Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1883, Page 7

FASHION WRINKLES, WRENCH NOVELTIFS—BANOS FOR DUDES—oRI- ENTAL COLORS—SOAP BUBBLES—NEW PARa- 801s, ETC. New Lace Mitts are ruched with silk at the top. rae kED FLOUNCES adorn many of the summer sults. Banos are still fashionable both for girls and dudes. Pockers appear on some of the new French Gresses. Orre fonable. Borgrets for the corsages and belt are still Very popalar. Satis Foutakps are matched in Surah satin in every shade. Soar bubbles are represented on light woolen fabrics sold tor draperies. ‘Ticwt-rrrtixG Warsts are to prevall in sum- mer as in winter costumes. OF ALL Tae Coons FastioN sae, the different Shades of red are most popular. Tu Empire Purr worn at the bottom of the Skirt has been revived in Paris. Gavze Brocapep wits VeLver Is very pop- Ular for overdresses and long mantles. Daxctx@ clowns and harlequingfarnish de- Signs for the borders of cambric pockethand- kerchiefs. Pexis striped silks wil be worn in every olor. Plain and changeable silks of every tone @re In vogue. Turn isnolimit to combinations this season. Buits, laces, ribbons, trimmings of all kinds and even «loves partake of It. Biwek Stk Srockixes, with gold thread Clocks and embroidery, are among spring im- Portations of fancy hosiery. Tue new ginzhams are out in all shades of Fed, from terra-cotta to pink. Red and white Plaids, also checks and stripes abound. Ft. plastrons are in high favor, and are held by straps of velvet, at intervals from eck te the bottom of the basque. hildren combination dresses will be un- usually worn. Plaids of every pattern are im- Ported with plain materials to correspond in ‘TAL Cotors in brocades are very fash- Very narrow ribbons are a great rage, and fre used for clustering loops and ends as eee es and ornaments for the corsage instead of bor Tue latest caprice In. baby-carriazes comes In the shape of a canve, and Is of wicker-work. It fs upholstered in tufted plush, and trimmed ‘With lace and silk cords. Ix the matter of fancy jewelry, the palm may be awarded to spiders. Jet, cut silver and jewelesl spiders are seen in masses of lace, in onet strings, and in bows. A HOUSE-HUNTER’S REPRIEVE. From Harper's Bazar. “Yes,” said mamma, “‘you'd better tell the doc- tor. Betty, that we have concluded not'to take his house for another year. It isagreat blow to me, Betty. My pecuniary arrangements with the doctor have been very advantageous, and strict economy in domestic matters is highly im- portant with ys just now. The little money we had when your papa died Is sadly diminished: Fred's education has cost eo much, and it 18 so expensive to dress and educate Blanche suitably to her style and beauty. I had hoped—I was almost certain—” Here mamma began to cry. I felt very sorry for her. She suffered in her wayas much as she made me suffer in mine. “We'll get another house, mamma,” I said, hoping to ward off the topic that I knew mamma was dying to talk about; but nothing would do. “It's not the house I'm dissatisfied with,” sald my poor mother, “it’s Dr. Steele, the owner of it, of whom I have cause to com- plain.” S “1 think you have misunderstood the doctor's old-fashioned politeness, mamma. It is always, perhaps. too potuted.” “altoxether too pointed, so far as your slater 1s concerned,” sald mamma. “He as much as told me he was in love with her down at the beach last summer. Don't you remember the day he invited us all to go, and was so vexed because you would not leave the house with the n@ servants that he talked about it all the way down In the train, and eppeared tobe very sorry that your domestie duties were so engrossing? You must acknowledge, Betty, that he has been very kind to you.” “I do acknowledge it, very gratefully indeed, mamma.” “And then,” continued mamma, “he got Fred that situation In the bank. Why, no man could have been more pronounced in his attentions to the family of the young lady he professed to admire, and straws show which way ‘the wind blows; but it would not be sohumiHating Ifhe had not come right out und told me that he cared for her. Aman has no right—a man in his position —to lead a mother to belleve that he is about to propose for her daughter's hand, and then seem to forget all that he hos said. I remember his very words, B Yoursister hadstarted down to the water's edge, and the doctor sat upon the seat beside me, following her with his eyes and poking his cane into the sand. ‘Madam,’ said he, speaking very deliberately, as a man does when he has made up his mind, ‘1 must tell you that I had a motive in asking you and your daughters to share my holdiday at the beach. I am very much interested in your daughter.’ And here Blanche came strolling back again, looking so lovely that I thought the best thing I could do would be to leave them together. I made an excuse to go back to the hotel, and supposed that when [ returned all would be settled, but from that day to this he never opened the subject againelither to Blanche or to me. Your sister is young and thoughtless, and accepts his attentions as she does those of every- body by whom she ts admired; but a parent is ‘3 For Ricu Stuxs_ the palm-leaf design Is most Popular, and ts tnwroncht to Imitate cashmere Favorite shades are electric blue, gar- rushed strawberry and raspberry. Po.ka Dots are now no longer of one color, but are variegated or tridescent, or if self-col- ored are placed alternately in contrasting tones, or in triplets as black, crimson, white, etc. NGES are quite discarded as trimmings; embroideries and lace have taken their place. Embrolderies in color matching the material are Very much liked for dresses of medium quality. Fancy Tuscan straws are In great vogue, and @re very delicately lined and trimmed with twilled silk muslin, or crepe de Chine and sprays of satin tulips, carnations, or drooping oats and Corn flowers. Gowss of crimson, raby and bright shades of Fed are made of camet’s-hair and satin for the house in the afternoon in town and for general pond to look at the matter in a more serlous ight.” Trmoene don’t care a fig for him, mamma,” 1 “She would try to care for him If he offered himself,” sald mamma. ‘She has owned to me that she might be brought to view the matter in a favorable light.” “Oh, mamma,” I said, jumping off my chair Inaheat cf mortification and impatience, ‘do let's get out of his house as soon as we can! I'll tell him we're going to move, and go out house- hunting this very day.” “Yes, do, Betty,” sald my mother; ‘and watch him when ‘you tell him—see if he ls surprised and vexed. And, Betty, my child, you have such aplain old-fashioned way, you seem so much older than you really are, andthe doctor and you have always been such good friends, he may confide to you—” “Excuse me, mamma.” I sald, running to the door. ‘I'm sure I hear the vegetable man, and I must see about luncheon before I go.” Away I ran down the stairs as fast as I conld Wear In the country. Embroiderles, lace and Velvet are thelr garniture. Pretty armlets of gathered silk or satin, Sewn on to elastic, and edzed with a frill of lace, Gre worn at the top of evening gloves. They re also to be seen in the day, whea the glove 4s worn outside the sleeve. A Nove.ty IN Sirgsis a deep bine, the de- sign being an exact representation of soutache embreidery. This is principally intended for dolmans, but Is also suitable for Street suits, and is very handsome and effective. Tur belles of the Piute tribe of Indians walk glong the ratlroad tracks of civilization in Ne- Yada and gather the black “dope” which drops from the axles of the cars. With this they Smear their checks and arms and grow more beautiful. Got», silver and bronze silver thistles are Dovel. and they are arranged for bonnet a3 well &s for dress decoration; some have mauve floss silk inserted. resembling the natural thistle- @own. On biack bonnets and dresses they look Bemarkably well. Ripsows are exceedingly wide, and the great- est novelty consists in floral designs of great Gize. full-blown tulips of every color, or large Geeply-toned roses. Fruit is also. represented in the same style; pears, oranges and grapes @onst:tuting designs for sash ribbons. ek lace hats, very large In size, and black lace bonnets are worn with bril- Mant towers, mostiy velvet or chenille, and al- Ways shaded. Dundelions are the newest flow- ers, the bloom and the seed. Wallflowers come next in favor, and then huge shuded golden- brown pansies, Sour of the most elegant summer tollets are Combinations of biack with white, black bro- cade, or embroidered gauze, or yrenadine, with White satin covered with black lace, ruffled or Bo. andl rapped upon the door of txe doctor's study. He opened the door, and already had his hat In hig hand and his overcoat on his arm. He put both of them aside, and with gentle cérdial- ity bade me come over to the open fire. “For the air is chill, Miss Betty,” he sald, “though we are getting on toward April. 1 be- lleve—” “Yes,” I said, and rushed immediately into the subject in hand. ‘1 will not detain you, doctor. I must tell you that mainma has con- cludedto move. I am going out house-hunting to-day.” Mamma ought to have been there, for if ever surprise amounting to consternatlon was de- picted anywhere, it was painted on the doctor's face at that moment. “House hunting!” he cried. “What the—the duece would you do suclian Insane thing as that for? Move! What does your mother want now? Papering? painting? kalsomining? a hanging garden on the root? a calcium light In the hall? asteam calliope in the parlor? Tell me what she wants, and If it’s possible to accomplish it without the ald of Aladdin’s lamp it shall be done.” How could I say that she wanted him to mar- Ty my sister Blanche? It made me burn from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet to remember the conversation between mamma and me. “You are very generous, doctor,” I said, ‘bat my mother wants to move. Don’t you know that women are changeable sometimes, and get tired of the one place?"” ‘And the one party?” he rejoined—“the one old fossil who began to hope he might settle down to certain surroundings and be ee Are you one of those women, Miss Betty? Do you want to leave your landlord?” I knew that it was nothing but a generous pity for my condition ot mind and body that made him look upon me with such sweet com- | samp He threw his gloves aside, and took oth my hands in his own. That was his un- fortunate manner, his all too friendly way, so Plain. If ruffled, French lace is used; if plain Reedle-point Spauisi face, or « combination of Spanish, with guipare. - Tue New Rixus tor @lan di sand have the stone set in deep. ‘They are genera'ly rather clumsy looking. Some Gecidedly new rinzs are made of fron, slightly engraved in antique designs, made quite heary nd set with curiously cut diamonds, made flat ©n both sides, the ed being beveled. Tae Reptcore will hold an Important place In walking, carriaze and traveling costumes; Some ‘Iresses even are cut In this fashion. It is made by preference of light cloth, with little trimming. and has long plaits behind, elther Found or flat, very tight sleeves usually with- out 3, but buttoned at the bottom of the elbow scam, and reverse or a military collar. Axoxe otffer lovely tollets designed for wa- terinz-place use for youthful wearers and dis- played by an up-town establishment, is a charm- ing dress having a skirt of transparent pale yellow batiste, embroidered all over with tiny Foselwis, and ‘for trimming are narrow ratties embroidered with the same. This fabric is made up over very delicate blue surah, and trimmed ‘With \nife-pleatings and the e: ‘oldered ruf- flex. The runic ts ¢ ‘ht up with loops of pale " wlicate blue. The cor- sen arein old In- re very showy, and, for the Btrect, ze. The more recent are Striped in high colors, or of tinted silk with floral designs, which are usually detached, thouch their graceful forms and exquisite shad- them from being very conspicuous. y of the tinted flower patterns is $ very charming in tone— t rose, shirinp pink, strawberry, Ivory, There are wide-striped t are startling in color; ures are appliqued in red ed with gold. and ia brown with gold outlining. eays Lemorest for June, popular garment for misses’ It extends almost to the bottom Btrect wear. of the skirt and is tight-iliting, with a single art in each side tn front, adeep dart taken out under each arm, side forms rounding to the armholes, and a seam down the middle of easily misunderstood, as I tried to persuade my mother. If ithad been my beautiful sister in- stead of my plain little seit, it night have been thought that the consummation to mamma's ambition was about to be reached. “You look already so tired!” he sald. “Sit down here in thia easy chair and tell me what I can do to save you from the awful fate ofa house-hunter. Did you ever hear of Mynheer Von Ghian, who every morning sald, ‘Iam the Tichest merchant in Rotterdam’? He came to grief, my dear little woman, from too much walking. Haven't you cares enough upon your Poor little shoulders? If oo mother will move, why pause ne go herself upon this hunt that 8] ‘My mother Is never quite well,” I sald. “And your sister?” he sald. “That would never do,” I replied, quickly; “she ls too—” and here I hesitated. “Too beautitul,” he sald, with a wry grimace. “Yes,” I exclaimed, resolving to make one Ittle struggle In mamma's behalf. ‘Don't you think that my sister 1s beautitul, Dr. Steele: “Yes,” he said, with all the vehemence that could be required of him; ‘too beautiful alto- peee I wish she was as ugly as astone fence.” A red flame leaped Into his dark cheek. He was certainly agitated by some unwonted emo- tion. I thought perhaps he loved her, but dis- trusted his fate use of her beauty and her youth. Whocould tell? The moment passed while I hesitated, not knowing just what to say in mamma’s belialf, If I only could have gained courage to ask him what was the motive thathe spoke of to mamma upon that day at the beach; but how could I? It was impossible. I got upon my feet. He picked up his gloves and fol- lowed me out Into the hall. “You must persuade your mother to abandon the idea of moving,” he said, gently. “Oh, please, nol” I exclaimed. doctor. We must go.” “I cannot force you to etay,” be sald, coldly; then turned to his man John. who watched his horse outside. “Go get a bull,” he sald, “and put it upon the houee.” “To let?” satd John, with curlous surprise. “Yes.” sald the doctor. “No—tor sale. I'll sell everything ont,” he added, “and go to the de— desert of Sahara” Then he leaped into his buggy and drove away, leaving me to ponder = ae wretched frustrations of this miserable world. Dr. Steele had lived twenty years at least in this dear old house, for he had often sald that “I cannot, the back. which is leit open from a little below the waist. Coat siceves and a plain rolling collar complete this model, which is suitable for any class OF goods intended for ont-door gar- ments or street costumes, especially cloth and ‘woolen goods. No trimming except the rows of machine stitching near the edyes is required, but any style of garniture may be added to suit the taste and material employed. SPmirvatisM axD_ Burerany.—at Adams, Mass., Henry E. Hudson, a spi ‘writer and amateur bas been he fault of $2,800 bonds for action ot the ona of robbing Cashier In Jewelry, ‘ke. Acomplete set of E ‘was found In Hadson’s p: Metcalf, Hudson’s amount. aes if is 2 + exception of nine montis, tinuous), he came there when a boy of fifteen, and he could not be far trom fifty now. He was the only child of a widowed mother who had ido- lized him, When she had died, two years be- fore, the doctor had put an‘advertisement In the paper that, I well remember seemed very at- tractive to mamma. Our arrangements with him were epg ae - He was generous to a fault, simp! tastes, tual in his habits. From a boarder he ball be- come a friend, almost a benefactor. Had it not been for the pencey Blanche, or the ambition of my mother, or extreme warmth of the doctor's politeness, or ® tenderer sentiment of his that he scarcely dared nourish for so young and beautiful @ creature as lanche—had it not been for one or all of these, | We mizht have lived happily here for Now we must adrift Heaven | where and how. I went out Sata | Room upon my dreary quest, and grew ‘ict when I saw the signal of misery and dis- integration Sea js do thedoorway: ‘‘For rale. Inquire within. Tead it, and \acknow! to myself then that the deed was done. were houseless, homeiess wanderers again upon the face of the earth. I wished Blanche was not so very beautiful; perhaps it would have been better, as the doctor had sald, if she had been as ugly as a stone fence, whatever style of ugliness that might be, For wherever we went, my mother would begin again plotting, mancen- vering, hoping, eo ee I went to all the agents in theneighborhood. I looked at im- Possible houses—houses like the doctor’s, but with rents that reached to the thousands, I found to my blushing horror that we had abso- lutely been living partly upon the doctor's boun- ty—the rent we had paid for his house was ri- diculously small. A mere farcical sum, which he must have known long ago. He could not have been unconscious of his reckless generosi- ty, and the advant we were reaping from it. My cheeks tingled with every new knowl- edge I gained, but my chief sorrow lay in the fact that we could no longer go on living in the old blissfully ignorant way. The doctor could afford It, seemed rather to enjoy it, and Ihad no longer that indomitabie spirit that chafes under even a suspected obligation. If that spirit had ever ex- isted, ithad long ago oozed out of my weary toes, and every aching Joint In my body. But It was useless to mourn over lost happ!- ness. The only thing todo now was to get a house within our meansandlive init. I resolved to spare my peome all the misery that I could, and let them enjoy their last days at the dear, comfortable, roomy, sunshiny, never-to-be-for- gotten house of the doctor’s. It was n to prepare them a little for the plunge down- ward they were to take. Mamma was the only one that suffered in the anticipation. Fred was at that happy period ofa male existence when the “malicious mischief” of a boy begins tomerge in the “rackets” of adolescent youth. He was absorbed in the transition—didn’t care what kind of a shelter I secured, so long as it would serve the necessity for ficient sleep to tide him over from day to day. Blanche was still less interested. She laughed to scorn all my efforts to prepare her pride, and begged of me not to borrow trouble. Once ina while she bade me to remember that she was not an absolute drone in the hive, and had her own schemes for our mutual advancement. I shud- dered when the conversation took this turn, for she was more beautful than ever, and conse- goes there were more matrimonial rocks ahead. Poor mamma began to look gray and old. and took double doses of her nervous medicine. Her constant recurrence to that day at the sea-shore made the bleak winds of March seem to be beating about my ears like piti- less waves against a stip in the trough ot the sea, and her haggard and anxious sur- veillance of every movement of the doctor's drove me at last to securing @ house. It was a{coffin-shaped building that savored of sewer gas a little,and of mould and mildew very much more; the paper was hanging from the walls; the cellings were cracked and danger- ously bulgy. cobwebs fantastically festooned it from the draughty garret to the gloomy kitch- eus down io the bowels of the earth. It was unhandy, dismal to desolation, on the dampand shady side of the street, and had the uncanny reputation of lately being occupied by a clair- voyant who had never come back from one of his trances. But the agent spoke vaguely of repairs, and It was absolutely the only house in the whole metropolis that seemed available to our family. There was a final humiliation to suffer—secu- rity was demanded for the rent. There was no- body to ask it from but the doctor. I began to think he might be so glad to get rid of us that this would seem a trifling favor. For the doc- tor, after the first shock, had appeared to be quite resigned to the idea of our separation. His house yet hung upon his hands; It was neither let nor seld; but the doctor went upon the even tenor of his way, apparently undis- turbed by the rise or fall of real estate. March happened to be going out asa lion on the day that I secured the house. The heavens opened, the rain fell, and beat upon my defeuse- less head. that had ached and ached for many a day. I had almost lived in the streets for the previous fortnight, and ought to have grown accustomed to my nomadic miseries. But they seemed to culminate in my final success,and when the agent handed me over a document which he said would secure me the house if properly signed, a cold shudder went to the marrow of my bones, and I felt as if it was my death-war- rant. [staggered home, resolved to have done with the whole torture that day, and found a moneyed-looking person on the door-step anxi- ous to negotiate with the doctor about his property. ‘This was the last turn to the thumb- Screw, but I hastened to the doctor's study and asked him his price. ‘A hundred thousand dolla cash down!” plented the doctor, without even turning his head. Ithought I had misunderstood him. I was 0 faint and weary that every voice I heard went humniing In my ears like a spent bell. “I beg your pardon, doctor,” I faltered; “what did you say?” He turned and looked at me, got upon his feet, and reached me just as itseemed to me I could no longer stand. He carried me to an easy chair, undid my bonnet strings, dropped some liquid ina little glass, and pushing back my head, poured it down my throat. The bell rang loudly. The party at the door had waited all this time to know the price of the house. “Tell him I've changed my mind,” sald the doctor. ‘‘Take the bill down, John, and tell Miss Betty's mother to step down here at our daughter Is very fll,” he sald, as poor mamma came Into the study. “She must be put to bed immediately. I will carry her up the stairs.” My poor mother, who could never restrain herself, burst Into @ passion of tears and re- proaches. “ It is all your fault,” she cried to the doctor. "If you had not trified so with Blanche, and ac- tually told me that day on the beach that you cared for my daughter, and had a motive in in- viting us to go there, and then thrown her over in such a humiliating way, things would never have come to this pass.” But the doctor had already picked me up in his arms and started for the stairway, my poor mother stumbling after him. “I did care for your daughter, madam,” sald the doctor, tn a clear, ringing volce that might have been heard upon the house-top, “ and will care for her to my dying day, and my motive has always been to make her care for me; but it 1s your daughter Betty that I love, you blind and foolish woman, and not your beauti- ful Blanche.” I felt his rough beard graze my chin, his If touch mine, in the twilight of the upper hall, and then I sank away into paradise. When i came back to the world again I was lying in my mother's bed in the second-story back room of the dear old house of-the doctor’s. I must have Mngered a jong, time in that queer and shadowy Jand to which I had drifted on that last wonderful day of my dreary house-bunting. A soft balmy air floated in atthe bal ofthe window that looked over the old-tashione ae the thick knobby old lilac-tree must have been burating into bloom, for the faint sweet fragrance reached me where I Jay; the tulip bed must have been one blaze of color. My mother sat in a low chair by my bed- side with her prayer-book im her hand. But she looked younger by ten years than when I had seen her | Poor dear woman! she was re. conelled to my struggle with life and death, so long ax more important matters had been doubt- less comfortably settled. But she was overjoyed to find that I was there again. Poor mamma had always depended so upon me, and loved me well in her own way. Now It seemed that she almost loved me in another way too, as she did her beautiful Blanche. Amid her tears and smiles she began to twist some whisps of hair upon my forehead into curls, and arrange the blue bows that decorated my night robe. “Thank God,” she said, ‘for al his mercies! My dear, dear child, compose yourself. Betty, before the doctor comes—he has forbidden any excitement, any confusion—bnt,my darling, you toust know—It fs necessary, it Is rent, that you should know, and perhaps It will do you good; it ought to, I'm sure: ft has sustained me through all these weary weeks—Betty, my love, my darling, wonderful as it may seem, it .was you that the doctor admired, it was you that the doctor spoke about at the beach, and his motive was perfectly honorable and creditable. I’m sure if I'd only known it all this trouble might ave been saved. But it’s recognized now by verybody. He openly acknowledged it the day that you fell II, and 1 must say he acted up to it ever since.” “Who are you talking to, mamma?” said a voice at the door. ‘Has Betty come to?” And in ran my beautiful sister. she hated tears, but they fell from her magnificent eyes Upon my sunken cheeks and wasted hands; they fell In torrents; and aithough she was always 80 carefal of her clothes, she flung herself by my bedside, rampling all the by breadths of her marvellous spring outfit. She looked like a gem in porcelain. She was a hundred times more Deautifol than ever. No wonder my mother was ‘80 astonished. It seemed @ miracle that the doc- tor had not a motive about Blanche. And my beautiful sister also loved me in her own way. letermined from what she walked on; and y: lly rest of us. And1 tell you as quick as I can, before he in, that you needn't think of anybody but youreeit anymore. You've worn yourself out for us about long enough. I'm engaged to Fitz-Edward Smythe, and only waiting for you to fc well to marry him.” “Oh, Blanchel” I gasped; for the young man was little better thap a le-dog. “T'm fond of him, '; I am Indeed” she exclaimed; and she ecs'd looked as if she meant what she said. ‘I actually love hi He'll do anything in the world I tell him to and we shall have a most elegant time together, because his money is al! his own, and I can help him take care of it, and show him how to really enjoy it ina proper way. There will be oer euongh for us all. You and mamma and are to Ilve with me, and all arranged be- tween Fitz-Edward and myself that my Gee ie to be held in the greatest consideration. 1’ have been buried alive with your doctor, and any one that marries bim will be worse than a door-mat. Oh, goodness gracious me!” For the doctor walked softly in, with a b' bunch of roses in his hand. Blanche slip; out the door, my mother nolselessly followed her, and I was left alone with my benefactor. The roses fell out of his hand. He scanned me at first with the eye of a physician. He felt my pulse, my forehead, my han watched me for fully ten minut: ening the while from the Zscul: an ineffable tenderness. At last he took a long breath, and seating himseX in my mother's chair he pushed back his hair from his forehead. I could see how gray ithad grown. I could see the lines in his face. I held out buth my hands to him. “You would have been very sorry,” I whis- pered, ‘‘if I had not come back to you?” The strong hands trembled that closed about my own. He put his head down upon the pil- low beside me. “Betty,” he sald, *‘I think I should have gone and got some dynamite and blown the whole property and its owner into fragments.” His eyes atill devoured my face. I sighed un- easily,and pulled the blue bow of my night robe and began to smooth back the hairthat my fool- ish mother had tried to curl. “I wish I had ever been the least bit in the world pretty,” I said. The doctor picked up one of his roses that lay scattered about the counterpane, and put- ting it upon my breast, he said in his old tender way, “Go, lovely rose, ‘Tell her that wastes her time and me ‘That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, ‘How sweet and fair she seems to be." Mrs. Frank McCartuy. Suvaroff, ‘From the United Service Magazine. His features were firm, but harsh of ex- Pression. Although so short, he was manly and military of bearing, priding himself upon his soldierly appearance and deportment. In conduct he was odd, and even uncouth and brusque, to eccentricity. He allowed himself no self-indulgence or luxury of living, his daily habit being to rlae at daybreak and rouse his camp by crowing like a cock at the entrance of his tent. If he failed to awaken before sunrise, an orderly had directions to throw a pall of water over him in his bed as a deserved punish- ment for laziness and a lesson thereafter to be less tardy in getting up and setting about the duties of the day. At table, if he lingered longer than ten minutes, a soldier was to come in and saluting the general, say, “it is time to stop eating and drinking.” “By whose order?” was the general's wonted inquiry. “By that ot Marshal Suvaroff.” was the reply. “Then,” the general would say, rising, “‘he must be obeyed.” That his oddities had some express end in view, even if concealed at the moment, is seen from the following anecdote: During the Polish campaign, finding himself with a very emall body of troops face to facé with a strong force ofthe enemy, he discovered a spy among his suite, and, with his usual quickness of re- instantly resolved to make use of him cate his command from the pertlous situation. He straightway Issued an order of the day, to the effeet that at the first cock- crowing he should march to the attack. The Spy at once went over to the other side with the information. The same afternoon, however, Suvaroif started up and ran through’ his camp crowing lustily, whereat his troops sprang im- mediately to arms and rushed against the enemy. The Poles ware taken by surprise, not expecting an assault before next day, and’ un- derwent a complete defeat. The story goes on tosay that the spy was made prisoner and brought to the general's presence for an order for his shooting, but that, on the contrary, Su- varoff directed him to be set at liberty, with thanks for his involuntary contribution to the good fortune of the enterprise. In the art of hoodwinking an adversary Suvaroff had no su- perior. The general enjoyed excellent health in the field, the reward of temperance, regular exer-4 cise, anid hardihood of habit. His lite was simple. He rose at dawn, buckets of cold water were thrown over his body, and he dressed himself. At elght or nine In the even- ing he dined on the same fare as his army— coarse or sour bread, broth or gruel of oatmeal or barley, slices of salt meat, and a scrap of cheese. His ordinary drink was a. beer made from fermented wheat (called by the Russians islietschy,) anda glass of brandy at meals. As soon as he had dined he slept fortwo or three hours in his chair, then woke to work and only lay down for a couple of hoursbefore morning. He usually performed his devotions after each meal and at night when going to bed, before an Image of St. Nicholas, Russia’s patron saint, Often he preferred the floor to a camp cot. 4 Se ee ee Conditions of Health-Giving Exercise, Dr. Oswald, in Popular Scierics Monthly for June. The summer alr of the highlands makes out- door life 8 luxury, but the chief advantage of the plan is this: The stimulus of a pleasant pas- time enables a man to begulle himeelf into about ten times as much exercise as he could stand in the Turner-hall. The visitors of a hygienic gymnasium take their turn at the horizontal bar as they would swallow the drugs of a public dispensary ; they know that It ls a lesser evil, they know that the road to Styx Is the alterna- tive, they intend to come every day, but the intolerable tedium of the crank-work exercise soon shakes that resolution. The motive for exertion is too abstract; it lacks the charm of |- progressiveness and the stimulus of a proxi- mate, tangibie and visible purpose. The sham competition of a regiment of invalids under the command of a turn-master does not much sweeten the bitter broth; it ie still crank-work, minus the club of the jailer, and nine out of ten hy- gienic gymnasts will soon find or make a pre- text for discontinuing thelr visits. How man: out of a hundred pupils of a young ladies’ semi- nary would dream of performing their “‘callis- thenics” at home? They would as soon walk on all-fours, or ride on a dry clothes-line. But ar- Tange @ May-day Lines in the mountains, and they will beat a kid in climbing up the steepest rocks, and swing on wild grape-vines for hours together. it is likewise certain that fatigues ‘can be far better borne if the body is not encumbered with a surplus of calorifieclothes. A pair of linen trousers, a flannel hunting-shirt and a loose necktle, make the mbst hygienic summer dress. In the afternoon remoye the necktie and rollup the shirt-sleeve; 1t can do,no harm to imbibe fresh air by all availabie us, and let the cu- taneous lungs sharein the luxury. Noris there any excuse for the widespread fallacy that at is dangerous, even in the most swelterin; nights, to remove the bed-blankets. Kick-them into the tarthest corner # they become too warm, and sleep In your shirt and, drawers, or under a linen bed-sheet. Half-naked lazzaroni sleep the hoes found on the stone terrace of the Museo jorbonico and outlive the asthmatic burghers in their sweat-box dormitories. The body effects pee of its breathing through the Pores, Pafnt- Ing @ man with yellow ochre and copal-yarnish would kill bim as surely as hanging him by the peck: hd confi ly ani of heavy blankets gets gradually surcharged with carbonic ‘acide tn warm weather even to the verge of the eatura- tion point. The perspiration is thus forced back upon the body, and the | Thaps all weakened by “disease—have to do doweie ct ——_o-_____ ete AFTER Beate” es wee Inpran. ‘oppel Wolfson, wi led himse! front of 107 east 129th street,New York, ast Bae day night, was involved in real estate specula- tions, and had been despondent for some time. He Jeft his home, at $19 east 85th on Sun- day night, after ‘kissing. children good-by. He walked up to street about sang he ene then shot himself. He dled almost in- ————_+o-______ A Doctor Acousen or Bopy-sNaTCHING.—Dr. Fox, of North- Hoosick, has been arrested. charged with body-snatching. ‘The complainant is the” Rey. Father Waldron, of Hoosick Falls, Dr. Fox {8a young physician of zo0d reputa- ton, and Is the man. He denies son of @ clergy! They tell thisstory: Thatone day, several years ago, ‘gentleman, evidently in great mental anxiety as to the result of his application, stood at the cashier's win- dowata certain New York Bank, earnestly trying to coax that official into discounting a note for consider- ableamount, The Cashier listened, and finally said: _ “Teno use, Mr, R—; we can’t do it without better endoteer." “Thon I'm ruined man, for I must bave that money to-day or fail," groaned the poor fellow, looking like lonely sailor on the deck of a sinking ship. “‘Lat me see that note,” sald # prosperous-looking person, who had emerged from the private rooms of the bank justin time to take in theattuation. Having mlanced at the paper, he seized s pen and quickly wrote across the back of it the strong name of WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT, “There,” he added, handing back the note, “try it again, and see if will go now.” Tt did go, and the money was handed to the happy re- BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTERS are able tostand on their own merits and ‘‘go alone, they do not Isck abundant and responsible indorse- ments, more than 5,000 Physicians, Pharmacists, Drug- ists and Chemists throughout the country having signed or endorsed the following document: “‘Mrsers. SEABURY & JouNsOx, “Pharmaceutical Chemists, New York. “*Gentlemen:—For the past few years we have sold various brands of porous plasters, but prefer Benson's Capcine—manufactured by you—before all others. We consider them one of the few perfectly trustworthy household remedies. They are superior to all other porous plasters or medicines for external use.” In the center of the genuine is our the word CAP- CNr Please look carefally for it. Price 25 cents. msi NOTRITHSTANDING MUCH HAS BEEN SAID ‘about the importance of a blood-purifying medi- cine, it may be possible that the matter has never seri ously claimed your attention. ‘Tmmx or rr xow! If, by the yseof a few botties of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla you avoid the evilscf xcrofula, and transmit » healthy oon- atitution toyour offspring, thank us tor the suggestion. BBELAND OF aT SEA, OUT ON THE PRAIRIE, OR in the crowded city, Ayer’s Cathartic Pills are the Dest for purgative purposes, everywhere alike oonve- nient, efficacious and safe. For slucyish bowels, torpid liver, indigestion, bad breath, fistulency, and sick headache, they are a sure remedy. mylt A Carp. I wonld respectfatl public generally thai southwest corner of nue formerly ereater facilitis than heretofore, ine Peunsylvania avenue by oF giving one grand ralesrnom of fifty feet front. sccond floor is a large room, baving same frontage as lower floor, which is specially arranged and planned for the sale of Works of Art 2nd Books, and is capable of spnforably seating two hundred people; in fact it ts the only establishment in the olty that has separate for the accommodation of all classes o! ._ It commands so much space within doors that sales can always be conducted without to The upper portion of the building contains 25 rooms which are use: for storage ao for which ithas been specially arranged, and Js naturally a great accommodation to the public. ° T! rear will ‘here is also in the of the building a large court or open space which be used for the sale of Horses and Carriages, the whole forming one of the most complete Auction establish- ments in the country. Special attention given to the sale of Real Estate. Liberal advances made on consicnments. Appraise: ments mide. Libraries and Works of Art Catwosued and arranged for sale. Having had an experlence of twenty-five years in the B. Latimer, who fire art sales, I feel announce to m} having leased ith street and business, and with the assistance of will attend personally to the personal and_a thoronghiy competent corps of confident of wiving perfect satistaction in any that may be intrusted in my hands. Thanking the public for their past patronage, and asking a continuance of the same, Iam, very respect- fully, ay28-1m THOMAS DOWLING. Mende Gi: Crock ‘Wood, Chins, beathos &e.,s0!idas rock! Hard ant! FIRM AS T itrongest, rhest and most elas- Hue on earth! A SameonianGiantamong all otherGiues and Ce- ments! ataclabely. Un- breakable and FoR: arabie! NoHEATING! Ready—Always LIQUID! on Leather and Rubber Bric-a-brac, Jewelry, Metals, Billiard Cue Tips Cloth, Card Board in Scrap Books, Leather Belting, Ornaments of every, ‘kind, Book Backs, Earthenware everything else with ever Tnseperable tenacity ! pinrutsctarers, of Gummed Labels. Textile Fabrica. Fine riage and Pianos and Cabinet Makers, Scroll Sawyers, &c., supplied by gallon or barrel. 20 Cis. per’ Botte; by” tall, post-paid, 10c. extra. Matied only BY, the ufacturers, Tite Agents wanted Sresrubere baa Bee ive Agents want everywhere, y rovers, Stationers, Hardware and general stores. patsy ‘and Liguogs. MARYLAND CLUB, $6 per gallon. MONTICELLO '77, $6 per gallon. ROYAL CABINET, $6 por galion. OLD BAKER, $6 per gallon. OLD CROW, $6 per rallon. GOOD OLD RYE, $3 per gallon. BOTTLE GOOD RYE, 50 cents, BOTTLE GooD 1S cents. BOTTLE OLD CROW, $1. HENNESSEY BRANDY, 1885, GALLON SPANISH SHERRY, $8, GALLON OPORTO WINE, $6. GALLON COOKING SHERRY, $2 GALLON MEDFORD RUM, $3. PIPEX HEIDSIECK, SOUVERAIN EXTRA DRY CHAMPAGNE, BASs' 4LE, GUINNESS’ STOUT AND YOUNGER'S SCOTCH ALE, BOTTLED, $2.50 DOZEN. E. C. KNIGHT, an20 2732 Pennsylvania avenue. LARGE COLLECTION OF IMPORTED ARTI- FICIAL HUMAN EYE! for sale ED TITCOMB, M. D., 616 West Balti- BT have llstzee and colors, my19-nkw,1m IHE, PRINCE GE ENQUIR THis at UPELE MARL LOR George’ out Southern ilaryiand, offers epee hout Sou! offers spe the merchants of Waabibatou asan coun! 2 county'and cial inducerente advertizing medi jum, Asa Literary and Political Journal {tis admitted to be among the very best in Maryland, Bend for Sa re JOSEPH K. ROBERTS, Jn., fi2-s FRED, SANNCLR Sa 277} Ealtors, JK PSY AND ALL URINAnY TROUBLES Quickly and Safely Cured with DOCUTA SANDALWOOD. Cures in Seven Days. Avoid injurious imitations ; none but the Dovuta peiuine. ull diseotions: Price, $1.50; half boxes, 75 cents. All druggists. wh3-lawl3t Gani & Co:s MATIOO LIQUID. ‘Where all other medicines have tien is alw: of all in tho RS FREINC FIs AND CreTERS OLIVE BUTTER ‘pplication. WASHINGTON BUTCHER'S SONS, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 3 Jan22-was NM STANDARD one can use RES oe fed peta apilod on pa te en AUCTION SALES. IHANCERY SALE OF VALI a4 BEEWEER BEAL ESTATE ON 6TH i ae HWEST, aT al ‘D M STREETS 501 f a i z E g 3 tf id re erty will some jblished sont detal Darchaser. "All con: ‘at purchaser's expense. A deposit uired on cach Rouse at time of OS Avie, ‘Trosten, + AID Mtn Space. DUNCANSON BROS., Ancta. my8-e0kas oe TABLES, ERBIAN cOLLSGE BUILD WITHIN THE COLUMBIAN Co! iz ie Cc ny FOUBLEENTH STREET, jD- On MONDAY MORNING, MAY TWENTE.FIRST, com) t TEN CK, we st the Glue clpes lings © quaaky och IHOMAS DOWLING, Auchonesr. VEN - OCTAVE ROSEWOOD - Ca‘ EARLY NEW AND A AD ee Ww WALNUT MARBLE-TOP SUPERIOR LOUNGES; ENG! PICTURES; ROCKY AND TWO VEKY HAND: TOP CHAMBERSUI' KS; WIRE. MATTRESSES: | PILLOWS ARD BO 4 PAINTED MARBLE-TOP CHAMBF WALNUT FURNITURE IN SEP fi G WaPxur Man OTHER BTOVESS CATS re KLCHEN REQUiS! TAG TION: On WEDNESDAY, MAY TWENTY-THIRD, 1883, TEN O'CLOCK, 1 at No. 471 Hi street, between 4th and Sth etresta northwent the above effocun, all of which is in splendid order, and has been used bul ashort time, A good to get rood art.clee. 17-dis fsoMAs DOWLING, Aucuoneer, TWO HAIR-CLOTH PARLOR MIRE Engravinge aod other Pictures: at end Ingrain Cs ‘Stair ani 1 ruanele Han Carpets, Walnut and Gottace F tresses, Pillows and Onk Extension Ta! Glassware. Refri mites, &o, AT A On THURSDA’ ple ea good Household TPHOMAS DOWLING, Acctionssr. ee ae By FCREOTON,” TEE MOSONTRY “AEAT COR THE LATE JosEP! GALES, ESQ. By mirtue of a decree of the Supreme of the, istrict iy Ne Ree eR | highest bidder, Mansion H: CHAT MAKBLE- INGS; HAL IkS on, the ‘upon the % ‘on NOgEAY the 1WENTY-FinST DAY OF May, A. D. 1 al FOUR O'CLOCK P. M., all that Jand ol of in the county of W: St 2 Sheela oat ad Eaten at ee “*Eckington” ( ibed by metes and bounds in said decree). contain! acres of = Toore or lesa, and improved with a large aud substantial dwelling bouse and outbuildings. There are several beautiful building sites upon the erty, which is well wooded and watered. and over- Gauri eee aes ot he acters ot the city. ‘The tract will be first offered as a whole. a1 not sold we will then offer the same accordiu« to lat of our subdivision in seven lota, which will be ibited at the sale. viz: Lot 1, improved with the m1 taining 22 14-100 acres, 100 acres; 56. te lot has alsos frout of 548 30-1 feet on Boundary street. ‘Terms cf sale: One-fifth of the amount of fhe pur- clare money in cash, and the residue tn four equs) in- sialiments, due in six, twelve, eighteen and twenty-four ‘months respectively from the da; the purchaser or purchasers giving hit or uissory notes for the deferred payments, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum from the day of sale: sh, at the option of the purchaser or ‘The title to said property will be retained un! purchase money for the same, or for auy sepa Thereof, shail be faily paid; wind if any ow fail to he terms of sale within ten dase after #1 le, the Trustees reserve the rixht to recell the risk aad cost of such defaulting purcheer. The af of subdivision may be seen upon appication to the undersigned. $1, lepoait on seceptance of bid if sold as @ whole, and $250 on each lot if sold in separate 8. CBANGERY SALE, OF IMPROVED REAL Es- TATE, BEING PREMI: \UMBERED 12. STREET NORTHWES1, IN Ti OF WASHINGION, D. C. Adame of al are defenadnts the anderauened. appain TWENTY NINTH. DAT OF MAT, 78a, atc FT O'CLOCK P. M., in front of the pr sthale ilfeessit ry fi rat iui ip HE nce east along the feet; thence north and six (6) inches; thence south one $216) fer twenty (20) feet, and hun sixteen (116) feel and six (6) inches, to the «i premises are improved house, with dred. H 8 ti i im ‘The terms of sale are one-third of the purchase-money. in cash and the bulance in three equal te at eix, twelve and eighteen manths from ay of sale bear ing six per cent interest, and secured to the satisfaction of the ‘irnstes. A deposit . 8. ith strectand Rew York avenue, WAM. P. YOUNG, Auctiovesr, 1420 New York avenue, miT-eokds CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE SUBURBAN PR NEAR EASTERN TERMINUS OF THE OO\.UMBIA RAILWAY TRACKS, BEING QRIGINAL TRACT OWNED BY ANDREW KItA- Under decree of the § Court of the Dic. telot of Columbin tn Equity, Gauss, So. id | Clark vs. ie pee wey ae front of 1e on. ye 9 TWENTY-SECUND. 1008, AT FIVE OCLs M., all of block No. 21, of the ‘Terms: One-f residue in ments at one, two and three years from yith interest at eix per cent. per annum. or joa reason ponte sooty con beeen = ae of trustee or a1 an f JOB BARNARD, street northwest, STEES SALE OF FRAME DWELLIXG AND TAT OT OS FIRST STREET, BETWEEN D AND EB TREETS SOUTHWEST, AT AUCTION. days after sale, A.C. BsADLEY, Trustee, Gunton Building, 472 Louisiana avenue norsht WM. P. Yu ‘Auctioneer, Avenue northwort — myl0-&e yeas J. FISHER & CO., Real Extate Auctione-re, CHANCERY F VERY VALUABLE 3 BALE 0} PROVED PROPERTY ON SEVENTH STREE’ BETWEEN @ AND H STREETS NORTHWES: AND AT THE CORNER OF THIRTEEA I] AND M STREETS NORTHWEST. By virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the, Dinirlot of Columbia, pawced in tomaulidaten equrey Now. Tol# and 786i, we will Teale in fron low: dene: estate District of Cumbia, to wi 26) in the recorded sub- 2 fat 6 street AME DAY, at HALF. fer for wale, infront of the aid lot west on Bi street 1orty-five fect, thence two feet, thence east two (2) feet, thenge porth eight (68) feet, thence east forty-three (43) feet, to 1 street, and thence south ninety (90) feet to the Bing, with privilege of an said part, toxether’ with the ings and well- ‘Tern of sale: One-third of the purchase money each pleco of property in coh, an he recive increas on the western line of improvement coneletig Brick Stabie. “ibe cornet Suildiog bes a roosty stare ae ru . As taened.” An equal instalments, payable in ope aud two reafter, with interest, the interest payable senil-ane nusily, | ‘The deferred payments must be secured deed of trust on the property sold. A deposit of 1900 wi be required on each pivoe of property upon the accept ‘anos of the bid. BAINBRIDGE H. WEBB, FRANK “t DROWNING? 416 6th’ northwest. FUGEN® CARUSI, 436 Louisiana avenucnortt myl2-ahds ‘Trustees, HANCERY SAL BUSIN RORTHWS iS ‘4 DWELLING Hous TWEEN VERMONT AVENUE AND W STUER OF VALUABLE 630 PENNS\LVANI Equity Doe. 21.( ob a1}, wo wilt well at pubic lying and said District DAY, the TWED UR: MAY, A. D. 1883, at FOUK O'CLOCK P.M, Lot uuibered five (5), in square numbered an~ dred and sixty-one (461), beginning for the same at the northwest corner of said Lot uumbered 5 in said equ and ronning thence south with the wort line of end lot one hundred and twenty (12 ) feet; allel with north B «treet unt! pe of Andren Hoover's lot ( wi ‘roved with large room and dwelling No. 630 Peunsy Bee as tats é 7 ! THO PATTISON, DUNCANSON BROS., Aucta |” myl2-lawaw For Oth er Auctions See Sth Page. Lovsiana STATE LOTTERY. CAPITAL PRIZE $150,000. Se at eli hea etn. rd alt and we in gore toward we authorize te, Cominiss‘oners. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION! OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED, LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. corporated tn 1! years by the Leets- ture for Paseational sud Chari x} capital of Ste $560,000 Lan wines boas nasea.” Geyrent Sato Cousttouon edapend Fie many._[tmever scaleser postpones. a a ——. 4 the: TRA MI-ANNUAL DRA’ regcumnate FACANCAGRENT on. 7, Brat! ry LA.