Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1894, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR,. SATURDAY, AUGUST ' | to be very comfortable, even though heavy | and clumay looking. with the solas | made of gutta-percha in place of leather are made ct the present time in Glasgow. A WORLD OF SHOES | Not, Maul “recently 'del they make shoes : right and loft, w! was, of course, a How Differ. tion: ainarked tauprovemeat aver the old style fferent Nations Have Been The substitution of latches instead of Curiously Shod. | THE SIMPLE SANDAL OF OLD f Queer Foot Coverings of the Middle eames THE WOODEN SOLE, - — Written for The Evening St buckles was a change in this century. Spar- | tan youths were taught to go barefoot, and the herees of Homer are described in his- tory as without shoes when prepare] for ANDALS OR SHOES in boti ancient | dern times h: bes used by S Nations aspiria, war. After th wk women wore, shoes Civiizatt-2. Th the 2 aly besrme= untyersst, | ee ae | Ret shoes were worn by the Spartan chi: Gin. atary shoe Is a magistrates monial ¢ those simple sandal, sisting of a hei le, to the foot Such to which the shoes of the peasautey of the lose resem ordinarily the p the period quring enatora were high, atul with an ivory like buskins, | ont. hoes were made of vartous lengths s covering the entire leg. The soften made of the skin of some imal with a ft the top that | ver hea wi » always al fr, usually purple or red, ornamented with colt and tmitation Imes the genuine gema were | uaed., Theos of Were deterally open at the toe, eo that that part of the foot wad loft exposet. Creat attention wns phd uring the fabhite water to tile portion of | dress, as well oa that of the head, | The choes were of Afferent colors aid the | stockings were dime unite each other, as | ©. sho making formed @ trade of tacit, During the Flan of Dermittet the atrects of Rome were teumbored with the atatte . the shoctickers The anofont Hebrew wore pelos of aandel Ornamortal the best, are still a hiury te the eas eovertng for the Homan’ feet Variod tn ot from the very simplest Banlal aid slippers to the Highly orn. 4, whieh extended the entire Jew When the entire foot was = 5. @rered by the shoe It wae termed ealoeus; EARLY Pim Well as thoy Were also unlike etther shoe Wh ooh The lang, pointed aloes, OWistod rem-ho Ihe, Wore Witter Hamed tntroduoed the Hoive, by a beam, Robert, mur The Horned. Bashion fought bit pion of the shoe, but Sane Very faahlonante, Hohard TE the potnt from knee, thin ehatn of old or Miver the tan role of hecame wo lone that a ohaln exter send of the being very fy About the too to the wd made Upper of @ partioular Brest strength and worn by the It diet war colied ealiaa. Th the Beripturos rete ty made to Gifferont symbotteal ws « in connection with bat shoes Asia ub ry a shoe “A man plucked off iin el sot Gave ft to hie notghber, and this War a testimony in b * eth tw: wild A Ioof new pr ship or occu Dancy in cases of thts kind was by throw: \ * ! “ tang. Vy JP ig { ze wi 5 at Windows of ® church were made, the clergy, popes and pablle officers gen. wally fou,it hard to drive this outrageous style of shoe from yse, and in Hab an paking two tnehes tn classes,” and were disearded at parlioment 1 shoe on a wit PF ocast) my athe From these anetent prac oe Kae aymbolionl of flainated the eur fant mod try. of the erty: “Over By (Peat bes with ~ tin whieh the tract, perhaps We ok) custom tn Bina rottand, and later I this eoun Me for good t Then the width of the shoe wan given tis share of attention, the whith becoming se sHppere after a brite an ' portion for thelr new hen Gome of the arty mandala were out se i shape wre 1 ueeW Mary Peatyiotel the whith th “a ches, 1h the BINtecHIn eontiny bia : to OF We hoot wae eonaptenoue for te we ext of 8 | ones Avacnaland Te many easem they Were MO WKS Hhat the Wearer could moareely thay iwate The heat im throaty wae the ladies! abe whieh, while tt te ty et very biah ' saa aime tite ~pf. yo and a pe 8 ea, The oo we » had tts day for enormous pro bs ; Chinese shoes worn by the ladies of = high rank are certainly very strange ang be Bago ons te ae ungatural n childhood the growth o thelr feet is reatrieted Wy at suffering bs the cos y inches in fength not adop Dandages and Wh able to Wear a shoe thr The humbler eb this style to a great ex small feet being a mark of high rap Japanese shoes are stilted or set up on two blocks to a wooden sole with beautiful slik uppers. ‘The patron saints of shoe- akers have long been regarded as St. Crispin and his brother Crispintan, Aco ecrding to the mediaeval legend these per- sonages were natives of Rome, and having become converts to Christianity traveled m \ country in 18m’ fatled because of the very Umited demand Clogs, known dlso gs pattens, are mace of leather or other material, with a wooden sole. The sole and hect are made of some hard wood, about two inches thick, a Iittle larger aml witer than the desired size. ‘These clogs are worn mostly in damp, sloppy places, where the feet would be ruine? and rheumatism take possession of the entire system If rubbers or ordinary leather were. worn. Agricuiturists and peasunts generally wear these on the con- into oe and France preaching their faith, supporting themselves by making shoes, which were sold to the poor at mai velously low prices, one part of the legend being that angels supplied them with the leather. Toward the end of the third cen- tury it Is said they suffered martyrdom. The memory of St. Crispin, of whem we chiefly hear, has, from time immemorial, been observed and kept up by various kinds of festivities and processions in his honor, and on October 25, this day being known as “St. Crispin'’s Day,” amusing anecdotes are told in spin Anecdotes” and a paper called St. Crispin. So Serious Drawback. From Puck. t, as do alro lumbermen, In our own Sas and also that of England these t—“I don’t about doing these clogs are worn by dyera, tanners, workers to ope hit tinge oe fm sugar refineries, chemical works, &c. tariff 7 On the theatrical stage we often see these | Editor—“There ought to be good money in usually better made, | it.” a pm Bhar finely ‘carved, with fancy tope. paneer But when, 3, et, aan sae ot ae stage, as they are are likely to be it for publication,’ CLEARING TRACKS ; | How Railroad Wrecks Are Handled by Skillful Hands. An Object Lesson Furnished During Chicago's Great Strike. pn WRECKERS FROM THE eo. Written for The Evening Star. ITH THE EXPER- fences taught by aim- ilar events as the great labor troubles recently occurring in Chicago and the west, the managers of the roads entering * that city with — eastera connections — found themsel prepare} to offset the work of their striking employ- es. This applies in the matter of clear- ing away debris created through fre and wrecking of trains and engines, Each di- vision of an egsiera road has Its w crew, and among this body of track clearers are to be found several men Who are parttcularly adapted to this kind of work. They take as much pride in the Handling of mon and derricks as an engl joes of an pd thes exceptionally good locomo- quick handling of certain Wrecks attain a reputation that spreeds the entire road. struction of property im Pitta. burg in in the way of engines and cores and loss of time throtith the block- ding of tracks, warned the im rs of What they eould exp et when the signal to HME Work *was civen i Chicago, Brom eae one the Wrecking erewa of the eastern end of the roads contain men of Known ability in their tine ww selected wd eiehed toward the witdy elty. It ia Hot Heveraary to tel here of tie Hany han droda af care burhed Ih the Chieaga yande or the focontatives Kile or derail eh [Phew Mon OM AEFIVINR at ENO deatl Hation, Found ool ti Cenk aiiles ane files Of Lrtek blookaded With the deb of ears And locomotives end In many. placed Che ets amt tier bmrned and twiaiod, Maw they Handiod themaelves in this trying sit Hatin demonatratod that thet wuphoy ore Kiow with whom they were dealing and TUPHished much eauie for wonderment on (he art of the western prow and thou. | andy af anteokers, In three daya' tine the | Fore Wayne yerd, which was nald we | (he center af th (rouble, wan cleared of all How and Pally pat down Hs Were on the spol to prevent whee at the work of doatruction: He Wreckers Neen, Wy Of the mombore of the Hull wemblod one wiht rocontly eh of the Hie oll howe dowa on ene, to Hsten to the aooount Kiven by ane of Lot mombers of hin tip to | Chleato aa one of the Wreekors, This man Waaa bla, burly fellow, with »! Milder that appeared yw yard wero, and ached hit Knees, When obatruetion, end che to mean Hleyed int Wiocking crew of this city gene fouth from Washington, tre being talon care ot by the Mattr wpa ny ally work ka north ve w The reading publle frequently comer acroms kin brought that & Rood AeCOUNL of how a Wee at but it it not wiven the detathy of how the deb away, Tis an interesting #icht wreck handled by leneod poclally Hf you a hing of a pradtleal wn of mind 1 ony Dappens that a Hyoting alin rom a eat window Is about alt the Traveling public oom at a. Wreck, ead three-fourths thank thelr lucky) stars that they were not nearer when the damage before them was wrought An Bvening Star reporter, knowing of the wreeker's return from Chicago and bellov= Ing that he would make a bee Hine for his old vaunts the Rall and ‘Te Chub r Ns day's work was done, ha Pha by about five minutes, and often it ele tu see m the crowd that weleomed him when he put nit atypentanc The wrecker waa a faltly good taker, and knowing what the hove were walting for, Immediately began to tell the atory of Nie trip. the exeittine bn ehienta therein losing nothing through the He salt telling ta He pentone Fomohed Pittehuns, with elalt 1 found about twiee that a “When t compa ntone: ” er there Writing for na, and tomother w iahed on ta the avene Of tranhte Hote tale oF the den ft aathoret (hit eoeh A every one Td heen Cieonah the satin exportonoe t fone, CO en Holy horror of betel, hey have a Ly FaaOn Of HeonbiiG Hon onela head whew @h Work ftid eprty bing Who Ww for dave ata Chine Alot tt aaeed Thal We Won aOOn@r tule Oi aiahend wlth a etray bullet, aa a eile da the ty whe of a fhiter Te het early ae danwerie ae ry Wetek When We arrived th Ciena we were eaeh IVER Cohatie OF AbOuE lWwentetve men a Wreeling var and a deri, When Wo started for the yard te elean ap the mat jlonaeite the Cracks Whtapered aolt noth ee to 4s, be they say In a hevel In the Way of profanity that made my feah eree Vhe sight before us was something terri! wi went way aby me under my exp 88, y my car ve 1h toted ld the men to tie low, owt to look the situation ever, In the masa in Tront of me were burned vars and halt. destroyed locomotives mixed together in a manner that 1 knew would take hard work to unravel, 1} mapped out my plan of ate tack and gave the order to begin, Some of the cars had enly the trucks and iron trin- anatgnod wd I went pings left, which were knit like lactlee work. Tt is wot ful hew the Jo: iron brace rods of a ¢ mnsely ectopu in reach, We ha mass nm we brought cables and up to get a good hold. ‘th out heavy drag ropes and w tled them around the mess. ‘Then I eave the signal to the engineer to back away, but It was no good, the wreckuge held to. gether like that mass up at Jobnstown that Was plaited with barbed wire. Then L tried jerks, but snap went the ro and we had to dodge for our life, as you all know an elephant’s trunk {fs not in it with a broken rope under such circumstances, “Then I took to untying the mass piece- meal; parts of it were dragged here and there out of the road; some of Te rolled down a convenient embankment. We had orders not to lose time tn trying to save anything, and those are the orders for me. It was simply @ mash together and drag away. Me Met His Match, “We had a comparatively easy thing of it, considering the surroundings, and after we had done our share of the work in that lo- eality, my crew, with the car and engine, were ordered a considerable distance out on the road, where two locomotives had been thrown into a deep canal, Here I met my match for the first time. I ran the en- gine on the little bridge and decided to re- Trove them by means of tackle let down from the bridge, beng = strengthened by temporary braces for the purpose. po dBc blocks were big affairs, made espe- cially for this purpose. Two of them had four sheaves each, and two had five. They had frames of boiler plate, sheaves of cast iron, and weighed about 0 pounds apiece, the steel cables used with them having a engih of about thirty-three tons. “One of the engines was easily attached to these tackles and pulled out on dry jand, but the under engine knocked me out. It seems that the strikers when they ditched these engines also ditched several cars of river sand,and this mass had wrapped itself around the under locomotive. The wrecked sand cars had been pulled out the dey be- fore we arrived on the Pig This second locomotive lay buried in sand, and the Trae only place where we @pyld attach a tackle ‘was at the smoke-stack hole. After ig three cables and #earing the sheets around the hole withgut:ibudging the loco- motive this plan wals abandoned. I then gave orders to use dynamite anda hole was then blown in the tep-of the poller, but when the tackle was made flast to this hole the boiler plates were torn apart and the flue sheet started without altering the "| position of the enginelin any way. WORKING HARD TO SAVE TIME “You see, there was t five feet of wa- ter over the engine, and Of course what lit- tle shoveling of sand‘Wwds done would be | quickly washed back. ‘All this time about a thousand strikers woald ‘chip in with sar- castic suggestions, and yo& can rest assured { was not willing to ackhowledge defeat. “After taking a shoft fest, during which time we all tackled a good lunch and talked the matter over, we again went at that lo- comotive. I hitched both tackles to one of the forward driving wheels, and while the cables were strained as tight as possible charges of dyramite were fired In the sand sbout the engine. The driving wheel was pulled off the axle in this way, and the frame was pulled out of place, but otker- wise this attempt was frultless. Again we held a consultation, and, as time was val- uable, the fob was given up. As we packed our traps in the car and prepared to leave you should have heard the shouts and jeers those strikers gave us. It was a sort of victory for them, and made us all hot une cer the collar, but we had to take our med- icine, Value of Hydraulic Jacks. “Our next assignment took us onthe out- skirts of the city, and up against a lot of cars that had been Jammed together and Scattered over the tracks, but not set on fire, Of course, we tried {n this instance to save as much property as possible, and the clearing away process was slower. Sup- pose a car weighing, with its contents, about eighty thousand pounds, had its trucks knocked from under it, but not oth- erwise Injured, This was the sort of Job that could not be handled easily, as it would not do to haul the car out of the Wreek with pulleys and tackle. Then, boys, { played my right bower in the shape of hydrauliv Jacks. You know that [have pall particular attention to these jittle lift. crs, and the way we handled them made the onlookers out there open thelr eyes. hese Httle hydraulic pres ful helpers on a wreck traln. ald one man can Ufc twenty With ons a foot a t minute. y are nothin, we than small portable es, worked on exactly the same p as the cotton press that is tsed go mush down south, After we had ‘leaned up the wreekage at that polnt—a Job the strikers said would take us two ‘lays at least, when we had done It in three hours one of them yelled at me that hete: after they would burn the wroektag outnt fitat and ears afterward. “For a couple of days after we had clear: el Up the Wreekage prineipally caused by the great fre a majority of the wreekint erewe were Kept hay answertng walle Where the striiters had derailed ears of “Killed! an ening Th this dine of work the atribe Were experta, and had th leon Wthdora of the property deatraye they shh have done the trick quteler oF Hope effoottvely Afier eaoh of thy runeoute by the differ they Ad ealleet in a lane yal the oont tant at a fo the ow wer mbers of Ha Hut Would Hot the any pa thigerss oontident ate or go Out as AyD arguments bam that wad mew here in the cast are a more Intelligent elo, One day while We were walling Cor a eall a out frat the strikers came tite) the room and endeavored to wet Che entire party to tesert the company. Vou should have Heard the arponienty ane af the men from wivanioud amalnet the strive. Pitladel, wh ert the roc in ding, and f really had waited an hour would ha ved to work, Of Hitt at leeie had nothing te the ettike It Was simply a case ef showing BEFORWEN On Khe part of Che Amer: can Unlon, and in the free ef the hard tines It Wan a erlminal transaction to call SUE the Chen And MaKe Choon mutt A Mt “Tt to return to our work ax wrcekora, With the green hands in the dim 1 knew it would be only a matter whe Ume when our servic wou be 4 to clear away wreekage th which several good, honest mon would be burted, It came five days after we landed in Chit cogo, A young mon acting ax switehman, whe, no doubt, was working to Keep from starvation, bho one proper place was t the W dry BUCH KtY Ja, ewiteh in front of @ fast-moving t train, ‘Phe train had fad tr Ket+ Ung ont of tho stock yards and waa making All powutble speed to et out of the elty, 1 minplaced wwiteh threw the train onto @ aiding that held seve led cont and ran alongs ok warehou fo were savers 1 the ora came, Wut on mbling w ally and splintering cara came to our ae through a good-working telephone five minutes’ time our entire party " ® follower t ‘ound and the wrecking close after, ‘The engine had shot onto. th aiding, struck the ¢ ears and ’ shed off Into the atte of the warehoude, weluging that eftuctire down upon the heada of the luckleat engineer and fire man, Hoth were Killed, but the man that turtied the awiteh fe ati on earth, OF course, De didn't do tt on purpose, but tte Mon sepee ebould have told him that se phyateal pequtromonts were lacking for ehoa poaltion, (hwo dave after (hat wreok Wo started for home, and Pi mlad te be counted anee Make Ar an eAaternh men Os fatten frothe ont at Chea have ple the ehte af thiwe Chat ate mlvoon tity ernment eontiol of the radibandiy MW WH Hat he a sae oF teal ant Coe att HoH ae WHET fe ive mento ta he Gey ellie putes and a rH conaldona tion ap tle tees Gra Che eqiplaves Of eontan, & CL HeeomaHiont WHEN A TW edie He Weoule TL We CHA Taye every TiN OO AWA Wa Ve de probabhy Hite Hew hae Che nie ferlal Gatiitee Peau tina? Aram Palltead: ae vitenta Haye fa be hore da tha emplaves WUE Gov Who, ano Tivest iva lion, ane found tah Heed Honk, anid Aram wise salaviow Vb wdualy deduetad bread of a ease of an employe stationed at Hor We whe for fourtoon yea hat had to submit to a dedueth iL pequires abe teen fo work aft hia indebted: hess, 1 that suit the Ameri | suppore we want government The French National Tipple and Its Great Consumption. Absinthe Has Taken the Place Largely of Wines. eee eee = SCIENTISTS CONDEMN IT Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, July 30, 1894. BSINTHE IS ONE of the special marks of Paris. Whether you be on the Boule- vard or at Belleville, the green drink, at the “green hour,” as they call it, ls a marked feature of the landscape. In general this drink takes the place in Paris | which we \ Americans give to rie *> war whisky, rum, gin, brandy and our cocktails and mixed drinks. in Paris absinthe means strong alcohol; that is the central truth, It is the strongest form of alcohol for drinking pur- poses. The “absinthe” part of it, the herb, is, in comparison, almost a mere accessory. The most peculiar feature is the bour or hours of drinking. It is the safeguard of Parisians that they regard the drinking of thelr absinthe out of certain hours as @ gross ple of tener. ance and bad taste, Kew people ta the smarter sections of the city dare ta brave the wwalter’s olevated eyebrows of thelt Nelahbor's looks of curtoua anmusement, which ate sure to follow a demand tor ab. sinthe after Nineh of after dinner, Nven at hight, at midnight, of at 2 adm, ab: sinthe may hot bea drunk, Absinthe ia an “aperttif’ a drink which people take to waive them Appetite and tranquiliae the herves before @ meal Along with absinkte, there are Many other aperitifa-vermouths, eens Gad proprletary Hoatrume, all served With the water bottle and cracked tee tn summer As in the taking of absinthe, all Hess, 1h meneral, Mut be dttuted with at least throe times thelr welrht In water, You tetvk thei all from aobleta, sitting on the sidewall, on the “terrace” (as they eall ip of the cate, Verisians Make wreat account the luneh and dinner, fast ie nothing but & awallow of coffee and # Poll ar alioe of bread, Kven workingmen clerks are therefare given longer noon ix in Parte than even well-todo folks of thelr Hreake take In our own elth The noon hour te a little fh Whon people seek to forget that they workty f thelr Master and man go off ie ltl Wack te intent on mooting at rant the with whom t ‘ and joked: y of baal. wool hour and @ Thin is from Tam, to ¥ do not da tmmedtately ta eat: wit upon the aldewalk, at the tp joy cafo'x He tabley, oven in the winter time, vb They my friends @rink — Set ey ta ae ache Shade of danger, take notice). “disorders which affect | suspect, along with the great especially the great nervous functions, the | Parisians, that the doctors make & sensibility, the moter power and the mental | it, confow the i effects of faculties” will be observed. These “acci- | dents” gen. take several years, it ts | said, before they show themselves; though “they may be with very clear characters at the end of eight or ten months, or a year, especially with young women from eighteen to twenty years of ge.” with those of absinthe. The absinthe must regularly be drunk (ever fiends) diluted with at least three t its weight In water, and that it affords pleasure but a stomach ache, heart Garrhoea and headache when taken meals, makes It appear to be a safer ti It has another advan- it makes one tipsy after than our whisk | Second glass, ft seldom seems to make one lose his judgment as to ordinary thi On the other hand, vou will see some rervous, cranky rinkers, The reader may wish to know what seems to be the truth to a mere unscientific ob- server, a frequenter of the boulevards. The present writer lives within a stone's throw of the boulevard; he passes the cafes con- Unually, and frequents them. He sees the clients and he knows their faces. He has | seen the same folks year in, year out—-bust- hess men, grave men, men of affairs, young | officers; strong, bearty, solid clerks, who must be up at 7 a. m, who would not dare to trifle with their futures. They are all the same. Perhaps there are some lacking. But one seems to see the same folks always, always drinking at their paregoric-smelling goblets, very decent, never drunk, and ab a taking their one glase and one glass only. As to the women (most often of a special class) the truth is that they take to ab- sinthe as the ducks take to water. Ladies seem to have a special taste for all these medicated drinks. There are reapectabie observers who declare that amy one who takes a look througtr the cafes at the especial hour of 5 p. m., no matter in what quarter of the capital, will tind that women have accustomed themselves, almost uni- restraints of the French hw not the example and the tone of people | living in a cast-iron routine, it is a very dangerous thing to tamper with the green drink. STERLING HEILIG, FOUR DAL see - ‘TY BONNIOTS. Tn possession of as many summer bonnets | as her youthful fancy desires you find | Bittle folk extremely happy. The quain’ and most irresistible affairs imagmable the sunbonnets, decked out in very versally, to drinking absinthe. Lt must be borne tp mind that ¢ in France the wife goes with her husband always, as an equal, to the cafe and the restaurant. Making ac- count of this fact and of the very general Fature of the observations of these ob- tervers and of the special case they have to prove—or else not write their books—1 thimk that the American will be surprised to find how many decent, sober women, self- respectful, genteel, well-dressed and nice mannered, frequent the cafes and the saloots am@ drink absinthe, amer ptewn and vermouth, without offense and to the great advantage of good order and @ peaper at- Morph ere. Creates a Special Reee. ‘The greet thing, what the spectalists | capes emt very dep poker affirm and wat the Hquor setters haif ad- | thon made of mit, te thet the ladies very, very often | white wit take thelr absinthe neat In dainty eotore dimity are sold for 6148 tn © ery dainty plot deswan, they im Uttle glasses | are very pretty. The baby fee te tremed without water, There tay be. thetetoro, a | in a Mil of Abmaty, and vary homer aed teva simple feesen why they drink tbelr aly strinee are weed, Beantifad sunbomreta, sinthe pure a reason which the specialiate have beet too buay writing hooks te come across. The slinple reason why the ladies drink thety that they are ¥ come taht th their cor ta, apy J hiee, and heturally they ean Tot take a tarde amount of water in it, be sauee they have to eat thett dinner after van, They Want the abeinthe taste tte effect, They alms want thelr When @ woman wants two Ubinas she docs Hot ive Up eltier Rhe takes beth at Makes them work What the 4 the ladiva’ ¢ (and abaint othe rae ma if rf very wort poklent and mal ady, @iven over to impotenou and Mity, the Pace goon dinappear The family dus out, What all the spectalis that "the jon of chronic ar ; tary alooholiam in worthy of the highest attention of legislators, whe, wh ai Wa wpa both from very Wall oonth all tts made of white Mw, oprte | Rowleot tt, tn 8 conta, Kor somedhing in shade hate that zale le Uaelt ta wor Washes te porfeetyon, chambres Mme. @ Franov, « founda aC whew cond tion, they aride wh warntngs, they look at all the passertby and sip thelr drink, Anne drink fr abminthe, Drink Me tn s Ny slow degrees thoy feel their Ured backbones strengthen and bralna grow clearer, and they feel a tou of happiness, It i ao pleasant to ait | rk ing at the street and all the pretty ladies passing by, The pre but one glass, Mav into er thing It to take In quantity this ta about a ira wings of the green drink, Poursd ur woblet by the waiter, tt does not m much, You AU the goblet up with water, watch It turn a milky-sage tint, with ine opal glints one learns to love so |, stir up the mixture with your spoon, small sip end let tt rest. You ale ways drink | in small sips or mouthfula, Ht the work!) grows brighter. Memo cy, denilntion hope and courage find a gentle stimulation, Now, tnat ta nice, In general, absinthe is considered by the arent mane of Partelana to be practienll {noffeusive. ‘The aringer, Hanis ter t to one lana be ve ope mlasi or hiner will take no 1 He Suede nko W nthe Neat, Aas we hin Whisky, ‘The great bylk of thd water awel Mn {he ® onviely ae junk Behn the hour taf tunch of dinher) no ohe waate to tpoll ie appetlt they think Whore In ainnll danaor thay any gn will “itt more than his one plaae of two ‘hina 8 Th MHIMMNER, expecial nA) peteoable, fine captivates pitiate. {f Nie peculiar and ppat ext! Harrane, Tile franvat whit ” arewe te Ww t ate Jn Hontont ' thon te tale He tateod (Wo atinitem, therefore, fy, When foe water the very wealt He atte The em Von WH A THA year OF Hite The neon Alona aA Hak bloated Hite a) new Wabitie of (he dpeen hone When the HW Heer etd Ha Hi batoat tia: Wtiied He wilt Hntite Hie dla tortie be (he bad qiatily AP dloohol oniphired Ti Hie Che a beiithe WE WET moti Penman Poe miedh taate WE Baler at cette fas Wide bed aboot, Sieh aa The maker Would Hat dare ta pul Wh other Hyena You Will alwaye Hoar the absinthe drinier say, “Phe her which t called absinthe Gwormword) 14 not hart It te the Manufactircd spirits In which It ta steeped which are impure and work the mischief," However tie this may be in part, it ts y but want it with everything Mu favor of the employe and Unels fant ta oot the bills." tee Hachelor Uousekeoping, Prom the Somerville Jou He ts a bach e you can make a mem— Life tan't play, ps tn all the beds in m3 * ° bes Wife's fac i ee how tht Bi tof, in pi ‘That things would’ stay, whpre they were left While her dear hubby wy bereft, ‘The bureau drawers aretha pulled ou With shirts and orks e(ryttt all about? rs w tH one day a shirt she'd pussnay. ‘The parlor hasn't once heer! swept, His old etgar stunipe hg tian Kept Upon the center table, whe: ere chanced to bo w Suni place bare, nt, though Da sered a@ bachelor ke re Mase, le will grow withéat a doubt As iong ns the supply nuts Then he'll brace up, when ubed confronts, And wash the whole lopap at once, The whole house has a 'y alr Of stale tobacco; eve Nevwapapers litter up. thet fibor— could tell you ofsaueh more ft his dear wite of it, Would’ make her fall down'in a at: Ob, things have gone gone to wreck and wrack White she’s away, And you can bet when she comes back ‘Life won't be play. ' ——+0- Tobaceo Caw Loss of Memory. From the Cinetnnat! Commercial Gazette. ‘Those ennoying and unaccountable lapses of memory experienced when one is unable to recollect sone well-known word or the name of some perfectly familiar friend sare attributed by a French physlologist to the excessive use of tobacco. This gentleman has observed that aphasia and amnesia are at present almost unknown among the gen- ter oon. On the other hand, he has nearly invariably found these affitctions common in men who are habitually heavy smokers, while in cases where they are only of rare eceyrrence he has frequently known theven- tin extra dose’ of the fragrant weed. at an ex of the nt Ww Pow: assured comforting, ‘ever, to by the same authority that a moderate use of Pipe or cigar is in no way harmful to the mem- Hot true as to the devilish Hitie herb, Ne- searches, tine and again, have proved that the very priveiple of absinthe is harmful, Physiologists, like Drs, Magnan, Cadeac and Meunier, have, in their selentifie cruel- ty, produced epileptiform attacks on dogs by the injectio ¢ a emall quantity of the essence of wormwood, They regard this as conclusive, Hesides the absinthe and the alcohol there ts added to the absinthe of commerce such substances as hyssop, fennel, wert | China aniseed, angelica and mint. All these have been experimented on with dogs, with the result of classifying them Into two groups. One Is eplleptizing group, with absinthe at the head on ac- count of its potsonous qualities, then hys- sop and fennel. The second group is that of stupefying herbs, embracing all the others named. According to Dr. Lancereaux, “absinth- ism’ (it appears that he wishes to speak against the alcohol in it) has ved ite right to @ special nume. In his medical clinies on intoxication in all forms the doctor has given ogee 3 chapters to acute absinthism, chronic absinthism and he- reditary absinthiem. This latter, if you be- leve the specialists, is the crying evil of all France. Nevertheless, it appears to be very much equivalent to mere hereditary alcohdlism, ard you will have great diffi- culty in reading thelr books and mono- graphs to determine when they are attack- ing the special drink called absinthe or the alcohol, which forms, after all, its real bulk and ts the real intoxicant. it must always be remembered that alccholized or absinthized French parents who transmit a taint to gy omg ig are not drunkards in our sense. y do not get wild and go Whooping round. They do not spree and sober up next day, You never see thom drunk and you Mis Nap oma them a. Th along all, a through es: Goes | through the mcnth. They are cohstantly in tension, screwed up, rg fas only great alcoholic drink, are often alcohol under the name of absinthe. Women Drink It. Nevertheless, it is only right to know what epecialists have said, although the great bulk of the pupils here tn Paris do rot take much stock In them, According to Dr. “Lancereaux the person who makes © continual use of absinthe or similar Uquors (vermouths, amers, etc.) no longer presents the “convulsive crises” waich when they of aloohe te This and take absinthe. tne luce of WE aming Of absinthe has been a slow dy xvowth in France, ‘This ts the peullar because of the fact that sake of Intoxtea 46, Whisky Is not know and rum, like brandy, ts only taken aft dinner, ina tiny glans, Heret ple have had the ancient habit wine in all the ancient freedom has been the opening wedge t the wine-drinking habit, Tt ts laughal to how absinthe drinkers take thelr year by year, Men who dined Absinthe thing. brim, a whit for the small to r third \ not ¥ that the comparative downfall of t theater in Paris during the i K fve ¥ iw due in arent wart to Jate dining, foliow- ing on late drinkigg in the gfternogn, Even more han Matte, Wie tonuth of Fran eres an example of this vhange of waye in drinking. The people of the aouth of France dong! ath, with teagon, that thetr wine no Jonger beings ite prt Th vi ie Pasar ie the Alps, the detiere of 4 hat launder of YOUNK Kitls fashionable eiraw hate a pade, with a h Tam-o -thanter « and have a quill at the wide, Silk be for dress-up occasions are trimmed harrow ribbon chiffon, » i a hot for sty’ . be etraw ha ir erraneal, aif t. Hainthe end vor Mouth ay x Wont number And " thers, wi i Jom 4 Whieh te feminine and chardetorlatio of tha mouth, (hey ent the ‘Sordinn tivet hy tolin hele aportt fore ang After Hien plains 1 te het ow two ah the Anat eee Wo Te WHMHer Wael he very Dien, at in Perpinan, fr in certain lane FA IEY Che prey et my thelr own iy Wi OF Haman the Instead serve a aiiall Carafe af absinthe, aut Which the ellont aay wet two fale wlan Hut he ts obliged to stop thepe or Puy an ather When I say two glassen | uurse, Wine glassed, Hefore eparture, When they gaye (Re Were being ruined Throughout France, alt ru down und 4 % ave ‘ ie making wand te oF wud plea dn the Country Vaatian wever a Chougler - fost of Peed Per Head ta herons, don 0 “ tives Dae Hie, spreading ThA exaggerated consumption of wb. | A. Fraweh eileus ie jurval wives we sinthe prevaila equally in the rminme eoun- | Stel tone. Burceenn Gath wh tries of the south, In many of the dix. | Dead of variaus, Burbaan nat - tricta absinthe has become the current | MMelehman ts at the head, ani bottom of te list in the sian at th them come, and belwoen owing gr the drink, It is drunk even at the table, mixed with water, Thus absinthe has Jermans, the Spaniards and tnd &n Important factor In soctal life, What it | Ye aie Gamametion a & =| all means ts simply this; When people | ino pelishman ie at the top, and ¢ learn to take strong alcohol mere wine be- | jan comes last. ‘PhecPrenchman dsm comes insipid. As to absinthe in particular, | and after him ts the German, the mth ita special flavor, strength ard moderate | #!4% lige price unite to make it popalar; and with its | bread the or ere arkably cham pularity it has become, among the sober | It rune as fol ee a French, the opening wedge for other » Free! man Spaniard = ie ie ek Hf, ‘not intrinsically as strong, indeed, but | To the Engieamed Sigarently — practi stronger, being taken without aft of ite,” ae, 0 rene, a ‘water. jare frum and brandy, In | pleasantry. He rep! t iarwel (45-4 Paris (as In Berlin) the “distillation” or | toes. 7 mal! of ~ by rit shop ja daily gaining ground. In the | the Italian ts account for by his pare ris sul at Belleville, as at La Gla- | tality for other forms of cereal food, su clere, fn Quartier of the Termes fr | 88 polenta from maize, and the divers prepe the Faubourg Saint-Astoing, by the Fau- | rations of wheaten four paste, spagherth bourg du Temple, in the Faubourg Saint. | m™4acarom, etc. On the whole, the Mnglish- Martin, in the Rue Montmartre and in the | ™&®® pays# most and _ the least. Maral as at Batignolies, these stand-up ~ = eee — drinking bars are gaining increased cus- The Rock on Which They Sprit. tom daily and are ar & inereasing in | prom Puck. number. Everywhere in the fab- = rheme fi poorer q - Boxall—“Well, }ow's your scheme for @ sinthe is 8 cents a glass (its price in the co-operative colony coming on?” rich quarters is 10 cents a gianss), At 3 Kimball—"Oh, we've a ee cents the business is still profitable, es st hened as it is by the sale of rums, xall-—“But I thought you were all so Sontiee ani 2 franc bottles. All these | enthusiastic?” ‘made ‘Kimball—“So we were till we came to plan Saco out the work. ‘Then we found that everys body wanted to edit the communtty paper. —_ ‘The Latest Thing. From Clothier and Parvisher, \ industrial alcohols from and alcoholates of every kind. They make ainsette, kummel, extracts of fruit, taflas and all the rest. As to the absinthe itself