Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1891, Page 9

7 Fi é THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY. JUNE 20, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. DAINTY DRESS FABRICS What Women Should Wear During the Hot Summer Days. A BELLES PROTEAN POWER. Yet Woman's Dress Was Never More Rea- —Several Handsome Toilets sonable in Cos Described Neat Hats and Bonnets. (Copyright, 1801.] Byectial Correspondence of The New une 19, 1891. than the women as across the sward gowns they velvety green of the country resorts flit or flash in the glare of the electric light at the seaside hotels at this season of the year. Cobwebby _ batistes, gauzy India muslins, feathery delaines and Yaporous antinettcs, either pure white or em- Deliished with designs of exquisite daintiness, are some of the delicate fabrics. These cloud- like costnmos must be set off with Jabots, eol- chemisettes of real crepe de chine crepon. There is no use accepting any- thing in their stend, for there are no other fabrics which possess the quality of giving dehgitful soft, undulating, cloudlike py bachelor friend of mine who has ed to town from a firing visit to two ble summer resorts has been travaganse of our women. “Why,” 1d you believe it, many of these res are apparently gifted with the Protean power of changing their garb at You meet one in the hallway and she will be clad ina white surab, with real lace tumbling down the corsage, falling over her delicate hands and encircling her white neck. You take & turn on the veranda and you meet the same Indy ina delicious pale blue crepon. After dinner she will again cross your path clad in a light blue foulard opening ona tablier of the same material in pink. ‘Then there were bouil- lonnes, I think you calllthem, running across and the sleeves were boullionned ail y up. and in the evening the same Circe of Modes will flit across the parlor wearing @ pale pink surah veiled with chiffon, embroid- ered with tlower sprays in the same shade, the eut. filled with chitfon, with real flowers in her bair, in her band and at ber throat." WOMAN'S DRESS ARTISTIC AND REASONABLE. I let this modern Cato the Censor rattle slong for several minutes and then I astounded him by quietly remarking that woman's dress was never more artistic and more reasonable in cost than at the present day. I asked him if he was aware that a single one of Marie de Medicis robes had 32,000 pearis sewed upon it.” He looked dazed and had nothing more to say. My first illustration pictures a charming sum- mer gown in wool crepon, made up with crenelated basques and set off with a pot of crepe de chine fitted ard adjusted to the front of the corsage. The high and flaring collar, which is lined with crepe A CHARMING GOWS. de chine, must be stiffened with latten. ‘The sleeves are bouffant and have deep cuffs. The bottom of the skirt, the cuffs and the collar are trimmed with narrow bands ped and embroidered. ish girl is nothing if not mannish in custumes, and she bas many imi- taiors among her American cousins. These Sffectations of masculinity are extremely be- coming to some girls, giving them a dash and chic that is very taking. They usually take the form of thé blouse, and are made up in Plain, spotted or striped fiannel. With some oar-in-hand style, over a h tarn-down collar, si ketsand a faney leather belt, from which dai er charms. Buta very Pretty blouse may be made up in cambrie with & white yoke, slecves and collar, the bodice and frills over the shoulder being in biue, pink or old rose. Two sen 6: F second ill n the young Indy on ine male outing suit, the uated by the straw hat, n matching the blonse. and striped flannel and to the robust, red- 7 girl who keeps scores . hisses a “muff” and criticises ision of the umpire with a freedom that ie quite delightful. She is a great favorite with the ang wen, who load her down with but- badges and souvenirs of all sorts, which she forthwith transfers to her memorabilia with Proper entries of dates, names and places. Her companion on the right is another type of the summer girl. She abominates croquet and lawn tennis, and_as for the interest which take in athletics she thinks sports all ully dulland never thinks of risking ber fe complexion for four hours in a broil- She may be called tne girl with the nshade, for she is never without one. In some of the young men say she dreads the effect of the electric light on her delicate skin. “i was once persuaded to attend a regatta, I Sink you call i,” said the girl with the sun- How many souvenirs did you bring home?” dreathles-ly asked a sparkling-eyed, athletic maiden of * replied the girl with the parasol sadly; “a freckle on the left side of my nose.” This particular girl with the parasol wears an embroidered zephyr dress, and although the sun is ae blauketed under three distinct layers of clouds, she carries @ gauze sunshade garnitured with crepe lisse. But the saramer resort is not intended solely for the enthronement of the unmarried woman. ‘True, it is more or less a crime to grow old nowadays, and the fickle crowd is more ready than ever fo pay. homage to a pretty face, ws if beauty in and of itself were something which titled its © to some special credit. It would be far more logical to compliment the mothur for the pretty girl than the pretty girl herself. A French writer maintains that all re- publics are governed by c exception _ a respect. ‘Men bave no intel re forty, women no beauty .” OF course this writer re- ‘ual beauty. A PRETTY CORSAGE. In my third illustration I set forth a very Pretty corsge for a woman who possibly has Se deughter to retire in favor of. It should be made up in surah,either yellow or shrimp, upon an adjusted lining, front being gathered .the beck tight fitting. The material is gathered into a ruching around the neck. The gathered TES HAVE fter, whiter | summer costume which can either be made up in the satinette now #0 in vogue or in the very Popular pongee with feurmde-lis designs. ‘The ge chiffon ficha and ceinture set off this pretty toilet very charmingly. The sunshade isin the same material, and a large straw hat is trimmed with the chiffon and flowers. Thus far the very broad-brimmed hat which covered so many pretty heads last summer has not made its come yet. a enough, however, to bring a scowl to the faces of those in the grand stand who may sit behind them. They are usually made of soft, pliable straw—such as rice and leghorn—or erinol y bent up into fantastic forms, and the garnitare generally consists of bows of ri bons, erepe trich tips or Dainty litt A SATTY WAT, trimmed with flowers, or small tulle bonnets are much affected. The rekish Paul Jones is very becoming to some faces, while the sailor hat is so common that, as often happens, it threatens to become unfashionabie on account | of ite great vogue. THE STYLE IN VEITS. Veils are almost invariably worn with hats as well as with bonnets, plain tuile being usually chosen for the former and fancy spotted, span- gled or jeweled net for the latter. Semi-cireu- lar white ince veils are also much affected by those who oniy wear the correct thing. Gray veils are often worn by blondes of the delicate | type. A new fad, presumably intended to take the place of the irregular spots, is the rosebud | one at times sees embroidered upon black street veils. Pale mauve and pale lilac tints are modish for veils to be worn over the ceremo- nious small bonnet or capote which the sura- mer visitor wears at the country church. Every possible form of fichu in chiffon is now seen draped around the necks of the sum- mer maidens. For the old-fashioned woman who is willing to yield a point or two to the tyrant of the prevailing modes a guipure jabot may be used toxet off a binck silk over a vest of white lace, ornamented with threo straps of gold galloon, and with such a ume a little eapote of golden buttercups might be worn, thus uniting the old regime with the new—a graceful recognition of the right of the great majority to coerce the will of the individu ‘As well be out of the world as out of the fashion ! sounds like a harsh and crael dictum, but the fact is it states a really great truth, for the momont you cease to do as other people do you lose interest in them and become wrapped up in yourself, and selfishness is one form of death. ae eee Mr. and Mrs. Bowser. From the New York World. “Mrs. Bowser,” began Mr. Bowser as he came down stairs the other morning, “is this bouse run gna system or is everything expected to take care of itself?” “What do you mean?” she asked. “I mean that I have been looking for a shoe string for the last hour and a half and that nothing of the sort is to be found!” “No; I don't believe there is one in the house.” “I presume not! I presume the 200 pairs I bought in Detroit the day before we left have all Veen chewed up by the cat or sold to the rag man. If there's a worse run house than ours in America I'd like to sce it!” “Why, Mr. Bowser, you only brought home three shoe strings and you used two of those to tie up your papers! “Well, where's the other?” ‘I can't tell. We may have lost it in moving and unpacking.” “Don't doubt it in the least. While a shoe string is not as big asa piano or as valuable as a clock the loss of it shows a want of system, a reckless extravagance truly discours Have You got a piece of clothes line in the house?” —I don't think 0,” she stammered. “Probably not! Probably gone to join the shoe string! Imust have something to tie up my shoe with, however, and I will use a piece of stove pipe wire.” After breakfast, when ready to go out, he said: “Mrs. Bowser, I hope you will take this lesson to heart. Carelessness in a wife is a very reprehensible trait.” “You are just as careless as Iam!” she pro- tested. “No, ma'am! No, ma'am! I never mislay garthing, forget anything oF lose anything! Very few husbands do. I will go around the world with a pin in my vest and bring the same one back with me. If you go ont on the street today you had better have @ policeman go with vou. If not, you'll lose your purse or be robbed of your cloak.” When Mr. Bowser came mp to luncheon he entered the house with a smile on his face and the door mat in his hand and eaid: “I found a boy walking off with this mat! Has any one taken the range out of the base- ment? It’s a wonder to me they haven't come im after the carpets!” ‘That's a mat the girl put out in the barrel to be carted awsy,” she explained. “Oh! It is! More reckless extravagance, I see! Mrs. Bowser, I want to sit down with you some day and havea long talk. I think you mean well, but you are deficient in judgment and your knowledge of the world is very, very limited.” “Do you know everything?” she sarcastically queri “Mrs. Bowser,” he replied, as he folded his hands uncer Lis cont taiis and assumed his fa- vorite attitude, “there are probably one or two things dont ‘know! I don’t claim to know it all, and I don’t say you know nothing what- ever. The husband who does not, however, know forty times as much as his wife would be considered a stick of aman. Did you go out this morning?* “I did.” “Was your bennet taken off your head?” You are to be con- “Mr. Bowser, where's your watch?” she in- terrupted. i watch, Mrs. Bowser—my watch is—great He dropped his hand to find the chain, but it was not there. He felt for the watch, Lut it was gone. “Did you leave itat the jeweler's?” she asked, as he «tood with open mouth and stared at her. ‘Jeweler's! No! Its gone! I've lost it! : he shouted, as he danced can't be. Feel in all your pockets.” ‘ockets! Pockets! Do you ‘) se I carry my watch in my coat tail pocket! I tell you T've been robbed!" 1, don’t take on 80; your wallet is safe, “G-gone!” he as be put his hand up—“watch and wallet both gone!” “You must have been robbed in some crowd,” she suggested. “Robbed! Crowd! Robbed! Of course I've been robbed!" he shouted as hepranced about. “Git that infernal eat off that lounge and lemme lay down, for I'm so weak I can't stand ups Where's that camphor?" She ran for the bottle as he flopped down, and for the next three minutes he maneses im the opening. + “You ought to go to the ‘as Jot ought to 8: Police at once,” she ‘one! G-gone!” he gasped. * how could you have been robbed?" dunne! Hold the bottle a little higher.” “Ob! my head! can't make it out. I am so careless that I might lose s shoe string in movi Detroit, but you" — > Se oy ‘Don't talk tome! Over $600 gone!” woman tried to steal my reticule in Buff- he groaned. * "t you no ides of when it was taken?” she persisted. o il, I'm sorry, but this will be a grest lesson to you. You will be more”— . “Mrs. Bowser!” he interrupted as he sud- denly sat up.“ through itall now. It's ‘as plain as daylight e Lat do you mean?” thoughé it necessary this morning to give oa Matis sdvies. I felt being be my duty asa jusband. is is yor ra) ett: even!” “Why, Me. Bowser? ee eae “Don't why, Mr. Bowser me! It'sas that chair over there Lae “How could I rob you or tell an; p she demanded. aie ver you mind! I see it all! right, Mrs." Bowser—all right! Just let go this camphor bottle and take @ seat in the other | room! A husband will bear a great deal from the woman he loves, but when crowded too far be turns at bay. Ihave turned. As soonas I feel « little bit better we will come to an under- ing and youcan probably take the noo: train for your mother’s in Detroit. Robbed! It’s all basque is in a piece b itself, the ruche ia tif fened with latten. The sleeves are draped at the shoulders and there are (een cutte and acorsel-t of black passemen- ye. ‘My last ilustzation pictures s very dainty Plundered! But I see through i — see through it and know my ATTRACTIVE HOMES. How Ladies May Utilize the Hot Days of Summer. WORK AND KEEP COOL. Not Hard Work, but Embroidery or the Making of Some Light, Fussy Things—A Good Time to Pian House Improvements— Some Practical Suggestions, ‘Written for The Evening Star. HE EASIEST WAY TO ENDURE THE heat of summer in Washington is to keep bury. This, pethaps, is not the most generally accepted theory as regards warm weather, but it is the most sensible one, and the surest of whiling away the days that come in June sooner or later—fortunately this year they were later. By keeping busy I do not mean of necessity being active, and I do not mean doing some- thing in which one is interested, that part being necessary to the success of the scheme. Many people who like to do pretty things for their homes, or as gifts for friends, are like “Martha,” burdened with many cares, to the exclusion of such work ordinarily. When, therefore, the weather grows so warm that one feels justified in suspending all work, and many only spend the dragging hours of a hot day in bemoaning the general discomfort, then Isay take up the attractive embroidery that you have looked upon with longing eyes and see how much shorter the day seems, while your interest never flags in your congenial em- ployment. Just the work for such a time are the linen bureau or sideboard scarfs, with sides and ends already hemstitched and a design stamped which is pretty enough to make one want to do it, yet which may be done in quick and simple outline if one wishes, and before one realizes it wnother useful scarf 1s added to ‘one’s store, the price being only 50 cents, for the stamped linen brings it within the means of even slender purses. SOME OF THE FUSSY THINGS. Tosome people sewing in any form is not pleasant on a warm day, and in that case it is a good time to undertake some of the fussy things that one has to make time for—it never comes of itself—and which are absorbing enough to make time pass quickly. In such work may be classed photograph frames, portfolios, for views either one's own work or purchased, or even those old-fashioned things, scrap books, for 1 heard « woman the other day declaring she meant to accomplish one this summer. All such work requires, besides the necessary time, space on a big table, where litter won't interfere with other things and the paste or glue can be left without being molested. A pretty suggestion for photograph frames, by the way, is to have two square ones with diamond-cliaped opening covered with white linen on which little blue cornfowers have been embroidered or painted, the two frames being hung on the Wali one ‘above the other, connected With biue sik crocheted rings, and suspended by either a single ring or blue rib- bons. A good thing to do for the baby is to make a “crawling blanket,” a, large square of un- Dieached cotton, denim or any preferred goods being the foundation, though something wash- able shouid be chosen. 1 the groundwork is light the figures of animals which form the decoration suouid be cut trom something dark andapplied. if dark ground is used white may be the goods for the figures. The designs are cut out and applied with button-hole stitch or by machine, and the features and expression ean be given by etching ink or outline stiten. Easier designs would be balis, cubes, &c., which could be iingled with the others ‘and’ would amuse the child. ‘The pattern may be scattered over the spread or wade asa border or asa circle, either as large as the square will con- tain, Or made aya center piece, according to fancy. PLAN HOUSE IMPROVEMENTS. Summer time isa good season to plan and, if possible, carry ont house improvements, and one has plenty of time to think of what will be pretty for some place or places about the house which may not suit at present or that have proved unmanageable hitherto. ‘Treatment of singie windows is beginning to be very popular and often proves successful in grealy improving the looks of @ room. If such # Window has a high sill drawers may be put under it, this bemg an expecially good ar- Yangement for a bed room, three drawera with brass handies making a pretty addition. If above this two shin upright-like pillars can be run up to the top of the window -and then one of the arched fretwork panels put across the front at the top. With a eimple band of fretwork at the sides, a little alcove is formed for the window, which can be made ef- fective by silk eusi curtains looped back and one ormore palms or other plants set on the widened window sill made by the top of this little chest of drawers. It one fancies, narrow book shelves may be made euch side of the window, the lower part beginning at the height of the top of the drawers, tne window sill, that is, Where there is a single window in the dining cboard effect might be built around rs 1n front of it, with the arched top, as in the other case, and each side shal- jow drawers for the same neight, but narrower, and over these open slielves for china and glass, with an arched top like the window. DECORATIVE PAINTING. Decorative painting of all kinds is a resource also for hot days, and if not too fine work so as to make it require too close attention may be areal pleasure. ‘The plain Madagascar cloth, like fine matting and very pliable, is suscepti- bie of good effects in either lustra or oil paints, the latter being thinned with turpentine. The porch cushions come covered with the plain cloth of this kind and a square cushion can be painted with large single flowers outlined in gold, one with dark green flowers being a pretty A new style of summer chair is shown since spring, with light wooden frame, sometimes red, sometimes old oak, but with seat and back of wicker woven in one, wicker bands holding them to the frame work. These arc very pretty, the wicker being finished in old oak color with shellac. ‘The price of the smallest and Jarger ones, with and without is $6.00. Reasonable, for they are roomy and strong. FLASTIC PILLOW COVERS, The elastic pillows are being put into covers of India silk, the ends being pulled into a large rosette in the center. ‘These covers soon soil, but white linen or cotton duck ones with o little embroidery on them, a stringsat each end to loosen forslipping off when washed, would be admirable, and a rosette of white mull put on at the ends could be easily ripped off and sewed on and would give the dainty touch necessary to their prettiness. In this form they make ‘good presents to friends leaving town. Isaw a pretty piece of linen embroidery lately, intended for a center piece. ‘The linen was equate with a large lily and leaves in each corner, the dikgonal corner corresponding. In two of the corners were full-blown lilies and in the others » profile view of the flower, as it were. The petals were worked in long and short stitch, in white filo floss, with a heavy outlining of a lovely shade of old pink. The stamens and vein- ing werealso of the pink, the pattern being very graceful, the flower stems bending 80 at the corners as to turn them prettily while the leaves nearly meet on each side, making an elaborate piece of work. The finishing of the fringe was pin stitch. which continues the most attractive way of beading a fringe. Old_ pink, by the way, is one of the most serviceable of shades, washing perfectly and looking like new when laundered. I saw also a small mat, with very pretty design of grapesand leaves worked in a deep shade of this same color, with the legend intertwined, “Old Wine, Old Friends,” and which has been washed a number of times, yet looked exactly like new. ORAPEVINE PATTERNS. Grapevine patterns are always effective, whether in large or small size, the last being very smali. Another example is adoily, which is quite covered by a bunch of grapes and one lesf, ail in outline, and in old pink, |bemg about the ttiest one a dozen. All these old pink embroideries belong to the same table, when that color always pre- dominates in the decoration of dishes and needlework. As I say, it is particularly durable ‘as well as pretty. Another center piece for the ‘ame table still in contemplation, though the design is already on the linen, is a with a border of grape leaves quite ‘square on the outer ‘but round on the inner, a very handsome ‘This will be worked in old Pink also, a medium shade in buttonhole He (maa)— ” soa aren, hissed him and saw you. (ou are #0 unreasonable.” —W. parceive, old pink and grape designs are both vorites wares wet ie od embroiderer. SUGGESTIONS FOR SHOE BOXES. - If one likes boxes for keeping shoes here are two that may be suggestions. The first is any shape one wishes, the one I have in mind hav- ing sloping lid like a colonial writing desk, this all to be covered plainly with chamois skin. On the lid and across the front and ends scroll pattern, formed of brass-headed nails, large and round, and with what is called the “old brass” finish. Similar nails make a finish atedges and corners, and the boris really a dec- orative object in a room. The color of the one I speak of was dark red, and it was lined with leather, the work being very beautifully done, yet the work of an amateur. ‘The'more general form of a shoe box is ‘square, making a low ottoman. An idea for one of this kind is @ square box, covered with cof- fee matting or Madagascar cloth of ecra tint, or with tea matting of sage green shade, and on one side in straggling letters, ‘run- ning diagonally across, are the words: “One two, buckle my shoe,” or this may be divided, the first two words on one side and the others onthe next. Scrolls may be added, so as to make the letters more ornamental, and on top a flat cushion should be fastened, which may be painted, as Ispoke of above, in big detached flowers, or it may be covered with a different fabric—India silk or velours, for instance. —_—+er —___. THE OFFICE COAT. It Has Eecome an Institution in All the Government Offices, STAR REPORTER RECENTLY OB- served in the Treasury Department build- ing # laborer wearing a coat the sleeves of which wero attached to the shoulders by large brass brads. “Where did you get that coat?” was asked. “Fished 1t out de waste paper basket in Col. ‘8 room, boss,” was the reply. ‘Do you find many coate that way?” “Well, no, sir. I don’t. I aint found one now for five years till I pulled dis here one out day before yestidday.” “You say it was in Co —s room. How was that?” said the reporter. “Why, dis here cont was Col. —"s office coat and I guess he got tired of it and chucked it in de trash.” IT OUGHT To BE PHOTOGRAPHED. ‘The garment in question ought to be photo- graphed. The sleeves were worn through at the elbow; the back was as smooth as a mirror and almost as shiny; the lining was in rage; it had patted at the shoulders und the repairing hed done on a very amateurish basis, will the brass paper fasteners that are used'to sheets of paper together. Further inv tion into the subject of office coats revealed the fact that few of them are presentable garments. Anything seems to do for the purpose of work- ing in. It has been said that one can always tell whether a department clerk works hard or not by his office coat, If the elbows are intact he is probably a loafer; if they are worn through he is a nore or less assiduous user of his desk. Any old coat is used, although sometimes the swells of the departments buy cheap coats of a light material for this purpose. But the usual thing is to bring @ coat downto the office which hus Decome too’ shabby to be worn anywhere else. Then it does service for years, until finally it begins to fall to pieces, and every one begins to make fun of it.” Theu it goes to the waste paper basket and is picked out by @ la- borer or messenger. 17S VALUE AS A PENWIPER. One’ custom quite common in the depart- ments is to use the office coat as a penwiper. If it is a black coat a little black ink rather im- proves its appearance, but if it is a light col- ored coat the splotches of ink that decorate the sleeves are more curious than beautiful. However, nobody seems to care what the gar- ment looks like, provided its different eompo- nent parts hold together. ‘There is a tradition in one of the departments thataclerk once appeared there in an old full-dress swallow-tailed coat that lad done service on festive occasions for upward of forty yeurs, It was said the owner had been married in it, Just think what a degradation for the coat. After doing sexvice all its life on occusions of pleasure, in its old age it was made to go to work. The story runs that this particular coat was the subject of incessant ridicule because of its tails and that the wearer finally took his scissors and cut them off, and after that it looked precisely like the garments that waiters in restaurants wear. Some clerks don’t wear any coat, but keep their hats on and take their coats off. as though the work of the government was something in the nature of digging or hoeing in the open air, but there are so many of the gentler sex employed by Uncle Sam that this habit is really more common in the offices of professional and business men than it is in the dep&rtments. SOME HAVE OFFICE TROUSERS. Office trousers? Yes; the writer once sawa pair and was told that in this particular govern- ment office many of the clerks not only changed their coats when they came in to work in the morning, but their nether garments as well. this was ingenious. It solved the problem of how to prevent your trousers from bagging at the knees. The means is to be found simply in not wearing the trousers except when you are on the streets, Have one pair of trousers to stand up and walk in and another pair tonit down in. But it does not appear that office trousers have ever been generally used. Tbe old office coat, however, has become one of the institutions of the departments. ——— A Sunfish Hill Wooing. From the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette, Around the wic precincts of the Sunfish hills of Pike couaty, Olio, the polite attention of the ruder sex to the fair is marked by vicissi- tudes little understood by Cincinnatians. That was why, few evenings since, Billy Riest did not enter at the front gate of Huldy Prather's.as usual, but sneaked along the far side of the road with a frayed ox goad in his hand, furtively eyeing the old man and slyly beckoning Huldy to meet him behind the patch of young but ainbitious string beans to the rear. ist!” said he. “Wat?” said she. “S-sa!” he murmured. “Why?” she asi “Old man!" he hissed, indicating the where- abouts of the invisible sire with a suggestive jerk of bis thumb, : “Did ye ax him, Billy?” she asked, eagerly. “Taxed him,” was his gloomy reply. Vhat’d he say id git out!” “An’ that’s why ye comed down here?” “That's why.” “D’ruther ye’d comed to’ th’ house, Billy.” “D'ruther not!” “Why for, Billy?” “Afeared to make trouble, sis.” “How? “Said he'd kick me out ef I kim ag’in.” Swiftly and silently she drew herself out of hisastonished embrace, curled her lips in con- tempt and paled with hauteur in eight-cent calico. Straightening her toppled sunshade she drew herself up, and sneered in scalding acer “Willynm Riest, that gate wa’n’t built for ye tolean on. Git!" “Good Lawd, Huldy, what the gash” — “You git—and git mighty sudden—ye ain't no biz here ‘gaged, Huldy !” Bat we 'Gagement be doggoned—you git!” ‘Bat, Hulay"— if tebe “No ‘buts’ don't go—you git! Any man what'll let a kick skeer him pat from Huldy Prathor can't hey her jurned her back upon him just as the last rays of the setting eo mee the tendrils of the nodding vines and blinded the eyes of the somnolent shanghai rooster in the lower branches of the apple tree. Billy gave one look of despair. ‘hena flash of heroic resolution froze his face. He turned and strode back the way he came, turned the corner of the rail fence and entered where the bara were down. | Huldy threw herself upon the pile of cordwood and wept. Between her sobs sl heard a heavy step on the front plank walk. brief, hot murmur of deep bass voices which suddenly rose to @ screaming crescendo, fol- lowed by “heavy thumps, panting breaths, smothered oaths and a sickemng crash that scared two hens off the roost. ‘Then all was silent as the tomb. She wept ‘uldy!" She opened her eves, stream- with tears. There stood Billy, hatiess, red, ing hot, breathless—his coat split up the back. Wewewhat, Billy ns Put? “I done axed him ag’in, Huldy——" “Axed him ag’in?" “That's what I said!” “What'd he say, Billy?” “Last thing I him say was that he warn't a goin’ ter come out fom nner the house til! I done went home, Huldy or no Huldy, ‘gagement or no ’gagement, merriago LIFE IN SANTIAGO. A Delightful Climate, Attractive Sit- uation and Grand Scenery. ITS PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS Rambles About the Chilian Capital—Remance of Its Founding—Discomforts of the Rainy Senson—Its Besutifal Public Walks, Botan- feal and Zoological Gardens, From The Star's Traveling Correspondent. SaxtiAGo pz Carte, Juneg, 1891. IEW CITIES CAN BOAST OF A MORE DE- lightful climate, finer situation or grander scenery than this. Though barely 1,800 feet above the sea, it is far enough from the equator to escape excessive heat, yet not so distant as to be subject to extreme cold. Set in the midst of a great green valley, the mighty Andes, that stretch away to the horizon on every side, inclose it as within walls from 8,000 to 20.000 feet high—their snowy bulwarks in dazzling contrast to the cloudless blue above, the “living green” below, and the golden sunshine that envelops ali as witha garment. From every street and balcony the most glorious views may be obtained—of mountains towering above mountains, with such rosy tints upon them at sunrise, and evening shades of amethyst dark- ening to purple, as no brush can paint or pen describe. Tho country immediately surrounding the capital is made up of small estates, with hand- some villas upon them, belonging to wealthy families, who have the good taste to forsake the city's glare in summer time for afew months of rural living. | Many of these suburban casas aro fitted up in astyle of elegance rarely sur- sed in similar residences of Europe or the Juited States. TRUE XAME OF THE CAPITAL. The true name of this ancient capital, by the way, is Santiago del Nuevo Estremo—Saint James of the New Beginning”—a strange title bestowed upon it by the conqueror, Valdivia, something more than three hundred and fifty years ago, in conformity with the jurisdiction that had already been set up at Cuzco, under Father Valverdo, the first bishop of’ South America. The history of its founding reads like a romance—how Pizarro’s whilom friend, Diego de Almagro, tried hard to conquer the tribes in this valley, but failed disastrously: of heroic endurance and deeds of valor on both sides; of the direct interposition of the Virgin Mary, who appeared standing in the clouds, to the confasion of the savages, and of that blessed spook, Saint James, the Spanish patron, who seems to have had a habit of riding down- ward from the skies on a milk-white steed at critical junctures, and of the later vicissitudes of Pedro de Valdivia, who came soon after Almagro's defeat, with only a few of his coun- trymen but a great following of friendly Peru- vians, and established the town on tue right bank of the Mapoche, in front of the Arauca- nian village. ‘THE EXHTLARATING CLIMATE. The tourist coming down from the tropics feels exbilarated by the climate of Santiago as by a draught of old wine. Benjamin Taylor, in his “Between the Gates,” describes it ex- actly, for nowhere are the seagons more neigh- borl, Says he: “The impropriety of winter ing in the lap of spring has madé a pub- but when September is on whis- ‘ms with May, and old January mas- querades in June's clothes, and July gives all her rainbows to November, it is time to talk! ‘The winter is in summer and the spring is in winter, and harvest is in seedtime andautumn is left out of the calendar aitogether. ‘The si- roccos blow from the norti and the cold winds from the south, and you must never sail by the almanac or you will ‘lose your reckoning and get lost in the weather.” DISCOMFORT DURING THE RAINY MONTHS. But there is another side to this charming picture. Though the hills are as green as Ire- lund’s all the year, and roses are perpetually in bloom, and ripening fruit and baby blossoms show at once on the same bush, as they do in happy human families—there is a summer time of fleas and dust (during the season of our mid- winter), and an Uncomfortable spell of chilly dampness, throughout the rainy months, when northern ‘people are suffering most with heat. Mr. Spangler writes as follows about Santi- ago’s summer: “The first day of your arrival bere, when you are filling and iack- beating up the breeze, and blowing if it were a friend, and blinking at the dust that waltzes at you around corners and tears down upon you with the gait that Byron's Assyrians came, you wink at it all in the light of a practical jokeand vow that you will go home tomorrow. And when you are searching from chin to slippers for that ince of Jumpers, beside which Cortez’s bosom rend, Alvarado, was no leaper worth men- tioning, and taking yourself all in pieces, but never catching anything, you declare that you will leavo tonight. But ‘weeks glide by, and the breezes blow and the pulgas leap (how much better the Spanish name sounds than our vulgar word flea), and still you tarry, at first resigned, then enchanted, and the charm deepens and deepens as time goes on.” NO STONES, GRATES OR FIREPLACES. There is downright discomfort here during the cold days of the rainy season. The people have a deep-seated notion that fires indoors breed diseases of etery sort,and, exceptin houses built by English or in’ residents, there is hardiy a stove, grate or fireplace to be found in ail Chili, ‘The enormously thick walls retain no end of dampness, the floors—laid flat upon the ground, without cellars beneath—are cold and clammy ay tombstones, and as every casa is built around a central patio into which all the rooms open, there are seldom communicat- ing doors between the various apartments; so that, whatever the weather, one must step out into the uncoverad court yard to go from par- lor to dining room, bed room or kitchen. - Al- though the prevailing diseases are pneumonia, throat and lung troubles, and the mortality from these causes is frightful during wet sea- sons, nothing cau convince a Chilian that arti- ficial heat will not absolutely poison the atmos- phere. When he visits the home of a foreigner and finds the rooms comfortably warmand dry, he invariably grambles and requests that the door be left open so that he may not suffocate —but spreads his hands and coat tails before the cheerful blaze as if he thoroughly enjoyed it. CHARCOAL BRAZIERS AND FOOT WARMERS. It looks odd, at a party, tosee ladies in bare armsand decolette bodices, with blue roses and chattering tecth, wrapped in shawls and fur-lined cloaks, crowding around a charcoal brazier, which emits jast enough heat to make one more sensible of deadly chills that come galloping up one’s spinal column, and odder still to see them at table, still wrapped in cloaks and shawls, the aching feet of each guest thrust into a foot warmer, though sur- rounded by every luxury (except fire) that wealth can buy. These foot warmers ure unique institutions, and as ornamental as i dispensable. They are regular pockets, each just large enough to slip a pair of feet into, and ure made of fur or flaunel, lined with wool. ‘They are often richly embroidered and are of home manufacture, or made by the nuns or orphans in the asylums, who are all experts in neediew: And oddest of all it seems to see gentlemen and ladies preambulating the plazas in midwinter—the former with upitiers, overcoats and fur caps, the latter bare headed, with no other wrap than asilken shawi. The mauta is universally worn in church by ail classes of Chilian women, but for riding, shop- ping and the promenade, all but the uitra- fashionable stili go about with heads uncovered. BEAUTIFUL PUBLIC WALKS. Santiago is especially blessed with paseos or Public walks. Besides the incomparable Ala- meda already described, the central plaza, with its environing arcades, and beautiful Santa Lucia, there is the Tajamar, Jying ‘along the banks of the Mapoche, which to be the fuvorite resort before the Alameda was com- pleted. It is an embankment of solid masonry, some three miles long, which was erected many years ugo by a Spanish governor to protect the city irom the annual rise of the rive, which Sometimes swept away streets full of houses. A Gelighttul winter promenade is the Tajamar— doubly attractive because out of on, and therefore comparatively deserted- —its ancient Wall, overgrown with vines and lichens Partially shaded by straggling willows cucalyptas trees. "Thon te is the ell porns lar Canadella, a broad, tree-lined avenue where spooning lovers loiter; the Alameda de Yun- or no merriage—an’ I reckon ye'd better t’: him in some corn bread, bacon ket, for I'll be : the Campo Marte, where is the peniten- ier and on extent miliary bark; Ge gen did Quinte Normal de Agricullura, Santiago's P , bf lawn and woodland, with « fine large race [eight peep ipeg Up rete fend a) a written-sbout widow, Bonore ‘This is emphatically the recreation ground of the heantifal | botanical and zoological gardens there are few which can show anything like this of Santiago—and I doubt if ite equal, in area and the value and variety of ite buildings, can be found anywhere in the world. It contains not only a vast botanical garden, Inid out on a ind scale, with little crossed by rustic ridges, a wilderness of blossoming plants, vines and shrubs, towering oaks and pines. stat- tary, shaded nooks, well-kept walks and plenty of rastic benches and the greenest of swai without a single d (so frequently mot with at home) saying “Keep off the and an extensive zoological park, containing all the animals of South America, and many others, conveniently arranged for observation in long avenues—but mt museum;an under- ground, to- tructare containing innumerable glass tanks full of fish swimming in water supplied by hidden fountains: an agri cultural college, with a handsome museum of its own and a long line of buildings devoted to its various offices; an enormous new normal school, capable of holding two thonsand pupils, besides the teachers and their families, who, supported by the government, are all to be housed and fed under the same roof, and a [arlety of other editices too numerous fo men- ion. THE QUT-TA NORMAL. One of the most unique structures fn the Quinta is one contributed by Senora Cousino— half castle, half pagoda—built entirely of giaes bottles, bits of iron ore and square chunks of coal, cupola, balconies and all, representing the family enterprises—the coal mines, iron foun- dries and bottle factories at Zota, the wine man- ufactured on their various estates and the cele- brated “Cousino beer.” Besides music stands and dancing pavilions, there is a luncheon pavilion, with open sides and awning-shaded porticoes, where parties may be served at lit- Ue tables with ices, wines, fruits and other light refreshments. There is also a big restaurant, which is justly famous for its breakfasts and dinners—the former served between 10s. m. and 2 o'clock, and the latter from 5 p. m. asiate asa possible customer remains. fast is naturally the most popular meal, since a whole day is hardly time enough to see all the sights of the Quinta Normal, and therefore it is customary to come out early, stray about the gardens during the cool of the morning, take a midday breakfast in the big restaurant (pre- viously ordered in one of the numerous private parlors and served in many elaborate courses if the party is very swell) and then devote what remainsof theafternoon tothe museum. Though thecooksare French, Chilian styles prevail in t food and its serving. Among other delicacies they give you camarones, or fresh-water crabs, shrimps with long, black hairs on, the plumpest of white-breasted partridges, tiny brown birds on toast, “sea-urchins” steamed in their own round, ‘prickly shells, strange fruits and salads~—and if you don’t take at least claret and champagne with such a conglomeration of un- accustomed vi even the servants will tarn up their nos at you as “a greenhorn from away back.” THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. Chili's national museum is housed in the im- posing building in which the international ex- hibition of 1875 was held—a miniature copy, in glass, of the Crystal Palace in Lon- dou, with a magnificent entrance, long central hail'and a wide stairway in the rear, branching ‘out both ways, to rooms above. ‘Space will not permit any detailed description of the wonders collected here, where the naturalist, the scientist and the erchwologist may revel for days without time to examine them all. The best of it, however, was stolen from Peru during the recent war, for Chili is not rich in aboriginal relics, like the land of the Incas. On this subject Nir. W.E. Curtis writes, no doubt with truth: “Everywhere in Santiago and other Chilian cities are to be seen the ornaments of which Peru was 0 mercilessly plandered—statuary, fountains, benches Of carved stone in the parks and alamedas, and alnost everything that beautifies the streets. Transports that were sent up to Callao with troops, brought back cargoes of pianos, pictures, furniture, books and articles of houselold ‘decoration, stolen from Peruvian homes. Pretty iron fences, ornaments! lamp posts torn from their foundations, statuary from the plazas, silver altar equipments from the churches, even mar- bie images from the cemeteries—everythin, that vandal hands could reach was stolen an carried to Chili.” Clocks were taken from the church steeples (one of them now gives time to the market place of Santiago), and the effigies of the saints were lifted from the altars and stripped of the embroideries and jewels they had received from their devotees.”” And it is well known that the most valuable portion of the national library, as well as the greater part of the museum, was acquired in this disgrace- fal manner, of which Chilians now begin to feel somewhat ashamed and make excuses for by terming it “the fortunes of war.’ A FINE COLLECTION OF BIRDS. The collection of birds is the finest I ever saw, from tiniest humming birds hardly an inch long to the giant albatross and huge Andean condors, golden pheasants, fan-tailed lyre birds, ichetrias, hooded birds of paradise— millions of them, and a whole large rcom de- voted to their nests and eggs. Besides all those things usually found in museums there isa magnificent array of aboriginal pottery; uten: sils and weapons of stone, bone and wood from il parts of South America and the least-known lands of the Pacific; wax figures representing allstrange peoples dressed in their different costumes, each ina glass case by itself, like Mrs. Partington's crocodile, “large as life and twice as natural”—surrounded by its own Peculiar implements and belongings. Perhaps the object which attracts most at- tention is one of those horrible “pressed heads, the work of the Jivero Indians of Ecuador. the flesh of @ human head, from which the skull has been removed, shrunken to the size of a fist, yet the features preserved with life- like expression, eyebrows Intact, lips sewn to- gether, gaudy’ feathers pendent from the ears and long black hair concealing the pike upon which this ghastly trophy of savage war- fare is impaled. DRIED AND PICKLED MUMMIES. + And then the mummies! ‘There are enough of these dried and pickled folk to populate a village—those that hailed from Egypt stretched out at case in their gaily painted coitins, leering at the ancient Peruvians, who are all bound up in the most uncomfortable posture, with knees and ears close together. If only they could speak—what tales might they tell of semi-burbaric nations that swarmed these coasts a thousand years before Europeans every dreamed of an America! They would speak of idols worshiped in t temples; of people who toiled and hoped and loved and died, as men do now, of victory and defeat, ad- venture and conquests; of the slow up-buildin of a mighty empire—its gradual decline an: sudden fall. Andmaybe a mummy from the Nile region might confide to his Peruvian neighbor the secret of the different process by which he was preserved, thus enlightening the world on a» lost art—lost for all time, let us hope, for who wants to figure in such uncanny guise for the idle and curious of other genera- tions to stare at? STORY OF THE CONQUEST. In Diego's curious book called “The Kingdom of Chili” it is gravely recorded that when Val- divia’s forces met the Indians near the present city of Imperial they were suddenly overspread by a great red cloud of wondertal brightness; and while the astonished armies gazed in awe upon it an angel appeared and rolled back the erimson curtain, revealing the queen of heaven in gorgeous atiirc, with an Indian kneeling before her pleading for mercy. The simple aborigines fled in y, and thus the battle ‘was won by the Spaniards without bloodshed. An old painting of this remarkable scene hangs in the mnscum, and if not the same kneeling Indian, there are scores precisely like him, all in halt-kneeling, half-equatting posi- tion—their knees on a level with their ears, bound round and round with rawhide mouths open, eyes gone, grave clothes old and tanned like their own skins. There is» bo mummy, still grasping in hand; ababy mummy,’ which was probably loved by its mummy mother a few centuries ago, and a grandmother mummy, clinging to her'spindles and itive weaving apparatus. Most of the horrible company have contorted necks and twisted limbs, and brown face wears an expression of fearful agony, as if striving to convince beholders that the statement of history is true to the effect that the mum- ing process was by their relatives had left the —it having been to bind them fast in what was con- sidered the proper position before death had stiffened their m ‘Faxsiz B. Wan. before GOSSIP FROM NEW YORK. Interesting Happenings in the Busy Metropo- Ie During the Week. WHY SOME MEN YIELD TO TEMPTATION—XORE SAFEGUARDS NEEDED FOR GREAT CORPORA- TIONS—THE DESTRUCTION OF SEABRIGET— RIFECT OF THE HOT BrELL. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yor, June 18, 1891. UCK THIS WEEK HAS A VERY FUNNY brace of sketches, in the first of which a house owner is showing a new servant his wine and cigar cupboard, telling him that he doesn't believe in locking up such treasures from ser- vants and that he must fight any temptation to indulge. The next scene shows the butler in a fearful state of collapse, with the liquors end cigars strewn about the floor. The indignant house owner reproaches him for his fall se- Yerely, and reminds him that he was to make a, fight against temptation. “And so I did,” bic- cups the butler, “but I was outclassed.” This fable teaches that good men may be upset by temptations that are too powerful, and the ap- Plication just now is to the case of thoso who are charged with such colossal responsibili- ties as are attached to the leading offices in corporations like the New York Life Insurauce Company. The alleged irregulari- ties in the management of this vast business have been the principal topic of talk in finan- cial circles during the not only because of the importance of the direct issues, but be- cause the case is a typical one. We have hardly t become accustomed to dealing with private enterprises which involve hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is not to be wondered at that men of tried integrity are dazzled by such un- heard of opulence. “One is reminded of the retort of Warren Hastings when accused of corruption as governor general of India, that he was only surprised, with the treasury of India open to him, that he took so little, A greater gold mine ‘than barbaric India is one of shete giganto corporations of civilization, and those who have the key to the safe must have almost superhuman integrity. ‘The troubles in the New York Life have nat- urally stirred disquieting rumors about the two or three other great concerns that are similar in scope and extent of operations. But nothing tangible has ypt occurred to justify the Tumors of the street. ‘The great safeguard in all these concerns should be such a system of checks and baiances that it would be as sure death to commit fraud as in the United States ‘Treasury. No one will put hishand on a red- hot stove, and no one will steal if it is abso- lutely certain that he will be caught. But the trouble is that all these great corporations are obliged, or think they are obliged, to spend large sums of money in secret and doubtfal channels. Great transactions have to be closed with a smile or a meaning glance, and the very men who. are supposed to be incorruptible as regards the interests of stockholders are ex- pected to corrupt legislators and to undermine competitors by secret and even unscrupulous Machinations. And then the stockholders and the public are very much astounded if these men apply the same principles to internal policy that they are expected to use toward outsiders. THE DESTRUCTION AT SEABRIGHT. The fire fiend is not expected to lash its tail and spit fire in June in any watering place. Such conduct on its part is almost invariably reserved till October, when the season is nicely over: but we have just had one of the most ea~ lamitous and unseasonable fires ible in the destruction of that charming suburban resort, Seabright. This was one of the few really cle- gant and delightfal seaside resorts near to Ne’ ork. Asa rule these suburbs are of a very mongrel and rowdy sort, but it was the charm of Seabright that it was convenient and at the same time dignified and beautiful. Even the approach was singularly attractive, because the Sandy Hook line of boats is by far the pleas- antest that ply on our harbor and neighboring waters. These boats dash to and fro at the rate of twenty knots ar hour, and are splendidly equipped with every comfort, and at the sume time perfectly seaworthy. They are uniformly crowded by some of the best people in the city, of which we had a striking proof furnished by the prompt and substantial way in which passen- gers aboard the Monmouth on Wednesday con- tributed toa relief fund. About $6,000 was subscribed on the boat during the hour's run, and among the names we find such as Presi- dent Hyde of the Equitable, Matt. Borden, the great Fall River cotton manufacturer; E. §. Auchincloss of thread fame, Cornelius N. Bliss, John Sloane, the t man; Jesse Selig- man, the banker; A.D. Juilliard, the commis- sion ‘merchant; ex-Gov. Hoadly, and scores of ether prominent men. It is doubtful if Sea~ bright regains its popularity for this year at least, though its position will always make it a favorite resort. ‘NEW YORE aT BLOOD HEAT. ‘The fierce heat early in the week had the usual result of pushing up the death totals. One might almost use these totals as a thermometer, 0 delicately do they register the heat. The Worst sufferers are the tene- ment house babies. These poor little creatures, however, are looked after nowadays pretty closely by the charitable. The St. John's Guild, one of the noblest of our benevolent #0- cieties, has already opened its summer cam- ign, which largely consists in daily picnics Sown the bay on spacious barges that carry regiment of urchins each trip. Hundreds, if not thousands, of young lives are saved a nually by these excursions. ‘The city in ge: eral took its first “hot spell” in anythi resigned and pious temper—not at all like that of the Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. However, all is now over for the time being. One man, perhaps only one man, was ent to observe the rising clouds which betokened rain and coolness. This I noticed on Broadway casting upward the most resentful and hostile glances at the darkening sky. He was palm Jeaf fan peddler, who had been enjoying a rush of trade, but now bebeld portents of doom written in the sky. ‘This is still a democratic country, especially inahot wave. 1 was very much’ imp with our free-and-easy manners when I saw yesterday one of the leading merchant = of New York and of the world, and the head of haps the largest trade corporation in New ork eaty, sauntering along Broadway in his shirt sleeves. To be sure it was awfully hot, and still I doubt if even a temperature in three ures would induce a merchant of thisrank to jopt such an informal and neglige costume in Oxford street or the Paris boulevard. MA. PULITZER AND WIS VISIT. Iwas told yesterday by one of the leading writers on the World that Mr. Pulitzer's bealth is very much better and that is sight, while it is still very weak, 1s in. no. present dangor of being entirely lost. His sight varies a good health, and just now shares the strength of oy sociag test aioe an easy feeli is return ‘mean pba shake-ups that characterize New York journalism, but I am told that he will make vory few if aay changes and that es qui- etly as possible. Mr. Pulitzer returned to Paris by' a Wednesday steamer. ‘THE CHILIAN EFFONT IX THB COUNTRY. ‘The insurgents in the Chilian war are mak- ing » desperate effort to get the recognition of neutral powers, and they are spending inte Eovg nn ae (government Some of the heaviest commercial houses in the country would find it to. their interest to have the insurgents win, and they are giving sub ross, very influential aid and comfort. I Understand that ex-Senator Evarts has been re- Pe Lg ry est ri Hexar B. Ex.soz, —— iF SE § 8 i From the Boston Gazette. "A famous Chicago lawyer once had a singular case to settle. A came to him in great distress. Two sisters, living in the same house, had babies of equal age, who so re- sembled each other thst were unable to were f DREAMS MADE TO ORDER. An Ingenious Device for Controlling the Visions of the Night. REAMS HAVE BEEN REGARDED a8 An interesting ubject of study ever «ince scientific thought was born. Locke, the essay- iston tho human understanding, was of the opinion that a man did sot think at all when really asleep, while modern investigators im this line of research believe that thought Be more ceases during sleep than @ watch, prop- erly wound, runs down in the night Accord- ing to their notion under such conditions the mechanical functions of the mind ere active, though uncontrolled by the judgment, and thus it happens that one’s dreams are apt te be unreasonable and even absurd. Could anything be more interesting than te trace the progress of a dream, if it were only possible? Think of the variety of experiences through which one would be conveyed, um- trammeled by the limitations of common sonse which restrict one's waking thoughts, and freed from the moral responsibilities that ep- cumber the doings of ordinary life. Probe- bility sets no bounds to the dreamer's vision, and even conscience is dormant, since the most righteous of men do on occasions misbehave The most shockingly in the strange lan@ Most desirable of all things wonld ft be to be able to control one’s dreams and fashion the sleep fancies into shapes pleasing and a-abesq to that Morpheus maght lit the ‘curtain seep night upon » delightful and entertaining stage pity, with no horrors in it to rake ‘the't ings unpleasantly. For the purpose of accom- plishing something of this sort a Washington man has invented an ingenious contrivance im the shape of a sort of adjustable skeleton night- eap, with small cushioned screws that can be turned down so as to press upon certain parte of the head. Teachers of phrenological 4c as everybody knows, have divided up the peri- cranium into areas, each of which hal certain definite ideas and emotions. Thus, there is no difiiculty in applying the screws te whatever centers of thoughts or feelings it may be desired to excite. “When a person is trying to think very hard he instinctively presses his forehead over the organs of refiec- tion, and it is the same principle that is utilized by this instrument. ibe pressure excitive, and the subject has simply to adjust the screws suitably in order to call the attention of the mind, a8 one might ay, in corresponding di- rections. Before going’ to sleep le reg the machine and directs his dreams accord- ingly. For example, suppose he is in love and de- sires visions in accordance with his hopes. He fixes the screws so as to cxert a gentle pressure upon the organs of amativeness, low down at the back of the head, and dreams that he acases the object of his choice. An extra screw fastened down upon the philoprogenitive bump, just above, conveys to his somnolent imagin ings the anticipatory pleasures of a large family of child he location of this bump, by the way, was ascertained by discovering its ““promi- nence in women ad apes, in whom love of their young is stronger than it is in man.” This aotation Is made from the highest known au- jority on phrenology and may therefore be re- lied upon. Uf, on the other hand, the eubject is on bad terms with any one and is only restrained from encountering the adversary by inferior physi- cal powers ot lack of confidence in the police, he may apply the screws to the proper bumps of comibativeness behind each ear and enjoy in Vivid imagination the pleasure of ebewing the gentleman up toany extent thet may be neces- sary for satisfaction. ‘This explains the idea involved, which may be amplified indefinitely with the aid of « Proper phrenologic chart. Ou either side of the back of the skull above philoprogeuitiveness are the organs of friendship, where people who are mutually attached put their heads together. The bumps of destructiveness are just above the ear, as was originally ascertained from their large development in astadent who wae se fond of torturing animals that he became a surgeon, and also in an apothecary, who be- came an executioner. Above the ear in front is located acquixitiveness, which is found to be much swelled in pickpockets, Many inven- tions have been suggested in dreams and it should be remembered that the mechanical fac- ulty is situated above the temple, as was first learned from a supposed skull of Raphael and from the head of a milliner, who un- common taste. Self esteem is high on the back of the head. It is always found large in beggars who excuse their poverty on account of On either side of self esteem are the bumps of love-of-approbation, which are greatly devel- oped asarule in lunatics who imagine they are kings and queens. Benevolence is on top of the bead, « little in front of the middle, ven- eration is in front of benevolence, and wonder is still further forward. ‘This last is prominent in psychic rescarchos and vision-seers. Ideal- ity is in the middle of the forchead;it is touched by the hand when one is composing poetry. Nearly every one com remarkably good in his dreams—if only he could remem- itaftorward. | owever, it ought tobe very easy to regulate all these things by a judicious luse of the mstrument described. —+2--—____ FLORIDA'S VOLCANO, The Mystery of Pinbrook Swamp That Ne- body Has Yet Unraveled, From the Tallahassee Floridian. Messrs. Castieman and Barbour, who, with Mr. Stayley as guide, went down into the Pin- brook swamp to ferret out Florida’s mysteri- ous volcano, have returned, like thousands of others, without the volcano. They took ob- servations from the cast bank of the Waucinsa river, near the gulf, and saw the vast colamn of smoke ascending skyward. Having no boats to cross the stream they could not make @ di- tect shoot for the location of the smoke, but had to move further up to start into the swamp. ‘They were supplied with a good compass and an experienced engineer, but the swamp was such a dense jungle of canes, vines, briers aud undergrowth generally that they had to liter- ally hew out a passuge. After much hard work they found that they were progressing only one anda half miles per day. Castleman and Barbour bave not entirely given up the exploration, but will equip themselves better for the work and try it again at # later day. For more than half acentury this mysteri- ous column of smoke by day and a flame by night, rising in the midst of an impenetrable swamp on the gulf coast, bas not the rustic fishermen and hunters who watch it from the outer edges of the , but scien- te from clovated. péints abo), Shilukemmes it from elevated points ut Ts thirty miles away. By day it presents the «] volume of jet black smoke, rising up ## though issuing from abuge smokestack, pe tsa bright light, as th use was burning’ and the dames Sere i quite visible. It and disappearsat ir Tegular intervals, but always in the same place, H i f Hae f it = i i g I i ti | i i 4 f it £ inf i 5 i i H if fie fi il H ij £ ii F fr i Fre if 5 t i & | s hi