Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1889, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, Written for Tux EVENie Stan. TOWN AIRS AND GRACES. The Perfumer’s Art and the Growing Popularity ot Perfumes. VASHIONS IN PERFUMES—COSTLY SCENTS THAT ARE IN DEMAND—THE IMPORTANT WORK PER- FORMED BY NATURE—HOW CHOICE SCENTS ARE MADE—§HE ETIQUETTE OF PERFUMES, The costliest article of ancient commerce ‘Was the heart of aloes, not the medicine, but the heartwood of the sacred aloes tree, fragrant with enduring and inexpressible sweetness, a treasure in which was paid the yearly tribute Of kings, and a perfume s0 exquisite and es- teemed that it was reserved for the use of great Potentates and holy temples, of which neither trace nor knowledge seems to exist in this country. The eastern women perfume their Persons with the smoke of burning spices till their flesh is penetrated with odors for day afterward, a practice kept up in seraglios till the flesh of a harem favorite smells like one of those tablets of pressed perfumes familiar in every collection of Turkish wares. In later times at coronation feasts, civic triumphs like those which graced the court of Charles of Bergundy, fountains of wine and of fumes were purt of evory show, a boon to thrice thankful for in times when the com- mon people were, as Erasmus calls them, un- washed “Ramish clowns.” At the entrance of Charles the Second into London spray of per- fomed waters was flung upon the multitude, end among the English and italian nobility it ‘was the custom to break eggshells filled with rfume over the heads of guests at dinner. Ee catom has descended to our day in the Perfumed crackers of French chemists, cap- sules of gelatine filled with scent and wrapped in brilliant papers or silk cornets. POPULAR DEMAND FOR PERFUMES. With the increase of wealth and refined per- sonal habits in this country the use of per- fumes is no longer the mark of the rich, but it is the necessity of ail except the very poor. In the large fancy shops confectionery,cheap novels (not necessarily poor ones), scent sachets and handkerchief perfume rise with every season, and there appears to be a field for all of the in supplying this growing country with s for its dkerchiefs. sachets for its corsa and waisteoats, and toilet waters for its ‘The writer has talked with all the leading per- fumers of New York, complaint of bard tim and south are alike in appreciation of sweet odors. Of course the demand for these is the greatest in the centers of population, | country is no way behind in its cravings for toilet luxuries, aud it makes up for its leeser population by the high quality of soaps and essences ordered. For the family of the rich farmer, ranc! is extracts or toilet arti are too costly; the very choicest products are in demand for the rich southwest, Denver and San Franc’ nd nothing less will answer. Country druggists say that in the late war, when a woman ceived her husband's bounty as a soldier, her first purchases were an outfit of fresh soaps. perfumery and cosmetics—things she had never been able to compass in her stinted life before. She could and did often work at sew- ing or photograph coloring for a subsistence, but the available money went luxuries, which often mean more to life than its coarse necessitis What is life worth with- out its pleasant sights, sounds and odors? NATURE'S OFFICES. One of the most exquisite offices in nature is that performed by scents of flowers in purify- ing the air, and breathing ozone into it by their perfumes. Not all sweet-scented plants do this, or all pleasant odors, The distinction is marked between the sedative odors and the re- viving ones. Lilies, jasmine, tube rose, orange flower and acacia in their natural form. borne on the winds and mixed with many thousand times their own volume of air are pleasant, soothing toa healthy sense, though delicate nerves caunot enjoy them even in their garden freshness, Brought closer in cluster of blossom, their odor is narcotic, depressing, so that persons grow faint at smell of them, and yet more con- centrated their effect is stupefying and dead}; Well authenticated instances abound of persons sent into heavy slumber, as if drugged. by the odor of lilies or jasmine, and scent of orange flowers is so depre: action of the heart that it is not sa: e with disease of that organ to inhale it any length of time. It is not at all imagination when nervous 3 heard. est susceptible persons complain of discomfort | proves upon ti w | choice of a hundred odors for soothing and from the powerful scent of flowers or essences of any sort. din their business no | re- | for the minor | plants as it is with seafog. The cool air distils the perfumes as ina vast condenser. and the quality of these aromatic dews is life-giving extraordinary, Extract of California te is the name given to a new American perfume, but if the makers Seen ne vor the me of the Coast Range” as Frenel out the ~“Brise des Alpes,” it would be admired as the famous “Peau d° Espagne,” in davs of Onueen Elize beth, and the is something on the same order, THE ETIQUETTE OF PERFUMES. A curious French journalist diverted himself lately by gravely suggesting the propriety of scents for certain occasions, in other words, the etiquette of perfumes. For instance, some ex- tracts should be used for outdoor es, others for state occasions, others for the inti- macy of the boudoir. The idea is entirely new to perfumers, but the notion might Le —_— even farther, On risiag, a person of elegan' tastes might dash the rater of the bath with French cologne, whose rosemary tincture has most reviving effect, The ambitious a woman who is learning society makes herseli attractive, she imagines, by scenting her per- son with violet water or heliottope sachets, which are a little too expressive of desire to please. The trained belle bathes her neck and face in water, which a few drops of benzoin tineture makes agreeable, and you eae ber finding a delicate sweetness ing her Tesence, and deepening as you your place by her side, as if it were an aroma from her flesh, like some flowers, whose slight fragrance is only discernible by closest ‘sense. Her gar- ments ce perfumed by sachets lying among their folds in the wardrobe, not worn with them, which gives them ‘the evanescent charm of the odor of flowers, “which com and goes on the air like the warbling of musi as Bacon says. For her morning rides im the park, her habit may be scented more decidediy with aromatic peau d’Espagne, or some eastern blending of cedar end sandal, or with the rasp- ings of camphor-wood, which yields an aroma totally distinct from the gum. ‘Some such sug- gestion of scent is certainly preferable to that of the best groomed horse when one must be on his back. Possibly our French writer would say in the forenoon one must see one's lawyer in regard to some conveyance, and it would totelly detract from the idea of serious busi- j hess to go redolent with white lilac or cau | marechai. scents of the salon. Only such per- {fi tearoses hidden in the folds of the | fume as | dress, or a drop of sweet-brier on the handker- give discreet pleasure by rising over tie smetis of dust and chlorine which gather in ottices from the accumulation of papers, PERSONS AND PLACES. | Atadinner, no perfumesare worn. Qdorous | flowers are not allowed to mix with the savor of food, for the smell of baked meats vulgarizes that of flowers. The tiny flacon of smelling salts or the vinaigrette crusted with rubies and turquoises be carried, but never used un- ess. But perfumes should pt bowls—at least # rose geranium leaf or «sprig of lemon verbena or *weet-brier to leave its scent npon the fingers. Perfume is agreeable at theaters, indeed, they seem a part of the spirit of the place, and who does not tind a watt of Nice violet,’ or white rose, trom the rich dresses of lovely women, part cir legitimate socery at such a piace. For eting, where one would attract a lover un- ed, no perfume can be too delicate, and otrope or the Verdier rove scent, ex- ‘utangible, are the most definable odors An interest, individuality belongs to | the pezsons who attach themselves to some fine old ace fashionable but nearly forgot- i who come to be known by the bonquet aroline of the honey water which faintly umes their handkerchiefs and gloves, Sach belong to the persons not quite young. et never | of ardent sensibilities ‘transformed into | tastes and keen remembrances, The duiling of time does not take place with such | people—it only retines them: or the delicate | old perfume may be carried by one of those young persons, serious and mature beyond their years, who are condensed romances, "One tell a character, or at least its development, erfume readily. One thing is curious, but perfectly natural, that perfumers by trade declare much of them. After visitigg the laboratories of two or three manufacturers one comes home wit | |Rever care to use perfumes; they breathe so | a feeling that there isno scent like the ne of clean linen--that indescribable | freshness which Lubin essayed to imitate in | his forgotten Ean de Mousseline. Fur all that, perfumes have their uses and value, for they were esteemed for their medicinal qualities by | the earliest and greatest physicians, aud the | formulas for certain odors were writien on » tablets in the public temples, Nature, which give: al its proper smell, im- h man, whom she gives THE REVIVING SCENTS | cen ST EI mir Dane. arise from herbaceous plants largely, from the A Novel Wedding. Odors of rose, mignouette, lavender, thyme | From the Cincinnati Inquirer. and lemon verbena, balsamic rosemary, and, | chief of all, the carnation family, including Spicy stocks, wallflower and pinks. Not quite sorts, for the fringed garden pink distils with its sweet spice a breath of laurel ether like that of cherry blossoms, which make the bees drank in their overblown boughs. T seent of clove carnations is one of nature's finest stimulants, and a garden border full of them is a cordon of delicate disinfection as far aa its odor spreads. So far, howe e of the carnation proves inimi most skillful perfumers making their perfu: heavy by a base of jasmine added to the clove ether. The jasmine is just too much, and no sense seems delicate enough to discern what Beeds to accompany the clove odor to resolve it into pure carnation breath. This serves to illustrate the difficulties which the perfumer to meet with in his aerial, tautalizing chem- istry. The scale of odors is fixed as a scale of | music. Combine such and such notes and har- | Mony results, but the intervals of the perfume | Cctaves are semitones and tones of infinite | division, and mortal sense is seldom fine enough to seize them with intelligent precision. ‘The Swedish chemist Lundborg, who has given his name to some of the choicest perfumes of American make, was one of these natural al- chemists. ned in the careful study of nat- ural sciences common to Swedish universities, he ran away from home and followed a wan- dering life for years, till he settled in a New York laboratory as dispensing chemist to a firm of manufacturing pertumers. Lundborg wasa natural genius. quaint, recluse, devoted to his researches, and many a girl who sprinkles her kerchief with the perfume which adds the 8 final charm to her presence, has reason to | thank the ugly, peculiar Swede for a pleasure she would be very sorry to lose. Imagine the world robbed of its perfumes at a stroke, no fragrant waters for the toilet, no scent-disguis- ing lotions, soaps or ades, but everything in its bald, original odor. One would be thank- fulfora whiff of cedronella or cheap helio- trope, methinks. or a cheap cologne. THE PROCESS OF MAKING PERFUMES, The process of making perfumes has been given to the public over and over again. How the thousands of acres of Mediterranean flower- farms on the high lands, 2,000 feet or more above the warm sea in Sicily, the Riviera, in Bulgaria, ani the Cashmere plateaus of Persia yield thousands of pounds of petais from the most ordoriferous flowers in the world, far sur- passing in fragrance the products of lower val- eys and heated regions. How layers of the est clarified suet mixed with olive oil spread in glass trays are covered with flower petals two inches deep to absorb their sweetness. How, after ying under the flowers, acacia, jasmine, violet, orange flower and lemon, rose and tube- rose for weeks, the odorous precious pomade is shipped in bulk to perfumers all over the world. Their first work is to dissolve in the ae —— as much of the fat as it wil e up, forming the triple extract which is the base of all Mold This maceration of the flower pomade is finished by cold, not by heat, as most Avery unique marriage was celebrated in juire Hanser’s office yesterday afternoon, the ‘squire ting. The bride was Miss Jessie Troeger, who lives at the corner of Main street and MeMicken avenue, She obtained some celebrity two years ago by leading a strike of the waitresses in Rockwell's restaurant. She is twenty years old. The groom was Chas, Adams, better known in the dime museum world as the armless wonder, He was born without those useful members of the body, and, in lieu of a better and more profitable means of livelihood, hired himself out to dime museums, Adams is now about thirty years of age, and, barring the lack of arms, isa fine specimen of physical beauty. The absence of | arms is little felt by the wonder, however, for he has become very expert with his toes and mouth. When the couple entered the ‘squire’s office yesterday and said they wanted to be —_— wedlock that official was perplexed for awh: “ifow can you join hands?” he asked bluntly, pointing to Adams. “Ob, that is easy enough,” said the pretty bride, who stood fully three headsshorter than the groom. And she reached 4; the stump of his undeveloped left right hand. _ “See,” she said, as she stood smilingly on her tip-toe “But the ring. How ca: ring on your finger?” “In this way,” said Adam: ished officials in the ‘squir derstruck to see the circlet | armless man’s teeth. and grasped arm with her n he put the marriage and the aston- court were thun- of gold between the Bending his head he dettiy slipped it over the girl's finger. Satisfied that the couple understood their | business, the ‘squire went abead and performed the ceremony. After being made man and wife Adams sat down and, slipping the shoe off his right foot, disclosing oy | with the front of the foot cut off, he reached into his vest his brought out a roll bills, Se- red it asa fee, and, lecting a $5 note he tende! | putting on his shoe, went away, his littl | sticking close to him, ——— The Inside of a Yachting Episode. Clara Belle in New York Evening World. ‘There is a girl of astonishing loveliness who has just become engaged to a middle-aged member of a certain yacht club, and, if I can | believe the story that I heard from the unsuc- | cessful rival of the yachtsman jn the race for the sweet creature’s favor, the prize was won | in a decidedly unique and ingenious way. The | successful suitor owns a large steam yacht and alsoa small racing cutter, On one recent af. ternoon, when there was a smart bri | ing, he had a little company take a him down the bay ‘sboard the cutter. ‘TUB LABORATORY OF A PERFUMER is a very prosaic looking place. Rows of bright cans of kerosene apparently, hold in reality two to five gallons of flower spirit, from which he itely draws a goblet of clear fit t it fo cals with all a Feng Png rhene laden Riviera in its depths. fumes, as it contains the essence of all violet odor, Neroli staple necessity of the E i i? Hi 4 E g E F : & & I é i 5 f BF i aif ll if Ht 1 : i j E ill i Eh E Suddent, id bef : warning iy, am fore an given, the man at the till to luff. That bi Without any shock. without and poet EB: fee fi grow old, but are a betrayal | } = Written for Tax Evewme Stan. A HOME FOR THE PRESIDENT. A Chat with Mrs. Harrison About the| «Just think of a reception now, Before the White Hi and What it Needs. | honr » grest throng is packed in the narrow nae pee joan Jrorrepgine ry teroere have ee AND MORE PRIVACY REQUIRED—WHAT MRA | erp. Eo! wm age nad or ta wll yooh HARRISON THINKS ABOUT THE PROPOSED GAl- | sons are fofced to go around to the sout it LERY OF PAINTINGS AND THE CONSERVATORY. | and enter through a window into ‘ery soon dent Harrison, while the assignment of the 7 peeacipde cree wer ecient an AO at . private apartments of the executive mansi ere are no proper accommodations i itlemen’ its orcoats, The to the different members of the President's pes tre pte ‘the canines ore in fact enlargem: domestic circle was being arranged by Mrs. | aa much for the accommodation of the people Harrison, the insufficiency of room was felt as | who are entitied to attend these receptions as & very serious inconvenience, Although the | for the President's family. the fashionable the parlors without the usual jams.” A RECEPTION NOWADAYS. i household of the President was not the THE CONSERVATORY AND GALLERY. largest ever domiciled in the official! In speaking of the conservatory and gallery home of the chief magistrates, that | f paintings Mrs, Harrison showed her love for of President Tyler having exceeded it in point | “* of numbers, the Gaabbadieinans of iat “A combination of @ grand gallery for his- quirements of late years upon the apartments pesos! a yregrgs in the earlier days used for family purposes | 372 to these has now reached a point where relief has be- strangers visiting the phn come # matter of absolute necessity. Even the | interest might be concentrate library, which was used by the ladies of the | 8ervatory should have broad avenues among ‘ the ranges of plants, so that they m1 household as late as the administrations of | appear te beat advantage aa co that tho guests Presidents Grant,Hayes and Garfield, was taken tor office pi Arthur. widower, and Cleveland, May enjoy themselves in promenade,surrounded by the luxuriance ,of rare varities of plant life from every portion of the globe. The gallery of historical aintings would also afford in- Structive entertainment for promenading guests, Whataconvenience and comfort this would be to the thousand or more ladies, ticularly in elegant toilets, who are often crowded into the east room. A very excellent Plan could be made for a conservatory, gallery of paintings, and hall of statuary, and what a source of attraction it would be to the admirers of the beautiful in nature and art.” _ AN ABT GALLERY, The idea of an art gallery is especially pleas- ing to Mrs, Harrison, On this subject she spoke with much earnestness, “I think,” said she, ‘that this government has reached that point where it should give more attention to the fine arts—that is, a judicious expenditure for works of merit. The corridor of the mansion here has portraits of the Presidents, but it is 80 dark that they cannot be seen, and there seems to be no way to remedy the defect. A brighter color to the walls might help, but that would be no substitute for fight. “Yes, I think that the President would favor arecommendation to Congress to give proper rovisions for the accommodation of the execu- ‘ive office and the President's family their at- tention. We must then hope that the majority will appreciate the situation and come to the relief of the overtaxed quarters of the execu- tive mansion and their occupants.” REHANGING THE PICTURES, Mrs, Harrison has been giving her attention to the rehanging of some of the portraits The picture of Washington by Luis Cadena of Quito, one to this government, has been taken from the cabinet room and given a place in the main corridor with the other paintings of the Presidents. The portrait of John reef den, the champion of civil liberty in Englan: who began his opposition to the arbitrary court ot Charles I, supported tho liberties’ of his country in parliament and died for them in the | field, after a somewhat perilous experience in the White House lumber attic finally found a nai! for support in the cabinet room, and has now been given a place of prominence in the jurposes b; ry bachelor, and after his mar- riage was retained for that purpose, The cabi- | net room then and since has served asan ante room for Senators and others admitted without card, while the public ante room still serves the sa urpose of a piace of anxious and pa- tient waiting for over-hopeful office seekers who imagine that a few minutes interview with the President will be sure to bring a realiza- tlon of their wildest hopes of official prefer- ment. SECRETARY BLAINE’S ADVICE. One day while this knotty problem of domes- tic comfort and convenience, with the available Space at command, was absorbing the attention vf Mrs. Harrison and was engaging a share of the President's thoughts. Secretary Blaine hap- ened in on imporsant diplomatic busine: he President, Mrs, Harrison and the premier | engaged in a conversation on the subject which was just then paramount. Ihe Secre- tary of State intimated that he could could see no other way out than the enlarge- ment of the executive mansion by the erection of a wing or auxiliary building for the Presi- | dent's offices on the west, toward the State, War and Navy building, and the construction ofagrand conservatory and hall of paintings on historic subjects associated with American history on the east, or toward the Treasury building, the present executive mansion to re- main as the central building--the President's home—and for public entertainments in the suite below. ‘This proposition was immediately accepted by Mrs. Harrison as qn excellent one, and since then she has given it her frequent attention, AGITATING THE SUBJECT. Very soon after this consultation, which will be historic as the first serious official movement to provide the President of the United States with a home for his family commensurate with the dignity of the office and comfort of his | family, Mrs. Harrison brought subject to the attention of Col. J. M. Wilson, commis- sioner of public buildings and’ grounds, who has charge of the executive mansion. It is the custom of the commissioner to call upon the presiding lady every morning at 9 o'clock when in the city to receive her directions in re- | Ted parlor. It is supposed to be a Vandyck, gard to the care, improvement and adorument | OF, Jf not, then a production of Sir Peter | of the family portions of the mans Lely, his successor. Mr. Macgregor, M. P. who’ presented the painting to the United States in 1856, says that he purchased it for a Vandyck. Mrs. Harrison greatly admires the painting, claiming that, as the subject was one ot the leaders of civil and religious liberty at | the very time that the earliest colonists were coming to America to escape the intolerance of the dominant church and state, it should have | a conspicnous place. This isthe beginning of | a White House gallery. as it is a very laudable deviation from the old rule of covering dark and inaccessible corners of the mansion with MRS. HARRISON'S MEMORIAL PLAN. There had been agitations of the subject of a new executive residence before, but they had always been associated with land speculations, which at once put the stamp of disapprobation upon the projects. The present scheme of utilizing the existi nF structure in part and en- larging it, suggested by Secretary Biaine and | heartily indorsed by Mra, Harrison, ix one | which meets the approval of the President and will doubtless be carried out by the Fifty-tirst | the effigies of Prosidents of the re- Congress, which is the first Congress of the | public from the brushes of artists | second century of the government under the | with and without merit. The bronzed Constitution, and, as Mrs. Harrizon intimates, “would be a fitting memorial to the growth of the republic during the first hundred years,” The annual report of Col. Wilson, recently published in Tx Stax, reflected the suggestion of Secretary Blaine as sustained by Mrs. Harri- son, and was doubtless made prominent in or- der to put the project in motion. WHAT MRS. HARRISON SAYS. | features of President Taylor, the hero of Mon- | terey and Buena Vista, barely distinguishable in the corridor without, are now recognizable over the door of the red parlor by Mrs, Harri- son’s orders, she having given particular at- | tention to the light. ‘here are many other improvements in view which will be carried out within the next three months. Those who will onjoy the hospitalities of . r= ‘ e executive mansion during the coming social Tat rome JAG band lw cared Harrison | season of the present admiaistration Sill ot. r ef |serve the unnsual elegance of the interior of look beyond that, as many things may occur in | the Ionic mansion in which the Presidents re- that time, but Iam very anxious to see the | side. DezB. B. K. family of the President provided for properly. oe Oren and while Tam here I hope to be able te get A Sanitary House. From the New York Independent. It will stand facing the sun on a dry soil in a wide, clean, amply sewered, substantially paved street, over a deep, thoroughly venti- lated and lighted cellar. The floor of the cellar will be cemented, the walls and ceiling plas- tered and thickly whitewashed with lime every year, that the house may not act asa chimney to draw up into its chambers nticro-organisms from the earth, Doors and windows, some of which extend from floor to ceiling, will be as abundant as circumstances permit, and will be adjusted to secure as much as may be of thorough currents of air. The outside walls. if of wood or brick, will be kept thickly painted, not to shut out netrating sir, but for the sake of dryness, Ailinside walls will bo plastered smooth,exteten, and however unesthetic, varnished. "Mantels will be of marble, slate, iron, or, if of wood, plain, and whether natural, painted or stained, varnished. Interior wood-work, including floors, will all show oe surfaces and be likewise treated. Movable rugs, which can be shaken daily in the open air—not at doors or out of windows where dust is blown back into rooms—will cover the floors. White linen shades, which will soon show the necessity of sf will protect the windows. All furniture will be plain, with cane seats, perhaps, but without pom yen & Mattresses will covered with oiled silk; blankets, sheets and spreads, no comforts or quilts, will constitute the bedding. the present building put into good condition and to see the suggestion of Secretary Blaine, | which is an excellent one, carried out. It very papperly pays due regard to the historic associafions of this interesting structure and at the some time meets the necessities of the President's convenience both for himself and his family. Very few people understand to what straits the President's family has been put at times for lack of accommodations, Even in President Buchanan's time, when entertaining the Prince of Wales as his guest in return for social consideration shown himself and Miss Lane while at London by the prince's mother, by the time the prince, the duke of Newcastle, and Gen. Bruce of his suite were provided with apartments the President, who gave up his room, was obliged to occupy the ante room asa bed chamber and the rest of the prince's suite were compelled to find quarters at the British legation, ONLY FIVE BED ROOMS. “Really there are only five sleeping apart- ments. A few years ago the ladies of the fam- ily hada parlor upstairs; now they are com- pelled to sit out in the corridor upstairs, which is not only dark and gloomy, although brightened up a little by paintings and a lighter shade of coloring upon the wall, but even then there is no pleasure there, as the low temporary par tion thrown across does not exclude the con- fusion of sounds from persons entering the library by the private corridor just beyond the partition. There is really Of plumbing there shall be as little as is MO TERLING OY FAIVACE, necessary, and-all there is shall be exposed, as and cannot be under the circumstances, The | is the practice now, The inhabited rooms shall red parlor down stairshas been used fora family parlor, but that is inconvenient, It is properly an ante room to the blue parlor, and we are often interrupted by persons who have permission to look @ parlors. This be heated only with open fires, the cellar and halls by radiated heat, or, better, by a hot air furnace, which shall take ite fresh air from above the top of the house and not from the cellar itself or the surface of the earth, where throng to circulate through MR. AND MRS. BOWSER. Some Very Sad Trials Over Mr. B.’s 3 Wardrobe. From the Detroit Free Prese. WhenI got home from mother’s the other afternoon Mr. Bowser was walking up and down the sitting room like a caged lion. As he was an hour abead of his usual time I was naturally. astonished, and as he looked so stern and dignified I was fearful that some misfor- tune had occurred. “Anything wrong, Mr. Bowser?” I managed to ask, He halted, folded his hands under his coat- tails, and balancing himself on his heels and “Why, what have I done?” be an invitation to attend a the B. N. G. club, and was down to —- lo! +“Not much! No robber with any sense in his head would come to this house! It would take him a week to find anything! I go up-stairs to not only | get a clean shirt, collar, &c., but nothing of the | sortcan be found. Icome down and ask the | cook to see ifmy Sunday clothes are in the | flour barrel, but she looks in vain. I go to the | telephone and ask the coal man if he saw them | in basement when he put in that last ton, | but he can't remember. You, of course, have no knowledge of them. You can'tsay whether they are in the oat bin in the barn or packed away in the garret for a rat's nest.” “Mr. Bowser, have you been drinking?” “Have I been drinking? That's just like a woman! When she gets cornered she throws out just such insults to hide her own short- comings. It’s a wonder I haven't been drink- ing. It’sa wonder I don't come home drunk and wipe out this family. Mrs. Bowser, I de- mand to know what you have done with my clothes?” “They are up stairs, unless you have sold or given them away " ults, please. Come up stairs 0. more and show me, for instance, where my shirts are.” “Very well. We shall find them in the see: | ond drawer of your bureau, where they have been kept for the last two years.” “T'll bet you a million dollars to a cent.” “Come on.” ‘We went up stairs to the bureau, andI pulled Out the drawer, and there lay five clean shirts, just where [had placed them as they came from the laundry two days before, “But they were not there an hour ago,” pro- tested Mr. Bowser, “But they were. How could they be any- whore else. In this other drawer are your socks, neckties, cuffs and collars, See?” e, but that drawer was empty half an hour ne . “And in this closet is your Sunday suit, See? Coat, vest and pants. Are you growing blind, | Mr. Bowser?” “There is some dark mystery connected with all this, Mrs. Bowser, and 1 will not rest until I unravel it, I spent good half hour pienr | oe things, but not one single article could ind,” “Because yon rushed upstairs and went into the spare room, just like lots of other hus- bands, Of course you did! See! Every drawerin the spare room bureau has been pulled out, and the clothes-press door la wide open! “Mrs. Bowser, don’t try to get out of it in this way! My eyesight is still good, and when Isee an empty drawer I know it is not full of shirts, I have lost an hour looking for my things, and now I cannot go to the banquet.” He went down stairs and called up some one by telephone and said: “T can't be there this evening. My shirts, col- lars and clothes had been mislaid by =y wife,and I only found them a moment ago. Very sorry, but give my regrets to the boys and tell them how it was, Some wives are like that, and can't cote you know, Good bye.” e next evening Mr. Bowser broughta friend up with him—the same one he had telephoned to. Afterabithe took him up stairs fora smoke, and as they reached the head of the stairs they found the following notice on the bed room door: “TNSIDE THIS ROOM will be found MR. BOWSER’S SHIRTS, COLLARS, CUFFS AND SUX- DAY SUIT. Don't make the mistake of looking in the alley.” On the bureau I had talked a second sign Second drawer—Collars, cuffs and neckties. “Third drawer--Your shirts,” On the door of the clothes-closet I had a third eign, reading: “Your Sunday suit is in this closet—first hook to the left as you enter.” On each garment was marked the name, “coat,” “vest” and “pants,” and on the walla set of instructions, reading: “First—Hang your hat under the bed. ‘“Second—Kick your pants over behind the lounge. me hira— ‘Throw your vest behind the wash- stand and your coat on the floor. “‘Fourth—In removing the buttons from your shirt, jerk and twist from left to right and back again. ‘This will enlarge the button- holes, “Fifth—If you drop one of the buttons, jump up end down and cuss and declare that you have been one button short all the week. “Sixth—If the button-holes in your collar are too large, kick over a chair and declare your desire to murder some one. If too small, kick over two chairs and lay it to me. ‘Seventh—In changing your clothes, get your suspenders twisted, leave your shirt bunched up at the shoulders, and snap off as many but- tons as possible.” Thad intended those signs for Mr. Bowser’s eyes alone, and I fully expected a national calamity when he came down and le his friend night. I was disappointed, how- ever. looked at me benignly, walked up and down for a while, and then observed: “Mrs. Bowser, before we weré married I had a od talk with your mother.” “Yeu,” “She told me that you had never been call upon to exercise judgment or responsibility and that I would find you a very great burden. “Thanks, Mr. Bowser. ‘But I agreed to bear with tient, and soI shall, Twenty may know something about housekeeping and 8 wife’s duty toward a husband's wardrobe. It isalong time to wait, but I will be. patient. Perhaps this is my mission on and is what the Lord wills me to do. Go ahead, Mrs. you and be hence oho micro-organisms most abound. There will be “house leaning” twice year. Saturday Smiles. @fhere is @ woman in Troy who is such an. artistic enthusiast that she tries to create fam- ily jars that she may decorate them.—Troy ress, tical lite; if atrife, "ABd how and whos, and enzo ites cannot be stopped entirely, as there may be occasions when the rule must be relaxed. So that really the ladies of the executive mansion have no suitable place to receive callers in- formally. NO HOUSEKEEPING CONVENIENCES, “Besides this there are no conveniences for housekeeping, There is not linen closet in the whole house, In am now having one con- structed ina portion of the building which —Greenville (Miss.) Democrat, will not tre upon rooms available for other | Los Angeles has a modest girl who learns the 08e8, ¢ basement is the only place for | church songs from her sister and not from the The kitehen offices and that is damp and un- | book because it isa hymn book,—Los Angeles healthy. I have just been conferring with Col. It is said that the Persian mntate while in — in hopes saiag, shle to Ripreed a pote: e are man, wi must ne an fell desperately in lo ith - Lintend to have them done, wo that the ‘Pres. | Honde’ felt deeperately in love with our bean dent's family may be as comfortable as accom- | succeed in winning the glori dations at handwill admit, and shall hope to se- | she would still be cure sufficient interest by Congress in the eub- Worid, the “What do you think of « man who will b ject of an extension of i- nt's mansion to begin St | two children in the m and goto a e in the afternoon?” & well-known fiber, Tey extended its official place, the Capital, by the addition ‘ot party of friends in an up-town resort beaut for the accommodation of the rute,” was the answer. Then all wanted to know who he was. Senate and House of Representatives, which accommodations " ‘An fe 2" was the reply.—Bufalo le tol. Phen the executive mere given buildings adequate to A Matter.—W: .—Wife—“Did find out ee Fare ae mee | wines a the clock last fy er I told you pg oe oot ‘en jusban 0; nearly it all to and 1 Age “6 it.” thei ble and Tent Plecee, isha! nits Bowser, and be just as mean as you can, and do everything to hurt my feelin; I shall do my duty and never let world know how I suffer.” ———s--—__ The Man Who Lost the Race. From the New York Sun. I was hoofing it along a highway in Arkan- sas, my horse having gone dead lame and being left with a farmer, when # man driving a h and buggy overtook me and invited me to ride. I was only too thankfal for the offer, and when I got in beside him I liked his looks, He offered mes cigar. We exchanged names. He was informed on politics and current events. It was revel, no—not 8 friend,” he replied. “It may be that the sheriff and his posse will fools en to try and overtake me.” banquet of | Sa cach Lot mania cin oe “aay of tual ips te between W: So eae ree Mare oe gad cost of defaulting Purchaser 4 the terms cs sh Le eae? iS wi ‘will quired Growth 2 Haat TRE Ssk: isUSTEES) SALE OF FRAME pw 1730 T STREET NORTHW: nd By virtue of a deed September, 185 1204, fono viz ¥% side of T street between 17th and 18th. West. ‘terms of sale: One-fourth cash, the residue at 6, 18 and 24 months, with notes bearing interes! per cent per annum ui of trust ou the property sold, All conveyancing and recording at purchaser's cost; $200 deposit required BENJAM! 3y19-dkds ALBERT LE OF VALUA) NEAK TENALLYTO' By virtue of decree passed June 2 FJVHOMAS DOWLING, a LOCK P. low:ng-described + Ali of Lots numbered 0, 21 and 22, llard’s subdivision of square No, the Ltuprovemeuts, which consist of Hyuse with Frame Stable in rear, situate on the N@ NO. ‘the 10th day of i Liber No. ‘trust dated duly reo corded the land i iu Henry A. 11. togettier with | 5 Bor Boyde ituate on the uorth | Church train Washington on Sunday at 1-18 * | Pep. stopping at sil statue sn Aettopelites Brace ¥ 45. $10:30 ain, 13:00, 1430p For Frederick, 16 and ‘(il paid, and secured by ing arrive from Chicas 4:05 p.m; trom Cinciuuats aud St Lguis daily 32 am. 1:55 pau. ; from Pittsbury 7:10 amend Ss tee tiene of eale. fon Cast Jackson, FREDERICK 3UNCTION. SUURIEVANTS Trastees. |" Week days, dS und id . 30 0:30 am., 8:00 and m. Suudsy, July 21, 5.00 a.m, special, EAVECAMP week days 6:19 and 11:10 8. 07 p.m..and except Sunday and Me Lenin Auctioneer. ¢ LOTS IN AND De. , 1889, in Cause n duy. 6-399 and YORK AND PHILAL No. 11805, Equity Docket 29, French.’ vs, Foy etal. New dork, Trento We vill se on WEDNESDAY, THE THIRT . FIRS ‘VU, 18:00, J ag “ Uy BU DAY OF JULY. issy, at F CLOCK PM. Hi +3 Butet rior Cars ou all day treiua front of the premises, Lots uum bered fifteen ( wd | Sleeping Car on the 10:30 p.m. open at 9-00 p.m sixteen (18). 4m equare numbe nd chat 1s), of “Onion | } Peat San gese oe Ga a ee Chester, atte’ vision of the estate es Dyer, ‘or Phi pita, , Wil 7 Cawedy now called "keno. METER, cpenckan, | shat Beet 80. 100 am 20, F500 And IM. DIA L) THEREAFTER, a parcel con- talinaw 43 aA, 00 eucare Sees Sor abous eneccres egiaie points between Baltimore and feet ou ckvilie pike, and an average depth of cw Xi or Wash . GSY feet, the south line of which is the north spe of | 2:30, *3:15, *5-00 pm. and the properties of Larron. Jos. W.and Wm. O. Harry and thos. 5. Paxton, which the late klien aud lately resided. Aud 1M and being the same parcel on Freuch erecte i Jed. MEDi ATELY THEREAFTER, two, Philadelphia for Washington. 49, °22:10 a.m, T1233, “4:15, “5005, da Dwelling House “ Kuisntic city 4-00 and 9:20. undi- ‘Bi vided one-fifth parts of the parecl called urke 30pm. Sun 00 noom. Lot,” wich was couveyed by J. dive to Joba Lowy Brauch and 00, 18:00 a Burke by deed dated February 5, 1816, as one Acre, which t froute 14 perches on the Rockville pike, snd is 36 perches on its northern line, the jest Wo parcels being near the center of Tenall Plat will be shown at the sale, and M: the trustees, who lives property tw all persons inquiring of the A Terms of sale; One-third in cash, a deposit of @25 on each parcel to be made when the same is stru und the other two-thirds in two equal payments aud twelve months, with interest irom the day of or, at the option of the purchaser, the whole purchase: money may be paid in cash, “Dally?” eSunday oniy. . galled for and checked from hotels aud E Bett cabot | esidences by Union Transfer Co. on onters ieft me nearly adjoining, will show the | 8°ket offices, G10 sud 1351 Peunprivanis avenue end md 3. T. ODELL, Ge ais six | PIEDMONT Ark LIN i, Schedule in effect June 30, 1889. 8:30 8 m—Eass Tennessee Mail, Gaily for Warren- ton, Gordousville, Charlottesville, Lytchburg, and FRED W, JONES, stations between Ale: dria and Ly +5 ang 472 La. ave. Shattanoowa Abd Mempbia Pull: WILLIAM BRITT, } ‘Trustees. to Memphis, 19-dte Tenallyiows, HOMAS DOWLING, A’ omer. auville and Sta enn Feewsbure', ONE VERY FINE-TONED PIANO, ONE SUPERIOR Atugusta, BURDETS£ OKGAN IN FINE DITION, © Orleans, 1kCk PA SUITE, | New York to ta, parlor cars Atlauta to Moutyom Polhosa Sleepers Montgomery to New Orlean Vulusen Sleeper Greensboro’ to Columbis and Augusta. Puil- , | papeen Washington to Cincifuati via OC. and O. 7 a P. i Daily, except Su for Manassas, LL iat at BU Ww Bristol and Chat- 9 us Washington to i M. wecting thence for all Arkausss pointe; WAI D, | ington to New Orleans, WALNUT Al | CHaIkS, LARGE AND GLAss- | © RAM REERIGERATOR, HEATING STOVES, | RITCHE x SLL nS, ko. Ou WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY TWENTY- | ».11:00 p.m —Southern bx ORTH at TEN O'CLOCK, I shall sell at | Danville, Raleigh, | As! _ ay lat Ge STICKNEY, Auctioneer, 936 F SAL P sale in zB T SIX GCLOC ms of sale easy an 2 eposit will be veyancing aud rec dy 16-64 5 Dercanson BEOS., Auctioneers SALE i of & deed ion in front public wuctis : THIRTI£TH DAY OF UCLOCK FP. situate in the’ county Columbia, to wit number eleven (11), in & tract of land called Whitney Close, division is duly recorded ofthe District of Columbia im the Lil plats No. G, folios 62 and 63. One-third of the Purchece-money 20 le. ‘Terms of sale: cash, the balance in six ferred payments to be secured b; 10 New Hampshire avenue, an excel- of Household kflects, 4HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, LE OF V KOPERTY ED, MERIDI. WENTY-SECOND DAY OF JULY, A. Elvan’s subdivision of Meridian Hi TNEY CLOSE SULDIEKS' HOME, folio 40¥et sea., one ot the land recordsof District of Columbia, and at the request of the holder of the notes secured thereby, we widl sell at -M., the following described Lot numbered three (3), in block Aug tanta, Mou! and California. “Pullma dM, Pulloaa Sieeper Washington to Birming! vie AUaute 1d Georgia Pacific Railwey m Washington and Obio division leave Wash- ‘U0 am. daily ¢ pt Sunday, and 4:45 p.m. rive Round Will 11:00 a.m. and 7.20 pu Jeave Round Hill 6-05 am. deuy xcept Sunday, arriving Wasi pit, from the South via Charlotte, Dan- Lynchburg arrive in Wasnington 6.534 and 7:13 p.m. ia Rest Tennesses, Br daud Lyuct burr at 808 and 10:40 pam; vin Chesapeni $d Ohio route ang Charlottesville at 7:35 pm aud 7:13 pam. and 6:53 am dirasume local’ at P18 om. Ticket el ae furnished, am bute eylvania aven ‘nis Railroad, Jezy i tyrone ham, Ala, street, ‘RY VALUABLE UNIM- ON FIPTRENTH 8Tick. AN HILL SUBDIVISION. front of the premises on MOK- ® and 1 parton, K P.M, Lot 19, ip Block 18, i made known at time of sale. ed at time of sale. All con- purchaser's coat. STICKNEY, Auctioneer. car reservation and information rage ed at office, 1300 Pesu- ue, abd at Pussenger Station, Pennsy iva- Guth and B strocts. JAB. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass, Agent, >. QF VALEUABE LOTS IN SUBDIVISION, ADJOINING of trust, duly reconied in ber HE GREAT PEN: TO THE NOK: ANIA ROUTE AND SUCTHWEST. "LENDID SCENERY. ICENT EQUIPMENT, VI, 1SSY. TON, FROM STATION, AND BSTKEEIS, AS POL* of the premises, on TUESDAY, JULY, A.D. 1889, at FIVE Teal estate, of Washington, District of B. H. Ward 1 Ubdivision of a8 the said sub- in the office of the gurveyor county r Eran xpress, at 7:40 p _ with Sleep St. Louis, cou- Cars Washington to Chic and twelve months, the na, wed ya ds ago and the property sold snd to bear interest at the rate of | necting daily at Har " throueh Sleepers ix per Cent per annum from the day of ‘sales or all for Louisvilleand Memphis. Pacific Express, 10-00 cash, At purchaser's option. A deposit of 8100 will be p.m. daily. for Pittabans a the West, with required at time of sale. If the terms of sale be uot through Sleeper to Pittsburg, aud Pittabun to complied within ten {tig purchaser. a the expense of the pure! GEORG jyl@-a&ds CLaki ve the right to resell at the risk aud cost of the ra sale Chiao, gg ye BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD For Kane, Catundaiua, Rochester and Niagara F F, except Sui For Erie, Canauidaicu er daily; for But- falo and Niagara except Saturday, 10:00 py, mh, with Sleeping Car Was to beat All conveyancing, &., haser, CE RIY, | rete JOINING — uxcton to kochester 7 . For Willismsport, Lock Haven and Elmira at 9.500, ema POPPED STE es + kin anal East, SALE. OF VALUABLE an | FOR VELPHIA, NW YORK Ad IE EAS \N WHITNEY CLOSE SUB! istoe ae abe 5 100 end 22 -¥ wey fond went pe B38 Vig’ Go aT n eS Lea BY, sirtue of e.geed of trast, Guly recorded in Woer | Ba eee oe ite tate Coe ioe Seowt Sunday, and 3:45 pan. dauy, with Oumug nut HIRTIETH Day OF PAST FIVE 0" x trict of Columbis of a, eleven (11) in block CLOCK P.M. ine: Estate, situate in the county of Washington, Di ‘0 wit: Lots numbered 's Subdivision of a tract of land: ‘said subdivision is #e f the sek, on TUESDA’ “JULY AD. 1880, at HALT . the follow: c wumbered four (4) and two (2), iu B. H. Ward- ‘called Whitney Ch ut change, 2:50 p. m. every day, ¥., all through trains mnect poste of Ber lyn a rect transter to Fulton street, avoiding double ferriage across Now York cit purchaser. All con’ pense of the purchaser. GEORGE ‘MON: Fe ENRITEELL| Trustees jy16-4&as GEO. W. the office - the liber ty aud Points on Desware Division, tic City #:00, ‘days, 21:20 b. an, dail For. altimore, 6-35, 7:5 and 11:40’. 12:05 4:20.ana except Sunday. on TUESDAY. JULY PAST FIVE O'CLOCK P. M., we new alley), 1 SBC RAL WasHingius vay. IN EFFECT MAY 12, 1889, For, Alexandria, 4:30 » To, 8 E TWi 0 rooms, all modern fe _.-_ Reaeneniiaresier oS POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. Soy on Friday at 7: ond-clase, 3 conta jyis-, 1 eec~ in