Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1894, Page 13

18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1894—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. EDUCATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL. IN WASHINGTON. WiLL GIVE Misa’ E. DAILY GOVERNE 1. Would tuk music. A puplis in En, VERNE PROF. A. 3-1 BUXTON, ed pupil of Mine. Cappiani. Italian method. upont circ of 2 and 4 p.m. CHER OF ul in Mrs. Flint’s School, would Mke to make ar- Tangements to give lessons also in music, in ex- eb; fora home. Address 1734 1 st. no3-3t® THE BLISS SCHOOL oO: ANNOU NCEM. For the benefit of thes ight cl ecided to oper 14, on Mondays, We 8, from 2 to 4 p.m.,’ follo t taken up io itution in the country wis trical engineering 1s exclusively .. Laboratory thorouzhl ped with all the Intest electrical dev dents are fastruc ut into the laborator: lustructors, they are cation ‘Tuition, including apparatus, tools and diploma, $50; pay tly in advance. Course complet, year. Five scholarships still for sale in the evening November 16 we open Department of Mechanical wing and Drafting. Course complete in three months. Tultion, including everything, $15. ‘Address, Prine Ha ‘and ni most elully” advanced. 61 1 st. Witopat i uesday mibers; mem ADA L. SMITH, ‘Supt. BECAUSE Of its LOWEST PRICES, bat BECAUSE Of its HIGH-GRADR EDUCATION, Full business course, day or night. One yea $25.00 Six moni 1s.00 ‘Thre 19-00 Two 7.50 One mont, 4.00 Bookkee ing, grammar, letter penm.nsilp, ehort: band, and ALL. BUSINESS SUBJECTS ACTICALLY and THOROUGHLY TACGHT t convenient location. Send sat 25 cents per desired. Address D. 3. P. WASLLN NSELVATORY OF ML 10th st. o.w.—Plauo, organ, volce and mandolin, fut t, etc. 7 to pupils. 0: B. 1 Baro TAvGIE BY YOUNG I OF ES perience; te-ms, 50 cents per lesson. Call or address = § iumbia st. ow., bet. 9th and > ists. c Mrs. Daisy Louise Fox, 2 Wednesd: and Saturday. rooms 1515 29th st. Miss Ward, % oc20-1m* FRANK E. WARD, Pi { END SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION Ottice hours, to 4 pm., Mrs. Walton. S SCHiooL, FOR GIRLS. rench Kindergarten. , PRINCIPAL. 5 SACHER OF FIANO AND te of New Eng. Conservatory of mma L. Minke, teacher of voice; ti's Italian method. S12 Del. ave. me. ucation for Real Life FO 1864, DAUGHTERS. 1894. bs a Monday, viz: Prac ptember 3, 1804. eal Business, including nglish, rapid «al 1 and social culture, .,, civics, potitieal Practical English, borthand and Type- ‘ory bookkeeping; fucluding English; Spencerian Rapid Writ- ing; Mechanical aod Architectuzal Drawing. Full corps of thoroughly traiued teachers. Location cen- tral Oilice open every business day and algt Write or call for new annual annow MRS. SARA. SE a nt. oct5-tr Washington Seminary, 1538-40 17th st. Select boardi & day school. Collegiate and i ‘puratory depts. man-English Kindergartea. Primary. Mr. & Mrs.SMALLWOOD. te Sanatory Gymnasium FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 612-614 12th st. nw. Apply for ctrenlars. “OL: EY INSTITUTE, 1827 I ST., FOR YOUNG aie and little girla, Special advantages for eindy of music, art and modern languages, Miss Virginia "Mason Dorsey, Miss Laura Lee Dorsey, Princtpals. oc8-tt ~~ Miss Susan Pollock, 1426 Q St. N. W., School and Kindergarten. Every advantage Primary, preparatory and ad- vanced classes, German and Latin. Froebel and Naticnal Normal Kindergarten Institutes, teachers’ training class, oc8-Im* Washington Female Semi- NARY, 1226 15TH ST. N.W., NEAR MASS. AVE. Boarding and day school wimary, intermediate idvanced departments; efficient teachers, jal instruction given each Pept: no extra charge for French, elocution and class et ses-2m* Miss CLAUDIA STUART, Principal. LANGUAGES. THE BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, 723 14th st. ow. Branches tn the principal American and Euro- pean cities. Send for cir-ulars. French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek. zu MADAME A. PELE, FROM PARIS — FRENCH classes and private lessous; best references, 1322 14th st. nw. Eleven years of successful teaching. 0c5-3: Mrs. Harriet Miils, ,Yoct, ae fth st. Miss LOTTA MILLS, Pianist. ~ Norwood Institute 1435 K, AND 1212-14 14TH N.W. The boarding department and residence have been transferred to 1435 K st. nw. All recita- tions and class work will be conducted as hereto- fore in the two school buildings, 1212 and 1214 my st. ow. Mrs. WM. D. CABELL, Principal. FRAU AND FRAEULEIN POESCHE ocS-Im* 1224 12TH ST._N. Ww. ie. 7. *TA DALY, TEACHER OF VOICE re and the note cliain system for readi iousle at sieht. Term begins eptember 5 1 Studio, 1118 ‘ork ave. set Biss WALSTEAD'S PRIVATE SCHOOL WILL KE- open for ths sixth year on Monday, Oct. 1, at 1429 2uth st. a.w. Application may’ be made at the school, and at 3024 Q st. nw. set-3m “Where to Attend School. We impart a thorough knowledge of the COM. MERCIAL STUDIES at the cost of less time Fr: Boney than othe: schools, HUNDREDS owe th success In life iso they sy to the training Ly Bay ceived hei We made BREAD-WINNELS of them. We want son to know us; write and we will ‘eli 1 aboat this LIVE SCHOUL, “N.6.— We aesiat to position ‘euth year opens Monda; tober 3. "Day aud evening sessions. WOOD'S ‘ry uae COLLEGE, 211 East Capitol st. MR. PUTNA opens Sep | usiness. pur best of refer. tine 6 ms in the army aud navy the past year twely tied for va ve private lessons in all branches. LES W. FISHER, B. S., cad Master. TUTE AND B.w. Puplis prepared departimental and phy taught. se2-te way Buelness College, 1311 11th auecessfully for’ elvtl servic tereva exumiaations. § “IN WASHINGTON. - . ’ : Elocution and Expression, G DEC. 1, FOR 14 WEEKS. e course costs only $25, and em- most valuable instruction ever in- term, among the Normal Course me of the a teachers in being a. W ERLY. President; EDWIN 'B. RANKLIN J. MILL 3 AM. Ph.D.; NELSO York; ALFRED 'AY RES of and GENEVIEVE STEBBINS of New st of Delsarteans. Announcement rse Will be sent to any address. r f OF ORATORY, 1223 to 1231 G st. nw. Geo.W.Lawrence, ‘oxt STUDIO, 1003 9th u.w, SHAKESPEARE METHOD. oc3-2m* CULTURE PLANO. HERS" Al YORK, LOS AX CHICAGO, ST., WASHINGTON. RY OR ADVANC- Especial attention to backward, un- University graduate. Hopkins place, near 20th and P sts, ed. studies. williag and adult pupils. J., 1496 a Prof. MR. J. E. SCHEEL, TEACHER OF PIANO, OR- , singing and accompanying at sight; particu- lar attention to begiuners, as well as’ to those further advanced. 734 12th'n.w. Terms reasonable. 3-s&wim® DRAUGHTING TAUGHT EV! cal, architectural, topographi the necessary structions begin September 24, at 531 aud-3m* NINGS—MECHANI- 1 and naval, with mathematics for designers. th st. ne. plire tone and clear Xo sore throat. No screaming. No Restores misused voices, Open to church, concert and society engagements. Studio, 1522 g st. 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MARIANO MAINA removed his residence and vocal studio to 307 14th st. nw Monthly musicales, acts of grand opern. conce-ts and popular musle will be by his pupils at his magniticent and us parlors. = 19t NEW TERM OF 20 FRENCH LESSONS.—GOOD pronunciation. To learn to speak well, read and Understand, 80 lessons. | Diploma for two courses. MLLE. V.’ PRUD'HOMMB, 807 D st. aw. mn ‘ols; Sse MRS, MANN’S KINDERGARTEN AND S&C and the Elizabeth Peabody Kindergarten Normal Training School, 191% Sunderland place, will be- gin fall and winter sessious October 1, 1804 asm PIPE ORGAN PRACTICE, WIT! WITH( eareaggiae =Megectlincgay PIANO. NGALI COMPOSITION, a20'L Ses Begianers on Piano at half rates, 1 attention givea to beginzers as well as ced pupil, se17-3m COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF COMMER eet etn amd €23 La. ave. URNER, A. ‘The leading schoo! of busin nd skort! Highest attalnable grade of instruction at moder- fe cost. Thorough and practical courses in sipess, English, civil service, accountancy, shorthand and tspewriting. Superior and en- thusiastic tea Graduates of rare excellence and d'stinguisled success. Situations when com- Betent. Catalogue. ‘au30 ST. CECILIA'S ACADEMY, 601 1 PITOL st ¢ ‘oung ladies and chfidren not attending the ‘are admitted to the classes of art, typewriring, demy music, French. GUNSTON INSTITUTE—A BOARDING AND DAY hool for girls, 3033, 40 and 42 Cambridge place B.w., opens September 26. aul7-3m Mr. and Mrs, B. R. MASON. Mt. Vernon Seminary, 1100-1104 M st. and 1124-1128 11th st. Boarding and day school for young ladies and Bttle children. ene modern ard progressive in method and spirit. Primary, Preparatory and Collegiate departments. New buildings. perfectly eauipped with every ap- piiance for health and comfort of pupils. — a nea saan cinshaal ‘or further information apply to the principal ecT-tr Mrs. ELIZABETH J. SOMERS. THE ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS, 1812 MASS. AVE., FOR YOUNG LADIES AND CHILDREN. ‘The Faglish course offers every opportunity for obtaining a thorough literary ‘education, while special attention ts given to the natural sciences. Vocal and instrumental music, drawing and paint- ing, French, German, Latin, elocution and ‘phys- =a are taught by competent instructors. phonography, Latin and ‘aulé-3m Day and event classes in drawing and paint- ing, from cast and life, under Mr. C.H. L. Mac- donald and Mr. Edward H. Siebert. "Composi- tion, Mr. BE. C. Messer and Mr. R."N. Brooke. Water color, Mr. De Lancey W. Gill. "Prepara- {ory antique, Miss Alma de Mier. “Special terms y the sea ti The [lisses Kerr’s School For Young Ladies and Little Children, Fall term bpas September 27. sel8 to nozz” 1438 Nat. MISS AMY C. LE. 1121 VERMONT AVE. N. W. -att Gonzaga College, Under the direction of the FATHERS ‘OF THE SOCIETY OF JESTS. Clessicrl, scientific and business courses of sincies. Schools reopened TUESDAY, SEPTEM- BER 4. Special course for older students wishing to make rapid progress in the classics. For par- teulara addre: Rev. CORNELIVS GILLESPIF, 8. J., aS President and Treasurer. FRIENDS’ SELECY SCHOOL, AN ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL, FOR BOTH SEXES, 1811 I et., begins its twelfth year September 27. Starting in the primary department, a child may coutinue under experienced college trained teach- ers, who average one to every seventeen students, until prepared for college or for graduation. Students prepared by ua are now enrolled at imbia, Cornell, Prioceton, Johns Hop- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lafayette, Lehigh and others. The building is especially arranged for school pur and is equipped with every necessary appliance, including a chemical and physical laboratory. Instruction is adapted to the needs and capacity of individuals. No charge for text books. Catlocues at Ballantyne's, Brentano's and at the school. Office hours, from 10 to 1 o'clock, at school, THOMAS W. SIDWELL, Principal, se8-tt Home, 804 2ist st. n.w. OUT OF WASHINGTON. MAPLEWOOD INSTITUTE, CONCORDVILLE, PA. —$195 per year. A successful school; one of the best to infuse with energy and to wake up boys to the duties of life, Boys under 13, $174. J. SHORTLIDGE (Yale), A.M., Principal. Jet-w,sdein9m* "NATIONAL PARK SEMINARY For young women and girls; 20 minutes north of Washington, at Forest Glen, Md. Collegiate and preparatory courses. Excellent faculty. 40-acr campus. $75,000 bulidings. A cultured home. Send for illustrated catalogue. au2z2-tt Projectile Tests. The tests of projectiles that are intended to penetrate the thin armor of ships and then explode were continued at Indian Head yesterday. Two projectiles were fired at the seven-inch nickel steel plate used for a similar purpose Tuesday—one made by the ‘Taylor Iron and Steel Company and the other by the Carpenter Company. Both shells broke, the former on the plate, which it dished badly, and the latter after the point had gone through the other side. —_——_—_-o+—____. Jos. Beardsley’s Will According to the will of the late Joe Beardsley, filed for probate yesterday, his entire property is to be transferred to his wife, Rosa Stuart Beardsley. The will is dated October 21, 1894, and Mr. Beardsley died three days later.’ The property re- ferred to above includes the stock of a gents’ furnishing store at 1304 F treet northwest, valued at $2,500, $600 in bank and $100 in credits. > Naval Orders. Commander J. BE. Craig has been ordered to command the Concord, relieving Com- mander C.F.Goodrich, granted three months’ leave; Lieut. E. H. Doan, from the naval in- telligence bureau to ordnance instruction at the Washington navy yard; Assistant Sur- geon A. W. Dunbar, to instruction at the Brooklyn naval observatory, relieving As- sistant Armen Farenhalt, ordered to the Vermont in place of Assistant Surgeon L. H. Stone, placed on waiting orders. Nee es Removed From Office. Mr. H. G, Jacobs of this city, formerly chief clerk of the supervising architect's office, has beon removed from his office as superintendent of public buildings at Los Angeles, Cal. SOCIETY'S MAIL BAG Tat si saz ——— Social Invitations and Their Proper Disposition, ANNOUNCEMENTS THE POPULAR FORM eS Grammatical Errors Which Are Fre- quently Made in Formal Notes. MAKING OUT A LIST Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HE YOUNG MAN I took up his morning's mail, which was where the morning's mail always is—that is, on his plate at the breakfast table—and read it. There were two sealed yellow envelopes, and these contained advertise- ments, respectively, of a new furnace and a sale of laces. As neither article enters into the daily purchases of a young bache- lor, he threw the papers aside. The next letter he tore up without opening, for he recognized it as a bill. The next he put aside to read at his leisure, because he knew it was from his sister and was long. The three remaining communications he picked up with a bright look of pleasure, for they were evidently invitations. One was 4 large square cardboard and contained a fine piece of engraving. It informed him that Mrs. Dash would be at home on the following Thursday evening at 9 o'clock. In the lower left-hand corner was the word “dancing. The next was a note beginning “‘My dear and said that the writer would be charmed if he would dine with her in- fcrmally on a certain evening. The third was an ordinary visiting card, and under the engraved name was written “Thurs- day, December —, 5 o'clock.” This was an invitation to a tea, of course, and it must be confessed that it made small impression on the recipient. Here, then, were three typical invitations, and he knew exactly what to expect from each of them. He resolved to go to the,dancing party, but he would not take the trouble to send an ac- ceptance. There was no intimation that one was expected. The note asking him to come to dinner he would reply to with another note, saying that he would come with pleasure. As for the card to the tea, he would stick it in the corner of his look- ing-glass and go or not, according as the spirit moved him. He had a dim presentiment that he might forget all about it. But There is a Correct Form, Of recent years* there has grown up a custom which is becoming more and more popular of putting all invitations in the form of simple announcements. The visit- ing card of the hestess is used, and on it she writes the day and hour of the enter- tainment. This is put in an envelope and sent through the mail. It saves trouble un- doubtedly, but not many years ago it would not have been acceptable. The etiquette of olden days required that the card be in due form, and that it be left at your house by a servant. Your answer was to be formal also, and transmitted in the same way. Even in the informality of the pres- ent Cay it cannot be said to be right to re- ply by mail to an invitation which has been sent you by a servant. Send your own servant arouid with your answer, or pay a quarter for a messet ger boy. You are not right either if you -deliver your answer by werd of mouth alone. If you rreet the person who has invited you, you ay thank her and say whether or not you are coming, but you must send the written reply beside. Nor is it correct to reply to a formal invitation by an informal not2. If for any reason you wish to send an Informal note, do so by all means, but let it be only supplerrentary to the formal answer, Of course, all these things are rather a bore, and perhaps they are un- necessary, but that has rothing to do with the case. If you are in the swim you must follow the rules observed by other swimmers. You have no right to make rules for yourself. If you don’t like the forms you can easily avoid them by per- sistently declining the invitations you re- ceive. After a while you will not get any, and you can live in sweet retirement. It is generally supposed that a woman 1s more observant of the rules of invitation than a man, and this is doubtless true in most cases, but a single man must know the rules and be careful to follow them, for S he has no one who can take this burden off his shoulders. Why a Reformer Fatied. A story is told of a man who cence started out to reform the rules of social life, and especially those of invitations. He was es- pecially desirous of making them simple. So, when he received an invitation to any- thing, if he wished to go, he sent his visit- ing card as a reply. If he did not send a card within three days, that meant that he declined. His acquaintances hardly under- stood him at first, and people who extended him Invitations did not know what to make of his conduct. One day he walked in to a dinner party and found himself an extra and superfluous man there, for his hostess recelving only a card with his name on it in reply to her invitation concluded that he must be going out of town, or must be ill, and quietly filled his place. Fipaily, his purpose dawred upon his circle, and it was universally agreed that such a great re- former was too fine a character for ordinary people to associate with, so he was left religiously alone afterwards, and his great scheme of reform fell through for want of anybody to practice it upen. There is a great deal to be sald on this subject of replying to invitations, and the proper mode of requesting you to do so. Let us see how tome people do it. Bridget, for instance, is sendiag an invi- tation for a party to her friend Susan, who lives across the street, and this is the way it runs: “Mrs. Flynn requests the pleasure of Miss Susan O'Neill's company on Thursday next at 8 o'clock at night to a party, and will you please bring some biscuits with you." ‘The lady who pays wages to Mrs. Flynn and who has had every advantage in life that money and culture can bring, who 1s in fact quite a swell, happens to see one of these invitations. She laughs heartily, and tells her friends about it, and they laugh, too. What tickles them especially is the bad grammar—to put half the invitation in the third person and then change about to the second person. “Fancy one of us sending such an invitatio! they say in chorus. Yet the very day that madame says this she very likely sits down and pens something in this style: “Mrs. Blank requests the pleasure of Miss Dashe’s company on Thursday evening, November 4, at 9 o'clock. ‘Dancing. R. 8. V. P. ‘Wednesday, October 31, 2009 X street.” Now, in what respect is Mrs. Blank’s in- vitation better than Bridget’s? Just look at it a moment. Say It in English. She maintains the third person beautiful- ly until the end, when she puts down the initials which stand for repondez s’ll vous plez—answer if you please. She has done the very thing that Bridget did. It 1s, per- haps, hardly fair to be too much of a purist in conventional matters of this kind, but still, while usage has perhaps sanctioned it in a measure, it Is hard to reconcile one- self to a mixture in an invitation of the third and second persons. All criticism can be avoided by saying Mrs. Blank requests the pleasure of your company, ete., and retaining the R. S$. V. P., or by dropping these mystic letters and writing out the sentence. “The favor of an answer is request- ‘There are persons, however, who always ntain that it is unnecessary to say anything about an answer, when the in- vitation contains the words “requests the pleasure,” © a requést always implies a desire for an answer. This is, strictly speaking, true, but the difficulty fs that it is not generally so considered, and an in- vitation to a party which simply requests @ person’s company will go unanswered by half the people to whom it is sent. Of course, this does not apply to an Invitation to dinner, which must always be answered no matter how it is worded, yet there are a few persons who mention the wish for out an Invita- no reason for doing so, but there has been a sort of in- cipient fad, so to steak, In favor of the custom occasionally. ,It has never obtain- ed a general recognition, however, and it is a safe rule to leavé it out. The man, or woman, who does not know enough to an- swer a dinner invitation does not deserve to receive one. Trials of a tertainer. Some people give elitertainments, not for the purpose of inviting some people to them, but so as to leave ofher people out in the cold. This is not very commendable, but it is an everyday fact, and if can be remem- bered that several years ago a number of very magnificent balls in a/neighboring city had their origin in this form of warfare. Mrs, Sun thought Mrs. Moon had snubbed her; had endeavored, m short, to eclipse her on a certain occasion; so Mrs. Sun gave a grand ball, simply so that she might leave Mrs. Moon out of it. Associated with the latter in the alleged snubbing were three other high and mighty social lights, and they were left out also. Everybody else was invited, so Mrs. Moon at once gave a grander ball than Mrs. Sun's and left Mrs. Sun out, and the three other lights all gave balls, so that they might do the sume. Thus it happened that a large number of people were given @ great deal of pleasure in order that four ladies might get even with one another. Under any circumstances, however, it 1s a hard thing for a woman to manage her invitation list successfully, and to entertain in such a way that she will not oftend some of her acquaintances. She cannot invite them all, and yet all of them expect to be invited. ‘She may find the safest plan Is to give a number of small parties and gradu- ally get through her list in that way, or she may not entertain at ull out of sheer despair. Even if she has a very large house and invites everybody, she may forget some- body and offend in ‘that way. A novel way of avoiding ail diMfculty on this head was successfully tried by Reuben Davis, a noted politician, in Mississippi. His nd daughters having determi: give a reception, and being somew troubled about their invitation list, Davis took the matter in his own hands, and, without saying anything on the sub- Ject at home, quietly inserted in the county paper a brief notice to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Davis would be at home on a cer- tain day at a certain hour and would be very glad to see their friends. Strange to say, this comprehensive hospitality was not abused, and his reception was a great suc- cess, It remains unique among receptions also as the only one ever given which no one could take offense at ——— PHEASANTS AND TURKEYS. Game 1s in Great Abundance This Year, but Turkeys Are Scarce. “Game is unusually plentiful at present,” said a Washington dealer to a writer for The Star. “I mean quail, pheasants and wild turkeys, particularly. The reason, I imagine, is that the season has been re- markably dry. Ordinarily we have a good deal of wet weather in autamn, and many of the young birds are drowned out or get wet and die of chill. Just at present the market here is supplied with all the game it requires by Virginia and Maryland. in Thanksgiving week, however, the demand is trebled, and we have to look to the west. “The best-flavored pheasants we get, and the piumpest ones, are from Maryland and Virginia. Lut during the entertaining si son in Washington we have to send to St. Paul and Minneapolis for great quantities of those birds. All of our outside supply of pheasants {s got from Minnesota. Many l are shipped tous from Texas, and wild squabs are obtained from a big pigeon roost in Michigan. Most ‘of the prairie chickens are from Montana. They are sent east in refrigerator cars, being drawn and stuffed with prairie grass before shipment. “The birds we get from Virginia and Maryland are mostly shot by countrymen who are not professional hunters. Many farmers’ boys earn a little spending money at this time of year with the shotgun. Wild turkeys are sometimes killed on the roost, but most commonly they are bagged from blinds in the early morning and late after- noon, when they are feeding, They are en- ticed within range by laying trains of corn and by imitating the gobble. “Many wild turkeys,are sent from Wash- ington to New York, Philadelphia and other cities. One Wall street broker has a stand- ing order with me for twenty turkeys every Thanksgiving. He distributes them among his friends. Certainly, I can't imagine a more pleasant and appropriate gifts We ship a few wild turkeys also to Europe. I sent half a dozen Jast year to Sir William yordon Cumming, and he wrote back that they arrived in first-class shape. “Quail, pheasants and wild turkeys have been on sale in Washington ever since Oc- tober 15, though the law forbids it until November 1. The authorities, howeve: wink at the infraction so long as the game not openly exposed. You see, the laws of Virginia and Maryland differ as to the kill- ing of birds. In Maryland they may be shot after October 15, but in Virginia not until November 1. It would be obviously absurd that birds lawfully killed in Mary- land should not be permitted to be sold’ in the District of Columbia A dealer in domestic poultry sald: “Tame turkeys are unusually scai autumn, I do not know why it is so. times farmers raise more turkeys jome- than they do at others, and this seems to be an off year. Of course, the birds are very dif- ficult to rear, and epidemics are apt to car- ry off flocks of them. At the same time, the demand for them ts exceptionally light in the market. At this time last year we sold more than twice as many as are sold this year. Accordingly, notwithstanding the scarcity, the price per pound is no higher than usual. As quickly as cold weather sets in people want turkeys. They appear to wait for a frosty snap.” Said a fish man: “Our business gets no benefit from Thanksgiving. On the contrary, in the week of that festival sales of fish decline consid- erably. I suppose it is because fish and fasting are supposed to be associated. Sel Beat Real Estate Transfers. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Geo. R. Repett! and Henry W. Sohon, trus- tees, to Aaron Straus, sub lots 29 to 43, 50, 51 and 62, and original lots 24 and 25, sq. 953; $7,665.18. Joseph Vogel et ux. to Blanche Carter, lot 195, Long Meadows $20. Wm. W. McDonald et ux. to Geo. E. Emmons and Samuel Ross, lots 235 to 245, sq. 546; $10. Benj. W. Holman et ux. to Annie M. Dries, lots 46 and 47, Clark Mills’ estate; $450. Jno. R. Cassady et ux. to Cas- sie A. Nowell, lot 98, sq. 503; $1,300. Chas. S. Domer and James li. Padgett, trustees, to Wm. W. McDonald, lots 235 to 245, sa. 546; $2,200, Julia C. Buker to Chas. H. Brice, part lots 1 and 2, in Buker’s subdi- vision of Pleasant Plains; $6,500. Amnon Behrend et ux. to Bernard J. Young, lots 137 and 138, Long Meadows; $2,000. Mary M. Butler et al. to Oliver M. Atwood, lot 8, bik. 20, Columbia Heights; $10. James H. Curtis’ et al. to Patrick H. Curtis, part lot 39, sq. 536; $1. Herbert C. Fairfax to W. Mosby Williams, original lots 85 and 36, sq. 1043; $10. Diller B. Groff to Lizzie Schricker, lot 170, sq. 551; $4,500. E. R. Haight et ux. to Marion M. Fellows, lot 66, sq. 668; $4,000. Jno. B. Hammond et ux. to Minnie M. Smith, lot 221, sq. 620; $10. William Mayse et ux. to James F. Hood, part original lot 7, sq. 734; $10. Same to Elizabeth M. Bryant, lots 20 and 21, blk. 5, addition toAnacostia; $10, Henry C. Mockabee et ux. to Bernard Leonard, part original lot 18, sq. 585; $700. John Miller et ux. to Fanny A. Kerr, lot 206, sq. 620; $8,000. Anna Peake to Richard Rothwell, sr., south half original lot 6, sq. 920, Addie Simpson to Calvin W:¥iendrick, lot 2, block 44, University Park; $8,580. Harry M. Schneider et ux.‘to Georgeanna L. M. Raub, lot 4, sq. 139; $12,500. Wm. T. Whelan et ux. to Jno. B. Whelan, part lots 8 and 8, sq. 411; $3,800. Bernard J. Young to Amnon Behrend, north half lot 27, sq. 977; $7,500. 1 ——— Officers Admonished. The report of the court of inquiry into the circumstances attending the accidental wounding of Lieut. John F. Col- lins of the Mohican while that vessel was erulsing in Bering sea has just been made public. The court finds that Ensign Chas. F. Hughes hurriedly turned in the revolvers after target practice end that First Lieut. Lewis C, Lucas, marine corps, inspected the weapons very hurriedly. It was while doing this that one of the revolvers was discharg- ed, the ball passing through a bulkhead and wounding Lieut. Collins in the arm. The court finds that Ensign Hughes was nezli- gent In failing to personally exami..e the re- volvers, and that Lieut. Lucas was careless in handling them. Further judicial proceed- ings are unnecessary because of the ab- sence of intent to do wrong, but the court recommended that the two officers be for- mally admonished by the Navy Department, and their attention be called to their care- lessness, and this has been done by Secre- tary Herbert. (was owaszgsn2) Gras 1 EnrasAer kveaus este Pavlvesks &lLApl Avie FROM A FRIESE IN THE CIRCUSMABIOUEG+ H.Ce 2,00 Haze - THE THEATER HAT. Some Ways Suggested of Affording Relief From Its Annoyance. Inventive genius has discovered a good many ways to surmount the Tall Hat Griev- ance, any one of which will do away with all the mental and physical suffering which the T. H. G. every day and night causes. Some suggestions are given in The Star’s cartoon today. A real nice hat, built on a solid structure of thick buckram and velvet, might, by an ingenuous arrangement of clamps, hold in place and at just the right focus a small telescope, so that any indi- vidual seated behind it could see the show beautifully. The mirror arrangement is another good scheme. It is already used on private residences now, with good effect, to know who comes to your neighbors’ doors, and what they wear. The spiral spring be- tween the lady's head and hat, or the other jack-in-the-box arrangement of springs un- der the hapless man behind the big hat, are both such clever ways of elevating the stage, that he who runs may see. No doubt but that the best way of getting rid of the hat is to do like the reg! angel—keep it in your lap—if you have n8t left it home. “Loutfe’s” Experience, To the Editor of The Evening Star: The Siar should certainly be congratu- lated and supported by all right-minded people, regaruless of age, sex or previous condition of heedgear, in its valiant fight against the big hats at the theater. It is a “feather in its cap,” and it may justly “plume itself,” and, though “but yet a wo- I am with The Star and against my misguided sisters in the contention. Set- ting to one side the question of wearing for our own supposed adornment anything that so seriously interferes with the com- fort and enjoyment of others, I venture to advance the argument, perhaps no less effectual to the feminine mind, that the large hat so “fetching” and becoming by day is just the reverse under the condi- tions of illumination prevalent in the aver- age play house. Tne graceful Gains- borough, which Is the great grandmother of all the big hats, is a thing of beauty (and can cost forty dollars) with its appropriate environment of open air, diffused sunshine, and the charming background of an En- glish garden. But with the heavy shadows of the electric Nght gathered beneath its umbrageous brim, the fairest and freshest face takes on age and ugliness. (1 almost fancy 1 am going to win my wayward si ters to my mode of thinking.) In short, beautiful as the big, feathery headgear may be, out of doors and by daylight, it is as “bad form,” and, worse yet, as unbe- coming at the theaters, as satin slippers on the street or diamonds at breakfast. I attended the theater one evening this week, when there was a clever play and a full house. We were a little late, and as we came down the aisle, the orchestra, with its astounding array of wildly tossing plumage, looked like nothing so much as a free fight on dn ostrich farm, with here and there the ivory gleam of a front-row bald-head, as though some atfrighted female bird had mislaid an egg In the melee. We were seated, and, lo! and behold! or rather so high that you could not possibly behold—right in front of us arose what there is not the slightest use in telling me was not the champion big hat of the even- ing. Upon subsequent comparison of notes with friends, who were fellow-sufferers, though I must maintain in a less degree, they have individually and _ collectively averred that the prize offender was in front of them. But, indeed, this particular hat might well have been in front of all of us at once, and “‘sorra a sight” the one of us could have had of the stage. Its nor- mal circumference in a state of rest was sufficient to eclipse for us the gayety of nations for that entire performance. Like the fellow in the Mikado, we might have been assured that though there would be fireworks in the evening, we would not be there to see them. But terrible as it loom- ed in repose, when, ds was generally the case, the nervous little female personality beneath it saw fit to set this wholly in- credible mass of millinery in motion, chaos seemed come again. Not merely the play and players, the orchestra and leader, the flies on the wings and the wings on the flies, the private boxes, the stalls and the galleries, but the mighty sweep of the pros- cenium arch itself, and the high dome above, were engulfed from vision in its merciless are of annihilation. Off to the left there was a dear little wo- man, who sat with her big hat in her lap. But then she had one of the prettiest-shaped lttle heads it was ever your luck to see. I have no mofe patience than some of my belligerent sex, who have rushed into print on this question, with the stampede of clumsy young colts, who trample on our feet and bump awkwardly against our knees in a wild, mad rush to look foolish and smoke cigarettes in the lobby. But I will forgive any grown man who has been sitting at a good show behind a silly, big hat, if he walks all over me in going out for a straight drink and a good swear. Yours, penitently, LOUISE. Another Wom 's View. To the Editor of ‘The Evening Star: I fully sympathize with a patient and long enduring public in regard to the “theater hat.” No persuasion, cajoling or ridicule has availed to abate the nuisance, with a few exceptions. I must differ with the writers who say only “snobs” wear big hats to the theater (I never wear one); facts do not bear out this assertion. It is a natural womanly vanity to look her best at all times, without any thought but her own gratification; hence the latest ultra fashion at the theater. This selfishness is the result of a lamentable want of home training, both with girls and boys, instead of being taught that consideration for others’ feelings and comfort on all occasions and general un- selfish courtesy is the true exponent of good breeding. If women would only realize how much more attractive and womanly they would look without their hats and bonnets, with prettily arranged hair, they would at once discard the big “theater hat.” In their increased womanly attractiveness they would bring visions of home and home fire- sides to men’s minds, and the ranks of bachelors would be lessened. We hope the day is not far distant when the whole ap- pearance of lecture rooms, concert halls and theaters will be changed by woman's be- lief that unselfishness and general courtesy will add to her many charms, And there is another nuisance more of- fcnsive than looking at flowers and feathers, It is in the conduct of those callow youths who clamber over your lap between every act, thinking it manly to do so. This lies at women’s doors who do not teach their sons the first principles of decency and polite ness. Mature women, who treat boys as men, until the familiarity lessens their respect for women, and they are ruined past redemption, are also responsible, in a large measure. Let the managers of theaters make it im- Perative that high hats cannot be worn. They will not lose any patronage by this ruling, be assured. Let them also make it equally imperative that this constant an- noyance of going out at the end of every act must be lessened, and a new era of civilization and decency will be inaugurated. F. F. Let Us Broaden the Issue a Little. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The warfare that is being waged against the wearing of big hats at the theater is a good thing. Let it go on until a reform is secured. It is an Intolerable abuse, and one that no considerate, well-bred woman should be willing to perpetrate, once her attention is called to the matter. But women are not the only people who are unmindful of the rights and comfort of others. Men are quite as great offenders in this respect as their sisters, and In some ways even worse. ‘Ihe vile ‘saloon habit,” which causes well- dressed males who consider themseives “gentlemen” to go out of places of amuse- ment between acts, to the serious annoy- ance of the'r neighbors, is quite as bad. It has already been touched upon, and it ought to be lampooned until a reform is ef- fected in that respect as well as in the mat- ter of the stage-hiding hat. Then there is another that is, if any thing, worse and more reprehensible, because it affects a larger number of people. I refer to the nasty habit of smoking vile cigars and stinking pipes on street cars and sidewalks, and puffing the offensive smoke in the faces of passersby, whether they like that sort of thing or not. The right of every man, old and young. to smoke in his own room must be conceded, provided it does not unpleas- antly affect other persons; but I maintain that a man has no more right, legal or moral, to poison or pollute the air on the street cars or sidewalks of a city for other people to breathe than a lady has to pre- vent others from seeing the stage in a thea- ter. Furthermore, I hold that no real gen- tlemen should be guilty of such a gross dis- regard of the rights and feelings of these who are not addicted to their habit. Anoth- er thing that men do that ougitt to be stopped, either by the action of the police or by the expression of public sentiment through the columns of the press, is the dangerous practice of fast driving around corners and across street crossings, irre- spective of the rights of pedestrians, and at the imminent risk of running down men, women and children. I am aware that the greatest offenders in this respect are liver- ied drivers of private carriages and unliv- eried drivers of e®press wagons and the like. But members of the so-called “smart set,” driving their own turpouts—whatever that may mean—are equally guilty. Let them be called to accvunt, too, in connec- tion with the offensive big theater hat. That nuisance ought to “go,” as Kearney, the California statesman, said about the Chinese. It mi go, if it takes a revolu- tion to accomplish it. By this is meant that gentlemen ought to invite ladies to go to Places of amusement only on condition that they do not wear sight-obscuring headgear of any kind, But do not let the good work stop there. Lét the ery of reform be heard along the whole line of urban abuses. FAIR PLAY. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. The Japanese have captured Port Arthur, The second Japanese army landed at @ point four days’ march from Kinchow, on the Gulf of Liatung. Hudson Maxim, president of a torpedo works near Lakewood, N, J., yesterday sprinkled a small quantity of powder on the floor of one of the buildings, retaining at the same time a quantity of the ex- plosive material in his left hand. He then struck a match to ignite the powder which he had put on the floor. When the flash oc- curred the powder in his hand exploded. ‘The hand was completely torn off at the wrist. ‘The Virginia state building at the world’s fair, which was a reproduction of George Washington's Mount Vernon mansion, h been purchased and is now occupied restdence by a Chicago policeman, McGuire. The house, which cost was bought by McGuire for $400. The young son of John Berg, who lives rear Jamestown, N. Y., was stung to death by bees yesterday. The bees stung the lit- tle fellow on the head, hands and feet. His head and feet immediately began to swell and he died within a short time, despite the efforts of two doctors. ‘ In an interview in London yesterday Stepnaik, the Russian rihilist, utterly re- pudiated’ the nihilist| manifesto recently published. Speaking of the present situa- tion, Stepnaik said: ‘We nthilists have de- cided upon an immediate, fresh and wide- spread propaganda. This may be revolu- tionary, but not in the sense of dynamite. ‘The reign of bombs and dynamite is ended.” Gen. William Booth of England, the foun- der and leader of the Salvation Army, was welcomed to Philadelphia at the Academy of Music last night. He is accompanied by Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth, the head of the forces in this country; Col. J. Lawley of London, the general's aid-de- camp; Staff Capt. Malan of Turin, Italy, secretary to Gen. Booth; Col. Alexander H. Nicol of London, and Col. William M. Hadie, chief secretary of the army in the United States. Mr, Wanamaker presided In the afternoon a meeting for ministers and those interested in reform, was held in Association Hall. Expert cracksmen broke into the Perth $17,000, Amboy, N. J., post office yesterday morn- ing between 8 and 4 o'clock. The booty amounted to $2,000, $300 of which was cash. They gained an entrance by the use of skeleton keys. The safe was blown open with dynamite. « A syndicate of Baltimore shipbuilders and capitalists are contemplating the building of a yacht to contest with the fleetest yachts of the world, and which, it Is con- fidently expected, will prove the cup de- fender of America, The trial of the leaders of the Sanctified Band of Chincoteague Island began yester day at Onancock, Va., in Accomac county court. The charge on which these pecu- liar people stand indicted is that of beiny concerned in a conspiracy to separal: wives from their husbands, and of being « — to the community in which the; ive. Mrs. Louise Young was yesterday at Cin- cinnati granted a divorce and $40,000 ali- mony from Gen. H. C, Young. Both had been divorced shortly previous to their marriage, and their case has attracted much attention. Jose W. Reinhart, ex-president and re- celver of the Santa Fe railroad, who was indicted at Chicago on the charge of pay- ing rebates to shippers in violation of the interstate commerce law, gave bail yester- day for $10,000. At the time of the alleged payment of rebates Mr. Reinhart said he had no knowledge of the transaction, if it ever occurred. A suit involving$11,000,000 has been brought against Russell Sage and George J. Gouid, as individvals and executors of the will of the late Jay Gould. The suit is brought by the Soldiers’ Orphan Home of St. Louts, Mo., owners of a small part of the bonds Russell Sage and Jay Gould are alleged to have misappropriated. The editors of the socialist paper Schwae- bische Tagwachtu, in Stuttgart, have each been sentenced to two months’ imprison- ment, They were convicted of publishing a serious libel against ex-Judge Bucher of the supreme court. Count Von Caprivi, ex-chancellor of the German empire, has arrived at Montreuz, on the Lake of Geneva, It is his intention to make a long stay in Switzerland. President Casimir-Perler yesterday at- tended the services in memory of the czar which were held in Paris. At Trenton, N. J., yesterday the Mercer county grand jury presented indictments for extortion against Justices of Peace Abram Naar, Harvey Savidge, Levi Ayres and Cornelius Abrams. The accused men were arraigned,and, with the exception of Ayres, pein acknowledged his guilt, plead not guilty Meyer T. Cohen, a Boston tallor, was swindled yesterday out of $6,500 by a stran- ger, who sold him a lot of stuff which he represented to be gold dust. Mrs. Jennie Webb, wife of Dr. L, W. Webb of 1220 Master street, Philadelphia, has committed suicide by jumping from a third ‘story window of their residence into he back yard. About six months ago the hree-year-old child.of Dr. Webb died from n overdose of medicine, which was acci- entally administered by the father. Dr. Vebb almost lost his reason as @ conse- quence, and Mrs. Webb, it is believed, had never fully recovered from the shock caused by_the child's death, Col. Cienfuegos has received a telegram from Gen. Ezeta summoning him to the City of Mexico. It is deemed probable that Ezeta desires his assistance in the troublous experiences which it is believed are in store for the Central American republics. PEPSI S OREGE BC Charges She Drank. William Neuman yesterday filed a suit in equity with the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, asking an absolute divorce from Lucy M. P. Neu- man, whose maiden name was Lucy M. P, Reigle. They were married, according to Mc. Neuman, on January 6, 1870, and his wife deserted him October 8, 1802, takin, with her their two children, The husban alleges that his wife addicted to the use of intoxicating lquors, the bills con- tracted by her therefor amounting to as much per week as the bills for the neces- saries for the whole family. He asks a divorce and the custody of the infant daugiter. —1——— October Cotnage, The total coinage for October was 4,044,800 pleces, of the value of $4,182,700, of which nearly two-thirds were in gold coin, ————__-- Indian Agent, Capt. John W, Bubb, fourth infantry, has been detailed ax Indian agent nt the Colville agoncy in Washington,