Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1895, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. 15 al ON tHE ROAD. INTERIOR COREA With the Magistrates and People in the Corean Backwoods. ———_s—_—_ CARPENTER’S ROYAL PROCESSION The Food That is Eaten and How It is Prepared. AMERICAN INDIAN aces THE (Copyrighted, 1805, by Frank G. Carpenter.) HE COREAN MAG- strates are in reality the cause of the great war between China and Japan. They are | a sort of petty kinxs, and they rule the vil- lages of the hermit kingdom. They pay the high officials of 1 for their of. . and these put a portion of the to the royal treasury and ke» . The magistrates col- lect th ey trom the farmers in the shape of taxes, and they do this in the most arbitrary way. They are the judges and the courts, as well as the tax gather- ers, and the man who does not obey them can called up on all sorts of char; and tortured and fined. There ts a system of laws as to taxes, but this is evaded in every possible way, anc the people are at the merey of these little potentates. Th Jaw is that every man must work a certain time during the year for the king, and the | magistre decide as to the time he must labor. Many of them own slaves, and they all have what fn Corea are con- sidered very swell establishments, with | scores of scribes, each of whom has his own rank, and who is a sort of a political striker. These scribes have a dress of their own. They wear long white gowns, which fall from their necks to their feet, | A Backwoods Magistrate. little plug hats of black horse hair, which they tle on to their crowns, and which fit on to the head muc like a woman's bonnet. These hats are fastened by black ribbons secured und: the chin, and the gowns are tied by silk cords, which run around the waist. Their re tight, and in Corea only the high officials and gentlemen can wear full sleeves. Gereral Pak, my interpreter dur- ing my trip through Corea, had sleeves of about the size of a two-bushel bag, and he considered himself much above these gov- ernment clerk: Mow “Prince” Carpenter Was Treated I despair of being able to describe my experiences with these government clerks and the magistrates in the trip which I took right across Corea from the capital to the east coast. The letter of introduc- tion which I had from the king was in a great plue envelope, and it described me as @ mighty Amertcan, who was traveling for Pleasure. I would not wish to say that General Pak was a most accomplished lia! but I fear that he stretched matters in pr ting me to the magistrates. I do rot know what he told them. He may have said | was the son of the king of America, or the United States, but at any rate the officials almost got down on their knees to me, and and my treatment was that of a prince. Gen- eral Yak told them how I had visited tt King at the capital, and had had the honor ef going through the king's gate of thi paltce, and I could see that he enfor: their respect when they did not voluntar- it. The magistrates’ establish- usually at one end of the vil- rode with our retinue ri nment courtyards and tur vernment clerks from the tablishment ¢ more one. ed roofs. the magistr a halt dozen ¢ with heavy t & hous whic ear th t he and his concubi houses for th of dwellin pens or cow-sheds than the home of human beings, which were filled with I servants, There were sco hal? 1 i squal- of pu bellied, ks. In paint 3 and f the roof we “s and to the be eared out the of airs anc the Clerks. swell about with bought 9 new suit these officers. He had « 3 for the occa and he always put on th bef ent to call on amounts received in- | nephew of the President of the | the magistrates. He would first send my Chinese visiting card and the letter from the king, and then would go on with his toilet. There were usually about twenty clerks looking on, and forty almond eyes were watching his every motion with in- terest. Still, he got out of one suit into another without loss of dignity. First he would take off his gown and then his jack- et, leaving kimself bare to the waist. He had a fine silk vest which took the place of the jacket, and his gown of the most delicate sky-blue went on above this. The next was the change of his pantaloons. These were so large that they would have made a suit of underclothes for Bar- num’s fat woman, and Pak tied them so they hung down in zouave style at the ankles. Next he had wadded stockings and kid shoes of light color. Now put- ting on his hat he would take a pipe as long as himself and squat on the floor and smoke as he talked to the clerks. He mov- ed backward and forward as he talked, never taking the pipe out of his mouth, but letting the bowl rest on the floor and propping the stem against his lower front teeth. He was a regular Corean dude for the time, ard I could see that the scribes were greatly impressed. ‘The chief trouble was with the cooking. He thought it be- neath him to do any labor if there were any nobles about, and my servant was of no earthly good. The result was I had to do the cocking myself. Corean Gastronomy. I found it hard to get enough to eat dur- ing this trip over the country. The chick- ens which were furnished us were of an uncertain age, and the sume was true of the egxs. I boiled one cticken for two | hours without making eny impression on | its toughness, and I afterward found that | the people do not like to sell to the magis- trates, for the reason that they seldom pay for anything they get. ‘They will seize what they can find end take it as a right. 1 was a distinguished traveler, and they | thought, of course, I would net pay. We found very poor rice at most of the inns, and I was more than half starved during much of the trip. My birtkday oecurrei on the jourrey, and my birthday dinner consisted of toast, rice, a five-year-old | chicken and a bit of currant jelly which L had brought with me from Seoul. My des- sert was a little tablet of chocolate, and this formed one of the hest meals I got on | the trip. Tho sleeping accommodations were poor in the extreme. At the country inns we had to sle2p on the stene floor, and were half baked by the straw fires beneath us. As soon as the stones were warmed, all sorts of creeping things came out, and | 1 finally compromised matters by taking out the sliding walls of the room and propping them up on logs in the center of the apartment, so that I was to a cer- tain extent away from the walls and the ficor. There was no privacy whatever, and | children by scores watched me make my toilet, and the government clerks fingered my wardrobe. Drinking With the Magistrates. 1 found the magistrates well disposed, and, aside from their pompous airs and queer customs, they are gentlemanly and refined. 1 remember one old fellow who gave me a dinner, and who furnished me with his trumpeters, who had musical in- struments as long as themselves to toot me out of the town. He fell in love with my bottle of whisky, and mixed It with a pony or so of Chartreusse. He treated me to some hot Corean wine, and between tho drinks offered me pickles and candy. He lived about a quarter of a mile from the guest house, ard he came down to call upon me in his own royal chair, which had a leopard skin covering its back, and he swayed to and fro and licked his chops as he talked with me about America. I told | him about our great railroads, our big houses and the wonders of steam. I could see that he thought I was lying, though he was much too polite to say so. At the close of his talk with me “General” Pak gave him a present of an empty apollina- ris bottle, and this he considered a really | great gift, as there Is no glass in Corea. I | had some hairpins with me and a little | looking glass, and I gave these to him for the ladies of his family. This had to be | managed very adroltly, for it is not polite lin Corea to ask after the wives of your friends, and the French legation In Seoul had almost an international complication the other day over one of its servants, who peeped over the walls of a noble to look at | the girls. ‘This magistrate served his din- ner in brass bowls. These are used almost entirely for cooking and eating in Corea, and th> spoons are of brass, and also the spittoons and other unmentionable arti- cles. Every high official carries his spit- Horse Shoeing in Corea. toon with him, and each man has a knife and chopsticks of his own, which are so made that they fit into one another, the chopsticks being fastened to the side of the knife. The meals are served on little individual tables, about a foot high and not more than fourteen inches in diameter. In most cases I was brought a bowl of charcoal and an fron pot, and was com- pelled to do my own cooking. The servant would get down on his knees and fan the into a blaze, sprinkling the with its ashes in the attempt. | » or twice I tried to get Pak to do the cooking, but upon his asking me as to how much sugar he should put into the chicken soup, I lost faith in his culinary ability. In one or two villages we could not buy chickens at all on account of a recent cholera epidemic. The laws of the country are such that no animal food can be sold during cholera, and in most places we could get nothing but a very coarse rice. Paper Rain Conts. During the great part of this trip through the country the rain came down Im tor- rents, and we had to cover our baggage with oiled paper in order to keep it from being soaked. The Corean paper is all made by hand. It ts about as thick as blotting paper, but it fs as tough as leather, and it costs about 5 cents a sheet, each sheet being about the size of this news- | paper. When oiled, it_makes a splendid | waterproof cloth, and I had a circular or oak of yellow ofled paper, which I tied round my neck and which hung to my was not much bigser than d dog, and it almost. cover- neral” Pak and our gorgeous and hats ed by cornucopias of this same which entirely protected them from the water. I noted that the Inside lining of my coat was covered with Core characters, and I asked Pak what the e said the paper had been v in writing the! civil service exam held once or tw grounds of the palace, and he the cab of net ministers make a ing these rejected I the appointments are supposed to be made through stich ex- aminations. The office-seekers have to write their essays in poetry, and they don't know the subject until they are on the ground. Each line must be just so ‘long, and I think that twenty-six verses make up a poem. The fellow who turns out the best jingle 1s supposed to get the best office, though there is undoubtedly a great deal of fraud in the apportionment, and bribery and intrigue are common. I afterward saw these examination papers everywhere, and used for all sorts of pur- poses. 1 slept in some rooms which we | told me he | nice thing out examination p: carpeted with them, the paper being oiled and plastered down on the stones. It made a beautifully polished and not unpictur- esque looking carpet, and it was aot affect- ed by the heat of the flues beneath it. How the Coreans Shoe Horses. It is almost impossible to give a good idea of Corea. Everything ts so different from anything we have in America. Take the horseshoeing, for instance. One of our ponies had to be shod, and another time we put shoes on the bull which carried the baggage. The pony was first thrown on the ground, and his four legs were tied together so that he couldn’t possibly kick. Then the blacksmith pounded hoop-iron: shoes cn his feet with a rude iron hammer. It was the same with the bull, though one man had to sit on his head while he was being shod. The iron seemed to be very good, and it comes from the mines in the northern part of the country. The tools of the country are made of it, and the farming tools are very ingenious, the three and four-pronged hoes being quite as good as anything we have in America. They were making tools in this blacksmith shop, and all the tools and plows are made by hand. The blacksmith had a rude bellows, which was worked by a boy, who stood on a@ see-saw, and by moving up and down pumped the fire into a blaze. In other places I saw bellows which boys worked by pulling a stick in and out like that of @ squirt-gun, and everything is rude in the extreme. Sometimes horses are shod by being strapped up to poles, so that only two of their feet can rest on the ground, and the band which goes around the belly holds the horse up while he is shod. Alaska vs. Core: I saw many evidences in my tour through Corea of a relationship which seems to exist between our American Indians and the Coreans. The probability is that some of these people made their way to- the north, and crossed the Bering strait into Alaska. The cheekbones of the Coreans are high, and I saw many faces which made me think of our Indians. They are, of course; far more civilized and better edu- cated, and they are a higher type than the savages of the west. Outside of each town I found rows of wooden posts which “Gen- eral” Pak told me were generals stationed there to keep out the spirits. These posts had hideously carved heads upon them, made in fantastic representation of the human face. They looked very much like the totem sticks which you find in front of every Alaskan house, and I found other similarities here and there. In my_tours through interior China I saw many Indian faces, and I met Tartars who looked very much like the noblest of our Indian chiefs. It is a curious thing, by the way, that the Japanese look much like the Mexican In- dians, and the ethnologists may find a very interesting study in tracing out the con- Government Clerks. nection and the origin of these races. The complexion of the Coreans 1s different in different parts of the country, largely due, I suppose, to exposure. The gentlemen of Seoul have skins of a delicate cream, and I saw some in which the roses came out and tinted the cheeks. The laborers in the field are as bronzed as our Indians, and some of the coolies at the seaports are as black as the negro. I saw many noses that were almost flat, and the cheekbones, in all cases, were high. I was surprised at the difference in the faces according to rank and condition, and this difference exists not only in Corea, but also in Japan and in Chin: The higher classes of the three peoples have refined, intelligent faces. Many of the gentlemen of Corea have narrow, high foreheads, and you see every type of jife on the streets of a Corean city that you do in America. There is the rich offi- cial who swells about and puts on airs. There Is the scholar who evidentiy burns his midnight oil, and there is the keen calculating trader who watches his “whit- tling” business quite as well as our mer- chants do their large establishments. The men have slight beards and their whls- kers do not seem to grow until after they are thirty. “General” Pak had a mustache which made me think of the old compari- son of the dude’s mustache to a base ball nine. There were nine hairs on each side, with one in the middle for umpire. He caressed these often, and also the stray curly little hairs which decorated his chin, and one day he said: “I do love my whis- isers; I think they grow very much,” The Jails. Connected with all of the magistrates’ establishments I found fails, and there were paddles and stocks scattered about. These are used very freely to squeeze money out of the people, and a magistrate has really great power over his subjects. The jails were about eight feet square, and they were closed with doors much like those of a cowshed. There is a hole in the door about as big as a dinner plate, and in this the food is put for the prisoners. The scribes do the paddling, and the people are squeezed out of all their surplus cash. In the trip across the country I saw signs of poverty everywhere, but no starvation. The people were good-natured, lazy and shiftless. They have no incentive to work, for if they get a little money ahead and the magistrates find it out, a charge is trump- ed up against them, and they have to give up a portion of it to the officials. The Japanese will attempt to reform all this. They will organize, if possible, a good gov- ernment, and preperty rights will be made safe. I believe that the people have the elements requisite to the making of a strong nation, and that from now on they will steadily improve. The change will not be immediate, for centuries of shiftlessness cannot repaired in a night, but they have a rich country, and they will begin to develop it as soon as they find that the re- sults of their labor will not be taken from them, and that they can permanently bet- ter their condition. FRANK G. CARPENTER. Some Texas Peeuliarities. From the New York Sun. Though Texas fs a lordly state And loaded full of biz, It's not a millionth time as big ‘As Texans think it But just the same, no One would caro To make this truthful statement th Just why he wouldn't there's no need Of saying In this space; Enough to say, that trath, though good, Is sometimes ont of place; And, notwithstanding speech {s free, iberty ‘The wise man wuzzles But Texas fs a won It grows horned to And cattle which have ‘They eut them into strings; And Spiders with is ‘of hafr, They make a football player luok bare, a things, 80 long ‘There counties grow to such extent ‘That almost any state hide within thelr v: ay there and vegeta And there the plains spread out so wide ‘They haven't any other side. Her rivers aro tremendous things, At les Yet t ‘Their boats can nits And fish must leave the rivers’ path ‘And go to sea to get a bath. A state of fre De Lunatico Inquirendo, From La Vie Drole. Counsel for the Defense —“My client is proved to have taken the hundred marks, but he left untouched a cash box, full of bank notes, which was in the same drawer. I must, therefore, apply for the appoint- ment of a medical expert to examine into his mental condition.” TRAVELING FREE —_-——_ How the Railroad Pass System is Abused by Beneficiaries. WORTH A MILLION A YEAR The Interstate Law and How Its Pass Amendments Are Ignored. LEGISLATIVE BUGABOO HE VIGOROUS EF- forts being made by the managers of the large railroad corpo- rations to curtail the issuance of passes over their lines have recently attracted more than the usual amount of publicity. That this subject should be discussed at this period of the year is accounted for by the fact that the 1st of January or thereabouts a new line of passes is issued. This applies to year- ly complimentaries. Passes issued at in- frequent intervals are generally left with- out date, thereby running until the first of the year, when an order is issued mak- ing the favor good until the 15th of Jan- uary, so as to obviate any inconvenience to the recipients. When the interstate law went into effect it was thought by shrewd observers that the railroad corporations of the country had fathered the bill, principally to wipe out the free-riding craze. That law says passes are to be issued only in payment for actual work done. It was meant, and so interpreted by the courts, to apply to newspaper advertisement and to employes. But it, like many other laws, through negli- gence and shrewd connivance, became a dead letter. The greed of the smaller roads for business led to the issuance of free transportation to shippers, and to pro- tect themselves the larger roads had to follow suit. As an Illustration, a large shipper se- cures the same rates for his goods over two roads entering a certain city. One road is as good as another to him. The smaller road in endeavoring to secure this business will forward the shipper a yearly pass, with compliments of the president of the road. The shipper is only human and naturally feels flattered, to say noth- ing of the pecuniary gain. To be noticed by the president of a railroad is not to be sneezed at, at least in the estimate of ship- pers of considerable freight, and to be the owner of such complimentaries appears to be the one object in the life of many pe ple. They are envied by their neighb and naturally so, Many Paskes Insued. The opposition road is irritated at this underhand method, dnd also over the loss of the business. They have special agents to look after their interests, who at once set to work to find out the cause. This the agents soon do. After ascertaining the facts they could nullify the obnoxious pass and mulct the opposition road out of a heavy fine, but in doing so would make the shipper an enemy. Therefore, they meet fire with fire by also issuing a pass to the sbipper in question. The latter is again flattered, and now being well forti- fied with free transportation can afford to be independent, consequently he uses both reads. And through this conniving the pass system has drifted back into its old State. . Persons not in touch with the railroad business would be astounded to learn of the gigantic dimensions the pass system has reached in this country. Actual fig- ures cannot be given, but those on the in- side have acknowledged that two of the largest corporations, with headquarters in the east,issue passes that annually amount to fully a million dollars each, That ts, if the same transportation was paid for in cein of the realm, If united co-operation could be brought about fully $500,000 could be saved each year, and the railroad man- agers are beginning to realize what a nice, tidy sum that is. But the get-together spirit is lacking, and unless the brakes are put on there is no telling where the dead- head system will stop. The presidents, of course, look after the interests of their rcads as much as possible, but the stock: holders “pay the freight” in lessened div! dends. . As Chauncey Depew, president of the New York Central road, has said, “It is rot the pass system that is so bad, but the abuse of it.” As an illustration, again take the case of the shipper mentioned above. He is known to very few railroad men outside of the agents and is a total stranger to the train- men. In his office are a dozen clerks. Per- haps, when their vacations come around, they would like to take a run over to New York or out to Chicago, With their em- ployer’s pocket book crammed with passes, do they pay their way? The answer is obvious. It is only a case of conscience, and that is an elastic thing with many people when it comes to dealing with cor- porations. The Friends Come In. ‘There ts hardly one person out of a hun- dred who knows that to use a pass issued in another's name is against the law and the user thereof is liable to a fine or im- prisonment. The railroads have put up with considerable imposition in this Hine, but the Pennsylvania road located a clesr case recently and put the brakes on with arush, Two men hailing from New York bought a pass in the latter city from an irresponsible scalper good for a passage to Pittsburg. The pass was originally issued to a Pittsburger. It was a “round tripper,” and the man used it in going to New York, where he sold the return coupon, The two men started out all right, until they reach- ed the Pittsburg di on, where they ran against a snag in the shape of a conductor that happened to know the person to whom the pas: next station he telegraphed to his superintendent and awaited instr tions. When the train pulled into Union depot at Pittsburg an officer was on hand; the two men were pointed out, and they were quickly marched in front of a local magistrate. A fine of $5 was imposed, and they were given the alternative of pa their fare from New York to Pittsburg or going to jail. They paid for their car ride. A somewhat similar case, with a differ- ent ending, came under the notice of the writer recently. A pass was issued last summer to a young men calling for a round trip to one of the large cities. Ow- ing to sickness, the pass Was not used and remained on his hands until the closing weeks of the year. Being averse to seeing the pass “die” without, being used, he pass- ed it to a friend who lived in the city, and this friend used it for a trip one way and handed it over to another friend, who rode out the limits of the pass a few days later. The railroad company, with all good inten- tions, had extended the limitations of the pass until the 15th of January. The origi nal owner of the pass is a member of church in good standing, yet there was not the slightest flutter of his conscience over his action. Funny, isn’t it? Fixing the Sintesmen. In conversation with one of the brightest passenger agents In Washington on the abuse of the pass system, an Evening Star reporter gleaned many facts of interest from the “inside. The agent, among other things, “The greates busers of the pass sys- tem are undoubtedly the meml of state legislatures the Lorders of which our read e To one not conversant with hard to explain a railroad’s believe passes are issued ation that will benefit the corporat he opposite is exactly Railroads, as a rule, will ask ng but what is just, but the un- ist legislation is what they must contin- the facts it i situation. Man; so as to secur guard For instance, sup- pose the Pennsylvania or Baltimore and Ohio systems were to refuse passes to the of the Maryland and Pennsylva- nia_legislatures. “It is a sure prediction that inside of two months bills would be introduced by disgruntled legislators, and passed, too, as the majority would desire to get a whack -| on both sides, the young man secured se at the corporations, that would cost the latter thousands upon thousands in the future. Of course, I except the bright, conscientious members who are to be found in every state assembly, but the najority is what I am referring to. It wouldn’t be nearly so bad if they would Keep the passes to themselves, but they won't. Their political friends are accom- modated time after time; we know it; the conductors know it; but all are afraid to take decisive action, as it would do no good and surely result in harm to us. “Up in New York state the new consti- tution will do wonders for us from now en. The new law went into effect the first of this year, and plainly says no public officer shall travel on a pass over rail- roads, a heavy fine and even imprison- ment being the penalty for an infringe- ment. The brainy men of that state as- sembly will not kick on the new law, but the representatives from the back coun- ties, who represent their constituents for about one term, ‘and desire to make as much money out of their position as possi- ble, are-the ones who will take the new order of things with ill grace. A new con- stitution is what is wanted in many states with this same proviso inserted, and then the citizens can rest assured their inter- ests will be fully protected. Clerical Reduced Ticket. “The latest sensation in the way of com- Plimentary travel was brought forward a few weeks since, when the New York Cen- tral road issued an order prohibiting the issuance of clerical tickets. These tickets were issued to the clergymen at a greatly reduced rate, but in some way abuses were continually cropping out, and now their sale has been discontinued, or will be, in the near future. ‘There is no fouudation whatever for the statement that clerical orders have been misused,asfar as our road is concerned. Last year we issued between 13,000 and 14,000 orders to clergymen residing on our lines east and west of Pittsburg, and no case of misuse cr abuse of the privilege has come to our notice. Through many years of service in that branch of the railroad, which is most intimately connected with the traveling public, my experience is that no class of people are more careful of the use of such privileges than ministers of the Gospel. If there has been any mis- use of the orders issued by the other lines, it is due to the careless manner in which they have been issued, and the blame for their misuse should be placed upon the railroad and not upon the ministers. It is an easy matter for the orders to get into improper hands, unless due care is observed, and this has doubtless caused all the trouble. “Under our system, orders are !ssued only to ordained ministers of the Gospel, mis- sionaries, and officers of the Salvation Army. Each perscn must appiy to our lo- cal ticket agent, who certifies the appli- cation to the head department of the pas- senger system, frcm which the order is issued. Unworthy persons could not secure orders where such a system is in vogue. An agent with the smallest smattering of brains should easily become acquainted with every minister in his town, and an assistant should be given this duty and fully cover it in the large elties. The city ministers, as a rule, are pretty well off financially, and seldom embrace the chance of securing cheaper transportation. “This question of absolutely suspending the sale of clerical tickets is in the hands of the trunk line committee, and will soon be settled once for all. Our company has always looked upon this class of ticket: as a proper courtesy. Clergymen, in thei work of shaping public opinion and of ele- vating the moral tone of the people, are certainly a most deserving class, and our company has always felt that lberal treatment accorded them served the dou- ble purpose of contributing to the good work, and aiding a most worthy class of, at the best, badly paid workers. An Indignant Legisintor. “I can only recall one humorous story just now in connection with the use of passes, and really a prominent member of the lower house up at the Capitol can tell it better than your humble servant. At the time I mention this gentleman had been in politics but a few years, but owing to a taking personality and a fine career as a legal light had been elected to the state assembly. Like all new men in the business he accepted everything that came his way and a pass over our road fell into his hands as a matter of course. “Desiring to return home one day during the session of the state legislature, and not wishing to rufle the stringent ideas of his constituents, he shaved off a luxuriant beard, so as to disguise himself as it were. One of his colleagues recognized him at the station, and knowing that he traveled on a pass, quietly slipped up to the con- ductor and told him that Assemblyman So-and-So had lost his pass and that an- other man would probably try to ride to Pittsburg on it. ‘This conductor proved to be one of those heavy-minded but honest persons, and when the p: in question was presented by a smooth-faced young man he immediately confiscated it and valled for full fare. “Now, if there was one thing more than another that this young representative liked, it was a fight, and for half an hour a wordy warfare was kept up. Finally the conductor concluded his argument with a demand for the money or a vaca- tion of the train by the young man. Be- fore he was put off the train, which was done with a considerable display of muscle eral of the passengs names. It was midnight when the train stopped, and the spot the young man found himself at when the train pulled away was about five miles from nowhere. He reached home next day considerably worn out, but full of fight. “Six months later our company paid that young man something like $7,500 on a compromise suit. He claimed $10,000, and a week later assumed the role as our rail- road’s adviser. He conducted his case so cleverly, showing how the pass had come to him unsolicited, and detailed his weary walk through slush and mud and a pros-. pective sickress in store, that the jury would no doubt have given him the full amount without leaving their seats. His practical-joking friend told him the cir- cumstances of the case sometime later on and came near getting a thrashing for his trouble. He is not with us any more, but it ig not a safe bet to make that he will not be a United States Senator in the near future. ‘THEIR W SS DING JOURNEY. Culmination of an Interesting Ro- mance in Punkin Hollow Society. From the Chicago Tribune. The old folks had gone to bed and Sime and "Mandy were in the dim little parlor, where burned a slow fire of sizzling hickory logs in the old-fashioned fire-place, The wintry blasts shook the old farm house and the windows rattled, and a puff of smoke now and then came down ‘the chim- ney on a return trip and circled familiarly about the room, but Sime and ‘Mandy didn’t mind it. They were sitting ver: close together. Sime, with throbbing heart and faltering tongue, had declared himself and "Mandy had listened shyly and with downcast eyes. Sime’s arm stole in a castal and appar- ently accidental way along the back of her chair, “And you'll have me, "Mandy?" “Yes, Sime.” It was spoken softly, but Simon heard it, and there was a sound like that of a quart of cold mush colliding violeatly with the side of a brick house. Then the stalwart young man recovered himself and rose to his feet. “Mandy,” whe said with the assured bearing of a man accustomed to acting with business-like promptness in all the great emergencies of life, “I've got to go to Chicago next Wednesday with four car- loads of hogs, and we'll get married in the mornin’ and make the trip together.” ———__+e+ Motherly Solicitude. From Puck, The cannibal family, gathered around the bountiful board. “T understand,” the father casually ob- served, “that this is the cadaver of a mil- lionaire.”” The mother started in sudden apprehen- ‘don't loading children,” she exclaimed, ow, The From the Ind! the red man,” said the eastern lady, “Why don’t you make some attcmpt to civilize him?” “Tain’t no us: responded the gentleman m Kansas. “Ain't much use in tryin’ to civilize a critter that can’t ra a beard.” And then he had to put in fifteen min utes making it ar that white memibe cf the sex feminine were not included in his sweeping cordemnaticn, THE LATEST WRINKLE French Styles in the Decoration of Rooms. AN EXTREME DESIGN IN LAVENDER Some Ideas for Table Adornment and for Window Curtains. ° EFFECTS IN LACE Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. OR SIMPLE, every-day people, as the majority of us are, an artistic home —we all wish to have artistic homes—must be planned with very small expense, and constructed from a very unpromising medley of materials. But the Midas peo- ple that are fitting up mansions lose the pleasure the rest of us have in exercising ingenuity and bring- ing talents of taste to bear upon difficult surroundings. With them professional decorators monopolize the pleasure. In giving a modest order recently to the most autocratic person in the house furnishing vocation in New York, I was surprised to learr. the extent of his territory of taste. His services are in demand frem San Fran- cisco to Bar Harbor and he is at present engeged, heart and soul, in putting the finishing touches upon the interior of a beautiful Washington residence. As he is a thorough Frenchman, from the shrug of his shoulders to the tiptees of his boots, be has an inherent dislike for the straight lines and massive carvings of English fur- niture; even conscientious Chippendale has no charm for him. But, as French styles of furniture are especially suited to elab- orate American palaces and are, therefore, very much tke fashion, his semi-annual trips to Paris are quite necessary to supply his establishment with designs and ma- terials. In regard to the selection of the epoch of their furniture, this embodiment of Lares and Penates is very indulgent io his cus- tomers, and they can confidentiy rely upon the faithful fulfillment of the minutest de- tails. Lf Henri Il is chosen for the patron saint of an apartment, the panels of the sofas and chairs will be tall and unframed; that is to say, there will be no woodwork except the legs and the supports for the arms. Moreover, the brocades or tapes- tries will be in dark colors. The Henri If style fs beautiful for libraries, and much used for this staid purpose. The Louis XIV style is distinguished by oblong panels ; set in elaborate gilded carvings. The Louis XVI is similarly treated, with the slight difference of having the panels arched. But the prettiest of all is the Marie Antoinette fashion, chairs and sofas of the most delicate brocades in ro: Cerulean or moonlight shades of white scattered with detached clusters of flowers, and mounted in a narrow, perfectly plain gilded framework, which curves gracefully downward in the center, instead of rising to form an arch. Now, my lady Croesus may have a Henri II library, a Marie An- toinette reception room, a Louis XIV draw- ing room, but Henri must not intrude so much as a chair into the domain of Louis, or Louis lend even a bit of a clock to Marie ‘Antoinette, if they have any regard for the tasteful reputation of their mistress or the amiability of her decorator. Rooms and Complexion. The Napoleon mania is extending from literature to furniture, and Napoleon chairs are closely copied. These are still rare, however. I was shown a perfect reproduc- tion of one that “the little Corsican” used in his emperor days. It was tall and straight, of dark red wood, ornamented at the corners with a raised design in gilt. The seat and back, plainly covered with green velvet of a beautiful silvery shade, were embroidered in raised gold, with the imperial N surrounded by a wreath of leaves. Blue, pink and green rooms are always pretty, and within possibility for almost any of us; but quite the freshest and most jiflicult color scheme for a bed room is ‘sweet lavender.” This has just been car- ried out in a 5th avenue residence. The furniture is enameled pale lavender, and ornamented with very delicate carved gold lines. The hangings are of heavy lavender satin—a trifle deeper in shade than the furniture—brocaded in white; the walls are papered with a design of white lilac blossoms on a faint lavender background, and the polished fioor is strewn with white fleecy fur rugs. I could not arrange such a room for every one,” said the high priest of this temple of household elegance. “In fur- nishing a room I always consult the com- plexion of the occupant and study the sen- sitiveness of her taste. The lady for whom I designed the lavender room has my en- tire confidence. I am sure she will never wear in it an inharmonious gown, or place on the dressing table a discordant cushion. I have been asked to repeat it for another of our clientele, but I was obliged to re- fuse. I told her I had not the brutality to furnish a lavender room for a lady with red hair.” ‘A ljady with gray hair has been becom- ingly “set” in a gray and gold room. The paint and wall paper are of plain pale gray; but there is the relief of a wide frieze of gold leather paper brought down to the floor in the angles of the room, making brilliant corners. The windows are hung with gray brocade, having upon it a lace design in white. The furniture is en- ameled white; the divan is covered with gold cordvroy velvet; the walls with water color pictures in gold mats frames; there is a corner cabinet cont ng fragile specimens of golden Venetian iass, a lantern lamp, its ght sofuy shin- ing through amber balls, hangs over the divan, and a Benares bowl on the window iedge holds a high spreading fern. Table Decoration. Of all floral sccial affairs, nothing is pret- tier than a pond lily luncheon; but, if we Gepend upon natural blossoms, it is not al- 's possible to carry it to the utmost de- e gree of picturesqueness, Now, however, pond lilies have arrived from Europe made of porcelaique. This novelty is a deli iceable material closely ri hing the w appearance of nature’s pond jilies, There are representations of both pink and white blossoms masquerading as candlesticks, bobeches and_ shades. The candlesticks are low; a full-blown lily rests cn one or two large leaves, while the long stems are curled into a very graceful handle. The bobeches are blossoms ly, and the shades are lily leaves, which droop around the candle flame with their stems upright. The pink Iilles should hold pinix ndies; the white ones, yellow candles What could be more appropriate for throw- ing light upon a lily luncheon than a crys- tal cadelabrum tn the center of the tabie, its limpid branches bearing young little pond lilies, the low candlesticks of larger blossoms at the corners and all shaded with the rich green leaves that are so sug ive of idle, drifting, delicious summer af- ternoons? apanese, Chinese, Dresden and Delft por- are in danger of getting rather jostled in popularity by the new Brittany ware imported since the holiday It is a reproduction of an old manufi re. Until a very recent date the peculiar color- ing of this porcelain was supposed to be a lost art; but it has just been revived in the full glory of the faint, greenish yellows, the deep reds, the clear blves, the smooth, though glossy blacks of old. Originally made to fill royal-orders only, the prettiest pieces nev the e quaint, crumpled jugs of all sizes, from a chubby small one, suit- able for valuable cream, to a capacious big one that reminds us of cool, foaming heer, all decorated as in the past, with the crest of a royal house. Curtnins in Style. The popular taste in curtains has changed for the better. The grimy ecru period has passed away and windows are draped with laces and muslins {!mmaculately white. The windows of a fashicnable quarter give one a fresh, dainty impression, as though trous- seau laces or infants’ istening robes were on view. The drawing room win- FOR NERVOUS PROSTRATION, Hysteria, Bra: . Fag, Hypochondria, Nervous Dyspepsia, Mela: cholia, Locomotor Ataxia, Insomnia, Epilepsy ar General systemic Weakness, TAKE CEREBBINE. FOR Functional and Organic Affections of thu Spinal Cord, TAKE MEDULLINE. 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Just beyond, but still across the windows only, is another set, gathered full, crossing at the top and caught back at the sides, just above the upper half of the win- dcw, in a charmingly coquettish manner. Finally, across the entire width of the framework hangs from the poles to the floor, in full, unbroken folds, beautiful white lace again. The blank-looking win- dows which prevailed when heavy curtains were used alone have given place to an ef- fect of grace and beauty very promising for the taste and cheerfulness of the rooms within. A bride was heard to remark the other day that in furnishing her hcuse she in- tended first to secure for every room cur- tains lovely in pattern and ample in full- ness. Then the whole house would have an air of comfort, even if her resources were too much crippled at the outset to supply at once all the cther elements of coziness. Mrs. Hodgson Burnett's clever assertion that women, to enhance their beauty, should buy lace by the mile rather than by the yard, can be transferred to curtains—they should be purchased by the bale rather then by the pair. I suppose Besant and James are respon- sible, in a great measure, for the note- book craze, because in stating that copious notes are the foundation of good novels they failed to n.enticn that making notes does not necessarily bring success In mak- ing novels. But, whatever the cause, note- books are prominent wherever we go. To see mannish women conspicuously sport- ing 2 pad and fountain pen on all occa- sions is not attractive, though it may be professionally essertial; but when this propensity attacks little children it seems pitiable. On Saturday efternoons, at the menagerie and aviary in Central Park, may be seen any number of small girls looking at animals and birds with the main ob- ject, apparently of “writing them up” in their note-bock: All natural childish pleasure of watching the antics of the monkeys or the scoldings of the parrots seems to be duried beneath the urgency of acquiring facts and “notes.” Is this shadow a forecast of the twentieth century child? —— An Expert Beginning. From the Buffalo Express. The inebriated youth staggered wildly from one side ot the walk to the other. Every ten steps he fell down heavily. His clothes were soiled, he had been in a fight and his face was cut, and his appearance generally was about as near a wreck as could be imagined. “I never was drunk before in my life,” he moaned, apologetically, to the old sport who had taken pity on him and offered to upport his tottering steps. ‘You're making an elegant beginning, sir; an elegant beginning,” returnea the other, admiringly. “I never saw an ex- rm nced man get drunker.” . ana SSR a The Unexpected Sometimes Happens. From Fliegende Blatter. Mother-In-law—"Da, Dart