Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1881, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, VEMBER 12, 1881—-DOUBLE SHEET FASHION WRINKLES. FALL NOVELTIES -MENS’ FASHIONS. Faxcy jewelry multiplies in Paris. Snoottxe Jackers of dark-colored cardinal loth are worn on the streets in New York With black skirts. Paxirrs contipne in Paris. A Costume of seal brown cloth aad plush is the latest. Mapnas handkerchiefs in London. Havererep gold and platina is the latest for gentlemen's pins. ALI. Sorts of felt, plush, and furry beaver hats and bonnets will be worn, but pokes are the first favorites. I -Rust is anew and fash fonable shade of Ted. Tre fashionable fall hat for ladies is the larce nas Le Rhea. of a raw material and millinery pur-, ened for dress trimm poses. . Grecias Bixpe for the hair are made of silver Two ki with pani piain M THe Vere is. with watered bat the two last will only be | around, but those ‘ted rehings adorn y handsome cos- Heavy Dorsre t bottom of the sk Tne SeLr-Cororsp silks that fonndations to watkin are used as re pulte de feta costumes as. Faille | | iy children, girls | jadies, matrens and eld- im their te young exiy wore | Uspress Hats ness men are stiff broader in the brim aT arly in the fail. FN WHEN New Skiers are round and cling- ing in effect the draperies are extreimely vouf- fi and checks who rush after et ar ii ap showite as costume Wo nionable this winter as Surah | rah is hy no means discarded. | Hint Puewrs chosen for all occasions for | gentlemen, for dress as well as for general wear, | knesses ent in | ration in the | " shirt bosom | at witli the low-cut fronts tiny tucks or cords of the | worn on dress | bed in the fe stud which is ne le of striped novelty goods te a half-worn dress. CLoak CLasps made of Roman gold and lapit Tnzuli are very fashi i The stone is of a | dark-biue color, mottled with brown, and it is from this that the much-valued pigment called Biiramarine is made. Tue “too too” in fight wrappers for gentle- men are of Japanese silk of very dark color— brown, maroon, blue or greeu—lizhtly wadded with down and quilted; these cost €25 or €30, and are less eticminate-looking than the em- broidered cashmere wrappers formerly used. Deer Coutanrs, gathered in Mother Hubbard fashion. are made of black and cream Surah and trimmed with beck Spanish lace; they are Jong enough to cover the shoulders. Gicor Pcrrs are seen upon many important @arnage and dinner dresses. PEAKED Of PorxtTeD Bopices with gathered scarf panier draperies will be much worn. Avadinner party given recently in Paris to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, the lady wore an exquisite eestume of blue velvet, with sleeves of Duchess lace. The corsaze, as well as the entire skirt front, was a mass of lace, headed with bands of pale ‘blue ostrich feathers. Her ornaments ‘were diamonds and pearls. Ey Panis dark gray and dark green will be the popaler colors for out-deor costumes, and in the largest orders have been for natural beaver and Kamschatka seal. Miss Faxxy Davenport is having some handsome costumes made for “Camille.” The Sirst is of white embossed velvet, with blue satin | front; the second. of bine antique brocade, with copper co! fe) moire petticoat; the third. a li . With satin train, painted by hand in white lilies, witb large green leaves, and hands« trimmed with pearl: the fourth, 8 pink brocade. uneut velvet, with white satin vot. having thereon large white camelias of pear! and satin. Pexpant-Pockets cf white satin and moire trimmed with Spenish lace make pretty addi- | tions tu evening demi-toilets. Says a foreizn paper: “It is to be regretted that young American society-men should have Sdopted the extremely nasty fashion (no other Word so well expresses the state of the case) of ring at dances and evening parties in the ‘loves. The touch of a always very unpleasant, and a perspiring palm, pressed azainst the deliz ate fabric of a lady's ball-dr waltz. is apt to leave an ind ft. When America does ori; mizht at least invent more sensible and cleanly Ones for this bare-haud custom is undeniably an American one. Moike axp Scan are frequently combined in the same suit with one or more materials, and timmings besides. Taitors who make dress waists for women are becoming numerous in this city. Almost any taiier ean fit a bodice if he has the nerve. Tailor made <ress-s, as worn this season, are of Woolen goods. cut to fit as suusly as riding habits down to the hips, with tizht sleeves, | carried well down over the binsat the Sides, has to be weighted with the flat lead now in use by most dressmakers. Jackets are giving place to long dolmans, Freneh lisses, cirele and Pompadour or Mother Habbard cloaks. Deesses for this season's balls, as far as now constructed, are made short. This is the case! with the finest of imported toilets, the skirts of which clear the floor. They are. asa rule, lavishly trimmed with lace, puffy about the hips, and have pointed bedices, which makes a com- dination tending to exaggerate the distinctive peculiarity of women’s shape. Loxe Pats skirts of velvet will be worn with Louis XV. coats and scarf draperies of | light-hued brocade. : TuERE ake no marked changes made in cut- ting gentiemen’s clothing, though pantaloons ‘are narrower than those of last season, and all coats are shorter. including the Prince Albert frock-coats. dress-coats, morning cut-aways, sacks, and also overevats. The suit for busi } ids, checks, or mixtures of color. The coat may be a sack with one or four bat- tons. or an English cut-away with the same number of buttons. The vest, cut high like the Coat, has a collar or not. according to the fancy ofthe wearer. The trousers are very close-tit- The semi-~lress suit for chureh’ and after- Boon wear is really the day dress suit, asit is A Learmed Barber's Observation on Baldness, Is it true that civilization and baldness march side by side, step for step, and that the man of the nineteenth century crosses the bald line, to speak, at amuch younger ace than did his less cultivated and more leisurely ancestor of the eizhteenth? Several ingenious writers have adopted this hypothesis and constructed inter- esting physiolagico-philosophical theories it, but it keems to rest as yet on an insufficient statistical basis. It is possible that Herbert Spencer may have collected data on the sub- ject—he has about pretty much everything else— but. if so, he has not yet made public the re- sulis of his investigation. Perhaps Colonel Sea- ton, if the matter were put before him ia the proper licht by eminent scientific persons, might be induced fo do something when the time comes around for taking the next census. very few questions come home more ly than this to men’s hearths and erani- ums. The vast majority of Americans of the voting sex are either already bald or afraid of becoming baid by and by. Witness the prolific brood of hair-invigorators and_hair-restoratives that swarm in the advertising pages of our news- Papers, and seraurbte in merry rivalr: and dead-wali, towering cliff and way. der. Here and there a schock-headed, bristled veteran of the Andrew Jackson and cht type laughs the comm peril to aid there, too, a man may be found he does not care a copper whether ‘ks to iis pate or falis off; set down as cith Iman can sai acious b1 be doubte “why ¥ Wheeis up shout inware pest Its fortieth year, s evening hemisphere” ect of bald- alas! for H. Pujol, the learned Fr f the New York Sun, for a brochure of unique interest and vaiue which takes rank at once among the most illuminating of modern contributions to th literature of baldness. Under the title of “Figaro in New York,” Monsieur Puiel has re- publ aur metropolitan eotem- porary. pias an essay onthe art of ta of the hair. Ex-hair-dresser to the Joc! Paris wielding tie pen as gracefully as curling-iron, person wortit e Monsienr Pujol is every way a| of attention. . indeed, endeavor to ¢ them that Soers and Cwsar were as bald a ¥ such transparent flatter Baldness, from my point of view, 1 a mark of superiority. In ty iong experience as a hair- dresser I have not.ced thai it is only the men endowed with su: erior intellizence, such as philosophers, literary men and inventors- word, men who aid the march of progress the products of their brains—wi bald. This is not the case with the unfortunates deprived of reason. 1, everybody else, have re- marked that idiots and cretins have skulls abundantiy suppiied with capillary tubes. But he dashes their hopes at 0: hat while hair that hess will general aid in the natur out from natural cai He cites Dr. B: who told him years ago that nothing could make the hair grow when baldn had “This Ibelieve firmly,” says the learned bar- — For, if there was anything of the kind, we would not see so many New York doctors with heads as completely destitute of hair as the backs of turtles. I ain even persuaded that these | gentlemen would follow the example of these Greek heroes who, under the leadership of Jason, made a voyage to Colchis to bring back the Golden Fleece. Modern Argonauts, the doctors would consider themselves happy if they could bring back from such a voyage the secret of restoring the human fleece. I don't think I am far from the truth wien I say that during the past 25 years that I have practiced the profession of hair-dresser, I have made the | trial upon different bald heads of more than 500 different hair tonics, and I am bound to admit that I never saw a single head the hair of which was restored after baldness. At the end of so many failures, I am completely undeceived as to the value of all the preparations, and I would not now recommend any one of them. Then, as though to quench the last glimmer- ing spark of hope, he says to the bald brother- hood, who are investing in tonics and washes with such pathetic persistency, these terrible words: ~You would have jusi much success | ‘if you were to try to make the teeth you have lost grew in again.” To persons not yet bald, but fearful of becom- ing 0, the learned barber gives a few practical | counsels, such as these: If your hair is weak or thin; trim only the ends, don't haye your head shaved, whatever you do; wash your hair with soap and water almost hot, rinsing after- ward with fresh water; never use any #reasy preparation on your hair; don't wear your hat | in-doors. We commend his advice to the atten- tion of those readers whoih it concerns. As for our bald readers. we can only follow Monsieur Pujols example and refer them to the consolation of piilosophy.—¥. Y. Sun. steel iced oy Armee A Friendly Game. From the Brookiyn Excle. “Say, mister!” said a tall, sunburned man with a wide brimmed hat, as he edged his way into the managing editor’sroom yesterday after- noon. “Say, mister, do you kaow anything about keards?” “Why, yes,” responded the editor, “I know how to play ‘everlasting’ and ‘old maid’ and things of that kind; why?” “That's just what [ want to ask about. Now in playing ‘old maid,’ euppese the man who holds the age antes, and passes on the draw, whose bet is it?” : “That isn't the way I play %,” said the edi- tor. “In my game the player who has a qu fehrollipe otner cards are played is the ‘old “* Perhaps it’s ‘everlasting’ that I'm thinking of.” mused the Piste) Hos in ‘ever- lasting’ you should catch an old maid on the draw and when the rest of the keards was play yed you found you hadn't filied. What u I don’t see how that question could arise in that game,” said the editor. laybe you are talking of the game calied -poker.’” Poker’! what's that?” asked the stranger, looking up in innocent surprise. “That's where they have ages and fulls and that sort of thing.” ‘Do you kuow how to play it, stranger?” asked the tall man, drawing out a pack of cards, “Will you show me how?” ‘The editor ran over the cards and dealt two hands rapidly. Now,” he explained, “two pairs beat one = three of a kind beat two pairs, a flush beats threes, and four of a kind beat a flush. What have you g. The stranger down a mixed hand and the editor explained that it was worthless, as his own hand held a pair. “Lemme dealem once,” said the sti running them off clumsily. ‘Five each?” “Yes,” replied the editor, seeing that he had | gotten hold of a sharper and making up his ind to teach him a lesson. ‘Five each.” “Now what do we do?” asked the sharper. “If we were betting, 'd have to ante a dollar and you'd cover it with two. Then if I wanted to come in| I'd plank another dollar, and ‘hen——. t ” “Hold on! hold on! don’t go so fast. You put up two dollars at different times and I put up two all at once. That it?” ‘es, and then we draw.” “ Le’s try it, once for fan, if you don't mind,’’ said the sharper with unnatural eagerness. ‘all right,” smiled the editor, and he threw two dollars on the table, which were promptly covered. Worn to all entertainments given in the daytime. such as afternoon teas, receptions. and wed- dings. This consists ofa Prince Albert double- Dreasted frock-coat of black or dark twilled cloth—young men prefe marked diagona! lines; this coat is finished with silk facings, and the vest of the same cloth is €ut very hizh to match the coat so that only Srtte of the folded scarf isshown below the . The tro izt ir E {izhs ? i ager cine 38 see inet & 5 if g i Fi ie iH ; Elysians sucks, ip § F aon say we draw. How many do I “You may take what you like, I don't want any,” replied the editor. “I stand pat.” “Then I'll take one keard. Do we bet now?” “Yes.” The stranger bet cantiousty, andthe editor raised him, and was seenuntil there were fifteen come on gradually. | i The Sky as a Cemetery. From the New York Sun. “Ihave been watching the star called the Winking Demon,” said the astronomer, as he extended his hand to pull the reporter npon the roof. “These autumn mornings are a little chilly, but the air is so deliciously pure and clear that one doesn't mind if it bites a little. Besides, it is worth the risk of catching cold to see the Demon wink. You are just in time to watch him as he gradually reopens his eye. If you had come a few minutes earlieryou might have seen him shut it.” “Where is this remarkable demon star?” “There, almost overhead at this hour. Ifyou want to point him out to your friends yon have only to observe that he isa little south of that bending row of stars that marks the constella- tion Perseus, and that thereis a little group of smaller stars near bim. Now, you see, his light is pretty faint, but not so faint as it was a few minutes ago. In three or four hours his eye will be wide open again, and he will shine as a star of the second magnitude. These winkings of Algol, or the Demon, occur a little oftener than once in three days.’ ” “What causes them?” ‘Ah. now you come to the strangest thing of Is there anything in the appearance of the sky, all glittering with stars, that suggests to your mind that it may be a vast cemetery? ridiculous! you say. Very well. You will not dispute that the earth we tread is, from one point of view only a vast barying ground, which contains the remains not only of countiess gen- erations of mea, but of whole races and tribes arious animals and plants. Just so in the mat us the dead are mingled with the to my mind the most suagestive ry of modern astronomy that the uni- is full of dead suns—euns whose light has gone out, whose fires have been extinguished, and which no longer shed life-giving and life preserving rays upon the worlds that may be i ined yet circling in coldness and about them. What nas this to do wi Winking Demo: Why. everything. I believe it is generally conceded, though Prof. New- |} comb seems to dissent, that the variations in the t of Algol are caused by some huge dark ml speed. There are other variable stars whose phenomena can be accounted for inthe same way. In the case of Algol there is evidence | that the dark body is rapidly approacning the star, drawing nearer with every circle. When it strikes, if it is to strike, who ean picture the ex- tent of that catastrophe? Then, indeed, t ysterious dark body will become visible. bla ith the light of a handred suns and unable | to escape from the fiery destruction that it has brought apon the star.” re there any other dark bodies like this ‘n to astronomers?” Oh, yes; the great star Sirius is accom- | panied by a huge body of the kind. It is not al- together dark, for with large telescopes it can occasionaily be seen climmering faintly close to j thestar. Astronomers knew it was there be- fore they got a glimpse of it, for it caused turbances in the preper motion of the star. Another of these dark bodies which astrono- mers are sure e3 although no human eye ever saw it, is dogging the star Procyo1 the brightest in the sk, You may see now low down in the east, north of Sirius ana below the Twins. The invisible body that hovers about it is evidently of large size cau considerable perturbations in the star's motion. itmay once have been a sun as brilliant as Procyon itself, but now not a ray comes from Il, astronomers ean point out the changes $ position; as its attraction pulls the star y this way and now that. “If space is filled with these mysterious dark bodies, collisions between them and living. or light-giving, suns are not impossible. You Know that our sunis in rapid motion, cir his family of worlds along with him in his flig! So all the stars are instinct with motion. Our lives are so short and their distances are so great that we can hardly appreciate these mo- tions, yet they are swift beyond comprehension. Some of the stars are approaching, others rece- ding, all moving in some direction. The con- stellations whose forms are so familiar to us are talling to pieces like card houses. Ina few thousand years there willbe no Great Dipper, no Orion with his club, no Southern Cross. The heavens would look like a new universe to one of us who revisited the earth in the ten thous- verse andth century. Now, ifwe suppose that there are as many dark or dead euns as there are liv- ing ones, it is not difficult to believe that occa- sional! there might be coilisions between tiem. the chances against any such collision very, very great, and yet some of tie cases of stars that have suddenly blazed out hing brilliancy and then disap- ay be accounted for in this way. To snow you that there is no exaggeration in what I'am saying about the multitude of dead suns in the universe, see what Sir John Lul- bock said in his inauzural address at the meet- ing of the British Association in Auust last: *: ‘The floor of heaven is not only ‘thick inl: with patines of bright gold.’ but studded also with extinct stars, once probably as brilliant as our own sun, but no’ tells us that our sun itself will be .000 years hence.” “But we need not wander off in space in search of the sky's untombed dead. We right ut hand, circling about our own earth an extinct sun, but a dead world. TI some dead, and has been dead these million years. There the astronomer, if he fancies himself the d's surgeon, may study the ef malady that no’ surgery could car ds and suns, 1 old and die; but ‘unlike men and women, they have no grave but the open and boundless heavens.’ * ———_--___ ‘The Dreaded James Brothers. The home and rendezvous of the James boys for many years past has beea within fifteen miles of Bardstown, in Nelsoa county, Kentucky, on the forks of Salt river, in aheavily-wooded region, surrounded by rocky hills barred by steep ra- vines. Although within fifty miles of Louis- ville, the outlaws were perfectly secure in their retreat, and they made for it after each raid There their horses were trained, their booty di vided, and they were surrounded by friends, who purtished an intruder with death and kept tem of guards extending to Louisville. y sign of a detective campaign was promptly reported to the James part- ners. Don Penz, sheriff of the district, owed his life to the James boys during the war, and he would never goback onthem. The wife of Jesse James brought her children and took up her quarters last summer at Don Penz’s house, where she was recognized and then dis- appeared from the neighborhood about four days before the Winston train robbery. Shortly after the train robbery on the Chicago and Rock Island road, in last July, a party consisting of the James boys, John Jarrett, Ed. Miller, Jim Cummings and a man named Leith, were ‘seen moving toward the Bardstown hills. Captain Bligh, chief of the Louisville detective force, ‘was posted on these matters, and on the 224 of August was told that the gang were in the Salt River Hilts, contemplating the robbery of the pay train coming from Louisville to y the workmen on the extension from Tay! ille to Bloomfield. ‘The tracks were laid as faras Smileytown, not far from which some armed men—the James zang— were seen asleep in the woods, Capt. Bligh determined to set & trap, and a pay-car was attached to the pas- seager train the following day. In it were placed fifteen armed men trom the Louisyille force, and the train steamed down to the end of the track and awaited the robbers. ‘They, how- ever, had beenwarned, and watched the train from the hill-tops, The mission failed of its purpose, and the armed force returned to Louis- ville. The gang, becoming convinced that it was unsafe to remain in the immediate vicinity, disappeared. It is believed that Governor Crittenden had knowledge of many of the facts detailed in this account pete his interview here withthe railroad ial, which resulted in the offering of the large reward some months —St. Louis Republican. ce men and wom grow doilars there was no money editor, and you,” . “You owe me laid dot sralght, flush. wo a fifteen dollars.” : cireain- in the didn't know there was but one revolving around it at a frightful rate of id | vad and cold as Helm- | ‘The Lime-Kiia Ciab. “rom the Detroit Free Press. ~Am Judge Cadaver in de hall to-night?” softly queried Brother Gardner, as he looked down the aisle toward the stool on which the fat and juicy judge was unanimously reposing. “If de fadge am‘in de hall he will please step dis way.” continued the president, after a mo- ment of deep silence. ‘The Judge slowly arose and meandered for- ward, energetically chewing ata piece of alip- pery elm to hide his agitation. “Bradder Cadaver, I have a few words to say to you to-night,” said the , a6 he looked down upon his shiny ‘Deodder day I happened to paes a policy an’ I saw you gwine in. Dat same evenin’, as I was a salooa, I saw you standin’ at de Ent aglass of whisky in your han’ I kin also recall de fack dat I hev not seen you at work fur de las’ month.” “Thasn’t been feelin’ strictly well,” pleaded the judge. “You war well ‘nuff to play policy.” 1—I—didn’t put up but ten cents.” “And what about de whisky drinkin’?” “I was feelin’ powerful weak, sah.” “Too thin—too thin,” replied the president.as he shook his head._. “Now, den, I want to spoke to you. In some respects you ama good man. T dean’ believe you would steal, I hey neber cotched you lyin’, an’ I reckon you am a good man athome. Now, if somebody told you dar was a gold ring in de bottom ot de ribber some- whar’, would yon pay ten cents a chance to fish fur it?” “No, sah.” “‘Sartin, yon wouldn't. Policy am a long, wide. deep ribber. De d ring at the bottom ama five-~doliar prize which some poo’ critter ; fishes out arter payin’ 210 or $15 fur de chance. You wouldn't frow money inte Lake Erie an’ Spect to git it back; but you'll frow money into de pond of policy aw’ spect to git out ten times as muchas you tossed in. Drap it—drap it, Brudder Cadaver, _befo’. you lose de title of Judge an’ get dat of Fool.” “Yes, sah; I'l drap it te once.” “An’ you drank whisky. De man who goes |into a saloon am no better dan de who | keeps it. ff I should axyouto put your foot win a hot stove you would think me erazy. 4 yit. when you bura your stomach, befuddie your brain aud make a brute of yeurself, and hev to | pay fur de privilege be , What shal I think | of you? God made 4 jot, but it was left to rliisky to make de fool.” “Tit nebber tech de stuff again, sah—neb- bin loafin’ aroun’. Brudder iness begins wid laziness. A | When Iazi es8 Comes home pride goes away to Visit de nayburs. Whisky inay break a woman's . but laziness will freeze her to death ‘ou go home to-night spit on yer han | aw ax de ver butes. When yer | turn outer bed in de mawin’ freeze hold of de | ax or spade or brush, an’ hunt fur a job. Dis- | solve partnership wid cut de ‘acquaint- ance of whisky, an’ time you gin | tempted to play policy come ober tomy cabin ax ne to kick you all aroun’ the doah-yard. n now sot down.” ie a ee Effects of Lightning on Trees ucar a ‘Telegraph Wire. | been brought to light by M. Montigny, in a re- | cent examination of poplars bordering part of a | road in Belgium, between Rochefort and Dinant. |The part in question is some 4,600 metres in length, and runs westward; it is level for some metres, through a wood, traverses a wooded plateau 200 metres in extent, then descends still through wood, toa plain. A telegraph wire rans near the row of Virginia poplars on the north side. and it appears that, out of nearly 500 pop- lars forming this row, 81, or a sixth. have been struck by lightning. Hardly any have been struck in the other row. The trunks have been mostly struck on their south side and nearly opposite the wire. Comparing different portions of the road, it is found that in the horizontal part none of the (129) trees show injury frou lightning, or at most only one (a doubtful ease but as the road rises through the wood the cases quick asnine out of fourteen tree: On the slope percent. 3 kinds of injuries: (1) the torn and detached on a limited part ot the | trank; (2) a furrow straight or (rareiy) spirai, | made on the tree. from near the wire dow | the ground; and (3)a peculiar oval wound, with |longer axis vertical, and colored | brown. Now, the furrows, which are probab due to the most violent discharses, are relative’ | most frequent on. the plateau and on ti restern slope, w lig iS, does nut tree. but st E tion of the process is to the follow! Suppose a thunder-clond charged with pos elect Along telegraph wire under i thouzh insulated, tive tension in th 1 first, then His ith the ground, and the tea- t | wire, yet does not strike this. the Insulating cups presenting an obstacle to its prompt aud rapid escape. It finds a better conductor to earth in a neighboring poplar, wet with rain. From the facts indicated it results that of two similar houses, one built on a plain, the other in a wood, and having a telezraph wire fixed to | them, the latter is the more liane to injury by | lightning, and the dar is g1 wv if the wood enclosing the house be upon an eminence.— Lonlon Time: ———+¢2—_____ mfluence of Building So- cieties. A noteworthy example of the good influence of buiiding societies in encouraging habits of saving was brought to light recenfly by the m: turing of some building society stock of whicl a poor (or otherwise poor) washerwoman held The Good she paid her dues promptly each month, and her account at the close was clear of all fiacs. The amount of her payments was $1,268, and at the close of 114 months she was entitled to #2.400. As she did not draw the money at once. an in- terest-allowance was made to her, but this had to be stopped after a time to compel herto take her money from the society. She received alto- gether about $2,450, the foundation of this lit- tle fortune having been earned at the wash-tub, saved by frugality and by means of the building reeks acting as a sort of compulsory saving fund. ——_——_~-+-____ ‘The Germ of Malaria. Among the numerous other researches now being followed out on the Pastorian lines, I may notice two as likely to prove of the highest practical importance: those which, in the hands of Dra. Klebs and Tommasi Cradeli, seem likely to demonstrate that marsh-maiaria derive their potency from organic germs (an idea that singularly harmonizes with the periodicity which is the special character of the varied forms of disease they induce,) and those which, based on the orignal discovery of Villemin (in 1865) as to the communicability of tubercle by moculation, are rendering it that this terr ‘The Indianapolis street ear company is build- | Section of ing a new kind of street car, the principal feat- ‘ures of which area loafer am as much despised as a drunkard. | Some instractive facts in tiis connection have | distance, then rises gradually to a height of 61 / y multiply, and on the wooded | rest part as if in direct | twelve shares. For nine years and six months | U' A Peculiar Trait of Colored Women. From the Louisville (Ky.) Post. “ Admitting, as we must, that the negroesare more or less imitators, how are we to explain the fact that they never kiss, for I do not be- lieve that anybody ever saw two negroes kiss. I have attended a number of negro weddings, and I never yet saw the bride kissed, while, on the other hand, a wedding among the whites. with its attendant reception without kisses. would be something so strange as tocall forth general comment. I have aiso heard that In- tians never kiss. Are we to suppose. thea.that kissing is confined to the white rare? I have always considered kissing as an wsthetic plea- sure, to be thoroughty enjoyed only by those of a delicate and refined temperament. You will also find that among the lower classes of white women kissing is a rarity.” «* For 20-odd years I have lived in the south, have had necroes in my house ever since I was a child, during my whole life I have been int mingled with them, and never but ence have | seen one negro girl kiss another.” “Then you have seen an exception to what you claim is a rut * Yes; but then rant, bungling mi was done in such an er as to be really fan, . ow £0; “Fwill tell you that, and, if ever you have an occasion to ‘dissertate’ onthe art of kissing, you tay find a place to fit itin. One of them was avery bright mulatto, and stood i gate; tlie other ently av) outside of t talking, wh girl threw he ms around | blacker one, h the ferociousness of an angered politician. gether, said “Good? She probably called go aS an ex bumped their heads to and ran into the house. .and I have let it but. in trath, it in all x I have never seen two genuine 1 women kiss, and I have often heard my father remark the same th Tie was over 69 y An’ | old, and frequently told us it was a tradition | through all his family the negro women never | kiss. “A friend of mine, who has been a great | traveller, has visited Africa and Hayti, has re- marked to me the strange fact that negro women never kiss. In primitive states, the conquered m renders himself, his weapons, and whatever of his clothing i becomes a stance, relates of s off'a great part of ti on us.” In another t abridzed to the pres In Abyssinia inferic superiors. A’ furt among the salute Europeans by sli Tobe from the left shonlder; special respect is shown by comple ing the shoulder. this cevem ony ntation of the ird! even there tely uncove in other tribes they also dot the cap. Hence, it seems that “tue removal of the hat among European peoples, often re- duced among ourselves to touching the bat, is a remnant of that process of unclo bir by which in early times the captive ex the yielding up of all he had.” Not less interesting is the explanation of the origin of shak From kissing as a . to kissing t quires no further explan of affection, no less than submii | tial part of propitiatory ceremony. “If, of two | persons, each wishes to make an obeisance to | the other by kissing his hand, and each out of | compliment refuses to have his own hand kissed, what will happen? Just as when leay- | ing a room each of two persons, proposing to | give the other precedence. willrefuse to go first, | and there will result at the doorway some con- | flict of movements preventing either from ad- iz; £0, if each of two tri hand and refuses to have his will result a raising of the h | the other toward his own lips; a /a drawing of it down agai nately. Clearly, the di between the imple squeeze, h this salute is now zed. and the old-fashi eds the difference bet y nd the movemeat that would result from the effort of each to kiss the hand of the other.” | othe , we have said, is a natural expression of affection; and it is curious to note the analo- gous manifestations amonz animals andsome of fection for his master by licking his hand. e distinguishes her lamb by the olfactor ntly derives pleasure from i ne sense is used amo: . it is fou is d ofe do not kisseach otter the lip and eek aud make a strong inhala- 8 Journal. Immediately after the holidays every woma) ) Who has endeayored to present each of her inti e friends (and the number increases at this tine somewhat after the manaer of the modern Sunday school) with a specimen of her haadi- work rescives that she will bezin next midsum- mer to prepare her holiday gifts, so that, allow ing for interruptions aud delays, she may have jays earlier the next Christ- This woman, wherever she may be, will perhaps be glad to be reminded gently of this resolve and to have a few suggestions given her in regard to some of the pretty things she can make hout too great an outlay of time. A gift to baby, which the mother will ap- preciate, is one or more fancy bibs; a new and really striking way to make them is to en broider little figures, after the Kate Greenaway style, on the front of the bib. Sujpose the ma- terial to be fleece-lined pique, which is both pretty and durabie; bindthe edve with a narrow bias band of white or color, or trim witiy Ham- ‘¢ or torchon, or button-hole it with wor cotten; then trace some quaint figure on it, either in the ceuter or at one side, and work it in outline stitch; the embroidering may be done with marking-cotton, or with soft, untwisted silk. but first take the precantion to try the silk in lukewarin water to make sure that it will not fade, and so love’s labor be lost. Serviceable Splashers to be put on the wall back of the was! stand are made of linen momie cloth or com- mon white linen; or Java canyas. Trim the edze with torchon, and work in the outline stitch; a border and centre piece, two figures like Jack and Jill, or Old Nother Hubbara and. her dog, are pretty. mmock piliows are de- sirable. Make a cushion about half a yard square, or a trifle larger, according to your taste; cover with cretonne of some bright color, makea puff to go around the edge. and put it on 80 that the edges will make a little ruffie for heading. The under side of the pillow does not need any trimming; the upper angle may be ornamented in any way to suit your fancy. A simple and effective way is to put a handsome, wide ribbon diagonally across it, and ateach side work some fancy stitches with silk, or you may work a border and put a monogram in the center. Table covers and scars are as popular and hand- some as ever. Elegant ones are made of bro- cade velvet or plush, with borders of different colored silks, satins or plush. A beautiful scarf is made of cardinal plush, with a border of green plush, with blocks of tan-colored silk with pansies embroidered on them—one pansy and two or three green leaves on each block. Less expensive but really handsome ones are made of double-faced Canton flannel, with a border of some richly colored and heavy ribbon; at one applique work in the form of a bouquet, or some quaint figure maybe put on; fringe is ross vie, botlom. "By ekereaing & my Biren on Fe Poet seed AS AEE Jm Wessrer to Rev. Aminadab Biedao, of a Light Colored Tabernacle: is + | a | uw. Refer by fs Malaria. | Regalarity ofhabit ia eating, in sleeping, in exercise, is essentiai to good health; food, na- tritious, deaa awd well evoked, is another eential; euitapie clothing and hatitation an- - other; cleanliness another. Boerheres’s three Tules for henlth are “keep the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels open.” The diti- culty with most people is that they want to do exactly as they please, eat when they have an hnpulse in that direction, work when the ft takes them, wear what they fancy, go without sleep, indulge in all sorts of irrezularities and impulses and yet have good health ail the time The thing can’t be done. We are under ts and health and happiness can be secured o ¥ law. Ifthe skin is kept warm, clean and ina healthy condition, one is in I ref suf fersne from malaria even ina locality. Bast Indian kind forest. and elothed ia. It isthe practic fans to visit | patients sick infectious diseases after they | pave eaten a full mn a manner insensible, the by the ste | the year row introduced ¢ one compeiled to inornit unwholesor ing a cup of is 9 being less ripe and more efi- | cient in its properti ¢ a medicine and le a beve antcy rove the © to the earth. | Savr as a Propiyi.ac | Ina paper read at the Medical society of Vie- | toria, Australia, Dr. Day stated that, havin, ded din aut appli r euployment hi been combined with has seklom seen bl from ined fe composed salt disscived in a | two to drink occa- e the gargle as a prophy- | psa day. ___ BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES. lJ w. NEDY SCO, 8 jd. | Established 1899,) Dealers in BAR MON, STEEL, TIN PLATE, ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS, COACH SUPPLIES, BUILDER'S HARDWARE. 606 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE j | x. . B.—Store closed at 6 p.m. MITATION STAINED GLASS. This grand and beautiful invention Gills a vacancy lous felt in the crnamentation of common windows, gins, &c.. and produces all the unique effects of the | Teal lines and colored glass in richly etal #iuss windows. For descriptive price list, cal] or send posal New desicus jurt received. Directions for is Kiven to every customer. Agency, 949 1 etree, permnission to Chureh of the Incarnation. o+3m* s. CULVERW ELi., Act. for D.C. pesss ous, WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS. JOHNSTON?’S RALSOMINE and MASURY'S LIQUID PAINTS, Pou ready for use. (Send for circulars. Eetimates furnirhed to Builders. A fuli stock of AR- Tis ‘UPFLIES always on band. GEORGE RYNEAL, Ir., J. H. JON an27 12th street Wharf, 7 o'clock a.m. for as foliows:—On Tnes- tor Bi ine Lend- and Mutiox Crock; on Sundays Ma 2 Tehri on alternate ceys, fone and revuruiusr; also stops at Matta Wondayeand Fridaye ay. | NOTICE. N : = FOR POTOMAC KIV On ona efter NOVEMBER 3p, 1881, the ARROWSMI1 H- will leaye her wh at? y MONDAY, THU man. 028 Fe XORFOUE, ‘MONKOE, POIN JOHN Kk. WOOD, Agent. MOUTH, FORTRESS POINT AND Steamer EXCELSIOR on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS at 5 p.m. FALL AND WINTER AERANGEMENTS, BEGIN- NING OCTOBER Ist. First-class fare to Norfoik and Fort Monroe. $2 50 Sccond-claes fare to Fortress Monroe end Nor 1.50 | Eirst-class fare to Piney Point aud Point Lookout... 150 ‘Second-class to Piney Point and Point Lookout. 15 ‘Tickets and starerooms for sate and information tur- B. W. Reed’s Sons, 1216 street northwest; 1351 yivania avenue north: 2H B. Of at Company's Office, 7th etreet wharf. GEORGE MATTINGLY, General Supt, WM, P. WELCH, Agcut. ok ORFOLK AND NEW YORE STEAMERS. STEAMER LADY OF THE IAKE will leave her wharf, foot of 6th strest, every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 5 o'clock p.m., touch- it it Piney Point, ‘Lookout and Fortreas Monroe. Facursion tickets will be iasued an f Piney Point « by obedience to law, only as we learn and obey | a i Dirwrnenn.— | fa | Reare experience, will euarante en RVAILROADS, | SEES Anbar VALI nattmoaD, ONLY ROUTE To Tre | CAVELNS OF LURaY,. Tet feat No [ ope all n elsewhere. Noa re leon ilinainated ly the aid of elmc- \ © vidoe iore unattaineble ‘under tre efor the iumination by t dew are furnished free, ee tarmele UGH TICKETS, ar roads. CHAS. PORATO i . = Phi ‘ 5g Bae 2 AND ONO RAILROAD. fhE MODEL FAST LINE, AND THE ONLY LINB THE FAST AND THE Wisi, VIA WASHINGTON, bow ® TRACK! a ef COUPLER! STEEL co ] SCHEDULE TO TARE EFFECT SUNDAY, MAY 2p, iss WASHINGTON, SDATL AND ST. LOUIS t city, and Way Stations, We EXPUESS = Or Atuajein and Way (Piedmont, re, Wine: Maxerstown, and Way, via Stations, Kock and Way NEW LORK AND BOSTON rath AYHTAL D ESS | (ean- hocks for y only, for Baltimore, Annapolis and SS (stops at Hy i, Aunapoiis AGO, ¥ VX grriown aud at Potat of 29-00 aut 0:06 attra, iovewom, CINCINNATI AND ie oH Liles EXPRESS. Taitinore, Ellicott City, Annapolis and Way Ste £) pM t BALL 1500—-BAL LL atioun (Winchester, Prmde Wary vin ieelags) WATISVILEE AND LAUREL derick, via Kelay, stojs at Annap- Keke, Frederick, Hoearstown, Wine Slaw — Sunday to Point af uly.) fy Stations. on (Martius bang ctinvilie and Laurel) ious. LE AND LAUREL KG, CINCINNATI and ST, LOUBS Sion cual or tot off pemeuere station between Waskingtou aud Anmapolia {Sundays only. Other trains daily, except auuet ae a Pew will be aay point in THE 1881 PENNSYLVANIA TO THE NOK H, WES: DOUBLE TRACK, SPLENDID SceNcH TRAINS LE: of rm street, be checked and Te 1881 DD SULTHWEST. RAILS. 5 AG OT NOV i Mie AVE, WABHINGTON, fe ixth and B strects, 2s follows: For Pitteturg acd the West Cneaco Tiinited Ex press ci Pulimen Hotel and Sleep eping Care at 8:00 aun., daily: 10:30 wan, daily, with rom Cincinnati, ft to Gi nt Ghicaco; 9:30 p.m. daily, with’ Palace Cars BALIINORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. For Cann’ Kochester, Bult Cann Banor Gar (2 Watkins anid the No is, except Sunday, 9:20 pan. ras. with Palace Gary to Canandaigun For Williamsport, Lock Haven and Etmira, at 10:30 a am. daily, exons Sun For New Vouk aud the Eat £00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. 25 10:00 and 20:15 p.m. "On Sunday 2:00, 10:00 sina press of Pulituan Parlor Oar, 0 ‘etn. dail Sunday. For Brooklyn, N.Y-, ail throuch teuins connect at Jar fey City with bouts of Brooklyn Anuex, direct transter to Fulton stivet. avoiing aouble city ferriage across New For Puitidely ia, 8-00 a.m. 10 arid 10:15 py 20-15 p.m, and 10:15 p.m. For Poje's Creek Line, 6:40 a.mand 4:60 p.m. dailg, at f. For Ataf 80 ‘a.m. and 4:40 p.m. daily, exeapt a ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILWA’ AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHING! ee, -“ :20,9:20, and 11:30 a.m... 4: 1%) ae on Sunday a eh am. and p.m. For Riczmond and the South, 6:6 and a 5. dail; vt i - om day, abd 5-00 p.m. daily, exoejt Sunday. ‘Trains eave Alexandria for Washington, 6:00, 8-05 an@ 20:00 a.m. : 4:10, 0, S40, 7:00 and 9.10 my. #1 0 midnight. On Sunday at 8:05. 10:00 a.m. | 7:00 and 9:05 p.m. Tickets and information at the office, northeast corner of Sth street and Perueylvanieavetue, chd.at the desma where orders can be eft for the checking uf bagiure & - i. WOOD, General PRANK THOMSON, Ge novzd MEDICAL, & YE. HASSENPLUG CAN BE CONSULTED A sli Chrome Diseases Wednesday of each week, ut strest nortuweet, from Bam. 105 vm. nil DP ZORETON, THE MOST RELIABLE AND longest estabiished epecialed in this city, Urinary Oncanr, Nervous sud Seminal cy Goss of wextal a yPhilis positively cured in 38> al. 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