The blouse is flitted with shoulder and under-arm seams, an elastic being inserted in the hem that finishes the lower edge to adjust it in true sailor style. The fronts are closed invisibly, but but tons and buttonholes can be used if so perferred. Tbo broad sailor collar ends in pointed lapels that are joined to the cut-away neck in front, the shield portion being simulated by a facing on the underwaist, which is disclosed between the lapels. A pocket is inserted on the left front. The sleeves are gathered top and bot tom and finished with round cuffs at the wrists, neatly trimmed with rows of braid. The knee trousers are shaped by inside and outside leg seams, smalt hip darts fitting them closely at the top. The closing is at the sides, w>^re pockets are made, and a hip pocxet can be inserted on the right hip if wanted. Buttonholes LADIES’ WAIST. measurement from the tip of the chin to the top of the pompadour is literally a foot. Consequently the lines of the head and face are lost and the fea- . tares dwarfed. Crimping irons are not to be scorned. In fact, they are a most useful accessory of the toilet. But they should be used with judg ment. Individual styles should be studied. Women with broad faces should avoid both too narrow and too broad effects. Both are fatal to a round face. If the won an with a nar row, oval face, with a head well poised on a slender throat looks rav ishing in a broad, loosely arranged coiffure, with high pnffs on the crown of her head, it does not follow that her sister, with the short neck, wide face and high brow will find the same mode becoming. Individuality is the keynote of a graceful coiffure, as it is of all other fashions. Lovelocks, or “beau-catchers,” have reappeared, and the smartest women in the East do not consider that the hair is properly coiffed without them. The genuinp lovelock is worn just by (the ear, where it was placed by the beauties of past centuries. Few wo men can stand extra breadth at that point, however, and unless they wish to be extreme, they permit a lock or two to turn on the forehead or temple. The lovelocks predict a revolution in the styles for coiffures. They even suggest that women of fashion may al low their hair to be white. Every thing points to modes that were fol lowed in the luxurious days of the French court in Marie Antoinette’s feign. The pompadour remains the favorite style for arranging the hair, but great effort is being made to re-es tablish long and short curls. For evening the hair is worn quite high, are made in under waistbands, and placed on the top to attach the trousers to the under waist, or buttons for suspenders can be put on if so pre ferred. Pretty suits are thus made up in various combinations of materials aud colors, black and red, brown and fawn, or tan with cream being very stylish. The mode is suitable for wash suits of piqne, Galatea, duck, grass liuen, or flannel; braid, em- BOYS’ SAILOR BLOBSB SUIT. broidery or insertion all being used to trim suits in this style. The quantity of material 27 inches wide required to make this snit for a boy eight years of age is SJ yerds. Carinas and Interesting Experience At a United States Fish Hatching Sta tion-Each Liberated Fish Swinsa in the Atlantic With a Metal Tag Attached According to the Boston Globe an experiment which is being viewed with the keenest interest by the fish ermen along the Atlantic coast is now being carried on at the United States fish hatching station at Woods Holl, Mass., under the supervision of Com missioner J. J. Brice. For years and ever since the estab lishment of a fish hatching station at Woods Holl continuous observations have been made through the year in reference to thg habits, abnndance and movements of the important fishes of the New England coast. At this station, as at all others, the product has been from time to time seriously affected by the presence of parasitic animals and diseasespecnliar to the finny tribes. Of the food fish, the cod has suft'ered much from the parasite animals as any food fish propagated at this station. The cases have been given careful study by scientists, and investigations carried on on an extensive scale. The results of the investigations have been most gratifying to all concerned, and' it is evidently the intention of the government to “make this station the most important one on the Atlantic coast, ntilizing the excellent facilities here offered to the fullest extent. With a view to securing more defi nite information regarding some im portant points concerning the cod the Commission have began to tarn loose in the waters of Vineyard sound sev eral hundred cod, which in weight vary from six to twenty pounds. The fish were procured from the fishermen in the vicinity and stripped of their spawn at this station. Before being released, a numbered tag is fastened to each of the fish. The tag is a small piece of copper or tin, and is securely fastened by cop per wire to the dorsal, anal or candal fins. Commissioner Brice has issued cir culars and sent them to the fishermen and dealers, urgently requesting them that when a cod having snch a tag comes into their hands, to remove the tag and forward it to the United States Fish Commission, either at Washing ton or at Woods Holl. The Commis sion also request that the following information concerning the fish be sent to them: Date when canght, on what grounds taken, weight before being dressed, total length from end of nose to end of tail, whether male or female, and whether eggs or milt were ripe, large, but not ripe, or immature; also, the position of the tag. This inquiry will, it is expected, prove of practical interest, by show ing, among other things, the rate of growth of the cod, the frequency of its spawning, and the extent to which the individual fish migrate, and the assistance of the general pablio in fishing towns is asked m order to make the experiment fully successful. Among the fish thus far liberated are several that tipped the scales at over a dozen pounds. As soon ns they were tagged they were pnt into a big tank and taken far out into the sound and released. The process of tagging these fish is quite interesting and re quires the services of two skilled op erators. A small hole is made through the dorsal, anal or candal fins, through which a small copper wire is passed. To this wire are at tached the tags, which are about one inch in length, one-half inch in width and about the) thickness of writing paper. The numbers are stamped in th,e middle. A record of the fish re leased is kept in a book especially de signed for that pnrpose. Hair Snow White in a Night. Instances are numerous of a per son’s hair turning white in a few hours through fright, but cases like that of Kobert F. Noway, of New York, are not so common; in fact, are exceed ingly rare. When Noway awoke one morning recently be was surprised on looking in the glass to find that his hair, which had been dark brown the night before, had turned to snow white while he had slept. He con sulted * doctor, but the latter could give no explanation of the strange occurrence. Noway has felt no physical ill effects from the sudden change. ; Women Beadles. Women beadles are being thought of in England. A London writer says that ho cannot see that the “beadless” would be of much service in keeping riotous schoolboys in order or ejecting brawlers from the church, but for j-obing the vicar and the curate* in the vestry and decorating the ghurch she would be of infinite service. A bonny, beautiful girl- be» ije in picturesque costume aud a ligut silver wand would undoubtedly be both useful aud ornamental at v* 1 tidings and in leading processions, British Battle Flags. The names of 105 battles are em blazoned on the standards of the vari ous regiments which form the British Successful Fanning. This consists in making the farm pay, and it includes all the little odds and ends about the place. Economy is the first lesson for everybody to learn if he would succeed in his busi ness. But economy does not imply anything unreasonable. The picking up of a lost horseshoe, *a strap, a bolt or nut, au car of coru that fell from a wagon, a fork full of hay that dropped from a load, is a small matter, but a thousand such items, if put together, would amount to a good deal and would go a long way toward helping a man out of trouble. To save is better than to earn. To utilize small things is better than to strive for what is beyond our reach. The small farmer, he who has a small tract of land, may bo just as indepen dent, just as comfortable, just as hap py and quite as successful as the bo nanza farmer who tills acres by the thousand. A few acres well tilled, with the many small items of conven ience and use that every farmer may have as well as not, will keep any rea sonable family in condition. A farmer who is out of debt and 1 keeps out, that cultivates his land well, has a good garden for his wife, has a well-kept orchard and vineyard —no matter how small, that raises some cattle, some hogs, some poultry, always has fruit, meat, grain and vegetables in plenty and to spare. He does not want the earth, but he does want a good, happy home, and a good name for those to enjoy who come after him. This is successful farming. —Advocate and News. Datrr Notes. One hundred and twenty million pounds of oleo oil exported from the United States during the past year, say the records, and much of it taken by those European countries which supply England with butter. Aud they boast here that they cannot get butter from the United States which will sell as readily as that they get from the Continent. But there is a reason for this. For many years either our exporters or the English dealers have felt that it •prould not pay to ship any butter from this country to England except the lower grades, snch as could be bought at about one-half the price of strictly fancy butter in New York or Boston. If in Denmark or Belgium or Holland they mix oleo oil and butter fat in equal proportions, we have no doubt they could make an article that would compare favorably with the nine or ten-cent ladle-packed butter sent from here. And we have little doubt that some of them have done this thing. The amounts of butter they have been reported as exporting for the number of cows kept would be in credible unless we believed either this, or that the inhabitants of those countries used no batter, but bought olso and sold all their butter. If Secretary Wilson of the Depart ment of Agriculture succeeds in intro ducing to English markets some of our strictly fancy butter, such as bears the highest prices in our markets, aud finds a demand for it there strong enough to warrant regular shipments of that grade, it will prove a boon, and a boom too, for the dairymen of this country. It will prove an incentive for them to keep better cows, feed more liberally, and take more pains to furnish au article that will sell at the highest prices, or at least at prices profitable to the producer. There is no profit in making butter at ten or twelve cents a pound, but there may be at twenty-five cents. And wheii there is more profit in butter the price of milk and other milk products must increase. We are sorry to see that some of the Western papers are discussing so freely the question of the profit of “baby beef,” or steers and heifers sold as yearlings. It may be that tkavo is more profit in fattening them young as long as English buyers will pay as much for such beef as they would for more mature animals, but *we do not like to think upon likely, thrifty young heifers being fattened and slaughtered. If of the beef breeds they should be worth more as breeders than for fat tening purposes, and it seems like “killing the goose that lays the golden egg” to select the best of them to fat ten. The demand of other countries for American beef is likely to increase instead of decreasing, and a few years may find a scarcity of good animals to breed from. We cannot increase our stock of cattle as we could a stock of swine or poultry. One calf a year is all we can reasonably hope for, and seldom half the herd will be heifers. Save all the really good heifers to increase the herd, or to sell to those who want them for that purpose, and who would find it profitable to buy them at handsome prices, instead of attempting to breed good grades from a lot of scrab cows. And we believo this is no less true in the beef grow ing sections of the beef breeds as in the dairy sections With the milk or butter-producing breeds. A Western farmer who had been selling his milk for two cents a quart thought he would try for a part of the trade of a small town near him where the retail price was five cents. He in vited the people to come out to his farm upon a certain day, and he showed them over the farm, exhibited his stock and explained his system of feeding and general management. Then came the milking. The milk men came out with clean shirts and snow white aprons, bringing pails of hot and cold water. They thoroughly washed their hands, and then the nd- tiers and teats of the cows, with warm water and Castile soap, rinsing them carefully and wiping dry. The ves sels for holding the milk were bright and clean, the stables and stalls were clean. The milk was strained, aerated, quickly cooled and placed in a cool, clean cellar. All the details were ex plained to the visitors as the work progressed, and they went home satis fied that there they could obtain clean and wholesome milk. The next day he sought customers, and found market for all he could sup ply at six cents a quart, or one cent above the market rate in the town, and it was but little more trouble to deliver it than to have carried it to the railroad station aud send it to Chicago for two cents a quart. Let ns hope that the methods whicl attracted his enstomers were kept after he had seenred his market. The story well illustrates two p<j at least: That a little extra painstaking can be made j for the keeping of these more expensive when he at six cents a quart 1 it for two cents, ® tempted him to feeding in thehof yields. That wl thing, better ths pay him to let by advertising good article c market, while ordinary quality j some point wher find customers !| Unpleasant o<3 are sometimes cat food or impure water, often by unclean stables air is impure, and by the odd% from soiled bedding. Often, ^ too, tM^y are plainly and simply the result of alack of care in preventing dirt from the udders and flank from falling into the pail during the milking.—American Cultivator. Artificial "Precious” Stones.' The trade in artificial gems has be come very important, and the manu facture has reached a considerable degree of perfection. The products of some of the shops would almost deceive an expert, but the test of hardness is still infallible. “French paste,” from which artificial diamonds are made, is a kind of glass with a mixture of oxide of lead. The more of this used the brighter the stone and also the softer, and this is a serious defect. These imitation atones are now so perfectly made and are so satisfactory to those who are not very particular, that their influence begins to be felt in the market for real stones. By careful selection of the ingredients, the luster, color, fire and wa.er are, to the ordinary obsever, fully reproduced. There are a few tests that cannot be given perfectly, for they depend upon some undis- coverable peculiarities and not on chemical composition; but the casual buyer knows nothing of that. A French chemist lias nearly reproduced tao peculiarities with a composition of which the base is phosphate of lime. Two other French chemists have produced rubies aud sapphires having the same composition as genuine stones and nearly equal hard ness. Observing Plants Grow. To observe plants growing the microscope the American 'll Microscopical Journal says: I a little collomia seed. Takeom seeds and with a razor cut off tiny slice, place it on a slide, with a cover glass and place urn microscope. The instrument n in a vertical position. When it focused and lighted, moisten a drop of water. The seed w sorb the moisture and throw very largo number of spiral fibe ing the appearance of veritabl mination. Beginners will easier if one applies the moisvv the other looks through tho ment.