Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1890, Page 8

8 _—_-_ Die hii aie rae iN oti eee Tet Neer ee THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDA AT THE ART SCHOOL! Something About the Classes at the Corcoran Gallery. allio PLAN OF THE YEAR'S WORK. —-—_—_ How the Schoot was Organized—The Endowment by Mr. Corcoran—Mr. An- drews Director ef Studies—The HE CORCORAN ART School, which has just finished a most success- ful year, 1s rapidly be- coming well known throughout the country as one of the best insti- tutions of its kind this side of the Atlantic, the opinion of such promi- nent artists as those who have but recently exam- ined the drawings of th pupils of the school tending to establish th asa firm fact. Mesers. Hovenden. Boyle and | Newman, the committee of award, said to one of the officials of the Corcoran Gallery that in their estimation the work shown in the annual exhibition of the school would compare favor- ably with that of other similar institutions that haye had longer life and better facilities than that in this city. rd like this for a schoo! that has really in existence for only half a year is one of which ali Washingtonians should be proud, and to judge from the numbers of visitors at the gallery during the three days of the annual exhibit it Would be fair to suppose that the people of the city are beginning to realize this tact and to appreciate the value that has been conferred upon the community by the gener- sity of the late Mr. W. W. Corcoran in found. ing the school as an adjunct to the gallery that bears his name. The school is the growth of a custom, a grad- ualdevelopment, rather than a spontaneous production af any one’s ideas, and dates back | several years to the time when students of art Were first allowed to go to the gallery on cer- tain days of the week and there make copies of h paintings as they might fancy. A vast nt of work, both good and bad, had been in this way, but for a long time there was nothing like regular course of instruction given to the young artists. and as a result a great many very bad copies began to get abroad. which, bearing the mark of being cop- ied from the Corcoran Gallery at Washington, reflected no credit upon that institution, but began to have an opposite effect. THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL, In 1877 Mr. Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, the celebrated portrait painter, whose works in the | White House are world-renowned, came to Washington to estab- “- lish himself here per- manently, and he was, of course, attracted to the art gallery. He noticed the evils that were being done by the promiscuous copying of the gallery's best works, and called the attention of Mr. Corcoran to the fact. offering his assist- ance to bring some sort of order out of tho chaos that then seemed to exist. His services were gladly accepted, and three times each week Mr. Andrewswent wn. £. F. ANDREWS. to the gallery and gave directions to those who went there to copy in such a way that there wus considerably less of the bad work done from the start. His first step toward what afterward became | the Corcoran School of Art was m persuading Miss Hartwell. one of the students in the gal- lery. to give up that sort of work for the ume being and to go down into the cast room an:t work there upon the radimeutary principles of art. He endeavored to get all to do this, but for the first year Miss Hartwell was the only one who took up the ‘This was in the veor 1885, when Mr. Corcoran, who was then alive, made an offer to present a gold medal to the art student who showed the best progress in the work of copying from the casts w line of work im the gullery each year. Miss Hartwell was the first medal winner. The next year there were more pupils went down into the cast room, and the work of instruction began to be aheavy one. The medal of 1886 was awarded to Miss Warner of Detroit, Mieh. TAKING CHARGE OF THE WORK. In the spring of 1887 Mr. Andrews was asked to take complete charge of the work of in- structing students who might come to the gallery to work. although as yet there were no Teguiar hours for the lessons ard everything went im a sort of bap-hazard way. He was then designated the princips! of the Corcoran Art School, which existed as a custom r than an institution. There were thirty dents, fifteen of whom went to the galler certain days and the others on the alternate days. There were no accommodations what- ever, although a great deal of good work was done there. In 1887 Miss Daisy Brown was de- clared winner of the medal, in this year the first real competition taking place for that honor. ENDOWING THE SCHOOL. In Mr. Corcoran’s wil! was a provision that the sum of $100,000 should be given to the Cor- coran Art School, which was thus for the first time created as a specific institution and which thereafter bad a fund of itsown. From this sum about 412.000 was taken to fit up the school in a becoming manner. The gallery owned a small lot at the rear of the ma‘n building, and there was erected, at the cost of about 210.000. the handsome building that is now the home of the school. It is but 30 feet wide, fronting on ith street, abutting upon the famous property of Adiiral Lee, which has a celebrated record as being the bone of contention between its owner and Mr. Corcoran for many years. From the interest of the remnant of the main fund are paid the general expenses of the school, the annual cost the medal and the of the teachers. Last year the first exhibition of the school was made. the drawings being hung in the hall of the Cosmos Club, where they were viewed by hundreds, Miss Lillie Cook wen the medal in the year 1888 and Miss May Minne- gerode last year. The latter young lady is now the assistant to Mr. Andrews and has charge of the work of the pupils of the elementary classes, Bhe base large amount of ability as an artist has won an abundance of praise from all of her critics. not for the quality of her pro- ductions alone, but also for her pluck and per- severance at her chosen profession. The trustees of the gallery have given her the use ef the school rooms for be: couching classes throughout the summer and fall until the opening of the school again in October. Last year she took nearly a score of pupils through the severe tests that are now being applied an- nually to the hosts of applicants for admission to the school and landed them safely into the coveted field of instruction. | others are readily found to take their places, | the antique and three from life, so selected as Stuce the establishment of the school upon a permanent and valuable basis there has each Year been a crowd of students knocking on ‘the doors of the gallery eager for the privi- leges of the course. ‘here is one great attrac- tion that brings these applicants and that is ‘that there is no fee for instruction, th being. by the terms of Mr. Corcoran’ by the custom from the first da: ‘THE EXHIBITION. The school consists of four classes—ele- Wentary, intern. diate, antique and life, in the order of grade. To each of these only students aver fifteen years of age are eligible. Admis- sion to the classes is made upon the examina- tiew of the work of the applicant, submitted to the imstructor under certain regulations, Ap- plicants for the elementary class submit four drawings from the rouad, in outline, in one shade or more. For the intermediate class the new comers must send in four drawings from the round. more than one shade, heads, hands and feet, The requirements for the antique class are more rigid. — four drawings, of which two must be of full length figures iu outline aud correct proportion, the other two showing @ complete knowl: in the use of charcoal or crayon, with full light and shade. For the life class there are re- juired two or more drawings of full length ures from antique or nature elaborated in line, light and shade, or oil or pastel studies from nature that are satisfactory to the com- mittee that examines and passes upon the work that is submitted to the gallery. All these drawings are submitted Sby num- or device on the drawings. = consciously be allowed to of the tests and examina- bers only, the name of the applicant being handed to the curator separately in a memo- = randam with the number This is to secure an abso- lute freedom from favor- itisem, such as might un- influence the judgment of Re ‘the committee of selection. fart plan is followed in ull tions that are carried on in the school, and thus a per- 7 T ‘ectly fair system of com- JTL DAU petition lies at the base of all the work of the institu- THE GOLD MEDAL tion. The school is open DRAWING. every week cay except na- tionnt holidays from October 1 to June 30. For six months, from October te April, the hours are from 9 a.m, to 4 p.m., ad after the 1st of April until 5 p.m, There is :. system of records kept in orJer to see that those who are admitted utilize their time and opportunitics to the best advantage, and if any are found that fail to appreciate the benfits that are thus placed in their way, and donot attend promptly and regularly. their names are dropped and All students are admitted to the gallery to copy such paintings as, in the opinion of the instructor, they are capable of handling, but allsuch work must go through the hands of Mr. Andrews and receive his signature before it is allowed to go out of the gallery. Sach are the general rules of this school, whieh has done a vast amount of good work in the community, and has by its reputation for care and efficiency attracted here art students from other cities that are quite as well equipped with art facilities if not better, In the present competition there was a young lady from Bos- ton and another from ‘Philadelphia, and the Washington students feel very weil pleased to thin’ that they have held their own against competitors from abroad. The conditions were simple—to have been a pupil of the school for & year and to present six drawings, three from to show the progress made by the exhibitor during the year. The award of the medal is each year made by a committee of artists of reputation from other citics, and in former yetrs these committees have included such ames as Neal. Ward, French and Whitridge, men who have achieved fame with their chisels RACING ON THE WING. Birds that are Trained for Long Homeward Flights. TRAINING HOMING PIGEONS. The Washington Federation of F: clers—How the Lofts are Arranged ing Facts About Homers, ———_— HERE is probably no pastime so full of interest as the flying of homing pigeons. During the last é few years special interest m this sport has been man- Fifested here, and now Washington boasts of many lofts stocked with birds that have made records for themselves, Tho sport of pigeon flying can be traced to the Romans and their use to bear tidings of the result of the Olympic games is a matter of history, It has been only in recent years, however, that any marked interest has beon taken in pigeon fly- ing, although the Belgians have devoted a large share of their time to this sport for more than half a century, Several days ago a Srar reporter visited a well-known fancier’s loft to learn something of the habits and peculiar characteristics of the homer. The loft was located on the top of a back building and was provided with a wire sereen extension some fifty fect in diameter. Opening a little door in the side the fancier bade the reporter.enter. Inside everything was featness, and pigeons flew here and there, evidently excited over the intrusion, On each side of the loft were the nests or houses, each nest being built in a terra cotta cup placed within «a boxlike compartment. Several peculiarly shaped opjects on the floor the fancier explained were drinking cups, which supplied water automatically, that is they feed a trough by pressure as soon as it or brushes. Formerly it was the custom to send the drawings to them, but this har lately been found tobe too clumsy a metho”, as the school is so large and there is such. number of competitors, and so the plan nas been edopted to invite the artists to come here, which was the case during the present compett- tion. Miss Rosa Simons, the young lady who, in the opinion of the committee before the iden- tity of her work was known to them, showed the most progress in her studies during the year, is an extremely bright, vivacious young woman. $f endowed with plenty of fit energy and thoroughly! devoted to art. She hay kept steadily at work ever since she gradu- ated from the High School here in 1885, tak- ing up first one branch ¥% and then another under the mstruction of Mr. Andrews, who considers her one of the very best™ of the students who have printed and drawn un- der the auspices of the : Corcoran School, She ™I85 ROSA sIMoNs. is quick in her 1 fe studies and has an especial knack at water-color sketching, which isa diff- cult art to master. She ix a member of one of the leading tennis clubs of the city and has | made ita part of her art duties this summer | to make sketches of each of the other members in their costumes, which are highly prized by the ciub, There tsa large amount of heart und head work in allof her efforts and ehe paints and draws intelligently, with a keen ap- preciation of te capacities of her subject as | well as her own capabilities in handling such matters. Her work this year was pronounced by the committee as being as good as they had ever seen in the same class of school anywhere, a statement that reflected not only great credit upon Miss Simons but also upon the institn- | tion. Miss Simons is about twenty-one years | of age and has time enough before her to make # nome for herself us an artist that will some | day ben credit to the city that furnished her the means to make herseif so proficient in her chosen work, Her father is Mr. Franc Simons, who is employed in the book keepers division of the Treasury Departmeni. His eldest daughter, Mrs. Ernest Lent, is already well known in the musical circles of Wasbing- ton as one of the tinest lady pianists of the city. THE MEDAL. The medal is a handsome piece of work. be- ing of the same design that is struck each year | upon the prize given in the Corcoran School. | it contains 250 worth of | ad costs, with all the ship counted, | about $50. On the cbverse 4 tion portrait | Corcoran, the founder of the gallery and the school, surrounded by the sentiment: “The be- inuing determines the nd.” On the reverse is the | ipuon, as follows:! The Corcoran Gallery of | Art.” “Awarded to itcsa Simons for the greatest im- provement in drawing from casts during the year 1590.” The work of Mrs. Kemonand Mr. George Kauffman was honorabiy mentioned by the | committee, Both of these students “have worked diligently and faithfully aud deserve all the praise that can be contained in a “men- tion” and more too. Mr. Kauffman bas already begaa his professional work as a worker in | !, and has produced some very tine por- traits that have won for him quite a local repu- tation. Although the work ot the other classes was not in competition for any award the com- mittee could not pole paying a tribute to the ¢ Ramsay of Alexandria, entered the school and has worked diligently all the time thatshe has bad. THE INSTRUCTOR, It would not be just to close any sort of men- tion of the Corcoran School of Art without in- troducing its principal, Mr. F. F. Andrews, to readers of Tux Stak. alihong ough through his portrai: painting to need no introduction to anybody who has studied the history of the country. He isa native of Ohio, his great-grandfather, Admiral Lord, having been the first settler of thatetate. The wife of the pioneer was a Selden, a sister of the mother of the late Chief Justice Waite. Since 1387 Mr, Audrews has dwelt here and has been hard ut work at his favorite line at his clarm- ing home on 16th street. He is now engaged on a number of heads of living statesmen and upon. a historical portrait of Dolly Madison. ‘The best of his work is to be found in the White House, including the portraits of Martha Washington, Thos. Jefferson and Garfield, these being life size, 5 by 3 feet, and of Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Wm. Henry Harrisou, James Buchanan and Andrew John- son, Mr. Andrews sails today for Europe. to be gone all the summer, traveling through the country of the Ruine and the Swiss mountains purely for a much-needed and well-earned rest. —_— A Savage Amateur Fight. Two well known’amateur bantams, E, Lober of the National Athletic Ciub and W. Horahan of the Bridge Athletic Clup, fought with two- ounce gloves at the rooms of the Bridge Ath- letic Club in Brooklyn Thursday night. The contest was to have been ten rounds, but thir- teen rounds were necessary to come to a deci- sive conclusion, The me was given to Hora- han, but « great many of the spectators were of | Well, we've he is famous | 18 empty. IN THE PIGEON LorT. “Thisis the prettiest sport in the world” sad the fancier, as he gently lifted a ‘squealer” frowfa nest near by. “The great thing about | it is the interest, whigh never flags, fora fancier always looking to see distance than any othe: How can you distinguish a homing pigeon from one of a common breed?" asked the scPibe, “The shade of the bird resembles a blue rock pigeon, being small and compact witha full his birds fly a greater breast and the head rounded at the top; the eye is prominent, with a deep orange pupil. ‘There are really no points of color,” continued the fancier, “and tor form the one rule is the likeliest for homing purposes, Its a peenliar thing, this innate love for home, tie homing pigeon has. Many poople think’ the attach- ment is for its young, but this is not go, for I have known of humerous cases whore a pair of homers were kept in a loft until dey had young and the moment of their liberation tor- sook their offspring aud returned to their old home. The homer is traly a domestic bird and its love of home is greater thun auything. Another peculiarity is that when a bird selects ch in a loft it will aiways keep it, and if curried away and kept for years will return to its heme and go at once to tx old peroh,” HOW A PANCIER STARTS. ‘an you tell me how to start a ioft?” asked the reporter. “With pleasure. The very first thing, of course, is to construct your loft. This should be ina warm place and have, if possible. a southern exposure, and above ail things be Ingh, for a loft in a low position is liable to be shaded, and, besides the dangers of rats and cats, it has @ tendency to make the birds lazy. the entrance of the pigeons to the loft whould be througk small apertures, each provided haped wire loosely hinged and ar- 1a Tanner that while an entrance can be effected by the bird pushing the wire in they cannot get out. I will explam the neces- sity of this wire after awhile. Now about the nests, All fanciers are more partieula: about this than anything else, iur on it depends in a large degree the th of the bu have always found that a good-sized terra cotta bow! answers the purpose better than anything else. nished with the loft. now about its inmates, It is needless to say that the greater attention paid the first birda the better the offspring will be. “he next and im- portant thing for the amateur to consider is the Management of the birds. They should be kept coyfined until they have bred, that is, of course, if you get them when they are ‘squealers’ (squabs). In case you start with old birds they stould never be ailowed their liberty ly said, they will re- old homes even after years of sep- aration. Suppose your birds hatched in the loft are ready to fly, ‘They have never been outeide the loft, so consequently they could not return toitif letout. But here is where we resort to a trick to teach them their homes. First of ail they are fed bountifully and then liberated. the birds first excursion und, like a de- butante’s first ball. it is frightened, so flying to a place within easy reach it stops and being contented with a full crop remains there until dusk, when it always invariably returns to its house. Now understand me, this isthe way I prefer to train young birds’ when there is no regular flock, ‘Of course if you have a loft of old pigcons.the young ones ‘ean be liberated with them and learn more quickly. The next, and by all means the most important step, is the training of birds with a view to develop- ing their homing faculty, and here it is that the real pleasure of breeding homing pigeons cemes in. Take your young birds that have flown around the house for a few weeks and placiug them in a pigeon basket something like this,” re- marked the fancier, ex- hibiting a long,’ flat wicker basket Eavin several partitions, eac! closed with a lid. “By the use of this basket the birds may be shipped many miles THE PIORON wasKET, without any danger, You now place your racers in the basket and, going about 500 or C00 yards from your loft’ liberate each one separately. The day should be clear and the birds a trifle hungry. Never | liberate a bird in the vicinity of buildings, as it is tempted to alight, and this isa very bad habit to get your racers into. I forgot to men- tion,” continned the fancier, as he came out of the loft, ‘that in liberating a pigeon it should be thrown upward from the hand firmly, care being taken not to disarrange any feathers, Time should be taken when birds are thrown and when they arriv “Lean see very plainly how one ean time a bird when it is liberated, but can’t see how you the opinion that the decision was wrong. It was the most savage amateur fight in that vi- cinity for some timi pence macy ees On the Leper Island. shter Rose Gertrude, who has devoted her- self to work among the lepers of the Sandwich Islands, writes to her Brooklyn friends that although not on the leper island itself she is expericneing to the full all the borrors which foresaw. She is at the reception hospital at Kilihi, Two persons had already in her arms of the dreadiul disease. In company with the board of physicians she has visited Molokai, the leper wheré victims are sent to dic. The arrangements there for the care of the a much better than at the reception hospital. ‘There is plague of moths in Brooklyn and the suburbs of New York. The moths are big, some of thom measuring four with out spread wings, Abraham Emerson of Candia, sou of « suldier who fought is ninety years old. In spit he is in excellent health sprightly. can tell the moment it arrives.” HECORDING THE ARRIVAL. “Oh, that’s easy cnough,” replied tho fan- cier. “There are a number of ways and pat- ented devices todo that. I use this,” he said, hibiting a strange-looking device, “This is what I term ‘THE ELECTRICAL PLATFORM. yon see it consists of two platforms held apart by sensitive springs, Each platform is provided with a metallic pin connected with the two poles of a battery. Assoonas a pigeon alights on the platform a circuit is made and a bell is rung in the house. I have heard of a latform being so arranged that when a bird stinbteda:voll ame rung and camera auto- matically took the bird's picture, together with of the plat- jistake as to of its ar- is not EFeE entrance of its door and passes fn the twan; made by the return o! the wire is the ‘click of the bob.’ Here is a bob,” continued ‘the same fancier. at the ul THE BoB. pail ‘rom staples in the top of the door and of such a length that they would easily swing inwardly, but were prevented from swinging outwardly by a strip of wood nailed along ‘the base of the Qn. “But I have not told you all about training,” said the pigeon man. “After you have success- fully flown your birds from short distance: creas every day, but be gradual, Don't amp from one mile to twenty miles, and above all don't liberate the birds all from one direction, but rather from all quarters, In that way you sce they can get accustomed to the surround- ing country.” " asked the scribe. “After due notice has been given of a race snd the entries are closed the birds aro num- Lered and delivered—sealed—to the starter, who places a secret mark upon each, Arriving atthe starting point he telegraphs the time each birds is liberated and each member must, on the arrival of his bird. telegraph to the Judges the description of the bird together with its number and letter. The fime is taken from the time of handing in the message to the telegraph operator less the allowance for the distance from the loft to the telegraph office. The distances of each bird and’ the time of each ure then taken as a basis of classification of the winners, “What is the meaning of that tiny metal band I notice around tho leg of all your Pigeons?” asked the reporter. “That's what is termed the seamless band. If you look carefully you will notice that each one has numbers upon it. They are the regis- tration marks, ‘This band is placed upon the leg when the bird is only a few weeks old aud its advantages are numerous. For instance, in case a fancier in another city heard of a pizeon being killed with a band upon its leg e would communicate with the Federation of Pigeon Fanciers, and, being a member, could leara of the fate or whereabouts of his bird.” WASHINGTON FEDERATION. There is a federation in this city of pigeon owners known as the Washington Federation of Homing Pigeon Fanciers. The members and the pigeons owned by them and their records are as foliows: S, Wallace, 114 D street northwest, Liberty and Sabine, 625; Cora, Join and Easton, 205. L. Turner, 301 Pomeroy street, White Face and Paris, jr., 525; Long Chance, 247, A. G. Glorius, 320 Florida avenue, Libbie G., 120 miles, the youngest in the city—only three months old; also several others. G. W. Phillips, 477 H ‘street south- west, pair Stovell, 500 miles; also young birds. J, A. Hoffer, 431 N street northwest, Burnt Tail, 500 miles; Silverine, 300 miles.’ H. A. Scllhausen, 620 G street northwest, Thunder, 150 miles, L. A. Schmid, $17 12th street northwest, Line Gown, 715; Easton, sr., 500; Easton. jr.. $25; Broken Toe, | 400; Perch, 363; B. Hawk, & J. H. Stockman, $11 North Cap- itol street, Herman, 120 miles; also several pairs $00-mile birds; Lottie May, 247. F. Miller, 4 E steoet norghwest, '——. W* L. Bisbop. 212 9th street southeast, Lord Sack- ville, 205, and several 300-milers. G. RK. Steb- bins, 1142 5th street northeast, Kraft, 205, and others, Ed Voight, 713 7th street northwest, new fancier; all young birds, H. C. Hile, 814 4th street northwest, Silver Ring, 247, Cres and others, Chas, Whittington, 525 7th str southwest, new fancier. C. H. Bauman, cor- ner 3d and H strect northwest, new fancier. C. Boswell, 417 O street ‘northwest, fancier, B.S. Ringgold aud W. L, 1923 9th street northwest, Long Chance, 247; Virginia Girl, 300, and others. Volney Eaton, 519 T street northwest, several 200 and 300 milers; new fancier. N, Wood, 942 Vir- ginia avenue southwest, Minstrel, 515; Liberty, 401, W. Flight, H 363, and others. W C, Weeden, “Zoo,” Easton, flown from Phil- adelphia, %. L. Roth, 324 llth street south- east, new fancicr, ‘Ed Campbell, 410 1s street northwest, new fancier. ers of the federation are: President, secretary and treasurer, Lewis ‘Lurner; race secretary, Frank Keamer. Among the honorary members are Mrs. E. 5. Starr of the Sporting Lite, Philadelphia, and Samuel W, Taylor of Baltimore own ad breeder of Calumet and Creseent, the 5264 mile champion birds—in 13 houre and 14 minutes, E WASHINGTON CLUB. The following are not members of the feder- ation, but compose what is called the Washing- ton Club, Robert B, Caverly, 1726 15th stree Frank Stump, 942 I street; H.C, K M street; Prof. Kasper, 1217 M street; ) 2100 H street northwest; J.T. street northwest; Albert Lake. members of this club. are owned “Loueugriu,” 515 miles twice, and “Red Hen,” 515 mile “Rosebud.” “Red Eric,” “White Cap,” “Tay- lor” and others, Dr. Latimer. $20 Rt street; W. R. Brown, 2139 Hi street; Frank P. Suter, 19% ylvania avenue; Jobn Wick, 21i4 1 street; H. C. Biscoe, $13 21st strect, and E. A. Harris, 1809 H street, are among the new fanciers.’ ‘The average uumber of birds that each fancier keeps 1s about fifty. —— AN EXPERIMENT IN HYPNOTISM. Mrs. Winsome Tests Her Power, With Somewhat Surprising Results. From the New York Sun. When young Mrs Winsome read about the wonders of hpynotism, and how the hypnotized subject’s will was so completely under control of the operator that he implicitly obeyed every command, she thought in her gentle heart that she would hypnotize Clarence, Al- though they had been married but a brief time, she had discovered that while he was a most devoted husband, there were some ways in which he was not easily led and she had in mind a project that needed his co-operation. That night after dinner and after she had sung for him (the dinner was good and he always liked to hear her sing), Mr. Winsome was suffused with « sense of contentment, and when Mrs, Winsome turned from the piano and said she was going to hypnotize him the declaration did not sirike him‘/as extraordinary; it seemed rather only the promise of an added comfort. “Now Ch nce,” said Mrs. Winsome, “you must go to sleep. I don’t mean so very sound usleep but just some.” f Mr, Winsome leaned back in his chair and feigned somnolence. “Now, sir, go over in that corner and move my chair up by this side of the table.” ir. Winsome arose with the air of a som- nambulist, whose dreams are pleasaut, and obeyed the command, Mrs, Winsome sat down with as much stutcliness and impressiveness as her youthful grace would permit, and then she said: “Bring that basket: place it on the table,” ‘The subject obeyed. “Now, sir,” said the operator, “you will bring that plush footstool and place it under my feet.” Mr. Winsome mechanically complied, but when he had approached he knelt gracefully to fulfil the command, and in the same moment he gently took the hand, which the operator had intuitively put forth to settle the skirt around her feet, and raised it to his lips. This last act had been done without orders, but Mrs, Winsome was not thoroughly familiar with the phenomena of hypnotism, and she gave it but a passing thought; it might be pos- sible for the subject to diverge a little from tne line of strict response without impairing the main current’of compliance, and so long as her orders were obeyed she would not be disturbed by minor incidents. “Now, sir, you will draw that large arm chair up by the other side of the table and you may tonight put the piano stool where you can rest your feet upon it,” ‘These commands were complied with, “You will now go to your room and get a cigar. You will bring it down and sit in the big chair and smoke it, but not too hard.” these orders were obeyed and Mr. Win- some’s apt in the big chair indicated a very considerable degree of comfort, even though he were asleep. “Now, sir, you will hand me §60 to got dross and hat with.” avd ither; youth doesn’t giv: after und, ne py gesagt thet ectane in more than one effort to EUROPEAN CAUSERIE. Max O’Rell’s Interesting Chat on London and Parisian Customs, THE FRENCH SOCIETY LADY. pe — A Hard Day’s Work in High Life—The Academy Revisited—Sadnews in Art— De Tract Societies Convert!—The Future of Highly Educated Girls, saesntlipeecenes ‘Special Correspondence of Tuk EVExING Stan. Lownox, June 25. N PARIS white is no longer the fash- fonable tint for pretty faces The languid ueroine with the small shocs and small | appetite, who rose at n and began the business of her butterfly day a little be- fore sundown, has given place to a vigorous young person, who takes ber morning tub at the same hour as a city cierk, affects a nourish- ing diet of rosbif and kindred foods, and, clad in tailor-mado gown and sensible boots, sallies forth regularly after breakfast to a real English constitational, Tho die-away lady who looks as if she sat up all night reading novels, has few admirors in the Paris of today; to be ia the swim an elegante must be a good walker, a good eater, a good laugher, A hard day's work lies bofore the fashionable Parisienne. She must be scen abroad at 10 with her little dog, walking to the Corcle des Panes or on horscbck in the Bois de Boulogne, getting up her appetite for junch at noon. ‘This is clearly an improvement on the old style of things, for the day of a fashionable woman who had pretensions to beauty used to begin with an hour's sitting at her chamber window to give an air bath to her complexion—a process tiresome at the best. On the way home from the Bois there is, per- haps, some elogant trifle to be tried on at the dress maker's oF milliner’s, After lunch there | are intimate friends to be received and gossiped | with until it y time to be off to picture galler- ies, flower sale: sales of bric-a-brac. Refr with a change of toilet. our belle is next to be | seen at 5 o'clock teas, flitting from one friend's house to another, At 6 she must make her ap- pearance at some garden party—another Eu- Glish institution almost as flourishing as le feeve o'clock, DINNERS ON HIGH. One of the latest fads of fashion is to give dinners on the Eiffel tower. No need for our tired beauty to drive home to change her frock again, for the cream of Parisian society has decided that a high-necked dress and a bonnet form the correct costume for dining in mid air. So the flower-decked litt takes her up to her hostess as she is, and, by and by, re- freshed by a good dinner and the sojourn in the upper atmosphere, she is ready to doi oute wonderful creation of the man milliner and putin an ghee) at the opera ora bail, perhaps both. It is little wonder that she has to call in the aid of ma: and cold douches for her tired nerves and the friendly raw veal cutlet for her complexion. If imitation be the sincerest flattery English society ought to feel very flattered. Since le sport was acclimatized across the channel the tailor-made gown, the low-hecled boot, the constitutional walk, the afternoon tea, the garden party. have all been copied from the British, Occasionally one hears of the most amusing absurdities perpetrated by Anglo- maniacs in France. Not long agoa French fricnd of mine described to mea dinner at which the convives were young mon of hig lif, The menu was excellent, the table appoint- ments perfect, but the great feature of the feast was silence. [t had been agreed before- band thet there should be no conversation, And this was supposed to be “so English, you know'” EYEGLASS, BUT No sTRIxa. The young French dandy takes kindly, too, to the single eyeglass, which, to be really effective, must now be worn without any string. 1 do not mean that the striig takes away from the virtue of the glass, but it has been decided that it detracts from the stylishness of the ele- gant aid to vision. An eyeglass must not now be av appendage, but a part of one’s self. The aim is clearly to show that ‘One is so confident of his ability to maintain the glass in position that a string is needless, The great desideratum is to be able to eat with it, ride with it, dauce with it, laugh with it, :neeze with it (if you can see with it so much the better), in fact, to look as if vou slept with it and found it in its place m the morning. Of course tents will happen to the best regulated eyeglasses, and, necessarily, part of the traming for wearing a stringless one properly is to learn to pick it up nonchalantly when it does stray from home, unless you adopt Mr. Whistler's ; he car- ries a supply in his waistcoat pocket, and if one deserts him replaces the rambler out of this reserve stock, SADNESS IN ART. Since writing to you a few lines on the sub- ject of the sadness that has crept into socie! tastes and pleasures I have taken another stroli round the academy rooms at Burlington House. and been more than ever struck by the the number of dismal wetures in this year's show. As I looked again at a Picture of a corpse washed up by the sea on a dreary beach, and at another can- vas with a solitary dejected figure with its head in its hands and labeled “Sorrow,” [ could not help wondering what such pictures are painted tor, Who buys them? It is casy to understand an artist’ painting misery or death when there is some lesson to be taught | by so doing. Painta lock-out, or a revolution scene, or an eviction, and spare no ugly detail of hollow cheek and sunken eye; paint so that the gazer may read the cruel story in every live, and learn ata glance from the canvas truths that no newspaper account, nay, nor a volume, though written by the pen of a Carlyle, shall bring Lome so forcibly to the heart aud mind. Paint ugly vice and sad ruin, and teach such lessons as Hogarth’s pencil taught, But why, ot. why paint “Sor- vow,” whose mission is only to sadden, and death that has uo message jor the livia; A consumptive girl dying for love of a king, a peasant child Sane to give opportunity fora tine pose in the priest who ho!ds up the cruci- fix; who wants to hang such figures on his wails? Tew girls fade away under the effects of untold love, I am happy to believe, and I am sure no one can wish the number increased by extra ones dying on cauvas. Sorrow is plentiful enough in the world; we waut no painter to remind us of it and paint it per se. And just fancy your wife and family out of town and yourself about to sit down to a solitary dinner, How pleasant to have your gaze meet a stranded corpse as you euter the iamily dining room. “ WAR AND PEACE. Pictures lik® those of Vassilli Verestchagin, which show the miseries of a campaign in all their hideousness, may serve a good purpose in creating a detestation of war in who see them. Nothing short of such a motive in the artist could excuse the portrayal of such horrors. It was during a visit to Chicago sev- eral months ago that 1 saw these pictures, but it will be long before I iorget them. Blood- shed and butchery, three rooms full. Pervad- ing the atmosphere was a smell of carbolic acid which brought back recollections of weeks spent ina military hospital twenty years ago and completed the realistic effect. The build- ing had shortly beforo been a temporary home of a traveling circus, I believe, and carbolic acid had been freely used to remove the odors of the ring. I walked through the rooms, al- ternately sickened and fascinated by the terri- ble realism of the scenes. Beyond the three large rooms devoted to the Russian was a sinall one in which hung a single picture, That picture was Millet’s Angelus, illet’s dear littie Angelus, that hymn of * side of ali this roar and carnage of Bet le. The exhibitor thought, perhaps, that a sedative might be needed after the strong dose of Vassiili Verestchagin, but I imagine that no one who went into that little room after the others was in @ mood to listen to Millet’s of genuine converts made by the emissaries of the various societies who spend so many thou- sands of pounds ster! on the people he shay Sook upon na tooned it Se rgpsine oe as doome: perdition in answer to a bishop, once uid im the bones “Withdraw the army from dia to- wand you will not leave a con’ be- A ing information this for the people spending @ mint who had been of money on Bibles and missionaries in India for a century. I am hed | But the Herald of Mercy, must move, too. Evangelical excursions up the Seine, to Bou- gival and such places on Sundays, would be -he right thing during the summer. Boating costumes, ornamented with biblical texts, should make « sensation. The broad ribbon around the sailor hat would be a capital medium for conveying a text, in condemnation of giddiness for instance. Will these “4 make lytes? I doubt it very much. French don’ like good young men, and the money spent on the tracts might have been better spent at home. It is my firm belief that there is more wickedness in one sa: we mile of London than in th ole of Paris, Oh! the would-be converters of the world! Their conduct, if they are better than their fellow creatures, is pharisaical, and if they are | no better it is ridiculous. If they are worse, it is, some might say, odious, but I will say highly amusing. And so say we all in France. ENGLISH AS SPOKEN. I think that, if I were an American, I shonld not object to catching the English accent, but | all the same I sympathize with the American | who, in a New York papor, bas been exhorting his countrymen to avoid copying the mutilated English affected by some Englishmen, There | [secs ran ase ' sounding r's, for instance, the. I cordially dis- | like. It isa sign of effemmacy and want of | sinow. The incroyables, under the directoire, | | started the absurd trick im France and our young dudes have kept it up, It is their wont | | to talk of their honna bonha, &c.: but if I bad | to choose between the “honor” of two men I | Would try that of the one who put in all its | letters, Sturdy, honest folks who do not shy | At their r's are not likely to shy at other thing: There is something in the speech of a true Se or a Devonshire mau that gives promise of his energy or faithfuiness, If two men came to you, one asking for wack and the other for worruk, which would you be more inclined to employ? Iwent one day to seea Scotch friend of mine married. When the bridegroom, hold- ing the bride's hand, said “I take thee,—, for betterer for worrns,” I thought to myself, “If lwere a girl I should like to be taken’ like | that,” WOXNAN'S MISSION. A terrible calamity has befallen man, A Indy | beaten the senior wrangler of the year at Cambridge by 409 marka, I ata almost inclined to think after all that it is upon woman the calamity hasfallen. If this manly feat leads clever girls to see in themselves possible Miss | Fawcetts the ranks of governesses will swell faster than ever, and a more lamentable result could not be imaged. The army is a huge one already, and the rank and file can com- mand but the most miserable pittances. If I ad to choose a profession for my daughter to rn her living by I would a hundred times sooner doom her to the milliner’s workshop than to the school room. _ Louly hope women willmo more think of imitating Miss Fawcett's exploit than men dia when he swam across of imitating Capt. Webb the channel. woman's brain which nobody doubted), but a hundred lady Wranglers will never prove that woman's mis- sion in the world is the same as man’s. In the animal kingdom, starting trom the lowest organisms, where vou find the difference be- tween the male and female hardly perceptible the further you go up the scale the more ac centuated becomes tie difference between the sexes, In man and woman the dissimilarity is most marked. THE BEST THE LEAST HEARD OF. The more women seek to resemble man the | farther they will remove themscives from him. Electric fluids of the same name repel one another; electric fluids of opposite kinds at- tracteach other, Most of the women who have made a great name for themselves by their brain work have been so many good wives and mothers lost to the world, and in these days of cheap and noisy notoriety espe- ciaily sweet are the words ot the poet of an- tiquity who said that “the best women were those the world heard least of.” Underpaid. and without any definite rank in the househo®., the family governess seems to me to have but two possible gieams of gladness inher lot, Ifshe be fond of children their fresh young affection will keep her heart warm, and if she have any sense of humor the Gay note occasionally struck by a little pupil will prevent her from forgetting how to laugh, I have today had sent to me by a governess the following: Governess—“What is a continent?” Dead silence. Governess—“Does no one know?" Johnny (aged cight)—“I know. It'ea place where people go when they're mmried.” A CHECK ON CABDIES, What has become of Mrs. Podgers? It is Years since I saw the uame of the valiant indy mm the papers, The police eourte know her uo | ‘more. Was it Puxch that extinguished her? | His picture of the eabbier, all disappearing | under the table of cabmen’s shelter, as one | cries out: “Mrs, Podgers is coming,” ' was too | much for her perhaps, If she still takes an | interest in things “cabbical” she will rejoice to hear thatin one country at least the ex- | tortionate monster who holds the cab reins is | about to have a check put upon him that will | be quieter aud more eifectaal than her own plan of holding out selection of coins and daring him to take more than his due, on pain of being called to account for it before a magis- trate. In Paris a reckoning machine is going to be placed im each cab to give the hirer of it an exact eccount of the distance traveled and the e fare due the driver. Among the clauses | of the new reguiation I tiud the followin, | “When the driver is ordered to drive at a pace, the fare will be reckoned at the rate of eight kilometers an hour, in other words, at the same ate as ordinary pace.” This would meet the | case of a young spoony coupie,whom I remem- ber hearing of years ago, They hailed eabby and the gentleman gave his directions, “You w Champ-Elysses to the Are de then to the entrance of the Bois tme see—oh! then back again, ¥ slowly all the time.” Cabby took note of the pair and replied, touching his hat respectfully: “All right guy'nor, only my ‘oss is rather tired; if you don’t mind, 1’l! just stand still.” Max O'Rew. Senna ned A CRACKER ROMANCE, Exhaling the Odor of the Florida Pine Woods and Turpentine Gin. From the Osceola News, } Last Friday morning bright gnd early two men stepped into Heinson & Dow's saloon and gota drink of gin. They stood at the bar and chatted with Mr. Dow awhile and took more By this time the oldest of the stranzers began to feel enthused and became quite com- municative, He told Mr.Dow he was a widowor, but had got tired of his widowhood and had | advertised for a wife. who was to be bere from Connecticut that night. His bride-elect wanted him to meet her half way between Florida and Connecticut, but he wrote her he could not venture further north than Kissimmee, so she hed to come here. He made forty miles of the distance and she made 1,500 miles of it. He made several trips to the depot during the day, but spent most of his time drinking turpentine gin and talking of his bride. By the middle of the afternoon he was the center of observation and the topic of conver- sation, for he had pretty well advertised his business in town and had invited quite a crowd | to. go with him to meet the train and see his bride. At the hour for the train to come there were sixty of the boys at the depot, and when the train pulled in he made a rush for the first | passenger coach, where he saw several dies. but not seeing the bow on the left shoulder as a he thought she had not come and hallooed to his friends, “Boys, she has not come;” but at this moment some one told him she was in | | | | the waiting room and he called again, ‘Boys, she’s come.” Some oue ted he get a car- riage to take her to the hotel, but he said, id, “No, bring my ox cart around; she cau ride in that,” After they ali had arrived at the Wisconsin House sume one of the crowd asked him if he | something slipshod about speech beret of | 4 | | AS AN ENGLISHMAN SEES US, A Well-Known British Traveler aud fis linpressions, HE GOES IX RAPTURES OVER THE CRARMING FRD- ERAL CITY—MOW WESTERN CITIES sUAPRT&D WIN—HIS ESTIMATE OF AMERICANS —ENCLISM FEELING FOR GEORG t WASHINGTON. In America all roads lead to Washington *ooner or later, and travelers from aii parts of the world whe come here to study and admire What they are pleased to call the “inherent Sreatnessof the American character” know that they must come to the capital city or their study will be incomplete. Great trav- elers and other interesting people from every country on the globe inscribe their names some time or other upon tie registers of Wash- ington hotels, but it is not often that a more traveled or more interesting person is to be seen hero than agentioman who bas been at Willard’s for more than a week past, He is Mr. Merton Russell Cotes, F.R.G.8, of Bourne- mouth, England, and the rest of the world traveling through the Jnited States with bis and his son, Mr. Bertie Cotes, and will spend a month or more in the east before sail- ing for home. Mr. Russell Cotes, who is a man of great wealth, is the owner of the Royal Bath Hotel at Bournemouth, and of this famous re- ort he has made ap entirely umque and origi- nalestabhshment Traveling and his hotel are his two fads, OpprITies IX A MOTEL, He is said to have spent hundreds of thou- sands of pounds upon his house, which has been described as the one hotel of England. His own personality is expressed throughout the hotel, to whose decorations he has con- tributed 4 vast deal from his extensive travels, section ia furnished with examples of Japanese workmanship which were collected during @ x mouths’ trip through Japan. Another will probably be enriched by bis travels during the last few months through this country, Mr. Russell Cotes is '@ friend of the Prince of Wales, and during the latter's visit to Bournemouth Russell Cotes gave a banqaet in his houor t) was considered to be one of the most magn: cent ever given in England KNOWN AN A TRAVELER, As a traveler he is even more widely known, He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical So- ciety, this honor having been conferred upon hima as a te imonial to his valtable$additions ige trom bis researches iu the Ha- wide, Such men as Stanley and Da Chailla are mombers of the society, and with Mr. Stanley Mr. Russell Cotes is on terms of close acquaintanceship. Speaking of him to- day to a Stax reporter he suid that it is only question of time when Stanley becomes a really great governor ere. in the Congo region. itis hardly li y, however, that it will be possible tor Miss Dorothy Teunant, Mrs. Stanley that is to be, to accompany him into the heart of Africa on his next trip, MIS TRIP THROUGH AMERICA. Mr. Russell Cotes and his party have taken an extended trip through the west im order te learn more of the real nature of the country. They came over to the West Indies, across the Isthmus of Panama and up by steamer to San Francisco and then across the continent by slow stages, making very many stops b west and east of the Rock Speaking of trip Mr. Russell Cotes said that the fi that strack him was the amazing advai American business interests were mal Jamaica and the other West Indies. English seem tobe ata standstill, while the Americans are rapidly forging ahead, putting up handsome buildings and branching cut all possible lines of progress. BIS IMPRESSION. “Waat strikes me most favorably sbout America?” said Mr. Russell Cotes to Tur Stax reporter. “Briefly, everything. We are im- mensely pleased with everything we have seen and done. But perhaps the characteris about Americans that most favorabiy maproses foreigners is their wonde: aud self reliance. FE) y man mr abilitics and has to ask favors of no ow: That is notso much the case with us. I wae in the west for several mouths and I could oni, wonderatthe progress that the country bas macs in the few brief years of ite existence. The people out there have push and energy, ‘They feel they cau do things and they goabead and do them. They have a great deal of con- ceit about it all, or perhaps I had better enil it self complaccucy. For example, Calitoraians talk so much of their wonderful fruit-growing resources. True, they have them toa marked degree, but there are other scctious of tho world, like parts of India aud Australi leave them behind even on that scor not understand me as trying to underrate The citie the part of this wonderful country the natural advantages, the resources, scenery are simply too much for one mi attempt to describe with fairness, San cisco, Denver, Kansas City and Chicago all ia turn Were a surprise tome. Que canuot real- . aze unul one has secu. THE MOST CHARMING CITY. “What city delighted us the most? Washing- ton, by al! odds, I never have seen a more charming city nor one that was so pleasing from every point of view. There is no city im the world that has such a wealth of marble structures, except, perhaps, one or two in ¢ tral India, ‘The public buildings are a o tinual source of ple e and surprise and I see notlung that an Englishman could possibly criticise unfavorably. As for the Capitol, well words fail me there, It is one of the most magnificent buildiugs in the world, both trom> without and within, and the oftener I see it the more I like it, Heally, you know, every- thing about here as lovely and the sul which remind me greatly of Devo: delightful But here I am rapidi " ali the stock of favorable adjectives I have in my possession and i wili have nothing left to | describe my IMPRESSIONS OF MOUNT VERNON, the most interesting and delight‘ the country to me. Its mavural beaut more than that the wealth of historic memories that hang around it, unite to make even more than interesting. A queer sentiment for an Englishman to express, you think’ N all, The truth of itis that you Au hardly appreciate the interest and affection that Engiand has for America today. More, I think, by a great deal than Americans have for the English. While it i of course trae that Washington was the very embodiment of the spirit that separated the two countries, ret his memory, really { s cherished with much i belie the same feeling by us as by you. may 6 to be expressing this “a little stro but Thardly think I am, Whatever is A interests an Englishman, I have ju in from a visit to the spot where Mr. Gard fell, He was a man who was®really great, and lam sure that he was more gener- is amore popular boys’ book in England today or oue that an Englis father would rather give to his son than the story of the boy that came from the cabin to the White House; from the towpath to the bighest office of a great country.” —-— — eee — — Left Leggedoess. From the Ninetecnth Century. There is = popular idea that because the right arm is more often used and stronger than the left, so the right leg is stronger than the left. This is not correct; there is evidence that the left leg in most people is stronger night and the fore limb moves with the igft hind limb, vice versa. It follows from this that Hi using the right arm more than the left, woul had a marriage license. He said no, but would like to have some of them to go for it for him, aie Dalen aeie Cee esis he we as pay for the license. Judge J he eee tee eee The boys it sympathizing during the day he drank mi the left » a a