Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1889, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, 0 Written for Taz Evrstso Stan: ABOUT NOTABLE WOMEN. Some Whom Events Now Make Con- spicuous in Social Life. The Lady Who Will Wed Ex-Secretary Bayard—Representative Shively and His Bride—Mrs. Justice Field and Her Thrilling Experiences— Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Blaine and Mrs. Logan. —o The preparations for the marriage of Mary Willing Clymer to ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bayard are practically completed. The bride's trosseau,which has been a subject of thoughtful consideration for several months, is elegant and tasteful. The issuing of the wedding invite- tions alone remains to complete this interest- ing event. In anticipation of this marriage Mr. Bayard has given his attractive residence at Wilmington a thorough renovation and has erected a handsome office m the heart of the ¥, where it is his purpose to devote his time and attention to his profession. MISS CLYMER, ‘The prospective bride is one of the most highly connected ladies in Washington. Through her father, the late Dr. George Clymer, a distinguished surgeon in the United States navy, she is a great granddaughter of George Clymer of Pennsylvania, one of the earliest champions of American opposition to the tyrannical acts of the British king and par- liament aud signer to the Declaration of Inde- pendence. On her mother’s side she is the granddaughter of the late Rear Admiral Wm. Branford Shubrick, one of the foremost afficers of the United States na‘ She is also distantly related to the family of rospective groom. Miss Clymer resides with her mother in the stately family seat in the aristocratic vicinity of Lafayette square near the residence of the late millionaire philanthropist, W. W. Cor- coran, and opposite the historic Decatur mansion, where the heroof the war the Tripolitan pirates died after his fatal en- counter in a duel with Capt. Barron, The wedding will be a quiet affair, the guests being limited to the relatives and personal friends of the two families. The ceremony will take place at St. John’s Episcopal church, which has been the scene of the most distin- Gaished nuptial ceremonies at the capital, ishop Leonard of Ohio, formerly rector of St. John’s, performing the rites. The bride will be attired in traveling costume. After ® wedding reception the distinguished couple will depart on a brief honeymoon of 1, and upon return will go to the groom's home at Wilmington, where it is pro- posed by the ex-Secretary’s home friends to give him a hearty welcome. Itis ible that the ex-Secretary and Mrs. Bayard will visit Washington during the winter, but their home will be in Wilmington, where Mr. Bayard has already made important ‘ofessional engagements. Pee Florence Bayard, who has sided over her father’s household since her mother's death, will very cheerfully surrender her charge and, with her sisters, Louisa and Nellie, is very well pleased with her father’s prospec- tive marriage. The Washi house of Sec- retary Bavard has been rented. His Delaware friends, while discountenancing any ambition on bis to be governor of his state, do/ not deny he will not entirely surrender all po- litical ambition. the constant dread of*some more in her beautifa the As the hostess of the she will renew her entertain- the season opens and her drawing rooms will be doubly gay in the thought of the rescue of her di hed husband what seemed a planned plot for his mur- der. H 5 & snub of Mrs. Logan at the recent Knights weet ee nee iat enone ii ne’ . 80 See tie ten tents Lae the of cireles have concluded to come to some understanding whereby the per- sons who circulate snch unfounded ns laine concerned they have always been cordial The eo distort her absence from the visit to Bar ‘bor as a premeditated act on her had not the least particle of truth to stand bs Soa When the subject was first spoken of Harrison wrote to Mrs. Blaine explaining that if the journey were not broken at Boston, which would involve carryi several large tranks with suitable reception toilets, she would be pleased to accompany the President, but at that season of the year she did not feel equal to the fatigues of the journey, with ite ceremonial interruptions. Mra. Blaine replied ina letter entirely agreeing with in the Premises, Mrs. Harrison's visit to her sister, who was ill at Nantucket, was upon asudden summons after the President had started on bis New England outing. While these facts were.not Praveparandter hee originator of the story about the wives of the President and Secretary of State, he might have ascertained that the Knights Templar re- ception at the White House was entirely in the hands of the Knight Templar committee, and if Mrs. Logan was omitted in the list of invited guests it was the faultof the committee and notof Mra. Harrison. In fact Mrs. Harrison did not invite a single person, as she desired to reserve all the space “Behind the line” for tne Templar friends and ladies invited by the com- mittee. The President and herself and the ladies of the cabinet, who alone constitute the assisting parties at a presidential reception, were glad to receive the visiting Templars and ladies, who were introduced by the chairman of the Templar committee and not by the officer of the army who usually performs that duty. The statement about Mrs. Harrison not shak- ing hands with Mrs. Logan and construing it into an intentional oversight is on 8 par with the other allegations. Some years ago Mrs. Harrison suffered a serious injury to her band. which wascrushed ina door. While she re- gained its use it has ever since been sensitive and weak. For tyst reason she would be un- able to shake hands with any large number of people an¢@ to avoid discrimination she is com- pelled to forego this mark of American hospi- tality and greeting. DeB. RB. K. ae FREE-LUN: H Se EOSUE HY. A Saloon Kee;er Discourses Upon a Great American Institution. “The most important business feature of this establishment is the free lunch we serve,” said the keeper of a saloon not far from the Treasury building to a Stas reporter abou noontime yesterday. ‘We make an effort to provide the best and most elaborate free lunch to befound in the city of Washington and we find that it pays astonishingly well; fact, our business success is chiefly due to it. You see the notion of getting something for nothing is very attractive to almost every one, and the average man who would not otherwise think of taking a drink between 12 and 1 o'clock will go a long distance out of his way to get one if he is offered a bowl of soup with it gratis. Offer him a dinner and the temptation is irresistible. That is our policy. Any one who comes in here for a drink between 12 and 2, or from 4 to 6 in the afternoon, is wel- come to a hearty meal, well cooked and served in good style by a colored waiter in a neat white apron, who asks each customer quietly what he will have and brings the soup boiling hot in a bowl, with a plateful of oyster crackers and a snowy napkin, carves the meat, or helps to the other edibles on the side table; and for all this there is uo charge whatever.” “But ta re it-wauld cast too much to ” said the ne of Bis’ soup with gusto naa beginning upod some delicate slices of corned and remark- ably palatable beanswhich had just been placed upon the little shelf before him. ONLY EIGHT DOLLARS & DAT. “It is mot so very expensive,” replied the saloon keeper. ‘For instance, this vegetable soup with meat in it, which you say is so de- licious, we can make enough to fees 100 people for $1.50. That piece of corned beef, which weighed 40 peunds when it was put on the tabie, cost $4.00 at the butcher's, We get our meat by wholesale, several hundred pounds at a time, and so it comescheaper. The beany we il CTOBER Written for Taz Evewme Stan. THE BLUE POINT FRAUD. Charles Delmontco Tells How the American Public is Gulled. FEW BLUE POINT OYSTERS OBTAINABLE, BUT CHEAP CULLINGS GOLD FOR THE MOST EXPENSIVE BI- VALVES—WHERE THE GENUINE CREATURES CAN BE OBTAINED AND HOW RECOGNIZED, A lover of the good things of life cannot dwell upon a more momentous subject than the oyster; it is the preface to every well-con- ditioned dinner; it constitytes the model lunch that he may eat who runs; and in its numer- ously cooked forms it furnishesa greater vari- ety of dishes than any other object of gastro- nomic treatment. * In fact a discussion of the oyster opens up a field so vast that it can only be confined by the covers of a good-sized book, and, therefore, I will limit my words to one membef—and that the most misunderstood—of this numerously named family, and that is the Blue Point arguments between the two extremes of the dogmatic men who insist that ‘There are no longer any genuine Blue Points; they are ex- tinct,” and the credulous fellow who believes that every diminutive oyster placed before him is of this famous kind. Both of these numerous classes of men are sadly mistaken. The true Blue Point still ex- ists—in very limited numbers, it is true—but it is made the subject of more misrepresenta- tion and more successful tion than any other food product known to mankind. Ex- travagant as that statement may seem it is not one jot beyond the trath. Not only are other bivalves opened in tif name of the Blue Point, but for the purposes of this masquerade there are selected what would otherwise be consid- ered the refuse of argo of oysters, the cul- lings—or ‘‘cullens,” as the dredgers cail them- and then by astrange irony of commercial chi- canery the cheapest of all oysters are placed before the watering mouths of mankind at the highest figure which is placed upon bivalves. ‘This deception 1s made possible by a popular fallacy of long standing whereby folks believe that the Blue Point oyster is the smallest of his kind. This unaccountable deiusion permits the unscrupulous dealer—and by dealer I mean the wholesale seller, for the restaurateur is fre- quently hoodwinked as well as his customers— to findan exorbitantly remunerative sale for the small, refuse oysters which the sorters cast aside in separating a cargo of oysters into their various sizes. THE ORIGINAL BLUE POINTS. It will surprise nearly every one to be told that originally the Blue Point oysters were of monstrous size and it was the emptied shell of one of these of natural growth which suggested to the late George Arnold his delightfally amusing poem of ‘The Oyster,” which “bival- vulur hermit” arose upon its edge aud swal- lowed “the good ship Em’ly” and all its crew. Natural decadence has lessened the size of the Blue Point, but not to the extent people have been taught to believe. It'may not be gener- ally known that some years ago Uncle Sam thought this subject wis worth investigation and he employed Ernest Ingersoll to perform the task. The result of his labors is told in one of the volumes of the tenth census of the United S.ates, wherein is published an exhaus- tive treatise on “The Oyster Industry.” Reter- ring to what he termed the “Broukhaven Bay or Blue Point oyster,” he says: “The natural owth of the oyster in the great South ay confined almost wholly between Smith's point and Fire Island—practically to the waters east of Blue Pgint, known as Brook- haven bi This was thé “home uf the famous celebrity, the Blue Point oyster, which was among the earliest to come to New York mar- kets. The | siege oyster of this brand is small. and round, but the old Biue Points cherished by the Dutch burghers and peak-hatted sons of the Hamptons, who toasted the king loug before our revolution was thought of, was of the large, crooked, heavy-shelled, elongated kind with which one becomes familiar all ulong the coast in examining relics of the natural beds and which are even now to be found by the thousand in all the mussel lagoons of the gulf of St. Lawrence. Now and then, afew years ago. one of these aboriginal oysters, of which two dozen make a suflicient armful, was dragged up and excited the curiosity of every one, but the time has gone by when any more these monsters may be expected.” In 1853 the New York Herald reported that “the value of alithe Blue Point oysters, by whici name the great South bay oysters were generally meant. did not exceed yearly $200,- 000, Thev are sold for an average of ten shil- lings (@1.25) a hundred from the beds, but as they are scarce and have a good reputation they sell at a considerable advance upon this price when brought to market. At one period when they might be regarded asin their prime they attained a remarkable size, but now their proportions as well as their numbers have been greatly reduced. There are about two hun- dred persons engaged in the business, includ- ing the proprietors and the hands employed in working the beds.” ALONG LONG ISLAND SHORE, Mind you, that was thirty-six years ago. Mr. Ingersoll, in the same treatise, speaking of In the month of June the home of ex-Solicitor General George A. Jenks, at Brookville, Pa, was the scene of marriage festivities. During the regime of the young and beautiful Frances Folsom Cleveland at the executiye mansion it was one of the congenial incidents of her con- ventional life amid the surroundings of state to gather about her aselect circle of the pretty daughters in official life. In this group of maiden beauty and vivacity none exceeded in charms of person, grace of manner and gentle- Ressof conversation the winsome daughter of the ex-solicitor general. Miss Emma Jenks made her debut under the auspices of her social patron of the White House. She had Many courtesies showered upon her and not a few suitors followed in the train of her ad- mirers, Few young ladies were more popular among all classes of official and unofficial so- ciety. It was with, much surprise that her Washington friends heard of her contemplated marriage. From a beile in the higher sphere, which surrounded the chief lady of the presi- dential househould last season, Miss Jenks will be the bride of the circle of the Representatives which will gather at the capital for the proaching season of legislation and fashi gayeties. Benjamin F. Shively, who represents the thirteenth or South Bend district of Indiana, in December will enter his second Congress. He began life as a school teacher in Lor he was seventeen years of age. He wielded the rod of lear: for sixteen years,-when he be- came a journalist, and later entered the Forty- eighth Congress for a fragmentary term caused by a resignation, and after taking a course of jaw re-embarked in politics and again won a seat in the popular branch of the national lature. The wedding party in June numbered but fifty guests, who had gathered from Pitts- burg and other sections of the state. Hon. and Mrs. B. F. Shively will receive the congratula- tions of their friends in Washington after De- The justices and ladies of the Supreme Court Sircle have been deeply interested in the & ‘i ; i F Gi | ¥ i f tft cook ourselves, and they cost almost nothing, you know; in fact, they are the cheapest food im the world. When we don’t have corned beet we have liver, and of that a dollar’s worth will do for one supp! 40-pound piece of corned beef will last two days, nobody being allowed to cut it but the waiter. Then we have tripe and pickies, and, for a special delicacy, from 4 to 6 p.m., we serve little codfish balis, red-hot, 'y, lote of people come here at that time for those cont alone. Alto- gether, what we provide im the way of food without charge costs us $8 a day. “And it brings enough extra custom for les to remunerate you?” WHERE DEPARTMENT CLERKS “GRUB.” “Several times over. This has come to be the rendezvous of the department clerks, They come here by hundreds during the retess in the middle of the day and after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when their duties are over. To the average clerk in the departments the cost of daily lunches is a matter of serious financial i i he can come here and for 5 cents and inducement to patronize this estab- lishment, But, of course, when men come to- ther there is always treating around and many drink spirits, so that each customer on an aver- age spends 15 cents. If he eats 2 ceuts’ worth of isions the cook and waiter cost another cent, we still have a margin of profit. This saloon never has a dull season you willsee more people in here in one day than in any other two bar rooms in town. That is enterprise—in other words, tree lunch. Naturally, some of our patrons are not very profitable; they come here to eat as much as they cam and they never take any’ more than a single glass of beer. ‘They find it cheaper than a restaurant, But such cases are not frequent and there are various easy ways of discouraging that class ofcustom. Did you say @ strong or mild cigar, sir?” TO CURE HOG CHOLERA. Experience of an Old Washingtonian in Cases of the Kind. An old gentlemen dropped into the office of Tux Srar in search of a reporter, to whom he wanted to impart some valuable information for the readers of Tur Evewino Stan. He found the right man, who was allowing his brilliant thoughts to ooze slowly, but with much self-gratification, from the point of a lead pencil, and straightway announced the object of his presence. “I read in a Chicago paper some time ago,” said he, ‘‘where a farmer out west lost hiscorn- erib by fire and that a number of his hogs got the home of the Blue Point as he found it, says: “All along the shore of Long Island between the outer fence of the rigid and pitiless surf- repelling beach and the habitable shore lie a series of shallow lagoons. The largest of these —80 miles or more long and from 1 to 5 miles wide—is the Great South bay. This water is the salvation of all southern Long Island. If the land ran straight to the sea and Fire Island was not an island, but simply a shore, the whole great extent would be as uninhabit- able as the bleak rear of ee Cod all the way from Prospect park to Moriches. But the bay turnishes an abundance of harbors; it abounds in fish profitable to catch; it tempts the ducks to its sedgy shore and so invites an annual mi- gration of money-spending sportemen; it is paved with the ‘luscious elammes and crabfish’ which the old Dutch poet extolled, and fur- nishes to the world that marvel of delicacies, the oyster, Hence in place of a pine-barren and @ howling, friendless coast, we find a string of puious and thriving villages, the winter | acer thousands of mariners and the sum- mer resort of city pleasure seekers. This shallow spynd communicates with the ocean through Fire Island inlet and a few more open- ings to the westward. The eastern part com- municates through » narrow path at Smith’s point with East bay, which has no communi- cation with the sea and is almost fresh. The oa of water in the bay does not exceed ten fathoms in the deepest part and the rise and fall ot the tide are very small, probably not more than a foot at the average. The bay re- ceives considerable supplies of fresh water from a number of streams celebrated for their fine trout. The western part of the bay has a sandy bottom, and its water, being in more di- rect communication with the ocean, contains more salt than that of the eastern part, where wc eee isa mixture of black mud with sand.” At the present time the Blue Point has its bed in more circumscribed limits than Mr. In- gersoll describes. First let me explain that geographically Blue Point is a ‘emali promon- tory of eh reaching into the Great South bay. ther it gets ite name from the famous oyster or whether the process of no- menclature has been the reverse of that I am unable to say. The under shell of the oyster of which I am writing has « number of small spinous-like protuberances, the points of which are colored 9 greenish-blue hue, and from these, many oystermen declare, the bi- valve and uently ite home came to be termed Blt it, Iam not sufficiently con- versant with this phase of the subject to assent to or dissent from that proposition. Three miles west of Blue Point is Patchaque, and from thence and off the coast as far as Oakdale—and a 't stretch of send it is—the true Blue Points can be found. The be: to the debris and ate up the burned corn they | some foundthere, It so happened that nearly every he had was suff with the cholera, had died and he hadlittle of sa the others, tho ho bad reserten to al but every hog that ate & /) BE i i i it ii il i E z 8 g F § A i & i B Hi : i E i i s E F i iil i aH “ea not eaten a Blue Point. Its food value even that of all its brethren, and it is a well known to e: oystermen that dozen Blue Points wu geue equal in their lind of bivalve, HOW THEY CAN BE TOLD, Can one tell thisrare bivalve from his meaner fellows by an inspection of his ghell? Yes, with careful study thiscan be done, I have alresdy referred to the greenish-blue points as one dis- tinguishing point, but. alas, that characteristic is frequently possessed b; ee The Blue Point, however, be told by the extreme which can almost thickness and depth of its shell and above all by the oyster itself when opened, filling every portion of its conchologi- cal cavern so completely that. like the cham- cork, one wonders how it was ever con- ued in its recent prison. The oyster opener should know that he holds in his hand a bogus Blue Point when he finds that he has to knock off half an inch of shell before he can insert his knife. The genuine submarind tidbit is never built that way. The consumer can declare that it is not the eye of a Bine Point which is staring into his unless the m athoroughly bad but thi oyster. Ihave heard and I have read frequent | Phrase Teaches to the v of the shell. This substantial quality of the Blue Point in both oyster and shell has specially commended it for shipment to Europe, and no inconsider- able portion of thi barrels will be shipped jand, where the Britisher has fot his cop; season’s crop of 20,000 abroad, mainly to Eng- nets ions r-tasting bivalvular his newly found love for the luscious mollusks of Brother Jonathan, The difficulty met with in exporting oysters arises from their natural i clination to die when removed from thei native element. But the Blue Point with his deep shell is enabled to retain quantity of what men call its extraordinary liquor,” and in this, as long as it does not open its shell, it not only lives but actually fattens. In addition to this in packing oysters for foreign shipment their fatal predixposition toga by a 250-pound weight boing P atter they have been place: is discouraged laced upon them in a,barrel to its very top. The thick shell of the Blue Point can withstand the pressure, whilé the thin covering of the Rockaways is crushed beneath the heavy burden. This peculiar adaptability of the former oys- ters to exportation led to a condition of affairs which, mination at the bidding of English palates. THE OYSTER Laws. until recently, threatened their exter- The saie of oysters is forbidden in most states in this country from May 1 to September 1, but there is no embargo upon their dredging. Con- sequéntly'during the close season in the months without an “r” some of the men owning the Blue Point beds continued an active business by making shipments to Eurbpe. ‘To prevent this the legislature of the state of New York, upon being appealed to, paséed a special law for the Blue ‘oint beds, which forbids their being dreaged between June 15 and September 15, ‘This is not only commendable but neces- sary, for even with this restriction these oys- sters are decreasing in numbers so rapidly that the largest dealer in them, when asked me to make a ten years’ contract to supply them, declined for the reason that he was not certain that « genuine Blue Point would be obtainable at the expiration of that time. The most serious objection to the widespread deception practiced upon the public in the matter of the Plue Point oyster is that a great majority of the small oysters used to carry out the fraud are seedlings which have been trans- ferred to the bays adjacent to New York har- bor, where the impure water from the sewers of the city flows over them. It is a foolish b lief that the Blue Point is a diminutive oyster, A FEW POPULAR ERROKS. In conclusion let me endeavor to correct a few popular errors concerning oysters, Dealers who say that they feed them on corn meal don't tell the truth. Oysters eat nothing after being taken from the water. To have cold water dripping over them is in- jurious, as it tends to rive out the natural juice, whith is sustaining and fattening, ‘They should be kept cool but dry What are apparently fat and luscious oysters are too frequently snares, Continued rain will puff the bivalve up, but leaves him without Havor or substance, Whic! is the male and which the female? Some wiseacres say that the dark oysters are of the masculine gender, That is not 80, Old salty savants, who have been dredging nearly all their lives and who by the inspection of a shell can tell withia a mile of where an oyster was dragged from, say that is the one thing in this great universe which no fellow can find out. WIVES WHILE YUU WAIT. Cuartes Detmonico. see A Lover’s Agency That Supplies Needed Assistance to Cupid. “I presume, sir, that your intentions are perfectly honorable,” said the red-nosed man behind tho big desk. “This bureau regards it as 8 part of its business to protect its innocent and trustful female customers from falling a prey to the wiles of conscienceless deceivers whose pretensions to real manhood are exclu- sively expressed by a pair of pantaloons apiece.” the red-nosed man scowled virtuously as he uttered these words and Tae Star reporter noticed that the same formula precisely was reproduced at the bottom of the printed circu- Jar that had just been handed to him, “Iam tired of being a bachelor,” he replied, simply, ‘‘and I have understood from your ad- vertisement that your ‘lovers’ agency’ is pre- pared to furnish wives to order.” “You are talkin, very beautiful an resent on our booke—short ani and thin, blonde and brunette—all bi waiting to at lows.” them?’ thin mem! “And you will introduce me to some of business. We have many accomplished young ladies plump tall, be appropriated by the lucky f “No, sir. That is not our way, The first for you todo is to become r of the ‘Or of which Iam president an: entrance Soo, spareble in. advanc the payment $5. By that sum you are admitted to the order, without initiation or further for- mality, At the same time, however, you are rm @ full juired to fill out one of these bi description of bite as to liquor and tobacco, and standing., You give me a photogray give you @ number, for ourrespestaace h and I be- tween male and female members of the order is‘ effected entire); numbers, and this through the medium of the general post office.” PHOTOGRAPHS NOT EXHIBITED. “And I presume you will let me see some of the young women’s photographs?” “By no means, We take as few chances as possible of revealing their identity; for their negotiations with us are conducted in the strictest confidence.” “Is the young bachelor A blind, then, and select his ide a fashion, without seeing her before- “Certainly not; and. if you will give me an opportunity, I will mak to it clear to you. When you have had your name entered in my private membership books, which are open to noone but myself, I will show you a number of blanks d in with the descriptions in full of as many Here is one, for an example: jo. 26. | up toward the foot hills some two miles back from EDUCATIONAL. SSboson wast w ieara Grammar, Hhevorie, metic, Algebra, History and =. Also Courses Sg : Fae Oe ry ot. a ‘OF 001 HOF. D rs SELECT eta ate Lat enquire ‘915 th st. now. See U. ‘thE 10 TEACH NE TO MAKE at Lifealse Cares Race in Te mae Pa — of drawing 5 x hd woced-im 509 11th st. ‘bet. E and F sta, UNIVERSITY GRADUATE DESIRES PUPILS Abr Be bscian suman rin tot ene termi moderate. Address I. L'Be Starotive ees oe! peatthens tccensaseng UNDER THE EQUATOR. Life in the Caracas and the Influence of Cocktails. HOW THE CLIMATE HAS TO STAND THE BLAME FOR EDUCATIONAL. yal ore. "Number of pups limited wo 100. A fe Tao Prine - IN_ WASHINGTON. is THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY. OVLLEGE PREPARATOR' paw k Cae for Uasiness, Tea tusir = vecnD- A PMO ot tea se yened “October 1. Claseos, which erenmne, are open. to both “yg * ue a vetey and uetry, Adalytic Geouete ply t© BOL. HODGKINS, Professor = oclz-Lm % SCHOO OF LANGUAGES, — 739 1éthet. oe, Washinton Europe as the best schoad Lang uasros B PLD., Principal. ASST SE SESE 5 ne4-3m_ At Sanders & Staym: Ni OONSEEVAI Un) OF NUSIL a ee Pyne y ute, Cornet, dc, AME A PERLE FROM ARIS), A PEige dath et. new i 0. B. 1D, Director. french classes and private lessons; ences, Dest refer set- Sun" THE RESULTS OF INTEMPERANCE—THE RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER—REPORTED CASES OF YELLOW FEVER SAID TO BE EXAGGERATED. Correspondence of Tre EvExmre Star. Caracas, Vexezueta, September 28. It is rather amusing to note the solicitude expressed in some of the recent newspapers re- ceived from the United States in regard to the ravages of fever in this remote part of the world, semi-tropical and only a little way from the equator. The impression seems prevalent that the disease extends to all of this country and also that it is of the virulent type so often seen in the southern states and of which Florida has had such a terrible experience. But, in fact, nothing could be farther from the truth, at least so iar as this particular locality is con- cerned. Caracas, it must first be understood, is situated in an upland valley, a sort of table land, just over the Andean range from the sea and 3.000 feet and moce above its level. It has the most perfect natural drainage and is con- stantly swept by the mountain breezes, while Fe Ocean 1s only six miles away in a direct ine. The city is built along the valley, and reaches Awat OF THE HOLY CROSS, 1312 MASS. ave., will reopen Monday, September 2. Tt affords aa acquiring athorough and finished education. No efforts are spared to advance the pupils tm music and art. The musical dy it Comprises: aoe, fr on ma end embraces piano, barp, Violin, i 4 “ian ‘general vocal and drawing and fancy wo 1223 wiser. te | 1223 THE MISSES KERR'S SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES AND LITILE CHILDREN, “PALL PERS BEGINS SEPTEMBER 25. ie FPRENCH LESSONS. | ae fe de Paris and. jenced YAcadam tenchor, "adress 1201 Bisode Inland ave. ecto tae u- HENBY J/sNO AND THEORY. Office eel LESSONS RESUMED AT MY dence, 1513 Rhode Island ave, 9 to 1 daily and reda: haturday afternoon _ yan ANNIE LOUISE POWELL. ERMAN RAKEMANN, Be. ESOL VIOLINIST AND TEACHER: ‘Address, 1207 6th st. nw., near M._ MY OF FINE ARTS, 804 E ST. Tio heaent unr bet place to learn Drawing and Painting. “Mrs, IMOGENE ROBINSON | MOR- RELL has had twelve pedals and studied 15 years x ¥ ral in cl crayon, on Ad prints, pastel, water and ol Rolors, toorter trom $5 to 3,000, Studios open every day and Wednesday even- ings. Call and eee the wonderful progress of students, ocl7-tn* aii gs ME EENEST Lt HAS REMOVED TO HIS new residence, DOrCOran St. aii lessons in Piano, Violin, Violoncelio aud Harmony. ‘m* the La Guaira river,straggling ina most uncouth fashion with its one-story adobe houses over the bartancas that seam the gentle slopes to the foot of the great mountain peak that towers above the town, rising sharply several thousand feet into rounded, tree-covered summits, to descend even more precipitously into the blue (arribean beyond, Brown, dust-colored dwell- ings, they remindfone strongly from a distance of the hard clay-like nests of a certain species of ant, Sg THE BANGE OF THE THERMOMETER. Owing to the elevation of this valley above the sea, although it seems very hot in the direct rays of the sun, yet the variation of tempera- ture as measured by the fnercury is marvelously small.’ Falling to 65° in cloudy or rainy weather, or during cool nights, when the sea winds sweep down from the mountain we it then seems 40 have touched t oc] 7-1: M's HALSTEAD'S Private Schoo! for . Girls and Boys, oc16-Im* 142y 2th st. usw. M%,c# AS. THIERBACH. TEACHER OF MUSIC, has removed to 1117 10th st. n.w., where lessons on Piano and Violin may be obtained at moderate terms. a 00k 5. ADAME OCTAVIA SEWELL HAS REMOVED 5 ~ BW. in ‘Music and Lan- tw 2105 0 Where she will resume her classes guages. ocl2-1m?*_ LNEY INSTITUTE- a Select Schooi for Young Ladies and Little Girls $122 P st, West Washincton, Keopens October 1 1889 Priucipals.the © AORN y ot Ta LA. dee Gta iD, th instant, 4 paim., High School Lecture Hail, O st! bet. 6th aud 7th. Au, expose of an entirel; inal,easy, couversational and fascimat bottom; and rises on still, clou mel (endorsed by th mg educatorsef eee a less afternoons to 85°, or thereabouts, | 4 4eadmic Principal of tke schon er Langonces, when everything seems baking under the trop- | 1205 F aaa - oc40-Lin* ” icalsun. It is not uncommon, however, for 18S FINLEY HAS REOPENED H) R KINDER- the thermometer to hover between 40° and 78° and Primary Scuool at 607 7th st. sw. warten 0010-1 Mitra for days at a time, with so little variation that it would need an instrument to detect it, In- SCHMITT'S SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN deed, few houses here have any euch luxury as i 3d st. nw. Coach from Primary—at 40 y Rorthwestern section. teacher accuinpauyine. "Artic: window glass, and the children appear, a8 has | istion and Speech Keating \urnt te Deal oc8-1 a? been said by a traveler whose Latin was not| PALocUTION! OhAlUNi? ab ove suspicion, “in nubibus.” But everybody knows that the thermometer is @ very uncertain guide to the sensible heat, if 1t may be so termed, or the impression o! heat or cold that is received by different per- sons. Some people come here clad in heavy woolen clothing, exercise actively, do not spare their accustomed glass, and find it very bot, Others think it comfortably cool. The truth lies, as it frequently has been ob- served, somewhat between these two extremes, The altitude and temperature are both quite high, so that any active exercise will naturally bring on @ profuse perspiration. There is always some uir stirring. any exposure to a current will induce a chilly sensation, the pores are closed and the result is ‘‘a cold.” Of course the same thing is constantly occurring, but in the changing climate of the United ‘tates the conditions under which it takes place are somewhat different. Here the person is said to have “the fever,” and so far, during a resi- dence of several months in the country, this is all there is to a large proportion of the s0- called cases of this disease, ONLY A BAD COLD, The fact is, that what is generally designated here in common talk “the fever,” and goes abroad in the gossip of imaginative correspond- ente asa contagious di: is usually only a mild remittent t) if it is anything more than het partes the eer! cergretrgens soon jouge or locality are as is but too often ‘parts of , the door. the case, typhoid symptoms may develop, and — aaa ae ‘ : ee28-hmn in the interior lowlands or down along the | WyAINTING, DRAWING IN OHAROOAL, AND MARTYN COLLEGE OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY, 313 6th St. nw, oe o Mock eastof City mst Office, This well-known College has developed some of the best Professional talen” in this country by the use of the SHAFIESBULY METHOD. Diplomas, id Teachers’ Certificatesawarded to «radustes, Shorter courses privately or in clans. Forty-eight-page cataloxue fr 188 MAY H. MEAD, TEACHER OF THE PIANO, AME certificated pupil of Herr Kaif of the Koyal Cou- nervatory of Ber! ‘or terms and other paruculars call at or address 902 22d st. n.w 005-im* WAxz20.4 LIMITED NUMBER OF PUPILS IN Latin, Greek and Mathematics. MISS MCA, oet-1m* Siar office. —— OO Ocal PIANO. URGAN, ViULin, CLaAni ET, ot Y tuition . ¥. RUECKERT, 2030-1m* “1740 14th at. M® 3x5 KINDERGARTEN AND: axp KINDERGARTEN NOKMAL TRAINING CLASS. 1918 ate 3 a south of Dapont circle. Dit CAULFIELD WILL RESUME LES- 380) OCTOBE: st. im* (ARFIFLD KINDERGARTEN. — Hooper, who founded the first kindergarten in Washis in 186%, bas returned to the city and will Leonard Garheld spencer, 2321 H sto me, MORDAT. ir, 122) Bt. NI . October 7, 9 sin. to 12 ws. -Herdic and street car lines MISS MARY rinoco swat malarial poisoning i Crayon taught by Miss L. CANFIELD. Classes np pigeclac leaturial —= ceeat kt: jesuuued, TUESDAY, October 1 wtudis Bai But on the rocky slopes of the wind-swept | 12t%*. port of La Guaira, though it is most of the time so hot that an illustrious American visitor re- cently told me he did not belie’ was more than two miles and a half from hades, or in the cooler mountain valley of anything like what is known as “yellow fever” in the United States is only bug-bear to frighten children. It simply not exist. Our well-informed consul at La Guaira, Hon. W. 8. Bird, says that in a residence in that port for eight or ten years he has never known of a genuine case of that dreaded disease. He speaks of that town as an exceptionally healthy one, or at least that it would be if the least at- tention was tl . sevs-1m* U VERSITY-TRAINED TEACHERS WILL PRE- pare for Civil service, Wiest Pot - cering, ivate lessons ins, Cail, afters: FRANK 3m COU; 2-ENGLISH EDUCATION This large Thad an opportunity = few weeks ago to dis- cuss this subject with a much-traveled English- man, who hed lived many years in tropical America and was familiar with all ite principal diseases, He was at one time sent out by an » located on the the same name, inalow, marshy dis- Place four trict, and notoriously the most unheal! on coast. He tooka position whic! fellow-coun' had vacated by death within one year, and actually grew fat on it. He had spent many months of hard work on the Ori- noco and in the mines of the interior, C'choor si daet ee th year opens pal; CORNELIA F. BOYDEN. words per pel2-3mn APENCEKIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE, Corner 7th and D sts. nw. ‘School of Business and Counting House Trai. in general. I te him: “You seem to e ced a wonderful MOUs? Venxon seminary, 1100, 1104, 1106, 1116 M st. and 1128 11th st. BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG La- DIES AND LITTLE GIRLS Fifteenth year opens for registration and classifica- tion of Boarding Pupils Wednesday, October 2; Day Pupils Thursday, October 3. Certificate admits to Vassar, Smith and Wellesley Colleges. ‘For further tmformation apply to the Principal. i ELIZABETH J. SOMERS. EF i FEE g sed 2m 'DWARD C. Ei Teacher of seen), ane Voice Culture, Oratorical and oa & g8 38 & yzarist,, unw, “aie bers \ORWOOD INSTITUTE, 2407 MASSACHUSETTS AVFNUE, 1212 AND 1zié 14TH STREET. A SELECT BOAKDING and PAY SCHOOL of grade for }OUNG LADIES and LIT 1LE GIRLS. Pils prepared to enter the Lixliest clusses of ely college. Special tacilities for Seiecied studies. Eighth session opens Mouday, September JU, at @ °'Nadirons the Princt ress netpals, 4m MR esa MRS. WM. D. CABELL NALD-ELLIS SCHOOL. 1405 17th st, 1624 Massachusetts ave. and 1623 Nast. , An English and French Hoarding and Day School for Young Ladies and Little Girls peventh year begins September 25, SKY. This school offers many ad vantages in ite home life and course of study Music, Art, Elocution aud Gyninastion Pupils aduhitted w Weilesiey on cerufcate of the __ MISS ANNA ELLIS. HOMME’S FRENCH € t ASSES, io D WIN — BUSINESS COUKSES, K-keepirg, Arithmetic, Practica and Correspondence, Penman: Less Practice, Civil Guver: Classes also in Type-writins, Stonog: and Civil Service. kapid progress Send forcireular or call ‘Commerc: OUT OF WASHINGTON. 18 PEL YES, DEPEESSED BUSINESS Prices: Maplewood Institute, snoordville, Pa, F ‘ int: r Little Boya Ji a TiBGR Maley. abe Principal Me HOLLY (nN. ‘Near bt Je28-2052t Ts. HALL—A_ BOAKDING AND DAY SCHOOL for Children at Forest Glen, Montey. 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