Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1888, Page 14

6 AFOOT IRELAND. don and Northwestern railway Careless Vagabondism of the Irish Gip- of a milion pounds sterling), now to! See had to do wit this. lenses against gips) Brin} equities. unendorsed m: Beteses mee SIROLLING AMONG ARMAGR’s ProTUREsguE | «nd woren of unfriendly tribes, and scores of HILLS—MERTING WITH A RoMANY BaND—ane- | °ther causes of similar import as grave in their cree outa ams ene agent OEE en ‘TREATMENT IN ERIN. laws and ethics have made of which . sate never warmed to these uncanny pilgrims, a sort of ‘Special Correspondence of Tar Evexrxo PERMANENT PENAL TERRITORY Kuuessan, Ingtayp, Nov. ine. for cipsies whom gipsies of other and more fa- Where the winding Callan and the murmur- | Yored lands will nottoleratenearthem. Strange ous Ballinahone rivers, after traversing warm | ** this may seem, éts truth is beyond cavil, as and glowing landseapes, join in placid flow ffects are inevitable. si within the northern environs of picturesque | Cinditions of peranen sits ail tir sodane seh and ancient Armagh, I first came upon my old} often cheery, trust in the fatalism so distin- friends, the gipsies, in Ireland. Many a trace | guishable through the ages in the Aryan and of them had I already found. Many a trail, | Semetic races to which they surely owe their familiar to my eyes, hinting of their recent origin. Neither are there wanting individual Presence, had been discovered. Many a pat- | Hysnncen, °f, comparative progress and eccom- tran, or guide°for ther following pilgrim kind, aio among this forlorn folk in Ireland. A unknown to gentry or peasants. had I descried = ae a Sips 3s Papert gi with something like longing for their outlaw | holds a responsible positio i : companionship. Many a talo of sup-ratitiqns | Mother is caretaker of « leadin ng church a dread concerning their grewsome live: another is a rich dealer in th ‘ had I heard in but and cabin. And many an as-| savory q ot sertion, from the learned, who often know less | Cork a xipsy is responsibly than all, that there were none of the wandering | little, railway running to folk in Ireland, had I silently listened to. But | °"°..* in months of tramping over mountains, on endless highways, in lanes and by-paths, by shining loughs, smiling valley and by vac in the Corrib; and throughout the west many of the drovers and graz They are also found employe: with no questions asked concerning heir origin. about the many daily and weekly markets and at the regular fairs of Ireland. In one of the midland counties a gipay is the agent of a large estate; and to his credit no eviction has ever occurred upon it, At many of the castles of the Irish nobility—and there are more splendid castles and demesnes in Ireland than generally supposed many are, employed as gamekeepers, for which stealthy and sylvan vocation they peculiar qualifications; while, more power to them for it! no hungry Gipsy can camp near by without tasting the flavor of milord’s pheasants or rabbits from the always plethoric preserves. Some are owners of jaunting-cars in the larger cities, Others are dealers in the noted Cushendal ponies of the Antrim coast, acting as middle- nen between the breedervand the Irish and English markets. At the annual Dublin horse- fairs Gipsies, quite unknown as such to the management, breeders or the public, control major portion of the heavier dealings, and ractically inspire and profit by all the valua- Pie dickering ‘and jockeying ‘for which this greatest of all horse-fairs affords such extra- ordinary opportunity. All these, of course, hide their despised origin, and are always any- thing that is Irish, as varying exigencies and necessities may arise, CARELESS VAGARONDISM. But with these wind-whipped pilgrims of the hedges who had so boisterously welcomed me, and with their kind throughout all Ireland, the very acme of carcless, listless vagabondism is reached. If dickering and dukkering (fortune telling) bring food enough for the day, well and good. If not, then they will beg it, or lie in a hedge by a smbldering fire, of peat, bog wood, or dead branches may be begged or pil- fered, and starve like hibernating animals until driven to some sort of exertion. To be sure cach one is a tinker; each one weaves rude bas- kets of willow; each one is dextrous at bench, Yoiceful stream, never before had Icome face to face, hand to hand, and heart to heart, with any of the tawny crew, until from the crumbling tower above St. Patrick's cathedral, upon the veriest heights of Armagh’s hills. I espied THE RAGGED BROOD, and hastened to their sky-covered homes as fast as ever my good legs could carry me. And it was an odd reflection that accompanied me om my way. Armagh, the old, storied in his- + gl with ecclesiastic tradition, the , oF “noble Ae city,” of 00 years before the Christian era; Armagh, the Ardmagha, “the lofty plain” on the summit of Druimsailech, the “hill of wil- lows” of St. Patrick's time and labors; Armagh, whose ancient college was once the most fam- us seminary of Europe and from which issued learned men of all nations to enlighten in art, to diffuse ity and instruct bar! in all lands; jh, site of the olden royal filaces, environed by wondrous ruins, 17 times urned and 17 times 17 times plundered and ravished by contending hosts; hb ber lovely ing radient 5 er ca- thedral hills down her roofs of slate and thatch, sits like a beggared princess at the threshold of her own vanished glories, voicing but sobbing echoes of a luminous past; just as these tatterdemalion Irish Gipsies at Armagh’s ype Lf gate were a beggared and spectral type of a Once ancient and giorious race. ‘THE cAMP. ‘The camp was hidden from straggling road- ‘way passers by a few furz-covered hillocks. I climbed these where I could survey the little ¢ommunity a bit before becoming one of it. entire grouping was an eleyuent picture of Willful, hopeless vagabondism, or of helpless, wandering destitution. For an instant the sight conjured up innumerable scenes of evic- tion where Irish families, driven from their Wretched homes and clinging to their scant | tub and broom making; but as thousand upon belongings, straggled by the roadside in their | thousands of honest folk would annually starve first heart-rending. desperate amazement at | in Ireland, under the present infamous system the awful blow from landlord power and En- | of landiordism, if the very skin were ked glish law. Descending into the camp, 1 wan-| from strivers’ bones, were it not for the saving dered about for a time us if one of the many | st of American money, my not altogether curious daily visitors. It was about midday, | honest, and altogether vagabond, Gipsy friends gad the meager food the camp afforded, in stri-| content themselves with the least possible king contrast to that of our high-living American | strain of moral and physical effort. $0, to ex- Gipsies, was being served to several hungry | ist with them even for a few days, it fell to my e Groups. Settling im my mind at which one the | willing lot to replenish their larder. A fat chief of the band was located, I came quickly | Gipsy larder means a great Gipsy feast, A to his side, and after p g the usual Irish | feast is hardly a feast in Ireland, let alone | greeting of “Fine " however sunny or | other countries without “a drop to drown grief ¥ may be the weather, tossed him a half €rown, sat down upon the ground beside him, and unceremoniously asked for a share of the Deggarly repust. Without protest and with much pretentious Gipsy servility, a portion of stirabout and a bit of half-raw meat were handed me on a battered pewter plate. I be- gan eating the food, which was better than we Tuany times got with Sherman from Chatta- nooga to Atlanta in 'é4, with evidences of hun- Sry satisfaction, and. with a kindly glance at the chief's shaggy-headed wife, remarked in tones of praise: and lift joy.” Song, dancing and uproarious roystering were the consequence. And the penalty, for punishment has as long legs as joy as short ones, was the ent upon our camp of the crushing arm of British law in the form of a squad of royal constabulary who, with their “Move on, ye Gipsy dogs!” put us all to flight in a lively but dejected cavalcade down the winding Newry r AND WE WERE A MOTLEY CREW. Spae-wives, fierce and tall; older hellyons, muttering and wailing as they hobbled along; mothers hugging ragged chauvies to their breasts; maidens with the stride. and strength of men; old men beyond a century's age;hairy fel- | lows from middle age to youth; wi A SUDDEN INTRODUCTION. “Your raunie’s beenship at the pauplers.” four wife is grand at the kettles—i. e., a our gaunt, splendid cook). voiceless dogs, our tirkers’ wheels, our misera- A flash of responsive gratification ey in- | ble carts, our mournful goats, and lank, scraggy to the old face and a light of human | asses; all speeding toward the myrtle-loving will into ber keen old eyes; but | south, camping by day, traveling by night, but ‘Wariness as instantly extinguished them | ever hustled and driven on. At rathlesaly Markethill, near the splendid castle of Gosford, we turned from the Newry road to the south; | crossed the head watersof ¢ river, trailed | past lofty Deadman’s Hill, touched the sunn’ edge of county Louth, ing through Lou! town and quaint Ardee, crossed the fair valley lands of Meath, winding through olden Kells, | from whose abbey of long ago came, throt infinite labor, the marvelous Book of Kells, and through ancient Trim, where in Hugh de Lacy’s castie once lived King John of England, and where Richard imprisoned his own and Gloucester’s sons. and finally, along the Dublin road, by little Kilmessan, came into a hidden dingie the Gipsies well knew, where a rude temporary camp-home was made. And here We separated, with warm hand-pressures and | with eloquent tongues and eyes; { for my tramp | to the Hill of Tara and through the Boyne coun- try. and these tawny, hopeless waifs for their endless tramp without rest or home, until their tents are pitched in the silences eternal. Epoar L. Wakemay. ECLIPSE. Who Will Observe It—The Possibility of Finding an Inter-Mercurial Planet. Gipsy himself was upon his feet with Si of a stripling. “Ruflie feck ma!” (The devil take me!) ejadu- F, The stripling. the man, betrayed into his secret lan- in his surprise and alarm at hearing it manfally, “Ruffie lee Romany chals; is!” (No. Silence: May Gipsies; but a hard road for | are you?) he asked trem- excitement, the whole eamp already the sameentinney parley. | iah Gorgio chai,” (A true man and D; I answered earnestly, half-cooked meat with « valiant GIPST HONOR. half-crown I had given him fairly flew to me. Ah, the never-failing sense of toward their kind, or to one who the race, nick and ki shrikes of the Trish roadside found it i rica. He instant. Pek bi ef if i | He i Hy : E i I could scarcely my country and men, women and greetings, blessings ‘@ most em! ing | brought the sunlight | wary Arunted faoce marvelously. It | dingle with glorious wel- | frien truth, for the time | feouse ess in these that I reverently 42 The eclipse of the sun which will occur on January 1, 1889, is looked forward to with a) great deal of interest as it will present another | opportunity for astronomers to establish by observational proof the probable existence of | an inter-mercurial planet. The line of totality Will pass through the northern portion of Cali- fornia, the point of greatest duration being a short distance to the north of San Francisco, Already active preparations are being made to view the phenomena. Prof. Pickering, of Har- vard college, will have charge of ‘one party. The astronomers from the Lick observatory will also be on hand, and it is understood that Dr. Lewis Swift. of Warner observatory, will be located within the Limits of the line ot to- ity an search for int curial planeta mye 4 | ETLE i z ij Bs WITH THE BAND. For nearly s week I remained a member of this band. Through their trust, which is abso- Jute if given at all, their lives and ways, and the lives and rays of all Gipsies in Ireland, = ] Tpormar ict, book, Two facts gained are 3 one dis- slosing © marked peculiarity of Irwh people ‘THE TERM INTER-MERCUBIAL themselves. There are not, all told—and this is one that has been coined. It defines a body includes skulking city Romany unknown in town vocations as members of this outcast race—upwards of 5,000 Gipsies in all Ireland, of whom barely 1,000 follow the romantic life of the road. Catholics, | even the most igno- of the peasantry, with- l¢ — = ashing a , and wi ave none of them, save in their least offensive character of traders, ers, and beggars, With fine scorn will perhaps hold converse with ‘at icy on ely commercial ‘They will occasio: permit a Gipsy mend a kettle. pot. or pan: all the time awful reproaches upori him while their hos- would not revolving between the th in, and the wi will view the eclipse. named Lescarbault, « ian France, made the statement that he-had ob- served an object cross the sun's disc which he thought might be a small planet. Leverrier, the great Freneh mathemati learn- to have s This i ing of this observation, determined personal conversation with Lescarbault. meeting took place, and the sequel of it was that Le Verrier came away convinced that an inter-mercurial planet had been observed. ‘The verification of this so-colled discovery has never been made. An object as large as that claimed to have been seen by it would not have escaped the eyes of astronomers who have viewed eclipses of the sun sub- sequent to 1859. An object appear asa spot while si face of the man ‘would, daring « total shine nearly as bright as Mercury. ‘THE RE-DISCOVERY of this hypothetical planet, often called Vul- can, has been attempted at almost every eclipse if that hae oceurred wince 1859, If this exists it never departs more than 8° from, and | must always be within the overpowering glare of the sun. During the eclipse of 1878 the late mn and Dr. Swift, of Warner or fortune-teller once slip and begin any of her black- | smoke of war will at once cabin the te i it this fact so. well and bitterly with the race Ireland is recognition of its barrenness for jong ‘saliah Wodlie or uniucky and . three be OUTCASTS. jug consequence, the few gipsies that are | lowe: Ireland are always of the forlornest ee tae tent he maj their race; as it were, the outcasts | {50 Objects found the reasons for their re- | west of the sun, iy environment and | has come to «the | Caneri, a it fe i ut : e ‘ i i i | j i H ; i | if 1 z : & HT i t me t : 5 i E é [ 3 i Jorder of panoramas, but the | boken, where he lives in very modest style. He | NEW YORK NOTES. - Gossip Gathered Indoors and Out in the Metropolis. ‘THEATRICAL EFFECT OF THE VERESTOHAGIN EX- street into the subdued or artificial light, the bizarre arrangements of strange effects and the musky odors of the building containing the celebrated paintings is like stepping into another world, so strange is the interior of the Verestchagin gallery in its contrast with the ‘scenes one has justieft outside. It is the theat- rical arrangement that effects this contrast. ‘This feature begins at the little ante-room at the head of the flight of stairs to the left, a small chamber which has been transformed into a Tartar tent, by means of liar Eastern fabrics, The only li enter it isfrom a single loget and from the stuffs of which = there arises a curious odor it is compose which almost suffo- cates while it is nevertheless pleasing. In tho soft halfdight behind. the has there sits a woman laying , wistful folk songs if wild ‘ks and simply and grandly immense. The effect is realism ‘and if, as some of the critics say, it is more theatrie than artistic, it is certainly impressive and interesting. Most of the paintings and their accessories are on the are such pano- ramas as no Philpotteaux or other famous ramist can paint. Some of the other “et in the gallery I have already described to readers of TE Star. The collection of bric great arP attraction as and indeed itisthe attraction for the There are several cases of rare oriental curios, the like of which has never seen here: some suits of Indian mail in which the im and out of the metal is $2 delicate, nearly, a8 lace, and a superb col- lection of photographs taken instantaneously by the artist in the midst of the carnage of ve 's method is different from that of most of our painters. The effect is what our artists strive for, and they produce it b breadth of style rather than sconracy of detail. Verestchagin. on the contrary, is mechanically exact and correct even to the most tedious de- tails, In his stone walls and his buildings every stone is drawn with architectural correct- ness, and every pioce of joiner work is as if some carpenter did it. And vo in all the sub- fects of which he treats, Another point pecu- to Ve is his infinite variety. He is not a painter of this or that, but of every- thing, and his limits of variety are only marked by the extent of the whole field of painter's art. I make no pretensions to connoisseurship. but it seems to me that this wonderful man is equally successful in every theme and in every vle of painting. = *e I met two men on Broadway Tuesday after- noon who have each cut a considerable figure in public life, but whose names are now rarely mentioned. They were walking side by side when I passed them, and I marveled that they were together, Perhaps, though, their brush- ing of elbows was only an accident of the | crowded thoroughfare, for they are two menas | different in life as could well be imagined. One | of them was the Rev. Dr. Burchard, whose al- literative speech helped undo Mr. Blaine once upon.atime. The doctor strode along erect | and defiant, a remarkably well-dressed and well- reserved specimen of manhood, with an air of | Signity and courtliness which could not fail to | attract attention to him, even from those who | did not know wh@he was. He has suffered | nothing because of his Peculiar notoriety among those who have the pleasure of his ac- | uaintance, and I believeno clergyman in New | ‘ork has larger number of sincere friends than he. ‘The other man, who might or might not have been walking a step with the doctor by accident, was young Henry 8. Ives, at one time ‘‘the Napoleon of finance.” He had lost that air of jauntiness that formerly became him so well, was carelessly if not shabbily | dressed. and seemed generally worn and| troubled. It is rare for him to make his ay pearance on the promenade nowadays, and he | is said to keep quite close to his home in Ho- = has escaped conviction on all of the suite brought against him, I believe, and might, if he would, with his remarkable capabilities, build up no mean fortune to replace that he once enjoyed. But report says that the man’s it is quite broken, and that he has no ambi- tion beyond living quietly with books and | studies which he has taken up since his mete- | oric fall into obscurity. : *, a ; The embroidered trowser is now accompanied | by the blonde moustache. I have noticed an | unusual number of my acquaintances of late whose hairy upper lips are changing their former raven glossinees to a brownish tinge, and I am informed that the blonde moustache is becomin; taste. The process of bleaching moustaches is, if my barber doesn’t tell lies, a rather expen- sive one, for they must be soaked thoroughly in champagne every night before the bleacher | goes to bed. My barber explained the method | to me quite in detail, and wound up by remark- | ing thoughtfully that Col. Thos, F. Ochi appearance would be much improved if he | would soak his head of auburn hair in cham- | pase, every night. And when I suggested | t the colonel had soaked other portions of rson pretty thoroughly in champagne, ‘ber wore a still more thoughtful ex- preston, as he said: “Yes, I anppose the whole | ining of his stoiach is as blonde in color as a sorrel horve’s tail. | An odd thing about" tite audiences at Mary Anderson's season in “‘A Winter's Tale” at Pai- mer’s theater is the fact that they follow tho | play throughout with text-books in their hands. | It is like a performance of Coquelin and Ha- | ding, or one of Italian or German opera, for the rustle of turning leaves andthe burrowing of noses between book covers, It must be that American play-goers are, precious un With the works of one William Shakespeare, or else they are unable to understand the English that is spoken by Mise Anderson and her Eng. lish company. It is to be that this isnot | the dawning of a new for goodness knows it is bad enongh at the’ thea his the 's, and consequently much, better bred. . Thear that id, who was to have been. [eyes of “The Yeomen of the Gi ‘i recently told at a charity entertainment at Mrs. Sherwood’s Feason for her withdrawal from the Casi1 pany. It seems that Richard ‘ker, D’Oyly Carte's nging® | lig | the | pis al JAPANESE WOMEN. ‘Their Education, Dress, Home Life and Husbands. MARRIED LIFE AMONG THE JAPANESE—WESTERN- ing at first sight and grows only more pleasing on acquaintance, so that the very last thing to fade from the memory of anybody who has been fortanate enough to lingpr in Japan, must be these : Long eyes uid closely braided batt > Good looks are not enough to account for this; prettiness is the rule among Japanese women, but I think the charm lies chiefly—though to attempt a rough-and-ready analysis is like dis- tleness and tenderness and sympa- thy, the most womanly of all qualities, ogen- bined with what the Roman used to call “a oer- tain propriety” of thought and demeanor, and to 80 much. If you could take the ht from the eyes of a Sister of Mercy at her gracious tusk, the smile of a maiden looking over the seas for her lover, and the heart of an unspoiled child, and materialize them into a winsome and healthy little body, crowned with a mags of jet-black hair and dressed in bright rustling silks, you would have the typical Ja- women, To write of her life and oughts and habits and future developments, one must show much temerity, or else be with “divine affection bold,” but there is so much to say, and she will pay soimportanta part inthe final civiliging of Japan, that I must try. HUSBAND AND WIFE. The days when a Japanese wife stained her teeth black on her wedding day and shaved her eyebrows when the first baby was born, 3 tricts, but the French woman's remark, making due allow- ance for its exaggeration, may be repeated by the women fips hyd nous supprime, femme, on nous opprime.” ' The expression res augusta domi might have been invented for Japan, so narrow of necessity is the wife's home life. The husband mixes with the world, the wife does not; the husband has been some- what inspired and his thoughts widened bj intercourse with foreigners, the wife has not me! them; the husband hasmore or less acquaint- ance with western learning, the wife has none. Affection between the two, within the limite which unequal intellectuality ruthlessly pre- scribes, there well may be, but the love which comes of a perfect intimacy of mutual knowl- edge and common aspiration, there can rarel be. “A companion in solitude, a father in ad- yice, a mother in all seasons of distress, a rest in passing through life's wildernoss”—such an ideal of wifehood is virtually impossible. ‘The ghost of Confucius forbids, and until that is ex- orcised. it will remain impossible. The very yocabularly of romantic love does not exist in Japanese—a fortiori, there is little of the fact. You could not translate the love letters of Ab- elard or Fichte into Japanese, Marriage isa civil contract, without religious or official ceremony. The ceremonies, which are elaborate, are confined to the families and friends of the contracting parties, and the legal recognition takes the form of registration in jovernment records, Divorce again—the of marriage—is theoretically easier in pan than in Chicago, but as a matter of fact the intervention of tho families protects the wife from injustice or caprice in all cases where husband and wife are respectable enough to have any family tios af all. ‘The higher you ascend socially the moro hostile and influential are the forces arrayed against divorce. A wo- for a divorce from her hus- It must be distinctly understood that in writing above about Japanese women and wives, T have had in view chiefly the upper class of the generation that is, and that evon in this there are many examples—among the minis- ters,for instance—of husbandand wife. living on Precisely the terms of English and American upper-class couples. The generation that is growing up will be very different. Not only will the men of it be more western, but the women also. As girls they will have been to schools like our schools at home; they will have learned English and history and geogra- phy and scicnce and foreign music, perhaps even something of politics and political econ- omy. They will know something of “society” as we use the term, and will both seek it and make it.The old home-life will become un- bearable to the woman and she will demand the right of choosing her husband just as much as he chooses her. ‘Then the rest will be easy. QUESTION OF DRESS. The great question before the Japanese ‘woman at presentis the question of dress. Shall she give up her own beautiful and beloved cos- tume, and adopt the strange and uncomforta- ble aitire of the foreign woman, or shall she not? It is a very serious question indeed for her and for her country, and no wonder, as a japanese friend has just written to me, that the ladies, who are not accustomed to de- cision, cannot but teel how to make best.” at pain in their bosom arguments are very e conflicting. On the one hand, there is the | empress’ own example and her order that no lady shall appear at court in other than foreign dress. Then there is the natural de- sire not to appear old-fashioned before their fellows, ‘The desire of their husbands is also in many cases on the side of foreign dress, and soare the public appeals of many influentialmen, buch as the minister of education. However, there are certain undoubted advantages of for- eign dress over Japanese, such as greater free- dom of movement and greater ease and modesty insitting upon chairs. But on the other side Ja- panese women have infinitely too much taste not tosee that their own dress is far more beautiful. They know, too, that it is much less expensive, use it is so much more durable and never goes out of fashion. It is likewise evident to most of them that generations of training will be needed before Japanese women n wear the artificial foreign dress as cleverly and elegantly as European and American la- dies, Then, too, the public appeal to the women of ‘Japan signed by Mrs. Cleveland, ‘Mrs, Garfield, and a score of the leading ladies of the United States, trusting that they are ‘too patriotic to endanger the health of a nation, and to abandon what is beautiful and suitable in their national costume, and to waste money on foreign fashions,” has naturally made a great impression upon them. ‘THE DRESS OF A JAPANESE WOMAN of the middle or upper classes begins with the yumoji, « rectangular piece of stuff wrapped round the loins and reaching to the knee, like the towel of a shampooer. Over this comes a Deautifal a perfectly simple bath-gown_ wi jeeves, Stting closely to the body, and genor- of delicate and pale col ilk goes over this—all the garmehts of a we Woman after the first peticont are identical in shape and fit into one another like anest of boxes, In summer over the fiban comes the outer dress, called for either man or woman the ki i made A i le hy E u f | F is : F at a right angle and left bow, then the bottom, up into a emailer inner bow, end is turned back fat stato sk "band, cal stretched over this to 5 E thing,” and they ought 10 know, But another plan has been very in fluentially advocated of late, namely, the gen- eral adoption by ladies of the national article of dress called hakama, a. pair of very loose the legs of which are-so wide that the division between them is seldom visible. with @ broad stiff waistband—a “divided skirt,” in fact. This would be absolutely mod- est, it would admit of perfect freedom of move- ment, it would involve no departure from national habit and ideas, since the hakama is a Part of the full dress of ‘the Japanese gentle- man of to-day, and the appearance of it, with the short hussar-like jacket which necessarily own part, I should regard the sacrifice of the kimono, with its long, graceful Greek folds, to say nothing of the disappearance of the obi, ,a8 almost equivalent to the destruction of the beauty of the whole costume. WESTERNIZING THE COUNTRY. The real reason, of course, why the authori- ties have been setting the example and encour- aging the adoption of foreign dress for both men and women in Japan, is a political one. They desire to introduce the foreign manner of living, as the natural corollary and support of foreign institutions, and they know that if they can only make foreign dress universal, Japanese houses will inevitably be replaced by forei houses, for coats and trousers demand chal and these again render the soft matted floors impousible, and then the coun! will be finally and completely westerniz One of the gross misconceptions that prevails abroad about Japan—I was told it even while crossing the Pacific—is that foreign dress is now generally worn. Nothing could be more ridiculously ‘untrue. In the streets of Tokyd, a city of 1,200,000 in- habitants there is perhaps one man in foreign dress out of five hundred—I am inclined to think that one in a thousand would be nearer the mark—while in the country you will not find one in ten thousand. In the city you per- haps see two or three Japanese ladies in for- | eign dress in a week, but in the country you would not see as many ina At a fas ionable semi-official ball in Tékys there were a largo number of the leading ladies wearing foreign dress, and a sadder sight I never saw. Most of them would have looked charming in their own clothes, but as it was (with the e: | ception of one marquise who would be beauti- lessly combined, so awkward, so ill at ease, that if the spectacle had not been really sad and piteous, one could not have repressed one's lnaghter. “Voyez-vous,” remarked a | foreign diplomat to whom I was talking, jas he turned on his heel and left the |Toom, lo Japon d'sujourdhal. c'est une aduction mal faite!” The epigram is as un | true as it is clever, but the circumstances pro- voked it. Except the court, the army, and the civil service, however, foreign dress has yet | no hold in Japan, and almost every man, from | the millionaire to the government clerk, has- | tens to put it off as soon as he gets inside his own door. And foreign dress and foreign houses and foreign food—it is a case of al! or none—mean living ata scale of much greater expense than the Japanese people are at pres- | ent either willing or able to afford. Moreover, | of one thing I am quite convinced—namely, | that if Japanese women generally adopt for | eign dress, tho stream of foreign visitors will ‘turn aside’ from Japan. Instead of beauty | there will be ashes—instead of a charm that | the world cannot surpass there will be the ugli- ness from which it apparently cannot escapes Henry Norman, ——_—_-+e— Saturday Smiles. The people of Washington ought always to be in capital health,— Pittsburg Chronicle. A girl may not see much in her sweetheart to laugh at, but his mustache is pretty sure to ickle her.— Boston Courier. It is not a disgrace fora man wedded to his rofession to depend on his wife for support.— brpieren dlgdhacetatig The American eagle will now please step aside for a week or two and give the American turkey a chance.—Omaha Republican. The Cleveland swell who married his father’s cook liad probably dined at the house of a young married friend the night before.—Phiia- ua Times, Always Busy—Hall Clock. of this ceaseless round, and I’m going to stop.” Gas meter—“Huh! Come down here if you want to know what work is.”—Philadelphia Record, Debilitating exerciso—First chappie— “Don't cher naw De Foodles is getting awfully muscu- “I'm getting tired | Second chappie—“Naw.” First chappic—‘Yas, weally, he balances his cash account every night now.”—Time. Customer—“What yo’ charge for gittin foto- grafs took?” uplicutes, $8 per dozen.” ‘ustom dozen duplicates token. A Liverpool newspaper man discovered that only twoumong 489 sallors were named “Jack | and in all his talk with them he never beard | one say “shiver my timbers,” or ‘dash my top- lights.” If he were to listen to the conversa- tion of a sailor on the stage, “shiver my | timbers” is pretty much all he would hear him 1 P j Say.—Norristown Herald, “Reform,” says a writer, “should always go forward.” "A wise observation, The reform that sought to do away with the bustle went behind, and it failed.”—Boston Courier. ses samt Stranger Than Fiction. ‘THE REMARKABLE STORY OF A WOMAN WITH TWO HUSRANDS. A Harrisburg, Pa., special to the New York ‘Times says: A romance in real life is reported from Zelienople, Butler county. The story seems incredible, nevertheless it is authentic in every particular, Eighteen years ago Louis Leitz resided in © small village in France. He had a wife and three children. years’ imprisonment. He heard nothing of his wife during his long confinement, and as soon as he was liberated he made inquiries concern- ing her whereabouts. Gut a sad surprise awaited him. He learned that the woman had married aman named Walther and had a number of children by the marriage. The minute the false wife saw her first husband all her old love tor him re and, crying piteously, pleaded forgiveness. She was ready to desert Walther. But husband No. 1 was somewhat of a philoso- pher. The children belonging to Walther were a barrier to the scheme’ proposed ‘by "the Sines aif anise pereaten See wt an mi roposition lookit toward a compromise. was willing to take his wife again, but she was to retain Walther ide for the husband No. 2 ment, and say hay since n apparent Ye warm friends, and’ joy The two men became va | and happiness have resulted from this remark- replaces the kimono, is charming. But, for my | ina flour-sack) they were simply appalling | —ao badly fitted, their foreign colors so taste | Photographer—“Imperials, $6 per dozen; | POWDER Absolutely Pure. ‘Look in our windows and you will better understand footwear. SHOES for Men, Women and Children, tender feet. Shoes that require no “breaking in," that are pliable and elastic in make, yet strong and service- able in wear. Shoes that are cheapest because they are the best. Our low prices place tham within easy reach of all. 210-2m Pasr Aut Precepexr: OVER TWO MILLIONS DISTRIBUTED. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. porated by the Legislature in 1838 for Edu. | _ 2c cagest eat pars tale fea part of the present State Constitution iu 18: wwerwheliming popular vote. | | Its GRAND EXTRAORDINARY DRAWINGS take | place Serai-Annually, June ant | une and Deceber), snd ‘tts RAND SINGLE NUMBER DBAWINGS take place on each of the other ten montha in the year, and are all drawn in public, at the Academy of Music, New jeans, Las. | «We do hereby certity that wer supervise | ents For all the monthly The Linasiana State Lottery Company. avd t a anancye and contro the Drawings themselves and that the same are conducted with honesty, Jairn'se, and 1a | good saith toward at parties, and we authorize the Cum Dany to use thiv cert fieaie. with fac-silles f Our 8g atures att in ila advertisements.” Commissioners, We, the undersigned Banks and Bankers wilt prizes drawn in The Lowsianna Siate Lottertes ‘muy be presented at our counters, e- FZ al Bank. i. MAMMOTH DRAWING AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1888." CAPITAL PRIZE, $600,000. 100,000 Tickets at Forty Dollars: Hal 320; Quarter, #10; Heaths, #57 awenticins, poe ed 400 200 are. APPEOXIMATION PRIZES. 100 Prizes of $1,000 are. 100 prizes of 800 are. 100 Prizes! of 400; 29 Prizes of $00 are. 99 Prizes of 400 are, 200.900 80.000 40,000 200 Prizes of 800 146 Prizes, amounting to. Ua ron Gide Maren: oF any” fardier 4 the amdersigued, clearly ce, with Stat ty. Street and. Tepid revurp weil delivery will be os. by your enclosing an Envelope bearing your full ss POSTAL NOTES, Express Money Orders, of AL} xpress Money Orders, New York Exchaney in ordinary fetter, Currency by | Express (at our expense) addreased to Lcd | M. A. DAUPHIN, ‘New Orleans, La, Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BAN] - New orien REMEMBER that the presence of Generals Beaure- gard and Early, who are in change of the drawings, is & guarantee of absolute fatmess and integrity, that ‘ae chances are all equal, aud that no one cau possibly di- vine what number will draw a prize, “REMEMBER also, that the payient of prizes is GUARANTEED BY FOUR NATIONAL BANKS of New Orleans, and the tickets are signed by the President of an Institution whose chartered richts are recognized | in the highest Couris; therefore, beware of all imite tions or anonymous schemes.” nid-wassw | Ta’ Cnmes es “YOUMANS,” N. ¥.; “KNOX,” N, HEATH, Lond. Ageicy of ¥,, and HENRY ,, London, ai'the SYINEME1Z, SONS, 1237 Fentsylvanin ave. nie GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. “By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which, vern the operations of digestion and uutrition, aud 3a curtzul arpiiation of the Hue properties ct. well Selected Cocom,” Mr. Epps hus trovided our breakfast {bles witht delicately Revored ae seve umany heavy doctors’ Lille, , ots use of wich ‘ict that 2 consti oi ticles hay belgredually built up tnt strum epoueh to, ree every tendency. to disease. ‘of subtle jou ure Bloating tun ready to attach where: ma 497 Penn. ave., adjoining National Hotel. Horse Blankets and Lap Robes in grest variety at ‘very low prices. oc3, Bax orare oorrans ane Tue Best. Bay State Guitars are the lowest priced, ‘Bay State Guitars satiaty all. ‘Bay State Guitars sell as fast as they con be manutac- tured. ‘Bend for prices and description to J. 0. HAYNES & 00, 23 Court st. Boston. Mase. ‘what we mean when in future we talk to you of proper | constructed with special care for the requirements of | the arrang’ ind Semi-Annual Drawings | | ut Phish RAILROADS. EVERYTHING IN ree ore, Sea Seo Ganwers on AT OLD PRICES stock was purchased before the heavy advance, and weare offering then Sloquee, Ul: storm Viniten aud‘Jacketa | ee Seu NEIgh Gemiente ih every shape and Trimming st a rem Hokey Mutt amie gy He Mtagt Fok oe eh ge ae er ee All gouds a low in price bouse in America, Duniay’s New York Here - — and Boys’ Suk Derby and Worsted Hats and limported pn variety of Pur, 4 So and 83, WILLETT & RUOFF, varies. A of purity, - ‘Matters and Furriers, streneth, and wholesomeness: More econoitiell tus | _0c12-Om ‘205 Penna. ave, wth the multitude of low tent, short weight hates | WON BRANDIS. Ue woe a — 5 A king and Milli: Establishment, 1229 | Phospuste powder. ‘SoLb OxLY IN cans. ROYAL Bax- | p pans —y"! | xo Fowpen Co., 106 Wall street, X.Y. and” | Boa Sieet wicramnae cova foe ate eg 3 fect At and work, one fitting required. “Aus welling Millinery at half of cost.” Bisim Prorze Foorwzan 1310 Sth st. uw, bet, N and O ste SEPERECOOUS HAM DESTROYED, LEAVING xO race, by my electric menus, presen; onacrsed bp Syery. bromine! physician. Ten yeare” practice a TS Maey” Electra treatment for laden att children. SoclO-Su* MES. Dit GAWAIEL 1901 0 st new, | FOR THE LADIES ATAL GARMENTS ALTERED ‘nd repaired: uuile to order. catrinre fous Te. | paired, Snes. it A LVANS. Poes-im* 1201 Ponnaylvaiie ave. Davie building, ILY DRESS SHIELDS ALE THE BEST. MANT- fufactured by the Brouklyis sheild Coe BeGok y Sy Uy al enn dry bowen tthe Cul 1 Mux M. J. Prasor, 1309 F st. nw. (Mrs. Hunt's), FINE FRENCH HAIK GOODS, i A special selection in SHELL, AMBER AND DULL JET ORNAMENTS. Hair Dressed aud Bangs Shingled. SRENCH DYEING. SCOURING AND DRY CLEAN. ‘Flush. Velvet and Dirvases reo Hi, formerly with A kof a > AS TOW ica, AND CAROLINE LEKC nd Maison Yriese, Lupus Buy the celebrated “CORTICELLI™ SPOOL SILK AND TWIST. IT 18 THE BEST. For sale by ~ | va THE PALAIS ROYAL, (A Linn.) jer Pa. ave. and 122th st. -eozin ‘A FISCRER'S Di ISHMENT AND DYE WOLKS, 006 G gt. vw. Ladies’ aud Gente’ Garoente of all kinds eleaued and Dyed without bein ripped.” Ladiew Eveuiwe s ‘specialty. Thirty-dve. year ‘experience. ta ‘Goods called for and deliv LL WOOL GARMENTS, MADE UP ok RIPPED | A Syed's good mourning black . Prices USBNELL s port ABLE feo Regular Ofive Inks Pearl Mucilage, No evaporation. No cork Always ready. wirt Fountain Din. “Seckett Fontes Pap < 418 Oth ot ue P DAN ry 1 pecially inv catia : dine Tnvitetions, Bell as, Fine Tickets and Invitation ‘Carus, which they Low prevared to sliw. “Tie artnet ts go co cand comprises so Way boveltion that they contident of meeting ail tas oct ‘S AND ORDERS ‘& WALLACE, __ HOUSEFURNISHINGS, HE POPULAR pament, “Si AND FASHIONABLE WINDOW tained Glass Substitute.” iw, ‘ly of this paper. 20-003" Coorse By Gus A full line of GAS COOKING STOVES (On band and for sale. mb31 © WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANY. ] | Canrers: Canpers:: Canrers::: | _ We are daily receiving our Pall sapply of BIGELOW, LOWELL & HARTFORD WILTON CARPETS, BODY U: LS, MOQUETS, VELVETS, TAPESTRIES, THREE-PLYS, INGRAINS, and ART SQUARES, | BUGS, MATS, CURTAINS, and DKAPINGS in great Variety. Au inspection of our stock is solicited. ~ se25-3m HOOF, BRO. & ©O., 1328 Fest, FOR A FIRSTCLASS HEATING STOVE, RANGE iz oe GARTHELL, 815 7th st. 4 Latrobes and Ranges Repaired Promptly se20-2mi __FAMILY SUPPLIES. Wiar Is Taar Scerie, Secrer SOMETHING ‘That has caused everybody to sound the praises of BRIDAL VEUL FLOUR! ‘Try it and see, and you will use no other, Forsale by the following well-known grocers: 20MM UL. MAGBUDER. 1417 Now Verh ove, e' JEWELRY, &e. oF FRENCH CLOCKS, BRONZES aND FRANK M LEWIs, JEWELER AND SILVERSMITH, 1215 Pa AVE, a7 _PIANOS_AND_ORGANS._ Perfect in workmanship; elegatt in styles. low int Price! ime stock Dow open, str vane ie ain Established 1640. ASRS Gu ens p Sane Country, attent aes a. ES S720 Seuatatbe Svery pertculae G. H. KUHN, General Agent. Also for “Pease” Piatios and Burdett Organs. se pns sett Meer Lene, Dm nt Sik and Derby Riding Hate,with and with | ESTAB. | Programs, | DAD, cs None tetas 1S ALTIMCRE AND. Washington station, ‘ot New Jereny "Norwest. vestibuied ttmited ow For Chicago rd pipes Snip Ab am. capreen 8:05 pam ty ForCiminnat and & Loum expr daily) 3 an Frederick, $10:10am., 14.35, > m. ‘or Hiagerstown, 10:10 a.m... and > ‘Traine arrive from Chicam ‘ally om Cincinnati and St Lar bam.; from Pittsburg "7 3 8 00. is, +1 ry Cy 8:00, 805 10 '20'8 0.5 8:06, 10-00 and LT PHILADELPHIA DIVISION of Philadelphia and Wilmington, daily. X 100, 5.4 20nd LE AO te od Bulle. Parlor Care on the. and 4:20 yp ins. Sleeping Oar on the er a, 8-00, Py 00, 6:5 bm resi- 1351 | WM CLemenrs, | B18 “Gen, Mauamor, | ar OREAT, ‘inly, with aly: wt aot Laie er thee Toiavitie au is Pacific ba 1 r 00 pau. daily ent, with throueh Sleeper hice JOKE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. widadgetin, and ‘ater, daily ™. For New Ye 1 40am. ‘ars, ¥. uy daily, with Dinit th For bins 00 p.m. every day. srouseh tFalna con ine City fitect ¢ For Pisin ror 7 2-00, vn Bans day, 9:00. 11-4001. 10 00and 11-20 pan. Limited Express, all Parlor Care. #40 sau. week-dayeand 3:45 pam daily, with Dining Fot tuitimore. 6.35, nd 1 Fain. and 4-40 pam. daily, | Por Auuayolis, 720and 9-00 am. 12.05 and 4:40 Yaw, dnuls-encept Buuday. “Buddays, 000 wane pam. ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAT WAY, AND ALEXANDKIA AND WASHING ION RAILROA: E aud ii and 11:07 am, aud 10. m, Tickets and information at the office, northeast Sith street an ati ate cor Inc?) Geu, Pus, Agent, A past ‘enw. ville. Chariott-wville oe Alexandr uals Slecperr W net A.M Pest Mail Dail le, Gordonaviile, 3 4 Jottesvill Lyne rt. Ps Sleeper Da: to Colum) Augusta, Solid trains Wasldincton to tanta. Does not couuect for C. & 0. route pulnts muinville. Sleepers and Slid’ Trains Washingt no for Ly meh nu Memphis, Littie Rock, and all southwestern Throw Putian Siccters Washuugton to. M without ‘Southern Pxyrees Dail caletgh, Asher". Charl ianttn, Ni P P 1 pe fo LL Ea 3 earepe Sunday. E na a5 EM ea to Mia Chesapeake todo PM: wud 7-30 PM. via Bat Tenui burg st 11:13 AM. and 9:40 PM and’ Ohio route “and” Charlottesville ‘Strusbure Local at 0:47 AM. repine car Tewervation apd information Unerage checked nthe." 0 Fone ne, ain at Panscnger Station, Pesyiomy Iver ‘eid B ste “ mh POTOMAC RIVER BOAT: Mt YERNON! tr. veKNox: ~~ STEAMER WW. CORCORAN | Leaves Tth-street wharf daily ‘eacest Nuudas? for Vernon and 1 for ste pd Laver Labditurs ‘as tar down w= Glstot 2 Heturuiy, reacues, Westingted LL. BLAKE, Captain. JOR POTOMAC RIVER LAND! NEW LKON STEAMER Wes: thgtreet har! ou MONDAY Spd SATURDAYS at7 am Re FRIDA\S and SUNDAYS p. Landings as far as Nomini Creek, Leonardi : aud wed cen with JOHN B PADGETT, Apt ie Shepherds See schedule ~ eo CW. RIDLEY, Manager. OCEAN STEAMEI ‘CUBA, ME: WARD LINE, ‘Will be despatched for Havaua, Matanzas, | ten Reng deeqeeane eae From tn 5 SBELSDAYS ond SAT EDAYS, ror Santis de Qube and Ch For Nese Soap Stier THUMADAT ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, NASSAU, ae : com.