Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1891, Page 9

EASTER FASHION NOTES Some of the Surprises for the Spring Season. CULTIVATE WHAT IS BECOMING ‘The Advantage of an Erect and Graceful Car- riage —The Stylish Feather Fan — Easter Hats Succeed Easter Bonnets—Gold and ‘Silver Embroideries. ‘Written for The Evening Star. VEN THE ULTRA fashionable woman tires of being fashion- able and well pleased to have the Lenten season put an abrupt end to the ceaseless round of pleasure which trans- forms existence into « mere struggle with hooks and eyes, pins and buttons, but if the Indy in the initial illustration ever was fair penitent she inly turned of devotion and is now intent upon orders of dancing. The grace of her form is i of expression. Onls the other evening at a first night I was renderod thoroughly unhappy | the stoop in the shoulders of the leadiu beantiful young woman, | at the incongruity of in«lignant out with stooping shoul- ‘ set my teeth on edge. ‘The Indy in the initial figure holds a festher fan in her nd. Feather fans are extremely taodish this anon. They are great favorites with Bern- other soman of the day. In herimpersonntion of the Dame aux Cameiits she carried a superb feather fen whenever in evening costume and it almost med to be p her, such constant use did of dking and enreseing it, x it to veil her tell-tole eyes, now her and a too ardent ad- ng the sir with it in a rhythm oscillations of her jount of grace and with a fenther fan use it, which I of sweet music ne to get it out. ER SURPRISES. aster Sunday this year will be In the first plue there is art of the young married the character. Ifa a turban is more be- mnet. around hat it surprised to see the stylisk toqu> . Easter has come, of su woman to refuse to oqne than a ed upon permissible crowning toque or tr dies has very little and ornate spring. One I saw balls composed of ow of pale sky blue rib- ‘on striped with satin. Three or four of the largest loops stood erect, while the others formed « puff on the edge and below the brim TRE POPULAR ROUND uA: The second illustration will give a good idea of the style of round hat, which pro to be very popular. It is made up in lace, erinoline, . Which last is usually faced tured in the illustration e with fluted edges, garni- velvet bow and white wing. The of many of the large hats will be turned igh aud filled in outside with roses, foliage ii wder of roses will in many cases nd the hat. The bows of Il be long. Gold galloon ler for black lace hate hb effect ix attained by veiling h encircle the crown with lace. LACE ON EVERYTHING. g of Ince, never have I seen so # garniture~lace . lace flounces, with ruchea, . slashes, rufties, ‘ings of black or white lace. tin striving for these delicionsly vaporous ‘T-cts in lace Fou should very carefal to se- fect harmony between your coloring tone of your material. Soft blues, 2 go charmingly es harmonize (Copyrighted. | Time | skirt is embroidered in white or in color. The chemisette ‘sin white surah pleated and bas an embroidered sailor collar. The corvelet may have either buttonsof colored ‘or GOLD AND SILVER EMBROIDERINGS Promise to continue to be quite as popular as they have beoa. But they must be used more discreetly, rot ¥o lavishly as they were during the winter season. If you want to give a par- ticularly refined and elegant air to your ee. blue and green dresses trim them with black embroidery. Steel ornamentation will show Atalt on spring dreses in the shape of galloon rnamental 5 buttons, SeriRetoe ne anges oa oa or silver garniture. s Says an eminent authority on dress: well dressed woman is alwa; Beau Brummell iu the days of his decline and fall out of the sight of scold and indifferent world was once remonstrated with by his valet upon the usclessness of undergoing the fat making an elaborate morning toilet | there were tobe nocallers. “But youare here!” replied the almost forgotten hero of fashiondom ine tone tinged with pathos. It seems to me that the fashionable woman follows this dic- tum nowadays. She makes a careful toilet even if she is not going to show herself in Public. Her servants and mayhap her husband and children might see her, and if none there be, then she woald be sure to, see herself any: way. Louis XIV once said: “Take away mirror. I cannot brook the rivalry of even & shadow of the grand monarch!" FUR CAPES FoR SUMMER RESORTS. Thave the question pyt to me every now and then are fur capes and fur-trimmed dresses and wraps to beas popular at the seaside and in the mountains this summer as they were last? Probably more so. If you will take the trouble to observe you'll notice that fur-bear- ing animals don't lay aside their fur coats when the hot weather comes in. Evenings are pretty netally cool, often cold, at seaside and moun- tain resorts, aud a fur cape feels decidedly com- fortable. It is really a saving this use of furs daring the summer months, for it keeps the moth out of them; and not only will the shoul- der cape be seen on the hotel verandas, but the fur-trimmed dress will be met with in’par- lor and bail room. ‘A FUR-TRIMMED COSTUME. ‘The last illustration pictures a very charm- | ing costume in silk and velvet ornamented with | far trimmings. The dress is a duchesse satin in dark dregs of wine striped with gray, bodice and sleeves of velvet of the same colot The vest is in silver gray crepe de chine with afichu effect. The corsage Medici collar and is | bordered with blue fox: shoulders and bottom | of the skirt also have three bands of the fur and the pointed cuff is likewise edged with the fur. link: The belt is of oxidized silver or of stecl ‘The most useful costume at the present nt is the tailor-made cloth dress, with a IV jacket open at back from the waist toshow the dress. Draped corsages will continue to be fashionable: they are very popu- lar with women of slender figures, who, after ull, make up the great majority. With the practi- al tailor-made spring costume there goes a att feather-weight umbrella with oxidized silver handle or, if you can afford it, a carved ivory handle in Japanese style, Violets or spring flowers of some sort put the dotlet_on thei of this refined street attire, and they should be worn as a corsage bouquet and be fastened with dainty old silver pins. A woman doesn’t need as many dresses as Queen Ehzabeth had, namely, 3,000, in order to make a good appeatance indoors and out. What most women need to dois to cultivate that talent which enables them to know what is most becoming to their particular stsle, for the apparel oft proclaims the man and always the woman. A WONDERFUL CHILD. Astonishing Progress of Deaf and Blind Helen Keller. From the Hartford Courant. Much has been written in educational papers of the little girl, Helen Keller, now at the Asy- lum for the Blind in Boston. Mr. Job Williams, principal of the American Asylum in this city, recently visited her and has kindly furnished the following account of what he saw and heard. | It is,as the phrase goes, as interesting asa novel, and gives an excellent idea of the almost miraculous progress of this girl of ten years: It was my privilege a few days ago to call on Helen Keller, the deaf and blind girl who has attracted so much attention among philan- thropic and scientific people for the past three or four years. Much has been written of this marvelous child—much that, judged by all or- dinary standards of attainment of deaf mutes, or even by the attainments of the occasional bril- | liant exceptions, seemed almost incredible. I before I saw her for the first time, a little more than a year ago, I could not believe that the reports conctrning her progress in language were not grossly exagger- i, but, after seeing her and talking to her selt through the manual alphabet, I was pre- ed to believe almost anything regarding her that direction. I never knew of a t so early an age as was Helen (sight ring were both lost at the age of nine- * through disease) who made such ess in the knowledge of the English If was simply phenomenal. the greatest wonder was yet to come, Soon we heard that Helen was trying to learn to talk. ‘That se mare thing i $ fan, Ripe conducted en- nek 1, and specch so distinet that I fuled to understand very little of what she suid. She seemed never at a loss for language to express an ilea nor even to hesitate in giv- ing it orally. It was an intelligible speech in pleasant voice, and it was wonderful. In the course of our conversation Helen informed me that she could play on the piano, and when I asked her to play for me she sat down and layed the air of a little song with her right ind, playing the same part with her left baad an octave below. it would hardly pass for first-class music, the time not being very ac- curate, but it was music. Then at my request she sang for ine a line of the song she had just played, and the singing was more accurate in time, though less so in tune, than the playing. Her memory is as remarkable as ber grasp of language and her power of speech, and prob- ably is the chief source of her success in both these. She grasps an idea almost before it is given her,and once hers it seems to be in- eradicably fixed in her memory. A few days agoa Look of poems printed in raised letters was presented to her. — She opened it and read the first poem over twice. reading it aloud as she pawed her finger over the lines. ‘Then the a laid away and not referred to again until the neat day, when it was found that she could repeat the whole poem of seven stanzas of four lines each without missing a word. Laura was a brilliaut e: of rhat may be under great al- py a ms appre nt wn ye One, nor ever was any one, to be compared with her. ‘Ted's Prayer. From the Waterbury American. A neighbor's family received news the other day of the arrival of s new cousin to be added Illustration number three sets | to the group of two little cousins ina distant forth one of these altogether lovely costames for the boudoir. It is made up in yellow white fennel. The corselet ix in some colored silk sud must be boned so as to secure the «lesired whieh is of the same contrast of clinging and flowing effects. Over ‘we panel, maternal. the |town. At night when little Ted came to sa; of tis B over all he "connections he prayed i follows: “Oh, THE PLACE FOR BRIDES The National Qapital Very Popular for Honeymoons. MANY EASTER WEDDINGS. Some of the Peculiarities of Bridal Couples— ‘They Always Fail to Conceal Their Iden- tity—Their Ways on the Street and at the ‘Hotel—Quiet Honeymoons in the Country. THERE'S A WORLD OF meaning compressed within this word. It means the ‘of more clothes than she ever had before. It means the culmination of an excitement and a social distinction such as she never had before. It means the absolute, exclusive possession of—s man. Having got him what will she do with him? The novelty of possessing him is strange. She likes to walk the street with him and to go shopping with him. she likes to feel that she has—got him! As for the street walking, newly-married couple on their wedding tour usually walic fourteen or fifteen miles a day at least. Even if it rains they hoist an umbrella and go out to walk. They like to see the other people, they like to think how much happier they are than any other two people in all the world. A STRANGE DELUSION. Itis such a pleasure to them, too, to know that notasingle person that is met suspects that they are newly married. Now, what o id grooms have it. Each bridal couple when it arrives in Washington is thoroughly con- vinced that it keeps its precious secret s0 close that the most discerning eyes cannot discover it. As they step out of the depot the very boot- blacks grin at one anotirer. The hack men shout out: “Hack! hack! “This way. Take you np in a nice coupe!” and know they ars bidding for a bridal fare and can charge what- ever they like. The hotel clerk pretends to look unconcerned as the groom signs the reg- ister and then calls the waiter and orders him to show the bridal chambers. The waiters rush to serve them at their meals, knowing the value of a groom's extravagant tips. The ¢hambermaids in the hotel halle stop ia their sweeping and giggle as they Tt takes the cleverest impostors to conceal their identity as bride and groom from stupid, eareless_men, but from the sharp eyes of women concealment | is impossible. THEY COULDN'T CONCEAL IT. It happened last week that the writer was waiting for his train in the depot and near him there was a young man and a fresh-looking, pretty girl. ‘They eat a little apart and they seldom spoke or looked at each other. They | were clothed in the quietest of garments. There was nothing spick-nnd-span in their appear- ance. To an ordinary male observer they were like distant cousins thoroughly used to each other's society and rather bored. Yet every woman in the depot looked at them curiously and smiled, and several who od near were heard to say: Look at that bride and groom.” How on earth did they know? But they we: right, for presently, as the couple passed through the gates, the girl touched the man’s arm lightly and he turned and looked down at her with such alook of tenderness as was an unmistakable confession even to the stupid- est man observer. WASHINGTON THE SCENE OF MANY HONEYMOONS. Of all places on earth Washington is the fa- vorite resort for brides and grooms. When two Washingtonians get married they go away, of course, to pass the honeymoon, and some go to one place and others to another.’ Buta large percentage of the people who get married in other cities make the capital the scene of their honeymoon, and as the whole country is bigger than Washington it stands to reason that our city receives more bridal couples than it sends away and receives more than any other city of equal size. IN THE WINTER, when Congress is in session, they come in flocks. You may see them exploring the Capitol and entering the galleries of Congress. What do they care about protection and free trade, or force bills, or free silver coinage? They pre- tend to listen, but they are thinking of nothing but of themselves and of each other. ‘They are plentiful in the fall of the year, too, und they are even numerous in simmer, but in the spring is when they are as thick ‘as the buds upon the trees. Look out for them, for in the next fortnight they will ewoop down upon the city from every section of the broad United States. MARRIAGE NoT A FAILURE. Who ever asked if marriage was a failure? Two yearsago the assemblage that failed to discuss this question was unique. ‘Then it was the standing topic of conversation. Nobody seemed able to come toa conclusion. Some cynics pretended to follow Schopenhauer and jought marriage should cease and the human race rmitted todie out. Others lauded Plato and believed only in friendship. Others distorted the doctrine that ‘man should be an end unto himself” into advice that men should live selfishly by themselves. We don't hear much of these cynics and philosophers now. Some of them are married and some are ashamed to speak, forif ever any institution had a boom the institution of marriage has had one during the past twelve months. - Spinsters and bachelors seem to have ‘to stop theoriz- ing and begin experimenting. ‘The world pelts them with rice, throws old slippers after them and wishes them good luck, for, after all, they are only doing what their fathers and mothers did before them. EASTER WEDDINGS. Tomorrow is Easter—or, as the purists would have it, tomorrow will be Easter—and wed- dings will follow one another in rapid succes: sion. Grand weddings seldom occur in Lent, but it is a busy time for courtehips. ‘There is no canon of the church against making love at any season and there is no time of the year when it can be so conveniently done as during the pious forty days that end today. Sack- cloth and ashes are all very well, but the raiment need not apply to one’s mental habili- ments. There will be some weddings in this town next week and Washingtor. in its turn will send some blushing brides and joyous grooms to roam about in other cities, but there are going to be a lot of engagements announced, too, as & consummation of the Lenten devotions of our younger generation. IN THE KOTEL DINING RooM. If you want tohave some fun go into the dining room of some hotel next week and watch the brides and grooms. They can hold their own pretty well on the streets, but when they enter the crowded dining room’ they look hopelessly self-conscious. ‘the lady walks ahead of the man. She glances fearlessly around at first and tries to look as though she thousand years old and had been married she has not walked six yards Under rrison halt a centur; groom surrenders without a struggle and fol- dows in the track of his better haif a self-con- fessed culprit. ‘They linger over their meal until the dining room ie nearly empty, and then ont into the streets once more, where they are lost in the crowd. ONE OF THEIR PECULIARITIES is the way thoy avoid other newly married peo- ple. A bride and groom will be standing in front of some painting in the Corcoran Art Gallery. Presently another bride and groom approach. ‘The two couples catch sight of one another, and then both fly in opposite direc- tions. in the endeavor to get as far apart as possible they are always turning corners and W comit mm one another when they least ex- ct inally they decide to leave the Build- ng, and ne oue couple rashes down the steps it finds iwelf alon; le of the other couple once more. Do what they will they are bound to meet, for the habits of bridal parties are simi- ar, and they like to see the same sights. QUIET HONEYMOON IN THE COUNTRY. embarrassment of the honeymoon spent in cities. It is simply to go to some quict country house where there's but a few servants. | will never tired of one another in the Rese LIKE PLAYING MOUSEKEEPIXG. lishment should be. That first house is nearly al small. have an idea that can- mos bovangyey uals tear bores uaa ae 0 Billo diaing vasen thes wll net eset mare than five or si comfortably. This dear Hite toy house Le thelr delight Tt is like play- at . ‘The servants give bride some trouble, ft is true, but afters while conquer her, or mers them, a: ing. at life becouse But is the honeymoon always happy? Well, generally it is, but sometimes it is not. Hap- pines is always, we are told by wise people, _— in the perpen than in the reality. ‘oung people, especially very young peo- ple, expect that the marriage ceremony ‘will open for them the gates of paradise, but when they find that it has not they are cast down and unhappy. m there is another trouble. Perhaps the groom is thinking solely of his own happiness and perhaps the is think- ing solely of hera, and when they are married they find out to their amazement, that appt lies solely in thinking the one of the other. Sometimes they think each perfection and the honeymoon shows that they have been over sanguine and then they are disappointed. If the truth were kuown it would be found that many honeymoons have been disappointing Cxperionces, fell, Lent is over and_ the bad weather is over, too, and the leaves will soon be out, and what the great historian, Mr. Bryce, has termed “one of the most beautiful capitals in the world” will soon wear its most entici 4 dress. If there is any city more beautiful than Washington in the months of April and May it has not yet been discovered, and if honey- moons are happy anywhere they should be happy when they are spent here. Bove HOW UNCLE SAM IS ROBBED. Clever Postal Thieves and How They Rob Letters Without Opening Them. Froz: the Cincinnati Times-S! William J. Clark, who is superintendent of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in New York, was for four years a post office in- spector, and recently, while in Cincinnati, he told a Times-Star reporter some of his experi- ences in the mail service. “I was reading the other night,” said Mr. Clark, “‘of some of the skillful means adopted by postal thieves to rob the mails of Uncle Sam, and I realized that some of the most novel stories of thieving had been omitted by the inspector who gave the stories. “Now, just imagine, if you can, how money may be extracted from a letter without open- ing the envelope Remember, the envelop2 is sealed. It is almost impossib!e to imagine how such a thing can be done and yetit has been done several times, and once very successfully by aclerk in a New Jersey post office. For many months reports were received by the de- partinent of large amounts of money being ex- tracted from letters, which close examination showed never tohave been opened. As may be easily imagined, the inspectors who were set to work on the case were dumfounded and ki — where tostart in to ferret out the ‘Iti a well-known fact that when once a man sterts in to rob the mails he generally keeps on with his thieving until he is caught. So it was with the thief in thjs instance; his persistence brought about capture. It would not interest you much to know how he was captured, but how he extracted the money isthe pointer. You know that nearly every envelope is left at both ends without any mucil- age with which to seal the flap. Our man would feel a letter, and if he thought it contained money, would press the top and bottom to- gether so that he could just get a glimpse of the interior of the envelope. ‘Then, taking two needles fastened together at the ends, which he held in his hand, he would insert the other ends, and nipping the bill as though with a pair of pincers he would deftly roll the piece of currency about the needles and then take out his money. It was estimated that he had se- cured nearly $1,000 in this manner. “And that brings me down to a peculiar fact. Do you know that sending paper money through the mails unregistered is a very foolish thing? Why, of course it 1s, as Tcan prove to. you in an instant. Here's this 5 bill. I'll put it in anenvelope. Now smell it. There you have it. ‘There is nothing on eartk that sinells like paper money, and an expert thief with good olfactory nerves can detect the presence of money in an envelope at any stage of the ‘There is one thing that the people should re- member, and that is that ‘for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain’ the average mail thief beats the ‘heathen CI 2 cuca stems He Found Out. ete From Judge. ong = Country Member G.A.R.—“By gum! here T've been tryin’ in a quiet way fer more’n ten ears to git a pension, when these city fellers fang owt their application on their front windys. Till try that, game myself when I git back to the ‘Corners.’ ” Lincoln in a New Light. From tho San Frane:sco Call. Tom Shannon, the ex-collector of the port, said last night: “It was during Lincoln's first administration, whe I was in Congress, that the question of the appointment of a superin- tendent of the mint in this city came up and among the applicants for the place was old Dave Maltby. One day a messenger came into the House and informed me that the President wished tosee meat once. [hurried to his office and when I entered he informed me that he was considering the fitnoss of the various applicants for superintendent of the mint. “Now, here is Dave Maltby,’ he said, ‘and I want to ask you to tell me candidly if you con- sider him fitted for the 2 “Without hesitating I dent, Multby i > * = a G STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. DEATH OF PRINCE CHUN. ‘TheGranting of It Signifies = Good Deal to the Futare of Chins—A Wonderful Empress and Her Diplomatic Skill—How the Em- peror Livee—Railways in the Flowery Land. ‘Written for The Evening Star. VV HAT I8 LOOKED FOR- father of the emperor, PrineeCh’an. During the present month ithad been intended that the foreing ministers representing other powers at Peking should receive the first audience in proper form ever accorded suchdi plo- matic representatives by the high and mighty son of heaven. Hitherto all efforts to secure tho performance of this formality have been fruitless, because it has been held as a fundamental principle in the politics of the flowery land that no other nation could possibly be regarded from its point of view asan equal. Therefore it was in- sisted upon as a condition essential to the. granting of an audience that the ambassadors and the ministers plenipotentiary should go through the performance of the “kotow” Le- fore his majesty, which consists in knecling upon both knees and touching the floor nine times with the forehead. Such a ceremony of bmission was too much for the haughty stomachs of Europeans and Americans, and accordingly it is the case that this government and those of Europe have never actually been admitted to the recognition, in the correct and usual way, of the celestial monarch. A RECEPTION TWENTY YEARS AGO. Just twenty years ago the emperor did grant an audience to the diplomatic corps, it having been arranged that the members of the latter body should be obliged only to make obeisance on one knee; but the result was not satisfactory at all, because they were received not in the inner palace, but merely ima sort of outer hall, where it was customary for his majesty to accept tribute from subordinate princes. In effect, the foreign representatives found them- selves and their governments treated not upon equal terms, but as inferiors, and so it was worse than no recognition at'all. Ever since that time, however, the people of most progres- sive ideas in the country have been trying to bring about an audience in proper shape, and ‘an audience was to have been given during this month of March, had it not been for the demise of Prince Ch'un, in consequence of which the ceremony has been Postponed. It ix hoped that the postponement will not be for long. inasmuch as the matter seriously involves the degree of intimacy and intercourse between China and the more civilized powers, upon which will necessarily depend much of the in- fluence which European enlightenment is able to utilize for the transforming of China from dead nation into a live one. HOW THE PRESENT EMPEROR WAS CHOSEN. The state of affairs in China which led to the placing of the present emperor upon the throne was @ very peculiar one. When the throne was left vacant by death nearly twenty years ago there was no direct heir to the sue- cession, and the two dowager empresses—ons of them the mother of the deceased emperor and the other another wife of the deceased em- peror's father—undertook the regency. With them ed the power of choosing who should be thenextemperor, and, instead of selecting one of the brothers of the emperor lately dead, they appointed an infant son of Prince Ch'un, one of those brothers. The elder of the twoem- presses was considerably older than was rather stupid, and had never y children. She had been the originai empress, the younger one being only a second- ut the latter had had # male child. the deceased emperor referred to— a been for treason —pro- to full royal consideration. She, the younger one, was a very re- markable “woman, and it to be presumed that her object in choosing an infant nephew for emperor was that she might be able during his minority to be in fact the ruler of the land. This result was ac- complished and up to within two years of the present time, when the empcror came of age, she has governed with a sagacity that has ex- cited the admiration of civilized world. Even now her power and influence are very great in the control of affairs. She has had not a little to contend with during her regency, inasmuch as the anomaly of a reigning sove- reign having a father living has been produc- tive of many inconveniences dificult to got over. Obviously, the forms of respect which Chinese law and custom prescnbe for a son toward his father could not but clash with the obeisance due from the subject to the mon- arch. PRINCE CH'UN’S UNPLEASANT SITUATION. Prince Ch'un, the emperor's father, has found his situation a very unpleasant one on this ac- count. Naturally he has been looked upon as occupying a menacing position from the politi- cal standpoint, inasmuch as he might bave taken advantage of it to overturn things and assume the direction of affairs, if not actually the incumbency of the throne, himself. There reason to believe, however, that he never contemplated anything of the kind. Aware that he was watched with jealous eyes on all sides and living in chronic dread of the censors, who have so much power in the em- pire, he withdrew almost wholly from public affairs. But if the difficulties of the situation in this regard were great durimg his lifetime they became even more important upon his death recently. It is a question which has long exercised the minds of meditative Chinese how the emperor would treat his deceased father. He couid not worship the tomb of a subject, and therefore itmight be necessary to promote the dend prince to full imperial rank. If so, it would follow that all the heirs of the posthumously created emperor would possess a status many degrees higher than would belong to them as inere offshoots of the imperial house. Ques- tions similar to this in the course of Chinese history have developed potest conflicts of disastrous maguitude, and a split of the kind is said to have done much to bring about the downfall of the Sung dynasty. THE CLEVER EMPRESS DOWAGER. * These risks, and probably many others, were clearly fozescen by the clever empress dowager when, on the premature death of her son Tung- ih, she placed the infant son of Princo Ch’'un edragon throne. Much discontent was oc- easioned by her action at that time; but it was promptly smothered, the one censor whodared to speak openly about it committing suicide as he handed in his memorial of protest. Ni nip in the bud any agitation contrary to policy the empress has just published an edict in which she declares how the present situation shall be regarded. Restirg her arguments upon the authority of the great Chinese sage, Confucius, she lays it down that if a son is of g Hest cH ne isi sidered rather dangerous, has been dixpensed with and only the cars are used, the Indies of the court finding it great sport to get aboard them and be pushed along the rails by eunuchs. OIINA WILL SOON HAVE RAILROADS. The time is soon to arrive, however, when China will have railways. At first there Was much opposition to them on the ground that they would be likely to disturb the repose of the maltiades of ancestors who are planted all over the country. But thi apprehension not seriously entertained by those high in official authority and it is their intention to establish this improvement of civilization as soon as may is the government's wish hall be constructed at the cost of the Chinese people and not with money borrowed from abroad; also that all the iron for construction and the coal for running trains shall be obtained from Chinese mines, which are being rapidly developed with that object in view. Already thore is one short road in oper- ation and a gencral system of steam transporta- tion will before very long be established. The present trend of affairs in the empire is pro- gressive, and mnch will be accomplished during the next fifty yeurs in that direction. oo ——___ An Unexpected Lockout. From Life. Confident Traveler— “Say, dame, jist git me suthin’ tor eat a : git it quick. See? Penna a (As she pulls the shutter)—“Thet hole thim burglars cut in thet shutter comes in right a higher rank than the father the burial of the latier must be regulated according to the rank of the father, but aa regards all subsequent ceremonial the son must worship the tomb of the fathér as if he wore of equal rank. Thus her majesty has cut the Gordian knot, and there is not likely to be any disturbance. It will be admitted that ale hs yed in’ her conduct of the whdle affair an ability of an ex- traordinary order. ‘THE EMPEROR'S LOT NOT A HAPPY ONE. It can hardly be said that the lot chosen for the little boy Hwang Su, who was in this way made emperor, is a particularly happy one. The-occupant of the ih | a rf Hh i i ® i iE i 4 “Jamesie, I've bolted the shutter on the in- side; you just run down fer the constable and tell him he needn't put no chair in thie feller's cell, neither.” ee ee THAT GLORIOUSLY GOLDEN HAIR. ‘The Sun-Flecked Hue That Titian Loved and How to Make It. From the New York Continent. A lady had been residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel all the season, who was remarkable for the great beauty of her hair. It was a luxuri- ant red and shone in the sun like burnished gold. The men went into eestacies over it and many of the women were quite jealous. There were many opinions over the head, some con- tending the hair was dyed. others that it was natural. Sharp inquiries wero made, but noth- ing was discovered to shake the natural theory. When she left a few days ago bottle of dye was found in one of the drawers of the bureau in the room she occupied and this recipe: In the case of gray hair use, first, » decoc- tion of sulphate of iron in claret of Burgundy, 2to 150 grammes, French measure, all dyes composed of metallic salts are dangerous. ‘To give the hair, then, a rich, deep red that will resist any light or suffer the closest inspection, use a dye made up of the salts of cadmium or ammonia. ———_+e2_—_____ Henry Ward Beecher’s Successor. From a New York Letter. No two men ever lived, perhaps, more totally unlike than the Rev. Henry Werd Beocher and his saccessor as the shepherd of the Plymouth flock in Brooklyn, Inever saw Beecher, but his pictures show a man of wonderful physical as well as mental vigor—gross, heavy, sensual in appearance. Lyman Abbott has an abnor- ma!ly large head. is bony. with pipe-stem and not an ounce of humor in his make-up. He is typical ascetic. ‘There has not been a funny anecdote told in Piymouth Church since his call to its pulpit. and yetsomething very like asmile ebraary 19, 1806 (atthe Travelon ), 1836 (at the Travellers’ ; ly 1, 1896, and other days ( Graham's Club). Tn July, 1836, several mem- bers of ms had © vonvinced of his lordship's dishonesty, and most of these | avoided him, and even positively refused to | play with him. Othors, however, while equally persuaded of his guilt, often consented to be is partuers at whist, and when they were not playing themselves would back his hand for Jarge amounts. Lord de Ros was in his forty-tifth year; he | was iairly woll off, thouth not exactly wealthy For a score of years or #0 he had 4 been a mem- White's; Boodle’s, Brooks’ and Graham's at ull these clubs he was in the habit of playing whist. He had occasionally netted as much ay £500 in one night at Brooks’, both bs points @nd by betting. At Graha in 1836 the play appears to have been comparatively low—as « rule guinea points were piayed for, with £5 on therubber. From January to July that year Lord de Rof played at Graham's on fifty-one occasions, as shown by the club books, and his winnings amounted to £630, paid to him by Graham, exclusive of what he in have netted by backing his hand. In July, what his position at Graham's had virtually become unvenable, he ceased to go there, and | in the middle of August be left England tor ‘germany. While he was abroad a ribald | blackmailing print, the Safirist, which had got hold of the wrong end of the story, published » garbled uccount of the proceedings at Gira- hnm’s, and on hearing of this Lord de Ros re- | tarned to England and proceeded against the of at per. Lhe Satiris('s statements were altogether in- correct, aud his lordship would probably have obtained a verdict against this journal, but the gentlemen who charged him with cheating now | Come forward. | Medfeal and other witnesses trial that Lord de Ros suffered from a painful Giscase which induced great stiffness ‘of the joints, and 80 imenpacitated him that he ‘could hot "Poeabiy accomplish aay sleight-of-hand tricks. Witnesses Brooks’, Boodle’s that he had rever there. Lord Wh: ing further testified that his lordship was of the best whist players in England, gud his «kill alone sufficed to explain his constant snecess at cards. Buton the other wide the evidence was crashing. It was clicited that Lord de Ios was in the habit of marking the aces and kings of the packs he played with, and that when dealing the cards he would fre- quently change the turn-up card (sauter la coupe) by sleight of hand. On one occa- sion, “after the cards hed been shuffled, a certain ace was seen to be the bottom card of the pack. The cards were then cut and Lord de Kos dealt them, when this same ace, tho its position should have been changed by the testified at the | also came forward from and White's, and deposed | been ted of « cutting, again proved to be the last card and was turned up by his lordship. sir William 1. by indeed, swore that he had seen Loi Ros change turn-up card at least a score of times. Mr. George Payne also gave some most damnatory evidence. His lordship, it appeara, would be | ized with a violent fit of coughing whenever it was his turn to deal, and would take his hands, in which he held the cards, from of the table ‘as 4f to press his stomach. Whenever this happened he always turned up an honor. It was rhown also that no cards were ever found to be marked except when Lord de Ros had been playing with them. The marks had apparently been made with the tinger nails. the trial lasted two days—Feb. 10 and 11. Powerful speeches were made by counsel on both sides, and Lord Denman, the judge, sum- med up impartially eno but expressed himself greatly struck by the evidence of Mr. George Payne. The jury were less than a quar- ter of an hour in considering their verdict, which was in favor of Mr. Cumming, thus im: | plying that Lord de Ros was guilty of | the practices imputed to him. The court was | thronged with members of the fashionable Lon- don clubs, by whom the decision of the jury was received with solemn silence. On the morrow, so the newspapers announced, the noble lord left Englaud for Rotterdam. He died in 1839, and was succeeded in the title by his brother, an upright and able soldier. Most of ‘the leading journals of the period commented on the case at great length. The Morning Chronicle published a powerful article on the evils of gambliug, “the vice of the age,” which would bear reprinting at present. Shall We Have Stilt Clubs? From the Boston Transcript. The Frenchman who is going to walk on stilts from Paris to Moscow may be setting a very general fashion without knowing it. It is very delightful to walk on good high ctilts: at any rate, it was delightful once, and if it w: delightful once, why should it not be sv ect Stilts asa mode of locomotion have certain advantages over the bicycle. They are much cheaper and more convenient, and one is not dependent upon good roads, nér. in fact, any kind of Tosds'In a fee’ years’ tes cn may stilt clubs taking the place of wheelmen’s leagues. Perhaps it won t be an unusual thing to see the Ap ian Club, men and women, marching down the middie of Washington street, all on stilts, on their way for an afternoon ant in the country. It would bean impos- spectacle. it is easy to calculate what an immense gain walking on stilts would be, in the way of speed and the amount of ground that could be ed, over ordinary walking. One may take with them steps which would vary from twice to three times the length of the usual v= ay expect to see stilts replacing bicycles, and | 2%, ENGLISH STYLE. AMERICAN STYLE. From the present on the mashers of Mall and Piccadilly will wear a slightly me fied form of the existing garment by which name of Prince Albert is perpetuated in grateful memory of civilized nations. J new coat is shorter in the waist than the parting style, and is longer in the «kirt. may be either black or gray and the edges be corded or stitched, as the woarer's fat dictates, but it must be of rough cloth if desires to retain the respect of polite society. Hereafter, whether it be on Broadway, Unie der Linden, the Boulevards; or anywhere ‘that man bas risen above the level of the ae age, the dude must wear a cont like the gow tleman in the picture or admit himself te bb out of it. oo _____ BLACKLISTS, Names of Men Who Are Not Entitled - Free Passes, With Reasons Why. > From the Pittsburg Dispatch. ; A railroad bincklist is nota rarity in the offices of managers and general passonget agents, but it is not often that an outsider i honored with glimpse at one. ““Confidentiag memorandum No. 42, for the exclusive use of thove persons to whom it is sent,” has recently been issued, and a copy fell into the hands of & Dispatch reporter. It is a curiosity to the was initiated. The tittle pamphlet's only birth: mark is the date, January 1, but whence it came isa mystery. The “whither goeth” end of the quotation is clear enough. One-half of the little book is devoted to the individual list, the other portion deals with newspapers. ‘Thé pitt are reversed, aeif two pamphlets bad en tied together to make one, and as yout turn it over you will see either the names af lacklixted men or newspapers. Woe betide the man or firm, so far as gettin @ pass ix concerned, whose ments the pamphlet. every railroad in the country stored in their good graces. nounces that several papers and ind! ve made amends and are eligible to f Each page in the pamphirt has four giving respectively th ews and reasons why t bo pie that his name is posted in the main offices of all the railroads in the United States, biting remark following it “vitet-class fraud.” * sold to auothe RAILRO. Ve theles throughout, the editor doesn’t mince: un we pam, of his annual pass,” “no such railroad makes out and axks for passes for them, other offenses of a similar cltgracter. Clergymen are not exempt. It would cer tainly make a preacher bluse with sbanie to eae his name and residence prolished with such re marks after it as “alters and loans one-half fare perm: “ ‘changed .” “willfully allowing his half-fare perm:t to be used by another,” “sells bis reduced rate tickets to scalpers,” & The offenders against the pass rule live am, nearly every cityin the United States. jm! Slancing over the pamphlet it would strikes! casual observer that the greatest number black reside in Chicago. one, an alleged newspay kuown here in the protens zen who formerly’ lived in the city. In the newspaper list none of the creat dailies of the country appear, but there is a formidable ray of minor sheets, bogus and ta, whose editors must be fond of acting as pars | brokers. An agent said “It is the old story. People feel they have done asmart and righteous act if they beats railroad, but if they were posted they would know that it is the poor clerks and bard-work- ing employes who sufter. The man who walks away with too much change or takes two tickets which were given him by mistake when he wax entitled to one doesn’t stop io think that it us not the company that bears the burden of bin trickery, but the agent. He is responsible fu: Bll shortages cunsed by his blunders and i comes cut of his salar; sect os ainsi Americans in Canada. “Tt isa fact,” said » Canadian registered #t the Hoffman House, “that many young Cano- | dians come to the United States to try ther fortunes; but it is also a fact, which can be. proved by figures, that over Americana | and doing business in the Canadia” y of the big | n find a small host of them. In princes there are thousands of in trade and the fisheries. ich men of Canada are Ameri- | al important Canadian en’ prises are under the management of Ameri~ cans. The wages of Canadian workmen aro not up to the American standard, but the coms of living in Canada is less than in the United States. Of course the greater part of the to hunt far to find New ¥ the Pacific coast in British ( the southern frontier of the western provinces there are plenty of Americ: where their enterprising spirit the Canadian ; Of which it exactl ‘the same height from the read itse}f over the ation recently at mamta npn pares igati upon Christians Ject was the, obligation resting to get out of their shells and do something for the good of mankind. “What is this wonderful body of ours given us for?” Dr. Abbott claimed. “Look at it. Look at these muscles Dr. Abbott a — eat as at ‘this strength, ility. this God- ron vViger:"* Smathing in the expression of the faces of the members of the e and a rustling li “ah, but this snowfall isa grand thing for the state of Michigan!” he exclaimed, as the street car ploughed its way down town, “In what respect?” asked aman with wet fect. “<Grost fertilizer, sir. Every pound of mow contains cent of ammonia. This snow vi incre the when crop by. three busbele acre. thing—very A little man near him was obsorved to take E i round as the length of one's leg increases the agth of the step to sixty inches, and conse- quently doubles the stance same number of steps aud the same amount of exertion. Therefore, if one can walk twenty miles « day without ‘stilts he would walk forty wit