Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1889, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, Ld j D.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1889-SIXTEEN PAGES, PENNSYLVANIA MATRONS. Women Who Kepresent the Keystone Wives OF THE REPRESENTATIVES—WwOMEN WHO ARE WELL KNOWN IN WASHINGTON soctETY— MRS. RANDALL AND MES. KFLLY. ORS. O5- PORNE, MBS. DARLINGTON AND OTHERS. The Pennsylvania delegation, comprising the second largest representation in the popular branch of Congress, occupies a leading posi- tion not only in legislation and polities but, through the ladies of their families, in the social life of the capital. The senior lady in the delegation in longevity of residence at the capital is Mrs. Randall, whose husband entered Congress in 1803, and has been a leader on the floor and for nearly five years occupied the Speaker's chair. During the period of Mr. Randall's more active life in Congress his wife entertained in a quiet but generous way. Her father, Gen. Aaron Ward of Westchester county, New York. a Kepre- sentative in Congress between 1825 was a close friend a Jackson. Mrs. Randall, then # youyg giri, oc- casionally visited Washington with her parents and enjoyed an opportunity to witness the fashionable gayeties of those elegant days. Since the illness of her husband Mra, Randall bas not appeared in public, her whole time being devoted to his care. Their daughter Ann, who wasso much of a favorite, now pre- erdes over her own household Mrs, Charles Calvert Lancaster. Their younger daughter, Susan, who made her debut about two vears ago, is one of the most attractive young ladies in Boe! She received much attention from Mrs. Cleveland. The wife of Judge Kelly would ontedate Mrs. Rendall by one Congress in the length of Wash- ington residence had she not retired from so- cia! activity and remained at her Philadelphia home. MRS. WARMER. j One of the finest-looking couples in congres- gional society are Mr. and Mrs. Harmer of Penn- | sylvania, The Representative came to Wash- ington in the Thirty-eighth Congress and has been one of the most active legislators in the work of committees. Represeuting .a ship- | building district, bis labors have been mostly directed to furthering the interests of that branch of lg Mrs. Harmer, who was Miss Lizzie Miller of Manch Chunk, is a daughter of one of the pioneers in the development of the iron and coal interests of the romantic regions of the Lehigh. He was the friend and colaborer of Asa Packer, who from a boy on the tow path became the owner of the Lehigh Valley system of railroads and founder of the Lehigh uni- versity, the finest and wealthies: institution of the kind in the United States. Mr. Packer de- pended largely upon the judgment and experi. ence of Mr. Miller and the two were always | close friends. During the Johnson, Grant and Hayes ad- Minisitrations Mrs. Harmer took a very active part in the social stir of the capital. She also had her two daughters, Miss Lizzie and Miss Mellie, with her during a portion of this time. The young lagies were admired as the prettiest debutantes seen in congressional circles for many years. Miss Mellie is now the wife of Dr. W. H. Randall, port physician of Philadelphia, and Miss Lizzie is now Mrs. Reeside of Washington. Kepresentative and Mrs. Harmer make their home with their daughter in her attractive residence on Capi- tol park. They are at home on Representa- tives day during the season and receive their friends with generous hospitalty. Mrs. Reeside is a young woman of remark- able artistic genius. The productions of her brush and pencil possess unusual merit, The adurnment of her home is entirely the work of her own hands, Mrs. Bayne is one of the society leaders at the capital. This estimable lady and her hi some and distinguished bustand are sur- rounded by a large circle of devoted friends in every sphere of official and unofiicial life. The residence of Col. and Mrs. Buyne on Massa- chusetts avenue is oue of the finest in the West End, and during the coming season will be the scene of brilliant hospitality. Mrs. Bayne was Miss Ellen Smith of Pittsburg, and in her days of young ladyhood was without exception one of the most attractive belles in that whole region of Pennsylvania. Her father having acquired large wealth the daughter had every advantage of education and travel, and having married wisely and well she bas enjoyed a life of great happiness, The mother of Mrs. Bayne desiring to be near her daughter lives in opulence in her own residence not far away. Mrs, Bayne is a woman of great kindness of heart. She isa brunette with luxuriant raven tresses, a queenly pose and easy manners. The Kepresentative of the district in Penn- sylvania which bears his own name having missed a congressional term through the eccen- tricities of politics and public favor, is once more on the roll of legislators and his interest- ing family is once more living at the eapital, Mrs. Scranton is the daughter of Gen. Amos N. Meylert, one of the foremost citizens of north- ern Pennsylvania in his day. He was a Jack- sonian democrat in those times of acrimonious politics and believed in heroic Jacksonian methods in treating with secession when the late war began. His daughter Ada, now Mra. Scranton, was a great favorite among the young ladies in ber day, and in her m.2)id life she has been one of the social leaders .t the almost metropolitan county seat of Lackawanna. Dur- ing ber former residence at Washington Mrs. Seranton’s social entertainments were made doubly interesting by the debut of her daugh- ter Ida. Mother and daughter will hold their drawing rooms during the coming season at their residence on K street. it has been ru- mored that Miss Scranton is . engaged to a prominent citizen of her native city. ‘The society romancers were not authorized to make such a statement. Mrs. Scranton will have her mother, Mrs, Mevlert, and her niece, | of the season, expert equestrienne. A debutante tea will be given upon the occasion of Miss Dalzell’s entre into the circle of society's fashionable life, Mrs, Dalzell is well known among the ladies of Con- gress. She is very attractive and easy in man- ners. ‘The opulent lumberman, Lewis F. Watson, who represents the Warren district, has taken a fine suite of apartments at the Shoreham, where Mrs, Watson and daughter will receive. Mrs. Watson is adanghter of Judge Hamlin a county jurist in Tioga, ‘The Representative’s wife and daughter will entertain for the first time in Washington. Although Mr, Watson was in the Forty-fifth and Forty-seventh Con- gresses the ladies of his family were in Wash- | ington only for a short time. Representative McCormick of tha Williams- port district has followed the example of most of his colleaguos by taking a house in one oi the fashionable localities on Rhode Island avenue. Mrs, McCormick, who is experiencing her third season in Washington, will hold draw- ing rooms and take an active part in fashion- able gayeties, Representative Wright having purchased a house in « desirable locality will place his wife and family in it as soon as an ill child shall have sufticiently recovered to make the journey. MRS. DARLINGTON. The highest circles of fashionable life during the iast Congress enjoyed the munificent hos- pitality of the Darlington honsehold. During the present Congreas the ladies will entertain in the large suite of apartments at the Nor- mandie, where they will make their winter home. ' Mrs, Darlington is a woman of queenly resence. Her father. Joseph Baker, was a | shee near Coatesville, in one of the finest agricultural regions of eastern Pennsylvania. Four beautiful and accomplished daughters add | to the attractions of the Washington home of the Chester-Delaware Representative. The family, although members of the Society of Friends, entertain generously. Misses Edith, Mary, Isabelle and Rose assist their mother at her drawing rooms, Two married daughters— Mrs, Butler, wife of County Judge Thomas Lutler, and Mrs. Cooper, wife of a West Ches- ter banker, visit their parents during the height Miss Belle Darlington, a grad- sley, is one of the most brilliant at the capital, She is not only a | fine scholar but an accomplished linguist. Reprosentatives Culbertson, Rife and Kerr have taken houses for the winter and their | ladies will have their first seasou’s enjoyment of Washingjon fashionable life. Mrs. Culbertson was Miss Margaret Alexan- der. She isa daughter of Dr. Jas, Alexander, a practicing physician of distinction and an as- sociate judge in Warren county, She married Mr. Culbertson, a_prosperous lumberman and farmer, in 1851. The drawing rooms of Mra, Culbertson on Representatives day will be ren- dered doubly attractive by the presence of her three daughters, Cordelia. Kate and Margaret, A married daughter, Mrs. Isabelle May, who resides at the home at Girard, will visit her parents during the winter. Mrs, Rite, whose husband represents the capital district of the Keystone commonwealth, was Miss Arabella Leiby, daughter of Jacob Leiby, one of the largest distillers of Cumber- land county. After her marriage, in 1868, Mrs. Rife had her home at Middletown, where her husband had large business interests, Although they have no children Representative and Mrs, Rife are aceustomed to a large house and in- tend to live as comfortably, if possible, in Washington as they do at their Pennsylvania home. Kepresentative Kerr, who is a neighbor of ex-United States Senator Wallace at Clearfield, having taken & house near the Capitol, Mrs. Kerr, who was Miss Julia. A. Smith, daughter of a successful lumber man of Clearfield, will experience her first season of Washington so- cial life. She has four fine boys, ranging from three to fourteen years of age, the three eldest attending school. ‘The rest of the Pennsylvania delegation with ladies in their families have not yet oe dae them to Washington, DeB. BR. ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE. Specimens on File at the Rooms of the Civil Service Commission. A recent spplicant for an examination under the civil service commission, writing from Louisiana, dates his letter Parish prison, Louisiana. He writes: “Gentlemen sir—I take this time to write to you to say that my letters that was missen—I have got them since I wrote to you lust be- sides. Iam arrested and is in prison for noth- ing for receiving my own letters.” Among the examination papers recently re- ceived is one from Dayton, Ohio. The ex- amination was of a higher class and was mostly confined to medical subjects, ag the applicant desired a position ag medical examiner. Out of twenty medical terms given as a spelling list he misspelled all but four and in describing the hand spelled carpal three different ways, When asked when and how long he had studied | medicine he said: *In 1870 and have been at it ever since. Moreover, comereal busness I am well versed in. Taught public and Hy school. Claim to be well posted in all the higher branches,” In answer to the problem, “Dingnose and give treatment of a gun-shot woundof the bladder,” he said, “When we see a case with asmaill hole punched through the walls of the abdomen penetrating the bladder anda gun has been fired in that direction we then would diagnose it as a gun-shot wound of the bladder. ‘Treatment: Close the opening in the bladder by enlarging the opening in the abdomen but this case would be a doubtful one.” Miss Florence Meylert, as her guests during the winter. Mrs. Osborne entered the social circle of the Representatives families with the entrance of her husband in the Forty-ninth Congress. ‘The general was elected from the state-at-large and ran nearly three thousand ahead of James G, Blaine.Penn«ylvania's favorite, for the presi- dency in 1884. He carried every vote in his vines of Bethany. Such is the esteem in ieh the Luzerne —) ce = uplapem and his good wife is equaily belove her neighbors and friends. Mrs. Osborne was Miss Bath Ball, one of the most popular young ladies in the picturesque valley of Wyo She is a direct descendant of Edward Ball, « Connecticut settler from England at Bramford about twenty years after the Maytlower Pil- ims landed on the shores of Massachusetts ay. This ancestor was one of the first settlers of Newark, N. J., and made the first survey of the Passsic river. He was one of @ con; tiow of Connecticut Presbyterians who about 1667 emigrated into New Jersey and finally with the advance tide of civilization settled into northern Pennsylvania, William Ball of Car- bondaie, Mrs, Osborne's father, was the fifth in descent from the settler of Bramford and New- ark. He was one of the projectors of the Delaware and Hudson canal company's enter- prises and of the engineer who laid out the celebrated gravity road, The Pittsburg Representative, who is in his second Co! for the aban. ioned hotel life, estimab ‘This aspirant was considered as not having passed satisfactorily, —_—>__ The Exposition and the Public Park. ‘To the Editor of Tax Evenine Stan: If the world’s exposition of 1892 be held in Washington, and money be appropriated by Congress for the purchase of a site, I beg to propose, through your columns, that in the purchase of the necessary land the ideaof the public park be kept in view, and to suggest that the land acquired be used both for the ex- position site and afterward permanently as the public park. The valley of Rock creek | would surely be a most delightful and suitable | place for this purpose. The distance from the city to the exposition grounds would be in- considerable and less than had to be traveled in 1876 in order to reach the centennial exhi- bition from Philadelphia. The choice of this site would develop the suburbs of Washington as could in no other way be effected. Visitors to the exposition would unquestionably prefer 7 the hot days in the picturesque and judy valley rather than in the hot streets of the city. The zoological park, close by this proposed site, will doubtless be well under way before the year 1892 and would form a very attractive and instructive feature of the exposition. Ican see many other advantages in the selection of this site, but will refrain from enumerating them until it has been de- cided in what city the exposition of 1892 is to be held. BLG. —.+__ He Has Tried a Newspaper. ‘To the Editor of Tar Eventwe Stan: Noticing in this evening's Srar your article on the use of a newspaper asa “life preserver,” I must say that I can readily indorse, from a practical knowledge, al! that Gen, Bubsey says in regard to the value of @ newspaper asa “comforter.” In the late fall, or rather winter of 1878, I was engaged on government land survey west of Bismarck, N.D., and about the Dissard andes ‘ve kad caly fhe meses ji and as we amount of bedding (two eken and a com forter to each man), we would have suffered greatly, tf, indeed, we had not perished, from but having a good of news- papers in camp, we quilted icone, of them between our “top blanket” and com- forter and weathered the blizzard in good order. They certainly kept us warmer than “‘fises thea I bare. ofien, when Steet St Since ve w i$ to start riding in the wind, ane between yest and chest sed pyroven ries unis ere eke pane ‘tent s overcoat, Ithink that if, in fi i OVER SEVENTY YEARS OF SERVICE “Judge” Lawrenson the Nestor of the Post Office Department. A SKETCH OF AN INTERESTING OFFICIAL CAREEN— HIS FIRST DUTIRS AS A POST OFFICE CLERK— TRANSFERRED FROM RALTIMORE TO THIS CITY—RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD TIMES, A few weeks ago Mr, James Lawrenson of the Post Office department entered upon his seventy-first year in the service of the govern- ment. From the day of his appointment in 1819 down to the present he has been contin- uously in the public service. He is now eighty- seven years of age and is able not only to per- form his duties in the department each day but he also makes the journey from his home in Baltimore to this city. As a record of con- tinuous service it is be- lieved that Mr. Law- renson’s career has no < parallel in the civil ser- BAS vice of this country. It y, is quite certain that but few men of his age are 7s active in mind and “body and enjoy such vigorous health. Other clerks may be absent JAMES LAWRENSON. through sickness, but Mr. Lawrenson is always at his post. Itis often said of him by those who know him best that he is hardier today than many a man who is only half his age. He is frequently told that he ought not to subject himself to tho fatigue of the daily hn from Baltimore and return, but his invariable reply is that he likes the journey and believes that it does him good. ‘the slight spare figure oi the “Judge,” as he is generally known, is a familiar sight in the corridors of the Post Office depart- ment, where he is held in great rospect by his fellows. He moves along with brisk, active step and manages to keep well informed on what is going on in the department, especially when new appointments are being made, SWEARING IN OFFICIALS. He is a notary public,and nearly all the swear- ing that is officially permitted in the Post Office department is done under his personal super- vision. He has performed this duty for so many years that itis now beyond the recollec- tion of the oldest clerk in the department to say when he began to make his rounds with his little Bible im one haud and the notarial seal in the other. He has administered the oath of office to twenty-five Postmasters General, and Mr, Wanamaker was the last Postmaster General to touch his lips to the time-stained covers of the judge's Bible, Mr. Lawrenson preserves the book with the greatest care, and on one of the fly leaves is re- corded the names of all the Postmasters Gene- ralto whom he has administered the oath of ofice, beginning with Francis Granger in 1841 and coming down to John Wanamaker in 1839. It has become a recognized custom in the de- partment that he should swear in all the offi- cials, and when the situation is explained to the new-comers Judge Lawrenson is at once summoned, MR. VILAS’ DOUBLE OBLIGATION, When Mr. Vilas was made Postmaster Gen- eral it nearly happened that the judge’s record was broken and his heart at the same time, for Mr. Vilas, in ignorance of the custom, had agreed to allow Justice Field of the United States Supreme Court to administer the oath. Justice Field had performed that service for Mr. Vilas’ colleagues in the cal and while Mr, Vilas was awaiting in the Postmaster Gen- eral’s room the arrival of the justice he was confronted by Judge Lawrenson, his little Bible and the custom of years. Mr, Vilas ex- pressed deep regret that he had not been aware of the ceremony involving the official invest- ing of a Postmaster General. But what could he do: Justice Field was coming and he could not dismiss a justice of the Supreme Court with the remark that he did not need him. There fap ol riod of painful doubt and uncertainty in the Post Office department. Finally it was suggested that after Justice Field had gotten through that Judgo Lawrenson could also ad- minister the oath, This was dene, to the in- touse satisfaction of everybody, especially the tter. THE OPOSSUM INCIDENT. When a boy of sixteen or seventeen Judge Lawrenson began his official career in the Bal- timore city post office. It was during his con- nection with that office that the famous opossum episode occurred. It was way back in the ‘208, and Gen. Lafayette was making his second visit to this country. He of course vis- ited Baltimore, and it was announced that he desired to procure specimens of animals native to this country to tuke back to France, Mr. Skiuner, the postmaster, wanted to have the animals of Muryland well represented, and so he had a notice of the desire of Gen. Lafayette inserted in the newspapers, with the announce- ment that all gifts of this kind could be sent to the post office in care of the postmaster, Judge Lawrenson says that ina few days boxes of 'pos- sums began to come in from all parts of Mary- land, and not knowing what to do with them in the temporary absence of Postmaster skinner the judge directed that the squirming contents of the boxes be turned loose into the cellar under the post office building. Such was the zeal of the good citizens of Maryland that in the course of a week enough ‘possums had been received to fill the cellar. The judge is unable to give an accurate esti nate of the number, as he never went down into the cellar to count them. But atany rate there were enough to make Postmaster Skinner use pretty vigorous language when he saw how his cellar was oceu- pied. He did not know exactly what to do with his collection, but finally aclecting a few ax samples of this product of Maryland he directed Mr, Lawrenson at 12 o'clock that night to open the cellar door and let the ‘possums escape. The judge did as he was directed and supposed that the animals would rush down Calvert street and out into the country. But judge of his surprise when early the next morning he saw "possums hanging to the doors and windows of the fronts of the houses on both sides of that street. Calvert street had the appearance of being gotten up for a Rus- sian holiday, but as the day wore on the deco- rations were brought down with more or less violence by the citizens, and ‘possum was the omnis dish of the town for the next few ya. EARLY DAYS IN THE DEPARTMENT. Judge Lawrenson was transferred to the Post Office department in this city in the year 1834, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, When he entered the department the entire clerical force numbered eins clerks, They were accommodated in an old building known as Blodgett’s hotel, which occupied the E- street front of the site of the present building. Judge Lawrenson saya that tho usual salary id to clerks at that time was $800 per year. Where the patent office building now stands was commons and here the horses which the clerks rode in from their homes in the country were tied during the day, WHY THE EFFORT FAILED. He says about the time he entered the de- partment service an organized effort was made with the approval of the Postmaster General, then W. T. Barry, to induce Congress to in- crease the salaries. A committee went before the proper congressional committee and rey resented to them the arduous duties the ‘clerks were obliged to perform and the meagerness of the compensation, Their representations proved so effective that a subcommittee was authorized to visit the department and make an examination of the methods of doing busi- ness with the view of being able to determine exactly what was needed. The committee of clerks, thus assured that their petition would receive attention retired, and when they re- ported the facts to their associates in the de- tment there was great rejoicing. vei was somewhat dam) mod. by tact that weeks rolled around and the Re noegean gy ae Boe anaes their romise anc ere Was & gen fee! that Their little matter had been ieepoe How- ever, the congressional committee did appear him that they had come to see for themselves the work that was being done by his clerks with the purpose of woking voce recommendations as would tend to relieve their burdens. The Postmaster General ex) his gratification that the committee come to the dey ent sonally and at once summoned chief clock to show the committee around the building, The floor was occupied by one large room, where a number of the clerks had their desks, The committee decided to be- with the EPPer floor and ascending Carl the door peat the room, on hard-worked clerks, not desks, Nota clerk was some sarcasm, “‘thathe has not gone to the races, “Well, you see, sah,” explained the messen- ger, “the Reverend Lipscomb lives across the river and he never comes in on race days.” The committee made no further inquiries and it ia needless to say that the bill for re- lief of over-worked clerks was not introduced. RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD TIMES, Judge Lawrenson has a good many stories to tell of his experience in official life. In the early days of his career in this city he was ac- customed to write newspaper letters, and his few surviving cotemporaries in that calling re- | aa that he was known as an active hustler for news, The judge bas been for years a local preacher in the Methodist church. He was connected with Wesley chapel in this city and is now one of the oldest surviving members. For many years the judge was secretary of “The association of the survivors of the war of 1812 of the District of Columbia,” This as- sociation was organized in the year 1855. There were 135 members enrolled, and they are now all dead with the exception of Judge Lawrenson, He was only twelve years old when the battle of North Point at Baltimore oecurred, when the British were repulsed after their return from the destruction of the public buildings in this city. He was at that engage- ment in the capacity of a drummer bos, and the Judge says that to his best knowledge and beliet he performed his duty faithfully and we! t00 TOYS OF THE DAY. Some of the Novelties that Santa Claus Brings With Him This Year. ‘MECHANICAL WONDERS TO AMUSE THE OHILDREX— ELECTRIO BATTERIES AND STEAM ENGINES— ‘MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ON WHICH A BABY CAN PLAY 4 TUNE—A GREAT REDUCTION IN DOLLS. Santa Claus’ toy factory! At this time of the year round-trip tickets are issued liberally to children to visit this famous place via the dream air line. In this way the parents and the old folks generally are kept posted as to what is going on in this important industry. Asa rule toys do not enter very much into the life of a person who has passed the bounds of child- hood, and yet so much ingenuity and novelty has been directed to the manufacture cf toys that when a new one is brought into the house old and young alike share in its enjoyment. ‘The love of children for toys is very much like their alleged interest in the circus, It is shared equally by all members of the family, When the little ones begin to dream about Santa Claus’ pack the parents know that it is time to make their annual visit to the toy store. Not that they always confine their visits to Christ- mus time, but it is then that the important visits are made, the results of which are memorable in the history of the little lives for the next year. ‘There is‘always something new ina toy store. Itseems as if tho limit of in- yention hed been reached long ago. But such is not the caso, NOVELTIES IN TOYS. Every year there are novelties, Electricity and steam lend their aid to the makers of new toys. Ono of the new toys, as a STan reporter found by a visit to a large toy establishment in this city, isa tiny electric battery, which runs a wheel of bright colors, The battery is very easily kept in order and an ingenious boy can put it to a number of uses. Then there are steam engine exactly like a real engine, with whistle, sufety vaive, patent cut-off, &c. The brs can be attached to a train of cars, then whirled along ona track. The steam fire engine which throws a genuine stream of water is probably familiar, and pain- fully #0, to a number of mothers whose ambi- tious offspring have quenched imaginary fires in the furniture of the house and in the gar- ments of any one who happened to come within reach, MUSIC AND NOISE. It is impossible to give any detailed descrip- tion of the mechanical toys. The variety is as bewildering as the ingenuity is astonishing. Here is a top which plays a tune when it spins and there Js a horn gpon which a tune is played by simply blowing through the tube while turning a button at one side. Classed with these under the heading of things capable of making a noise are whole regiments of drums of all sizes, and whistles and horns and other toys which children prize and the elderly aunt and the nervous sister simply detest. A bo can secure a full uniform in a toy store, whic! is decorated with as much gold lace and shin- ing metal as the uniforms of the showiest mili- tin officer. Then he can procure a whole arsenal of weapons and is prepared for the stern realities of military life, such as strect yan interspersed with raids on cats and ORs. THE DOLLS. The yearnings of girl life are not forgotten and there is a large and varied stock of dolls to choose from. In fact dolls are manufactured now in such large quantities that they are really cheap. Tall aristocratic wax dolls, which a few years ago could only be bought by the rich are now so cheap as to be within the reach of the comparatively poor. By the level- ing competition of modern times the palace doll has been brought down to the cottage. Dolls are still made principally in Europe, not because the American artists are not equal to a doll, but because the cheap labor of Europe can make dolls ata much lower rate than that at which they ean be produced in this country. Itis generally supposed that there can be nothing new in dolls, A doll is a doll and what more can the dett hand» of the most skilled in- ventor make out of adoll, But every year de- velops the possibilities that lie concealed in the anatomy of a doll. 4 DOUBLE-FACED AFFAIR, This year the novelty in the doll world isa double-faced doll, You pull a string and it shows a face all awry with the contortions which accompanies the act of crying. At the same time the doll, to show that the emotion expressed in the face is not all external, weeps audibly. But presto! change, another string is pulled, the crying ceases, the faco breaks into smiles and the doll saya in a tone of great con- tentment “nini,” There are doll carriages in any number to give the favorite children of lit- tle mistresses an airing, These are richly up- holstered in plush with satin parasols suspended over the cushioned seat, Everything that can contribute to the happiness of doll existence is supplied in the | sboeer abundance. Doll fur- niture of every description and doll houses are always interesting to children. They are fac similes of the modern house, both as to the in- terior and the exterior, and each detail is per- fect, even down to a folding bod. ON WHEELS, In the stores doll carriages aro generally found in the same vicinity with carts and Wagons and there is a great variety of the latter. There are also tricycles and bicycles and velocipedes and everything of this char- acter which serves to interest and amuse the little ones while out of doors. A new style of pes is the buckboard, which will enable the os dren to keep up with the prevailing fash- n, —_—->—__ ‘What He Was Good For. Texas Siftings, Amelia—Is it really true that you intend to marry old Grubbins there? Clarinda—Certainly. Why not? Bat what is he good for? Good for a million, ———+e+_____ Living on the Old Man, From the New York Sun. McFingle—How are you, Smith? I haven't seen you for a long while, How's your son, Jack? Where's he been keeping himself for the last or aH -f himself! “I've bests keoping him, —+e-+—____ The Oolong Wave. From the Philadelphia ‘Times ii The Oolong wave, better known as the after- noon tea, seems likely to result in a cyclone. Cards are flying out for teas in direction, and the merits of Caravan tea made ina Russian samovar, of English breakfast made in a Sat- suma teapotorof Orange Pekoe made ina silver ball ite the Bussian sane Mazeue macord ray bei may be put in and is supposed to to its ex- ace. For my own part I am old fashioned enough to want tea with sugar and cream and to like it out of a broad, low cup, I find that I tine ot slone in my tastes; 20 that theconserva- ve late wafers that fairly melt in mouth are of bread buttered on the loaf and heving © little or. spread upon it As is in the Saxon ai it seems for her to serve in_ thie Soret slap tns E cnet epee Serving tea into insignificance veside it. THE TALK OF NEW YORK. Gosstp About Men and Matters in the Metropolis, ‘MR. KENNAN AND THE RUSSIAN AGENT WHO aT- TENDS HIM—MRS. CLEVELAND AND HER CHURCH —STREET-CAR ETIQUETTE AS PRACTICED BY WOMEN—THE STEWART LITIGATION, Correspondence of Tre EVENING Stan. New Youx, Decomber 13. Imet Mr. George Kennan a day or two ago looking rather tired and gray. Lecturing is hard work, not, perhaps, as hard 48 exploring the prisons at Kara, but quite wearing, and Mr. Kennan nowadays has all he can possibly ac- cept of this work. There is a perfect furore to hear and sce him, and he would be the social lion of the season if he did not refuse so point- blank to be lionized, He declines all social in- vitations on principle and confines himself strictly to business. He could lecture m a dozen plices a night all winter if he had enough astral bodies, and if he had as many arms as a Hindoo god he could not write fast enough to keep up with the demands of the publishers. Latterly he has tasted the bitterness of Ameri- can literary fame in finding his works shame- lessly pirated all over Nicope, except, of course, in Russia, where, it is needless to say, they are not published in cheap editions and where their circulation is exclusively among officials and censors, Nor is Russia content to combat him merely on the defensive, His steps are dogged by Russian agents wherever he goes. One of these omissaries has been Staying at his hotel in New York and the two entlemen are on very affable personal terms. rf. Kennan tells me that he expects to spend the holidays in Washington with his wife, and no doubt he will be very cordially welcomed by his many friends at the capital. MRS, CLEVELAND'S CHURCH, Mrs. Cleveland has engaged a pew in the Central Presbyterian church, on 57th street near Broadway, and intends to unite with that church and make it her future religious home. Both ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland are regular in their attendance at church, as they were in Washington. The Cleveland house is near the corner of 68th street and Madison avenue, and hence is nearly a mile distant from their chosen place of worship. Nor is this by any means one of the fashionable churches of the city. But Mrs. Cleveland explains that she knows and likes the new pastor, the Rev. William Merle Smith, who, by the way, is the noted Prince- ton athlete, and she says that it is within wal ing distance in fair weather and accessible by horse cars when it is unpleasant, In this demo- cratic and sensible view of the situation Mrs. Cleveland reveals again those pleasant quali- ties which invested her Washington life with such a grace. But if she adopta the democratic horse cars I hope she will not often have to stand, as the Sun afew days ago said she was recently obliged to for a long distance in a Madison avenue car which was filled with men. A STREET CAR INCIDENT, But we male worms will turn some time at this everlasting abuse of our sex by the women for our street car rudeness, True, the New York species of the male worm is grossly rude to women in street conveyances, but he is not quite so mean to Women as the women are to one another. A few days ago I witnessed an instance of woman's inhumanity to woman which made my blood boil. Iwas hangiug to astrap in a crowded Broadway car in which all the seats that were at all accessible from the rear platform were occupied by women. The car stopped and there entered two moi women, one evidently blind and the other sup- porting and guiding her. There they stood in the aisle while the car rolled rapidly along, swaying and jostling them, in the most pathetic discomfort, and yet not a woman offered the blind lady a seat or made any effort to assist her. I think that gocs a little beyond male rudeness even in New York, THE STEWART ESTATE. As it is understood that there is still quite a little sum left of the Stewart estate, the report that the heirs had agreed upon a division o! the property struck every one here as intrinsi. cally improbable. A number of the largest law offices in the cityare supporting them- selves comfortably off this litigation and it seemed incredible that these learned brethren should advise their respective clients to stop their fighting and divide the spoils while yot there were any spoils left for the lawyers themselves to divide, Hence, it occasioned no surprise when the rumor of a compromise was quickly and officially denied. How much of the property remains no layman, whether an heir or otherwise, can tell. Some aasert that the estate is practically looted already, Others more hopeful think that a half ora third of it still remains. Whatever the situa- tion is it is doubtful if the litigation ends much sooner than the famous case of Jarndyce va, Jarndyce in “Bleak House,” which, as everybody alg only came to an end with the estate it- se THE FUTURE OF AFRICA. Yesterday I happened to meet in Harper's Prof. Harrison, their geographer, who has, of course, watched the recent explorations and political maneuvering in Africa with special in- terest. He said that few realized the importance of recent events in the heart of the dark conti- nent, Both England and Germany,which were today the two great colonizing empires, had made a bold dash to secure the very key of the continent. These nations had established strong colonies on the healthy and fertile table land at the very heart of Africa, controlling on the one side the Nile and on the other the Congo. There could be but little doubt that the subsequent history of Africa would repeat that of Asia, only on an even grander scale. 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Louis daily 3:41 is very recent, dating, back only about five | Modern Painters by Ruskin, 5 vols, clo., numerous | pum, deity 20 Pat: from Hattaburg 7:10 aan, 0.60 ears, whereas Great Brituin has been at ita Sees eee Publisher's ‘price @10. xEW YORK IVISTON, g time and understands the business, pets, jent of Standard Works by most popu- | x 753 Ae% 30" r pees THE LEDERER-NEWCOMBE FARCE. 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FORTRESS MONROE AND TRE but these chefs-d’oeuvre after are scarcely | | Silver Mounted Cases and Pocket Books, Sot, — Salk 1y line ©: Seturdsys. On and efter noticeable amid the multitude of equally at- eather vollon Fen Welvegand Score Suatopery 6 ake ed’ June: Moseley, havi ews retard wk tractive exhibits that have no foreigu imprim- 7 wew! will leave Si: ‘terme iP! LONDON NEWS, GRAPHIC, YULE TIDE AND atur, Heyer R, i HOLLY LEAVES. Jouve Clyde's wir, ‘Nortolt foot, Madieat ae mag pap Christmas, Booklets, Photograph Frames, Payer | bour. cunuections for New York, From the Portland Oregonian. JUVENILE BOOKS A SPECIALTY. = poor heme gies re Bucoda is the name of a town in Washington. ROBERT F. MILLER, iver CoaeTiNG cone ae a The origin of its name is of a somewhat curious | _2o4-3m 539 15th st., Corcoran Building. Hf HH [ \ E 2 3 Ht i 43 EF Hi Hi] F i She wakes each night at nine to see if there's a fhe's roused up at eleven by some bright dream V. G. 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