Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1892, Page 11

Iss Gist totting esa Thaws coat soos ws cou ing men Wwe ever seen, wi Elizabeth, his wife, is seated, and. wears setin dress, out square in the neck, the being t up from the face high on the head, rev ‘a lofty, intel ‘brow and evidencing that she must have been rarely desatiful woman. et area a take any part political je was no. ery young man and eaid that he must romain faithful to his oath to his king. He had taken an oxth to support the British government and could not forpewear himeelf, and the Calvert family were rie! hair ly state whose early t was not stained with the blood o! fortunate natives. They offered a Jum to the Friends when in Englan. ‘Virginia the pillory and THE MT. AIRY MANSION Home of the Elder Branch of the} enci Calvert Family. AS A SOOEAL CENTER. ‘aforesaid, esquire, of the other part, by which is conveyed to him all that plantation or tract of land commonly ealled ‘His Lordship’s Kind- ness,” consisting of 6,700 acres of land, and as well as 2,500 acres on the Patuxent,” &c., &c. In this deed it will be observed that Ignatius Diggs is termed gentleman, a term old English works apply. iniscriminaicly to. every man above the rank of yeoman. Benedict Calvert is called esquire.a tile of dignity in nd next Below a knight, originally the, hield bearer of the knight, having been introduced into England with the congueror, but its present application dates from Henry ¥. BENEDICT CALVERT was the son of Charles VI, Lord Balti- ‘more, and was at that time collector of the port of Annapolis. On the 27th of April, 1743, just three years previous to this purchase, he had married his cousin, Elizabeth Calvert, daughter of the late Governor Charles Calvert by his wife, Rebecca Girard. Her parents both dying dur- her minority, she was left to the guardian- ship of the Razolini family, an Italian family of distinction then living in Annapolis. Among other letters that I was permitted to examine during this visit to Mt. Airy was one from Lord Baltimore to his son upon the sub- tof bis marringe. in which, after numerous tructions relative to lands, negroes and stocks belonging to his estates, he writes: “Pray do not think of marrying till you hear from me. I have something to propose to you much to your advantage, and, believe me, I never will force Your inclinations, only propose what I think will make you more happy, and afterward leave it to your determination. ‘THE OLDEST LIVING CALVERT. In # letter to Gov. Ogle he writes that he is giad to learn that his son has made so good & choice, and he need not doubt that he “will do everything to make his fortune equal to the mg lady's.” She was » great heiress. I found also among these letters a copy of one to Lord Baltimore from Mr. Rasolini, Elizabeth Calvert's guardian, commending Benedict Cal- yert’s choice, and saying that the young lady has had the best offers in the county, and he “hoped that his lordship would think that he had done right in encouraging the match.” She was a famous beauty and a great toast at the celebrated “Tuesday Club” of Annapolis, where we read in the annals of those days it | was the custom to toast the most beautiful ‘Women of the provinee. We read in these an- pals of a very amusing petition having been sent in to this famous club by the ladies whose | names had been withheld in the toasting. It Petitions that “in view of the singular and sur- ccess that has ali along attended such ppy females as your honor has been pleased to pitch upon as the toasts of the honorable ir, every one of whom in a short time after having been happily and successfully provided with a much more eligible state, we do pray, ‘oue and all, to be included in the toast.” It is needless to add that amid much laughter the Petition was granted. ANNAPOLIS A8 A SOCIAL CENTER. Annapolis must st this time have been a most delightful city socially. The seat of govern- ment had been removed here from St. Mary's in 16%4,under the name of Anne Arundel Town, and soon after cha: to the “Port of An- Rapolis.” Her wealth is stull evidenced by many of her venerable buildings, which im their stately proporti mentation the weal ers and occupants. A French writer, in a letter fos correspondent in France writ t be- fore the American revolution, says: ery incousiderable town standing at the mouth of ‘the Severn, where it falls into the bay, may be styled elegant and grand. French lucury here known in the provinces of i ere nce. Itissaid that acertain dame here ys ber French hairdresser 1,000 francs a It was the seat of awealthy and aristocratic Government, ite people cultured and agreeable, manners stately and ceremonious. Society was ona patrician basis, the lines as strictly drawn as in the mother country, and the negro slaves substituted for white vassals. It was called “the court end of the continent,” and here Benedict Calvert had his winter home. THE MT. AIRY HOUSE. ‘The present house at Mt. Airy was com- menced immediately after the purchase of the Jand, every brick having been brought from England and paid for in hogsheads of black to- a tig those days for almost all goods. Even the Anglican Church by colonial act in 1702 been established and supported by an annusl tax of forty pounds of cco in every i. What was smoke in was a handsome revenue in the colo- avdens and the fragrance ind biSmome, fo well-trisimed lswne caks. But more than all else is ‘With ite wealth of hallowed associations, The old-fashioned box bedges flower beds of Queen Anne’s day are ae one long aithea | adjacent country. display né and elaborate orna- | and taste of their build-| | stands at her i setts and even in the awaited them. Among these old letters I found so many evi-| His manor of Anne Arundel, consist of dences of the loving Kindness of the father for 15,000 acres which his fathor hed left lian wos ct children. Ono, dated not very long before | confiscated and never recovered. THR YOUNGEST DAUGHTER's ROMANCE. sen I sent you the underwritten things ina box | _ And here during this war grew to womanhood losed in another by Mr. Phipps, which I | the youngest, and many thought the loveliest, hope you have received fore this: of the daughters, Ariana, whose fate was to be “One pair of velvet mit for Mrs. Ogle. | sadder, more tragic, than her sister's. Durin, The, are sent by themselves. her childhood bd lived much at M ee Airy two maiden Sisters named Read from a ith Carolina—Miss Kittie and Miss Mollie petal ae ap epee rik rat | Sahar et ” occasion visit tl re anc in it One pair eilver pitchers Mary Lemon’ way first met Ariana. He was a handsome, man, with a stro: with her father young was her it, bis darling. Firmly, though that she sath be brave, must re and in her own sphere. ing to grieve the heart ‘of the parent been so loving and tender to young Read to return to South hope, with that glamour which al- surrounds the vista that youth opens to us, that time and her steadfast love would ulti- mately overcome her father's opposition. It was in vain that he lavished every indulgence upon her. The American revolution was over and she became a favorite young guest of Gen- eral and Mrs. Washington, at Annapolis, where for the moment gayety reigned supreme. © She ‘accom: her brilliant sisters to every fete in town and country. Many suitors presented for the beautiful girl’s hand, all she had a gentle refusal Her love for her first lover was stron; She began to fade and droopand her health rapidly failed. Just then her father died, and toon afterward her mother, seeing that her ld was doomed to early death, guve her con- sent to the engugement. Hope sprang up anew in the young girl's heart and became the foun- tain of renewed strength and health. The miniature was painted at that time, and one seems to read love and hope in its every linea- ment, but all soon realized that the struggle between body and soul was growing weaker and weaker and that it could not Jong continue. Gently the angel of death bore her away. | Read afterward married a Miss Van Horn of New York and many years later his miniature | was sent by my aunt to his grandson. And they laid this lovely girl in the churebyard, be- side her father. THE FAMILY cuURCH. ‘THE YOUNGEST MALE CALVERT. Lady Baltimore must have been a charm- ing woman, for among these old letters I found several from Mrs. Calvert, a cousin in London, toamember of the family in Annapolis, in which she writes: “I will say nothing of the news or fashions, as Lord and Lady Baltimore are going over so soon and will tell them all to ou so much better than I can write them, I am sure you will ike her lad ship, a8 shee a most charming person and extrei agreea- ble.” Other letiers speak of her in the same terms. BENEDICT CALVERT'S FAMILY. As soon as this house was completed it be- came the summer home of Benedict Calvert and his family. Of a very large number of children born to them only two sons and three daughters survived him. The oldest son, Charles, was sent to England to be educated and died there; from the other two, Edward Henry and George, are descended the present lines of Calverta, To this beautiful old home came in summer time all the most distinguished men and women of the day. Here Gen. and Mrs. Washington were frequent visitors. The visitors did not ar- rive by train and remain a few days, as we visit now, but they came in splendid coaches, with outriders and servants in full livery, and great wagons full of baggage, for they mad long. very long, we would think now, visite; and these hospitable Maryland homes were al- ways open to friends. Here Sir Robert Eden, who had married the beautiful Careline Calvert, Benedict Calvert's sist nd been sent out as governor of the province in 1769, used to come very often. He was said to have been one of the handsomest, most accomplished and wittiest men of his day. Some of his witti- cisms are still traditional in the family. Once when walking in his lovely gardens in Annapolis with the Doautiful Mrs. Sprigg, grandmother of the late Dr. Richard Stuar! of Baltimore, she pulled a sprig from one favorite bush of his and attracted his attention to ite great beauty. Taking it from her and bowing low he promptly replied: ‘You, madam, are the most beautiful Sprigg that has ever been in this garden of ily church, and is | miles from Mount ill standing. It is about five iry 2nd was built long be- from try were baptized, new generations came they filled the old pews, while tender memories of those lost and | gone filled their thoughts and hearts. How | often as a girl I have sat in the same seat once oceupied by my beautiful great annta, and in this charmed silence, with the subdued color- ing and pale golden lows, memory wide the storehouses of heart the phantoms of the past seemed me, recalling in gentle tones these stories of my ancestral home, dear to every young girl’s heart, and THE MT. AIRY ESTATE. ‘When Benedict Culvert died, in 1788, he be- queathed this estate of Mt. Airy to his older son, Edward Henry, with the understa: that if the manor of Anne Arundel, which had been confiscated in 1776, could be recovered Mt, Airy was to be given’ to the younger son, George: Suit was brought for its recovery, but the legislature a law prohibiting ali such suits as conducive of dissension and complicated litigation. In 1196 Edward Henry Calvert married Elizabeth Biscoe, also a beauiy and heiress, and Mt. Airy became their permanent home. ‘the war of 1812 when Admiral Cockburn Speaking of these gardens suggests 0 at eye eye Re McLean, tion of them, that I havosomewhere found from | Commanding the American forces, ‘The een, the pen of some gentleman who visited him, to a correspondent in England: “These gardens are diapered ta the utmost advantage, the center walk is terminated bya small green mount, close to which are the seven approaches, commands an extensive view of the bay and the There are but few mansions in the most rich and cultivated parte of En- gland which are adorned with such splendid nd romantic scenery.” This same writer, in speaking of a ball at Gov. Eden's, saya: “Iam persuaded there is not in England a town of the same size which can boast of a greater number of handsome and fashionable women with the manners and habits of your great metropolis. His excellency’s wife's two nieces, Elizabeth and Eleanor Calvert, daughters of Benedict Calvert, being notable examples.” Sir Robert was once confined to his bed by a long spell of illness here at Mt. Airy, and was naturally fed much upon chicken broth, broiled chicken, in fact, chicken in every form. Growing very tired of it finally he them, if they cared for him, to give him no more chicken, as “the pin feathers were already coming through his ‘line would sometimes apologize to her sister-in-law for bringing her children so often with ber, saying that if she left them at home her lady friends in their devotion to them would spoil them, and in her private confidences, would confess that the governor was the object of their attentions, the children the excuse, Gov. Eden returned to England at the beginning of the revolution and the provisional government was established, which confiscated all of his property. THE TWO ELDER DAUGHTERS. Here in this beautiful summer home did Eleanor and Elizabeth Calvert, the two older daughters, spend much of their childhood, guarded and shielded by that parental love ich the Romans supposed that the Lares threw around the Roman children, and here they grew from childhood into the dignity of young womanhood. The arbors,dainty still with the exuberance of the jasmineand the honey- ckle,in which they so often sat, are stil there and the same box-hedged of flowers are brilliant with all the colors of the Rumania fields. There floated before them the silver- ‘nally-before youth their heads ing my grand- father to keep it by all meays; that it could cer- tainlydo him noharm. After the war the British minister urged my grandfather to re- turn to England, saying that if he would do so be would insure him the restoration of the title in his favor, but he said that his ties were all here in America, and he did not care for it, NEW GENERATIONS. . And as the years went by a new generation of boys and girls rambled through this beautiful home and gathered the flowers that year by year blossomed anew in these lovely gardens. ‘Anew generation made the park merry with their joyous laughter and song. monster oaks and elms sheltered their foot- steps; nothing seemed to change, only the foliage grew alittle darker and denser, the o!d servants passed away and were replaced by younger ones, as three more little girls grew to the dignity of young womanhood, Eliza, Juliana and Eleanore. The tirst two died carly and the last is unmarried and the present owner of this beautiful old homestead. THE PRESENT OWNER OF MT. AIRY. Although she has been for some years,counting her years by winters rather than by summers, ‘she is still a handsome and intellectual woman, ers, Cacilius Baltimore Calve: ‘octogenarian, who owns an adjoining estate. My father, William, the youngest of these nine sons, way the first to bring his young bride, according to the custom of the day, to a gray-haired born, and still another generation of little girls chased the butterflies from flower to flower, hunted the birds in their nests, and the woods sont back the echoes of merry prattle and jov- ‘ous song once more. We were not #0 decorous and wall disciplined, T fear: as the former gon- i le people had been, for we had so re to spoil us, they would walk with us every morning th the . gathering for us the choicest fruits, sich delicious peaches, rapes and pears and great red-c apples, OLD AUNT POLLY. How well I now remember old “‘Aurt Polly, the octogenarian negress, who had nursed or sesisted in the nursing of these other little girls, often reducing us to order by saying: “My little misses never did so; they were little Hi digs Aunt Polly,” we would indig- nant! ly. “Then” you must behave like them, & 5 > ot and the light of the stare in the dark blue skies, while they dreamed the dreams that ing maidens of every race and clime have JOHN PARKE OCUSTIS. Here in the person of John Parke Custis, irs. Washington's son, came Eleanor’s famed suitor, “ Poll ayouth of but twenty summers and yet s0| ment She ware ne te trong, mature, so carefully educated and trained that’ tervice, so with he seemed much older. I have read a letter | cloth in her hand she from room to from Gen. Washi to his tutor, to whose care he consigned him when just fourteen years of age, showing the general's estimate of his character and his affectionate interest in him. “I will allow you an extra £12a year for extra care, for,” he continuss, “he is'a most promising lad, is the last of family and will have large fortune, and I wish to make him fit for some more useful purpose than a horse racer.” The general sent with him a servant and two fine horses that he might have desirable physical exercise. There is a beautiful portrait of Eleanor Cal- vert taken at this time in riding habit, which now hangs in the drawing room of this house. She has a lovely girlish face, full of intelligence and animation. She was a spirited horse- woman and used often to go hunting with the room removing any dust that had settled upon the handsome mahogany furniture. Occasion. ally Aunt Pelly would fall a. and mechanic: ally continue to rub one spot a long time. Com- ing upon her sometimes at these moments we would mischievously startle her by asking, ‘Why. Aunt Polly, what are you doing?” Re- covering her consciousness quickly put additional force into her labor and with great placidity, “Just a little fine , honey." ‘answer polish- times wo would quietly slip the cloth from her hand and conceal it before awakening her and enjoy her look of amazement when she couldn't find it. “Ob, Aunt Polly, you were p that time,” wo would Py aids of Gen. We She married ir. Custis in 1774, and in all the pictures that we see of Mra, Ws on occasions of cer- emony she is the besutiful young woman who it. She was the | woodland. much of it in ite siege beauty ™ it at touched by human hands; thick-wooded tome - | ‘That is often a motive, at ‘This little church of St. Thomas was the fam- | to speak to | ing | ‘The sume | With her lives the last surviving of nine broth- | this old house, and here my sister and I were | neeators f The planta a xt ager] ; thick~ in impenetrable, with a thick under- in others covered with the field us, like a moonlight track upon the aters of’ my youth—it seemed to grow leas Weird and shadowy. © Mantax Catvert Wizsox. oo * SELLING CHARITY TICKETS. A Business Carried to Excess in Washing- ton, Some People Think. 66rPHAT 18 THE THIRD €5 THIS MONTH,” said the Washington matron, as che sealed up a bank note in an envelope. “Why do I submit to such extortion, you ask. Simply because Icannot help it. This business of sell- ing tickets for charitable purposes has becomo a veritable nuisance in this city. Just because Taman old resident here I am always put on the list of people to be appealed to. If it was done merely in the ordinary business way I should not object, inasmuch as I could refuse if I liked.” “Why don't you do so, anyway?” inquired the pretty girl who was lounging on the divan. “It is not possible, I assure you. A good many women with whom I have a social ac- | quaintance make a regular business of under- | taking to sell tickets for this or that charitable | enterprise. They prosecute it most actively, | going to the houses of everybody they know | and levying tribute. Or elso they will write | Personal notes, requesting each person ad, | dressed to buy whatever cards they happen to be offering for sale. Although they get no | money gain by the performance they are really | doing it for an anticipated profit to their souls. 1 events, but the; are frequently impelled by social ambition. don’t see how that can be.” “I will explain it to you. Suppose that a concert is being arranged for the benefit of a | hospital. Mra, X, who is not conspicuous s0- | cially, but who has ambitions in that direction, offers to rell tickets for the enterprise. She | works hard at it, pushing herself into people's | houses on the slightest pretense of acquaintance and asking money from the residents for what they have no dosire to. purchase. Her labors | are so fruitful of cash results that she must of Mr. | necessity be placed on the reception committee | whon the entertainment comes off. That her pro ves inence at once, which is what she was | after. However, there ‘are many otlier such ways in which this sort of thing is turned to profitable account.” * “Dut I hould think yon might escape buying by come plausible exetise.” My der | ing this kind of thing will take no excuse. Will not hesitate to drive you into @ cor d force you io respond with money or lank refusal. If you decline they are yay enst Most outrageous of | all is the very common case where a personal | friend writes to you, inclosing tickets, and puts her request that y 1 of di They ner | tr: nd I know | couple off my. en’ to my address,’ It is to ji uc that I'am now replying with this lear 3 that I can count such an appe Cae Well, it is some consolation to know that you are doing good.” “Perhaps! I don’t think that I'm stingy about giving, but I want to make my con- tributions to’ charity voluntarily and not on compulsion. Why, do you know, a lady of my acquaintance" called upon me for | the purpose of selling me some tickets | to clemosynary tableau vivants the other day, and when I said that it would give me pleasure to take one, she exclaimed, ‘What! Only one? T thought that you would buy four at’ least. Mind you, they were $2.50 apiece. ity tickets always do cost extravagant prices. One day not long ago T was attending ¢ meet ing of a sewing circle to which I belong and there were three women there who were pe: dling tickets for different things. The only person I know who has discovered a way of get- ting around the difficulty told me yesterday that ehe always responds to such appeals by saying thet eke would be delighted to purchase, only that her husband has forbidden her to buy any tickets for anything at any time. That | mai usually settles it, a id the same applicant never comes to her twice.” Ee A MYSTERY EXPLAINED. If Women Were Left-handed They Could Alight Better From Street Cars. From the New York Sun. She half rose from her seat, glanced toward | the rear of the open car, and, raising her para- sol, signalled to the conductor on the rear platform that she desired to have the car stopped at ths next corner, As it slowed she | stood up and stepped to the side, shifting her | parasol from the right hand to the left aud grasping the arm of the seat with the disen- gaged rit “Wait till the ca: stops, please,” the con- ductor shouted. © glanced up with a slight expression of fright, and the conductor ran along the foot- board at the side to assist her, but she did not wait for him. She stepped down while the car was in motion, and when the car stopped with ight jerk she had her left foot on the pave- ment, She had kept hold of the arm and was | about to release it and pat down the other foot, | while facing to the rear, when the jerk threw | her off her balance. The conductor grasped her arm and prevented her from falling. Bho smiled her thanks and stepped away. ‘The con- ductor blew his whistle and started to return to the platform, “Puere's another,” he remarked to a serene | and observant individual at the end of the next seat. ‘A woman never gets off a car while fac- | ing the right way; at leat I've n¢ seen one. f she'll wait till the car stops it’s all right; if not it's all wrong.” qhiam't her fault,” the individual remarked. “Huh! “No, It’s the fault of the car, or, the com- pany, I mean.” uh!" “Of course. Tam not saying a word about EEEpins corporations or anything of the like, Qa 10s the fault of the company.” "d like to‘know how,” the conductor eaid, estively. “We do ‘everything we can to oun, “Arnot may be'so, but the company ought to change ‘oe ootion of its poy start a movement for the development of ambidex- terity," the philosopher remarked, the “‘Ambidexterity—ability to use both hands,” the philosopher explained. ‘The trouble is | that most people can use the right hand only in | grasping snything, with confidence in the ef- | fort—women particularly, In this country the | cars pass to the right, and as it is safer to alight from the side nearer the sidewalk, xt is very natural fora woman to grasp the arm of the seat or the side of the rear platform of a closed car before stepping down, Now, if the cars ran the other way, to the left off from the” other side and ht hands. If a woman gots off now at the near the track she uses her right hand, and 4s not pitehed backward. You watch the next time. If women were left-handed the present system would be all right, but they are not.” never thought of that,” the conductor said. “It has always been a mystery to me.” “Do vou think they'll change?” the philoso- er asked. “Who?” tes «pbs ee \ the'women who make a business | ‘THE £VENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. ©, SATURDAY, JULY 16. 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. MAGGIE MULCAHEY'S TRIP,/Sae WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY ALICE EWING LEWIS, HAT WORLD-OLD clatter attendant on was broken into one m in Mra. ‘Mason's kitchen by the pleading voice of that indy's little hand len, who, pausing lations of the wiping towel, interrogated: “Haye ye an ol’ white skirt you could spare me, Mis’ Mason? I am thinkin’ as how I'll visit my kin folks in Iowy now that the rates is down, an’ you can go for $8, an’ I'm beginnin’ to git my clothes ready.” “You go to Iowa, Maggie!” exclaimed Mrs. Mason, while in her astonishment she came within a hair's breadth of letting slip the ances- tral blue piteher which she cherished as the apple of her eye and which she was at that moment washing, “Yes'm,” mildly responded Maggie, “for you see'm,” continued she, feeling the silent incre- dulity in the mistress’ tone, and evidently desir ing to withstand it with potent argument, “you see'm, as how I gts 50 cents a week here, an’ 50 cents at Mis’ Parker vo weeks’ I'd | bave #2 an’ Uncle Mike is going to give me the | other dollar, an’ then I could go,” concluded this humble’ logician, with as near an approach to a triumphant ring in her voice as that patient organ was capable of assuming. “Yes, I will give you the petticoat,” smiled Mrs, Mason, “and a valise in which to carry the clothing you take with you.” As in her mind’s | eye she saw into a corner of the attic where | reposed an ancient carpet bag which in the | eternal fitness of things seemed to match with | this quaint and dilapidated littie maiden. | “But not until I see that you are really ready to she added. “Thank you'm,” responded Maggio in a per- functory way, a gift from the long training in begging to which she, in common with her brethren, had been schooled, heving ceased to be considered anything more or less than a birthright. “Well, who ever heard of such a wild scheme being actually entertained!” thought Mrs. Ma-| son, while she watched Maggie's gawky four- ten-year-old form betake itself across the grove | which separated the Masons’ home from the | unique abode of Mr, Mulealfey, his better half | (better four-fifths would more accurately scribe that lady's behemoth-like proportions) and their four progeny, of which our heroine “doing up” the dishes | I'm goin’ wus the eldest. “ili, Mug!” ealled out a nondescript object, | hich, upon closer insvecti the younger Mulcahey 4 on wants you to mind her grandmhw's funeral “Another twinty~ ints to buy me a red neck ribbon to wear when I go to Iowy,” thought Maggie, as she emerged the rows of tob: t trence to the #hni which clearl pt great truths it had grown | | by dint of a board here wad a prop there and a | SBace left for a door yonder, from what was | | primarily « very dirty tent pitched on a liti- | gated suburban lot to ite present remarkable | architectural proportions, consisting of two mocent of flooring and furnished after rre fashion only possible to those ‘olders who beg and steal their domestic | house ¢ | belongings. , Maggie, child,” e: ther and mistress of ment, “I thinks a sup of would cool the likes of me a day like this, so take the tin cints | oonder the pail and go fetch me some—besides | the petaty bugs is gittin’ wey the best of you paw if he loafs around th longer, pointing to a greasy bundle occupying a corner | of the * and that stirred as if! feebly interested at being thus made the sub- | joct.ef conversation. ‘An’ T thinks he'd better ave some beer to sober up on. Katy, go dig some petatys for time Maggie gits back.” And thus having dis- patched her agents in their various directions maw (for such was the Mulcahey rendering of the maternal appellation) betook herself, a monument of fat ess, to the shade of a tree adjacent to her domicile to await the de- velopment of the plans rhe had set in motion, “f epuldn't git here = minis eoonsr, 3 Jnekson,” explained Maggig two hours later as she eutered that lady's etfting roves, where her would-be employer sat waiting, bonnet on, and baby in arms, the arrival of this general utility “You see'm,” she went on, ‘‘as how Mis’ Ma- son had such a sight of ecrubbin’ todo this mornin’, an’ Inever got throngh till this blessed minit, an’ I come right over as eoon as Katy tol’ me ‘thout even stoppin’ to eat a bite,” ‘Thus artfully killing two birds with one stone, kling her palat alunch anknown to the menu of the Muleahe} id _end conceni- wept throughout the long hot afternoon as if the obsequy of not one great grandmother but all his ancestors was be- ing uniiedly observed. His dejection, though, was in no wise dispi iting to his attendant. “The idea of the trip to ‘y” shimmering before her mental eyes like a celestial vision, interrupted now aud then, in true, by glimpses of “maw” obiained through the trees as that dame sat in the shade of the Muicahey back yard entertaining a female friend of Hibernisin extraction, whose residence was in that portion of this western river town classically kuown as The Bottoms,” and whose arrival, with ite attendant necessity for more of the beverage which both cheers und inebriates had been the true cause of Maggie's delay i assuming her preser "I kinder hate to leave maw,” meditated as the cackle which served Madame in place of q laugh floated to the danghter’s ears—apropoa of which cachination ving neighbors averred that its owner's face, as well, bore a resemblance to that of a hen, and that the voice and face together gave ample proof, as did their shanty of evolution from lower forms. he’s awful good to me.” continued Mi musing, and discriminating in her mental in: flection’ as she suddenly became aware of presence in the group, where he sat smoking a pipe—of peace, let us hope—with the guest, Mrs, Flannigan. For be it know and proclaimed, since Mrs. Mulcahey could ill afford to have left un- credited even a negative virtue, that whatever were her other departures from conventionality she was at least guiltless of the use of tobacco, truth. favorable opinion of uit yon the fact that relative refrained through avereion to exercise from certain activities—such as ingenious and violent modes of juvenile punishment—in which “paw,” being less cumbered with fat and lazi- ness,’ frequently indulged, and, inasmuch as Moggio was no analist, sins of , which . proved to be | mixing the gender of her i her baby this afternoon the whjle she goes to | Mis’ ; : who shor were as numerous as the seashore sands in “maw’s” composition, were classed in her youthfal eategory of virtuea. jie, what is claimed Sure sion on the appare ery unhappy mood. PENo'm, ain't sick.” replied Maggie ww foun’ out las’ night t Thad Pigot mindin’ Mis’ Jackson's baby, am it away from me an’ made Katie git him some Whisky with it, T didn’t git_the whi 1, but rather a malicious delight in able to thwart “paw’s” plan in ite on! airy Pat ultifarious wardrobe, gained posecesed Mulcabey child Sidarticle of ‘which locked ne ide) moment in ber manipu- | this “Well, “Oh, yes'm, I will., Maw's are real nice folks. “They li Aunt Bridget has Oh, I ‘member ‘em way there, an’ I have alwus wanted to go back. “Well, upon my @ord!” said Mra. Mason to herself, as sho watched "s departure that evening. “I will never doubt her after that. Where there is a will there’ . I woul as soon have thought of that little calf out there in the grove resolving to fe around the world or one of the ing it would travel another Mulcahey wor “Hi, Mag! T tral; i sd ete eS et ne relations in Iowy in a house, an’ its Of the lov'liest joolry, from before we left cars of window. i : I b'lieve it’ rain fore I'git back from takin’ you to the depot.” The er, @ k boy of | twolve, the heir of the ou of ulcahey, | prevently emergod from his ancestral halls, clad ina man’s coat, the tails whereof just missed | of trailing on the ground to the degree of sug- | gesting a page's assistance, Its wearer then jauntily lighting a cigarette and tossing the cient carpet bag over his shoulder with an “I'm ready,” this pageant of two moved off, viewed by “paw.” “maw,” Katy and little Nore from the door, this latter group by no means dotract- ing from the picturesqueness of the situation, clad as they were in fresh selections from theit heterogeneous wardrobe, little Nora particularly reminding one of the promier dansense of the ballet, her sole garment being a gown evidently designed for a child several years her Junior, it being exceedingly decollete as to. walst and re- trouse as to skirt, whilo her curly yellow hair, | which hed apparently cut all acquaintance with any species of comb, looked like @ parody on the tangled coiffure 'so fashionable a few rea- sons ago. | ‘Say. Mis’ Mason!" exclaimed little Ann Don- | elly, Maggie's successor as neighborhood seul- | lion, the next morning, while she stood with blacking brush poised’ in air, “do you know Where Mag Mulcabey got them iligant binck stockin’s she wore to Towy’ “Well. sir, ll jest tell “you,” continued she, les in her excite- olive | ment. Maw, you know, washes way down town for Weil, las’ Wook when she was there she dic tell Mi e maw, neit! "if she didn't White the’ pitifulest story of how her | paw was dead and she had tin brother sisters an’ her maw was down with the rheuma- tiz in her feet, an’ would Mis’ White let her have a pair of st “Bimeby she saw maw, who saw her all the | ©xce time, an’ she was that shamed she most cried, | but maw never let on to Mis’ White or no one that she knowed Mang.” | “‘Is thet #0?” answered Mrs, Mason, with an interesi by no means commensurate’ with the intensity of the tale, the keen edge of her sur- | prise being taken off by her intimate knowledge | of the Mulcahevs’ movements and also by the re- | mempbrance of having once seen them in the +t of the city ona similar begging expedi- tion’, judging from the big baskets they cabried and their general dissolute appearance and ec- | companied withel by this eame little Ann Don- | witha hamper as large as any of the | others, a fact which made this young "8 | assumption of virtue all the more unbecoming. | Poor little Maggie! Like some plant which | trios to spring up in the neighborhood of a! great oil refinery, where though soil and air re death Inden, it yet preserves the upward tendency which is the law of its lifeand of all fe. » ———-e-— A PORTABLE BABY BASKET, It Can Be Packed in a Trunk and Gives No Trouble. From the New York World. For the beby of luxury @ new baby basket has been designed. It is for use at the seaside, and has the advantage of accommodating itself | to the narrow limits of a trank. ‘The basket | proper is 8f white rubber, in the exact shape of | small boat. The bottom of the boat is flat | and the sides have a way of collapsing as if by | magic when the packing time arrives. Inside the boat are pockets of shirred yellow silk, a 4 NOVEL BABY BASKET. smell round pocket just suitable to hold the puff box, longer pockets for the brush and comb, and round, soft balls of yellow silk and lace which hang with narrow ribbons from the side and are used for pincushions, ‘The baby bottle when it is not in use has a shirred covering of yellow silk slipped over it. There are also pock- te for shieid ‘pins. rubber rings, rattles and the numerous tals to s new baby's comfort. ‘The boat is supported by Justable legs of willow, which cease to act —— at the owner's wish. ‘deep frill of silk ‘over the edge the boat gives it a dressy effect and basket’s ornamental capacities in decorating summer nursery. office by a fair young woman, with e garden of roses on her expensive hat, a bewitching smile on her face and a light summer parasol in her hand, which she swung idly and imperiously as ahe confronted the bench. “I want a divorce,” she said in a captivating tone, without waiting for the Justice ta look “Indeed?” wail “Yes; I want it right off.” “You are in a great hurry?" “T should say so.” “You would give me time to make out the There Are Two Kinds of Houses for CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH. ‘The Fashionable and Dear and the Unfash- SUMMER BOARDING jtumn comes and they return vow they will never boarding house, but Boarders in Hot Weather. fonable and Cheap—At One You Get Good Food From the City and at the Other What You Get is From the Country, but It Isn't Enough. UMMER BOARDING houses are of twokinds— the fashionable and dear and the unfashionable andcheap. Atthefash- ionable summer board- ing houses the guests have meat and yegeta- bles from the city, while gether with « single pledge—to de what? | Elect Cleveland? Elect Harrison? Pedal a | bievele oF «wing ® tennis racquet? No: read the Bible and pray every day,to take part regularly in praver mecting, support | their own churches, and engage in sctive | Christian enterprises, There's a new mepect Serer nes eee 7 | 5 pumng auemes So: youl Goane Ee have very little of either. People who go to the | ! hould rather say young world. expensive places grum- he has wut ble because they don’t | 1,200 full rogiment get everything in the world, including husbands | *tewly swing of veterans, and yet with for their daughters, for the same they pay for | Woyaney of youth. Now and then en board; but people who go to the cheap resorts | pee — ee wg eS “vi stumble because they don’t get anything at all | keener wits, stronger faith. Look at the in return for $5a week. The fashionable sum- | People’s religious societies of this deuade, mer boarding house in winter remains a house, | 7°" = have no fear for the church of the vat the cheap boating house, stripped of tte | ""Z5"Sn. “Sho Gelioves oil thle & fn furniture, becomes a shed, hardly affording re- | asionishing that there are some who never spectable protection from wind and weather to | of the Christian Endeavor movement, who 0 ‘ows or sheep. A fashionable boarding house | Rot know how, only eleven years ago iast Feb-| of sar thirty onstrnction about from the elements of a revival in « $5,000, but 'a cheap boarding house costa about | Maine, an earnest pastor and a faith- anlos tneure the otras le have ‘ervatallized this now jewel nn down-—asnally . the Christian Endeevor attractive about it) Where| Jokes, the uniforms, the ouke and candy, the ghitter gayety that selene were their own homes in the city and wish to | Supposed capable of drawing young people? If, enjoy a little gayety in th amer months, | for nothing cise the world owes this movement} They dress a great deal. and any one who sees | it# profound gratitude for proving the them at breakfast won | Seriousness of the young. It used te be: more elaborate hem appear at | “Win them by persons.” Now it is said, “Win dinner. Their costumes are hardly less on the | them by principles.” latter occasion than ball drestes, a —_ eae casteties boven from oa ape e start eminently spiritual. Shere deals| iii reel “j ered us lincinicdlte boara- | With fundamentals, “They have appealed te the will be observed that these summer board- | thoughtful and uhcarual manhood and era are spoken of as being in the fominine ‘ani gender, and this is because women are so much | than that, they have exhibited the rule that ‘ional man who is found | your 14's—gonins for aj among them is as rare as the white blackbird. | ity. Pish for the young with The wives, mother: and sisters are | tion and they will grin at it a picherel grins| there, but th at the float. | Fish for @hem with the koak of «| brothers are | principle baited with a definite duty and they| ness, whi | oFe yours. sionally on . pretend they are sorry ¢ the time. 7 i in winter when thore is frequent boarding mally those wh except occa- ome down and —ne . | AChicage Port + Kemarkable Mrength. Frou the Chicago Trtvune. {he men at the club,do| | One of the strongest mon in Chisago, the you suppose? Not much. What's the use of | gtrongest, pe “ ngstrom, » porter the club wien the women’ have abandoned te | aed breton te house? The men congregate at one another's | — houres, and in thecool o” theeveniag they—why, | Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. Engstrom ts they just eit th Play | 80 strong that be does not know the Limit of bis cards? No, no, that is a thing they never do, | own power, and withal, as becomess man t. perhaps, whon they indulge in whist | merit, is #o modest that he blushes Mice « girl ith the old maids when they go for a flying | visit to the relatives at the summer boarding | BO has found the red caret «busking house. Drink punch? Under no considera- | When his physical endowments are men tion, Sometimes they do make a pitcher of | in his presence, Engstrom is a Swede, lemonade, and if, perhaps, they leave the ugar | five years old, and has so far resisted the out and pat a little whirky in its place the bev- himself erage can still be termed a lemonade just as | % ‘be gentler sex as to find — well as a “ricke: TUE ONE MAN IS IN CLOVER. Now, while mon at summer boarding houses are as rare as white blackbirds, there are, nevertheless, some of them to be found. Just as there is apt tobe one white blackbird in a large flock, *o is there generally one man at big summer boarding house. Sometimes he is superannnated man, whose duties in life have cometoanendamong men and who simply where the women of his household choose So tate him. ‘This man finds hie, usefulness te the evening at the card table. In the daytime he sits on the piazza and reads the news and talks to anybody who will listen to him. He seems to realize his position and is not apt toassert himself. You cannot help f sorry for him and he feels sorry for himself, for he would like to be a little more active and to have an office in the city, where he could go every day and pretend to have something to oc- eupy his time. Another kind of man at the summer boarding house is the young man who has gone there on his vacation, not muse he likes the place, but because he has a vacation nd feels he must spend it somewhere. This fellow changes his clothes several times a day and talks to the girl. He is the vietim of hero There is competition to get posses- pane Pe A goes for stroll followed by sitting on the pissza he soon finds himseli surronnded y an admiring audience, who laugh at his jokes, listen with applauding glances to his words of wisdom and flaticr him in everv conceivable 8 “Who will take « dozen women stand up and "And you can beton it that they He is safe, this young man, if there is any truth in the saying that there is safety in num- bers. If he pays more attention to one than he does to another it will be said that he is engaged, for the people who live in the sum- mer boarding house are prone to gossip. Gos- Why it is the ing they have to do. fe city they have the household cares to at- tend to and a hundred occupations each day,but in the country they have no concerns of their own to busy themselves with, so they very Kindly busy themselves with the {hinge that concern them not. If a real, bona fide 1 mont is contracted at the boarding house what | “bine bet a flutter and cackling takes place among the inmates. Those maternal fowls that have young pullets ready for the market are disposed to be little savage at the puilet who succeeds in e- i good prize, and those that are no longer epring chickens—having long since passed the broiling age and even got so far that they may prove tough unless are the severest of all. the sum- if fi if if i Hi ) E i Est f : TRE THREE OccUPATIONS. The occupations at a summer boarding house may besummed up as being three, eating, sleeping and talking. To the first named there HEF ty | j ete i i Hit