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1 : ~ • r^T ” — t ~ -------- ---------- WHIT SHALI WE WEAR ? TAILOR GOWNS AND COSTUMES FOR FANCY DRESS. .Sliss Games and the Little Japanese Maid. Hie Tailor Gown is Becoming Lighter in Weight and Better Adapted to Its Purpose. ; . Tins week our fashion column shows first two more handsome Redfern tailor gowns. They are from original designs specially fur nished us. Woolen dresses have almost alto gether superseded silk ones for the. street. That change has been brought about by the tailor gown. This winter it is tetter adapted to its pur pose than it has been heretofore. Every ef fort has been made to lighten it in weight. An approved fashion is to make a single skirt, plain and scant, with a plain band, pinked or scalloped at the bottom, and a slight draping behind. The skirt is made ■without lining, and in case of firm, heavy goods the lining is also sometimes left out of the waist. F ig . 1. F ig : 2. Fig. 1 shows rather alight weight tailor gown. The skirt falls plain with a scant box plaiting and slight draping .behind. The gown is of wine colored vicuna cloth, handsomely braided in fine black tubular braid. Fig. 2 is a beautiful gown of heliotrope 'fia.ced clo'.h combined with velvet ortho same shade. Hat to match. Every seam of the Short, close basques is now whaleboned. Fancy Dresses. ” The season of fancy dress parties for grown people and children is near at hand. In view ■of that we have had copies prepared of some of the dresses that will be popular this season. The name of this figure -- is • simply “ Games. ” Miss Games steps about at the party with a head dress in imi tation of a roulette table, a .-fan made of policy tickets, a bodice ornamented with cards, and the points of, her dash ing red tunic stud ded with dice. Her skirt is trimmed with chess and checker boards. Down the right side of the skirt, held by gilt cord, hangs an ornament made of a billiard ball, while in front of the lady ’ s boots, upon her neat in step and ankle, ap pear domino pat terns. This is a unique dress. The cloth to make it, calico stamped in can be usually had the game patterns, .ready prepared. If not, the patterns can be sewed upon plain goods; silk or cotton. The middle of the skirt is yellow, the bottom piece red, sleeves and plastron, white muslin. The next figure is called the Japanese maid. The great popularity of the light comic opera of “ The Mikado ” has popularized every thing belonging to Japanese dress and drapery. The Jap anese girl ’ s dress here shown is something on the .order of that of the three little maids from school The hair is drawn back from the forehead, heaped up at the crown of the head, and ornamented with long pins stuck through and through it. The under petticoat is •of brocaded yellow goods. The upper garment is light blue. The open, falling sleeves, of prodigious length, are lined with the yellow goods. The JAPANESE MAID. embroidery on the edge of the upper skirt and the neck piece set in at the breast are also yellow. The em broidery at the breast is yellow. Blue fan, with yellow sticks. The full, wide sash is red. Blue stockings and yellow “ Mikado ” slippers. Ordinary paper parasol, whose pre vailing shade is blue. Black Toilets. In. addition to entirely black toilets richly -embroidered with jet beads, black dresses trimmed with color are much liked for the theatre and evening wear. In one handsome •costume black lace is fulled over a gold yel low, satin slip skirt; the velvet bodice is cut square and trimmed with a double row of gold yellow, silk pompons. The sash is'black velvet. The black kid gloves are embroid ered with gold, and gold thistles and aigrette are worn in the high dressed hair. FASHIGNLETS. Snowshoe clubs are organizing in northern Michigan, and $1,500 worth of flannel uni forms have been ordered from one tailor alone. A toboggan slide will also be built at . Marquette. Monkey skin muffs will be fashionable. Silver and blue fox are popular furs for trimming. The bridegroom af a morning wedding wears a black cloth frock coat, Vest to match, gray trousers and white silk cravat, either plain, repped or figured. Music boxes, which come under the head of iOXBries, are akin to jewelry-and silverware, Aad therefore ought to be in stock, not only Jo city stores, but in towns and villages, IN THE HOUSEHOLD. Menu for a Plain but Good American Christmas Dinner. An excellent Christmas dinner for r efin ed people, who know that the best eating is a few dishes at a time, and those of the first quality, is as follows: First course — Raw oysters, ' half a dozen upon each plate, /With half a lemon also to each plate; salt, pepper and a glass of nice, crisp celery and some olives; crackers and butter, or cold, light rolls and butter. Second course — Remove the oyster' plates, squeezed lemons and all, leaving the celery and olives. Then bring on your roast turkey, cranberry sauce and vegetables. Mashed potatoes, succotash and stewed tomatoes will be quite enough. The potatoes should be beaten up with a fork if there is notin the household one of .those new fash ioned tvire potato beaters. Potatoes beaten to a creamy pulp are much lighter than those mashed with a pounder. Dress them richly with cream and butter. The potatoes and cranbemes may be served upon the dinner plates, the tomatoes and succotash upon sauce dishes. Add to the articles already men tioned a lettuce salad, with a made dressing of oil, vinegar, pepper, salt, mustard, eggs and a little sugar. That is quite sufiicient for the heavy and main course. Americans, whether they own to it or not, usually like their coffee with their food, and there is no reason why they should not have it, unless they wish to be fashionable. In that case they will put it off till after the main part of the dinner is eaten. After the turkey is dispatched take away all his remains. Don ’ t leave anything upon the table that suggests grease and half eaten food. These things removed and the table cleared, bring on the mince pie piping hot. After that one or two kiiids of fruit. Then nuts, raisins and coffee. Tall dishes of can dies in bright.colored wrappers, with mottoes inside, amuse the young folk and look pretty upon the table. They may be dived into at nut and raisin time. But it is simply “ horrid ” and altogether unbearable to poke one ’ s fingers into fruits, nuts and raisins and can dies before the time for eating them comes. No decent'person will do that. We have here outlined a : plain American dinner, and a very good one it is, too. Flowers or growing ferns upon the table will add to the pleasant effect. Then keep good naturedand polite in spite of the world, the flesh and the devil and you will have a per fect Christmas. We hope it will be a very merry one to everybody. Why Some People Are Poor. Silver spoons are used to scrape kettles; coffee, tea; pepper and spices are left to stand open and lose their strength; potatoes in the cellar grow, and the sprouts are not removed until the potatoes become worthless ; brooms are never hung upland are very soon spoiled; nice handled knives' are thrown into hot water; the flour.is sifted, in a wasteful man ner, and the bread pan .is left with the dough sticking to it, — Detroit Tribune. . A Steam Cooker. Persons who have tried the steam cooker shown in the illustrations are enthusiastic in its praises. Its well tested claim is that it is constructed'on scientific principles, giving concentrated heat, together with steam press ure. Its is called the “ Peerless Steam Cooker, ” and can be used on a common kitchen range or cook stove, or an oil, gas or gasoline stove. We are assured that it will cook meat, pud dings and vegetables at the same time, with out mingling the flavors and without having them all taste alike, like so many hotel dishes. The ordinary size is designed for a family of from two to eight persons. One of the greatest ad vantages of this in vention is that it preserves the juices of meats. A whole dinner can b e cooked at once, with none of the fussing and skipping about that wears out the life of the house keeper who cooks COOKER ON STOVE, several things at a time upon an ordinary range. It saves time, labor and fuel. Fig. 1 shows the cooker as it looks upon the outside when it sits upon • the range with several articles of food steaming inside. It seems able to do everything but fry pancakes. There is no doubt that food cooked by steam is tenderer and more evenly done and better flavored than that “ slapped up ” in the ordinary fashion anyhow and in any time. In the cooker before us water is put into the bottom. It turns to steam, passes up and ai ’ ound the outside of the various compart ments, heats them intensely hot and roasts chicken, bakes potatoes, etc. At the top a colander containing food to be steamed, as com or pudding, is set upon the cooker and tightly covered. The steam passes through and through it and soon does the work. F ig . 2. Fig. 2 shows a vertical section of this ad : mirable household implement, with the din ner inside. It is a good dinner, too, from boiled com and pudding at the top to roast chicken at the bottom. Observe the tubes A, B, C at each side of the cooker. A, on the right, is a tube for conveying the surplus steam into the stove. B, on the left, is a steam whistle. When the water is getting low, ping! it goes off, shrill as a penny trumpet. Then the cook knows she must pour more wafer in at the tube C below B. This tube is provided so that water may he poured in without taking off the cover. The cover over all is steam tight. There is a safety, valve provided which regulates it self. There is also an indicator r^hich tells when the water is boiling and the food cook ing. ; . . DR. S. D. HOWE ’ S DIFFERS from all biher preparations in its IMMEDIATE ACTION upon the LIVER, KIDNEYS AND BLOOD. Composed of the choicest Herbs, Roots and Extracts. Cures Boils, Blotches, Tumors, Salt Rheum, Cancers, Cancerous Humors, Pimples on the Face, Scurvey, Syphilis, Scrofula, and all diseases arising from an impure state of the Blood, Malarial Fevers, etc. For “ NERVOUS DEBILITY^ ” “ LOST VITALITY, “ URINARY DISEASES, ” and “ BROKEN DOWN CONSTITU TIONS, ” “ I challenge the 19th century ” to produce its equal. Every Bottle is Worth its Weightin Gold. Price $1.00 per bottle. DR. S. D, HOWE ’ S Arabian Milk Cure, The only Medicine of the Kind in the World. A Substitute for Cod Liver Oil. Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup, Whooping Cough, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Bleeding-Lungs, and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs, leading to Consumption. Price $1.00 per bottle. DR. S. D. HOWE ’ S Arabian Liver Pills. Purely vegetable. Cures Biliousness, Dyspep sia, Malarial Fevers, Sick Headache, Chins and Fever, Constipation, &c. Price 25 cents per box. SOLD BY GEOTIGE E. BURROWS, Sole Agent for Chatham. BULLIS ’ W* It Barnes DRUGGIST. A FULL LINE OF PURE DRUGS, Heines aM ~ ': CONSTANTLY ON HAND. Extra Care Taken in Compound ing Physician ’ s Prescriptions. TOILET ARTICLES, CONSISTING OF HAIR, HAH/, TOOTH, FLESH, Hi aoi Latter Busies. PERFUMERY, SOAPS, FACE POWDER, COSMETICS, &c., &c„ &c. LIQUOR STORE. ALES, WINES, LIQUORS, PORTER and CIGARS. PEENSYLVAMA AND-MARYLAND WHISKEY A SPECIALTY. Main St., Chatham, N. Y. THE ROOMS, ALLMLOCMaia St.. CHATHAM is the place to go to when you have job printing to he done. With Good Presses? Good Type? Good Paper, Good Ink, TRUSSES, Supporters and Shoulder Braces. SURGEON, BATH and OARRIAGE Sponges and Ghamois Skins, AN ELEGANT LINE OF LIBRARY, STAND, HAND and NIGHT LAMPS, just received, which we are offering at VERY LOW PRICES. Headquarters for Painters? Supplies -AND- Artists? Materials of every description. Also Lubricating and Illuminating Oils. Remember the Place. Dr. W. H. Barnes, 49 Main St., Chatham, N . Y. When Selectim We are ready at short notice to print PAMPHLETS, CONSTITUTIONS, BY-UAWS. RECEIPTS, Assessment Blanks, Membership Propositions, Receipt Books for Lodges, BILL HEADS, STATEMENTS, _ LETTERHEADS, NOTEHEADS, BUSINESS CARDS, Holiday Presents Buy Something Useful. 1 qn -rar-BSM HATTER Is showing an elegant line of ENVELOPES, CIRCULARS, TAGS, of all kinds, WAY-BILLS, CHECKS, SILK MUFFLERS, COUPON RECEIPT BOOKS, POSTAL CARDS, DANCING ORDERS, POSTERS, TICKETS, Silk Handkerchiefs, HORSE BLANKETS, '6 = =-; 'o Y. c or-- ; , — - c . ^ ,-tl o Y T, Z +* = ■ s - 63 « ? „ S ^ fc - >' .£ tc, * - , ■v> 4) ® ? I O c - . .t: ?r 3 „ cg r* ua ff- • . £ VJ r, c “ ■ = t - 'E ~ ~ ' t,~r ^ a Use. . 7 .. p T .! ****#*< U $1. C&lUnd&t ***** * it Fashionable Room 8* Masonic Building, CHATHAM, N . Y. Ladies ’ and Children ’ s Work A SPECIALTY. S. & J, W, BORIGHT, Lumber and Timber AND DEALERS IN SASH, BLINDS, DOORS, GLASS, LIME, CEMENT, &c. CHATHAM, • - - n .Y. Opposite B, & A. R. R. Depot. MEAT MARKET. E/P. Allen, Prop-r, ■ First class Machinery and facilities for turning out All Kinds of Laundry Work at short notice and at. reasonable rates. Office.and buildings on Progi amines. Invitations, &c.. ROBES. mm IN FDfi, BD AND BDCK. ■IN- FIRST-CLASS STYLE, AND AT Reasonable Prices. In fact, a complete stock of Men ’ sFurnishings COMMERCIAL, BALL and Especially Solicited. Address all ordfers to the Chatham Republican, CHATHAM; N. Y. Just opened, another lot of those elegant GENT ’ S SCARFS. Call and look them Oyer. A com parison always solicited. MYRON E. CLARK, Main St , Chatham. LOWER MAIN STREET, : Chatham, N. IT. L. O. KRAFFT* DEALER IN Beef, Veal, Mutton, PORK, lard ; . : SALSAOE, HAM, POULTRY, Etc. Main St,, - - Chatham, N.Y. The Prices Tell ! The Quality , Sells ! The. New and Stylish Fall and Winter Furniture of all kinds at SEYMOUR ’ S I The best assortment. All the Leading Styles in Parlor,. Cham ber, Dining Room and Kitchen Furniture. Prices which will startle everyone Come, Look, and you will be surprised at the choice bargains to be obtained. OUR SPECIALTY. — -To please our customers. OUR AIM. — To Save Money for our Patrons, OUR INTENTION. - — To do better by you than anyone else. Tell us if you can where good can be bought cheaper, for - 55 none are allowed to undersell us. ’ 1 H. A. SEYMOUR Chatham, N. Y. Having recently connected my Undertaking Business with A. Seymours Furniture Store, I ready to answer all calls promptly and attend to , IN ALL ITS I am also to he found at my old stand at East Cahtham. ■ - . ^ W. M. FLINT*
