Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1895, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. OME NEW COLORS @ Shades of the New Spring Dress Material. THE LATEST IDEAS IN WASH FABRICS The Shoulder Cape That Will Come With the Leaves. AND AGAIN JACKETS 2 ‘Written Exclusively fo~ The Evening Star. OU MUST BE SO glad that Lent ts here, so that you will have a chance to rest,” remarked an unsophisticated “stay at home’ to her friend, Mrs. Never- quiet. “Rest!” re- sponded Mrs. Never- quiet, with uplifted eyebrows. ‘‘Rest! Why, I don’t know the meaning uf the word. Lent only makes a convenient gap in the social rou- tine, so that I can get my spring gowns under way. I am dead on my feet this minute from the drudgery of shopping and trying on dresses.” Sad, but true. If Lent didn’t come “si conveniently in the middle of the season,” as one society woman puts it, they would all be ready for the rag man before sum- mer sets in after a season such as has just closed. The wear and tear of social life on clothes, as well as the physical creature, is something enermous, and there is no time to stop for repairs or renewuls till Ash Wednesday calls a halt. Not many women make much change in their attire for the Lenten season, preferring to slightly remodel cld gowns to wear at that time; but a few of the ultra churchwomen don regulation penitential robes cf somber hue and severe outlines, thinking to thus pun- ish the Mother Eve in themselves. They don't fool the world a bit, though. Those who try that sort of thing know that they would look well in veritable sack cloth. The modern Eve is quite as well informed as to what she cannot or can wear with becoming effect as she of fig-leaf fame. So just bear this in mird: Not every woman you see in dead black is in mourning. It1s only outward acquiescence to the unwrit- ten law of Lent, whf€h calls for a putting away of the vanities of dress for a season, and there are very few women to whom black is not becoming. The few who find themselves hideous in it will be gowned in gray. Now, about the new shades that will be worn when the season opens again. If you cen parley vous French, you can pro- nounce them with an untripping tongue, but, if you can't—well—you will go on call- ing for pink and grcen and blue and violet, prefacing your request with “in the new shades.” But if you want to be right up front on your information, and literally wilt the shop girls with your erudition, here are the names of the new colors to be worn during the season, direct from dear “Paree.” Lailette is a beautiful creamy tint in yellow; carnival, a brilliant red dye; bergere, faint sea shell pink; laurier, a rose pirk; pompadour, a beautiful silver blue; mugnet, a light tint of. golden green, and parma violet and perse, both lovely tints in mauve. These are among the highly fashionable dyes for French dress goods. Odd combinations of these shades will be seen, some of them pretty, but many o them outre. The well-gowned woman wil avoid startling contrasts at all times. Black and white will be a favorite combination. Black and laurier pink will be quite popu- lar, and the soft fawn fabrics for visiting and house gowns will be made up with both pink and blue. A rich combination for @ woman who knows how to carry her shoulders is a cloth gown of pearl gray, with a tiny thread of pale blue zigzagging over it, and girdle, shoulder cape and fac- ing of carnival red velvet. Just the right shades must be selected or the effect would be bizarre. Style and economy would scarcely be called synonymous terms, but they are go- ing to run together in the fashioning of For Traveling and Sirect. spring gowns anyhow. It is really quite remarkable, the number of old gowns that are being remodeled as to skirts to be worn with new bodices. It is quite an easy natter to make over the handsome brocade and cloth skirts, putting in fresh linings d stiffenings, and rearranging the trim- mings, and that leaves a lot of money for two or three fresh bodices. One couldn't write of fashions and not talk a great deal more about the multiplicity of bodices than about anything else. A French modiste says of them: “There are so many advantages and possibilities about these waists that it will be a long time before they will be abandoned by even those who seek for novelty in dress, for in both style and fabric they are consiantly presenting new attractions.” Round waists are worn with everything, but as they are not becoming to all figures, the linea and stiffened pointed bodice is worn by some, and the jacket bodice by others. With the Jacket bodipe, a fancy vest is almost ne- . ard, of course, that leaves only et part of the bodice displayed, and it is generally puffed and ruffled a great deal. An attractive style for a blouse bodice to be made of the light-weight spring cloth fabrics, has a slightly full back and @ very full front, gathered close at the throat under the points of the neat col- lar, while the gathers are spread out and turned back at the belt. The only trim- ming is stitching and silver buttons. This style would adapt itself very well indeed to any of the pretty wash fabrics. Speaking of wash fabrics, have you seen the new India linens and the jaconets? Piled up on the counters they look like drifted rainbows or the misty sunset clouds. Oh, they are just too pretty for anything. They coma in all the new and delicate shades. Some of them are iace- striped, joined by a wide satin like stripe, with lines of flowers brocaded down them. Others are solid colors, with a corded stripe of white. Right alongside of the cottons you will find wash silks. The newest ones imitate gingham and dimity. They have more body than the plainer ones, ap- parently. but there is danger that the cord- ed cotton thread will make the silk draw when washed. Honeycomb silk and gauf- fre silk are among the wash silks, but they have no business there. They will look lke laundered mosquito bar, after being subjected to water. They make very pretty evening waists, however. | The neckwear for the spring doesn’t show very much change from that worn all winter. There is a new neck scarf, which is to be made long enough to tie in a soft bow under the chin, or simply to ake a bow of to finish out the Van- dyke collars; Sans Gene, Alsatian and In- croyable scarfs they are called. They are made of the sheerest of linen, India crepe, crepon, silk or net. Some of them are finished with fine lace, and a few of them are worn quite long; not as long, however, as was worn last spring. Modifications of the Queen Anne bertha are worn by those who have the figure of a Venus—the mod- ern edition. The collarette is of crush silk, with two bows, and a ripple of the silk ex- tends down the front on each side, overlaid with a fall of lace. To wear with the col- larette is an adjustable cuff of lace and gilk, fastened with a bow. It is quite the thing now to wear the sleeves drooping from the shoulders about the elbow, tight on the lower part of the arm, and with the trimming so long lack- ing now falling in double ruffles over the knuckles. Somebody. who has ugly hands has started the fashion. One of the new- est sleeves is pictured. It has an odd fancy in buttons and wrist ruffles. A girl with deft fingers and an eye to effect could easily fashion one of the new spring shoulder capes. It has points just back and in front of the shoulders, «nd one directly in the middie of the back ind in front. Either silk or soft cloth may be used for the foundation, and this may extend into the points, and have lace or Jetted trimming appliqued on It, or it may stop short around the shoulders, and be trimmed with Vandyke lace. Simplicity will characterize the new spring traveling gowns. Anything hand- 2 somer than the model for a bride's going- away gown could scarcely be finagined. It is of hunter's green cloth, with bands of cloth set on with cords of green silk. The two pock- ets are outlined with lapels of the white, and the vest is of gathered white lib- erty sik. It will be seen that she carries a ‘dainty little hand- bag. landbags are once mere en regle. They are usually fashioned out of the same material as the dress with which they are carried, and are usually trimmed with fringe or lace. Jackets will be worn as much this year as last, and here is an odd conceit in a Kind of red coat style that is sure to be popular. The material is dark green, with facings of light yellow. The blouse to be worn under it should be of white silk or mull, and have a puffed front and Incroy- able tie to go with that age in which lace was worn over the hands. ——__. Trish Point Lace. From the New York Herald. ae A woman who-does not love lace is the sort of freak that has never yet been found, and her admiration of it cannot be called a fad, for it 1s too persistent and varies only in its degree of enthusiasm over the finer and heavier weaves in proportion to its suitability for the purpose which she has in mind. There is it now a revival of the Irish point lace that bids fair to become a veri- table craze before summer. Everybody is trying to learn how to make it, since the hand-made product sells fabulously high in the shops and its purchase fs limited to the rich. Narrow, looped-edged braid comes by the piece for the purpose, ranging from 25 cents to a dollar and a half per dozen yards, and with an outlined pattern, a spool of liren thread and a needle, intricate d beautiful work is done that rivals the weblike lace of the old world workers. As the latest luxury in lace demanded by fashion is an elaborate collar of Van Dyke points, with a smaller set for the sleeves, the clever amateur lacemaker is trying her utmest skill upon these, and with such suc- cess that one of them was recently offered a large sum of money for such a set by a leading merchant who saw it. These points are very handsome on fancy silk waists and are extremely effective on small boys’ suits, a la Fauntleroy. A great deal of it is being made to trim sheer India muslin3s for the coming summer, and the fine kind makes handsome ends for soft mull ties. An exquisite center for the table is made of linen a qnarter of a yard square, and arcund this a border of the Irish point of the heavier braid, made all in one piece without any trimmings at the corners. This, with smaller squares set under the carafes and bonbon dishes, gives a lovely effect when used on a polished mahogany table, the red wood shining under the lace. A Natural Question. From the Cincinnati Tribune. An agent for one of the large jewelry stores in this city was canvassing a sec- tion ef the over-the-Rhine district. He was endeavoring to sell an ht-day clock, and had the good qualities of it at his tongue'’s ‘My dear sir," he said to a portly Ger- ™: “this is a remarkable clock. Not only is it beautifully finished, but it is a perfect Umepiece. Why, this clock runs for eight days without winding.” The German opened his eyes at this and ed with wonderment at the clock. You say it run eight day vi it vind- ?" he inquired of the agent. “Vell, dat n gut cleck; but if it run eight days vidout vinding, den how lorg vill it run ven you do vind it?" ————~+e+-___ Had All He Wanted, mm the Indianapolis Jourpal. The wayworn man had fallen street in a very good swoun. The usual crowd gathered and the usual man-who-knows-what-to-do shouted: “Stand back! And give him air.” The wayworn man got up. “Air!” said he with fine scorn. “Air! Whee I ain’t had nothin’ but air fer t'ree lays” in the ] PLAYING SVENGALI Pauline Pry Makes Some Interesting Hypnotic Experiments. HER TRILBY WOULDN'T SING But for Once She Led a Man by the Nose. SOME QUEER SUBJECTS © YOU BELIEVE IN hypnotism?” I do, and I'll tell you why. I have been playing Sven- gall myself. Last Wednesday, in the presence of an expert witness, I hypnotized two Trilbys and as many Billtrys. I took the precaution to have my perform- ance witnessed by a man of science that the truth of my report might not with im- punity be assailed. After the performance was under way the precautionary measure proved even wiser than I had figured it in the beginning. When my first subject went off into a cataleptic state in response to my hypnotic power I was simply scared stiff, and if Dr. Rosse had not been there to snap her back to consciousness there would be a rigid hypnotized female stretch- ed out in a chair somewhere awaiting chance discovery and a coroner’s inquest, while I would be fleeing from justice or sitting up nights sweating blood trying to prove an alibi. I went into hypnotism for one reason chiefly. You know there never was so Popular a conundrum as that of the day, “Do you believe in hypnotism?’ Where Was Moses when the light went out? Who killed Billy Patterson? Who stole Charley Ross?—any of those historic questions af- fecting vital concerns lose their interroga- tion points and sink into dull insignificance beside, this, “Do you believe in hypno- tism?” Not to have asked and answered it more times than you can count is not to have read Trilby, is not to be familiar with current Hterature, is not to talk current talk—in a word, is not to be up to date from any point of view. Hypnotism is our end-of-the-century fetish. Scientific men study it, the frivolous fool with it, profes- sions boast of it, criminals make use of it, the law regards it, the timid are afraid of it, the weak are overcome by it, and the skeptical, of course, they scoff at it. Just as in Galileo’s time, self-sufficient, long- eared skepticism declared the earth stood still, and it stood still for them, there are today persons who settle the question of hypnotism in the same way, so far as they are concerned. e How Do You Know? A man takes me out to dinner. In my little, childish way, I begin to talk hypno- tism, and one of these skeptics comes at me with, “Now, how do you know there is anything in hypnotism? I never saw any- body hypnotized, did you?” In vain do I modestly reply that I'm no wogniner: of a golden calf—I don’t have to have authorities like Liebault, Braid, Bernheim, &c., produce fire from heaven before my éyes to establish faith in my mind that they know what they are talk- ing about. Then the skeptic, who has possibly read @ paper on hypnotism before a Chautau- quan circle in Oshkosh, Wis., or perhaps the worthy president of the Ladies’ Hypnotism Club of Kalamazoo, Mich., tells me, with a snippy toss of her short hair, that Prof, So-and-So of the Royal Academy of Okla- homa has just published a treatise, show- ing all those foreign hypnotists to be frauds. “Very well,” I say; “there are others— Dr. Hammond and Themson Jay Hudson of our very own town.” She'll not believe them, either—she won't believe anybody until somebody hypno- tizes her. They do hypnotize animals, I know, and I suppose length of ears offers no obstacle. At all events, it was to do up creatures like this that I determined to train for a hypnotist myself. With Fear and Trembling. If you think I went into this matter blithe and brisk, you were never more mis- taken in your life. I’m enough of an angel that I at least tread cautiously and re- spectfully where fools rush in. I am profoundly convinced that hypno- tism is no joke. If it-does no more than make a mock of the power of the human will, I think that is bad and frightful enough, and thateit does in any degree sub- ject the mind and body of a person whose will is held in abeyance to the will of an- other—name what sort of drunkeness and debauchery you may, to my mind it is noth- ing compared with {he possible horrors of hypnotism. Besides, an adept of India, one who mingles freely with the invisible ar.d—so it is sald—puts off the finite and puts on the infinite, just as we undress and dress up in our Sunday clothes—one vested with such authority has told me perfectly awful things that the majority dcn’t know about hypnotism—I_ really haven’t drawn a good free breath since. He says that, talk about your microbes and deadly bacteria! They’re silly com- pared with the unseen enemies that assail us from every point in space. You might think that a person might go into hypno- tism and be on the safe side so long as he did the hypnotizing. But if you think that, you are not up on hypnotism. Thomson Jay Hudson, whose recently developed “Law of Psychic Phenomena” has estab- lished him as an authority on hypnotism in this country and abroad, in making the discoveries on which his law is based found that in all cases where the best manifestations of hypnotism are obtained the operator hypnotizes himself at the same time that he hypnotizes his subject. Dr. Braid, who was the originator of the term hypfotism, gives an instance of how a would-be hypnotizer thus involuntarily turned his powers on himself. He says: “After my lecture at the Hanover Square rooms,London, on the Ist of March, 1842,-a gentleman told Mr. Walker, who was along with me, that he was most anx- fous to see me, that I might try whether I could hypnotize him. He said both him- self and friends were anxious he should be affected, but that neither Lafontaine nor others who had tried him could suc- ceed. Mr. Walker said: ‘If that is what you want, as Mr. Braid is engaged other- wise,sit down and I will hypnotize you my- self in,a minute.” When I went into the room, I observed what was going on, the gentleman sitting staring at Mr. Walker’s finger, who was standing a little to the right of the patient, with his eyes fixed steadily on those of the latter. I passed on and attended to something else, and when I returned a little after, I found Mr. Walker standing in the same position, fast asleep, his arm and finger in a state of cataleptiform rigidity, and the patient wide awake and staring at the finger all the while.” Thus did both a seer and scientists in- form me what to expect on turning hypno- tist. Rut I would not be a r-r-%eal woman if I did not care less for both these su- preme authorities than I do for my own intuitions, which further disturbed me with a dread I have not seen written down in books. To contemplate entering upon a relation with chance people by which my will and theirs, my dl and theirs, would be some- how mixed up—really it was nauseating to me. Preparing for the Test. However, when I advertised for hypnotic subjects, and received reolies from fifteen, I determined to go ahead, come what might. I even had the courage to cut the number dewn to thirteen, to whom I wrote, making an appointment with them at the office of Dr. Rosse. Having then arranged a _ program, in which I was to play the part of Svengali, I scuttled around to learn how I was going to do my business. If during the past week, walking along the street, riding in the cai sitting in your library, you have felt queer electrical sensations wandering over your body, it has doubtless been due to the un- holy zeal with which I practiced a sort of universal hypnotism, trying to get up my part. I'd have had everybody in town in a@ cataleptic condition, if looking like a Pirate, holding my breath till I was ready to burst, and willing hypnotism, worked the spell. I was finally relieved from this awful strain by learning that the one thing necessary is a proper subject, and that a calm serenity of mind, not bristling brows and bulging eyes, is the vehicle of will power, and that for the rest of hypnotism, I might trust ‘to self-confidence and any means I might select for ingpiring my sub- fect with confidence that I fould hypnotize im. When the footfall of my first subject sounded at the door I majie a desperate break for freedom from engagement, begging the doctor tc handle the first one and let me look on. But, man-like, my ex- pert witness believed in letting a woman take all the consequences of her own im- prudence, and whether or no, my subject Was turned loose upon me. The First Subject. te It was a woman, about fifty, with a face of peculiar pinkness and whiteness, and eyes that seemed to me to have a gleam of sulphur in their blue. I fairly tumbled over myself to find out if she was one who had named a certain well-known profes- sional hypnotist as reference, and when she said that she was not, that she had had no experience, but just thought she might be a subject, I hustled her andher eye’ out in quick order. “None but experienced, hands need apply,’ I suddenly adopted as my motto, and, truth to tell, I was praying in- wardly that all of these would lose their way. ioe I was particular about finding out from the doctor whether he had ary fresh dis- secting material concealed on his premises, for I had read how at,the school of Nancy one time a person hypnotized had suddenly, with a maniacal yell, sprung at the throat of the operator, and, whipping out a knife, killed him on the spot—which anecdote a theosophist had elucidated for me, saying that it was afterward discovered that the warm corpse of an executed murderer had just been brought into a dissecting room adjoining, and that the astral body of this criminal full of guile and hate had pos- sessed the passive will of the hypnotic sub- ject, compelling him to the awful deed. I didn’t want any chance astral interruptions in my performance if 1 could help it. An Old “Hand. The next subject to appear was a young man, whom I instantly recognized as a fellow I had seén- assisting: in*the stage performance of a professional hyp- notist, whose “horse” I had supposed he was. I accordingly tried to play him for a horse myself. I said, “I am going to give a series of entertainments next week and I want some gocd people who are used to stage hypno- tism and can raise a laugh and all that sort of thing. Now, what tricks can you do best?” The dull eyes of the fellow from a sort of mangy face were looking at me blankly, while he sat twirling his thumbs, in no wise responsive to’this suggestion. “Well, I can’t say just what I can do,” he answered; ‘most anything you want me to, I guess. I have traveled with Prof. off and on for five years, and he says I'm an extra good subject.” “Can you stand it to have a needle run through your tongue?” I asked in a. brisk, business tone. “I never did that as I know of,” he answered, “though the professor one time tcok the feeling out of this hand at a pri- vate exhibition for some doctors, and they run a needle through me there’—indicating the flabby skin between his thumb and fcrefinger. “Very well,” I said, “suppose you give me a test now and let me see what I can do with you.” “No,” said he, “I wouldn't want to do that unless I had somebody here inter- ested in me to look after me. I don’t know but you might get me to sleep and not wake me up.” I secretly commended the young man for his discretion in the front of my evil eye, but this being strictly a matter of business I had, nevertheless, to dismiss him without my blessing or any slight token of my es- teem of his good sense. Easier Than Sejving. The next arriyal was a/ young woman. She also had* traveled with professional hypnotists. She said she was formerly a seamstress And had sewed ferself ‘nearly to death, when, on going.to dpersormance of Professor » she was hypnotized, and being offered the job of traveling subject took it, because it was so much easier than sewing. There was something indescribably pathetic about the woman—she was thin, her face badly broken out, but the peculiar pitifulness of her was in a sort of appeal to be possessed there was in her bearing. Fancy having to earn a living sellins one’s Personality—the transcendentalism of that vice only renders it the more hopelessly revolting. . { asked the woman if she would’ be will- ing to submit to a test.; She answered, “on, yes,” without the least hesitauon, and while we sat silent for a moment, 1, ‘ove! her head, imploring with all the earnest- ness of my speaking countenance that the doctor go on. and let me out of the test, suddenly I noticed that the woman was breathing with a pecullar sound, and her face was assuming in point of strained ex- pressiun a resembiance to the look of Tril- by singing. Putting aside fear, I spoke up, saying: ‘That's all right; go ahead; you're being hypnotized now.” I continued gazing at her, and repeated the same assertion that she was being hypnotized. Her body swayed and rolled over the side of the chair. Dr. Rosse placed her in the, chair again; her head hung back, and her whole body was inert. I picked up one of her hands. It felt like wax or something of the sort. Then the lady professor, getting scareder and scare- der to behold the power of her will made manifest in another person, tried to go on with the regular pertormance. “Lift up your head,” I ordered. Then louder, I shouted, “Lift up your head. You can lift it up all right.” Still she lay in that awful condition un- moved. “Come, now,” I said, trying to be self-confident, and being about as much so as a mouse. “Come, now; turn around to the desk there, and write. Still she did not move. I don’t think I said anything. I simply looked my horror at Dr. Rosse, who step- ped up to her then, snapped his fingers close to her face and said: ‘‘Wake up.” She jumped, and, with the piteous expres- sion of a dog dodging a blow, in an instant looked consciously in our faces. The blood came back into her face, which had been white, and when I asked her how she felt she said that hypnotism seemed to do her good—at any rate, that her health had been improved since she went into it, for it is so much better than running a machine day and night. “That nearly kills me,” said she. She spoke with a queer sort of dig- nity about her choice of an occupation, and when I asked about her baby—she had made passing mention of one—she an- swered: “It is dead; I have lost three chil- dren,” at the same time choking back tears with further assertion of the same queer dignity that made me for the moment a very heavy-hearted lady professor hyp- notist. I wish I had money enough to buy up all the hypnotic subjects on earth. I'd treat the nerves of some and preach to all the moral responsibility of a free will until I had broken up forever the malodorous com- munism of subjective minds, that results from the indiscriminate practice of men- tal and magnetic therapeutics, spiritual- ism, hypnotism, occultism, and what-not- ism, the forces of which depend for their operation on a voluntary, blind relinquish- ment of a person’s will. Relative to this very evil, while waiting the advent of my next subject, I read in a Copy of the New York Medical Journal the opinion of a man of science: “It is humilfating, but true, that in the last quarter of the nineteenth century we are threatened with a repeti- tion of the insanity of the seventeenth. The ghost of Cotton Mather stalks abroad at_nconday and gibbers from the forum.” The last assertion was intended to rid- icule attempts constantly made of late to control hypnotism by law; the writer hold- ing that it has no place in criminal juri: prudence. Naturally, I don’t want any ex- post facto law passed in the matter, but now that I have been a hypnotist, and have done with it once for all, I am prepared to turn in the testimony of my experience for the necessity of such a law, or, barring a law, then the necessity of organizing Cot ton Mather societies to work a moral re- ‘orm. Twin Subjects. My fourth subject was twins. He and his brother were the best subjects a cer- tain doctor of New York city ever had. They could do physical and mental hypno- tism, they said, and proud they were of their ability, which, I suppose, translated in another tongue, meant that they were able to respond to telepathic suggestions of the operator. I took them one at a time. Both” were strapping fellows, with no appearance of nerves, tolerably clean, perfectly healthy farm hands they looked like. I told them I meant to give a stage per- formance and asked them if they were accustomed to practicing their tricks in advance. “Oh, no,” they answered, and re- peated once more with the pride and pre- cision of parrots that they could do both physical and mental hypnotism. “That’s very good,” I said, “Sit down there and we'll have a test. You can eat glass, smoke candles—stand all those things, I suppose.” The fellow flinched and said he'd rather not. “But,” I said, “I hope you can at least needles run through your cheek."" “Yes,” he said, “the doctor done that once, but it left a sore that was a long time in healing, and I don’t believe I would care to try it again.” So we agreed upon something easy, and holding a small mirror the size of a watch just above his nose, the lady professor tried to do her part. The subject tried to do his. He gazed at the glass until his eyes were red and there was an expression on his face which told how honestly he strove to yield. Meanwhile, the lady pro- fessor was scared of her own breath, and afraid to: look anywhere lest she get hyp- notized herself. The fellow finally said that somehow it didn’t work. I can’t say I expected it would, for my will and my “objective mind” and my “subjective mind” and all the rest of my interior being were working against it. Moreover, the fellow was not accustomed to being hypnotized by the Braid methcd. The doctor, he said, tcok hold of his hand and rubbed the nerves of his eyes. In that way, he said, he was capable of being hypnotized in a minute or two. - To save his life or my own, I might have touched him, but not under any other circumstances. I therefore amiably scored a failure on this subject, and a corre- sponding one on his brother. Thought She Could Be Developed. Following in the train of these came a woman who took my breath away by her refinement and elegant attire. She said she had never before offered herself as a subject, but that she understood hypnotic methods, and being very sensitive to nerv- ous impressions, she believed she could be developed as a subject. She looked just like an aunt of mine, who from the time I was a youngster has been able to practi- cally hypnotize me by the decisive snap of her thin, tight lips. It was, therefore, with a weak spirit that I bade this lady remove her gold pince nez and fix her attention on the mirror I held at the point of her nose. The longer I stood looking at her delicate face 2nd good clothes, the more I marveled at what on earth had prompted her to go into such a thing as this. When she gave it up I couldn’t help asking her, “Why, if you have never been a subject, did you think of ccming to me?” “Simply because,” said she, “I am in need of mcney, end you advertised good pay.” T have heard of*clinic subjects who, hav- ing an interesting disease, abandon other pursuits and hire out their disease to a medical school, but that a woman should be driven to strive to acquire a disease of the will for the money there is in it—well, personally speaking, before I’d do it I'd take boarders or marry a second time. Lending n Man by the Nose. The next subject was a wizened, well- dressed middle-aged man,who said he had been hypnotized most of the time the past twelve years by Prof. —,who had hypno- tized pretty much the whole family. He went off into a rambling talk about not lik- ing to be hypnotized save in the best society, and it was not until I assured him that I am from Prince George’s county myself, and have only the first families of Vir- ginia to witness my performances, that I was able to get him quiet in a chair for a test. I used the mirror before his eyes,and my conscience was getting so tired with the rest of me by this time that I didn’t care if I did hypnotize him. Indeed, I felt a bit nicked, and with the necessary calm serenity of mind I said in my soul to this man: “Be hypnotized and be hang- ed for all of me.” In a few minutes his nose seemed to be reaching out to smell the mirror, which I withdrew gently, and he followed, just as I willed, affording me the satisfaction of leading one man by the nose if I never do another. When I had him back in the chair I told him to shut his eyes. Then I said: “You can’t open them now; see if you can?” He opened his mouth and a jack pot in the club across the way, but all his monstrous efforts availed nothing in opening his eyes. “Try him with a pin,” said the doctor. I took out my hat pin, and—well, I cculdn’t do it. Some women love to stick pins in human beings. I don’t. I might cut a throat if necessity demanded, but to do anything so little and mean as to stick a pin in a man—not I. Besides,he wouldn't feel !t, so what was the use? I put the pin back in my hat, and—now, watch the professor, gentlemen; watch the professor —I snapped my fingers in his face, com- manded him to awake; he jumped at me as if I were a cat in the dark—and was awake, The Dude and His Poctry. The man to follow next was almost dudish in appearance, he was so well dressed. He was first hypnotized ten years ago, he said, and had traveled at intervals ever since with a professional hypnotist. He was rather wild-eyed and weird in the face, and I didn’t altogether enjoy toying with his inner consciousness. Nothing but the recollection that Dr. Rosse is accus- temed to dealing with crazy people gave me any degree of serenity as I proceeded to hypnotize him by pointing my finger clcse to his nose and staring him in the eyes. You know the story of the wolf who would huff and would puff and do dreadful things thereby. Presently this man began to huff and to puff, and, nervous as it made me, I couldn’t stop looking into the funny, fascinating black holes that in the begin- ning were his two untamed eyes. Finally, with a mighty effort, I rolled my eyes to the ceiling—in prayer, I will tell you con- fidentially—and in another minute he was asleep. At first he heeded not my order to turn around to the desk and write. Then the second or third time I spoke he did as he was bidden. A “What shall I write?” he asked,when he had a pencil ready on the paper. “Oh, write some spring poetry,” I said, whereupon he wrote the following: “When winter gives away to gentle spring And verdure clothes the earth with green, °Tis then that nature smiles on everything And flowers and fruit are to be seen.” He wrote so laboriously that I said, “I think you could write better if that sliver were out of your finger.”’ “Yes,"’ he said, “that bothers me a great deal.” Then handing the doctor my um- brella, I told the fellow the doctor would cut the sliver out, and he reluctantly sub- mitted his finger to be cut with the um- brella, saying afterward that it only bled a drop. For stage purposes, as I have seen hyp- notism done on the stage, this subject seemed to me a star, and, for that matter, his acting would, I think, do him credit on any stage. When I had awakened and dis- missed him there entered another woman. She had been recently hypnotized by a professional, appeared in public with him for several weeks and has lately been go- ing out to private exhibitions of hypnotism, which are a popular form of social gather- ing, I would judge, from the number of private engagements the different subjects referred to. I tried this girl, using the mirror hefore her eyes, and, like the first, she presently went into a cataleptic condition. Thinking possibly thus to produce a rival to the source of Du Maurier’s great glory, I or- dered the girl to stand up and sing. “Sing Triiby—sing Ben Bolt,” I said. But Trilby was dumb. The doctor sug- gested that perhaps ‘A Bicycle Built for “wo,” or “And the Cat Came Back,” was mcre-in her line. I then ordered her to sing these selections, one after the other. She still did not carol forth, and, finally, I snapped her back to consciousness. When I complained that she would not do any- thing, she said that the professor always had to hypnotize her two or three times before she got lively. Then, she said, she was real lively, and could do whatever he wanted her to do. Fearing she had not filled my bill, she wanted me to try again, but I had had all I wanted. It is no idle jest to be a hypnotist. My head was aching ready to split, my face was on fire and I felt as if I had been eating proto- plasms of strange personalities that would give me indigestion and nightmare the rest of my life. Twenty-four hours after- ward, my head is still aching, and I am still feeling bilious. However, if I die for it, no matter. I have fortified myself to squelch the next person who says he or she doesn’t believe in hypnotism. Further- mcre, if you happen to know an “angel” lcoking for a lady hypnotist to go on the rcad with her own select company of train- ed subjects, please kindly mention the name of PAULINE PRY. —_—>_. What Led to the Assault. From the Chicago Tribune. Pottson—“Say, is it a fact that you've bought a brewery?” Kittles—“Who told you? No, I've only got a hoption on it.” SERVED IN TWO WARS. The Grip Almost Won Where the Bullet Failed. Sympathies Always Enlisted in the Infirmities of the Veteran. (From the Herald, Woodstock, Va.) There is an old soldier in Woodstock, Va., who served in the war with Mexico ard in the war of the rebellion, Mr. Levi Meclnturff. He passed through both these wars without a serious wound. The hardships, however, told serlously on him, for when the grip attacked him four years ago it nearly Killed bim. Who can look on the infirmi- ties of a veteran without a feeling of the deepest sympathy? His townspeople saw him confined to lis hous» so prostrated with great nervousness that he could not hold a knife and fork at the table, scarcely able to walk, too, and as he at- tempted It, he often stumbled and fell. They saw him treated by the best talent to be had—but still he suffered on for four years, and gave up finally in despair. One day, however, he was struck by the account of a cuze which bad been effected by the tse of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. He imme- diately ordered a box and commenced taking them. He says he was greatly relleved within three days’ time. The blood found its way to bis fingers, and his hands, which had been palsied, as- sumed a natural color, and he was soon enabled to use his knife and fork at the table. He has re- covered his strength to such an extent that he is able to cl ood, shock corn and do his regular work about bis home. He now says he can not only walk to Woodstock, but can walk across the mountains. He is able to lift up a fifty-two pound weight with one hand. and says he docs not know what Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have done for others, but knows that they have @ great work for him, He was in town last Monday, court day, and was loud in his praises of the medicine that had given him so great relief. He purchased another ox and took it home with him. Mr. Mcinturff is willing to make affidavit to these facts. ‘The proprietors of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills state that they are not a patent medicine but a pre- scription used for many years by an eminent prac- titloner who produccd the most, wonderful results with then, curing all forms of weakness arisin; from a watery condition of the, blood or shatterc nerves, two fruitful causes of almost every which flesh is heir. The pills are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to females, such as sup- pressions, all forms gf weakness, chronle consti- pation, bearing down ‘pains, ete., and in the case of men will give specdy relief ‘and effect a per- manent cure in all cases arising from mental werry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature, ‘They ‘are entirely harmless, and can be given to weak and sickly children with the greatest good and without the slightest danger. Pink Vills ‘are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on re- celpt of price (G0 certs a box, or six boxes for $2.50 Fever sold in bulk or by the 100), Williams’ Medicine Companys Our they are by addressing Dr. Schenectady, N.Y. GROWTH OF GERMAN CITIES. Outstripped Those of This Country in Recent Years. From the N. ¥. Times. Germany, according to a recent French statistician, now holds the record for the rapid increase of cities, and we shall be obliged to hide our diminished heads unless we can do better in the next decade. In 1899 the German capital was smaller than Philadelphia; since that time it has seen its population increase by more than a million inhabitants, while that of Philadel- phia has increased by scarcely half a mil- lion. In 1870 the respective populations of Berlin and New York were $00,000 and 950,- 000; in 1890, according to the national cen- suses, Berlin steps to the front with 1,578,- 794, New York taking second place with 1,515,391. To be sure, the results of the po- lice census show New York still ahead, but perhaps comparisons would scarcely be fair, for poor Berlin has had no police cen- sus. However this may be, a glance at cities of secondary importance is still more strik- ing. We see the population of Hamburg growing from 263,540 in 1875 to 569,260 in 1890, while Boston, which numbered 342,000 inhabitants in 1875, had only 448,000 in 1890. So Leipsic, the third city of Germany in population, has grown from 127,000 in 1875 to 355,000 in 1890, distancing San Francisco, whose population was much greater in 1875. During the same period Munich and Breslau have passed Cincin- nati. It will be observed that the cities chosen for comparison are all in the east, with the exc2ption of San Francisco. A differ- ent selecticn would have shown a different result. Still, as a comparison of individual cities, the figures are interesting. The ani- mus of the comparison is revealed by the closing remark of the Frenchman that the larger the cities of a country, the weaker she is, her strength lying rather with the rural population. If this proposition is to be established, however, Germany and the United States are poor examples to point to in confirmation of it. —__—_<+e+—____ Written for The Evening Star. The Theater Goer’s Lament. Not of princes nor of heroes is the burden of my song, But to ‘leviate the suffering of a large and mighty throng Who are yictims of a custom mean and selfish; so "tis pat ‘That we propagate your warfare on that high “the ayter bat.” ‘There was symmetry of motion, there was beauty, too, galore; Handsome lads and comely damsels gaily tripped across the floor; But to me there was no vision but of feathers, for Isat Underneath the spreading shadow of @ high “‘theay- ter hat."” Sat I there and pined in sorrow; stretched my neck in vain to see; Moving this way, turning that way, rising up in agony; But no matter how I wriggled, where I leaned or how I sat, Shutting off my observation was that high “‘theayter hat.” Soon there came a burst of cheering, echo of some great success, Lest to me, who longed to see it, adding grief to weariness— Ever thus; for there before me, homely, pretty, Jean and fat, Were those tantalizing women, wearing each a lofty hat. Would that some one could arouse them of the Golden Rule to think, And their pride and vain parading for the common welfare sink; Then would vanish from our bosoms angry execra- tions at ‘That pernicious modern evil known as “‘the theayter ears —A. 8. @. ———— The Last Straw. From the Chicago Tribune. “Are you the man that answers the ques- tions?” inquired the visitor. “Yes, sil said the tired-looking man at the desk. “What can I do for you?” “I wish you'd tell me,” rejoined the other, “in order to settle a bet, whether there's any more miles in an Epworth League than in the common ordinary—” At this point the newspaper man made an almost imperceptible movement with his foot and the long-unused trap-door on which the caller happened to be standing opened downward. GOUl, RHEUMATISM, Rheumatic gout, or any gouty or rheumatic affec- tion whatever, has its surest remedy in the Carls- bad Sprudel Salt. Tber~’s nothing so successful in clearing out the excess of uric acid in the blood. That has been proved in hundreds of years and in thousands of cases at Carlsbad. So with any of the ailments trought on by se- dentary babite—dyspepsia, indigestion, perverted nutrition, constipation, Carlsbad cures them, and cures them permanently. But the best way ts to prevent them. A lttle Carlsbad Spradel Salt taken when you suspect any trouble will Keep your stomach and liver and bowels and kidneys in perfect order. Take only the genuine imported Carishad Salt (golidiGed and bottled at the Sprudel Spring) with signature of “EISNER & MENDELSON CO., Sole Agents, New York,” on every bottle. = RAILROADS. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. trates et aly Hust SS, ant ve dat m Union Station a Pp, och and B sts. ee h the grandest scenery in America, with andscmest and most complete solid train serv- ice west from Washington. 2:25 P. M. DAILY.—“Cincinnatl and St. Louis fal""—Solid Vestibuled, newly Equipped, Elec- trie-lighted, Steam-heated’ Train. Pullman's finest figening cars Washington to Cincinnat!, Indiana B St. Louls witheut change. Dining from Washington. Arrive Cincinnati, 8:00 a.m; indianapolis, 11:40 a.m., and Chicago, 6:30 p.m.; St; Louts, 6:56 p.m 210 PLM. ¥.—' “4 \- 12120 BAL DAILY.—The famous “F. F. V. Lim solid vestibuled train, with dining car leepers for Cincinnati, Lex! Et Without change. Pullman Sleeper Wash- Hot Springs, without change, Virginia Observation ear from Hinton. Arrives . 00 p.m.; Louis- and Pullman SI Louisville, ington to 7:30’ a.m., and ’St. U ae pote fat) 3 .M., EXC! Comfort = cago, connects in ints. fl SUNDAY.—For Old Point and ‘Norfolks Only rail line. 2:25 P.M. DAILY.—Express ie, Charlottesville, Waynesboro’, Staunton and princi pal Virginia points, datly; for Eichmond, daily, ex- cept Sunday. man locations and tickets at company’s of- fices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenue. he General’ Passenger Agent. BALTIMORB AND OHIO RaILRoaD. le in effect Jan. 6, 1895. Leave Westingtoa from grcaca eee of New reey avenue c For Chicago and Northwest, Vestibule Limited trains 11:25 a.m., 8: For Cincinnati, ‘St. 00 p.m. Louis ve Vesti- and Indianapolis, buled Limited Se Express 12:01 night. For Gleveland, express daily 11:25 Pittsburg a , 0:30 45-minutes), 5:08, 6:30, x3:00, x9: é + 12:15, 4:28 ore b1:15, ¢4:30, For Fiagerstown, 11:25 a.m., c5:30 p.m. For Boyd and way points, § For Gaithersbu: £6:00, 8:00 07:05, | b9:40, 12.50, and way points, b9:00, press trains stopping at , 5:20 p.m. INE" FOR" NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA. All trains illuminated with Pintsch light. For Philadelphia, New York, Boston and the ist, Week days, '4:20, 8:00 (1! ee Dining Car, (12:00 Dining Car), 3:00 ining Car), 83 -m., Sleeping Car, open at 10 o clock). :20 (3:00 a.m. Dining Car), (12:00 Din- :00 (5:00 Dining Car), (11:30 Bleep- noon. Sundays, 4:: ¢ Except Sunday. x Express trains. Bagguge called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Company on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avente 2.W.. New York avenue and 15th street, and at depot. CHAS. 0. Gen. Pasa. Agt. R. Be CAMPBELL, Gen. er. et PENNSYLVANIA RA*LROAD. Station corner of Gth and B sts. ‘ing and Observation Cincinnati, Indian Bt. Cleveland’ and Toledo. Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 AM. FAST LiNi—Pullman Buffet Parlor o urg. Parlor a Cars, Har- risburg to Pittsburg. — 8:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS— Pullman’ Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Louis, Cin- cinuat!, Louisville and Chicago. 7:10 ‘PM. ERN EXPiRKESS—Pullman Slee ‘and Harrisburg to Cleveland. fly, Aillammeport daily, 3:40 Exley Canands Washington to Rimira. For Philadelphia, New York and the East. 4:00 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” aE es = as from Balt! Ne zi 1 tor eiphia week gs gh all for 7:20, 8:00 >, and’ 11:00 and 3:15 p.m. dail imore. 6:25, 7:05, 7:20, 7:50, 8:00, 9: 10:30, oa, and 11:50 a. aM Sor 215, 3:40 (4:00 Limited), , 7:10, 10:00, 10:40 and 11:35 Creek Line, 7:20 a.m. and 4:36 p. Sunday. sige For Annapolis, 7:20, 9:00 and 11:50 am. and 4:20 p.m. dally, except Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 im. a.m, and 4:20 Atlantic Coast Line. “Florida S; * for Jack- sonville and St. Augustine, 10:48 }.m. week days. Express for Iichmond, Jacksonville, ont ‘Tampa, :30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. dally. Richmon Auanta, 8:40 p.m. daily. Richmond only, 10:57 a.m. week 8. Accommodation for Quantico, Angee ee For “Alexandria, ‘For Pope dally, except at 4:30, 10:10 p.m. Leave Alexandria for 7308, , 9:10, 10: : 10: and 11:08 On ‘i a 102 a.m., 2:15, 5:30, 7:00, 7:20, 9:10 and 10:52 p.m. ‘Ticket offices, northeast corner of 13th street and Pennsylvania avenue, and at the station, 6th and B streets, where orders can be left for the check- ing of baggage to destination from hotels and residences. ‘8. M. PREVOST, J.R. Woop, General Passenger Agent. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. (icdmont Air Line, fas arrive jeave at Tania P ‘Station. 8_A.M.—Daily—Local for. Danville. at Manasnas, fot Strasburg, daily, ‘except and at Lynchburg with the Norfout ‘and, y= 11:01 A.M.—Delly—The UNITED STATES FAST MAIL carries Pullman Buffot Sleepers New York and Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Char- lotte with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta; also Pull- man Sleeper New York to Montgomery, with con- nection for New Orleans: connects at Atlanta with Pullman Sleeper for Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, —Daily for Caarlottesville and through train for Strasburg, daily except Sunday. 10:05 P-M.—Dsily NEW YORK AND FLORIDA LIMITED, Pullman Sleepers New York and Washington to Augusta and St. Angustine and ble Drawing Room Compartment Car New York to St. Augustine, Dining Car Satis. bury to St. Augustine, first-class day coaches ‘Washington to St. Aucustine without change. 10:48 P.M.—Daliy— WASHINGTON AND SOUTH. ‘VESTIB! Li WESTERN, of Pullman Vestibuled Sleepers and ‘General Manager. x2 Connects ‘Sunday, Western, ‘composed Dining Cars, York to Asheville and Hot Sprinss. N.C. via Selisbary, New York to, Mem- phis via Birmingham and New York to New Orleans via Atlanta and Montgomery. Dining Car from Greenshoro’ to Monteom TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHTO Dt- VISION leave Washineton 9:10 A.M. daily, 4: P.M. dally, excent Sunday, and 6:33 P. only, for Round Hill, and 6:33 P.M. dally for Hern- lon. Returning, arrive at Washington 8:34 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. ‘daily from Round Hill. and 7:06 A.M. Gafly, except Sunday, from Herndon only. ‘Through trains from the South arrive at Washing- ton 6:43 AM. 7:42 A-M.. 2:25 PM_ and 8:20 P.M, dally. Manaseas Division, 10:28 A.M. dalle, except Sunday. and 10: |. daily from Gharlotiesville. Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and information furnished at offices, 511 and 1300 Pennsyivania ave- Pennsyl noe, and at vanla Railroad Passenger Sta- en. W. H. GREWN, General Manger (Eastern Sratem). W._A TURK. Passenger Azent. nt9 LS. BROWN. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. DENTISTRY. —WiN you experience in having @ Not sont ented or fitea ‘by Sar lutely painless method. There's no dis- A grecatle aftermath, etther. “Dr. Gra- ham's attention given every case. Pang Painless extraction, 50 cents. Dr. Graham, 307 7th St. mh8-14d FRER DENTAL INFIRMAR) TOT 1 st. nw. Open daly from 10 fo 12 am. and 2 to 5 p.m. No charge except for materials used. Extracting free. n2T-tf There Is A Point On the cown grade of quality and ce where cheapness ceases to be economy. Me claims of ry superiorit rest on superlative service and not price—hut the association system enables us te adopt fees which private practitioners cannot af- ferd for the best grade of work. Rend our ad. on local page. Extracting, 35¢.; with Zono or gas, Gde.: lean a ‘alli ‘Te. up; crowns, $7.50; best teeth, $8.00." ia - U. S. Dental Association, 4a30-tf COR. 7TH AND D STS. N.W. STEAM CARPET CLEANING AMMONIATED STEAM We ‘cleaned best manner, Mattresses made to order. Office, 1720 Pa. ara Works, 1708 and 1710 E nw. Tek ‘804, mb2-tf M. NEWM!