Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1890, Page 7

‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1890-TWELVE PAGES. COLORED SOLONS. Afro-Americans Who Have Served in Congress. THE FIRST NEGRO MEMBERS. Two Senators and Sixtcen Representa lives of Color Chosen in Twenty Vears—Onty One in Congress Now— Colored Contestants For Seats. —_— HERE is but one negro in the Fift; first Congress. He comes from what is known as the Newbern district of North Carolina, and reached Congress by a najor ity of six hundred and seventy-one over F. M. Simmons, who was an active member of the last House. Hon. Henry Plummer Cheatham is a fine-looking inulatto, now thirty-two years old. He dresses with neatness and good taste and parts his hair in the middle. giving him a reputation for dudishness that he does not really deserve. He is '® quiet member, but has already proven himself a good working member of committees, He is saidto be a good cam- paign . althongh he has not yet spoken in Congress. Representative Cheatham was born in slavery at Granville, N. C., December 27, 1857, and became free while yet a child. He had excellent educational advantages, and is, with the possible exeeption of Robert Brown chi i av d negro that has sat in »d_publie and private In 1875 he entered the rtment of Shaw university at He graduated from the college in ext three years he was prin al school and from 1835 of his congressional term county. pal of th until the F. P, CHEATHAM, It is twenty years since the American negro tame into the exercise of all the rights of American citizenship by the adoption on the part of twenty-nine of the thirty-seven states then in the Union of that amendment to the Constitution which lares that “the right of the citizens of the United States to vote sl not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color or Previous condition of servitude.” In these twenty years the colored race has sent two Senators and sixteen Representatives to Congress, Of > distinguished negroes Senator Hoar declared in his speech the other day: “It was my fortune to serve in the House of Kepresentatives for eight years when it con- tain af average of from seven to ten colored Representatives from southern states and I declare, what no gentleman on either side of thet House I think would ever question, that there were no ten men in that bets who could have been chosen upon any principle of selec- tion, whatever may have been their polities, whatever may have been the section from which they came, whatever may Lave been their opportunities of education, who were better examples of the legislative character for propriety of conduct, for soundness of judg- ment and for ability exhibited in debate than the Representatives of that race.” ‘The first negro to claim « seat in Congress was J. Willis Menard, who asserted that he was elected to the Fortieth Congress from the re- constructed state of Louisiana. He had con- tested with Caleb S$. Hunt for the seat made the death of James Mann. The con- was not considered Ly the House until the third session of the Congress. In the debate in the House upon the contest Menard was heard in bis own behalf, and was thus the first negro to speak in Congress. William B. Alli- son. now a Senator, but then a member of the House. surrendered his seat to Menard during the debate. The House decided February 17, 13 tneither Menard nor Hunt was entitled at. and it remained vacant during that Congress. Itis an interesting fact that this case was decided ten days before Congress sub- mitted the Fifteenth Amendment to the people of the sovereign states. Menard is now living in Washington. He is and has for some years been an 31.400 clerk in one of the divisions of the pension office. Menard never reached Con- gress, but the fact that he was the first colored contestant for a seat in Congress gives him an position in the history of his race. The distinction of being the first negro to sit in the House of Representatives belongs to the late JOSEPH H. RAINEY of South Carolina. He was born of slave parents who had earned their freedom in 1832, In his young manhood he followed the oecupa- tion of a barber and was still so engaged when the war broke out. He was impressed to work on the fortifications of Charleston, but eseaped to the West Indies and afterward reached the Union lines. When the war was over he re- ‘leston and are in the political affairs of hi elected to the state senate in till a member of that body when -first Congress to fill the ney occasioned by the non-reception of B. Whittemore, a Massachusetts carpet who had been elected in 1868, Rainey took his seatearly in 1870. He continued a member of the House from the Georgetown district until 1879. serving five Congresses aud a period of over nine years, He was pe haps the ablest of the negro members of the House. He died several years ago in the city in which he was born. SENATOR REVELS, The distinction of being the first colored Man to sit in either house of Congress fell to Rev. H. B. Revels of Mississippi at the age of forty-nine. He was elected short-term Sena- tor upon the reconstruction of the state and served in the Senate from February 25, 1870, to March 4, 1571, his colleague being James L. Alcorn, sho had been a confederate brigadier general. Revels was born free in Fayetteville, N.C., September 1, 1822. He removed to Indi ana. studied for the ministry and was ordained &@ Methodist clergyman. He traveled through ma ates preaching. Early in the war he organized several colored regiments in the northern states. Immediately after the rebel- hon he settted in Natchez and became the pre- siding elder of his church, His acqairements were much more extensive than those of mo, of the newiy enfranchised race and he at became a leader in the state and secured t, first great prize offered. The Rev. Revels did cut a large figure in the Senate except as a ty. He wns a good preacher, but a poor politician, and after his year in the Senate he <ropped out of public lie, He is now presi- dent of a college in Mississippi. THE FORTY-FIRST CoxaRESS, There were three negroes in the Forty-first Congress, five in the Forty-second, six in the Forty-third, seven in the Forty-fourth, four in the Forty-fifth, one in the Forty-sixth, one in the Forts ii two in the Forty-ninth. The Fiftieth was the first white Congress since the adoption of the amendment. In the Fitty-tirst Congress Mr. Cheatham, as before stated, is the only repre- sentative of his race. The distribution of col- cored representation at the several southern states has been as follows: Alabama has had three colored Congressmen who have served a total of three terms; Florida one, serving two terms: Georgia one, serving one term; Louis- jana one, serving one term; Mississippi three, serving six terms in Congress; North Line three, in four C¥ and South Virginia, Carolina five, serving fifteen terms, vest Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, cred Congres flloing it given the ored ives mames of all the Congressmen of , their and the they served: in received « high education in the Boston sehi i io Holborn academy, London, col dari mov race. to 1870 and was during a part of that time as- sistant adjutant general of the state, he was elected to the Forty:second Congress, was re-elected in 187 gress, but resigned to become a candidate for the United States Senate, but was defeated. nearly obtained a slight education, but was still a @ promine: mhercantile business and figured to be wortlr the war was over he became a farmer. reau. From 1863 to 1870 he served in the state house of representatives and as state land commissioner. negro now living who has sat in the House, was at Natchez and he moved there while yet a lad. crude rudiments of an education that in more Congress, is one of the most noted of Ameri- can negroes, If he is seated he will be the first colored representative from the old dominion. Prof. Langston is now a trifle over sixty years of age, but looks much younger. With the ex- ception of Frederick Douginss he is the one of the leaders of his race who was promi- nent before the rebellion, Langston was born, free at Lonisa Court House, Va., in 1329. When a small boy he was taken to Oberlin—a hotbed of abolition—prepared for college, and graduated there in the theological department, He then studied law and hung out his shingle in 1855. He practiced law there ith great success for the next twelve years In 1867 he was appointed general inepector of the national bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands, In 1867 he became profersor of law in Howard university here, and in 1873 served as acting president of that institution He resided for nearly twenty years in this city; was a member of the board of health an forsome years its attorney. In 1881 he was made minister resident to Hayti, and lived at Port au Prince in that capacity for the next fonr years. Returning here in 1885 he prac- ticed law for some time and then again took up his residence in the state of his birth, after more than forty years’ absence, and became president of the Vir; institute at Petersburg. In 1883 he ran for Congress in a heavy republican dis- trict and would have won his seat if Gen. Wm. Mahone had not antagonized him with a white republican candidate, As it is he con- tests the election and the committee on elec- tions is suid to lean his way pe HOUSES OF GREAT PEOPLE. Washington Palaces Adapted to the Uses of Entertaining. mi to his people in South Carolina. ie ecules religion and politics, In 1868 and 1870 he was in the senate of the state. He was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fifth Congresses, After his retirement from Con- gress be became a bishop of the A. M. E. church and filled that tion until his death. ROBERT SMALLS. Robert Smalls, one of the most noted negroes in the United States, is now fifty-one years old, having been born at Beaufort, 8.C., his present home, in 1839. He has the distinction of having been a naval officer in the war, shared, it is be- lieved, by no other colored man. Smails was born a slave, but managed to secure a partial education. He worked as a rigger and led a seafaring life, In 1861and 1862 he was at work on the Planter, a steamer plying in Charleston harbor asa transport. In May, 1862, he seized an opportunity that presented itself and took the boat over Charleston bar and delivered her to the commander of the United States blockad- ing squadron, He was appointed a pilot in the navy and served on the Keokuk in the attack on Fort Sumter. He was afterward promoted to be age and put in command of the Planter. holding that position until 1866. He then plunged into politics and has been in them ever since, He was in the South Carolina house from 1868 to 1870 and in the senate from 1870 to 1874. In 1874 he was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress. He was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, defeated for the Forty sixth, elected to the Forty-seventh,Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses and defeated for the Fiftieth Congress. He has contested the election every time he was defeated and several times he secured the seat. He was not a candidate in 1838, his first failure to run since 1874. He is now collector of the port of Beau- fort. Smalls has served in all in five Con- gresses—ten years, which is longer than any other negro. He is frequently called generai, a title he earned in the South Carolina militia. In this connection it will be interesting to mention two prominent negroes who have never sat in Congress, but who have been noted contestants for seats. BLANCHE K. BRUCE, Blanche K. Brace was born a slave in Vir- ginia in 1841, He lived in Mississippi and Mi: souri and was residing in Missouri when the war closed. He at once returned to Mississippi and began the most remarkable public career that any American negro has enjoyed. He became sergeant-at-arms of the state senate, then sheriff and next levee commissioner, In 1872 he be- ame tax collector of his county. He had good ministrative ability, ough his origi- nal education wi: limited, he broadened rapidly in public life. He was elected United States Senator in 1875 and served until 1881, bging the second and last negro Senator. It has been the judgment of every one of his as- sociates that he was an able member of the Senate and probably reduced the natural prej- udice of his white associates to the minimum. He was intelligent, able, discreet and probably the most popular negro that ever sat in Con- gress. Directly after the close of his senatorial term he was appointed by Garfield register of the treasury and held that position until after Clevelani inauguration. Since then the ex- Senator has practiced law and been engaged in the lecture deta. He was lately nominated for the office of recorder of deeds of the District and Thursday the nomination was confirmed by the Senate. Bobert Brown Elliott was a carpet-bag negro. He was born in Boston, August 11, 1842, and “Of all Washingtcn houses,” said a society woman of English birth the other day to a Star writer, “probably the best adapted for purposes of entertaining is the British lega- tion, The rooms are so altogethor suitable for dancing, and, as of course you know, the din- ing room is one of the finest in this country. There is something at once homelike and superb about the legation inside. I consider the establishment an illustration of the fact that the English are the most civilized people in the world. We may laugh at and rovile their aristocracy—I speak as one now consider- ing herself an American—but they are ’way ahead of us in most of the refinements of life. The art of entertaining they understand to a perfection not at all attained on this side of the water. If you don’t believe it visit the British legation,” OTHER FINE WASHINGTON DWELLINGS. “Do you not find any other houses in Wash- ington well equipped for entertaining?” “Oh, yes indeed. For instance, Mr. Mor- ton's house is most delightfully arranged for entertaining. The most important thing for such purposes is to have an extended sweep of rooms. Now, since the new addition has been put on, there is in the Vice President's house a stretch of 110 feet of drawing rooms and din- ig room in astraight line. This affords most desirable facilities for dancing. Besides, as you doubtless are aware, the new addition gives room for a separate entrance and exit for guests at parties and other entertainments, with a second porte cochere outside and large dressing rooms and cloak rooms within. It is quite anew idea to me, and on the whole 1 have no hesitation in saying that the Morton establishment is as well equipped as any I have visited in my native country. In fact, there are very few of the great honses in Eng- land so well provided with entertaining facili- ties as is the Vice President's. Especially be- low stairs itis a marvel, To begin with, there are two chefs, one a general manager and the other a pastry cook, while all the appointments are marvelously complete.” THE WANAMAKERS’ ESTARLISHMENT, “How about the Wanamakers’?” “Their house is very well adapted for enter- taining purposes, particularly now that the great ball room built by the Whitneys has been added. It was reported some time ago, I have understood, that Mr. Wanamaker con- templated turning the ball room into a Sunday school, taking down the damask wail covering preliminaril, However, the predictions do not seem likely to be fulfilled. On the con- trary the Wanamakers are entertaining con- siderably, although, of course, in no such gor- geons way as the Whitneys did. Nor is this surprising. I know it tobe a fact that when the last Secretary of the Navy was appointed Mrs. Whitney was given by her brother, Mr. Payne, 2500,000 to be used exclusively for en- tertaing during the four years of the Cleveland administration, And, furthermore, Lhave every reason for believing that the money was actually sospent. Certainly Washington is not likely to seo such gorgeousness as was displayed in the old Frelinghuysen house during the Whit- ney regime for many years to come. Mr.Wana- maker never used _ to allow wines to served at his house in Philadelphia, I don't know whether he permits it here or not, Maybe he has relaxeda little of his severity since he came to the capital. Once upon a time Ircad an in- terview with Mr. Wanainaker in which he said that he had never in his life drunk a drop of wine, danced, gone to the theater, visited the circus, or indulged in any sort of what is or- dinarily termed rational amusements. I sus- pect that now. he is a cabinet officer, he is less of an ascetic than he used to be.” AS TO THE LEITERS’, “What do you think of the Leiters’ house?” “You mean, of course, the Blaine house oc- cupied by them on Dupont circle. It isa hand- some residence, but not at all well adapted for entertaining. There are only two parlors available for dancing, and in taltzing from one z room to the other you must jump over the Charles E. Nash, the only negro who ever | brass rod on which the folding doom run lest reached Congress from Louisiana, was born in | PEAs® ¥ Port 1 : r y ip up. Perhaps altogether the most Nex reap a Mn int na in: colistid s8 4 | available house for parties in Washington, with Btates Chassenrs d'Afrique carly in 1803. He | %2¢, €Xeeption of ‘the British legation, is Dr. i gallantly adtit the ony in 1863. He | Hammond's. Ihave never been able to imag- Served ga tod y om d locing a | ite Why so magnificent a mansion should be Me Promote Blakele ip ae ores 1 ning 8 | placed: in such locality. The hall itselt is as A big as a large ball room, in the shape of a ro- Forty-fourth Congress and defeated ere tanGa and you may go throngh a ane apart- tion. He hasretired from politics and is now | ments before you arrive at the living rooms of & prosperous merchant. the household, Among other houses in Wash- ington which I consider superb enongh to vie with any private residences abroad are those of Gen, Nicholas Anderson, Justice Gray, Col. John Hay, Henry Adams and the Tucker- mans’.” that was rounded out by studies at and Eton He was a practicing lawyer in Boston the war and directly after the close he to Columbia and became a leader of his He served in the state senate from 1868 lege. In 1870 being then only twenty-eight years of age. He tothe Forty-third Con- He afteward practiced law. He has been dead ten years. Benj. 8. Turner was born aslave at Halifax, N. .. March 17, 1825, and was sold when five years old and removed to Alabama, He Rorirpprnnd jan- tation slave when the war broke out. How- ever, his education was quite unusual among the ex-slaves, and directly after the war he be- came aleader in Selma, where he opened a eneralestore. He was made tax collector of Ballas county and then city councilman of Selma, In 1870 he was nominated for Con- gress and was the first negro elected from Alabama. He served in the Forty-second Con- gress and was deteated for re-election. He is still active in political affairs and was a re- ablican candidate tor the Firtieth Congress, Tireer is considered rich. Josiah T. Walls was born a slave in Vir- ginia in 1842. Right after the war he went to Florida and became a planter. He was mem- ber of the Florida house in 1868 and a senator in 1869. In 1870 he was elected to Congress. He served two terms in the House. He is still inent party leader. He is now in the JAMES E. O'HARA. James E, O'Hara isa native of New York city and is now forty-six years old. He studied law at Howard university and moved to North Caro- lina after the war. He was for several years engrossing clerk to the North Carolina ley boot ture and served as delegate to the constitutional convention of his state, He has practiced law at Enfield for twenty years, He was a candi- date for the Forty-sixth Congress but was de- feated. He was. however, elected to the Forty- eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, but defeated for the Fiftieth Co: 8. Jere Haralson was born in slavery in Georgia in 1846 and sold at auction on the block at Columbus to J. Haralson of Selma, Ala., whose name he afterward took. Haralson was a totally unlettered man, but hada great deal of force. He went to the Alabama house in 1870 and the senate in 1872. He was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874, defeating Ra- ier, who had been elected to the Forty-third. ie and Rapier both ran forthe Forty-tifth and divided the colored vote so badly that Gen. Shalley was elected. Haralson nas been a per- sistent candidate since and has been an active distributor of patronage when his party was in power. John Adams Hyman was born a slave in North Carolina in 1840. He had a great desire for an education and surreptitiously secured a spelling book. He was caught studying it and for his offense was sold toa master who took him to Alabama, where he remaiaed until the close of the war. In i865 he returned to North Carolina and at once became prominent. From 1868 to 1874 he was in the state senate and was then elected to the Forty-fourth Congress. He was not renominated. He has lived in Wash- ington most of the time since bis retirement from Congress, He is nowa clerk in the De- partment of Agriculture. Robert C. Del.arge was born in South Caro- lina in 1843, He received an unusually good education for a slave state negro. As soon as 1867-3 he was an agent of the freedmen’s bu- in 1870 he was elected to the Forty-second Congress, OUN R. LYNCH, John R, Lynch, perhaps the most celebrated born in slavery in Louisiana in 1847. His mother and himself were sold to a man living After the Union troops took Natchez he at- tended an evening school and acquired the ——— Saturday Smiles, Unless something is soon done to protect the ice industry we may lose it.—Toledo Nevs. A married couple may be one, but that one cannot el without two railroad tickets,— Home Sentinel, ‘Talk never seems cheap when the one talk- Ing to you is a little dear.—New Orleans Pica- yune, The Maiden—“Claude, dear, hold th’ um- berelly more over me, or else th’ people'll think we're married.” —Life. Old Gentleman (from head of stairs) —“My daughter, I think Mr. Tarrylate and you have burned enough gak for one night,” Mr. Tarrylat All right, sir; I turn it out.”—New York Sun, man may smile and smile and be a yil- lain.” ‘This probably accounts for the exist- ence of so many villainous pictures of persons who have been told to look pleasant.—Boston Transcript. “George,” said Mrs, Gazley, reproachfully “before we were married you always insisted on carrying my packaes for me.” “Yes,” replied George, “but I didn’t have to pay for them then.” Her eyes are like twin Concord grapes ni black as Oolous tea: Her hair is uf a Java brown; lard-e-dah is she. Her han mature years by private study he has made a pol- ished one. He became a photographer and fol- lowed that business for several years. He was a member of the Mississippi legislature in 1870 and 1871, serving the last year as speaker of the house, being then but twenty-four years old. He was elected to the Forty-third Con- gress in 1872 and took his seat in March, 1873, being not yet twenty-six years old and the youngest negro ever elect to Congress, He was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress and has since been five times an unsuccessful candidate, He was president pro tempore of the republican national convention of 1884 and is now fifth auditor of the treasury. Jefferson D. Long of Georgia is noted for having served the shortest term of any of the colored Representatives. He was sworn in as a member of the Forty-first Congress January 16. 1871, and served until March 4 of the same year, He was the second negro to sit nm the House. He was paid $7,500 in salary for his six weeks’ service and sd the money to such good use that he has been comfortable ever since. Long made one notable — durin; his short term in which he said: was raise: aslave. My mother was a slave before me and my ancestry slaves as f: k as I can trace them. Yet I hold no animosity to the law- abiding people of my state and would vote to remove their disabilities.” Alonzo J. Ransier’was born at Charleston, 8. C.. in January, 1834. He was free born, but experienced many difficulties in sequiring an education. In 1850 he was suport bya ing merchant of Charleston as a shipping clerk. ‘The merchant was tried under the old South Carolina law for hiring a colored clerk, con- victed and fined one cent P. B. 8, PINCHBACK. P. B. 8. Pinchback has not yet gotten to Con- gress, but he has made some pretty brave at- tempts in that direction and, as one of the most conspicuous negroes of the country, deserves attention in this connection. Pinchback was a free negro and a man of considerable property before the war, He wasaman of education and force and came rapidly to the front after emancipation. He was lientenant governor of Louisiana from 1868 to 1872, In 1872 he ran for Congressman-at-large against Gen. G A. Sheridan. Both men contested the election, but the House did not admit either until the last day of the Forty-third Congress, when Sheridan was awarded the sent. At the same time Pinchback was contesting a seat in the Senate. Both himself and Wm. L. MeMilian claimed to have been elected to the Senate to succeed Gov. Kellogg in the spring of 1873, Neither coytestant was admitted and Louisiana had for four years but one Senator in Congress, Pinchback is now sixty years old and is reputed tobe rich, He has besn a conspicuous figure in many national conventions. He was a leader in the national colored convention here this weék, and at its close was elected president of the national organization which was formed. re uranulated white is her style. ‘mertcan Grocer, “What are the probabilities for February, General Greely?” “We shall have no February thaw this year,” “Upon what do you base that prediction?” “There is nothing to thaw.”—Phdadelphia Inquirer, Mr. Nosh of Washington has been appointed @census agent. The Noahs failed utterly once in managing the floating population, but we suppose Mr. Porter wishes to keep up the bib- Neal record of the administration.—New York Commercial Advertiser, Kansas Farmer—“Got any—any molasses URS: Storekeeper (briskly)—“Yes, sir—new kind just out; tin top to the neck; hold about four ingers; rubber cork, so thi won't get out.” —New York Weekly. Samuel J, Randall is the fathor of the House, but there is no indication that he is proud of his offspring.— Rome Sentinel, ‘ Colored Gentleman—“Permit me, Miss Sim- coy, Ae extreme felicity of presenting my Miss 8.—"' kin re deat i ive yours ndly, ae but at al, Unaware you New York Sue ee ‘Don't ‘He ain’t ’ that's SL Epes ents Dat se poor earned his living as a common lubdrer. died in abject poverty. James T. Rapier was born in'slavery in Ala- young reached and He bama in 1840, but while where he received Written for Tur Evexrxe Stan. ATTRACTIVE HOMES, How to Beautify Rooms at the Mini- mum of Expense. THE UNIVERSAT. INDIA SILE—THE MANY USES TO WHICH IT MAY BE PUT—ARRANGEMENTS OF WHAT A CATERER SEES OF LIFE. Particularly as to Rich People Who Offer Stingy Hospitality. “We see a good deal of the mean side of human nature in this business,” said a fashion- able caterer yesterday, “It is wonderful how EDUCATIONAL __IN Wastt in OX sorts LEsposs FOR ‘At THE WOMAN'S GYMNABIOM, ol Yorn at Dr. 01 BLisy MEDICAL Parzen ie _Prof. and Mra. NISSEN, INSTRUCTORS. jas-Ow® r EST CKAYON PORTRAIT WORK TADOMT many stingy ways people have of being hos-| sick a8 CHATR RACKS—THE POPULAR SACEETS Kn by og rat oT ming lasers for ladies tm AF pitable. Very usually—indeed it is quite a| xp wow To MAKE THEM. tarht "stadin: 1102 New Vora ae common thing—a customer will order supper for fifty, say, at so much a head, when 100 are to be present, and, if there is not enough to go around, we are blamed. Also we lose money, inasmtch as we aro obliged to feed twice as Many as we are paid for. You see the caterer is expected to furnish very liberally of every- thing served; enough of each dish must be pro- vided to give evory guest plenty and make sure of leaving a remainder. This means that per- haps twice as much as is needed has to be supplied, a circumstance of which the nurious customer does not hesitate to © the sort of advantage I have referred to. The food would be lost any way, you say? Not abitof it. Whatever is left over after the number of people contracted for have eaten all they want belongs to us, not to the giver of G y" HE things that were rare luxuries to our grandparents, maybe, are classed almost as necessities now, while those ancestors of ours with their simple tastes would be amazed at the Paraphernalia of everyday life in this year of 1890. All our surroundings are evidences of the prevailing love of luxury, Good taste will achieve with small means such admirable effects as to imply large outlay of money. Good taste and money combined can accomplish every- thing that is necessary to make an interior charming and attractive. India silk is one of the inexhaustible resources of modern housefurnishing. The ways in which P. THK. TANG, = Professor of Music and Gernan Language, fo7-3t* 1389 14% st nw. PRs SATURDAY DANCING LESSONS Score ese oars Address M.K., Star 5 RIVATE TUITION AND PREPARATION FOR all Colleges im French. une ret German, Parix, France, 1202 Ket mw. SCHEEL, TEACHER OF PIANO, ORGAN cht; Noular attention to italian, Portarnese, A. of Sorbonne, = at Su Ser, an well ae thoee farther advanced, German oe 734 12th B. English method taught, VS-metu-ln . ‘ONSIEUK BONNET DE LERY, JUST A from Paria, wants Pupils to Lustruct in the QDWARD C. row NSEND, to use it and the differont articles for whose I eae “ft Elocution, the feast, and we take itaway for subsequent : oFrect (deep) Breathing ¥ Dall Oratorical use, ‘Tho remains of the chicken salad are just | FBamentation it can be made uyailable are ail | GuxTect Aen) Breath net awe but endless, as good for another party and the croquettes, 1 e cro Manos CLEMENTS, TEACRER OF terrapin — most other things genes At A PRETTY ROOM 2%, Risto Violin and Theory of Music. 2016 Gm suppers, of course, most of the edibles are A = — served cold, anyhow. So, if 100 people feast at has been concocted in one of the small Wash- (COLONDIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, w13 Pt ‘e ef rf fifty | Mgton houses which just suit the needs of ave, Thorough instructions, Primary and ad- our expense where we are only paid for fifty : ns ay | Saboed course of Pia am, Violin, &e EDWIN we are so much out of pocket. There was a| Young married people in which India silk | jW\kT. Principa, late of New Heelaun © millionaire in this town three or four years ago ve plays a prominent part. The room in question isa bed room and the prevaling color a dull light blue. Around the four sides of the room the ceiling and side walls are connected by quite a deep cove. The ceiling and cove are colored blue, and from the picture rail at the lower edge of the cove a pattern in silver is traced, which is somewhat pyramidal in forma, tory, Boston, Mass, D-A NEW ERAINTHEART. Ai 1y tanebt a teen > to who spread on the occasion of his pretty wedding; he ordered supper of us end for 100, and 200 partook of it. It was an elaborate affair and we were horribly out of pocket. Iwenttohim and, represent- ing the circumstances frankly. asked him to reimburse me for my_loss, but he said he 4 ray Typew. punpiiet WEXD LAC S21 Fst F. 3. MULVEY, Principal. ney adit, " ASHINGTON CONSERVATOR wouldn't pay n cent. If we had provided more | The long, slender points of the design | yrar’ Pah ead My Ad Pit Combcae than enough for the 100 people he hired me to|run beyond the cove up onto the | Free advantewes 0.°R BULLAKD, Director. ‘Lm’ serve that wasour business. There comes in the point that doesn’t seem generally under- ally understood. If supplies are bought from us at so much per quantity, what is left over belongs necessarily to the customer, but, when Wwe contract to feed guests at so much per head what is not eaten is our property, and to serve it to extra guests isa swindle. I suppose it will surprise you to learn that it the rich people who do most of this sort of thing.” RICH PEOPLE, “Why should that be?” asked Taz Sran ceiling for a little distance, giving the frieze anarched appearance, which is very graceful. Just below the picture rail a small brass rod runs all around the room, and just above the banboard is another. Shirred full onto the two rods is KD SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, 1 een are bow forming. - «publi by Ap~ -)& Rational, Instructive, Fase without the usual dullness, platitudes orizing. Culture of the Volce acinative Faculties. Full Mors! and t Activity Developed by Songs and IMustrated Stories, Ja8-tm” INDIA SILK of plain blue, atone deeper than the frieze. This givesacharming finish to the walls and the color is an excellent background to the few water colors in white frames which are hung 22 " 12 THE MISSES KERK’S SCHOOL FOR LADIES AND LITTLE CHILDREN. _SPCOND TERM BPGINS PER. 3. aS1tofed Pe upon it, ‘The picture rail is painted the blue of | "UE ANT SICDENTS LEAGUE “Goo at. writer. 7 x ee the frieze. As Iam only suggesting new uses | 7 we Ant and Stil Life. Instructors, can't imagine; but my observation is that | for India silk I will not go mto the other fur- | E Jesse Bi a “Jt XN. Brooke, 'S. Jerome Uhl rich people appreciate the value a dollar repre- | nishings of the room. Fecconeld, Evening Drawing Classes Jerane Uni. sents as ncutely as do poor people.“ When they SILK FOR CHATR BACKS. te Bice in the of aaa dmte sept to be | Twice lately pretty arrangements of wilk as | ture, Le ism ot Stunt jose in the matter of expenditure, reckoning je ® “si ium Wheeler, Boston, Mass., also of things down to the lowest ponalble penny, ire | Chait backs have attracted my notice. ‘The | {2vial, Whew: Boni | first chair was a high-backed oak rocking chair deed, those who are not very well-to-do are . “ with straight rods up and down, against which 4 HAKVALD GRADUATE DESIRES PUPILS often the more liberal. Who give the best- Singly or in Small Classes, yp HL PUTS 10 appointed dinners and suppers in Washington | one's shoulder blades are apt to feel uncom-| gogm at Sunder fe Stayman'e O30 Fatt aw. today? Not the millionaires, but the old Wash- | fortably prominent. ‘To soften this effect a| + IANO AND HAKMONY ae ington people, who are not many of them | cushion covered with silk had been provided. | MIN SAMY ¢. LEAVITT bloated with wealth to any great extent, The | This was a thin oblong affair, which was hung | Has Kemoved to new people who have come here within the | over the back like the useful double pillows, ___ 1226 Massechusetis ave. nw. jaS-Jam last few Years with no end of money have | and was fastened to the chair with two large 18s JULIA ss. BALCH, ELP ENCED IN Tarely any notion of the art of entertaining. In } bows on each side rather lower down than they | #12 teaching the Enciish Lanucinceto Foreiguersoffere the exceptional cases where they are lavish in | ate usually put. It was only slightly different | can. “ <ressand to Forewn Levations. 1207 10tha.w their hospitality it is not dispensed with good from other cushions of ease, bat had a little taste. Terrapin by the barreiful and unlim- style of its own very pretty tosee. The other Is ons 1, SERVICE INSTITU thi | MiiSoP oir at & Tor alles ited champagne don’t signify everything that | was something like this in effect, only the pro- —Pupils pre} for ail ig desirable. Of all our customers the new | portion of cheir to piliow was reversed. ‘This | {uijMious. | Special Lesous for rich ones are the most provoking. Not oniy | was in a charming little guest room of are they likely to be stingy but they don't|@ charming iittle house and looked | 7 BEELITZ, SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES 723 14th st. nw, g)0 Arete TRIAL LESSONS FREE: Pranches in New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Philadel phio. Lowsville, Paris (Brauce), Berlin Dresden, Gerimaus, ry know how to order a supper or dinner and they haven’t the gumption to leave it to us, whose business it is to manage such affairs, TUBS OF, TERRAPIN. As to the more delicate and elaborate just intended for some dainty girl vis- itor to make herself comfortable in. This chair was a small rocking chair of oak also, and the cushion was of pale green India silk with a pretty design all over it. The shape was long and narrow and it was lightly wadded. ‘This dishes——" sachet, as it looked, was put on the back, reach- ST EET 7 “They are not acquainted with them, I sup-| ing from the seat to the top and lapping well tna Nf pose.” over on to the buck side of the chair, where it ut Theory, Business’ Prectien was made fast to the wood work. It was a little wider than the chair, so when i: was brought within bounds there were afew soft folds np and down, which gave ita look of more case and restfulness than if it had been put plainly over the chair. SACHETS FOR PUREAU DRAWERS, One of the small luxuries of the day and one for which the soft silks are much used are the “They don’t even like them. Often they say that they ‘don’t like fancy French cooking; what they enjoy are plain home dishes.’ In short they are barbarians in matters gastro- nomic. Simple things are cheaper, too, and they save expense by not ordering anything that is elaborate, unless terrapin, which is de- manded to some extent by fashion, and of that they offer freqnently an insufficient supply. For economy’s sake they are apt to patronize » Peuuacship, Correspondence, Arithmetic, Lessons aud Commercial Law. Also courses ix Englisu, Accouctancy, Telegraphy, Shorthand Typewrituum, New furniture, heat and other diodern conveniences. | Seud for ire C.K. URNER, A. ear as a Busipesn Educator ih this city, . tthe faculty of ved the only Geld Medal awarded for rece aw : :diucation at the World's Pair beld tm Pariah SS Ree eer x 2 J ORWOOD INSTITUTE, pi 1407 Mi caterers of a lower grade, who supply terrapin | !4rge sachets to be put in every drawer of the 7 Binen ave, ‘Highland Terraces, stew nice and cheap, made out of those inter- | bureau, chiffonier or dressing table. This is | a21-6m. Mr and Mr«. WM. D. c ABELL, Principals. esting turtles called ‘sliders,’ . At receptions | such a pretty fancy that it bas become v Woes, MMEHCIAL SCHOOL, 407 E.CAP.BT, and teas the provisions are likely to be remar! popular, and aset of such sachets mal Jhorouch, successful and prosperous, ably slim. It is quite a usual thing on snch oc- casions to serve canned bouillon, tauch dilated, Tndcreed by those in attendauc ew methods; easy terms _Send for circular or call eyily os most welcome gift for any friend. India silk ix | perhaps more used for these than any other 412-3, ina superb samovar or some other elaborate | material, but other things can be used that are acu (axD DRAMATIC La pe . LOCUTION AND DKAMATIO ART. Yemel, instead of getting it from a purveyor | also vg sone in Senge As there are more | Xu Alro trace, Devortiwent, and ix ike ourselves. People drink the stuff smil-| people in this world to whom economy is an | Miattestury method. Leswout in-class ur private, ingly and then go away discussing the badness | object than to whom it is not Iwill suggest | 8 comatISS MAUD O. BECKWITE A, of it. Itis worth while, on the whole, if you | that for constant use the batistes that come in| oc31 15 12th at. nw, are going to entertain in any fashion, to do it | India silk designs will make as pretty sachets | > Well. Sometimes I go 80 far as to suggest to a | as one need desire. All the delicate coloring | Kjuocurion Axp Onartory. rich customer that she spend a little | andthe identical patterns are to be found in | MAKIXYN COLLEGE OF more and offer something better. But | the two fabrics, while there is no comparison th st. U.w.. near F. she is almost sure to say that what sho has orderedzis as good as certain other peo- ple supply, who, maybe, are much poorer than erself. So it happen that a positively good entertainment, well appoiuted and properly supplied, is the exceptional thing in Washing- ton. Persons who know what is what in the eating line are rare birds here now. Ounce ina while a customer comes to us and sa ““-T want yon to serve for me a dinner in the real old Washington style of long ago.” “We are charmed to receive such an order, and we know exactly how to fill it. The Wash- ington dinner of the old time was a very dif- ferent affair from the dinner of today. People were entertaining then who made a real study of the art that has since fallen into decay. Now has come an age of new wealth and vnigar display, when hospitality is rarely ad- ministered in the true sense of the word.” — ee - as to price. The simplest way of making them is the best. Athin layer of cotton batting is well sprinkled with sachet powder, the lining canght to this and the top bronght over the edges and hemmed to the lining. This is a quick and easy manuer of making them up. Little bows of ribbon, or full little rosettes of the heavy flax thgead, which is so silky in its appearance, are tacked on at intervals. A set of pink sachets has just been finished made of batiste with white dogwood blossoms in the natural si They are as pretty and attractive as can be, and the expense was a mere trifle, as well as the labor expended upon them, SUBAH AND OTHER SOFT SILKS, Surah is one of the silk materials that has long been a favorite and still holds its own. Small aprons of surah and other soft silks are so enticing in their looks that stout figures at once sigh for slim waists so as to array them- selves becomingly in such a pretty accessory to Forty-exbt-page catal CADEMY OF TH. ave., will reopen every facilit: CSINERS (00 hand D sta, n.W. and Counting House Training, bnwlish, send tor tliustrated catalogue free. HENIY C. PENCIL, LLB, Praucipal, Pris HOME MATTERS. asimple toilet, One of these little aprons can | FI Piece Sip tS, CEMONT PIANOS; THE enemas be made of black surah, with a deep hem at the | 20d action; elegaut new spriug stylen Lastallment, Every-Day Hints and Suggestions to lw HK. LSU bottom and a narrower one at the sides, feather- stitched with terra cotta silk. A fall of black lace makes a graceful finish at the bottom and at the top the apron is shirred onto a narrow, pointed yoke, ulso feather-stitched. Another of these housxewifely accouterments is of bright yellow India silk, plain in color. It is shirred at the waist with a watered ribbon of the same color run through the shirring and is hem- stitched on the sides and across the bottom, ae aes, yg ey a monthly payments, rent Pianos and Organs with Among the things that are pretty in them- | option.of 2 selves and worth keeping are the illustrations | ‘hause. allowing the full value therefor, Wealsohaves, of papers and magazines nowadays. Especially | “<?™:twent for tunine and repairing, and give careful is this true of the prints of celebrated pictures! We have we and reproductions of old portraits and minia- | this city tures, which are especi: interesting. The trouble is that these pictures accumulate 30 fast that they become troublesome after a little, unless some suitable place to keep them is pro- vided. Quite a capacions portfolio and one that would be an ornament in a room might be made from the music portfolios, to be bought at music stores. The covering might be made quite elaborate if one wishes and a little hand- some material or good painting or embroidery could not be better placed for display. The rounding back should be covered with plush, smoothly pasted ou. For the front cover a band of embroidery might be worked on the silk canvas of white or ecru. Either natural or conventional flowers would look well, and some etose work would give it an air of elaborateness quite becoming. Plash is perhaps the best material with which to cover the rest of the space after the embroidered band is applied, is can be pasted or glued and the plush fast- ened on in the same way. One of the tinsel Pr galoons would look well pasted over the joined | UNEQUALED IN TONE, ToL edges of the plush and canvas. The band can : be applied perpendicularly or horizontally, as one fancies, The outer edges should be brought over on the inside of the cover anda mate- rial—silk or artsatin—pasted on toauother thin- ner pasteboard and this glued to the portfolio, This song the ee paar Spumante on the manner of the silk an: n phot cases, now so popular. Such a portfolio, filled with retty wood cuts, prints from etchings and the Tike, is well worth looking at, es an at- tractive ornament ard often proves a resource for visitors’ amusement. BROCADED SILKS FOR COVERING. Handsome effects with much less trouble can be obtained by using the beantiful brocaded silks Practical Housewives. *° RZ RAKAUER” PIANOS “ARE OF St Hone, Workuaveniy and Darctalitge? Pipe callaud see them at KOHN'S TEMPLE OF MUSIC, 1200 G st, Finest Tuning and Kexulating. ja21. AGanrote or Hot Bowep Mink is recom- mended for a cough or sore throat. Cannots axp Tursirs should boil forty-five minutes when young; one hour in winter, Gnratyepd Woops shonld be, washed in cold tea and then after being wiped dry rubbed with linseed oil. Sirver Can ne Kerr Baicut ror Monras by being placed in an air-tight case with a good- sized piece of camphor. scutts Can Be Warmep to beas good as when just baked by placing them in the oven dry, covered closely with a tin, IrOxe Wisues to Coo. A Hor Disa in a hurry it will be found that if the dish be placed in a vessel full of cold, salty water it will cool far more rapidly than if it stood in water free from salt, A Boxe Hor Ligvrp may be safely poured into a glass jar or tumbler by first pufting a sil- ver spoon in the vessel. Be careful, however, thata draft of cold air does not strike the ves- sel while hot, Denicatezx Coxorep Goops of any kind shouldnever be washed without a salt water bath first, but care should be exercised in ref- erenee to materigls which are likely to shrink when immersed in water. Ir 1s Nor Atways Easy to start a fruit jar cover. Instead of wrenching your hands and bringing on blisters simply invert the jar and place the top in hot water for a minute. Then try it and you will find it turns quite easily.) Sitx Musr Never ze Inonep, as the heat takes all the life out of it and makes it seem stringy and flabby. If, however, you wish to press out old bits of silk and ribbon for fancy work, use an iron only moderately hot and aged two thicknesses of paper between that and e Leavers. We ~epresent five of the largest houses in the world, namely: Decker Bros., Weber, Fischer and Estey Piavos and Estey Orgaus. These famous instruments Buying on as large cas we do (being the largest Fisnoand Organ concern in the south) enables usto sell to our customers at the lowest possible prices and uy the most favorable terms, Do not think of buying or renting s Pisno cram Ongan before examining our splendid assortument of instriumeuts and getting our terms. SANDERS & STAYMAN, ay Artistic Sti in desiene 'DEGOKATIVE Aki, ‘Piauos for rent. “SECOND-HAND PIANOS. — A comprising alnwont every well tows make ia tbe country, in thorongh vepair, will be chose ‘aruree. SRESIACINDTCH ANT ogre ah Tr =~ Special “New EST jow prices aud in terina,which will be MONTHLY INSTALMENTS when Suogs Tuat ane Worn Reovurarty, if cared for, will last much longer than if neglected, When shoes are taken off they should be wiped with asoft cloth, and,after airing a little while, oiled or polished and put in a box by them: selves or a shoe bag. To Prerare Dzvitep Crass boila number of crabs and after carefully picking the meat add cracker or bread crumbs in the proportion of one tablespoonful of crumbs to two of the picked crabs, Season sharply with salt, black Pepper, cayenne and mustard; adda large lum of —< a ege, Nigries and enough fresh crsaui ts'asisten the erad and Parti pam cost of at Leto of i Ey