Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1889, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, FOR PLEAS AND HEALTH. The Beautiful Warm Springs Valley and Its Contents. AN EXTENSIVE RAILROAD PROJECT To BUY UP ‘THE SPRINGS AND MODERNIZE THEM—THE DIF- FERENT BATHS AND HOW THEY ARE TAKEN— POPULAR BATHING SUITS FOR THE LADIES. Correspondence of Tux EVENING Stan, Warm Scupuur Sprixas, Baru County, Vimorsza, July 5, 1889, The pleasant valley of the Warm Springs morfatain is violently excited over a matter that profoundly affects its future well being and service in the world. So general is the agitation that prevails in the well-watered region of imposing mountain scenery that every hot, warm, and tepid puddle is stirred to its mineralized depths by the commotion unduly animating these good people. A live business project has crossed the notch and its proposals have changed all the face of nature in prospective for the residents of this region. The period in its history has come that ushers in its grand opportunity for assured brilliant achievements. Places as well as persons have their crises. Will this occasion be or not be wisely improved is the popular local conun- drum? It is three weeks since the capitalist made his bi-annual descent upon this 8-mile-in-extent medicated region of his desire. His party con- sists of ladies and men come to spy out the beautiful land and to test the gastronomic ta sibilities of the cuisines of the mountain hos- telries. The comprehensive proposition of thi amiable magnate, who hails from Cincinnati, is to connect the valley with the world beyond the Alleghenies by a railroad, buy up the * “hot” and “healing” springs properties (as | they are locally abbreviated) and develop the therapeutical - possibilities the waters, fit up the hotels with all the luxurious modern appliances and then invite the world in to be cured of their ailments, delighted with the prospects and strengthened and refreshed in the mountain air. No more sailing to Europe for her Carlsbad, Pfeffers, Wildbad, Plombieres and other waters when this region is once opened to the public. Not that, in ail likeli- hood, people will be any more benefited or more comfortable under the proposed new regime than under the present managements, but more people will be benefited because of increased accommodations for an increased number of guests and the increased facilities of travel that will bring the valley into the regu- lar highway. ONE OF THE PRIME CHARMS of the place is its old-time style of life in many ways, a style that is totally incompatible with any other but stage coach travel. The ro- mantic tourist can never superinduce the same ere the guests congregate in the mornin, sunshine. The hotel ie story frame building with a family resemblance to the Grand ae at Saratoga Springs. ge feet room, that has been decorated in the Queen Anne style, accommodates 30 This year the centennial annive: of the hot springs being utilized for a health resort will be celebrated. The first hostelry was a log cabin. A new thr brick buifding, 1 feet long by 60 feet, has been recently added to the group. It contains suites of rooms and a large ball room. THE BATH HOUSES are a series of extensive structures in which there is separate pool and dressing-room for each bather. Each apartment is provided with a bed and blankets, and many patients are packed in blankets for the sweating process after the bath. The water maintains an un- varying temperature in natural earth-heated mineral water; it sparkles with gases and holds in solution the potent chemicals whose com- bination works the cure of a vast range of dis- eases, The boiler baths are applied by springs that issue from the earth at a temperature of 110 degrees. The sulphur baths are supplied from a bold spring of 102 degrees temperature. ‘The hot spout baths have, in addition to the pools of immersion, an arrangement by which continuous column of water. at a tempera- ture of 106 degrees, may be directed at the will of the bather to any part of the body. It is most exhilarating as a pleasure bath. The swimming bath is octagon in shape. The water, highly charged with . bursts to the face in thousands of bubbles. The bath is 25 feet in diameter, and the water is very buoyant and 100 degrees in temperature. THE LADIES’ BEAUTY BATH is the “ladies’ own” by general consent, It is supplied from the magnesia spring. The tem- Perature is 86 degrees, and it bears a close re- semblance to the German Spa Schlangenbed that is celebrated all over Europe for its cos- metic pr perties. Very fine particles of a white cualky substance adhere to the skin in this bath, and give to the body the sensation of having been annointed with some delightful ointment. In the mineral mud baths the “mud” is put through a process that takes two fore to perfect. It is heated and finally sifted fore using and is more like a finely-grained soda or flour than mud. Among the well- known public men who have sojourned at the Hot have been Secretary Manning, Mr. Wm. C, Whitney, ex-Secretary; Judge David Davis. Mr. Roscoe Conkling, Justice Fields and Sena- tor Ingalla, The third series of springs in this group are the Healing Springs, located in a beautiful grove 3 miles from the Hot Springs. The sup- ply of water is derived from four springs of essentially the same character. It is beauti- fully bright and crystalline, and its peculiar roperty is the healing of cutaneous ases, i is tepid in temperature, being 85° haa the rare power of softening and bi oetic delusions in a place at which he arrives in all the flurry and bustle of a steam car that he can evolve when he is set down pleasantly bruised from a long wagon ride. Fashion-rid- | den people love to escape for a season to the | simpler modes of life and surroundings. Be sure that with the laying of the railroad here | the modern accessories of the spas will soon | follow in its shining wake, and horse racing, gambling, electric lights, summer opera troupes. the professional elocutionist, and the | base ball games and the daily paper will soon | change this Eden quiet and retirement into the pandemonium of every-day life elsewhere, and | men will sigh for the good old sleepy time that has departed from the mountain forever. RAILROAD PROJECTS. As intimated above railroad projects are not novelties to the people of the valley. Several routes have been chosen and several surveys | made in past years, and the tidy surveyors with theodolites, field glasses, chains, poles, and all the paraphernalia of a civil engineering outfit are familiar figures hereabout. Railroaders’ | talk has been freely passed about, and the na- | tives are posted in the technical advantages of | zig-zag, crooked, single-track roads over dou- ble track, nickel-plated direct lines as laid | down by their respective partisans. They know ali about steep, low and easy grades, and terminal points, and the village blacksmith is high authority upon the original cost of the rolling stock and the yearly sustaining expense | thereof for the whole road. Heretofore these quiet proprietors of conservative tastes have given no encouragement to the railroad busi- ness. To all enthusiastic schemes they have presented impervious fronts of total indifference. “They might build their railroads if they chose, they did not want a rail- road with its excitements and blackguardism. They preferred to live as they were.” and so on. The new company presents a bold front. Like the Nevada miner with the Italian count and his castle, they propose to buy the whole Property and run the entire valley on a grand seale never dreamed about hi The landed proprietors cannot decide to accept nor to re- fuse so brilliant an offer in a day. So the pro- moter has gone back to Cincinnati to give them thirty days to think it over, and he has the sole option of the purchase for that space. I THE SPRINC | of this eight-mile section of valley are various | in degrees of heat, as the names testify, the “hot,” “warm,” and “tepid” or “healing,” and | also in mineral properties. Each place is! a full-fledged watering resort of many years’ standing, and the nearest one to the railroad is | the warm, fifteen miles from Millboro’, the | nearest railway station. The modes of bathing at each place are also diverse. At the Warm Springs the buildings are conveniently situated in the spacious grounds of the hotel that lie | upon the gentle slope of a secondary mountain. ‘The men’s bath is an octagon, 40 feet in diame- ter and 120 feet in circumference. Attached to | the big plunge bath are douche and spont | baths, cold water, plunge and shower baths, | and an engine has been introduced that en- | ables the attendant to give a hot spout bath as | hot as 120 degrees F. The sirens’ retreat is a | circular bath, 50 feetin diameter and 150 in | circumference. The building is two storie: high and the vaulted roof has a circular open- ing, through which the birds fly in and out, and | build on the rafters inside. Around the pool | runs a narrow platform, and opening from it | are twenty dressing rooms and several private | baths. A tidy bath maid isim constant at- | tendance. AMONG THE MERMAIDS, | Bathing suits may be purchased here, but | the regulation costume is so simple that the | style is not adopted by all the bathers, Flan- nel is entirely too weighty for the water. The suit furnished at the bath is made of cotton or calico, and is a sleeveless, decolette trunk, very | scant in cut and having briefest legs. No! hosiery is ever worn. But all sorts of combi- nation muslin underwear may be seen upon bathers immersed in the opaline waters, and lace-trimmed things and night-dresses are worn and the old-time iow-necked floating che- mise is much in vogue as a bathing-dress in the warm sulpburspring. The water. which is five feet deep in the pool. is clear and sparkling, and the temperature, 96°, is most luxurious. The bath is taken in the living spring, and the gas- bubbles break against the skin as they rise with the spray from the . A curious Property of the water is that all figures looked | at when under its surface show ridicu-| lously fore-shortened. like _reflections | seem in convex polished metal vessels, So dense is the water that the entire weight can be supported upon the hands on the rope, and one can cross the pool without touching bot- | tom with the feet. Miss Hopkins, daughter of | the resident physician here, performs some | wonderful aquatic feats, She is an accom-| plished mermaid. She swims, floats on the | surface and swims on her back midway to the | bottom, and she also moves through the water | with her body in a horizontal position, her | head and bust well out of the water.’ The water is perfectly pellucid save for the strong refraction, so that ladies go into it wearing dia- i monds and other jeweiry, as nothing can be | lost im the pool. Every other day the water is | drawn off from the bottom and the stones serubbed, and it is constantly passing off: by | overflow. On leaving the water the bathing dress weighs upon one like a shirtof mail. The | main drinking spring is near the bathing pa- vilions, and the constant flow from all taese springs is a powerful stream of six thousand lions every minute, with force enough to ive @ powerful wheel, THE HOT SPRIXGS Property is distant from the warm springs 5 miles, over a gently undulating turnpike road which conducts the traveler past pleasant homes imbedded in foliage and flowers. The stony slopes of the low hills are covered with sheep, whose twinkling bells enliven the way. Some of the fields are inclosed with “dry stane dykes,” as the Scotch call them, and they very jue, and ox-eyed daisies ure as ysuckle of cottages quite fram sight, houses and t ts The tal gat are prety rm wo cen’ | is enjoying the admiration of all the gentlemen. | Springs are Judge and Mrs. C. C. Nott, Major ing the skin, rendering the complexion pecu- iarly clear and transparent, and gives to the cheek a new tint. The bath rooms are fitted with tubs like those of the ordinary city house bath room, and into these the water is con- veyed by pipes. Afew years ago the main buildings of the large hotel were burned down, and of late years it is run with a diminution of its former spacious accommodations, but there | are many cottages. The stately trees stand in the most beautiful park in the country. It is divided by adeep ravine, across which is thrown a light trestle bridge. Iw the early part of the year a long tendriled moss grows in these | springs which, applied to affected parts, is re- garded as most effective in allaying inflamma- tion. Back of the grounds rises the great North mountain, and standing boldly forth from its perpendicular side, like a gigantic or- nament for the Healing Springs park, isa huge boulder that is called the “LION'S HEAD” and resembles strikingly the face of the king of beasts, Beneath it ia another great rock that serves for a pedestal, A Baltimore belle who arrived at the Warm Springs this week made the 15-mile trip over the mountains on horseback. It is considered a remarkable feat of horsemanship. and the young equestrienne Among other recent arrivals at the Warm and Mrs. J. M. Brown, Mr, H. E. Davis, and Mr. Jas. Galt Davis, Mr. Christian G. Lederer | and Miss Harriett Doolittle of Washington, and there are many guests from Baltimore, Rich- mond and other citie: po THE PRESIDENT’S COTTAGE. How Mrs. Hafrison and the Children are Located for the Summer. Correspondence of Tux EVENING STAR. Deer Park, Mp., July 5, 1889. A stranger at Deer Park and the lover of the sublime in mountain scenery cannot but feel the inspiration of the place and its surround- ings. The hotel, a long verandaed structure, but a few hundred feet away from the iron highway, which brings it within easy commu- nication from the sweltering centers of popula- tion and trade, not only affords the health- giving advantages of pure air at an elevation of 2,500 feet, but takes in a sweep of vision which presents a prospect of unequaled mag- nificence. The natural attractions of this popular moun- tain resort during the present season is supple- mented by the presence of the family of the President of the United States and the flying visits of the Chief Magistrate himself. In a little Queen Anne cottage near the hotel on the left Mrs. Harrison dwells in all the comfort and simplicity of an ordinary citizen of the re- public. No tread of martial sentry, no trap- pings of royal state invest the artistic structure with the pageantry and parade of power. happy household, as accessible as the circle of any other family, dwelis there in summer in- formaily and affords an example of domestic comfort unmarred by the conventionalities of official decorum or the restraints of studied ex- clusiveness. The little sage-green, red-roofed, twelve- roomed structure which will hereafter be pointed out as President Harrison's cottage is two and a half stories high, with artistic gables, It has a frontage of 40 feet, andis entered from a spacious piazza. upon which open three long windows, without hall or aute-rooms. The parlor, which is the largest room in the house, takes in the entire width of the building, and is entered directly from the veranda. It is supplied with a great fire-place, built in the middle wall. The floors are covered with new matting and the walls with buff papering. The furniture, of green rep, has been reinforced by a number of easy wicker rockers and lounges, which lend an air of luxurious leisure. Off the parlor, in a wing of the building, is an apart- ment which has been devoted to the use of the President asa library. The dining room is of good size, furnished in red, and adjoining is the kitchen, On the second floor are four bed- chambers, and overhead, under the roof, are rooms for the use of the servants, The floors of the other rooms are laid with matting, and bamboo furniture predominates. In order to add to the comfort of the inmates awnings have been placed at all of the windows, THE GROUNDS in the immediate vi ity of the neat little structure have been beautified by the hand of kill and taste, the florist of the Executive Mansion having been sent up specially to put the exterior appearance in becoming garb of floral beauty. The cottage, which is the prop- erty of ex-United States Senator Henry G, Da- vis, the railroad and mining magnet of the sur- rounding region and proprietor of vast landed possessions in West Virginia, was placed at the disposal of the President by the propritor im- mediately after his inauguration. , Having been the guest of Senator Davis during his senatorial term the President was familiar with the natural advantages of the locality in fine | seenery, good water aud bracing air. He also has agreeable society among the families of Mr. 8. B. Elkins, son-in-law of ex-Sena- tor Davis, and others who cooupy their own cot- es in the neighborhood of hotel. fhe region around affords admirable facili- ties for hunting, fishing and driving. It is the esent purpose of the President to have Mrs. Racrese and the children remain in this moun- tain retreat util September. He will pass Sun- days with them and possibly other days during the week when the heated term is at its eight, but wi Vashington @ portion of every week. . DeB. R. K. — ~~~ coe A Story With a Moral. From the Chicago Tribune, A story is told of an aspiring girl in Dorr, Mich., who loved music and longed for a cabi- net organ,but could not afford to buy one. Last year she planted a patch of ground with onions and raised 350 bushels of them, which Fine'Hot Springn: grounds are entered by & shelving road that climbs in front of the main buildings that are set a the almost sharp incline of the hill inclosed in the grounds, At the foot of the hill are tue nrarmerous bath houses, and half-way up the Lill are perched airy summer houses | all the world just like the | figure and a reall ‘A| NEW YORK DESERTED. At Least 80,000 of its People are Away Summering. PLENTY LEFT WHO ENJOY THEMSELVES—PAR- VENUES IN THE PARKS—WAGNERISM IN A OHI- NESE THEATER—SOMETHING ABOUT THE ORIEN- TAL THESPIANS AND TWO WASHINGTON ACTORS. Correspondence of Tu Evenrxe Stan. New Yor, July 6. Eighty thousand New Yorkers have left the metropolis to spend the summer somewhere else, These figures are the estimate of the superintendent of the elevated railroads, who keeps such good track of the changes in popu- lation in New York that he is perhaps the most reliable census man in town. It is easy to see that the swell portion of New York’s popula- tion has vanished, however, if one will take the trouble to visit Central park and the drives that are in the suburbs to the north of the park, Here at this season the well-to-do ple- beian takes his family out fof an airing. The drives are crowded with hired vehicles every- where. Rusty liveries and rustier pl hats distinguish the drivers, while the delighted and self-conscious passengers loll upon the cushioned seats, endeavoring to assume an air of ease and to impress the visitor from the country with the assumption thet he is gazing upon the creme de la creme of Gotham society; and the bridle paths of the big park give a still better show of the parvenues and thetr ways. Such Rosinantes in the way of saddle horses as are utilized by the summer riders are wonder- ful to behold. Some of them have evidently done service part of the day attached to ex- ress Wagons or venders’ carts, aud the rest are | hon livery stables way down’ town where the call for saddle horses is seldom heard. Once in a while you run across a German riding master out with his dozen of flaxen-haired pupils, and you notice that the horses have a gait peculiar to the German riders—a kind of lope that would run the value of an American saddle horse down to zero. This appearance of hired horses, hired vehicles, and riding schools in the park is peculiar to the summer ceason. Just as long as the regular swells are in town and are occupying the drives and paths in the park the proportion of hired turnouts is as 5 to 100, and the German riders are never seen. But just as soon as the four hundred have betaken themselves to seaside or mountains or Europe out come the nether four thousand, and out they stay until Jack Frost forces a return of heavy-swelldom, 1+ * Had heavy-swelldom been in town for the past fortnight it certainly couldn't have helped being pleased with the Chinese theatricals which have been given by a Chinese company of players for the past two weeks at the Wind- sor theater. If ever Simon-pure Wagnerism was exhibited in New York it was this week and last at these performances. If I were to close my eyes I could swear I was sitting in the Metropolitan opera honse listening to one of the great Wagner's music-dramas, And even with my eyes wide open the illusion was searcely dispelled when I saw the orchestra at the back of the stage—just like Wagner; when I heard the very peculiar, tuneless music, all kettledrums and tomtoms and blare—just like Wagner; when this music kept playing with- out a moment's pause through the entire per- formance—Wagner agam; when I couldn't understand a word the players said—just like the Waguer music-dramas; and when I couldn't see anything that looked }) real acting—for ay they do it at the Metropolitan, Why, it's Wagner ail over agrin, and I really don’t suppose Herr Seidl, who is leading an orchestra through alleged “airs” from ‘Goetterdaemmerung” down at Coney Island, has so much as puthis nose in at the Windsor theater. I could even distinguish evidences that each character had a leit motif, just as they do in Wagner's music-dramas, you now, and I am sure if handsome young Walter Damrosch would take up these Chinese Wagnerites and lecture about their music’s leit motifs, the hidden meanings in some of the crashings and smashings of tom- toms, &e., just as he has lectured upon the same features of Wagnerism for two years be- fore our prominent fashionable ladies, that by 1891 we would have a new Metropolitan opera house with a grand list of rich men for stock- holders and backers, and that while the low- necked but high-bred ladies were chattering in the boxes these Chinese fellows would be careening around the stage instead of the heavy herrs and heavier fraus who now disport them- selves in perspiring vigor during the German opera season. Some of the most severe cases of Waguermania among our leading aristocrats have gone to Beyreuth to hear Wagner played in its home. And just to think that they might have saved their money and might have heard the same thing, or something they couldn't tell apart from it, right at their homes, Whether Beyreuth or the bowery, it is Wagner, or else the author of the Nibelungen trilogy is a base imposter who has stolen his leit motif business from China, + * Through a well-known Chinese interpreter, who writes for the newspapers, I had a talk with the leading actors of the Chinese theatri- cal company. « It is a genuine Chinese concern, and plays at the Theater Tang-wik, in Pekin, when itis at home. It is now “‘on tour,” as we say in this country, and has played before com- ing here in San Francisco, Portlagd (Oregon), and Denver. Its tour will close here, and it will rest for a time while visits of pleasure are paid to various partsof America. There are no females in the troupe, female roles being assumed by male actors who are especially trained for the purpose from their very child- hood. Tak-a-Wing, who plays leading female parts and female “juveniles,” isa young man twenty years old, of a remarkably graceful y handsome face. He was chosen when only six years old to become a female impersouator on the Chinese stage, and was at once put under a course of training by which he learned to walk, talk, and gesticulate like a genuine Oriental lady.’ His feet were confined in small shoes, so that they are now but little larger than those of the Chinese wo- | men Ihave seen, and he has cultivated a fal- setto voice with such success that his natural voice is almost entirely lost. Tak-a-Wing is the star of the company, and draws #100 every Saturday night. He says that he gets “mash” letters from New York laundrymen just the same as | see ‘lady artists” do in other countries, but he regrets that opportunities for advertising enjoyed by American female stars in the way of divorces and the wearing of ganzy gowns are wholly denied to him. The only other high-salaried member of the com- pany is the leading man, Moo-Sun-Gee, a hand- some and gaudily-dressed young fellow, who is robably the Kyrle Bellew or the Herbert Kelcey of Pekin, and who draws $75 a week. The other actors receive from $10 to $15 a week, and some of them have to do double duty—as musicians and valets for the big guns of the cast. One of them has to cook for the whole company at the old joss house in Chat- ham square, which they have made their head- quarters, and the general utility man upon the stage is the chambermaid at the lodgings, while there are comedians who fill in time as waiters, tragedians and heavy gentlemen who barber the rest of the company, and old men and juve- niles who hustle around Mott street for the kind of grub peculiarly grateful to the Chinese palate. There was a rather loud smell of opium in the company’s apartments at the old joss house when I called, and I suspect that a large portion of the time of the Oriental thespians is spent in the pleasant pastime of hitting the pipe, When Joe Jefferson ‘as invited by Henry Irving to come over to England and play a sea- son at Mr. Irving's Lyceum theater, London, many people were a bit surprised that Jeffer- son sent Henry an unqualified “No!” to his po- lite invitation, If any of these people have met Richard Mansfield since his return from abroad they probably don't wonder at Jeffer- son’s ‘‘No!” so much as they did. Mansfield says Irving’s Lyceum theater is a regular Jo- nah of a house, and that Irving himself can't make it pay more than gas bills. Mansfield took the house on representations that it was a sure 81 ap for any show, just like the Casino here. ell, Mansiield sunk thousands of dol- lars there in less than no time, but Mr. Ennery Irving—bless his frugal soul—got the full rental money he had sti d for every Mon- day morning, and when eld pleaded with him for a reasonable deduction on account of business not being up to representations, did he get it? Not a farthing. Messrs, Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett could add a chapter to the sad tale told by Mansfield if soy wena, for both of them have been very expectations, same great representations, disastrous realities, and non-deductions, Prob- ably Joe Jefferson had heard about the Booth Barrett experience before he got his polite hence the unq 1d “No!” invitation, an Talking about Booth” and Barrett, I heard at the Players’ club the other day that these two ter that has been seen in this town in a long time. And at the Grand Pe Serra gaalivanr ggo gee , has won the approval of all through THE STARS AND STRIPES—HOW THE PASSPORTS ARE ISSURD—PERSONAL DESCRIPTIONS MADE OUT BY A CLERK WITH AN OBSERVING EYE. ‘This is nota paternal government. Uncle Sam is merely an amiable, distant relative to the American citizen under all ordinary circum- stances, Itis only when the American goes abroad that the striped trousers and star-be- spangled waistcoat seem the uniform of fatherly care. Through the State department a watchfal eye is kept on the citizens of this country who choose to wander in the land of strangers. To the man at home the State department seems a useless and ornamental establishment of red tape paper seals, exclusion, and secretiveness, Abroad the State department is the only branch of the government he has use for, unless it 1s the navy. An American citizen, ed, sealed, and cer- tified to by the State ‘partment—that is, furnished with an American ‘is not a stranger in any land. The passport is a sort of accident insurance policy, though the officials in that ig- nified department might not like to look at it in that light. Pay a tes of $1 and you are given a document which will command the services of the American minister or consul if you are in distress in a foreign land. You may travel through the greater part of Europe very comfortably and never have occasion to use this document; but if you do need it you want it very badly. Again, there are some places where you coca | be without it. Having xt, your loving country rhight even goto war to defend you from insult and outrage. It is a formidable protection on occasion. FILLING OUT PASSPORTS. This the great season for passports, The clerks in the State department in charge of that branch of the work are kept busy taking discriptions of portly papas, slender spinsters, elderly mammas and you daughters, not to mention young men with lisping foreign ac- cents, who come to have their citizenship certi- fied to before ing abroad, This business is done in a large light room on the first floor of the big granite tame | where Mr. Blaine for- ntulates his vigorous foreign policy. A very polite gentleman asks you some pointedly per- sonal questions, examines you critically, makes a pen picture of your prominent points, takes your dollar, and you are insured against diplo- matic accidents. " The applicant for a passport must have some one to identify him. Then he must answer as to his age, his place of birth, and give a little of his pedigree, as well as de- seribe his occupation, Then the’ passport man writes down a very careful description of the applicant—his height, his weight, whether fat or lean, the color of his hair, the color of his eyes, whether cross-eyed or straight, the style of beard, the shape of face, the length of nose, and general description of that feature, shape of tace, whether long or round, high cheek bones or not, stooped or straight, and many other little points besides that go to make up individuality of appearance, "all these things have to go into the passport papers, SEEING ONE'S SELF WITH OTHERS’ EYES. If one wants an utterly impartial opinion of one’s personal appearance it is necessary only to get out a passport and read the description. ‘The man engaged in this descriptive writing has been at it for a number of years and is quite an expert. Hé is regarded also as a phy- siognomist of no mean ability, for his study of the human countenance has been prolonged and critical, There are difficulties in the work, but he is a most accurate portrayer of person- alities, It requires skill to give an accurate and at the same time satisfactory description of a lady who is not quite as well satisfied as she appears to be with what nature has done for her in an architectural and artistic way, Many women would prefer to run the risk of being sent to Siberia or locked in a Russian dungeon rather than have it said in their pass- port that they were born fifty years ago, arc unmarried, angular, with high cheek bones and sunken eyes, wear false teeth, artificial bangs, and are endowed with noses much out of the ordinary proportions. In cases where this is a perfectly accurate description the pass- port man must exercise diplomacy. It might not do to point out as a distinguishing feature of a fashionable lady that she had extraordi- narily large feet, for instance, or that she had a moustache on her upper lip. THE HANDINESS OF A PASSPORT. A man may imagine that a passport is un- necessary luggage, but he is wpt to be corrected of this impression if he acts on it. There are countries, such as Russia, where he cannot go without it. But where greater liberty is al- lowed travelers, and apparently there is no need of a passport, occasion may arise at any moment when having one would save lots of trouble. You might go to Ireland. No one would demand that you show your passport on the border. But juat suppose some patriot got the notion that you were a British spy or an “emergency man.” You might go hungry for want of hospitality and walk many a mile because conveyances did not happen to be for hire when you wanted them, You might find yourself the object of a boycott. Then it would e that a document proving you to be of that nationality next beloved to Erin's Isle by the sons of Erin would shed a comfort about you that can be appreciated only in distress. You might be anywhere most in Europe and commit some slight offense that would throw you into prison, You might hit a man in the hose—a trifling thing to do in this country, but one regarded with the utmost seriousness in foreign countries, If you were an entire stranger you would send for the American con- sul. If you had a a it would be all right with you; but if you had not—well, your poxition would be awkward, to say the least. You would find if not an eas thing to prove your citizenship, and you might spend a con- siderable time in confinement. ere would be a case where you would want your State- department accident policy. t is easy enough to get a passport, and they are convenient when necessary, Formerly the tee was $5, but the last Congress reduced this to PREPARING FOR STATEHOOD. Constitutional Conventions in Montana and the Two Dakotas. The South Dakota constitutional convention met at Sioux Falls yesterday afternoon and ratified the nominations for officers made by the republican caucus the previous night. The committee on rules, J. L. Jolly, chairman, yesterday prepared its report on the number of committees necessary and the number of delegates of which they shall consist. The commission recommended a committee of seven to go to Bismarck to divide the territories properly, ‘The North Dakota constitutional convention convened at Bismarck yesterday. The election of a permanent chairman resulted in the choice of F. B. Fancher, the republican cuucus nomi- nee, on the first ballot, he getting 52 votes; Car- land (dem.), 17; not voting, 6; total, 75, Car- land asked that the election be made unani- mous and his motion prevailed, The Montana constitutional convention met at Helena yesterday afternoon. After brief reliminaries a ment organization os effected, the following office: a eit elected: Hon, W. A. Clark, president; W. Todd, chief clerk; G. H.’ Stan Kind Rd pen Alexander, ser; mt t-arms ; ve lews, chaplain. mocrate, Seventy-three of the seventy-five members an- swe to the roll-call. divided as Thirty-nine democrats, thirty-two repub! two scattering. - ——_—_+oe—____. Mrs. Smith Refused a Certificate. license to practice law, Judge Aiken rendered an elaborate ‘Written for Tax Evextre Stan. ar JULY 6, 1889-TWELVE PAGES. haps, than that of some who have discoursed THE SHAH ON HIS TRAVELS, | ° that sovercign and his country. Ex-Minister Benjamin Tells of the Mon- arch’s Pageants at Home. ACCOMPANIED BY HIS HAREM—THE NATIVES AWED INTO RESPECT FOR THE GOVERNMENT BY THE SPLENDID CAVALCADES—PERSOXAL QUALI- ‘TIERS OF THE SHAK. A cannon pealed over Teheran at sunrise. This was the signal which announced to every one that the shah of Persia was to start on that day on a journey at least of several days. It might be merely for a hunting expedition, or it might be for an excursion to a distant part of his dominions. But although to many at the capital this was the first information of his majesty’s proposed absence, those who had passed in the neighborhood of the ark, or pal- ace, during the preceding week would have been aware that something of the sort was on foot, because of the bustle and preparation evident in the squares and streets of the royal The shah, in his present journey to Europe, is accompanied by pommeety individuals, from ministers to ordinary attendants. This seems large number, but it is a mere trifle compared with the multitude that forms his cortege when he travels in Persia. In the first place, wher- ever a halt is made, except at a few parks wiftre he has stationary pavilions, tents must be spread for the king and his suite, and also his wives, should any of them accompany him. These tents are very sumptuously decorated and are of vast dimensions. A wall or screen of similar stuff with the tents is set up around the encampment, adding materially to the amount of gage. THE ROYAL CARAVAN. To the tents must be added many costly rugs and carpets to spread over the ground, and numerous mattresses, besides no end of cook- ing utensils and other impedimenta. It is e dent that an army of camels and sumter mules and horses are required to transport this para- —_ of royalty. A great baggage train is, erefore, sent ahead a day in advance, in order that on arriving at the camping ground the shah may find everything in readiness, and the meal smoking that shall appease his august ap- petite. This baggage train is still further in- creased by the way, from the fact that there must be a double set of everything; thus, while he is Nee chad one camp another is being pre- meee at re re next serge 1% s uring the greater part of the year travelin; in Persia must be done at night, or early in the day, owing to the heat. Hence, the shah starts from his palace by sunrise, and has made a long stage into the country before most people else- where have arisen. “One may naturally sup- that having disposetl of such a large num- r of servants in expediting the baggage the king would need only a handful of retainers to accompany him in person. But, quite the con- trary isthe fact. He is attended by all the tra- ditional pomp of an oriental sovereign, not so much from a desire for ostentation as because of the need of protection in a thinly-peopled country, overrun in many regions by unruly tribes of pastoral nomads; in part, also, to im- aes upon his subjects a strong perception of is authority and power. Orientals are constitutionally affected more a | by what appeals to the eye than by any other | means. Some of the royal progresses are un- doubtedly taken for the purpose of maintain- | ing among the people a vivid idea of the gov- ernment, and thus forcing on their minds the importance of order and obedience. It is proper to state here that brigandage has been effectually put down in Persia during the pres- ent reign. The cortege of the shah on such occasions consists, therefore, of several of the ministers of his cabinet, generally those who | are personal favorites and are gifted with con- versational abilities. Sometimes, however, when important matters of state are pending, the minister of foreign affairs accompanies him, the Seg office being left in charge of an ex- perienced secretary. The constant need of communication with the capital, also, reqaires the attendance of a large number of mounted messengers, who travel around and fly over the country ata gallop. AN ARMY OF SERVANTS, Each of the dignitaries or upper servants at- tending his majesty on a journey must have his own assistants, which swells the general train, On the march the pishketmels, or refreshment servants, carry a sack suspended to the saddle, in which are kalians, or water ipes and tobacco, and any moment they must prepared to light a pipe, a process very different and far more complicated than the lighting of a cigar. When the kalian is ready the attendant rides by the side of his master and holds the pipe, while the latter ambles gently over the piain and contemplatively smokes, This is the acme of luxury in traveling has not yet attained. We read that Cwsar dictated to his secretaries when on the march, they writing in the saddle. A Persian official ma‘ m3 that and smoke besides. Had the great Eo jan added that final touch in aid of his opulent genius it is difficult to estimate the result. Anti-tobacconists may shrug their shoulders at this sentiment. So much the worse for them! To all this multitude of attendants and ani- mals must be added the tachtravans of litters for the ladies who accompany the shah, These litters are covered and protected by lattice work, and the lady reclines comfortably on cushions. The tachtravan is attached to two long poles, which are borne by mules, one be- fore and one behind. The mules are gaily caparisoned, and the leader bears scout his neck # resonant string of bells that sound quaintly enough as the train wends its slow way over the lonely mountain passes and wide waste plains of Persia. The children and female servants, or slaves, are carried in i iso which are canopied seats, borne by mules or camels, slung one on each side, over the back of the like saddlebags, THE ROYAL GUARDS, Finally, we must add to the train of the shah the mounted regiment of royal guards, called Gholams, a splendid corps numbering some 1,500, and a cloud of regular cavalry. Ona long journey several regiments of infantry may also swell the cortege, besides a horde of camp followers, such as dancing men and women, and the hike. It issaid that when his majesty went to Meshed his train numbered 15,000 souls, which is quite probable, . The encampment is laid by a water-course, Apert ean wee the ee of _— of wide-spre: chevans, peculiarly gratetul in that sultry clime. There Franco Doon Shah finds relaxation from the cares of state, or at least gives them attention under circumstances so agreeable as to relieve the burden which rests on the shoulders of aking. Men once in power may not willingly resign it, but no greater mistake can be made than to imagine that wealth, luxury and power can influence kismet to drive away the perplexity or anxiety of which every mortal, from helot to king, must have a share, in one way or another. He who seeks or inherits posts of responsibility must pay toll. ‘Nasr-ed-Been Shah always eats alone. There, in his vast and magnificent pavilion on the mountain height, from whence he looks forth in the cool of the evening over some of the most magnificent scenery in the world, which none more keenly ome than he, he must yet eat alone, nor share with others the pleasant converse which adds so much to the enjoyment of a meal under such circumstances, But when the meal is over and the pipes are brought and the musicians attend, with zither the favorite courtiers may = and their sovereign on thei sjnty nye aside for the time ‘some ‘of the ma\ lays lor ime some po i that doth hedge a king.” THE SHAH'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS, On such occasions I have been told by those who have been present Nesr-ed-Deen Shah renders himself most agrecable and compan- ionable. He is a man ~ tion, and iarge, natural in’ has’ cultivated assid tudy ‘andsome LE i THE MONARCE'S DRESS. To those who imagine the shah to be habited in tarban and flowing robes, like other orien- tals, it may be of interest to know that whether at court or on his travels bis dress differs but When tho camp remains some days in one spot the high officers of the court sometimes amuse themselves with assisting the cook in the cuisine mucb as our own ple are wont when going out fora sail, all then takings hand in. or ® grand the gamekeepers falconers assemble in number and style that reminds one of the huating pageants of past ages. Persia abounds in game both large and small, partridges, pheasants, hares, gazelles, ibex, panthers and tigers being abundant, with 8 few lions in southern Persia. The shah is an enthusiastic sportsman, like many of his prede- cessors, daring and good at the rifle. After the | chase is over, while the impression is yet vivid, he has sometimes sketc! some of the scenes of the day, both with pen and pencil, while re- posing in his tented pavilion. 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Childs, took place yesterday after. d most prominent sovereigns of the day are | George 3 hot unimportant, for they represcat scence | BOon over the national course of the Schuylkill such as were seen in former scenes gradually becoming more rare even i Asia and destined entirely to cease and disap- pear during the life of some of those now liv- ing, 80 rapidly are the changes of the age in the Orient as well as in Europe: 8. G. W. Bexzauxy. ————+w HURTFUL OCCUPATIONS. Employments Which Injure the Eyes, Lungs, or Other Organs. From the Boston Globe. There are many occupations in which the be critically scrutinized, frequently by arti- ficial light. The objects, in order to be dis- tinctly seen, must be brought quite near the eye; this necessitates great straining of the eye. The eyeball being compressed somewhat by the muscles, causes congestion, which is in- ¢reased by artificial light in which there is ex- cessive heat. Rays of yellow color are very trying to the eyes, Engravers, lapidaries, watchmakers and sewing girls are subject to affections of the. eyes, due to above-mentioned causes, They lead a sedentary life, sitting at work in a con- strained attitude, with the body bent forward and shoulders rounded, so that the thoracic movements are interfered with. This produces consumption, the Gases of this disease among engravers and seamstresses being very numer- ous. Engravers are also subject to spasms in their fingers, with disease of the skin on the hands and forearms, Watchmakers who do the repairing have the nailon the right thumb thickened and scaly from their manner of opening watches. The nails on the thumb and index finger of the left hand show at the point where they approach each other “tin order to hold delicate pieces” & worn appearance, and almost complete destruc- tion is produced by the constant rubbing of the file. Seamstresses are sometimes poisoned by the stufls they work upon. Many instances have occurred of arsenical poisoning in those who sewed green goods, which is colored with arsenical alte, A physician of Boston found 8.21 grains of it in one equare foot of goods, An itching, eczematous eruption has been roduced by tissues colored with bright ane- ine dyes. Silk thread is also soaked in the acetate of lead to increase its weight, and persons who pass it through the mouth in threading needles, then bite it off with the teeth, have suffered from lead poisoning. The influence of sewing machines on the health of women has often been by eminent men, with conflicting arguments and evidence, The most elaborate investigation is by Duchesne. He found that women suffered from muscular pains and great fatigue of the lower limbs, with dyspepsia and other evils; while other writers agree that moderate work on the sewing machine is rather beneficial for health than otherwise, and that only where women work from eight to ten hours at the treadle evi! results are apparent. It seems clear, therefore, that the chief source of their troubles is fatigue, which, with their habits of life, food, associations, &c., fully account for the symptoms. As the health of women is vastly more important to the national vigor to which our pleasure-loving jeunesse doree | than that of men. special care should ever be taken to guard it. While there are many workrooms where the machines are run by steam or water power, there are many where the machines are run by the muscles of women. Persons performing delicate operations with their fingers, requiring loug practice to learn and frequently repeated, sometiines suffer from what is called ‘writers’ cramp,” because it was first noticed in penmen. It occurs in all classes of writers, pianists, violinists, tele- | graph operators and others, | usiclans who play on wind instruments contract emphysema, on account of the strain brought to bear on the lungs by thoracic mus- cles, while the expulsion of air is hindered. Those who use their voices a great deal and are obliged to speak in loud tones for a long time, often in an impure atmosphere, suffer greatly from the constant strain of the vocal organs, Such is the case among actors, teach- ers, singers and speakers. The most common disease among them is pharyngitis, known to all as “‘clergyman’s sore throat.” This is due largely to improper breathing and want of knowledge in giving forth the voice. Such iced cannot know too much about that autiful organ, the voice, and should study with those who make ita great consideration. This is the best way of warding off disease of the throat and loss of voive, People run away with the idea that gym- nasts, athletes, wrestlers, are perfect Hercules, and cannot know disease. "Tis a mistake. ‘They undergo very universally at times severe tests of muscular exertion, and 4 result of these efforts, combined with their irregular raanner of living, are usually short-lived men, dying of phthisis and heart disease. ilroad employes are exposed te acciden’ 8 well as various disorders of the nervous an circulatory systems produced by the constant jarring to which they are subjected. In the case of engineers and firemen, by the sudden changes of weather, according to Duchesne, their health for the ‘first few years improves and some gain flesh. but, to use his expression, they are as a rule tired out at ten years’ service, sufferers at the end of fifteen, and after twenty years rarely are able to continue in the service. my lose their eyesight, their“ hearing be- comes dull and — in the lower limbs render walking or standing upright tiresome and diffi- cult, le attributes t! symptoms to an af- fection of the spinal cord, produced by long standing and constant vibration of the locomo- tives. The following table shows the death rate: 52. ‘By. In the United States last week were 185 busi- ness failures, eee YOUR HAIR. A hair coloring so harm- less that it can be used on the eyebrows or eyelashes is what you want. 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