Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1893, Page 7

skirt te of kt pin beads w ther teimmin STYLE IN COIFFURES.| Girls to Whom Bangs Are Becoming Should Wear Them. of fr HOW TO ARRANGE THE HAIR.) The DPitferent Kinds of Bangs—Moderate Use of the Curting Iron—Types of Metro politan Sixle—Young Woe Greek Filicte Are Not Intended. ary 13, 189% THE TALK | coroncta and | parts” and so on | ts over it will &' {wet that the girl to whom the bang is distinetly be- coming iy and always will be, as sho always has been, a very pretty kind of girl Incidentally, she is apt to ok badly in a Greek part. be i bright enough to now it and emart enoug! the bang style of girl is} always smart—to point- edly stick to ber bang a fo it, or who bare not hov can’t, wear theit Grec » stays pretty in her own particular ng her own dear bang. So, here a{ 1¢, gone forever. le hair in the le, tov. We who wear ratalnte ourselves that the sent bangs are each and ali exainples of the | of the fittest. If your hair is very thick at the forehead you may make just a lit tie fringe. Curve it down im the ceuter, for w no bang isewer cut coneeve. Let it bea nuine fringe that chows .he clear color of the fain forehead. This fringe ft nc h. of course, it ts not It has a turn in it. “If it has ‘on need not bother about what fort it is, but if son have to “do” it, don’t ri more than one-half turn of the irons. The at the sides and top of the head back of the bang may be waved and for two reasons. For one, it is more dressy, and, besides, if you hare back part of a proviows bang, in favor of fringe, you wall find the hair very | less it is waved. Then, too, m That was an may ¢ k cheni | that sho M1 remain | 3 | they are portraits of five belles of hair is not very thick at the forchead, in which case the waving makes it seem 60. kas ikewor was, and if yours is « fac ion't let the tal a the eaen er a school gir F & most at that need that kind. ate oval weare iy. Sach «head dress as I 1° goes with downcnst li | looks Ska | tied under | der the chin. oa know.and may beshelooks {with her hair parted. Be- prim girl, she does straight back and Dluestocking. se, +o she cute ¢, iteend perhaps Fach row gets its own half @ is just the needed he brow, the contour of the bang in no way f the precisele poised of girl is alwave dain bright, ¢: mp attractive. She a good figure, be wears from the top of her moder- or caring desper Pp. anvbow. i be improved by has % weil rounded neck and FurvoLovs. ‘There, tuo, is the pretty girl who is a bit friv- lous. She is naturally and unconsciously friv- lous as « butterfly is light hearted. Would you —_ describing a raised network, tiny yellow the netting. Skirtand top of bodice bordered nt of jetted net spoil her prettsfaceby putting classic tonches to her head and parting her bair, or would you abolish her bang and leave her with straight back hair? Suche girl will cut » bang away back to the crown of ber hend, thereby getting rid of a lot of hair and making the coil at the back smaller and lexs calculated to interfere with the graceful outline of her head. The first two or three rows of the bang are tiny sbort length» and those further buck are longer, so that they will not staud op and spoil the outlive. ‘The first fringes are slightly burned by the iron and those nearer the of the wre almostatraight that th Lie more closely to the head. She is thus aa sweet and delicately pretty as whe can be and a} Greek coiffare would not euit her balf so well I might go on and quote aay number of types Id stick to the bang. Some women may | dignify their faces by parting the hair at the forehead, but for most of you, dou't do it!| Fashions are not made to yourself t they are muda to b you. The} ‘Bet mad . bat to serve, and ff it suits your beauty you may consider them. If not, | imuke up atabion for yourself, or take o} from sotns other period, or etick to an old on ke the and continuo looking well in } SEDATE. ‘The women with long, heavy hair had better cut the lengths off. Shoulder length 1s the most convenient. It knots on the top easil to keep curled and clea: Thea, too, you are much more apt to have nice heavy air when you get old and need a few charms tovhe!p y jive. Above all you will De more im the present mode. Very heavy and long hair is more of a naixance than anything else. There is no way of doing it up and rou | can't always be pretending Ophelia or Judith and let it hang. What has been written concerning the colf- fares of the fashionable women ia illustrated in the accompanying pictures. It may be added | that these sketches were made at the great an-| nual charity ball in this city last week and that | e four hasdred! drawn. from Ute in the “Madieon | Square Garden, exactly as the original girls appeared as they pos: asly for the | pencil of the ar! the faces of | this quintet of jown with trutb- | fulness, wearing the transient expression of the moment, but feminine readers will find in the corsages a clear notion of the new atyles in low- necked gowns assecn at this notable rearly exhibition, The wubjecta of vortraiture sut | regally in boxes, for the McAllixterian “exclu- vives” make ita point to sit and beam on the assemblage at the charity ball without mixing | much with the a! Tickets are sold, you | w, to whomsoever will pay $10 apiece for m, and that makes the erenrepn ax, Oar imitation aristocracy attends th are to Wear night caps again. tent with attacking our husbs ge with the now and c Not js and the world fusing modes of | sures with mob caps on | ir tressos streaming down | isthe mod modification mewhat ugly nightcap. The as discovered that the cap is| ly to keep their hair smooth at the roots is very unhealthy to lave all the | hair confined. One should let the long em down the back just as asial, and have the cap set back of the bang, und the face end a bow w No fireman will bave the pres- | ence of mind to carry a creature so gotten up down a ladder, or I don't know anything of hu- man nature. ‘As a matter of fact it is of im-| with « rifle ail aro | PRint, rtance to keep the hair smooth at the roots, t is since glossy locks are to be the rule as soon as we can get them. We shall get them | by putting glycerine with whatever we use to | wash the hair, by washing it frequently and by | brasbing it and wearing a night cap. When it | comes down to fact, between you and me, the | ‘hole thing is got up as an excuse for the night cap. ————+2-—_____ | ‘The Costiiest Book in America. ‘The most expensive illustrated book yet made is said to be & Bible now owned by Theodore | Irwin of Oswego, N. ¥. It is valued at $10,000, for Mr. Irwin paid that sum for the work. Tho original was in seven volumes, 16 mo., and by the addition of drawings and engravings it was enlarged to sixty volumes, each 16x24 inches, | which occupy 17 feet of space on the shelves, | This remarkable book contains 3,000 pen and | pencil drawings, etchings, engravings, litho- graphs, oil and water color painungs and mez zotints. Among the illustrations are parts of the “Great Bible of Cranmer,” printed in 1533; | parts of “The Bishop # Bible.” printed in 1568 of the Nuremburg Bible, the first illustrated | Bible published, ‘printed in 1475, and of “Luther's Version” and the “Breeches Bible.” The extender has brought together not only all that could be found of the best and rarest efforts at illustrating the text of the Bible, but also the art of modern paintersand engravings, making it the most complete and valuable of the Bible in existence. | fe repeated in the race coursing suburb of | then lived here beside their bank, and across | of using butter at 60 centsa pound for all ita | perbapa ONE PARIS STREET. Tt Gathers Up Much of the Flavor of the French Capital. HISTORIC RUE LAFPSITTE. —_-+—___ It in Short, but It Contains Some Notable Balldings,AmongThem the BankingHouses of the Rothschilds and the Maison Doree— Picture Dealers and Curiosity Shops. eae Correspondence of The Eventne Star. Panta, Jan. 1, 1892. N PARIS THERE IS & street that rune but for two aquares, and | yet, in that ehort dis- tance, gathers up much | of the flavor of the Paris of today and yes terday as woll. Mhis short street the present writer knows better than any other; he bas lived on it more years than one and has al- ways returned to it after temporary absences. The Rue Lafitte branches directly off the Grand Boulevard in its central quarter—the Bonlevard des Italien, It is therefore in the northern part of the city and close to the heart of cosmopolitan Paris. It ts within easy distance of the opera, which fs the central point for tourists, of the Gare Saint La- zare, which is their railway statiof, und of the Kreat shops, cafes, restanrants, theaters and newspaper offices. At one of the corners which it makes with the boulevard is the Maison Doree, with Tortoni’s alongside, points x0 often mentioned by “The Englishman in Paris,” and on the other corner lives Lady Richard Wallace, whose husband fs supposed to have given the material of those gossipy memoira. She is now oid and her friends have died or moved into new Paris, but she 1 unwilling to quit the cen- tral animation of this piace, to whose noise long years have accustomed her. ANCIENT CHARACTER OP ITS HOUSES. The noise, the continual rattle of cabs, omni- buses and wagons of commerce over the old- fashioned stone rondway is the most serious drawback .of this etreet. It has a second dis- advantage inthe anctent character of most of its houses. Many of its large offices and apart- ment buildings were originally great private hotels from the time of the first Napoleon down tothe middle of the century. From such « honse, of the famous banker Laffitte, it baa ite resent name with its peculiar spelling. This Malsons- 1. ich ix due to the same tinan- cier along in tho thirties. Even in the first years of Louis Napoleon it wae one of the fash- ionable amid all ite present decay the tradition remains of the Empress Eagenie her court coming in the summer evenings to the Into garden parties of the Turkish em- bassy, whose gloomy palace stands idle aud vacant now for many years. The Rothschilds the street the witty me Emile de Girardin, better known as Delphine Gay, Lad her salon of | literary an prittes Her houxe is now a modest hotel and the remaining grandear of the street has snbsided in like matiner. It could not endure after Baron Haussmann had been set by the emperor to blasting boulevards in wide straight lines through ancient Paris and thus transforming it into the new aud splendid city of today. ‘The buildings of thia street are therefore old, and the street itsell w in comparison with the bouievard, where it begins, and with | the commercial Rue Lafayette, whicb runs across its center. In these old buildings the long French windows, which reach nearly to the doors of the upper storivs, are far from tight, and let in the cold wind when it blows | up the narrow street, But there | are many bachelors’ apartments here for men Who wich to be at all times in the very cetiter of .and there are several hotels of decaved unpretentious corfort. For both these purposes and for its own peculiar trade th street ia really but a single square long. This between the boulevardand the ine Lafayette, The square beyond is occupied mainly by the small burgeoisie, aud northward toward ¢he hill of Montmartre the street ends before the little church of Notre Dame de Lorotte. . This neighborhood was never choice, and at one time it was celebrated for the aprightlinees of the working girly, who lived around the church and obtained the name, famous in the litera- ture of Bohemia, of Lorettes, In the chief square of the street, however, there {sn little world that «till shines, thougit with the reflected light of the Grand Boulevard. In the bright winter afternoon vou cacape from. the thronging Bonlevard des Italiens, with the Indies in their latest street costumes, with gen- tlemen in curious hats, with the brawl of the afternoon newspapers just ont and the com- plaints of loud and qnarrelsome cab drivers, and turn aside to the quiet sight-seeing of the Rue Lafitte, THE MAISON DonEE, Beside you, on the corner, is the Maison restaurant was at one time ex- and it still has the distinction frious! cooking purposes Down the brond but wind- ing staircase on the Rue Latiitt, Lord George Hamilton in other days fell hendlong and broke his neck, after having enjoyed the cheer too freely. ‘From ite portal at 3 o'clock one suta- orning there issned the lovely form of a sense, Who for a wager essayed | aas Godiva-like across the deserted boule- But an accidental policeman d her and marched ber | . On another oceasion a gentleman who bad dined too well inde a anting leap from what we should call the -story dining room, smashed through the Venetian blinds, and alighted on the roof of a newspaper kiosk in the strect below with no other damege than « broken leg. ‘These are the tales of the past. One who passes here day and night for month after month can still remember times when loud laughter aud gay greetings are heard from the private supper rooms of the Maison Doree's eccond story, but the ordinary life of this one- time resort of gilded debauchery is now quiet to the verge of melancholy. Not many new people learn to frequent its expensive tables, and the life of Paris which made it possible has broken into a hundred cliques. I doubt if the Maison Doree paye at all at prosent, except that the wholesale wine trade of ite cellara, which still r their prestige, may make up for the lossea. The world now gravi- tates to more democratic places, like the Tav- @ Pousset, a square below along the boule- .. This is in the very heydey of its success; joud, busy, bright with clectric lamps and with ay colored panels on its walls, Bavarian beer und hearty food are served and are growing strangely in favor. It has the notorious Frank- fort sausage, and it makes @ specialty of onion soup and steaming crabs, shining, red and jaiey. Aglance along the boulevard at mid- uight will show where the late restaarant patronage of Paris is going. There is » soli- tude beforé the Maison Doree, but you may #e¢ 100 cabs huddled in front of the Taverne Pous- set, where it belches forth light and noise aud the gay conversation of parting customers, A NOVELIOT'’S BLUNDER, A successful young American writer of short stories, who is at his best when he writes on subjects with which he is familiar, blunders curiously with regard to Paris life along this line. He puts into the mouth of the wife of struggling New York artist—+he must have re- coived her data from her husband—a desire to have a studio at Montmartre and to dine each da iguon's. Now Bignon is well down the Avenue of the Opera, a long walk or ride for any bungry pair from Moutmartre, and the Bohemians of that quarter emile at the thought of dining habitually at the one pretentious re- sort in Paris, where only strangers are habit- uaily taken in and done for. If one really must get rid of bis money he had best chance the Maison Doree a’terall, but no Montmartroise would think of either in’ connection with the man she loved. The Rue Laffitte ts the direct road to Mont- martre. As you turn your back on the boule- vard and waik up ite narrow length by night, jou see, high above the Church of Lorette, the terns which light the steep flight of #teps up to the very top of the great bill overlooking Paris. When the new church of the Sacred Heart, which is building there, is ht up asit was on the 14th of July with a splendid cross of light above its unfinished dome, the lamps pear like and the cross like » miracle the sky. Ido not know any place in Paris from which you can get the same im of the height of Montmartre and the «plendid situa- tion of the enormous church, h is one of the new its of the city. See ee the Laititte in 1871, after the trous siege, that good Parisians watched with Ginmay the maneuvers of the communists who top vard and back. threw his coat arou off to the «tation house. ee THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. 6. SATURD. had seized on Montmartre to Prepare famous insurrection, In fact, the ate te partly been built as a monument of reparation for those impious days. It was alse sround the corner of the Rue Lafitte, on the Rue La- fayette, that two notable barricades were strug- cob teers the communists were driven Like nearly all Paris streets, except in the Tichest and newest quarters of revidences, thi ‘ound floors of the houses which line the Rue tte are occupied by hope and offices. Under Lady Richard Wallace's fine apartments there is wehop of the bonlevard, and there are only two exceptions to the rule along the whole street. Ono is the old Turkish embassy, which goes begging for a tenant, because no one would now think of keeping up so great an establishment in this part of the city. The other is the banking house of Ruthschil THE ROTHSCHILD'S BANKING BOUSE. Rothschild’s is made up of Nos. 19, 21 and 23 of the Tue Lafitte. No. 19is the entrance to the old mansion, now long abandoned as residence, Behind it they still keep the beauti- ful old garden, with ite forest trees, which runs back, forming a terrace along Rue La- fayette—a curious right in this heart of bustling Paris, The exterior Appearance of Rothschila’s is quot and grave beyond the imagination of Americans, ‘There is no mgn, not even a door plate, no plate glass windows and no mark of notability. It in a row of duil- yellow fronts in stucco, without ornaiment, With smail iron bars at the windows, which have cheap green shades. There is usually a number of handsome private carriages in front; but this is its only «ign. It might be passed repeatedly and never noticed. In the possexsion of euch a noighbor as the Banker Rothschild the dwellers on the Rue Laf- Atte have onc advantage which is at the sume time « result of a moxt decided disadvantage. It is not known whether the anarchists hold the Rothschilds in particular detestation, but the grent bankers for along time have employed special police officers to patrol the Rue Lafiitte in front of their establishment. Tw have two i near at hand on a dark, narrow street is rable saicguard in Paris, where night attacks are frequent and sometimes occur on the grand boulevard itself. The continuation of the Rue Laffitte beyond the church of Loretto in called tho Rue des Martyrs. Here a few weeks since a young man returning from tho new skating rink of the Pole Nord was stabbed to death at an early hour of the morn- ing. His mistake was to walk alone in Paris during the Into night. But this portion of the Rue Laffitte is mado safe from bandits and rob- bers by the presence of Rothschild’s private police. All this {sin the night timo; but there are other unsuspected robbers on the Rue Laffitte by day, from whom the police, regular or fr- regular, offer no protection. They are #0 numerous that they give the street its peculiar character. They are the picture dealors and the curiosity shops. PICTURE DEALERS AND CURIOSITY BHOPS, It is from these shops—some very great and rich and honorable—-that the American taste ia painting is largely decided. The picture dealers of the Ruo Lafitte havea special faculty for cornering the floating works, sketches, experiments and the like of lately deceased painters with great names, and then of boom- ing tho market consistently until they buve dis- to regular patrote at a good Price. short time ago it was Millet, of whom you could find specimens in profusion, often mere studi rated at prices which the painter never received for his best works when he was alive. Last winter it was the turn of Corot, and many a pale study of monotan- ous tint, with a y yellow ginze like oil- cloth, was ret up in an expensive frame to tempt the lovers of agreat name. Year after yeur new picture dealers set themselves up be- tide the ofd ones, boping to catch the accidental trade of passing strangers, who remember that somewhere on the Rue Laffitte there are deal- ers in masterpieces, ‘Their near cousins, the curiosity dealers, are even more dangerous to tamper with. They show you antique enuff boxes, watches with curious dials, ull of the last centiry,clocks, fur- nit ies, armor and every other thing. They pecuiiarly affect old miniatures, which they Unblashingly attribute to Boucher, Frago- nardand artists of that character and time. Itis quite fair to say that one must have a knowiedge of antiguities to cope with these polite dealers. There are wiso here dealers in remarkably fine prints, especially of the early times of ng, and sellers of costly antique Dook#, and there are the usual shops which handle modern expensive editions de Inxe and ngravings. Itis these shops which determine the character of the Rue Laffitte to the ordi- nary vieitor of Paria, There are, however, two other kinds of in- dustry on this street. ‘The first gives a group of hotels and the second a few wholesale wine houses. The lntest addition has been to the latter olass. It is the sgenoy of a Maluga firm, where every. specios of Spanish wine is sold— sherry cheaper than in Jerez, Malaga at better bargains than in its native city, not to speak of port and Madeira, which are not Spanish at ‘and of Manzanilla and the other rank table wines of Spain. ‘Then there is a number of minor champagne houses. Each month a new brand is put on tho market, fo® which great things are claimed—you can have a large bot- tle as cheap as three franca. Porhaps the leas said about these cheap champagnes the better. hhey are of the clase that is now and again ex- ploited in Amorica, at prices nearly us high as the well-known labels, Immense discounts can ‘en on them to the wholesale dealers who can afford to keep in their pay impecunious young men that once were rich and have now Prestige enough to introduce the wine into clubs and to society. THERE SMALL HOTELS. The small hotels form the lat of the indus- tries of our little street. There are three of them, all much patronized by foreigners—one by Italians and South Americans, another by English and Americans and all by provin Frenchmen, Their usual price is ten franc it $2, a day for room and board complete. Their table d’hote isthe resort of people who wish to eat a great deal for a small sum, and it ia really as cheap as anything in Paris, ‘In one of them, at least, there is « curious sliding scale of prices for every room in the house, with board, with- out board, single meals, weekly table board and ll graduated according to the age, u tionality, eex and external appearan: applicant. f each Ordinarily four Yrancs is charged r dinner of the hotel, including a soup, fish, entree, vegeta- roast, salad, desscrt and’ cheese. If the stranger argues fora while he will bave the lunch’ at three francs and the dinner will re- main firm at four. [f be basa friend among the habitues of the hotel both menl« may be re~ duced to three trance and he pays when he eats, If he eats two meuls wday for the term of two weeks tho price will come down to two france foreach meal, cud even know of ono young Frenchman who has complete board and lodg- ing at the hotel for five francs a day—that is, an exact doliar. and this includes service and batter with his morning coffee. For myrelf, I long since learned to dread the ordeal of table d’hote, terribie alike to nerves and stomach. But che liberty of restaurants is near at hand, and for one who likes the real Paris, with ail its flavors of art and hiaturio gossip, there may be a far worse home than a bachelor’s apartment in the dirgy Rue Lafitte, Srea.ixe Heizio, Empire Toilet. HOW TO GATHER BUGS Lots of Fun for Amateurs in theCol- lection of Insects, ENTOMOLOGY AS A FAD. Hunting Small Game in Meadow and Forest— Some Bugs of Great Interest—How to T SEEMS DISCOUR- aging to consider the fact that there are at Teast 10,000,000 species of insects in the world. Those of them which are commonly consid- ered to be the most dis- agreeable aro the ones which have stingn It is always the females which possess these Weapons, the abdomen being armed with lance that-is connected with a poison reservofr. ‘The males have no purpose in living apparently save that of reproduction, and they are sting- lesa, With some varieties, as in the case of the drone bee, their mating is immediately followed by their death; they are obliged to give up their own lives for the eake of perpetuating their kind. Notwithstanding their polsonous weapons the stingers are the insects which chiefly are of use toman. Not only do they furnish man- kind with honey and waz, but they play so importante part in the destruction of other species injurious to vegetation that they may be looked upon an, divinely appointed guards over the vegetable kingdom. By carrying pollen from plant to plant they insure the fer- tilization of some and the crose-fertilization of others. Nevertheless, in the popular mind the best known and understood insects ure the beetles, which compose an order of great importance, outranking any other in the vast namber ani Giversity of «pecies. The National Museum bi Just published « little book, written by United States Entomologist C. V. ‘Riley, which tells about the beetles and how the amateur should go about collecting them. Instruction is also given asto the beat methods of making and Preserving collections of other kinds of insects, such as the “diptera” or two-winged flies, for example. This order includes an enormonx number of xpecies, many of which are enemies foman., The mosquito, the buffalo guat and the gad-fly bite him ‘and his domesticated animals, “while his corps are injured the Hessian fly, the wheat nidge and the cabbage maggot. In the same category come the fleas, Everybody is supposed to be familiar with the appengance of the flea, its dioouthirsty propensities and amazing muscu- lar power; and, while every one may not have the leisure and meuns to experience the exbilar- sting chuse after larger animals, there is nobady, be he never so humble, who may not indulge in the hunt after this «mall game. A GREAT FAD AMONG AMATEURS. Entomology is becoming steadily more popu- lar, and amateur collectors are constantly writ- ing to the National Museum and to the Depart- ment of Agriculture for information as to how to collect, preserve and mount insects. They also want to know how to pack them for trans- mission“through the mails, how to rear them in confinement and about many other points. Be- ginners commonly «upply themselves with all Sorts of appliances advertired by natural | bistory furnishing stores. Many of these aro soon ‘abandoned as uxcless when it comes to practical Held work, and the most highly skilled expert willbe found to employ the simplest apparatus, An all sufticient equipment ona collecting trip consists chiefly of # cotton um- brelia, a strong and narrow ateel trowel to dig with, a haversack slung across the ehoulders, a cigar box lined with sheet cork, and a small knapsack attacked to a waist belt, which girds acont of many pockets. ‘The umbrella is not only useful ‘as a protec- tion against aun and rain, but opened and held inverted under a bough with the left hand while the right wields « beating stick it re- ceives mauya choice specimen, The trowel is valuable for prying off loove bark from old trees and for digging into the ground or into decayed stampa. Tho “be in for carry- ing nets and tin boxes, the latter intended to hold larval and other forms which it ia neces- sary to bring home alive for breeding pur- . ‘The knapeack, of stout canvass or leather, is to hold bottles and other small pliances, for which purpose it should be parti- Fioned and furnished’ with pockets on the inside, ‘The cigar box is for the reception of i specimens. But the most essential ites in collecting are sharp eyes and ready hands, However, a few traps are of material service. One of the most important is a hand net. Then | one should have a coarse sieve for special occa- vions, which need together with a white towel or sheet will be found of great service in the spring,when the search for minute insects under old leaves or for chrysalids around the butts of trees is contemplated. — With the eheet spread on the ground and a few handfuls of leaves and leafy mold sifted over it many a minute specimen will be soparated from the coarser particles and dropped to the sheet, whore the eve may readily detect it. The col- lector should never go unprovided with a small box full of different sized pins—a corked cartridge tube makes = good box—a pair of forceps, a pair of sci-sore and a little mucilage. ‘The forceps are indispensable for extracting in- tects from cracks or from their burrows in branches and stems of plants. WHEN YOU FIXD TROUBLE. There are certain rare beetles which are found among white ants under stones and im old trees. Owing to the pugnacious character of some of these ants it is not always an agree- able task to examine a colony of them, but the collector must not mind being bitten and stung by the infuriated denizens of an ant hil! which he finds it his scientide duty to dig up. Excel- lent opportunities for collecting beetles are cometimes found along the shores of the oceans and great lakes, where during the early summer untoid numbers of beesand other insects fallinto the water. If the tides and winds be favorable they are washed ashore by the waves, often forming winrows several inches in height and width. “If the amateur is lucky enough to be in the right place on the right day be then the opportunity to pick up bundrede of rare species within a very hort time and without any trouble. Many of the specimens thus washed upon tho beaches are dead and decayed, but the majority are alive and in excellent con- dition. On the beaches night flying meects can be captured by lights, while in cities the elec- tric lights attract multitudes of beetles of various kinds. During the latter part of spring and through- ont the summer every possible gore: tl method can be pursued with «uccese. There are stones to be turned over: old logs, stumps and hollow trees to be investigated; newly felled trees to be inspected; here a spot favorable for eifting claim attention; meadows and low her- bage in the woods invite the use of the sweep- ing net; living or dead branches of all sorts of trees and shrubs can be worked with the um- drella; the mud or gravel banks of ponds, lakes, rivers and creeks afford excellent collecting laces; numerous aquatic beetles ure to be got om the water iteelf and the dung beetles are tobe extracted from their unsavory habita- tions. In the evening the electric and other Nights are tp be visited, the lightning beetles on meadows and in the woods, and the trees and shrubs are to be beaten after dark in search of May beetles and other nocturna; ieaf- feeding species which cannot be obtained in the davtime. In collecting from beneath stones the amateur ebould carefully replace the stones, expecially those under which be has found rare Lr The neglect of thie rule is one of principal reasons why certain scarce have become extinct in the vicinity of cities. HORRIBLE LOOKING WORMS. Among the most interesting insects to be found in summer by the amateur collector are of the order “‘neuroptera,” including the bell- | Aegean ant lion and the caddis fly. hellgrammite larre carnivorous worms to be i i { { i] il i aay rl HH Bd af, JANUARY 14, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. ‘the cotton for a preservative, This method is a desirable one in the case of large-bodied in- sects like big moths and pers. which, if mounted and put away without such Fation, would be likely to decompose. | Doxes oF cases used to keep insects ir may be of any convenient size, say 12 by 16 inches, and not more than 2i¢ inches deep in the innide, The bottoms should be lined with something which will hold the pins, and the whole inside covered with white . — Untortunal ried intects are liable to the attacks of various pests, the most troublesome of which are them- selves insects. Unless procautions arc taken, the collector will di-cover after « few months that nothing is left of bis rare specimens but @ whic ‘The philosophto study of entomology requires much more than the mere collecting of spect- mens, and one of the most profitable as well aa | fascinating phases of this branch of selence re- lates to the life history and babite of insects, Accordingly, the amateur collector should rear specimens for his cabinet from eggs and from larvw. Much of the breeding of insects can be done with the simplest apparatus. For ex- ample, for the keeping of cocoons and chrystn- lids of small epecies nothing is more convent | ent then medium-sized test tubes of glass, the ende of which may be plugged mth cotton. For larger insects ono may employ a breeding box with glues sides, azine pan filled with sifted earth or clean sand for a bottom, and a top of fine wire gauze. —_— Written for The Evening Star. “As Cold as Charity.” Wwe of the rounger generation find th: rule, all the qualities of old age aj to our sensibilities very strongly. In « street car « head covered with silky white hnir attracts more attention than any with blonde locks, and the owners of those respectiveheads, if they be | men, are quite differently treated in the matter of being offered seats, . . 7 2 « She was not attractive, with her deeply lined face, her ecant lmir, mixed white and black, raggling alittle over the ears and severely parted and smoothed back from the brow, but wn artistic sense she compelled notice, suck notice aa perhaps we would give to an old treo that the lightning had struck and blackened, ‘but which still stood erect, defiantly, yet with « dignity born of the memory of past days of strength and usefulness, and a suggestion of tenderness for the little vine climbing up on the still live side. She sat erect and stiff tn the corner of the room, her thin, square shoulders unbendiny and her feet firmly planted, the poor old b never sinking toward the withered bosom, al though the tired eyelids closed and the irre ular, almost gusping, breath told of excessive fatigue, caused, ns ‘we knew. by travel and much walking and bunger and worry. She bad such asad story. She and her busband had started from nessee to visit friends “his people,” she ‘called them) in Alexandrin, and on the way he had died and been buried, leaving her, besides his blessing, only a little black dog, to which he asked her to transfer the love faithful attention thet had cured for his weak body during the last three years, She and little black “Gypey Daix tinned the Journey, united inward): of protective love and fidelity on the one side and perfect confidence and affection, nay devotion, on the other, that if introduced into the hearts of Chicago tarried peopie would soon win for that progressive city fame far wider and greater than she now pos seascs—and united outwardly by a string tied to the apron of the protector and the collar of the protected. The least thing sometimes ex- presses the most pathos. That little string itself, made of short strips of oid muslin tied together, witipa finishing piece of cord on end,told a story of poverty and of tice of love stronger thun any wedded chain, The unbending figure sat erect in the straight- backed chair and the dear old wrinkled bands were quietly clasped over the sleeping body lying so confidingly in her lap, while the knotted whito string bung fantastically over the prim black apron, The thin lips parted slightly os if toshow that the great fautgue must express iteelf in some little way, looked I was reminded, with aps had bad not after coming to ferciful God, and she so old! a she said. The clock bad struck 10, but she could not lie down because she was to sleep on the sofa in the library, and there was u visitor there, At last she stirred wea: “Has the woman gone to bed?” said, ‘She seemed mad at me for comiftg back here. Do you reckon she would care if I fed Gypsy Deisy here? I saved a little bit of bread all day in my eatchel. A piece of paper was ut over the carpetand the cruet laid down, but jt was too dry even for that little half-starved stomach, aud so was carefully replaced in the worn satchel. Was she somebody's mother? I do not know, Ieannot tell you whether she ever found her friends, but am afraid to think abcut it, because T only looked at ber and wondered and said no word of sympathy. The good people of Warh- ington would bave provided her a home in any one of the charitable institutions suitable tor her, but they could not take her dog and she would not be separated from it. And the tears come to my eyes and Iam touched with great compassion. Now that she has gone out of my life and I cannot help her, as I strive so ineffectually to buni-h the picture of the erect black-clad figure sitting ro unbend- ingly on the straight-backed chair in the corner, the tired eyelids closed, the exhausted feet un- moving and the withered bands clasped lovingly over the little companion from which she would not be separated. God forgive me that I sim- ply looked at b ——-2+—____ UNRECOGNIZED ENGINEERS, What the Ex-Engineer-in-Chlef of the Navy Has to Say About His Profession. Ben}..F. Ishe wood in the Enzineering News. though engineering is the most important profession, engineers being the great cap- tains of industry, itis the worst rewarded of all the professions and its most expert prac- titioners are far from receiving the recognition either in fortunes or prestige which their serv- ices deserve. Though they have created the rich man’e table,they are begrudged the crumbs that fall from it, They remain uunoticed while rank and consideration are showered upon mere figure heads who appropriate what they have not earned and occu py places they cannot fill This error of society is a consequence of its ignorance; it is mole-eyed ond unthinking, meaning to be just, but anable to properly dis- criminate; it bestows where there is no desert and withholds without intelligence. It blindly gtopes ite way, making many mistakes and only convinced by the long and expensive tutorship of experience. There must be a campaign of education, and many of them, perhaps, for the proportion of leaven ie very small to the im- mense mass of dough. Patience, perseverance and ability will do much in the future as tbey have done in the past. The inexorable logic of events will convimce those who cannot be other- wise convinced; en eiciency and falve pretense cannot last forever, even among the moet stupid, and the world will, after a time, discover what itstrue interest is, and that dis- covery once made the future of the personnel of engineering is assured.” few fragments. Dealers in entomoiogical mo | VENEZUELAN AFFAIRS The Condition of Things Since the Recent Revolution, GENERAL CRESPO'S REGIME. eeepc His Persona! Appearance and His Character- latics—Some of the Horrors During the Re- deliion—The Former President's Lack of | ‘Tact—The Hall of Congress and Other Pub- | Ue —_-—_—. From The Star's Traveling Commissionen, Caracas, Verrzvrza, Dec. 1,189 | HOUGH VENEZU-| cla's latest revo! on has been some months among “the things that were” and the regime of the victorious rebel | general is now old enough, according to Precedent, for bis fol- lowers to begin the con- templation of anoth overturning,tra: quility har not been fully re- stored nor is life and Property by any means secure, especially tn tbe Tural districts and distant provinces, Dyna- | mite outrages, like those which lately apread consternation and death among the citizens of | the capital, are no longer the order of the hour; but tho prisons are full of political of- | day of the alleged crime for which they were incarcerated; and several of the private bouses which Palacio,the late dictator president.seized and converted into jails, are etill used for that purpose. During those fearful days, when the rebel generals, Crespo and Guerra, were closing in upon the capital with their hordes of plunder- ing “patriots,” and when the dictator sat trembling in his palace, thousands of men were imprisoned on the shghtest pretoxt or on no retext at ail. They were brought tn by car joads from other cities and marched in chains through the streets of Caracas—many of them men of wealth and prominence in their re- spective jocalities, on the mere suspicion, by overnment spies or personal enemes, of a sceret leaning toward the revolutionary move- ment. After Crespo apd bis followers bad IN THE COURT OF THE PALACIO FEDERAL, taken triumphant possession of the capital and the late dictator had gone to join « Hong line of predecessors in ignominious | exile, the eame scenes were re-enacted, though | ona greatly moditied scale, at the instigation of the new powers concerning suspected ai- | herents to the old regime. Night after night | during Palacio's time drunken soldiors made | raids on the houses of unoffending citizens on | various pretexts, but with plunder for the real object. Rooms were searched, plate and money seized, women insulted, and whoever dared protest were led off to prison. WHOLESALE ARRESTS AND PLUNDER, Day after day fresh explosions of dynamite | struck terror to the hearts of the people «nd furnished the government with more excuses for arresting innocent mon. We find traces of those explosions all over the city, in the | tially shiastered walls of the cathoral, the mili- tary academy, the government buildings. &c., and in the cemetery aro scores of graves where lie the victims—people who happened at the moment to be passing. The condition of the rural districts was miserable beyond descrip- tion, and although there has been great im- provement within the iast three months, it will require years to regain the prosperity of Dicta- tor Guzman Bianco's time. During that reign of plunder the troops of President Palacio and fenders, many of whom are ignorant to this | © So be took the unfortunate course of Chile's late president tbat of ting te te compel rec t tte wed towied the struggle among its vauke Boor cw hearer hat sour of the priesta eympathized @ich tbe rey coary wwovetwemt be ordered th to mb bem come thet: opp to the goveme pata of divorce between the (bork and TRE carcran cory The city of Carsons ts a Washing C., whowe the Preiient, The captia er “ ul in fal % ber et age encrmons gales bronze, rune througa ike © oy —a & street, and cuteide ts det by broad avenurs,contatning dechle row after the manner v ot i. Atom end of the vas a dew aloft in little pens hue he wale THE FENPLUELAN coNoRIAN Congress assouibles every year on the 20% of- February, and its firet duty is to elect by ballot from am. ite m a mel of sixteen. This counc the repabtic its own mem ciary and con president or ¢ ory tral post aclecte th Tecessna of © council.” In petual and «apy Abe highest power in tutional duves being upon the president whene tion” gets the b and wily prestdent {ter the fashion of d control the cou: the senators and me ing to their elec make out a list of for the council, and his w to the iet Chile, surcens «body, which i per or are ci sister re te rR. legislative halle te the ormens reception room om 10 to and chairs zuelan coat of arm a variety of ceptions are ferves also ne the 1 Mery, bav= ing the portraits of about sixty Venezuelan heroes” hung upon its ghastiy white walls These pictures date from Bolivar to i from the first revolution thongh military cel sented there are al ectence’ and lit The federal palace also contains the supreme court, the departmenta of war and interior and many offices of the government, Federal” occupies a little more of ground, and t# one of tho most elegant build- ings in all'South America, It atan , On Is did not wuffer » site of the oldest and largest country, whose massive w fracture in the g. banished the nun and is known as the * . It is agandr, two storied, by arlt terion affair, having only @ « rooms, including @ magnificent m, four official px lors, servan fi those of the rebel generals, Guerra alternately raided, intimidated and impover- ished the smaller communities, kidnapping women, murdering their would-be protectors, running off sheep, horses and cattle, laying waste fields in wanton sport, firing butld- gs and appropriating all valuables— in’ the name of “patriotism” gener- ally, but all the ame consigned to the raiders’ pockets. During the latter half of the yeur no effort was made to cultivate fields, for no man could be sure of harvesting his crops or of being allowed to keep them if matured. Merchants fled, either hiding their money se curely or taking it with them. The few man- ulactories were closed, the workmen having all gone to fight on one wide or the other, and com: mercially the country just about gave up the ghost. But one banking house stood uusbaken through it all, the “Bank of Venezuela.” It is composed of the wealthiest merchants of Car- cas, and the failure of a few of them, or even of half their number, could not seriously in- jure it. During the early days of the revolu- tion this bank advanced to the government the sum of 24,500,000 on condition that those in- terested in the loan be allowed to collect # cer- tain per cent of all imports. THE NEW PRESIDENT. President Joaquim Crespo, the successful rebel lender, is far from being a handsome man oreven what is termed “fine looking.” One cannot have eversthing in this world, you know, and be isnot on!y the most powerful lady it hae been my pleasant fortune to meet, Gen. Cr-epo has ong been prominent in Vene- zuelan affairs, “once a staunch supporter of Guzman Blanco and then largely instrumental in driving that uncrowned monarch out of the country. He has been president of the repub- ie before, bs former term expiring in 1886, PALACIO's LACK OP TACT. The deposed Palacto is much more prepos- sessing in appearance, and the time bes i i z i } yea Hf py whch tli onl kl i i § | eft gre HI 3 in a ie to contain the Chilean presidents, st but the giving of offic ceptions beld in the parlors of «a Faw B Wane Written for The Brew ty Coasting. ‘The mnow comes down in feathery takes, When earth looks mdancholf Tam giad it comes becanse (t uakew ‘The boys and girls so jolly. And those even in the ett Their tors no longer toasting At registers, nie o nt, And down the street go coasting, pent I pratre not now the sicigh=belis: tine Fine tintinvat But the biithe ring of ‘This downniil reer WR shouts rus Smooth streets, rtarwood lige Peichance am waxing sivepy. ‘Weil, let them down like lightning guide, With epice of danger. " The selfasame eport my seit oft tried, ‘When J was young as they be, Our rude, od-tasntone: Would sou home-made @ofe ‘Whe fall not awe! In these progressive intter days, ‘When eversthing ts fner ‘Than ten, ther've votter, strongor slelgne ‘Than 1 bed when a minor. They are artistic, and of «tect, As smooth ae glass, the ruamenR Bn colors bright, from head to heady Are painted—reguiar stuanera, Especially when, ewiftiy, ke Smal! shooting stars duwn dashing, A crossing venicie they strike Abd bat with sudden «washings Teometimes feol as I enjoy A Glide, @ lam bentnd me: Alssat I am no more a boy— Now soberer Joy's assigned me On bead and beard time's snow is rife And age’s aches—I've gut ‘om; Tm slicing down the ull of Lite Sail reach ere jong the vottom, But for the snow hurrah! T aay; To mupe indoots were folly; Enjoy the sow while yet ye map Ye girls and bu) s, be Jolly? Your biood’s now warm: the time will come, ‘When yout a0 louger boasting, Like me you li juve to sit at home, ‘And go bo more a-coasting. —W. L Seonmagee January 7, 188. ———— jis Only One, Mr. Menm (to bis daughter)-"T enppess this foreign suitor of yours basn't a cent.” Mis» Mi be be = wp og has, pe ee Blay Beties, i 5