STRIPED AND PLAIN WOOL COSTUME.-FRONT.-[For Back, see Page 916.] For description see Supplement.

JAPANESE proverb says that a friend at hand is better than all your relations at a distance, so a little money in your pocket is better than all the credit in the world. It is astonishing sometimes how much a little money will buy, and equally surprising how quickly a bill reaches a hundred, and yet we may have little to show for it. One purchasing on credit buys rashly and generously; he does not think of pay-day, which seems far off, certain like death, but as remote and intangible. It is so easy to buy things in this way, one hardly stops to count the cost; by this method it almost seems as if all the things we covet grew on trees, and all we had to do was to put out our hands; we seem to be fed and clothed as if by a miracle, and it is surely a miracle if we pay the bill in due season. To contract a bill is to contract an obligation, to give another the advantage; we believe that half the forgeries and embezzlements in the country are the direct result of debt. Half the paralysis and heart-disease which end men's lives in their heyday may be traced to the worry consequent upon debt; worry kills more people than work, or love, or any disease. It writes wrinkles in the face, it discolors the skin, makes the hair fall out, and encourages dyspepsia.

BRAIDED CLOTH COSTUME.-FRONT.-[For Back, see Page 916.]

For pattern and description see Supplement, No. XVIII., Figs. 72-82.

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HORACE WATERS & Co.'s improved new scale Upright Pianos justly occupy the front rank among the celebrated pianos of America. They combine in an exceptional degree that sweetness and power of tone, great solidity of construction, and tasteful and elegant appearance, which always distinguish the best makes of pianos. Any one contemplating the purchase of a piano would consult their own interests by calling on HORACE WATERS & Co., 124 Fifth Avenue, New York. Their prices are extremely low for first-class pianos, and they sell them in all parts of the country on payments of $10 per month, when desired.-[Adv.]

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the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low-test, short-weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.

ROYAL BAKING POWDER Co., 106 Wall Street, N. Y.

Barbour's Flax Thread

LADIES

Fond of Crochet Work may make a beautiful Lace for Curtain or other Trimming from

tion to persons making themselves known to the house.

Daniell & Sons

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using CUTICURA MEDICATED

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THE BARBOUR BROTHERS COMPANY,

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EUGENIE'S WORLD-RENOWNED SECRET OF BEAUTY, OR C. B.,

for the complexion; transparent enamel recommended by physicians; warranted perfectly harmless; superior to all other preparations. Tested and applied free of charge; $1.00 per box.

THE GENUINE AUBURNINE. The wonderful preparation for coloring any shade of hair Golden Auburn. Price, $2.00.

THE MONTE CRISTO VELOUTINE FACE POWDER. HIGHEST MEDALS AWARDED FOR SAME. THE COSMETIC MASK (Patented), for beautifying the complexion; $2.00 complete. Turkish Rose Leaves, indelible tint, for the face and lips; exquisite in color, fine as the blush of the rose; $1.00 and $1.50 per bottle.

MONTE CRISTO Medicated Gloves for beautifying the hands, superior to all others, $1.50 per pair. Rubber Gloves, $1.25 per pair. Imported Gloves, $2.00 per pair.

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FERD. T. HOPKINS, Manager, 48 Bond St., running through to main office, 37 Great Jones St., N. Y.

Philadelphia
C. C. Shayne,
Manufacturing Furrier,

103 Prince St., N. Y., Will retail fashionable Furs and Seal-skin Garments this season. This will afford a splendid opportunity for ladies to purchase reliable furs direct from the Manufacturer at lowest possible prices. Fashion book mailed free.

COLUMBIA YARNS.

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Pure Dyes and Beautiful Shadings.

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GOODS BEAR THIS TRADE-MARK, NONE OTHER GENUINE,

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COLUMBIA KNITTING YARNS.

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Fine assortment Garnet Jewelry set in gold.

Marble, Enamel, and Fancy Bronze Clocks in great variety.

Handsome assortment Marabout Fans.

Bric-a-brac in Bisque, Bronze, and Brass Ware. Fancy articles of every description.

Gold and Silver Headed Canes and Umbrellas.

While displaying the largest stock of Holiday Goods we do not disturb our regular departments, all of which will be found to contain complete assortments, and prices, as usual, the lowest.

All selections made now can be stored with us, free of charge, until wanted.

N.B.-Special Discounts to Sundayschools and Fairs.

EDW. RIDLEY & SONS, 309, 311, 311 to 321 Grand St.;

56 to 70 ALLEN ST.; 59 to 65 ORCHARD ST., N. Y.

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FUR-LINED GARMENTS,

Fur Muffs, Cloves, Caps,
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BLACK SILKS, &C.,

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FACETIE.

OUR DOMESTIC SERVICE.

"How old are you, Mary ?" asked Mrs. Blank of her house-maid. "Well, mum, I'm just twenty-six; but when I put my money in the bank, I told the man I was a good deal older, so's I'd get more interest on it." [A fact.

"Mary," said Mrs. Blank, another time, to her maid, "you can tell Bridget that she excelled herself in the pies we had to-day for dinner." A little later Mrs. Blank went down to the kitchen, and found Bridget very sad and solemn. "Why, what is the matter ?" asked the lady, very much surprised.

"Shure, mum," came the answer, "didn't you tell Mary I could go sell myself with them pics ?"

THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.

I heard a lot of people talk,
On how to pronounce Volapük.
Some were sure 'twas Volapük,
Making it to rhyme with duke;
Another, who had read the book,
Spoke of it as Volapük.

One man said 'twas simple truck," And sneering, called it Volapük;

Some other persons-quite a few

Who studied French, said Volapük;

And one, who German spoke, said " Ach,

The proper name is Volapük."

A young wag uptown started out with his gun encased in canvas to take a train for Sullivan County the other day, and met a lady of great heart and age.

"Do you mean to tell me," she asked, "that you are deliberately going to shoot little birds and timid, inoffensive animals ?"

"No, ma'am," he replied, "I will not go so far as to say that. If I have my usual luck, I shall shoot nothing but my gun."

WASHINGTON SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER (to little colored girl). "Now, Angeline, can you tell me what it means to return good for evil?" ANGELINE BROOKS. "Well, miss, I doan' 'xactly know de words, but I tink it mean ef any one sasses yer, doan' yer jaw back."

The unexpected frankness of children often leaves older people at a loss for a reply. A gentleman doing business in New York has three handsome little ones, of whom he is very proud, and he keeps a large photo

1. TAKE MY CARD UP TO MR. FUEGO, AND-AWSK."

graph of the three on his office desk. Not long ago an out-of-town customer came in with his family. While the customer was selecting goods, the gentleman tried to make friends with his son, a boy of about four or five years old. The youngster had been to the museum, and was not easily interested in the less exciting things to be seen in the showcases of the store. Finally the gentleman resolved to play his trump card.

"Here I have something to show you," he said, and produced the photograph of his children, mentally formulating the tale with which adults are, for some mysterious reason, wont to regale the juvenile mind, about

4. "TELL YOUR MOTHER TO GO TO THUNDER; AND IF YOU ANNOY ME AGAIN, I'LL"

the boy, after a moment of reflection, continued his investigations: "How much do they pay you for one of those stories ?"

"From twenty to fifty dollars," replied the writer, kindly, and the youngster seemed buried in thought. Suddenly the question came like a shot from a gun:

"Well, wouldn't they pay you more if your stories were not so foolish?"

The writer was too taken aback to answer, but he has been thinking over the matter ever since, and vainly trying to draw the line between humor" and "foolishness."

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