Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STA IN MANY LANDS Waiter Cirls That One Meets in Traveling Abroad. SUR —— AP E 10 THE TOURIST LEA How the Maids Are Costumed in Different Lands. THEIR WAYS AND LOOKS — - ial Corre ence of The Evening Star, PA Au rs ‘OURIST WITH A taste for taking notes & an »pile on “Waiter That I Have For instance, pretend the do not ha atter girls in pul his true. I do not know the Terks of Tu A and I do not want to ow them. But mg the mixel states of the lower far below Belgrade, there is an isl- and in the mighty river, just at the frox where Hungary; Reumanin and Se pother,. The town is Orsova. Budapest Orsova onthe fine Daaube ners is a eharming grip, too much ne- ed. Upgn this isiaad in the center of to Face ¢ has been dri the dirty ecst, m back, back to where* they belong. They A Turkivh Watter. have some mixed blood in their veins, and distance from their feilow countrymer gether with the intluence of the races dwell- ing all around them, had its influence on their heathen customs. Fetv travelers come who are not we hy. The island is not far from the ultra-fashionable Hercules Eaths, to which the rich Hungarians of B retreat in simmer. And so there are more fine cafes shtful pleasure gardens on that isimd than you might And on that island you see Turk- aiter girls. The real home of the pr Germary. The blonde gi land, pink-cheeked, biu iter girl is is of the father- yed and laughing, ithy, are the best ae Im the Fatherland. adapted to a trade Whieh has its complica- tions for more complicated natures. They will sit upon your lap and drink your beer from your own mug while you are feeding them with sausages in one hand and big boiled potatoes in the other. This leaves the fraulein one hand free with which to scratch herself. In Berlin not so long ago they had some controversy on the subject— not of scratching. for the nimble sand flea does net admit of controversy in the gar- dens of Borussia—but of waiter girls tn beer cafes. They were so numerous that they were put to painful competition. In the competition there grew up abuses. In the business quarters there arose establish- ments where the variety stage entertain- ment of the night went on all day. There was the ordinary cafe concert stage, where girls sang patriotic and sentimental songs, in chief about the “militair,” which ts so “schoene.”” There were the ordinary chairs and tables for the customers. Between their turns upon the little stage the sing- An English Bar Maid. Is were waiter girls, served beer and sat and chatted with the customers, in pink skirts and short-sleeved bodices. By night no one objected. They do not stick at in ferlin. But ‘when these places 1 up a hot lunch at a cheap price for clerks at noott, Aid had the singing and the drinking and the chatting go on through the noon Spell, tt deranged the business methods of. Berlin, Then a cry arose against it. Young clerks sat at beef and s1 with a big mug of blonde beer at one 4 and a big blonde waiter girl upen the other, attending to sweet songs, alternating with nis lunch and beer and kisses. It was declared to be demoralizing— not the kisses ror the beer—but the gas burring in the daylight, pink silk dresses in the daylight, all the glamour of the night by daylight, and the general atmos- phere -turvey-dom, inducing new exper discontent and inattention to one’s work. In Hungary, at Budapest and in such prosperous and busy towns as Temsvar, it iness of the waiter girl to dance In Hungary. with you. The aristocratic ladies of Buda- pest are of an even more oppressive and eruciating charm — > sweet Vien- emselves. Their hair ts blue-black, elr aeons are white, suffused with a faint r full lips have a dark ripeness arple. Thi aces have a xpression. Their big eyes scorching tourls wilting » causing them to mourn. But the ‘ian daughter of the people is as di dl in her ways as she is big and h A stout Hungarian girl—say at dance hall, opposite the famed Blue S no aristocratic graces, no aristocratic palene: She ts big and brown and red and nots: She can take a little % dude and throw him thirty feet ness is to dance and serve drinks, and ccllect the money in her satchel. You Pay the sam: price for a dance as for a La Belle France. drink—ten cents. A Hungarian waiter girl has never been known to knock down a cent on the estabiishment, and has never een know? to let a custumer escape. No one has ever drunk or danced with one of them and failed to pay. ‘They are alwzys interesting. The waiter girl in every jend takes or a special look of smartness and of prettiness, mixed with an air of frank good-fellowship. Let her be plain as mud, yet she will seem to pick up in her looks when she ic serving drinks to thirsty men. Let her be only passably good looking, and ske will seem a bright and gracious beauty. It is the occupation which transforms her. From far-away Ja- pan, where Europeans must take their siesta in early afternoon, where lu- ropeans touch the butten and a sweet young creature, cool in crackling’ silk, brirgs in tne te to Parts, im the Latin shool boys take rt of polite con- is with mincing syllables and mouths too full of slang, in beer cafes, the waiter girl remains an inno- cent solace to many a man who has not many friends to chat with, and especially a boon to travelers. it is not in America alone that they have passed “pretty waiter girl flaws.” Most every European country has a-statate; and the business of a waiter girl to’serve drinks @ garden or cafe is not at all desreputa- The French law, for example, is ex- plicit, and is more or less explicitly obeyed. In the little handy manual of police, which every Paris policeman carries in his pocket, there is set down, under the head of cafes, Cabarets et Debits de Boissons: (1) It ts forbidden that such establishments shall employ any minor girl, under any pretext whatsoever, and (2) the guardians of the peace shall nalize it to the commissary ou. In Japan. of police when in any such establishment the service girls take on an attitude sus- pictous or provoking. In the Paris courts it has been decided that the proprietor of a cafe may not costume his waiter girls as burlesque advecates or judges. There is no law, however, to prevent their being dress- fancy peasants. As a fact, the pretty waiter girls of Paris are regularly dressed in piain black, blue or gray gowns. They are neat, amiable and witty; but I think no one would call them o' pretty, when compared with faces you will see In other lands. But they are very graceful, and their faces are expressive, and they make the best of that moderate portion of facial beauty which it bas pleased Providence to bestow upon their rac>. They do not actually fetch the A Flemish Maiden. beer. They only act as _ cashiers—one cashier for each two tables. There they sit and chat with customers. It is a strange thing how the bill mounts up. Every glass is served upon a saucer. Empty glasses go back; saucers stay. If at the end you have, say, fifteen saucers (some slipped upon the pile by sleight of hand), it means that you have fifteen drinks to pay for. In London, where the bar maid flourishes in all her glory, she is thought to really exercise a restraining and refining influence vpon the customers. And so the English An Andalasian Bar Maid. bars, like all continental drinking places, are less sinks of vileness than our own American saloons. The London bar maid has always scared your humble servant with her haughty and neglectful air. She rules the shop. And it is a strong testi- mony to her virtues that, with all their projects of reform with which the English are now busying themselves, Sabbath- keeping leagues and anti-betting move- ments, temperance and prohibition and the abolition of the house. of lords, one has to hear the first word yet against the bar maid és an institution. A new and curious type of English bar- maid has arisen at the Antwerp exposi- tion. You will never see the like in London. She wears a sailor suit of blue and white, but for her apron she has a Unton Jack. There are some thirty of these girls along the porch that runs beside the front of the main building. They are all English, very nglish, end do a tremendous trade in serving stout and beer and “American drinks.” The reason is that all the Bei- gians study English diligently; and they find In these good-natured waiter girls a unique chance to practice and acquire a true pronunciation of the language. This detail shows marked contrast with an- other, which fs its direct opposite. Scat- tered all over the exposition grounds there are some thirty drinking chalets, with fine terraces. Most of the waiter girls in these are Belgians, girls who have not studied English, like the Belgfan men who patron- ize the English ban The English tourists R, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1894—EIGHTEEN PAGES. 15 [tock around these Belgian girls, but not for conversation; simply to look at then | and commend the beauty of their faces and | thelr costumes and buy beer. The Englisa | tourtsts cannot speak French, so they sit in silence, These Flemish maidens are the mildest, modestest and most domestic types of waiter girls the world has yet seen, They are different from the waiter girls in Spain. In Spain you will find watter girls both on the mountains and the plains, but never in the great towns, where the custom does not favor their appearance. But in the villages of Andalusia, where every one knows every one from childhood up, and there are few designing strangers, it is not thought an improper thing for village girls so to service in a Fonda and wait on the Village boys and traveling mule drivers and the few patrons of the stage coaches, they sit singing and drinking at their Man- zanilla. In the church yard of Our Lady [of ihe Girdle, just outside of Huelva and |not far trom Palos, the shrine to which | Columbus and his crew marched in their | shirts for the fulfillment of a vow made in | the storm at sea on his first home trip from America, it is the habit for the girls and young men of the country side to meet and dance most every afternoon. Below tt, furth- | er down the hill and near the river, there is | a fine old country wine shop and hotel com- bined, quite in the country. It was there I i | | | In Africa. Saw the only violent act against the laws of hospitality committed by a walter girl which memory of many waiter girls can now recall. She stabbed:argentleman deep in the stomach. She was a handsome girl, and ‘beautifully dressed in red. Her skirt had four lace flounces and she had lace sleeves. She had a big yellow lily In her hair and eight rings on her fingers, and more powder on her face and neck and arms than you would, thi It is a pity she had not sold her knife to buy another ring or rig up a fifth flounce of lace; al- though mere dress adornments are not es- sential in the making .of. a nice, good- natured waiter girl. In Africa they pay but slight attention to their dress, and yet are welcome to the traveler. STERLING HEILIG. THE SCARCEST QUADRUPHD. y Will Be Surprised to Learn 1t From the Brooklyn Eagle. So far +s can be judged, the scarcest quadruped today is one which fifty years ago was perhaps the most commen inhabi- tant of this continent. The buffalo, or American bison, a few years ago was offi- clally stated by our government to be ab- solutely extinct. Some time after, however, a party of hunters found a herd compris- ing a few hundred of these arimals at the base of the Rocky mountains. While some watched them others rode back for rein- forcements and to inform the tearest gov- ernment authorities of their find. The herd was carefully driven to the great National Yellowstone Park, where it still remains and where its numbers are likely to become considerably augmented as time goes on, though the millions of buffaloes which once roamed the plains, will never be seen there again. Another very scarce quadruped is the quaggza, a kind of wild ass found in South Africa. Like the American bison, the quagga used years ago to abound in almost innumerable herds over its native country, but advancing ctyilization has ex- terminated it so rapidly that it is now prac- tically extinct. The curoch, a species of wild ox that was one of the most common | denizens of the forests of Central Europe | in the times of the Romans, now exist only | in the case of a single herd, which is care- | fully guarded in the Lithuanian forest. The | auroch is the largest of known specimens | of the ox tribe, frequently starding six feet high and measuring ten feet in length. The snow leopard, which is found in the Hima- layas, is almost extinct, though perhaps the fact that it seldom descends below the mits of perpetual snow, by tending to keep it In a region which Is little traversed by man, gives the idea that it is more scarce than it ig in reality. The thylacine (some- times called the Tasmanian wolf) is very fast disappearing, a state of affairs for which the Tasmanians are devoutly thank- ful, for it does great damage among their flocks of sheep. This animal is a mar- supial (or pouch bearer), and ts particularly noteworthy for the fact that the male car- ries its young In a pouch as well as the female. The wild cat is extinct in Great Britain, excepting a few specimens which still exist In Sutherlandshire, Scotland. INDIAN SEAL HUNTERS. With Primitive Implements They Often Do Ketter Than White Men. From the Seattle Telegraph. Nearly all of the crack seal hunters of the Makah Indians, commonly known as Neah Bay Indians, set sail yesterday for Bering sea, where they will chase the an- imal in waters seldom before crossed by any of thelr tribe. Three of their best schoon- ers composed the fleet, the Dyahks, Colum- bla and James G. Swan. Another sealing schcorer now + “"=3.¢the Stella Er- land, a new bottom, Will sail In a day or two, and she goes with an entire: crew of Makah Indians with fourteen of théir hunt- ing caroes. With 1,800 seal skins already to their credit, these brave Indian hunters are likely to close the season with a‘larger number of the glossy pelts than any of their white and mere enterprising com- petitors. The Indians are going out upon the chase without gurs or an munition, relying on their prowess as spearsmen for their suc- cess in catching the game. The schooners will carry the regulation sealing flag, some- thing new in the line of bunting, at the masthcad. The flag is a ‘square yellow and black, cut diagonal, and floated beneath the stars and stripes. Jt is to be not less than four feet square and is made compul- sory under the new regulations of the modus vivendi. The Indians will sign for the voyage before the United States Indian agent at Neah bay. They go contentedly, knowing that anything he does for them is for the best. One-third of the catch of the trip goes to the schooner and two-thirds to the hunters, and each canoe will give so many skins to pay for thé provisions they use. ‘The Indian seal spears are a curious im- plement of the chase. They cannot be bet- ter described to those who have ever seen the salmon spear than by saying they look just like such a weapon, only built much stronger and heavier. Long fir sticks with- out any knots are trimmed down and round- ed by the Indians themselves and form the arrow of the spear. At the lighter or feath- er end the Indians fasten very tightly a flattened and very curiously cut shingle-like piece of wood, which holds the spear plumb in its swift passage through the air, The spear end of the long arrow is branded by firmly binding two light but hard wood sticks to the longer stick at an angle that leaves the two ends about seven or eight inches apart. One of these prongs 1s cut about ten inches or a foot shorter than the other, and when ready to be thrown forth they are armed with the sharp steel spear- head. If, in throwing, the longer one miss- es the mark the next may prove better and find a resting place in the flesh of the seal. The steel spears are made of a common file ground down and into shape by the Indians themselves. The barb is made by filing out a piece after the file has been ground down to the sharpness of a knife blade. It gets its proper position by inclining the process poled so that It extends toward the sharp point. see Her Manager. From Truth. English Nobleman (after two hours’ quaintance)—“I weally assuah ycu, Miss Billions, that I ‘ave learned to leve you! *Pon my soul I—' American Heiress (interrupting and_point- ing to her father in the next room)—"Pardon me, but that is my business manager.” WHEN .WEARY AND LANGUID Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. When you are weary and languid with the heat ot and strive in keep cool and Sout femaper ‘algo ‘the use of Horsford’s Acid Phos- phate materially aid you, GIRL INTIMATES They Commence at School and Their Duration is Uncertain. HOW If APPEARS AT A RESORT Marriage May Break: the Tie of Friendship. ae WOMEN’S SS SOME MISTAKES Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. T WAS ON THE HO- tel piazza that the two were walking up and down just after supper, when there is a short lull in sum- mer resort life. The men are somewhere smoking their cigars, the older women are enjoying a few mo- ments of post-pran- dial gossip, the younger women are fluttering about wait- ing for the men to finish the cigars, the children are organizing those romping games which they will soon put into effect to the agony of all the adults in the hctel. The clerk has just gone in to supper, hav- ing been obliged to wait until every one of the guests has had a chance to complain of something to him; the oftice is deserted, and three school girls are poring over the hotel register and thinking how much fun it would be to write fictitious names in it. Late sitters pass out ofthe dining room to the porch with toothpicks in their mouths. When they reach the doorway they always pause, look down the steps, then to the right and left, remain unde- cided for a moment and then go for a seat. Why they should always make this pause it Is difficult to see. But, it appears tobe an invariable custom for the guests at summer hotels to block up the doorway for a few minutes after supper before they make up their minds to embark upon the surface of the hotel veranda. Close Intimacy. It is now time to return to the two girls who are walking up and down. Their arms are twined about each other's waists. They are laughing together, talking together, sometimes singing together. After a while the evening life of the hotel begins, and toward them comes a youth. They pause in their walk, but they cling all the more closely together. The youth has something tO say. * “Just saw old Ambler cpming up the road to the post office.” , Both girls laugh. “Old. Ambler” is the fat postmaster, who serve#as a perpetual joke for the summer residedts. “Old Ambler's got a’ wife,” youth. ‘ Both girls laugh again) Each one says something, but as they Shek at the same time the joint remark is/undistinguishabie. “Old Ambler’s wife gpt after him when he got near the post office. continues the young fellow, “and gave him a_ terrible piding. led him an old loafer, and said he was 20 good as, a postmaster, be- cause he never brought’ any letters home. Guess I wouldn’t like t® htive a wife like old_Ambler’s.” ‘ “I guess I wouldn't like to have a hus- band like old Ambler, either,” says one of the girls, which remark the other girl cor- roborates. : The group méves along the piazza, and presently another youth joins them. But the two girls still cling to one another, and they enter the parlor Itke the Siamese twins, and they spend the whole evening side by side. Starts in the Morning. In the morning one of them calls at the bed room door of the other, and they go down to breakfast together. These girls are friends. They have known one an- other for the space of three whole weeks, but they became friends from the very be- ginning. They have pursued their friend- ship with extraordinary ardor and they are now inseparable. If they go home before they have quarreled, one will visit the other next winter, and it then becomes a ques- tion whether they will grow up and al- ways continue to love one another. Rut of one thing you may be sure, and that is that when they grow older they will not love one another as dearly as they do now. Who ever saw two middle-aged women who were so devoted to each other as two young girls are? And who ever saw two old wo- men who were what one might justly call bosom friends? ‘They become more critical, perhaps more selfish, and they do not make their friendships as complete as they were in their youthful days. “Who is your best “riend?” This question being put to a school girl, she replied at once: “Oh, Emma Darling- ton. I just love her' She had just come from Smma’s house. On the next day she and Emma were going down town in the morning together. They had planned to go to Europe together as soon as they were finished with school. They were both going to make their debut into society at the same ball. They were going to help one another always in every- thing. To say that they confide in one an- other is putting it mildly. They tell each other everything—not only about them- selves, but about everybody else. To talk to one is equivalent to talking to the other, for everything you say {1s exchanged for everything some one else has said to the other girl. When This Friendship Begins. This species of friendship begins Just as a girl enters her teens and centinues for an Indefinite period. Sometimes it lasts a Hfe- time, although this is unusual, Sometimes it lasts a week, when there is a tremendous row, and the two girls never speak again, but ‘they go off and get other friends. fore she leaves school a girl may in this way have had at least a dozen bosom friends with all of whom she has quareled. Leaving school she may make more friends, and may be a little slower in loving them, but a great deal slower in quareling with them. When these girl friendships last it is usually because neither of the girls gets married. The two girls develop into spin- sters, thence walk calmly into the class of women known as those who/are “no longer young,” and finally, wil uch struggling against it, come to-realizg that they are old maids. As they have nothing to distract them they retain their friendship, and per- haps in the end there is & sympathy of dis- appointment between them. This kind of friendship is most sucpenstul when it is maintained at a distanc# by letter writing. Every woman likes to writ# letters, and it is a great pleasure to her to tell everything she krows to her dear frietid in this way, and to receive her dear friend’s letters two or three times a week. | Marriage Breaks Into Friendships. Marriage, on the other bend, is very apt to break into friendships. .A woman gets absorbed in the husband afi children, and her devotion to her best friend is lost. ‘There is no quarrel, but the girl who is not married realizes that she must get along with less cf her dear friend’s seciety and sympathy than she had before. This is the case especially where the marriage involves the care of a household. If it means life in a boarding house and without children, then the wife must have ecmpanionship all day when the husband is away, and her friendship may continue. This 1s unfortu- rate. It is better for a wife to have a house and lose her friend than it is for her to live In a bearding house and have noth- ing to do all day, even thovgh she thereby keeps her girl friends. Now, It is not exactly the same way with men. ‘They do not necessarily give up their friendships when they get married, for the reason that they have many opportunities of meeting one another away from home, and also because their home interests are not as absorbing as they are with women. Some men keep up their friendships quite as much after marriage as before, and with pain be it sald, there are men in the world who really seem to subordinate thelr home life to their life with me What Some What do they do when the day’s work at adds the the office is over? Go home? No! They go out on the street and meet their friends and lounge about till dinner time. Or they go té the club and lounge there till dinner time. And after dinner they are only too apt to produce some lame excuse—of a bus- iness nature generally—for going down town again. Why can’t they have their friends about them at home? If their pleasures are innocent and their friends are worth having, this is the place where they will be sure to gather the greatest en- joyment. Every bachelor who is within the pale of respectability wants a place where he can go and have some of the environ- ments of home. If he has a married friend, and the married friend's home is a pleasant one and he is treated there as though they really are glad to see him, he will be very apt to fall into the way of dropping in night after night. He will take a genuine interest in the children, and he may, if he is a generous man, make them presents. He will console himself for not having a home of his own by reflecting up- on the happiness of his friend’s home. That is to say, if it is a pleasant home. If it is rot, and the married man, nevertheless, re- mains domestic, there is a cessation in the friendship of the two men. On occasion they see one another, and should either get into difficulty the other would probably come to the rescue, but the pleasure of companionship which they knew before marriage separated them is over. Where the Home is Strict. Perhaps the home is too strict, and the wife will not permit smoking and has ut- terly forbidden any beer to be drunk. She is right in one way. moking is a vice, and so is drinking. To do either is to admit that you have vices. A perfect man shouldn't have any. But the husband and the husband's friend have keccme accus- tomed, to these vices, and have no inten- tion of abanjoning them. The consequence is that instead of meeting at home, they will meet at the club, and the smoking and beer drinking will go on just the same, and perhaps a little worse, and the only differ- ence will be that they will not care so much for a home that is made unpleasant to them. Of course, she neither smokes nor drinks herself, but because she has not these weaknesses she makes the greatest mistake inthe world in not allowing for them in moderation on the part of her hus- band. The tact that men are not domestic often has its origin in the fact that there a man cannot meet his friend. Who are-che best friends in the world? Why, women, of course—not women with women, but women with men. Think a while, you old bachelor. You have hun- dreds of men friends, but what do they care about you?. If they do you favors it will be because they don’t like to be thought mean. They act up to men’s ideas of friends, and these ideas are pretty hich, but they have no real sympathy with your hopes, and disappointments, and successes. Now, who is the best friend you have in the world? Why, some woman, of course. She may not lend you money, but she lends you what is < great deal scarcer, and that is a genuine, unselfish sympathy. 0} bachelor, take sound advice, and 40 marry that woman. G. HUN soo IN CASE OF DROW | NG. Rules Which if Carefally Followed May Often Save a Life. Every boy—and every grown person, for that matter—ought to know how to restore a half-drowned companion to consciousness and life. Boys go in imming in groups usually, and if one goes beyond his depth or becomes exhausted it Is a matter often for another boy to effect his rescue. When he has got the apparently iifeless body to the water's edge, however, death has more than once followed because nobody kne' the right thing to do, and no doctor was within quick reach. Here are a few simple | rules from the New York Times that any boy or girl of tweive or fourteen can under- stand, and which should be carefully read cover and learned. It may mean a life some day, boy rs or another's. Drowning, you know, is suffocation; the lungs fill with water and there is no room for air. So the first thing is to turn the body on its face, and then by rolling it back and forth over anything which will lift a The First Motion. the chest off the ground, spill out as much water from the mouth and nose as possible. A barrel is a good thing, but a barrel is not on every shore, and another boy's back held in the leap-frog position will do. Then put a finger down the throat and try to get out more water. If the unconscious boy still shows no sign of breathing, arti- ficial respiration or imitation breathing should be begun. This is a very simple to do when you have once learned ow. Put the boy on his back with a couple of jackets made into a roll, and put under him to raise his chest up, with head hang- ing over as in the picture. Then, kneeling at the head, bring the bo; elbows aimost together just below the chest. Press firmly and count two, then spread out the arms The Second Motion, to form a circle, bringing them together again over his head, and count two more. Back again to the ‘chest, pressing firmly, ard counting two each time, keeping hold of the boy’s arms all of the time just below the wrist. Keep this up constantly till the boy be- gins to gasp. One boy can relieve another, as the motion fs tiresome, but be careful the next boy begins just where the other left off, so as*not to interfere with the movements. Don’t be discouraged if no signs of life appear after long working. Hours of artificial breathing have sometimes been passed before the natural breathing re- turned. Of course, this knowledge will only be needed in cases where the doctor or other person skillful in reviving the drowned 1s at hand, but every boy should practice the movement till he is confident, and then, if enlled upon in an emergency, if he will’ be cool and keep his wits about him, he may have that highest of u!l privileges—the sav- img of a human life. soo — Easily Remedied. From Life. Distressed young mother (traveling with a crying infant)—“Dear me! I don’t know what to do with this baby. Kind and thoughtful bachelor (in the rext seat}—“Shall I open the window for you, madam. a Sooo ‘When Woman Votes, From Puck. Mrs. Franclyn Wilmot—“I shall never speak to her again—the mean thing!" Mrs. T. William Franchise—“What did she do?” Mrs. Wilmot—“She challenged my vote!” —- eee Bicycling Episode in a Rural District. English Fair Cyclist- Wareham, please?” Honest Farmer—“Well, missie, J guess you knows the way to wear ‘em much bet- ter nor me.”—London Sketch, TRIP BY SAILBOAT Adventures of a Sail Down the River to the Bay. THEY WERE THREE MEN IN A BOAT —— Their Haps and Mishaps on Land and Water. CHEAP AND ENJOYABLE ie Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HILE MANY W Washingtonians were tasting the quiet Sweets of life at the watering places or mountain resorts, or reciining on the white beaches of Atlantic City or Cape May, or (if their purses were long enough to reach that far) taking a fiying trip through Europe, three young men of the nation’s capital resolved to spend their outing in a yachting trip down the broad Potomac to Chesapeake bay. The eldest, who, in spite of the fact that the down barely shades his upper lip, is known among his friends as the captain, was, as he expresses it, “born and bred on the water,” and knows how to get the greatest possible speed out of his twenty-foot sailboat. The doctor, too, is slightly familiar with the management of the vessel, but the youngest of the trio, who is called the judge, is the most persist- ent and scientific of landlubbers. After several busy days of calculating, measuring, buying and packing, the good ship “Etta,” of half a ton burden, left the flourishing port of Washington Wednesday night, with three souls on board. It was ebb tide, and, according to the weather- wise, a mild northwester was due, which would take the yachtsmen to Marshal! Hall by midnight. But, alas for the vanity of human wishes! Hardly a breath of air stirred, and for three long hours the party drifted in and out of the Eastern oranch, cn and off the flats, and across the river and back, making, as*it seemed to the dis- pirited landlubber, “losing tacks” both ways. Each cne was secretly hoping that one of the others would propose going back, but no one dared to show so little spirit as to speak of it first. On the con- trary, about 1 o’clock at night, after they had fortified their spirits with a biscuit apiece, the doctor got up and announced in his rich bass voice that he “was going to reach Marshall Hall that night if he had to row there!” The others applauded,and so for the whole of that night a man was kept at the helm, while the other two sat around with long faces, watching for wind, or tried to get a cat nap, reclining on the hard | benches. When the sun rose next morning the bold mariners had managed to get their gallant ship two miles below Alexandria. Rage and disgust was on every face. They Were Hungry. The judge had a particularly “lean and hungry” look, the tain seemed to have “that tired feeling,” and even the doctor would have lost his reputation for manly beauty could his lady friends have seen him just then. The anchor was cast, the cooking utensils and provisions brought out of the hatch, and preparations were made for breakfast with the grim eagerness of a soldier before battle. After half an hour, which seemed like four, they fell to with Keen appetites, and the breakfast of bis- cuits, bacon, cheese, coffee, flapjacks and sirup disappeared as if by magic. The doc- tor finished first by a neck, the judge sec- ond and the captain half a length behind. Breakfast over, the judge, who at home eats his orange with a spoon and demands a finger bowl afterward, was set to washing the dishes, which he did by rubbing them with a piece of soap and then dipping them in the river, letting the air dry them. Shortly after breakfast a pleasant breeze sprang up from the southwest and contin- ued all day. Although he had to tack all day, the captain made fairly good time and managed to pass all the small craft on the river, not a few of which in the exuber- ance of hi its he hailed with the pass- ing inquiry, “Will that boat run rabbits?” He suddenly stopped, however, when an old man whom he thus addressed j; out of his punket into a rowboat and rowed with lightning stroke to the Etta, and threatened to “wipe them all off the face of the earth.” Indian Head was reached that night, sev- eral stops having been made on the way. The boat was brought up and anchored in a cove right under the head, and every- thing was made trim and snug and supper prepared on the boat and eaten with a rel- ish. Smoking materials were then brought out, and the boys settled themselves down to admire the prospect. It was a beautiful scene. The moon had just risen. To the south of them was the dark, frowning head, to the west was the mellow stream of moonbeams reaching across the broad river. Several steamers, all lighted up, passed up and down the channel. They now felt well repaid for all the trials and hardships of the past night and day. They sang “Annie Laurie” and several other old songs, and the judge recited “All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight,” after which the tired wanderers retired to their bunks and fell asleep. Search of Water. ‘The next morning they were up before the sun and sailed against a brisk wind, reach- ing Quantico about noon. By this time they were in brackish water, and the judge was sent into the town with a bucket for a fresh supply. After lounging around on shore for several hours during the heat of the day, they started off again, reaching Maryland Point about dusk. Here the doc- tor with his eagle eye spied several houses on the hill, and after supper was sent ashore for fresh water and “anything else he could get.” He had on a bathing suit, coat and slouch hat, and with the bucket on his arm and a gun on his shoulder, he made a very interesting figure walking down the beach. He stayed away nearly an hour, and returned with several green apples, but no water, reporting that the houses were all deserted and crumbling to the ground. He was deprived of the ap- ples and left to watch the boat, while the captain, followed by the judge, set out in a different direction, the former singing gaily “The Man That Broke the Bank;” but, af- ter ,walking inland half a mi! in the darkness, stumping his toe several times and getting plenty of thorns in his feet, his song died away. A farmhouse was at last found, and after filling themselves and the bucket with water, the boys started back to the boat, but it was the judge this time who walked ahead. As soon as they reached the boat a brisk breeze set In, the first fair wind they had had. The yacht was got off in a twinkling ard immediately began to fly down the river. When the vessel was at its greatest speed and the bow was ploughing far un- der the water, the doctor suddenly cried out, “Look out ahead!” and crash! went the bow of the boat. The judge immediate- ly gave himself up for lost, thinking they had struck a rock, but the skilled eye and arm of the, captain had, the very instant of the accident, seen and averted the dan- ger. It was one of a row of large stakes reaching over a mile from the shore, -and the boat was going so fast it was im- possible to see them before the vessel struck. The captain pulled the rudder down with a jerk, the boat swerved to one side and in a couple of seconds was again flying down the river with no damage done and the stakes far behind. The boys were all thankful for having been saved from a atery grave. They slept that night off Cedar Point. Visit to Colonial Bench. Colonial Beach was reached the third day out. They took a stroll on the board walk of the resort, looking for all the world like three tramps, and then went winding through the tents, criticising and being critised. At one tent there was a golden- haired little girl sitting on a lounge eating @ large slice of bread and jam. She gave one look up at the wanderers, her slice of bread dropped to the ground, and she im- mediately began to cry. The boys felt Uke crying, too, and moved away from there in a hurry. They stayed in the village several hours and made some purchases. About ( o'clock, the wind being brisk, they started for Blakistone Island, fifteen miles away. Before they got half way, however, dark- ness overtook them, and.they decided to make for the nearest shore, several miles . The cry “About ship” was given 2d the yacht pointed for Nomini Cliffs. The wind was now almost behind them. After keeping up this course for nearly an ur, the boys made the startling discovery that land did not seem one inch nearer! They concluded, however, after a short discussion, that they were mistaken, and |so kept up the course. “But they waited anxtously, with bated breath, for ten min- utes, half an hour, ‘one hour, and still it was no nearer! And yet they seemed to be going toward it at a slicht angle very rapidly. The captain began to lose his temper, andthe fudge muttered something about “uncanny places.” The doctor main- tained a profound and dignified silence. It was finally suggested that they try to reach the shére by going at ean angle up the stream, gre, Vessel. having previously pointed very Slightly down the river. This Was done, and after half am hour, during which they could see that they had gained a very little, the doctor lifted himself out of his silence, and p that they “pad- die” in. This brilliant idea Ww: © out with great success, for fifteen minutes after its adoption the captain, looking (and probably feeling) very much like Columbus in the night, jumped ashore, with the oat in his hand, and the boat was hauled in, He now felt perfectly easy, saying that the wind had been coming diagonally from the shore, and that when they got a certain distance from land the high cliffs had kept the breeze off so much that it was al completely counteracted by ahe tide. The judge, who''could not be made to under- stand the mystery of the.“vaaishing shore,” thought he had had enough of the boat for one night, and on his suggestion, they slept on shore. Discomfort and Comfort. The next mo , they were off about sunrise afi@’ reached Blakistone Island in the afternoon. Here they decided to camp for several days, and the judge grabbed an armful of thirigs and went in to took for a good camping place. The other two started to take the boat around to the harbor at the south of the but @ quarter of a suddenly became black and set up, wich pore became The boys In boat Gropped chor and furled sail, and fixed as snug as possible. more violent every minute; it with the tide directly toward the bay, jease bad nothing on shore Sif a rigerator an umbrella, down on the former, ig in the water, and making up | how he woult’break’the news ii if for ie Hi Hf After staying in he went out again in a few minutes the wind for his friends to bring the little harbor. They found the deserted house and moved their things, soaking wet, into it, lit their two stoves and commenced to cock supper. W! de a3 they swapped stories for a while hospitable islander, then -— comforts on the floor and fell asleep @ roof for the first time since leaving W: ington. Homeward Round. In the morning they explored the snd incidentally rob! The balance of this the re of their stay on the they spent time in bathing, fishing, crabbing, and get- ting acquainted with the inhabitants.ef the island, some of whom were fishermen, and The Hot Springs and the Warm Salt Water They Supply. “The hot springs are, no doubt, the in- ducement of the visits of a lange number of the many frequenters of Wiesbaden,” said O. L. Taylor of Brooklyn, who was at the “These springs have the rate of sixty-one cubic feet of water per minute from,. time. immemorial. The temperature, which is about 155 degrees, has been as invariable as the quantity of the fluid, and the resideats there are cont! dent of the perpetuity of this source of wealth to thelr town as-of the continued succession of days and nights. Common salt is the chief constituent of the mineral water, and no. jesi than njgety-seven hun- dred weight of this is ejected daily from one spring alone. Almost every one who drinks it declares that it tastes like weak chicken broth, but to me it was nothing more than hot water, salted. It is recom- mended as an infallible wemedy for all ail- ments under the sun. A covered walk of light iron work ieads te theountain, froin which perpetual clouds of steam arise, fill- ing the whole inci “moist, warm drinkers lounge and atmosphere. Here sip the water to the s0tinds’6P@tekmy mu- sic. The curative Wiesbaden is to my change of scene, g, well-regulat faith that makes one’s self would be called flat heresy by the itants of the place, to whose interest it is to vaunt to the utmost. the efficacy of their fountains, which, though they only pour salt water down the throats of invalids, flood thelr own pockets with gold. see A Test of Distinction. From Puck. Brown—“There goes old Capt. Jones. 1 believe he was quite prominent in New York forty years ago.” Elderly Party—“I guess he didn’t amount to much. 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