Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1891, Page 13

ee THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, ‘ - 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. ATTRACTIVE HOMES. How the Calm Period of Lent May Be Usefully Employed. PATTERNS FOR EMBROIDERY. Mow Table Spreads Particularly May Be ‘Made Very Attractive—Some Practical Sug- gestions for the Comfort and Adornment of the Baby. Written for The Evening Star. OW 18 THE LULL IN ALL MATTERS pertaining to society, and many will wel- come the quiet after the season's rush, with its opportunities for reading and working, which have been all too rare of late. To those who do | not keep Lent in a strictly religious way it isa time to look forward toasa restful season, when much can be accomplished toward the work necessary to be done before hot weather comes. For some time past the shops have been fall of spring attractions of all kinds, and the first buyers have the choice, of course. When children are in the family Lent is the chosen time for making the thin dresses of gingham and cambric which the growing girls demand afresh with every season and to renew the underclothing and seo that each small wardrobe is in order. To those who are not busy mothers and yet are interested in their homes now is the time when there is leisure for the favorite occupations, | when one ean indulge in them without feeling that social duties are being neglected. Whether the taste be for writing, painting or embroid- ering Lent is sure to give facilities for accom- plishing something in either or all directions. MATERIAL AND EMBROIDERY FOR TABLE SPREADS. In making some purchases today at an em- broidery counter in one of our stores I heard one lady say to another as they selected some something .that appeal to every one who em broiders ‘ai all, for those that ‘are already stamped are in'such pretty materials and in such pretty designs that they are irresistible. Of ‘course, they admit of quite « choice in the way of working, whether, for instance, with rope silk, twisted si or linen floss, but newer than any way of treat- ing them is to follow much of the outline with “novelty braid,” catching it down on each side quite close together with a short stitch of colored silk, which looks very pretty. The silk stitches are at right angles with the braid, and | are caught into each little loop on the edge of | it, thus making them at even distances apart, | and are also sewed into the cord which con- | nects the lace-like portions of the braid. The stitches being set thus closely together make the braid very securely fastened to the ground- work, and yet is work that must be quickly done. AVERY PRETTY DESIGN. A very pretty example of this kind of work is om Sorrento cloth. in a pattern of scroll work, with a clover leaf intertwined at regular distanes. It is not a design that is specially pleasing in itself, but treated as it is here it is most attractive. Each clover leaf is worked with white twisted silk, in the long and short stitch, and then outlined in blue silk. All of the rest of the tern is done with the novelty braid, caught down with the same blue si used in ontli turned al hemming on . and covering the t side is a row of the braid hf down with blue silk, rn. This makes a pretty das # further finish a handsome guipure design is set full on the edge all around. This lace-like effect | of the braid. combined with frilled lace | thé edge, makes a particularly | ty spread, which would be equally pretty for a table cover or as a carriage robe in sum- | mer for a baby’s carriage. It all being of wash- | sble materials would make it quite suitable for ie the delicate coloring of ned to suggest the accompa- niments of a white wicker carriage, lace frilled m and a sweet baby snugly ensconced YOR BABYS COMFORT AND ADORNMENT. It is difficult to tell which are the most en- ticing things displayed for a baby’s comfort or adornment. Everything can be bought to sup- ply the least to the gr One of ‘the earliest conveniences in a baby's life is the weighing basket, a wicker affair with handle arching from end to end and coming up im an odd curve juston top. These all trimmed make a pretty gift for baby, and can be ready, or the plain basket can be gotten and trimmed the donor, which puts more sentiment into the gift. The decoration is much after the usugl fashion of toilet baskets and bassinets. A colored foundation is put on the basket, and white, plain or dotted mull drawn over, or surah is shirred full on the inside, with a narrow double ruffle fin- ishing the edge, and on the outside a deep fall | of the surah, with a lace frill over it. The lace | ig sometimes Valenciennes, sometimes point esprit, with a nurrow edge sewed on.Over the handle, which is three fat, isa band ma: es wide and quite | © of several rows of lace beading sewed together, with narrow ribbons run in and a narrow lace edge on each side. The ribbon matches in color the surah lining the basket, of course, or all can be white. THE RUBBER BATH TUB. The bath tubs for babies nowadays are of rubver—at least the most approved and con- venient ones are. A standard of oak holds the tub, which hangs from an oak rim. This can be drawn close to the person bathing the baby ‘end is much easier to manage than any other, while the soft rubber sides of the little tub pre- veut any possibility of the baby's getting a bump in some unexpected lurch on its own part. A hamper for = baby I described such a short time ago that I will only speak of their pretty usefulness. If one prefers the hamper instead of being only trimmed with ribbon out- side can be covered entirely; a deep frill of muslin over color hanging from edge to floor while a piece of muslin can be fulled all around the edge of the lid outside and drawn together ia the center with many folds. where a full vosette of ribbon finishes it. This all implies much more work if the hamper is trimmed, and when it is done it ean only re- main fresh a sho-t time ‘compared with the inside, and isa much less preferable style it would seem than the other. A SACRET NOVELTY. A novelty in place of the toilet tray of the hamper or the busket, which has been for years the most generally accepted receptacle for all the articles necessary in dressing the baby, is a sachet. This sachet 1 about eighteen inches square and is made of quilted silk outside, with an interlining of buckram or stiff canvas, and an inner lining of white surah, very full, 20 that it is in soft puckers and puffs. The edge is finished ‘with a cord of the wide color. and or euch of three ts colored button is sewed on the outside. the fourth poiat is a little bow and attached to it a loop of white rubber cord, which is long enough to reach around all three of the but- ‘ons, when the points are brought together en- velope-wise in the center. After being thus bent the buckram holds the shape even when the rubber is slipped off the buttons. "The pointe only spread far enough to disclose on the satchet—which is 2lmost im shape after flaps are bent—a litte white sural bag in tue cencer, fastened to the surah holding powder aud puff. this powder bug to be easily 1 A little brush is slipped into ribbon slate, as it were, which are fastened to the surah lining of the satchet he same little slats hold a sponge on another side, while a tin: imeushion is on in for safety pins These cushions are by slate of ribbuus like those for brush sponge. This docs not take up as much room asa basket and really holds al the toilet articles necessary in dressing the baby. UPHOLSTERED BASSINETS. The little bassinets upholstered on a folding frame of brass or iron are as pretty a sleeping place for a baby as can be imagined. They can be trimmed in various ways of course, depend- ing on the taste of the purchaser, but as lovely ag anything are, the deep shirred valances piece with two frills of lace edging set onat the Curtains t Hf ean be set goblet, tin bono and Fi tered the tlie fi way of edging pillows, us it is for the little Thirts and gowns, A PRETTY AND SIMPLE PILLOW. One of the prettiest as well ss the simplest pillow cases is of fine linen mull, with clover- leaf designs around the edge inside the bem, single, some of two leaves intertwined and are ‘ked by simply follo the outline of the Sewer ee fine worked witha cotton floss, which firm and not so easily pressed by the flat iron as silk or linen ster waching.” The stems to these clover leaves are worked closely in stem stitch and broidery is though so little work this alight em! very effective, and the same might be ap- plied to other things, table scarfs, mate or similar articles, Among trifles which may be added to these ‘more im| it items are bands to keep th from slipping off the seat. These faatbe made ture oPmanental than the ones brocaded tiny flowers is | finished with rosettes at eac! it to the carriage. gift for a baby, and if one wishes to work a plain ribbon may be embroidered with forget-me-note. a NEAT RATTLE. Another little present to give s baby is a rat- tle made of gay ribbons and belis—one in this style of which Ihave heard is made of a stick six inches long, wound with narrow satin rib- bon of two colors. A rosette of both colors is on one end, and under it are fastened twelve unequal lengths of the two colors of ribbon, with a little sleigh bell sewed to the free end of each, the I being not more than four inches. Another idea for a rattle is a small embroidery hoop, wound with ribbons of two colors also; the ribbons are stretched across the hoops, too, crossing at right angles in the center. Bells are sewed to the edge of each of the crossed ribbons, and make the desired tink- ling which pleases baby's ear. ‘An older fashioned toy but a safe and durable one is the gay, knitted ball in wool. A straight strip is made of Roman stripes and coloring, which is then sewed together and one end puckered and sewed tightly. A stuff cotton is put in next with a little box ‘of | thereupon to examine ONE STREET CAR’S FREIGHT. wr ees ene Some People Worth Studying on an After- Gactor." bea neon’s Trip Through Town. ASPECTS OF HUMAN CHARACTER AS VIEWED OX BOARD OF 4 STREET CAR—LOTS OF FUX FOR ‘THE WATCHFUL OBSERYER—PRIVILEGES OF THE CONDUCTOR—HOW HE LOOKS OUT FOR THE PASSENGERS—THEIR LITTLE WAYS. T WAS WITH AN air perceptibly dubious that the conductor rang | horrid up the fare of the man with the pale side- whiskers who wore his silk hat so much on the back of his head, but the passenger was ob- viously most inoffen- sive, notwithstanding AN OLD CLERK'S MEMORIES. ‘The Treasury Department and Ite Em- Ployes Fifty Years Ago. ‘WHERE TSE DIFFERENT OFFICES WERE—MEX ‘WHO ARE STILL LIVING—WELL-KXOWN NAMES OM THE LIST—THE SURROUNDINGS oF THE |* ‘BUILDING—CHARACTERS OF THAT DAY. “ ANNUAL STATEMENTS PRE. | ‘> pared by Mr. John Sessford,” remarked ‘the old department clerk to Tax Stas reporter, ‘“«qill grve one some idea as to the growth of the city in the old days. Take for instance, the LADIES’ GOODS. petenigs soQoRprox PLATTING. 30C, TO wo. Demorect sewing utachine, 10.00" LCCAS. Pg ‘asa WHE SULPHUR fain FOR THE Oo Soe. p buttle. Fresh rrepared Almond ox. AV RLOCZEW SAYS oH sin ADIFS" OLDSTYLE SFALSKIN GARMEN Lares hen'il, Soun ORES |} jade to onder. The Misess | 1053). 10801. - = Base Sanleya, 8 Wat Frederick, 111-0 was reported that ‘Steamboat’ laid up for wes = "strc am, 1220 andes 30pm. i, 1390, 180 20-404. m. and *5:30>p.m. ROYAL BLUE LINE Fc PHILADEL! the offender, zove the kyar! Yon can't hug any old 7 If you want todo that Youknow, you'll have to travel So the overstimulated to dismount, still ¢ ber of dwellings wae 6,698, and the estimated population 88,774. In that year 101 brick dwell- ings and 212 frames were erected. In 1829 “One, a fine-looking old bachelor something over six feet, was in the habit of iving his height as five feet seventeen inches. jot oS DRY CLEANING ESTAR ae symptoms he exhibited of the cheerful, | 158 : 5 i i ™ i tie wiak eraaet re were but 91,665 running feet of brick foot | The utility or rather the danger ‘of his long menie of all kinds ‘ant “aved | Hitae Bettet artificial sort of happi-| maining freight spe fae cnt eos ied toh pavement in the city, of which 10,066 feet bad | arms was once made apparent’ at at, atin Persia Trem se8%. | Sis ttoushberuecs beter: landing pesmgees to ness which @ slight ox- | around a corner beyond. been laid the previous year. In 1845 but |r show. The tent been pitched in the for and delivered. ery atom, cess of alcohol imparts. 18,571 feet were laid. The total valustion of ae of the mall, what isnow7th QOL GARMENTS. MADE UP OR RIPPED. He was so intensely SEARCHING FOR ANCESTORS. was in 1828 §5,706,698 and in 1845] Oona bree” gag Sygggme Oagggii 4 P ne SSK A PiscHER, pleased with everything $12,259,857. Inote this that you msy have| public were viewing the anim: but om. Men Who Go to the Congressional Library t Ay mar, als, as to be rather dis-| ‘to Establish an Aristocratic Lineage. | 0me idea of how slowly the city then advanced. | the lions were so huddled together that the PIANOS AN “ y. 4.0. ant 10.00a.m., 22:00 m000 posed to insist upon] with a sigh he closed the book over which ho | * is interesting nevertheless to us old timers, | Isdies and children were disappointed. Our OS AND ORGANS. os. ying 5 additional cents for » somewhat hee bose pact for several hours end with | 84 will explain in a manner the astonishment Hy eee caer ae a aaiion ond So oret- | Frain ay feet anid equa |raatersaghiy det wie nae srorn nom by those ho haveeen long absent | with his long arm snd poking the animale with | Mra on hit cl shwek pematans and em ment, handed it to one of the attendants. It they return to the city of today. his cane exclaimed: ‘Get up and show your- 2. at jon whereat ‘THE OLD TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Selves to the ladies.’ And they did and made : TPE or, MUSIC. 1200 6 at. he gave an apologetic wink of intense expres- 3 was near the time when the Congressional Li- i 8 it known, too, that they had lu In their AG on ree siveness and immediately became absorbed in 7 Here the veteran resumed the little volume. | it, known, too, y had lungs. RRAKAUEH Plagn YA Ghoaws, a copy of Tw Sran, which he held upeide down breaetd sae — Bethe paaeheces He | uret's take the ext,” he sald. “The | ¢Hort to Ret af the owner of the cane the lus | _Prisen zane, Torin cay ‘aii sien an bably returned some other bar and La MAGNIFICEN | hQOIPMENT. rn . aye eay pied appeared to peruse with a Directly ite him wise pitatequetook: old sandstone building with its long collonade was built in place of the old drab building de- stroyed by fire in 1883 and was several years in rep a mstruction. It was over c01 300 feet long and rht be called a three-storied and tireerogel building, each containing a hallway with roems on each side on each > on asimilar mission and took his place. He bt was well dressed, that is, expensively. He carried 9 pair of tan gloves with his cane in his left hand, which was encumbered also with a shiny tile. His countenance lacked the patri- cian cast and the pallor of his checks might high degree of inlly out of the GaSe. The andience vanished quickly through the canvas and doors and some did not feel until they reached their homes. CLERKS WITH OTHER DUTIES. “hs I stated before,” Tw Stan's informant went on, “the work of the clerks was in many moment in removin; instances light, at least during some periods. == Stan the lid of a tin pa have come from studiousness or from cigarette | *t0ry, and today it forms ‘Semewan Peay onl waning Ep evar GABLER, BRIGG PIANOS, pope hres smoking. The brown stains on the middle | $°° wt " the fdle time. ‘Tean recall one who performed SOUPS aun Store fingers of his left hand'were covered by burnt paver sud tobacco. | His hands and feet were ‘ge and a diamond ring on his middle finger the duties of clerk to one of the most im; nt ‘a committees of the House of Representatives for aerishure Louis, Chicage im ‘os the contents with some filled with in the middle; the other end is then puckered and sewed and the ball is com- plete, with rattle inside. a WILL CUBA BREAK IN TWO? An Old Hermits Prediction Apparently to Be Some will remember the curious prophecy of the old Bevarian hermit, which was given entire in “Notes for the Curious,” in the St. Louis Republic of February 14, 1800, in which the startling prediction was made that Cubs would break in two and sink beneath the waves before the ending of the present century. A recent letter to an eastern paper, written perhaps by some one who had never heard of the old man’s effort at uncover- ing the future, contains, among other matters, the following: “The st ing Gesoxery hes been mate that Cuba is cracking, not simply cracking, but bursting wide oj ‘Numerous fissures in the earth have situated localities, but particularly near Ma- tanzas. One of these enormoas cracks is nearly eleven English miles in length and has actually broken @ mountain chain asunder, leaving a le gap, which, but for the fact that the fissures seem without bottom, would make splendid roadway, making the plantations the valley beyond at least fifty miles nearer Lathois, the nearest spot, which is now reached by rounding the spur of - the mountain. Some of cracks and openi Within sight of this place (Matanzas) are, 600 to 1,000 feet long, twenty-four to fifty feet wide, and of unknown depth. These disturb- ances may be, and no doubt are, « cqntinu- ation of those felt not long ago along the south coast of the island, but the people are not in- clined to view it ‘in that light, all such manifestations with a superstitious awe, many of them actually believing that some im- pending calamity is about to overwhelm the country. Seientists explain it by saying that the earth’s crust thickens from the sea inland and that therefore the inland pressure is to- ward the nearest coast line; the crust there and in the ocean beyond being thinner is more sen- sitive to cen turbances. — — _-ce0e_____ “The Broadcloth Mob.” ‘The formation of the New England Anti- very Society in 1832 was followed by that of the national organization in 1833, says Mr. Grimke in the New England Magazine. From this time the tide of abolitionism rose rapidly to its flood. Soalso did the counter tide of pro-slavery opposition. The consequence was ‘@ season of mobs all over the free states. The most memorable of the lawless attempts to abolish the abolition movement in the north oc- curred in Boston October 21, 1885. It is known in anti-slavery anuals as the “Broadcloth Mob.” The sections of the city associated with the abolition movement were more than doubled that day before the sun went down by the per- formances of that eminently “respectable and influential” mob of “gentlemen of property and standing” in the community. The immedia ceasion of the riot was the annual meeting of Society that then the Boston Female Anti-sla: afternoon at their hall in the buildi numbered 46 Washington street, situated mid- id bill denouncing “that infamous foreign scoun- drel, Thompson,” and offering a purse of $100 jo tewar the individual who first lay jolent hands” on him, was distributed ‘in the insurance offices, the rooms, all al State street, im the hotels, bar rooms snd among the mechanics at the N tered about the town. And from juarter of the town men gathered to do a eve: te deat or to and 4 o'clock they were, according to various estimates, from 2,000 to 5,000 in number. Both sides of Washington and State streets in the neighborhood of the old state house, then used as the city hall and post office, were’ filled with the spirit of mischief. The multitude lay ex- tended like » huge it cross. ‘The ‘head darkened in front of ti-slavery offices, the foot reached to Joy’s bi braced the old state house, stretched along Court street to the house. The motive which created the riot was hatred of the abolitionists; to “smoke out” been invited to address the lad: noon, and he was present. ii the sheb turned upon bie with anefc men. ae the omen of which was gat ‘ing about them, advised Mr. Garrison to retire ‘This he pradently did, but instead the buildin, went into the Liberator jeinine the where the ladies roic efforte to proceed with the business of their society, and there employed himself, with that marvelous serenity which never deserted him, in writing an account of the riotous dem- onstrations to a distant friend. But he did not tinish the letter, for the rioters, rushing into the hall in search of him, had kicked out the Panels of the door leading into the room where was calmly writing. Escape was not possible, but the presence of mind of Charles 'C leigh saved him from instant violence. + From Russia to Paris Afoot, Paris Dispatch to the London Daily News. Lieut. Winter of the one hundred and ninth Cossack regiment of infantry, who has walked from Schopenita, on the Bussian frontier, to Paria, arrived here in the presence of a cheer- ing crowd. His object in coming was ue Eifel tower. i i i Ht bE ! ly appeared in many widely | aboard jorth End,” and so scat- | space witness the outrages, insomuch that between 3 | co E | away for any amount of mere years, and bad the reputation of being one of rod = efficient and —— oe Young was then the | de ent. Another, who was a journalist, the south side of F near | did the clipping and wrote the editorials for a = well-known’ paper of his native state. The ficial, | journalist, however, m: to fill both places ‘withont friction, being always at his desk in case of a call and attending to the gathering for re of items after office hours. Another was at| SECOND-HAND PIANOS —A lance the time the agent of the largest fire insurance | Combnsing almost every, Bs company in America and often in Alb | fow tehnes. SPECIAL TS ing cies during office hours, but, his was rather too large andconspicuous. As he ‘out an habitue of the library winked at STaR man and remarked ‘ “He is looking for an ancestor. “For what?’ “For an ancestor, and he has not found him. Did you not observe the disay they come herp nearly every day siderable numbers to look ‘for lost ancestors. Sometimes they find them, that is, some of them find their ancestors, but the chaps like him never do. I suppose it is because they never had any. Oh, no, of course this is not a repository for a collection of forefathers.” the gentleman hastily added; as he observed Tax iam man's gaze wandering among the piles of volurnes that fill every nook and corner of the place. “They come here to look up the records ‘ou see we have no Peon yy whose Pages are emblazoned the names of the great or those whose folks before them were great. Saxe says American aristocracy is a bridge '# a little more than Mayflower. But to establish a claim to blue blood beyond dispute it is but necessary to find an ancestor who fought in the revolu- tionary war. That's what this young man was looking for. He bas wearied himself for many hours fooking over the records of the revolt tion for an ancestor. Since the establianment of the ‘Sons of the Revolution’ many young men have been seized withadesire to hunt up revolutionary ancestors. And the manie is not confined to men; with the women it is perhaps stronger. for the “Daughters of the Revolution” than the Sons. Mind you, I don't t is a proud distinetion to deseend from revolutionary stock. But I would remark that living under a republican form of gov- ernment 3 not ae us from pride of blood. a roster oS @ revolution —_—— ‘peerage.’ It is th ointment of 108e who donot find thetr ansertors that is both humorous and pathetic. They should remem- ber, however, that the records are incomplete and should comfort themselves with this, as I do. There was a sword and a tradition hang- ing up in my old home, but I cannot find the warrant for either in the preserved roster.” _* ‘Tux Stax man at once resolved on establish- ing a searching party to uncover some of ancestors, but was discouraged by the belief, after diligent examination, that the records were not complete. Seneca eS French Flats in France. ‘From the New York Times. sauerkraut in an un- usually anmeaet stage of decom] through the car. Hav- ing ascertained that none of his supper had ot away, he put on the ANTICIPATION. fid again’ and the fat gentleman at his left ceased to hold his nose between his well-gloved fingers. grou chief clerk and li Siicere, Pasiks 12th street. Ho (tavune, aba Puts pMAC omer RAILROAD, and Niagara for But. fice, of whom Mr. Charles Abert, s well-known member of our bar, John F. Hartley, some after chief assistant a sy earpe rest SS rah detalles ‘government, it was only @ Harrington, also subsequent chief clerk and sesistant ‘secretary, aro iving, when wass hiatus in his official work. Mr. Hartley in Maine and the others in this | His surveys of property were always made city. There were eight watchmen under the | after office hours. It was the case, too, that superintendence of Mr. John P. Pepper, for | pastors of some of our city churches shoved many an alderman of the fouri ward, | the great quill at an annual salary dur- and of these, but two, Messrs. C. W. Pettit and | ing the week, preaching on Sundays and mak- “The first controller's office was then, under John W. Smith, survive. James McCulloh, located in the south wing of the second floor.’ There wasa force of about twenty, including the messengers, and among mm were the venerable N. Van Zandt ther of Capt. Van Zandt), Thomas Feran, Bartram North, Robert Cochran (whose heirs Q rig ngitieoroes! case) and (@. Washington, the well-known newspaper correspondent. ‘The latter is .the only one living T know of. “The first auditor was Wm. Collins, who bad for his chief clerk Mr. George H. Jones, who presided over a force of seventeen. ‘The first north wing, and sybscquentiy inthe building ‘nol ing, an juent ‘s occupied ty the Home! now the Interior De- partment, ‘southeus corner of 15th au streets. "Among his clerks. were David W. chief clerk and auditor, the only one now living; Mitchell H. Miller, one of the originatore of the Y.M.C-A., and’ James who died a few years sinee on E street near 7th. wellknown, make eater datiy wil ue ciomed ont at vr mt Ip pees sad w cera, hash will bearrameet on Exe ore oa X INST: iEN ieatred. 46 Py THE ATTENTIVE CONDUCTOR. It was noticeable that the conductor was @ particularly gallant man. As the car turned to make the circumbendibus of the next circle he assisted fairy-like creature in plum-col- ored velvet to board the rear platform with a slight and well-calculated squeeze. There could have been no objection to this, inasmuch ashe bestowed a similar attention upon woman below a certain age. A stout and motherly old thing with bundles, who hailed him at the crossing, was obliged to hoist herself without assist But the star passen- r, to procure a seat for’ whom the con- ductor caused ten other ple to sit more or Kees’ on each other's laps, was a first-class work of art in petti- coats, with » complex- ion of the best French yeloutine and hair of a vovand Einire «10:50 om. 2 cans saliwon, yHARE'S CA! instances to facilitate the work of the officers in taking acknowledgments, affidavits, &c.”” e ake <Sraah ie FEMALE INDIAN SLAVES. The Women of All Tribes Doomed to a | | Hopeless Bondage. The women of all Indian tribes doomed to = hopeless bondage of slavery, the fate of their sex in every savage race, have but few amuse- ments, says writer in the Kansas City Star. They accept their condition stoically, however, by the unerring law of heredity through ages of abuse and servile obedience. The lower the tribe in the seale of humanity the more de- graded are the women. Among the Diggers of Oregon and Washington, with which savages I three or four years, the poor squaws are be pitied. Living on roots i which the women must furnish, their existence asa tribe may well be imagined to be a very ions one. If the camas, » bulb growi ee should or the acorn and “black cricket” crop be not tiful in any year, their winter is liable to ‘one of pinching poverty and starvation. I have often looked with profound pity upon troops of their old and young squaws under the hot summer sun wandering day after day over the prairies, the mothers with ‘ir little ones strapped to their backs, armed with a long iron, with which they dug the sometimes hard soil for the roots, which furnish a large are liti a roms New }) saclay For ‘Annapolin, 00 a... 11:50an4 4:20 720and 9. cept Sunday. Sundays, 0 00am. amd may be obtained by a conscientious use of peroxide of hydrogen | at $2 4 gallon. The unconsciousness of her manner under the con- ‘THE STAR PASSENGER, centrated gaze of all the other occupants of the vehicle was s beau- tiful thing to witness, maintained, as it was, despite certain half audible comments upon her bonnet and the elaborate passementerie trimming of her gown,exchanged by two pudgy women on the other side. Having condemned the entire costume by pronouncing it “home- made,” the latter lapsed into conversation re-~ Mr. John Selden of our bar, was located on the first floor of the west wing and had s force of fifteen clerks, headed by Col. W. B. Randolph sponse baths, the science. Baths. ‘Hours: 12 a.m. to 8 Consultation free. D* © sevennuns, jectro- | c fuent Known vO ‘Twelve years experience. = 4226-1" ‘Maxuetic Physician. Radical cure ur no pay. 817 12th st (OBSS4PLaKE AND OHIO BALLWay Schedule in effect January 4. 1801, Jeaye Depot, Oth and B stresta, m, for Newport News, Old Point and ‘daily ea Old Pulnt Step mu the cash room and vaults were two of the ordi- rooms on the north side, in charge of Maj WD. Nutt and Anthony Metean, bots of Vic: ‘Among the ke He 2 . 8. Morgan, who bad eh ey spect oan invol jon of their support, haggard, broken = eriouly ihe moral chatacar of Sere ee ee hes Seat Georgetown and Mr. Joho é ee i a ‘estes aaa tor Sractanett ‘man, in whose i yf a single attribute | years’ residence abroad, this to about wn ani Ir. q some aa invita, Kewt y a of Sart neither of ‘them over id be French flats in France: “In looking for ‘an | last named is the :only one living, Among Emad of the however, the Ventibule Sleepers throach without chauge te ts, tribes, women are allowed to have some amusement, but it is generally when their lords are balf lass | drunk. ‘The Dakotabs frequent! though they had sat under his ministrations fo nigh three yea From this topic their attention was only finally distracted by near Tenleytown. Mr. Selden then re- apartment in Paris the American housekeoper | Titus: Now York srenue must make up her mind to relingaish certain | jett’s Church, in what 3031-120 ee EAD AND BE WISE. DE. BROTHERS, wu Ba. R' iy permitted ‘Ss. w..appeared before me aid made cath ‘that he is i old, gentleman next | things which on this side she considers essen- | brick structure of two stories, basemen? and | their women to indulge in a of the oldest euebitshes expert's © We As cae cocteeges cn Gtcing to nies | Gale Seamh Lest she GUlac San consetta [alin Boma sie, Oa eaten te ae [een ine Cen oni sao 7" ally took them off, together When the his spectacles, with his nose, to which they were attached, sub- sequently restoring the glasses and artificial same style of house, on Maryland avenue near one or tWo very recently, built houses espe come te of bios designed to cater to American tenants, and & played by the men. themselves ou passenger elevator will also be very seldom met bosci: id rami the rusal of his | with. Set washtubs do not exist in French fiat Rewspaper as if the performance were nothing | kitchens, and the bath roome are not the com: westegen e iew, Cum out of the ordinary. fortableand convenient places which the most Pelz, Sez Puiperen, Cuart inexpensive New York a ‘There tions “Chesap Rocky Mount, D Fille, Charioite ta have. is only goa mater for the enormous ‘tub which stands re, water wing to ‘separat heated for the bath. ‘There is usually an oil o gasarrangement in the bath room to do this, mt the whole bathing system is, toa New Yorker, extremely primitive and inconvenient. “During the excessive and unusual cold of this winter the tenants of these flats have actually suffered from the weather, so inade- STOUT AND MOTHERLY. At this moment the car came once again to § stop for the purpose of disgorging the stout and motherly old thing with her bundles, tak- ing aboard at tho same time three well-grown and red-cheeked school girls, upon whom the conductor managed to bestow as many brief squeezes, devoid of offence, though he was searcely able to do justice to each of them. He was evidently a man who knew how to appre- ciate that valuable prerogative of his office, which allows one of his profession an enviable degree of freedom with the sex. All three of them ‘managed to crowd themselves into the speaks of ft with bated breath. That coe tly oceupied by stout ry the way, is anot ‘trial. le or Empat us < to | for it is as often one as the other, rules Paris. A New York janitor is meek and docile in com- ison. It was.e great trial to my American Eidependence-the' manner in which I was iged to subject myself to our conci “However, ‘are the objections to the native French flat; they have advantages, too. First, their exquisite neatness and the of security one has in buildings that do not touch the sky. A sixth floor is the highest and this is ust the ve haa airy ground and laugh at the See ee wuently, when the men had been Tey re eat in i trades with the whites, they hearts and donate piles of Ina Sleeper A ry Danville vin ( Augusta to Macon, LD, YOUNG AND MIDDLE AGED. ., f —! or ‘Sas North Fi f i be i & er J a i E ; F E majority of fiat houses; this is indeed, that where it is, the vertisements and the con- E i He F if iE é 5 i E therly person, whereupon they all talk at the same time, accompansing_ the EF juree with a rapid though half-dieguised mas- fication of peanuts, the bouquet of which lowly and odoriferous vegetable quickly pervaded the atmosphere. DEPARTLENT DUDES. From time to time the trio was overcome by little fits of giggling, seemingly inspired by their observation of the fact that they were re- garded with a certain degree of interest by two remarkably swell youths opposite, with silver- headed canes and white silk neckties, who twisted their mustaches and conversed in a most fashionable manner about society. From what they had to say about their horses and ex- ad i : Hl Hi Ee P. and 4.45pm Saree, meanness = > ‘AL PARLORS, 1217 PA. AV. XW. extracted positively without pain or dsucer jstea <a hiariulees vapor it ey : 2 are team sad trassent J jotwithstanding the women are kept ‘tnd ‘Crile work at reas: eise Ap wm and 10D ew Btresbune Woal at there is as much affection among 80 de- bar her duties and keep in the most order. The houses seem better built, too, than, the majority of their American imitators. Sounds and smells are not carried so easily from one Ley on eee eee con. get over a er home prejudices, ry Foal French flat is far from uncomfortable, | in ‘stem, 60 it is averred. potential 20-2m° (Crown and FREE DENTAL TeFrmorany. See wunbian Universtiy. irom tos = ‘Oped trom October ty une tid STABE PARSONS DENTIST, ” Bi Pirsciaed diane incriad. “appilcotes guns prevents pain in extracting. At present location teu Se i ‘Fare, #2. ‘Toiepboue call. 1k. TOSOOLE AND FORTRESS MORMON. eben EXCELSIOR. ‘srom 7b st. i Ha i ‘ME TRUE MUSICIAN. Next them sat s cadaverourlooking man Z 2° i if Fe i STEAMER “WAKEFIELD” PAS ue AOA EE Tr, CT. ALL: ‘CUT BY H. D. 1111 PA. AVE... ARE GUAR- ANTEED 20 be Ov Tax COMMLCT STILE aboard in fegnteus ime the Tms Buour New 1891 Li the street there is alwa: i oan "who i f ba fits ttre i i j I af Hy He f tlt t i i ot ih FF H fi i il al i g if b Hy i i “a i