Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1892, Page 11

10 FOR YOUNG AND OLD. Some Late Styles for Jackets and Dresses. PARTIES FOR CHILDREN Pretty Costumes for Graceful Little Ones— Stylish Astrachan Jackets—Popularity of Rassian Costumes—Pelerine Still the Rage— Satin Bows and Their Effect. Special Co responitence ~f Th» Fvening Star. New Yorx, February 5, 1892. CHARMING SKATING costume is shown in the initial illustration. It is in nickel gray cloth vest being of the same color, only of a lighter shade. The collar, cuffs and bottom of the skirt are trimmed with otter, and there is » muff to mateb. The skirt is made up over gray silk. You will need two breadths of the material and there are a few folds at the back, be- tween which hang the long coat-tail basques, reaching quite to the bottom of the skirt. ores on the hips. These must be sewed and be well pressed. so as to be It is better to cut the skirt bias and finish it at the bottom with a band cut straight. ‘The fronts of the cor-age are double, the outer Feaching only to the waist, the inner of a Ughter cloth forming the waistcoats with a Straight eollar and with two points extending | below the Waist The fur collar | fe so made that it may be raised| ffdesired. ‘The left site of the corsage crosses | @nd butions, as represented. The pocket flaps end basques are sewed om the latter being made of a breadth of the material, taken straight, lined with silk and caught to the skirt here and there. You may, if you don't want to use a skirt foundation, insert flannel between the silk lining and the material. Leg- mutton sleeves with flaring cufla The cap should be of the same stuff as the waistcoat, with patent leather visor. If your costume be of velvet, the cap must be of the same material, but toque form with fur trimming. With some dainty skating costumes you see a tiny «pray of flowers ornamenting the hair. Of course they cannot be natural, for Jack Frost would speedily nip them in the bud, and bloom, too. 4 MORE STRIKING costUME may be made up in black velvet with red cloth and astrachaa at the bottom of the} skirt, the velvet corsage opening on a red | waistcoat and held in place by two little | silver chains. Red cloth toque with astra- | chan trimming. The English girls this sea-| son wear a little leather band, bung with the tiniest silver bells imaginable, strappe: around each ankle, and so ther have music wherever they go. To complete your skat- ing costume you will need a long cloak, with far collar. it may be either in velvet, cloth | or silk. Some are made with hoods, which | are very comfortable if a nor’wester hap- Pens to be blowing. ASTRACHAN JACKETS. Astrachan is extremely modish this season. In my second ilMstration I eet before you two stylish astrachan garments, with high flaring collars and flowing sleeves. But some may — to use this popular fur rather as garni- In that case you might choose a Louis XVI jacket in gray cioth, embroidered in biack, with a pointed vest of the astrachan and astra~ eban cuffs and flaring collar of the fur rolling over the straight cloth collar and muff to match. Another jacket in green velvet has an astra- eban and the velvet fronts are caught across by brandenburgs andl there is a tlaring collar, the ends of which continue down the | front edges of the garment with very fine ef- fect, Just at present there seems to be a reaction in favor of the little ones, who naturally rather dropped out of notice at the end of the Christ- mas and New Year holidays. The last two | Necks have witnessed some charming dancing Parties for children. Many people prefer to | watch children dance rather than geowa folks, | It seems so much more natural for the lamb- | kins to gambol. It seems as if these big dan- | cers often have a sort of sheepich air abou! them, as if they were not quite certain in their | own minds that they weren'ta bit ridiculous. | Not so the iittle fairy tots of eight, ten and | twelve. Their every motion is airy, elastic and| feathery; their tiny feet seem scarcely to touch | the polished floor. They glide without effort | and seem to be doing what is natural to them. Thbavecanght a number of these dainty creat- Ures, 80 to speak, on the fly. and present them for your edification and profit. VELVET AND CASHMERE FUR TRIEWED. Here, in my third illustration, sits the future Delle of the ball room. She isan apt pupil, and learns her steps more easily than she masters | latitude and longitude or conquers the mystery | of vulgar fractions. Her gown is made some- | what after the prevailing Kussian style, being composed of chestnut brown velvet with white | cashmere chemisette, trimmed with broad em- | Droidered band. the whole costume being gar-| nitured with gray fur in the pleasing and orig- final manner indicated. PELERINE STILL POPULAR To turn to children of larger growth atten- tion is called to the fact that the pelerine is still the rage and that now it has become a sort of ornamental addition to the street and visit- ing gowns. In one instance I saw a costume futended for a young lady finished with a im Venetian guipure, pleated around neck, after the fashion of a Louis XIII collarette, on a satin ribbon tied at the back or on one side ‘The guipure used for these ines should be of the coarse thread in old color or white, and the contrast with velvet costumes is altogether charming. Draperies are held in place by ornamental pins set with or mock gems. A ‘harmi talk, princess style, with a velvet. pelorine, the | form and fur are Leautifnl, and, so far as the | writer bas been able to | one of the least careful eeves bouffant to the elbow, with long, tight cuffs, also finished with the velvet. PLUE CASHMERE AND BLACK SATIN. Iiustration number four portrays another ball dress for a young miss, a simple but very tasteful combination of pale blue cashmere and black satin. There is a quaintness about the style of this little gown that is very pleas- ing, and which would be sure to make it very becoming to some demure little lady who has her own ideas concerning matters and things. RUSSIAN COSTUMES. On account of the extraordinary friendship which has sprung up between France and Rus- | sia many of the picturesque costumes of the | latter country have made their way to Pari and s0 across’ the water to us, for we are such busy nation that we don't always have time to originate combination dresses or even plain ones. It is so easy to imitate and so hard to originate, but it doesn’t follow that the imitator has no work to do, for his task is often of the hardest, if he docs it well—that is, adapts a new idea intelligently, accepts it with modi tions. CHILDREN'S DRESSES IN RUSSIAN STYLE. ‘The last illustration pictures two dancing tots, who are also clad in the Russian style of | costume, now so much in vogue. The figure on the left wears a gray cashmere blouse trimmed with black and yellow silk galloon, wich white skirts alxo so trimmed; k stockings, gray | gloves and white shoes, while the figure on the Tight ia clad in a lovely combination of white | satin, dark green velvet and gold galloon, gray silk stockings and gray shoes | | THE WATTEAU PLEAT | grows more and more popular. You see it| everywhere, from elegant deshabille to ball dress. In the latter case it often consists of a light gauze drapery, either embroidered or spangled, and falling from the shoulders with lovely effect. If youdon't care for the Wat- | teau pleat, then there is still left for your | choice the pompadour drapery or the embroid- ered Russian skirt. Japanese effects are Iil wise greatly in vogue for tea gowns and inte- rior dresses. Still another charming effect may be at- tained by the use of the satin bow with ends reaching almost to your feet, the bow being artistically set upon the left shoulder exactly in the spot where your left wing will spring forth when your sweetness and goodness be- comes sufiiciently developed to transform you intoan angel. Calling dresses remain long and are either in silk or velvet, always with the narrow bands of fur winding and twisting in graceful serpentines through labyrinths of embroidery. +0. —__ Written for The Evening Star. Dolly Belle. Down the lane beside the meadow Where the honeysuckle grows clover iar-rose, violets are sleeping ‘Neath the shadow of the dell, Lived alittle blue-eyed maiden Known to me as Dolly Belle. Oft I met her lightly tripp ‘Tripping e’er in merry ch: re While the sunbeams through iter tresses K. her rosy, dimpled face, And the posies of the meadow Where her ditting footsteps fell 4ed nods of nodding welcome ‘Totheir loving Dolly Belle. And she took me to her garden, ‘To her garden down t Where the little songsters In a chirruping refrain And the flowers by their blushes Loving secrets t To their eh: Lovely little Dolly Belle. mistress, ‘There she sang to them in carols, Caroling so swee: and clear ‘That the gentle br of heaven, Hushed its melody to he Life was all a mellow summer, All the world a quiet deil, To this airy, fairy maiden, Joyful, blithesome Dolly Belle. ” Tsald, “and let us wand jar and far away, Toses never wither And the robins always stay For I joved this little maiden More than any words can tell— Bat the luring soul of nature Claimed my darling Dolly Belle. Oft I wander in the twilight By the flelds of nodding rye, As the stars peep forth to blossom In the meadows of the sky, And I wander by the garden Where the birds and flowers dwell, Ever calling, ever longing For their angel Dolly Belle. —CLIFFORD Ho Wamp. Washington, February 6, 1592 pieasmrnicna rage SES Why Not « Hare for a Pet? From the Spectator. Who has scen a tame hare? Most school boys have kept tame rabbits by the dozen—singularly | uninteresting pets when shut up all day in a box munching cabbage stalks—and generally turned over to younger sisters in favor of a terrier puppy after brief possession. Yet even after the experience of tame hares so charm- ingly told by Cowper, the most domestic of poets, the bare is neglected as a pet. Yet its judge of ‘this, perhaps ly observed, except for persecution, of our wild animals, the bare is a clever, affectionate creature, as far above the rabbit in the scale of intelligence as it is in Physique. Last spring, after a late fall of snow, &n old hare brought her leverets from the hill and hid them in a straw stack near a farm and remained constantly near them ail day, coming to them regularly as soon as the twilight made itsafe. ‘They are bold as weil as uffectionate, and have been known to drive off a hawk which was carrying & young one, springing up the and striking the bird as it flew low ato ground, and their attachment to locality is 0 Breat that, even if kept at large, they would probably not leave their owner's grounds. A Helpful Virginia Giri. ‘From the Richmond Dispach In tne family of George Munday, living be- tween Waterford and Wheatland, the father, mother, s son and daughter were all down with the grip, leaving only the youngest daughter, Florence, about eighteen years of age, to aid the rest. She attended to the household duties botiom of the skirt having four rows of black velvet ribbon. There are slso three rows on the pelerine and six lengthwise on the front of running to a point at the waist. velvet on the skirt | and recently inquiries have been made as to lowing language: | Hhail dispose of it to be so received, or to be | received in or for any obscene, indecent or im- THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1892—SIXTEFN PAGES. PROTECTING CHILDREN How the Little Ones Are Already Being Oared For. LAWS NOW IN FORCE, A Talk With Officer Wilson on the Work Done Last Year Under the Humane Society—Value of the Newsboys’ Home and Other Institu- tions—Further Legislation Needed. PARE THE ROD AND spoil the child” is an oft-repeated quotation, but many persons who do not spare it succeed admirably in spoiling theirchildren, andsome of the latterareso badly spoiled that they are mad- cowardly and comparatively worth- less or are sent to an early grave. Frequently 3 Alig \ OWN fy Sees the cruel treatment of the innocent young ones whether or not there is any officer intrusted with the duty of enforcing the law against cruel parents, guardians or others. There is an officer detailed on that work and his name is Samuel Wilson. He is a member of the police force and has been on duty long enough to un- derstand the work thoroughly. Being a man of family he takes great interest and pride in the labors intrusted to his care and itis not @ rare thing to see him carrying one or two ragged children that have Leen ill-treated or neglected and looking for a place of shelter for them where they will receive kind and tender treatment such xs motherly women only can give. Officer Wilson bas a desk in the office of Sanitary Ofiicer Frank at police headquarters, where he can be found every morning at 9 o'clock. Not only is there an agent to look after such cases, but there is also a good law to cover them, and there are numerous perso: in this city now who will understand how the law operates. THE HUMANE SocrETY's POWER. Under the act of February, 1835, the Humane Society was authorized to extend its operations to the protection of children as well as animals from neglect and ubuse. The law provides that “in pursuance thercof the said society may cause its proper officers or agents to pré- fer complaints, before any court in the District of Columbia having jurisdiction, for the vi lation of any law relating to or ‘atfecting the protection of children in said District, and by is proper attorney may aid in bringing the facts before such court in any proceeding taken.” HOW ARRESTS MAY BE MADE. The second section of the act, referring to the manner of conducting the investigations and making arrests, provides: “That the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia shall, by the police force of said District, aid the éaid society, its officers and ageuts, in the enforce- ment of all laws relating to or affecting the protection of children; and the Commissioners of the said District, and their successors, are authorized, in their’ discretion, to detail, from time to time, an officer or officers to aid spe- cially in the work of said society, or they may commission any duly appointed agents of said society special police ofticers, without compen- sation; and such agents or officers shall have power to arrest, without warrant, all perso violating, in thé resence or sight, any law relating to or affecting the protection of children, or other parties so offending by virtue of a warrant issued by the Police Court of the District of Columbia, which offenders shail be taken by such agents or officers before the said Police Court of the District of Columbia for trial. Said agents or officers are also hereby «mpowered to bring before the said court any child who is subjected to cruel treatment, willful abuse or neglect, or any child under sixteen years of age found ina house of ill- fame, and said court may commit such child to an orphan asylum or other public charitable institution in the District of Columbia, with the msent of the constituted authorities of such ylum or institution, or make such other dis- position thereof as now is or may hereafter be provided by law in casesof vagrant, destitute or abandoned children: Provided, That any parent, guardian or near relative who may feel aggrieved by any order of said court in the premises may appeal therefrom to the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia.” THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN. The third section devotes attention to th employment of children and the places where | they cannot live is mentioned. ‘Ihe section | re | That any person in the District of Colum-| bia who shall torture, cruelly beat, abuse or | otherwise willfully maltreat any child under | the age of eighteen years, or any person hav- | ing the custody and possession of @ child under | the age of fourteen years, who shall expose, or aidand abetin exposing, such child in any highway, street, field, house. outhouse or other with intent to abandon it, or any person, | having in his custody or coutrol a chiid under | the age of fourteen years, who sball in any way dispose of 1t with a View to its being employed different institutions their mothers do not for- getor ignore them. but visit them, and gener- ri tly than some mothers in i walks of life. The officer said words of for the vari- ous institutions here to which he sent children last year and said that owing to their good Management they had succeeded not only in redeeming the children, but in educating and giving them a start in life that will do them good and which they cannot forget as long as they live. ‘THE NEWsnorYs’ HOME. “The Newsboys’ Home and Children’s Aid Society,” said Officer Wilson, “has proved » valuable institution so far as my labors are concerned, and too much cannot be said in Praise of Agent Sweeney's good work He is the right man in the right place, always willing and ready to do what he can. This institution is an excellent place for the temporary detention of boys who have no homes or who come here as runaways from other cities. There is nothing about the place to make a boy feel like he is in a prison and the kind words of the agent generally induce him to remain until some provision can be made for him, and many of the boys leave against their Will. ‘The place, as I said before,” added the ofticer, “‘is an excellent institution and is de- serving of the aid and sympathy of every good citizen. TO PUNISH NEGLECTFUL HUSBANDS. “While the institutions and the law are good things for the protection of tho children some- thing is necessary at times to protect the mothers in order that the result of their protec- tion will fall upon the children, and to that end it is hoped the law will soon’ pass to punish neglectful husbands. Senator McMillan has th billin charge and he will no doubt secure its passage. Under the provisions of the bill pun- ishment is provided for husbands for failure to provide for their families when they have the means to do so, and in this connection I might state that the law is aimed at those men who desert their wives and children for others ns well as those who spend their earnings in liquor and at the card table. ‘Inere is a simt- lar law in New York, and such a law for this city cannot help but do good.” Concerning the proposed law, the officer said he had « case in band now in which a man em- ployed in one of the departments was alleged to have failed to make provision for his wife and children. According to his information the husband has given his wife ten dollars in three months. ‘The wife had a position for awhileand she man aged to provide for her children all right, but she lost the position and then she bad to accept & position in a store. “itis just such cases,” said the ofiicer, “as the law is intended to cover.” —— ISTOLS AND DELIKIUM TREMENS. How Future Ministers Spend Their Vaca- tions—Their Experiences in the West. From the New York Tribune. To the average citizen the life of the theolog- ical student seems to be prosy and stupid, but to judge by the conversation overheard in a restaurant near a theological seminary in this city one evening recently there are interesting phases of the budding minister's career. The young men were telling of their last summer's work when they were “ont west” organizing Sunday schools and preaching to the farmers and cattlemen of the prairies. “I shall never forget the first Sunday I spent in Minnesota, said the leader of the group. “I had found a good locality to organizea school and had taken notices of my gospel meeting to all the farm houses for miles around. I spent Saturday night in a farm house about five miles from the school house where I was to preach. How it rained that night! The roof leaked, so the whole family, their gues: included, had tosleep in one end of the house with a buifulo blanket partition between the improvised mail and fe- | male dormitories. The next morning I started ahead of the Samay for the school house on my little road cart with a pony I had just bought. Did you ever sees road cart? Woll it looks likea heavy racing gig. It has only two wheels and a little seat over them, without any back. My friends had advised me to carrya revolver for pleasure and profit in my experiences, and I bad it in my pocket. “All went well until I was about two miles from the school house, when I spicd a hawk circling over neighboring farm house. Then arose a struggle in my mind. I wanted to shoot at that hawk, but it was Sunday. Still, if I let the hawk go it would catch some of the farmer's chickens, and was it not more Christian to kill the hawk than to be the indirect means of kill ing the chickens? I finally decided that if the hawk came near me that would be the signal that it was foreordained that I should shoot on Sunday. Sure enough! The hawk sailed di- rectly over my head. I raised my revolver and shot. Instantly my gentle pony gave a jump of about twenty feet, pitching me out back- ward on my head in the deep mud, while 6! started on the dead run down the road. I fol- lowed, a sorry-looking spectacle. At the school house the gathered farmers stopped my horse and started back after me. I never told them how my horse came to run away, but there wa some smothered laughter about the ‘tender- foot’ which reached my ears.” ‘Tean beat that experience,” said a student who had been in Colorado in the same work. “Between my headquarters and the next post office this summer there wasn deep guleL, which had originally been warhed out by a mountain stream. e of it, about three-quarters of the way up, ran the road ona narrow ledge of rock. ‘It was dangerous place, especially at night, and teamsters always stopped and blew a horn before they started into it, because it was not wide enough to pass or turn around ° fs FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY. ‘Years or 80 Ago. TWO OR THREE OF THEM FROM GEN. WASHING- TON—A POEM BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S LITTLE ORANDOON—A DESCRIPTION OF WASHINGTON’S AR- ‘RIVAL IM NEW YORK—AN INVITATION TO DINNER. HE WASHINGTON 80- ‘ciety of the Sons of the Revolution has got to- gether recently # col- lection of hitherto un- published manuscripts relating to men and events of the straggle for independence. Many of them possess an in- interest particularly ap- pertaining to this local- ity. For example, one : ‘MS., owned by Mr. Car- roll Mercer and not examined until recently, has proved to be an original story of the York- town campaign, written from the point of view of aneye witness by acolonel in the army of Virginia, John Francis Mercer, who gives an account in many respects totally different from the version historically accepted. He wasat the head of alittle bandof fifty gentlemen, recruited in this neighborhood, who for a while held the whole British army in check by fooling the enemy into believing that his small force was an advance column of a large body of troops. Col. Mercer after the war was a member of Congress. Among the letters included in the coilection is one from Aaron Ogden, who visited Mount Vernon in 1802, to his wife, describing Mra. Washington. He says: A DESCRIPTION OF MARTHA WASHINGTON. “The visit was very agrceablo and interested my feclings exceedingly. The prospects are fine, and tho grounds, which are laid out, very extonsive—the whole in a style very grand in- ossossor, and is The sceve appears in somo manner like enchanted ground, owing to the association of the idea of the great Washington with every thing you Qehold. His vault, containing his reniains, fhade great impression on my mind. His widow is an affecting personago— dignified and polite, inspiring the greatest respect and vencration. She remembered and Professed to be very glad to see me, which I donbt not, recollecting the great attachment which she knew most of tue army had for her husband.” WASUINGTON’S FIRST INAUGURATION. One of the most interesting of the letters has been contributed by Rear Admiral Franklin. It was written by Sarah Robinson to Kitty F. Wister in 1779, just before Washington's in- auguration as ‘first President under the Con- stitution. The fair writer says: reat rejoicing in New York on the arrival of Gen. Washington, an elegant barge decorated with un awning of satin, twelve oarsmen dressed in white frocksand blue ribbons, went down to E. Town last fourth day to bring him up. A Stage was erected at the coffee house wharf, covered with a carpet for him to step on, where a company of light horse, one of artillery and most of the inhabitants were waiting to receive him. They paraded through Queen street in great form, while the music of the drums and the ringing of the | bells were enough to stun one with the noise. | Previous to his coming Uncle Walter's house on Cherry street was taken for him, | style room furnished in the most el Aunt Osgood and Lady Kitty Duer had the | whole management of it. I went the morning | | before the general's arrival to take a look at it, the best of furniture in every room and the greatest quantity of plate and china I ever saw, ,the whole of the first and second story is papered and the floors covered with the ‘richest kind of ‘Turkey ad Wilton car- pet. The house did honor to my aunts and Lady Kitty; they spared no ains nor expense on it. Thou must know that Uncle Osgood and Duer were ap- | pointed to procure a house and furnish it, ac- | cordingly they pitched on their wives as being likely to do it better. Ihave not yet done, yet my dear ix thee not almost tired? © The evening atter his excellency’s arrival there gen- eral illumination took place, except among my |friends (Quakers) and those styled anti-feder- alists. Tho latter's windows suffered some, | thou may imagine. As soon as the general has | sworn in, a grand exhibition of fireworks is to be displayed, which it is expected is to be tomorrow. There is scarcely anything talked about now but Gen. Wash- ington and the yllace, and of little else jhave I told thee yet, tho’ I have spun my miserable scrawl already to a great length | but thou re going forwar A LETTER IN RHYME. One curious MS. is a poem by Benjamin | Franklin Bache, son of Benjamin Franklin's 7 ted to know all that was | daughter and only legitimate child. It was | written when B. F. Bache was only seven or eight years old, being addressed to his foster father. He died when only twenty-eight years | of age, having already earned fame as editor | of the Aurora and having shared largely in |forming the democratic party. The poem | begins: | My dear Papa, you'd give a guinea | Just now to see my nurse, Mo’minny, ith such a fretful busy face, Pursuing me from place to place. She scolds and coaxes, frowns and flatters, ist, | if two teams should meet. One Saturday night | And now she’s dumb, and then she chattera, Sr a circus Filer, oh rope, walle ca est |X started for the farther town to prosct tes | And all; forsooth, toet mo outs exhibition of like dangerous character, or asa | beggar, or mendicant, or pauper, or street | singer, or street musician; or any person who | shail take, receive, hire, employ, use, exnibit | or have in custody any child of the age last | named for any of the purposes last enumerated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, an when convicted thereof shall be subject to pun- | lumber wagon whipping a great strong pair of | ishment by a fine of not more than €250, or by imprisoument for @ term not exceeding two years, or both.” PROVISIONS FOR PUNISHMENT. The last section provides for punishment of | persons for enticing young females in the fol- | “That any person who shall entice, decoy, place, take or receive any female child under the age of eighteen years into any house of ili-fame or disorderly house, for the purpose of prostitution, or any person who, | having in his custody or control such child, moral purpose, exhibition or practice, shall be deemed guilty of @ misdemeanor, and when convicted thereof shall be subject to punish- | meut by a fine of not more than §1,000 or by impriscnment for a term not exceeding ten years, or both.” CASES INVESTIGATED LAST YRAR. Last year Officer Wilson investigated $14 | nextday. I called as usual when I got to the gulch, and, getting no answer,started through, blowing my horn every few feet as I went. “When I was in the middle I heard a d shriek, followed by the most hideou My heart as well as my horse stood still, anda second later I saw a man standing up ina big mules with all his might anc yelling like a mad- man at each stroke. The team was coming straight at me, with no way to pass each other. I was paralyzed with horror aud sat trembling. Now the team was on me. Ina moment it would all be over—when suddenly the team swerved to the right, which was the outside, and over the ledge of rock the mules, wagon and driver were hurled. A duil crash’ at the bottom follor not move for a moment and then I crept trem- bling to the edge and looked over. I could see nothing except the black night. I drove on to town and toid my story. Men set out at once and found both mules so injured taat they shot them. ‘he man’s neck was broken. “I found that he was a driver fora quarryman and had filied up with bad whisky and probably had an attack of delirium tremens.” “Well, that’s pretty bad,” remarked a third, “but I believe that I was just about as fright: ened once this summor ay you were, although, if I had kn: wn it, there was not so much reason for fear as I imagined. I was in North Dakota, and then all was still. I could | eases, and during the year he made provision among the cattlemen, you know. I had a for 173 children, either procuring homes for | Curious class to deal with. They were rough them or providing for them temporarily until | fellows and would shoot as easily as wink; but | their condition could be benefited. Of ‘the 173 tey Seemed to have a superstitions awe of me provided for they were sent to institutions and | because I was a ‘preacher.’ Oue night a — iurnished Lomes as follows: Nine were went to | Grappa dna 4 peep eG a ead to the spot some three miles from town, “He said he chook, 9 f uld take me there and bring me back. I School, 9 to the German Orphan Asylum, 11 to | = josed that somebody was dying, and Macy's Indentrial Baboeh Bey sos | My conductor roas In slleaoe ead Done Mary's Industrial School, Baltimore;7 to the “Who is it that wants me?” Washington Asylum, 26 to the Washington | ** broth City Orphan Asylum, 4 to the Hospital for | soWhat io th ‘trouble? Foundlings, 17 to the Colored Infant Asytam, 4| , yet ls,the trouble?” to the Home tor Friendless Colored Girls, 6'to| ‘Married TE galgen eae Feet oes Tetabed bomaaiin eee ee “Tue | bim. I'm not an ordained minister. Iam nck character of the eases varied considerably and allowed to marry people.” ‘He did not answer, in many instances the suffering of the chi so I began to reason with him and asked him io aha | to take mo back. But it was no use, 20 I st iis of the father ot mothers nad’ aman ell resolring to makes at ot the alae ope when I saw the company. ‘fo my surprise found the whole crowd composed of men, armed to the teeth. anaes ‘Gentlemen,’ I began. young were left to their own canoe. oe; bas ors “He wants to sneak,’ interrupted my con- ecarpitat vores ives Uterus ate ductor. ‘Now, you preacher chap, you've got and where the facts justified it the parties were | ‘0K ahead when taken into court.” CASES TAKEN INTO COURT. In the course of his investigations, he said, he had occasion to take several cases into the Police Court,and there the law was s0 enforced that the most possible benefit was derived b the child who had been ill-treated or the couple comes in or you jere’s your pay,’ and he t bag of money onthe table Tet ther t heard some’ shouting outside and 2 yell and then there galloped ups man on horseback, holding gir! in bis arms. “Go on,’ said my conductor, ‘and go quick.’ “I don’t know what I sai dashed up to laughed in her father's t discretion was the bet- ‘teresta of truth, sho might | Seaturel death: uch With her to flirt and gad about! Now spare your lubor, Goody Nu For, look, says I, with’ all your fus: I won't be coaz'd abroad, nor carried; Go—coax your Sweetheart and get married; ‘Then, please the pigs, I hope to see Your Husband plagued instead of me! She persevered and 1 persisted The mgre I turn'd the more she twisted; | And truly I'm ashamed to say | What gave occasion for the fray; | In short, she made this mighty pother Lest I should interrupt my Mother, | While ehe was writing, Sir, to you! | No, no, let Benny scribble too. . * . But now, I've writ so long a letter, Tonly wish it were a better Lhope in time I shall improv | And more and more deserve your love. | Mamina takes all elias whe can | To make me good and be a man; *Tis her delight, she says, to teach Your ever dutiful —Bex Faaynuix Bacuz.” FROM GEX. BURGOYNE. There is also a letter from Gen. Burgoyne, | written after his return to England from this country, to Susan Cauflield, a singer of great prominence, with whom he formed an illicit Union. H “Lhave sent you a pheasant and a brace of partridges—both will keep, but particularly for # week, if you chuse it. I give you the par- ticulars, though at the loss of your indulgence in the curiosity of rummaging, because I find there isa practice in fashion of stealing half out of bushels of game. Yours ever faithfully, J.B. P.S.: Fie! Fie! to get such colds and pains in the stomach by feasting. If you did burtake such caro as I do! AN INVITATION TO DINNER. Another curiosity is an invitation written by George Washington on the day after his birth- day—February 23, 1799—in which he and Mrs. Washington “present their compliments to Mr. Andrew Ramsay, Mra, Ramsay and Mr. William Ramsay, and request the favor of their com- any to'dine on Tuesday next with the couple fie married.” The couple referred to had n married the day before, on Washington's birthday, at Mount Vernon, and, following the custom ‘of that time,” had — tak aye: ) | A Word for the Woman Shopper. From the Gentlewoman. How much nonsense has been written about shopping and the ways and means of doing it! ‘The lady with so much spare time on ber hands that she has nothing to do but go in and ont of different shops, asking for things sho has no in- tention of buying, exists chiefly in the brain of orice, eb ribet ge z iy A at ot fait notte alowed to aio of woman on pi brought me to the majority of iy decd—it appears like works of its once great | like himself. | Some Carious Letters Written = Hundred | A Cable Across | | more fell like a | the operator on land can locate a fault in | ofa mile, so that a | necessarily difficult, but | I suid, fiercely. SPARKS TO GIRDLE THE EARTH. the Pacific Ocsan—Wonders It Will Accomplish. PUCK OFFERED TO “PUT A girdle round the earth in forty min- Utes” he was very far from realizing that at a laterday such a performance would be re- garded as very inferior time. Before very long there will be a continuous belt of telegraph wire encircling the world, so that one will actually be able to send a dispatch to himself around the terrestrial planet This is to be sccomplisned by simply laying a cable across the Pacific ocean. Large subsidies are at Present being sought from Congress by People who consider that a line of electric com- munication between SanFranciscoand Honolulu ‘would be profitable, particularly to themselves. Another company, however, now in process of organization, is being got together by Mr. Romyn Hitchcock for the purpose of putting down a cable all the way from this continent to China, without asking any pecuniary aid from the government. COST OF A TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE. Mr. Hitchcock has been in China for more than a year in the interest of the world’s fair at Chicago. Incidentally he has picked up a lot of information relating to the possibilities of profit, &c., for a trans-Pacitic cable. that $10,000.00 would establish the plant. lowing one-half of this amount for the mere cost of the bi itself. A telegram from Hong Ki York bas now to. travel by ,000 miles under water and 700 miles over land, costing $225 a word. The same business could be done by the proposed line at the rate of Zim word. This great re- duction would necessarily withdraw a large amount of traffic from the hands of the old companies and turn it over to the new one. THE TELEGRAPH FROM CHINA to the Unitod States is at presentfin the hands of British concerns. Its route is by way of India. Supposing that there were trouble with England, that government might prevent the passage of any telegrams between this country and Asia, which would be extremely awkward. For t zon it is urged that there mnication controlled here. ie © facilities would likewise be of service to Chinese merchants at seven- teen ports, all of which will be connected with | the trans-Pacific wire. For diplomatic corre- spondence it wouid be invaluable. To TovcH HONOLULC. The wire would certainly travel by way of Honolulu, which is 2,036 miles from San Fran- cisco in a straight line. From Honolula it is proposed that it shall go to Yokohama, Japan: theuce to Nagasaki by iand, aud from Nagasaki under water 500 miles to Hong Kong. Sound- ings recently completed, in addition to those made some years ago by the Tuscarora, mak the character of the bottom pretty weil know: The Tuscarora came across a huge mountai under the sea about 1,000 miles from San Fran- cisco—three miles high and with half a mile of water flowing over it; but the late investiga- | tions show that this tremendous peak can be avoided by laying the cable a few miles farther to the north. THE cADLE The cable required weighs a little over a ton to the mile and cost $750 per mile. It is about an inch in diameter, the central eore being a bundle of twisted copper wires one-eighth of an inch through. Around this is gutta percha, | wound with hemp and finally with steel wire. Thus it is so strong that a break is a very raro occurrence. When such a thing happeus it is usually near shore, and is caused by chafing upon rocks in the shallows. In the depths of the ocean it will lie for centuries without suffering any injury. Corrosion cannot attack it, the big carnivorous fishes of the black deep are not disposed to interfere with it and the mollusks which cover it with an incrusted mass serve to further protect it. Simply by the resistance to the current of electricity the cable as far out as 2,000 miles within a quarter pcan go straight to the spot and rake up the broken or injured wire from the bottom. This work at great depths i made compar. easy by a most ingenious form of grapple, which will not hold anything smaller and will not catch anything larger than the cable for which it is dragged. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. It is easily remembered what a storm of ridicule assailed Cyrus W. Field when he es sayed the stretching of the first cable across the Atlantic. The notion was generally d i 9 and absard. There crossing that ocean, and imagines that there would be any seri- ous difficulty in spanning the vastly wider Pacific in a similar fashion. Before long the | thing will doubtless be accomplivaed and a spark conveying intelligence will literally girdle the earth, not in forty minutes, but in fraction of @ second. Telegrams’ will doubtless be flashed by British merchants from London to Hong Kong by way of the United States and beneath two great oceans. The idea | is very picturesque altogether. Modern inven- tion has brought all mankind into such close mutual contact as to go far toward establishing 8 universal human brotherhood. ee Young Savages in School. Mt. Vernon, Ala., Letter to the Boston Transcript, Ihave lately had some amusing contentions asto who shall rule in the school, my boys or myself. One of my lessons is to talk to them every morning on some subject that I think will interest them. When my talk is over I write a short sketch of the topic on the black- board, the entire first and second class reading it, word for word, asI write. One day ina freak of mischief they read louder and iouder until it became really a matter for correction. I stopped writing, raised my “ said, “Sh-0-0-o,” in a long-drawn-ou! gestive way. Adead vam cious pupils while I explained that I wanted them to read distinctly but not to “howl.” Quick as a flash a half-suppressed Apache word Tanthrough the cl: hey were passing from ‘one to the other an agreement not to read at all. I pointed to the next word; not a sound. I looked at the dark faces, with their mischiev- ously twinkling eyes. “Mead!” I said. Still not a word. What could I do, with the whole school smilingly defying me? My first impulse was to laugh, for my sympathies are nearly always with the little fellows against myself; but in- stead I summoned all the dignity and determi-| nation I could command iuto my face (I am convinced my very hair bristled), eyed. the rebels steadily, and seated myself. A dead silence, partly of surprise, partly of expecta- tion, reigned for at least ten minutes. ‘Then one boy attempied to whisper. uabua !” up and stood at my ner, “No He walk elbow like a sentinel or an execu talking,” I said majestically, and silence once pall, and there we sat—you could have heard a "pin fall—for two mortal |houra. At recess I dismissed the emailer chil- dren, but the others were detained for a lecture. I toid them that I bad hoped they | would be my friends, and love me just as 1 loved them; but I knew now that they cared | nothing for me, and that there was no uso in my trying to do anything for them, for unless they obeyed me Icouid never teach them any good thing. Presently I began to catch the words, coming in a half whisper, first from one boy, then another, ‘Tomorrow good boy Excuse me.” After a little more lecture, I said. “And now we will read.” and lifting my wand, Ipointed to the blackboard, and they read, every one of them, in the most delightfully modulated voices in the world. ——_-es_—____ She Sent Him a Note, From the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Of course she was provoked when he passed her on the street without stopping to speak to her. He lifted his hat, it is true, but she re- called the time when he would have turned and walked several blocks with her, no matter E a erehants would be | DINNER BY CANDLE LIGHT. ‘Why It Was That Mrs. De Courcy Robin- eon’s Boarders Were Deprived of Gas. WHEN THE BOARDERS ASSEMBLED night before Inst for dinner at Mrs De Courey Robinson's semi-fasbionable caravan- sary they were surprised to find the table lighted only with half a dozen tallow candles. “Gas mever busted?” said Mr. Smith, who works in the Treasary Department,inquiring!y. Mra. De Couroy Robinson made no reply. ‘Moonlight tonight?” queried Mr. Jones of the census oiice. Mrs. De Courey Robinson made no response. “Tho grub is out of sight,” said Mr. Brown, who labors at the patent office, with his usual coarse jocularity. Mrs. De Courcy Robinson withheld her | customary repartee, | “Is this dinner or a toreblight procession?” | asked Mr. Billings of the Post Oiice Depart- ment | Mrs, De Courey Robinson looked stern, but | said nothin, upon them,” observed Mr. Galloway Green, | who had so frequently excited the landlady's displeasure by his insatiable appetite. It was an imprudent speech. Mrs De Courcy Robinson turned a cold eye upon him, which’ pierced him ciear through his moral Titsls, causing his hair tocurlin spite of him. des nre good to eat; we can fill ir. Galloway Green,” said she with a frigid and dangerous deliberation, “do you wish me to inform these other gentiemen why it is that the table is illuminated this ovening with tallow candles instead of gas ligh ‘Certainly, ma'am,” replid Mr. Green, with & pretended rec from feeling. | “Then I will tell the gentlomen,” she went | Lean- | ‘klossness which Le was very tar on in hollow tones, “that the reason wh not afford gasand have been obliged t stitute candles is simpiy that Mr. Ga Groen hasnot paid me ouecent for board last six weeks. Furthermore I wili add that sub: | until be pays up we shall continne to use | candies instead of and permit me fiually | for persons who do not setile ior they eat tallow candies are, in rather too luxurious a dict. How Green is welcome to consume th if he chooses after they have burned ont. meal at the table of Mrs. De Cou! as finished that evening im silence it is a pleasure to record the fact that Mr. loway Green paid up yesterday morning. doubtless prompted in large measure by ihe concerted requests of his fellow boarders. pisatasbresvesaed famps AND THEIR DANGERS | How to Care for Them—Cleanliness of the | Burner Essential, From the London Queen. The two great and very real dangers in con- nection with lamps are dirt atid carelessness, and to these two causes may be safely at tributed most of the so-called lamp accidents. | Consult any good lampseller and he wilt give you any number of facts bearing out this as- sertion. He will teil you the great sources of danger in lamps are dirty burners and badly | fitting wicks. How inconceivably careless People can be on these points it is diffcult to realize without personal observation. Here are a few instances, vouched for by lamp dealers of great experience and well-deserved reputation: | “A short time since we received a letter from | & gentleman engaged in scientific pursuits, stating that a lamp which had been in uso for some three or four years and had always | given the most satisfactory results had recently | taken fire, the consequence being that the lighted burner fell from the container, very | nearly causing «serious disaster. We at once | Wrote, requesting that the burner might be sent | to us for examination and on rece as we had auticipated. that the gauze was com: tely choked up with a hard coating of dirt | but very few of the holes being free) and that | the wick was one size toosmall. We requested | our correspondent to call and on his doing so pointed out the condition of the burner to him. He at once admitted that the sole blame rested on himself or his servant, but at the same time | informed us that he was no: aware that a lamp needed so much attention in this particular. “During each year I handle thousands of burners, which are sent to me for repairs, wicks or glasses, and it is surprising Wliat « small percentage have any pretense to cleanli- ness, some, indeed, are scrupulously clean on the outside, polished up with paste; the inside, howe thy, and I wonder how they bura atall. Recentiy I received a circular larap- burner to put right, and found it caked insito | with wax from composite candles, which were foolishly used to ignite the wicks, My repairs | consisted in scraping off this waxand cleaning | the burner, after which tue lamp burned per- | fectly. This lamp bad been in use less than six weeks. Another burner brought to me held in- side a store of dead fies (we counted forty odd). | After removn was all right. “It is all very well to say if” this or “if? that | be done toa Jamp, an accident may bo the re- | sult; but af’ a p be treated as common | sense dictates, we know of nothing less danger- | jous. We have ourselves been struck with as- | tonishment when inspecting some dirty,clogged and damaged burner—not so much at the | burner itscif, as at the fact that the people | were able to use it at all without accident, “The utter carelessness, amounting almost to recklessness, displayed by certain individuals, first in the puvchase, then in the use of oil and lamps, 18 quite enough to account, in my mind, for ten times the number of accidents that really do occur. “When the burner is thoroughly clean, and the wick the correct size, there is practically no | danger of an accident with a lamp, no matter even if the oil itself be inferior, as only the ight is affected by the latter.” ‘hese instances might be indefinitely mu plied, but the gist of all is the same. Granted cleanliness and ordinary care, there ean be no accident. To begin with, the lamp should be trimmed and the oil filled up in the morning jevery day. Once a week the oil conts |should be thoroughly emptied out and tas small amount of dirty oil thrown away, Next | | see that the burner is clean. Wheneve: the | | lamp burns badly this should be at once lovkcd | to, as it often is the cause. If the burners are | boiled for a few minutes in soda and water at regular intervals there will be little ditticulty in the burning. Next sce that the wicks fit exactly. For this purpose, when new wicks are required, the lamp burner should always | besent. Some people buy their wick by guess— | most foolish plan—for nat only must it be of the right width, but also of the right thick. ness, 80 as to allow of the oil reaching th flame properiy, and also to let the wick be turned up or down enmily. Another thing to ascertain is if the wick is worn out. A lamp | should have a fresh wick every month at lea: Be careful before fitting in @ new wick to see that the latter is pericetly dry. It should be laced for ten or fifteen mindtcs on a hot plate fore fixing iton the lump, 60 as to remov: | any moisture. It is said that soaking the wicks in vinegar and then drying them thoroughly provents ali chance of smoking; but of this there should be no fear where the lamp 1s reg- ularly and properly eleancd and trimnied. be very careful, in trimming the wick, not to let any of the charred part full into the burner. ‘This is @ fruitful source of trouble. Lamps with | metal reservoirs are undoubtediy safer than | of glass or china, as the for-| mer, if upset, can be picked up and| replaced before the oil can escape. Therefore, where children are about, it is better to ha e | only metal containers, or else metal contain- | ers which can be slipped into the china or glass | stands. Of course the oil used must be of good quality. There is no saving, but, on the con- trary, waste and some danger in the poor oil. Bad oil clogs the wick and the burner, besides giving off an unpleant and very dirty vapor. One morehint. Never turn down « Inmp, allowing it just to glimmer. It is meant to burn with the flame at full height, and when allowed to smoider in this way it will either smoke oF emell—possibly both—and most cer- tainly heat rapidly, and become « distinct surce of danger. ———+ee. Cariosities of Cycling. From the London Telegraph, Some curious facts are brought into promi- nence by ® correspondent of “Cycling,” who has been ct the pains todraw up a compara- i I i 4 HH iff >. if i pt we found, | db ing these and the dust the lamp | | city several ye Written for The Eveninz Star. THE NORFOLK NAVY YARD. The Busy Scenes of Yoda: the F INTERESTING THINGS OMSERVED BY a CAsDAL VISTTOR—THE NEW BATTLE SHIPS BOON TO BE COMMENCED—TUE MAMMOTH DRY DoCKS—OOR TRASTS OF THE AND NEW NAV Norrore, Va. February 5, 1892. Jast now no pla ents a be ance than the N. vy yar who has ago the o ing the « it since ti four yeare ‘ane inel atthe gate, the clink the roar of steam ands that meet on a former visit @ esa pervaded few s * wince a every part of its eig ent hty acres vm a quiet store house fc she y. bu work shops and ted About ved werea i by lazier- with a sing machine + men; uoisy ways ba on th th beh fe ships are mc 4 everything © Jess than five 3 try chureh yar « Son ste new ships are ks hold ANor nd what hes up of e re of the or Wrought this c course ew navy has natu: work hei 5 - thir yar wow. With eversthing im ite favor aud maguit, t arbor, proximit mber prod uy of eastern ana, id ate cod with: *, th nt yard ut, Commodore ° ant, Constructor ; "a reputation tion of thy the much- re are Jast as w York or er the euc- work assigned mmand some two ro'ls, while there are time. Th ma: wood work pulate irc adept in rivet as in nailing ships of the olu navy. THE WAR SHIPS. been taught to L have bee Quite a numbor of war ships are yard for repairs, but the most attractive sight for the visitor are the two immense battle ships on th ks near the east entrance, both nearly re lnunching Th stecl cruiser Releigh, named in he > Cavolina’s capital city, Her somo proportions show up well even through the inttice work of # ng which surrounds her. She is now aboat ready for launching, which ceremony will probably take place next month, and one of North Carclina’ fairest daughters will break the bottle of wine over the bow. Next to the Raleigh is the gront battle ship xas, which is so near completion as to be ready for launching soon alter the former. They will be gala daysin the two cities when these the first steel ships ever built in this vi- cinity glide from the stocks, a will mark a new era in the histor; well as that of the yard. Further down the yarg are the two dry docks =the old «tone dock and near by the improved, Simpson wooden dry dock, built two or three years ago. 1 the occasion ¥ of Norfolk as THE OLD AND THE NEW. At the time of my visit the school ship Porte: mouth was in the old dock having ber bottom scraped and the new eruiscr Newark was bal- anced on her keel in the new dock just afew rodsaway. What an excelle fitting types of The dingy bia mouth lay exposed in k built half a cen- tary ago, while the ay rical proportions of the Newark, in dazzling white, showed up bandson from the wodern dock across the way. ‘There they lay, side by side—tue old and the new—a night that would make the most bitter opponcut of the Darwinian theory con- fess his belie! in evolution—in ships. ‘The monitor Amphitrite is beng armored and fitted out at this yard. and }* 'sous-looking monate is said that an ac mate for bi zen of monitors of t son typ There is mn to be seen by the visitor than . ‘Lhe olticers are always courte rs aud appear pleasure in showing Visitors over the ships. A Vieit to the commandant detailing @ mesenger to slow ihe points of iuterost. CS WITH A BL — IN HIS BRAIN, A Man Shot in the Mead Lives for One Weel. Without Suffering. From the San Jose Keon “The experience of Jacob Heft, the suicide, who fired two builets through his bead several days ago, reminds me of the case of a young man who was shot through the head in this said @ promineut phy- ago, sician this morning. “The young man was a driver on the Sante Clara street cars,” continued the physician, “and his room was in a house opposite the con- vent where the accident occurred that resulted in bis death. “The landlady ittle son was playing with a very sali pistul, wiach discharged accidentally, and the bullet, net a larger than a duck i the center of the young man's and, as was afterward learned, i passed almost entirely through bis bead. “Without moving from where he stood the wounded man said: “That was ® center shot, |my boy; i don't think you could do that . and then he wiped a few drops of blood physicia “Ihe young man continued to keep on his feet and did venience from the bullet in his brain for several days. Then he became cr: b bad to he held ‘0 ~-Easy enough,” replied the physicia bullet had not come iu contact with any vital portion of the bran and the man lived untdl inflammation se The case of the young Dan Murphy is mach more remarkable. As far as the world knows bi et in lin brair a good health and as bright os Ususl. Strange things are happening in these modern days and m can tell what to expect or What surprises await us” a THOUGHT TKANSPERENCE, Professor Lodge Says Ideas Pass Withest Speech Between Minds, From the Youth's Comp :mion. A great deal of interes by some remarks made at the last | of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by Prof. Oliver J. Lodge. Prof. Lodge holds a high rank among men of eciencs in England. Whatever he says is, therefore, entitled to respectful consideration. Speaking of the limitations of man's knowl- edge of nature, he referred to the phenomenon known as “thought transference,” and, after recalling the fact, which of course everybody knows, that « thought can be transferred from one mind to another either by the agency of sight, as in writing, or of sounds in speaking, he uttered these remarkable words: “Is it possible that an ides can be transferred from one person to wnother by a process such as we bave not yet grown accustomed to and. know practically nothing about? In this case Ihave evidence.” I assert that I have seen it done and am perfectly convinced of the fact” Prof. Lodge, who lins devoted ‘ot tention to this subject of years, and conveys the waves of light, electricity, &c., many serve as u medium of communication be- tween mind and mind. many mys- terious and apparently miraculous, phenomens could be expinined without resorting to super- —ro2—_____. natural azencies, ‘The “beaviest” woman in Europe has justdied weighed 550 pounds. in Bavaria. She —_—_—_—_..... HORSFORD's ACID PHosPHaTs For Impaired ‘Aad weakened energy ws ‘bucceaiah