Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1889, Page 9

ABOUT JELLIES AND JAMS. Suggestions For Putting Up Small Fruits and Berries. THE ART OF JELLY MAKING— SELECTION OF FRUITS — QUINCE PRESERVES AND JELLY — A BLACKBERRY CORDIAL FOR MEDICINAL PUR- POSES—TO PREVENT MOLD IN JARS—NOTES. The season has arrived when the practical housekeeper is overhauling her stock of jars, cans, bottles, &c., preparatory to a preserving, Jamming, jellying. and pickling campaign, and the anticipations of the little tots are glowing under the prospect of spooning the leavings from the kettles and dishes as little tots have been doing for ages gone by. In a city like Washington fresh berries or fruit cannot always be had at the time desired, then it is necessary to exercise more care than ever in preparing the vessels and selecting the best of what is to be had. To have the soul of the fruit in its flavor it should be picked in ite first firm ripe- ness, just when the dew is dry on a sunny fore- noon about ten minutes before being used. As this is impracticable to the greater portion of city folk it should be arranged when possible with truckers to pick and bring the fruit or berries directly to the house at a stated time, when everything should be prepared for work diately upon arrival. AS TO JELLY MAKING. Jelly making is an art, the height of the housekeepers’ skill, for it demands keen taste, nicety and promptness to insure perfection, rather than the twenty minutes’ boiling and the pound for pound of sugar which most women imagine all there is of jelly making. ‘The stoneware preserving puns are best for all fruit uses, anda kerosene stove, with an iron stove-lid under the pan, works quickly, without overheating jeily or jelly maker. Only & quart of juice should be pressed at a time, and made up as quickly as possible. Standing. it loses flavor and develops sharp ferment, which gives the edge to so much of the jelly made. A sunny day before a storm. when the kettie boiis away fast, is the best day for boil- ing jelly, a8 the juice evaporates faster. The finest jeliies, however, ere made with- out heat, but by this process it needs be fair, settled weather. Use the best confectioners’ sugar for jelly, or roll and sift the granulated until it is tine and will dissolve quickly. Have the sugar measured and glasses ready before pressing the juice. Press and strain through Haunei without squeezing or stirring, but mov- jug the juice to fresh parts of the straining cloth as it becomes clogged. On careful strain- ing depends the crystal clearness of the jelly. which is read of oftener than seen. Repeated straining lessens the flavor. What remains on the cloth should be scraped off for marmalade, but jelly requires the first run of the fruit. Use three-fourths of a cup of sugar to a cup of strained juice, stirring spoonful by spoonful into the bowl, and continuing to stir til the sugar is entirely dissolved—ten to fifteen min- Uies. THEN POUR INTO GLASSES and set in the full sunshine. A table on an open porch, or a broad shelf outside the win- dow, is the best place, covering each tumbler with one of the small squares of glass. In time moisture gathers on the underside of the glass, and it must be turned and wiped dry. changing the position ot the jelly to keep it always in the sun. Sometimes it must be ex- posed for a week before it comes firm, but usu- ally two or three hours is enough, and the juice jeliies on the edge of the bow! before pouring out. The flavor of the fruit is kept in full freshness by this method, and the jelly is not so likely to mold as when boiled. Wheu thoroughly firm, lay disks of white paper cut to fit the glass, dipped in salad oil and drained. on the top of the jelly, and cover with tin covers or paper brushed*on both sides with white of egg or the thick water of boiled rice FOR BOILED JELLIES set the juice boiling rapidly and sift in the heated sugar, spoonful by spoonful, not to check the boiling. using equal care neither to scorch nor cool the fruit. The best manufac- turers say the secret of high flavor is to keep fruit boiling as rapidly as possible till the juice is evaporated enough to jellv. which should be ten minutes, but in domestic methods is twenty. The only way to tell when it is done is to drop a little on a cold saucer, to see if it thickens. Then take it off, cool in a draft, and pour into dry, clean glasses, which seal as before. Powdered sugar on the top protects from mold as well as the oiled paper, and Parafiine paper, closely fitted, may be used in lace of the latter. More cure should be given secure variety of flavor and fruits for jelly. SOME APPLE JELLIES. Apple jelly is fine if made from high-flavored, acid, white-fleshed varieties, like the orange Pippm or bellflower, boiling the skins and seeds, tied in cheesecloth, with the juice, which heightens the flavor. For the finest jelly. press 2 quarts of cider and put it to simmer; pare 5 pounds of apples, slice and boil in the cider over a brisk fire till the fruit is melted down; strain and boil again with 10 ounces of sugar to the pound of juice. This may be flavored with lemon or orange peel, with rose petals—5 ounces being required for the above amourt of appies—or with quince. Crab apples make a yery firm and palatable Jelly. The Siberian crab apples are easily ob- tained and are fine in flavor, but, if one can get them, the wild crab apples (the sour, green things that grow on thorny trees in the coun- try,) give the greatest satisfaction. They have @ spicy flavor and @ pleasant acid which are Particularly delightful to invalids. ‘The juice of the crab apple of either kind may be used for jelly with that of other fruits, such as peach, Faspberry or cherry, and will give firmness without injurmg the flavor. The proportion may be left to taste of the jelly-maker, QUINCE PRESERVES AND JELLY. ‘The quince itself is at the head of fruits for Preserving, and should be boiied with all the seeds and clean parings to get its high flavor. ‘The Japanese quince is esteemed as a jelly fruit in southern states, where it fruits freely. oo jelly is easily made from pearings and odd pieces of fruit left after preserving, but it is not well to leave the seeds in, as they tend to make the jelly sticky and ropy. In @ day or two cut — to fit the glasses; di these in brandy, alcohol or white of ogg. pe press them closely on top of the jelly. A very old-fashioned method is to pour melted butter or clean mutton fat on top and let it harden. Finally, put the covers on the glasses, or cover with paper, pasting the edges down. CANNED RASPBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES. Put the berries into the vessel used for cook- ing them, and pour over enough water to just cover them. Keep at the boiling point with- out allowing them to boil hard until they all turn red, then dip into the cans, fill up with some of the water in which they were scalded aud seal If the berries boil or stand in the hot water too long they lose their shape and getsoft. Other berries may be scalded in the same water, or may be added to it, as may be RASPBERRY AND BLACKBERRY JAM. Cook the berries in just enough water to keep them from sticking. Stir and mash them with a wooden paddle or pestle. When thor- oughly mashed, set aside to cool, and when cool enough to handle, rab through a sieve. Add nearly as much sugar as the sieved pulp, and boil slowly until thick and rich, stir- ring constantly. A few red currants added to the raspberries at first improves the jam, as the berries are too sweet alone, and if leas sugar were used jam would be weak and insipid. PRESERVED GOOSEBERRIES AND CURRANTS. Ripe gooseberries and currants are best for preserving, as they are then full grown and richer and have a better color when preserved. The same rules should be followed as for other wnall fruit, only they need longer cooking. nUful enough to use they may be cooked soft and rubbed hd ae sieve as directed for raspberries. wo sugar good in gooseberry and currant jam. while it would spoil the flavor of other kinds of = e Jam is so much nicer after and skins strained out that it ‘#0, and if well done there is of fruit. Get and kee i having the seeds always pays to do tablespoonful in a glass and fill the giass with ice-water, OTHER JELLIES. Wild grape jelly is the finest known if Properly made, by cooking the whole grapes in a stone pot in the oven before strain- ing. White currant jelly is delicious. Cherry jelly is piquant im ‘the highest degree, but should be cooked without stirring. berry fely is valuable for consumptives as well as a igh relish for game. Boil four pounds of picked barberries in three quarts of water until soft; strain and boil with ten ounces of to the pound of juice. Pineapple jelly is one of the whitest and clearest, admired for aluncheon treat with ice cream. Green gages make a sub- acid jelly, very pleasing to serve with cake at an old-fadhioned. tea. TO PREVENT MOLD IN JARS. One of the great troubles in preserving fruit in glass jars is to prevent the formation of mold on top and the consequent spoiling of fruit when it rises above the top of the sirup. A very effective, cheap and simple device is a dise of thin veneer of wood, from one-sixteenth to one-twentieth of an inch thick and from two- and-three-quarters to three inches in diameter for one-quart jars, made from gum, beech, birch, etm or ash, as these woods have no taste nor favor and wiil not injure the fruit. To use, dip in hot water to prevent cracking, slightly bend so as to slip in the neck down below the shouider of the jar; press down on the fruit so |as to allow the sirup to rise over it. The shoulder will keep it down and in place. When you wish to use the fruit remove by running » fork under and picking it out. NOTES. It is impossible to give more than general | Tules as to the best place for keeping fruit. Jellies and preserves will bear a warmer place than canned fruit, but each housekeePer must | decide by i as to the best place inher | own house. uld be a dry, dark place, where the fruit can be easily watched and away from otuer provieions, One way to prevent jars breaking when pat- ting in fruit is to set the cold jar on a folded cloth wet with cold water, then fill with the boiling hot fruit, and the jar will not break, it is well to have a variety—not too much of one kind—of both jellies aud preserves, for the palate soon tires of even a pleasant flavor, and a housekeeper’s shelves may } cmos a picture to delight the eve by a careful and artistic ar- rangement of the various colors and shades, poe Written for Tux EvexInc STAR. The Dunes. Out on the dunes the winds ave low, Sighing, soughing, singing a song— A song of the East—when the spring buds blow | And the nights are stiil and the days are long, Out on the dunes the winds are calm, Breathing an amorous roundeiay— A lay of the South and the summer balm And airs that the pipes of the shepherds play. Out on the dunes the winds are wild, Moaning a tuneful and sad refrain— A wailof the West and the autumn mild— For the loved ones who never come back again. | Out on the dunes the winds are loud, | Howling in frosty and boreal roar— | A blast of the North and the winter's shroud— | In voices that haunt us forever more, | And the dunes Ile under the sky and snow, Surging, sweeping in foamless waves, While bon.s are bleaching, engulfed below, Of land-wrecked sailors in billowy graves. —Davip GuawamM ADEE, = see toed FASHION NOTES. | The Fabrics Mostly Worn by Ladies and | How They are Made. Tue Yoxe Bopice is the favorite for white wash goods. Maize on Corn Conor is revived, among other fashionable shades of yellow. Eve Gixouam Dresses have parasols made | up of the material of the gown, Poxrapbovx foulards rival other printed stuffs for summer morning and afternoon toilets, Ir 1s Quitz common now to see ladies with- out either bustles or reeds in the dress skirt. Ponaee in natural buff colors is as popular as ever for summer gowns and traveling wraps, Maxx Liout Suors are worn by both sexe: They are particularly suitable for the seashore, Suor Laces are made in thirty or forty shades now made, Dorrep Wurte Mutu, Swiss, and veiling gowns are in vogue, along with striped and barred white dresses, Entige Dresses or Rep Satrens trimmed with ecru laces are worn at French country houses and on the seashore, Pate Su.ver Gray Gowns with panels, sur- plice waistcoats and revers, cuffs and collars of | tan color, are very effective, HANDKERCHIEFS ARE Try, dainty marvels of color and embroidery this summer, and at the moment they are very cheap. Seasipe Panasoxs are large aud mostly in bright colors, sometimes softened with covers or falls of ecru and cre: e. Tae Warre Woot veiling gowns, with broche borders or stripes in white silk, are almost as effective as white silk ones broche with silver. Yacutine, lawn tennis, fishing and mountain costumes are, of course, better without either hoop or bustle. For all other suits a modified turnure is advisable. Tue Summer Boxnets, made of net or lace anda few flowers over the wire frame, are pleasant to wear and very healthful, keeping the head perfectly cool, Taare Dresses axp Costumes for cere- monious occasions are all supplied by fashion- able dressmakers with some support or disten- gion to the back of the dress, Burrerriies made of colored, dyed, or painted feathers, large as life and mounted on spiral wires, are one of the decorations of sum- mer hats of lace, tulle, net, and crepe. ‘Tue Hats chosen for out-of-door entertain- ments have very low crowns, but wide brims, projecting over the forehead and tapering to almost nothing in the back and at the sides, Wurre Curxa Six with silver passementeries and sometimes with gold-dotted embroidery and gold passementerie or gold galleon makes alovely garden-party or summer out-of-door festival gown. Tus Ecru Trxts of Chinese pongee are ad- mirably relieved in French dresses of that material by embroidered borders of multi- colored and gold-dotted embroidery in oriental and mediwval designs, Cuorcest Nore Pare is either white, cream, light pearl or gray tinted; nothing else is con- sidered good form. It may have the mono- gram or the initials in an embossed leaf in the upper left hand corner, ‘Tue EconomicaL Grau covers her parasols to match her summer dresses, ties a bow of ribbon on handle and at the top to match the trimming of her costume, and as like as not is called extravagant by the uninitiated, Otp-Fasuionep Lecuony Fats are restored to fashionable favor, and they are trimmed in old-style Vandyke, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Watteau arrangements of flowers, feathers and ribbons, The wide flapping are unlined and unwired. Oxz or tHe Latest Notions is a patent- leather shoe, having at the top an imitation gaiter of broadclo' and narrow straps. shoes so closely re- semble a genuine shoe and overgaiter as to be indistinguishable. Lace Wraps are quite fashionable. Those falling to the bottom of the dress are thought to be very extravagant or expensive (the terms are not synonymous, for an expensive garment for a person of wealth is notan extravagance), but in reality they are not expensive. fd tmnds late jms anv any te Soap | r as needed any time hb ves with deep cuffs to the elbows. These the winter. and jams finish a gown of rarely picturesque finer, too, if mado im omall Gaanuties co be “ prereset yaeo 7 . M = ot om enon or Mytemmpr tp an Express the juice from blackberries and to | Atlanta univei for colored wi to the front again on meat modifica rete cogent ae the north to match the many colors in which shoes are | ‘Written for Taz Evesrxc Stam. : FARM, GARDEN, AND FIELD. Some Valuable Hints About the Care of Plants and Trees. Pot plants are more difgjcult to grow success- fally than those cultivated in the open garden. The plants usually are very tender and consist of choice varieties. Insects and other plant enemies are more diligent in their destructive work, and they reward any neglect on the part of the grower by completely ruining the rare flowers in a very short time. The composition of the soil, too, is a matter of great considera- tion with the horticulturist who cannot» find the time to change it in the pots or stir it as often as the needs of the plants require. It is a self-evident fact that flowers kept in pots during « part or whole of the year demand special attention and treatment. There is nothing so beneficial to such plants 88 an occasional application of manure-water or liquid manure. Such treatment increases the vigor of the stalk, loosens the soil and im- Pregnates it with good fertilizer. But a word of caution should be given concerning appii- cations of liquid manure. Very many injure their plants by feeding them with too strong liquid manure or by applying it too often. Plants will not oniy derive no benefit from a too free application of manure-water but they will be positively injured by it. ‘the time to apply the liquid manure 1s when the plants are making vigorous growth and during the bloom- ing periods, It should not be applied at any other time, A USEFUL PREPARATION, Avery useful and simple preparation that I have found beneficial to the plants is made by mixing two pecks of sheep manure, one peck of soot and two quarts of guano in a hogshead of rain water. Swaller amounts can be made by mixing the ingredients in the same propor- tion, The mixture should be stirred up thoroughly for a day or two and then a quart of quick-lime thrown in. i y then be ready for use. Weak should be treated with an xppiic manure about once a week during period. Strong, healthy plants cun application every day or two, but it is usually saier to dilute it with one-third of clear water | when such frequent applications are made. | Orchids, roses, heaths and other flowers will show marked improvement, both in the growth of the wooded stalks and in the production of | flowers and foliage. As soouas the towering petiod is over the applications should cease. if kept up the plants will be unduly stimulated and their growth retar Jed in the eud. Amateurs always have a tendcacy to go to extremes in usipg such strong solutions, Heren Waarsurvon. Disbudding Fruit Trees. It is more difficult to disbud fruit trees to Prevent extreme luxuriance of growth than to prune them. The act of chopping off a limb here and there with a knife made for the pur- Pose is an easy matter comparatively; but to inspect trees daily and to disbud them judi- ciously demand time and patience. There is no doubt thet pruning will effect the same re- sult that disbudding will, but it is such a vio-~ lent remedy that some of the tender varieties of fruit trees are injured thereby. The re- moval of young shoots at an early stage of | their growth is both advantageous to the health of the trees and favorable to the pro- duction of handsome fruit. The advantages of doing this work by disbudding rather than by pruning are important to consider. | OBJECT OF THE TREATMENT. Disbudding is simply the act of preventing the development of useless buds at the expense ; of those which should be preserved. If this growth is not checked in its early stages it will exhaust a certain amount of the and strength of the tree without any beneficial re- sult. In addition to this, aconsiderable change in the steady flow of the sep is made when the shoot is pruned off after it has attained a fair growth. Every shoot is closely connected with the larger shoots and limbs. and it follows that derangement in the dirtribution of the sap en- sues from their removal. A badly-placed shoot that is suppressed early, when in the bud form, will prevent either one of these disadvantages. The | secape tree always produces an excessive number of shoots, which could be removed with good results early in their growth. Early stopping should be systematically practiced on pear and apple trees, Vines likewise should e treated in this way. Horticuliurists make roses bloom better and produce finer and more vigorous plants by judiciously disbudding, and the same attention should be directed to the fruit trees. The trees should be daily in- spected if necessary and all superfluous buds removed. Pruning. of course, is necessary to a certain extent. The shape and form of the tree de- mand this, but the number of limbs that have to be lopped off, often to the serious loss of the tree, could be materially lessened by early and systematic disbudding. Gro. Wi1son. Right Soilfor Fruit Trees and Vine | sons have spe | tion that must fill the mix the —— them wit See ahgse. The water the drains the soil near the roots of the plants more good than if sprinkled on the where much of it would tion. If the land has a slight drains on the higher land should mo ee than those on the lower the bottom of the drains is k need be no danger of one part flooded. If the declivity te too not be practical to construct suc! drains. The hillsides are better adapted to fruit trees. The rains of spring and autumo always washed the furtilizer out of gardens growing on hillsides, and the only way to re- tain this element in the soil is to plant fruit trees there, Their wide-spreading roote will revent serious washouts and retain fertilizers in the soil, WittiaM E. Farmen. FALLING LONG DISTANCES. Speculation as to How People Feel Who Take Big Tumbles. From the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘The amount of mental or physical suffering that immediately precedes death has always been a question of interest, No reporter would think of describing an execution without at- tempting to give an analysis of the feelings of the condemned man on the scaffold. The re- membrance of the death agony of a loved one often causes more acute agony than the idea of eternal separation. People have brooded until they were almost driven to madness over the thought that they might be buried alive and awake to brief consciousness in their coffins, In this skeptical and pessimistic age it is not 8o much death that is feared as the pains that are suppored to vecompany it, Novelists have at tempted to picture the thoughts of a drowning man during the few seconds that intervene be- n and total loss of sense. One phic pages in Victor Hugo is This into does reat it woul of the most g P | that in which he imagines the sensations of a man fallon overboar ship is pulling out of « lapsing into insensibility. lated on the in midocean while the sht and he is gradually Sympathetic per- agony of anticipa- of a man fallmg from a great height, and consoled themselves with the thonght that he was dead before he struck the earth, Physiologists have interested themselves in the gencral question, and es; in that in reference to persons falling from great heights. Person-who have been resuscitated after drown- ing or hanging have been able to give some description of their sensations, but thase who have fallen considerable distances and escaped death have not, so far as known, thrown any valuable light on the subject. It has been supposed that the thrill of terror analogous to that which any one feels when he perceives that he is in danger of falling and saves him- self by a sudden effort i& of such intensity when the clevation is lofty as to immediately arrest the vital functions and cause death with- out a moment’sauffering, In cases of this kind the newspaper reports usually add the consol- ing thonght that the victim of the accident or suicide was probably dead before striking the earth, and consequently spared both physical and mental suffering. ‘There never seems to have been any solid foundation for the presump- tion, since it is d: son could be asph or four seconds second, the ti it approximately takes to ch the earth from an elevation of from 250 50 fect. The most that we can suppose is that respi- ration is suspended, and that there results a sort of syncope or condition of partial uncon- sciousness, not of sufticient duration to cause asphyxia. Almost any one can bold his breath for a minute. Persons who give public exhi- bitions remain easily under water for two minutes, and coral and pear! divers for more than twice that length of tithe. There are facts on record to prove this view of the case. Intending suicides who have thrown themselves from the Suspension bridge at Cincinnati, a height of 80 fect. have been saved. ‘To fall this distance would require about two seconds, and the striking of the water would be the principal thing to be considered. A more remarkable case is that of the young woman who threw herself from the Clifton bridge in England, which ig at the height of 250 feet above the river. The time of the fall was about four sec- onds, as there was a strong wind blowing, and her skirts being inflated slightly retarded the downward movement. She was at once fished outof the water and taken to the hospital, where she soon recovered. Her only injuries were some contusion on the thighs and back and a slight displacement of the breastbone, Of sixteen others who had attempted suicide from the same bridge only one man had been taken from the water alive, and he survived but ashort time. The — woman in ques- tion remembered nothing from the moment she left the bridge until she recovered con- sciousness. The doctor who reported the previous case Fertilization will make many kinds of soi suitable for a great variety of fruit trees and vines, but there are some fruits that will not thrive on certain soils, no matter how richly fertilized they may be.’ Peculiar plants, vines and trees demand peculiar soils, and even those kind which thrive in several varieties of soil generally have their preferences, Take the apple tree, for instance. It can be grown nearly 1 over the United States and in a great variety of soils, but it always does the best in wet, moist and well-drained loam. The pear and oa will grow on nearly every kind of soil that the apple will, but perfection is only reached when pianted in a light. sandy soil, free from standing water. Peach trees are being limited to light, well-drained lands; hence the reason for so many peach orchards found on hillsides. Grapevines produce the —_ results when planted upon high, gravelly 801 THE SELECTION OF LAND for fruit trees applies as well to the smaller vines as berries, the blackberry and rasp- berry upon light land, especially if nitro- genous manure is applied. The currant and ooseberry, on the contrary, require @ moist, | soa soil for the best results. ‘The strawberry wants moist, sandy loam When planted in light, sandy soil move berries are produced, but they are smaller and usually of an inferior quality. FERTILIZATION, After the proper soil is selected for either fruit tree, vine or berry bush, the next question of ys ohh is that of fertilization. The same fertilizer would not do for ali, nor would the same method of application have beneficial results. It is better generally tosow the ma- nure broadcast for the smaller fruits and har- row itin. This method of application wiil do for the larger fruits, too, if other crops are to be grown in the orchard. But if nothing but the trees are to be grown in the orcharda more economical use of the fertilizer would be to = it only around the bases of the trees, ¢ manure should be well decomposed and mixed with dirt before read around the roots of trees, Unfermented manure should never come in contact with the roots, Coarse manure should be spread around the trees and then covered with a layer of dirt, should be used sparingly on sh trees until they begin to bear. The best all-around tna- nure for fruit trees is fine ground bone and potash, mixed in the proportion of four parts of the former to one and Many of our soils have all the elements of great fertility except water, and the work of said that he had never known before of the sur- vival of any one that had fallen 150 feet. Such an instance, however, occurred in Paris at a time when throwing one’s self from one of the lofty columns or other public monuments was a favorite mode of suicide. A man threw him- self from the column of the Bastile, which is 156 feet in height, but, falling on a tent erected for some workmen at the base, rebounded and struck the sidewalk. ‘The fall had been deadened in such a fashion that, though painfully bruised, he was able to get up and walk away shortly afterward, if not cured of the suicidal mania, resolved, probably, in fu- ture to seek death by a less painful and more certain method. Coli The most notable case of survival after fall- | the world may sneer at the idea as an impossi- | 116:38, of Francis 8. H) ing ig Ropes is that related by a French writer, H. de Parville. It is that’ of an East Indian living on the island of Oghin, who fell from a cliff 300 meters high, which is just the altitude of the Eiffel tower. fall was broken by masses of dense vegetation at the foot of the precipice, and he escaped without serious injuries, It is hardly probable that the Eiffel tower will ever be a favorite place for icides, the outer slope of the walls rendering @ perpendicular fall for any considerable dis- tance impossible. The favorite method at present in Paris is to leap from the upper window of the tall houses to the street or into the court, and death is certain. Ifa person has no domicile he would, perhaps, find the towers or other lofty monuments convenient; but, as in Italy, all persons who have in their manner anything suggestive of suicide are watched, and in most cases it is the rule never to leave a on alone at the top of a high monument, last effort to commit suici in this manner failed ignominiously in Paris, A man who had not been sufficiently watched threw himself a few months ago from the to} of the Arch of Triumph, which is about as hi as the columns of the Bastile. He was caught by the projecting cornice a few feet below, whence he was removed with great difficulty, but not seriously hurt. It is almost the o1 case of the kind that has occurred for the last ten years, though the Paris suicides average nearly two a week, taking the year in its en- ————_+e+______ Gentility—As Some Understand It. From the Manchester Times, Genteel it is to have soft hands, Bat not genteel to work on lands; Be rheont cate ts pi bread; a : Genteel it is to cringe and bow, But not genteel to sow or Genteel gentert to ae Gente! it is to 8 fool, But not to & school; Gonteot It is to chens your tothe But not genteel to be a sailor; Genteel It is to Aight a duel, But not genteel to cut your fuel; . Genteel {t is to cat rich cake, to cook or bake; et it i TOWN AIRS AND GRACES. pn dedad oS | ‘Would the World be Better Off Without uid. Marriage? ‘WHAT THE NEW YORK WOMAN SAID AT NARRA- GANSETT—IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE—FRIEND- SHIPS WITHOUT WEDDINGS—HAS MARRIAGE SERVED ITS PURFOSES—THE NEW PLATONICS. The cottage overlooking the water at Narra- gansett justified its name of Witheden or some such pretty composite, It was the fashionable ‘a system of | two shades of dark red outside, with a deep porch half octagon at the corner. making an outside summer room, hung with roses and Vir- ginia creeper, banked with all the midsummer flowers, tuberoses showing white against the brilliance of monthly carnations, foxgloves and lychnis, The windows blossomed with gay Italian awnings, red and gray, or green and white, the Japanese fringe-curtains trembled in the doorways, and the mats of ginger grass, which kept the windy corner, had been freshly sprinkled at sundown and gave their faint aromatic fragrance as they moved. Bamboo lounges and rockers with cushions in red or blue linen held such of the party as were not at the piano within, and the handsomest woman of all sat apart and talked either the most daring sense or artistic nonsense. Her age Was unguessable. In her white wool batiste, with the wild white roses of Narragansett at her throat, she looked in her teens, yet a tall irl at the piano, listening to an admirer, called er “mother,” and few of the pursuits of women failed to find her their mistress, Practical in affairs, a thorough housekeeper. gifted in so- ciety, artistic ie hor finger tips, there remained a dominant idealism of thought and feeling to enrich her life and others, aS Some one had spoken lightly of Mona Caird’s question, ‘Is marriage a failure?” which set both worlds talking a year or less ago, and the New York woman took up the word. RELATIONS OF THE SEXES. “Whether marriage is a failure is not the consideration for the times, The question is related to others we so often hear, why young men do not marry, and is the want of marriages the fault of men or women. All the gibing at the extravagance of one side or the other, the sarcasm at match-making mammas and angling girls spring out of the great mistake under which the world labors—that matrimony is any longer a necessity for the better part of so- ciety, Please understand from the beginning that I ignore and repudiate all license, or, if 1t must be, we will consider all relations of the sexes as a sort of matrimony, licit or illicit, the latter being more stupid and burdensome than the former, People torget that the world moves socially as well as around the heavens, and that there isa moral procession of equinoxes gradually shifting and developing the relations of things. To my mind it isa great conven- ient, natural working of law that there should be a falling off in the sentiment of marriage among educated persous, and that the more thoughtful and giited feel no leaning toward its bondage and its obligations. MARRIAGE HAS SERVED ITS PURPOSE in populating the earth, and its best acres are crowded now. I repeat, it has served its time— the crowding of the population is such as to shorten the individual life and rob it of the finest pleasures. It is well that the sentiment falls into disuse, and with the higher portion of humanity first. The intellect and emotions of the race expand and dominate its propensi- ties just as they have overcome the money- making sentiment or the thirst for seli-will and greed of power. MAN AND WOMAN. “Ask any thoughtful man if he would like for a year tostep into the position held by the happiest wife, with the loss of freedom to come and go daily, as suits him with the multitude, of petty cares and restrictions, the obligation dress and behavior, or be the loser. Six months of a woman's life would send him insane. 1 often think of what one of the brightest authors of the time used to say to me when earning her limited income by daily toil with pen and housekeeping. ‘Lnever look at any of the married women of my acquaintance without thanking God that He has kept me free to fol- low my own tastes and principles at the cost of loneliness and hard work. It would be far harder to follow the line of submission and eajolery these women must affect to get along at all.’ Professional women are not anxious to marry, for their life gives them plenty of in- terest as it is. Wealthy ‘women are slow to marry, and generally repent the step before the honeymoon is over. omen of genius learn too late that they of all others never should marry, and divorce themselves practically if not formally. The finest men avoid marriage and entangling ties, from ful- ness of other pleasures, social and intellectual, Macaulay was not the only educated English- man of time who found no savor in the idea of wedlock, nor was Allen Thorndike Rice the sole young man of fortune and brains to whom it had no attraction beside the calls of high ambitions and noble aims, WILL SOCIETY CHANGE? “I can't help thinking society will change its tone, as it surely does its practice,” said the lady, “‘and in place of urging foolish boys and girls, men and women indiscriminately into marriage, to repent forever, it will see the loftier, sweeter nature of refined celibacy. Not the austerity of the man who never looks at @ woman for fear he may be pleased with her, or the nun who never glances beyond the rim of her poke bonnet, and who are twice as likely to fall Fito @ snare to pay for it, but of those wise enough not to deny affection because they pre- fer to do without passion, Men who half know bility, but those who know it best know that sweeter, purer things are possible and actually existing common human nature dreams. Men have outgrown the impulse of old robber knights when they saw a pretty womansto her off by force, and the finer of them can ad- mire a peerless woman, feeling her witchery in their very souls, without finding it indispensa- ble to either marry or ruin her. The sooner this is recognized and society adjusted to this new privilege and freedom the better. There will always fools enough to carry on the race, and the increasing proportion of men and women not desirous of marriage is some- thing to be grateful for and to encourage. It means health, leisure, devotion to large in- terests for good of society. It means nae life, larger means, more room and opportunity for the rest of humanity, more happiness for the individual, and for the world. PLATONIC AFFECTION. “Give men and women more liberty to make friends of each other, and you will find less vice, fewer marriages and sounder ones. The license is not half so likely to be abused as that of love-making, as it exacts decorums which our courtship does not. The duenna, the dis- creet friendly third, is essential to such inter- course, and renders it possible for such intimacy to defy misconstruction. Say the picture is too fine drawn, impossible, and I will show you in- stances, scores of them, when such friendski, are carried on without i SUCH FRIENDSHIPS affectionate how to warm, is the by dread apr “The heir to oination liant rior by and to Brighton and Dereon aan ree, Be ite star, is 'wot one to. dim tte 'laster for the helt to's but rather to touch any man to insues of ‘It adds the last touch of warmth to regard for this American peeress, who does her country so much honor ae go toes ite odionmess and re pee sation. There are eo many women i to consult another's taste in every detail of | AUCTION SALES. — FUTURE DAYs. MAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, ES’ SALE OF FINE er Bos oy Via trict of Columbia, ‘and by direetion of the y Hi awe tal PM = Fron the Sane ees House formerly’ th of T Jackson, deceased, on o 32d street, im said with the line of said House, being No. isa Hi Tents at six and twelve mon! interest and secu: deud sold; or all eat pee or CHANCERY SALE OF Val REAL BSTATE ON KENTUCKY D STREET SOUTHEAST, The OF WASHINGTON. By virtue of a deed of trast June 22, recorded in Jaber 1265" fote S10 et ace’ of Hand Records of the ect Columbia, and in suance of a decree of the Supreme Court trict of Columbia equity cause No. hgpen Heury £. Woodard iscomplainant and A. McEwen et al. are defendants, the un offer for sale at public suction, in front of the on SATURDAY. the TWENTIETH DAY OF J A.D. 1889, at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M, the Real Extace in the city of Washi Original Lots pumbered Three(3) and teen (18) square numbered Ten Hundred and Forty-oe (1041). ‘erms of sale: One-third of ie [epraaae-meeney, Cy gash und the balance in one (1) and (2) years in equal Instalinents, with interest from the day. eble semi-annually, the deferred payments > Gurvdou the Property gold. or all Cast at purchaser's opuon, Allconveyancing and recording at the Pur- chaser's Cost. “The property will be resold at the isk and cost of defwulting purchaser if the terms of sale are not complied with in ten days. A deposit of 6100 on Lot will be required at the time of sale. GEOKGE E. HAMILTON, cy +) Teustees, WILLIAM A. 5 } + ve. N SPLEND! 'S. CORNER aN 3 FRET 1LOL'STREET ON E STREET NORTH. AFTERNOON, JULY SIXJEENTH, AT HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOOK, we will sell in front of the premises, LOTS 44 £0 94 INCLUSI SQUARE 628. ‘These Lots front 248 feet on North Capitol street, th a depth of 110 feet to a 15-foot alley, und contain ) sq. feet. Lot 54 being at the corner of E and th Capitol streets. This beiug the finest plat of ots jp the neighborhood and suitable for dwellings oF bus- ness purposes, wtreet concreted, wide parking, &c-, shouid attract ihe attention of syndicates and others. ‘The location is one of the finest in that section of the Gity and the Lots are susceptible of advantageous sub- vision. Terms: One-third cash, balance in one and two ears, notes to be <iven bearing 6 per cent interest rr payable semi-annually, ant be day of sale, to Bec yy deed Of truston premises sold. A deposit of 8100 0n each lot at time of sale. Vag &e.. at purchaser's Terms tobe complied wit iu ten day's, otherwise right reserved to resell at risk and cost of defaulting purchaser or purchasers after five days’ public notice of such resale im some news- paper published in Washington, D. DUNCANSON BROS., Jy10-d&ds Auctioneers. V y ASHINGTON HORSE AND CARRIAGE BAZAR + 938-040 Louisiana ave, Auction sale of Horses, Carriages, Wagons, Harness, rUESDAY, THURSDAY. and SATURDAY NG. commencing at TEN O'CLOCK, Always on hand at private sale large stock of Family Carriages, Phaetons, Buggies, Wagous of every des- cription, Horses, Harness, &c., &e. 8, BENSINGER jel4-1m rpms Down Auctioneer. VERY HANDSOME STX-PIECE SILK PLUSH PAR- ; ‘OTS, M. T. TABLES, yILLOW CHAIRS, VERY SUPERIOR OAK SIDEBOARD, FINE OAK EX- TENSION DINING TABLE, WALNUT EXTEN- SION DINING TABLE, WALNUT DINING CHAIRS, VERY COMPLETE BLUE AND WHITE DINNER AND TEA SERVICE, GLASSWARE, WALNUT AND OTHER CHAMBER FURNI- TU REFRIGERATOR, KITCHEN REQUI- &e. MORNING, JULY FIFTEEN, 1889, esi No. 1608 1 3th street northwest, at TEN O'CLOC: sell the above effects, which are in first-class condition. E Jy10-4t ‘THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. W ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO, Auctioneers, AND BASEMENT BRICK E AND LOT, FRONTING ON > NOTH AND 7TH STREETS, AHROUGH TO BOUNDARY STRE! WEST, AT AUCTION, NO. 629. On TUESDAY, JULY SIXTEENTH at SIX O'CLOCK P.M., we shall sell in front of the preinises Lot 15 in D. B. Gott’s subdivision of a part of square 440, hav- ing about 17 teet 6 inches frout, rumming through to Boundary strect th depth thereof, improved by a new two-story aud basement brick dwelling house, seven Toots and bath room, modern improvements, hot and cold water. Yurties ib search of @ delightful home should give this sale their special at Le etSgus eat), tus wade known at the, tinie of sale. 0 down when the pro) is struck off. walter 8. WILLIAMS & CO, Auctionee ND ETS NORTHWEST. é On WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY SEVEN- TEENTH, AT HALF-PAST FIVE O'CLOCK, we will sell, in front of She Premises, LOTS 25 AND 26, SQUARE 92, each fronting 24 feet on Connecticut avenue and 23 fect on 21st street, being two of the finest building Somnecticut avenue, suitable for building ou jots on both fronts, agd in the imniediate vicini the finest residences in our city. ‘Terms: One-third notes to bear interest at y Tr) payable semi-annually, and to be secured by deed of rust on premises sola, chaser. A deposit of & Conve} apne. &c., at purchaser's cost. Terms to complied with in 10 days, right reserved Fesell at risk and cost of efaulting purchaser after ys’ public notice of such resale in some publinbed in Washington, D. © 3y10-d&ds_ DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, CHASCEEY, SALE OF VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, KNOWN AS PART OF FLETCHER OR FLETCHALL'S CHANCE, SITUATED ON GRANT ROAD, AND ALSO ON NOURSE ROAD, NORTHEAST ‘OF TESNALLYTOWN, 1X, THE COUNTY OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. By virtue of a decree District of Columbia, of the der and o' i ‘west side o! THOS. E, WAGGAMAN, Auc, MEDICAL, &. Dn tke 2 ‘be consulted dally, 464 a sta, nw 2ERE Tee Pears at ae always open. Mon » New jornia, “Pulluau Sleeper New cars Atlanta to Movicomery, Orieane Atimaty Bre Poca Thence fur 9:40 p. m—Western “Buprees, daily for Cuipeer, Oraupe, Charictteerils “Tous: ville, Sincinnatt Pullman Vestivule tram echo, mr ye rees dally for Lp nchibes .m.—Southern Express dal r anvil, Haier Anbevile, “Charlotte, Columban, rt Adanta, Wontgomers. New Orieaua, Texas ew Orleans, vie Atlante and Monwomery Ec Wah once hina ti reas te Georgia Pecttic way ato nce rains on Washington and Obio di visio : ington 8:00 am. daliy'excent Sunday, and x @aily: arrive Round Will 11:0 a.m. ret leave Round Hill 6 05 am daily pm Y gxcept Sunday, arriving Washin, and” $3 pm, ro ing from the South via Charlotte, Dan- Lynchburg arrive in Wesninctou ere my. ; Via Fast Tennessee, ol - 03 am. and 10:40 p ne Chena PPE Pio Fouts and Charlottesville at za E13 p.m und 6:63 an. Str m. Ticke Ing-car reservation and i Checked at office, 1 sy) vania avenue, and at Passe suger Station, na and B streets. x20 JAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agent, 7:13 at a 00 Penn- vee rp cnr, ENNSYLVANIA ROUTE TO TRE NORTH, WEST AND SOLTRWEST. UBLE TRACK. SPLENDID SCENERY. 5 MAGNIFICENT EQUIPMENT, IN EFFECT J Nb LSND, TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON, PROM STATION, CQNER OF SIXTH AND BSTKEETS, aS POL For Pittsburg amd the West, Chicago Limited to Chicago, with Sleep Western Express, at 7:40 Care Waslangton to Chicago and St. Louis com pecting daily Tisbury with throweh Sleepers for Louisville and Memphis. Express, 10-00 mi. daily, for Pittsbure the West, wit fhrough Sleeper to Pittaburg, aud Fitisuing to bicasco,, BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RATLROAD, For Kave, Canandaigua, Kochester and Niagara daily, except Sunday. 8.10 a. 0. For Erie, Capaudaigus and Kochester daily, for Buf- flo abd Niagara daily, excert Saturday, 10-00) p. m with Sleeping Car Waslungtou to Kucbester damsport, Lock Haveu aud Elmira at 9508, m. daily, except Sunc FORK PHILADE 7:20, 9:00, 10:00 and 11 except Sunday, and . FOR PHILADELPHIA ©) Fast Express 5:10 a. iu. week day Sy: Express 2:10 p.m. daily. Bor Boston, without change, 2.50 p.m. every day. For Brookiyn, N. ¥., all through trains ox ‘ Jersey City with ‘boats of Brookiyn A: ing direct transfer to Fulton ve double ferriag across New York city for Uceab City aud Points on Delaware Division, mm we 1s yy k days, For Atlantic City 4 00, 11:00and 11-40 a. m. * iy 11-20. m, dai ik am and 4-40 p.m. daily, ‘except Sunday For Apuapolis, 7:20 and 9:00 am., 12.05, 4: 20and 6:00 p.m. ‘daily, except Sunday. Sundays, 0-05 am., 4:10 p.m. ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RATL- WAX, AND ALEXANDEIA AND WASHINGTON KALUWAY “IN EFFE OT MAY 12, For Alexandria, 4:.i0, > 5.10-57 12:04 Boon, 1, O21, in Om Sunday at 4d 85, 6.01, 8:02 aud 10:03 45 a.m.and 4:55 pan clays Qu Siuidas 4 VS, 8:00, 9 Tickets and inforuiat ber of 13th street an St the station, where ters can checking of Largage te veetuation Feudenves from hotels and 3. R. WOOD, General Passenwer Agent. ne Axp Onx ject JUNE » Ranzoan. » Lhe For Chis preen daily {12 For Cincinnati, St daily, 3-00 and 11 For Fittsburg gud press daily 11:20 0 For Wheeling, Parkersburg on main lin a @, Express daily exc 4o-muputesd 30. "9200, 10:30 aud tations between Washingtor 40. 5-30, & m., 12°10, mi. Sundays, 8:30am, 1:15, 'P. mm. jeave Baltimore for Moshington, . week ), 7:20, 8 » 6:30, Ww « 15." 20:20 (4 » 9:15, minutes 10:05, 10. and 0. 12> ami VOand Wash- (oe », trains leave B 7 ee hn =. Sseeoeea ™, 8:30 Werlamaisie faa tby'tm. 12:30, an or ia, iT s 2 d ve 6 OB, 3:50, and 4:00 pm. ropolitan Branch, +6 Bi 8 ‘Leas Church train lesves Washi Sunday st 1:15 ington on is Por statious on Metropolitan 245..12 0:30 a.m, 13:00, 14:30 3-55 pam. 5 a.m. and os daily Sbg 0 amend and 14-30 Waal ten, "9830, 111:00 am. 315, *5:00 pm. Tr we Phil for Washin $24 ce NES a.m, 11:55, "4:15, "8-00, e148 ‘ City 4:00 and 9:30 ands 30 os 00 a. mand 10 BOUL Fer Long Brinch aud Ocean Grove 14:00, 18:00 & “fuscepe Gundsi’ “Dells” SGunday only, tEscept Sunday and Monday.” 4 called for and checked from hotels and ou orders left