Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1887, Page 3

AK: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER °17.- 1887—-TWELVE PAGES. CHRISTMAS FoR THE HOMELEss, How Santa Claus Brings Joy to the ITH OF THe LITTLE MOTHERLESS ONES Tx GooD SAINT—WHERE THEY COME FROM AND WERE THEY GO—WHAT THE SISTERS SAY ABOUT THEIR LITTLE CHARGES. je childrea in one household are ¢ forward to a3 A little army of and faith, they are praying every night for Sar as not toforcet them. It tsa pretty Duc family, many adout the same age, and they all Delleve in Santa Claus, They have better reason nibdren, for they will never discover loving hand of a mother that dis good things for Christmas. None of them will awake at an untimely hour in the night and discover in the dim light mother stealing lightly on tiptoes to the Little stockings banging from the mantel, with arms full of dolls, candies and nuts, tin horns, picture books, and horses that “wind up.” None will ever have the pleasant tllu- stom dispelled in this way, and come to have a deeper love and a greater pleasure in the real than iu the imagined Santa Claus, They have no mother. BELIEF IN SANTA CLAUS. Santa Clans ts less a fiction with them than with other children. They are, indeed, the children of that good saint, and if he forgets them they will have no Christmas They have come togetner ina miscellaneous fashion, tossed up by the band of fate and caught iu'the lap of mercy! None of them know their true names, and some of them have none. ‘Their history Is a mystery and will forever remain so. Noone knows aught of their antecedenis except the sisters at St. Ann's—for It Ss at St. Arn’s they are—and the sisters are in ig- norance as to some and won't tell what they know of any. Some have been brought there by one of Wefr parents and placed in the hands of the sisters, «Decause it was tho only safety and salvation for ‘them. Some have been brought in the arms of a Dig, awkward policeman, who has carried them With a tenderness that told of some at home in the Warm arms of their mother. Some have been found in baskets, like Moses, when the front door Was opened in’ the morning. Some have been picked out of the snow and frost like the little Snow Image, and they looked so cold and like the Snow that it'was not at all certata that they would hot meit away when brought Into the warin room with all the rest of the children. And some of them have been found on Christmas morning—If Lot ina manger, in some place as lowly, smiling face of the great world. And how they jogether thers, brothers and sisters all, cared for by their step-mother, Charity, They have a PECULIAR CLAIM ON CHRISTMAS, and they look forward to it with all the eagerness of other children, but their faith tn Santa Claus 1s not usually as well rewarded. It is strange that ‘As Christ Him-self bas And know that “ God” means“ all are dwelling near.. Jove makes life worth liv =” in | find this bean - teous guest, For lo! the i dream, --+ Who dream. 3. You need notseck earth o - ver, To pa ‘8 - gain. Pd_s tobe 22 + +. eas = dream, on-ly sin who dream. gain, In love Christ lives a - gain. (G3 k SS ra ore king-ly Lov -er, Lives in each liv - ing People of means, who thtnk so mich of thelr own f tle ones at Christmas times, seidom think of these. Santa Claus nds It hard scraping to get enough cake and candy and toys together for thetr Carisunas tree, On Christmas day they have a Christmas tree, and they give a little kindergarten 4 for such of the public as visit them. All Christmas week visitors will be permitted to see the babies and thelr Christnas tree, ‘One of the sisters at_St. AND'S told a Sran re- porter who called there yesterday that for the past five years they have bad at the institution on an average of 125 infants each year. The number od up off the street, she sald, appeared not to Ee SSiarge as formeriy.” They are fecetved there when they area day or perhaps but a few hours Ovi, and cared for wnth they are big enough to goto THE ORPHAN ASYLUM. But just at present the asylum 1s soover-crowded that some who have reached the age of six or seven are still at St. Ann's Some are baby boys and some are baby girls, There are generally about as many Of one as of the other. When they leave there the boys go to themseives to one asy- lum and the girls to another. Sometimes visitors see little babies they take a fancy to and adopt them, The Sisters permit that when they are assured of the character of the people who are Willing to make the ion. Some have had ¥ery good homes bestowed upon them in this way and have grown up not to know their want of parents and mystery of birth. The Sisters never teil auything about tnem. When they come to s Ann’s they are all ioites of humanity and are ali qual No one can find out which have parents aud which were picked up off the street. None eau have pride or prejudice of birth. ‘THE OTHER HOME. At the “Washington Hospital for Foundlings” there are twenty-four babies, as plump and rosy as any babies in town, and with voices as strong, whether for prattle or cry. It fs called a “hospital,” Dut it 18 not, and never Was intended to be one. it isa home without a sick baby init. Here 1s a no- Uce to Santa Claus: Nocandy! ‘The mother of the home won't allow it. The oldest child ts but four years, and there 1s Cnly one other approaching her im age. ‘The youngestis three Weeks old. ‘The rest are at the Various stages of babyhood between thew ages, Dut nearer the latter. So, Santa Claus, no candy!’ They won't have a Christinas tree. The oldest will have doits and, perhaps, fruit, ‘These children want to find a practical Santa Claus, who has Dlankets and flannel and all those that are necessary to the comfort of babies whe are too young for more comsmon Christnas trinkets, They wound Uke to fd e good, Christmas saint with a stock of erihs on Bx F are a jocof ittie babies. ‘This fs te only 7 OM PROTESTANT INSTITUTE of the sort in Washington. It was founded inthe Hirst place upon a bequest of valuable lots of ground by Joshus Petree, whodied in 1869. Money Was got together in one Way and another to erect the butiding, an the institution was opened last January. The building isa very fine one. It 1s located on the east side of 15th street, between R and $ streets. The institution has for its incor porators a large number of the leading business men of Washington and most inent ladies. Dz. Sowers Is the president of the board of direc- tors ‘The oldest child in the institution was a little more than thie years old When she entered, Dut she got in the very first one, before the Limit of three years Was fixed asthe Oldest they could eater. One little baby was born in the morning and was brought there in the afternoon. WISTORY RECORDED. ‘The history of each, as far as can be got, 1s |" made a matter of record, so that it may be of ser- vice to them, perhaps, at some time, Cases have been Known where these records have been the means of establishing Che claims of foundiings to considerable sums of money. That's why the records are kept. A Stax found the matron at the “nospitai” the other evening, and Ded long talk with ber about tne babies.” “They are the sweetest, best, and prettiest lot of babies you ever saw,” ‘she Bald, With a sort of wotheriy pride in her “We feed them on cows ‘aud cor milk, and some milk- food preparations, and they thrive wonderfully. ‘They are as hearty, healthy, and happy as you please. I do wish you could see them.” It was after dark, so, of course, they could not ve dis- ‘orbed, but the matron continued in their praise. “Tass, You see, will be their home unt they are EIGETERN YRARS OLD. You see ittsa home; few families keep their children under the house-tree longer than that, As they get alder we shall require more accommo- dations; we shall have to erect other buildings. ‘They will up as our children, except where they are adopted Of course, we Sdopt some out when we know tbey will get good We Have put three or four into “excellent, homes, ‘There are lots of things they want Santa Claus to remember them with, but I won't let my children et sick On candy,” sie said asshe bid the reporter sn gaa RAR ies A True Pirate Story. WHY REVEL 18 FICTITIOUS ADVENTURES WITH TRUE TALNS LIKE THIS AT HAND. ‘From the Paiatha (Fla) News. B. Oliveros, father of the efficent county clerk, tselguty<ight years oid, and 1s as vigorous as are most men at fifty. His mind is equally well pre- served and he delights totellof the rough ex- perience of his life im the long, long ago. Mr. Ottveros is a fluent talker, and the reporter could never tire of listening to his vivid descriptions of the ups and downs of hts boyhood days, in the year Tl Me. Oliveros Was a satlor be tween thts port snd Cuba. On one of his outward trips during that year bis vessel Was captured | the Barbaretta, crew of ‘the pier 2 Stbjected to the most cruei treatment at the hands of the pirates, ‘The object of the pirates was of Cuarse, plunder, and tuey demanded wold, which they Knew must te aboard our hero's slip, but the crew were obstinate, and refused to divuise the hiding place of the coveted treasure. The rates for some reason did not put young Oliveros iu irons with bis companions, but it seems that | oi Dilfer sing all kinds of threats and abuse to ex. from the captain the whereavouts of the pre- metal, and having failed, hey tareatened to whole crew and Were getting ready to put n young Oliveros ig such aB act, when he Was struck on od and felled to the deck. tes concluded to make one more search id, and Wille they engaged in the search ained comsclousness ahd went to where the money Was, and bad just reached the deck when ne freebooters returning from an- other portion of the ship. Jeaving Our here to the about dev sth land, Alter being toastd upon the for two entire Gays. almost they ceeded in reaching St. Aurustine, Phose. of readers Who feat In cheap yertodicals accounts ‘the daring deeds of murder and plunder lugn seas es can hardly realize have living Fight here in our inidst a maf, aud Rearty, WhO has bad the misfortune 00 into the hands cf ganuiue pirates, but such 18 1, and every WOM Of the above Shing in our ety Seay, and thot aa vic g in our efty , and oinSrom, é BEE sBsEF2E —————r9_ ‘The majority of people are most generous when ‘they hawe nothiag to give. — Whiehait Times Daly’ Theater is showing “The Raltroad Love. gers change cats arty Fata wr Ovlouns Picsgene, nen ee ies IN A BOB-TAIL CAR, Chatter Casually Overheard by a Louis= ville Courier-Journal Reporte: [Enter Morton and Quimby, who, finding all the Seats occupted, suspend themselves by straps.) Morton—Looks as though we'd have to stand. Quimby—Yes, usual thing. Amy (to her friend, Madge)—Wonder why people ‘will get on a car when it 13 full! Madge—Don’t know, Iam sure. Now look there; four more people. Driver (poking his head in the door, and fring his voice into the car}—Move up there, please; there's plenty of room. Morton (inspired with a brilliant idea)—Yes, lots of room. There's always room for one more. [Drivers rings his bell violentiy, and two belated ‘ickels find their way to the fare-vox.} Quimby (as he passes one of the nickels)—I sup Pose we get a percentage for acting as conductor? Morton—Ot course. You're entitied to one-third, Amy—Gractous, if we are not off the track? Morton(with another brilliant idea)—Thought it had whey =e amend imby—Move up; here's another passenger. Morton—welt, there's always room. En ees you say that again I'll assassinate ou. Amy (looking out of window)—There’s that odious Mrs. Bondclipper to get on. Madge—Our hostess of last night? Amy—Yes, she bored us effectually with her in- Vitation to tea, Which we just had to accept on ac- count of business reasons, as papa says, and now we are to have another initietion of her company. (Car stops and Mrs. Bondelipper enters. Gentle- jaan arises and gives her a seat, which she accepts ‘Without noticing the donor.) |” a a irs. Bondclipper—W hy, és ti you, Miss Cas and Miss Snediger, tor Zam so glad to see you Amy—Quite well, thank you. ‘Madge—Very weil; and your Mrs. Bondelipper—Can?t complain, thank you! ‘MY! isn’t the car crowded? Amy—Jammed. M: -We were just talking about the very en- Joyable time we at your house last night. Mra Bondclipper—T'm se glad you enjoyed it Everything was iu such good MIS. Bondclipper—O, it was almost improm| one might say. Hi any preparation, But to come and see me quite in- leaves the city. When do you Teturn to Broadoaks, my dear? ‘Madge—Thursday. Mra Bondcllpper”Then you and Miss Cash must come and spend a whole with me before (Car stops to take on three girls Girl—What a crowd! ‘Other Two—It isn't as crowded as it usually is at jorton thinks he anew to There's always room for one more. = settle you when we get out. rs. Bondelipper (resuming interrupted conver- sation)—You will, won't you, girls? ‘Amy—{Who has been looking out of the qilere’ our corner. [itings the bell, and car Madge—ra lke to, above all things, but I'm reaily afraid I have booked myself for every hour Of my stay. ‘Amy—Good.bye, Mrs. Bondelipper. Mrs. Bondclipper—Good-bye, dear. ©, there’s one thing I wanted to mention. [Driver looks im- Datiently, and asks wether they are going to get =) Mrs, Bondclipper—How ‘impudent some people bend Now, I have forgotten what I wanted to ask (0% rovokli aiiver ‘(rhipping up bis horses) —Can’t stay here Amy—Why, he's taking us past our corner. Ring the bell, somebody, pee. [Seven men pull the bell-rope with almost force enough to break it.) ‘Mrs. Bondclipper—Such impertinence! (As car docs not stop, the seven mea pull again.) "geven Men Fort jen—] iy-two, miss, Mrs. Bondcli ‘—Yes, indeed; ‘company will SRP Nee is as ais ut with very § snort farewells} jorton—' Iness, they are gone. ‘Quimby—Well, we get out here, too. ‘The Germs of Cousumption., From the London standard. ‘Dr. Brown-Sequard, who has been preaching ‘that Dad ventilation of sleeping rooms and poor apd monotonous fod are the great Uses yt treated of that disease £ tune Saree ing of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, taking many of his examples from England. Wherever ion is dense, and rooms ill-aired Or overcrowded, consumption vals. Dr. Bailey Spe that in Millbank 100 deaths, 45 from thes there fvere, out of According to the illustrious French doctor, @ room in which a consumptive person sleeps is reek- ing with contagious germs, if the air he exhales But how get rid of tt in tll-bullt is not carried off. houses, or very cold weather, when it Is as danger- us Co Open Windows as to keep them shut? To meet this difficulty Dr. Brow ard showed the Academy an apparitus of his inven. tion. A reversed tunnel, the shape of lam} shade, 1s placed at the end of a tube, so arral in its curves and angles that when’ it 1s placed a bed the reversed Tunnel will be above the sleeper, and draw up the air he breathes The other end runs into the chimney of the room. If there ts none tt 1s taken througn a headag = atus to am air hole. ‘The heat is great enough to burn the disease germs, eee many went to New York, where houses exclusively tn thueh grape Jule, bu he artiilat st He Saw Heading om the Meon. From the Chicago News HAZING AND ITS REMEDY, ‘The Evil, Being Traditional and Deep Seated, Requires Heroic Treatment, From the Forum for December. ‘The evil is deep-seated and has its tap-root in the past, It is traditional, The older colleges, if they are blessed, are also cursed with traditions. And college traditions are easily born and aie hard. ‘These disorderly tendencies are not only inherited from the past in this country, but from ‘the mother country also. ‘The extent of thelr sur- vival there may be seen in the hazings, Nghtngs, and midnight maraudings with which “Tom Brown at Rugby” Is overweighed. They have survived, with additions, in American colleges, Members of advanced classes promptly instruct the younger classes what is always done, and what, therefore, they are bound to do. ‘The newer men aspire to be “smart” as thelr predecessors, and so they must have hazing, rushes, “bloody Monday,” freshman beer, reciprocal horhings, siall maralidings and Whai-not. ‘The effect of these foolfsh traditions at one particular staxe of the college course, in the sudden but transtent transformation of a consider- able number of well-miuded and well-inannered young men, ts something as unfalling as 11s sur- prising and otherwise itnaccountable. In other communities It is the acknowled; rule that the whole population is banded together to detect and punish Wrongdoing. “In college com- munities the case ts reversed; the combination 15 To prevent detection. Ivis seldom te case that one student will give Information concerning an- other that might lead even to his reformation, And when it becomes apparently a question of penalty, not only wi'l young men of no principle disregard the truth, but men of bigh principle wilt erally leave colle sooner than ald in re-tity- ing the wrong. In one Case, Where It became alike necessary for the safety of father and son that the father should know of the notorious habits of in- toxieation into which the son nad fallen, ne went away convinced of gross injustice done by the faculty to the young man, because he was in- formed by Classmates that the statements were untrue. ‘It should be sald. however, that one of these classmates, after graduation, had the man- ‘hood to come to a college officer and say, “I ited to ‘Mr. —.” Tn another instance, a case of assault upon a professor's house, a whole class, including, with one exception, ail its best men, were induce to agree beforehand that they would not answer any question a3 to thelr own whereabouts ata given time—though many of them were autetly scudying in thelr rooms—lest the circle of inquiry should thus be narrowed toward the offenders, and they submitted to suspension rather than an- ‘Swer the question. Illustrated facts of this kind might be accumulated to any extent. But itis not necessary, Every coliege man can bear Wwit- ness to the general state of the case. ‘After young men have been fully and fairly warned that they will be held amenable tothe law Of the land, the application of the law is not to be Withholden. ‘This remedy has sometimes been ap- piled with excellent effect. In one case the vietiin ‘waited till tormentors disclosed themselves and Drought them before a magistrate. One of them proved tobe the son of the chief justice of the ‘State, and the settlement was easy’ and lasting. In another college two young men, under arrest for gross violence, fled and never put in an appear- auce again. : Ina third institution cértain college rioters, sons of wealthy parents, lay in the lock-up While their class was graduating. ‘These are hard rem- edies, to ‘the last degree undesirable, Dut the abuses are still more undesirable, and if all other educational influences prove ineffectual, then the law must be the educator. ‘The application of the Temedy in a few instances would render further application unnecessir} os Shiny Shirts, CAN THR BOSOMS OF OUR SOCIETY MEN BE THUS AGITATED, From the Chicago Tribune. ‘Quaker city dudes are in a great state of mind. ‘Their chests are agitated bya grave and mo- mentous question. Thisisit: Shall the bosom of ‘their fuil-dress shirts be shiay or dead white? For years the beaux of Philadelphia—and there have been many of them, of whom the late “Count” ‘White was but ope handsome example—have worn their linen lustreless or as brillant as polished marble, just as individual taste might suggest. But, presto! of a sudden the matter has risen vo ‘almost the dignity of an article of faith, and since there ts so much dispute fashion will presently be turning its eyes, of rather its ears, to some soctal high priest for @ definition. Fashion 1s already divided into “shiners” and “anti-shiners,” with yw conservatives Or peace-at-any-price ‘who are amlably disposed to let every one ao as he with his bosoms $0 long as they are not oo ” ” the wotben have begome interested, and Tunciteons and afternoon teas ring with the question: “What sort of shirt does your husband wear?” Ata school fo young women, following ‘the exainple sci oung women, foi exam) in another case of the old’“rival" queens” of delphia fashion, undertook to one the “shiny” the other the “dead white” bosomed male hosts, Philosophy, naturally e1 has been evolved oy the yard out of the dispute,” To the el of the “dead whites” that shiny bosoms are vul- gar, the “shinies” answer that dead white 1s only Anglomania, Tne shiny bosom 13 ond ali things an American “institu. ily, ,porhaps, the United foritto Jobo Chinaman. The ish, say the “shinies,” ‘never having learned the secret of 30 ing the starch that a good iron Would make @ shirt bosom shine like a head- ta aa fo ae ———+oo-_—____— A mistake of the week was the ote ‘Malp-street It was two by the dull ‘sige up— THE ERA OF SLANG. Expressions Which Send the Creeps Up ‘From the Philadelphia Call, The era of slang 1s upon us @ith a breadth that 4s almost appalling. Not only the slang that might be defined as the burlesque or colloquial form ot @xpression, the language of low humor, or the Jar- gon'ot thieves and vagrante, but a species that 18 almost as reprehensible, It will not do to apolo- ize for tt by saying that “slang is probably a8 old ‘as human speech,” and that the early writers in~ uiged in tt, especially the Greek and Roman dram- atists; and while we may speak and write against the pernicious habit, we suspect that we shall not grow disgusted enough with it to thoroughly up- Toot It until 1t has reached its climax. The worst tact about it 1s that {t 1s not confined to the low and the filiterate, but has invaded the public schools, cultured society, and the Iiterature of our books, 1 admit that, some of the slang expres. Which T might name “tired outy* Seoloseal ‘cheek? &c, Still, even they ought to be tabooed.. But what excuse can possibly be offered for such Words as “galloot,” “sardine,” “chump,” “Kicker,” “kid,” &0.7 oF such ex; a8 “Let, her 0, Gallagher,” “Wailtzed off on his ear,” “I snicker,” “Now you're shoutin’,” &.? They are ‘scarcely emphatic, and certainly not polite. Even the fair sex have caught the infection, and speak about bis “royal nibs” or the “howling sweil.” The girl of to-day is ready to “Det _her bottom dollar,” wants tw know “what u're Glrin hen, ets you know that you. are Soff your ” and insists that you shall “come off,’ ose,” “skedaadle,” “absquatulate, You do her a slight favor and she exclaims: “0, thanks, awfully!” Why she should thank you witht “reverend fear” ts beyond your com jon. eee wi say: ir —, Itis utterly too-tool” Wi playing lawn-tennis with her she sud- denly cries out, “On, you've given mesuch a twist.” You feel exceedingiy alarmed; you are afraid her collar-bone is broken, or that at_ ber wrist bas [er dislocated, aoneene r, however, — itis ut tennis Siang, ‘your sympathy has been wasted. She confidently tells you that vennie Somebody 1s “no good,” and had the “cheek” to to “scratch” ber at the meeting of the club because she hadn’t “forked over” the “spon- doolicks” for the last quarter. All that is to be deprecated; but the heaven bless eae 80 pretty, and use the terms so artlessly, that I haven't the heart to be severe in my reprodt, It tsn’t pleasant to be accosted by offe’s five-year- old hopeful as “an old snoozer,” or to know that he Is lying in wait to “knock the stun’ out of a neighbor's boy, or to “wipe up the floor” with him. Or to hear our short- ewes but high-spirited daughter tell the aforesaid brother that she wishes the otner boy would “paste him on the snoot,” or “knock him clean out of the box,” or “intothe mid- dle of next week.” I don’t know that I am es- pecially sensitive, and yet I must say that such expressions sends the creeps up my back. ‘The ediuor “swings a nasty dull” the hired girt 1s a “pot wrestler;” When a thing sults us it’s “just the cheese; when too noisy we are told to “ary up” or to “suspend;” when cunningly on the alert we say “not if the court knows itseif;” if one day ts not available “s'mother ono” is; when we die we “pags In our checks,” are “put away on ice,” aud are finally “planted.” So I might go on ‘ad inglini- tum, You can think, I am sure, of at least a hun- dred words and phrases to which I have made no reference. For inventing cute words and pirases our country leads the procession, They are clever and appropriate, get into tue topical song, the pub- lic “catch on,” aud they live and thrive, und in many instances the dictionary finally legitim.zes them, ‘Slang, I insist, is the fungus on the stem. Itis ‘not the gratted fruit; it Is the scum of language. It often belitties; it never beautifies If we ail spoke and wrote in a less exagerated manner we would be less exagerated in our Ways of life and thought. Life, as well as speech, would perhaps grow more simple, =e more worth living. Concerning Buttons, CHANGES WROUGHT BY PASRION IN THRSE ADJUNCTS OF DRESS. From the London Housewife, ‘The manufacture of buttons seems to have made great progress during the reigus that fol- lowed that of William II, for buttons came to be used to an extravagant extent. It was the fashion for gentlemen at the end of the last century to wear exceedingly lopg-tall coats having very large buttons, ight buckskin breeches, buttoned at the knee and ued with ‘Duncnes of ribbons, and when gulters were wora tuey buttoned all’ the way down. This fashtoa, occasionally modified, continued until about urty years ago, and may be cailed tie golden age of button-inaking. All duties on buttons were done away with by Sir Robert Peel. ‘A cucious button Was made about a century ago and worn by the English dandies of the It consisted of polished brass, and Was ruled with Ines so fine as Lo be almost micro- scople, ‘The roughness of the surface thus ob- tained broke the reflection of the light falling on it and gave It prisiaatic colors. ‘The beauty of mother of pearl and its iridescent brilliancy’ are Delleved to be produced by three plates over-lap- ping each other unevenly, and thus they disperse Une light as they reflect {t, ‘Tae brass buttons ap- peared iridescent from the Same canse, and 29 Uney cost. a guinea each, they were higiily fash- jonable at the time. It might be interesting to trace the gradual change from the long blue or snuff-browa coat with gilt buttons and breeches buttoned at the pockets and knees, with leggings buttoned ail down, tothe present aimost butconless siyle of garments. Covered buttons were Introduced by M. Sander. He lost hts fortune in Denmark when Lord Nelson ‘bombarded Copenhagen, and came over to Eng- land w try and earn a ittle money, nt dreamtug that he Would more than recoup himself for what he had lost. He introduced first. a covered button consisting of cloth or lasting, with an ffon shank, His son finproved this into’ what 1s called the flexible shank button, which, When made of silk, however, soon wore Out. ‘Another advance was the corded-edge button. Next it became the fashion to have Buttons to match the colors of the clothes. Ivory was too expensive and difticult todye, Recourse was had to the corozo nut, which is soft, easily cut, and takes any hue required. ‘The changes and caprices of fortune, which at one time covers our clothes with buttons very lange and at another time extremely small, affect, of course, the button trade and the ‘en- gaged therein. It seems preposterous that the well-being or mis-ty of a large portion of our laborious population, should depend upon appa- Fently 0 trivial a matter, yet 1t 1s so. Old Times in Tilinots, A STORY OF GOV. BIBB AND T. A. CORWIN. From the Chicago Mail. Many years ago Ohio had a governor ot the name of Bibb. At the expiration of his term he concluded to leave the State. He bought a farm in Winnebago County, IIL, and not many miles from Rockford. One ot his family was a daughter, and a young man and’ married her, ‘The "people where the wedding occurred believed in extendii their congratulations in thelr own way, this was the charivart party. Gov. Bibb and his wife objected to the Illinois charivarl. He seat a m to the leaders that they must desist, and if they attempted to carry out their plan some- body would get hurt. In the midst of what the Winnebago trite considered fun, the old man Wao had had todeal with an Ohio ‘legislature got his gun, He took it trom its place over the doorway, walked Out in the darkness, and fired. Two the men in the party—estimable citizens who liked a bit of fun—fell wounded, and Gov. Bibb was ar- Tested and taken vo jail. Before the meeting of the grand jury which in- dicted the ex-goveruor of Onlo a ‘man rode into Rockford one evening and tied his horsa He walked over to the tavern, talked to lord a few minutes, Went to His room ‘The landlord Walked out and put the inthe stable. The next morning for his horse, ws gone all night. ‘The appearance of a like Rockford at that time was (ie as ‘thisone rode out every day and came for nearly two weeks people plied the questions, but he Knew nothing—not ’s name, The came for the trial of for murder. The character of wae Ninth mga ities and the court house was People freseat.” He was'ailent and had peo Was silen iness Of ap Indian brave. “phere was another man In the audience who quickly attention. He was, like them, a THe i a3 He ge SERE ¢ i i Ei é i i AH na A E aie in i fed vt i ita H 144 : ia i He ih r\e z 5 i HH il i 28 ‘comes from the hand of oné who 1s bound by the closest ties and associations to have acted aiffer- ently. It 18 probably because people in the famil- Jarity and intimacy of home life do know so much about each other that family quarrels are slowest to heal of any. Words are flung im a moment of anger that, for the fact of thelr very truth, leave scar that will never wear quite away. It because the person who ay such words knows exactly where the weapon Will best strike home— the vulnerable spot in the armor where the aim Will best take effect—that wounds of this sort are $0. hard to forgive, and, alast 90 very hard to ‘One of the most fruitful sources of family quar- reisis the hab.t of repeatti round. A telisB something that C had sald or done. B, on his part, telis somebody else, with a little embellishment from his own somewhat lively imagination. This is well talked over and discussed In private by ail Ubree, till at last poor C himself would quite fail to nize his own thoughtless speech or action in the highly colored picture of his misdemeanor that Is going the round of the family. 1t is well for him if he ‘no further, and distant reiatives do not catch the echo and add their voice to the ‘sibilant censure that runs like a deadly under-cur- Tent, marring C’s life and happiness. It is the old story. Just the love of saying something about somebody—human subjects being naturally the most interesting to dissect—just tne morbid pleasure of ' pulling characters to pleces, of “talking over” and criticising and med- dling With other men’s matters, Probably tne originators of the 3 would be shocked to realize all the harm thelr idle, ill-considered con- duct has caused. “They surely had a right to say So and so about their own sister, pareut, child,” a8 the case may be, as if the fact of the victim's rela- Uonship gave them undisputed power to tamper with his or her happiness, peace, or fair fame. “It Was ouly in the fauily; nobody else had been told, and it really could not 3 get to C if such a lever Was written, or if A and B had such aa opinion of him.” Does it not? C would tli a different tale, if he were asked, of the misery of a tmisunder- stood, the hopéle-sness of ever getting Limself righted, and all the more so for {ts being some- thing 80 utterly Intangible that an outsider would staile to think of a quarrel bezinniug on so slight @ foundation. ‘To an outsider, indeed, family jars are for the greater part totally inexplicable. To be present at a “scene” whereof the cause and effect seem to the uninitiated spectator as disproportioned as ridiculous has been the fate of most of us at some Ume or another. An apparenuy tnocent remark is made, say at table, with no more obviously malicious Intent than Would be a request to pass tue salt, and tm. mediately there 1s a look or response from the un- fortunate Whose head the cap was designated to Mt that reveais the fact of some hidden interpreta- Uon, som? poisoved innuendo, known only Lo the mystic cire.e, utterly bewildering to the astonished witness, He Is even happy if he does not himself at some Unexpected moment stumble unluckily upon the sore point, and perceive, much to bts dismay, by the dead stleuce or hasty diversion of the sub- Ject that follows ints observation, that he has un- Wittingly fallen upon the wrong tack. A Marriage in tie family will Often serve to set an entire nousehold by the ears. The young peo- Ble vecome acquainted, a few chance meetings & game or so at lawn tennis, a few walks, rides, &., under the noses of their benign and unsuspecting: elders, and one of those mushroom attachinens ‘Spring up Which, like the mushroom, are often the product of very sualiow soil. They know positively, hotiing ofeach other; their respective fuutiles know sullless. Everything ts left vo be found out by-and-by, ‘They marry in haste, and presen’ ina on one side make a discovery us * connections or antec=dents on tie omer, or Perhaps there tx a Jealousy between the motuers-n-law, or money imatters have not been satisfactorily Settled after all, or the hopertth son-In-iaw Inay turn oUt to be a” detrimental in Spite of his fine talk, and show a wonderful aptl- tude for proving the clatins of relationship bs con- stant and irritating appeals to the parental purse, War breiks out, and heigh presto! The face of everything is chinged. Parties are formed, bet- ter Words are spoken, resentment bolls over, ‘cold- hess and estraugement follow, and the marriage Delis that rang So iithely but a little while ago are ail “Jangied and out of tune.” Where such discord Is in the alr, tt will be for- tunate if tue whole fabric of domestic union does hot come Cumbitug to the ground, burying and obliterating tn its fall every trace of the once sa- ered inper sanctuary calied home. Waen all are pulling different ways the very closeness of the Dond that unites them becomes only the more galling and unendurable, and should the strain prove too great and the links give way at last, the Impetus Laat sends each one Hlying on @ veparate path will drive them farther and far ther apart, while ume, Instead of reuniting, will but Mx a wider gulf—a greater distance as years go on, “Tneze’s no place like home” Tings strangely 1n the ears sometimes with a cynic. ally laverted meaning, and sighs are hidden away under a suulling exterior, while the heart echoes tne costermonger’s outspoken comment, “and & precious good’ thing there aln’t.” Suci things need not be, of course. Perhaps for our- selves It 1s Just as well even to the existence Of such things. Where a possibiilty becomes fv0d for thought—much less conversation—it ts more tuan half way toward being accomplished, If rents would bring up their children to look upon family quarrels as equally lpossible as disgrace- ful; if tale-bearing were promptly discouraged by cold inattention and contempt, and a higher sense of generosity and fair play Inculcated, even tn the hursery, 1t Would do much to soft-n and ward off {he may Uttle rubs that are sure to come in later fe. ‘Skeletons there must and will be in every cup- board, but the most hideous specimenof its kind 1g thigof family tll-will, No country can prosper with civil War gnawing’ at its heart, and a house ‘will go far tow: the vention of family jars; Dat inditness mutual Zorbearanoe and self-control go still farther, = oe ne SEE Forgot that he Was Marrica. ‘From the Chicago Tribune. A paragraph has been going the rounds of the Press of late purporting to be a truthful account of a remarkable case of absent-mindedness which made a young man forget his wedding-day. A ‘“[ know of a much more remarkable case. It ‘was not abgent-mindedness, howewr, Dut an tilus- whlch te possible ta great eu gone: wi 4 TG eage' 4 ee i : A b sP ; iE! A ee : | i li ! ij IE ie i z 5 Ei i i : Hf | i H ! if fi it ye jt gH ready to, i smoke only before they write, or after they have ‘Mnished. Such aoneis Mr, Andrew Lang, who 1s such a busy man nowadays that he would prob- ably grudge the time spent in lighting his pipe i 5 - H MH d A ie fi i i 3 i i & i & i i re a ig 2 i at E 5 HH 4) : ‘Stevenson cannot always help him- ‘According to an American reporter who recently interviewed him and found him on his couch smoking a cigarette, this writer's “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde” was dreamt before it was written. If 80, Mr. Stevenson dreams to somne purpose. As @ matter of fact he only dreamt the continuation ofa story that had haunted bis waking hours. He ts an author who writes best with quiet sur- Toundings, and his house at Bournemouth, within high wails, 1s in curious contrast to the ‘ife and incident of his romances, Mr. George Meredith writes his wonderful comedies in three volumes in an arbor. It consists of two or three rooms erected in te garden of his house near Dorking where Keats wrote “Endymion”). Here Mr, jeredivu does most of his writing, and his friends know that it ts one thing to be ‘asked into his house and another (and a rarer) to be taken {a the arbor, AS can be gathered from, his novels, Mr, Meredith is of opinion that smoking is an assistance in thinking outa story. Mention mist also be made of the historian—whose name it would probably be unfveling to mentlon—who, while he writes, smokes not only one cigar, but several. To manage this he had to invent a'new Cigar holder, “Tuts bas the ordinary mouth pl Dut branches off, so to speak, at right angles ai the otherend. There are hole3 in these branches into which the cigars are placed, as many as four aU a time being a possibility. ‘Though Carlyle Was great smoker he flung himself too completely into Lis work to be able to keep his pipe in while he wrote. Had he contrived to do so sowe of bis writing might have been less bitter, for a pipe 18 sald to ceck frritabllity. A good story of Carlyle 1 this connection is not generally known. | When he Was stil! ayoung man he walked trom Eccietec. hen to Edinburgh—a distauce of more than 80 miles—to consult a doctor about his health, ‘The doctor asked if he smoked, and hearing Uhat he did, Said that Was what Was Wrong WIL him, Carlyle gave up smoking, and sometime afterward he went for a Walk in a Wood. Here beneath atree saw lying a pipe With tobacco and matcues. He al once remembered Unat the medical prescription had done Lin no gvod, and c.mue to the concluston, that the wuovle alfuir'was providential So ue lit the, pipe aad | uever again gave up suoklng. Carlyle's Waik In to wood reminds one that Was Trollope favorite preseripuon for pluutnx & fresi novel, He held that once you were inside a wood of which you could not see the limits a quiet ness.c..me to you that Was adintrable for taventing. ‘AS Le uiWays tied a wood himself when he could it, there 13 doubtless something in this Fronopes way of working, however, Was So rovthotli¢al Uagt he couid plan a story Or write It anywhere, Overs beside he have found 1t possi bie lo begulle the voyage between Engiand and America by weitiug, pane ne goly ausnee wns isknown to have tri o of writing tn a rallWay-tratn, ‘Troi ope always felt uncomfortable at Wwe thought that & long Fall way Journey meant the los of great part of a day, and t preyed on bis mind ull he gota writ. ing-tabte specially constructed for the train, ‘This wasacomplete success There might be other Persons in the compartment, but as soon as the hovelist got in he set up his table, got out his writing materials, and worked as uncoucernedly as if he were at home. As Trollope held that serial stories for magazines were spoil. if writen trom month to month, ahd always except in one case, finished hts own’before its publication began, 10 13, notable that the exception, Wich appeared 1h the opening numbers of CoraAdi, 18 generally acknow!- to be its best novel. In “First Person Singular” one of Mr. Christie Murras’s stories, there Is a novelist, whose man- ner of Working 13 doubUess to some extent auto- biographical. Sotetimes this n velist 1s longer worrying over a sentence than writing the rest_of the chapter, In anoiler of lls uoks “Mr. Murray Wes a CUrLOUS glimpse Into Lhe manner of Write pursued by more Bohemian writers, who find Chat Inspiration goes If there fs not a tumbler be- fe the Ink pot, One of these when he had a lit- teanoney, consitered that he saved up for a rainy day by sponding, the greater it in soda water. ‘Then if he wanted money all he had to do Was to send back a few empty bottles to the shop, for which he got 2 pence each, Of course ‘this compeiled nim to go on drinking the soda Water, but he did uot mind that, Our writers now- adays are so busy that they have not the Ume to play the Bohemian. Mr. Jas. Payn has said that in seven years he only took ove holiday of more than a few days, and Mr. Grant Allen speaks of being “glad enough to lay down the pen out of my aching flagers as soon as the day's Work 18 fairly over.” It used to be no Uncommon thing for lterary men to make some money by writing, and then not put pen topaper il it wasspent. Artists twenty years Ago worked on the same principle, but_now they, ‘wo, seek to make incomes—though they still sometimes spend it ali and more. Lub ty not by ‘only writer Wu0 has found Lonaon Many, however, write more Mr, Jones, the play- wright, for instance, as svn as he had tnade some name by bis dramas, left London and (00k a house in the country, Where he now writes all his Some men can only write at a particular table, and at a particular side of that table. ‘The writer 1s thin! ly Of one who writes Dest he ties his papers together, and on days ‘when there are no anti-macassars he does not write It is curious to tink of Mr. 3 H Hi EBEEE! HP ie : it i bd it ; tes 5 i i i h t i U 2 5 / i i F i ae F FH F F i i I i i e Hi in Thus 3! ‘4 ing bits home to patch the bridal dress? Sot modistes are by their customers for scraps Of the wedding costumes they make. ihe demand exceeds the supply. So one clever woman buys Temnants-of white satin or moire, and rends the Dleces into patches, to sult her customers. At a Tecent Wedding the bride determined to improve on the floral bell business. As her own and her bride. groom’s names began with W, the florist got up a Tather squat, long, drawn-out W. caught Its significance, but a guest described the ceremony as being performed under a nice floral yoke, Flowers are the Tuleatall swell w ‘and in fragrance and beauty the new life shoul! ways be begun. A lady determined to be unique M{ anytning in her wedding appointments. she Was & mass of pearis—pearis top, bottom, and sides of Ler frock; sprays of pearl fowers confined her veil; and afew clusters of the same, With a gathered flounce of point lace around them, she carried in her hand as a bridal bouquet. It ‘Was sUff and theatrical looking. Her old mother came in behind her with a mass of white lac tn the folds of her lace handkerchiet that crossed her bosom, and a huge bouquet of the t blossoms ih her white-yloved hands. Sue looked more like a bride, With all these flowers and a sliver silk gray gown, than did her stately daughter, and the clergyinan looked so often at her Chat it is doilars to doughnuts he married ma to the man instead of Mary Ann. ‘Orange blossoms ave lost Wueir grip on custom, and there are so many fowers pretuer It 18 not be regretted, In Spain orange blossoms are used to deck the dead. and thelr waxen, stuf’ appear- nc: makes them eminently suttable. White lilacs, ‘White roses, and white hyacinths of the same va- Melty are far more beautiful White lilacs have been cultivated Ull they are so delicate and grace- ful in their improved state that they enjoy great favor. With orange blossoms have disappeared Some of the tulle that used to figure for bridal veils. ‘There have beea unusual salesin bigh-class lace for vells. A veil three yards long and one ‘Wide of point d’Alencon or duchesse 1s a magnif. cent Muish to a fine dress. ‘The old style of a huge are of blond lace, thrown like a tablecioth over bride’s head and Kept on by a diadem of orange Diossoms (nine Umes out of ten artificial), was al ways getting the blushing bride tnto difficulties, At the tme this head rigging was in vogue the custom Was to kiss the bride. Sometimes the crowd would surge round the poor woman to kiss her rapturously through the vell, and a lot of amp Kisses would stick the filmy substance on her cheeks and ears and lay it like a plaster on her Diusiing nose, from which she would pick 1 om ony to Und it glued to her chin. ‘Then if she un dertook to Larow {t off it invariably hung in a towering, cloud-like fashion on the orange blos soms, uiaking her look as if the domestic cyclone had struck her. a Lunar Superstitions, From the Home Journal, ‘There ts, perhaps, no better known lunar prog- nostic than that referred to im the old Scotch ballad of Sir Pagrick Spens: Ocver/alack: my mateter dear, Tears deadly storm. I saw tiie new suoon late yeatreen, WP the auld toon in ber arm, And if ye gang to sea, maister, Tfear will suffer harm, Chambers, in “The Book of Days,” says that to see “the old moon tn the arms of the new one” is reck- oned a sign of fine weatuer—another curious ex- ample of how sayings get twisted; but in that statement hes quite wrong. The appearance is almost universally heid Ww be a sign of bad Weather. Two explanations have been offered to account for the prognostic, in each of whica there is undoubtedly a measure of truth, When the moon appears “new” to us, the earth would appear “full” to the lunar inhabitants, If there were any; and what causes the dark part of the young mook to be dumly visible 4s 11s reflection of the brilliant earthsilue. ‘The earth, however, will not always shine with equal brilliance, even when the same Amount of surface 18 MMlaniinated, for obviously clouds reflect more light than either land oF sea, Hence, When an unusual illumination of the night side of the moon 1 apparent, 1 shows that the earthshine is exceptionally stroug, which in turn ls an indication of the presence of a large amount of cloud Jn our atinosphere, So the up parition of the old moon in the arnis of the new Virtually means that Zhere are vast cloud-banks gathering wulch possibly are drifting up tous nging rain or storin, It 1s sailsfacuory to know that Unis venerable prognostic has a sound phys- ical basis, and 18 a8 Wortuy Of respect as ever it was, other explanation to which I referred ts the greater “visibility” of the alr Which generally pre~ cedes: or unsettied weather, Unis clearness allowing the ghostly disk of the old moon to ioom forth way It could not do trough a misty at- mosphere. Though,doubUess, a | ety explanation of ‘Uhe phenomenon, it 1s not a whole one, and must be taken along with the other. Tue halo is an old ‘sign Of bad weather: “When round the moon there is a brugh, ‘The weather will be cold aud — Of sixty-one lunar halos observed thirty-four were followed by rain within twenty-four hours, nineteen by rain Within four days, and ouly eight by no rain atall The cause of halos ts the forma- Uon of an extremely attenuated form of cloud Which floats in the Van of all cyclonic disturb. ances, Messrs. 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