Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1894, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1894—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. MY LADY PRIMROSE ‘oY MARY E WEIN 1894, by lary E. Wilkins.) Everybody in the village wondered about My Lady Primrose. She lived with an old woman who had green eyes like a cat and was reported to be a witch, in a litle peaked roof cottage, on the edge of the willow woods. A brook ran in front of the cottage; Indeed, the brook was really the front yard, and there was a little bridge across it to the front door. My Lady Primrose with her old nurse had lived in the village about three years, and no one knew whence she had come nor anything about her past life. All any- bedy knew was that one morning in De- cember, about Christmas time, smoke had been seen curling out of the cottage chim- ney, a little later a girl's beautiful fair head had appeared at a window, and then the old woman had crossed the bridge with @ basket on her arm, and gone to the vil- lage store for milk, and eggs, and butter and honey. People questioned her, but she only said in reply: “It is a fair day,” and that was all she would ever say. People Suspected that that was all the English she knew. Whether that was so or not, she never made them any wiser and the mystery thickened. The beautiful girl was never seen abroad, except occasionally on a cloudy day, never when the sun shone, and nobody knew her name even, but people called her “My Lady Primrose.” They fancied an odor of prim- roses came from her garments when she passed by; then, too, she wore silk gowns of * primrose yellow and pink, and white ruf- fled soft around her feet, and a scalloped green hood that looked just like a prim- * rose leaf. She never walked, but rode a beautiful little white donkey with silver bells on lis bridle and green ribbons for reins, and she carried a green whip that looked Hike a spear of tall marsh grass. It was said in the village that My Lady Primrose never could set on the ground her delicate tect, which had been seen to be clad in a little green pointed shoe when she mounted ker donkey on the bridge, unless some awf@ fate would befall her. Nobody in the village had ever heard My Lady Primrose speak at all. If any one accosted her when she was abroad she smiled gently and rode past on her white donkey with a tinkle of silver bells; and if ladies went to her house to call, in their best bonnets, with their parasols and card cases, the nurse opened the front door a ck, said with a bew, “It is a fair day,” hut it again, and shot the bolt, and allers went away in a pet. However, although the village people did not know lit, the old nurse did sometimes speak a little, even at length, to a caller. Now and then a traveler would pass along the brookside and catch a glimpse of My Lady’s sweet face at the window, and all his heart would go out in love toward her. Then he would dismount and cross tke bridge and knock at the door and the nurse would open the door. But in addi- tion to “It is a fair day,” she would ray “Do primroses grow in your countr And when he replied, “Yes,” as they all had for three years, she would sigh, and shake her head, and shut the door, and the lover would ride away with a sore heart. However, one spring, in the third year, &@ handsome young man was riding by very fast on a great black horse, when he saw My Lady Primrose at the window and stopped short. “She is as beautiful as my mother,” said he, “and if I cannot have her for my wife I will never wed.” So he dismounted and crossed the bridge and knocked and My Lady Primrose rar away from the window. When the old nurse opened the she bowed and said, “It is a fair day. primroses grow in your country? The young man looked at her with sur- (Copyright, door Do prise. “No,” sa 5 they never grow in my country ardeners cannct raise them there. “Come in, then,” said the nurse, and d th> young man into the parlor My Lady Primrose sat. She wore 1 yellow sitk gown, and her little © Old Woman Had Crossed the Bridge. round face was all pink with blushes. She trembled when the young man went dewn on his knees and asked her to marry him, and go away with him to his coun- try. “I am a prince,” said he, “and you shall be a princess ‘and live in a white palace and dine on stuf eacocks and wear pearls as big robin'’s eggs and diamonds like stars, But more than all that, you shall have my true heart to keep for your own all your lif “Tis the gift of a king, and the gift of a man, and primroses grow not in his country,” said the old nurse, and her green eyes shone. My Lady Primrose smiled at the prince and the fragrance of a primrose came in his face. “I care nothing about the white palace nor the stvfied peacocks nor the pearls nor the diamonds,” said she, “but I would like your true heart to keep for thy own all my life.” Then she stood up and called for her green hood, but the nurse cried out in horror. ‘The sun shines!” she shricked “You cannot go t y “I must go today,” said the prince, “for I rode for my life when I saw you at the window, The king of this country has de war with my father and I am journey from home.” not go out When the sun shines,” the nurse. me my green hood,” said My Lady Primrose, and the nurse ‘got it and tied it on her mistress’ beautiful head with trembling han’ My Lady Primrose rode behind the on his great black horse and the nurse followed the little white donkey. She kept looking back with terrified eyes, but the others did not seem to fear anything, and lee only at each other. So they traveled on the first day and came to a sh i's hut, where they lodged for the nig All n long the old nurs Dy Stress’ bed watched her $3 1 the da >a cat's 1 the pring like a sentl- nel up and down by door. He was himself from his enemies, and a something else that he could n had come over him. t was passed in safety and they started y the next morning and rode along through a beautiful green country, but all three rode in terror, and kept look. ing over their shoulders. Suddenly Lady Primrose shuddered and clung more to the prince. “Ride faster, ride ‘a ."" she moaned. ‘The prince glanced back and saw a great figure of misty green like a tree, which seemed, moreover, to be foaming wita blossoms with wide outreaching arms like branches advancing upon chem. At the same time he heard strange sounds like the rustling of new leaves and the twitter- ing of angry birds. “It is the spring giant!” shrieked the nurse. She whipped up the little white donkey, whtch was of a rare breed and as fleet as a horse, and as they flew along she told the prince breathlessly how My Lady Primrose had been bern cn a Christmas day and spoken her first word when the first primrose vlossomed, and that had ex- posed her t> great danger from the spring giant in all countries where primroses grew, and especially on sunshiny days. “I don’t understand it,” panted the nurse, “but ‘tis in her family, poor dear.” “Ride faster, ride faster!” moaned My Lady Primrose, and the prince spurred on the black horse. “Only a husband who can take her away to live in a country where the primroses cannot blossom can save her,” said the nurse. “The minister and the doctor and the man that wrote the encyclopaedia all said so.” “Ride faster,” sobbed My Lady Primrose. “There is ‘one comfort,” panted the nurse, “My Lady has got a piece of the north’ pole in her pocket, end that may keep him back a little. ‘The north pole made out of ice that can’t melt. My Lady's grest-grandfather discovered it, and he knocked a piece off with his jack knife end brought it home in his carpet bag. It has been in the family ever since. It is a heirloom. The spring giant is afraid of it. He thinks it will give him a chill. It may keep him back." “Ride faster," urged My Lady Prim- rose, and the prince spurred the black horse, but the spring giant gained on them. His arms, like waving branches, seemed to almost touch them; he cast a shadow over them and th sounds of rustling leaves and angry birds were ir their very ears. “Oh! My Lady,” shrieked the nurse, “feel in your pocket and see if the piece of the north pole is safe.” My Lady Primrose put her hand in her pocket, then ske gave a ery of dismay. The piece of the north pole was not there. “Oh,” she sobbed, “I have left it in the She is as Benutifal hut where we slept. It was so cold it froze me, and I took it out of my pocket and put it on the window sill, and I for- got it. I am lost! I am lost!” The nurse wheeled her little white don- key arcund. “I will go back across lots for it,” said she. “Sheuld the giant drag her rom the saddle, sir prince, wrestle with him and keep her feet from the ground until I return.” So saying, she struck off across lots. Ride faster,” moaned My Lady Prim- rose, and the prince spurred his great black horse; but it was of no use, the spring girnt was upon them. Suddenly they seemed to be caught among furfous lashing branches, their ears were Ceafened with cries of angry bii and My Lady Primrose was swept shriek- ing from the saddle. The prince pri y leaped off after her and attacked the spring giant with his sword. The giant buffeted him with one great woody orm and held My Lady Primrose with the oth- er, and the prince hacked at him until the ters flew, but he seemed to make little impression, the giant was so large. Sud- denly My Lady Primrose gave a shriek of =. My Mother. despair. “Oh! I am turning into a prim- rose,” she cri ‘Tam! I am! It is all over. Good bye, my dear lover,” and she hung limply like a newly planted flower over the giant's arm, and the prince saw that her yellow gown seemed to curl around her just like primrose petals and her green bonnet curled over her round pink face like a primrose leaf; moreover, the fragrance of primroses was all about them. The prince caught nold of her and tried to tear her from the giant’s clasp, and he found, to his horror, that the littie green shod feet seemed to be 5. iz fast to the ground, but he pulled her loos with an effort, struck at the giant's arm again and again to make him loose that he could not do. He s eded only i oping ly’s the ground, and a ti effort. At last he w he was fainting, bruis from the blows of the gi leaves seemed to fly in is face and sting him and blind him, and brain reeled with the chatter of angry birds. The giant was forcing My Lady's feet to the ground again, and the prince could not heip it of silver bell up on her little white donk the piece of the north pole pocket and clapped 't to t and straightway at him and he let My Lad “Lift her quick to the saddle," cried the nurse to the prince, and she clapped the piece of the north pole close to the spring giant's heart. Then he tremoled so that he shook the ground, a shower of sreen leaves ell, and he turned and fled away so fast that in a second the sounds of rustling leaves and angry birds that went with him died away in the distance. Then the nurse got on her little white donkey. “We are safé now,” said she. “He has a terrible chill, and he won't rest until he gets some w: drink up in Vermont. ¥ ty of time to get over the border. ‘Then they rode on until they reached the country where the prince lived and where primroses would not Then they ed the border and were safe. Even the spring giant come up with them ould not have changed My Lady Prim- rose into a flower. She shed t as they rode along to the “I am so happy,” said she. been so sad to have been a primro; stead of a princess with your true heart to keep all my life. —— USE FOR CRI but just then there was a tinkle and the nurse came dashing She pulled out of her giant's arm, hiver :shot over Primrose go. ONE Their Voracity of Service in Clearing a Kitchen of Cockroaches. From the New York Sun. “J wish the crickets would stay about the house all winter, just as they do in the summer!” exclaimed the observant Jersey- man’s wife the other day. “Why? Do you enjoy their singing so muc he asked. “No; it is not that, although I do like to hear them chirp. The particular reason that makes me wish they were still here, is that the cockroaches are beginning to ap- pear again about the kitchen. A big one just ran across the floor, and you know I would rather die than touch one of the nasty things. They seem to know it, too, for last winter there were several great big ones which took possession of corners where there were covers for them, and would dart out at me almost every time I went near them. When we moved the kitchen into the basement they all came down here. When the summer began the crickets came in. Besides being pleasaat compan- ions, in a very little time they seemed to have eaten up every cockroach and croton bug, and I didn’t see one of them again un- til just a few days ago.” Crickets are noted among entomologists for their voracity and pugnacity. In some parts of the world they do much damage to grass lands, and children are employed to catch and kill them. These crickets live in burrows in the ground among the grass. The burrows are six or eight inches deep. The ren have merely to stick a bit of stiff ¢ down in the burrow. If there is a cricket in the hole he will resent this in- trusion upon his privacy, seize the end of the 2 in his mandibles, and hang on so persistently that he can be drawn entirely out of the burrow and killed before he will let go. ——_—— cee_______ Better” Have Been Unsaid. From the Detroit Free Press. He—“I wish I could take a nap every af- ternoon, because it makes me so much brighter in the evening.” She—“What a pity you can’t!” THE TIN SHOP MAN Plays a Variety of Instruments in a nut Dance,” a jolly little thing we all ap- plauded. ‘The crack of the whip in that same “Night's, Jrolic” was imitated by the striking togetller of two hinged pieces of wood. ‘The santé instrument, by the way, that is used to, signal to the young women who do the Amazon march. The same noise is sometimes made by suddenly jerking a Theater Orchestra. USES BOTH HANDS AND FEET He tributes to Descriptive Music. Imitates Animal's and Con- SOME CURIOUS DEVICES —_—_+ Written Exclusively for The Evening Stir. leather belt held by the ends. Imitating Animals. The bird callg at the end of the piece were the every sport somewhat filled with blows into ordinary sman,, like a watering pot. and the tin shopman it through a hollow water, It whistles familiar to The mocking bird looks is whistle. The water supplies the peculiar bubbling of a bird's song. ~ “Little pigs under the gate” has outlived its popularity > but when the orchestra used to play it the grunt of the pig was made the tal piece. musical animal w Th squ pI 1 of the ed on the violi strings back of the bridge. The sharpening of si sor’s Grinder’ ors im the “ the violins, with the bows against me un- in idyl was simply the man in the corner of the orchestra scraping sand ‘AVE YOU EVER] Paper. with a bit of window glass. The cackle of a hen is, perhaps, the most ex- gone to the theater! asperating noise that comes from the tin early and taken @/| shop. To make it, a tiny hole is cut in seat near the or-| the bottom of a baking powder can, and chestra just to watch the little man in the tin shop? if you have not you have missed one ot the greatest pleas- ures the playhouse affords. You may nave seen the stage trom the rigging loft, you may have sat en the ges man’s stool, and you may have through this is passed a long ened by a rosin on his finger: throvgh slowly yard belle knot inside. them, to the life. ord, fast- The player rubs , and, drawing the cord imitates the barn That is the work of the man in the right- hand corner of the orchestra. about the theater; from the leading lady’ comedian’s bald head, and the orchestra has ption to furnis! ent fraud, and one we for more orchestra's smile intended to its share of the d is a very it would not than half t to the low daceiv innoc like to be he ple: without, re of the Sverythin, ; but music centers in the little man in the tin swung your feet from the star's trunk, but | shop, unless you have scraped acquaintance with — the man in the right-hand ‘corner of the A GUILD OF RASCALS, eee ie pave puipees cre of the B00d |. Compinatte That tx Tercorisiug Every night fifteen minutes before the ee ne play begins the call boy cries out, “Over- | Prom the New York Times, ture!” at every actor's door. Then people} It has been openly asserted that there in frent see a little door under the stage | is a guild in the Indian territory number- open and the musicians crawl out one by | ing over 1,000 persons, and believed one. ‘The bass viol goes to his stand at | many to number over 2,000, which protects the extreme left—th prompt side,” stage | the clive participants in train robberies people call it—the viola and the violins | and other lawiess deeds, and which shares seat themselves, The piccolo and trom-| in the proceeds accruing from the “work”? bone go to the right, and all thé other | of the me kless members. ‘This guild players fit into their niches. e con- | includes farmers, cattlemen, hunters, rail- ductor looks around to sce if Fritz and| road mea, teiegraph operators, ns =mil and Karl are all ready, and his glance | 2%4_ business men’ who are supposedly falls last on the man way over to the See oat achat ane ors ey right—the “O. P." side—in the tin-shop d southern Kansas, especially in corner. He raps for attention, lifts his| the branch or 5 composed of rail- baton, then don come ‘the violin bows, | road 1 and operators. ‘The the trombone blares out, the bags viol | ™Ovements of tr Feported and rumbles, and the little man in the tin shop op og a arg bangs away at the drum. cpigueaivy Soaag Piha The orchestra might limp along without | ments of ‘pursuing parties are the secend violin. It would not be utterly | Known, and every 6 pinted ee of the trombone, but | honest oftic.als for the suppressi without the little man in the tin shop it | would not be an orchestra at all. He does not look so impo as he ere - See and atl the guild, if, indeed, they are not | ihe cen Isaiy tun e members some are known to y | be rast men tn the tront and to Ty - then he is sometimes a greater attraction | The far Mie tertiary, eno aes than the leading iady’s diama the | Brinctpalty : men with In- | soubrett kles, as his eyebrows frown | Glan wiv a ee with the stare drum’s fortissimo or his| ruse, ‘© aid the active members of this mouth twitches as he plays the xylophone. | Sulll, and never give reliable informa- - | tion concerning them. Master of Many Instron - ee “The Uitte man in the tin shop MIGHT FUNERALS his title in the vocabulary of the theater, ‘— plays morg instruments than any other is to two men in the orchestra. He piays the as of the Dee bass drum, the cymbals, the tambourine, | prom the New fork Mun the snare drum, ae sriophone, the. tri- he custom ‘of holding funeral services Se ce ee ane sand-| at night is, according to an under ks, clog jets, nifteen or cen anus ; ditferent whistles, and if he happe | ee see he city: have a leader who ts fond of descriptive | Gates from gbout five yy pieces he must give imitaiions of nearly | were night funerals everything on earth. that they were comparatively few. Of course, he ¢ not play ail these | phe g ane al every night, but he k them all, At his [7 o-#rowth pf the custom te due to sev- | Ce wea a sting oo it hata We eral causes: fhe night funeral is less ex- metal disk that sounds like a Chinese war | pensive, and ‘ff Atecis the convenience of gong, and is tsed in Wagnerian selections. | a much grest of friends wf the The share drum is before him, and with | dead: with th rot sacle : his foot he works a pedal which plays the | their’ —— bass drum and th bals. tae. Uris | u eir growth tr mem hip the to of a hangs beside him, arid in a box at lus feet | 74¥ Ch 2 haltusiay in uttendance at the ee te | funeral has come: to be : . and | in this resp nig ral makes a ments he manipul eats Bee stra ig | S2¥INS Of time. In tine with this economy | always crowded with musical and wumust- | of time is @ docided change. within five or i . but most of these purzling | Thats den? naw tarnane arrangements are kept in the m: m, | " all a peg ns les = th the | Wenty funerals without pallbearers to one stage to which the musicians retire when | “Gone of the funerals are held at oe | home, some at ch. If at church, the priealleg pean arta ye the ah pal body is ta rvice, to the under- Sroen te ie ie aoe ote there Kept until the burial ton theaters, and if d i pag Lo Megp oops vee boasis to you of his familiar ee nysterious and enticing pla pte oda tee re n haif sure that he | toned Mute caanibes f his imagination. Th bane fe sis laave Gr enough, but if you dead ¢ a es at - a carries you to the stage, you are tones sabotage ly to go farther than the stage-door. To | © gerneeentrg that re ps the es; ‘mission | a ee ene | powers that be, a = the | | that be are none an t i manager himse!f. Howev ‘you are fortunate enough to win your w graces of the condu tra, you can go to th and have all the paraphernalia to you. into the the or- d lessness ts kn | fore it sm rating t wn aac hem in see to the desperad: This would tndic If you had been there one afternoon last onaepins Lackisg. week you would have heard the conductor | From the Chicago TAN explaining the tin shop end. The mammoth department stores supply “The public,” said he, “iikes descriptive “ ae keb-& cudtonisrth oe pieces. It prefers the counterfeit sound of = 5 bead a clog-dance to a Liszt rhapsodie or mone stares WnrsHened 620 Gounod mass. The clog, by the way, is | plete house-furnishing supply, including imitated by the little man in the tin shop | dog, a parrot and a monkey. He bought with two wooden mallets, to each of which | himself a suit, and, having an ugly tooth, is loosely screwed a bit of brass, such us real clog dancers wear on the inner side of their heels, which jingles as the dance is rapped out. In Descriptive Music. “The grating of the sand under the feet of a wing dancer is imitated by’ rubbing together two blocks of wood fitted with handles and covered with sand paper. The bells so frequently heard in orchestral se- lections are not bells at all, but bars of bell metal. The xylophone is a reprodu tion in wood of the same instrument, and | ‘epaeepepestoteeteadrtectoateegedteatecteteceeteteetentesetedeeed> | “wood bars are laid on ropes of | s $ es it ever get out of tone? Why, yes. | % + certainly, it does as the wood shrin«s or | % z warps a trifle. When a xylophone note | $ drops and needs to be sharpened a_ half | tone or so, a piece is carefully cut off the | $ end of the wooden bar. If the note needs a to be flatted a bit the tuner saws into the + bar, or cuts a piece out of the under side. | & It needs to be carefully done, and just why it is so I have never taken ‘time to think. ‘The bells have a range of two octaves of notes in chromatic succession, and are very hard to play. The castanets, you see, are fastened to handl Washington people are very fond of the jolly little bits of description an orchestra can give. There is, for example, “Life on the Levee,” a patrol introducing the whistle of a steamboat and the sound of dancers. The whistle is simply a great organ pipe, and the exhaust of steam as the boat puils out (the same thing is “used as an imita- tion of a railway train) is imitated Ly striking a bundle of coarse steel wires against sheet iron. ‘Then, last summer, the “Cable Car” galop was played several times. The cornet play- er struck the gripman's gong with his foot, and the rumble of the wheels was simu- lated by a heavy wooden wheel with eight large iron castors beneath. This was pin- ned to the floor, and as it was rolled round and round on its heavy castors, the imita- tion of the noise of the cars was perfect. One of the castors tipped into the air and turned rapidly supplied the noise of the cable while the car is stopped, and the lit- tle man in the tin shop, indusiriously rasp- ing a row of nails in the orchestra floor with a broken corset steel, gave a marvel- ously lifelike representation of the noise the grip makes as it closes on the cabie. Another popular piece that the tin shop played a prominent part in was “A Night's Frolic.” There was a fire engine in that, and the gallop of the horses was supplied by the halves of a cocoanut shell. With one of these in each hand the tin shop man galloped on a slab of marble. 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The municipal statistics of the city of Marseilles, France, show that on the 28th of April, 1 ninety-four inarriages. Why this enor- mous number? Because, according to an ancient tradition, couples that marry in the month of May expose themseives to great danger—death will soon smite the unfortunates, or, at the very least, their union will not be blessed with children. Therefore a large number of Marseilles lovers availed themseives of the last days of April to join themselves in wedlock. Thi. curious superstition is by no means confined to Marseilles. M. le Blaut, a French investigator, ascribes it to an origin in Roman antiquity. The Roman poet Ovid said that May was no time fer widews to marry, or for young girls, and ad's that the imprident woman who braves fate by so doing will die early. Plu- tarch «grees to the truth of this. It may be because of this ancient prin- ciple that the Roman Catholic Church has made the month of May sacred to the Virgin. However this may be, the idea has certainly perpetuated itself with singu- lar persistence. Tassoni, writing about the middle of the, seventeenth century, relates that among “the inhabitants of Ferrara many young nobles and princes who were married in May died only a few days af- terward. “It is the observation of this strange fact,” he observes, “that induced the Ferrarese, so it is said, to follow the ancient custom. At the pres day the superstition has hot ceased to show itself in certain regions of Italy, in Roumania, in South Germany, Bohemia, Westphalia, England ard France, notably in Saintonge and in the Cevennes, where every one acknowledges the truth of the proverb, “The month of flowers is a month of tears.” “Perhaps,” suid Plutarch, “the month of y is regarded as unlucky because it comes between April and June, the months respectively of Venus and Juno, the tute- lary goddesses of marriage. Or perhaps it s because May is the month of the feast of the Lemurs, the souls of the dead.” Ss At the Last. From om Iu the long night-time, when the ward was chill And drear with sl faces, thin and white, Oae lay in wakeful si wan and still, And waited for the li as he lay aud waited for the morn, md peered about the di door into the glinvg nd Some oD hg place forlorn ent+red through the gloom— ~ in silence and alone: E bed to bed, and passed, nscd beside his own— And “What grt thou? bi “Who comest 80 Lil m0F: 3 That I, who feared thy coming, when Tsaw thine «yes and felt thy’ pi near?" ‘Then, 1 asw whisper saith— (lis € answered, or his wife, Loved a ‘This ix that angel, Death, Whose name in Leaven is Life.” A morning shed he night was I the smile upoa his fa AL ST. J. ADCOCK. 200) zrapher's Discovery. Tribune. A young woman who has: done stenog- rapher’s work in several offices down-town says that the man in his office has a side which his family never sees. If he ts cross and mean at home he is agreeable in his office. If he is an angel under his own roof and courteous to those whom he meets in the street he is sure to be crabbed and curt in his office. She wonders why. eS Ss Famces Violimst (after his great sol Do you play aay ins ent, fraulein Miss Ethel 2; my mother always said that her children should not be a nuisance te any one if she could help it.”"—Life. MINCE MEAT Two large pies are made from each H package of None-Such Mince Meat. 2 For sale by all grocers. Be sure |= get the None-Such. * # MERRELL-SOULE CO., Syracuse, N. Y. ovvaravcanneneasencopenrneertaereananianniecee > e ° - > > > 4 > 2 >9SO9S99D 000s ° > ar ee in S N a @ PLOOS For a few dass $3.50 will por. cbuse a pair of either of the follow- ing priced shoes, viz: Men's $6.00 French Patent Calf Shors. Men's Shoes. Mca’s $5.00 Calf Shoes, several styles. Men's $5.00 Sample Shoes, numer- ous styles. Ladies’ $5.00 Button and Lace Shoes. These goods aro all hand-sewed and the finest qualities, THE WARREN SHOE HOUSE, Geo. W. Rich, 919 F St. $6.00 Cordovan Congress PPOD OOPS SSS SS ESOT OPO POS IEP SOO HO ¢ . > > * + $ 2 2 3 ° +4 POOPOPO SS tte Selling Off Below Cost To positively retire from business. Elegant $300 and $400 Upright Pianos going at a $190 to $2y0. a Surprise your wife, girl or boy with a fine Stewart Banjo, Violin, Guitar or Mandolin In a nice case. Those MANDOLIN BANJOS in our window are now all the rage! stylish $100 Organ, 12 stops, only $60—only one left. Ser EE Sry Piano” Stools. "Sweet toned Flutes. Finest Assortment of Mouth Organs, “ Autoharps, Zithers, etc. Standard Copyright Muste HALF PRICR. |. Popular Music, only 8 cents a copy. 1 nearly new Iron Safe, $00. Plate-glass Show Cases, $10 up. Counter, $10. CY STORE FOR RENT. Thomson & Co., 521 Eleventh St. ai4-14¢ DM, there were registered at the | mayor's office in that town no less than | COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE. New Light on the Subject by an En- glish Writer. From an Exchange. An English writer has recently been giv- ing some what he calls “new light on lov courtship and marriage” that is worth con- sidering. Anybody, he says, who has not yet fallen in love can readily raise the vision of the subsequent dear one by look- ing at himself in the glass. If he be stout, the girl will probably be thin; if he nas a snub nose, his love will center about a Roman one; if he is dark, ten to one a blonde ultimately captures him, Thus ra- ture corrects defects and strives to realize her ideal. The same holds good in a meas- ure of the mental qualities. A fool should make it hi8 business to fall in love with a clever woman; and, conversely, a wise man should marry. a fool if he has any respect for nature. Note, further, that girls with Roman noses are, as a rule, good house managers; but against this amiable quality must be set the fact that your Roman nose is essentially managing in every direction and is not content with domestic duties alone. Your Roman nose, in fact, requires a ccmplete surrender, and is rarely happy till she gets it. Noscs, he thinks, are a leading index of character. Avoid a sharp nose. If, besides being sharp, it is tinted with varying shades of red or blue, or is blue pointed, there is an asperity of temper, which it would not be weil for you to en- counter. Let your converse with “blue points” be confined to the oyster bar, then. Avoid the blue-nosed maiden as you would the blue-nosed oufangoutang—both are cap- able to infinite mischief. He also cau- tions us against red hair and bushy eye- brows. In selecting a husband “Choose a sensible man, one of solid, mature judg- ment. A broad, perpendicular forehead, with the upper part somewhat projecting over horizontal eyebrows, and vivacious, deep-set eyes, are said to denote practical common sense and mature judgment.” Ex- cellent advice, only a bit too general, as is his infallible ‘recipe for winning his love. To do so a woman must possess womanly graces, the power of setting out her quali- ties so as to inspire the tender passion and a gift. of fascination. That is the whole secret. toe Cholly—“It wained so hard I had to get under shelter.” She—"“Who told you it was raining?”"— Life. Freezing one minute, burn- ing up the next — racked with aches from head to foot. When you’re in this condi- tion, preparations of quinine and opiates are more danger- ous than efficient. Chills and fever and all malarial troub- les can be cured—remember, can be Cured with FainKiller i a remedy with a reputation of 50 years standing. Try it. Sold everywhere. The quan- tity has been doubled but the price remains the same. Perry Davis & Son, Providence, R. 4. LOOK HERE! Let’s reason together for a minute about the presents you are going to buy—every- body feels poor after Christmas—but there's no need of it—the trouble is—they don’t BUY in the right ‘They pay CASH for a whole lot of things that could have been ay economically bought On Credit! For instance, suppose you are going to give your wife a Parlor Suite—or a Side- bourd 10r Caristmas—we'll duplicate the lowest cash price you can find—and you may take your time paying the bill—no notes—no foterest—nothing but a promise and a little money weekly or monthly, All carpets made and laid free of cost— bo charge tor waste in matching figures, PLUSH OR HAIRCLOTH PARLOR SUITES—CHOICE, $22.50. SOLID OAK BED ROOM SUITE, $13. SPLENDID BRUSSELS CAKPET, 60c. PER YARD. RELIABLE INGRAIN CARPET, 85c. PEI YARD. MADE AND LAD) FREE OF COST. SOLID OAK EXTENSION TABLE, $3.50. 40-POUND HAR MATTRESS, $7. WOVEN-WIRE SPRINGS, $1.75. HEATING AND COOKING STOVES—ALL SIZES—STANDARD MAKES. YOURS FOR A PROMISE TO PAY. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH GREDIT HOUSE, 819-821-823 TTH STRFET NORTHWEST, Between H and L street China AND ais-sia Glass. Every department of our large establishment ready Holiday Trade. FINE DINNER SETS, GAME SETS, PRETTY TEA SETS, ‘FISH SETS, SALAD DISHES, CUPS and SAUCERS, CRACKER JARS, TOILET SETS, CHOC. PITCHE SUGARS and CREAMS. FINE CUT GLASS in great variety. TERLING SILVER NOVELTIES, PLATED WARE, FINE CUTLERY, &c. In fact, everything usually kept in a first-class China Store. STORE OPEN EVENINGS. M. W. Beveridge, IMPORTER OF CHINA, 1215 F and 1214 G sts. 1806. Unredeemed Pledges, Suitable for Holiday Presents, consisting of Dia- monds of all descriptious, Gold and Silver Watches 419-484 and everything in the jewelry line, at 50 per cent less thau market price. Burnstine’s LOAN OFFICB, Gs 12t $61 PA. AVE. N.W. a ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results whem Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant poe ee ots say a acta nily yet promptly on the Kidne: Cseet and iBewelcr cleanses the Kine tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation, Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro ences Pleasing to vas taste and ae ceptable to the stomach, prompt im: its action and truly pear, 2) c iw only from the moss affects, p healthy 2 pride le substances, ite eal excellent qualities commend ft to and have made it the most oopular cal known. yzup of Ky is for sale in 500 ind $1 bottles y all leading drug sista. Any reliable di who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who it. Do not accept any vishe- to try ibsti_ ate. CAL ORNIA FIG SYRUP CO SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, 4OU VILLE, KY WEW YORK. WY. Being overstocked and wanting to unload our IMMENSE STOCK Of GENUINE Diamonds, which we have mounted into nearly every conceiva- ble style, we will sell from now until Monday evening EVERYTHING ACTUAL GOST. Now is your opportunity. CALL AND BE CONVINCED And See the INEST Selected Stock of DIAMONDS In This City. i. 7 SCHUSTER, 17 Market Space. December Clearance List 1894. Second-Hand and Shop. worn Wheels. PRICES, NET CASA. 2 No. 3 Diamond RAMBLERS, Nos. 4227 5135, each. $65.00 da H 2 1 “IRWELL," No. 2637, G. & J. "04 pneu- matic tires. . +++ 50.00 Grand new,slinply shopworn; 80-in. wheels.) 1 Ladies’ “Lovell” Safety, G. & J. tires, en- tirely new and guaranteed every way; shop- worn; price reduced from $110 to.....+..++ 50.00 26-in. pneumatic tires, 2d-band, 2 COMBINATION RAMBLERS, wheels 26x 30-1n., used some, but tn good riding con- ition; Nos. 2175 and 4493; each - 45.00 2 CENTURY COLUMBIAS, "03 pattern, ‘04 G. & J. tires; Nos. 9989 and 15068; newly refinished; each. . + 5.00 1 DART, G. & J. pneumatic tires, "04 pat- tern, 30-10. wheels ES + 50.00 1 No. 1 DIAMOND PNEUMATIC RAMBLER, G. & J. tires, fine shape... ou . 40.00 CUSHION TIRES. 1 RUDGE, Model *D,”” No. 79810; mew and in fine shape; cut from $140 to.......+e-++-++ 60.00 1 PSYCHO, very strong and durable wheel; formerly $140; now cut to.. + 40.00 1 GIRL'S IDEAL RAMBLER, No. 4352; al- + 25.00 2 JUNOS, Ladies’ wheels, cut from $65 to (each) . @rop frame, ball bear! Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co., 1325 14th St. N.W., a Vashington, D.C. as.