Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1890, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTO D.C. SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1890—TWELVE PAGES. 7 NEW ENGLAND DAMES Brilliant Women in Congressional Circles, ene eee THE WIVES OF LEGISLATORS. Interest Sketches of Historic Fam- illes—Facts About Congressmen From Dewn East-How They Married and Who Their Brides Were, ——--_— Written for Tae Evextvo Stam 0 SECTION of the Union presents a more churacteristically representative body of men in the House of Repre- New England del- twenty-sixRepre- Rentatives from the five New England states sentatives than the egation. Among th twenty-five were born in the United States, twenty-four in New England and twenty-one in the states which they represent, Mr. Morse of Massachusetts, who was born in Indiana, returned to that state with his parents whenachild and now represents the district of his family kinsman, John Quincey Adams. Mr. Greenhaige was born in England, but was too young when he left there to know any other country than the United States, and of a similar character were the circumstances of the birth and childhood of Wm. W. Grout, a native of the province of Quebec. Representa~ tives Russell of Connecticut is a native of Maa- sachusetts and Wallace of Massachusetts was born in New Hamp-hire. The ladies of the New England delegation, it is also a remarkable fact, represent in their family relations the best olood of the colonial, revolutionary and constitutional epochs of their sectiop of the country and in their family his- tory reviv interesting facts and associa~ tions conn d with sti nd national events. In the geographical procession of the states of the Union Mame leads the way. and it is an interesting coincidence that one of her dis- tinguished sons should again occupy the first place in the gift of the House. The interesting wife of the Speaker has already been the subject of an entertaining sketch in Tue Star. MUS, ROUTELLE. The wife of Charles Addison Boutelle, chair- men of the committee on naval affairs, is as popular among the ladies in social as her hus- band is among men in congressional circles, 3irs. Boutelle, who was Miss Elizabeth Hods- don, was born in Exeter, Maine, but when she «as nine years of age her father removed to Bangor, the commercial metropolis of the state. It was here that she received her education, graduating at the Bangor high school. Her father, Gen. J. L. Hodsdon. was adjutant gen- eral of the state of Maine during the war, which led to another change of family residence to Augusta, In his young manhood Mr. Bontelle followed in the footsteps of his father asshipmaster. In 1862. having returned froma long voyage of hairbreadth escapes from confederate priva- teers. Mr. Eontetle entered the navy and was mehtioned in official reports and promoted for gallant services. He retired trom the service in 3866. and the same year made Miss Hodsdon his wife. the ceremony taking place at Augusta. Mrs. Boutelle made ber debut among the la- dies of congressional circles during the first oficial season of the Fortr-cighth Congress in 1883 and bas cach season since been prominent in social circles. She is a pronounced blonde, with an unusually pleasing expression of coun- tenance and gentleness of manner. Her three daughters unite the handsome features of the father and mother. Miss Grace, who is in so- ciety. 16 an exceptionally beautifal young lady and as pleasing in her ways as she ie attractive in — She made her debut during the so- cial gayeties of 1588. Her two younger sisters, also very pretty girls, are in their early teens aud im school, ‘MRS. DINGLEY. ‘The name of Nelson Dingley, jr.. the Repre- sentative of the Lewiston district, has been as- sociated with journalisin, politics and public service since 1856. Mrs. Dingley, who was Salome McKenney, daughter of a public- spirited citizen of Auburn, Me., anda jeweler by ocenpati>:. has all the grace and exper!- ence to be ac guired at the capital as wife of a jegislator and publ speaker and in the sphere of presiding lad, of the state executive house- hold. At the beginn «¢ of the Garfield-Arthur inistration Mr. Dingley entered Congress Mrs, Dingler the # world of Washing- Duriag the interval since she has been ton. assorinted with the fashionable gayeties among a select circle of intimate lady friends. Her daughter Edith, who is tinishing her studies, is a very bright young lady, her gifts tending to astrong inteliectuality. Mrs. Dingley’s four sons are prominent in their respective spheres of activity; one of them, who has succeeded his father in journalism, also manifests his genius tor politics, MRS. MOORE. Representative and Mrs. Owen C. Moore of Nashua, N.H., made their entrance into Wash- ington life congressionaily and socially with the opening of the Fifty-first Congress, Mrs. Moore. who was Miss Nancy W. Thompson, was born and edu din Holderness, one of the most picturesque post hamlets in the gran- ite state. Her father. Lieut. John H. B. Thomp- son, and her four brothers served in the army | daring the late war. One of the latter. in the third New Hampshire regiment, served in the Yort Royal expedition with uoticeabie bravery, but afterward succumbed to the fatal inroads One of her brothers haa recent! ‘he office of secretary of state of New upshire. 160 Miss Thompson became the wife of time a printer. In 1869 he Nashua still owns. and Las filled various important public positions, including seven terms in the two houses of the state legislature. Mra, Moore's mother. Charlotte Baker, belonged to one of the earliest femilies which moved up from Massachusetts aud occupied the region which represents the varied industrial activity of the state. Miss Cornelia G. Moore, a graduate of the Nashua high school, assists her mother im the social duties of the Washington season. She is bright im conversation and attracts — ee # Green mountain state plays no part in the social activities of the pranes season in the congressional circle, FROM MASSACHUSETTS, The son of Judge Julius Rockwell, a Repre- sentative in Congress, 1842-51, and United States Senator, 1853-55, succeeding Edward Everett, is the senior member, officially, of the Massa- chusetts delegation. Deacon William Rockwell, the first of the family in America, arrived in the colony of Massachusetts bay in 1630 on the first ship of the Winthrop fleet, and after seven years’ residence at Dorchester removed to East Windsor. Coun, Hix widow married Matthew Gran’ recorder of the colony. Among ber degeend- .ts was Ruth Rockwell Hunting- dou, an ar. cstor of Gen, U. 5. Grant. MRS, ROCKWELL. The wife of Francis A. Rockwell, the living head of this family, was Miss Mary Gilbert Davis, daughter of Heury G. Davis of Pitts- field, one of the leading merchants of the Telegraph, which he | romantic Berkshire region of Massachusetts. She was educated at the noted seminaries of Pittsfield. On both sides she is descended from families of central Massachusetts who trace their progenitors back to 1630. Rev. Dr. John ‘Todd, her relative, made the last prayer when the golden spike was driven uniting the two Pacific railroads and completing an iren high- way across the continent, In 1873 Miss Davis married Mr. Rockwell, then a oa justice of the state district court. In 184 they entered the social life of the national capital, having previously enjoyed the gayeties of the legisla- tive circles in both branches at the state capi- tal. The main pride of Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell is their six fine boys and young daughter. ‘MRS. HENRY CABOT LODGE. Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, one of the most noted naval heroes of the late war, pessed many years of his life on the active and retired list of the navy at Washington. His daughter Anna, who was born in Cambridge, Mass., her father’s native place, began her education there and finished and made her debut on the social stage at Washington. Her father entered the navy in 1823, having per- | formed much important hydrographic duty and scientific and mathematical work at the head of the Nautical Almanac. His most important serv- ices, however, were on the Miss:ssippi river as flag officer of the flotilla which destroyed the confederate fleet of eight iron-clads and rams below Fort Pillow.in one hour drove the enemy outof the fort, three days later captured or destroyed all the confederate gun boats and took possession and joined Admiral Farragut in his earlier operations against Vicksburg. In 1862, while chief of the bureau of navigation, and in 1865, as superintendentof the naval ob- 'y. Admiral Davis lived in Washington. | Having Hoated his admuiral’s flag in command of a fleet for a several years’ cruise, he returned to the capital in 186i, where he resided with his family until his death in 1877. It was in 1871 that Miss Davis married Mr. Lodge at her old home in Cambridge. groom had graduated that year with high hon- ors from Harvard college. The first five years of wedded happiness was mingled with the rou- tine mental toil of student at the Harvard law | school and admission to the Suffolk bar. Mrs. Lodge was prominent in social circles of Boston while her husband was assisting in formulating statutes in the Massachusetts leg- islature and returned to Washington to enter the social life of the capital in 18587 as wife of one of the youngest and most brilliant mem- bers of the House of Representatives. Ou ber mother’s side Mrs, Lodge comes from distinguished congressional stock. Her mater- nal grandfather was Elijah H. Mills, a member of the House of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses, 1815-1819, during the Presidencies of Madison and Monroe, and the Senate, 1820- 1827, during the terms of Monroe and the younger Adams. Mra. Lodge im returning to Washington renewed her enjoyable relations with her old friends, and has been an ornament to the distinguished gayeties in which she is ever an agreeable participant. ‘MRS. N. PL BANKS. One of the most interesting figures in the lower House of Congress is Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks. Among the historic ladies in the social life of the capita! Mrs, Banks also holds a prominent lace, She was Miss Mary Palmer and was rn at Hanover Four Corners on the famous peninsula of Cape Cod. Her father was a ship builder and turned out some of ths cele- brated whalers and clippers of his days. Her mother was a Miss Turner, of another early family of the cradle of the colony. Mr, and Mrs. Banks were married in 1846. During the long interval since Mra. Banks has figured socially amid the most interesting events of the century's history. She was prom- inent among the ladies of the legislative cir- cles at Boston in 1549-52. She entered the cir- cle of congressional ladies in 1853. She pre- sided over her husband's household when peaker, 1855-7, and afterward became _pre- siding lady of the gubernatorial household of | the old bay state. 1558-60, During the speaker- ship of her husband Mrs. Banks introduced the practice of holding general receptions. Previ- ously the southern social leaders drew the lines sharply against general society and were more formal and exclusive, This innovation introduced a new departure in the ceremonial customs which has been adhered to ever since. Since the war she has been promi- nent among the ladies of the Representatives circle during four Congresses, Her return after a lapse of five Congresses, while her hus- band was serving as United States marshal, renewed an association with modern life at the national capital, The Misses Banks, who were once among the belles of the capital, now figure amid other scenes, The elder daughter, Mary Binnie Banks, is the wife of Rev. Falls Sterling. pastor piscopai church at Lynn. Miss Mand, who has devoted her talents to the histrionic art, is pursuing her studies in New York. MRS. COGSWELL.- Gen. William Cogswell of Salem was one of the best officers in the Massachusetts service, The | when her husband entered Congress in 1881 with the Forty-seventh Congress, was Miss Mary 8. Brown of Providence. er father, David O. Brown, was a man of extensive business rela- tions and active in works of public spirit, ‘MRS. WARREN 0. ARNOLD of the second district was Mary Owen, a native of Gloucester, R.I,, where she was married in 1863 and where her husband is largely engaged in cotton manufectures. On her mothe: other married Edward inslow, making that the first marriage, She was, therefore, the first mother and the first bride in the colony. Her husband was the first provincial governor and her son by her second marriage was Joseph Winslow, the first native governor of the colony, The cotem- porary chronicles quaintly speak of Peregrine as “extravagant ia his youth, but having re- formed died hopefully,” the latter event oc- curring in 1704. Mrs. Arnold lady of retir- ing manners, but has around her a large circle of devoted friends. ‘MRS. RUSSELL. One of the youngest and most delightfnl con- ples in the social sphere of Representatives Mr. and Mrs, Charles Addison Russell of Con- necticut. in the histaric district of New Lon- don and Mudaam. Mra, Russell was born in llingly and received her girlhood education at her home schools, Her finishing course was taken at the celebrated Oread collegiate insti. tute at Worcester, where she passed four years, She also took a post graduate course at the Worcester county music school, where she cul- tivated her gi s for music and became very | proficient. While passing throngh her educa- tional training at Worcester Miss Sayles, then thirteen years of age, met the then preparing for Yale college in the high and Latin and Greek schools of his native town of Worcester, who _ after- ward became her husband. ' Young Russell finished his collegiate course in 1873. when twenty-one years of age. They were married in 1879 at Killingly. Since that time Mrs, Rus- 18 not only adorned the home life at Kill- ingly but the distinguished society of the bean- tiful capital of Connecticut in the circles of the assembly and later as wife of the secretary of state. In Washington life Mrs. Russellis a universal favorite. MRS, WILLIAM EDGAR SIMONDS, who represents the social side of the capital constituency of Connecticut, was Miss Sarah J. Mills of Canton, Conn, She received a fine ed- ucation, finishing in one of the celebrated schools of New She married in 1867 and since has ornamented the social circles of her own home and at the capital of the state, where her husoand occupied a seat in the leg- islature and more recently at New Haven, where his lectureship on patent law at Yale college takes him at brief intervals, The home of Mrs. Simonds is in the family homestead of over two hundred years. DeB.R.K. i HATS OFF. An Offictal’s Ideas—When and Where a Gentleman Should Lift His Tile. “There seems to be a revival,” remarked a departmeytal official to a Star reporter the other day, “of the discussion of where and when it is proper for a gentleman to remove his hat in deference to the presence of other people, for I have noticed several articles lately that showed that people were beginning to think that this was after all a subject worthy of some consideration. It seems to me that the solution of the matter is an easy one, rest- ing upon the true politeness that should be one of the first essences of gentlemanliness. In the first place every lady is entitled to the respect that is evinced by the removal of the male tile wherever it can be done without danger of in- convenience to the wearer. On the street it is ofcourse unnecessary, except upon meeting with and parting from the lady; everybody knows that and on that point there is no dis- pute, The only thing to consider under the teminine head 1s whether a gentleman should remove his hat in an elevator car where ladies are riding. Inoticed the other day a nute printed in Tur Star from a ‘statesman noted for his gallantry,” who declared that he saw no neccenity for removing his hat in the presence oO LADIES IN ELEVATORS. On that remark I would; just like to say that Tam glad that politeness is not gauged entirely by the position or the “‘statesmanship” of a man, for I am a firm believer in the contrary position to that held by our unknown and gallant friend. Itis neither inconvenient nor danger- ous for a gentieman to take off his hat in a car and the man who fails to do so is a labor-saving machine, who strains a fine point in order to relieve himself of alittle extra trouble, As for me, I find it no trouble at all, but rather a pleasure to pay this very small but just tribute as shown by his promotion from an officer of the line to @ general of brigade. In peaceful pursuits he has divided his time between law and politics, When he married Miss Eva M. Davis, in 1881, he was one of the leaders of the Massachusetts house of representa- tives. Mr Cogswell and Miss Davis were na- | tives of Salem. Miss Davis graduated at the high and normal schools there. She was greatly admired, not only for her beauty butalso for her strength of mind and her accomplishments, Mrs, Cogswell is very popular in the social life of the capital. This is her second Congress among the ladies of the fashionable circles, MES. JOHN W. CANDLER. wife of the Representative of the Brookline dis- | trict was Miss Ida Garrison. She was born in New York city and belongs to the celebrated family of which “Commodore” Cornelius K. Garrison was a distinguished member. Mr. | Candier atthe time of his marriage, in 1867.was president of the board of trade of Boston. Mrs. | Candler therefore became prominent among | the ladies of the wealthier commercial circles of the New England metropolis, She first entered Washington society in 1881 and again at the opening of the present season. MRS, ANDREWS. The wife of John Forrester Andrews, son of the war governor of Massachusetts, was Miss Harriet Thayer of Boston. Her father, J. E. Thayer, was senior member of a firm largely interested in railroads. Her mother was Cornelia Van Rensselaer of Albany and a mem- ber of the ancient patroon family of that name. MRS, RODNEY WALLACE, wife of the Representative of the Fitchburg district, asa young lady was Miss Sophia Bil- lings of Woodstock, Vt. Her brother, Fred- erick Billings, was ident of the Northern Pacific railroad, ler first husband, Gold- smith F. Bailey, was a Representative in Con- gress, 1861-2, having died before the expira- tion of his term, In 1874 she became the wife of Mr. Wallace, a paper manufacturer and inently associated with state Mrs, Wallace is a of culture the matrons affaira, and among of Congress. Island is represented congressionally by two of the most active men in the Hi socially by two ladies of pleasing interesting family associations. Spooner, who entered the fashionable life of the ’ to the sex. This is not inspired by mere gal- lantry but a sense of what is right. GENTLEMEN IN OFFICES. “But there is a more difficult phase of the question that is not so easy of solution. Irefer to the matter of taking off of hats in the pres- ence of other gentlemen in their offices. The difficulty in the case is caused by these great corridors, which are really like so many streets, where no one would expect a man to remove his hat any more than though he was in the street. The sudden transition from the corri- dors to the office room, where the atmospheric condition is about the same, is not marked by any natural effect which would prompt a man to remove his hat unless he felt the inspiration of his gentlemanly instinct. I do not blame a tan whe face to de thie; Z simply pity him. He has the right to a supposition that his neg- lect is the resuit of a poor memory, which is always deplorable. There is no more reason why aman should not remove his hat in my presence in this room than there is that he should be at liberty to walk into my arlor at home and stand before me covered, ‘This is my official home just as much as that is my personal home. It is not the place that determines this matter, but the man, both men, in fact—the man who receives a visitor and the visitor himself, If both are gentle- men—provided, of course, that the latter has a good memory—the thing will come as a matter of course, I have heard it said that these two persons stand in the same relation to each other as a bank clerk and his customer. Such an argument is an evasion, and the man who | uses it is trying to avoid the real question of whether or not a gentleman should be a gentle- man wherever he finds himself. If he is possessed of real politeness he would never think of such a quibble. An argument like that does not deserve an answer. A GEORGE WASHINGTON CHESTNUT. “You have undoubtedly heard the story of Washington and the negro? No? Why, that story is almost as well known as that of the hatchet. But it does not matter, it isa good story, and it well illustrates this phase of life. Itis told of Washington that a negro once saluted him by raising his hat to him. He re- sponded in the same way, to the surprise of a friend who was walking with him. The friend asked why he had taken off his hat to a colored man. ‘Why,’ replied Washington, ‘I cav't = let a negro be any more polite than am.” “The Germans have a proverb or common saying to the effect that the man who carries his hat in his hand can go anywhere. That fits the case exactly.” se Speed by Spurts. It is not by exceptional exhibitiona of high pes that the real merits of roadway and ma- el Y, are best exemplified, but rather by every day performances. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad* : y is still the only line maintain: reg three-hour schedule be- tween Washington and Philadelphia and a forty-five minute schedule between Washing- ton and Baltimore, Although this service has been in daily ition for over & it re- ‘tains Tunmatched.—-Adee oe ee aa Lrgentior vy pba eee ge meas ought Iwasa jtranger— “why, no; you can’t be suck : fool, after all. Your remark that you read a man’s thoughts at a glance." —Tezas Siftings, P oe Fool Her.—Young House Keeper— here, ou take bck to Be best restaurants i A CHECK ON THEFT. Some Points About Sewing Machines of Interest to Women. WHY IT IS THAT IT I8 HARDLY POSSIBLE TO STEAL ONE—A SEWING MACHINE DETECTIVE SYSTEM THAT BEATS THIEVES—IT COSTS ONLY EIGET DOLLARS TO MAKE OxE. ES, it is a very common thing for people to run away with sewing machines,” said a dealer to a STAR reporter. “That sort of offense is committed usually not by those who rent them but by instalment purchasers. Any ‘one we do not know may come in here and get a machine by simply paying 85 down and con- tracting to settle for the balance by monthly payments of @5each. Supposing the customer is dishonest there is nothing to prevent her carrying off our property to another city with- out ever giving us anothe: cent in addition to the original $5. Nor ju such a case are wi likely to know whither she has gone. Or, we may lose track of a not over-concientions per- son through frequent changes of residence in Washington. Thus it happens that machines are constantly reported as missing. And yet you will be surprised to learn that. the actual and final loss of one isa very rare occurrence.” A DETECTIVE SYSTEM. “How does that happen?” “Simply through the operation of what might be called a very effective police system among dealers in sewing machines, In the first place every machine has a number of its own engraved on a little metal plate by which it may be identified absolutely, no two machines sent out from the factory having tne same number. When a machine is sold its number is registered, together with the name and ad- dress of the purchaser, and from that time this machine is identified with that parchaser, to be traced through her if she sells it. Let us sup- pose, for example, that Mrs, Snooks buys a ma- chine of us, She pays $5 down and signs notes for monthly payments covering the rest. ‘The price to her, on this installment basis, is $55, although the cash price is only #40; this leaves a considerable margin to cover 1088, you see. When she takes the machine we register in our books Mrs, Snooks of No. 1990 Q street as hav- ing bought machine No. 10,276,433, Now, it happens that Mrs. Snooks is a cheat; she is on the point of moying to another town far away, and it has occurrod to her that it would bea good idea to geta first-class sewing machine for €5. So she packs it up and takes it with her 1,000 miles in some direction unknown. A month later our agent calls at No. 1990 Q street and finds the bird flown with the machine. No one kiows where she has gone, but it is under- stood that she has left the city.” GONE, BUT NoT FORGOTTEN, “Then you are left.” “Not at all, Of course, it is barely possible that we may never see that machino again, but the chances are enormously in favor of our getting it back. To begin with we make a note of the number of the machine missing and send that number to the Sewing Muchine Jour- nal for advertisement in the regularly pub- lished list of missing machines. That is all that is necesary for us to do. Now, Mrs, Snooks has gone to St. Louis, let us suppose. She glee- fully works the treadle of her $55 machine se- cured for $5, and smiles to think how ciever she is and of the injured feelings of the sewing machine dealer in Washington. After a few months have elapsed some little part of the mechanism breaks down and it is necessary to have it mended, She has from our company a guarantee to keep the machine in repair for five years, and her first notion is to go to the shop in St, Louis where the sort of machines we sell are on sale and have the damage fixed. But she is too clever for that. Better keep away entirely from the company which owns that machine, So she goes to another com- pany’s shop and says that she has a machine that need’s mending. Will they fix it for her? Immediately the question is returned, ‘Is it a machine of our manufacture? ‘No,’ is the re- ply, ‘my machine is # so-and-so.’ ‘In that case, madam, it will be necessary for you to take your machine to the agency here of the com- pany that made it. It is the rule invariable in this business that no sewing machine company shall repair a machine of another company.” XO WAY OUT OF IT. «But I am willing to pay liberally for it,’ says Mrs. Snooks. “« ‘It is impossible,madam,’ responds the clerk, his suspicions already aroused. The woman is in luck if he does not find out where she lives and communicate to the agency for Mra. Snooks’ kind of machine his notion that there 1s stolen property of that company at her ad- dress, “However, the clerk knows so well the trap she is in—supposing his suspicion justified — that maybe he doesn’t take the trouble to do this, And Mrs, Snooks, after trying two or three other agencies, is finally driven to send her machine to be repaired at the shop repre- senting the company it belongs to. After all, she thinks, it cannot be recognized. How can they know in Louis that the machine she bought in Washington has not been paid for. But it so happens that, upon receiving the ma- chine, the agent looks at the number, asis his business habit, and sees at once that the instru- ment was not bought in St, Lonis, A list of all the missing machines in the United State: clipped from the Sewing Machine Journal pasted up over his desk. He finds in that list the number 10,276,438. The machine is a stolen one. palpably. It is a very simple mat- ter—the company has regained its property, that is all—and to find out where it was stolen from is ascertained at once by another refer- ence to the hist. Mrs. Snooks is promptly com- municated with and informed that the machine, being the property of the company, will be retained by its agent. The agency in Washing- ton is notified of the copture and. all is well, unless it is with Mrs. Snooks, who feels not unnaturally disgusted at being cheated out of her machine.” TRYING ANOTHER DopGr. “But suppose Mrs, Snooks, instead of keep- ing the machine, swaps it off for another of a different sort? “She would be very apt to try to conceal the theft in that way by getting rid of the machine, which stands ready to acense her at any moment. Butif she tries such a thing she will quickly have reason to regret it, for the ka oad of the agent with whom she tries to make the deal will be at once aroused. He will wonder why she should wish to dispose of anearly new machine, not long bought evi- dently, for one of another pattern, and his curiosity willat all events be strong enough to make him take a glance at the number of the machine and see if it corresponds with any one in the missing list. Sure enough he finds the number 10,276,438 in the list as missing and at once notifies the agency of the company to which it belongs that Mrs. Snooks of such- and-such an address has a machine for which that company is looking, The said company loses no time in demanding it, and Mra, Snooks, if she is a prudent woman. will promptly give itup. If she resists—and such things some- times occur—a little process of law accom- plishes the result with costs for Mrs. Snooks. A stolen machine can hardly escape. The very canvassers who go around trying to sell machines are always on the lookout for them. Ifa woman tells a canvasser that she already hasamachine and doesn’t want another he asks permission to see it and takes an inci- dentat squint at the number. Supposing that the numbered plate were removed from a machine suspicion would be at once aroused by the fact. No, believe me, there is no money in stealing sewing machines.” CHEAP ENOUGH TO BEGIN WITH. “How much does it cost to make @ $55 in- stalment sewing machine?” “The actual cost to the manufacturer of pro- ducing such a machine is precisely @8. That would seem to give a pretty margin for the retailer's profit; but you must consider a number of facts modifying such a conclusion. In the first place, that same machine we sell for $40 cash, the $15 extra charged on the.in- stallment pian being simply to cover losses several hands before reaching the consumer; freight costs money, we must pay the cauvass- ers, —— be kept in our employ to teach aceon nesta cpio bee , aapeot ‘one who a friend to one expects from $3 to $5 commission for herself, Persons who rent machines are usually pretty prompt With their money. Those who buy machines in Washington mostly get them on installments. This is a at town for buying things on credit’ A forge percentage of Washington people seem to live on time, as one might say, even eating on the credit system and going around in clothes they owe for—the houses md occupy on trust by the month furnished with everything from rngs to bed clothing on tick. The installment system seems to have pervaded the whole city, so that all things are getting to be sold on that plan, and men swarm. all over the town coilecting from 25 cents to 82 week from a population that is willing to pay from 20 to 50 per cent for the use of what is equivalent to a little money ahead of what has been earned.” ———_+o+_____ WHEN THE LADIES HAVE LEFT Men at Dinners Should Not Linger Too Long Over the Wine. WOMEN DO NOT LIKE IT, BECAUSE THEY THINK IT 18 A RUDENESS TO THEM—FIFTERN MINUTES 18 PLENTY LONG ENOUGH—A SOCIETY GIRL’S VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT—THE HOST'S FAULT. T is a great mistake in taste for men *)to linger so long, as they are very apt Sto do, over theirwine at dinner parti \jafter the ladies have left the table, said a society girl of three seasons’ experience to a representative of Tur Star. “Men are not generally aware of the feeling women have on that subject, and so[ will try to make it clear, in the hope thatit may serve asa useful suggestion. You would be very wrong to imagine that we object to allowing the men a fewmoments to themselves after din- ner; on the contrary, itis an old custom, en- tirely unobjectionable, as I consider, and worth perpetuating, so long as it isnot abused, There are few men who do not really feel the want ofa little tobacco after the meal, and it is necessary to their enjoyment of their evening's entertainment that they should haveit. Then, too, there is no reason why they should mot be given time to discuss an extra glass or two of old port with the host before leaving the board. But any good thing may be overdone, and I think this is too frequently the case with the after-dinner interval!” “The men are apt toabuse your patience, you mean?" the youth to whom she was talking queried. A BORE FOR THEM. “Yes, decidedly so. You know the women when they feave the table re nothing espe- cially to amuse themselves with after they reach the drawing room until the men appear. They cannot start in to do anything, if they should 80 desire, because they don’t know when the male contingent may arrive and interrupt. All they can do is to sit aboutand chatier, They are waiting for the men, and when they come, and not until then, things go on once more easily and enjoysbly. The time during which the men linger at table 1s almost invariably a mauvais quart dheure to the women, notwith- standing the fact that men seem to have no no- tion of it. Ireally think that men generally suppose that we are having a good time chat- tering among ourselves while they are amus- ing themselves with their wine and cigars or cigarettes. No, itis not fun; but women are sufficiently selt-sacrificing to put up with a moderate dose of annoyance in any shape if the opposite and over-much-spoiled sex may be gratified incidentally. We don't complain at all of being made to wait a reasbuable time. Tam of the opinion that very usually here in Washington men stay too long at the table after the ladies have left it. Often I have heard girls sa “J do hope the men won't stay long at the table.’ INJUSTICE SOMETIMES DONE. “You see, the women not only are bored during the after-dinner interval, but, if it is prolonged, they are displeased as well. How should they not be so? It is very nncompli- mentary to them, to say the least of it, that the men should prefer their ci and wine to the women’s society, and, although they may say nothing and smile amiably when the belated men arrive in the drawing room. they realiy feel decidedly resentful, I have even known very nice girls to use rather strong langnage, in private, on the subject. Oiten, too, they really do the men injustice, blaming them when it is their fault,” ow so?” asked Tue Star man, “In this way: When such a thing occurs as Ispeak of—namely, the undue prolonging of the after-dinner interval—it is usually one man’s fau' Women generally don’t understand this point, I believe. Just as the interval is begun of necessity by the hostoss,so it can only be brought to a close under ordinary circumstances by the host. At the moment when the hostess deems it time for the ladies to leave the table she catches the eye of one of the other ladies present. and, giving the signal by an almost imperceptible inclination of her head, she rises from her chair, the lady to whom she has co: veyed the signal doing lhkewise simultaneous! and the others following suit, The men, of course, follow them as far as the door and there bow their au revoir, returning thereupon to the table and gathering about it, those who have been seated toward the head usually gravitating toward the foot, where the host sits, in order to facilitate conversation. Cigars and cigarettes are offered with the after-dinner wines and thin; ume amore degage air. Now, for the men. this interval is very likely THE MOST BNJOYABLE PART of the entertainment. Daring it by far the best of the talk is done, and for the moment formalities are relaxed. Therefore there is a temptation to prolong it, for which a certain charitable allowance may perhaps be made, Nevertheless women are not disposed to con- sider that the abuse of this privilege is at all warrantable. They feel it too much as a slight to themselves, When I say that the men are likely to find the after-dinner terval the most enjoyable part of the evening's festivity, lam not so uncomplimentary to my own sex as to imply that they enjoy each other's society better than our own. Doubtless they would not have nearly so good a time, taking the whole entertainment through, without us; but that little quarter of hour inthe midst of things, while the ladies are absent, is, I have no doubt, the most agreeable of the evening. Men have repeatedly confessed to me as much, under cross-examination, and have told me with some frankness why it is so. According to the accounts they gave that quarter of an hour is hkely to bethe one during which a man is at his very best, intellectually speaking and as regards his capacity for enjoyment, HE HAS DINED WELL, which is in itself a source of happiness; he has had just enough wine to stimulate his higher mental faculties to the utmost, and the good cigar he puffs fills the cup of his contentment to overflowing, while he sige perhaps. glass of some cherished vintage, kept by the host for such occasions and not dispensed to unappre- ciative women. Then he is in condition to talk as he can never talk at any other time or under any other conditions, The formal restraint in- cidental to the presence of the ladies has been removed, and, with the prospect of rejoining them a moment later, he contentedly contrib- utes whatever is best in him to what is often a display of convershtional pyrotechnics. There is no such brilliant conversation done in this world, I am told, as is heard during the after- dinuer interval. It isa great injustice to our sex, I consider, that we cannot take part in the enjoyment of it, Iknow some girls, not of the younger set, who would make good informal talkers under such conditions; but, of course, women cannot be such conversationalisteas men are, for the simple reason that their sources of made in various ways. A machine lostby theft comes under this head, but that is unusual, as I have remarked. However, we lose not a little by the failure of installment purchasers to make their payments. Buyers on install- ments are always people narrowly pressed for money. A person otherwise situated would hardly pay a bonus of $15 on a $40 machine for the sake of getting afew months’ credit. It amounts to giving nearly 40 per cent for the use of thecash, Accordingly it is not eurprising that customers who get machines from us in thia way ure, as a rule, in fulfilling their contracts, Indeed they are very Weed \d nothing } rf Bel Fiitl i i observation and information are so limited of necessity in their range.” 3 THE HOST RESPONSIBLE. “But you were speaking of the duration of the after-dinner interval?” EF if i arrived for joining the ladies he gests it and action on the motion e i 4 iy 5 i g aE r i 5 i Hg es Pts i i Ri alone, and that man is the host, | HORROKS OF ABSINTHE. Take Good Advice and Keep Away From the Seductive Green Fluid. OODLES, WHO RECENTLY came into such an unexpected pile of money that he has been seeking fan- tastic forms of dissipation ever since, was drinking his sixth absinthe cock- tail in succession at the Platypus club Thursday night when Smiffkins, who has lived in Paris for 0 many years, you know, chided him gently “My dear fellow,” said he, “if you goon drinking that staff in such a reckless way you'll be oie your grave within two years at the out- ween ‘You're a pretty sort of man to lecture on temperance!” replied Boodles, “Whg, I'll ven- ture to say that you consume more whisky than any other member of the club.” ONE YEAR'S EFFECTS. “Maybe so; but whisky, bad as it is—I'm not | defending it—is a very different beverage from absinthe. You know yourself that absinthe at generally, amount of it that you have taken this evening | every day for one vear and you will be inter a dilapidated specter of your present self you are reduced to, tered that you will shake as with the palsy, you will be reduced to a comparative skeleton, your face will be drawn into lives and furrows like that of a sick old man and your complexion will have assumed a greenish hue resembling that of absinthe diluted with water, It is likely, too, that your mind will besomewhat impaired, though possibly that will not signify.” WONDERS OF WORMWOO! “Don’t be too witty, Smiffkins, At all events Tcan say that I have never drank enough ab- sinthe yet to intoxicate me. You don't observe, do you, that my utterance is not distinct at this moment or that my ideas seem confused.” Not in the slightest. And the fact illus- trates the most remarkable peculiarity of absinthe. It doesn't intoxicate in the ordinary way atall, A man maybe in an ady a state of exhilaration from its effects and yet he will not show the slightest symptom of drank- distillation from wormwood so dangeronsly popalar. Y! n drink glass after glass of it, ing yourself at a high pitch of mental and nervous excit confusion of intellect or the least locomotive Juder such influence you will be 0 to a dinner party and shine conver- sationaliy with a brilliancy unustal to you. or take partin a public debate with a you could not achieve without the aid Xtraordinary brain stimulant. The ex- mit produces, too, is far more agi thau that obtained from any toxicant. Men never learn to like wh is always abhorrent to the palate, as yon may see by watching drinkers at a bar gulp it down #0 as not to taste it any more than the help. But absinthe a flavor that quisite to its habitual consumers, . its pleasant stimulation does not into | subsequent dullness and drowsiness, and it | never occasions nausea, COLLAPSE, “All of which.” said Boodles, “leads up, I suppose, to something dreadful at the end.” “Well, Iwas going to say that if you drink another of those absinthe cocktails, all right as you feel now. you will, as like as not, fall over all at once on t joor. like a dead man, and re- Main unconscious for many hours, at the end of which you will experience all the pains that are apt to follow a prolonged spre hat is the way absinthe acts; so take my adv and don’t drink any more of it tonight, I have learned a great deal about its effects in a gi eral way during the years I have spent in France, where the absinthe vice has growa to | such a point within the last generation as to seriousiy demoralize the race. To it is attrib- uted by the authorities in large part the de- crease in the French population. Over there it is drunk usnally in this way: As much absinthe as would fill two pony brandy glasses is put into en ordinary tall thin tumbler and some sugar syrup is put with it, poured in from a height very s! of sugar syrup lump sugar is often used, placed on top of a little sieve covering the mouth of the tumbler; the sugar is moistened with water and DRIPS THROUGH THE SIEVE INTO TEE ABSINTHE. The process takes about fifteen minutes, dur- ing which, while he waits, the customer sits at atable and reads the Petit Journal or the Jour- nal Pour Rire, may! It was absinthe, by the that drove poor old Charles Delmonico so that he wandered over the hills in J.,and died in the woods, Thedrink produces an exceptionally acute va- riety of maniapotu. A man I knew once bad it mildly and described to me the preliminary | symptoms. He was lying in bed at night reading by the gas light.when he saw the door swing open and alarge baboon entered. The beast lookedat him once sorrowfully and then withdrew, but the door opened again almost immediately and in came a second baboon. The first one followed and the two proce to stretch as! slack rope began to walk over, coming in through one wall and going out through the other, all the animals that ever came out of the ark, be- ginning with the little ones, such as squirrels and rabbits, and getting bigger and bigger, up to the bears, tigers and rhinoceroses. When the elephant came along my friend broke loose and his yells soon brought assistance and sub- | sequently a doctor. He never tasted absinthe after that. Pray accept my counsel, Boodles, | and don’t you. { Written for Tae Evextno Stax. Spring Snow. Softly flutter down from the cloud And cover the silent land With a wierd and wondrous silvery shroud, The spell of thy magic hand! Bury the blossoms and leaves of May Under the crisp white frost, Till the thrush comes piping its roundelay And the buds on the breeze are tossed! Brighten the branch, the brier, and the bush, Whisper thy words to the trea, Still the wild-woods in a mystical hush, And banish the bird and the bee! Hide the seed of the clover and grass, Shelter the flelds of grain, ‘Till the drifts of dreary winter pase And the daisies come back againt Gently fit from the fleecy sky And nestle thy head in love On the bosom where thou must droop and dle When the sun sends it shafts from above! Davip GraHaM ADEE, —_—_———~~ee. Spring Fashions for Men, Silver and gold-headed canes are entirely out of style, For single and double-breasted sack suits fancy checks and stripes will be much used. Gloves are plain, one button being “correct” instead of two. Tan color will prevail. The soft Angoras and diagonals have almost entirely superseded all other cloths in dress suits. Overcoats are made with straight backs, with- out seam and in a varicty of materials, the favorite being the soft Angoras. Soft hats are coming rapidly to the front and will be much worn during the spring. Of these the “tourist” or Alpine shape the favorite. Trousers will be a trifle wider, with a ten- dency to a spring over the instep. Both me- dium and wide stripes will be the prevailing style in fabrics, ‘The old-fashioned tie which passes around the neck and is tied in a bow will be worn again this summer, The only new thing about it will be the broadened ends. 5 The Prince Albert or double-breasted frock Z ff : Your nerves will be so shat- ) Ds enness, That is one thing that has made this | nent and exaltation for | i hours, and yet not feel nor exhibit the slightest | ck rope | across the room above the bed, and then on this | . r: tacks directly the brain an@ nervous system | thver ie Just keep ahead consuming the | York. Citculars ested to observe at the end Of that time what | } EDUCATIONAL _ . 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