Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1894, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1894-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. IN THE. MARKET All the Signs of the Holiday Season in Great Profusion, TURKEYS ARE PLENTIFUL AND CHEAP There is Also an Abundance of Game of All Kinds. A BIG CROWD OF BUYERS ee SEES Soe Christmas greens everywhere; Christmas turkeys and all the other signs of the hap- py holiday season are seen in great profu- sion all about the Center Market. For days past the crowds that have thronged the broad aisles and the pavements about the building have had about them that in- definable something, full of good cheer end the sentiment of the season, that marks the approach of the happiest day of all the year. Christmas indeed, at hand. It shows forth on the face of every one. The compliments of the season pass and all the good wishes that should go with the time when peace 1s ordained, and on earth good will toward men. At all times of the year the market is one of the show places of the city and one of the institutions which, for completeness and variety, the city has every reason to be Selecting the Tree. proud. But there are two seasons when, more than at any other time, it well re- pays a visit of inspection. These are Thanksgiving, an essentially American fes- tival, and Christmas, which, at least, is celebrated in this country with more at- tention to the details of the table than any- where else in the world, and which makes a big market a place of all the greater in- terest. Big Crowds Today. With Christmas coming so early next week, and this being Saturday—“market day”—anyhow, today has been marked by one of the largest crowds that ever filled the fine, big building. From an early hour this morning all through the day there have been steady lines of people passing in and out of the swinging doors, going in with empty baskets and full purses and coming out with full baskets and sadly depleted purses. But what difference? Wasn't that turkey just a buster, and who ever saw redder, firmer cranberries? What charms can even acrisp greenback possess as com- pared with the prospect of a real old-fash- foned dinner. There are those who express @ liking for the costly diamond-back ter- rapin on Christmas day, this to be followed up with a little venison or a canvas-hack, er else some English mutton; but such as A New Experience. Yhese are not worthy of consideration. There is something lacking in the soul of @ man who would willingly forego the de- lights of a turkey with cranberry sauce, with a royal plum pudding to top off with. Such a one plays golf and insists that he likes it; he rides “cross-country, ye know,” and would think it beneath his dignity to enthuse over a good home run or to cheer at a drop-kick from the field. There are still those among us who are willing to live up to the traditions of their native land on such a time as this, and, to the glory and pride of the capital be it said, the demand for turkeys this year is greater than ever before. Two or three years »go in an article in The Star, plead- ed the claims of the turkey to the title cf the great American bird, and an aitempt was made to show that in the matter of popularity, usefulness and geographical habitat the eagle was not in it for a min- ute. Curiously enough, the matter was tak- en very seriously, and for weeks there were indignant protests pouring into The Star office against this: attempted sacrilege. Poems were quoted at length to show how the eagle soars aloft and makes his rest rved as 1 nitious an youth., This was only ®ne of the nts brought against the attempted innovation, but, to avoid bringing about such another deluge this year, no reference be made to th jer as the logical successor of the i-headed bird of the Rockies—only th the p de r& sistance of a Chris’ linner he is without a peer. These w eagles are wel- come to their . Where th rom. It is a question that has intere ted many Je at various times, Where do all the tur- ome from to y all the tables in ions of this great land? Farmors, y that are very ng turkeys nd hard t t a far youth © plentiful lower tha t all Maryland that I ever ve need from right i Virginia. I don't saw them in greater kiow abundance or finer. We have been selling them the last few days as low as 121-2 cents a pound, but I presume as the de- mand increases just before Christmas the price will go up to iS cents. We have just got in twenty-five barrels of fine ones from up in Pennsylvanta. I don’t know why it is, whether it is in che feeding or what, but somehow or other they seem to grow finer turkeys up in that part of the country than they do anywhere else, sweeter, tenderer and plumper.” Game is Plenty. But it is not alone in the matter of turkeys that the market is unusually strong this year. In and out of the long aisles the stalls are piled high with a most tempting display of meats and vege- tables, game, fish, fruits end flowers. Quail and wild turkeys are particularly abun- dant, and, possibly owing to the open weather of the fall and winter so far, fat and in fine condition. The former sell as a rule for about $2.50 a dozen, while the turkeys bring about 15 cents a pound. On the other hand, the season has not been so favorable for ducks, as there has not been enough cold weather to bring them all this way as yet. The little duck known as the “rudd; which has come to be so popular here, has not yet put in his ap- pearance, and the same is true of red heads. Canvas backs, however, are all right, and prime ones are selling at # the pali, as against $ last year. The market is well supplied with venison just now, the larger part of it coming from comparatively nearby sections of the country. West Virginia furnishes a great deal of it, not such very large individual specimens, but most awfully toothsome and pleasant eating. Venison steaks are sell- ing for 25 cents a pound, and there are plenty of people who are of the opinion that they are worth every cent of it. One of the big game stands had handing in front of it yesterday a fine specimen of a black bear, that naturally gave rise to a query as to the demand for bear meat in this city. It developed that there is not much of a market for the raw meat, but when it is smoked it sells very well. The How Much for Dat 'Possam? Metropolitan Club is the chief customer for bear meat, presumably because it has in its membership a number of army offi- cers and others who have shot bruin in years gore by and are pleased to remind their palates of the days when they had little if anything else to eat. An Abundance of Terrapin, Terrapin, too, are reasonably plentiful this year, but they sell at a price that puts them out of reach of most people. There are a number of “western sliders” in market this year that are said to be much nearer to the genuine diamond backs than the sliders of these parts. In the matter of flavor they would seem to be about a cross between the diamond back and the ordinary slider. Lobsters are good and plenty, and there is always a steady demand for them. Wild geese are also to be seen in larger numbers than veual, but there are comparatively few people who are tempted to buy them just now. Sucking pigs make a dish that is particularly seasonable about the holiday time. There are enough of them to satisfy all demands at about $2 apiece, a slight raise in price over ordinary seasons. In the way of fish there seems to be almost no limit to the varieties that are offered on the stands. The general use of refrigera- tor cars makes it possible to bring them from all directions and practically from any distance at this season of the year. Red snapper and pompano both offer many attractions, while the “chicken halibut,” a whiie-fleshed fish, that makes a beautiful fillet for a dinner party, is also a strong bidder for popularity. As a center for fish and game there is no place like Wash- ington after all, and that this fact ig gen- erally appreciated is shown by the fact that a dealer in the Center market one day this week had twenty-five orders from out of town. Most of these were for special articles, presumably to make up hand- some dinners, and a number of them were from New York. a OF HAD To. A CASE The Hotel Man Was Not Going to Lose a Night's Rest for Nothing. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I had a funny experience in a little town on the lower Mississippi,” said R. C. Blackley, a traveling man. “The place had but one hotel, the landlord of which con- ducted everything except the eooking and housecleaning, which his wife attended to. I was the only guest, and when I told him that I wanted to go up the river on a packet due anywhere between midnight and 3 o'clock in the morning, I was shown to a room immediat over the office and going to I heard a shrill femi- nine voice john, you come to bed." ‘Sallie, you know I kain’t go to bed. Got to wake that blamed drummer.’ * “T enjoyed the sttuxtion and laughed my- self wide awake, not getting slecpy again for two hours, Then the feminine voice called again: ‘John, L say come to bed." ‘L kain’t go to b ‘Let that pesky drum- mer wake hisself.” ‘Tain’t no way to run a hotel,’ and there was a silence again. Finally I went to sleep and was soon awak- ened by the-most unearthly racket. The oid man was pounding on the office ceiling with a broom handle. ‘I'm awake,’ I an- d. ‘I don’t believe I'll go on that I'm too tired. I'll wait_until tomor- ‘I reckon you won't. You be down hyar in two minutes, or I'll be arter you. Lain't goin’ to set up’ fer nothin’.’ I caught the boat.” - soe There is Nothing Slow About Johnnie. From Life. COST OF A LETTER Uncle Sam Pays Ont More in Some Cases Than He Receives. BUT PEOPLE BUY MONEY ORDERS - And Then Frequently They Fail to Get Them Cashed. AS TO THE SMALL OFFICES ae A Written for The Evening Star. Y COSTS THE POST Office Department about $.0226 2-3 to carry the letter for whose transportation you pay two cents. That is, the average expenditure of the government is $.022 for every two cents of revenue re- ceived. This excess is not charged prop- erly against the let- ter-carrying account, however. If the ‘“dead-head” business done for the government and the business done for publishers at a loss was deducted, the cost ‘of carrying a letter would be much less than two cents, and it would be pos- sible, counting the additional revenue from increased business, to reduce letter postage to one cent an ounce, and still carry on the Post Office Department work at a profit. All sorts of things must be taken into account, though, in figuring the cost of carrying a letter—not alone expenses which do not directly apply to letter carrying, but sources of income which are not as- sociated with the regular mail business. For example, the Post Office Department last year received $160,235,000 (in round numbers) for money orders and postal notes; and paid out during the same period only $158,000,000. The remaining $7,235,000 will be accounted for in part in due time; but the Post Office Department received from the treasury last year $1,250,000 from the subtreasury in New York, on account of unpaid money orders, which had been lost or destroyed in some way, and which will never be presented for redemption. Ss taining in Some States. If the exact cost of transporting each letter could be figured, some people would have very little to pay for postage and others would have-to pay a great deal more than they pay now. In eleven of the states last year the revenues of the Post Office Department were in excess of the expenditures;while in the other forty states and territories the service cost more than the amount of the receipts. In New York state, for example, it cost about $9,400,000 to carry the mail and the receipts from all the post offices in the state were $13,000,000, One-cent postage could be established in New York and made self-sustaining, but New York has to contribute to the support of the postal system of the other states of the Union. In Nebraska the cost of carrying letters was more than double the amount received for the service. The receipts from that state were $1,151,500, and the expenditures $2,920,000. So the people of New York are taxed by the Post Office Department to give fast mail facilities to the people of Nebraska. The states and territory which run the post offices at a profit are Connecticut, New York, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermoft. The aggregate of the profits derived from the business in these states is about seven and a quarter millions of dollars. The direct losses in the other forty states and territories aggregate about fifteen and one- half millions. Ohio furnishes the largest deficit. The receipts from that state dur- ing the year were $4,301,000 and the ex- penditures more than $7,000,000. Nebraska has a little balance of a million and a quarter against her. Virginia is $800,00¢ short. Missourl, with an expendi- ture of abcut four millions, is $780,000 be- hind her expenses. On the other nd, New York state is three and a half millions ahead; Massa- chusetts had receipts a million and a half greaier than her expenditures; Illinois made a profit of more than a million dot- lars; Pennsylvania was half a million to the good; and the other states pamed above ranged from $200,000 down, ajl with bal- ances on the credit side of the ledger. Unpaid Money Orders. According to this statement, it ought to cost the people of New York state about $.0146 to send a letter; for that is what it costs in that state to handle one. With the natural and necessary increase in busi- ness, resulting from a reduction, one-cent postage would be self-supporting in New York. As for New York city, with gross receipts of $7,000,000, it has expenses ag- gregating only $2,750,000; which makes the actual cost of handling a letter in that city $.003013, This calculation, of course, takes into ac- count only local expenses. There are cer- tain general expenses which are not charg- ed against local offices which should en- ter into an exact calculation of the cost of handlirg mail. The cost of postage stamys, for which (counting envelopes, wrappers, cards, ete.) a million and a half is spent every year, is not counted. But, on the other hand, neither is the million and a quarter which goes inte the general re- ceipts of the Post Office Department from the unpaid money order account ‘The government of the United States nas many irregular sources of income. There is the profit derived from the ronds and bank nctes destroyed. There are the clai-ns fer services and supplies which a dilatory Congress fails to make appropriations for. Finally, there are the money orders which are issued every year which do not come back for redemption. The Post Office De- partment takes all reasonable precantions to find the owners of this money. It is amazing that so much of it should never reach the hands of its owners. At the end of each month the postmaster at each monev order office examines the list of un- paid mo@ey orders, and notifies the people for whom the money is intended that it is waiting to be delivered. At the end of another month, the order being unpaid, he notifies them again. At the end of a third month, the order being still unpaid, he rotifies the postmaster at the office where the order was bought, and he sends a notice to the buyer of an order that the money has not been claimed. These regu- lations seem thorcugh enough for all busi- hess purposes. Looking for the Owners. ‘They are an improvement on the old sys- tem. Under the original regulations for the issue of money orders, the postmaster at the office of payment had no right to in- form his most intimate friend that a money order was waiting for him un- claimed. Under the old 1egulations the greater part of the fund just turned into the Post Office Department by the sub- treasury at New York accumulated. This mapey was turned over under a law passed in 4sst providing for the preparation of a list of unpaid money orders, with a view to hunting up the owners of the money. It is not often that Uncle Sam goes out of his way to pay a debt; and he has been so slow about carrying cut his good intentions regarding this one as to warrant a suspi- cion of his earnestness in the cause. But the amounts to be recovered by individuals would be so small and the amount to be taken from the government so large that it hardly worth while to attempt to re- pay it Svery few days an ancient money order comes to the superintendent of the money order division for renewal. Under the new law, when al remains unpaid t to the Post Of- and a warrant ed in its place. and a ¢ a pos fice Department for renew t be issu troyed, within ay issuc ce that it has not been pa a year a warrant may be mant. These new regulations make hood of loss much less than under But the like the old regulaticns of the department. so long as money orders are used as medi- ums for saving money, there will be money order funds ‘lgf{jon hand unclaimed at the end of a year] §t is a common practice of those who go west to make money to buy money orders (postal orders they now are) and send them east or carry them about to be collected When they return to their homes. ‘Trustees have been known to in- yest smell trust funds in money orders. Many ar found in old stockings and in safe deposit boxes and in the drawers of old desks. Cyrious stories are told about some of the Old-timers which come to the Post Cffice Department to be redeemed af- ter many years, But of those which are never redeemed ;the people in the office of the auditor for the Post Office Department believe that & great proportion is torn up by drunken ‘men? cr sunk with drowning men or lost in some disaster, like a great fire. The money paid for these goes to the credit of the Post Office Department un- der the law of 1883, and it is no inconsider- able feature of. the department's receipts. Business ‘at Small Offices. Still $40,000 or $50,000 a year is not so much in view of the fact that the depart- ment handles $40,000,000 worth of postal orders a year. It is only one-tenth of 1 per cent of the whole. The losses of the Post Office Department in the handling cf the mails are, ot course, almost entirely at the small post offices. An office like Chi- cago or St. Louis or Cincinnati is a source of great profit. In fact, there are few of- fices of the presidential class which are not profitable. At a very small office, @vhers the post master receives 100 per cent of the cancel- lations, the Post Office Department has no object in increasing business unless it can be increased to the point where the post- master shares gvith the government—that is, the department has no sympathy with a temporary increase, because that means that the department must do more work and only the postmaster receives more pay. The department is interested only in the steady increase of business, which méins that the office is some day to become in a degree self-supporting. Some time ago one of the auditor's clerks was astonished to find reposing among the petty cancellations of a very small office in Pennsylvania an item of $165. All around t were records of 40 and 50 cents’ worth of cancellations in a day. The account was suspended and an inquiry was sent to the postmaster. He replied that a_man had brought stamps aggregating $165 in value to him and asked to have them canceled, saying he wanted them for stamp collec- tions. The canceled stamp has a greater value to the collector than the stamp un- canceled. The postmaster was notified that commissions were paid only on matter duly handled in the mails—cn stamps “af- fixed as postages.” So the item of $165 was disallowed. This false claim was not intentionally fraudulent; it differed in this resepect from the cases investigated last year by the postal authorities in Missouri, in which a number of indictments were found. In these cases there was a con- spiracy between stamp collectors and post- masters to defraud the government by the cancellation pf Columbian stamps of large denomination and by a division of the com- missions. This conspiracy was so wide- spread that postmasters in every part of the country were approached with a view to drawing them into it. GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN. _— sR SERVED. HE NE A Vice President Who Took the Oath on Foreign Soil, From the Chicago Times. William Rufus King, born April 6, 1786, sed April 1s, 1853, was a Vice President of | the United States who never served in that capacity, and one who took the oath of office on foreign soil—something which can be said bf no other executive officer who has ever been elected by the people of this country. ‘King was an invalid, but his friends urged him to take secend place on the ticket with Pierce In 1852. Both were elected, but Mr. King's health failed so rapidly (hat he was forced to go to Cuba early in 1853, some two and a half months before Inauguration day. Not hav- ing returned to the United States by March CHRISTMAS TOYS Inventive Genius That Delights Santa Claus’ Devotees. The French and the German Lead All Nations in the Production of Fancy Play From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The designing and manufacture of Christ- mas toys has become an important branch of the world’s industry, involving a large amcunt of capital and skilled labor. Toys and all the details pertaining to them are naturally divided in two main classes—th se of German and those of French manufac- ture. The Germans are noted for the ex- | treme variety of their forms, due to ‘he j fact that the original forms have been al- tered year by year until a long series of varieties have been produced. They -leal | mainly with ordinary Iffe, house and gar- den, kitchen and parlor, stable and coach | house, village and town. The number of toys relating to these are legion, and a well-equipped toy warehouse wouid have from 12,000 to 18,00) vacieties. The ure made mainly of wood and papier- mache, more rarely of lead and tin, Cheap- ness in price is invariable. * The French toys are radically difverent, and the contrast is all the more apparent by placing the two productions side by side. “The French are ail elegance, ingenuity, taste, fashion and refinement. ‘The fine taste of the French artisan is exhibited here in the highest degree. Workmen and manufacturers are always on the lookout for new ideas, and it is amazing what clever heads can evolve in the way of new toys. All the machinery of real industries is imitated; the advances of science are p- plied sometimes in a grotesque form, very material is used—wood, iron, lead, copper, clay, leather, skins, feathers, papers, straw, reeds, india rubber and much eise. If an article is a success, in a short time it makes the round of the habitable globe. Complicated toys, such as animals with mechanicat movements, locomotives, &c., are produced largely in’ the United States, but we can scarcely compete, as yet, with the French in their finer grades of Christ- mas toy novelties. In elegance, nicety of finish and refinement French toys have no competitors. Dolla, Soldiers and Watches. Their dolls are veritable works of art. Like the Parisian dress, the Parisian toys change rapidly. And sometimes politics ¢x- ercises a controlling influence over the trifles exhibited to catch the popular faucy. Up to 1860 toys came to France from abroad, from Nuremberg, from Tyrol, from Belgium and Switzerland. Lut today’ Paris has sufficient to satisfy the demands of the children not only of France, but of foreign countries as well. Paris sends all over Burope and America talking dolls, mechan- ical rabbits, pistols, guns, little sets of furniture, theaters, magic lanterns, punch- inellos, animals, rubber balloons ‘and tin soldiers. It was a Parisian manufacturer who substituted tin for lead in the manu- facture of soldiers, and the number of-war- riors that he mobilizes each ycar amounts to 5,000,000, an army about as “umerous as ail the regular armies of Europe com- bined. ‘These tin soldiers are made from the. old boxes of preserves that the rag pickers pick out of the rubbish heaps. The boxes are collected and sent to a specialist, who heats them to separate the soider from the tin plates. Not only tin soldiers, but railroad cars, jumping frogs, pistol barreis and sockets of Venetian lanterns are made from these plates. The little watches with movable hands are manufactured by the hundred thous- and, and the greater portion of them find a market abroad. The watch that is sold 4, Congress passed a special act authoriz- ing the United Staies consul at Mantanzas, Cuba, to swear him in as Vice President at about the hour when Pierce was taking the oath of office at Washington. This arrangement was carried out to a dot, and on the day appointed, at a plan- tation on one of the highest hills in the vicinity of Mantanzas, Mr. King was made Vice President of the United States amid the solemn “Vaya vol con Dios’ (God will be with you) of the creoles who had as- sembled to witness the unique spectacle. Vice President King returned to his home at Cahawha, Ala., arriving at that place April 17, 1853, and died the following day. His remains were laid to rest on his plan- tation, known as Pine Hills. +0. m Boston Schools. Slates Ban From the Beston £ The reasons assigned by the school com- mittee for the discontinuance of slates, slate pencils and sponges in the public schools and the substitution of paper, lead pencils and rubber erasers in their vlaces are as follows: First—A light-gray mark upon a slightly darker gray surface is more or less indis- tinct and trying to the eyesight. Second—The resistance of the hard pencil upon the hard slate is tiring to the mus- cles, and the resistance to which the mus- cles are thus trained must be overcome when beginning to write with pencil or | pen upon paper. Third—The use of slates, slate pencils and sponges is 9 very uncleanly custom, and leads to and establishes very unclean- ly habits. 200. Hurd to Pa From Truth, Von Booser—“Why's a_ saloon like a counterfeit dollar?” Skoods—‘Don’t_ know. Why?" Von Rooser—“Because it's pretty hard to pass it.” soe And When He Told It No One Believed Him. From Life. for a trifle in the street costs two centimes at wholesale, and passes through the hands of twenty workmen, while the high-priced watch of fifty centimes (about thirteen cents), with a key and movable hands, a ring and chain, requires the labor cf thir- ty-two workmen. In Paris special factories for toy watches employ hundreds of oper- ators, and 30,000,000 watches are annually produced. In other words, Paris provides every year a toy watch for every child be- tween five and ien years of age in France, Germany, Russia, Great Britain, Italy and Austria. Turning Waste to Wealth. Give to a small Paris manufacturer a few tools and some refuse tin clippings, and it is astonishing what he will produce. in the first place he can make scales that sell _at 25 centimes a dozen; also, litle trumpets, dishes, teapots and cotfee pots. There are factories for little military equipments and the fashioning of uni- forms. Paris possesses about forty estab- lishments for the manufacture of elastic balloons. The largest house turns out 120,- 009 dozen a year, without counting the gutta percha dolls, punchinellos and ani- mals. In Parisian mechanical toys great prog- ress has been made, and they can be pur- chased at very reasonable prices. As a general thing, they are not made in the great manufactories, but find their origin in the homes of the skilled workmen. The excellence of the workmanship and su- periority in design have almost entirely driven from French soil the German toy’ which once predominated. Since 156 French toys have been rapidly making their way, and during that year 1,500,000 francs worth of toys were sent abroad. In 1S78 the value of the exported toys reached nearly $4,000,000, while for 1889 the total reaghed the immense sum of $12,00%),- 000, England is the best customer, she taking over a seventh of the whole toy production of Paris, and Spain comes next. Other nations come in the following order in their relative im tance as buyers of French playthings: The Argentine Repub- lic, Belgium, the United States (where dolls, ssed or undressed, pay no duty), Italy, Germany, Switzeriand, Uruguay, New Granada, Turkey and Russia. ‘The doll furniture and the boxes of tools are made in the Faubourg St. Antoine. Everybody has seen the animals qiounted upon bellows, wbich utter a cry under pressure. They are also made in the same quarter, are manufactured by hundreds of thousands and sold very cheaply. German Toy [nda ‘The history of the toy industry in Ger- many extends back to the middle ages. In the thirteenth century Nuremberg toys were celebrated, and to this day it is the center of the German production, Berlin and Stuttgart also manufacture large quantities, and, in addition, in the thickly wooded districts, where the people are poor and agriculture bad, toy-making has become a household industry, and tends to keep the wolf from the door. Indeed, the industry in Germany is essentially a do- mestic one, in which every member of the family takes a part, and it is carried on side by side with the work of the house and the field. ‘The large factories are principally for special articles, such as transfer pictures, picture books, metal soldiers, and the like. In France the industry is comparatively modern, and is concentrated In Paris,where nearly 4,000 operatives are engaged in the Husiness, over 2,400 being women. : by far the most successful in the produc- tion of light and fragile toys. Their fin- gers become skillful and deft in handling the material, and the percentage of loss in rich materials is said to average 40 per cent less with skilled female operatives in comparison with the best mate hands. For the most part they work indevendenily, and sell their productions to wholesale houses. There are also factories of special articles, such as toy balloons, magic lan- terns, dolls’ heads, articles for dolls’ kitch- ens, etc. The manufacture of lead soldiers by the artisans of Nuremberg and Furth, for which they have long been famous, dates from the seven years’ war, and is due to the influence of che Prussian military spirit and to the enthusiasm excited by Frederick the Great. sos A Deceptive Sign. From the Detroit Free Press, She was a guileless, innocent thirg, and as she passed a sign which read, “Gloves Cleaned and Repaired,” something all of a sudden and went into the shon, “I believe you clean end repair gloves here, don’t you?” she said to the clerk. “Yes, miss,” he replied “Weil, I have one at home that T'lt send down to you. It doesn’t need cleaning very much, but [ want it repaired. I've lost the mate to it.” ‘Then she retired, and the clerk is waiting and wondering how he will get square with SOVOD OSSD SEG GIG GOV OD HOODEO ESCO OD: —and with them a season of feasting. upon good things, cakes, candies, etc., etc., all of which tend to derange the stomach and bowels. make merry—only remember—if your stomach should get out of order—that you have an invaluable friend in Don’t allow yourself to sick in bed before doctoring yourself. 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LEWIS & SON, 1421 New York Ave. Hats, Umbrellas, ai7-t Boys and have a gay Christ Te Girls oc ULD'S, 421 st." Tree Dolls, Gilt Tors, Cotton” Ani: Christ- Of Interest to Amateur Ors. WILSON, ‘The dancing slippers worn by the “ballet” "in| the production of | DOROTHY" were made by | us. We mal making | Dancing order _ for Spe- “Shoemaker for Actors,” 929 F St. N.W. Wedding Bells, The New Perfume. Also Lilies of France, W Double Whi above choice extra Lewman, 931 P ST. > Store 7 Ollice of vi open evenings Oxydouor Victory Alpine Rose, ‘The Lula atil Xmas. 929 B st. at7-ct Confections. | ¢Home-made Fruit Cake, goeee PESSIOLSHOOOSOSOOOSS Fussell’s f 3 eo > from grit, Ib. 30c.3 3Pound Cake, Ib. = = 2sc.$ oe Prime Mince Pies = 200.3 me Candy, Ib.= = 25¢.3 © LBS, $1) 3Peanut Taffy, ib. = = 15¢c. e @ LBS., 25e.) ?Mixed Nuts, Ib. Toc, gice Cream, 17 flavors. 3 Orders for Xmas can be placed any time. Our where, daily. FUSSELL’S, 1427 N.Y. 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