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(Challjnm Uccorft. 4Ll)c Chntljam llecorb. RATES OF ADVERTISING, One square, one insertion $1.00 One square, two insertions 1.50 One square, one month 2-5C For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Con tracts will be made., H. A. LONDON, I EJitor nd Proprietor, "Terms of subscription, $1.50 Per Year. Ay; Ay Strictly in Advance. NO. 47 ft M VOL. XXKIT; PITTSBORO. OTTATTT AM nnTTXTTV M n. Tutttjciiav Tinvfi laJTT I LURIt WAMMOND, THE MISER.. saiVrn tv m u n 'v. vi -v -i --in -vi By Prof. Wm. Henry Peck, Mm m B DA.aB "- n B W I 18 Author of the "Tfc Stone-Catter I "3 ma" g L OfUsbon,M EtC g . AJl rtghu reserved.) I jj ; CHAPTER IX. Continued. 'Myswcethearts, Miss. I had lots of em long time ago. You needn't think to coax me, Miss, -with nice names," gaid Fan, shaking lier head briskly. "All the days I ha' been in this house, aud that's nigh on a year, you've never $0 much as looked at me. Oh, no! my name is Fan, and Mr. Hammond is my waster." ' "But how cruel in you and him to keep rue here, and my poor father, too," said Kate. "That's none of my business,. Miss. Mr. Hammond pays me," said Fan. "Have you no pity, no heart, no eoul?" cried Kate. "Not a hit not a mite. They robbed rue of all the heart I ever had. I haven't got anything now but a yearn ing for such stuff as this," said Fan, placing the gold coin that 'Luke had given her upon the floor. 'Who robbed you, Fannie?" asked Kate. "Say, Miss. Do you want to talk to me?" asked Fan, quickly. "When I lirsi came into this room you wouldn't lock at me, even. Now, all at once, you want to talk. Oh, no! my master pays me to keep his secrets wbeu I can set hold of them and I pay, myself for keeping ray own." "The old wretch," thought Kate, '"loves nothing but gold, and I have very little to give her. But I must make a beginning. Here, Fannie," she said aloud, and showing a gold dollar, of which ?uie had several in her purse, "you see this?" Oid Fan's eyes glittered as she fixed Ver greedy gaze upon the little coin. '"Tell jne who robbed you of your heart, and 3-011 shall have this," said Kate. 'Kven Luke Hammond pays me in advance. Old Fan trusts nobody," said Fan.- -r ''Take it,' said Kate, and th? coin spun in the air. Old Fan caught it as a starving dog catches a morsel of meat In her mouth. 'I learned the trick," said Fan, weighing the coin on her finger nail, '"to please a showman I traveled with pucv. ome people used to toss pen nies to mc, but I didn't spit 'em out because they were coppery pennies grew into Collars. Now, I'll tell yon who stoij my heart out of me, and made me hate everybody. It was my children." "Your children, Fannie! 1 never knew yor. had any children! "Where are they?"' said Kate. The old woman looked keenly at the lovely girl. Kate's tone of genuine vympathy had astonished her. "Yes." said Fan. "I had a son and daughter once. The sou robbed me and ran away when he was twenty yenrs c!d thirty years ago.' The daughter went with him, too she was sixtetn then. That didn't make me had, Miss." "V Iiat did, Fannie?" asked Kate. 1 ' ' The desertion of the children killed their father killed him when he heard it r.s sudden as if a bayonet had split his heart wide open, Miss Elgin. He vas my husband. After he died the world !ioi black as ink to me; I went crazy: I ain't quite straight in my head now. Straight enough, though, not to let you got away from Miv Hammond ko long as he pays me," said she, with a sharp glance. "I love to talk no hody talks to m?, thonglk After my husband died, and I went erazy, what do you think my children did?" "I hope they returned, were very sorry, and took good care of you, Fan nie," said Kate, who did not despair of gaining the good will of the half idiotic creature. "Would you have done that, Miss?" aked Fan. "I would never desert my parents," said Kate. , , "You would! You are all alike sons and daughters all of ye!" screamed old Fan, flying into a tem pest of rage and springing up ."You would have done what mine did put me in a madhouse sell all-1 had and run off again! Fiends! If I could find those children I'd eat 'em up-r-eat 'em up raw! I wonder if you ain't one!" She hobbled nearer to. Kate and peered closely into her face. " "Horrors!" thought Kate. ."This'is a mad woman, and I am alone with her. What shall I do?" , "I think you are one I think you are the girl," said Fan, still drawing near, "with her distorted, rat-like eyes blazing from a horrid visage,, seamed, and scarred with the ravages of the small Pox. "My g;ri was as pretty as you." Her lean, bony fingers touched poo? Kate's trembling hand. "And her hands were soft, like "this," said Fan. "1 WiSn 1 uad teeth now you must be my girl, Nellie Dunn." Ivate tossed her purse from her, and .?iin?ed as it: fel1 uPn the floor 'V-k that up and you may have it," said Kate, though white as snow "Cold!" cried old Fan darting upon J in"!ree and emptying its contents into her palm. "Oh, no! You are not Z":'l. My girl never gave me gold -u- helped to rob me," and as if the $m Ud proved the plain impossibil ity of the idea, from that time she never raved of it again. Kate, happy at her narrow escape from violence, took good care to speak no more to old Fan of her children. "She has been in a madhouse," mused Kate, looking uneasily at the old woman, as she counted and re counted her coins, "and is half mad now. At any fearful moment she may fly into a frenzy and tear me to pieces." "Have you any more?" asked Fan, looking up. "You have all I had," said Kate. "You might have a million, but you couldn't make me deceive Mr. Luke Hammond," said Fan, dreamily. "Why, do you love him so much?" asked Kate. "I don't know," said Fan, "why 1 can't be made to receive him. I haven't known him much more than a year, but I do everything he tells me to do and think it must be done, and old Fan must do it. I've lived now, let me see I was seventeen when I mar ried Nicholas Dunn if you ever tell anybody that name I'll kill you! 1 haven't let it slip my lips for many a year. I was seventeen when I mar ried thirty-seven when my husband died that's thirty years ago how old must I be?" "Sixty-seven," said Kate. "Well, I have lived all that time, seen millions of people, but I have never seen anybody I like to serve so well as I do Luke Hammond." "Why?" "Because he always is up to deviltry, and I like it," said Fan. Poor Kate shuddered at the fearful grin that distorted old Fan's hideous countenance. "She is going mad again. I am afraid to talk to her any more," mused Kate, and then closing her eyes as if asleep, began to wonder why her uncle was so ersel, and how long it would be be fore James Greene would seek for her. Then she thought of . the will and the other document she had concealed, and resolved to die before the secret should be wrested from her. Much she thought of her sick and tortui-ed father also, and she trembled to remember the cunning, daring and power of Ham mond. " She was, of course, well acquainted with the part of the house she was in, for she had spent many hours in her father's studio, the crimson chamber, and knew that between him and her only four rooms intervened. No chance of escape, though, with such dragons about her, the windows barred, too, and the shutters nailed up, the doors locked, and the keys in Fan's bosom. An hour passed on in utter silence, and then Kate peeped slyly from her long, silken lashes. Old Fan was asleep! But her back was against the door that led into the ante-chamber opening into the hall. "The other door is locked," said Kate, "but I will examine it." She rose cautiously and did so. No hope there! The door was locked and nailed up. Kate's eyes roved about the room. She was looking., for something that might be used as a weapon. The chairs were too heavy for her to raise to strike; she tried their weight. "Too heavy. I might fall, and she would kill me on the spot. What arms she has," said Kate, glancing at Fan's hard elbows. "She may be sixty-seven but she has the strength of sixty-seven like me." "Too light. Oh, for a club of iron! I must save my father." In despairing hope she gently re placed the pitcher. The 'slight noise opened Fan's eyes as if with a spring. "Ha! up! What do you want?" cried Fan. "Water nothing else," said Kate, re turning to her chair " "Better undress and go to bed," croaked old Fan. "The time may come when, like me, you will want a bed." A little bell swinging on a wire near the door now tinkled. Fan whined and got up, placing her ear to a trumpet -shaped pipe passing through the wall, and heard these words: "Does she sleep?" - Fan glanced at Kate. Kate appeared fjm asleep ' in her chair. Fan an swered: 7 - ; "Yes, Mr. Hammond. What time is it? I'm very sleepy myself." "Watch, you old wretch," said Ham mond in his library, when, after a short nap, he bad waked up. "Day light in half an hour and relief." "Relief," whined Fan, crouching at the door, and leaning her back against it. "I'll have to watch for two hours yet." ' . Ten minutes passed and Kate heard Fan snore. Kate then stole to the washstand and seized something she saw standing on the little shelf where placed. It was a small vial labeled "chloro form." She had seen it when Fan awoke, and had resolved to use it Uncorking it with her teeth she stole near the old woman and held the open vial under the snoring nose. In less than a minute old Fan turn bje4 upon her f ftce, senseless. - . With eager hands Kate took the ke from Fan's bosom, unlocked the door, pulled Fan aside, and entered the ane chamber, having locked her keeper in. Then out into the hall she crept on tiptoe. , "Now to get out of the house," said brave Kate. "'Tis useless to seek my poor father. He has Luke Ham mond's guards around him, no doubt. Which way shall I go?" As she paused the deep baying of savage dogg fell upon her ear. "Those tigers my uncle turns loose every night," she thought. "If I get out of the house I can never get to the street. What shall J do"? I must try to escape. I will raise a window and cry help! murder! anything to draw at tention." She felt her way along the dark hall, descending to the .floor below, found a window and tried to. open it. 'Twas nailed down and the strong shutters nailed to the sill! While she groped about for some outlet Luke was asleep in his chair in the little library. Suddenly the little bell over the desk awoke him with a terrible clatter. "What now?" he shouted into the speaking tube. " The answer came whizzing up from the white and gold chamber: "She's loose! I'm locked up. Chlo roform!" X "Confound the luck!" exclaimed Luke, darting into the closet and thence into the eastern hall. "That girl ought to be my wife!" Kate Elgin heard the clatter of his hasty feet. "Ah! I am lost!" she cried, rushing madly about in the pitchy darkness, as she heard the ringing of bells and Hammond's voice. Lights soon began to flare around her as she crouched in a corner and as Luke Hammond sprang toward her saying, "You are caught, my lady!" she fainted, nor knew any thing more until she awoke from her swoon, one-? more a prisoner in the white and gold chamber. CHAPTER X. LTTKE IIAHMOXD THREATENS. Having seen Kate Elgin once more a captive Luke returned to his den, from which bell-wires and speaking tubes seemed to extend in every direc tion like the fibres of a spider's web. "Very little sleep have I had," he muttered, as he reseated himself in his chair once more. "My head is aching to split, and my brain swings in my skull like a pendu lum. SIeep--J must sleep or go mad; and yet I fear to sleep. Such dreams, such faces! and somehow the visage of that old hag, Fan, haunts me in all. Who is she? What is she? Daniel hired her for me, little over a year ago. Surely we never met before. Yet there is something in her scarred old face, a tone in her voice, that re minds me of some one I have knowD years, years ago." Muttering and planning he felJ asleep again, and slept until the clock on the mantel struck 10. He awoke with a start, glanced al the clock and sprang to his feet. Right before him sat his sister, Nancy Har ker. "How did you get in?" he exclaimed. "Your door was unlocked. I could not sleep," said Nancy. "Whenever I shut my eyes I saw " She paused. "Harriet Foss?" asked Hammond I sneer ingly. "No. Her sister that's dead," said Nancy, very pale, and very low in tone. "It worries me, Luke worries me to death," she continued. "For so many long years I have slept well, and now comes that face again. It forbodes danger and ruin to us, Luke." "Pooh!" said Luke. "You are super stitious. I'll tell you what worries me: the fact that I have twice within a few hours .left my doors unlocked. What news from the prisoners?" "They are safe," said Nancy. "Henry Elgin still sleeps. When he awakes his mind will be clear as crystal. Ilia daughter has at length fallen asleep." "Who watches there, in the white : and gold?" "Daniel walks the hall," "replied Nancy. "Every ten minutes he looks in upon Henry Elgin. There is a hand bell upon Catharine Elgin's table; she will ring it when she wants anything. I have the key of the door. Your breakfast is ready and waits for you." "Very well," said Luke, "I will bathe and then go to breakfast. In the mean time place Stephen on guard, and lei Daniel take this decoy letter to Jamea Greene, with such articles of my ward robe as you think best." "Shall you go to your office in Wall Street to-day?" asked Nancy. "No. Let Daniel call there when he returns from James Greene and leave Avord with my bookkeeper that I am 111. Have you renewed the search for the will?" - "Yes, and daylight has not helped me to find it," replied Nancy, as she left the library.. Hammond bathed and breakfasted, and then took his way to the white and gold apartment. . Nancy, who was within, admitted him. , - "Good morning, niece," said Luke, as Kate, seated in her chair, raised her eyes to his. . "Your presence, sir, is an insult to me," said Kate. "You must pocket the insult, Miss Elgin," said Luke, with a sneer. "I am here to. prepare your mind to re ject the thought of ever being the wife of James Greene." "I will never be the wife of any other man, so help me heaven!" said Kate, boldly. To be continued. Germany has imported as much aa $10,000,000 worth 'of apples in one year laud 12,500,000 worth of pear S5O,000,00O Bond Issue. . Few people realize what this means to the farm values of New York State. The plan is to improve one mile in ten of all the highways in all of the counties in the State and expend the money at the rate of $5,000,000 a year, so as to have complete highway im provement in the State of New York within ten years from the beginning of the work. Under the present method of pay ment the State, county and town pay for a road costing $8000 a mile as, fol lows: The State pays fifty per cent, of the cost, or $4000, by annual tax levies. The county pays thirty-five per cent, of the cost, of $2800, by annual tax levies. The town pays fifteen per cent, of the cost, or $1200, by annual tax levies. This system is so burdensome that but few miles of road are built and these only in the towns having the highest assessed valuation, and the towns having low assessed valuation are unnecessarily discriminated against on account of their inability to pay for improved highways of this character. Under the bond issue, the annual Interest is fixed at three per cent., with a two per cent, sinking fund that is, the bonds run for fifty years and are paid off at the rate of two per cent, per annum. Thus the total annual charge on these bonds for interest is three per cent, and sinking fund two per cent., that is, five per cent, per annum. A mile of road costing $8000 would be paid for as follows: The State would pay $200, or five per cent, of $4000, in its annual tax levy. The county would pay $140, or five per cent, of $2800, in its annual tax levy. The town would pay $60, or five per cent, of $1200, in its annual tax levy. This method of payment enables a town with a low assessed valuation to have built immediately just as wide or expensive road, without excessive taxation, as is built in any other part of the State, and to have the roads built and completed within ten years and have the use of the roads all 0 the time that they are paying for them. The Growing Interest. Speaking of the general value of road Improvement and the growing interest In the subject, the Philadelphia Public Ledger instances this State as having made notable advances, and mentions that New York will probably submit to the electors a constitutional amend ment authorizing the expenditure of $50,000,000 to aid counties and towns to build good roads. "The amount," the Public Ledger further says, "is suffi cient to create a system of 7400 miles of main highways, improving a tenth of the road mileage of the State within ten years. In the meantime ninety per cent, of the existing roadways will be improved by the contribution of fifty cents by the State to each town for every dollar it raises locally for the highways. It was pointed out at the hearing before the New York Senate Committee that little has been done to bring the produce of New York farms over the country roads to the markets of the State at cheaper rates of trans portation than were the rule in 1S50. Farm values have depreciated in New York more than in any other State. It is urged that the corrective is to be found In improved highways and the $50,000,000 bond issue." Better roads undoubtedly will benefit the Empire State, and benefit every part of it in one way or another, al though the greater part by far of the direct advantage will be to the rural sections. The individuals who will profit are the farmers. The centres of population, New York and Buffalo, will share in the increase of general pros perity, and the people have viewed the bonding project kindly, although these cities would pay more than nine tenths of the money appropriated by the State and would in actually direct results realize practically nothing from the - improvement scheme. The city men take a broad view cf the case. There can be little doubt of the ap proval of 'the amendment by a majority of the voters if the great improvement they have already ordered is not ob structed. New York and Buffalo need the enlarged canal, for which they are willing to pay. When that is assured, they will turn with interest and lib erality to the road improvement plan. Buffalo Courier. TFlilttlers of Danverg. One day a stranger strolled into the old Berry tavern at Danvers. A num ber of men were seated in the office, and were asked by the newcomer: "Will you kindly tell me where I may find the Whittier house?" A young business man, not a native of the town, to be sure, but who had lived in it for a number of years and belonged to New England, spoke up, saying: "You mean Joe Whittier-, the contractor? He lives at Danversport." "No, no; I refer to John G. Whittier." "John G. Whittier? Never heard of him. The only other Whittier of this town is Clarence Whittier, janitor of the town house. He lives on Essex street." The stranger ; became both amused and impatient and said: "I am talking about John G. Whittier, the post; he's dead, you know. I want to find.- out where his home was." "Oh, 'well," said the young business man, with a sigh of relief at his abil ity to impart information, "if It's any body who's dead, go right over toWill Crosby, the undertaker, across the street; he'll tell you a about it." Bos ton Herald. A HIGH PRICE. Apples Selling at Seventy-five Dollars . Barrel . He had a shrewd and kindly face and he was standing with his hands behind his back, spellbound in a grocery store not far from the alleged postoffice. "What's interesting me?" he said, in reply to a question. "That basket there with those red apples marked seventy-five cents a dozen. They're seven- cents apiece if you don't take a dozen, and I've been trying to muster up courage to buy one and bite into it. "I've a sizable farm of my own back here a ways, and I've been used to apples all my life, but that basket fascinates me like hissing serpents in a cage. "Every time I come to town I brush by it, and then I go back and stare at it like all possessed. "And I keep mumbling to myself: 'Apples seventy-five cents a dozen, $75 a barrel and $750 for ten barrels? That's voluptuous arithmetic. I can't make it out. I was jesting with the clerk on it the first time I saw them. " 'Ain't you got your sign kind er twisted?' I asked him. 'Don't that card with seventy-five cents on it there in those apples belong on a ham or a hind quarter of beef? Or maybe it strayed from the strawberry counter." " 'No, sir,' says he, kind of tart like, 'those are superior apples.' " 'Superior!' says I. 'They must be better than that the best that ever grew superlative, I'd call them,' but he didn't seem to want to joke. "A few years ago I put a nctice out near my well that people could have all the apples they wanted if they'd pick them up and cart them off; they were rolling on the ground, but not a soul came after au apple. And here are apples at seventy-five cents a dozen more'n six cents each by the dozen. And there's all kinds of queer-looking foreign fruit I can't call by name. I don't know what we're coming to, lately. Half the time I feel as if I'd just been born and didn't know noth ing." Providence Journal. WORDS OF WISDOM. Command large fields, but cultivate small ones. Virgil. Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late. R. Venning. Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. Walt Whitman. The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. Socrates. The man who sums women up in a sentence is the man whom women can fool "with a phrase. Mollentrave. Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind; but it is good breed ing that sets them off to advantage. Locke. "When you go into mixed company, the air you should carry with you there is that of fearing no one and wishing to offend no one." Blessed is. he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessed ness. He has a work a life purpose; he has found it, and will follow it. Carlyle. Let nothing affright thee. All things will pass away. God only is He that Is unchangeable. Patience will bring about all. He that hath God hath all things, and he that hath Him not hath nothing. Molinos. It is good to be speedy in renewing our repentance, before the heart be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Matthew Henry. Sir Henry Irvlnes Dream. Sir Henry Irving, whose projected tour of this country has, according to a London cable dispatch, been postponed for a year, recently declared, says the London Standard,, that he has been taxed with preaching an impracticable doctrine, viz., the organization of the theatre by the municipality. Some critics had insinuated that he wanted to hand over the whole control of local affairs to the members of the theatrical profession, and especially to make sure that actors were elected as mayors. He had never contemplated such a serious revolution, although he could mention actors who, if elected to the office of Chief Magistrate, would turn out to be grave and methodical men of business. But he was no extremist; it never oc curred to him to propose anything more alarming than the administration of the theatre as a branch of local govern ment, just as they administer the water supply and other needs of a' great and growing city. But it was a dream. He saw no prospect of inducing people to believe that the civic authorities might charge themselves with the sup ply of rational entertainment as they had charged themselves with the sup ply of wholesome water, although the one necessity was nearly as great as he other. - Modern FMlanthropy. "Gentlemen," said the multi-millionaire, "I have given a great deal of money to other enterprises, but the in terests of the one with which you are connected have been nearest to my heart always. It is my intention to make yours the best endowed institu tion In the world, with a fund of $500, 000,000 at its disposal." The trustees could scarcely believe their ears. They broke forth in wild, incoherent exclamations of delight. But he interrupted them, "To that end," he went on, "I have set aside the sum of $10,000,000, to be made over to you absolutely when you shall have raised from other sources the remaining $490,000,000." Then followed a silence so dense that the hopes otf the trustees could be dis tinctly heard falling, falling, with muf fled thud, upon the mosaic floor, Chi' cago Tribune, pon'ts For the Home, Don't be afraid of a little fun at home. Don't shut your house lest the sun should fade your carpetsand your hearts, lest a hearty laugh shake down some of the musty old cobwebs there. Therefore, let the fire urn brightly at night and make the homestead de lightful with all those little arts that parents so perfectly understand. Don't repress the buoyant spirits of your chil dren; half an hour's merriment around the lamp and fireside of home blots out the remembrance of many a care and annoyance during the day, and the best safeguard they can take with them into the world is the influence of a bright little domestic sanctum. Chi cago Journal. To Look Toons:. It all turns on will and exercise. Be fore going to sleep a few exercises should be gone through with open wim dows, inhaling the good, fresh air. A step ladder to run up and down is a great incentive to health; wind exer cises, hip exercises, rotary motions, all keep the body lissom and prevent 6toutness, says the London Queen. The diet has to be considered. Too much liquid should never be taken with meals; too much meat is bad. There is nothing better for the figure than household work. It takes a great deal to persuade the ordinary woman that it is continuing these things that make a success of it, not starting them and then leaving them to fate. Selecting a Hat. If a woman has sharp or decidedly prominent features let her avoid hats that are set back or off the face. Such a woman should wear a hat brought well forward, her hair should be as fluffy as possible, and a becoming veil will do wonders. Sharp outlines in hats should also be avoided by her. Lace edges and indented brims are good. If the features are irregular a hat with the brim crushed here and there Is usually a suitable setting. The wom an, with a prominent nose has much to contend with. Her hats should avoid severeness in outline and should be set well forward, so that the prominent feature will appear a little less in size. On the other hand, the woman with a small or flat nose should not wear a hat that projects sufficiently to make her nose appear even more insignifi cant, nor a large hat that dwarfs it. A hat under medium in size and with small flowers or short tips should be worn. With a small face and features huge picture hats should never be worn, even if the figure be tall and Blight enough to carry them. Color and Moral Effect. The color craze, which at first amounted to the merest fad, has, like many such fads, come to. stay and has developed into undreamed-of propor tions. Color is said to influence our mental and bodily well-being, even our morals, more than we imagine, and we are advised to see to it that our rooms and our clothing from babyhood on ward are such as to influence us for good. We know by instinct, as a rule, which colors have a pleasant effect upon us, whether blue makes us cheer ful or orange leads to hilarity. Grays and browns have, of course, a sobering effect, and some color faddist advises ns to have none of them. It is possi ble in these days of frequent flitting from flat to flat to induce an agreeable landlord to give us our heart's desire in the shape of wall papers, but how about visiting those friends whose color craze is the exact antithesis of our own? We might feel gloomy when it was our bounden duty to exert our selves to be agreeable, or too cheerful in paying a visit of condolence should the wall paper suggest hilarity. The subject is a wide one, and the majority of us would do well to strive for the happy medium by making our rooms pretty and soothing without being too noticeable either way. Honor For Washington "Woman. The Washington Star makes note of an honor recently conferred on Miss Frances B. Johnson, the photographer, who has many friends in this city, which was at one time her home: "Miss Frances Benjamin Johnson, of this city, has lately been notified by the French Government that the decoration of the 'Palmes Academiques' has been con ferred upon her by that Government for services rendered by her to France and French interests. This is an un usual distinction of itself, and especial ly so as only about twenty-five women in France have been similarly -honored, and there is only one other American woman who now wears the knot of purple ribbon which signifies the title 'officer d'academie. ; The decoration was bestowed upon Miss Johnson in recognition of her connection with the Paris Exposition in 1900, and the ex cellence of her exhibits and the value of her services as United States dele gate to the international congress of photography, held in conjunction with that exposition; also for the friendly offices which her knowledge of the French enabled her to render the in terests of France at the recent St. Louis Exposition. The decoration of the 'Palmes Academiques' is the only one conferred by the French Govern ment outside the Legion of Honor." The Silk Lingerie Tresft. Though silk is to be much worn, .very much worn, yet for dainty dresses for many occasions, it is to be replaced . by the lingerie dress. And" the lingerie dress is of batiste or some of the nu merous kindred fabrics. These dresses have all the lovely look of simplicity, and it is the sweet simplicity for which whoever pays the bills has to go dow deep into the pocket. The mere name : of the dress, lingerie, calls up visions of finest handwork, hand-run tucks no thicker than a thread, and all ' the creases, puckers and insertions dear to the feminine heart. One exquisite dress of white batiste Is insertioned elaborately with narrow. German Valenciennes lace, while a rich figure of Irish crochet is Intro-, duced at intervals with stunning effect. This elaboration doesn't take it out of the lingerie class. "-: . An exquisite affair is in Paris mus lin. It is embroidered in the softby heavy Japanese fashion, and is simple almost to plainness, despite the . vast amount of work on it. , ; A variation from the snowy white ness of the lingerie is a creatUm ia sheerest white batiste, In which strips of pastel pink batiste, very finely tucked, are introduced. One such strip heads the flounce on the skirt, another forms the girdle, and yet oth ers finish the blouse. In all save the belts this strip of pink is bordered by two frills of Valenciennes lace below and a narrow festoon embroidery in pastel tints above. Rochester Post Express. ... Concerning: Tea Gown. , All the new tea gowns begin to show full puffs at the shoulders, and this has a tendency to , make the figure look a great deal broader. The full shoulder puff : is something welcomed' back by every woman, and it Is very likely that every gown will show a trace of shoul der puff. The shades in negligees are inter esting. There are distinct negligee or tea gown colors. And among these can be mentioned onion skin, red cur rant and apricot. These are very pret ty tones and are much less ; delicate than the pale tones. They are suited to house wear, and they are cheerful. "I make.it a point," said a woman who makes many tea gowns, '.'to select cheerful colors, for one must remem ber that the gown is to be worn in doors by subdued light. The new tones are pansy color and terra cotta, which is having a renaissance. Then there is mustard brown, and there is iron gray, which is good combined with red. . The most important feature for, a tea gown is its color. It must be wen chosen, or the gown is never successful. "After the color comes the material, which should have a lustre. And for this one can recommend the Oriental silks, if one is choosing a dressy tea gown, or the silk poplins. And last of all comes the style and the fit" , ' . The successful tea gown of domestic make shows a variety of styles.' But all , have large sleeves, with plenty of ma terial in them. There Is the robe, which is loose in the front and fitted in the back, and which is trimmed up th front breadth with little ruffles of Val enciennes lace. The back is sweeping in its length and is trimmed with a sash or with deep flounces. ' . There is a style of tea gown which has the dressy look of a handsome one of the Elizabethian flays and again of the 1840 days. There is the bodice with, its long train, while in the front there is a petticoat beneath which her little slippered feet peep out. The gown and petticoat style is one which anneals to women who enjoy pic turesque dressing. , And "it is a style which can be adapted to gowns for either day or evening, tho.ugh it is more aDDroDriate to day gowns. . The petti coat is, of course, a petticoat only in name, for the material must be elegant, and the style exquisite, while- the finish, the trimming and the length are all of the most admirable quality. It is not a utility petticoat. Linen is first. - Some wear pique. ' -; A plain hem is good style. , r Embroidery is a strong feature., Lace Is by no means "out of it.' There are plenty of ornate sets. . All lace continues in favor for cer tain gowns. Airy-fairy effects are rivalled by heavy plain ones. : ' Coat sets in pique are too cheap te have any great vogue. Sets must be either white or In ac cord with the costume color. ', " Heavy white linen sets embroidered in the Japanese style are tremendously fetching. , A cream lkien set is buttonholed with brown, and , sprinkled with French knots to thatch. A set for a coat costume is of white kid embroidered and applied, with shaped band of reseda velvet. A low-necked evening blouse is eas ily convt?rte'd into a becoming and fash, ionable dinner waist by the application of a sheen yoke of lace embroidery er batiste inseitwj Ui 'e doeolletase,
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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July 6, 1905, edition 1
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