Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1882, Page 9

MUSHKCAL AND DRAMATIC. THREE NIGHTS OF OPERA—TNE LAWRENCE BaR- RETT DRAMATIC CLUB—THE NEW PLAY OF Yourn RECOVERY, ETC. Minnie Hauk, will be at the National. It the opera Monday ni fs her best character. —The Lawrence Barr posed of a fine line of am: e for three nig Thursday next. —The kosch opera season of twelve Weeks opened at Boo New York, on Mon- day. and the first week, with Gerster, has been al. ‘am J. Florence has recovered from his Miness and is on the stage again. He Is really an applicant for a lucrative consulship. —"Pendrazen.” at Haverly’s New York The- | ater. with Mr. Barrett, has crowded the house Nightly since its first production there. The Play seems likely to have a long run. —Miss Mary Anderson this evening closes the second week of her annual engagement at the Boston Theater, appearing as Evadne. Stand- inz reom during the week announced, over three thousand people being in the auditorium. —Messrs. Sydney Grundy and Edwara Solo- Mon have together completed a new operetta calied the “Vicar of Bray.” Mr. Solomon is the composer of “Billee Taylor” and “Claude Duval.” —The new comic opera which Gilbert and Sullivan have about completed is called “Inde- pendence. —The New York Dramatic News this week 's “Smugglers” is an ht to be repeated t Dramatic Club, com- ur actors, has been at the National from St was found family ina starving condit New York last week. They had been without | food for forty-eight hours. ack has offered Mr. Eric Bayley $1,000 a week for the services of himself and wife and the use of the piay “The Colonel” for Next season. He will also allow Mrs. Bayley a maid and pay ali expenses. Mr. Bayley has refused. 4 Morris is paid £500 for every matinee at the Union Square Theater, and she is draw- ing several times that amount. —J.H. Haverly and Eric Bayley are reported by the Dramatic Times to be negotiating fora Tease of th repolitan Casino in New York, With an idea of making it similar in style to the Londen Allambra. — “Mother-in-Law” drew good houses in Chi- cao; but the company will be disbanded at the end of its engagement there, and most of its members will come east to appear in “Divor- con,” in the Boston and } York Park thea- ters. —The Boston Ideal Opera Company has been doing ga enormons business at Booth’s Theater. Ou S&arday night last t! “Pinafore »ple were turned away from the bo: Tartieas ae certainly the best singing com- pany now before the public. —Dion G. (“Dot”) Boucicault, son of the original Dion, has turned Besant and Rice’s story of “My Little ¢ to a comedietta, which will shortly be produced at the Court Theater in London. Rossi's performances hizhly praised by the critics, but somehow did not draw the crowded houses they deserved. ‘The Italian tragedian will appear in Philadel- phia next weel —The tranquil career of “Esmeralda” goes on at the Madison Square Theater, and that inocu- ous play will continue for the rest of the season to contiibute to the serenity of a virtuous public and the interesting pallor of the cheek of inno- The other cheek has been taken out of n by Mr. MeGeachy, and is with “The Pro- fessor.” —A London journal has discovered that M_ Paiileron’s play, “Petite Pluie.” upon which Mr. A. W. Pinero’s play, * ently in turn upe eugene ies in dialogue, while the story told a i in ao English story called “Welcome Guest” 20 yearsago. It is doubttuk however, whether Mr. Pincro really borrowed the subject of his littie pl eM — The postponement of the opening night of aof opera at theGermania fromthe nee to the to result Mr. thePatti 23d to the 27th inst. is the only anno; New York adhnirers of the diva likely from her recent illness in Cincinnati. who has just returned.reports th is new entirely re elated at the prospect of a brillant New York Beason. — How pleasant the thought that in a few short weeks we can hare the chance to get away with one of those glorious circus lemon- ades, and buy peppermint candy for five cents a stick, with thirteen red stripes around each stick, or money refunded—at the end of the sea- Bon. — “Olivette” has been removed from the bills of the Strand Theater, London, after arun of not far from five hundred nights. “Manola” is to take its place. + —Gounod’s new opera, “Lorelei,” is now Rearly complete. It will be unique among Modern operas in at least one respect—the hero- ine will be a ballet dancer. — Adispatch from Cincinnati says that Mme. Patti celebrated her birthday Monday last. It has been generally believed that Mme. Patti was born on the 9th of April. 1543. Biographical ac- counts of the lady in musical libraries and in the London and New York press, published so far back as 13 and at various times since, have all agreed on that date. Has the musical world been wrong these many years? —On Monday next ‘Butterfly Fever,” an adaptation by M. J. Mortimer of Sardou’s “La Papilloune.” which had a long and very sucess- ful run at the London Criterion Theater last Season, will bay first production in America at the Boston Museum. The piece is a farcical comedy, as full ot fun as an egg is full of meat. “Napoleon's Old Guard” will be revived on the fame occasion, with Mr. Warren in his famous Performance of Haversack. —But Anna Dickinson, not content with Coming down to represent man. must needs come still farther down and represent very ean types of men; first, the talking machine Called the Prince of Denmark, a thing destitute Of the simplest and noblest properties of man. hood, then Claude Melnott:, the tool of a set ot Knayes, That she does not succeed in lettin; herself in the place ofeither is ali the more to her credit. * * 1 would to God she would Cease her wanderings on “the plan of Ono, back to Jerusalem, put on her apron, take her trowel. and resume her place among those who are building tue walls, and let Sambal Geshem attend to theirown affairs. —Jane Swissheim. The thanks of the andience at the Brook}: Phi were due to Mr. Theodore Thomas when he brought his orchestra to a full stop and an- Bounced that there was so much noise in one of boxes that he must decline to go on with the Concert. The autiience appianded, and the eon- cert was iven witheut further e nuisance, cansed by vaisur people the money te buy bhexe but lack or the decency to ir fellows, has been theater of late to an Tespect the rights Rotable at the opera and Unusual dezree. — The melodrama of “Youth” was produced at Waliack’s, New York, on Monday eveni for the first time in that city. It is made up of Seven parts, which are calied tableaux, but the Story proceeds threnh a number of animated, Picturesque and highly exciting scenes, which are placed upon the stage with a lavish extray- agance quite unknown in this country. All of the New York papers agree that such ‘scenery Was never before seen in that city. One of the tableaux is the embarkation of troops from Portsmouth harber, and the audience were so excited over it that they rose and gave cheer after cheer. Asa literary sifort the play is re- garded as very poor, for “conventional Wickeduess” unprecedented. oe A Good Cat Story. Good dog stories are plenty, but good cat Stories are rare, and for that reason this one is all the more enjoyable. A few days ago, while the fly-wheel of the Winchester ‘rms tanutne. New Haven was revolving #0 rapidly stopped the enzine, he discovered to his amaze~ Meat that the apparition was a substantial white hich had been ciinging to one of the spokes sinee the wheel started. She was very much hausted, and the numberless revolutions had made her . but she has since recovered her —_ visual the pet perfection and become in Chicago were | a | and realistic wh: A LITTLE ESTHETE. BY WARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. ‘From Harper's Bazar. Aunt Eunice was certainly impracticable. If you thought you had her here, up she sprang | like @ jack-in-the-box there, and you never knew what to expect from one with a point of view differing from that of almost all around her. There was, to be sure, one thing you had aright to expect, and only one, and that was always and everywhere of late certain and com- plete disapprobation of Rosalie’s proceedings— Rosalie she had been christened, but she had taken to spelling It ‘‘Rosalys” at the time she learned the Kensington stitch, subscribed to Punch for the simple purpose of cutting her gowns, since no dressmaker could do it, on the models of those of Mr.Du Maurier’s ladies there, and dug up all her sweet-briars and lemon-verbenas for the sake of planting whole beds of sunflowers. ‘‘I-ean’t understand what it means” she moaned. “I had my seed from | the Agricultural bureau in Washington, and I | planted a pound of them, ‘and there have only two come up. I do believe—I do believe—” And she looked at Joe as if what she believed was that he pulled them up as fast as they sprouted. “Don't look at me, Rosa,” said Cousin Joe; “look at the birds.” And while they are watch- ing a saucy robin tug at the stem of one of the springing lai that he might get the seed at its root, I will tell you that Joe wasn’t her cousin really: I never allow any of my heroes and heroines to be cousins: they were step- cousins, so to say, and by no means of any blood relation; but that had never hindered the warmest sort of intimacy till Rosalys began to spell her name in old text, and declare she could see no absurdity in the young esthete’s declara- | tion that he dined off a lily, that it merely meant the satisfying sense of beauty in which the banqueting of the soul dulled the hunger of the body. and that Mr. Rivas said the sense of color was something quite as actual as the Aunt Eunice put her fingers in her ears, and told Bosalys if she didn’t become quiet she should have to shake her. Upon which Rosalys wi le. ‘Her gold hair fell on the wall of gold Like the delicat= gossamer tanzies spun On the burnished disk of the marigold, Or the sunflower turning to meet the sun And the spear of the lily 13 aureole." > “Tam worried about her,” cried Aunt Eunice. “Is she really becoming an idiot?” “Not she, Aunt Eunice!” said Joe, laughing. “It takes a world of sense to make that sort of idiocy.” “Well, she doesn't do a usefaf thing any longer, and she used to be invaluable. It is all | along of that painting fellow Rivas. Ever since | he and his moon-struck sister there came back, she has been bewitched. I'll give hima piece of my mind!”* Andfor the time being that peasant prospect imparted comfort to Aunt Eunice. “Do you really mean to go over to the enemy, Rosa?” said Joe, overtaking the pretty minx with his long stride presently. “Have you taken out your naturalization papers in the fleshly school? And do you find pleasure in the thought of slipping over our own graves as two snakes, or creeping through hot jungles as two tigers?) What is the verse you read so often— ‘How tny héart le: To think of that grand livin; In beast and bird and flower!” “7 mean to do just as I please, Joe, and to let you do the same,” was the tart reply. ““Indeed you do not: for if you did, I should take you so far away from all this nonsense that you wouldn't know you were on the same planet.” But Rosa ‘had gone without any more words, and left him watching her down | the garden aisle, with her scant blue robes | clinging about her pretty feet, and her scarf | catching on every thorn, to where young Rivas | sat sketching on the old stone wall at the gar- | den foot, wearing his bieycle dress, whose knee- | breeehes and jacket were perhaps something as near the Old Florentine as he dared to approach in these parallels. Joe could not but ac- knowledge that the dark young artist, lithe and slender, and the sylph hurrying ugder the with her long unbraid@ brown round her and away in the wind, made a pleasant picture. Y exed him that | it should be made by his Rosa, who six months {ago had been all but his wife. plannin: | their house and home with him. choosing their chairs and sofas, “till bedeviled by this idiot and his sister,” growled Joe. Then a spasm of humility” seized jhim, and he ¢ | ferred the Italian be | giant stature and one to the ionz w: in't wonder she pre- ruty of the youth to hisown that cit counterae eing if ther were anything in this sad sister Gladys; on the whole, he was too hurt and angry and dis- gusted to try, and he rubbed his short yellow curls, and flashed his great gray eyes at’ them, and strode away snawing his moustache, after one dismal glimpse of Rosa ecatchine up the clinging skirts round those pretty ankle: of hers, to dance down the path more ‘trippingly, and waving her searf with her arm, the scarf whose cunning disposition was the nearest that she, in tura, dared approach to angel sleeves. Joe knew that the girlinthe long sulphur- colored gown opening over olive green velvet, ing a book as .she walked with downcas' head and face, was Gladys, and he knew Just why she waiked there, and that at this moment his zreat figure cast a shadow at her feet, but he weuld none of her, and went back for a little solace to Aunt Eunice. “ T saw you,” said the good but contrary and old-fashioned soul, “from the window. And I Saw that bi s-looking girl making eyesat you. She looks like the ‘lady’ in the lobster. “But don’t you be troubled, Joe. Only have patience, and it will all come right. Kosa isn’t really a fool yet. You go right on furnishing your house as if nothing had been said or done.” “I don't know that I want to,” said Joe, gloomily. * Don’t know that you want to?” cried Aunt Eunice. “Then there is really more mischief done than I feared. Don’t know that you want | to? Joe, if you don’t want to, I'll sue you for breach of promise myself.” it was a lon summer to poor Joe, who had expected by this to be reveling in an ideal world of happiness, with a charming wife at Niagara in June, at Newport in July, at the Crawford Notch in August, and in September,gettling in their home in the Boston suburba, the home that was © be nothing but a nest of love and music and Joy and goodness. And here was Roca never {letting him mention the subject, planting her | Sunflowers over, and rescuing but two of them from the birds again, going about with her little thumb through’ a palette patched in dullest colors of old goid and dirty green, or pending hours over her easel where an ethereal | Pot of impossible lilies was trying to put |on—or off—semblanee of reality, draping old ironing b! at her windows, and talk- ling of the ineffable dream of dead light in the slumber of their tawny folds, urther ronade of spiritual, idyllic ns, and living jn any world but toxether too much for poor vuid endare the hatefuiness ; Hosa in all [ gowns pw, in ail sorts of postures }d one of his worshipper; Resa with a uratio blooming | his world. Cousin Joe. It wa: | but her wall and ithe @ bight pat it wa muaiy sleepless to li 1 for all, and be off, and forget it to be done with. nights and bitter | { her. Arkwright’s bark was at Lon Wh x out for Australia; id take passaxe in her. and put himself beyond | Pa sizht and hearing of what tormented him. "Ant when he was gone, perhaps Rosa would miss him, and be listen to reason—_ Bat no; the who t know that he wanted er to do so. And then be asked himself what | in the world, in that case, was he making all | this fuss about? | , There she was now, down by the bed of sun- flowers that had not come up, and where the | Weeds had come up—but Rosa had joined the | school that loved weeds—tending those two tall | late stems that were just bexinning to open | their big disks when the other suntowers had withered. hat 18 just the thing,” sald Rosalys, as he approached. “They come, you see, when no one else has them, and just as if they knew all about the faney party in Gladys’ garden to-night. The idea of your being Guy of Warwick, Joe! Just the representation of brute strength. As if there were any poetry, or beauty, or soul food, | In such apart! I am ‘to be the Morning Star. “It might mean everything.” “You never can be serious, Joe.” “It's enouzh for the zarden party to be serl- ous. A garden party in October! ‘No ices.” “Those that don’t like out-doors can doors, you know. I shall wear one Just over my in- I shall be everywhere. And of these great shining suns heart, the buds trailing down the front and side, and ending in the other great j shining one on'my train. “Won't that be de- Kekous?” “If it were on one she wanid be taken tor an sense that enjoys a chop, and so maunder on till | id walk off singing to herself from Oscar | When the gloom of the jealous night is done, | through; he would cut | 8 | in the barns. Well, it isn't on any one else; it's on me. Gladys is to be Twilight, but I am going to be the Morning Star, you know,” she cried, with her rosy smile and breaking dimples. “And I am going to be just too—” “Utter” said Joe. She looked at him in a moment of doubt. if you are making fun of me, Joe. you can't —you can't—” “Expect to be considered Early English.” “Oh!” cried Rosa. “You Joe? It is too—it is too—” “Un-utter-able,” said Joe, stalking off just foe Rosa began to cry. Rosa always was a We are all going into Boston this afternoon toa matinee,” said Emeline, who had, to tell the truth, struggled in resisting an inclination to turn her i into ay, but who had come out victorious, and now Koked on her sister Rosalys and the two Rivases asa perpetual entertain- ment, as she told Joe, in urging him to have | patience; for she was sure the machinery was not strong enough to hold the curtain up much longer. ‘What do you think!” she added, walk- ing back with Joe. “Aunt Eunice has been | reading it up in the English papers, and she saya she is determined to see the new play Persever- a@nce—no, that isn't the word. It isn’t Procras- Gnation either. Oh, Patience—yes. They give it to-day, and she has had the tickets bought; ; they are at Charlie's office, where we rendez- yous, and we can ail be at home in time for tea. And'T rely on you, Joe, to help me out, for I shouldn't te a bit surprised to see Aunt Eunice on the stage—” “Pulling Saphir’s hair, or tearing off Grosve- nor’s lily. Yes, I've seen Patience, as well as tried its perfect work.” And, accordingly, as merry a crew as the twenty love-sick maidens themselves were at the doors of the Museum, where Patience had begun its career, that warm autumn afternoon, Joe grave, and supporting Aunt Eunice, who looked like a queen about to do justice on an | heir-apparent, but Emeline and Charles and John and Marion and Hal and I and the rest, all | but M). Rivas, full of quivering excitement over the suppressed fun of seeing Kusalys and Gladys and their painting chap put to the buriesque. Idon’t remember that I ever saw:anything more ludicrous than Aunt Eunice in the first scene of the love-sick maidens. She evidently had not the faintest idea of burlesque or satire: she had supposed she was going to a melodrama or one of the light comedies of her youth,hardly having been in a theater for twenty years. But those dreary damozels!_ “Why don't they put their clothes on properly?” she was muttering; “and sew up thelr sleeves? Love-sick maidens! Shameless hussies! Talking in that fashion. ‘To- ie is not well?” And I shouldn't think he would be after eating butter with a table- spoon!” But when Mr. Bunthorne made his ap- pearance, my aunt began to writhe in her seat; when he read his verses, she untied her hat, and threw the strings back violently; not a sinile disturbed the majestic contempton her counten- ance, and with the last words of the song, “Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be!” she turnedto me with a gasp, and said, “Tell me, tell me, am I going crazy? Or is the place really full of peo- ple who have come here to listen to this abomi- nable fool?” Vigorous nudges on all the angles she presented, however, brought Aunt Eunice to the recollection of herself. and she smothered er wrath temporaty, only to have it blaze up iain at the ‘Willow waly O” of Grosvenpr ask= ing Patience to marry him when he has seen her but three minutes,’ as she hoarsely whispered. What Aunt Eunice would have said if she had waited to hear the duet of Reginald and Lady Jane, “Sing “Booh to you—pooh, pooh to you!" and that’s what I shall say,” whether she would have found anything delighting and amusing in the attitude and play of the | three “handsome young dragoons gotten up regardless of expense in the Boiticellian styl “perceptibly intense, and consummately utter,” I don't know. For when the lovely sun- | flower scene of the travesty came, and Grosvenor dawned on us again in his beauty, followed by his twenty maidens with their archaic mandolins and Iyres and zithers in hand, lovely little shapes out of Fra Angelico’s pictures, Waverin and bowing and bending and turning and falling in: rhythmical circle about him, like so many ethere- alized sunflowers, each yearning with her face toward the god, Aunt Eunice rose in her might, her bonnet falling into her hand. “Come along,” she said aloud—“come along with me, every one of you. I won't sit here another minute, and see people gaping at fools that behave exactly as our Rosalie does with that extraor- ary fool of a Rivas!” They might haye heard her all across the theater. I don’t know whether they did or not. For, if you will believe it, we jdared do nothing else’ than obey her;’ we | couldn't sit still after that, and we couldn't let Aunt Eunice go off alone in that infuriate tate, id, one and all, we rose and went after her. Emeline and Charles and John and Marion and Joe and Hal and I and the remainder, certainly aifording a spectacle of as great fuols as those upon the staye. . we knew we should see the play in; and, for the rest of it, it was rather fun to us; Aunt Eunice answered well enough for our Lady Jane, and we had a roaring farce all to ourseives. on the way home, with our quips and jokes over Aunt Eunice’s' indignation—all but little Rosalie, who sat rather pale and still throush the uprear, and reading her libretto quite studiou: Our hilarity supported us over the tea-table, and we had separated to dress for the fancy party, having overcome Aunt Ennice’s objec- tions, when, just ag I clesed ny door, I heard a j sudden little wail from the garden ‘under my window. Leoking out through my shutter, I saw Rosa standing among the weeds in her sun- flower bed, her hands upen her face and crying bitterly. There were no blessoms en those two sunflower stems. Joe went stalking over toward her. “Oh!” she said, looking up, her face lovelier than I ever thought it was before, as one last ray of sunlight piayed in the stream. ing tears and the fading biushes and the shining azure eyes, “would you have thought it? Rivas has taken my sunflowers that he knew I was nursing so. He is going to be Apollo, and he says they suit him se much better, and he will wear them to-night, and paint them to-morrow when they begin te droep, he says, with the kisses of the—of the sun-zod. And he picked them while I was gone. He—he stole them!” “Rivas be dashed!” I heard Joe say, or some- thing ofthe sort. “And—aud—oh, Joe, is it true? Have you taken your passage for Melbourne? Oh, Joe, aren’t yon going to take me with you?” And out went the white arms to Joe. But Joe was atontly drawing back. “TI don’t Know as I want to,” he said. And then came such another little wail, and Rosa had tarned away, hiding her face in the hollow of her ‘pretty, lifted elbows, I am a strictly honorable person. I scorn eavesdropping. I pulled down the shade. I knew how it was all going to end after that just as well as I did when I passed an arbor in Gladys’ garden that night after almest every one had been obliged to seek ahelter from the chilly dews, end saw the crumpled morning star warmly folded in the arms of Guy of Warwick, whose heimet lifted off showed a great head of yellow curls bending over a rosy little face, where eyes and lips and smiles all looked as if the owner's sensations were but “just too jolly utter!” +o. ___ Hew a Sharp Yankee Got a Bide Free. From the Waterbary (Comn.) Ameri’an, They are telling this stery avout town for a fact: One day recently a young man, while ap- parently heavy with tanglefoot, presented him- selftoa certain city liveryman and asked for a team to takea ride. “Never let teams to in- toxieated parties,” was the stiff reply. This binant reburf almost sober the young man. It also provoked him to anger, and he went off into a profane whirlwind in the Bombastes Furioso ", ending with shakin a plethorie wad of | Sreenbacks in the face of the astonished stable- | keeper and offering to buy the best single team Hiteh up d—n quick, and Pil pn now,” be said. All right,” was the | reply, and @ £360 team was prepared, the money | paid over, aad, as theman drove away, the gen- | crous liveryman, who was elated over a good | bargain, said te ‘the purchaser, “If you bring | the team back all right you cau have ihe money again.” This ended the iirst act in the play. ‘Three days after this, however, there came a climax; for then it ppened that the man re- tarned with the team and demanded that the | stablekeeper lok it over carefully and see if it wa: all right. He did so, and pronounced everything in perfect order. '“Well, give me my money and take your team back, then,” said the nan. The stabléeman, who never goes back on his word, counted out the £300 promptly and re- turned it, and the man started to go. “Hold on,” shouted the other; “you owe me twelve dollars for the use of the team.” other people for the use of my own team,” w: the reply of the gay young man as he sauntered away never to return, ———+e--___ A veiled woman with a babe road train at Hastings, Mich., laid the infant in a stranger's lap. and disappeared. A drunken man lay halfa day in a gutter un- arrested, in Springfield, Mass. because his big dog stood guard over him, growling aud biting at everybody who came near, Charlie Richmond, a little boy, was coasting in Cohoes, last beser nid and, seeing his mother in the street, ed by her with a joy- ous shout. The sled boarded a rail- Last Summer’s Dresses, Thave been through last summer’s: Bg eh og mers dn, And of all the most cineca ng messes, Commend me to olil clothes, I say. ‘There they worn and out and tattered, a sie Ded abd Se none und She doce, le some Tather rakishly battered, Lie socialiy eae ‘on the floor. ‘There's my white lace, still covered with favors— Cost a fortune and turned out a fraud; But I wore it that night at the Travers’ When I danced with the swell from al Here’s a bunting, a satin brocaded; Here’s a nun’s Cloth, made up rather plain; And this old musiin, looking $0 faded, And with such an aggressive big stain, I remember the last time I wore { At that picnic where we caught. And I caught on a thorn bush and tore it, And of course all the shirring came out; And to finish the wreck more completely, Tom McCrary, the blundering old dear, Must needs upset his berries discreetly— The avalanche struck me just here. Poor Tom! In far-off Colorado | | 3 al work in some ly or. - But it never will we Giporaas ‘Tom isn’t the kind to rieh And should he return, dear old fellow, With his limited income tac! - I'm certain I'd be sere and yellow, ‘Ahd he would be forty at least. It 1s silly, I know, to remember, But sorhe thoughts are 80 loth to go. Yet I'll be twenty-three next September, And a girl can’t walt always, you kuow. Well, life ts pecultar and puzzling, And I don’t nnd much gain in the hunt, But—I always shalf keep that blue muslin ‘With the strawberry stain down the front. —Bessie Chandler in Harper's Bazaar, Basie dinlsion si Knee-Breeches—Why Not? Kate Field in Our Continent. “Without black velvet breeches what 1s man?” The sudden eruption of knee-breecheson the | person ofa young English gentleman visiting this country has thrown certain American citi- | zens into spasms of disgust. the wearing of these | breeches being in their opinion proof positive of | unmitigated idiocy. The man or woman of the | world who, thanks tothe enlightenment oftrayel discovers that no one nation possesses all the cardinal virtues and that clothes or no clothes are questions of local coloring, accepts the unique with equanimity and even with approba- tion, should it possess charm. Provincialism de- nounces whatever is not made in its own image. Men, not yet in their dotage, remember the igno- miny formerly attached to the being erect upon two legs who dared to wear a moustache. Could he have held office? Perish the thought! Was he in spite of hissexa man? A thousand times, no! On, {t was pitiful, Cranium were it full, Brains had he none! The intrepid he who having the courage of his opinions first went up and down with a moustache in this land of the free, descended to the grave a fool—in the estimation of his neigh- bors. How many fools, now called wise men, have sprung from his ashes. To-day the moustache is accepted as a virlle attribute. Provincialism has moved on and} The now draws the line at him who parts his hair | in the middle. Such a creature is beneath con- tempt, “It is no usetalking to me,” exclaimed a middle-aged gentleman recently. “The man who parts his hair inthe middle is an idiot.” | * Why 2” ‘ Because only an idiot would make | such a fool of himself. “As for knee breeches”— The English language tailing to be sufficiently rich in expletives to express middle-aged dixnation, the speaker put on his hat like a bully and silently strode away. Let us who have visited Boston and read a few pages of American history, investizate this | vital matter of breeches: aud endeayor to find | out whether these garments are per se unmaniy. Strange as it may seem, they were worn by our | forefathers, who, in the dim religious light of a i distance that lends enchantment to the view, | are supposed to have been the noblest Rowans | of them all. Those fifty-tive signers of the De- | { | j claration of Independence come down to p ity in knee breeches, silk and silver buckles. I that Thomas Jefferson and tools. How was aman of fashion arrayed in the be- siuning of this century? According to R. H. Stoddard the coat of an American bean had turee or four large plaits in the skirts, wadding | almost like a coveriet to keep it smooth, cuits very large, up to the elbows, open below and in- ined down with lead th The capes were | in and low $0 as to ¥ expese the close | jaited neck stock of liver stock buckle on the back of tie Shirts were adorned with hand-rutiies, were finely phtited. Breeches titted elo: silyer, stone or paste tockings. low shoes, enerally admitted is fellows were no sleey with or pamps bore silver buckies of various sizes end stockinss were of thread, worsted or Coat and breeches were genetally of the sa raaterial—in winter broadcloth, in summer cam- | let. Lace rufiles depending over the hand were an indispensable mark of gentility. In those | pre-suspender days it was thegtest of a well | y shaped man that he could by hI ural form j readily keep his breeches above his hips and his hout gartering above the calf of the Why, think of it! Onur ancestors were so lost to all sense of manliness as to wear in win- ter muifettees, little woolen muffs big enouch | to admit both hands and long enough to protect: | the wrists which were exposed on account of | the short sleeves worn to display fine linen or | lace rufiles. Now, I refuse to admit that, per se, knee breeches are one whit less manly than the hide- | ous trousers of the perlod. Trousers are of | Oriental origin, and were formerly the distin- guishing mark between “barbarians” and Greeks and Romans. The Gaulish Britons aud other Celtic nations wore trousers very full and gath- ered at the ankles, like the present Highland truis. During Roman supremacy trousers were abandoned in England, though Scotland and ireland still clung fondly to the hideous things. Mediwvalism {s but a synonym for the picturesque in male attire. When men were ormamental as well as useful they were none the ‘lees brave or great. The Crusaders did not ge forth to the Holy Land in trousers. Colambus set sail in quest of America ina garb that sculptor and painter are glad to copy and long to re-establish. Shakespeare wrote the maniliest of all poetry in Elizabethan trunks and hose. The world is, according to conventional calculation, six thousand ce old. On top of sixty centuries trousers like scum have risea to the surface within the last fifty years. What right havethey to claim superiority over fashions of dress which appeal toa sense of beanty? Their sole right 1s that of nine points of the law. They hold undisputed possession of thirty million pairs of legs in the United States. ———_-o-_______ A Fable for a Cent. A Lamb one day entered a saloon to quench his thirst with a glass of lager, and while quaf- fing the Beverage he noticed a Wolf playing Seven-Up at a table in one corner of the room. “ Why do you throw Snow-Balls at me?” de- manded the Lamb, as he sat down his glass. “I beg to remind you that this is Midsum- mer,” humbly replied the Wolf, and { could not throw Suow-Balls even if I desired.” “That may all be,” continued the Lamb, “but you lied about me to the Hares.” “I beg your pardon, Mr. Lamb, but no man can remember when the Wolves and the Hares were on speaking terms,” “And that may be true, also!” shouted the en- ed Lamb, “but you have been cheating at Cards!” “I will leave that won my last Nickel. rhen if you haveno Cash you have no bust- #3 in here!” howled the Aggressor and he feil upon the poor Wolf and Lambed him until he could hardly crawl. to the Jackal, who has just MORAL: Domestic economy is buying twelve-shilling shoes for your wife and twenty-ceat cigars for yourself. —_—___+e.______ Killing Alligators. A Detroiter who has just returned from Flor- ida, after an absence of several months, was asked the other day if he had any fun with the alligators down there. ves, sir—dead loads of fun,” he replied. I many 2” “Well, I should say so!” ‘How many did you ever kill in a day?” hree hundred.” “No! you don’t mean three hundred alligators in one aay ” “You must have struck arich spot. Three hundred in one day! Whew! What time did you begin?” “Oh, about 10 o'clock in the morning.” “And how long did it take you?” “About an hour,” | then passing off upon the ocean, frequently tal Foretelling the Weather. Prof. 3, W. Chickering in American Agriculturist, Those who have longest and most carefully studied and recorded the weather, know best, that beyond two or three days, no predictions can be made possessing the slightest reliability, or that should be taken into account in making our plans. There may be lucky guesses,as_ there may be wofal failures in guessing. Everybody has full liberty to guess what the weather will be at any time in the future. But when anybody undertakes to label his gaesses for weeks or months ahead “predictions,” and to issue them as guides for the farmer, or the traveler, or the clothing dealer, he, in the lan- guage of Shakespeare, “Writes himself down an ass.” When he undertakes to get money for doing this, he shows himself a swindler oa a level with oth er quacks. But for one or two, or even three days ahead, the weather may be foretold, two-thirds of the time with great certainty, the other third with more or less of doubt. And not only can this be done by the trained observer at the signal station, but it may be attempted with good auc- cess by any intelligent person who has access to the Say estes TR or ores e ee ae datly ort. would a gain he com- tninity if our dally papers would give tus these | 7% contet T now dare to cal the attention of reports In full as they are sent out, instead of | the public is between mgneif and the monopoly cutting them downto mere “indications” for thelr own vicinity, even if they hind to lessen the | dealers, in giving the people the benent of my low space given to horse-races, M1 matches, | prices in dog-fights, and police courts. The whole theory ot foretelling changes in the weather, with the aid of the telegraph, is based upon the tact that our weather changes come, as ageneral rule, from the west and not from thé east; that the great waves of baro- metric pressure, which we name high and low, and whose alterations produce our storms, move across our country from west to east, and almost never in the opposite direction, so that for our weather to-morrow, we look to see what it is to-day to the west of’ us, with very little interest as to what is going on to the eastward. Thus in New England, a northeast snow-storm is often telegraphed as coming from the south- west, from New York, or even from Virzini: or the Carolinas, or even trom farther south, The pressure of the atmosphere in the temper- ate zone varies about one pound per square inch, and is indicated by the barometer, varying from 29 inches (low) to'81 inches (high) as the extremes, the ordinary variations being only about halfas great. Now the storm-center isator near the piace of low barometer, where the pressure is least. the air froin all sides rushing toward this with’a rotary motion, which in very severe storms is named a cyclone. Some- times, however, the areas of high and low ba- rometer extend in long lines across the country from north to south, but moving from west to east, as in many of our ‘‘cold waves,” extending | sometimes from the lakes to the Gulf. The | PARTICULAR ATTENTAON 18 CALLED TO greatest fall of rain or snow is usually a little in advance of the storm-center, while the ba- rometer ts falling. When the center has passed, the barometer begins to rise, and clearing weather may be expected, generally with north- vest winds. storm-centers, or “‘areas of low baroie- ter,” or “low pressure” oftenest make their ap- pearance a little east of the Rocky mountains, very often in Dakota, and then move witb R= (ENBACH'S PIANO WARER( of various makes for sale apd rent duced price. Wm. Knabe & ¢ oF enowni on. Tuning and * be iith ‘street, above Punsy! venta avenue’ f3-1m T= GREAE GUESSING CONTEST 18 OVER AND THE PRIZE HAS BEEN AWARDED. PIANOS AND ORGANS. My Stock of NEW and SECOND-HAND PIANOS are of the best makers and most clegant styles. ‘NEW PIANOS at prices that defy competition. SECOND-HAND PIANOS at astenishingly low Prices. SEVERAL ELEGANT SEVEN-OCTAVB ROSEWOOD CASE PIANOS, ‘Occasionally a stor as and moves nortiveast ryclones make their appearance in Tndies and follow along the course of the Gulf stream, the outer edge sometimes bd reaching the Atlantic coast, very rarely extend- ing Iniand. Out of 100 storm-centers noted during 1 one inoved north, three southeast, 24 norihea and 72 nearly due east. Their velocity vari from 20 to 40 miles per hour, so that either storm-centers or cold Ww travel mountains to the sea in from two to. ti AT $90 AND $100 CASH. SIDNEY T. NIMMO'S ing a northeasterly direction after reach coast. Sometimes a storm may be deil from its course, or spend its force way, or increase in severity ward. the v render u ecord © PIANO WAREROOMS, no It is these pos together | _ sing velocity of the wave, whicn | WM. HEINEKAMP dependent on the telegraph fo ly or even hourly proxtess, 433 Seventh etreet northwest. Which sometimes contradict tie best-fou predict error, SUPE First-Claes, At V. BEC _ Tufting and Repe: FP ss soy A ms. But with ali ties 80 to® per cent of the i, and upon perhaps y be almost perteet. 8 a single to an amount greater tl ay | ing of Ife and comfort. Our weather then, in general terms, comes from the read in the RAND PIANOS. AND UNEQU: not ing, no ohia = ha harves' the traveler had better _ rot of the takes or the ocean until it While if in the fall or winter, “an area of high pressure with Shee Rae Ee os ED jolent winds and rapidly fall at lowest prices and easiest terms. a prevailing” in the same ree! the farmer had G. L. WILD & BRO., ' hetter look to his young and make all snug about cellar and barn, and the traveler will do well to take his heaviest overcoat. Bearing in mind these few simple tacts, every | = farmer’s boy whe has access to the daily “‘indica- tions and reports,” or better still to the daily weatlier maps, become, to a great extent, his own weather prophet for two or Unree days | ahead, and thus neither be taken in by the | guesses of those who make predictions to sell, nor fail of advantage which may often be gained Sole Agenta, 709 7th strect northwest, near G. 4 for reut, tuned and repaired. jad WARD IF DR. BROTHERS FAILS Ti cure any caso of Female Irrecolarities, Ob- ns or Leucorrhee. Mexieme farnt-hed the peor ange. Advice free. 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