Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1889, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1889-TWELVE PAGES, ‘Written for Tu Evesie Stan. SAUNTERINGS IN MEXICO. THE PEOPLE OF A SISTER REPUBLIC. The Beautiful Public Parks of the City of Mexico---Peons and Their Customs. F the many places of interest in the city of Mexico the parks are lly attractive to ithe many unusual things to be seen there. The largest public park is the famous “Alameda,” It is a real pleasure ground for the people, of the people and en- joyedby the people. One does not find policemen standing forbiddingly among signs to “keep off the grass,” as in our so-called pleasure grounds at home. Instead we find, as in the Champs Elysées of Paris, a park for real comfort and enjoyment—a park where music and fresh air and cocl shade tempt every wayfarer, from the pleasure-seeking traveler to the weary peon, who, with burden beside him, sits as content- edly on his stone bench ae does the general, Officer or legislator on the other end. And it need not necessarily be upon the other end either. for. while the condition of the peon of the large country estates ix really like that of our former slave et in the cities there reigns ademocracy much like that of the early days of the French republic, and peop and gentle- an may rub coat sleeves in any public place. In the Alameda the old eucalyptus trees, the fountains, the deer park. the aviary and the handsome iron building of the Mexican lottery company, combine to make a very charming oasis amid the low stone buildings of the city. Nurse maids and children predominate. The ‘The latter in laughing, romping crowds may be seen in the very early morning riding the don- keys and tricycles and the wooden bulls and horses of the merry-go-rounds, Music of some sort always form a lively accompaniment to the scene. PLAZAS AND BANDS. Besides the Alameda there are numerous Other plazas, the largest of which is the Tocolo. a pretty spot between the market and the great cathedral. In this crowds of peons and good military music may be found every pleasant afternoon. It may be remarked that nearly every town in Mexico of considerable size has its plaza and band, and Mexican bands are usu- ally good, too. It will be remembered that the “Mexican band” proper—that is. the official band of the capital—was voted at the Paris ex- position the finest military band in the world, THE PRONS. Speaking of the peon, I think to most travel- Jers in Mexico one of the most astonishing things must be the apparent difference between accounts read of hi+ laziness and shiftlessness | and what one really sees of him in the city or country. I should say, from several months observation of them, that the average peon far exceeds our best negro workers of the south in industry and energy. On the streets you much oftener see them on a brisk walk, or, as in the case of the cargadores, even on « trot, than at the slouching gait of most of our southern colored laborers. The peon is more ignorant than the latter, due to his isolation from higher civilization, but I would unhesitatingly say that his natural intelligence is greater. works for smaller wages than the negro, get- ting on an average about I8c.a day in the country. He is frugal—as a rule a little fonder of his pulque or tequila than the negro is of his whisky, but also, as a rule, faithful and good-natured. In the country ther will often be met long before daylight driving their burroe or carry- ing on their own backs burdens intoa market town twenty or thirty miles away. The load they carry and distances they frequently make with them are almost inc le. Ihave known one peon to carry on his back by means of the peculiar pack of the country eighty good-sized water jars a distance of fifteen miles in a morning. In the city one is struck by their alert, polite ways. They are very sus- ceptible to kindness and equally qnick to resent severity of language from a stranger. Outside of the cities Ihave found them noticeably t; and even in the cities they would rank Mexican (I observe the distinction Mr. Bishop, I think, of calling “Mex- he mixed blood of the Spanish and native, lying the term “Indian” or “peon,” ac- cording to the class, to the pure-blooded native) in this respect. The old hereditary traits of the Latin race will crop out, even mixed with other blood and transplanted to other soil. countear And this reminds me that the stranger should be very careful about counterfeit coin. The country is flooded with it. Have no hesitancy about examining carefally each coin given you, Bo matter where, and you'll not have the ex- ence of the writ who has » him at various ti 0 be * il et you an ex- ample of carefa this regard and ex- amines your dollar or fifty-cent piece every time. corms. MODERN CONVENIENCES, In Mexico City there is one elevator (of course I am not referring to such articles as pulque or tequiin) and that is in the Itarbide. It actually runs twelve hours—between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. As there are no hotels, however, more than two or three stories high this makes Bo difference. The city has Candies are the g: muy be had. T! writer have ma lectric lights, but no gas. ‘al illuminators, but lamps e teleph icycle and type- » their way to a very limited extent. The former is used only till about dark and the “central” is feminine and Span- ish speaking. An American traveler trained only in college Spanish and talking through the ‘phone in a thunder storm must be inter- @sting to the other end of the line, CLANGING OF CUURCH BELLS, One of the most annoying features of Mexico—less ¢o in the capital than in the prov- ince towns—is the incessant clanging of the Many Catholic church bells. Formerly it is said to have been unbearable, but the law has recently taken note of the nuisance and de- ereed that each bell can only be rung fora Certain number of minutes at a time. Each church. however, seems to hold constant serv- fee and jangles’ its bells at intervals of every few minutes from early morning service until Vespers. Had Juarez, the great reformer, no Other casus belli against the clergy than this any foreign sufferer would still have held his treatment of it justifiable, It is to be feared that in the capital itself but little reactionary sentiment taken Place in favor of the church and some day pop- ular wrath will suppress this “outw: sixn of spiritual grace.” could surely never have been to Mexico, ‘THE POLICE SYSTEM of the city is excellent. The force is well uni- formed, vigilant, courteous, and one patrol- ‘Mau is stationed on each block. At night they au be found at once, as the position of each He} in bis trunk | man is indicated by a lighted lantern placed before him in the middle of the street. For a description of what to see in the city refer to the guide book. It gives details of cathedrals and pictures and points of interest in a far more satisfactory way than they could be written up ina rambling sortof @ sketch like this. CAVALRY OFFICERS. It will be well, before leaving the states for a visit of pleasure to the republic of Mexico, to read up one or two of the works referred to in the first paper of this series—i. e., one of the books of Rice-Bulkley, Griffin, Bishop. Brock- leburst, or Nellie Bly; but it must be remem- bered that noue of ‘these writers spent more than a very short time in Mexico and that all of their impressions and statistics are not strietly accurate. Mr. Bulkley-Griflin wrote his book on Mexico after a month’s stay, lam | told, anda very intelligent book it is, even with its errors. Mr. Bishop, an eq and more humorous observer, mal equally great. The so-called * which he discovers. for instance, civil code at all, but he law affecting the relations of foreign and it appears in his | book after many of its clauses have been re- | pealed. In another place he speaks of the quaint humor of a Mexican colonel with whom he traveled, and who would al couple of eggs as 3 blanquill Mr. Bishop seem to think this original humor on the part of the colonel and says his phrase can only be translated as ‘two little white ‘uns. The colonel was not humero' lanquillos” is the word for eggs among nearly all the In- dians of the western coast. Local differences of speech like this are numerous, the word “turkey,” for example. being translated by four different words in four different parts of the republic, Nellie Bly” makes mot still. Her explanation of the word familiar native designation for the n—is absurd. Instead of attributing its origin properly to the “green coats” of a Kentucky regiment sta- tioned in Mexico during the war of ‘46-47 she says itcame from the popularity of the song, “Green Grow the Rushes, O,” in the American camps. Mr. Brocklehurst is worse than this, for he knowingly deceives the innocent reader. Look athis picture of Mexico, with Popocatapetl towering to giant height above it, and then look on the actual scene and see the discrep- ancy. Bishop says that Brockleburst laugh ingly confessed to him while sketching in the mountain that he was not considering nature but eff ally close AVIARY IN THE ALAMEDA, But the most important preliminary of all is the necessity of acquiring some knowledge of the Spanish tongue. If you have ever studied it at college get out your books and polish your rusty knowledge, It will aid you vastly to do this. despite what may be said about the lan- guage ‘not being learnt from grammars or dic- tionaries.’ Of course it isn’t; but the assistance give to inte ! | sorption. ‘tionary, verb book and the “A. B. C, | published in Mexico, are a good combi- nation. The last little book has the advantage of dealing in Mexican Spanish—which often differs in meaning and pronunciation from the old Castilian. ead up also, if rusty, your volumes of Pres- | cott’s Fictions on the Conquest; sean your His- tory of the Mexican War and k @ little something of the events of the “French Inter. vention,” and you are armed cap-a-pie with ali the knowledge necessary to make you an intel- ligent traveler in our fast-growing sister republic. 8. C. Ropertsox. | ——._—_ Written for Tur Evexine Srar. Columbia’s Cholce. There's a murmur and stir in the garden bed, ‘A contest troubles that peaceful nook; Pink and white and yellow and red Shake their bright heads with an anxious look. Who shall win in the coming choice? Who be borne on the nation’s shield? Who will come at Columbia's voice From mountain or brook side, from valley or field? Whom will she place in her girdle strong When she gathers her children for fun or fray? Who will bloom in the festat throng, Wreathing her banners with bud and spray? Fair Arbutus, as shy as sweet, Shivers to think of the surging crowd; But sturdy Daisy would fain compete And the gaudy Sunflower laughs aloud! The mountain Ash, unawed by storms; The Violet shrinking beneath her shade; The Water Lily, whose vestal charms Would shame a nation for strife arrayed, Many and fair are the buds and blooms ‘That national honors so warmly crave; Among the proudest the sunny plumes Of the Golden Kod serenely wave. “Peace, rash blossoms!” Columbia cries, “Nor like humanity waste your powers, Shall we for an emblem spoil our eyes When ail the flowers on earth are ours? and the English Rose, ‘Thistle (that strange device!) | The German Corn Flower and, from the snows, | The Switzer’s Alpine Edelweiss. “Bind them up, with a score beside, And mingle sprigs of the Northern Pine. Who dares question my honest pride dn this bright cluster aud all ure mine? “Quarrel who will for a single flower, No lance I break in a needless fray; ‘The sweets of earth are Columbia's dower; She wears on her bosom the whole bouquet,” —M. A. McMakin. WasuInGTOon, D.C., September 5, 1889, — ee The Best Things to Drink. A Physician iu Philadelpbia Press. If a man must drink, the best thing he can take with his meals is a little claret or light Rhine wine, and if he wants something a little stronger pure Scotch whisky is the best thing hecan have. The habitof taking a drink early in the moruing—I mean by drink a cocktail or timulant of that kind commonly called an eye- opener—is oue of the wort things that can possibly be done. The effect of alcohol is to inflame the stomach, and it will do this even when diluted with food or anything else. and will do so a great deal more when taken on an empty stomach early in the morning. Men | should not maintain their strength throughout | the day by taking stimulants. To keep up by means ulcohol is very bad, and by and by the system will break down entirely under it. The best drink that a man can possibly take is milk, Milk, though, is hardly a drink. One can live longer on it than on any one thing. Milk is more nearly @ perfect food than any- contains more elements that go to b system than any other article. Early in the morning the best drink to take is water. That is if one must drink; but if he can get along without drinking so much the better. Some drink hot water, some coid, and some hot and cold milk, Allof these are good in their way. Tea and coffee drunk in moderation will not hurt anybody, although they are both stimulants, _————-+e+—____ Mrs. A.—‘‘What a pleasant person Mrs. Greene is to visit! She always receives one so I hb Mrs. B.—*Why, that’s the only reason that I do nt call upon her. It isa sign of vulgarity, don’t you know, to 80 pleased to itore. Tt looks as though in visitors. you were not in the habit of receiving company.”—Boston Transcript. IN THE FAR EAST. A Description of Strange Tongking and its People. THE PORT OF HAIPHONG—IMITATING THE FRENCH— THE CAPITAL TOWN AND ITS PEOPLE—A NATION OF PIGMIES—TROOPS ON THE RED RIVER— PIDGIN FRENCH—SCENES AND INCIDENTS. From Tue Stan's Traveling Commissioner. Harrvoxo, Toxoxtxa, July 1, °89. The little Mucie hails from Apenrade, wherever that is, Itis one of the curious and significant facts of the far east that to get toa French possession there you must go in either an English.or a German bout, with the single exception of the Meseageries Maritimes. So as svon as we have crossed the restless Gulf of Tongking and are in sight of a low-lying green and evidently fertile country, wholly different at first sight from the rocky and forbidding coast of China, Capt. Hundewadt hoists the German flag and the pilot comes off. There are two bars, one hard, which must not be touched, and the other soft mud, upon which one can rush atfull speed and either get over or stick, as the case may be. We stick. OFF HAIPiONG. Within gunshot of us, as we lie in the mud, is a large white European house, built on the point of an elevated promontory. It is the summer house Paul Bert built for himself just before death put an end to all his plans and um- bitions for Tongking. It has never | eupied and the government is now thin! turning itinto a sanitarium for the force the coast, Once over the bars we steam a mile or two up the river, past half a dozen odd- looking river gun boats and drop anchor off Haiphong. This country has been visited by no foreign journalist gince Messrs. Colquhoun, Cameron, Scott and Col. Gilder followed the French troops here in 1834, and things x changed a good deal since then, Haiphong is now a pretty little town, with excellent, broad streets. planted with trees on each side, with iP us ware houses and solid wharves, with one boulevard of extensive shops, many pleas- ant bungalows and AN ASTONISHING HOTEL. A club is building and at 6 o'clock the hotel cafe holds a hundred people, taking their pre- prandial drink. To see them it is difficult to realize that you are at the other end of the earth from Paris, and I have never come across a better illustration of the say that a Frenchman takes France with him Wherever he goes. The business part of the town consists of several crowded streets of Chinese houses, und the native town, which is miserable and very dirty, lies on the other side of a narrow re isan excellent bi-weekly paper, Te Courrier @ Haiphong and almost every eh: ristic of a Freuch town, including the duel, b tlourishes greatly in’ Tongking. little money and mauch intelligent labor have been expended to transform the original mala- rious swamps into this bright and pleasing little town, reminding one of Algiers, with its broad green and white steeets and blazing sunshine. ButI fear that both the labor and the money must be looked upon as little better than wasted. For the moment, however, I am only trying to picture the country as it is, THE RED RIVER. There is nothing to detain one in Haiphong. An afternoon is enough to see it all, So next morning at 8I go on board a big, powerful twin-screw steamer, Le Tigre, for the trip to Hanoi, the capital and largest town, upward of a hundred miles up the Red river. The nav: gation is extremely dificult in places, owing tothe mud banks and sharp turns, but the twin-screw and the Chinese pilot between them manage every twist but one. There is no European captain, only a purser, and the Chinaman is apparently in sole command. A stack of Sn: tands in the sa- toon anda pl of half-inch iron is sus- pended on each side of the pilot and the two men at the wheel, completely shielding them from bullets fired from the shore. We have a capital breakfast, and a charming French priest in Chinese dress and pigtail who is re- turning to his inland staticn in China via Tong- king tells us string after string of adgentures and incidents of his work among the Celestials, For hours the trip is monotonous. The banks are flat, the country is always green and fertile, the water buffaloes wallow in the mud, enor- mous flocks of teal rise in front of us every few miuutes and I divide my time between Pierre Loti’s “Propos d’Exil” and Pere Grandpierre. At Lo’clock A DIVERSION coMES. It is a little post of soldiers, half way be- tween the seaboard and the capital, The steamer comes slowly alongside the high bank, @ plank is thrown out and the garrison invites us on shore. ‘They are an officer, two non- commissioned officers, half a dozen privates, and about fifty native troops. The post is a strongly stockaded little pla¢e a hundred yards trom the river, well able to keep off any ordi- nary attack. But the garrison is a sor-y-looking lot. ‘The officers are in pajamas and the men's old thick blue and red Freuch uniformsare only recognizable by their shape, nearly all the color having long departe Their coats are patched, their trousers are torn and ragged, their boots are split. As for their faces, anemia of the most pronounced character is written plainly across them. I have never seen such a ragged and worn lot of soldiers. I wonder whether this is a necessary feature of the dif- ficult occupation of all savage countries, and whether I shall find the same state of things among the English troops in Upper Burmah. If so, I pity them beforehand. he arrival of the daily steamer is the only distraction of the little force and they were profusely grateful for a bundle of illustrated papers. We also gave them a little more diversion by runnin; aground just opposite their post when we left. AT HANOL The steamer reaches Hanoi at midnight. The only hotel is closed, vigorous hammering at the door produces no effect whatever, and I am be- ginning to contemplate the prospect of epend- ing the night in the street when a jolly captain of artillery comes past, evidently fresh from a good dinner, shows me a back way into the hotel, and even accompanies me, because, as he explains, I probably do not yet know how to treat the natives. Certainly if he did I did not, although his method was simplicity itself. We discovered six “boys” sleeping sounder than L ever saw human beings sleep in my life ona table in the dining room. With one shove he pitched the whole lot ina heap on the floor, and as they even then showed unmistakable symptoms of an intention to finish their nap as be lay piled up on one another, he fell to work on the heap with his cane so vigorously that he soon had them scampering all over the room like a nest of disturbed rats, ‘Tas deco- chons,” he said, and resumed his homeward way. A STRANGE CAPITAL, Like every city of the far east, so far as my experience goes, Hanoi is less interesting than you expect, ‘The foreign town, of 439 inhabit- ants, is little more than one street, named, of course, after Paul Bert, aud even that is dis- figured by a narrow,irregular tramway ranning down the middle and carrying military stores ali day long. ‘here is a small lake in the cen- ter of the city, with a curious islet and pagoda, that gives one pretty point of view, and the ride around the walls of the citadel, a square mile or so of inclosed land, is interesting for once, And the “Pont de Balny,” where the ill-fated Riviere met his fate so wretchedly on the afternoon of May 19, 1893, with the tiny pagoda just behind it where the brave Balny disappeared, is historically impressive if one has the whole story of that day in mind. But Hanoi makes a poor showing as the capital of Yougking. The Hotel Alexandre is the worst Lever set foot in, bar none. The monuments are second to those of an ordinary Chinese town. THE ADVENT OF THE FOREIGNER has killed native art and handicraft, without contributing anything to replace it. You may walk the length of the “Rue des Brodeurs” without finding d piece of embroidery worth carrying home. here. is a “Rue des [n- crusteurs,” named after the workmen who inlay mother of pearl into ebony, but I spent half a day there before Unoapy 3 up a decent piece, and that was made before the French were thought of. The native metal work, that sure test of the art tendencies of an uncivilized people, has vanished with their independence. Even the governor general apologizes for his sur- roundis shall be able to receive you better,” courteously, “when you come to Saigon.” But there is this compensation for Hanoi as compared with Haiphong. The faster Tongking prospers the faster will Haiphong decay; while Hanoi always has been the ital, and nature bas so placed it that it will be, and the two prosper, if at all, together. A NATION OF PIGMIES, So far I have said nothing about the people Yet there is much to say. After China, with its hundreds of thousands of great, brown coolies and its slim ones, who will walk all day up hill under burdens that would break down a Uropean athlete on the level, tes seis oats nation of pi erage height must be under uarrow-chested and thin-! they to be a people destitute of the sense of eacdorg: pie At any rate the French treat them as if they had none. The first_time I went into dejeuner at the hotel at Haiphong one of the ‘‘boys” had left a dirty plate on the little table to which the host showed me, “Qu’est ce que tu fais, toi?” de- manded the latter pointing to the plate, and smack! a box on the ears followed that you could have heard fifty yards off. And this in the middle of a crowded dining room. You would no more think of striking a Chinese servant like that than of tweaking a police man’s nose cn Broadway. Before a nch- man an Annamite appears to have no rights, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN IN TONGKING wear their hair long and twisted up into a kind of chignon on the top of the head. It is, of course, always lanky and jet black, Their | dress is of the most simple. The men wear a loose jacket and short trousers and the women a long straight shift reaching from neck to heels. The Aunamite man is a very poor crea- ture, and it is only among the upper classes that one sees occasionally a well-formed or handsome face with some élevation or dignity ofexpression. The women are much better looking and would often be pretty except for the stained mouth and teeth, which render them horrible to a European eye. But in figure they are much the most favored of any I have yet seen in the east, and in the course of a walk in Jape baie m: meet a — elena = straight enough and strong enough and shapely eniougi'to serve as a sculptor's models, ‘Their native dance is a burlesque of the Japanese, to the accompaniment of a fiddle six feet long. The few women yon see with clean mouths and white teeth are almost sure to be the mistresses of Europeans, THE LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE, The most curious of the surface impression of Tongking is the language you must learn to talk with the natives, Your ear becomes familiar with “pidgin English” before you have spent a day in the east, aud. a horrid jargon it is—-convenient, no doubt, but growing posi- repulsive after awhile. But “pidgin French,” or “petit negre,” as it is called. comes asacomplete surprise. And it is all the fan- nier because of the excellent native pronuncia- tion of French, ‘*Petit negre” is character- ized, as compared with French proper, by four features—omission of the auxiliary verbs, ig- noring of gender, employment of the infinitive for all moods and tenses, and absence of words taken bodily from the native, like ‘‘maskee,” “man-man” and “chop-chop” in pidgin, The one expression which recur: ith an infinity of meanings is as moyen.” ni” nearly as often, pidgin is ‘toi connaitre?” The ‘my wantchee” 13 “moi vouloir.” The native servant is every- where called by the English word “boy,” pro- nounced ‘‘boy-ee,” in two syllables, ENRICHING THE LANGUAGE, And the language is further enriched by a number of words recalling the nursery, like ““pousse-pousse,” for jinrikisha, “coupe-coupe,” for a big knife, and s0 o: Beaucoup” does duty for “tres” and “bien,” 80 one is constantly hearing sentences like these: “Moi beaucoup vouloir avoir sampan,” ‘“Soupe beaucoup mauvais—moi donner vous beaucoup bambou,” and “Toi beaucoup imbecile.” ‘Petit negre” is of course much younger than “‘pidgin;” for one person who speaks it a hundred thousand speek the latter, and it is not capable of the flights of oratory to which the accom- plished speaker of pidgin can soar. Nor will it ever become what pidgin has long been—the vehicle of communication between vast numbers of people otherwise acquainted with only a score of different dialects and tongues. I my add here that ‘‘Tongking” is the same word as “Tokyo,” meaning “eastern capital,” and that the former is the only correct spelling to ex- press the Chinese sounds. “Tonquin” is ab- surd, either in French or English. In my next letters I will describe my visit to the Chingse-Tongking frontier, where I believe only one Englishman and no journalist has yet been, and where we spent a night in the midst ot pirates, and will give the conclusions I have arrived at concerning the future of this vast French possession. Henry Norman, WHAT PEOPLE oo —______ SHOULD EAT. Views of Doctors on When to Eat and the Proper Kinds of Food. From the Philadelphia Press, What to eat is a question that troubles every- one more or less, Several doctors who have been talked to on the subject of eating lately agree that a man ought to be able to eat any- thing that he fancies, One doctor said that a man’s digestive organs ought tobe in such con- dition that he could eat shingle nails. They attribute dyspepsia not so much to eating wrong kinds of food as from eating too hur- riedly and paying too little attention to their meals when they are eating and letting their minds wander away to business and other sub- jects of the day, Dr. Alexander Lambert, house surgeon at Bellevue hospital of New York, has given some attention to the subject of cating. He think the trouble with people in this coun- try is that they overeat. They don’t eat so often as the Frenchman or the Englishman, but when they do eat they usually partake of a large variety of food andeat it as hurriedly -y possibly can in order that they may be kept from their business as little a while as ossible. In this way they overeat. If they aven't time to sit down and eat an elaborate dinner slowly and carefully then the best thin, they can do is to eat a small, plain meal, which they could easily do in the time that they de- yote to their elaborate dinner and from which they would derive a great deal more benetit, WHEN AND WHAT TO EAT. “I think that the best time for one to take breakfast is between 7and8 o'clock in the morning. Dinner should be had at about1 o'clock if possible; that is, if time can be spared at 1 o'clock to eat the meal properly. If not, a light luncheon should be had at 10’clock and the meal of the day at about 6 o'clock. Another light meal might be had at about 9 or 10 o'clock at night if one is hungry. I usually find thi an orange or a cracker is all that I want to eat at that time. I think asa rule families of the better class eat very sensibly. They eat usually plain, substantial food. which is pre- pared in a simple way and not spoiled by bein, made up into fancy dishes and highly seasone I think, though, that they make a mistake in not drinking enough water with their meals, A man who leads a literary life and one who is occupied at his desk and in his office all day should be careful what kind of a breakfast he eats. It should not be too heavy. “Such a man should eat ver; as oatmeal is heating. He might steak, chops, weak coffee, mi laborer, or one who is engaged in physical and manual labor can eat heartily of oatmeal, bread and butter, meat, eggs, coffee and almost any- thing that is strengthening. In the middle of the day the laboring man should have his dinner, The busy man who is down town must take time to havea light lunch. The habit of rushing out and getting something to eat, perhaps while standing at the buffet, may not seem to do any harm just now; but by-and-by the effect will be very serious. When this man has got through with his day’s work and his mind is at rest he should eut his heaviest meal of the day, his dinner. He should eat it care- fully and slowly, and pay attention to what be is eating and to his meal generally. It is a mis- take for men to attempt to eat any meal and to read at the same time. “Don't goto bed hungry. If you have been to the theater or out late eata light meal before you retire. ighly seasoned foods ought to be generally avoided. Sweets should not be eaten as much as they are. They hur: the digestion and spoil the appetite. i and salads should not be taken too frequently, Eat more vegetables and less meats,” EAT ANYTHING YOU FANCY. A lady physician thinks that everything that is eatable ought to be eaten. She said recently: “Iam in favor of a liberal diet and believe that one should eat just what his stomach is strong Sou to digest, and that should be in such a con Hon ses he could take shingle nails without much trouble. I think Americans eat the right kind of food. Americans are great fruit eaters, In this they are highly coinmended, Good ripe fruit is always bene- ficial, and a particularly good time to eat fruit is before breakfast in the morning.” Dr. John T, Nagle of the bureau of vital statistics, New York, is in fay of a pretty liberal diet. Ho attributes —— deal of the dyspepsia and nervousness, though, to Ameri- cans eating too highly seasoned food. Another physician agrees with the view that the Ameri- can ple habitually eat too L are fe are har because what some peo; others cannot. An indiguetite artacts ok food 4 boiled cabl . This takes four hours to digest, while only takes one hour. Tripe is hard to digest. Fried meats are ah Always have the meat broiled. fresh and hot should be avoided. Bread one day old is row. peta Aeros foods are ae y some people must seasoned. “What ve them with one will not agree with another, I thtak Americans pomlecarng hastens heel they are a sweet-eat- First Doctor—“I hear treated bor for jus fever. Waele bed eer Becond ditto—“Very bad; the man never paid his bill,” Written for Tae Evawrxe Stan. vgs! bem fe gg pare poe ngewe plain pink, If desires IF expressed ATTRACTIVE HOMES. before one’s friends have any ‘effect oa Santa ara 2 Christmas will add A New Use for Denim, Generally Called | ee Oe a ee aan prctaared seal Blue Jeans. decorations not dictated. RAL TN EFFECT SEPTEM: o, Ld8e, TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON: PROM STA PokNER OF SIXTH AND B rhekis As For Pittsburg and the Wi ‘, L ‘of Pulluay. Veetibuled’ Care at Fast Line, 9:50 am. daily nein Louis, with Sleeping Care from Pittsbure to Cim: ‘cinnati and Harrisburg to St.Louis, da:ly, except Saturday, to Chicago, with Siteping Car Altoons A¥ EMBROIDERED BUG. Back of the divan on the wall I fastened a rug. both as 9 background to the pillows andas to the paper. The rug itself 1 of ingrain carpeting with « slight em- broidery on each end of old ink and cream color in Smyrna wools. ABED ROOM EFFECTIVELY FURNISHED WITH DE- NIM—THE WOODWORK AND FURNITURE—as SMALL OUTLAY, BUT SATISFACTORY RESULTS— ABTISTIC EMBROIDERY—CUSHIONS, ETC. Ithas long beens cherished scheme with e dull blue me to furnish « room, using blue denmi where- | Color “ty roe The : —n i Pith Sleeping Sor Wan on 80 ceagnana st ever it could be made effective. Now that I too easily to draw much at atime. The idea is| Sleepers for Loulstiiie sad Memes. te have carried this out an account of the result Japanesque. branches with numerous Geet cane. Pm. daily, for Phang and, the may be of interest to some home workers. soon e om very quick and aective x “es = " Chicago Neeper to Pittsburg The room chosen to be beautified by this hum- | em were hemmed first, the hem IOKE AND POTOMAC RATLROAD. ial ii then cut in half and raveled, thus making a | For Kane, Kochester and Niagare Falls ble material isa rather small gucst chamber. Gouble fringe. ‘Thus is aah e for daily, except Swe. § 10am. ay It was handed over to me tntirely free from for But- brass-| d nai bove it on the wall faloavd Niawars daicy, exorpt Saturday, 10-00 p. incumbrances of any kind. Evea the wood | is buug a bracket. lamp for convenience it | pey,ainhsisaae Sey Member to kechowtar work was in the natural state, with no finish eae =. deep fall of cream —— Pore et att, vomE axp = ienaek je over be. There two windows ee . cD Tw q aelerer, Here wae surely scope, for one's | the room, bath treated uly amply The | fh ot thee andeth eo ae ae ae taste fancy to display the 8, sash curtains are of the cream-white tamboured m., 2:50, 4 0-00 and 11-20 pam” Lasmited rather moderate sum to be expended for the furnishing kept them from running riot in de- lightful extravagances. Nota little thought was required, for, besides the outlay of money be- ing limited, the room itself was small enough to make care nece: in furnishing. It was easier indeed to tell what could not go in than of furniture. In the lace the wood work was to be considered, and I decided to have it painted in two shades of blue, much lighter than the color of the denim but of the dull grayish blue tones, to ‘monize with it. It is possible that denim, 8o lauded by art societies and workers in ‘.e it few years, may be unknown to some of ‘ae Sran readers, PLAIN BLUE JEANS. We therefore at once proclaim it to be “blue jeans,” used commonly for the overalls of workmen, but which from its durability and other virtues has been dignified into an “art fabric.” Another preliminary is that where it is to be used for embroidery ‘or hangings it is softened by being boiled in water before using and the little fading of the color is considered to be anadvantage. Togo on, then, with the wood work, After painting it’ was given that soft finish of enameled white furniture by rub- muslin, which now comes for the purpose, and Express ot are not tied back. THE OUTER CURTAINS are of denim, edged with cream lace like the bed hangings, and are tied back with dull blue ribbons. The rods are of brass, On the floor by the bed I put a Japanese goatskin rug, for could not resist the softness and the cream- white color, though I know from experience the hair comes out ina most trying manner. Still the use is not constant ina guest room and with particular directions to the maid to double the rug haif back when she is making the bed I hoped the occupant would uot be annoyed by its presence. A Japanese cotton rug with blue in it and two large rugs of the blue ingrain merely fringed make up the floor covering. The small shelf which takes the place of a mantel I draped with three yards of india silk in careless looping and folds and back of it hung a curtain of dull blue plush on a small brass rod. Tall brass candlesticks and achina basket for flowers are the only ornaments. With a few small water colors on the walls framed in gilded oak—the cost of these not included, however, in the furnishing fund!—my inventory euds.’ Iknew for some 1 Pullen Parlor Cars, 9:40 a.m. daily, and 3245 p. 600, 3. #00, 9-05, 0, 3-45, 4:10, 6:00, m., 12.05, 4:20 ana ‘sily,except Sunday. Sundays, 9.00 am..4:10 pan, ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL- WAL AND ALEXANDHIA AND WASHINGTON KALLW pap 2133, 6:0) . 601, 6 i bus and uilays, vath, 4.30, 10:57 am. time before the room was given into my hands su dalla excert Sunday. bing with powdered pumice stone. ‘The floor | that I was to have the plaaning and furnishing, teow eet was oiled, with a little burnt umber in the oil, | 80 had time to do the embroidery and had it i giving ita slightly brownish shade, and then given a coat of shellac, next point of attack. cream color was selected with a smi snow crystal design, For the side walls the paper chosen was of two ton grayivh blue—a pale ground with an arabesque pattern several shades deeper. ‘The frieze was de of the denim, sixteen inches deep, with 4 wooden rod at top and bottom, painted like the lightest shade of the wood work, the lower one to be used for the picture rod. The furni- ture [chose in odd pieces, according to my own ideas. The bed is brass, with a balf can- opy over the head. This has a plaiting of denim all around, edged with heavy cream- ready when I took possession, HOME MATTERS. PBACTICAL SUGGESTIONS TO INDUSTRIOUS HOUSE- KEEPERS—HINTS FOR THE DINING ROOM, PA’ TRY AND KITCHEN—RECIPES WELL WORTH KEEPING, mm; 2 Pm, ‘Tue walls were the northeast cor- A ceiling paper of eee of baw CHAS. L. PUGH, Geveral Manager. Barrnrone Ax Schedule in Leave Washington fr: kK WOOD, General Passenger Agent. Owe Rannoan. t3 28, ISS Ir tHe Scrrace or Fixe Woop Cantyets has | grown dull go over it with a very little linseed oil on a soft woolen rag. Lemon Sack 1s Very Goop in the early stages of colds. Thisis an infusion of sage | nd, Vestibuled Linntted ex- and express 5.40 pan. burs and principal stati on main line, express daily except Mou a. Parkers! pat du tinted lace. mixed with hot lemonade. “For Lexington THE CANOPY, Tur Ricut Ste Soup we tHe Posrriox | Fer buna. A single width of the goods edged with the Jace hangs from the canopy on each side and is looped back with cords and tassels. The bed spread is of the denim, embroidered in heavy; cream-colored linen floss in a pattern which nearly covers it. Very large flowers are ywdered over the center and lines inclose a order in which is a band of the same flowers with the lines cutting some of them in half. The centers of the flowers are filled in with lace stitches in pale blue silk, while an outline of the pale biue defines the flowers, leaves and stems lpr eoead the design. The scarf which chosen for sleep, as it uids both digestion and | su, Sau°Ty;” the circulation of the blood. As Aurnonity Says Tuat Fisn Savcr should always be thick enough to adhere to the fish, It is better to be too thick than too thin. Correr Pouxpep ix 4 Monran and roasted on an iron plate,sugar burned on hot coals,and vinegar boiled with myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and furniture of a sick room are ex- cellent deodorizers, For a Srratnep ANKLE take caraway seed, pound it, put it in a tin basin with a little water, « Crs 20S, 2 WW (40-minates, 100, 7°80, 9:00, 16:30a0d fatlous otween Washineton ong Bat «: 838 covers the sleeping pillows in the daytime is of " Se ahi. ao Pegs “ putiton the stove and stir until it thickens, white linen with hemstitching all around and @ | then bind it on the ankle: it will take out the | tig 2 monogram embroidered in the center. There inflammation and ease the pain. For. fy 6:40and §-30 am. 12 F is deep lace on the ends which nearly touch the ‘Tur Pi F ie by lady | S288 (0,8. Ob Sundays, 8:30 am. 4.35 pin, floor on each side. ‘The second and larger pair HYSICIAN 18 FREQUENTLY Askep by lady | Leave Aunajclis,6-4u, 5 15, 3:50, and of pillows has handsome linen cases with hem- stitching, monogram and lace, like the scarf. No colored decoration can. take the place of white pillows on a bed, nothing else being so suggestive of freshness or so attractive, WASUSTAND AND BUREAU. Over the washstand and something to use for abureau I spentsome thought and feel that a triumph has been achieved. I made a simple drawing of what I wanted, very plain in form, with no ornamentation, and took it to the manufactory where white bed room furniture patients for something that wili remove “moth” and freckels. A writer in the Pharm. | Zeit, says that a wash consisting of equal parts of lactic acid and glyceriene will do the work and is harmless when applied to the skin. Iria Great Her to havea kitchen table covered with a piece of zinc, smoothily rolied over the edges. It saves the time and labor spent in continually scouring the table, for it can be thoroughly cleaned in a few seconds by wiping it with a wet cloth, = 6 14:35 pm. Teduate punts, "9-00% 0, * 20 pam. = Yor Boyds ‘and ‘intermediate stations, 17:00 pam, ae Washington on Sunday at 1:13 Church train leaves Washington om Sunday a Metropoitas Branch, P.tu., stoppin at all wtation For Frederick, 1640, 110:30 atu, 15:00, 12.300 m. Sundays.1:15 aud For Hagerstown, T10. a arrive’ thu « Waum Breap on Cake cay Be Crt without is vi esi, ‘ A a NEW YORK AND PHILAD PHIA DIVISION, ia made, vith my design to show what I! becoming moist and heavy, if the knife. a thin, g2ef Nem dork. Areutaue Sewatk sod Bhgabeats | ii fy ay YU, TS UU, "Yoo, © 30, *¢ 20 end plain, rather small chiffonier was made with | 8barp one, is dipped into boiling water, wiped | 2jg 33501) Wig, it “day trai, the enamel finish, out in two shades of pale, coy. and the bread cut immediately, before | Fen Coe oe tie, 20:80 pam at 9:00 p.m grayish blue, like the wood work of the room, eh emeghomet ag pram Po ¢ knife has time to cool. A napkin should be laid double on the plate where are laid. | Usvanty, WHEN ayy Forex on Porsoxovs Marren has been swallowed, the firstindication | 4,1 | is to produce emesis. If you have no sirup ipecac in the house adda little mustard and salt to lukewarm water and make the child drink considerable. It is one of the promptest, For Puiuladeiphia, Newark, Waluinytou | “4:00, 1:00, *9:00, "12-00 am., “2-30, sud *10:50 p.m. For iuseriuediate points between Baltimore and Philadelphia, to. 0 am, rains ieave New “1:50, Philadelphia for Washingtop, *4:1 LALO ane 4h doe Soe OO b8S aad 30'p.m, Riltutic city 4:00 and 9:30am. The brass handles and color suggest its rela- tion to the bed, and it is charming in appear- ance, While waiting for it to be made Pad time to embroider a scarf for it of white linen, with small flowers powdered over the ends, which hang down half a yard on each side, The flowers are in soft tones of old pink silks and cream lace finishes the ends. The washstand I bad made © warm slices OW am, to correspond with the chiffonier, having the | €asily obtained emetics known, or Loy Braucl, aud “Ocean Grove 140 top projectiug at the ends anda brass rail at| ‘He QuaLiry or TaBLe Sar andits tendency | ™y oe oa 2: the profes on which I shirred blue and white , TEs Sunday: “Daily. {Sunday only, ¢Except to pack together in cruets and containers may be entirely overcome by thoroughly drying the salt and intimately mingling with it a small onary of dry corn starch and arrow root, From 8 to 10 per cent is amply sutticient for most humid atmosphere, while a much less percentage of the sturch is sufficient for ordi- nary use. H For Cieantne Sitver, take one-quarter | pound of salsoda, add to this four quarts of water; when at a boiling heat dip the pieces of silver ware in it and immedi fter wash batiste in India silk design. Finding it impos- sible to get a toilet set with anything like the right blue to look well with the denim Ibought one with old pink decoration, in which color- ing so many pretty ones can be found. The scarf for the washstand has simply a little drawn work and fringe in the way of decora- tion, this being most satisfactory for the fre- quent washing required. THE TOILET TABLE was perhaps my pet idea in the room andI meant it to be as pretty as it could be made, wher U Feutn Unieou draw ticket offices, GLY aud List at Depot c 4. T. ODELL, Gene IEDMONT AIR LINE. ap, Schedule in eflect June 30, 1889. 8:30.01. —bust Tennesse Mail, daily for Warren: tet, Gordenevalie., Cusrittewalie, Leuchbars, aud * Alexandria aid Lyneb burg, Koanoke, bristol, Knvxville, Cuuttanoove aud Mewphia Pull nab Diceper Waslington tu Memyplis. re -—Fast dail daily for Warrenton, Char Chesape: TAienenned onteuly with outtslon dragt them in soap suds and wipe dry with a piece of | © As Charlytte, Columbia, Auirunta, irrorras the douia revmed tor closer ne the | cotton Manel. ‘Thin is an excellent method, | Sess, jocnuiha, Stosteomtsy New Prllnan sleeper ta, parlor care Atlanta to Moutowery, Sleepers Montgomery to New OUrieaus. "Pullman Sleeper Greeysboru” to Columbia and Augusta, Pull usu Sleepers Washington to Ciuciuuati via C. aud © p. m.—Daily, except Sunday, for Manassa, Strasbury aud iutermiediste stati 5p. w.—Daily via Lynchburg, Bristol and Chat- tancoga. Pulliuan Vestibule Sicepers Washington to Meupuis, counecting thence for all Arkansas pots; also Wasliiugtou to New Uricaus. 9:40 p. m.—Westeru Tews, daily for and very little elbow grease is required to | Atlan follow Waex Wasuixo Wixpows dissolve a small quantity of washing soda in the water if the glass is dimmed with smoke or dirt. Do not let the water-run on the sash, but wash each | pane with a piece of flannel; dry quickly with | # soft clean towel and wipe out the corners ia oes and the mirror was to be too pretty to e coucealed. In the first place T bo hte good-size ing glass, rectangular in 6 and withouta frame. I then embroidered on dull blue satin sheeting chrysunthemums in cream white silks. These were conventional- ized in form and arranged in groups, some overlapping each other. When this was done I made it into a broad band, which was put Me carefull, Polish with a piece of common | Culpeper, 0: Charlottesville, Btaunton, Loum above the mirror and framed with it, the whole | chamoii | ville, Cincinnati. serits ueton being nearly square by this addition, The ois skin or newspaper that has been soft- | Hie, Cinciuuatl Pullman Vestivule train Waskiuaey ened by rubbing between the hands. to : - 11:00 p. m.—Southern Express daily for Lynchburg, Beveled. on the outer cage” It was pained | A Paowixexr Burravo Pavsiciay in an en- | Pause ict agbeihe, "artis, Cela ‘Uricaus, ‘Lexas, in the lightest blue shade of “ me wood work, and e small blue bar crosses where the embroidery and glass join. On each side of the frame was fastened a brass sconce, which holds each a wax candle. The mirror is bung flat against the wall, with a draped table beneath, The foundation is a small kitchen table, which is covered on top and bung with curt ofthe denim. This material has end- less wear in it and is parroree with every washing it gets; so, suitably decorated, it is worthy of having a good deal of work put on it, Accordingly I embroidered flowers on it with the cream linen floss, ‘hese are wel thusiast on the subject of onions. He feeds them to his children daily; says they are the — —— for “gprs agg ee ime adds: | “025 “Feed onions, raw, boil or ed, to the 3 jt x children three or four times a week and they'll arcive hound Hit Vw aca: and 720 grow up healthy and strong. No worms, no Jeave Round Hill 6:05 a... daily aud 1 scarlatina or diphtheria where children eat , except Sunday, arriving Washington 8-30 plenty of onions every day.” trate f To Keer Tse Stove Baront a cloth should be kept on purpose for rubbing it off. When used first on a newly blackened stove the cloth becomes filled with the surplus polish, which scattered and rather large, eo as not, to. have S'gloes whenover itis needed. “Another nias | siiauesvsuye shdat Passenger Sisto, Peunayiver e effect lost in the folds of the curtains, A |; zt r frill of cream lace finishes the curtains at the |“ to use old pers to rub off the stove | Jex¥ Jas. L ESTEan. On. De. ae instead of a beach, Te mixiag stove polish use vinegar and a teaspoonful of sugar. To brighten the nickel plating, rub it with whiting on kerosene, using a woolen cloth, or rub it with @ wi cloth and flour. If the mica in the stove door bas become discolored with smoke it can be easily cleaned by washing it with vinegar. Coun A Stew Usvatty Has Vecrrapces and | Spd st sbove wharves in the day tue dumplings cooked with the meat, A haricot Fare below Nomini, of mutton or any other meat is a stew with the | ““t* meatand vegetables cut fine, the size of a haricot bean. A ragout is stew highly flavored with wine. A salmi isa top: and with a linen scarf just the size of the table, with no decoration in color but a good bit of drawn work on it; the whole has a very pretty effect. Of course the usual LITTLE CONVENIENCES FOR A GUEST are to be found here. A tall, round pin cushion, with blue plush top and full frill of blue In- dia silk around it, is provided for the lace and other fancy pins, while small trays of brass and china give a place for other belongings. A small wooden rocker I undertook to paint my- self, and it looked well enough when finished not to feel disgraced by the of its profes- sionally manipulated brethren. A cover of plain blue denim was put over back and seat, tied on with big bows of dull blue ribbon. I had o Turkish chair, not very large, os, aged upholstered in the denim also. This, with a scarf of China silk—cream ground and dull pink blossoms over it—carelessly draped over back, looks pewy enough to deter pb room, For ooks, writing mat and si i bought a round wicker table with ower wueif the same siz POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. GTEAMER JORN THOMPSON FORK POTOMAC Ek XDINGS. Leave Gth-strect whari every SUNDAY, snd THURSDAY at 6 p.m, for Hock Point, town. Curreomian, Nowini Creek. form of stewing where the meat is fried or browned in fat, either before or after stewing, and is usually served without vegetables, A potpie is a stew with the dough put on as a crust. aform of stewi usually done in a covered pan in the oven. It gives a rioher, stronger flavor than that obtained by stewing over the fire. Mas. Cianx Asks ror a Recire for making clam soup and clam chowder. Clam soup not so nutritious as the uncooked juice but it is more palatable, though many prefer the juice eaten with the clam with suitable eondi- ments. To make the soup boil juice of clams; make 6 little drawn butter and mix with the ee clams and put reese season to taste with aa ~ e screwed to the wall lower down, give further accommodation in this line. A small alcove at on side of the room gave me a chance for a pretty effect. I wanted s divan, and as my capital was be- ing exhausted rather faster than I could with my ingenuity had to supply its place to some oan ; Set ceorirrmet ce ‘Penn. ave. saps epee ia é i F