Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1894, Page 19

SOCIETY'S BUDS “Coming Out” an Event in a Young Girl's Life. THE PRESENT SEASON'S DEBOTANTES Sometimes Their Pretty Heads Are Turned by Attention. - = THE GOLD CURE USELESS Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. JHAT, MADAM, WAS a joment of 5 The writer put this question to an e iy matron, who has ea the world in many phases and has had all the exper ‘Ss common to wo- hen I made my debut,” she answered. She used the word, you must understand, ense, where it first formal appe = into fashionable In me strictly t to expt ance that a society S the social life. Yet this deont is always made on a festive 1. The parents of the debu @ ball, and invite all th or less flowers, cing married buried. all in white «i she stands « side of her mother and shakes hands with the people as they come in. Some she alrear Knows, mm she has never met because heretofore she has been but now is a woman. The to see her. She is the n@ the scenery is ard pass jw on-her. No won- she is agitated. This thing is no imci- nt in her life. It is a grand event. is a certain young man in Wash- who it his business every just before the season be » r he pronounces nd promising. Of ysitively in the most exelu- there will be no less than twenty-seven, and of more general debu- tantes he courts about fifty. He thinks 3 seciety man will be obi . picking and choosing to suit himself, to add to his visit- , y aames. Necessarily, of enlargement to be an the list would graduaily time that there are nus Kk hin bounds. yple whom knew a few debutantes get married and me get married and 1 out of society, while some simply drop out of the swim and settle down to a humdrum life at hor Au opie cease to list of a pro- see them, cy Girlish © mtances. T itante undergos a certain list of acquain too. he time of he: ming out” asso- ciated with voys of a her own but when she is in soc > leaves Hlows behind become sradually, but sbe at one step passe which sepuretes a girl f a She has a right. having made her bu ty associate with old women and non, oF young women and young m:n, old but with boys and girls she is supposed to | hav rothing more to do. ‘s rather a strange state of affairs and y not be cctuaily just, but it is there are times when the deb ate returns for a brief period to her ‘This is when she is off duty, as and may relax unobserved. Then @ great romp with the youths ralls by their first names, and perhaps izes them a little. As tor them, they may take it well and wait for a few years when they will have all the Tights of manhood. or they may take it with a bad grace, being convinced in their own minds that they are just as much men as she is a woman, and this is doubt- Jess the trath. . ‘Trains Like an Actress. mr great events in @ woman's life Jing to a certain student of the + birth, her debut, her marriage and ath. Before she makes her debut wation largely goes toward perfect- ing her in the arts which will make that Just as an actress is trainel and studies with the idea of her first appearance before a critical audience, aad when she mekes this appearance rly for applause and reads all the the next » SO taat she may hether she sss oT a fail- nurse, bas whom sh she event a success wh her debut into it, look eagerly val A society's ver- tion she re- lose heart, if first, with the + little further, it is very ' s f them have proved very wh im the beginning tina tid not know a dozen debutante s. he them. girl knew to be 4 debutante because she Was 2 ber behavior, nother he was t “she was so old in ned fh Yon ot a debutante st at all an ‘The freshman at ¢ . always be le the sexior Types of Debatantes. youngest girls in society like to ap- pear old, and the oldest girls like to appear young. The debutante who is girlish in her behavior is the one who is natural, and sk ts usually the one that is most suc Another girl that cau always be told debatante is the one who is painfuily shy. = close to ber chaperon, until. she y. when she is so frigh The tra an hardly say three words to the man who ts talking to her. It is not agree- | able to be with this girl, or to her. Where others are happy and jolly, she ts uttert her ble and serious. She 5 fright and wonder why and then all will be w that she should not co without a large quc ho worse off than mo around her, and if she is really it that she allows her f-conscio own conceit she may f the people she meets are Bape She b vie he will be quite surprised whea ds out that many of the men whom 's have other purposes which they pursue energetically She may put down as a frivolous young fellow a man who ts in reality a most briliiant young surgeon, and she may, mistake, snub a mild-looking man who an authority on Shakespeare. A great rep- utation. absOlately worki-wide and untver- fal. follows @ man into a ball room, but anything short of thts ts left behind when certain to be Known ayhether or not he ary. Some Spoiled Beauties. New, if « debutante Is really beautiful girl in @ certain | for | a} She ts not | THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. 19 ———E - jand vi aes Va aciou: rt of being spotted during her first season. She may, later in life, return to her normal state of a sweet,> unaffected woman, for there is no doubt that nature cut her out for such; but, on the other band, the results of her success in society may mar her whole nature. There §s noth- ing strange in this. Up to the time of her debut she is a mere vassal, subject to the commands of her parents and teachers; but, jal at her debut having been a grand success, she is 2 to the position of a queen, and blind masculine adorers con- stitute her court. They bow dowm before her, and they wh in her cars. sper ail sorts of flattery p chan, is too sudden and too com- plete for an ordinary head to stand, and it | is no wonder that many a pretty head be- comes turned. It is a very doubtful blessing ghter who is beautiful and a he will be likely to give you trouble, and she may become so addicted to draughts of adulation and flattery that she cannot live without it, and will sacrifice everything to get it, and the “gold cure,” which some- times cures other forms of inebriety, only ageravates the appetite in this case. _ CONGRESSIONAL REPUTATION, The Old Tave Kind of From the Detrott Free “1 don’t know exactly what the congres- sional reputation for temperance is away frem Washington,” remarked the story-tell- “but I'm afraid it is bad in “For instance,” continued the member, % I was paying a kird of fence-repair- ing visit to one of the remote counties in my district, I stopped for dinner at a coun- try tavern kept by an old fellow 1 had never met. There was a bar attached, and thither my compamon and 1 adjourned shortly after our arrival. We hadn't seen the old man yet, and a boy was behind the counter. We explained our wants to him, and he had just set out a bottle and a coup! ry small-sized whisky the old man came in. My new him and at once introduc. the member of Congress from that We shook hands cordially and I ked him to join v Sot at all responded with a bow, you are to drink with me,’ and turning to- ward the counter he noticed the little glasses, “ “Here, Bill,” he exclaimed, shoving them to one side, ‘take these thimbles away and bring out them goblets, Didn't you hear he gentleman say this was a member of Congress.” " district MONOCL —see — COMMON IN EUROP Helieved to Have Originated in the British Army. the Netw York World. In every capital of Europe the monocle is common enough. It attracts ro attention on the street. In a row of men at a theater @ considerable proportion are sure to have it. Perhaps half the officers in the German army wear monocles. T! are to be seen bundance at any meeting of the French Academy. Even socialist deputies in France are not ashamed to go among their con- stituents wearing them. English house of commons glitters with soli- tary eye! gle eyerla! to have originated among the officers of the British army. About the beginning of. the century an Fro | fic should not wear eyeglasses or spec- tac It was suppo hat they gave the | Wearers en unmilitary appearance. The or- } use? severe | short-sightec | longing to inconvenience to many 2 officers, and one of them, be- crack regiment, invented the He Claimed that be an its use was no contravention of order which prohibited It soon became ve d was afterwar nly of this orig determi wearer, whereas eye lead an air of feebleness. se NO DEMAND FOR HORSES. ‘The Trolley and (he Bicycle Are Rap- idly Knocking Them Out. From the Chicago Herald. Electric lines and the average States from 25 to 5” per cent. In the west- ern range country the loss is felt the worst, for the surgjus has formerly been sold in the east. Now the east is a closed market to the ordinary grades of horses, and there | is a surplus everywhere. In cases of forced sale prices are sometimes ridiculously low. Recently a number of carloads of range horses of good grade were received by an eastern road for shipment to an eastern terminal. The eastern road advanced the charges of the western lines which had forwarded the horses and added the amount to its charges for transportation. Arrived in the east there was no market for the horses and they were finally sold for $6 a head. The eastern road was paid the entire purchase price and then was com- pelied to charge $4” to profit and loss for its experience in the horse business. In the future it will advance no more charges on horses. yeles have reduced ee Uses for Old Gloves. From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. If you have any old gloves with tong wrists, just think before pitching them into the waste basket and cut off the tops and save them for fancy work. The kid can be easily cleaned and is capable of being made into a number of pretty articles, Several | pieces of tan-colored kid stitched together along’ the edges will make a neat tobacco | pouch. Run a drawing string of gilt cord through the top, and pamt or embroider an initia! or device on the side. You have no | jdea how pretty a thing it is when finished. An opera glass bag is another thing which juare pieces of un t a heliotrope or lavender int pansies or v om. drawing string e the as the flowers. Kid covers for st bs kid hair receive fan | bazs, kid picture frames, card | trays and a host of other dain fean b le from the ¢ Who was that who called? nd—Oh, one of my tenants | | came to pay his rent. | Wite—Didn't he pay? | Hur band—Yes. do you look #0 gloomy? He didn’t say a word about vanting a new range, or new wall paper, or anything else. WV ife—What of it? Husband—T going to mov —~-se0— — An Ensy Matter. a Life. Miss N. Quiring—It must be very easy to telegraph bad language and swear words. erator—What makes you think so? - Quiring—Because the code con- 9 many dots, dashes and spaces. soe | | Will Re Missed. | i he comes there. The only thing that never | leaves him ts his money, and it is pretty has “Wha’ fo’ yeu" drive you" chickens down dis en’ of de town fo’, Lem “Well, Pahson, you see Jeff Johnson he goin’ to gib party tonight, but my chickens not goin’ to “tend.” why, then, she is in great | A session of the | is said | rder was issued that army of- | jue of horses in the United | who at 18 a gure sign that he Is | They Buy It. |STREET VENDERS AND THEIR CRIES The Curious Institution Known as the Fry Shop. AN EXPENSIVECITY TO LIVE IN a Special CorresponMerice of The Evening Star. ROME, Gctober 3, 1894, ERY FEW ITALIAN VY families have an oven of any sort. The only cooking done in the house is on little open grate holes over the charcoal fire, from which, like a kitchen Stove with the lids off, the heat rises di- rectly into the air. Even though a small oven attachment is sometimes possessed, I have never known an instance of bread being baked at home. It is a great rarity to find even those who mix their own loaves and then afterward have them cooked at the baker's. Bakeries are very numerous, and not only do the baking for their own retail business, but receive all sorts of dishes from private families to be cooked. Domestics may be n, on the way to and from the baker’ rrying great pans of sliced tomatoes,pota- toes, beef, quarters of lamb, kid, now and then a cake and many other dishes. In the absence of home-made bread one is consoled by excellence of the baker's article. It nnot be had of the soft, doughy charac- so much dealt in by bakers at home, it varies from the consistency of Vienna sread to that of a pretzel. Rolls are con- sumed in vast quantities; in fact, restau- rants and hotels have nothing else on the table. They are so firm and gently browned as to seem the healthiest and most attrac ive form of the staff of life. Rolls and | biscuits are made in innumerable unique and pleasing shapes, which seem to render them dout A_ special sort of ter roll, eallea * is slightly sprinkled with od before being cooked. It is also more salted than other varieties. These are largely consumed and are great favor- ites with morning coffee. Cake and Pie. Cake, as we regard it, is practically un- known in Italy. Many kinds of sweet bis- cuits and bread are made, and also such fanc cakes as cur caterers are wont to provide for banquets. With pie the change still more radical. I never saw in Italy pie, They cook a kind of late that is made with i crusts, between which lies an adamantine layer of candied fruit and cit- ron. At Naples there is a species of pie—once known f r remembered—called La Piz- r kable dish is made thus: A triple-thick—crust of dough is an india-rubber-like elasticity, ed with a density akin to t of While still on the fire such addi- re sprinkled over the combination as more § the cuisi of this popular the reets at bearing like t flat pie plates 1 warm. They | ston all ro! houre of d al crown be: h the pie still att ng out, “Ab Petz," looking up at the windows, Into stores, around corners and everywhere for customers, Families in | Naples and Rome who live above the first floor have a basket attached to a rope to lower with the necessary money for pur- | chases made in the street. The basket is | hoisted up with apples or milk or onions, or whatever it may be, to the great saving of stair running. ‘The newly roasted nuts are carried in a gunny hag enveloped by heavy outer cloths | to retain the warmth. As chestnuts are most in demand when fresh from the fire | the perambulating genius originated an | announcement which means smoking hot. In pristine Italian it would be expressed by “Al fumo,” but the hurrying vender has cut it down to “Aw foo!" The Frying Shops. In Naples originated the industry of the friggitorie, or frying shops, which now abound in Rome. They are noticeable for | the great tin and copper canisters in front | of the dvor, on the top of which rest large basin-like tin bowls filled with fried fish, | fried bread or fried vegetables. Either lard | or oil is used in the cooking, the articles to |be fried being first covered with batter jor bread crumbs. When in season cauli- flower cut up into pieces half the size of an egg and then fried {s in great favor. So also ts celery and egg plant prepared in like fashion. Fish resesbling smelts and | other species still smalicr are made away | with in enormous quantities. No pretense | is made of dressing them; they are merely | washed outside and the rest taken for | granted, which Is indeed the only practical | way with the smallest varicties. The friggitoria (pronounced fre-je-tow-re- ah) is about the busiest place in Rome to- ward noon and at sunset, Cabmen extract from under the seat of the cabs their bottle of wine and stop for a mess of fish and | fried vegetabl potblacks and news- S$ get their meals at these places, Men arently in prosy cumstances are places. Beggar: the fry mart for their meager st frying shop I know of is sit- few steps from Piazza Navo' © most picturesque spots in Rom Italy. A spot aiso noted for being t the haunt of the real Reman popul: proprietors, who are Ro- mans, on account of the big trade are kept busy filling and refilling the urns of fish, ete., which are emptied in less than no j me. They often sell 600 pounds of fish in a day, in addition to great quantities of the other specialties, | The Numerous Wine Shops. Little pieces of fried corn bread are sold eight for one cent. Squared strips of cod- ITALIAN BAKERIES! In Rome People Never Bake Bread, | fish, two cents apiece. Fresh fried fish and | vegetables are sold by stzing-up. If you | ask for three cents’ worth you are handed a package containing as much as the man | thinks is right. This system is necessary, because the prices of fish and vegetables are apt to vary widely. Potatoes and string beans boiled are now kept on hand. They go at two cents a pound. The immediate vicinity is so dotted with wine taverns that one thinks involuntarily of Chicago and its State street saloon: I have counted fourteen wine shops with- in sey forty yards of the fry emporium, which looks as though they settle around it designedly. An evident reason was given while 1 was interviewing the proprietor. A man came up, and called for “one cent’s worth of corn bread quick,” as he said he wanted something to eat with a glass of wine he had just ordered across the way. Children, servants, ladles and gentlemen | crowd around the odorous exhibit of the | friggitoria, each person singing out in | turn or out of turn the article and quan- tity wanted. “Pesce sette!” means “seven worth of fish, please; and so on. ses ere made for even less than a there still being “centesimi” (one- : of a cent) in circulation. seems mockery to have such infin- itesimal coins when things cost so dear as they do ta Rome. It is the most expen- sive city I ever resided in as regards the cost of the necessaries and the conveni- »nees of life. The best flour sells at $5 per | 100 pounds, and steak, twenty cents per pound, sugar fourteen cents, and coffee | sixty cents At the same time the gov- ernment, or better, “royal” clerks receive far less than those in Washington. A let- | ter carrier rejoices in a job that pays him $18 per month, in a depreciated paper cur- | tency. Labor is at a discount; for that | Teason the dainty Vienna rools cost only | one cent, and seem to be finer and fully as large as those at home for that price. It is the labor that goes for so little. The ItaliarS are reconciled to eat lttle meat, to vegetate on macaroni, and to live in back rooms or in the attic, without seeming to feel it in the least as a depriva- tion. - ; bet x OODMON if _beautifully situated on the Tennallytown Electric. Road at an elevation of about 400 feet above Washington. The car fare by commutation will be only $3 a month via the Electric Road. The B. & O. R. R. will soon complete their extension, and the new deppt will be convenient to “WOODSIONT.” NO FACTORIES will be allowed in ““WOODMONT” to disturb the peace and cleanliness of this par- : excellence subdivision. In addition to these advantages WOOD, HARMON & CO., the most generous firm in the world to their customers, Free Twenty-Five Building Lots, Eight Gold Prizes From $50 to $150 Each, One Year’s Trans- portation, Life Insurance, -And pay your Interest and Taxes, as follows: Twenty-five Lots Given Away. | Toeach of the first 25 persons building and completing a house at **Woodmont”’ cost- ing not less than $1,000 before May 1, 1895 (said house must be commenced before Nov. 15, 1894,) we will give the lot, no matter where located, on which each of said per- sons build, and refund all money paid on same. No Taxes. No Interest. We pay all taxes until purchaser has com- pleted payment for lot or lots and Deed has been given for same. We charge no interest on deferred payments. No Notes. No Mortgages. We require neither notes nor mortgages from purchasers. A plain, simply-worded “Bond for Title’ gives the purchaser posses- sion at time of first payment. Free---One Year’s Travel. We will also give a commutation ticket good between ‘Woodmont’ and Washing- ton for one year to one member of each family building and residing at ‘Wood- ; mont” by May 1, 1895. And in addition to iving you a building lot and free transpor= tation for one year we will also give to those who are first in the race to secure a home. in this promising subdivision the following: Improvements. Avenues have been nicely graded, sub- stantial sidewalks laid, and choice varieties of shade trees will be planted along all avenues on which lots front, and many houses will soon be building. . Cash Prizes. To the first person completing a house at “Woodmont” (costing not less than $1,000,) beginning before November 15 1894, and com leting same before [ay 1, 1895, we will give $150 in gold. To the second person we will give $125; to the third, $100; to the fourth, $90; to the fifth, $80; sixth, $70; seventh, $60; eighth, $50. Title. The title to this property has been exam- ined and is insured by the District Title Insure ance Company. We Insure Your Life. In the event of death of the purchaser after the second payment has been made, the property purchased is assured to said pur- chaser’s heirs, and will be deeded to them without one dollar’s additional cost provided said purchaser is in good health at time of pur- chase and is at no time in arrears in his or her payments. Prices and Terms: Size of lots, 25 feet front by 115 feet deep. Prices, $100 to 200. First payment only $a; balance in weekly payments of 1 per cent on all amounts of $200 and under; on amounts above $200 two-thirds of 1 per cent. For free transportation to see “WOODMONT” cail on WOOD, HARMON & CO, 525 Thirteenth Street Northwest. P. S.—Those who wish to go to “WOODMONT’ Sunday can get tickets at the office any time Sunday morning from 9 to 12. 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