Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1891, Page 7

wimooaus 8 HOUSE. A WOMANS CLUB. The SP Its Home} in This City. ALL FOR WOMAN'S SAKE. Plan of the Organization—Proposed Erec- tion of a Commodious Bullding—Pres- ent Quarters of the Club—Otfcers and Members. W YOMEN HAVE A CLUB HOUSE IN THIS the home of Wimodaughsis, 1406 @ street. This new organization of women was incorporated June 2, 1890. and its scope of work, while so far almost entirely experimental, bas broadened out in many ways and begins already toshow results. ‘The purpose in found- ing this society was to establish a headquarters at the capital of the nation where women en- aged in any honorable avocation, in any mis- whether it be pnrely for the social or for physical or mental improvement of woman- vired plans. start such an exper It was a big undertaking to tand one which seemed to most peop -y waste of strength and endeavor. jectors, however, whose ideas have long since got beyond the ordinary vision of women, made the start and the com- fortabie quarters in which Wimodaughsis has Deen established since last fall is the result. HOW MONEY 18 RAISED. Wimodaughsis is organized as @ joint stock company and will issue stock not to exceed $200,000. The first ixsue of 5,000 shares at $5 each was immedi- tely placed on the market and 200 shares were subseribed. When $1,000 of these eub- in Wimodaughsis will at es marcbase of a suitable site, where the future ome of the elub will be built. That building is the object for which the organization intends to work zealously. It is a great idea, and does eredit to the minds that have planned it. PRESIDENT ANNA F. SHAW. Wimodanghsis wants a building with an audi- tormm large enough to accommodate all the large gatherings which come here year after year for their annnal sessions. First of all ‘they wants place where the mmmal conven- tions of National American Woman Suf- frage Association, the Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union, the Association of Collegiate Alumnw, the "Woman's Relief Corps, the Woman's Press Association, the Red Cross, Labor and Indian associations, federations of clubs and all the other societies of women can meet for their stated deliberations. As a purely business speculation the scheme is a good one. In connection with the aaditorium there will be comtnittee rooms for the executive sessions of the above organizations where they may keep a permanent headquarters. LIBRARY AND PARLORS, The building will also contain a library, reading and reception rooms, an art gallery and rooms for classes, a thoroughly equipped gymnasiam, a natatorium and any other mod- ern facility for instruction oramusement. The iors and the library may become the meet- ing ground for the members and their friends and especially for that constantly increasing class of working women who have no homes of their own nor suitable accommodations where they live to talk with their friends. In fact Wimodaughsis wants to provide itself and all and chairs for the pupils. In the front room | is the nicely arranged library. The room is | comfortable, always a bright fire in the grate and some easy chairs drawn up around it. There is a writing table and a drop light on it. | The library does not yet make a very imposing show, but it is gradually growing. “At present readers can always find many of the leading newspapers of the country. n every day from § o'clock night. Both rich nen have already enjoyed its bene- ho are especially fond of reading buy the membership tickets this reason alone. Many of sin the departments, art stadents and others, whore working hours leave them the opportunity for reading, are regular attendants in the library. ‘The studio is located in the third story front and is under the direction of Frank G. Double- dis d Miss Ida A. ewer. Rev. Anna Shaw, 3 cy Anthony, Chapman, Miss Weeks, Mrs. Foard, Mrs. Kleptish and Mra. Coler.’ Most of them are employed in the de- partments, ‘THEY CAME JO THE FRONT. There has been just a shade of objection to Wimodaughsis on the part of the anti-woman wuffragiste, fearing it was going to be a suffrage association in reality. Thisarose from the fact that the Woman's Suffrage Association were the first to rent rooms in the building, but, as Miss Desha, the secretary, says, if they had not gladly accepied the helping of the suffragists and temperance people Wimodaughsis coukl not have mace the start it has. In connection with the house Mrs. Harriet Lincoln Coolidge, who has been an enthusiastic worker from the start, has established a chape- rone and guide bureau, and there isa bureau of information as to’ hotels and boarding | houses, both of which are already in successful operation. In fact, women who care to avail themselves of all its privilegescan make the Wimodaughsis parlors their meeting ground and their head- quarters. ; The expenses of the house are paid by membership fees. For the privileges of the library and taition in any one of the classes the charge is 50 cents a month and for the use of the library and tuition in the art class it costs @lamonth. So far about 150 or 200 of these tickets have been sold each month and this with the rent from the rooms has made the house so far entirely self-supporting. All money received for the sile of stock is at once placed in bank and is not used for the run- ning expenses. OFFICE HOLDERS AND STOCKHOLDERS. Stockholders are entitled to ail the privileges of the house, which include, besides those named, invitations toa weekly entertainment. The board of directors are: Rev. Anna H. Shaw, president: Adelaide Johnson, vice presi- dent; Mary Desha, secretary: Emma M. Gillett, treasurer; Eliza Titus Ward, Fanny N. Edwards and Luey E. Anthony, trustees. And here is a partial : Miss Susan B. An- thony, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mra. Jane . Sy Miss Clara’ Barton, Miss Al Fletcher, Mrs. Josephine Henry, Mrs. Caroline E, Merrick, Mrs. Louisa Southworth, Miss Sara Winthrop ‘Smith, Mrs. Clara B. Colby, Mra. Rachel Foster Avery, Mrs. Catharine P. Wal- lace, Mrs. E. M.S. Marble, Mra. Laura M. Johns, Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, Mrs. Martha E. Root, Miss Phabe W. Couzins. Mrs. Jen- nette M. Bradley, Mise Carrie Wilson, Mre. M. A. Kellogg, Mise Emma Schubert, Miss M. D. Miller, Mrs. E. Mrs. Nelson Tuns- ler, Mra. R.C. Hunter, Mrs. Josepha H. Hough- ton, Mrs. M. Y. Brown, Miss M. J. Snowden, Mrs. L. J. K. Clark, Mrs. Bertha Merrill, Mrs. J.C. Kelton, Mra.’ Henderson Presnell, Dr. Mary D. Hussey, Miss Olive Risley Seward, Miss Annie Tolman Smith, Mrs. Hattie L: Seribner, Miss Lida Harper, Miss Anna F. Katherine Winston, Mrs. Wm. is idge, Mrs. C. Breckinridge, Miss 8. P. Breckinridge, Miss Lucy Howard Pickett, Mrs. Alice Pickett Akers, Mrs. L. H. Bolls, Mrs. Wm. M. Stewart, Miss Mary Flagler, Mrs. . Newburgh, Mrs. 8. D. LaFetra, } Agnew, Mrs. "Ruth C. Dennison,” Mrs. McPherson, Mrs. M.E. Myers : Boone Cheshire, Caroline B. Winslow, M.D.; Mrs. D.S. Lamb, Mrs. M. V. Johnson, Mrs. 3 Mary A. Lerch, Mrs. ‘y J. Claudy, Miss Carrie’ §. Catlin, Mrs. Kate Walker. Mrs. Martha K. Hampso: Sallie B. Joslin, Miss Agnes Hall, Mrs. Lizzie M. Murphy, Mrs. Catherine ¥. Madeira, Mrs. Alex. Kent. —— Opals are Lacky Now. From the Chicazo Tribune. Two men went intoaState street jewelry house the other day. One of them pointed to astone inatray and said: “There is an opal: please let me see it,” and the salesman handed it out. The second man was horrified. “The superstition about misfortune or bad luck lurking somewhere in this beautiful stone,” said the salesman, “has well nigh van- ished. The fact is there is a notion now extant that the opal is a talisman. So you see there is nothing in this idea of stones being one thins or goes hes 80 far as good luck or bad is con- cerned. If there had been anything in it the opal would be as unlucky now as it was in the beginning.” “What you say may be true,” said the man who had asked tosee the stone. “Ihave no superstition about the opal and never had any. But I know a brother merchant of yours, not far from here, one of the largest dealers in the city, who would not carry an opal in stock. If acnstomer wants one he will order it, but he won't have one in his house on sale. ‘And yet he is avensible and successful man in business.” qguamainsy es Se The Rage for Hot Milk. New York Letter im the St. Louis Republic. By the by, there has never been so much vogue given to milk as there is just now. In fact, there are hundreds of clubmen who have never seen as much since they went from one bottle toanother. Youare asked to have a glass of hot milk, or a glass of hot vichy, just as you women who care to enjoy its advantages, whether they are permanent‘ or but transient residents of Washington, with a headquarters where they meet women for mutual im- provement and mutual help, and from which great ideas for the furtherance of all good projects may be disseminated. Such are the plans ahead and what has been done thus far is only the simple foundation. VICE PRESIDENT ADELAIDE JOHNSON. Before Wimodangbsis could hope to interestany one outside of its first loyal founders, it felt that it was imperative that it should hang out its shingle upon its own home. The house was rented by Miss Mary Desha, who is the efficient secretary of the organization and the only southern woman on the board of directors. At t the house serves all the purposes of the lub and every room in it is ocenpied. A CENTRAL POINT. It at once attracted the interest of several of the organizations of women who keep perma- neut headquarters here, and believing that women should help women they have trans- ferred their offices to this building. Down in the basement the Woman's Tribune has found a new heme for itself. ai ‘Seis ee? ¢ maia floor the two orga tions of women in this country have their head- quarters. At the left side of the hall the two parlors are rented by the Woman's rage Amociation. and the Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union hold their business sessions in the Wimodaughsis parlors on the left and have a permaent headquarters in the Foom just above on the second floor. These lors are rented nearly every night in the week to some club or organization. ‘The indian Association meets there ouce a month, the French Club every Friday night. A musical lab and a literary club have also nights in every week. Organizations of women who have laudable purposes in view and want a chance to discus thea are welcome to these pari when they are not otherwise occupied, there is no charge if they cannot afford it, CLASSES FOR INSTRUCTION. ‘Wimedanghais has already in successful op- eration a veries of classes in which the follow- ~~ are asked to have a cup of tea or some creme de menthe. Ina cut glass goblet, standing on a bright-hued plate, the milk and vichy is par- ticularly appetizing, and it is marvelous how much of it the men drink. Now, this isn't the result of preaching «temperance sermon. It is the result of offering a simple drink in an attractive manner. Service in this world means so much, and really it seems to be more appre- ciated by men than by women. A boiled potato and a piece of beefsteak on a hot plate, with a glittering silver fork and a bright steel knife, with the butter in a dainty little pat and the bread in a smooth cut piece, with the whitest of napery, is more appetizing than a dinner of twenty courses served in a careless fashion. ——_< ‘The Lungs end Adipose, From the Pittsburg Dispaten What is it that makes astors and actresses in- clined to stoutness? The question is still more pertinent concerning singers. “It requires tlesh to sing,” said a dramatic critic. But is flesh the cause or effect? According to the latest experiments on physical treatment it is possible to add this flesh by the simple and sys- tematic expansion of the lungs in a pure at- mosphere. It has long been the custom of some people to try this scheme of increasing their weight by wind, but beyond their own satisfaction it has not until recently been sus- pected of material benefit. Now it is said that & pare atmosphere and active and extreme ex- sion of the lungs greatly assist in the assiua- ilation of food and results in an increased ten- deney to fleshiness. The people of the ros trum and the siage must continually fight — eee Home Tule und Aspbalt. From the Pittsburg Csreni. A four-year-old boy, whom we will call Jimmy, lived not long ago with his parents on one of the numerous cast end streets, which we will designate by the name of Mud. ‘Multitades of east enders will recognize their own avenue under this name. ‘That is, if they dig deep enongh to reach it. ter. Jimmy's parents moved to a paved strect and bis mamma gave him this litte lec- ‘ta ‘ow, Jimmy, you must not get yourself all muddied up as you used to. We live on an as- phalt street now and you have no excuse for not keeping clean.” Soon after this Jimmy was playing near bis new home with some bad boys and he picked Up a profane word or two. tas saeco ne on eoteats aageioemee of his mamma Was sev il whereupon he inquired: Fics from side to side and bumped along on the ties. Passengers were tossed out of their seats and ! fing specivities sre taught: Art needlework, | French. Spanish, Gesman, shorthand, type- writing and psinting and dr ‘The class room i; oa the second floor and has i WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, 24, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. SMITH TAKES THE NEGATIVE Domestic Bliss as Seen in Various Lights—A ‘Conversation at the Club. From the New York Times. “There has been a great deal written about & woman's no,” said my friend Smith one even ing at the club as we were smoking away the remembrance of a disastrous rubber; like eternity. words fail to describe its a1 THE EVENING STAR: MR. BLAINE’S SHOW. He is Sending an Expedition This Week to Gather the Materials, came over. Costumed figures will represent them as they wore found of the supplemented by models of their and representations e such as working in gold, bronze and with feathers and textile play in this section of ancien: a bellows and losing flesh like Succi, I warrant “Well, of course we did what all young con- ples do under such circumstances. We ‘we rowed, we danced together, we even read Poetry aloud, and throve upon it, too, a des- te diversion, as I rhall prove to you in a few moments. Yes, and we quarreled too, es- y if we missed being together for a single the day. How marriage molds pur natu ith ite daily blows it forges sen- timent into senses. Now we might be separated for weeks without the slightest recrimination. “She liked me, too, I was sure, more from Uneonscious avowals than from anything she said. Had I attempted to follow the purport of her remarks, indeed. I should have been like one who wanders in maze and continually re- turns to the starting point. 5! dictory that memory was always waging war Besides, she was frivolous when earnest and earnest when she should be frivolous. She had an embarrassing habit of laughing at nothing, which she would render more exasperating by explaining that she was laughing at me. T used to cali her Miss Contrariety; and do you know, sometimes now I will so call her without thinking, and then you should eee the children stare and cry mamma, what pretty red cheeks you hav “T often think that the pretenses which young iris put forth during courtship are like thick linge which prevents tho sun from wooing the tender flower too ardently icato essence which otherwise sould escape for- “What was that about jerked beef? You would interrupt a noo- hb ‘McGinty,’ I really believe, but tocontinue—like brotherly love. We, of course, had many e discussion rej tender’ passion, just as children with hay cutters and razors. She would ma‘ tain that a woman, and I that a man, was more capable of a pure, constant re instance Penelope and Griselda; ter with Orpheus and Werthoer. When we be- came a trifle heated, she would quote ‘Man's love isa thing apart,” and I would retort with ‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’ sparks would fly! She had e habit of drawl- ingly saying, ‘Oh, you think #0, do you?” which would fairly madden me, and yet I would love her the more for her sauciness. in our dear ones is like their _photographs—it makes us think more of them, for we know how much nicer they really are. “It would never recall Jezebel as a conserva- tive type, would it?” “Perish the unmannerly thought! We need to have many a fierce encounter, too, about Twas wont to say that it was the only jewei that women did not crave. would reply that in man it could be found only hat they were apt to the consistency of pudding. One day she was boasting of her own steadfastness i igon with my yacillation. So I is ‘Well, be consistent for once. Marry me, for I’know that you love me.’ it I had thrown my arms around her neck and had kissed her then Lam sure that she would have Fielded, for the tirst kiss is the rubicon of love. ere was invitation, too, in the ebb and flo f But I stood like a gillie ina pillory. So she plucked up courage and smartly answered, ‘Despite your superior knowledge of say no, and I'll stand by it, t00, to prove my consistency until that same no “She swept @ Martha Was! and then glided away over the lawn like Daphne escaping from a dunder-headed Apollo; nor did the roguish gleam which flashed from her hazel eyes lighten the midnight of my soul. fe rest of that day in a litt where a white-coated magician named Mike evoked spirits. I never have cared for cocktails since; there is some- thing sickish about the sugar in them, isn't there? Well, I was so tired by bedtime that Mike had to help me to my room, for which service I gave him my watch and all the money yet Tconld not sleep. words, that “she would"be obdurate until no es, haunted me like one’s shadow at I resolved to make one last deter- mined effort. Twonld woo her through my cruel dictum for my text. ted the rhym- ils and then sufiixed the rest of the lines. Iknow that I was awfully thirsty when I fin- ished, but that may have been caused by the TEN DOLLARS FOR A WIFE. Women Are Not Rated at Fancy Prices Among the Alaskans. From the Chicago Times. “Some years ago I bought a wife for $10 and paid the money into her mother's hands.” The anthor of this somewhat novel statement FAR UP NORTH. Some of the Wonders of Iceland's Strenge From Murray's Magazine There is no country in the known world Where volcanic eruptions have been #0 numer- ous asin Iceland, of have beea spread over so was N. B. Drazal, the well-known owner of the | large a surface. No part of the isle is wholly mati gold mines in Arizona, who yester- | free from the marks of voloanic agenc; day sat in the midst of a pile of quartz and ore | it may be traly called the abode of subter- in his room at the Palmer House. a representation of the idols Yueatan and Nicaragua will be illustrated by pulous cities of the Tol- be on view of the ship in which Cortez and his followers sailed; likewise relics of Cortez. The wonderful arts of the ancient Peruvians, their monev and their meth- ods of burial will be exhibited. EPOCH OF THE SPANISH VICEROYS. The next section will illustrate the epoch of the Spanish viceroys, with their portraits and numerous relics of the Inquisition in South America. After this will come the revolutions, which separated from the crown its colonies in the new world. And finally will be shown the period of the in which the most important object exhil will be man, as he ix found in the republics of the southiand. Hix manner of living and oc- cupations will be shown by models and photo- graphs, illustrating race and tribal character- potentialities.” t suggested that pessimistical premise?” “I was thinking of my wife,” he replied D NAVY COMMISSION | relics from the one. tecs, &c. Models wil Vesuvins is dwarfed imto imsig- “I confess to this part ofa decidedly erratic | nificance by the twenty volcanoes of Iceland, career,” he continued, “because it was a mat-| all of them larger. ter of necessity with me at the time. It was in | eruption in Iceland, in 187 Alaska, where you can't get men to work for | putod to contain 31,000,000,000 of cubic feet, love or money. With a small amount of both | while the largest eription of Vi of these I obtained the services of as hard a | record, that of 1794, only threw ont worker and as absolute a slave as the greatest | of cubic feet of lava. Some of the Icelandic tyrant could have asked. The girl was twenty-| inkes are studded with volcanic isles, Years old, balf Russian and half Indian. | miniature Strange to say she had blue eves and though | crate coarsely featured, was remarkably pretty. “ Harrisburg, an Alaska town, from hich I started on a prospecting tour 200 miles e was with me eight months, did absolutely all the work, rowed the boat, built temporary tents, fished, bunted, | cooked. and when not at work followed me like a faithful dog. When we returned to ber er again to her parenta, who seemed not a bit more happy at her safe return than they had been Ten Commissioners for the Latin-American Republies—What They Are Going for and How They Expect to Get It—The Pan- American Show at Chicago. ‘A woman's nay doth flood at the last stand for naught” There's a difference for He'd been divorced for so that he had forgotten Anne Hathaway's features, much more her negative. A di- vorced man becomes a bachelor quicker than any one else in the world excep i And what do bachelors know abont it? Wait until you're married, and then you'll find a very bleck mark before that es it a ten-strike every “But Seott described women as uncertain,” I was so contra- ‘Written for The Evening Star. ECRETARY BLAD ee ie Wali ‘S$ EXPEDITION TO South America in behalf of the world’s fair is on the point of starting. This country knows something already of his hopes and plans for i in trade between the United States and the latin repul Strombelis, whose bases green with @ c growth of angvlica and grasses. Even In the bosom of the sea, off the const, there are About the end of January, 3, flames were observed reing from the sea about thirty miles off ( lasted several months unt commence? 200 miles away in the interior, when they disappeared, and islets emerged from the sea in this place. Another volcanic feature te the Solfatara val- Jers plains studded with | elinped hillocks, from whose topa jets of” steam In other places boilin | from the ground «ix to cight f as in New Zealand. ‘Baught which into the interior. of the continent. Not a Little toward the results he is aiming at is ex- Pected to be achieved by the opportunity which these nations of the south will be given at Chi- ¢ag6 of showing what they have to sell and, in cidentally, what they want to buy. ‘The ten energetic young officers, four of them 4clected from the army and six from the navy, who are going as commissioners from the United States to the sister republics have been attending for the last few weeks a sort of pri- mary class at the Smithsonian Institution here. Tnasmuch as their duty will be to collect mate- rial of every possible description for the expo- sition, it was necessary that they ehould have a rudimentary acquaintance with certain arts not ordinarily taught at West Point or An- “Seott’s women have no tongues; they weep, they endure, they submit. You might just as y can crimson with rage. Kevhjanes: they a terrible eruption well claim that You never prac to the extent of sit cases. There's the pl There is a del A Cow yours age Tooks rr in court and listening to home I turned to test a woman's no. xamination only puts exclamation points after it. A man will often qualify and modify, because he gets confused; the more confused a woman is the more obstinate she becomes.” “It’s her only resource, poor thi ertia is a purely feminine force. “It's a resistless force when it once gets we do not understand will be secured of the indigenous peoples in their war array, engaged in their sports or otherwise employed according to toms. Models of houses, villa; will be offered to view. the people of these little-known countries eat, sleep, amuse themselves, dress and dispose of Fine arts and manufactures will be illustrated by works of artand manufactured products. Raw products, agricultural and otherwise,will be displayed. Mines and mining will be illustrated also, with models and tographs showing methods employed, an The same will be done for agriculture, and tho birds, beasts and_ bugs will have their place. ‘There wiil be stuffed and living speci- mens of the domesticated animal the guanaco, the vicun All the trades will have repre: likewise the methods of transportation in use. FISHERMEN AND HUNTERS. In this section of the present will likewise be shown the methods of the fisherman and the hunter—nets and traps, vegetable poisons to kill fish with, blow tubes for shooting arrows at Iilustration will be given of various modes of fire making, ways of cooking and processes for preserving food. There will be a collection of narcotics, ixtoxicants and stimu- lunts. But space fails for enumerating more than a small fraction of what will be displayed at this marvelous Pan-American exhibition. Ail the steamer lines car flag between this country and South America have offered free transportation to the com- missioners and their families. Also they will all collections sent by the e Latin Republics and the East Indies. For private exhibits they will reduce their usual rates to one-half, and pns- senger fares during the exposition will be cut down to the actual cost of You said a little while since number of low, cone “But there was serious time of it when I Salifornia. I took the boat to row out to the steamer, while «he atood on the shore actually creaming with despair. In those eight | crust where literally fre and brimstone are in months the girlhad taken a position in my | incessant action, heving before your eyes ter mind which neither a slave nor a servant | rible proofs of what ix going on beneath you, usually occupies, and it was difficult to with- | enveloped in vapors, vou I did give in sufficiently to | order the boat rowed back to shore iu order to once more kiss her good-by this, is common in Alasi turne by whistlin: Standing on the feeble ing. The fact is, dungerous qualities of a woman’ r i We take lovers’ fancies It pleases our manliness to think of them as weak, gentle and tender. Look out for the cat's clawa, I say!” “But think of the Sisters of Charity. Con- sider Esther and Ruth and the daughter of Jephthah and Mary.” “But think of the harpies and the sirens. Consider Jael and Judith and the daughter of Herodias!” he retorted. mercy was a trifle strained, I think.” h, but they were strong minded. ell, when we argue regardin, don't look to paresis for exataples, do we? are more apt to speak of Cromwell and Wash- apoleon as elder brothers, who were unfortunate enough to die before we were ‘The trouble is, you youn, women by girls instead Cubs are always cunn’ ‘But your mother- “One's mother is sacred, of course; and ap- preciative maternity converts women into angels. But if you must have recourse to that old stock argument, consider ‘Then your eyes m ut how pleasant it is to there's the rub. When you dream you “Still, one must keep one’s ideals.” “They quickly become mummified when in the cerecloth of experience. I re- well how I used to rave about Helen and Cleopatra and Mary Queen of Scots. I over their woes and vow that death kiss from their ears stunned with Ax to the hot springs, those in Reykjadal, Slavery, such as | though not the most magnificent, are perhaps * the | the most curious among th largest and most worthless lot on the face of | nomena of this sort The women are equally brutal in thing, but the: stand her tears. rd. She would the valley you see column from different pat of apertures in» sort of platform of rock. The dit rines two or A river flows through midst of which « jet of boal- ume trom a rock And then the thetr tastes and are trained and accustomed to bard work fr missionaries have ac- complished nothing to alter this state of af- fairs, and, indeed, it sometimes scems to me | the valle: that nothing followed in the train of the mis-| ing wat sionaries but drunkenness and immorality. | raised but a fe The prospectors and others who go up there | of the rive are compelled to recognize this system of | cave of Surt, which is sc slavery and actually buy the women or they | penetrated to its inner tors | scenes nature seems WHAT THEY ARE LEARNING. For example, they have been imbibing in- mee of gathering, presery- ing and transmitting specimens of all sorts— animal, vegetable and mineral. No little study is requisite for a comprehension of the proper ring and packing for ship- cohol or otherwise, perisha- ri . among other things, the ex- Pedition is to make collections of the well as the flora, of the countries th rated to, largely in the shape of stuffed crea- tures and skeletons in the rough. ist Ridgway has Foung officers some notions of taxidermy by showing them how to ski their infaney. struetion in the The quality of their Sach conduct ie the grotto o rge that noone has ave deserted all ber methods of pre ment, in cans of can accomplish nothing. are usually not wealthy and cannot afford to | ordinary operati ‘n out from the states. take a force of in combining the her powers can ¢ in his brains, and een giving the English sparrows, i hand nets after dusk on ivy-clad » Curator Smillie has given” them lessons in photography, so that they may bring back pictures of whatever is interesting, and Prof. Clarke has demonstrated for their benefit the manner in which “squeezes” of sculptures and inscriptions ought to be made, &c. ‘MR. BLAINE'S INTEREST. Mr. Blaine is infensely interested in securing ‘great Pan-American exhibition at the Chi His design is that it shall be in its nature two-fold—commercial and historical. It rogress of civilization , Central America and Mexico by showing the condition of those countries at the time of their discovery by Eu- ropeans and by tracing their development since Pictures will be given by means of lay tigures, costumes, houses and industries represented of those people which are least civ- t present, because they will afford the se obtainable of the life on the con- uturies ago. Also the amplest show- ing will be given of, the resources and indus- tries of these regions now, and incidentally will things which our ne the south produce and have to THE YOUNG ComMt@sIONERS carry with them letters from the Department of State at Washington to the respective gov- ernments, the work being so divided that one ofticer attends to Pern and Bolivia, Chili, and so on. selves known as d of the United States t interest the authorities in the exposition to that many of the re- sed to put up their own A Rush street belle was surprised the other day to receive an invitation of which the fol- lowing is the substance: ‘Mr. —— presents his compliments to Miss nests her company to the charity he Auditorium, Thursday, Jan. 8, 1891. Awaiting and hoping’ for an early and favor- able reply, we are, yours very truly, ‘the surrounding solitud carry free of char; WHISKY OF vernments of tl It Did Not Tancle Men All Up Like the Modern Article. From the Seattle Tins “More than one-half of. the men that are ar- n to the police headquarters are crazy drunk,” mide veteran officer to the Seattle Times reporter. is something about the whisky men drink now- adays that winds ther uz twists them all up and fumb a ehapeless mass,” he ago, back east, it was nothing unusual to see @ man getso that his legs would all twist up and his tongue wo: now and thea, but be seh like men do nowadays. day we hada man up here that had too much of that Jacksou «treet whisky of her cheeks. oarding the people _ The writer of this most remarkable effusion a young business man who is @ big downtown concern and who proportion of the correspondence, of course signing the firm's name thereto. in business that he concluded his invita- tion with the stereotyped sentence quoted climax, signed the firm's The fair recipient, however, ap- preciated the situation, and the young man was th nderstrack to receive a letter addressed to him personally, but containing the following reply to his invitation: aLessus. Buaxk & Co.—Yr. favor of recent date to hand and contents noted. say we accept the hold the goods orde instructions. Very respectfully, my affections, THE MOQUI SNAKE DANCE. Ghost Dancing is Sedateness Itself in Com: parison With It. From the Chicago Tribune. “Benjamin Brink, Moqui, Ariz. on the register at the Palmer House yesterday were lightly purchased by proudly curved lips. Now! weep over Menelaus rnley; and when I think of living with one of them in a two-story and base- ment brick house, with one servant, on $2,500 year, why, instead of thrilling, I’ shiver, sir; “You argue from # particular to general as that truth bas swept clean ‘And they say that is man’s superior in subtlety and duplicity, in obduracy and remorselessness. Even Jupiter Tonans, at whose frown the uni- ivered, dare not shake hit 1 locks when Juno came around. iy pe the skies with him! And Hercules skulk hind Omphale’s skirts like a whi you ignore all the ten ston courtesy wiil illustrate the standing all up, d Anthony and their ideas into above, and, to cap the by a robust-looking man of sixty, somewhat stoop-shouldered. get @ little thick m got crazy drunk, Why, just the other ‘No; I select ty] from the dust of! “From what I have heard of the ‘ghost dance,’” said Mr. Brink, “I cannot see why it should stir up such a row. The ‘ I believe, is ten times more exciting and the Zani, Navajo and Moqui Indians on the reser- vation, near my home, work themselves into a perfect frenzy during its progress, but never think of molesting the whites. It is part of their religion, though, and if any attempt were made to stop it’ believe there would be bloodshed. place once in two years. ebrated in July. roposition therein made and red subject to yr. further be displayed al all right, but he minute and weep like Explanations and apologies followed and the invitation was duly accepted, but the matter was too good to be kept ceret and for the man in front of This is a great age of provement, but I don't believ have improved on the muse, taking h ‘ender fiddlesticks! Did you ever hear of ‘They wore the fiercest fighters They didn’t hesitate to mutilate res, and it makes some m shaved. How about Semiramis ed beef about therr tender- Who led the mobs in the Reign of Terror? Who starved the pl eges?_ Who used the Tofana? Who were the Petroleuses, th “What is the matter with you, Smit ed. “I never heard any one rave so. What makes you so misogynic? should found a new sect of Agamists, like the Shakers. Come, what is it ingles query,““How's business?” suftices to drive him franti ——+0- —___ He Finished the Prayer. From the Chicago Tribune. 5 ‘The Rev. W. H. Holmes of the Methodist Church of South Evanston was notified while conducting prayer meeting Tuesday night that a burglar was ransacking the parsonage next not let it disturb his devotions. He had left his five-year-old son alone in the house, and the boy was lying on a sofa when he sawa strange man enter. presence of mind and pretended. to be aslee Until the man had passed out of the room an gone upstairs. Then he jumped up and ran to The dance takes ‘The last one was cel- reparations were made sev- eral weeks before it came off and I was as anxious to bea spectator as they were. A stranger or wilder ceremony I never saw. I hope I shall never see it_ again. lace just before sundown and I got up on lodge, where I_ could ge allowed for the dancers was not Fifteen fine-lool Having thus made them- ——— representatives will do their best to officer had to saw off this interesting disserta- tion on whisky to go below and unlock « prie- oner, but everybody agreed that he spoke asan “Perhapa the yerses were dry,” I snggested. My friend Smith ignored ¢ He opened his pocket boo! paper yellow with age, which he reverently “See,” he exclaimed, “here they are. She gave them to me after we were married. Shall i read them to you?” “Yes,” I hesitated, “if they are short as well And he read as follows: “If No were Yes, and Yes were No, and Jeanne d’ Ar: md drew out a publies will be di exhibition buildings, for which reserved on the fair grounds. them as are not so inclined all the room they want will be provided at Chicago in a structure urpose at Unele Sam's tes will communicate with museums, scientific societies and botanical gardens with 'a view to securing collections from them. ‘They will advertise for the benefit i cts they are working for and will make some purchases ir addition. Con- gress is expected to appropriate a considerable sum fo: buying collections historical and ethno- Efforts wili be made to secure the attendance at the exposition of? ‘native artisans, woodearvers, basket and others, who will ply “He Laughs Best Who Langhs Last.” » good view. door, but he did. daly erected for the large and was inclosed. g x ae began to walk rather slowly at first in the center of the in most naked, and ever part of their bodies, even to their feet, was smeared with red and_green paint had a fox’s scalp dangling froma his waist and in each hand carried a rattle made of a gourd. Hoofs of deer were tied around their ankles and wrists and at each step and mov. f the arm noise enough around ® huge ston closure. They wei You know I won't He maintained bis “TL raid I was thinking of my wife, didn’t I, Well, of course she didn’t want ome here tonight—she never does, don’t yw. Her ‘some othe: time’ is subject to mtinual adjournment. A club at best is buta poor husbands’ % a bill on my way home and was without any I asked her to lerd mea Women always have some tucked away in their 1 believe it grows there—and credit here is about exhausted.” when I began? It No were Yes, and Yes were “If No were Yos, and Yes were No, ‘The Mr. Holmes was in the middle of « prayer timid wouid the bo! when he was startled by the exclamation: “Papa, there's a sirange man in the house!” for amoment and then aver, betraying no sign of excitement. Mrs. Holmes, however, burried out of the church, followed by three young men of the congregation. the house, but the thief evidently saw them ted by the back door as mt. The young men gave chase, however, and overtook him, but failed tohold him. He broke away from’ them after ggle and succeeded in making his escape. ‘The party then returned to the prayer meeting nd continued the service. ‘The thief was interrupted before he had se- cured anything of value, altho ch some of the drawers contained many valuable articles. — oN Fancifal Derivations. From the Dallas (Texas) News. The San Angelo (Tex.) Enterprise says: “The term ‘greaser,’ as applied to Mexicans of the lower classes, was not started. 4 signification of disrespect, but was applied by & witty war correspondent in 1846, just after the battle of Palo Alto, to those Mexicans who had foresworn allegiance to their own country and in preferenee to fighting taken the task of ling and unloading provision train, which consisted mostly of bac they gained the name of the ‘greaser br Whatever the term implies, it is mu than the Enterprise supposes. It was known to the United States volunteers who came to what is now the Indian territory in 1831, at the end of the Black Hawk war. The story that the name Maverick, applied to yearling cattle, was given on accountof the head of the San Autouio family of that name is was in use in Louisiana part of the United States. ‘To Eplarge the White House. From the New York Telegram. When Mrs. Harrison came to Washington to preside over the Executive Mansion she passed upon it the just criticism that while it might serve well enongh asa public office and for re- ceptions it afforded no adequate accommodation or facilities for the home life of a President and his family. She therefore snggested an ex- tension of it which has won widespread ap- While we are wasting millions annually upon ornate federal buildings in small cities and towns which will not grow up to these struct- ures for twenty years or more, we certainly it #0 hose our Chief Magiscate decentiy The White House is « uistoric building, but it is not the pleasantest abode in the and from the "3 ae. before the fete, jad been placed in a cluste> of trees beneath where stood. After the mon had yelled till they were hoarse. and had made themselves tired with stamping on the ground, inted redskins came rushing down a hill, filed into the inclosure, and then began tumult as I never want to hear again. xty-five now thoroughl; le arash for the grove where . Each man eame rush- ing back with a wriggling and squirming snake, teeth o it could not bite * gan 2 slow walk ind the center stone. ‘The reptiles hissed and dashed their tails and bodies around the necks of the apparentl; of them were such as potters, we makers, motal workei their various crafts at the fair. WHAT THEY WILL COLLECT. Among the things which the commissioners will collect on their own account will be cos- tures, plants, birds, mammals, tools, utensils— everything, in short, that will contribute to illusirate the lives, surroundings and habits of The m.ni-ter hesitas If No were es, amd Les were No, *If No were Yes, and Yes were No,” st weal frow Woe, caught several da before the dance They hastened to And wellness would tien Ue grace, If No were ses, and Les were NO. coming, for he dej the, utered the “Sho said ‘No, with force enongh to shut and wh eee lock the front door. So I rushed out of the and when I came down she met me and helped me on with my sweetly as they y cranky—a sort o” malting: process from starch to sugar, eh? But it didn't go down with me. It’s always the w room to get read At a given signal the ey will make photographs of, an frantic men ms tography will be par procuring of likenesses of native types, so that, with the picturesand the costumes, life- elscan be produced here. From the squeezes produced in papier mache of sculptures und in- luster productions will be turned do when they larly applied to the No were Yes, and Yes were its neck between hit by cogmetries, whic ies I'd vn thee, dear, fh he had gone A man works the bones a bureau that skin the livelong day and if he ves a few moments of rational recreation in heated plowsbares and blazing Talk about types. “Ts that ‘all?” I asked, as he folded the pre- mad red men. itten by the snakes, which were the most venomous in the country. wonder all of the performers were ot bitten. Two of them died a day or two after the dance, the herbs applied not’ being sufficient to draw out the poison. “After the ceremony each man snatched hi snake from his mouth, ran down into the vailey below, and there the’ reptiles were set free. ans were thoroughly exhausted after lent exercise and could searcely crawl back up the hill. From what I could learn such ceremonies as the ‘snake dance’ have been held for centuries.” caldrons block the w: Jezebel is the most conservative type in bis- y, wh! why didn’t Adam hug his sides n be was fool cnough to go to sleep in the open air? Such conduct surely was ribald.” Here my friend Smith groaned aloud, and, thrusting his hands into the side pockets of his coat, hung his head and stretched himself dis- consolately in is cha ill choose that in the exhibits they wend ‘ their fine arts shall be well repre- sented, inasmuch as their schools of painting and sculpture are equal to our own. iy, Yes; what did yon expect—a canto?” “I'm sorry. I was getting asleep.” My friend Smith cast a glance of contempt upon me, and then resumed: “The next morning I was up bright and early, and sent them to her by the bell boy what is taken before breakfast is mosi effective, don't you know. Time dragged the clog of un certainty until we met in the afternoon. looked ‘so sweetly upon me that my heart swelled with triumph. thing to say?’ I began. «FT say uo for a second time,’ she stoutly as- “Crashed again! I turned away, desperately ing that all the sugar in the Indies should not keep me from Mike and his iittle room under the piazza, when I heard her voice faintly call, ‘George! Oh, George! “I sprang to her side. she wns laughing that hateful laughter at noth- 1 “Phat no means yes now, and shall stay so,’ she faltered. : forgotten that two negatives make an affirm- “There wasn’t @ black mark before that naught,” I said. “Our marital felicity has ever been free from blur and stain, sir,” he announced, as he rose “And now I am going home to “A very wise conclusion!” I shouted after bim. ‘many suppose, as that will be accomplished by this Pan-Ameri- can participation in the world’s fair is the cre- ation of an actual acquaintance between the United States and the other republics on this Tt seems a shame that the onl; definite notions entertained concerning Sout! America by the average intelligent citizen of this country have been derived in childhood from the geography book nnd are to the gen- that purtof the world is mora or less of a howling wilderness, inhabited by barbarians, with giants at the south end and ibals at the north. ‘The teachers are not sufficiently informed to tell the children about the mighty civilization of this vast southiand, its great wealth, its inexhaustible resources, its institutions as’ enlightened as ours, and its peoples as well educated slightly bigger than the Uni roductive agri greatest gold and diamond mii anda superb climate. Unhappily, the South Americans have almost « us as we have of them, though their relations are close. From Buenos Ayres alone, the sgiant seaport of the Argentine, more icty lines of stenmers run to Europe, and to the United States not one! all these young republics buy the luck in Enrope and not here. Mr. that all this will be changed before long. TRE PERUVIAN ANTIQ\ He has directed the commissioners to pay especial attention to the antiquities of Peru, which had so wonderfal a civilization before the Spaniards came over and destroyed it, burning up all their Looks by wholesale because they were unchristian, so Suddenly he spranj he cried. : He brought out a small parcel from his ‘Well, have you any- ket. He opened it. It contained a five- Gollar bill and a scrap’ of paper. latter he read aloud: @ good time, just like the sweet little thing,” he tric button and called a waiter. fo thoughiful.”” When the B. and 8. bad been assimilated and fresh cigars lighted Smith beamed complacently “Im sorry for you, my boy,” “a evabbed old bunk of e bac! know what the joys of living mean until you marry. There is only one paradise and that is “You seem to imitate the peri by keeping out ” T retorted sharply. It's only the better to appreciate my fe- iow about Jael and Cleopatra and Mary You might as well fo the Ssinees twins “But think for @ moment how you have been railing! Subtlety, duplicity, obduracy—” great it we do not mean. If we didn’t, there wouldn't be such thing as conversation.” “But Jezebel" “simply conversation.” “But a woman's no, with its tremendous po- ““A woman's no? "Tis a which leads one from arrogant ted bliss; *tis 2 balm that si Really it grieves me to fe so indifferent toward the better sex. God’ great was light, but she is Ah, woman, woman! How blessed are we that Adam's rib'was thy nativity!” ee erai effect that al DUELING IN FRANCE. It is Fareical Now and Will Soon Become From the Chicago Times. Ernest de la Rochevilliers, a young leuten- ant in the French navy, who is now on a six months’ leave of absence, Wellington yesterday. Dueling in France is rapidly passing away, he says, and ina dozen years or go it will have become as obsolete in that country as itis here today. of the matter is,” said he, in the course of a con- , “that the whole thing has becotne,#o farcical that many of the best and binest-blooded young men of France today no longer look upon it as an affaire d'honneur. For instance, let me give you an illustra- ir that came under my per- sonal observation, for I was a second at the meeting. Some time ago mine got into an altercation with a civilian at passed and a challenge ro- My friend agreed to meot dawn the following met ata rustic retreat in the suburbs of Toulon. When we arrived the inn- informed us that the other party could be found in the garden sipping their matuti nal absinthe. We went there. After shaking round of drinks was 01 after thata third. Not a word of the rendezvous had_been inally, growing tired of this sort my friend that it was proceeded to the business “Swords were and the two princi She was blushing; jaaliy fabulous. It ‘ore that state was a Why, Brazil alone is he exclaimed, took dinner at the es in existence from his chair. yersation yesterd: Queen of Sects?” “‘Monsirosities, my argue that one in confirmation, ‘The Secrets of Authorship. Eugene Field in the Chicazo News. The Boston Transcript has an interesting article wherein is treated of the disinclination of authors to discuss their methods. It is ible that this disinclination arises largely a purely business instinct. The mystery tion of an a Toulon. Hot words t but two or three ticular notice will be ‘owing of the coca, which has sch wonderful anwsthetic properties, and the leaves of the plant, with the bags in which it is car- ried for chewing by the natives, will be collected. ‘The deposits of guano and ‘saltpeter in Chili will furnish material for work, likewise the cing chinchona of the United ‘olombin, the hides and dried beet of Ureguay, the Iacework and woods of Para- guay, the coffee of Venezuela and the diamonds \ of Brazil. Peru and Bol farnish raw and dressed fibers and medicinal plants and roots. of the sanit engi- s dosteahto veslionte. u | i] 5g i Lf riod of the discovery of the new world. knowledge and the science of min the time of Columbus will be F E i f ul i t 88 | itt F i ef ' i & g peril & rl id i fa reek iH 5 Hi re