Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1894, Page 17

17 :— NEW YEAR CALLS sont The Ccmplicated Etiquette Which Governs the Day in Paris. PERSONAL CALLS AND LEAVING CARDS What is Expected of the Army of Government Employes. eae DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES in ; MBoeciat Correspondence of The Evening Star. . PARIS, December 22, 1894. W YEAR CARDS, letters, visits and presents in Paris must all be sent, made and given in a certain manner. A certain etiquette 1s even marked out for the _ trresponsible Americans who live in the great capital For Frenchmen there “is @ series of tradi- tional formalities, fastidious for the mest part, often charming, often vexatious, but possessing at least the merit of en- fouraging trade, while at the same time Satisfying ®he French devotion to routine fand subdivision. There are four ways to express your Fouhaits de bonne annee, although there Dught to be a fifth to guarantee they are Bincere. You may express your good wish- #8 verbally, by letter, by cards, or by a kift. The latter ts the best preferred. There are two prime essentials reaily igorous: (1) You must express your New Year wishes, that the year may be “a food and happy one;” and (2) you must Must Call Upon ¢ “Chief.” Rot make your New Year greetings on the New Year day. Select some other day. ‘This may seem complicated. - It may even seem to contradict itself. But it is really simple. Visits, card leaving and even presents on the actual New Year day fre strictly en famille. There are but two exceptions: (1) Receptions between ofticials, and (2) the inscribing of names upon the registers of kings, princes and heirs, as well as foreign ambassadors. There may, might, could, would or should be a third exception for Americans in Paris, were they really held down to the French rule of the family. Here it is. Registry for Names. Does the American ambassador receive on New Year day? Both Ministers Reid and Coolidge—mere ministers, although immediately preceding the new ambassa- dor—did certainly “receive.” They served such noble free lunches to the rabble that the fame thereof went out exceedingly and caused frost-bitten Englishmen in Paris to hurry from their barren duty in the rue Saint Honore to the warm parlors of the Hotel Continental or Mr. Reid’s great man- gion on the Avenue Hoche. Even the acid- minded lady correspondent of the London Truth forgot to sneer at all Americans in Paris, and once actually wrote with some approval on the subject. ‘The European custom permits neither New Year calls upon ambassadors nor yet the sending nor the leaving of cards upon them, although a present might be ac- cepted. Instead, you write your name upon the register. You may leave your cards upon the con- seiller d’'ambassade, the secretaries, and so on down. But not on the ambassador. The ambassador represents the person of the sovereign. You do not leave your card upon a king or queen. In the nature of this recreation of in- scribing your name upon the book of your ambassador ts the sweet practice, even yet more satisfying, were it possible, of sup- ing your autograph to kings and prince dwelling in the shade. Paris is a unique haven for sone of these; while other: deprived of their God-given rights, sig! at the thought of Paris, which they may not visit. But mest of them keep regis- ters. A thoughtful heathen who had been brought up a Christian one time passed “He Adores Met" @ statue of Apollo or some other In a Roman garden or elsewhere and took off his hat and made obeisance. “If that God should ever come to power again he may remember my politencss.” Such faithful souls and others who desire to imitate them write down their names for the Duc a’Orleans. In the time of the Comte de Paris this register was kept by a rich M. Bocher. For Queen Isabella you inscribe yourself at the Palais de Castille, Avenue Kleber; for the King and Queen of Naples you go to the Hote! Vouillemont, rue Bois- gy d’Anglas. And so on, for the Prince de Joinville, the Duc de Nemours, the Duc umale, the Duc de Chartres, the Duc d’Alencon and all the rest. There was a time when Paris was richer in actual kings in exile. Dom Pedro ts dead. King Milan fs gone, but he will return. Don Carlos is not allowed to come. None of the Napo- leonic princes who are pretenders may live in Paris. But tho aunt of Victor, the Princess Mathilde, keeps a register. Never- theless she was good-natured enough at the funeral function held in Paris for the late tsar to motion to Madame Casimir-Perter to march on ahead of her, an act arousing commerts far and near. Lastly, if you have been presented to the Prince of Wales ou ought to write your name down for im at the British emba: Etiquette in the Civil Service. The diplomatic corps has its own New Year traditions. They call in a body upon the president of the republic. It is their first visit of the day. Afterward each goes individually to inscribe himself upon the register of the doyen of their order, then later upon the registers of each and all his colleagues of the same ranR. Later still each ambassador receives the various min- isters, charges d'affaires, secretaries, et cetera. The president of the republic re- ceives the calls of the presidents of the two chambers and sets out immediately to return them. And so on. While this transpires the official world beneath fs similarly occupied, though even mere laboriously. And when you speak of the official world in Paris it means much. You cannot throw a cat in the gay capi- tal without striking some government func- tionary or his wife. In France one voter in every ten is a government clerk, and every clerk stands ranged in his own rank, with his superiors, inferiors and equals well marked out, his tenure sure, his du- ties fixed. On New Year day this army squirms and turns upon itself, contorts and strains Itself to do its duty to itself in compliments, congratulations, good wishes—and presents. The rule cannot un- bend. (@)—Every immediate inferior must call upon his immedéate superior. (2)— Every immediate superior must receive his immediate inferior. That is to say, after hurrying to call upon your chief you must hurry back to receive the call of your as- sistant. In business houses and corporations (as apart from retail shops) managers, head bookkeepers, confidential clerks and so on make their first call or leave their first cards upon the members of the firm. And then they scatter cards upon each other like a snowball, until the office bey would leave his card ‘upon the lady typewriter, “She Adores Me!” except there are no office boys ia Paris (being all at school) and ladies do not punch typewriters, first because there are no typewriters, and secondly, because there are no lady clerks in offices. Retail shops, which must keep open on one of the great present-buying lays of pthe year, do not aftord the recreation of this pasteboard game to their male and female employes. Social Calls Not in Order. In the social world {t is considered In- discreet to present yourself where you are not expected. New Year day is reserved to the grandparegts and the children. The future salutes the past. It is a sad thing when it must be done by letter, When you are intimate enough with a family to make a call on New Year day you are generally aware of the fact. In Paris you are also‘ aware of the fact that you should bring a gift. There are gen- tlemen who never dine at a house without bringing with them flowers or sending flowers or candy the day after. But that is an exception. In place thereof every one should send some kind of souvenir, at least flowers, to the mistress of the house where he has been received with any kind of intimacy. If the intimacy be very great indeed, you present yourself on New Year day itself, with your gift in your hand. If the intimacy be a trifle less you present yourself on the day after New Year. If it be eveo less you leave your card tied to the present with the concierge. Tuere is one special reason, apart from the sacredness of the day and the rights of the family, which makes it indiscreet to pay mere social calls on New Year day itself in Paris. The mistress and the mas- ter of the heuse alike are both extremely likely to be a little vexed and fretted, or preeccupied, if not depressed and gloomy or in real hysterics, as the case may be. It is the day for settling accounts with the whole world. The week has been passed in gettmg in money, scrutinizing bills, ar- ranging lists. The credit system is much more in vogue in France than in America. And everything piles itself up at the New Year. Paris lives so much upon the retail trade of luxury that many of its credits group themselves around the festive sea- She Puts It in the Rox Herself. sen. For example, Paris manufacturers alone export to foreign countries annually more than 5,000,000 francs’ worth of “Beth- lehems” and other church decorations, most all ordered just before the Christ- mas season. In a hundred other lines the “article de Paris” has its great movement just before each New Year annually. Paris is full of strangers. The fashionable “‘sea- son” is Just beginning. Money ts flowing in from every side. And every one pays up his debts. Among these debts is the neces- sity of tipping heavily your servants and giving sums which would be thought out- rageous in America, The Interchange of Cards. Visits of simple politeness commen. therefore, on the 2d of January and last throughout the month. Formerly only the first week of January was permitted. That led, first, to an undesirable frequency in the substitution of cards for calls, and, secondly, in the even worse abuse of send- ing cards by mail. This latter came to be so great a nuisance that 1893 began to see the last of it. In good society the sending of one’s card by mail ts almost done away with. Instead, you have to leave “turned” cards in person, or at least pretend to do so. In the hurry it will not be noticed if you send your valet or a clerk or if you have accepted the services of ene of the companies which make a business of dis- tribution, at the hands of “gentlemen cor- The Bearer of a Welcome Greeting. rectly dressed.” In 1893 the number of simple visiting cards passing through the Paris post office in the month of January was estimated at §,000,000. In January, 1s04, the number had already fallen to 4,000,000. This year will still, probably, see Some 2,000,000, because the lower mid- dle class, which had only begun to take up what it fondly believed to be an aris- tocratic custom, finds it hard to break away now that the vogue is passed. ‘A married man does not owe a return call to a bachelor. A simple card, with the corner turned, suffices. And when one has the slightest doubt, either whether bis intimacy is sufficiently great to permit him to make a call or leave his present with his card, or merely send a card, he should permit his modesty to govern him. Some Unique Visiting Cards. Mere cards are never wrong, although they sometimes take queer shapes. The Count of S——,has borne for years upon ords: his card these “Comte de S——, A Souvenir of Other Days. brother of General Z——, wounded at Se- bastopol.” A grocer has the following, after his “Candidate for the p dency of the republic,” thereby following afar off the example of Villiers de I'Isl Adam, who once astonished his friends by getting out a visiting card which declared him to be “Candidate to the succession of the kings of Cyprus and Jerusalem.” Al- though it does not run into the love of titles so deeply as in Germany, where a good lady had upon her card “Frau Och- senmaulsalatfabrikant Heinrich Wilhelm Muller,” it is nevertheless the Frencia habit to qualify oneself, as “Jean Vaugirard, formerly mayor of the town of Pontoise.” I have seen the card of a large farmer near the Belgian frontier, which has in- scribed beneath his name, ‘Decorated with the Order of Agricultural Merit, a decora- tion which he preferred to that of the Legion of Honor, which was offered to him by President Carnot.” An architect, whose name is J. Rousseau, has “J. Rous- seau, architect, whose family is not de- Greetings From Their Far-Of Chil- ar seended in any way from the impious philosophe: All these are serious, as serious as was the effort of a little French girl, who thought she ought to send an- nouncements out when her big married sis- ter had a baby: “Mademoiselle Irma has the honor to announce to you the birth of her nephew, Anatole. Both aunt and child are doing well.” STERLING k Lig. cee ROSE WHIST PARTY. A Novel and Pretty Idea for a Social Evening. From the New York Telegram, Any novel idea which will help to solve that difficult question of how to entertain a number of guests is always a welcome suggestion, and one very pretty form of entertainment is a rose whist party. To begin with, the invitations are sent out on pale pink paper, and announce that rese whist is to be the order of the even- ing. The game played is that familiar one of progressive whist, with the exception that each player keeps account for herself of all the resi cards which are taken, and nothing else is counted. When the time is up, the fortunate player who holds the most red cards takes tMe first prize, while the one who has the least gets the “boo- by.” The prizes should all be something per- taining to the rose. Numerous articles can be thought of, such as rose bowls, rose candlesticks, rose sachets, bottles of rose perfume, bonbonnieres with candied rose leaves, etc. Upon each table aye placed four full grown La France or Mermet roses, with long stems and green leaves, as well as a dainty dish filled with pink and white bonbons. Each player also has a tally card of pink paper and a pink pencil attached for keeping the score. The ices served are pink and white, and the supper, table should be gracefully draped with pink yibbons, with rose petals strewn about on the cover. In fact, roses in profusion should be everywhere, and the lights should be softly shaded in pink. ‘This can be made a very pretty form of amusement, and one’s own ingenuity could suggest many more features to make It a great success. It would be an added at- traction if the hostess were dressed in a rose pink gown. eee tee SAVING THE SCRAPS. An Economy That Has Become Com- mon Ameng Restaurant Habitues. From tbe New York Sun “You would be surprised,” said a confi- dential restaurant keeper, “at the growing number of my customers who carry off with them portions of their untinished meals. Three or four yeas ago the «nly person that used to do this was an old French lady, who always used two of the three lumps of sugar that we used to serve with a cup of coffee and pocketed the third. ‘The next person I noticed doing anything of the sort was a young man who ate two out of his three rolls and, after looking a little shame facedly around the restaurant, reached up and dropped the third roll into his overcoat pocket. The following morn- ing he did the same thing, and now he al- ways does it, and does it, too, as a matter of course. “Both of these little tricks, you will ob- serve, were at breakfast, and { thought the explanation of them was easy. I knew it was the custom in France to possess the unused sugar, and I imagined the young man was a clerk in an office and used to eat the third roll during the morning or for lunch. But during the past year or so I have given up seeking for explanations of a habit that has become common, any explanation, I mean, except that of hard times, for now it's done right and left and at every meal. Why, sir, you'd be amused or saddened, I don’t know which, to see the matter-of-fact way in which parts of a meal are saved. Some customers bring little handbags, and sweep every unused thing into them. Others use oil paper, and wrap up the fag end of a steak or part cf a bird, and others, again, make neat little parcels of their left-over bread and butter. It was only yesterday that I saw one young woman at lunch bring a small bet- tle out of her pocket and pour into it the milk she had not used in her tea. “Of course I can’t object to the practice, and I don’t know that I would if I could. The customer pays for what he is served with, and it doesn’t much matter to me whether it is eaten here at my tables or taken home by my customers to be eaten at theirs. Indirectly, of course, it affects me, because it means that there is a great and prevailing spirit of economy abroad, and if the saved scraps from breakfast here can be made to do duty for or help out a lunch, why, naturally, I er some other restaurant man loses the profit on that lunch. Anyway, it’s a phase of the influence of hard times that I haven't seen noticed or commented upon.’ aan ash Shoe Shining Machine. From the House Furnishing Review. Shining your shoes by machinery is one of the newest schemes of an ingenious in- ventor. It is a bootblacking machine, con- sisting of an applying brush, a fluid recep- table and a blacking receptacle, so placed upon a stand that by the movement of a lever the small circular brush takes up the blacking and moistens and distributes it ‘over the shoe; then the circular brush comes al and polishes the shoe before you can s@¥ “Jack Robinson.” This clev contrivance fills the usual “long-felt want’ for the gentleman who cleans his own shoes in the seclusion of his chamber. but it is doubtful whether it will be fully ap- preciated by the itinerant bootblack, who wants his five cents a shine. Notwith- standing all objections, however, the new bootblacking machine is likely to be in great demand within a very short time. : THE EVENING STAR. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. FIRST OF THE YEAR| The Official Social Observance of the Day in This Gity. NEW YEAR CALLING ON THE WANE Elaborate Receptions at Private Houses No Longer in Vogue. AT HOME INFORMALLY FFICIAL WASH- ington will wish it- self and its neigh- bors a happy New Year and many re- turns next Tuesday, January 1, 1895, A good many other people who are not Officials will do the same thing, as the columns of The Star will abundantly tes- tify. But New Y¥ calling as a snarked institution of the day is rather observed in the breach than in the observance. Who is to blame for it? Who started the thing, anyway? Some women and men, years and years ago, belonging to the numerous progeny of Mr. and Mrs. Knickerbocker, began to feel pretty good with themselves and their neighbors and made it a point to go round and tell each other so. It was a long jump from that to the custom of a decade or two back, when it was the proper thing for everybody to keep open house—a regular reception, in gas-lighted rooms, loads to eat and drink, and a bevy of ladies arrayed in their finest clothes to exchange greetings with Tom, Dick and Harry just as fre- quently as the men who were reaily ¢x- pected and wantcd. That style had its ups and downs, like everything else, and while at present fashion says “down” the chances are that, In a few y@ars more, it will be kept as ‘strictly as it 1s now ignored. It has been overdone, like most good things which started with too much enthusiasm, turned into hard werk and then bezame irksome. has got so in this city now that the official receptions are all there is of it. The President receives his cabinet and the representatives of foreign lands and the rest of the big bugs. This duty accomplished, they right about face home and all except the foreigners receive their equals, and inferiors, too, in place and power. The President's Reception. Presidents have been doing it for many administrations, and while some of them may have lost their individual desire to keep the custom up, the iron laws of offi- cial etiquette are so stivug that in all these years a single change has not been made, except to commence tbs reception a half hour nearer to noon. The otfictal announcement of President Cleveland's reception was made nearly a month ago. At 11 o'clock next Tuesday a scene full of familiar aspects will take place in the blue parlor. The Vice Presi- dent, if he is here, andthe members of the cabinet will formally xpress to the head of the nation their best wishes for a happy New Year, although in all probability they have already gone through this pleasant exchange before they came down stairs with him. That over;-the Secretary of State will take his stand atthe left of the President, another State Department offi- cial at his left, end the diplomatic corps will enter the parlor from the red room. The dean of the corps, Sir Julian Paunce- fote, British ambassador, will be at the head, and all the countries with which we hold’ amicable relations will have repr. sentatives there. There are*four ambassa- dors and twenty-five ministers. Some of the latter are absent, but their govern- ments are represented by charge d’affai The ladies of the corps always accompan the ambassadors and-ministers to call cn the Vice President ayd his wife apd the Secretary of State and his wife. This time, as it is not likely Mrs, Stevenson will be here, as a higher duty keeps her near ber daughter, that visit will be omitted. The diplomatic corps, as a hody, call immedi- ately after leaving the White House upon the Secretary of State und his wife, by whom they are entertained at breakfast. The dean of the corps presents his col- leagues and the ladies accompanying them to the Secretary. The foreigners, as a rule, before finishing their round of calis at the other cabinet houses, ordinary go hom to lay aside their uniforms for their every day and less conspicuous attire. The Cabinet Rece, President and Mrs, Cleveland will be as- sisted by the ladies of the cabinet, some of whem will remain at the White House until 12:20, when the reception to the pub- lic will commen: The cabinet ladies will receive at their own houses, the receptions generally com- mencing at 2 and continuing until 5. Each will be assisted by a number of ladies, gencrally the wives and daughters of the officials in the departments presided ove by their husbands, well as their per- sonal friends. An invitation to assist at one of these receptions is very highly re- garded, for it is a pleasing way of takin part in the most ceremonious social pe ~ nee in which official Washington tin- duiges. In addition to the ladies of the cabinet who will assist at the White House recep- tion, Mrs. Cleveland usually invites thirty or forty other ladies to remain in the blue room behind the line, and, besides giving a pretty finish to the assemblage, entertain the foreigners and others who’ are priv- poy ee to remain within its envied pre- cine.s. Fashionable New Yorkers hie themselves to the country or the seashore or anywhere else where they can commune with nature, walk, drive, shoot, hunt, play golf, or do anything else essentially English.’ Not a bad idea, either. In this section a fox chase has been the proper, caper, and all the women not invited t® receive at the cabinet houses would be dead certain to be very prominent at it. New Year balls are pepular here, too. .A delightfully large and jolly one was given last New Year at the British embassy. Not Formally at Home. Soclety*at the west end will not keep open house. There may be a few isolated cases like there were a few singular peo- ple who did not, get vaccinated a month or two ago. But they will be hopelessly in the minority. Not but what the ladies inf most cases will be at home and very glad to see A man or a collection of them if they call around, but the lords*of creation must take all the chances dnd be just as well pleased if they are only given the oppor- tunity to add their bristol boards to what is already in the basket tied to the door- bell. The card basket is the proper thing, and on that day will be fougd ornamenting blocks and blocks of Hou: in the west end. 4 i Last year it was aN ny by Mrs. Cleveland that the ladjes invited to re- celve at the White Ffpusy should wear high-neckcd dresses, and they did. There will be no need to repeat the admonition this time, as it is well understood. No matter how elaborate the gown may be fashicn strictly ordainw tMat fair shoul- ders or shoulders that may not be fair must be covered in the day time. The fact that the reception is usually held in gas- lighted rcoms has nothing»to do with the case, and cannot be cqysidered as having any bearing on it, as some misguided folks imagine. It is not very far back, though, since en entirely different idea prevailed, but we are convinced now that it was all wrong and the last opinion rules. An au thority then which was greatly respecte! announced that as the foreign ministers came in their full dress or military uni- forms, the same as they would wear at a foreign court, full dress was demanded from everyone else. It used to be com- mon enough to see low-necked tulle ball gowns at the New Year receptions at the White House, and there was not any criti- cism about it until one lady pointed a moral by wearing in sharp contrast a plain silk dress and white linen collars and cuffs. Last year the ladies wore a high collar mark and it will be the same on the coming occasion. The Correct Dress. ‘The ladies of the diplomatic corps wear their most elegant visiting costumes and their prettiest bonnets—as do all other ladies who attend the reception in the capacity of callers. Every year in the crowd there is bound to be a woman or two who has forgotten her bonnet or hat, and a stray man who is seven hours ahead of the real time, and comes in smiling with an expanse of shiny linen and a spike- tailed coat, and wonders why the people take him for a waiter. Wine or no wine? please about that. Well, just as you It is as fashionable one Way or the other. Whether the moral prin- ciple involved is the point which has touched the hospitable conscience or what- ever it 1s, the fact remains that the dan- gers of the punch bow! lately do not or- dinarily come from the strength of the mixture. ‘he decanter plays a small part at New Year receptions, and, properly so, while the punch bowl has more frequently lemonade in it than punch, even the w est variety. The proper fixings on a New Year refreshment table are rather on the substantial order. It is presumed that it is men who are to do all the eating, and they prefer salads and sandwiches to water ices and wafers, HER HUSBAND'S FRIEND. How Men Look Upon One Who is a Home Wrecker. From the St. Louis Republic. In certain conditions and circles of so- ciety It seems to be always an open ques- tion how far the husband's friend may be invited to associate with the husband's wife. To the ever pure, the ever good and ever religious woman, who has been reared with no thought of treachery or impurity, the suggestion of doubt as to woman's ca- pacity to repel and resent the insinuating advances of men is held to be an insult to the sex. And yet there are women of there- tofore good moral character who have fallen at the first onslaught. This fact is = : not due se much to the weakness of . womankind or the wickedness of men as to a OV OT TORY FOES OTERO THE OED an individual lack of er training and : the want of such calmness of judgment zAn Up-to-date Necessity: 4 " has been cured ina multitude of cases during the past fifty years by Pain-Killer, This potent remedy rubbed vigorously in and around the suffering parts, three times a day, will relieve allgtifMmess, reduce the swelling, prevent inflammation and killall pain. The most stubborn cases yield to this treatment when perse- vered in. Use it freely. The quantity has been doubled but the price remains the same, PERRY DAVIS & SON PROVIDENCE, R. I. and moral nature as cvery honest woman is Bs For the Toilet and Bath. presupposed to possess. Her husbands friend, particularly if he be an unmarried man, kas done a vast deal | @ toward wrecking homes. He is none the less a scoundrel because the woman is a fool. He deserves all the ruin which eventually comes to him, and it is a cur- lous contradiction in the make-up of or- dinarily honest men that they despise a seducer, a home-wrecker and an adulterer —no matter how they may have themselves dallied with the sharp edge of crime—and that it is part of their public duty to crush id destroy the man who gets caught or who unblushingly parades his vices. Women talk @ vast deal about the extent to which roues are admitted into good homes, when the woman who falls is goaded and hound- ed to her death. his condition is not en- Uirely a fact in this country, for no man in- vites to his home arother’ man whom he even suspects of bad character, and he is just as quick to crowd out of the circle the man who violates the law of society as the woman is to destroy the fallen sister. Perhaps men are not quite so “squeamish” in their contemplation of vice. They are more familiar with it, and consequenly are more apt to contemplate it with a degree of philosophical patieace which no woman can understand. But while the man may shake hands and drink and smoke with a person of notor- jously bad character, his interchange of friendliness generally ends where it began —in the bar room. The person whom he takes to his home and intreduces to his wife and daughters is altogether different. That man is one who has commended him- self to the an by reason of his cleanliness of speech and person, bis utterance of senti- ments honorable to ‘manhood and his pos- session of a name among men as being an honest gentleman. This is the outward type of man who now and then appears in the divorce courts as a co-respondent— brazen, nervy, reckless as to truth and in- Pine Blossom . Soap. Medicated, Soothing and healing, it purifies and gives e health and beauty to the skin, removing all | 3 antiseptic, absolutely pure. irritating and humiliating disScurements. Price 25 Cents, AT ALL DRUGGISTS. Foster Medicine Co., Baltimore, Md. a2d12r-3 ° ——hi Cy ALL THIS different to consequences. PRICE THEM. 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PCPPVSOSS SOSH SSSHSS HOSS VSS SOSOS SOS IS OSG HSS |PeSPOCSSESSOODODECOSSODEOSE | DPPOOO PSO IPD IS IO OS® 40099059908 5 eo Greatly reduced prices during this trumpet-tongned at the citadel of thei own virtue, and though their husbands sale. A few prices mentioned below may have one or a thousand wicked friends, the honest woman will remain ie ee ee honest. It is the mcrally weak woman who falls and who needs to be protected from her husband's friend. ——__—§_+oe FUDGES AT VASSAR, save on your shoe bill, viz.: Several lots of Ladies’ $3 Shoes at. ‘Two lots of Ladies’ $4 Shoes at Lots of Ladies’ $4 Shoes at All Ladies’ $3.50 Shoes at. All Ladies’ $5 Shoes at. Men's $7 Patent Calf Shoes at $5 and $6 Patent Calf Shoes at Regular $5 Calf Shoes at $8 Razor Toe Bals at $3.50 Shoes at A Delightful Home-Made Confection That is Herein Explained, From the New York Sun, “Nearly every night at college,” said the | Mé Men's Men’ Men's Vassar girl, “some girl may be found some- where who is making ‘fudges’ or giving a fudge party. Fudges are Vassar chocolates, and they are simply the most delicious edibles ever manufactured by a set of et sweetmeat-loving girls. ‘Their origin is wrapped in mystery. We only know that H E WA EN their recipe Is handed down from year to SHOE HOUSE, vanilla extract. The mixture is cooked un- * Ul'it begins to get grimy. ‘Then it 1s taken | GeO. W, Rich, QIQ F St. from the fire, stirred briskly and turned in- gas lamp in the seclusion of your own apartment. The various difficulties that this method entails but make the fudge year by old students to new, and that they to buttered tins. Before it hardens it is] ¢28-70d taste sweeter.” 20 PER CENT DISCOUNT | FoR casa, * On All Holiday and Housefurnishing Goods EXCEPT McCONNELL'S GERM-PROOF FILTERS, belong peculiarly to Vassar, “To make them take two cups of sugar, one cup of milk, a piece of butter one-half the size of an egg, and a teaspoonful of cut in squares. You may eat the fudge either hot or cold; it is good either way. it never tastes so delicious, however, as when made at college over a spluttering see Using the Water. gave you a glass of water to wet your sponge in.” Little Roy—“I'm using it.” Governess—"But you are spitting on the sponge.” Little Boy—"Yes'm. I drank the water so’s to have it handy, . W. BOTELER & SON, 923 Pa. Ave. 412-284 ‘COUCHES. both —— if you ne ; dependable —from $9 up. ‘TheHoughton Co., ( ; 1214 F St. N. W. 428-204 wy SoS ee forte ALLISUED superb showing ts unrivaled in variety and clegance. See us da Couch, Ours are all alues, temptingly priced VMARRNR Arras Absolutely Pure Acream of tartar baking pow- der. Highest of all in leavening strength.—Lates! United States Governmen Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Oo., 26 WallSt, N.Y. 1806, Unredeemed Pledges, Suitable for Holiday Presents, corsisting of Dia- monds of all descriptions, Gold aud Silver Watches and everything in the jewelry line, at 00 per ceut less than market price. Burnstine’s LOAN OFFICE. 861 PA. AVE. N.W, a15-12t * RAILBOADS, PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station coruer of 6th and B sts. In eifect 4:00 p.m., November 25, 1804. 10:30 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED—Pull- man Sleeping, Dining, Smoking and Observation Cars, Hurrisvurg to Chicago, Cinciunatt, Indiaie Spolis, Cleveland and ‘Dotedo, Buifet Parlor Cag to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. FAST LINE—Pallman Buffet Pare Parlor aud Dining Cara, Jor Car to iarrisbu: Harrisburg to Pittsburg. 4:40 P.M. OHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS — Pullman Buifet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Si ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Cincinnati, Louisville aud Chicago. 740 PM. WESTERN EXWKeSS—Pullman Si ing Car to Chicago and Marrisburg to Cievelai Dining Car to Chicago, 7:10 P.M. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS—1 mau Sleeping aud Dining Cars to St. Louls wi Sleeping Car Harrisburg to Cincinnati. nit PACIFIC EXLKESS—Pullman Sleep ng Car ung. ‘50 A.M. for Kane, Canandaigua, Rocheste’ Falls daily, except Sunday. |. for Kimira aud Keuove dally, ex t Sunday. For Williamsport daily, 3:40 p.m. 210 P.M. for Williamsport, Kocher ‘Baffato Falls dally, except Saturday, with > Car Washington to Rocheste 100 PM. for brie, GC Bunaio abd” Niagara with Sieepin Car Wasiington to E malye ira, aud, Saturdays only, shiugton to Rochester, . For ¥ » New York and the Eas 4:00 Ts CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” all Farlor Cars, with Dining Gar from Baltinore, for New York daliy, for Pulladelpula week days, Rochester, Regular at 7:05 Wining Car), 7:20, Dining }, 9200, 10:00 (Dining Car) and Cay" 22:15, 3:10, 4620, 0:40, 10cO0r an Bb pm, On 05 (Vining ‘Cary, 7 ning Car), 9:00, 11:00 (Dining Car)’ a. 6:40, To:00 >» Fast Express sOL aud 5 40 p.m, r Boston without ciiuge, iy. 11:00 and 1 (4:00 Limited), 10. 3 28 a 00 315, ‘1:15, ‘2201, ‘8:16, (4:00. Litnttod), 5:80, 6.05, 6:40, 7:0, 10:00, 10:40 aod 11:83 For Pope's Creek Line, 7:20 a.m, and 4:30 p.m. dally, exrept Sunday. ‘or Annapolis, 7:20, 9:00 and 11:50 a. 4:20" p.m." daily, ‘except Suaday. Sundayar” 9:00 a.m, and E Atlantic Coast Line Express for Richmond, aville and Tampa, 4:30 a.m., 8:30 p.m. pm. daily, datiye Richmond and Allania, 50 a.m’, 12:50, 1:40, 8:20, 8:02, 10:10 and 11:89 p.m. On Suaday 5, 0:43 am, 2:45, a 6:15, 8:02 and Washingto: 10:28 a, enue and at the station, 6th and rhere orders can be left for the check- syage to destination from hotels and J. RB. woun, Gereral Passenger Agent, i KE AND OI110 RAILWAY. meats ilule An, effect December 2, i804, s leave dafly from Uni ith 1 ther ieadianenasben nad ndest scenery in America, with somest and most complete solid traia serv. from Was'ington, 2:25 PM. | DAULY.—Cinctnnatl and St. Speclal"’—Solid Vestibuled, newly Equipped, trie-lighted, heated’ ‘Trala, Palling ing cars Wasilugton to Ch lis and St. Luis without change, om) Was! Arrive Cincinnati, Ir Giamapoth 0 am, and Chiergo, St. Lats, 6:56 p.ta, 11:10 P.M. DAILY.—The famous “FP, ¥, Lim- fted.” A solid vestibuled trein, with dining car aud Pallman sleepers for Ciacinnati, Lexington and ville, without change. Observation ear. £-om ton, Arrives Cinctnnat, §:50 p.m.; Lexington, in. Louisville, 9:35 pan, 1:20 “2:25 Pd MLY.—Expross for Alle, harlottesville, Waynesboro’, Steunton a3 1 principal ginia points; dally excépt Sunday, for Itich- mond, Tullman locat ns and tickets at "s - Aves, 513 and ee 1 Penusylyanta avenue. H. W. FULLER, a3 General Passenger Agent. LALTDIORB AND OHIO RAILROAD, Schedule in effect November 18, 1804. Leave Washington from station corner of New ¢ and © street. Northwest, Vesttbuled Limited 0 a.m., 8:00 ie xpress, 12:01 night For Vitteburg aad Cleveland, express dally 11:30 am. and 8 i For Laxii nd Staurton, 11:30 a. rv and way ttanooxa, pm, daily sle For Lura: . 8:00, 19:00, 10:00, x1 1: 10 and 8:30 a.m., 12:15 and 8:30 aim, 4:31 p.m, a3) alm., DLS, 04:30, 5:30 p.in, For F erstown, a11:30 a.m. and 25:30 p.m. and way points, *7:05 p.m. ure an a D pm, For Washington Junction and way points, 10:00, a.m., b1:15 pan. Express trains stopping at principal stations only, a4 0 p.m. ROYAL BLU YORK AND E day .m. “Dintug Car . ing Car), 8 ig Car, open at 10:00 o'cloc a.m.” Dining Car), nz Car), 00, (11:30 sping Car, open for passengers 10:00 pim.). Buffet Parior Cars on ail day trains, For Atlantic City, 4:20 a.m., 19.00 a.m. and 12:00 noon, ) a.tn., 12:00 noon, aExcept Sunda: “Dally. bSunday only. xExpress trains, : Baggage called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at ticket offices, Pa, ave., New York ave. and 15th st. and at depot. R. B. CAMPBELL, CHAS. 0, SCULL, . nig Gen, Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt. SOUIHERN RATLWAY (Piedmont Air Line.) Schedule in effect November 18, 1894. All trains arrive and leave at Peonsylvanta Passenger Station. 8:00 A.M.—Daily—Lacal for Danville, Connects at Manassas for Strasburg, dally, except Sunday, and at Lyuchburg with the Norielle aud Western, dail ksonville, uniting at Char- per for Augusta; also Pull- “on Weleaas; coumects at Atlanta with or Birminguam, Ala., Memphis, end Washin loite w nant harlottesvitie and throuh except Sunday. KK AND FLORIDA man Sleepers New ‘Tampa avd Drawing oom partment Car guntine. First-class day coaches Augustine without ehange. .—Daily~WASHINGTON AND SOUTH. RN VESTIBULED LIMITED, composed Vestibuled Sleepers and Dining Cars, ers New York to Asteville and Hot Salisbury, New York to Meni- and New York to New Orle Montgomery, Dining Car from to Montgomery ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO D1. ve Washington 9:10 AM. dally, 4:32 eccept Sunday, and 6:3 P.M, Sundays yond [tifand 8:83. TP.M. dally. for 1 Returnivg, arrive at Washington 8:34 3:00 PM daily from Round “Hill, and daily, except Sanday, from Herndon ealy. rains from the South ‘ashing- " AM, PAM. and 8:30 P.M. Muiastas Division, 10:28 A.M. deily, except and 10:28 A.M. daily frog: Cuarlortesvilie, Car reservation ind information ) Penrsyivania ave- ia Raliroad Passenger Sta- W. A, TURK, General Passenger Agent. BROWN, Gen. Agt. vase. Dept. ston rrive at COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. CHARLES §. BUNDY, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS Of all 1 erritories, nw, Building.) ai-tt JOUN Bo BALL, JOHN Commissioners of Deeds for ev y Public ‘ states and ferritories a H. EVANS. Office @asement Always In office, office hours. HOTELS WILLARD’s HOTEL, Pa. ave and 1th st., 6022 Washington, D. C. EBBITT HOUSB. WASHINGTON, D. 0. ATTORNEYS. A. JODRICH, LAWYE 124 DEARBORN 8ST. Chicago, Establinhed 1864. Business Jegal apd sand facilities Ju otber states. Brau quiet. sei-6m, CAMPBELL CARRING rN ster Law D st. n.w., Washing Webster Lay toa D.C.