Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1889, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1889-SIXTEEN PAGES, GOING OUT FOR LUNCH. Tnstitutions That Do a Big Busi- ness at Noonday. Different Ways of Taking Lunch—The Oyster Bar, the Coffee and Rolls Ks- tablishment, the Dairy Lunch Room and the Full Fledged Eating Place, with Waiters and Napkins. ——e VERY noon the streets of Washington are made suddenly busy looking by a crowd of hurrying, rvshing, eager, hungry people, anxious to dash in at the nearest lunch place, swallow a few morsels of food, clap (, down their money and rush back againto their © offices or places of busi- ness. This is one of the features of the capital. The daily habits of the People who make up a large part of the popula- tion tend in a great measure to give the townan imprint of individuality that marks it out from the ordinary run of communities. And thus it is that the business streets of the city have come to be filled with establishments called into existence by the acmands of this same culiar class of people—the government cler! In no other city, perha: the day divided into sections so peculiar—there is no noon-tide meal, with its hot, smoking dishes and its atmosphere of the necessity of getting back to work in an hour; there are no pleasant evening teas or suppers at 6 or 7 by lamplight, where the cares of the day are relaxed and all is comfort. No! and the man from other parts of the country sighs as he thinks of it, There are two square and a bite in every day, which comes in on id chunk of time, instead of being divided by the walk home for dinner into two arts. It isthe half hour recess given ‘a the be artments for lunching that has done this. and so Washington has come to be a town of hasty lunching, with a sort of touch-and-go style about its midday meals that is very economical as to time and rather disastrous as to Uigestion, AT THE DOORWAY. The lunching places of the city cannot really be called indigenous, for they are by no means ofasort that is found nowhere else, nor did they originate here, but it can easily be held that they were called mto the field and given a peculiar tone by the proximity of the depart- ments and the adjustment of all business to the hours of departmental! business. Besides the regular restaurants there are several kinds of establishments wherein a hungry mancan get a meal quickly and cheaply. He does not care to spend more than fifteen minntes or 25 cents on his lunch. and he soon discovers, in his ex- perimenting, the place where he can make the most digestible and palatable combination on the least money. Thus it is that we find lunch rooms of a certain class patronized by the same people day after day with scarcely a change, and now and then a transient. One can get a lunch for five cents—nota very elaborate affair, to be sure, but enough to entitle it to a place in the category of what some people would call “cold snac! It is not often, on the other hand, that the luncher ys more than a quarter for his bill of fare. 1is man 18 an epicure; he lives high, He has &@ comparatively unlimited menu from which to choose—meats, soups, pies, liquids, solids, an assortment of good things that makes the eyes of the hungry clerk sparkle. A quarter luneh is justified to the top notch in the stick. In these rooms they have small tables for four, castors contain: pper, vinegar, salt and catsup, damp folded napkins, and knives and forks. It is the luxury of lunching. You stroll in at noon and are fortunate enough to finda seat. All is confusion. Col- ored men, holding high above their heads trays that contain an appalling mass of orders, fly hither and thither. occasionally tripping and causing chaos and profanity. You sit patiently for five minutes and at last give your order to one of these restless individuals. You would like, say, a bow! of beef soup, a cup of coffee, a slice of bread or so and a piece of mince pie. That costs you a dime. Then you can get some extras, such as a bit of beefsteak to cat after your soup, or a chop, or perhaps a dish of fried potatoes. That costs you from ten to fifteen cents more. There isa long list of possibili- ties to choose from aud the room is pervaded with an odor of all sorts of cooking. You are apt to be a trifle startled, if you are a newcomer into these fields of aristocratic lTunching, when the waiter suddenly appears over your shoulder. regan warning, sings out: “Vegetable or oyster soup, mince or upple pie, tee coffee of milk. What do you want?” Under such circumstances the only thing to do is to keep cool, think of what you really prefer and order that. Don't let the waiter biatt you into ordering the articles which he emphasizes, for then you are most likely to leave with a sorrowing stomach. When you have finally finished your lunch—it takes about twenty minutes to order it, wait for it and eat it—yon leave the premises, not forgetting to take your hat from the rack’ where, if you are an habitue, you hung it when you entered, or to pay the cashier the amount indicated on a cheek which the waiter deftly lays on your Inte. face down, when he brings Read order. ie is, of course, possible to slip by the guard at the door, in a rush, without paying, but it does not pay, as you are liable to be spotted the next time you come and then it will be uncom- fortable. In these places one can obtain filling quality of lunch for a dime, consisting of soup, pie, coffee and bread and butter. It does not take long to eat unless the soup is hot, but it is often rather long coming. LUNCHING IN STYLE. Somewhat akin to this style of lunch room is the true “‘cafe,” where, for the same sum of 10 cents, one gets a large cup of coffee. drawn from a resplendant nickel urn, and a couple of delicious rolls or biscuits, along with the neat- est possible print of butter and a tiny jug of Stok Seca. Ts Sa well exited (s laden vhotore out shopping and just want something light to keep the headache away until they get home. They delight in sipping their coffee and nib- bling their rolls while discussing shades, pat- terns, prices, styles and Mrs. Smith's last bon- net. Men do not thrive on such lunches, and the majority of patrons in these places wear skirts and look critically atthe hate of the later arrivals, The tables are usually placed in, or in the rear of, a confectioner’s shop, so that there is a large stock of pies, es, buns, rolis, biscuits and sweetmeats of all sorts near br. A busy man can dash in, get his coffee and rolls, bolt them, pay for them and be off | again in !ess than five minutes, with good luck. This is one of the best featurea of the estab- lishment. iddle cake room, where a wl white-aproned batter tosser stands in a window and turns out hot, smoking, fragrant —— for the delectation of a wistful crowd outside anda hungry crowd inside. Ten cents buys a plate of four cakes, with butter and plentifal maple sirup. There are but one or two of these places now started, but their popularity is such already as to promise the starting of more. In the busy part of the day the man in the window has to work like « Trojan to supply the throng of customers, who sit at small tables along the walls. Besides griddle cakes and sirup there is quite an_ elaborate menu of pies, cakes, milk, coffee, &c., a nickel acup or apiece. A quarter goesa good way in satisfying the hunger of aman with a ee appetite, and is entirely too much for the average luncher. Fifteen cents is about the ordinary cost, There is aunique flavor about having your Innch cooked right in front of you that has won for these places quite a reputa- tion. Up to this point the waiter, in his helpful, hustling capacity, holds a large place in the ranks, but beyond his presence and power for the launcher, in his investigating tour, is entering upon a ficld where the cus- tomer is expected to do his share of the wuait- ing, both as regards time and substance. In other words each man helps himself, to a cer- tain extent. The aproned waiter, as distinctive from the hungry, paying waiter, is by no means an unimportant personage in that rather odd institution known as the “oyster counter,” or ‘oyster shelf.” These places are devoted exclusively to men, who sit perched upon h stools before a long counter, and help themselves to all within reach, calling for that which is out of sight. Oysters form the staple of the menu—raw, steamed, stewed, fried. A plate of raw with trimmings, such as catsup and bread, with a fork to spear the slippery bivalves, costs a dime. The oysters are opened right in sight, at the end of the counter usually, by a colored man armed with an iron-bound knife, with which he smashes the edge of the shell and then pries it open aud cuts the meat out intoa huge dish, A stew costs from i5 cents to 25 cents, according to the place and the trimmings. A dozen fried, which is usually enough for two men, Costs from 20 to 30 cents and includes « ickle and a handful of small, bard crackers. A of steamed oysters—an order that usually aaises the hair of an inland denizen—is rated at about 40 cents. The customer can have them opened before him or brought to him shelled. AT THE OYSTER BAR, The etiquette of the “oyster shelf” is slightly different from that of the banquet table. There is more freedom of action, less restraint, more pluy for the appetite, less conversation. Every man works out bis own salvation, whether he treads on some other fellow’s preserves or not. If he happen to have a peculiar, individual manner of eating a “raw,” such as holding it in the air betwixt finger and thumb and then letting the luscious morsel slip down his ali- mentary canal, there is no one mean enough to hint that it is at all outre. In fact itis in exact harmony with the tendencies. Every fellow eats after his own fashion and to his own tune. Somehow or other there is a circumstance about this ‘oyster shelf” lunching that lleaves its imprint on a maa. His jlegs naturally twine themselves gracefully around the limbs of his high chair and remain in the most uncomfortable positions until the very last oyster has disappeared. ‘The habit shows itself elsewhere, for the confirmed counter luncher always seems to be engaged in a strenuous effort to tie his heels together wherever he sits. It is an unfortunate adjunct toa very pleusant mode of lunching. THE Dany LUNcH. Perhaps the most American of all the lunch rooms is that wherein milk is the principal commodity, called, from this fact, the dairy lunch, These establishments are of recent growth, having been started here about ten years ago. They are now to be found on almost every business sireet—always near a department building. Here the go- as-you-please idea is carried out rather fully. A man first orders his milk, cream, coffee or half-and-half, and then helps himself to whatever he wants from a heaping stock of toothsome goods on a counter, Cream is 15 cents a mug; it is rich, thick, delicious, but a trifle too heavy for the stomachs and the purses of the average customer. Milk comes at a nickel a mug, and hal: \d-half at a dime. Pie is 5 cents a section, about as large ce as any housewife ever gives her hns- band; there are all sortsof pies, apple, pump- kin, ‘squash, sweet potatoc, mince, custard, and,’ in season, berry pies’ of every Then there are cakes, large, round cakes that go very, well with a mug of milk; sandwiches, ham, cheese or tongue; crullers, or doughnuts; two slabs of material with a custard between, and small round biscuits, either but- tered or not. The ir is 5 cents for any article, except the doughnuts and the bisenits; the former go at three for a nickel and the latter ata cent apiece without butter, and 2 cents buttered. THE SUGAR BowL. As soon as a man gets what he wants he usuaily finds a seat in one of the comfortable arm chairs that line the walls. There are some men who don’t sit down when they eat, but stand in the aisle munching and sipping, greatly to the endangerment of nes there are others who don't stir from the coun- ter, but stand right in front while they eat | their lunch, on the sinoiple of every man | being the universe, This trifle annoying | to those who come to the counter to get their | goods or to return their cups and pay the score. The coffee drinkers usually specify the | quality of the stuff they want; for instance, a | a weak or “mild” coffee getsa deal of | milk, a “medium” is given when there is no | choice, and then there are such grades as | “strong” and “straight.” The coffee S pemed out with a spoon, unsweetened, and cus tomer is allowed to help himself to " | bowls of which are kept on the side walls, Tho | milk and cream are drawn from great metal cases let into the front of a ition at the |rear, and the coffee comes from hi nickel | boilers, under which lamps are always urning. The rash of hungry clerks in one of these ! pees between 12 and 1 o'clock is e average lunch costs about ten or twelve | cents, seldom Boing, above twenty cents or be- low sever can be obtained and eaten in about This is rather coffee is alway Written for Tux Evexme Stan. HOUSE PLANTS AND BULBS. Practical Suggestions About Their Cal- ture to Patrons of Window Gardening. THE CAREFUL ATTENTION NECESSARY — HINTS ABOUT WATERING FLOWERS —WASHING THE LEAVES—WAR AGAINST INSECTS—FREEZING AND THE REMEDY—FLOWERING BULBS, T will be safe, from in- dications, to say that this winter house plants will be more largely cultivated than ever be- fore in Washington- it will amount to little short of as veritable craze, ‘The selling of potted flowers at auction has been increasing gradually for years and now the very announcement of a sale brings to- gether an anxiousand not always a judicious crowd of flower buyers bidding too often at a name rather than for a plant. Asa rule plants sold at auction bring good prices, sometimes if not often more than market value. There are few houses in which there is not something in the way of a flower during the winter, when circumstances will permit, some- thing or anything, from the old soap box of stubby geraniums in the kitchen to the well- appointed conservatory or pretty bay-window garden in front. It was the late Mr. Beecher who said: “Floral insanity is one of the most charming afilictions to which man is heir to. The victim never wishes to be cured, nor should any one wish to cure him.” It is not an easy matter for lovers of flowers to give them up from the frosts of autumn un- til the warm, sunny days of April and May—so the interregnum is supplied by the house plant, and often the substitute is a perfect miniature ofa pretty sumer garden, ‘Tastes and opinions differ, very fortunately for variety’s sake, as to what plants prove most pleasing and orna- mental, thus one is greeted in the rounds of friendly visitation by an interminable list of unique designs and bewitching arrangements, As a rule window planis produce but few flowers during the winter season, therefore at- wention is Iiegely directed to bulbs when blooms are especially sought for. CAREFUL ATTENTION NECESSARY. It is not necessary to be a professional florist to deal with house plants, but in order to be successful a knowledge of the modus operandi, to a certain degree, is needful. This study will secure in part, but experience and common sense will soon teach many things not to be found in books. Lack of experience, however, will not altogether prevent successful results. Carefal attention and the adjustment of the laws of nature to existing conditions of the pk@nts will make good what time and experi- ence will forward toward perfection, © In the first place a plant mnst have fresh air and can only get what the grower choses to give it, And this is a question which involves agood deal. ifa window near it should be opened iu cold weather it would chilland die, therefore it would secm best to open the win- dow or door farthest from it and in the middle of the day when the sun is shining and warm- est. If the soil about an out-of-doors plant is unsuitable its roots will wonder off a long way in search of something better. A house’ plant continued to a pot or box has to do the best it can—so great care is essential to give it suit- able soil, itis best to buy the needed soil from a fiorist who can tell you from the con- dition and nature of the plant what it most needs, ABOUT WATERING PLANTS. Through the mistaken attentions of the house- wife, or perhaps her over zealous daughter, house plants too often get more water than they need. When out of doors the surplus water poured i a them is absorbed by the ground around them—though even then it can be easily overdone. When the potted plant has too much water the soil becomes mud, sours and rots the roots and the plant naturally dies. Care should be taken that the water not needed should have easy means of escape. The best method for providing for this is to place a piece of broken flower pot over the inevitable hole in the bottom of the pot or box and then fill the vessel with smaller pieces of the same tothe height of one inch. An inch should also be left at the top of the pot to al- low the water aresting placo from which to soak into the soil. Care should also be taken not to pile the earth, after the fashion of some amateurs, around the neck of the plant, as this is injurious to most plants and is never done by florists. A DIVIDING LINE. Plants should have plenty of water, but not too much. There is a dividing line about which one must exercise care and good judgment, Evaporation takes place slowly at this season, and especially during such murky weather as has visited Washington the past months, Itis agolden rule in plant culture to water them only solong as the soil hasadry look. ‘This seems easy enough to do, but it is really a very delicate operation. To water all at stated times and exactly alike isanything but a judici- ous plan. A thorough watering, in which the ball of that plant, is commute souked, is the only beneficial way, Most plants in winter do not require watering more than two or three times aweek, but this depends upon the nature of the plant and condition of the atmosphere, Plants in bud or blossom require watering more frequently than those not blooming. Cold water should never be used unless the plant is frozen. Tepid water about the temperature of the atmosphere is best, and should be applied in as fine a spray as possible, WASHING THE LEAVES, Nothing is so refreshing to a plant as to have ita leaves washed when hot and dry. The out- of-doors flower gets this from the showers from the clouds, the in-door plant must get it from its patron. This should be done in the morn- ing before the sun shines upon them, and never toward night when tho air is growing cooler. Perhaps the best pla to uccomplish this is to wi em in the kitchen, and the best way is to make a tubful of soap suds barely warm, tie a piece of cloth over the pot to keep the ei and then with a small piece of sponge wash off every leaf, th sides—not touching the blooms should thero be any. When completed rinse off in clear tepid water and wipe off the pots, If this be done once a week an. insect will be a stranger to the plant. When this method is not practi- cable an ordinary atomizer can be used toa great advantage. After washinga good bath of sunlight will prove’ very invigorating. Plants need all the sunlight they can get at this deason of tho year. It is just when tho days are shortest and many of them cloudy and rainy—this having been so far an exceptionally rainy and disagreeable season—and they have sutfered accordingly. WAR AGAINST INSECTS, Watch for and take precautions against in- sects, which do plants more injury when they are at a stand still than when making active growth. Growing, robust plants will often be free from attacks while weakly plants in the same collection will be covered with the little pests, One wonld sapposs that the juices of a strong, vigorous oo would have more attrac- tion for an aphis those of a sickly one, but such is evidently not the case, The vigorous lants can resist the attacks of insects much ‘tter than the feeble ones, therefore they are not as much inj by them in a short time. Fumigate or syringe with kerosene emulsion or tobacco tea—either are ana and effective and both ordinarily accessib! FREEZING AND THE REMEDY. As stated in a previous article on this sub- ject, plants, like animals, require sleep and rest at night, but in a different temperature, ‘The less tight the less heat is needed consistent with the nature of the plant. But it is too often the case that a draft is left in the room over night or the apartment allowed to get chilled and the plants becoi ally and with as little heat as possi them away bag de it and Fy) for four or five weeks where they will not freeze, then bring out to the light and warmth of the living room and the leaves and buds will soon appear, Set hyacinth ina four inch pot, cover with soil all but the top of the bulb, place in the dark while it is making roots,about one month, and when brought out and setina warm, sunny window its rapid growth will be sur- prising, and the fragrance of its flowers will perfume the room. A pretty crocus is that with a yellow, blue and purple stripe and can be planted three or four bulbs to a four-inch pot. It is easily brought into bloom but is seldom used as a window plant. Some of the tender bulbs are lovely for pot plants. Among them is the paper white narcis- sus with its beautiful pure, waxen white flag- rant blooms. Another pretty narcissus is the “poets cup,” a pure white flower, 3 inches in diameter, with a yellow cup in the center, edged with crimson. They are very inexpen- sive much to their credit. The Bermuda or Easter lily also blooms well in pots. ba One of the favorites of the season will doubt- less be the Chinese or sacred lily, or as it is often called, the “joss” flower, or “Flower of God.” The Chinese have these flowers in bloom at Christais time and set them around their joss ax an offering. The bulbs are quite large and set in bowls of water with enough cleun sand and pebbles, or even shells or tiny rocks, to keep the bowl from tipping over. When set in a window it will begin to grow, and in two or threé wecks will be in bloom. Bulbs put out within the next week or so will be in bloom by Christmas and afford a beauti- ful means for decoration. —— ge amie Written for Tre EvextnG Stan. ONE LANGUAGE OF THE SEA. Over the blue of the bright starry sea ‘The siguals are flashing on high, Where worlds without number, like ships on the lea, Are sailing all silently by— The lights, blue and red, with others so white, Aro streaming afar through the darkness of night. ‘Their language is one, for through many a year, Since the Chaldeans watched them of old, Till now when the telescope brings them go near, Not a wreek on that sea has been told— Fot tho signals taat flash, of every bright hue, ‘Through the depths of the heavens, are constant and true. In the ears of the dreamers long ages ago, Soft music was heard from afar, In the sphere where the waves of the Milky Way flow, Like the song of the first morning star— And the voices are one, like tho lights on the deep, Where the stars, in their courses, the night Watches keep. The speech of immortals, they tell us, is one— So unlike the language of earth, All broken in fragments, its beauty undone, By some Jar in the day of its birth— But the tongue of the dwellers afar in the skios Is one where tho rhythm of life never dies, ‘The lightning that fell on the plain of Shinar, In confusion then scattered the race, Tn stammering accents, all wandering afar, Still yearning their birthright to trace— As the fragments still tell of the vase, what it cost, All languages tell of the one that was lost. Bat again from their wanderings the children will come, And speak the one language of old, In the day when they turn to the Father's dear home, Like sheep coming back to the fold— And tho signs of that union are thickening apace, In the stir of the nations that today we may trace. O, pweet was the sign that at Pentecost came— ‘The one Janguage of Canaan then given— In the air like the play of a quivering flume, In the soul the one spirit from Heaven— The tongue of the Jew all may not have heard, ‘Twas the unspoken language within them that stirred. All hail! to the watchmen who are showing today , How the voice of the sea may be one; That the ships of the deep, like the stars far away, May be safo till the voyage is done— For the path of the seas is a mightier road ‘Than tho land where the nations for ages have trod, Let the lights as they flash, and tho signals that call, For earth as for Heaven be one, ‘Till shipwreck and strife no more shall eppall, And life's warfare for ever be done— And the sea will shout back to the land in that day, And the music of home begin swootly toplay. Then the ships that go by where the Pleiades shino Will call to the ships on the deep, And the voices of both shall sweetly combine The night-watch forever tokeop— When the links that were broken on earth shall + beone, Then the language of Heaven for man shall be won. To a land more blessed than that of Shinar This Congress—bright herald—has come— No Babel of discord to build in the air, But to learn the dear language of home— Sure sign of the day when alll strife shall be past, And immortals will speak the one language at last. J. H, Cornpert, —— ee Simple Christmas Decorations. Eben E. Kexford in Ladies’ Home Journal. Plenty of material for Christmas decoration of the home and church can be found in most parts of the country. Autumn leaves can be used with good effects in the construction of wreaths, festoons and crosses, If these are used in combination with ivy leaves or some of the lighter evergreens a contrast will be se- cured which will bring out the bright colors of them vividly. Dried ferns can be colored and combined with them finely, A very pretty and artistic cross can be made of ivy leaves mixed with berries of the mountain ash, dogwood or euonymus. Ears of wheator oats can be worked in with good results, especially if they are first dipped into a solution of alum strong enough to leave a deposit of crystals on them. One of the most ‘ming crosses I ever saw used in Christmas decorations was made of ivy leaves with a wreath of crystalized wheat and red berries thrown over its arms. In most localities in the country ground pine can be found. This is a rich green in color, and works up well in mostany design. Running pine can be gathered in long strings, and is very useful for light work where a simple tracery of green is required. Bitter sweet ber- ries combine with it c! ingly, The everlasting flowers such as helichrism, xeranthemum and | Stes paler can be bought very cheaply in nat colors, if desired for use in that condition, or they can be had in most bright colors and in pure white, but the: are really no prettier than berries, though val- uable for the sake of variety. ————+e0——___ — Trams To New Yorx.—The Baltimore and Qhio railroad is maintaining a complete schedule of passenger trains to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. No transfer, no change, U perder service. Pullman's finest arlor and sleeping cars, See Baltimore and Bhio time-table, this paper, * ——— Mrs. Cleveland’s Pretty Gowns, ‘From the New York World. ‘The wife of ex-President Cleveland has evi- dently changed her dressmaker, for at no time wears, Mrs, Cleveland was always well dressed sofaras fabrics, trimmings and confections fost were too rich, Ther baa eee were ‘They der aad warms of Coae eee youth ao . . Since her enroltsent. aun a of McAllister’, me See ay ee mal silk and ‘cloths i $ k li g qi if z SOMETHING ABOUT BLINDNESS. EDUCATIONAL. A Doctor Gives Some Startling Facts ‘to the Medical Society. THIRTY PER CENT OF THE CASES SAID TO RESULT FROM INFLAMMATION IN BARYHOOD—THE PHYSI- CIAN PROPOSES A STEP BY WHICH MANY EYES MAY BE SAVED. Atarecent meeting of the medical society of this city a paper was read on the above sub- ject which has so much interest for the public at large that Tae Star obtained permission to publish some extracts, which it trusts may have the effect of drawing the attention of those having the care of infants to the great dangers which are likely to follow a neglect of what appears at first to be only a simple “cold in the eye.” The importance of the matter to the community will be apparent from the rather startling statemenst contained in the “I shall not burden your attention nor tax your memory with long tables of statis- tics which have been prepared at much pains and with great accuracy by a number of men in different parts of the world, but will simply state the fact which has been brought out by these investigations, that not less than thirty per cent of all the blindness in Europe and this eeoniey, is caused by the purulent inflammation ol TRE EYES OF THE NEW-BORN INFANTS. Bringing the matter more nearly home to our- selves, there are now, according to the last cen- sus, at least 50,000 totally blind persons in the United States; and of these 15,000 at the very least have been blind from birth, and have been a constant care and expense for the whole of their lives, * * * The minimum cost 1 sustenance of a single person in our best and most economical managed institutions for the bind is about $192 per annum. This makes for the mere “keep” of these blind peo- ple something like 22,000,000 annually. But if these 15,000 people had not been blind they would have been producers instead of consum- ers only, and their net contribution to the general fund can be taken as at least one dol- lar a day on the average, Adding this amount to the cost of keeping them and we have the total loss to the wealth of the United States, each year, of $7,500,000, And this enormous Joss to the commonwealth, gentlemen, is due to the ravages of a disease as preventable and more curable than small pox. * * * I find upon examining the records of a single instita- tion in this city (the central dispensary) that serious defects in vision from neglected oph- thalmia of infants forms-about 7.5 per cent of all the cye cases treated there, and in more than half of this number THE BLINDNESS WAS FATAL. Ina single month there were brought there three infants with both eyes totally destroyed by the disease, and if you could have seen the Jook of anguish and reproach in the faces of those mothers—two of them hardly more than children themselves—when told that their babies would never see again, the prevention and proper treatment ot babies’ sore eyes would not have then seemed to you a slight or trivial affair; “Nobody told me it was dungerous,” they said. “They said it was only acold in the eyes and that if I put breast milk in them they would come allright.” * * * When the new-born infant is under the care of a competent physi- cian, who examines into the condition of the eyes each day and notes the very first appearauce ‘of the disease and institutes prompt and vigorous measures for its relief, the danger is much less, But there are a large number of new-born babies who are never eeen by a physician at all and these are among a class ‘of people where the condition for the development of the dis- ease are most favorable. Jt is highly important that those persons be in some way informed of tue danger. Various methods of accomplishin this have been suggested, In England the opthal- mological society of the united kingdom took the matter in hand and in 1884 its committee, composed of the ablest men among its mem- bers, made a report of a series of resolutions, some modification of which I deem a: d to the necessities of the,case in this country (1) That ophthalmia of new-born infants being the cause of a vast amount of blindness, mainly because of the ignorance of the public regarding ite dangerous character and the con- sequent neglect to apply for timely medical aid, and it is desirable to instruct those in charge of new-born children by a card in,sub- stance as follows: INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING NEW-BORN fa child's eyelids become red und swollen or begin to run inattera few days after birth, itis to be taken Without a day's delay to a doctor. The disease is very daugerous, and if not at once treated may de- stroy the sight of both eyes, A SUGGESTION FOR WASHINGTON, In our own city I think the health office could do great good by aiding in the distribution of cards something like the above. They could be given to the physicians of the poor for general distribution in their respective districts, They could also be left for distribution at the various dispensaries and at what- ever other public institutions those for whose benefit they are intended, are to be found, The expense of printing such cards would be trifling and if there is no se fund from which the cost could be paid I think that there is no doubt but that it would be forth- coming from some private charity. This, it seems to me, in view of tho great importance of the subject, even from the politico-economi cal point of view, and laying aside all consider- ations of sentiment and humanity, is the best we can or should do, ————— ‘Will Albert Victor Ever Return? From the New York Tribune. An impression prevails in England that Prince Albert Victor of Wales will never return alive from India, It is well known that he has from the very outset been extremely averse to making the trip, and that he has regarded his Indian Odyssey with the most gloomy fore- bodings. The news, therefore, that on the very first day of his arrival in Bombay the elephant on which he was riding stumbled and fell, and that at # later hour on the same afternoon the horses which he was driving bolted and smashed his carriage to pieces, has been received with much uneasiness in London. It is true that the rince escaped on each occasion with nothing yond a few scratches and a severe shaking, but the fact remains that the two accidents on the same day are regarded by the superstitious a8 an exceedingly ominous be; to the Indian tour of England's fut — eee An Electric Stair Climber. From the Electrical World, The large number of elevators in office build- ings has made people accustomed to their use, and the wish has often been expressed that some arrangement might be devised by which elevators might be installed in private houses A solution of this problem is the arrangement exhibited in Paris. This stair climber consists supported on the balustrade; second, a movable ned seba which is supported by and guided b: the rails, and third a motor. The motor, it will be seen, is an electric one which acts di- rectly upon a windlass, to which a chain is at- tached which pulls up the platform upon which the person stands. of these little ele- vators, from to story, is in ndent of the other, so one person it be ascend- ing from one story to another wi the other is descending. The motor can be made to turn backward or forward, or to stop at will, by the person on the ———_-+e2+_______ Sound Advice for Business Women. Marion Harland in North American Review. An editorial writer in the Christian Union TON. THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY. IE COLUMBIAN © Tce 1 Host. ULLEGE PREPARATORY . ew, Saemds thorough | i i or the United States | TRAINS LEA TON, FROM STATION, jor business. Ten tnetruct- | CORNER 6TH AS AS FOLLOWS: mited to 100. A fe For Pittsburg and the West, Amatted cies remain. For mformation apply to AP. Mi Pullman Vestibuied Care st 10-50 a.m. * TAGUE, Pb.D., Principal. 10:50 a.m, daily to Cohumbus Wowie, with Sleeping Cars from Pitsburg to Co- HE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY.-TRE Conco- | — famine and Sy Sars Harrisburg to Riche ran Scientific School opened October 1, The nond. tud.: dally, except Naturday. tr Chiesa, classes, which meet m the evening, are open to both ith Sleeping Car 0 Chi St. Lous, sexes. "For information about the courses in Algebra, | Chicago aut'Ch 330 p.m. Gaalys Geowetcy. ‘Truconouetry, Analytic Geuneiry and Parlor Car Washincton to Harrisburg, aud Sleeps Calculus, ‘appiy to HL. HODGKINS, Profesor of | ing Care" ‘Harrisbune to ht Ln Cae od Mathematics, ol? 2m Gincinnats “and Harrisburg "to st ATIONAL ACADEMY OF PINE ARTS, S04 F ST. cule. Western mi daily. wi RAW. Cheapest and beat place to lear Drawing | Pon amerting Satie agama and St Sec eae, Mee. TMOG! = 4 Sleepers for Louisville and Memphis. Pacific ba- Ei Portraits in charcoal om, On solar ich Phrases alee ee rena and the w by + ~ per to Pittsburg, and Tituburd DALTINORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD, Kane, Canan: Rochester apd Niware Palle daily, éxcept Sunday, 8-10am. Eric, Canandaigua and Kochester daily. falo and Niagare daily except Raturday | With Sleopins Car Was For Williamsport, Loc tel, water and oti colors, to order from &5 ‘Studios open evers day and Wednesday «see the wonderful proxresy of 46-64" & TO TEACH FRENCH AND GER- tan in Six Months. French by = young lady, bom Parisian: German by & born German (profes: | sional teachers). Apply, preferably eveuincs, Wp ington to Recliestes Haven and Eimire at 10:50 as 4 ‘as. st nv. ‘a.m. daily, exon; Soe For Wilamsjort dail He owas FOR PHILADELPHIA, u.W., Dr, Clara 3 720, 9-00, 11:00 Lecturer: 4:10, 10-00 and 11 11:40 a.m, 2:10, 3 Sup 4:10, 10.00 3:20, m Limited Express of Pullman P A B40 in: ay, "eavert Bunday, and LOCUTION ! Onxarorz: cTING? daily with Dining MARTYN COLLEGE OF ELOCUTION, FOR PHILADELPHIA ONLY. »DMUND SHAFTESBURY, Founder, Fast Express 5.10 a.m, w daysand 5:10 p.m daily. aif a block east of City P.O. Acoe 5-00 p.m, daily re has develuped sume of the | For Bost withoat chamee, 3.20 p.m every day Professional talent in this country by the use of | For Brockiyn, i through traius connect @& the SHAFTESBU ETHOD a) Jersey Guy with buatsof brooklyn Annex, aflord- ing direct transfor to Pulton street, svoiding double ferriage across New kork City. For Atlantic City, 11:40 am, week days, 11:20 p.m. dail; m 7:20, 8:10, 9:00, 9:40, 10-50, S, 2.10, S a, Diplomas, Degrees,and T to wraduates, F COU: Forty-eurht-page catalogue KS. MANNS: EINDER KINDERGARTEN 3 ARTEN AND: ayy DER 7 For Baltimore, 6:35, NORMAL TRAINING CLASS, south of Dupont circle, 11:00 and" 11-40 a 4:00, a, 1918 Sunderland place, ia rag a 10, 3-20, xT SCHOOL. 00 aud 11°20 p.m. = MISS RANSOM For Fope’s Creek Line, 7-20 aia. aid 4-40 p.m. daily, Will give lease: branches of Dra exer For Annapolis, 7 20a.m..12.05and 4:20 p.m. daily, except Sunday. Sundays, 0.05 a.m. 4:10 paa. ALEXANDAIA AND FREDEMICKSBURG RAUL RALARD ALEXANDUa AND WASHINGTON IN EFFECT NOVEMBER 18, 1889. For Alexandria, 4:3 740, 8:40, 0-45, 10-57 ‘am, 1: Lo, 4:25, 4:58, © 8:03, 10-05 and Wlicials of the 7:45, 9:45, 105 05 pan. oF Quantico, 7 740 atm. Su Paintiug at he vole 1223 — wikwiNorss 1223 THE MISSES KERW'S SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES AND LITTLE CHILDREN. _ 30-tofe9 ‘P\HE FREDERICK FEMALE SEMINARY. THE attention of Members of Cougre Departments and all who have an called to this Institution, where at can be obtained and the best care and morals. Send for acstalogue. W. PU! _229-Ime =a ie ms LANO LESSG BY MISS) MAY H. MEAD, ertificated Pupil of Raifof the Koyal Con- servatory of Berlin, at 90" st. u.w., or at the Pu- Pils homes. 16-540" Ms AND MS, WM. E. Mc Studio 401 3d stnw. P 45 am. and 4:55 diay nation at the office, northeast cor. a on, Oil Tere aud Pastel. An easy method of teach on Por- “ be Left for U traits, Lessons in China Painting, Colors | bagense tod tion from hotels and residences and Pastel, weslm * | CHAS PUGH, Fee 25 2 UOR, poe a Lene: haer, 2 we Agee NE ART STUDENTS’ Li in = —— —_ —s Classes in Drawing aud Life, the | JRICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD O¢ 2 Drawing son bedul effect NOVEMBER 2 Lr Antique aud Stil Life. Evening classe dustructors: KC. Messer, HL. Brouk land € "a nnessve Mail, daily hariottesville. 1, st. uw. bear Mi and CATH as. ave. MM NOERR, Principals, y wanpeake and Ubio t, Irnville s1Vidbe, 5 F ST. N.W. GAIL mar KD, ofticier German, Profs. Mussacus Italian and Spanish, La Siguora Gaillard, ete. Prof, Gaillard lately explained Lis new method at the White House before Mrs. Harrison aud frieuds and ail were euchanted with it and pronounced it the easiest and most educational y ma Pullman Danville to Washington opt Sunday, di te masons, ure, Bristol and Cbat- 4 ienpere Waalineton to Bhat Menitin, rail Atkateas point, 9:40 pau—Wostern Express, daily for Cee UD i bee Culpeper. Oraue, Charlotuerville, Btauntom, Laue Ville, Capcinuati. "Pullman Vestibule train Washing- fon to Cinctunail with « Pullman sleeper for Lows ville. 11:00 p.m.—Southern Express daily for Lyuch! 1013 16TH &T.. BET. K AND L STS. Danville, Kaleigh, Asheville, Charlotte, (ium Miss 8. W. KELLY—London Medalist—Principal. ry, Urieans, Texas Competition for Gold Medal in “Life Class” begins tibule Car Washauewon to Nov. 16. sue nd Montgomery. Pullman ASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 8T. Hunebam, Ale. via Atlante Wee atti, wth and k stan year. Piano, Organ, Voice, Violin, Flute, Corne xdvantayes BULLAKD, Dir enty-first railway, and’ Puliinan Free m dhto Avision leave Wash- Sunday aud 4 a. Acme Phoucgraphy acquired in sixteen easy les- sons. Proficiency gained in from two to three montha. Simplicity, rapidity legitility aueurpassed. Cail et. Typewritang taught free. ith competent noxraphers type writers. Head School of Acie Phouography, st. . Y Principal, 10-Im* Fy ERMAN LESSO: 185 C. DENGLER, to adults and children be tho "roadencs of ‘the pupils. nl4-lin* 88, SCHMITT'S BCHOOT.—KINDERGART and Primary—at 401 3d st. n.w. Coach from porthwestern section, teacher accompanying. Articu: lation and Speech K-ading Taught the Dest." oc¥-2m' ISS SULIA KR, PALCH, HAVING in vexching the Fuglish Laneui Mil a an returning leave Kound Hill 6-00 a.m. daily and we Pau. daily exceyt Sunday, arriving Waehington 8:30 rs the south vis Charlotte, Dan- arrive in Washington ” 6:5: Via bast Tennessee, Lrixtol Ai. aud 10:40 pom. ; via Cheam _ 48 p. ‘.m, Strasburg local at 104% am, ‘Tickets, sleeping-car reservation and information furnished, and barre checked at office, 1300 Penne iat Pametgor station, Peansylvanid 3 ate. . L. TAYLOR, Gon, Pass, Agent, Bacrowore A i h gm and 7:10 pm Lyuchburg at 10: ake and Obie reu 210 p.m, and 6 Ist, uw. or at Offers her rervices as Teacher to Schedule th elect No’ mee ongress aud to Foreign Leave Washington from stati st new. uy For Chicaxo ’ express daily 11-20 aan. © Clncinunts, St. Las iy, aud 12330 p For Pittsbur 3 %. Vextibuled Limited press 9.10 p.m. end udieuapulis, express roland, Vestibuled Limited, and express 5 40 p.m, Stations 110 30 asa, \ K, UENER, A.M, C.E., EDUCATES FOR USE- Jeftlness. “Two years a Business Educator in this city, Fifteen years a meniber of the faculty of Eaxt- mau College, Jomt author of the celebrat ‘Lext Books. Business Course: System, embraciug Theory, Business Bauking), Penmanship, Correspondence, Arit Word Lessons and Commercial Law. English Course Mord Lessons, Grammar, Rhetoric, Penmanship, Arith metic, Algebra, History an: Mraphy. Alwo courses in Accountancy, Shorthand, Typewriting and Teleg- raphy. New building, new furuiture, steam other modern conveniences u ory 20a. and Loc For Luray, 8:40 For Baltiinore, « 9220, 8 au Bend for circulars. CU- BIA COLLEGE OF COMMEKCE, GOY F st. uw. ecz5-41a CADEMY OF THE HOLY CROS: reopen Monday, September for sequi Athorough and finished education, No efforts are spared to advance the pupils: in music and art. ‘The musical department comprises theory and technic and embraces piano, harp, vielin, wuitar and banjo. Languages, general vocal and drawing oe. bet 6-40, 5:30am, Sandays, 8:30 am, 1:15," mn ieave Maltimore for Washington, week ry & 2:10, 3-00, 4:0 30, & B20, "7-10, ‘7 Sundays, © 00, : ue! School of Shorthand aud tine. School of Telegrapny and Electrical 1i4, 6:40 am. 12:10 and pm On yiuw..45 pm. Leave Anuapolis 6:40 Unda iS 05 and S250 pam Bt 5:37 am. 4:00 School of Spencerian Peumanship. School of Mechanical aud Architectural Drawing, Day and nyrlit semuons, Gall or send for illustrated catalogue free, ENK} B., Principal; SPENCER, Vico Y C. SPENCER, LL. + SARA, A Vice Principal. we: HE BERLI1Z SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, 723 14th at, n.w., Washington, Americaand Europe as the best school ‘Recognized in for aapeedy mastery of the Foreixa pm For stations on the Metropolitan Branch, t6 10:30 « $1.15 pam. pribeapal statucns * 4:0 and 15:30 pan. und Way Stations, 14:35 p.m. wury and \utormediate pothts, "8 -00a, Paw. intermediate stations, 17-00 p.m i statious on Metropolitan Branch, G45, 110-30 a.mm., 13:10, 14.50 m, Sunday op. od oie ae =. Bre ate! tabs arrive frm Chicago daily Lie? and 4:05 p.in.; frou Ciucluusthand St Louis delle 883 8m. and 1.50 pau. , from Mitteburmy 710 aaa, p.m. daily. SEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA DIVISION, Pig? iow ork, Ty Newark and khigabet 00, T8200, 30 p.m, Su Sleeping car on ‘Trial Ps Branches in Boston, brooklyn, New York, Philadel- phia, Chicago, Berlin and Paris. se10 @CHOOL OF MUSIC (ESTABLISHED 187 wate ing Pet ‘ 729 Yth #t.n.w. Church organ for students’ use. 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