Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1894, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 97, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. AC HINESE CLUB. THE HIGHBINDERS The Secret Societies of China Control the Empire. GREATEST DANGER TO. THE COUNTRY The System of Trades Unions. and How They. Flourish. THE BANKERS’ GUILD (Copyrighted, 1894, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Written for The Evening Star. HE CHINESE GOv- ernment is greatly alarmed over the re- bellion that is being fomented in nearly every state of the empire. The Peking Gazette 1s full of the reports of the arrest of members of the Koloa Hui Soelety, aud executions are taking place in many of the cities. It is now death to belong to this society, and the heads of the mem- | bers are bung up outside of the cities as a | warning to others. Notwithstanding this, the organization steadily increases, and it is being recruited from the disaffected sol- diers and cthers of the empire. It is said | to have had its origin among the soldiers of | the Hunan province, which is one of the most rebellious of the Chinese states. The Hunan men are noted for their bravery, and hundreds of thousands of them were em- ployed in putting down the Kaiping rebel- South China Group. Non. After the war was over, numbers of them were kept on in the retinues of the different viceroys, and notably so by the Viceroy of Nanking. A few years ago an attempt was made to dispense with their services, and some of the soldiers got together and or- ganized this society. By others it is said to have been founded about sixty years ago, but it undoubtedly had its great impetus through these men at Nan- king, and today its membership runs well up into the millions, and. it has its secret meetings in every city of China. It is avowedly against the Manchu government, and its motto is “Chiaa for the Chinese.” Its members swear to be faithful to the so- clety under penalty of death, and each so- efety has its executioner, and any member is supposed to commit murder at the com- mands of the order Members are initiated by the drinking of hot wine mixed with the smoking blood of a cock which Is killed at the time, and the ticket of membership is a small card of linen, or calico, stamped with a few characters, two of which are “Chin: These cards are diligently looked for by the officials, and the man who has one upon him is immediately arrested. The society mumbers among its members a large number of army officials, and the great Viceroy of Nanking, who died not long ago, was, for a time, an active member. It may have been this that made his capital the center of A Barber. their operations, but toward the latter part of his life he became lax in his support of the society, and, it {s said, finally disobeyed its orders.’ Within a week of this time he dled very suddenly, and it is currently be- Neved that he was poisoned. The next vice. roy played fast and loose with the society, and it is said that his action was, to a cer- tain extent, the cause of the riots against the missionaries in 1891. Feeling Against Foretgners. I was told at janking that this secret society had threatened the viceroy that if more money was not paid to the soldiers they would: cause him trouble by mobbing the foreigners. Shortly after thls the “Dev- i's Picture Galt was issued. This was 1 » of vile cartoons charging the mis- » with inveigling girls into their ases anil cutting off their breasts for me: and with stealing the eyes of dead and > ‘Chinamen using them as photo- graphic mat ions of these cartoons vere i the people were urged from the country. y of Nanking ent a great deal of trout ay a heavy 1 rebellio’ "ders w that the Japan ent troubles in t ) and ther ization In Ma’ h in north Ch anized that in case of the fall o ultaneous rebellion the front in nearly every d the government might state all at hard to understand much about the present trouble without knowing something of the diferent Chine: country is divided up into ¢ "3 provinces, and there n be said to be almost eighteen different peoples under eighteen different ralers, more or less firmly bound together under the one Peking government. The mon people of many of these states do understand each other, The coolie of an could hardly make his way in ou pot | | Peking, and the Cantonese provinces have a different diaieect from those in the western parts of the empire. he province of Yun- nan is said to have twenty different dialects, and the people, while they care a great deal for their own homes and for their families, have no interest in the government and sup- port it only as a necessary evil. ‘The family and the clan form the basis of Chinese so- clety. A great number of the punishments of the empire are inflicted by the family, and most disputes are settled without re- course to the courts. Family ties are closer in China than anywhere else in the world. If aman makes a fortune his forty-second cousins from all parts of the empire swoop down upon him and he has to support and help them. If a man gets a position he is supposed to take his own family in first in A Club House. the choosing of the subordinates, and nepo- tism reigns supreme. I met, while I was in Canton, the Jay Gould of China. His name is How Qua, and he is worth $50,000,000, He was keeping 400 relatives, and his sisters and his cousins and his aunts to the third and fourth generation were sucking the life blood out of his big income. He was, I judge, about forty years old, and as ‘an instance of how strong family authority is he obeys his mother today in all matters of society obligations, and upon being asked by Consul Seymour to dinner not long ago he replied: “I don't know whether I can go or not. I must go first and ask my mamma.” I. afterward met his mamma. She was an old lady, whose eyes shone as brightly as the diamonds which decorated her cap and whose feet were no bigger than the fists of a baby. She ruled the whole 400 of How Qua's relatives, and she was probably the head of the How Qua clan. The Oldest Society. These clans of China are very much like those of Scotland. Every family keeps its pedigree, and the reason why the Chinesé want to be carried to their own country is that they will be buried with their families. The clans have their feuds, just like some of the mountain families of ientucky, and they lay for each other with bows and guns. Every family has its ancestral hall in the town or village near where it lives, where all the different members of the family meet ‘and worship their ancestors. The members of a clan combine together to punish those who have injured the family, and there are said to be families who make a business of blackmailing and stealing. ‘There are in all China about 400 clans, and the 490,000,000 or 500,000,000 which make up the Chinese peo- ple belong. to these. The secret societies are run, however, in- dependent of the clans, and the Koloa Hui is only one of a large number of them. The oldest society in China is the ‘Triad Society, known as the Sam Hop Wui. This is said to have been the cause of the Taiping re- beliion, which lasted for yesrs, and cost China ten million lives. It sprang up in the south and spread all over the empire, and had it not been for Chinese Gordon and Li Hung Chang the ‘Tartar dynasty would certainly have been overthrown. The head of this rebellion was a Chinaman who gave out that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, and had been sent to this world to reform China. he ‘Triad Society has its lodges, and there are flags, banners and umbrellas connected with it. It holds its regular meetings, and it forces members to join its organization if they are not amenable to persuasion. It has the power of life and death over its members, and the members mix their own blood with wine and swear to uphold the order to the death. Among the punishments for treasen to the order is the having the ears chopped off or the head cut off, and the divulgence of the secrets of the order is death. The members have their own signs and passwords. You cam tell, it is said, whether a man: belongs to the order by the way he enters the house, and I am told that they stop a moment at the door and put the left foor first. In sit- ting down they point their toes together and keep the heels apart, and they have a way of raising their trousers’ legs which 1s known only to the brethren. They are bound to help any of the order who get into trouble, and they have secret signs by which they can mark their houses so that their families will eseape in case of revolu- tion. At dinner the arrangement of the cups on the table allows their callers who belong to the order to know that they are members, and there are a thousand little things which no one else would notice which enable them to recognize each other. Hostility to the Government. ‘The Triad Society and Koloa Hui are very much like the highbinders of San Fran- cisco. They swear to defend each other against the police, to hide each others’ crimes, and they are ready to ktll for the sake of the order at the command of its leaders, Their main grievance is against the government, and they have published manifestos against it, and are doing so now. Some of the chiefs of the order are said to be traveling around the country as doctors, and they are carrying the news of the Chinese defeats, and are gathering in mem- bers wherever they go. Their motto is “Drive out the Tartar,” and it 1s said that one branch of the ‘Triad Society dates back to 1664/A. D., or twenty years after the con- quest. ‘They have been working to over- throw the government ever since, and they have a great hatred of anything which is not purely Chinese. It is safe to say of the hundreds of millions in China that out- side of the government ofticiais there are not a hundfed thousand Chinese who would fight for the emperor. They keep him be- cause they must have a ruler of some kind, but they know he is a him. In every Chinese apital there is a Manchu army as weil as a Chinese army, d the Tartars are neither admired ror loved. The emperor, in fact, is like Humpty Dumpty. He sits on the wall, and if he should fall, all of his horses and all of his men can never put Humpty Dumpty up gain. It will be surprising to many Americans know how the government of un, re lower perhaps than her semi-civillzed country on the principal source revenue is and this varies from 10 to 66 The emperor nominally owns , but in reality the people have right to their farms as we y buy and sell their real es- s for the I took a a Chinese deed, by which a n had bought some land at Nan- king, and which he was carrying to Shang- hai to be recorded at the American consul- ate, my trip with him down the Yang: iarg. it as big as four pages of this aud Was covered with stamps, pays no tax on liquors, and tt said that the taxes do not aivount to cents per head of the population. A large part of the revenue is collected from the taxing of salt, and there are import and export taxes collected om goods passing up and down the rivers. I saw customs boats everywhere, and the river police is quite extensive. "The people understand very well just how much faxes they ought to pay. They are thoro and Eny radical increase, fuch ao must come: from the present war with Japan, which is probably costing them a million. dollars a day, is almost certain to create a revolu- tion. I have seen different estimates of the revenues gotten by’ the empire of China, and in no case have the amounts turned into the general government been greater than $150,000,000 a year; This would be a small amount in comparison with the in- demnity that Japan will probably demand if she is victorious in this war, and the Chinese emperor has, indeed, a thorny road before him. The Barbers’ Union. The greatest danger arises in the charac- ter of the Chinese as regards social and labor combinations. The government is per- haps the only disorganized part of the country. Every city, every state and al- most every province is packed full of dif- ferent unions, and all branches of industry are banded together. Our labor unions are nothing in comparison with those of China, and the government has to bow down to them. The barbers united some years ago and made the emperor come to terms in re- gard to the public examinations for their ehildren. They had before this belonged to a rather despised class. They stand now as high as any other people in the empire. One of the features of barbering in China is earcleaning. Each barber has tweezers with which he pulls little hairs out of your ears, or trims them to suit. The Chinese like to have the backs of their shoulders and necks kneaded after they are shaved. This takes a good deal of time, and the barbers concluded that it kept them too busy during the holidays.» The union called its members together all over the empire. They passed a law which makes it impossible for you to get your cars cleaned duzing six certain days of the year. Li Hung Chang is great enough to slap the cheeks of the Chinese officials who call upon him. He makes his generals get down on their knees, and if the emperor does not take away his big cloth boots he will continue to kick them out of the room. He would not dare, however, to do anything against the union of the wheelbarrow coolies, and he has stopped some of his greatest improve- ments after they have cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars because certain of the trades unions objected. These wheelbar- rowmen are, in fact, one of the strong or- ganizations of China and they are one of the great obstacles in the way of ratiroad building. ‘The Chinese Guilds. The bankers of China have a guild, and it depends very much upon them whether the government is supplied with money for the war. There are nearly 1,000 banks In the two cities of Shanghal and Tien Tsin, and their members all werk together. They have thelr connections with other banks of the empire, and they fix the rates of in- terest and regulate exchange. The tea merchants have a guild, and there are silk guilds and all sorts of manufacturers’ unions These guilds have magnificent halls in the great cities, and the Hankow ‘tea men may havg a club house in Shanghai and Canton, dnd some of the finest buildings in China ‘today are those possessed by the trades unions. I have visited many of these buildings through the courtesy of Chinese friends. You find them full of well-dressed Chinamen, who are chatting together, drinking tea or playing cards. ‘whey are, in fact, much like the big club houses of America in. their social aspects, and many of them have beautiful gardens connected with them. These unions are very rigid as to their own men, and they have waged war against modern machinery. In some instances they have killed employers who have acted con- trary to their wishes, and a horrible -case occurred at Shanghal a few years ago, where an employer tried to defy the union. He was warned, but he refused to accede to the demands of the men, and they con- cluded to make an example of kim. He had more than 100 men in bis shop. “These were present when he entered one morping, and at a coneerted signal they sprang upon him and coMfmenced biting him. They had a jeader, and this leader would not jet one of the men go away from the placé without showirg his teeth. If his teeth and gums were bloody he was permitted to go out, otherwise he was sent back and told to take a bite. The plot was gotten up on the basis that there is no capital punishment in China for biting. The employer. was bitten to death, and the matter finally came to the ears of the government. It made a great fuss on paper, and published memor- jals concerning if, but only the man who took the first bite was punished, and the union gained its end. Dk Ay Carfenes — “The Autocrat.” Oliyer Wendell Holmes. Born 1809. Died October 7, 1894. From Paneh. “The Last Leaf!” Can it be true, We have turned it, and on you, Friend of ‘all? ‘That the years at last have power? ‘That's life's follage and its flower Fade and fall? Was there one who ever took | From its shelf by chance, a book Penned by you, But was fast your friend for life, With one refuge from its strife Safe and true? Eyen gentle Elia’s self Might be proud to sbare that shelf, Leaf to leat, With a soul of kindred sort, Whe could bind strong sense and sport In ove sheaf. From that Boston breakfast table, Wit and wi@om, fun and fable, Kadiated ‘Through all English-speaking places. When were Scionce and the Graces So well mated? Of sweet singers the most sane, Of keen wits the most humane, Wide, yet clear, Like the blue,’ above us, bent; Giving sense ind sentiment Bach its sphere; With a manly breadth of soul, And a faucy quaint and droll} Ripe and mellow, With a virile power of “hit,” Finished sebolar, Sturdy patriot True ‘world's 2 Dims As we turn Yet a glory Regret 8 1 well-thumbed leat: midst our grief il arise, Years your spirit could not tam: And they will not dim your fan England joys In vonr songs, allstrength and ease, And the ‘dreams’ yon “wrote to please Gray-haired boys.” And of such were you not one? Age chilled not your fire of fun, Heart, alive Makes a boy of @ bard, ‘Though his years be, “by the card,” Eighty-ti Why Bostonians Are Smart. From the Boston Globe. It has been estimated that we get a com- plete new outfit of brains about every two months. The duration of a nerve's life is about sixty days. Each nerve cell has its own independent functions, subordinate to the higher functions of the whole brain en masse, and the latter acts as a sort of “boss” or overseer to the individual actions and life of each separate cell, Each cell is destroyed and renewed every two months, so we each get six brand-new brains per year. ne A Misfit Situation, From Life. CHARLES SUMNER Some Interesting Stories of the Great ABOUT INDIAN JUGGLERS ‘What's the job worth?” Applicaat— “Three dollars a week and my Proprieto: old clothes. Massachusetts Publicist. Skepticism as to the Remarkable Feats Attributed to Them. OTHER CHATTY GOSSIP HEN WATSON C. Squire of Seattle, Wash., came to this city to take his seat in the Semate in the fall of '89 the fame of his opulence avent ahead of him, and it was reported that he was flying across the continent in a pri- vate car made of costly and fragrant woods and equipped . With marvelous dec- crations. Now comes from Minneapolis the an- nouncement that Senator Squire has been sued for $1,500,000, or such a matter, by Colonel William 8S. King, editor, farmer, stock breeder and ex-M. C, The merits of the suit are somewhat obscure at this point of view, but it is alleged that it is to re- cover real estate placed in Squire's hands in trust years ago by King and Philo Rem- ington, the famous manufacturer of Ilion, N. Y., the disputed area being no less than the site of the city of Seattle, Squire's home, Colonel King is not fond of picayune law suits, or small-fry controversies of any sort. Fifteen years ago or ‘so he sued this same Philo Remington for two or three million dollars’ worth of real estate which he had similarly placed in his. hands in trust. He won the suit after long and expensive litigation and recovered his beautiful hore at Minneapolis, but his ex- perience would seem calculated to shake his confidence in “trusts.” King has a very wide acquaintance with public men, having been postmaster of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the war, He occupied @ confidential relation to Potter of Wisconsin when the latter was in training up on 12th street for his bewie knife duel with Roger A. Pryor. Before that time he acquired considefa- ble local distinction in Minneapolis for being an abolitionist of the aggressive and militant type. Slave holders were accus- tomed to come to Minnesota with their slaVai to spend the summer. Anti-slavery peopie took good care to inform the slaves that they were free, and many of them left their masters. The pro-slavery resi- dents wanted the .southern trade, and threatened to mob those who interfered with the “rights” of thé planters. Riots, mobs and violence resulted. At last a suit was brought against a Missourian for hold- ing slaves in Minnesota, and the case was tried at the court house at Minneapolis. King was never, quarrelsome and never carried arms, but it was generally under- stood that he was a bad to tackle. When the trial came off he was very much in evidence: he was there. Standing upon the court house steps, he made the colored visitors understand that they were free men and women, tonthe great rage of their masters, and indifferent to their menaces. Then he took the gentlemen themselves in hand and gave themé what may be called a dressing-down, in language very far from polite or pious. His" profanity was se vo- citerous,so uninterrupted and so picturesque, that many who heard it declared that it sounded like a poem or a psalm, and when the planters retired in haste, leaving their “chattels” behind them, an old and devout Presbyterian deagon edged his way up vugh the throng, slapped King on the ulcer and’ exclaimed, “Thank you, Bill! ‘ou! IL couldn’t have done it better Most of the slaves were freed; a few returned with their masters. King is the man who bought a $40,000 cow in Canada a few years ago, to add to his choice hecl. He is understcod to be a mi!- lionaire, and is one of the most hovpitable and generous of men. ec «8 @ e@ I wonder what are the real facts about these India jugglers. Again the maga- zines and newspapers of the country are filled with serious accounts, vouched for by apparently respectable men, of these mir- acles of the east, in which the laws of natur? are surpended, or the human senses utterly baflled. Ore juggler tossed a rope into the air ard climbed up it cut of sight; another was buried for a month and came to life feeling pretty well; another covered a boy with a basket end he vanished; another touched the greund with his finger and a great palm sprang to the sky and birds sang in its branches. This very week, before a Washington audience of average clear-headedness, a lecturer just returned from Hindostan ‘has vouched for stories of men waiking on the waters of the Ganges, striking a living stream from a granite rock, flying through the air from one hill- top to another, and living for hundreds of years without eating or becoming aged. He averred that an old Yogi of India made a large mango tree grow in a few minutes before his own eyes, to the height of fifty feet, ard that he himseif “climbed up the trunk.”* ‘Ten years ago I inquired about these things of Mr. P. T. Barnum, the celebrated showman, I esked him why these wonder- workers did not come to America? Why he himself did not secure some of them and put them on the road? He laid bis finger on one side of his nose, was his wont, for emphasis, and said, “or the same reason that I do not exhibit Santa Claus. I'd give any money for hint, but my folks can’t cateh him.” “Do you mean to say,” I as! these miracles of India do not occur? “I don’t know whether they do or not,” he said, “but I have never been able find any of the men who could worl ‘em, I asked him if he had tried to find them. Ga, certainly,” he said. “It was in the papers at ihe time—don't you ? remember? I'd give any money for the mango-tree man, or the sailor who can toss up his rope and climb it. When I was in Europe the last time, I sent several of my most expert agents to Calcutta, and they were instruc! ed to bring back a miracle worker at any price. They traveled all summer. They ited all parts of Hindostan and explored © foot-hills of the Himalayas. They rar sacl he whole Ganges country, Bomba: Madras and the Punjab. What do you sup- pose they found? Nothing! They came home with empty hands. ‘There were some skiliful sleight-of-hand performers, but none so good as Herrman, Heller and others of our own.” I suggested that the Indian Yogis or Hin- doo ascetics were religious teachers and preachers so devout. that they could not be induced to suspend the laws of nature for PS id “Mr. 5 “We had ‘ction, ould not prevent my agents | from st them if they were ow exhibition. They went orts of places, in all sorts of gui: , and they saw did not h body, thoug contract for $1t could do the rope trici: 5 either really or ee. 1 he foot man in the} » tre ce of an ud e isn’t one of t is worth his sal is what makes me inquire again, . ner was a purist. His ears de- niceties of ¢: ion, and his ste ked by defacement of English, im pronunciatton or grammar, Hen- ry Wilson, a graduate of the shoemake bench, was not so punctilious, and he some- times spoke of his distinguished. colleague, in the down-east lingo, as being “pernicket- ty.” While they were both walking to and fro in Washington, and occupying a large space in the public eye, I heard a remark attributed to Mr. Wilson which was thought to indicate this difference between them, and [ think it has never been printed. “The fact is,” said Wilson, when he was Vice President, ‘Sumner always resents the con- duct of the hoot-owls in Massachusetts in not saying, ‘To whom! To whom!’ ” 8 oO 8 8 When he occupied the house on H street now forming a of the Arlington, Sena- led high with letters and. pet till $f he appearance of being a@ * beg il 2 place for stor away »bish. m hopelessly disordered and bewildering. But he seemed to know exactly in which layer every letter was that he wanted, and he would stick his arm under the heap and draw it out. Sumner wes poor, but he al- ways wrote on thick, cream-laid paper, with envelopes to match. Though personally Stately and distant to strangers, he was ee in his a mee writ- ing the man’s name at the and leaving three or four lines after it for imaginary titles. He had little administrative ability. He could never tell a clerk how to do any- thing, but left him to guess at it. He could “write with one hand and talk with the other” better than most men, and when his colleagues of the Senate—Wilson, Seward, Chase, ete.—would come in, he would greet them witn “Helk or “Good morning! What's the news?” and continue his letter- writing t:il they went away, throughout the ecnversation. Sumner was always well-dressed and pre- cise, if not sumptuous in his surroundings, but he lived on his salary while he was in Washington, having no other property. When he went to Europe, after the assault |) of Preston Brooks, I have heard that he borrowed the money and was never able to repay it. Perhaps the shortest letter ever written was that which Sumner wrote to Stanton, when it was believed the Secretary was about to resign during his quarrel with President Johnson. ‘The following is an accurate copy: : “Dear Stanton: “Stick!! “Yours, C. 8.” And that recalls the fact that Mrs. Sum- ner was a good deal younger than the Sen- ator, and a strikingly handsome brunette. The familiar profile of Longfellow's Evan- geline might have been taken from her daguerreotype; and perhaps it was, for she had a large engraving of it framed and hung in her parlors, and got a good deal of amusement from the remarks of friends’ who dropped in: “What an edniirable por- | trait of you, Mrs. Sumner!” *_ The man whom Sumner succeeded in the Senate, Edward Everett, was very differ- ent, though quite as striking in his way. He’ brought to the Senate all the school- mastery precisions of an ex-president of Harvard. In 1861 I was secretary of the Washington Lecture Association, and in that capacity was directed to invite him to lecture in Washington. He replied rather ‘curtly as follows: “I cannot come. I have nothing to say. There has been too much talk already. “Yours, EDWARD EVERETT. When he came here as Senator he occu- pied one of the large houses on G street above 17th. Quite unlike Sumner’s, his desk was arranged as df for show. It was a model of neatness and order. He had let- ter paper of all sizes arranged in drawers of sizes to match, and. everything in the room was effectively disposed. His orderly habits must have been very painful and trying to his private secretary. [ven his law books and the constitution of the state and the United States were handsomely bound. When he received a letter it was answered and then put away in its own portfolio—that is, a letter from J. B. Per- kins was carefuily filed and deposited in portfolio P, section J, subdivision 3. In the use of language Everett was far more particular than Sumner, and was im- mensely worried and even grieved by mis- pronunciations, or what he deemed mis- pronunciations. His secretary, from a “fresh-water” college, pronounced such words as “inquiry,” “sepulchre” and “dis- cipline” in a way to exasperate the precise Mr. Everett, whereat the latter would fre- quently deliver him a lecture on the penulti- mate, the anti-penult and the rules of or- thoepy. He weuld never scold or show his irritation, but he would beam over his spee- tacles and say in a soft voice: “Now, please be so good as to remember that it is pain- ful to my ear to hear deviations from proper pronunciation.” His secretary said to me Everett was never-failing in kind- ness and considerateness. I remember I got @ pair of new shoes once, and they squeaked. I tried to walk softly but the softer I walked the more they squeaked, Next morning, coming in, T found a nice Tair of slippers sitting beside my chair. I took the hint and the — ppers and neither of us ever said a wora. “His feelings were preternaturally dell- cate. I received no salary or wages, but an “honorarium,” and he was careful never to pay it to me in person, But on the last day of each month there was a little heap of gold and silyer piled by the side of my inkstand, and a neat little receipt made out ready for me to sign. I signed it, laid it on his desk when he was not looking and it was rever mentioned. He would sometimes dictate his letters over and over again until they suited him, and he would say: “Take notice, now, this is no criticism of your work, I am correcting my own composi- tion.’ I never could get ‘inquiry’ right. I would think the accent on the second syl- lable as he wanted it, and then, when I came to speak it, out would pop the accent on the first syllable. He restrained his rage under these provocations beautifully, but one day he came perilously near scolding when he turned to me with a bland face after one of these blunders and sai ir. J—., will you kindly go to your room and close the door and say “inquiry” over and over till you are completely satiated?’ ” W. A. CROFFUT, —_.s__—_. MANNERS TOWARD WOMEN. A Young Woman of Observation De- clares She Prefers Camaraderie to Courtliness. From the New York Sun. “Some of my dear sisters, I see,” said a young woman of observation to a reporter, “have started In on one of their perennial kicks against the decline in good manners among men. Like the generality of us, they realize a condition, but go all to pieces when it comes to a definition. Man- ners are not what they used to be, but they have not declined; they have only changed. Men don’t walk for miles with their girls, holding their hats under their arms and writing quatrains on their shirt cuffs; but then catarrh {s:a deal more prevalent now than it used to be. You fellows don’t wear lovely white wigs; the beautiful parting in your hair, that you have so carefully worked out with a rat-tail file, would be all spoiled; and you don't know the differ- ence between a madrigal and a trilogy. But all the same, write it down, please, that the professional rake is not quite so common now as he was in the days of the profes- sional courtier, “But, say the kickers, men slap girls on the back, smoke in their faces and call them old’ fellows nowadays, That's right, so they do; while in that tomfool time, ‘the good old days,’ they lay at their feet and blew funny little love songs without words into flutes, and carried their en- slavers’ pattens, and sent them ‘résy wreaths’ with sentimental verses done up in blue ribbons. Well, and what of. it? Isn’t the girl of today a good fellow? Why should she object to a man’s smoking in her presence when she don’t think she im- perils her own precious soul or her diges- tion or her reputation by smoking a cigar- ette in his? I’m smoking a cigarette now, but you don’t think you've a right to in- sult me for that reason, I guess, And why should a man trip daintily half. a meadow ahead of me to open a gate, when I can jufap over it? L mean crosswise,you know. ‘And, what's more, the very man before whom I gave one exhibition of ‘high and lofty vaulting’ asked me that evening to marry him. “So far as I am concerned, and I think I speak for quite a number of girls, I don’t after all this sclicitude and courtli- pout which there is so much talk of the doleful and reminiscent order. I'd a heap rather have gcod fellowship and be ‘jolly companions every one.’ I keep my eyes about me, and you can take it for granted that when men treat girls as ‘splendid chaps’ and ‘deoced good company’ they’re not likely to treat them as toys or appetizers. nners have changed, sure enough, and change with years just as much as places, But don’t be alarmed; we girls know that there is just as much ‘com- panio’ ship of and devotion to us today as there ever was. There may not be so much fal-lal, lace-cuff and fine saying about the devotion, but when it comes it’s as deep and reverent as any mother could wish; and the championship may not be so Watteauesque and romantic, but it’s considerably more honest. About the Icst courtliness - there was a good deal of veneer covering a good deal of dry rot; about the camaraderie of today there is a good deal of rough timber, but it’s heart clear through. “You fellows have got lots of bad points about you, but—pass me the matches, please —it's my opinion that the closer we girls get to an equality of companionship with you the better it is for us. Cynthia was not half as safe with courtly Sir Lovelace as the tennis girl 1s with the jolly, decent boy who calls her Jack.” IF TIE CARB OF THE HAIR WERE MADE A part of a lady’s education, we siiould not see so many gray heads, apd the use of Hall's Hair Renewer woull be ‘unnecessary. | Weltten Exclusively for The Evening Star. SOCIETY'S PASTIMES] ee Bioyole Riding Promises to Be Pop- ular, and. so Does Golf. TEAS AND DINNER DANCES COMPARED | Why Teas Continue to Be Given,. Although Not Popular: [A GOLF OLUB HERE y= — = new?” aid the writer to one of ‘Washington's society men the other day. He had just come home and had been at the different cen- ters of pleasure, which are now be- ginning to concen- trate, according to custom, at the capi- . tal. He understood the question at once, and did not reply with information about the political situa- tion or finance, but launched right out into the merry waters cf amusement. “Why,” he answered, “I hardly think there is anything very new in the way of fashionable amusements, but I honestly believe bicycling is going to be an extensive fad with the girls this fall and winter.” When asked if he approved of it he shrugged his shoulders. Of course, if they agreed to take it up in good earnest he would be obliged to follow suit. He was seriously thinking of selling his horse, as he expected to spend all his spare time on a machine. Why the girls had taken to bicycles he could not tell, but he supposed somebody started it who ts a leader in so- clety and the rest followed. He had heard that the Princess of Wales was going to use one, and, if so, he hoped she would not wear breeches, which were hideous in his eyes. But he had heard-a girl say they were delightfully comfortable, and that made a difference. The sudden craze for bicycling among women is one of those peculiar and sensible developments which no man can account for. For some years there pave been wom- en riders, but it is only recently that the sport has taken possession of the sex in the shape of a fashionable fad. We can look for them this winter with some degree of certainty. They will wear loose gowns like riding habits and gaiters, unless, per- adventure, they imitate our cousins across the water and wear breeches. Some of these breeches have penetrated to this country, and a few women were seen wear- ing them at the summer resorts, but in Europe they are not uncommon, The Bicycle Costume, The coat of the costume is like a man's frock coat, and reaches very nearly to the knee. It is double breasted, and fits close to the figure. Any sort of a man’s hat is worn. The breeches are simply loose knick- erbockers. Gaiters come from the shoe up to the knee. There is a law in most cities against a woman wearing man’s apparel, but it can safely be said not te appl to the bicycle costume, which is made express- ly for women; but there is no reason visi- ble to the naked eye why a woman bicycle rider should not borrow her brother's kknick- erbockers, if he has a pair, or why he snould’ not borrow hers. So far as one can judge, both garments are the same. Simultaneously with the appearance of bieyele riding among society women of the city it can be confidently predicted that there will be bicycle parties given, for no ene expects girls to go riding alone, and it is a sure thing that there will be plenty of men who will be ready to accompany them. It will be interesting to see what form these parties will take. If weather permits, perhaps the riders will have an objective point in the country, where they can have @ feast, or they will come back to town and dine together. pm There will, in all probability, be bicycle dinners given, and truly noble appetites the riders ought to have. It is hard to find any amusement of society that does not sooner or later center around the-dinner table. In bicycle riding, however, the dinner comes — ont es ee in py events of social wor! iS a cond! preced so to speak. me 7s To skip from the bicycle to the ball room, this is especially true of the dinner dance, which, according to men who know,promises wae more in vogue this winter than ever fore. The Dinner Dance. Now, as a matter of fact, there is not much that is truly modern in entertaining. Ever since men began to eat they have made the chief meal of the day—the dinner, that is—an occasion for gathering together and making merry. Whether they are civilized or savages makes little difference in this particular. Does not the reader remember how Robinson Crusoe found the savages on his island for the first time? They had come all the way from their own island to his in order to have a grand feast. They danced after dinner. The menu was simple, but it was composed of a dish very difficult to secure and considered a great delicacy. One can see in these savage feasts, with the dancing afterward, the origin of the din- ner dance, which has now become a popular feature of each winter's entertainments. But savages have an advantage over civil- ized people in society. They spend all their time out of doors and are creatures of great physical activity, whereas swells very often lead sedentary lives. The consequence is that after a hearty dinner a good many of them are disposed rather to sleeping than dancing. Nevertheless, the youngest set 1s always ready for a dance, and with them the dinner dance is popular. There is every reason to suppose it will be in vogue during the coming season. It is true that it is an expensive way of entertaining, but perhaps that is the very reason why some people will use it. “Oh, I like a feast that I know has cost my host hundreds of dollars!” said a poor diner-out when the subject of the expense of entertaining was under discussion. “Why?" some one asked. “Are you rich yourself “Rich!” he laughed. “I’m as poor as a crow, and that is just the reason why I like a millionaire’s dinner whenever I can get it.” This man probably has a salary not much larger than that of the butlers who wait on him. The consequence is he never misses a good dinner when he can get it, but he scorns to attend anything so cheap as an afternoon tea, and he thinks there ought to be no more of this form of entertaining. Why Teas Are Given. Nevertheless there will be teas. A scoffer remarked a few years ago that “life was but a vale of teas,” and he sincerely hoped there would be no more of them, but they have not stopped at all. Nor will they cease to be given until there fs a strike all along the line and a universal agreement among the people who are invited not to go to them. The truth is that they con- tinue to be given, not because people like to go to them, but because people like to give them. They are the easiest form of tertaining. The hostess needs only to provide herself with cakes, candy, biscuits, punch and tea, send out eards to everybody she knows and stay at home and receive her guests, None of them come before a little after 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and her rooms are empty by half-past 6. She can have the debris cleared away, the dinner table and sit down to a cept for a little bodily fatigue, tirely inconvemenced by her trast this with her trouble when ner one hour later. she an evening par She must a supper. She must be prepared to entertain her guests and give them amusement and food and drink for three hours at least. She must have all the furniture down stairs moved and the rugs taken up. Two" or chree of the bed rooms must be given over to hats and cloaks, and in the men’s cloak room you may be sure there will be several youngsters who will smoke cigarettes. They ought not to do it, but they will. There is a Washington woman who used to suffer so much from this defiling of her bed rooms whenever she gave a party for her daughter that she serlously proposed WHAT THE EDITOR HEARD, ™srtahaS me cay indwpendeste Silas Pennell, of Niles, N. ¥., Tells how was Saved from Death 4 Miracle of _ Minetocath Coamry, (From the Cayuga Oo. N. ¥., Independent) || Hearing through Messrs Alien & Burch, gists €-Niles, that Mr, Slies Z Pennell, » spected citizen of that town had been cured ‘8 bad case of setatio rheumatism by the use | Dr. Williams" Pinds Pitts for Pale People, j editor of the Caynga County Independent mined to know the truth of the matter went to Niles; to ascertain from Mr. a himself what his condition was and what | pills had done forhim. Mr. Pennell isa and has a neat and comfortable home near Niles post office, or “Dutcti Hollow,” as commonly called. Weasked Mr. Pennell if was true that hehad been cured of a bad case: rheumatism by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilla, replied that it was true and that he would us about it ina few words. He said years agoin August 1801, he was selzed wii severe pains in the hip, Just where the nerve .#, a8 be was informed later, gradually ran down his leg making life am! to him but not preventing him from some work on the farm. Soon after he loading hay when he slipped off the load his hip, in the exact spot where the pain ed, struck on the wheel. After this he worse, suffering great agony, and for somé was unable to do any work. He took medicines as hisphysician prescribed and proved somewhat so that he could help arothd the farm again. About time he was helping to put away some of cider which he had made, when he | himself and again became helpless. He | trie¢ another physician who felt confident | curing him by the use of the electric | and medicines which hepreseribed. But: was the result, hegot no better, and another, sician was tried and treated:‘him for some: By thistime his whole body was affected and’ life was a miserable one. Sharp patns wou! startin his hand or foot, run up one side of body, over hts shoulders and then down the: side and then pass off for a short time, pains would return regularly, affecting whole body, and nothing seemed to relieve and he began to despair of ever being well. the spring of 1892 a relative in another coun read ofacase very similar to Mr, Pennell’s w! had been cured by Pink Pills, and sent thé article to him, asking if it did@- not suit bis case; It was very similar and he determined to try them. He eommenced taking Pink Pills a4 soon felt better, the pains became less violent with longer intervals between them, He fel encouraged and persevered in their use and soon became able to work on the farm, and in April or May he felt so free from pain that he considered himself a well man again. He says he has probably taken twenty boxes and able todo as good a day's work as any other man, and we can say that he looks like a hale ang hearty man who had never known sickness, Mr. Pennell keeps @ box of the pills in hig home and whenever he feels a pain or a littl unwell he takes a pill or two and {ssoonall righ¢ again. Hesaysthey will curea headache for him in two minutes. He says he doesn’t know what Pink Pills will do for others but be does know that they have cured him of what physie clans said was sciatic rheumatism when threé doctors had failed to do him any permanent good. Some of his neighbors also, he says, have been greatly benefited by using Pinis Pills, and one says he cannot afford to keep & box in the house as his whole family want to take them on all occasions as they make them feel so much better, and they cannot even feel sleepy in the morning without wanting to take @ Pink Pill for it. Dr. Wiliams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are pot a patent medicine in the sense that name implies. They were first compounded as a pre seription and used as such im general practice by an eminent physician. So great was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach ofall. They are now mann- faetured by the Dr, Williams’ Medicine Com- pany, Sebenectady, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against nomierous imitations sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams? Medicine Comna: putting a sign up in the room set aside for the men’s hats and coats saying: “Smok- ing positively prohibited.” Fortunatety, one of the offenders married her daughter, and she gives nce more large parties now. After the Ball Over. Just think of the condition of a house af- ter a big entertainment, The kitchen is up- set, the dining room is in confusion and the parlors are a wreck. The women who came have left gloves and fans behind and the men have left walking sticks or umbrellas. Then there is that invariable brace of men who have unwittingly exehanged bats. The man who got the poorest hat keepe sending around to your house to know whether the ether man has left the hat he took. You feel some sort of responsibility in the mat- ter, and are worried. It took a menth to plan your party; it took a week to get the house ready for it, and it takes another week to get the house back inio a habitable concition, But the end is not yet, for you find that all the people whom you did not invite are your enemies for life. If your list of ac- quaintances is large and your house is not of palatial proportions, you were obliged to leave a number of people out .n order that there might be room for a suitable number of people to get in, but you have offended those whom you did not ask. Here comes im the great advantage of giving a (ea. No matter how inadequate for the throng your quarters may be, you ask everybody. if they cannot all be comfortable they cannot blame you for it. They come and go and they all get in and fare alil: Golf is the Thing. But before the tea and evening ball season begins there is always a preference for those amusements which keep one out of doors. To say nothing of tennis, which still holds its own, and horseback riding, which will always be preferred to bicycling by some people, there is now rising into favor the game of golf. It has taken quite a hold on the American mind, and will unquestionably become more popular in the future. It possesses the great advantage of being easy to learn, and young and old can play it, for it re- quires only a limited amount of exertion. Yet it involves a good deal of steady ex- ercise, and being played in the open air is conducive to health. It has been popular for years in England and the colonies, but is new with us. It originated in Scotland, and is so old that it would puzzle any one to tell its orighs In 1491, a r before America was dis. covered, it was prohibited by an act of the Scottish parliament, which ran thus: “That in no place of the realme thair be usit feet- bailes, olf, or other sie unprofitabill sportis.”” Nevertheless, the game is a per- fectly innocent one. It requires quite an extensive stretch of ground, in which holes of about four inches in diameter are sunk one hundred to five hundred yards apart. ‘The object is to drive a small gutta percha ball from one hole into another, and the person who makes the cirouit of all the holes with the fewest number of strokes wins the game. The club used is not un- like the shinny or hockey stick. There is only one objection to golf, and that is that it requices a iarge area of space. Th howeve ready one golf club in V ington, and there is every reason for sup- sing that there will be o rs started before lon For people who ot ride a bicycle and r playing golf, there remains t ation of walking, ‘which, happily, continues to be fashionable and is perhaps the most satisfactory amusement of all. who have m —_- Appetizing for Invalids. Scalloped potato is appetizing and delicate food for a convalescent. Cut raw potatoes in dice, and dust with pepper and salt. Pot in @ buttered dish with about an ounce of butter to a quart of the dice;.cover the top with bread crumbs, pour a little cream over the whole, and put in the oven to bake, for half an hour. Even well foiks have been known to eat this dish and pronounce ig good.