Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1889, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON ¢ D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1889-TWELVE PAGES AWFUL TIMES AHEAD. Will Our Descendants Be Deaf, Dumb, Blind, Bald, and Toothless’? SF REALLY LOOKS THAT WAT—A& RACE OF DEAF MUTES ALREADY STARTED—OTHER AFFLIC- TIONS TO COME—MAN ONLY RECENTLY A TALE- TNO ANIMSL—ALCOHOL MADE BABMLESS. Special Correspondence of Tire Evexta STAR. Bostox, March 14, 1889, What may be called the “deaf-mute problem” i= giving considerable agitation just at present to the scientific mind in New England. And no wonder, siuce it has been recently shown that during the last thirty years, while the popula- tion of the United States bas simply doubled, the number of deaf and dumb people in this country hax been mrltiphed by five? This Feally appalling increase has no other canse than the intermarriage of persons born thus tiefective, the offspring of such unions being almost invariably similarly afflicted. The latter marry among themselves in turn, producing another generation of unfortunates without *peech or hearing. who do likewise, and so on, the result being the propagation of a special human breed lacking two senses of the five with which the animal man is designed by na- ture to be equipped. ! | | intermarriage of deaf. mutes in America was that of a Massachusett le im 1519. Fi Jess than 1,400 such marriages, and already | deaf-mutes by descent have appeared in the fourth generation numerously. ‘There is every reason for sapposing that their numbers will | @® increasing indefinitely, until there comes to be recoguized a separate variety of the rac all the members of which are born deaf, and | therefore. dumb. Cheertal prospect, is it not? | Is it not strange that so mournful a state of affairs should have been brought about by one of the most be: ent Works ever attempted | by human kindness and eharity Until within ¢ were kept so few years deaf-mutes ntirely secluded, by re ess, that marriages among them | But at length benevolent | a friendly hand. taught them ould understand, gave them h that language of all things quite ly others know, and even showed them with end- | Jess pains how to speak with the voices th uld not themselves hear. In this manner ssume the conditions of aan existence, to meet their fe low creatures, form societies, marry and have chil- obvious reasons, they nearly always ove another. If, on the other hand, ake partners who are normally equpped as regards the primary senses, the resulting offspring are more than apt to be born deaf anddumb. If not, then some of the grand- children will be. and the curse wiil appear for | generations in the family, intermittently. } It is interesting to observe that the telephone | is merely @ sort of copy of the buman ear works on the same general principles, E Bell's instrument has a diaphram like the drama of the ear, in contact with which pencil. The sound-waves made by agitate the diaphram and are transm carbon pencil to the wire that message. The place of the carbon pencil in the ear is taken by a little cartilaginous projec- tion thatis im contact with the drum. This transmits the sound-waves to the brain through the nerves of sensation, which take the place of wires in the telephone, and thus it is one “hears.” If the drum is broken, or too thick- ened to vibrate readily, or if any other essen- tial parts are defective, the person is deaf. His telephone is “busted,” so to speak, It would surely be a sad case of evolution backward if human bei: power of sp thousands of the caves and the river-drifts could not talk has been satisfactorily proved by the fact that none of their skulls have the little bony process called the “genial tubercle” to whic cles that control the movements of the tongue e fastened. Without this very essential € erescence they must have been as dumb as the other beasts of the field. Indeed, it is a theory well accepted scientifically now’ that man h only been a speaking animal for about 7,000 years. That isthe reason why the traditions of ho race, not even those of the Chinese and an- cient Egyptians, have ever gone back further than seventy centuries from 1539 of the Christ- ion era—a mere bubble on the shores of eter- nity! | FIRST TALKERS, The first tribes of men to acquire the lingual faculty had their home in Central Asia. So great an advantage did this power of speech give them that they spread rapidly all over the earth. Traditions of human experience and observation began to be handed down by word of mouth, and inasmuch as such traditions never extended back further than about 5000 | EB. C., as time is pow reckoned, it was taken for granted by historians that the world began at t date. So it is found that all the ancient races, coming as they did from the same geo- | krapbieal source, in Mesopotamia or thereabout, | attribute the Creation to & period 7.000 years | ago. It is curious to observe that they pre- | serve strikingly similar records regarding a} certain Deluge—de btless @ local aff ality—which wiped riy ‘y | M authorities ar opinion that new | languages were originally formed by children | under the talking age, who st away in the | anaging to survive, Anvented as children will, ientifie perch, however, | and return to the deaf-mutes of the future, it ¥ be anid that they willbe worse off than peechless cave-men of old, since the latter p y at any rate hear. Taking a broad view of , one can hardly deny that the prospe f the civilized person who has the i ck te live two thousand years hence is far | wasnt. Heis likely to be deaf and will doubtless be entirely bald-headed, | most powerful conclave lenses | es. Of teeth he | is upt to have few or none, since those useful | instruments are being supplied to each suc- | tamt and oulv the Will give sight to his myopic ceeding ration of poorer and poorer | sterial by the art contractor nature, and very | velow the grade the original specifications tothe human plan called for. So a surgeons say, at least, About that time | all the available coal in the world will have | completely given out, and there will be nothing left tor the inhabitants to do but to huddle | eround the equator until the final freeze-out. This is not a pessimistic view. Itis simply in-| tended to show how fortunate any oue nowa- | days should consider himself to be that he is | born in the nineteenth century, when people | ean bear andsee and talk and chew and escape the necessity of wearing a wig. j ALCOHOLIC EFFECTS. This time it iva Boston genius who, in his | eagerness to reform at least one of the vices of the age, bas announced the discovery of a method by which alcoholic liquors may be ren- dered entirely non-intoxicating and there harmless, Were it not too frivolous an obj | tion, it might be remarked that whisky is not harmfal because it intoxicates. It is a poison which attacks certain organs of the body and causes them to become diseased: the imtoxica- tion is merely, to those who drink fire-water, au agreeable incidental, However, this point may be politely waived. The notion of this in- ntor is to have the law direct that all drinka- taining alcohol shall. before being sold, yixed with # very small proportien of a pe- be euliar powder compounded by himselt, which will deprive them of any intoxicating quality, Without affecting their flavor # particle. Thus. sons who are foud of these beverages, will able to booze indefinitely without running apy risk of getting drunk—a condition highly calculated to cause mortification to their friends | and pain to themselves. No longer, if thi bappy plan prevails, will the nocturnal toper struggle in vain to discover the elusive keyhole | ig the small hours of the morning; nor will the excessive rusbing of the growler that goes often to the bar give rise to family jars and police- gsourt unpleasantnesses, In short, the demon Of rum will be overcome by an antidote, to be | sold at a small price per ounce; agents wanted. | Unfortunately, the fact is that nobody drinks spirits because he likes their taste. The writer bas ouly known one exception to this rule—a ebeerful dipsomaniac who suid he loved whisky @0 much that he would enjoy drinking it out of e pitcher. Observe the manner in which the | bummer of long standing tosses the contents | of his glass down his throat so as to taste the | Guid as little as possible. Men take alcohol for lt intoxicating effect. When it ceases to be *Mmulating they will let italone. Such schemes a that of the reformer have been sug- gested before. : ‘There are few things more charming to in- vestigate than the effects of alcohol upon the buman system. While it is destroying the lining of the stomach, so as to deprive th owner of the digestion, which is justly regarded as the most important essential ———— it is making besutiful “hob-nails” over his liver. The latter organ becomes enlarged and {ts structure deteriorates. It is from this com- isint that hard driukers are most apt to die. iy, the white protective coat is eaten off the nerve filaments that run every which way through the prey tem wren A likely to ensue. This new- . ” you so much about nowadays is mostly the effect of alcohol, MELTING INTO THE PAVEMENT. As « Boston gentleman of the writer's ac- quaintance was strolling along the street about oon-time the other day he chanced to witness © most astonishing spectacle. A woman who | with the payment. m 1450 to 1890 there was no | ! had been promenading 200 feet or so ahead of him disappeared through the sidewalk, not suddenly, but ina deliberate sort of way, very much as the fairy in the pantomime goes down through a trap-door. It took het, perhaps, as much as three seconds to vanish entirely, an it was evident that the move was not voluntary on her part, for she gave several distinct screeches during the performance, 5 Not being accustomed to see ladies melt into the pavement in broad daylight the Boston gen- tleman quickened his pace, but before he reached the spot where the catastrophe had taken place a number of other people had ran up and gathered about it. Detesting a crowd beyond all things he restrainedphis curiosity and proceeded on his way. The strangeness of the incident. however, caused it to weigh upon his mind, and when he got home that night he related the occurrence to his wife. To his sur- prise she burst into a fit of laughter. “Why, my dear,” she said, as soon as she could control her gravity, “the heroine of your adventure was none other than myself. I was walking along absent-mindedly and stepped into an open coal-hole in the sidewalk. I sup- pose I shou!d have been killed, had it not been that the coal underneath, which they bad just been getting in, was ap almost to a level ed on top of the th my weight, and 1 Vste heap, which gave away w the coals, rolling down inasmall avalanche rom the top of the pyramid, let me down hrough the hole as gently as possible. Of course I was frightened and the crowd I found outside, when Idiad made my way out of the r through the house above, was unpleas- but on the whole I think I escaped very kily. suppose you did not recognize me beeause Thad bn my new dresa; but 1 have spoiled it aud so you will have to get me | another.” “Yes. J will.” said the husband, and those fools who left their coal-hole open for people to tumble through shall be made to pay for the material and the making of it, or they'll have a suit for damages on their hands.” Reve Bacur. —_—_—_ see FANCIES FOR THE FASHIONABLE. Tue Viocet is the flower of Lent. Rep Chora Gowns are much worn in Lon- ; Texte dipped in silver or in gold is the latest fancy fabric for ball gowns, Crare CLoru, not crape, is the preferred mourning dress fabric of English women. Yoxes will again be in vogue for summer frocks of muslin, percale, nainsook and cam- brie. Fert. Gatuerrp Skits, belted waists, and | surplice bodices are the features in wash goods gowns made up for summer wear, Aut Reap Fasiionase Harts and bonnets are low in the crown, but what they have lost in height they have gained in cireumterence. Tue Got on Stiver Braceier with a we attachment is taking the place of the triemne wristlet of chamois, leather, or kid wi a watch pocket therein, ALEATEOSs or veiling de tose, Persian lilac, olive, mahogauy, or creen, in many lovely tints, will be in great favor the coming season, Tue Favorite Cavrcu Gows for Lent is of smoke gray mohair, cashmere, or Henrietta cloth, trimmed with broad bands, cuffs, collar and revers, and a waistcoat of black moire. Tae Fasuton of covering the walls of rooms with pictures and brackets and cabinets filled with all sorts of pretty, even of use.es ments, and bric increase in Paris, Very Pare buff, deep of the twenty gre How and about half as are the stylish colors for ginghams. Black sashes of wide, rich ribbon will be worn with them, In’s Aut Srvrr and nonsence to assert. as some novices in fashion reporting do, that white underwear is discarded. other white undergarments in the house, at home, for carriage and dressy evening wear.— New York Sun, Tue Latest Noverty 1x Girpies consists of one of silken rope wound many times around the waist until it forms a wide belt. Then the euds are knotted and fall in straight lines, broken by knots and terminating in tassels nost to the bottom of the skirt on one Verovttve ts 4 Sirk that finds considerable favor, It is as soft as Bengaline and Sicilienne, only of firmer texture, with a glossy surface. Armnres are still in fashion, particularly those which are figured on a surface that looks sike repped satin de Lyon, Pants Senps Us ror Ovr Scamer Wear cam- brics and percales in stripes or flowers, or else with borders, London zephyrs and ginghams in all manner of plaids and stripes, along with the most delicate and vividly-tlowered lawns, sutcens and batistes, ALTHovGH THE Empire aNp DrREcTORE Srvzes still appear among many of the latest and most approved models from over the sea, still there are many indications that gowns in Grecian, princess, and Watteau styles will pre- vail quite as | The Wattewu models are particularly pretty for summer wear, Some of the new veloutines are striped. show- ing lovely contrasts of prawn pink with pale golden olive, bronze and old rose, réséda and pale violet, pine yellow and moss green. pale nine and silver, gold and cream white &c. These fubries are double silk in weaving—silk ou silk—and importers declare they will neither pull, cut, nor rustle. STRIVED aND PLarpep materials are still ar- ranged with great ingenuity, and all monotony is thus avoided. On some of the new striped bodices the darts are only taken in the lining, and by a bias adjusted of many of the very fine wool fabrics they are smoothed and drawn over the lining to fit the form to perfection, without the aid of the usual seams and darts, Many or tHe smart tailor gowns of English serge, French camel's hair, Venetian cloth, or Thibet, show a feather-stitched silk shirt-waist beneath an empire bodice fastened only at the throa.. Others have directoire vests of faille, tritamed with narrow rows of very fine gold gimp, the vest fastened with small gold bat- tons, There are broad pocket-flaps on the hips, corded with gold and trimmed with gimp and buttons. Warre Woorex Torets willbe more than ever in vogue next summer. Six of these gowns made and trimmed in different ways are considered none too many in the Loge of a really fashionable watering-place wardrabe, As these dresses catch the dust very easily at the hems, it is a very excellent plan to provide a number of protective skirt plestings, these removable, as three at least will be soiled be- fore the dress needs the cleaner’s hand. Tur Tove andthe little French capote will rival each other in favor this season, Low crowns appear upon nearly every one of the Paris and London models thns far exhibited. Cactus lace straws and plain and fancy braids are used for hats for general wear. Very handsome Milan braids are brought out in colors to match every possible dye of the street dress, Reseda, olive, golden tan, mouse, cha- mois, and mahogany are popular colors in spring millinery. Tux Spuine Jacket is made of all fabrics and in allshapes. The chief model is virtu- ally a closely fitted bodice, with or without | revens, braided or not braided, very ornate or | exceedingly simple, according to its material, rihture, uses, and its wearer. It is just this ¥ with which the jacket is adapted to all ircumstances and combinations which is at the root of its great popularity. ‘The ornaments on new models are still ve erally of a mil- itary form—cords, frogs, epaulets and brande- bourgs of passementerie—frequently with a mixture of gold, for gold will both day and promenade costu cee - Degeneration of the Human Teeth. From Popular Science Monthly. The law of retardation exhibits itself in the teeth of the higher races of mankind ina highly inconvenient manner, The greatly-developed brain requires all the available room in the skull; there is no space left for the attachment of muscles of a powerful jaw. There is conse- quently no room left for either the wisdom teeth or the upper incisors; the wisdom teeth to imperfect degree cuinely sukaseut among savage oreven many civilized races. The same suppression has ‘observed in the outer pair of superior incisors. This is owing only to a reduction is Ree eee the jaw, but to e i ! itely barred in old } It will never | at of vogue to wear white petticoats and | SMOOTHED-TONGUED ROGUES. How the Confidence Men Succeed in Swindling Intelligent Citizens. THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE—PLAvSI- BLE TALES THAT INTEREST THE UNWARY TRAY- ELER—THE PAL WITH HiS BILL—WAITING FOR THE LAME BOI~THE GREEN-GOODS GAME. “Talking about smart people.” saida detective to a Star reporter, ‘the confidence man, or the ‘con man,’ as we call him, will never take a back seat, and there is no reason, except as a matter of honesty, why he should. He is al- ways quick to take a trick and can size up a ‘mark’ as readily as any member of the profes- sion. He is usually a good-looking man, and, of course, he has winning ways. That is neces- sary in bis business, He is never at a loss for a subject that will interest anyone, and he seldom makes a mistake when he picks ont his man. ‘The ‘con man,’ asa rule, does not attempt to become a millionaire at one haul, nor does he usually risk more than two or three tricks in a ity during one visit. The depot is his favorite place for picking up his prey. He converses with his victim, learns his pame and addres! and, strange to say. he is either from or i ing to the vicinity of the home of his vietim. His pleasant conversation never fails to give an impression of his sincerity, and he can m: the stranger believe almost anything he w tell him. He never stops short of a mine of some kind. even if it ix only a sand mine, Sometimes he will even go so far as to tell that there is a gold or silver mine in the neighbor- hood of the victim's house, if he should happen to be a countryman, CITY ME: “Butit does not countryman to get sw continued the dete hey are sinart enough to catch the most inteiligent citizens. There are four merchants in this city who hi fallen victims in New York. They did not pay dear for their experience, but they no da lesson that will prevent a simi- ii cavaur. an unsophistic ted th use or sense ima person saving ‘they couldn't catch me. They they don't Want more than ither. If the game is tried wed up its only @ que tion of time before they will get the boodle. People read of the smart tricks of ‘crooked’ peo- ple every day or two, but still they will get caught in the snare, Bait the hook and the ‘suckers’ are bound to bite at it. THE CHECK GAME. he check t,” he continued, “is one of | the oldest games of the confidence men, but it | is still practiced success In working it tl e always two The first one £0 inta a depot anc ‘mark. hot He does greenest looking man, He up th thickness of his pock d th he has enoazh money to pl ngages fin convers«con with’ the and first learns where he is from, “Why, iam going there myself on the next train,’ lie will say, “Of conrse, the stranger is glad to have com paws. He never did Tike to travel alone any- how. The contidence is such a pleasant talker that the stranger becomes interested in hun, and they are friends little while. The one who takes that part of the game is usually au elderly man, because, in some cases, the easion demands that he should have a grown daughter, THE REST OF THE FAMILY, “Then the old gentleman interrupts his newly-made friend and tells him that he is | going around to the hotel for his wife and di “M. daughter,’ he will say, ‘will be good uand make the trip pleasant,’ ger readily accepts the i tion and anticipates a pleasant journ leaves the depot and starts with the { un’ to the hotel, The latter incidents fers toa bill of goods he has purchased and which has uot arrived at the depot, THE PAL, “Presently a young man, ostensibly a clerk ina store, meets the two, and addressing the elderly man he presents a bill for the goods and requests its payment. “Certainly,” he will answer, taking a check from his pocket, ‘here's your money. “But Ican't change the check,’ the sup- i clerk will reply, ‘Then he hesitates. What to do he does not know. He turns to his friend and shows him the check. He would like the loan of £50 or $100 until he can get the check cashed and, of course, he has no objection to handing over the check as securi' The check is for $300 or 2400, and satisfied that he cannot possibly lose anything the victim takes the money from his pocket and hands it over, “In this gonnection,” the detective continued, “the confidence man ‘usually comes within $10 or $20 of the amount the victim has in his pocket. They usually transact that part of the pusiness near a saloon or public place of some kind. The receipt for the money must be signed, and the victim waits on the sidewalk while the merchant and his customer step in- side and then steps out the back door, leaving the victim on she sidewalk waiting for them. He gets tired of waiting, but still he does not think that his acquaintance is dishonest. He ‘oes to the bank and inquires about the check, hen the bank clerk has a laugh and the un- fortunate individual is referred to the police department, and thus it is that the whole world becomes acquainted with his misfortune, THE LAME 80N. Sometimes the game is arranged differently. Instead of giving the victim the slip in the man- ner indicated, he is sent back to the depot to wait for the wife andchildren of the confidence man, Among the children there is a ten-year- old boy, who walks with crutches, so that it will be impossible to miss them. This poor boy has been ten years old for a loug time, aud has been the means of fooling many a victim, He returns to the depot and waits for the persons as described, ‘they do not appear. He be- comes uneasy, for itis nearly time for the de- parture of the train. He waits until tle last minute. They do not appear, and he begins to think something has happened to them, They will surely be here for the next train, he says to hi He still waits, and often does not suspect anything wrong until some one in the depot who has noticed him approaches and questions him concerning the train he wanta to take. He then tells his story and realizes for the first time that he has been swindled. “THE GREEN GOODS GAME is another scheme of the confidence man,” con- tinued the detective, “that has been worked very successfully for many years, and it is just the same now as it was years ago. Like all other games, it has been exposed hundreds of tines, and yet persons will get caught napping. ‘Lhe directories of various cities, chietly western cities, are obtained and from them the names of Pi ersons are taken who the swindlers think will iteattheir bait. Circularsare then sent out with notice that the business is ‘strictly confidential.’ Information is given in the circular tuat ‘green goods.’ or counterfeit money, ean be purchased at reesonable rates. In other words, ‘a chance | to become a millionaire’ is given for only a few doilars. They don’t usually experience much trouble nding people who are willing to ac- cept the offer and run the risk, ‘The cirenlar | concludes: ‘Go to No, — —— street, New York, | and inquire for — “The man who is willing to get wealthy,” » detective, “call Imber ted and finds the man for whom ke is looking, usually in a room ina tenement house. Entering the front door he is ushered upstairs, and after Mogae 2 through long hallways he comes to the * . In the room is a wooden partition, in which is cut a hole, through | which all business must be transacted. The man on the inside is not seen, First a stack of notes (genuine) are shoved ont for the purchas- ertoexamine. To him they are represented as being counterfeit. They look so much like genuine goods that he determines to make a purchase and the money is packed in a satchel. On the inside of the partition is a similar sateh- el filled with paper. While the customer is counting out his money the satchels are ex- changed and the customer gets a satchel of blank paper in Guiren y for his money, proba- bly one or two hundred dollars, He is hurried from the building and when he opens the satchel he discovers that he has been swindled. He returns, but as he went in one door and came out another he ig unable to locate the place where he handed over his mone; ee per, and even should he complain to the men who robbed him could not be found. THS WATCHFUL TEXAN. “Tt has only been a few months,” he added, “since a Texan killed a green goods man in New York. He went to the office in ans ® circular received and carried a loaded revolver wit his eye on the satchel and seei made he fired a shot Cogheg “ee killed the man who was in the act the satchels on him. Since that any complaints have been made dealers, At any rate they will no sending any more circulars to Texas, ‘THE LATEST GAME of the confidence men has been suc- cessfully in New York recently, and it was by meens of this trick that one Washingtonian The was relieved of a small sum of victims instance the hotel im each are lobbies, It is there that the confidence man the ‘con men,” ” | n in the future, so that there is no | learns their name, business and address, After making the acquaintance of his man the confi- dence man tries to sell a suit of clothes. He generally finds it dificult to make a bargain when the suggestion is first made, but before they separate the money usually passes out of the hands of the citizen, who thinks he has struck @ bargain. Thé confidence man will claim that he is in the wholesale clothing business, and knowing his victim to be a prom- inent business man, he desires to sell him a suit of clothes merely as an advertisement. He will tell him that if he will pay the price of the material, which is not more than $25 or #30, he will have him a £60 or $75 suit of clothes made. Then when he goes home he can say he got the clothes from such and such @ firm. The adver- tising will be worth hundreds of dollars to him and wilt not cost him (the seller) but a few dol- lars, The offer is accepted and they go to # place where the victim's measure is taken. He pays the money and they separate. The next do when he calls for his clothes he learns to his surprise that he has been swindled, — SUGGESTIONS FOR LENTEN FARE. | Seasonable Dishes and How to Prepare Them. For many a long looked on as @ popish institution, and as such | heartily condemned, though in point of tact it | was fully a) mach of a sanitary asa celigions j Measure. A fact realized at the reformation, | when enting of fish was advised. if not actually ordered by law, at certain seasons, for some Years after “papistry” had been driven from our land; fasting and feasting departing to- gether during Cromwell's rule, only to reappear, the former expecially, m marvelously modified | form, with the return of the Stuarts, A proof that hygiene had fully as much to do | with church feasts as religion is shown by their | dates, the two chief and most rigid ones com- | ing in spring and autumn, precisely the time ¥ | when almost everyone finds their health be- | coming a matter for consideration A WORD AS TO SOTPS. Soup means stock nfeat, of conrse, in some shape or form, even if the mistress be so eco- nomical as to use the liquor joints or poultry try have been boiled in, and the bones and atter also. many delicious “made without the smallest partic course. is a sine qua non as follows: Boil some dried peas in suf ater, with pepper, salt, oni parrots and other vegetables that m ly, until they are all but in an when they must be | Strained off and the stock cleared like any other | soup. For Julienne maigre, take a carrot, a turnip. a leek n onion, all cut in tiny strips, and in a little g lettuce, chervil, sorrel and celery also cut in strips; give them, too, a toss | in the pan, and place them with the other vege- tables in a del clean stewpan: pour on Stock, of rnd should be made ficient | sutticient vegetable stock made and cleared as above, bring it all to the boil. then draw it Je and let it all simmer slowly together for afew minutes, Have ready some bread cut in thin slice y these at the bottom of the tur- | een and pour the hot aay on them. If in sea- | son, young peas or Frenc | to the other vegetables, | The same vegetable stock can be used for potage a la Condé, Garbnre maigre, purée aux tomato nd a perfect crowd of delicious soups, which, if we ever think of, we lump as, “that horrid soup muigre we had at that inn at 80 and so,” Fish stock made by boiling any coarse kind of fish, or fish trimmings, with vegetables, sea- soning, aud a bouquet garni, serves as the foundation for various fish soups and stews, for itcan either be strained and cleared or else boiled till the fish, &c., will all pass through a fine sieve. For a soup a celery puree is delicious. Strain the liquor from a quart of oysters, which will do for sauce or be fried, sticking two or three together. if they are small, before dip- ping them into the corn-meal or cracker-erumbs, Add to the oyster-liquor enough water to make three quarts, Clean and cut into half-inc! lengths all the white portion of three bunches of celery, except the roots, Boil the celery in the oyster-water until it has boiled to rags. Then rub it through a seive and return it to the saucepan, Let it boil up, and adda cupful of flour smoothly blended’ with one cupful of sweet milk. boil up two or three times, salt and pepper to taste, strain and serve, The puree should be about as thick as rich cream. becomes too thick or too thin in boiling, a little more milk, or milk and flour blended, may be added to bring it to the right consistency. OTHER PALATABLE DISHES, Lobster croquettes are a delicate entree, and can be made of the canned lobster as well as of fresh, Strain off all the liquor, and chop the lobster fine; soak one or two slices of bread in water, remove the crust and squeeze dry; mix well with the lobster, seasoning with salt, pepper and the juice of a small lemon, Mix to a paste with a well-beaten egg. Mold into the usual croquette shape, dip in beaten egg and then in grated bread-crumba, and fry in boiling fat. A dainty dish for a Lenten dinner may be made with two or three good-sized carrots. Scrape them and cut them into strips. Put them inasaucepan with one cupful of boil- ing water, two ounces of butter, a chopped onion, and salt and pepper to taste, Stir once or twice until the butter is melted, then cover closely, and let it set on the stove or range where the carrots will steam without burning. Blend smoothly a heaping tablespoontul of flour ina half cupful of water, and when the carrots are done, which will be in about an hour an a half, stir in the blended flour and let all boil up a few minutes before serving. A palatable dish of salt fish for breakfast or luncheon is prepared with crackers. Of course the fish must be soaked as directed above—a piece about six inches square. Split six pilot crackers and put them to soak in cold water. In the morning mince the fish fine and drain the crackers dry. Stir together with three well-beaten eggs anda quart of milk, a piece of butter the size of an egg and the grat- ed rind and part of the juice of an orange. Put it in an earthen baking-dish, well buttered, and bake an hour. Boiled salt codfish isa delicate dish enough if properly prepared. Salt codfish is to be had oned and put up in small boxes, but in any case it should be soaked over night in tepid water, with the skin side upward. Change the water in the morning and soak two or three hours longer. Then scrape and clean thor- oughly, and put in a kettle of tepid water enough to well cover it, and then set where it will heat to the scalding point but not boil. Let it cook for an hour—two will do it no harm—bnt do not let the water boil at any time. Remove all the bone and dark skin, and serve with egg sauce, or, it is usually called, *‘drawn butter,” made after the Frenc! method. TREATMENT OF FRESH FISH. To prepare fresh fish great care is necessary in cleaning. One washing is usually sufficient, for allowing fresh fish to lie in water any length of time after cleaning impairs their flavor. All fish for boiling should be put into cold water except salmon, which Joses its color unless put into boiling water. Adde tablespoontul of salt and one of vinegar to every two quarts of water when boiling fish. This improves the flavor, and also keeps the flesh firm, In boiling a fish whole do not cut off the head or tail, A large by threading a trussing-needie, tying the end of the string around the head, then running the needle through the middle of the fish, drawing i string up tight and fastening it around the tar il. Toasted haddock is a nice dish, and can be made by taking a few haddocks, rub them thor- ea with salt, and hang them up for twenty- four hours in the open air by the head; then skin them, dust them with flour, and broil or toast over a clear fire, In cooking a shad select a roe-shad. If you have no fish kettle keep on hand a large square of cheese cloth; lay the fish, after clean- ing, in the cloth laid on a long plate and you can manage to cook it very well. To clean the fish pour a little hot water over the scales to loosen them, scrape them off, remove the gills, cut off the fins and the hard white part along the backbone. Put it into your kettle in cold water, seasoned with a tab) of ir grows of fh. wi salt and of cider. When the wate: hot allow fiv agg mee id pound Send to table in a ith parsely and d gel ogg tatce may be handed, mixed with drawn but- TO MAKE A GOOD FISH SAUCE, If carefully prepared according to the following rule, this sauce will not be lumpy or taste of raw flour. Melt tablespoonfuls and slow! eggs, chopped fine, make egg sauce of it. flour. Stir till smooth, Wite—'T see that our neighbor, Bonds, is again. Husband—“What is it this time? “Wheat, I 2” Wife—‘‘No;I think from his it was rye that has floored him now. I don't want you to dabble with it any more, either.” od oil; take an | a If it} the fast of Lent was | was added to her } i But meat is not a | ups can be | | World, rather fancy the ‘two-wheeled veli | | | beans may be added | ' | | fish may be drawn into the shape of a letter S| d | has once entered the water the outlin AMERICAN PRUDERY False Ideas of Propriety Undermining the Independence of American Girls. NEW YORK GIRLS AND DECOLLETE DRESSES—THE HUE AND CRY AROUT PROPRIETY RORBING YOUNG WOMEN OF THEIR GREATEST CHARM, THE UN- CONSCIOUSNESS OF WRONG—FOREIGN IDEAS. (Copyrizht, 1889.) Special Correspondence of Tar Evexrve Stan. New Your, March 14, 1889, What is or is not proper is becoming @ tremendous question among American women, The lines of social etiquette in America are far more distinct than those of any other country, and hence the perpetual and never-ending dis- enssion of what a lady may or may not do, and il be considered above reproach. It isa pity that the old-time habits of American women are becoming hampered and prejudiced by social customs, The day when an American woman did exactly what she chose has gone by. Nobody thought the worse of her for her free- dom and courage. On the contrary, a charm long list of attractions this very trait of her character. Ti ay has gone by when she can do w pleases was well illustrated last week by a party of Vassar girls who came to the city and went toa matinee. The only thing that the news- papers disagree upon concerned the number of young women who visited the theater, A great conflict is raging between the college authorities and the the theatri managers, The number of girls who attended the matinee is placed at varions figures from two to eighty- two. What surprises me most ts that anybody should care a rap one way or the oth 1p ose alot of college girlk did come to New and attend a first-class theater. The light opera which was presented was of a thoroughly inoffeusive nature, the music pret d dashing, and there was abgolutely n to which any sensible man could object to in the whole performance. Since when has it become a crime for girls to attend a matin It reminds me of the war of words which ensued after the hansoms were introduced in New York, For at least a year a very large and constantly growing class of pe ple have been writing to the papers persistently saying that it was a disgracetul thing for au woman to appear in publi was no particular reason for it, of course, as the hansom is a comfortable. roomy and pleas- ent vehicle, and a thousand times more pleas- ant than a stuffy cab, and at this time no one es any harm in them, most careful women here, as elsewhere in by a the and yet if anybody were to turu to the files of the newspapers about two years ago he would find the most hot-headed and violent criticisms against the use of these hansoms, LOW-NECKED DRESSES, Another phase of the matter may be seen in the time at present about the inaugural ball and the subject of wearing low dresses thereat. The women of to-day do not dress half so low as their grandmothers did, aud, more import- ant tun that, the young girls of to-day do not dress low at all. The popular theory in New York city is that young girls go to balls and dinner parties with dresses that display a lavish expanse of bust, b and arms. ‘It is true that voung matrons and married women wear low dresses here, just as they do in every great city in the world, but the young girls and debu- tantes always have the neck of their bodices filled in with lace. This perpetual harping on what is supposed to be indelicate in the attire of women is a particularly unpleasant phase of criticism in my mind, I do not know whether Tam particularly obtuse or thoroughly hard- ened in such matters, but I must admit that [ have not been able to see the evil which men and women so constantly complain of in THE ATTIRE OF AMERI GIRLS. T have been on all the beaches from Maine to Cape May and have seena great many thou- sands of women in bathing costumes, I have read glowing accounts from various corre- spondents of the awful suggestiveness and in- lecency of the costumes of the young girls at Long Branch, Narragansett and Atlantic City, and I have seen some of the bathing suits that were so Vididly described, I believe it all to be a lot of arraut humbug. Why is there anything More suggestive ina well-fitting bathing suit than ina big and voluminous one? After a woman sof her figure are revealed whether her jacket is an exact fit or made ten times too big for her. I cannot see the awful indecency of the thing either, American girls, asa rule are lithe, supple and graceful to the last de- gree. Their actions in the water and on the beaches are those of happy and unconscious girlhood. It seems to me it is a wilful effort of a perverted imagination to ascribe to them such nasty motives and to cry out forever against the indecency of their attire. In the detail of the neck, for instance, I have never yet seen a bathing suit on a woman in America which was cut down like a ball dress, though descriptions of such have been numerous, The necks are always high and the skirt is usually ample enough to cover all the needs of proprie- ty. It is this sort of criticism which will event- ually rob our girls of their greatest charm, and that is their unconsciousness of wrong. It must be said in a general way that an American girl can go anywhere and do anything with per- fect indifference to the misconstruction of carp- ing criticism. Biakevy Hatt. “eee ASTEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. A Plan to Lessen the Evils of the Sibe- rian Exile System. The Howard Association, of Great Britain, an organization devoted to the reform of defec- tive penal systems and the amelioration of the condition of prisoners throughout the world, published in the London Times of January 8, 1889, a formal protest against the treatment of exiles in Siberia, as described in the papers of Mr. George Kennan, recently published in the Century magazine. A copy of this protest was mailed to every member of the Internatio: Prison association, as well as to every promi- nent prison reformer in Europe. Mr. Kennan has just received a letter from Mr. Wm, Tallack, secretary of the Howard association, in which the latter says that he sent one copy of the protest to Baron von Holtzendorff, of Munich, one of the most eminent jurists and pen- ologists in Europe, In acknowledging its re- eeipt, under date of Munich, January 12th, Baron von Holtzendorff says, “The circum- stances in Siberia are frightful. All intelligent Russians, without exception, admit this. A few days ago Mr. Galkine Wrastkoy, chief of the Russian prison administration, Visited me. He stated that the Russian government is resolved toabandon the punishment of transportation, except to the island of Saghalien and to parts of the Amoor region accessible by water.” The wording of Baron von Holtzendorff's letter carries the implication that even the chief of the Russian prison department ad- mitted that the ‘circumstances in Siberia are frightful” and that the necessity for reform is urgent. The resolution of the government to which Mr. Galkine Wrasskoy referred, if car- ried into effect, will reduce by several thon- sands the number of exiles sent to Siberia tw nually, and will thus lessen, to a considerable extent, the overcrowding of the forwarding prisons and the immense amount of suffering to which it gives rise. It is regarded as a step in the right direction, but, unfortunately, it loes not go far enough to satisfy justice and humanity. The scheme of reform. as outlined in the Russian newspapers, proposes to abolish only the transportation of common criminals to Siberia as “forced colonists.” It leaves un- touched the exile of political offenders by ‘‘ad- ministrative process,” the sending of hard- labor convicts to the East Siberian mines, and the banishment of four or five thousand peas- ante every year by communes. All that it pro- 8 to do is to sock ep aed end of a ereafter in the ns of European Russia, instead of sending: thea to Siberia and there turning them loose to prey upon society, Hard- labor convicts, communal exiles, and political offenders are to go to Siberia as us Lim- ited and inadequate as the proposed reform is, every well-wisher of Russia must hope to see it adopted. Itis now awaiting discussion in the council of the empire, and some decision with regard to it will probably be reached in the course of the present year, ina hansum, There | Indeed, the best and | THE WORLD LANGUAGE. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Speech Translated by a Washingtonian into Volapuk. The author of the first Englith-Volapuk dic- tionary, Capt. M. W. Wood, speaking of the formation of the language, its utility, and the ease with which it may be learned, say “The inventor announced that the new lan- guage was devised for educated people, and the plan which he followed was to adopt a list of those monosyllabic root-words whi were known to the greatest number of civilized per- sons, and then, by the use of # system of pre- fixes and suffixes not in use by any — to meet the jadices of any nation or c! to iSacucnnne wn lengunes, and provide © | highly inflectional cosmopolitan language with | @ great wealth of root-words; a language so | easily acquired that the necessary attention for | this purpose becomes a pastiine instead of | drudgery, a language which should be system- | atic and capable of expressing in unmistakable terms any shade of meaning of which the hu- | man mind is capable, glish-spenking people are quite ungrate- ful when ther voice a note of disparagement or | of harsh criticism of Volapuk, for it is not only e adopted generally as it would be to the English language oceupy that but it is much better for the whole rid than English could be. jes an article in Volapuk on the | necessity of isolating sick persons, written by | the director of a large general bospital in | Vienna, This article proves beyond the perad- | venture of a doubt the adaptability of the ‘uage to scientific as well as commercial purposes, and completely refutes the criticisms | of those who have alleged that it was not so daptzble, * * In illustration of the fact | that, whether consciously or not, the language wilt np in deference to the millions ot English-speaking people, it is sufficient to say that when such familiarity with the gram- matical forms has been acquired as to enable one to readily isolate the root-syllable or sylla- bles, most of the words met with would be rec- ognized by an educated English-speaking pe | son, either by the appearance of the word. or by the sound of the root, correctly pronounced. Volapuk is not a erudity—a toy—it provides a vocabulary safficient for the of most people. It is held that this language is a better medium than any other for the expression of human thought. The almost incredible precision of the language, the great variety of its word-forms, and their unequivocal sig: which the mind may fashion sentences whic shall not only be intelligible to the immediate auditors, but be as distinctly and unmistakab’ intelligible to a person in the uttermost parts of the earth, by whose itellection the gram would be interpreted in accordance with their intellectaal development. This boon tomankind is the unseltish production of one who it is hoped may live to feel the gratitude graven on the hearts of those who are to profit by bislabors and see it in the beautiful in- scription in the “Golden Book” of humanity, upon whose pages he has richly earned a place by his free gift to the world of this great vi tory of peace, forging a bond to link the hearts of ‘the sonsof men into a grand chain of union.” THE GETTYSBURG SPEECH IN VOLAPUK. Asa literary curiosity and fora better com- | parison of the two languages a Volapuk trans. | lution of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech. made by Washingtonian, in which the English words (or phrases) are ing Volapuk wor } | laced under the correspoud- | will be of interest, Pukat de Lincoln Abraham, Bisiedal de Speech of Lincoln Abraham President of the apukatol 1863, babul 19id, United States, delivered 1563, November 19th, potu —_kosek sepopa militik upon the dedication of the cemetery military la Gettysburg, plad at Gettysburg, the pl da volutaklig. during the war of the rebellion. | Pebaltats, puga gletik lace ofabattle great (Melopans (Americans cedoms gido pukat at as lesamal cousider rightly speech this as a masterpiece de pukof.) of eloquence.) Bu yels folnatels e vel fats obas Ago Years four score and seven fathers our su taladil at asublinoms muliki neti, pedatikol in lib e _pekosekol al | conceived in liberty and dedicated to the | mobam das valiks mens palemekoms | proposition that all men are creates | leigik. | equal. Nu binobs komipol in sifaklig, gletik. Now weare engaged ina civil war great, blufol va iet net, udanik net testing whether that nation, or any nation votik so pedatikol e so peKosekol, kanom other so conceived and so dedicated, can lonedo dulon, long endure, Z Binobs akokomol sn pugafel de iet We are met on abattle-field of that klig. Binobs akokomol al kosekon dil de war, Weare met to dedicate a part of om as takedaplad finik utas kels is it as @resting place final of those who here agivoms lifis omas dat iet net dalom lifon. gave lives their that that nation may live. Binos _ loliko lepotik e gidik das Itis altogether fitting and proper that sotobs dunonatosi. Ab in siam gletikum, weshould do this. But inasense larger, obs no kanon kesekon, obs we not can dedicate, we obs no kanon sanukon gluni not can hallow ground no kanon not can kosekon, consecrate, we at. Mens _lanimalik, lifols ed_edeilols, this, Themen brave, living and kels atopol is ekosekoms omi fagik who struggled here have consecrated it far ove nam obas al lagivon ud al desumon. overpower our to add or to detract. Vol oloegom nemodo, ni omemom The world will note little, | nor remember lonedo, kelosi obs sagobs-la is, ab kanom long, what we may sayhere, but it can nevelo fogeton kelosi oms adunoms is, never forget what they did here. le obs, lifols. bufam al binon for us, the living, rather to be Binos itis akosekol is all vob __nepefinol,_kelosi dedicated here to the work unfinished, that {oms so fagik edukoms 80 nobiko, they thus far have carried on so nobly. |Binos bufum ple obs is al hinon jItis rather for us here to be akosekol al sugivot gletik blibol bifu dedicat lo kelos oms is agivoms latikwni Tor which they bere gave mafi falik devoda; das obs is measure full of devotion; that we here sludon das edeilols ats no sotoms liko bly resolve that dead these not shall edeilol _ vanliko, Das net sotom, have died in vain. That the nation shall, of a twelvemonth! Here is one word, told of | sedewlon de tal. by a, friend, which is quite new., To, this Perish from the earth. frien @ woman, speaking other surroundings and. bome, her ‘neighbors more as No End of Experience. PWe have little esi Pa Ae Bg Dry goods merchant—“You have called in ers; wo fad we Jon’ congeal Yer? with the | response to our advertisement for s floor walker? Well, sir, what are your qualifications SL pplisent "i am the father of three pairs of ——_~—-se0 _—_ A Foreign Article. foreign substance in the wiomach Tabould on ow Get ‘be. pontvely mut. ring dreadful to-mor- ‘us some early as much to their interest to have this | necensities | 7 cation furnish the tools with | jogo- | brought forth on continent this a new nation, | ted to the task great remaining before obs, das de ats edeilols pastimel obs; us, that from these dead onored we sumon devodi al kudadin et take devotion to cause that RAILROADS. OAD. ‘Oth, ISRO. 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