Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1889, Page 8

é THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, MAY 25 MASK AND FACES. ee CURIOUS CUSTOMS OF SAVAGES. apaeetpeteada ADDING TERROR TO THEIR LOOKS. ——o——— Mumming and Masquerading Among Un- tutored People. ENTERESTING COLLECTIONS IN THF MUSEUM—SsUG- GESTIVE SIMILARITY OF CUSTOMS—HIDEOUS PRACTICES OF PRESERVING HUMAN HEADS— ‘WASES AND THEIR MAKERS. ——>___ N the National museum, scattered through many cases, peering out of unexpected places,grin- ning at mummies from Peru, leering at ele- gantly costumed fig- ures from Japan,squint- ing at huge totem posts from the northwest coast, scowling fiercely at mild looking cross- legged Buddhas, in making ali kinds faces at the world in general, as it is repre- sented in the museum, ere masks, Here is a row of Japanese theatri- cal masks with jolly faces of shining, flesh- tinted enamel, there a collection of wooden masks from northwest coast Indians, rudely carved and striped and painted in many colors; and glowering from the corner of a case a dark, forbidding, hideous mask, worn by some savage mummer ina devil-dance in the wilds of Africa. None of these savage or barbaric masks, whether from Africa or Polynesia, South America or Alaska, has a joyous smile ora jolly grin on its painted countenance. Humor of a merry kind is not expressed by the savage mask-maker, It may be a part of his art which he never learned or which he found was not popular. The nearest he approaches to humor is grotesqueness, in giving an eccentric squint to one eye, or putting the mouth awry. Mouths sometimes are made to stretch from ear to ear. but the expression given is one of savage ferocity, like thatof a marling beast showing its teeth. The only masks that seem intended to make one laugh, and to counterfeit the face of a droll, good- matured person, are some of the theatrical masks of the Japanese, who, in the Ethnologi- ealscale, are rated far above the savage, or barbarac races. With the savages masking is mot a matter of merry-making. It is con- of “APANES THEATRICAL, nected with their most solemn ceremonies, and is a_ serious business, Many of these masks are made as frightful as savage art can make them for the purpose of striking terror into the heart of the beholder. Dr. Wm. H. Dail, who has made for the bureau of ethnology a study of the subject of masks, finds in itsomething more than a matter of curious interest. He thinks that one who has thoroughly mastered it would be possessed of the keys to the greater part of the mystery which locks from us the philosophical, relig- ious, and social development of uncivilized or @avage men. In the study, too, he has found evidence of the accession by invasion or immigration in prehistoric times from the islands of the Pacific to the western shores of America. Similarity of masks aud masking customs, along geo- raphic lines extending from Africa to the North Papuan archipelago, hence to Peru, Cen- tral America and Mexico, northward to New Mexico and Arizona, Oregon and the northern Limit of the Thlinket country, the Aleutian Is- lands, and thence to the Agttic coast among Eskimos from Prince William sound to Point Barrow, suggests thata fashion set in Africa or in the Pacific was carried by bold navigators to the South American coast, and thence traveled by contact of one na- tion or tribe with another, until it had spread from the South Pacific to the Arctic. Dr. Dall has found corroborative evidence to sustain the theory suggested by these facts in the prevalence of another fashion among say- ages over the same geographical lines, and that is the use of the labret, or plug of stone, shell, metal, or wood, worn in a hole pierced through the under lip so as to distend and distort the lip. Whether masks were first used in rade or were made as shields for protecting the face is a question in which a man can have anopinion without much fear of its being proven wrong. Ethnologists think that the mask was at first a shield or protection for the face, beld in the hand. From this was derived & covering adapted to the form of the face and supported on the head or shoulders, From such uses came masks of horrid visage, intended to mspire terror in the enemy. Masks are SIAMESE TREATRICAL— ‘sed in mystic rites of savages, in their games aud as part of the paraphernalia of secret asso- ciation’. They are found buried with the dead and are sometimes made as independent objects not intended to be worn, Masks have been found in Mexico made ef human skulls, with the cranium removed. These ghastly objects have been mehly inlaid and furnished with eyes of pol- ished stone. Such masks were placed, it is supposed, upon the faces of idols. There are reminders in the National museum of « prac- tice that prevailed among Indians of Bolivia and the Amazon region more repulsive than the use of skull masks. In one of the cases are two ob. , each supported on alittle pedestal, ‘These look like mode isof human heads made of ebony or some dark substance. The heads sreeach about the size of a man’s clenched fist, but the features are exaggerated. Long, silken black hair trails down from them, and in holes bored through the lips and the ussal septum depend strings or cords woven together. These are human beads, preserved as trophies by savage warriors, ‘The skull bones and their contents are ex- tracted, aud the fleshy parts of the head, bya Jong course of preparation, are reduced to rt proportions and preserved from de- There isan uncanny look about these Ridoous relics that makes one shudder, at least when he finds out what the objects really are, but among the savage ple who produced them. they would "ye highly prized and supposed to be endowed with marvelous pr i bead-hunters of Borneo, and savages of ‘the Australian wilds, place a high value on such — In Matupi island and in New Britain painted and made more hideous by being with artificial hair, ere displayed in Ogbe collection of The ‘tion of masks in the museum show the grest extent of their use among many savage peoples, and the diversity of their form AUASKAN WARRIORS g Apavese WaaRioks ASI, ASK ¥ MASKETTE and structure. A typical war mask, or one showing how a shield for the face grew by evolution into a mask, is one that can be seen on a figure arrayed in a snit of Japanese armor, such as was worn by the warriors of Japan in the feudal days, There isa helmet on the head, but instead of a visor there is a separate detached plate called a meuppo, or face-guard, drawn over the face. It is enameled in black and made to counterfeit human features, To give it a terrible look the armorer added a fierce moustache of white bristles. The soldier wnose face was thus concealed might be an extremely mild-mannered and timid man, but the moral effect of wearing a moustache of such a frightful aspect must have been great, not only on the enemy, but on the soldier himself, who would feel that he wouid have to live up to his moustache. A war mask from Alaska, made of wood. covers the whole head, and above it is another mask or maskette of fright- ful mien, intended to add to the height of the wearer and to give him a formidable appear- ance, the Japanese theatrical masks are neatly made of wood and enameled. On some of them the mouth and eyes are distorted. White or black whiskers of real hair are provided on some, and in other cases representations of whiskers and eyebrows are painted on them. Among the masks are some representing the heads of animals of various kinds, Near by isa case filled with masks from Siam. These represent countenances half human, half beast. Some of them are shaped like dragon's heads, They are of green and gilt and of elaborate workmanship, fashioned 80 a8 to go over and cover the whole head, there being a cap or head dress on top rising like a spirgto a point. AFRICA atl ps fan, DRED HYMAN HEAD MASK ea Next to this collection is a black mask from made with exaggerated head, or rising fr he head, is a large black ring. This is the mask of the nd devil,” 6 . worn in savage rites when his satanic majesty is supposed to come forth and dance through the village. ‘The cases filled with the mash f the Indians of the northwest coast and 4 attract at- tention by the grotesqueness of the masks, the greens, blues, reds. and whites, with which they are striped and the exaggeration of the features intended to givea frightful appear- ances to the faces. S e of them receive an additional hideonsness from great shaggy heads of false bair or fiber bunched about them. One Haida mask, representing a woman's face, with lip distended by a labret, has movable eyes. A mask from Sitka is orna- mented with a band passing across one cheek made by inlaying with bits of mother of pearl, and in the mouth disfigured by a labret is a late of copper in place of teeth, These maxks ve holes for the eyes, and perforations for the mouth. They are of soft wood, usually of cedar, Some of them have inside the mouth a little bar which the wearer takes in his teeth and thus holds it on. Others are bound on by means of thongs that go around the head, and fome apparently are held before the face by the hands. Occasionally an elaborate mask is made with a sort of cage, framework or head dress that fits on the head. ‘There are masks like that worn above the head of the Alaskan warrior which do not cover the face at all and which, Dr. Dall calls, maskettes. Other representations of the human face, which were not made to be worn at all, he calls maskoids, Among the Makah, Thlinket and Haida Indians, of the northwest coast, masks are made for sale by one tribe to PAM INDIANS CAPE FLATTERY BELLA-BELLA INO} ° BRTISH COLUMBIA another, so there is no tribal characteristic about the structure of the masks. They are painted by the purchasers to suit their own fancies, and usually adorned with the totems of the wearer. Among these Indians masks are made in two forms, one representing a buman head. and the other representing a bird’s head, or the head of the “thunder bird,” which plays so important a part in their my- thology. ‘The medicine man has in his outfit an assortment of masks, one for each of his familiar spirits and puts them on in turn according to — the power he wishes to propitiate or invoke. Some of these Indians, hike certain Eskimos, wear masks which are decoys for seals or otters, They cover their head over with a wooden head-gear made to represent a seal’s head, and then, concealing their bodics, make a cry like aseal, The animal, deceived by appearances, approaches near the hunter and is killed. A dancing mask from Bella-bella, British Golum- bia, made to represent the head of a bird, has the lower mandible movable. It is worked by a cord of sinew that passes over a little pulley. Some of the masks, representing death's heads, are made gh — in hue by being painted with some pigment of a mouldy whiteness in appear- anc There is adancing mask looking like a gorgon head, provided with a waving mass of hair of coarse fiber and having at the side two wings, or doors,on which rude outlines of human figures are painted. —_‘These doors swing back and forth ‘and can be worked like @ jamping Jack with a string that the wearer can Other masks have tufts of eider down td represent hair, One maskette used by the Indians in J their dances has movable eyebrows, The Es- kimos have little objects like masks, which are worn by women on their forefingers in their dances, The Eskimo masks are generally much ruder in construction than those made by the Haidas. They express humor of a rude id by elevating one eye and de) another, or in other ways The © are ornamented with fringes of deer hair or dancing masks worn ‘on the face have loose wooden Tattle as the wearers about, Aleuts, y of their ceremonies. These masks are now found with other relics on the islands, It was part of their old burial customs to place a mask over the face of the dead before the body was deposited in ite rock shelter. The theory was that the mask protected the dead man from the glances of spirits on his long journey to the Aleuts’ happy bunting ground. Some of the Iroquois in New York state and Canada who have not yet been educated out of their old myths and tribal customs believe in the efficacy of the “false faces.” The “false faces” are members of a secret order, who wear masks and en, in secret rites. They are believed to have the power of driving away pestilence or disease. Some of their poste are made of horrid aspect, with tongues lolling ont. There is among the masks and other curious objects from among the Haida Indians a mannikin or human efigy, which, like some masks, is supposed to have power to frighten away evil spirits, Itis about 4 feet long and made of wood, and its limbs are jointed on so they will move about, The head is large and made with an ugly countenance. This hideous figure is triced up on a pole and carried through a village. It is supposed that at its appearance any evil spirit lurking about immediately takes flight. There is another ‘case filled with curious little wooden dolls from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, all brightly colored and wearing masks aud maskettes. Among the plains’ Indians masks are used to some extent. These are made frequently of the heads or skins of animals, A Sioux medi- cine man will wear @ bear's b or a buffalo head. Jn Mexico and Central America, among the Indits, maskoids of wood, stone and terra- cotta were much in use, Among the ancient people, after the death of a king, a painted NEW IRELAND (sete) FRIENDLY ISLANDS, (rasnerte) maek set with jewels was put over his face, An Egyptian mummy stretched out in a case near the masks has over the face a mask of green ce- ment ornamented with gold leaf. In ancient Peru maskoids were used in feasts and were buried with the dead. They are discov- ered now in sepulchres projecting outside of the cerements of mummies. A mortuary maskoid from Peru, deposited in the museum, is rudely carved of wood and reddened with ochre, “Attached to it are several appendages, The whites of the eyes are represented with [rp of white shell, and the irides by smaller bits of mussel shell cemented on the whites, There are a number of masks from the South Seas in the museum. One from the Friendly Islands is noticeable from the peculiar distortion of the mouth made to form a bow or angle. It isof wood, the interior being slightly concave. Over the forehead are representations of rounded ears, This, with the peculiar mouth, indicates that SMASKODS = the face, though human in its proportions, was intended to represent some animal. There are holes about the edges ‘indicating that once feathers or fibers were pegged on to represent hair. In the New Hebrides masks are found made of cocoanut shells, which are used in the native dances, These are colored and made hideous by the insertion of boar's tusks. A maskette from New Ireland worn like a helmet and used in dances is provided with hair made of vegetable. fiber and eyes are represented by — opercula or “cats’ eyes.” In New Britain masks are worn in savage rites. In one of their impor- tant ceremonies if the mask falls from the face of the chief actor he is killed. In the Mar- juesas the natives preserve the skulls of the deatand give them a hideous appearance by putting in eyes of pearl shell. ‘The lower jaws are fastened in their places with cords, ——+or-—_____ Written for Tur EvENIne Star, Jack in the Pulpit. Dear Jack {s back in his pulpit again, Looking so trim and ne: In a shadydell, where the wild harebell And the ferns hold converse sweet. Come tell us Jack to what sunny clime You hied, when the ice and snow Filled this little dell, and the cold rains fell, "Till the trees were frozen through. Is there a land where the flowers go, When through with blooming here? A spirit land,where no winds or snow Ever come? Jack, have you been there? Oh, Jack, you'd tell I'm sure, could you speak, But one thing I know full well, ‘Wherever you go when the cold winds blow, Every spring you are back in the dell. —EMILY Tuvxston, ee EY eee A Father’s Vigil. From the Terre Haute Express, CHAPTER I. Mr. Figg—‘Here’s alittle toy I've brought for Tommy to amuse himself with. Pigs in Clover, I believe they call it.” CHAPTER I. Tommy—‘Say, paw, ain’t you goin’ to lemme see that puzzle?” Mr. Figg—“Go to bed! You ought to be in reas ago!” ne CHAPTER ITL. Mrs, F “John Figg, are you going to sit “Hite: Figg“ be there in eminute, I've got them all Hy but one.” CHAPTER Iv. “Have yqu been all night, - eer “None ai mney Tommy—“Se; ‘where's my puzzle?” Mr. Figg—"In the viove.” ition the World's 81 convention, to be held in London July 2 to 5, has the steamer pol New ¥. Sune 19, pee iew York June By, Fagg a her second year. THE STRAWBERRY SEASON. THE HIGH PRICES PAID EARLY IN THE SEASON—THE BERRIES BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON—WHERE THE: BEST BEBRIES GROW AND HOW THEY ABE GATH- ERED—ABOUT CAPPING THE BERRIES. The strawberry season is nearly at its height. They ought to reach their best next week and will run pretty well through June. They have been retailing this week at two quarts for 25 cents, and next week, if the weather is propitious for their ripening, the ruling price will paobably be much below that. The first arrivals of the season, from Florida and lower Georgia, sold at fancy prices. Senator Hurst gave 8 strawberry dinner early in March and paid $3 ® quart for some extra fine ones selected upon special order, They were brought by rail from Florida, at which place they cost the dealer #5 @ quart by wholesale, The same grade of berries can now be had at 20 to 25cents a quart, though those were not a whit more palatable or luscious than those selling in the market now. The weather has not been very good for straw- berries, and the result 1g that the season is somewhat backward. THE BRANCH STRAWBERRIES, The “Branch” berries, as the hucksters call them, are the best now to be had, being fresher, and, consequently, more delightful to the taste. They are raised largely in the Dis- trict, beyond the Eastern branch, and the out- lying country adjoining. They are brought in by wagons mostly for wholesale on Mondays, Wed- nesdays and Fridays, and principally for retail on Tuesdays, Tharsdays aud Saturdays, which are the conceded important days for the general marketing of housekeepers. On the three market days the best berries are probably to be had at the regular market houses, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays possibly from the hucksters who sell their fruits and berries upon the streets, The “Branch” berries are expected to be exceptionably good this season while the Norfolk berries are, upon the average, somewhat below the standard, owing tothe unpropitious weather and the furious wind and hail storms with which that section has been recently visited, extending over a wide area andin many instances entirely de- stroying every vestige of the plants. The cool, pleasant speli in the spring, followed by the warm, vegetative weather of April and May. gave the near-by berries an impetus which they will hoid unless bad weather continues, and they will clearly have the advantage as to beauty, plumpnegs and juciness over all others within marketable distance. THE MARYLAND CROP, The Maryland crop, by which the prices in Washington are somewhat regulated, will be enormous, especially in the Anne Arundel sec- tion. These beds produce their finest berries the latter part of May, and some of the varie~ ties raised in Anne Arundel, Calvert, and St. Mary’s counties are said to be equal to any in the world, This section is not only supp! Baltimore, but is sending train loads to New York, where they are quoted by wholesale. at less than 6 cents a quart, berri@ commanding 10 to 12 cents a quart being regarded as extra fine. R HOW STRAWBERRIES ARE GATHERED. When the season fairly opens pickers, almost exclusively colored, flock from the cities and towns to the farms of the trackers, where they are employed by the day for the week. They generally appear on hand ready for work Mon- day morning, and disappear and return to their homes on Saturday evening. Arrived at the truck farm the transient em- are tered in barns, outhonses or y be, where their accom- modations are very primitive, They have their meals of bacon, potatoes, greens’ and bread, and from dawn till twilight they bend in rows through the fields, staining their hands and clothing with the jnice of the berries, which are put, when gathered, into pails or small cups,and carried to the’ barn or “quarters,” where they are culled and carefully placed in boxes—too often with the large tempting ones on top and the little green, hard ones at the bottom, . The colored women wear, as a rule, calico dresses and immense sun bonnets, and the men clothing of cheap material and broad-brimmed straw hats, THE BOXES ARE ASSORTED and packed in crates and upon reaching destination are ready to be offered in the markets tothe house-wife to be served with pulverized sugar with good rich cream as a de- sert, though many prefer them without cream or pressed’ into service, as it were, between rane of pastry and eaten in the shape of short- cake, ‘The great bulk of strawberries, however, are prepared and stored away in cans or jars for use in winter. When this is done in large pack- ing establishments the quantity and not quality is the governing feature; but they sell as weil and are eaten with as much relish as if each berry had been carefully selected, washed and freed from sand and grit before ing and shipping away. AFTER THE STRAWBERRIES, Strawberries will last until July, by which time raspberries and blackberries will have be- come plentiful, and the other fruits will be coming in, Some hard, knotty-looking peaches are already at hand, but show up badly and stick nobly to the dealers who brought them here. In July, with the first early peaches from the eastern shore of Virginia, come the tart, piquant June apples, a pleasant relief from the cold-storage winter stock, the last efforts of which are being gathered together for a final departure. Then come the peaches from the James, York. Rappahannock and Po- tomac rivers, followed by watermelons, canta- loupes, cherries, pears, grapes and buckleber- ries, which cater to the palates of Washington- ians until the frosts of autumn give relish to the succulent oyster. ABOUT CAPPING STRAWBERRIES, It is not always pleasant and never an easy matter to cap strawberries, and many would forego the pleasure of eating them rather than do it. Bya very simple method they can be capped without mashing the berry or getting the hands badly stained, Get a pair of ordi- nary pocket tweezers with broad prongs, which can be had at any hardware or drug store for 5 cents, and with them the caps can be easily extracted by simply holding the berry lightly in the left hand and plucking the cap with the tweezers with the right. It 1s neat and cleanly and leaves the berry in perfect condition, —— Written for Tur EveNtno Star, Stranded. A stranded wreck upon life's stormy shore, Lies tempest tossed, And furious waves that broken bark roll o’er, Andall seems lost. ‘The morn was fair; with sails of hope all set She put to sea, t A precious frefgpt of love she bore, and yet, A wreck to be, ‘Twas thought with sails like her's and freighted 80 She'd safely steer, And would through every sea and tempest go, No breakers fear, Ah, suddenly and unforseen @ blast, Came, whelming all; There was no help, no answer to the last Heart-rending call. And there she stranded lies, her costly store Of love most rare Forsaken on that bleak and lonely shore Doth perish there! —De Wirt C, Spracus. ‘Wasurncron, D. C., May, 1889, A Drummer Outwitted. From the New York Star. “You talk about being taken in,” saida drummer; ‘‘an Incident occurred during my last journey which, besides proving of interest to your readers, may serve as @ caution to many. Last month I was in Chicago and hay- ing reason to believe that # certain large house in the center of the city required just such stock as I T detet d to visit it payee outside of that firm’s place of busi wi covered nearly half a block, I noticed 6 stairway Over which wes rout Nek that the office of the buyer was in re I mounted the stairs with with signe poin' At aoe net St Be eee and more stairs, ward. The signs continued At the and found walked one through = up stairway, ri peas ell started “If 'twere down, vewere What e persoa, inks when he old- fered ort they are unequaled. WIVES—EVERY-DAT HINTS FOR THE HOUSE- HOLD—USEFUL RECIPES AND THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING. Rats axp Mice have as great an aversion to the odor of chloride of lime as humans. A Barve of equal parts of tar, tallow and salt will care the worst case of felon. Economizz Strexors by sitting upon a big a Wiping dishes or dressing vege- Tar YeLK cr Eoasalone is the better for in- valids, and will be frequently relished when the white would be rejected, Maxy Prorte Take Sweet Cream in large quantities asa cure for nervous debility. It va to serve all the purposes of cod liver Ix Some Forms or Hrapacne a towel ora napkin wrung out of hot water—as hot as can be vorne—and wound around the head af- fords relief. Tiny Cut-Grass Disnes for bon-bons, olives and small flowers come in sets of four; in shape, the heart, diamond, spade and club of a card suit, Wuew a Coat Nerps a Tuorover Ceaxrxo, apply with a sponge strong coffee to which has been added a few drops of ammonia and rub well with a colored woolen cloth. Waen Maxine Corn-Stancu Puppra, melt a lump of butter in the pudding kettle before putting the pudding into it. There will be less danger of the milk becoming scorched. Insta oF Correr-Ick ox Roman Puscu at @ Frenchwoman's afternoon reception the other day, the guests were handed tiniest cups of the wine of cocoa and celery, a well-known com- pound on this side of the water. For Frostep Caxe, frost with the white of one egg, one teaspoonful of cold water and suf- ficient confectioners’ or powdered sugar; this is @ frosting that cuts easily without breaking. A Frenca Cuninary Avruonrry says that the water in which asparagus has been cooked should not be thrown away, “With the addi- tion of butter, rolled in flour, palatable season- ing and a few sorrel leaves it makes an excel- lent soup.” Lemon Toast.—Take the yelks of three eggs, beat well and stir into a breakfast cupful of milk; cut some stale bread in slices and soak for a minute in the milk and egg; then fry toa delicate brown in boiling butter, squeeze over a little lemon juice and sifted sugar, and serve very hot, Cocoanut Crustarp.—Boil ina kettle of hot water two tablespoonfuls of corn starch and one quart of simmering milk, yelke of four eggs, six tablespoonfuls of sugar. Boil three minutes; add, when cold, one teaspoonful of vanilla and cover top with grated cocoanut, Serve with plain cake, Svamer Svow.—Soak one-half of a box of gelatine in one-half of a pint of water one hour, add three cupfuls of boiling water, two cupfuls of sngar, juice of one and one-half lemons, Set on the back of the stove till dissolved. Strain, beat in the whites of three eggs beaten stiff and mould, Pour sauce around. Eoos axp AsparaGus.—Boil the tender parts of asparagus in a little salted water; when done drain andchop fine. Have beaten eggs as re- quired. Put the asparagus in a sauce-pan in which is melted butter, pour in the exes and cook three minutes, stirring to prevent burn- ing. Live 4 Grass Disn wita Stices of stale cake, cover with slices of pineapple, peeled and the “eyes” removed, powder thickly with sugar. Pile high on the top layer sweetened cream whipped very stiffly, and place all on the ice until removed to the table. If preferred, the cream may be served on a separate dish, ‘To Kexr ory Mosqurroxs take a small quan- tity of a 2 per cent carbolic acid solution and ets, coverlets, pillow and bolster , the edges of bed curtains and the wall next the bed. The face and neck may also be slightly wetted with the solution. Not a single gnat or mosquito will come near. Te You Have Presty on hand of the tin-foil used for covering tobacco or chocolate, instead of wrapping the gas fixtures with inflammable net for summer, a neat wrapping of the tin-foil around the gas brackets or pipes completely protects them from the flies, The tin-foil clasps quite closely any pattern itis put over, Spanisn Gotpen Foam.—Take the yelks of six eggs beaten with as much cold water as the six egg-shells will hold, sweeten and flavor to taste. Cook over a slow fire, but do not let it boil. When it thickens take from the fire and let it cool, Beat when cold briskly for an hour and serve in custard cups. Lyonnaise Taipz.—Cut tripe into small Pieces, and boil 45 minutes and drain; fry one tablespoonful of chopped onion in one heaping tablespoonful of butter; do not let it become dark-colored, only yellow; add one tablespoon- ful of vinegar, the tripe, a little chopped pars- ley and celery; salt and pepper to suit taste; simmer five minutes and serve on toast, Cream Jetty Pir.—Three eggs, three table- spoonfuls of sugar, one teacup of cream, three tablespoonfuls of current (or quince) jelly, and one tabléspoonful of butter. Beat the yelks and whites separafely, then stir all the ingre- dients together. Bake with one crust, cover with ameringue and return to the oven to brown. Itis good enough without the me- ringue and very rich, Drorrep Eaos.—Pour two cupfals of boiling water in a saucepan and stir in a teaspoonful of salt. Break the eggs, one at a time, into a cup and turn in, holding the edge of the cup under the water toprevent the egg from scattering. Or, muflin-rings may be set in the pan and the eggs slipped into them. Boil till the white sets, which will be about three minutes. Take up with @ perforated spoon, Serve either of a platter alone or on moistened and buttered toast. A Bortep Fowr.—After the chicken is pre- pared sew it up in a wet cloth, then dust it with flour and place it on a rack in the kettle to keep the chicken from sticking. The giblets are then carefully prepared and put in the same kettle, A 4pound chicken should be cooked an hour and a half. Put it on in hot water. It is not necessary to roll the chicken in the damp cloth, but it keeps it from breaking while boil- ing, anditcan be more easily removed from the kettle when done. Crow Caow.—Half peck of green tomatoes, two large heads of cabbage, fifteen large onions, twenty-five cucumbers, one pint grated horse- radish, half-pound white mustard seed, one ounce’ celery seed. fifteen or twenty small ouions, white, half-teacup ground pepper, turmeric and cinnamon each, Chop the toma- toes, cabbage, onions and cucumbers in small pieces and salt them down oue night, In the morning drain off the brine and put them to soak in. vines and water for two days, drain off again and mix in the spices. Boil one and one-half gallons of vinegar and four pounds of brown sugar together and pour over them hot. Do this three mornings successfully, ‘The third time mix two half-pound boxes of mustard with one-half pint of pure 1 salad oul id to it, ~ AMERICANO-MANIA, The Complimentary Disease Which Eng- lish Girls Are Cultivating. Fron Table Talk. ‘The adoption of foreign “fads” being by no means peculiarly an American conceit, it is with no small sense of satisfaction that the well-authenticated rumor reaches us that our fair British cousins are Americanizing to the extent of copying the most characteristic of 1889-TWELVE PAGES. - . Acovsep Ory Seruxa the BEST CLOTHING for the least money, and fol- lowing prices will convince you: 810 SUIT FOR 85.50, 2° = 06.25. ss °* ° 8787. or “ @8.45, eis ° “ 69.73. s20 * “ $10.50, * Prices cut in all Fine Suits, and {tisan established fact that our prices are lower than elsewbere. Children’s Suits 99c. to $7.75. 139 Office Coats left 18. 85 pair Knee Pants left 14c. 190 pair All-Wool Pants, sold for €3.87, FOR TEN DAYS ONLY. DISCOUNT STORE, 926 7th St. NW, bet. Iand m1s-lm Hasoo: Oorn: ‘We here present a fresh invoice, Haloo! Oolah! Haloo! “You pays your money and you takes your choice,” ‘Oolah! Hajoo! Oolaht Of Coate—Alpaca, with Vests to match, Likewise Scersuckers at A DOLLAK a catch, Bilks, Pongees, and Mohairs of richest hue, And Serges Black and Gray and Blue, ‘Halvo! Oolah! Haloo! Haxoo: Suits for men of three score and ten, Halvo! Ovlah! Haloo! AND A HALF until you say “when,” Hajoo! Oolah! ‘The man in his prime can be suited, “you bet!” Also the youth with apartments to let ‘The boy in his teens, the wee chick-a-biddics Dan “dyke” them: up in short or loug breeches. Hialvo! Oolab! Huloo! Now, G. A. R. boys, don't get ina stew, Haloo! Oolah! Haloo! We're prepared for you with Suits of Blue, Oolah! Haloo! Oolah! They're new, they're nice, they fit—precise— NINE AND A HALF we name as the Price. We furnish extra buttons and ring them on, too, ‘Thus completing the “rig” of the “Boys in Blue.” Haloo! Qolah! Haloot VICTOR E. ADLER'S PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE. 927 and 929 7th st..n.w., corner Massachusetts ave, Strictly One Prica 10 19 Open Saturdays until 11 p.m. my20 oO UR Stavourer IN MILLINERY, BEADED AND SPRING WRAPS. GGG. ~~ SS, &%G 2 Bs SG SS y GGG Bgy5 PPP A Lt A FER my AA L AA cc §E PPP AA L AA oe FE P L. cc £E ” P aa LiL 4 & ©OO EEE * First clearing sale; €50,000 worth of Straw goods, Flowers and ribbons to be slaughtered. Now is your time while in need of goods, don't fail to call at KING'S PALACE, 814 7th st, n.w, Elexant and latest styles. French pattern Hats and Bonnets at 2.50, 3 and 85. ‘Ladies’ Hats in all the leading # a9 u's and Misses’ Flowers, the grandest array of the loveliest flowers at 20c.,25c., RIBBONS. Ten thousand dollars worth of Ribbons, the greatest slaughter ever witnessed, trom 7c. to 50c. per yard, We advise all in need of millinery to call at King’s Palace before purchasing, it will pay you, Ex ff KK Ot KK It Kk OU a ae A CCG FEE P AA OL aa CO E Pr aa a4 CoO ERE = 814 SEVENTH STREET N.W., REMEMRER NAME AND NUMBER. my2-2m Tavnspay, Max 23, 1889. FLOUR DOWN AGAIN. Faas again declined in price, and, as usual, Elphonzo tos" Company are the FIKST to announce the fact and togive their patrons the benefit of the lowest anarket rates, 2” sis at article in “which we feel that we may justly take pride offering. Moving sake tee election FLOUR Qn and we are, theret qonen make & FRESH ROAST once or twice EVERY DAY. (ibis nei means 10 slaie Jat here—never. You will never know what it is to Sriuk deticious Coper Until You have ined @ GENUINE MANDHELING 85.69 ELPHONZO YOUNGS COMPANY, mh23 % 428 Ninth st. v.w., bet. Dand E. Gow Doses Ar 65 Cexrs Douentor WENL'S ONETRICE CLOTMING B: 311 7th ot 87.50 =. | (yeretenartretiead indigo, as good as SG nese ’ z SETAE Sn Ost went mw mr Snarieaet egg Patna oa oo tsar {il Day » beautiful Prince Albert suit, in either black byeties white or fancy vests as are sold for $1.50 __NEW PUBLICATIONS. Scusy ERS M AGAZINE FORK JUNE MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE ELECTRIC SERIES. ELECTRICITY IN THE SERVICE OF MAX. Au Introductory Paper. By © F. Brackett. This Paperserves to introduce a popular series of articles on the practical applications of electricity. It sete forth, in a clear and precise way, some of the common methods by which the more important electrical phenomena are produced, the Jaws which they reveal, and the principles involved im measuring electric: it, Ampere, and Ohm use, thomet mot ea wo Iacndly ex din the rest Will describe Modern Telographs tet popularly anders plaived in th of the series, w le will be fully ay yw mome of the equipped of rare portraits, SLAVERY IN AFRICA is the subject of a most striking Drummond, the author of *) ‘ual World,” who, besides his an experienced Africau traveler Tatory, and include a pum! tense feeling upon @ subject m which be is deeply versed. With Map, STRIPED BASS FISHING, being the second of the fishing articles, Mr. A. Foster Husvins, preside e Island Fishing Clot, Writes ost entertainingly wpon this most popular sport, Tue illustrations are expecially rich. BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. An accurate account of what these associat by Mr. WA. linn. Every man of 1 a Who is autious to oWL & home, will find us paper of reat value. the Pang PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON furnishes the Eud Paper this month in @ charming article eutitied “Past, Present aud t THE FRONTISPINCE is an original eneraving by Elbride Kingsley, from bis own desisn, accompany ing Elien Burrousbs’ p “Vespers.” OTHER ILLUSTRATED AnricLes voy Twenty ¥ Ao.” the “Castro ah town, Way A. aud artiste illustrations. THE FICTION includes anew chapter of Robert Lonis Stevenson's serial, “The Master of Ballantr: story entitied “Monsieur Nason,” by Miss Grace M. Peirce, accompauied by two fullgaye drawings Uy Chester Looms. i POEMS by Margaret Crosby, Mary AP Stansbury, Edith M. Thomas, Graham K. Tomson and 25 CENTS 4 NUMBER . $3 A YEAR. CHARLES SCKIBNER'S SONS, 743 Broadway, New York, PROPOSALS. POSALS FOR CU miidanye for Library omy wuiied DY w cortitied 1 Jars ($000) GLU. 5. BALCHELI tar LADIES’ GOODS. LFRED NEL A La « Will call at r IAN, ALTIST AND DESIGNEKIN vex and Riding Habits, ray oe, ops. iwelopes. J. JAL LADY. FOKMEKLY CALI New bork, woud like t te yr SUPERPLUOS HAIL PEKMANDN Sby electric needle without juring ¢ thy & wark. Mis ington ladies, moderate and basting # spocuuty ayaa 24 uw Mux M. J. Passo 1320 F st. now, at Mrs. Harrison's, FINE FRENCH NAIK GoODSs Aino, SELECT ORNAMENTS FOR THE HATR, HAIK DEESSLD. BANGD SHINGLED, ap SHAMPOOING, FEES CH DYEING ScockinG AND PRY CLEAN: ING ESTABLIMIMINT, 1205 New York ave, nelass Ladies” aud Gents’ work ery ctencrip Flush, Velvet and dveuig Dresses ANLON id LERCH, turmerly wath A Pischer weed Paris, TON FISCHER'S DRY LISHMENT ANI Ladies’ aud Gent Dyed without beaus ¢ SHE FEDOKA DRESS SHIFLDS Anh PRO. nounced by Messrs WOODWAKD & LOTHROP asthe best in their stuck. They have no equal sale every where AaOek PALMENTS MADE UP OK RIPPED dyed a gucd mouruing Ulack. A. FISCHER, 00 G st now, __ HOUSEFURNISHINGS. RowaL LIQUID GLUE” MENDS EVE thing! Broken € Furniture, W Metals, Jovs, Sk » She oy Everlasting T nacity! Drugs aud Grocers. 1c. aud oc. mbldeoly A full line of GAS COOKING STOVES On band snd for sale, si4 URANCE. IN (UAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASS'N, furnished insurance to eyluty-two thous- and niembers during past eyht years, saving to them over sixteen williou dollars, by ‘Teduciug cost below rates charged by level premium yauies. JAS. G. WEST, Supt. 7. Ly. mh9-s,tu,. W HEN YOU HAVE TRIED DOCTORS, eines. and electricity sn vain “when 0 ate teriy doaperate, the FLECTROVOINE wifi cure you iter w fecase oF ita prc oy elmo SUMN N, WEDD, B10 E at LECTRICITY—15 YEARS SPECIAL PRACTICE iment Noursigte, Ensomuis, ct tis, Ne ete. 5 Gvariany ‘aud Brain Diseases ©. special ta Haire ericturee permanently ‘cured. “DI NICHOLSON, Medical ElectHicias, Gos Leu st aw. ape a NEGLIGEE SHIRTS, IN FINE LIGHT-WEIGHT FLANNELS, SILK-AND-WOOL MIXED, AND OF CHEVIOTS, OF THE BEST MAKES, SIZES 14 TO 20 INCH NECK MEASURE, AND THOROUGHLY SHEUNK BEFORE MADE UP. WE HAVE A SPECIAL SHIRT AT $1.50 WHICH COMPARES FAVORAELY WITH LAST SEASON'S AUERBACH & BRO, 623 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. BATTERS. fmy15-2m) OUTFITTERS myts i pee » pUbe Auth ot owe