Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1893, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1893—TWENTY PAGES. 15 THE COMING GAME. Foot Ball Between the Georgetown and C. A. C, Teams. OUTLOOK FOR THANKSGIVING DAY. Interest by the Friends of Both Elevens is Great. CONDITION OF THE MEN. As the day for the great game to decide the foot ball championship draws nearer Interest in the contest increases, until now it furnishes the chief subject for conversa- tion and discussion not only among the ad- herents of the two teams, but among all classes of people who take an interest in this great fall sport. There have been other games already this fall that brought out large crowds of spec- tators, but they were as nothing compared with the Thanksgiving day game between the Columbia Athietic Club and Georgetown College. These teams are old-time rivals and eve: r more people turn out to see this game, which has now come to be an an- nual fixture. Last year there were in the aeighborhood of 5,000 people on the ground to see the game. This year those who are in a position to known what the prospects are would not be at all surprised to see two or three thousand more than that on hand when the two teams line up against each | other. That it will be a great contest is} something of which there is no doubt. Prep- arations are being made on an elaborate scale for the accommodation of the crowd snd Mr. John B. Ryan, the manager of the Georgetown College eleven, and Mr. Sam King, who looks after the interests of the Columbia Athletic Club, have had their hands full for days past. Now they say they are ready and that all that is wanted is a liberal crowd. Their teams will furnish the sport. | if The game next Thursday will be played at the National League base ball park at the head of 7th street. The ball will be put in play prompty at z o'clock. This question of the hour fer the game was not an easy | to dispose of and a large number of © will undoubtedly be disappointed that oid tine was not adhered to. In other years the game has been started at noon | and the a ad time to get home for an with the customary turkey and cranberry sauce. But this in- terfi 1 with the people who wanted to go tw church in the morning and with that large proportion of the community, clerks and othe: have to work half a day, even on h This year, too, the Dis- t National Guard will hold a street- riot drill in the forenoon and a large num- ber of the soldier boys are anxious to see this sport, which fs even more fatal than mimic warfare. For these various reasons it has been decided to postpone the game until afternoon. ‘The general admission to the grounds will be cents. Reserved seats in the grand stand and in the front rows of the bleachers have been put on sale at $1. The portion of the field in which carriages will be allowed to stand is to be staked off and positions here will be reserved. Carriage posi- tions are selling at five dollars, and as each person will know just where his rig is to stand, the chances are that people who come in carriages will not be interfered with in any way. Arrangements are being made by the ad- mirers of the two teams to attend in large bodies and to give their respective teams the support that comes from substantial cheering. All the tally-hos and coaches in the city have been engaged for the day. The Columbia Athletic Club boys are a trifle sore over the fact that all the tally- hos have been secured by the Georgetown team’s admirers. Both teams have been practicing hard of late and would seem to be in the very} pink of condition. Neither one has had a hard game within the past week, and the result is that they will both go into the| game next Thursday with men that are! not at all the worse for wear. It is a ditfi- | cult matter to speak with any degree of; certainty as to the merits of the two teams. Georgetown had the best of it last year. but whether they will be able to repeat the dose next week is something that no one is willing to say. The general opinion, however, seems to be that the chances are slightly in favor of the wearers of the blue and gray. There has been comparatively little betting on the result of the game, and! it is understood that the Columbia boys are lcoking for slight odds. One bet was made Shis week of 3150 at even money. Up to last week the Georgetown boys were rather the more confident, but the! result of their game with the University of Virginia had the effect of taking the wind| out of their sails. That game was undoubt- edly a surprise party, and simply goes to! show the uncertainty that attends foot ball, ard, in fact, all other amateur sports. | Gecrgetown had already defeated Virginia, | and that she should have been done herself | by such a score last week was a surprise, not only to the college boys, but to every one who follows the game in this city. Siheelds, ©. J Considered from the andpoint of “form,” the chances are that C. A. C.| would be the favorite. A good many people | think that Columbia ought to have an easy | thing of it next Thursday on account of | Georgetown's poor showing against Vir- | ginia and Columbia's more than good game against the Y. M. C. A.'s. | go for what they a other hand, it w year just before ‘These facts can re worth, but, on the} 1 be remembered that last | the Thanksgiving day} same Georgetown was beaten badly by the naval cadets, the score being 40 to 0, while the Columbias were beating everything | themselves. Yet, when the two teams| came together on Thanksgiving day, | down. “put up a good scrub against tne regular | gets more out of the team than any other Georgetown had a comparatively easy thing of it and did up Columbia by a score of 12 to 0. lown undoubtedly took deeply to heart the drubbing they got at the hands of the boys from the University of Virginia, and since then have been practicing like demons. They have been putting some extra hard work at secret practice in a secluded field, where even half their fellow-students from the college are not allowed to see what is going on. Wagonhurst, who has been coaching the Georgetown team this fall, is an old-time Princeton foot ball play- er and afterward played with the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. He knows the game for all it is worth, and has taught his team a number of new tricks since their recent defeat. He claims that he may be able to spring something of a surprise on the Co- lumbia boys next Thursday afternoon. Taken individually the Columbia Athletic Club eleven are perhaps better known to the Washington public than the George- tackling and hard work gaining for him much well-deserved applause. In the Vir- ginia game he was one of a ‘ew that did not lose heart, and played his game to the OLD-TIME CLAIMS. They Have Been Before Congress for Many Years, SMALL CHANCE OF BEING PAID. Men Who Never Seem to Give Up Hope. town team, as they have been playing a ck Sefton. longer time. They have not aliowed any grass to get started under their feet this fall, but on the other hand have kept the sod at Capital Park pretty well trodden Every afternoon a big coach takes the team from the club house to the park and there they have put in each day a good afternoon's hard play. There are a large number of foot ball men in the club, and the result is that they have been able to team end give them all the chance they needed. Practice here has aiso been secret and it is probable that a number of big sur- prises in the way of new systems and tricks will be sprung on the public before the second half of the great game is com- pleted. The Columbia team is rather bet- ter off in point of age and in years of si ice, having a large number of men played foot ball at college before they a sociated themselves with the c'ub. The majority of the team played here last year and heave the advantage that comes from working together. The team has not yet been decided on beyond all chance of cha’ but the team | as it stands today and us it line up against Georgetown next Thursday is as follows: iandoiph au ton, ends; Wells and Johnson, tackles; Rainier Dickin- son, guards; Swart, ceater: Sefto: rter ; Camp and Dowd, half backs; Shields, back; substit. Veazey, Maupin, Talmadge, Fugitt, Clarke, Adam Johnson, Pickett, Burrows and Lewi. he line is a heavy one. It will proseay a front very much akin unto a ston? wa’ Of the two end rushes, vid Princezon man and team there. He js a s and holds his mx way. This is Eaton’ ball player. He was in the C. A. ning junior crew this past summer and is undoubtedly a good all around athlete. Johnson and Wells, who play tackles are, both seasoned players who are always sure to give an account of themselves on evet occasion. Wells was on the Lafayette team | for four years and has also played for three | or four years in this city. Johnson was a| men.ber of the Y. M. C. A. team last year and is considered one of the best foot ball players in the District. Jack Rainier and Dickinson have been too long with the Columbia Athletic Club to make their eppearance on the field any- thing of a surprise. Both are seasoned athletes and know the game from the first principle to the last. Rainier is now on his fourth year with the C. A. C. team. Dickinson was with the team last year but did not play regularly on the eleven. Swart, who will play center next Thurs- day is a heavy, sturdy play: He was with the team last year, making his pearance then. Sefton was a substitute last vear and is bound to make a good showing. Randoiph is an d end on his Manager Kyu: Camp and Dowd, the two half backs, are good men in their places. Camp was for four years on the team at Lafayette and for two years at the University of Pensyl- vania. He and Randolph have been coach- ing the team this fall, and the improve- ment in play which they have brought about has been something remarkable. Dowd is better known as “Tommy” Dowd, and as a base ball and foct ball player has few equals anywhere. He is 2 hard man | to beat, wherever he is, and during the | two years that he played with the George- | town team proved that he was as guod at foot ball as he was on the base ball team. who plays full back with was on last year's te: d to be one of the long surest punters in the Ot the sub- stitutes, Veazey, Talmadge, Johnson, Bur- rows, Pickett and Lewis played with the team last year, while Fugitt was with the .M.C. A. Any one of these men can give | P vay fifteen minutes he sat mo- maxing an appropriaticn to reimburse him. | Cane ae tee ere iiss tills, the Renate arculd not pase bet |s and nervously unsirung from head js the Sen: 238; Yet, strange to say, the shock| the Senate committee after some years ike Seerecen v= | passed away’in'a Gay or tay, leaving no agreed to report a bill referring the eiaim Gated anal oe Bh ne totic ieee Te | Tine inluy: except ir the: memory Gf thal to the Court ot Claime tor adjudication. called upon to fill a vacancy next Thurs- | yictim. Seg Gee Si Sie ee maateaton: day. H |v W The Georgetown Eleven. | ee | this. So a bill was reported to the Senate. Robert Carmody, right end and captain | 1. 1, ¥ . it failed of consideration. Then another is recognized by ati as | Prom Pu bill was reported to another Congress, but Ags kK. s| alt: Lovett (an accepted suitor)—“Here, | it too failed to get a hearing or a vote. So a thorough foot bal! player. _ Knows | willy; I want to ask you something on the | year after year the claim has been renew- | the game well, uses good head work, and quiet.” when your sister meet ne sea- ed. Ward, who lived in Auburn, N. Y., at two men on the team would. He is an ex- Georgetown a touch down against her still fresh in the minds of the public. only trouble with Murphy has be2n that h did not follow his interferers, but he has by hard practice overcome that fault. THE McGARRAHAN CASE. Written for The Evening Star. URING THE SPE- cial session of Con- gress very little leg- islative work was done. but the com- mittees of Congress were not idlg. When the regular session begins on the 4th of December the Senate and House will find any quantity of small work already mapped out. The greater part of this work is in the direction of special legislation—legisla- tion for private relief. Private relief bills have burdened the calendars of Congress to the exclusion of much public business for many years. They have become such @ nuisance that public men have discussed frequently the possibility of creating a court which would have jurisdiction of claims for private relief and excluding them from Congressioral consideration. When one stops to consider the fact that Congress has to make petty laws for the government of the District of Columbia and to pass on the claim of the Widow Brady for damage done to her potato patch during the war, he will understand beyter why it is that Congress can sit for eight or ten months without completing much puf business. Most of the claims before Congress are of ancient date. A great number date back to the war. There is one claim which was | Teported to the Senate recently which was | really inaugurated in 1857. but which was | Not presented to Congress until 1878; but the claimant has not ceased to press his | business-on Congress for twenty years. His | bill has been reported in the Senate many times and is now on the calendar. If it fe does not get a speedy hearing he may as dons Meni Abene. None Ines cn | Well. abandon’ bis. hopes |ef gelling Justice for Seger. He is, without doubt, the most | at the hands of the Fifty-third Congress. fearless of Georgetown center hitters. | A Patient Claimant. Edward Dowd will play right guard. He | There is a modest ex-postmaster out in Tae Cin brecticn Gaweliped into sn exesl-| ostei rns’ who has heen walting stuce 1416 lent man, and the man who tries to make = ‘ a hole through Ed will have the hardest | ‘t© obtain relief at the hands of Congress, thing he ever attempted. and who comes forward with a petition Ed Roche and Pat Sullivan are both can- | which has received again the approval of didates for left guard in Thanksgiving day | the committee on claims of the Senate, who says in the course of his appeal: game. Sullivan 1s a big, strong man, but “Your petitioner has heretofore applied does not know the game any too well. He has been practicing faithfully, however, and for relief, but owing to the great amount of business to be transacted by your re- if he plays Thanksgiving will take care of himself. Roche is a novice at the game, spective bodies, his small and humb'e pe- tition has been crowded aside. so that but bids fair to be a champion. He is practicing hard daily, and the way be other and more pressing matters of Con- | gress might be considered.” breaks through ana holds his men ts as- tonighing. Keep your eye on Roche in ihe big game. | It would be interesting to hear the pri- | vate opinion which this petitioner has of | the Congress which has kept him waiting | for neariy eighteen years for 8855; and this jin the face of favorable reports ‘from the | committees of both houses and the cer- tainty that if the bill could have a fair ccnsideration it would pass. The Califor- nian is named J. M. Billings and his home is in Santa Clara, Santa Clara county. He Was postmaster of Santa Clara from IS7L to Lssi. He is now nearly seventy years old and he says that he needs this relief to help support him. His claim is for plunder taken by some unknown b urglars, in the form oi stamps, monev-order funds, etc. Accompanying the petition are ailidavits which would be funny if thev did not con- cern so serious a matter. One is the af- Carmody, Georgetown. end. Bahen plays a position open always to censure on account of fumbles that can be laid at its door, but the majority of the fumbles that Georgetown’'s teain has made this season have been the fault of the car- riers of the ball and not the little quarter back’s. John Murphy will play right half against Columbia. Murphy is a good run- ner and tackles well. His great run and tackle of one of Virginia's haif, that — is ‘hi e e Richard Harley will play full back for Georgetown. Dick is a good man in his po- sition, being a good punter, fast runner, and | can hit a line hard. He is one of the ‘Var- | sity’s best players, and will be heard from on the day of the great game. William Seger has played too long with the Georgetown to need much mention. The many friends of the blue and gray well 3. Murpuy, Georgetown. who deposes that she “saw the hole that the robbers made in the roof to gain an en- trance.” Another deposition says that at tne time of the robbery the town of Santa Clara was infested with “a band of desper- ate robbers who made frequent burglaries in the town.” Another says that the post office robbery was “in fact, the largest rob- bery ever committed in our town.” Another aifidavit, which lacks the element of humor altogether, says that Millings was crippled financially by having to make up this loss to the government and that he has never recovered from it. Congress has appropri- ated many thousands of dollars in large sums for the relief of postmasters else- Patrick O'Douneli, Georgetown. Tip O'Neill will be found in the center when the teams line up Thanksgiving day. Tip has improved wonderfully this year, and can hold his own with the best of them! His snapping of the bail is generally une of the features, and hence his quarter hack very seldom makes a fumble. He injured his wrist in the naval cadets game, Lut it has mended, and Tip is now ready to : (where, but the old postmaster of Santa raise Ge Crate are sub Clara ‘has waited seventeen years for his | halves. Both practice daily and are in good | Money and he is still waiting. ‘there is a certain pathos in the case of Wuilam H. Ward, who wants to have the Court of Claims pass on his claim against | the government, but who has been «dented any consideration at the hands of Congress for twenty years. In the meantime the government has used his invention freely, and is still using it. Ward got out patents | in November, 1857, for a builet-making ma- | chine, and in December of the same year | @ patent for a machine for moiding shells. ‘These machines were the result of sixteen years of costly experiment. The bullet ma- chine cost the 70, and the sheil molding machine $20,712, as Ward was abie to prove to a committee uf Congress. ‘rhe patents issued to him were the urst of the class—they were of the kind known as “foundation” patents, which represent more labor than the average patent and usually greater expenditure of money. The ma- chines were of value only to governments. r ed States government saw their vaiue immediately and, as all the con:res- condition to go in should any of the regular team get hurt. Horsey, O'Brien, Callaghan and Welsh are valuable extra men, to be used in case of an emergency. ee TRYING IT ON. Startling Sensation Produced by a Fleavy Electric Current. From Cas: 's Magazine. Edison's Orange laboratory, despite its pastoral surroundings and the pacifie na- ture of its habitues, has been the scene of some grewsome experiments. When the new law was passed enlisting electricity as an agent of death, Mr. Edison was con- sulted as to the best method of applying that mysterious and deadly fluld, and in the experiments made by him to test the com- inventor $49 parative action of different currents at/ sional committees report, took possession various intensities many painful animal of them without consuiang Ward and used ecutions were necessary on’g| them. During ihe wer of the rebellion th Cuscuticra, ere peceatary, Mx; 2 $ chief of ordnance gave orders for the con- most valuable friend d istant, Charles achelor, barely evaded the distinction of structton of bullet 4 to patents, and ach ne machine used int ee officiating as a sacrifice on the altar of the foundation ents ct Ward. but all experimental science. He was mending the satisfaction Waerd got from the chief ot ordnance was the auvice tuat he al e je ive 7 ipply fome defective apparatus in connection | {5 Cuunece yer cpo-savice that wan te ith a lamp, and, as it seemed to him at) note that \vard’s appeal was first mage to d taken all imaginary precau- Capt. «a Admiral) Dahlgren, and (atte is is the same Aum it an accident. He suppose: , from the presence of a burn aft i ‘al Dahigren wao r Ward fouad on one of his fh at he of an invention of his in the Navy must sciously blished ment during the war, and whose a cir y holding a wire in each hand. 0,00) In the Court of ‘0 sooner had he made the contact than h » to Which her claim was referred by The admiral ator have a ve s of Cong! No Redress Here. Werd tried to get some re. courts. Failing there gress for relie?, tives more t ack to a stool, with the awft nd body wrenched violent- uch pangs as the Mot, medan death angels wreak on the awaken- ing spirits of the damned. He describes it g the tions of an im- rough file thrust through the quiver- Sof the body, a shudderiag, rasping s, grinding its way through lungs aad os citizen inv ing in the inventor the different stand- Ss. ss in the and the House of Rep n onee passed the bii shore this sumr the time his invention was patented, and r did she keep the young m a distance?” wao afterward lived at Pittsburg, has come interference breaker and tackler he can be | "em "w way down the beach and keep - . : called on at any time to cari and seldom, if ever, fails to ma George Mahoney, or as he is better Known | From Life. ties. A claim which has | heritarce from husi lis now on the Seni m there till meal tims ———- -+e-- come down as an in- ad to wife and whi calendar is the claim by the Washington public, Big Mike, wiil | of Margaret Kennedy, widew of John Ken- play ‘right tackle. Mike's peste too nedy, d -d. John’ Kennedy was a loyal Well Known by all to need mention of here. citizen of the District of Columbia who Suffice it to say that many a “good boy, owned “6 1-2 acres of land on the Eastern Mik will be heard on Thanksgiving day, prarch of the Potomac at the breaking out : tke takas the bail. far tic copicn” of the war. The government took posses- beeapete ts geet are ie me ene sion of his land and erected Fort Sedgwick prising Columbia half back 3 upon it. Around the fort rifle pits. and Old reliabie Peter Comerford will play the other excavations were made, covering other tackle for the Blue and Grae vane \nearly half the ground. By this act. Mr, orite with all, and has all the re. | Kennedy suffered den.age in about $5,000 quisites of a foot ball player also. ‘The hopes of Georg n always go up when they hear the signal given for Pete to take the ball Edward Mahoney will play left end for Georgetown on Thanksgiving day. Ma- honey's playing, considering the short while he has known the game, is little short of phenomenal ence are aly tures of Georg No man on th. His tackling and interfer- S$ one of the principal fea- ownh's games. jeorgetown team deserves greater praise than Shorty Bahen, quarier back. His work has been conscientious and hard from the season's opening up to the present day. He has the honor of not missing a single day of practice. Eahen's work has been good in every game, his | for f | tree: ait trees destroyed, $4,500 for forest s and $1,000 for fencing, to say nothing the loss of flowers and shrubs. Mr, | Kernedy's fence was used for fuel by the soldiers. A congressional committee has valued the material taken from Mr. Ken- | nedy’s property, “not the result of military necessity,” at $3,000, and as Mr. Kennedy had received from tae government before his death $1,378, there is still due his widow $1,622, But Mr. Kennedy died without get- ting any satisfaction from Congress, and now, more than thirty years after the day when the government appropriated Mr. Kennedy's property, his widow is still peti- tioning Congress to pay her, not for the land or for the damage done ‘to it, but for the fuel and the timber taken from it. The most celebrated of the old time claims A play on words. is the McGarrahan claim, which bobs up at the beginning of every Congress and which ts now on the calendar of the Senate. “Billy icGarrahan has been a familiar figure about the Capitol for twenty-five years—always rather shabby looking, but always smiling and hopeful. MceGarrahan’s claim went through the last but was vetoed by President Harrison. Mc- Garraghan bought a tract of land in Call- fornia from a man named Gomez, who held a title from Mexico. The New Idria Mining Company discovered a quicksilver mine on the property and squatted on it. The company has taken out, it 1s said, $160,000,000 worth of quicksilver from the mine and its stockholders are rich, while McGarrahan is poor. McGarrahan fought the mining company for ten years in the courts and he has had the matter before Congress for twenty-five years. which passed the Senate and House was Vetoéd for technical reasons, and a cor- rected bill was immediately introduced and Passed the Senate, but it never gained con. sideration in the House. Senator Teller ha: charge of McGarrahan's interests and it looks as though he might finally get a hear- ing in this Congress. All he asks is that the matter be referred to the court of pri- vate land claims. time it gets throvgh Congress and .works its way throvgh the court “Billy” McGarrahan may be muere quicksilver will be of little value Oo —oo TROUBLES ON THE HONEYMOON, When a Girl Marries a Doctor She is Apt to Find Them Right Away. NOODLES NOT A GOURMET. Which Fact is a Serious Cause of Distress to His Young Wife. Difference Between Papa a: Habby— Why Mrs. Noodles Considered Her Culinary Education a Failure. “Mamma never could cook.” said young Mrs. Noodles yesterday to her most inti- mate friend. “She was always absolutely dependent upon such skill. or more often the reverse, as happened to be employed in the culinary department. She did not even know how to give directions. and, though she tried her best, she seemed incapable of learning. A query from below stairs as to whether she wanted the soup cleared with egg, or if she liked a touch of garlic in the salad, was to her a hopeless puzzle and apt to be even distressing. “Now, this was very unfortunate, be- cause papa is a gourmet. He was born so, I suppose, but he had cultivated a delicate palate through a long term of bachelorhood and dining at the club. He used to say that he was afflicted with a congenital Young Mrs. Boggs heaved a deep sigh as| Weakness for large cold bottles and smail she handed her dainty pink-and-white cup|Mot birds. When he married he made no Beross the little tea table to her bosom | Preliminary inquiry as to the ability of my friend, Mrs. Tublets, for “just one more | ™other oan =} cookery line. and her want lump of sugar,” and helpea herseif to an- of capacity in that regard must have been fidavit of the assistant in the post office, | f' im against the government fer | he applied ¢o Con-| other wafer. Mrs, Tublets was startled. “My dearest Laura,” she exclaimed, “what can such a heart-rending sigh mean on the lips of a bride but just returned from her honey- moon? What has happened?” e “I do not mind admitting to you, Marie,” said Mrs. Boggs, putting her now empty cup upon the table, “that I have al- ready found out that the fate of a doctor's wife is not in all respects an enviable one.” “Why, Laura, what do you mean? You can as yet have had no experience of intez- rupted dinners, midnight calls and bad bills.” “It is quite a long story,” sighed the doc- tor’s bride, “and my troubles may un- doubtedly be classed among ‘les petites miseres de la vie humaine;’ but, 1 assure you, they are none the less real and trying on that account.” “My poor girl,” said sympathetic Mrs. Tublets, “Do tell me all about it.” “As you know, dear Mari replied young Mrs. Boggs, “‘we started immediately after our wedding for Chicago—that bourn of all the newly-married couples this year—and my first trial began the very evening of our arrival. We reached the hotel about 9 o'clock to find that, instead of the fine suite of rooms we had engaged, only one rathe> shabby bed chamber had been saved for us. Of course it was too late to change our quarters that evening, even supposing we could do better at one of the other hotels. I felt very dusty and dirty, and made up my mind that a nice warm bath was the thing needed, and so I rang the bell and | ordered one prepared. Upon hearing the order, Dr. Boggs turned to me with a look of horror upon his face, “Do you mean to say,’ he cried, ‘that you would actually take a bath in a public tub, in which anybody who pays a few cents can bathe? “ ‘Certainly,’ I replied, ‘when I have not a private one. I must keep clean.’ “ ‘Laura,’ cried the doctor, ‘do you not know that a number of dreadful diseases may be communicated in that very way? You really will have to counterman’ the order. I am very sorry to disappoint you, but not for thousands of dollars would 1 have you run such a risk.’ “And so, of course, I had to give up my much-coveted bath.” “Poor Laura!” said M. Tublets, a very little smile of amusement curling the cor- ners of her mouth. But Mrs, Boggs did not see it and continued sadly. “Most people had trouble in getting their luggage, and we were among the unfortu- ; nate in that regard; but I consoled myself with the idea that the next day I could easily go to one of the dry goods shops and buy some clean clothes. ‘I shail not mind the inconvenience at all,’ I remarked cheer- lly to William, ‘because, -you know, I can them on and be sure that they fit nice- ly." Alas! poor littie me! I seemed destined to shock what I call his prejudices. “Of course you must be joking,” he cried; but I ascured him I was neve> more serious in my life. Then he looked actually grieved at my ignorance and remarked that shop | Keepers who allowed undergarments to be tried on ought all to be subject to arrest | and fire, if not actually to imprisonment. Of course none but thoughtless, care- less persons would dream of wearing ready- made underclothes until they had been laundried, considering the fact that they are commonly made in tenement houses full of dirt and bacteria; but to actually go to a shop where people were allowed to tzy on such garments, thus propagating disgusting skin diseases, one must be simply mad. “of course I was very angry at being called mad, and then and there we had our first quarrel. “You might have supposed that this would be a lesson to him not to inte=fere with my personal literty—but not at all. Hardly | two weeks had passed when, one chilly morning, when we were going to breakfast in the little sitting room which we had | finally secured, I slipped on a lovely wadded Japanese wrapper of pale blue silk most elaborately embroidered in canary colored fi and, I took a last glance at myself before leaving my bed room, I felt that I looked very nice, indeed. “When I appeared at the br | however, I saw a shade of dis; dear eakfast table, pleasure cross my husband's face, as he looked with | marked Cisapproval at my pretty wrapper. “‘Laura,’ he said very seriously, ‘have ou ever worn that gown before?’ “ ‘No,’ I answered, wondering what was | coming next. | “Then do me the favor to take it off and never put {t on again. Yes, my dea:, I know it is exceedingly pretty, but as likely las not the person who worked all that aborate embroidery was a leper, or the | victim of some cutaneous disorder. Those | Orientals ae so prone to such diseases, and | 1 cannot allow you to run the risk of wear- | ing the garment, rich and comfortable as it | “Of course, after that I could never take any pleasure in the dress, even if he had pot absolutely forbidden my wearing it. I | was so disappointed that I cried as I chang- 1 it for a plain American teagown of cachemire.”” “Dear Laura!” exclaimed Mrs. Tubiets, all sympathy ence more. “How perfectly hateful of him! If you give me the wrap- | per, I will giadiy risk the contagion, and dear Jim, not being a physician, will only wonde> where I got anything so swell.” “If that is the case, you shall certainly jhave it, my dear Marie. I will send the | doctor's boy up with it tomorrow morning.” | “How altogether lovely of you, dear,” the | fui Mrs. Tublets exclaimed. "Then Mrs. Boggs continued: | “In early Septembe> mountains for a couple of weeks, We were at such a nice hotel! One of the first things that charmed me was the fact that every | evening we found in our room a nice pitcher | of ice water. The doctor had ascertained | | shortly afte: our arrival that the water was, safe to drink, and T was enjoying a glass of it in my room one evening when Wiliiam entered and said: “You are not drinking water with ice in }it, I trust.’ | “Upon my replying that I was, he asked jif no one had ever explained to me the |danger of ice in country places. ‘Of | course,” he added, ‘ice is not casy to pro- cure iw sufficient quantities to last all sum- mer for a large hotel, and so they take a ice they can find, and much of it comes from ponds of stagnant water. Many cases | of typhoid fever can be directly traced to the | drinking of ice water made from such ice. | The latter, of course, melts very quickly. and so it is as if you were drinking the un- healthy, stagnant water direct.’ ‘From day to day I found that,on various pretexts, most of the luxuries of life were being cut off one by one. There was some plausible hygienic reason to urge in every instance. When we went to New York, we spent a great deal on cab hire, because Wil- liam objected to my sitting next to dirty and possibly unhealthy people in the horse cars and cable cars. Save for the expense, I was resigned to that restriction. But, my dear, if you ever marry again, I strongly urge you to select a husband from some profession other than that of medicine.” soe ly 1 1 we went to the @ deep disappointment to him. though he endured it like a gentleman as a rule and tried to make the best of it. ‘Now and then he would grumble mildly, and on a few occasions I have heard him Swear beneath his breath when his meals were particularly unsatisfactory. Once, when the reigning cook was especially hope- less, he actually got angry and rose from the table, saying that he would go to the club and get his dinner, since it was im- Possible to eat what was served at home. After which brutal remark he disappeared in fulfilment of his threat and mamma went to bed with a nervous headache. The incident, as it chanced, made an epoch for me. “Mamma declared that the comic papers were right when they said that the only way to make a man happy was to give him good things to eat. I have since heard the same theory yet more crudely expressed by the statement that the only way to get along with a husband is to ‘feed the brute.’ My mother was determined that. if ever I married, I should not suffer from such a cause of discomfort. She did not wait for me to become engaged, but sent me without delay—I was then only twelve years old—to a cooking school, where I took lessons for several winters, Practicing on Papa, “Meanwhile I practiced at home on papa. On the whole he endured it well. though an occasional failure of mine would disagree with him sadly. Having such advantages of practical experiment, I steadily improved and eventually I became so remarkably expert as to be regarded by my teacher as her most promising pupil. 1 learned to make puff paste that rose layer above layer in its flaky delicacy, and my stuffed green beppers were such as might satisfy the most fastidious appetite. Papa said that such a chop as I could broil he had never eaten outside of a London ‘chop house. “I soon found that. in order to keep papa in the best possible humor. I had only to furnish him with an occasi nal plat of the sort he was most addicted to. Following the wisdom of the comic papers, which my mother had learned to regard as oracles of Philosophy, I used to feed the old gentle- man up preliminarily whenever I wanted to ask him for a bonnet or a new dress. In this simple fashion I practically doubled my allowance of spending money, devoting an hour of my time every other day to work in the kitchen. Besides I had the great satisfaction of giving pleasure to my father, who no longer talked of going to the club for a satisfactory meal. “Now, Mr, Noodles has always been a good deal of a club man himself. He be- longs to the Platypus, you know, and be- fore his marriage he used to live there. I took it for granted that he was a gourmet also, and, when -he used to dine at papa’s house during the period of our engagement, I always made it a point to have things particularly nice for his benéfit. 1 noticed that he invariably ate with an excellent appetite, and I was proportionately pleased with my success. But. if I had known that my study of years in the culinary direction was destined to prove practically useless after marriage and to all intents and pur- poses wasted, I declare that 1 should hard- ly have looked upon his suit for my hand with the same favor. Everything Was Fish That Came to His Net. “But I suspected nothing. We returned from our honeymoon trip to this house two years ago. His first dinner here, I made up my mind, should be a success, With much vanity I congratulated myself on my superiority to most other young wives in the possession of an exceptional accom- plishment. Other women may bang the Piano or paint plaques. I never had an ear for music, and as to art I am an ignoramus. But I could cook. Girls who affect art and play on musical instruments almost invar- jably abandon those gentle employments immediately after marriage. They say they have no time any more. “But I could cook. I took great trouble with that first dinner at home. The piece de resistance was a vol-au-vent of chicken— a dish which the culinary experts admit ts scarcely possible for an amateur to produce in perfection. Mr. Noodles was very jolly— he always is that—but. while consuming what he was pleased to call the ‘grub,’ he made no remark about it. I asked him how he liked it, and he looked rather sur- prised. ‘Oh, now you mention it.’ he said, ‘it did taste good.’ you know, I am ashamed to confess it. but I could have wept. In fact. a tear did come into my eye as I thought how papa would have relished that vol-au-vent. “Two days later the cook made a horrible failure. The beef a la mode was a sodden mass, stringy and with watery gravy. I had been out shopping and had not given the matter attention. Furthermore, in- stead of a small quantity of brandy to give it flavor, so much of that alcoholic ingre- dient had been put in that the dish resem. bled those served at certain inebriate as: lums, where every cooked preparation is strong with whisky or rum—the object be- ing to give the guests a permanent distaste for such ardent spirits. I have understood that this method is very efficacious, “To my great surprise Mr. Noodles ate his share of the meat without making any remark. In fact. he seemed rather pleased with it. I ventured an apology for it, and he replied that he had not noticed that it was not good. On the contrary, it had seemed to him very fair indeed. I told him that he was a dear. sweet. amiable creature not to make a fuss, when he might reason- ably have ordered the dish to have been sent away from the table and sworn at the cook. It was all a delusion on my part. Mr. Noodles is amiable. but that fact did not apply in this instance. As I have since learned, it actually does not make any dif- ference to him whether things to eat are good or bad. Quantity, Not Quality. “The melancholy fact is that he does not care for what ‘he designates as ‘grub.’ 1 was reading a letter of Bill Nye’s the other day, in which he confesses that he is ‘pas- sionately fond of food.’ I wish it were so with my husband. When called for dinner Mr. Noodles commonly remarks: ‘Oh, do % have to eat again” He declares that I am always eating because I indulge in candy and cakes between meals. Last evening 1 partook of a few chocolate drops just after dinner. He said: ‘You don’t mean to say that you are consuming more food? Such observations on his part are always made in 4 perfectly good-humored manner, but they are aggravating. “4n short, I have the misfortune to be married to a man who only eats to live. It must be more disagreeable yet to be mated with a creature who cares for nothing ex- cept his stomach and makes a bear of him- self every time his breakfast does not suit him. But, though the hmpliest woman in the world in all other respects. I could wish that Mr. Noodles had more fondness for the flesh-pots, so to speak. Meanwhile papa and mamma are having a dreadful without my services as cook. My fath says that he suffers continually from indi- gestion, and my mother declares that w will have to take up our abode with them, in order that I may resume the business of catering to the old gentleman's appetite. For some time past he has taken every possible excuse for dining at the club. 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