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10 a <a THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDA THE INDOOR TOILET. What Devotees of Fashion Should Not Neglect. HOW TO DRESS THE HAIR. Varied Effects Secured With Little Trouble— Some Effective House Costumes for mer—The Question of Expenditure for Dress. — Correscondence of The Evening Star. . July 4, 1891. ONT, FAIR DEYV- otee of fashion, in your eagerness to im- press a stolid and un- sympathetic world with the brillianey of your outing costumes, neglect your indoor People with joned ideas in- iat the wearing of these mannish cos- tames is destructive of feminine delicacy of manner and gentleness of deportment. Maybe, but I'm not a censor. T'm guide and chroni- eler. The first thing necessary to render an indoor toilet perfectly successful is to know how to arrarge your hair. In fact I may say that every woman who desires to enhance her g00d looks should study the art of dressing her hair becomingly. Smooth-drawn locks from the central parting to the ears is womanly. Of coarse, if the face lacks ronmdness or gentleness New the style becomessevere. ‘The effect of demure gentleness is incroased when from the center the hair fe! lown the cheek, a i this ef- | locks of Dickens’ time worn. side locks or curls make a round cheek no less dainty in curve, and they soften the lines of a thin or worn face and add wweotnens to ago. Modesty is always suggested when the hair is arranged to cover the nape of the neck. The low knot has al- ware been dear to the poet's _heart. If the knot is worn higher up note the effect of | modesty at once produced by Ictting | acouple of longish curla hang from At and along the ve of the nape. the same time this nape of the neck is very pretty. That was a + coiffure which set the knot well above thnt line and then let the a against the cheek to give the m of demureness. Piquancy is by combing the hair up in the the crown of the head. This is the fexture of almost all French coiffures. Piquancy is gained, too, by a departure from E r effect. and the hair is parted le or the bang cut with a point going toward the space betwcen the eyebrows. Mow TO DRESS THE HAIR EFFECTIVELY. forehead to back of art lie almost straight wer a round head, 18 y bya knot gathered back of the head so the top seem to extend the length of A face gains in placidity of ex- by having the hair combed back ly along the «pace between the ear and A face that becomes severe if the A head broad from hair be combed down from central part to the ear is only sweet and womanly if the locks are combet down from the part as far as the temples an combed back. A face gains in open exp in romance and in intel- Jectuality by being framed in hair combed back iy trom the forehead. I have never seen @ face that could stand the hair being combed straight back closely, however. ‘here is no Beauty in a fuzzy miase of characterless curl about the face. However you do your hair, do ft to emphasize some expression or some qual- ity of your face—of the hair itvelf, its color, quality and care I do not speak uow. A LACE-TRENMED FOCLARD. For a quick indoor toilet a blouse is always | essential. I reproduce a very stylish fined-looking one in ial illustration. It} fe made up in white cloth, the sleeves and | front being trimmed in 1 way with mauve | Foulards are very much in favor for resses this summer. The great thing fs to make them ina more or less elaborate y- La my second a you find « charming od" with lace, asshown. There must be no seam at the back. | If so desired there may bea lace yoke. The | skirt foundation should be of alpaca, orna- | J with lace. These foulards look well et off with large crepe de chine fichus, wa in my third iin You will find very charming gown for a the fourth illustra ap in any staff. 1 of the skirt has a bandof white ch there ts line of embroid- y silver bead ng around to _ the beck breadth. The skirt is gracefully TOULARD, WITH CREPE DE CUIXE Ficuv. eaught up with passementerie ornaments. The folding collar, which must be made up upon organdy. opens on a small white plastron, hav- ing © ding collar and ornamented with beads. A PIX MONEY REFORM. Most wives and danghters are restricted in their expenditures for dress, and not so much by the aggregate of money allowed to them as by the necowity of asking for a special appro- Fiation for every separate purchase. A co- rie of Murray Hill girls have formed a society of reform. It may bo best explained by one of the members—a jolly beauty, who is just old | ment of the question and | fathers. W. gain the knowledge necessary in their own affaira Anumber of Us girls got talking on this subject ono afternoon and it struck us so forcibly that we agreed to band together and draw iy that upaformal written argu- resent it to our amply pleaded that for our own bet- ter and for our parents’ convenience we shonid each be allowed a certain amount of money each month, this to be bandied individually by ourselves independently of all Ge-s a ‘ORIGINAL EFFECTS FOR SUMMER COSTUMES. advice. The amount allowed was to be agreed upon between father and daughter, and should be based upon a fairly generous esti- mate of what was necessary and possible. We were not to ask for extra moncy at any time except in case of extraordinary requirements outside of any regular expenditures. Well, we made a very strong argument, I assure you, and itstruck our parents so favorably that we have been a success from the start. We have been going now for several weeks and there has deen only oue complaint against a very young member. It seoms she spent her entire month's allowance the day she go it on « ring for a man she was fond of. But as tho man sent the ring back and the girl promises never to do so she may be rein- stated after months. Our society be been so successful that now I hear of a similar one forming that will be known as ‘The Mur- ray Hill Band of Independent Wives.’ It has my sympathy, for I'm well aware that the ma- jority of wives have as hard a time of it as we girls used to have. We shall be a better sex in some ways, you may be sure, when we are educated to manage our own accounts and are spared the humiliation of repeatedly begging for a trifle of money each time we wish to make a purchase or pay a car fare. So the Murray Hill Band of Independent Daughters flourishes apparently to the good and uggrandizement of the sex so fondly cel- ebrated by all true poets. EXPENDITURE FOR DRESS. ‘The question of expenditure for dress is often one rather of good judgment than amount. How often we meet two fashionable women who dress equally well, and yet we know that one hasn't more than one-half what the other has to spend on dress. True, some women are difficult subjects even im the hands of the most skillful and artistic dressmakers. They have too much embonpoint or are thin to the verge of emaciation. Naturally, such a subject calls for most careful fitting, most artistic draping, and most harmonious juxtaposition of and colors. Flee COMBINATION CASHMERE AND GUIPURE. A married friend of mine when reproved for her lavish expenditure for dress replied that if she didn’t spend the money her husband would, which is probably more witty than philosoph- real ‘The last indoor costume is set forth in the fifth and last illustration. It is a charming combination of gray cashmere aud white guipure. The collar and belt are in a very pale shade of leaf-green velvet. Many of the skirts which attract my notice have a ruche at the bottom and an overskirt in changeable mousseline de soie falling over a broad moire ribbon encircling the hips. The corsages of these gowns are draped and have belts of ribbon to match. Acharming garniture is the Ince collarette, inted at the back and reaching down at the Front to the quilling of the skirt. A traveling costume that shall be both light in weight, gracefal in style and pleasing in tone is a very difficult thing to devise. It calls for good taste and high art. A marine blue bunting is the correct material. The costame should be made up in corsage vest form and the skirt should be plain and straight and with- out ruche or flounce. Let the corsage be slightly gathered at the back and belted in with a leather belt, passing under the front, letting it fall straight over a chemisette of brown foulard or batiste. ———_~co—_____ Baby's Life Saved by = Pigeon. From the San Francisco Examiner, An incident occurred recently in the family of G. F. Marsh, the dealer in Japancse curiusi- ties at 625 Market street, and » member of the Pacitic Coast Pigeon Society, which proved to him in a most impressive manner the valuable services which may sometimes be rendered by the carrier pigeon, and probably explains some of his enthusiasm in that direction. His little baby boy was taken suddenly sick with most alarming symptoms of diphtheria. The mother, watching by the bedside of the little one, dis patched a message tied on a carrier pigeon to er husband at his store on Market street. In the message she wrote the nature of the child's i m urgent appeal ine to wave ite life. ‘The bird was started from the home of the family, near the Chiff House, five miles from Mr. Marsh's Mar- ket street store. The bird dew swiftly to the store, where Mr. Marsh received it. He read the mesaage, called & doctor, explained the child's symptoms ag his wife had detailed them in her message and re- ived the proper medicine. Then tying the little vial containing the medicine to the tail of the pigeon, he let it go. The pigeon sped away through the air, straight for the Cliff. It made the distance, fiv miles, in ten minutes, a distance which would have ‘required the doctor three-quarters of an hour to cover. : In twenty minutes from the time the mother's message was sent to her husband the baby was taking the medicine. Naturally enough Mr. Marsh is to THE SECOND BULL RUN Some Reminiscences of That Famous and Disastrous Engagement, A MISMANAGED ARMY. Thousands of Soldiers Who Had No Chance to Bein the Fight—The Excitement of the Retreat—A Railroad Train’s Destruction—A Valuable Medicine Chest. Written for The Evening Star. HE PURPOSE OF THIS SKETCH 18 TO recount @ very few of the scenes and inci- dents which came within my observation dur- ing a brief but restless journey in the summer of 1862 in company with Pope's army, the jour- ney and the army, at the period of which I write, covering the distance from Alexandria to the Rapidan river, in Virginia, the latter, however, occupying a much less attenuated position when I had bidden it adieu. Gen. Pope assumed command of the army of Virginia July 14, 1862, and the first engage- ment of any importance was fought at Cedar mountain the 6th of August following, and it was with a feeling of the most profound satis- faction to myself thatI arrived at Culpeper Court House a day later. I had scen some- thing of war in the rear, but would now be in position to witness the play from behind the scones, as it were. The hurry and bustle of officers’ messengers, army wagons, artillery and large bodies irections, wa ng. My notion of war was quite differ- ‘The horses and mules of the Virginia were reported at this date to have been ent. arm for days without forage of any description and Pope was wiring Gen. Halleck regarding the inelliciency of the railway service and asking fora more efficient chief quartermaster for his army. FIRST VIEW OF A PICKET LIN2. Isoon found myself on route with a train of forage for the Rapidan river, the extreme front of the army, and about six miles from Nn 13d Court House. It might here be stated that the Rapidan river is about seventy-five miles from Alexandria, the base of supplies for Pope's army. The train ran to within a mile of the river, and we made an office of an old house. T now had my first view of a picket line. Leo's pickets were atthe very brink of the river on the opposite pickets were at some river on the Culpeper There was that I was not in any way concerned about it. Wagons ar- rived in great numbers, and with a force of about forty Irish laborers, which we had brought with us, we began the work of loading. This work had proceeded for about two hours, when our attention was attracted to the ping of minnie balls as they struck and passed into the old frame house, carrying with them sections side. some firing, but it was so far awa of plastering’ on the —tvnils, which served in the place of sand, as some of the officers remarked, to dry the ink on our papers. Gen. Clary, chief quartermaster, soon arrived and ordered us to Court House. jo at once to A glunco at our picket line disclosed the reason for this. It had fullen back to within afew rods of the depot and the Johnnies were across the river. A moment of consideration proved that this or- der was a difficult one for us to obey without abandoning our train, as our engine had left us without warning. "When it would return no one could say. Gen. Clary thought the line could be held until we could send for it. 80, dispatching an orderly on a swift horse, with orders to ride hard, we resumed our opera- tions of issuing forage with tue shadow of Libby prison apparently very close. A TRAIN UNDER DIFFICULTIES Our enr.ne came at lust, and making fast to our train, a start was made for Culpeper by the consumptive old engine. After a run of about fifteen minutes we came to an up grade of some distance, and when about midway from the bottom to thetop we all at once camie to a halt, and word came to us that the engine hid failed in power tocarry us up. ‘The engine anda portion of the train proceeded to Culpeper. shicawber-like, we waited for the engine to return of something to turn up— possibly an order to abandon the cars and walk in. Our picket hne caught up with us and again the balls of the enemy's guns camo at times distressingly close to us. At last the engine again made its way to us, and we suc- ceeded in reaching Culpeper about 11 o'clock at night. Here every effort was being made to evacuate the post in the shortest possible time. ‘The confusion among the wagon masters, mule drivers, commissaries, sutlers and soldiers it would be impossible to describe, With ex- treme personal exertions by 3 o'clock in the morning most of the stores were pliced on board the cars, leaving for the enemy only horse and mule shoes and nails su‘ticient tg supply his army for a year, and just why all these shoes were at the extfome front was a wonder to me. Xo TIME To EAT. Tay nothing about eating, as there was liter- ally no facilities for that pastime. My last meal had been taken in Washington about irty-six hours previous. A first view of a picket line, which was earnestly en- gaged in firing and’ in receiving the fire of a real live “Johunic,” and catching the keynote of a minnie ball, the imperative and often to me ludicrous orders of officers of nearly all grades, the new style of profanity. in- dulged in by trainmasters, wagon masters, mule drivers, the rumor asto the seemingly om- nipresent Stonewall Jackson and the renowned bushwhacker Mosby, and their respective com- mands, together with a host of daties tome entirely new, had effectually dissipated all or- dinarv lines of thought, and that of food among the rest. Military railways are gener- ally operated on time tables which are tie off- spring of necessity, ax we were yet to learn. Jowever, before the sun had reached the me- Tidian the trains were all safely on the north side of the Rappahannock river. The trains, both army and wagon, were stretched along f many miles leading north jrom the Rappuhan- nock river, the armies of Pope and Lee occu- pying reiatively the same position as they bad on Rapidan, fighting in a rather desultory way nearly every day. Grad- ually the trains moved north of Warrenton station, whence a short branch of the Orange and Alexandria road ran to Warrenton, a dis- tance of about niue miles. Here orders were received to take the train of forage and go to Warrenton. McDowell, whose corps was here, had his headquarters in the depot building. I had noticed an unusual hurry and apparent anxiety among the staff officers and orderlies, who came and went almost incessantly. A LANDLADY's SUSPICIOUS AFFABILITY. My first firm conviction that some further retrograde movement on the part of Pope's army was about to take place was the extremely affable manner in which our landlady greeted us at dinner that day. The poor soul did not have much for usto cat, but she smiled on us in a such sweet and patronizing manner that had not asuspicion which amounted almost toa certainty been strong in my mind-that she had & very good grip on the grapevine tele- graph which connected with Lee's army, I should have been almost lulled into the belief that Iwas dining at Deimonico's in company with a society lady, with a bottle of “extradry” fo cheer us. She remarked upon our apparent haste in dispatching the meal and blandly said that she hoped to entertain Gen. Lee at tea the next day. A financial scheme at once occurred to me whereby I could test her sincer- ity. Having a sum of confederate currency with me, Lat once tendered it in payment of our bill.’ The transformation from a triumph- aut but condescending demeanor to one of semt-loyalty and abject poverty was as com- te as it was instantaneous. She us partial igeons, for he considers that he owes his baby’s ie to one. -—————+ee—_____ Saved by a Son of Bellal. ‘From the Tudianapolts Journal. The Rev. O. M. Todd of Evansville, who preached at the Tabernacle Church yesterday, is a guest of M. V. McGilliard, and in conversa- tion with a reporter remarked that he was over | seventy years old and not in very good shape, ‘as his right side was partially paralyzed. At this he showed his right hand, upon which the | fingers were shrunken, b@oked and distorted, remarked that it all came abous through « enouzh to belong to the coterie. “You must know,” said this young lady, “that nearly all girls are put toa great deal of annoy- ance through a lack of pin money. No matter how generous one's father may be he demands to havo all bills sent to him and won't aliow his daughters to make and their own pur- chases. We must go to our parénts every time Ne need pocket money and ‘must ask consent wi x ay 8 bat a s of gloves. Now, no other thing in ‘vents s girl from becoming methodical and tical as this constant dependence does. fou hear « good deal about American Is being incompetent and not knowing =. get along without » mother's bap. Weil, it is because they aro always trea ebildren that they don't learn rattlesnake. ‘Five yoars ago,” said he, “the Gth of July, while on my farm at Tuscola, IIL, I was bitten by a rattlesnake.” enue you drink whisky asan antidote?” asked Rot to add to her misery by offering confeder. ate money. Arguments were of no avail and it was the first and last tie Lever atompted = confederate promises—bi the ruse was instructive. . THE ORDER TO EVACUATE. The ordor to evacuate came about 4 o'clock p.m. Just before we started, however, an am- Sined the peivilags of cousigning to our eate’s c of ci cur care a medical cliost, stating that fre needed the room, in his anibulance for sick and wounded. This chest achieved fame, although unwritten until pow, and well place in history, as I F Hl if ki is I i too often rehearsed to be of interest here, bu Iwill always look upon the last five days of August, 1862, as a period in which great oppor- tunities were lost and thousands of lives on th si ificed. ext morning there was no army in sight, save a small squad of cavalry, about one hundred and fifty perhaps, encamped about one-half mile away. The railway trains had all gone, leaving us at the station with twenty-one carsand ho engine. We had boon cut off because the engine could not pull us up the grades. : CARS FILLED WITH SICK AND WOUXDED. Many of the cars were filled with the sick and wounded; others with officers’ and our force of laborers. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon we were notified by tho officer in command of the cavalry, which proved to be the rear guard, that he was orderod to move on toward Mazaseas. ‘He agreed to send us fifty dismounted men, and we devised a plan to save the train by separating the cars and, placing about five men to cach, push them all to the top of the first grade. “This was ac- complished. Coupling them again and taking off the brakes, we managed to attain a good d gree of which curried us down along ade and part way up the next. The soldiers {ft usand soon rode by, but declined abso- lutely to again furnish motive power for us for that sort of railroading, and we wore again the rear guard of Pope'sarmy. With our laborers we commenced the work of pushing the cars u) grade. About 11 o'clock we came to a halt about half way up and concluded to stay where we were for the balance of the night. Bringing up the rear, as the saying gocs, is on any occasion s rather lonesome proceeding, but on this particular oceasion there were «lt ments of personal discomfort, apprehension and danger that were the reverse of cheering, even to a sanguine temperament. WHEN FITZ JOUN PORTER SHOULD HAVE MOVED. ‘Taking a musket, I walked but a few rods to the wagon road, which ran parallel to the rail- way. Foramile in each direction the yellow clay of the road was easily discernible. ‘This was the night Fitz John Porter should havo moved. I could hear no sound save the barking of dogs at neighboring farm houses. ‘Ihe sky was cloudless, and the stars scomed to wink at me in ® way which said to my overwrought imagination, ““Y. ein a tight place my boy.” I can now recollect £ am free to say that we very nearly agreed on that point. About 3 o'clock in the morning there was rapid firiug and a great deal of hal- looing and the sound of horses’ feet, seemingly in great numbers, heard coming ou the railway track in our direction. In @ space of time which was shorter than it takes to tell the story we had captured and dismounted the whole force, which proved to be a solitary soldier belonging to the seventh Pennsylvania cavalry. He informed us that he had been fired upon by the enemy, and that he supposed he was riding toward Alexandria, aud that he was a part of the rear guard of’ the army. Wo also gathered the information that the whole army Was massed in tho vicinity of Manaseas; that Mosby had destroyed tho bridges across Bull and Broad run, Detaining him until morning, wo dispatched him with a note to the nearest commanding officer, asking for help to extcicatc our train, but we never heard of him or the note after- ward. Dispensing with the details of our day's labor, it is sufficient to say that on the evening of the 28th, about 5 o'clock, we ran all our cars safely up against the last train, which was nearly in the center of ¢ Banks’ corps of some 7,000 men, who wore at the moment the Tear guard. Here we found that active work was going on to finish the bridges; that across Broad run was finished that evening and the trains were all moved so that they occupied a position be- tween the two runs, which are {ust about » mile apart. These trains, when closely run to- gether, occupied tho whole distance, nearly a mile, numbering seven engines and one hun- dred and forty-two care. THE TRAINS DESTROYED. The great battles of Friday and Saturday or the 29th and 30th of August, 1862, known as the second Bull Run battle, need no description here, but on Saturday afternoon it became evi- dent that there wasa strong possibility that Pope would not beable to hold the railway long enough to enable the engineers to com- plete the construction of the bridge, which would enable us to bring our trains safely to Alexandria. It was no surprise, there- fore, on Sunday morning to receive an order from General Banks to destroy all the trains and engines aud repair at once to Centreville. Personal safety now became the one thing uppermost in the minds of those of us who were notin the ranks. It occurred to me that it would be wise to save the ealchest. After a good deal of trouble I suc- ceeded in inducing the driver of a passing on to take us and the chest and was making a strong effort to place it in the wagon, when an officer or the staf of Gen. ‘Banke, ® German captain, came up and said that every- thing in the train must be destroved and that we could take nothing but our personal bag- gage in the wagon, and not until he was threat- ened with the contents of the musket which had done guard duty with me on the previous uight did he discover that it was best for him to attend to other matters, leanwhile the cara were fired, the engine dismantled and destruction as complete as possible in the time allowed was the result. The distance to Centreville was some three miles and was soon traversed, the instinct of self-preservation aid- ing largely in urging the mules to a high rate of speed, ua the enemy had for nearly hulf the distance full command of the road with their batteries. A solid shot, at one point, com- pletely demolished our lead team, and we were obliged to continue the journey with only our wheel mules. A VALUABLE MEDICINE CHEST. Ido not recall any act of all my army life that gave me more real saticfaction both then and since, than to know that I had been instru- mental, in an humble way, of saving hundreds of lives and of alieviating untold misery, for the chest was abundantly supplied with anws- thetics, morphine, bandages, surgical instra- ments and everything needed for a field hos- pital, and for all of which, for some reason, there was the most urgent necessity. From Centreville we went to Fairfax station and resumed the operation of furnishing fo1 age, remaining there from Monday morning until Thursday night, when we aguin set sup- lies on fire and # for Alexandria on orseback, having by good luck secured horses. We started at dusk with the shells of the enemy bursting all around us. To say that my trip from Alexaudria to the Rapidan and return had dissipated my preconceived notions of army life in the field would be Leeman very mild. My ideas of military discipline had received a very rude shock. I was verymuch disappointed and very mad. I could not, for the life of me, see why we had so many men in the field and so few of them permitted to fight when fighting was the order of the day, and I confess 1am in ignorance of these points yet. I shall always believe that we had men in sufficient numbers to have de- siroyed the organization of Lee's army if they had been permitted to go into the battle of these two memorable days. JW. PB. —— From the Chicago Tribune. Young Hankinson—“Hang it, man! How can a fellow dress well and pay livery and board bills on a salary like mine?” Old Dandy—“Did I understand you to ask how aman on # small salary could dress well and pay bis livery and board bills?” “And his tailor bills, too, I presume?” “Certainly.” “Pay them all?” COteourse.” i ; ing a pinch of snuff) “On asmall salary?’ inet what hn “And pay alll his bills?” “Yeu? Yes! Ho @ityingly) “a, go and join the ~— young friend, you'd bettor ance party.” Prudent Girl. “ will kill myself if you say no,” said Hankin- son after the proposal. “How?” asked Ethel. SEAL a are iS a ‘From the New York That Bo TU say no. 4 SEASON OF ACTIVITY FOR ALE CLassEs OF WORKMEN—THE HANDSOME ADDITIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE TO THE RESIDEXCE AND BUSI- ‘NESS FACILITIES OF THE CITY—OTHEE MATTERS. prorte WHO STAY IN THE CITY ALL summer are pretty apt to consider that existence during the hot weather is more com- fortable within the city limits than in the coun- try. They have all the reasons for such a be- lief at their tongue’s end and it is only neces- sary for some one who has becn away to ex- press sympathy in their haploas fate to draw forth the entire strength of the argumentativo arsenal. Roomy houses, the comforts of home, shaded streets and pleasant drives are somo of the things mentioned in favor of life in this city in the summer. During the present season the weather bureau has certainly joined the forces of the stay-at-homes and their posi- tion is practically invulnerable. However, whatever advantages the stay - at - homes have in argument, they don’t make any fuss and endeavor to parade the circum- stance that they are at home. It is, however, a fact thata larger number of people spend the heated term at home thun is generally sup- posed. Washington is more of a summer re- sort than it used to be. Real estate agents have made that discovery by the decreaso in the number who are anxious to give up their houses at the beginning of summer. It was formerly the case that many people early in the summer stored their houschold effects and relinquished their house to camp out some- where for the summer, returning again to housekeeping in the fall.’ They thought it was an absolute necessity to be out of the city during the heated term. But now they find “that they the summer here more comfortabl: n they can in the Grout majority of places, and it follows that people are going to live where they can be the most comfortable. It was formerly considered to be # great advantage to make a lease with a tenant for a year or more rathes than by the month. Forin the cnse of a monthly lease it frequently happened that houses stood vacant during the summer months. Nowadays, how- evor, itis not so very common to find a tacant house even in the fashionable resident sections of the city in mid-summer. Even when the family leave the city for the summer there is some arrangement made by which a portion of house’ is kept open. Perhaps some member of the family remains at home, and also is generally possible to find that font convenience—a married couple without children who are glad to take charge of a house where they can live rent free. ‘The average country hotel or boarding house can't compare in attractions with « big house in the city as a summer resort. ummer popula- i i er than some are apt to imi due largely to the increased henlthfulness and coolness of the city during the hot weather. he wide streets and splendid trees are largely responsible for the agreeable summer temperature in this ci as compared with other largo cit The trees have grown with such luxuriance that a view of the city froma high point gives the impression of a town built ina forest. The stay-at-homes should take persons skeptical as to the advantages of Washington a8 4 summer resort up the monument and let = see inwhat asylvan grove the city is PLENTY OF WORK IX PROGRESS. The frequent rains have interfered somewhat with building operations. ‘There is a great deal of work going on anda day of enforced idle- ness means a loss of a good deal of money to the army of workmen who are engaged in erect- ing buildings and_in the other departments of out-door labor. ‘The building trades aro busil; employed and there is an abundance of worl for laborers of all kinds. A small sized army is engaged in putting down the new cable roa: on the avenue and 14th street, while other ex- tenslve enterprises give employment to a large fore e number of new buildings that will Le erected asthe result of this season's work would alone constitute a small town. There is no phenomenal activity in building. Only the usual number of new structures are Veing erected which it is found necessary to put up each year to accommodats the natural Increuge in the population and business of the ‘city. Itis estimated tha: the value of the im- provements now being made in the business centers is greater than the value of the buildings erected in former years in the entire cityin the course of asingle year. Assessor ‘Trimble reports that the number of new and unfinished structures erected during the past Year is2,221, and of this number 504 were erected in the county. THE CATHOLIC UNtvensrTY. The grounds of the Catholic University are being surveyed by Mr. H. B. Looker, the civil enginecr, with the view of establishing a per- manent system of drives and walks. It is the intention of the authorities of the university to make a number of improvements which will beautify the grounds. All the changes con- templated will be in harmony with the plan determined upon for the erection in the tuture | of additional building which will be needed to accommodate the students attending the new schools which will be connected with the uni- versity. The hall of philosophy will bo the next building to erected, and a commanding site has been selected between the present building and the old Mid- dieton house. The public roads on two sides | of the university property are to be widened, the necessary ground being donated by the university. “The Bunker Hill road and the Harewood road will thus be improved, and the latter will bo made an appropriate continua- tion of the avenue which extends along the routh side of the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home, connecting the proposed reservoir just east of Howard University with the Bunker 41 road. THE ABANDONED AQUEDUCT. Property owners in the vicinity of the new reservoir, which was to be the outlet of the abandoned aqueduct tunnel, are greatly in- terested in the policy of Congress in regard to the future of this work. ‘They naturally desire its completion, as at present the reservoir is rather an wusightly object. If the work hud Leen finished the reservoir would have been an attractive feature in that locality. It was the intention to have a driveway around the reservoir, and now that the streets froin the city are extended to this locality and other streets are to be opened a new and pleasant approach to the Soldiers’ Home grounds would have been made available. It is thought that all these improvements wili prove to be of advantage to property in that vicinity. ‘This consideration is entirely independent of, per- haps, the more important resuit to the public generally which the completion of the aqueduct tunnel would effect in increasing the water supply of the city. DR. MONGAN'S RESIDENCE. Plans for a handsome residence for Dr. J. Dudley Morgan are being prepared by Messra, Hornblower & Marshall, architects. ‘The house is to be located on the east side of McPherson square between and K streots, It will occup the entire front of the lotand” be an English basement house. The front will be of pleasing design, well suited to that locality of fine resi- dences. A SUMMER OME. Mr. John W. Drew has erceted a pretty little cottage at Colofial Beach, which will be his summer home. ‘The houso is simply de- mgned, but it is well adapted to the tocalit; and its uses as a summer home. It is built of ith ample porches and an abundance of windots. a SS Breakfast Rolls. E. W. Howe in the Atchison Globe. ‘A girl of eighteen has more sense in the NEWSPAPERS AND THE NEWS—GOTHAM'S TORN UP STREXTS—GENTLEMEN JACK TARS — TIM XEEFE'S FALL—FOREIGN PAUPER LADOR. New Yon, July 23, 1891. EAGERNESS WITH WHICH THE early Christians coveted martyrdom was nothing to the anxicty of the daily papers of the city to be prosecuted for publishing ac- counts of the electrical execution. Tho plum of persecution, it seems, has fallen to the Daily News, against which today the preliminary steps wero taken by the district attorney. No doubt this will prove an immense advertise- ment for the paper and wil! bo made a great deal of. It is doubtful, however, if the district attorney does anything more than comply with the routine uirements of his offic Cer- tainly it would be useless to try to keep the papers from printing news of an executio pecially where such a legitimate curiosity is in- volved as in the case of this untried and sensa- tional process of getting rid of crimmals. The Public prosecutor has no option in the matte s the statutes are explicit, but no one dreams lant there will be a conviction or that the case be pressed. ‘WHAT THEY RAGE ABOUT. In connection with the heated controversies between the census office and the local author- ities, it’ may be said that the tax rate of New York is going to be lower next year, probably, than ever before. When the rate last yoar was utat $1.97 it was thought to be done largel lor political effect, and we were threatened with an unusually high rate the year after in compensation. But the lists have closed today, and it is announced semi-officially that the rate this year will be $1.93. ‘This is en argument which it is very difticult for mugwamps or any other critical persons to combat. ‘The facts that ¢ city is so rich that we can be mismanaged and yet not fecl it in our purses directly. But whai we do feel, and what the community groans over and is ina state of rage almost to the rioting point over, is the condition of the principal thoroughfares. Certainly there never was atime in the history of the city, and that is saying a good deal, when the chief arterice of traftic were ao outraged by “improvements” a8 now. It is not merely Broadway, the chronic victim of the pick and shovel, but 8d avenue nd one or two other great streets, which are torn up almost from end to end, with a pros- pect of remaining so for months. To be sure there are far-away whispers of help in the air or under ground ultimately in the shape of apid transit that deserves the name, but our suffering for the present is grievous, even with such glorious hopes abcad. OUR SPRUCE NEW NAVAL MILITIA. The fun of the week has been the picnic of the amateur tars. About threo years ago it got to be quite the fashion to enlist in the naval militia. Some of the brightest young fellows around town witha fondness for the sca and for military life put the two together and made up a local battalion, which did some very hard work practicing in an artillery armory up | town and uboard one of the oid ships. Capt. Erben of the navy, now in charge of Brooklyn yard, was a great friend of the enter- prise and helped the young fellows very much im their drills. The state legislature and Con- gress took up the idea, and the movement has grown, untii now the state has quite u respect- able nucleus fora naval militin. During the week these gentlemen blucjackets have shown the results of their hard work ino series of maneuvers that have reflected great credit on them, and in which they have had no end of honest pleasure. Their work,shows that if any of the effete monarchs turns up in this nighborhood with blood in, his eye he will get a very warm welcome. Tho militia have proved themselves to be @ very valuable feature in the common defense, and the idea has alread becom> established as part of our militia system. ‘These drills, in conjunc- tion with the visit of the white squadron, have given quite a shiver-my-timbers quality to the ‘weok's news, A GIANT FALLEN FROM GRACE. The release of Keefe by the management of the New York Ball Club might farnish a moral- ist With a text for an essay on change and decay in human affairs. Four years ago Keefe became the most famous pitcher in America, and from that time up to the close of last season he was considered by his special ad- mirera, and by the base ball cranks pretty gen- erally, as the finest pitcher in the profession. But for some reason or other he has apparently lost his cunning: whether it is because he got married, or got rich, or got lazy, or got the big head, cannot very well bo determined. Per- haps 'a little of all contribute. Quite a number of the famous ball players in this neighborhood are pointed the same way. They have been in the Bacon for twenty or thirty years; they have reached the top of the profession; many of them have got quite snug little fortunes, and they feel rather above being kicked about and sworn at and treated as public gladiators whose fingers are knocked out to make an American holiday. The game has become a desperately hard one, anda man of middle age with s comfortable bank ncconnt cannot blamed for fecling a little like letting up and finding a seat in the grand stand rather than broiling in the sun and dodging the cannon balls, It is a pity. however, that Keefe, the “king pitcher,” could not go out ina Llaze of glory rather than in disgrace. However, it is by no means certain that his pride will not be touched, and he may reassert himself in a way to make the Giants very sorry that they dis- pensed with his services. A SAMPLE OF FOREIGN PAUPER LATOR. I was told today by a man just from Germany that there was a pretty grim foundation for the | ery of pauper labor abroad just now in certain |inies of work there. The manufacturers are making a desperate effort to keop their Ameri- can market under the new tariff, und to do 50 some of thom ure obliged to screw down the wages to a blank atarvaticn point. ‘This gen- tleman said he had been visiting a hosiery firm up the Hudeon river where girls employed in a certain process of the manufacture are making #10 to $12 a week in wages—that 1s, about 40 or 50 marks. ‘For exactly the saine “work,” said my informant, “the sume class of girls in Ger- marly are paid 8 marks a week, and much eupe- rior workmen, some of thera heads of famili are getting 15 marks @ weck.” Such wages need no orator to make them eloquent, nor are we surprised to be told that many Of these operatives scarcely know the taste of meat or anything beyond the very cheapest food, and some of them really don't get enough of that to keep soul and body together. Nevertheless, it's a question whether indies “whose light blue eyes grow tendes over drowning flics” vould pay 5 cents pair more for their stockings if the store round the corner had a bargain sale of goods bought and sold cheap on this starva- tion plan. SENDING GOLD AnRoAp. Uncle Sam has been going through a very severe, treatment of bullion phlebotomy for the past few months. During the present year thus far tho rather appalling total of 70,000,- 000 has been exported in gold coin, and it is beginning to be a questidh how long the coun- try can stand this auriferous hemorrhage. Tho drain of gold is due to the determination of foreign bankers to ballast their ships a little better, which is all very woll, in view of the smashupe that followed the c of South American securities. But it is apt to leavo our finances as topsy-tarvy as n cat boat in a gale, The situation is viewed with concern, if not alarm, rs, but we have woes xy gales lately in which dire disaster was predicted that the public gener- ally bas become rather callous to the ery of danger. The chain anchor just now is the con- Ail’espectation tfade. and stocks are expected expectation trade and s e: to go ebo : Hexer B. Exziot. 66(X0T A TAG FOR YOUR DOG?” “Ko” “Go'n ter git one?” “Ever gig a tag for dat dog?” 0. “How's dat?” “He ain't no fool.” This was the charming dialogue overheard by reporter for Tur Stan afew days ago. The | dog in question was of the breed known as aller dog.” Ho had been born and bred in an alley way. He lives in an alley way. He is not a good watch dog. He sometimes snaps at children and is dangerous to women. He never fights, except with littie dogs and puppies. He is not affectionate. He will leave his master at any time to goafter a bone and he won't come when ho is called if he is out of reach. He ism daisy, this dog. The old man who owns him calls him a Sood ‘coon dog, but he never caught a ‘coon in his life, and not! is further from his inten- tions than ‘coon bunting iu the future. Yet, although he is no sport, he enjoys iife. He likes to lie in the sun when’ it is cool_and in dark, shady spota when it is warm. He about the streets and visit the oth: above all, he likes to hunt for bones. He never had a bath in his life and be is covered with fleas, and he is proud of it. IN THE POUND. If you ever go to the dog pound you will find that “yaller” dogs are the predominant class there, with occasional exceptions in the shape of Pet dogs that are pretty certain to be bailed out. The “yatler” dog is very rarely bailed out. But considering how many “-yullor” dogs there are | in the city, and how few of thom have tags, | it is quite’ extraordinary that more of them get caught by the dog catchers y Are, moreover, rogular street arabs, and it would seem that e * ty & they put themselves in constant danger. It is probably due to the fact of their living so much in the «treets that they are so knowing. A pet dog unaccustomed to going out alone will stand still bewildered and allow the dog-catcher's net to be thrown over him, but a yaller dog runs back to his alley way as fast as his legs will carry him as soon as he secs the dog catchers coming. There are not nearly as many of these street dogs in Washington as there are in large cities further to the south of us. In New Orleans, for instance, the curs about the gutters and re thick, although large numbers of them are poisoned every summer. They feedon what they can pick up, and if ther were allowed to increase naturally would soon become scavengers, as they are in Constanti- nople. TRE “TALLER” Doo. An investigation of the “yaller” dog revealed the fact that nearly every poor colored family has at least one. It has always been a puzzle for the scientists to account for the connection between poverty and children and poverty and “yaller” dogs. ‘Sam Weller was much worried to account for the fact that in Lon- don wherever the people were poorest there were numerous oyster saloons. Poverty and oysters, be rightly surmised, must be de- ndent upon one another. If he had lived in the coltcidence of poor colored families and “yaller” dogs. “‘A fool for luck, « poor man for children and a yellow dog for ‘coon” country proverb that seems to be a true one, except that the “yaller” dog in the city never has « chance to catch a ‘coon. “What mixture of breeds produces the yaller dog?” was asked an expert dog breeder the other day. “Iam inclined to think that he ought to be classified as a breed by himself,” was the reply. When tho Washington Kennel Ciub has ite annual bench show next year there ought to be a class for these dogs, and if only a small pro- ag ion of them should be entered there would a very large exhibit indeed. 4 SPrcIEs IX HIMSELY. When you come to think about it you must confess that there is no combination of recog- nized breeds of dogs that could produce the conventional “yaller” dog. A Scotch terrier and | mastiff might bring forth somethi near it if it were wet thet the dog ‘. | question clearly has something of a hound al hi it him. There isa dog breeder here who a horrible-looki ig enimal that is a cross between an English greyhound and a York- shire terrier. ‘obody would ever suspect that thing of either breed in the dog, but he isn'ta “valler” dog, nor can any one poist to a single instance where @ cross of reeds ever produced one. | ‘THE POINTS. | The points of « “‘yaller” dog are these: First his color is important. The greyhound is seldom gray, the blue belton setter is often white or coal black, but the “yaller” dog must be “yaller” or he is not good. The yellow is brighter than a mastiff’s dun color and lighter than tan. It is rather the color of ordinary light earth. The tail “should be long and thick like a foxhound’s and carried well up in the air with @ graceful curve. Upon the approach of danger it is immediately brought down and thrust far between the legs. The back is long and bony and the body is thin. The ribs must show and so must the backbone. ‘The head is earri siderable latitude should be allowed in the | ehape of the nose, some yaller dogs having ex- | ceedingly sharp foxy noses end others baving | biuut noses, like a clumber spaniel’s. The ears should be pendulous and of medium length. The coat should be coarse, but not shaggy.and should be worn away in spots where the dog sits down. He should weigh not less than thirty pounds or more than tifty, and shouid demonstrate his ition by minding nobody, chasing chickens, sucking | esse, and, if the opportunity presents itself, | tearing down inoffensive sheep. ph Read | A Cheerful Beggar, | From the New York Sun. “Boss,” he said, “can you give me five cents | to get a cup of coffee with?” He was a Broadway beggar, withe cheerful faceand a buoyant mauner. Fortune had | frowned upon him, but he was not at all dis- | turbed; he simply laughed in fortune's face. | The man to whom the beggar had spoken | alte ‘Idon't know that I have got five | cents, —— bat at ogg od time 1° vat | his hand into his pocket. Encouraged by this movement the cheerful beggar continued: “Make it ten cents and I can get a sandwich to go with the coffee.” “L can't do that,” said the man, and he ad- ded as he handed over two cents, “this is the best Lean do.” “It's all right,” the beggar said, satisfactory.” Tain't Sxice we prise. oes A New Age Detective. From the Philadelphia Record. ‘The latest fad has taken a firm hold upon the girls of Philadelphia. The idea seems absurd, efficacy of the test. If you would like to try it, pulla hair out of agirl’s head and tie on the end of it a gold ring of the engagement Fis glace pardy fal | just insi 1 glass, suspend es ae ‘according to the convinced faddist, the ring will swing against the side of ‘the glass and clink out the number of years contained in the age of the person from whose head the hair is taken, It is aid to be equall: an reliable tn telling the ages of dumb ‘eotenie as well es human beings. en t0 £0 | id, Washington he would have been struck with | ise | down toward the ground. Con- | but there are many who have firm faith in the | of water, and over it, the ring. Just ies. Written for The Evening Star. SWIMMING MADE Easy. Dr. Tindall Gives the Few Simple Rules of the Art CARE TO DE TAKEN TO MASTER THR STROKE AND THE “KICK” BEFORE GOING INTO THE WATER— THE MANAGEMENT OF THX PREATH—PEOPLE TAUONT To SWIM IX A FEW MINUTES. “And T have loved thes, Ocean! amd my jor, Of youthful sports, was on thy breast to he Borne, like thy bavties, onwarc ; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers, they to me ERE IS NO REASON WHY EVERT healthy man, woman and child who lives in @ latitude where sea and river bath- jing may be comfortably practiced in the | warmer months should not be able tq share in the foregoing sentiments of Lord Byron. | The consciousness of possessing the power jand skill to compel the wnter to render suck service is one of the few sources of unalloyed J enjoyment and outhusiasm: while swimming asa gymnastic exercise is unsurpassed. Boye and girls who have not eajoyed such famil- | iarity with and mastery of this clement have been cheated outofa large share of their | heritage of ianocent and improving pleasure. | Many children are deterred and hindered from attempting to learn swimming by their and their paronts’ impression thet ite acquisition as Necessarily involved in danger and difiiculty. 4 SCIENCE WITH FEW RULES, Swimming is essentially a science with a fow very simple rules, which may readily be tanght, even by those who are not «wimmers. It is also an art which may be elaboreted to an ex- tent only limited by the physical laws involved and the ingenuity und persistence of the stu- | dent. The main principle of this science in its best |form is the synch * retraction and ex- | tension of the arms and legs ‘This is appar- | ent imple re ment, bat in fact the at- | tainment of the necessary skill in this reapect | te the only obstacle to the learner in his efforts | to support and propel himself. To do thisin | the water requires confidence that the swim- | mer will not sink while the limbs are drawn up | preparatory for the stroke. ‘This conthience | begmners nearly always lack end consequently |resemble in ‘their struggles the | ofa bucking mule. Oceasiouslly persons learn, | to susiain themselves by instinctively using the | limbs of each side altternate:y in # matter sitai- Jur to that in which lower animals employ their legs in swimming, but this results in establish- ing a very awkward style, which may only be improved with great difficulty. A learner should be taught to strike out and kick before being placed in the water iu order that he = begin in good form. When learned in mMauner progress is made with ease and grace, THE STROKE. The pupil should first learn to strike out with his hands while standing on the floor. The first position of this feature is to place the open hands with their inner edges close to- gether, with palms down, thumbs under the forefinger, pointing directly forward, about six inches below the chin with the wrists tench- ing the chest. The first motion is to extend the arms with vigor directiy forward at full |length, keeping the hands horizontal and close together. second motion is to bring the hands, keeping them still on the same level, with the palms down, the arms at full length, around to the sides until they are nearly on a line with the shoulders. Then bring the hands Lack in the easiest way to first ! position, to be ready for another stroke. This exercise should be proceeded with very delit- ertely at first, but when the learner can do it | with facility it should be practicea with speed | and energy. When the arm stroke can be read- | ily made the pupil should be balanced apon the stomach on a piano stool or other «uitable support, and required to make the arm stroke and to kick at the same time. ‘The kick should be made as follows: Ist motion. Keep lege close together and draw thea up a8 far us sible without discomfort. 24 motion, Kick | them out energetically as far cpart as possible. | 3d motion. Bring them close together quickly | while extended, and when in contect draw | them up into first position to be ready for another kick. A LESSON IN THE WATER. | The pupil after learning to exccute these movements with case is ready for a practical | lesson in the water. Water as nearly smoothes | practicable should be selected. I have found that about shoulder deep as on the average the best depth in which to teach, as the pupil juires confidence in the teacher more rapidly standing on the bottom during of rest. The simplest appliance \ sustaining the pupil in the \ ai the lesson is a towel tied pommel O e | piece of sufficiently strong cord of suitable Tength may be tied or attached by The other end of the rope may be attached to pole. In my experience I have found an old hoe handle about the most suitable appa- | ratus of that kind. Wheu placed in the water the pupil should be required to make the first few strokes very _ slowly and to increase the pace gradually, until the limit of speed is reached. After a few suc attempts these efforts will support and propel the pupil, who may then be feft at liberty to | improve at leisure. THB MANAGFMENT OF THE BREATH. The next thing to Jearn in order is the man- agement of the breath. The pupil soon learns | by experience that the inspirations should cor- respond with the retraction of the limbs and the expirations with the strokes, The reason | for this ix that the filling of the iungs while the limbs are being drawn in couduces to the sup- port of the body during the subsequent tem- porary inaction. The novice will also learn that | greater swiftness may be obtained by gradually | bringing the hands to a vertical position in the latter part of the stroke, and by many other | devices which emergencies will require and tor | genuity suggest. Considerable additional pro- | gression results from bringing the legs to- | gether before drawing them up, for the reason, | that while they are separated by the kick the | section of the water between thems in the form of a wedge and the closing of those lambs sqneezes to the rear to a certain extent the water between them, with the eilect of propell- ing the body ahead. | “fimaybosdded that a goodly etore of patience }and an unstinted use of cxcouragement as near to flattery ax conscionce will permit on the part of teacher will go far to secure the speediest and best results, I have taught persons, who have faithfally practiced the preliminary movements, to swim | Ina few moments after they were first in the | water. In my judgment ii isa waste of time | to put them into water until they have learned |how to use their limbs. Of conrsy, learners should be watched until they have secured enough skilland confidence tu be safely trusted alone. I have known many instances of boys who knew just enough to carry them into deep water and were obliged to have assistance to keep from drowning, mainly because of want | Of the presence of ‘mind. which comes with thorough contidence in one's | Wits Trxpaus — Wanted More Victims, [for a lawyer to make your husband's will, and At | a minister, at once.” ‘The patient faints. “Oh ! 4s it as bad as that, doctor?” cried the wife nervously. 1p, Gost thom at once and ‘bring them here. I want to be the only one who of at this hour of the . RAS En oe eA .

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