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™, Bheixteencin € tritities im Cart g Fo ein ad not by no i | young one niles. | are of | to have struck a} ntiments et you of math are varion There is the 1 AND MILK WiDow, orming the oh her be- about the a monu- 2 a widow of cloistered veil whieh | ste. She | flavor. Se reads | nd blots under 3} She eulti *She'll | * enough she “It's hard to 1 for @ young weeds naturally. | eokine at her. | Rut she is lively is fall of ¢ medical ssume a change. a are well set off by | Pieces of nd bombazine She consoles her- | texture is the only | ematter of dress over They lay aside der when the men. a of widowhood: k bombazine, perfectly ye Veil a widow's ¢ no is worn mith, i k, with feathers in arl col her one to nz lovers tell doles out advice hut women of this The widow < women, who, 1 cuffed abont cons rst husbands, who die and leay a with respectable, who wants a house- y to mix his feet. erox nights. Of course this | barre inst a yo 1 not be a housekeeper. decidediy ianproper. the place. T her hands, her hab pment commend hi aily togeth it’s a most suita! neph aw would DRAMA. th winning w an be cary it, widows try as just dd a coxcomb wf their at- “nh married,” she believe she lays aritable uses for the She cures rheumatisin en: sickness, the king's blains in ehildren. In ured more people In and about years than the doctors ity, and that’s a bold word.” Two Orphans” Widow 2 and In Mekee in has broken up a account of the widow of pi In “The y Dollar” Mrs. Giulory dashes all over Europe, a second Mrs. Malaprop, as a gay widow, and Widow Getchen' in “Rip Van Winkle” was pun- tied tor treating a good husband ill by to death. Mas says his snot wives, and here is no divorce a sentiment pecu- e of divor the the ero nt of o’erweentng iin- blood—Ruy Gomez. In na Wood” Lady Fiippant i widew in distress for a vred Ker's office, = hing could ve re ts petula Cisagree: ¢ Player y lord ex- View, aud says: “Both | | burn themsely pmind | ¢ ticity and | & a do her | | enable her te | the THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 12. 18883—DOUBLE SHEET. ad hence pursue me, lasti I wife.” In “Taming ot the jo. the seryaut To Lucentio, says: have y widow now that sliall vi in: -*_ In Macbeth,” ae with Malcolm in the king's new moon new widows howl: . ne fenry VUL, ing aside his wife, s imore becalled queen, ba! rand widow to “King Arthur.” WIDOWS IN SONG. Who that has not lanzhed over the various shave placed widows him that Widow Machree, and wish ed in his wooin t princess hy atone Is asin, y Machres.” The pathetic story of Widow Malone, the lovely widow of Athlone, who broke all hearts— he mluister, down sof the Crown, All we ng the Widow Malone.” All the lovers were too bashful, Mr. O'Brien, of C1 m around b th KISSES, att sh And the moral: “IE for widows you all like sweet Sfistress Malone.” Mrs. Florence won great apple. singing “Widow Bedott,” who detied the young men to | fter her witha catch me if you can, and | “Deacon Bedott.” i his life, He ne his wite, a.” A QUEER CASE, and one that should serve asa model, was once recorded ot an Irish widow starved herself to death on account of £1 the death of her husband. Such rarely seen outside of India, where the widows upon their husband's funeral pyre. Died last week In Ki street, Ormon- town, a lady of property. a little above 30, who, though In apparent bodily health, has ob- ely confined herself to. her chamber ever since the death of her beloved husbai which oecurred about six weeks since, and retused all sustenance but what Was barely sufficient to wt an existence evidently burdensome. who literally ef at devotion is Her chamber was hung around with portraits of her husband in different attitudes, which she tely caressed with a ‘ship, and perpetually oud her wishes of being with him, as ved his image animated or was sus- le of her devotion. Under circumstances such strong marks of insanity, her rea- 'y other respect was perfectly strong, her deportment mild and her benevolence to the poor and oppressed cordial and unbounded, which ske testified in numerous instances. Her ided to the foree of id abstinence, and she died, after fused all sustenance for five days, the remainder of her property to dis objects. APLUCKY WIDOW. All widows do not give up the ship as soon | as their husbands die on account of the brevity of their breath. Toward the close of the last century a tenant of Mr. Way, at Hosketon, in Suffolk, died, leaving a widow with 14 children, the eldest of whom wasa girl uader 1 years of age. He had rented 14 acres of pasture land, on which he kept two cows Those cows, with his little furniture ar vere all the he left. The vhieh he had district of an e the rate aking her s house. — When this was proposed to b pied in gf ation that she Te- would than part with any of tien all of them into the house them th but if her landlord would coatinue her in the fi whole she would andertake to bring up the fourteen without y heip from the She was a stron an, about forty- years old and of noble spirit: “happily, too, itodeal with a benevolent man. He 1 her she should continue his tenant and hold ud for the first year rent fr and at the same time, unknown toh ed his re- t to eall upon Indulzet to take the emplo: i two for “r they needed support, and ted to her declining ye BURNING TP WIDoWs. This delicate, refined and religious custom of the Hindoo widow, disdaining to live after her husband, mounts the funeral pyre on which his body Is placed, displays an amiability or faith ed by the doctrines of antique ortho- which condemns every babe not baptized to eternal tormeats. It is claimed that the cus- tom was introduced with a view of making more careful of preserving their husbands alive. A wife poisoned her husband, and, to prevent all others trom following her é¢xam- ple, it was decreed that when husbands di their wives should die with them. This theory ver, at variance with the idea that the sacrifice must be voluntary. Last season, when the Kiralfy Brothers put on “Around the World Days,” la, the Rajal’s widow and f burned nd she appealed to European tourists, who tegy from her tate. The tour- partout, to per- who. mounting the grave reproaches them for the little time le which was more up, rescne her by y ists persuade their valet. Ps sonate the dees in Hindeoo costut burying him alive, and forbids the unnece: flee. A Hindoo woman who resoly on her husband's altar abstains from food as soon as her husband is dead. She chews betel and invokes without ceasing the god of her husband's sect. When the hour arrives h her jewels, puts on her set Sif she were to a and friends accompany ofdrams and trumpets. The tely Sher friends and among ‘whom she distributes her ud ornaments. They b her and ayers that the have a like The widows death fortitude. with here th thus barrin im conjugal attachment they ands from the torments of the next world, no matter what crimes they may have committed inthis. Mr. Hul- Well. who Was one of the prisoners inthe famous Black Hole of Calcutta, tells of one Hindoo wid- ow who,on being told the pain she must suffer, put her tinger Into the fire and held ft there for a considerable time. after which she put fire on the palm of her hand, laid incense upon it and fumigated the Brahmins who were pres- ent. Forbes, who spent many years in India, and who wrote “Oriental Memoirs,” relates the case ofafemale whose husband had amply pro- vided tor her, and which is unusual among Hin- doos, made her entirely independent of her fam- ily. She persisted in her determination to ac- »mpany him to a better world, and suifered not the tears of an axed mother and the cries of three helpless infants to divert her from her purpose. The funeral pyre was erected, an im- mense concourse of people of all ranks asset bled and a band of music accompanied the Brahmins, who superintended the ceremony. The bower of death. enwreathed with sacred flowers, was erected over a pile of sandal wood aud spices, on which lay the body of the de-| sed. After various ceremonies the music and the crowd, in solemn silence, the arrival of the heorine. proached, aceompanied b await She ap her mother and three beautiful children, richly attired, and | wearing the hymeneal crown, an ornament pecu- ar to a Hindoo bride at her marriage. After a w religious ceremonies the attendants took off her Jeweis, anointed her disheyeled hair with msecrated ghee, as also the skirts of her flow- robe of yellow muslin. Two prattling babes nid knees to disstade her from her fatal purpose. The last pledge of conjugal love was taken bosom by her aged arent, in spe Freed from these rer an air of sol sty. ver torch from the Brahmins, with who: ked seven times around the pyre. Stopping near the entrance of the bower for the sast time she addressed the fire and worshiped the other de- itles, as prescribed in the Sullee Ved; (hen, set- ing dre to her hair and the skirts of her robe, to nder herself the ouly brand worthy to light acred pyre, she threw away the torch, rasiied into the bower, and, embracing her hus- band, thus communzcated the fames to the sur- rounding branches. The musicians struck up the loudest strains, to drown the cries of the victim should her courage have forsaken her; but several of the spectators declared that the st, | Macdutt | sorrows strike Heaven on | bluil King | strife, if onCea | serenity of her countenance and dignity of her behavior surpassed all the sacrifices of a similar nature they had ever witnessed. As polygamy is allowed among the Hindoos, it frequently happens that more than one widow immolates herself on the dead body of her husband. One of THE MOST HORRIBLE SCENES ever enacted in the east was the burning of forty-seven widows at once, the wives of Prince of Maratain 1710. He died above the age of eighty. Adeep cirenlar pit was dug ina field without the town; in the middle of it was erected a pile of wood, on the left of whicn, on acouch richly ornamented, lay. the body of the deceased Prince in his flaest robes. berless rites we rformed by the Bi sset oa fire and, immediat women appeared, spark! | jewels and adorned with flowers 7! | tims walked seve times around the burni: pyre, the heat of which was felt quite tance. The principal widow, then holdi | dager of her late husband, thus add self to the Prince, his successor: “Here Is the Gagser the King made use of to triumph over his enemie beware never to employ it to other purposes.never imbrue it with the blood of your subject: “rn them as a father, has done, and you he did. Since he is n: ine longer in the work | me is to follow him.” into the Prine it from her without showing the le: of grief or compassion, The Princess no peared agitated. One of her domestics, a Ci tian woman, had frequently talked with her upon religion, and, thouzh she never surrender- ed her i mpression on her | | the pile wa | unhappy wid, Who H look she cried ou! ‘Alas! what is | the end of human happiness? I know that [ shall plunge myself headlong into he on these words horror was visible on every coun- tenance, w resuining couraze, she boidly | turned her face to the burning pile, and, call- ing upon her gods, flunz herself | into the midst of the flames. The second widow was the sister of the Prince of the blood, who was | present and assisted at the sacrifice. ' She ad- vanced to her brother and gave him th | wherewith she was adorned. His fe ‘ay. he burst into tears and fell o2 | tender embi She, however, remained un- moved, gazing upon th assistant. Then loudly erying: “C | the name of one of her gods, she jumped into | the flames as the former had done. “The others svon followed, some with bewildered, downcast and sorrowful looks. One of them shrieked above the rest. ran to a Christian soldier whom she beheld among the guards, and hanging abont his neck beyved him to s her, The | new convert, stunned with surpr pushed the unfortunate woman from him, and_ shrieking aloud she fell into the flery trench. The suldier, all shivering with terror, at once retired, and a delirions fever ended his life the follow: ing night. Though many of the unhappy victims at first showed the utmost intrepidity, yet no sooner did they feel the flame: than they screamed out in’ the most dreadtul | manner, and, weltering over each other, strove | to zatn the brim of the pit, but in vain; the as- sistants forced them back with their poles and piled new fuel upon them. The next day the Brahmins gathered the bones and threw them into the sea. The pit was leveled, a temple erected upon the spot, and the deceased Prince and his wives were reckoned among the deities. The English government has made every effort to stop these rites but without much success. Many distinguished people have preferred widows to maidsas partners in life. George Washington, the Father of his Country, set early in the d: of the Republic a good ex- ample in this respect. The great Napoleon married awidow. Scarron’s widow became a court favorite. Rousseau went crazy after a widow, and Gibbon, the historian, de him- \sel€ ridiculous over one. Disraeli married a | widow, and three of the most distinguished idows in Europe to-day are the Empress nie of the French, Queen Isabella of the Spanish, and Queen Victoria of the English. gel eB EES 5 From the Brooklyn Eagle. Steele Mackaye’s patent-adjustable-automatic- selfiolding-terrifying and clusive chair was a | complete and triumphant failure on Monday | i Sitting on | is the perfection of languid ease | ith the life and death struggle of the man who attempts to sit in one of Steele | Mackaye's chairs. There wassome doubt on the first night of aten chairs, but there is no doubt now The tor- _ tures of the Inquisition areas nothing compared to it. It | sell-acting and resentful plece of | furniture, which the mind of the average man | cannot comprehend without several weeks of | study. In the first place, the aisles are only about two feet wide, and anybody who walks up and down them necessarily bunks into the heads and shoulders of those sitting on eith }side. The seats are divided into pairs and ¢ pair is swnng ona post. Thé chairs collapse, swing around and swerve azatst this post ina | most exeltiug and bewildering fashion. When aman sits down it is with a blanched face and | unlimited trast in Providence. The chair has ruined the Je of the neizhboring bars, for no. | one who has once worked his way by complex evolutions inte the innermost consciousness of | the chair wonld risk disaster and probable dis- | memberment by leaving it before the termina- | tion of the play An agreeable amusement was suppled to the | audience that night by the breaking down. of | the chairs In different parts of the house. It was a game of chance, as no one knew which | chair would break next. | One man who sat on the north side of the au- ditorlum was watched with keen interest by | several hundred people from the moment he en- | | tered the theater to the exciting period in the| third act. The man weighed 250 pounds and | had asmall and extremely bald spot on the | crown of his head. He came in and looked | at the chair thougitfully fora minute or two| | before he sat down. while the audience looked at him. Then he slowly put the chair througha | series of complex motions, lowered the seat and, with a pale but determined face, sank cautiously and slowly into the seat. Once firmly settled, | he regained his composure and his face grad- uaily resumed its normal color; it was noticed | | that the satisfaction extended to the small bald spot on lis head which was no longer pale. | But the man was nervous and so were the people who looked at him. They |rezarded him as a test case. Everybody seemed to feel that if the seat would sup- | port him, they themselyes were ‘Things | went along sinoothly untila ve rrowing | scene when MeKee Rankin gets down before the footlizhts ) yer to slow music by | the orchestra and a miniature aurora borealis by the gasman fm the rear of the staze. The scene was touching. So much so that the fat man | | with the small bald spot on the top of the head | did adisastrous and foolish thing. Overcome | by the excitement and emotion of the moment | he moved stizhtly in his #eat. The next instant | h | | uttered a piercing shriek and sank aimost othing ‘sible but the small bald spot which had now become pallid again. Just | behind the fat man was a dapper looking man who wore eye glasses and white gloves. He rose as the fat man disappeared and gracefully as- sisted him to rise. As he did so, at least a thou- | sand people in the audience, saw the dapper little man’s chair automatically assume a col- | lapsed and flat position. The dapper little man | did not observe it until he had assisted the fat man to his feet, then he smiled blandly and sank gracefully back toward his seat. Afew minutes | later the fut man turned and assisted him, and they went out togetherarm inarm. The flush | on the dapper little man’s face was not a cir- | cumstance to the deep carnation pink of the small bald spot on the tat man’s head. Another charming feature, but a somewhat embarrassing one, about the new chair is a pat- | ent swinging back. ‘This back is quite indepen- | dent of the seat or arms of the chair. It swings | on a pivot, and is so arranged that aman can | lean back at any angle he may choose. One may almost recline in tt. This may appear com- | fortable in description, and there are times when. | it is eminently desirable, but in the majority of Instances it is rather embarrassing because the | distance between one row of seats and the one | in front of it is very smali, and the result is that it anybody leans back in the seat he leans grace- fully into the lap and arms of the man, woman or child who happens to be behind him. It is rather startling, when one is interested in the play, to have the man In front of you lean over and lie down in your Jap. The women never lean over, else there would not be so much to complain about. ——_—+e. Mustaches and Whiskers. Letter to the Editor of the London Spectator. Mr. Freeman, in last week’s Spectator, tells us that in the days of Sir Roger de Coverley the hair on tne upper lin kept the name of “whis- kers.” This was not the only name, however, asthe following passage from “Robinson Cru- soe” will show. I quote Macmillan’s re- | print of the edition of 1719: “My beard I had once suffered to grow till it was about a quarter of a Yard long: but as 1 had both Scissars and Razors sufficient, 1 had cut it pretty short, ex- cept what grew on my as Lip, which I had trimm'd into a large pair of Mahometon Whiskers, such as I had seen worn by some Turks, who I saw at Sallee; for the Moors did not wear such, tho’ the Turks did; of these Muschatoes or Whiskers, I will not say they were long enough to hang my Hat upon them; but they were of a Length and Shape monstrous enough, and such as in England would have pass’d for trightful.” (Page 138.) | five any &: | after [have been walking, and alw: IN AIMEE’S DRESSING ROOM. WHY THEY DID NOT MARRY. HIT A BIG MAN FRO BOSTON, Whatan Alleged Lady Reporter Was | The Sad Story yia Postponed Wedding | Billy Edwards Tempted to Sprain His Abie to Sec During an Interview. “Is Mme. Aimee in?” safd the Chicago News fomale reporter at the door of the star in Haver- ly’s theater, Friday. “I am Mme. Aimee,” she answered in a pleasant but very hoarse voice, with an inquiring glance at the scribe. “Indeed,” she continued, when the proper explanation had been made, “I do not dislike reporters. Please to come in and take a seat. and if you will not think me rude I will make my toilet and conversation fogether.” When the interview took place Mme. Aimee was in negligee, with a long eameo pink chine silk wrapper on. Her hair was combed back from her forehead and fixed in a tight coi baek. ie has a round, full face, nounced features, strong, wl i healthy, Jersey d of skin, of careful toilet, temperance, and She looks more like a German than a woman, has managed to keep wrinkles s' feet aw and can pass for thirt, y most actresses and si she keeps no maid. find them more of a hindrance than a help. It is quite impossible to keep a girl in good humor, and when she 1s otherwise she is a hot coal on my head. Besides I can make my changes myself; I haye done so since I was fourteen, and I know best what I ought to and how I ought to wearit. I have a ervant who has been with me eight years who tends to my wants. looks after my” bills and Inggage, and can pack a trank In ten minutes better than a dozen maids. Look at those dresses hanging there; you see they are not creased, and he knows just what I want for every role, even down to my fan and handker- chief.” There was only one chair in the room, and that being occupted by the writer, she sat down in the top story of an open trunk. Throwing her right foot over the left knee she took off a No. 3 shoe and a erlmson garter, ornamented with a big bow of satin ribbon, and the love- liest rose-pink silk stocking eyes ever rested on. And there was the irresistible Aimee in a bare | foot—a foot as pink and soft as an infant's. She reached over for a bottle of lavender water, and, saturating one end of a towel, bathed her foot with the fragrant toilet water and rubbed it dry ill the flesh was all aglow, using her bare hands to accelerate the circulation. The pretty pink hose was replaced bya navy-biue silk, trimmed up the front, from the toe half-way with a crossbar pattern done in the Ameri colors; a garter, the same color, secured it over the knee, and the yellow French kid slipper that she pulled over her foot diminished its ap- parent length one-tourth. The left foot was | then put througb the same treatment. “Oh, 1 always give my feet a cologne path when [ hange my stockings. At night I take a hot foot bath, which not only keeps the blood from my hands, but preserves the feet soft. Then you can imagine how well I treat them when I tell you that I change my stockings with every change of costume. and each time | bathe them with lavender. “Oh yes; they are sensitive—so much so that 1 cannot wear darned stockings or rough shoes.” “What doTdo with my stockings? At the first hole I give them to some chorus girl. Cost? Thirty francs a pair—that is $6 in your money—and I wear out five dozen pairs every year: Here she pulled off her pink silk wrapper and stood arrayed ina suit of white linen, Jooking for all the world like a big French doll in dimity. It may interest the ladies to know that her pan- talettes, which scarcely covered her knees, were very tight, and trimmed at the bottom with eight inches of lace, headed with an inserted band. Her chemise was long, straight, and the very shape of a para rain, with two little icire for her arms and a hole at the top neck. The garment was woven in one piece, armholes, neck. embroidery and all. The | corset she put on would make a modiste’s eves dance, so superbly did ft At; nor was it any ordi- nary bodice, either. The body of cream-tinted satin was stiffened with 5,000 bones, and as nicely made as acustom dress-coat, for not a stitch was visible. Inside the top and bottom was faced with a narrow band of white plush, and an immense hook placed in front puzzled | the writer until she said: “Oh, this is invaluable; it keeps my skirts from running up.” The next garment was an orange broadcloth skirt, cut short and seant, over which she grac fully draped a red flannel’ shawl, using nothing but one common éafety-pin for the looping. On went a blouse waist of white pressed Nannel, over which she buttoned a zouave jacket of red. A dilapidated yellow wig was pulled into shape, and pinned down over a superior crop of hi a big red cabbage rose was pinned on the fr of a flaring, brimmed hat. which, mtmus anot vi was fastened on her ix cunple of yellow pins, for the ‘*Mascot.” While waiting for the curtain to go up, Aimee was good enough to tell the reporter low she manages to keep her youth and healt “I bathe every morning fn the year, using a cold water shower. I diet principally on rare beef and brown bread, avoid all pastries and hot bread, and care very little for fruits. I have a bottle of claret every day, and take black coffe after cach meal. For supper I take daackers and milk.” : The dressing of Mme. Aimee ts certainly re- markable, as each costume is matched with un- derclothing, stockings, gaiters and shoes. She is partial to plain colors, and ina suit of blue broadcloth wore navy-blue petticoats, merines, stockings and aes Her petticoats are made of surah lined with satin, and there is not aninch of sham about one of them. One black underskirt, worn with a fine brocaded velvet dress, was laid in knit pleats trimmed with two fine pleatings and arufile of black Spanish lace, the whole costing $75. A peep into her trunk revealed glimpses of not less & for her er and Bettina was | than seventeen suits of underclothes, each made of the finest kind of satin, and trimmed as nicely as though intended for a short party dress. Her corsets are countless, and in- clude red, blue, green, yellow, violet,’ indigo, black, and all the fashionable tints in which a toilet’might be made. Some were decorated with floss, fancy stitching and hand embroidery others edged with lace, plush or chenille fringe, and the long silk lace in any one of them was worth probably as much as the corset. worn by the average woman. On the subject of stays Aimee seems to be thoroughly posted, for she not only able to wear a $40 corset with every dress, but has a man-seryant to lace them up. Her night robes are in keeping with the rest ofher trousseau, being made of pongee, boiled, surah silks, or crushable satins, trimmed with 8 of lace or bands of swan's down and closed down the front, with bows of soft ribbon. Allare made with a yoke and watteau pleat, and inatiy are supplemented with a dainty little hood, When she returned to the green-room to dress forthe third act she jumped out of her flannel skirts, donned a suit of white satin, and after Jacques had laced her in a satin corset, he handed her a very novel little bustle, made of satin, filled with feathers, highly perfumed with magnolia rose, and tied with white cords. Mr. Jacques assisted her in lacing up her basque, and man-like, broke the string, but quickly re | placed it with a new lace. e+ —___ Josh Billings on Infidelity. Did you ever hear ov a man’s renouncing Christianity on hiz deth-bed, and turning in- fidel? Gamblers, nor free-thinkers, haven't faith enuff in their profession to teach it to their children. No atheist, with all hiz boasted bravery, haz ever yet dared to advertize hiz unbeleaf on hiz tume stun. . I never hav met a free-thinker yet who didn’t beleave a hundred times more nonsense than he kan find in the Bible ennywhere, a It Iz alwuss safe to follow the religious beleaf that our mothers taught us,—there never waz a miehee yet who taught her child to be an in- el. Aman may learn infidelity from books, and from hiz assoshiates, but he kant learn it from hiz mother, nor the works ov God that surround jim. If an infidel could only komprehend that he kan prove more bi hiz faith than he kan bi hiz reazon, hiz impudence would be mutch less offensive. Unbeleavers are allwuss so reddy and anxious to prove their unbeleaf, that I hav thought they mite be just a leetle doubttul about it themselfs. The infidel, in hiz impanence, will ask yu to prove that the flood did occur, when the poor idiot himself, kant even prove, to save hiz life, what makes one apple sweet, and one sour, or Ke whi a hen’s egg iz white, agd a duk’s egg ne. When I heara noizy infldet proklaiming hiz unbelief, I wonder if he will send for sum brother infidel to cum and see him die. I guess not. He will be more likely to send for the orthodox man, who engineers the little brick church just around the Korner. +e. ______ How New Haven Cares for Her injured itizens, New Haven’s new stretcher fot use at the police station Is of a new patterh andis made of a walnut frame, the legs of which are so ar- ranged with Harte steel and rubber springs as to aid the elasticity of the canvas m breaking all | mentum to a charge, and would inspire sable as To!d ina Street Car. From the Baltimore American, “Oh, girls! have you heard the news?” chirped a cherry-cheeked, brown-eyed miss as she atran- ged her s'lken bustle and sat down beside two other prerty creatures inaa Edmondson avenue | car yesterday morning. “What, Lucey? Do you mean the engagement clle—? We heard all about that. “Nu! that’s old,” replied Lucy. with a laugh andatoss of herhead. “Oh, it’s too funny, and so romantic’—and the reporter who had been sitting at the end of the car, moved up to. give an old gentleman room, and also to hear Miss Lucy's story. “Well girls, you know Minnie—and Cha: Yes, Was the merry duet. “No, indeed, girls, broken off; were to have been married’ nearly a month’ azo: day sses made, usiiers named, clergyman en- and—* | 'y, tell us the rest!” excitedly asked | idens as they leaned o and } three pretty heads, covered with velvet, pigeon wings, feathers and satin ribbons, came together in a most confidential way. “What a pity. girls. ust think of it,” and the fair Luey’s voice sank almost to a whisper. “He didn't get enough salary—only four dollars a week.” “Oh! Oh!” “Yes, everything was ready, and they loved each other dearly, and he dressed so nice, and ha such a sweet mustache; it it’s all over now. “Who broke the match “His father. You see Charlie is a clerk ina notion store down town, and gets all those pretty neckties he wearsat cost. “*Well, you know he met Minnie at Mrs. masquerade last win- ter, and they fell in love. Youremember she was dressed in the character ofa flower girl, and wore the same white tarlatan, though cut shorter, that she graduated in two years ago. Weill. you know they went on excursions dur- ing the summer—he used to get lots of passes— andin July they were engaged. They were awfully in love. My gracious! I don’t see how | they could have been so desperate. They deter- mined to get married in the autumn. ~ Every- body thought he was getting a good salary, and when everythi had been arranged, one day his father went to her house and told herthat he thoughtit his duty to inform her that his son was only getting four dollars a week, and that | he did not object to their marrying, only he could not afford to support them’both.” “How mean,” broke in the duct. “Well, her father wouldn't have it, either, and consequrutly the wedding had to be p: poned until he «ets promoted and draws a b ger salary. She has zone down south for the winter. He is almost heart-broken. But if I was her 1 wouldn't have him till he gets twent dollars a week, would you, girls? Good- and as the duet sang they didn’t think they would, Miss Lucy tipped out of the car at Har- lem park. The reporter got out also, and went on his way rejoicing that he was not a dude on two hundred The Highland Headdress. From the London World. Ikear on undoubted authority that a change in the headdress of our Highland regiments is imminent. The gallant and time-honored feather bonnet is to be superseded by a hybrid helmet, heavy and cumbersome, to be covered with dark blue cloth and swathed in ells of tartan, green, red or yellow, according to the corps. Over the surface appear an olla podrida of devices— beasts, badges, mottoes, all the distinction Scotch heraldry can: confer; while, to crown all, the lion rampant of Scotland surveys the motley chaos at his fe and, ed by a brooch to the side, a tall red-and-white plume emerges, ren- dering the whole edifice lopsided. The mere specific gravity of this armor would add mo- bosoms with misgivings. But despite these ad- vantages, the anticipated change is viewed with intense disfavor by every gallant Highlander in her majesty’s sery Wednesday Whatnots. A young man recently bought a copy of “Grandfather's Clock,” at a music store, and was at the same time supplied with a bullet- proof undershi The clerk explained that such articles always went with certain songs, by order of the board of health.— The Tuilgg. Astronomer—“The new comet can now be seen with the naked eye.” Uncle Sam—*What Astronomer—"The comet of Uncle Sam—Goodness gracious! yod Even the comets are coming back —Philadiphta Call. The girl with a big hat seems to be all head until you to talk to her.—Iushville Tines. The Congregationalist translates Matthew Arnold's plirase, “sweetness and light,” Into shine.” A young man writes to consult us about the best pattern of health litt. helping his mother a little with the coal hod.— Burlington Free Press. To say that a procession was three hours in passing a given point doesn’ cording to the Chicago Times, necessarily show that it was a , Since the given point inlght na beer saloon. Mrs. French heard a terrible pounding on the stovepipe the other day and called to her hus- band to know what was the matter. “I’mn only getting out my fall soot,"he replied gravely. Boston Times. The Mormon my aggregatio Lost 2 chignon: 2 madam?'—why, I was a'most hacked to pieces | by the savages!” claimed Aunt Tabetha on | emerging from a crowd of hack-drivers at the | depot.— New York Commercial Adver' - Old Dil “Two hundred and twenty-seven bills were Introduced into Congress the day’s suasion.” “Just think of it!” remarked Mrs, Simple; *‘isn’t it ridiculous? These Con- zressmen set salariesbig enough, I should think, toypay as they go. Two hundred and twenty- seven bills! For things they got last y course. For my part, I think it’s positively seandalous.”"—Boston Transcript. Dumbfounded: “Now,” said the irate mother to her family of one boy and tour girls, who had been misbehaving themselves, “Iam going to whip you all,” and she selzed on Jimmie to re- ve the first installment of the chastisement. Mother,” said Jimmie, “ladies first, always.” old lady wasso struck with this application of her own instruction that she did not strike any of the children, but let them off that time.— Oi City Derrick. Sign in the shop window—“Boy want Young wife to her husband dear, that too bad; I sappos all girls.” “But i it you climb that fence, Mr, . Who is over there, will see | ckings.” And Sylvia replied: “Ithought '—Boeston Post. President Arthur need not expect the vote of Seth Green or any angler in this country. That | trout wasn’t mentioned.—Chicago News. | When your friend is married, put. you wishes into shape of an old English s: “One year of joy, rest of content.”—Utica Press. “A braye man carves out his own fortune,” says some philosopher. He does, and no mis- take. But let that same brave man attempt to carve a turkey, and he'll get left, unless he has learned the trade througha seven years’ appren- ticeship.—Lovwell Citizen. “Am I tired of life?” said acheerfal old man the other day, in reply to the question. “Not a bit of it. I remember landing in thistown with achip hat and hickory shirt and a pairof breeches, T’ve been way up, and I'vebeen flat onmy back, yet I'd like to gin and go it all over again— chip hat, shirt, breeches, and all. Why? Well, oo see, When you come to the end you don’t now what’s beyond. I’m dead sure ot this thing; and, on the whole, this world just tickles me to death!”—Kochester Advertiser. Mary Anderson is studying poses In the British museum. One might think this meant that she had taken to botany, but it isn’t s0.—Zorcelt | Courier, “Have you a soul for poetry?” asked a wild- eyed man as he entered the editor's office and threw down a roll of manuscript. “Well, I don’t know abont that," replied the editor, glancing at the bottom of his liberally proportioned boot; batt have a sole for poets.” The poet dida’t stay. tion: “Dearest will you Join ‘—Boston Ti i ‘hack, ce We would suzgest | ad in the Hoffman House Bar- room. From the New York Sun, “How about that story in the Washington Stan, which says that you knocked out a big man from Boston?” said a reporter of the Sun to Billy Edwards, in the bar-room of the Hod- man house last night. “It's true, ards replied, putting aside | the newspaper he had been reading. “Myright hand is bad yet.” “How did it come about?” i It was on the night after men came in. One of nce learned is a Major Glore, struck which covers the Bou- gereau painting several times with his stick. I asked him to stop it. He said: ‘Attend to your own business.’ [replied that Iwas doing so, and turned to walk aw ‘The next instant he j had me by the neck and planted two blows In my face, He was a very big man, at least six | feet t I couldn't break from him at first, but manazed to run him against the bar. Then T got free. I struck him one with my left which made him draw back, and then gave him a swinging blow with iny right over the left ere. It opened the skin and dazed him. It also dis- abled my hand. knocking some of the bones out of joint.” “What became of the major?” “I don't know. He was assisted to the street, and that was the last I saw of him, Of course I would not haye struck him if he had not tried to choke me and given me two blows.” Edwards is the ex-champion light weight pugilist of the world, and is retained in the Hoffman house to look after the bar-room. He is admitted to be the quickest man with his hands in this country, and can hit hard.” ATHER PROPHETS, Mauskrats, Icemen, Raftsmen, and Far- mers Predict a Mild Winter. From the Port Jervis Gazette. The opinion prevails on the part of many of the weather wise that the coming winter will be amild one. Some of their predictions are based | on the habits of the wild animals of the flelds and woods, noting the supply the squirrels lay by for their winter support, the depth of the woodchuck holes, and the thickness of the fur of fur-bearing animals. But the animal whose sagacity is the most accurate and whose wisdom ismost safe to follow, in the opinion of many, is the muskrat. The muskrat never makes a mistake. He knows all about the weather, and when he omits to build his usual nest near the bank of the stream he frequents, it is very evi- dent that he regards it asaltogether unnecessary for him to be at the care and toil required to construct It. The muskrat never expends his labor in tolly. If he don’t need a house for winter he don't build it. He has butit none so tar this year, so report says, and the conclusion is irresistible that he has omitted the work only because he foresees that the temperature will be so mild and endurable that he can manage to get along very comfortably without it. Some think the weather will be mild, because the husks on the corn were thin. They say that nature anticipates the kind of winter she in- | tends to give by the abundance or scantiness of | dress she gives the ears. When the winter is to be cold, they say that the husks that surround the corn are invariably thick and many: when the winter is to be mild, they are thin and few. They were thin and few-in last fall's crop, and hence the winter will bemnild. - ‘The ice men say that the winter will be mild. Their predictions are based on the state of the wind and weather when the sun crossed the line in passing from its summer to Its winter solstice. On the day on which this event occurred the wind, they , blew from the sotith; and the sun shone warm, Observations continued through a long Series of years have demonstra- ted, they assert, that the prevailing winds dur- ing the time the sun sojourns in the southern hemisphere are of the same character aud biow from the same direction as does the wind on the day the sun crosses the line. Quite similar to the icemen’s ideas onthis sub- ject are the opinions of the Delaware river rafts- men. They, too, are close observers of the state of the atmosphere, wind and sun on the day that luminary crosses the equinoctial line. The Delaware river raftsman’s anxiety is for a tresh- et. and all the signs and indications by which they may be predicted are carefully remembered and diligently stadied. Their observation, they lished that when heavy rains and a ceur at the time of the equinox, every succeeding storm will shed less rain, and the height of water in the river will continue for months to decrease. On the contrary, when | clear skies and low water accompany the equi- nox, the rain storms which follow will increase in volume in geometrical progression, so that by the time March is reached heavy rain’storms, 1 i freshets may be conti. dently anticipated. ‘on the equi: preparing to get out lozs in abundance for the great freshets they conidently expect durlng the latter part of winter and early epring. To be | rainy the we wari, and as the signs, in their opinion, point to an increasing amount of rainfall as the winter passes, the In- ference is that the prevailing temperature will be warm and mild. The farmers—at least some of them—are able to make fair predictions as to the weather, They join with the icemen and raftsmen in as- serting that the present winter will be mild. They base thelr predictions on the recurrence of seasons of like character following each other. Eight or nine years ago, they say, the winters every year grew milder, until the cul- mination was reached in a winter of excep- tional mildness, when warm winds prevailed, little snow fell, and scarcely ice enough was formed to enavle them to gather even the slimmest store for summer use. The past two or three years, they say, have resembled in general character and in increasing mildness the years which preceded the warm winter alluded to, and the present, they feel certain, Will be a very near counterpart of the warm winter itself. This year the culmination ot warmth will be reached, and more rigorous seasons may be anticipated after this one has passed. ——— ae —— ‘The Way He Weighed. From the Boston Transcript, ump on the seale,” the butcher sald nto a miss one d: "in used to Weighing, and,” said he, “Til tell you Wat you weigh.” Yes,” carpe quick the sweet reply roin Lips seemed made to kiss; that it would not be ou Ve Weighed amiss.” ‘The butcher binshed; he hung his head And knew not what He merely wished to welgh the gin,— Hinseif was given away. Pe Queer Method of a Bribe Giver. From the St Louis Post-Dispatch, Joun W, O'Connell, of the school board, thus First Ume | tells how a man in the employ of a publishing ; | firm tried to bribe him to use his influence in lie | behalf ofa tap “He approached me and began to talk of the merits of the book. As we were about to part he handed me a copy of the new book, with a remark that I would find it interesting. I laid the book on the table and ny friend went away, when, subsequently, turn- Ing over the leaves of the book I discovered what he meant by interesting, for snugly ensconced between the leaves I founda check for £200, signed with a name which I recognized as that of a book agent. I sent tor my friend and gave him a very large plece of my mind and his check. But for his excellent fanily I would ex- pose him.” ——————_-e-—______ Clipped Horses, From the Bucks County Intelligencer. Horse clipping is growing In popularity, and many clipped animals may be seen now where one was seen afew years ago. Some people think it crueltoclip ahorse, but there is at least a question whether it ls or not. Any one who has a driving horse to take care of finds it so much less trouble when the beast is clipped that he will have it done, and blanket well when the horse is standing out. It is just possible that sympathy may be wasted In pityinz clipped horses, and itis certain that remonstrance is wasted by those who inveigh against the prac- A Michigan girl told her young man that she would never marry him until he was worth $10,000. So he started out with a brave heart to make it. ‘‘How are you getting on?” George, she asked at the expiration of a couple of months. “Well,” George said hopefully, “I have say@al $22,” The girl dropped her eyelashes and blush- ingly remarked: “I reckon that’s near enoagh, George.” How to save: “My dear,” sald a husband, lay- ing aside the 1 paper and addressing his wife, “I see that Mr. Harnethorn is dead.” “That's unfortunate, indeed,” the sympathetic woman replied. “Died so soon after buying a new buggy, But we never know what's in store for us. -Ifhe had known that his end was tice. A le a ‘Make our tprebant bosses And ail their big parade. Little bits of stinginess, Disearding printer's ink, Busts the man of business, And sees his credit sink. —Peoria Transeript. SS Stet At Ancona, In Italy, 100 priests have held meetiugs with a view to organize a strike in the event of the failure of their efforts to have the amount paid ior saying mass increased. Boston’s Law and Order league never_brings 80 near he would not have bought the buggy, | @ suit onevidence obtained by aspy. In that hi ld have saved several hi way it finds places where liquor is sold, but perhaps, and woul We Save ve jundred bet dollars.”—Arkansaw Traveller. “You will rob yourself” erieda gay young Who was one oi a party of thres, sin, Among whom a youth, with many’ a twirl, Was CMe ee orange With giée, “Not at all,” the generous youth replied, As he fumbled with his locket, the jar when the ambulance isin'motion. It is @ very easy one. “For I love to give; and then, beside, “Tye a dozea more in cket.” —New York Morning Journal, waits for other and legitimate fore commencing an action. Bummers have been at the front this year at the Boston city hall, says the Herald, and they have had things theirown way. ‘Some mem- bers of the city council,” it is asser “have eaten and drnak more at the city’s cost in one year than they ever did at their own expense in ten.’ This year thesky was clear | al day, aid the lumbermen are | | { “You bid me make it orderly and well, Acconting to the fashion of the time.” —Shakspear OVERCOATS, OVEROOATS, OVERCOATS, OVENOCOATS, OVERCOATS, OVERCOATS. MADE TO MEASURE ANY STYLE DESIRED, 38, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 DOLLARS. RN Xm ccc 00 4 ZB. ERS Heegar L NNN Wo oL L = NNN i Cc 00 Ff. ae NNN WU cco 00 LiL Lu > THE mr aA on rt 00 T AA 1 OL oo RR. 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