Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1889, Page 9

- ’ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1889-TWELVE PAGES. a ES Tei = THE GALLAUDET MEMORIAL. THE GALLAUDET STATUE, A Memorial to be Erected by Deaf Mutes in This City. A CONVENTION IN WHICH SILENCE WILL REIGN— HONORS TO PE PAID TO THE MEMORY OP THE MAN WHO GAVE A VOICE TO THE DUMB—THE FIRST AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. A novel convention will be held here next month—a convention in which silence will reign. This will be a national convention of deaf mutes, and the event will be signalized by the unveiling of the statue of the late Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, LL. D., founder of deaf- mute education in America, to be erected on the lawn at Kendall Green, The educated deaf mutes have held two or three national conven- tions. Thelast was held in New York four Years ago. At that convention it was voted with a great deal of enthusiasm to raise a fund sufficient to erect a statue of Thomas H. Gallau- det, whose name is held in grateful remem- brance by every deaf mute in America who has enjoyed the advantages of education made possible to them by the philanthropic and zealous efforts of Mr. Gallaudet in the early years of the century. It was proposed to erect this monument by raising money in ail parts of the country. CONTRACTING FOR THY STATUR. A committee was organized and contributions solicited from deaf mutes and their friends. The chairman of the committee was Theodore A. Froelich, of New York city, a lithographer of considerable reputation, and the treasurer of the fund was Prof. Amos, G. Draper, of the National Deaf Mute college of this city. The efforts of these officers, seconded by those of many other persons all over the count e| been so successful that between © 0 and $15,000 have been raised, sufficient to pay all the expenses of executing the statue. preparing pedestal. and erecting it in the college grounds at Kendall Green. Two years ago a sufficient sum Was raised to warrant entering into a con- tract for the statue, and the commission was | given to Daniel C. French, the sculptor of | Concord. well known in this city, not only per- sonally, but also through many of his works, the most ree of which is the statue of Lewis | Cass, lately placed in Statuary hall at the capi- tol, by the state of Michigan. The statue will | soon be brought from Mr. French’s studio and | PLACED ON ITS PEDESTAL at Kendall Green. It will be unveiled June 26, when the national convention of deaf mutes will assemble. It is expected that from 300 to 500 deaf mutes. representing all parts of the country. will attend the convention. The presi- dent of the last convention was Mr. E. A. Hodg son, the editor and publisher of the “Deaf Mutes’ Journal,” a paper published at the New | York institution for the deaf, and widely cireu- lated throughout the country among deaf mutes | and their friends. The convention will remain iu session three days. Its proceedings will be conducted in the sign langnage, mutes are members. These conven many subj = their education, their social relations, their oc- eupations after leaving school, and anything that may be found to have a bearing upon their welfare, THE DESIGN, The accompanying cut givesa good repre- ation of the statue to be erected June 26. The sculptor, who in his work had the co-opera- tion of the members of Dr. Gallaudet’s family, has succeeded im producing not only a hand- some and effective design, but what is regarded as a faithful portrait of Dr. Gallaudet at the oft Y, which was his age in 1517, at the | tine of the establishment of the first school | for deaf mutes in this country. Dr. Gallaudet is re i in the act of teaching his first pepll—A Cogswell, a little girl eleven years Of age—who can be seen standing at his side. Thomas H. Gallaudet, LL.D., estab- lished the school for the deaf in America. This event, that has proved of so only to the de first ac! NOTHING LIKE PRAISE. | Many a Child is Heart Hungry for a Word of Encouragement. | From Good Words. Parents are too often slow to see the mo- tive of their children's kindest actions. A little fellow has been reading of some young hero who helped bis father and mother in ali sorts of ways; and after racking his brains to thiuk how he, too, can help, he re- members that he can fetch his father's slippers, | and take his boots away and put them in the proper place. Without saying a word to anybody, when evening comes he does it, | but the father is so occupied that he notices | not what the boy has done. The little fellow son, thinking that when he goes to bed | ather will say how pleased he was to see | narley so willing to help; but mot a word is | uttered, and the boy goes upto bed witha | choking feeling in his throat, and says his prayers by the bedside with a sadness very real | tw his heart. Parents often complain of children not being | #0 ready to help as they should be. the fault is With the parents, who have not known how to evoke faclings with which the heart of every child is richly stored. All words of approval are helpful and encouraging. In a large family there have been days of anxiety and care. The eldest daughter by her skill in teaching has earned a Little extra money, and without a word to anyone she lays nearly all of it out in buying things that are much needed in the house. What joy fills her heart when a fond mother takes her aside, and with emotion that cannot be concealed says how thankful she is for s considerate kindness, and murmurs: “I don’t know what we should do without you, derling.” My friends, do not be so chary of these words of eucouragement. Miss Cropsey—“I understand that Mr. Blen- werhasset over there is one of your hardest riders.” Mr. Burke—‘“He ought to be, anyway. He fell off so many times 1 should think he'd be prem & calloused.”—Judge. Judgment for $343 —— Bill ¥; and James Whitcomb Riley "feeb reader in the district court at Fort Dodge, lowa, failing to fulfill a lecture engagement. The strawberry season around Norfolk, Va., Negroes to pick the pa a Th = also to the country as a whole, for it has re- sulted in giving to it hundreds of useful citi- zens who might otherwise have been left in an extremely helpless and pitiable condition, was due, in large measure, to the interest taken by the Rev. Mr, Gallaudet in the little deaf-mute daughter of Dr. Mason F.C . ford. This little girl, Alice Cogswell, one represented in the statne. In 18141 Gallaudet had just graduated from the Andover Theological seminary and intended to enter the Congregational ministry. He devoted con- siderable of his leisure during the winter of 1814-15 to the instruction of little Alice, and succeeded, by patient effort, in imparting to her a knowledge of many simple words and sentences. This achievement led Dr. Cogswell to consider the idea of the establishment of aschool for the deaf in Hartford, and a number of the citizens of the town were called together by him to consider the matter. Asaresult funds were raised to send a person to Europe to acquire the art of teaching deaf mutes. Dr. Gallaudet was urged to take this mission, and after some hesitation accepted. and henceforth his life was consecrated to the work with which his name is identified. He went first to England, but not being successful in his efforts to obtain the necessary traming there, he proceeded to France, where he was cordially 1 by the Abbé Sicard, the director of itution for deaf mutes in Paris, The card was an associate and pupil of the "pee, and with him had studied out a sign language by which deaf mutes could learn to talk with others, After acquainting himself with the methods pursued in the Paris institu- tion, Dr. Gallaudet returned to Hartford in August, 1316, ‘THE FIRST SCHOOL. In the following April, fands having been raised for the purpose, the school was opened, A grant of 25,000 in aid of the new institution was made by the legislature of Connecticut, and during the winter of 1848-19 Congress made a grant of a township of laud to the insti- tion. ‘The sale of this land yielded a fund of more than $300,000. tablishe: and which has since continued in successful existence, honored as the mother school, remained under Dr. Gallaudet’s man- ment for fourteen years, By it more than 2.000 children have been educated, and its hers have been called upon to organize and take charge of schools in various parts of the country, From this school, opened under jthe wise guidance of Dr. Gallaudet, have sprung ail the fine- institutions forthe deaf in the country. There are now ixty schools of this charac in Amer- show that in no country in the sation of the deaf been so well provided for as in the United States. Dr. Gallaudet ned the direction of the school in Hartford in 1530 on account of impaired health, and some years later became chaplain of the Connecticut Insane asylum. He, how- ever. all through his life, which ended in 1851, took the deepest interest in the education of the deaf. Hie edited the “American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb.” DR. GALLAUDET'S SON. The name of Gallaudet continues to be asso- ciated with the work of educating deaf mutes | in the persons of the sons of Rev. Thos. H. Gallaudet. Re Thos. Gallaudet, the older son. after assisting in the Hartford school, was engaged for fifteen years as a professor in the New York institution. Having been ordained to the Episcopal ministry he founded, in 1452, St. Ann’s church for deaf mutes in New York, and has since then been the rector of that church, Through his efforts services for deaf mutes have been established in several other cities. Kev. Thos, H. Gallaudet founded the first school for deaf mutes, and his son, Dr, Edw. M. Gallaudet, founded and developed the first institution for the higher education of the deaf—the National Deaf Mute college in this city. After two years’ experience as an iustruetor in the Hartford school be was, in 1557, made principal of the Columbia instita- tion for the deaf and dumb, in this city, an institution which came into existence chietly through the muniticence of the late Amos Keudail. In 1864 the National Deaf Mute col- ge. which had grown out of Dr. Gallaudet’s ‘as founded by Congress, and Dr, Gal- me its president, an office he has » filled. It is on the lawn in front of ge building that the statue of the THE DOMESTIC SHAKSPEARE, Home and Its Pleasures Thoroughly Ap- preciated by the Bard, From the Cornhill Magazine, Domestic in all bis habits and inclinations Shakspeare undoubtedly was; the word “home” ROLLING OVER IRON RAILS. The Wonderful Work of the Modest Street Car. A RIVAL OF THE LOCOMOTIVE—THE STREET CAR SERVICE OF WASHINGTON—SEVENTY-NINE TIMES AROUND THE GLOBE—STREET CAR SEASONS— DEAD-BEATS—THE MONEY-MAKING PASSENGER, For centuries it has been tradition in En- gland that no one ever saw a dead donkey, and during the earlier portion of the War of the Rebellion infantry and artillery were wont to poke fun at the mounted arm of the service by saying that no one ever saw a@ dead cavalry- man, Yetthere have been and still are in existence persons whose eyes have beheld the lightheeled jackass when he had kicked his last kick, and many @ sorrowing heart can bear testimony to the mournfal fact that the de- vouring demon, redhanded War, gathered in amore than fair proportion of the gallant men who fought with the carbine and saber during the sanguinary internecine strife which deluged the land with human blood and filled thousands of homes with broken hearts. But did you ever see a worn-out, irreparable i “bobtail” car? Did you ever catch yourself | wondering how long a street-car runs before it | can fairly be regarded as disabled? There are any nwnber of those much-execrated vehicles in this city that have run fully 500.000 miles and are yet in fair condition—more than twenty times around the earth at ita greatest circum- | ference and yet ready to go out again. to carry anything, from a driver and the né absent fare-box up toa load of from fi uty-five able-bodied individuals. Ri with that mysterious street-car property in- visible expansion—which always jnsists that there is room for “one more,” It would be difficult to find two vehicles whose rates of speed vary more than the passenger ‘et the swift- e more duty, © more ground in a day than his hamble competitor. It is the old fable of the hare and the tortoise over again, The giant engine rans about 109 miles in every twenty- four hours and then rests for the remainder of the day; the little car rolls out from under its shed just as the first streaks of gray dawn ap- pear above the horizon, and it keeps on rolling until its wheels have revolved over 9) miles of street-railroad track, That is its day's work, On extraordinary occasions it lo more, but, as 2 rule, the company is satisfied when it miles out of it GROWTH OF THE STREET-CAR TRAFFIC. How t locomotive and the “bobtail” car, fh The institution thus es- | grown since the eastern and western ex’ | of the city were linked together in 186: road alone has gridironed the stree it has 32 miles of double track where ears ago 5 wiles wasits limit. The tw » covered by its cars last year fi 1.538,455 miles, representing a gr [of more than seventy-nine’ time world. And then the number of that same road during 1388: full rides each for every man, woman, and chil the District of Columbia. : People who want to patronize street cars in this city ought to be glad they live here, for they do not have to pay as much for the privi- lege as they would in many other cities. N only has the single fare been uniformly fixed at five cents and nearly all transfers made free, but the compa in selling six tick- ets for twent; . latter privile means more than most folks would imagine, The saving to the pnblic is more than #140,000 annually, but the loss to the companies is not correspondingly great because the majority of until now ad excursion rson Ad in ° | motto of Tux Evgxina Srar. around the | stillon the platform, says to the conductor: “Does this car go to Georgetown?” The con- ductor, of course, says no, and then the petty criminal coy! = off—on the west side—marches right up ie agent, and is rewarded with a transfer, unless. perchance, the conductor sees the scheme, and then all the labor is lost. The agent says, “No transfer,” and the conductor goes on his way chuckling at having “upset that fellow's apple-cart.” jionally a criminal repents. Only a few days since there was received at the office of one of the companies a brief note, in which was inclosed fifteen cents—a conscience contribu- tion, the sender having fradulently obtained three transfers at different times. It is difficult to believe that there are people, and lots of them, in this city who will stoop to such small business as these 5-cent robbers are daily engaged in, but that they do exist is a fact beyond dispute, HONEST EMPLOYES. In striking contrast with this petty dishon- esty is the general uprightness of the railroad employes. An immense amount of valuable staff is left in the cars through carelessness or accident and the finders, if they are in the em- ploy of the road, never fail to report the matter at headquarters. One over-wealthy individual lett 1,400 in a car not long ago and was so glad when it was returned to him that he forgot to reward the conductor, Five hundred dollars’ worth of diamonds were dropped by a young lady and she recovered them in a few hours because the conductor had turned them in. No reward in that case either. A woman left $300 inacarand when it was returned to her she begged the conductor to accept 25 cents. The finder of $150 got nothing but the man who found $2.50, lost by a little girl, had $1 left for him at the office by the grateful child. THE ODDITIES LEFT in the cars make a surprising collection. Gloves, pocketbooks, busties, fans, bracelets, bangles, lunch baskets, umbrellas, canes, gar- den tools, pocket knives, valises, books, card cases, new underelothing, boxes of toothpicks, skipping-ropes, and « thousand and one such things, The greatest “find” of all wasa baby, which an excited woman left ina car, She was afraid she would not be able to make connec- tion at a transfer, and when the car reached its regular stopping place she left her child on the seat and rusted to h the intersecting car, which was just starting aw: Before she had traveled half a sqnare she ) then there was a scene. She got her baby back. Nowhere in this or in any other country are the street railway employes more obliging and trustworthy than those in this city, They are models of patience and manliness, and the peo- ple of Washington don't appreciate them as they ought to. G3" Fair dealing has been tha “A dollar's always | n | Worth in return for every dollar received” is »- | the principle upon which its business is con- | ducted, Advertisers usually get from ten to one hundred dollafs for every one invested in its advertising cftumns ee FEMALE DRUG CLERKS. They Are Employed in Some Cities, but not Here. SOME OF THE QUALITIES WHICH THEY POSSESS THAT SEEM TO FIT THEM FOR THE PROFESSION AND SOME OF THE OBSTACLES WHICH APPEAR TO BE A BAR TO THEIR SUCCESS, “Why don’t you employ female drug clerks?” asked a Stak reporter of a druggist the other people who have tickets in their pockets will ride instead of walking, as they would do if they had to pay outa nickel every time they boarded a car, STREET CAR SEASONS, “What is your busiest scasou?” asked a Star reporter a day or two since of one of the most prominent street-car officials in town. st opening up,” said he; “summer time.” “Why is it that more people ride in summer, whon the weather, as aruld, is good than do in winter, when it is frequently bad?” corkscrewed the reporter, “Because fewer people stay indoors in spring and summer time, The ladies are ont shopping nearly every day in the week; there are any number of excursion and pic-nic parties, and lastly, but by no means least, there is the heat, Old Sol brings us any number of passengers, Many a man who would trudge home through a snowstorm. or right in the teeth of a gale of wind, is only too glad to avail himself of a street-car when the mercury is climbing toward the roof. Your collar will’ wilt anyhow, but if you ride you will save some of your stock of perspiration until the next day.” “Are there any particular days on which you do more business than on others?” “Oh, yes;” was the reply, ‘hey come with a never-failing regularity, The two busiest days in the month are those on which the goy- ernment pays its employes—the Ist and the 15th. Then ali the employes, their wives and chil- dren, and their sisters and their cousins and their aunts go shopping. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays are always marked by a heavier traffic than other days in the week, because they are market days. People seem to be afraid to ride on Friday; the travel on that day is more than one-fourth less than on any other day in the week. Then we have busy periods in each day—from 8 to 10 and from 4to 6. The rush is especially vigorous at abont 8:30 and 4, for ev- ery body wants to get on the first car that comes along.” BEATING THE ROAD. The ingenuity which some people display in “beating” the car companies out of their fares is extraordinary, and the talent exerted to steal a nickel by saving it would make the jetty pilferers rich if it was only properly used. Few classes of busy mankind travel more than reporters, and they see some strange tricks played by apparently respectable people. There is in this city a woman with an income which is almost sufficient to entitle her to be called wealthy, and yet she delights in not only cheating the company, but bullying the con- di She will enter a car, and when the conductor comes for her fare she will give him anickel, He will deposit it in his pocket and register it. In a minute or so she will begin to fidget around and look uneasily at the conduc- tor, and before another minute has gone by she will call him to her and, in a disagreeably loud voice, ask him why he doesn’t give her her change. He, of course, saya she was not entitled to any change, and then 8 day. “That has been tried in some cities,” was the reply, “and has worked very well; but some- SOME CRUMBS OF CULTURE. The Doings of Fashionable and Work- iug People of Boston. HOW A LEADER OF SOCIETY KEPT LENT BY SCRUB- BING THE CHURCH STEPS—BOSTON 48 A FAO- TORY FOR MINERAL WATERS—MEN WHO EARN TWO OR MORE INCOMES—WINDOW GARDENING. Special Correspondence of Tur EvENtNe STAR. Bostox, May 10.—The funniest and most original method of keeping the lenten season just past is to be credited to one of Boston's leaders of fashion, No humiliation was too severe for her, the most conspicuous of society women here, to endure, as a penance for past and future frivolity, Besides, she enjgys being advertised. And so she went each day during the season of fasting. in her carriage, to the swell Church of the Advent, and spent the half ofa morning hour in humbly scrubbing down the stone steps, to the pious edification of a crowd of small boys. Having completed her task, she was accustomed to pick up her scrub- bing brush and pail, and, reseating herself in her elaborately equipped landau, drive home- ward behind the aigeitiea coachman and foot- man who shared with grave and stately rigidity | the box in front. Upon arriving at her resi- dence she would exchange her calico dress for | anelaborate dem:-toilette, going throngh the | same performance on the morrow, and so on for each of the forty days, This ‘is the woman who is said to own the finest jewels in Boston. It she who wished to appear at the artists’ festival, a week or so ago, accompanied by a live panther. Previously her notion had been to wear a costume the train of which must be supported by twelve gentlemen clad in absolutely nothing but a goat skin apiece. Unfortunately, none of the men would consent | to serve in such a guise, and thus her project fell through. It was a friend of her's, by the vay, who announced her own intention to ap- | t the festival in the character of Venus, ad, inasmuch as she was known to pride her- self upon her repute as the fastest girl in society here, much apprehension was felt as to the limit of realism she would fix in assuming | the part. There was a general feeling of relief | when it was learned that a severe indisposition would prevent her attendance at the ball. MAKING MINERAL WATERS. Allthe great medicinal and other mineral springs of the world are located in Boston. At any rate the waters have their origin here and | the local manufacture supplies a’great part of the entire country’s demand for such bever- ages. Asa matter of fact, there are very few bottles of actual product. springs, sold. Of the fi portations of consequence ure ma It is so much easier, you know, to turn them out to order at the factory. And the same remark applies to the native water. The stuff you get under these designations at an hotel or elxe- where, served in bottles with elaborately men- dacions labels, is apt to be bogus, The only thing about it is the excessive price you ave to pay for an article that costs next to nothing at first hand, The process of manu- facturing these mineral waters, as practiced in Boston, 18 delightfully simple. One solution, the chemical base of which is soda, serves for all of them, Qing one or more ingr dients to this any desired variety of aprin, fiuid may be produced ata moment's notice. | Printed analyses of ali the famous medicinal | drinks supplied by nature are at the hand of | the manufacturer, and all he has to do is to follow them by rote in the compounding of the | goods he sells, Plain soda is usually nothing but water | charged with gas, Lemon sods “tomes,” as they are called, same fashion, with an admi e of flavoring | extract. Ordinary ginger ale is simply a com- bination of cheap chemicals with water, and how female drug clerks have not yet become a fixture in Washington. I never had but one application for a position by a woman, and she was a graduate of a Chicago college of phar- macy. I didn’t employ her, not because I had any objection to taking a female clerk, but be- cause I had no vacancy, I don’t know of but one druggist in the city who has employed a woman behind his couater, and she was at the soda fountain.” “Is she still there?” asked the reporter, thinking that with the advent of warm weather the soda fountain was fully ripe. “No, I don’t think she was asuecess, I've no doubt she attended to her duties, but you know men are peculiar, Some like to kick and swear at the clerk, and they can’t do that at a woman. I've had them come in here, order some particular tipple of soda, and I would draw it just asI thought would please them, They would feel a little out of sorts, and per- haps I would puta little too much syrup in, and then they would rip out an oath and want to know whyI made it so sweet. Well, that didn’t bother me in the least, for I knew they would come back the next day all calm and se- rene. But they couldn't do that to a woman.” “But the regular business of compounding prescriptions,” said the reporter, “Can't a woman do that as well as a man?” “I see no reason why she shouldn't. She is quick and apt to acquire knowledge, she has a good memory, is careful in making her meas- ures, and can certainly mix the pills, powders or solutions that may be ordered. A’ woman, too, is naturally neat and would be of value so far as the fancy articles usually for sale in a drug store goes, But don’t you know a drug clerk’s life is an awful hard one? I stay in this store from 9 o'clock in the morning until after midnight, and I am on my feet nearly all the time. Now, that would be very wearing on a woman, and I doubt if many of them have the hysical endurance to stand such a tour of uty day in and day out right through the year. Then again, there is an uncomfortable amount of hard work in handling a big pestle and mortar, grinding up some material for an infusion or to make an ial powder. That takes muscle, for I've done lots of it. Generally you have platy, of time to do this grinding, but sometimes you must do it in a hurry, and there’s where a woman would be at @ disadvantage,” “Do you know whether any women have re gone through the pharmaceutical college ere?” “I think not, though I am not certain, I believe there were two who applied for ad- mission, and who studied for a short time and then abandoned it. I know there are two or three ladies in this city, the wives of druggists, who are often seen behind the counter in their ‘i husband’s store, and who wait upon customers. Be cae estes Geran STUN | chats oll right for a worman $9 As ehavaneesn he does not at once hand over 20 cents. What to help her husband. One of these ladies I am can he do but comply with her request, morti- fying as itis? Every passenger in the car re- gards the conductor as a thief of the first water, and the conductor knows just what they think of him, Inquiry at the office of the rail- road upon the line of which this woman lives developed the fuct that she had played the same game upon a number of conductors and hit the same man twice within a week. Now every man on the force has at least one eye on her, and the next time she tries that game there will be immediate trouble, with prosecu- tion thereafter by the company, ‘The people who “beat” the bob-tail cars do it when they are crowded. They generally man- age to squeeze up near the front and they drop had a witchery which was irresistible to him | f#res in, for other people, aud listen, without and anchored to the “haven where he would be,” in spite of the contamination of “the Bohemianism” that surrounded him in London during his enforced absence from the “home” | of his youth and age. The loves of husband and wife are always sacred to him; even the wanton Cleopatra realizes that at length— Husband, I come; Now to that name my courage prove iny title! Whatever may have been his errors, his faile ings, his flirtations with Mistress Flitton or any one else, they are not inconsistent with that true basis of domestic affection which he ever reiterates, and illustrated nobly himsel by bis calm retirement at the last amid his family, He must have been a domestic man in the best sense of the word who penned that ex- quisite description of the careful housewife in Sonnet cxlili: Lo, a8 8 careful housewife runs to catch ‘Une of her teather'd creatures broke away, Sets down ber babe, and makes all swift In pursuit of the thing «he would have stay, Whiles her neglected child holds her in chase, This is not an inappropriate digression from drama whose oue redeeming touch is do- mestic love, where Shaks; seems to have tried how ‘far he could plunge a couple into the basest of crimes without with- drawing, if not our secret sympathies, at least ; and the the slight basis on which he built the most powerfully finished of all his feminine characters, the more we are struck with his earnest reverence and belief in the nobility inherent in @ true wife. Lady Mac- beth has the grandest entrance, the most ap- palling exit, and creates the most forcible im- pression in the fewest lines of any of his first- class characters, apparent concern or emotion, to the ’tinkling of the fare-bell. THE MONEY-MAKING PASSENGER, Then there is the money-making passenger. The company’s employes hate him more thor- oughly than they do the dishonest passenger. He, too, perches up near the box of a “bob- tail” and to him the ngers pass their fares. Three out of five will give him a money fare, but the cash never tinkles down the brassy or glassy slopes into the receiver. He has tickets, and he uses them to advantage. Give him 10 cents with which to pay two fares and he will drop two tickets in the box, while your dime will slide into his pocket. He is generally on the cars when the crowds are going to the theaters, and it is a poor night for im when he cannot ride free and in addition to that luxury make enough to buy a quart of peanuts with which to solace himself as he watches the stage from the lofty altitude of the gallery, TROUBLES OF THE TRANSFER AGENTS. The transfer agents have their troubles, too, and in spite of their experience and their best efforts the “beat” continues to exercise his or her calling. It isquite common for men and women to work themselves into the crowd which can generally be found ata transfer cor- ner, and to ask for transfer with of Very frequently Eseloreand divers ad twey teed cl teisee and drivers, and they meet remon- thatthe error, if there is one, is with the company's em; at the THE MosT ‘TRICK Jumping ®@ south-bound 9th- Devil's Lake is a lively but to an out- | street car at puto as it stops. They sider it looks as though it » on both | always get on on the farthest away from sides of the street more than it does # ball pen- | the traasfer agent. The sons ee out, and nant, just as the last one is getting off wickster, told is a regular graduate of a college of pharmacy, and fully competent to put up Pane scriptions, Whether she does or does not I am unable to say.” ‘Don’t you think the time will cbme when aes will be female drug clerks in Washing- ton?” “I have no doubt of it, Iam not opposed to employing them myself and I have only given you some of the obstacles which seem to stand in the way of their success in this business, as employes. Ihave no doubt thatmany women ifthey should graduate in pharmacy could manage a drug store as successfully as a man— more so than a good many men—but then she pele have a male clerk and don’t you forget “Why 80?” “Because she would put more confidence in a man than she would in one of her own sex. That's the way with women. But there is one other difficulty that stands in the ofa woman's success as a drug clerk. By a great many people we are considered in the light of a physician, and men and women too consult us co the same as they would a regular doctor. don’t mean ask our advice and expect to get — professional trea ment without pay, ‘or no druggist will interfere with regular medical practitioners to that extent; but they will talk matters over with us even when the come with a prescription, no matter how deli- cate the case may be, and they wouldn’t do that with @ woman clerk. The sain asad of women have not as much confidence in a female as in @ male physician, even in regard to their own — ailmente. I don’t know that this should so, but it is,and you see how it would operate against a female drug clerk so far as her own sex is concerned, while men, of course, would not consult her at all, All these obsta- cles may be removed in time, and we may have many female drug clerks, but it will not be year.” i ——_+e+ —_____. How To Read a Jury. From the New York Times, Officials in criminal courts} who take the trouble to make a study of jurors can usually tell just what sort of a verdict a jury will give ‘8 soon as its members return after deliberat- ing upon acase, There is always something in their faces which indicates to the Tae eae ea mae, contains no ginger at all, All these things are sold through the agency of drummers, who go about the country soliciting orders. DOUBLE INCOMES, It is curious to observe that, in this most civilized of all communities, the intensity of the struggle for existence, while rendering em- ployment scarce, forces very many people to undertake two or more occupations for the gaining of a livelihood, For instance, there are the salesmen and shop-girls, who earn a few dollars weekly by appearing on the i Sopieedense es of the walking ballet,” whenever they are called upon to fill out the ensemble of a passing attraction. The theater managers have them on a regular list for engagement as needed. A number of them are excellent singers, trained in the local con- servatories, and are well paid for the work they do in the chorus of comie operas. The young women are selected with ecial reg: beauty, particularly in point of figure, rally, the most desirable of them are apt to abandon the counter altogether for the green- room, and thus it happens that Boston suppl the country at large witha big percent its chorus and ballet girls. The temptations of life behind the footlights are great, though hardly of a nature to scare the fair novice out of undertaking suchacareer, Frequently, too, the professional artists’ modi here do like service onthe boards after their daily “‘sittings” are over, HOW SOCIAL NEWS IS OBTAINED. Many intelligent colored men in Boston who are occupied as barbers, janitors, coachmen, &c., in the day time, “shire out” as waiters for night duty. These fellows quite often have an additional source of outside income, rather surprising in its nature. They make a busine of gathering information “about “society” matters, for sale at so much an item to the hewspaper women who are always snooping around in quest of such gossip. Incidentally to the performance of their menial labors, the darkies have opportunities for picking up a good deal of this sort of news from conversa- tions at the tables they attend, Exclusive in- telligence of a fashionable engagement hitherto unpublished has @ money value, don’t you know, and a few details concerning a spicy scandal in “high life” may be readily con- verted into cash. And yet people wonder how the editors get hold of tacts so carefully hidden, ASSISTING MOTHERS, Not a few women, outside of their regular avocations, make pin money by assisting rich mothers in the costuming of their children, It is hardly possible for ladies of fashion, whose time is taken up with acontinual round of social duties, to dress their little girls and boys. At the same time it is necessary that the small sons and daughters of the aristocracy should be handsomely clad, and the object in view is most satisfactorily accomplished by employin; some person of taste to buy the materials an: make up the garments. The clothing of in- fants and very young people nowadays has grown to be decidedly an art, and the doing of it well without trouble to one’s self is worth good pay. AT THE GAMING TABLE. There are some ingenious and highly com- mendable young men who turn a more or less honest penny in off hours by gambling. A select few of them act as coupiers for faro and roulette banks. Skill of an unusual order, how- ever, and sober habits as well, are requisite for competency in this most eligible o! employ- ments. Poker, being much less exacting as to virtue and otherwise, affords a more available field, At this charming sport it is only neces- | who knows Washington and its people tho- of pot-plants among the common, but otherwise worthy inbavitants of this town. Upon appli cation any respectable person can obtain a few such for ornamentation, fresh from the green-honses of the society. where they are proy ited by thousands in shallow trays filled ith moist sand, heated to a constant tempera- ture by steam-pipes beneath. Each day so many hundred slips are taken from the stock raniums, fuchstas, beliotropes and other lowering vegetables, and stuck by rows into the col. Within 6 peak they are ready for transplantation into thumb-pots every one with a root of its own, and in this shape they are given out to those who ask for them. Plants not of the perennial habit are raised from seed under glass, and are distributed in like manner, All expenses. cost of pots included, are borne by the Horticultural society, which has recently offered prizes for the best exhibits by window gardeners, a The beneficiaries of this philanthropic scheme are mostly children, who, once started in the enterprise, evince the greatest enthusiasm for private horticulture. At the request of the so- ciety, communicated by circular, many of the churches have adopted the plan of giving to each boy and girlin their Sunday schools a tted plant, instead of the usual bunch of Rowers, on occasions of religious festival Last Easter Sunday 5,000 such plants were distrib- uted, each one to serve nucleus for a w dow garden. Not only will these ga-: serve to beantify the city, as it is conceive but the incidental teaching of the ‘younger generation to love and care for flowers must necessarily be followed by good results. INSTRUCTIONS, One point arose which the committee had not foreseen. The child, upon receiving its plant, at once began to ask questions regarding the manner of its growth, the watering of it, ma- nuring, and so on ad infinitum, To form | classes for instruction in the art of window gardening was hardly possible, and so the dif- ficulty was met by the publication of a pam- phlet embodying the fullest information on the subject, with an appendix giving a list of the wild flowers of Massachusetts, and stating where they can be obtamed at the season when they bloom, It is intended that each child shall have a copy of this pamphlet free, so as to be equipped for starting a conservatory on a small scale under the most favorable condi- tions possible. In the spring and autumn of h year the city forester gives away quanti- ties of plants of all kinds, and so. in one way or another, the whole community is encouraged to grow things for esthetic pur It is a notion worthy of adoption by other cities of less general enlightenment than Boston prides herself upon, Rexe Bacus, —— PRESIDENTIAL SCRAP BOOKS, DSeS, The Exchange Editor at the White House and His Duties. If President Harrison desired to throw off the burden of political life and to become truly great he might achieve fame by starting a news- paper; and if he did start a newspaper what a force he could organize right among the cleri- cal staff of the executive mansion. Of couse Secretary Halford would be managing editor; that would not be new to him. Col. Crook's experience ought to fit him for the responsible position of business manager, and there is no doubt at all as to who should be city editor; that place, of necessity, would go to Major Pruden, roughly. The giddy whirl of social life in the upper tendom of the capital would find its re- flex iu the matter contributed by Miss Sanger, while the political turmoil and strife might be picturesquely delineated by Mr. Tibbot, whos u @ newspaper man and residence apolis ought to have given him a very close acquaintance with the most practi- cal kind of politics. Who could better attend to the musical and dr: tic columns than that prince among vocalists, Warren Young, and where coulda more acceptable authority on athletics be found than in the person of R. V. LaDow. Then whatan admirable “responsible editor” Charlie Loefiler would make. When a man rushed into the office at the rate of 15 or 20 mile minute, and, after kicking three or four desks over and upsetting the stove, asked ifthe editor was in, Charlie would be able, with that ‘ine discriminati of his, to decide whether to :dmit him to the sanctum sancto- rum or to kick him down stairs, THE EXCHANGE EDITOR is generally a man of a good deal of impor- tance. He frequently imagines he owns the paper and he knows full well that to him the compositor looks for early copy as regularly as the reading public searches t olumns of his paper to see whether his selections are worth reading or not, Gen, Harrison can find bis ex- change editor at almost any time in the oblong office at the northeast ‘corner on the upper floor of the White House. He clips papers just as industriously now as he would were he on the staff of a daily journal, and be is known to manas B. F. Montgome: He is the editor and compiler of the presidential serap-book, and it is of bis labors that Tue Stan is going to say something. RECEIVING THE MATL. Three times a day a messenger brings into office a big bundle of newspapers, and the ggregate for each twenty-four hours is over 300, Some of the more important papers are subscribed for, but the majority of them are sent by their publishers without fee or hope of reward. When Mr. Montgomery arrives in the morning he finds the first batch opened and spread out on his table. and he at once attacks the huge pile. As rapidly as poasible he glances down column after column, and whenever he sees anything that seems to him to be fit for the scrap-book he marks the paragraph with a real editorial blue pencil, and later on saws it out with his shears, As a rule the work is quickly done, but lately the scanning of the papers, and especially of those from Chicago. has been somewhat retarded by the great space which has been given to the spring crop of divorce suits and the opening of the base ball season, Neither of these subjecis find a place in the scrap-book, but still there may be something hidden away in their midst which might be of interest, so the reports must be read carefully, This is sometimes a painful duty, but the exchange editor flinches not. The Toman sentinel who died at his post was never more faithful than he. THE SCRAP-BOOR generally consists of half a dozen volumes,each devoted to some particular subject or series of subjects, One is devoted to comments on the civil-service reform, or othe#Wise, of the ad- ministration, and whatever may be said, critical or laudatory, of appointments or dismissals, is all skillfully pasted on one of the blank, brown pages. The southern question has a volume ali to itself, and within those covers the great issue is discussed. Every utterance on that subject has its place, and every man of national importance, and a few whoare of no import- ance at all, are on record in black and white for black or white, What is said and written about the foreign policy of the administration by native or alien experts is in a book all by itself, and another of the volumes has in it such scraps as relate to territorial matters, land grants, and other affairs which disturb the Interior department, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL, The most interesting volume is that which hi sary for the initiate, in order to make winnin, acertainty, to “stand in” with a friend, rams thus clean out any acquaintances whom he may have the pleasure of meeting during a social evening around the green baize. Principles of a different nature must be applied to successful play for money at billiards or pool, with drinks or otherwise, where manual dexterity of a hi; degree is essential in order to make one’s ings from the inexpert a certainty. Ali these accomplishments are well worth the study of young gentlemen who are obliged to support the position of rollicking rams upon salaries ostensibly insufficient for the purpose. Of course, if the employer's till is handy in the daytime, it may not be necessary to expend so aie in working thoughtless innocents at nig! AMATEUR LIBRARIANS, A number of men here make an extra income each year by acting as librarians for rich peo- ple—devoting so many hours a month to keep ing the books catalogued and in order. Several scribblers earn money by conteibuted by app ive society folks who enjoy being written up. a ip is made up of direct references to the Presi- dent, social and personal—some of them far from social in their nature, and many of them too violently personal to be pleasant. The great bulk of the paragraphs are, however, smooth and musical in their tone, and pleasant to read, Of miscellaneous matter—too general in its nature to be easily classified—there is a wealth, and the volume which is set apart to receive it gets filled up quicker than any of its associates. ‘A great deal of low-grade matter fails to find lace in aggregation. Everything is care- fully selected. A man with no rpoo Mens 4 and devoid of discretion would probably fill one of the volumes in a few hours; under the present arrangement a book is complete a a intance with “scraps” and “pasting” has itted him to be an able assistant to the sport- ing editor, but he juishes all claim to that de nt, and is to spend his da: in “juge! a how the President's scrap-book is made, 2 E é t F 4 bis mS FINANCIAL. LES soso —- DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN BANKERS, Pennsylvanis ave, and 20th et cipal Cities in Earope. 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