Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1890, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. G., FOUL WATERS MEET. Views on Rock Creek That Artists Never Paint. CESSPOOL 1N THE CITY. ‘The Cond ou fas Wrhhtets Eanes Seseammesro Freshet Lett the Creck Inside the City—Sunken Obstructions Which Form Pools of Sewerage. ——> OCK CREEK is a pretty name fora stream of water and the Rock creek that flows between Washington and orgetown is a very pretty stream— n places. Ont north of the city, where it tows along the bottom of a cool. shady falley, around wooded hills and through the site of the proposed zoological park, over huge bowlders and under great overhanging trees, it makes as charming a picture as one can ask to see. There are more pretty secluded spots along its banks than one would even suppose who has not followed it in its winding course toward the river and spent long after- noons among the shady retreats that skict ite dark pools and flashing rapids, This part of the story is a pleasant one to tell. But if any one is of the impression that Rock creek is u thing of beauty along its entire course, and that it pours its waters a pure, untainted *tream out into the muddy current of the Po- tomac, his disenchantment may be easy, but it will be complete. Let him walk along the Danks of the creek from the point Where it enters the city limts down to its mouth and he will sce some things he did not expect to see, and doubtless w rather not have seen. If he wishes to keep his pretty illusion about the nature of the creek let him not take the walk, for he cannot ly do both, IDGE, A Stan reporter spent an afternoon thread- ing bis way along the shppery, slimy banks of the stream from the P street bridge down to the river and back again; not a long walk, it is true, to occupy a whole afternoon, but it can not be done in much less time by one who is looking carefully for the natural beauties of - and for sights that are neither natu- atiful, Of the former there is none; of the latter there are as many ascan well be crowded into a walk of that length. It is nota pleasant walk. Pedestrians who take long ough the city streets or along coun- to study and enjoy the * mature or the work of man's hand ars earnastly urged not to take that walk along the bank of Rock creek. ‘They will not enjoy it. They will come back wishing they had not taken it and wondering wh: ndition of affuirs as they have seen is allowed to continue. For the stream is an ugly spot on an otherwise fair landscape. To be it by the mildest term that is ap- propriate one must say it is an eyesore, If it ets much Worse than it is now it will soon be- Come astanding menace to the bealth of the city. It isnot an easy matter to say who is to bixme for the present condition of affairs. Per- haps the fes at no one’s door, and it may ich is the fate of any stream of water lows throngh a city, and that it cannot be Prevented from becoming dirty, slimy and generally disreputable, A TYPICAL OBSTRUCTION, But whether any one is responsible or not the fact remains that the creek is nothing but a winding, sluggish, open sewer. into which flows not only all the refuse from neighboring bouses but a vast quantity of regularly drained- off city sewage, which is emptied into the creck by big brick sewers and then carried down to the river on its slow current or allowed to ac- eumulate around the many obstructions in the bed of the creek, When the stream was higher than it now is the mouths of these brick drains may have been below the water level. During the freshest last spring. however, the dam at the mouth of the creek that kept back the water and made it deep enough to float canal boats was carried away by the flood, thus low- ermg the water level several feet. Today these drains empty their loads of refuse in ili-smell- ing streams that fall to the creek below and are carried off on its surface, Starting at the Pstreet bridge and walking down stream one sees dr: and sewers on either side of the stream at very frequent in- tervals. Just below the bridge on the west side, in the rear of a number of small shanties, there is an open drain that discharges its con- tents some ten or fifteen feet above the creek. A rank growth of scrubby trees arch above it, and at a considerable distance it looks not un- hke a gracetal little waterfall as it dashes over a pile of bowlders. The charm disappears rapidly, however, as one approaches and sees the nature of the little torrent that is allowed te do its share in the pollution of Rock creek. ‘The place is ill smelling enough at this season of the year, What it would probably be daring a dry, hot spell of weather in midsummer is not apleasaat matter to think about. There are probably several dozen just such drains be- tween the upper bridge and the river. On the east bank, for instance, there ave two large d brick sewers quite close together, one just above the bridge and another immediately low. The one below the Lridge is a little back from the stream, coming out of the side of a bigh clay bank. From the point where the refuse falls to the current beyond there is quite a pool of almost stagnant and decidedly ili-smeling water. There is nothing but the current from the mouth of the sewer to keep it in motion toward the water of the creek. If the creek were a rapid, rushing stream, with force of current enongh to carry ail its refuse to the river below the matter would not be so bad perhaps. But such is not the case. The chaunel of the stream has apparently never been dredged oat or improved in the skgltest. Sunken canal boats, logs, rotten piles and rocks all do their full share in the work of backing up the water and retarding its pro- Asaresultall refuse in the stream is Likely to meet with obstructions in its way and be stopped in great eddies of foul water. A number of canal boats that were sunk during the last freshet now lie just where they sank snd several are well out toward midstream and are effective as dams and backwaters, In = number of places they have either deflected ‘the current or else narrowed it materially. A PRIVATE DRAIN. Upand down the stream public sewers and private drains of one sort or auother add their share to the slimy, Between the two P stroet sewers is a slaughter house perched up on the edge of the bank. From the killing room there is a long board drain leading di- rectly down the side of the bank, but discharg- ing its unsavory contents ata height of vix or eight feet above the stream. Down this big board pipe goes all the refuse of jaughter house thatcan be disposed of in that way. Tur Stak reporter. as he stood quite nearby and watched operations, by no means enjoyed the idea that all that was coming out of that pipe must go floating down the stream for all along its banks tosee and smell, It is nota pleasant thought. On the opposite side of the stream is a de- cidedly unsightly big pen, and somewhat further down are a number of stables along the edge of the bank with their great piles of refuse on the side of the stream and draining directly down into it. In fact one may see almost every class of more or less harmful objects on one side or the other of the creek, Just below the avenue bridge’ isan old canal boat, a rotten hulk, almost totally submerged, but offering a decided resistance to the current which it has deflected over against the east bank. It catches all the retuse that comes its way and has thus aueceeded in nerrowing the chanel at least one-half. Under the M street bridge the channel has gradually become filled up, so that the course of the water is greatly interfered with. Even smull sand boats can uo longer pass there. UNDER THE AVENUE BRIDGE. At the K street bridge there is no improve- ment to be marked. Just above it on the east side is another drain. In fact there are so many drains on both sides that it is hard even to keep track of them. Below the bridge 19 another canal boat lying on its side wp against the piers along the east bank, It is half under water and is filled with raud and decaying mat- ter. The banks underneath the bridge are covered with rubbish and refuse of ail sorts, The water along there. as one would naturally imagine. is anything but pleasant to look apon. In addition to the usual decorations one notices on the surface great patehes of color that may mean almost anything. but which come probably from dye works or else are the results of decaying vege Complaints are made by residents in the vicinity of the creek, by some even who live at # considerable dis tance from its banks, of the unpleasant odors that rise from the foul waters, and fears are br aber that the coming of warm weather will make the creek an element of great dan- ger to the health of the city unless some meas- ures are taken to remedy its unwholesome con- dition, ———— THE MEMBERS’ BOXES. All Kinds of Literature Sent Through the House Post Office. CRANKS WHO WANT REPRESENTATIVES TO READ THEIR PAMPHLETS—REPUTABLE WRITERS WHO WANT OPINIONS OF CONGRESSMEN—MATTER DISTRIBUTED FREE OF POSTAGE. “Put those in the members’ boxes” said an old man staggering up to the window of the House post office the other day with an immense bundle of pampiilets. “Put a book in every box. Besure yon don’t miss any.” “What are they?” asked the young man at the window. “We can’t take it unless it is something that the members are likely to want.” “Want? Why, man alive, they must have it. Of course they wantit. It is worth millions to them. Wa—nt it! Well, that’s good. Young man, do you know what this book is? No; I should say not or yon would not be asking if the members want it. Why what Lam giving them here for nothing they would give all the United States treasury for if they knew of it and could not get it any other way. Just let me tell you what it i He leaned forward and whispered something in the young man’s ear and then stepped back to give him room to ex- and his astonishment. “Yes sir, the brain! t is a treatise on the development of the brain—the expansion of the intellectual powers, the cultivation and ¢n- largement of the brain. When the members read that this Congress will be transformed from—well, an ordinary Congress to one of the most brilliant bodies of statesmen that ever assembled, even Mi will become a statesman of high rank. Want it? Why, mai the reputation of the nation depends on their having it at once!” The old man’s eyes were bright as he walked away. ‘The clerk tapped his forehead with his finger and laid the bundle aside for distribu- tion, DISTRIEUTED WITHOUT CosT. “Do you have many of that sort?” Tue Star reporter asked. “Well, yes; I think so!” was the reply. “You see they do not have to pay postage if they bring their books and things here to be distrib- uted in the building, and that encourages them, The members have their lives fairly bothered out of them by cranks who insist on sending them all sorts of tracts, books aud pamphlets, We try to curtail it as much as we can by re- fusing to put papers and packages in the boxes which we know the members do not want, but of course that discretion can be practiced only in a very limited way, and the members have agreat mass of matter to lug out of their boxes which they throw away as soon as they see what it is, Every man who has a hobby and knows how to write about it sends his circulars to Congress. Nearly every day some sort of crank circular or book is put in every box, Some of them come through the post office with postage paid and some are brought here in bulk by their authors and put in the boxes free of charge. The re- ligious enthusiast and temperance worker leave their tracts; the man who wants Congress to make an appropriation to enable him to square a circle or to prove that the moon is inhabited leaves his wise discourse in pamphlet form, The reformers of every shade of sanity leave their essays for the instruction of the memb in the philosophy of righteousness, There is a perfect deluge of crank newspapers with arti- cles markedin them. The boxes are filled to the top two or three times a day anda large part ofthe matter is thrown away as soon as received. Advertisements are often sent to all the members in various forms to attract their attention. But a large mass of the matter that is sent to all the members at one time relates to some crank affair, scientific or sentimental, Men who have discovered new theories. or men who have suggestions to make concerning the topics that are uppermost in congressional dis- cussion, women who would elevate the haman race, all sorts of hobby-riders help to swell the members’ mail. BOOKS SENT FOR REVIEW. “One thing I know will surprise you, Reputa- ble authors often send a copy of a new book they have just issued to each of the Represen- tatives and Senators for criticism. Sometnnes these books are accompanied with a letter asking that the recipient write to the author what he thinks of the work. A number of political works bave been received in this way, but probably more novels. When well-bound bocks are received the members generally accept them and often they write an acknowledgment of a complimentary sort after reading the book, The book in answer to “Looking Backward,’ en- titled ‘Looking Forward,’ was sent to all the members by the author or the publisher, with acircular letter asking for criticism. A'great many members responded after reading the “Agreat many of the standard magazines are sent to ail the members free of charge regu- larly. The Popular Science Monthly, the North American Review, Belford’s and many others of that class are sent to all the members whenever they have in them any political discussion or articles by prominent public men. Bancroft’s new history of Utah was sent to all the mem- bers. Most of the great metropolitan pay ail of those from the large western cities—are sent to members regularly free of charge. They get also a large number of weekly papers and little iodicals, and all sorts of trade journals and agricultural papers and papers published in behalf of cortain inverests,” By acollision yesterday on the Monon ronte near Mitchell, Ind., two men were killed, one fatally wounded and six injured. A passenger train on the Lake Shore ran into an open switch at Bellevue, Ohio, Thursdiy night and one man was killed four persons wounded. Astimatic Trovstes, PLeurisy Pars and In- flamed 1 broats are overcome and healed by Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant—for fifty years an sp- proved stand- y for all Coughs aud Colds, LEADERS IN SOCIETY. Distinguished Women from the Buckeye State. WIVES OF CONGRESSMEN. ‘The Family of Bepreventative Outh- waite—A Beautiful Woman of Noted Ancestry—Mr. Peabody's Munificence —Mre. Paguley—Judge Seney’s Wife. —_>— Written for Taz Evestno Star. HE state of Ohio during the past three decades has filled an impor- tant and much of that time a pre- eminent place in the higher social life of the seat of government. Three disti..,,uished sons of the buckeye state—Grant, Hayes and Garfield—have sat in the presi- dential chair and their wives have been the first ladies of the land. The beautiful daughter of Salmon P, Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and afterward Chief Justice of the United States, was a belle and « leader of society during the regimes of Lincotn and Johnson. In the executive, senatorial, judicial and represensative circles of the socinl life of the capital Ohio has always been conspicuous for its beantiful aud remarkable women, IN THE PRESENT ROLL OF social leaders Ohio is well represented. Mrs. Sherman is one of the two senior ladies in the personnel of the social life at the capital. In the sphere of the lower House of Congress the ladies of Ohio are also prominent, Among those who participate in the gayeties of the season are Mrs, Butterfield of Cincinnati, Mrs, Boothman, Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs, Cooper, Mrs. Outhwaite, Mrs, Pugsley, Mrs, Seney, Mre, Grosvenor, Mrs, Morey, Mrs. Ezra Taylor, Mrs, Joseph D, Taylor and Mrs. Thompson, Mrs, Bek iaiey: who is an invalid, stil preserves some of her former beauty. She no longer ap- pears in society. The devotion of her husband, chairman of the committee on ways aud means and the leader on the floor of the house, is one of the touching phases of the quiter official life at the capital. ety MRS, OUTHWAITE, The capital constituency of the state of Ohio may well feel proud of its representative in the social world of the constituency of the whole people gathered at the national capital. The wite of Joseph H. Outhwaite, who occu- i agprominent place in fashionable life, was Miss Ellen R. Peabody in her maiden days. She was born in the historic valley of the Mus- kingum near Zanesville. Her father, Jeremiah LD. Peabody, a banker, was a brother of George Peabody, the philanthropist of two continents and one of the most honored bankers of the British metropolis. Jeremiah Peabody. as was his distinguished brother, was born at Danve! now Peabody, Mass. When grown to man’ estate, like many other sons of New England, Jeremiah went west and settled at Zanesville, Ohio. George, at eleven, a country clerk, about the same time went south and settled at Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, and began asa clerk in his Uncle John Peabody's store. Through her father, therefore, Mrs. Outhwaite is descended from an English family of dissenting notions of religion and civil liberty, Francis Peabody, its representative in those distant days, having settled in the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1635, When Mrs. Outhwaite was quite young her mother died, Her father sent her back to New England to an aunt, Mrs, Russell, her father’s sister, who resided near the ancestral home, Here she passed her childhood and girlhood days, receiving a careful New Eng- land training amid the interesting associations of the paternal progenitors of her family. Upon reaching the finishing period of her maiden days Miss Peabody returned to her father’s home in Ohio and was placed in the Putnam female seminary, opposite Zanesyilie, where she graduated. : MEETING HER FATE. It was while attending school that Miss Pea- body met Joseph H. Outhwaite, a handsome youth, thena pupil in the Zanesville high school, in which he was afterward a teacher, In 1870, while practicing law at Osceola, the young ‘attorney returned to Zanesville and made Teabody his bride. A year later he left his distant western home, returning to Zanesville, and was soon after made prosecut- ing attorney of his county. After filling vari- ous places of trust Mr. Outhwaite entered the national arena as a Represeutative in the Forty- ninth Congress, and his beautiful and enter- taining wife soon became one of the favorites in Washington social life. Their two sons, Singleton Peabody and Charles Peabody Outh- waite, the former attending the Columbian preparatory and the latter the public schools, are fine lads. Mrs. Outhwaite is a lady of queely presence witha peculiarly tender and expressive face. She bears a strong resem- blance to the Peabody branch of her family, and particularly the facial expression of benev- olence which is familiar to the world in the pictures of her uncle, the great philanthropist. A DISTINGUISHED ANCESTOR, Mrs, Outhwaite recalls with great pleasure the noble traits of *her distinguished uncle, which are also so well known to the world. Having settled in Georgetown us a boy in 1814 he becamé the business partner of Elisha Riggs in the dry goods trade. Removing to Baltimore a year after he established branches in New York and Philadelphia, In 1837 he founded the banking house of George Peabody & Co, in London and began his march to fortune and the deeds of munificent charity which carried him to the unrivaled point of fame in the walks of philanthropy. He was always an ardent lover of his country. He established in 1851 the famous 4th of July dinners in London, the first of which was attended by the duke of Wellington and to which the queen sent her own and Prince Albert's portraits to decorate the hall. His numerous benefactions to his native city and institutions in his native land are known. His most princely gifts were $2,000,000 for the benefit of the poor of London and $3,500,000 for the promotion of the educa- tion of the youth of the south. For the latter deed the United States government gave him its thanks and voted him a gold medal. The queen also in 1867 offered him a baronetcy or the grand cross of the order of the Bath. But he declined both, Being asked for her majesty what gift he would accept he replied: “A letter from the queen of England which I may carry across the Atlantic and deposit as a memorial of one of her most faithful sons. The gueen com- plied in a letter acknowledging his more than princely munificence and accompanied the let- ter with traits of herseif, the prince con- sort and the prince of Wales. A bronze statue was also raised to him in London in 1869, His death occurring in London, services were celebrated in Westminster Abbey and his re- mains in deference to his wish to be buried in his native soil were brought to America in the Monarch, the finest frigate of the royal navy, and were received by the American fleet, com- manded by Admiral Farragut. Gladstone said of him that he taught how a man may be the master of his fortune and not its slave. The hilanthropist, who never married. after all his Pountital liberality, left $5,000,000 to be dis- tributed sce =e relatives. Mrs, Outhwaite, the niece of great benefactor, iss charm- ing representative in Washington social life of the family blood of this foremost of American citizens. trict of southern Ohio during the two Con- gresses in which her distinguished husband has figured as a member of the House, has been prominently identitied with the highest circles of fashionable life. She is the ry roe of Judge John Winston Price, a native of over county, Va, He removed to Obio as a young man and married Anne McDowell. a daughter of Judge John Adair McDowell, cousin of Gen. Irvin MeDowell, one of the military heroes on the Union side in the war, and niece of Lyne Starling. the founder of Columbus. the ital city of Ohio. The Prices, the McDowells and the Starlings are among the historic names of the ureat commonwealth between the Ohio river and Lake Erie. JACOB 3. PUGSLEY is a Duchess county New Yorker by nativity, & Miami university graduate by education, distinguished member of the Ohio bar by pro- fession, a state legislator in both branches and a Representative in public experience. In 1866 he made the beautiful Miss Cornelia Price his bride. Her grace of manner, cultivation of mind and social accomplishments made her greatly admired when young in the social life of her surroundings, and in the career of her husband. a gentleman of scholarly attainnients, she has been an ornament to a career of promi- nence in state and national affairs, Miss Nannie Price Pugsley, who bas just entered society, assists in the elegant drawing rooms of her mother. She is one of the most entertaining young ladies at the capital this season, ‘MRS, SENEY. One of the most affable ladies in the Obio circle at the national capital is the wife of Rep- resentative George E. Seney. Mrs, Anna Walker Seney is the daughter of Joseph Walker. anative of Walkersville, near Frederick City, Md. Here Mr. Walker received his first lessons in life and then, as a young man, went to Ohio, directing his steps toward the fertile valley of the Sandus! Here he established himself at the flourishing town of ‘Tiffiu. He entered mercantile pursuits and rose to a high place in the public esteem, HER ANCESTORS, Mrs, Seney’s mother was Rebecea Hedges, a daughter of Hon. Josiah Hedges, a native of Virginia, Mr. Hedges was a man of enterprise and ability. As a young man of twenty he left the old dominion to see fame and fortune in the then northwest. In 1825 he purchased a large tract of land on the west bank of the Sandusky, about midway between Sandusky at the mouth on Lake Erie and Upper San- dusky at the headwaters of that picturesque stream, Upon this body of land now stands the city of Tiffin. Mr. Hedges died in 1558, leaving a large estate to his children, In this city, with which the names of both her parents Were so conspicuously identified, Mrs, Seney was born. She received a fine education at College Hill ladies’ seminary, near Cincinnati. Mrs. Scney is the last of ber family, her father having died when she was but a giri and her mother in 1881, THE SENEY-WALKER WEDDING, In January, 1879, Judge Seney .and Miss Walker were married. Mrs. Seney entered the social life of Washington with the beginning of the Forty-eighth Congress, in December. 1853, and has been one of the most amiable and attractive members of the circle of ladies of the Representatives’ families, Her husband’s prominence on the bench of Ohio gave bim a conspicuous place in the committee personnel and deliberations of the House. JUDGE SENEY was born in Uniontown, Pa., but when an in- fant was taken by his parents to Ohio, they having settled at Tiffin. This able Representa- tive belongs to Maryland revolutionary stock. His grandfather, Joshua Seney of Queen Anne county, on the Eastern Shore, was a member of the Maryland house of delegates; also of the last session of the continental and a Repre- sentative from Maryland in the first and second Congresses under the present Constitution. He resigned to accept a judgeship, but three years after surrendered that bigh place to run tor Congress against the federalist candidate. He war elected,but died before Congress met from over-exertion in the campaign, which was one of the most hotly contested in the history of Maryland politics. Joshua Seney was a Mary- land elector in 1792 on the ticket which chose George Washington President of the United States for a second term. Judge Seney’s grand- mother was a daughter of that heroic dgure in the naval battles of the revolution, Commodore James Nicholson of Chestertown, Kent county, Maryland, and a sister of the wite of Albert Gallatin of Pennsylvania—Presidents Jette: son's and Madison's Secretary of the Treasury. Judge Seney’s father was private secretary to Secretary Gallatin, Deb, KR. K ——-____ FOUR INDIANS WITH THE GRIP. What Chief Ar-ke-ke-ta Says About the Way in Which Red Men Live, Four lugubrious-looking Indians were crowded yesterday afternoon into a sofa in the Senate antechamber, with their legs stretched out upon the carpet. Two of them were fast asleep, a third bad his jaw tied up with a hand- kerchief bandage, and the fourth seemed barely able to tell a Svan writer that he and his friends were chicts of the Otoes aud Mis- souris in Indian territory. He further ex- plained that they had come to Washington to tell the House and Senate committees on In- dian affairs that they wanted their incomes paid quarterly instead of semi-annually and to negotiate for the sale of their remaining lands, Unfortunately, upon arriving in the east they had been attacked by the intluenza and well- nigh incapacitated for work. The chief, who explained that his name signified “He-who- stays-by-you,” remarked incidentally that he found life in Washington a beast of a bore, DOESN'T LIKE WASHINGTON, “If I could get my money,” he said plain- tively, “I would go back to live on the prairies and never come here any more.” “What do you mean by your money?” asked the newspaper man. “Why, the cash paid us for our lands, you know. is not given to usetall. It is kept by the government in the treasury and all we ac- tually receive is a life interest in it at so much per cent semi-annually. We are looked upon, you sce, as wards of the nation, and unlike ordinary wards we never come of age. Uncle Sam has several thousand dollars of my own money pee for land sold by me, but I cannot getit. You observe a strictiy paternal control is exercised over us Indians just as if we were children. For instance, eminent medical an- thorities have declared that no medicine is so good for the grip ax a dose of alcohol in moder- ation, But we ure not able to procure spirits for the simple reason that no dealer would dare sell it to us. Have you any notion what the penalty is for selling liquor to au Indian? THE RED MAN'S WEAKNESS, “T have heard that it is a punishable of- fense.” “Ten years’ imprisonment; that ia all. A Pennsylvania avenue saloon keeper who should sell to me this afternoon a glass of beer would render himself by that simple act liable to a term of imprisonment as Tong as many con- vieted murderers receive. He might plead ignorance of the law, but that would be no excuse. The theory is, as I have implied, that the Indian is achild, Also, he -has @ natural inclination for liquor, aud, once drunk, he may do all sorts of dreadtul things. Usually the bar keeper caught in such an offense will claim thathe mistook the Indian for a negro; but that apology will not avail him very far in court. It is a rare thing for any saloon keeper to be brought ito court for such an offense for the simple reason that no Indian will ever betray a man who sells him liquor. Qut in the territory you will often see an Indian drank, but he will never tell where he got his rum.” ‘THE WAY THEY Live, “How do you live out there?” “We Otoes and Missouris live in houses, like yourselves, and so do the Sioux and Osages, You see, wear a dress like your own, but the Osage beople wear blankets even yet. “The Fox and Sacs Indians wear blankets and live in tents. The Caws wear blankets also, but live in houses. The Paw-paws wear blankets and live sometimes in houses and sometimes in than any of others; ve farms like the homesteads of the white folks and cule totes hen th deel onscernged wi were it to live in houses, did not the to Sar arnt SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1890-TWELVE PAGE MARRIAGE MISTAKES. Why Many Young Men are Shy of Matrimony. WARNED BY EXPERIENCE. A Young Man Unable to Become Ac- quainted With a Society Girl Before jhe Weddiug—The Mistake Discovered When too Late, —_—_—__ ~ EOPLE—particalarly elderly ladies— |irequently ask me why I do not marry,” remarked Toodles at the {oY Meridian club the other night, “They “You are not rich, but then you are in cir- cumstances sufficiently good to warrant your taking a wife. It really doesn’t cost any more for a man like yourself to support a family than to live as a bachelor, Think of all the pretty girls in society here who would make charming helpmeets, Remember, too, how few men there are here who are available a8 husbands, How can you, who are generally regarded by the mammas as a satisfactory parti, hold aloof in the market matrimonial?” A MARRYING MAN'S VIEWS. “Now, all this is very pleasing and flattering, of course. But the old ladies, whe always seem more eager about things matrimonial than any other people in the world, don't quite nnder- stand my position in the premises, [am not averse to marrying; if | have reached the age of twenty-nine without becoming a Benedict, it has not ‘been through any indisposition on my part to lead some fair maid to the altar. On the contrary, I am decidedly by instinct a marrying man, Bachelorhood never could have any permanent attractions for me. You hear ® greatdeal of talk about the freedom of bachelor life, but any sort of existence that is altogether for one’s self gets sort of stale after awhile. Besides, I have never done at for my living, owing to the misfortune of hav- ing had an old aunt who left me JUST ENOUGH TO LIVE ON when she died, and when one tries to make amusement @ business it is apt to pall after a while, The club is pleasant, when you drop into it now and then; but you can’t live there and find it enjoyable. Lam fond of parties; but society as an occupation fatigues me ex- tremely. I may get my meals at the most ex- pensive places in town; but they have a res- taurant flavor and I get so tired of them that I don't feel like cating at all. Once uponatime I knew a mau very mall waa feeling in this matter very much as Ido, used habitually to neglect taking his breakfasts and dinners; he was a busy man and was always apt to have some- thing he preferred to do rather than bother to go toa restaurant or his club and order from the bill of fare. The result was that he became affected with a painful and incurable disease, attacking the lining membrane of his stomach, which the physicians said they had never met with before save in the cases of very poor eople who had been compelled to starve for long periods, No—what I want isa home and some day I inean to have one.” FINDING THE GIRL. “Well, you don’t find any difficulty in di covering a girl who will have you, I suppose said Tar Star reporter to whom Toodles was talking. “I don't think I should have much trouble in persuading some girl to secept, me * yawned Toodles, “although [am not by any means of the opinion that { could take my pick. Men are not, I believe, 80 conceited im that way as the women appear to suppose. Young ladies are very apt to imagine that men in society go about with the notion that they have only to throw the handkerchief and that they are being eagerly fished for on every hand. I don't think that isso; onthe contrary, men, unless they happen to be consummate. fops, are usually rather diffident in such affairs. They may have a confidence more or Jess justified in their success with a particular girl; but, asa rule, they are very far from imagining that they can have any article in petticoats they want for the asking. ‘There are two or three girls in Wash- ington who, I think, would marry me, and three or four others whom I admire very much but should not feel at all sure of. Doubtless I should ask one of them to be mine if it were not that I am afraid.” THE WAY ONE MEETS HER, “And why, pray?” ‘imply on account of the matrimonial ex- periences of my friends—formerly as bachelors my intimates—some of which bave in various ways reached my knowledge. The trouble is that aman in society cannot possibly, under ordinary circumstances, obtain any real ac- quaintance with the girl he marries until after the knot is tied and he is bound for life. How can he secure any real knowledge of her? He never sees her save when she is on exhibition, in the literal sense of the word, She is always, when in his view, looking her best, dressed in her best and assuming her best behavior. If she has any faults, physical or moral, they are carefully covered up. She is in the market and her best side is turned uppermost, just as is the case with an apple on a fruiterer’s stand which 1s fair to look upon until turned over. ‘Te costumes she is seen in are always lovely and becoming—they are a part of the garnisli- ing necessary to render her uttractive, Ln short, the man who wooes her knows not the real girl at ail, but only something in her outward hike- ness, which may be and too frequently is a counterfeit.” SMALL MEANS OF INFORMATION, “But he can always learn from her friends what she is like.” “Hardly. Usually her friends and yours—we are supposing a case where they are apt to be the same—are not actually aware that your in- tentions are serious until the engagement has been announced and it is too late. But in no event, if they supposed you actually epris of the young woman, would auy of them be likely tocome and speak to you against her. It would seem too like malice—of a sort apt to re- coil upon themselves. No. if you venture into anything”of that sort. pust do it alone and on your own responsibility; nobody is going to help you. As for the girl’s family, they will certainly not enlighten you as to any weak- nesses of hers, If she is really objectionable they will be the more 2axious to represent her favorably, in order to yet her off their hands, You may always expect them when you are esent to appear very fond of her. If there ts in the family history— particularly if there actual skeleton in the closet—you will not hear of it from them, at any rate not until AFTER YOU ARE SAFELY MARRIED. “Supposing that there are any little domestic disagreements, care is taken that you shall not witness them, Everything is made as attractive as possible outwardly. You behold the young woman surrounded by all sorts of luxuries, which cannot fail to gratify the senses; you see her always lovely and sweetly dressed; she is seemingly beloved on all sides, and you fall into | the trap set and baited for you as innocently as ayoung mouse nibbles at a piece of toasted cheese that will spring the snare and shut him off from liberty forever, You propose and no time is lost by your fiancee in notilying as wide a circie as possible of her frends of the fact of ber engagement. Tuen you are a hopeless captive, even supposing that you desire to get out of it. As au honorable man you cannot withdraw, If youhave made a mistake you must abide by it, no matter what the sacrifice, It is likely, however, that your delusion wiii be satisfactorily kept ‘up—supposing that you | have been deluded—until the marriage is ac- complished. Nobody probably will come to you and say: NEXT THE MARRIAGE, “You have made a great mistake, Have you never heard what a frightful temper your fiancee has, how she threw all the ink stands within her reach at her school teacher on one occasion and bow violently she quarrels with her friends? Do you not know that she is rather fast and an inveterate gossip?" “No one will be likely to bring you any such information, and if they did you would not be- ve it. Everything you find as charming as ible at the home of your bride that is to be. ‘ou are caressed by the family, made much of and generally treated like the spoiled child of the household. Finally you are married. All our friends—particularly those for whom you tere been br more expensive weddit resents than you could afford during the last few years—send you more costly gifts of a simi- lar nature than most of them can afford in re- same air and manner that originally made her 80 attractive to you. But when you see her alone, she is likely to be for most of the time ina slouchy wrapper and in rather a bad humor not infrequently. In the morning she lies in bed until noon, with her bair done w in curl-papers, and reads the latest Frenc’ novels, which you discover, to your regret, are | her only literary passion. ‘Instead of partak- ing of the delightful homelike breakfasts you had previously figured to yourself, with your bride in a dainty gown presiding sweetly over the coffee urn, you find yourself compelled to take in s comtortiess sort of way such things asthe servants may offer you before you go | down town to your office. After a while you jearn that the only way to avoid annoying ex- hubitions of temper on your wife's part is to refrain from disputing anything with her aud to let her have her own way. BER LAST RESORT, if you do otherwise, 1s to appeal to her mother, who makes no bones whatever about interfer- ing in your domestic affairs with advice and otherwise, It is astonishing. you find, how that formerly agreeabie old lady has changed since you became her son-in. Partly on account of the alteration you do not visit he house very often, but on those occasions that gradually grow rarer you have a chance to ob- serve something of the inside works of the household which were not exposed to your view in earlier times. To begin with you find that there is agreat deal of squabbling going on there, Bickering and quarreling at the tabl form a considerable part of the daily cou tion around the beard, and it is now thing for members of the family to re from speaking to one another for weeks and even months. All this was carefally hidden from you before, but now that you have joined the family circle it is no longer con- sidered worth while to make any disguise in your presence, Somewhat to your astonish- ment you discover that your father-in-law has a habit of taking somewhat more than is good for him every evening and of muking things lively in an alcoholic way at home. ‘Lhe of the household manifest a disposition to bor- row money from you on all occasiuns, which they have not the slightest intention of pay back. If you object mildly to such repentec draits upon your purse, they say that you are a hog and express surprise among their friends that their sister should ever have accepted such a mean squirt fora husband, Altogether you do not find married life pleasant.” LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. BI “But you don’t call that a fair view of married life as it is likely to be found?” ‘No—only as one may possibly find it if be marries a girl whom he meets in society and cannot really know anything of until it is too late. There are plenty of sweet and lovely girls to be met with who would make any man happy. And that is why I regret that it isn’t possible to know @ young woman better before one marries her, 80 that one might be more reasonably sure of not drawing a blank in the lottery. For myself, as 1 said, I am afraid to make the venture, even though I may fairly call myself a marrying man,” JUST A WORD FROM SUSAN B. Miss Anthony Tells About Her Banquet and the Progress of the Cause. “The banquet to be given in my honor this Saturday night is in celebration of my seven- tieth birthday,” said Miss Susan B, Anthony to aSrar reporter. “It may also be considered asa festivity marking a point of great succ and prosperity in the woman's suffrage move- ment, Never have we been so far ahead as now, and my comrades in the cause think this a jnst occasion for celebrating. We expect to accomplish a good deal during the present se: __ EDUCATIONAL _ IN WASHINGTON. DE DORIFZ'S METHOD IS sea, ™ M Are best pro: fs Rapid jTogrese and entity satisfaction of peak ere Toa ‘Those desiring to 516 Liu ow. French sbould eall be. FIFTEENTH ST IS8FS KEK! 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Of course we don ON AND Di. expect to get our bills passed, but | Sratcstury metho they will doubtless receive more fa- | cularcoutsining terms and 1 riraton tree, vorable recognition than hitherto, Senator} 4.9) Mins MALD D. bk tne ore Bluir ot few Hampshire and Iepresentative | —°© = J Baker of New York are to make themselves r : i sponsible in the upper and lower houses re- Execonox A posed sixteenth amendment to the Constitution reason of color, Supplementary to this, also, to amend the enforcement act so that it sho render illegal any attempt to pre vidual from voting on account of color or scx, and another making it the of the govern- ment to protect women in their right to vote for Representatives to Congress in all states,” A REAL SURE-ENOUGH ComMITTES. your own now, Miss Anthony.” “Yes; that is movement like ours, We not only ha mittee but a real committee room of our ¢ with ‘woman suffrage’ in big gilt capital let on the outside of the door. Oh, we are gett along, but it takes a long time to educate pub- lic opinion in a matter like this. Sooner or later we shall obtain what we seek—nam equal suffrage with men. Already the territory of Wyoming—svon to become a state—has adopted a law as part of its constitution giv- ing females the full ballot in everything. In Kansas we have municipal suffrage. and in fit- teen other states we enjoy suffrage in the di- rection and management of schools, At present we are sending out hundreds of thousunds of circulars and speeches in favor of woman suf- frage all over the state of South Dakota, which is shortly to decide whether or not women are to have a voice in affairs.” NO SQUABBLE AT ALL, “Flas there not been a break recently in the woman suffrage ranks: thing of serious moment. Some little disagreement was occasioned by a disposition on the part of some women inter nt to resent what they pression on the purt of the church in not per- mitting our sex to share in the priestly and other functions controlling religion as it is taught, But the difticulty was not very serious and there is no breach in our ranks at present, We are marching steadily on to the victory which is sure to come sooner or later. It is sunply a question of time.” Saturday Smiles. “When I drink much I can’t work, and soI let it alone.” ‘The drinking?” “No, the working.” —Germantown Telegraph. Rosenbaum (the elder)—“My cracious, Abie; don't study so ‘dt, or you vill ruin your speg- dacles.”— Puck, Fond Mother—“Ralphie, you have been quar- reling again with your sister. Be aman. You must gi up everything to her, Will you promise’ Ralphie (eyeing his first trousers apprehen- ‘ 3m." —Philadelphia Press. sively) —"'Ye. Ob, for the good old pie Ub. for the old-time du Ob, for the Indian Ub, for the steak that yore, ‘hi a bake der and true, Kearney Enterprise Alucky man: A man who marries a widow whose first husband was mean to ber.—Minne- sota Pioneer, is your job permanent?” “i should say it was, I'm secretary of a committee that is raising money to build @ monument.”—New York Sun, Corn bread when I'm b: . Whisky when Pm dey,” Greenubacks when I'm uy Idin, Heaven w —Louisvitle Post, “I see your friend, Misa Edmunds, has been getting married; did she do well?” “No, miserably; her presents were of a very interior quality.”— Tine. Manufacturer—“Well, have Ys yet thought of a name for our new corset? Foreman—“We might call it ‘Haste.’ Haste makes waist, you know.”—Drake's Magazine, ‘The coat docs not always make the man, but it frequently breaks him.—Time, “Why is Dr, Poundish so down on the Sun- day papers?” 7 “Didu’t you hear? 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