Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1895, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. 15 COST OF WEDDINGS Some Figures of Interest to June Brides and Grooms. DOLLARS AND MERRY MARRIAGE CHIMES These Affairs May Cost Little or Much as You Please. REGARD TO PRESENTS —— as HAT DOES IT COST to get married? The above is a practical and a burn- ing question in many houselwlds just at present. Apropos of the epidemic of wed- dings that are al- ways certain to oc- cur somewhere with- in the leafy month of June the financial side of the most mo- mentous epoch in the Nife of the ordinary man and woman is not without an important bearing. As those who dance must pay the fiddler, so those who stand in the position of parent or guardian to brides and bridegrooms- elect must be ready to foot their bills, if the principals do not do it themselves. A wedding, take it any way you will, is likely to be about the most expensive ceremonial with which the average life is attended, unless it be a funeral. Indeed, a good many people whose everyday career is Most commonplace and accompanied by the least possible flourish throw expense and care to the winds when the question of matrimony looms up and indulge in the only great extravagance of their life- time. There are a great many ways of getting married. It need not necessarily cost any ™ore trouble or expense than the trip to the city hall for a license and the visit to the offi ing cle man. A license only ecsts a dollar, which is cheap, considering it may r mt a life contract, while it will cost twice as much for your dog to wear a District tag for each year of his ex- istence. The clergyman’s fee depends en- tirely on the value you put upon his ser- vices. He has no schedule of prices. Five dollars is said to be the average fee. A great many clergymen would, however, dis- sent from this as being several dollars too high. But this feature of the ceremony is really almost as confidential as the original inquiry whicn led up to the marriage. Peo- ple do not ordinarily describe the circum- of their proposing or accepting. do they tell. the amount of their ng fee. But be that great or small, there penses in ard which out themse Custont has burden each of the hi cipals or their parents shall bear. are certain other well defined ex- red which are apparent to all, ybody and everybody can find they take the trouble. srdaited which parts of the sh contracting prin- jonable wedding takes place in ch . Outside of the reverend gentlemen included in the ceremonial,there is the organist to be paid, sometimes the choristers also, and always the sexton to he average fi remember. The chancel is ally decorat- ed with plants and palms, which is another expense, though not a heavy one, consider- ing the effect attained by the presence of the living green. Evening weddings have grown a bit unpopular lately; so the re- ception foll = the average wedding is a breakfast. The guests invited to this event are supposed to include only the most in- timate friends and the kinsfolks of the con- tracting ‘The bri ments for the wedding at the church, pay for the decoration of the church just as they do for. their house and the invita- tions go out in thetr name and are paid for by them. This is sometimes nota small item, hun- dre are sent to out-of-town friends. The wedding rec tio another im- portant part of their venditures, The bridesmaids’ gowns are also presented to them by the bride. end occasionally elegant souve- nirs in the ¥ of jewelry. With all these details attended to, the duty of the bride or her . representatives in a financial way is about ended. The groom presents his ushers with such ex- tras as and boutonnieres, and scarf pins if he would be extremely fashionable, pays the bill for the carriages to transport all the bridal party to the church and home again, sends bouquets to the bride, her attendants and his future mother-in-lew, and ordinarily pays the clergyman. To put it all down in plain fig- ures, such a wedding as described, carried on without any special elaboration in these details, cannot cost much less than a thou- sand dollars, which is a very modest and conservative estimate. Added to this, or included in it, Is the fee to the minister, whethe: that be in the nature of a check from the bride’s parents or her future hus- band. An itemized account would read some- thing like th Bride's gown Two bridesmaids’ gowns. Souvenirs for attendants. Decorating church and house. Breakfast (150 guests). Wine....... Church expenses. Awnings tationery. Unforeseen extra: Motalicccsses27 7 The most expensive item in the groom's part of the wedding Jay disbursemenis is the cost of the bride’s and the bridesmaids’ bouquets. If the bride wants orange blos- soms at a s nm when they sea this little token of sentiment will not cost less than fifteen or tw dot . The average bridal bouquet will t about that in the winter, anyway. Wolls and rolls of narrow taffeia ribbon are tled on the bouguets in shower style. Orchids get expensive also at times, particu- the when the demand for them for wedding flowers is so great and there are but few to be had. On the day Miss Leiter was married the orchid grow- ers had paratively very few to offer, and the wealthy brides in New York and Boston would have nothing else. Leiter ted them, too, and there were hundreds of them used in the decoration of her home. It is neadless to y they cost enough to provide a decent living for a modestly inclined person for a year, This estimate given does not include wed- dings conducted on the scale of the Letter~ the Murphy-Grant nuptials. events stand ont distinct. in fais the history of the hat HY past month's elab- orate events. The floral decoration was not only profuse in each instance, but it was most artistic. It required the services of a dozen men for two days preceding the event preparing for a spectacle wnich scarcely lasted more than two hours all told. A couple of hundred dollars more can be safely added to the cost of these brides’ gowns, coming as they did with the glory of the name of a foreign designer. And so wi ry other item in the list. At the Murphy-Grant wedding thirty guests sat down to a regular breakfast of Nine courses, which is the most elegant ible to entertain the guests at a & feast. Several hundred white sat- in boxes of wedding cake were sent to friends all over the country. At the Leiter Wedding, the cake was in white satin box- es, diamond shape, with the two initials in- closed in a golden scroll on the cover. om of giving wedding presents revived, to the extreme delight of , but it does not necessarily fol- low that it is incumbent on everybody to wend expensive ones. It is the great op- [soars for rich families to bestow mag- nt gifts at the weddings of their rela- tives. Outside of these substantial evi- dences of family affection, the great part of the gifts ure made up of pretty but sim- ple and inexpensive trifles. Weddings oc- cur so frequently in the households of friends that to keep making such costly gifts would cause a tremendous hole in one’s annual income. It is generally understood that the ex- penses attendant upon a June wedding can be made very much less than the <arift named above, or so many people would nev- er be able to accomplish matrimony. Floral decoration of the house and church can be anged at only a trifling cost, if those who set about doing it do not mind taking the time to gather the daisies of the field, dog-woed blossoms and garden flowers gen- erally, and then placing them in position. Bridesmaids’ dresses can be achieved in white swiss or organdie at five dollars apiece, provided the materials are not taken to a dressmaker, where ten dollars’ worth of linings and other accessories ard the making would easily run up the cost to twenty-five. A June bride can also safely eschew white satin for white mull, find it decidedly more becoming, too, and get up a very dainty toilet under $40. So with every other item in the list. Forty or fifty dollars’ worth of engraved invitations is probably one part which it is not well to try to cut down. Everybody is gratified by the receipt of wedding cards and the churches are usu- ally big enough to seat all those who can be present. The wedding breakfast can be limited to relatives and the bridal party, and with considerable ingenuity and home preparation the cost can be reduced to 50 cents a head. The usual extras of wedding cake boxes, etc., must, of course, be omit- ted, but a really clever girl can exercise tasteful ingenuity and by buying plain white boxes, cover them with crepe paper and really do wonders with a few dollars. Fashion stands in with economic streaks in the item of a traveling dress. The lat- ter-day bride travels in a much-worn gown to escape the attention bound to be be- stowed upon a couple in brand-new clothes. There is possibly nothing under the sun so interesting to the public mind as a wedding. The sex- tons at churches, Where events of the kind, long talked of in advance, occur could make a large- sized addition to their incomes by sell- ing the seats. It has never been charged that anything of this nature has occurred, therefore it goes without saying that they should receive a nice fee for the ex- traerdinarily good service which they per- form. At the very fashionable weddings it is customary also to have public wait- ers, who are acquainted perhaps better than you are yourself with your own friends to receive the church cards and to know enough to admit such friends as may have forgotten this valuable bit of pasteboard. —_—____+e+ Chemise Again in Favor. From the Philadelphia Press. That once despised garment, the chemise, is rapidly regaining all its lost popularity. For one thing there is an air of freshness end daintiness about the sheer muslins and lawns, of which it is composed, that the finest silk gauze does not possess, and it is undeniably a prettier and more becoming garment than the thin vest, which, for a while, displaced it. Then, too, there are very few figures, except those that are de- cidedly inclined toward embonpoint, to which the graceful roundness given by the slight fullness of the chemise is not more welcome than the merciless severity of the gauze vest. Dressmakers tell us that after chemises went out of style they were obliged to pad the walsts of dresses twice as much as they did before. The new chemises are especially graceful, both in design and materials. They are cut after the French manner, in two piec but are nade to fit rather smoothly around the waist line, by lengthwise tucks, which ex- tend all the way up in the back, but in front are discontinued about four inches from the top, so as to make a full puff over the bust. This method makes a fuller skirt than the old chemise allowed for, the skimpiness of which was always one of the drawbacks to that useful garment. Very little lace is used on the finest of these gar- ments, fine embroidery being the fancy of the hour, handwork being especialiy liked. ‘The old-fashioned scallop and eyelet hole one of the prettiest of the resurrected designs, with narrow ribbon drawn through the eyelets to hold ip the fuliness over the bust. —+e+—____ Mary Smith. ‘n east, where I was reared, among my ve kith o live a pretty girl whose 1 ith, e was inany years since I last saw that el I'm sadly worn by western strife imes I think about the old familiar shter for Miss feel in those old times when I was Mary's beau. On Friday night I'd drop around to make my weekly call, And though I came to visit her I'd have to see "em all. With Mary's mother sitting here, and Mary's father ther! The conversation never flagged, so far as I’m ld her worsted, sometimes we'd he apples which we named each other's nanos. Ob, how I loathed the shrill-toned clovk that told me when to go! ‘Twas ten o'clock at half-past elght when I was ‘Mary's beau. And, Mary, should these Ines of mine seek out Sour hiding place, God grant they bring Your pretty fac God grant they’ brin; am today, With faltering step and dimming eyes and aspect grimly gray, But thoughts that picture me as fair and full of life and glee As we were In the oldea time—rs you shall always he. ‘Think of me ever, Mary, as the boy you used to ow When time wus fleet and life was sweet and I was Mary's beau. —EUGENB FIELD. he old sweet smile back to you thoughts of me, not as 1 —-+0-. Pneumatic Horse Collar. From the Philadelphia Bulletin. Horses with sore shoulders will be a rarity, it is said, when the pneumatic horse collar comes into general use. It has been invented by a Londoner, and ts being in- treduced in the leading . European cities. The patent consists of the usual leather casing, but instead cf being packed with a herd, non-ylelding substance, the pneumatic principle is applied, a rubber air chamber beirg substituted for the packing, this in turn being covered with leather, and when the collar proper is inflated a flexible and ielding surface is presented to the horse's houlders. It must be apparent to the most al observer that the collar in present use must cause and give man’s noble com- an immense amount of pain. Owing to the harsh padding it is impossible for the collar to adapt itself to the animal's shoulders, and, therefore, chafing and sundry other ills ensue. With the pneu- matic collar, as before stated, chafing is impossible, as, instead of the horse having to adapt itself to its collar, the coliar adepts itself to the horse the moment it is put on, Compliments Must Be Voluntary. From the Chicago Tribune. “Billiger,” said Mrs. McSwat, “how do you think I look in my new gown?” “All right, I presume,” replied Mr. Mc- Swat, absorbed in his newspaper. “I asked you how you thought I looked in my new gown,” said Mrs. McSwat, after vaiting a few moments. I said all right, didn’t I? ‘There was another pause. “But you haven’t looked at me at all. I think you're as mean as you can be! “Lobelia,” said Mr. McSwat, throwing Je his newspaper, “if you hadn't been in such a hurry IT would have said you looked lovely, charming,beautiful, sweet, adorable, matehless, and altogether unapproachable; but you must let it come as a voluntary testimonial. I won't be held up for com- pliments. See you later. And he picked up his paper again. ——_+e+. A Witty Lawyer. From Tid-B! A lawyer, residing in the north of Eng- land, and noted for his laconic style of ex- pression, sent the following terse and witty note to a refractory client, who would not succumb to his relterated demands for the payment of his bill: “Sir: If you pay the inclosed you will oblige me. If you do not, I shall oblige oo ————— Hall's Hair Renewer contains the natural food and color matter for the hair and medicinal herba for the scalp, curing grayuess, baldness, dandruff and scalp sores. LESSONS IN WARFARE What Naval Experts Learned From the China-Japan War. USEFULNESS OF BATTLE SHIPS Appalling Destruction of Lives in Modern Sea Fighting. FIRE-PROOF VESSELS Written for The Evening Stai Te NATIONS OF the world have been taking their first practical lessons in modern naval war- fare from the con- flict between China and Japan. Fighting on sea nowadays Is a problem wholly dif- ferent from what it was a few years ago, when there were only wooden ships, and since then up to the date of the recent struggle in the east no important war has involved the great pow- ers. Consequently, study of the subject has been all guesswork. The interest with which, the late struggle has been watched from a scientific standpoint may well be imagined. Experts detailed by Uncle Sam to serve as eye-witnesses of the strife have learned many new things, and reports re- ceived from them by the bureau of naval intelligence at Washington are full of use- ful ideas and suggestions. ‘These reports throw a great light upon many matters concerning which there has been no exact knowledge hitherto. For ex- ample, it is now known that a ship of war ought to be absolutely fire-proof, or as near to it as may be practicable. In a sea fight on modern principles fire is one of the dan- gers most to be dreaded. Shells come aboard in showers from the rapid-fire guns of the enemy, bursting and setting fire to every- thing that is inflammable. At the battle of the Yalu many vessels on both sides weré on fire in several places at once, and the Chinese flagship was in flames three times. It happened frequently that ships were obliged to withdraw from the engagement, while their crews left the guns to extin- ‘guish fires, In the building of future warships every Possible bit of woodwork will be dispensed with, metal being substituted. In addition to its liability to catch fire there is another very important objection to wood. This was illustrated at Yalu, where every frag- ment of shell that struck a bulkhead, a piece of furniture or the lining of a cabin scattered splinters in every direction, and these wounded many. Wognds from splin- ters are not dangerous ordinarily, but they are painful and disabling. In various en- gagements the Chinese and Japanes fered serious losses from injuri splinters of wooden boais struck by shot, the damage thus done being far greater than that occasioned directiy by the projectiles themselves. At the battle of Kow-Shing the damage done in this way was so great that aftor- ward the Chinese vessels left their boats at home. The Japanese kept theirs, mainly because they were so far from a friendly whether port. But. as a rule, all boat: stowed amidships or swung at ds side the rail, are destroyed in an en: ment, being set afire and riddled h shot. ‘To make the boats of metal would not sav them from being perforated. Obviously, armor-clad boats are out of the question, inasmuch as too great a displacement would be required to carry the weight in the water. Yet another trouble about boats in a modern set fight is that they may drop into the way of gun-fire if the tackle sus- taining them is partly cut. Fither Victory or Death. The meral of this is that in future sea fights the loss of life is likely to be very ip goes down nobody |, becaus are no boats, if any are carried, are not in co: tion to float. The victor in an active en- gagement can’t be expected to stop” and pick up the drowning men, but, even if she would do so, her boats are probably useless also. To pick up men out of the water from the ship herself is almost out of the question, and the best that could be done in an emergency would be to throw over a few gratings and life pre- servers, if there should happen to be time. In a word, the only way for a man to save his life in a modern naval battle is to win. If he loses, he must drown or burn, wiil or, unless he has already been shot to death. Phe possession of a convenient cork jacket may prove his salvation by some lucky ac- death cident. At the Yalu hundreds met in the water. As an officer of the States navy said jokingly yesterda: art of war has reached such a point that no gentleman can afford to fight.” The question as to what to do about boats is recognized as a new and very puzzling problem. Evidently a war vessel cannot carry them into action, and the most prac- ticable suggestion thus far offered is that they shall be tied together in a bufch on the approach of an engagement and set adrift, to be picked up afterward. Perhaps the most important lesson taught by the recent war was that the value of battle ships as distinguished from cruisers has not been overestimated by the most earnest advocates of those float- ing armored fortresses. Though the Japan- ese won the fight off the Yalu, their mod- ern 12-inch guns were unable to sink the Chinese battleships. The latter, thanks to their heavy armor, were enabled to resist the 800-pound projectiles discharged from these, and finally withdrew in fairly good order. It has been practically decided that the Texas and other battle ships of the United States navy now in process of con- struction shall be equipped with 13-inch guns instead of 12-inch guns, previously contemplated. The difference is very im- portant, as may be judged from the fact that at 2,500 yards a 13-inch gun will de- liver a blow equal in penetrating power to that of a 12-inch gun at 1,000 yards. At 2,500 yards the striking energy for crush- ing and- smashing of a projectile from a 13-inch gun is 25,000 foot tons—that is to say, it is equal to the power required for lifting 25,000 tohs one foot, or to raise one ton 25,000 feet. At 1,000 yards the smashing’ energy of a projectile from a 12-inch gun is only 21,000 foot tons. A shell from a thirteen-inch gun weighs 1,100 pounds, and the weapon is able to de- liver creshing blows as far off as the target can be seen. It must be remembered that, owing to the curvature of the earth, a ship does not have to be very far away in crder to be “hull down.” During engagements between the Japanese and Chinese telling shots were inflicted at 4,000 yards, or some- what over two miles. It is worth mention- ing that at the Yalu fight much embarrass- ment was caused to the Chinese fleet by the shooting away of the signal halliards, mak- ing signaling impracticable. Of course, the maneuvers of ships in a battle are directed by means of signal flags. Some way will have to be found of overcoming this dif- ficulty in the naval warfare of the future. Rapid-Fire Guns. A requirement now recognized for the first time as essential is that every man on bourd of a warship shall be protected by armor. The wide-open ports which appear in many of our new vessels must be closed up so as to leave the smallest possible open- ing for the entrance of projectiles. Ships approaching within a mile of each other are mutually exposed to a veritable hail storm of shot and shell from rapid-fire guns. During various engagements be- tween the Chinese and Japanese the rapid- fire guns produced most demoralizing ef- fects, creating great confusion by their ter- rible destruction of life. Lessons drawn from these experiences prove that our ships ought to be equipped with many five-inch rapid-fire guns, throwing fifty-pound shells by means of smokeless powder, the gun- ners being concealed behind casements of face-hardened armor. Less reliance is to be placed in future upon three-pound and six- pound Gatlings and other machine guns for destroying torpedo boats. In a sea fight the men dperating such weapons from the exposed deck or from the tops of the mill- tary masts must de called under cover or else sacrificed. 0 — What is termed the armor belt of a ship extends ordinarily only along that part of the water line whigh is between the two turrets on each side. It is eight feet wide, four feet below the water line apd four feet above it. It does not stretch the whole length of the vessel, because it has to be so massive that dts. weight would be too great. Its purpose js to protect the vital parts of the craft—the main body of the hull and the machimery. Nevertheless, re- cent happenings jin, eastern waters prove that this belt myst be extended so as to cover the whole ;of; the water line, even though it has to,be made thinner toward the bow and stern During engagements between the Chinese and Japanese shells from rapid-fire ; twelve-pounders ripped open the sides of vegsels at the water line, where they were unprotected, letting water into some of the,.compartments. Such a damage, owing to. the weight of the water taken in, is apt to cause a ship to heel over so that she cannot fight her guns, those on one side pointing skyward, while those on the other are inclined toward the water. At the Yalu fight the unprotected bows and Sterns cf many vessels were fairly riddled. The Effect of Noise. A plan of fighting found very eifective by the Japanese was to concentrate the attack of their fleet upon a few of their opponents at a time. One of the most ex- traordinary freaks of the late war was incidental to the attack of Wei-Hai-Wei. The mikado’s fleet got in front of the east entrance to the port and turned on all of its steam sirens and whistles, making a ter- rible hullaballoo, at the same time firing its guns as fast us possible, many of the latter being loaded oniy with’ powder. Sim- ultaneously the forts on land which had been captured by the Japs opened fire. Probably it was the biggest noise that was ever made by human beings in this world. The Chinese torpedo boats fled, running back through their own fleet. ‘The Eu- ropean officers in the Chinese service com- manding the forts on the island fired upon their own torpedo boats in disgust, sink- ing one of them. The others ran ashore, their crews flying inland. Not a single shot struck a Chinese fort or ship. ‘The whole affair was simply a highly successful scare. One hears a xreat deal of the contest between the armor and the gun. It is in reality a fight between the armor and the projectile. Just at present the armor has the best of it, and experimenters are try- ing to find something that will pierce it. the revolution in the building of ships hin the last quarter of a century has certainly been wonderful. The present chief constructor of the United States ravy, Mr. Hichborn, himself built the Marton, which was the list wooden vessel con: structed by Uncle Sam for use in war. Not Jonze ago the avy Department trans- ferred to the Department of the Interior the timber reservations which were set aside originally for the e: usive use of the uavy. On these reservations, in Ala- bama, Florida and Mississippi, grew forests of live oak, which was utilized for the frames of the vessels of the old navy. The lve oak being no longer wanted, it was thought best to hand over the land to the public domain, particularly as most of the remaining timber had beer stolen by pri- vate individuals. Millions of dollars’ worth of roughed-out live oak timbers are now lying at various navy yards, Most of the stuff has been on hand ever since the civil war. Thoush formerly valued at about $1.50 a cubic foot, it is now almost worthless: the government has ro use for it. and cannot sell it to ad- vantage. Great quantities of it are in the timber dock at tae Norfolk yard, flowed with water; when a piece wanted, somebody goes fishing fo Wa- ter does not hurt it, but on the contrary preserves it. grained and heavier than wate oak tree is gnarled and -m: , with a short and thick trunk. It does not yield planks, but pieces of great: toughness to be obtained trom at for the fr the old ships of the ti The t sirdled and left to die thus be- coming hard and impervious to water. An old-time warship had a deck of yellow pine, over which pls te oak were laid. The masts a E were of y i for the interior fla steel, covered with and yards are of y It is a very hard wood, close The live ees Were “The « partition as well. as the doors and - work, are of cak and mahogany. In the new battleship Texas light ed iron being put imifor buikheais, being garded as an important improvement. To avoid the dz condensation 0 upon the “cork pa ed, pulverized cork the modern ss resulting from the from the air covered freshly pa upon it. he huil pri nothi > nor less thaa ¢ fort. The T a gigantic metal the shape a boat, weighing 6,300 Perfor such a vessei is transformed Into a coffin, carrying hundreds of human lives and $5,000,000 of value to the bottom of the sea. RENE BACHE. p her with a few —— CROSS-WISE RIDING. A Riding Master Believes It Danger- ous for Women. From the Buffalo Express. Since the appearance on one of our ave- nues, a few Gays ago, of a woman riding a horse astride, there has been the usual discussion attending any innovation in Buf- falo. Investigation at the local riding schools proves that there are a number of society girls taking up this new fad, which of course it is at the present time. Whether or not it has come to stay remains to be seen. ; People who know very little about riding are under the impression that the cross- wise ridmg for women is not so dangerous. Harold St. John, a iocal riding master, is authority for the statement that riding astride is much more dangerous than the way women have been accustomed to ride in the past, and explains it in the following way “A woman has more of a grip in the side saddle than in a man’s saddle,” he said yesterday morning. “A man wouldn’t have for the reason that from the nips down a man has more weight than a woman. A woman’s weight is mostly from the hips up. So the weight that would keep a man from being thrown in an emergency wouldn't be of the slightest use for a %o- man. Then, too, from the hips to the knees a man’s leg is longer, consequently he can clinch the side of the horse and keep from being thrown in this way, while a woman couldn't, as the horse slants where her knee would come. Of course, a good rider doesn’t ride a horse by his grip, but by balance; but when an emergency comes and the horse is frighténed and jumps, some sort of a grip is necessary, and the woman will find the best grip on her side saddle. “A woman will have to be a much more skillful rider to ride astride than the other way. The reason it has been so suc fully tried in New York and other cities is because only women accustomed all their lives to equestrian exercise are taking it up. You let a beginner try it, and see the failure. “For myselt,.I haye no objection to it, only I know that it is nonsense for so many people to say that riding astride is a safer way of riding, One; reason people kave come to believe the old way not safe is be- cause if a woman is ever hurt riding, the fact is published all oyer the country, while among the same number of men more are injured, only nothing 4s said about It. Any- way, even though you hear of women be- ing hurt, you never hear of men being in- jured. c “Then, again, you hear about the twisted position. Well,,I have no doubt but that the cross-wise position is more comfortable, but we have never heard of a woman be- ing deformed through, riding as has always been the custom. “As to the grace? Well, that 1s entirely a matter of training the eye. If it were customary for women to ride in the new way, it would Icok just as graceful to us. A woman sits astride much straighter than @ man. —————— A Little Profit. From Harper's Bazar. “Well, Jimmie, how much did you put in the Sunday school box today?” “Ten cents,” said Jimmie. “It was good business, too. Teacher gave me a card for being the most generous boy in the class, and I swapped it off for a postage stamp worth 15 cents with Billie Wilkins.” —_—__+0+—__. Something New. From the Atlanta Constitution. “What we want of you,” sald ‘the editor to the poet, “is something new.” “But what do you call new?” “Something worked over and smashed till you can’t recognize it!” | liver. POISON PLANTS. Discoverics About Some Which Have Been Unsuspected Hitherto. The fatal adventure that befell some boys the other day who chewed certain parts of plants which they thought were dande- lions was an incident of a kind most unfor- tunately common. Only two years ago five school children at Tarrytown, N.Y., lost their lives through incautiously eating some roots which they took for sweet flag. In the latter case it was ascertained by Mr. Coville, botanist of the Department of Agriculture, that the root in question be- longed to the cemmon elder, which previ- ously had not been suspected of being dangerous. The Department of Agriculture, a writer for The Star is informed, has begun an investigation of the poisonous plants of the United States, which is to have special reference to the chemical and other char- acteristics of such of them as are least known. The division of botany, under Mr. Coville, will try incidentally to separate the active principles of the poisors of these plants and to find out to what uses they may be applied in medicine. It is hoped that in this manner some new and valuable remedies may be discovered. The poisons will be tried on guinea pigs and other ani- mals for experimental purposes. One very important group of poisonous plants, concsrning the toxic properties of which very little has been known until re- cently, includes certain laurels and rhodo- dendrons. In 1790 many cases of poisoning occurred in Philadeiphia, which were traced to certain honey and to the eating of the flesh of ruffed grouse. It was proved that the grouse had fed on the buds of the broad-leaved laurel, and it was more than suspected that the honey was derived by bees from the blossoms of the same tree. Several deaths occurred at this time from the cause mentioned, so that the sale of ruffed grouse was prohibited in the mar- kets of the Quaker city. Recently the broad-leaved laurel has been analyzed by a Dutch scientist named Plugge and by an American named Lasche, who have obtained from it the same poison as that which characterizes the rhododendron of the Black sea. From this rhododendron comes the honey which is called by the Persians ‘‘delli kal,’ or “mad honey.” The honey of the region of the Black sea has been known for thousands of years as pos- sessing toxic properties. It is found chiefly in Trebizond, and is used there for medi- cine and also to increase the intoxicating effects of liquor. For the latter purpose it is sold in Constantinople. In large quauti- ties it is very dangerous. During the historic retreat of the ten tho nd, of which Xenophon wrote, the soldiers encamped in Trebizond and found wild honey in abundance. They partook of it freely, and it made them very sick. ven dogs that ate it suffered from severe ymptoms. The rhododendron was sus- ted at the time of being at the bottom of the mischief. Plugge has made a gen- eral and comprehensive investigation of this group of “ericaceous” plants, which includes the laurels and __rhododendrons, and he finds that half of them are poison- ous. Lambs and young cattle eat them in inter for lack of other green food and S he so-called “‘lambkill’’ is one of the . The trailing arbutus is of the arae family, but is not poisonous. Poison found in the broad-leaved laurel, the is narrowrleaved laurel and also in the moun- tain laurel, which is a large-leaved rhodo- dendron. Deer feed on these plants and h impunity, likewise the ruffed grouse. Thus it about that the flesh of ruffed grouse s people. Dogs fed on the in- et that have eaten the plants The t cc agent acts upon ‘atory centers, interfering with ing, and in severe cases stopping ether. No antidote is known. It is ible to try and control the symp- A smudge made of the leaves of the i el, for the purpose of keeping been known to cause poison- come: a NOSE BLEED. What Causes It in Youth and Later and What to Do. From the Youth's Companion. Bleeding from the nose is caused by the congestion of the lining membrane of the nose. This congestion may be the result of catarrh, or, more properly, of the diseased condition of the nasal membranes which is due to catarrh; or it may accompany con- gestion of some organ of the body, as the It may also result from heart dis- ease, or even from dyspepsia. ose-bleed in children is commonly sup- posed to indicate nothing more than that the child tires easily or is over-active. Yet even these terms express more than is obvious upon a casual reading of the words. 1f a child tires easily, or, in other words, the least over-exertion at play or at udy results in a more or less severe at- ‘bleed, the child must be in a akened state; while, on the other hand, if he is accustomed to allow his play or his studies so to absorb his interest as to make him forget his fatigue he is placing an in- judicious strain upon his constitution. In either case he will be benefited by a curtailment of work and an increase in the amount of time allotted for rest, until his body is more fully developed. No child's mind can be developed faster than the body except at the expense of health. osebleed occurring in middle life and old age is a more serious thing, as it indicates a graver condition of affairs. It is usually coincident with diseases of the liver, heart or kidney: Its cure is, of course, depend- ent upon the restoration of the organs to a normal condition. Ip elderly persons the disorder sometimes appears te result from weakness, which, in turn, it aggravates. It is a common saying that in fuil-blooded persons an occasional nosebleed is bene- ficial; and this may in a certain sense be true, inasmuch as the nasal membranes are thus relieved of congestion. But it is safe to say that bleeding from the nose fs never anything but a sign of weakness. The treatment of an attack of nosebleed consists in absolute rest and cool «pplica- tions to the head. The extremities should be warm. The head should not be held down over a basin, as this favors the flow of blood. One mode of stopping an ordin- ary attack is for the person to stand erect, with the head in the usual upright position and the hands extended at length directly over the head. An tn From Harper's. it +o+—_____ lependent Barber, ace is an entertaining story about a Frenchman who was too proud to do things which were against his principles. The stery is vouched for as an actual fact by the man to whom the incident happen- ed. While traveling in Europe he stopped over night at Caen, and noting that his hair was unduly long he went to have it/ cut by the local barber. He told the bar- ber to take off very little, but before the scissors had been at work many seconds he noticed a favorite lock fall on to the calico jacket in which he had been arrayed. Whereupon he. reproved the barber for not following his instructions, upon which the mian observed, in mingled tones of re- proach and dismay: Monsieur must permit me to do my work in the way which seems best to me; and what is more, I shall take off some more.” “Not at all,” said the traveler; “I tell I want very little taken off, and must insist upon your doing as I direct you.” The barber, however, was not to be put down in this way, and sai “Monsieur, it is possible that this is how things may be done in England, but here in France we are not slaves. I shall cut off as much as I please.” +. —_____ A New Mushroom Story. From the Collector. There is a French story of some travel- ers in Africa who, while on an exploring expedition, ran out of supplies. By chance they came upon a native hut, but it was empty, and the only visible edibles in it were several strings of mushrooms sus- pended from the rafters to dry. For lack of anything better or more substantial they stewed these and made a meal of them. After a while the owner of the hut, who was a powerful native chief and war- rior, returned from a hunting expedition, and, having greeted the explorers in @ friendly manner, set up a wild howl of despair. “What is the matter?” asked the explorers. “They are gone. My evil spir- its have stolen them.” wailed the chief. “What are gone?” “Those, those!” shriek- ed the chief, pointing to the cut cords on the fters. “Why, no evil spirits took them,” said the explorers. ‘We ate them.” The chief seized his stomach in both hands and rattled the bones inside his skin. “Ate what?” he gasped. “Those dried mush- rooms.” “Oh! suffering Moses!’ roared the warrior, or words to that effect, “why, you've eaten the ears of all the enemies I Killed in battle.” COURT COULDN'T MOVE HIM, Ex-Deputy Collector of Internal Rev- enue Murphy, Who Guarded His Rec- ords, Speaks in Praixe of Paine'’s Celery Compound. Ex-collector of Internal Revenue Thomas F. Murphy of Maine, who was brovght into prom- inence all over the country during President Cleve- land’s first administration by refusing to allow certain civil officials to peruse his records, heartily indorses Paine’s celery compound. Mr. Murphy is a keen observer. He is a writer of no mean ability, has been employed as cditor and editorial writer on several papers, is recog- nized throughout Maine ax a forcible and convine- ing speaker and is universally Iked. At present he represents a big Boston house on the road, where his warm geniality makes him welcome to every hotel and railway train. In the smoking compartment of a parlor car last week he was praising Paine’s celery compound to a fellow-passenger. ‘The person to whort he ud- dressed his conversation had been laid up with the grip. ‘The malady left him in a bad way, a sort of depression of spirits and a disincliuation for business. “I felt the same way,” said Mr. Murphy. “After wrestling a week with the grip st ‘eit me de- pressed and weak. One flight of stairs was enough to make me puit and wheeze like a leaky bellows. A mile walk would almost floor ine. ies the moment I got out of bed, and T felt am mean as any cne could for the whole day. Hearing so much about Paine’s celery compound, I made up my mind to try it, aml Vii tell you how It was like close appl sooth- to a scorched finger. Afte: x I soon dev s than a w which are none 1%: refreshin; sain. My best, but a ing Paine’s celery compound, assu: 1 condition and really scemed stronger than before the grip marked me for a victim. I exn walle five miles now and feel none the worse for 1. My wife and bey are taking Paine’s celery compound this spring. ARRANGING THE HAIR. Some of the Latest Ideas in the Line of Stylish Coiffures. The arrangement of the hair should cor- respond in some measure with the richness of the gown. If it is elaborate in design and heavy in material, a simple knot would be in bad taste; a well-dressed head al- ways helps out the other accessories of the toilet. A charming coiffure is com- posed of Greek puffs and curls, with the hair waved and arranged in large, loose rings on the forebead, on each side ‘of a pretty part. In the back the ends of the hair are curled and permitted to slip down on the neck. If it seems to be in keeping with the other attire, a pearl band or two may be arranged to hold the curls in leash, or a slender silver and rhinestone chain. A pretty but sim- ple coiffure has a knot low on the back of the head, and the front hair sstaeere very evenly and turned back from the face, with only a few loose tendrils to soften the outline over oe temple. Not even a comb is worn with this. Con pretty Spanish-like colffure has the hair combed to the top of the head and tied, and then rolled into soft puffs and piled right on top of the head, well to the front. The hair that is rolled up from the neck in the back is waved. The front hair is parted in the middie and curled, and combed into a loose puffy mass just above the ears. Across the front and resting against the knot any long narrow orna- ment may be fastened, and if one has nice jeweled combs they can be utilized to hold the puffs in place. . Some*of the new fancy-back combs are real works of art. Both gold and silver are employed in them, and in others French gilt takes the place of the precious metal. Filigree is the favorite method of working the metal up, and every kind of sparkling stone is employed in supple- menting the roses and birds and bugs that form the tops. The Spanish comb, in tortcise shell, is most fancifully designed, some of them being perfectly immense, both as to height and width. Side combs are used more than ever, pushing the curls lower and lower on the side of the head, till they stop at the ears now, and must soon disappear entirely or creep upward again. It is not likely that the becoming bang, which softens and beauti- fies even the plainest face, will ever be permanently retired. There is a pretty fancy now for tucking a rose in the hair, so that it can be seen from the front, or, if not a rose, some other equally lovely blossom. For even- ing coiffure a few well- arranged buds and foliage constitute the very prettiest theater bonnet im- \\ \aginable. Not for AS gear have there * been so many charm- \\* ing ways of arrang- ing the hair. Art has invaded the dress- makers’ shops, and a “woman can be trans- formed froma brocmstick into a SS Venus, now that her natural defecis and beauties are studied with a view to remedying or developing them, and the head follows suit. She no longer wears the “stylish” thing, but that which suits her face. If her forehead is too high, curly locks are allowed to fall over it to hide the defect. If the head is too high and round on the crown for sym- metry, the hair is dressed low to give bal- ance and grace to its shape. There is really no face, no expression, which may not be helped by becoming arrangement of the hair. — | Manufacture of Wild Men. From a Peking Letter. There are many curious trades in the world, but the most strange must surely be the “artificial mranufacture of wild men.” Yet a well-known doctor in China has just certified from his own personal experience that this art is regularly prac- ticed in the flowery kingdom. First a youth is kidnaped, then bit by bit he is flayed alive, and the skin of a dog or bear grafted, piece by piece, upon him. His vocal chords are next destroyed by the action of charcoal to make him dumb; and the double purpose of causing “‘etiolation” of the skin and utter degradation of the mental faculties ts effected by keeping him immured in a perfectiy dark hole for a number of years. In fact, by treating him like a brute for a sufficiently long time he is made into one. At lest he is exhibited to the entirely credulous Chinese as a wild man of the woods, and his possessors reap a rich har- vest. The priests, it seems, are adepts at the art. When a kidnaper, however, is caught by the ‘people he is torn to pieces, and when the authorities get him they torture him and promptly behead him. Such is life under the rule of the son of heaven. Not Exacting There. From Life. Biggun (pompously at western hotel)— “I am Senator Biggun—” Clerk—“That’s all right. We care noth- ing about a man’s bad character at this house, so he behaves himself here, and pays in advance.” ———_+e+___ Since Arabella fell in love with a count, we often see them together.—Life. RAILROADS. BALTIMORE AND ORIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect May 12, 1895. ; from station corse of w Jersey avenue and C st. echRe, Cpa) ani Rorthwest, Vestibuled Limited rains 11.36 a.m., mi. For Ciscipnath, St. Louis and Indianapolis, Vestl- buted Limited 3145 p.m., express 12.01 night. For Pittsburg and Cleveland, eapress daily, 11.30 a and 2.10 pans ae -Kor Lexington and Staunti 30 a.m. For Winchester and way stations, 15.30_p.m. For Luray, Natural Bridge, Roanoke, Kuoxvilte Memphis and New Orleans, 11.26 p.m leeping cars tin Fer Luray, 3.45 p.m. daily. For Laltimore, week days, x4.55, 5.00, 6.35, 37.00, “X7.10, 35,00, X85, B30, X9.30, 510.00, x11,30 a.m, xi2.10, x12.30, 12.15, x3.00, 3.25, 34-28, 4-31, 35.05, x5.10, x5.30, 5.35, x6.20, 6.30, 0), 14.15 p.m. and’ 12.01 ‘night, 0. 0, x7.10, ‘ae i xi m4 -. X12.10, x12.30, 1.00, x3.00, AB, X5.05, 25.10, 6.30, 'x8.00, 39.00, '11.15 p.m., ‘x12.0i night. For Avnapolis, 7.10 and 8.30 a.mn., 12.15 and 4.28 Pm. Sundsys, 8.30 a.m., 4.31 p.m. agar Frederick, v9.00, 49.30, "11.00 a.m., D113, p.m. For Hagerstown, 211.30 a.m. and 25.30 p.m. For Boyd and way points, *0-40 p.m. For Gaithersburg’ and w: ints, 26.00, 28.00 . 2.50," a3-00, 04.83, 43.95," #105," 9.40, For Washington Junet way points, 29.30 acm. I ety pam. ico cs, gains stopping pti ipal stations oniy, a440, A500 p.tn. HOVAL BLUE LINE Vor Sew YORK AND ‘PHILADELPHIA. All treins illuminated with Pintsch light For ‘Puiladelpia, ‘New’ York. Doster and. the East, days (4.55 Dining Car), (7.00 Dining Car), 6.00 (10.00 a.m. Dining Car), 11.30 (12. Dining Car), 3.00 (5.05 Dining Car), 8.00 p.m. a2or Lt, Slee; Car, open at 10.00 o'clock). Sunda; 35, Dintng’Cany oo Car), (0.00 am. Dining Car), 12.30 Dining Car), 3.00, (6.05 Dining Car), 8.00 "(2.01 night). Sleeping Car open for passengers, 10.00 P.M: Buffet Parlor Curs on all’ day trains. Hor Atiantic City, 4.59, 10.00 and 11.30 a.m, .m. Sundays, 4.25'a.m., 12.30 p.m. cept Sunday. *Daily. “bSanday only. xExpress. trains. Baggage called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avenue 0.W.. New York avenue and 1th street and at % BR. B. CAMPBELL, CHAS. 0. SCI er. Gen. Pass. Agt. my13 SOUTHERN RAILWAY, @iedu:ont Air Line.) Schedule am effect April 2i, 1895. All trains artive and leave at Peunsyivania ssenger Station. 8:00 A.M.—Dnily—Local for Dauville. Connects at Manassas for Strasburg, duily, except Sunday, and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western, daily. 11:15 A.M.—Daily—The UNITED STATES FAST MAIL carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York ind Washington to Jacksouville, uniting at Char- lotte with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta; also Pull- isn Sleeper New York to Montgomery, with cou- Rection for New Orleans; connects at AUauta with Pullman Sleeper for Birmingham, Ala.; Memphis, ‘Tenn., and Karsas City. ase} P-M.—Local for Strasburg, daily, except Sun- “4:45, P-M.—Daily—Local for Charlottesville. 10:43 P. Daily WASHINGLUN AND SOUTH: Westen, ULED* LIMITED, composed of it man Sleepers New York to Chattanooga, via’ Salis- bury, Asheville and Knoxville, free Observation Cars between Old Fort and Hot Springs, S. C.; Pullman Sleeper New York to Memphis via] Bir- minguam, New York to New Orleans via Atlanta aud Montgomery, and New York to Tampa via Charlotte, Columbia and Jacksouville. Day Coach Washington to Jacksonville. Parlor Car, Columbia to Augusta. Dining Car from Greensboro’ to Mout- gomer, ,1uAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DI- JSION leave Washington 9:10 A.M. daily, 4:32 - daily, except Sunday, and P.M. Sundays only, for Hound #1, and 6:33 P.M. daily dou. urning, arzive at Washington 8:34 A.M. and 3:00 P.M." daily from Round “Hill, and 7:06 A;M. daily, ‘except Suuday, from Herndon only. Through trains from the south arcive at Washing- Senate Bie e FG and, 8:80 aL dally. Manassas Division, 9:45 A.M. daily, except Sunday, and :40 A.M. ditiy’ from Charlottesville, Lickets, Sleeping Car reservation and iuformation furnished at oulices, 5i1 and 130) Pennsylvania ave- uue, and at Venusylvauia Railroad Passenger Sta- N, General Saperintendent. - A TURK, General Passenger Agent. L. 8. BROWN, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. XLVANIA LALLROAD. STATIUN CORNER OF SIXTH AND B STREETS. IN EFFECT AL'HUL 21, 1895. 10:30 AM. PESASiLV asia’ LiMiieD.—Pollman Biecping, Dining, Swoking and Ubservution cas i vuLg to Chicaye, Cincinnati, Asdianapotis, St. Louts, Cleveland and Zoiedy. "Bullet Luriot Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 AML ksi" LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor Gar te Harrisburg. “Yarior aud Dining Cars, Mar- re tsburg. 3:40 Voi. CitsCAGU AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg te 3t. Lous, Cincinnati, Louisville ‘and Cuicago. To PAL WESTERN EXVitESS.—Puliman Sleep- ing Cur to Cuicugo and Marrisvurg to Cleveland, Dining Car to Cuicago. tly VM. SOUTH WsSTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleeping aud isining Cars to St. Louis and Sivep- ing Sar Matrisburg vy Cincinnati. 10:40 1M. PACIPIG EXP KiSS.—tullman Sleeping Car ‘ittsburg. 7:60 A.M. for une, Canandaigua, Rochester and Niagara Fulls daily, except Sunday. 10:30 A.M. for Kimira and Renovo, daily, except Sunday, For Williamsport daily, P.M. 7:lu P.M. for Wilameport, Kochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls daily, except Saturday, with Sieep- ing Car Washington tw” Suspension” Bridge via uftalo, 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buf- falo and Niasara Palis daily, Siceping Car Wast- ington to Elmira, FUE PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND THE EasT 4:00 P.M. “CONGRESSIUNAL LIMITED,” ail Par- Jor Cars, with Dining Car from Baltimore tor for Philadelpila week-days. 05 (Dining Car), 71:20, 9:00, y ne 11:00 «Dining Cay) AM, 12:18 i (Ding Car, 7 g Cur), AML, 126, 8:15, 4:80, 0780, -M.” For Fhiladelphia caly, Fast Express, G2, ASL week-days,“kspress, 2/01 and 5:40 BP: dally. For Boston, without change, 7:50 AM. week-days, and 3:15 P.M. daily, ee Pao-80, 110" ood eA ES, “80, 11:00" a f 3:40 (4:00 Limited), 4:20, 4:36, 5 10:00, 10:40, 11:15 and 11:35 7:05, "7:20, ‘9:00, 9:05, 10:30, “11:00 1:15, Bol SS, 8:40, aso 205, 6:40, 7 New York daily, Regular at Atlantic Coast Line. Ex sonville ard 4: Richmond tod auinta, Accominodation 4:25 P.M. week-days For Alexandria, 4:30, 6: 11.50 AM., 12:50, 1: 02, 10:10 and P.M. offices, northeast corper of 13th street and Pennsylvania avenue, and at the station, 6th and B streets, where a can be left for the check- ing of baggage to destination from hotels and res- idences. 8. M. PREVCST, J. R. WOOD, General Manager. General Passenger Agent. aps CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO KalILwaY. Schedule in effect March 4, 1895. ‘Trains leave daily from Union Station (B. and P.), 6th and B sts. ‘Through the grandest scenery in America, with the handsomest and most complete solid train serv- ice west from Washington 2:25 P.M. DAILY.—“Cincinnati and St. Lonis 1"—Solid Vestibuled, newly Equipped, Elec- ighted, Steam-heated’ Train. Pullman's finest sleeping cars Washington to Cincinnati, Indiana, iis and St. Louis without change. Dining Car from Washington, Arrive Cinclunati, 8:00 “a.m.; 340 a.m., and Chicago, 5:30 p.m! P. DAIL! 3 —The famous “F. F. Vy. Lim- ited.” A’ solid vestibuled train, with dining car aud Pullman Sleepers for Cincinnati, Lexington and Lxuisville, Without change. Pullman Sleeper Wash- ington to Virginia Hot Springs, without chanze, week days. Observation car from Hinton. Arrives Cincinnati, 5:50 p.m.; Lexington, 6:00 p.m. 35 p.m.; Indianapolis, 11:20 p.m.; St. Louis, 6:56 ints. ! SUNDAY.—For Old Potut folk. Only rail line. 2 AILY.—Express for Gordonsville, rlottesville, Waynesboro’, Staunton and pal Virginia points, daily; for RicLiond, daily, cept Sunday. “*Philman locations and tickets at company's of- fices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania averue. H. W. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. 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