Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1889, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, - ¢ f NG AND DINING-ROOMS. The High Order of Washington Dinner Parties. GoME ELEGANT DINIVG-ROOMS—THE ORDER OF PRECEDENCE AT OFFICIAL DINNERS—ARBANGE- MENT OF FLOWERS—NOVELTIES IN THE MENU SENATOR PALMER'S LUXURIOUS ROOM, The highest compliment coveted by hosts hostesses is to be called successful dinner ivers. Washington is essentially a dining ity, and the high art may be studied here its most accomplished models. The cost fa first-order dinner, as ascertained by iran reporter, is not’ so great in this ci might be —— For a company of eighteen, the host having his own house, and luding flowers, waiters, wines, the bill eed not exceed $500, and there are accom- lished entertainers here who have given some Bttention to the matter, not with the view so Inch of lessening cost as to obtaining the best ible service, who put the figures at 2300 or for superb dinner. The first essential then to a successful dinner is that the host ve money and know how to lay it out to the advantage. The guests must be selected ith care, as embarassments are liable to occur if the congeniality of the list is not made matter of study, although it often pens in this city that two people ‘who would not bow to each other upon the street will appear in good <<. ing out to dinner together in the house of a Srateal friend. Mr. Oscar Wilde and Mr. Archi- bald Forbes had « quarrel when both were in this country upon lecturing tours and they have never ceased to be hostile. They often ‘meet in London draw: ‘wife of the other upon his arm going down to — but the courtesies of mutual friends as had no power to mitigate the hatred of one for the other. THE SEATING OF GUESTS at official dinners in this city, where the court rules of precedence are obligatory, is a matter Of nice exactness. It is customary with people who have favor there to send their dinner lists to the White House to be diagrammed when knotty questions of precedence arise. Some- times instances occur in which the consul- tationof high authorities are necessary. man that knows it ull in these grave points of etiquette is said to be Mr. O. L. Pruden, first Sssistant secretary at the White House. The ranking of the diplomat is still an unsettled question. and = when Congress or the Secretary of State or some Tecognized authority will settle it once and forever by laying down a specific law of prece- dence among officials, the event will be a mat- ter of sincere congratulation among hosts and hostesses. Some ladies have adopted a rule of edence that obtains in their houses. The rilliant wife of « present cabinet minister holds that the President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Sta the Speaker of the House and | the President of the Senate rank the represen- tatives of any imperial court in the land at her } table. It is told of the well-known and clever wife of a foreign minister, that she threw her | napkin from her, rose in a great rage and ab- ruptly left the table and the house at a dinner party in this city one night because she found erself ranked in position by the wife of an inferior official. The story may be true, for the lady was brought up at court and honored ell the traditions, and besides she had the courage of her opinions. A friendship of several years’ growth between a lady of the cabinet and the wife of a foreign minister was brought toa sudden termination last season, because the foreign lady was not given the place of honor at a dinner given by the cab- inet lady, that she considered due her position. ‘These are some of the pitfalls that lie in the path of sociaNeuccesses for the unwary. Every lady has a commendable ambition to have a novelty in her menu, and so when the cook presents the proposed bill of fare, is prompted to strike out the ol dishes for new compositions. Itis, however, advisable to keep to the standard dishes that go to make the dinner palatable to all guests. THE ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS is a matter in which great liberty of taste is allowed, but the simple circle or oval of roses in a low basket finds nothing to acceptably Bupercede it. This winter the La France rose, that realizes more than any other the perfume of the Vale of Cashmere, takes precedence. novel arrangement of flowers was seen cent dinner given by Senator and Mrs. ford. The effect was that of rich roses ouring forth from a cloth-of-gold bag. and the sug- gestion was of Oriental profusion. and was Yery beautiful. Surprises in a menu never come before the dessert, while it is now a French fancy to serve flowers and fruits that Prove tobe bonbonniers opening up to disclose sweetmeats, A practical suggestion that may not come amiss 1s the pouring of a little violet water into the finger-bowls where violets been introduced, and it insures the perfume. THE DINING-ROOMS described to-day are all well known for their ty, and greater charm cannot attach to worldly possession. The dining-room in the house of Senator and Mrs. Palmer, of McPherson square, has been the scene of many notable gatherings. The oom is a perfect oval in shape, and the floor, high wainscot and ceiling, with its heavy cross- beams and pauels, are of rich dark mahogany that was imported by Senator Palmer in the logs from Europe and was prepared and polished to its present beauty by Detroit work- men. The man who interrupted Senator Pal- mer ina speech on the tariff during the late campaign to ask about the imported lumber of this dining-room had the matter explained to him in a way that cured his curiosity for the rest of the address. The mantel is high and has a bevel-edged mirror. and over the grate is the inseription in carving. “Now good diges- tion wait on appetite, and health on all.” The buffet is built in the wall, and its gleaming mirrorsare shaded by heavy curtains caught | back to the sides of the recess. Handsome Japanese screens conceal the door that leads into the butler’s pantry, where are the dumb waiters that come down from the kitchen that is in the fourth story of the house, and not in the basement. The visitor in the drawing- Yoom never smells the preparing din- ner in this house. The dining-room chairs are of the kind that thoughtful hostesses find essential to a successful Sxeer entertain- ment. They have upholstered bands at the back for support and arms that are fonnd to be most restful when a person sits a long time in one position. Mrs. Palmer has some beautiful German na y of Frankfort linen that is most artistically embroidered in gold and white Bilk. The china that is used on this table have copies of celebrated paintings upon the plates and platters. The salad set is of Japanese de- signs, in which are used the golden butterfly in token of the fact that in preparing this epi- curean dish the butter is made to fly effec- tively. The game plates have paintings of game birds and deer upon them, and those for fish are decorated with dainty designs, in which the various water beauties, aquatic mosses and ferns are used, and the drag net seems to have been thrown over some of the pieces. MRS. MAURY'S DINING-RooM, The Assistant Attorney-General and Mrs. ‘Wm. A. Maury have an artistic dining-room in their new house at No. 1767 Massachusstts | avenue. The room is 16 by 24 feet and is eliptical in shape and is decorated in the old Colonial style, which is carried out in the high wainscoting, the high mabogany mantel and the furniture. tapestry in an old English pattern of russet festoons upon a gobelin blue ground. The ceiling is a dull gray white with a cornice of old blue, and the portieres are of blue. The sideboard is an exquisite antique in mahogany with a swell front and brass handles to the drawers, the mirror is mounted on brass rods and is bevel-edged. ‘The mahogany chairs are upholstered in tapes- try and have brass feet, and the feet of the table are heavily carved. Under the high mantel the ~— of wine color, contrasting eharmingly with the brass fender. The ghandelier is of crystal and highly polished brass, silver candelabra adorn the mantel, and the pantry is furnished with exquisite china. ¢ Persian rug that covers the is in dull Fed and blue. IN MR. POLLOK'S HOUSE. ‘The extension of music room and conserva- tory recently made to his superb house by Mr. Anthony Potlok also includes a v @ining room. The room is rectangular in shape, end has an arched ceiling, that is the arch from the wall lights the room. Cer into the conserva- of folit; on the east side of the room opens into the music room that contains Double Marquis de oak is carved in a lace-like are blue tiles inserted in hearth is borders: ie s The wall is covered with a rich | nionship in | i2 a design of birds and flowers; the table has cary’s bottle of ancient times and a tall drink- ing cup. A DAINTY DINING-ROOM. Mr. and Mrs. J. Kearney Warren, of New York city, have built a beautiful house in this city, and the dining-room is as exquisite in coloring aud effect asa jewel-box of rare work- manship. The high-paneled wainscoting of English oak is met by the ao of Japanese leather in copper color, and embossed in a shade darker in a pattern of fruit. vines and leaves, and the ceiling is tinted in a pale pink- ish green, with a narrow border of shaded coppers and saffrons. No central chandelier breaks the perfectly toned and proportioned space. A lamp of silver filagree work, sus- ended by long silver chains from the ceiling, | See over the mahogony buffet, trimmed with oak, that occupies one side of the room. The beautifully chased silver tea set and other table furniture has the cozy home look of everyday use. The side chandeliers are of bronzed brass, bearing brown tapers. The oak mantel is effectively rae in a recess, and at the back above the shelf is ian, Uy in- laid with jeweled glass in old pink, yellow and green and in a floral design. The low square windows are opposite the buffet, and are curtained with embroidered white fine linen. Upon two pedestals within the window are two Nubian figures, holding flambeaux, as if they were in readiness awaiting the moving of the inauguration procession. The oaken chairs are upholstered in a gray blue tapestry, woven its oaken legs carved in pomegranates, and has “rooms, each with the | knee-breeches and silver buckles. The | @ Stan reporter of a prominent dealer in boots | built up again. A woman doesn’t do anything of | | They run from $1.25 to $3.00, though I sup- and ends at the skylight | sider them as curiosities.” Nision ge to the west side, | timore and Obio road. near Paw-Paw, some wondrous | of merchandise and it was. The mantel of | the’ ittern, and in it | 4,000 men are thrown a cover of the tapestry. The only icture in the room is a portrait of Gabriel Ludlow, the great-great grandfather of Mrs. Warren, painted by Copley, and shows the patroon in velvet THE LADIES’ PRETTY FEET. What a Dealer Has to Say About the Way They are Clad. WOMEN BUY MORE SHOES THAN MEN BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE FASTIDIOUS AND DO NOT WEAR THEM S80 LONG—THEY PAY MORE MONEY FOR THEM, TOO—MEN LOOK MORE TO COMFORT. “Do men or women buy most of you?” asked and shoes, “Ladies are our best customers,” was the re- ply. “Now, you would think,” he continued, “that as men are mostly ont of doors and are heavier on their feet, while ladies spend the greater portion of their time in the house, the men would buy most shoes. But it isn’t so.” “What is the reason?” “Well, in the first place, ladies buy boots which are lighter in quality, and then they are more particular about the appearance of their feet. A man will wear a pair of shoes until they are thoroughly worn out. When the soles become worn and the heels are run down he will have his shoes half-soled and the heels that kind. When her dainty boots begin to run down at the heel and get out of shape,then | she wants a new pair. and she gets them. As a young lady said tome the other day while | trying on a pair of boots, ‘I do like to have my | foot look well. I'd rather have a new pair of boots than a new dress.’ That's the feeling with most of them. The majority of ladies have well-shaped feet, and of course they look better IN NEAT-FITTING BOOTS.” “What is the average size that Washington ladies wear?” “The numbers in ladies’ sizes run from one to five and a half. Very few can wear number ones, though I have a customer who isa mar- ried woman, and over thirty years old, who | wears a number thirteen, misses’ size. Still, though her foot is so small, it is not near so well proportioned as some who wear a larger boot. I think the neatest and prettiest foot | that lever fitted belonged to the wife of an | ex-cabinet minister. » wore a number one, | and her foot was very shapely, with a highly- arched instep. She knew she had a beautiful foot, and she al had it clad in the finest kind of boots. The average size, I suppose. number three, though I know women who fours and -halfs whose feet are well proportioned that you would think th wore a much smaller shoe. The sizes I have given you are for shoes and boots, and not for ' can wear a slipper at least a ler than her boot.” t is the run of men’s sizes in this city “The numbers run from 6 to 10, and I s pose the average is about 7. There are a gre laany men in Washington who have very smail feet considering their size. I have one cus- tomer who weighs. I presume, 200 pounds, and yet he only wears a number 7 gaiter. I have two or three gentlemen who buy number 5, boys’ size, and one of my regular customers, a man of forty, who is 5 feet 8 inches in height, wears is A NUMBER 4, Boys’ SIZE, His foot, however, though short, is fat and squatty. It would look better in a number 5, ‘Those gentlemen who have such small feet are in luck, for they always get the boys’ sizes a dollar chéaper than what they would pay for men’s, There are some small-sized men, though, who have large-sized feet, I know one who is a good deal of a dude in his dress and would give a big sum of money to be able to wear a number 5, but who is compelled to put his feet into what he believes to be an 814 but which is really a number 9. If his brain was as big proportionately as his feet he would bea giant in intellect. Men generally are not 80 pal ular about their foot gear as ladies. Of course there are exceptions, and some men are as finical as the most capricious woman about a particular sty nd make of shoe, but the average man buys his shoes for comfort, The English laced walking shoe with broad sole, low, flat heel, and round toe is a general favorite, because a man can get some comfort in it. Men buy mostly laced or congress gaiters; some get buttoned, but it’s t much trouble to fasten them for most men.” Not many wear the long-legged boot now?” ‘No. indeed, we have very few calls for them. A gentleman came in the other day and wanted a pair, saying that he hadn't worn leg- ged boots for fifteen years, but as he was get- ting along in years now he thought he ought to look out for his health, and believed that THEY WOULD PROTECT HIS ANKLES, Thadn’t a pair that would fit him and told him that I would order a pair. He said he would come in again and he did the next day and bought a pair of congress gaiters, saying that he didn’t believe we were going to have cold weather enough to justify long-legged boots. That was last week. If he had waited until Monday I might have sold him a pair of boots with legs.” “Which do you make the ladies’ or gentlemen's shoes.” “I suppose you mean how do the prices run, Well, ladies pay more for their shoes thanmen. ‘They pay from $2.50 to £8.00 a pair for regular wearing shoes. As to fancy slippers. they ran to any price they choose. Some of these dainty thin marvels of beauty, being richly stitched and embroidered. They have to be made with a great deal of care, and of course those who wear them must pay’ for the privi- lege. Now men pay from $3"t0 #8 for their shoes, the average being about $5, Among the laboring classes cable screwed and pegged shoes are worn and they are cheap. There are a great many machine sewed shoes sold, for machinery for making shoes has reached ‘such a high state of perfection that shoes of excel- lent quality are turned out by the big factories. Then, you know, there is a difference of at least a dollar between machine and hand-sewed shoes, and that is quite an item. “How about children’s shoes?” “The demand for them is always good. The little ones wear out their shoes quite rapidly. They seem to have a faculty of ocking out the wes, and then they ran and jump so much that the soles soon wear out. I suppose in the number of sales children's shoes take the lead, but they, you know, they don't cost so much as men’s or womens’. most money on, le the average is a $1.50. People are buying better shoes now than they used to, and better shoes are being made. The community is learning that its economy to get a good article, and that a machine-made shoe for $300 is far preferable to the brown-paper soled affair that ormerly sold for $1.50. In what I have told youl have considered the ave class of joods and purchasers. There are fanc and boots that command fancy prices, but the Sreat mass of the buying eommunity only‘con- pooner css SEY, between freight trains on the Bal- W. Va., ion of a large ‘quantity A col resulted in the destruct igh pigh 9 coal region have shut down, ‘ir market being overstocked with coal, out of work. A UNIVERSITY AT WASHINGTON. President Andrew D. White in the Forum. Regarding the position of Washington asa center in — are brought together great educational refources, and from which are radiated vast influences upon American life, the first main point is that it is the permanent or temporary residence of very many leading men upon whom a university might draw for its lecture-rooms or council chambers. In Congress, from which most people expect lit- tle of the sort, are many who can speak with acknowledged authority on subjects which every university worthy of the name has to consider, We sometimes hear sneers at west- ern: Congressmen, and yet, out of the small number I have the honor ‘to know, I can at this moment recall two who, — from large diplomatic experience, stand in the highest rank of American scholars, Next, as to men specially known in literary pursuits, the veteran historian and statesman who years agochose Washingtonas his residence has proved to be a far-sighted pioneer; others have followed him, and the number conse- quently increases. Everything combines to at- tract them; the salubrity of the place, save in midsummer, the concourse of men best worth knowing from all parts of the world, and the attractiveness of a city in which intellectual eminence has thus far asserted itself above wealth. So well known is this that the various societies of a literary tendency are more and more making Washington their annual place of meeting. The American Historical society was one of the first to do this, and others are fol- lowing its example. But it is more especially as a source of scien- tific activity that Washington has taken the foremost place in the nation. It is rapidly be- coming one of the great scientific centers of the world. The Smithsonian institution, the national museum, the great gov- ernment surveys, sundry government com- missions and = bureaus whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers of the army and navy who have interested themselves in scientific pursuits, all combine to lay strong foundations for scientific activity. About the year 1370 was established the Philo- sophical society of Washington, under the presidency of Joseph Henry. In the number of its meetings as well as in the variety, range, and importance of the papers presented, this society soon took a leading place. Neither in Bos- ton, Philadelphia, New York, nor elsewhere in our country are meetings of similar societies held with the frequency and regularity which characterize these, nor are the papers pre- sented elsewhere on the whole of as much consequence in promoting research as those thus brought out at Washington. Owing to the development of scientific work which has followed its establishment, the Phil- osophical Society has been found unable to meet the demands upon it, and five more scien- tific organizations have been successfully es- tablished as off-shoots. The latest of these, the National Geographical Society, has al- ready a membership of five or six hundred. ‘The natural effect of bringing together the large body of scientific workers employed in the various bureaus of the governme€t is not only to give vigor to these societies, but to cre- ate a liking for the pursuits of science which extends far beyond the socicty limits. And an- other effect of the spirit thus engendered is to attract various other national scientific organi- zations to Washington as the best place for their annual meetings. ‘This aggregation of 80 many investigators in so many fields has naturaily led to the gather- ing of apparatus and means for carrying on scientific inquiry, and these may be considered under the headings of libraries, laboratories and collections. As to the first, I give from the ‘Report of the commissioner of education” afew statistics of the principal libraries in the city. Some of these hbraries, such as those of the patent | office, the bureau of education, the geofogical survey, the naval observatory, the museum of hygiene, the surgeon-general’s office, and the departments of State and agricniture, as «well as the Toner and other special collections in the library of Congress, are particularly valu- able by réason of their strength in certain deti- nite lines of research. LIBRARIES IN WASHINGTON. No. of vols. American Medical association. . Bar association (subscription)... Bureau of education. Columbian universi Department of agric Gonzaga college House of Repre: Howard university . Light-house board | Museum of hygi Navy department. Patent office. . Signal office... Surgeon-general’s office Treasury department U. 8. geological surve ast survey ngress drograp! Naval observatory Senate... War department Georgetown college PAM) Burean of education... «+ 45,000 Library of Congress... 191,000 eeee 5.000 ry of over a Here we have, then. a lib million volumes selected by the foremost ists in every field, easily accessible. maintained, enlarged, and administered with- out any cost to the proposed university, and ready for its work at the moment of its organi- ation, All that would be needed by such an institution would be a small library for refer- ence, similar to that so admirably planned for Johns Hopkins university by President Gil- mar Next, as to laboratories, For chemical work the government has at least eight: The laboratories of the United States geo- logical survey, of the agricultural department, of the surgeon-general’s office, of the Navy de- partment, of the museum of hygiene, of the internal-revenue bureau, of the mint bureau, andof the District chemist. There is also a small chemical laboratory in the Smithsonian Institution, which was originally organized for work connected with the fish commission. Most of these are organized for special work in testing materials or fet ee but the labera- tories of the geological survey and of the agricultural department are necessarily so car- ried on that a large amount of work is also done in the line of purely scientific investigation, In the laboratory of the geological survey the work mainly relates to the chemistry of the mineral kingdom,while in the laboratory of the agricultural department investigations ‘are un- dertaken relative to agricultural problems and to various adulterations of articles of food. In both, much research is conducted which re- sults in the improvement of analytical methods. twtha phonon laboratory of the geological sur- vey, which is immediately connected with the chemical laboratory forming part of the same division. physical’ investigations relating to geological problems are actively carried for- ward; for example, the physical constants of coche ure deterinnd, ent investigations have been made upon sedimentation. Here, too, re- searches have been made on the physical prop- erties of iron and steel, on the formation of alloys, and on methods of measuring high tem- peratures, These different chemical labora- tories of the government, including the force of chemists in the patent oflice, represent at least forty skilled men actively engaged in chemical work. Besides this, within an hour’s distance north- ward are the chemical, physical and biological laboratories of Johns Hopkins university, in which advanced students could make frequent observations, or even take steady work, A little more distant southward is the university of Virginia, which could easily be brought into relations with the proposed institution in a manner profitable to both; and at various points more or less remote are institutions which would doubtless afford some supplemen- tary facilities, and_among them is the naval academy &t Annapolis, Here, then, are laboratories affording the most admirable opportunities for just those kinds of advanced investigations, methods, and processes with which a univer- sity, as distinguished from an intermediate col- lege, has to do. The proposed university should indeed have large general laboratories and probably some special laboratories of its own, over which it could have complete con- trol; but these outlying special laboratories, in which the most advanced work is constantly condueted by leading specialists, would give a university to work such as could hardly be attained at any other point in the cor yuntry. Icome next to illustrative collections. chief of these are to be found in the natio1 EF museum; and these, great, and in some jualed in the world, are steadily embrace the results of man’s activity in al in every form in which such | meed an | to the lel expedition, the Washoe expedition, and cones, a immense ner rege logical, archwological, palwontol an mle ical material, The itological collections of inverte- brate fossils are extensive, and embrace all the material collected by the various government expeditions in the far west, and also col- lections made by the geological survey in the east to illustrate the study of richer on geology in connection with the faunas. collection of vertebrate fossils is at present in charge of Prof. Marsh, of Yale university, but will ultimately be deposited in the Nati museum. It is of such interest that some of the foremost naturalists of Europe have made a study of it their main object in visiting our country. The collection illustrating palso- botany is the largest and most complete in the United States; this may also be said of the col- lections from the Cambrian system and the Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks, The mineral collection of the National museum may be divided into three parts: First, a large exhibition series; secondly, a reserve or study series; and, thirdly, a dupli- cate series which is used for purposes of ex- change. Incidental to the mineral collection there are two og collections; one a collec- tion of gems and ornamental stones, mostly cut and polished; the other a collection of meteor- ites, which is already one of the larger collec- tions of the world. The policy of the mineral de; iment is to encourage research, and to well-accredited students are always given op- portunities for work and assistance as far as possible. Immediately related to the mineral collection is the collection of rocks and build- ing stones, the geological collection proper, and the metallurgical collection, consisting mainly of ores, fuels, furnace models, and metallur- gical products gencrally. Taken altogether, the facilities for mineralogical investigation in Washington will compare favorably with the Wipes offered anywhere in the world. All theses collections. are increasing with very great rapidity. But these are by no means all the stores of material for illustration and research available for university purposes at Washington. There must also be named the museum of the agricul- tural department, which affords fine opportuni- ties for study, some of the collections being unusually complete and well arranged. So, too, the large Botenical conservatory, gener- ally supposed to have as its sole object the supply of bouquets to enterprising Congress- men, already carries on the more serious busi- ness of botanical research, and would do so to still higher and broader purpose were a univer- sity to organize study in connection with it. Next may be named the United States fish commission, which maintains its principal sta~ tion at Washington, where subjects through great ranges in zoology may be well studied. As for the supplementary facilities afforded for summer work in the government establishment at Wood's Holl, they are simply the most com- plete in the world. Few Americans know how creditable this work has been, and how useful to their country. It was once made the duty of the writer of this article to conduct the late Emperor Frederick of Germany through some of the collections made by this commission. He was a competent judge. His exclamations of admiration were unaffected and hearty, and it was no surprise that at the close of the Berlin fisheries exposi- tion the first great prize should have been awarded to Professor Spencer Baird, who had organized this service. ‘The collection of models in the patent office also presents great opportunities for those who would study the development of the vast in- dustries represented in it. The collections at the museum of hygiene and the surgeon-gen- eral’s office are noted throughout the world as in all respects precious, and in some respects unique. And, finally, the Corcoran though only in its begmning, can made to stimulate study in art, and toa facilities for carrying on such study. Ihave by no means exhausted the list of col- lections, but what is already given will serve to | show that few universities in Europe, and none in America, have such a mass of the best ma- terial for the training of students and for the advancement of knowledge as one which might | be created at our national capital, and brought into proper relations with what already exists there, I come next to the observatories. Under this head are several centers of scientific activity, but I will name only one, the al observatory. It is one of the foremost in the world, and connected with it isa chart and chronometer depot, an extensive collection of instruments used in taking astronomical pho- tographs, and a magnetic observatory, besides the celebrated telescope and transit instru- ments used in carrying on its ordinary work. The proposed university would ° indeed observatory of moderate size for training purposes, but in the work of research by young _ astronomers likely to be of and honor to the nation all this ample provision would be immediately available, So much for the literary, scientific, and tech- nical side of the university; and a brief ex- hibit may now be made of the opportunities Washington offers to the students of what were formerly known as the “learned professions” — udents of law, me add with Faust, “und leider auch Theologie,” had other religious bodies in the country shown anything of the foresight and zeal exhibited in the preparations for the theological school of the new Roman Catholic university. Among the facilities for the study of med- icine the city offers at least ‘six hos- pitals, at each of which clinical in- struction is given, and one of these, Prov- idence hospital, has over three hundred beds. The Army medical museum is declared by a competent and unprejudiced authority to comprise the most complete collection of re- cent pathological specimens in the world, and is open to the public every week-day. In the National museum there is the most complete collection in the country illustrating the mate- ria medica of the United States pharmacopaia and that of foreign countries, and the whole is arranged and classified so as to be immediately available for studies, immense library of the surgeon-general’s office is also available for the use of medical students and practitioners. For a university law department Washing- ton presents ulmost unperalleled advantages, The law library of Congress contains over 50,000 carefully-selected volumes, exclusively legal in character, and provision is alteady made for the accommodation of students in using it. The State department has, by a wise policy steadily pursued during many years past, accumulated the most valuable collection of works relating tointernational law in the n hemisphere—a collection undoubtedly superior even to that of All Souls’ college, Ox- ford, which is becoming one of the boasts of that university. In the Supreme Court of the United States, and in the Court of Claims, the foremost Amer- ican lawyers may be heard making arguments on the most important questions, The Supreme Court of the District has the common law, equity, and probate jurisdiction of a state court, besides that of the circuit and dis- trict courts of the United States. The absence of any code, even of one governing procedure, encourages the study of the common law in exceptional simplicity; and already sundry in- stitutions, notably the Columbian university, have endeavored to bring these advantages to bear upon thecountry. But these institutions, thongh embracing men of high scholarship and ability, are greatly hampered by the want of the means necessary to provide full uni- versity instruction. So much for the assemblage at Washington of men, books, apparatus, and material neces- sary for the highest university instruction. I come now to the two questions: What shall the proposed university be? How shall it be organized? I will suppose that some great millionaire or combination of millionaires has given the five or six millions required, Certainly such a supposition is by no means beyond the possibilities, in view of the sums, even larger than these, either Vehe or to be i by some of our wealthy fellow-citizens nu poses. The first! duty will naturally be to choose with care a board of trustees, and these should be men who will give the institution a national but not a partisan or sectarian character, There should be, as a fundamental feature of its organic law, a provision that persons of eve: partyand of every religious sect,orof no religious sect, and of every nationality, shall be equally eligible to all offices and positions of every sort in the institution, and that neither for service in the board of trustees, nor for servicqin the faculty, nor for any other service in the uni- yersity shall any candidate be accepted or re- jected on account of any political or religious views which he may or may not entertain, . The board of trustees will have to erect necessary buildings, which should be in some central position, giving ample space, Having visited almost every university of any note either in our own country or in Europe I may be allowed to say that the new university buildi: at Btrasby d Zuric proba- nly aura sees val lokinwank oe any others. But buil Bh not be — en er a trsapsegieiss moge en called toget ler w! can suggest, vise, plan snd a esa re necessary for their respective department Here comes in thé most important duty im- posed upon the trustees— calling ther of the faculty. This body should be up licine, and, I might | With all the vast material for investigation and illustration at its diposal, the better its university will be no faculty; and its income should be so used as to secure the men who either have taken or may fairly be ex- pected to take a foremost place in their re- spective fields, Of these, the resident profes- sors will, in the laboratories, libraries, and collections, direct, lead and or- ganize instruction and research in the highest sense; the non-resident professors and lectur- ers will give stimulus, suggestion, and force to the work. As a rule, I would have a reasonable fee charged, but I would have the experiment tried of competitions in various parts of the United States, the persons passing the best examinations being entitled to scholarships giv- ing them free instruction. Inspite of the present outcry in England against competitive exam- inations at the universities, they have in this country succeeded well. They need not be carried to the pedantic extreme which has dis- dso many people with them in the old world. Practical common sense will easily obviate the difficulties on, em of. Iwould also have elections to fellowships made upon the bases of merit, as is at present done in various American universities; indeed, I would giadly, see grafted upon this teaching university he system of fellowships and scholarships sketched out in the first of this series of articles. One point as vba ees election to trusteeships, professorships and fellowships should be eare- fully guarded. All such elections and ap- pointments should be made by ballot. A pro- vision for this should form part of the organic law of the university. In this way alone, as experience has shown in some of our existing institutions of learning, cau a firm and lastin: barrier be erected against overweening person influence, I fully believe that within a few years such a university would be one of the most useful and flourishing in the world, and that it might fairly expect finally to equal in the numbers and character of its students, as well as in the attainments and reputations of its faculty, the university of Berlin—the highest point which any university organization has yet reached, It.s true that objections will be raised; and first, that such an institution will draw some- what from those now existing. I grant that at first this may be the case in some slight degree, but would stake everything on the belief that within a few years every other college or uni- versity in the nation which any real vitality will he strengthened b; Tt wiil be one of the three or four universities in the country to set high standards of qualification and attainment; it will send back strong men into the faculties of the existing universities; it will be a perpetual incentive to the best men in the existing institutions throughout the country to do their best in view of possible promotion to lectureships and professorships at Washington, It will also doubtless be said that Washington, asa great capital, is not the best place for young men; that there are too many dis- tractions and temptations. This is true regards what may be pfoperly called col- legiate or intermediate students, but not true regarding men ready to undertake university work. This is proved by the fact that while the ordinary undergraduate work thrives best at institutions in smali towns, the advanced and post-graduate work, such as is undertaken in schoolgof technology, of min- ing, of mechanical, civil and electrical gineering, of architecture and of law, medicine and theology, is equaily well carried on in our | great cities, as is already shown at Boston, | New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis | and New Orleans. | Again, it may be said that Washington has | disadvantages of climate. To this I answer | that they are no greater than those at very | many other seats of learning. By pursuing the plan of Johns Hopkins university, the ex- treme hot weather can easily be avoided, There is, indeed, an impression that Washing- ton is hopelessly malarious, but it is certainly more favorably situated in this respect than English Cambridge, in its region of fens; or than at least two of the most important colleges at Oxford, situ- ated close to the unctious, slimy, reeking banks of the Isis; or than the university of Berlin, in an ancient marsh, and in the immediate neigh- borhood of the dark and sluggish Spree. I have observed that the talk about the malarial character of Washington is periodical, and comes usually when newspaper correspondents and subordinates in the public service think it about time to enjoy leave of absence. Asa matter of fact, the statistics of the health de- partment, which are very carefully kept, and which present comparisons of the mortality rates in Washington and other cities, clearly show our _ national _ capital to be an unusually healthy city About one-third of the population are negroes, and among these is generally about fifty per cent of the mortality. The mor- tality rate among the white population is low. There is no need to place the university buildings in any particularly insalubrious spot. or under any especially un- sanitary conditions, like those in which we | compel the President of the United States to ‘live. And even here matters are becoming better; the Potomac improvement, with the filling in of the miasmatic region adjacent to | the White House grounds, will give even the President healthy surroundings. There is no need to dwell upon all the advan- tages accruing to the country from such an or- anization; most of them can be easily seen; but I will touch on one which might, at first sight, not be thought of. The city of Washing- ton is rapidly becoming a great metropoiis; it | is developing the atmosphere which is to give character to the executive, the judicial, and es- ecially the legislative business of the nation. | What ‘shall that atmosphere be? Shall it be made by luxurious millionaires, anxious only for new fields in which to display their wealth? Shall it be an atmosphere of riotous living, without one thought of better things? Shall it be redolent merely of political sehem- ing and stock-jobbin; y day, and of can- vas-backs and terrapin by night? In such a future, legislative cynicism and corruption, and eventually, perhaps, executive and ju- dicial cynicism and corruptiou will ‘be of course; for they will present the only means by which men can adjust their lungs to the moral atmosphere. Shall it not rather be a capital where, with the higher satisfaction and graces of civilized living, there shall be an atmosphere of thought upon the highest sub- jects, of work in the most worthy fields, of devotion to the noblest aims? Such an atmos- phere a great university with the men and work inolved in it would tend to develop, and in it demagogism would wither and corruption lose the main element of its support. We may well suppose that some considerations of this kind passed through the mind of him whose great name our capital bears, and that these were among the thoughts which prompted him to urge, again and again, the founding there of a university worthy of the nation. - —— eee LATE FOR N NEWS. Queen Victoria has invited Minister Phelps and his wife to dine with her next Monday. The subcommittee of the French chamber of deputies has declared that M. Cluseret is a Frenchman, and that his election-in the de- partment of Var is valid. It had been charged that M. Cluseret was an American, ‘The London radicals are organizing a mass- meeting in Hyde Park to demand the release from prison of Mr. Harrington, member of parliament for West Kerry. A London dispatch] says the Cunard, Allen, Inman, Mississippi, Guion and Canada steam- ship companies announce that they will ship seamen and firemen only at the old rate of wages. The men are moving for an increase of wages, A family by the name of Rudolf, consisting of six ns, has been suffocated by gas from a defective stove, at Crossen, Saxony. It is officially announced that Admiral Von der Goltz succeeds the late Count Von Monts as chief of the admiralty. A second ballot was held in Breslau yester- day for the election of a member of the reich- stag. Herr Kuhn, a master tailor, the socialist candidate, received 9,400 votes, and Herr Fried- laender, progressist, 8,100. Yesterday Gen. Boulanger received a depu- tation asking his aid to abolish the registry offices for waiters and others and to obtain am- nesty for those imprisoned for wrec! regis tries in Paris, replied must not reckon too much =a his ayows, but that his iways with the Lom ein ao id bg his utmost to Two reports will be of the Panama canal Seeneer presented at the meeting shareholders announced 7 | bi Roy, POWDER is absolutely pure. It is undoubted! BAKING POWDER ABSOLUTELY PURE It is a scientific fact that the ROYAL BAKING ly the purest and most reliable Baking Powder offered to the public, HENRY A. MOTT, M.D., Ph. D., Late United States Gov't Chemist. ____ AUCTION SALES. HHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. EDUCATIONAL. CSE, SERVICE. LATIN, HIGHER MATHEMA- es coessful college teacher, private or. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF TWO POOL TABLES, WITH | instruction day or evening. terms BALLS, KACKS, CUES, &e., &c. MISS T. orcall 10aan.or0:30 pin. 229 Eat” aw. By virtue of a chattle deed of trust,dated 19th day of | _Ja26-3t* com an se : ore ber, 1884, and duly recorded in liber No. 1108, folio 279, of the records Of the Dis' d by direction of the LOC 4 west comer of Sth an IVEN BY AN EXPERI _____ Address MB. K., S IN CRAYON, TAPESTRY, 4 ‘geet JANUAK 1889, at HALF-PAsT FOUR Pool rooms, situated on north. trict of Columbi: red thers eal 1G! . P.M.,, at the dC strocts northwest, two 4x5 by a teacher of lange © from Foo Tables, with Balls, Cues, Racks and complete out- | north: teruus very low, will teack at roaloree ct Bt appertaini hereto, the: same being mere Eatticy- pupil when dest 2032 1 st. nw. ja26-6r° i tie je “A. attached to said dee ; é Ne a S : G ESSONS IN DRAWING AND PAINTING—A esc. an Cookee, Pees, lady. having studied under the best masters im ‘1 Paris, reg Pupils tn her studio, or 4 conpecton x 36, Star de’ ‘with a school. office, Feexcs, LESSONS “MADAME < ‘or partitulars address [CH AS TEAS, COFFEES. AND SOAPHINE, CAT- F 5 Diplomée TAcadémie de Paris. ‘Special VQODWEAR, SHOW CASE, | forchildren dally. Evening cusses for"chuine Ad SUARY THIR- 1512 13th st. now. 2-im JA Ti all the stoci HE FREDERICK FEMALE S85} 12TH STREET commence its next session Fel a! ‘oF Sas ba which we invite | catalogue and terms address WM. HL FoRNEEL, tention. » | D. Frederick, Ma a23-Swe _Ja26-3t DUNCANSON BROS.. Ancts. Daa Sees — as CLARA HARRISON, Wertee B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers. a. tes _2234 13th stn. INVESTORS, ATTENTION. I sod dee pil sees ea pete oc cl In SIDE OF PL student CAPIT: Iss “RODENS ores evany irre, | Mine turned tn Sew foes, lots Dt & aden | rte, de. A limited nu subdivision of 0 1 5 and 16, block 620, a fronting 126 feet on Pierce street, by a depth of 73 | ASTER OF feet, 20-foot alley, and imypro’ by nine two- trained la¢ ftaty brick dwellings, each containing 6 rooms and fe il hall, water, gas, and sewers. Terms: Gne-fourth cash; balance in 1, 2, and 3 eg hotes to bear interes’ rom day of sale, and to be sec Premises sold or all cash at option of purchaser. I frest payable semi-annually. » Ts Will be required on each parcel on day nWeyanciug, res dolls “ 6 per cent per annum 16-2w* by deed of truston | ~yoMMENT PARLI fA PARIS La COMMENT (PARLE (A PARIS LA BONNE 80 ciete? | Prof. H. LARROQUE, AM, of Univ., Paris. Private tutor in French, ¢l mnodet 16th st.n.w. oS. V 7 ASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSI A deposit of fifty ( tty of sale, Li the terms d with in ten (10) days trom day fe the prope: ll be resold at the risk and cost ‘Cloud Building, 9th aud F sts. Twentieth 4 gi.defaulting purchaser after five (5) days’ public no- | Piano, Oncan, Voice, Violin, Flute. Cornet, fo. weet Such resale in some newspaper published in 0. B. BULLARD, Director. jal0-1m* hingtou, D. : ~ ——t _. __ lh a*-G-dkdbs' WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO, Aucts, iS STRICTLY COMTIDEE TCAD 1. A. ROOT & CO, Auctionvers, &. W ELYS h LADIES’ CLOAKS AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOOD! 1 Goods, Shirts. Underw Sth and K ste, 1223 15TH ST. N. W. at ‘The MISSES KERR'S School for Young Ladies and Little Girls. ‘The Second Term begins FRIDAY Feb. Ist. Ma2W-to7fe RY TWENTY- ‘LOCK, will sell in ntire contents: Furnish- au ARY the. depo Ja’ Columbia and de: cause as parcel No. 3, On THURSDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF FEBRU- (A.D. 1889, "AT FOUR O'CLOCK P. M., part of ckground ‘of the lot numbered nine (9), of frame house, being the property described in the first subdivision of house numbered nue, as same is described in the second said supplemental bill. Terms: One-third cash, to be paid on day of sale or the right to resell at risk and cost of defaulting pur- chaser after five days’ advertisement, RANDALL HAGNER, j25-fem,wkds 4. HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. VERY VALUABLE IMP! nee TH ST! On THURSDAY osit — at time of sale. a THOMAS DO CTR YEAI uring nervous and mental disease, spinal ovarian and uterine troubles, paralysis, tumors, sciatica, hys- ‘thing must be sold w: —— oe —— a 5 J ASHINGTON SCHOOL OF PLOCUTION A Set ae eae Wong poe ao oF eLOe STEVEN! HART, Principal. Voice culture and ‘Nattral sion carefully taught STAMMERING Thoroughly cured. Keierences to patrons, _ ja5-2m* RT STUDENTS’ LEaG! 1317 F st. Day and and Painting in Oils and W for beginners ser. DW. ds-Sw* PRIVATE INSTRUCTION IN LATIN, ENGLII ie fam CE, SUN BUILDING wing classes. Drawing fer color from life. Instructors—A. G. Heaton, E.C. W. H. Holmes, and 8, Jerome ese istrict of Columbia in rs vs. Brookes, et al.), ction in front of the Branches, and Mathematics, lesired, Address Mrs. A. W., Star office, 4. ROP. SCHEEL, TEAOHER OF PIA‘ and Singing af sight. Particular att THE SIXTH DAY OF FEBRU. | Finhers as well as those wishing to be qualified an ALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P. | formers; 734 12th st. nw. Sai in square numbered {DWARD C. TOWNSEND, the same appears of Teacher of Elocation, ‘or of the District of e. bed in the original bill Correct (deep) breathing Voice in this | Dramatic Action, at 1317 13th st. n.w. SoETs: COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS, MD. Eight departments and four courses of study. SPE Cry Khoo! attached. Culture, Oratorical an@ we ai Wright and Cox's subdivision of Mount Pleasant, hay- r x ing a width of 1527-100 feet, it being the north 15} THE PREPARATION OF Cay DIDATES row 27-100 feet fronting on the rear of said lot numbered THE NAVAL ACADEMY, nine (9), by a depth of 50 feet, as improved by a small address President, THOMAS FELL, AM. paragraph of the supplemental bill in the above cause NDERGARTEN AND PRIM THE SAME DAY, AT HALF-PAST FOUR ee Et O'CLOOK P.“M., lot "numbered two hundred am La kd and ‘ten (210) 10 Maria’ Roberts’ subdivision, of | @U0R and speech reading taught the deat. at lot numbered seventy-four (74) in’ J Hawes? Mt VERNON SEMINARY, 1100-1104-1116 M STREET AND 1128 11TH STREET. Mount Pleasant, us improved by 51 Sth street, corner Grant ave- paragraph of on ratification thereof by the court, balance in one and BOARDING AND DAY_ SCHOOL youre two years, with interest from day of sale, secured on LADIES AN : Rroverts sold, or all ‘cant at option of purchaser. A a eee leposit wil req on the improved property. Thorough instruction branches in accordance #100 on each piece; on the unimproved property 825 ) with the ay modern, [te t= new on each lot sold. All conveyancing and recording at | school building, heated by steatn and having abundant urchaser's cost. Terms to be complied with in seven | sunlight and fresh air. For further ufortnetion ys from day of sale, otherwise the trustees reserve | to the Principal, Mrs ELIZABETH J. SOMERS a ACRDEY ¥ OF THE HOLY, CROSS, 1312 MASSA. . amet ts: —Thorough {Course in English 408 5th st. a. w., M the Pi », with T ANDREW B. DU | ron Harp, Guitar and ‘Banjo. Special a 452 Louisianaave.) — y and thoroug! ROVED PROPERTY NO. 814 REET, BETWEEN NORTHW AT AU PENCERIAN BUST ‘and D sts. n.w. Estab § iass-rooms, Superior: . Its well-trained, filling responsible business and offic > Positions. TY. K O'CLOCK P. M., in front | Day and nicht sessions. Large attendance | of the preuiises shall sell lot 28, in square’ 105, 22 | men and women, Fivecoures, ‘The =e feet 6 incbes by an averaze depth ‘of about feet, | Amanuensis course; Prac Enelist Special Pens improved by a first-class, frame dwelling, containing | manship: Delsarte. : Expression, Tuition 11 ryoms, with water and gaa, This property is lo- | rates: by the year, quarter, or monthly” installmenta, | cated neat the Metropolitan club rooms.and the strect | Enter any tin or send for wWustrated circulara, railroads, and one of the most desirable locations in NRY C. SP EK, LL. B, Principal. SAKA the city. A. SPENCER, Principal, a Teruis of sale: One-third cash: balance in six and Seg ee nd twelve months, with notes Dearing interest, and se- UCATION- BOOK-KEEPING,PEN- cured by deed of trust on the property sold. ‘All co nship,Commercial Branches, Ty] pe-writine, Elo- veyancing and recording at purchaser’ = rapid progress. Low rat it. 18ND, Woub's COMME! CIAL SCHOOL, ‘Jal 9-tof 2 LING, Auctioneer. aes a) C| AJ MME BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES Terms begin now. __-723 14th. RICITY—L RS A SPECIALTY IN teria, rheumatism, neuralsia, chorea and diseases gen- ECT SCHOOL—A PRIMARY, DF erally, Hairs removed. Stricturescured, Static elec: termediate, and High School for both sexes. tricity through clothing. Dr. L. 8. NICHOLSON, ASL T st. n. w. 6 i St. LW Jaz2-Im*" | au29-6m_ THOS. W. SID’ R, MULL Hy 828 13TH ST. N.W, TREATS ARTYN'S | COMMEKCIAL Di Chronic Affections of the Ear, Throat, M School of Tolegranty and re CGA kecen, 0-19;:2-5, Sunday, from 20002 and Business’ College in America,” "Spl eau pieeinos Aji 2 ped. The largest and most commodious, buildiuwe tm 1e city devoted to business training. ves free > ob application. Colored students not sdmuitted, FRANCIS G. MARTYN, President. C.K. ber ee F. 8. Wuiuus & Co, et ee a German 7 wholesale prices. 1 dozen 1-grait ‘Porous Plasters, 100.78 tor Sarsaparilla.. DRUGGISTS, A apuare UNDER MASONIC TEMPLE, Corner 9th and F st. n.-w., HARVARD GR. singly or in ROF. SHELDON'S DANCING ACADEMY NOW it wholesale to their retail customers. We SB for the reception of puptls MONDAYS, WED. t stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS, AND | NESDAYS and SATULDAYS. ‘or send for circu. 3 EDICINES in the city. You are always | lars, 1004 F at. n. sure of getting them ani as we deal rectly with the mani retail at actual EALED PROPOSALS WILL BE D me, to be opened at HALF-PAST 6) Be. Se. 406. 7e. EVEN OCLOCR on Fl AY EVENING FEBRUARY FLUST. 10, ‘Koom 51, ic Building, for the followiie priv: fesren in ec with the coming inauguration of ect : vilege of the use of the various reserve- tions fronting Fenneylvania avenue, from 17th dof erecting thereon ‘Capi poate “the peande to routs tal to wo ittee on fila ‘ters. i F Hs i 2, SRESERTRSSES! will be furnished. e Other tulormstion given 2. The ae ven that im » ed ES $8 SUPSVSSSSSUSHRSSSUSSTISOMVSLSSSSSSISTSOMUSS “ ate BeneurbNse tet eEsHsMEnroNeEsetUeENe FT Cc eediiilaned oe