Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1890, Page 12

12 we “teat, ¢ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 WOMAN ON THE WHEEL ians Who Can Ride. IN THE BICYCLE SCHOOL. ‘The Growth of Wheeling as = Recreation for ‘Women—The Experience of = Dealer—How ‘Women Are Taught—The Matters of Dress, Dignity and Grace. HEN A WOMAN takes hold of a thing she sel- dom lets go until it has been thoroughly mas- tered. It isa way she has, and it isequally true of her taste for riding a bicycle as of anything else. She goesat it the premonition that it is going to be hard work to learn to ride, but this does not cause her to wince, once she has started. Many a woman hesitates Ieng before she attempts the dificult task of managing the untamed steed of steel, and it is, perhaps, true that a great many graceful riders are lost to the world sim- ly because the wheel looks so dangerous be- p4 it is tried. But there are, probably, more riders in Washington than in any other city of the country—whether or not the ladies of this part of the country ars more courageous being an open question. The riding of bicycles by women was three years ago regarded the wonderful things to come in the century, one of those events that are to pre- | cede and foreshadow the coming of the millen- nium. ‘The ease with which the world has ac- | cepted this advance of progress, contrary to the general expectation, 1s. perhaps,but charac- | teristic of the present civilization, which takes | everything that comes asa matter of course and simply wonders what the next move will be. Washington has the honor of having harbored | the mind that conceived the idea of making a dieycle suitable for a lady's use, as well as of owning. as one of its fair citizens, the first lady who had the courage to brave the world and push pedals from a saddle hung between two wheels intead of three. Women on wheels had then long been an ordinary sight on the streets, but there were always more than two jbeels to exch woman. NOT A WONDER Now. There is less wonder now than there was at the spectacle of a lady gliding over our smooth streets on her own wheel, without what the sex is sometimes pleased to call the humiliating of a man to help along. Many a lady ‘ed public opinion, as well as her own anf now the appearance of such a rider h less comment than did the first with the little wheels in front” two ‘onthe after their introduction. | spills the fair one on the ground m her progress is much more marked than that of Mim this and, m gr . down if it were in any other serves to get on her wheel from the not the advantage of the litt little bruises are take: \s told, in a whispered bit of contidence by a fair friend, as honorable riders. But that is not in the line of this ac- connt. + Hills are'great bugbears in the way of female riders, but it is refi alacrity and resignation with dismounts from her wheel at the foot of a hard | slope and grumble. mannish riders good, and teach them, maybe, wholesome lesson e a few who needed one more, and one or two who required to be wheeled aroun jumsin and she will on seven different occasions before the Ts the “knack” of els go ahead in | bicfcle or on her fete thing. of i about | joy for a longer time thaa if she had to her fears and 3 + +0 NEW YORK NOTES. awkward Lye jiness of ‘TRE PROPOSED MAMMOTH BRIDGE TO CONNECT STATEN ISLAND WITH NEW JERSEY—IT WILL ‘MAKE BROOKLYN BRIDGE INSIGNIFICANT—TEE MONEY STRINGENCY—LYMPH. Special Correspondence of the Evening Star. New Yonx, Dec. 4. JP S278 THE IMAGINATION on fire to read the details of the great bridge and central railroad station scheme which I outlined in last week's letter to Tre Stax. On Monday the commissioners made public their plan. Nothing like it has been attempted thus far in the history of the world and if carried out it will settle for another decade New York's com- mercial supremacy. To summarize the project & suspension bridge, on which will be laid tracks, will connect this island with the New Jersey shore by a span of 2,800 fect and a mini- mum altitude of 150. This great iron highway to be focused in a grand terminal on Broadway between 87th and 38th streets. From this focus lines will radiate to points on the island by the elevated railroad system and once across the bridge the tracks will spread like an opening fan to every part of the country. Altogether it is thought that fifteen railroads will use the bridge. It is intended to be so strong that trains will dash across it at their full speed of forty miles an hour. By the side of sich a monster span the Brooklyn bridge now numbered among the modern wonders of the world, will sink to bea mere toy. One in- teresting feature deals with » problem that has thus far baffled the suburban prophets. All along the Jersey shore of the Hudson stretches 8 rocky ridge, culminating in the famous pali- sades. Of much natural beauty, heretofore ‘refused to be marketable, but iti now proposed to utilize several miles of this neglected shore. Freight tracks will be run along the edge of cliff and a series of “cbutes ‘constructed, communicating with grain elevators at ‘the level of the river. Grain and coal freights can thus be dumped from the cars right into these chutes and slid into their bins, from which they can be loaded on vessels alongaide the elevators, or for that matter the cargoes could be slid di reetly aboard the ships if desired. ‘The shore is so abrupt that, vessels of the largest draught could tie up to the elevators or to piers, and it is thought that for three miles the river will thus be used as a grand dump for the surplus cereals of the new world that are poured into the lap of the old in return for her manufac- tures or her cash. If this part of the sche is realized it will go far to retain for New York the lion's share of foreign commerce which it now holds. ‘The cost of the bridge and its approaches is put at 250,000,000—a large sum even in these days, but insignificant (I use the word deliberately) in comparison with the gain it will be to the city wud to the railroads. No one at all ac- quainted with the real estate affected would dispute the claim that the appreciation in the value of land due to the improvement would more than equal the expenditure by the time the bridge is finished. only wonder is that this ani lar schemes have not been carried through before; if from no other motive, purely as real estate speculation. No doubt as I write land all along the New Jersey front is jumping a good deal faster and higher than Mark ‘Twain's frog before it was loaded. MERCHANTS GROWING ANXIOUS. A panic often strikes at long range. This seems to be true in the present instance. When Wall street was in the grip of the recent strin- gency it was a common remark all through the mercantile community that the trouble was confined to the gamblers, big and litile, flutter around the stock exchange. very comfortable theory, but it does not seem to be altogether borne out by the facts. Much ‘a8 concentric circles push out further and further when a stone is dropped into a pond, so the stringency is broadening constantly until now there is considerable anxiety all through mercantile centers. The failure of the Rittenhouse mills, in Passaic, on Wednesday has aroused much disquietude in town. It is The main difficulty lies in the mount. It isa comparatively eaay matter to teach a lady how to make the machine move along without help, and it nsually is the case that a beginner ac- complihes this feat during the second lesson. An attendant welks sround by the side of the wheel, and ely fhe rear, with his hand on the mackire, | ¢ tight ines of Tine learner is told to keep on pasuing with her feet,whether the ma- chiue stands straight or not, and this fact is kept constantly befcre her as the trio, the teacher, the rider and the wheel make the cir- it of the yard agw'n and again. tle corfidencs comes te her and she feels more athome than she cad when she bega: The teacher knwa just when the proper time bas ceme to let go ius bold on the whee! and he does so without warning. The machi1; may go wh2ad and it may not. If it should, it never series of wild, cav. sweeps, and a much dix ordered heap, She mass of cloth, joes not like it asmoll braise or two on vi of her anatomy to bear witness to the fa she has not vet bes from her whicel. HOW PRIDE HELPS HER. This has to happen once or twice before the beginner comes to realize how necessary it is to have plenty of confidence while on the ma- chine. She also makes up ner mind that if | that other girl—the one whose graceful per formance caused her to enter the lixts—went 3 parts ; et that taught the act of tumrt ting | it, too, and she does. i ti of the teacher's success. He knows just how badly it hurtsa woman to be beaten by any other woman and he misses no opporuunity to whisper in her ear that she is domg quite as hicely as Misa ‘Soandso over there and that Whatdoyoucaliher. There is art in all ‘be, a certain amount of base and '« purpose und therefore it “goes. ‘The “mount” is hard because a woman has ind, and has fe run and push ¥ enirs by the fair to see the amount of +h & woman | roceeds to push it up without a Fiwould do tome. olde? and me to obverve this quality in | What is Being Talked About in the Busy ‘Metropolis, SENATOR HEARST’S RESIDENCE. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. The Growing Importance of the Manufac- turing Interests of the City. WHAT THE CENSUS RETURNS SHOW AS TO DIS- NESS PROPERTY AND WHAT IT MEANS—BUILD- ING THE ROCK CREEK RAILROAD. A SHOWING THAT will surprise a great many people will be made by the statistics of manufactures of this city. They are nowbeing collected under the supervision of Mr. Harrison Dingman, and he has made such progress that he is able to give, ina general way, some facts showing the expansion of the manufacturing interests of the city during the past decade. It seems ridiculous to speak of the manufac- turing interests of Washington. Every one is 80 necustomed to hear the remark: “Oh, Wash- ington has no manufactures,” that this state- ment has come to be accepted asa literal truth. When the census statistics of ten years ago are considered and when the figures of the present year,are known then it will be understood that this remark i only meant in the sense that Washington has no large manufactures with buildings covering acres and an army of employes. How- ever, the manufactures of this city, although not making a great figure in tho industrial world, still give employment to a very respect- able number of people, and the output is of considerable value. What is more gratifying still is the fact that the manufacturing interests of the city are expanding. Mr. Dingman has about completed the collection of statistics re- quired by the eleventh census, and he is of the opinion ‘that the number of manufacturing establishments located in this city will show an inerease as compared with the number re- ported ten years ago of 75 per cent. That is nota bad showing. Ten years ago, according to census reports, there were 971 places where a manufacturing business was carried on. ‘There has already been re- ported to Mr. Dingman as now located in this city over 2,200 such places, and his special agents have not as yet completed their work. One place was found where they had 325 em- ployes at work, which is the largest number re- orted as connected with any one manufactory ere. itis retty wafe to say that the majority of citizens if told by any person other than a United States census ‘official that there was such an establishment in this city would po- litely but firmly decline to believe the state- ment. Of course, all the places enumerated are not extensive establishments—some are very small. Perhaps a man is engaged in mak- ing some kind of tools in his own house or even, cigars; he is, however, counted as ‘x manufac- turer. In fact, the list embraces every place, both great and small, from the work room where false teeth are made to a foundry where Great iron castings are turned out. Still the number of manufacturing establishments re- ported in tho official books of the eleventh cen- sus aa located here will give Washington a standing in this respect which heretofore she has lacked, not only in the estimation of strangers, but also to a large extent of her own citizens. ‘THE GRoWIXG cITY. It is gratifying to note that this expansion in one phase only of the life of the city has kept terized the city in all its activitit lation, as xhown by the census returns, lias in- creased at the rate of 5,000 each year during the past decade. The business of ‘the city has ‘The popu- TRICT MANUFACTURES—THE ACTIVITY IN BUsI- | to beat pace with the development which has charac- | abo SzSR a eeeilie Instead of the walls height of the main buil ling. they are n second story, where the dormer window in the tiled roof is seen above the stone et of the tion. The Exerior “Yia fished ia hard oods. finished = in 1890—SIXTEEN PAGES. ° rure From the Chicago Mail. WAUTER B WILLIAMS & ox toners, “Hy i is not frand u VALUABLE UNIMPRO’ Sega bi araetgh aS PORTER ACER ununONrD, Roe iY st . FP NT PLAINS, LATNG WES! HERMAN AVENUE AND BEAUTIFULL! Om THURSDAY, DECEMBER ELEVENTH, THRET O'CLOCK P.M, we shall sell, in front of ths etire inert = TSRLOCR I, LOTS 6 AXD 3 Lore Nb SiN BOTS ni > AIN HE OFFICE OF THE avec. TUL BE PAMIMITED AT THE 16 and 17 are inc pose person to be hypnotized. The subject must be uded im thet betaken tn Grant ae. induced to believe that he is actually losing his will power through the work of the operator. That is all there is to it. When I try to mes- merize a patient the only problem before me made | ## this: How can I convince this person that he effective by the rich hangings, wall decorations and the fine paintings and stat- uary, which the taste of Mrs. Hearst has welected wutify the place where she deli come her friends with a generous This fine residence was constructed by Wasl ington workmen, under the superintendence of Mr. Charles A. Langley, the builder. THE ROCK CREEK RAILROAD. The fine weather of the past few weeks has contributed materially to the progress which is no longer a free agent? How can I get him to believe that he can no longer control bis actions? es “There are various ways t go abont this, different methods will succeed best with dif- ferent subjects. Certain conditions in the sub- Ject are absolutely necessary, however. No man can be tized against his will. Itis not necessary that he be a believer in hypno- tism; an honest skoptic makes a first-class sub- fect. But the subject must be open to convic~ cotection having bern tmperted inact by | 0 - VARZHABEDIAN, 1022 CONN. AVE. | Mish ©nd cost N.W.. for the finest retail trade, and are not of the | —° cbaracter usually found st public sales, many of the Pieces having been consined to us direct from the cus tom house and never before offered to the public view. In this stock will be found the CHOICEST AND MOST VALUABLE SPECIMENS Obtainable from Khiva, Bobkara, Dashestan, Baken A E AND TWENTY has been made in the construction of the Rock Creek railroad. This great work, which en- volves the building of a level road for seven miles through the broken country of the Rock ¢reek region, is ns far advanced as the pro- ~~ calculated it would be at this time. e vice president and acting president of the road, Mr. Edward J. Stellwagen, is much fied with what has’ already been done, and the engineer, Mr. W. Kesley Schoeff, expects that the road will be completed at the time fixed, which is the 1st of May next. As is well known this road will run out the line of Connecticut avenue extended to the Dis- trict bounds, and then two miles beyond into Maryland. The grading of the ortion of the road outside of the limits of the istriet is completed and the power house, which is to supply the electric motive power of the road, has been started. ‘This will be lo- cated at the Maryland end of the road. ghe iors of the two large bridges which are to be uilt—one across Rock creek just north of the Woodley bridge and the other farther north— are gradually reaching completion. The en- gineering difficulties in the construction of this road have been very great and its completion in such a chort ‘time will bea remarkable achievement. In addition to building the road those interested in this great enterprise are also laying ont a town in yland which will have a water and sewer system, an electric light plant and macadamized roads. The electric road alone, it is estimated, will half million of dollars, and ig is the i tention to spend large sums of money not ouly in establishing the new town, but also in de- ing the property which ‘the originators enterprise own all along Connecticnt avenue extended. Mr. F. G. Newlands, the president of the Rock Creel road and the Tepresentative of the Sharon estate, which has a large interest in this enter) has been away from the city for sever: ths, but is ex- pected back before long. AT MARSHALL HALL. Mr. J. West Wagner, the architect, has pre- pared plans for a large building which the pro- prictors of Marshall Hall intend to erect, to be used as a dining room at that resort. ‘The old house, which is one of the best-preserved speci- mens of colonial architecture in this vicinity, is to be left intact, but a new dancing pavilion is to be built to take the place of the present structure. A sewerage ape system is to be introduced and a complete electric light plant. Other improvements are.to be carried out under the supervision of Col. McKibben. A HOME YOR THE AGED. A-committce from the Church of the Refor- mation of Capitol Hill, composed of Rev. W. E. Parson, J. C. Slater and Albert F. Fox, in con- mor on atract of land donated Utermehle, widow of the late Y .' The tract comprises 27 aeres and lies vy City on the Queen's Chapel road. ‘the homie at first will be for aged lidics, but it is the intention to enlarge it in the future for the accommodation of both sexes. ‘The members of the church are exert- ‘ion, because my success depends entirel, upon his tlthmate belicfin the fact that hypmotiem cx ists and that he himself is to become its prisoner. No man can hypnotize a subject who sets his mind doggedly against being hypnotized. A Shirvan, Kazak, Shiraz, Karalach, Damaseus, Tehe- Tan, Derbeut, Afghanistan, Herese, Feraghaw, Ous- | chak, Beloochistsn, Khorasan, Bagdad, Coula, Iran, Ineli and Tehitchy, such as Rugs and Carpets for the good operator, however, can very easily pick mane oheseres out the best subjects to operate upon. » fas STAIR, SS he ally Speaking persons of nervous temperaments PARLOR, are most easily influenced. ‘a number of volunteers upon the piatform, 1 soon weed SRAWING BOOM, out those whom I think least likely to prove LIBRARY food subjects, and then commence work upon AND ers. “Ido not always pursue the same course CHAMBER, Very frequently I follow this plan: I insist upon silence in the room—absolute quict. The subjects face a bright gaslight, footlights or a chandelier. They are instructed to close their yes and to shut them close—to press the eye- lids together hard. Under conditions a minute seems ten minutes to the subjects. I slowly walk about them, occasionally touching their heads with my hands. The subjects are motizing themselves. After holding their eyes closely shut for half a minute the sole thought of all is, “Vell, what is all this coming Inall sizes, shapes and designs, making it in all the most tnportant ale of cLoice Oriental productions: ever before offered at public sale in this city, Tobe sold at AIS I, WHEELER, 7 C8 1. CHAT MAS PUBLIC AUCTION AT OUR ART GALLERIES, 920 PENNSYLVANIA ~ AVE. N.We ot, AD. an TUESDaY, sey suuare city of : ea, ane to in theend/’ Then they commence to watch for —— ~~~ pualadaepaensmecnied the slightest new sensation of any kind what- THURSDAY, Shui mle ne third of the porte ever. “If they experience anything new it is at tal the iam tn once set down as the first manifestation of the waiper bu mysterious hypnotic power. At this stage I have frequently scared subjects into complete surrender by making quick passes with my hands before their closed eves. My hands be- ing between the light and the patient shadows dance about over his eyelids and the active imagination at once does the rest. “After holding the evelids tightly cloned for minute they always have a tendency to stick together when the first attempt is made to open the eyes. I increase this by placing my hands above the subject's eyes and pulling the sealp kward from the eyes, at the same time warning him to keep them closed. My action of itself would open his eyes, and to keep his eyes closed he exertsconsiderable force. - Then Tsuddenly release my hold, his eyelids become fairly glued together, and’I say sharply: ‘You t open your eyes!’ He makes one spas- modic attempt to doit and gives up completely Sometimes he succeeds in slowly opening his eyes, but before he has time to see that I am SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 3, 4,5 AND 6, AT11 A.M. AND. P.M. EACH DaY. PUBLIC EXHIBITION MONDAY, DEO. 1, 1800. RATCLIFFE, DARE & 0O., AUCTIONEERS. 8 power contained Red Sand Nt WALTERS. WILLIAMS & Co., Auctioneers 1001 D street, opposite Pennsylvania avenue. Inmaking the announcement of the following GRAND NINETEENTH ANNUAL sale of Silver Plated Ware, manufactured by the world-renowned and celebrated ‘Taunton Silver Piate Company, special tinportance is attached to this sale from the fact that this entire and magnificent stock was manufactured before the “McKinley tariff bill was passed,” thus giving close buyers the opportunity of their lifetime in this *“Spe- cial line of goods.” bo: ‘We shall use every endeavor to make this “*Auction Sale” surpass tle former sales we have made for this old and reliable company, and especially announce that the male will commence MONDAY, DECEMBER FIRST, AT ELEVEN A.M., THREE AND HALF-PAST SEVEN P.M, | And will continue until the entire extraordinary lance Stock is disposed of. Here area few exainples of the | “stock” that will be sold tothe **highest bidder: : Elezant and Unique Electro Silver Plated Ware, I Ported French Clocks, Antique Bronzes of various de- Sicns and colors, Statuettes, Table, Mantel and Clock Ornaments, Enslish Plaques, Fine Imported China, latest desivns, rich in «olor and decoration; Piano and Banquet Lamps, Imported Opera Glasses and Lovely and Exquisite Jewel Cases. Magnificently and Artistically Mounted Bon Bon n. quietly: ‘Pretty time; now close your cyenagain.” | ‘Then the whole scheme is work Lagain, and it generally wins If not I try something else. But after the sub- ject once gives up he is completely at your mercy. All you have to do is toact as if you were thoroughly in earnest and that you never had the slightest donbt about your power to control his actions absolutely. You can make him do anything you desire—sing, dance, whistle, or stand on his head—but go to him the next day and tell him just what Iam tell- ing you now, and an army of hypnotists could not hypnotize him again; he has simply de- ceived himself. If you want to experiment further he must not be undeceived.” near —__+0- A Bee in Her Bonnet. fee Canal c nd Use grown rapidly, as is evidenced by the large Duildings that’ hay e 3 ; te i ; Boxes, Crackers and Hose Jars, Covered Dishes, Ta eee ee corneeee Tay ce, Be, Saab; far | quite probabte that thes tailure will being down | conest fers oc etoriy ion Ge metas one | earns ae om ee Teens,” Hepoume Sets, Hand-engraved Tea Sets, | Hui waps Ne eam eles Semen te He cee ne | ee ern resbecintls Note: oC AraraiAown: © | sr cornds islenr covsiinues ta be snriniereet:| tations: belting’ abet oe tes Eperznes, Tureens, Frait and Berry Bowls, with a | learn, and qnite as plucky when it comes to a | Smith, or at least greatly embarrass them, as | HO"%- A The propert uedintel Peake and nouth ihe Cea. creck, and also matter of a hill. But there are plenty of lady riders who have mastered the difficulties of Capitol Hill, and who now mount it every d on their way to und from office or the shops. ing feature of the real estate market and, per- haps, there is no one thing that is #0 generally discursed as is the present activity in business property. ‘The large prices that have been realized from the sale of a tof the tract of ground. Work on the building will be begun early in the sprin ise full line of the most attractive Toilet Goods in Cell Joid, toxether with our iminense “full line” of Rogers 1847 Table Cutlery. As in all our previons sales special provision will be ys mt ry onthe A ‘. Mr. Ammidowr. was onc of the prineipal stock- holders. There is a good deal of comment on the fact that Mr. Ammidown, who hes been cne of the fozemost protectionista, is among the THE WAY SHE MOUNTS. But although there are row at least a thon- paid for property and the continuation of the COULDN'T FOOL HIM. ore a Fourteenth street hill is a good test for a wo- | first to suffer from the change in the tari per’y Z , iosinaat tory sale. and lady riders in this city—this is the esti- | man, and it is no uncommon occurrence to see | while there le move tng tance cee et ton ne ee Perio =e Partie looking for “Christmas Presents” will fina tt | Sy mate of a well-known dealer in wheels and | parties in the afternoon trying to overeome its | tion in some quarters Over thie. feat there ie | Poo opl ard to understand. © ery | A Special Agent Discovered a Postal Job sreatly to their advantage to attend this brief robably the principal inetructor of the female | Himicultics. ‘Some get ball wey and then pet i poin louched upon by a competen Lot. Bicyelint it i wita gat dificulty that « lady : more widespread expression of a ym | Point _ was mpete : MPORTANT SALE.” off. and others sit down on the curbs very near | pathy with one of the best merchants of “tho | “uthority in the course of a conversation with | One of the best raconteurs in this city, when ad Every article strictly ruaranteed a» represented or ag can be induced toeven think of the idea of | the foot, while a few manage to push all the | city ina disaster which seema to have fallen | ® STAR man. he gets warmed up with his subject, ix ex-Post- ee Aas See peepee Souttnnidings, | and mounting a whe2l and riding along the street | way ap ant ao out toward the Commies wie | erty daaater. which seema to have fallen ‘THE VIEWS OF AN EXPERT. Seitee Geneeal aon Roce discttsing Soe eer oe ee ma, eae, dieing ae. in the face of the world. It makes her, blush | shortened breath, heightened color and proud | of other failures are in the air, but perhaps | Ho said: “There are two reasons WhY men | coaaliesrvise witha Hew York World ce Reppert pad ey eb ieee laa the mate ten for shame. She wouid rather die then think of | hearts. fies are only gle suspicions. which, as Lord | who have lived in this city for a namber of | Pol ern et te lela a oa Kindiy remenber that the sale will commence MON- ing it and «hs almost grows hys a acon ays ‘in icturesque way, are bats it z mere suggestion. The next time that she sees rapa fours beeen ’ igpaigerenad years are unable to appreciate the present situ- i “ ecto ji DAY, DECEMBER FIRST, at ELEVEN A.M. and one of he- own, sex doing so nicely with the | There used to be an idea prevalent among | tht fly by night. ation. They are inclined to regard the present pentane lr ceelisore de beam HALE-TAST SEVEN P-L. ad continae day wa pedals and the hamile bar there is a certain | physicians that bicycling was injurious to the ee ee on activity in businew property as merely specula- |-Gity post omtcun.” he reameck meet ao amount of throbbing around that organ of the | health, and there are even some now whoad-| The greatest interest is felt by the entire | tive. There is, of coune © speculative phase | CHY Post offices,” he remar * Led 4 - body that is commonly called the heart and | here to this belief. But the majority of peo- | ™¢dical fraternity of the city in the discoveries | of the movement, but. this isto be expected, | upervisional business would have to be donein the prele of the woman makes itself felt. “ of Prof. Koch, and much disappointment is cx- | pressed at the non-arrival of some of the prom- ised lymph. A physician in the city, who stands second to none in the treatment of pul- monary disease, expressed the opinion es reonal friend, who repeated it to me, that, in is opinion, the discovcrics were all that the most sanguine could hope. Moreover, he maid that their effect would ‘not be confined to what ‘The truth that people fail to gresp in the pres- ent situation and which gives toi the ambetar: | tial character which, I believe, the fattire will | show that it posseyies, ia the great increase in the busineas of the city, and that people of meaasare investing here who are perfectly will- ing to buy properiy that yields an income of 4 and 5 per cent a year. “There is no about the increase ‘in the businces of ple, it would seem, do not take much stock in | the theory that the exercise gives rise to spinal | complaint, if one may judge from the great success of the dealers in wheels. 0 Was a terrible cry raised against the introduction of wheels for ladies on this same ground, and there Were some dire predictions made as to the mental and physical condition of the next gen- Washington, as it is now, and that, conse- quently, that man should reside in Washing- ton.” Mr. James laughed. “That is nonsense,” he went on. “His place wiil be in this city, where he ought to know and be da his business hore. Why, the i nssarity he bites her lips and begins to think that it does not look so bad after all. By the time that she has reached home sh; has come to the conclu- sion that what that other woman has done she ean do, too, and if any one should happen to seize this favorable opportunity to urge the innovation further she is an easy victim to the rsuasion that she might as well try it, ‘just i “obtaibed construction of ibe Y of Justice in the uestion eration if women a resident of Wash for fun, you know,” to see if she really can ride the machine. ‘THE MATTER OF DRESS. Of course, she has no very definite idea of what awaits her, but she knows that the ma- chine is ewfully treacherous, and that she must be very careful about her dress. That is the Worst worry of all, that gress. Of course, she acertain amount of pride in her costumes and never likes to appear to a diadvantage, even when learning to ride a wheel, so that when her instructor tells her that she must wear the plaines: of plain skirts, without ribs and even—now this is pure, plain fact, and the truth must be told, een though the heaven's fall and somebody ‘tlushes—without a buetle, she is inclined to weaken gnd say that she thinks she will have to let the wheel go rather lose her farbelows. This whim does not last very Icng, however, ard she is soon in the mind again to try it. The heavier she gets the flannel of which to make ber riding dress the better, and the more she sacrifices her taste for flounces and frills the less opportunity has that ogre, the wheel, for «wallowing several yards of cloth belonging toher every time she’ gets on it for a lesson. ‘There is not the slightest danger of entangle- ment if one is but least bit careful about i rof skirts. The dress must be made icyeling, and for nothing else, in order to attain the greatest proficiency. There is noth- ing as constant as failure and accident to a beginner, ebether on a bicycle or off it, and the more'a lady observes the rule never to zo te the bicycle school in her street dress, but to Lave a specia! costume for the purpose of being torn te pieces by the raging wheel, the quicker she will learn and the more graceful she will when she has firally mastered the art of sitting upright on a wheel's saddle, without the semblance of « man around with his band on ‘the rear mud guard. ‘The day for sewing bunches of shot into the skirts of dresses intended for riding wheels has gone by. Ladies’ tailors may still put them into riding habits, but the masters of wheeling schools will never advise the use of weights in the skirt. All that is needed to preserve the natural order of things, and it is very essential that they should be preserved, is that y who rides must keep her dignity at the same time that she does her balance, and to be sure that her sadd’e and handle bar are properly adjusted before she leaves the stable—no, it is not a steble, but something like it. Of course, there are a good many lady riders who do not ama: seserve Doth elements at the same time, but whe lose one while trying to save the ether. This isan unfortunate fate that can, however, be avcided by care and practice. A GREAT INCREASE LATELY. This same authority, who told the Stan's rep- Fesentative the other day how many ladies ride wheels in Washington, went onto say that of that number (4.000) probably 800 learned to ride during the past year. He regarded the increase us natural and as the result of the education of the muses by daily experience, and also the Nietory of common sense cer’ prudery and Of course, not all of this number of ladies own wheels, but they have all learned and do ride at times ‘upon rented wheels. The sale of ladies’ bicycles increases very ray nd now, so said the dealer, there la one sold t6 she often three of ‘the other kind. A great many ladies draw salaries from the government are baying them and using them instead of street cars. He said that he had not yet encountered a ease wherea woman wio hind started to learn to ride had failed to do so. Some, of course, were more backward about learning than others, but all who entered the arena bad, up to that time, con: ‘and how t eral instances in Washington of well-known | physicians buying wheels for their daughters | blood, such as scrofula. He believed that the F an a oe | pale it will just iy the pl ako, that one will never see a girl on a bicycle who has not some claims to beauty. took to riding wheels ‘Notwithstanding the hue | is kuown commonly a# consumption, but ee but would include the whole range of diseases a that were due to un hereditary taint in the nev- ly. discovery was fully equal to Jenner’s and would lead to as complete a revolution in the ratios of because they thought that the exercise Sc cardtie te Sai one time led all diseases ns a Lg + Meador yrange 9 mg Leslie pw insignificant and he predicted that 4s soon us the present generation of hopeless eases had died in the course of nature consumption would beas rare as smallpox is now and as easily haudied whenever sporadic cases appeared. 18 PARNELL DONE. FO! Irishmen here generally talk’of Parnell as a ruined man, while they all marvel at his in- domitable pluck. His moral conformation is « good deal like that of the jaws of a bulldog, he cannot let go even if he wants to, This never= say-die quality, some believe, will mak possible for the Irish cause’ to dinpense with im, whatever his faults. But the general fecling is that he is donc for. Meanwhile many are quoting Macauley’s immortal obser- vation, that there is nothing so ridiculous us one of England's periodical fits of morality. Hexny K. Evi ——o Reward Fivefold. From the New York Sun. A mountaineer and his wife had come down out of the mountains of Kentucky to go to some new location in Tennessee. ‘They had a little “jag” of household goods, und both were dressed poorly. After he hud paid the freight on his goods he lacked a few shilling of having enough to pay their fare. [heard them talk- ing it over’ ay they sat on a baggage truck on Not HURT A BIT. The reason, they say, is evident. The exercise is moderately severe enough to bring into play almost all of the muscles of the body, while it will not fail to give an impetus to the blood that it seldom gets otherwise. Both of these results can hardly fail to be healthful. The warm, bright color that comes to the cheeks ix a sign of health. The hearty appetite that is | engendered by a brisk run before dinner i healthiest sortof hunger. The f ness that makes the pillow so invitiug means a strong body in the morning. and all combined | serve to complete the work of healthgiving | the platform. and health preserving that is begun when a | “We ‘uns will hev to go back, I reckon,” said rson makes his or her initial bow to the | the man. World, but is too often broken off atan early | “But we ‘uns can't go back,” she replied. point in the game of life. No one has ever advised a sick person to take violent exercise, and so, without doubt, it would be folly for a lady of delicate health to undertake to ridea machine without having We ‘uns has sold out and hev no place to goto.” “But what kin we "uns d ‘And they ‘uns won't take us?” first gone through some course of muscle mak-| “No. ing that would fit her for the unusual exertion | “And we ‘uns is in a fix?" of making a machine go. Bus there is no rea-| “Sartin.” son why every woman, barring crij valids, should not learn to ride, and it is safe to predict that in thzce more years it will be quite as natural for a woman to ride a bicycle as it is now fora man. GRACE ON THE WHEEL. One word should be said in conclusion about ry important matter, that of grace. The| h24 told three or four of the boy: teacher does not try to impart very much grace | chipped in ¢5 and handed it to the: man and to his pupil t first. He humors his patient, as | he had the money in hand when the woman re- andin-| “But the Lord is down yere as well as up'n the hills, hain't He?” she asked. suvHl® mMouaht be, but the chances seem agin “” “But T'll go out among the cotton bales and find a spot (pray. The Lowa never: did de- sert His own.” “You mought try it,” he said, doubtingly. urned. “Did you pray?” he asked. round without tumbling and.can manage the | “Yes. machine without help, then he begins to tell| ‘Fur how much?” her things about style in riding that make her| “A dollar. “And the Lord has dun sent us five!" “Then we ‘uns is no in a fix.” “Yere it is and our troubles are over. Tillie, "uns orter down yere twenty years Up thar wi blush a littie, perhaps, but which are whole- some truths. ‘He shows her how to sit on the saddle without having more than half of ber dress Layates one side, and then he gives her inte as to the - om the 5 3 i i i thanks him for afterward when he is | it. Down yere when we uns ax fur the same not around. He adjusts her saddle and handle | He it on ton times over and even to of Other nao out to their | want to know whar we cum from or ‘wiiel full extent when she holds the and her | church we hashd feet reach the pedals without any length of gee,” oor) limb to # 2 he fail to do this and let Reasonable Doubt. her wheel go without proper adjustment she | rrum Puck. will present a most awkward » with |” Blenkinsop—“Don’t fret, my boy, Sante her arms crooked ard her batk bent over, while Claus won't fo ” by her knees will threaten at revolution of won't Serge OBE 5. the pedals to knock against the handle. Tommy “That's all right, dad; Butonce lt her listen to ber inetractionsand Taln’t afraid he'll forgot the tin whistle Tasked stop to wheel herself, so that | for, can't help itwill ‘be° fasta Little different frou what it | abut his recollecting the jand the watch ought to be,and she will lose all of that! and chain.” ¢ city. ‘he great establishments here, which did not exist ten years ago or even five years ego, is pretty good evidence. The business men selves will tell you that the volume of business has doubled two or thzee times i instances, more during the sume period. ‘This meens more stores and larger xtores. Then, ag: was formerly the case, and it is not many yeazs ago, either, that it was regarded necessury for a property purchased as eninvertment to pay at least eight per ceut net. ‘Then such « thing 28 a loan, even a gilt-cdged loan, for leas than six per cent was unheard of. All this time, however. property in sch cities as New York and Philadelphia paid four and five per cent and plenty of money could be obtained at fivé per cout and even less, We are now simply ‘coming to the basis upon which all resl extate stands in other places. People pay high prices for roperty because in the majority of cases, at Kast, whore the purchase ix mate for invest- ment, they find that the rents which th obtain will them return upo: equal to that—and pe than they are gecustomed to obtain in other cities. ‘That is one reason why outside capital flows here, and it is the recognition of this state of affuirs that have made our own citizens so largely prominent in this movement.” SOME O STREET DIPROVEMENTS, The building at the northeast corner of 12th and G streets is being remodeled and refitted, and about January 1 a new national bank will ‘open its doors theze for business. ‘This institn- tion will be known as the Ohio National Bunk, and Mr. John O. Johnson of this city has been chosen to act as cashier until a perianent organization is effected. The location it is expected will, however, be only temporary, as | the property on the northwest corner of ‘12th and G strects has been acquired for the new Lank. It ix proposed to erect on this ite a fine fireproof building, which will be the permanent home of the bank: When this building is com- pleted Mr. Johnson will remove his real estate office to the building on the northeast corner. The G street corners seem to have attractions for real estate men. Washington Danen- hower is located in a handsome new office at the northeast corner of 13th and G streets, while the attractive oftice of MeLach- len & Batchelder is on the northwest corner of 10th and G streets. Mr. Dowling has an office near the corner of 10th strect and now Mr. L. M. Saunders is making arrangements to locate his office on G street. He is remodeling the building’ No. 1215, which he recently pus cusl.eud Maecsere haan eee: cupy his new quarters. SENATOR HEARST'S RESIDENCE. ‘The home of Senator Hearst on New Hamp- shire avenue, just south of Dupont Circle, and occupying the point where 20th and O streets ion because he would be | head of the three otices reminds ine of a special agent's New York doings. Of course he liv | im Washington. Just imagine a man from | Oshkoeh coming to New York to see if the | postmaster of this great city really stood in need of what he had, over his own siguature, | usked for! “Unc day myself and Col. Gayler were greatly taken aback by receiving a certified copy of a report imade to the Postmaster General by an agent who had becn in this city investiguting | the post oftice wants that had been spceitied in | the official communication sent_ to the Post- | master General from this city. I tell you we | looked at one another and scratched our heads j and wondered what had struck us. “What was it? Well, the special charged us with asking, among other things, for a drop- box to be placed on acertain street corner when | we already had one there. It was only a little em of 37 or #8, but the agent took up a witole pase of his report to show how ‘loosely” we did wusiness here, “I got my breatft finally and so did Col. Gay- ler and we determined to look into matters personaily, although we thonght we had done so before we had specified that drop box among our other wants, We went to that street con- you area New Yorker,” ex- could see a box on the ‘a8 within a half block of it. So x. Could it be possible that so ye for the public good as Col. Gayler’s had missed that box and we had delib- erately asked for what we really had? I felt sick at my stomach, Well?” “The special agent was right. There was a box there as we found out when we came to close quarters with the lamppost.” “That put you and Col. Gayler in a bad fix.” “Ob, no. The yey agent, who had known more ubout New York's postal wants than we did, fot into ono soon after.” “How?” “Well, the box on the lamppost was a fire- alarm bo: ‘Taken. ‘From the Chicago Tribune. “In every house, Miss Powelson,” said young | Mr. Haybenslaw, with some hesitation, “there \is a sparo room. It is kept for the use of some honored guests. In every heart, too"—and he |laid his hand impplsively on his own—“there is a spare room——” “And we find in so many heads!” she murmured. eee “Miss Powelson—Irene!” the young man ex- claimed, choking down a ‘and expansive Tump of rising sighs, “in myheart there is s set apart for you” ze room sucredly aeonly one, ‘Mr. Hay! ‘she asked Dea whole suite if you like. More than that! residences, receptly erected here. It is | You aliall have tha en! premises if you'll not strictly speaking # new house, because the | only sayso, and if that isn't enough we'll tear be Shaan ae house down and build bigger.” ex-Secretary hild occupied during the | ““: re ToUm-this eulte of rooms, Ar Cleveland saministration were not taken down | thur.* sail the maiden, sofuy, “that you are progrens extensive changes made | speaking : : by Senator Hearst. With the exception of | "Puja né of how—how are they furnisl ‘ose walls, which are now used as the interior | the walls of the hot structure is entirely ndt week.” Old Brown (bringing out the strap)—“Do you know why I'm going to whip you, my son?” Little ‘Cause T, IMPROVED BY BRICK STREET SOUTHWEST. steel of trust, bearing date on the is: TSN), and pecorded in Tiber one Of the lend records of the Dis ot the request of the holier of tes wear therel we will VESTA Dale? bE ‘Terns of sale: One-third cash two years, or all casi deterret payments sbalance in one and at the option of the be eviden: Payable seiai-annually, secured by on the property sold. Acasl deponit of @1,00 Fequired at the tine of sale, when the Jr = Knocked off. “It the ‘terms ot District of Con rts of lots ni rot the y uw by Dr. BROTHERS, SA on os i Tapia aut for the Distric ‘ue und ‘OF ail tue purchase woney | hha ‘may be paid imcash, at the option of the purchaser, y. A depoalt of #200 will be required at thine of sale, mud all conveyanciug 1 uc at the cost of the Jn'fen day frou: the day” of sale, the trustees Secrrve fa ten aya frou the day. of sale, the trustees rewerve aut to reweil the proper). at the Tiak and cost of a Ssbe. iter ten ‘dayw’ notice N CONTRADICTED THAT he oldest establinbed advertis- cia in the city. Dr. BROTHELS, ve on MES. A. CAM. lar eraduate. Fi jesvou to gaan my TRUATEES SALE OF NEW 2 STORY AMD BASE. | 7 ROFESSIONAL MANSAGE CAN BE OBTATS DWELLING, NO. 219 STREET | PA Oy AL May reference by appiying a a. LD, YOUNG AND MIDDLE AGED. suffer from any special or nervous @iseasa, Poloon eflacts of tadlacpetions ter, wes “G. F. Tueel, am North Fourth st., below nd expo Phy ictan tn the {nit re when all otters fal, nutwittstandig adveruse. Hours, ¥ to acne if loo Dr. Ee ‘outlast corner of said Stare, thence wort Aity four and So 200 fect, Coens Suuthieasterty 5 — STH ST., PHILADELPHL: 15TH ST PHILADELPHIA. DENTISTRY. ER. CLARA W. 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