Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1889, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON D.C.. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1889-TWELVE PAGES. NURSERY AUTOCRATS. CUNNING BABIES IN THE WHITE HOUSE President’s Grandchildren and Their Attractive Mothers. ale A house without a baby in it is only half fur- Bished, even if it be the White House in Wash- ington. No home is complete without its little bit of nature's finest handiwork of clay, molded into a dimpled, rollicking, bewitch- ing. beloved child! True, baby—boy or girl— is always a despot, but husband and wife are half developed who know not the joys and «that discipline them through the little of the world. There have been.“‘boys” rls” in the presidential household be- fore, but genuine babies scarcely ever. There is a new kind of English spoken jn those stately rooms now. Its name is “baby-talk:” only mas and the babies can understand it. Even papas have to fall back upon an inter- preter when they wish to communicate with them chil The cooing, dancing, frolic sometimes boisterous baby has trans- med the upper rooms of the old White . that has turned almost every other page of life bat Grandma nd an adoring apa think there is no end of amusement im the company of these chil- iidren. IN THE NURSERY. Harrison wearies of the dn- and * When Pres’ ties and dig alip out of his office and kick the cares meta- phorieally under the table, pull off dress coat F ots for dressing-gown and slippers, when he has only to step across the hall into the nur- sery. behold. he is transformed into another creatare! He becomes a most obedient, pliant tovl in the despotic band of his two-year-old Damesake and grand- son. He is no excep- tion to the rule; grand- parents are as potter's clay in the puny hands of ‘the second genera- tion. Little Benjamin McKee, two years old, | has the gray-baired | ruler of the greatest | nation on earth in his | baby clutches. There is no other being save a ‘grandmother brought Simto such subjection to | - baby will, not even its fown admiring father and mother. Age has mellowed grandpa’s| = feelings like ripened | BENJAMIN M'KEE. fruit. Life's trials and sorrows have disciplined him, he knows how uncertain these little beings’ lives are, and he trembles and adores, He cannot be so strict and exacting as he was with his own, before he realized these mysteries of life. “Why papa so indulges little Benjamin, takes his part in_ every little tussel he and I have with our wills,” said the fond mother, “that one day I said: ‘Papal do believe you love him as well as though he were your own child.’ ” do daughter, I do! own when I was younger. buman nature and life more truly, and it is not worth while to be as strict as I once thought it | a duty to be, with children.” LIKE HIS GRANDFATHER. le Benjamin resembles his grandfather in features, and already he shows signs of being a politician. Last summer, when the general was daily receiving delegates and congratula- | (scarcely enough), so that as a large room was ities of his station, he is glad to | better than I did my) I now understand | melting blue ones, Both are domestic in their ‘tastes and fond mothers. Mrs. Russell Harri- son's little ‘1 Mar- thena is a ht littie creature, with fair hair and blue eyes like her SS cousin's, only otherwise e3 she resembles her mam- z ma. She has a grand- mother for whom she is named, who adores her as fondly as Benjamin's papa docs him. ex-Senator Saun- ders delights to pai her daughter's child al- most daily visits, and — = although only fourteen MARTHENA HARRISON, months old, she returns grandmamma’s admiration with baby interest, paid in the coin of the realm of baby kisses. EARLY EXPERIENCES, All these little folks are enduring the greatest and first experience of life worth mentioning. ‘They are cutting teeth; and if they don’t like to be pulled and hauled about or bathed when they do not want to be, who can blame them for getting up an awful sqnall that echoes through the corridors of the White House? THE NURSERY had to be somewhere, and there are none too many living rooms in the presidential; mansion wanted, everybody concerned helped to decide that it should be the largest bedroom on the north front. Nellie Grant, that other President's daughter, used to occupy this room. and dream dreams never came trae, although many fine things just such romantic dreams of earthly hap- pine are dreamed in cottage homes. President Arthur slept there, but not so soundly but that shades of his beloved, with | ghosts of political enemies, walked in the pale | moonlight. | President Clevel dand his bride consecrated | it with conjugal lc and now little children bring into it the life and light of home, united to motherhood and fatherhood as_ exhibited in rati Its proximity brings home to the everlasting grind, grind of po- litical machinery turning out **Mimsters plen- ipotentiary” and postmasters by the score, and office-seekers whose “cranks” squeak, how- | ever much the hinges are oiled. ‘There are twobeds in the nursery, which, with the lounges, cribs, rocking-chi and et cetera that accompany baby life, not leaving out toys and playthings scattered about, com- plete the homelike picture, with a fire burning cheerily on the ingleside hearth. in nc aaa Written for Tar Evestxe Stan. An Ode to the Bell. {The bell of St. Peter's was rung for the last time on the 30th of April to celebrate the Centennial of Wasu- ington.) Dear, old familiar bell, Farewell! From out thy steeple ‘Thou hast told the people For many a year of love beyond the earth. | With an untiring zeal Thy joyous peal | Each day has message of redemption sung; In all our Joy and sorrow thou Last rung. Gaily when we were wed, And mourning with our beloved dead. ce is silent now, and it is meet, . Peter ties in ruins at thy feet. Thou dids't not toil its death For it will rise again mid joy and mirth. * by ng thy dying song, { From thy unstea ower | Cha ng a full half-hour | A hero’s virtues, and a n: A CHICAGO TRADDLES. tions, sometimes his little fa If his grandpapa did not begin to shake hands, the little man never failed to seize his hand and motion for his grandsire to go through | that important realize with a pro depended greatly upon extending a cordial greeting toeverybody. Little Benjamin (they always give him his full name) has a large head, fair hair and blue eres, He rolled over sleepily on the lounge. when ‘THe Star correspondent tried to interview him, with an expression of wonder and amazement that implied: “Can't a baby even be privileged to take a morning nap without an interrupti from the ubiquitous interviewer?” The littie fellow wears white frocks, and will for some time to come. ceremony. He seemed to MISS MARY Di M'KEE is eight months old, but she has seen a good deal of life for one of her tender age, and is, | consequently, not afraid of men, women, or a delegation on dress parade, with banners flying and “toot” horns blowing. Both she end her brother Benjamin hada great admiration for the “umbrella brigade” when they passed by the Indianapolis home with their variegated sun-shades bobbing up and down like gorgeous holiyhocks in the sum- mer wind. They clapped their bab ds and crowed with delight and ought the spectacle n up for their spe- cial delight. Little Ben- jamin’s budding pa- triotism —_ transformed; 5 him from a crying baby ya" to @ miniature politi- cian. first hurrah, und learn to sing He hurrahed his @ i “Marchin’ from MARY DODGE M’KEE. Usually he neither tries since everybody seems to obey his will by the = He is .¢ who adores his “voofal mamma, she says to | sweet?” —me tuils to re ns he makes, this little man in petticoats, d_ when i= i make b thing different on the sub- N or baby sister are worthy to be “sweet” MOTHER. No doubt somebody else th for she is a woman of therough femininity from rown of her pretty head to the sole of her inty foot, and her heart's desire is centered in her home life. Sle possesses a fund of west- always runs close to the smooth oves of good common sense. Her conversa- al powers are good: her memory of faces 1 that she never fails to recognize people who have no special claim upon her at- Her level-headedness is not one whit d from its poise by the elevation of her lings, or likely to be by any or all that in the way of privileges or re- ilities, will be no lack of the brilliancy of womanhood that characterized Mra, I's career in the White House, Home life is too precious to be swallowed up | duties with this devoted mother. will never be too much engrossed to ask her child eries, to watch over her nurses, ysee that they perform the duties assigned them. MRS, RUSSELL HARRISON, ‘There is a beautiful apparent feeling of af- fection existing between Mrs. McKee and her brother's charming wife, Mrs. Russell Harri- son. The latter is Mrs. McKee’s opposite in bavi ht complexion and Paw a wl pan ng other I One bas rite was present. | hetie vision that the future | she is sweet, | | How He is Economizing and is Happy | in His Work. | From the Chieazo Mail. “Tuey say Dickens’ char: exaggerated,” said a friend eters are great! e other day, *‘and | that -you never find in real life a Micawber, a Pecksniff, or a Traddles. I know better. I've found Trad | only he’s more of a Traddiles tha ever | Traddles was himself. He married his ‘dearest girl’ last summer, and ever since that time has been the happiest man I've seen or ever hope to e. But the economical streak it gave him is the most remarkable thing I ever ran across, Ife recognized that he had been wasting time and money, and he started in at once to change all that. Imethima couple of months later in a drug store with his pre tle wife. and asked him to have my favorite cigars. No.” he said, quit smoking. Qnit right after I The other evening I met him again. [ hann’t seen him since last full, and was surprised to find him wearing a beard, which didn't in | the least become him. Not only that. but his | hair was clipped close to his head. I remem- | bered how handsome he used to be with only a | mustache, and his hair cut pompadour, and asked him if he was in disguise. “He laughed delightedly. ‘The boys in the office,” he said, ‘have lots of fan with me about | | my whiskers and my short hair, but I have | more fan outof that than they do. why I'm doing this, you see, and th i “Then, with his face all aglow, he said: ‘You | see, I'm a married man now, and after awile I'l! be a father. A shave costa 15 cents. I figure | that every time I let that go Il have saved 15 | cents for the baby. But hair-cuts I must have, | so I get just as much for the money as I can—I have it clipped as close as the barber can clip it. So it lasts longer. | He wenton then to tell me some other ‘Ihave half an honr’s time for din- ner.’ he said, ‘but I don't take it. Teat a bite as I work, and in the course of a month those half honrs amount to thirteen full hours. This is a day and a half extra, It all counts. See those shoes? You know [ ai used to have my shoes made to order at =15a pair? Well, these cost me #5, and I have worn them all winter. I will oil them up, put them away. a vear them next winter, too. haven't bought any clothes since I married, but | Ihave my eye onasuit. I have it all picked | out, and ng to buy it @ year from next | fall. It will 4.” | This last statement was given point by the | fact that at that time he had onal i | of ‘T've got married.” w ek, him +70. He told me that he hadu’t been froma home an evening since he had mar- ed, except one when his wife was absent. And he is happier. it seems, with each suc- ceeding aud his work and his economy for the sake of his sweet young wife and the little one that is to be are not the least of his many pleasures. He is a| character Dickens would have been delighted to find, and if the great novelist had painted | him Tam sure that in all the range of his great and good people there would not have been one with a bigger heart and more lovable, generous | nature.” EARLY OBJECLION TO COAL. At One Time a Capital Offense to Burn it as Fuel. From the Hardware Trade Journal (Eng. ) ‘The diseussion of the probability of there being a deposit of coal in the Thames valley and under the city of London, of which there seems to be considerable evidence, re- calls some interesting facts connected with its earliest use in that city. When coal was first introduced into London as a fuel, very serious objection was taken to its use. It appears that in the beginning of the four- teenth century, brewers and smiths of the city, finding the high price of wood press- | Nevertheless, | tire in winter to such | some even crossing | neither cold | re TIMING THE BIRDS. ANNUAL HOUSE CLEANING. The Speed at Which They Fly in Their | Some Practical Suggestions to Industri- Annual Migrations. ous Housekeepers, INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS MADE UNDIR THE | TEE USUAL WORK OF SPRING—HINTS FOR TAKING DIRECTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL- UP CARPETS AND REMOVING FURNITURE — TURE—THE RATE OF FLIGHT CALCULATED—| TREATMENT OF MOTH FLIES—STORIXG AWAY FLYING BY NIGHT. An interesting report on bird migration in | “The melancholy days the Mississippi valley in the years 1884 and 1885, prepared by W. W. Cooke, under the WOOLEN GOODS—BENEDICK AT HOME, have come, the saddest of the year, Of cleaning paint and scrubbing floors and scouring far and near, direction of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, has just been | And when the carpets all are up, and from the stair- issued by the Departmentof Agriculture. The migrations of birds are treated as the result of inherited experience. The first migrations it is held were doubtless, Mr. Cooke says, limited in extent, and probably were intelligent move- ments which through repetition became ha- bitual, and the habit was transmitted from parent to offspring until it has become the governing impulse of the bird's life. It is un- doubtedly true, the writer says, that love of the nesting ground, which is to them their home, is the foundation of the desire for migration, and year efter year they find their way thousands of miles back to the same box or tree by the exercise of memory —not always the memory of the individual, but the memory inherited from numb preceding generations which have passed aud | repassed over the same ronte. Dr. Merriam in a note added to this takes exception to the statement that love of the nesting-ground is | the fonndation of the desire for migration. ‘This explenation, he asserts, is forced and un- necessary. Birds desert their winter homes, he holds, because the food supply fails; because | the climatic conditions become unsnited to their ach of the breeding sea- physiological restleesness, and because they inherit an irresistble impuise to move at this particular time of the THE RETURN SOUTHWARD. Mr, Cooke says the return movement of birds southward is ob y the result of two causes— the approach of winter and the failure of the food supply. Of these two, the latter is prob- ably by far the more _powerfal, since it is well known that single individuals of species which retire farto the south often remain behind, and, favored by an abundance of food, with- stand the most severe weather. Thus many red-headed woodpeckers remain through the winter in the cold climate of northeastern New York, frequenting the heavy timber. where there is a great quantity of their favorite food; and it is not unusual for a few robing to spend the winter in north central Wisconsii ered in the thick pine forests; while du even Wilson's suipe, have been known to re case top The mistress calls to man and maid to wield the broom and mop.” When a woman has derived all of that su- preme satisfaction which she can so effica- ciously extract and so thoroughly enjoy in the concernment and the making of and her first appearance in her new spring suit or pretty Easter bonnet, her fancy turns to thoughts of house-cleaning. If she happens not to bea housekeeper, upon whose shoulders more or less responsibility rests, it does not follow. that she is exempt from those vexations which worry the spirit, for she must mect the ques- tion as to what she shall do or where she shall go when her own cozy apartments are turned topsy-turvy by the one who does do the work of housekeeping. The house-cleaning business is a necessary annual visitor—a part of spring itself—a de- gree higher than the brushing up of everything and the laying down of carpets in the fall—a time when the ry nook and cor- ner must be taken out, and put back in perfect When all this is going on what a state of confu- And how often neighbors, friends, or acqvaintances select that very time to return or meke acal!, Or the winds biow and the rain d@ inviting order, | pours jast when the windows should be open for ventilation, Or, when the cool, airish spring breezes sweep’ throu halls, and clear the atmosphere, odds are that the result will be a fine crop of influenza, ‘The object of this paper, however, is not to moralize upon the condition of atfairs at such | a time, 0 much as to offer some practical sag- gestions gathered here and there from. the ex- | perimental reports of veterans in the busi- ness. HOW TO CLEAN A ROOM. “Where are those rooms, those quiet rooms, the house but now presented. Wherein w. contented Alas! th: ‘of rooms, With slops and suds and soap and sand and tubs and pails aud brooms.” It is best alwa: it, nordreamed of dirt, so cozy and ly 1 turned upside down, that quiet suite to clean one room at a time, ain | even if it requires a single day to each one. throughout the whole winter én Wyoming, | Begin by dusting and removing all the small near the hot springs, whose warmth keeps the neighboring waters and ground from freezing. it some birds, notab: many of the a greatd the equator and passing 1 “miles beyond, hunger toh al unde ve such wanderings. that during the fall migration m the north, and hurrie of the coming change. SPEED AT WHICH BINDS MIGRATE. In studying tl ich birds pro- hward in t! is beset To de- several tics, speed of th bat to mine the —the of miles particula 8 during ou journev—is r power. younger birds id, end it is may suppose for’ procrea- While ia the fall m i. iu the spring th home a whom w nd the desir h rrive first at a given y hich lived there the there to b previ ‘orps, wh hand or far in the rear. gration, then, is made up of a overlappings, and the real s much greater than the apparent, Of this real eed of transit we take no account, and our 4 therefore, are of value only in men of migra- n the accom- ort the speed of migration is calcu- » following manner ; The most south- »le record 49 selected tor comparison e most northern record of the same cter; the distance in miles between these tions is divided by the number of days g trom the time the species made its ap- ern station to the date at sen by the northern observer. result gives the average daily rate of mi- gration in miles for the species, For example : rrics oft constant d is evidently ow the relative the different specie two sta The Baltimore oriole was scen at Rodney, Miss. (at. 31° 52’), April 7. seen at Oak Point, until May 25. It was therefore 45 days in passing over the 1,293 miles between the two stations, which gives an average speed of 27 miles a day, HASTENING THEIR FLIGHT, The records of fifty-eight species for the spring of 1583 give an average speed of 23 miles a day for an average distance of 420 miles, A study of the records for 1883 led to the statement that in spring birds migrate more rapidly in the northern portion of their routes of travel than in the southern. In the spring of 1584 twenty-five species of well- known birds, concerning which we had full records, were selected for careful study. The result bears out the foregoing statement. The di led was divided as nearly as pos- | sible into two equal portions, and the speed was calculated for each. Some of the records do not admit of division; others show an equal speed throughout, while six show an increase of 77 per cent in speed for the northern half, aud three show a decrease of 47 per cent. Thus ‘it will be seen that the record is strongly in favor of the increase, hed b culating the av speed of these twenty-five mpecien separately for each of the different months in which migration is per- The same result may be formed; the average speed for March is 19 | for April 23 miles, and for May 26 miles day. ‘The record for 1584 also confirms the statement that the later a bird migraies the higher average speed it will attain. In all probability the same bird seldom mi- rates for several nights in succession, but stops to rest after a flight of a night or two, so that the birds migrating one night are not the same individuals that were moviug the night beiore, THE RELATIVE SPEED. In regard to the relative speed at which the different species travel, all that can be said at present is that those which migrate later have, as arule, the highest rate. Thus the average speed of the robin, cowbird and golden-shatted ilicker is about 12 miles a day, while the aver- age of the summer redbird, Baltimore oriole, ruby-throated hummer and nighthawk is 23 miles, If we try to calculate the relative speed of the different families, we find that some of the species in a family mi- grate early and slowly, others late and rapidly, bringing the average of most of the families very close to the general average of all, which, as already stated, is 23 miles a day. Birds have seldom been seen while on their way in undis- turbed migration at night. It is known that birds do not move rapidly, as a rule, when mi- grating in the daytime, but from the meager material at hand it may be inferred that the speed at night is considerably greater. During ‘ay-migration the smaller land birds rarely fly faster than 15 miles an hour, though the larger birds, such as cranes, geese, ducks, &c., move much more rapidly. At Red Rock, Indian territory, between August 25 and September 5, 1854, the cliff swallows and night- hawks were conspicuous every morning and evening slowly drifting south and southwest in their fall migration. For an hour and a tbe of birds would pass by in almost un- ing hard upon their returns, resolved to make some experiments with coal, but immediately Qn outery was raised against them by persons living near the breweries and forges; the king was petitioned, and a law was Prohibiting the burning of coal within the city. Those who tried it, how- ever, found the new fuel to be 80 much superi to wood that they persisted in its use. But so determined was the government to suppress what was regarded as an intolerable nuisan: that a law was making the burning ot coal in London a capital offense, and it is re- corded that one man at least was executed un- der that law. It would appear that the ladies were most bitterly opposed to the use of coal for domestic purposes. They considered the smoke to be ruinous to their complexions and would not at- tend parties at houses in which the objection- able fuel was Some persons went the pe le of refusing to eat food of any kind that ad'bge nm cooked on 4 coal fire. A noted Washington wag and beau of thirty years age signed his name “A. More.” Mrs. John Washington had invited him to a formai dinner party at Mount Vernon. The company esas wags’ Ge bestans’ ad mat Soot oes ueer ways for Tiver ane wes coated some time ah envel- ope was handed her, in which she found an enormous leaf of a sycamore tree. The inter- pretation was: “‘Sick.—A. More,” — Chicago roken succession, Many hundred nighthawks were seen during a single evening, “gr the number of swallows was much greater. The result of Lepr Jonge on several occasions Pe a rate of al ‘ormer being the more usual speed. rate was caused by the irregularity of the flight, as the birds a ges their evening and morning meals on wing. The morning flight lasted an hour only, and was made at about the same us, @ distance of cep yc 0 dyin be beep by each aa vis uring morni evel gether, but no one can foray Oe much roe So if any, they traveled during the night. THE HOST OF WARBLERS. The material gathered from the keepers of light-houses seems to indicate that neither Swallows nor Nighthawks migrate to any extent after night fall. The advance of the its of Warblers, as they move incessantly forwar: p ta top, is still slower, bably being but a few miles du & whole ~ Geese in northward flight along the Atlantic coast traverse t some- times covering from 300 to 600 miles at a le it, it cannot be said positively that ined why | curtains and dust thoroughly. articles and ornaments, and then the large pieces, pictures, and mirrors. ‘Lake down the If the floor is carpeted sweep this clean, then remove the , fold together carefully so as to raise as | dittle dust as possible, and take it out into the 8 Mr. Cook | hoard is very mac { | move the polish, jt y Certainly | air, where itshould be well beaten, and at can be the cause of | once. The carpet-lining, newspapers or straw s been often noticed | used under the carpets shonid be removed y birds seem | car ble to foretell the approach of storms | if ni ly depart south- | the 1, before human eyes can detect any signa | mop, ly, and the floor wept—sprinkled first, essary. to lay the dust, After taking up dust the floor should be wiped with a damp not wet enough to wash it. ‘The base board should then be washed with « soft white flannel cloth, warm water, and good | soap. If light-colored or white, whiting in the water will improve the appearance. If the oh soiled. a little ammonia in the water will cleanse it perfectly, but will re- Wash the dows in am- monia water, and the floor also, after the base board has been finished. When the floor is | dry and the carpets well shaken put down the er, if they are to be used; put up the eur- 8, bring in the farniture, pictures, &c., wiping them thoroughly with a cloth. if itis incouvenient to remove the carpet. sweep it carefully after all other things have been taken out, and when the dust has settled go over it again with the broom, sweeping it ntly, ‘Then put two quarts of warm water in ul and add to it three tablespoonfuls of nimonia and two of spirits of turpentine. Wriug a cloth out with this solution and wipe carpet with it, and it will be greatly bright- When cleaning ¢ room never shake rugs, enr- tains, &c., out of the windows, Much of the dust is blown back into the room, some clings to the house, and some is blown through the windows into other rooms, TREATMENT OF THE MOTH FLY. “Those aromatic insects that so often seck to ‘steal A march’ on blood relationship, with mercenary zeal, Are doomed to suffer martyrdom beneath this tragic spell, And er w , tramping moth fly will be sacrificed as The annnal house-cleaning process presents many virtues other than the mere getting rid of dust and dirt and giving to the surroundings a cheerful, airy appearance, Not the least among these is an opportunity to encompass and extirpate the moth fly, which invariably colonizes in warm, comfortable houses during the winter and leaves, a8 @ compensating re- membrance, its infantile larv® to obtain and enjoy life through the summer, The cloth- moth is the dread and despair of the house- keeper. It is bohemian, and was originally dumped upon Ameriean soil by indiscreet and undiscerning foreigners, They differ in the brilliancy of their colors and the colors of their larve, but their object in life is the same and they cut holes in fabrics with corresponding in- difference. It is not necessary to sun winter-woolen clothing before putting it away, as many peo- ple do, as they are worn regularly, and conse- ently aired by the wearer, but it is necessary that they should be brushed and put aw promptly upon being laid aside, as they are iable to receive the germ of destruction if al- iowed to lie about at all. Those woolen gar- ments which are worn during the summer should be taken out and brushed regularly when not kept in constant use. But carpets, cloths, cloth-covered furniture, furs and rugs should be exposed to the air and sunlight, ‘Ihe deadly enemy of the moth fly ts benzine. If a house is badly infested a free use of benzine, putfed with a hand-atomizer into the cracks of the floor, around the base- board and in dark closets. This benzine sp: will kill the insect in every stage, and is one of the few substances which will destroy the egg. It is inflammable, and caution should be taken to make or use no light in the room until it evaporates—say for half an hour, Cloth-cov- ered furniture, chest or drawers, &e., can be treated advantageously the same way. When the work of the lurve is discovered it may be arrested and entirely destroyed by | placing over the goods at the affected part and ironing it with a hot iron. The steam thas generated will pass through the cloth and exterminate every vestige of life, HOW TO CARE FOR FURS, ETC. “The parlor and the chamber floors were cleaned a week azo, The carpets shaken, windows washed (as all the neigh- bors know), And now the fursand sealskin coat must go through their ordeal, Be packed in boxes tight, both make believe and real.” The proper packing away of furs and winter clothing for the summer is a serious matter. Cedar chests and cedar wardrobes and various compounds in the way of powders, camphor, pepper, tobacco, turpentine, carbolie acid, &c., ave been invented and urged by writers,’ Ex- erience, however, teaches that one of the est methods is one of the simplest. After a thorough brushing and a generous spraying of benzine the goods can be carefully folded and packed in strong poet boxes, securely gumming a strip of strong paper around the edge of the cover, so as to leave no crack or crevice, These boxes, with proper use, will last for a score of years, Camphor, tobacco, naphthaline, or other stron; pe all may be used, but they are cally paral upaliacties wat without the above or similar precautions very often fail, as every housekeeper may chance to know, OVERHAULING THE SANCTUM, “and now [ci Small master home, as come he To sd alte are ‘set to wrongs’ that they have And then he grimly thinks of her who set this fuss And Wishes she were out at ea in a rather leaky There is a point, however, in the line of house-cleaning at which, nautically speaking breakers may appear, and if care and tact be not sonoret stormy time may result. It is when the overhauling extends into the office, med f study, or whatever name that indi- a Geen = hee) man tod Fags house” chooses ignity apartment as his pereomal sanctum, v ition of a man in his own house is anomalous. paradoxical It a glance to assert thet the eed gph ogediet me damental dda steer nak wad ie ws polished, closets put to ri now and and the pantry, kitc! A eee, = beicdare gengire dealt au cautiously—w! en Dhan” tay ba taronee tnd to ne aweek at and endeavor to finish the business with the speed of a locomotive. Few men arrange their papers upon a table or desk to with ideas of a woman, juently in clean- ing an office that ye should be left to Bene- dick. cially if he be nervous or finniky. The books should be replaced with the utmost care, for when one of reference is wanted and is not to be found somebody's angry passions are liable to explode. It is best to divide the work, and do one thing only and completely during his absence at his daily vocation, that he may not return to find ‘set to wrongs” what had been “set to rights” before he left. By eS observation of this and similar ‘impor: trifles.” which present themselves as circum- stances occasion, a good deal of the purgatorial condition of ‘domestic felicities’ at house- cleaning times may be obviated. A man can- not have the same feeling about a house a wo- | man does—dear as home may be to him, It is | her sphere—what his business interests are to him her housekeeping affairs are to her. Thus, itis not altogether wise in her to prejudice him against what is so much to her by intro | ducing too sharp an interruption in the daily routine to which he is accustomed, On the other hand some men are discredit- | ably tempestuous, no matter how placid and pleasant home matters might be, ‘Then it is in the provence of a woman with a strong will | | and a good stout tongue to exercise the lash | for which neither Judge Miller, the District Commissioners nor public sentiment would conden ber in Washington, When this sort of a man is in question the worthy house- keeper can go right along, give the premises a thorough overhauling from top to bottom feel comfortably sure that when “He mects her at the parlor door with heir and cap : | | ucked up and broom in hand, defiance in oth- nd drink his tea, and sneak away e small, and know full well there's said iption lists, | the books of the office, and its pres and de-| livery rooms are at all times open to the wel-. come inspection of any person having a color- able interest in the correctness of its claims as | to circulation, This is a guarantee to adver- tisers that is given by few papers in the world, and by none other in Washington! | } | cee IMPOSITIONS. Valueless Bits of Colored Glass Sold for Native Gems. SEASIDE | From the New York Times. For several years past visitors at Narragan- sett Pier during the summer months and re- cently at Old Point Comfort in winter have been victimized by lapidaries who stimulated | the curious to search for pebbles along the | beach, telling them that the debris of the | strand were n&tive gems and ornamental stones, | such as emeralds, moonstones, agates, topazes, &c., and could be cut into valuable souvenirs. | Many persons took these impostors at their | word, and searched diligently among the de- | | tritus of the beach for white and colored peb- bles, hoping to have them transformed into stones of value. The make-believe lapidaries would transform an opaque white pebble into & poor Ceylonese moonstone, an. artificially- | colored yellow topaz, or a piece of green, red, or yellow glass, An expert to whom some of these specimens were shown said ‘that they had the marks of Ceylonese, Oberstein, or St. Marcel lapidanes, | The methods of these thaumaturgists will be | understood, however, when it is explained that | their machinery is of such a dangerous charac- i ter that they refused $15 from a customer for the privilege of seeing a single stone which he had found undergo the cutting process. The explanation they offered for this strange pro- ceeding on their part was that they knew too much to endanger the lives of others in that reckless manner, referring doubtless to the at- | tack of “‘see"” sickness that might overtake the observer in watching the operation. The lapi- Bright gland, have at least the | decency to do their own “ | strewing the beach with ‘and cuttin »ken bottle gl: bi which, when waterworn, is found by the gue | and bronght to the lapidaries to be cut under | the name of “Brighton emerald: In the cases instanced at Ame: places the material picked up on the beach is never ent, it being so much cheaper to substi- tute a poor foreign-cut stone. This may seem amusing at first thought, but when one hears of families delaying their departure for weeks to search for pebbles, and hotel chambermaids in- vesting their savings in these bogus finds, it becomes more serious, The victims are of all classes, including college presidents, « ics, bridal couples, convalescents, &e. they treasure so carefully as a souvenir of a pleasant vacation in thé belief that it is an American gem native to the locality is not an American stone at all, nor a gem in avy sense, but a poor foreign substitute, a se “Comme ou Chante a Vingt Ans.” Into the opal sky ‘The glowing sun did spring: ‘The lark, still mounting high, His morning song did sing; And joy was overywhere— Over the awallow s nest, O’er wood and meadow f O'er each new floweret blest. And even I, in joy at spring s delights begun, Even | began to sing as we sang at twenty-one. ir, And soon there met my sight A maiden fair and young. Ah, could I paint aright ‘The grace that round her hung Oh, vain! For seeing her Beside the crystal sea, So young, and oh, so fair, My heart went out of me; 6 aud sad, gazing these things upon— gan to Muse as we muse at twenty-one. Icame next day again; Not walking by But by the wayside, I saw the maid once more. I saw that there were two! ‘Iwo souls together—joy ! Ah me, what bliss they knew— What bliss without alloy! And I? Ah me! By grief at their content undone, I wept with bitter tears, We weep at twenty-oue. —Evai FIELD, aster Beranger. A Modern Mrs. Partington. From the Boston Transcript. Mrs, Thrifty, an excellent and prosperous “widow woman,” who keeps a store ina famous id favorite Massachusetts town, has a genius in language which would set a new Mrs. Part- ington up in business, She used to come to visitor, “there’ ain't much need of my goiu’ to Boston, with so many of these drummers comin’ around. And yet I'm goin’ there soon to re- furbish my stock of dittoes.” “Your stock of what, Mrs, Thrifty?” “Dittoes. All sorts of things, you know.” “Oh, yes!” The visitor could imagine what “dittoes” were. But it was the first time she had heard them cailed by that name. “Yes,” Mrs. Thrifty went on, “I like to go to Boston first-rate. When I get there, the first thing I do is to take one of them ere hoodlums and then drive all around town.” ‘The visitor was about to faint, The spectacle of the excellent Mrs, Thrifty driving around Boston with a hoodlum was too much for her composure. And she looked so much at a loss to know what was meant that Mrs, Thrifty ex- claimed: “Why I mean one of them new-fangled one- horse cab carriages. I want to know if you don’t know what a hoodlum is!” “Oh, Mrs. Thrifty! you mean a herdic!” “A—a what? Why, when I was there they called ‘em hoodlums!” Useless to try and convince her; and no doubt the next time she comes to Boston to buy dittoes, she will stand in front of the Old Colony station and call for a hoodlum. When her conversation with Mrs. Thrifty had reached this point, the city visitor thought best to change the subject, and related her own ex- periences during her last summer's vacation, when she went up the Hudson river and made @ tour through the Adirondacks, “And did you climb the cascades?” asked Mrs. fty. “I-1 the cascades were he apie very beautiful, The city visitor felt that she had got out of | In one period of two hours that I spent Tues- | progress | dry goods boxes, orange crates, an ECHOES OF THE CENTENNIAL, How New York Looks After the Great Celebration. CLEARING UP TRE DEBRIS—FEATURES oF THE AFFAIR REVIEWED—DISGRACEFUL SCENES aT THE BALL—M ALLISTER AVENXGED—PRAISE FOR ADMIRAL PORTER AN DWASHINGTON SOLDIERS. Correspondence of Ta EVENING Star. New York, May 3. We are not yet done clearing up the debris of this week's centennial celebration. A good part of it that isn’t disposed of is resting in the station-houses and on Blackwell's island in the shape of drunks and disorderlies, pickpockets and confidence mea from out of town, who are guests of the city longer than they anticipated. day night with the newspaper reporters at the nineteenth precinct station-house no less than twenty-four disorderly strangers were sent be- low by the sergeant for examination. Ten out of the twenty-four appealed to the reporters to keep their names out of the papers, and six out of the ten asked the favor of the ground that they themselves were newspaper men. I think lied, Newspaper men aren't in the habit ling each other “brother,” and that is the endearing way five out of the six accosted Barker Bradford, the spokesmen for the New York reporters, ‘The sixth man said he was a “journalist,” and that settled it. His was the only name printed next morning in all the papers. Some more debris that isn’t yet cleared up is the cheap tri-colored bunting with which much of the decoration of buildings was done, Srves Hesonep. ‘To beaven their hallel wate rave Seven hundivd bearte with eratitude swell, Seven hundred tougues refoice to ell How they were snatched 1” stems ° By the bervic deed of Ham Murrell. Seven hundred “DANMARK” Suits for Childreng sizes, 4 10 14 years, AT $1.00 A SUIT. ‘Seven hundred “MISSOURI™ Suits for Boys; sizes, 4 to 14 years, AT 81.75 A SUIT. Seven hundred “MURRELL” Suits for Little Men; sizes, 4 to 14 years. CASSIMERES, CHEVIOTS, TRICOTS, WORSTEDS. CORDUROYS, ETC, 83.75, 83 $4.37, 64.50, 94.62, 84. Seven hundred Sack Suits for Men, 87.50 AND UPWARD. Seven hundred Cutaway Suits for Men, $8.75 AND UPWARD. Seven hundred Prince Albert Suits, $12.25 AND UPWARD. Several times seven hundred pairs of Men's Trow: sere, 7, and upward Victor E. ADLER: 10) «PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSR 9 44 | S27 and YY 7th st. now. corner Massachusetts ava Strictly One erica, Nobody knows what to do with it, and it can’ be given away. It won't w The great rs of last week Saturday amalgamated ali the colors into one, and the result was that houses all over town were dripping with a dark red gore that dyed every passer-by until citizens ad visitors looked aa if they had been wading carnage. Awnings, even white marble fron | bear the stains from the cheap patriotism of } the decorators, and a stone-mason told me that only a marble chisel will remove the ugly col- oring from the dedaubed fronts of houses, AFTER TRE PARADE. Fifth avenue looks disreputable. At the wind- up of the industrial parade on Wednesday the multitudes trying to get away found their barricaded on every _ square of thousands of nail and cracker boxes, soap _ boxes, lumber. These impedimenta had been used by curb- stone speculators in erecting stands of their own, on which they rented standing room at half a dollar a head. Orange and banana peels, peanut shells, remnants of ham sandwiches and old newspapers strewed the once beautiful avenue, all ground into a nasty mess by thon- sands of feet. Add to this the apy the buildings on either side, littered with rough lumber stands, and the Yorker was barely abie to recognize the well-kept thoroughfare which is the pride of every inhabitant in Gotham. Washington could have taken both of the mammoth centennial parades of this week and made of them a thing of beauty. A big parade on broad, smooth Pennsylvania avenue is a great contrast toa big parade on our narrow oth avenue, lined with buildings up to the very edge of the street boundary. Here the only realiy good view of the marching hosts was that obtained from the tallest roofs, because the line of onlookers was packed so close as to give the procession barely enough space in the middle of the street to pass. in Washington the many squares and parks and the broad ave- weven those on the ground a fair op- by beer tens kegs, impression, especially among the ladies, w cheered enthusiastically the martial be Col, Moore's men, Their uniform was de: the handsomest of any organization it th r the West Point Cadets, their 1 ing and maneuvering were the most perfvct. THE DISORDERLY BALL. Passing from the parades to other features of th tennial, the first that deserves mention is the bail, and it deserves mention in terms of strongest condemnation, amply avenged for his abrupt dismissal from its management. I have looked upon many scenes of mad and furious rioting at similar as- semblages of toughs, but I have never seen isorder more drunkenly rampant than at this, ball” of the century. After the except i 0 aken advantage of for a spin by one or two couples in a waltz, It was said that 3,000 more were in the ball room than had been nber was much exaggerated. Everything rently free as‘air to all who came, and \pagne was especially free. When the supper-room doors were opened there was a ell rush for the bar that would have ed Billy McGlory’s scarlet ball. Women’s | dunsy laces were torn from them, and trains | were ripped at every turn. The waiters were | striken with such @ panic that they handed out | free wine right and left, and the men stowed | bottles under their coats, glasses in their coat- tail pockets, and fought their way to a place where they could at leisure knock the neck off | the bottle and drink the wine. If they carried the bottles in their hands other men who hadn't any would snatch away the coveted exhilarant, and the curses among the belligerent were of the choicest Bowery billingsgate. Ladies strug- gied this disgusting crowd were insulted freely, and sometimes received painful bruises. And sad to say some women fought as madly for the champagne as the men, and after the President left some of these women, as well as the men, were most unmistakably drunk, And Inspector Byrnes, whose corps of experienced detectives was present, declares that there was but one person in the ball-room whose charac- ter was at all shady. I hope he is mistaken, for it would be a disgrace to our civilization to know that such conduct was possible from peo- ple who had to have their references approved Eetors they were allowed to buy tickets. Soon after 1 o'clock the police were ordered to clear the supper-room, and they were compelled to do it with the same brute force that they have used before now at balls where not one of the 400 would be seen for a kingdom. Stayvesant Fish himself, the grand mogul who displaced Ward McAllister, was hustled out of the sup- per-room with a lady on his arm and a police- Boston with great regularity to make her pur- | {hie rr Abt ccaapet as cae gro erg | chases, | “Now,” she said not long ago toacity | be forall’ the ‘devilment of the? ball was a fitting climax to the mismanaged orgie. Out in the corridor female and male guests | stood in line for an hour to get wraps and hats | that had been checked, and when the police finally put out the lights and closed the doors at 40'clock, they bustled out several men and women hatless and umbrella-less, ladies sepa- rated from their escorts, and people who were unable to get the carriages they had come in and were waiting for others to be procured. The friends of Ward McAllister are liberal ever since with their *I-told-you-so's,” and they say with satisfaction that 4 man may manage a railroad and make a success of it, but when it comes to balls railroad tactics are utterly use- Jess. THE BANQUET on Tuesday night at the Metropolitan opera house was a distinguished success so far as the viands went, but it was a dismal failure in the speech-making, chiefly because the toasts were so arranged that there was very little to talk about except the father of his country and the ‘Constitution of the great United States. Of course, these are noble and instructive themes to discuss; but too much Constitution and too much Washington are tiresome on a full stom- ach, I was inclined to agree with a yor chap who sat near me in the top gallery, when he re- —— that it won ge be - pleasant diversion 0 mt would introduce a Bo I — a base wag the coreg any direction hitting an; % The lit exercises were well attended, bat the scrape with this evasive answer. But she | #9 at the ball The naval parade was the doesn’t know to this d Just what the excellent See et ee nee ee ‘ serves beau woman meant by “climbing the cascades, poder ect worked nog 4 os He Passed. machinery, w Yorkers have now a ies es enh teen greater respect for the training and efficiency “Young man, you want to marry my daugh- | °f our tars than ever had before. ter?” neotes cent is over, a York “Yes, sir.” the rest of the world may have, Wo hebomage “You have no objections to my asking you | lots of money off the visiting thousands, but 8 few questions, What's the sure way of com- wo hens ae ee eee, —t 2005 ae ing out ahead on a horse race?” — on weenie it arance of | yto separate the people inthe show | WILLETT & 5 people in the audience, so to speak. | mb: h ight Infantry made a great | — —— Ward McAllister is | Ie dhonneur nobody danced | onal instances where away otf | 4 in one corner afew feet of clear space was d_ by ticket, and I don’t believe the | B Open Saturdays until 12 p,m Fo MOTH, COAL-TAR CAMPHOR, 5c. 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