Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1894, Page 14

14 AS SEEN IN COREA Scenes and Incidents in the Midst of War Excitement. NOT ACHINAMAN LEFT IN THE COUNTRY Explanation of China’s Lack of Success. THE STORMING OF A CITY Special Correspondence of The Evening Siar. GENSAN, Corea, October 1, 1894. S TWILIGHT WAS coming down upon us one evening two weeks ago we went to the hill-top that everlooks the Japan- ese town and were not a little surprised to see a brilliant il- lumination — colored lanterns suspended on ropes high in the air, a triumphal arch made wholly of vari- colored Japanese lan- terns and every high building illuminated. We said this means victory. But it cannot be the fall of Pingyan, for the latest news was a retreat of the Japanese from that fortified city, but on inquiry it proved to be indeed true that Japan had taken this wall- ed city after a hard fight of four hours. So Japan has taken Corea from south to north. We hear that they have pushed on to the. Yaloo river, which divides Corea from China. The whole tide of war has turned away from us, though four trans- ports are now landing troops here. About the middle of September nearly all the Japanese soldiers left Gensan, taking with them most of the fine cattle which they have purchased from the Coreans. These cattle look like pure-blooded Jerseys end Durhams. They have never been milk- In Mourning. e4, but are used for riding, carrying heavy burdens on their backs and for ploughing. Nearly all this fine stock must have gone out of this part of Corea with the army. It will leave the Coreans more miserable and poor than ever. ‘The Japanese army have hired the Cor- eans to become coolies, or beasts of burden for them; they give them two dollars per day. They carry bags of rice on their backs; these bags are quite heavy. The crafty Corean lightens his burden by pull- ing his inevitable knife from. his belt,stick- it into the bottom of the bag, and as he stalks along the rice sifts out; and so many marching one after another, the way is Uterally paved with rice. A Strike in Corea. Here, just below my window, is a ver- {table strike! The spirit that is so ram- pant in America has suddenly come to Gensan. Hundreds of Coreans, those who have been deing coolie work for the army, are engaged in loud altercations. They are the roughest set I have yet seen to- gether. Suddenly they scatter. A few of them run toward our house, but most of them start straight up the-hill in the path that ieads to Russia. They take long steps, strike their heels into the ground Coolie With Pipe and Carrying Gear. and carry their heads in a proud, indepen- dent way. They are stil) all jabbering to- gether in an angry, quarrelsome tone of voice. They single file, every man, straight before him. It seems some poor, benighted fellow consented to take less than two dolla per day, so making it probable that wages would be lowered, = all struck at once and threw down heir carrying gear with a bang. No com- promise can ever be effected with a Corean under such circumstances. If the Japan- ese should offer them $1.75 per day now they would infinitely rather go home and starve than accept such humiliating terms, though at this rate they could earn more in one month than they could make in a year in any other w Another large steamer, full of Japanese soldiers, has come into port; they are now disembarking in the Japanese sampans. ‘These boats no longer flaunt gay stream- ers and flags and welcome the troops with acclamations, as they did those that came in a few weeks ago; but there is a most depressing silence, both when they come and when they start out on their march inland. Not a benediction is said; but one mother’s son, and then another, drops his letter tn the box with silent tears and joins the solemn march without the usual martial music, without even the fife and drum. The romance and enthusiasm, evi- dently, have died out, and only the terrible reality of war confronts them. Causes of Chinese Defeat. We have to record another great naval victory of the Japanese over the Chineso, which occurred on the 16th of Septomber in the Yellow sea, near the mouth of the Yalu river. There are many causes given for the signal failure of the Chinese, both at Pingyan and in the naval engagement. It fs reported that the Chinese were de- termined that all the officers on board their fleet should be Chinese, that they turned off all their competent commanders, de- taining only the firemen and engineers. The latter refused to hold their places un- der such incompetent officers, so all was left in the hands of the Chinese. It is said there fs not a Chinaman in al Corea. An English man-of-w came into this port a few days ago. She was witness to the naval battle of the 16th instant, and the officers say that the Japanese were most skillful in the management of the details of the engagement, while the Chinese showed lack of ability in handling their fleet. A Scene of Revelry. We now have full accounts of the battle @t Pingyan, The utter rout and defeat of THE EVENING. STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. some 15,009 cr 20,000 Chinese by half that number of Japanese 1s prodigious! The strategical position occupied by the Chi- nese army was all to their advantage, and, if, In their stead, there had been a discli lined, well-armed force, there is little doubt that the victory would have been gained by the opposite side. The night before the taking of Pingyan no doubt the city was filled by hideous sounds of revelry, for the 14th of September was the midsummer festival. A correspondent of a Chinese pa- per sa: “The full moon shone down on a strange, weird sight. The Chinese, in al terror, sprung to their arms, and it requires little imagination to picture them shouting like demons let loose, as they rushed forward to meet the first at- like maddened The Japanese army, marching by sev- eral routes, attacked the Chinese strong- hold at Pingyan on the 15th of September. After a long and hotly contested battle of six hours the Jepanese gained a complete victory, taking possession of Pingyan be- fore daybreak of the 16th. The Japanese surprised the Chinese, marching in three divisions upon the fortified, walled city. When the aiarm was sounded the Chinese made a brave rush upon the advancing enemy; but just then they were attacked in another quarter. This created somewhat of a panic; but when they were again at- tacked from a third quarter they became thoroughly disorganized and began a re- treat. But they found themselves sur- rounded. The full moon enabled the Jap- anese to discharge their field-guns with deadly precision. Of an army of 20,0 Chinese but few escaped. It is estimated that the Chinese’ killed were 6,600, while the Japanese would mske us believe their lost was only thirty men; or &s another an- thority ,cives it, only one men was injured, oe ta sprained hia ankle getting over the wi —-_—. BOOK COVERS. Artistic Devices for Preserving Deli- cate Binding From Being Soiled. From the New York Herald. Now that so many of our favorite authors are presented in editions de luxe, one won- ders, while extravagantly admiring the white and geld and sof: fade colors of the bindir gs, how one is to keep their beauty fresh while enjoying the contents; for or- @inarily much handling does take the bloom off them, even though one’s hands be fas- tdiously nice, ‘These touch-me-not volumes have called forth decorative covers, and in nothing ts one’s cleverness more apparent than in the way the cover is made to illustrate some motif of the book. One woman who reads that is skillful with her needle is especially original in making the cover strike the keyncte of the con- tents. For her copy of Omar Khayyam, which is bound in perishable pearl gray and gold, she has made a slip of wine colored India stik, on which she has embroidered a strag- gling grapevine, hung with clusters of the fruit he imnicrtalized, crossing it from cor- ner to corner, and on the other side a drooping olush rose scatters its falling petals over the whole surface. As the old Persian worshiped the vine, or wine, as the symbol of life and dearly loved ‘the rose, she has interpreted him admirably. For her Browning, bound in white and stamped with sweet peas in natural tint, she has made a cover of green moire, and across it goes a branch of apple blossoms, on which is perched a little brown thrush, and beneath him run the lines, traced in irregular lettering: He sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he Never could recapture ‘The first fine careless rapture. But perhaps the most unique and original of book covers is one for a Thomas a Kempis, made of real sackcloth from the €ast. Scarcely less interesting, though, is a white cloth one for a handsome copy of Poe's tales. On one. ride is embroidered in boldly prominent padded work that most grew- some, one-eyed feline immortalized as the Black Cat, and on the opposite cover is a huge Brasilian beetle dene in bussion, sym- bolizing the Gold Fug. The cleverly ingenious woman need be at no loss whatever in n-aking her fine books attractive in their coats of everyday utility. ——_. FOR BABY’S USE. A Dainty Cradle Quilt and a Pretty Carriage Robe. Is there a wee one coming to some friend to whom you would like to give some little article for the layette? Here is a dainty cradle quilt, that will cost but little, and anybody can make it. Get two yards of white cheese cloth and a yard of wool bat- ting; lay the wool on one-half of the cheese cloth and turn the other half over it; then turn the edges in and baste lightly. Take pale blue double zephyr and knot the com- fort every few inches, tying the ends and cutting them about an inch long. Then button-hole stitch the quilt all around with a double thread of the double zephyr, and in that crochet a narrow edge of single zephyr. It will be quite pretty made of the delicate shades of cheese cloth, but white is best. You should never make any part of an infant's wardrobe of bright colors. A pretty carriage blanket may be made of one yard of elderdown flannel. Em- broider a spray of wild roses or some other large flower in the center, and, {f you like, put the buds of the same flower in the cor- ners. Don’t select any gaudy flower, how- ever. Turn the edge of the square in and baste it down. Then line it with a square of cashmere or silk—the wool Is best, how- ever—and button-hole stitch the two to- gether with slik. Finish with a cord or a crocheted edge of double zephyr, and put a big ribbon bow in one corner. snes aS To Suit the Skir It really looks as though the milliners were trying to manufacture hats to suit the conyolutions of the dress skirts. This is an example of that particular style. It has no back to speak of, and the edge has @ narrow, jetted cord. The hat is black velvet, with jetted black velvet ribbon bows, and snuggling up to the high crown Via in front is a bird just exactly the shade of the new cerise postage stamps that have no muctilage on them, and make your hands look like you had the jaundice when you are trying to coax them to stay “put.” The bird will have the same effect on your complexion, unless you have a matchless one that has not a tint of malaria indt. It is quite incomprehensible how anything so horribly unbecoming to the average wo- man as the new shade of red can have got to be the rage. —_. An Era of Badges. From the Philadelphia Record. Even the most indifferent observers of their fellow promenaders along the streets of this city must have remarked the recent remarkable efflcrescence of decora- tive badges. Where a few years ago one man with an ornamented coat lapel woull be encountered there are now at least ten, and manufacturers of badge buttons,medals end other insignia of distinction were never kept so steadily at work. The fact that the distinction of having served in the Union army has become more prized as the vet- erans’ ranks have thinred does rot account Jor the multiplicity of cther badges having ro relation to military service. These in- dicate a notable increase in the number of clubs, associations and secret orders—some organized purely for entertainment, and others for the purposes of practical co-op- eration. A GIRL'S BED ROOM To Partake of the Individuality of the Occupant. SENORA SARMS ADVICE Marie’s Room Can Be Prettily Furnished for $12. TASTE AND SKILL COMBINED Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. LITTLE GIRL whose name is Marie wants to know how she will furnish cheaply and prettily the little hall room which she says her mamma has given her for her very own. Marie must have a very sensible mamma since she has decided to give her young daughter a room by herself. It is fast be- ing recognized that no two people should sleep together, and it {s far from healthy for two people to occupy the same room unless it is very large and well ventilated. It is an excellent plan, if one is able to do so, to give each girl a room of her own and after having furnished it as nearly to suit the taste of the occupant as comes within one’s means, to make the child re- sponsible for its cleanliness, and teach her to care for it herself. I have known some very careless girls who got to be as neat as wax when they arrived at the dignity of having a room of their own, which they were expected to care for. Marte does not give the size of her room, nor does she say what colors she likes best, but, as most little girls Hke pink, I am go- ing to suggest that the prevailing color be pink, and then arrange the room as I would like to have it if I were a little girl “just the age of Rose in bloom” as Marie says she is. The Pink Wall Paper. The “hall room” is probably about eight by twelve feet, and has but one window, and that in the middle of the end with the door in one corner of the other end. At least I will suppose so, The first thing after cleaning the room thoroughly, will be to study the walls. Wall paper is very cheap now, and it need not cost over 75 cents for the paper, which should be of a light cream ground, either plain, or with a tiny flower in pink. Or it may be of a creamy yellow ground with a shadowy brown figure, but I would like the pink best. A pale pink, perfectly plain paper would .be exquisite, and it might have a border of pink roses. In any event I would select the pink and cream in some combination. Next comes the carpet. If the floor is a good pine one, oil it and have | arug. The rug can be made of two widths of carpet two yards in length. Very pretty ingrain, in 2 cream and brown or in a light gray with brown figures shading into pink can be bought as low as 5) cents a yard, and with fringed ends will make a rug that can be taken up every day and dusted without effort. Rugs of the same size would cost a great deal more, and not | be as durable either, besides being so heavy. Or there may be two rugs of one width each, or straw matting all over the floor. If new must be purchased, the cost would be about the same. The Bedstead. For a bedstead get a single one of un- painted hard wood. One that is low and rounding alike at head and foot. Get good wire springs and a good matress; that will cost more than anything else and will last @ lifetime. Have the legs cut off so that the bedstead will be very low. Then get eight yards of cretonne; a cream sround with brown leaves and pink roses is pretty, and qf part of it make a cover for the bed that will fit over it when it is made up nicely. Put a gathered valance to fall to the floor in front, and leave the top long enough to tuck in well at the head and foot. Then take enough of the cre- tonne to make ruftied slips for the pillows. ‘These slips will go on over the night slips | of muslin. If you have not enough pillows, Al an old slip tightly with excelsior and | put a slip over that. These pillows piled on your bed in the day time will make a lovely couch to lounge on, and the cover will keep you from soiling the bed clothing. The bedstead should be painted white and have a little gilding. Marie can do this herself, if she is as bright as I think she is. For the window get a cream shade, which can be bought as low as 50 cent: muil sash curtains would make the windo’ look very pretty from the outside. Over these hang long curtains of cream scrim ither of which can be cents and less a yard. Tie bands and rosettes of pink them back with satine. The Furniture. The furniture for this pretty room will have to be makeshift things, because we have decided to spend so much for the bed- stead and carpet. If there are no chairs about the house that can be made over, two—a rocking chair and a plain one—from @ second-hand store. Have the legs cut off the plain one to make it more com- fortable; then sandpaper it till every bit of the varnish has disappeared. If the chairs are nice wood, you might varnish them and let them go at that, but I think it would be prettier to give them two or three coats of the white paint and a touch of the gilding. Then tack a double thickness of heavy canvas over the bottom if the seats are broken and make a cushion of the cre- tonne, and tie it on the chair with some of the cretonne hemmed to make ties. For a foot stool, which will also answer for a shoe box, get a small box at the grocery store, one that is about fourteen inches deep and a foot and a half wide by two fect long. Have the cover fastened on with hinges. Line the inside neatly with dark cambric, tacking it firmly, and co smoothly on the outside the same way. Make a cover and valance of some of the cretonne and fix inside of it several thick- s of old quilt, or layers of cotton bat- Put this over the top of the box and tack with half a dozen brass-headed tacks For a washstand have a shelf made of a three-cornered bit of wide board, that will just fit in the corner at the foot of the bed This should be fastened firmly to the wal and, below, about a foot from the floor, another shelf can be placed, or even two, if you want for the top one should be a t two feet and a half from the floor. The shelves may be slightly rounding in front, and shouid be at least fifteen inches deep at the widest part. Make a curtain of cretonne, divided in the center, to hang to the floor from this shelf, and fasten it to the shelf with brass-head- ed tacks. Over the shelf put a ce of white oilcloth. On this can be placed the toilet articles for the bath, A Home-Made Dressing Case. For a dressing case get a box about the size of the body of a small dressing case. It can be got for a quarter. Inside of i have two or three shelves placed; then pa- per it with white, or, if you care to take the trouble, you can tack cambric over it. Make a curtain of the cretonne to hang before it, letting it go around the end that will be exposed. Tack a cover of white oil- cloth fast to the top. A good mirror al- ways costs in proportion to its size and quality, and a poor one is an eyesore. You may be able to get one that is very good, though, in a battered frame at a seco: hand store. It is worth the trial, anynow. Paint the frame white, and gild a little to go with the rest of the furniture, and hang it on the wall so that it will just escape the dressing case, and exactly in the mid- dle. Then have fastened to the wall on each side of it, about two feet above the dressing case, two small brackets on iron supports, all’ painted white. Then take half a width of the cheesecloth, catch {t in the middle above the mirror with a big bow of pink satine, bring it loosely down to the side of the brackets with bows of the pink and let the ends, plainly hemmed, fall to the edge of the dressing case. Pictures d Their Frames, Good pictures cost a great deal of money, and some people would rather leave the walls bare than not have what they call “masters;" but a m without pictures Is a barren-looking p! -and Marie wants her room to look cozy, $f course, she has some little engravings from magazines and two or three bright-coloted pictures which she prizes, and these can be used quite effectively. Determine fast how many pic- tures ere to be put ‘one side of th room—an even distrfbutton is best in a all apartment—thén ‘fasten them flat against the wall with” tiny tacks. frame them, you catt tiike two methods. One is to cut from a square of pasteboard a frame that will fit'the picture, and this can be covered with Silk, cambric, velvet, glazed paper or ae lissue paper, just as you like. No gl: is'necessary. Put a rosette or bow in one cérner, then fasten the frame over the’ picture with brass- headed tacks, three in “each corner. The frames should be at least three inches wide. Another method, which is less trouble and quite as tty,is to take a fold of the paper or silk, or whatever it happens to be, and fasten it with a bow or rosette at each corner and let it go at that. You have no idea how very pretty pictures look when treated in this way. It is a favorite manner of framing en- gravings for the sitting room and library. Sometimes no sort of framing is attempted, but the picture is tacked at the four cor- ners with tiny pins, and a big bow of rib- bon or a cluster of flowers or a fern or some autumn leaves are stuck in one cor- ner or fastened irregularly around it. For Bric-a-Brac. A shelf for bric-a-brac will be almost a necessity, for every little girl has lots of it. Two tron brackets, painted white and gilded a little, can be adjusted to the wall above the couch, if there is not room on the outside wall. Make the board as long as seems necessary which is used for the shelf, and decorate it with pink tissue paper, draped like a lambrequin. A shelf or two for books may be arranged on iron brackets the same way, but the shelf should be smooth, and either covered with cambric or stained, and there should be pieces at the ends to keep the books from sliding off. If Marie is particular about her writing materials—and every girl ought to be—some kind friend has prob- ably presented her with a portfolio, in which there is everything necessary for correspondence. The room is too small for even the smallest desk, but if she will have a smail folding shelf fastened to the wall she will find that it will. answer every purpose of a desk, and can be shut flat when not in use. An Improvised Wardrobe. I have suggested no wardrobe for the room, because it would cost a great deal, and there is really no space for it; but if there is no closet that Marie can use, she can leave space of a foot or more at the head of her couch. Have a shelf set on iron brackets about six feet from the floor, and have a double row of hooks fastened in the underside. Hang a cur- tain of the cretonne around it, letting it come to the floor, and it will make a very convenient wardrobe, I think you must admit that this room, as described, will be very charming, and the cost of the materials mentioned will not be above 3i2. When this pretty room is invested with the presence of a bright, wholesome girl, who will take care of it and keep it scrupulously clean and neat, and who studies how to dispose of her pretty belongings to the best advantage, it will be far more charming than a great, big room, furnished up with heavey hang- ings and cumbersome furniture that is purchased by the lot, and represents not one atom of the personality of the one who is to occupy it. Some one once said: “Show me a woman's bed room, and I will tell you what she is lke.” There is a great deal of phiotephg in that. If the room is dainty and clean and sweet, and its owner has gathered ‘about her ail the books and pictures and photographs, and disposed them gracefulty about her sanc-- tum; if she keeps nér #rushes and combs clean and sweet-smelling, her toilet table in order, her bed neatly made and the floor free of hair combings \d snippings and threads, you can feel prgtty sure that she has a caim, even tempetament, is cleanly, gentle and sweet-tempere: ; SENORA SARA. SEERERE: } vs Beans THE LONG COAT, The Favorite of the Hour, Which is Serviceable amd Economical. The long coat is the favorite of the hour. There is nothing more becoming to stout figures than the Jong, unbroken Ines that fall from neck to hem, and to such the long wrap is a boon. The short and three-quar- ter coats made them look like frights, and the long, loud protests has brought about a much needed reform. The long coat is economical, too. Since it is for an out-door garment, you can, if you like, mako it do duty for a visiting gown, carriage wrap or walking dress. You can make it cost much or little, just as you like, trimming with fur, passementerie braid, velvet, or not at all. One young lady, who has a genius for the needle, accomplished a very hanisme looking Jong coat last week, and it cost her just $6, She got a damask-figured black cheviot at 50 cents a yard, five yards for the coat; three yards of fine black lining for the waist and sleeves; big black but- t d with some black and a yard of black silk velvet for She had it cut and fitted oy her dressmaker, which cost her a dollar extra, and then she made it herself. You would think that it cost $25-at the very least. cal- culation. She lined only the waist, and will wear it with a silk blouse or a black webbing underwaist, as,she has made it skin tight, to be worn as one would wear a dress waist. These long coats may be made of very heavy material, but, aye handsomer and not so burdensome whey made of a light- weight broadcloth or some one of the camel’s hair wools that are so much in vogue. They are of atl colors, one re- cently seen on the avenue being a bright red. The model shown is a dark blue diag- onal serge of heavy quality, and has a nai row band of fur edgingvit all around the neck and revers and down the front. celine Wakeful Hours of the Morning. From the St. Louis GlobéDetnocrat. One of the growing: fashions among peo- ple of leisure—the takingtof an early cup of tea, cocoa or coffee—may sometimes be fol- lowed with profit even by those who are busy. As human beings grow old they sleep less and less and wake earlier in the morn- ing, and three or four hours of wakeful- ness with no support of nourishment are not particularly healthful to go through Tea is not good for everybody in this cl mate, but a cup of hot cocoa furnishes both food and drink and is digestible by most people. It is an excellent break in a three or four-hour interval between waking and breakfast. Sie 4 Those who haven't at hend a convenient maid to bring the cocom to the door can have it made the night before and can heat it in three minutes cver a tiny alcoho} lamp, which may stand in the dressing room. If nicely made with fresh milk, the cocoa will “keep” perfectly overnight, and will be almost as good aa if freshly mad MOTHER GOOSE CLU A Man Loves the Ideal in a Woman. THE BASIS OF WOMAN'S AFFECTION Where Jealousy or Scandal Enters Love Flies Out the Window. SPECTER OF THE PAST Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. Ts E MOTHER Goose Club met at the house of the motherly looking woman last Thurs- day afternoon, and all the members,with the single exception of Mrs. West End, were present. Mrs. West End is a near neighbor ot the motherly looking woman, but just at present there is @ slight coolness between the families, owing to some alleged remarks of the matron’s which were repeated by her youngest daughter to Susie West End not long ago with Intent to wound that young lady's sensitive feelings. The meeting, however, was no less successful than its pfedeces- sors, though the narrow escape of the tailor-made woman from sitting down on & piece of taffy the hostess’ little son had left in her new blue brocade chair caused a slight ripple of excitement at the open- ing of the session. Miss Pension Bureau was in the chair, for contrary to the custom of the club the hostess did not presile. She sat instead very near the door, through which from time to time she disappeared as disturb- ances in the nursery above demanded her attention. ’ “I would like to ask,” said Mis: sion Bureau as the club members settled themselves to begin the afternoon's dis- cussions, if anybody knows who Mother Goose really was? It seems to me that now we are becoming reasonably familiar with her philosophy we might very prop- erly spend a little time discussing her life and the influence of her environment on her poems.” “Why, was there really such a person?” asked the bluet hat, carelessly toying with her lorgnette so that the solitaire on the third finger of her ungloved left hand caught the light enticingly. “1 thought Mother Goose was only a nam Everybody assumed a non-committal look and Miss Pension Bureau went on: “I will ask Mrs. Georgetown Hei; ag to jen- Pen- “that I don’t see the least bit of use in that. Who cares who Mother Goose was? All we're interested in is the poems. It doesn’t make any difference who wrote them. I never could see the | use of digging into the graves of dead and gone authors just to drag out fucts cf their private lives. Who cares what they did? Who wants his enjoyment of the beautiful things a poet writes ruined by learning that the poct beat his wife or liked corn beef and cabbage?” The Queen of Hearts. “T quite agree with Mrs. De Siecle,” sald the advanced woman. “For my part, I think all the discussion about Shakespeare is a waste of time. Who cares who wrote the plays? All we care about is the plays themselves, and it’s all the same to me whether William D. Howells or Charles Darwin wrote the Mother Goose poems.” “O, let's insist that a woman wréte them! We must make a good showing for the sex,” put in the cerise collar. “O, bother the sex,” said the woman with @ past. “One never dares pronounce wo- man withqut a capital these days. I am tired of hearing of woman. I move we get down to our poems. I'm going to bexin. The verses I have illustrate how a woman's constancy to a worthless man will outlast everything else. “"The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on summer's day; The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And with them ran away. The King of Hearts called for the tarts, And beat ‘the queen full sore; The Knave of Hearts brought back the tarts, And vowed he'd steal no more.’ “The king is old, wrapped up tn cares of state; cold, severe. The young queen loves |. the knave. The tarts—well, the stealing of the tarts is merely Mother Goose's expres- sion for some scrape the knave is in. Sotne- thing has been done that incenses the king dreadfully. The knave is to blame, but the queen will not tell on him—not even to clear herself. She endures unjust suspi- cion, undeserved punishment, even dis- grace; but until the knave sees fit to come back and take his own deeds on his own head, she says not a word to excuse what seems to be her fault. A woman actusily enjoys suffering martyrdom for some man’s ce. “I think,” said the new member, who is literary, “that one might develop that poem into a novel. Suppose the knave were the queen’s brother. He is m debt. She gives him her diamonds to get him out of trouble. The king suspects she has sold the jewels to pay—well, her own extrava- gant debts, or, perhaps, a lover's debts. Finally, however, the brother returns, re- deems the diamonds and they all live hap- py ever after.” “Ah, yes,” remarked the Congressman’s wife, “but do they? Do you think the queen can ever forgive her husband his un- just suspicions? Don’t you think she will see how slight a thing his love is, how frail his trust in her? Do you think she will ever really love him again?” Lack of Masculine Trust. “O, my dear,” said the woman with a pest, “a man never trusts a woman, Every man would like to keep his wife locked up in a harem. He recognizes in every other man a potential destroyer of his domestic happiness. Trust! Who ever heard of a man who wasn’t the first to believe evil of his own wife? A woman will believe in a man even against the very evidence of her senses. You see, a woman doesn’t lov a man for this, or for that. A man loves the ideal in a woman. A woman—well, a man never lets her keep an ideal of him long. Of course, the queen forgave the beating. Why, you know what Mother Goose says farther on: -*4 woman, a dog and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they be." “©, that dreadful woman!” whispered the bride on the sofa to the tailor-made wo- man. “No wonder she didn’t get on with her husband. Its such bad taste, too, to quarrel with one’s husband.” The tailor-made woman smiled at the bride in a way that made that little woman suddenly remember that the woman she was speuking to was divorced. The bride said a few awkward things in a laudable attempt to improve matters, and then sat back with a sigh of despair, while the tailor-made woman began to read: “Peter White vill ne’er go right, Would you krow the reason why? He follows his nose Wherever he goes, And that stands all awry.’ ‘This is the first mention we have had so far of heredity. Poor Peter White dces his very best, but he has inherited a hope- lessly warped moral nature, and despite his endeavors he is continually going wrong. A man is no more to blame for the color of his moral eyes than for the color of his physical eyes. It is impossible for some people to be geod. It is no more wicked for a born thief to steal than for a born reformer to devote his life to reform.” “O, my dear, dear woman,” protested the hostess, “don't you see what a hopelessly immoral doctrine that is? Why, !f all the world believed that nobody would make any attempt to overcome his natural ten- dencies. Heredity is a very important factor in forming character, of course, but I consider it not an absolute factor. Each one of us can overcome heredity to a very great extent by the exercise of will power.” “Yes,” assented the tailor-made woman, “but don’t you see that that depends on how strong one’s will is, and the s' ‘s will is @ matter of heredity, and utterly beyond one’s control.” Scandal and Jealous: “Well, that may be the truth,” said the woman with a past, as the hostess suhsid- ed into shocked silence. “It probably is, but when all the rest of the world took to fig leaves, it was indelicate of Truth to in- sist on going about naked, and we must Politely insist on rot seeing her. Lots of things are true, but they won't do to put into practice. Let's get to something not quite so deep. “There waa a little man, and he had a little gun, And his bullets were made out of lead, lead, lead. He eghot Johuny King through the middle of his wig, And knucked it right off his head, head, head.’ “I haven't any interpretation to offer for that, except that the little man was the original man who ‘diin’t know it was Icaded. “I think that refers to the habit some people have,” said the tailor-made woman, looking hard at the poor little bride, “of saying just whatever comes into their heads, regardless of whom it hits.” There was a feeling that this shaft, at least, was not aimed at random, and cvery- body felt vaguely uncomfortable. The liter- ary member, however, came to the rescue. “That reminds me,” said she, “cf the mischief that is often wrought by a bit of careless gossip. “‘A farmer went trotting upon his gray mare, Bumpety, bumpety, bump! With his daughter behind him, so rosy and ry Lumpety, lumpety, lump! “‘A raven cried, “Croak!” and they all tumbled down, Bumpety, bumpety, bump! The mare broke her knees and the farmer his crown, Lumpety, lumpety, lump!’ “This is a picture of domestic happiness ruined by a breath of scandal. Husband and wife are jogging on contentedly on their life-long road, when some one tells something of cne of them. The other hears it, believes it, and at once the family con- tent is wrecked.” “Did you ever hear anything lamer than that?’ whispered Mis. de Siecle to Mrs. Capitol Hill. “And she calls herself liter- ary, too.” “I can’t quite agree with your interpreta- tion of the poem, Mrs. Scribbler,” said the cerise collar. “That the first verse means domestic happiness is evident, but the last verse—well, don’t you think the raven might more properly represent jealousy?" “Possibly,” assented Mrs. Scribbler, with distinct lack of conviction. “I think,” said the tailor-made woman, “that the raven is the man’s past. Every- thing seems happy, the sky is bright with promise, when suddenly there comes to the wife the knowledge of something in her husband's past. The raven has cried—hap- piness is gone. She can forgive—a woman can always forgive, but she cannot forget. She ceases to hear the raven’s cry only when she ceases to care for her husband, and has learned to make life endurable by sacrificing all that might have made it ‘This sounded pairfully as if {t came from the heart. The Congressman’s wife spoke after a brief silence. Without the Quotation Marks. “Ah, but suppose the raven cries to the man? Suppose it is the wife’s past that will not down?” “O,” said the literary member, “the hap- piness of the home is wrecked then, too, only that when the woman goes on and eats her hesrt out in silence, the man would get a divorce. You see, a man owes his wife only his future; a woman owes her husband her past, and if the debt is not paid—well, the marriage ends.” “I know right where she read that,” whispered Mrs. de Siecle; “it’s in Bjorn- stern’s play, ‘The Glov She might at least have said it in quotation marks, 1 think.” “I can’t understand the jealousy some women have of their husbands’ pasts,” remarked the bride, with the self-satisfied air of the honeymoon. “It's so absurd. It's like crying over spilled milk.” “Well, why shouldn't one cry over spilled milk?” asked the bivet hat. “It always leaves a grease spot.” “That sounds as if it meant something,” remarked the woman with a past. “Very possibly it does, but for my part I think the quintessence of Mother Goose's phil- osophy is contained in her couplet: “ ‘For every evil under the sun, There is # remedy, or there's none, It there be one, try and find it. If there be none, never mind it.’ “I have that written on a card and pin- ned to my dressing table. I read it while Hopkins is doing my hair. It is the keen- est philosophy of life, for on that verse hang all the law and the prophets. And if you will let me give you all a dish of tea I will show you the card.” ‘lever of her, wasn't 1 murmured the cerise collar to the bluet hat. “What? Thinking of that verse? Why anybody. Z “O, dear, no! I didn’t mean that; I meant her reference to he: maid. She's English, and new, you know. 0, that wo- man's clever, but they say—well——" And the meeting adjourned. a Written for The Evening Star. Chrysanthemums. Bright blossoms of the waning year, Glad tight of dark November days, The evening glory, sent to cheer The shadows of our winter ways. © drifted white! O wealth of gold! O, deep and warm and tender red; When thy rich offering we behold, What radiance {a our hearts 1s shed! By thy dear presence are made one ‘The sweetest thoughts that come to me; The dreams of summers past and gone, ‘The hopes of springtimes yet to be. BL G. —_—_+e+__—_ Just Out of a Picture. If you want to look as though you had just stepped out of a picture frame or as though you might be your own grand- mother, in slipper# with silver heels, pow- dered hair and all that, just have a cape like this: Make it of black silk velvet and line it with white satin, thick and lustrous, Border it with white ostrich feathers, and work it in geometric designs with white slik spangled with cut jet and rhinestones. Wear a big black velvet hat with white ostrich feathers running riot over it, and it won't make any difference whether you have an up-to-date gown or not. Nobody will ever know it, for they will see nothing but that gorgeous cape. A ratent Neversible Map. From Harper's Bazar. “This,” said the enterprising contributor, @ map Ulustrating certain phases of the Chinese-Japanese war. “We never touch upon such mntters,” said the editor. “This is a fashion paper.” “Good!” cried the enterprising contribu- tor. “That being s2, you can use this same map for a pattern. Cutting up here along the Corean boundary and running down here and ending up at Peking will give you the finest pattern for a winter do! suited to a woman of forty, you ever saw.” Ses Take “Ripans” for is caused by inaction of Biliousness ',‘ct "y,0cti of comes engored, congested und inflamed, and the bile, instead of being properly excreted by the intestines, is taken up by the blood, There are griping pains in the abdomen, headaches and dizziness, and you suffer from What is known as a bilious attack. There 4s continual headache, the tongue ts coated and the whole system is out of order. 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If three a day are too active, use two a day and properly regulate the diet. “SOc. box, at all druggists.” Take “Ripans” for Constipation is the cause and ac- companies neariy all of the diseases of the stomach, liver and bowels and all skin affections. It is usually the exciting cause of headache, colic and many chronic derangements of the internal organs. It is a dangerous condition, and 1s promptly relieved by taking one tabule after meals. “SOc. box, at all druggists.” Take “Ripans” for Headache Most forms of headache are caused by a derangement of the stomach, a tori liver or constipation, and can be cured by removing the cause, ‘Take a tabule when the first symptom ap- pears, and if babitual, take one after the morning and evening meal, and increase the dose if more are required. “0c. box, at all druggists.” Take “Ripans”’ for Bad Taste in Mouth 37.2 to over-eating, dyspepsia or some derange- ment of the liver. 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