Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1891, Page 10

“THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.0, SATURDAY, OC $1, 1801-SIXTEEN PAGES. FASHIONS FOR WINTER |222 22s Disti ishi in eas of shape, Some of the Coming Styles. COPYING THE EARLY FRENCH | tie cuits. There is =|ALL HALLOWEEN. Ite Observance by Young Maidens and Young Bachelors, ON THE STAGE AND OFF |=: The Ourrent Dramatic Obst of the| inane TESTING THEIR FUTURE FATE. tena ree ola was engaged to sing in ‘Ter and the Tartar” a few weeks ago. In this nepientions Trem ns of the Henrys, ‘Motheas of Ascertaining One's Future Ses- | table incomplete without the representation of the Empire paripeipasenta lyse comie opers she ts required to wear tights in| tand—Various Interesting Games That Are| the extremes. Another thing essential to a ath a inl Fhe Sot aad short skirts in the of scence. | Pinyed—Fan fer the Small Boys—Presents ye ay For the oocasion How They Should Be Made. for the Fairy Gedmother's Distribution. | sliced Nenere tee quest tench the table, ant —_+__ abiktiasllacatehtih care should be taken to get enough slices for + $ each guest to get one. The cake is made like [Copyriehted.} i ‘Special Correspomdence of The X1 ‘Star. T HAS LONG BREN CUSTOMARY FOR | the ordinery pound or ‘man’s cake and ——— are trimmed in the same way as New Youk, Qof, 30, 1891. the maids, whether old or young, and the | the ring is in the batter before it is Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. front; the galloon must be flat so as not to in- BAMATIC ABT CANNOT: BH SAID TO Dechelors to. dusk fee @rack mute and | Putin cake is served with an 1 Ss oons oF | testmated oan iv | DSee mate lnytern eNews Taran t,t ei rr o | Sate neSigtete oye ce eee et peas ek someuiad oh tee semonc aha eee the lest night to Oetober, which, seording to | tingle found, aud’ the one’ who gets the ring Jand have pose ite | Dreadtn and also the entire bottom of the akirt ovary Scotch superstition, iv the time when witches, be the first one in the group to marry. its glory, while i*) sreedged with the galloon. The belt of gal-| te town. One ist merry, maiden | Manola has roached the theater. It is noces- devils, fairies and imps hold annual holiday. ‘TRE FAIRY GODMOTHER'S PRESENTS. mines of gold and sil-| loon is somewhat pointed in front and closes at she | S@*Y thst she shall get into her tights at once, it calada | eabede eum prmmley vbers Of | Who always gives you the m that becatiee they ~ t of | Halloween partics in Washington have long| When the festivities of the evening are abon! rer and ot | Piways| the. skirt in ornamented with tha yalldse dy | Wished she didn't have to do it that way and | peewxe, {hey Tepresent the starting, been popular and now they are even more | Over « good way to end it is for one of the stones have a This | misbing in longth toward the back. the other is « very rocent importation by the | There are some et cotcras that accompany the | popular than they wore = few years ago and | Party to dress asa fairy godmother and appeat been ite curse, management of a light opers venture. Both | tights, and they are naturally included in the | there are many young folks who would not and distribute presents, To each one is given great truth, repeated are put forth in first-clist theaters, ‘The | Procets of douning. ‘Thon it is time for the re- | ning of lott thout & piece of folded so that what is written by all writers on na- turn of the valet, and from this point his work ting tho aight go by without trying | <7 oo. of thean cannot be rend by ethers then fieash wealth, enghi te latter is ® proper and dignified person fn | ig in” no tyre from that of any | ‘Heir fate in an amusing way. For Halloween | uices tor whom they are intended, Most of WZ be to seeensilo faithfal maid. deftly slips on Miss Manola’s | pattios the hostess manages to send ont cards the papers are blanks, but on one is written enougl e ghoes, buttons everything that needs to be | bearing unique designs, scribbled on plain | ‘Wealth,’ on enother “Honor and on the emntbe saints In soos of minatar age e's tee ad | Sarde muon of te oooson. “A bones | ted “Fans pore ily os minuter re ee ee and ‘a hums looking glass for his mistress, | Of Witch or demon of some sort isa suitable | 4, THe ones who pap ge grad yg oes fashions change these looms will be kept in motion, and the very moment the world can bring itself to don maker costumes that oment the glory of three-quarters of the « civilized lands on the globe will go out in ‘ woman of fashion is, in real, bountiful angel, utter darkness. : oue sense of the word from whose rustling skirts drop blessings on tens of thonsands who are employed in manu- facturing the materials for her garments. So great a moralist as Emerson has contended that dress is a powerful eduestor, and there is another phase of the question which he didnot contemplate. It is this—that dress, in that it makes human beings more pleasing to each other, serves most admirably to keep alive that touch of nature which makes the whole world kin. Idesire that my fair readers shall be iy equipped with other than so-called “women's reasons” when called upon to de- fend our sex from the attacks of male critics on the score of what they term our inordinate love of dress. WINTER STYLES. In « general way it may be said that in their distinguishing characteristics winter fashions will continue to draw inspiration from early French sources, namely: The epochs of the Henrys and 20 down to the empire. The con- sulate, too, will be represented by a hat and bit of headgear ightfully becoming for a picturesque style of face and head. The mantles, too, with their pleated backs and enormous sleeves, will remind us of the early French. The small Henry Iii mantle will please thore who don’t care to mufile up too ‘ouch and thus destroy the outlines of their figures. Lace garniture and embroidery ef- fects will not relax their hold upon public favor. Mauvesand greens in new shades will be intensely modish. In cloth costumes there will be delightful creations, both as to style end garniture. NEW CLOTH Gowxs. ‘The initial Mustration represents one of these new cloth gowns. Imagine a beige check, trimmed on the bottom of the skirt and on the sleeves and corsage with several rows of nar- row chestnut brown velvet ribbon. The large dots on the skirt are embroidered with brown’ twist entirely around the skirt, The front breadth is draped, for which purpose this breadth must be made about eight inches longer than the breadths which compose the fan pleats, and the bottom must not be turned Up until the skirt is finished at the top. The corsa ze closes in front under the passementerio. The passementerie jacket covers the entire} Dack of the dress aud the baeques are wide spart in front. The collar is slightly flaring. Now and then I come upon gown for young person which impresses me very vividly as the work of one with artistic taste ands hand skififal enowgh to bring the idea to full embodiment. You will see such a garment ictured in the second illustration—a ciel blue je over a satinet of the same coli having a gathered flounce of fouiard and o1 of satines garnitured with lace. The small pleats forming the corselet are very close to- Rether and fastened to the lining and to the It, at which point they must be compressed #0 as to give a s.yle to the waist. The belt is of Broad ribbon, closing at the back under a bow. Poceme Ueeenipe pemmmory cermatys oke takes the form of s crossed fichu and is orna- wit are th rever enffs, and the fichd yoke Tuche at the back of the neck. sides must be left somewhat wider than der to make a small fold on each Two exquisite costumes are set third Mlustration, « visiting toilet tion dress. To give an idea of the i t i { : the visiting costume—the one on would say if consists of « lavender and that it is trimmed with relv te im front with somethi ex two yards in é i if & pee aft ae é eye Ae “if i F cy i] is it [ 3 a Ht aa H t i i desiga, while even a rongher India ink sketch | the fair whom he dresses with both pride and skill. His , Tepeating these words watchfulness is not Ms Lipa sonny relaxed hen she | is considered by many as being more suitable fs on the stage. Ho. stands at the en | for the ocoaaion. oy Piaf treceare nse Seopte aaa asf ive, trance, Ye hd ban and pane Then the paper on which the name of the gift is written is handed to the fairy, who reads “Wealth,” and takes from her basket a little German favor dustpan and pinsit on to the per- son, saying: Your choice ts bed when you tntrust our happiness where «oth aud rust ry ‘tne barn ail your wealth to dust. xt one kneels before the fairy and - first couplet, while the fairy says Your honor crowds shall loud declare, i heart, rd is thore, You'll dnd! life Falscad” Sheers at.” RITHING All the articles to be used should bein readiness before the guests arrive, as the failure to have juite invaluable to the t he is quicker than this] ®ny maid could be, and that thero is always ‘close | #2 smonnt of enthusiasm and care in his work that justifies her in her rather bold in- “oe (o other comic opera queen bas a luxury _ like this valet. That iv perhaps why Miss nola’s departure from ancient traditions has provoked some of her to say unkind not for cruelty to some poor canine or for not loving and treating netghbors as themselves. Found head, round face and » round body. sisters ; my The old manner of throwing dead animals about | | Bhe presents pait of bellows as she utters Her skirts are wonderfully made, possibly of | things on scoffs at the criticisms and | at persons and in. front of doors is a thing of | the word air. nun's - Independent of the skirt ae wan Mrs. Hoary Meet egusy. Miss Manola | the past, but the little urchine think they must| For “Fume” a wroath 6f roves is given and there are overskirts, which she holds | Mm Mis Henry Mould until she got s divorce | enjoy the night In somo mannerand so they are | thia is the vorser up in the guise of wings, and then goes aniling, | Fron gr Mould, iho used to be a Cleveland | aps to content themselves with throwing flour When Famo A or rather oscillating, hither and thither ina omge thee deaphaerts ry Peak = or corn meal upon pedestrians, af well as using Ho weaves this subtie charm itz movement, which she executes with mucl fody. ‘The sldger’s Bothy bage and other vegetables, to serenade ‘or every evil thought that's born Brace. Now, in the real skirt dance it is im- Possible, or almost so, to display the limb as ‘igh as the knee, for the mass of loose, —_ lace ander the skirts follows the apward-boun: memberandclings to it. But this dausouse is not to be trammeled by any such regulation. swaying about the stage, her snowy skirts iglike drapery waving and flitting in = electric wm But as she plronettes « full impee of # of very symmetrical limbs cud ta light ten-colored She bas been dancing of late years in London burlesques. ‘WHEN ACTORS ARE SUMMONED TO APPRAR. ‘The monarchs of the old world habitually command the most eminent actors to come of the basques, the seam being hidden by a | into their presence and amuse them, and these fold. In front the basques are split up. The | mandates are never disobeyed. There is only fronts of the cormge are made with s dais and) one power enjoying © similar free choice of the revers form a round collar at the back. The | diversion in this city. Of course, our million- sleeves have jet buttcns at the wrist. The skirt | aires are accustomed to biring stage colebri- is trimmed at the bottom with three rows of | ties toperform in‘pariors, but it isthe potency of cabochon galloon and above them are three | money that accomplishes their wishes. In an rows of the cabochon stars, which also appear | old house in West 324 street, on a block other- on the jacket. wise given up for many years to varioussorts 0, to Mason, robbed the Boston matinee girls of an ideal of feo ed standing. But it was a pure love those who enjoy the quiet of their homes. Ina measure the police find the small boys irrepressible and knowing they cannot enjoy the festivities of older persons they are alloy pan MIS6 EASTLAKE 1 axnearca. more vonenupace bomen Pepe oo bog tles Wyndhsm and Wilson Barrett, the | g*™=8 prc yes Setar London actors and managers, have enguged in | ing the fate of the maidé and bachelors ere = — complication over Mary Eastlake, the TRE MATRIMONIAL SEA. nglish actross who has come here to star, and | On the matrimonial sea is an interesting as has already encountered the typical misfortunes | wel! ng an amusing game, which will evoke more laughter than most any other. The boats of the r. She has made up hor mind that she wou't go back to England. Her frieuds advised her to roturn after her | are made of the halves of English walnut shells, troubles in Philadelphia, but the prospect of | which should by all means be prepared before- facing her countrymen in a state of dis-| hand. comfiture was disagrecable. Mise Eastlake de-| In each half shell make «candle of a short termined to find a new backer and try the road | plece of string and melted beeswax poured again. With a propensity for “hustiing” that | around it, moiding the wax into the shape of a would be creditable in the livest Yankeo, she | cone. Each one takes a bout, lights its little has captured fresh capital, and once more she | taper and launches it in a tub of water, stirrin, is measuring “the circuits.” the water occasionally to make little waves. If Tt is Mise Eastlake’s ability to engage capital | the boat sails steadily and the light burns until that will probably maie her a popular actress | the wax is all melted a long, happy life is pre- among her Americai brothers and sisters. | dicted. If two boats come together their own- There is always among the craft a fellow feel- | ¢rs will dothe samo and have some common ; he laurel grows a prickly thorn: See Following this should come the out-of-doors amusement, such as running around the square with the mouth fivied with water, and per- son who fails to reach the starting point with the water intact 5s doomed, while the ones who ao as ey will learn hy ged better ves’ names by listening for the frat names called within their heating GRAY-BLUE CLOTH COSTUME. A lovely fall costume in gray-blue ¢loth fs represented in my fourth illustration, orna- mented with jet cabochons. The jacket corsage has a plain plastron, the Ining of which closes in the middle. while it hooks on b«th under the loose front. At the neck +he staff mast be full in order to form the gathers. At the wawst the plastron is ornament with throe rows of galloon or large cabochons. ‘They also appear on the straight collar. ‘The sid of the back are cut long enongh to reach to the edge i DIDN'T WANT TO BE AN ANGEL The Objection of a Precocious Youngster to Going to Heaven. Here's « rather entertaining dialogue, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal: Time, 8 p.m.; mother trying to make sleep overcome curiosity in a very young phil- ‘osopher. “Now, Georgie, go to sleep; that’s a good boy.” “T an't sleepy; a0 there.” of social degradation, ‘the Tenderloin Club | ing for particularly active worker, such as| interest. If one boatgets in another's way | ‘Good little boys that go to sleep early will aarters. oe has shown herself to be. When | look out for trouble. If two boate sail side by | go to heaven.” t she left Philadelphia to come to New York her | side their owners will marry, if of the opposite| “What's heaven?” ‘ touched tn the inte of uncanventionaliem. | baggage and several members of her troupe | #ex; if both men they will be engaged in e out @ cll consisted of a score or remained ather hotel from force of cireum- $2 of newspaper reporters, whote lines lay business toge stances. But Miss Eastlake came at once to the ;,oF if both are girls they will pass much tim “It’s the beautiful place in the skies where lives.” e fogether (perhaps keep old God liv in criminal i who were ae | Hoffman House and in twenty-four hours the | maids’ hall). When a boat remains quietly by | (‘An't they nobody lives with “im?” signed to night ty in this wickedest | Anglo-American cable had rospouded to her | the side of a tub it indicates a stay-at-home. | ‘Oh, yes—good people, little boys and girls part of the town. needed # convenient | appeal and had put several hundred pounds | Touching often at the side of the tub indicates | Who mind their mothers, and zd gathering place and they obtsined one by bir- sierling in her pockot. It is now known that | short {ourneys, and when the boat keeps away | ‘Nangels? What's them?” ‘the midst of the scenes which | Charles Wyndham hastened to Miss Kastlake's | from tho tub extended travel is predicted. “Ob, they're grand beings who wear crowns hets pa re called d upon to deveribe. But = He sent her money with the suggestion BUAXING CHESTNUTS. and eet ee club grew into a ‘end character hardly | t! e@ use it for her immediate return like our bi if contemplated by ite originators. ‘Men eae Burning chestnuts is « favorite charm. Esch “Something Itke them, and then——” “Do they fly or do jes’ flop, flop when you shoo at'm?” “Oh, nobody ever shoos at them in heaven, my dear. They are just like people, only they sre larger and have wings.” “Can they fly way up?’ “Oh, yes." » ys “Can they ‘light on the i tae end ofs ® robin?” Pasmage and for auch expenses ae she might incur until she sailed. Miss Eastlake denied, however, that Wyndham is her backer, and so his act was presumably one of patriotic friendship. It is not true that Miss Eastlake made an ap she former! given his ex. professions flocked into membership, but they ‘wore what we call roundets—that is to sey, men who float buoyantly and swiftly in the swim. The quarters were enlarged, artist members decorated them astoundingly ‘and the month suppers became remarkable of these ocewsions enterlainets were summoned tosppear before the Tenderlciners. Not one Person takes two nuts and names one himself or herself and the othera favored one. The courtship will be shown as the nuts burn. Sometimes the nute will remain side by side for along time and then again they will sometimes Jamp apart, Sometimes one will d off he re Buch isfatee PP Oren a wr for- ling lady for leaving him. Be- sides his own fortunes have ‘not been over apple tub is still used, but chiefly by commands has ever been disrogarded. | radiant of late years Wyndham, on tho com | small boys, as the Fits object 10 bobbing their | mb and eat’n angle worm. jos! Is is needless to say that neither Booth nor Jef-| trary, is wealthy. He and Bronson Howard | heads into a tub of water to obtain nothing but| ‘‘Idon’t know, Georgie.” forson, Bernhardt nor Modjesks hee yet beeu } married sisters. ‘The people who were in Miss | an apple. In place of apples coin ia now used “Did you ever see an angel?” ordered into the Tenderloin presenoe. ‘ssupport are indignant yet, because . one who gots the have somehow hesrd that when i the: ested over funds to ie — he advised her not to pay any arrears of ies, printing bills &e., but to lenve that duty to themanager. The interesting point, however, is that Wyndham. and Barrett, the London managers, seem to be strenuously for and against Miss Eastlake. WHO HAVE BEEN THERE But Carmencita, in the first flush of her fashionable vogue, the comic opera comedians, the most popular of the monologuists, and very lately Valti and Fougere, the newest im- | sho ms from Paris, have all gone to the jouse in 32d street to sing, dance or other- by many persons, and dha | sin Reape ig The boy looked at her ~ “4 >: ver, be you fibbin?” ho asked sternly,” ‘THE PETTIOOAT SPELL. h, no, indeed, Georgie—" The fair maids who donot care tohaveothers| «Bad ‘oomans way ‘flbs gets * ” know of their superstitions wait until they are “Georgie, the Bible tells about angels.” ready to retire and they try the petticoat spell| ‘W'at’s the Bible?” to tell who thetr husband is #0 be, He has been told evert night for « year, therefore, the mother, knowing only too wi wise amuse the Bohemians. Of-course the mo- “*Hailoween n ght I go to bed, the bewildering string’ of questions that in- +} =. | five which impel these repponses i a desir to Street tn aS Et Amana the viru nyt the eden, | evitably ensued, sthenpted "= Tune by sang x lense the newspaper men. The ‘on of ‘who l'ma to another inspiring reference to those @ | Credient actors were the company of dwarfs | 7 Greeks and Romans Had a Curtous ae ‘When entering her bed room the maiden is System in Old Times. ET par aa to walk direct! IN THE LINE OF TAILOR-MADE. ‘From Spare Moments, called tho Liliputians, consisting of ten little bits of comedians, tothe bureau and look into “ men and women in age, but . their wings? T note some very stylish gowns, many of them | srants in statue,” The funniest of the im gets, | Theancient Greeks and Romans practiced be wari the ted bordel pene hg caer “sThoy woar robes.” in am —— ce Forger = plain | Franz Ebert, a veritable cherub fn appear. telegraphy with the help of pots filled with | ment under her pillow. From the time ‘she ae they got no buttons?” skirt front an no pleat ai ance, gave @ jon an ine! dt) i i “ not.” “eaerlp lose og eclgnr a soe a= esas familiarly. sson | 78M aud twigs exturated in oll, which, being | entors the room until morning she is not to guess placed in rows, expressed certain letters ac- | *Pesk to any one. rows of stitching. The fan pleats must be ! “Can little n’angels dress themselves wivout waist?” through the eyes of the Tenderloiners, that it their muvvers b ing their ighied the ti di rowd ir muy uttoning es bear arr aga gry tes aie ipey an r cording to the order in which they were WHERE THE JOKE COMES IK. “T guess so." tack extend to the bottom of the Danqen ant migntily,Of course, the Tenderloin Clab is | lighted: but the only ono of thelr contrivances | | An amusing trick is done by the use of two| | «Don's litle n'angele never wear panta w'en are fuller below the waist, so they may cross at | rocket that has probably reached its greatest | that merits a detailed description was that in-| Plates. One is to be smutted or smoked on the | they get's big’s me?” Georgie is wearing his the back. The corsage closes in the middle and | height, and it will fall like a stick, but it is a vented bya Grecian general named Zneas, who flourirhed in the time of Aristotle, in- bottom and placed ona table fn a dark room. the plastron starts from the right side. Itis Another plate, a clean one, is placed on a table ee it is yet exploding C Sent Ron't belie oruseating in the air. tikes dog edged with a mobair or silk galloon and closes in a room where there is. dim light. ‘Huh! I wouldn't be » little n'angel.” with very small hooks and silk eyes, and two ‘THE MIDGETS’ vistr. tended for communication between the gen-| ton whose fortune is to be told “soos into Oe Why; Georgie 6 tht” rp bustons at the waist and at the suoulder give it | 17 the clab has set out to make {ts hon erals ofan army. It consisted of two exactly | dark room and has to take the plate and. imi “Wouldn't!” He tarned away stubbornly. finish. The basque has no seam in the front. anh te a to our ides of the place | Similar earthen vessels, filled with water, each | tate the motions Of the fortune teller. "It being | I was evidently definitely settled: heaven aud See & Se eat eo peartan eaes | vena | Provided with a cock that would discharge an | 4atk the soot on the plate cannot be. see pants—or earth forever. follows the line of the plas- tron. There is a straight turn-down collar edged with galloon and prota with deep woall dread, but may not escape, they could not bave come much closer to the accomplish- tment of thelr object. A fearful place it iy, and although some of ite horrors bad boon covered with im honor of the guests of the evening, yet there remained enongh to. strike tarror into the hearte of the dwarfs whe had been invited to come and amuso the gathering It was nearly 1 in the morning wher. fhe minute ctors and actresses were introduced to’ the of Bohemians, and amid thoee surround ay might easily have been mistaken for little devils, although rather of @ good than n when he maneuvering is concluded the fortune is told by looking in the glass. ‘The victim who uses the smutted plate then finds out what tho others are laughing at. THE MOUND OF FIOUR AND THE APPLE PARING are also popular modos of trying fate. The flour mound is made by filling a tes oup with flour and turning it out ona plate. Then those present march to the table and cut @ slice from the mound. The one who causce the mound to fall is the one who above all others equal quantity of water in s given time, so that the whole or sny part of the contents would escape in precisely the seme period from both ‘vessel ‘On the surface of each floated » piece of cork snpporting an upright marked off into divisions, exch division having a certain sen- tence inscribed upon it. One of the vessels was placed at each station and whon either [mei desired to communicate he lighted » rok, which he held aloft antil the other ie the same, as a sign that he was all attention. Secrets of Happy Wedlock. ‘Detroit Free Press. Respect each other's individuality. Do not try to mold the other's ideas, or prin- ciples, or manners to the pattern of your own. Beek to influence each other only by the power of higher example. By your worthiness and cultare maké the other prond of you, and do not feel that mar- cuffs also edged with the EMBROIDERED JACKET. Tho very stylish jacket which is represented im tho last illustration may be worn with any Tefined street costume. It is made up in cafe aa lait cloth, embroidered with and flowerets in flat stitch. This embroidery orna- ments the edges of the basques, the pocket sleeves, the front sides, the collar and tne bac resent will not get married. k. There is one dart in front. The | badcharacter. There were five men and five | 0" the sender of the message lowering or ex. | Prevent wilt Hot ge! married. tate, or criticise. pocket fap extends from the dart to the side | women, all {evening dress, and odd enou Be Hoguishing bis toreh sash party immediately Boe pedi | of paper ating | | Maintain and ao tame freedom that seam. at, a Loi , is in gray felt lows looked in their dress su: 01 easel, a the between good frie: trimmed with white pongee’ with block dots, | sallars and expansive shirt fronts. The women | UPtil the sender relighted his torch, when it ep hte ata Speen eps ee et Ses a a aigrette of gray feathersand a black bird. wore moderately low-cut dresses of yellow satin | 7" * sause roy ce ‘divisok of tas a sat planations, for you are not a hundreth part as pos Jimena irae the son right under black lace, Nearly all were remarkably (A a ae ate) — well devel ‘The apple test is done _by removing the ing of an applo in one piece and then whicling . responsible for each other as you are apt to that was level with the mouth of the vessel and which if everything had been execni with exactness, curresponded with that of the in their minute proportion: the faces of geehe-e, ‘women -five. Thecrowd roared with imagine. BER SWEET REVENGR ES; your love be founded in edzatration as friendship, itabout your head three times and let sony foo sender and so conveyed the desired informa drop tshdad fou, It wilform the tatteat eet ee to Aang ad 2 ethan borne study ‘The shopper is s bit careless of her appear- ing the name was invented by Messrs. Cooko & of your future husband or wife. careful that you never reverse tbis rule ance—that is to say, she has the courage of eatstone and was laid ou the Londen and LASTLY SPELL. Leep = most refined and gentle manner comfort and @ most abnormal liking for old Blackwall railway in June, 1837. tricks of fate tried is one | fr the home. clothes, says the New York Recorder. Not- son teteations enciae = riage gives you sny right to demand, or dic- | PTC’ Tommy—‘He said you were an angel.” a ABOUT ALLIGATORS. Hunted in the Swamps. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. A Night's Work, tn Which Five Were Kilied—Portions of the Skin Fit for Com- | mercial Use, and ‘Thele Valne—Nateralty | ‘Timid, Sometimes They Become Man Eaters. _ ‘Written for The Evening Star. ° 0 GREAT HAS BEEN THE DEMAND OF fashion of lato years for alligator ekins that } fn some parts of the south the hunting of these animals forms quite @ profitable industry. Men | band themselves together in couples and in| companies of half a dozen, provision their | ‘oats for a week's ora month's trip and seck | the wilder and more secluded se and) Dayous. So thorough are such hunts and so | crafty and cunning are the hunters thats lo- | cality that previously contained from ten to fifty ‘gators will at the close of a huntbe either | totally depopulated, or, at best, possess but | one or two cautions, wary old fellows that are | next to impossible to get a view of, to say nothing of a near enough approach for @ shot. This mode of systematic bunting has had « tendency to make the alligator extremely rare in many sections of the country, and to for- ever drive him away from some. They are queer, uncanny brutes, and afew facts in re- gard to them may prove interesting. 48 TO THEIR SIZE. To begin with, stories of alligators measur- ing fourteen and sixteen feet in length may safely be put down as exaggerations I doubt if such a one exists; twelve feet isa tremen- dous size, and raroly, very rarely, they run to twelve anda half. i bave measured alligators innumerable, and full; ¢ cent ran from nine to eleven and a feet. So scarce is one attaining the mythical fourteen fect that « reward of €500 for one of this size bas been unclaimed for the inst twenty years. ‘The part of the skin used for commercial pur- poses is entfroma Mne along the side, just whero the heavy scales begin, and includes the sides and belly, the back being #o tough as to be utterly worthless and almost impervious to arite bail. In fact the two vulnerable points are the eyes and jnst behind the fore leg, while a ball striking his coat of armor in any bute direct line will glance off as if from metal ite. Although denizens of the water they have the most abject horror of rain, and no sooner does the first faint sprinkling manifest itself than, plunging from the bank or log, they seek quarters beneath the surface. On sunny days they bask on the banks for hours, but even when clondy it is unuenal to see one. Asarule they confine themselves to what na- ture has provided for food, occasionally vary- ing their diet with a stray deer or calf, but at times they become man-eaters and are then terrors to all. Like the tiger, having once tasted human fiesh, they prefer it to everything else, and, with watchful eye, onvy all whocome thin reach. At such timer the communit; organizes and institutes a regular siege, whic! sooner or later ends in copture. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN 4 BUNT. It was my pleasure in the winter of °87-88, together with a friend, to be more or less in- timately associated with a party of alligator hunters on the upper St. John’s river in Flor- ida, and upon one or two occasions to partio- ipate in some remarkable hunts. We were encamped on a sluggish little crock beneath a group of palmettoes a mile or more from the river, and for some weeks past bad been investigating the bird life of the sur- rounding region. Alligators were particularly numerous and their roarings and bellowings could be heard on still nights, from creeks aud sloughs, five miles distant. One dark night, just as we were about toturn in—hunters never xo to bed, they turn in—a bright light came suddenly ‘around the bend anda boat with three men, armed and equipped for “gator shootin’,” ’ pulled up to our camp. ‘They proved fo be just out from Voluria, and an nc- | cident having happened to their coffee can they had come up to borrow of us. They in- formed us of their intention of remaining in the neighborhood for some time, and extended 8 cordial invitation to join them in the chase. ‘There are two modes of alligator hunting. First and bost of all is fire lighting or fire jack- ing, second by floating in the daytime. For the first a strong reflector light is placed in the bow of the boat and provided with » dark slide or door; the man who is to shoot for the even- ing sits directly bebind it, while his companions propel the boat. The light, flashing full in the animal's face, appears to blind him and to make him insensible to all danger, but the slightest sound ‘ing from the boat is sufficient to srouse him. jearer and nearer the boat ereeps until the distance is a mini- mum, when the rifleman, taking a carefal aim, pours a murderous discharge into the most available part of his body. Those killed at night sre pulled out on the beacu and skinned the followin daytime are usually skinned on the spot. The second method of floating conriste io stealing softly within range of a sleeping ‘gator 5 it be. diffcalt thing todo and on the whole un- remunerative. It is usually practiced by local hunters and very rarely by professiouals. MUNTING BY FIRELIGHT. Our party tried the first method. Stepping into the boat the light was trimmed, the rifle- man took his accustomed position in the bow and the party started. A mile from camp the stream widened out into a flat marshy prairi+, filled with small islands and quantities ct drif wood, Turning the light full nhead an im- mere fellow was seen lying ene pilo of drift and intently watching the steering apparatus. With gentle paddiing the boat approached closer, twenty feet, fifteen, ten—would the man never shoot?’ A fiash, « roar, and the great beast dropped sulleniy into the water, shot through the heart. instantly some pari of the body is grappled with the boat hook to ent ite sinking forever, and with pulling and hauling it is got shore. The next one shot was swimming ats little | © distance, only his eyes and snout being above water, but an explosive bullet sent with un- | erring aita era few minutes’ work he, too, was lying on the bank. Occasionally the animal sinks to the bottom and is lost, oftener he is only wounded and crawls away to die by inches, while occa- ly asbarp fight ensues between hunter and hunted, anda pair of jaws crunching the gunwales of the boat is no laughing matter. , While those killed in the | ch into his brain, and after a | #¢! withstanding, sbe is « large, liberal and ex- jee cae oid ring, indicating marriage, is placed; in |°When = wrong {s pardoned bury itin ob-| D4 Point of land lay three, varying in size ceedingly considerate buyer, spending first and | white plaster, in which had been stuck, appar- | A Third of an Inch Makes Them—The Labor | nother ashes, signifying early death, and in | livion. " from seven to ten fect. Approaching in the for the; of the third water, denoting single blesvedness. | Consider the other's honor your and | same manner as before, two shots were fired, last many dollars for the gauds and gowgaws dear | ently, the contents of a big junk shop. Every Trying On. feue Sate tb to be get tly killing one and wounding a wecond. tothe souls of her friends and family out of | little article imaginable was it in the Dil- | From the Shoe and Leather Reporter, Jektees nnd 4a to ogre aowend three eae ene, | Meield cach offers wesknenses with sieved | spystestly Riling ove Sad wonsting 0 macend. town. She wasshopping in behalf of one of | lows of | Bott dice police-| A third of an inch gives us a fall size tn | making choice. ‘The positions of the saucers|” Remember that iif-temper nearly always | softly by the bost; as it I blew the top them when this experience befell. Fair Cath-| men's clubs, badges, irons, frying pans, | iength of shoo; » sixth furnishes the intermie- | are changed and then the person, still blind. | eomes of disappointment, or ovétwork, or | of his head off, but before I could grab him he erine had written, inclosing s liberal check and bod setaps of folded, is to put his or her hand into ® saucer | physical suffering. sunk. Ail this took but @ moment, but that “ . and thus determine the bright or sorrowful | ‘Treat each other as confteously in private | wes long enough for soine lively scenes to be saying: “I want an evening gows. Won't you land, The tly dead ' - one fate in store for the blindfolded éne. 4s you treat your friends in the drawing room. | transacted on apparently gator please buy it withous regard to anything but ; meal balls is also @ good trick. Small} Never allow intimacy to become ity. | Was the smallest of the but be was the your own taste?” pisces of paper are secured and the names of rivals in generosity and let misunder- | liveliest corpse [ever eaw. ‘of the men Catherine is sweet and twenty, willow-slim Iwo ladies for bachelors trying the spell or of ee ee at eae landed to examine him and iuadvertently got . cousin ell of freedom; a quarter of an inch is a good | two for maidens are written on the marriage as the partnership of | Within reach of his tail, hich appeared ots crepe, bith gistingt Gold ond getien booties deal of letting down or elevating at the heel, | pe . These race into waters “tne | fife, znd in om instant be was lying senaclens sa crepe, wit i len ic] Pe SaaS. pospley tag wake at fe oor it and the difference of a sixteenth is readily per- that appears on the water first is the ‘To Make the Avon Navigable his back a doren feet away. blow was a ly chose an uncrowded, rainy . py aeeia at eres For these reasons sudden name of the future husband or wife. ‘From the London Truth. pi ncen feyeerner tein sat py ony Roped re , she wore stout shoes and her el in size or referred weeks itation | stances second-best bonnet, Thus she went is end was | Shoes are injudicious. Even the “pay af SWINGING Tie WeDDING ara, i beninge be arhest mae Horm. A second shot finished him. "The injared into a big Broadway shop and sought the silk wicked female, in any man gave place to another at the rifle the counter. Itwas in charge of « y So ould by one only a little thicker continued until te midnight. ya, whove eyes carcesed the m4 Side | as first. After summer shoe the ve ‘gators in all were the skins of caressed his mustache. At first sound pointed atthe | thing is one of medium weight before the the letters which, when cured, represented avout €75—not of the shopper's voice he did not stir. When her hand | winter article is in oader, and evon that doesn't » bad night's work. Shs vepestod, “Show me your Chins crepe,” be a now mean a cumbersome shoe, as it NATURALLY TOMD, BUT THEY WILL Fion?. bis her over supercil- form of ap- hs rs baba and said: “Who are you for?” Purpose of alligator is naturally timid, mother “abe returned; whereupon he in defense of her eggs or young is one of the hag mang lige er 8 — “My rei ‘MARION MANOLA'S VALET. most furious vary op ne orm the Women, you come ‘wrong sre Wawritten ws that govern the are deposited in are cov- We en en oe tne nee Like | dressing roones in theaters as well os any other ered with om debris i the ane ane sxe ome tee tage | Viste oe Cauied "Bul ban foeeg og Sur come aun the quan aposen aoe ine rs me for % onee in my life,” the would-be purchaser an- ‘Tedeubles. ewered. im appearance they can, when occa- Conciliated by her meokness the lofty sion requires, get over the ground with remarh- showed her some of the Able owifenany ‘progressing in long Un Witgein stock. After looking, them Ser these ‘the best at lady bought « fow of that take to atree and call for Escape can her, sent up 4 $100 bill tz payment and tise be mado ty , care being it sent to ber home, one of the handsomest taken to keep of of the tail, houses in the city. When her $90 ‘No man has any business alone in the | eame back she said tothe now he can never tell st what moment he may Se rows we: Tae sorry to have help, and that, for the balk of my purchases.” Bagenn pally stand nothing more. Bat she afterward her salutary sense of the deceitfulness bleaching of appearances. —————0o —__— Proof Positive, ‘From Texas Siftings. Little ‘Tommy —“Mamma, Pepa has ‘bees ‘Mother—“What makes you think so.” PARTON'S PREDICAMES: 'T. How the Historian Kacaped Troubleen Ae cownt of Mis Second Marriage ‘To the Raitor of The Kvenine Star: ‘The recent demise of James Parton, historian, Fecalls an interesting end somewhat emunng incident of bis life. He married «literary widow, the sister of N. P. Willis, the poet, ber nom de plume bemg “Fannie Fern,” the most of ber contributions appearing in the New York eiger, At the time of that marriage she had two young daughters, the ehiest of whom, im due timo, was wedded, and after having borne a babe, died, leaving it to the eare of the younger sister. All bad lived together in the same mansion at Newburyport, Mass After the decease of “Fanny Fern” Mr. Parton decided to bresk up that household, fearing lest it might provoke scandal for him to be liring in the same home sione with the surviving daughter of his wife. Both, however, were sincerely attached to eek otherand mutually to the orphan ebid. A let they determined, being pained by the sep- aration, to become married. Thereupon Mr. Parton, in order to evotd publieity, arranged tbat this event should occur in the t residing in Newbury- port. out ang notice of the marital purp ittle social gathering of « few choice friends was fixed upon, among whom should be » clergyman of the pat After quite a lapse of the evening Mr. Parton Quietly requested the clergyman to join th mar= wage himself and his deceased wite's daugh- ri ter. certificate “Have yon secured a ma from the county clerk?” inquired the minister. “Why,” replied Mr. Parton, much surprised, Aid not know that was essential” “Certaini, responded the clergyman. “If I ‘thout such a certificate I malty. tie Soria “Only one thing,” was the reply, “if you are benton being married tonight.’ The clerk lives Your marriage, get your certificate and pay the fee for it.” * ‘This Mr. Parton did, while mach chagrined ‘and disgusted to think that his ignorance of Massachusetis law or ite strictness put bim te 0 much trouble. The lawas to marriage in New York state is quite lax. If a man there introduces « woman as his wife or registers ber ame with his @ bote! as such or in any other acknowledges himself as conjagally bound to her, tue law bolas him thus strictly bound, though no justice or minister has tied the knot. An due time Mr. Parton returned with bis Certificate, was icgally married and caught the 11 o'clock train for Boston, where he tarried for the night at the Tremout House. Among the guests on that marriage evening was a lady whose busband, a friend of Mr. Parton's, was a lawyer living in N but doing business in Boston. He not been invited to the social gathers with his wie because Mr. Parton not wish the conjugal event to beknown and noticed through tue “Hub” beiore be had slipped away therefrom. But the lady, women. like, could not keep the secret. Before abe re tired she “let the cat out of the bag.” Next morning sarly the lawyer called at the Tremont on bis newly married fricud and said to him: “Parton, if you had condesconded to invite me to your litde marital gathering I might have seved you from the liability of being sent to ‘the state prison. “What is that?” exclammed the astounded groom. “How have I offended?” “You have broker alaw of Massachusetts,” Was the reply, “‘toai imposes an imprisoumest for three years in the penitentiary on an} man who marries a daughter of bis deceased wife born by « previous union.” “What in the world then must I do,” asked the anxious historian, “to escape pen- ity?” “My advice is that you dust out of this city in double-quick time before any mischievous fellow gets wind of your illegal marriage. Take the first train to New York and have the mar- riage ccremony performed over again. Re- member, too, that you exn never once more BRE FONE foot on Masenchusette soil without ing subject to arrest and imprisonment for your offense.” Mr. Parton at once followed this advice. Next winter the legisinture of Massachanette Voted to repeal thet stern law, bat the governor vetoed the bill, At the next however, & special act was passed releasing M: from penalty, so that afterward he could freely re- turn to resume his home in Newburyport, where he has lately died. Bucauxvce. ————— THIs CUPID'S FEE 65 A New Matrimonial Scheme by Which Net meg Youths Are Grated. Anew matrimonial bureau scheme has come to light here, says « New Haven special to the New York World. A young indy of Ansonia, respectable and good looking, the daughter of @ mar in moderate circumstances, was picked out by the sharpersas « victim, but she hes ex- posed them. She received this letter = few days ago: Metta for the service as the wentionan bes paid your tess ‘The letter was signed with the name of woman. Another circular vells in touching language of the trials wud tribulations of » young woman who is pining away because she does wot know that the man rhe loves also loves her. ‘The projectors of the scheme send to « man- ufscturing community like Ansonia an agent who gets the addresses of & score or more he thinks would nibble st such s bait. each ~~. vege eee: letter like the above. girl answers the then they vend @ letter to ockionset coupe she bas named. Each tug maan te told that * certain acquaintance of his bas contoused het love for him, ee ‘They offer to her name and for a meeting for €.. Ii the money is sent the sharpers send the nume of the young lady and at the same time levy tribute on her. arrange a meeting if she pays for their trouble. Then they leave the young woman and her lovers to arrange the matter for them- ves. Birmingham, Shelton, Seymour and Derby, all _anufsctaring settlements, have been w In the same way a young lady of the town, well in years and of good family, was in- duced to confess ber love fora young man of aud wealth. Then they wrote to er father, inclosing an electrotype of her letter, asking €100 tor the original. father confronted bis daughter and «he confessed. He then took the letter toa lawyer who wassetting a trap to catch the sharpers when the circulat was published. Baby Mckee's Protest. language stripped of verval areas, By no resentment ured, 1 eg perimins ‘Tuese 1 do not mind the feeble jokes About that tedious hut, But when they «ize me up as food For their attempts at wit, ‘And think Kt alt: gether good ‘0 PURCH WE Up & J want it plainly: ey BE BE > it ij me F i ti 2 ; i f