Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1893, Page 10

10 = FIRE AT THE FAIR. |Setazeccstens sept ce psc te ee men bad gone up into the’ tower where the —— Not Likely to Be Another’ Disaster on the Grounds, PRECAUTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN 7. Every One Naturally Felt Timid ard Uncomfortable. Sentinels NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. —! Correspondence of The Frening Star. Cutcago, Ine, July 15, 1998. HE FIRE AT THE world’s fair on Monday will probably make nearly every person who contemplates visiting the show inquire what are the precautions \ taken against fire and whether it is likely that such » calamity will occur again. The an- ewer can be made at once in the negative, ‘ There is no probability Yhat any other building will be burned, and if one were burned it would be impossible that there should be such 2 loss of lifeas there was on Monday. In the first place, it must be remembered that the smoke stack that caused Monday's fire had been objected to by the architect of the building and by others, but the owner thought it was easier to take arisk than to pay a little money. The building did not belong to ‘the @gposition and the inspection and guardian- ship over it were not such as prevail over the other buildings in the grounds. There are. it is true, other buildings which do not belong to the exposition, but they do not include any of the great buildings, and they have all been ex- amined and pronounced safe. Precautions Against Fire. ‘The principal precaution taken against fire is the fact that the greatest care is taken not to admit anything ins building that can set fire foit Any man may smoke in the grounds, but ‘as soon as he puts foot inside a building be mast stop. Heean smoke ina restaurant. but ho is carefully watched and his smoking is harmless, ‘There isa great deal of iunch eating con- stantly going on in the grounds and in the ‘and the papers left by the people are flammable materisi, but these are all avery flame was the building caught beneath them, thus cutting | off this mode ice ie utterly impossible for such a tl to ‘again, for the reason that there ia “not anther smoke stack in a tower In the whole park. It was demonstrated clearly on Monday that a fire at the world’s fair cannot Itmay burn down one building, but it will not burn | two. 5 wass brisk wind biow- | ing and the flames were of « prodigions mug- nitude. but they were not able to jump over the | space that intervened between the buildings. All | the buildings are isoisted, and they take their j chances individually and ‘independent of each other. Another element in the safety from fire is fonnd in the Ingoons and basins that intersect the park. They and the lake iteelf furnish an A Slight Blase. inexhaustible supply of water for the engines, and that terrible dread which is often present wholly eliminated. ‘There are, it may eafely be presumed, some timid people who will take fright because of the calamity of Monday, but they will make a grave mistake if they stay away from the fair on that account. cold storage warehouse was the one weak point in the park and the fire seized upon it. Fe the rest of the buildings were safe before they are doubly #0 now, as the minutest care will now be observed. From an wsthetic point of view the cold storage building was one that could be as well asany other. It stood over in a corner of the grounds near the fence. Few people ever visited it, and it is probable that not one-third of the visitors now at the fair notice where ite ruins are un- leas they especially seek information. ——— THE CULUMBIAN GUARD, He is on His Dignity and Won't Talk to Common People. From the Chicazo Mail. In the ordnance department of the govern- ment exhibit Uncle Sam has fitted up several scores of models designed to illustrate the various uniforms of his sailorand military boys. They look very natural snd lifelike. ‘Two visitors were going through the section yesterday. They had just come from the Smithsonian exbibit and wanted to go to the fisheries section. Not exactly knowing where to go, they looked about for somebody to give fires of an insufficient supply of water is| THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. UNCLE SAM'S DOLLS. |Queer Manikins Turned Out at the National Museum, | MASKS IN PLASTER OP LIVING PEOPLE | Life-Like Human Effigies of Ex- celsior and Burlap. DOLLS OF ALL COUNTRIES. HE HEAD OF JOSEPH Francis, weird and ghostly, looked down from a shelf in an out- of-the-way corner of the National Museum yesterday. It was a maskin plaster, taken from the aged inventor of lifeboats a few weeks before he died. Close by was a similar counterfeit present ment of the living Gen. Greely of arctio fame. It isa sort of likeness rather painfully striking, inasmuch as it re- sembles in all essential respects a death mask. Asia the case with = death mask, the eyes aro closed and expression is lacking. However, it ina perfect reproduction of the features, a8 for « slight distortion caused by the plaste which pulls down the eyelids and the muscles of the cheeks. The matk is, in fact, a cast of the entire head, except that what might be called the “bottom” of it is left off to permit it to be taken off whole. ‘The usual method in taking a life mask is to insert straws in the nostrils, while the plaster in spread in a soft state over the head. But ‘Theodore A. Mills, the sculptor, who made these likenesses, prefers to leave off the lower part of the nose, thus enabling the person to breathe more comfortably. The whole operation re- quires only about fifteen minutes, It is easy to add the bottom of the nose afterward. made of all great men while they are living. Thus their features might be accurately preserved for all time. Abraham Lincoln's death mask bas beens great help to artists who have essayed to duce statues and busts of the martyr President. much altered, in contour of feature as well as expression. sculptor uses the mask only ass model, with a photograph to help. He opens the eyes, relieves the ‘drawn’ effect enased by the plaster, and the result is life-like tee! ‘Mme, Tussaud made a business of taking them the desired information. Suddenly one of them noticed one of these models half lean- ing over one of the exhibits. “Yonder stands a guard.” he remarked to friend; his ‘Beg pardon, man, touching the figure on the should [at portion of the building is the fisheries ex- bit?” A World's Fair Engine House. &-thered up soon after they are thrown down End carried away. In every building there is a large force of janitors, and their sole duty is to constantly sweep ont the aisles and sections, and to lay the dust they always sprinkle the floor before they use the broom. ‘No stoves are now used in any building, ex- cept the cooking stoves where there is s res- taurant. In this latter case every precaution is taken. and thus far there has been no cause for apprehension on this score. Two months ago, ‘when ths weather was cold. stoves were used in the various offices, but before a stove was put in it was necessary to obtain a» special permit, and this was not granted unless there was reason to believe that the stove would be carefully used. It may also be added that daring the construction period, when there was o great deal of building material in the grounds, no- body was allowed to smoke at all except in his Bricate offce. Tt will be seen on reflection many buildings are safe simply because there is nothing inside of them that could set them on fire. There is not a spark of fire kin- dled under the roof of the government building from one week's end to another, nor is there any in the fisheries building, or the agricultural building, or a number of others. Allof the state buildings are absolutely safe in this way. Regular Fire Engines. But it does not require fire ina buflding to burn it down, since it may be brought in by a eareless or malicious person, and every possible has been mace at the world’s fair for putting it out. All over the groands there are fegular fire engines, such as one sees in every big city. The is composed of the best and a A World’s Fair Chemical Engin this, hand grenades. portable fire extinguishers and fire buckets may be found everywhere. It bas happened on several occasions that the of a mateh or crossing of two electric wires has caused a small fire to start, and each time there was found to be no difficulty in ¢: Hoguishing the dame without calling out the ire t. Another thing must be noted. The buildings sre not as inflammable as such temporary structures usually are. It is not pretended that they are not inflammable, for they ere, but it would not be an easy thing to set them'on fire from the outside, for the reason that nearly all of them are covered on the outside with staff, and staff is fireproof. When the cold storage warehouse was on fire the other day it was no- ficed that tne outside walls stood almost as if they were built of brick, not failing in until their supports had all been burned away. Sueb a building as that of fine arts is abso- lately fireproof, but then it is the most elab- rately constructed of all the buildings, and will undoubtedly be axed after the fair is over asa permanent gallery of art, No Loss of Life to Visitors. But even if there should be another fire there {s small probability of its resulting in loss of Mfe to visitora. The main exhibits are all on the ground floor, and no building is more than two stories high. Where there are balconies with exhibite in them there are large staircases, and if an alarm were given a crowded building would be emptied in less than a minute. It would be almost impossible to cut off the are- nues of escape, because they are so numerous. It is true thata fire in the manufacturers: or transportation building might tind some people deen | it Of course there was no response. “He did not hear you,” remarked the friend. question was repeated. No answer. “Confound that fellow's ili-bred impudence,” said the first gentleman, as th> two turned to move away; “did you ever see the like?” A bystander who had watched the perform- stepped up. “Were you trying to obtain information from that thing?” he asked. “It ia useless,” he went on. “The Columbian Guard is 8 very much aggrieved in ual nowadays, y have been jeered at so much of lato for their display of ignorance that at = mass meeting last night they resolved to radically alter their tactics. Consequently they seldom speak when addressed now. | It's easier not to put one’s foot in it this way. See? But let me give yous sieoee view of Geis Silew. Ten'll mest. him in on grounds,” three walked up tke modet tl “Why, that’s» dummy!” exclaimed the first gentleman. “They ail are,” said the stranger, with a sweep of hand which might have meant the ordnance section of the department or the entire fair. ‘And they all laughed. Deseret a “Midway Pisisance,” How Pronounced, ‘Frow the Chicago Record. Since the opening of the fair ithas beens matter to observe with regret that the name of that strange thoroughfare wherein many ne- tiond are represented has been regularly and audaciously mispronounced by « large propor- tion of the general public. Tt has been charged that in selecting the title, “Midway Plaisance,” the park commis- sioners made an unwarranted incursion upon 8 foreign tongue, but when one considers the in- adequacy of the word “street,"the effeminacy of “gvenué” and the total impossibility of “‘boule- vard,” itis not hard to see what led them to the choice. The really woful consequence of their selection is to be fouud in, the weirdly varied pronunciations which some rive “Plezzunts” is common, so is ‘“playzance.” “Playzhants,” with the accont on the ultimate, isa favorite. etal of his accuracy and élision of the word, a sweepii with the of escaping observation, and says, “Midway Plez’ns.” ographers speake: whether he shall consider the word as English— ident hope The more popular lexic: help, and it remains with offer little t to choose it is an obsolete form of the archaic English jleasannce”—or as modern French. of the older English and the pres- If it is old = ent Gallic form is identical. Tish it is “playzongs” (as nearly as it may be indicated in English letters), with no accent at sll or but very little accent on the first syllable. Jadging from the general usage here, it would seem that the latter pronunciation is the one desired to rule. ssl cineca ing Dress of 1830. Bat! From La Mode. The styles of bathing suits are much varied this season, and, as a matter of course, they fol- low the tendeney of our present fashions. The 1890 bathing costume of our cut illustrates one ‘masks from Coe orgy ns of mark at the guillotine im tely after their heads were cut off. Thus she obtained many likenesses of t value for her museum. No sooner had iarat been assassinated in his bath tub by Charlotte Corday than she burried to the scene of the tragedy and secured « cast of his fea- tures in plaster on the spot. She was woman of gentle birth, but became impoverished and took this means of building a fortune which reached inv the millions. Sculptor Mills, who does work for the Na- tional Museum, sometimes makes iay figures for that institution by taking casts of different parts of the body of a living man or woman— the arms, legs, hands, feet, &c.—and putting them together, thus reproducing the entire in- dividual. This be did with some of the mani- kins for the world’s fair in Chicago, which were to represent naked savages in the ethnological exhidit. One of them wore nothing but a breechclout and a necklace of beads. In this way & very life-like effect was obtained. The joints where the parts met wero filled in with putty and painted over with the color of the in- ividual’s complexion. The only portion of the which cannot be copied by casting is the abdomen, the movements of which in breathing would break the a _— It is a disadvantage to bea near relative of a sculptor, because he usually insists on utilizing the anatomy of bia family for the purposes of his art. How They Are Made. Most of the big dolls shown at the museum, to filustrate the races of mankind, are clothed, #0 that only the head and hands need have the pearance of flesh. In making one of them regety operation is to produce what is called a “sketch” in clay—that is to say, a nude fj ii miniature, roughly done, in th for the manikin, which is to be size, Using this as n guide, pieces of well-sea- soned inch plank are sawed out for the trunk and I legs are made all in one piece or jointed, according as the figure is to. stand, ait, nel of lie down. To the body section » cross is fastened for the shoulders and. another for the hips, The four limbs are attached by bolts or hinges, and the shape of the trunk is formed by ribs of thick galvanized wire. Thus is produced the skeleton. jow burlxp is stretched over the ribs and on the outside of this layers of excelsior are put on by sewing and wrapping with twine. Over all is sewn an outer skin of burlap. The legs are stuffed and wrapped in the same way, the feet included. It remains to put on the head and hands. The former is usually modeled by the sculptor from a photograph of an individual of race to be represented. The latter are \laster caste of real hands. If the arms are to bare they are made of plaster, or panier mache, otherwise they are of wood, padded as above described. The head, neck, hands and any other exposed parts are painted suitably to the complexion required. Then the head is sent toa wigmaker of F street, who constructs for it the proper kind of chevelure. Such a manilan will stand travel and handling well, the plaster portions being packed separately. Once made, to dress it is easy enough. With a pho- See ofaman or woman of any nation or tribe and a complete costume, there is no diffi- culty in turning out e doll in accurate likeness of the origi ‘The taking of casts of the sort referred to uires no little skill. Suppose, for example, that a hand is to be reproduced. | The first thing necessary is to carefully oil the skin all over, in order to lay down the sill hairs on the surface. If this were not done the hairs would catch in the plaster and_the removal of the latter would be painful. Next, the plaster is spread over the band. When partly dry it iscut so that it may be removed. As soon as 1t has become hard itis taken off. Of course there must bea good many pieces, and these are apt to be broken, more or less, in the process. But the pieces have to be glued together, each one being oiled on the inside, the result being a perfect mold of the hand. Into this mold a mixture elevator, but the | of these build-| ded by anztl that In the fire of Mon-! are | revers of the wai of these adaptations, The very full umbrella skirt is of light gray serge. The directoire eof white serge and em- broidered with black anchors. The draped corselet is aio of white serge, trimmed with binck buttons. The pantalettes are of a gray serge, finished at the bottom with circular raf- fles. A jersey of pale pink and gray produces in connection a prettr effect. The 1880 poke bonnet is of whi cords. -: Dirt Mean. From World's Fair Puck. Mann—‘‘Aren’t these fountains wonderful?” Hattan—“Yeo; it is remarkable what can be done with Chicago water.” of plaster and water is poured. At the end of afew minutes it has hardened, and the mold is gently broken. The coating ‘of oil bas pre- vented the plaster poured in from sticking to it, and within is found an exact likeness of the hand. Obviously, the mold is destroyed in the operation. A foot or any other part of the body is done inthe same way. A well-known citizen of Philadelphia some years ago was no prona of his wife's ehape that he had a cast of er leg on exhibition in his drawing room. In making such casts various compositions are sometimes used in preference to plaster of Paris, Some, of tecent invention, hare the “feel” of flesh. They have been utilized re- cently by the National Museum in manufactur- ing counterfeit snakes, which are as flexible as real live ones, thus adding to the realism of the effect. The same thing is done with fishes, but nearly all of the models of finny creatures on exhibition are cast in the money pulp from the treasary, which 1s macerated paper c Freshly caught fishes are employed for produe- ing the molds, and the caste are painted in the highest style of art. This method is much more satisfactory tl tnffing fish skins, For mounting smail mammals the «kin isgsometimes wed, anda cast of the flayed body is plaster. Over this the skin is then put, the proportions of the animal being thus exactly retained. Eskimo Dolls. The museum has a great collection of dolls of all nations, Most interesting of them, perhaps, are those of the Eskimo. Some of them are made out of ivory and others of wood. One curious apecimen is from Point Barrow, which is the most northerly point of Alaska. Its body | ie cut out of @ piece of driftwood plank and | the dress is of sealgut. Another is a trick doll, which is made by # string attachment to twist its head from side to side. These manixi | ford an instructive study, because th | trate to perfection the costumes of the people. | ‘The garments are those of real folks in minia- te oilskin, shirred with tiny | ture. £ven the mother is represented carrying her baby in a hood on her back. ‘The dolls’ shoes are of walrus hide, and all of them are clad with the utmost regard for keeping out the cold of the arctic region in which the Eskimo dwell. They do not like to be called Eskimo, by the way, because that name, which signifies “raw meat’ eaters,” is considered a term of re- But in the last illness the face is apt to be | bo; proach. They call themselves “Innuit,” mine dalle ot ha 16 dolls of savagery have a purpose very different from those of civilization. ‘They are not merely playthings, but are the means by which mothers teach their children domestic arte. The little girl has many important du- ties to perform when she shall becomes woman. She must learn to be a butcher. tanner, a fur- niet, a clothier. a hatmaker, a shoemaker, a tentmaker,a netmaker and a maker for dogs. All of these things the Eskimo wife must Know how todo. In that arctic latitude the night is six months long, and during that long period of darkness the people spend mich of their time in dolts While the fleree storms how! without, stone lam) igs in the underground hut, ‘The father of the family whittles and carves out implements of the chase. Perchance he has a piece of walrus tooth that is too small for a harpoon head. So he turns it into a doll, which he hands over to the mother to be di The Eskimo are very fond of children and spend a good deal of time in providing amuse- ments for them. With her little girl at her knee the mother takes bits of far of the fox, the marten and the seal, cutting them out with @ keon-edged flint and cewing them to- fetter with a bone needle nnd thread of ‘tinew. t is. a domestic school of household industry. Mamma uses her front teeth for cutting threads apd for many other purposes which scissors would be appropriate for, and so by the time she is middle-aged the incisors are worn down nearly to the gums. By and by the child will beable to help in making garments for her parents. Having learned all about dressing | and undressing dolls she will know how to per form like services for her own offspring w she herself becomes « mother. No delicacy ie felt about instructing her in the duties which sho must expect some day to fulfill. ‘The Es- kimo withhold no knowledge from their ebil- dren on such grounds, During the long winter night, in the inter- vals of doll and implement manufacture, the head of the houséhold busies himself in turn- ing out works of art. for the most part of ivory. From,the teeth of the walrus he carves all of the dhimals with which he is familiar—tho whale, the bear, the sea lion, the reindeer, t otter, the seal and the walrus itself. Birds and fishes are not neglected by his facile knife. Whole hunting scenes he represents in the same material with many pieces, Men in those frail in barks called “kyaks" are shown in pursuit of whales or seals, or reindeer may be the ob- t of the chase. Some of these articles are intended for ornaments and fetiches, the latter to be used as charms, but most of them are de- — for barter with whaling and other ves- The Haida Indiarfs of Alaska are famous for the excellence of their art works. They make beautiful dolls, and their children amuse them- selves by sending them out to sea in tiny dug- outcances, The dolls of the Zuni of Arizona are utilized for the purpose of teaching the children religion. They are dressed to repre- sent priests and priestesses. Incidentally to paving, with them the children acquire a owledge of the ceremonials of the tribe. Rainmaking is at first a gamo with the small ¥, why May grow up some tobea i cian and rainmaker, ¢ sx ary pene ENGLISH JUSTICE TO OUR GIRLS, jf Edwin Arnold Te! Ideas of American From the London Daily Telegraph. In England men of letters and humorous ar- tists are accustomed to treat the American girl from too widely differing, but in either case unjust, points of view. “Mr. Punch’s” artists confess graphically that the American girl is often sumptuously beautiful, but they rarely present her to public admiration without put- ting in her mouth utterances which are either grotesquely ‘‘outres” or downright vulgar. If she is asked to partake of refreshments declines on the score that she is “pretty well crowded already,” and if the Chicago exhibi- tion is alluded to in her presence she inci- dentally remarks that the world’s fair is “too big a chunk to be chewed” without difficulty. As for the English novelist, the American girls they depict are in most instances handsome and more or less unscrupulous young persons, who complete their education by the intense study of Burke and Debrett, and who embark on board the ocean steamship which is to bring them to Europe with a firm resolution to marry very high up indeed in the English peerage. We shall never have a thoroughly artistic se- Ties of atudies of the American gitl from En- glish pens and pencils until our countrymen Tecognize the fact that American girls differ physicall, characteristically among them- telves quite as widely, if not even more widely, than English girls do. In the Union multitudes of girls may be met with who are almost Ger- mans or almost Irish in blood. Half Swedish, half Spanish South Americans, half Italian types of femininity are also continually mot. with, and, indeed, there are ekillfal students of American character who declare that the genu- ine American gitl is only to be met with in New England—that is to say, in the states of Maine, New Lote pe Vermont, Massacha- setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. In those states the original English blood has, with soarcely any ono strain in it,descended from the time of the immigration of the pilgrim fathers to our own days. They are the true “Yankees,” and yet unobservant urriters are ready to typify the New York, or the Philadel- phian, or the Baltimore, or the Virginian young Iady as a “Yankee” girl. New York city is, perhaps, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, and the French, the German and the Irish ty, have been freely mingled with the Anglo-Saxon ones; while some account must be taken of the Knickerbocker ‘aristocracy—that is to say, of the descendants of the old Dutch settlers. ‘The expert in character will at once be abl distinguish between a young Indy from Man- battan and one who hails from Pennsylvania or Maryland; while journeying further west another type of American girlhood makes her- self manifest in Ohio and Michigan, and so soon as the Rocky mountains are crossed and the descent of the Pacific slope is begun yet another wholly independent type of the femi- nine American makes its appeatance. Nor, finally, would the study of the American daughter of Eve be complete by even the minutest observation of the girls of the eastern, the middle and the western states. There re- mains the southern girl to be dealt with; and when we approach that charming type of feminine humanity it will be found that the girls of Kentucky, those of the Carolinas, and the belles of Louisiana, Alabama and Geo differ among thempelves quite as widely as does @ Parisienne from a Provencale. ‘On the whole. if the American girl is to be thoronghly studied, the European student should live long in the states or make many re- curring visits thereto. The existing and most current types of the American female are either st np ly conventional or wildly exagger- ated, and in most cases are altogether mis- understood. Englishmen Their Are Absurd. tee —— DR. FLOWER OF BOSTON. ‘The Famous Physician to Visit Washington and Richmond, Dr. R. C, Flower, the famous Boston special- ist, whose treatment and miraculous cures have excited the country as nothing elee in the med- ical line has ever before done, is to visit this section professionally in a few days, and will be at the Riggs House, Washington. Monday, July $1, and at the Exchange and Ballard, Richmond, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 2, , Sand 4. Dr. Flower has attained such eminence in his profession in the treatment of chronic diseases that he is regarded as the highest authority in his specialties. While Dr. Flower treats all chronic diseases and porsestes every facility that money and ex- perience cun give bim in the treatment of such diseases, his specialties are cancer, consump- tion, tumors, paralysi-, nerve end heart troubles, In the treatment of these he has no superior in the world. It was of him that Prof. Argyle sid: 5 Dr. Flower possesses the faculty of pleasing and inspiring his patients in a wonderful man- ner. Ihave seen scores of people consult him, who at death's door with some terrible disease were in despair awaiting the end, come from bis presence full of hope and joy and in every way feeling better. and who permanently im- | proved after that hour. What he does to these | dying sufferera cannot tell you. He charms | them and cures them in a miraculous way.” * Sa Bat That is Irish, Too, From World's Fair Puck. RC a ‘Terry—‘‘Sure, Blarney stone!” Flynn—“Did yez kish it?” Terry—‘I did not. Sure, they haven't the genuine article, It's only a shamrock that they : do be havin’.” , it’s disappointed I am in the} So ee eee “OFFICIAL BARBERS. They Wield Razor and Scissors at the Capitol. AN ABODE OF ORIENTAL LUXURY Is the Shop for the Use of the Senators. SOME CHANGES IN STYLES. HE BARBER SHOPS in the wings of the Cap- itol are kept running all summer. They are al- ‘ways open, whether Con- gress is sitting or not, Decause, there are sure to be some legislators 3) for the nation in Wash- 3, ington even during the dog days, and employes of the House require shaving between s¢e- sions. The Senate ton~ torial parlor is more exclusive, and birelings of that august body are not admitted to its pre- cincts, For them a special chair and a colored servitor are provided in the basement. ‘Three colored barbers manipulato razor and scissors in the Senate shop, along the sides of which are four bath rooms. In one of these is & box just big enough for the fattest possible Senator to get into. It is closed upon him so that only his head appears, poked out through the top. Steam, generated by aloohol lamps be- neath, is turned on and fills the wooden cham- ber. Itis Inxury a la Russo, ‘The Senator, if he chooses, takes hold of « steel bar inside of the box, bis feet resting Upon a metal pan below. A ‘current of elec tricity is then turned on, reviving the system exhaused by legislative toil, ‘There are two batteries, one stronger than the other. If de- sired their strength can be combined, but no member of the upper House has thus ‘far been diaposed to try such s powerful dove. | Rhes- matic Senators utilize this electricity for the ie Waits usdoegotog sae ouiemiay prose te ile un ing the steaming ° Senator can cleanse himself by means of a little hose and sprinkler, regulating the temperature of the water ashe liken. On emerging from the box he 1s subjected to massage treatment by an expert operator, after which he goes to sleep on a wicker sofa. All the modern bath- ing appliances are here at band, including in- nious shower baths, which spray the person om head to foot by a multitude of jets, mar- ble tubs lined with porcelain, and a room with dry heat, which can be run up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. All these luxuries Senators get free of charge. They pay nothing for bath, shave or hair cut, unless, perhaps, by way of gratuity. The bar- bers are employed by the government as “killed laborers” at @900 a year each. iy supply their own brushes, combs and razors. ‘The “tonic,” hair oil, bay rum, &c., which they ase are drawn from the general supply root. Of course, the services of three tont artints are not required Guring recesses of Congress, but at such periods their vacant time is devoted to whatever work may be assigned to them about the Senate wing. ‘The barber shops attached to the House of | the face. Representatives are comparatively shabby. They would not be a credit to a fourth-rate vill There is one on the republican and another on the democratic side. They are just alike, but therc three chairs in the democratic shop and ouly two in the republican shop. The case was exactly the reverse when Mr. Reed occupied the Speaker's chair and there was a republican majority. Every mem- ber and employe pays for his shave or hair cut at the usual rates. The barbers are hired as common laborers at $50 a month. The Genesis of the Barber Shops. Twenty-five years ago a laborer employed by the House asked leave to put in a tonsorial chair. Consent was granted, and from that beginning the shops have grown. Between weasions barbers, who are all colored, clean committee rooms, &c, One of them is a skilled chiropodist and attends to the feet of Repre- sentatives who are afflicted with corns and bunions. id hot chambers. The attendants are expert at massage. The testimony of the barbers is to the effect that about forty members of the House during the last Congress used oil on their hair. Among 330 odd Representatives, Lynch of Wisconsin bas the most hair. In that respect he has a rival in Smith of Ilinois, whose dark locks, with not a gray hair in them, bang to his shoul- ders, Ex-Speaker Reed has the baldest head. Genial Gen. Wheeler, though a small man from Alabama, has the Ss beard, mixed with gray. Tarsney of Missouri eee the Inrgest mustache and Hopkins of Diinois has the reddest hair. In the Senate Peffer of Kansas has by far the most luxuriant beard. He wears no necktie be- cause he has such whiskers, Blackburn of Ken- tucky has the biggest mustache. Once upon time it was dark brown, but nowitisgray. Brice, the Ohio man whose family have taken the lend of fashion in Washington, has the greatest quantity of bair, dark red in color. Baidest of all the Senators is Gallinger of New Hamp- shire. eaded Congressmen, strange to say, are always anxious not to shine at the polis, They want what the laundries term ‘domestic finish” on their exposed scalps, ‘The Congressmen who use oil on their hair nearly all come from the far interior states. In this part of the country such unguents are no longer employed except in barber shops of a very low class. One of the tonsorial experts at the Capitol, who bas been employed there for twenty-five years, was spenking yesterday of the remarkable changes which during that period have taken place in methods of hair dressing. Not more than a couple of decades ago Representatives and Senators commonly dyed their hair,and more particularly their mustaches. One instance was remembered of a Congressman who had his beard stained as black as a shoe brush just before his third marriage, thas rendering himself unrecogniz- able by the doorkeepers. At present the dye brush and bottle are almost never called for. ‘This barber stated that not more than one Representative in five years wanted his hair died nowadays. Once in a while a mustache is treated with the old-fashioned stain, which isa preparation of nitrate of silver, applied with a brush. Gray hair and whiskers are no longer considered objectionable. as they once were, Persons who eolor their locksartificially do it most commonly by means of so-called hair renewers. They do not give the color in- atantaneously, like the dye, but darl the hair, The procs destroy the hair ragher than to ret growth. Hair dyeing does not pay. The case will be recalled of the gentleman -vho said: “For was thinking of # plan to dye my whiskers green. And always wear so large a fan that they could not be seen.” “Twenty-five years ago,” enid the barber, “Congressmen mostly wanted their hairanointed with oil until it wae stuck down tight and slick. ‘Then it was parted and further plastered with cosmetic grease in sticks, after.which it was picked out with the comb to make it curly all o The conmetic was made of beef marrow and wax and the oil used was castor oil, thinned with alcohol and flavored with perfumes. The hair was wor y long and the proper thing J smelly as possible. ‘Those were the days when people's heads left unplensant-looking stains on the walls wherever they leaned against them. Nowadays the cus- tomer usually «ays: ‘Don't put any stuff on my hair that emeils Most Congressmen will not have anything but a little water. A few do not object toa small quantity of ‘tonic,’ which ix glycerine mixed with alcohol. Cosmetic is only used once in awhile for a mustache.” Not more than twenty years ago pomade was purchased for the barber shopsat the Capitol in ten-pound cans, It was manufactured in Philadelphia out of beef marrow and lard, with castor oil to soften it. The mixture was sub- fected to mild heat for several hours, a little wax being put in as it simmered. Afterward it was beaten up slowly, and, when nearly cold, perfumes were worked into it. In this manner was prepared what used to be known as be rease, the genuine quality of which was © Eibited by « life-like “picture of ‘bruin on the label of each bottle of it that was sold. Representatives in Congress uses pound can of it ina few weeks. Many preferred it to oil, while others took both. the bear's grease pomade bas disappeared from the market, being replaced by vaeeline, of which the entire national legislature uses hardly more than five pounds in a twelvemonth. The Tonsortal Ey ition. This process of tonsorial evolution has done ‘& grent deal to alter the appearance of Con- &resemen, so that a composite photograph of trast strikingly with a similar typical preseni- ment of the same legislative body twenty years ago. The men who now have mops of hair would then have been all slick, with their locks lastered clove to their heads.’ Vice President heeler was one of the last to follow the old fasbion of wearing the hair oiled and long. The barber: here quoted bas probably bestowed a! tention upon the heads of more distingni men than any other livingartist in his line. Ac- cording to his account Secretary of the Treas- Carlisle likes # little bay rum on his hair, else, The late Samuel J, Rendall, who was clean shaved like Mr. Carlisle, was of the same mind in thie Bo also ‘in Gov. ‘McKinley, whose likeness to Napoleon is the closer because he wears no hait on his face, Uncle Jerry Rusk wears bis hair long and rolled under after the oid style, but be uses no oil on it. ‘The curl is given by dampening the hair and working it sround with a brush in a manner which barbers understand. Mr. Fos- ter, recently Secretary of State, has long aud nearly white sidewhiskers. He has his hair cut with the utmost regularity every two weeks, with a squirt of cologne through an atomizer for a finishing touch. £x-Secretary Noble wears his curling gray hair in a mop and always has it cut “‘plain,” with no grease or perfume added. Vice President Stevenson has but little bair and is particular to have that little very neatly trimmed. Justa little water is all he cares to have put on it. Gen. W. T. 2 could never get his beard cut short enough to suit him before the clipping machine was in- vented. He wore his hair short also, This barber at the Capitol declares that Con- gressmen are more particular about the cut of their hair nowadays then formerly. It takes twice the time it used to require to cut the locks and whiskers of the average Representa- tive or Senator. However, the minutes saved on oiling, perfuming, &c., make iteven. There are ever 80 many more styles of dressing men’s hair than their used tobe. Probably the most difficult of them all is the “pompadour.” fashion has grown very much in popularity aince Mr. James Corbett vanq ir. John L, Sullivan by superior prowess with his “maw- ley.” To execute the “pompadour” ly requires fn hour's work. "In some barber shope 1 is charged for it. The expert quoted assert that men did not shave 60 close in old times as they do at present, but that razors were better then than now, because the blades all came from England, where the finest knives of all sorts are manufactured. He confessed that two or three Congressmen have their noses shaved regularly, but professional discretion forbade him to give away their names. In the last century, during the early hours of f the national nota few members of rowed Tenlatare had their hair done up in Others wore their locks very long and ately curled. Some powdered ir tresses 60 profusely as to conceal their natural shade. 50 short atime as fifty years no gentleman was unsbaven. To wear any on the face then would have been considered barbsrous. ‘The custom of shaving is supposed to have first arisen from the fact “that fa battle the beard afforded too good a hold for an enemy. Among the Romans the habit was originated by Scipio Africanus. Beards were not worn under the empire until the time of Hadriau, who grew one for the purpose of hiding scars. Greoks shaved themselves up to the time of Justinian, in whose reign beards became fash- ionable, remaining so until Constantinople was taken by the Turke The ancient Germans shaved their beards, but wore mustaches. Their young men were not permitted to shave or eut ‘their hair until they had slain a foe in battle. ‘The ancient Goths, Franks and Gauls, as well as the Britons, also wore mustaches only. The Saxons grew iong beards, but after the Norman conquest shaving became fashionable in Eng- land. The Normans regarded it as a sign of misery and distress to permit hair to grow on Rexe Bacuz. —_—--—— ONE OF LINCOLN’S STORIES. His Speech to the Jary in Answer to an Oratorical Lawyer. The Kansas City Times prints the following story of Abraham Lincoln, told by Senator Voorhees in an interview: “Speaking of his numberless stories, I recall one he once told during the argument ia s law suit. The lawyer on the other side was a good deal of a glib talker, but not reckoned as deeply profound or much of a thinker. He was rather reckless and irresponsible in bis epeechmaking also, and would say anything to = jury which happened toenter his head. Lincolu,in his address to the jury, referring to all these, said: “My friend on the other side is all right, or wouid be all right were it not for the physico- mental peculiarity I am about to chronicie. His habit—ot which you have witnessed a very painful specimen in his argument to you in this case—of reckless assertion and statemente with- out grounds, need not be imputed to him ase moral fault or as telling of a moral blemish. He can't help it. For reasons which, gentle- men of the jury, you and I have not time to study here, as deplorable as they aro surpris- ing. the oratory of the gentleman completely suspends all action of his mind. The moment he begins to talk his mental operations cease. Inever knew of but one thing which compared with my friend in this particular. That was a small steamboat. Back in the days when I performed my part asa keel boatman I made the acquaintance of a trifling little steam- boat which used to bustle and puff and wheeze about in the Sangamon river. It had a five- foot boiler and a seven-foot whistle, and every time it whistied it stopped.’ ——_-+e-___ As Good as a Seashore Cottage. From the Boston Transcript. “Are you going to the seashore this sum- mer?” Jones asked of Brown. not e: y," said Brown, “but we're going to accom- phsh the sate result without going from home atall” “What do you mean?” “Why, it’s this way: You see, when a persun of my means takes a cottage at the seashore he, of course, gets poor sortof shanty, because we can't afford a large, finely finished and well-fur- nished house. You know the sort of the usual summer cottage is, Well, we've de- cided to accomplish the result in another way. e're going to move up into the attic for the summer.” “Move up into the at certainly. It is unfinished, just li cottage. The sun beats down on uJ and raises thé temperature above degrees every suniy summer day ny means room enough in it for our large tna, and that’s like a seashore cottage, too, it rains the water doesn't beat through our roof, to be sure, as it does through the roofs of seashore cottages, but we can remedy that by poking afew holes through the shingles here and there and getting the roof mended in the fall. It will smell a little stuffy, but that is eminently like a seashore cottage. We shall keep a clothes basket full of unwashed clam shehe standing in the corner to produce a real- istic effect. On the whole we shall be ever np much more comfortable in our own accustomed garret than we should be at the seaside, and we shall have this inestimable advantage, that when we get sick of it we can simply move right down into our own comfortable home, wheres if we were at the shore and paying a high price for a cottage we should feel bound to stick it out to the bitter end. Oh, I teil you it's a great scheme!"* ———-e-—___ His First Thought, From Sketche: d Tales of Shetland Fowling is now very little practiced in the Shetiond Islands, although many eggs are se- cured annually. Many thrilling stories of fowling adventure are toid by the Shetianders. A man who had undertaken to climb a ccrtain steep cliff was neither very experienced nor very brave, although be boasted of being both. He pushed upward, however, briskly, without looking behind, until he bad got up about 150 feet, when he stopped to breathe. The panse was fatal to his self-possession, and he called ont in tones of terror: “Men, men, Iam going—I am going.” But he still held on for a little, and it was not till he had shrieked many times “I am going” that he did fall headlong. His comrades, having thus been warned, moved the boat out of the . teilow came sheer down into’ the deep water. Mighty was the plunge, but at length he rose to the surface, when, of course, he was instantly caught hold of and dragged into the bout. After many gasps and much spluttering of sea water from his mouth, his only remark war, “Ea, men, this is a sad story—I have lost my snvfibox.” - eee ‘The Number Thirteen. From the Gazette Piedmoutese. The conversation turned on the number thirteen, the spilling of salt, knives and forks placed crosswise and other kinds of supersti- tions, a need not laugh at similar beliefs,” | gravely remarked Tranquilletti. “An uncle of | ven committed the | mine at the age of seventy. | impradence of going to s dinner xt which th No, but exactly thirteen years afterward.” the members of the present House would con- | | TWENTY MILLIONS OF HORSES. | Russia’s Equine Poseessions Far in Ad- | vance of Orher Lands. ‘The most populous horse country in the | world is Russia in Europe, says the Youth's | Companion. 1 has 20,000,000 of horses. ‘The | United States come next with a horse populs- tion of more than 16,000,000. In proportion to | the number of inhabitants the United States are | far richer in horses than Russia, But in that | proportion the United States are in turn far ed | Surpassed by the Argentine Republic, where, according to the latest accessible figures, there | area few more horses than people. The coun- tries of western and southern Europe are thinly populated with horses compared with the American continent and Russia. Italy, with a human population of more than $0,000,000, bas ‘only 720,000 horses, but it has almost twice as many mulesand donkeys as horses. Spain bas only few more tee, 300,000 betes or about one horse to e ixty people. Most “‘envaliers” of Bpaln tide on senha The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has only about 2,000,000 horses. The United States are the most populous mule coun- tryin the world. They are also, by many millions, the most populous pig country, pos- sessing over com eed ot + here ateo ion to the bu: - iat te ney cab eset neuron than in Ireland, a country which is popularly the pir sees levee tea tnencs — The conn sheep, par excel- Senos ie Australia “On that contioval. there ‘more 000, vat there are 62,000,000 we ye twenty sheep to every man, woman and child. ‘In the we have only about 47,000,000 Umted States | SSE MEN WHO HAD LUCK. Stories Circolated tna Group of Devotees of Chance tn (he Novthwest. From the Twkorny Daily News, “Well, that was luck.” The speaker wae one ofagroup of belts dozen inen who were standing on Pacific avenue Pafing awey at Havanae and talking just to pass time sway and to clear their throats for lubricants of afiery order. The conversation had been about the livery stablemau, Martin, of this city who had falien heir to $860,000 three years ago and didn't find it out untile few dave ago. **Talk about luck,” said one of the group, who was a gambler, “we see plenty of it. Do you know thet one day last week « man entered one Sot matte bouses with a nickel and won on} in three hours? pape TY . drank the wight before ny found el in an out-of-the- = went to the gambii of placing bio boost place cote He got mto the room when roulette ball was whi ‘tour ame izzing around on ite tour of ied “All down. the ball started on its ‘rear end’ bouncing, en «bouted “Five!” 5 more. He continued to play’ with wn: i three hours, he had won a0. * fey oo oe He borrowed a nickel ; Hite , E ¢ : dl ; i if iit seh Hie i i ji LF tt Fu H ret ad He i te & § I H i EE i i H i 5 H i if g E 2 £ F ! i i 8 fe i i i Et H i Fi ‘time i 3 e a rg iit e i i i I i E hs i | i re i iH ge i i tt ult il € 8 g 4 i FEE. E £ 44 TI ee i i } Hi i 2 f ; ri j i i i i 7 2 Fi i I t I 5 H Hy i i i Be i BE Hi i : E iH it t ul i Ee HH 7 Hi alt ei f ifGa £ te i t yl H if E i : f if rn They knew he couldn't borrow on side, #0 they agreed to that. “Here, Tom,” he said to « was watching the game, “skip out on the and arrest somebody ‘quick and oe Tom skipped in about « minste, abont ten minutes he was back again Fit i , if room. “Gentlemen,” said the mayor to pany, “I have 's few minutes left, bu not ask your further indulgence. Give me | worth of chips,” and the mayor, with A enterprise, ewiped the pot. How to Clean the From (be Boston Gazette. ‘Theatrical people know that oil cleans the skin better than water. Generally, other peo- ple do not. If actresses undertook to get their wakeup off with water ther would need soft soap and «scrub brurh to do it, end the skin would inevitably come with it, They used onse cocoa butter; now ther use cocoa oil, which is ‘a better preparation of the same thing. Drag stores keep it, Some keep it fresh and some keep it rancid. Take care not to patronize the second class, and in cocoa oil you will bave the most delicbtful of all emolients for the ot! bath. If you want to #°¢ how cffective it is come im from a railway journey ona hot day, when the windows have been up and you bave bad es much benefit of the emoke and soot as ihe fireman. Take the moxt vigoroms bath you can devise or endure, then *pread some coces oil on your face and wipe it aff. The biackened towel will tell the tale of failure for the bath and triumph for the oil, — No Occasion co Be Shocked, From Quips. Little Dot arama, T was playin’ with-your put it isn'ta ha’ Mamma—“What is Latte Dot —~ From World's “You used to carry a gold have axilver one, Why ix this?” “Dve be the fair.aud suck circumstance: alier cases,”