Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1891, Page 8

8 FOR THE LITTLE ONES. How to Dress the Household Tyrants Warmly and Becomingly. COSTUMES FOR CHILDREN. Quaint and Picturesque Combinations—Why Well-Dressed Children Are Apt to Be Well Kehaved—Little Girls’ Gowns for Indoors— Mylish Hats for Winter. Byecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. ‘New Yor, December 13, 1891. HE CHRISTMAS holidays are at band, and as this glad season of the year is main! devoted to the glori- * fication and apotheo- sis of childhood, I make no apology for devoting an entire 5— letter to the considera- tion of children’s cos- tumes. Children have |!" bem ealied “diseour- f selfishness,” of the family,” and this ix the Gict, in spite of & dissenting voic QUAINT AND PICTURESQUE. felt, which may be trimmed with ribbon of s darker shade; upstanding bows front and back and two little green paroquets in front. Still another felt—a beige trimmed with cream bons—attracted my attention by ite The brim was at the back was a large bow of the ribbon set bent portion and acting as sort of then from some bachelor apartment. a growl from some dweller in loneliness, to whom the patter of iittle feot, the ripple of child voices and the mad, merry romping through the hail- way bas uo more sweetness than any other noise. Bat as the children rule the household they caz afford to laugh attheir enemies. They Brow their power and are not siow to enfor ft They may be tyrants at times, but it is thing for us grown folks that these little its can't be driven out. WELL DAEASED AND WELL BXMAVED, Other things being equal, a wel! dressed child is aptto be awell-bebayed child. and thore is no surer sign of a happy and wel regulated bousebold than vwell-d advantages of the bargain cou: Arem- pant of ivory plish will make baby a pretty wrap, closed in front with hooks and sot oif by ceverai silk Brandenburgs, cut suck ebape, ith piain sieeves. Christmas is presumably a ch d it is quite natural that lite Hronjeris thosid look forward. to anv pelisse or a new gown for the h Sren’s festival, Bess or tiny make a pelisse for a six-yeat-older you take a remnant of pearl gra: make it with a cape, trim eape. co! ttom of skirt with gray fur and line w garment | needs to be wa: i. of cour: er trim- Ming alko loo well This see in front with hooks and bas a girdle, with LITTLE Gtats costcME. This illustration pictures a pretty costume for « little girl of from four tosix. It is made Bp in striped woolen stuff with a light ground, is lined with satinette and gathered at the neck. ‘The skirt has no opening. but is made with a drawing string so that it may be enlarged at will, The front bread:b red and there ig a narrow belt. The corsage is made doubie im front and the outside blouse-like portion has an elastic at the bottom. It is sewed on one side and closes with books on the other under ‘the jacket. The collar is straight and closes in frout. The upper part of the loose front hooks tecollar seam and hasa piping. The broad collar of the jacket has a seam to the back so that the siripes may run in an opposite di- rection. The material of the Jacket should be ef the same color as the stripes of the dress Watcrial The point to be kept steadily in view in making a child’s gown is not to give it a look of being overdone. Simplicity aud re- finement should go band in hand. So heavy and @laborate are some of the costumes which one sees upon children nowadsys that one feels a Strong inclination to reach out and free the oor little tot from its prison garb, or, better said, imprisoning garb. repoom pRasszs. Teaa's do better to make you understand my | all point than by asking your attention te the ex- teemely stylish litle gown worn by the child on the left as represented in the third illus:ration. Tt & made princess form, the corsage being of finely pleated and the skirt of dannel rselet style in front and fitted to the the bacis. The corsage hooks invisibly back and is laced as far down as the ‘Two bands of embroidery encircle the The cuffs are finished to match The are pleated and so is the collar, which cht on the right in the same illastra- neat house dress made prin- terial is a spotted stuff in two sawe color, and is lined with silk it 2 F aittt fl i if zf fr are Fl : | 2 4 gE & i é H i t Fi 5 EF j i . if astraten f ial A HH ith +e ‘ ay H Esé if if | i i | tf t if A large felt sailor is often n- 3; 80, too, STYLISH LITTLE CLOAK. low-crown sailor. The French felt and the new rough felt are also good styles of hats for little folks. WARM AND BECOMING, To see that the woe lady of the household is warmly and becomingiy clad when she goes out for « walk ie a very important matter-—impor- tant for her health and likewise for her feel- ings, for she is quick to note the fact when playmate or te is better dressed than she is She jovestly by this keen eye for the beautiful, for she is the daughter of mother. ‘The last illustration represents a very pretty style for aclonk Jt may be made up inalmos any woolen stuff, rough or smooth, and the erenelated basques and bertha should be finished with ribbon of barmonious It looks very well made up in beige or a white vicuna. The hat worn by this stately little lady 18 of the modish pattern known ai the pastry cook's cap and is extremely becom- ing te litile folks, upon whose tangied curls it sits with a great di al of grace. yle in which to make up a is to have a plastron effeet with embroidered revers which are edged with a Tufile of faille, wide at the shoulder and then decreasing in width and reaching quite down to the bottom of the garment on each side of the opening. Still another consists of a loose sack form made up in rough-faced goods and fitted with a velvet yoke, from which falls a pelerine of the woollen’ material neatly edged with bias of velvet; a high velvet collar goes with this pretty mantle. Now, before taxing leave of these amiable tyrants of the household I want to caution mothers against neglecting little hands and feet. These business ends of children require close attention to display beauty and symmetry in after life. The children themselves abuse them, and often times a pounded finger is ne- glected until the nail is lost forever. Footwear, too, needs the parent's patient care, legt the boy or gir! later in life have good eause 1 find fault with the happy-go-lucky style of bringing up which fell to bis or her lot ——— << THE MONTANA GEMS. A Helens Man Talks of the Great Find of Stones. From theSan Francisco Chronicle, Richard Lockey, a prominent capitalist and mining man of Helena, Mont, is in the city on his way home from a business tour of the Nevada mining country. Apart from his com- mercial interests Mr. Lockey is well known in connection with an institution peculiar to his state. This institution is the “House of Lords,” or the “Third House,” and it sits at Helena whenever the legislature is in session, passes ‘bills with much mock debating, and its mem- bers not only have good tumes, but their dis- cussion of and action upon current questions has not a little moral effect om the body of law- makers which it burlesques. Mr. Lockey has been the presiding officer of this mock assembly for soveral sessions, and that is why his friends call him the “Duke of Last Chance.” “The reopening of the groat Anaconda mines and smelting works a few weeks ago,” said Mr. Lockey last night. “has made things much among the working classes In these and works 4,000 or 5,000 people are regn- larly employed and the shut down last March Was a serious matter for many of them.” Lockey also bears witness to the truth of the stories about the so-called dismond fields which lie along both banks of the Missourt river, a dozen miles or more to the northeast of Helena. “There are few, if any, diamonds found there,” be said,“but some beautiful sap- phires and rubies have been taken out. There hag been no attempt so far to work the ground systematically, and now tne weather makes operation impossible. There is a large field and it has been pretty well staked out into claims. The idea is to gel! out to an English syndicate and have the mines Soa. T believe a portion of the ground been bonded by such a syndicate. “The precious stones are found in the gravel the way from the surface to the bod rock, ‘are taken out by a simple and easy process of washing. So far as I know there has been no attempt to make a geologicai investigation of these Jewel beds or to learn the souree from French Silks, From Leisare Hoar. ‘The total produetion of manufactured silk in the world per aunum is estimated at a value of £64,000,000, and of this at least £25,000,09¢ ix produced in France. The French consumption of raw silk ia 1890 was not much under 10,- 000,000 pounds, the value of which is reckoned at from £10,000,000 to £12,000,000. ‘Taking in the value of wool, cotton and other fibre in mixed fabrics of the silk factories, the total will amoant to m gheut £16,000,000. The France — eilk the value of take ie England a by the United States am sand Gorman ‘houses ‘re serious rivals Roane scene Srereapialy tnewesting titis lk teot are wclnekebccs for Fug wil decire the silk factories there. “fz EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, BOOK STORES OF OLD, Where Many Famous Men Had Their Headquarters. LITERATURES STRONG ALLY. The Link Betweca Auther and Publisher— Some Famous Names is Knglish Histery— Populaz Mesorts in Washington—Fysuck ‘Taylor and Joe Shillingtes and Their Vis- itors. ‘Written for The Evening Btar. it Iaew PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS AND the book stores have ever been the allies of authors and the rendezvous of the literati. ‘Tho whole range of English literature is filled with the associations of these, farming a most interesting portion of the life of the period in which they lived. Beginning with William Caxton, in the fifteenth century, the list of these worthies would filla volame and a re- currence to them brings up all the literature of the period to which they gavelife. Wynkyn de Worde, Richard Payson and others down to Rayne Wolfe, who was the printer to Henry VIII, and then to Jacob Tonson, who was Dryden's publisher, and John Dunton, who was Shakespeare's publisher and the publisher of Greene and Marlow, who were wretchedly paid for their work and whose lives were passed in abject poverty. Samuel Simmons was Milton’s publisher, and paid him £5 for “Paradice Lost” and £5 more when 1,600 copies were sold. He purobased the right from the heirs of Milton to con- tinue Publication after his death for 48. He also published some of Shakespearo's plays, An carly publisher named Curl was ‘wico plored and fined for obscene publications, omas Guy, @ publisher and Dockselles, after oars of saviig became wealthy from dealing in the South bonds and founded Guy's ‘Hospital. PAMILIAN NAMES, Richardson, novelist and publisher, whose “Clarissa” some of your old readers have wept over, and Edward Cave, from the very humblest beginning, became the editor and publisher of the Gentleman's Magazine and ‘was the first publisher of the Debates in Parlia- ment Heand his heiver hid themeelv. the gallery and made the reports clandesti: ‘Thomas Cadell and Andrew Donaldson were the pioneers of choap editions in the latier Part of the eighteonth century. The Long- mars are names familiar to ull lovers of books, and for years they were the publishers of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Scott and ‘Moore in poetry, and of Lindiey Murray's gram- it was before the days of the The [alter dove of the book bayewwand sellers ve not gone by, for the book whieh line the avenue seem to be ‘more or less crowded. ‘THES AND NOW. ‘The difference seems to me to be that in the days I write of the book store was» resort and Mr. Teyior was an , and when they find what they want tarred by the price, “In a recent visit fo London Mr. Benll purchased some rare books and when we iooked at the condition of them and the date of their exemplified how books ou! owners. Here is “Coll; Ry, 1780; Thomas Hobbes’ “Peloponnesian are,” 1629; “Works of Charles I," 1687, and others, Anong the liberal buyers of books of the pres- ent day, Mr. Beall says, is Senator Hoar of Mas- sachusetts, whose library is one of the best in the eity. 4 LOAN WELL SEPAID. ‘Mr. Beail relates am incident of Humphrey Marshall, whu was » constant visitor to Taylor's book store in the ante-bellum days. One even- ing be borrowed of Mr. Taylor $309, and went into the faro bank of Goode & Prindle, next door to Taylor's store, and won $1,000. which he spent next day in books. From Franck Tay- lor's book store has graduated some of our most public-spirited citizens, Mr. C. C. Glover of Ry Co. and others, and Mr. Beall, despite bis devotion to books, has become largely interested jn the city railroads as director and stockholler. SOME VAMILI4R OLD Frnus. The old stand at tho corner of 11th street was where for many years the Inte Robt. Farnham end after him Blanchard & Mohun kept a book store. The old house ef Morrison & Co., which for years was on the avenue near 434 street, and is still ehrried on by one of the ZOUREoE members of tho family. Teay younger, ut I speak of the old houso as I know it so well forty years ago. Ono of Washington's old book stores is that of Ballantyne. ‘lhe namo recalls Walter Scott's printer, and as the elder Mr. Balleatyne ise native of Scotland there may bea relationship. I canrecal) Mr. Ballan- tyne and his store for a geod many years. The foundor of the house of itano T remember away back in the early fifties whon he kept a Rews stand in @ basement on ge near Bleeker street. He began life andef th A ous disadvantage of # lameness which would have rendered man of less enterprise almost helpless, but bis energy made ar.opds for that drawback and he grew into wealth ds years ad- vanced and dicd jeaving his name associated wiih literature and its productions. The second- hand book stores here are quite numerous, one of which contains a collection not surpassed by thove of New York. Wa:ington, since I first remember, has been a market for books The private libraries to be found here and the gov- ernmental patronage has made the fortunes of several of our booksellers in the past,and those of the prosent day will doubtless follow the ex- mar. The names of Constable and Walter Scott are almost inseparabje, and connected With them is the name of James Ballantyne, who printed the carly works of Scott. ScoTr As 4 PUBLISHER. When Scott wrote “Waverly” aud the suc- ceeding novela “by the author of Waverly” his incognito was most tigidly kept, the entire work being rewritten and the proofs copied in du- licate. The success of we works Was won- erful, and Scott became a very wealthy man and rebuilt Abbottsford, but in the eud, by the failure of the publishing house in which bo was @ partner, became deeply involved, from which yeare of intense labor hardly releaved him. The name of John Murray is as inseparably connected with that of Lord Byronas Constabie and Scott. John Murray suececded bis father and became the publisher of Evron's pooms, and in Byron's letters the relationship exist- between them is exhibited as very close. There has been in some instances an antagonistic feeling repre- sented as existing between these mutually de- pendent forces, aud some one of the neglected writers said the publishers drank their wine from the skulls of authors, and at a dinner Campbell, the poet, proposed the health of Napoleon Bonaparte, who had just hung a book- selier of Nuremberg. | Amos Cottle was « pub- lisher and poet and for some disagreement with him Byron lampooned him in verse— “Oh! Amos Cottle! Phebus wi ‘To Bil the speaking trump of fame. 4 LIBERAL PUBLISHER. Cottle is spoken of as very liberal, for when Coleridge had been offered £6 for his lyrics, including “The Ancient Mariner,” Mr. Cottle gave him £30andan additional sum when a ¢ertain number of copies had been sold. He was the liberal friend and publisher of Southey aud Wordsworth, Blackwood's. Magazine which at first was a dead failure and suepended publication when the tenth number had been issued, rose like the Phanix and became one of the most important gnd valued and valuable publications of the age Bulwer'sand Lovers novels appeared as serials in it and the noct ambrosia of Jock Wilson, “Christopher North, and other distinguished contributors made it the leading magazine of the world. It was there the “Hymus to the Gods,” by Pike, first appeared in 1830,1 think,and he was hailed asthe coming poet. The portraits of Prof. Wilson and Gen. Pike are very much alike ist the size and style of men. THE FAMOUS MUDIE LrBRanY. An institution connected with books anda remarkable one is the Mudie Circulating brary. Its subscribers are furnished with the earliest editions of all publications, and the popularity of au author may be jndged by the number of volumes subscribed for by this great library. Of Macaulay's Hist and other works 2,400 copie ivingstone ird@¥els, 2,000 copies: Enoch Arden, 9,340 copies; 1,500 copies of Lothair were first ordered and increased to 3,000 copies. Chambers, Kuight & Cassell pub- lished the literature for the people at such prices as to reach the most moderate means. EARLY WASHINGTON Book STORES. All this account of the great publishing houses and book stores on the other aide of the Atlantic brings us to our own city, for we can boast of establishments here which have served the statesmen of the it and present who con- gregate in our city. The first memory of book stores I have were of Davis & Force, Pishe Thompson, John Kennedy and James Riordan, and succeeding Pishey Thompson was Franck Taylor, whose store for years was the resort of the moxt distinguished men of the day. Thosewho remember Mr. Fox, the British minister, whose eceontricities made him an object of interest, will recall him as a daily visitor to Franck Tuy lor's book store, Mr. Packenhar, Sir John Crampton, who suceceded him, Mr. Webster, Mr Ol Robert Toombs, Gen. Jes: sup, Mr. Corcoran, Admiral Morris, Com. Ma thew P. Maury and his cousin, John W. Maury, Senator min, Albert Pike, Gen. Scott, Jefferson Davis, Charles Sumuer, Rob’t C. Winthrop, Senaiore Badger and Mangum of jorth ‘Thomas Bwing, Revordy John- son, George W. Riggs, Col. Benton and Hum- phrey Marshall were among the many who almost daily visited the store. Of our own citizens James M. Carlisle, Joseph H. and Wm. A. Bradley, Mr. Gales, Mr. Ne y, ton and Mr. Biair will’ be remembered. Mr. Rob’t Beall, be regarded as tho successor of Frank was in that well-remembored store, and ‘THE OLDEST BOOK SELLER im the city. Mr. Beall’s momory is stored with incidents of those magnates of a past when giants abounded in public life. Mr. Beall re- lates an incident of Col. Benton coming in the store and asking for a Latin grammar, and at thatday “Dullion's” was’ dhe grammag, and it ior, who lnaghed end said: “Wit, tenga wi a a me “Old Bullion.” and thoy'ii aay I wrots thia mar." Col Benton ‘was a daily visitor at Tiyloc's, oo be eubecqueatiy beesma’ ot he NEWSPAPER STORE OF JOSEPH @¥ILLINOTON. Tt was at Shillington's be one day met Mr, Corbia, who becamne subsequently a brother-in- law of General Grant. Corbin was at that time clerk to the committee of ways and meons and : dent of some 4 i i ; # a Ts dt ample of their predecessors. All this long story of books demonstrates that the people of Washington are a reading people. Joun F. Corn. — es THE NEWEST SLANG. Phrases Born of the Stable, the Paddock and the Turf. From the New York Herald. “Say, what's Tom Bowling doing now?” “Ob, he’s just doing the best he can. “Poor fellow, he deserves better than that. He's one of the whitest men Lever knew. I'd slip 'm a fiver meself if I could find him.” ‘The speakers were clean shaven young men on upper Broadway. Their gaudy cravate, their crackly varnished boots and their healthy, rosy outdoor color, together with their vocabulary, showed plainly that they were of that vast army who “follow the horses.” In understandable words, they were men who live by going to the races and betting on them. Men who bet on races and don't go to them are quite another elass—generally poverty stricken. ‘These fellows were prosperous and well fed, perhaps a trifle over fed. But why did they pity a comrade who was doing the best he could? How could he “de- serve better than thai?” Can any man do bet- ter than his best? I was much mystified. Later I met my friend who follows the horses and learned new thing from him. ‘To do the best one can is about the newest slang on this side of the Atlantic. It comes from the stable, the paddock, the tun. We all know that as far back as the days of good Queen Bess the horsemen—horse racers, horse dealers and horse stealers—had more’ to do with enriching the Qneon's English than Sir Euphues ever had. horsemen for picturesque, perhaps a trifle vulgar, additions to our vocabulary. WOW To DO THE BEST YOU CAN. When ® man is doing the best he can be is ina parlous state. Too much devotion to the Goddess Fortune bas melted his last dollar. Then he does the best he can by angling for invitations to dinner, by borrowing « dollar oratenner here and there from kind friends and by sleeping in a standing position in the lobby of some minor hotel. Luck turns, and presto! He no longer doos the best he can. He is merely doing well— queer thing that well should be better than the best! Thave noticed that many smart young fel- lows of late huve taken to saying: “I gave him an argument,” when they mean to tell that they have convinced some one with overmas- tering logic. ‘This, too, comes trom the race track It is hard to find in ordinary speec an exact equivalent for the phrase. The untutored children of the turf are yery meager of words. They have a way of talking with actions that leaves words lagging superfluous. They dis pute, of course, but their disputations consist of the repetition of the same phrases again and again, followed by the placing of abet. That ig their most convincing eloquence. “Money talks” is a truth that every one of us has heard, ARGUMENT HAS A NEW MEANING. On the turf there is no such thing as two sides toan argument. Preposterous! Either @ proposition is “an argument” or it isn't. If ement 01 y relates is experien I tried to give her an argument for it, but she woulda’t favo it". Perfectly simple.’ No conviction—uo argument, On the other hand, if the person be con- vineed, the argument, however weak, is an argument. A Brower House young man exclaimed yee- terday: “Yes, I told him Hickory Jim couldn't lose, and he put ona hundred; but when the race was over and Jim hadn't got _in yet I gave him an argument an’ it was all right,” at'd you tell “in?” “That Jim was pocketed in the strotch, or some other ghost story, but it went. He wasn’t a bit sore.” To “THROW DOWN” Is BASE. Such figures of spoech as theso would not be worthy of attention in these columus if'they: were confined to racing men. Butthey are rampant Ihave heard them exbibited with ride by knowing young fellows in Wall street, ErDetmionico's ead even in some clabe whose doors really ought to exclude slang. Do you know wiat happens toa man he is ‘thrown down?” I do not mean in th wrestlor’s way of throwing, but simply ‘thrown down.” The words signify that the person thrown is grievously deceived, imposed upon, cajoled, betrayed where he least expocte it. “Why ain't Giloson ridin’ for Donnelly to- day?” one knowing person usked another at Guttenburg yesterday. “He throw the old man down once too often an’ got fired,” was tho answer. The origin of ‘thrown down” is easy to dis- cover. A sure of ‘winning outelansen his competitors, say, by fifty per cent, Nobody can ide that he must lose, though. or e He Vhat Aa ‘rere “THAT'S MIORT” 18 ALL WRONG. When a wiso one listens to your knowing dis- putation and pbropecy about the fate of Italian opera or whether John L. Sullivan will ever be today we draw on the | , a & WRITER WHO ZABNESTLY URGES THAT 4 BR- GUNNING BE MADE IM A SYMMETRICAL AND Is- ‘There are indications of @ rather remarkable ment of an enlightened sort regarding the ar- chitectural needs of Washington as tho capital or residence city of our nation. It would be a happy thing if our here the te do something hitherto left undone, not 20 much for want of apprecia- tion of the need as because of the little hope of getting a united public sentiment in favor of any movemcnt adequate to the meod, The bopeful indications at present are those exhib- ited on the one side by the goverament, on the other by the professional architects, and by all lovers of art in by our Washing- ton bass of trade’ Boy wy rited men generally. In this connection there ise recent report of Postmaster neral Wanamaker which will bear frequent Fequoting: aT supe it would be considered no. oman Washington needs is mine, but what on 2 com: mission’ of citizens, engineers, members of Congress, and perbaps cabinet officers, to sug- geat how some wise, end far-seeing for the erection of needed public build- might be accomplished tos qj according definite attistic, busine ie Plan. It would mean «saving 'im the end of $20,000,000 per- haps, and meantime the architectural hodge- vodge, whose only m its infrequeucy, Would disappenr and the executive departments Would be housed in buildings owned by the government and forming part of o splendid whole." ind of buildings should Wi occupy conspicuous thoroughtatee of the atioual cop- italy Are theso to be left to the cprice of architectual cranks or thecompetitive edvertis- ing zeal of ambitious merchants? Undoubtedly Pennsylvania avenue, of which the American loves to boast,is,as a roadway,one of the finest in the world, while, as tho great central promenade and public thoroughfare of a capital city, it is probably, in itsarchitectural display, the mosn- be and most insigniticant iy, probably, inclined to grieve over tbe fact that tho rows of buildings on either side of the avenue have a least, some little pretense to archi- tectural harmony and dignity 1 am inclined rather to think it a matter for congratulation that things have remained as they are, sooner than be undertaken in # small way or on a ecale inadequate to the grandeur of the opportunity = before our country for developing here e ‘MO3T WONDERFUL CAPITAL 13 THE WORLD. Had ® more pretentions class of buildings already been erected on the avenue by govern- ment or otherwise it would Lave boen much more difficult now to remove them, and not until now have the needs of the government in- creased to such dimensions as to justify the adoption of an architectural scheme grand enough to take in the control of any section of the city. Perhaps I shot modify this by saying that since the great | holdi department buildings bave been erected this hav been the case, for it is proba bly not far from the truth to say that bad the War, Btate and Navy, the Interior, the nsion office and Post Office and ‘Treasury een built with a single front, instead of in quadrangles, and located on the south side of the avenue they would have formed « CONTINUOUS LINE OF PALACES extending from the White House to the Capi- tol! But even with the great department buildings already located there is now a plain indication that the goyernment will ere long have to duplicate its officejaccommodation, and that now atthe beginning a new architectural era in our city’s plans should be wisely laid with a view toa result worthy of the immense expenditures of money that will be involved and the unparalleled opportunity for the artis- tic embellishment of the national capital that the erection of these buildings will afford. While the proper utilization of the avenue for the goxernment and District buddings under consistent and imposing architectural would undoubtedly involve the removal of every building now on it, it is not necessary that this should be done at once or at one time. What is needed, however, and needed now, is that before the avenue is occupied by sny more buildings, whether public or private property, a gor ment commission, as indi- cated by et a. shot be ap- pointed to agree in general under the wisest architectural, engineering and artistic counsel that can be got togethor upon o scheme for the building up of the avenue on such'a scale of randeur, dignity and beauty as the of the United States owe it to their own honor and to the memory of their great patriot— Enginecr Washington—to do. A NATIONAL ART COMMISSION is what is now demanded of our government, with as much urgency, if not even more. than any of the commissions established within re- cent years, such as the commission of educa- tion and others, The expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars of the x ey in e's work involving art, intelligence and looking to art culture, as is done in all our public build- ings and historical monuments, demande tbat this expenditure be made under such wise di- rection as shall bring the nation the beet re- turns possible for what is paid out. And yet who can pretend that a single chief engincer or Secretary of War or chairman of a commit- tee on the library or supervising architect of the treasury can properly administer so large a trust as this? Or who will suppose that for the millions that we America enerously pay for art advancement, ly im our pebt g ic buildings and monuments, we get as ood wares in return as foreigners do for less money? Our people have aright to such a iasion as fo Indicated in. the ‘Beeretar letter, on the ground of simple honest dealing or getting afair return tor the money thoy pay. Why is it that with our boasted millions of surplus and our unbounded wealth as a nation we have still, outside of the noble classic buildings designed 'by the government's early builders and tho Washington monument, it structure or statue in the ings and monuments erected by the govern- ment there? Truly it may be ple: “You pay your money, bi take your cheice”—at least as int tly as youcould were a commission of the most com- petent men the goverument could select en- titled todetermine questions now left to the hurried and barrassed judgment and decision of frm re nic ioe In the dis- cussions which appeared in rab relating to the atyle of the NEW POST OFFICE BUILDING the remark of the supervising architect was quoted to the effect thatithad not entered into his mind to consider the relation the style of the new building would bear to that of ad- feiaing sections of the avenue. If he meant yithite that while the post odicge was built to stand the adjoining blocks on the avenue would sooner or later be demolished aud therefore need not be considered, ue was doubt:eas correct, butif ho meant that itdid not wattee whether one toBar; government art commission in determi gencral what sort of buildings shall and w sal! not bo allowed henceforth to be built on « soe LOOK at the capital of Bavaria, and to its fsmous Lud- wig’s strosse, a magnificent avenue leading from the royal palaces out to the Areh of Tri- umph and the Art Academy and berdered on either side bya line ‘con! unit 8 § 1 | $f tl i a new Congress shonid see | et, D.C. SATURDAY, * DECEMBER 19, 1891--SIXTEEN PAGES. coramission as Mr. Wanamaker eee oe Seon, T 3 ‘not wo mre of our U. 8, buildings thro: Tepresent a wider range of single architect's office can furnish. THE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY COMMITTEES ibility yy for some measures to t our capital from the vandalism or Philistiniem which has long threatened it and still it in so many ways would feel a new contidence in the knowledge that such an art commission were in existence and was be- yond the disturbing offects of Ege 3 or quad- Tho sight of scraping ware houses, exposing forevers thirty ornam front some hun- of feet of bare side walls, hideous with Slaring advertisements, not to ‘speak of the " podge" of public buildings mentioned by the honorable secretary, all this can be en- dured with better feeling by those who love Washington and some pride as American citizens when it is known it commission exists with power not only to provide that the buildings put up by the government oc- =~, the sites suited them and to the advancement of the beauty of the capital asa whole, but also to prevent in the future the erection in a conspicnous thoroughfare of nnytbing that shall be inhar- monious end urworthy. With such a commis- sion in charge we might look hopefully forward to seeing not many years hence the avenue om either side with beautiful eolonnades and arcades lining the front of our new buildings, public library, mu- seums, auditor's offices, Indian department, I J survey and musical and art conserv: tories and possibly the government's own N tionel University. We might hope to see the most imposing site for a grand triumphal arch or national monument that pesage = of the world can boast today; that at the head of 16th Street ag seen from Lafayette Square, at least uo longer disfigured by that unsightly water tank, a standing humiliation to our pre- tenocs to more than a very third-rate provincial culture. Might we not even look forward with some hope to seeing the government take the initia- tory steps toward the erection on this un- Paralleled site of the great COLUMBUS ABCE, which has been so frequently advocated in Tux Stan ag the nation’s proper commemora- tion of the discovery of America? And lastly, might we not feel that the broad, magnificent and far-seeing scheme for a national - ay, Oo art and history which that true patriot, Mr. Franklin W. ” Smith, recently been unfolding before our board of trade, would not have to go ing for some proper aria of government to give it an intelligent hearing and it tound Worthy a cordial and generous support? Let us have then our nativnal art commission to tars for the highest uses of the people and for ing our place a# a nation in the art culture Of the world those magnificent opportunities, as yet uns ful capi only save iled, which our young and beauti- city offers us. Let Congress not the $20,000, otherwise be spent on ut up only to be torn down for the ugliness of their inappropriateness or bad loca- tion. but let the government: begin now a symmetrical an; Higent architectural development of Washington according to r-seeing plan worthy in dimensions and artistic idea of the seat of government of a uation that calls itself a leader in the civilization of the world. Frank SEwaLL. ——_— SHOT AT BY A MANIAC One Person Killed and Others Injured by His Acts. Michael Harvey of Brooklyn, a boile? maker, terday afternoon, after shooting and ailing one man and severely wounding another and a woman, placed the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and blew his brains out. The trag- edy happened in the four-story frame tenement house No. 188 Vandyke street, Brooklyn. The rooms are occupied by Mra. Catherine Duffy, who has a number of lodgers and table boarders. About noon Harvey came home to dinner and was followed soon after by Jobn Conner- ton and Samuel Dickerson. The three sat down ata table in the kitchen and ate their dinner, nothing peculiar being noticed in Harvey's ction Before they had quite finished dinner Harvey rose, walked to the mantel, picked up a five-chamberedrevolver and came toward the two men. y were quick to realize their danger and The mad aneffort to escape. Harvey fired at Connerton, sending a bullet through his head and killing him instantly. Harvey stood be- tween Dickerson and the door, and the latter, realizing the situation, made for the when Harvey again fired, wounding in the arm. He managed, however. to open the window and slide down the fire escape into yard. The noise of the shooting attracted the other tenants, and all rushed excitedly down tho ire. ‘Among them was Miss Mary Dicker- ‘As she passed the door of the’ room in yiigh Harvey wee standing » third yrhot_was anda bullet passed through ber t hand. By this time tho dozen families who occupied the house had all made their escape ' with the exception of Mrs. Catherine Duffy. ‘As the crowd stood looking at the house from tke outside Mrs. Duffy came to a window on second floor, and before any one could hout to stop her ahe jumped to the sidevalk. FS icked up and carried to a neighbor's house. Her right leg was fractured and she sustained severe internal injuries. ‘The police quickly arrived, and on going up to the room ‘where tho tragedy occurred, Harvey was found lying dead with the muzzle of a revolver in his mouth. The wounded were takon tothe Long Is- land College Hospital and the two dead bodies were left as they lay to be viewed by the coroner. Mrs. Duffy, who keeps the boarding honse, is Harvey's sister. Seat cfc UN PASSED BY THE REICUSTAG. Germany’s Treaty With America Adopted After a Protracted Debate. After a protracted debate the German-Aus- trian-Hungarian treaty, including the one with America, passed its third reading in the reich- stag yesterday afternoon by a vote of 248 to 48. The house afterward adopted the German- Italian and the German-Belgian treaties. After the three treaties had been finally adopted the reichstag adjourned. It will not reassemble ‘The conclusion of the said Wilkinns, was for. posterity. It 'wea ove te tee ‘most ‘ager of the ‘The by F i ji ‘i fi é i i i i [ E F y ik E rs E I 000 which Secretary | recently released from an insane asylum, yes-| Ma B.'e Frantic Attempt to Seve Thirty- Four Dollare a Year. From the New York World. “What bave you got there?” queried Mra. Bowser, as ber liege lord made 0 display of a small package when he came home the other evening. “Mrs. Bowser,” he replied, as he mt down and carefully handled the package, “did you read of that case im Troy wheres barber cut a customer slightly on the eheeck and he died of blood poisoning?” “Wo. Gay! you've gone and got another shaving outfit “Another? When did I ever have one?” “You got one two or three yoars ago in De- froit, and how did you come out with it? Mr. Bowser, you do the most foolish things of any ‘man I ever heard of in all my life!" “Ido, eh? Is it foolish for me to want to avoid blood poisoning by shaving myself. to say nothing of the enormous saving of money? Yes, I did get an outfit im Detroit, but I had a boilon my arm and couldn't handle the razor. That was a cheap outfit, just as an experiment “And eut yourself and p Whooped until the neig thought we bad Gre. How much did this la it? Let's see about that. own outfit I can shave daily. 7) week or $2.80 per month. Seem# to me that $34 per year is worth enving. In the twenty years Ihave been shaving I could have savel the trifle of $750. Where are you now, Mra. Bowsor/” “Just where I was before. You'll shave once and that'll end it.” “Will it? If that's stent surprise in store ing razor andI can shave clean in exactly four minutes. Easiest thing in the world when you know how. Just think of the @780 I have thrown away +Well, I suppose you'll try it in spite of any- thing can say, but’ Ishall decline to be Leld Tospousible for any trouble.” “Responsible! Trouble! How could hold And what trouble can there Zoot opinion 1 bar: for you. “Why, thet time in Detroit you almost tore the house down because you cut your ear.” “Pooh! Iwas probably joking. ber a thing about it. 1d look you for what 1 did, wouldn't I il take a little shave, and if you don't say it's # better one than any barber has ever given me I'll put the razor up for - After dinner Mr. Bowser took a bowl of hot water and started upstairs, saying to Mre. Bow- | ser as he went: “Better time me by the clock. I may be six OF seven minutes this time, but I'll be right on tick tomorrow night.” He went into the bed room door. ‘Then he took off his coat, vest, neck and collar He looked down at his shoes for a moment and then decided to take them of “Let's see!” be mused as he the box and stood before the glass. “The first thing ie | to lather, of course. Th ‘Me easy as rollin; off a log. This is something like comfort, this lather. He put it on his chin, cheeks, forehead, ears and throat, and more or less fell on the carpet. both urms ached, and no more would stick to him, he picked up the razor and chuckled: “I just hold it with three fingers, this way, and lay it on my cheek this way, and move it ently down. Achild three years old could jo that. I'll show Mrs. Bowser a trick or two before I'm through. Good woman, but sh thinks she knows itali. Kazor just slides— Mr. Bowser guve s jump and at the sume in- stant he saw the lather stained with blood. “Don't amount to anything—just the head of & pimple!” he whixpered to himself. “Barber told me tokeep my arm stiff and i forgot. Can't expect to get the hang of it «ne minute, you know. A little more lather.” He lathered away until it began to drop of, and then picked up the razor again. “The idea of my throwing away €780 to the barbers!” he muttered, as than never. No particular hurry about this, | however. Feller wants to give himself time to | Set the hang o7 it. Perhaps I'd better begin | on my chin first. Don't suppose it makes any great difference whether I shave up or down, so Jong as A—!" “Mr. Bowser, what's the matter?” ealled Mrs. Bowser, as she kicked on the door. ~Bothing he answered. “hen what are you jumping around so for? I thought you'd shake the chandeliers down!" me!’ be growied, as to survey the cut. “Probably didn't exactly right. Ab! that’ more like the way the barber old me to hold it. Now, then, tule | it easy till you get the hang of it, May be ten ininuies ‘this time, but on the next occasion “Ar. Bowser, open this door!” called Mrs Bowser from the “W-what do you w-want?” he gasped. “I want to know what all this sweari kicking over the chairs means! you how you would come out?” and Dida't I tell next d r He beard her go away after a bit, and he went back to the glass to whisper: “Tl be hanged if 1 haven't pretty near out my old chin off! What in Texas is the old thing, anyhow! I'll get the bang of itifit cuts ‘my head off! I didn't have lather enough.” He lathered some more. Then ke up the razor and carefully examined both sides and the edge and beck. Then he laid the fat of the blade on his chin and smiled sweetly little nervous, being the first Ket to it bydexrees. That's tho ! No barber ever slid a razor over my chin any richer than that ‘The idea of Mrs, Bowser calling it $10 thrown right away! ‘That's the way with a woman. If they can save a cent here they will waste a dollar there. Mrs. Bowser heard a yell and started for the staira. She met Mr. Bowser half way up. The lather was flying about and the blood stream- ing down on his shirt bosom and his eyes were as big a8 onions. “Well, didn't I say so!” she deraanded. Her words brought Mr. Bowser to himself He turned back, beckoned for her te follow, and as they entered the bed room be silent! pointed. The razor lay on the floor, the bowl wwas broken in three pieces and there was lather everywhere. eli?” she queried, as she picked up three towelsand placed two chairs on their legs again. “Woman!” be hoarsely whispered, “this is too much !”” “Why, what have I done?” “Sure! Done! Look at me!” “Yes, but you tried to shave yourself.” “But who dragged me into it?” “Mr. Bowser, you certaiuly can't blame me. I told you before you.” “That's enough! This is the limit! I un- derstand it all, and can see just how you planned it! It'is not your fault that I did ‘not cut my throatand that you are not now @ widow! Mrs. Lowser, ieve me to myself! I have some papers to look over before consult- ing a lawyer tomorrow!” ncaa te fH eae “REGULAR” TICKET IN LOUISIANA. Judge & D. McEnery Nominated for Gov- ernor Without Opposition. Chairman Wells celled the reguiar convention to order at 1 o'clock yesterday at Eaton Rouge, iu. There were fifty-five parishes in attendance. The creden- ns of a barber on how to bandie the | is. Hanged if I don’t believe I shall it to) shave twice a day!” Mr. Bowser decided to put on plenty of When he had lathered until | id the flat of | the razor on bis check. ‘Weil, better late | » “The blamed tuing must have slipped on E, returned ep the piams | ofa it PRESIDENT GOMPERS RE-ELECTED, Tnteresting Questions Come Before the Fas eration of Laber At yesterday's session of the American Fed eration of Labor convention at Birmingbem. Als., Mise Ida M. Van Eaten, representing without s vote, the working women of New York, asked, through a delegate, unaniinous consent to make @ rtatement as to the resole- tion respecting the employment of a woman er ganiger, which on Thursday was refered to the | incoming executive council. Permission ber- ing been given, Miss Van Eaten proceeded te make a epecch, in which she dealt somewhat severely with the delegates who had not been friendly to ber resolution, referring especially to Vieo President McGuire's “rather brutel | condaet,to Delegate Mc . to one of ber questions, a) | non as the representative which was willing to receive t women members, but unwil | a vote.” | wom, Del | at is false, thatis untrue, was caled to order for reflecbons on era, more especially on Vice President te Lennon rose to a ‘e nestion of sonal privilege if and Miss on bin organu te M | tween bi He tod convent:on jensen, . ut McGuire said Miss Vem Faten bad ge er Way to attack bin. Hie bad and expected to ong mentioned more than which Miss Van Eat nected and which bad d. trations. That ended the matier CHANGING THE CONSTEZUTION. Hitherto the first:vice president has stood tm order of succession in case of death or Fw moval from office of the president, This clause of the constitution was amended, re quiring it the executive council shall tem porary till the vacancy from its own member ip. A proposition for the estal oficial organ for the tederation, to be edited by the president, under the direction of the executive council, came up and was discussed by veveral delegates. The convention, by « vote of more than (wo to one, refused to sane ten the proportion. OFFICE NOLDERS AND ORGANIZERS. Delegate Frank A. Kidd, from the committee | on rules, reported unfavorably a resolution in- B | troduced by Delegate Strigel of Detroit pre hibiting holders of political office | as organizers, and th t ers in | nare is Ro BE accepts cal party Le in « measu t party, Delegate Dold was «tr Ing politicians to get | trades unions, | Delegate Foster most remaraad: ngly o to the ouncils of the aght that had come he test of ¥ ie li, Aug. Mill Dale 4 Pre preseni all holding poiitical office. MeNoall is a oF Mision J labor im Marcxcusette | pomted . Kussell without p 4 risastate senator of Missouri, and Mr resents Lynn in the legislature of begun a move- | ment in Pittevurg to do away with all tho 0} stacles to the rights of trade m Hist, and to | do that they must go into 4 | Delegate Willams re wt the convention that Amos Cummings, Senator Voorhees, Sen- Jator Piumb and Congressman Richardson of Tennessee were formerly princers. ey were politicians now, but they had been always true to their obligations to the Interuational ‘Typographical Union. Deiegate August Miller said that he bad been sent to the Missouri senate by workung ce and be citeda number of jaws which be had been able to have enacted tor the protection of men who worked. He regretted the flings at politicians. Deiegate Strigel said that, in pomt of fact, if every politician was taken from the conven tion there would be very few left. He desired to go on record as not making war on the side- walk inspector of Detroit. Delegute MeBride sad thet in the miners Movement the miners bad selected from their Tanks men whota they Lave urged into politics. Iu Ohio, iu Tos, they had in that states num- ber of laws that were a curse and 0} pression to the working people. ie himself was the first miner to be elected to the Ghio lgislature. ‘Ths delegate tion cited a number of wise Jaws and great re‘orims that had been brought about by the worsing peuple having their own Tepresentetives in tue logidatures. A similar | state of affairs was true ot indiana, Hlinois and other statics, Ape lature was in Iss4 the Hocking valle The convention rep cu Thomas i. Kidc, F be recorded in PRESIDENT GOMPERS RE-ELECTED. ‘The convention then proceeded to elect off- cers. President Gompers was re-elected presi- dent, receiving 1.3% votes, against 585 for J. H. Barth of Wheeling and 120 for August Dela- bar of New York. Delabar withdrew his name before the vote. A motion to make Gompers’ election unanimous was objected to by ing. Tne other officers were P. J. MeGuireel | Bemnsyivests, iret vice president; W. A. Care j mes of Pitisburg, second vice president; Chris ‘Evans of New York, secretary: John b. Len- non of New York, treasurer, ali of these being re-clections, Mr. Gompore bas beon president since 1bs3. ——__-+e+ -—__ ‘The Queen Goes to Osborne House. The queen, her youngest caughter, Princess Beatrice, wife of Prince Heury of Battenberg, and the children of Prince ice ieft Wind- | sor Castle yesterday anu went to Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight, where the Clrmtmas bel idaye will be epent. Ireland's Next Important Election. The polling in the election to fill the seat for Waterford, Ireland, in the house of commons made vacant by the desth of Mr. Richard Power will take place on Wednesday, December 23. Mr. Jobn Keclmond ts the candidate of the Parneliites and Mr. Daviut is the nom- inee of the MeCardiy:tes. a And Yet He May Escape Hanging. A dispatch from Namur, Beigiam, says that fs shoemaker named Vanderavers, who was on his brothere eed a sister before he made the attempt to take the life of his other brother. The chances of the convicted mex Afler a recess of two heurs the convention | {BO.Cem Pity re ae Sn uender a ef] and he almost invariably commutes Dominations declared in order. Mr, nd | all sentences of capital punishment. 7 Fifa ki iE fi a 1 ] t iY i : £ é fr | £ f 1 et Vanderavers war < ited to the murder fil i i