Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1889, Page 9

NG STAR: WASHINGTO D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1889—-SIXTEEN PAGES, Written for Tar Evextxe Stan. CHECKER BOARD FOOT BALL. | How Captain Poe ‘Coaches the Prince- ton Eleven Indoors in Wet Weather. QCIENTIFIC POINTS OF THE GAME WORKED OUT WITH MATHEMATICAL PRECISION—STRAGETIC MANEUVERS —THE CAPTAIN GIVES INSIDE BINTS AS TO HIS SYSTEM. It is a hopelessly relentless rainy day. The atreets of Princeton are rivers of Jersey mud andsand. The foot ball fieldon the athletic grounds of the college are covered with little lakes of maddy water. Everything is wet and cold and miserable, bat the rain. bad though it is, is not enough to keep the foot ball team from practicing. Snow three feet deep on the level could not do that. Of course the players cannot practice on the field on such a day. That is out of the question, but the powers that rule the foot ball team at Princeton have ® plan for putting in telling work on rainy days, and gp the practice goes on today in spite of the weather. To be sure there is a difference between it and the practice on clear days, aud in that difference lies the secret of many of the orange and black team’s most effective plays in the great match games. On clear days they practice on the ficid just like any other team; on rainy days they practice in- rs on a checker board with checkers, Foot ball with che Precisely, Come with me over to the Ivy club and I will try to show you a game in aciual progress. Entering the club we find our way to a corner where site Capt. Edgar Allen Poe with one of the substitutes of his eleven opposite him. A epecker board is on a table between them and on it each has drawn up in battle array eleven ebeckers, with which they are about to play “football.” If the many who condemn the great outdoor game of the American colleges for its rough- hess and its alleged bratality coald only be here with us and sce it played on a checker board they would soou learn how much there is to it besides what appears on the surface to the uninitiated. What science, what study, what strategy. Each of the two players has his checkers placed as he would place his men if they were about to play a game of foot ball on the field. In the front line of each man’s checkers are seven inarow. They represent the rush line. Immediately back of them is a single checker. That isthe quarter back. to whom the ball is snapped by the center man in the rush line. Still further back are two more to represent the half backs, aud yet further in the rear is one to stand for the fullback, Having thus ar- ranged the checkers the game begins. “Suppose, now,” says Capt, Poe, “that you are playing right end rush of your line and your side has the ball. Your center rush suaps it back to your quarter back and he in turn wes it to the right half, who runs with it. Vhat would you, in your position of right end rush, do in that ci = The substitute scans the miniature field for a minute critically and then answers decidedly: “Why, I would start on a run, just a few feet ahead of the half back who was running with the ball and interfere with any of your men who tried to tackle or stop him. I'd get in their way, aud instead of tackling and jumping on him they'd fall against me and he would go ahead with the ball. Wouldn't I?” “No; you wouldn't,” answered Poe. “Your work is to take care of your opposing end rush. He is the most dangerous man on the other side when half back runs around his end. You must watch him and let your quarter back and the other balf back ‘interfere’ for the man with the ball. It doesn’t matter which way the end rusher on the other end rans or how he dodges, you keep in his way. If he shoves you off run after him and getin front of him and in his way Keep in his way until the man with the ball has been stopped and it is time to form in the line again.” Capt. Poe pauses for a minute and then con- tinues: “Now, take the same play over again. Re- member that your right half back is running with the ball and that you are to keep your op- posing end rash away from him. Which way should you shove him? Toward the boundary line at the side of the field or in toward the pot toward the center, of course.” “I don't know exactly why,” admits the pupil doubtfully, “I only know that I was told to do $0.” “There is a reason for everything in foot ball,” says Poe. “Don't you see that if all the men on the rush line shoved the men opposing toward the outside they would simply send them out into that part of the field where their own half back was running with the ball, and so give them a chance to tackle him? But if three rushers on one side of the center shove in, and the rushers on the other side shove in also, you get the other rush line all/bunched up together in a mass. They interfere with each other; they get im their own way and you in theirs. “Now we will try a run through the rush line by one of the rushers. Suppose that Iam in my place at quarter back and that I want Jane- way, who plays guard on my right, to run with the ball between you, who are playing end rusher on the right, and the man next you. As soon as I give the signal, ‘play hard now,’ which means that Janeway is to ruu with the ball, what do you and the man next you do?” “Shove the men opposite us right and left, #0 as to make an open for Janeway.” Blacn ear - Waste Whe has the ball Ol ad “ess 03 ar the lire rashors whe mate Mee opening 4Og 1s the quartirbuce whe passes the Cad oof “That's right,” assenta Poe. try the “VW tr: the wedge. Suppose Bow. instead of right end ru ual is given what do you do’ “I hotd the ball in my hands until the signal is given,” answers the “sub,” “and then touch it down tothe ground and pass it back to whomever is going torun with it. Then I forge ahead as the apex to the “V.’ The rest of the rush line form shoulder to shouider, on either side and a little behind me, to form the sides of the “V." The halves come up, of course, and make the sides the -V longer, and the man with the ball runs along belind me in the middle of the *V" until he sees that he is going tobe tackled. Then he passes the ball to the fall back behind b who starts out across the Geld with it and tries to run around the end.” “Now we will : pl When the sig- < While Whitt has the batt 55 ©2" Contre Rash whe passes Gack the batt be $03" whe runs imnae ithe we. if until Lackled when he whe runs fe fhe Site with capers “And Bow,” heenge mre the captain of the uppose tit is i bas the ball and that sour halt’ imstend of a pap Keer it praia In that case you fol after or do guard the maa in front of you?” _ Fed the ball, of 5a course,” axsents » with a nod « way. you want to to get right ld be shen ms can't the side is touched by, or touches the ball; then fall on it or on him if he has it, and ‘down’ him | hard. You must be very careful not to inter- fere with one of the other side who is trying for a free kick by catching the bail un the fly. If you do the umpire can give him the ball and twenty-five yards; but when he has caught it ‘down’ him anyhow, just for luck.” The substitute gazed at his tain with ad- miration, and that bearer of an illustrious name we will try a run through the center by one of the halves. We will suppose that George is playing center rusb and that Riggs is right guard, The half back is to run between them. As soon as I give the sigual, which tells them that Channing is to run through the center of the rush line, George, after snapping the ball back to me, shoves man opposite him to the left and Riggs shoves the one oppo- site him to the right. I pass the ball to Chan- ning and run ‘ough the opening which George aud Riggs have made. I try to inter- fere with any one who tries to tackle Chan- ning, who follows close behind me. As soon as we pass George and Riggs follow on after Channing, on either side of him, and keep the opposing team from getting at him. Blac Whi hile hes the Call. Ol as@2 are George ana Fiiggs who ° make an openng in he rushine Q3° us the quarkréack who passes Me * ball Channng-and then uns otcod ¢ through oping te make way for © 4) whe ee Channing wilh Mie woth “If the other side have the ball and you are playing end rush you want to get past your man and down on the half back who is running with the ball, If he or the man who is inter- fering for him throws you off, dou’t stop until he is safely downed, but keep right after him. Even when he is downed by some other man on your team you had bettér fal! on him to keep him from trying to squirm ahead a foot or two. “If you aro running with the ball yourse:f and youare just inside the touch line and about to be tackled, you should run ‘off side’ over the line, not as if you meant to do so, but as though you didn’t see the line and ran over it acci- dentally. The reason for that is that when the ball is carried over the line the side that bas it has the privilege of bringing it fifteen yards into the field, which gives their backs the choice of running around either end of the rush line, while if you were downed with the ball just inside of the boundary line you would only have room on one end to maneuver around. “In tackling a man,” Capt. Poe goes on, as he sweeps the imaginary players from the checker board and closes it, “be sure to tackle low. Itis no use grabbing « man around the shoulders. A man does not rua with his shoulders, but with his legs. So, when you tackle a tan, dive down at Lim as if you were taking a header into the water. If he is coming directly at you, drop on your knees snd seize him wround the legs .bove the knees, If you can, put your end batwsen tx legs and throw him. And in falling on the ball, when it has been put into play und some one has dropped it, don’t fall on it face downward as if you were sliding to a base, but drop on your right side, with your right leg drawn up bigh, 6o that if the ball slips through your arm you won't jose it, because your leg is there to stop it. “That is enough of «lesson for one day. You can go now and ran three or four miles around the track of the gymnasium.” With these words Capt. Poe dismissed his pupils and turned to go into the college to catch up in some of his regular.studies. A. Jennixas. ————~-e2e—____—— BRITISH SHAM JEWELRY. American and Other Buyers in London— Rich Customers. “Apropos of the sbum jewelry business, to which I referred last week,” saysa writer in the Pall Mali Gazette, “I have inquired who are the largest patrons of it. ‘Americans are good customers here,’ said the salesman. ‘Those big, heavy bracelets yousee there are bought chiefly by publicans’ wives, We sell plenty of wedding rings at Is. 3d. each.’ ‘But marriages don’t occur often; surely people can afford a few shillings once ina lifetime for a real gold ring?’ ‘Ah, you don’t understand. These wedding rings are bought by poor people and slipped on when the real thing is at the pawnbroker’s. Itis not before marriage but after, when the rainy day comes, that these rings ere bought. We sell grosses of them.’ “Who are your best customers?” ‘Well, there are rich women who have their own jewel sets imitated; Americans, the ‘profession.’ and mashers, and peopie who have come down in the world. When these latter go away for their holidays to see their friends they don’t like to show their poverty. For a few shillings they can get such a stock of jewelry that in their own towns and villages they are kings and queens, Then we sell a good deal to mashers on bank holidays and during the holiday season. Here are some pins, now, that cost a shilliag each. They can have their choice of pearls, corals and diamonds. A pin like that would gain any young man the Fexpecttul admiration of the bank holiday crowds at Margate or Brighton. The masher's favorite jewel, how- ever, is the one-and-threepenny ring, set with rubies and diarmonuds, “This imitation jewelry is cleverly made and would not arouse suspicion but for one thing. The people who wear it won't confine them. selves to what they would naturally wear if their rubies and diamonds were real; they are dazzled by the display and put on too much, When one sees a young man in a3 guinea suit and what seems to be a 30 guinea ring, one thinks (1) it must be an heir loom, or (2) that it must be au imitstion of the real article. Some of it is certainly very gaudy. Thus, who would think of wearing ear rings with ten pearls and a sapphire imeach? These cost 5a, Si, a pair, Ladies’ heavy gold Victorias and Alberts rise from 2s, 8d. to 10s. 6d. and a heavy gold ring with a cluster of s diamonds is sold at the absurd figure of 7s, 6d. see IT DYES THEIR FEATHERS. That Curious Effect of Cayenne Pep- per on Canaries, From the London Standard. The following is from the proceedings of the Berlin physiological society: Starting with the observed fact that canaries fed with cayenne pepper acquire a ruddy plumage, Dr. Sauer- mann has based upon it a scientific investiga~ tion of canaries, fowls, pigeons and other birds, From these he obtained the following results: Feeding with pepper only produces an effect when given to young birds before they moult; the color of the feathers of older birds cannot be effected. Moisture facilitates the change of color to ruddy hue, which is again id under the influence of sunlight and cold. A portion of the constituents of enne pepper is quite inactive, as, for instance, p « erin and several extractives; similarly the red coloring matter alone of the pepper bas no effect ou the color of the feathers, It is rather the triolein, which occurs in the pepper in large quantities, together with the ebaracter- istic pigment which brings about thechange of color, by holding the red pigment of the pep- per in solution, Glycerine may be used i - ora of triolein to bring about the same re- s The same statement holds good with rega: to the feeding of birds with aniline ee The red pigment of the pepper is also stored in the egg yolk as well as in the feathers. The first appearance of the Why a “ From the Pall Mall Gazette, On all sides I am told in the ne: Written for Tae Evextxo Stan. CASH DOES NOT MAKE CONTENT. Here is the Authority of One Very Rich Man to Prove It. 4 MILLIONAIRE CAN ONLY USE A VERY SMALL PART OF HIS RICHES—THE PRNALTIES OF HAV- ING A FASHIONABLE FAMILY—THE PATERFAMIL- 148 IN THE ROLL OF A MONEY BAG. “T believe that 1am commonly referred to a8 a surprisingly fortunate and successful man. Everything has gone well with me in life. I have accummulated considerable possessions, and daughters, not to mention my horses and carriages, are much admired in 8o- ciety. My heaith is excellent, and whatever money can buy in this world, within reason, is isatmy command. Ought I not, then, to be happy? The millionaire sighed as he asked the ques- tion and drained another glass of the old Ma- deira that had put him into such a confidential mood, Encouraged in the tumor by a re- sponse of emphatic assent from the friend in the arm chsir on the other side of the little drinking table—the two were conversing at the club—he added: “It ali depends on how you look at things, I suppose. For the sake of argumentI am as- suming & purely seltish standpoint, | The ques- tion is, What do I get out of all this? It seems to me that I get very little. When I was a young man, without a penny, I used to think of all that money would doand buy, and it seemed to me that should be perfectly happy if L could accumulate ©100,000, But now that I spend pretty nearly that amount every year I can't see that I get eo very much more out of life than I'did when I was poor. In reality I only have the use of trifling part of what I nominally own.” WHAT A MAN CAN USE. “And pray, how do you make that out?” “It's simple cnou: No man can actually make use for himself of so very much moneyafter all. Take the case of Jay Gould, who is prob- ably worth 100,000,000. He only owns that amount in the sense that he controls it for the use of others; he can use but a small fraction of it for himself. Most of it he never saw, and scarce any of it does he ever see. except when he goes on laborious tours of inspection to find out what employment the public 1s waking of the railways and telegraph lines he has created for their convenience. He works for his board and clothes and mighty little else. ‘Ihe Astors own 15,000 houses in New York city; they can- not use more thin half a dozen of them; who uses the rest? Why, the people. A small part of their incomes from rents the Astors can utilize for making themselves comfortable and happy, while the buik of the money is put into more real estate for other people's use, all that they spend over aud above their wants co help support tradesmen and workers, auese are ouly illustrations of a general propo- sition, of which I find my own case an exem- ation, As Ihave often put the question to myself, What dol get outof ail my snp- posed blessings?” verything that ought to make a human being comfortable, 1 should think.” PLEASURES OF ENTEMTAINING. “It should be so, but is it? Let ua see how far these blessings have any usefulness for me personally, To begin with, I have a fine house, keep horses and carriages, and amin a position to give entertainments on u very handsome scale. Ishould rather say, however, that my wife gives these entertainments; my own part in them is not conspicuous, For some days be- fore one is to come off my home is pretty well torn to pieces in preparation for the event; the domestic circle is temporarily demoralized and rendered uncomfortable, and the ladies of the family are rendered so upset in temper by their anxieties regarding the approaching fes-< tivity that I am giad to get away to the club in the evenings--iu fuct, that’s the reason I'm here at this minute, When the night for the party has arrived, here am J? Not in de- mand, certainly. ‘fhe guests, particularly the young people, don’t come to see me; T fina that Tam considered to be most appropriately disposed of in an out-of-the-way corner of my own library, And this urrangement is al- together agreeable to myself, inasmuch asa man of my age—although, as you are well aware, I am socially inclined—can hardly be expected to mingle co lly in a company chiefly composed of giggling girls and young nincompoops in dress coats. Where I come in is in paying for their fan.” THE PAPA IN SOCIETY. “You don’t go ont much, do you?” “To other people's entertainments? No. Why should ly ‘Whey are nothing but the sume sort of thing—more uincompoops, moe gigglin girls, dancing, flirtation, Bobbing ios sad as on, Itisfun for them, but an awful bore for me. However, this sort of thing represents the only object worth living for to my wife and daughters, apparently: it pretty much absorbs all the attention which otherwise I might hope for from them. WhenIcome home in the afternvon, after my day's work is done, I find my wife dressing for ainuer. if she has returned from her usual calling tour, and after dinner I am either dragged off to some party or place of amusement—not because 1am wanted, but to serve as an escort—or Iam lett at home alone to my own devices, Ido not see the ladies of my tamily ut breakfast, because they don't get out of bed until noon, It is only on Sundays that 1 get any chance at all to make their ac- juaintance, as you might say. Once ina while venture to address a mild ‘protest to my wife on the subject, but she always says: ‘My dear, we have daughters of marriageable age’ and it is necessary that I should take them out into soviety; if you suppose that I find the perform- ance of my duties as chaperon amusing, you are very much mistaken,’ ” “OLD MONEY BAGS.” “You are in luck not to be asked to serve in that capacity.” “No; that isnot my line. My part is that of acash distributor. I am regarded as a sort of money bag, to dip into for coin when anything is wanted. My duty being to serve in that capacity no gratitude is felt for what I bestow; 1am merely considered an ill-natured old cur- mudgeon if I do but occasionally ask for a small accounting. One of my daughters would not speak to me at the dinner table last night because I refused to give her a separate allow- ance for pin money im addition to the $200 a month already appropriated for her clothes and et ceteras. She said that the other girls all had distinct allowances for pin money, outside of clothes, aud she didn’t see why she should notalso. My son doesn’t make a decent pre- tense of keeping within his allowance; be runs up big bills, on the strength of my credit, at the tailor’s, the florist’s, the hotels and else- where, and when they are sent to me, because he fails to pay them, and I express annoyance, he turns sulky and talks about the neces- sity_of living like a gentleman. As woll as I can make out bis notion of living like a gentleman consists chiefly in foolish dissipation, Nevertheless, my son is considered an eligible party, matrimoniaily speaking, by other girls’ mammas. owing to his expectations of inheriting money when 18 off the hooks, and likewise it is with my dat of whom the young men say: “Oh, they money when the old buffer dies,’ Meantime, when my children marry, | shall be expected to supply each of them with a comfortable sum. in cash, They look forward to it as a matter of course, and it is not to be expected that they will be unduly thankful. In short, [am simpl. an auimated money-sack. Once upon a time, T have understood, « father was regarded ag an object of reverence in his household and sub- mission was made to him; but now it seoms to be altogether different, and the only things submitted to me by my family are bill” NOT EVEN A HOnSE. “No wonder you seek distraction on horse- back; I see you riding now and then.” “Yes; once ina while I am able to get the ‘use of one of my own horses, though not so very often. Usually the ladies of the family are monopolizing them. IfI want to take a ride in the afternoon, when I get home, I am apt to find my particular fe horse has been lent by my daughters ss a mount to some young man who iv scampe: around at that moment in their kong rs be I would take a drive, but my son en the T-cart out, the groom tells me, and my wife is em- ploying the ee oS horses and the coupe for a calling aes Itis the same yn. with Dears 2 hat partof my poesions, pray, do I really have any we of, HOW TO BATHE IN WINTER. Some Valuable Hiuts from a Physician On an Important Subject. “I will tell you how to get a Russian steam bath at home that will be nearly as satisfactory as if you paid @1 for itat an hammam,” said the physician, “Just have a big firebrick heated red-hot in the kitchen range and place it upon an iron stool or some such thing, then stand a chair over the stool. Sit down on tho chair and have a four-leaved screen putaround you, with a blanket thrown over the top. Thus you will find yourself in a sort of closet, and, having been previously provided with a jug of hot water, you amuse yourself by pouring it very slowly over the hot brick. The water, transformed immediately into steam, fills the inclosed space and at once induces violent perspiration,” “It would take more than $1 to induce me to go through such a self-inflicted ordeal,” re- marked Tax Srar reporter. “A cold bath is good enough for me. {Do you mean coid air or cold water?” “Why, cold water, of course; I never heard of such a thing as a cold-air bath.” HOW TO TAKE CoLD-AIn BATHS. “Cold-air baths are excellent, nevertheless, and I strongly recommend them as a tonic for persons who are not strong enough to indulge in cold water. In taking ono the bather should openabed room window wide—upon risin in the morning is the proper time—and stan in the cold air perfectly nude, meanwhile rubbing the limbs and body vigorously with a dry towel, There is no danger of itching cold, even when the thermometcr is é.wn to zero outside, for the reason that the sensitive pores of the skin contract ander the exposure 80 a8 first-rate protection. As for cold- I deem them excellent for people it vitality, but the trouble is that very many who take them are not strong enough to endure their effc leust delicate should ever touch cold water for bathing purposes, In the case of a robust in- dividual, the blood, driven from the surface of the body by cold water, comes quickly rashing back again under the ministrations of a brisk rub and a delightful glow is felt. But a weakly person, whose vital organs are not sufficiently Vigorous to send the blood swiftly back to the | superticial blood vessels, fails to experience the health-betokening ‘reaction’ and is very apt to feel a faintness instead. However, Uiere are mild ways of taking cold water baths which do very well in winter, as well as in summer, for those who are only moderately vigorous.” COLD WATER BATHING. “Such as what, doctor?” “The mildest proccss is simply to dip a towel in cold water and wet only one portion of the body at a time, taking the parts successively. first sand so on until the ab- lution is completed, each part being rubbed ary before the next is moistened. In this way shock is avoided. For a reasouably strong per- son the best plun is to use # towel sopped in cold water in the ordinary fashion, with a thorough rubbing, of course, to follow. But do not indulge in any of this nonsense in the way of harsh towels and flesh brushes, which merely serve to get up a local irritation; soft towels are much better to rub with. A gentler method of cold bathing than the plunge, and a very good one, is to stand up in the tub and squeeze a sponge over your head; a disadvan- tage of this plan is that it is rather too shivery to be comfortable. The kind of bath I usu: advise, unless the patient is weakly, consists in going over the entire body, ufter getting up each morning. with a towel wrung out in cold wealer a aulenly as possible, the dry rub fol- lowing. In rubbing after a ‘bath. the attention should be given almest wholly to the limbs; the bo 1» eireulation is active enough to take care of itself.” ALSO HOT WATER, “How about hot baths? “ot baths should not be too hot, and they must not be stayed in long, else the effect will be to partially paralyze the little blood vessels that form a uetwork all over the body beneath the skin, thus disordering the circulation, You can see this effect for yourself by observing how quickly the fingers become wrinkled at the extremities when held in hot water, the blood leaving the surface. ‘The best time to take warm baths is at night, and two a week are plenty for the purposes of cleanliness. Bathing 1s frequently overdone by people who are over nice about their persons. Turkish baths should not be taken on cold days unless the bather is very arkably robust, and never more than 01 a week, Iam notin favor of too much bathing.” QUEEL WAYS OF BATHING, “Ihave known many people who were not in favor of batuing at all,” said Tux Star re- porter. “I fancy they area majority of the human race. Bathing is a matter of instinct with most of the lower animals, including the birds and certainly the fishes, while it doesn’t seem to be #0 to any degree with man. Most people don’t bathe, even in civilized countries, to any extent worth mentioning. Of all Europeans the Russians are the most addicted to the bath. In St, Petersburg there are vast vapor baths, to which the common people repair by thousands every Saturday night, carrying clean towels and birchen twigs. With the twigs, while lying upon the marble slabs in the baths, they flog each other severely, afterward standing ‘about red-hot stoves and pouring pailstul of ice water over one another, The flogging stimulates the circulation, and, when the reaction comes after the’ ice-water performance, the bathers lie about in a condition’ of ecstasy—a sort of nervous intoxication. The ancient Romans, you know, were extravagantly fond of bathing. They got their notions about the bath asa luxury from the Grecks and at one time there were nearly 900 public bathing es- tablishments in Rome, many of which were the most beautiful and elaborate structures ever seen in the world. The baths of the Emperor Diocletian covered more than half of a square mile and contained, besides immense basins and thousands of marble recesses, theaters, temples, halls for feasting, promenades planted with trees, libraries, schools for youth and academies for the discussions of the learned. ‘The bathers sat on marble benches below the surface of the water, around the edge of the basins, scraping themselves with dull knives of metal and ivory and taking occasional pees into the water. The rich were scraped by their slaves, Dissipated Romans would spend whole days in the bath, seeking relief from over in- dulgence in eating and drinking the night be- fore. Everybody, even the emperor, used these baths, which were open to every one whochose to pay the price of admission,” A BATH TUB 3,500 YEARS OLD. ‘And did the old Romans have no bath tubs in their houses?” “It was not usual, though at a date 1,500 years before that, or 3,500 years ago, the noble- men of ancient Greece had their dwellings sup- plied with bath rooms and bath tubs of terra cotta, A portion of such a bath tub was found by Dr, Schliemann in the palace of the kings of Cpl bo cotemporary with Achilles, Paris, Helen and the war against Troy.” eee How the Bison Were Exterminated. From the New York Herald, As the Indians hunted them the race of bison would probably have lasted forever, writes Dr. Carver, but about 1866 the white men turned their attention to the shaggy monsters of the plains. Large eastern firms organized bunting parties and paid the shooter $2.50 for each bison where he lay dead on the plains. I then went to Southern Nebraska and became a pro- fessional hunter. The bison consisted of two divisions, the one living in the south and = other in ne pci! Fig oa cal eines feeding ground was yu Driver and ie breaches in Nebraska, Pivhe Indians were well aware of that fact, and hostile tribes have had many a fight for that territory. It was not until 1873 that the > Mestemegeed put an end to this by sending the Pawnees south and the Sioux to their northern reservation. Like a herd of cattle the bison are always on the go and are apt to walk out of rifle in a time. In » however, they al- oan ways havea leader, andthe trick was to kill any one that started to lead the others off. By thus the leaders we could often shoot for an hour from behind one clump of grass, and when they had moved from out of the — hide S come up, cut the or akinning, tie the ts. Nobody who is in the | | DANCES FOR ALL THE WORLD They are all Pantomimic, and Mean Love, Worship, War or Fun. “The growth in popularity of the cotillon I regard as a most welcome symptom of progress upward in the dance of modern days,” said « fashionable dancing master to a Stax reporter the other day. “As a matter of fact, the dances of the nineteenth century, though more varied in their character now than for a long | time past, are far inferior as expressions of the terpsichorean art to those of the ancients, The Greeks of old, indeed, regarded the dance | much moreas an art than as an amusement, By them it was developed to a greater perfec- tion than has gver been known before or since. Idare say you are not aware that the most beautiful figure employed in the german today is simply a reproduction of the famous ‘Ariadne dance’ in use among the Greeks 3.000 Years ago, or nearly, The notion it is intended | to express is that of the famons ‘clew’ of Theseus, by which Ariadne led the hero through the labyrinth where lurked the Mino- taur. in the dance, as originally performed, one pretty girl was chosen as a leader, and the other dancers, first a youth and then a maiden, linked together with a handkerchief which rej resented the clew, followed her about wil graceful rythmic steps. DANCES SHOULD MEAN SOMETHING. “Tt seems to me,” suggested Tue Stan writer, “that waltzing is much better fun.” “Doubtless. That is one great trouble about modern dances, that they have for their object simply amusement and not primarily grace of motion or the representation of an idea. They are sole'y practiced for the enjoyment of those participating and not at all for the entertain- ment of the spectators. The best that one sees in the way of a freshly accepted fashionable dance in these days is a new sort of hop, skip and jump, with a kick at the end perbaps, ut- terly meaningless and frequently ungraceful, Now, this is all wrong, for the dance should be always a pantomime expressing something. It | is the very essence of the dance theory that it shall be ‘pantomimic. It may be religious | erotic, martial or comic; but it must have « | meaning. The waltz, is satisfactory in this one | Tespect at any rate; it is an undisguised love |} dance. The ancient Greeks had love dances, | too; but they woulda have been horrified at the notion of a love dance that permitted the actual physical contact of the sexes even to the point of a continued embrace.” “So you really think the waltz immoral?” “Not at all. Isimply mean to say that from the ancient Greek point of view our manner of dancing would be thought excessively im- proper. But then the Greek notion of pro- pricty (was differeut from oura altogether. ‘or instance, their young men were accustomed to appear at the contests in manly exercises | without a stitch of clothing on, although ail | the women folks were present as spectators, and nothing was thought of it. These people who have so much to say about the immorality | of waltzing merely indulge nasty ideas; pure- minded young people are not accustomed to entortain such morbid thoughts when partici- pating in this harmless amusement, as certain supposedly pious and virtuous persons seem disposed to imagine. I read a whole book a while ago on the immorality of the waltz, en- titled “he Dance of Death,’ and the impres- sion I got from its perusal was that the author had managed to collect from his diseased imagination more foul ideas than I had ever be- | fore seen gathered together ina lump. And | yet the volume was highly indorsed by many eminent and sanctified authorities, RELIGION AND THE DANCE. “Civilized people do not employ religious dances, do they?” “To some extent, Inthe Roman Catholic churches of Seville, in Spain, during services of unusual solemnity, young boys dance to joy- ful music. Of all re ious dances the most beautiful was that performed in ancient times by the maidens of Carya in honor of Diana. ‘The attitudes of the young girls who bore on their heads flower baskets which they rteadied with one uplifted hand has been perpetuated by art in the ‘caryatid.’ The Christians of Abyssinia have religious dances and the Ameri- can Shakers likewise. The most remarkable iove dauce ever invented is the ‘nautch dance,’ which had its origin in southern Asia goodness knows how many thousands of years ago, its movements portraying mn graceful pantomime the progress of a courtship. It became popu- lar in Europe long before the Christian era, was fashionoble in Rome under the empire and is found at this day in Spain under the name of the fandango. — It is related that once upon atime the holy inquisition of Spain deter- mined that the fandango should be abolished and all the professional dancers in the country burned to death at the stake. But one of the clergymen present at the trial of the wicked ones suggested that it might be a good idea to see whut this tufernal dance was like before the sentence was executed and, consent of the council of judges having been obtained, two celebrated female dancers were brought in and requested to give an exhibition of their skill. This they did and with astonishing ef- fect, for they had hardly begun their perform- ance when the judges, whose austerity was not proof against the ravishment of the spectacle, rose mechanicaily to their feet and soon the whole consistory joined with the utmost activ- ity in the dance, The result was that the pris- ouers were pronounced acquitted, the inqusi- tion withdrew its ban from the fandango and this highly seductive exercise is today the na- tional dance of Spain.” FUNNY SAVAGE CAPERS, “How about savage dances “Some of them are very curious, all being pantomimic in one way or another. A good specimen of the primitive war dance is the Fee-Jee club dance. Savages frequently imi- tate in their dances the movements of animals. The native Australians have a ‘kangaroo dance,’ the North American Indians, a ‘busfalo dance,’ and the Kamschatkaus, a ‘bear dance.’ The most remarkable of known dances is that of the natives of New South Wales, who skip around the camp fire at night, their arms and legs painted longitudinally with a broad white stripe, and their ribs indicated likewise, so as to make them look like so many skeletons as they leap about in the fitful firelight, vanishing, reappearing and vanishing again. The vanish- ing process is accom} ed by simply turning their backs to the the stripes being in front, The effect is said to be exceedingly weird and ghostly. Perhaps the most extra- ordinary instance of mimicry in dancing is to be found in New Zealand, where the natives, who are exceedingly fond of the sea, imitate in their movements the uneasy motion of the waves, The art of dancing is well worth cul- tivating as a preparation for the next world, m- asmuch as St. ‘il says that it will be the chief occupation in heaven, and so it will be well to practice it on earth.” The Literary Vanderbilt. Kansas City Star's New York Letter, The other New York family of enormous wealth has a son with literary aspirations, too. George Vanderbilt, the youngest of the present generation of Vanderbilts, has a manuscript well along toward readiness for publication in book form, It is a work of fiction, and was begun five or six years ago, to be laid aside until Jast summer, At one time George re- solved to begin at professional meting ss a newspaper reporter, and he and George B. Mc- Clellan, jr., a son of the eral, secured em- Joyment on the staff ® city journal, but Vande ‘bilt’s health was not robust and his mothe: uaded him against the hard labor involved in news gathering. McClellan carried out his resolution and has since been industri- ous—perhaps because there were no millions for to lie back i However, he has just married a i and now we shall see whether he will drive his pen as he did before, The American Naval Officer. ‘From the Baston Post One of the best compliments which I have heard of as paid to the officers of the “squad- ron of evolution” was from an Englishman, who has long beena resident of Boston. He said [-war, ity, said to the sailors,’ who were creeper in affording informa- HOME MATTERS. PRACTICAL STOGESTIONS TO PRACTICAL WoUsR- KKEPERS—HINTS ABOUT THE DINING BOOM, PANTRY AND KITCHEN—SOME TESTED RECIPES WELL WORTH CUTTING OUT AND KEEPING, Sroxes a Surxx Coat with ammonia and water, Soak Macurme Or stains in cold water be- fore washing. Satt Dissotven rx Axcomot, it is said, will Temove grease spots from cloth. Use Noxe Oruer Tuan Goop Soar in the kitchen, as it saves the banda. Cuornes Dry Ovr Mvcit Strrrer when pow- dered borax is put into the hot starch just be- fore using. Tae Sunest Test or a Frozex Onaxor is its weight. If itis heavy in the hand it has not been frozen. Coup Siicep Porators fry and taste better by sprinkling a teaspoonful of flour over them while frying. A Trasroosren or Wirat Cuancoan, taken immediately after a meal, is an excellent rem- edy for heartburn, Wuex a Feroy first begins to make ite ap- pearance, take a lemon, cut off one end, put the finger id i ed rm wl andthe longer it is kept there Curaists Sar that it takes more than twice 8s much sugar to sweeten preserves, sance.&c., if put in when they begin to cook as it docs to Sweeton after the fruit is cooked. Rusty Brack Casumene should be sponged with equal parts of alcohol and ammonia, di- luted with a little warm water. When pressing use & piece of alpaca’ or undressed cambric next the warm iron. Ixpivipvan Perrers axp Sats, fancy and cut glass jugs for oil and vinegar, and quaint mustard pots have usurped the place of castors on the home tables for a long time and con- tinue to doso, Game or Axy Sort which has just begun to taint may be made fit for eating by cleaning | and then washing thoroughly in vinegar and water, Charcoal is excellent also, and small pieces of it should be put inside the birds after cleaning, Tue Heants of Caryes and full-grown ani- mals are good, either roasted or braised. Boiled a long time and then chopped fine, warmed in a little hot water and well seasoned with butter, pepper and sali ox~ Pernt Tear. Peppec salt, they make an ex: ‘Tae Pouisa or Brack on Cononep Manone mantelpieces, pillars, steps, &c., can be re- vived by the following means: Dip a flannel cloth in a mixture of beeswax and turpentine made to the consistency of soft butter, and rub welliuto the marble, afterward polishing with asoft, dry cloth. Use very little of the mix- ture, but plenty of “elbow grease.” Turkeys axp Cutckens, Geese axp Ducks are at their best in January. The flavor of all is injured by freezing, and all should be care- fully drawn and hung a day or two before cook- ing. Ina young turkey the toes and bill feel soft and pliable, and the combs are bright red. The breastbone should bend easily, A goose should be f ereg 2 in the breast, the fat white and soft and the feet yellow. The same rules apply to ducks, Soxset.—Put in a vessel one-half a pound of Powdered sugar with one quart of cold water, grate in the rind of « large iemon or of two small ones, squeezing in the juice of three R00d-sized ones, and beat well together for five minutes, Strain through a sieve intoa freezer, puton the cover and freeze. Serve in smali glass cups with handles, same as for lemonade, with after-dinner coffee spoons for eating. ‘To Raise THe Pits or Piusu or velvet dampen on the wrong side with clean, cold water; then hold tight across the face of a hot iron and rub up the crushed spot with a clean, stiff brush. To renovate velvet free from dust by laying face down and whipping smartly; then brash with a camels’ hair brash, damp on the wrong side with borax water and hang, pile inward, in the sunshine to dry, taking care that there is no fold or wrinkle on the line, Axzovt 4s Goop a Way as Any to clean black silk is to take ammonia and alcohol—one part ammonia to three of alcohol—add half as much hot water, and laying the silk over an old sheet fold in four thicknesses,rubbing with a black rag or sponge dipped in the mixture, Have ready some old broom handles, curtain poles, or other round, smooth sticks, and wrap the silk on them as tightly and smoothly as possible. Let it dry in this position; it will need no ironing. Oxtery SaLap.—To make celery salad use only the crisp, white stalks, cutting them in half-inch lengths; shredded celery is not liked as well as that which is cut crosswise in short bits. Place the pieces in salt water, and at the last moufent drain them and dry ina napkin. Then turn over them a plentiful supply of may- onnnaise—a scanty dressing being a serious blunder, A Great Deat or Arrentioy should be given to the proper airing of the mattress every | morning, and at least once a week a stiff brush should remove the dust which will accumuinte, even in the best ordered house, under the tufts of cotton, or the bits of leather, or whatever is used to tack the mattress with. Attention should also be directed to the edge of the mattress, where the braid is sewed on, for | dust sifts under that, Where the bed room is also the dressing room dust cannot be avoided, but it may be at least changed, and it need not be allowed to accumulate, Tue Fouowine 18 Recommenpep by an En- glish writer for cleaning zinc: Clean off all old paint and apply the following mixture: In sixty parts of water dissolve one part chloride of copper, one part nitrate of copper, one part sal-ammoniac and one hydrochloric acid. Brush the zine over with this, which Gives ita deep black; leave it to dry until the next day and itis then ready for painting. The best nor to ee aac pened Varnieh paint, which canno’ surpassed for tenacit; durability, ores —— Lapy Fivorns.—Take six eggs, separate thém and beat the yolks with one-half pound of sugar, until they are so light no hair lines will form on the foam. Sift in one quarter of a agi of flour with as much soda as you can ay on a three-cent piece, and twice the quan- tity of cream of tartar, which stir inte the suger and yolks as lightly but thoroughly as possible in alternation with the whites of the cK, which must be beaten perfectly stiff. ‘© @ paper funnel of stiff brown paper and put the dough through it, pressing it out in trips about a finger long and the thickness of alead pencil. Put on unbuttered paper and sprinkle with granulated sugar, bake in a quick oven and when cool wet the under side of the paper with a brush and put the finge: together ay to back. 3 a Raw Oysters Self-Digestive, From Hall's Journal of Health. “Fothergill on indigestion,” in speaking of the oyster being eaten habitually and by pref- erence in the raw or uncooked state, says: “It is interesting to know that there is a sound physiological reason at the bottom of this pref- erence. The fawn colored mass which consti- tutes the dainty of the oyster is its liver, and this is little less than a mass of ; as- sociated with the fs A . AAA i d aa x THE EVENING STAR ts a PAPER OF TO-DAY, not of YESTERDAY nor of LAST WEEK. It prints ALL THE NEWS, Local, Domestic and Foreign, LONG IN ADVANCE OF THE MOKN« ING PAPERS. This is conspicuously true of all classet of news, but especially so In regard ta Local News and District Affairs. THE STAR has a very much LARGER and BETTER force of LOCAL RE- PORTERS and SPECIAL WRITERS (than any other paper in Washington jever thought of employing, and ITS |MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND | PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE | THAN THREE TIMES AS POWER- | FUL AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY | OTHER WASHINGTON PAPER. It is | therefore able to print each day a full Feport of every transaction of puvi« | Serest occurring in the District up to the very hour of going to press. By the free use of the OCEAN CABLES: | for REGULAR AND SPECIAL Dis- PATCHES, and with the difference of time in its favor, it is also able to give | its readers every afternoon the news of the WHOLE EASTERN HEMISPHERB | for the entire day, and up to 12 o'clock midnight, thus leaving literally nothing in the way of news from Kurope, Asia, eee the morning papers. —0:— Equally does THE STAR lead all ite contemporaries in the publication of the NEWS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY. Receiving the regular dispatches of both News Associations; with alert and enterprising special telegraphic cor= | respondents at all important points; and | with wires leading directly from its own | office to the general network of telegraph | system touching every city, town and | hamlet in the United States and Terrie tories, it is enabled to receive and print atonce a full report of every event of consequence occurring during the day | anywhere between the Atlantic und a= | elfic Oceans. — @ NOTE THE RESULT: 2 0: THE STAR HAS MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR SUBSCRIGERS and MOKE THAN FIVE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY PAPER IN WASHINGTON, It Is de- Lvered regylarly by careful carriers at the HOMES OF THE PEOPLE, AVTER THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE SAY ARE OVER, and it is thus read | leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY | MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. They know that it prints all the news, and has only the interests of the people of the District in view, with no partisan measures to advocate, and no private | schemes to forward. They know it, in | short, tobe THE PEOPLE'S PAPER, and nothingelse. Asan ADVERTISING MEDIUM it is, therefore, ALSO- | LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL. it is in fact worth more as a means of reach= |ing the public THAN ALL THE | OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN THE CITY TOGETHER. | Furthermore, in proportion to the re- | turns it gives its patrons, ITS ADVER- | TISING RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST UN THE CITY. —0: — In conclusion, the public should bear im mind this one significant fact: THE STARK does not rely upon empty boasts to impress the public. ITS CIRCULA- | TION IS SWORN 10; its PRESS- | ROOM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; | and its BOOKS MAY BE PECTED | by any one having an interest in theia examination. 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