Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1893, Page 12

1z = THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, MAY -6, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE CHANGE OF STYLE And Through It All Woman Remains the Most Charming Creature. WORRYING ABOUT CLOTHES. From Columbus’ Time to the Chicago ‘World's Fair—Striking Contrasts in Fash- fons—Old-Fashioned Costumes—The Days ef Crinoline—The Dainty Summer Girl. Written for The Evening Star. BOUT FOUR HUN- dred years ago a Spanish gentleman, while outsailirg one day, had the misfor- tune to stumble upon America. He landed somewhere near New Jersey, and Mar- shall Wilder says he knew it was America, because he saw the Indisn boys P fair rex have been worry- ing about their clothes and Yonging to be in style. The cut of a basque or ‘the length of a skirt has made a woman happy or miserable. In the accompanying sketches I hav> tried to show the most prominent figures in merican fashions since the time of Columbus. Let me first call your attention to the little ian girl in the first cut. Crude as is her costume, she is not without the attribute of vanity. ‘She wears the bright fringes, gay beads and feathers so popular among her race, and she is the most stylish girl in her camp. But in spite of all this she is not happy. “ She bas a vision of her pale-faced sister who is to supplant her—a vision of Priscilla, the Puritan maiden, whose portrait forms the subject of the next illustration. et Puritan simplicity. She | fellow has made so famous. Her Youth and gentle beauty are heightened by her | ‘Womanish attire of gray and white. We can't imagine her getting cross and irritable about her bangs, because she didn’t have any. But ‘even she might have worried about the effect of her collars and enffs. We do not consider, however, that Miles Standish sent John Alden | to do his wooing for him, and we can almost hear her saucy answer, “Why don't you speak for yourself, John?” ‘The next picture forms a striking contrast Yo its predecessor. In Washington's time we find that Puritan symplizity has been replaced Dy powder and perfume and patches. Gray homespun has given way to silks aud satins of delicate bue, and broa:l-heeled shoes hav Get asideand in their place is seen the ridi Yous footgear of the French court. This lady lived in the time of him who never told a lie . but about whom so many have been told. I have been unable to trace her exact Yelationship to George Washington, but as she was a Virginian think it safe to say that rhe @ust have been a first cousin. Hair powdered we as the driven stow, dainty Watteau ‘@own, what a picture she’must have made when danced the minuet With Gen. Washington Yong, long ago. jomebody she was Bhe looked in costume. the fan tells a I in itself; she was, must [say it, a noted coqueite. Many a galt ant ent up alt t osing valentines to | Ber ladyship, valentines which pleased her well, Dat were written ins poor English that they could scarce have stood eriticis All fashions reach their climax, hence in 1853 fBere burst upon ihe American public full-| | su grown Gowers of crinoline and ruffles looking for all the world like animated tulips or pop- pies. ‘The humorist of thirty-five, years sgo found ample scope for 2 ce depubd ar tarde sexe teed een doors because they really couldn't get in. Lovers are drawn asgazing upon their divinities from afar off, and how they ever took » walk down Connecticut avenue arm in arm I don’t see. But, sisters of the nineteenth contusy, crino- line is no longer a thing of the past. The euemy is close upon us, and unless the dress- makers take a firm stand against it the open summer cars will perish for want of passengers. Fortunately all great things come to a close, and in 1981 the slim figure in the next cut came to us andromained withus fora while. Although she did not oceupy as much space as her crino- line sister. FN It would be unfair to forget the far-famed | summer girl, so in our last illustration she is | shown in her very latest gown. Balloon-like sleeves aud stiff skirt, she is perfectly fasci- nating. This charming counterfeit gives you greeting, and proves that from an Indian maiden to the present time a woman is the most charming creature God ever made, and that you might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. M.S. ~—— +0+ HOW CHOLERA IS SPREAD IN INDIA. Through Lack of Sanitation and the Peo- ple’s Peculiar Habits. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Daily Transcript. A plain story of the conditions that prevail in India for the spread of the cholera was told yesterday morning at the New Century Club by Dr. Pauline Koot of the Woman’s Medical Col- lege, who has lived for eight years in southern India. Dr. Root began by describing the con- ditions under which people live in southern India, in order to show exactly what circum- stances generate the cholera. There ‘s abso- lutely no sanitation there, as we have it. Drainage, with the exception of a fever breeder in the way of an open sewer, is unknown. In the villages people tive in low mud huts, where all the family congregate in one room, the di- mensions of which are likely to be four feet by ten or twelve feet. As there sre no outbuild- ings at all there is no way in which ns can protect themselves against the cholera if it ‘once appears in such a household. Sometimes, if the well runs dry, stagnant water must bo used. A high caste personage will not allow a low caste to ure bis well. Commonly, people go to the river for water. As the water is frequently [not on the surface a “tub” is dug in the river bed and the water allowed to collect. At this tub, or at the well, all the functions of bathing are performed. First the jar is filled, and the water being dashed over the person soon trickles back to its source. In the case of certain religious enthusiasts water is poured over the body fifty times. Next the Seely, the single piece of silk or cloth which is worn as a garment, must be washed. This is dipped into the pool. Finally, the jar is refilled and carried home. The quality of the water by the time the jar is refilied is promising indeed, when cholera is in the air. In these river tubs the clothes are washed. The cattle are taken there to drink. Dr. Root said that in sendiug a man to the river to fetch water there was never any cer- tainty that he would not fill his jar with the water standing in one of the pools, instead of digging « fresh hole. The very cleanliness of the people, and they are extremely clean, tends to the spread of cholera, because their method of bathing is so unintelligent. In southern India there is always more or less cholera. It is often prevalent sfter a certain religious festi- val—of the marriage of two divinities—-which is celebrated by an encampment im the river bed for four or five days, As for facilities in caring for the sick in In- dia, Dr. Root graphically showed how forlornly poor these are by describing her experience in the house of the vice president of the munici- lity of Madua, a wealthy man, who arrayed imself resplendently when he came to ash her to visit his wife, thus showing his solicitude for his wife’s condition. Undoubtedly he meant todo the best he could for the sick woman, for the doctor found her in a room adjacent to her busband’s—a position of honor. The worman was badly crippled and only able tocrawldown from her cot. Beyond playing with the children and polishing ,the jewels nothing relieved the monotony of her day. She was entirely uncared for. A hole in_ the wall for refuse was cleaned only once a day. The woman died of blood poisoning. And this is the way asick person fared in one of the bet- ter houses! Usually a sick person is placed in | a room that is reached from the house by cross- ing a court and passing through an alley. The alley usually has black, slimy water in it. The room is seven feet square. In the court are often found the cow, chickens and a number of persons. No wonder that. under such condi- tions, cholera spready like wildfire. But cholera is always brought. It never starts of itself. soo Fun in a Chiet Justice. It is rare indeed, suid Eli Perkins, at the Medico-Lego dinner, that we can tell a good story on the chief justice of the United States. | Twenty years ago Chief Justice Fuller was praticimg before Judge McArthur in Chicago. In his speech before the judge he pleaded his client's ignorance of the law in extenuation of an offense he had committed. The judge sax “Every man is presumed to know the law, Mr. Faller. am aware of that, your hono Fuller. ery shoemaker, tailor, me- chanio and illiterate laborer is presumed to know the law. Yes, every man is presumed to know it, except judges of the supreme court, and we have a court of appeals to correct their mistakes.” (Laughter. ‘The chairman of the lecture committee in | Oldtown, Me., told me that he once belonged toa debating club of which the chief justic when a boy, way a member. One evening cay tel punishment was the subject debated. ‘The ” responded deacon of the eburch and two clergymen | were for hanging. Young Fuller was opposed. | Said the deacon, qu: om the Mosaic law: “Whoso shedde 's blood by man Tumnking this to be his blood shall be shed. il to his opponents he dwelt upon it a bombs! jin which men were sho: HOW OLD IS MAN? A New Belief as to His Period of Existence. QUITE A RECENT ANIMAL. Not Older Than 50,000 Years and Perhaps Only 20,000 Years Old—The Evidence of the Nile and of the Cave Dwellings—The Missing Ancestral Link Between Man and the Ape. eee OW OLD IS MAN ON the earth? The ques- tion came up for dis- cussion among mem- bers of the National Academy of Sciences here Inst week, because a revolution has re- cently taken place in the scientific theory on this subject. In fact, the belief held hitherto has been turned upside- down, the best evidence ing animal classified by Linnens as homo sapiens may not have lived more than 20,000 years ago, and probably did not exist 50,000 years B.C. ‘The glaciers are appealed to for testimony on this subject. It is reckoned that the first ice invasion of the Pleistocene, which spread a frozén sheet over this continent as far south as New York city, occurred about 200,000 years ago. Subsequently there were animals in North America wholly different from any that are found here now. The mammoth and the mastodon roamed throngh the forests in herds. There were camels, elk of enormous size, musk oxen and giant beavers six feet long. This ancient fauna has entirely passed away; the strange beasts mentioned are extinct specie If when they existed man had lived on the earth, the rocky strata inclosing their fossil remains would almost certainly yield some buman bones or relics. As 2 matter of fact, none such have ever been found thus asso- ciated. EVIDENCE OF THR NILE. On this continent human bones and imple- ments have only been found associated with the Temains of modern animals, such a have ex- isted here since the last ico sheet was with- drawn, 7,000 or 8,000 years ago. But, on look- ing across to the old’ world, evidence of a dif- ferent sort is discovered pointing in the same direction. ‘The valley of the Nile was one of the earliest regions on the earth to be inhab- ited by man. Every year the flood of that river leaves a thin deposit of mud covering the lend. By digging a hole ip the ground the successive annual overtlows can be clearly traced back for century after century by the layers superimposed on’ upon another. ‘Thus depth of 1,000 layers is the surface level of 1,000 years ago. Now, excavations made at at expense for scientific purposes have not disclosed any human relics at a greater depth than 15,000 layers, or years. Below that point the strata are barren. Until recently it has been supposed that peo- ple in the stone age devoted infinite labor to the production of their implements. A stone ax ‘was imagined to be the result of the toil of gen- erations. Ifa man began to make such a tool in early youth and lived to see it finished by his grandson he might die happy. This no- tion is now exploded. Not long ago J. D. Me- Guure set up a little workshop in the National Museum and proceeded to manufacture primi- tive tools of flint and other kinds of stone with no other means than such as the carliest savages had at hand. He proved that he could turn out a first-rate stone ax in two hours, though he might have done better if he had had as much practice as the toolmakers of the stone age. The latter did not pick up frag- ments of rock at random for their purposes. They selected from the nearest stream pebbles which were not far from the shane they wanted, and pecked at ench one with another pebble until it assumed the required contonr, finally grinding the edge on a piece of sandstone, if Aeaired, and perhaps contributing a. final pét- ish by rubbing with sand and water. THE ANCIENT CAVE DWELLERS, ‘The scientists who hold the belief that man is a very ancient animal on the earth have re- ferred for evidence to numerous caves in south- ern Europe and elsewhere, which were doubt- less inhabited by many generations of human beings for the sake of shelter and security. These caverns contain great numbers of human bones and primitive tools, which, it is alleged, have been found in numerous instances mixed with fragments of skeletons of the huge cave bear, the saber-toothed tiger, the woolly rhinoceros, the giant beaver and even the elephas antiquus, which was the ancestor of the mammoth and the elephants of today. The flooring of ashes from ancient household fires in these caverns is sometimes as much as 20 feet thick, representing the accumulation of hundreds if not thousands of years, Scattered about the ancient hearths are ever so many bones of men, women and children, which bear not only traces of fire, but marks’ of mn- struments employed to split them lengthwise for the purpose of getting at the marrow. Thus it would seem that these savages of antiquity were canmbais. In these caves testimony is found of many murders committed thousands of years ago. Skulls of women cleft by sharp weapons prove that they often were victims of savage vio- lence. One such cranium of a female bears the marks of three penetrating wounds, The fact that two of them exhibit signs of having healed shows that she recovered, only to suc- cumb to a third assault. The ancient occu- pants of the caverns appear to have depended for food cliiefly on the meat of reindeer, which in their time were as plentiful in the south of Europe as sheep are now. Reindeer horn was their earhest raw material, employed for _man- ufactuing purposes. They fished with hooks made of splinters of bone pointed at both ends. ‘Twenty pounds of the bones of water rats, half roasted, were dug up in a single cave at Chaleux, from which it is inferred that these animala contributed to the food supply in times of scarcity, It has been alleged that the dweilers in the caverns used the lower jaw- bone of the cave bear as @ weapon, the great canine tooth serving as a point with which deadly blows could be struck, PRIMITIVE TOOL FACTORIES. Some of the caves were regular factories for making tools and weapons. From the one at Chaienx 20,000 flint hatchets, knives have been obtained by digging. workshop of this kind in Perigord was devoted to the muaking of spear heads, while another confined it: to fabricating tools of reindeer horn, Curious whistles were turned ont from the first joint of the reindeer s foot. Many of A | the implements and weapons discovered were | | rudely jecorated with representations of fishes, of reindeer and even of mammoths. wert hunting scenes carved in bone and horn, 1 in pursuit of game or in contlict with b landscape, with reindeer ble per en supposed p vith a hamile horn, rved in the form of a reindeer, which would not be unworthy of modern art. The trouble with these works of artis that they ate entirely too admirable. It is now be- lieved that they are all of them frauds. Scien- tists are often credulous in proportion to. their enthusiasm, but the limit of credulity is passed by paleolithic carvings perspective, No. modern savages have the slightest idea of per- spective. It represents tho very latest development of artistic culture. Even the Chinese and — Japanese "possess no notion of it worth mentioning. Un- doubiedly the objects described were fabricated by ingenious persons for the purpose of sup- | plying an urgent and profitable demand. For ction of them, which included the poinard referred to, the British Museum paid 31,600 not many years ago, The testimony as to the discovery ‘of them ‘in the caves was as readily manufactared as the things themselves, Lexpired, when the boy sprang ts | ‘Supposing we take the law which the geu-| tleman bas quoted the logical de- | duction would come to. For example, ene man another; a: 1 we come to ng to kill bir, ther man kills him, a the jast man on €: ? He dara not rbids it. ‘what ar a going to do e (Laughter. } boy's logic called out rounds of applause, and vanquished the dencon, and we hope he will be our chief justice for a thousand years. | FORK DYSPEPSL Use Morsford’s Acid Phosphate. | 3. Cilley, Boston, Mass., says: “I have nsed | Temarkable 1 dyspepsia and In all ease derangement uf the liver and kidneys.” [lived here there ta — when he could ‘Thus does the whole fabric of theory built upon these alleged “finds” fall to the ground. ‘The carvings of the mammoth and the cave bear being frands, there is no reason for supposing that the dwellers in the caverns ever kaw either of those beasts, As for the finding of human bones mixed up with the skeletons of the cave bear and saber-toothed tiger, the evidence does not endure sifting. Doubtless those formid- able animals -the former much bigger and | more powerful than a grizzly, and the latter | twice as big and strong as a tiger of Bengal made use of the caves as dens when they left their bones behind them. Pri itive man would have found it difficult to con- tond with such terrifle creatures. That he did inhabit the same refuges for centuries long afterward, chasing the reindeer, mannfactur- ing tools, roasting water rats and cating human procure the luxury, there 0. every reason to be daggers and | ‘There | BOGUS ANTIQUITIES. A law of supply and demand has established the business of producing bogus antiquities on a Profitable basis, Scientists, offering money fer them, have been constantly duped by fakes of this description. The workmen employed by them have commonly been only too eager to engage in systematic imposition on their credulity. Some years ago in Calaveras county, ce Seeastl ses ca Under = mountain for 1e purpose of get! at @ stratum of - bearing gravel, which. once upon a time’ bad been the bed of a river. Subsequently hun- dreds of vertical feet of material had been de- posited by water on top of this layer, and finall; & lava flow from a voleano bad spread a thici crust over the whole. In the course of centu- ries streams cut out valleys and left a high hill standing between. Into the bottom of this hill the tunnel was dug. Prof. Whitney chanced to be in that locality atthe time. Te him one day the workmen brought a human skull, which they said had been got by digging from the very heart of the mountain, where it was found buried in the auriferous gravel. Together with it were dis- covered certain implements, including a stone mortarand pestle. This was destined to be- come famous all over the world as the ‘“Cal- averas skull.” Most satisfactory affidavits were obtained from the laborers as to the circum- stances under which it had been discovered. If what they id was true the man to whom the skull belonged must haye lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. At the same time, cranium was sufficiently large and well shaped to have contained the brain of a philosopher. At present the opinion best accepted in regard to it is that it was a cold-blooded fraud. There is a skull at the Smithsonian Institution which is actually made of iron. It was dug out of a hill of iron ore, the metal in solution having taken the place of the original particles of bone, 60 as to preserve the shape ina wonder- fal manner. One might imagine it to be ex- tremely ancient, but such a transformation could be accomplished in a few years. ‘The anthropologists say that 500 years hence man will be far more intellectual than he is now. He will be more vigorous physically and will enjoy a longer life, because he is making a study of health laws. ‘The female of his species will be handsomer, because life will be more easy for her. Comfort and ease are the con- ditions which produce beauty in woman; savage women are almost never pretty even in youth, because they workhard and live roughly. Through the aid of the telegraph and modern means of rapid locomotion, man has become almost independent of ‘time and space. The earth is now what he chooses to make it. If lands are non-productive he fertilizes them. If the climate is not suitable for growing products of the soil which he requires, he alters it by con- serving the solar heat under glass. It is not unhkely that all the northern part of New Jersey will at no distant day be under a glass roof for the purpose of supplying New York with vegetables, fruits and flowers. Rexe Bacur. —— A Queer Sect of Mask-Wearers. From the Philadelphia Telegraph. Since the practical abandonment of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation has left that country almost wilder than it was before the opening a year agoasmall colony of re- jous enthusiasts has settled in what is known as F county, among the sand hills of Indian territory. The leaders of this colony went there from Sedgwick and Barber counties in Kansas, and took with them « following of seventy men and women. ‘That was «x months ago. Since that time they have been joined by at least sixty persons, so they now number about 130, Their belief is exceedingly simple. They worship an unknown god as represented by life and deem it a mortal sin to look upon the face of @ human being. Men and women wear masks day and night and never by any chance do they gaze upon the face of one ‘another. ‘They teach morality in the severest perfection, not permitting the two sexes "to dwell in tre same valley, their homes being about two miles apart, ‘here is a daily religious service, when any all come to a central point, for such serv- ices are in the open air, regardless of the weather. John Walrond, formerly of Sedgwick county, conducts all communications with the outside world, and only on his visits to El Reno and Kingfisher does he lay aside his mask. After each one of these trips he buries himself in solitude for ten days and expatiates the sin of having come in contact, uncovered, with man- kind. Walrond and E. M. Scott, another of the leaders, were formerly well known in this state | 8 allianee organizers. When the alliance was mevged into the people's party they resolved to gather such followers as they could and retire from the world, or at least to disappear from the so-called civilization of the present day. The result was the founding of the colony in the Indian territory. No name has been adopted—none is wanted. They bave sought seclusion and have found it. What little property there is in the community is held in common, any one using any particular thing he sees fit to desire at the time. The colonist believe it sinful to seek to accumulate property. ‘They have twenty log houses, equally divided between what are in reality two communities, and two storehouses, from which they draw their supplies. ‘The work is done regardless of sex, men and women alike engaging in all the vocations common to a new country. They appear to be contented and healthy, and were it not for the unsightly dark-red mask con- tantly worn, they would appear as other veo- ple after having been divided off into separate communities, They sry they are happy; that they have no wants unsupplied, and that they could not be induced to return to the world. The chance visitor to the colony is treated kindly and courteously, and is given lodging in acabin kept for that purpose. He is not in- vited to stay, nor do they give him a hint to converse without hesitation, but persistently refuse to listen to anything about the world they have left. They talk simply about their spiritual state, its beauties and its Dlessings. There are several married couples here, but they live apart. There has been no’ rule adopted regarding a life of celibacy, each one being his own judge in this matter, In fact, no one seeks to control any of the others. It appears to be a community without a Lead or a ruler. ——_+e. OZONE ONLY IS CH P. Eating a Costly Habit at the Chicago World's Fair Just Now. From the Chicazo Herakl. If eleven beans cost 40 cents the second day of the fair and deposits are required for the re- turn of egg shells how long will it take boiled potatoes to bring €1 each? If one nibble of cheese and one of crackers can sell for 35 cents and rice pudding retail at 30, how long must a man with a big appetite and a moderate salary go hungry? If staff beef made on the grounds is worth 50 | cents a cut and skinny pie is sold at 25 cents an cighth, what will the average visitor take for his eating hmbit? ‘These are some of the perplexing questions which now bother the patrons of the fair res tanrants. Once within the fence there no chance to slip ont for a snack and the only al- ve for the person with astomach that dhily attention is to choose in which p: ar language he desires to be released of ‘hii savings. Thi French cafes where it costa to sit down, and English taverns where the bar- maids serve and guess at the bill; Polish re- sorts with strange and Geadly cocktails of ben- zine, absint ind vitriol; German victual houses with the fragrance of lusty boiled din- [ners,and the great casino whete thousands shiver in the lake winds and sit in amazement at the rates per pls see Rather Thought She Woul: From World's Fair Puck. ee oo eh2$ Jack Potts—“{am sorry, aunt, that you foel so tired, for this Japanese section is most inter- esting. | Won't yon let me get youn jinrikisba?” | Aunt Bracer—“Well, perhaps 'twould ‘make mé feel alittle better, but don’t have it made | too strong. OTe ay: —s ‘The report that not many people are coming over to sce the fair from Europe is doubtless untrue, Chicago isn't worrying over the | rumor. anyhow. It seems as if’ nearly all the People in the world were herealrendy.—Chicago feral ‘Tr or gray hair and bald heads, so displeasi to many people as marks of age, may be averter for a long time by using Hall's Hair Renewer. AFTER-DARK MASHERS They Occasionally Appear on the Streets of Washington. A WOMAN’S EXPERIENCE. Accompanied by s Mackintoshed Villain on a Rainy Night—How She Planned to Trap Him—The Safest City in the Land—When There is Least Danger. OMEWHAT ON THE increase is the sfter- dark masher in this city. Because he is more numerous it does not follow that he is any less disgusting than he was before, and the patience he displays in following any unat- tended female along the street, and generally the darkest streets, would, if it were applied to some pursuit more elevating and more honorable, put him in the way of pos- sessing @ large fortune. The writer of this essay on after-dark street manners had an adventure on Wednesday night that probably is of so frequent occurrence that nearly all the women who read it could match it with a much better one. i It will be remembered that it rained so hard on that night that no one who was not com- pelled to go out, either by stern necessity or some villainy on hand, would have braved the storm. The woman in this case represented the stern necessity,and the creature who dogged her footsteps for four or five squares in the neighborhood of Thomas Circle down to I street would do anywhere and under any cir- cumstances for the villain. Z She was trying bard to keep from being swept down the sewer by the torrent pouring down its mouth, 80 the best plan seemed to be to walk in the ‘middle of the street. But whether she walked in the street or on the sidewalk a big burly figure, comfortably arrayed in a long dark muackintosh and carrying an umbrella pulled down over his brainless head, kept steady pace with her. Reaching the Portland the writer, knowing that there was more light on 14th street than on Vermont avenue, selected that street, hoping in that way to get rid of the esome shadow. She did get rid of him, and had forgotten his existence, when all of a sud- den he reached her side again, having evidently kept only in the background until the lighted-up stores were passed. STILL DOQGING HER FOOTSTEPS, At L street the mackintoshed masher re- sumed his attention, walking with the even tread that suggested the lock-step at Sing Sing. There were two or three little breaks in the step, which the writer devoutly hopes will be corrected when he gets back there again, The situation now became positively interesting. The two figures had the street ail to themselves. Every now and then the shadow would raise his unibrella and allow smile toescape. Wasshe getting scared’ of it. But she was just mad, and getting worse y minute. Her maidenly indiguation so pletely overcame her that she forgot it was raining, and she skipped along across the little lakes and pools of water just as calmly as she would have done any day in the sunshine, Her speed was so great that when #he commenced to cross K street to 15th the shadow was giving signs of being winded, He had made no re- marks up to this, but be was probably doing some thinking. So was the writer. IF HE HAD ONLY CONTINUED. She had revolved a little scheme in her mind, but having almost landed her fish she could not resist. playing just a bit with it, She slackened her pace when the lights from ber wn home sent welcome rays across the side- walk. Sho passed it by. The masher by_ this time got breath enough together to talk.” What he said is of no consequence. The pursuer and the pursued had now reached the steps of a big hotel, where overybody, from the proprietor to the former. Sho went into could have enjoyed the satisfaction of being followed just long enough to have presented the shadow to the assembled clerks, porters, &e., and have had him kicked into the middle of the street she would have felt repaid for the aunovance he caused her, and which he is in all likelihood repeating ina’ dif- ferent locality every night. This style of loafer does not like the light any more than any other, and the mackintoshed masher slink away in the darkness, and the little incident was over. ‘The chances are, however, that Washington not cursed ina very marked degree by this class of criminals, ‘THE NEW STYLE OF STREET LOAFER has new methods, He walks up to any woman he meots. who may happen to have her bands so encumbered with bundles that she is not able to help herself for the moment, and hugs her. He generally succeeds in throwing her down, because he runs xgainst her roughly, and then scampers away. By the time the Indy regains her feet, if she is able todo #0, he is out of the neighborhood. This incident is not exaggerated, but has happened in the quietest part of the West End residence section not a month ago, and ton lady who at the moment was not more than a hundred yards from her own door. It would be about as easy to catch all the moth flies you ree these days as to ex- pect the police to arrest thin style of offender. WOMEN WHO CAN TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. Some people get through life without any adventures at all and some others find their days and nights strewn with them. As years go by the number of women making their own living and exhibiting a complete ability to take care of themselves under pretty much any sort of circumstances is manifestly on the increase, The old adage that ‘‘a woman's work is never done” is no less true now than it was a han- dred years ago. th: Consequently it is sometimes women should be out at night. ‘ars ago an English woman who was here attending the woman's congress, and who could tell most pitiful tales of what night «cenes on the Strand in London meant, made a circuit of the down and the uptown streets of this city late at night for the sake of making the com- parison between the capitals of England and the United States. Sho said that Washington wus the safest city at night that she had ever seen in all her travels, THE SAFEST NIGHT HovRS. Tho writer bas had at least ten years of ex- perience to reach the same conclusion, She has often been required by the exigences of her business to be out alone even after midnight, and not always on a car line. That is, the home journey, not often of more than five or six squares at the utmost, would be made about | the hour when graveyards yawn and other un- pleasant things are supposed to occur. In all this time, winter und suminer, she has never liad any annoyances of any kind from persons she met. She has also found more policemen awake then than are popularly supposed to be at that hour. They knew her face a great deal better than she knew theirs, and as sic passed each one by on his beat the protecting care th exerted made the way brighter than the strect lamps or the electric lights. If she had to se- lect a time when Washington streets are abso- man who is attending tly to the business of getting home as ex- peditiously as she can, she would select from 11 to 2o’clock. The men you meet then are | generally late workers who are bent on the | same purpose of getting home or else the: | bent because of the burden of liquid refresh. ment thi y case ing woman attracts no spec ien Street loafers who make it an ayo either insult or foliow ladies on the streets do | so during the early part of the night when the | streets are generally filled with people. A CASE IN POINT, Inall these ten years the only adventure which has come to the writer, except the above mild case, was a few years ago at St. Matthew's Church corner. It was a winter night and the ground was covered with a fine article of slush. In nddition to this he rain was coming down with such persistence. that no woman, except ‘one With a mission orf hand, eauld shave been tempted from her own fireade An uptown car stopped anda parsegget alighted with week's beard on an ugly face,ia, trareling bag. and the evidence in his failing Stupe that abort sixty-five winters had. whifened bis hair, but, had not. isteteased’ the gray) matter in his brain, The wrijar looked at bin! \Thibye was nothing élacto look at but the down town car, the lights of which she could just see get- ting clearer and clearer as it reached Lafayette Square. The steps of the old man could be heard slapping away through the slush. All of uudden they seemed to be coming back again, and to her intense surprise here they were, and the old dote and the bag, too, right at her bow. Sho gave a longing look to the car which was now only one square away. Oh! if jit would only hurry up! Suppose the old creature should speak! To get away it would be necessary to cross big, slushy pool of water formed at the gutter with the frozen snow and ice. She thought of jumping into the middle of it, no matter what the results Would be, but the owner of the bag in « cracked voice made remark. That settled it. “It ix a very wet evening to be out, miss,” and she thundered this at him, “At your age. old man, You ought to have sense enough to get in out of it.” Then the old dote took a firmer hold on his bag, jammed his umbrella a little lower down and went up the strect like a two- year-old. The next day when she was not angry she laughed heartily over the little epi- sode. She has laughed ever since when she thinks of it, and now if it makes some one else ‘mile just @ little the wnter will be ampiy gratified. A MIDNIGHT INCIDENT IN THE WEST. She does not want to condemn all the race of mankind who may happen to speak toa lone woman at night. But there are kinds and kinds, It is avery mice thing to be spoken to sometimes. The writer remembers the most remarkable incident that ever occurred to her in traveling that will illustrate this point. She was compelled to wait one mght for three hours in a small railroad station in Salt Lake City. It was not a very attractive loitering place in the daytime andvit was certainly weari- some beyond description from 9 till madnight, when the promised connection was due, Along about 11 o'clock she went out_on the platform, nd walked upand down. Up drove a man in a buggy. hitched his horse, went in_ the sta~ tion and asked the operator if the train would be in on time. No, it won't, It will be at least two hours late tonight.” WHILING AWAY THE TEDIOUS HOURS. The second listener to this remark felt her heart go way down in her boots at the prospect of three hours’ more waiting. Up and down she tramped the platform tokeep awake. The owner of the horse and buggy joined her. The conversation started on the Weather and that late train, It was rather a one-sided affair till the buggy owner deftly introduced a remark that his purpose at the station was to meet a maiden aunt from the east who wascoming out to make his wife a visit. That sounded very laudable, but the lone woman already in from the east kept very shy. Up and down they still tramped the ‘platform. All of a sudden the resident of Mormontown eaid: “Well, this is very tiresome for you. Come, get in my buggy and we will kill time driving around the city.” SHE WAS NOT AFRAID. One thought flashed across her mind. What would the world think of such a performance, driving around Salt Lake at midnight man she had never seen till an hour ago, before she knew it the thought became words, and she had blurted out: “Oh, Tam afraid.” of what? Nothing,” she quickly replied. “I will go with pleasure.” And she ‘went, and that stranger took the greatest pains to drive her around the etrong- hold of Mormonism, even to the grave of Brigham Young, to the Temple and the Bee Hive and all the other interesting points, and showed her what the city looked like at ‘mid- night. They got back to the station in good season. The writer boarded her sleeper while the train. And the writer hoped that she had the nicest visit of her life under the roof of one of the nicest men in the world. So men go, and so do women, and after all there is very little difference in them when it comes to being very mean or very nice. > — OUT OF COURT. SETTLE History of a Kentucky Divorce Suit In Which a Lawyer Came to Grief. From the Detroit Free Press. A divorce case is a rarity in the courts of the mountain districts of Kentucky, yet sometimes among those persons living near the country towns, where lawyers congregate, such a legal proceeding occurs, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Looker were of this class. They lived near a country town and had lived there for twenty years very comfortably and bad accumalated some property. A difference arose between them, however, and they agreed toa division of the property and a divorce. Harvey let his wife have the house they hid always lived in and on that half of the farm it was agreed should be his he built » log cabin for himself and transferred to it his share of the household effects. Each one secured a lawyer to attend to the legal part of the affair and then they waited for developments, For the first month Harvey did very nicely in his new bome and was apparently quite well satisfied. Tbe second month he was lonesome, and every evening he could be seen sitting in front of his cabin gazing long- ingly toward the much better house in which his wife lived. If she appexred at any time about her house, however, Harvey dodged out of sight and tried to make himself believe that Mandy was a woman any man ought to be glad he had got rid of. He held frequent con- Sultations with his lawyer, after each of which ne felt better; but as the rough winter ays came on and he could not get into town so often and the long winter evenings shut him im by his fireside Harvey felt sometimes that perhaps Mandy wasn't quite as hard to get along with as éome other things he knew of. Ono cay he went to town for consultation, Decause he couldn't stand it any longer, and when he returned later in the afternoon he looked as if he had been through a threshing machine, but there was a satisfied atmos- phere about him which had not been there in the morning. After he had smoothed himself out a little at his eabin he started off to his wife's house. It was growing dark rapidly, and Mandy's light streamed from the window that led’ Harvey from the gate to the house. He knocked nervously at the door—the door that he had opened so many times as his own. “Who's * called Mandy from within. “It's me,” responded Harvey with a nervous jerk to his voice that frightened him. “Who's me?” on't you know me, Man—Mra. Locker? It's Harvey oh,” he conld hear her say, as she un- stened the door, but he could not find much welcome in it. “it's you, is it?” she continued, sharply, as — pinot in the doorway with a candle in her and. “Yer, Mandy, it's me,” he confessed, awk- wardly, without attempting to come beyond the sill, “Well, what do yon want? I thought you lived down thar by the road. You hain't made a mistake in the house, have yo “No, Mandy, Uh Icome up to see you about our divorce, thought the lawyers w: “Your'n is, Mand: vaguel “Ain't your'n, too?” she asked, manifesting an interest that gave him some hope. “No, Mandy, he ain't. You sce, Mandy,” he went on hurriedly, “I had a talk with him today an’ in the course uv his remarks he said some things about you that I wazn't goin’ to stand a minute from nobody, so I throwed ms coat and Tgave him such a whalin’, right thar in his that he ain't agoin’ to be able_to “tend to y's business fer a month, much less mine, so [thought I'd better come up here an’ see you about it.” She made no reply for several seconds, but there was something in her face that had wot been there since Harvey went away. “Been to supper?” she asked abruptly. “No, Mandy,” replied Harvey with a shiver, for it was cold at the door, n in, and we kin talk it over while we're eatin’, and as Harvey sat in the brignt light and caught the fragrance of the coffee and the ham, and raw the flee: te biscuits that y set before him, touching him now and ax she moved’ about. he thought of heerless, comfortless cabin and a great lump came into his throat, and as Mandy sat down at the head of the table he looked up at her almost timidly. Drat the divorce,” she said impetuonsly. men,” exclaimed Harvey, and he didn’t go back to his eabin that night or ever again except to bring home what was there of his and Mandy's. tendin’ to that.” I guess,” he said, rather — A Fat Wager. From Life. “Tl bet yer, Jimmy, dat I'll run aroun’ him tree times in a minit ‘while he's a walkin’ an’ never touch his stummick wunst” WEALTHY NOW, | Account Was Overdrawn At Nature’s Bank. Paine’s Celery Comprund Gave More Health Capital. Its Glorious Reputation Grows Apace. Merchants or Ministers, It Makes Them Well. Take Advice of Your Neighbor—Spring Signs. When you want to know the financial standing of aman you inguire at the bank. It is unfortu- nately not so easy to find out just how much health capital a man has to draw on. ‘The result is, one is always in danger of over- drawing his account, and nature never yet took aD excuse. If a languid feeling comes over you, tf your appe- tite fails, and you are getting thin and irritable, take the plain indication of a tired-out, run-down body. Your neighbors’ advice influences you in buying @house or signing anote. Ask the opinion of those who have taken Paine’s celery compound; the good words its friends have everywhere been saying have built up its present glorious reputation D. B. Albright, esg., 18 & well-known citi- zen of St Paul. He Praises Paine’s celery compound because it made bim well, He writes: “About a year ago I had a severe attack of billousness, combined with muscu- lar rheumatism. My wife prevailed upon me to use Paine’s cel- ery compound, saying t an ordinary medicine. Before I had used one bottie I found much relief. Soon I was entirely relieved; the biliousness had passed away, the pains in my muscles had left me, and it seemed as though Ihad grown at least ten years younger.” One of the most Popular hair dressers in Boston ts A. 0. Harrington. Scores of prominent baste ness and professional men in Boston know how he suffered. The following letter te how he was cured: “For the past ten years I have been a great sufferer from Theumatisim, being laid up in bed as 4.0. HARRINGTON. often as once in six weeks. I have been treated by many doctors and have tried every remeds, but without relief until I used Paine’s celery com- pound. I began to take itn November last year, and today Iam a well man.” D. B. ALBRIGHT. the buggy owner was greeting with rapturous | tt was nv delight the maiden aunt who bad alighted from No minister tn Rhode Island is vetter known for true devotion and sincerity than Rev. Dr. Budiong. Writing from Ashawas, he says: “For years I was a great sufferer from } nervous exhaustion and insomnia, brought on by too close attention to books and study. An REY. J.C. BUDLONG. elderly friend induced me to try Paine’s celery compound. did so, and the first might after taking te compound I was able to enjoy sound, refreshing sleep. I continued touse it for three months, at the expiration of which time Iwas entirely cured and have re- mained since that time in perfect health. May all suffering humanity beled to kuow of the value of this compound.” Rallroad men are never backward in praising a good thing. Peter A. Friess, fore- man on the C. & N. W.R. R, never tires of recommending Paine’s celery come Pound, for it saved his life. He says: “I have] suffered so with a pain in my back that Ihave been hardly able to work, and have been tired and weak aud FOREMAN FRIES. could not sleep nights. This spring I used Paine's celery compound, and two bottles cared me. I can now work all day without suffering and sleep good all night.” ‘The bright - eyed boy whose picture ts given here alsoowes his rosy health to Paine'’s celery com- pound, the remedy that makes people of <S Mil ages weil. His ep father, M.G. Hiteh- ck of Ascutne; Vin “Last summer my fou Leslie was te Tibly poisoned by pol- S remedies without gt ing him any relief, until we thougat of Paine’s cel- cry compound. Before he had used haif a bottle the swelling and burning had all gone, and when the bottle was finished he was as well as ever. Paine’s celery compound is a pure, vegetable medicine that will bring the roses to the cheeks of the most delicate child. It is as far superior to sar- saparillas and ordinary spring medicines as the diamond fs to cheap glass. Try it and be con- vinced, LESLIE HITCHCOCK. son ivy. We tried va RUNKENNFSS OR THE LIQUOR HABIT Pos. 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Barrisbune caro, Coiumbas ant sit foie, sith PartorOar to 1 Wteburg and Slee ing Care Cy Wastin to Harritrare, and ‘es Gor to “uneinnat Ser tlarrinyune te St, Lorain and Cunet cent For Erie, Cang brie, Canandaican re at 10.15 0. iMaarnport n'y 8A mu Saudaye unis. Ww YORR AND THE : Reeping, Par ONCRENSION SY GP All Parlor Cars, with Dining Gy New York, 4.00 p.1n. daily, for Philaden iy 4099 OOF oR PHILADELPRIA ONLY. Fast express, 7.50 am. week aye wl 3.45 p.m Accommodation, £008. m. aay. ia week trains connect Jersey City with honts of Brookisn Amer, e@orde ine ‘Tinect ramsfer tq) Fuliow’ street, voiding jontile ferriage across New For Atlantic City, 11.000. 28. 12-15 p. fa. week ‘and 11.35 b. in, every Gav. Saturdage only 8. am For’ Baltimore, 905-840. 20 r 4 i eailreh b a . Line. 7-20 a.m. and 4.38 p.m. . [A AND THE SOUTH. Peete ee ae Soto yee 343 4s, 10. ain, Accotiutedatite for Quamtion 745am. dally, SOT w ‘ mond apd the south, 4.90 and 10.57am. only 4p. m_ daily. 9. 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HUIDEROPER AND Schedule tn effect Ni Alltrains arrive and leave at fer Station, Washineton, D.C. 5.30 .m:—Daily. conpects at bure for stations on Norfolk and Western railroad and for a brine pal points scuth on all Divisions of and Danville System. Pullman Sleeper New gad Washineton to Atlanta, conne ting thenor, Sleeper to New Orleans via Montcomery and for Mem Eis via Birmingham, uniting st Danville with en’ . ronuects at Manassas for Front are danly @:cept § % 3:83 bin Dall for Warrenton an Gttly except Sanaa 10.43 rebate ILLE. RAILROAD O0., REUBEN femphis vie, car New York to Montgomery. 1.00 p.m.—Daily for all. principsl points on chmond and Danville system. Pullman Sleeper, New York and Wash ngton to Hot Springs via Ashe- Wille, aqt Wash! TRAINS ON WASHINGTON ANB ONTODIVISION ‘asbineton at 9.10 a.m.. 4.25 p.m. and 6.25 . Returning, arrive in Wahiacton & 30 5.00 p.m, and.0.53 a.m. dalis. | Train leaving net. 0. and arriving <m. runs toand from Herndon only. =p LL. 8. 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