Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1890, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: ANY ONE MAY BE AN ACTOR Physical Requirements. BARD PRACTICE AND INTELLIGENCE SUPPLIES WHAT IS USUALLY CALLED GENIUS—A TALK WITH A MASTER—EUCGRSTIONS FOR PERSONS AMBI- TIVUS TO RIVAL, BOOTH, GARRETT A¥D IRVIXO. “Acting can be taught as readily as music or said a well-known actor and skillful shed by his pro- sinting,” manager, a man disting iknowledge of ever: g pertaining to art. “To bees an actor,” he con- ‘the pupil must be able to recognize and must have the imitative quality to fepresent it.” “You think. then, that any one can be taught to be an actor/” asked Tux “Yes, provided he bas Generally speaking, thatis the sine qua non, just as the recuguition of lone aud time is to the student of music. There are exceptions to ail rules and I know men wholiy destitute of imitative quality who are very acceptable on the stage, simply because they do not try to actat all, but appear in their own persons just they do im private lite, to fortauate to have embody their If a man can appear gracefully asa geutleman im modern soviety fe ought to appear to equal advantage in the ame cliaracter ou the stage. Mien of this kind mes achieve a moderate success in the dramatic profession because they recognize all that they are capable of and do not sitive beyoud it.” HOW TO TEACH THE ART. “What method do you think the best for teaching people to act?” “First of ali, make them understand defi- nitely what we mean by acting. To my mind it is the representation of human emotion by means of artificial and natural Janguage, The tormer consists of the words which we employ * asa medium to express our ideas, The latter is made up of facial expression, gesticulation, tone of voice, quality and quantity of voice, intlexion aud’ modulation of voice and rate of movement in speaking. Natural language is uiversal and is the same yesterday, today and forever among ail the people of the earth. There is a German proverb which says: “Love under- stands all languages,” meaning that the natural language of love is the sam ly true of all other cial language is of many differ- euch, German, English. Natural language may completely destroy the effect of artificial language. If a man speaks words of sorrowful sympathy with a laughing coutte- nance facial expression, which is his natural Janguage, gives the lie to the words he utters, which comprise his artificial language. In acting the natural and artificial language must be made to harmonize. This is what Shak- speare meant when he made Hamlet say to the payers: ‘Suit the action to the word, the word | Wo the action.’ BOTH A SCIENCE AND AN ART. “Acting is both a science andanart, Asa science it recognizes emotion, dissects it, ar- ranges it and studies the factors which produce it. Asan art it puts into practice the appro- | priate, natural and artificial means by which emotion can be expressed. This being under- stood the student of acting should then be taught that emotion is the expression of a pas- sion aroused by some external circumstance, | and must learn to analyze the physical effects which the various emotions produce and the ot ong all races and | | ! natural language by which they express them- | selves. Thus exhilaration of mind causes ten- sion of body, and we say of a person experi encing the emotion of joy, ‘He jumps for joy: he shouts for joy.’ The natural language of this emotion is a smiling face, a full, strong voice and a rapid rate of movement. Depression of mind causes relaxation of body, and hence its ) With the column a natural language is a sad facial expression, a | 4nd with eight-side weak, low-pitched voice and a slow rate of movement, Horror paralyses. The face is blanched, the eyes protrude, the vocal organs refuse to perform their Aud so on through the whole gamut of human feeling. “When the pupil has been made to analyze the physical effects of aij the various emotions and consequently the nattfral language in which they find expression he should be taught their various grades and their mode of passing from one grade to another. Thus joy subsides first into gladness, then into happiness; grief be- comes sorrow, sorrow becox sadness, &c. Let him then take up some dramatic author, read a passage and, having decided what emo- tion it is meant to express, let him interpret the author's*artificial language with appropri- ate natural language of his own. This should be practiced tii he is as familiar with the nat- ural language of all the emotions of the human mind as he is with the alphabet and sent every one of them by that lang as much readiness and facility as he can repeat the multiplication table. TRAINING THE VoIce. “When he has mastered the natural forms of emotional expression turn his attention to the artificial ones. Artificial language shouid be ally articulated, that its every word anetly heard by even the most dis- The most powerful voice is uil inet articuiauon. without di: bee actors, ers who, though they have the voices of sten- tors, fail to make themselves understood simply because they have never learned to articulate their words clearly and distinctly. Though all graduates of colleges should understand how to do this, I am surprised to find how many of them are wholly ignorant with regard to it.” ~Well, admitting that all men can be taught toact,” said Tue Stan reporter, “‘you surely not think they can all be taught to act liy well? That every man can be taught well as Booth, Barrett or Irving, lor You must ailow something for “Genius is simply an intensely earnest desire to do, with ¢ ‘ut application to the doing. ‘There is nothing beyond these. Any man pos- sessing the physical requisites of an actor in the same degree with Booth, Barrett or Irving, and having the same amount of imitative q an, by earuest desire and constant apy ti nake himself as great an actor. Ambi tion and hard work—of which the latt oetry or p . mbling block in the w. ctors is the falee idea, so larg his own feelings, he does no does uot feel it is proven by parttot u nk not. « [have ever seen, most beartrending azo: tng With Ar- mtn, W mumediately comme maid in good 8 for some real or nu jories you hear about son artof Riebard ILI that ginary fault, brandishing his sword and calling for a horse, are simply non- sense. If any actor ever did anything of the kind it was because he felt the whisky ne had imbibed a good deal more than he felt his part, Lou will often read of actors losing themselves their roles. The only way im which an actor + that is that he is overpowered by the ant of nervous force required to portray the emotion of bis part. Seven-cights of ail bad acting ws due to this mischievous idea that acting is aud should be a matter of feeling. If dramatics would forever abandon this notion und would recoguize acting as an exact science end art they would do much to improve and elevate it, “Another obstacle to the success of many act- ors is that they will not at rehearsal, They hurry over the lines of their part and even omit many of them, trusting entirely to their feclings during the performance to inspire them bow to read aud act. Sometimes, of course, they make chance hits in this way; then Abe press and pub-ie cali accident ‘genius.’” THE REQUISITES OF AN ACTOR. “What do you consider the requisites of an tor?” “First of all the imitative quality and next telligence. To be an actor the man must ve the power to imitate, while there is noth- im which tuteiligence counts for more than it does in acting. Every actor shouid bea scholar. Peopie wili tell you thet many ignorant men have been great actors. True, but bow much greater might they have been lad they been intelligent? The actor must bave, at the very jeasi, sufficient education to comprehend the logic of grammatical sen- tences. He must have physical fitness and be well formed. He should bave a good muscular system, for if he has that his voice, even though it be weak, may be cultivated to the Becessary degree of strength. To these attri- butes unite an earnest desire to do and a con- stant, untiring application to the doing, and ou have ali the genius necessary to attain the bigness artiste success in the dramatic pro- fession. There is nothing iu which practice How often we | rgymen and other public speak- | er, in the | | } | pre ties | our greatest actors have been painfully awk: If He Has the imitative Faculty and the | | china was royal Derby of pure white. | silver and cut glass candelabra held wh | mbbous, will accomplish more than in acting. Some of ward et the beginning and have ended ast! most gracefal of men. A notable instance was the late Jas, W. Wallach, jr” Written for ATTRACTIVE HOMES. Quaint, Pretty and Useful Things for Table and Fireside. THE ANTIQUE IN CANDLESTICKS—CONVENIENT LITTLE LAMPs FOR THE WRITING TABLE—HOW SOME GIRLS GET IDEAS ON DRESS—A DINNES ALL IN WHITE AND ANOTHER BLAZING IN GULD. Almost before a need is felt some quick wit and deft hands have provided for its supply. ‘Thus, for the young woman who takes to do- mestic economy the outfit can be fonnd at the Woman's exchanges, The same dress in which she takes a morning promenade can be as well worn in the kitchen. Over it is worn a kitchen gown that ties about the neck and waist with @ shirt string. This overwhelming garment is called by the clerical title of surplice. It is made of crash, seersucker or ticking. A pair of white rubber gauntlets, to be found at rub- ber stores, completes this cooking costume. They are durable and pliable and no odor is apparent. They come to the elbow, where they button, and afford a perfect protection for hands and arms. Thus arrayed the maiden who has carried off the honors at her college, maybe. can also prove herself beyond culinary criticism, TINY LAMPS FOR THE WRITING TABLE. Another want whose supply is among the novelties is the lamp for a desk—or writing table, as is the more English way of putting it. When a desk is set far froma gas light anda large lamp would be an awkward neighbor the miniature lamp gives all the light necessary for writing. Though so small they will burn several hours. Candles are used for sealing letters and a candlestick 18 one of the imple- ments usually found on a desk, but no one in these days likes to write a letter by a candle’s dim flicker, The small lamps come in low prices or high. according to the mounting. In pretty tinted glass or of Bohensian with shade of real lace they are seen at various establish- ments waiting to be transferred to where they make one of the prettiest ornaments of the writing table, CO-OPERATIVE CRITICISM. A “mutual admiration society” of a new kind has been started in one city, with good success and with benefit to the privileged members. A few girls invented it as a joke, but have kept it up, finding it to be a good thing. The plan is to observe each other, with a view as to what is most becoming in dress and what combinations ef color and style best set off each other's at- | tractions—or lack of them, Observations are then exchanged and at the monthly meetings at each other's houses each member brings a sketch of a dress she has designed. Votes are then taken as to who shail use them, and armed with this guide to an artistic and stylish cos- tume a girlean bid defiance to high-priced gown makers by either having a good seam- stress carry out the idea or, it she has a knack that way, doing it herself. THE ANTIQUE CANDLESTICK. The reign of the antique is apparent in many ways. In dress and in ornament, whatever is old-fashioned is popular, provided it is old- fashioned enough, There is a world of differ- ence between antique and antiquated. The one effect is sought after with eagernese, both in household and personal adornment, while the carefully avoided. One of the appli- ions of the old to the new is in the shape of silver candlesticks, The pillar style is the latest style shown and very pretty it is too, bee surface with flutings effects they are seen, some quite low. others tall and stately, The bright burnished finish is the one chosen for this form of ornament. Inu the candelabra the dull silver with a frosted look is combined with the bright, in preference to using oxidized—just for a change, however, for oxidized silver is very prominent, in many articles, . MAKING TEA, ‘There are various ways of making tea to be served at once as it is called for. The teacan be made fresh for each cup as wanted by using the tea ball. This pretty little silver affair adds to the looks of a tea table and if the tea server is an eypert can be an attractive utensil in her hands, Enough tea for one cup only is put into the ball, which opens in the center to r ve it, and a few minutes is sufficient to leave it im the cup filled with boiling water, Then the grounds are emptied out anda fresh supply of tea inserted. Sometimes tea is put in small tarletan bags of different colors, These are piled ona tray and a bag ata time put into the cupsof hot water. When the strength is drawn out the bag is pulled out by means of thread and dropped into the slo} bowl, This is so much trouble for such a small result that few would care to undertake it, Another way, the simplest it would seem. is to make a rather small quantity of very strong tea ina tea pot by pouring boiling water on the tea and letting it steep about five minutes, As a cup is called for pour out a little of this strong tea and then _ fiil the cup from the kettle at hand, which shouid be kept boiling by an alcohol lamp. In tea making « little practice will enable one to be quite accurate as to the proportions of strong tea and water to insure a palatable cup of the beverage. This last isthe method used by a young lady whose friends generally find her tea so much to their liking as to inquire into the mode of itsconcoction, For her own taste— and it suits many others she finds—she adds two lumps af sugar and a slice of iemon to each cup. Sue of the revivals of the antique is seen in the wood boxes, which are among the desired objects at present. They vary in size—some are small affairs, only large enough for a tew sticks of firewood, others big enougiPto shelter acoal scuttle. Onk is the tavorite wood and the popular oxidized brass trimmings are gen- erally added, COLORED AND COLORLESS DINNERS. There is a controversy going on, with of course active partisans on either side, “To be or not to be” is the gist of the matter ap- plied to colored decoratious for the dinner table. One of the rebels who protest that coi- ored dinners bave been overdone gave as an earnest of her views a white dinner. The White fe cane dies with silver shades, the vases and bowls for flowers held white lilies. The boubow were silvery im tone, tied with white moire which also fastened the napkins, Wiite violets perfumed the water in the finger bowls, while the bouquets were white orchids, White soups, fish and meats were served as sudstantials, while vegetables were concealed by the cream sauces poured over them. The puddings were sprinkled with preserved orange blossoms and the sweet bis- cuit were covered with white frosting. | The white grapes and light-colored fruits selected were tied with the white woire rib- bon. It is very seldom that one is able to give such an exquisite muterpretation of an idea. When one realizes that $5 a pound is the price asked for the preserved orange blossoms, as one item of the feast, it is easy to predict that such entertaiuments will be comparatively rare. A» an offset to the lack ef color at this canner another, which is all aglow with golden light, may be described. The table was draped with Irixh lace over gold-colored satin, The flowers were yellow chrysanthemums. Yellow candles were in gold candies:icks, while dishes of solid gold appeared in more than one course, The bouquet» vere yellow chrysanthemums aud the guest cards were gold painted, 17 IS SPANISH, YOU KNow, The great popularity of Sarasate tends to create an interest in Spanish things gen- erally, and classes in Spanish and a revival of the Spanish waltz are perdicted. Spanish has been eailed the “language of kings;” consequently it will be something of a royal achievement to overcome it, In New York there is a little shop in east 18th street where they keep both Moorisu and Spanish goods, The things sre mostly made by the peasants and the brilliant colors are in accord~ ance with their gay tastes. The saddle cloths make good coverings for lounges or can be used as rugs, The fams are of paper with sceves of life in Spain painted on them and are interesting to add vo a collection of typical fans, aaa Pianos Not Affected by Dampness, From the San Francisco Examiner. “Ivs@ popular notion that pianos ought to he kept very dry,” said a well-known pianist yesterday, “Nothing could be more fallacious, Pianos are not nearly so much affected by heat or cold as they are by dryness and reversely by dampness, It is not generally known bar the sounding board, the life of a piano, is forced into the case when it is made so tightly that it moisture and gathers more on damp days in handling. Now, when a piano is put into an overheated, dry room, all this moisture is outand the board loses its shape flabby and cracks. Even if it doesn't i WASHINGTON. faxuat /CROSSING THE WHITE PLAIN. { A | Incidents of a Journey Over the Great American Desert. ASCENDING JOHNSON'S PASS—THE WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF THE MIRAGE—CAMPING ON TRE PLAIN—THE THIRST AND THE HEAT—A SCENE OF DESOLATION. Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR, Inaran, Uras, December 10, The start has been mage in earnest and the journey that is to lead across the great arid waste of the west has been begun. The prairie schooners with their plodding teams and the baggage wagon with four queer little mules are in the immediate foreground, while beyond stretches the dusty sage-covered piain to the foot of the grim old Oquirrh mountains, while to the right lies the great dead sea of America, the Great Salt Lake. Behind, the city of Salt Lake is fast becoming a confused mass of trees and buildings, with the temple standing guard, like a gigantic sentinel in gray. An excursion train is hurrying past, filled with pleasure seek- ers who are going to Garfield Beach to enjoy the day and bathe at the popular resort. Two or three more hours and we arrive at Garfield Beach, where we must round the point of the mountain, and we stop for a few mo- ments to watch the bathers, who prefering the Kbps of the forenoon, are bobbing up se- renely in the heavy, briny water of the lake like corks in a bowl of water. There are three small towns in the next valley, types of all other small towns throughout the territory of Utah. Tvoele (pronounced two-willow) is the place where we spend the first night ‘of our journey. It is a thorough Mormon village with the streets laid off with almost perfect regular- ity and shaded with beautiful trees of the cot- tonwood species, The houses are all neat and comfortable looking and an air of cleanliness and order pervades the whole town, Seven miles further on is the old mining town of Stockton, which was once a famous station on the overland stage line across the continent. Being a mining town it is essentially a town of miners and bar rooms, with no Mormon bishop to preside over the destinies of the people or the welfare of the town. One more +mail vil- lage and we have left behind us, for a season at least, all semblance of a human habitation, The way now lies up through the deep canons of the approach to Johnson's pass, where tho steep slopes of the hills end in rugged sum- mits, while sheep and cattle and half-wild horses graze upon the scant vegetation and tinkle their bells melodiously in the cool morn- ing air—tor another mght has passed and our teams have been resting after the forty-five- mile journey of the previous day in order to tackle the pass in the morning air. It is hard to imagine a more strikingly picturesque road than the one which winds up through and down Johnson's pass, with @ mountain stream frmged by verdant willows and cottonwoods, with steep hills on either hand and glimpses of towering mountains in the distance. Soon, however, we have left all this bebind and are crossing a sort of arid table land, through aimost impassable wastes of sund, beyond which lies the desert. Our barrels have all been filled with water, and already we are be- ginning to suffer with the dust and heat, and the experience we have anticipated with such eagerness is fast becoming a reality. By the middle of the long summer afternoon we have crowned the last summit and are posing to gaze in silence and awe at the grand prospect which lies beyond, ON THE EDGE OF THE DESERT. Before us, at ‘the foot of a gentle slope, is Skull valley, which is partof the almost bound- Jess, well-nigh trackless plain, bordering the desert proper. A few miles further on is the glistening salt crusted desert, on which, as far as the eye can reach, there is not one speck to mar its glittering whiteness. Great masses of arid mountains rise out of its surface and around and beyond its borders, but those in the distance seem to be floating over the strata of hot air which trembles just above the plain. It is too hot and dusty, however, even to rest in peace, so the cry of “forward” soon comes again, and the teams move wearily on. Noth- ing now but the dust, the same sage brush that is before and behind; the same glittering band of white in the distance, which never gets any nearer; an occasional echoless crack of whip at an unoffending mule, with an oc- casional change of the phantom forms which are masquerading in fantastic costumes in the distance. Then, too, thirst is beginning to tell, and the few puils we may take at the canteen are so far between that we can’t help azrecing with the historic governor of one of the Carolinas. We roll pebbles in our mouths till they become lost in the drought which therein is. We at last settle down in a hopeless, resigned sort of way and wait for the sun to move again. Of course it does move after a long while and then suddenly drops behind the far-off mountains, while the teams halt beside a thick patch of sage and greasewood and the preparations for camp rapidly begin. A CAMP ON THE PLAIN. All is life and bustle now, the cook and his helpers are driving in the fire irons and un- packing mess boxes, the men are unloading feed and bundles of bedding, while afew restless spirits are wandering about collecting piles of sage brush with which to make a rousing fire &s soon asthe chill of night begins to creep over the erstwhile scorched plain, A substantial meal is soon prepared and dis- posed of, the animals are watered and fed, and 4s soon as the bedsare rolled down every one gathers around the fire to chat and emoke. The scene is strange and weird, with the faces of the men lit with the fires’ ruddy glow, and the subdued whinnyings of the mules, Pleading for a little more water, the only speck of life in all that death, with no answering voices of the night and no gleam of nei; hboring fires to break in upon tie outer kness. One by one the men seek their blankets and at last fall asleep, amid a stillness that is almost audible, and find recompense for their labors in the perfect rest which they enjoy. Day- light brings a change, and the animals are sounding their resistless reveille, so that the laziest are not behind when the ca breakfast. Packing up and reloading is the work of a few minutes only, 60 that before the sun has peeped over the eastern mountains the party is again en route, THE MIRAGE. But with the rising of the sun comes a change, for out on the desert’ (which a few moments before was a dead white piain) every elevation or projection is beginning to assume life, Lakes are appearing where the salt lately was the only covering; fences and trees are miraculously springing up: weird beings are assuming shapes and dancing in the morning air; boats are shooting here and there over the placid lakes, and solid mountains are spreading out or splitting open, while sometimes low hills rise and disappear like smoke from an ex- plosion. ‘Lhe whole is at once so strange and amusing thatit is hard to remove our eyes even for an instant, and for at least an hour the Jaziness of the animais is allowed to go un- punished, while we forget the hardships of desert life in the glorious privilege of behold- ing such a vision as this, But gradually, as the sun rises higher, the phenomena decreases in strangeness and beauty, and only now and then does an inviting lake appear through the rifts in the dust clouds. We set our teeth hard and for the time cease to hope for anything to break the cheerlessness of the un listurbed mo- notony. The dust is settling over everything and the heat and thirst are almost intolerable. A half hour for lunch aud rest is appreciated very much; bat, although it has ended a long morn- ing, itushersin a much longer afternoon, which is made bearable by passing AN OLD TEN-MILE STATION HOUSE on the Overland route,into which latter we have again entered, Nothing is left now but the old tumble-down rock walls and more fitting mon- uments to the desolation every where pparent could not be imagined than the ten-mile sta- tions whose ruins adorn the wayside in the desert. One of the landmarks of the journey is Black rock, an enormous mass of rock of that color, which seems to have been rolled into the posi- tion it now occupies and to have nothing in common with its surroundings, Just before sunset we come upon the green marshes and salt waters of ‘fish springs,” @ series of clear, warm, salt springs, whose water varies from very salt to brackish, That most free from salt ig used by the family of the one lonely rancher who ekes ou! the family who cupy the lonely home say it walt right when you get used to it.” It seems impossible to quench one’s thirst with it, and after galping glass after glass one is forced to finish up with a iaste of “fresh” water that has seen two days of desert and alkali. Another great objection is that it leaves a hard, salty taste in the mouth; so in the Overland alwa; le, but used this at station, Fish mud and sand to a depth of six or with a few outpuildings made of corral is made Si telegra; were once the ital tele- ht at “night rates” by the graph line and bor mt owners, The waters of the springs creeks, which wind each movement of his fish as it nibbles at the tempting bait. while either one becoming tired ean find a delightful bath of warm water already prepared and inviting him to a plunge. Scarcely had we sought our blankets for another reposeful slumber when the discordant barks and wails of haifa dozen coyotes broke the solemn stillness, and ere the small hours had given place to the dawn more than one- half robed figures had wandered out to fire his revolver into the unoffeuding space, trusting in his blind luck to murder the disturbers of the peace, With the next morning comes the pleasing knowledge that a short drive will land us on the other side of the desert. THE END OF THE JOURNEY. But we find that the short journey refers to miles, not hours; for the animals are really suf- fering from the combined ill effects of the out- ing, and the afternoon is nearly over when we puil up before the home of the hospitable owner of Willow Spring ranch and have our eyes and palates gluddened by artesian weils pouring forth their water, fresh from the meit- ing snows of the mountains just above. Then, 100, there are trees and grass and cows and everything, which, after the hardships of the past three days, seems almost like entering an Eden. The hospitable matron of the ranch sends us a hearty welcome (which is accom- panied by a pan of creamy. fresh milk) and an invitation to come tu a dance during the even- ing. As soon as we hud supped and shaken off the dust of our feet we accepted the madam’s hos- pitable invitation. Next morning dawned bright and clear, as do about three hundred other mornings out of almost every year, so the outlook seems prom- ising for the finishing up of our journey. We wave our hostess of the previous night sad farewell and are soon going up the easy grades to the last divide which is to cut us off from the desert, TOWERING PEAKS, Before us towers Mount Ibapab, a grand old peak among a group of rivals, whose tops are still capped with the almost perennial snows (prevented from being so only by the scarcity of snow falls throughout she yates far some of these peaks reach an altitude of over 12,000 feet; not giants compared with other peaks east and west of it, but magnificent enough when you see them rise abruptly from a plain whose altitude is little over 5,000 feet. Near the sum- mit of the divide we find another way station, consisting of a round towering wall, of which the root has long since disappeared—a queer little home fortress where the lonely ,agent must have passed many a weary moment, ‘These stations were built of rock as a protection | against Indians, and their walls will long re- main as monuments to the old days of the Over- land stage route, At last we have gained the summit of the divide and we pause a moment to get a last look at the desert. It seems hard to find anything poetic in such a wide waste, especially when the only souvenirs one has are the sun burns and parched hips, but notwithstanding this there is something fascinating in the contemplation of its grandeur and something which inspires admiration in its sublime desolation, It is a great whited sepul- cher and is peopled only by the ghosts of the yarnished lake, which hold high carnival over the ashes of that great sea now bleaching and glistening in the noonday sun. A turn in the road shuts out the scene and soon we are going down into the vailey of Ibapah, whose ranches and store have taken unto themseives the name of “town.” An hour or two more and we pull up before the store and post office and the end of our journey is accomplished, eee LOOKING AFTER PETTY CLAIMS. The Work Many ‘Congressmen Have to Do For Their Constituents. M. There are plenty of men of ability in the House who are almost unknown. They are se- lected by their constituents to represent them in Congress on account of their especial ability; they are menof high rank as students and thinkers, and yet their congressional careers | have been marked by disappointment and fail- ure. The reuson for this is not that they have plunged in over their depth, nor that they have been overshadowed by others around them, It is that that they have been dragged down by the eternal grind of routine. A thousand little things which in their freer life they found un- worthy of their attention are pressed upon them, and their time is so taken up that they have no opportunity to gratify their loftier aims and ambitions, They have uo opportu- nity to make a study of legislation and to devote to the consideration of the national affairs they are presumably sent here to take partin, Their constituents send them to Con- gress because of their superiority over some other men as representatives of the people; then, having sent them, proceed to belittle them and curtail their opportunity for doing good by demanding of them that they give their time to matters that might be attended to by boys. There are plenty of men inthe House who might have influence and power among their colleagues and be able to serve their con- stituents in a broader and more important field if their whole time were not taken up with do- ing the work of private agents or even errand boys. ‘The importance of the House as a legis- lative body is constantly retrograding because of this abuse. How to overcome the evil has puzzled members each year as they have set- ted back into the demnition grind. Some have been in a position to mske a bold declara- tion of independence and some, because they are rich, have been able to hire others to do ail this petty routine for them, but the great ma- jority have had to continue to delve and grind away hopelessly and without reward, ‘MR. PERKINS’ BILL. It was with a view to correct this evil that Mr. Perkins of Kansas introduced his bill the other day providing for a bureau of corre- spondence and information at the Capitol, the idea being to have a corps of employes whose duty it would be to go about the departments apd get the information members are con- stantly called on for, but which has nothing properly to do witb their legislative duties, A statement of what Congressmen are called on to do outside of the halls of Congress would scarcely be believed by one not familiar with the facts—it would seem so absurd. The mat- ters they are required by their constitntents to look after are chiefly a lot of petty claims of allsorts before the departments. There are the pension claims always, then the bounty and back pay claims, lund’ claims of various sorts, horse claims, claims for property de- stroyed during the war, establisument and change of post routes in the districts, not to mention the claims for federal appointments and the thousand and one other even more particularly private business they are cailed on toattend to at the various dopartments, ‘The mails each day brings on on average of forty or fifty requests to look after matters at some of the departments, many of which in- volve the consumption of a great deal of time in looking over documents and records, Some of the members from the east are compara- tively free from this sort of thing, but most of them and all of those from the western and newer states are overrun AN EXPENSE OF TIME AND MONEY. One member was telling a representative of Tur Srar the other day that it cost him one- third of his salary to employ young men to go about the departments for him on this class of business, and, besides, that his own time was so taken up by it that he had noopportunity to make a study of the legislative matters before the House. More than that, his wife turned in and helped him and much of her time was taken up in attending to correspondence that no member ought to be bothered with at all. Nearly all hours of the day, he said,¢hat he was not on the floor of the House he spent in running about the departments looking up private cases that some young claim agen’ ought to have in charge, und his evenings were spgnt in writing and dictating letters to report to nis impatient constituents the result of his day's work. ——>—_ DO NOT SCOWL, A Clever Contrivance to Keep Creases Out of the Forehead. ‘From the New York Morning Journal, A great many earnest thinkers of a nervous tempermament fall into the habit of scowling when they read, write or talk seriously, This causes two little perpendicular lines to plow in between the eyes, and ages the face ten years. It is @ habit almost impossible to correct, once formed, as it is doue unconsciously by a great many young people. Even insleep their brows will be drawn together in this malicious little frown that is the aider and abetter of age, A bright, studious young woman, still in her twenties, found herself the victim of this scowl, which had already made two fine hair lines in her white brow. She set herself to work to Written for Tre EVENING Stan. BEAUTY AND YOUTH. Men and Women Who Wear Well and Look Well. WHAT A BUOYANT, MIRTH-LOVING SPIRIT AND COR- RECT NOTIONS OF LIVING MAY DO—OLD METH- ODS FOR THE TOILET IN FRANCE WHICH WOMEN MAY COPY TO ADVANTAGE. To live long and live young is the dream of the poets almost forgotten of men, which yet haunts them with a sense of remediless loss. We are cruel to ourselves in that we live so shorta time and yet waste two-thirds of that time in decline, The worid feels grateful to those who keep their youth for the encourage- ment of its hopes, Never smile atthe man who Wears well and looks and is younger than his Years; that is, than our feeble idea of their limitations, People take the least possible care of themselves, their health, their life, their vigor, and resign themselves fatuously to the consequences, even deriding those who would put beck the hand shadow on the dial to its appointed place. As well ridicule those who seek to escape death as those who would escape age, which is the messenger of death. We ull want to bring things down to our own limited measures, and because we are stiff in the wits, half cross with bad digestion and ran- ing down by reason of rememeps | waste of health cannot abide the sight of fellow mor- tals wiser than ourselves, The conventional notion of sobriety is chargeable with this loss of youth. ‘the tradition of a Spanish gravity and stiffness of demeanor is the cause of much loss of healthy spirit and life. The precept translated in Scripture, “Be sober,” really reads in Greek, “Be earnest,” and a terrific en- dowment of earnestness and will is consistent With as bigh a flightof spirits and daring humor | as ever worn by court jester or his knightly | master of the crown, The greatest minds of | the world have always been men and women of spirits so brilliant as to be chargeable with | Lightness by their less gifted fellows. The great fighters, from Charlemagne, could laugh loudly and jest keenly; the great reformers, Luther at the head, were men of abounding humor; the great poets and artiste were young till they died, and wherever you find this BUOYANT MIRTH-LOVING QUALITY, this capability of youthfulness, it argues a vitality which, rightly prized, should carry its owner through life with force unabated and eye undimmed. As well cared for, your fast Ken- tucky roadster will out last a slow, weight-car- tying Norman, Men half comprehend this truth, and give more thought to the conserva- tion of their youth, Society counts scores of men who have copied Lord Palmerston in the care of themselves, the limited delicate fare, the hot baths weekly, or oftener; the daily tric- tion, which supplies the want of exercise as far as it can be supplied, and so keep an attractive- ness which satirizes their years. If American men could train themselves to taste good dinners discreetly and tear themselves from their offices for active exer- cise out of doors daily they would be younger and handsomer at sixty than they are at forty. Mr, Gladstone is a good example of what studious care will do for a man mediocre in everything except ambition; but of whom the opinion of Prosper Merimee stands unre- versed, ‘There is in him the something of the child, the statesman and the fool.” A man might train himself, or life might train him, by a hardy youth and temperate, hard work- ing middle years, for an age which should in reality be life's prime, ardent with the electric force of mind, far-sighted and keen-sighted, with the single-mindedness which all men, kings and counsellors, learn to wish they bad used before they come to die. Instead, they rear themselves for the shrunken limb, the un- steady gait, the rheumy eye. The tradition of Lilith, first wife of Adam, is that she left him in anger that she might re- main fiir, and became head spirit of evil, tor- menting the dreams of man as her daugh- ters do to this day. The legend has the fallacy of all myths, which contain half comprehended truth, Is it Christian to assign supreme power and beauty to the spirits of evil? Is she any more queen of female demons than Solomon was of the geniiand do we dread Solomon's wisdom and attraction, who »-cms to have been @ sort of oriental Goetue, wanting the selfishness? It was not Lilith who ate the apple which tempted Eve. It is Lilith who, forseeing the pain and sin of life, takes away the young children mercifuily in sleep, and women ignor- anily hate her tor it, forgetting how they slay and maim them for life in their ignorant crueity. They also hate her because, knowing the will of nature, she remains ev rand the sight of her face lures men, would lure them to the spiritual, the mental, the lasting, and teach them infatuation for all things good and WISE AND IMMORTAL, But men, being doomed to work out a knowl- edge of the unspeakable folly and bitterness of lower things, have but one reading of inten- tion, and wouid bring her to the level which Eve taught them; so with the coming of Lilith there is strife. Her daughters may a while for- get their birthright, but they remember it in time and the world holds the tradition of women who never grpw old. Such are never 11. 1890-TWELVE PAGES. moisture worn at night on the skin. must soften and refine it, and New Jersey Women may ret be noted for their velrety complexions by the kindly aid of the etate ‘Surater Dane. aaa. MAMMA WAS ALARMED. One Maiden Who Disstpatea and Never Knew It. She is considered a rather indulgent mamma who, in these days of strict rules regarding such matters, will permit her young daughter going out in society to take a single glass of wine ata dinner party, How sad a dopriva- tion it is, too, for a girl who likes champagne— and what girl does not adore the sparkling potable gold—to be forbidden the slightest indulgence in it, even so much as a swallow! What a parody of total abstinence principles to be obliged by maternal command to place a re- luctant band over the little wide-mouthed tum- bler when the waiter brings around the froth- ing, napkin-wrapped bottle, while the young married woman opposite, just because she has | a “Mrs.” in front of her name, can have all she wants, and at the very moment is taking sips from her second giass of the delicious diffusive stimulant, watching the bright bubbles run up from the bottom of the stemas she does so. It’s hard—that's what it is, So thinks a sweet young debutante of this season, who while consuming some queer stuff | resembling water ice curiously flavored that | came on between the courses of a Washington dinner the other night was mystified to observe that her mother was frowning and grimacing at her severely from the other end of the table, After trying vainly to make out what Was the matter the girl guve it up as an insol- uble conundrum, finished off her ice with great relish, and only took nutice now and then during the remainder of the repast that her mamma's eyes were bent often upon her with an expression of anxiety, if not of alarm. When the ladies had left the table, not long atter, her mother drew her aside in @ corner of the drawing room and said earnestly: y dear, do you feel at ali queer?” “Why no, mamma,” replied the maiden. “Why should I feel so?” ou are sure you feel perfectly yourself?” ver more so. But——” hings about the room don't look strange to you?” “Not atall. Why should they?” “My darling, you relieve my mind tly; but still I am alittle anxious. You did not kftow, I suppose, that was Roman punch you were eating at dinner.” “Do you mean that queer-tasting water ice, mamma?” * “Yes, dear; that had rum and champagne in it; it is always made so, or with rum any go to your head. But you are certain that you don’t feel it at all?” “Not a bit.” “It is allright then, my daughter, for this occasion; but never touch Roman punch again, And if you should feel at all queer later on this evening come right to me and I will make proper arrangements to cover our departure?” Atall events that debutante can say she had areal spree once in her life, even though it was unawares, —_—__. THE WAYS OF WOMEN. Scraps of Fashion Gossip—A Washington Morning Keception Gowan, ever promisised to be, A Fasnionasie Togve is of reddish brown velvet, the crown of which is covered with holly berries and leaves, Low-Neckep Frocks are seen on the street and in places of public amusement when the sidered in-good form. Tue Days oF THe Pepestay ann Tasie Lampare numbered. As favor for the burner White or colors artistically set in wrought iron, decorated china or carved metal. Bows ane Stitt Wors, but as rule are made shorter, Osx or THE Hicuest Noverttss in furs is the ieee of embroidery or astrakhan and seal Loxa Maytxes which entirely cover the dress, with long loose sleeves, are a feature of out- door dress as the season advancea, Buack CuantILty on Brusseis Lace enters ery and is generally contrasted with some vivid red tints of velvet or silk. Weppixe Gowxs ake Tammep with pearl passementerie in a way that is of the olden ume. Wutte Crota 1s Very Porviar some of the entirely of velvet. Buck 1s THE Stxg Qua Nox of all winter bon- forceless women, childish and slight as they may seem, But while Eve's daughters are ete | and lamenting their want of influ- ence over the minds of men, and ascribing all manner of baseness to them'to account for it, Lilith’s daughters smile; for, good or bad, they will not lose their power until the end. The s-cret of Lilith’s power is her deep humility, She knows her limitations—Eve will not be told that she has any, Lilith knows the sway of sense must have an end and will neither rule by it nor neglect it, but Eve, craving to be as gods, will have ber power scarce short of the Divine, and loses, even when she seems to win. It is Lilith who has left in the world knowledge of the secret of pro- longing youth as well as beauty. Eve's daughters have ignorantly been content to imitate it with paint, powder and stimulants, which left the form: diseased una fatigued, Lilith’s wisdom teaches them to keep the skin ever young and fair without masking it in metallic oxides ground in toilet lotions, which isa genteel sort of house paint, There is the greatest difference between such paints and the creams which soften and supple the skin without spreading over it a metuilic film im- pervious to air and moisture, ‘The hot, dry climate of France is most like our own of all the provinces of Europe and we may copy the old methods for the toilet with beneilt, Women who divided their lives between the toilet and display were likely tobe Shrewd mistresses of their art. Devotee and women of the world alike used cosmetics, even it disdai ii tended for the mild the nuns not disdaining to bind a thin plate of may farnish snggestions to readers in other | 92° lead about the forehead to free it from wrin- les and give a celestial purity below the coif, Convents made famous additions to tueir in- comes by the preparation of toilet waters and cream, and many a fine lady made her pious retreat serve a double purpose of getting back her beauty sleep and her roses, as she mended her complexiou with “lait virginal” and eau celeste or balm marie between her orisons, MADAME DE MAINTENON’S TOILET. The cabinets of laurel and cherry wood in the dressing room of Madame de Maintenon were repositories of cosmetics, which she had made on so large a scale that her relations with her ee were astate scandal. Probably she used nothing worse than strawberry water, dis- tilled from’ the whole wild plant and berry, which has an exquisite smell and is a fine wash to remove freckles and Ses on the face. French ladies use the juice of the strawberry as 4 liquid rouge for cheeks and finger tips. “De Montespan knew also the virtues of the as- tringent water of white tansy for keeping the muscles of the face firm, and one must notice in portraits of her time how litue the smooth fall tases showed the lax drooping look induced by the close rooms and overheat of today, ‘There was a famous barley water compounded with careful rites which gave an extraordinary brilliance to the skin, Marie Antoinette had a favorite wash distilied from half a dozen lemons cut small, a handful of white lily leaves and southernwood infused in two quarts of milk with an ounce anda half of white si and an ounce of rock alum. The face at night was to be bathed with this water, which gave a beautiful purity and liveliness to the com- plexion, other royal recipe was to infuse wheat bran three or four hours in vi with if anda grain or two of ambergia, whole and aay ten days in the ‘ish. The famous lait virginale was a name for several different toilet lotions, the most efficacious of which was an ounce of alum and the same of sulphur in tine powder shaken half an hour in a pint of rose water, which be- in A cloth wet in this was laid all night on the face, which was ard wi in rose water. Most modern of this name are nothing but an oxide dissolved in acid and very injurious, THE EARTH OF CHIO8. Tiquids otllead nets. It appears in every direction. CogvetisH Lirtts Vevvet Hoops form the headgear of many of the wee generation. Ir 1s Istrarep Taar Hoops will again be- come popular. In Paris and London they are — limited in rotundity as yet, but promise to spread to extreme proportions, Quire a New Watxk xe consists in having « roll of velvet around and just beneath the waist and worn with light skirts. This is sup- posed to add slenderness to the waist, Bovgvets are No Loxors considered fasb- ionable for the ball room, Win Heavy Sirk Ner of lined or dotted pattern stiff muslin is used for a foundation quite as often as satin or silk. Baives Wao Carry Rrat Oraxor Brossoms pay @1 a spray and it requires 60 to 75 sprays to | sua Cali make a modest bouquet, ADMIRERS OF THE CoysPrcvovs will be charmed | aud Georvis with the fad now prevalent of dressing from head to foot in the tint of one’s own hair. A Wasuinatox Moryixa Gowx.—Morning receptions lasting until deep in the afternoon are to be @ feature of Washington life this winter, and for these occasions some of the ladies of the cabinet families have had special gowns prepared in New York. These gowns are sometimes costumes with a bonnet to match and a wrap also, and as they are in- Washington climate they gay southern cities aud to many in the north who go south to escape the rigors of winter. For these morning receptions a gown (with bonnet) made for one of the daughters of a cabinet family has a high bodice and straight gathered skirt of pale —_ crepe de chine, with long mutton-leg sleeves of transparent chiffon muslin of the same shade. A double frill of the muslin, shirred and tucked in “necklace shape,” droops around the neck, the sleeves are puffed high ona lining of the thin chiffon, and the gown is made quite com- plete in effect by a very wide Roman sash of the most delicate pink and pale blue bars, set on wide in front ine high point to the top of the bust, then gradually sloping narrower to | gv “iiswiey'n luth aud Fe Tat Fi the point below the waist line in the back, whence it falls tothe floor, The bonnet isa softly puffed low toque of the two pink fabrics of the gown, to which narrow black velvet strings can be added to the back of the crown. The elegant wrap for the carriage isof dark and I was dreadfully frightened lest it should! Barron Tae Wire Ver isas popular as the Hading | © wraps or furs are removed, though it is not con- | Sundays, 8:37 a. wanes the candlestick rises in popularity, It is | yd) Wao 22) bA22 Nis difficult to imagine anything prettier than the | $4¥:00 p.m. little shades that go over the waxen dip in| », largely into the decoration of elegant millin- | tl1:00 am, *2:0y, * handsomest of the.winter walking gowns are | 430" Gen. Manager. RAILROADS. = (TAP OnEaE ec esyivanta ROUTE THE SOkUit w x re Ny To AND» DOLBLE TRACK." SPLENDID Sc? Bike Bas” Macro k TS = In bffect January 1. SDB Sih For Hittwburg agd he W >) ExY * - and Western Expr Sleejine Cars Louis, cv Bleepers Press, 10:00 paw . xb with thrush Sieepor to Pittsbu: te Chicago. BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD, Kane, Canandaigua, hochester aud Niagara Palle Gsily, except wnday, 5.10 ar. For Lie, Canandaigua kid Kocicater daily; for Bat. falo ort Raturday 10:00 p.am., ob ty hockester * Cae Washingtou ‘to bs delymt H aid ung with through Pac: x Wu Bud Binore at 10:50 a.m. except Sunday for Williamsport daily, 3-5. p.m. UR Pil Lal ELYRIA NEW YORK AND THE EAST, 20. oO LL O0 aud 11-30 244 Se 0. 10:00 an u Sunday, 11:40 a.m, 2:10, fete ave) a Parlor Cate 5 tu, Limited Express bo a.m daily, except Sunday, and 4.00 pam with Diving Car Fu x Fast Express 5 dup sand 5:10 p.m daily, ‘Accom. 6:00 p.m. daily. a For Boston without chan, 20 p.m. every day. For roslyn, NX, ald throug trains counect @t Jersey City with “boats ct Brooklyn annes, afford direct transfer to Fulton street, avoiding Goudie ierriage across New Lork City. For Atisute City, 11:40 am, week days, 12:20p.m. 5 For baitimore, 6:35, 7 AsV and Lied 20, 400, 4 0,4 ve if aud hi On pubdas. 8:00, 8.05, "10:50, ewe , # 4.00, 4:10, C.0u ¢ 1:20 pom. For Pope's Cree 20am aud 4:40 p.m daily, except Sunday: For Anuapoiis, #00 am. 12.05and 4:20 p.m. ly, xcept Sunday. Sundays, 9.09 am, 41d ANDAIA AND FREDERICKSBU Te RAIL- WAY AND ALEXANDUIA AND WASHINGIUN KALLWAL. — in LiPEcL exandria, 42 2:04 Nout, "2 1006 and 11-5 v4. For'hsschinoud au fi aod for Kichinoud aud the souti, 4-90, 10:57 am, 4:15 pam. daily. Accoumodsuon + 55 D. Week . Tri fone Avexanda, for Washington, 6 0% 7:05 00, 4:10, 10:10, 11.207 a. 09. Dat the cttice, northeast cor. 1 Lbs) iVaLia avenue, and at ation, Where orders cau be leit le checksug ot ‘wage to destination iru Lutes aud resiuenoen. CHAS. E. PUGH, pares J. ik. WUUD, a General } Gen. Pas Agent Axp Ouro Rarzoar. Schedule lu eect December —., LNSO. Leave Washiuytou iP station corner of New Jersey. ‘avenue aud C street For Chicago aud Noriiwest, Vestibuled Limited exp teue daily 11°20 ath, express 9 00 pa or Ciucilivats, St, Lois aud Indiatapolle, express dudly, 3:10 aud Ti -0 pane — kor of Cleveland, Vestibuled Limited express daily 11-20 a.m and express > 40 p.m. or Lexington aud Local Balions tiv su am - pana sme 10.90 be 2:30 45 uiuutea) 9200, 10:80 and 11 sso For Way ststious me 5.00, 6-40, Bo sO pom. Suu 220, 14290 pee ween Washington and Balti- iy 12:1, 4:00, O22 s 83d : Pau, ve Baltimore for Washington, week © Sy 7s) S00 wo, ws 19, OM, 210, SVU, 4:10, 20 0, 3:36, 5 9, 10 fm. 12:20 and 4:25 a p. 0 Run. 4:59 "pin. Leave AL hapolis 6 «aie, 1205 abd S200 pam, m.. 4:00 p.m. - For stations ou the Meiropoliten Branch, 16:45, Pm tor princpal steuons ouly, 10 % and tou pam. For hock visle au: Siations, $4:35 p.m. For Gaithersbuty abu intermediate puiute, 8000, Stations, 17-00 p.m. ‘Church train leaves Washington on Sunday at 1:10 s., SLOpping at all stations on Metrupouten Covent er oa " Branch, For Frederick, t6:49, ti:.0 a.tu., 13-10, T4:J0 Be m, Sundays, 1 1v pau For haverstown, 111 am, and mm. ‘Tratus arrive trom Chicago daily 11 ety am. and 4:05 pam, ; trom Cincinuat and St. Louis dsily 3:49 Sm. avd 1.50 pau, ; from Pittsburg 7:10 waa, 0.50 Pau, daily. DELPHIA DIVISION, bizabe et ‘ar on the 10 ladelp lis, ‘UU, For Pui tS B20, *. between Bultimoreand Phil- 20 a4, 1200, 13:15 pam, for Wastinigton, *8 30, 0, *9:00 pm, sud "1213 adelplia, 15.40 wud ‘Lraius leave Ne “= pe ounday. cept Sunday Baxw: idences by, 4.1) ODE: *Dauy Sunday only. from hvtcis aud res orders jett at ticked called for and checi Gen. Pass 3 ICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAILKOAD C0, Schedule in effect NOVEMB.K 24, Lo8y. 5:30 s.un.—bust Tennessee Mail, daily for Warren- ton, Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Lynchburg aud statious between Aleaundrimaud Lynciburg, kuauoke, Adlanta, bristol, Kuoxville, Cuattanouxs aud Memphis, Sleeper Washinton to New Urieans, 11:24 am. — Fast Mi jail daily for Cupeper, Char- lottesville, Btatious Chesapeake and Olio Route, yuebbui ky Mouut, Danville and statious be- A ‘bury aud Danvil: Teeusbory’, harewh, Asheville, Charlotte, ‘Coluiuuia, Aucustey’ Atlanta, Birmingtiam, Moutgomery, New Orvenus, Lexas au California, Fullman siceper New York to Atguta, Pullman Sleepers to New Uricaue. Pullman Sleeper Danville to Columbia and Auguste. Pullinau Sleepers Wasulugton to Cincinuau vie C. aud ©. noute. 2200 pa Daily, except Siinday, for Strasbuty abd interinediate « be y Bristol and Chat- nicepers Wuslungtou to ting thence for ull Arkansas powute, 240 p.u.—Western Eapress, daily ior Culpeper. DtauLiom, Louis ville, Cincinuat!. “‘Pulluan Vesuoule iran Washiug- ton to with « sieeper tor Louis- 11:00 p.m.—Southern Express daily for Lynchburg, Danville, Kaleigh, Asheville, Cha:lotte, Columbia, Augusta, Atan . New Urleuus, sexed ernie. sau Vestibule Car Washington to Rew Orleaus Via AUebts and Montgomery. Puluunan w to BiuingheM, Ala, Vid AtAuLS Fecihe raiway, wud’ Pull Washingwon tw Asheville aud Hut springs N.C. Selisbury. A.eo Wesuuxton to Aucusta, vis Vauville and Charlotte ‘Trains ou Washington and Obio division leave Wash- ington 9:00 alu, dally except Dunday and 4:45 pan. daily: arrive itound Hall Au. and 7:20 p.m: returuug leave Svune fill G00 am, daily and D- pam. dauy except suLday, arriving Washiugton Sn. and 2:53 pm. ‘Lurough traineirom the south via Charlotte, Dan- ftapouga. Pull Meuphia. counec ‘Orange, Chariotvsy ville Lynchburg arrive sp Wasluugton * 6:53 am. and 7:10 p.m; via bast Tennessee, bristol aud Lyuchbure at £6": - and 10:40 p.m; Vie Chess a. peuke and Ubio route anu Charivitesviile at 2:48 and 7:10 pm, and 6:55a.u. Strasburg iocal at 1 Ev ‘Tickets, sleeping-car reservation and informetion == Peace checked at office, 1évu Fena- S2)cauae se, aus at Lassenger station, Peunayivania road, Uth and Ib ats. By JAS. LL TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agent, POTOMAC RIVEK BOATS. 1.0 NOKEOLK AND FOKT MONKOE, TRE POPULAR BOLLE. THE OLD FAVOKiit 5. EAM GEORGE LEARY, BrEbys. BALL. (CULE OBTABLE, MEDS first-ciass. Table unexcelied state Toviue late, CouMvTtule abd beated by elon Polite and attenGve vilicers. I Lorouch disciple, 7th-strovi whart MUNDALS, WEUNESDAYS and FAIDale at 5 pu ‘L.be only steauer at Boston wharf, Norfolk, Ouly dine baviux eaciuaive conmection With, BUSION AND PeOViavence DL RAMEKS, ickets and eivaud 1351 Pepusyivania UL s apres, who Waki check te aud private resi Teiephoue do. Wal. P. WELCH, Supt, and Geu. Agt. ORFOLK, FORKTHESS MUNRO AND THE south—On and alter MUNVAX, Novewuber 1 155, Bteamer Lady vf tue Lake, Laviug been aud uewly Luruisied, will leave SixLb-eireet Wharf, deuces, ny old rose Muscovite silk—soft, with reps like | terminus 7th aud vth street cars, at o ym., 4 thick cor: in along loose fronts and full bishop's sleeves of velve' lined throughout with pink silk and trimme: with a Medici collar of ostrich feathers of dark rose and deep feather cuffs, Written for Tae Evenrxc Sta8. The Florida Jessamine. In northern air, bright, golden flower, InfManuary, to bloom dost dare? And fear’st thou, then, no snowy shower In northern air? And trustest thou the frost will spare ‘Thee, dreaming of some southern bower, And gay-plumed birds disporting there? ‘Thou smil'st now in a sunny hour, Bleak Boreas, and the storms that lower ‘In northern air! The Little Falls of the Potomac. The picturesque Potomac flows Here with a deep and solemn roar, As grandly to his goal be goes, With rocks and hills on either shore, He sings a song of days of yore, And those the place no longer knows, Who gathererd here taeir winter store Of fish, and war's rude game forbore. ‘They with their spears, end shafte, and bows, Have vanished; but their craft, their lore, ‘The arrow-head and axe disclose, ‘Which from their tomb the While sails the free, wild eagle o'er, And hints of men that are no more. ‘L. SmomMakeR, —. sere Baron De $e Yon Attuesin aes sete Kesallaner—sure? Why, he borrowed 9600 of one man.”—Zime, Tedingote, with | SharrN cjuik the | "bart or 4 Dubuay. heturuilne, ‘eave Ciyues wi urls foot st Civee CunBec¥CRS OS ad ork, orth sud Bouma Fer Tooms aud iuiorinsueu regarding treigut call at elephoue Usil ¥4. Also ». and U. Licket PES Sty end 1504 Pe ove. aud Hawley 's kxpress, iD AND BLABVAKD CUADLING COMPANY, UMAC KIVEE LANDINGS. kW IKON BL RAMEL “Ww {th-etreet whart op MONDA LB, 1. eee AURA! and BUNDALS p.m, Wwucking et Mi ie eeecs sonra noes ©. W. iu DLek, Manager, ~ 1A Our own lmportations now and Bra - ee you . ‘& D. BARR, ‘U1L] Penna eve