Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1882, Page 7

THE NEW PONNETS—FASHIONADLE COLORS SPRING GUODS—IMITATION GINGHAMS, ETC. ‘Tene is thé new shade of red. Tie coming bounet is the capote. Tre dark green is still in favor. Riwnons, sashes, and bows for spring. Tae new sateens look like silk. They are finely finished. RSUCKER stripes are imitated admirably in the new American print Brrano, a dotted embroidered silk lace, bids fair to be the rival of Spanish. Trxy landscapes appear as figures on some of the new printed cotton goods. Scoren ginghams show the same heather “mixtures that appear in the new cheviots. Tue new organdie musiing are woven in large plaids, bors, and stripes of pure colors. Pins? Sprina Wraps will be short visite with long front tails. red rosebads in chene effects on a ground of shrimp pink are among new sateens for spriny wear. Tue first importations of spring silks have moire grounds with geometric and flowered damasse designs. Tue style of figures on the new sateens are in small flowers, leaves, and stems ia mele or jar- Giniere effects. Japanese designs in mele effects, combining Tantern: grounds of French foulards. Prerry combinations of color in grounds and dots or designs are brown on cream, blue on maize, and rose color on pearl. Tue grounds of many of the new sateens are of shrimp pink, shell pink, cream, pearl shades, and dark colors, and also black. Some of the new American prints imitate the | new striped Scotch ginghama so well as to be istinguishable from them. New black silks have large polka dots, moons, crescents, and leaves on plain satin, satin mer- Veilleux, and satin de Lyon surfaces. Piatn sateens, in solid colors to match the ground of printed sateens, are shown for skirts of costumes to be composed of the two stufls. Tne hair is dressed close to the head, very plainly aud simply, and frizzes, when worn, are made to lie flat under ‘bang neta.” Esrintic toilets are already in course of pre- paration for watering place wear during the coming season. Hanpsome chenille frinzes curled, and very dull. are used with great effect upon mantles of vigone, Sicilienne or satin. Tue new embroidered French Swiss muslins bave lace effects in round spots and geometric | patterns, between which are introduced dote and leaf and flower designs and embroidery. Tue new dress linens for spring wear come in delicate tones of color, fizured in the weaving in geometric and polka dot designs for over- dresses, and in plain stuffs to match for skirts. Tue new prints, as well as all the new goods of the coming season. come in separate pieces for skirts and overdresses, showin that com- posite costumes will be as fashionable as ever. PLeatep blouses, one pleat down the back and two in front, and piain round, basques, belted, are still the accepted waists for ging: hams, etc. Hee are the fashionable colors in spring good srey-blue or greyhound, garnet shades, mustard shades, pearl and dark grey, olives, browns, and bronzes, shrimp and shell pinks, sapphire shades, greens, and dark blues. ThE new American prints for spring wear show such marked improvement in the fi the mai Is, as well as in the designs, that the s say that before many seasons the will be driven trom our markets. Square or V shaped bodices for dinner or arties are ornamented, the neck and h large roses without foliage half the skirt and train de sleeves w hidden in bei for the moment is arge double red roses of a new shaded variety, surrounded by frazile hothouse ferns transplanted from thy vuntains and made doubly delicate by indoor growth. Tue newest thing in faney work asa present for a gentleman friend is a strip of ribbon with his initiais embroidered on in bright-bued silks, the ribbon to be fastened in the lining of his hat for the purpose of marking it. Sryzisn and e velling dresses are made of fine Austrian wool, in tiny bue and gole checks, trimmed with panels and bands of Russian bine velvet. and French gold battons, Bnely chased. Is dressing, walking and carriage costumes sent to America Worth is employing the new or and odd terra-cotta shades, m with velvet of seal brown, gr dark yreen or ruby. . Frexeu dressmakers contrive pockets for ball dresses, hiding them beneath a large bouquet of flowers tied with a ribbon bow and hansing apparently on a flower chain, corresponding With the rest of the lower trimming, putaround the waist. Biack ball dresses are especially distin- guished-looking in transparent stuffs—such as uze and tarlatane embroidered in silver ornaments. Tufts of large arimp, coral or nasturtian-red being ranged on different parts of the skirt uty flower collarettes of small blos- soms aad leaves which were worn last winter on high dresses, will be thrown aside this season for full wreaths of large leafless flewers. ro: 3, asters and poppies bearing the palm, resting on afrill of lace encircling the neck aud closed with ing em long thin stalks to look like fabrics for children’s dresses nothing can be prettier than the soft, moss-like piushes Which come in small multi-colored stripes. There are also chined, plaided and muvired i of which are used most effectively zs—that is, for sashes, revers, col- lars, pockets and shoulder capes.’ Last of all, and most beautiful, are the paie-hued plushes in pale bine, silver uray, pink and lilac, to be daintily made up with white lace trimmings. A Puerry “at home” costume of ceremony is accomplished by wearing a long cutaway jacket of red pinsh over askirt of alinond-colored cash- mere, with a pleated blous waist of the same trimmed with white Buranolace. ‘Phe half long sleeves and the draperies of the skirt are trimmed with the same lace, while a larg looped bow or wide moire sash ribbon, inatching, the color of the Jacket, gives the fashionable bouffant effect in the back. Some of the new Berahardt gloves which Teach far above the clvew, and are e=pecially designed to be worn with short-sleeved even- ing toile finished at the tops with inser- tion bands of costly point or duchesse lace three inches wide, and above this a ruifie of the sawe lace, put on with little or no fullness. ‘this »0k to that portion of bas an unfinished h glove that is left A Wuirr Surah and white grenadine gauze Prineess evening dress, just wade, has a long plain square (rain ofsurah. The corsage is cov- * flowered grenadine, having the veade. Thehip draperies are Paniers ede with tine Spanish lace. The back draperies of the same. The front breadths are in putls and honeyeomb bouillone: with side Tobe revers covered with a lace. The same lace finishes the elbow siveves aad filis in the square-cut neck of the corsage. A very arrow knife pleating of surah anda balayeuse of musiin and lace edges the buttom of the skirt and train. A Pauis letter says that snake ornaments of plush acd fur—the latest freak of fashion—bave been introduced this season with complete suc- cess after repeated unsuccessful attempts; and siender reptiles uf the snake tribe, exactiy copied from nature, appear coiling and windinz them- Selves through the Bowers and bows on inuffs far collars; larger ones with keea,glittering jes are seen among the laces, ribbons, and feathers on hats and bonnets; and the egentric taste of Parisian costumers depicts monstrosi- ties from $ to 4 metres loug, of the most bril- Tiant bues,crawling among roses and artistic fo- Hage on bail and evening dresses. Eaxcy in the season the inquiry was often Made as to the possible disposition of the rich Decades, whose novel and striking designs seemed to de their employment for the purposes of dress. But it has hens fully an- swered in the number of magnificent trains whieh now appear in every fashionable assem-— |! Diage, composed of these superb fabrics, and combined with the satin fronts covered with embroidery of silk and pevr's, or silk and irkie- Beent beads, whieh are so IN| fans, birds, and flowers, cover the | sh of | , | pearance, and obviate its disagreeable effects THE THE ART OF SSAKING UP, Some Very Precise Directions for the | Stage. j PAINTING IN SOCTRTY—THE MISTAKES MADE— THEATRICAL MAKE-UP—HOW TO PIN UP YOUR NOSE—THE VILLAIN, THE CLOWN. | From the New York Times. | That the “make-up” is not confined to the | Profession any wholesale druggist’s catalogue | will testify. Lily white, pearl powder, bloom of youth, with innumerable blushes and emotions, in solid or fluid conditions, are always purchas- | able. Just as we use ruddle to mark sheep, 30 | does a finer grade of pigment tind a market fo human cheeks. The most preposterous thing about the use of such colors is that confidence | which, in private life, the painted one possesses in regard to the sham perpetrated. Under a very thick veil a made-up face may occasionally escape detection, although the brightness of the colors, but half concealed. generally leads to the | | supposition that paint is present. To the veriest tyro false colors are at once, | however, discernible, for there reaily never {has been any pigment yet discovered that in the least resembled that | |roseate hue which nature imparts to | a heaithy skin. Of course, distance may lend enchantwent to the view, but across a car, a| | dinner-table, even the width of a drawing-room, | @ patch of color, from its immobility, leads to | its detection. Still, there might be more art employed by women who in private life deco- rate their skins, for sometimes it is daubed on very badly. If it must be done, and the sham | be perpetrated, why not show some skill about it? The prime cost of the material, the method of application, can of course be no object. If a woman with the least comprehension of effect finds it impossible to work up her own canvas, ny does she not hire some one who can? **Madame,” might say the hair-dresser, “ would she excuse him? But, decidedly, the effective- | ness of Madame’s supreme loveliness would be heightened by certain additions, which, if judi- ciously applied, would indeed render her charms more resplendent. It is an art. Would Madame rmit him?” Then at once the ice would be oken, for Madame would understand what was meant, and certainly instead of colors which “swore,” the critic mage at least enjoy a pic- ture presenting certain harmonies of tint. If never permissible in ordinary life, for old Ben Franklin's savage remark about painted women has left its sting. on the boards it be- | comes a necessity. Though the footlights of the future will beam with electricity, and the yellow glare of gas be a thing of the past, actors and actresses will still paint their faces. It is not alone because the distance between the stage and the audience is very great, and so the contour of a face is lost and a false light is im- | parted, but there are other reasons of an ideal character. Notwithstanding that keenness of perception which we have, that imaginative faculty which is fostered during a theatrical | performance, we want more help. It is beyond | the power of the greatest mimic to be always holding in check his facial muscles. Permanency of an emotional character must be printed on the actor’s face, whether it be in traged or comedy. The ancients understood this | perfectly, and adopted the mask. It was con- ; Yentional of course, and would scarcely be un- | derstood to-day, but, then, how supreme must have been the talent of the actor who, by his | deciamatory power, while his face was as rigid as marble, still moved an audience to tears or | laughter." Mr. Joseph Hatton, in a very pleas- | ant article in Harper's Magazine, describes Mr. | Henry Irving and his “make-up.” “See him | sitting there at the dressing-table, where he is a | model to himself; where he converts himseif into the character he is sustaining. His own face is his canvas, his own person, for the time | bging, the lay figure which he adorns. * * * The right of his mirror may becalled his palette— it is an assortment of colors, paint-pots, | powders and brushes; but in hand, instead of the maul-stick, is the familiar hare’s-foot—the ; actor's best friend from the earliest days of | rouge and burned cork.” | Between then, the ingenwe, who ts to come | simpering on the stage, with her cheeks all a-bloom,and the actor who is to present bimselfas acharacter Just stepping out of the frame of a | VanDyke, tliere is all the difference between | the commonplace and the highest art. A clown, | theugh he were a Grimaldi with his spots meotley color on his jowl, might use a stenc’ *\ Booth as.a*Richelieu” exercises on his face all j the summate skill of a great tragedian. He th aken any effect at random. He has the portraits of the time and laid down line. Fechter was wonderfully perfect in | the art of the “make up,” and preserved those traditions of the Frencii stage which the ineom- parable Frederic Lemaitre had handed down to ) him. | Before the writer is a little book bound in | blue which is entitled “A Make-up Book.” It is preseated to that world—a pretty large one— composed of “readers, concert singers, and | others, as well as actors,” and is intended to ; teach them how to “make up” so that they shall avoid “that pallid, frichtened, older ap- upon the spectators.” Among the enumeration of those to whom this little book is available thecomprehensive “others” means a great deal. Do lecturers ever use rouge? Of course they do. There is one very accomplished lecturer who discusses yearly a grave series of topics | before Young Men’s Christian Associat ions who never wears a dress coat save on such solemn | | occasions, i costume invariably rot “Use grease paints,” says the little book, “for these do not fail the performer in so hazardous a manner. (as water-colors, it Is presumed,) for perspiration oozes through them, and can be easily shaken from the brows and face by seve- ral sharp, quick jerks of the head.” It is then | quite supposable that a Richard IIT.. after a | peculiarly energetic scene, goes te the wings, and, like a Newfoundland dog after a swim, be- spatters his surroundings by these “several | Sharp, quick Jerks of the head.” But greasy paint must be at times quite objectionable. Think of an oleaginous Romeo leaving an im- print of his cocoa-buttered head on the sweet face of his Juliet. That these criticisms appear | to have a solid foundation appears from the ; fact that “ladies, even gentlemen, fidzet over the idea of being greased up.” They shrink at first from being “daubed,” as they sometimes tersely expressit, “like Indians with war paint, |* = © but they subsequently learn their mis- | take."" Grease paint is even beneficial, so the author tells us. It softens the skin, makes the face more flexibleto expression, and eyen makes it feel more agreeable than without it. “Some 1 little disadvantazes are not to be made too much of. If you grease your face you ought to keep on the inask, even after the performance. It is best not to wash at the theater. The warm, heated skin exposed shortly after to the outer cold air is likely to suffer in consequence. * * * | It is even better not to wash the face after | reaching home. * ** It is best to let it re- | main on the face over night.” Evidently the | writer of this book, wholly taken up with the | greatness of the subject and requirements of | arty is quite forgetful of the landlady, on whose | pillows a head exuding grease will leave its histrionie traces. srease paints run through the whole gamut ef colors, adapted not only to aze but to an- thropological considerations. There are not | less than 10 colors adapted to youth, the same | for manhood; old age uses 12, and then there |are special pigments for gypsies, Moors, , Chipamen, Indians and East Indians. Natural | good looks, weare informed, go for very little qn the boards, for they i net look as well on the stage as another with ordinary features well made up and in character.” The treatment of the hands and arms is par- ticularly noticel. “Never appear in/ modern society plays, or of the powder peried without whitening or tinting the hands and the exposed portions of the arms, or they will loek coarse and red. The sponging should be done very thinly, and rubbed evenly to look transparent, het opaque.” For the eyes, ladies are re- quested “not to make little dots with dark paint on the lids themselyes, between the lashes, as some do on the stage, but actually maint the lashes, upper as weil’ as lower; if laskes are too light. make the curved line under them to improve size or bulk.” The intricacy } of the art really exists when a character cot mences, say, in the tirst act as a young mai andin the last act he becomes an old person- age. A great thing, it seeins, is to give to age “a bag-like appearance to the lower lids of the eyes,” which is done with a slate-colored pig- ment. The brows have to be knitted with paint, and blended patches of the same slate color show the hollow cheeks. Onr book tells us that “amateurs and begin- ners generally paint too much, and thus destroy physiognomic characteristics” —which we be- lieve to be pertectly true. In fact, many clever women on the siaze who play leading characters to-day present faces as fully charged with color asa brick wall. Our book leves that it can accomplish miracles, and it prevents the various ways by means of which a thin face can be to look plump and a fat face attenuated. On mustaches the ideas are very sound. “A small mustache on lip iscomic. Po not | Inout or thick, take atone enetraring of oh mouth or make a less uncot of the To build @ comic | the brunt of the battle. | The a large cover all the lip, but have a little flesh seen | wouldn't be a nice it of lip. With broad | with the part, or the EVENING STAR: WASH 8 A man In a comic part is likely to suffer extr h hi providing he wishes to be very droll sacrifice himself to art. You are requested in this book to pin up your nose. This is ft explained. You take a hair-pin, bend i hook up your nose. The ends of the y tie across the bridze of the nose, and then \ apply several coatings of paint to it. Besides the ludicrous appearance of such a nose, the snuffing it would make in speaking would have the happiest of effects. “ The teeth can be made ite comical by painting some of them out as issing. A liquid preparation comes expressly is harmless in character.’ 0 for the purpose, and ‘s Since the production of Z’ Assonimeir drankeh men have not been very popular on the stage. Still, they are among its most prominent char- eters. They are certain nice shadings between he tipsy man and the drunkard, which the book learly defines. It is satisfactory to know that the ground work on which you begin is the same as for “the humorist.” ‘‘Forehead, nose and chin are to bea little reddish. The wrinkle to appear as if grinning. Corners of the mouth are to be drawn slight!y upward by two small lines. The hair a little deranged on the fore- head.” This is for the tipsy man. For the drunkard—the habitual one, the shining exam- ple in the temperance drama—the ground work is pale or a brownish red. The eyes are to be pinched—be made small—nearly shut. The mouth drawn downward by two brown lines. hair unkempt and hanging low down on the forehead. As to the eyebrows, they alone impart varying character to the face. You can either build up a factitious eye-brow with creped hair or wool, gumming it on, or you can paint it.” Think of it, “a inted eye-brow gives the face a happier, more jolly appearance. Make it bushy and, presto, away goes jolity. Let your eye-brow hang down and you are a sinister individual, and you will Murder and say ‘‘sdeath.” Plaster it down with soap, and, begin the eye-brow at the nose; and you will be stupid. Make the lines of it black, narrow. arched, and you will be treacherous, and with some slight variations from this you will “be a villainous, low, brooding character.” Wonder- ful, indeed are the effects of gum and paint. Perhaps if tae author of “The Make-up Book’ would take a more special line and labor adapted to genteel society for those ‘‘others, his usefulness would be even more fully appye- ciated. A “make-up book” in the same style as those decorative art works, now so much in vyogue—a small, handy volume, neatly fllus- trated—would Certainly find many purchasers. On the title page Pope’s lines on Mrs. Oidield might find a fitting place: “One would not, sure, be ugly when one’s dead Come, Betty, give this cheek a little red.” a A Protest Against Encorcs. From ‘*Musio” b, It is fully time for the conscientious critic to enter protest against encores in general. The custom so much in vogue of recalling anybody and everybody upon the least provecation or upen no provocation whatever, is radically wrong; for the reason that it is unjust to the performers, and the supposed compliment necessarily loses its value and importance on account of its indiscriminate and lavish use in our concert rooms. Professional musicians are paid for their ser- vices and their contract or agreement requires them to perform a certain number of selections, and it is manifestly unfair to expect them to double or even treble their efforts without ade- quate compensation. There is, of course, no reasonabie objection to manifestations of satis- faction and delight on the part of an audience, nd no one can blame the performer for ac- knowledging thesameny'the courteay ufreappear- ing for a moment and simply bowitiz his thanks. This would be in accordance with tie canons of good taste and is so manifestly a proper course of action that no on could cayil thereat. As the matter stands every singer is provided with an ‘encore’, for each selection which he or she is advertised to sing, and here the full ab- surdity of the practice is evident. At the first thought it would seem that if a clamorous au- dience should be so charmed with Miss Smith- ini’s golo as to demand her appearance, it would be for the reason that ‘hat especial setec- tion had been extremely pleasing, and com- mon sense would sugyest tat some portion, at east, of that selection would be the natural re- sponse. This is very far from the fact. for Miss Smithini reappears and rezales her hearers with something of a radically different character, and very often on a much iower plane as far as’ mu- sical worth is concerned; so that it is not at all unusual for Miss Smithini to sing Bach- Jonnod’s *‘Aye Maria,” and to supplant it with ‘Comin’ thro’ the Rye,” and these anachronisms being once tolerated, their variety is endless. Very recently a lady sang ata concert an ex- ely neat song, with 'eello obligato. It was well done, the ’cello passages being te especial feature, ahd yet, upon a recall, the lady came out alone, and sang @ vastly inferior song. Now, this kind of operation is neither artistic, in good taste, nor even measura decent. The “previousness” of this mode of proce- dure is far less evident in the case of a pianist, for in these days piano solos are very rarely played from the notes, and Mr. Pounder can easily assuine @ sort of impromptu and taken- surprise air when he obligingly consents to play a “little gem” as an encore selection. But a singer has no such refuge, for she must be ac- companied, and her accompanist must have a copy of her song, and—having it—pray how did he happen to have it with him in such an onner: tune moment? Did Miss Smithini feel al Jutely certain that her endeavors would be so entrancing that she would be compelled to dou- ble her selections? Bad as this custom is under the circumstances just mentioned, it is infinitely worse at operatic performances; it apparently never seems te oc- cur to the audience that it is flagrantly absurd to insist upon a soprano’s coming to life again— after having died to slow music—and repeated her death-song. When will people understand that the dramatic action of an opera must never be interrupted by such an apachronism? And yet this sort of thing occurs at any and at all times during the performance of any opera. ae ‘The Demon in the Sky. From the N. ¥. Sub. One of the most interesting sights inthe sky, and one which can be watched without a teles-_ cope, is the variation in the light of the star Algol, whose Arabio name means the Demon. It is sometimes called the Winking Demon. This wonderful star is now in a good position for observation, being nearly overhead at night- fall. It is the brightest ot the little cluster cailed the Head of Medusa, which, according to the old fable, Perseus carries in his hand as he hurries to the rescue of Andromeda. For a lit- tle over two days and a half Algol shines as a star of the second magnitude. ‘hen its light begins to fade, and in about three hours and a’ third it sinks to the fourth maznitude, glimmer- ingso feebly that a casual observer would be unable to distinguisn it from the other faint stars in its neighborhood. Thus it remains for eighteen minutes, and then begins to brighten again, and, in the same time that it occupied in growing dim, attains itsformer brillianoy. From one miniinum to another is two days twenty hours and near'y forty-nine minutes. The fact that a star thus brightens and grows dim at regular intervals is in itself wonderful, but it appears all tne more wondertul when we are told that Algol isa sun, probably larger than our sun, haying an enormous dark body ravol- ving around it at tremendous speed. Some as- tronomers think that this mysterious body will fall into the star, producing an outburst of light and heat that wouid be fatal to any living be- ings who might exist within millions of miles of that distant sun. Such a catastrophe would be visible to us in the sudden increase of splendor in the star. be ee ‘The Bangs-Mixs-Hair Young Man. From the Philadelphia Times. Among the curiosities of alleged estheticism is the bangs-his-hatr young man. Although he does not exist at present to an alarming extent, there is enough of him to be amusing and in- terest collectors of bric-a-brac. The bangs-his- hair young man moves principally in the circle of the lily and the utter, but he now and then gets into a theater or Church and displays his effeminate appendage. He has an idea, which is # wonder, that his bang is his great attraction. He is right. It is the only feature about him which does attract, for the bangs-his-hair young man has no natural attraction. Itis rot his brains nor bis mantiness which render him con- spicuous, but his bang. The bangs-his-hair young man is the barber's t. He puts more money into the tonsur oa in a day than the ordinary customer does ina week. He spends a smail fortune in bandoline. He thinks of nothing else, worships nothing else, desires nothing more, than his bang. To hima bang of beauty isa Joy forever. His sister is no longer arranging her hair for a party than he is in making ready his bang. He hastens from dinner to the toilet and his last made | word before leaving the house is, “Mamma, how on ee as i also parts hi: 18 air young man also is hair in the middle. If he did net the bang ice bang. The. bang goes along with the . E prefer—only the 8-his-hair time to indulge in fat GTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET. Death of the Cow-Boy. e agony with his nose, | yom the Deaver Tritane. nd £0 | Tow stn ines each sturdy, si What life ts In each dying Brosthy Hils eves have still the hanghty gleam, ‘The fash of mingled prite and scorn They had at éarly yeste When he saw us and Come plunging tironzh the swollen stream And drive his heliers trom ovr corn. Ob, who hath done this dreadful deed— ith tn an evi! moment slain This dashing hero of the platn— This (dol of the mount and taead? Oh, hth some jealous TndLan chiet Waylaid this warrior of the ranch— Or bath some envious churl, perchance, Jonceiving honest combat vain, Wrought all tls tragedy and grief By shooting ere he couid advance? He died as cow-boys died before— A botile struck him on the he He tottered, stumbled, fell an A quart or two upon the floor. “Ewas Biddy Looney struek the blow That caught him just above the ear— He'd kissed her once and called her dear, And then (tn sorrow breathe it low) He'd scorned her pleading cry for beer! SA uct hoc THE STORY OF THE TIDES. What They Tell of the Growing Length ‘of the Day and of tho Mirth onthe Mooi Nature. . From a scientific point of view, the work done by the tides is of unspeakable importance, Whence is this energy derived with which the tides do their work? Ifthe tides are caused by the moon, the energy they possess must also be derived from the moon. This looks plain enough, but unfortunately it Isnot true. Would it be true to assert that the finger of the rifie- man which pulls the trigger supplies the energy with which the rifle bulletis animated? Of course it would not. The energy is derived from the explosion of the gunpowder, and the pulling of the trigzer is merely the means by which that energy is liberated. Ina somewhat similar manner the tidal wave produced by the moon isthe means whereby a part of the encrzy stored in the earth is compelled to extend itseif in work. Let me illustrate this by a compari- son between the earth rotating on’ its axis and the fly wheel of an engine: The fly wheel isa sort of reservoir, into which the engine pours its power at each stroke of the piston. The va- rious machines in the mill merely draw off the power from the store accumulated in the fly wheel. The earth is like a gigantic fly wheel detache@ from the engine, though still con- nected with the machines in the mill. In that mighty fly wheel a stupendous quantity of en- ergy is stored up, and a stupendous quantity of energy would be given out before that fly wheel would come to rest. The earth’s rotation is the reservoir from whence the tides draw the en- ergy they require for doing work. Hence it is that though the tides are caused by the moon, yet whenever they require energy they draw on the supply ready to hand in the rotation of the earth. The earth differs from the fly wheel of the engine in a very important point. As the energy is withdrawn from the fly wheel by the machines in the mill, so it is restored thereto by the power of the steam engine, and the fy rans uniformly. But the earth is’ merely the fly wheel without the engine. When the work done by the tides withdraws energy from the earth, that energy is never restored. It, there- fore, follows that the earth's rotation must be decreasing, This leads to a consequence of the most wonderful importance. It tells us that the specd with which the earth rotates on its axis is diminishing. We can state the result in a manner which has the merits of simplicity and brevity. The tides are increasing the length of the At present, no doubt, the effect of the tides in changing the length of the day is very small. Aday now is not appreciably longer thana day a hundred years azo. Even in a thousand years the change in the length of the day is only a fraction of a second. But the im- portance ari from the fact that the change, slow thouzh it. is, lies always in one direction. The day is continually increasing. In millions of years the accumulated effect becomes not only appreciable, but even of startling magni- tude. The change in the length of the day must in- volve a corresponding change in the motion of. the moon. Ifthe moon acts on the earth and retards the rotation of the earth, so, conversely, does the earth react upon the moon. The earth is tormented by the moon, so it strives te drive away its persecutor. At present the moon re- volves round the earth at a distance of about 240,000 miles. The reaction of the earth tends to increase that distance, and to force the moon to revolve in an orbit which is continually get- ting larger and larger. As thousands of years roll on the length of the day increases second by second and the distance of the moon increases mile by mile. A million years ago the day, probably, contained some minutes less than our present day of twenty-four hours. Our retro- Spect does not halt here; we at once project our view back to an incredibly remote epoch which was acrisisin the history of our system. It must have been at least 50,000,000 years ago. It may have been yery ‘much earlier. This crisis was the interesting occasion when the moon was born. The length of the day was only a very few houra. If we call it three hours we shall not be far from the truth. Perhaps you may think that if we looked back to a still earlier epoo®, the day would become still less and finally disappear altogether. This is, however, not the case. The day can never haye been much tess than three hours in the present order ofthings. Everybody knows that the earth is not a sphere. but there is a protuberance at the equator, so that ag our school books tell us, the earth is shaped like an orange. It is well known that this protuberance is due to the rotation of the earth on its axis, by which the equatorial parts bulge out by centrifugal force. The quicker the earth rotates the greater is the pro- tuberance. If, however, the rate of rutation ceeds a certain limit, the equatorial portions of the earth could no longer cling together. Tie attraction which unites them would be over- come by centrifugal force, and a general break up would occur. It can be shown that the ro- tation of the earth when on the point of raptur corresponds to & length of the day somewhere about the critical yalue of three hours, which we have already adopted. It is therefore im- possible for us to suppose aday much shorter than three hours. Let us leave the earth for a few minutes and examine the past history of the moon. We have seen the moon revolve around the earth in an ever widening orbit, and consequently the moon must, in ancient times, have been nearer the earth than it isnow. No doubt the change is slow. There is not much difference between the orbit of the moon a thousand years age and the orbit In which the moon is now moviag. But when we rise to millions of years, the difference .| becomes very appreciable. “Thirty or forty mil- lions of years ago the moon was much closer to the earth than it ig at present; very possibly the moon was then oaly half its present distance. We must, however, look still earlier, toa certain epoch not less than fifty million of years ago. At that epoch the moon must have been so close to the earth that the two bodies werealmost touching. Everybody knows that the moon revolyes now around te earth ina period of twenty-seven days. ‘The period dependsupon the distance between the earth and the moon. In earlier times the month must have been shorter than our present month. Some millions of years ago the moon completed its journey in a week, instead of taking twenty-eisit days, as at present. Looking back earlier still, we find the month has dwindled down tos day, then down to a few hours, until at that wondrous when the moon was almost touching the , the moon spun round the earth once every three hours. In those ancient times I see our earth to be a noble globe, as it is at present. Yet it is not partly covered with oceans and partly clothed with verdure. ‘The primeyal earth seems rather a flery and half molten masa, where no organic life can dwell. Instead of the atmosphere which we now have, I see a dense mass of vapors. in which, perhaps, all the oceans of the earth are suspended as clouds. I see, that the sun still rises and sets to give the sugcession ef day and of night, but the day and the night together only amounted to three hours, instead of twen- Bunking in a Saow-Bank. From the Leaavitte Chronicle. = @ That there is at least sufficient latent heat in the sagw to prevent death from freezing while | entirely surroanded by it, Frank Waite, of this city, who retarned a day or two ago from a long | trip in the {ndian country, is willing to testify. | Inthe course of his homeward journey Mr. White had an experience which all the mineral | wealth of Leasville cond not tempt him to re- | peat. It was on the Grand river, where the snow had recently fallen toa great depth. The weather was somewhat murky when he started to return, but he relied upon a tolerably good prairie and that unknown quantity termed good Inck to get back before the snow had failen in any great quantities. I both of these he was | sadly deceived, as the freezing flakes which be- gan to fall on the second day out soon obiiter- ated everything save the most bold and readily ; recognized landmarks. On the fourth day he | Was lost in the storm and at last found si rT in a little clump of cotton-wood trees, the thick- ness of whose branches in a measure protected the ground. The night had turned bitterly cold, and to his dismay he found that in his tramp his match-safe had fallen from his pocket and was not to be found. For an instant it seemed as if nothing but a frozen death awaited him, for he | Knew weil to spend the night where he stood or | even to tarry there motionless any further length of time would surely be fatal. Already the col- | ored lights that are a sure forerunner of death by freezing began to flicker beyond his eyes and j he felt that he must take desperate chances for | | existence. It was then that it occurred to him that he had read somewhere of the latent heat | in the snow, and the last resort of freezing men. | He did not ‘stop long for deliberation. but be- | gan, with benumbed flugers. to burrow in the hi white bank ahead of him. Ina few mo nents he had excavated a hole of considerable size, and, drawing his blankets tightly around him, he creptin. After a short time his body bevan to grow more comfortable and his hands regain their sense of feeling. Then he grew sleepy, but he dared not close his eyes, fearing that It was the stupor of freezing that he felt. At last, without knowing it, he fell asleep and did not awake until early the next morning. | He had passed as comfortable a nizht as if he | had a roof over his head. and save for his frost. bitten finger tips, which had been exposed, he was uninjured by his night in the snow. He re- sumed the tramp early in the morning, and to- wards the close of the afternoon was much re- lieved to strike a camp of surveyors. ee “Yes, Sir, Pd Shoot Him.” From the Detroit Free Pross. Six or eight congenial spirits sat around a stove in a Grand River grocery the other night, and after several other subjects had been ex- hausted some one introduced that of panics in churches, theaters and halls. This gave Mr. Hopewell a cliance to remark: “Gentlemen, I just long to be there.” “Where?” “Why, in one of those panics. Yes, sir, Td give a new twenty-dollar bill to be in the theater one night wlen there was an occasion for a panic.” . “Why?” “Why, becanse one cool, level-headed man could stop the thing as easily as you could end up that barrel of flour.” “Well, I dunno about that.” observed one of the sitters. here is something awful in the cry of fire, and hear it where and when you may it startles and frigitens. What would you do in a theater in cage there was a cry of fire and a rush?” “Td stand upon my’ seat, pull a revolver from my pocket and shout out that ['d shoot the first man who attempted to crowd or rush. One cool man would cieck the panic in ten sec- onds.” While the subject was being continued the er went to the rear end of the store, poured alittle powder ona board and gave three or four men the wink. Direct!y there was a bright flash, yells of “tire!” and : id every man sprang up and rusied. Hopewell didn't spring up and talk of shoot On the contrary, he fell over a lot of baskets piled between bit and the door, got up te piow his way over a of b , and when be reached the all-fours, white as a chost at he never looked ba ite side of the street. oe Companioas, From the Banner of Licht. Sinile ell to Sorrow, Give to Joy good morrow, And charge litin to continue The quict reign within you. so frightened f reacied the opp Smile farewell to Gladness, Pake the hand of Sadness, And wistrully beseech her ‘To be your tender teacher. So shall both befriend you, And to’the erive attend y There Sorrow irom you sever, Joy go with you ever. psec Sa he Hare and the Fish. The Hare and the Fish, having borrowed to- bacco of each other for several months, and agreeing perfectly well on polities, set out to inake a Journey together and see the sights of the world. They had not proceeded many miles when a Wolf was discovered in pursuit. The Hare at once started off at the top of his speed, but the Fish called out: “Do not leave me thus—I cannot run!” “A Fish who eannot run has no business to make a journey,” replied the Hare, and away he flew to Save his bacon. The Fish hurried after as fast as possible, and both fuund themselves on the bank of ariver, while the Wolf was yet afurlong away. The Fish at once rolled into the water and darted away. but the Hare shouted after hi “Do not leave me—{ cannot swi “A Hare who cannot swim has no business to make a journey,” and he sailed away and left the Hare to be eaten on the half shell. MORAL. An Owl who had overheard the affair from his perch ina persimmon tree drew down his left eyeand softly said: “You don’t know a Man until you have trav- elled with him.”—Detroit Free Press. B EWARE or FRAUD. BENSON'S CAPCINE PLASTERS, HAVE BLEN IMITATED, MEDICINE FOR WOMAN. INVENTED BY A WOMAN, PREPARED BY A WOMAN LYDIA E. 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