Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1891, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, ~~ D.€. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 ——— , 1891—SIXTEEN TO BE WELL DRESSED |***==" Always Make Selections to Suit Your Individual Style. BECOMING HATS AND CLOAKS ‘The Season of Felts for Headgear—They Should Be Appropriately Trimmed to Be Dresay—Stylish Cloth Cloaks—The Long, Loose Wraps for Evening Wear. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Youx, Nov. 20, 1991. CELEBRATED DANDY, whose attire furnished the court of England with more subjects of conversation than did the war which she was at that time waging, once enunciated astounding doctrine that it was a man’s duty to dress well, even if he ran in debt for it. While such a doctrine must be strongly condemned from amoral standpo'nt, yet asa bit of popular philosophy it goes to show how strongly in- N trenched the human ‘mind is in that love of praise and commenda- tion at the hands of our fellow beings. The same feeling was uppermost in the thoughts of that good wife who refused to allow her hus- band to go on a journey shabbily dressed lest in the event of @ railroad accident the fact might be drawn to the attention of the public. Commencing as it did, with an instinctive fond- ness of personal adornment, this question of dress, like the attire of the celebrated man of fashion above mentioned, has grown to such importance that it now monopolizes a good Balt of the world's attention. Take. from our poems, our novels and our newspapers the descriptions of the raiment worn by the char- acters and people therein mentioned and vou would leave a tremendous gap. But the time whieh a woman spends over dress is not lost by any means, though the contrary is very apt to be the popular opinion. Acelebrated physi- cian, an authority on nervous diseases, has ex- ptessed the opinion that the mental occupatior. resulting from a love of dress is a most valua- bie preventive of many forms of hysteria. It is better to talk ehiffons than to mope or dis- cuss unwholesome topics. That being the ease, even if yon don't care te order such » costume for yourself you will have noobjection to examine and discuss the handsome costume pictured in the initial illustration—e whits silk striped with pale blue, with a white crepe de chine piastron. With this costume is worn, a very stylish bonnet of white Ince embroid- red with large pearls, which form a kind of diadem in conjunction with bows of black vel- ‘yet and biack feathers. THE SEASON OF FELTS. Speaking of becoming headgear it should be remembered that this is par excellence the season of feits, when the new styles come so fresh and beautiful from the hands of the makers. If you will discuss this subject of hate with your husbands, brothers or male friends yoo will that they maintain that afelt hat, stiff or soft, cannot rightfully be termed # silk hat can be dresay. ‘Now, there is « great deal of truth in this, only, 1F8e, wears a felt it with appro- with really rich gar- calls for trimming. In and of itself it is not a material, like silk or velvet, which is garniture unto itself. Its great ad- vantage is that it lends itself so readily to the formation of quaint and graceful outlines and thus aids in setting off the natural beauty of the head, for it should be borne in mind that all art im personal adornment has for its sole enhancing of natural comeliness, out of i t grace, the accen- of that coloring done by nature's own ‘STTLISM GRAY FELT. Ihave seen some altogether charming head- gear in felt this season. The point in selecting #hatis to get something that will exit your Particular style. It isa problem not always tasy to solve, for while anything may look well on Maud’s head, when set upon flelen’s classic ¢rown it looks like s fright. Close-fitting felts trimmed with feathers, smail black coques, for , Or wings, sre very becoming to that Style of ‘young person commonly known as the dainty bus the large-featured, picturesque Girl needs an expanse of brim, while, on the hand, the pert, pretty face will often Sshape thet fares boldly up and shows just as she is. A short figure of the dumpy should beware of wide-brimmed felts. They look like extinguishers,on half-burned- down candles. i af Becoming to no shading or softening of any kind. Such faces, however, arefew and far between. Even the face of type is framed and shaded by wavy F LAcE-coveneD FFT. A felt hat trimmed ina novel manner will and is trimmed with a deep band of black velvet Fibbon, which forms a large flat bow in front, fastened with » buckle of brilliants. Plumes of black ostrich feathers are placed high at the deck ands most move fet i produced by brim being covered with fine GOOD FOR TRAVELING PURPOSES. In the fourth illustration there is pictared a very richly trimmed gray felt, the trimming consisting of @ torsade and loops of moss gree velvet. At thefront there is placed a “battle” of green parrot's feathers. The felt hat is ad- mirabl for trai yurposes, an; Rave noticed @ number onch® datiliy teiommna with sil ribbon band and bows in biack. brown or navy blue, sitting close to the head. The Poin’ aimed st is to combine style with sim- ‘and_ bea, worn by young misses, Aitnoaalocenatcally As the season advances the long cloak will the | false hood, with collar band and long. slender entire delivery system of the made of beads of various me- | qunint little fi sapporsed by of the BROWN CLOTH CoAT. trimming. The paxsementerie fotms a sort of | said Superintendent Pollock, who directs the ndanta.” It lic tones and is full of color. The bottom of the cloak is finished with three narrow tucks and it is lined throughout with cream-colored LONG Loose whars. Now that we are about to enter upon the season of theaters, operas, dances and tions, it is quite natural that the thoughts of a lady of fashion should turn to long loose wrny that completely cover a dress, and, above shield the decoliette neck and bare arms from the cold blasts. You will find such a one pic- tured in the fifth illustration. It is customary to make up these garments in velvet or pinshi, Hthough very styhsh ones may be made in ney woolens or in silk.which, of course, must be warmly wadded. The particular one set forth in my last illustration is in embossed insh of a shade known ss Russian green. It is fitted to the figure at the back and in folds from the waist line. The front sides. cut out at the neck. are fastened in the middie by large hooks. The left side folds over and is held in position at the waist by i old silver. ‘The sleeves are made lai row a little toward the wrist. The sleeves and front and collar of this pelisse are trimmed with fur, or, if you choose, with real or imita- tion feather trimming. It should be lined with old gold or old rose. DRESSES FOR DEBUTANTES. We shall have the debutantes with us ingreat numbers this season, and some charming even- ing dresses have been made up to suit their dainty coloring and delicate style of beauty. ‘One was a white Brussels net over white si the skirt being made with full folds all around the back and sides. In front there was a lovely trimming formed of graduated fringes of field daisies banging on their long green stems and pisced one above the other from waist to hem. it was the ideal coming-out dress. Another was a pale pink made with @ very quaint little decollette bodice, with narrow pleats back and front outlined by fine feather stitching. The neck was edged with a deep turn-down frill of pink chiffon, and there was a wide sash of soft silk around the waist, tied in a large bow in front. ‘The skirt was finished with a flounce of chiffon round the bottom. ———_+ee —___ Have You Ever Noticed That? Have you ever noticed, when you're buying berries by the peck, ‘That those on top are large and ripe, without a spot oF spect While those beneath are small aud green—not worth the looking at, And altogether worthiess—have you ever moticed ‘that Have you ever noticed in the summer when the are cold ‘The iceman leaves @ larger chunk than what your box will hold; But when the days are scorching hot and nearly fry your fat He leaves the merest trifle—have you ever noticed at? Have you ever noticed that the mam who's always ielling you About the wondrous things he’s done and what he’s oe going to a Is loafing at the present time—his purse is busted at, And “won't you loan a fivert”—have ever noticed that? - Have yon ever noticed Mshermen all have such awful luck, ‘The mammoth fish they neatly got fell back into the brook, And while of great fresh water whales they ever wildly chat, They brirg home tiny minnows—have you ever noticed that? Have you ever noticed oMce seekers, ere election "s hand and something Kind and ‘hing say And who when safe in office, with @ salary big at and fat, Forget, the lumble voter—have you ever noticed att Christian Intelligencer. He Knew Human From the New York Weekly. Mrs. Slimpurse—“Why in the world did you tell Mrs. De Fashion we had summered in Europe?” Mr. Slimparse—You don't suppose I'd con- fess to her that we'd been economizing in Frog- town, do you? Not much.” Mrs. Slimpurse—“But, dear me, she'll tell others, and before long all sorts of people will be asking us about Europe, and we haven't either of us ever been east of Sandy ture. Mr. Slimpurse—‘Don't you fear. Tell peo- ple you've just got back from Europe and they'll change the subject quicker than o wink for fear you'll start to talking about it.” ——<o+__—_ Encouraging Prison Philanthropy. From the Chicago Mail. Professional Humanitarian—“My poor man, what brought you here?” Billy the Hilk—“Well, mum, I'm afraid I slipped outside the path of virtuea trifle. Ye see, Leut the throat of my wife, brained my baby, set fire to the house and shot two police- men who tried to arrest me. Ob, I'm a bad man, mum. But it was the drink as did it.” Jimmy the Burglar—‘Here, you measly, pet- ty-lareeny thief, why did you tell that woman such ale? You know you're here for stealing chickens and you haven't enough nerve to tackle a good live rabbit.” Billy the Bilk—‘Well. pardner, I've been here before and I_know-s how the wimmin folks act. ‘They don’t feed and pet no common, low-down coves. If you wanter live on sponge cake and angel food and get bouquets and books you've got to convince "em you're a bad, bad man. See? Nothin’ short o' murder ‘goes’ wid ‘em.” +00 —_ Men With Artifical Limbs, From the Chicago Tribune. Adealer in artificial limbs: Did it occur to you that im the big procession of veterans of the Grant unveiling ceremonies there were very few who had artificial arms or legs? 1 noticed it particnlarly, for it isa part of my business to watch these gatherings of old soldiers. I sent out three of my best men on the day alluded to with instructions to give every man with an artificial leg or arm one of our circulats. The report which they brought back astonished me. Nearly all of the cireulars were returned un- used. Ihave noticed the same thing in a majority of gatherings of this chareeter. It is strange but true that of all the men who fought im the awful conilict few lost their arms or legs. Many were wounded in those limbs, but 64 coni- | pared with the great namber that wore shot few lost a leg or an that there are more There are many men who have artifieial legs who are able to conceal the fact, but I do not know of a man with an artificial arm who bas rm. My business shows arma. make its ap) Cloth will be the favor- ite and I need hardly add that these ite will be Cagney beavily bo yscr ed worn by the reprewen| ry Eee des twimmed street garments. 1s is of 2 wana brown color and is cut out at ever fooled any! with it, One of course, is that = not tecebed the came perfection in making artificial arms as in legs. False Je practices by many. goods Sure are he beat food, Sotainable. Tt a: ina te Galt Borgen agi” Brand Condensed Mik is the best Your grocer and druggist Keep it. ROBBING LETTER BOXES. New Methods to Be Adopted by Uncle Sam for Proteeting the Mail. J | Sepang’ FROM STREET LETTS boxes, for which crime a formidable gang was jailed last Week, i# an evil whic occasions the Post Oftice Department inereasing annoys ance. The percentage of mail lost in this Manner stems to grow steadily. There are several ways of accomplishing such thefts. When a receptacle of the old style is full letters éan be piilled ont of it with the fingers. Another method often practiced by expert Operators fs to arop in a thin piece of sole leather which has been rubbed liberally with wax. A string is attached to the leather, and by this means it is extracted, with one or more envelopes adhering to it. In point of effeetive- ness this plan is inferior to the simple plan of sawing off the padlock. Having secured the latter it is easy enough to make a key from it that will open all the boxes in the city, The only troubie is that the operation is sure to ex- cite remark. Vantots ware. “There is nothing thas cas prevent 4 man from opening a letter brx if he has a mind to,” country, to a San reporter yesterday. con tale ‘an and smash it if he thinks of no easier wa; he can bribe « carrier and get an inmp! the key. There are 11,000 carriers in the United States, and it cannot be expected that all of them are incorruptible. But, for that matter, it is entirely impossible to make the looks safe, It is not practicable to put a burginr-proof lock on every letter box. Locks for the pur- Pose have been offered us which cost as much 88 95 each, but we find thet forty-cent locks Serve the ‘purpose equally well. In fact we gare up costly locks long ago. ‘The only pro- tion to be relied upon exixts in the eucred- ness that attaches, in the view of the people at e, to m receptacle fastened by government authority, to disturb which is a felony in law.” IMPERSONATING LETTER CARRIERS. Still another method frequently practiced for robbing mail boxes is by the personation of carriers. Thieves go about openly in the day- time in postmen’s uniforms and collect the let- ters, having duplicate keys. According to the Present system this is very easily done. For example, in New York city there are 1,165 letter carriers. They do noteven know each other and it is s ready explanation for a counterfeit to say to an inquiring citizen that he is a “sub- stitute.” But all this is to be remedied before long by the appointment in every big town of postal patrolmen, each of whom will have mand 3f a squad and be constantly occupied pitroling the district wherein his men are col- lecting and distributing. He will know them all, of course, and the opportunities of thieves will be considerably lesseved. TRE KRYS. It may seem strange that the keys to all the mail boxes are made exactly alike, so that one key will open them all, but of course the rea- son is that a postman can hardly carry about with him 100 or more differont keys. A letter carrior's key is a very sacred object, however. The loss cf it is regarded as a serious affair and usually the unlucky man is deprived of his em- ployment as a penalty. IMPROVED BOXES. Before long letter boxes of very improved patterns are to take the places of those now in use. For the latter the government has a very surprising sort of contract, which compels | Unele Sam to purchase for the present a cer- tain pattern anduone other. Although there are other styles far preferable in every way Post Office Department is not permitted to | Meanwhile inventors ali over the | buy them. country are constantly offering devices of their own, under the impression that there is no obstacle to their acceptance if they aro found available. ‘The contract referred to rune out June 30, 1893, and not until then will it be possible to introduce anything better. ‘A COMBINATION Box. Within six weeks there has been offered to the department a street mail box which is con- sidered the most perfect apparatus for the Purpose ever produced. It works with a time lock and an automatic arrangement always shows the hour for the next collection. When a letter is dropped, in passin ceptacle beneath it receives a stamp indicating Precisely the, moment at which it was poste ‘his ‘stamp is printed on the envelope in th shape of adial like a watch face, with han pointing to the hour and minute.’ Beneath is marked the year, the month and the day. All this is done without any human inter- Teution save to wind up themechanism onee in twenty-four hours. Thus each missive posted tells accurately how long ft took to arrive at the port office. “The box is made of pressed steel, and to open it would require a cold enivel and kit of burglars’ tools. In the delivery division the time-registering apparatus has ai ready been adopted for recording the punetu- ality or otherwise of clerks. Each employ when he arrives touches the instrument, takes out the marked blank with the dial and date on it and writes his name across it, placing it thereupon on the superintendents desk for ing. ‘THE FIRST LETTER BOX used in this country was adopted in 1963, with the beginning of the delivery system. It was of tin, somewhat resembling tea caddy, and , Rot on street corners, but in such convenient localities as groceries and drug shops. Doabtless the earliest type of mail box was a hollow tree, utilized to this day for simi- lar purposes by lovers. patie SE ANIMALS BECOMING EXTINCT. ‘The Alarming Decrease of Large Game in Africa, From the New Fork Sun. An article by Mr. Bryden in tho last proceed- ings of the British Zoological Society saye the days of the giraffe ate numbered. A few years ago herds of seventy or eighty of them were often met in various parta of Africa. Bryden says that nineteen giraffes are now a large herd. They bave been hunted so merci- lesaly, both by natives and foreign sports- men, that they are rapidly becoming ex- tinct. The intelligent African King Khama has, however, taken the giraffe under his protection and hopes to save it from extermination. He has forbidden the hunting of the giraffe in his large domain, and in this way he hopes they will multiply in his country. It is an interest ing fact that Russia has preserved the European bison from extinction by setting apart a forest of Lithuania for them and permitting no one to molest them. Recent explorers in southwest Africa say that the fauna has changed greatly during the last thirty or forty years. Dr. Henry Scblichter, in per he read before the Britith Association lew weeks ago, saya antelopes, lions, buffa- a Joes, rhinoceros, giraffes and other large ani- mals which were met with in abundance when the country was first explored, are no longer to be found in any part of southwest Africa on account of their ceaseless slaughter by European hunters, as wellas by the natives since the latter have possessed Dreech-loading ns. e The mottimporiant_smong these anitials, the elephant, has wholly disappeared from this rt of Africa, except in the neighborhood of Eiko Ngami. Anderson, one of the early explorers of this region, taid that 1,200 pounds of ivory could be bought at Lake Ngami for a musket. Accord- ing to Livingstone, in three years not less than 900 elephants were killed near the little Zonga river alone. How much their number has diminished is, shown by the present vers emall ivory export from Walfish Bay, which amounts to about 1,500 pounds per annum, while in 1875, it was as high as 37,000 pounds. The various kinds of animals wonld, doubtless, in- crease again if some protective nieasures were taken in their behalf, but there are not many the important men of Africa who have sufficient foresight to endeavor, in fhe intereate of thelr own people, to prevent the extermination of these valuable animals. "t shown bp machine's broke.’ down to the re- | BEHIND THE SCENES. Some of the Thentrical Fads of New York’s Four Hundred. os LIEttAN MOEELL AND MAaatR OLINE—tite DOTY FERENCE BETWEEN THR TWO STARs—wHat CONSTITUTES A THEATRICAL FAD—STUART ROB* S0%'S ROMANCE—THS SAD DOWNFALL OF A DRA‘ Mario oRitic. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New York, November 21, 1991. HE ULTRA-FASHIONABLE PEOPLE OF New York constitute the most uncertain element in suceesses and failures with whieh New York theatrical managers have to deal. Thero is absolutely no telling what the Four Hundred will accept or reject. Daly's The- ater has enjoyed their favor in one season and their neglect in the next. The Kendals made their fortune by it im two seasons and have lost iteven more suddenly. It is matter of whim purely. “Society” must have its fad. We are having &singaler iNustration of thia subject just now. The exhibits in evidence ate Litlian Russel! and Maggie Cline. Lillian is at tho front of tho stage ina gorgeously produced light opera at 9 dis-inctly modish theater. It wns calculated carefully that she wonld be the fashionable rage this winter. Now, very won- derfal in her loveliness is Lillian, She made her stage start in a variety show about fit teen years ago and developed herself into her present condition of voeal and visval de- light. For the present performance ehe rée- duced her too-fattened figure to the most eym- metrical proportions imaginable; she prepared her voice to sing better than she had ever done before, and she assiduously learned to act a little; and the result is that asa songstress her notes are as sweet. fresh and clear as an eigh- teen-year-old girl's, and her face is beautifui to look upen. But, strange to say, our laboriously fashionable folks decline to-admire her enthu- siastically. ‘This is not saying that she is other than successful with big and fine audiences, but simply that the McAllister coterie does not care anything about her. This conrse on their part arises from their desire to be always separate and different from the rest of refincd and well- to-do New Yorkers. So much for the first x- hibit. ‘The second is a much more curious proof of the Four Hundred's freakishness. ‘THE CLINE FAD. ‘The newest fad in this city of changefal ex- citements is a woman, and not a pretty woman, either. Moreover she is just a coarse singer in a variety theater, where song and dance and noisy wit are ber natural surroundings. In foolishness this fad has never hrd a counter- rt since New York began to cultivate fads. t beats the Carmencita silliness. Maggie Cline is the fad’s name. Everybody who has acne tea variety theater @ few times has surely seer Cline during at least one of his visite. ‘Thatis because she has been aconstant traveler, a hard worker and a very vigorous self adver- tiser, but now, after having worn herself out with ordinary variety audiences, she is taken up by the Four Hundred. She ‘has been sing- ing several months at Tony Pastor's. H “turn” comes on the program about 98 o'clock. At 8 o'clock the house is generally not more than half filled. At 9 there are solid black rows of “standees” back of the orchestra and in both bafeonies. And at 9:15, jast be- fore Cline comes on, thete isn't breathing room scarcely in the little theater. It is the clothes of the late arrivals that tells the silly story. They come in carriages, until Irving place presents aspectacle such as was common in the golden days when the old academy lid the flower of the world’s opera singers on ite boards. They bustle into the house in frivolous excitement, taking possession of rows of seats previously reverved for them. Section after section of the smnart set have come to wildly applaud Mag- gie Cline night after night. To see her is the aper, She is food for repartee in ma gilded drawing room. The bands play strain of her vociferous songs at all the cotillons. In Delmonico’s gay diners exchange her latest jest. Three or four nights ago James Gordon nnett paid for adozen orchestra seats and Jed into them the jolliest party of notable men and women that this theater has ever contained. They came in just before Cline appeared. They watched her with unfeigned cur and they applauded her, Bennett with the foci erously as if she wae Bernhardt or out of the theater. patents himself. FROM THE MIXRIREL CHORUS. Cline's age may be thirty-five and it may be more. A dozen years ago she was whatis technically designated as a “chair warmer” in the cheapest of the variety theaters.. Her life was not radiant with hope. Perhaps she earned $25 a week. Sometimes she worked for less. But she kept at it, because she had to live. She was no fad then "In the female minstrel “first Paris” the helped to “fill up.” | Dudes never othered her. Her masculine frame and her Milesian features were her safeguards. But one aay she sang a song written by an Irish bohemian—Casey his name was—and from the moment she emitted the chorus there wasa new future for Maggio Cline. The song was “Mary Ann Kehoe ” The echoes of it stillresound in the variety halle of Ameri i never ceased to sing it. It is the song that has reached tho faddist 5 heart. the song that now earns for Maggie Clino $275 a week. She has bought # few houses on its profits, and she will buy « few more before it wears out. There are other tender things in her repertoire, like “Throw Him Down, McCloskey,” for instance; but the first of ber encores means “Mary Ann Kehoe,” and if ske dida’t wing it the faddist in swallow tails would unite in a common cause and mob hers Nobody can define It is not a conservatory voice nor is ve of the baby soubrette. It is @ good old Irish organ, though, and it is fuli of force. Nobody ever heard any woman make more noise than Cline does with this voice. She wears good clothes—the best her dressmakers can get and she affects todespise them, often telling her audience in a contidentiul way that these Astor dresses breuk her back. It is Cline’s off- hand talk to her fascinated hearers that tickles thew almost as much as her songs do. Lately she has been invited to sing in some swell mu- sicales in” Sth avenue, and now she is, to use her own words, “tin the procession and keep- ing step with the denm major.” Is she in it? Well, rather! A POET'S DOWNFALL. The downfall of a once dramatic critic makes a good total abstinence story. George Edgar Montgomery set out to be a professional poet three yearsago, and at presenthe isin a private asylum for inebriates. There is a ead and serious story lying between those two facts. Mr. Montgomery was a highly educated and inteliectually brilliant young man. He mar- ried into the “Four Hundred,” his wife being » much-admired belle. He had done some {it~ erary work as an amateur, and about that time he got the place of dramatic critic of the New York Times. His work in that department was careful, conscientious and of a good general quality. But there arose a sort of family quar- rel, his wife being connected by marriage with the late George Jones. the proprietor of the Times. The upshot was that Mr. Montgomery was dismissed. Then he announced that he would enter upon the career of a poet. He had al- ready written many pleasant verses, and had ‘the gift of smooth rhyming, but he was no gen- jus at it and bis acquaintances smiled when he told them that he not only meant to make fame as poet, but would depend upon the money earnings of his poetry for aliving. It was not long, however, before his friends ceased all levity regarding bis aspirations. ‘They had supposed that # few months of fruitless en- deavor to turn mediocre poetry into enough money to liveon would cure him of his folly, and that then he would go to work prosily but more femuneratedly. They were mistaken, He hat is the way the faddist genius, and, in his despondency, he took to drink. Formerly his habits had been eciream- spect, and he was regarded asulmost effeminate in bis nicety of manners and strict propicty of conduct. But he developed steadily and rap- idly into @ sot, and now he has been sent to an asylum ina hope that he may be cured of his appetite. AN ANORY DAUGHTER. An angry woman is the daughter of Stuart Robson, the comedian. When Alecia Robson was an actress ten years ago she was imperious in her temper and royal in her rieh dark beauty. She had great lustrous eyes, a form all soft curves and a musical voice that could woo or scorn with equal effect. One day a Boston scion of aristocracy Yell in love with her. He had an honored name, if he was not rich, and when Papaand Mamma Robson had approved of him Alecia wedded him, and they were in alittle nest that'was ever after lined luxuries. Robson never went back to the stage after she became Mrs. Morton 8. Cre- father was about to re-enter She not even Jat an engagement snd her varprise’ may be imagined when ahs news of the union wae eonveyed.to her by grap! constitutional objection ste not bave in this . pmother. may weight use ber of | viewed his failure as evidence of unappreciated | *" toften the asperity of Stuért Robson's detghter. ROBSON'S ROMANCE. Asfor Robson hirtisclf, he is frank to admit hat it is the foytul curmination of a love mateb. He has married the girl who a him as an actrees if hit compeey ard fascinated hina as a woman Teese attachment was from the first unconcealed from otier members of the 3 the early and they foresaw the denouement. But they did not expect it so quickly and that is why they are trying to explain it. It seems that the setious Robson and his flancee bad a love tiff; that there wne a resnit of om the one side and tears on the other. Then there is 4 aed of doubt in the story, but no loss bson, for it is certain that he engaged in exhilarating and relieving dinner at his old club with boon companions of other days, who saw to it that fizz flowed freely antil night be- game day, and there was no performance with Robson init that night, but a much-excited company, and wondering, dismissed audience, ard @ fearful fiancee behind the scenes. Penance of obsou's part came with the dawn, and with it also new resolves. In twenty-four hours Robsén had married May Waldron in the = hall. He is not a churchman, as those well know who remember his Ingersdltian eration over the body of Churles R. Thorne, suited the bride, who 1 the play bills, but Robson's da} Ate over. She says so, aid she looks like « wotnan of firmness. PLUMPING OYSTERS FOR MARKET. How the Bivaives Are “Fattened” by Artifice for Eptcures, ‘OT EVERY LOVER OF THE OYSTER knows that the size and plumpnese which aré so highly prized in the great American bi- valve, and which are 80 attractive in specimens on the half-shell or in stew as to lead the av- erage man to pay an extta prite for extra size, are not entitely natural. Yet it is the usual practice for dealers, instead of selling the oys- ters in the condition in which they are taken from the salt-water beds, to first place them for a time—forty-eight hours, more or less —in fresh or brackish water, in order, as they say, to “fatten” them, the operation being ealied “flonting” or “laying-out.” By this process the body of the oyster acquires such a plump- ness and rotundity, and its bulk and weight are so increased, as to materially increase its selling value. The belief is common among oyetermen that this “fattening” is due to an nal gain of flesh and fat and that the nutritive value of the mollusk is increased by the process. Such. however, is very far from being the truth. If a bladder be filied with salt water and then put into fresh water the salt water will gradually work its way out through the pores of the bladder and at the same time the fresher water will er.ter the bladder. Furthermore. the fresh water will goin much mote rapidly then the salt water goes out, cwing to the fact that the latter is more dense. ‘The result wili be that the amount of water in the bladder will be in- crensed anc the bladder will swel: by taking up more water than it loses while at the same time it loves a portion of the salt. ‘The same Principle exactly applies to the oyster. Roughly speaking, the bods of the osster may be regarded as a collection of membrane- ous sacs. ‘These sacs are impregnated with the salt of the sea water in which the animal lives. So long as the bivalve remains in the salt water the solution of salt within it isin equilibrium with the water outside. But when it is placed in frech or brackish water the salt passes out of the body anda larger amount of fresh water enters, producing the distension called ‘“fat- tening.” THEY FATTER IS WARM, FRESH WATER. Oystermen find that the oysters “fatten” much more quickly in fresh than in brackish water, quite naturally. Warmth, too, is so favorable to the process that it is sometimes found profitable alightly heat the water in which the oysters are floated. Although oysters are generally floated in the shell the same effect is very commonly obtained by adding fresh water to the oysters after they have been “shucked.” Oysters lose much of their salty flavor in floating, of course, and it is chiefly on that account that the specimens one eats are so apt to be less salt than would beagrecable to the alate. If the “fattened” oysters are left too mg on the float they become lean again. Ex- perienced dealers say that the time for allowing salt oysters to “‘lie out” is seldom over two or ‘three days, at the end of which time the maxi- mum plumpnes is obtained. At Franklin City, Md., oysters are “fattened” on a consider- able'scale, and one planter there warms fresh water for the purpose to 60 degrees Fahrenheit in winter by steam Pipes running beneath the wooden inclosure which surrounds the “plump- ing float.” Good fat oysters generally yield five quarts of solid meat to the bushel, but after floatin; two tides or more in a tide river they wil measnro six quarts per bushel Finally they arg taken from the shells, if they are to be shipped in that way, aud when the liquor is all strained off they are washed in cold fresh water ard packed for market. In warm weather they aro put into the water with ice In 4 report soon to be issued by the United States fish commission on this subject it is stated than an average quart of ofsters con- tains about the same quantity of nutritive sub- stance as a quart of milk or a pound of ver; Jean beef or a pourd and a half of fresh cod- fish or two-thirds of a pound of bread Oysters come nearer to milk than almost sor other common food material as regards bot the amounts and the relative proportions of nutrients, and the food values of equal weights of milk and oysters are pretty nearly the same. ee ee eee) IT WORKED BOTH WAYS. The City Man Had Some Fun With the Farmer and Was Sorry for It. From the New York Morning Journal. A characteristic West Virginia or eastern Kentucky road ran up the hill in its own wild fashion. The two stunted little mules hitched to the old-fashioned wagon tugged and stag- gered up the road along the hill with a sub- dued air of objection, The wheels of the vehicle were ridged deep with yellow clay from the last hollow passed, and the lege of the diminutive animale were daubed up to the belly with the sticky compound of water and virgin soii. ‘he antique driver sat upona pile of meal sacks in the rickety wagon, looking even more backwoodsy and remote than the rest of the outfit. Homespun, hickory, brogans and » million or so burrs completed his toilet, further effective thongh a big red bandana about his scrawny neck and a vigorous twirl to the long unkempt whiskers. ‘Down the hill came riding a town-bred man, with his brisk cutaway coat and his Prince Albert self-aasurance on. The legs of his horse “painted with the prevalent yellow ‘Why can’t I? There's & couple of mud holes down, the road there bit that will swallow both those rats of yours!” grinned the facetious town- bred man, tipping his whip toward the diminu- tive mules, 4 ‘The old man sat silently » moment. ‘Then he got down and carefully tightened the band {bis gear, nnd backed off tro propellers. Climb- o ered dubio il, Then he scratched his head. — “Ig them holes pretty deep?” “No bottom!” cheerfully returned the town- red man. i ad you come through ‘em yourself?” “Yea.” rid through all right?” “Yen ‘The old man's grizzled face bright smile of reassurance. He pulled up his lines, whacked the small animals a couple with his hoop pole goad and shouted: “G'lang there, Moses and Aaron! A mule kin git through ef a Jackaes kin!” SEK ins Ghee went Oror Weel ou thas while the town-bred man got down, venom. kicked the at all and soured vinegar pickles. ‘His View of Is. From London Tid-Bits. ‘Miss Parkwood—‘“Do you know, sir, that I could sue you for breach of promise?” Young Dashaway—“‘Ob, I think not.” “Why, sir, did yo not ask me to marry “Yeu.” “And I consented?” “Yes.” “Well, sir?” «Well, 1 dido't the one’ that THE OLD MOOR See WHERE CORNWA’ SURRENDERED The Old Moore House and the Effort to Preserve It. IANKS ARE DUE TO THE WOMEN OF America for the revival of interest in the subject of securing and preserving for the pub- lie grotnds which are hallowed by their asso- ciation with the struggle for American inde- pendence. Many years ago suggestions came from every quarter that such places should be secured and beautified by the government of the United States. It was argried that it would have ® most excellent effect on the rising generatiofts as well as preserve the interesting memorials for future generations. The three pieces of ground mentioned most particularly were that of Washington's home, Moant Ver- non, next thet of Valley Forge, where Wash- | ington wintered his ragged but brave little army, and; last, but not least, Temple farm at Yorktown, Va., on which the Americans fought their last and decisive battle of the war and where stands tho historic Moore house, in which the articles for the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, with the British army and navy, were arranged. But the women fearing th: through the tardiness of Congress, the home of Washington might become dilapidated and and go toruin,moved in the matter of securing Mount Vernon, t ‘ther with all articles of furniture that coul and, piading it in order, made arrangements that the American people could visit it and see | itin nearly the same condition that it was when the father of his country lived there. Many are the visitors who find their way there and return to their homes to tell their childrer of the patriotism of Washington and his army and what they suffered to give us the inheritance of a great nation. ¢ Mount Vernon was secured in this way there was © movement to influence Congress to buy Valley Forge in Penn- sylvania and Temple farm in Virginia, and also to erect monuments on most battlefields, especially those where victor had been gained. but Congress di Women of the country, becoming tired of de- be had belonging to it, | id not act. | ‘The Battle of the Paseett Girts and the Flower Girls im the Himirs College. Prow the Pot-Papres On the day after election hy lively time tn the dining room of the Elmins Female College. And tt wif always be a souree of rogret that we were not there as an invited guest. The performance was altogether re markable, and to ® spectator in masculine attiro it would bave proved of deop and abit ing interest. The reports that have reached ue are somewhat fragmentary, and we are sorry to may that they are not accompanie! by photographs, but we can tell our readers some- what happened many young Indies who attend that tnt: tution of learning took great interest in the political canvase The home of the repntlican candidate was in Elmira, some of the girls had seen him and thought him “jnet os handsome ashe could be,” and the republicans among them deciared that the men who were oppowng him were “just too mean for anything. The democratic girls, on the other hand, said that Mr. Fassett it be pretty, but baw pri lackest) soindity ted to Roswell I. was a mighty Ta E HOUSE | tes. have set ont to bry Valley Forge dhder | the auspices of the Dangliters of "76. | The movement has had the hearty indorse- | ment of Mrs. Harrison, the patriotic lady of the White House. In 1890 the Patriotic Sons of Amerien in their yd of the states were represented, begged | Congress to secure as public grounds and « ne | tional relic Temple farm at Yorktown, Va. Phe same call has been heard from other pa- trioti¢ organizations, but as yet Congress done nothing in the matter. | Temple farm contains abont 500 acres and is situated most beautifully on the high banks of | the York river on the east side of Yorktown, | from which the scenery across the river and Chesapeake bay is grand. ‘The farm forme the | battlefield on which the Americans fought their tgrent fight. This is the place where Lord Cornwallis gave up his sword. Here i* the ¢ where the command “Ground your arma” was invented and the Englixhmen marched out | to obey the command, while the dram corps | played “The World's Turned Upside Down.” his appeared to them as a very appropriate mame after having it all their own way and driving all before them for £0 long. In about the center of Temple farm stands the old Moore house, in which the terms of sur- render were arranged for the proud army and navy with its haughty commander, Cornwallis, Well may it be said that this is the birthplace of our American independence and that the infant nation was born in this house, for the | articles which were drawn up in this house ended the war and constituted virtually a deed to the land Americans loved so much. strument also crowned Washington « gr: nd made him “Father of his country.” Itis that Washington spent a tew of the proudest hours of his life in the Moore house, for this house was the headquarters of Wash- ington, Lafayette and Rochambeau immedi ately before and during the time of the eur- render. turing the centennial celebration of 1881, | which was bela on this farm, the Moore house was elegantly furnished and turned over to the French guests, descendents of Lafayette and Rochambeau. Since the celebration the house and grounds have been visited by many per- eons. TRUMBULL CONTRADICTS BROWN. He Claims That the Admiral Makes Incor- rect and Misleading Statements. Mr. Ricardo L. Trumbull, who has repre- sented the Chilean revolutionists in this coun- try during the late war in that country, and who figured quite prominently in the loading of the Itata with arms and ammunition for the Tevolutionists at San Francisco some time ago, which resulted in discharge, arrived in New York city from Los Angeles, Cal., yesterday on his way to his na- tive land. Mr. Trumbull was seen last night by a reporter and he discussed Chilean matters With no little vim. “The papers print a Brown—explanations deal about Admiral his actions during the t—this morning,” he éaid, and what I want to state is that I consider his statement very in- correct and misleading. In his interview Ad- miral Brown says first that the fact of the land- ing of the revolutionists at Quintaros was known in Valparaiso long before he left the city to go there. It is undoubtedly true that every one in Valparaiso knew that the ins: gent fleet was at Quintaros, but no one kn they had made a imrory 4 there. Ina letter to Minister Egan Admiral Brown éndeavors to ex- plain Lis actions in this affair by oe | that Balmaceda’s intendente, Admiral Viel. him this. The fact is, howevet, that Admiral Viel himself wae not aware of the landing of the insur- gerts, for after Admiral Brown left Val- paraieo for Quintaros Admiral Viel tele- graphed Balmaceda that he expected the insurgents to make the atttack on the south of Valparaiso. The mort conclusive proof that Admiral Viel aid know the insurgent army had innded was the fact that the government troops not ordered out of Valparaiso until after the return of the San Francisco to Valparaiso from Quintaros. Admiral Brown has also stated that the news of the insurgents landing had | reached Valparaiso by telegraph. To show you the untrathfalness of this statement I will state that there was in fact no telegraphic com- Se = oy sot yet Juintaros and Valparaiso. The telegraph operator at Quin- tures undoubtedly found it unsafe to remain in teach of the gunsof theinsurgent ficet. Again, Admiral Brown says thet none of his officers or crew gave any informaation regarding what they had seen during their visit to Quintaros and that the statement ‘that the papers got out ex- tras’ stating that by the kindness of theSan Fran- cisco’s officers they gave the particulars of the landing of the insurgents at Quintaros, was al- together false. si “The papers, adds Admiral Brown, did not publish anything of the kind. Copies of these papere that did publish this very statement are in some of the newspaper offices of this city. That is strange, isn’t it? ‘Admiral Brown thinks probably that none of bis crew gave any information ut Valparaiso. The fact is ms one of his crew did. it was telegraphed = to Santiago, and the Gaceia Commercial, the organ of the Balmacedists at Valparaiso, published the following: tates war ship San Francisco yesterday we know for acertainty that the revolutionists have disembarked trom twelve trans] sand six war ships &,0UU men to the vicinity of Concon and Quintaros.” “Admiral Brown seems to have been very ignorant of what was going on. He apparently did not read the papers. He has certainly given no satisfactory reason for his going up to Quin. taros. ‘He could not go up there to protect Amer- ican interests, for there were no American terests up there. Ifhe went there to wate the naval operations, why did be not rema there? None of the foreign war ships stationed at Vulparaiso thought it necessary to go up to Quintaros, and it is strange that Ad- miral Brown, whose extreme prudence during the Chile-Peruvian war would not permit his men to rescue drowmmg sailors after the blowing up of the transport Loa bya tor- pedo, should have been so indisereet. “The American citizens in Valparaiso all condemned his action and some of them pro- tested against his going to Quintaros at such « time to the American consul at Valparaiso. The consul’s answer was that an American admiral bad a to go where he d—d is the only explanation I have ever seen of Admiral Brown's extraordinary Balmaceda’s which claimed thot he expected to receive news of ‘the insurgents’ movements from s neutral war ship. “After Admiral Brown's return from tacos the tnthinking pablie wore lod to baiere that Balmaceda referred to Admiral 2 ‘Mr. Trambull said he would retura by the xt vessel to Valparaiso. He impos rt ont divisions to The result is that takes the rails slippery and tthe lonven rafuse So melt or tronsty bas stick AS to the rails until Rev. RB & Bingham. arrest but his ultimate | ‘From trustworthy news brought by the United | this COMRADES IN ARREAKS. Back Dues to the G. A. R. Should Be Re- mitted if It Can Be Done. Commander-in-chief John Palmer of the G.A.R. in general orders No.6, just issued, says: “The commander-in-chief observes with gr Tegret that the number of suspended members is so large. He recommends, that, until suit- able legislation can be had, each post appoint & committee to examine into the circumstances of members in arrears, carefully and thoroughly, | and that, upon a favorable report of this com- mittee, the post remit the dues unpaid of all, except so much thereof ax may be needed to pay the per capita tax. Should worthy com- rades not be able to pay even this emall amount, he hopes that those whom Providence has favored will come to the assistance of their un- fortunate brethren, for one of the pillars of our society is charity.” sheeple: SILENCE KEIGNED SUPREME, A High-Wind Symposium in Which the First Story Tellers Had No Ubance. From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. “I guess we will have a storm tonight,” ob- served Hornaday, coming into the cabin on the mountain side and glancing casually out of the open door at the clouds rapidly rolling up in the northwest. podner,” commentec the host. “We some- times has right peart storms up hye “Wind, I suppose?” asked Callico “Yas, pooty muchly wind. An’ when it do | blow it passes the bill right over the President's veto, podner, you bet.” ‘Blows pretty hard in Arizona,” said Horna- | day, feeling called upon for a specimen. “T've | seen the thinnest sort of mge-brush twigs | driven three feet deep into granite boulders | by the sheer force of the wind.” | ““Yer, they say the breeze is pretty fresh in Arizona,” commented Cailicott, “but, land © joshen, it can't touch the northw i seen every drop of water blown of w river bed for miles at a time and running along in a solid mass on the top of the opposite | bank, forced np there and held by the pressure of the gale.” “Here she comes!” cried the old hunter, as the storm broke over the calin and the wind rushed by like a fiend infernal, sbricking and screaming horribly. **How fast does you gents | ‘spose them winds of yourn uster blow on | workin’ days?” “Well,” yelled Hornaday, to be heard above the howling tornado, “the sigual service in Arizona reported it as about 190 auiles an your.”” “Up there in the northwest,” chipped in Cal- licott, at the top of his lungs, “the wind bas been estimated at 190 miles an hour and up- “Humph,” contemptuously put in the ob mountaineer, “do you gents call that blowin You just wait a shake or two and Ili size up i phyr that's amusin’ iteelf outside. | It commenced blowin’ when?” ‘Just fifteen minutes ago by my chronome ter,” replied Hornaday. The ol “Come here,” he called, opening » small | Peephole as he spoke, throngh which the storm | Tushed madly with “a whistle like a steam engine. Sniffing at the air once or twice he }eaid: “I thought so. What d’yer smell ‘Phew! Something rotten—skunk !” gagged Callicott, holding his nose. “Limburger cheese!” ejaculated Hornaday. “Right, my bully buck! light you arc! That's limburger cheese you smells. Fifteen minutes ago that wind blew through the front door of Pete Gashwiler’s saloon in Bobyille, | right across the free lunch counter.”* “Well?” interrogated the two hunters. “Bobville’s just agzactly 279 miles from where you din’ this bere identickle minute!” ‘Then silence reigned supreme inside, while the breeze from Bobville continued its jaunt. oo oo Suggestive. From Good News. Miss De Pretty—‘“Let's forma secret soci- ety.” Miss De Pink—“Let'’s. Just like the Odd Fellows and Red Men. Call it the ‘Ancient Order of—or King’s Daughters.’ ” — the ‘Ancient Order of mAs. i e ‘Miss De Young—“Or the ‘Ancient Order of | ‘Miss Oldmaid—“Oh, don't let's call it the ancient order of anything.” ‘What's in a Name? national convention held in Washington, where | “Wouldn't be s'prized a durn bit if we did, | fellow burried to the door. { re Flower, declering twat shite short "and bis height some i, he was “nn all-round nd no ian who wore Tom Platts eob | lar could beat him ina political race. There Fassett girl would borrow some gum from 6 | Flower girl and remark that the Tammeny | fiker wasn't in it, whereapon there woald tee ly m the cratic side “nie "em, | Tige’” followed by a fasillade of yu | brashes, botties of hair invigorator Weapons. Conflicts like these were of frequent occurrence aud numerous bets of perfumers, hewing gum. gloves and e great i ts in th ombons testi ti | eve the excitement was intense. Some of the girls | wanted to xo np town and hear the retarna, | and dwelt carnestly the beantios of ster | eopticon exhit They * aure they wouldn't eatch cold, and i would be ench fen | But the teachers, who bad ai despair all efforts to keep the minds of the girls on their lessons, drew the hne on the stereopticon and suggested the wiadom of Those on one side wowid plenty to fortify them against isappointment of the morrow; those om | the other would need plenty of deep #9 that restrain themselves and prevent joy from running into hysterics, And #e by 10 o'clock the girls were in bed. Bat it wax long after tnat hour before they went to sleep. The republican girls stayed awake to plan » moonlight serenade im bbnor of Mra. Fassett, and the democratic girls were devising sare and means of celebrating the triumph they knew was coming. Morning dawned bright and beautifnl | somebow or other it usunliy dawns that way and the girls, with anxious faces and hearts | that went pit-a-pat.bunted in wild and entrane ing dishabitiefor the morning paper. A com | venient newsbor was found, pennies were showered upon bim, his papers were seized, and each girl hustied off to ber room to stili the beatings and read the news where her emotior would not become the subject of ridicule. It did not take the dem- | ccratic girls long to get the gind tidings, and they were soon marching in triumph through the corridors. | Nothing was seen of the republican givts until the bell rang to summon them to dinner. | Then they marched into the dining owt and etatcly, clad in solemn black abd all the Babiliments of deopest woe! The democratic girlt therenpon appeared with red bandanina aprons, gorgeous featwers, bright ribbons and sparkling jewels. Wore smiles on their faces, there was in their eyes, they were joyous and happy. dinner proceeded rather mlently. a democratic giri would remark thatahe | after all it would have been justas well if party had let Mr. Fossett carry his own town and county, “for there was really no use in rub- bing it in.” Whereupon another would remark | that he didn’t agree with thia view, the deme- crata carried ment tot ‘of course le little cruel of them tofight Mr. Fassett ao hag A that he ran behind his ticket where he knew him best! And a third would eng gest that the Janmany tiger was feeling pretty well, thank you. And then with three cheers for the hayseeds whe wouldn't vote for Pas sett the democratic girls arose from the table and started for the door,waving thelrbandanna aprons in the faces of the foe. Was too much for the republican git, | Springing to their feet they made « dash fer | those bandanas. A wild scramble followed and the dining room became at once the scene of indescribable . The loud cries onset were mingled with the crash of dishes, jand the girls became a mass of squirming, shrieking femi iy na after anothet was torn from a shapely waist and ripped inte (ragments with yells ef triumph, and the democratic girls were being forced, slowly, but surely, intoa corner. But one sme inserte | of a republican oppo the tide of battle turned. ‘A bright y from Michigan grabbed two of he P | by the air, a her tecth in the ofa third and kicked wt all th The republicawe | weakened and fell back, and the victori | demoe: | good | Accord wildly at the garmcuts of the fic . and ¢ noise of ripping wind tearing cluth blended | with the shouts of vietory | But at this interesting momenta brigade of teachers, Miss Prim at their bead, charged | through’ the room, separated th) combatants and ended the conflic Jn the afternoon | demoralized, but » geta little sympathy f didn’t get » Mrs. F pointed tw who wax trying tw the baby “Papa is in the soup 1 . + we can only say that if Fe Cob in the Fl a they would cease their bendanna xprons. And to the readers of the Post-Erpress we can only say that this i¢.@ true story —with only trifling and, on the whole, excusable embellish: ments. | see THE HORKOKS OF LEPROSY, The Disease Raffles Medical Setence, bat tee Fijians Can Care It. From the St. Loa's Giote Democrat | vit isa rather remarkable thing that medical | science is still in such a state of deplorable | ignorance with regari tothe disease of lep- waid Mr. Moriell at the Southern. “In all other ailments the progress of the last twenty-five years hus been such a8 to warrant the hope that the time will come when there is no complaint from which a human being suffers whici cannot be diagnosed and treated with success. But in leprosy the progress, if any, ts slow. In India today the leper is as coumon as he was many years ago. You meet him about the streets, you see him begging under the verandas of every house of the “The lepers are isolated —cnst out even from their cwn fem'ly—and ft brs been recorded that the government has had to interfere to | Prevent a father burying his own son alive in | Srder to prevent a spren | the Holy Land the Tepere roaming about and begging from every visitor, and, inteed, in several other parts of the world they are to be met with in equal num- bers. The English government has sent out commissions to India to inguire into the subject, but so far little has pli There is not as yet, as, far ax I com | make ont, «a -D., emeritus ofthe Fira Prestyterian arch of Senay Oy, a thd; PSilas BM. Clark of the Penn siren spreme court dled last night et bio ane ‘Vivorts, Sil ‘walt pert spring. se aps A