Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1893, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY, APRIL-~15,° 1698—SIXTEEN - PAGES. POST LENTEN GARB. Some New Styles Pa plinth for Ladies, = APTER A SELF-DENIAL. ee ae A Dress for Past Middle Age—Ball Toilets for Spring That Kival Midwinter Totlets— Gowns Suitable for Dancing—Some of Fash- Jon's Latest Decrees. —$—— '¥ pectal Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yonx, April 14, 1898. UCH A BLOUSE AS that of the initial pic tare can be made very prettily from a Persian AS or silken shawl, with armholes cut in for the sleeves. It is lined and the V shaped portion left uncovered at the back and front, is trimmed with lace and ribbon. Ribbons or sill of the ground color of the shaw! should be used here to hide the lining. Such a garment is par- ticularly slender figures. shawl must fall in graceful folds and the ends | can be tied behind or cut away entirely, mak- | inga round waist and hooked at the back. The sleeves are made of silk of the predominant color of the shaw!: they are very full and have 4 d of lace over Another showy waist was of the empire form | and was made of a yoko of velvet, gath- ered over the bust line. It hada great wheel- like bow in front with two flat loops toeach side. They reached to the almost. The center of the bow was held by a Ted jewel. The bow itself had the upper loops pale yellow, the lower ones bright green, these shades showing in the rainbow velvet of the sleeves. Ofcourse. the bow looked like nothing | | but = great bright-eolored bug, but | the woman wno wore it seemed to feel all | wight. FoR PAST MIDDLE AGE. A very pretty gown is shown in the second picture. It is eut princess and is made of black peau de soie trimmed with black lace. Tt has one dart in each front and the back is cut like a bell skirt. A secoud skirt iy worn and it has the whole front trimmed ‘The upper skirt must be the same as the one beneath. and the three parts seen in the illustration may be separate pieces or may be indicated by velvet ribbon. The wa must be trimmed similarly. with silk and fastens in the It is about three and a haif yards wide. A jabot and bertha of Iace are put at the neck, and the siceves are composed of a tight cuff and two puffs, Rubbon can be used to accomplish the neces- sary rales which now go around skirts. It saves either making the rnfie double or the | trouble of lining it. | Besides, fy, and thus not so much is needed to go around. "The prettiest way to put iton is by a heading of terie, or even by a cord of braid ora of regular braiding. When there are to be three rufiles, the top one just above the knees, two or three inch ribbon is pretty. APTER A SPREL OF SELF-DEXIAL. Many of the ball toilets of the after-Lent | dances are very handsome, frequently rivaling | those worn at the midwinter occasions. The empire dress pictured was one of the prettiest | of ‘The material of the foundation dress | was light-weight pale green silk, and covered with white or pink crepe lisse. be ekiet is plented it is not necessary to line | it, but otherwise it is lmed with satin. It | is cut in the usual manner, not gored much at the waist behind, but iaid in pleate. ‘Waat is necessary to form these pleats must be added to the back breadths. When the foun-| dation dress is finished the crepe is draped over | it, with equal fullness in back aud front. The upper part is arranged in folds which conform to the ¥-sbaped neck and are finished by agreen | ribbon and a ruching of the crepe lisse. which | is again tied with ribbon. From these the crepe | falls in straight folds, bins slightly at the sides. or band of it and the clos with the same at the wrist. side, \* show. Of course, you will make the under part of — batiste, Hamburg embroidery or of mull, with nice crisp little wnaab lace | ruffies. ‘The clinging length of the train jmust be modified and rounded, and the panel effect carried out in the back,’ too, if you like, or you may have just one split at the RICHLY ATTIRED FoR DANCING. middle seam in the back. The bodice is now over instead of under the waist. You will sot a wide, crisp ruffle on a belt, the rufile and the belt being of the same stuff as the underakirt. You will modify the bodice about the shoulders, make it in surplice fashion or in any of ti medhy possible waye which will bring it in ac cord with the things that are now correct. | When it is all over you may sigh for the skirts | Jocality th of last sammer, but you will for all that know that rou have a very pretty gown. -- see ISH CALLING COSTUME. The Modish Women of London Like to De- fine Their Charms. ‘The French women are, of course, the final “It seems to me that $40 is murmurs t crown to boot toe. a pretty high price for this bonnet.” shopper. indicating the velvet bow and jet exystal poised in the palm of her hand. jider how French it And tho doubter pays the | $40 without further demur. Yet the French wome: thinness, can mass efTe in their long, supple 3 upon themselves and American cannot ‘Thus it happens that we have this spring of | triple jackets and double skirte and belts of many times folded belts, a number of English mode}+ which are prono: : them the double-’ fastened w t-covered button. e, Birect aud visiting gowns the ¢ are, nine in ten of handsomest carri: are fashioned so: Ifa gown isn't brov must be petunia, and the honors are aimost equally divided. Here is one which 4 fawn and petunia. Fy asserts itsclf in tig fitted at AN ENGLISH GIRL'S SUCCESS. the hips and without any fullness whatsoever in front, four im three rows of prismat At the bottom are I petunia velvet and aded paasementerie. asingle broad e3 are finished fawn bengal rted V's of pia The short bodice 18 i Petunia buttons fysten the bodice at the right A full yoke of cream lace is gathered into the velvet collar and thoroughly quaint little rovers are folded forward and then back | again to the velvet of the enormous shoulder vast vA French woman viewing the English gown would pronounce it chic. coe Reports Received at to W Information has just been received at Hong Kong of a brute} attack on native Christians by the Literati at Tea Tsui, seventy miles north- east of Amoy. A band of ruffians, headed by some Literati graduates, attacked a small com- pany of Christians red for worship ina house of oe of the Christians. The worship- ets were seized and beaten most eruelly. One woman was kille? and her husband had his qneae torn out by the roots. Her two sons | Were so badly treated that one of them is not expected to live. Some of the others present were hung up by ropes tied around their wrist beaten and leit hanging the whole night stripped of every particle of clothing. A few days later the ringleader was arrested in the district city, Hui-An. His arre: by the people to such an exte adetermined attack upon Christians residing in the city. ‘They damaged the Christians chapel and stoned the Rev. I. M. Ross, r. Ross was compelled to appeal to the Yaman for protection. The magistrate granted an escort of soldiers and under their protec- r got safely to Lein. ‘Tho ught to the notice of her ul at Amoy. Dr. Morgan ishopric. A letter has been received by a gentleman of Boston from Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D., declining the nomination as bishop of Massachusetts. He ays: “After consulting with persons in whose nt have, full confidence I now write jadgme returns n TRAMP’S NOTE BOOK His Experience in a Visit to the Capital of the Nation. THE CRUEL WOOD YARD. The Knight of the Road Longs to Reach Washington After an Absence of Several Years—He is Equally Anxious to Get Away After as Short = Stay as Possible. a HERE AM I AT?” The question was asked by @ tramp, o genuine tramp, who was in the country, but what part of the coun- try or even what state he did not know. It is perhaps unnecessary to way that he cared very little about either the latitude or longitude. ‘The latitude, however, did concern him, so far as the sheriff was concerned, for he was making his way north to spend the summer months in the Adirondacks or about the Inkes, where mosquitoes are not numerous and where he suitable for| to be turued into round one by cutting off Will not have to manipulate an electric fan to ‘The | the lower part, or wearing tne belt of the skirt keop himself cool. “I am here, wherever this is,” be thought. ‘The man was near a small station on the Vir- ginia Midland railroad, but there is rp carve in the road near there, and around the curve is the siding used by the railroad com- pany for the benefit of the farmers for miles around. When purchases are made in that made by the wholesale and aro | shipped car which is sidetracked for several d It way in one of theso cars that the tramp arrived. There wero some garden goods in the car and the seal was broken for ventilation. The tramp took ad- vantage of the open door as soon asa roy of sunlight made its appearance,end reaching Vir- ginia soil on his fect he found that he was not jin sight of a house or any place of human authority on all matters of dress, from hat| habitation, yet his mind was peaceful and his | conscience clear. |car, but had not appropriated a single thing the property of another. REALIZED THAT RE WAS NOT POPULAR, He had no harmed any one, nor had he vio- Inted any law of the state, naless it was a viola- j tion of some cld blue law for a man without any cash capital to be found within the limits of the old dom Well was he aware that the country folks were not fond of people of his class, but then he had menage to live in other inter and travel througa ‘them unmo- wted. and why he could not do the same in he did not know. ‘Therehe was had he been religious dt mission or gosp | provided for remembered his at some pince wayfarers, yet he texchings and well often they had n time had he walked ou some farm k fence in fe at the same time him in the face, a Samaritan g to rid hin tarted on his jour: to bin in the wor int back and some rei nants of unde ing tied ina red handkerchief, he staried down th: to « stall eiceam, re he intended to taxe bis morning bath, but hardly had he watked t rds when the sight of w val tin tod his atten- tion, and be then hat be would bo to make a few mile © railrond, for he knew that tin was the covering of # railroad station. FINDS A GOOD SAMARITAN, Then he rbandoned the iden of a wash and cd his face toward the little station and mt on an exploring expedition. There he An old colored uncle was seated on preparatory to go- ing to the nearest town todo some shopping. and with him ho had « variety of food ch as no perron other ¢ old Virginin aunty could prepare, To be sure, there was corn bread in large quantities, and — there mest and chicken, for no farmer go to town unless he can spread a chicken dimmer on ome drs gouds merchant's counter and leavo grease enough to ruin y goods before it is detected. the corn bread and asinesa in the mind of the knight of the road (railroad and other kinds of that indigestion was something wholly un- kno The poor old colored man kad watched with great “satisfaction every move mado by “de ole woman” in aging that lunch, but he did not intend to see any man in his county go hungry, and so he opened up his little bundle and with the pleasure of a hospitable Virginian he watched the tramp de- vour the bread and dsb. “Dat ole las’ yar's hen bad been putin do bottom of de bundle to eat las,’ thoughtthe old darkey, and he felt sure that his guest would not reach the bottom, and then he could got a loaf of bread and still enjoy the chicken, but the old mau had no conception of the size of the tramp’s appetite, and his head raised and lowered and his mouth opened and shut until he saw tho last piece of chicken disappear. He j had heard in church that “the Lord loveth cheerful giv ‘The giving had been dot cheeriully,but the old uncle hadn't “caicerlated on his visitor ' de hole hog. a THE TRAMP'S FOND DREAM. ‘The one square meal had dispelled the tramp’s | desire to catch a érain, and as the sun was well | up he mado bis way along under the shade | trees. Three days and nights passed, and on the morning of the fourth day, after severe deprivations, the tall white shaft of the Wash- ington monument wus seen, and then the tramp knew a little more of the topography of the jcountry. ‘IVashington,” he sighed, as he thougitt of sponding toveral nights in the police | stations, where he would make new friends. He would not have to work when he reached there, he thought, for he had been there before | and remained several nights, Not only had he | slept im the police station, but he had been re- | ceived at “Brother Whiteford’s Mission,” where | plenty of good eating was to be had and where | comfortable beds were provided, He thought, | | ‘The edge is trimmed with two rows of ribbon | requesting you, in whatever way you deem best, | too, how he would spend his days on the grassy on whieh are placed small rosettes of narrower : to stop the use of my name in this connection. | knolls near the outskirts of the city as he ribbon. The back breadths of the crepe are | held in place by tiny hooks or pretty stick pins. ‘The sleeves are puffed and finished with ribbon to correspond with the rest. ‘ Fashion maxes poor woman ridiculous, or so the men say, but she may be thankful after all that she is not @ foreign minister in London and compelled to appear at s drawing room in a blue uniform, entirely covered with gold em- broidery and with a huge gold key fastened to the back of bis coat. “Fst woman. is indeed foolish who permits a fashion to emphasize ber defects. But what is the poor man to do whose sill tights et forth a pair of legs that sadly need a petticoat to hide them? Mang a lord in Eagles bas to make bimeselt ridiculous like that upon great public occasions. Woman may well afford to indulge in bustles, hoops, brains and big sleeves, and to be charitable enough not to talk back when men deride her. ‘A second ball dress is the subject of this last sketch, and it is an elegant and costly one. Pink brocade was the material and ecru tulle and lace the trimming. The embroidered tulle was arranged, as indicated, about the skirt in festoons held by rosettes of pink crepe chiffon. ‘The bodice had a bertha of ths tulle and lace kept im place with chiffon rosettes. You can easily give the needed flare to your last summer skirts, those pretty ones of ging- jam and satine that you had made like um- brella cases for closeness. You may do this, nad with sufficient success to satisfy you. Slit the skirt up two or three times as far as the knee or @ littie above, thus converting the lower half of the skirt intoa series of panela. Now constyue? @ balf skirt, over which these panels will hang. Let the helf ekirt have all the flare you want and be gorgeous with a lot of encir- ‘The panels will spread apart, and limg rufiles. Ps opi down and enly pretend rufies excep thoy really | had several years before and at sundown he He had stolen a ride on fhe | with not even a compass north or south, and he making toward the capital of the m. ‘There was but little show! had | for his stomach was in that condition | Hilf an hour later the man with the @ust on his thoes and clothing on x ee et ee ee ee funicipal ! ig house.” fe ventured to pull the door bell and was ushered into the office, where he registered and anewered all the questions asked. The rales, no smoking, no profane language, &c., were shown him, and he started as he supposed for ‘the dining room with his ticket. In this he was mistaken, for instead of the | dining room he was shown'to the yard, where | several others were hard at work sawing and | splitting wood. This was something new to him, and when the man in the vard said “This is your place” an indescribable expression of vurprise came over him. i “iy place be aed. “Do you mean me?” “Why, Tmean you,” answered the man in cl », “and here's the sew.’ “For what?” “To saw wood.” toe faw wood?” “Don’t know how.”” The tramp tarned his back to the buck and wood pile after saying: “They didn't do this before,” and teft. AT LaST THE STATION HOUSE. He was hungry, and the smell of the mest {stew in the lodging house bad sharpened his appetite. If he could only meet another old man with fish and chicken what a good time he would have, but as he did not meet such a good Samaritan he went from door to door begging for something to eat, and in a short time he found himeelf at a little box on a street corner, where a policeman rang o bell, ands wagon came ing down the strect. Then, for the first time in several days, he | was not required to walk, and then instead of | being, as he had anticipated, iu “Brother mission or in a lodger's room, he | was behind the bars, prisoner,and what would | be done with him could not be imagined. The | hour for supper had passed and there was 0 breakfast, as prisoners aro not fed in the police stations in the morning beforo going to court. ‘Thus the sadly disappointed man bad to remain thero and be taken to court in the “Maria” in the morning. “Prisoners” was the cry in the early morning, and with the drunks, pugilists and thieves he marched into the prison wagon, where there were men, women and children, and with them he rode to tho Polico Cours, ‘the further he went tho worse he seemed to fare, for here he not on! id himeelf in a cell, but the cell was terribly crowd so differen through the country that, together with an ex- ceedingly empty stomach, he was made to feel that medicine in_Inrgo quantities would not even allay his euffering. Prisoner after prisoner was ealled until the poor tramp had begun to think he had been coked and he longed for the time when the judge would hear bim und say “You can go.” ‘t was getting well on toward the dinner hour, | but even thon there was not the smell of a pot of bacon and cabbage. He grew faint and weak. At last he haard his name ring through the cor- ridor and partly through fear and partly on ac- count of hunger the sick feeling was dispelled and like Arnold, the slayer of Kramer, he went into court with all his belongings, expecting to walk out a free man. CAGED AT LAST. Perhaps he would have done +o hed not other tramps been numerous shortly before his ar- rival and caused a feoling in the judge's mind that romething rust be done with these appar- ent outenasts, and when ig. policeman told his etory the judge noi only refased to let him go, but ‘adm: red him aleeture with due no- tice that when released ke had better not tarry A ontence of two weeks, the jndze culated to keep hita away from hen the southward journey wes ad to return to the cell where in misery bad “the Jough on | | uot . city’s hotel ch, that the acing vold | was filled. war too late for din- ner snd had t fare--brond, fi , bread bro | ginia breakrast, and how he longed to be at that country railroad station words conid not tell. | A bath tub stared bun in the faco and {t was fe painful ordeal through which he had to pass, but he bore it with a degree of Christian forti- | tude such as he had not borne anything in months. His first aight in the work- house was o restless one, and m the morning after breakfast picks and shovels stood before ‘him, and thon for the first time did ho express | sorrow Zor not ewwing the woort fn pal (lodging houve and leave the city the next morning, but it was too lute. Ho bad to work on the strecis and hy farm until the ex- piration of his sentence, and when he had counted the Inat day but one he made anxions inquiries of bis fellow prisoners concerning tho ensiost and nearest. way out of the ciiy. Whon turned loose to again breathe tie free air ho was scen to take a short cut across the } commons in the direction of the Bladensburg | road, which leads to Maryland and the Adiron: dacks. > To Talk About Cholera. An interesting lecture is prouised for next Tuesday night in the lecture hall of the Colam- dian University. It will bs the second public | lecture delivered under the auspices of the | Sanitary League and the lecturer will be Dr. | Wm. H. Welch of Jobns Hopkins University. | Dz. Welch will speak on “‘Asiatic Cholera in Its | Relations to Sanitary Reform.” The lecturer, | who is one of the ropublic’sleading pathologists, ‘has taken much interest in eauiiary work in Baltimore and has delivered several addresses there which have been most sugg’ @ and in | teresting. The lecture next Tuesday night will begin at 8:15 o'clock. All who are interested in | the subject are not only invited but urged to | attend. —_——.——_. Written for The Evening Star. Kiss Number O20, “Will you be mine?” He softly cried, As they sat In the parlor, Side by side. ‘The room was cozy, ‘The gir!, a big tease; ‘The fellow was young And easy to please. She paused for a moment, ‘Then, “Charlie,” she said, “It is not my intention Ever to wed,” “But I'll be your sister, Loving and true, And many sweet kisses I'll give to you.” Charlie was dazed, ‘Then thinking it fan, Began by taking Kiss numver one. SS Daring and Remarkable Escape. A daring and remarkable escape from prison occurred Wednesday night at Parkersburg, W. Va, George Rice, aged seventeon years, in jail for burglary, made a ekeletou key out of a spoon that had been overlooked at supper time, picked the corridor lock and Jet himsclf and all the other persons out of their cella. He then slipped into a hole in the air flue in one corner of the jail and dropped down two floors through the flue into the engine room. Rice Even if it were possible that I should receive then crawled through s hole much small: lor than tae upper one and entered the basement of the Prison. It was an easy matter for him to break &@ window and reach the outside. The other Persons were too large to get through the flue, {othe boy made his escape and they aro ail in the vote of a majority of the convention of | could return to the mission, which was at 2d Massach: . there are insuperable obstacles | and I streets northeast, and’ remain until the in the way of my accepting a call to a bishopric | next morning. In this way he would be able to anywhere ia the church.” ‘pend at least two woeks, and if necessary he oe could get medical treatment and get him: good trim to resume his northern trip. Keeping on the outskirts of Alexsndria to avoid a ten days’ stay, digging grass from be- tween the cobblestone pavements he mai to reach the Long bridge in safety and once more after an absence of several years he had reached the capital of the nation and here he thought he would enjoy the hospitality of the city. Over the bridge he walked. He saw no change, except that the Potomac fiats covered more territory than they did when he was in the same place before. The bridge was still there and ho crossed it without even being asked to pay toll. His firat experience gave him reason to believe that his hopes of a good time might not be fully realized, and before he got away he learned that the realization was Rot so pleasant as the anticipation. NOT AS IT USED TO BE. “Move along there before yox getin trouble,” from a policeman nesr the bridge was the first thing he beard, and he obeyed. A police station was found and walking up to the ‘‘captain’s” desk he said, as be yoars ago. “I wants to stay over night,” “Here?” pet the clerk sharply. “Yes, your honor,” he replied in a coutteous manner, “I slept here years “a “ times have changed,” the clerk told him, “‘and you will have togo the municipal le, php the night lodgin, rr “Do you mean it lodging house? I've been there before.” “That's the «ame place, only the name has chased. It’s now the municipal lodging yuse."* Ontdoor costume of plain crepon, e of bengaline; dress idery. sleeves and is trimmed with em- BEHIND THE THRONE. | | Private Secretaries of the Osbinet, and Their Influence, THE POWERS THEY WIELD. ‘They Hold in Their Hands the Fates of Offico Seekers—The Claims They Veto Are Turned Down, While Those Which They Indorse Are Apt to Be Favorably Regarded. ee JHE PRIVATE SECRE- are the individuals whom office seekers most desire to propiti- ate. Their power to control the distribution of patronage at the de- partments is great. Such applications for j| Places as they choose to voto are usually turned down, while those which are as a rnlo successful. Standingat the elbows of the great personages who dispense the good things under government they jog them as they like, Itis their part to be familiar with men and matters in detail, which the executive chiefs have no time to inquire about, and what- ever they decide is in elect final. They can hopelessly pigs onhole @ man's papers oF put them to advantageous use, just as they please. without passing Nothing goes to the Seerétary through their hands. ywers which Considering the great pomess St enemns of to find ‘the confidential clerks of the new cabinet officers are mere youngsters. The average of their ages is less ihan thirty yeers, The most youthful of them all is Private Secretary eager, Mr. Lataont’s factotum. He is on! twenty-four, His complexion 1s light and hair and mustache are very blonde. He acted for one year as stenographer for Secretary of the Navy Whitney, in whose servico he has ro- mained nearly all of the time since Mr. Whit- ney went ont of office. Mr. Whitney recom- mended him to Mr, Lamont. Only one year his senior is Lewis H. Finney, jr. who is pri- Yate secretary to S of the Nevy Herbert. He is a small man with dark hair and eyes and very engaging manners. For eighteen months under the last administration he was employed in the Navy Department as private secretary to Assistant Becretary Soley. He comes from Virginia and was formeriy the right-hand man of Frederick W. Hnidekoper, who now is re- ceiver of the Richmond and Danville ro:lroad. Two of the private secretaries to the new cabinet are newspaper men. Journalists make the best confidential clerks. In their busin they are apt toacquiro tho essential quali not the least important of which are tact, genial manners and nery Robert Wynno had dfteen years’ exnerience in “doing the departments" for newspapers bofore he became private secretary to Secretary of the wury, Foster. He was for a long time on the Cinei: nati Commercial-Gazette, aud, boing well a quainted with Ohio politics, he was Just the | man Foster wanted, ilis fumiliarity with Ken- tucky poiitics has rendezed him valuable to { Mr. “Carlisle, who hay rotained his services, ty years old; heis of medium and curling hair, ‘Thero 13 no man better known in Washington as an all- around good fellow, One. reason why be is useful in bis place is that be knows all the dead | beats, blackmailere, beggars, fraudulent claim- | ante and other disreputable persone who assail every new Secretary of th+ Treasury, The other nowsps i@ Claude XN. Bon- i nett, Hos 3 private vecretary. He is | six years old. During tho last two Congresses ‘be has been engaged in Washing- | ton as correspondent for the Atlanta Journal, Mr. Smith's paper, Losides, he has done a good deal of political work for the new Secre- tary of the Interlor, He ia tail and slim. | Yesterday he to:d a story avout an Irishman | u hard for the that he be- | | which reach M. Bisseil are very of@. One man ‘taries of cabinet officers | they deign to indorse | they | that nearly all of especial attention to their meaning, and when Begot dirongh bis day's work be dropped it out of his mind. Some 0: the applications for postmasterships | FOR BABY mors. | Some Styles for the Smaller Lads—Between | Dresses and Kilts. OS WEES THE Bors ovr- has sent ina balky p mi thousand signatares, bound most handsom in leather aud letter Every alternate page of the volume 1s gray of sceners in the west. The Sealy deautiful, representing a! striking features of that pact of E from the canyons of Colorado and the geysers | of Yellowstone Park to the salmon fisheries of Alaska, ‘These render the docament attractive and go #o far to relieve the monotony of the liste of names tha: the appotnting anthori expected to regard the appeal with more favor. Mr. Wanamaker, who grestly admires original ideas, would have been very likeir to give to this man the place he wanis. Whether or not he will get it remains as vet to bo seen. An-| other petitioner bases hix claim on the ground that he has eight children, six of whom have had typhoid fever and the remaining two some other contagious discase. The vate secretary of the Attorney Gen- eral is William C. > son of for mer of War. ‘He’ is thirty-three years old, tall and black-bearded, with a ood deal of the froideur aud want of ease of manner which were remarked in other members of his family when they lived in Washington. He is lawyer and has been in the Boston office of his father, who is an old friend of Mr. Olney. Most of the office seckers who besiege the Department of Justice are attorneys, anxious for appointments as United Btates attorneys and marshals. An amusing story is told of a man who wanted to be made a United States marshal not long ago. He went to see the person who bad just resigned the Place which be desired. Said he: “Tauppose oa don't mind my axing you what are the-er-emoliments of this position?” “Not at all,” replied the recent incumbent. ‘The salary is $200 year.” He did not add y-of such offices is mainly in fees. yundred dollars!" exclaimed the candi- “But ain't there no pre-req- .”" replied the other gravely. “I should say that a fair knowledge of tho English lan- H ye is or should be one of the prerequisites.” “You don't say!" said theapplicant. “But I didn’t know that government employed any United States marshals in England.” private secretary of the 7 of Agriculture is a real baron. His name is J. Sovereign Charleson. He is a Swede by birth and came to America eleven years heving beea graduated from the Schoo! of Liberal Arts at Gothenburg. For awhile he was the confi- dential man of Judge William R. Day, the em- inent Ohio lawyer, managing his private busi- ness. He himself stadied law and wasabout to be admitted to the bar when he accepted a place $wo years ago in the adjutant’s general's Office of the War Department. He was recom- j mended to Mr. Morton by Judge Day and | other friends who were acquainted with his capacity and celiability. He is about thirty- rht years old, dark and decidedly bald. Prob- ably there are fewer applicants for offices in tho Department of Agriculture than at any other department except that of justice. Even here thoy swarm, however. There are numer- ous demands even for the scientific pos! | though they are supposed to be out of poli- j tics. The number of people in this country who imagine that they are scientists is astonish- ing. Most of them consider themselves com- petont to conduct any branch of the depart- ment, from the Dug bureau to the division of vegetable pathology. fow miscellaneous facts respecting office seekers may not be out of place in this connec- tion. Secretary Horbert and Secretary Hoke Smith, being from the south, are naturally most urgently harassed by tke colonels and majora ‘The Departments of War and Navy have ench bad about 1,000 applicante thus far, though they have very few places to be filled, neither being “in politics.” U applicants want to see the Secretary per- About one in ten succeeds in doing so. imponsible for the private e grow their baby Mothe Hubbard dresses it is time to make some little difference in their frocks so that they will look more tike the little men they are and less like little sister. In the first ilustra- tion there ie « frock “| = this description, It is fora boy of from two | to three yeark The | short body is formed of groups of tucks that | Ee and the front, ts aloo plain until x ii w full pleated piece end at the waist line, thus making a fall skirt. pond ne cet = aie ™ 4 ted into tucks and a crossed belt comes the under arm sepm and laps across the back. ‘Tiny buttons edge the jacket effect tm front, but the dress is really fastened in thd back. | A plain turn-over collar finishes the neck and gives to the dress a more borish effect. Three tucks ornament the skirt, which is otherwise Plain: This dress is intended for morning wear, but the next on the list being a little fancier will do for afternoons. —___. The eighth roung man wears a dress which is quite simply made. Box pleats form the waist and give extra fullness to the skirt. A broad belt encircles the waist and is made te from the dress, to be put on afterward. it dee firablo the edges of tbe box pleats and the neck and wrists may be edged with embroidery. Tho next dress is made with a tight-fitting round waist, the jacket effect being gotten by placing an embroidery ruffle in the jacket shape. A similar raffle encircles the neck, and there are embroidery rafiles around the wrists. This skirt aleo has three tucks around the bot- The odd little Mother Hubbard gown pic- | tured is of French gingham. It is made with » ) Found yoke and full slocves, over which fall quarter sleeves, which are slashed up the middle. Around the ekirt, cuffs, oversiceves | and yoke there are several rows of fency white cotton braid. This would also make ® pretty frock fore little girl, and will make up well from almost any material anybods to get past re less_he is escorted by a Congressman or has him a really valuable letter of introduction, which the private secre- tary reads before granting admission. The peoplo who nre most ausious to see the Secretary personally are asa rile jast the ones he does not want to eee. Once in a while one of them offers a bribe to the private secrotery, but that method docs not work. There seems to be a general and widespread impression that the government is organized for charitable purposes, and that the plea of kaown in tha izover Cleve- whom he somewhat resembies in phy- sique, During tho campaign he met Hokn Smith und sald to him: “When you ere ap- | pointed dask you fora =e inded him of s | rot the place he wanted. no time in wrinng to bim letters of lation, Ae a rule they have refrained | from accompanying there fri messages | | with applications for offices. The Jatier are sent on from a day toa week later. There are prob- ably one-third more applicanta for placca in the Department of the Interior than at any other of the departments, because the number of employes is so great, aggtegating 18,000 in the pension office, land office, census office, geological survey and other ‘bureaus, The chance for getting a job is supposed to be pro- portionate. There are thousands of petti- tioners who have asked Mr. Smith for “any place you think Icen fill.” They commonls You know meand are acquainted with ities, Can you not finda hole that I can fit into?” They expect tho Secretary to look around and find places which they are capable of fill- ing. The great majority are willing to take thing they can get, while thoso who are bet- ter acquainted with the methods of office seck- | ing point out positions which they feel disposed to accept. fany ask for situations with a salary of from $2,000 to $8,000—“‘enough,” as they say, ‘‘to support the family comfortably.” Some speak of their daughjers, whom they would like to take to Washington, with a view to “introducing them to fashionable society at the capital.” Numerous applicants send their applications by registered mail, in this way ob- taining a signed return card, which makes them certain that their petitions have been duly re- ceived and ‘contents noted” at the department. Only the other day Private Secretary Bennett was the recipient of an express package marked with a valuation of $100. He supposed that it was an Easter gift for himself, but it proved to be a buiky petition for office. The private secretary of the Secretary of State is Kennesaw Landis of Illinows. He is twenty-six years old, clean sheven, with black hair, dark complexion and lines in his fece which make him look older. His first name was taken from the battlefield where his father —not Gen. Gresham, as has been wrongly re- orted—was wounded during the war. le isa wyer and Gresham bas known him froma boy. Most of the applicants for offices with whom he bas to deal are seeking consulates. ‘There are 250 consulships and only thirty-five foreign missions, For these minor agencies of Unele Sam's abroad net less than 10,000 persons have already put in requests. They come from all tue states of the Union. Many of them send their photographs, imagining that in this way they may produce a favorable impression, and gometimes they forward likenesses of all th family, lar tors. Gen. Gresham has a second private secretary, ‘whose more proper designation would be that of confidential oan, His mame is Houry Bryan. Ho is rather tall, with sandy hair and mustache. He was private secrotary to Mr. Bayard from the time of the electoral commission through the entire period during which the present am- bassador tp Great Britain occupied a seat inthe Senate. When the latter became Secrotary of Btate he retained Mr. Bryan's services in the For the last two years Mr. by the present Secretary af Btate to the duties of atrusted assistant. The ap- Plicants for consulahips are numerous and per- sistent enough to require # great deal of of attention. Ono of has mentioned in his tition that he desires to be ‘‘near the art cen- rs of Enrope,” because his own talent needs no | Ments, The truth is that the administrati tof the boys who used to know | mith at school and go a-nutting with ; ° need on the part of an applicant should suffice to procure employment. It is nota fact that the departments at Washington are institutions for taking care of the helpless. it seems hard that so many men who do not ask or work for anything should obtain appoint- A wide long-pointed collar is the princi festure in the third cut. It is straight = wide at the shoulders and falis in two points in front to the waist. This, with the cuffs, is edged with Hamburg ruffling. ‘The waist has a few gathers at the neck and the skirt is pleated into the body. This dress will'make an excel- Persons of ability managed to succeed in life, and en ere not very numerous among office ecckera. It is a fact that » few citizens of Georgia have | lent pattern for an older boy if made tofasten| The tenth illustration is of * very pictur refused to aceept places in the Department of | i {rent and having the addition of a belt, esque cortume for a small bor. “Iti made the Interior, notwithstanding the alleged hunger from fine white wash goods. The skirt and for office of people from that state. body are cut in one piece, ali the gathers Nearly every one who asks Secretary Carlisle being massed in the front, where they are for a place apologizes for augmenting the crowd shirred into rows from neck to waist. The which besieges his oflice. He always replies neck is cut slightly low in front and is finished cheerful by a broad sailor coliar. Skirt, cuffe and hem “We didn’t obj to your crowding at the polls on election da: are trimmed with fine insertion. cc Street Car Fenders, To the Editor of The Evening Star. Apropos of the subject of street car fenders, which is now under consideration by the Dis- Is, and mention of which was made of yesterday's issue, I would like to offer a few suzgestions and observations. I have noticed that the fenders in general use on the strect ccrs are merely # continuation of the truck frame, and they aro usually placed so closely to the wheels that in the son failing in front of the car and being caught by the fender and pushed ulong the clothing would naturally drag on the ground under the fender, and presently, the wheels running upon the trailing clothing. the unfortunate is pinned to the earth and the next instant the fender, then the wheels, rides upon the body and crushes the life out. Owing to the present constraction of the cars if a person comes into collision with a moving car he is likely to receive the blow in the upper part of the body, which will, more than likely, throw him prone in front of the oncoming car, \d, owing to the manner in which the fenders are at prerent placed, before he can possibly : 7 do anything to save himself he is jammed into seers a confined space, with the projecting platform Pink check is the goods used in the eleventh overhead, the pavement beneath and the crush- ing fender and grinding wheels behind: what chance of life has an unfortunate got who is caught in sucha veritable death trap as this? Simply none. If fender somewhat similar in construction to the ‘cow catcher” on alocomotive was placed on the front of the cars, flush with or jutting a little beyond the edge of the platform, I be- lieve that the probabilities of a fatal termina- tion of acollision would be very greatly less- ened if not entirely obviated, for the following reasons: A fender #o placed would strike a per- fon about the lower part of the body or legs, ney im off bi picture. The pointed yoke and deep cuffs are ‘of embroidery and the revers, the: turn back from the voke. are also edged. ' The rest of the dress is full and plain, and is quite easily made. Pique cloaks aud dresses are very uscfu! to the little people, especially in spring weather. and would have a ten feet and throw him clear of the track. Even it it did not throw him clear of the track, but, instead, threw him directly in front of the car, his cl would be infinitely better to be pushed along in front of s fender that was eee ee ee ee ee lothing could not possibly be caught by the sevolting whose, Sel brant” tkeuey dragged under; and, furthermore, he would not be into such a desth trap as is now formed by the present construction. If the suggestions herein contained will have the effect of preventing such horrible occur- Fenced as happened to Lieut, Heynolds and poor Frank Ward I will feel amply rewarded for my efforts. WSB f i & gz £ i