Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1889, Page 8

8 ETIQUETTE AND MANNERS. What to Do and What Not to Doin So- clety. SOCTET?'S RULES LAID DOWN BY THE AUTHOR OF “DON'T"—MANY CORRESPONDENTS ANSWERED— PUZZLING QUESTIONS DISCUSSED—TEAS, AT HOMES, THEATER PARTIES, RECEPTIONS, WEDDINGS, BTC. The following questions have been selected for reply this week: A friend of mine is to be married in = few weeks. ‘The wedding is to take place at the home of the bride stam. Immediately after the wedding breakfast the bride and groom leave on ashort tour. None but the relatives of the bride and groom will be present. 1. How should the groom be attired? 2. Would bracelet be the proper present for the groom to make the bride? 3. Before leaving is it the correct thing for the groom to Kiss the female guests ell? 4. What style of ring should the groom give the bride, the riug ceremovy not being included in the service? 1. A Prince Albert coat, light colored trousers, no gloves. 2. Yes. : 3. It might be an agreeable thing, but neither @ necessary thing nor a correct thing. 4 If a ring is used in the ceremony it should be of plain gold; if not, then the groom may present the bride with any kind of a ring he thinks proper, just as he may present her with any other piece of jewelry. Js it customary for ladies to take off their bonnets at formal iuncheon? Yes, To HER MOTHER. 1. If a gentleman calls on a young Indy and is asked tocall again, and is not able to call for quite a long time, is it correct to write her a note apologizing for Bot cailt F Risoris it correct to offer & Zoune lady snoney for the collection plate if you take her to church? 1. No. Itis not correct to ape a note to & young lady on any subject. If for any reason an apology is to be sent it should be addressed to the young lady's mother or guardian. 2. No; decidedly not. ‘What is the proper attire for a gentleman to wear to 35 to7 tea? Morning or promenade suit, ‘Will you please inform the writer if the fad of turn- jog down corners on visiting cards has goue out of . The custom is altogether out of fashion. ANOTHER ARGUMENT SETTLED. To settle an argument will you please answer the following: J. After what hour should a man be in full dress? 2. At an afternoon tea where there are many guests) ting the host aud hostess and partaking of Tetreshwents, is it improper to leave the house without ba ‘Your hosts guod bye? 3 Should you leave cards at an evening reception end at ap afternoon tea? 4. Should husband sud wife leave one card (Mr. and Mrs. cards? leave individual 1. After 6p. m. 2. There is no host at anafternoon tea. The entertainment is given by the wife or female head of the househeld, the masculine members having no part in it. The guest should bid the hostess good evening on leaving. 3. Yea. 4 No, They each should leave a card. THEATER PARTIES. Iwant to give s theater party for a friend: intend to EEA uguer Defore, about 6 p.m. Will you kindly It me which side of the hostess the borured should sit? Quwht the chaperone sit at the foot ol table or should the fiancée or the hostess or beside her? I do not want to seud eng tious or formal invitations to those whom img. Will you Kindly give me a sugvestion bow I should write them? And should we ail meet at the place sppuinted for the supper, and if so should the tess Inake it @ point to be there first to receive her guesta? 1. The refection before a theater party should be a dinner and not a supper. Suppers aré en- tertainments for late in the evening, and may follow but not precede the theater. 2. On the right. 3. She may sit anywhere. 4. Not by the lady's side—anywhere else. 5. Send the usual invitation for dinner, with the words at the foot: ‘Theater at 8 o'clock.” 6. Yes. yes. 2. est the t at the foot red invita- am invit- afternoon —— given by ‘card toesch, and be sent in envelopes? 1. Leave two cards. 2. Send two cards in envelopes, by messenger or by post. amusements other than music would be appro- t sta jowed! ig party where neither smoking nor cards are allowed must be a dreary affair, and the best thing for every offe to do is to go home. With no cards and no tobacco conversation und story-telling are all that is left. but conversa- tion and story-telling are not likely to flourish ‘party where smoking and card playing jimulants of good wine and good THE BITE IN THE BREAD. Will you kindly explain why it is incorrect to let JoUFsyoou rewiain iD your cup while drinking your tea or to butter a whole slice of bread and take bites of it at table? If your spoon remains in your cup you are continually in danger of capsizing send tana coffee by an accidental motion of the hand. This is one reason. Another is that it is ex- tremely awkward to drmk with the spoon in the cup, and all awkward things are to be avoided, Buttering a whole slice of bread and biting it is a reminiscence of the nursery, and in the nursery it should remain. The habit is clumsy, awkward, distasteful, inelegant, childish, and opposed to those canons of neat and unobtru- sive eating which should characterize civilized man at the table. It would be just as proper to thrust a handful of food in the mouth as to thrust therein « vast slice of buttered bread. Iam the only daughter at home, and I would like to know when T should have “Mian” on uty viaiting earde When you have come out, THE BRIDE. 1. Who is to select the minister, bride or groom? 2. Who is to pay for the cards of invitation? 1. The selection of the clergyman falls upon the bride or her family. It is usual for the marriage to take place at the church of the bride’s father or at his home, the ceremony bei rtormed by his cle 2. he cards are sent by the bride's parents or The groom has nothing to do with them, but his friends are naturally in~ cluded in the list of people invited. THREE QUESTIONS ANSWEBED. |. Will you please tell us what is the correct thing in matter of the groom—wearing gloves st a uoon wedding? 2. If the rooms should be lighted should s Prince Albert coat be worn by the groom and ushers? . Should the bride furnish them (the ushers with gloves ad ueckties, or do they arrange that for them- ves? Exquinga. 1. He shouid not wear gloves. 2 At a noon wedding the groom and the ushers should wear what is called the Prince Albert coat. 8. No. The bride. under no circumstances, can have anything todo with the apparel of the ushers. 1, In sending regrets to @ tes, should the card be sent by mail or messenger? 2. If by tae latter. should jt be sent between the hours of the tea? 3. Shonid it ‘be directed to the host and hostess, or all those receiv- fug? 4. What else should be put on the envelope? ‘CAMDEN. 1. Either. 2. Before the entertainment. 3. Direct to the hostess. There is no host at a tea. 4 The name and address of the hostess. BEFORE THE DANCE. 1. When, in a dance, is the proper time to present programs for filing cat the dances? ¥ 2. Who should write the of the lady? & Should I bow to s lady, whourl met ato street, Or is it proper she ‘izes you first, back end heed ioewann slightly. — step that is part minuet WRITE TO HER MOTHER. of an invitation. which reads: “Miss "At home, Thursday, Fi 21. Danes the letter of sc- ‘and what would et THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON £ Bo you kare ESCH a tat you choces bike tbat if on toner oe el to t it is not go in a bonnet, a ae a Leave your card on a card receiver as you Yes. TRADE Lass. me the of the words “trade lass” is a term we never heard in so- ciety or anywhere else, and hope we never _ = The meaning is probably nearly equiva. ie abomination ‘‘saleslady,” means Saleswoman, ” Iass” as ‘ 45 O'CLOCK TEA AND AN AT HOME. 1. me the difference between a 5 o'clock wo2 Whether ne'ansvac is teaeieel toa tuyitation to either of the latter, or simply seud your card the even- sy? the reception you do not attend. Are ladies privileged to go in street dress and wear hat or bonnet? : 1. A5 o'clock tea is an entertainment with a collation, music, &c. An at home merely means at home at the time designated, and does not imply an entertainment of a kind. Acard reception means a reception in which cards are introduced—progressive euchre, whist, &c.—and takes place usually at 8 o'clock. 2. Yew; a card may be sent on the day of the reception, Yes, COLD POLITENESS. 1. Oblige me by advising me how to ect toward & much-talked-of woman, who, as # married woman, flirts with a married man. She moves in the set I do, but I thought I would cive her the benefitof the doubt, Some of muy Frietds are jndiguant with we for so doing and say I am “worldly.” 2. Is it not incumbeat upon formal acquaintances to call on any day? 3.1 i do accompany tay U2 s3F¥in bouillon in cups do saucers 1. Treat her with cold and distant politeness. 2. Every lady should have a day upon which her friends may call. 3. Bouillon should be served with cup and saucer, unless a sandwich goes with it, when the cup should be placed on a plate with » napkin, ° sit dancing part; Is it correct at a formal and elegent dan! ring party Fixen ine hail, where all on the floor are in for the matrotis to wear bonnets? Evening bonnets in such cases are admissible. “YES, MR. a.” 1, Which is the best form for a young lady to use in answering ® question, “Les,” “Yes, sir, — Mr. or “Yes, Also, in saluting a person, should the name of the Razge be aftixed to the salutation, we “How do you do, ir. BY 1. “Yes, Mr. A.” This is not only the best, but really the only proper form. 2. Always add the name. NOT DIGNIFIED. B. give ates togethdGat the home old friend, but Mrs. A, has not called Upon ine and does not inclose me her Gard as she does to some others. I attend the party. Should 1 now call on both ladies? EE Mra. B. also seuds her card to some and omits it from Others with the imvitation of Mrs. A's friends. Should uot both ladies send cards to any one invited upon whom they had not called, and should they in- close cards if it were not their place to make the first call? ‘Mra. A. had lived here much longer than T, but has not called upon me, and I do not ferl like calling upon her. Would my accepting or declining the invitation uiake any difference tn my oblueation to call upon her? It would not be dignified under the cireum- stances you mention for you to attend the en- tertainment. Both ladies should send cards to each person invited, and it is specially incum- bent upon the lady at whose house the enter- tainment is given to send her card. 1. | Please tell me the difference between a ten and an at home? job? You remove your wraps before going to the rior? PS. "Then, after having tes in the dining-room, do T Fetaye, tothe parlor tomy good-by to the hostess, oF just leave? 4. Also, in paying acall upon the wife of a bishop, must oue say we shall be pleased to see you, or we hope for the honor of # call? 1. See answer to fourth letter before this, 2 Certainly 3. Itis al the hoste 4. call.” Mrs. A. and Mrs. of Mrs. A. Mrs. Bie m: va necessary to say good-by to on leaving. Say, “We hope to have the honor of a WHEN PRESENTED. tawbich fa correct upon receiving an introduction to a lady Mrs, rood evening, or Mrs. . how de dof By no means “how de do.” “Good evening, madam,” is @ suitable address under the cir- cumstances, INCLINE YOUR HEAD, 1. Is it proper fora gentleman or a lady makinga call ats fashionable house to answer a servant, who, hav- n Four card upstaizs, returns to the parlor to iss B., &e., will be down in @ moment? Also, is it not the only proper thing for a young lady chanigmy her place of residence to seud you a card with her new address, &., if you have called several times at her former residence? 2 3. Should # gentleman call if he does not receive 1. Incline your head, that is all. 2. Upon change of residence cards should be sent tovall friends, with new address, 3. It is not improper for him to do so. ‘ge AUTHOR oF “Don't.” aor oid WHY ST. PATRICK SUCCEEDED His Conversion of Ireland was an Inde- pendent Act. The following is from Charles de Kay's illus- trated article on “Christian Ireland” in the March Century: “It is an old error to count St. Patrick among the emissaries, missionaries, or nuncios from the see of St. Peter. His con- version of Ireland was an independent act, which may be compared with similar inde- pendent conversions of the Bulgarians and other nations to the Orthodox or Eastern eburch by St. Cyril and St. Methodius four hundred years later. The terms of his con- fession of faith and his letter to a Welsh brigand who carried off his converts into slavery, two authentic documents, forbid any other view. Rome was indeed in the field to convert Ireland, but failed because the situ- ation was not understood. A few years before the arrival of St. Patrick (A. D. 430) the then Rope, Celestinus I, sent Bishop Paladius, hough there is no record of harm done to him by the pagans, but, on the contrary, he ae a HOME MATTERS. SOME NEW AND SEASONABLE RECIPES FOR THE DINING-ROOM AND PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS—ATTRACTIVE DISHES FOR DIN- NERS AND LUNCHEONS. Never Taxe Warm Darras and then imme- @iately go out in the cold. Fresu Mix Botep wim Cor Suaar will soothe a cough when other things fail Bortep Srarca is much improved by the addition of a little sperm salt or gum arabic vei A Srarp oF Fiaxwer, or a napkin wrung out of hot water and applied round the neck of child that has croup will usually bring relief in ten minutes, A TasLEsrooxrv or Common Baxrxo-Sopa to every five gallons of lard, when cooking, will improve the lard. It should be added when the lard is nearly done, and if not carefully watched will boil over. . Morrixs Wirnour Yeast.—One quart of sour milk, four eggs, orfe teaspoonful of soda, a little salt. Flour enough to make a thick batter. ‘e in rings or gem pans, To Curz Tootuacne, pulverize about equal Parts of common salt and alum. Get as much cotton as will fill the tooth, damp it, put in the mixture and place it in the tooth, Batue a Sprarx wita Arnica diluted with water and bandage with soft flannel moistened with the same. A sprained wrist thus treated will grow well and strong in a few days. A Towex Foupep Severap Tres and quickly wrung out of hot water and applied over the seat of the pain in toothache or neuralgia will generally afford prompt relief. This treatment in colic works like magic, For Cuarrep Lips use beeswax dissolved in small quantity of sweet oil, by heating care- fully. Apply the salve two or three times a day, and avoid wetting the lips as much as possible, Curnrep OysreRs,—To the liquor from one quart of oysters add one-half cupful of butter, two tablespoonsful of flour ana one of curry powder. Put in a saucepan and let it boil; add oysters and a little salt; boil up once and serve. Trattan Cuese,—Boil a knuckle until thor- oughly done, remove the bones, chop the meat fine and mix with it the liquor skimmed and | one grated nutmeg and half an ounce each of cloves, allspice and pepper. Put all on the fire and boil slowly until it jellies, Pour into a mold lined with hard-boiled eggs. Famy Breaxrast Biscurt.— Mix a scant tablespoontul of butter with a pint of flour, salt to taste and enough water to make a dough that cun be kneaded. When sufficiently worked with the hands roll out the dough as thin as a sheet of paper; cut in rounds witha mutiin ring, prick them with a fork, and bake for a min- ute in a moderately hot oven. Friep Cevery.—Cut the white pieces of celery into lengths about four inches long; dust them with salt and pepper; dip them into beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs and fry quickly smoking hot fat. Drain on brown paper and serve very hot. This is especially nice served with boiled fowl or turkey. Oup Fursirvre that has a dull, greasy look should be rubbed with turpentine and then polished with any good polish, The im- provement in its appearance will well repay you for the trouble. White spots on furniture can be removed by wetting a piece of flannel with turpentine and then rubbing the spot hard, It may require several applications of turpentine and considerable patience. Cream Potators.—The mistake usually made in preparing this excellent dish is that many economical housewives use cold boiled potatoes left from the precedin True economy would have been in boiling just enough for each meal, but for potatoes with er they are boiled and afterward cut up whil warm and sensoned with salt and pepper. Boil half a pint of cream, add to it a walnut of but- ter, and add the potatoes to it, If milk is used it may be thickened with a little flour, Tue Common Practice of raising fainting | persons to a sitting or upright position is often sufficient to destroy the spark of life which remains, The death of an eminent En- glish statesman a short time ago gave oppor- tunity to the coroner for emphasizing this fact, and of pointing out how much more reasonable and sound itis to keep such persons in the prone position, while restoratives and local means are adopted to enable them, if possible, to regain consciousness, Breapep Eoos.—Boil hard and cut in thick round slices. Pepper and salt; dip each in beaten raw egg, then in fine bread crumbs or pomdered cracker, and fry in nice dripping or uster, very hot. Drain off every drop of grease, and serve ona hot dish, Have ready some veal gravy or chicken broth, heat to boil. ing in a saicepan with a little chopped parsley salt, pepper, and three tablespoonfuls of creamn toacup of broth. Boil up, and pour smoking hot over the eggs, serving for the table in a covered dish, Barsy’s Warries.—One pound anda half of flour, one pint or less of boiled rice, two-and-a- half pints sweet rich milk, one teaspoonful of salt, four eggs. Put the rice in a four-quart bowl, separating the eggs, putting the yelks with the rice; add the salt, flour and two pints of the milk, beating very thoroughly; then the remaining half-pint of milk; beat the whites of the eggs toa stiff froth, add them to the batter and beat them well together. When well beaten, make the batter stilllighter by lifting and pouring it with a tin cup for five minutes, Wirn Cane thehands may be kept smooth, even by those whohandle the dishcloth. For cleansing the hands use oatmeal instead of soap, or a little ammonia or borax in the water they are washed in. Be careful to dry them was permitted to build churches aud leave | open yet his reception was so chilling that e left. He never reached Rome, death over- taking him in Pictland, what is now Scotland, thoroughly every time they are washed, and then apply a little vaseline or cold cream, w'ping the hands after the application. Oxalic acid, in a weak solution, will remove stains, or, North Britain having received that appellation since his day when overrun and conquered b: # Keltic return wave out of Scotia or Irelan “It has been suggested that Patrick never existed, and that his legend was founded on what is better, a bit of lemon, for oxalic acid is poison, and must not be permitted to touch an braided part of the skin. At night rub oat- meal over the hands and wear a pair of gloves a size or two too large. This is especially for these meager achievements of Paladius; but the hypothesis has too many documentary, historical, and legendary evidences against it, There was every reason for the want of success of a bishop coming from Rome where ortho- doxy had been ducarded for a more enterpris- ing and ambitious form of Christianity. - Pa- ladius must have found the upper class free- thinkers, addicted to Drudical other heathen vices, to human sacrifices and the black art, to polagamy certainly, and more than probably to occasional acts of cannibal- ism, such as drinking human blood and tearing the human heart with the teeth. Such things have co-existed with a high grade of civiliza- tion. That Paladius was permitted to build churches shows two important things—one, that the upper classes were contemptuous of the new religion, the other, that Christians were — in Ireland. But they must have been humble folk and of the orthodox eastern sect, The record of Paladius and his missio: reported by the four masters has internal evi- dence of genuineness in its trait of moderation. The churches are wooden. We know that architecture in Ireland was late in affectin stones as a material; but if this record had been forged after the twelfth century, national vanity would surely have made out the material to be stone. rif. £ ik those who, after their housework is done, sit down to the piano or occupy themselves with fine sewing or silk embroidery, Umpretcas Witt Last Mucs Lona if, when they are wet, they are placed handle downward todry. The moisture falls from the edges of the frame and the fabric dries uniformly. If stood handle upward, as is commonly the case, the top of the umbrella holds the moisture, owing to the lining underneath the ring; it con- sequently takes a long time to ary, nd injures the silk or other fabric with which it is covered. Umbrella cases are responsible for the wear of the silk, The constant friction causes tiny holes that appear so Provokingly early. When notin use the umbrella should be left loose, and when wet left loose to dry. Gomso Firee.—This is one of the most economical and excellent forms of soup. Take the remains of acold roast chicken, remove the meat from the bones; cet it into dice and put the bones in a soup kettle, and cover them with two quarts of cold water. and simmer geutly for two hours; stra soup to the kettle. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in a fryin, and, when hot, add the meat; tous and until a golden brown, and then add it to the soup; add a half pound of cut into dice, one onion, shovgsa fine; cover and simmer gently one hour; then add juart of okra, sliced. two tablespoonfuls of flee (tied and’ pounded add nty-five washed and drained; hole to boiling point and serve. should always accompany see to it that | AN INTENSE PERSONALITY. What Life Insurance Officers Learn About Their Patrons. From the San Francisco Call. “Dr. Talmage says that Joseph was president of the first life insurance company,” said a downtown agent as he whirled around in his office chair. “Did it ever occur to you that an application for a life insurance policy is a very interesting bit of personal history? For in- stance, this application is from s well-edu- cated, well-born young widow. Her name is Helen Corbett, of Galveston, Tex. She was born in Richmond, Va., August 19, 1859, and is, therefore, twenty-nine years old. She has been a widow ten years and has had two children, one of whom still lives and is named as the beneficiary for her $3,000 policy. She has not paid the first premium and never made application for insurance in any company before: Her father’s name was Charles Canale Smith, and he was born in Booneville, Tenn., and died at the age of fifty-nine of typhoid fever, The mother’s name was Susan ay Morris, who is still alive and well. The grand- parents on both sides are dead, except the mother’s mother, and she is totally deaf. This poor little widow never had a brother, and her only sister died when she was cighteen months old, of cholera infantum, Our applicant was vaccinated last year and does not have a regular einer She is very abstemious in her abits; does not use wine or liquors, tobacco, opium, chloral, or morphine. She has never lived in the tropics and has never had asthma, angina pectoris; aneurism, alcoholism, apo- plexy, bronchitis, colic, chronic dysentery, catarrh, convulsions or fits, cancer or tumor, diseases of the brain or the bladder, ears, heart, kidneys, lungs, liver, spine, skin’ or spleen, dyspepsia, dropsy, epilepsy, erysipelas, gout, eneral debility, gravel, habitual coustipation, headaches, hernia, insanity, impaired vision, Jaundice, neuralg: palpitation, pneumonia, pleurisy, paralysis, fistula, ’ rheumatism; small-pox, scrofula, sunstroke, scarlet fever, typhoid ‘fever, Varicose veins, vertigo, Yellow fever, open sores or enlarged glands, The ‘examining physician says she hs 140 pounds, that she is 5 feet 6 inches in height, has a bust measure of 36 inches, which expands 3 inches when she takes a full breath, and has a dainty little waist only 22inches around. The doctor further states that she is an American, with blue eyes and light hair; that she does not look her age, and that he does not think she drinks. There is no heart trouble, and her pulse is steady. She is in the full possession of her five senses. He does not think there is any fraud about her place of residence. and on the whole recom- mends us to take the risk.” “And you think you will do it?” ell, not until this additional list of ques- tions is satisfactorily answered.” But the rep ad fled. ————— She Saved the Baby. From the Charleston World. One of the most heroic acts performed during the Revolution, when the whole nation rose toa high plane of heroism, was that of a child in South Carolina, which may be new to northern readers. During the investment in Charleston the country north of Cooper's river was ravaged by Col. Tarleton. Some of his men reached the plantation of Mr. Robert Gibbes at night, and after killing the cattle and shooting down the terrified negroes proceeded to shell the house. Mr. Gibbes was a helpless cripple, whose wife hadrecently died, His oldest daugh- ter, Marian, a little girl of thirteen, with the help of one or two house servants, carried her father and younger sisters to a place of safety in theswamp. She then discovered that the baby, her cousin, a boy of two years old, had been left behind. The house was in flames. The shells, were falling thick upon it. The field be- twecn her and it was filled with drunken, riot- ous soldiery. But she did not hesitate.” She kissed her father, and, with a gulp of terror, darted toward the house. A soldier caught her. Where are you going?” he demanded, “For our boy!” breaking loo: The men stopped firing. As she entered the house the walls begun to crumble, and the | flames shot high above the roof. But in a mo- | ment she reappeared with a white bundle in her arms, Tradition says that Tarleton’s men jeheered her loudly as she ran back to the swamp. She was badly burned, but recovered, and lived to be one of the most patriotic of Caroliuian women. The baby whom she saved was afterward the gallant Lieut. Col. Fenwick, cee A Fashionable Disease. Dr. William A. Hammond in the Pittsburg Dispatch. There is a disease which is certainly becoming more common every day, and from which Tecovery is so rare that many physicians most capable of judging doubt if it ever takes place, and that is general paralysis, or general paresis, as it is sometimes called, While probably not resulting from any particular occupation, as such, it may be caused by any employment which is above the mental capacity of the indi- vidual, or which involves great anxiety or in which there are reverses or disappointment. It is especially prevalent among those who are engaged in financial speculations or in some business requiring inventive powers or a degree of knowledge which the person does not possess, It is a most terrible outcowe of the struggle for wealth and position in which the whole civilized world seems to be now engaged. ‘Those who are satisfied with their lot in life or who, if not contented, have no hope of improv- ing their condition, and hence make no effort in that direction, are never affected with this disease. I doubt if a single case ever occurred among the slaves of the south, while since their freedom it has made its appearance among them and their descendants. ‘There are both mental and physical symptoms in general paralysis, and while the approach of the disease is gen- erally insiduous, ite presence is indicated by certain phenomena which are unmistakeable in their insignificance. Chief among these is what the French call delire de grandeur, the delirium of grandeur. The patient,’ for instance, imagines that he is the rich- est or the most powerful, or the strongest or the handsomest man in all the world, ————ce+ ______ Berlin’s Prize “Brunette.” THE PLEASANT WAY IN WHICH A COLORED MAN 18 LIONIZED IN GERMANY, Berlin Letter. Berlin is less cosmopolitan than almost any other of the large cities of the world. It is comparatively seldom that one sees strange cos- tumes and strange people, as is daily the case in New York, Paris and London. It is nota great while since the street gamins would fol- low an Englishmen or American whose dress differed somewhat from the ordinary, and cry at the topof their voices, “Englander!” or “Yankee!” Although that has changed some- what in the course of time, the novelty has not yet worn off, Acolored man clad in respecta- le garments who appears in Berlin is almost lionized. There is no race prejudice. On the contrary, he is the equal of all, and people speak of the handsome “brunette” and the frauicing saddle Pegasus in his honor. Ihave seen hundreds of promenaders stop before the Café zur Opera and gaze for min- utes at the colored man who acts as porter to the establishment. His presence draws numer- ous people to the restaurant who would other- wise pass it by. The big fellow appreciates his position now, has become proud, and shows his white teeth in smiles of recognition to man; fashionable people in the street. His wage: are high, and being the only attraction of kind in Berlin, he is able to dictate his terms, In the classical city of Wiemar a negro married the daughter of thecourt preacher. The wed- was honored b; resence of His Royal Highness Grand Duke Alexander and all the aristocratic people of that modern Athens, 20+ —- Poetry and Plunder. From the Sacramento Record- Union, On Sunday night David McLennahan, who lives about 6 miles below Franklin, on the Lower Stockton road, lost @ dark bay mare, saddle and bridle. When his hired man went out to look for the animal he found « piece of poetry, ala Black Bart, which read as follows: “T dislike to cause A ny {up compelled 66 borrow Shea aioe SE a you fyouge ¥ do this bad % Yours D. C., SATURDAY. farce QUEER THINGS ABOUT SEX. Why More Boys are Born—Why do the Cities Produce More Girls? ‘From the Atlante Constitution, r You havea boy and girl, twins, perhaps. Which will outlive the other? Nothing but death to both is certain, but in all probability if both pass the age of thirty- five your girl will live the longest. In 1880 there were fifty millions of people in this country, and about 882,000 more males than females. That was only because more males were born; the females live the longest. Of the centenarians, 1,409 were men and 2,607 were women. The boys start out nearly a million ahead and are in the majority until the sixteenth year, when the girls are a little more numerous, Sweet sixteen is a numerous age, anyhow. epee! that, my _ and mam mplered oe e mgjority, the gir! ly gaining after thirty-six and leaving F veeny behind after seventy-five, There are some interesting facts about the old people. The native whites constitute three-fourths of the entire population but have only one-seventh of the centenarians. The colored is only one-eighth of the whole population, but has three-fourths of the cen- tenarians, There seems to be a providential provision to balance this longevity of the females, In almost every state a few more boys are born; not many more, but almost always afew. It is astonishing to see where the census gives thou- sands and hundreds of thousands of boys and girls under one year old, there are, with one or two exceptions, always a few hundred more boys, and only « few hundred more. In only six of the forty-nine states and terri- tories are more girls born, and in these states they are very slightly in excess—from eleven to eighty. These exceptions are Arizona, Dela- ware, Florida, Louisiana, Montana and North Carolina, The fact that the females are in the majority in all the original thirteen states but Delaware and North Carolina, especially in Massachu- eetts and New England, has created the im- pression that there is something in the cli- mate or in the people that produces more women than men. This is a popular but egregious error. In Massachussetts there were in 1880 437 more boys than girls under one year of age. The males are in the minor- ity in almost all the eastern states because many of the young men go west, All over the west there isan excess of men, and those who are not foreigners have been withdrawn from the states farther east. In the new states and territories this is most noticeabl for instance, there are twice as many males as females, but the male infants are only a little in excess of the females, The west is drawing heavily on the manhood of the east. From this all the old states have suffered. Massachusetts seems to have lost more thanany. There are parte of northern Ohio which are portions of New England re- moved. Massachusetts shows the loss and Ohio shows the gain, Another curious fact is that while all over the country more boys than girls are born, in cities and towns there are more girls. Between the ages of five and seventeen, in- clusive, there are 4,680 more girls than boys in New York county, 1,708 more in Kings county, 2,725 more in the city of Baltimore, 1,013 more | in Suffolk county, Mass., (Boston), 2,009 j more in Cook county (Chicago), Ill. 2.131 | more iv the city of St. Louis, 1,971 more in Philadelphia county and 2,633 more in the par- ish of Orleans. All these cities except New | Orleans are in states where more boys than | girls are born. | Coming nearer home. take Georgia. There | are 137 counties, and in all but 26 of them there are more boys than girls, These 26 counties include the 11 large towns and cities, Strange that not one of the cities should be | left out! Stranger still the excess of girls is about in proportion to population. Savannah leads off with 528 more girls than boys: Atlanta, 395; Augusta, 304; Macon 154; Columbus, Car! Rome, 50; Athens, 50; Albany 16; Griffin, 11. and Amerigus, 7. Savannah, though she has a somewhat smaller population than Atlanta, has a larger | excess of girls, This seems to be peculiar to | old cities. It is so with Baltimore, New Or- | leans and New York. The excess is greater in New Orleans than anywhere else. Is this a peculiarity of the French? Cartersville has a larger excess of girls, in proportion to population, than any town in Georgia, Bartow is one of our richest counties, and the climate unexcelled. Part of it is lime- stone and part a freestone country, and it grows beautiful women and brave men. ‘The facts are unanimous and_ present a ques- tion worth studying. Is there less manhood in the cities than in the country? These facts were taken from the United States census of 1880, but they are corroborated by the school census taken by the Georgia depart- ment of education last year, By that enumer- ation the contrast between town and country was even more strikingly shown. In the coun- try districts of Chatham county there were more boys, but in Savannah more girls; in the country about Augusta there were more boys, but in the city more girls. This was the rule, without exception, wherever the cities were compared with their rural environment.s ~~ see DOMESTIC LABOR. The Vexed Quesyion Will Probably be Solved by Electricity. From the Brooklyn Eagle. “There is no doubt that electricity is des- tined to solve the vexed question of domestic labor,” said a well-known member of the Ek tric club the other day. “Let me show you two devices I have here in my own house which my wife declares has made her life much hap- pier and the question of housekeeping easy. She says that for twenty years she has been struggling with the maids on the question of scratching matches on the paint and leaving the burned ones about, Nowlook here.” Heraised his arm, pulled a little iron button hanging be- the gas jet anda flame sprang up. ou see there! that does away with the need of matches entirely. As you pull that spring it creates an electric spark which ignites the gas, It is very simple and never gets out of order. Here is another device for the same purpose, but which can be used on the ordinary burner,” and he picked up a long wand, in the handle of which he pressed a button with his thumb, producing a little train of blue sparks, which continued to flow as long as his finger was on the button. He turned on the gas, applied the wand, and it sprang into a flame. ‘But this new device,” he went on, “is more important still, or rather even more of a convenience, because I think the public will come in time to think that a method of lighting gas in factories and business houses without running the risks attendant upon the match in 9. 1889-TWELVE PAGES. | means something more in these days than car- THE STUDY OF CIVICS. Its Need Never More Apparent Than at wert WILLIAMS & CO, Auctioneers. Present. SING SALE ORDER OF THE TA’ x CLOSING SALE, PY ORDER Eas From the New York Observer. ‘We are gratified to learn that an effort is aboutto be made to enlarge and extend the work and influence of that excellent iastitu- tion known as the American Institute of Civica, Its chief aim is to promote the study of the most essential facts relating to affairs of government and citizenship. Never was the need of such study more apparent than it is at the present time. The greater part of all the Political ills concerning which such an outcry is now being made, the: corruption of the ballot, legislative trickery and scandal, the gross abuse of partisan power, may be traced toan inadequate and defective knowledge of the rights and duties of free citizenship. These evils have befallen us not so much on account of defects in our «ystems of adminis- tration and of government, not on account of the presence of a vicious and corruptible ele- ment in our voting Popcatics, 4s on account of the ignorance and indifference which pre- vail among all classes of people with regard to the fundamental principles of what has been TRE SCIENCE OF CITIZENSHIP, The civic virtues of patriotism and loyalty are, perhaps, as strong among us as among any other people in the world, but with too many of us they are passive virtues, mere abstrac- tions, aye! names. They are virtues the ex- ercise of which is connected in the common mind chiefly with the idea of war and carnage, The very word patriotism in the ordinary ac- ceptation, has the smell of battle lingering around it, Tt is mainly suggestive of brave and heroic deeds performed in defence of one's country. The words ‘patroit” and ‘soldier” have been so often linked together in history, song and story, that they have come to be re- garded as meaning almost one and the same thing. Our ideas of these things need recon- struction. Bravery and heroism are indeed es- sential elements of true patriotism, but it is not in time of war only that we need brave and heroic men. If peace is to have her victories as well as war, we must have the men who are strong and’ valorous and patriotic enough to lead us on ‘to victorious achievements. The only enemies that threaten our national lite, that assail our rights and liberties, are not those who come with shotted cannon and panics bayonets. In the language of the | | shail sella susall and choiwe coll ymnal jousand foes beset us round,” who i BY are even more to be feared and dreaded than hostile armies and iron ships of war. Among these foes are they who are poisoning the minds of the people with seditious and revolu- tionary doctrine; they who are fomenting social discontent and hatred of law and government among the ignorant and unthinking classes; they who are undermining the faith and conf- dence of the people in free institutions by the debauchery of the ballot and the ‘perversion of governmental power to selfish and partisan ends. These are among the enemies which all truly loyal, country-loving citizens of our day are called upon to MEET AND OVERCOME. And they can only be met and overcome when all such patriotic and country-loving citizens rise to # full and competent knowledge of their rights and duties as members of the state, and, having risen, put their knowledge into prac tice. Tobe patriotic, it must be understood, | rying a gun in time of war; something more than a willjngness to die, if need be, on the field of battle. It means also the fearless, in- telligent, discriminating performance of the duties of citizenship, and the disposition to | which citizenship involves. The qualiti desuetude in the face of all the bitter opposi- tions, the powerful antagonisms, the unsparing hatreds and malignities which every reform movement in the political world of to-day has | to encounter, Brave and heroic men are needed | | to fight the battles that must be fought before | the country is cleared of the enemies which | threaten its peace and the perpetuity of its free | institutions—the gross abuses, the monstrous | evils which are eating the life out of the body | olitic. ballots and not bayonets; the artillery of | « fearless tongues and dauntless pens; the resist- | less force of the honest, conscientious, united action of HONEST MEN FOR HONEST ENDS, And that all this may be brought about is why we make our plea for the study of civics— the study of the science of citizenship; of the ethical principles which lie as the basis of a popular form of government, of economics, of | civil polity, of the simpler legal forms and | usages, of political history, of the machinery | of government, of all those things which every citizen must know who would perform his civic duties intelligently and conscientiously, These studies should begin with the simplest rinciples in the primary schools, and be fol- lowed up from them to the highest educational institutions. Everywhere there should be an insistence upon those lines of thought and re- search which lead to the building up of a strong, virtuous, and intelligent citizenship, It should never be under a government hike ours—‘-of the people, for the people, by the ople”—that anyone should arrive at man- Boa estate without a clear and thorough understanding of at least the cardinal prin ciples of the science of government. ‘That many who are accounted intelligent do go through life without a knowledge of these sr eeetiatee wiht 1 ‘sell the thout oe HALY-Past. fro dei from day of sale, the property will and cost of detaulting | COMMENCING AL TEENLH. 1dsv, commen Femoved fo my atore tor couve: siuck of Goods Comes from one vi Lue ALest Let the city, who is wiving up that beanch of bi bear with cheerfulness all the responsibilities | {Q°2y°0C! of | EIGHT O'CLOCK, DAIL | bravery and heroism surely need not pass into | Wis extraordi And the weapons of this warfare must | ¢ to ments. southwest, without reserve, Premises, ‘Terms of sale AUCTION SALES. OCLOCK, OF MAN Su\te PLATED © mbS-2: WALTER B. ne Efe & 00, Aveta ED WA 7 i AN otis OF MPHOMAS DOWLING, Avcnoneer. BN ANCE © PanEsE Ponortaiss AX SILVER-PLA Beso wee, Reinke bord as ESDAY Balance of this ft stock of goods reserve. Sale mist be couciuded on wens THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. wd-st Broker, 1115 F st. ow. x VALUABLE STABLE FACING A 3u-POOR UKIEENIM AND PIP DT AND U STRERIS " RCH TW 1 at P POUR OULOCR Poste Twill seh, fe DAY.” Comat Sd Peace bal wah ofeet 308, to r, ule tered Mb-a6 47, 40. 40 and Ss in square Conveyancing at cost of purchaser, 4 posit of €100 will be required at time of sale, and on nulure to comply with above terms within ten days resold at risk Terus c purchaser. WASHING LON DANENHOWER, Arco THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. ats ide HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. A CHOICE COLLECTION OF HOUSEHOLD FURNI- TURE AND EFFECTS. EMBRACING LN PART ONE SUPERB SILK-PLUSH TURKISH SOFA AND SIDE CHAIR, TWO VERY ELEGANT EBONY CHAIRS, ONE LARGE TURKISH CARPET IN PERFECT OKDERK, ONE MEDIUM TURKISH CARPET IN FINE CONDITION, TWO ELEGANT MAHOGANY CHAIRS, RECEPTION CHAIRS, TWO TUKKISH HALL AND PARLOR KUGS, HANDSOME LIBRARY TABLE, HANDSOME OKNAMENTS, HANDSOME HALL STAND, CHERRY HALL-GLASS, SUPERIOR WALNUT BREAKFAST TABLE, WILLUW AND OTHER ROCKERS, HANDSOME ASH AND OTHER CHAMBER FURNILURE, BLUSSELS CARPETS, INGKAIN CARPETS, BAIR MATTKESSES, FEATHER PILLOWS, CANE-SEAT CHATRS, SEWING MACHINS, KILCHEN KBQUISIDES, ko. Ko. ON MONDAY MORNING, MARCH ELEVEN, 1889, HAL O'CLUCK, at IHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. SPECIAL SALE OF ELEGANT ARTICLES, EMBRACING GOLD PENS AND PENCILS (BY CELEBRATED MAKEKS), ELEGANT LEATHER PORTEOLJ08, FRENCH FIRE-GILT INKSTANDS, FINE CUT- GLASS INKSTANDS, LADIES' SILVER- ED POCKETBOOKS, LADIES’ AND POCKETBOUKS OF THE FINEST CHARACTER, SMELLING BOTTLES, MATCH- CASES, PAPEB-WEIGHTS AND FANCY ARTICLES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, On WEDNESDAY MOKNING, THIR, at HALS-FAST TEN GCLUCK, Tauall sell the abuve choice stacs of gvoin, his ce of sale. are Of the finest Scharscier, and will be s rd to cost. MAS DOWLING. mb7-dis Auctionesr. AMS & OO. Ancts, \ ALTER B. WILLL SPECIAL FINE ART SALE OF ITALIAN, FLORENTINE MARBLE AND ALABASTER STATUARY We will pinane sell without reserve, at our sale ug TUESDAY ARTERNOUN + ASRY, at THREE OC s LOCK, EVENING at LiL AL’ pecially are respectiully iuvit d array Of geuius, WALTER B. WILL . A. BOUT & CO, Auctioneers, THREE FRAME D Ae OKLY Ms & Dw H e two-story frets WS 1th wtreet and © # © be ren trom the southwest cor within teu days trou day of postessi cash. ©. A. ROOT & CO. Auctioneers, 505 Market Space, Auctioneer. RTY ON DUNBAR- THIRTY - SECOND i, Al ACCT THURSDAY, MAbU FOURTEEN, at FIVE O'CLOCK, I will #6ll an tr art of mh7-3t [\HOMAS DOWLIN VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPE! TON AVENUE, NEAK feet, improved by a one--t. Terms, Que-third cash, lance im six und twely mouths, with terest secured by & deed ase THOMAS DoWLiN Auctioneer, EXECUTOR'S SALE principles surely argues some radical defect in our systems of education. And this defect we must remedy if we are ever to rise to a higher plane of national life ; if we are ever to calor tks host onl noblest tamiinet dace. cratic scheme of government. The Anecdotes of Washington’s Youth. From St. Nicholas, People who have forgotten Washington’ battles remember the cherry tree and his hatchet. Weems started that pleasing tale, and it is he who tells also of a race on foot be- tween George repre ays ‘Langy Dade.” ceased, 1 will sell at public auction ut of IMPROVED AND UNIM- PROVED REAL Esiaik IN THE CILY OF WASHINGTON, D. C. By virtue of the autuority conferred upon the exec tors of the last will and testament of Ene! Wm my store, Fenueyivauia avenue aud 1]th street, ou Bt DA\, We EIGHTEENIH DAY OF MAKCH, 18) commencine at TWO O'CLOCK P. M., the foliowiug Pieces of property, vig. Jot 2, im square 10; part lot 2, in sq 11, part ‘square 10, tmuproved by whart, lot 3, mn equars by | houses; part lot 5, uare sof 12. with part square, unproved b; aie Jot 3 and part of Jot 4, in square « of wharf; parts lot 3, 01 Jot 5, ot iot 6, an aq) 12. warehouse and wharf; jot ¥ in square 2 in square 62; lot 1, in equare 58, lot 4,20 sguare Bb. lot First let me tell_you—for boys to-day resem- Sy im square 88. lot 14, iu square BS; lot 4, tn syuare ; lot ble the Apostle Paul in one thing, certainly; they like to prove all that among the square 58. ; lots 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 0, 11, 5, in square SY: lot 6, iu syuare AY. lot a q &. aud 8, i 5s, each lot tobe avid separately, many authors who have written about the youth of Wasbington.t he one upon whose pre- serves all the rest have browsed, whose quaint at-law of Win. Easby, ube J. \. EANBE, Executor, \ediately after the above I will ofer tor the heirs following pieces of prop square Li; lot % in stories have come to be our classics, wes this very Parson Weems. People who have grown up in the neighbor- hood of Mount Vernon, where Weems was well known, are not quite sure whether there ever was a hatchet—or, for that matter, even a cherry tree, in the garden of excellent Augus- tine Washington, near Fredericksburg. For Parson Weems was reputed to have a very vivid imagination. He used to drive about Fairfax county in an old-fashioned gi; with a calash, peddling his own books an others, from plantation to plantation, Whe: the hands of careless employes, is one of the greatest value and importance. The other electric device of which [ speak is a self-wind- ing clock. Ihave one here in the house and will show you how it works. I get these things atonce and use them with the intention of izing them as much asIcan. Here it The motive power, as you will see, is from a fine spring, as in the ordinary clock, an Hi << FacF 3 He li i L H F i rH if wee E i i Hi Ele ey | i i | 5 E i ? i E | l F i I FA 4 Li and, standing up in his maddest dance music. of his patrons adie rl gern? ig family and at the moment “Amen? was said, would fall to playing and jige upon his fiddie. His sermons were the oddest ever heard irom a Charch of i i wnat Part lot 2 1 er Cured by deed of trust ou ti ty Bold cured by ‘ou the property tthe option of the purchaser, ‘convey’ > TRUSTEES’ 8. PRO! Ju sguare 12; lot 2, in 21, iu square 37, lot 3, in square 8Y iu square 104. -third cash, balance in six and twelve ith intererest at 6 percent per annum, se mr “ oral > BORGE W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, 036 F & i—— ALE OF VALUABLE BeING HOUSE NUMBAKED STREET NORTHWEST secured thereby, we Will offer lor mle, iu {runt premises, on MONDAY, THE ELEVENIM OF MAKCH, 1880, Al FIVE O'CLOCK 1. M- tuate in the city ot