Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1891, Page 13

BRIDES AND ROSES. Preparations in Progress for Some June Weddings. THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS ‘Will Be Used in Great Profusion—Beantifal Effects That May Be Produced With the Fragrant Blossoms—Some Elaborate De- signs in Floral Decorations--Notable Events, 66 4 ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD A smell as sweet,” but it is extremely doubtful if the brides who are to bemarried the next four weeks, withall the witchery and fra- grance of the June roses about them, would bear youout inany such unromantic conclusion. But as there are roses and roses, so there are brides and brides, and what would suit one will not suit another at all. Nowadays an expectant bride takes as much and perhaps more time arranging all the details of her grand entree up the aisle to the altarand the grouping of her attendants there as she does to the dress she is towear. Unless she is an especially strong- minded person, her modiste curries the day s0 far as the clothes are ncerned. “NOT HELPLESS WITH FLORAL DECORATIO® She is not as helpless when arranging the color scheme of the floral decorations at the church and at her home. Here is an op- portunity to display her originality and taste. If she is to have » rose wedding in the leafy month of June, she can carry out the most charming visions of color and fragrance if so mind e has read the description of it all twenty times over in a love story of English country life. Of course she is going to introduce # dozen novelties or Tevive a dozen other old-fashioned cus- toms, so that it will be all as de- lightfully quaint as a reproduction of an old engraving. She ordaias that her at- tendants must carry roses, whether the men buds or fuil blown roses. and the ex- d number of them. This and all the rest of the details may seem trifling to other people, bute bride and her bridesmaids spend many delightful hours arranging just such litth hare to go toward making upa rfect wedding tableaa. PoWhen it is ail settled, then she goes to her florist. There is nothing the modern florist eannot do if you can afford to pay for it. Few brides, or their indulgent fathers and mothers but what are willing to proj erly frame such an attractive picture as the average society wedding makes, and it follows thet the history of Wachingtoa weddings of any prominence the last two decades recall memories of very beautiful scenes. EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S MARRIAGE. When ex-President Cleveland was married his was a June rose wedding. The blue parlor was a perfect bower of pink bloom. The wall was nearly covered with roses in front of where the distinguished couple stood. There were more roses beck of them, the mantels were banked with more gorgeous pecimens, and the romance of the rose as well sof theevent invests that room with a sort of halo which will never grow less. The deco- rations then in vogue at the White House were entirely too stiff to please the artistic florists all over the country, who got the headache reading the descriptions of them. We have bad other June weddings since that were made much more beautiful by the better taste displayed. Who would not like to be the central figure im a wedding decoration such as this? A PLAN FOR CHURCH EFFECT. Take, for instance, a church like the Epiph- any, the Ascension or St. Matthew's. As taste- ful as St. Jobn’s Church is, the aisles are not wide enough for a bridal cortege, although hun- dreds of the prettiest weddings have taken place in its chancel. An ideal decoration would be at either of the three churches first named to form an aisle first of all down the ontside steps by ahedge of rose bushes. Just inside the ehurch door, on either side, ought to stand a stump of an old tree and from ite moss-grown top will arise a bunch of roses. Where the space is ribboned off for the families re- peat the stump and . xses. extending the ribbon down to the firs; pew. Whers the roses step the stumps shoull be in greater number and foliage and hanging vines will make it more sttiking. The chancel rail will be hidden by a rose hedge and rose bushes must be placed as palms are now usually Grouped in the chancel. Vases filled with rose Will decorate the altar. All the wed- ding party will wear roses, so will the choristers they meet’ the bride @t the door, singing the choras from the “Kose Maiden” and so will all the coach- men, footmen and house servants. The bride will carry roses and there will bea wreath of them about her wedding cake. Ifshe be really clever she will have in her wedding train at least two flower girls or pages, who will follow after the choristers and bridesmaids up the aisle, and will strew rose petals over the path she will tread to reach the altar. This is the ideal church wedding so far as the floral decoration goes. The same general plan car- Tied out at home maybe made even more effective. SIMILAR DESIGNS FOR THE HOUSE. Fancy being married undera rose trellis with an aisle leading up to it, hedged with rose bushes. The alcove or bay window, where the ceremoay is to take place, may be divided off by a trellis. Or’ one side the rose vine is seemingly planted in a bed of moss. The vine which would be selected just now is the Harrison rose, an old-fashioned climber, named after President Harrison's grandfather. Its blossoms are bright yellow aud the fragrance is daintily sweet. The whole trellis would be cov- with the vine in the natural . The rose hedge mark- ing out the aisle can Le of every possible kind aud color of bloom, yellow predominating, and then the bridesmaids must carry yellow roses, and the bride may, too, if she wishes to accent her bridal toilet with this glimpse of color. ‘This decoration in the modern white and gold drawing room is perfect. A WILD-FLOWER WEDDING. A wild-ower wedding is very pretty at this season, when laurel blossoms are in perfect bloom and the fields are beginning to be cov- ered with daisies. A marguerite wedding can be made very pretentious and form a beautiful symphony in green and white. Hedges, clum nd bouquets of marguerites will deck the usual points and the ceremony take place under a bower of clematis or wi ia vine. At a ball Mrs. Whitney bas given in the white and gold ball room of her New York house one doorway was garlanded or rather framed in # Wisteria vine, the beautiful blossoms,sofamiliar to every one, forming a fringe just over every- body's head” With all the magnificent bot- house flowers used upon thie same occasion this one bit of nature anadorned was the most admired of alk - Apink decoration at this season is con- sidered more in keeping with the spirit of the early summer than the white blossoms so long thought the necesary accompaniments to a bridalevent. Nothing more tasteful can be imagined than the laurel blossoms plentifuliy used with maidenbair fern as a foundation and the feathery asparagus plumosa for Grapery. ‘This scheme could be carried out in laurel bouauets for the bridesmaids and the whiter blossoms for the bride's flowers. NOVELTIES IN WEDDING FAVORS. All sorts of little novelties are permissible in Wedding favors. The bridesmaids have been carrying their roses in baskets of every sort and form. They can do so still if the: Dut the latest fad is to have the flowers do oe fect that they are to be admired for themselves, not for any trick of arrangement. A loose cluster of roses tied with ribbons, long loops and longer ends, is the most fashionable style’ ‘This ie French adaptation. When the roses were tied on fans,at the top of Directoirecanes, on shepherd's crooks, in baskets, in boats, in slippers, in hate and all the rest of the pretty things, it did seem as if nothing more conld be desired, but now fashion dictates that nature unadorned is adorned the most, and so ali these ep discarded. bride's Bouquet now, no matter what it fs composed of, must be a collection of small bouquets, according to the latest fad. as tua: bunches as there are bridesmaids. A few roses are tied together or a few lilies of the valley, or if orchids or orange blowoms are used buxteh of them will fail to each bricesmaid’s share when ‘he bride takes her departure. Jast now bride does not carry bride roses Or marguerites the daintiest blossom she can | choose is the sweet It is very English and therefore very fashionable. It is @ favorite buutonniere flower also for the men, and the maids could carry bunches of the pink, scarlet or variegated. If the groom is a Scotchman the brid? should cirry heather blosoms. When Mise Meigs was mar> some years to Mr. Archibald Forbes hor bonnet was wreathed in jeather. in the samme principle, the bride of Irish~ Man should have clover blossoms, ‘while if te bappy wan be an Englishman stick to te ross. When Miss Endicott was married to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain Puritan roses decked her wed cake, but it was un English violet she carrie: With her roses, while a big orchid was fattened in his buttonhole. COSTLINESS OF ‘THE FLOWERS. The most expensive white rose now is the Baroness Rothschild or the white La France. Orchids are still in the market, but like both of these roses, are very high jpriced. The bride rose is the popular variety. The old-fashioned white moss rose is also revived, and there is a sort of pathetic beauty about it which is very taking as a bride's flower In pink roses the La France holds its own against all comers, and after it the Gabriel Laizet. For early spring weddings the bou- quets were made up of two or three specimen roses surrounded with white lilacs or snow- balls. At a pink rose wedding during the coming month the bridesmaids are to wear boas of roses instead of carrying bouquets. At many of the entertainments given here during the past ten years the floral decora- tions have been a prominent feature. Our traveled residents bring back fresh ideas with them aud the results are carried outin what seems to many a most extravagant fashion. Mrs. Whitney used flowers more lavishly at her entertainments than any one befo her time. The costliest roses wei abundantly in the depth of winte cost pennies and not twoor three dollars apiece. It would be hard to single out one of her entertainments where the flowers were more beautiful than another, butif there is any palm it may linger in the memories of those who attended Baby Dorothy's christening. Mrs. Scott Townsend is another lavish buyer of the best in the flower market. Perhaps the costliest supper she ever gave was the one at which she invited a company to meet Mrs. Langtry after her evening performance. The flowers cost about $1,000. There were 200 American beauty roses used and they were re- tailing at $2 apiece. Ata german she gave Jast winter she had 4,000 violets alone as favors, Wheelbarrows full of them, with hundreds of fine roves. THE FIRST LAVISH DISPLAY HERE. The first lavish house decoration of late years, which was almost a revelation to Wash- ingtonians, was at the tea given by the Misses Davis, who were spending the winter in the Hazen house. At the marriage of Miss Patten and Congressman Glover the honse wns Rerbly decorated. When Congressman Flower's laughter was married, the flower aisle was first used. At Miss Matthew's wedding the mantel and mirror back of where the couple stood to be married was first used as a basis for decora- tion. A small part of the mirror showed, the rest being hidden with maidenhair fern. At the Edgar-Emory nuptials: at St. Matthew's, th walls were hung with asparagus, the altar rail hedged with lilies of the valley, and_ these with calla and pond lilies were the only flowers used on the high altar.. This effect was reproduced and heightened at the marriage at the same church last winter of Miss Audenried and Count Divonne. When Miss Caldwell and Baron von Zedwitz were married last June, pond lites in white, pink and blue were mainly used. ‘The wedding of Miss Vinnie Ream'and Lieut. Hoxie years ago,at the Ascension Church, was a marguerite wedding. ‘The bride herseif made the wedding bell, which was suspended from the arch under which the ceremony took place. ‘The marriage of Miss Mary Wilson and Lieut. Davis last June was the prettiest mar- guerite wedding of later years. ‘That of Miss Margaret Biaine and Mr. Damrosch was an- other. The bride's name flower was the key- note of the whole and the whito and gold draw- ing room made a fitting foundation for it. One of the most elaborate decorations was that at the wedding of Miss Dorothy Phillips and Mr. Hilton. ‘Ihe costliest roses were used in the greatest profusion and taste, and nearly the en- tire walls of the house were trellised in green ard studded with roses. Another tasteful decoration was at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs Paul Andrews last winter, when a palm avenue led up to where the ceremony took place. FLORAL DECORATIONS FORTY YEARS AGO. Those whose recollections go back over the last thirty or forty years say that while the taste for flowers is universal and indulged in by both rich and poor, it is also true that those who can afford the most lavish pro- fusion of rare and costly blossoms the whole year round do not spend any more money pro- portionately than did their predecessors in the social firmament that many years back. Now you can get much more beautifal results from an outlay of the same amount. The progress in floral art, and especially as applied to house decoration, is something marvelous. In a recent talk with the veteran florist, Mr. Joln Small, sr., a Star reporter was led, as if through the mazes of an old-fashioned garden, back through many of the promiaent events of nearly q haif century, in which noted people and their fondness for flowers were features of the high life of the day. sir. Snail started in business here about 1855. He says it was a couple of years later than that before anything approaching the present wire frames for set designs came into general use. ‘The first set piece he ever made was a cross for the coffin of a priest. Mr. Wm. Matthews gave the order and it was_a work re- quiring great skill in those days. First of all air. Small got the carpenter, John McQuillan, to make a wooden cross three feet long to fit the coifin top. ‘The coffin lid was raised in the center and the cross had adeep dent under it so that when finished 1t would seem to lay flat. Then moss was tacked thickly together all over the wood and in this ground work roses, prim- roses and camelias were set thickly together. How to finish up the raised edge in the middle was another problem. Finally stacks of white hyacinths were set on pins stuck along this and the outer edges, making a very neat finish. The cross was greatly admired, for, as Mr. Smail naively remarks, nothing like it had ever been seen before. In 1859, when Lord Lyons, the English min- ister, would decorate bis house, be used artifi- cial Howers, butat this period fashion ordained that nature should replace art and he was among THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. Mrs. Gen. Fremont was fond of flowers and she was scarcely ever without a bunch of violets stuck in her belt. She used to like to have a small bunch of the white violets in the middle of the others. She used also, upon oc- casions of entertainments, have her rooms decorated, although the fashion was by no means common. When Miss Kate Linthicum was married to Hon. Josiah Dent, the 15th of November, 1860, the Linthicum mansion in Georgetown was surrounded with flowers. The dablias in the garden were in the finest perfection. A large yramid of them decked the table and from 'r. Linthioum’s green house the bride’s bou- quet was made. ie was composed of white amelias, roses and cape jessamine, wi maiden-hair fern. a For the grand party given by Gov. Cooke just before the great bank failure his Geor; town mansion was richly decorated and the cost of it was nearly $200. Some Ananias printed a lot of exaggerated comments about that ball shortly after and said that the flowers alone cost $4,000. The Christmas and the New Year trade used to be the biggest days in the year. It was all the sale of bouquets. Thoy used to cost from $1 to $15. Now the Easter trade is five times ‘48 good as either of the other holidays. Mr. Smail paid a visit last summer to the scenes of his childhood, Middlesex, England, and to Windsor Castle, where he learned the gardening business. a VARIOUS RELIGIOUS BODIES, General Synod of the Evangelical Luthéran *Chureh Adjourns—Other Conventions. The general synod of the Evangelical Luth- eran church at Lebanon, Pa., finished its busi- ness yesterday and adjourned to meet at Can- ton, Ohio, on Wednesday after Whitsuntide, 1898. At the morning session the application of the new German synod of California to be re- ceceived asa part of the general synod was found to be encumbered with some irregular- ities, and the synod determined that if these be removed the synod will be welcomed. Dr. Baugher of the catechism committee re- Ported that the provisional catechism had been greatly changed, simplitied and improved. It was finally decided to authorize the issue of a provisional revised edition, the same to be sent to the ministers and laymen who may be interested and the district synods to consider and report to the next general synod. Prot. MacKnight of the committee to me- morialize Congress ou the mora: and spiritual condition of the army and navy reported that much interest bad been awakened, and that Secretary Pfoctor gave it hearty suppart. An apportionment of $130,500 a year was laid upon the district synods for the benevo- lent work of the synod. ‘The president of the general synod was au- thorized in its name to-sign » memorial to President Harrison askit to urge the Senate to ratify the treaties looking to the abo- lition of the slave and liquor trafics in the Congo Free State. A National Lutheran Home for the Aged is being established in Washington. Rev. W. E. Parson, D. D., ispresident. Mrs. Utermehle of Washington has given property worth $30,000 for the founding of the home. Representation having been asked in the national temperance congress to be held in Saratoga, the following were seleted: Revs. Clutz, Freas, Halwig, Baum, jr., Watkins and Prof. ‘Travez ‘and S. Shafer were appointed. With regard to the Columbian exhibition it was resolved: “That wesdlemnly protest against the opening of the gates of the exhibition on the Lord's day.” The board of foreign missions will be Rev. J.G. Butler, F. Hennighausen, Luther Kauf- I. C. Burke and A. H. Studebaker and Messrs. O. F. Lantz, S. D. Schmucker andS.W. Harman. An offer of ten acres of land ia the Garden of the Gods, Colorado, for the site of a home for invalid ministers, ‘was accepted, and appoint- ments were made to carry out the project After impressive devotional exercises, con- ducted by Dr. Ort, the general synod ad- journed. SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN. The Presbyterian general assembly adjourned yesterday. The first business yesterday morn- ing was a motion to reconsider the report pre- viously adopted with respect to the practice of card playing prevalent in most circles. ‘The motion was adopted and an amendment was of- fered so that the report will read “in some of our churches.” Dr. Moore wanted it to read ‘in many churches,” Dr. Peters wanted it “very many” and it was finally ordered to read “dancing and card playing that prevail in some of our churches.” The committee having charge of the overture in reference to women speaking in public made a report, recommending that it be not allowed, aud after a brief discussion the report was adopted. e old case of J. C. Cassell, who had been turned out of church in the Memphis synod, came up. _He carried his case before his pres- bytery, which investigated it and found thet his discharge on the score of unbecoming conduct was really the work of malice on the part of two other members named Hearn and Smith. the presbytery accordingly ordered that clean letter be given him. “Thesynod has over. PROPER THINGS TO EAT What is Necessary to Check Increas- ing Avoirdupoia, BANTING’S CURE FOR OBESITY. ‘What a Fat Man Suffere—Allmente Caused by Corpulence—The Proper Diet — Abstain From Food Containing Saccharine Matter and Starech—Effect of Turkish Baths. Written for The Evening Star. (Copyright. 'N 1862 AND 1863 I WAS IN LONDON, England. Having caught a severe summer cold it caused a slight deafness, which slarmed me so much that I sought the advice of a cele- brated aurist. My visiting days were similar to those of an elderly gentleman with whom I fell into conversation, and, being afterward introduced, we became well acquainted. The affable old gentleman who helped to beguile the tedious hours of waitingin a medical man's anteroom was, I afterward learned, nearly sixty-six years of age. He was very slightly deaf, not tall, and ap- peared to me to beof enormous bulk. In reality be was 5 feet 5 inches in stature and weighed 202 pounds, a large portion of which he carried from the chest downward like an immense balloon of flesh. lar in describing him because I never met any one who was personally acquainted with him, and because he was at that very time engaged in writing a pamphlet which was destined to render him famous. He was a London mer- chant, by name Wim. Banting, author of the re~ nowned “Letter on Corpulence.” This little work a] and immediately at it was translated into almostall li and gained for its writer the distinction of hav- ing his name bestowed upon hi ment for the reduction of adipo N Banting was the ‘stem for the release from one of the oldest plagues of the human race. The phy- sicians of antiquity gave almost similar in- structions as Banting of superfluous fat. Hippocrates of medicine” (born 460 B. C. exercise in the open air while fasting, an@ no Tam thus particu- in England in 1863 opularity that ving languages ), recommended ‘THE CURE FOR OBESITY. Down to modern times no reduction treat- ment had been of any special value. mained for Banting to give some new-old in- formation in such a condensed, straightforward form as to place the “cure” for obesity within the reach of every one afflicted with the malady, for that is what it becomes if left unchecked. Among those old enough to remember the ~Bauting sensation” it is generally believed that the author died shortly after, and i sequence of his own treatment. the case. He was already an old man when he began it, born 1797, and died in 1871, having ii of seventy-fiv rated treatment. His “Letter on Corpulence” is still consid- m this subject, but is dif- ig almost out of print in of beginning, he says: am confident no man laboring under nite insensible to the sneers and remarks of the cruel and injudici public vehicles or the or- dinary street traffic, nor to the annoyance of finding no adequate space in a public assembly if he should seek amusement or need refresh- ment, and therefore he naturally kee] possible from places w likely to be made the object of the taunts and Tam as regardless of pub- lic remark as most men, but I have felt these difficulties, and therefore avoided such circum- scribed accommodation and notice, and by that means have been deprived of many advantages to a a comfort. aan “Although no very great e or weight, still Icould not stoop to tie my shoe, - nor attend to the little offices quires, without considerable pain and diffi- ity, which only the corpulent can under- stand; I have been compelled to go down stairs slowly backward, to save the jar of increased weight upon the ankle and knee joint, and been obliged to puff and blow with every slight exertion, particularly that of going upstairs.” The reason why Banting could not stoop was that, as I have said, his fat centered in the ab- About Turkish baths, now much re- sorted to by the corpulent, he says: THE TURKISH BATH. % “At this juncture (about three years back) Turkish baths became the fashion, and I was advised to adopt them asa remedy. With the first few I found immense benefit in power and exercise; so, believing I had found the ‘philosopher's stone,’ pursued them three times a we then less frequently (as I began to fancy, with some reason, that so many weakened my con- till Ihad taken ninety, but never more than six pounds weight during the whole course, and I the plan as worthless, though I ha: in their cleansing properties and their value im colds, rheumatism and many other ail- ered an authority obesity can be public assembli remarks of others. elasticity for walkin; till I had taken fifty, When I first took a course of Turkish baths in the delusive hope that th my rapidly accumulating fle wnt if they conduced more to the in- crease or to the reduction of fat. “Yes, mum,” sho replied. “But which?” I they make you thin or fat?” would stay back T asked the bath Sage with from six to : ry foaat or rask may have « irit to soften it, Idid not the stomach after ; then I take about fre SS breakfast; ounces _ tala ld for dinner, Wires of solid and eight liquid for tea; four ounces of solid and six of liquid for supper and the grog afterward, if I please. I am, not, however, strictly Limited to any quantity at eee that the nature food is to. “My former dietary table was bread and milk for breakfast, or a pint of tea with plenty of milk and sugar, and buttered toast, meat, much bread (of which I was always very fond) and pastry for dinner: the ‘meal of tea similar to that of breakfast, and generally a fruit tart or bread and milk for supper. I bad little comfort and far less sleep.” By following this system in one Banting lost 46 pouni reduced his waist 12! inches. His health was so tly improv. that he had lost even the Yeeling of “‘occa- al faintness,” which annoyed him after he had fully entered upon the cure. That “occasional faintness.” How wellinafter years I came to know it when I fell a victim to ‘that disposition to corpulence which Linherited from both parents, It was natural that I should first turn to Banting’s book to me back into the lost path of leanness. Carefully I fol- lowed his dietary card for two weeks, keeping constantly outdoors and on foot. 4 TWO WEEKS’ TRIAL. I lost fourteen poundsin weight in that time, but was then obliged to take tomy bed and call ina doctor. I was suffering from weak- ness and derangement of the digestive organs. Moreovey, I had a strange; pimply eruption over the body, caused, the doctor said, by im- rishment of blood, owing to lack of nutri- foe. presal ‘I do not recom. nting expressly says: “I do m - mend every corpulent man to rush headlong into such a change of diet—(certainly not)— but to act advisedly and after full consultation with physician.” I “rushed headlong” into the change of diet without consulting » physician and suffered accordingly. At the same time I know the Banting cure is not lasting unless the diet is continued. My fourteen pounds which I had starved off me so painfully fairly galloped back at the first square meal I took upon recovery. By the Banting system of reduction more weakness is superinduced than by any other within my knowledge. With the loss of flesh the hands become wrinked. as in age, and, most serious drawback of, ali for = wentler sex. the face becomes positively haggard an: gaunt. The flabby checks drop loosely down on the corrugated bag of flesh which was once adouble chin. The nose becomes blue and pinched, the skin on the forehead gets stretched und tightened and the eyes bulge out as their bed of flesh is withdrawn. To sum up, the Banting corpulence cure improves the figure, Dut spoils the face by giving it that “lean and hungry” look which Cassius wore. Crit Logax. ———~e-____ NEW PUBLICATIONS, iH WITH THE ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA: A Narrative of the First Voyage to the Western World. Drawn mainly from the Diary of Christopher Columbus. By CHARLES PAUL Mac Kik. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. THE COMPOUNDING OF ENGLISH WORDS: Joining or Separation is Prefer- able: with Concise Kules and Alphabetical Lists. By F. Honack TRALL. New York: Jonn Ireland. THE LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER OF EMMA ABBOTT. By Sabie E. MARTIN. (Special Writer for the Press). Minneapolis: ‘Kimball Printing Co. THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE: Noveinber, 1890, to April, 1991. ‘NeW Series, Vol. XIX. New York: Cen- tury Co. Washington: Robert Beall. PASSION FLOWERS AND THE CROSS. _A Novel. ‘By Emma Howaxp Wiaut. .Baltimore: Caleu- dar Publishing Co. THE FAITH THAT MAKES FAITHFUL. By WULLIAM C. Gaxnerr and Jenxix Liorp Jones. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co. MADEMOISELLE GIRAUD, MY WIFE. By ‘AvoLPHE BELor. 71 Illustrations. Chicago: Laird & Lee. ——————— BARDSLEY GOES TO PRISON, Philadelphia's Former City Treasurer Una- ble to Secure Bail. After the hearing of ex-Treasurer Bardsley of Philadelphia, yesterday, he was taken into the magistrate’s private office. His counsel noti- fied Chief Detective Wood that he did not ex- pect to secure bail, and arrangements were at once made to take him down to prison. After aninterview with his counsel, Mr. Bardsley was placed in a carriage and taken to Moyamensing prison. During the time which Mr. Bardsley spent at the city hall prior to the hearing the accused city treasurer remained in the private offices of Chief Detective Wood, in charge of two detec- tives. He was very much dejected, and was not inclined at first to talk about the serious charges which had been preferred against him. He subsequently said that his position was hard to bear, and then, turning suddenly to the officers, remarked: “I tell you, gentlemen, I have been in hell for the past six months.’ I thought that things would come out all right, but they did not, and I am glad that the thing ‘is end President Marsh’s action has been a the first of the notables to use real flowers pro- For his dinner parties he had a tall candelabra, which used to stand on a mirror. In the center of the candelabra was one tall vase for flowers and two smaller ones. The flowers used Were azaleas, primroses and roses, set among begonia leaves. This floral arrange ment used to cost about $25 and Lord Lyon did not vary it, except once when he dined the Prince of Wales, who was thea President Bu- chanan’s guest, aud his hostess, Miss Harrie Lane, who accompanied the prince. Some of the attaches of the legation got bouquets for that ball and paid about $5 apiece for them. ‘They were generally of camelias and violets.” THE YIRST KETTLEDRUM. In'87 or 58 Mr. Smail sayshe rented Me. and Mrs. Pendleton some plants, with which they decked up their house on Congress street in Georgetown and gave the first kettledram ever given in this city. ‘The plants, some ten or twelve of them altogether, were 'bloomin, azaleas and camelias, both high favorites a through this period.’ The plants earned for their owner that day $5 or $6,and as it was the first time that flowers were rented out for house decoration it was the sensation of the day. When the high joint commission was bere they gave dinners once or twice a week, when the flowers would cost about £50. The favorite decoration was a serpentine border all around the table. ‘The foundation was wire frames in pieces and packed with moss and filled with small plants like sweet allyssium, primrose and violets. Altogether the high joints spent $800 on the posies for their dinner tables. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague in 1865 and there- about used to be a lavish entertainer and was icularly fond of buying all her flowers in New York. A favorite dinner piece was a big cart wheel and, the story ran, the first time she used it when it came from’ New York it cost $500. The hub and tue tire were made of vio- lets and the rest with carnations, calla lilies, camelias, &c. When her sister was married to Mr. Hoyt Mr. Stall decorated St. Jobn’s. Church and spanned the chancel rail with an arch, with a wedding bell suspended in the cen- ter. The bouquets came from New York, and that was about the first time that Bon Silene roses were used here. ‘There were very few roses raised here at that time. The camelia was the leading flower. At some of Mrs. Sprague’s dinners she would have orchids brought from New York, and these, being con- sidered very rare and’ beautiful, would be placed here and there on the table in flat glass dishes. ‘THE SPANISH MINISTER. In 1859 the Spanish minister, Mr. Tesecarah, used to entertain a great deal. His grand din- ner decorations would be considered ‘very rimitive nowadays. The center piece was @ rge china vase. It used to be filled with eight or ten bouquets, each one with the old- fashioned lace paper around it. So as to make this big bouquet pyramidal in shape the center bunches haa to tied on long sticks. All around close to the vase would be filled in with loose flowers, such as acacia, poinset gonia. At the close of the dinner the big bou- quet was all broken up in little ones was intended for the to carry home. The tlowers were camelias, of course, heliotropes, mignonette, scarlet geranium, with ivy leaves fora border. Mr. ‘Lesecaral’s residence was the last one in the Corcoran row on I street uearest the corner of 16th. Hon. Reverdy Johnson used to indi upon cecasions of =——— in about worth of flowers. his six plantag for the dining room mantel piece and t about 71.50 apiece. Wil, lariat Bote im bi ‘used to rebel snd when he ‘bis fowers he had. them ruled the presbytery and sided with the chureb. After a discussion pro and con the assembly voted to sustain the presbytery in its action and disapprove the action of the synod. ‘The usual resolutions of thanks were passed “Blest Be the Tie That Binds” wes sung and the assembly adjourned. REFORMED PAESDYTERIANS. A resolution to prefer charges against Rev. J.C. Milligan, Rev. J. F. Carson, editor of the News Letter; Rev. J. 8. T. Milligan and Rev. N. M. Johnson was the cause of an animated ses- sion of the Reformed Presbyterian Synod in Pittsburg yesterday. ‘Those named in the reso- lution have on several occasions written letters and given utterances in the News Letter givin, their views on the recent trials of the suspended ministers. The resolution was introduced by Rev. David MeaAllister, who attempted to read a letter re- flecting on the gentlemen named, but it raised astorm of objection. The report that the suspended ministers had retracted was denied by them. ‘They assert that they have not changed from the position they took during their trial and have no inten- tion of doing so. OERMAN EVANOBLICALS. The annual session of the Atlantic district of the German Evangelical Synod of North America met m Richmond, Va., yesterday at St. John’s German Chureb. The district com- prises gall churches. east of the Alleghany Mteadllas cad cevweas too Hulse snd ones rivers. The president announced committees, after which a recess was taken. Upon recon- vening President Huber read his annual re- rt, which showed that the, past year hed Becca prosperous one. ‘The ‘comutitiee on congregational schools presented # report strongly advocating the necessity for their maintenance. The opening sermon was reached last night by Rev. W. Schelia of Wil- Eamsport, Pa. GERMAN BAPTISTS. While probably not one-tenth of the people expected are now at Hagerstown, Md., yet by Monday delegates and their families from the twenty-eight states in which Dunkards have organizations to the number of 15,000 or 20,000 ill be on hand for the German ‘con- ference. Good Night, “Good night,” the trembling lashes fell “Good nigut” was all be dared to speak. And yet her manner had been kind, Her eyes had beamed with friendly light, Bat he ho further speech could find ‘Than those two simple words, “Good night.” But he had softly pressed her hand, And met with it her glance, half shy, And thought, “Shel surely uliderstand ‘The language of the Alid as he homeward took his wi BEAT nce ‘The paring words to er—2"@ood wight.” Municipal Elections in Municipal elections wore held “in. Virginia | Thursday. Rain was general, and consequently a light vote was polled. The democrats have made considerable gains in the southwest, and have been generally successful as far as heard from. Farmers’ Alliance tickets made their “They does, mum, both. They makes fat folks thin and'thin foike fat.” After describing several of his failures Bant- ‘last I found the right man, who unhesi- tatingly said he believed my ailments were pally by corpulence, and pre- scribed a certain diet—no medicine beyond a morning cordial as a corrective—with immense effect and advantage both to my hearing and the decrease of my corpulency ‘My own personal experiments in the reduc- tion of my weight extend over a period of twelve years. Accompanying every so-called obesity cure thero was some “corrective,” a mysterious draught, sien medicine, owder or tex, the component of wi Ce nept comrel fens they ae ‘The “corrective” whic! was an aciduiated purgative draught, and that all, though the person sup- the medicine to be a part of the reduc- caused princi was given Banting is the aim of th . WHAT 70 ABSTAIN FROM. Banting goes on to say: which I was advised to abstain as much as pos- sible were bread, -butter, milk, sugar, beer and potatoes, which have been the main (and, I thought, innocent) elements of my e: events they had for many years been ye, said my excellent ad- yiser, contain starch and saccharine matter, tending to create fat, and should be avoided For breakfast Y take four or five ounces of beef, mutton, kidneys, broiled fish, bacon or cold meat of any kind except pork, alarge cup of tea (without milk or sugar), little biscuit or one ounce of dry toast. For din- ner five or six ounces of any fish exce any meat except pork, potato, one ounce of dry toust, fruit out of apud- ding, any kind of poultry or three glasses of good claret, e, port and beer forbid two or three ounces of fruit, a rusk or two and acup of tea without milk or eugar. For sup- x three or four ounces of meat or fish, similar dinner, with a glass or two of claret. For uired, a tumbler of in, whisky or brandy, without sugar,) or a glass or two of claret or sherry. “This plan leads to'an excellent night's rest, “The items from adopted freely. erry or madeira; SHE LEAVES THEM ALONE. “ 2 great disappointment to me. He should have been more courageous and remained in town, but he has proved himsclf a coward by running way. I never had a thought about going away, but will remain where [am and accep’ whatever punishment the law places upon me.’ The Advantages of Close Observation. ‘From the Chicago Herald. Two drummers were lounging near the register of the Grand Pacific last evening. A well-dressed man of medium age, withr sandy mustache and chin whiskers, briskly walked across the rotanda to the telegraph office. “It’s funny,” spoke up one of the drummers, “how much’ more s,cloee observer learns of people than another.” low's that?” dhitatesapsecaar se vs bearer alco ‘What of bim’ ‘cL know a good deal about him at from ob- servation. a ji iret for you notice how cautiously he guards his blank while writing his dispatch. is from Minnesota. You know that bythe cut of his coat, and # blind person could tell that he walks like ® St. Paul man. I'd be willing to bet a bottle of wine that all of my points are cor- rect” : “That's a Mr. Clerk, who is that man at the tele office?” ‘Gov. Merriam of St. Paul, sir.” “Didn't I tell you?" exclaimed the drammer to his friend. “Now get out-your kodak and we wil take drink.” - pleasure ai answer one ques- tion. How did you know that was the governor of Minnesota? “Surely it wasn't by his walk end all that, as you said?” “Of course not. I saw him register. Next!" Dramatic” Aspirant-—“Now, would you not advise me to go on the stage?” —""No; take the limited; it will get you home quicker.” Sumway—‘Is this Miss Scadds you speak of beautifull” Hunker—Is she beautiful! Why, sir, Inever saw a car so crowded that she conldn’t get a seat in it.”— The Sun. SUMMER RESORTS. es. ATLANTIC crry, x. 3, rT OB SALE _HO- Pugs SEE ee ATLANTIO CITY. x. 7. ot and Cold Sea Water Baths in the House. fet4m LEEDS & LIPPINCOTT. SUMMER RESORTS. [DE-NEW ENGLAND. WEST VIRGIN) Binetown, B. 1.:new poure: Soya ie sees bey. tennis «rounds DDP® PARK AND OAKLAND, ON THE CREST OF THE ALLEGRANIES, ‘PACIFI 4 IC AVE, Bi 3,000 feet above tide water. SEASON OPENS JUNE 15, ign. ‘The fashionable resort of the North Shore OTL DENSI. a Open for the season June 27. {oben all the year ; bot sea ‘water baths: ‘These famous mountain resorts, situated at the sam mit of the Alleghanies and dire tly upon the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio ratlroad, have the advan. tae of its splendid vestibuled expres train serve Voth east and west, and are therefore readily accessiiae frow all parts of the country trains stop at Deer Park and Oakland during the op FRANK JONES, Prop. HoT MT. VERNON, a es SO perday. SAMES'S. MUGS. eon ATLANTIC ciry, Next house to the beach. apd-s,tu,thoat W. K. BILE, Manager. All Baltimore and Obie SEA-SIDE—MISCi APE HENLOPEN CITY, RE- Well-known. hot WHITE & REED. Rates, #60, €75 and #908 month, according to louse ‘Communications should be addreaed to GEA, D. DeSHIELDS, Manager Baltimore and Ohio Motels, muiberiand, Md., up to June 20; efter thet dake, either Deer Park or Oakland, Garrett county, Md. The DRODG baths im house, . Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. 8. SWEENY! Proj Maxon TLANTIO GlTY, ‘aves. ; now open; awe Wasktagton, Bec. | THE MISSES NEVI 11 June 3 address 16 f grandeur of scenery and beaithiuiness. ‘irem m W. A. BRODHEAD & 80! OTEL CASTLETON, s and vegetables ip abuuan e ehovtine aid __ Me. I, M. DEAKIN ‘Opened for seasca ant gcate Jape. ane 'JAS. Hy MODE KS, erly Reniington, Reratoe Sprite. mun House. New York cy. ee LD POINT COMFORT, guests June 1. 1601 HUDSON, ¥. ¥. TS" cuarrosTe, a einents. beautitul grounds and sage ery ‘woderate rates KEN'S MOUNTAIN HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. On the Beach with unsurpassed Ocean View. ‘Salt water baths in the house. Send for circular. ish and oysters, E. ROBERTS & SONS. traius eacept bight a tis ‘Owner and Prop. ‘[ HE PRINCESS ANNE, 7 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA., 7) RE FLORIDA, EIGHTEEN MIL S SS FROM NORFOLK. FINEST AND SAY ST SURF BATHING ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. SEND FOR SUMMER RATES. 8. E. CRITTENDEN, FOR DESCKIPT Kew ED. L. GOULD. J. ATERSKILI. Opens jane 27" Rates reduced during July. F. m ~—1 juriug July. Forterms, circular an@ propristor of “*Mountain Resort,” the i own, N:X. my1%hin F. W. LEHMAN. P. O-CONNOR, heated by hot water. ‘HE LELAND! Tees SPRINGS AND EDFORD ARANDAL Hotel opens for reception of guests June 3. "The I known and the repu- 7 tid well-arranced summer resort ig F the terminus of the Stony Clowes, Taliresd, las wide piageas, at brautitUl Surroundinee, i-luditg wel's Chalr, batuinge ses tor ttwe use of For further partic with cut of Bouse and, Hunter, Greene county, . BEDFORD, PA. ‘Or te place ate ition of i's waters well eatubuisued. or ctculars appig to PP'ALSIP & SMITH, Props. AND, OCEAN END NEWYORK AVE., tic City, Nu J.. mew house; new furniture; is, baths. &c. OREM, Prop. and Manager. {IC CITY, N. J. ‘verything new. “All mod- ALEX. M. OPPENHEIMER, Prop. w York ave. south of Pacific, Atlantic City, N.3. went. -Oceab view. hn’ ‘MUNGATHOYD & MATLACK, Prope, iP HE RENOVO, TE: LANTIC CITY, BN. J. BS Sain WM. BE. CHEESE MAN. iPHE ORTENTAL, Finia ave. near beach. ee aay BEDFORD sparnas, BEDFORD, Pa. HOTEL OPENS JUNE 13. A beautiful appointed itu Surrounded ly superb. mountel STeateet Luown caverns Muse and other complete im all detail ‘Write for pamphlet on this great Resort and the BEDFORD SPRINGS MINERAL WATER. my73m 1, B. DOTY, MANAGER. K®= Max ‘Will reopen June 15. mountain water, bot and cold ball a LONG POINT, WN. ¥., SUMMER RESORT 7 late of the Vermont. HIRLEY, ATLANTIC CITY, x Has wellebaded lawn. fine SPRINGS HOTEL WILL NUL. For terms and IEEMAN, Proprietor, June 1 for the season ticulars address GEV. Springs, W. Va., late manager Lurai n until October 1. Open iti Os Sezone labs (near Watkine Gien). Same ieee wen Seat, ees oe ‘€2 per day and upward. Special rates for families HARKISON 8. DOWNS, cottage at Berkeley Springs, 7 Jefferson piace, DD, COR. ILLINGIS AND PACIFIC AVENUES, Near anu ton Hotels, iy res from ‘Baitianore, 115 trom Washington, erjor tuweral waters, taper wallet a beautiful mountain revlon, Sust the 7 lites "weary ‘burdens down und bave's " iN. Mrs. MAKY E. DALGLEISH. Reference: J.H.Small & Sou, Washington, D.C.us¢-Lin® Te winvernes RE, ATLANIIC CITY, N.J., Pleasant rooms with board near Copley Square, Renovated: all’ the year Museu and Trinity Church: terion from 8 60 ber week, references excl ARROLL SPRINGS SANITARIUM, A HOMEOPATHIC A’ 'D HYGIENIC INSTITU- ington seeking a health Fesort within easy distance of their homes. Ft ‘Dr.G.H. WRIGHT, F, MOUSTAIN HOUSE, On the Summit of the Alleheny Mountaics. Main Lime Penna. R. K. All Trains Stop. Will Open June 25. For circulars and information address WM. K. DUNHAM, Supt., Cresson, Cambria Co., Pa. meu a a Surpassed. i ‘Aierica, Ss highly’ recotninemied oy physicians; delichtful’ waiki artesian water: umodern improvements fable; terms ioderste and reduced until my26-tuth&sat2u* CRESSON SPRINGS, ROCKVILLE, MD. STRREADEN SBURY PARK, NJ. A’ HOTEL COLUMBIA, Fronting on the ocean at Oth ave. “open June 1: accotn and iniormation address Special rates for June and Septewber. COTTAGES AT ASBURY PARK FOR SEASON, MILAN Asbury Park, 3. HE CARLTON, COR. 18T AVE. AND BERGH Sh, Asbury Bark, So ‘cntirely new and terins appiy at the unodates 200. ‘W. HAKV EY JONES, Prop. LADIES’ GOODS. Grove Exronrex, “CLEANFAST” BLACK STOCKINGS. LD SPRINGS HOTEL, To the mountains. ure resort of Feansy! handsomely “turnisued ; re ‘ ISBURY PARK, N. J.. FOURTH: ‘Sve. near the beach ; 10th accoiimodations "AUQUIER WHITE SULPHUR Warrenton. Va. Opens June 1s Glass hotel, thoroughly equipped. hot Dillards, &c. For circus NL MILLS, 1327 .. anti] June 8: after this, at the ED-LADIES TO KNOW THAT 1 HAW ‘Desirable furnished cottages at Asbury Park and 7. FRANK APPLEBY. SEA-SIDE—JERSEY COAST. Kecute all orders promprtly. Street Costumes, Ji Mu. T.B. Hasnisox Is constantly receiving trom the leading houses 4m London and Paris the latest styles in TNNEQUA HOUSE, MINNEQUA SPRINGS, BRADFORD 00., PA. This Brst-class hotel, improved and enlanced, opens 16; highest point on Nortbern Central railroad: See of wondersul “curative . food wusic and every iF to'G1d per week L. J. ANDRESS, Proprieti ‘Baltimore, Spring Lake. \CEAN VIEW HOTEL, AB ie ap Kk. 1. Crease, JUNE 27. New London. Newpor saa Modern convenience. "Hates 8 my30-s,tu, th26t a TEREY SPRINGS HOTEL, BLUE RIDGE Season, JUNE 2 Fe Adauns of the i. ‘manasement of Mrs. IMPORTED BONNETS AND HATS. james and Albion. hotels, relase. Rates, $8 to ©: ae EO. F. ADAMS, Mgr. St, James Hotel. Baltimore. (G8 AND BATHS, SHENAN REXTON VILLA, CAPE MAY, N. J. CHILDREN'S HATS AND MOURNING oceun. @Haslarxe piazzas and reed hk. MEPS. (CONGRESS HALL, CAPE MAY, N.J. -ABON 1801.’ “Hassler's celebrated orchesti GOODS A SPECIALTY. ORS 1329 F STREET, Opposite the Ebbite. EST EXD HOTEL. CAPE MAY, X. J. 1 mpg sg Spb vee week, Lose Baaxce. WEST END HOTEL. RESTAURANT OPEN JUNE EL OPENS JUNE 20. - so les KENCH ACCORDION PLATIING REDUCED Ladies’ ektris, 2 for the rest of this season. ‘per yd. aud “up: "piuking, ES AND LOCKS, "vison se. nw. COTTAGES AXP oan x upward. ENON SPRINGS, VIRGINI a. & W. E. HILDRETH. ‘the great North mountains, only Oy hours from myP-eetulet aud 3 New York office, Metropolitan Hotei. rtalet INN. GARFIELD AVE., LONG ros mates” walk to Mew Serer Rots and Ave minutes to New ARF! inedicinal springs. My Hin FINE WHITE Al iets at a ‘terms and full Saformiation apply at ofice ot A. 8. PRATT & BONS, ‘Sun building, 1315 Fst. OUTH HINGHAM SANITARIUM. wishing to spend the sum- E. W. ALLEN. = pam =e nine pLONGEORT H Joy. aia ONE R, STARKS’ HOT! sa hururtous bei piazza: Open done] addrese eee, eS hae OCEAN GROVE, ¥. J. ‘THE CASH GROCER,