Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1891, Page 10

10 a THE EVENING STAR: FASHIONS FOR MAY. Becoming Costumes Designed for Stylish Women. WEW STYLES IN SPRING HATS. & Charming Coat Bodice, With # Manaish Tone—Vest and Skirt—Chevroned Home «puns—-Chips and Hair Braids for Hate— Plant Woolens—Biack Silk Underskirte. Written for Tee Evening Star. WOMAN WHO CAN afford to look with in- difference upon the ar- tistic attire of the present day must be either so beautiful as it, or so ugly as to be unable to profit by it Bat in either case she makes a mistake, with {ts harmonies in color, grace in con- tours, delicacy in tex- turesaad plastic effects im drapings, dress has become a fixed science.and no woman so beautiful who may not accentuate her peauty by toilets in good taste. and no woman 900 lacking in physical charm who may not ing the ques sobes seamed to pasa one-half their time dis- detects and the other half remedving them. Said a ceiebrated French woman to her er: “You makes gown that will suit complexion, aud I will make an age that ‘suit the gown.” FOR MAY DAY. May day draws near. I seo some charm- ‘ng effects in vests to be worn under the still popalar long jacket bodices. These long jackets taves mannish tone about them. but it is not ne | T instead of the vest foulard, surah in low same material as the skirt, say from the collar to the waist. bodice in old blue held in by four marrow bands presents a very charming coat in and opening over a tis very stylish inany of the modish ws,or mauves. This particu- Cloth and opens over a pale collar and the waist belt, |. are embroidered in bea: gold, dull red, indigo and pale the —— there are rows of old buttons. it be made a cal. ott by Slash elves, ans color mouseline de sole. dress goods which bave made this spring, the chevroned real novelty, anda very tak- ly tl effect was at- stuff on the cross and several seams; now this is all obviated, only bas one seam. asthe chevron Ht H i Ft E i i FFly H 3 tt af ji iy HE ‘ may e if 1 i & i ‘& STYLISH Rat. A very stylish black chip hat is represented to stand in no need of | yellow cloth, embroidered | Gold and jet trimming are now made up in complete patterns or decorutions for the bodices of dresses, collars, gorgelets, pointed belts, girdles, cuffs, epaulets, plastrons and ‘Vests. noon 0: evening reception may be maure surah. Lyon's silk, ben; soft and pliant woolen material, modified jacket bodice in mauve velvet. That is, the basque is cut away in front with delicate vine motive in gold embroidery down the front, which opens on « chemisette, jubot style, mauve mouveline de soie: ceinture, also in the mouseline, falling searf-like long and vxporous over the skirt. Around the bostom of the skirt runs deep, selvet border ont bias and ornamented with the gold embroidery. PLIANT WOOLESS. Speaking of soft and pliant woolens I should call your attention to a Scotch material which is admirably adapted for late spring and early |summer. It runs in beautiful delicate tones, either in two or three, as, for instance, beige | and blae; shrimp. beige and black black and white or beige. black and yellow. There seems to be no sign of any change in | the shape and style of skirts. ‘They will remain | straight and plain in front with the umbreile | draping at the back more and more accentuated. As suramer will soon be upon us it may not | beout of place to havea word to suy about | traveling wraps. They should be made long and partially adjusted to the figure. Gray sicillinne makes up very prettily for such pur- poses, set off with a gathered pelerine i ed with black ince | pointed edge upward. ‘The pelerine, which is ‘longer in front where it comes to a point, is | ornamented with a broad ruitle set yoke-wise on the shoulders, and there is a straight collar | ruched. With this stylish traveling wrap ma | be worna crownless, shell-shaped straw trimmed with heather and velvet ribbon. STRICTLY TAILOR MADE. Iwas much pleased with a dark blue cheviot in strictly tailor-made style. The corsage, pointed in front, was buttoned and edged with dark blue galloon and finished at the back with | small postillions. The waist dart were covered | by the galloon ending in trefoil ornaments on | the bust line, sleeves tight fitting below the | elbow, with battons and galloon tu indicate | cuffs.” The pocket flap of the male costume is | also indicated on the hips bys line of the gallon and a row of buttons. ‘The bottom of the skirt is relieved by a bias border with the galloon set at the head; straight collar also with gailoon. Except for the top, the white underskirt com- tinues to fail into disuse. Black silk 1s much used, trimmed with rows of velvet, narrow flouncesor scalloped ruches. Old sili dresses are utilized for this purpose. Black alpaca is also made use of trummed with two or three rows of velvet ribbon. For light-colored costumes, _underskirts are made ap in gray orsome light tint: for dark ones biack silk is much used and considered most retined. ee oe ease FACTS ABO! THE MOON, Prof. Young Shatters Some Popular Su- perstitions. Prof. C. A Young gave an interes‘ing lecture on the moon, says the New York Times, in the astronomical course, which is being condacted under the auspices of the Uuitersity Extension at Cooper Union. The audience was attentive throughout the professor's rapid summary of the peculiarities of our satellite aud looked with interest on the views of the moon's sur- face, produced from raised maps photographed and used as stereopticon slides. The moon, in the first place, has nothing whatever to do, the lecturer said, with the changes in our weather. He had kuown some farmers in the west who would never piant s * except on the waue of the moon, while a growing-up crop, like wheat or other grain, he would always insist on planting when the moon was waxing. These notions, as well as those held by some +eo captains, that the | wind wouki blow for a week from she quarter | im which the change of the moon took place, | were, he declared, without the slightest founda- | tion. | The moon was an insignificant body in her- self. It was her proximity to the earth chat | gave ier ustrouomical importance. At the j Same time her position was unique among satellites. She was by fur the largest in pro- portion to her planet of twenty or more satel- fites in the solar system. being one-eightieth the weight of the earth, while ne other autellite exceeded one one-thousandih of the weight of ite planet. In the peculiar motions taken by the moon there were certain elements which, the profes- sor said, the law of gravitation might not fally aceount for. Astronomy would one da; the limit of accurate prevision and would reach the field where such elements of a ould creop im a9 the effect of the human wi Speaking with exactitude, for instance, a man could not build a tall building on the surface of the earth without lengthening the day by the change in the position of matter involved. ‘Such changesas this when accumulated a long periuds mast produce effects that make the astronomical problem a very difficult ‘eue—in fact, an incomputable one—some day. The beat that the moon seuds had bees meas- ured, be said, and found to be 1-160,000 of that ‘the sun, while the light was 1-609,000 of the sua light. The “earth if we could observe it from the surface of the moon, was fourteen times as brilliant as thet we now saw from the moon, and from @ surface that was asthe full moon ex- light was reflected aiightly, Just visible that part of the moon in the shadow at the time of the new moou. the third illustration. It has a lacework | “it . through which is run a gold wire with glass globe. Lite of the -mountain scenery of the moon were thrown on the curtain and | Seemed very unattractive, though evidently grand in their very ugliness, much the shape of 3 lemon | reach | Caused a THEY BEAT UNCLE SAM Why Oounterfeiters Oocasion the Treasury Alarm. FORGERS ARE A MENACE. ‘They Can Bay Real Treasury Paper at «Cheap Rate and Photography Does the Rest—The Forging of Coins Behindhand—Italians the ‘Most Frequent Counterfeiters. of ipa RECENT CIRCULATION OF FRESH counterfeit paper money of extraordinary excellence has called public attention very strongly to = menace to the country’s finances that is practically new. Photographie and photo- chromic processes of Inte invention, a Stam re- porter was informed, have been of great agsistance to forgers in the reproduction of notes or certificate so far as the designs are concerned. As for the paper to print them upon, the government sells it—the real stuff of treasury manufacture—at a cheap Tate to any one who wants to buy. If you don't believe it, you can easily obtain fr om the secret service bureau here a fuli account of the manner in whicb, not long ago, a skilled operator took a large number of real one dollar bills, washed them in a chemical bath so as to remove every trace of the printing, and then used the plates he had pre- pared to print on the same paper av Knany $500 bills, the profit on each being £499. ‘That the counterfeit was effective is sufficiently demonstrated by the allegations of the wecret service people that in one day he wed four of de $500 notes on one bank, not | being afraid to hanct them right over the coun- ter to the receiving teller, who took them with- out question. ITALIANS AS COUNTRRFEITEUS. Itisan interesting thing, in view of the present Italian complication, to consider the fact that the Italians in this country, aceording to the records of the secret service, are so peculiarly addicted to the crime of counter- feiting that in w single yeir moro people of that nationality bave been arrested and convicted on this charge than of all other nationalities put together. Most uf those caught, too. were Sicilians—-the tribe to which nearly all of the lynched New Orleans wurderers belonged. One feature characteristic of Italian counter- feiting methods is a widespread organization, possible to issue the same forged money simu!l- taneousiy from points a great distance apart— a scheme calculated to occasion the government detectives much trouble in their efforts to dis cover the source of supply and track down the jucer. ‘TER COUNTERYEITING OF COINS hes by no means kept pace in recent years wil the improvements which the forgers of paper money have been able to accomplish. Most of them are clumsy and it is only once in a while that a piece of metal appears which occasions | discomfort to the authorities. Bieet the only | dangerous coin out at present is a bogus silver dolisr, which the secrel vervice ia spplving ite energies to wiping out. It combines in a most unusually accurate degree the essential cle- “ring,” weight and peara: On “the whole, terfciting of coins — would P- pear to pay, inasmuch as seven-eights of the makers of imitation money captured are in the coin business. It must be remembered, how- ever. that this branch of the profemion attract: many votaries, whose knowledge and skill are not equal to reproducing cach on pay The | latter is the uneducated branch. Most coun- terfeits of gold coins are mervly alloys, onch $5 piece coutaining $4 worth of the precious metal, orin some such proportion. There is no remarkable one out at present. ‘There are limitations to the possibilities of coin forging, which, it is to be will preclude its over Teaching the status of a fine art. HOME OF MECHANICAL OEYIUS. America is the birthplace of mechanical genius par excellence. One cannot bnt ad- mire the New Hampshire man who not long | ago devised what he appropriately termed | “poodle machine.” It was & contrivance | jucezer, oly that in the places where the halves of the lemon | Ro were set two dies for the obverse and re- verse of o pieci an- | yentor made it his business to travel | in rural parts and to approsch enter- prising agriculturists of means oa the subject of his machine. Money comes notoriously siow in farming, and thus it ix, perhaps, that the small rustic capitalist is apt to have an in- clination for accamulating cash rapidly by meana legitimate or otherwise. Upon this more or less criminal propensity of his the green goods men do tud and wax fut: | bat tentions of the ostensibly benevolent stranger who has won a prize in the lottery. The New | Hampshire man, on the other hand, sought the | farmers on their rural estates, und his method | was to show how easily 5 gold picces could be manufactured with his machine and to | take them into partnership on a basis of half share in the profits, In one side of the squeezer, when closed, was iasorted | @ funnel, into which curious metallic | alloy was’ poured, melted. it lund had time to cool the squeezer was opened on its hinge, and lo! there was a $5 piece of | | gold sure enough—jast like a real one, save that it had a silvery color. ‘Ihis. however, was quickly rectified by the Yankee, who dropped alittle liqaid on it from a bottle, whereupon it turned a permanent golden hue and was to all eppearance everything that a 65 gold piece should be. Mow rp was Dore. Nor was this surprising, inasmuch as the coin was actually a $5 gold piece fresh trom a United States mint. The secret wes ail in the machine, which was constructed uot to cheat Uncle Sam, but to deceive the farmer. The melted mewl poured in simply dowed intoa concealed cavity in the squeezer, while the New Hampshire gentleman, in locking the contrivance osten- sibly to make the cast, touched a knob which real $5 coin. previously put in, to slide into the sunken hole ocenpied by the die on —— Thus, ries affair ye — the 0 ay just as if it newly molded. “Tibad greviculy been eontea thinly with quistativer, 20 that it was only necessary to put a drop or of acid apou expose Os +} Ot the cota. “Thue parpoes e coin. jarpowe of the quicttilver was merely to mee "the newly cast coin the same color as the metal poured in. Of course the enterprising farmer was willing enough to put 1,000 or so into 20 promising a scheme for turning out €5 pieces ad infinitum, and the New Hampshire gentle- man Ww: away with the eash. ‘Ihe latier had no use for counterfeiting when he could earn real money so easily. REMARKABLE Col One of che most remarkable counterfeiters that ever lived—at present in jail, happily—ie John Peter McCartuey, known as the “King of the Koniakers,” who bas record of thirty-five industrious rears employed im, the business. ‘This ingeuiousold scoundrel has figured asa.cap- italist during that period, providing the money required, in nearly every important combina- tion of forgers on this side of the water. At one time he travcled lectures about Mone,” most of the office seldom betrayed by traitors, which renders it | ph; | leged gold, j shake Eotke ‘Wherever they are are dangerous, because they be meet. suis: at a7 Sse The secret coevicn would give a, nt daa money to get hold of Igtthe counterfeit 4s n alight blur on the end of the nose of som who figures in cen- tral vignette, bub that might be rectified. ‘TRE SECRET SERVICE'S MaIN OBJECT. The maip object cought always by the secret service, where a counterteit is concerned, is to obtain possession of the plates or dics. 86 long ag they are in existence, uncaptured, the mean danger. Hence it is customary fo ex- tend the utmost leniency of the law to f who will give up tbe perilous property—igat sentences sometimes, and even pardons. But it is » part of the business of the government. detectives to watch continu- ally every counterfeiter who has been let out of prison in to see he does not con- Signe hiseriminal career. In most cases the freed criminal has q mastering inclination to return to bis old industry, and the United States treasury would be “in” man: dollars if forgary a cay tal offense. af counterfeiting for & long lifetime were un- known in the old days. ~ THR DIFFICULTIES ‘a great jor sh av formerl: much greater than might be surmised offhand. In the drst place, the man who manufactures is not even known to those who cir- ually. He establishes confidential relations with atural hotel keeper, for exemple. The latter ie supplied with a stock of bogus bills or coin, which he keeps buried under ground. From the hotel keeper persons whom mine host has reason to trust buy the “stuff, average rate of 60 cents on the dollar. They pass it. If one of them is caught he may “peach” on the hotel keepcr, but bix assertion will not furnish convicting evidence against the hovel keeper. Necessarily the hotel keeper will a charge, aud be must be acquitied unless the bogus money be found on his prem- ines. It is not apt to be found, because it is securely hidden below ground some- where that he only knows of, and to discover it is almost ont of the question. Suppose. ho’ ever, that it is diseovered In that case it d not follow by any means that he will betray forger, nud it the forger hincelf tx captured, it till remains to learn the whereabouts of the dios or plates, which the counterfeiter will cer- ‘aly not keep on his premises. Considering these things, it is decidedly surprising that the efforts of the secret service are as success- fulas they are. THE ROGUES’ GALLERY. In the frames inclosing photographs of coun- terfeiters at the Treasury Department are a number of pictures of women counterfeiters. They arc rather depraved-looking characters aaa ruleond nature does ‘not appear to hat bestowed much decorative effort upon their jognommies. But the law deals very mildly them. when they are the been given duress” and custom is to acquit them. The other frumes of counterfeiters’ photographs shown are tilled with portraits singulurly unattractive. Such a squalid aspect is characteristic of them —— that ove would be ied to imagine that there is really no money in the business of iMicit money waking. The traits of counte- nance shown also bear a remarkably uniform cast. It reminded Tax Stan reporter of an occasion wheu he was granted looking over the “rogues *“at police head- quarters in New York city. He bad expressed some surprive as to how the most skilled detectives could go about in crowds ona festal and wrrest with unerring accuracy the criminals whom they had never seen, gathering thom in for the protection of honeet people. But the chief showed him by reference to the photographs how the tace of the aneak thief ad & peculiar character aud expression ;of ite own, that of the bury janother, and ¢o on, so that the police | agent was able to distinguish the dishonest member of society offhand, without danger of mimake. It was the same way with these counterfeiters; they all bore the Cain mark of their ocenpation. Fannily enough the Chinese frame to themselves iu the ante room of the secret service bureau. Some notion of the prevalence of counter- feiting will be given by the fact that not loug 1 the occasion of the periodigal destruc of such stuf aceumuisted by the sccret service bureau, three-quarters of a million dollars iz bogus’ paper money was burned, and at the same time there were rendered useless for arder service 44} plates, S64 dies and 1.10 plas- ter molds, as well ase. great qua r, nickel and eoppe. cac%, inisiing achinos, crucibles, also many HOME MATTERS, Seasonable Suggestions and Every-Day Hints to Practical Housewives. Wasa O:ctotu in borax water. Coup Tea 18 Tue Bust Wasu to clean grained wood or natural woodwork. Soren Wat, Parcr May Be Creavep by first brushing the dust of and then rubbing down with pieces of hyht bread. Tus Uxrixacaxt Suen of uewly-painted apartments may be lessened by setting pails of floors. fresh water arouna on x CtosErs sprinkle borax aroand the edges of the shelve: and floor and You will not be troubled with roaches there. To Cubsx 4 Gon Caars that is dirty and dull from long use put it ina bottle with warm water, grated eastile soapand pulverized chalk. Iiand rinse in cold water. Rub dr; on a clean cloth and polish with a chamois skin. Mvcu Intxess Woctp sr Avomen if strong solutions of washing soda and boiling water were thrown down the wuste pipes weekly or oftencr. Fait Cagaws Mare Dexicious Dessents.— Take @ haif-pint jar of pineapple, peach or other asrmalaze and stir uctil smooth with a teacupfal of eweet crenm. Soak bulf a box of gelatine for an hour in half a cup of warmed milk, add a piut of whipped cream and pour into’ molds." This is not as expensive a desert a3 might be supposed.es the cream is doubled by whipping. Tux Fortowixg Rectrz roaCnoconatz Cana- .aLs will be found excelient: Ouo eup of sugar, ons of milk, half s cup of New O-leans molas- ses, two ounces of grated chocolate. Pour a tablespoonfui of boiling water over the choco- late to melt it, then add milk, eagar and mo- iasses, and boil for fi. minutes or until it is thick. Pour into a buttered tin pan and mark off in squares. Saap Roz Satan and shad roe croquottes are April dainties. Boil the roe until it sete in salted boiling water and then fry it lightly be- fore cutting in dice. Rab the aslad bowl acound with acut clove of garlic or with a shred of onion. Cover the shad roe with « mayonnaise (41 )and lay it neatly upon lettuce leaves that have been standing stem down in s bowl of cold water ever since they were pulled apert ou coming from tho market. Ruvoanp on “Pigptaxt.”—Rhubarb makes « delicious deop-dish pie. Remove the skin from the stalks and cut them into pieces about one inch long. Have a dcep dish, round or oval, ready with an after-dinner coffee saucer, or a cup, face ward on the plate; this to hold the juice and prevent it running out over the ovea. Put the ent rhubarb all around the cup till the dish ix heap: the layers liberally with cover with a nice paste. knife WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY, aPEref 36, 2 to have been at ry ve Lpaepea rae od which attend the catching of counterfeiters are | are great and succeasful cuiners. They have a} elcctvo-plating batteries and other apparatus. | is | nothing else, it THE ATTRACTIVE FAD Wealth and Travel Usually Furnish the Reasons for Its Development. WHAT ONE SCRAP BOOK HOLDS Cards of Invitation From Nearly Every One Prominent in Society During Many Yeare— ‘The Inauguration Ball Programs Since 1869—Remilaiscences Which They Bring Up. 'VERYBODY NOWADAYS SEEMS TO BE getting together collections of one sort or another. Some ron to china, others to bric-a- brac, some to old MSS. and books long since out of print, others again to pictures or en- gravings. Old farniture of the quaintest and padest patterns appeals to others and they give itshelter like they would an old friend, and some find pleasute in adding to stores of old silver of long forgotten makes and uses. Others again find the greatest satisfaction of their lives in keoping together old family possessions and in keeping alive by them their family traditions. It is only the fow after all who can hope to enjoy this latter feeling, for time and circumstances generally contrive to scatter such belongings for the most of people. TUE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARTISTIC TASTE. Wealth and travel are the two reasons for the development of the artistic taste which is the foundation of all theso collections. These fa- ilities are more widely enjoyed and the results e given distinctive characters to the decora- ion of many Washington homes. Many inter- | esting people have onl: led in fancy and | their opportunities for pi long the journey through life It does not follow that these same men and women may not devciop the collection fad, and the very paucity of material upon which they have to work makes th the keen witted in the chase. These are the very first to attach importance to the fact that in the capital city of a groat nation every trace that its famous visitors or residents have left Uehind them are objects of intorest. It may only bea visiting card or it may be a sign photograph, but in any ense if there are enough of them together to dignity as acollection there is no quostion but that somebody will wish they owned it. THE CROWNING TOUCH. ‘That is the crowning touch to any collection; ‘© something so interesting that somebody elee wants it. Wealthy peoplo like these simple things very much, too. You can live over again in fancy many @ year gone by in gazing over the photograyha and pictures, which so frequently Sud ths gece’ alarastiog’ Resak’ ot displa, ing rooms and Ubraries of the West |. ‘The elegant sereen which Miss Josephine Patten made herself and which forma a conspicuous ornament in the library of her home is au evidence of how tasteful a_collec- tion of photographs ean be wade. The pic- tures are of many of the foreign ministers who have been here of late years and other noted residents, both men and women. Mra. Lamont uring her four vears’ residence here made a collection of photogzaphs and it brings back | any a plensaut mewory to her as she looke at them, arranged in rows above the books on her library shelves at her home, now in New York city. “When Mr. Keifer was Speaker Mrs. Keifer always kept the visiting curd of every person who called to see her. At the end of cach winter she took thei all home and her young sons bad an opportunity to display their taste and ingenuity 3 filing scrap books with them. ‘MRS. M'KRE’S SCRAP BOOKS. Mrs. McKee began almost with the first of the vonderful stories printed about Baby Mo- Kee to keep the newspaper clippings together. She had soon materialenough for many volumes and, while he does not enjoy quite such wide prominence as he did at first, there will be vol- umes yet of pretty things ‘written about the manly little grandson of the President. urally, ax Mra. MeKee nays, many of the state- ments printed avout her baby bov are news to her, but she thinks Benjamit. will en ing them all some day, improbable as The wives of public meu, in many keep together every newspaper clipping they tind of their husbands ‘and paste them all re- ligiously in serap books. Many Indies have a + of what they call goorl books and bad books, of all pleasant and unpleasant things said of | taeir spouses. Mrs. Leland Stanford has, per- haps, the largest collection oi these books in existence. Though comparatively only a small part of even a day's clippiaga are kept, the quantity of what is written about the Stan- fords seems without alimit. These books and the countless other mementoes of the public life of the Senator and his family ave to find a resting place in the Leland Stanford, jr., mu- seurn, now in course of erection in connection with the Stanford University at Pulo Alto. The yoang people of future ages will fiad pleasure and protit in looking over that collection, along With all the costly treasures which will alo be displayed. CARDS OF INVITATION, FTC. Tt is by no means an uncommon thing to soe collections of cards of invitation, menu cards, name cards, theater programs, concert pro- grams nnd a dozen other reminiscences of social Life kept in serap books by both mex ard women who have been and are yet promisent in ao- ciety. Justice Field has a book made up of the ume and ineng curds of every important din- ner that he bas attended while he taken piace in nearly two dec an historical value and interest which it would be hard to overrate. His is a remarkable in- stance of how public men in the rash of a busy Lttle reminders of gula occasions. LUNCHEON Nate canDs. For the last four or five yoars the fashion for dinners and luncheons in the way of name cards and souvenirs changed s0 often that hostesses fairly rackod their brains to prepare something pretty and novel. Some ladies ‘whe were invited out coutinuoualy had the thought to keep ali the pretty cards, many of waich show the artistic skill of their hostesses, and their scrap books are at once a source of envy as well as of joy to their owners. A feature in many of the parlor cabinets is the corner re- served for Iunchoa souvenirs, enps and saucers, bonboniercs and other tasteful little gifts, which aro juot as satisfuctory evidences ot a wister s social irfamph as ure the german favors which a rei belle dec viet ati tte wines je who lendid _entertainmenta are natural}: aavtered ban they are remem- Dered, and if they send their guests home laden with beautiful gifts then the complacency is mutual. A lady in this city who has been prominent! identified with pope life the et ten gin the invitations she re- rk of another Se lady who has 4 no less interesting terles, mak ce pomaiets data for references of social evont during that period. If it roves conclusively that fash- oe parti a ion of ite so- ciet sca @ jot. cousidered ‘goed to roses biulss tote: jte tnd Please in keeping together theee | cale White House. On the museum building. the Clevela — lansing and nde music snd mena supper on its sixteen On the face were engtavings of Cleveland ned Hendricks and on the reverse a picture of the — building, where this great. ball was given. The souvenirs of the Harrieon inauguration ballare too fresh yet in the public mind to nes more than the mention that they were the most elaborate of anything ever attempted for @ similar occasion. Fae SOME NOTABLE HOSTESSES. Ranning over the rest of the book there is scarcely a page that does not bring back in a most vivid way the personality of some of the leading hostesses of their day. On one leaf there cre the cards sent out by Senator and Mrs. Sabin foran afternoon tea. Little did her guests that afternoon suspect the dreadful fate which subsequently befell her. Near by is the invita- tion of Mrs. Fobiger for a sunilar entertain- ment, and a mental picture at once comes back of that gracious woman and ber sad and cn- timely death. Almost adjoining is an invita- tion from Mrs. Carlisle for » dramatic recital by Mr. Eugene Asbtox. His own hand ended his young life socn afterward. On the next page is tho card of the Secretary of State and Mrs. Bayard for the series of Friday evening receptions they intended to give the winter of ‘The death of Miss Katherine Bayard the day after the first one was given closed this hospitable home to company for nearly two years, SAD REMINISCENCES. We pass over two or three morc pages and there uve all the invitations to official enter- tainments reoalled because of the tragic deaths of the wite and daughter of the Sccretary of the Navy. Another page, and a story of an- other year’s bereavement is told by another series of recalled invitations because of the death of Secretary Windom. Invi faneral ceremonics of Gen. Shetilan, Secretary Alanning ard other distinguirhed’ men are other sad reminders of human mortality. it was President Arthur who first sent out in- vitations for the three levees given each winter at the White House. From Arthur to Cleve- Jand and irom his term to that of the present incumbent the form has varied but slightly. Air. Cleveland s domestic career f one innovation and that was the invitation to the reception on June 15, 1886, when the official and social world of the capital had the op) tunity to greet his bride and congratulate the happy groom. the official entertainers Mr. and Mrs. Whitney were most prolific in invitations. This book contains cards for each winter's series of receptions, readings, musicales, the bal p@@dre, and the dozen other forms which their magnificent hospitality took. The prettiest of til, however, is the invitation to the baptismal pe pie gl sty poor a on the 1th of April, 1897. Dorothy's pretty little pink-edged card ie with the invitation. * FORMER ADMINISTRATIONS. Mra. Chandler's card for her series of Satur- day night receptions whilo the Senator was Secretary of the Navy is @ cherished reminder of the Arthur administration. So is Mrs. Frelinghuysen's card for her Thurs- day evening receptions, which, in their day, were considered the @ te of the season Mrs. Vilas’ tea to introduce her daughter, Mrs. John Sherman's Monday evenings, when Miss Sherman made her debut;Mra. Macatlester Laughton's Wednesday evening, at the first of which ber daughter, Miss Berghman. now Mi ule Pedrono, was introduced to society; Scnator and Mrs. Dolph's debut party for their daugh- ter and the cards a yea: luter for her marriage with Mr. Bic ‘on, Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller « party for Miss Mildred and her wedding cards a year Inter, followed by similar ones for Miss Grace Fuiler, now Mrs. Archibald Brown; Misa Mary Wilson's taucy dress ball one Winter and the invitations sent out last June by ur. and Mra, A. A. Wilson for her marriage to ieut, Davis, the wedding cards of Mi-s McEl- roy, President Arthur's nieco; those of Miss Georgia Kilbourn and Mr. Frank Gordon at St. John s, when the service made so strik- ingly picturesque oy. introduction for the first time in this city at a wedding of the choral service; the Cross Count ¥ Club's rides, with the cards for the meet at the reservoir; Mrs. Patien’s hoasewa: ing tea and subsequently her invitations to the wedding of Miss Aagusta Patven and afr. John M. Glover, ‘ebruary Z1, 1387; the card for the golden wed- ding reception of Admiral and March il, 1339; @ yeer or two car!i a similar ecard from ex-Secretary and Mrs. Mc- Cuiloch, Mrs. Stanford’s series of afternoon re- ceptions for the last three years, the colonial ball, the musicales, tableaux and ali tho other beaa- afal enter aiaments given by Mrs. Hearst dur- -ideuce in this ci:y, the wedding and rece} tion of Miss Dorothy Phillips an Edward Hilton, th can legation, winter afier w.n.e1 ‘Maller » Savard: Airs. Justice bs y night receptions, Airs. Mor- vison Waites Tucoduy evenings in Jennary, Mrs, Johu it MeLean’s fancy dress obildren s bails, the “wt homes” given by the Japanese end Corean legations, the Chinese balis, Secre- tary and Mrs. Euuicott s Monday and fuesday nighi receptions during two winters, Senator wud Palmers splendid receptions, Senator and Mrs, Manderson's silver wed- April, the army aud navy uw Senator and Mrs. Cockreil’s at . Gosecrans” marriage of bis daught Toole of Montana, the Vice President and Airs. Morton's ings, the receptions given tis last two by the Postmaster General and Mra. aud Lady ‘Thornton’s cards, as well as those trom Sir Lionel West and Miss West, aud Sir Julian and Lady Puuncefote's for tho balls aud receptions at the Bri.ish legetion,and tue hundreds of others received daring the past winter,mase up « volume of iniense interest to fond of rauping over the changes in ir President Cleveland had a wedding and a reveption, an entertatament which no other President wasever able to give at the White ilouse for his own bride, Mrs. McKee provided auother delightiul ehange in the monotony ot its hospitahties by her ball on the 3d of April, 139). Lhe dance card is a strip of white satin and the lettering ia gilt. So isthe souvenir Program (or the mnasicule given last season,aisu in the cast room, of whieh Mrs. was the hostess. An Indiscrect Phonograph. ‘From the Phi adelphia Hecord. Gon. George Pearson, ex-Governor Beaver's private secretary, is another victim of the phonograph. While at Harrisburg he made fraquont use of the instrument, and often en- tertained his friends with cornet solos, Sousa marches and operatic airs. Que day a relative tion, Securing A new cylindsr he told the muid to talk into the tube. She did Hi t i i 3 hi 3 i i i f Aa couvenira, were books with fancy pis ad testes On the cover were portraits of Garfield and Arthur and under these pictures of the Capitol and the reverse is a picture of Suggestions for a New Feature for a Sociable Evening Party. ‘From the New York Hers‘d. N THIS AGE OF “game parties,” when a select crowd gathers to play whist, hearts, pro- gressive euchreor other and simpler games, the man who can invent and engrossing enough to interest ail the com- pany is a welcome vis- itor indeed. Who has not assisted at a card party where, after the excitement of the special game played bad palied on the ma- fority of the company, some more than usuelly clever young man pushed himself or was pushed forward to exhibit his select if meager stock of card tricks? Curd tricks are many and almost universally interosting because so much depends on skill in maniptietion, and, like the work of the professional magician, the play of the amateur is valued in proportion to the skill with which be accomplishes bis par- pose. SOMETHING SEW. A young man who attends a great many card artics and who has been responsible for the troduction at many New York houses of the old-fashioned game of dominos‘bas by long and probably weary experiments with the ob- long blocks been enabied to build them into queer and striking combinations. To anv one at all familiar with the subject the difference between cards and dominos as rin! for trick manipulation is known to be ide ono. Cards, to borrow the words of an amateur entertainer, can be called when ina pack “a doherent mass,” aud so compact as to be held and manipulated with one hand. Itis entirely lifferent with dominos. They cannot be ma- nipuinted while hidden or reversed. At least a something entirely new | wonderful thet ne rly every one failed to ac complish it after nearly an hour's work. This combination was finally made by a youn, man who had utterly failed to grasp the idea the tWo previous ones. The writer has not the time to go into question as to whether it can be ma. ically different way without bo onditions given out by the prob biy can be, however, and any one who has « se of dominos amoag his housebold games will find some amusement in trying the case tor himself. TY OF PUNSING. Our ontertainer next introduced a rather trivial trick, the answer to which, while not pro- fane, was on the border land of profanity. This sea required the placing of two pieces, one end of each beings blink. Placed side by si the spots on these picons were anpposed to gr areading which would suggest a degree of illness on the part of some one or any one. The two pieces proved to be the six-blenk, and the two or deuce-biank. The reading six, the dence, or freely translated, “sick’s the deuce.” This little trifle was about ons par With the flipping about by the akiliful magician f derful Jack of cards with which he paces between more important ‘There ave more Hitle phrases possible with domin. andied after the manner men- any one can build them to suit bis ple trick is to ack you le six by the dont ler. ‘This ie #0 ver company e five and easy that to give it, butes it may suggest other and similar ideas we will let it stand. The answer to this is sixteen. The double five ced 80 ns to cover haif of the under dom- nd whether it levs lengthwise or crow is the rome. some general stvle te the upon the other im ording to the en- The trick is to piece and bave or a ten, jor the top all the others so covered as to allow bat one n each to show. This makes “ten ones, h is certainty * This is «till another one that may be amplified fencier who has the time to prac- tice new forms. MIONER MATHEMATICS. The next trick is one caliing for arithmetic Pure and simple. It is a “square” arrangement of eight dominos and appears to be a rather in- no definite purpo:e ean be accomplished with them by this sort of handling. Oar young expert, therefore, was obliged to make tiis tricks on ‘the basis of arrangement and matching. His first public experiment with the liitie oblong blocks took the form of suggesting to the company the making of cer- things with a given number of dominos, He did not make the mistake of working out ais trick for the reward of a momentary ex- pression of surprise or admiration, a, tied to give the company a longer spell of re by ‘doing the tricks themselves. BETTER THAN CARD TRICKS. A number of his operations will be here ex- plained. As they ern be memorized rather casily, they may come in handy at some little femily ing. ‘The subject is a broad one, and with fonr scts of dominos to work with— this being the stock in trade of the young man we are exploiting--there are plerty of clever folks who can experiment toan extent of almost unlimited success. As is the case with many card tricks, the domino trick is very easily done when you know iow to do it. Take, for instance, what might seem a simple THE FOURTEEN SQUARE. and easily reached result, bused on the diree- tion of the trick maker that some one take eleven dominos from one set, all of the sixes to be ineinded in the number. and soarrange them that wherever they were “hung” to one another they should m: Doubles must be Inid according to the rules of the game as Ordinarily played. The whole lot were to match, and the total number of spots on them must aggregate cighty-five. WITH ELEVEN DoMIxos. Before seeing the result this problem, as it might be called, is somewhat mysterious, be- cause there are three distinct things that must be borne in mind outside of the limit set as to the amount of pieces. First, all the sixes must come into play: next there isthe difficulty of selecting eleven pieces that will match readily when a certain number of them is taken on compulsion, and lastly, the certainty that the total will come out rigut. ‘The diagram shows the simplicity of this ar- rangem although this simplicity was not made apparent for some time®fter the problem was given ont for solution. The trick was done finally by a young Indy after twenty-five minutes’ pretty hard work. It will be seen that the whole thing hinges on THE WoRD “Domrxo,” TRING ALL THE Pitcrs. the employment of the double six as a center viece. is enables the player to hang all the other sixes from this one and a carefal selection of the end pieces gives the correct total. Amore simple arrangement of pieces and one which gave thove who were unsuccess: with the first problem a chance to score a vie- tory is the forty-four trick. ‘THE FORTY-FOUR TRICK. This is a trick pure and simple in that its compiggion does not come about by the usual means, or those employed in the trick explained above. The company were told to make forty- four with four picces. Simple as this may ap- pear, when you look at the diagram ite solu- tion becomes 4 laborious affair. It had to be arranged by the entertainer fir For those who contemplate following this line of entertaining , this simple little trick, i solution of teresting exposition of the beanties of addition. This was given out asa problem in a direction somewhat different from that of the three oth- ors L have diagramed. THE FORTY-FOUR TRICK. Tt calls for the use of eight dominos, which are to be made into a solid square. The peculiarity of this arrangement is that when you add together » line of spots, or rather 4 line of half dominos, up and down or across, the total is exactly fourteen. It is anid to be o fs that a similar arrangement can be made which will give the same total in the two ding- nual directions. This is another matter for the Possessor of a set of dominos to work out. Onr friend's trick does not accomplish quite that innch. sets of dominos made into letters nd matched where they join you President of the Uni that of any «tate of the Union. ———__+e- —___ NOTHING LIKE IT EVER SEEN. Astute Brooklynites Purtled by « Freak of Natural History. From the New York Herald. A number of Brooklynites were seated ins chop house on the “Hill” in that city one even- ing recently when in walked a typical street faxir, bearing « mysterious box under bis arm. The proprietor of the resort started to hustle the stranger out of doors when the man began *oexplain in his glib way that he was note peddler, but that he bad merely dropped in to exhibit a rare animal, one he had captured him- self in the interior of Brazil. “It's as tame asa kitten,” he eid. Then he added: “The likes of it has never been seen be- fore. Naturalists believe it to be the last speci- men of an extinct species. It's a rare curiosity, gentlemen. I'd like to show it to you if the Doss is agreeable. You can give me what you like afterward.” ,,Ro, the gentlemen don't want to see the thing,” spoke up the Proprietor testily, as be made a movement toward the intrnder. “Hold on. Let us see what the man has,” spoke up one of the men_ prese others requested that the fellow be allowed to exhibit his treasure and the proprietor gave his consent Placing his box on one of the tables the fakir openeil it and out Stepped the oddest loki animal imaginable. Tt paused. looked around at the company, walked to the edge of the table and then leaped almost noiselessly to the oor. What in the world és it?” came frome chorus of men. rat,” said one. “Looks like a lot A raashapon monkey*or « heeioas interjected another. ‘Where did it come from?” Every one present asked some question or offered some suggestion at the sight of the nd I won't ‘part with it, It's worth while seeing, isn't it? be adued, with some prid ‘The men thought it was and gave the fellow quite « sum of mones seen in the way of an animal,” remarked » well-educated man. “The animal is of the cat, ink,” he added, “and yet it is an anoualy. Iv has claws, a sensitive, nervous organisin, as shown by its movements and the action of the tai, and yet it has a amooth hide. T really can't account for such a up. Itieeontrary to all pay it 3 Ls I i c veere. i iy L s dt i | i { f iz i i I i i n f | i f e ff it i i i i i g E 8 € Hs ie ali i “if | | i i i cat. E i ! i i i f i i | | rf i H i i i } 7 : i $ nel six danghters, one sister-in-lew, ut ‘thirteen persons in E