Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1888, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1888. JAPANESE JINKS. Evening Amusements at a Tokyo Tea House. 2 LAVOMTER-LOVING PEOPLE —aISTAKES EASILY MADE—THE GEISHAS AND THEIR cUsTOMS—HOW ‘THEIR SERVICES ARE SECURED—JAPANESE MUSIC AND DANCING. From Tux Sran’s Traveling Commissioner. Toxrd, August 26th. Japan has been well called the Tnird King- dom of Merry Dreams, Amusement is univer- sal here, and so far from it being true that “laughter is man’s property alone.” everybody lang*s—excepting the solemn policeman—men, women and children, even the very dogs have a twinkle in their eyes as they stretch them- selves out over the middle of the streets, and seem to smile as the coolies pulling jinrikishas run round them. For a man would no more think of running overa dog’s tail here, if the dog did not move, than he would think of pinching his grandfather, and I have been almost jerked out of my jinrikisha by the sudden twist my men ba © made round the long tail whichsome Jazy cur had stretched across the street. Yes- terday Isawa school boy steal up behind an- other school boy and hit hima tremendous thwack over the head with a heavy roil of paper he was earryiug. Did the first one angrily threaten or attempt to “punch his head?” Not # bit, he turned round and they both laughed heartily. Many atime my heart has been in my mouth as my two coolies have plunged headlong into crowd intent on some street ——— and it seemed impossible to avoid nocking down men and women and running over little children. But no, the coolies raise a ay shout, shove half the people one way and the other, ands the spokes of the wheels graze their shins and aimost take the top-knots off the little people, do they ali turn and hurl courses after us, asa crowd would respond to such treatment anywhere else? Not they, they Just burst out laughing. O10 AND SEW YORK. While I am on the subject of Japanese philo- logy there are two other stories worth telling. The Japanese salutation “Good morning” is Ohayo, pronounced O-hie-o. Now, when the former American minister. ige Bingham, arrived at Japan fhted in state at the Pier at Yokohama, wd greeted him with eries of Ohayo, havo! clever people these,” remarked the flattered ju: “How thedeuce did they know I was from Ohio?” other story was told me by one of the ‘Toky6 editors, who speaks English very well. “How do you say ‘Good morning’ in Japanese, . Fukuchi?” a “Ohayo, madam,” he rep! “that's very easy tore! d, aber, because it’s the one of es of my own y."* Next mornin he was walk- ing along. the lady passed him in a jim i “Mr. Fukuchi,” she cried. : New York!” A little Japanese, by Very easily learned, and if you add to a am: 1 of the multitude of and earefully acqu m of these, you can soon secure a reput Versational fluency. Moreover. the presence of an interpreter is a nmsance at the iuvestig: tion of many of the th a student of men and manners wants t Japanese with caro and x« Ip rare accomplishment for a “English as abe is spoke” Le could give dozens of examples instance, who is an » know. B t to speak 1, for man, with daca ted @ high legal deg wrote to other day urging me to ac ause there “the scene's delight, 1 r th folk’s disinterestedness, ail combine to make us happy.” WIG JINKS AND Low JINKS, But to return to oar jin divided into High Jinks and Low Jinks—the high fever and the low fever of pleasure. The former are those that must be prepared before- hand; the latter require ouly the stretching oat of the hand—or rather Jinks, again, there is this dis may go to them or you may have them bron to you. A Japanese gentleman does not o! go ton theater, nor, indeed, if he is special careful of his own reputation. to a tea ho’ Japanese lady. never. Therefore the whose busines< is to amuse others hy selves in readiness to Private summons, 2: d a Japanese host pro- vides after dinner doncers or story-tellers or Jugglers or musicians, just as at home we should order a Punch and Judy or a conjurer for a children’s party. The Low Jinks, however. that you go in searcl of. are more attractive and interesting. as weil as much more varied and universal, so [shall d hiefly with them. Nine-tenths of the amu ts of the Japan- ese center around th tea-hous or chaya. There are hundreds of these from the commonest ati se Deimonico’s, and 2 dozen or so of repu- m and fashion pa d by the man about town. Let us place ourselves ‘in the shoes of ene of these when he has either finished his dinner at about 7 o'clock or proposes to take it abroad. He has his favorite tex-house, we will say the well-known one called for no conceiva- ble reason Hamanoya—tle house of the beach”—or Bai-rin—"the plum grove”—in the Shimbashi quarter, half from the rail- way station. It is in narrow lane, with noth. | ing outside to guide you t asign ona Jamp announcing 1 ed food ma within. No sooner do you slide bac the outside door and enter than three or four female figures appear in the dim light a come you with a chorus of Komban-ma— evening,” and — Shihare “What a long time since you have been here!” if you are an habitue. You doff your shoes, mount upon the raised floor, and one of the figures, which turns out upon closer acquaintance to be a baxom little hand-maiden in a cotton gown, lights « paper candle-lampupon a long bamboo stem, Je ou to one of the rooms of the house and square leather cushions for you. The “honorable mistress” of the hou: ‘Okamisan—probably appears for a few min- les: you exchange compliments with her, and Cotton Gown (this has to distinguish them from the Then she seats es wisely and pret- herself upon her heels. tily upon you and awaits your orders. She | of course, that you did not come to a tea-house to enjoy your own company. and the only question is—though this one also xhecould ly answer for you beforehand—whom | will you summon? ‘THE GEISHA. Hereby hangs the story of the geisha—that most characteristic and curious product of Japanese social life—and it mast be told before | we can proceed. For parents who wish to | make money out of their daughters there is a | way less Soman ne. bee! a way which, i Profitable to the parents. offers an infinitely more independent goal to the child. They can apprentice her to somebody as 8 si gir! or geisia (pronounced gaj- shah). mortgagee—to use the handiest term. @ smel! sum, usually from twenty to fifty dollars, takes the girl when she is four- or fifteen. bax her carefully instructed in : “Mie Little Snow,” or ~ Miss Spring Flower,” und he lets her out at so much sm hour to amuse the guests at atea-house oF private > re she adds the functions of Caiwent Skee virtually at his dixposal for a term of years, #0 far as all her movements are concerned, and the master or mistress takes ‘the lion’s share of ber earnings. Her affairs cwur are left theoretically inher own hands. she is still but a child she is called han- “half-jewel” the pay of these girls is ically called their “jewel” and the present it, a hana or “flower™). or o-shaku (“the exp dlier”) or simply maiko (‘dancing child” ), to make the laden hours ily for lazy men or curious commissioners. 1 SME 1S CLEVER and good tempered and fuil of fun—above all, of course, if she is beautifal—she soon acqaire< ‘8 metropolitan reputation, the young bloods of ‘Tokyo like to be chaffed about ber. her engage- Ment list is fall for days beforehand, you can only get a sight of her by a casual summons for an i on her Soares These may be | | geisha all give them: ecome & proper name. | u knowledge here in Tokyé in which a thousand dollars in hard cash was declined with a smile for a girl for whom $25 had originally been paid, and who had been earning for her master over a hnndred dollars a month for some time. Bat the bargain concluded and the honeymoon over, has the happy lover any bond upon his mistres:? None whatever, except her gratitude and affection, And will that bond hold? Not always, 1 fear. It must sometimes happen, of course, that the excitement and varied triumphs of a successful geisha’s earecr, render the com- paratively dull pleasures. of home unbearable to he i ity Often, indeed, this su d to reconcile hersel? to’a quiet life is latd to her charge. but in trath it is generally the man's heart that plays truant first, and it is the man’s fickleness she prettily and_touchingly veils in the song that she is most likely to sing-you to her samisen, comparing herself to the or weeping willow, aud which may be roughly rendered— high and low, Where'er the breese frig ae As for the fickle ones, it is only afew days since a grist confided to me that she was about to be made thus independent by a devoted lover, and added—not knowing that I was but @ pilgrim of the quill with no abiding habita- tion where geisha is the local name of the uni- versal being whose promises so many ages of experience have not taught men to distrust— “But I shall be back again in a few months, for T'm sure I shall not be able to bear such a dull | lite, and then you'll send for me again some- times, won't you?” For to be in nd, of conrse, is the geisha’s professional pride. When she returns to her carcer after such an episode she enters upon business for her own profit and is mistress of her own actions, CHOOSING ALL, Now the question at the tea-house was, whom shall we send for? and Cotton Gown sits pa- tiently awaiting an answer, There is Miss To- tall and handsome and mercenary and mendacious; Miss Kécho, a quaint little person with a funuy face and a quick wit, a magnifi- saniisen player; ‘Miss Koyuki—“Little a beautiful girl with a sweet face and rk eyes (the voked the philolog ves, by the way, that pro- i efforts described above) tha’ s love is an idle thing; Miss Man- yand solemn and very pretty and an é dancer, and, finally, “Miss Fate” ed, for ‘she is of the’ kind that pl swith men, Her slenderness causes seem taller than she is; when she moves | it is like the owing of water or the waving of leaves; her complexion is like olives; her eyes | ere asa pool hidden in the woods in autunn; her hands and feet are sitch as exist nowhere bat in Japan, and in her the winning wiles of a ficd on the artlessness of a child. since disappeared. But on this occasion we tell Cotton Gown to sammon them ! all—Mina kairte cure—and she runs away. At her bidding down stairs a me speeds to a very curions neighborhood—what may be called Geisha street, It is a long lane, row that the inhabitants could touch ross it, filled on both sides with tiny tory honses, before each of which nger and a sad history, for she has found to her cost | | silver pellets upon glass, antil the very chimes | the ruad. Not a rod away, but invisible, riva- | if im ‘orpulent paper lantern with a name and a few poeticai ¢ i } from within comes ceaseless merry laughter | and the twang of the samisen. Here the geisha | live. and every afternoon about 4 there isa | in loose cotton wrappers of gay | patterns going to and from the bath-how Soon afterward the messengers begin to arrive, like Porsena’s, from st_ and west and south and north, ittie later, in trios—geisha | 1 maid sisen-bearer—the little resi- dents clatter away upon their clogs in all direc- tions, THE ARRIVAL. We have waited perhaps ten minutes sipping our tea, when there is a flip-flap of bare feet | upon the polished stairs, and then— “Lu comes Nick to play us a trick, Tis wulse of & darnsel parity al She twines herself round the corner, and atthe threshold falls upon her hands and knees and «1 to the floor in salutation of each ter how well you may be nc- humble | No m ted with her she never omits this ‘Thea she seats herself among us, ud bamboo pipe and bro- fhe massive silk obi which eset and fowrnure and pocket, a whiff of the straw-colored tobacco wntry. The rest arrive one by one and soon the ion is merry and the jokes dy fast. ‘The geiska makes up for lack of | education by ready wit. perfect manners, and | a mulcitude of little clevernesses—games with | | the hends and fingers, games of forfeits, tricks | With picves of paper and bits of string, jer de mots.beside her stock in tradeot songs and dances comic. ft is her business to entertain you. and she generally manages to do it, even thoazh her own heart is often heavy enough. Ata tea-house the fun is not often furious, the space is too confined and the neighbors too numerous, but when a dinner is given you at the private house of some rich man, where the sake bow! circulates freely and there are large rooms and gardens and arbors and ponds and } bong, then the perhaps two score guests and ives up to the most bois- terous and whole-hearted fun, JAPANESE DANCING as performed by the geisha is chiefly posturing, with especial attention to the management of the We asi our visitors to dance for us and one of them sends for her scmisen—a three-stringed banjo with a long neck and . played with an ivory plee- d tunes it with much unpleasant | If she sings, her song is unsympa- | estern ears; the voice isn nasal fale setto, pitched high even for that, and the | method of producing it is so incorrect. that a | prolonged effort sometimes brings tears into | of the performer. The music of the odd and unintelligi- ‘ows upou one, and for my own ov itnow. An ordinary samiwn, an- semisea, the violin of Japan, | with a bow. and a kolo—a kind of | n-stringed elongated harp in which are moved up and down | the key = dar usaalls Die at first, | part I enj bridges ordecly, rather than the stepless twine of the | coryplee, The steps are all made upon the flat | | of the foot, the toes not being used more than | im walking.’ Nor in such dancing as one sees at a tea-house are there any movements of great strength and agility combined with perfect grage, such as constitute so large a part of the | art of ballet-dancing with us. Even the mod- | | est saul de chat is conspicuous by its absence, | and still more, of course, anything like the | arabesque or the rowle de jambes, which would be as impossible in Japanese costume as they would be foreign to the spirit of the Japanese art. Still, in the undulations of the body, he serpentine movements of bands and arms, and, above all, in their complete ntomin| skill, the Japanese danseuses ve resources beyond any of the kind I have seen elsewhere. “Among strictly professional dancers, too, marvelous agility is constantly ex- ercired, and I took an instantaneous photograph of one of them, a girl in the huge sti te, Wieldy trousers of the old-fashioned style of dancing, which shows her a couple of feet off the ground. ‘There is a sort of club-house jin Tokyo called the Koyokan, where the Tokyo Press association, comprising the leading met ropolitan journalists of all shades of polities, meets sociaily once a month, and there on the occasion when I had the honor of being enter- tained by my fellow-journalists, a number of | their highest op-ning wore diserned the glit- n | fect to reach the sti | Valley of the Deer. Beyond this, the Jough " AFOOT IN IRELAND. not for the fall,” in Willis’ “Saturday After- ae of uptown Africa for awhile and lemon soda. This little basement. cat HOUSEFURNISHINGS. Orricus, Dnawrxa the above are — noon,” I soon won place and honor a ‘rumabers whic Qrawn ‘from the icture of Charming Glen Veagh. MALLOWS'ES PLEASURES ing-house nm all night and is the swell P YOo,000 in the prises corre: words be OF 6. Welet: pactods of THM plonvests al- Fetort for all tas tpper eres af colored epoca LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY, avgnding to them. 4. sew Orieana, La, thie Tee | Cooma By Gia ‘MISTY VALES AND STATELY’ PEAKS—GLENDOWAN ‘ ~ While we were there the dusky swells came SINGLE NUMBER, CLASS “1," day, eptember 11, 1885. 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If teeth were picked at table (as| 59: eee ee eee g100.000. sold in New | ™L31 WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANR, tion in alone among the scenic glo- | emot Groum ond desire. And his fs ont iar | ter ae is snowy napkin was un-| 907. Pot Shey ane Manan, Ca iver, Cul, : ries of any land. A staff or stick, it | sensate that will not grow younger and | fol ith great display and ‘held in front of | 21 Sutitirfield, Mars Coburg, lows, Takouia. Wash Pur: good ‘ listening ivories while mn was : geil, Ind. T-, anid Coste Ric red or stick, « stout | tenderer under the influence of those mirthful | the gl ivories while the operatiot a Sek oh ke Pair of logs, receptive mind, and, above all, ®| revels ‘Where will one begin and end in | being perférmed. ‘The waiter who happened | $22 Kew Lord, Wasnington, D.C Jersey Say 83 cheery heart, whatever one’s luck, are the regal | elling them as he sees and feels them? | to touch a guest's elbow always said, “Beg yo" 883: Anmelea sing ‘Grane Vailes. Gal "Fast st Loule companions for such loiterings. Thus one is in every door to house, room, or barn, an | pahdon,” and it who brushes ‘inst a} 740. Rereenteld, Ryo RI Bee Orioane, Res BRUSSELS, MOQUETS, VELVETS, TAPESTRIFS, true habilament and spirit for nature's open. | apple paring was "and some maiden’s | waiter’s jacket said, “Pahdon my awkwand-| 3014 Bachiucton: BC cOpdensbune, 5 YO THREE-PLYS, INGRAINS, and ART SQUARER handed eager eye was watching for him who first passed | ness.” Everybody was sleek, perfumed, and | 1119. Jackson, Mich. Burlington. Ipwa, Groind Tune BUGS, MATS, CURTAINS, and DRAPINGS in great companionship, She sppears at her | Sonssis. for. that one tig fairies liad charmed ‘and everybody paid ‘grent deference | 1126 and Arkbdeiphias Are Sow, STDS g0UR: variety. An ihapection of Our stock is suited, myriad doors and windows, which are shut to | Penceth for, th of Inds on all-fours erybody else, and was ‘mont deferential of 3203. Be Bt — hee ‘inte aren. She beh Sie noisy crowds, with radiant welcomings. You | ducked their heads in buckets of water and | all to foe. They politely endured me, 3331 — ‘ JOR A FIRST-CLASS HEATING STOVE, Ral may be satyr and even god with her for the brought out small coin with their tooth. Lasses Se ‘was under royal patron-' 133%. Pp Au P, : Fo AES a lh 1 KANGR habe: wl 2 WRT ny ee eae Mae HELMS | SD ence cewe Ss coals ocinc Oskar oo |< irone the cerared:Delehondcd’y 3 prowlea | 1763 Se Latrobes and Ranaes Rapared Pee to you, and you will sing in and from your soul | cretly-cherished nataes.’ Stolen, herri around to the Standard theater. The British | 1848: ° to her, to the marvel of yourself, where before | which must be salt, must be broiled without | Gaiety company of burlesquers were to open | j F Hanson Hiss & Co.), a i WALL Parens you knew no harmonious chord. It was with | turning, eaten with hot tongs, and dreamed on, | at this house on Thursday night and were to x LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. ‘We have just received @ lange consignment of {raat flections as these that on the last | ‘‘without drink"—now made their apy ce, | Wear most engaging costumes that fitted them etter Weare pelline all he White Meck, morning of October I had left the little hamlet | Then the “‘bannock-baking” and its wild merri- | skin-tight, so there was » considerable crowd 1 by the Legislature in 1868 for Bau. Begone (8 yy LY: ult Paes of Kilmacrenan before daybreak and come with | ment. Whoever turned the bannock on the | of ultra-English chappies congregated about coleP ata be, ths, Lewtalatare te 1808 fo, Rie. | from Lie. 10'30. aatonend 0 ae and without the sun over the Glendowan mount- | huge le that hung from the crane was to | the stage entrance to see the ladies whert mf made a part of the present State Constitution in 1879 | Yynting «aps elty wed ew ose nimble fingers kneaded its | should come out from rehearsal, And here by an overwhelming popular vote, - J.B. LEPREUX & BRO, 508 7th st.aw. ains rho le fing _ ae enwnie oaten meal, salt, soda, and water together. saw the first pair of embroidered trousers New Its GRAND EXTRAORDINARY DRAWINGS take |_ 7th street cars juss the “NUT-BURNING” AND “‘SNAP-APPLE” were going on merrily at the hob, The hazel- nut ashds in dainty packets beneath the pillows yield charmed dgeams; the burning “snap- apples” tell whether loving pairs will sputter or mellowly age during wedded life. Then there was the ‘“dumb-c: ” making for fairy- aided dreams; the “charm-pies” with their buttons for old bachelors, thimbies for old | maids, and rings for the lucky ones who should wed; the “candle-and-sweets,” suspended and whirling between grinning faces where teeth snapped for bites, and luckless frowsy hair was singed; and an hundred other innocent delights, leading to the more serious affairs of “postman's-knock” and “forfeits,” where genu- ine old-fashioned kissing was there for the | fighting; and the struggle for your “rights” jwith a bouncing Irish Inss from the moun- tains insured her hatred if you did not over- come her, and a sore body or broken bones if you did!—“and then, amid deafening clatter and chatter, the supper in the great room, piled | upon tables: like fat stalls in a plethoric mar- | ket, various, smoking, awful; but with the jol- | liest, hungriest crew | im all your life. And oh, for room in which to ‘tell the tales here told. to give the songs here sung, to reproduce with alr the delicious flori- ture the quips and jokes here perpetrated; while oceans of tea flowed gurglingly. and the Poteen, clear as rock-water and as guileless of excise, went on its “winding” way. TRE NATIONAL SCHOOLMASTER. One soul was here with natty attire, and a from the great valley of Glen Veagh, and feast upon the wondrous charms of burn and moun- tain, lough and glen, cascade and cliff, if good fortune should bring with advan day a clear sky above, what a witching morn- ing it was! Scarcely could your hand be seen before you for the fog. There was your road, centuries old, and colerd as Irish Jandlordism, beneath your feet. You could not mistake that. But what was to the right or the left, or before, only fancy, quickoned by the morning's awakening life, intensified by near and far mysterious sounds, could locate and divine. ‘Tramp, tramp, ‘tramp, brave as you might, these yw into the consciousness asso imperative of recognition, that de- spite yourself, ever and again you would stop to listen, listen, Drip, drip, drip from the leaves of the hedges into water-basins of 8 rock, the grent drops striking the water like of the fairies were rung in your ears beside lets of the night's making wimpled from rocks to pool. from the staccato of tenor trills to the low baritone minors of stately psalms. Just at my side, as if ‘snapping witly ita long neck from ‘behind the curtaining mist, o goose would hiss, or a duck quack, at door of unseen cabin, Beyond or behind a chained dog, muking a dismal hewgag of kennel-door and chain, leaped out and in, baying to his peasant-master of untimely foot steps. Over my head the restless abrasion of boughs whispered that the leaves, from their very weight of fog-cups, sighed and moaned as tient of their sunless prisoning. Hedge- branches crackled from water-weight as in the | frost-battles of approaching winter. Here and | there as the heavy breezes moved a trifle would come the hesitant pipe of atitring bird, tter of wild hares’ feet upon the slippery caves, the half-caught, hourse resonance of hidden waterfall; while ‘faint and far and dix- tractingly mufiled, the notes of distant early | chapel-bell pushed in through, the fleecy folds e fog. Learning theve and countless more by heart, then it was tramp, tramp. tramp, again, as if pushing every step throug! 4 ble’ banks of show! And’ then—-ah, yea; and spirit that overrode the ili-humor his “spying” c e a & 5 occasionally resticss hearts about him, This was the national school-teacher, the hated “government drill-borer;” an Irish-English- | has, supplanted hinn of blessed memory, the Trish “1 again. as I came between two towering bare- | loving headed, bare-footed figures standing across | scholars; his evil one upon the stranger who the way in front of their own invisible road- | only wished all well. Stories. fests, and son ide farm-house, gaping and stretching, and had gone around, and I had done my best witl ‘getting a taste o’ the morn.” But no inquisi- the rest. Finally, as if to settle his claim to tion this time. JUST TWO PLEASANT-FACED IRISHMES, father and son; ready for a friendly argu- ment upon anything; wondering at the stranger and his brave speed through the fog, and whom no diplomacy could escape until a breakfast of their simple fare was had with them. Then, as the harvests were well in, the son must be my guide through Glen Veagh, whether or no; and, by this and by that, a ledge must pe given that, when. the day was Sone, T would become ‘one of those who. from the country roundabout, were to make the thatches of that very farm house shiver and ring with the innocent hilarities of an Irish All Hallow Eve. If your fancy be a glowing one, put it to its most fervent test in picturing the wildest, sweetest. weirdest and most gloriously beautiful spot within its powers of creation, and you have not then got even a glimpse of the magical fascinations of Glen Veagh. From where we stood until the mists had vanished, at the mouth of the pass through Glendowan mountains, half way between moun- tain top aud valley level, the whole mighty series of resplendent panoramas stretched away to the north, blending into furpassing purples above the stately blue of Veagh Lough. "0 the east and our right rove the long and gracefully outlined heights of Glendowan. Behind and to the south ‘uplands dipped and rolled into matchless valley descents, shaping the approach to | GLENDOWAN VALLEY, which merged below us into the nobler depths i= ; of Glen Veagh. To the far west from south to | Pe ee. ananere: he r= north, and forming the remoter valley rim, | PFesthlexe from the odd’ melee. but with i ursed and smiling mouth and positive radi- swept the Derryveagh ranges; while through Jets shining from his white looks and oo from his blinking upraised and sightloas ol eyes, Was there a dance this Hallowe'en at that farmhouse on the ancient Kilmacrenan was upon all his neighbors and a pe and none being at his service, he rose to his feet and, with a twinkle of triumph at me, extemporancously delivered these luminous lines to the host: John Rutherford Walker, Ym not inuch of a talker,— But mind these true words that I say: ‘When o'er your day's labor, Haye a pipe for sour neighbor, Tfonly a ype of poor els For your sow! he ever will pray! “Thave ye there. me fine sundown!” beamed from his face as he resumed his seat, amid much applause, and all eyes conveyed to me & consciousness of his mortal challenge. Sorely pressed for temporary expedient, to reach be- heath the fifth rib of the pedagogue. I told them a tale of Scottish | which tradition, if not history, will vouch. A HALLOWEEN DANCE. A hullabuloo without now arrested our atten- | tion. “The byes” had planned a great surprive, | Sallying forth when the tales and songs were at their height, they had descended upon another main force had captured and brought a fiddler bodily away, the whole crowd of defeated frien rbd following after in prideful ac- clamation. And here they their shoulders into the great-room, where the | fewas of was received with ringing cheers, it was old Billy Drain, the blind fiddler, the way from Belfast; hero now above all fering grays of lone Errizal of all Donegal the monarch height. Giendowan soared above the mists; Muckish lifted its huge, bes tres mon- road? Ask the rafters of oak that shivered a ster-like even in the sunahine; and the lofty | century's splinters and mould upon the vault Dooish set a flinty wall to the west. straight up ing heads und heels of this big-hearted Irish from the edge of the glen, for 1,200 of its 2,200 peasantry. And ask the stars that looked feet in height. Through all the valley be- softly down until their shining eyes went out tween island. crags and Cad ang si che burns in the brighter dawn which lifted faming cones with endless melodies. From the Dooish side upon the peaks of fair Glend swan, the Calabber river bounded over its rocky bed Epoan L, Wakeman, into scores of cascudes, separated, form- —so- ing a dreamful island, and, its bran- SEEN IN NEW YORK, ches, reunited, stole into ‘the peace- ful bosom of the Owencarrow. Reaching | Some Things Discovered by a Man Who Lough Veagh itself, you find it penned between | walls nearly a thous.nd feet bigh on either side, their escarpments hidden by masses of in which mingle the ash, beach and lorming a velvety sward over which one seemingly safely tread. The burn of | Gienlack tambles 600 feet within a mile from the lough; and opposite, the torrent of Derry- beg ix hurled over a precipice of » thousand waters in this mystic Prowls at Nigitt. EMBROIDERED TROWSERS—IN A CONCERT HALL MORNING—MRS. SHAW AND OTHER WHISTLERS, Correspondence of Tax EVENING Stan. New York, Nov. 16.—I like to prowl. It is great fun to scour about at night all alone in places in this town where things are to be seen, and, when you've seen them, to accept them philosophically as evidences of the cosmopoli- | tanism of the city of many nations. Iprowled last Monday night, At about 11 | O'clock I went into a bar-room at a corner of | 6th avenue, in the heart of the up-town col- | ored district, and there I met the king of . and hues? A Africa, This is his title as given hima by In- myriad of tiny vei lad islands reposealong spector Williams when he was eaptain of the the valley. Glittering peak, blanched cliff, skecteenth precinct, and the royal prerogative and threatening precipice burst through the | iy recognized tacitly by all the colored popula- heather and a sod. —~ among the | tion of New York north of West 3d street. heights the ffolden casi wheels above the | «King Joe,” as he is also culled, is as handsome gorges, or calls to the echoing peaks for cor- ‘ @ young octoroon as ever s.ulptor imagined or Panionship in its solitudes. Tumbling burns | painter dreamed. ‘He is an Apollo tm teem aod Fees and flash, or show cascades like far | grace, with the tendcrest, kindliest, intelligent lecks of lace from within the shadows. And | brown that somehow reminded me of a over all the song of rivulet, burn and river, | spaniel’s, and a wavy black moustache that over covert and copse and glen, over islet, bog | permitted glimpses of shining white tecth ad re, Seeds the ae nie, painting | when he talked or laughed. in unfound dyes; where ences are as un-| J wasn't introduced to King Joe. Captain broken by human voice as in the vaulted skies 4 winds as but « thread of silver between deuser shadows of Mullangore, and, through gorge and glen between cliff aud mountain, then erceps silently upon ite later river way to the mighty northern sea, AN ENCHANTED sPor. If the mere outlining of this enchanted spot 80 inadequately fails all power of description, what inspired pen could fitly limn its eve changing formings, secmin, Kyoto dancers performed iter dinner « series old dances for us, exhibiting besides the acteristic Japanese clurm, terpsichorean lity which would be applauded anywhere, But Lam here speaking only of the dancing of the geisha, PAYING TOR THE AMUSEMENT. ‘The tea-hoase is closed by law at midnight, and the rule is generally enforced. As the hour approaches, therefore, the party begins to break up, Each geisha receives her “flower,” that is one or two dollar motes ‘rapped ina piece of paper withont folding them. Any- tuing that you give, by the way, wrapped ia peper, is a present’ under all circumstances, and no attempt at concealment is made in exe cuting the pretty fiction of the suj tower.” You pullout sour purse, extract the money, say “May I trouble you for a piece of = ‘ou # piece from the little ; y Japanese woman carries in she front of her girdle, wrapped around her pocket-Daok, and put to the most varied and extraordinary uses—and you up ye ‘vy iton the ‘ground Beatle mt and hen you all make down stairs, ladykins sit roand w! ile yon fer ria it Reilly, now the head of the nineteenth precine above. Grand Glen Veagh! Noblest of all | had pointed him out to me one day at the Erin's wondrons valleys, becetse grandest one | Monmouth Park races when his majosty was of infinit er, AN a i i fa yet unsmnirehed by the Gennes Artificer, and | head steward there, so when I saw hiin leaning against the bar in the 6th avenue liquor shop + A HOSPITABLE FARM HOUSE. I ae who he wes. Soe me, talking politics i wit bartender and a flashily-dresse« i ores Gaal pe hea teat Glen | ina chock suit. The latter were having the agh, was nightfall ere we reac best of the argument, so I put in a word or two the farm-house, where quite a number of coun- | for Joe's side, and we were speedily friends. try-folk were awaiting our afrival. The house | When the argument had been amicably con- itself was somewhat larger than the average Irish cabin. It contained two very large square cluded Joe and I took a walk down 32d street A Z| vt ES if 5 By 5, E s ? communication these their rn a I 48 i Fi £ i FE 4 I ie # i E if i i 3 2 i feel il (A Voice: “The sisiest in three kingdoms!”) | ‘alor, for the truth of , Hallowe'en ‘party afew miles distant, and by | “THE Towns” IN THE COLORED pristRict—THE | MEETING MARY ANDERSON AT THREE IN THE | eyes and the en what the ladies fashion sharps were @ scantily-clothe smart kippen (switch) as token of authority, | the piano and the voice who to a degree was the life of the joyous rus-| like singer, too. There were some, curious it Characters in the place. At one table was a papers rere ereaphy tetas ot girl of barely fifteen, who held in her left arm } co created, and & red-faced baby, perhaps four months old, 4 i while with her right han Beit siber favo of. mupericn camrtinees the ue Bias hee Signy bane ee was) COnTeying doses, An old man with pimpled face was with her, and I was speculating as to the relation- Scotch mixture of frankness, brutality, and *hip of the three when I caught sight of an | cunning; that being who for better or worse €COuomic scheme worked by two men of bum- mer aspect in a Poured the stuff glass of beer. liquor | _ By this time it was nearly 3 o'clock in the morning, and I was sleepy and, perhaps, a little disgusted, so I prowled across town to take the | As passed the stage en- | trance to Palmer's theater a lady in a gray gown came out, took the arm of a well-dressed | gentleman who was waiting, and walked down | ath street toward Sth avenue, | right in the glare of the light when they sic profile of Miss Mary | Anderson, just having finished directing a dress rehearsal of “A Wiuter’s Tale” three hours be- fore daybreak, on her way afoot to her rooms in east 28th street under the escort of her In five minutes more other members | of her company came out, but in marked con- trast with Misa Anderson's democracy, they | ere all whisked away in cabs except on | That one was handsome Jack Barnes, her Ei lish leading man, wio has made many frien & previous professional visit, and who | bent bis steps in the direction of a famous all- | men-about-town j me, and I saw the brother. | here ii ht resort, whistiin, and bri | eral accuracy of th sexes, deeply elevated for home. where man: | gather before winding up a hilarious night, is of a_very York has contained on the legs of Mr. Canter- bury Cutting. He was the cynosure of all of all the other chappies, and he enjoyed it. Down the side of either trowser log was a stripe of black embroider; over an inch wide, worked apparently wit call “erewels” on a band of black silk. This is the style that is said by the to be the coming feature of bifurcated apparel for evening dress, and as it is all black there is nothing to compiain of in the way of gaudy display. erally adopted, however, i into wider and wider stripes of assorted colors, so that eventually one’s legs after sunset will be as resplendent as the bow of promise. en Before the lusty ladies of the burlesque had appeared at the st young gentleman and resumed my prowl fh avenue some young men and young women Rouring intd a hallway where a over the entrance with the one word “ Painted on it, I followed close behind a boy and girl of not more than sixteen years, tra~ : Fermed a ong and badly-lighted hallway, and broke bread with | 8uddenly burst into a large room or hall where eae emang sp | alhalf hundred tables wero decorated with beer i —— and surrounded by young people of interested in the singing of womnn, with coppery hair, sure who looked like Jane Hading. An a DD | ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, a - iano gave a rasping accompaniment to the 0 | For Pisiaichiia, Lona and the sudicuce assisted by stamping | 0 | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1888. Pa) tae ts and clapping in time with the singer, | 0 | CAPITAL PRIZE, #600,000. 17.3%. 2 sometimes joining in the chorus with | 1) 100,000 Tickets at Forty Dollars: Hal such force’ as to drown the sound of 00 Quarters, $10; kighths, $5, Twentieth, of the Hading- a remote corner, edge-schoolmaster.” In the language Served one of them with a glass of lager and ; | of a hoarse but convivial cartman, he ‘was the = pose och the So. tetas ere were the brave old Donegal questioners | life of the avenin’, whin not its death!” His ee te Then this mixed drink was equally divided between the two by using the Juss asa measure, and the bummers sucked their lips with gusto at the concoction, | Superiority forever at one effort, on asking for and sighed regretfully when the last drop was draine } ch Whistling isn’t altogether a dignified and im- portant form of art, but it is becoming one of the graces of society in swell 5th avenue cir- | came with wild cles. In the papers an advertisement has re- | whoop and hurroo, carrying their prize on cently appeared which states that“‘a well- known professor of singing trains la gentiemen in artistic whistling, now #0 fashion- able at concerts and musicales,” and in no time, | I presume, we shall have many fem less, coatless, teur rivals of Mra. Alice Shaw. first New York whistling concert was given here Wedn sday night, and was a great go. lever kind. The skill ; jancy with which she executes difficult night jiordure passages, her purity of tone and gen- tonation, are marvelous, An | old colored man ha». been tor yearsafrequenter door I left the she was conveying | nor my June and December), and ite | — ace Serisi-Ann pec g NUMBER" DRAWINGS GRAND SINGLI take place > Oneoch of the other ten months in the year, sod are | RAILROADS, all drawn in public, at the Academy jasic, New | ‘Orleans, La, | yprur onrar We do hereby certis SERNSULVARTA ROUTE that we supervian the ments For all the monthly and Sem! The Lowsvava Su arrange: Drawings & | AND SOUTHWEST, ~~ SDID MTSE NEPERCT NOVEMBER L. 1aeee ee TRAINS LEAVE MASKING TUN FROM STATION, the Dr ted with homesty, vavrnrss and im | good Faith toward a! partes. and we authorize the COM Fame te use this eertycate. ith facatmiaaay our wg | PORNEK SIXTH AND B STARLITS AS FUL? ” vee F = ead toe West, Chicago J ‘ maa, Vette In case it is gen- ‘Putimas, Vets to develop conpecting daily Bieepers for LU press, 10:00 rilded On and Pitts POTOMAC RATLROAD. ‘Commissioners, We, the undersigned Bani and Bankers will pay all | | prizes drawn in Phe Lowisianna State Lotteries which- | Fe May be preeenteda! our counters. Pres. Louisiana National Bank, Pres State National Bank. es) New Orleaus National Bank, CARL KOHN, Pres Uuson National Bank. MAMMOTH DRAWING ign huny show J Brooklyn. ‘ses City, with | av THE LIST OF PRIZES. Oa and 440'p 20.and 9.00 arn. 12-0! Buniday: 200 8 my 10 pan. 50,000 | ALEXANDRIA AND PREDEKICKSBURG RAT WAV, AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD. The waiter APPROXIMATION PRIZES, or 100 Prizesof #1,000 a mu. 2 3 100 qrince of* ROO are Aces ih for 100 Prizes of 400 ate. Por Hictinvdud and he THREE NUMBER TERMINALS. ti 99 Prizes of 800 are. 200 | 99 Prizes of 400 are. | £180,000 180/005 HM) LOE. 13th street and Pennsylvania: 500 SLs 4 here orders cau te lett reat a ‘ will be ae. sured by your enclosiug ati Buvelope beariug your full address | Seud POSTAL NOTES, Express Money Orders, of New York Exchange in ordinary letter, Currenc! For Chicago and Northwi ‘Xpress (ut our expense) addressed to did ails 0°35 an They were M.A DAUPHIN, passed Addrens Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, ‘New Orleans, La, REMEMBER that the presence of Generals Beaure- ) | ard and Early, who arein charge of the drawings, is & euarautee of absolute fairvess and integrity, that the | chuuces are all equal, and that no one can possibly di- Vine what nun.ber will draw a prize. REMEMBEK also, that the payment of prizes is Annapolis, 6:40 and 8:30 a.m, | GUAKANTEED BY FOUR NATIONAL BANKSof New 6:50 ae | Orleans, and the tickets are sikcued by the President of B47 an Justitution whose chartered richta ace recognized "Fi | iu the highest Courts; theretore, beware of all imita- MOT, | E: { 1} Stations between Washii 00, 6:40, 8-30 a. may 12-10, | toms or anonyuious schemes.” ald-wasSw | Por Stations Su" the Memnipelten Breck, : for pinay wiatious ual *1 Toltpe thersbure abd Liste pointa, 19:00 a. yh ah ob, 41 3 ne iis and intermediate tstions, 17-00 pam, E (ATF only at ms Yue Monping at All stations on Metrojoutem and — 10 am., 13:00, 14:35, 15.309. re RNS Sch i ine ar pan. from Ciuchnmats and St at lady's BE RRR Sod dS pan trom Pitiwany daily . be BONN | From Philadelphia, Chester and er Wilmington, 2:50, 45 posh 9:05 pam auiute trait), 110 it 00, 4-10 Uh Soanat days tat I pan. On Sapdays6 30, of the late ferry boats at night, and his whist- bam. 215, Bo, 410, 8:00, 6.3u, ling has won him many doliars, but Esee Semiags’ “Dake, SPuntagecnty. tuire is confined to four tunes: ane Called for and thoteel a hoe ana, Kuwer,” -Modisus Lied.” “Boulanger March" gences'on orders left ‘at ticket omicea, iW and 1961 jand “Zip Cou.” ‘The theatric ho made the | msme of Mads OS = Oo Rentz” notorious tried to star this darkey once — - ee ee ee ae cea one Pe A LE son, vane unfortunate one. Lately a younger colored 8:30 A M—Kast Tenn. Sail Baliy tor | mutt has whistied on the night ferry boats with Genome Chenotienlie Ly urkitaty, aid Stattont an artistic felicity that puts Mrs, Shaw's pucker - Kuexeiil Galera, Mouteusen at eae quite in the shade Pe oe This ebony beans Pullman aie mastitis irientim ‘outh not only wifixties the most dificult 2 Fast Mat! Daily for Warrenton, Char Pieces, with arpeggios, ruas and tills, bat bo Jeter, Govdvonctiie Setoan taser thee Nae, | can whi ond or alto part, aw | sir?” Democrat— with the fish. ey?” as eee that sit in darkness.” ‘teach, and used to b and his benefactor. | the boats, where he can “be his own bos H. H. Souz. | Appropriate Sus erying xbout, Tor? } Tom—Ma slapped me because I wouldn't | le two. parts at once, the air aud sec ith such consummate | fection that the listener is almost r r that two persons are whistling. the whistling craze struck ti ot this fellow a number of pupils in the art, ut the puckering pedagogue was too lazy to away from his pupils fe is now buck again on who was assigned to the task turned over each card, read the writer's name, and put it after the words *‘Return to” ou the face of the card. ‘The distributing clerk was astonish several of the cards indorsed with “Return to Father,” ‘Return to turn to Your Ownest Own,” &. Now, whenever the clerk raakes his apy in the office he is greoted with cries: to Mamma,"—Albany Journal. She (in the dim religious light)—“What was the topic at the Young Men’s meeting last even- She—“What a lot of egotists!” Mamma—“Well, did you tell Goad how yhty you have been?” '—No; I wasashamed, T better not get out of the family.”—; It is all very well to pay have no bessege rather os ‘until Gen. gins to the pay Harrison's wife's ag at vou go, but i you when you arrive.—Pitts- Kynchiiure, Korky Mount, Danville abd Stations bet tween Lynchburg and Danville, Greensboro, Haletsthy € ‘Charlotic, Columbia, Awrusts, “AUauta, ” Hirralne ‘ae » hem, Montronuery, New (rien, ‘Tena and Califurn y to a, fina York to Montgomery in conn $ fou with Pullinan Sleepers Monigouery. to New Or- is town somevody om | Rests and Mann Bou vere for Birwituharn, 3 aud Shrevepe Sleeper Danville torGolunsbia end Atpasts "guid eats Weert ts Atlanta. Does not coupect for C. & 0. route punts i, 2:30 P.M. 4 Le , for oer ape ere oe Re Tesi eee pn ween Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Lowsvilie, Cincinnati, a ms Pallman Sleepers aud Solid Trasus Waesbin Saturday Smiles scm i care ae ee et Sait Waiter—“What kind of soup will you have, vie Hist Palas WGiseyere Washisgtsa' to Mcowaas 11.00 P.M Daily fo ‘onfound you, shut up! Begin | empire ar sy oo bare envibe, fale ater, Chaotic, Sua reer Wad | — My AS erg My a Emma—What are you | few'c 615 AND 617 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. WASHINGTON, D. Q, o Washington ‘to Via Ausuta and None ery, allman Sleeper Washington to AQeuRa ff sto is tuatou 9:00 A.M Bells eens Sn te a > singin, or sree Sundapsaad #43 F at a Wsk were sou Hapingr” Bitaae ASS ER EH ‘Tom — “Always take mother’s advice.”— ru Daily cacept Sunday, erriving Washington 8: Time, ; : Semper A little girl was sitting on the floor when the GRATEFUL—comroRTINe. qilleau Courtine a zt 4 Eel gion P00 A sun shone in ber face, “Go 'way! go way z : rant ral Use | she cried. striking out af if, “You move, d EPPS'S COCOA srictuevilie ‘wt 9:40 FMS and it won't trouble you,” said her mizuin: manehicn Streeter a “I want; I dot here first,” said the little oue.— a ceaskty Sleeving ‘car rowervation and information Boston Youth's Comp pres tee peeetiee et dinetiae mates beat wich | Seivents oreuen sles Besocnrey epee btn Gad A short time ago an order was received at fessenand Talcation of the Bue properticcel well | tia Railroad, Oth and Bats JAN L. TAL LC the post-oitice from Washington to return un- Sigeted Oo at Eye hae prov our breakfast | _ocl eulied-for postal cards to the writer in the same save ue munny beoy Srctors Ge ee bo tke ae way as letters have been sent back. The clerk jen of diet’ that POTOMAC RIVER BOATS, eee On Lay be gradually strom * every — Bit d subtle . VERNON! VERNON! fatal shart by kk oursel y to find fatal shatt ty. vee, sa nd ie quatre =F rare Sri for ait. Made sin: yt, milk. Sold only = t pe , hay FF x = 30 pa wy21-m.tus J