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A A THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1889—-TWELVE PAGES, ELEGANT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Pianos are Decorated to Suit Their Sur- roundin; UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE THE STYLES OF PIANOS—EFFECTIVE LIGHT WooDS—BEAU- ‘TIFULLY DECOBATED INSTRUMENTS—SOMETHING ABOUT FINE GUITARS, BANJOS AXD VIOLINS. The piano and the billiard table have had to concede something of their sufficiency. The Piano especially has always been a particularly srrogant article of furniture. At this moment it is overawing hundreds of thousands of homes from the Atlantic to the Gulf. It follows closely the Bible and the traditional jug of whi! in the march of civilization. It has pushed its polished surfaces to the habitable Kimits of the frontier. It is amusing in cabins where space is precious and mankind sleep three inabed to see this mounted oblong block, consuming half the room and putting to blush the admiring visitor by impertinently showing him his unshorn face in its shining aide. But when the decorative fever is abroad the piano has had to fall into line. It is not so Tuch itself as it is part of something else. And all the glitter and beautiful decoration that is lavished upon it cannot entirely hide the fact that the proud piano has suffered humiliation. But up to a certain point the piano still holds itsown. It cannot exist but under certain conditions. Asa mounted or upright rectangle or triangle with its apex knocked off its lines are clumsy and ugly. At the same time they mast be accepted. There have been various attempts to get around these. A Belgian has invented A CLAVIER HARP to take its place. This is a harp lying on its long straight line above a box of ivory keys. It is really a beautifal piece of furniture, and accepts decorations handsomely, but it is not and cannot be the good-working instrument that is the piano. There is an instance also of ® grand piano made in the last century in hich the harp-like works are upright and mounted above the key-board with the covers, opening hke wings. The effect is very fine. a piano, ornamented in the prevailing would be one of the most superb pieces of furniture that could be placed ina room, and it isa pity that some one who can afford the experiment will not allow it to be made. If sue augurate a new er: in piano: ecognizes their im practicabi nder their present shapes. The all-conquering architect is the man who has subdued the piano. Inthe beautiful musi> rooms which are a feature of the fine houses he | rescribes the outward semblance of the mova- | oles which go into it. As these rooms are light and elegant in character the whole tendency has been to refine as much as possible to the lines of the picno, to render it lighter in effect, and by decoration to call away attention from its intractable features. To thi LIGHT Woops are very generally substituted for rosewood and mahogany, except where the fitting of the end room demands dark wood. The light woods | are the lustrous satin-wood, certain varieties of maples, and in more serious cases oak. Some of the veneers are of wonderful beauty. One company has a burl, a tawny wood sug- gesting @ cross between a tiger and a tortoise- shell cat. which comes from the Caucasus, and is supposed to be a diseased French walnut. Another and more beautiful veneer is the ca- mina tion, supposed also to be a diseased growth. This has been exhausted in the cases of some of these marvelous new pianos, It is several tones darker than satm-wood, but of equal beauty of grain, and gives a relief to painted decoration that the lighter veneer does not give. re the veneer is not used in its own used. In Mrs. Whitelaw Reid’s music room the architects encased the superb grand iano in a case of white enamel traced wit lelicate lines of gilt, which is as exquisite in effect as if it was an ivory piano box. ‘The first of these DECORATED PIANOS was made for the Newport villa of Miss Catha- rine Wolf. It was overlaid with the beautiful ecamina wood and decorated with painted panels. Cecilia and Orpheus and two scenes from Milton’s Penseroso and Allegro. As it was intended to stand out in the room, the back was an elaborate composition of perfo- rated carving about a large panel containing allegorical representations of music and danc- ing. These paintings were special orders from London, and as works of art gave immense dis- tinction to the piano. The handsome piaro decorated by Mr. Alma Tadema for Mr. Marquand ater and more notable instance, but has been too frequently described to require more notice than a receil as the snpremest limit to decoration has yet gone. One of the most superb pianos yet —— has been a full grand piano for Mrs. Thomas Scott, of Philadelphia. It is en- cased in camina wood, and over the top painted as if carelessly strewn by hand, are peonies and roses. The inside is overlaid with gold, and on the under side of the cover is painted a ‘arge idyllic landscape, so that when the cover is raised the inside of the piano rivals the beauty of the decoration without. An elegant something in kind is owned by Mrs. Sydney Dillon Ripley, who was formerly Miss Ne! Chen nd the daughter of the generous art patro camina wood. The outside is festooned in painted wreaths. In front the center panel reveals three musicians seated fiddlin; eurved bench, and on each side ar containing painted nymphs. Description cannot fully render the effect without insisting on the beauty of the soft tints of rose, green and blue relieved against and in harmony with the rich mottled yellows of the camina veneer. A FAVORITE FASHION is to entwine amid all this decoration a legend, »gend is made to furnish a large part of the decoration. This is usually chosen by the owner. Col. John Hay, for example, in his Wash- ington house has a fine instrument in camina veneer, adorned with painted wreaths and rib- bons, and a Greek legend in the characters of the original, which are of themselves an unique decoration. A specimen of this kind is a baby grand riaid with gold lacquer. The sides are festooned with wreaths united by medallion portraits of the great composers. On the cover asa beautiful rendering of Corot’s “Dance of Nymphs,” and so soft it seems like an illumina- tion, Surrounding this painting is the follow- ing from Longfellow: The Great Master gave various gifts to each, charm, to strengthen and to teach. Less robust, but more musical, from Milton: Nothing couid be more resplendent than these gold lacquered pianos when mingled with these soft tints of rose, blue and green. rick Vanderbilt has one which has the further distinction of being the elegant Concert Grand that Thalberg played upon when in this country. One of the finest pianos was made for Sir Donald Smith, our neighbor in Canada. This of satin wood in Samy rivaling marble, arid in luster, satin. It is designed for an Italian room, therefore is an oblong, inlaid panel with flowing decoration of ivory, ebony and pearl. Otherwise it is carved, The sides are divided into panels. These are separated by earyatides, appearing to hold up the cover. The arma- ment of the panels is carved solidly and in high relief, and in execution is as beautifully done as it is beautiful in design. The legs of Sir Donald Smith's piano indi- cate the effort that is now made to lighten the effect of the piano. These are divided and united by an arch itself a pretty mimic archi- tectural feature. On other pianos they are divided into clusters of columns, A baby grand piano intended for Mr. Sandford is of SATIN WOOD WITH INLAID FESTOONS OF PEARL, and the legs here are small clustered columns ofebony. A still further refinement appears in a piano which is to be sent to a Mr. Sander- sou in England. The mahogany case is treated like an old Sheraton spinet, the front support being divided into three tapering legs. This is all part of a movement to which the piano has suceumbed, and greatly to its gain. As I have said the present fashion requires Pianos of light wood, or treated in harmony With the present light mode of interior deco- ration, except where the room demands differ- ent treatment. The point is the room pre- scribes the piano, 9 Constan! le, for ex- ample, ape styles prevail, The sultan of ‘Turkey @ fine upright prepared for bis use or some one of the ladies of his family. This was an ebony upright with tine ornament inlaid in gilt. Another uorig it grand is now on the point of to him for some other and more favore: constructed in the same but much more elaborat Mr. Fred ary of tyes wh W. K. Vanderbilt's steam yacht is in according! the beautiful Upright Sul ahoesag with ety plied ornament in ror illars being festooned wou. On room of i i incident of South American importa- | gold leaf lacquered and enamels are | ‘his is encased in | | | bands a far greater number o' | butter, at about t the Japanese treat their Is, and asa a rate and center panel a cloissoure jue, borders elsewhere being of inlays of ivory. LIBRARY PIANOS are very severe in style, and usually in oval. Such a one designed by Mr. Bruce Price for a Mr. Platt, of Ohio, has an oblong upper pane! of (prom carving in which the foliation and cherubs heads are equal to, and in feeling resemble old Italian carving. But this is the only ornament of the piano. One of the most remarkable pianos ever pro- duced is an upright for Mr. Norman B. Ream, of Chicago, shaped like a Turkish pagoda and evidently intended for a Turkish room. It is of satin wood, inlaid and relieved with colors. But space fails to tell of the numerous and costly instruments which have been specially designed for particular rooms. In Mrs. James ‘ood’s fine San Francisco music room the satin wood grand piano is superb, much in the same way as that of Sir Donald Smith, Italian in character, the luxurious acanthus leaf being used to mark off the recessed form of the key- board. Mr. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, one of whose habits is to buy pianos, is the owner of several of these magnificent new creations, But the piano is not the only instrument now in the decorative line. As it ng oy the imost decorative of all instruments, the harp, has not been restored to favor in private life. The harp compares well. Lovely woman is never so picturesque as Sept Jes graceful form. But to accomplish the rp is too much for the ameteur. Moreover it spoils the fingers, and the manicure would for- bid this as in the days of long nails she prohibited the piano. But in the same proposition the banjo, guitar and the mandolin are inferior. For these one need only make a pretty pretense, and nothing more readily combines into a picturesque ar- rangement than one of these stringed instru- ments placed with artful art against some drapery. The mandolin, the most musically unsatisfactory, but the most decorative in form, isin highest feather. The mandolins come from Naples, and connoisseurship has in few cases demanded anything more than its graceful but essential form. An exceptional instance isa Jersey woman, who has a $50 mandolin overlaid with tortoise shell, inlaid with pearl and her monogram in gold. The mandolin is played with r tortoise shell tooth, and, to spare the sounding board, which would otherwise be scratched through, a drugget, so to say, of tortoise shell always covers the place. This is one of the principal fields of iniay, and in the $500 instruments the design was a butterfly in myriad small bits of pearl. THE GUITAR, | so long neglected, has for the same reason re- | gained favor. With careless art it arrests the eye and makes one of those centers of atten- tion that itis now the fashion to create. More- over, with a ribbon of becoming hue, it may be strung jewel-like idly about the neck if one can strum @ little and greatly assist the human tableau. If one has fortunately a nice one, no other instrument can furnish so perfect an accompaniment. Accordingly many beautiful guitars answer to the renewed demand. Even the banjo responds in silver mountings and pearl path t is much affected by younger girls, who find it compares well with youth and good humor and gay satin ribbons. But not alone young girls. One of the most beau- tiful banjos is owned by Mr. Sylvester Hilton, for which the pegs of ivory were specially carved. The only instrument which has in fact re- sisted the temper of the times 1s the violin. There are gold-mounted bows, but decoration goes no further. What the violin amateur cov- | ets is a Guarnerius, or a Stradivarius, or, if not, a modern violin that shall look like one. The violin-makers’ prices provide for making the varnish look poor and worn in places so much extra. But the desire for decorative instru- ments cannot outstrip the violin enthusiast who keeps the precious fiddle in the dark seclusion of its box. Miss Daisy Bowman, of Brooklyn, is the fortunate possessor of a Guarnerius, Miss Helen Villard plays upon an Amati. Miss Winifred Rogers, Mra. Woodward, ex-Mayor Hewitt's daughters are all distinguished ama- teurs with precious instruments, Mr. John W. Waters, of Brooklyn, has a col- lection of old violins. Mr, Willis Norvell, of Boston, has two Strada of 1710 and 1714, costing 37,500 and $5,000 each, Mr. Thurlow Weed Barnes, of Albany, an amateur of no mean pretensions, has a Strad of 1705 costing $5,000, and a Gasper da Salo of 1612 for which he paid 4.000. ‘These are ex- ceptions, and only verify the rule that the arte in all their various forms Lave been eurolled in the service of decoration, and, as has been shown, with most interesting results, Many Gay Humpureys. ee ERS THE EARLY MOTHERS. How They Toiled to Help Family Mat- ters Prosper. From the Woman's Magazine. From whatI know of the duties and toils of women sixty-five years ago, they were en- titled to a great deal of credit, but possibly less than were their grandmothers in the earlier periods of the history of the colonies, I can well remember when the wives of the age performed a vast amount of hard work in the home and in the field, beside much in the domestic arrangements, such as bring- ing the water and wood (if not in preparing it), feeding the swine, poultry and cattle, | perhaps aiding in getting inthe hay, if a shower was imminent, particularly, Money was by no means abundant in those early times, while the fact that allof the lands and houses were not paid for rendered it necessary that the housewives should be very economical. as well as industrious, bet with their hus- hours than the agitators of the present day advocate. in the absence of this money it was neces- sary for the wife to produce something, which in the way of barter might purchase some of the necessaries of life, these being carried to the “stores,” this branch of business managed by the wife and children, the latter taking a few cags (10 cents @ dozen), a little e same price, a lot of dried apples at a corresponding price, those and sim- ilar products to be exchanged for a little mo- lasses, sugar, rice, some needles and the like; the range of what may have been called the necessaries of life being much narrower than at present. Now, the care of the fowls, the milking, care of the milk, the churning of the cream and the care of the butter and cheese, mainly devolved on the wife and children, the milking of from two to six cows, summer and winter, being no small matter. It should be remembered in this connection that modern improvements in household appliances, in churns, &c., have done much to lighten the labors of houseke: ers in contrast with those in vogue in the ear! vs. In a@ majority of instances the wife and mother was the first to vacate her bed in the morning, tie last to go to it at night, often sit- ting up late, sewing, mending, doing any kind of household work that could be doue at that late hour, while the greater part of the care of the six children devolved on her, taxing her skill and ingenuity in the’ curin, and use of “roots and herbs” to be ‘employed in this way, the doctors not being near, even if the money could have been afforded with which to pay them. These mothers were far more useful than many supposed, and are en- titled to a great deal of respect and grateful remembrance on the part of the children and grandchildren, so far as they still survive these peinstaking and self-sacrificing mothers of the olden time. ———+or-____—. FASHIONS IN FLOWERS, A Simple Blossom for the Street—Or- chids for the Corsage. From the New York Sun. There is a pretty fashion in vogue this sum- mer with ladies of wearing only the simple spring blossoms as they come in their season. It isn’t good form to wear a huge bunch of hot-house roses ig the street, but some simple cluster of lilies of the valley, pansies or daisies. A month ago almost every woman in the street wore a bunch of violets, but they have given place to the later spring beauties. Flowers are worn much less than formerly on dressy occasions, but when worn a ci hae eae mongtlntredyermgh iy & fancy. Last week it was peonies; it will be German iris; next week’ the outdo Hu SURPRISING SHANGHAI. The Interesting International Republic of the Far East. AN ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND ITS LIPR— THREE KINDS OF POLICE AND THEIR DUTIES— THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SHANGHAI—FINE GPORTS— SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHINESE CONCESSIONS. From Tw 874n's Traveling Commissioner. Truly, the stay-at-home is ignorant of many things. Who would have supposed, for in- stance, that ina journey embracing the gran- deur of the Rocky mountains, the charm of Ja- pan, the far-off life of Russian Tartary, the un- known interior of Korea, the Celestial capital, and the wall of China, the greatest surprise would be saved for the first sight of Shanghai? Yet so it was. I was writing below as we steamed up the Hwang-po river, and did not come on the deck of the Hae-an till five min- utes before we anchored. ThenI could hardly believe my eyes. I had expected another port like Tientsin or Yokohama, a busy water-front with a row of offices and warehouses, and a small town of foreign houses at the back. In- stead of that,I saw a magnificent city sur- rounding a broad and crowded river. True, the magnificence is only skin-deep, so to speak, all the architectural beauty and solidity of Shang- hai being spread out along the river, but I ara speaking only of the first sight of Shanghai, and in this respect it is superior to New York, far ahead of San Francisco, and almost as im- posing for the moment as Liverpool itself. A BROAD AND BEAUTIFULLY-KEPT BOULEVARD, called, of course, “The Bund,” runs round the river, with a row of well-grown trees and a Srass plat at the water's edge, and this bund is lined on the other side from one end to the other with mercantile buildings second to none of their kind in the world—the “hongs” of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Russell & Co., Sassoon, Gibb, Livingston & Co., Butterfield & Swire, the Hongkong and Shanghai bank, the Chartered Bank of fodia, the Chartered Mer- cantile bank, the New Oriental bank, the fine buildings of the Masonic hall and the Shanghai club, and.the only piece of Chinese architect- ure, the temple-like entrance to the customs- house. Atthe upper end of the bund a large patch of green shows the public garden, where the band plays on summer evenings. At night all Shanghai is bright with the electric light, and its telegraph poles remind you of Chicago. I believe I counted nearly a hundred wires on one pole opposite the club. And the needed touch of color is added to the scene as you look at it from on deck by the gay flags of the mail steamers and the consular bunting float- ing over the town, THE FIRST SIGHT OF SHANGHAI, however, is only its first surprise. As I was rolling away to the hotel the ‘rickshaw coolie turned on to the right-hand side of the road. Instantly a familiar figure stepped off the side- walk and shook a warning finger, and the coolie swung back again tothe left side. It was a Ss no semi-Europeanized Mongolian, languidly performing a half-understood duty, as I had seen elsewhere, but the genuine home article, helmet, blue suit. silver buttons, regu- lation boots, truncheon and all—just “bobby.” And his uplifted finger turns the traffic to the left in Shanghai precisely as it does in front of the Mansion house at home. A hundred yards farther on there was a flash oi scarict in the sun and there stood a second astomshin, figure—a 6-foot copper-colored Sikh, toppe: by a huge red turban, and clad also in blue and armed with the same truncheon, striding sol- emuly by on his beat, CHINESE POLICE. Then we pass the Chinese policeman, with his little saucer hat of red bamboo and his white gaiters, swinging a diminutive, stuff, a re- duced and rather comical replica of his big English and Indian comrades, Then as we cross the bridge into the French Concession—I am on my way to the French hotel—here is positively the sergeant de ville, absolutely the same as you see him in the Place de ‘IOpera— peaked cap, waxed moustache, baggy red trousers, saber and revolver. And beyond him again is the Frenchitied Chinese policeman. In fact, Shanghai is guarded municipally by no fewer than six distinct species of policemen— English, Sikh, Anglo-Chinese, French, Franco- Chinese, and the long-legged mounted Sikhs on sturdy white ponies who clank their long swords around the outskirts of the town, and carry ter- ror into the turbulent Chinese quarters, MODERN SHANGHAL is divided, like ancient Gaul, into three parts: The English settlement, the American settle- ment, called Hongkew, and the French *‘Con- cession.” ‘The latter is the word used by the French themselves, I believe without much to justify it. Three creeks divide these commu- nities from each other, Yang-Kingpang, Soo- chow creek, and Defence creek, between the English settlement and China, One wide thor- oughfare, called ‘the Maloo,” runs through Shanghai out past the race’ course and the horse bazaar into the country, and along this in the afternoon there is a ‘stream of ponies and smart carriages and pedestrians and even bicyclists. It is the Rotten Row of Shanghai, leading to the Bubbling Well, and Jeasheld, and to the one country drive the community possesses. But in truth there is not much “country” about it, the environs of Shanghai being flat and ugly and covered with grave mounds as thickly as the battlefields round Gravelotte. THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. Shanghai dubbed itself long ago the “Model Settlement.” Then a noble English globe trotter came along and afterward described it in the house of lords as “‘a sink of corruption.” Thereupon a very witty consul suggested that in future it should be known as the ‘Model Sink.” For my own part I should not grudge it the first title. for it is one of the best gov- erned places municipally, at any rate so far as the Anglo-American quarters are concerned, that I have everknown. The French live apart under their own municipal council, presided over and even dismissed at pleasure, by their own consul. The English and Americans coalesce in an elected municipal council of ni mem- bers, with an elected chairman at itshead And ashort stay in Shanghai is sufficient to show how satisfactorily this works. The roads are erfect, the traffic is kept under admirable jirection and control, the streets are quiet and orderly, and even the coolies are forbidden to push their great wheelbarrows ae the for- eign settlement with ungreased whee! A COMMUNITY OF NATIONS. The third surprise of Shanghai does not dawn upon you immediately. It is a republic—a community of nations, self-governed and prac- tically independent, for it snaps its fingers po- litely at the Chinese authorities or discusses any matter with them upon equal terms, and it does not hesitate to differ pointedly in opinion from its own consuls when it regards their ac- tion as unwise or their interference as unwar- ranted. Over the Chinese within its borders the municipal council has no jurisdiction, In the ““Maloo” there is a magistrate’s Yamen, and there the famous “mixed court” sits every morning, the Chinese magistrate and one of the foreign consuls in turn. All natives charged with offenses — foreigners or foreign law are dealt with there, petty criminals being pun- ished in the municipal prison or the chain- gang, serious offenders or refugees from Chi- nese law being sent into the native city. The Chinese magistrate in the mixed court is, of course, a figure-head, chiefly useful, so far as I could see, in lecturing the | geste while the foreigner made up his mind what punishment toaward, In criminal cases the mixed court works fairly well, but in civil suits it gives rise to numerous and bitter complaints. THE POPULATION of Shanghai to-day (the last census was in 1885) is probably about 4,000 foreigners—British 1,500, Japanese 600, Portu; 450, French 400, American 300, Spanish 260, ¢ German 250—and Chinese 175,000. These figures may be con- siderably under the mark. It is c that by the ‘Land Regulations,” which form the constitution of erg ae the Chinese are for- bidden to reside or hold pro; ty within the foreign settlements, and here are these 175,000 of them afloat and ashore, and I oa hai itself would be astounded if it coul be told exactly what (oie gtr oa of the whole rty is in their han There been a food deal of talk about this, and in feply = Cassandra who wr: 8 rs noth- ing could save Shanghai Bat “imalgamation with the Chinese, a | writer produced some witty verses, telling how in a vision in the twentieth century— the 4 wed a 11 's office, ee wan Raglink quariermester Spe cea: The nk armani ld he Tae gers ‘Yellow from to heel.” of course, composed of volunteer infantry, 159 strong; artillery, with 4 guns and 45 men; and & smart but diminutive troop of 88 light horse. It has aleo volunteer fire-brigades and no fewer China, and le it may be the case to-day for all majority of those serving the are non- tish subjects, But thie is oni for the joke's sake. The volunteers get great praise from the official each year they may be called upon to protect British lives and erty at any moment. So the war office dida wise thing after all, only now America in her turn \d send them a Maxim gun. THR SOCIAL LIFE OF SHANGHAI is the natural outgrowth of its republican insti- tutions. It is democratic and characterized by & tolerant good fellowship. Upon this point a well-known lady was kind enough to set me right. “In Shanghai,” she explained. “every- body is baw In Hongkong everybody is not equal, ere are those of us who call at gov- ernment house and those who do not.” After 80 de Ee toes it was impossible to err. Society lives in its shirt sprites peg speaking, of course, for actually it an é tremely well-dressed community. All mal Shanghai meets in the club—one of the most comfortable and complete in the world—before tiffin and before dinner, to exchange news, make up dinner parties, and do business—all three with equal zest. And the bar there is as long as a ship's deck, cock- tails only cost four cents apiece, and you can ask for the daily Pall Mall Gazette known by their nick the Legal Brother” and “The Boy” and ‘“Buggins,” and many others can remember the time when they were familiary called by the names of the mothers that bore them. And the hospitality of Shang- hai is another surprise. You might as well at- tempt to give your shadow the slip as to escay from the gratuitous good cheer of the Model Settlement. But although the hospitality of Shanghai has ‘bs fo feet and the “penguin- juice” of one of its tables (a wonderful Bur- indy which flows from the vitals of a won- erful crystal ven is known throughout the length and breadth of the China seas, it has other ideals ahd cherishes at least a few sacred memories, for did not someone there tell me witha blush of pride how Mazzini had once kissed him, FINE SPORTS. And as for sport, on the whole Shanghai is ahead of the east. It has its charming country club, its races twice a year, its regatta, when the Chinese authorities stop all the native traffic on the river, its polo, its two cricket clubs, its base ball and its shooting parties in house-boats up the Yangtsze to the hills 20 miles away. And on Saturday afternoons if you walk out to the Bubbling Well about 4 o'clock you can see the finish of the paper hunt and a dozen well-mounted and scrupulous!; dressed jockeys come riding in to the finish ani taking a rather bad fence and ditch which has been carefully prepared with the object of re- ceiving half of them in the sight of their fair friends. Finally, there are the hounds and their excellent master, “the Prophet.” And what matter if a slanderous tradition fret their fair fame, to the effect that once upon a time, discarding the deceptive anniseed-bag, a fox was imported from Japan, and that the end of that hunting-day was that one-half the pack ran into an unlucky chow-dog and broke him up. and the other half chased a Chinese boy for his life, while the master stood upon a grave- mound winding his horn to a deserted land- scape. COMMERCIAL SHANGHAT. Commercially, Shanghai is not quite so pros- Perous as it wasa few years ago. At least it complains of hard times. German competi- tion, Chinese competition, the great falling off in the China tea trade, even the detention of shipping on the bar at Woosung—all these are freely spoken of as contributing to the general dullness of trade, but as Shanghai still does nearly sixty-two per cent of the import trade of ali the treaty ports, and thirty- nine per cent of the export trade, she rests upon avery solid commercial basis and ought to be able to regard the future with equanimity. The commercial matter which I was specially instructed to investigate at Shang- hai had aroused, I found, vastly less interest in the far east than at home. I mean the Barker- Mitzkiewicz concessions for an American- Chinese bank, the telephone, asystem of rail- ways, &e., &c. The Akenghat ‘correspondent of the Standard, a clever young Irishman named Mr. O'Shea of the reporting staff of the influ- ential North-China Daily News, managed to keep us all at home talking and writing of this vast scheme for several months, but I fancy he himself would now be among the first to de- clare that his native enthusiasm and apprecia- tion of the picturesque led him to excite us all rather unnecessarily about it. The shares of the Hongkong and Shanghai bank fell consid- erably, 1am told, at the time, but this was propebiy only in the ordinary course of specu- lation in them, CONCESSIONS, To begin with, the Concessions” were re- garded here as of little value, if of any at all; everybody reflected that English capitalists could lend money just as cheaply as Americans; the well-informed knew that the Chinese are much too wary and suspicious to give anybody @ big blank cheque in the way of elastic “‘con- cessions;” they remembered that Americans have had comparatively very little experience of financial dealings with this peculiar people, among whom “old custom” is paramount; 80 that the wisest onlookers here kept perfectly calm and advised everybody to let the new scheme have all the rope it desired. And this advice was so far good that, although the state- ment was authoritatively made to me at Tien- Tsin that the undertaking was about to be re- vived ona simpler scale with the addition of London capital, you never hear the subject mentioned here, and the only proof of its brief existence is a brass plate among @ number of others inaside street in Shanghai, inscribed “The American and Oriental Trust, Wharton Barker, President.” Nobody connected with the enterprise has come out so far any the bet- ter in reputation, and his excellency, Li Hung Chang, is probably the only one who has emerged the better in pocket. Hexry Norman. ———+o+—______ MODERN MONUMENTS. Different from the Unpretending Grave- yards of our Ancestors. From the Boston Transeript. The tale told by the great staring, pretentious and hideous monuments which are to be found in all our large cemeteries is a pitiable one, Their prevailing bad taste is quite absent from the quiet, simple, unpretending graveyards of our forefathers, They had no thought, cer- tainly, when they took their dead to the grave, of making a display there. On the contrary, they proposed, as Whittier says— “That he might read who ran, ‘The emptiness of human pride, The nothingness of man.” Nevertheless ‘their love was deep as ours, and, though Whittier does not say it, their taste in gravestones was much better. They marked the graves with stones which were to endure as long as the remembrance of the dead lasted, and some of them to endure much longer. The deaths-heads with which th embellished the gravestones were not cheerful, a ey ies much aoe tecatane than me majority © supposed decorations upon the monuments of to-dn . These early gravestones served their purpose until, with the advent of the mone: or of splay of the present cen- tury, the love of lay invaded everything. Our old soft-colored, #) oy stones were nolonger ali enough for a generation whose high- Something showier wes required. aad notes ething showier was and no! but white marble would aot And there came a point where the sim- ple white shaft no longer served the purpose of mortuary display. Smith, who made a mil- lion dollars in dry goods, had had his monu- ment decorated with carved angel, was Brown, who made a million and a half in leather, to let him surpass ev ‘ing else in the cemetery in magnificence? Not at all. Brown funy an incompetent stonecutter to carve him two much bigger angels on his mon- ument, each of which seems better calculated than the other to discourage discrimina’ MAKING MEN FAMOUS. How the Characteristics of Men in Public Life are Advertised. From the New York Star. It is the newspaper that makes our great men. It is the newspaper that scans hotel reg- isters, sets observers in hotel ro- tundas. It is the newspaper that makes the name of Col. Slapdash, of Toxas, well known in Boston, and the name of Judge Goodboy, of New York, like unto a household word in the states of the Mississippi valley or the Pacific coast, Washington is the center of gossip. In other places gossip is an amusement; ere it is a business,writes a correspondent. And it is here the methods, trends and influence of the national characteristic of gossiping are best studied. Here is it seen as on a housetop how p makes a for his personal public man more widely known ts or eccentricities than for his genius or statesmanship; how gossip gives fame, or, at least, its common equivalent, notoriety, to men who hay e no other claim thereto; how reputations are manufactured out of trivial incidents and names are sent thun- dering down the ages with nothing but incon- sequential idiosyncracies to propel them. re is Kentucky's favorite son, Senator Blackburn, surel better known for 4 famous man. Yet he is is bonhomie, his breeziness, and as “Joe” than for his eloquence or states- manship, great as these are. Tad’ Bowen If ex-Senator not been a poker player it is doubt- fal if his name would have been spread famil- iarly to all parts of the country. and his former colleague, Tabor, is to this lay better known for his $200 night-shirt than for his millions and his business abilit; Senator Davis, of tation by the beauty of h Minnesota; though a bril- liant man, has been helped to eneral repu- is wife. Even as great and learned a man as Senator Evarts would never have become common people as he has about the interminably long as familiar to the but for the joke sentences and the popular notion that his hat was left in the ark by ‘oah, A good deal of a sta’ Hiscock, but his personal beaut: his name further than his tesman is Senator has carried could have abi done, had it been twice as great. The fact that Senator Gorman was once a page in the Senaté and afterward a ball player has con- tributed much to the ease which his name has becom and rapidity with eas familiar as a household word. Senator Ingalls is more fa- mous for his invective than for his statesman- and eloquence. shi Minister Palmer is known as. the man who gives such enjoyable dinners and tells so many good stories, x-Senator Riddlebarger has be- come famous for his eccentricities. Senator Sawyer is noted for his corpulency and good humor. John Sherman, his alleged Even in a really great statesman like characteristic of frigidity of manner is the first thing that comes to mind when his name is not heard of Martin, of Texas? spoken, Who has His name is known from Maine’ to Oregon because the newspapers have told stories of his _peculiari- ties, some of them apocryp! hal. When asked recently how to win fame, Martin replied: “Blow out the gas.” are A FEW POINTS OF ETIQUETTE. Advice Easy to Remember and Practice in an Emergency. From the Rochester Union. In the mad whirl of the cotillon, if you wear ready-made clothing bought from an irrespon- sible dealer, and hear a b-z-z-t that don’t har- monize with the F string on the bass fiddle, it is entirely correct and proper to not “forward and back” according to the commands of the figure-caller, but to back straight ahead with- out balking until you reach the wall, when a pin neatly utilized may cover your embarrass- ment and retreat. People who snicker under such circumstances should be put outside the pale of good society. When invited out to dinner and you inadver- tently get a huge mouthful of mince pie that is hot enough to melt the solder off a gas pipe, tangled up in your epiglottis, do not act as if you had the whoopit cough, but arise calmly and with a sleight-of-hand movement toss the you thought him alive. ding morsel behind the majolica dog in the meantime patting his head as though This graceful act never fails to win the heart of your hostess, who thinks you intend her faithful friend to par- take of the festivities, Some writer on etiquette. a good many years ago, said that it was perfec rial off a bolt of etly fried chicken with the fingers noticed people seize on a win like they would tear a yard o} proper, to cat have often and rip it open clothing mate- ico and so the cracking of the crazy bone was audible all over the diuing- room, quire heroic treatment, but tis true thatsome fried chickens re- when an appren- Hica in etiquette tries to jerk the goose-flesh off the secon joint of a Louis XIV hen and squirts a streak of gravy into the eye of his neighbor it does seem that a new code manner of shattering the r regarding the best emains of a hard- boiled fowl should be introduced, When the sheriff of the county serves a sub- pena on you, it is considered in good tast attend his reception without on his part, Some stichlers ever, who find that it will to further invita on politenes, how- prevent their wit- nessing a ball game, go to the extreme of send- ing around a physician's certificate to the effect that they are indisposed from the influence of the sportive elements. Don’t use snuff if your false teeth are not strictly adhesive. Tonce heard of a case in which this rule was not observed, when the transgressor, ina thoughtless moment, nearly knocked the eye out of a King Charles epaniel. twenty-tive-dollar No one buta boor will snore in the Volapuk language in a church where delivered in English. a sermon is being Observance of the har- monies is one of the greatest traits of the true gentleman, People who have enlarged, Ro- manesque nasal cords will be interested in an invention which a friend of mine is getting up, which he calls the ‘‘Sure Snore-Killer,” Itisa phonetic arrangement connected with a pillow- sham holder, and when the four lines below the clef. air vibrations are to use a musical term, the holder drops and hits the sleeper across the bridge of the nose. Four caveats and a number of legal retainers have already been filed. Don't play practical Jokes whose tail is done up lil on a spitz dog e the letter Q. When you order meat from your butcher don’t ever use the term ‘limb of mutton.” will think that In all cases of doubt about He ‘ou never intend paying for it. the minor points nette a strong bluff on a weak hand will of wre almost alw: ————+o<0e—_____ “Courage Stands Erect From the Peoria Journal. Bob Ingersoll is fully able and Thinks.” to take care of himeelf in a controversy, even when it becomes personal and acrimonious, but he and his friends will appreciate a good point, even when it is made against himself, So we give this, which is part of a sermon preached son, of Sioux Falls, in Cedar day: “A leading talker—I will not sa! —of the day has said, ‘Fear ona prays; courage stands e¢: by Rev. Robert- Rapids last Sun- thinker falls to the earth rect and thinks,’ is marvelous rhetoric, but let us take an illustration: We have just been celebrating the centennial of nine leet inauguration. Let us go back a hundre: ing on; fierce war is Being blast . Isee the continental blothea and hun; Task for the comman A struggle is go- waged. It is wis ter, and I am at Valley Forge. of the winter, the breath of the storm I feel the chill soldiery but half for want of food; rt of the armies of the little nation strug; ing for freedom. He is not at his headquarten? he among the officers? Ido not find him there. He must be down talking with the privates—but I do not find him there. He is not at the picket line. But — I hear a voice in 101 the forest alone. Be- id, ® man prays. af ma that the great tly, and a dee; soul. It is Geo. ies. ‘Fear fe e universe will give to the American arms. He prays fer- soon his » Jeader of the ” Was Geo. Washington a coward? Did Uren show aa act of cowardice in his long career? jople from seeking the company of suc! 4] istory the years into th Be And =} the els there is peak ena arure .o:eebeey later I on wh’s monument a lot of miscella-| see another con! Another warfare is upon neous decorative of f the land. This leading talker has enlisted and design, Both Smith and Brown have their imi-| has been made s colonel. A battle engages tators by the score; and the result isa him and he is captured and soon ex- ioe ‘stand apie the forehead tar person ne “¢ NSourege sande wea 4 < neal ef of cultivation who passes through a modern erect and hi . a the ae Against all this offense against the | geld. Home is mote peaceful and delightful le have resolutely set them- than the pursuits of war. He stands erect and selves, in the ‘regula for A Ss surrenders his which wa Boirieg teeny a he en and goes home. Which picture, cellent example. tl ee standing 23 Ferd think of ‘Courage erect and Cause and Eftect. Nt S iy cee From the Philadelphis Inquirer. Another Transition. = : to cbange," aid the Judge ” gone s Smith—“So am I, Jones; but it's not his oc (Pew Pagv cheba ” ‘ mean across Smith—“‘He’s ‘written « book on ‘How | moans things float to Look Neat,’” ° whieh fevuld sa” MADE FAT IN FIVE MINUTES. RAILROADS, —_ : — Av Amusing Pantomime Trick Never Barrmvon: Axp Omo R TLROAD. Before Explained. cbaiefe in effect MAY 13, 158. ‘From the New York World. avenue aud C street. Northwest, Vestibuled Limited ex- xpress @ p.m. St Louis, aud Indianapolis, expres@ enfly. 3 Dand 11:15pm. or Pittabure and Cleveland, Vestibuled Limited ex- Press daily 11-20 am. and express & 40 For Wheeling, Parkersturg and pri on main line, express daily eacept Mo: am. Yor Lexington and Local Stations $10.30... m. Baltimore, week days, 4:00, 5. » 4d minutes! One of the most amusing and astonishing of pantomime tricks ever originated was that of the fat man, which was done by the Ravels, One of the actors in the pantomime sits ata table and ravenously eats dish after dish of food that a servant brings to him. Presently the man who, like most ravenous eaters, was rather thin and scrawny, begins to grow plamp. His clothes fit him snugly. His waistcoat steadily swells out under the very eyes of the audience, Allthe while he is eating like a sansage ma- chine. Ina few moments he has grown to bea giant, eight or nine feet tall and with the pro- Portions of an inflated balloon. The sight always brought forth roars of laughter. It is comparatively easy to produce it after you know how. The f eaten is all “property food.” made of tissue paper, that the actor chews up into little balls and takes out of his mouth whenever occasion offers. His clothes are all of rubber and made to fit air tight around the wrists and neck. In sitting down he puts the heel of one boot over a little trap in the stage. An assistant below immedi- ately couples a tube running from a bellows to a hole in the boot-heel. Then he blows him up. It must be a rather unpleasant sensation to the Prese daily T1 For Cisvinnats, ‘ay Stations between Washington 5:00, 6:40. 8:20, &, m., 0, m. Sundays, 8:30am. i:1 $2525 is 1 43 mitnutes), 4:15 45,8 00, 10.05, 10°20 0715, RS 15, 1020 2, 10 Gand ninntes 0, 10 an Branch, +6:43, al stations ouly; actor to feel that he is nothing more than a | ™,:*1 > wind-bag; but actors are made to suffer. By the | 9)/°5Roxd's and intern 17:00pm, time that the suit has grown so big that the in- | “Church train leaves Washineton om Sunday at 11% habitant has to have a lantern to move around | P-@. Pets 8 Metropolitan Branch, 120-30 am, 13-00 30 in it the wind supply is cut off and the boot- heel plugged up. ‘Then, by an ingenious ar- rangement of springs under the actor's feet, the height is acquired, ‘There is a beautiful chance in this trick for some practical joke-loving property-man to blow in gas that would hit the unfortunate actor off his feet and send him sailing about over the heads of the audience. he smashed clown,” is another well-known trick of former years that has never been ex- ‘or Hagerstows Trains arrive 4.05 pm Bt Louis da me 7:10 PHILADELPHIA DIVISION te vk Fligabe:t end open at does" pat Plignbeth Iphia, Newark, Wil plained, A big’millstone falls on 8 clown, and 0 0 TE OG 8 when itis lifted up the clown is picked u a flattened out os thin asa pancake. He is im cians hoints, Petwnen, Taltimore and sensible and is placed on a table; another actor |, Traitm New Washington, *8 places the nozzle of a bellows in his mouth and | {1} 00 | 30, *2 30, *3:15, *5:00 pm. gradually inflates him to his normal size, when | ‘Trains feave Pilndelphia for Washineton the clown jumps off the table and is himself 11:10 am, 1183, "4 1S, : again. The trick requires deft work and_consider- able machinery. The millstone is hollow, of course. and has a spring trap in the bottom, #0 that when it falls it takes the clown into it." At the same time a trap in the stage opens and lets him down, The dummy clown, all flattened out, is placed on the trap and it is sprung back to its place under the millstone. The actor tie City "4.00 Lon Branch and O tExcept Sund SCULL, Ge ODELL, General Manager.” ae i == PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE meanwhile lays himself out at length on TO THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST. another trap that rises up above the stage to | sTLME HATS Magnthice ee a Ee the top of the table where the dummy is IN EFFRCT MAY 121K, ISNY. nj placed. Only the outline of the clown’s body 8 WASHINGTON, FROM STATION, 1s exposed above the table. The dummy drops OF SIXTH AND B STREETS, AS BOL- down on another trap behind it, and as it goes the body of the real clown is slowly raised above the table to give the effect of being filled out by the bellows. Another trick is that of a big man standing up in a nonchalant sort of way, while another man dives head first through his A Express iy: Past imtte 000 mtd St. Laois, to Cincinnati, Sat aug Car Ali 40 p.m. daily, wit stomach. This trifling with the calm re- “aily, pose of his dinner so annoys the big man} fiat. arg te that he promptly turns into. steamboat and | _ < puffs out his disgust in clouds of smoke, andaigua, Rochester and Niagara Falla 1 Sunday. 8:10 a.m IMORE AND POTOMAC RAILR daizua and Kochester It would be almost impossible to make any one but a stage mechanic understand the com- plicated workings of the trick. A trick back- net is used, so that when the little man dives through him the big man can be lifted up hori- zontally to the rear, so that his clothes and his head remain in the same position and to the faloand Ni m., with Slee ns audience he seems not to have moved. a a0 As soun as he begins to be a steamboat he is ay hn a 7] jerked out of sight through the back scene, and} (xt? day ee re the steamboat comes up in sections to a ‘trap vcpret OR PHILADELPHIA ONLY. inside his clothes, falls over them and pulls out | F##) Tarren 6-10 a.m, week days, aud 8:10 mm, like a telescope until it becomes a river steamer | daily. iieacieneRe ee with its decks full of people. who are shot up | For Boston, withow PD. m. every day, to their places by spring traps. The smoke fs | ¥0#,Brooklyr ny ye A easily brought by a pipe from under the i avoiding stage. 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