Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1880, Page 7

5 FASHION WRINKLES. THE CHINESE PLAY AT THE HAYMARKET. BatTHORNe Biossoms are favorite corsage . Bowers. “T don't know Powis ! ee ota the shape with nearly | manager gloomily, “1 ter don’t seem: mae foobar anne to pay at all. It’s a compiete failure, that’s what PLvsH ts Sarp to make a good background for mmottoes in « vergreens. TuR BiG Fooxs and eyes used to fasten laces Bre made cf smail diamonds. FRENCHMEN are wearing seal and otter skin, | oe no reason why it should be left to the Jadt! it Meisel GRD strike out a new and origt @ total change of scenery, erties and costume.” Lilancr it was the last night of the season at the Crown Prince's Theater, Mayfair. The man- Was an amiable young man, just begin- ning his career as a licensed ‘purveyor of dramatic condiments; and though he had every kat wan t iegttt x illegitimate re own form Oo: imate or tt stimulant, the public somehow dido’t seem to See It. So here he was left at the end of the last ight, surveying the darkened house from the footlights, and moodily summing up in his mind the grand total of the season’s losses, Meenie, better known to the critical world as Miss Amina Fitz-Adilbert, was his first young | lady, a lively little Irish’ girl, with just the faintest soupoon of a brogue, and if the Crown MUFFS OF FEATHERS are sometimes strewn With tiny bows fp a fashion which ts rather Striking than pretty. Ware masniT skin and white as = used ippers by the French m: who proanent Tien with Kittens" heads. Mcrrs ann Covtars of ducks’ feathers dyed fed are the last manifestation of the scarlet fever that rages in Paris. v4 = Prince’s had turned out a success under his Awonc the new mantel bronzes are apostle | energetic management, Jack Roberts had faire bells, cre containing the clock and the other | made up his mind that she should share witn two Of tbe set serving as candlesticks. Lim in future the honora of his name, at least Tas Iv &y HAND-PaINTsD Cuxism4as Carpe | in private Ife. She was an unaffect imple litle thing, with no aetress's manners when off tue stage, and as she had but one relative in the world, « certain brother Pat, who bad run away to foreign parts unkoown ‘after the last Fenlan business, she exactly sulted Jack, who often ex; his nobie determination of Are the prettiest things that the Eoglish manu- facturers }ave produced for home use this year. Lars ond worst comes the Japanese fasaion Of coiling the hair at the sides of the head and | fastening it by silver pins. This is a shade essed Dgiler than the fishtail marrying “a lone orphan.” But as things THE New Youk Tiwes, apparently with the | stood at present, he saw little chance of afford- amiable tten: of spoliing the demand for | {mg bimself the luxury of mairimony on a feuciry. sayethac ie tsliked by ladies afford diamoncs. seems fo be one of the favorite ith bridesmaids in London at this v » sults of colored Mnagnificent balance-sheet in which expenditure snvablably managed to outrun revenue. So he stood disconsolate on the pasteboard wreck of the royal mall steam-ship which collided nightly in his firth act, and looked like a sort of theatr- cal Marius abo it to immolate himself amid the ruins of a scene paloter’s Carthage. “We've tried everything, Meenia,” he went Puiscit.. Caps of amber satin, with belts to be Cone frien atone Copenh oem to pay Match, weee worn by half tne brizesmatds at a | for al it. Firs we went in for sensa- recent’ Et Ish wedding; the others wore belts | tonal dramas, We put ‘Wicked London’ on a crown satla, and al! were attired in | the stage; we drove areal hansom cab with a iin. lave horse tn it across Waterioo bridge; we had TORS three murcers and a desperate suicide; you xeu DecoRaTons congratulate | rearty broke your neck leaping owt Of the cpap tla bien hen ee aSF'88 | fourth-floor window from the fire, yn sen Wand “se ts lorida.” ins forgot to put enough tow in the sheet to Jand chureh ts to be decorated with | pias fCrsot {oP 10 break your fali, and I singed my face dreadfully as the heroic freman going t) the rescue. We had more railway accidents, powdered coach- men, jive supernumeraries, and real water in that piece than in any piece that was ever put on the London boards; and what did the Daily i ‘ound of scar! THE 01D port, says the Transcript, has | & dreary time of it tm these days. She ts Whipped and scolded and shabblly dressed, and noboly cs": s for her, noteven the last year’s cloth. Old doll. fo: everybody knows that the new doll | {1 3."/2" Say about It, Meenie, I ask you that? is on the v They said,” Meenie answered regretfully, THE PKorsk PLacg forthe little bags worn | “that the play lacked incident, and that the With both street and evening dresses is far ’ +left side instead of on the right. for street. wear are usually lined stiff material, but those made for S are perfectly il Way of wearing dullness of Its general mediocrity was scarcely relieved by a few occasional episodes which hardlg deserved the epithet of sensational.” “Well, then, we went in for wsthetics and bigh art, and ‘brought out Tueophrastus Mas- Sivger Villon Snooks’ ‘Ninon de l'Eaclos.’ We draped the auditorium in sage green hangings, decorated the proscenium with pez@ock patterns by Whistier, got Alma-Tadema to design the costumes for the classical mask, and Millais to ‘acelet, says c ve It outside the ibow, and to draw a tlower or acd the arin. The fashion 1s . but how amusing tt will be | supply us with hints on Renatssance properties, nu begin wearing bracelets outside | and finally haif ruined ourselves over te archi: garments! "y Will look even | tecture of that chateau with the unpronounce- i than ihey did Inthe days when | able name that everybody laughed at. You got nobla with the! id chains, joe's, imitating yourself up so that your own mother wouldn’t have kuown you from Ellen ‘Terry, aud I made my legs Icok as thin as spindles, so that I ex- actly resembled an eminent tragedian in the character of Hamlet: and { came of It ali? Vhat did the Erening Stinger remark about that , 1 should like to know?" They observed,” said Meenie, tn a tone of ttkd gloom, at the decorations were Washy and tasteless; that the piece Itself was instpid and weakly rendered, and that no #mount of compression or silk’ leggins would ever reduce your catves to a truly wagic dlam- tong for imy style of See wul suit beta you tremely well. * u OKING Wool dresses just teper’s Bazar have the aul | Sten) “0 popular for the prevailing “Exactl, dent manager. pasyne of dark | “And then we went in for nic spectacle. We produced ‘The Wide World; a Panorama fu Five Tableaus.’ We lata our first act in Europe, our second in Asia, our third in Afri. ca, our fourth in Amerie: islands of the Paciile Oc We hired five full-grown elephants from Wombiwell’s Mena- | gerie, and procured itving cocoa-nut | 40 encrmous expense from the Ro: Kew. We got three real Indian pri Pear on the stage in th diamouds; and we hired F. form their complete toile | Spectators, as an elevating moral tlustration of the manners aad customs of tl anders. Wi A On England’s latest acquisttion, the Ko tonga. Finwly, we wrecked thts s! in a collision With a Russian tr tof the frign or Lord Beacon: I forget which—ai he | Consequence? Why, the gods wanted to sing the national anthem, and tne stalls put on their sq is aud left the theater ina mt ie 13 a tripie frill fo coi Th d by being all the Vis u by two de in in @ patte p of these fs ui nd pezkets ought es be facts,” said Meente, “English plays sed costumes he favorite | and Engilsh actors are at a discount. People s al midwinter. These trimmings | are ured of them. They don’t care for sensa- contined to cloth and velvet ag | tion any longer, nor for desthetics, nor for spec- cle; upon tay word, thelr taste has become so but are on f 4 1 number of nights oniy. Entbustasm no bounds. Trheadvent of the Cainese actors was the talk of society, of the clubs, of private life, and of the boys at the street corners. Tne Dat’y Jrritator had a learned article next morning on the e and Mt condition of the nee wage onviously pro Produced upon the same Inciple as the famous essays on the metap! ‘Of the Celestial Empire which at- tracted so much attention fn the columns of the Eatanswill Gazetle. The Hebiomadal Vaticinator ventured to predict for its readers an intellectual treat such as they had not en- Joyed since the appearance of Mr. Jefferson in “Rip Van Winkie"—evidently the only play at the performance of which the editor of that t sist the society weeklies that they had seen the leading ee eel in various well-known Pekin, Ni jagasaki, ‘andahar. All of them spol rapture of her personal beauty, her stnging and her ‘ly natural powers; and though there were some slight dis- crepancies as to the question of her height, her age, the color of her hair and the soprano or contralto quaitey of her voice. yet these minor matt which faded into insigaificance beside their general agreement as to the admir- able faculties of the coming prima donna. tyedresscirele poured in “bythe, thousand. ie rele In by ‘the thor Very soon Jack becat iced that the were Crown Prince’s would never hoid the crowds | which threatened to besiege his doors, and he made a hasty arrangement for taking over the Haymarket. “Hang Chow, the Apprentice of Fa Kiang.” was duly announced, and the play was = in rehearsal with vigor and effect. Atthe beginning of the season Jack Opened the theater with a tremendous success. Such a first night was never knowa in London. Duchesses int ersonally upon Jack to beg the favor of achatr hind the dress circle, as all the stalls were secured beforehand for a month ahead. Tue | free list was really suspended, and the pit and gallery were all franstonasde into reserved tac debased and degraded that I don’t we the; even care for legs. The whole 1d°3 gone mad on foreign actors and actresses. They've got Sarah Bernhardt and the Coméiie Francalse, and they go wild with ecstacies over her, as if 1 couldn't make myself just as thin by a’juat- clous course of Dr. Tanner.” “No, you couldn’t,” said Jack, looktug at her plump little face with a -pleated, ing tr is 15 a band of Black or brown fur about six i Tao Or eight inches wide. A similar row of f.r | brnie brow. “Your fresh little Irish cheeks then extends straight up could never fall away to Sarab’s pattern.” And ori ghgpers Sire ap penta areca tosay the truth, Meenle was a comely little ee Sent ie oe eee body enough, with just as much tendeacy to are sewed In tue second side eee ibe | adipose depo%tt as at one-and-twenty makes a a The basque ‘Soe woes ene pani | face look temptingly like a peach. She blush: d Yoshi like a gel ‘3 morning visibly through her powder, which shows that she had no more of 1f than the custom of the Stage imperatively de nands, and went on with her parable unrestrained. “Then there are the Yankees, with the ‘Dan- {tes’ and Colonel Sellers, talking Goat, either single or double breasted, with Lape $ and buttons dehiad. and open down the The oaly coat 13 a small collar, large a ee tragedy on tins west teomth® A | tmough their noses, and applauded to the echo its style. The fur-trimmed skit by people who would turn up thelr own at them tn a transpontine melodrama. But that’s the way of English people now, just because they're oa hy direct. That comes of tree trade you know. For my part, I’m a decided protectionist. I'd put a proloitory tariff upon the importation of foreign live stock, or compel them to be slaughtered at the port of entry. ‘That's what I'd do.” Jack merely sighed. “Well, then, there are the Dutch, again, going through their performances like wooden lolls, ‘Exquisite self-restraint,’ the news- papers say. Exquistte flddlesticks! Do you suppose /re coaldn’t restrain ourselves if we cbose to walk through ‘Hamiet like mutes ata funeral? Do you su) it 1s aiso worn with other basques, ack or dark-colored plush coats, or Persian brocade, and it is also used Sty basques of the same satin Surah irt, immed with an edging Of fur and a great deal of coffee-colored Lan Suedoc lace in full frills, with perhaps some old gold eatin In the facings. Black beaver far Bands are used for the handsomest black suits, and this i= most effective when there is a seam. in the dle of the band which joins the two lower edgy: s together, making the top edge have long fleece as Weil as the lower, and thus hide the belt. Utter bands are liked for brown, gray, and diab dresses, also for biack, but this is a ee couldn’t show very expr ve fur. The prettiest low-priced S esse 7 os 2, far for cot, ee ee one cae, Wok | coupe of egy chauket Stam con *honsease: all Suits [Ss tlat of the black hare, whic! only | Sains Z $1.95 a yard in very suitable width and quauity, | O14 People go becaus2 they want other peo ple to think they understand Dutch, which they don’t, and understand acting, which they can’t see there. It we want toget on we must go in for 4 Norwegians, or Russtans, or Sandwich Islanders, or something of that sori; we really must.” Jack looked up slowly and meditatively. “Look here, Meente,” ne sald seriously; “sup- Pose we get up a Chinese play 2” “Why, Jack, we're not Chinamen and China women. We don’t look in tne least like It.” “I don’t kuow about that,” said Jack quietly; “your eyes are not quite thé thing, perhaps, UL your nose Is fairly wel! up te pattern.” “Now, Sir,” sald Meente, po ting, and turning up the somewhat rrfrousse feature in question, | “you're getting rude. My nose is a very excel showing a long glossy fleece. A pe Cape, deep cults, and a small muff add much fo the beauty of these cloth suits, and make them warm euough for most weather with- ¥ heavier than the cloth jacket. whitch ts usually made of the material f the ‘style of the cloth suit Is simple and re, it is in far better taste, and, moreover, Perhaps three seasons with- ration. Dark green and seal tye most popular for trimming ne Dorde: hi Black fur ts | the seal-skta ts | of the Various fox 1 | ee ee tik | lent nose, as noses go. But you could never Rot to be i yard, aaa | make yours Into @ Chinaman’s It's at least Unree Inches too lop.” or satin | Ww, 3 row skirt, and an | aq. wcll you know, Mt s a | advertises a nose that of the | { e@ design for fashion, however, that 1s 3 popular, 1s that of the hd apron over-skirt, draped and bordered, asthe skirt Herpes Bazar, nie, there’s a man who ehine for pushing the car- lage, or whatever you call it, Into a proper . Suppose we get this fellow to make us e-machinesfor distorting it into a Chinese | Pattern. You'lido weil enough as you stand, With a little walnut juice, all excopt tne eyes; | but your warmest admirer couldn't preten: | that'your eyes are obitque. We must find out | some dodge to mai tat, and then we shali atchet-faced woman, | be all right. We can easily hire a few real We sutumers, with @ wealth of | Chinamen as supernumeraries—enga Tom \ uer face and a snufl stick in her | Pat, orget’em over trom New York, or San oa ——— ar on Francisco, or somewhere; and as for the leading » were haif a dozen ge basque, nari 4] avenur he gi men on | characters novody “L ever expect them to be none of ered (0 give uer a | very Chinese-looking. Upon my wora, the had wWalied @ reasonable time | idea has points about It I'll ura It ever in ¥ of you galoots is waitin’ for | my mind and see what we can make of it. We Tiaps you are barkin’ up the | may start afresh next season, after all.” or | want you to understand I'm a | ‘The next six or eight weeks were a period of that she was not In earnest | prodigious exertion on the part of Jack Rob- lemen to leave the Car.—G@alves- | erts. “At first, the notion was a mere joke; bat | t.e more he looked at it, the better he liked it, | Anemilnent distorter of the human counten- A Mr. Fea he j abee not only showed him how to twist his el av- | nose into Mongoloid breadth and flatness, but also invented an invisible eyelid for producing New York and New Jer- | the genuine Turanlan almond effect, and rose Ir seeins there 1s a place | with success to the further {light of ‘gumming A New Port FoR Naw Yorke New } Bey 10 Saidly L100! just out-ide of Sandy Hook where the locauon | ona pair of undlscoverable high check-bones. 48 favorable lo making @ shipping port. On a | In a few days the whole company were so trans- Straight itn froma stallon oa the Pennsylva. | formed that their own prompter wouldn't have he distance 1s about 40 m'tes less | Known them, some allowance in the matter of way of New York city for frtzhis | noges and cheek-bones being naturally made in «trom the West Or Southwest and'are | the case of tbe leading ladies, though all allke European and other foreign ports, | underwent a judic.ous course of copious walaut “tuple water there for the largest | juice, Jack telegraphed wildly to all parts of is. It ts “ithin the port of New York. so | the globe for stray Chin: and when at last Dog ex Ts Port of entry for custous duty he picked up balf a domo from vessels in the Deed 02 fonard ‘Thames, tt was unanimously decided that they cked far less genuineay celestial than the , Europ an membe's of the company. As for tbe Unpe Dare of Springfield, Mass, a promt- nent New : clander sought for Brother Gard- | piay, Jack settled that very easily. “We shall Ber's opinion of squariug the circle, and the | give them George Barwell,” he sald with wicked Old Mab su-wered: “It's curus tome dat some | audacity: “only we shall leave out all the con- «well nuff alone. If dey want | sovants except n ana 9, andcall it ‘Hang Chow, {J0au’ dey make squar's in defust the Apprentice of Fa Klang.’ Ivll be easy y want circles, why doan’ dey | euou; I doan’ Keer’ to look outer de | dois to PI ight and fn’ dat de Lawd has gone to Work an’ squar’d de circle ob de moon, | to study our parts, a5 all we've got to know our cues, and talk hocus-pocus in between as long .” Very wicked as necessary. and unprincipied, no doubt, but very natural tances. laces at five shillings a head. Jack even ought it desirable to insure proper ventila- tion by turning on a stream of pure oxygen from a — generator in the cellars below. It was the Sensation of modern times. Sarah Bernhardt was nowhere, Mr. Raymond took a through ticket for California, and the Duteh players went and hanged themselves in ‘ted upon a beautiful piece of Wiilow-plate pattern scenery in blue china. Azure trees floated alrly above a cerulean c9[- tage. while a Dlue pagoda stood out in the background against the sky, with all the charming disregard of recproure and the law of gravitation which so strikingly distinguishes Chinese art. The front of the stage was ogcu- pled by a blue shop, in which a youth, ltkewise dressed tn the prevailing color with a dash of white, was serving out blue tea in blue packages Diue ‘supernumerartes, the genuine Chinamen of the Thames vesseis. Diue lme-light piayed tully over the Whole scene, and diffused ‘a general sense of celest'allty over the picture in {ts completeness, Appiause was unbounded. Azsthetic ladies in sage-green hats tore them from their heads, lest the distressful contrast of hue should m: the pleasure of their refined fellow-spectators; and a yrell-known pre-Raphaelite poet, holding Ubree Gaffodils tn his hand, fainted outrighs, as he afterward expressed it, with a spasmodic excess of intensity, due to the rapturous but too swift satisfaction of a subtle life-hunger. The youth tn blue, by name Hang Chow, ap- peared, from the expressive acting of the cales- Ual troupe, to be the apprentice of his azea and respectable uncle, Wang Seb, proprictor of a suburban grocery in a genteel nelghbdor-, hood of Pekin. At first impressive and ob: viously guided by the highest moral feelings, as might be observed from the elevated na- ture of his gestures and the extreme accuracy with which he weigned his tea or counted out enapgé to bis éusiomers, Ris whel* character underwent a visible deterioration from the Sof his becoming acquainted with Mee Nee-Shang, the beautiful put wi heroine of the piece. Not only did he becom? less careful as to the plaiting of his pigtali, but he also patd Jess attention to the correct counting out of his change, which led to fre- quent and expressive recrimimations on the art of the flat-faced supernumeraries. At length, acting upon the suggestions of his evil angel, with whom he appeared about to con- tract a clandestine marriage, George Bara—I mean, Hang Chow—actually robbed the till of strings Of cash, represented by real Chinese coins Of the realm, spectally tmported (trom Birmingham) among the properties designed for the illustration of this great moral drama, Of course be was hunted down through the instrumentality of the Chinese police, admtr- ably dressed 1n their national costume; and after an interesting trial before a mandario With four buttons and the Exalted Order of tue Peacock’s Feather, he was found gullty of lar ceny to the value of twenty shillings, and sea- leuced to death by the bastinado, the senteuce arried out, contrary to all western pre- 4 Coram populo, Meente, whose admir- able acting had drawn down floods of tears froin the most callous spectators, tucludiag n the directors of a fraudulent bank, finally the effects of the blows administered by one of the supernumeraries wlia a genutne plece of Os'ental bamboo. The curtain had risen to applause; it fell to | thund+rs. | Mcenfe and half the company came ' forward for an ovation, and were almost ; smotuiered under two catt-loads of bouquets | The dramatic eritic of the Daily Irruacor | loudly declared that he had never till that nigat known what acting waa. The poet with tue daflodi's asked to be permitted to present three golden blossoms with an unworthy i) tue same material to a lady who had at one sweep blotted out from his heart the memory | of ali European maidens. Five sculptors an- | nounced their intention of contributing busis of the Celestial Venus to the next Academy. And soclety generally observed that such an artistic and tntellectual treat came like a de. lightful oasis amid the monotonous desert of English plays and English acting. That night, as soon as the house was cleared, Jack caught Meenfe in his arms, kissed her Tapturously Gi Sa both cheeks, and vowed that they should b3 married that day fort 4 Meenie observed that she might, If she like that moment, take her pick of the unmarried peerage of England, but that on the whole she thought she preferred Jack. Andso they went away well pleased with the success of their first bight’s attempt at heartlessly and un- jeeany gulling the sasceptible British puv- Ic. Next day, both Jack and Meente looked anx- fously in the papers to see the verdict of the able and impartial critica upon thelr Chineso drama. the fraternity were un.nimous loaman. “The play itself,” said the [rritator;, “was perfect in its naive yet touching mora! Sentiment, and in its profound knowledge of the throbbing human heart, always the same under all disguises, whether it be the j frock-coat of Christendom or the graceful turic of the M action is sup) to take place, charming ac of peeing oe it, —SO an eminent Sinaist trans- lates the lady’s name for us—we have seen nothing so truthful for mapy years on the western stage. It was more thin Siddons, it was grander than Rachel. And yet the grace- AS for the ful and amiable actress ‘holds up the looking- | glass to nature,’ to borrow the hrase of Confucius, and really acts so that fer acting 1s but another name for life itself. When she died in the last scene, medical au- thorities present imagined for a moment that the breat. and Sir John McPhysic himself was seen visibly to sigh with relief when the little lady tripped before the curtain from the side as gayly ani brightly as though nothing had ocourred to break the even tenor of her happy thought. It was a& pleasure which we shall not often experl- ence upon British boards.” As for the Hebdomadal Yatictnator, its lan- fe Was So ecstatic as to defy transcription. It was not a play,” said the concluding words of the notice, “it was not even a magnificent sermon; {t was a grand and imperishable moral g and woman’s innocent To have heard it was better than to have read all the phtloso- phers from Aristotle to Herbert Spencer; it was Lue underlying ethical principle of the uatverse working itself out under our eyes to the infalll- bie detection of all shams and impostures what- soever with unerring truth and vividness. ” Jack and Meente winced at that last sentence a little, but they mai to swallow it, and Were happy enough tn spite of tue moral princi- ple which it seemed was working out their ulti- imate confusion unperceived. For ten nights “Hang Chow, the Apprentice of Fa Kiang,” continued to run with unexam- pled and unabated success, Mee-Nee-Shang was ‘the talk of the clubs and the salons of London, and her portrait ap) inall the shop win- dows, as well as in the next number of the Mayfair Gazette, Professional beauties of Aryan. type discovered themselves suddenly ata dis- count; while a snub-nosed almond-eyed little countess, hitherto disregarded by devoteo3 of the belles, woke up one morning and found herself famous. On the eleventh mia tit Jack’s pride was at its zenith. Royalty had been graciously pleased ge its intention of occupying Its State box, and the whole house was ablaze, from the moment of opening the doors, with @ perfect flood of diamonds and rubier. Meenie peopes with delight from be- hind the curtain, and saw even the stalls filled to overflowing ten minutes before the orchestra struck up its exquisite Toy, for bells and triangle, entitled “The Nankin.” just at the last as “Goodness gracious! Jack! what on earth do Or to git np some mawnin’ an’ diskiver de sun | under the circumst squar'd cf at the airtb. I doan’ say dat I can't In afew weeks Jack was able to announce that yaar’ a cir: but f say dar am no need of it. | the celebrated Celestial Troupe of the Mirror of We didn't have circles how could we put up | ‘Truth, specially decorated by his Majesty the Btovepires or have bat-racks? Jist let dem re- | Emperor of China and Brother of the Sun with — t ap’ squar’s an’ be thankful dat | the oon oe \ermiton Pencil-case, would ?taters }aven't run upto @ doliar a ppear Ly the coming season in ‘Detroi F "=e. an original Chinese melo drama, ter ‘a lhanited you mean?” a “Why, who do you suppose is In the next box to the Prince?—the Chinese *Ambassajor for boxes, and peers called | ented in the last scene, ilung herself upon | boay of her lover, and died with him, trom | holder of | dynasty, in whose time the | of Mee-Nee-Shang, the ‘Pearl | well-known | had really departed from her body, | revelation, burned into the very core of our | nature by the Coe fires of man’s eloquence | Tree enough, ‘There, ina Teeny person, surrounded e in 1, ‘ur questionable Mongolians. was to shriek aloud, go into violent hysterics, and conclude with a fainting ft. But on second thoughts she dectded to brazen tt out. “Leave it tome, Jack,” she sald, with asmuch assurance as she could command.’ “We'll go through the first act as well as we can, and then see what the Ambassador thinks of it.” It was anxious work for Meente, that even- ing’s ee bet she pulled through with itsomehow. She = ry eyes for the audience, iy more attention to the mere diplomatic represen- tative of her own beloved sovel than to the heir (obi of the British me. “You know these Chinese,” said the Marchioness of Monopoly, ‘are so tenderly and sentimentally fached to the paternal rule of their amiabie eal ete They still retain that Pleasing feudal devotion which has unfortunatety died out in Europe through the foolish influence of misguided agrarian agitators.” At any rate, Meente hadly took her eyes off the Ambassa- dor’s face. But that impassive Oriental sat through the five acts without a sign or a move- ment. Once he ate an ice a la Napolitaine, and once he addressed a few remarks to an attache; ; but from beginning to end he watched the per. formance with a uniformly smiling face, un- moved to tears by the great bastinado scene, | and utterly impervious even to the touching incidents of the love-making in the third act. When the curtain fell at last, Meente was | fevered, excited, trembling from head to foot, but not hopeless. Calls of ‘Mee-Nee-Shang™ Tesounded loudly from the whole house, aud even Dukes stood up enthusiastically to join in | the clamor. When she went forward she no. | tlced an ominous fact. The Ambassador was sull tn his place, beamtng as before, but the interpreter had quitted his s2at and was mov- ing in the direction of the manager’s room. Meente courtes'ed and kow. towed tn a sort of haze or swoon and managed to reel off tie stage somehow with her burden of bouquets. | She’ rushed eagerly to Jack’s room, and as she reached the doer she saw that her worst fears were realized. A Celestial in pigtail and tunic Was standing at the door, engaged in low con- versation with the manager. Meenle entered with a swimming brain and sank into a chair. The interpreter shut the doar softly, poured out a glass of sherry trom Jack's decanter on the tabiv, and held tt gently to her ips * Whisht,” he sald, beneath his breath, in the purest and most idiomatic Hi- bernian, ‘‘make yourself perfectiy aisy, me dear, but don’t. Pee too loud, if you plase, for fear ye should ruin us botht.” There was something very familiar to Meente in the voice, which made her start suddenly. She looked up in amazement. “ What!” she poe regardless of his warning, ‘it isn’t you, “Indade an’ it 1s, me darlin’.” Pat answered in alow tone; **but kape it dark, it ye don’t want us all to be fourd out togither.” “Not your long-lost brother?” sald Jack, In hesitation. ‘You're not going to perform Box and Cox in private lfe before my very eyes, are rou?” “Phe precise thing, me boy,” Pat replied, un- al . _‘Her brother that was in trouble for the last Faynian business, and ran away to Calcutta. ‘There I got a passage to China, and took up at first with the Jesuit misstonariea, But, marrying a nate ttle Chinese girl, I thought I might as well turn Mandarin, so I ee thelr examinations, and was appoloted interpreter to the embassy. An’ now im to London lm in deadly fear that Mike Fianeriy, who's one of the chief detectives at Scotiaad ‘Yard, will find me out and recognize me, the Same as they recognized the poor cricketer fel- low at Leicester.” A few minutes sufficed to clear up the bust- ees. Patto feane nie’s to the Chin 4 Ho aoe beverly intimated to the Ambassador that an additional tuterpreter in the national costume Would prove more ornamental and effective | than a recognized European like Dr. Macartney, one he had assumed the style and title of tbe ndarin Uwen Thsang, and bad suc- cessful passed himself off in London as a genuine Cninaman. Moreover, being gifted With Meenie’s theatrical abiilty. he had learned to speak a certain broxen English without the | slghtest Irish accent; and tt was only tn mo- ments of emotion, like the present, that he burst out into his native dialect, He had recog. nived Meente on the stage, partly by her voice and manner, but still more by some fragments of Irish nursery rhymes, which they had both | learned as children, and which Meente had | boldly interpolated into the text o? the “Fan- taisies de Canton.” So he had devoted all his energies to keeping up the hoax and deinding the Ambassador. A ae how did you manage to do it?” askea ack. “Sure I tould him” “that though ye tent themselves as readily @ disguise; and al ole Mires Pat answered quietly, were all Cittuamen, ye were acuing the piay_in English to suit your audi. ence, And the ould haythen was perfectiy con- Unt to belave it.” “But suppose he says anything about it to anybody?” “Divil a word can he spake to anybody, ex- ; cept throughme, Make yourselves atsy about it; the embassador thinks 1s all as rigut as Unpence. The thing’s a magnificent success, Ye'll jest coin money, and nebody’ll ever iad yeout, Sure there’s nobody in London under- Stands Chinese except us at the embassy, and Tilinake tt ali straight for ye there.” Meente rushed Into his arms, and then into Jack’s. “Pat,” sald she with emotion. “al- low me to present you my future husband. “Tvs proud Tam to make his acquatatance,” | Pat answered promptly; “and if he could lend meatin-pound note for a day or tio, it ‘ud be a convanience.” ‘Three days later, Meenle became Mrs. Jack Roberts; ‘and it was privately whispered in Fel-informed cireles ee the mani of the | Chinese play Inarried the popular actress Mee-Nee-Shang. At least, It wag bene that a | Member of the embassy Nad been present at a | private meeting ina Roman Catholic chapel in rinsbury, where a priest was secn to enter, and Jack and Meenie to emerge shortly afterward. Of course, the hoax oozed out in tle, and all London was In a state of rage and despair. But Jack ony Snapped his fingers at the metropo- lis, for he had made a small fortune over nis Season’s entertainment, and had accepted an offer to undertake the management of a thea- ter at Chicago, where he ts now doing remarka- | bly well. Of course, too, his hoax was a most | wicked and unprincipled adventure, which it ; has given the present writer deep moral pain to be compelled to chronicle. But, then, if people twcilt Make such fools of themselves, what 13 a | well-meaning but weak-minded theatrical pur- veyor to do?—Beigravia. Strategy. It ig 2 Common delusion to suppose that the German successes against France were due principally to the virtues of a particular tac- Ucal formation. it a Lord Chelins- | ford, ‘is apt to mislead, and it seems to me that | Superior numbers, entire disregard of the loss | Of life, and the faults of the French had proba- bly much more to say to the victories of the Germans than the tactical formation by which they were won.” And the Duke of Wurtemberg | Says:—" One must be cautious in drawing con- clusions regarding the possible results of tactics ip the future from what the Pri suc- ceeded in doing.” We allow, what indeed can_ not be disallowed, that caleris paribus, the best guns and rifles and the most appropriate maneuvres will win the day; but the moral and intellectual side of war is bound to play no crest @ part as ever it did. Pre- | Sclence and genius, courage and Stanchness, | Will make their mark, however much material conditions may shift and change. When we | hear, as we have heard it said, “that Napoleon | would be nowhere nowadays,” we reply, if his | Was true genius, that genius would assuredly utilize to the saine extent, though not in the same way as before, the material circumstances | of its surround! To understand fully why ; the moral conditions of war will still bear as as ever in its successful | term moral 1s comprehended the Spits antinat- log every branch of warilke administration and | every soldier with the colors. ‘The preseienc> | which takes account of the preparations and ) potential force of ble foes. which provides for the intelligent instruction of its own instru- ments, which recognizes the value of mechani_ cal improvements and takes measures gor se- curing the best armaments; the virtue, the { patriotism which aim at making of honest | cltizens dutiful and valiant soldlers—such are the moral and intellectual arms furnished with which a nation moves into the field with bold | and confident front. But, though art has not lost its importance, and though war is not at all likely to degenerate into a vulgar matter of “hammer and tongs,” it must be allowed that many conditions are now exploded under which certain feats of alee, were possibie. | In some ways the strategi art has found [Begs limitations to its exercise during tne | last few years than in all the centuries separat- | ing the passage of the Alps by Hanntbal from the “turning” of the Alps, as he himelf ex- | ae it, by Napoleon. It would b2 found Impossible now to pursue undetected the ma- neuvre which led to Marengo. Agatn, the ce!- ebrated maneuvre of the Consul Nera whea, leaving in his ines before Hannibal @ smali | force—a dummy array—to blind him, he marched north to forestall the succourlag army | Conspicuous a share i oo ru! ree oS teat Moen might have een repeal ccess down to ti her day. It would be litue likely to ai ma ae ucceed ‘Te-egraphs,railroads, improved communicatio: ballooning, Signaling, messenger. igeons, ait such means as have been devised tor cheatt time and distance, have, as it were, block: Some of the sources of strategy. The Stream, however, ts but dammed up to overflow on other lunes, as We shall presently see—The Saturday Sratk’s Higus.—G2drge Tleknor C: o New York, has written along letter to iagh st Jewett for pndlication. in reply to the recent letters of Judge Jere B' whica Curtis denies the of Judge Black, and rejects his conch of states to as to the rights control roads operated under stave charters, “” a é 5 ea ee : fey é ‘LADIES GOODS. BS. BM. L. WHITEFORD, ABLE DRESS and aR MAKER, decid ob 103 Fst uo BOOTS AND SHOES. MaBKET SPACE # st. worth west. CHEAP. UsSCOMB, Men's Gum Overshoes, sizes 6 to 12, at 6%o. pair. L 5 MODES, dice’ ** = a ESS For a permanent place of business, has taken ieee a - HOURE 990 E STREET NORYHWEST, =< wnat fe And will continue to design and make elegart EVENING REOEPTiION AND WALKING Dovi9-1m* TOILETS. VESMILYa's LADIES’ BOOTS. am now offering a fine stock of Winter @OUD8 of my Own makes at very LOW PRIOR Gon Sm making to order # class of SHOES for Ladies aaa aren nat Te URARILY A. no8 G10 Oth st.. ony. Patent Ufticn. Mie nd Aesney toe Bo PALO eae SYSTEM OF QUTTING. bo, 1309 Fat. beetaranufasturers inthe county as the qupply, at these prices, is limited. W. 8. BICH, aco8 717 Market Svace. WI i2TEE S00Ts anv sHoEs. LARGEST STOCK AT THE LOWEST PRICES. LEOPOLD BICHOLD’S BOSTON SHOE AUCTION HOUSE, 491 Pa. ave. northwest and 659 Pa. ave. southeast. 5 a. sUsT = WASHINGTON, pair Ohildren’s Shoes, 6 cents a pair; Mw™ FASHIONABLE tlemen’s English Ws noee, Rt abs: Gon DRESEMAKING AND TRIMMING STOR, | men's Hor tee Galt at ae Gertie ae eee, 1311 Pennsylvania avenue, > Gent 's Russian Leather Sosa, Dresses, Suits, Costumes, Cl &c., made ip Gentlemen's Broad toe Gaiters, 31 95, perior etyle at short notice. jes) can have lower prices than any other Braces and Basted, and a perfect ‘it iruaran- Fy fists: 1.000 pair Mens Kip - the Inhweet stock at the imost Feanonable prices. ven away every pair of Shoes HINGS. bonght at either of my stores; fiftean of these tick~ HOUSEFURNIS GS ets entities the holder to one kod pair of Sinose, A LARGE ASSORTMENT : LEOPOLD BICHOLD, Of COOKING and HEATING STOVES, Prvpciisor orth RANGES, LAT! 3, &e., at k ri pole ‘ROLES, at low prices Stoves q GREAT BOSTON SHOE AUCTION HOUSE, J; BOnam, 491 Fenna. ave. of the Red Flag, between 4 LN ‘and Gt ets.) i Bhoe House inthe District” ‘HE PUBLIO ABS INVITED TO Hf STORE. T P'daid at QUE STORE. 600 eons. even Bee ed Fias, ‘Awp EXAMINE THE LanGEsT 4ssORTMENT OF ‘Wallach School’ Building, Capitol Hill.” HEATING STOVES New York City- To Be Found South of We name THE RADIANT HOME, M, BRIGHTON, opposite nov26 FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS We will sell onr entire®stock of first-clasa BOOTS and SHOES at prime cost, as our stock is entirely teolarce. This is no humbug, as a visit to our store will positively convince you. Wename a few Prices: Ladioe’ rood Butt, “shi 5 Ubie Butt. Shoes, 81 45; di pees heel, i do. fine: THE ARGAND, SIR WILLIA! (GH and others, all finely finished and first class. I variety of COOK err ES PORT. ry OK ‘Ber RANG! GES, GRATER, &o NOT VATHOBES, LBY, First-class fare, @ YORK. EO. KNIGHT, ere bare a et. % iF Ezeh atyh Gove On apzy DN BN ONG LOVELL, President. tps NN 8. ST LOVEEL, Proaident_ FORTRESB ‘Wasnireron, Nonrous, From foot of Seventh et. | From Oampbell’s whart, ON! ES: | TUESDAY, THURS- MOAP ABA FRIDAY. =| pay AND SATU: GP. m. AY, atar. mitt bi ido. fi Stops at Piney Point and Point Lookout Going W. B. SEREG © COn | worked butt. hole, @5 05 sna Heturning. os COOKING STOVES. worked but ne, Bt ood until used.” Lichets and staterooms fornaie as ips Forked UU nol, 20. MB. W Reed's Sone 1210 ¢ et u.w.y a. B. Polke The Gas re ant ; Tofant inborn's stati office, ‘on 10th wtret, Si nese peny naveat thelr | Sir artes fron aie. un Omics: Purey G- Suits, 4 DIAL GAB COOKING STOVER ie socices SUS | Ehote, 81, 81.25 BLAS Bh te ee oe a RS and patterns. | This ts the Stove ised by Miss Dods Srna esi eons Dr eek in bee secure on cook suas | Cousins line Sons in all widthe and at t atoniahi sep37-6m ‘Campbell's wharf, Nort low. prices. Spring: 008. for 2, every ind. The entire stock mustand wil beso | NORTH GERMAN LLOYD—Sreamcur PIANOS AND ORGANS. PitHout reserve, therefore ome as early aa possi- ed Rew Yous, Havas, Loxpom, ~ le, as you can save money by buying now. 4 ; ‘on HUES, eda al ‘Sud money refunied Yor woods re: arday from rene. Pier foot ete vines Melons G. “aGricar pranomaKer, oe SINSUBINE < BRO. of passaye:—Froni New York to Havre, Lom~ Fortherly foreman with F. 0. Lights € Jo. (Lighte Boe ee x, BRO, mon and Bremen, fret savin, Seni & Ernet), also Timer with Steinway & Branch Store, 140 Be v-G'in, noa-im | second cabin, 860; woerage, $30 prepaid stoe Koi GLE AGENT for the Genuine ane : certificates, #25. Forfresht or paseuce appiy te Pecan, sito tae WORD ERT TROTK QELBIOHE 00, 4 Bowling Green, Now York. New York, and for the &. cL a an, Ber 407 Tenth Street Northwest. dects RAILROADS. for Washionton® ave. ReE™Mevar. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. THE MODELFASTLINE, AND THE ONLY LINE x ‘THE EAST AND THE WES’ 1A WASHINGTON. DOUBLE TRACK! eae COUPLER! STEEL SCHEDULE TO TAKE EF} WED) DECEMBER 1. 1880. A. M. LEAVE WASHINGTON. t1.50—Ohicago, Cincinnat! and St. Louis Fast Ex- 5 (Baltimore, Ellicott City and way stations. +6.40—Baltimore Express. 6.50—Laltimore, Annspolis, and way. (Piedmont, Rtrasburz, Winchester, Hagerstown and way, via Relay 8.10—Point of ‘ke and way stations. 8.45—Staunton and Valley Express. for Hagerstown and at Point of Frederick ) 9.00—New York, Philadelphia and Boston Rxpreas. 29.00—On Sunday only for Baltimore, Annapo.is and way. 30.00 “Baltimore, Expreas. SIDNEY T. NIMMO has removed to. IDNR FBIM ha | 433 7th street northwest. Agent for the celebrated SHONINGER ORGANB and PIANOS of several No. 1 makers. Cu JKNABE PIANOS —Uneauaiea TOUCH, WORKMANSHIP and DUR: Binrry | Prices as low as consistent with thorough workmanship. Great bargains in ORGANS. ‘Tuning, repairing, packing and Bloving "promptly "at nded to, vat’ REIOHEN- BAGH'S Plano Warerooms, No’ 443 ilth street, above Pennsylvania avenue. Re in TONE, re EDUCATIONAL. FuCeSEu INSTITUTE AND KI ustecf the Kindergarten Normal Institute, Ber'in, Prussia, (having ha.l ten years’ experioxes in school of Boston and Washington), and Miss 0. RIN: NOERB, Who has taught with Miss Poll rin the past five years, priucipals. cation thor cuvh in all deportmenta. Pupils recetve every at- tention, including special adaptation to individnal heeds, ‘and constant supervision even at play. ruction inGerman free. Pupils entered ‘Vorms moderato. Normal class for | , tors cordially invited. 1127 13th st. decl4-t,thesim SCHELL, Teacher of PIANO, ORGAN VOCAL MUSIO. Particular attention to Connects for (Stops st Hyattsville, tion, Jessup's and Hanover.) $10.40—Pittebursh, Chi Louis Express. ". '2.10—Baltimore, Eliicott City, Annapolis and Way Stations. On Sunday only, for Baltimore and way. i5—Bbaltimore Express. ‘5—New York, Philsdelpnia and Boston Express Baltimore and Way Stations. (Winchester, aerick, Hagerstown and Way, via - more, Hyattaville and Laurel Ex- | (Frederick, via Relay. Stops at Anna- A45-PoN of Hocke, Frederick, Hasersto +4.45—Point of socks ie 4 ares why We: Stations. (On Sanday BE. 2 and beginners, as well as those wishing to be q for ‘Teachers. " ‘Terms inoderate, northwest. De 7S Gl HATE INSTITUTE, Qi. JOHN'S COLLEGIATE INSTIT Winchester snd Wey cint of Rocks an ONT A évening Classes in M to Way Stations only.) ‘echoed Phonogray a t4.40—Paltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. 6.45—Philadelphia and Baltimore Express. (Mar- N&s 17, 1880, Prof. aad Mrs. L. K. ©. COL- LIERE’S residence and private School for Boys ia removed to 1538 I street northwest. ‘'Les- sune in the French Lazuage,” dect-3me ETROPOLITAN SEMINARY AND M KINDEKGABIEN BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES AND OHILDREN second term bewins NovEMbER 29TH, Metropolitan Kindergarten Normal Ivstitate, tinsbura and Wey, via Relay. Stopsst Hyatts- ville ard Laurel.) 6.05—Point of Kocks and Way Stations. +6.45—Ba'timore and Way Stations, 7,30—Baltimore and Laurel Express. +8.50_Pittebery, Chicago, Cincianati and Bt. Louis Express. 9.45—Ba'timore, Hysttaville end Laurel Express. t *Phiiadelphia: and Boston Be: 800 18th street northwest. per: J. MAX MUELL&R, Director of Music, St. John's. Episcopal Ohurch, Teacher of Piano, Oran and Vocal Music, 2023 Massachu- setts ave. northwest. dec3-1m" ‘OL, OF MUSIC, 707 8th at. n.w. Rater Cent) | mouth and upwards." Bipcrievost hers in piano, voice, organ, etc. exer cises. organ. iS HE GREAT cbenanc conver ore Grcum | LOG Cere tarabeti nen x SCHOOL BY 0. STIERLIN, ¥ x 5 s . OpELING. Na yal Serine? Fine Arts at Double Track, Steel § INESDAYS, from dec? Day and Evening press. Sleeping Gar to New York, and spso- classes for teachers. Principal, Miss .0.GRAVES, ial Sleeping Car at Philadelphia. taunday only. Otuer trains daily, ex- cept Sunday. . All trains stop at Relay Btation. For further information ap;ly at the Baltimore and Ohio ticket offices, Washington Station, amd 619 and 1351 Pennsylvania avenns, corner 14th street, where orders will be taken for bazwawe to be checked and received st any point in the city. i |ONDAYSaud WED; SPLENDID ScEXeRY Maanrercent EQUIPMENT. ows oes in, the Kindergarten Hall (lower), IN E¥FECT, NOVEMBER “th. 11 8m, 1880. 8.¢. cor. 8th and K sts. n-w. Terms 5 per month: | TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON, from Depot, no30-1m* ixth and B str. follows: ‘ELY, OR IN_CLASS— Ea Grek, french, German an EVENING: CLASSES, $5 per month, invariably in advance. pecial attent aration for Cols West bint. Annapolis sud Al competitive exautuntions” 3. W. FLYNN, A-M., 702 Sthst. n-w. Point, Annay novi? LLE. V. PRUD 'HOMME’S MM citssce, ‘athematics, \d English. an Ne 8:00a.m. daily, except Sunday ; 9:30 p.m. a Beturday, with Palaos Oars toOanandal- ‘Beginne: termediate, Advanced. port, Lock Haven and Elmira, at 10-40 New term ‘Novemnber 20th.” Pap! except SUNGAY- time, and only charged from of or 1d the 0:40 8.m., 2:10 and Glass hours suitable to a, ‘Terme mode 10:00 pm. On Sunday” 2:10 and 10.0. p-m., desired. Oall a .- between express of Puliman Parlor Ore, 9: Mondays and Thursdays. bs mn. er t Sunday. Er Misses EARLE, corner Fayette and doorsetown, D-O- novie-201 For, aitimore, 6 40. 8-00, 9:20, 10-40 a.m., and ‘On 2:1 ), 4:40, 6:40, 9-50 and 10:00 p.m. Mn : Koay) M* SEaeos SeeINARY Sanday, 6:00, 10:00am, 2°10, 0:40, O30 and nee wih XOUNG Lavine, | yor Foys's Oreck Line, 6:40am. and 4:40 p.m. For further information address. Foc aneneohee 401 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. daily, ex- octi6-sm. Mrs. J. SOMERS, Prinotpal. EE ans aaa ee St nw. Classes for advanced pupils in Art and | ._,TON BATLBOAD: 7.20, 9-20, and 11-20a.m., Facren wre: also, in Ancient and Modere, fan: | F020, 9:00, 6:20, 8:00 and 11-40 p.tm. On Sun: 7:00, 9:20, 11:00 and 11:20 a.m. and 8:00 Pp For Richmond and the South, 7:00 and 11-00 a.m. daily, and 5:00 pm. daily, except Sunday. Trains leave Alexandria for Washi: mn, 6:00, 8.! ‘and 10:00 a.m. ; 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 9:1 P.m.. and 12:00 midnight. On Sunday at 8:05, and 10:00 a.m. ; 7:00 and 9:05 p.m. PENCERIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE, ner of 7th and L sta. n.w.—This institution ry Ive and suocessful experience of 16 .. Tt educates young men and women for use- Iness and self-sipport. Its graduates secure tions of trust and profit. Oouree of study and comprises fish La ‘bast: hess Aritimetio, Spencerian Practical Benmansl:tp, Bookkeeping, by single and double entry, adapted to every variety of business; Elooution and . Day and Eyening Sessions. For informs- fon and terms call st the College or address HEN- BO. BPENOER, Princip: auglé HE ARCHEB INSTITUTE, WASH- T a uNGroR, D0. = aa Mans. avenues Washington, De Ge POS yat-ly OE. LABROQUE, 735 12th st. n.w, native Brenchinereetoe seed eraduste of moe ne University, fess i ch ey fen highly educated Parisi: Society. "Metiod oases com: ‘at the offices, north- east corner of 18th street and Pennsylvania avenue, and at the depot, where orders can be left for the checking of baggage to destination from hotels and P. FARMER, General Passenger Agent. FRAN THOMSON, General Manager, ‘Dowd HIS IS THE BURGLA’S SEASON NATIONAL BAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY. 15th Strest and New York Avenue. and Damp Proof Vaults fro: Beeyies, Seems coureees per 81,000. res Silvorw . Board Managers—Willi: PROFESSIONAL. Stick en ‘i RB. R. PARSONS, Drstist, No. 428 7th st. n: | Treasurer; W., bet. Dard E'sts. over Ballantyne’ ‘ang. jenry A. Willard, Jolin Osascls, Th bookstore. E: tt nicht. 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