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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1895—TWENTY PAGES. FUN-LOVING PARIS Two Novelties Which Cater to the Amusement of the Public. MOUNTING SPIRAL BICYCLE TRACK A Device Which Had Its Origin in a Connecticut Town. FIN DE SIECLE DANCE + —— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, June 30, 1895. ERE IS ALWAYS something new in Paris. Sometimes it is an actual novelty, unknown to other cities. Sometimes it is a novelty to the Parisians only, long worn out in other cities. In the latter case, the thing as- sumes a new coquet- tish value when It reaches the Ville-lu- miere. Is it a new value, or a mere colored-light effect? Par- isian wit, Parisian luxury, Parisian ro- mance are delightful beyond whooping—on condition that you take them hot in Paris. ‘Two novelties, cne of each kind, one really new, one only new to Paris, now divide the ardor of the pleasure-loving population. One is the Palais-Sport for bicyclists; the other is The Russian Mountains in a Boat, for frivolous young persons. To hear about them ought to please, for both are hot from Paris. The Avenue of the Champs Elysees Is the gay highway to the Paris park, all shady, airy, rich and graceful. Out in the park Itself the bicyclists are in @ paradise, a paradise of coquetry and ease, There are sylvan cafes, restaurants by the waterside, road houses out beyond Saint-Cloud, and then long stretches of real country, the smooth country roads, as level as a board, along which in the even- ing time the Chinese lanterns of loving couples flit like fireflies. Ohe! ohe! Make Place for the incassables! Girls of the wheel have taken that new name, which is a double reminiscence—first of the Christ- mas advertising when toy sellers of the boulevard announce their “bebes incassa- bles"—unbreakable bables—solid dolls that may be handled without fear of th fra- gility. So the new girls of this new cen- tury’s end, no longer taking pride In a per- verse anaemia, rejoice in a bicycle robust- ress. And, secondly, the name has an affinity for the “Incroyables,” those strange dandy products of the century’s-end a hun- dred years ag», and marks a mingled ad- miration and disapproval now associated with the monkey costumes favored by the damsels of the wheel in Paris. The wheeling craze has so taken hold of every class that avenue and park and country have not sufficed for them. The institution of the Velodrome, a combination of bicycle track and circus, rose. Then the ly ‘ne ne great dance halls, like the Moulin Rouse, threw open their doors to bicycling of mornings. In each the pedalists, who are extremely flirting in their tendencies in Paris, found that sweet gregariousness without which the Parisian cannot be dong happy. But it was a long trip to the fes- tive dance halls of Montmartre and the suburban Velodromes; and so the idea of the Palais-Sport, along the very Avenue of the Champs Elysees, evolved itself. The bicyclists of Paris have now a giant free club and flirting hall for rainy weather, cn the roadway to the park and in the cen- ter of that Paris which is new and chic. It is five stories high—a great round space, with a glass roof, draped with a canopy of pink and white. Electric lights are everywhere; and round the track of the first floor the visitor smiles at a landscape in the fashion of a cyclorama—a smiling landscape to be pedaled round, without fear of dust, mud, mad dogs or tramps. Behind this ‘space, which Is like a large circus ring, and in its center, there are promenades, with little chairs and tables. In a baleony an orchestra is playing al- ways, and in convenient corners there are those triumphs of our national genius—the celebrated bars Americains—without which nowadays no European resort is perfect. In Paris the vogue of the American bar— for ladies as for men—is the astounding feature of the hour. But this is all frivolity to wheelmen— even to Parisian wheelmen—who have found in the Palais-Sport a curious novelty. The novelfy consists in having found a means to put a track almost a mile long inside an amphitheater no larger than the auditorium of an opera house! This is the triumph of the Palais-Sport— its mounting spiral track. The first floor is a flat circle, with a lounge, cafe or peomenoir inside a wide bicycle track; but mounting up from this and winding round the sides from floor to . up to the very roof, there ts an end- spiral gallery, with so gradual an in- that the ascent is s¢ noticed it looks as though you w inside a giant theate and round the e Kal , Who race rot es there d and round as on a level track, always mount by slow degrees until they have at last made a full kilometer and are up among the mountains, und h th tent roof. Around the spir eyclorama effect continues Musion of a long ride thr apt up, and the landsc and white 1 galieries the All the puntry pe is sufted al- to the rise. As one mounts, the scen- nd the vegetation changes; broad streams give place to mountain Springs, great bridges to small bridges, oaks and poplars change to views of far- off farm houses yield to woodmen’s huts, until the peaks are reached, where all is , and one is left alone in contemplation of the mighty works of God amid the in- finite expanse of blue. ‘Then you turn round, you brace your feet ainst the rests and let her go! Down, n; on, on! It ts no work at all to get to the earth, down past the gorges, back Into the valleys, back to the smiling July landscape of the pleasant land of France—the land of smooth and level roads and shady trees and streams and bridges, villages and hamlets, where the peasan| | From the Boston Transeript. | ofa high tree exclaim girls sing in the fields. The Parisian cy- cler who is occupied all day about his bus- iness may ride every evening until midnight through a bright summer morning country- side until he tires. The Palais-Sport is also open all the day, and the same hours prevail! as at the Sum- mer Skating Palace of real ice. No one will be shocked at the Palais- Sport, unless the costumes of the married ladies of the fashionable afternoon give one a thrill. Despite all ridicule, the zouave trousers and the Eton jacket over a man- nish, collared and cravatted linen shirt continue in bigh favor with the ladies. This mus: be from real perversity, because they know full well that Turkish trousers can never possibly dissimulate the heretofore concealed rotundity which now beams on the ‘startled population Ike a moon. But women rule the world and they will do ex- actly as they wish. ‘The Russian mountains in a boat is some- thing very different. In actual fact it is the remnants of Capt. Boynton’s great aquatic show, once (if I mistake noty of the world’s fair at Chicago, and (I am certain, for I saw it) of the ‘Antwerp exposition, where it dwindlel miserably. But such’ is the revivitying power of Paris (which discover- ed merits even in Lote Fuller's dance, al- though the lady danced not) that this old slide and splash, which had its origin some years ago in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and {s @ worn-out novelty in every European city, appears, new-christened, for the first time now in Paris, as a highly fin-de-slecle pleasure straight from out the gay French genius. Parisian paint has glorified the old toboggan trestle-work; aud the Parisian glamor has beautified the joy of being dumped into a pond. The Russian moun- tains in a boat is what they call the latest ery in Paris, Long stretches of lights along the river to the south; long stretches of lights along the avenue of the Champs Elysees to the north; a garden where the foliage of the trees is thick enough to keep the rain from coming through; a garden lit up in the night time with a thousand lanterns of pink and white placed in the branches; a little concert stage and dancing on a public floor; innumerable demoiselles in grand toilet to look upon and flirt with; iced drinks and conversation underneath the trees—that is the Jardin de Paris, The dance floor is a round pavilion in the center of the garden. Its inner circle is an elevated band stand, where an orchestra of sixty pieces has Mabille for leader, son of hin who made the ancient Jardin de Ma- bille—long disappeared. Upon the dance floor there is still seen nightly that so- called “fin de siecle” dance that had the climax of its vogue in 1889 and still at- tracts the tourist eager to identify the can- can which his father or his uncle saw in the late sixties. This dance, which is a sprightly quadrille, with some features of the chahut, which succeeded to the can- can, has its merits, which cannot be known by those who only saw the vulgar gym- nastics of Nini-patte-en-l'air and he? low troupe, and on a theater stage. All the willfulness and all the coquetry and half the grace and humor of the Jardin de Paris dance is bound up in the whirling petticoat, Di rom stupid kicking, the distressing split” and simian exploits such as the arry arms” and “the guitar.” ‘The little concert stage, around which in the open air the people sit throughout the early evening, listening to those French songs which Yvette Guilbert will soon fetch to America, has rung its curtain down. Its pretty ballet-pantomime with which its seance closed has been applauded heartily. The merry crowd divides, half centering round the dance floor and half hurrying to the Russian mountains in a boat. Whoop! 2 boat darts down the long toboggan slide. Wang! and it strikes the water. O- 0-o-h-h-h! a thousand females gasp, and strong men shudder. Everybody prays. A seeond afterward the lake is tranquil once again. “Tet vous debarguez a Gythere sans avoir recu une goutte deau. Le ‘Watteau’ n'est pas a vapeur, mais il est insub- mersible!’’ The Paris papers have sug- gested that the novelty Is not yet perfect. ‘There ought to be fish in the lake for those who cultivate the gentle-art. There ought to be a sanitary service and a quarantine and@ a grave officer to ask: “How many sick travelers had you on the voyage? Some say there ought to be shipwrecks, und others think there ought to be bath houses and Parisian bathing suits. From Bridgeport on to Paris is a long cry, but the inventor of that city may be proud of what he has accomplished. STERLING HEILIG. THE BRIDAL GARTERS. Geed Luck in Matrimeny Follows the Girl Who Makes Them. From the Philadelphia Times, At all times garters have been considered very important details of woman's dress, and always associated In some manner with matrimony. Down through half a dozen centuries comes to us the custom practiced: today of heving the garters as a finishing touch *to a bride's toilet. The particular girl friend who ts permitted to slip them into place is conceded to stand the best possible chance of wedding happily before twelve months are out. A prospect of near and blissful matri- mony is also shared by the friend who se- ctres the privilege of making a bride's garters, the proper pattern for which is now a circle of white silk elastic covered with embroidered white satin and clasped by a small gold buckle enameled in white bew knots. The garters of Mari ette were pretty pink silk bands elaborate- ly embi upper half in tiny fewels gold thread. In an American family are preserved the bridal garters of tled English ancestress. These are of vhite silk, nearly two inches broad, and decorated with round buttons made of seed pearls, from which suspend pearl cords and tassels two inches long. ad A Return Ticket, as Usual. From Tid-Rits, i At 7 o'clock In the morning two duollists, - who are to fight to the death at a place in the suburbs, meet at ghe ticket office of the ation. “Give me a return ticket, .” saya the first duellist to the < in a terrible tone and with a ferocious twist of his mustache. . do you always buy return tick- mmers his opponent. us Usaal. ‘The rain had now continued forty days and forty nights, and as Noah sat at the window of the ark smoking his evening pipe he heard an old gentleman in the top in grumbling ac- “Confound it! It's always just th my umbrella at-home: oe New Use for the Bicycle. sende Blatter. THEY DO NOT MARRY Pauline Pry Deseribes a Visit to a Shaker Community. CHRIST'S KINGDOM ON EARTH They Lead Simple Lives and Hold Everything in Common. RELIGIOUS COMMUNISTS —_>—— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. CAPE PORPOISE, Me., July 9, 1895. i [== TWO DAYS the past week with the Shakers at Al- fred, Me., and now I am soberly wonder- ing whether I have not seen as much of the millennium as will ever come on earth. At all events, I have seen this—I have seen in Shaker- ism the answer of the labor question, the woman question, the marriage question, the servant question, of ail questions pertaining to war, of all finan- cial questions involving credit, and of the whole religious question. Mind you, too, I have seen the answer to these questions not written down in speculative theory, but operating in a system of life that has stood over a hundred years of trial. Probably you know as little of Shakers as I did when I set out to visit them. I knew a kind of queer straw sunbonnet that was worn years ago, and an extra fine quality of flannel by that name, and I knew on the authority of idle gossip that the Shaker village was sufficiently unique to pay for the strain of a forty-five-mile drive co see it. Along the way the native driving me lightly passed over the facts that Shakers live in a community, neither marry nor give in marriage, dress In queer fashion, corduct their farms and houses with marvelous order and neatness; but he dwelt with all the force of a New Eng- lander's appceciation of the mfghty dollar on the fact that the Shakers are wealthy. ‘The community at Alfred own land to the extent of 2,000 acres, which is traversed from end to end by the Rochester and Portland railroad. This {s rich in timber, and contains a water power, turned to ac- count in the operation of a lumber mill, which the Shakers own in addition to their extensive farm arrangement—an arrange- ment that is peculiarly éxtensive in its provisions for community life. It includes iwelling houses for two families, many great barns for the stock, shops for the trades of ihe men and women, offices for the governing members, anda meeting house. Besides all this, the native told me the Shakers have large property in bonds and banks. Then, with as much en- thusiasm for soft things as a rock-bound man of Maine is capable of manifesting, he told me further that the Shaker girls are awfully pretty, and that by the rigidity of the faith that controls them they are doomed to live a life incompatible with the world’s ideas of the proper sphere for women. Some Unpleasant Anticipations. “They gare very strict about letting ‘world’s people,’ as they call us, In among them,” said my driver; “they say the sight of us makes their young folks discontented with the sober life they lead, and I calcu- late just aS likely as not you won't be able to see much after you get there.” Perhaps it was this discouragement and perhaps it was something in the Shaker atmosphere that made me feel weak-kneed and powerless as the hérse climbed the hill on the top of which the village or com- munity is located. The view to be had of rugged land, beautifullye green, and em- bracing a small lake known as Shaker pond—not the sight of this nor the smell of the fragrant pines was any consolation to my senses that In some subtle way appre- hended strange experiences in the unknown human life I was about to try to force an entrance. The road led down between a score or more of plain old-fashioned houses grouped on either side. In the yard of the first were the women in plain gowns with ker- chiefs about their shoulders and Shaker bennets on their heads, from the depths of which forbidding headgear I caught my first glimpse of the wonderful spirituality that marks the Shaker face—man’s or wo- man’s. With nunlike composure,’ neither raised her eyes, though they must have heard the man driving me exclaim: “There's some of the girls! Ain’t they pretty?” We stopped at a two-story frame building marked Trustees’ Office, and an old lady, who had followed us down the road, came up to await a declaration of our business. ‘The head of the community is called elder—and of this community is Elder John B. Vance. Accordingly, I asked to see Elder Vance, and we were asked into the house, which has fixed me in despair of ever now attaining my ideal of good house- keeping. Simplicity that anywhere else might have been barreness of furnishing was here made to bloom with a loveliness I cannot yet analyze, though in my heart I believe that by some occult means cane-bottomed rocking chairs, a hair cloth sofa, white walls, matting and spindle- legged tables are made to reflect the beauty of the Shaker character. é The Head of the. Community. Elder Vance, in the strength and dignity of his bearing, recalled one’s dreams of the patriarchs of the old dispensation, and by the depth of gentleness in his voice breath- ed forth the spirit of the new. Large and powerfully built, clad in a suit of old blue cloth of severe cut and finish, his high white collar and shirt front, that was but- toned on to his undergarment, free from the frivolity of any sort of necktle, his superb head thickly covered with silvery hair that flowed to his shoulders in the back, a moderately long beard completing the silvery frame of his ruddy face, that was not stern in expression, and yet some- thing more forbidding still, the old man greeted me kindly, but remained somehow with such immedsurable distance between us, I at once almost despaired of ever reaching him with the curiosity of a wo- man—a newspaper woman—that had called him Into my_ presence. However, when I said that I had journey- ed all the way from Washington to learn about the Shakers, he bade me be seated and gave himself up to satisfy my travel: stained spirit of inquiry. < ers,” said Elder Vance, defined as religious communists. There are seventeen Shaker societies, or’ com- runes, in the United States, all, like this one, holding property in common. There are three in New York state, one in Con- necticut, three in Massachusetts, two in New Hampshire, two in Maine, four In Ohio and two in Kentucky. ‘These vary in numbers from 50 to 300 individuals. The first gathering into a community was in 1787. Our community here took form in 1793. Thus, you see, the Shakers for more than 100 years have successfully accom- plished what Pythagoras, Fourler, Robert Owen and all modern socialists have failed to do in establishing and maintaining a pure communal form of government. “Our success is due to the fact that the ‘may be purpose of our organization is not political. nor social, but religious. We are not a democracy, but a theocracy. The basic principle of our institution is the belief that though Christ's kingdom is to be es- tablished in this world, it cannot possibly be of and made conformable to the selfisn and narrow aims and ends of a merely worldly life. Therefore we abolish the in- stitution of marriage, individual property and every provision for worldly pleasure and perpetuity, and consecrate ourselves— our thoughts, words, acts and all our world- ly possessions—to God for the advanc ment of our spiritual natures. We believe our institution to be the kingdom of Christ's second appearing upon earth, and in support of this kingdom Shakers live absolutely pure virgin lives, and we have our governing authority, socially, morally and spiritually considered, in the Christ spirit, manifested through elders, generally two of each sex. Conditions of Membership. “To become a .memter of the Shaker tn- stitution is possible for any soul who will make a full confession of all his sins to God in the presence of a living Christ witness, ‘who in like’manner Was confessed all sin and Is appointed elder, or eldress and con- fesscr. This embodies the first degree of membership. A further source 1s to take up a daily cross against all the passions of a worldly generative life, living a life of celibacy. Full membership requires one to come out from the world and be separate— to enter our community life. While true Christianity, as understood by Shakers, ultimates in a full consecration of treasure as well as time and talents to the support of the Household of Faith and ‘its mission- ary and charitable enterprises, this is en- tirely an act of free will. No demands are made. If you were to confess your sins and take up your abode among us, though you come empty-handed you would share equally in our property with we who have lived and labored here fifty years. We hold our property in usufruct only. No in- dividual has any right whatever in it, only as he administers it for the glory of God and the advancement of God's kingdom on earth, “Each society is divided into families, varying in numbers. These families con- sist of both sexes and all ages. Their or- ganization, formulas and by-laws are anti- Monastic, each sex, however, occupying separate apartments (including those mar- ried who have become members), all in the same dwelling. Both sexes take meals in the same hall at the same time, each sex by themselves. Still, while Shakers live absolutely virgin lives, no people in the world enjoy such a range of freedom in the social sense as we do. But it is required to be free from all that would tend to fleshly affections and actions. We are antt-Mormon, anti-Oneidian and anti-Nicho- latian in faith and practice. The character of our association with reference to the sexes is secured by the conviction that a virgin life is the order of the kingdom of Christ and is higher, better, happier than a sensual worldly existence. Then, we have protective by-laws which all are in honor bound to keep, thus: ‘One brother and one sister not allowed to work together, walk out or ride out together alone; nor hold lengthy conversations together alone. Males and females are not allowed to touch each other unnecessarily nor to hold secret cor- respondence. Males and females are not allowed to room together." “We do not condemn marriage nor or- derly generation as worldly institutions, but we claim these have no place in Christ's kingdom; therefore we relegate them to the world, where alone they belong. Simple Rules of Business, “Our business life is active and simple. To be diligent in business, serving the Lerd, and to keep clear of debt—‘owe no man anything but love and good will'—is a brief summing up of our principles. The tren are employed in agricultural, horticul- tural and mechanical pursuits. The Shakers first originated the drying of sweet corn for food more than fifty years ago; also the modern improved kilns for the purpose. Shakers were the first in this country who instituted the raising, papering and vending of garden seeds in the present styles. Shak- ers first instituted in this country the bo- tarfical medical practice, and first gather- ed, also raised, dried, prepared and papered medicinal herbs and roots for market, and they first manufactured medicinal, veze- table extracts for market. They were the creginators of the broom business, being the first to raise and manufacture broom brush into brooms. This was at Water- vliet, N. Y. The first buzz saw was manu- factured by the Shakers both at Harvard, Mass., and at New Lebanon, N. Y. The Shakers invented and were the first to use the planing and matching machine for dressing flooring and ceiling lumber; they were the first inventors and manufacturers of cut nails; of the first machine for cut- ting and bending machine card teeth and punching leather fer setting; they,also in- Vented metallic pens, and for years had a monopoly of all the business and trades of their several inventions, “Females perform all household duties of the kitchen and laundry; do most of the tailoring and all of the dressmaking for the families. Some families carry, on shirt- making; others the upholstery business; others do fancy work for sale—all are de- voted to some branches of work for sale, and aid in gathering, preparing and pre- serving frults and vegetables for market, as well as do a large portion of preparing Medicines for market. In Shaker families all members, whatever their calling, when health will permit, engage in some kind of manual labor adapted to abilities and official capacities. “In dietary practice Shakers are largely vegetarian, ‘and alcohol and tobacco are tabooed, which abstinences, with the vir- gin life we lead, tend to longevity of our people, who commenly live far beyond the allotted three score years and ten of man.” “How did the Shakers originate?” I asked. Origin of the Soctety. “They had thelr embryotic origin in the spiritualistic revival that disturbed the continent of Europe at the close of the seventeenth century. Some of these— ‘French prophets’ they were called—went to England about 1706 and proclaimed the second coming of Christ with the inaugura- tion of the kingdom of heaven upon earth. They formed a society in England which was named Shakers in derision, because of the violent physical manifestation of the spirit common with the early members, whose bodies were wont to shake as they prophesied and as their souls wrestled against the powers of sin in the world. Out of this society, in 1770, arose one Ann Lee—Mother Ann we call het—she having received, as was testified by a cloud of wit- nesses, a commission from God to institute the second coming of Christ upon earth. Persecuted in England, with a small band of followers Ann Lee came to this country in 1774, and at length established a little church in the wilderness, now Watervliet, near Albany, N. Y. Persecution continued to be her lot in this country, she being charged and repeatedly imprisoned for witchcraft, because of her prophetic and spiritual powers, and for disloyalty because of her avowed opposition to war in general. However, the testimony of her faith spread and the number of her followers increased. This community at Alfred was, as every- where else, conceived by the spirit of a re- vival, which in each instance of the spread of Shaker faith preceded the adoption of the revelation of Ann Lee. The revival had had its run, and the prophecy that the second coming of Christ was at hand was falling on fewer and fewer believing ears, when one John Cotton of Alfred was called to New Hampshire on business con- nected with his farm. On the way he chanced to encounter a Shaker missionary, from whom he heard the story of Ann Lee. He at once turned back, and, ireveling with all haste, reached this neighborhood after midnight, but, unheeding the hour, stopped at the first house and, entering the door, which in those days was never Kept locked, rapped loudly within, calling out, ‘James Barres and Sarah Barnes, come forth. I bring a message from the Lord.’ When James and Sarah Barnes had recefved the message, the three journeyed together to the next farm, and so on to the next and the next, the message of the Lord gaining new witnesses, until all the neighbors of this vicinity were informed, with the re- sult that they immediately took legal measures to turn their individual property into a common property and their selfish lives into one inspired current of consecra- tion to God. Adam’s Original Sin. “The most potent words of the testimony Ann Lee bore mankind were in the revela- tion she received of what is the original sin of man, and of the dual character, male and female, of God’s being. The original sin entered in the act by which Adam deliberately diverted his nature from the spiritual character it had receiv ed from God in the beginning, and identi- fied mankind with the animal, propagating his species according to the flesh. Thus ensued the depravity of human nature, which is only to be overcome as the self- derying spirit of Jesus Christ enables man to withdraw from the generative order of life and enter upon the order of regenera- tion." “But, Elder Vance,” I interrupted, “if everybody followed this Shaker teaching would not the end of the world speedily follow?” “Nay, there would be an end of the worldly order with its strife and confusion, its sorrow and sin, but not an end of hu- manity, which would enter life on a high- er plane, having for its perpetuation sub- tler means of the spirit. However, there certainly need be felt no immediate alarm of this point, even though Shakerism were to become the fashion. It 1s well recog- nized-by science that the time is approach- ing waen the unrestrained generation of the human species will overpopulate the earth. A recent writer informs us that our earth contains thirty-two billions of acres; that the population doubles every sixty years despite of wars and all other calamities, and that, taking the population of 1880 as a basis of calculation, in less than 300 years there will be only one acre for every human being, and in 500 years there would be about nine human beings for every acre. This would necessitate an impossible increase in the produce of the land in order to provide means of suste- nance for this natural increase of popula- tion. So that, by actual facts and figures, Shakerism, as a check upon population, bi comes ultimately a mathematical nece: sity.’ . Only for Those Who Are Called. “Then as a Shaker you would advise everybody to cease marrying?” I sald. “Nay,” replied the elder, “I would advise everybody who is called by the spirit to a higher life to leave marrying for those who are not yet raised above the natural order. The Great Architect has need of various grades of workmen, all proper in their places, in the vast work of creation. But let those whose business it is to work in the mud and make brick see to it that they work according to God’s plan. A man, who, like Noah, is perfect in his gen- eration, may be a perfect man, but he is still a man on the animal plane, and to re- ceive the things of the spirit he must labor with the spigit against the flesh. ‘This conflict is the result of human depravity, without which there would have been a painless natural ascent of man from the lower to the higher life. “Our mother, Ann Lee,” the elder con- tinued, ‘is pre-eminently the mother of a new woman, and the spiritual source of a true doctrine of woman’s rights and the equality of the sexes. The Shakers are the only people 01 earth who recognize a fe- male vehicle of divine revelation. The re- ligious personalities of all other people are exclusively masculine, but the central prin- ciple of Shakerism, the religious idea _cm- bedied in Ann Lee, is that God 1s dual, male and female—father and mother. Hin- doo teachers record knowledge of this truth in an impersonal form. They recog- nize male and female energies operating everywhere in the law and order of the universe, but Ann Lee by her life and teaching of the nature of original sin and the means of grace to overcome It, strikes at the root of the evil which through all ages has enslaved woman, and thus frees the female spirit from the bondage of the flesh which the generation of mankind has entailed upon her. Mother Ann‘s Advice. “Mother Ann,. however, was far from being a woman's rights woman after the style of the day that forsakes her home and womanly pursuits for the world_and the pursuits of men. Her counsel to wo- men wes: ‘Be faithful to keep the Gospel; be neat and industrious; keep your fam- fly's clothes clean and decent; see that your house is kept clean and your victuals prepared in good order that when the brethren come home from their hard work they may bless you and eat their food with thankfuiness without murmuring and be able to worship God in the beauty of holi- ness.’ Of little children she charged mothers: ‘Little children are innocent, and they should never be brought out of it. If raised in simplicity they would receive gcod as easy as evil. Do not blame them for every little fault. Teach them obedi- ence: let your word be law, but never speak tg them in a passion or you will put devils into them.’ é “How long have you been a Shaker?” I asked Elder Vance. “Fifty years. I came to this community with mv father when a child five years of age, and was seemingly at once convicted of the righteousness of the life. At all events, my father, two years after, left the community to return to a worldly life, but I begyed so earnestly to remain that I was permitted to do so. And now”—a wonder- ful smile overspreading the white-haired man’s face—“now, after fifty years spent in bearing a daily cross against a carnal nature, I am permitted to enjoy the peace and thanksgiving consequent upon Rnowing that I have gained quite a measure of vic- tory.” PAULINE PRY. SS A GRACEFUL CARRIAGE. The First Requisite is to Acquire a Firm, Elastic Step. From the Philadelphia Press. To put the foot down prettily Is to walk gracefully, to seem to have a pretty foot whether It is really pretty or not, to secure a stylish carriage, to make the skirts hang well and the waist seem long, to—well, to put the foot down well is to secure many cf the blessings of Iife. Don’t belleve it when you are told to put the toe down first. The foot should be so lightly poised on the ankle that when the lift from the hip is made in taking a step the foot nat- urally swings, toe down, so that the for- ward part of the foot touches the ground first. ‘That is very different in effect from stiffly pointing the toe down and trying to alk that way. “Put the feet down so that the heels would keep pretty closely on an imaginary chalk line, the toes always falling a little outside of the line. The full weight of the body sould be on the foot that is on the ground, and one ought to be able to bal- ance prettily at any moment on the single foot that is supposed to be carrying the walker’s weight. If this can be lone, it is’ preof that the body is well poised and well carried. It is, of course, nice to have a “springy” step. The girls in the book usually have ‘em, and the nice young hero always has that sort. But, no matter how springy the step is, if the foot is put down properly the head will be carried along a perfectly level line, and not go bobbing up and down like a stip in a high sea. If the heels follow a line and the toes fall outside the line a little, then the body will advance without any side-swinging of the shoulders. This turning of the body first to the right and then to the left is a general fault of the walking of American women, and if tha foot is put down properly this awkward- ness will be avoided. ‘The woman who wears‘a house gown of correct length, that gracefully hangs about the feet and touches the floor all around, should hardly lft her sole from the floor when she walks. The heel rises a little, but the toe pushes prettily forward, shov- ing the hem of the dress out of the way as the step is taken. To put the foot down Well is to walk well, to stand well, to be well, and, besides, it has a moral side, for the girl who has the strength of mind to say “No” in the right place is the girl who can “put ker foot down,” isn’t she? If a woman could only be guaranteed that foot- ing her bills would be included she would be converted to the proper way of walk- ing at once, but that cannot be done, and graceful walkers are very scarce. ——_—_+e+ Women as Whist Players. From the New York Times. Every talent, or even every acquirement, howadays seems to fird its possibility for profit. Some women who are good card players are earning their summer board, according to an exchange, teaching whist and other games of cards at the large hotels at the seaside and inland resorts. Many women have never learned whist in particular; they are not embroiderers, bi- cyclists, or readers, and gratefully hail this relief from the monotony. of summer boarding life. Their half-grown daughters, too, want to be amused, and these per- sons make up the card ‘classes. Apropos of whist, by the way, that queen of Amer!- can whist players, Miss Wheelock, whose high title was won frcm the great Caven- dish himeelf, refutes the assertion that women cannot beecme as good whist play- ers as men. Miss Wheelock has had many clesses in the game‘in many places, and it is her experience that women are more conscientious students of the game, and eventually become mare scientific players than their brothers of the other sex. A Horse Canning Factory. From the Portland Oregonian. x The building being erected just below Linnton by the Western Packing Company for a horse abattoir is rapidly approaching completion. The foundations for the en- gines and boilers are all in, and the ma- chinery is on the ground, and should be in place in a few days. The building and plant are on an extensive scale, and will probably be ready for operation about July 4, as was originally intended. The first shriek of the whistle will scund the death knell of 5,000 cayuses now roaming the plains of eastern Oregon and. eating good grass, which might better be turned into beef and mutton. Mr. Switzler, who raised these horses, as he has many thousands be- fore them, will now retire from the busi- ness, and has expressed his intention of buying a bicycle, and, if he likes it, will perhaps start a bicycle factory. He’ says that the bicycles have driven the horse to the slaughter house; but when something newer has run out the bicycle it cannot be utilized for canning, as the horse now is, —__—_-+e+—____ A Brooklyn Obituary Poem. From Truth. Littls Willie, he has left us. Set the gates of heaven ajar! He has gone to-meet the angels, Having met a trolley car. Next! @rooklyn papers please copy and charge to the trolley compantes.) WHAT SAY YETO THESE THINGS? Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. In the old times, in the years agone, when human nature was as it now is, as it had been and as it will ever be, the Venerable was discoursing to his class upon a subject to the study of which he had devoted his whole life and was yet un- satisfied. F “To illustrate what I have been saying, my children,” he said, in his kindly old voice, “let me present to you four prob- lems for your celiberation: Problem I. “The first is this: In the country to the east of us reigned at one time a king whose mind was greatly disturbed by the con- ditions which existed among his subjects. In order at last to satisfy himself upon certain questions he determined to make experiments which would aid him in reach- ing the conclusions he sought. He chose first a man and his wife. Not from among the rich, nor from among the poor, nor the sick, nor the sorrowful. They ‘were from the medium, from among those who have material comforts, who have, as far as the world sees, those things which go to make the lot of the married contented. They were what might be called, in the lan- guage of the people: ‘an average married couple.” The woman was devoted to her house and her children, the man to his business and his friends, neither to the other. The rosemary of their romance had Withered, and the rue of their‘ reality was in flower. Having had them conducted to his palace tie king received the man in a in which there were man: doors, and ‘when the man had made his obeisance the king said to him: ‘Behold, there are two doors; one of them leads you to your own ways—to freedom, the other leads you to the woman .who is your wife. Choose and enter.’ And the man, bowing low to the king, chose a door and disap- peared. Then the king called the ‘woman into the audience room ‘and said to her: There are two doors; one leads to your own ways—to freedom, the other leads you to the man who is your husband. Choose and enter.’ And the woman, bowing before the king, disappeared through the door of her choice. Now, my children,” concluded the Venerable, “which. door did each choose? Problem II. |. “The second problem,” continued the Venerable, “is this: The King having rid himself of the man and his wife selected next a young man and a young woman, both of good sceial position, but poor in worldly goods. The man was ambitious and energetic, and he loved the young woman as men love. She was gentle and good, and she loved the young man as women love, These the king caused to be conducted to his palace, and he received first into the room with many doors the young man. To him he said: ‘There are tw doors. Beyond them are two women. One rich and fair to the eyes; the other the woman you love. You may have waich you will for wife. Choose and enter.’ The yo v4 man, with a profound obeisance, wal! straightway to the door of his choice, and the King saw him ro more. Then ie call- ed in the young woman, and to her he said: “There are two doors. Beyond one is a man, rich and powerful; beyond the other is the man you love. You may have which you will for husband. Choose and enter.’ And the woman, bowing to the king, went quickly to the door of ner choice and disappeared from the royal view. Now, my children, which each choos2? Sara Problem III. “The third problem js this,” continued the Venerable: “Again the king selected a young man ahd a young woman, similar in all respects to the previous two. Bringing the man before him first, he sald to him: ‘There are threa doors; one leads to a rcom where you may await the woman who loves you and would be your wife; the other leads to a room ‘n which you may remain a bacheler: the third leads to a reom in which a rich woman waits to be- come your wife. Chocse and enter.” And the yourg man chese and entered one of the doors. Then the king called the woman before him, and sald to her: ‘There are three doors,’ and he described for her the rooms to which they ied; ‘in one of those rooms,’ he continued, ‘is the man you love. Choose the door which will lead you to rim and enter.’ For a moment the young woman looked at the king as if she might read his face, but there was no light zhere, and bowing before him, she chose a door and passing through it, found in the room beyond the young man whom she loved. Now, my children, which door did she choose? Prokiem Iv. “The fourth problem,” said the Venerable, in conclusion of the discourse, “is this: The King selected a company of thirty of the young men of the city who were yet un- married, and who represented the social element of the capital among the men, and he had them conducted to the garden of the palace, where he appeared befere them. ‘They knelt in his presence, and as he stood among them, he said: ‘In the two kiosks, wkich you may see on the right of the gar- den, are two ladies of my capital. The one is all sweetness and beauty and youth, but ske is poor. The other is not all sweetness and beauty and youth, but she is rich. She who is poor is in the white kiosk. She whe is rich is in the red kiosk. Now I order that each of you give to them your atten. | tion for a moh, carrying thither, to that kiosk you may select at your own will, one of you each day, suffigient food and drink to maintain life of th® occupant comfort- ably. This you will deliver at the door to the servant who responds to your call, and no one of you shall see what the other does.’ Then the king had each man of the thirty designated for one day of the month, and they were dismissed. At the end of the month, the king visited the kiosks. In one, he found a young woman lavishly provided for, in the other he foufid a young woman starved to death. Now, my children, which one of these young women had not starved?” Having propounded these simple soclo- logic problems, the Venerable dismissed his class and sought his own home. W. J. LAMPTON, ——_—__ oo ONE KIND OF MODELS. But Thier Business is, However, to Display Clothes. From the New York Tribune. ‘There are hundreds of young women in New York who make their living as models. One authority says that there are more than a thousand, which estimate leads to the conclusion that good looks are not searce in the island of Manhattan, for these young wemen owe success entirely to their fine physique. The models here alluded to are not those who sit to artists, and whose charms are transferred to can- vas, but these who try on suits, silk waists, jackets, cloaks and capes for the benefit of the customers in the stores and dressmak- ing establishments. ‘The more exclusive and expensive of the uptown women’s taflors all employ models to display their gowns. The best firms In the shopping districts have them, but the great m : of models find o tion in the big sale ho) and r of firms in that < a dozen the i ze downtown m $12 to $15 a week, but pleasing subject: may com- mand a. as SIS. Those in the big re- tail establishments who combine the office of a model with that of a saleswoman get ‘The available model must measure thirty- six inches about the bust and twenty-three or twenty-four around the waist, her height being in proportion, the trying on of gowns and cloaks for women built on a less Ib eral plan being intrusted to the misses’ models, that is, to unformed girls fourteen or fifteen years old, —see-____ The Work He Liked. From the Oakland Tribune. He was an unkempt-looking fellow and he stopped at the suburban residence and asked for employment. It was Memorial day, and the lady of the house was herself. superintending the transplanting of plants. 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