Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1891, Page 11

. HOW TOREACHOLD AGE Ghats on Longevity With Five Sep- tuagenarian Statesmen. MODERATION IN ALL THINGS. Senator Payne ie Able to Walk Three Miles s ‘Written tor The Evening Star. NO CITY OF THE UNITED STATES will you find so many energetic old men a in Washington. Octogenarians and septus- genarians flourish here like the flowers that bloom in the spring, and in most of them the Dlossoms of their old age are more beau- tiful and more fragrant than were those of their youth. Where will you finds happier or # lweeter life than that of Dr. Scott, the Presi- dent's father-in-law, who at ninety-one has fall possession of his mental faculties and who takes his walks with all the enthusiasm and vigor of s young man of thirty. Take Senator Morrill, who at over {our score is one of the bard- working members of Congress and who long after he had passed his three score and ten found time to writes book ridiculing the vani- tes of his fellows. Senator Payne bas reached four score, Senator Evarte passed his seven- tieth mile post several years ago and there are sscore and more of our great men who sre leading active lives between seventy and eighty. It is now nearly a year since I began to collect opinions from these men as to longevity and how young men by f course might reach » profitable and a happy old age. I have interviewed them as to their babite, as to their use or abuse of intoxicants, as to whether they ate or drank to excess and as to the thousand and one other things which go to- ward the destruction or the preservation of life. I find that each man haa bis own theories and ‘that their views are as wide apart as the SENATOR HENRY DB. PAYNE ON OLD AOR. One of the oldest young men in public life is Senator Henry B. Payne. He was born in New York state in 1810, during the first year of Mad- ison’s presidency. He was well educated and d when Andrew Jackson was closing term and he began the practice of law nd two years later. He visited Wash- ington city just after his graduation and he talks very interestingly about President Jack- son and his visit. In 185i he was a candidate for the United States Serate and came near be- ing elected at that time, when Ben Wade was chosen. He is now over eighty years of age, is in perfect health anc though he lives at least a mile and a half from the Capitol he has made ite practice to walk out to the Senate at least once a day during bis term. When the weather is pleasant he often walks out and back, and his heart is. as young as bis body. He can laugh like a boy and he enjoys the society of young men. Upon my asking as to the secret of his 0% health and spirits at thie advanced age, said: “Lattribute my good health and long years toagood constitution and to the fact that I control my appetite and am temperate in both eating adathing T take exercise reg tlarly, chiefly walking, have but little to do with doe- tors, and I think I am all the better for it. About forty-four years ago, when I was thirty- five years of age. I was forced to leave of my practice at the bar on account of hemorrhage of the lunge. I had something to do with doctors at that time, but have not bad much to do with them since. pee about your diet, Mr. mage a “Leat everything that agrees with me an rink what I like, but not to excess. I do not use tobacco, but I do not believe that long life depends on its use or non-use. The main thing ix temperance im work as well as in eating and driking. I believe many mon ere Billed by overwork and wo Sal died from overwork. He splendid Rbysique. bat he broke it down in working on a tariff bill and by laboring here all summer. I don't be- lieve that activity hurts any one, but overwork does. Then I don't let things’ worry me. Like life and believe it is worth the living. I keep myself young by having young men about me id keeping in the swim. Idon't know about Adam, but Ihave little faith in the story of Methiiselal and the other scriptural characters who are supposed to have lived ten times as n live now. ‘There is no reason why should have done so, and the statement is hardly probable.” “What advice, Senator Payne. would you git @ young man who wishes to reach four score’ “hardly kuow.” said the Senator. ‘I would urge him to be temperate. to study himself, eat what agrees with and refrain from that wich disagrees, take life as easy as ble aud aot worry of over work. I'would’ advise take regular exercise and to keep his e bright rather than on the dark side of things. The restraining of his appetites and the temperate use of all his faculties will enable bun to live longer, though life is, after all, largely # matter of constitution.” 4 BACHELON STATESMAN WHO WANTS TO MARRY. Ex-Senator Thomas L. Clingman is about two years younger than Senator Payne. He is as bright ass dollar and activeas young satyr. He t been in public life much since the close of the war. but he was one of the most noted of atesmen in the days of Tyler, Polk, Fill- . Taslor, Pierce and Buehanan, aud he had one of 'the famous duels of history with William L. Yancey of Alabame or account of a speech which he made concerning Henry Clay. le wasa member of Congress. of the United es Senate, m governor of North Carolina r general in the confederate delightful conversationalist and stil in his prime. He v. Hewa considers rm, he ‘Twill be seveuty-cight roars old in a few weeks auc Iam in perfect mental and physical Set. Twit aivul Wwe wile aioe day and I think I have been growing younger dur- ing the last three yeara I find that my nails row faster aw! tougher and the growth of my ur has inereawed I think that the improve- meat of my health since 1985 has been due to the use of stimulates the persp opeus up the so! r, but T have war married all my lif Sad first fell in love at five. I have wanted to marry stiree then and I want to marry now ore than ever, but I can't afford it. MODERATE EATING AND DRINKING. “As to my babits, Ihave been temperate all my li. Ido not eat more than bulf the amount of the ordinary man and I did not rink « drop of spirits wutil I was forty-aight. At this time I tried a mint jalep and thoaght it aud since then C have taken so at my Soarding house I send them back and Rave them —recool The word biseuit means, you know, cooked twice. 1 ain fond ‘of cakes for breakfast and ms Deeakfast for years at Willard’s Hotel consisted of buckwheat cakes and coffee. At dinner I ent one meat, one vegetable and alight dessert. 1 am vory fond of soup and can make it the place of meat, and Like ox-til, moek turtle and mulligatawney. I don't think mach of consomme, but I am fond of oysters. When I sit down to the table I over the nd decide Tr) I would say be temperate in habits, use no irituous before you are fifty and rink no, wines except at meals. Keep the joints well oiled with exercise, marry as soon ‘as you can after twenty years of age, don't overwork and don't worry, and if you have a decent conscience and a fair constitution there is no reason why you should not reach four score.” % Justice MacArthur is one of the retired jus- tices of the Supreme Court of the District at Washington. He hasled an active and working life, and now,at seventy-seven,he does not look as old as many a man of sixty. He is tall, erect and fine looking. . There are but few wrinkles in his handsome face, and_his hair, though gray. is thick and silky. He has wonderfully ciear complexion and his blue eyes are bright and full of ‘life. He is a fine taiker, a good liver and he enjoys society as much as when he was twenty ‘Years younger. I met him st Saratoge and asked him his recipe for lon- vity. ert am,” said he, “naturally of # strong con- stitution, and I ‘attribute my almost perfect physical and mental condition largely to a very good set of digestive organs. [I can eat any- thing and drink anything, and am one of the few men of whom it may be said that they d not know that they have a stomach. ve been so throughout my life and I attribute my continning in this condition in that such ex- ‘Cesses as have committed in the tT hay always made up for by rest and bathing. it I am up late at night I take pains to sleep late the next morning: and if I am at a big dinuer Tsee that my pores are thoroughly open the next day, so that any deleterious matters that I may have taken into my system may pass away. I don’t belie limiting the appetite and by denying o: that good may come. I believe that man should take as much pleasure ont of life as he can consistently with his work as he goes along. The desire for enjoyment is natural and it should be gra as much as hunger and thirst. The very fact that it existe is an evi- dence that nature intended it to be & 3 But, of course, every man must be a law unto himself in such matters, and that which suits one may not suit another.” ‘HOT-aIR BATHS. “You were speaking of bathing, Justice Mac- Arthur. What kind of bathing do you mean?” “Tam a great believer in hot-air baths,” re- plied the justice, “and I keep myself in good condition by one of these every week. I think the Turkish baths are good, but my favorite bath is the alcohol hot-air bath, which I take Yogularly when I am at home.’ When I am away I take the hot-water bath, making the water red hot and soaking myself in it until the perspiration flows freely out of every pore of my skin. I don't believe in the use of much soap in bathing and think that the pores of the akin are not helped by the alkali that is taken into them. Our skin is, yon know, made up of thousands of little pores, through ‘which aTarge part of the waste of the eystem is ca tied off. These pores relieve every part of the body, stomach, liver, kidneys and every por- tion of the system. ' Each pore has a little oil duct in it to protect it from injury and to keep it in good condition. It is a delicate piece of machinery and I do not believe this oil should be scoured out with soap, nor should the skin be scratched and roughened with a flesh ek ‘THE ALCOMOT. BATH. “Of what nature is your alcohol bath?” It is a bath of the vapor of alcohol. I take itin my bath room and do it by ptitting per- haps a gill of alcohol in an iron cup. I light ibs oak plese 1 under s.chutr, toon, baring JUSTICE MAC ARTHUR. undressed, I seat myself over it and throw a e blanket over me and around the chair, making « hot-air chamber for myself. ina short time I begin to perspire, and the per- spiration runs out of my pores in streams, washing out my skin and making me perfectly clean. “When the alcohol is burnt out I throw which is filled with water at a blood heat. After « short stay there Irub off myself with a crash towel and then complete the drying with | a softer one. I then lie down for a few minutes jand when I getup Tamanew man. Such a bath makes you feel that you have never been clean before. It revives your whole system and the alcohol acts ava tonic. You get o the good qualities in the alcohol, the burn having precipitated the injurious o1 | these going into your system through the | a8 vapor act upon you asa tonic. Some people rub teir skin with the raw aicohol, but I do | not advise this nor do I think it Leneficial.” | “Ae tomarriage,” «aid Justice MacArthur, “I | decidedly think it tends to the length of days, |andI would advise every young man to get married. Man needs association. It is in the course of nature, and it seems to me that I have never known when I was not married. As to smoking, the abuse of tobacco is, I thinik, in- jarious, but I do not think 1t hurts ‘me to smoke Ismoke two cigars a day and in moderati enjoy them.’ Se bout exercise?” “The only exercise I take,” replied Justice Arthur, “is walking. I walk about three day when in Washington, and I am very I usually see the bright side of things, and in looking back at the ditticulties I have surmounted in my life Iam surprised at my confidence in myself. I believe in work and not worry, and I think that any young man who will use the criterion of common sense in his life, enjoy it as much as he can, treat him- self as he would a good machine and conform to nature and nature's laws has a good chance of many days.” ‘TWO SEPTUAGENARIAN CONGRESSMEN. The two oldest men in Congress are Ger. Vandever of California and Gen. N. P. Banks of Massachusetts. Both are several years past their three score and ten. Both are perfectly erect and both possess the highest degree of physical and mental vigor. Both have led lives ot hardship. Both have served in the war, and starting out as poor boys, have made themselves famous. GEN. VANDEVER. Gen. Vandever is, I judge, six feet high. He was born in Maryland in 1817, was « brigadier general in the Union army and wasa membor lifeand Ihave been ordinarily temperate. I look | am rather carefal as to my eating and 1 lead a Togular life L married at thirts and I believe marriage conduces to length of years. advice I would give to oa -. Lean only eating, A i z i rH fist fer i off the blanket and jump into my bath tub, | Speaker in one of the most contests of our history, an Sotkers atteog the Union gencecls ot ‘non o! peo D i eee ae im constant ex- came out it comparatively a ‘man and went again into Con; He has been in Congress a number of since F late GEN. ¥. P. BANES, then and you will now find no more pleasant companion nov philosophic statesman than he. H en his good health largely to a mod- erate care of himself and to a good constitution. He believes that the mind has a great influence on the body, thinks that marriage is conducive to longevity and sees no reason why he should not live in good health for years to come. Faaxx G. Carpenter. —_—__—+e- THE DEPARTMENT MESSENGER. How Oneat the Treasury Turned Away Pres!- dent Arthu: 66\0U CAN'T GO THROUGH HERE, sir!” Itwas an elderly man, with only one arm and wearing a nickel-plated badge, who said he wasa watchman in the Treasury Department, who spoke. “But Imorely want to go through the build~ ing toget to the White House,” said the gentle- man addressed. “Can't help it. Iti after 2 o'clock and I wouldn't let you through even if you were the President of the United States. Inasmuch as the gentleman was the President he turned about and walked around the build- ing in order to get te the White House. This incident is said to have actually occurred to President Arthur and he was good-natured enough torefrain from causing the dismissal of the over-zealous watchman. Why are department messengers and watch- men 80 apt to be cross and irritable? Some of them are, it is true, likely to be constantly an- noyed by the silly questions of visitors. Others, again, are so very busy fetching and carryiny that ‘they have no time to stop and bow an scrape. But this is not true of all of them. THE NECESSARY CLERKS. It is hardly fair that while there are many accounts of the higher ofticers of the govern- ment written there should be a carelessness on the part of the public of the smaller employes. They are quite as necewary in theie eny to the welfare of the country. A department pro- gremses very well for quite a period without having any secretary, but how long couiti it get along if it had no clerks? It would go to ieces. Fancy the head of an executive office lepending upon his own knowledge to guide him in ordinary government business. The details are 40 numerous and so intricate that he must trust entirely to his subordinates, and the latter can often get along without a chief, but a chief is bound hand xnd foot unless he has their help. Doea anybody expect to find the chief of a bureau operating his own type- writer? If he should try it the result would be i obability that horrible jumble of errant letters that one frequently receives as the maiden effort of a typewriter. Each man ac- cording to his own nses in the world. Cabinet ofticers are tremendous fellows and the world likes to look et them: government clerks are smaller parts of Uncle Sam's machine and the world passes them by. Whatever we do we are apt to think is the best thing in the world that a man can do. ‘Thus a man who catalogues books may come to believe himself as big» man as the one who writes books, and an author may, on the other hand, regard the simple citaloguer as a being so small as not to have any feclings. In the government departments the clerks are prone to meer at the chiefs and underestimate them, aud the chiefs in their turn are frequently heediess of the feelings of the clerks. A man may do work like a m=-chine, but ke is not a machine. ‘The common workman has as much fevling as the boss. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MESSENGER. A department messenger is also a very neces sary thing, and he generally thinks himself even more necessary than he is. Whereas some of them are very busy, others are not busy at all, and they lead lives of such unvarying 9 | monotony that they live to be old, old men. How gently time deals with some of them! ‘There au old messenger wits day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. His newspaper lies idly in his lap. He is gently dozing, or perhaps he sits in absolute serenity contemplating the wall opposite to him. The wall has nothing on it and his mind has nothing in it. How can it be expected that he should ever die? What could he die off He may shrivel up as he gets into the sere and yellow leaf, but the leat drops off gently and Lis dis- appearance from the department corridor is gradual, so to speak. i THE BRIDE OF “COLLARS AND CUFFS.’, There Are a Number of Pretty Royal Girls Whom Prince Eddie Might Choose. London Letter to Philadelphia Telegraph. The eldest son of the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Prince “Eddie,” Prince “Collars and Cuffs,” &c., one of the three greatest matches in Europe— the future emperors of Russia and Austria being the other two—is just twenty-seven. He has been reported as being engaged a score of times, but the rumors always melt baselesaly away like so many mist wreaths. In spite of the many stories that have been whispered abroad to the detriment of the per- sonal characte: of this unprepossessing young gentleman; in spite, too, of the fact that he is neither good looking nor intelligent, or even jolly and genial, there is no doubt but he can choose where he likes among the murriageable royal ladies of Earope. He may. however, by the terms of the royal marriage act. as well as that of the act of succes- sion, only marry = Protestant. Consequently all talk of the recent vinit of the King of the bar page to England having been undertaken with a view of personally arranging a betrothal between the duke and his young daughter. the Princess Clementine, bad no foundation iu fact. But unless the royal family of England have itively decided against a marriage for their Reis with one of his first cousins, he would only have the embarrassment of a choice. He might take to wife the most beautiful unmarried royal girl in Enrope in the person of the Princess Alix of Hesse Darmstadt, or the most admirably brought up and educated one, the Princess Margaret Prussia. Or he might delight the heart of his fair mother by offering his land, with the crown matrimonial of England in it, to her niece, the Princess Louise of Denmark. daughter of the crown prince, who is just sixteen; or to her other niece, tho Grand Duchess Xenia of Russia, who is of the same age, But the great unpopularity of Russia with the people of England would robably militate against the latter alliance. Qetaide of the list of his cousins his choice, by reason of the restrictions of the act of suc- cession, is necessarily limited. So, unless he finaly fixes his affections on his pretty young kinswoman, the Princess Victo: Teck, it is hard to see where he will go to seck for a bride. His charming brother, Prince twenty-tive last June and is not even eugaged. But as there is no Salic law in England the suc- gession to the throne is amply secured, even | Ettore i ae hough the two sous of the Prince of Wales | Netlers ‘oy af Haumeciatels bo id chance to unmarried. = ‘afraid { ne: FIGHTING THE FLESH. Adipose Americans and How They Can Prevent Corpulence, PROPER WEIGHT OF BODY. Fatness is Normal Only in Infancy—Interest- ing Table of Weights and Measures—First Steps to Prevent Obesity—The Process of ‘Training Down—Food and How to Eat It. Written for The Evening Star. A* HEALTHY BABIES ARE FAT, BUT infancy ig the only period of life when that condition is natural. The adiposity of infants is maintained by their milk diet and gradually disappears whey weaning commences and their digestive organs are required to assimi- late other food. If the excessive fat continues after the ehild begins to walk it should be subjected to dietetic measures. At the same time noone should be skin and bone only. The body needs some fat todruw upon in disease when the normal supply of nourishment is cut off, which brings us to the question of what is the exact provision made by nature for normal production of fat in the human frame. Acchild in the fourth year should be$ feet high and weigh more than 28 pounds; in the sixth year, 8)¢ feet high and weigh 42 pounds; in the eighth year, 4 feet®high and 56 pounds in weight; at twelve years, 5 feet in height and 70 pounds in weight is a fair average. A man whoso height is wencony eat laree-bo jan will weigh somewhat more in One whose bi though the height be the — eee SHOULD TRAIN DOWK. How should a man who observes that he is losing his slenderness ascertain whether he is growing too large? Let him measure his chest and waits and compare the figures. If the cir- cuunference of his _waist exoeeds that ot bie chest then he is verging upon corpulency, ani ithe desires to presorte bis symmetrical pro- ortions he should at once begin to truin lown. This is tho only time when obesity is easily handled, the old proverb of ‘‘an ounce of prevention’ being ‘‘worth a pound of cure” being true in this instance. T have been informed by a fashionable tailor that for a man the waist measurement and the inside trousers seam should be the same. ‘That i, if the trousers le wail margin of one or two inches does not matter much and will usually be found in the case of very tall or very shortmen. This ratio of the waist and leg holds good in ordinary cases, A woman whose height is Should os ‘weigh This table is for women between twenty and forty-five years of age. After that they be- come heavier. A woman should weigh but lit tle less than a man in proportion to her height. The bust of a perfectly formed woman should measure ten inches more than her waist. If the waist is laced in smaller than this the abdo- men is pressed down and the bosom up, caus- ing both to billow out to an unnatural size and compressing the waist too much for either health or beauty. A SHAPELY WomAN. Before the natural shape of # woman has been distorted, not to say deformed, by tight lacing and child bearing her abdomen, when the stands straight, should protrude very little, if any, beyond the frontline of her thighs. The abdomen should never be larger than the bust, which should measure at least five inches more than the abdomen. ‘The hips should measure one-third more than the shoulders. I am aware that s woman is considered to possess a very good figure if, when dressed, a plummet line dropping trom the bust will form a straight line with the highest point of the abdomen, but in reality the plummetshould fall clear of theab- domen by at least two inches. This rule applies only to well foriaed women whose bodies have not been misshapen by corsets or maternity. ‘There isa far simpler way than by measuriny to ascertain when the point has been reache when one should not allow oneself to become stouter. It is to observe if one pants, puffs and is obliged frum shortness of breath to take one's time going upstairs, such as those lead- ing to the elevated stations. Going upstairs should not tax the breathing powers any more than rapid walking upon level ground, and does not in the case of slender person. To have to stop to recover one's “wind” after climbing stairs is a sure indication that a person is “out of condition,” and should be accepted as na- ture’s friendly warning to train down. TUR TIME TO TRAIX DOWs: Dicting should at once be bogu, but there are among women as among men many who cannot resist the pleasures of the table. Others there are who really suffer wien dieting is im- posed upon them, and, moreover, have not the strength to walk off their unnecessary flesh, The majority of married women are circum: scribed in their outdoor excreiso owing to domestic duties, but if such women are fortu- nate enough to’ be “keepin, an easy, sure and inexpensi juction” process right in their owu homes. It is to do their own chamberwork, not irregularly and by fits and starts, but persistently and con- coo a king beds, The shaking of mattresses, makin, sweep- ing and dusting with the windows open, and running up and down stairs while setting things to rights is exercise constituting the best of obesity cures. The doing of chamberwork steadily hus been known to reduce # woman's weight at the rate of five pounds week. Cook- ing, on the other hand, will add that much. Cooks are almost always stout, owing to their lack of outdoor exercise, the heat to which they are constantly subjected and their habit of tasting the dishes they prepare. If « girl is corpulent when she begins to do chamberwork she soon becomes slender. -THE USE OF 4 CORD. ‘The apartment house system bas deprived women of one method of keeping obesity at bay. The flats so much affected nowadays are merally so small that even when » women Aves her’ own housework she has little oppor tunity of obtaining the exorcise made inevit- able ina house containing many floors, ‘There is little room to move about ina flat. Every thing is upon the same floor and there is no going upand down stairs ——— that private carriage of the apartment house, i elevator. Everything is designed activity except upon the cord. A nulled to open the street door, another to set Re sliding closet in — In * elevator ouare pulled up and down stairs by a cord. You hang your clothes out of the winder ts ary on acord. What would flat life be without the humble but inevitable cord? ROPE SUMPIKG. When I first began to flesh up I lived in a fat, Like most women with « family and a home to attend to, I could only give = limited amount of time to physical exercise. I could not al- ways be out of doors, even though the weather were fine; therefore 1 cu evolve some wort ot exarcive in wi indulge at home, and at happy thought. "The friend of the = THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C; SATORDAY, MAY % is91-SIXTEEN PAGES. y ting and placed within her reach if not to beplucked and eaten, but, like her, I have had to on the fact that there are many forbidden fruits and viands ithia our reach which we had better Cexia Looax. CATCHING A TARPON. How the Heavy-weight Angler Reaches the Proudest Moment of His Life, From the Florida Times-Union, One bright day on the broad verandas of the hotel at Punta Gorda a beautiful one-hun- ared-and-twenty-five-pound tarpon was placed before the gaze of the guests and the capturer of this great beauty gave a dissertation on tar- pon fishing that may be of use to others con- templating angling for this fish. He had been at it day after day for two weeks, had gotten three bites and one fish, but was perfectly sat- isfied in the recompense for his time, money, journey and patience. “Gentlemen,” says be, “I am prouder of this than any event of my life.” “How did you catch him?” “Well,” says he, “I secured a boat and a man and had him row three miles up toward the mouth of Pease river. The equipments were a good Stout rod and reel, 600 feet of line, a strong hook baited with mullet, and to the hook a nilk leader, one foot long, about as large around as your little finger, so soft and pliable that the fish's jaws canuot sever it. Dropping your bait to the bottom, you our boatman row 100 feet away,then anchor and unreel 100 fect of line, witich is carefully coiled in the bottom uf the boat in such a way that it may run out rap- idly when the fish starts. ‘This much done, take from your pocket a flusk of that which ali yood tshermen are provided with, imbibe your rink, fill your pipe, smoke it, and while the blue wreaths float on the landward peruse your nov mtle gulf breeze and when the sun 186 | sinks in gorgeous crimson across the gulf into the western world, reel in your line, and pro- ceed to the hotel. This is your first duy—you have caught nothing. This same performance may be repoated for succession of days with ‘ag Unpronounced success. pat “ Fe, cos and after e boatman tell “On the fifth day you having waited somo hours you that the line ix moving out slowly—a tar- pon ison it. Don’t get excited. Thereis plonty of time. Mark the page of your novel, lay it aside, knock the ashes from your pipe, place it in the case, examine your rod and reel, and, fading itn good working order, wait. | Now the fis! rts more rapidly; ho has swallowed the hook and it makes an uncomfortable feel- ing in bia stomach; that is where it should be. When he has carried out your 10) feet of loose line brace yourself and strike him strong and heav: fun begins, the effect is like an electric shock, the fish gives oue grand leap from the water, and as the sun strikes bis scales as he proceeds on his parabola he gleams as if studded with a million diamonds. “He proceeds at a break-neck pace for shal- low water, and a dozen times dues he leap with renewed energy, his fin cutting the water like « gleaming bla the line gently taut, and if he goes directly from you you will be unable to guide him ina circle, which should be your endeavor. Have your boatman row di- rectly after him. You may have miles to go, but you have the satisfaction that he and the boatman will become exhausted about the same time, but the fish proceeds not far before he concludes that this is the fight for mastership: he chanyes his tactics, doubles back on you, and when he does this you have that tired,gone feeling, us if the fish were lost. He leaps again in the air and shakes himself in a wild endeavor to the hook, like @ serpent ‘springs from its coils. He is again in shallow water; you havo rapidly” reeled your line and “found him still ‘there; he crosses your bows ata hundred feet distance, and if you keep a gentle pressure you guide him ina circle which becomes narrower and narrower as the fish's struggles weaken. ou have him within a few feet of the boat; andie him gently, for if you do not it is likely that the silver king will make one frand strug. gle for liberty, which may Prove your aad di fent; but you have guided him slowly to the side of the boat, your boatman gently slips his hand in his gills, and with one muscula:, dex- terous movement lands him in your bos*, tot cut out th hook, reel in your lino, store away in ite case, relight your pipe and pro- pepe ed ewt fight of man against fish.” issn mito The Antiquity of the Slot Device. Froin the Globe-Democrat. ‘There was a coin-in-the-slot machine in Alex- andria, Egypt, a couple of thousand years or so ago. It was invented by a priest and dispensed holy water automatically. A coin dropped through the hole tilted the nicely balanced lever and a spoonfal of the liquid ran out into the palm of the hand. ‘The slot ides is as old as the Christian era. But what has puzzled inventors has been such an application of it as could not be beaten by bad boys. The earlier slut machines could be worked by buttons, by iron washers, by coins with strings attached and by iron rods. In one way and another the contents were pumped out and the owner of the machine and he merchandise was none the richer. About four years ago the inventors, by zigzag tubes or by careful adjustment of weight, or by some other contrivance, succeeded in getting slot machines which could not be deceived by youthfal ingenaity. | Since then applications ave poured ir. Principal Examiner Ai baugh says that the patents on slot machines now number in the hundreds. ‘There are seven different patents for slot machines for taking photographs. In England a patent has been Branted for a machine which automatically weighs a person and announces the result audibly by a phonograph arrangement. ‘The most profitable slot machines of this im- mediate period are the musical phonographs. They are so many mints to the owners. Music rolls are changed daily. The owners have gone 60 far as to hire the famous Marine Band to play many tunes for reproduction by the pho- nograph. An accomplished young lady per- former is kept regularly employed in Washing- ton, at a salary of $18 per week, to play all of the latest music to the phonograph. ———_-or Who Was the Fool? From the Boston Herald. “Talking about April Fools’ day jokes,” said one of a group of bystanders, “reminds me of an incident that happened to me some years since on tho Ist of April. I was walking along the street, when I noticed directly in front of me a large, much-worn pocket book. The min- uteIsaw itI came tothe conclusion that it was some mischievous boy's trick to catch an unsuspecting passerby. So I hungaround near it for several minutes, hoping to share in the enjoyment of the joke. Several persons saw it, but passed out paying any attention to it. Atle one man came along, saw it and ce pet to pick it up, but remember: himself suddenly, gave the book a kick, which sentit flying intothe gutter. ‘Then ‘it was, though I can't say why, that I was seized with » t desire to pick up the old wallet and open f even if Ishould be the victim of the joke. So, walking up to where it lay, I picked it up and put it in my pocket to carry home. ell, gentlemen,” he continued, “what do you suppose that old wallet contained’ “A roll of bills,” said one. ‘Five hundred dollars,” ventured another. ‘What was in it?” asked a third listener. jota blamed thing but paper,” said the story teller, and he turned on his heel and walked off. oo—_____ “Fall Calf.” “Half Calf.” From Life's Calendar. Il ——— | LATE GOSSIP FROM NEW YORK. FROUBLES IN socIETY. Painful Experiences Swapped by Two Young | What is Being Tathed of in the Great Met- | Some of Medfern’s Lates! Designs for Spring People Who Have Suffered. Topolican City. Fashtons. “ MOST EMBARRASSING EXPERI- AVING GOT SO FAR ALONG IN THR spring as the merry month of May we need no longer regard with perplexity and doubt as possibly mere momentary fade tbe gowns, wraps, do. everywhere dixplayed, but that we may m as the approved and settled styles which are to be adopted by all the feminine world during the next four months. Those which were likely to be um becoming, those which poseaed the elements Of acheap and too widespread popularity. or were in any way question im tate, have been weeded out and what remains will, t@ tse the wemdlar jargon porter, “obtain” all sun | for instance, it is Some REFLECTIONS nroanrva axxen mnt’s | F DEFALOATION—A @REAT MAT MUSICAL FESTI- YAL—SOMETRING AROUT JACK THE BIPFER— SOME BIO PLUMS IN NEWSPAPER W. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. ; New York, April 30, 1891. Every time we hear the sad tidings of another disgraceful forgery or defalcation by some re- spected man holding a position of trast the story seem 80 incredible, the crime so abject and the eventual discovery and disgrace #0 in- evitable that we cannot help thinking this will be the last, no sane man will ever again in this way brirg ruin upon himself and all belonging to him. But still the mournful spectacle goes ence?” repeated the young lady, thoughtfully. “Well, as nearly as I can re- member, it was connéoted with a pickle. I was a guest at dinnor in Washington, I shouldn't care to say Just how many years ago. It was not a very formal affair—merely formal enough for the gentlemen present to wear evening dross.” There was a dish of dainty pickles near me and I took one—a baby cu- cumber. It was about big enough for two dites and I tried to on‘ “t with my fork, when suddonly it launched itself like a skyrocket across the table and struck the immaculate shirt bosom of s very particular swell opposite fairly in the middle. “I don't quite know how it could have hap- In millinery, that large hate meee eee 4 on, and there is scarcely a week that does not | for summoer-resort driving and for all oat med so fortunately, bat conversation see one name taker: from the list of men hon-| door entertainments must be of fancy lace Seen ee ee ey av ae oat ave he | acel by ‘their generation and aided to Gut | straw, ended with oll manse was the author of the accident. I never blush | ¢¥eTdengthening catalogue of thieves and | tuo Satie aie @ scrape of ffon oF erepe. brig sparkling with jew Al —a fact, I trust, not to be set down seriously to my discredit—and 1 managed to so skillfully dissemble otherwise that nobody, with the ex- ception Ihave mentioned, suspected me at all. trust beirayers. It seems always to be the case that the traitors are the very men whe Were most trusted, but of course they are the - . ill-bred as to | Me" who have the opportunity to make false- | fended for traveling orm tive viaible no8ce of the "occurrence andthe | ood lucrative. The latest instance msein, aa | "ih EH! oF iver” tr with, tel talk went on almost uninterrupted while my|I have said, simply incredible. Tm | or is in cha ali the viotin sdnsinistares surreptitious wipes to his | his dignified position as president of | jewel tints. Sot ae one of the solid banks of the city Mr. enjoyed so absointely the contid Pected as the author of the mischie leagues that as one of them frankl “Alas!” replied the young man, “I was not “ile was the bank.” ‘This so fortanate in a similar adventure. It 00-| msde Mr. Hill the executer otne (ho is making rather a ep 4 dancing party, where I was obliged | ecnrity: and meuil mech tela bi this year in the usual struggle with the other knew thy , he president wae taki: vdvan re Sree remeetie, The wanks of the 1685 | of tals conhdtuns Go eycteemicdiy soe tte under my charge had been supplied and Iwas | beak or nearly haifa milion dollars’ Onccan, myself enjoying a little chicken salnd while y not envy him his grins dishonored uame conversing with her, when who should saunter up but a young fellow of my acquaintance whom T had asked her pormission to introduce I performed the ceremony, and as he bowed low a bunk of ice cream that he carried on a plate slid off and fell fairly and squarely into the bosom of her dress. She was leaning forward atthe moment. He madeagrab for it, bat it was too iate, and ina moment the group in which wo were was a sceue of wild commotion. What happened thereafter I don't precisely know, but there was a scream, a flutter of skirts, a crowding from other parts of the room in re- sponse to the alarm, and the cataclysm ended With the sudden disappearance uf my fair charge. Isaw her no more that evening, and siuce then she has rented me with marked coldness, apparently holding me responsible for the avEwardnees of the person I bad the misfortune to introduce.” ae See AN INCIDENT OF THE MATINEE, ful manipniation the deficits ing this heavy burden and with: « rortune to It is supposed the money went in speculation, for there isnothing left but his life insarance. Qne cannot help pitying #0 sad a death. A WEEK OF OREAT KUKIC. Musical New York is to havo a splendid May festival next week and there is the greatest an- ticipation of the varied and ix &rams for that notable event. Mr. Caruegie’s new music hall claims to be “in every respect the most complete building for the parpore in- tended in the world,” and these concerts will show whether the claim is a jast one. Cer- tainly in no building coald the acoustics, ven- tilation and the thow and one other difi- | cult probiema that confront the architect have | The Experiences of Two Young Women in| been more carefully studied. Walter Damrocch, / Changing Seats. th young conductor, will have the pleasure of | Hveen the Chloeg> Teibume, hearing one of | with a slightly pn ‘Two very well-dressed young ladies came to dered by Mra. C ‘ari Alves. M Which is one of those which is to be eminent Russian composer, whose name is | worn flat at the very top of the the box office of one of the down-town theaters | rather nnplenaan iy Miveol ear te entepi- | silver gray fancy ira, with soft or and purchased two orchestra seats. They were | demic with ite ac ompanving sneezes, will con- | chiffon, embroidered with silver sta «: lettered and numbered A 1 and 3. They passed | ductseveral of his own works. Then there willbe | loose cluster of pink asters, with grapich inand took possession of them. There was | the Symphony Society orchestra, the Oratorio | foliage, ix arranged wt the ba the brim the usual large crowd at the matinee, and every | Society chorus, Wenzel Kabock's boys’ choir of | turns np agvinst the cro wa 100 and a long’ list of brilliant Bishop | Potter will deliver the dedicatory oration and the beginning of all will be the singing of “( Hundred.” “There is cousiicrable. catholicity shown in the musical i Italian, Russian, French aud represented, and on this not have it quite all bis own wa; will be no unmteresting sight.” All 3 will be there, as the seats have gone off rapidly, and when it comes to spring toilettes we may use a slang phrase and say that the peacock is not in it with femimine New York this spring. THE WRETCHED MURDER IN WATER STREET. So it seems that the police have caught our mongrel and filthy “Jack the Ripper.” The evidence poin*s with damning strength to « miserable wretch who is notorious for depray- ity even in the worst of the slums. Brought into the daylight the case has little of a sensa- tional quality. The most interesting feature is the murder was not committed at all by the mysterious stranger who accompanied the woman to the room, but by the inmate of an adjacent bed room, who asawulted her after her first companion had departed. This goes to show the fallibility of circumstantial evidence. Dress in the gay capital of France promises seat in the house was being rapidly filled. A | to be very elaborate and gay this year. few moments lates the same two young women left their seats and came into the lobby. “We don’t like these, they are too far front and are on the side. Can't some one manage to exchange them for us?” An employe of the theater, wishing to oblige them, took their checks and went to the box office, where he exchanged them for two others located about two-thirds of the way back and on the same isle. The original checks were sold to the next comer at the box office who Sesired seats in the front row. The ladies took a of the last two checks and went to heir new sents. Scarcely had they ensconsed themsclves when one remarked to. the other: “These seats are too far back. I think I like the other ones bes:. Let's go and take them:” and suiting the action to the word, they pro- to do so. ‘They reached the seats in the front row a few steps ahead of the usher, who was escort- ing the tlemen who had just bought them to the same seats. The usher's surprise was painful to witness when he saw that the seate were already occupied, for no such thing should na of coming will be trimmed wi | ments oF app than the gow they are too effect’ ve il be be wholly discarded, occur in a well-regulated theater. “Ladies,” | If, for example, the strange man for any he wad, “T have tle checks for these seats and | eon, bad ‘betn apprehended Just’ after you must give them up.” “Have you?" re-| the murder wus discovered it would have gone hard with him, yet it ie certain that whoever that individual was he was entirely innocent of that crime at least. The not yin this murderer has been in custody sponded one of the occupants sweetly. The uyher was only a boy and unused to the wiles of the wicked world. So he relinquished the "checks to the dainty-gloved hand that was atratched out to receive them. ‘Then the lady's faceassumed an expression of the most virtu- ous ibdignation. “I bought these seats,” she said sevsely. “I hold the checks in my hand, and I defy you or any 01 to put me out of for a week and the true story of the crime has been known to Inspector Byrnes and other parties for several days, yet the reporters have been entirely | but insertion th more or less fancy them.” “But you have just exchanged them,” | thrown off the scent and have done some very are much newer and these are wt ba said the usher. “That does not make any dif-| wild and weird guessing. Public interest in | above handsome fringes. Here is a picture of ference,” was the reply, “I only wanted to see | the case has pretty well subsided, because |g dressy little bonnet of pleated Chantilly lace, the murder was evidently nothing more the clumsy imitation of the worst of the Kipper's methods. Very few held to the creepy that the real Ripper was be if Icould get better ones. I did not succeed. I think I will keep these.” ‘The gentlemen in the meantime stood in the aisle, pictures of absolute discontent, looking ith very flat crown. It was made in ifern's Paris house, and the original had strings. but ‘Y | it would be jast as pretty without and would nd any idea of | guit most faces better. A delicate aigrette of 4s only » man can look when he is thoroughly | ® ties of murders due toa maniacal impulse | gine cut jet rises from a lace rosette on top, and embarrassed and foela that there are several | 86 dismissed as improbable. | back of this are small golden 5 Tow somseh' tips. hundred pairs of feminine eyes enjoying his 4 FAT ROYALTY IN A NAME. ~— oo — predicament. First they stood on one foot and then on the other. They tried to appear at ence while the usher made explanations, to which they would not listen. Their efforts Were @ unserable failure aud every woman in the house knew it. Finally they proceeded to the box office and stated their cause of com- plaint. It was regarded as just and the result was that the ladies were forced to give up the seats that they had taken and were relegated to the comparative obscurity of their own. They could not stand this long because the 400 puirs of feminine eyes were all turned on them after the gentlemen had triumphantly taken possession of their coveted front row seata. So the ladies left. They sniffed con- temptuously as they walked up the aisle and cast withering glances all around them. Even the handsome doorkeeper was disregarded as they made their exit. They reduced the chief usher toa state of coma with a look as they pasved him. When they reached the lobby they hed their innings. It didn’t last long, but was: —_ exciting. Then they walked out on Randolph street with the tragic and offended air of a pair of beaten queens. ————— A Powerful Microscope. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Boston Letter. Churles X. Dalton, instrument maker, says: R. B.Tolles of Boston, now dead, was the greatest maker of microscope lenses the world has ever seen. He once made an object glass that magnitied 7,500 timea. It was the first and only one ever constructed and was made as the result of a long epi igge 3 =. other microscopiste in regard to ibility of resolving what Bes known, as Mobert's nine- venue b i wi yy on ’ glass if about 100,000 to the inch. No microscope lens then made was sufficiently powerful to count these lines. Mr. Tolles, as a result of state- ments made during the controversy, started to make an objective that should magnify 7,500 times. This he succeeded in doing somewhere about 1874. This objective was 1-75th of an inch in diameter and is about as large as the hole made in « shest of by the’ point “of, very ne needler ‘This Mah, Wootwant Pe wtiied PS in rorment coploy at] rent Washington, but bis bill was not allowed: b the auditor and the lens was taken off his han: one Dr. Harriman. In turn he sold it to Dr. Shakespeare asked, or rather Julict, “What's con in name?” The world has been pretty unan- | FF" sport Oy imons in replying, ““A good deal.” An example | a wig Bhar a badgers shat of the power of anaie has just come under | ™ on me mheas heen ee aaa ee my observation. A short time ago one of the mg os “3 rss of Rehb-anl ss en leading corset houses found that a rival was | Cite senmtion. | It be segue ay selling goods under a name very closely re- | Cloth, with ample brown velvet collar to ma sembling their own. They louked the matter up | and lapel buttoning well down. The germent and learned that this house had found « woman | in length extends below the calf, for it is in« engaged in @ corset fuctory near by whose tend name suited their purpose and that they give | tout. this woman a royalty of 10 cents a dozen on all the corsets they sell bearing her nume. ‘Thus it appears that there are cash advantages in having a name which, if not famous itself, sounds and looks very like the famous name of somebody else. SOME BIG PLUMS IN NEWSPAPER WOKE. A few weeks ago I spoke of the large income of some of the nimble fingers among the artists of the city who devote themselves especially to workaday illustration. There are even greater prizes for the pens of the ready writers who Eombine originality with faculty. Probably the man who makes most money out of news- i m this city is George Alt ‘The New Overwrap. if need be, for wear with the new sur-