Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1890, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY = + MARCH 15, 1890-TWELVE PAGES. WITH A STRANGE RACE, —~—___ Prof. Hitchcock’s Journey in the Island of Yezo. FACTS ABOUT THE AINOS. eas ‘The Pit Dwellers who Preceded Them— Curious superstitions of the Race— ‘The Bearded Men and the Tattooed Women. ———.—_— TANDING in the midst of # collec- tion in a big glass case recently set up im the national museum is the figure of s man & little below the average height of the Caucasian. "uis iy 2 typical Aino, modeled by the clever artists attached to the museum, flesh tints, eyes, beard, hair and all reproduced exactly as they sppear in life and clad in garments woven by Ainos. Around him are household imple- monts, shuttles for weaving, fishing spears and tackle, bows and arrows and the other rude farnishings that represent all that the arts of this primitive people have produced to raise them above absolute savagery. An interesting part of the collection is an Aino house repro- duced in miniature, with its store house and other appurtenances, The Aino in the center of the case has a great shock of gray atl b beard and shaggy eyebrows. His pod won 1s of a light coppery hue, his cheek bones high and his nose straight but broad at the — On his head is @ triangular- shaped head dress. A long gown girdled at the waist and ornamented with designs em- broidered in white on a dark blue base reaches from his shoulders below his knees. His legs down to his ankles are protected by leggings and his feet are bare. Over one shoulder is slung by alight strap a haversack woven of rushes. In his belt or girdle at his left side is supported a wooden quiver filled with arrows, and behind in his girdle is thrust a carved stick to which is attached the little basket or pouch in which the Aino carries his supply of smoking tobacco. THE MODEL Arvo. ‘The modern explorer carries a camera strapped over his shoulder or secured upon his saddle. When he gets home if any one ques- tions his statements he can produce the irref- utable evidence of a Photographic record. Prof. Romyn Hitchcock of the national museum, when he traveled recently in the island of Yezo, Japan, and the islands known as the Kuriles, wtretching in along chain northward from Yezo almost to Kamchatka, collected not only com- plete series of specimens illustrative of the life of the inhabitants of these almost unknown lands but also secured a large number of pho- tographs that in themselves mate a graphic and interesting record of his journey. The ease in which the model of the Aino stands is filled with the specimens collected by Prof. Hitchcock. The Aino figure was modeled on —— and measurements taken by him and cl in garments brought by him from ‘these far-away shores. EXPLORATIONS OF YRZ0. It bas been only recently that anything has been known of any part of Yezo except certain districts lying on the coast, The first tensive exploration of the island was made £ an American, T. W. Biakiston, in 1872. Mr. Blakiston, however, confined his observations chiefly to the birds and plants, and contributed vastly to the knowledge of the botany and ornithology of the region. No one explored the country to any extent with a view to study- ing its human inhabitants until Mr. Hitchcock made his journéy in 1888. Such information as had been printed concerning the Ainos was gathered by travelers who visited the coast set- tements in the vicinity of Hakodate and Ne- moro, In some of these settlements the Bative customs of the Ainos have bgen corrupted by contact with the Japanese, and their physi cal characteristics have been obliterated or modified by intermarriage with the Japanese. Even among the Japanese who are found at Hakodate, Prof. Hitchcock told a Stan reporter, | such ignorance exists as to the inhabitants of | the island that he was assured he would find | no Ainos in the northern part of the island, whither he intended journeying. and he was almost led by the positiveness of the assurances to change his route and content himself with skirting along the coast to Nemoro. At Nemoro, however, he was encouraged to proceed and he continued his travels cuastwise to a point on the northern side of the island. and then turn- ing inland made a journey on horseback of 800 miles through the wountainous interior of the AS atxo ornt. When asked by a Stam reporter about the fesults of his explorations Mr. Hitchcock spoke first of evidences he had found relating to the inhabitants of the island preceding the Aino occupation. These evidences were in the ie generally rectangular in shape and found in groups on the coast, indicating that the island was once inhabited by pit dwellers. When, in 1875, the Japanese govern- ment ceded the big island of Saghalien to Kussia it received in return from Russia a quit claim to the Kurile Islands. ‘The few inhab- tants of these islands were collected together and moved to Shikotan. s small island just off ‘the coast of Yezo, where they could be gratified to find Ainos of undoubted}; = stock, removed from all contamination by ae anese or other invaders of their land. e Ainos once inhabited Nip; the main island of the Japanese ap, but were apt years ago by the Japanese, who forced them northward until, at the begmning of this cen- tury, only a few remained in the north of Nip- pon, and now they are found only in the island of Yezo, where they tive under the domination of the Japanese. fapanese conduct the business of the island and are settled in con- siderable numbers at Hakodate, Nemoro and other ports, where the of the Yezo fisheries and of the few industries of the island are shipped. The Ainos dwell, as a rule, on the coast, as they subsist chiefly by fishing. In the journey through the interior Prof. Hiteh- cock, who hada Japanese companion, found few inhabitants, At one place he found a com- munity of Ainos engaged in mining for sulphur on the side of an active volcano. Prof. Hitchcock described the Ainos to THe Stan reporter as the dirtiestof men. They never wash and their hair and beard, which are of most luxuriant growth, hang abont their heads in a matted mass. Owing to their lack of cleanliness it is quite difficult to make out what their real complexion is. THE AINO HousE. The houses of the Ainos are characteristic and are are all substantially alike. They are built up on frames of poles, the walls being made of thick brush. ‘The roof has a high gable and is thatched with brush. Timbersare laid along the outside of the roof and fastened with thongs to the timbers inside, thus secur- ing the roof. These houses are from twenty to thirty feet high. The interior forms oné large apartment, floored with rongh-hewn boards, Suspended from above are rocks, on which the Aino house keeper hangs or places articles of food to be dried by the heat of the open fire, which is built on a square or oblong fireplace near the center of the floor. Pots and tea- kettles of Japanese wear. a mortar and pestle and rudely carved vessels of Aino manufacture litter the floor. On the wall near the door hangs the Aino’s sword. a broad, curved Japa- nese blade encased in a heavy wooden sheath made by Aino hands. Near the fireplace is the household lamp, which is supported by an up- right stick. It is a small open receptacle, which is filled with oil. A wick soaking in the oil hangs over the side of the lamp. The dim light of this lamp would hardly do to read by, but the Aino does not mind this as he cannot read. Up in one corner of the roof is a small triangular aperture for a smoke hole. Outside on some of the houses is built a square chim- ney of brush. Most of the houses have a “‘lean- to” addition, which forms a sort of entrance or ante room. Near the dwelling is a store house, asmall gabled structure raised up from the ground by means of posts. In this is stored the fish or other surplus provender of the owner of the house, SANE Bowe ‘ > Bons AINO DIPLEMENTS, All of the few implements required in the rather hurried activities of the Aino’s life are rudely fashioned. The bows with which they bunt are of primitive pattern. Their arrows are pointed sometimes with bone, sometimes with metal, but frequently with sharpened bits of bamboo. Their women weave mats some- whatskilltully, using evlindrical-shaped stones, to which the strands are tied and which are passed back and forth through the woof of the mat. The native cloth is woven of elm bark and isof a light brown color. ornament this by sewing upon it strips or pieces of cotton decorated with embroidered patterns worked in white thread. The Aino tollows one design almost altogether in his ornamental work—a geometric pattern of curiousiy combined angles and segments of circles. These designs appear not only in the embroidery but in the carving done upon their shuttles, mustache sticks and other wooden implements. hey use nets and spears in fishing. Some of their fishing spears in Prof. Hitchcock's col- lection, though of rude manufacture, show considerable ingenuity. ‘hey are constructed with metal prongs or points, to which strong cords or lines are attached. When the spear head is imbedded in the side of a fish or otter the wooden shaft is detached from the head and the fisherman, after the fish has become exhausted in a struggle for freedom, hauls in his line and secures his victim. One imple- ment used has a crescent-shaped hook which eau be worked with a line and trigger so as to pierce the side of a fish at the moment of con- tact The Ainos |. AN INTERIOR, The Ainos have no literature or written or pictorial language of any kind. Those who have come immediately in contact with the Javanese have learned to speak a sort of mon- grel Japanese, by means of which Prof. Hiteh- cock, with the aid of Japanese interpreters, was able to communicate with them. The Ainos have no religion that can be formulated into a creed. They give no time to debating changes in their confession of faith. But they have many superstitions and worship gods that seem quite as grotesque as the thunder bird of the northwest coast Indians. They have no priests; each Aino settles disputed points of doctrine for himself. One of the necessary parts of an Aino’s equipment is a mustache stick that looks like a carved wooden ruler, When an Aino drinks saké one duty he sacredly performs is to first throw out a few drops of the liquor as a libation to his gods. This he does with his mustache stick. He dips the stick into the liquor and shakes the drops that adhere to it upon the ground. Then he strokes his beard solemnly three times and as he raises the bowl to his lips he uses the stick again to press against his upper lip and esp be mustache from interfering with his drinking, Bearer the Japanese. These people lived chiefly by fishing and emigrated con- Mtantly from one island to another. Now, under the changed conditions in which in Shikoten they are dying off rapidly. ft. Hitchcock when visited them found that the remnant of the tribe still existing mumbered only about seventy-five people, many of whom were enfeebied by consump- tion. Their dress resembled that of Euro- = and indicated the effects of Russian in- uence. Their features and hair are much hike those of the Eskimo. LIVING IN PIT DWELLINGS. The special point of interest in them dis- covered by Prof. Hitchcock was the character of their dwellings. they build up walis or mounds of earth, which they thateh over. The floors are s foot or two below the round out- pide. _ when they collapse form, im the course of time. pits like those discov- ered on the coast of Yezo. This fact is taken 7 Prof. Hitehcock as evidence that this peo- THE BEAR CAGr. = Bow rej wed by ® handful of men,| Many groups of Ainos are shown in the pho- mond 2, sae Se samaboe than the | tographs taken by Prof. Hitchcock. The men == MS Shee wear no hats or headdresses except on cere- ee) with- ae ee ee ont decdraton, fe na perme onek ore in the island where thew ex- their are bare. The feet are $b ce Salonen acct bore coslonten Ses tected by a bub teochown or sundel, stnero sole made of skin or matting, ee ee through which the great toe passes. ‘Aino woman's garment is # long robe somewhat similar to that worn by the man, with a girdle at the waist. Some of the women wear dresses: of the Japanese pattern. They are Ce as unkempt in appearance as the men. orna~ ments the women wear strings of colored beads obtained from traders and large earrings. It is a fashion among Aino women to tattoo the lips, marking them so as seemingly to enlarge the’ mouth. A physical characteristic of the men is the great growth of hair, not only on the head and face but on the limbs and all over the body. Some of the men photographed by Prof. Hitchcock seem quite as hairyas urang-utans, There are taller than the average Japanese and generally of athletic figure. Their solemn faces and patriarchal beards give them a wise look. Prof. Hitchcock remarked that many he saw, if washed, combed and dressed in the garb usualin civilized lands, would look quite like gentlemen. THE SACRED HEDGE. Among the superstitions that prevail among the Ainos is one that givesa sacred character to the bear. In the mountains of Yezo are hnge bears like the savage grizzlies of the Rockies. Near the dwellings of a community of Ainos will be founda bear cage made of logs and alsoa sacred hedge constructed of poles and brush. In the springtime the Ainos set out to hunt the bear. They have no weapons that would be of much avail in close opens with one of these huge beasts, but they accomplish the death of the animal by means of poisoned arrows, The heads of the arrows are dipped in the poison they obtain from aconite root. When one of the arrows pierces the skin ofa bear the poison acts so quickly that he will fall in mortal agony after running a few rods, Sometimes bears are killed by traps or bows set on the ground with astring stretched across the path of the ani- maul so that when he brushes against the string an arrow is discharged, CRUSHING THE BEAR. The main purpose of the first spring bear hunt is to secure alive cub. With this trophy the hunters return home in triumph. The young bear is placed in the cage and suckled by one of the old women of the community. As the weeks pass by he is fed pentifully and rows 80 large and fat that the cage will hardly old him. Then, in the fall, the great cere- mony of the ar oceurs, The bear's hind legs are secured and he is set free from the cage. He is pelted, tormented with blunt ar- rows and subjected to all manner of torture. Finally he is taken toa place where a great beam is placed upon him and his tormentors climb upon the beam and play see-saw on him until they have crushed the life out of him. This t of the ceremony is represented in a fapayese drawing brought home by Prof, Hitchcock and which he permtted Tur Srar’s artist to reproduce. On the day following the crushing of the bear there is a great feast, in which bear meat forms the principal part of the menu, and sake is drank in such liberal quantities that the whole community would be likely to be locked up in_ the station house for being drunk and disorderly, if they had such adjuncts of civilization as station houses. Finally the skull of the bear is placed on one of the poles or spikes of the hedge, where it receives hom- age. In course of years the sacred hedge becomes ornamented with a collection of bear skulls, Se el DO YOU HIRE A PIANO? If You Do You Are Paying Pretty Dear for Your Music. HE business of renting pianos is the ? most profitable one I know of,” said a dealer in that line very frankly yes- day. “and how does that happen?” asked Tae Sraz reporter. “Well, in the first place, no really expensive piano is ever rented; the risk would be too greatfor one thing. One could not afford to intrust to a stranger an instrument worth from $800 to 1,800, which is about the range for the finest makes, The pianos hired out are of a lower grade, worth from #300 to #500.” “But what is the charge?” “Usually about #8 a month.” “That is nearly #100 a year, Pretty good in- terest, I should say, on a $300 piano.” “Decidedly so; that is just the point of my remark, I don't know any other investment that pays from 25 to 30 per cent per annum, We have twenty pianos let all the time and you can perceive that they must bring in some- thing like $2,000 a year.” HOW LONG A PIANO LASTS, “What is the life of a piano?” “Fifteen years, with fair usage. At the end of that time the instrument is not apt to be capable of further serviee; butin the mean- time we have cleared $1,000 or 1,100 on it. So we ure satistied.” “Some people, though, probably give a piano very unfair usage?” “Often that occurs, It is a source of loss to ‘us unavoidably, but we can afford to endure it. You see persons who rent pianos are not likely to be so careful of them as if they were their own property. They let their children bang upon them, and that is always very injurious. The keys are so carefully pivoted that if they are struck sideways instead of perpendicularly they are apt to be thrown out of gear. An active infant in this way and by pounding can do a good deal of hurt to a piano in a comparatively short time. And maybe the #8 a month won't pay for it. For the action, which includes the keys and all those complicated inside works which make the communication between the keys and hammers. may be loosened, and then there is nothing todo but to send the piano back to the fuctory and have # new action put in,which costs from $40 to #50, People have other ways besides this of injuring an instrument.” COLD AIR 18 BAD, “Such as what, pray?” “Why, they will subject the piano to extremes of heat and cold. That is always destructive. For example, on a cold winter day the servant maid will throw open the windows of the over- heated parlor and let the freezing air come in, and no member of the family probably wiil know any better than to do such a thing. As a consequence the sounding board is warped and cracked, the wires are rusted and other damage done. It would be a great deal leas injurious if the domestic had poured several pailsful of cold water into the instrument. ‘Phere is a piano over in that corner which was in a house that caught fire, and afterward we pumped 14 gallons of water out of it. Yet, it has served very well ever since und has re- tained a remarkably good tone. Sometimes the case of the instrument 1s marred and scratched, but that does not amount to so much.” THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, “Do people ever steal the pianos they rent from you and run away with them?” “It has never happened to us, though such things are sometimes done. We have been very lucky in that way. The people we have more trouble with than with those to whom we rent pianos are the buyers on installments, Profit is ordinarily found in sell- ing pianos that way, because neces- sarily a greater price is charged in such casea than if cash were paid. But often at happens that pianos sy pure’ \d come back on our hands after three or four months with s loosened action and other damage done that costs more to than we have received for the piano, the usual method being to pay something like $25 down and to give notes of hand for $10 each, falling due monthly, for the balance, It goes without saying that sostolimnent costoare often Gatnalh fs their yment n we simply grab the pianos. People who purchase that way never seem to be aware that in law an articie 80 bo’ mains the So lee at eae pany foe obliged to sign gots it re- Written for Tar Everrse Stan WOMEN AND DOCTORS. The Necessity for Knowing One’s Phy- siological Construction. THE PREVENTION OF DEATH—CARELESSNESS AND MISTAKES OF PHYSICIANS—SOME ADVICE FOR THE TREATMENT OF AILMENTS—A METHOD OF GETTING RID OF SUPERFLUOUS HAIR. (Copyrighted 1890.) OMEN AND DOCTORS are sup- posed to be on good terms with each others. Perhaps doctors are the only class who rightly measuré the influence of the sex, neither appraising them too highly in a world which has many interesting facts beside women, nor, on the other hand, putting aside real ailments and troubles as mere nervousness, which the ordinary man is inclined to do. A good doc- tor, that is, one gitted with natural insight.who understands his calling, has fewer illusions abeut women and more sympathy for them than any other living being. The sensible doctor is apt to stand as the woman's best friend. A sensible doctor, and there one must sigh, for sensible doctors don’t hang their sign on every bush, and I begin to think theyare as Scarce assensible women. When a druggist tells of putting up pepsin in doses of forty grains each for a sick woman, or of prescrip- tions from leading physicians who order four- teen and sixteen powerful ingredients in one mixture, as one of the trustiest city dispensers told me last week, one begins to think it is well for people to know something about their own bodies and what goes inside of them, KNOW YOURSELF. The low English phrase “their insides” ex- presses all most people know of their interiors. Asa witty woman says, they seem to consider their insides as a’sort of bag or cavity, of which they know as little as they do of the hereafter. They commit the care of their souls to the preachers and their bodies to the doctors with us little concern as if it was nothing to them what becomes of either. The best physicians agree that atleast forty per cent of all deaths by disease are preventable; that is, out of each hundred people dying in civilized countries to- day at least forty might be saved by skilled icine and good nursing. A city physician igh standing tells of cases under his knowl- edge of the grossest malpractice by men equally high in the profession; one where a case of in- ward ulcer was diagnosed and treated as spinal disease till it was tuo late to heal the real mal- ady, and he with others was called on to sign the certificate absolving the doctor from blame. knew it was the grossest error,” said the en- htened physician, “but what could I do? The patient was dead and couldn't be brought tolife. If I refused to sign it would make trouble for me in my business, and the doctor's frieuds would all be against me. But it was a case of manslaughter for all that.” THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PHYSICIANS, It is something to have doctors awakened to the crime of losing human life through ignor- ance and incompetence. In time intelligent conscience and sense of honor will forbid an able man to sign such a certificate, even at risk of professional goed will and income. More than one notorious trial for murder by poisoning could be instanced where tke pre- scriptions administered by the attending phy: cian were irritant and drastic enough to ac- count for all the symptoms alleged. But no- body ever thought of questioning the doctor's medicine, unless it was a few troublesome scientific persons whose modest suggestions were quenched in the huo and ery after a mur- der and a poisoning. It suggests itself to the intelligent mind that perhaps it might be safe for the public to know us much more of its own physiology as it can spare time from lawn tennis, base bali and | spriug sewing. Any one who has really been sick once in a lifetime and had some trouble in getting cured finds a very fervid interest in readiag about health and disease, not the sim- ple elementary articles which doctors furnish the newspapers, but such as they write for each other, of which the intelligent layman can pick out the sense between the hard words, Take, for instance, ~! THE ANNUAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, one of the most thorough performances of the age, in which a corps of the keenest physicians collect all the observatious and discoveries in medicine yearly all over the globe. You didn’t know there were medical journals printed in Arabic today, or that the best Arab doctors hold the respect of the profession as when their forefathers first brought intelligent medicine to Europe, Itenlarges our ideas of progress to hear of medical magazines published in Si- heels making a great clatter on the floor.” Now this is not from a work on the condition of the poor, but none less, in the cool recital of a medical report, it strikes one asa fal horror. man being had done the work of a machine until its movements had become mechanical and passed from voluntary control. Imagine, if you can, the stress of that ten hours’ grind a day at a heavy sewing machine for twelve years,and remember how many creatures live by turning Ives into ma- chinery in the same way, at a cost of the same suffering. A treatment for sciatica used for years in England and France with much success is to envelop the leg in powdered salphur during the night, Dr. Duchesne has seen a perma— nent cure of sciatica by a single application, ao reports a severe case cured in two nig! ‘MUSCULAR EXERCISE, Anew mode of sdministering exercise pro- yokes asmile. Dr. Gartner describes an appa- ratus for‘ ‘therapeutic application of muscular work which consists of a handle to be turned by the patient through a large circle, it being possible to increase or diminish the resistance offered by the handle.” The “therapeutic ap- plication of muscular work” isa phrase which expresses a good deal and plain folks may feel satisfaction in taking their exercise without be- ing condemned to a genteel therapentic tread- mill, neither more nor less, The good doctor might push his idea farther by projecting « machine which without the vulgar interference of actual usefulness would present all the move- ments of brashing, sweeping, making beds and molding bread, running up and down stairs, scrubbing doorsteps and the routine of house- hold work without the drawback of being of the least use. By taking the curse off in this way and going through the motions merely, with resistance graduated to the dynamic force of the paticnt, it would undoubtedly find great favor and be introduced into the public schools in two or three of our largest and most ideal cities, THE TREATMENT OF INSOMNIA without drugs is of interest to women, the loss of sleep being the great cause of their nerv- ousness and fading. The fine condition of the skin depends greatly on the nerves, which di- rectly control the circulation of the blood. The night bath in which the patient is immersed, except the head, in water at 98° F., quickly raised to 110°, for 15 minutes, and returning, wrapped in blankets, to a warm bed, would in- sure a night's refreshing rest to. many fatigued women and tone to their complexion wonder- fully. Dr. Eccle’s body compress serves a simi- lar purpose, eight yards of heated bandage swathing the hips, the first layer being wet when applied. Both the methods dilate th blood vessels of the trunk, slowing the hear beut and reducing the supply of blood to the whole of the brain, inducing complete rest— rest that smooths out the fine lines in the rose- leaf and fills its tissues with moisture that feeds beria and the Cape of Good Hope, to say noth- ing of Japan, which has seven periodicals of the kind, It was no slight project to enlist the leading men of the profession in this work, which numbers among its contributors the physicians to the empress of Russia and the ueen of Italy, besides half a dozen other court dosiocs; ant ouan princes of the science as Sir Morel Mackenzie, Dr. B, Ward Richard- son of London and nearly every name of weight in this country and Britain, Prof. Seguin of New York and Drs, Minot of Boston, Witherstine and Van Harlingen of Philadel- phia, and the noted physicians of Vienna, Jena, Prague, Copenhagen and Moscow, in all about three hundred distinguished editors, en- thusiastic as they are exact and profound. No wonder thaf last year in this country five hun- dred lives were saved by suggestions from this source, a tribute more exquisite than any praise which could be offered, The seven yoi- umes for last year compress the value of the year’s issue of over three hundred medical journals. Borrow it of your doctor, who ought to have it if he does not, and you will find it highly interesting reading. FOR SKIN DISEASES, Dr. Mackenzie of London suggests a treat- ment for skin diseases which is valuable for improving the complexion, Hot baths, alka line with borax or pearline, or glutinous with bran or rice water, are of value in soothing the skin, removing scales and waste and promoting perspiration, A diaphoretie mixture combined with quinine is given to secure a healthy action of the kidneys, which have much to do with clearing the skin and preventing unsightly fuzziness of the face, A lint mask, steeped in a lotion of glycerole of lead and glycerine,each one ounce, to a pint of water, is of benefit, the lead acting as a sedative aud astringent, curing wrinkles and falling folds of skin. ‘he glycer- ine keeps the surface moist, saturating the epi- dermis and keeping the horny layer of the skin from splitting and scaling asin rough hands or face, The lotion is used till all roughness and irritation disappear, and cocoa butter or cream is rubbed on the skin. This treatment explains the improvement made by the popu- lar preparations of glycerine and tragacanth solution, known as violet glycerine and other names, the lotion keeping the surface moist and elastic, so that the changes of growth and repair pass with greater activity. A cut or wound kept moist by antiseptic dressing heals in half the time it would if left with a dry bandage, THE USE OF COCAINE, The endemic use of cocaine for the relief of obstinate neuralgias is of interest both for its own purpose and as suggesting cosmetic appli- cation, The epidermis is removed by the use of vesicating collodion, ie., by blistering and covering the denuded ‘surface with an India rubber membrane whose edges are securely glued to the surrounding skin. The rubber membrane is provided with a metal shield through which a two per cent solution of the pigment of the eye with color and renders it liquid and clear, which curves the lip ready for a smile and frees the nerve of fear or agi- tation, May it be yours and mine. Suraty Dane. ip HEARTS ARE TRUMPS, Some of the Latest Fads in Silverware Modeled After Cupid’s Target. Diamonds of course are always trumps in the matter of jewelry, but there is no doubt that this season hearts aro ranning them very close for first place in general popularity. Not the simple little cornelian heart that was such a favorite with love-loru swains a genera- tion ago, but hearts of silver, hearts of gold, stone carved in this sentimental shape, in fact anything and everything that is made in the conventionalized shape of that organ, which for centuries has been regarded as the seat of the affections, is bound to be popular with the jewelry-loving people, Itis doubtful if ever the question of shaps alone entered so largely into considerations of this nature as it does this season. As a usual thing a person buying an article of jewelry must needs hesitate and take time to consider and choose between various equally pleasing objects, but that day is past for the time being. Whatever the nature of the arti- cle he may want in the precious metals or stones he may be sure that if he gets it heart- shaped he will be safe and no one can question his taste. If he. wants a silver locket to hang from the end of his key chain and to contain the picture of—well, let us say his sister—he can get it in many styles, but if it is not heart-shaped he must give up all hope of being one of the 400 or whatever the number of desirables may be in Washington. Does he wish a pretty little gold locket to put his own picture in and give to the young person whose face adorns the end of his key chain? Then let it be of the proper shape or he may be sure that not even the picture within it will cause her to go into such ecstacies over it as he would naturally hope to see. And so it is in every line of jewelry. HEARTS, NOTHING BUT HEARTS. Has all creation fallen in love and taken this way of making the fact known? How it must make cynics groan, who say that love in the good oldsense is not tobe found today, when they see these simple emblems of affection on every side. Or are they right and are people only ridiculing love? Why there are even ash receivers, bon bon trays, brooches, pungents, brush backs, manicure trays, picture frames, looking glasses am all imaginable toilet articles made in this one shape. How sweet the sentiment expresse by a fair damsel in surrounding herself or allowing herself to be surrounded by her friends and admirers with a cartload of silver bric-a-brac all formed like a Cupid’s target. Who says itis mock sentimentality? Itis nothing of the sort. It is good honest frankness, or at any rate it isa style started by some enterprising manufact- urer, and lived up to by all proper people be- cause it is the style, IN THE JEWELRY STORES. ASran reporter recently made the grand tour of Washington jewelry stores in search of pretty things to buy. He saw an immense number of things of beauty, but he did not buy much, He does not admire heart-shaped bijou- terie, a8 the French reporter calls it. ‘There 18 uo gainsaying the fact that this city is well supplied with first-class jewelry stores and now that they have bad time to recover from the devastating influence of the holiday trade they seem to be fuller than ever of pretty things. Silver is apparently as popular as ever and there are more novel ideas worked out in that metal than there ever were before. To mention silver-handled razors, scissors, papper cutters, huir brushes, silver | lamps, ce glasses, soap boxes, and complete shaving sets, picture frames, mountings for pen wipers and writing pads, corkscrews and penknives, would be to name but a very small fractjon of the articles of use and beauty that are made in silver. A decided novelty is a handsome little briarwood pipe with clouded amber mouthpiece and the bowl almost entirely covered with an ornamental coating of silver, This article, although retty and desirable for those who like it, GE ug eit ks pee ea places it within the reach of all, and with many the old clay dudeen will still maintain its for- mer popularity, Are you going traveling? Then a real nice thing to take along with you isa silver-handled tooth brush fitted with an elaborate silver case that covers the bristle end, This is something quite new. Useless and extravagant? Notatall. Nothing that is retty is altogether useless, and then when you ring it forth from your satchel everybody elso in the sleeping car will appreciate the fact cocaine is introduced beneath the rubber on the bare skin.directly affecting the nerves, The use of vesicating collodion might solve the problem how to remove superfluous hair in obstinate cases, I have lately seen a lady's face which was a constant distressto its owner on which various forms of dipilatory treatment have been tried without avail improved by similar treatment. Milder means failing to meet her wishes she was provided with a lotion to be used with care, quantity and time of application being strictly set down. But, womanlike, she could think of nothing but the desired improvement in her face and used @ moni supply in one week. The result was fearful blistering, which took days to heal and she was very wroth about it. She came to complain in a high state of dudgoon of the results of her own mistake, to put it mildly, but with a face pinkly white, soft and clear asa child’s. The ae had done its work, though at a cost of needless suffering. The details of case would be highly amusing to the public, though not so mueh to the family friends, afflicted with the care of a hysteric and utéerly vernable woman. But similar cases prove that if women want a heroic cure for superfluous hair the: can get it b Eieiecing tall the outer skin pee! off. “It is less painful than electrolysis and surer. With the cocaine and India rubber membrane the suffe might be greatly re- fering duced. I beg to be e: however, Personally rocommonding the trestment’ A HUMAN TREADMILL. Among the curiosities of disease Dr. Fry re- ports “an interesting and valuable case of a young woman of thirty who had rons heavy mest ae See ve yoare during which the patient executed movements of great rapidity, her u that you are quite somebody. COLLECTING SPOONS, Of late the fad of collecting odd silver spoons has taken a strong hold on people who have plenty of money to spend. Lots of people who have recently returned from Europe are show- ing admiring friends the collections they made while abroad. No two spoons should ever come from the same town, and each should have as much of a story as possible connected ith the place wh manner of gi with the nai jhe demand and are not to be behind in an- swering the call, One of them has something quite original in this line. In answer to the question: “Haven't you <r —— spoons, som “ean beget city, pied know?” yurchaser % wn 8 THE IBSEN FAD. How a Revolution Was Caused In the Maplefield Browning Society. 3. L. Ford tu the Mustrated American. It was Miss Cracklethorpe of Boston who in- troduced the Ibsen craze into our little town of Maplefield by remarking: “And so you have a Browning club and @ Shakespeare society? How very odd! In Boston every one is posi- tively Ibsen mad this winter.” Little did Miss Cracklethorpe think when she uttered these words—carelessly and with the supercilious accent of her caste—that they would precipitate a social revolution in the town of Mapletield. The Browning peop looked hopelessly into the faces of the kesperians, and they, in their turn, gazed blankly at the ceiling. But no one spoke, The trath was that not one of us knew who Tosen was, Then Mrs. Germarne adroitly turned the conversation into other and more navigable channels, and the danger of shock- ing our distinguished guest was past--at least for that moment. The first thing to do was to get together all - information concerning Ibsen, for the frowning society was to mect the following evening. and it would never do for us to be taken off our feet with surprise, as we had been the night before. There was but one to whom we conld appiy, and that wa Lazarus, who lived on Washingto: Was popularly suppoxed to kuow It was in this way that the subject pres itself to each and every memb-r oft me pany. There was no interchange of opinion, ut each one resolved, separately and distinetly, to call on Mra, Lazarus the find out what she knew about th Now Mrs. Lazarus had spent half her life in next day and Ibsen craz: Europe, was a subscriber to several of the best papers in Paris, London and Berlin—and read them, too, more’s the wonder—and was gener- ally several months ahead of usin regard to matters of importanec, though hope ly b hind the light house in local affairs. These she despised, and as she had been known on more than one occasion to snub the women who tried to draw her into the vortex of gossip and eackle she was held in wholesome awe by most of her neighbors. For my own part, I always liked Mrs, Lazarus and, as she had once been good enough to remark that I was not half as big a fool as several other people in the town whom she could name, I had reason to believe that the regard was reciprocal.So when Isaw her late in the afternoon in the town library I made my best bow to her and readily per- mitted myself to be drawn into conversation. “Well, what do you think of Ibsen?” she asked, giving me a keen glauce over the top of her glasses. “To tell you the truth, Mra, Lazarus,” I re- plied, meekly, “I don’t ‘even know who Ibs is, and I never heard of him nntil Miss Cracklethorpe told us he was ull the rage in Boston.” “I thought so, I thought so,” said Mra. Lazarus, nodding her head eagerly, while a gleam of delight, which Idid not quite com- prehend, lit up her face. “You are go to the Browning club to- night, I suppose?” she continued. “Well, so am I, ‘and I expect to enjoy myself very muc but if any one asks you about Ibsen, answer as» you have auswered me and you will lose nothing by it.” The “Brownies,” as they were ironically termed by sume people who are not exactly net at the house of Mra, Fabe Miss Cracklethorpe was, I w the very first on the fie) what Jirs, that something of sing nature Was on the pro- ember of the club bad “happened” to call on her that day and each one had contrived to ask her a few questions about Ibsen. “And what did you tell then But the old lady was not to b ping and simply chuckled with flew glee a she tapped me with her fan—a favorite trick of hers, by the way—and replied: “Never you mind, my dear boy. (io to the Browning club tonight and you will findout.” Thad not been in Mrs. Faber's parlor ten minutes before the guests b to arrive. ” Thad asked. Mrs. Lazarus told the truth when she said I was | not half as big a fool as some of the other men in town, and on this occasion I endeavored to live up to this high plane of intelligence by sedulously coutining my conversation to su jects with which I am familiar, and not ve turing too sear the whirlpool of culture into which the rest of the Brownies were so eager to plunge. [was glad. however, when Mr. Hinton Schuyler arrived and took, wecording to his wont, a leading part in the convers huyler is our local authority on. tr hical research and prides himself rilliant conversstionalist.” He opened the exercises by remarking in a general way as he warmed his hands at the fire that the weather was quite cold, almost as cold, in | fact, as that which Ibsen had encountered on his last journey to the north, “And so this man Ibsen is an arctic ex- plorer,” I said to myself. “Well, 'm learn that much about him, at any rate. Miss Cracklethorpe made no reply to this re mark, and just then Mrs. Speucer and h daughters arrived, and relieved Mr. Schuyler of the conversational burden, I knew that the ¢ ch talk would now be led into artist and I wondered if they would succeed in drag- ging Ibsen into it, The younger Miss Spencer paints onchina and dotes on artists. The elder Miss Spencer has “studied art’—as we all have reason to know. Old Mrs. Spencer has a way of leading the conversatton up to art or china, or both, in order that her daughters may shine init. They had not been in the room a minute before she had made an opening for her eldest daughter to cag of the sunset, “There were really the most superb banks of clouds in the west.” she said, with a fine display of fervor, “‘and then, the sky! No one but an Ibsen could have painted it. Really, it was what might be Miss oe called a genuine Ibsen sky.” ‘A puzzled look came over Miss Crackle- thorpe’s face and was faintly reflected on Mr. Schuyler’s. As for myself, I was glad to learn that Ibsen was not only anfarctic traveler but @ landscape painter as well. While I was chuckling to think that I had amassed all this information without having to undergo the shame and mortification of asking questions young Charley Kenwood entered the room, Mr. Kenwood is admitted by all, even him- self, to be the authority on the literature, tan- guage, history and customs of Germany. Of course it was not long before he found occasion to revert to his favorite theme. This time, to my surprise, he informed us that although he had been for years a close student of Schiller and an ardent admirer of Goethe still he was now compelled to admit that the incomparable Thsen was the only leader of German thought and entitled toa rank far above that of his predecessors. ‘This remark really seemed to make some im- pression on the guest of the evening, for she opened her eyes very wide and was apparently on the point of saying something. I think Mr. Kenwood would have made a more fortunate impression on her if he bad not calied the German poet “Gaiter.” This pronunciation does very well in Mapiefield, but is barred out of the intellectual Athenian circles that Miss Crackiethorpe adorns, About this time the principal members of the Browning club were beginning to look a little foolish, while the conversation, which had been replenished from time to time, was lag- ging dreadfully, when old Mrs, Blimber (who knows everything about electricity) came wheezing into the room, accompanied by Mrs, Lazarus, and fairly frightened us by observing, in a perfectly self-possessed manner: “My, whatacold night for walking! HowI wish Ibsen would perfect his new electric carriage! It will be a perfect godsend to people as stout as lam.” A solemn hush fell upon tke company at these words, Mrs. Blimber seemed to realize that she had in some way contrived to make a fool of herself, and turned a peifully appealing glance at Mrs. Lazarus, who was sitting beside me on the sofa surveying the com any through her gold-rimmed eye g! ere she bent over and whispered to me: “Well, have you found out yet what answers I gave to those intellectual giants who bothered me all the morning with their silly questions about Ibsen?” And just then light began to dawn on me, and I thanked my stars that I had kept out of | South. the great Ibsen on. ——+or____. Good-Bye. bey ‘We say it for an hour or for years; We say it smiling, say it choked with tears; We say it coldly, say it with a kiss; And yet we have no other word than this— “Good-bye.” We have no dearer word for our heart's friend For him who journeys to the world’s far end, And scars our soul with ; thus we say, As unto him who steps it o'er the way— “Good-bye. Alike to those we love and those we hate, parting. x wo We say no more in fe say At life’ ae aa te,S mealies te tom, ba it is Siae bad os the fm Pock, ~* sie for I knew, from | RAILROADS. SHE GREAT T PENNSYLVANIA ROT TO THE NOKTH, WEST, AND SOUTH DOUBLE TRACK, SPLENDID. SCENERY STEAL KAILA) | MAGAIFICE 1 EQUIPMENT. feet Mav rt » <, hwo. TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTOX, PROM STATION, CORNER 6TH AND BSTKEETS AS Pe Dor Pittsburg and the W Limited Ei Ue, with Sleeping rom Tunbus, aud Seeping Cars Hat mond. Ind , ly, Choept Saturday, to With Sleepmg Car Altoous dg Bt Lowy Chicago And Cineinhats Expres 30 p.m Parlor Car Washington to Harreburg, and ers Harrisbore to St. Lous, C Car ft net. apd iinine s. Western Express: Sicoping Cary Washingt Louis, connecting daily at Harrisbune Bicopwrs tor Lowimpille and Mens shia Press, 10:00 p.m. daily, for Pittsburg and the Weak bie 4 through Sleeper to Pittsburg, and Pit jo Chic BALTIMe For kano, Cansudamua Ko daily, except Sunday, > 1) For brs AND POTOMAC RATLROA! tet and Magura Palle New \Glix axp pyitersye ILADELPHL O0"and 1140 a Pere " ee . 2:00, 11 ny 4:10, 10:00 an fied Express of Pui Parior Oats cept Suuday, aud 4.00 pay Car ADELPHIA ONLY. cok daysand 5.10 p.m dally, ¥ r Fast Faprees Fecal 8:00 3 4 - or Boston without 3:19 p.m. every day, For beokiyn, NO, all through trains comnest #8 a b boats of Brooklyn Annex, affords a street, svoding An 0,900 a.m. 12.05end 4:20; daily, rs polis, eaceyt Suucay. Sundayy 90S eau, dell Pin. ALLAANDEIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL~ Bax axe ALLAANDKIA AND WASHINGTON 1890, 40, 9:45, 10:57 Part sk £4 Un Sup ae Pra ice boa pn, 10.07 am, 2 y teave Alexandria for Washington, 6.03, 7:03 OAS LT UG wom hot SAO ley 1, Poe Ly -szand 1106 p.m a ue ad LAs mies Oy AD Oud, Ds 2 pam. ot at the office, northeast ear Dents ivania avenue, and the stution, where orders cau be left for the chee boeaee te destiiatiou frou botcs aud resideboes. is vers Washington to all Arkansas pointe, ‘Columbia, New Orleans, Texas le Car Washington to ti inztou and Ohio division leaw : y and aay 2 arriving Weshimeton 8:30 Pia. Chesa- Chariottesvile at 2:45 ua.” Strasburg looalat 1:47 ms Jickets, sleeping car reservation and information furminbe wecked ut office, 1a - 1300 Penn: seuger station, Pennaylvauke TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agent. Bacrmorr Axv Ono Raxzos, Schedule in effect December 2b, 1889, Leave Waslunxtou trol station corner of New Jersey avenue and C street, For Chicago and express dauty 11 Por Gnciunate, @uily, $10 aud Ls Witisburg and ma 0 pau. and 7203. m veland, Vestibuled Limited iy 11-20.a.tn. ald exprene 8-40 yc Lexington sud Local Statiuus tiv “sem abr Miucheser aud 20m, 10 For Luray. 8:40'p.20. aes pases Week asm, 4:00, 5.00, 6:40, 7: 1,00, 12 Wak AS tatsute Gat 3045 ulinatess, Sli, mee Ei is Bomecroatic tra + between Washington and Balti 5:30 8. 10, 3.20, & oo 2y Sundays, 5:30 wu, Lido 3.25, 4: 6:00, 1:00 pan, and 1 10:15 $0a.m.. $4 -80 and 15-30 pan, For Kocky ad Way Siations, 14:35 p.m. uterhediste polite, "8:00. n leaves Washington on Sunday st 1:10 ug at ail stations op Metropolitan, T1120 am. 191 TS Hagerstown, 11:20 a.m, and 13:30 p.m. ‘Yruinsurrive irom Chicago daily 11-45 a.m, Uo p.in,; from Ciscaimatl and St, Louis daily 3. 41.50 pan., trom Fivsbury 70 am, 6.08 YORK AND PHILADELPHTA DIVISION, ewark and > 00 Ran, “2:30, "4:20 aad *30:30 p.m, Butlet parlor curs on ali rans Slecpine car on the 10:30 p.m., open at 9:00 pm For Pi im Newark, Wiluiueton “2200 mam, "2, OO, 7 te points between Baltumoreand Pha. Mh 12-00, 73-15 Das, rk tor W “8. *6:00 pau end “22: | “rains Jeave Philadelphia for Wash a eel, c1d 10 Mths tl oo, 24 90, Usb ET 80 ee 3 12,00 ma Bum pt Sunda: *Duuy. Sunday only. exe Called for and checked from bovis and rene ners by Uhioh Trausier Co. on orders left a Gakae sd ae. 1So1 Pa ave, and at Depot, » On Oe Gen Pome hat. POTOMAC RIVER BOATS, POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, — ver Landings Gen. Manager. e and Riv ‘. cea. leaves Bephomeage Skeet one Siuiday'at'4 Otcock shui, For further formation apply to STEPHENSON & BRO., mbS-Gm Seventh Street Wharf. AND FORT MONKO) PPOrcLAR ROUTE 1a THE OLD FAVOKILE STEAMER GLORGE b> SPEEDY. SAFE. COMFORT Al Appoutments firstclasa, Table une: Btate roolus large, comfortable and heated by steam. Pullte and attentive officers. Thorough Gc hie: Frou cth-strvet what! MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS at 5 p.m, “The only steamer Bly fare BECOND-CLASS: - z a Tickets and tome at O10 and 1901 aye Hamlere 10th aud F 2 wsad Knot Telephone Re, 7a Pesvete nlp WAL 2. WELCH, Supt. and Gen. Agt ‘ORFO! Areight call at Whart or 1: Call Ok Sha fiouet Omen 10 and 1351 Pa a y's kxpress. INLAND AND 1G COMPANY. Mo? VERNON, Faterround crip, #1, including e@zmiasion toarounde ots