Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1894, Page 12

12 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1894A-TWENTY PAGES. WISE AND PRUDENT The Arctic Exp! by I THE RESULT OF CAREFUL STUDY! —_>_—— ion Pian D Experienced Explorers Have Given | Their Hearty Approval. THE ACTIVE MANAGEMENT _—— “There on that savage shore, ‘To see mankind no more, With snow clouds o’er them; Dark in that sullen clime, Shrouded in winter cime, } Heroic and sublime, Death rose before them. | “Then came that fatal sleep, With none to vigil keep, Lulled by the sobbing deep, Over deeds of daring.” Amid fields of snow and ice, and the hor- fos of the arctic storm, men have toiled and starved and died for the advancement of kmowledge, the enrichment of science, the amelioration of human suffering and the ac- quisition of personal glory. Almost every @ffort to make extensive explorations of the polar world has met with disaster, and a long list of daring men, heroes every one of them, sleep under the white blankets of the snow. But notwithstanding these tragedies of the ice regions, there are brave men al- ways ready to take up the flag of explora- tion and bear it poleward. Much has been said recently through the Press of the country in regard to the pro- posed expedition of Mr. Robert Stein of the geological survey for the exploration of El- lesmere and Grinnell Lands, the establish- ment of life-saving stations and the rescue of the Swedish naturalists, Bjorling and Kalistenius, supposed to be somewhere in Eliesmere Land, and probably alive. It is known now that the expedition will be made and that the explorers will leave New York about the 10th of April, and St. Johns, New- foundland, about the Ist of May. The expe- dition has been planned with great care, and men familiar with arctic explorations say that Mr. Stein's plans can hardly fail to Robert While most people are familiar with the plans of the expedition, few know much of | its projector, and with a view to enlighten- | ing the public on this point, I called at the | geological survey, and from Mr. Stein him- self, and particularly from his acquaint- ances in the office, and from some who know him out Sice, ascertained the facts set forth in this article. Knows Twelve Languages. Mr. Stein was born near Glatz, Germany, in 1857. He was educated at the gymnasium of Giatz, and came to the United States in x After reaching the United States, Mr. | Stein spent eight years in teaching and | studying. During that period he learned to| speak English like a native American. In| 188s he eatered the medical department of Georgetown University, from which he grad- | uated in 1s86; but, like many young men who have taken medical courses in this city, | Mr. Stein has never made it his profession. That is probably due to the fact that he was | tendered a position in the geological sur- | vey, In 1884, which, owing to his peculiar fitness for the place, he has held ever since. | His work there is that of translator. He has an accurate knowledge of twelve lan-| guages. He translates into the English the | German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portu- | guese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Russian, | Latin and Greek languages. In several of these languages he converses with fluency. In addition to these numerous linguistic at- tainments, Mr. Stein is reported by gentle-! men who have known him well for a period of years to be a thorough scholar in the | various sciences and mathematics. | According to Mr. Stein's own statement, | he first conceived the idea of polar explora but at that early date he had settied on no definite plan. About 1890 he became desirous of ascertaining more defi- nite knowledge of the west coast of Elle: mere Land. He had been reading the books | of Greely and Nares, who gave accurate | and useful information in regard to the east i | | Alfred Bjorti Istentus. coast, but were of necessity silent of the west coast. He was particularly Interested | in Hayes sound. Both Greely and Nares were interested in this inlet, and were unx- fous to learn whether it is a strait or bay. Both these explorers were unable to satisfy themselves on that point because their | orders compelled them to proceed north- | ward as rapidly as possible. With a view | to the exploration of Hayes’ sound and the | west coast of Ellesmere Land, Mr. Stein be- gan to look for the cheapest way to get into that part of the arctic zone. Findigg that whalers went within a short distance of his| objective point, he recognized that that | would be the cheapest mode of conveyance | if available. On inquiry, he found that! whalers would not go so far out of their} way, and that the only way to profit by them would be to accommodate himseif entirely to their movements. The northern- most point sighted by them is Clareace Head, on Ellesmere Land, and for that rea- son that point was chosen as the base of operations for the present expedition. The Ptan Indorsed. In June, 1993, Mr. Stein gave to the public litude 20 degrees 12 and attended with less cost and danger, than any expedition that has heretofore gone into the polar zone for the purpose of making extensive explorations, and if the pole is ever reached it is likely to be along lines of advance, such as proposed for this expedition. One thing that has particularly | impressed him is that Mr. Stein has shown so much judgment and discrimination in jaying his plans. Good Judgment Displayed. Out of multitudinous suggestions he has selected the best. Nor has he allowed his| enthusiasm to induce him to adopt imprac- ticable schemes. He further stated that | Mr. Stein had shown his good judgment | and unselfish interest in the weifare of the expedition when he voluntarily pro- posed to yield the practical management of it into the hands of Lieut. Brainard, who ts recognized as a most careful and successful arctic explorer. Mr. Stein first made the expedition a certainty and laid plans which have received the indorsement of all the best authorities in the world, and then, in order that his inexperience in arctic travel might not operate against the success of the expedition, he offered to turn the practical execution of his plans into the hands of a more ex>erienced man | and to accompany the expedition in a sub- | ordinate capacity. Lieut. Brainard found hims2lf unable to accept the offer. His letter, written from | Fort Wingate, N. M., is worth repeating: “I feel deeply touched by your gererosity | in offering to relinquish to me the com- mand of your expedition. Arctic explora- tion having always been my foremost am- bition, and your plan being, in my opin- fon, one of the most practical ever pre- sented, I recognize in your offer the finest opportunity of my life. It Js with the ut- most regret, therefore, that I fin] myself compelled by personal affairs to decline your offer. The Permanent Camp. “From our conversations, I have no doubt that you will be very successful. ‘The most important idea in your plan, it seems to me, and one which will mark a new epoch | in arctic exploration, is the idea of a per- manent camp at the entrance of Joncs sound, where it will be in constant com- munication with the outer world through the whalers. The wonder is that so simple and inexpensive a measure was not thought of long ago. Had it been adopted, say iifty | years ago, it is entirely probable that arc- tic history since then would have remained | unclouded by a single disaster. It seems to me that your plan ought to meet with | hearty support on the part of the whaling | interests, since they will thereby gain a| refuge station, such as the American whul- ers have at Point Barrow.” I am informed that Mr. Stein has recent- ly succeeded in securing an equally capa-| ble man as commander. Jn the opinicn| of all thinking people Mr. Stela, by re-| signing the command to a more experienc- ed man, will not lose, but rather gain cred- it, Inasmuch as he will add a striking proof of unselfishness to the many proofs of skill, judgment and energy he has al- ready given. M. L, FOX. ——_ IN CENTRAL AFRICA. Ruins Ancient Cities Discovered There by Carl Mauch. From the Ashton Reporter. For many years rumors of cities in ruins In Central Africa have been rife. The coun- try of Mcnomotapa, in whose western por-| tion lies Mashona, has been considered the | Ophir of the Bible, and here was rumored | to be the castle of the Queen of Sheba, whose fleets conveyed her treasures of gold | down the Zambesi to Arabia. A German | explorer, Carl Mauch, devoted himself to| the task of unraveling these rumors, and discovered certain ruins at Zambabye, lat- | minutes south, and longitude 31 degrees 48 minutes east of Greenwich. Writing from Pike's Kraal, | September 13, 1871, he stated: “It is ac- cepted as certain that white men have for- merly peopled this country, for there are constant traces met with of dwellings and of iron implements, which could not have been the handiwork of the blacks. On a hasty visit to the widely spread parts of these ruins, 3 1-2 miles from Pike's Kraal, I was not able to light upon any inscrip- tions. I picked up no implements which would enable one to determine the age of| the ruins. “The ruins may be divided into two parts —the one upon a granite prominence of 400. feet high, the other upon a more elevated terrace. The two are separated by a gentle valley 300 yards wide. The western side of the rock is covered fram top to bottom) with ruins. All the walls are built without | mortar, of hewn granite, more or less about | the size of our bricks. The walls vary in| thickness; at foot, about 10 feet thick; at) bottom, 7 to $ feet. One wall is in perfect preservation to a height of 60 feet. In many places beams of stone 8 to 10 feet | in length project from the wall, in which they must be inserted to a depth of several feet. At most they are 8 inches broad by 3_ inches in thickness, and consist of a com-| pact stone with a metallic ring and of greenish black color. I found one stone beam ellipsoid in section, 8 feet in length, upon which ornaments were engraved. The crnaments consisted of lozenge - shaped figures, one within another, separated by | horizontal bands of diagonal lines. “Under a great mass of rock I found a broken vessel shaped like a wooden Kaffir| basin of talcose gneiss, extremely soft, 18| inches in diameter and 4 inches deep, 1 1-2 in thickness at the edge and 1-2 an inch| in the bottom. Best preserved of all is the | outer wall of an erection of rounded form, | situated in the plain and about 150 yards in diameter. It is 600 yards from the moun- | tain and seems to have been connected | with it by earthworks. This oval has but one entrance, three feet in width and five feet high, facing the mountain. Inside a tower 30 feet high is in perfect preservation and the narrow passages are disposed as a labyrinth. The tower is cylindrical to a height of 10 feet, then upwards conical in form. At the foot its diameter Is 15 feet, at the top 8 feet, and shows no trace of having had an entrance. The outer walls show an attempt at ornamenting the gran-| ite; It represents a double row of zigzags between horizontal bands. This ornament | is 20 feet from the ground. Everywhere | <lse is rubbish, fragments and dense bush. “Some great trees, three feet in diameter, | Uft their leafy canopy to nearly twice the | height of these walls, and many trees of | vigorous growth have inclosed the blocks | within their own substance.” From this | we may infer the age of the ruins, namely. | that the Portuguese, who had no fortified | trading station here before the sixteenth | century, must have found these buildings already in existence. Dr. Petermann of Gotha, to whom Carl Mauch sent his letter | and maps and plans, came to the conclusion that the evidence pointed to this land a bene Ophir. It is essentially aurifero! the Portuguese when they reached Sofa in the sixteenth century found rich go! mines, which had evidently been worked | for ages, and besides the mines were build- ines and ruins, which, according to the! traditions of the natives, owed their origin | to the Queen of Sheba. Lopez states that the old inhabitants of Sofala boasted they possessed old books which confirmed the expeditions of Solomon to Ophir. The or- namentation points to the fact that they are | ne'ther Arabian nor Portuguese in origin, | but in all probability wrought by the Phoe- nicians. ee BRASS AND COPPER WEDDINGS. The Belgians Celebrate Them in an Uncommon Way. From the New York Journal. From a lady in Belgium I have received some interesting notes with regard to the | real delight. DINNERS AND DINERS A Season That Has Been Given Much to Feasting, MODERN FEEDS AND ANCIENT FEASTS Splendor and Luxury of the Old Roman Gluttons. CLEOPATRA’S _ EFFECTS EOPLE IN WASH- ington have shoved their knees under of- ficial ever before in try. There has been most usurped alll other forms pf en- ter*‘cinment in strictly ‘official society. Every luxury that grows in forest, feild or s:r-am, fruits ci | sun-kissed tropics avd flowers of every clime, have wooed pailed appetites and wor- ried disgusted: digestions until diners out began to feel like Aurelius, who said: | “When we have meat and similar dishes before us we receive the impression that | this is the dead body of a fish and that the dead body of a bird and that other the | dead body of a pig. That this-Falernian is only a little grape juice and this purple robe some sheep wool dyed with the blood of a shell fish. Such then are these im- pressions and they reach the things them- selves and penetrate them and so we all see what kind of things we are.” Nor is it much wonder that they sigh for surcease of this dining business. Each member of the cabinet has fed all the other members of the cabinet and the President as well, and “flowered” them all till Flora dropped her wilted wand and declared there was no new freak in her family which she could present to kill the odors about the tables of Epicurus. The foreign contingent of the official family has lived up to its tradi- tions for sumptuary magnificence and munificence. The Supreme Court went the whole pace and Senators and Congressmen lagged but little behind. Opposite Hia- watha’s silver canoe or the century old gilt center piece of the state dining table the President dispensed ceremonious hospital- ity two evenings each week until Lent put an end to the dreary gastronomic feasts and he gladly washed his hands of the whole business in the lily of the valley perfumed finger bowls. Now they are all counting the cost in expended strength, impaired digestion, exhausted vitality. “It balances on the wrong side,” said one charming woman whose dinners are a “People who live to eat are not desirable friends, and pecple who eat to live deprecate the style of entertaining which makes a ‘resident physician’ almost as much of a necessity in one’s family as the butler or chef.” A Western Woman's Plan. The wife of a western Senator, who is yet a little new in Washington life, says she likes it very much indeed, “all but the feeding. This breakfast and lunch, tea and dinner business, the everlasting nibble, nibble, nibble is wearing my soul to rib- bons. Why, it would drive an ostrich into dyspepsia and bring a billy goat to his death bed. I don’t believe it is Christian, and for my part the people who come to visit me shall do it for desire of my com- pany and not for the gratification of their appetites.” So she omitted the “feeds.’” Consequently there ts no olla podrida jam in her parlors, but you will meet there the cream of intellect, high breeding and cul- ture. The course of the Senator's wife was the wisest. There is ne doubt in the world that we eat too often and too much and piace too high an estimate upon the pleas- ures of the table. As a political factor dining has become a fine art. The easiest way to tame the animals is to gorge them until they are too stupid to hurt one. The way to a man’s heart is said to lead through his stomach; it may also lead the way to mental and morai Mtultification, for when wine is in wit goes out and the pages of history have not infrequently reiated the enactment of amazing changes of policy following close upon “political” banquets, when the host, as Goldsmith puts it: ‘too deep for his hearers still went on defining, And thought of thought of dining. “Dinner lubricates business,” was Bos- well’s tneory, while Byron declared that all human history attests that “since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner.” The art of dinner giving is to satisfy, not satiate, but far too many overieap the geal and turn over to Claudius the scepter that Epicurus should weild. In- stead of tickling the palate with just enough to insure prime condition for men- tal or physical effort the goose is gorged until his liver quits business in despair. This plan often depletes the census and makes a change in the counting of a quo- rum in Congress, but a man or two less seems to be of no moment when one has @ reputation to sustain as a dinner giver. Pliny once said, “simple diet is bess, for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping sev- eral meats upon each other." Pliny ought to know something about it, for in his day, and long before him, in fact, the Roman censors had to pass sumptuary laws in which they attempted to rezulate the cost of entertainment, the number of guests to be bidden, and the quality of meat to be eaten. At one time “one hen was permit- ted to be served up, and that not fattened for the purpose.” England's sumptuary laws were curious affairs, Sut there could be no doubt that they leaned in the while they mvincing, direction. One passed in the time of Fa- ward III had this preamble: ‘ the excessive and over which the people of th ave used more than elsewhere, many mischicfs have happened, for the great men by their ex- cesses have been sore grieved,and the lesse to imitat f meat the 1 people, who only endeav &reat ones in such ts much impoverishe reby able to aid themselves nor the mn in time of need, ought, and many other evils have das weil to their and then tae law 2r condition courses at dinne two kinds of fo sept on the principal festivals of the year, when three courses at the utme ve In Mediaeval In mediaeval Europe as a costiy mahogany of- tener this winter than the history of the coun- ner giviug have al- ters. i J Phe Whitechapel Cin i| For ghastly terrorizing denoue- ments d situations the Grid- | hris first prospectus of plans for the pro- Posed exploration. Subsequently he was advised of the missing Swedes and the fate of their craft, “Ripple,” which had foun- @ered near the southeasterly coast of the Cary Islands. The almost unpa daring of these two young natura their youthful ages, Bjorling, the being only twenty-one years old, Kallstenius was but three Pealed powerfully to Mz. S and he began to redouble his efforts. F tience and perseverance in a good cause at fashion of celebrating brass, copper, etc., weddings in he> country. She tells me that when people have been married six years and a half, it is usual for them to invite their friends to a ‘east, ball or any form of entertainment they choose, to mark the occasion of their “brass” wed- ding, and if they specify the reason cf the festivities it is customary for each grest to bring a present in brass, says the gentlewo- man. After twelve and a half years of merried life invitations are again sent out, leader, while ears older, ap- in’s sympathies dinners of Washington had for their in- ception the same desire, the controlling of power and patronage.’ In our attention to thes luxuries and extra nees of the table, however, we do not ape the hngtish fingers. For dessert they ate grapes, figs, nuts, apples, pears and almonds, generally in their natural state. The Saxons proba- bly introduced the finger bowl. Theirs con- sisted of a tiny silver ewer, aad folded be- side it were always two little flowered and fringed napkins. Surely necessity is the mother of invention. One wouid fec! the need of a wash basin in these days if oblig- ed to eat boiled beef and cavbase with the hands. The Saxons were not given to lin- gering long at the table, but they had a pretty taste for rare old wines. Roman Luxury. The Romans believed in eating slowly and being a long time at it. They sat at family | dinner, which was called “prandium,’ | three hours. In those early days 4 o'clock was the hour for rising, and breakfast, or jeutaculum, was eaten at 5 o'clock. The meal in’ the middle of the day was quite “coena,” or the evening meal, was the great feast of the day. It usually consisted of but three courses, but there was a great va riety of viands. The men reclined on couck- es about the table, but the women and chit» dren sat up. If there was a guest, before ho took his place at the table his shoes were |removed by a servant and his feet washed, | If the evening meal was a banquet, it often began as early as 3 o'clock and lasted for fifteen hours. We are assured by various historians that this was not an unusual Ume to spend at the table. “Among the tasteless extravagances of the day there was nore to which the vulgar rich more ae commonrty devoted themselves than that of on poe Loses the table. It was not so much their ambi- »° feeding. Break- tion to surround themselves with the most fast, lunck and din- graceful or gorgeous appliances of luxury, with richly furnished chambers, with ex- quisite music, with couches and tables of cosuy materials and elaborate workman- ship, though all these, too, had their vota- ries, as to amaze their guests with the ex- tracrdinary money value of the articles they managed to consume. It was for their rar- ity only that nignungales and peacocks and the tongues ahd brains of phoenicopters— whatever those creatures may be—were re- garded as delicacies; still less could it give any pleasure to the palate to swallow pearls dissolved in powerful acids. But such was the rampant luxury of Caligula, in which he strove to imitate, or rather to outdo, the oriental Cleopatra. Cleopatra's Effects. The effects in lighting the palm bowers in the east room of the White House and those planned to amuse the Gridironers | are not rew. Cleopatra used the idea with | telling effect when she went up to capture Mark Antony at Cilicia. She dined and wined the Roman general as he had never | been entertained before. But of all the surprises which the voluptuous Egyptian | perpetrated, nothing so enchanted him as the sudden descent from the ceiling of | clusters of lights, which were cunningly arranged in circles and squares, “so that the whole spectacle was one of indescrib- able beauty.” | The Roman senators were as mighty at (dinner as they were at debate, and one | who had a capacity for consumption of food that was a match for that of the glutton, Caligula, whose viands he was | Surrounding, was on the spot made praetor by the delighted monster. The Roman | emperors seem to have been born gluttons. | Claudius, who followed Caligula, used to spend enormous sums for food, upon which he gorged himself almost to’ suffocation. “It was the duty of one servant to tickle | bis throat with a’ feather, when he could |then reiieve himself so as to continue, one historian relates, though it seems credible, that a human being could be so beastly. In a favorite dish of mushrooms, Agrippina, his wife, to whom he had grow hateful, mixed poison. Xenophon, Claudius’ physician, whose duty it was to apply the | feather, ran a poisoned one down the im- perial throat and finished him. Galba, who followed Claudius, is said to have done nothing but eat and drink while he was awake. Vitellus, whom Gibbon characterizes as “the beastly,” spent $6,000,000 on his table in six months. Flamingoes’ tongues was one of the tid-bits he indulged in.” One of the | notorious gluttons was Apiceus, who dis- covered the means of preserving oysters jalive. He had a fortune of $5,000,000, which he dissipated in searching for dainties to please his ennuid palate. One day he found that only $100,000 of his wealth remained, and through fear of starvation he entered his bath and cut the arteries in his wrists. | Fortunately nobody found him until he was too dead to resuscitate. He wrote a cook book, at least one is extant as a curi- \osity which bears his name. Lucullus’ Splendor. “Fit for Lucullus” is a compliment often |paid to the dinner which has rivaled all predecessors, yet not many know why. The palace of the great Roman general, Licinus Lucullus, was at Naples, where, surround- ed by splendid gardens, moats | fish ponds, and pleasure pavilions,the owner gave banquets that startled even his own extravagant world. When he dined alone his table was covered with the magnificent and costly Tyrian purple, and his plate was ‘set with precious stones. He had for di- versity, when sitting in solitary state, danc- ing girls and music, and the dishes of the |Vericus courses were as numerous as though for a regiment. “When Lucullus dined with Lucullus,” he once stated, “the ccstliest only would please.” Cicero and Pompeius asked to dine with him one day to see if his boasts were true. The only word he sent to his servants was that he would dine that day in the “Apollo room,” and he did not mention that he expected | guests. His servants understood, however. Lucullus had various dining rooms, and for each a certain sum was set aside to be expended for the dinner—or meal—to be jeaten there. When Lucullus mentioned the | Apollo room the servants knew that 50,000 drachmas, or in the neighborhood of $1,500,- 000, was to be spent on the meal, and in the few short hours they spent that’ sum. Augustus was something of a gourmet, though it is said of him in apology that he never drank more than a quart of wine at a sitting. 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Ave. 123. | We Have Trunks } iH —that are absolutely non-smashable, We sell them for $9 and $12, peets of his time, of whom he pleasantly remarked that ‘he t like tragedy, be- tween si 2 Virgil, suifering trom a difficulty of breathing, and Horace, | being afflicted with w ey I know no what good things may have been eaten, but Iam sure that many good things were | said.” Augustus articularly fond ot brown bread, green cheese and green figs. | He was also fond of apples, cucumbers and | lettuce, and he ate n he got hungr; Tiberius, who followed his Uncle Augus- tus, resigned to Sejanus, his minister and his favorite, nearly ail his authority and power that he might give himself over to a revel of profligacy. He was devoted to the pleasures of the table, and paid $50,000 for the compilation of a dialogue, in which the author trented of the meri qualities of thrushes, mus ane vod hrooms and oys- | iron ch nda cide Club are not fertile in- genuity of this i emperor; of whom Dion tells this st “Having resolved to sive a dinner to s« of the hi of the Roman nobility he fitted up R partment s the ceiling, bl: were the walls, stone seats or all in black. the pavement, Dla '¢ tomb s $ raved, W as was thi \ h blac practice and must have a regular | ente around with tramp's paradise, “Every table, “trem motions prior t9 s venty shilling freeholder to al baked meats’ as were formerly set apart Te eee ccs Lak corn [for the dead. ‘The guests. sat allent and the table in the baron’s ha and abby re- terror stricke expecting every moment | fectory, was open to all comers with free to be put to de nd this the more be- | fare, bread, beef and beer.” Huspitaiity of cause Domitian broke the stillness with that sort if practiced now would soon Solem utterances on things pertaining to one veuniits ot the free dan | the future state of the departed. But when bankrupt @ Congressman, yet the free din- | 1. had sufficiently enjoyel his ghastly jest ner of old England and the “free” official and played with the apprehensions of his | 3 be dismissed them to their homes, presenting each with the silver cu; platter he had used in the gloomy ‘coen ‘4 who had waited on him.” In com- for the “copper” wedding this time, and Y axons, but feudal Home, The |Menting on this the writer properly ex- last brought their reward. The tamous ex-| every gift must be of that metal. Ia due ol beni GOON eealere, Sut. thes are jpresses doubt, “whether cup, platter and Plorer. Ba-on Nordenskiold, came to Mr. | course come the “silver? and “‘golien” wed-| far from being epicures, and just as far |Siave compensated the sufferer for the ter- Stein's aid with a tender of $1.00 and| dings, well known to us here, when, of | from being gluttons. The s would |Tible fright he had undergone.” the services of a zoologist by the name course, nothing less than presents of silver| have been clas: or in Ok-| It will be seen fri this that dinner of Ohlin. The proposed expedition was | and gold are offered to the happy couple. | jahoma diction, a3 ‘They | Souvenirs are as old as dining almost. Sad brought to the attention of the Geographical | " Mrs, Goemaere tells me that there are na-| swarmed over Italy, took sion cf a | to relate, too, the fad of haying dinner Soctety and the Societ f *. | turally many people who pass by this string | large part of France and finally dancers to € tain New Yor! four hun- * After a careful examination of the plans} of auspicious events in silence, but that| up in ingland, People of their dred in the privacy of a room, where the submitted by Mr. Stein the expedition was | when the occasion of a golden wedding bes| and temperament do not succumb high kickers’ toe makes itself vigorously 1 by each of these societies and | comes known, be the couple ever so humble, | tyranny cf appetite, though the familiar with the cut gi yendants of the id was tende the mayor of the town goes personally to| seemed to have lived very well. The | hand: is not original either. Herodias ndered amount congratulate them, and to offer them in the | quet table of the Saxons was danced before Herod at his birthday feast, the expedition wn's name two pieces of plate, upon| shape. The cloth was most ofte nd her pay was the head of John the be ne «ry to in-| which are engraved the arms of the town. | son with borders of cloth of tist. Even the introduction of Mr: mt to It is amusing to hear of the unique way in| chairs had concave backs and Brown Potter and h weddi No mention was made o and instead of courting he> e reversed n hands er o which my correspondent celebrated her cop- the @ situa- worked no sat at table as we do; that i to sandwiching the sexes. The Sax¢ princinally upon meat. Phey hal bi vegetable, and that was kaleworth. flesh and fowl were used ind minatel wre A select be habilitate e pant mus circus and the mon all worn thread- when Rome and din all presents, with which| ‘They also ate sea hog and p e, two | Was young, and w n the courses 1 her guests, nesdless to say,| dishes long since fallen into dis ‘They | of the nightlong banquets, gladiators | to their g-eat consternation “| had wheat bread, which was | for laurels and life, and rope dan eee eae silver baskets. Their only con ani piroueted above the flowers Fespurceful mat 3 pepper and salt. The meats w: Falernian. : Sing to discou-age him prosecution | gorlety with aerials herd aimee the eat” | boiled or broiled, and were hynded ahout ISABEL WORRELL BALL. of his plans, and the ch are that his of Buckingha: ich colary a nat-| DY the attendants. 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Showing the seer of ber art in rving youth and cultivating beauty, te books and is esti abel eee tebe since © Mme. Yale. Reserv ed seats at box office of theater, 50 cents. Lectures commence at 2:30 sharp. open at 2 o'clock. Grand musical program. Ladies Only. Ladies respectfully requested promptly sated at 2:30 pom - ee A SUGGESS IN HER OWN CASE. Mme. Yale WILL APPEAR IN Athletic Costume, And create a sensation on ber marvelous culti- vated beauty of face and form. Her Confidential Advice. L Ladies who attend this lecture will receive Mme. Yale's contidential advice and instructions, which cannot be obtained outside of this lecture. Gentlemen Positively Not Admitted. THE PROGRAM: How to devel ‘the bust. How to a How to ext. How to sleep. How to preserve health. How to cure female weakness. How to cure liver or kidney trouble. How to cure and rent consumption. Sy How to make the figure erect. Hiow to increase height. How to straighten the limbs. How to develop the limis and make them ——; How to make bands aad and sbapely. iow to make feet small and 6! 6 How to increase flesh. How to make fesh firm. a ae low to obtain perfect it. How ‘to ‘breathe. = How to live. How to remove wrinkles. How to cultivate natural beauty. How to become young again. How to preserve youth. How to obtain a perfect complexion. How to remove and cure *Ntuekbead =” ao" | Binet one. | Evzema, Sunburn apd Tan, Sallowress, Pi Coarse Hoces and any fora sf Complexion De Massage. Its importance and proper movements. How to make flabby flesh firm and youthful. How to restore the loss of contour. How to fill out sunken cheeks. How to make eyes clear, sparkling, brilliant avd beautiful. — to make a thin, scrawny end white = Row to make the cheeks naturally rosy. How to make coarse pores fine grained. How to make the brow smooth and white. How to make the mouth shapely. How to make the lips full and ruby red. 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