Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1882, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. . Y Washi Read by John Hitz, esq. of American Social Science Ame Saratoga, September, 1551. As a house is typical of the man who builds it, Provided he intends to occupy it himself, and cities in general terms are typical of their found- ers and the people who inhabit them, so that city which constitutes the federal seat of gov_ ernment of a land partakes more or less of the individual and general characteristics of the na- tion at large. More especially is this so where, as in Washington, the nation is actually the founder, and through its representatives exercises di- Feet control over it. Washin: then, from its very inception partoo# of a national character, and to all close observers it already gives evi- gence of becoming in time a veritable epitoine of the United States. Certainly no feature of the city more forcibly illustrates this distinct: national character than do the bnildinas se: tered over its wide area. Here one finds, both in the city and suburbs, numerous specimens of the primitive hut of the dusky sons of toil from the great “‘cotton-beit,” and likewise the invitin; verandah and generous hearth of a genuine Southern ho Neither are wanting the cosy cottage of a New England artizan, and the sub- urban villa and granite palaces of some of her men of mark. And so also can be seen types of the cheerful Western home, and the Philadelphian interminable uniformity. The opulent New Yorker already finds that his elegant mansion, which wealth has supplied with every possible comfort, is rapidly being duplicated here in the more adyantazeous and pleasing surroundings afforded by numerous well-kept public parks, and a hundred miles or more of superior paved Foadways. shaded by no less than seventy thou- fand trees. When we examine into the character ofthe dwell- ings occupied by the people in Washington, the relative number of tax-payers, ete., a show- ing by no means disereditable to this typical city ot America will present itself. Only, the pecu- liar position which the federal capital occupies, as it were. imposes upon it exceptional ad ment in the matter of “Homes for the people, The regulations of the inspector of buildings and of the health departinent (which in the m: strictly enforced.) preciude the possibilit people living in basements and hovels totally ‘untit for habitation. It will furthermore be seen that the proportion of houses of insignificant value is small. and the number of frecholders quite lai late official reports, will enabl interested in the subject to draw their own conclusions: POPULATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (CENSUS OF 10.) i je People in ington, before the tion, at its meeting Total number of taxps « «tami sin Washington * Georgetown “ County. 10 1,005 15,660 €0-operation, which manitests itself i economie, social, political, and other tions. One find ing associations, maid those in office of “uncert: . all, whilst encouraging economy. tend to supply the place of savings banks rather than in realit: to stimulate among members the acquirement homesteads. There exists every evidence that the people “love to congregate tozetiher,” but, it would seem, not for pur of domicile; for one of the most marked features of the city is the total absence of tenement houses, as known in New York and other cities. Itistrue that the numerous boarding houses absorba considerable part of the population, and that. here and there, we find two or even three families occupying one house, but the latter is exceptional. Even the pcorest laborer seems to prefer a more re- mote domicile of his own, made up only of ref- use lumber, to the most centrally located attic under rent. The great area of the city, in con- nection with its exceileut streets and ready means of reaching the suburbs, enabies the la- borer to dwell according to the bent of his mind —near the ground, and remote from the incon- venience of upper stories. But no class here, not even the unskilled laborer, more clearly needs to devise some better mode of home life. than in the main falls to the lot of meinbers of The following statistics, culled from | niza- | summer season would be utilized to drive ven- tilating machinery; the gas to be manufactured upon the premises. An engineer was to be em. ployed and a janitor placed in cl e of the en- tire building, whose duty it would to keep it in good sanitary condition, and the courts in proper order. The services of a first-class ca- terer were to be secured and a public laundry provided. The transverse structure it was proposed to utilize as follows: the basement, for vapor, plunge, and ordi bath-rooms, for the use of oceupants of the “Home” not provided with the same in their own apartments, for hair-dressing saloon, &c. On the first floor there were to be two large school-rooms and a dining-saloon for children under twelve years of age. The sec- ond floor was to contain an assembly-room, 40 by 70 feet, for social entertainments and other meetings; also, a dining rogm for members not taking meals in their own apartments: a read- i or sitting-room for ladies, and a reading and smoking-room for gentlemen; these to be sup- plied- with choice reading matter, periodicals aud papers, in ample numbers, at’ an expense not to exceed 50 cents per month to each sub- seriber. The third floor was to be appropriated to recreation, amusement, and conversation rooms, furnished with billiard tables, chessmen, &c. Regulations for the instruction and super- vision of children, providing for the-sick, and also in reard to furnishing meals and attending to the laundry work of oceunants of the ‘‘Home” own apartments, were given by the projector, The rentals per year which these apartments should yield to the members or stockholders were stated as follows: First story, front rooms, per square foot of area, 25 cents. Second story, front rooms, per square foot of area. 30 cents. Third story, front rooms, per square foot of area, 20 cents. Fourth story, front rooms, per square foot of area, 16 cents. 12cents. Thus, a iront room of 18 by 16 feet, on the third floor, would command $4.80 per month. ciated nome, including board, washing, heat, engineer, were rated as follows per month 5 z . The projector sums up by showing in a tabular statement that, for a family of six persons, liv- ing in such an associated home, apart from the advantazes it would enjoy in the way of educa | tional facilities and increased comfort in many respects, a gain ef nearly $500 annually would pe the result, as compared with the present mode of living in detached houses. It is now upwards of ten years since this plan as proposed in Washington, and despite the unguestioned success of a similar system origi- nated by the eminent social scientist. A be ‘nt effects of which command to this iration of every yotary of social scienc this project of Mr. Enthoter has so far totally tailed of realization. Various haye been the ned therefor. The projector him- self states that most of the subscribers declined to take any other instinet of individualism inherent in every true American, which makes him averse thing which shall, even seemit movements or | ality ; a third emphatically deciares “the love of ‘lominion in man” to be at the bottom of the isinclination of American men to adopt such a stein of homesteads, because it would be a signal moyement towards emancipating their wives from the drudgery of house-keeping and render them less domesti arious suburban projects have, from time tot persons of moderate means, who would not be content within the ordinary city dwelling. “Uniontown,” primarily for the employ ot the Navy Yard, is beautifully located on the banks of the “Anacostia,” or Eastern branch of the Potomac, on a plateau of gently rising ground backed by a fine range of hills. Along the base and on the rise of these hills, a short distance apart, a suburban negro village called “Hillsdale” has sprung up, as it were, of i ‘owth, which, with its many primi- tive and rude looking structures liberally cov- ered with whitewash, gives the landscape here, from a distance, a rather picturesque and cheer- ful appearance. A tramway extends from tl city to these suburban villages. The denizens of neither of these settlements seem to have been actuated by any other motiveto locate here than that the holders of the ground offered building and garden lots on exceptionally iow and favorable terms. * Mount Pleasant Vilage and Meridian Hill, two suburban settlements situated on the hich who preierred not to perform such labor in their | and light, as also the expenditure for janitor and | y | ming pool and skating rink, a gymnasium, a ne, been started to meet the demands of | The remainder ranging from 20 cents down to | he expense of living at such an asso- } | accessible homes for government employ | others engaged insimilar labor, comprising cosy floral display on the premises, see to the trees. grass roadways, and in fact render the place attractive at all times. weal. A iter carriers, venders teat, milk, fruit, vegetables and ice, make their regular calls upon the denizens; physicians and the po- lice are readily summoned by telephone. A book and magazine club has existed for several- years, and the excellence of its social sphere is a well established fact. What more, then, could be wanted in this locality? Is not this the com- table American Utopia such near London, is to the eyes of Moncure Conway, Nast. Renau, and the in- habitants of its 350 quaint Queen Anne Cot- tages? The projectors, and those participatin, with them as residents of Le Droit Park may laudably entertain such hopes. Will they be realized? The future alone can tell. Whilst the projectors and denizens of this park deserve great credit for what they have accomplished, much remains yet to be done to make it (or any similar enterprise) the Arcadian home which (within the present limited period that they feel their term of office assured) the great majority of government employes here can reasonably ex to attain. ut why should not such a model city block, or suburban park of associated homes, be feasi- ble, if constructed within the means of those tor whom they would be intended? Homes, we will say, in one or more quarters, for those now inhabiting cramped and yermin-breeding struc- tures, would aid in elevating them and their children to a higher standard of moral and in- tellectual culture. In another section, easily and cottages, supplied with the convemences which the imore modern applications of electricity, steam and gas In domestic economy afford: co-operative dining hall in charge of a first-class caterer, a public laundry, a nursery and kinder- garten, so that the mothers of the place, If so disposed, could at all times, temporarily or rmanently, be relieved of the drudgery of the itchen, the worry with servants, and the wear- ig care of small children, cheerful apartments for, and good attention to, the single of both sexes. a Rochdale store, a school and circulat livery stable, a post and telegraph office, in fact everything calculated to make such an asso- ciated home attractive at all seasons, promote refinement, and afford true comfort. All might be so arranged that, to some extent at least, it shall be within the means of every denizen to Godin, in Guise, France, as early as’ 1859. the | | gate? | enjoy these advantages, whether his salary be only that of a messenger, orbe that of a Cabinet officer. Considering the practice which prevails of ap- portioning the appointments in the several de- partments pro rata among the states, will not some wealthy public-spirited New Yorker lead off with such an associated home building, or a suburban park, at the federal capital, named in honor of his,the great empire state? wherein pro- vi nade for its Senators and ‘h New Yorkers would be proud, and where they would delight to congre- Or will some farsighted ‘w Englander first step forth and show how it can be done? The several state leadquarters at the Cente! nial Exhibition gave abundant evidence how gladly “birds of aieather fiock together,” and not less so the entertainments of certain of the state associations in thi cent period. It isme: ideas are pre ever, is the accumul: he advent of the so-called board of public works, of which ex-Goyernor Alexander R. Shepherd was the master spirit, did much to stimulate the erection of a better style and higher order of dwellings in thecity. The park- ing or widening of the sidewalk area along all streets not devoted ly to business pur- poses, allowed the introduction of bay windows and other ornamental projections. Thousands of dwellings in the city now enjoy the advantages of this wise innovation upon former rules for building. This parking, together with the extensive tree-planting feature of Washington, has greatly added to the pleasure and comfort ‘of its deni- zens, and contributes largely to mitigate the drawbacks incident to life in large cities. The grading and paving of the city, ina man- wer that even exceeds in excellence the car- riageways of the most advanced capitals of Eu- Tope, induces the more wealthy frequenters of Washington, and also many of the prominent public men of the country possessed of the means, in increasing numbers, to erect elegant and costly mansions. The federal Capital prom ses thus in time, not only asa writer has re- cently observed, “to be the winter end of Ne York, as Newport is its summer extension, but the favored resort during half the ye the cultured and wealthy throughout the land. In anticipation of this increasing influx of the weaithy, apartment houses are being erected Such @ structure, recentiy completed, called “The Congress, and of the ten thousand or more em- ployes in the public departments. One of the distinctive phases of the popula- plateau north of the city, were efforts in the dl- rection of inducing cierks in the departments and other persons of moderate means to pur- chase lots of half an acre or more on easy terms Portland,” contains three complete suits of six rooms, each on the lower floors, commanding respectively a rental of $1.500 per annum, un- tion of Washington, as compared with other ¢ities, is its disproportionately large number of persons engaced in clerical work of a hicher than ordinary grade, and the comparatively small number of artisans engaged in mechani- eal and other like pursuits. Owing to the vast area of streets, extensive sewers, etc., whict @ comparatively new city of such great ex- tent, need improvement and constaat attention, a larger number of unskilled laborers find tem- | eared employment than is common in cities ving a resident population equal to that of Washington. The exceptionally large number of its transient population during the sessions of Congress, also gives increased activity to Rasa = pt and considerably augments the number of those employed for the time being in all branches of domestic service. Whilst much might be done, it is true to improve the domi- ciles, and, to some extent, the boarding and lodging facilities of these, and so render their service more efficient, yet they are, in the na- ture of things, comparatively better provided for than are most of the 1.400 employes of the Government Printing office, the 1.600 artisans of the Navy Yard, or the 3,300 persons of both sexes in service of the Treasury department, to say nothing of the large number engaged in the War, Navy, Interior, State and other de- partments. Efforts to meet the want here indicated have not been wanting. Whole squares have literally been built up with two, three and four-story dwellings, many being provided with all the so- calied “modern improvements.” These struc- tures contain from are obtainable at the moderate rentals of from fifteen to sixty dollars per month. These accord- Ing to location and conveniences in general, find tenants readily. Many are held for sale on lib- eral terms, such asa cash payment of several hundred doilars, followed by monthly instal- ments of from twenty-five Y dollars for the dal: of the purchase money, which includes interest at the rate of from sixto eight per cent. But this system of providing homes for the great mass of people in Washington, having moderate and stated incomes, but of uncertain duration, fs only partially satisfactory. It is true many of these dwellings have thus been purchased by their occupants, but, gener- ally speaking, these houses are not ‘constructed or located to suit the taste of the more domes- inclined government employe. Even if net immediately hailing from some rural district when purchasing a homestead, he wants some- thing besides brick and mortar: and, typical American as he is, at heart longs for a country home, or the nearest approach to it possible. Among other notable schemes to meet the ninent topographical en- . of Washinzton, terprise suppl ortable home and facilities for the education of their children.” This project aimed at the organiza- tion of so-called “Home Axsociations.” Mem- bership was not to be limited in number, but subdivided sections, according to the local- tt of each building for associated money required to erect an associ- ilding, the projector proposed to raise by subscription to stock in ee of one hundred dollars each, payable in monthly instal- Ments of fifty cents. As soon as the required Bumber for an entire structure had been regis- tered, duly passed on and accepted,officers were to be elected. a charter procured, the desired ground leased or purchased, aud contracts for the building entered into. Asa type for sucha building, the projector recommended selecting. @ square fed rete 330 by 400 feet, and erecting thereon, exclusive of cellar and mansard. a four- story edifice, including a transverse structure, the whole so constructed as to afford two court- Is each, of 158 by 292 feet; one to be laid out a flower-garden, and the other in a grass plat, asa play-cround and gymnasium for the chil- dren of the ocenpants the associated home. The entire structure was to contain, besides slosets, ete., some 720 ments; each room ‘haying a depth eighteen feet, and to be from twelve to thirty . The lodging-rooms were to be so ar- Lorn as that members could be accommodated with just the number required, from three to shirteen; the partitions to be solid brick walls and flooring sound-deadened and fire-proof. Access to the sevéral suites of apartments was. ‘to be had by means of twelve stairways of ample size, so arranged that each stairway landi would have to serve ies each ve to thirteen rooms, and | and erect thereon cottages to suit. Whilst both are delightful locations. neither has attained that degree of prosperity and attractiveness which their denizens at first pictured to them- selves. Possibly the distance from a tramway of the one or the detrimental practice of holding lots at a higher price than originally fixed upon, after the first sales were effected, may have caused a lack of the requisite participation. So, whilst some cosy and inviting homes may be found there, the majority of lots remain uni proved or show lamentable neglect. In resard to Pleasant Plains and portions of University . two like suburban settlements, (on thelin of tramway however,) a similar tardiness of growth is to be noted. that the only approach which in the District of Columbia to solve successfully the problem of suitable asso- ciated homes for persons of moderate incomes is the enterprise wn as Le Droit Park, com- prising some fifty acres of land, subdivided into 190 building sites, adjacent to and fronting some two thousand feet on the northern bound: line of the city. It is contiguous to the termini of two tramways, with a third in prospect at an re most of the public departments may reached in from fifteen to thirty minutes. ‘This enterprise indicates an intelligent effort to prac- tically solve the problem of “Associated Homes” adapted to the taste, wants and means of the average American. The projectors, Messrs. A. L. Barber & Co., constitute simply a copartnership. an investment the firm purchased the ground in 1872 and 1873, inclosing the entire area with a fence in common. ting in the enterprise the thoughtful, experienced and, in this line, peculiarly successful architect, James H. McGill, the ground was then laid off in suitable build- ing sites, taking care to preserve what trees there were upon the premises, (among them a number of fine oaks,) and util of landscape effect stich inequalities as presented themselves. Like M. Godin at Guise, Messrs. A. L. Barber & Co. showed their sincerity of purpose and confidence in the advantages the project would offer to families: for amonz the first dwellings erected was one for each partner of the firm, where they continue to reside to this day. The architect wisely designed plans generally | the exterior of the most varied, picturesque tasteful designs. The projectors then organized, mainly among themselves, what they styled “The Le Droit Park Building Company,” which association erected the dwellings as there seemed a cali for them, some singl pose of greater economy in building, in pairs or adjoining each other, but ever careful to pre- serve proportions in keeping with the general design. Of such awellings, some with and others without stables or other outhouses, (which lat- ter when erected are all constructed in harmony with the prevailing styles of architecture,) there are now some fifty, of which about half are owned by their respective occupants. The houses are substantially built of either brick or wood, are provided with cellars and have orna- mental slate roofs. On the ground floor they nsually have. besides one bay window, a porch or piazza and hallway, a parlor, library or con- servatory, a dining room, kitchen and pantries or closet, whilst on the second floor, in addition to occasion! balconies, bath-rooms and ample closets. there are three or more chambers. A third floor is exceptional and only introduced in case mansard roots are used. The dwellings are allsapplied with gas, water, sewerage, la- trobe stoves, ranges, marble mantels, bells, etc.. etc. They are sold at from thirty-six hundred dollars, including lot, to ten thousand dollars, according to size and extent of. building site. The terms of purchase are such that most government clerks could by dint of econ- omy, within a of eight years or less, according to the amount of sal- ary they receive, readily pay out of the same the price of one sulted to heir respec- tive tastes and wants. These dwelli i at set back from the curbline some fifteen to forty feet, and range in width from thirty-six to sixty feet ‘The streets and avenues remain petvate prop erty, for the sole use of the of tl park. yet are free to the public to drive through hem. The proprietors of = com- prising the park, and not the m ipal authori- ties, improve and keep in repair the streets and si and ion is made to secure the landscape gardener, early date, so that at all times for a five cent | Purely as | ‘ing for purposes | i uniform as to the interior arrangements, but on | they deem it a duty to exhibit them. Old duel and | esses, faded spinsters. fat dowagers, care j the larve nun furnished, whilst the smaller suites on the up- per floors are held at from #78) to 200 per annum. Of course all conveniences which it is possible to supply are introduced, including ele- vators and steam heating, whilst on the fir floor, those who desire to dispense with cooking in their own apartments, can be served at a table Chote or a la a [twill thus be seen that in Washington, for the wealthier class of people, temporary and per- manent habitations upon a commensurate scale, are amply bein provided, but homes adapted to the means, and in keeping with the advancing spirit ofthe age, for the unskilled laborer, and ber of people called into the ser. vice gov it _(ineluding a suital dwelling forthe family ofthe President of the United States), are wanting. These will doubt in time be forthcoming n greater stability is given to the civil service, and some enlightened man or woman of this country “possessed of means and goodly will,” shall, as Godin did in France, and Lindley in Great Britain, show here how it can be done. Th we may expect to see clusters of model dy ings at the National Metropolis, whi provid their inmates make the two great comumand- ments their rule of practice in life, shall eon- stitute the best types cf American homes for tie people. +e. A London Street Exhibition. From the New York Sun. Lospox, February 18.—The London reason has commenced. It would be useless to say that instead of May sunshine and balconies filled with flowers the town is still sirouded in its winter fogs and clad in furs, and that the time for crowded balls and lengthy dinners can only be in sultry weather. The season has com- menced with the opening of Parliament and the first drawing-room of the year. At2 in the afternoon the fashionable street around Buck- ingham Palace presented that remarkable as- pect which only London can wear. In the broad daylight, or at least in as much of it as is ever visible—a moon and water radi- ance—ladies of all ages drive in toilets suitable only for the charitable gaslight. No women are as fond as Englishwomen of displaying their charms at a time when they have ceased to ex- ist, and even to the roughs and street Arabs lessly allow the ermine tippet. to drop from. their shoulders, and the crowd catches here and there the glitter of a dimond ona shriveled neek, or | the scintillations of a tiara on a trembling others, for the pur- | brow. The spectators are rot reticent, and freely bandy their observations, mostly ofa per- sonal and uncharitable nature. In fact, royalty itself is not spared. Onone occasion the crow getting impatient as it waited for the Quee Vociferously inquired if ‘*Mother Brown” was not soon coming. This frank but uncomplimen- tary allusion to the Scotch gillie was universally appreciated, and met with nu rebuke. aislete ep aiias ae Why He Would Not stay. “Do not go, darling”—and as she spoke the words, spoke them in low, tender tones that thrilled him from main-truck to keelson, Gwendolen Mahafty laid her soft, white cheek on Plutarch Riordan’s shoulder and gave him a look with her Instrous, dove-like eyes that would make your head swim. “I cannot stay,” he replied, kissing the hy-red lips as he spoke, and feeling wist- ly in his overcoat pocket’ for a plug of to- bacco; “I must go now, right away.’ But the girl placed her arms around his neck—arms whose soft, rounded curves and ink-tinted skin would have made an anchorite ‘hrow up his job, and pleaded with him to stay alittle lon; “I cannot,” he again said, look- ing at her tenderly. “Cannot?” repeated the girl, a shade of anger tinging the tone in which the word was ut- tered. “And pray, sir, what is it that so im- peratively calls you hence?” Bending over with a careless that artfully concealed the ht iness at the knees of his pants, Plutarch sald in low, bitter oom A bass Mee vee terrible In Ueeigth, “I have broken my suspen ‘Murat Haistead. Arthur: Jersey City Tal,” my friend it. Conkling the most_un Se ee {The Cabinet Keep’ is Tappolatmedt*—Lectrile "Gowr | Journal, 07 5 is 8 pon : Gd WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1882--DOUBLE SHEET. Bishop Markeley. From Temple Bar. One of the most curious circumstances in con- nection with Berkeley's life is the belief that once prevailed that he had succeeded in making @ giant. According to an account given in Watkinson’s “Philosophical Survey of Ireland” (1777), he took a poor orphan, named Magrath, and reared him on certain hygienic princi with the result that the boy, at the age of six- teen, was seven feet high, and that he was seven feet eight inches in height when he died, with all the symptoms of old age, twenty years old. Others = that the good Bishop merely took pity on Magrath, who, having perhaps lost the use of his limbs on account of his extraordinary growth, was taken under the protection of the prelate and fed on good and nourishing food until he regained his strength. Suffering a good deal from bre Bly colic to- ward the end of his life, and living received benefit from the use of tar-water, he wrote a | treatise (1744) on its virtues, on which he said | he had bestowed more pains than on any of his works. His last book, published (1752) but a few months before his death, was * her Thoughts on Tar-Wate: Whatever other people may have thought of the efficacy of tar (and we know by the advertisements that this remedy is largely believed in by ple of our | own time), there is no doubt that the Bishop | had great faith in it; indeed, he owned that he | regarded it as a panacea. Swift, in his “Bouts Rimes,” refers to it ‘ “Let nobles toast in bright champn; Nymphs higher born Ban Domltilias Til drink her health, agatn, agai In Berkeley's tar oF sars'parilla.® ieee Why They Do It The deep philosophy’of .Teras Siftings has solved one of the women problems as follows: “You can see it down here in Texas already,and, in a short time it will make its appearance all over the United States. Like the prickly heat and boils, it comes out regularly every spring. We refer to the specter of the front yard. Per- haps the reader does not quite comprehend our meaning. We refer to the woman who plants shrubbery, and grubs about generally, early every spring, in the front yard. Early every spring the ayerage woman, rich or poor, dresses | herself in a faded calico dress. disguises herself { in a big poke bonnet, and, armed witha garden rake, she goes prowling about like a scarecrow | on wheels, a darkey with a water pot usualiy | bringing up the rear of the procession. The | question arises: Why does the average female strive to make herself so hideous as to fill a dead man with distrust, If he were to walk past, | when about the only returns for her trouble are a #40 rheamatie pain in her back, anda sugges- | tion trom lier husband that she hive a wagon and go arow ‘The reason | why women pers ly because they cannot are acting from an ir! , do picnics become & Tich and poor, rush off into the woods toeat their lunch under tree fed on by ticks and mosquitoes? 1 because for tens of thousands o} ina nomadie condition. He with his family in the wood: and being annoyed by man has become civil: yet, nevertheles: si ears man was | dered about | living on berries | $, ahd although ed, and lives ina house, about, once a year an irre- istibie desire to return to bis old vagabond life comes over him, and he just has to go on pienic, after which b Iu r the re the year, and puts sweet oil on the ti dust so it is with women gardening. U quite recently woman had to do all the hard work in the field. She had to dig up the eround, plat the erop, and gather it until it beeame second nature to her. rhusband was kind enough to encourage her to keep on by shasing a stick at her when she wanted to sit bat it was below his dignity to r Such was the condition of woman from the beginning of time. It will be remembered that Adam was too lazy to gather in the apples, so Eve had todo it for him. Of course all. this ischanged now. All that most women do in the way of hard work is to dress up and go to parties, but every spring she cannot resist the impulse to put on her worst clothes and drudge with a hoe out in the front yard, as she used to do thousands of years ago.” Recognizing His Master's Voice ‘Through a ‘Felephone. A citizen of Denyer is the owner of an intelli- gent dog, which is a great pet of the family. A few days ago it was arranged that the master should come down in the city and talk through the telephone to the dog, to see what effect it would have upon the animal. When the master called out “Hello,” the dog was held upon a chair, and the audiphone piaeed close to its ear he gentieman talked to the deg in his ordinary tone of voice, and called to it and Whistled se eral tin The canine recognized its master's voice, and almost went wild because it contd | not find him. The animal could not be hetd upon the chair, jumped down and ran ebout, ch room barking at a furious rate, aid «eeming to be utterly nonplussed because Ue master could not be found. BEN oe ‘The English Professicnal Beauties. “HL. C.” writes from Lendon to the .New ri nd there, see! trom the direction of the spa- cious Marlborough House comes a carriage which, though perfect in every detall of ap- ment and attendants, is not nearly so pre- ous or showy as many of the othe Yet there commotion, ata heads and strainme of nechs as it) pass lo t with full beard, 2 tiess attire, who si But even h r to the throne, ereates only a passing ripple of excitement in the world of the West End dashes past and is lost sight of in Then comes a double coup » in it. The youngest is the brated Countess Dudiey—celebr: the nt as a great beauty, though why sie be so many people are at a loss to know. Her face is tin, and begins to hi a careworn loa There is much of the Ameri the difference be ries her shay but few of our iS d richly, though plainly. in dark blue velvet and black lace. Her really beautiful throat and neck are well dis- played—that is, weil forthe crowd. It 1s just possible that a husband, even a noble English and, with a grain of fine feeling, would be eas well pleased if she did net make so r charms. The same criticism ean not be made in regard to Mrs. Cornwallis West. She, passing in a neat brougham almost. side by side with her rival Dudley, appears in a tight-fitting costume of amber cloth, which is st too high in the nec! It may be that, sh complexion, full lips, and there are ravages of time which she finds it well to conceal. For be it understvod that she, like the rest of what are rather profanely known as ‘the professional beauties,’ is not exactly in her teens. But upon this point even the quickest observer has no time to moralize or make theories. She passes out of sight like the rest, giving place after a time to that most attractive woman of them ali—Mrs. Langtry. -A characteristic Eng- lish face is hers, English, with a dash o: Scotch in her violet-blue eyes and red-brown hair. Her eye-brows are straight, strong and reguiar, the rest of her face irregular as irregular can be. Not one feature in it. excepting always her eyes, could, taken singly, be called beautiful. Her nose is positively bad, Jong, thin, slightly overhanging, and ntially commonplace. Her mouth ery large and certainly not sugges- tive either of a bent toward asceticism or of great power to resist temptation, while her chin and cheek bones decidedly angular and out of proportion. Yet none who see her can y that she has a most charming, aimost a bewitehing face.” a ‘The Burden of the Sea. From deep mid-ocean tn the solemn night, WASHINGTON DRAINAGE. ‘The Evils Complained of and the Rem- edies Propoved. From the Sanitary Engineer. For many years there have been occasional complaints as to the drainage and sewerage of Washington city. Before the war it was a strag- | gling village of boarding-bouses and oyster sa- | loons, with a few large and handsome buildings | scattered about. The greater part of the drain- | age was superiicial, the paved gutters were often foul, and many of the streets were unpaved, and in winter almost impassable. The streets inter- secting Pennsylvania avenue between the Capi- tol and the White House, had in their centers large, roughly-built brick sewers, which emptied into the canal, and from the avenue to the canal had but little fall—being, in fact, nothing more than elongated ceaspoo! The foul gases from one of these sewers produced the famous Na- tional Hotel epidemic in 1857. The greater part of the city, however, had neither drainage hor sewerage After the war the increase in population was such that villaze methods of providing for ex- creta were no longer sufticient, and when the board of public works was created it entered upon the construction of a general system of sewers in connection with the extensive open- ing and paving of streets, which it carried out. The work was done in haste—on plans not fully digested, under very poor supervision, and at a relatively enormous expense; but it made Wash- , ington one of the most beautifui cities in the country, and put an end to the schemes for re- moving’ the capital, of which for a year or two so much was heard. A better class of buildings made Its appear- ance,although at the same time the Jerry build- ers ran up their long rows of cheap brick tene- ments by the hundred. Now, Washinzton is fast becoming a great lit- erary and scientific ceiter, a winter resort for that class of people who in summer are found at the sea-side or in Europe. But there is a cloud on the fair fame of the city, and that is with regard to its healthfulness. The Washington malaria has become celebrated. No doubt its amount and its danger have been exaggerated, if we use the word in the sense in which itis now for the most part used. But there is also no doubt that there occurs h i ashington a la wn amount of i nof deaths du “e, badly constructed marshy and polinted n of deaths in the curate one—a i for istration ed in anual tode Se District of Columbia is a_ fal permit from the health of every burial; and the resul hat en carefully tabul ted and pr the reports of t! health officer. 1 wristration ¢ is riod be! total number of deaths during this pei 24. the hug it is well known that the disease which pre- sents most intimate rel ) soll moisture is consu show! nuniber of death period above ¥: total n ver of deat White, males. Whit les. Soh me Colored, femal: Total The annual death-rat tion for this period has been: for the wi 2.762 per thousand; for tie colored, 6.416 per thousand. The mean annual death-rate from all canse the same period was: whites. 17.812; for the colored, 35.372. per cent. ‘ihe percentage of deaths trom consumption the whole mumber of deaths was 16.7, b little hivher than the same per state of Massachusetts for the five years, 1874-78 | in which it was 16 5. Striking as these filcures are, they become | Il more striking when we examine the map ofthe district upon which are marked the f e localities in which these deaths nis great mortality fi relatively th 3 concentrated to c i¥e ofthe city, forming a sort respond: pre frou 1 { iy limited portions of band which cor x with the low parts where a few years ago were marshes only. Itlsvery true that low sites and bad drainage re not ‘he only uses of consumption in Wasntgton; it i ‘ites that the poorer tS iv = filth, want of venti- lation, whic R up to save fuel, and other things connected with poverty and ee, have each their share as causes, but prob- ably damp soil is the chief factor. rs, the maps show an hs, and. especially typhoid fever htheria south of the avenue, where the ted above, little ‘e than elon: @ vicinit marshy | with its “ated as that the : front, tly ind itis here x , and especially 1, this i in almost every part of the ci —c¥ at least is rar; nt cases only of | being reported in’ the year ending Jane | 30, 1830, fwhich we B ct, the he: i- rather appears to ridicule the that Washington is an unhealthy or ma- us cit, ficures to show that four fr i ' | | | H meet with the cordi rton hotel and boarding but it is to be ho it will not induce Con- gress to think there is no special need for improvement. There are many localities in Washington which are marked by unheaithy, lecalities where no prudent man would live who could afford to live elsewhere: and there is every reasen to believe that these localities could bemade much more healthy than they are by proper drainage and sewerage. There seems to be too great a tendency in the legislation proposed to Congress to confine the work wholly to the river front. From a sanitary point of view this will be a mis- take. In this article we have considered the | subject‘from a sanitary point of view oply, and | it may be stated as _a general conclusion that for sanitary reasons it is highly desirabie that | some action should be speedily taken to secure | better drainage, sewerage and water front, than Washington now possesses. The healthfulness of our capital city is nota matter of mere local interest only, and the wrath of some persons in | the District at what they seem to consider im- ! pertinent intrusion in the shape of criticism and | advice is simply foolish. Washington belongs to the nation, and the nation must assume the responsibility and to a great extent bear the expense of making it what it ouzht to be. What this implies, and the | relations of ensineermg and financial sides of the problem, to the sanitary aspect as sketched above, will be discussed in succeeding articles. ees bahiemnsias Ne dita MODERN WOMEN’S BIG HATS. | Whe Weird Romance of Poor Philip Vanderdonk from the West. From the Burlington Hawkeye. All his life he had toiled and ° saved and | scraped, and pulled every string that had a dol- | Jar at the end of it. And now all his hard-earned wealth wes gone, and a great hateful, interest- No wa ig sail abroad, poghoro di sent Z oes UP sonorous through the spheres, And what its burden that God only hears? ‘The burden of the Sea! that fafinite wos = ages, ctl ke its ebb: Crete indless and hopeless—hark, the mystic 80 “How long”-—It seems te moan—“O Lord, how BEE ee His Crazy Bone. From the Indianapolis Jopraal.; - ‘The man that struck his crazy bone one foot and put Eh Et And vivid F His W straight before 2 Flashed white as pallid Parian stone, And clinched his eyes,.and hopped again. ‘He spake no word—he made no moan— He muttered no invectiv. re—but_ sant gripped nis elias tighter shut, eran \izzed past him then, sie Hp ROpPEA AEN een. j A new map of Boston has a.certain open designated aa Haypatamalim square A i readily see ‘the error: was marked in eating mortgage spreads its black wings over all that he owned and loved on earth. He sank | in dowd | pointed w i | pop; | round Embroidery for Bedrooms. ‘From the Art Amateur. One of the decidedly attractive pieces of needlework shown at the rooms of the Society of Decorative Art wasa bed-cover made of fine soft crash, so neatly joined in lengths that the stitches were almost imperceptible, and em- broidered in fine crewel with a branching “all over” design of singular grace and beauty This style of embroidery has no special name, but for want of a more specific title. has been called “grandmother's crewel-work,” re- peating, as it does, the old conventional roses: ‘ana carnations that spring from acommon stem, and are varied by pretty flourishes, all produced in grayish blues and reddish pinks and amber | yellows, with greens that suggests the stalk of | growing lavender. The price set upon this | quilt was one hundred dollars, and the worker | is reported to have said that her labor was barely covered by the sum affixed. Lsee, how- | ever, no difficulty in-undertaking such a of bedroom decoration if one has fair acqu: ance with the methods of ordinary Kensington stitches. The chief difficul i in finding an it applied to the ground for work- | Where conventional coloring is so freely | used—and one would think it no shame to perch | a blue bird on a rose-colored branch, or to be- | stow yello y 2 the artist has certainly a comf le choice. To show what ingenuity has done, a lady sit- ting at breakfast one morning in her country home, was invaded by a persistent peddler, so | intent on vending his wash-cloths, woven in qu be cut apart when used, could only get rid of him by inves lar in the purcha: cream-colored web of woven cotton, as it iay upon the floor si needlework. With her needle alone, havin pattern indicated. sue worked upon the 1 of each square some flower or sprays plucked in her daily walks. In the wide connecting threads between the squares she inter ribbons. With threads of coarse darainz cotton. she ted a fringe around her -cover for a set of came in due time to be more admi modesty had ever dreamed of ! A very eifective bed cover has been made in Boiton sheeti colony time: ¥ grouped bri ‘ortable liberty ot furaituce ‘d than its these alphabets, as have Albrecht Diirer, At von Worms, Jonn yon Calcar, and other distinguished artists, Alphabets of simpler form are to be had; and surely the work bestowed im marking our linen would not be thrown away, and it we micht venture to mugzest, would 6® more satisfactory in the end than a crash tidy embroidered with bulrushes and sunflowers, Constasce Cany HaRkisom, see ALMOST BURIED ALIVE. Josephine Ryman’. Horribic Expes rience While Lying im a Trance. From the Cincinnati Enquirer, VILLE, IxD., March 10.—Josephine Ry- man, a fair-halred, blue-eyed young woman, is just recovering from a remarkabie illness at the home of her sister, Mrs Brown, in. this place Her parents died some years ago, and Josephine went to work in St. J; here. One Saturday night last winter she went to singing school. She had not nin her seat long when she felt avery strange sensation about the head, accompanied by pains in the back. She arose to her feet, as start out of church, when she fell ina dead faint, and was carried home. Her friends at first thought that the attack was but a mere fainting spell, andthe | Usual restoratives were applied, but the girl continued to tie as if dead. Sunday came and went, but still there was no change. The body became colder and colder, the . the lips were apart ptible pulse, and every indicath to death. Physicians pronounced lite The priest was sent for to administer the last rites, and the weeping sisters and friends of the family prepared to bid Josephine the last fare- well. The cofin was ordered, busy fingers began to prepare the white clothes in which to bury the corpse, and, in fact, every preparation was made for the final scene. Thus passed Monday. On the evening of that day there was a slight change in the appearance of the body. which gave the startled watchers @ faint hope that the girl lay In a trance, and that this was but death's counterfeit. The body lay on its back, with arms folded, just as the at- tendants had placed it. There was not the least perceptible breathing: the eyes still had that stony, unmeaning gaze; the face was as pallid as white marble; but the iciness of real death was wanting. The feet and limbs were rer the entire ground of th branches are seen paroquets and other showy birds, the rench chintz of the best qua down with washing silks aud erewels. are now to be bouzht in New York av these beautiful ehint rk. Inusing them for and bed covers might be ly varied in d ht at one dollar the Freach chintz ard, also in double width. are somewliat a dollar En; ily made and . divided | the centr: ch one of t h stitehe vometrical de in unb! cut from dark ow-covers: are musiin; with applique patter bine linen. In either case pi made to match, Alinen sheet, treated in simil jes and ragged robins wi square; black sik was u tle additional ay secure a beautiful result threads marking the div hemstiteh. Outline work, is the most t in this the result, a round is often added. ° Of this work a few varieties may be described: Adesizn of large passion-t 2 of old geld threads of crewel darned in wary lines, The artichoke plant ts the subject of a Sqrited design, outlined on Hen in shades Grane, the background covered with arrow- head stiches of dui! yellow crewel, suggesting the seeds of the plant. A quilt made in Eng- land of ecru homespun cotton has conventional desiens of white Mnen thread covering the ground. The effect in this ts produced by the endless variety and different directions of the stiches taken. A cover made of unbleached muslin has an oranze tree and fruit applique in old cotd serge, the background darned in with parallel lines of shaded yellows and browns. tich is much used upon huckaback, linen and satin sheeting, for bedroom entire outfit of a chamber may be dene tn Russian patterns, with red and bine ingrain knitting cottons, upon any one of the inaterials ly carried out in borders , the threads afterward bed-curtains, valance, and window curtains, anumber of quaint little maide Glad in red and blue playingsome national gi ches of a fir-tree. The dre between bands of blue, ith vines of yellow. The bed-cover repre- sented a sie wz scene, amid a snowy land- scape. It cannot be denied that “primary colors” play an important part in the color heme of these draperies. They are absolutely ‘iiliant in ral effect, but the amount of color might be reduced to suit the “greenery-yallery-Grosvenor-gallery” require- Russian work is especialiy suited to the deco- ration of bed-room towels. Some of the deep red and blue borders now worked for that. pur- pose are exact reproductions of patterns found in continental Holbein work, a variety of Russian work, the stitches so taken that both sides are found alike when finished, is applied to toilet covers, pin- cushions, lounge pillows, and fine hand towels, as well as to many articles used in the dining- room. Darned netting, one of the earliest of English industries, is still used, a sixteenth century bed- cover having been recently copied here. It has twelve squares,each one with a figure represent- ing a month of the year, outlined in colors. Old Florentine silk table-covers, with borders of nefted silk darned in different colored fosses, which may be seen in more than one bric-a-brac | shop in New York, are admirable models in col- ors, design, and execution. Painted Nottingham lace is a novelty in bed- | room draperies, but until I have seen specimens that seem more in keeping with the standard of modern_art-work, it is not to be recommended in this list, Rather should Madras muslin, in all_its varieties of faint hues, quaint desizns, | soft folds, and jovely texture be advanced as the chief among transparent draperies. 1f needie- work be added to this ground of Madras musiin it must be in the shape of outlines or darned whole cut from | i ad worked | ne | not warm, but they did not have that chill touch that isa sure accompaniment of act dissolution. There was sufficient doubt in the minds of those in attendance to warrant cau- | tion, and so another day aad night passed. Om Weduesday, or the fourth day after the girl was first stricken down, te priest was again sent for. After gr yexamining the case and consulting with the physician, he said: “It is = She may come to herself, but it wall be tary. When she relapses all will be live.” Accordingly, the fane- for the next di Imagine the rwhich possessed this gin it is known that she was cognizant of word that was spoken in that room, and could see the forms of her iriends and watchers about her couch. Her terrible situ i f. he said to me yest ble, bout my head, and could see my sisters: bors come and peer into my face, it | was awful. I heard every word spoken. hy body, limbs, sad as cold as ice. thought of the agony of being buried alive, of being nailed in a cotfia an ed in the ground. {tried to make some noise, or move | just a little, to let them know that I was alive, but it was impossible. [saw my sisters comein one by one and look into my face. * Poor Josie, she’s kone.” Their tears dropped on my hair, and their kisses were warm to my lips. A® they turned to leave me, it seemed as if | must make an effort to attract their attention. if only by moving my eyelids. But I couldn't do it. I felt like screaming. I tried to, 1 coulda’t move a muscle. The came in, and felt my arms and wrists. He shook tis head. Then he placed his ear to heart. It was no use. He could not hear deat. After saying a short prayer for the repose of my soul, he too turned and left me, and my agony and horror were redoubled. “Will no ‘one tind out that I live?’ I said to myself. ‘Must Ibe buried only to wake when it is too late? Must I come back to life when they put me im the vault, and ail of the people have gone ome, only to die of fright and horror and suffocati The thought was madness! Why doesn’t the doctor do sumething to bring me to myself? I am not dead! It was no use. There I lay think- ing and listening to every word that was said. { could hear a woman giving directions asto the making of the shroud. I heard the time set { the funeral and all. I could see every one came to look at ne. I tried to look capscious and let them know that I understood it all, but it was impossible. It isa wonder I did not die of fright and agony. I often think that I would sooner die, a thousand times sooner, than go through that experience again. *Finally,when all was ready,when the shrow@ was finished, and all had left the room but twe or three, sume one said: ‘Ain't you going to cut her hair off?’ My hair was done up in long braids and fell down my back. *Yes,” said my sister, ‘we'll cut it off now.’ Then they got the scissors and caine up to me, While one of them took held of my head and turned it to one side the one with the scissors began the cutting. I could feel the cold steel on my neck. I realized | that this was about the last thing they'd | do before jputting ‘ine in the coftin. The woman | began to clip and in a second or two one long braid of hair was taken off and laid aside. My head was then turned the other way to allow them to get at the other braid, but this was not touched. Thank God! something in my condi- | tion or some movement, I don’t know what it was, caused my sister to scream, and I was | saved. The scissors dropped to the floor with = loud noise,the woman jumped back nearly scared to death,and I sat up. Youshould have seen that house a little while after that, 1 though ey «4 body had gone crazy. ‘Venie's alive!” ‘Venie alive!’ The whole neighborhood came a in as soon as they heard of it, and for sew days there was nothing talked about but me, My folks thought I didn’t know what had been going on. Little they thought that every word spoken in that room was heard and understood by me. ‘They tried to keep everybody from re- ferring to the fact that my shroud was bought, the cefin ordered, and the funeral They made an excuse, too, for part of my being cut off. They told me the reason of it was that a plaster had been put on the back of my neck, and my hair got so tangled in it that it had to be cut aw I didn’t say anything. | One day my little brother said to me: ~venl, you was goin’ to be buried last Thursday, they cut your hair off.” He never im that I Knew more about it than he did. The recollection of those terrible days and nights will never leave me. I pray toGod that 1 may never be called upon to pass through it again I would rather die.” REMEMBER! ALWAYS ASE FOR lines of filoselle introduced upon the wov tern of a plain cream-tinted stuff. bd Drawn-work, as applied to bedroom decora- tion, is without doubt both elezant and substan- tial, An English lady, lately resident in Lima, has seen the “Chola” or Indian months ing “A jour,” 5 work still sent here from South America are | marvels of spider-web delicacy. The pattern which appears to be applique on an open work of threads, is formed by drawing the design on linen or even linen cambric. ‘This is worked | down, and button-holed around. forming con- | ventional flowers with open-worked centers. | Some threads of the stuff are afterward cut and withdrawn from it, those that are left being wrought into a fine strong lace-like texture. ‘Sometimes the open-work is darned with into a chair, and, folding his arms upon the table before-him, bowed his gray head upon them and groaned great groans from groan- ville, groan county. His heart seer in rtgage the farm?” asked his wife yusly, stealing softly to his side. he growled, “both farms, and sold the wood lot over on Big Island.” “And did you have to mortgage the town house, too?” she asked, with quivering lips and istening e: ee on” ald the man in hollow tones. “Oh, and sold all my stock in the Northern, and hecated -what I had in the Sixth-street id; queer Bi of birds, beasts, and mythical animals. in Lima, brass bedsteads are in use, draped with curtains formed of darned “point a jour,” lined with blue or rose-colored silk. A silk an slips of linen dra =e “ low: WwW" pu ips : i couch equipment of awealthy Ordinary bed fet esta Ses winte als wi of the owner added in one corner. linen is an old-fashioned art that is too much neglected a well-known Co’ ; FREDERICK BROWN'S GINGER, ‘THE GENUINE- PHILADELPHIA. ay B. ROBINSON & CO., 'e BOYS’ CLOTHING HOUSE, old 909 PaxesrivaNta AVENUE. ‘OW OPEN FOR INSPECTION,