Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1884, Page 6

HOME MATTERS. Prise Serre: fla: are now pl house to hol sivet or canton door in the The elect A Line mended to boil flavor agreeably » Dovers as to the best w Manrer. They be pai 1ONED A again. . Which vsien to. stil the f ea lon, in the ouse. The mbinutle rry, with a ‘s inserte: dozen them, Twat Pursit may be cleaned is a fact of inter- est: children’s plush coats that have become soiled on the frout can be softly and delicately | sponged with a little borax aad water, with injury; a teaspoonful of powered borax to nearly a quart of water is the proper proportio use a very soft sponge—anid by the way, sponge may be softened by boiling it in clear | water; then take it out and rinse it in several | waters, If not soitened sufficiently, repeat the | boiling and rinsing proce: ' Post. | Cheanixe Fersrrere.—This is the time when | all parlor furniture should be carefully gone | over and cleaned. Velvet and plush furniture have to be especially well looked after daring er months, as the moth-worm is apt in it and do a great deal of dam: moths are discovered or not. it is er every article with a soft sponse soaked with benzine. The benzine will do the furniture no harm and will effectually destroy all moths. Heavy carpets, suc as Axminsters and Wiltons, should also be treated with ben- zine. | To Vary THe Fiavor THe Roast oF BEer. This ean be done by squeezinst the Juice of half a lemon over it and putting the other half inside the roast. Another way is to put half of a carrot one sinail onfon and a little parsley in the dri ping pan and lay the roast over it. Do not be , led by any bad adviser to put one drop of water into your dripping pan until you have tried the experiment beet in this way. It cditference In the flavor of the utside browns over quickly, the ot within, and the meat is fender of this, | avce.—This is asance much used accompaniment to various pud- dingsand spor - moulds. Grate two ounces of fie ehecol stir it. into half a pint of cream and half a pint of milk till it boils. Use late, while in consequene CHoconate in Europe as ¢ froths well; and stir till it Take it from ura it to the but do not ie Have the wit with ean be fore dinner Hand in 10 nd keep the n until it is seat to the | the | celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his pas- | will meet in London In 1838. | dent of the West Nebraska M. E. missidns, form- | | president of Hobart college, has decided to ac- sei inkle pepp flour shoutd be duste ate brown turn the Jt. pepper and flour over | Iso; If the tat is absorbed add enough j p the c fn Half to three-quarters o1 long enough to cook i Make a rich gravy in the par; brown it well, If it1s your pleasure to add peas or mushreoms, put them into the gravy just be- | fore serving. They are of course to be cooked lirst. If you use canned ones heat them before adding them to the gravy. Pour the gravy around the chicken on a platter.—New York Pest. THe GLASSES AND RECEPTACLES FoR FLOWERS should always be chosen with adue regard for the manner in which the flower itself grows. A flower with a natarally long stem never looke | well cut off shert and put into a shallow giass dish. or shert-stemmed flowers, ! lets, ele- i . ‘The vase | rless, or if colored, to that of the flowers, Fy on the whole, aborate . OF di custom work of th and addins to. th t have their vie ning pl n on the ply of it” The nurse, the rapl ty with WORTH KNOWING. 1. That fish may be scaled much easier by dippins into boiling water about a minute. ¥ as well be sealed, it desired, wh in salt, thouzh in that case em. jnickest and best freshened by ur milk. lk which is turned or changed may ned and rendered fit for use again by rring ina little suda. hat salt will curdle new milk; hence, in milk porridge, gravies, etc., the salt t be added until the dish is prepared. t. after bexinning to sour, ced out of doors in the cool r bolling water will remove tea 5 and many fruit stains. Pour the water throuzh the stain, aud thus prevent its spread- ing over the fabric. ripe tomatoes will remove ink and s from white cloth, also from the hands % That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled hat boiled starch is much improved by ton ef a little sperm or a little salt, or uuin arable dissolved. it beeswax and salt will make your flatirous as clean and smooth as glass. Tie of wax in a rag and keep it for that pur- When the trons are hot rub them first wax rag, then scour with a paper or sloth sp ed with sait. 12. That blee ment and kerosene mixed negual proportions and applied to bedsteads 16 an untailing bed bug remedy, and that a coat of whits is ditto for the walls of a log awoure. 18. That kerosene will soften boots or shoes wich have bee: ed by water and render then: as pliable 1s That kerus «lump ¢ will make tin tea-kettlesas turate a woolen rag and rub Ite so remove stuius from clean ed furniture. at cool rain water and soda will remove grease from washable feusics. bright as new. with tt. e Howers fade. —American | Dt [eine shape, flavored and | | weight, and even by with your white clothes will aid the whitening | bad. The doctors | | Some take it in soda, others by the dose, and . well known here as a free Methodist exhorter, will leave next ‘or a camp n ; i attend the Free Methodist it . under which he proposes to take exhorter. H. Swem, lately pastor of the Tab- ~E Sunday Rev. W. (colored) chureh, Bal condemning the f nore, preached | @ of carrying | of the effects | war. He was tien a me: e departinents, but resigned to go Into the istry The Mount Zion M. E. Church, Georgetown, whieh was dediexted last Sunday, is about the cidest colored Methodist church in the District, dating from 1816. For many new editlce cost £18,000, which with viion of a few hundred dollars has been atthew’s Catholic church, at 15th and . is undergoing an extensive overhaul- | in. The pews have all been altered to the same width, thus adding twenty-four pews to ormer nuinver, with an additional seating | acity of 12). The main body and gallery of church will be newly painted. Two new | fessionals are being erected in tne vestibale ofthe main entrance. The carpets, cushions, being thorouzhly reno- | ed and tae work will be completed, it Is ex- pected, by August Ist. At present the services | are held in the chapel in the basement. — Rev. Dr. Newmaa Hail, of London, recently | torate. —The Pan-Presbyterian council, which con- cluded its session at Belfast, Ireland, July 3d, — Rey. Thomas B. Lemon, now superinten- erly of the Baltimore conference of the M. chureh, was recently made a D. D- by York col lege, ) a. —Rev. Dr. E. N. Potter, the newly elected cept his election to the Episcopal Bishopric of Nebraska. Dr. Potter will be the fourth of his | — Rey. P. H. Lenaghan, lately assistant pas- tor of St. Mary's Star of the Sea church, of Baltimore, been transferred to St. Joseph's chureh, Texas, Baitimore county. Rev. James O'Brien of Lonaconing, Md., succeeds latel, P. Strickland died last week at Ocean Grove, N. J. Dr. Strickiand was prominent inthe M.E. church years ago, and Was for some years§assistant editor of the N York Christian Adgocate, but he united w Presbyterian chureh some years a0. —The new Reformed Episcopal theological | minary which will be opened next December | in Chicago. will be the fifth theological school in | | that enterprising city. The library of the late | Bishop Cummins, an extensive and collection. has be institution by Mrs, Cummins. | — Rey. George A. Beranek, a Redemptorist, | and ussistant pastor of St. James” chureh, Balti- more, celebrated recentiy his golden jubilee— the f ry ot his ordination asa priest. 4, and a native of Bo- ly 22, 18% valuable vn offered for the use of the years ordained lioe in th tz, wura Hay- nd, and the ‘gvinston Col- work of Miss and, we sali! farewell, hs wouid part, i | ue Weert i ‘That memory my own, LiL Would keep tis grasp— if I had kno 5 iM far an, hh the wid throug! w rf You stretched ished my careless speech, | » listen, dear, lo every tone ‘That from your lips tell jow and sweet— i) It f had known, from the strife stons, ere below, er life u Were called, oh, friend, to go, it haz stayed fvolish tears And bu-hed zh and moan To bia you last, ispecd— TCT had ki If Thad w long x own. known to what strange place, Inystic, distant, slient shore, miy turned you eadfast face, What time your footsteps leftiny door, I should have forged a golden link ‘To bind the hearts so constant grown, And keep it constant ever there— If T hat known. IfT had known that, until Death Shall with his finger touch my brow, And still the quickening of the breath’ ‘That stirs with kife’s Tull meaning now, Solong my feet must tread the way Of our accustomed paths alone, I oun have prized your presence more— fT had known. If Thad known how soon for yt Drew ne: Fs ‘hat y 's great white throne, Would pray tor your poor friend on earth— ItThad known. — —Christian Rei@. VICTIMS OF CHLORA A Drug Cierk’s Startli: Pap iz Account of the | ulurity of n Dangerous Drug. From the NpwYork Sun, | Ten grains in mine, please!” The speaker | idly well dressed and attractive, who had | just ordered a glass of soda water ina Broad- | way drug store. The clerk took a salt-spoonful of whité creathis from a wide-mouthed bottie wed itin the slass. It dissolved imme- The customer drank the solution, paid and departed ts a chivral said the clerk, “and four ‘regulars, kes the dose three and has been doing it for three or She has the habit so bad that I don't she can ever break it.” like her?” number in the great . We had ten chloral fiends who openly acknowledge the kavit, and about twenty more who claim that they take it medicinally, and not { for the pleasure it gives. Multiply this by the number of drug stores, and allowing for the dif- ference in business done, and you can’t have less than 3,500 in this city. When chloral was first introduced, I think it was about 1868, It became quite popular. It was put up in patent medi- sweetened, and sold very well. There was chloral nepenthe, and chloral soother, and a dozen other nostrams. Bae they have all been driven out of the mar- ket | | vhat was the reason of it?” “Weil, frst, it was too expensive, and, second and chiefly, chloral in solution is rapidly af- fected py light. and decomposes into chloro form and other compounds. In several in- stances this decomposed chloral acted as @ poison. Now it is used only in its plain form, others again buy it by the ounce and measure out their own quantities. It must be very largely used, as it is now imported and manu- factured, not by the pound, but by the hundred- the ton, The habit is very ave begun to recognize it, and call it clioralism. A person takes a small dose, and feels a pleasant sensation of ease and quiet, something like the effect of opium and hasieesh. At night it induces deep and heavy sleep. After a time the dose fails to produce the desired effect, and has to be increased. Finally a limit is reached. The consumer gets the reliet wanted, but at a terri- ble penalty. Inthe morning the tongue and mouth are coated, the pupils of the eye are di- lated and pain‘ully sensitive to light, and all the nerves shattered like those of an absinthe drinker. The appetite Is impaired, and all the secretioas of the body greatly affected. In the night he has horrible dreams, and, I believe, sonietimes pains through the whole body. When a chloral user becomes what we call a ‘fend’ his existence alternates between a half- pleasant lethargy and intense m! - The oddest thing about it is that @ large majority of the ‘flends’ are women.” “What's the dose? They start at five grains andrunup. The highest I ever knew was a bundred grains a day.” | of disease. ST AR: WASHINGTO as - D. C., SATURDAY, “JULY 26, 1884A—DOUBLE SHEET. What a Candid Physician Says About the Limits and the Accidents of Duc- tors. before New Jersey “The moder@physician, In his multitudinous finds few remedies, The average of » is greater, but commerce and the ater comfort, better food, new wider horizons, and none of the ivnces can laim too great a share in the world’s advancement. Medicine flnds its highest achievements in the prevention, not in the cure Cancer shows a steady relative in- land; in New Jersey the average crease in FE) | death-rate from this disease is one in fifty-four of all the deaths that occur. Malarial dis spread in wider circles. Does not ther < of tuberculosis go on? Who has won emi- i low fever? The exanthemata sweep into and ont of every neizhborhood about once in five years. Who cures rheumatism, or typhoid fever, or chronic Bright's disease? Who never recoiled before a patient simmering in the horrible slow flame of py:emia? And yet who rains from prescribing? The Journals teem fortunate prescriptions; the nostrams of, nutacturing chemists push braggart charla- nisin to the wall. No monstrosity of theirs so impudent that a dozen colleze professors will | not laud the mixture. This was once the prov- ince of the clergy, but we do things differently now. “The young doctor believes in the magic of drugs, the old doctor regards the majority of them as mischlevous, while the pathologist sus- pects them all. We hear of the so-called cures, but rarely do we hear of the failures. Truth can never be arrived at until both sides are known. Astothe drugs, most of them are poisons. Solutions of the majority of them de- stroy plants and corrode the vital organs of animals, The test of new drugs upon animals, and the argument from these to man, is in many instances highly fallacious. Such drugs as mor- phia and atropia have slender effeets on birds and herbivorous animals, while many others have frequently toxical effecta,_ without corresponding symptoms in man. As, for in- stance, citric and tartaric acids, camphor, coc- culus, dulcimara and lig. ammon. acet., poison fatally in their order cats, rabbits, docs and fish. Some drugs act differently upon different ant- mals, as colocynth, which has feeble action on horses, sheep and ‘swine, while it purges dogs and rabbits violently; ¢yclamen poisons fish, while pigs can eat any quantity of the root: | hyoxcyamus is eaten without harm by hogs, and does not injure sheep or cows, while upon dogs it has much tie same effect as upon man. “The only way to arrive at the average merit of new drugs or the old is to record the results of their application in the same classes of dix | Rame and kindred in the American Episcopate. | ease under the varying conditions of hygienic surroundings over vast areas. But this is not practicable, for the majority ot physicians are plodders, followers men of routine. One other s presents itself, colleges of experimental ne. conducted under the eyes of the state, or the supervision of the highest medical au- Here should be rigorous system, ex- istration, frequent comparison and'cor- At the same time we must recollect, rection. for all our attainments, that but comparatively little is known of the natural history of diseases. The tendency of nature to remedy ills without inter ference would astound the medical world could it Ye known aright. Hundreds of diseases would end in recovery if never a drug were given. We deceive ourselves with cures. ‘The last drug gets the credit, where none deserves it. On the other hand many diseases have continued to be incurable for agex, though even the wisest physi- cian would probably feel himself criminal not to prescribe something. And given one thing, to another Is a natural sequence. n to give an ample inargin, after twenty- ling medicines, as iron, iodine, quinine, stryehnine, brandy and opium have been se- lected from the mass of drugs persistently thrast upon the protession, the rest might be ‘in the flat sea sunk,” and the death-rate be no greater. je wants to commit se poison. Ten to one if with a dagger.—Bur- e couldn't lingion Fr A Philadelphia f with the nu er makes his baby sleep f 1 in! flyin time inside o ined the young man as down the front steps for the third propelled by the vigorous ugton Free ar, perhaps rain, Boston Post, Grant & Ward while their liabil y rapt assets were only nominal, Were plenominal.—Boston 2% the 000 Tndiansin the United States. rarmy has his hands full. low him a clerk.—Burling- By der A little fishing-pole attachment has been in- vented whlch registers the number of fish caught, and now every angler with a fish-pole that doesn’t register is regarded with suspicion. Indianapolis Times. There is one mighty good thing about Florida; it dvesn't raise enough bananas for exportation, but consumes all its own crop. Skins and all! At least, a native Floridian looks stopped to peel anything he wanted to eat. —We retract. He does skin the winter boarders.—Burlington Hawkeye. I see you have got this confounded rye bread in.” hissed Plunkett at the breakfast. table. “Yes, dearie,” smoothly replied the lady. “I got it because vou love if.” “Me love it, madam? Ugh, the very amell of it makes me sick. Who was go wise as to know that I loved rye bread?” “Nobody,” stammered Mra. Plunkett, “except T heard you tell Fitzgoober a few days ago that you preferred rye to corn, and I didn't know what you referred to, unless it was bread.” When he went to work Plunkett kicked him- selt out of the door.—Allanta Constitution. The question which agitates the fashionable housewife at present Is not so much “Where shall we go this summer?” as it is ‘‘Where shall we make the neighbors think we have gone?”— New York Graphic. s} ‘Why did you come to the country so late this year?” “He (recently married)—“I have been ransacking the city to get a stylish flat tor next winter, but I couldn't find one.” She—"You are not as lucky as your wife.” Li : “Wot’s the st genteel thing for a isa lady to carry in the street, Nora?” Co ure, thin, some prefers a three-volume book: but I pre lif, quite eare and ais} It is improper to tip waiter girls in hotel din- ing rooms. Be just. and fee her not.—New Or- leans Picayun The bones of completely to chal must have lived on —Norristown Hera There is nothimz bashful about a governor who can pardon eeriminal. He sets his gnor. ance of the case against the wisdom of the court and twelve ood Jurymen, and turns a dang ous character loose. “it is not mercy. It is gall. —Nuw Orieans Picayune. He—“Did you read about all those people in Brooklyn being poisoned trom eating ice cream uesota woman have turned ‘pure Orange county inilk.” | on the Fourth of July?” She—“Yes, I believe I did read something “It’s very dangerous to eat ice cream at this season. No less than 150 persons were nore or less affected.” She—“Y-e-s, but you know, George, that im- mediately «after an accident of that kind the confectioners are much more careful about the ingredients than they were before, and there is really much less danger right now than at any other time.”—Tezas Siflings. ne gee To the Sweet Girl Graduate, Latin, French, and Limberger Dutch, Pin-cushtons, tidies and Kensington stitch; ‘The romance 1s over; you know so mu ‘The world ts hardly keyed up to your pitch, Hide away the callow essay, "Throw the slippers undes ‘your bunk, 8, white and dressy, in your trunk. Wash your frizzes free from glue, Calm your heart so agitat Put on your old number six shoe, And thank the fates you've graduated, Shut the text-books up for keep: And learn to wash and bake and sweep. How the Coroner was Puzzled, From the Buffalo Exproes. Scene in a train dispatcher’s oMce. Enter coroner. Coroner.—‘‘Can you tell me anything about that accident on your road?” ‘Train dispatcher.—‘-What accident?” “Why, the accident on your road, where a number of people have been killed and several injured.” “IL know of no accident.” “Well, that ts queer; I was sent for en account of some smash-up.” “There is nothing of the kind that I know of. Who are you?” “Why, Tam the coroner, and—" “Ab! that makes a difference. I thouzht you were some kind of a newspaper man. Yes—” and then the dispatcher, who had heard nothing about the accident, gives the full particulars, and the coroner le sent to scene of the wreck. New Yorkers think she | Gov. CLEVELAND'S ROMANCE, A Disappointed Lover Like Bachanan, but Fickle and Happy. Buffalo Letter to the New York Morning Journal. Governor Cleveland has Nad many love af- fairs, but not so much as a bachelor of his weight, politically and sociiilly, would be ex- pected to have. His love affairs have all been of the platomic kind, and it is said by his friends that he has been Incapable of falling deeply enough in love to propose to any girl since he became a lawyer in 1859, When he was just able to support himself he pecaine enamored of | a pretty aud beautiful young woman, who was a relative of the late Judge Verplank. The girl was not disposed to look favorably on his suit. and this made him love her the more. She was quite a flirt, and delighted te tantalize him by permitting othe yung men to escort her home rom the old -street theater, which was ; then the only place of amusement of at ace count in the city. wealthy, a poor think: en After awhile she got to fondly "4 and itis said that they were | to be married, when she was taken ill | er and died. Cleveland did not recover from the shock for | several months, and, though he has a bachelor’s liking for pretty ladies, his friends say that he ill never marry. One lady became so Infatu- | ated with him ‘that she proposed to him. He rejected her advances, and it is said that she became crazy and is now confined in an asylum. Governor Cleveland has always been of a retiring disposition. and most of his time has been apent in his law library or in the company of bachelor friends. His most frequent places of resort were the City club andthe high-toned Buffalo club on Delaware avenue. There he was accustomed years ago to spend most ot his evenings playing cards and telling or listening to storlestold by a coterie composed of the late Hon. Hammon 8. Cutting, the late John Allen, vice-president of the Central and Hudson railroad, and other un- married gentlemen. A friend of the governor told a romantic story of how a lady living near Poughkeepsie engaged in correspondence with the governor since he was elected tmayor, and that a tender feeling had sprung up between them. They have met but four times, once when Cleveland was sheriff, a few years later at Saratoga, after Cleveland was elected mayor. and once since he has been governor. This triend said that it was quite likely that the lady would be married by Cleve- land if elected President, and that she would grace the White Houge parlors at his receptions. The lady ts described as being a charming bru- nette, about thirty-dve years old, with pleasing manners and considerable property. Inquiry among other friends verified the story, but no one would tell the lady's name or Just where she lived, except that it was in a small town near Poughkeepste. THE CELESTIAL BELLE, Points That Increase Her Beauty and Others That Detract. A Chinese belle isa curiosity to Chinamen, as to Christians. Even her own countrywomen look upon her with asmuch wonder as admi- | ration. One reason of this is her rarity. Belles \in China are rare birds of rare plumage. No | ordinary community can afford the luxury of | Possessing more than one or two such dazzling charmers. As speech with tho male sex is of course forbidden her, her features, eyes, cheeks and silent lips must all be eloquent. Her skin | must have great firmness of texture to endure | the continual coating of white paste and yer- million paint which the laws of her being enjoin. Her feet must not_execed three inches in length or one Inch in breadth. ‘The tinger | nails of her list three fingers must be as long as their fingers. These last two poluts are the especial glory of Chinese fashion. Her dally life does not differ much from that of Pepys. or of a lady’ of fashion in the d the younger Walpole. | ing anist fast she never rises before noon. Break- is served in her own room by her gervants. languld meal over, she begins the serious business of herlife. Hair by hair, supported by three or four hair dressers, she attacks the cled locks In whose adornment she finds | chief pride. Both anistress and maids por for three or tour hours, with snatches of (1, thoroughly exhausted by their task clock, sit down to their dinner. Each » has its separate method of dressing the hair, 18 in all, and the fashion of a womal hair betray T residence. The handsomest colffure 18 worn by the women of Khan Lu, that boasts the beautifal | cities of Soo Chow and Shanghai. Stranzely | enough, the belle is the only woman in China | who has a shadow of freedom. She ts allowed | to go to theaters, and even to pay visits, with | far less surveilance than her less favored sis- ters. There is something In the black patch | that she wears next her left temple, or by the | corner of her mouth, that checks any attempt |at impropriety. A belle, of course, never walks, and ly waddles, but is ‘almost always t sedan chair. She ts an adept in the language of the eyes, and through those silent windows can signal more persuasive arguments h her hundred tongues. 02 The Choice of Occupation. From “The Fruits of Manual Training,” by Prof. C. M. Woodward, in Popular Science Mouthly. Parents often complain to me that their sons who have been to school all their lives have no choice of occupation, or that they choose to be accountants or clerks, instead of manufacturers or mechanics. These complaints are invariably unreasonable; for how can one choose at all, or wisely, when he knows so little! I confidently believe that the development of the manual elements in school will prevent those serious errors in the choice of a vocation which too often wreck the fondest hopes. It is not assumed that every boy who enters a man- ual-training school 1s to be a mechanic; his training leaves him free. No pupils were ever more unprejudiced, better prepared to look be- low the surface, less the victims of a false gen- tility. Some find that they have no taste tor manual arts, and will turn into other paths— law, medicine or literature. Great facility in the acquisition and use of language Is often ac- companied by a luck of either mechanical inter- est or power. When such a bias ts discovered the lad should unquestionably be sent to his grammar and dictionary rather than to the lab- oratory or draughting-room. On the other hand, decided aptitude for handicraft is not un- frequently coupled with a strong aversion to and unfitness for abstract and theoretical Inves- tizations. There can be no doubt that, in such cases, more time should be spent in the shop, and less in the lecture and recitation room. Some who develop both natural skill and strong intellectual powers will push on through the polytechnic school into the professional life, as engineers and scientists. Others will find their greatest usefulness, as well as highest happi- ‘88, in some branch of mechanical work, into they will readily step when they lea All will gain fntellectually by their e: perience in contact with things. The grand re- suit will be an increasing interest In manufac- turing pursuits, more intelligent mechanics, more successful ‘manufacturers, better lawyers, more skillful physicians and more useful citi- zens, +e ‘Too Much Truth in This, Boys, From Sir Leppel Griffin's New Book. Nothing is more striking than the patience with which the tree American citizen bears the insolence of office, the rudeness of ticket-col- lectors, the unnecessary violence of the police andthe general contempt of every petty em- ploye of the government or ot private com pa- nies, who, one and all, seem to consider the public they serve as a beast of burden, to be beaten or driven at their pleasure. We are ac- customed to this oficial aggressiveness and petty Insolence in France or Italy, but it seems strangely out of place in an Anglo-Saxon repub- lic. For this temper is altogether foreign to the people. There is no more kindly and consider- ate person in the world than the unofficial Ametican. " Hospltable, generous and warm- hearted, he will take infinite trouble to essist a Suspicious of the morn- | bi THREE NOTABLE WOMEN. Christina Rosetta, Jean Ingelow and George Eliot. Olive Harper in San Francisco Chronicle. Among the many persons more or less famous that I have met are two who stand out in relief in my memory, and always will as everything that is true and noble and womanly and loye- able. The first is Christina Rosetta, whom IT had the good tortune to meet in London through the kindly offices of some pre-Raphael- ite friends, and never will I forget that saint- like face and those great prophetic eyes that seem to see sights fairer aad grander than are vouchsafed to human vision. She sat In a large armchair, her head thrown back on the rest, and her thin white hands idly along the arms of the chair, not 1az nor weakly, but just as If her body was of such small consequence that she had entirely forgotten it as her mind went out and off in its poetic flights. But ifher vody seemed inert her face was not. and'she had the look of the very embodiment of religious fervor and divine longing after things not of this world. As I said before she had a saintlike face, and, thouzh not really beautiful, her eyes and her expression gave her something more than beauty. The type ot face is rather Italian, thouzh not. particularly marked. Her hair is dark and thick and her complexion of a delicate brune. Her lips are sensitive and very sweet in expre: sion. She Is rather thin, though weil formed and graceful, but itis in her eyes that her great attraction centers. They are so large and dark, and when she speaks all her expression seems to be inthem. They seem to scintillate and the pupils dilate and contract in a marvel- lous way, 80 that whoever sees her Is fascinated by their strange, sweet beauty. Sometimes when pressed she will repeat some of her poetry, and she gives it a new meaning and musie. When I saw her the rage for esthetic costume was just beginning, and she was one of Its first exponents. I remember noting the exceeding of her appearance aga she sat there, in a lack velvet dress, made in a quaint, simple atyle, with no ornament except a carved ivory brooch, and no reliet except a full but soft ruffle of eld point lace at the neck and wrists. The sleeves were tight at the wrists, but puffed at the shoulders, and her rich, wavy hair was massed carelessly on the top of her head, with here and there a loose curl, Her manners were full of repose and calm, and, in short, she filled full my ideal of what she should be, as I had judged | from her works. The other whom F mentioned as also Rillng ell my preconceived ideas was Jean Ingelow. e same good friends obtained for me an introduc- tion to her, and while I felt a sincere and, I ma; almost say, awe-struck admiration for Christina Rosetta, I was seized with the warmest affection and sympathy for the author of the sweetest mother poems we have, and it will continue so long as I live. Who but she could look so quaintly sweet and overflowing with that bound- less love for children? And yet she never was married and never felt the loving embraces of her ownchildren. Perhape it is just the jonging for them that makes her write out of the full- ness of her heart. But. anyhow, the fact remains that there is none who has so under- stood the full and replete pleasures of mother- hood with all their blessing and pain as has she. And she is such a shy, quaint little woman, with a broad, frank forehead and such candid, big gray eyes full of affection and goodness, and with a face only beautiful when she smiles. Then it lights up with @ rare loveliness and attractiveness. In person she is not large, but is exquisitel; formed, with small hands and feet, and when 1 saw her she wore some kind of a gray dress with white linen collar and white cuffs. Neatness personified. Her movements are quick, and the turn of her head, and. in short, every movement is replete with activity and nervous strength. Her voice is just that rici contralto that one would hinagine belonged to her womanly na- | ture, and suchas always is so attractive to children, who, it goes without saying, idolize her. Isat and looked at the prim, trim little fiyure, with her brisk, merry manner. and could imagine her out on the hills with a troop of ba- and sinzing her own song of “Heigh, ho, sies and buttereups.” and my eyes filled as I thought of her lonely life. Yet I think shemust be content. At least, she fs cheerful. Anyhow she is not more desolate than the mothers who have had to— “ Bear and nurse and re: To love und then to k Two days after seeing Jean Ingelow I was invited by some other kind friends to go for a | short visit te the home of George Eliot, which ‘y t's Park, in ady lane, that I think is called John’s Wood. The house sat back quite a little dis- tance from the road, and was embowered in trees and shrubs. At that time she was not yet married to Mr. Lewes, and had not ed “ Daniel Deronda,” but was working at it. We were told in the ante-room that she was really exception was made in admitting us to her presence, but as we had come so far (I from San Francisco), she would make an effort to receive us. I never kuew who the gentieman was who told us all this, but I suppose it was | Mr. Lewes, as he partially answered the de- scription I had heard given of him. Finally we were taken through quite a long and very dark parlor and into a smaller room beyond, which has somewhat the character of a li- brary, and here in a large, low chair,.wrapped in an immense white shawl, sat the great writer. She was so enveloped that it was im- possible to judge what her figure or height was, but I fancy her rather under medium height and rather thin. At any rate her hands were thin and bony and her face was thin and long; and though it bore marks of intellect and purpose, It was decidedly a plain and unattractive face. Her manner too lacked warmth, or indeed any other apparentsentiment, though this may have been from illness. But somehow she gave me the impression of wishing to convey the idea that she was intellectually and spiritually too strong forher frail body, snd so was wearing her life away. She said that she never wrote more than 60 or at most 70 lines a day, and that when she had finished a book she became so exhausted bodily and mentally that she was always obliged to travel for a year, I think she sald, before she could recuperate. Her voice was clear and mu- sical, but cold and unsympathetic. She smiles seldom, but when she did I think she vastly im- proved In looks. Iwas glad to have seen her. She seemed pleased at my expressed admiration for “Romola,” which I like most ofall her books, and when we came away she invited us both to call on my return to London. I never saw her again. A Man of Appeals. From the Detroit Free Press. Soon after the train left Louisville Junction the conductor came to a passenger in our coach who had no ticket. He didn’t claim to have lost it, but leaned back, looked the official square in the eye and said: “Cm dead broke and have a hundred miles to 0.” = “You must pay or get off,” was the reply. “Oh, certainly. I know the rules ofthe road by heart. I now about to appeal to the gen- erosity of the in inthe next seat.” He appealed. He said he was an unfortunate man who had tailed to strike a job in Louisville and wanted to get back home to starve to death with his family. It was a vain appeal. The man said he was in the same box himeelf, but was going home to kill his family instead of waiting for hunger to do the job. ‘ome, you must pay,” said the conductor. “Oh, of course, but I willnow appeal to the passengers en masse.” He rose up and made a little speech full of pathos, misfortune, hunger. cold and several other unpleasant ' ingredients, but nobody seemed interested. “1 can't fool with you any longer,” remarked the conductor. “Till stop the train and off you 0. “Hold on just a minute. Tam now abont to wppeal to you personally.” Por five minutes he flung his soul into a grand effort to melt the conductor. He quoted the Bible, eulogized charity and appealed to humanity, but when he had fnished the con- ductor reached up for the cord and sald: “I must obey the rules or lose my place.” “Say, lemme Sppeal ‘once more.” “No—can't do it.” The train stopped and the man bowed good- stranger, and, if you ask him to direct you in the public street, will probably walk far out of his way to point out your destination. But poll- tics have so demoralized office that with its poerion his whole temper seems changed. ext to belng an official yourself there is hardly agreater misfortune than to have to conduct dealings with one. ———_-e.—______ Country Board, From the Texas Siftings. City Gent.—Can you tell me of any nice house round here where I can get board? Farmer.—Nice farm-house? City Gent.—Yes. Farmer.—Wal, I spose you want a nice, cheer- ful place, whar you can be accommodated with tolerable good-sized rooms? City Gent.—Just so. Farmer.—And whar they keep a kerridge? City Gent.—Exactly. Farmer.—And whar you kin get plenty of fresh eggs, and milk, and chickens, and vege- tables, and itch like? City’ Gent.—Precisely. ee whar they charge pretty mod- erate’ City Gent.—The very thing I want. Farmer.—Wal, there ar’nt no sitch place reound here. bye to everybody and got off. Nine miles up the road, where we stopped at a station, there ‘was arumpus utside about something and di- rectly the man of appeals was hauled out from under the last coach, where he had been ridis on the tracks. He was dirt and slush and mu from head to foot, and the conductor looked at him and said: “Now, you want to quit this business or I'll turn you over to the first constable! You look as ifa mule had dragged you twenty miles.” “Exactly, but I couldn't give it up without one more appeal.” The platforms were crowded and he flung down his hat and began his appeal. In three minutes the had thrown him about @12 in cash, and when the train moved on the conductor slipped him into the baggage-car as a deadhead. ——_—___+e-_____ One Time, Two Motions. She sat upon his lap— Happy chap! PI ‘hap And nd thelr: ‘Made it plain that they were ce % caine arap! quite indisposed that day, and that a notable | ODDITTIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY, ante y Caught by the From the New York Sun. Asa Sun reporter stepped up to the show window of astore in which photographs were for sale he noticed among the portraits of Blaine, Fanny Davenport, and other three photographs of a child’s face on one card. It was the pictorial representa- tion of the process of evolution of a smile into a j Peal of langhter. Even had it been withdut any speciai,meaning the photograph w have attracted attention; for the child's fa was lovely, and looking out as it did from among the many fanious men and women of the world, such childish innocence had a special charm. The first picture on the card was en- titled “Funny.” The face was lit up by a smile that almost verged upon a laugh. The next was called “Very Funny.” The smile had gone over into the laugh. ‘The third was the merriest imaginable, and under it) was printed Very, very Funny.” It really was very, very funny. It made you erful to look into such a met face. i not but think on a very happy The reporter entered the store and asked if there were any other photographs of that kind to be had. “Oh, yes,” said the dealer, “that ts the second of the series, and there have been two others since. Here they are. Its an English idea that’s taken wonderfully over here. They're fifty cents apiece, which is double the price we ask for imperial single photographs, but we sell Axreat many of them. Whoever designs them knows the popular taste.” He then showed the reporter one which was even funnier than the first. It also represented various degrees of the same emotion, viz., the evolution of the pout into the lusty screech. It was called “The Young Auctioneer,” and like the other picture, consisted of three photographs of the same child’s tace on one card. In the first, which was entitled “Going!” the lips were quivering and tears trembilng on the eyelids. In the second, also entitied “Going!” the tears were rolling down the cheeks, and the lips quiv- ering faster. In the next, “Gone!” the child was screaming so that you felt like calling to the nurse to bring some sugar water. “As the reporter laid it down the dealer said: “There 1s one for dog, especially pug, fanciers— ‘Three of a Kind’—three pugs graded in size, sitting contentedly beside one another. This here is the pictorial expression of a clever play upon words,” and he handed the reporter another entitled ‘Happy and Careless” and “Cappy and Hairless.” Over the first of the catch phrases was the bright, beaming face of a young girl. Over the second was the face of the eame person in old age—a cap drawn tightly over her bald and spectacles over her eyes. As the dealer ‘appily expressed it, she looked “like her own grandmother.” The other example of the Eng- lish series was the now famous picture of the Uttle boy and dog which a comic paper recently varied over the title of “Me and Jack.” cess of the English series had led to the begin- ning of an American series, and he showed two Is each with about fifty babies’ heads. They Were called, respectively, ‘‘Good Morning,” and “Good Night.” In the first the babies were all good-natured and cheerful looking,in the second they were in various stages of the howling ie. “I don’t suppose,” said the reporter, “that these are from life.” “No,” was the dealer's reply. “I understand that they are drawn in black and white by artists and then photographed from the picture.” a The dealer also told the reporter that the suc- | ——>— LADIES GOODS, oOUGLASS NINTH STREET. ST. 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The celebrated physician, Boerhaave, believed that no being breathing with lungs could live in an atmosphere having as high a temperature as that of the blood. Accarding§o this dictum, one ought to dieat a temperature of 100 deg., but Banks enjoyed good health on the Senegal when the thermometer rose In his cabin to above 120 deg. and 130 deg. Men live on the south- vest coasts ot Africa, and in other hot regions, reaches 140 deg. or 150 dc ing shafts und under divin’ in deep min- ‘bells are abie to support an atmospheric pressure of 30, are of 0: it: grammes as well as a pre: 000 kil- ogrammes on the highest mountains. Cassin ; thought that no animal could liye at a greater | height than 4,700 mete but | there are several inhabited p! | ly | or 1 | lace | still xreater height, as, for instanae, | the Himalayas.“ Aie cended Chim) to a height of nearly 6,000 | go; but this animal, too, loses his acute smell in ‘ongoand Syria, and the power of barking in Surinam and at great heights; and the finer breeds of dogs can not long endure the condi- tions of a height of more than 3,760 meters, or 12,500 feet, while there are towns in the Andes at as great a height as 13,500 or 14,000 feet. ee Why She Accepted a Reporter. From the Boston Globe, Two fashionably dressed ladies were sitting in front of thelr cottage at Mount.Desert one even- ing last week, talking over the late arrivals and laying their plans forthe summer cam- galgn. “How is this, Edith, I hear you have broken your engagement with young Coupons?” said the elder. “Yes, mother, I judge it best to tell you I have.” . “In favor of whom, pray? He 1s good for $10,000. a year now, and will come In fore large estate when his father dies. What young millionaire have you now centered your affec- tions upon?” “He is not_a millionaire at all, mother; I am engaged to Charley Pencil.” “Who ishe? How much is he worth?” “He is a reporter on the New York Constella- tion, and has just money enough to take him through a fortnight’s vacation.” “My child, why will you throw yourself away? You will reduce me to beggary.” “Wait, mother; please wait until I tell you. In the first place, he is acquainted with everybody, and then he gets free passes to all the shows and theaters; he attends all the big receptions and—" “Are you crazy, child? Thos come with money and position. “Hold on untill have told you. fle knows all about the latest scandals in high life—things the papers won't print, you know—and he told me some horrid scrapes the Banks got into when they were in Europe last summer, and said he had in his possession the secrets of all the big people in the country.” “Bring him to me at once. choice, Edith. before.” hings will all Tapprove of your Why did you not tell me of this A Sisterly Act, From the Phiadelphia Call. Mrs. Snags (horribly homely)—T allow I ain't much fur looks, and Jake says I'd take the prize in an ugly-mug show of five counties; but I don't care; I got a good husband, and my looks don’t worry me none. Mrs. Sniggs—Really, Mrs. Snaggs, you are ona oe ier fy Wh: Jf ecegme : yes! Is’ ¥ know some one hontelier, but, that won't okie meany. I’m mighty proud of my features, and why shouldn't I be, considerin’ what a salvation they were? es eS regard irs. Snaggs—Yes, salvation is a mighty good word. 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