Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1892, Page 11

RUSSIAN RAILROAD : ’ feeing you can save, money and make your- illows jo the the guards for these as well as for my and bedding. In none of the sleepers Tfound at Saratoff, I had to make a very pro- | nounced kick before I could get any bedding. There was a mattress on the iron springs, but there were neither sheets or pillow cases and the nights were cold. After atime I got arather comfortable ontfit for the night, but the next day I found that this was all charged up in my bill and I have had to pay for bedding at half a sometimes you pay when yon don't order them. I remember a swallowtail waiter who made me pay 35 cents for a cake of soap at | the hotel at Nijni. I wanted a towel and in | order to convey that idea to him I rubbed my hands over my face as though I was drying it. He rushed off and brought me a piece of soap. 900 tons of petroleum ian road alone, is ix greater than Annenkoff esti- ‘miles of railroad as Russia or sixteen times as cow to St. Petersburg, and I am told that there ere more than 10,000,000 people in this terri- this line which is being built from Vladivos- tock it has no road worth speaking of, and there are right in the heart of south Russia vast provinces which bave been comparatively un- touched by railroad. The United States ia very much like the Russian empire in that it is an | agricultural country, and with us the average | distance of the center of production from the the world today. What it needs is good capi- tal and railroads allied to good government. If it ever gots these it will be the great country of the future. Fuang G. Canpextes. ———_+-e+___ LUCK STOOD BY HIM. Novelties in Playthings for theCom- PLAYTHINGS THAT WORK. Dolls of Improved Patterns, Which Coquette and Are Odd Otherwise—Costly and Elab- O MANY NOVELTIES in children’s playthings asare now made ready for the coming winter holidays have not been various theories, such as that they had declaring that vuch an amusement was destruct- ive to the soul. Dressed dolls often introduced the civilized world, in lien of fashion plates, and le forwarded doll models of them- selves to Paris, for the purpose of having gowns Dou mam, i It is commonly imagined that homan hair is used for the finest dolls, but such is not the prising. ELECTRIC AMUSEMENTS, Electricity has invaded the field of toys. A compAct set of apparatus for experiments in tor, &c.. is sold for @5. With this outfit static electricity, including a Leyden jar,a gen- | THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. : NN ee THE QUESTION MROVONT TO 4 BRAD IX KEW ‘THINK ABOUT IT—PICNICS AMD PRESEXTS— CHINAMEX 48 HUSBANDS. | New Youx, September 28, 1892. GBALL THE YOUTH AND BEAUTY OF American maidenhood be used asa bait to lure pig-tailed orientals into the fold of Chris with the Church of the Strangers. An order that a table should be interposed between each pupil and his fair instructress gave rise to dis- content, the custom having previously been that the two should indulge any desired degree | of proximity, even to sharing the same book. ll origi- SAVING CHINESE soULs. | by rooting in the filth of the streets, make thete self com:vrtable, I found it very incon-| mang in proportion to our population. If you NEW THI GS IN TOYS nally been ornaments for ovens, The Church noeet [Skee sak Ge Suuly. G6 Ge cone venient even in the first-class sleeper during | will take your map of Rt ‘you will see that | 1’ eh }. | of Rome did ite best to sup] dolls, declar- | Shall American Maidens Re Sacrificed for | are indescribably equalid, and > poorte have the first part of my present tour. Thad neither | there is scarcely a line of road in the'vast ares ing that they were children of the devil, and im Pig-Tailed Salvation? ‘no morale worth mentioning. On the hole, & soap nor towels with me and I had to rely upon | of Russia north of the line running from Mos + the eighth century it forbade playing with them, is rot surprising that they should evince euch anxiety to come to America, expecially when each nes ved be alban ew ‘so00 000 7 ‘d . . FORE—CHINAMEN INSIST ON ToOUXe women advantages are offered (bem here in Connectoa expect to furnish yon mach more than a place | tory. i 3 4,000, people ani é i costumes from one country to another, as when | rracnens ar SUNDAY achooL—onowrm oF | With religious instruction. tolie down upon. You are expected to carry | its’ ‘resources are among the greatest ing Winter Holidays. the Romans conquered Gaul. A century ago = seu Ove SAE aud fxg lival cleea kata, which | tn’ tha ‘wea Wet wai exception of Paris tradesmen sent costumed dolls all over | 4% AMAZING STSTEM—WHAT CLEROTMER UNDEVELOPED MORAL SENWR, Ethnologists, who make the races of the World their study, have not been able to die cover any other people in whom the moral sense seems to be so little developed as it i in the Chinese of the lower classes. Beyond all other varieties of baman beings they are sensual, omen they have no reapect whate ‘They dozen hotels since then. The passenger boats | aearest railroad is less than four miles, Here | Fate Outfits for Manikins—Dolls’ Jewelry | case, unless it may be in very rare instances. | tiapity? ons bind orenuten tan aha - lon vico | gi the Volga, which, Dy the way, are very com- | in Hussia it is 240 miles. In Belgium this dis-| and Tollet Sete—Etectricity Invading the | Mohair is utilized instead, being put throngh | The recent agitation of this question in New 2°° Franci pest hole, In a «pace cover- fortable in “other ‘respects, do not furnish | tance is about two miles, in England itis three | yieta of Toys, certain preparatory gna voloved with | York has ti ton kasd ty Gs aleitag | ten sean en porthole. tn 0 ps bedding, towels or soap, and you sree ed — rope cree = whole Sreat American ae ss dyes. It looks and fecls so much like | of the Chinese Sunday school in connection | are crowded. and within those limite are 150 extra for these when you order them. | nent only thirteen miles. Russia is, per- ._—_—s uman hair that the mi is not at all our y x) i : ~ If you don't understand the Russian | haps, the most undeveloped good country in (nen ee Rambling dens, 103 disorderly houses and 28 opium joints. “It ix said that missionary work fm Sen Franctsoo during the last forty years has not brought into the fold of Christianity @ dozen Chinese converts who can be vouched for. There are only about 10,000 Chinamen im New York and Brooklyn, but their contribution to the vice of the metropolis is enormous and ‘oll bo Cc aaale ‘its F seen before in years. | ands small hand-book that accompanies it any | But when the Rev. Dr. Deems declined t0 the twlice are atliged te bern then, mama and vd: webapectan ber poke ee it was wrapped up in tinted paper and he tore | How @ Square Player Won a Reputation Dolls Hicularly have | intelligent boy can learn ‘8 good deal about, | marry a girl teacher toa Chinaman open rebel- stant surveillance. The pe dey a <4 Aow the Iron Horse is B 1 and rode 1 of oil will pro- | Off the wrapper before I could tell him that I Maleag eomeeenee part iy “pe be Tror se is dar rs here that a pound of | : much « He then took the soap away 2 as a pound of coal. | didn’t want -. taken on new develop- elements of electrical science, incidentally to |lion on the part of the celestial gentlemen few hours on Sunday to flirt and “makes mash,” OF” | Amusing bimsclt with the freaks of the myste- he has learned to 6 Groomed in the Land of the Cz Thave been traveling this week souh of Mos: | and I noted that it was charged in ms bill, | rom the St. Louis Republic. 7 ments, Those which rious fluid. For €1 can be purchased a com- | Proke up the enterprise for promoting salva 99,100 hive te rope the eatschtm te Sate ap roomed mm the Land of tue Uzar. pobainials pay mena hg hl ‘engines | Whereupon I ordered him to bring it back aud ‘0 Fou want & new poker story?” said a open and shut their | plete electgic motor and battery, the latter con- | tion. | the opium pipe and play fen-tan, or very likely = which use this oil fuel, The oil is kept. ina | took it with me,as I had to pay the bill anyhow, | well-known man. “Well, I'll tell you how a eyes have actual lids | sisting simply of a disc of copper and a disc of | Marriages between American young women. to indulge in’ yet more reprehensible pureuita, - tank back of the engine and it is injected into * RAILROAD RESTAURANTS. ttle game gave me a great reputation and ‘and eyelashes, whereas | 748¢, between which is put a piece of blotting | ang their Chinese pupils in Sunday schools have It is worth mentioning incidentally that the TRANS-S the furnace through a pipe so made thatit} The Russians are always gorging. aver- |made me at least temporarily a hero, all paper containing sulphate of copper. The BS age min isa glutton, and { have seen Mender, etherial, esthetic-looking Russian girls daring the past week who could getaway with more solids and liquids than any beefy Englishman I & jet of steam an steam converts the | toa spray before it mects the flame, and | 1 that a steady hot fire is pro- | m the boiler is firet started avy grass or wood, and it takes a e of about five ponnds to work the t. The engineers like it much better 4, and I found that most of the boats ed petroleum for their en- through the fact that I, by the merest accident, got the best hand and was just smart enough— or foolish enough, as you choose to look at it— to stay with it as long as my money lasted. First let me tell you that while I like to play poker a little occasionally I know nothing about manipulating cards or playing tricks hitherto the effect was produced simply by the rolling of the eyeball. To the latter was at- tached a bent wire with a weight on the efid of it inside the head, which caused the pink part of the ball to show when tye manikin was laid on ite back. What a great improvement on this primitive device is afforded by lids and | blotting paper is moistened and the decompos- ing action of the sulphate of copper on the zine runs the motor for four hours. The pieces of | blotting paper cost only ten conte a dozen, and | the motor—reckoned “at one cat power—ia strong enough to run a small factory of spools and strings, ELECTRO PLATING. become alarmingly frequent of late. This does not seem at all surprising to anybody who has observed the growth of the extraordinary sys- tem adopted by the churches interested in this sort of missionary work. The most important feature of it is the requirement that one in- structress shall be provided for each individual heathen. In New Fork nd Brooklyn there are American girlcan never have any tesson for taking it for granted Mat ber pig-tailed wooer bas not already at least one wife in Ane Strange to ray, Miss Campbell, euperintend- ent of one of the Sunday echools, is quoted aa saving that it ie the young women teachers who usually do the love mak Many of the Chinamen in Mott and Pell streets, who do not belong to the Sunday e having « regular at- o i The same sort of battery is utilized inanother schools, have white wives. The latter are - gines. The petroleum comes irom the vast wrth them. Tknow only in a general sort of a way | lashes can be readily seen. ‘The contrivance is shape to supply a current of thirty-five volte | as Christiane The tetera sot seven cocvers Botts ‘Trish women. "Ne ie R Russian oil fields which lie along the Caspian the relative value of pairs, threes, fulls, flushes, | managed by pulling two strings at the back of ihonugls Aen ebsckiotas wih ans ROMA in has | veh Maktnay bh Gene hae ae teaching these bAYe frequently interviewed them for the pur- bats sen, and it is shipped up the Volga in straights, &c., but the ‘science of the game’ is | the doll, one of which shuts the eyes while the 8 m | interesting viritore f the fi y kingdom Po*e of finding out why they selected husbands A 18 bulk in oil ships, which are great’ iron a sealed book to me, and I am absolutely 1g- | Other opens them. hands, while a bell is kept ringing all the time | {teres Meee Of oboe ee the eend Atneican |1T0m this alien race, and their replies have ta the shape of Larges ond which Smaps arene ee ss bissuccessive interruptions of the cireuit by a | the services of about one thousen been uniformly to the effect that the Chinese nds upon thousands @f gallons. At joran’ © first rudiments of the education HE COQUETTE AND CRYING DOLLS. vibrating pendulum. It isa miniatare repro- | Sitls are enlisted. ‘ made very eligible «pouses, neither coming 2s points along tho Volga thefe nre vast oil of a card sharp, ‘There isa quaint modification of the same | duction of the electrical machines seen on the | Some of the clergymen say that they can see central © much the world realizes. ssuch as you see in nnsylvania and a | of ofl is stored underground in wells are made for it. It is carried into the cars means of pines, and the «ame sort of tank cars are used here for the shipping of petroleum at you find in America, These cars hip i ndred and fifty million gallons and though this big city of Moscow » the edge of the Rassian forests a ber of its factories use petroleum for ad it much cheaper. IN THE LAND OF FORESTS. WAITING FOR THE TRAIN. have ever met. The people seem to ent at every station, and the beauty of it is you can find something good to eat every time the train Thave just returned from a trip to the Pa- cific coast. On my travels I found myself one afternoon in a good big town where every- thing was run ‘wide open.’ I am not going to tell you what town it was, but this is what happened to me. I strolled into a large gam- bling room. one of those place where a sport can get almost anything that he callx for. 1 watched the faro game for a while, glanced at the roulette game and then floated naturally Five or six men were called the “coquette” doll. Ita eyes, controlled by strings, move to the right and left, giving the facea very cute and qifizzical expression. But most remarkable of all is. the doll with two faces, One is & crying face. Pulla string, and Coo-ee!”” when the rked. In the «ame manner a to turn suddenly white, and string is pull other pra» is negro doll is streets. Another modification of the apparatus is for electro plating with copper and_ silver, the necessary copper sulphate and silver nitrate | bein, tupplied in the shape of dry salts, as well 8 all plate of silver and another of copper. | Ifthe boy who is so fortunate as toown a of this sort desires to replace one of his mother's spoons, he dissolves the silver nitrate in water, puts the solution ma glass vessel provided for the purpose, and suspends in it’ from the negative pole of the battery the silver plate, which is called the “anode.” Then he hangs no barm in marriages between the slant-ered Pupile and their instructresses, setting aside | Face prejudice ax an unreasonable objection. Others regurd such unions as undesirable, but contend that they cannot well be helped. Cer- | tainly, they aver, there is no other effective method for saving the Chinamen's souls, inas- much as they will not attend Sunday school un- | less they are provided with young women teach- era. The Rev. Dr. Jay Benson of Brooklyn is one of those who do not believe in the accepted home drunk aud beating them nor equanderin the family subsistence for whisky. abies an young children, half white and half Chinese, are becoming plentiful im New York, TOO OKEAT A PRICE TO PAY. Acclergyman of this city, speaking of the Chinese Sunday achools the other day, asked What would be thought of it if an advertiang notice should be printed by a church saying: “Wantel, 100 young Irishmen, Germans, Hun- up toa poker game Frias oF Malaus to attend ofr Sunday school it poh v1 ° ° i is tach young man will be provided with a your ; stops. Lwish I could show you a plate of Russian | Fs vice versa. these there are dolls made | from the positive wire the spoon, places the wet | Plan, His church organized @ Chinese Sunday Pach young im fi « ile Twas in Pekin s | North Russia is the land of forests, and if| foun” ‘One plate is big onsugh fora meal, but Leolnecan Sie eee petal oe gem | fo represent Indiana and Exkimo, the latter | pad of blotting paper in the battery, and al- | school a while ago, furnishing ‘a room band. ldy teacher, who will devote the whole of the will draw a line right across Tussia | the iinssiane take it only as au appetizer. "The vs eing dressed in white fur, which looks for all Lif th BAILED, through Moscow or a little above it nearly all | favorite soup is called stachee, and it is made of cabbage and other vegetables with a piece of meat about four inches square and two inches thick in the middle of it. In addition to this they bring you a bowl of thick cream, which is ometimes sour and sometimes fresh, to pour into it in order to give it a body, and this mo- lasses-like mixture you eat, and you like it, It is not bad, I assure you. But I have never found myself able to gét beyond the first course, for after you have taken the liquid part of the roup You'are expected to carve up and eat the meat, and the meat forms quite a meal in it- self.’ The trains usually make long stops at the stations aud from thirty to forty minutes for a dinner is not uncommon, station peddlers come around with fruits, cakes and drinkables, and a common sight is the old fellow with the samovar in which he makes tea and serves to all who will buy. It makes no difference how hot it is this man always wears his overcoat, and a long-visored cap usually shrouds his eyes. He is generally bearded and he has a fat, jolly face like that of Sauta Clans. His tea is good and he serves it with a bit of lemon and a lump of the hurdest sugar you have ever put between your teeth. If you drink 1 tea ashe does you will’put a limp of sugar between vour teeth and suck the tea through this, and the chances are that when vou get as old as he is your will be in the decayed condition of his. Nine-tenths of the Russian peasants have bad teeth and there is more chance for good enterprising dentixts here ths anywhere else in the world. I don't doubt bj that there are five hundred million caviti woop rox of the territory nort! f dense w Russia barn w: reat racks at the poor class in Russia, The third-class cars ing of thé engmes. The engine which . t , 8a are always full. They are more like cattle cars from the fruntiér to St. Petersburg | | which carried us fired up im this way, and the sweet smell of | z wood was pleasanter far than the | ‘oal which was burned by the trains | gh ¢ I find the than anything eb here are no cttshions on the seats, and the people are crowded in in all sorts of ways. They are not supposed to have any rights that the railroad officials are bound to respect, and I saw one man knocked down roads here well b: d. ‘The trains are always on time have his ticket in his hand. He told the guard bar and he brought vou §10 worth of chips. ‘Then you made the usual conciliatory remark ‘If no gentleman objects, I'll sit im for an hour,’ and went atit, I watched the game carefully for twenty minutes and made up my mind it was equare and then ‘sat in “The cards came my way and I soon had £100 to the good. Opposite me sata fui faced young man, who, I learned, was one of the proprietors of the house, ‘The other pla: ers joked with him occasionally when he made a winning by declaring it was no use try! buck against the house—that's the wi who he was, Isat down. If he held threos I showed down a Straight: if he held a straight I «ki flushy and if he held a flush tay hand ughtened up. Then the other players grew facetious and oshed ‘the house,” but still the cards came my way, until I stayed out of a jack pot which had about £150 in it and which ‘the house’ raked in with the remark that he could only win when the St. Louis man kept out. The game went on for a few rounds and then I won again, Dnt this time ‘the house’ stayed out. ‘He still had a big stack of chips in front of him, and I was surprised to see him draw out of the game and cash in at the bar. dered why he drew out. He evidently for me, wnd as he was winner I couldn stand his retreat, I watched him go the faro table and speak to one of the player The two men glanced over toward the pok table and then Teanght on. ‘The houss had calied for re-enforcements, and I said to myself that if mv fair-faced friend and the faro pl came into the game I would cash in and qu player picked up his hand and remarked ina careless kind of away, ‘I've got tensup’ He had no occasion to make such a remark at that stage of the game, but when [ saw the other man pasa him acard [ knew what was going on. It waa clumsily done, and I couldn't help smiling in- him. Tstayed out at that hand and was re- Well, the house wasn't in it after | d_outa! the world like kitten-skin; though it may be hopod that such is not the case. THEIR MINIATURE GARMENTS, The outfits of clothing and other nec- essaries provided for dolls ure astonish- ingly elaborate. Boxes come ready packed with a number of complete costumes ap- propriate for all occasions—morning gowns, evening dresses, frocks for demi-toilette, &c. Likewise small trunks, each of which contains a complete troussean in mitiature, in- cluding dresses, underclothing, shoc-, hats, para &ec. Stockings for dolls, imported’ trom | Germany, are made of cotton, lisle thread and silk, costing as high as 50 cents a pair. As many kinds of shoes are sold for the use of these | play-people as can be found in an ordi | shoe ‘shop for real folks, The finer gra jsuch as kid shoes and heel gaiters at 25 cents a pair, are manufactured in New York | and Brooklyn, while the oheap ones are of Ger. man make. + Straw hats, trimmed and untrimmed, for dolls; also felt hats, Tam O’Shanter’s of fancy silks and lace and silk bonnets for evening wear are all produced in this country. The line of miniature umbrellas and mackintoshes is exten- sive. An ivory-handled parasol of silk w lace edge costs 50 cents, or for the same pri one may obtain a mourning parasol of black Mousquetaire gloves of undressed kid in all sizes are 50 centsa pair. Doll's fans run from 10 cents for a paper breeze compeller to a halt dollar for 6ne that in of guuze, band painted, with ivory sticks and trimmed with swansdown, © m@nufactured for this purpose, For $1 it is sible to buy a necklace of pearis with brace- | lets to match, an enameled watch, a gold chain set, including brush, comb, sponge, looking powder box, button hook, perfumery mb for holding back the hair, a comb and brush, a tooth brush, a clothes brush, a ! anda breastpin, all inclosed in ‘a handsome | box. For 25 cents one can get acomplete toilets lows the process to perform itself. With ‘copper plating the method is similar. ELECTRIC BELL OUTFIT. The same principle is applied to an electric bell outfit, which includes a bell, seventy-five | feet of wire and a battery. While excellent for & toy it can be utilized to practical advantage | in the household, wl kitchen. It is berond question that playthings of this description have an important educa- tional value, Ifa youngster has any natural | bent in the direction of electrical science it is | apt to be developed. The remark applies | | equally to mechanical toys that run by steam, which are obtaining great popularity. These | include not only stationary engines, but also | locomotives built to all intents and’ purposes | like real onex which run on tracks, and steam- boats of all sizes and patterns. mactrses, There is a stationary engine, for example, that runs aminiature machine lathe, on which real work can be done on asmall scale Such en- gines, intended merely for toys, can be utilized to run sewing machines. One ‘pattern bas two furnaces.a big fly-wheel,a steam whistle to blow at 12and6 oclock and‘a high chimney. It represents the motive power of a factory, and the cost of it is only $3.50. Perhaps the most | remarkable feature of these mechanical toys their extreme cheapness. For 50 cents one can jbaya steam launch with all the apparatus necessary for running by real steam, |for the play room are made exactly after the pattern of Iitehon ranges and one such ean be ought for $4, together with all the utensils for cookery and a wash boiler. Small loaves of bread can be baked in it and it provides all facilities for practical frving, broiling and boil- | ing on a small scale. Little ‘safes for savings maintain their popularity because they are in- ther for communication | between rooms or from the front door to the | somely for the accommodation of twenty prom- ising pagans. Everything was done to mako things attractive for them, but male instructors were employed. The pupils rebelled at this and said that they wanted “girl teachers —pretty girls.” This request wax refused and they de- Xo girl teachers, no comec.” ‘They did not come any more and the school was shut up. WHY SOME CHINESE ATTEND SUNDAY SCHOOL. The Chinese Iyginner at Sanday school is | supplied with a primer having English and Chinese words side by side. He is taught later on to repeat verses from the Bible, parrot ion, and perhaps he may learn a hymn or which he sings in a discordant fashion, aiuful tothe earsof the civilized listener. Yhether he gets religion or not, he acquires knowledge of English in this way that is vala- able tohim. “Me no go Sunday school learn Joss,"ssaid one pig-tailed neophyte the other day: “me go learn Melican.” But with most of the pupils the chief object seems to be flirta- tion, for which the best possible opportunities | ure ‘affgrded. ‘Teacher and learner conduct | heir discourse tete-a-tete, and the latter does | his best to improve upon ‘the amiable inclina- | tion which his fair instructress naturally feels | toward the man she is trying to lead to God. It is observable that the efforts of the churches are mainly limited to the better-conditioned Chinamen. As one of their own race expressed it, “To get Melican girl teacher at Sunday school Chinaman must have money and dress ” The slums of Mott and Peil streets are | costly presents from their “boys,” as they call them, and in some of the schools it is usual for the pupils to escort their instructresses home. No self-respecting girl would desire to be seen on the street with an unpleasant looking oriental of the common laundry type, though he might be a dozen times a Christian. Most people imagine that all the time of the lesson to him alone.” ‘The Rev. Dr. Valentine A. Lewis of Brock- vn, who has been prominent for years in mis- sionary work, remarked, “The work of redemp- tion is divine, but you must not take the fair daughters of this land as sactificial victums and expose them to the evil of close relations with those who are not innocent “boys,” but shrewd men, deep in the knowledge of beatbenish am- morality.” as THEY SURPRISED When Jack Was Away the Girls Fixed Up His Room. From the New York Heraid. Away on his vacation was Jack, and while be wus gone the dear girls thought it would be « perfectly sweet idea to x up his toom. It was @ rather demoralized looking apartment from « feminine point of view, but regarded throagh Masculine orbs it was just about right aad per fectly comfortable, But the girls wanted to surprise brother Jack. So they invaded the sanctum one day and transformed it. They threw out the collection of old pipes on the mantel and turned Pauline Hall's picture to the wall. They gave Jack's old slippers to the janitor and tied pale blue cushions on his leather chair, They psinted forget-me-note on his boxing gloves and pute drapery of flowered chintz over the collection of photographs which adorned his cabinet. not drawn upon for converts. Obviously, an 5 . which are piled high | ready at this writing in. this empire for fi moment later two losers left the ‘able, ote exulucase PLAYTHINGS THAT WILL WORK. almond-eved’ heathen who. ‘wears American The¥ tied bows on everything from the by men | hundred million gold or amalgam plugs, andthe | and the vacant chairs, side by side, were taken ape ‘Toys that are “only pretend” do not seem to | clothes aud is personally presentable is more *¢uttle to the picture nails, and bung epiky their bac! pe two | Russian wich sound teeth is the exception. by the fero player and my former antagonist, | , Al! the jewelry and toilet appurtenances for| 27" Ge a” peer menly. Plapthines | agreceble to instrect then a crade pagan te.e,| samente cn ths gus jet with baby bios Shee an wos wares aed cise I wouldn t do to draw out at ouce, of couree, | 10lls are imported from Paris. One is amazed | bein such de sparen rigeos 'S* | blue frock and a greasy pig tail. Besides, itis They burned up a collection of . and at rly every station is = = and so I let the deal proceed. The’ game pro- | at the variety and cheapness of the bijouterie | that are real and will work are wante: *es | the custom for the young women to accept Pings which Juck had taken five rion for the | Jt Wondertal how much travel is done by.J and so Let the deal proceed. ‘The game p | res of wood piles re: h ressed, After a few deals the far Samulate and they decorated the Friend in Need” on the soap dee “Think ‘* Me” on the liquor stand and “Sweets to the Sweet” on the shoe bag. : 1 r by i i cks, they *tood off and admired it. wardly @ the crudeness of the cheating. The | bottle and piece of soap. A dollar wili pur- | B@%ks, with actual combination locks, are woid ? _| Then they n of miles which I have now traseled im Russia /and shoved back igto the station just as | faro player had simply called for a ten spot to,| chase s most elegant equipment, comsting of « for 25 cents. They can only be opened by resssesetpt It was too lovely for any t \ ‘© tind a rough road or one that is | the car was about td start because he did not | fill his hand, and partner had givin it to | round working the combination. Magic lanterns Chinamen Then Jack came home and : ; " norsk in New York belong to the same caste. So they to os verek a me it, we Lthe road beds are lerfutly well kept. | that the party of peasants with whom be was | warded for doing so by seeing aten fullon fours | mirror and a manicure instrument. ‘Tho | Stuctive and practical as well as entertaining. | 44 in their owa country, that caste being the pl pore im ina dazed sortof way e road between St. Petersburg and the| traveling had the ticket apd they had already | chown down, e cheapest toilet set is only 10 cents, comprising | The Yankee boy likes to fecl that he is dab- first and put his hand to his forehead. ier is weeded as carefully as the best-kept | got on the cars, but this did him no good, and » n, and I aw women on their knees serap- | though he cried and howled he weeds between the ties with knives. | while the car bore his friends as held back ud his family teel and at every cross road there stands a Rus- le permission of the government under ‘In the next handa big- the cards,and I knew sted miner dealt that it was an honest Tbad an ace full pat, so when the faro @ brush, comb and mirror attached to a card. DOLLS’ TABLE WARE. o saucers, two plates anda teapot. A bling in the scientific when he amuses himself. CLOCKWORK TOYS warbles and also whistles popular airs, A doll lowest possible, but the acquisition of wealth has created the same social differences among. them as have been bronght about by like means “What is this for?” he said in touching « smail fluffy . 3 on the floor. the black plan I The peasant cannot travel in Russia | plaveg picked up his hand and murmured | When dolls give tea parties it is requisite that | are to be more popular than ever during the pon bisam rnc oly h parang: oe sage up the ballast on | mut a passport. I bave not ha ‘Tve got jacks up, and I again saw a card | they should have proper sets of china. These holidays of the coming winter. There is a cashiers lon "at" ene the Chinese here as had become rough-| my passport at the railroad depots except when | passed which I was willing to bet somethin | range in price all the way from 5 cents to #15. | gorgeously plumed cockatoo, perched on a exclusive a# the 400 of Mr. McAllister. nowhere have Tsecn a piece of bad | Leame into Russia, but the peasant dare not | handsome was a jack, I felt pretty easy, { The least expensive equipment consists of two gilded stand, which opens its beak, sings and |““To ijjustrate how thix matter of social dis- Ebed. ‘Ihe ties are wooden, the rails are of | go from one part of Russia to the other without | helieved that he had a’ jack full. T'stayed in e - x tinctions among the Chinese may work in with ; | " bat let him do the raising. Before it got’ set for €15 includes of cups, saucers and plates | With a Dutierfly et catches butteriies that | the business of saving their souls mention maar TRANS sian peasant girl with a flag in her hand, w which he lives, and he is asked to show hfs pass pluser raised it, The a dozen each,with all the other pieces tat can | flutter around. “Another figure is that of an | 2° buritess of saving their souls, mention may jalenciennes the railway b tHe holds up until the train goes b; portatthe ticket office. At Tumboif [saw a | faro player saw the raise, shoved in his pile | possibly bé needed. In fact it would make a | old man who takes snuT from a box, raises it | \7.¢. 4, on West 14th street, which is the most you think it's of s: 2 lasting ones of Kinsaian| whole crowd of peasants who were | with the words: ‘I tap you.’ Ho wam'tafter| very banisome after-dinner ‘coffee get eath | £0 bis nose, throws beck his hhead and sneezes | sciect and exclusive affair of ite kindin the efty. | MS ee on b ploughs his way | about to emigrate to another _prov- | me and expected me to dropout. I studied for | small plates for dessert. Every piece is hand | violently. A fashionably dressed lady fans | ‘Thirty-one Chinamen com; ite membership, |. here kave you taken the bed?” whether he shrieks as| ince. had his’ passport in’ his! a moment, made up my mind that the first | painted. Itix said that these sets of dolls’ herself, turns and nods her head and at inter. been errodapr paratype pind whe py acum ppm dpe) hy forests or whis | hand and they stood in single file | raiser had’ threes, and then shoved in iny pile, | Puma cre Waendeut oe ete 4a French novel. The “man in the | to Christianity, while the remaining eight are TS8°4* Up as an oriental divan, bh agricultural lands | waiting for their turns to buy their tickets, It] which was just about big enouzh to mee the was at this same station that I saw my first prison car. ‘These Russian roads have cars e8- pnd raise. The first raiser stayed and others fled. We drew cards. It was | porcelain factories abroad, wh | ported to this country. ‘The ware is of good quality and serviceable. is an eight-d clock, with a funny face | which moves its m tache and rolls its eves. while a bee buzzes about the head. A clown | more or less likely to become such. The estab- lishment is in effect a club, orgamized on ideal the J japanese ight before you go to bed. It's too wwoet, inn t it? rally devote © carry prisone : F principles, inasmuch as all the expenses of ran- | <-ut { can't do without e washetand.” from Mosc Siberia go by ini-Novogrod, whence player stood pat. Allour money was | The finest dolls now come from Germany, | and bows, the first clown, ancanwhile, winking | some t brown-stone house. Oncea ‘im one tide, remove the vases fanet the tin up and it was a show down, ‘The first raiser | which has overtaken Franco in this industry. | and moving his scalp." The “moon minstrel, oe ed 1 told : % “i 100,000,000. The f mareh to the wilds of These ears had iron bars and window and they are guarded by soldiers who are r to shoot any who try toeseape, The cara the selves are third-class ones and the prisoners sit on bard boards rather than cushions, THE LUGGAGE ARRANGEMENTS, It don't pay to carry much baggage in Russia, I have a trunk with me that weighs about two hundred pounds and it costs me $5 every time I move. Only forty pounds of ba gage is allowed with s ticket here and the excess ay and the result is th. passenger had a half dozen bundles and the cars are filled with ages and baskets and tranks with handies he poorer clamex carry all their the cars with them, and as the too poor toown a trunk they wrap their goods up in cloths and earry them in bundles on. their 10 wait over night at the # y throw these bundles down for a pillow aud sleep on the stones, and a common sight at almost any of these tations is a Russian peasant family, the | father of which is generally sleeping and the mother either chatting with her neighbors or ged in her never-ending search for the © RATLWAY POLICEMAN, auinals which infest ber children # heads, RUSSIA'S GREATEST NEED. Railroads are Russia's greatest need. ‘The | present era of railroad building is producing but little in comparison with what Ruasia should headed, bare-footed Ras- ht calico dress, is iv & gen- appointed from ymarehes up and down ron his high- 1 with a great sword at his side. . with a feather in it, and be m Was about to leave, I stood on the rear eat band while the train was takes about five minut There is a bell is rung three times be- You can tell by the taps First then after ap interval of a ‘es two taps are sounded on the utes after this three taps are ‘tet a shrill whistle from tho sta . the train gets ready to start. QUEER MATLROAD FEATURES, queer features in Rassian nent. The Russian cars aro + in Europe. They are haif Sod lait American, ‘They are, of es and the ra higher than the United, Staten, The distance THE OLD MAN WITH THE @\MOVAR. es at more time you have. had three kings to go with, and didn't hel the draw. ‘The faro player, as I suspected, a jack fall. I had an ace full. I wish y could have seen that man’s jaw fall. His fai faced partner, the man who hind passed him the Jack, leaned buck and roared with laughter. I dsee that he had sized me up for a card sharp, and that he was amused beyond m ureatthe smooth way I had done him up. *Anace full!” he shouted, ‘Well, Tl be —. An ace fall? din the pot, raked it off id: “Yes, an ace full; good, I'm going to quit you, gentlemen, ‘and in d for UncleSam, and in accomplishing my mis- sion it was necessary for me to be just # little bit quiet and circumspect in my ‘movements, But the story of the poker game was told, and although my winning was purely a piece of luck, T'was pointed out probably twenty times aday for the three days I remained in town as the sickest card sharp im the country, which, while it was a little bit amusing, was anything but a desir e reputation for me. see Battle Blinded, From the New York Sun. It was in the sircets of Fredericksburg, as the my was thrown across to attack Lee in his impregnable position, Deep down in the heart of every confederate on the lines that day was pity for the men in blue driven forward to the slangh! Those repeated charges made sinst that terrible «tone wall at the base of Sferye's Hill were not. incited. by bravery, but orn of reckless desperation and despair. ‘Men saw that there was not the faintest hope of win- but they charged and charged rew intoxicated at sight of the awful wounded pulled those yet unhurt down with them in their fall. Here and there detach- ments huddled together like frightened sheep; again, lines sudgenly broke and the men would ot rally, though tkgy turned their faces to the foe and fought on. Ashell had exploded on the right of an ad- vancing regiment, killing one and wounding seven or eight men. Confusion foll-wed. A captain sprang out vi drawn sword and sought to rally the men & his company. He was grand looking man, tall and a and he the voice of a lion, even in that awful uproar, with death within arm’s length of 75.000 men. I could not help but notice the man. A bullet loosened one end of a shoulder strap, but he never knew it| Another cut the cloth of the iprained right arm, but only one oF two men sat “Into line, men—into line!” he kept shout- ing. “Fall in, company A! The old second | important center of the manufacture. It has been the home of doil making for many cen- turies. A generation ago the finest doila had wax heads, but this material had tho disnd- vantage of being very perishable. and it has gone altogether out of fashion. The best heads nowadays are of “bisque,” which is a kind of oreelain with a rough finish. Papier mache is molded into shape for the bodies, legs and arms, the wrists id ankles having ball and socket joints, so that the hands and feet can be putin any position, The fact seems remark- hair, drossed even to shoes, stockings and cap, for so «mall a price as $1. ' Half adozen years ago the same article would have cost 33. CHINA HEADS FOR DOLLS are old-fashioned, but there is alwaysa large demand for them. Country stores-eell a great many of them. They do not break easily and will. wash, though too vigorous scrubbing pt to take off some of the color. One ad. vantage they have is that of cheapness. Of all dolls the most widely popular are those which have china heads and arms and legs of the same matorial below the elbowa and knees, with dodies of coarse muslin stuffed with auwdust. Small ones of this kind sell as low as $3.34 a ons wholesale, which is not much more than Frente aploce. "They bleod sawdust alarmingly if wounded, but they can easily be restored with needle and ‘thread. ; HOME-MADE DOLLS. Not no very long ago there were many women who made wax dolls at home for their children. ‘The urt was considered rather an elegant ac- complishment, like manufacturing wax flowers. People commonly made toys for their own households in those da; the business of lant few dave news has Nuremburg, as everybody knows, is the most | shows a clown sitting on a horn of the moon. He moves his head and closes his eyes while | playing in a life-like way on a guitar. ‘The | moon also «miles and rolls his eyes. Pieces of | this description usually have musical attach- ments. Se THE RESTORATION ERA Was the Time When Men Were Adorned With Lace. From the Gentlemen's Magazine. ‘The Restoration era, being essentially the age and the falling collar, which had been worn under the tyranny of Puritan ascendency, should have given place to neckcloths or cra- vate of Brussels or Flanders lace, tied with rib- bons beneath the chin and with the ends hang- ing down square. In this age of Puritan so- briety in dress it is difficult to comprehend the mania which seized tte breasts of fine gentle- | men of the Caroline age for lace. We find Pepys in 1652. putting on his “new lace band” and recording in his “Diary” hi complete satisfactiqg with bis a “So neat it is,” wrof he, “that lam resolved my great ex shall be lace bands, and it | will set off anything else the more!” Charles II in the Inst year of his reign actually expended £20 128 for anew cravat io be “worn on the birthday of his dear brother,” and James I expended almost as much as £30 upon a cravat of Wenice point lace in- which to appear on the anniversary of the birthday of his consort, King William III, notwit tic constitution, en’ week the members are visited by a bevy of young women, who ifistruct them in religion, | remaining to ‘lunch and sometimes into the evening, when the pupils join in a musical en- tertainment that has caused many of the neigh- Dors to lodge complaints against the estublixh- ment asa nuisance. This has been found a very successful method of Christianizing the Chinese. No Chinaman refuses to be Christiai ized by such a process, and there are many a® plications for admission to the club. However, it is very exclusive and dificult to get into. CHINAMEN EAGER FOR WHITE Wives, ii jis F ~ too. able that one can bay today a doll of this fine | of «the dangling knee fringe and the bib} Chinamen of the celestial 400 aro usually am- | Thi 5 w always charged for. 1 is no charge, And here comes a funny feature of the ad- |‘ ith heir thes log o ling ee - bitious to secure white wives. Being unable ®¥e!¥ migh however, for packages carried inside the cars| venture. Iwas attending to a little business | (scription, with hair that looks like human only natural that the stiff band | biti through the ordinary channel they seek it through the Sunday schools. The frequency of recent marriages between girl teachers and | thelr pig-tailed pupils shows thatthe plan works | well. What opportunities are aff for the | achievement of inti reas | and hopeful convert was illustrated not long by the announcement of the secret wodding of Miss Field of New York to J. Lee Wing, esq. A sensation of scarcely less magnitude has since been created by the matrimonial union of Miss Grace French of Brooklyn to Lee Tadd, aq. and there is rumor of two other similar events bout to oceur. Not least loud in expressing their disapproval of this kind of thing are American young men, some of whom have gone go far esto say that girls who indi social intimacy with Chinamen should dropped and effectively ostracised by all male acquaintances, * EEE H Af “Well, the idea! That's only ty mand We stuck the shoehorn to it and gilded and now you can keep matches in it." “Say, got auy brandy in the house?” + yes. Are you all?” “Well, ido ane ee rocky; but say, before rou gO, what « this wriggling collection of biee Tiise over tie bed™ «That» an illuminated motto. Can't you read Like w boy. WHEN From the New York Sun. “Just before the train started the other day when I went to Bridgeport,” said to her six-year-old son if Bi walked along through tt She was a handsome lady she was very nicel; E £ j il A 4 3 sf tt t a f E ii r 1 ‘took turning them out for the benefit of the little wedge ig OF t ~e men and came near screamed and whistled and sang as never be- | People of the world had not as yet become a ‘up into looked out of the win- man objected vio- fore or after, ‘@he lines could not be kept | Rest industry. Certainly, nobody then used to dows; ‘end window aud the hat the picture was Aressed under that fire.” Men falling dead br | think of buying dresses for a doll. Within the % i F gee i E it HH L § tit fei icf t & s ty i iff A PRLLOW TRAVELER by Asiatic labor and it cost « over 210.000 4 mile. The ord m it re ved only 15 © . robubility te that wil tind China " the - ‘wants you to lead the way! His words were heard away back in the sap- Porting column and men who conld not see him for the dust and smoke cheered him. Ihsd my ves on him when. some his fac0, Tiras: like "a luk of, lightahag-*a eta 7 | from 5 burg to Moscow ia four hundred | have in iron tracks. One of the great causes of | miles and the roud is a# straight as @ string. her recent famine was the lack of tranxporta- are five trains every day, and it takes | tion, and there are millions of acres of good ten days to go from one point to the land bere which might be made valuable by on an express train. There isa differ-| railroads, Such railroads as the country has fare on the express over the ordiuary | have been built ax milicary roads rather than train and the first-class express rates are 334 | with regard to the agricultural and commercial contsa mile, while the second class, which 1 | necessities of the country and some of the best almost as equally good, are only 23 cents, and roads, Russia the third claw are loss than 2eents a mile. I have traseled qui'e a good deal ears and I Sud them very comfortable. ‘most of the well-io-do Rassians patronize second-class ears, and as one is expected to carry bis own beddiag by the use of @ ly 9 are little workmen | for their | the heap workmen from vlin of Siberia. Tho tains on the Tran: at the rate of thirty miles an jocomotives bura nothing but MOW COAL OTL HAULS RUSSIAN CARS. Phave traveled o) many cars here in Russia bled are moved b petroleam, and all the en gem of central aud wouh Rusia are worked #