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Dresses Which Will Come Into riay After

the Close of the Lenten Season

For the GazetteNew Yohk March 311S90

CCORD1NG to Em-erson

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religion ispowerless to inspirethat delightful feel-

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of self satisfac-tion

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that glow ofcontentment whichresults from theconsciousness of be-

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well dressedAnd Emerson wasright If the choicewere forced uponme Id rather bowell dresBed thanwell bred for Icould conceal theone defeot while 1-

couldnt the otherAh me Easter isupon us When mygrandmother wasyouug and oharm-ing the Sunday be-

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Easter so shetells me was alwaysthe period of adreadful conflict onthe battle plain ofher soul I

wonder if r shall have a new bonnet fornext Sunday It was a catchascatohcan between devotions and fashions andthe prayers always went down withEaster novelties on top That was dread-fully

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wicked 1 suppose But is it dif-

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now It does seem as if the menwore right there is always a woman orsome article of womans toggery in thecase Poor Desdamena Nothing but a-

handkerobief Now if Cassio had givenher a 30 Easter bonnet there might havebeen some cause for the row kioked up-by the Moor-

Speaking of Easter let mo direct yourattention dear sister to the initial cutImagine a queenly figure rising notfrom the sea but from a seat on a divanclad in a mauvo cendre veloutinewith train having ombroiaered effeols en-

tablier with a thick silk oording Thetrain of the same material opens on eachside over a velvet underskirt a shade ortwo darker thaa the silk The uppereleove is pleated in one large and onesmall puff from the shoulders The

est being silk embroidered to match thoskirt Tho waist springs from a pointedcorselet of embroidery that framesthe corsage back and frontWith this exquisite costume set-ting

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as it were the dotlet on-tho i goes a dainty little Theodora ca-poto with standing loops of mauve vel-vet

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on tho front and a fillet of Parmaviolets clasping the hair behind

Ive often tried to picture to myselfwhat thoughts must Hash through themind of some great creator of modeswhen some one of his ravishing toiletslias been built upon a remarkably finefigure and he sits silently contemplatinghis completed work Possibly he maymurmur to himself Nature meantwell She made a very fair beginningHeboid the work completed

Hero is an Easter dimogue Comecome my dear We shall be late tochurch

4 How unreasonable you aro mammaHere youvo ueen saving money all win-ter

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for my Easter outfit and now wantme to rush off before I have arrangedmy bonnet properly Id rather miss theentire first lesson than give those Tabb-cirls a chanoe to say Lord have mercyupon that unbecoming bonnet of MissliOvebodys

Tho thickly embroidered onrsagG andsleeves piotured in the engraving givea good idea of tho tine effect gained byelaboration in this manner of trimminga dress The oloth is a mouse gray andthe embroidery in mediaeval stylo The

fourreau is of Parma velvet embroi-dered

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with gold silver and steel andthe train of plain mouse gray clothThe shaDe of the sleeve Is to be notedcommencing high and full on the shoul-der

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and fitting tight at the wrist Blacknet and lace are used a great deal thisseason for bonnets and tiats Whensprigged net is employed it is usuallypuffed loosely over the shape and theflowers are either inserted among thepuffs in front or somewhat to one sideBlaok tullo must be gathered moreclosely and tho trimming may then con-sist

¬of a knot of pale blue pink or

maize velvet balancing a bouquet of-llowers The dictum has gone forth thathats are to remain small One 6tvle willconsist of black lace embroidered withwhite Aigrettes lace butterflies jetand steel ornaments will set them offGreens old rose straw maize and or-ange

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the prevailing colorsThe third picture represents a very

pretty costume of sulphuryellow crepede chineembroidered with bronze beadsThe train is of brocaded crepe de chineconfined around the hips by an embroid-ered

¬band of velvet It is suitable for a

church toilet and the original will beworn by the womac whose face is por-trayed

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The Easter bonnetE ought to be wel-comedby

¬the woman who is alas no-

Jonger thirty They are so delicatedaintv and altogether divine well aual

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lfled to take years off the wearersage A man as old he feels a wo-man

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as she looks That a most aston-ishing

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change may be wrought in a wo-man

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b appearance by a becoming bonnethas often been asserted but never morecouvinoingly proved than at the hour I-

am writing A gentlemen acquaintanceof mine remarkable rather for his ad-miration

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of our sex than for the particu-lar

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woman whom fate had decreed shouldwalk beside him through life returnedhome the other ovemug Madam hap-pened

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to be trying on a now Easter bon-net

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and as he passed the door he lookedin halted took another look and thenbounded up stairs Pretty soon madammade her appearance

Whos that calling on you mydear he asked Deucedly stunninglooking woman

Oh that was only your poor old-wife with her new Easter bonnet on

Slow ourtain with low musio from thenursery

Now that I touch on the intimacies ofmarried life let me tell you of a daintylittle novelty called the Recamier corsetcover You take throe yards of-

surah with the selvage edge at the bot-tom

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no seams exceDt the shouldersaround the top and down the front aninsertion of valenoienne separated by-a strip of the surah embroidered withEnglish point Fourreau skirts are to-

bo out quite clingiug to the figurewith a little more fulness towards thebottom and will bo trimmed with a frou-frou

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of lace or smali flounces Corsageswill open upon vests beneath which awhite guipure chemisette will be visible

The remaining sketoh gives a veryidea of a lovely jacket dainty enough tosatisfy the most fastidious It madeof green velvet bordered with full

Dloatings of sky blue crepe The frontof black silk gauzo with rows of black

boads to give chio The white hat LouisXV shape is what a French womanwould call tres pschutt Clusters ofroses are the only ornaments has or infact needs for to overload with trim-ming

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would be to rob of its character-istic

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daintiness There a rumor whichmay bo traced to a trustworthy sourcethat the corsage russe will be a favoritethis season with very full sleeves andlong cuffs

To an observer of fashions at the endof Maroh in any Northern oity nothingcan be more ridiculous than the conductof women at present moment with

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had a period of particularly coldweather when one might have supposedthe female form divine would have beenwrapped in the warmest and cosiest ofgarments procurable But not so In-fluenza

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may stalk through the land andbronchitis prevail but fashion cannot betrifled with or pride smothered and asthe one has decreed that legofmutton sleeves and shoulder excres-cences

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are to be the order of the dayand the other revolts at the idea of bid

ing a well cut gown and carefully con-structed

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figure beneath a huge cloakthe result is that the majority of womenare going about in a halfclothed andhalffrozen condition The fact is thatmany of them dare not wear anythingover the ridiculous sleeves now in voguefor fear of spoiling them whilst otherscannot bear to sacrifice a smart gown tocomfort It has been absolutely dis-tressing

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to see women going about inthese recent cold days in the face ofbiting winds in flimsy wraps and cos-tumes

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which a couple of months henceone might have cautiously donnedThey make a brave show of looking com-fortable

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those poor martyrs to fashionbut their blue noses tell he truth

With the ending of Lent the very styl-ish

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womans thoughts naturally turn to theshort season of gaity which comes in be-fore

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the breaking up for the summer Iwas horrified to read that the fashionablesof the world had thought seriously ofabolishing the waltz It seems that thisrumor arose from the laok of dancingparties in Paris last winter an effect ofthe grip The waltz still lives There-fore

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ball toilets will be needed beforewarm weather oomes I may say thatthe deoree reads flowers and alwaysllowers The ball gown must be liter-ally

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covered with flowers Black tullewill be usedto set them off They willolimb up the sides of the dresses like rosetrees trained against a garden wallThe effeot sought to be obtained will be-an imitation of nature The front of aball dress may be strewn with eglantinewhioh may hang down below the skirt m-a sort of flowery fringe and the neok iscovered with an invisible gauze powderedwith dew drops Dew drops and sweet

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Yery Smart Men Who Could EIze Up TheirOwn Sex

New York Commercial AdvertiserA writer in the London Speotator has

accumulated a mass of illsorted mar-

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Beginning with Justinian it-

is shown how one man after another whowas preeminent as a judge of menfailed dismally in the selection of the onewoman who was to be his oonstant coun-

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The greatest failures seem tohave been made by the men who areessentially diplomatists Charles IIwhose judgments of men history hasnever reversed never secured even afaithful mistress Marlborough per-

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the greatest diplomatist as well asthe greatest general of the succeedingage was yoked to a woman whosefame is so well or so ill knownas to need no comment Tallyrandchose for his wife a fool and Metter-nioh who managed throe generations ofdifficult characters was twice mistakenin the women he ohose for wives Itwould certainly seem that if marriage isentered upon as a pieoe of diplomaoythe ablest men are sure to bo outwittedby the women antagonists

Tho writer in tho Spectator attemptsto pursue his generalization into thefield of men and letters Here he failscompletely to make out his case Hespeaks as if the sensible marriages ofBrowning andTenuyson and MatthewArnold in our own generation weresomehow matters of surprise Yet whenwe take the trouble to complete the list oftheir distinguished literary contempora-ries

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he does not find a single case inwhich the man showed bad judgmentJohn Stuart Mills always adored hia-

wifo and his idealization of her led tohis advanced views on womans suffrageHenry Fawcett his mosb famous associ-ate

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in political eoonomj married awoman no less able or influential thanhimself George Grote the historianofGreece was not less fortunate It istrue that his wife was very differentfrom himself but they suppjementedone another very admirably I alwayslike to meet Mr and Mrs Grote aLondon society woman once said he is-

so exquisitely ladylike and she is such a-

perf eot gentlemanThe one unhappy marriage among the

authors of our generation was that ofCarlyle and here it was not the manwho made the mistake Daudet in his

Artist Wives maintains that themarriages of artists are usually unhajipybut urges it ohiefly from the standpointof what the woman must undergo Itell you he says that a happy mar-riage

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can only be the exception3cth usFor that nervous exacting impression-able

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creature called a man of genius a-

spaoial type of woman is wanted a typethat is scarcely possible to be found andthe safest plan is not to look for itThe example of Carlyle lends some sup-port

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has been said and much remains to besaid of the Staked Plains The factis the half has never been told and onlymen with strong determination will everfind out what can be done Every manlooks to his own interest and every mandiffers in his opinion as to the adaptabil-ity

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of the soil of the Staked Plains Tohear this reasoning reminds one of amirage which changes as you proceedon your journey When the first pioneersettled on the Staked Plains it was con-

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only fit for stook Oh no noth-ing

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but stook could be raised here andat the same time the soil was coveredwith rich grasses and flowers Nextcame the man with tho hoe and sowedseed which came forth in all Its splendorthe corn and wheat was con-

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to be equal to thatraised in any state in theUnion It was then considered a fitplace for the man with the hoe Theold Texan looked upon the plains as abarren waste the cattleman believed it-

to be only fit for cattle while the manwith the hoe saw in the Staked Plains agood farming country The question isnow what next Now comes the horti-culturist

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and shouts Eureka EurekaWe baye found it to be the best fruitcountry in the world the home of thegrape the wine producing grape wherethe raisen grape has matured on thevine where the black rot does not comeneither does the mildew affect us-

Suoh is the rapid stride made in Martincounty Tex still the Plains has itsdrawbacks and men view her with super-stition

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beoause nature does not makeher a paradise and remove all theevils that oame with the fall of manThink of this that a country where na-ture

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has refused to give rain since lastNovember could revive again that therich grasses that all the time beenhidden come forth with renewed vigorand the plains dresses herself in gar-ments

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of green but such Is the caseThe peach pear apple and shade treeshave decked themselves with the beauti-fuI green foilage only known to thempatiently holding up their leaves to catchthe rain when it does come The bloomalthough hit by a frost that froze threefourths of an inch thick is still there assound as a bell The fact of the matteris our temperature i3 dry and it wouldtake a very heavy frost to kill the bloomThus we are progressing and the StakedPlains is rapidly coming to the front Thequestion is still asked what next andthe answer is the half has never beentold Yes we have the vine countrywith no superior where the grape can beraised for profit and the richest qualityof wine can be ma e This is done onland costing only 2 per acre Only ayear or two ago not one live vine orfruit tree could be found in the countynow they cumber up in the thousandsThe Marienfeld irrigation company havethis year bought more than 100000 treeaand vines which have been delivered tothem at Marienfeld This was the lar-gest

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A Graphite ShellCharleston News

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of this staid old oity some fiveandt-wonty years ago was turned up by theworkmen at the north pier of the custom-

house wharf while digging for a founda-tion

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Thi3 rust covered memento isnothing more nor less than a shell allloaded primed and ready for businesswhich has lain imbedded twenty feetdeep in the salt mud ever since it wasthrown into the oity by one of Gen Gillmores guns during that interestingperiod of the late unpleasantnessThese mementoes of the SwampAngel are not infrequently dug uparound the city by workmen while exoa-vatmg for building purposes but the re-

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