Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1882, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, Biow Crushed on a Coid December Night. _ Wrom the Chicago Tribune. “Coal costs money.” A bitter, mocking smile—the smile of a demon that has been baffled in his unholy efforts to Inre a soul to the uppermost depths of the In- ferno, played around the Grecian lips of Girofle Mahafly as these crue! words fell with cruel in- cisiveness from her lips. Over the backyard fence came the silvery gleams of the incon- stant moon as she moved through the heavens in brilliant splendor, aud touched the gentle hand, the moss-covered woodshed, and caused the dog, whose blood-curdiing bay had fallen in 4m such fearful cadences upon Rupert Hether- Angton’s large. west-side ears, to stand out, per- fect In every outline, against the pure mezzo- tints of the recently- painted door-steps. “You are jesting sweetheart,” murmured Rupert. pulling up his pants so they would not wrinkle at the knee, and seating himself beside the girl. “Am 12” was the reply in cold Crystal-Lake accents, that seemed to Rupert to pierce his Yery vest. “‘If you really think so look out of the window.” Rupert obeyed. The moonlight streamed into the room as he pushed aside the heavy prome- granate curtains, falling in mellow splendor on @ vase of malachite and alabaster, on statue and bronze. Tazzas of jasper and lapis lazuli stood in recess and alcove crowded with flowers, cu- rious trifles in gold and silver carving, in am- ber and mosaic stood on the table and etegere. A curiously wrought sideboard that was new in the days of the Crusaders stood at his left. The fire glowed ruddily in the grate, the pure white flames leaping up the chimney as ifin very glee. Amber-tinted sour mash, as Rupert well knew, lay ealed within the recess of the sideboard. Outside the keen wind of December whistled Shrilly through the dead branches of the sturdy . telling of the cold and suffering that was you really mean what you say, he asked. replied the girl. ‘There must be some kind of an understanding. I cannot bluff ‘away all the days of my youth.” “Enough,” said Rupert; “I will marry you.” “But, when?” asked the girl. Leaning over the beautiful girl he hissed in her ear the fateful words: ‘When the Baltimore nine wins a game. ee That Bugbear—Malaria. From ‘‘Along Shore on the Potom: An impression more general than truthful has gained «hold upon the people of the country that the entire course of the river from Wash- Ington to the bay, is infected with malaria, This 1s by no means a self-evident fact. The recent ions of scientists find malaria every- nm in the bracing air of the White Mountains. On the Potomac, it is true, it Is found in some places, but the causes of it co- sts. and once removed the conditions for its diffusion and it ceases. Two plantations adjoin; one has malaria stricken patients the year around, while on the other the least trace of it is never known, and in nine cases out of ten the oecupants of the latter can point out the causes on the former. ‘The truth may as weil be told in a few words, that in a maje of instances where malaria is reported to exist, there is an utter violation of the laws of hygiene; in other words, there ap- pearson the part of the people, who mourn their afliction, a certain disregard for persona’ safety, which can better be expressed by that phrase made common since the day when “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” left tne press— a “PURE SHIFTLESSNESS.” An old resident on the shores of the river sums it up by saying—“too much corn and bacon the vear around and bad whisky.” This Js harsh. aud quite the extreme, for hard-work- ing and otherwise prudent families suffer greatly from it, but they neglect the means at their disposal to avoid it. On one of the fine farms on the Potomac shore thewritersawsome that would forcea grin of delight from the rock-bound New Englander. showed evidence of care and thrifty y, and the whole neighborhood was 4 with outward evidences of prosperity; ts and children were longing for the Yankee farmer would come They had “shaken” ue until their faces were ghastly. looking old plantation mansion x apparel condemned them for minal neglect. Not a member had a piece of woolen next to the ough the autumn air wasalready “nip- er.” Their fine parlor was on the nd east sides of the house, filled with highly tinted upholstery, which ‘was closely barred with shutters from the raya of the sun— it would fade the furniture! The room di- rectly above wasa guest chamber, and rarely did @ stranger occupy it; theretore it was closed for the sake of the positive colors. The family being farmers, and generally in working garb, occupied the north and west sides of the house and here what little chance the sun had to lend its helping rays, was destroyed by the overwrought taste of some idiotic landscape decorator, who had, a generation before, planted trees, now grown to mammoth trunks, so that not a slender thread of light could penetrate. The bed-room of the parents had no window whatever! It opened from an adjoining room which had but one, looking toward the north. The bed-clothes were never aired,and the femal head of the house was honest enough to say that she never did such a thing, nor did her mother before her! “Once a week on the clothes line is airing enough.” The diet was the cus- tomary one in that part of the country—corn and bacon. In the garden no traces at any point that the small fruits with their rich, acid juices, had been cultivated for a generation! fet they were well-to-do People, as measured by the community in which they lived; but they had malaria, and, as a neighbor expressed it, “they had it bad.” This Is but one case, though it is a typical one. Lack of drainage, the improvident waste of trees and foliage at some points, and the impru- dent planting of groves In other sections of the make additional conditions for its Sleeping on the ground floor. instead r chambers, is quite commen in many families, and the rade architecture of the past two generations has allowed the houses to “squat” upon the very earth-edge, without any foundation. The cellars, where they have any, are abominable—veritable cloister ceils for théir deadly enemy. Out houses in many instances are cleaned from necessity when they are fifled! Two years ago, a large excursion party from Washington sailed to one of the so-called plea- sure resorts. Dancing in the pavilion was at its height when a summer shower drenched the out buildings, and such was the horrible stench created. that persons of delicate bronchial fune- tions were choked to coughing, and were glad when the cessation of the rain allowed them to y from the music and quadrille. Per- sistent appeals on the part of gentlemen in charxe of ladies, elicited from the proprietor the usual “shiftiess” answer, that “there wasn’t no deodorizer on the place.” Let the reader please note that we do not throw out these seemingly harsh terms in a vin- dictive spirit, nor do we owe to any section of the river unkind feelings. We claim the right to speak conscientiously, the more so as we be- long to a class of people in Washington who ex- pect fair treatment for fair prices. Thousands of doilars each summer are emptied into the pockets of many who have none other than the seifish motive of filching all the money they can for the short midsummer vacation, and we insist that it isa part of our duty to our citizens to defend them by exposing wrong-doing along shore wherever we may discover it. We haye stated above that malaria ts found at some points, and in this we wish our state- ment to be construed strictly. It is only at some points on the river that it does exist. It isnot general. Wherever swamps are tound near the shore of any river such consequences are to be expected. But the Potomac has not essentially swampy shores. Speaking generally they are quite the reverse. In the fresh water length they are more common than farther down on the salt-water stretch. Nor, are the inhabitants, as a rule, of the type indicated above. The majority are noted for their time- honored observances of good and polite breed- Many of them descend from old families of renown. The elear skin, shapely limbs, graceful carriage, and the harmonious contour of face_teatures, especially in the women, be- for them as good blood as can be found in It has been the misfortune of plat tion that malaria is besieging them. In- a word against the name of the river which they have learned to revere meets with hand, families already at middle more invigorating atmos- have since the war located the river, and through all Girofle Mahaffy’s Heart Was | buying estates on spots where the Coast Survey has publicly advertised on charts “sticky. And such insight will save any immigrant to Potomac shores. There is land, good land too, and to spare, where nature can yield a hundred fold in fruit culture, horticulture, or in the plainer phases of farming life, without any risk of being annoyed by that overstrained bugbear malaria, which superficial people know so much about, and of which the scientists confess they know but little. Beauty Rules, From ‘Lady Beauty,” in London Society. “Rule One.—A woman’s power in the world is measured by her power to please. Whatever she may wish to accomplish she will best man- age it by pleasing. A woman's grand social aim should beto please. “And let me tell you how that is to be done,’ Sophia sald, putting her paper down for moment. “A woman can please the eye by her appearance, her dress, her face and her figure. She cae please the ear by studying the art of graceful elocution, not hard to any of ‘us, for by nature we speak with finer articulation than = She can please the mind by cultivati: er own—so far, at least, as to mi eher a good listener; and as much further as she will she can please the fancy by ladies’ wit, of which all of ushaveashare. She can please the heart by amiability. See here,” she continued, growing graver, “you have the key of my 38; m. Beauty of person is only one feature of true beauty. Run over these qualities. See how smalla | eas beauty or the freshness of outh plays here. I want you to observe this; for my art would consist not in making women attractive who are openly pretty and young, but in showing them that youth prettiness, thor articles of beauty, are neither the only nor the indispensable articles.” ‘Rule Two.—Modesty is the ground on which all a woman's charms appear to the best advantage. In manners, dress, conversation, remember always that modesty must never be forgotten.” “Hardly likely to be,” I murmured. “Is it?” “Understand me,” answered Sophia briskly. “I mean modesty in a very extended sense. There is now-a-days a tendency in women to rebel against old-fashioned modesty. The doc- trine ol liberty is spreading among us, for which I thank God,” Sophia said (she was the oddest little mixture of tory and whig and radical ever compounded on this eccentric earth.) ‘But the first effects of that doctrine on our minds are a little confusing. We are growing more inde- pendent and more individual. Some of us fancy that to be modest is to be old-fashioned and of course we want the newest fashion in all things. I maintain,” said Sophia, growing a little warm, as if she fancied I might argue back—“I main- tain that a modest woman is the reply of my sex to a brave man—you can no more have a true woman without modesty than a true man with- out courage. But remember, I use the word modesty in a high sense.” ‘Just what I was going to ask,” I said. t prudery,” she added. ‘“Prudery is to modesty what brag is to bravery. Prudery ison the surface; modesty is In the soul. Rosalind in her boy’s suit is delightfully modest, but not,” Sophia said with a twinkle of her eye—“not very prudish, is she? T assented, and thus made way for— “Rule Three.—Always dress up to your age or a little beyond it. Let your person be the young- est thing about you, not the oldest.” “Rule Four.—Remember that what women admire in themselves is seldom what men ad- mire in then “In nine drawing-rooms out of ten,” Sophia said, seeing me give a look of inquiry as she read this article, ‘‘Miranda or Cordelia, as novel heroines, would be voted bores. Women would say, ‘We utterly decline to accept these watery is as typical of us; we want smartness and I don’t really care much for Miranda or delia myself. Now this seems to me to cau- tion us against trusting too implicitly or too far our own notions about ourselves. Another source of misunderstanding comes from the novel-writers. We are the novel-readers, and the novelist is forced to write heroines to suit our taste. He does not want to offend us. Thus it comes about that even the male novelist is too often only depicting women’s women, after all. And I believe scores of modern girls are seriously misled for this very reason. ‘They be- Keve they are finding out what menthink of them, when in truth they are reading their own patie handed back to them under a pretty dis- guise. “Rule Five.—Women’s beauties are seldom men’s beauties. “Which,” she remarked, “is another form of what I said just now, only here I speak of per- sonal beauty. My observation is, that if ten men and ten women were to go into the same company, and each sex choose the prettiest woman there, as they thought, you would rarely find that they choose the same. If this be so, we ought not to trust ourselves even as to our faces without considering that the sex we are to please must in the end settle the question, and will settle the question in its own way. “Rule Six.—Gayety tempered by seriousness is the happiest maiMer in society. “By which I mean,” Sophia said, looking at me with knitted brows, as if she were about to explain some matter not altogether clear to her- self “that in all our gayety there ought to be a hint of self-recollection, Do you understand me?” ‘Not quite,” I said. ‘This | know certainly,” she replied; “the most agreeable women I have met with—and I think the most regarded—have been women of rank, who have been trained with a due regard tor religion. Their wordly education had made them mindfut of grace and liveliness; their re- ligious education kept these qualities under a particular sort of control, which is perceptibly different from mere good breeding. It seems to me that vivacity and sprightliness are greatly enhanced bya vein of seriousness. Certainly no woman ought to be a mocker. “Next.” she continued, seeing I did not speak, “‘comes— ‘Rule Seven.—Always speak low. “I wonder why I put that down. It is so obvious. In support of it I need only quote your Shakespeare, who calls it ‘an excellent thing in woman.’ “Rule Eight.—A plain woman can never be pretty. She can always be fascinating if she takes pains. “I well remember,” Sophia said after reading this, to me, rather questionable assertion, “a man who was a great admirer of our sex telling me that one of the most fascinating women he had ever known was not only not pretty, but as to her face decidedly plain—ugly, only the word isrude. [asked my friend, ‘How, then, did she fascinate?’ I well remember his reply. ‘Her figure,’ said be, ‘was neat, her dressing was | faultless, her every movement was graceful, her conversation was clever and animated, and | she always tried to please. It was not I alone who called her fascinating; she was one of the most acceptable women in society I ever knew. She married brilliantly, and her husband, a bar- rister in large practice, was devoted to her— more than if she had been a queen of beauties.’ “Now here,” Sophia continued, resuming her own -discourse—“here was a woman who, ex- cepting a aey neat figure, had not a single natural gift of appearance. Is not this worth our thinking about—those of us women who care to.piease and are not beauties born? Rule Nine.—Every year a woman lives the more pains she should take with her dress. “The dress of us elderly dames,” Sophia sald, laughing, ‘‘ought to be more of a science than is. How often one hears a woman of fifty say, ‘O, my dressing days are !" When, adds Sophia, “if she thought about it, they have only well begun. At , the time has come when dress is more to her than ever. member, from forty to sixty-five is a quarter of acentury—the third of a iong life. It is a pe- riod through which a majority of grown-up ee ple pass. And yet how little pains women take -—how little thought beforehand—to be charm- ing thea! “And now,” she went on, seeing I did not speak, “here comes my last rale—as yet: “Rule Ten.—In ali things let a woman ask what will please the men of sense before she asks what will please the men of fashion. “I by no means intend,” she added, ‘that a woman is not to have to the opinion of ‘THE MAINE ICE TRADE. How the Wea: © Has Hurt It. A Maine letter to the Hartford Times of last evening says: A large amount of ice is cut in this state every year, and Gardiner is the center of theice trade. The Kennebec river is lined with ice houses from Hallowell (the head of navigation) to Merrymeeting bay, a distance of twenty-five miles. Many of the houses are nicely brilt and painted, while others are rough, with boards sticking in every direction. The past winter was considered one of the worst ever known for storing ice. The winter was late, and when the cold weather came the river froze in very bad condition, most of the fields requiring plan- ing. Then the snow storms came in quick succession, and a great deal of scraping was necessary. The amount of ice stored the past winter was not much more than one-half the usualcrop. The total amount harvested in the state was 1,564,000 tons. The Kennebec river comes first with 1,029,000 tons, the Penob- scot river with 146,000 tons, the Cathance river 39,000 tons, and 350,000 tons were housed on the coast. The Knickerbocker company, of Phila- delphia, has stored 193,000 tons on the Kenne- bec river, and 55,000 tons on the coast. New York, Washington, Baltimore, Boston and other companies have large amounts of ice harvested, mostly on the Kennebec. Abram Rich is the largest single dealer in the state, he having 80,000 tons to di of. Usually by the first of June the river is full of vessels loading with ice, but the celd weather has prevented any great demand being made thus far this season. The rice at peeket is about $1.50 per ton on board e vessel. ‘The Modern Abuse of the Hair. From Harper's Bazar. The recent methods of dressing the hair, both by piling on the head large quantities of dead hair with its more or less injurious contact, the stiffening of bands into position with too free use of glutinous cosmetics, and the alteration of color by the application of strong alkaliesand Other agencies, have produced an effect at last, after the fashion has in a measure gone by, by a deterioration of the hair on women’s heads that makes a striking difference between tresses as they were thirty years ago and as they are now. The head has beaume 80 heated, thescalp has become so irritated, the hair bulbs and glands have become so injured by chemicals, that itis wonderful the result should not be even more destructive than it has been. It is fortunate that the fancy for all these injurious ways and means toward beauty was arrested before the whole generation of women became bald-headed. And as it is, fully half of them have acrown where the hair straggles thinly over a painfully blushing skin, have partings that assume in their frightened eyes, as they look in the glass, the proportions of the gates of Gaza, and have a stubble of short, wiry, coarse growth, inclined to bristle up, and giving an infinity of trouble to keep in decent order, especially when it is desired to wear the hair low. Much of this is due to a loss of vigorous cir- culation in the scalp, whether occasioned by the deleterious methods above mentioned or by any other means. For the scalp, when in a healthy state, is soft and thick and warm, with goodly blood-vessels, able to afford ample nour- ishment from which secretion shall be elabo- rated, and space for the working of all that del- icate machinery which exists at the roots of the hair. As the circulation decreases, the scalp spreads, so to say, the glands and capsules are unable to fulfill their functions, and the state arrives which we have just described. Or, again, the too free use of pomades and dressings causes the head to catch dust, excludes air, clogs the perspiratory pores, relaxes the skin, and deranges all its processes; while, in addi- tion, the oils are frequently rancid, however the Trancldity may be disguised pe barra, and when this is the case they corrode and irritate everything, and change the normal production of scurf to an excess that becomes disease. The most consummate insult and injury to the hair, that of dyeing it, it seems hardly necessary to mention, as bleaching has gone so entirely out of fashion that that peculiar form of ruin is not likely soon to be generally repeated, and gray hair has come to be so much admired that. dyes to disguise the grayness are not resorted to by anybody of taste. A beautiful young woman of our acquaintance some years ago had an experience by means of this poisonous cus- tom that will hardly be shared by any in the generation to come. Accustomed to admira- tion of her beauty? her dislike of afew gray hairs drove her to the use of a dye, and as she continued it from day to day with gentle appli- cations for some years, she had the satisfaction of seeing her beauty to all effect unimpaired, and had not the remotest idea that the work of silvering was all the time going on with fright- ful celerity under the dye, and that every day increased the rayages in the dark color of her locks, if the truth were known. But frequent and violent headaches at last made her physician and her husband positively command her to cease the dyeing, and to cleanse her hair thoroughly of the dyes. She went with her detergents into the rather dark bathing-room, where there was no mirror, as it chanced, and spent an hour or two in the process of washing and scouring, and at length came out into the light, pausing before a mirror as she did so. That first glimpse of herself was a horrible reve- lation; she had gone into theroom a dark-haired beauty in the guise of youth; the woman in the mirror had the long gray hair of age falling round her white face. The sudden change was too much for her tried and tired nerves, and she fell in a dead faint on the floor. It is fortunate for others that the fashion of gray hair is likely to save them the blow of so sudden a change from the appearance of youth to that of age. One of the first things requisite to regain the beauty of the hair with those who haye suffered a deterioration, either from the use of chemicals or of pomades, or from the wearing of too much weight and its consequent heat, is perfect cleanliness of the scalp. Many people are afraid of washing the head, fearing to take cold. They never dream of taking cold by wetting their heads in bay-rum or cologne, forgetting that the quicker evaporation of alcoholic mixtures on the surface is liable to give cold in greater and speedier de; by far than soap and water can. Cold is seldom taken ina brisk washing of the head and as brisk a drying, the foiction occasioning a reaction and warmth that are sufficient protection, while the cleansing of the vessels from dust and dead skin and the rest of their extrinsic accumulations is @ positive addi- tion to health. This friction of a gentle and persistent sort is more than half the secret of the recovery of the hair and its beauty. It promotes the circulation of the btood in the scalp, without which there can be no growth or gloss; and its mild excita- tion has a tonic effect, whose good results are soon seen, Sometimes a slight stimulant, such as a very small amount of ammonia in water, or of tincture of cantharides, is of advantage, ap- lied outwardly, especially when the scalp has Resoce isc , and often in that contingency a wash of strong black tea proves an excellent as- tringent. Ifthe hair is unnaturally stiff, a slight addition of glycerine to the lotion, whatever it may be, is advised. It is occasionally wise, also, the hair still remaining impoverished or obsti- nate, to have recourse to a medical treatment, such as the taking of quinine, tron, the wa‘er of chalybeate springs, and other tonics, and a course of hypophosphite of soda—half a dozen grains of the latter in water three times aday; but for this it is proper that a physician should be consulted, as otherwise one is liable ‘to receive more harm than good. But in most cases it will be found that perfect cleanliness through soap and water, the use of mild exter- nal stimulants, even of John Wesley’s rubbing with a raw onion till the skin reddens, and then with an emollient trifle of honey, will, in con- Junction with brushing, be quite sufficient to do all that can be done, as it takes miracles to bring the dead to life,and when the hair is really dead there Is an end of it. But the brashing must be regular and repeated till the head glows, not given with the least roughnéss of motion, but with a gentle constancy that pro- duces no strain at the roots, and with a gener- men of fashion, only she should not give it the | first place. She will carry the men of fashion | sooner by methods that please the men of sense than men of sense by methods that please men ot fashion. And besides, listen to the men of es Phe! asta praise = oe ane things w! in to perish swenty-five. Even the old men of seventy will talk cf ‘a fine girl—deucedly fing, figure!” (I wish I could give an idea of slightly wicked mimicry at this passage.) ‘And they will calla woman rather on the decline, when, if she Is on the de- cline, where and what are they? You see, if a woman lives for the commendation of men of fashion, she Ac if 5 have a reign of ten years. bers that she has charms of mind and character and taste, as well as charms of fi and com- xion, the men of sense will a century; and in the long run the men of fashion will be led by the men of sense. “And there,” Sophia cried merrily, throwing the paper down on the rug beside her—‘“there are my rales for reforming our little world of women!” of the Sacred Heart: at Wi some "ranean to Ss ous discretion that gives the Seker growing tions as much as the thin ones and the part- ings, never using a scratching’ and always brushing in the direction of the hair's grewth. And, with the rest, let us say that the brushes must be kept as clean as the head if healthy hair is wanted. They must be beaten to liberate dust and all particles, and rubbed with a coarse dry cloth, then washed in borax and water to take away all foulness, and afterward rinsed in weak alum water to stiffen the bristles. shaken free from spray, and left to dry, but not wiped. One following these suggestions can hardly fail, if not to acquire a new and vig- orous growth of hair, at least to improve the ay of that which fs still , and has, at rate, the satisfaction of knowing that ev a neoon ae bee oka De done with safety in the matter. A ‘Tinned Costumes, From the Colonies and India, We referred a week or two ago to an al- leged invention of a German chemist by which woollen and cotton fabrics could be coated with a layer of dissolved silk and made to assume the who, however,coats his material with a thin Ia; of tin instead of silk. The modus operandi is described as follows: He first makes a mixture of zinc powder and dissolved albumen, which he Spreads oyer the fabric by means of a he spb tedindent € when the stuff is passed through superheated steam and afterwards through a solution of chloride of tin. By this means an exceedingly thin layer of tin is apread over the whole side of the fabric, which is thus rendered waterproof and prot: d against ordi- Eay Fone usage. Nags utility of pepe nhc not quite apparent, for prol w would care to don ents ih which the would bear a very close resemblance to al mated kettles and tea-pots; though in the prep- aration of theatrical dresses and even of the bright “trimmings” in which the female heart delights, the invention might find a limited ap- Plication. a ——__—_-o-_____ The Tricycle for Health. Tricycling in Relation to Health is the title of an essay by Dr. W. Richardson. ‘I would speci. ally recommend persons who are excessively nervous and of uncertain mind,” says Dr. Rich- ardson, “not to use the tricycle. In such peo- ple the anxiety attendant on the exercise is in- jyrious, out of proportion to’ the service that is gained by it. They are ever on the strain to avoid accident and danger, and ever on the lookout for accident and danger. From these causes they fail to obtain a good command over the instrument. They are not certain what to do when other vehicles meet.or pass them; they are not sure how to take a turning; they are in doubts as to the mode of going downhill, and of resting in going uphill; altogether they are per- turbed by the attempts they make beyond the value of the attempt. If, therefore, persons of this nature do not, after a few weeks of fair trial, get over these anxieties, they had better not continue to court them. { would strongly recommend all who have a sense of giddiness or of sinking and sickness, after they have made a little way on the tricycle, to give up the exer- cise, unless after ashort training they find these sensations pass away. Or, if while climbing a hill there is felt a sensation of fullness in the head, with a want of power and precision in managing the machine, I would tender the same recommendation. Again, I would as a general rule recommend those who suffer from the affection called hernia not to become tricycliste; and. if they break this rule, I would earnestly recommend them to be moderate in their exercise, and not en- deavor to compete with their more favored comrades. Patertamilias is often joked by his young friends that he cannot perform their feats, cannot stand on his head, or give a back, or, as the late John Leech forcibly and famously put it, leap over a walking-stick. For these stiff- Jointed inactives the tricycle comes in with great force, if they use it with judgment and do not trespass too much on re-acquired skill. During the late autumn I accompanied a fellow-rider, who, though many years older than myself, could beat me in getting along, and who told me that before he began he was so rigid in mus- cle and joint he could scarcely get into the machine. A few weeks’ practice had set him at liberty from head to foot with such effect that in walking and riding—for he invariably walked up steep hills, pushing the machine before him— he could average his five to six miles an hour for five or six hours per day and think nothing of the task. It would seem, at first sight, that men who are fat and cumbrousare not quite the persons to mount the tricycle; but, if such men are in fair health, they are, after a little careful and judicious training, benefited by it more than many others. It constantly happens that men of this build, while they feel the need for exer- cise more than the slighter-built sort, are un- able to take a proper amount of exercise be- cause of the great weariness which they experi- ence soon after they haye walked even a short distance. The natural result of this easy sense of fatigue is that exercise is given up almost altogether in a great number of cases, while in other cases it is a mere pretence, so that practi- cally a habit is developed which promotes an objection to exercise, and a steady increase of all the dangers which follow upon prolonged mus- cular inactivity. In this state they who are affected are apt to follow one of two courses, both of which are bad. They either settle com- pletely down to repose, and attain a form of chronic feebleness which requires to be pro- vided against by avoiding every kind of lively effort, or, taking sudden alarm at some sensa- tion they have experienced, or some observation they have listened to, they rush into forms of violent exercise such as climbing mountains, or volunteering, or making torced walks, or such like efforts, I believe I have seen more mis- chief induced, in this class of. persons whom I am now describing, by their attempts to get into condition through the means of excessive exercise and physical strain than in any other class. They who court this mode of recovery from their helpnessness are of all less fitted to bear sudden strain. In them the muscles are feeble and out of play; in them the muscles, in- cluding that most important of all the muscles, the heart, are overloaded with fat; in them the blood-vessels are often weakened and have lost their natural resilience if they have not under- gone actual change of structure; and in them the breathing organs are in such bad form for extra work that breathlessness is produced by very little extra exertion. They are, in short, unfit for walking, and they are equally unfit for those extremer measures which are commonly designated as training or as athletic exercises. To this class of persons, then, if they are not subject to actual disease, organic affection of the heart, the lungs or the brain, the exercise that, may be got from the tricycle is exceedingly use- ful. The exercise sought in this manner should not be violent; it should not include attempts to go against time; it should not include attempts to climo steep hills or to ran down steep hills at rattling pace, but it should be taken for some time on level ground, it should be carried on to a point just short of fatigue, and it should be in little by little each day until the labor of working accommodates itself to easy habit. ee A Chapter Upon Circumlocutien. A day or two since, an unsophisticated darkey waited upon a certain military gentle- man witha bill of $1.15, for washing done at the camp hospital., which, after undergoing a rigid scrutiny by the officer, was returned with the following explanation, which the astonished son of Ethiopia listened to with an equal amount of wonder and perplexity: “This bill,” said the military gentleman, ‘will first have tobe sent to the quartermaster- general at Washington, and he will report to the adjutant-general, who will lay it betore the Secretary of War for his approval. The adju- tant being satisfied, it will be sent to the audi- tor of state, who will approve of it and send it to the Secretary of the reamiry, who will send it te the United States Treasurer, who will at once dispatch an order to the collector of this port to pay the bill.” The darkey relieved himself of a long-drawn sigh. ‘Then, massa,” he remarked, ** dat last gembleman you spoke of pays for de washing, does he?” “No,” continued the other ; “he will hand it to the quartermaster; but as there is no such officer here at present, some proper person must be epontes by the Secretary of War, under direction of the President, and his appointment must be approved by the Senate. Congress rot being in session now, the commission cannot be issued until after it meets. When this commis- sion is received the quartermaster will show it to the collector and demand the funds, You will then call upon him, he will examine your bill, and, if correct, he will pay it, you giving your receipt.” The unfortunate nigger first scratched his head, then shook it, and finally raid: I guess T'll hab to let dis wasthy slide; but itam de last job I does for Uncle Sain, shu.”—Cincinnati —__—_+e-_____ Affections Hated at » Bligh Figure. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Miss M. Livingston has begun a suit against Henry Fleming in the supreme court of Kings county for breach of promise of marrjage. The damages are laid at $175,000. She alleges that overayear ago the defendant asked her to marry him, and that she agreed to do hat she has been willing and pear te marry him, but that he has refused to stand by his contract. Miss Livingston is said to be a granddaughter of the late Chancellor Robert R. Livingston. She is. twenty years old and of medium size, and at- tractive in appearance. She is reported to be entitled to an estate of $350.000 on coming of age. The defendant Is a tall. stoutly buiit, hand- some young man of about twenty-eight. He is in business in New ‘York, anil is said to be worth three million anda-half. “He is also said to be ent of an important corporation. A few weeks ago a broker left.him haifa million in his will. The plaintify, Fesides on Remsen street with her mother. ‘The defendant has Tooms at a fashionable hotet in New York a 1D Ease Bier Macs ssgeree Mr. Merritt rat sigs of 206 Bi was attareey Ot the plain- . Charles Lyons, of New York, was ap- ad litem for Miss Livingston. day the summons was served on He retained Mr. William F. Howe ashis the same 14, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. EER TITT ABE BA mj bh. A | E in 18. toed ‘700 Doz. MEDOC, BORDEAUX. . 600 Doz. GUTEDEL, CALIFORNIA HOCK. 900 Dos. ZINFAUDEL, CALIFORNIA CLARET, ‘Which Our Customers pronounce superb, SOLD VERY LOW. Also, large quantity Mineral Waters, Lime Juice, Bottled Alea, and Brown Stout. J. B. BRYAN & BRO., $09-2w_608 Penn. sve,, opposite Metropolitan Hotel. ce tents Ce ina atl Bai cb tins ann ine L A246 ARRIVAL OF SPRING CLOTHING ‘TO-DAY. Be Bure and Buy at theGreat BOSTON AND NEW YORK SALE OF MEN'S, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING, BARGAINS! ARGATNet “ 3 slendid All-Wool Suit for’ $12, worth BARGAINS! A 16 and Boe lendid * Bult for $6.50, worth SARGAINS! 5p BARGAINS! 's Suits at 50, worth $4.75. BARGAINS! at Prices, BARGAINS! You can. all styles of Men’s, Boys’ BARGAINS! “and Gnildre Ye Clothing at assving of BARGAINE| Wehaidi aie azieit Man's, Dore BARGATSS! Many of our i BARGAINS! Cassimere and Chevolt ag ‘worth $16. Weare selling them ft Bh lannel Suit t $6, Working Suits, %, 355%: Baa Working Panta Sc., $1,81,25,$1.50 ana Allstyles of Fine and Medium Clothing for Men, Boys’ and Children, much lower prices than you ever bought them before, at the Great Bale of - BOSTON AND NEW YORK CLOTHING, Ar 723 7TH STREET NORTHWEST, (Between G and H sts., east side.) §27~Look for the Signs at the New Store. M ADAME WASHINGTON, mi8 No, 1211 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUB. 4 NEW DEPARTURE. DRESSES MADE AND MATERIAL FURNISHED AT LESS THAN NEW YORE PRICES. ELEGANT GOODS NOW IN STOCK. Tedies should call atonce and leave their orders be- fore the assortment of elegant fabrics is broken. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. mi6-3m MADAM® WASHINGTON. BOOKS, &c. ARION HARLAND'S NEW Bi K—EVE’ RAID, WiFE'AND worn SENSE FOR An Dictionary of the English Language, The ©. H. Sermons by Rey. Chaties Wedrworlar D:D: geass Croquet, Lawn ‘Tennis and Archery. WM. BALLANTYNE & SOX, -_ STEAMERS. &c, nN" YORK, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM. ‘The first-class. full ‘built Dutad Fg a EDAM, ZAANDAM, P. ALAND. ctheriands, Yea posts foctof Sussex streck Jersey CIS. Ned reculariy every WEDNESDAY for Rovwehdau ama ABi- First cabin, Eee 5 &00., 925 Pennsylvania avenue, wa Fakes 5. MORE G. T. JONES, Agent. . ‘Tth street § 015 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. poromac TRANSPORTATION LINE. On and after MARCH 19th the STEAMER SUF, WARE, toot of Tthetrent EVERY SUNDAY. at four O'clock pln, for Baltimore and River Landises. A} River Freight must be ‘Returning, arrive in Washington every Raturiay night. STEPHENSON & BRO., Acexra, mi6-6m_Tth street Wharf and Cor, 12th and Pa. eva NOTICE. FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. Cox’s Orient Sunbeams. 2:00] On ana NOVEMBER 84, 1881, the steamer Loomis’ Index Guide to Travel and’ Arts Burope 8.90 | agROwSa<H 2 her foot of 7th Franklin Square and Seaside Libraries. atria. every MONDAY, THURSDAY and BATU JAMES J. 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In its own Building, Corner 16TH STREET awD New Yore Ave. Charter Act of Congress Ji ‘224, 1867, — Capital.. 7 ee WEEKLY LINE OF STEAMERS The Comy and Burgiar LEAVING NEW YORK EVERY THURSDAY AT QP. M. FOR ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY. For Passage apply to ™ ©. B. RICHARD'& 60., General Pannense*r Agents, 61 Broadway, Now Youk, oe Sa 1351 1 ‘vant Send for Tourist Gazete pumas NORTH GERMAN LLOYD— Sreamsuip Live Berween New Yore, Havag, LOnpox, SOUTHAMPTON AND Bx ss Proof Vaults, st prices varying from $5 t0 $60 per your according to'size end location, Rooms and Desks ad Joining Vaults, provided for Sate-Reuters, VAULT DOORS GUARDED BY THE SARGENT TIME-LOCK, SECURITIES AND VALUABLES of dorerl Hon, including BONDS and STOCKS, PLATE JEM: ELRY, DEEDS, &c. ; taken for SAFE-KEEPING, on SPECIAL GU. TLE, at the Lowest Rates. BENJAMIN P. BNYD) President. aa! C. GLOVER, of Riggs & Co., Vice President. ALBERT L. STURTEVANT, . siggy ee “Benjamin P. Snyder, Charles C. 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