Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1895, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1895—-SIXTEEN PAGES, F 18 You'll Like | This! Slim purses can buy just as many presents here as fat ones—that’s because we are ACCOMMODATING. No use spending all your money and feeling poor as a “church mouse” afterward; get the presents here—pay for them a little at a time—weekly or monthly—no notes, no inter- est. Our prices are lower than the lowest CASH prices elsewhere — Choose your sent from th BANQU RESEPTIO: PARLOR NYX-TOP BOOK €. Ks XXREE EERE REREERES REE E EE! Seeeee Teves eeeeeeeee PARLOR SU CHAMBRE! BEAUTIFUL RUC peveeveeteee STUDENT ¢ IDEBOARD INA CLOSETS, CARPETS, ETO. rogan’s [XE EEEER ERY G MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, . * S19-821-823 TTH STREET N.W., ° | BETWEEN H AND I STREETS: is} je) del7-S4d {| - Christmas Thoughts . ssnoutd not make you forget or overlook the value of good laundry ‘soaps Itke Weaver, Kengla & Co.’s asorax QUAPS, & Borax ‘These are the purest laundry soaps made— make the clothes look more white and clean er soap. Insist upon grocer sending you them—accept no substi- . tute. than any ot! your For sale by all grocers. Plant, 3244 K st. n.w. ai7-32a CXERURERERERS xX E SEE ‘Does Grandpa :Or Grandma Use — bad Those glasses may have ea When bougit—bue hanged greatiy since theo. “That's why they can't read so well—why it makes thelr leads ache to read very long. A new pair Will make a pleasing gift—and a very inexpensive one. Eyeglasses or Spe: low ax $1. "s examined after giving— McAllister & Co., EXAMINING OPTICIANS, gut EF St., roots “SUN” BLDG. del7-28d the same glasses now—they've for years? SEHSIFSIOTHFOSTTOOSODOSECS ° iChristmas ? 6 > 2 F are making them in endiess 3 WV west Nothing but the Pd purest and best of fruit, but- 3 ter, four and Aplees used. Pound for pound, in the old-time way. FRUIT CAKB that'll keep @ twelvemonth, 25e, and 30c. a Ib. bd - Caterer, 37. Jarvis, Confectioner. 426 oth St. ’Phone 1000. del7-234 ELSIIIGIGS HHS SILOGIES OH PDD Prrdntntntntntetntetetet in connection with your gift- giving. Can you imagine anything more suitable—or that would be more accep- table—than a picking from our stock? Furniture— Carpets— Mattings— Draperies— Stoves— Ranges— Bric-a-Brac— Banquet Lamps— Reception Chairs— China Closets— Bookcases— Office Furniture— Pictures— Ete.—Ete.—Ete— % —and what adds to the im- * portance of coming here are the enormous sacrifices made by our Removal sale : and our proffer to await your convenience ments. Credit always will be an im- portant factor here. The Best Stock. The Lowest Prices. The Most Generous Accommodation. House & Herrmann, The By 917, . detnsid Meee DO ge re ec a (As a power, As a light for the pay- —clectricity is simply unexcelled. It Is it is inexpensive, it ts clean and lutely free from danger. Hundreds of nines are run by 4t—thousands of es and houses are Ughted by it. Are you thinking of using current—'phone us, U.S. Electric Lighting Co., (3 14th st, "Phone 77. Our Windows Are decorated with a fine line of Flush and Ce- luloid _X: 3 Toilet and Manicure tlemen's Shavi your inspectio joods, as In eve We lead low prices in hing else. Any article is made. ‘SPECIAL TO & Butcher Razor _ro- duced to 0c. will make bim an excelient. gift. KOLB PHARMACY, 488 7th st. aw., cor. ED t Think of 4 THIRTEEN AT — TABLE ——_-__— BY MRS. BURTON HARRISON. —_>—_. (Copyright, 1895, by Bacheller, Johnson & Bacheller.) L If any one had told Felicia Charlton the year before that she would be spending this summer at Newport as a dweller in one of the most famous of the new houses that are the glory of that favored resort she would have laughed in the face of the recounter of such a fairy tale—that merry, heartsome laugh of hers—for Felicia well deserved her name. But the event least expected had oc- curred. The gay, pretty, poverty-stricken southern girl, the daughter of an ancient line, who during her nineteen years of life had never known any but the hard rubs of fortune; who had grown up to woman- hood under the wing of a widowed mother scarcely eighteen years her senior, as lovely to look at as Felicia herself put for the traces left on her face and form by care and by thought how to make a sub- sistence for the two and fo provide an education for Felicia that should enable her to be self-supporting. Latterly things had gene from bad to worse with the Charltons. They had spent one year in the desolation of a poor coun- try neighborhood, with relatives, glad of the pittance their board afforded; and at the end of it Mrs. Charlton had to accept an offer from a friend of early days who was about to open a boarding school to act as her housekeeper. At the same, tim Felicia entered upon the exhild@ating career of assistant to a decayed gentl: woman in Baltimore, who made and sold the pickles and preserves so renowned in old-time Maryland cook books. And all this, while the girl's high spirits had never flagged. She had laughed and prattled and won smiles from the little mother in her hours of darkest despondency. She had even coaxed into moments of chee; fulness the broken-spirited lady who mai ufactured pickles and preserves; and, while carrying on her uncongenial work, lost no opportunity of looking for something bet- ter. In this stress, to Felicia’s credit be it inscribed, it did not occur to her to write verses or a story, and offer them for ac- ceptance to a first-class magazine. Summer had come around again, and the prospects of spending it in a piping hot flat, in the temperature of Baltimore be- tween June and October, and in the com- pany of Mrs. Ballantyne and her gas stove, was all that presented itself to Felicia’s mental gaze. But in her heart a little bird kept singing over and over the blithe tid- ings that her mother’s employer was to take her old friend on a visit of two months to the mountains of Virginia, where Miss Kennard was wont to return in her vacations to the household of parents who could give her food and drink and a shel- ter, at least. How much better was this than Felicia had dared to hope! Fresh air, frech milk, shade trees on a green lawn, the Blue Ridge mountains encompassing their daily horizon—what matter if the Kennards’ poor old plantation house were falling to rack and ruin, so that there was a roof to cover Felicia’s dear little mothe: to whom all these luxuries were promise It had not been without a fierce maternal struggle In the little widow's breast that this invitation had been accepted. I she should be taken and Felicia left co: her gentle heart strange pangs. But Felicia, who had a way with her none could withstand, had simply forced her point. She had packed her mother’s trunk, had gone with her to the station, had part ed with her, to all appearances, joyfully, and then, to save car fare, had set out to walk over the burnin; ks of the pave- ment, cn her return to Mrs. Ballentyne’s Just then a little victoria had driven close to the sidewalk near her, and pulled up. A young woman, charmingly dressed, had leaned forward and hailed her by name. Felicia, with a start of pleasant surprise, recognized an old schoolmate, a western heiress, who had recently married and taken up her abode here in her hus- band’s city. Between the two girls had passed the usual expressions of fervent greeting, and Felicia, installed under the hood of the vic- toria, was quickly on the way with Mrs. Branham to her pretty bridal home What a contrast to it was presented by the dull and paltry sittin® room of Mrs. flat, where, later, whilst ad- ting their modest tea table, Felicia tried entertain her employer with her new dget of gossip. But the dame, who had a touch of toothacahe, and was not much in sympathy with the holiday side of life,of Kallantyne’ iu to Just Then a Little Victoria Had Driven Close to the Sidewalk. which so little had fallen to her share, responded sparely, and Felicia, after wash- ing the tea things, had retired to the bac window to get a breath of air while medi tating upon the exciting events of the day. More than on anything Maud Branham had shown her, Felicia dwelt upon a hint Maud had let fall of helping her to better her fortunes. “I have a cousin, Mrs. Dwight Caldwell, who goes to Newport every summer, from New York," the bride observed, “and I think, though I am not sure, I heard her say she wisnes to engage a secretary to take there with her this year. I can easily ask, Felicia, and I'm sure, if you got it you'd be in luck. Such a splendid estab- lishment hers is—this of mine would be swallowed up in it—and they entertain everybody and go everywhere. She is one of the people one reads about in the society columns of the Sunday newspapers. Her husband !s a nice fellow, but he spends mcst of his time at the club. Sally Cald- well certainly goes at full speed in soclety, but she has always been a good-natured thing when I've seen her, and f don't doubt you'd be good friends. I shall write this very night and ask Sally, and how awfully jolly it will be if T succeed. Felicia, in her calmer mood, recalling laud at school as a kind, chattéring, but somewhat dense creature, had a moment's hesitation about trusting to the judgment of her friend. But all night long her dreams were roseate. A situation a sec- retary, with a salary that could lay by for her mother’s use next winter! As friend and patron, a brilliant, cultured woman of the world, who would inspire in her a thousand new ideas, as well as open the door for her into a wonder world of luxurious beauty; above all, cpportunity to see something beyond her accustomed horizon, to breathe a fresh, delicious at- mosphere, te see everywhere sights of re- fined loveliness. Oh! it was too good to be true. A few days later a note arrived from Maud Branham, asking Felicia to lunch- eon the next day; and when Felicia pre- sented herself as desired, no time was lost by the young matron in communicating her great news. Sally Caldwell was al- ready at Newport; Sally Caldwell had just sent away a girl she had taken there who had turned out to be absurdly stupid and inefficient, and saucy, too; and Sally Cald- well was prepared to accept Maud’s friead upon Maud’s recommendation, provided she would “come right aw: ary that seeme perience a king’s ransom in amount! The girl's head swam—a mist came before her eyes. When she recovered her self- posssession enough to speak, it was, wo- man-like, to ask Maud's advice about the clothes she possessed, and the clothes she would require. Maud, also a true daughter of Eve, was here quite in her element. Not only did she generously cffer to lend ‘Tell your folks that Gould’s Wonder Store {s like Fairylind. A million Serap Book Pictures, “Tree On . Favors® Fancy Paper, ‘Tinsel, “Snow,” Santa Claus Masks, Candles and Holders, Paper Dolls, Cornucopias, Monkeys, Ant- [ees Candy Boxes, de. del7-6t* Maud money for her journey, but, after luncheon, took her to her room, and there produced two or three frocks and jackets and bornets, of which Felicia was requested to make her choice. “For you know, dear, if I have a weak- ness, it is for always buying something in the latest fashion, and disliking it,;when bought. It is ridiculous the things I have stored away that I can never use, and that never would suit me anyhow. If you Felicin Was Requested to Make Her Choice. can’t take these as a present from an old friend and schoolmate, why, I shall never speak to you again as long as I live.” Felicia’s laugh rang out. Here was Maud’s old familiac threat of school days. Just now Maud seemed to be an irresistible fairy godmother who had only to wave her stick to be obeyed. Mrs. Charlton, in her remote Virginia refuge, had read her darling’s first letter from Newport with almost ecstatic pride and joy. It seemed to the poor lady that no one had ever been blessed with such a lovely and loving and clever and successful daughter as she was. After she had pe- rused the epistle for the second time she took it out upon what Mrs. Kennard called the “front poache.” This was a rickety veranda, over which grew a vine of custard honeysuckle; and here old Mr. Kennard sat, tilted upon his chair, under a shelf support- ing the water bucket and a gourd, conning a weekly newspaper. Near at hand, sitting also in a split-bottom chair, with her knit- ting, the old lady Istened with admiration to the occasional oracles of information transmitted to her from the columns before him through her husband’s eyes. After long ptactice in receiving her news and Hterature thus at second hand she had grown to esteem him personally responsible for the well-rounded sentences. Coming around the corner of the house, Miss Ken- nard, in a sunbonnet, was carrying in a wooden bowl a brood of motherless chicks. Upon the threshold of the door, and on both steps of the porch, dogs were dozing. “How trivial everything else will seem,” thought the little widow, advancing proudly among them with her letter, “when they hear what my child thinks of Newport.” Whilst these things were occurring in far, tranquil Virginia, Melieia was looking daily upon the passing show of Newport. What a thrilling effect upon her imagination had been created by the first view of the sump- tuo 1s part of the town, as she approacned it‘in the little trap that had been sent to meet her on her arrival. It happened to be at an hour when the gay world was on wheels; and while our Little girl was gazing with all her eyes upon the Kaleidoscope of vehicles and people she observed the groom who was driving her touch his hat to a handsome, haughty lady, whose gaze just then fell upon them from her approaching victoria. Felicia saw that she Was the ob- ject of this lady’s thorough and perfectly frigid scrutiny, and, to her surprise, be- came aware that the ‘survey was followed by an in§nitesimal nod in her direction. When the carriages had passed each other, the groom, leaning back, s: in rather too jocular a fashion for Felicia’s sense of propriety: . “That's her. That's the madame goin’ out for her drive.” Felicia, answering him with a cold look, asked no questions. (Yo be contiaued tomorrow.) nd "S$ TRAINED COONS. REUBE) A Wisconsin Farmer Who Hants Chesinuts With a Very Queer Pack. From the Chicago ‘Times-Herald. Reuben White as_six trained coons that about this time of the year are worth a good deal to him, for they help nim gather chest- nuts, and the money that he gets each year for chestnuts form the biggest part of Reu- ben's income, He lives In a narrow valley, about two miles north of Ringoey, in Wisconsin, in a little cabin that he has built out of logs, stones, rails and fragments of boards. When Reuben sets cut in the morning on a chestnut trip the coons follow him like a pack of dogs, and when a tree is reached White sets a Lasket, with low sides, on the ground, and snapping his fingers and way- ing his hands in different directions sets the coons to work. The animals spread out and range over every inch of the ground, pawing over the leaves and snifling like dogs on the scent of prey. When a coon runs across a nut he snaps it up with his lips and stows it away inside his mouth like a chipmunk. The ani- 1 has a capacity for carrying about a half pint of chestnuts in its mouth, and when the limit is reached he trots to the basket ond drops them into it. ‘The hunt is kept up until the ground has been thoroughly searched. In the meantime White is pelting the tree with clubs and gets cff all the nuts he can in that way. When clubbing fails to bring results the coons are sent up to shake the tree. At an crder to “go up,” the animals scurry up the tree and traverse every limb, going to the tips of the small branches and shaking them vigorously. The coons work with great expedition, and when they fave gone over the tree there are not nuts enough left on it to fill a quart cup, provided the burs are well opened. When the animals get back to the ground they soon clear the ground of the nuts. Reuben says when the season for chest- nuts fs good, in a day, with six coons, he can gather four bushels of chestnuts, and, when the market is ordinarily good, that means between $10 and $12. He calculates that each coon Is worth to him about $60 a year. He says the animals are very fond of chestnuts, but they never attempt to eat them when they are gather- ing the nuts. “When I git 'em home nights,”” says White, “T bffe up a pegk or so an’ the coons an’ me make a good square meal on ’em.” —- 0+) TOMMY ATKINS’ CURL. Gen. Wolseley Orders That It Be Sac- rificed. From the New York World. One of the latest of the many new regu- lations that have been imposed upon the Pritish army since Lord Wolseley was placed in command of it is that the cher- ished curl that has for the past quarter century peeped out from under “Tommy Atkins’”’ forage cap shall go. This is an order that strikes directly to the heart of the private soldier, for the curl, on the whole, has long been his most valued pos- session and his great point of distinctive- | ness. The new rule is not regarded with | favor by the nursery maids, for their ad- mirers will now possess a monotonous front of military brow when on parade. ‘The curls have been varied, often really artis- tic, and one and all smooth, shiny and well oiled. In the late seventeenth and early eigh- teenth centuries the soldier went into but- tle with a flowing wig, though it occasion- ally happened that in the heat of a charge he would throw it off and plunge at the eremy with greater ardor. Marlborough broke the power of Louis XIV in a volu- minous peruke, and wigs and powder were the invariable accompaniments of the con- tinental soldiery of that era. it was not until the peninsular war that the crop-haired, clean-shaven soldier came into style. This vogue originated in Eng- land, and the soldiers who adopted it swept Napoleon’s marshals from the pe- ninsula and crushed that world conqueror himself at Waterloo. The rule of no beard and strangling collar prevailed In the Brit- ish army until the Crimean war, when It was relaxed in order that the soldiers might better withstand the rigors of the Russian winter. Since then the English war office has allowed “Tommy Atkins” to wear his hair more comfortably long, the maximum length now being half an inch at the back and sides of his head. THE STORES 4ND CHRISTMAS. Hints for Holiday Shoppers—Inviting . Display of Goods. There was a time when the people of this city thought it necessary to go over to Bal- timore or even to New York to do their shopping, on the théory that the stores of Washington were not up in the first rank. If there was ever dny ground for such a theory, it disappeated. years ago, and a teur of the’ leading shops at this season would quickly convince any one that Wash- ington does not have to take a back seat in any way. In point'of fact, the stocks on exhibition are so Jatge that the average shopper in search of Christmas 1s very like- ly to get bewildered ‘and waste lots of time. For such people the hints which The Star publishes as to what to buy and where to buy has proved invaluable. It is continued today, and while the list is not complete, 1t is helpful and suggestive. Probably the finest display of goods for the holiday seasor: ever seen in this vicin- ity is that shown by S. Kann, Sons & Co. at their elegant establishment, at the cor- ner of Sth street and Market space. If you are a stranger and don’t know the place, just foliow the crowd of Christmas shoppers and you will “get there,” and, what is more, you will never have cause to regret it. It would take columns to enumerate the articles there offered to Christmas shoppers in search cf hargains, but if you go there you will find no ex- euse for eentinuing your shopping expedi- tion. Special bargains are offered in um- brellas, gloves, neck\ear, handkerchiefs, art goods, linens, silks, jewelry, ribbons, dress goods, perfumes, furs, wraps, leather goods, lamp and onyx tables, papeterie and bric-a-brac. Toys, dolls and books are offered in the greatest profusion and va- riety and at priccs down to the lowest possible notch. Messrs. Kann have made ample preparation for the customary at- tack of Christmas shoppers, and are fully prepared to meet it. They have lots of things for the little folks, and express the hope that their parents will bring them to see their holiday goods. The immense establishment of Wood- ward «& Lothrop furnishes every facility and the greatest temptation for Christmas shoppers. The firm is as reliable as can be found in the country. The representations made can be depended on with absolute confidence. If their prices are low, the qvality of their goods is not cheap, and their lowest priced goods are not common looking. Whether you buy a simple, plain article, or something rich and expensive, you are sure to get the worth of your money. Whether you spend ten cents or a hundred dollars you will find every one connected with the establishment courteous end accommodating. A tour through the store, eyen if you have not made up your mind to make a purchase, will furnish sug- gestions for Christmas purchases, and you will not be made to feel any sense of intru- sion. iSverything you could expect to find in an immense dry goods and furnishing establishment for ladies and gentlemen is displayed conveniently for inspection, and you can feel at home as you wander through the broad, well-lighted aisles, and from floor to floor, with a profusion of things useful, attractive, rich and beautiful about you. In the stationery department there are 4 fine assortment of Christmas cards and most any book you may desire, besides anything else im the line you may want. The assortment of silverware,leather goods and the like Is fine and extensive. The dry goods department is about perf And so it is through the men’s furnishing depart- rent, the housekeeping, the furniture, the art and the toy departments, and all other branches of the large establishment. Some al bargalns are tow being offered in men's eiderdowt house robes, blankets, handkerchi and! on articles suitable for Christmas presents in every department. There are about thirty, departments in the store, where a fine assortment of holiday goods may be had. Woodward & Lothrop’s is at the corner of 11th and F streets. King’s Palace is at/the front as usual. No one who has ever dealt there would think of going elsewhere for the goods he handles, and tho: unfortunates who have neglected their opportunities in this re- spect now have a chance to make full amends. As everybody knows, King’s Pal- ace is divided into two establishments, one at S12-Sl4 7th street and the other at 715 Market space.. Jf you are in search of Ss or millinery, £9 to one or the other of these stores, und, if, you cannot be suit- ed you are indesd a hopeless case. For the holiday trade .special bargains are offered in jackets and capes of all makes and descriptions gd, at prices that will certainly satisfy the most exacting. ‘Phe collection is the finest ever displayed in this city and includes all grades of goods, from the cheapest to the best in the mar- ket. An immense toy department is also a pleasing feature of King’s Palace. There are many persons now living who well remember the time when Christmas gifts were confined in their character al- most entirely to sweets and creature com- forts or to articles manufactured by the donors, and thus supposed to be doubly valued by those for whom they were in- tended. Anything that came from a store was regarded as smacking too much of duil, material trading to convey the proper amount of heart warmth, and so holiday gifts were limited to | slippers, quilts, gloves, stockings and such things, knit or worked ty loving hands, and worn with thankfulness by appreciative relatives and friends. The world. wagged on, however, and common sense soon decided that sentiment might as easily be conveyed In something useful and permanent as in self-mad things, and holiday gifts began to grow better in character and more pleasing alike to givers and takers. In recent years, therefore, those remembrances have been most gratefully received which were sub- stan in character, and the same feeling may be encouraged this year by a selec- tion of the same sort of presents. To per- sons in search of articles useful or orna- mental, and with both qualities combined, there {s no establishment better equipped to supply their wants than the Boston Variety Store, at Nos. 705, 707, 700 and 711 Pennsylvania avenue, or Market space, as it is more familiarly called. These vast store rooms are crowded with a bewilder- ing array of beautiful, attractive and use- ful things, suitable for holiday gifts, in- cluding every conceivable article appro- priate for the parlor, dining room, sleeping chamber, the kitchen, the toilet and the bath, while every game and every toy that can interest the old or amuse the young are to be found on the groaning counters and crowded shelves. Even to the visitor who does not intend making purchases the Boston Variety Store presents an admirable chance for an interesting visit, as it com- prises in itself nothing more nor less than a generously filled storehouse of Santa Claus himself. ‘Time was when the drug store or, as it was generally called, the apothecary shop, confined its stock in trade td the pellets and potions, the Mniments and lotions, which were supposed to be collectively specific for all the ills that flesh is heir to. The proprietor interlarded his conversation with ponderous Latin phrases, and between filling prescriptions and pulling teeth, he lled choleric patients and made plasters for the rheumatic, Nowadaysethe drug store is a wonderful estaWlishment in the variety of the articles comprised in its stock. The same drugs and chemicals, to be sure, still remain in the boxes and bot- tles, to give it distingtive character, and there are shelves full of patent and pro- rietary medicines of a thousand descrip- ticns, but along with ‘them are to be found a bewildering array of other things whose only bearing upon geod health is in the pleasure of their possession. Washington possesses a modern drug store of this de- scription in Mertz's, at the corner of lith and F streets, and jilst at this time Mr. Mertz is offering some unsurpassed attrac- tions in the way éf héliday gifts at prices which seem to be impossible, when com- pared to the usual figures at which such things are held. (he yline of articles for the toilet, in cut glasa, and the display of sterling silver manufactured into combs, brushes, manicure’ sets and toilet novelties of every deseriptibn ate well worth an in- spection, while the perfumery, than which nothing is more appropriate for a holiday gift, represents the productions of every famous maker in the world. The beauty of Bohemian glassware has often excited much interest regarding the manner of its manufacture in the minds of —— Americans. Mrs. Rosenthal, the Austrian lady in charge of Bohemian glassware, Old Vienna and Royal Dux porcelains, at 1203 F Street, is fully acquainted with all the methods used by the makers of this rare glassware. The firm from which the stock in charge of Mrs. Rosenthal was obtained has the sole contract for supplying the court of Austria, which honor {s only conferred upon the very best manufacturers. The workers in glassware in Bohemia are brought up in that trade from childhood, receiving their first Instruction in govern- ment training schools. They are well paid apd show no inclination to leave their homes. Kopf, 1235 Pennsylvania avenue, has al- Ways made a specialty of fine cigars, and now he is offering a special line of “White Seal” cigars to the public. Every lover of the weed would be delighted to have a box of these cigars, and they aro attractively boxed, so as to be especially appropriate as a holiday gift. The “White Seal” is a new cigar, made entirely of selected clear Ha- vana tobacco—equal to the imported article and much lower in price. They are made in all sizes, for short, long or medium smoke, mild, of high aroma, and have no depress- ing effects. Boxes of twenty-five of the “White Seal” sell from $3.25 to $5, while boxes of fifty go at from $3.75 to $6. One of the great advantages possessed by the shoppers of today, an advantage par- ticularly valuable to those hunting holiday goods and novelties, is that of being able to find in great establishments the innum- erable articles of which no tasi¢ or desire can fail to be satisfied. In such a house the thoughtful purchaser finds complete freedom from the perplexities which beset every gift buyer, and such an establish- ment is Perry’s, 9th and the avenue. This great store enjoys the advantage of be- ing one of the longest established in Wash- ington, most favorably known both to young and old. It is a house where the tastes and wants of the people are known and understood, because for many years it has catered to those tastes and wants, and it enjoys a place in the respect and regard of its patrons only*secured by many years of fair, honest dealings. Its influence is far reaching because of such things, touch- ing fashion, price, facilities variety and quality. Its stock is simply impossible of enumeration, containing, indeed, every ar- ticle and novelty, foreign and domestic, to be found in the greatest of dry goods houses. No purchaser, man, woman or child, can afford to neglect to visit Perry's in or ont of the holiday season. Most naturally and most appropriately every man and boy wishes to be particu- larly well dressed during the holiday sea- son of the ycar, and that establishment fs most eagerly sought which offers the highest quality at the lowest prices. For- tunately, such @ desirable house is that of Messrs. Robinson, Chery & Co, the well-known dealers in clothes, furnishings, hats and shoes, at 12th and F streets, and the search should extend no further. Every article necessary to the complete outfitting cf men and boys is contained in this old-established firm’s immense stock, and an X-nas remembrance selected from it cannot fail to fully sausfy bdth giver and recipient. The Kranich & Bach and the Everett pl- anos are both high-grade and medinm-price instruments. Henry Wiite, 935 F street northwest, has a large assortment of these instruments, which are displayed in his storeroom. Every visitor to Mr. White's place of business is glven full opportunity to see all the qualities of the pianos he sells, und it is on such investigation that he depends for success, In keeping with the season, no more sen- sible gift could be made than comfortable, well-macle furs, for in the warmth they af- ford is reflected the warmth of the affec- tion which prompts such gifts. The long established house of B. H. Stinemetz & Son, hatters and furriers, 1237 Pennsyl- vania avenue, possesses an unlimited stock of superb personally selected furs, which are sold at the lowest of prices. The stock includes, of course, all the very latest de- signs and novelties. What is more comfortable than an easy slipper? And what gift is more appre- elated than one which is not only beautiful, but comfort giving, as are the slippers of- fered holiday purchasers by Ferd Frank, at his fine stores, 1606 14th street north- west and 333 Pennsylvania avenue south- Mr. Frank's stock is endless, and he slippers of all kinds and shapes, for young and old, at exceptionally low prices. The Knabe pianos are standard. In me- chanical development and artistic architec- ture, in all kinds of woods, they are ex- ceedingly success Wm. Knabe & Co.'s warerooins, 1422 Pennsylvania ayenue northw contain a number of slightly used pianos at reduced prices. They are for sale or for rent. They look as well as new instruments, the only difference being in the price. Veritable dreams of fantasy are the "Xmas cards, calendars and other innumer- able holiday novelties to be seen in the immense stock of C. C. Pursell, 418 9th street. No more bezutiful and delicate re- membrances of the season could be sug- gested, and as they are most appropriate, no one should fail to inspect them. See them and be convinced of this. G. L. Wild Bros. & Co. have been enter- prising In catering to the wants of custom- ers living uptown. Their uptown music store is located at 5 7th street north- west, and they are selling pianos or organs rot only for cash, but on easy payments when prefctred. If ycu have musical friends, nothing will please them so well as to receive as a Christmas remembrance a musical instru- ment of some kind. If they don’t perform themselves, they have friends and visitors who do. A piano, organ or aeolian would be an appropriate and welcome gift. San- ders & Stayman of 984 F street northwest have just received a large assortment of instruments to choose from. All this week they are open until 7 p.m. Nostrums are but a part of the means used for treating the sick In these days. The diet is as important as the drugs. Di- abetics are forbidden to eat ordinary bread because it aggravates their disease. Conse- quently Krafft's bakery, corner Pennsylva- nia avenue and 18th street, makes bread especially for diabetics, which physicians recommend. “Keep your head cool and your feet warm” is an old adage. Of course this can only be done by proper footwear, and the cork sole ts the only satisfactory solution of the problem. Wm. Hahn & Co. of 980 and 932 7th street, 1914 and 1916 Pennsylva- nia avenue n.w. and 233 Pennsylvania ave- nue southeast, are making a specialty of cork-sole shoes, which they have succeeded in making not only stylish in appearance, but cheap In cost. They ure cheap because they are of gocd quality at a price fre- ey asked for an inferior article else- where. A beautiful mahogany upright plano for $175 cash. That seems cheap, but it is the price asked by D. G. Pfeiffer & Co. of 417 lith street northwest for their fine pianos. They claim they give the best value that money can obtain. The offer is well worth looking into. Pancake Flour. A combination of the great staffs of llfe— WHEAT, CORN and RICE HERE'S OUR GUARANTEE—Buy a package of Genuine Aunt Jemima's Seif-raising Pancake re and if you do not find it makes the best cakes you ever ate, return the empty box to your grocer, leave yous maine, and the grocer wili refund the money anc charge it to us. BUY THE KED PACKAGE. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES. secat ally Prepared and Manufactured only by r, DAVIS MILL CO., St. Joseph, Mo, f&emliw unexcelled Get the Best— “THE CONCORD HARNESS," Horse Blankets and Lap Robes in great variety and at lowest prices. LUTZ & BRO., 497 Pa. Ave. N.W. n2-10d © (Adjoining National Hotel.) back or objection to disproved, a thou- women are using one of them, who saves by it. Manu- me) et It’s only a question of time about your using Pearline. So it seems to us. bright woman must see, sooner or later, how much easier and quicker and It seems as if every better and more economical is Pearline’s way than any other known way of washing. You can’t think of any draw- it that hasn’t been met and sand times over. Pearline now. uses it righily, how much she factured only by Jas. Pyle, N.Y. Millions of Ask some WM eansSNearias : Alpine Accidents of 1895. From the London Standard. Statistics relative to the accidents which have happened on the Swiss and French Alps have now been published. The facts have been collected by the French Alpine Club. Three persons lost their lives on Mont Blane, namely, Herr Schnurdreher of Prague and two guides. Previously, a M. Holzhausen Lad a narrow escape. He was for twenty minutes buried under an ava- | lanche, and was rescued in a deplorable con- | dition. On August 24 last Emile Rey, a guide, who was accompanying an English- man to the summit of the Giant's Needle. lost his footing and was dashed to pieces. These were the fatal accidents on the French Alps, but the list of casualties for Switzerland is much-ionger. It includes three Englishmen—Miss Sampson of Lon- don, who was killed near Zermatt; a Ber- nese printer and an engineer from Lucerne. Eight persons lost their lives in the Tyrol and on the Italian Alps. The Alpine Club has also noted the accidents which hap- pened to persons plucking edelweiss on the brinks of the precipices, or to daring but un- skillful mountain climbers, who persisted in making ascents without guides. The ac- cidents of this kind are said to be very nu- merous every year, and do not serve as the least warning for other foolhardy persons, who persist in facing perils unknown. —_—___+ e+ His Razor. From the Chicago Record. Husband (shaving)—“Confound the ra- zor!” Wife—“What's the matter now? You're dreadfully crets-tempered.” “The razor is so dull. “Dull! Why, I ripped up an old skirt with it only yesterday, and it cut beau- tifully.” O'~- ks "Ss CERTAIN PAIN-AILLER ius oS KILLER THE GREAT Family Medicine of the Age. Taken Internally, It Cures Diarrhcea, Cramp, and Pain in the Stomach, Sore Throat, Sudden Colds, Coughs, &c., &c. Used Externally, It Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Sprains, Toothache, Pain in the Face, Neu- ralgia, Rheumatism, Frosted Feet. No article ever attained to such unbounded popnlarity.—Salem Observer. a article of great merit and virtue —Cinn, fon pare’ ‘We can bear testimony vo the efficacy of the Pain-Killer. We have seen its magic effects in soothing the severest p: and know it to be a good article.—Cincinnati Dispateh. ‘A speedy cure for pain—no family should be without it-—Montreal Tr ripte Nothing has yet surpassed the Pain-Killer, which is the most valuable family medicine now Organ. asa means of removing pain, reputation equal to really'a valuable medicine—it is used by = | any Physic ton Traveller. Beware of imitations, bay only, the gennine lo by “PrRRy Day: ‘everywhere, Fitge votties, and 600, DO OO 4S <> 4 4000-9032 Any Doctor WHI tell you of the merits of this famous water that is finally ster- ilized at @ temperature where zero prevails, and will advise you to insist on having the only AERATED LITHIA WATER. Just the right amount of Lithium Carbonate, Sodium, Bicarbonate and Sodjum Chloride to make it healthful. ‘The greatest amount of offervesccnce ever instilled in & water to make it delightful. It's absolutely pure and delicious- ly palatable. In fact, its peer does not exist in the world. ‘Try {t once and be convinced. Ask your desler for’ it, or sand to us for full particulars and terms. Use Our Superior Club Soda. HYGEIA ICE AND WATER CO., 881 TO 891 STATE STREET, NEW HAVEN, CT. JONAS & OO., 1324 F STREET, Distributing Agents. > I> so 46 0000000 PARA OS (A TRUE (FRIEND INNEED ° “OUR NATIVE HERBS” It never fails to impart tone to the system, activity to the liver, rich- ness and purity to the blood. $1 for 200 days’ treatment. = Christmas. We mention a few of our goods specially suitable for Christmas pres- ents, and cordially invite you to call early and make your selection. Music Bexes, Music Rolls, Music Books, Music Cab= nets, Large Size Photo- graphs of Great Musi- cians, Autoharps, Ac- cordions, Violins and all kinds of Small Instru- ments. We also call your attention to our large and handsome stock of CHICKERING And other makes of PIANOS. Mason & Hamlin Organs. The “Petite Bijou” Piano, price only $60, On easy payments, or at a handsome discount for short time or cash. John F. Ellis &Co., 937 Pa. Ave. N.W., Near roth St. de12-11t erty’s ‘Complete Flour.” \ The color is a_ brilliant white. Nutty flavor—appe- tizing. It has NO woody fiber (bran) in it. It makes beau- tiful bread. It is very rich (near 300 times the best flour) in the elements that nourish the BRAIN, the DIGES- TIVE FLUIDS, the TEETH and BONES. Con- stipation, brain fatigue, indi- gestion, irritable stomach and dyspepsia, caused by under- fed and starved organisms, are cured by the simple and sensible process of supplying the needed nourishment to BRAIN, NERVE, BILE, BONE. ‘The healthy ought to use it to ‘these diseases. It has been tested ficial analysis and by use. We have heaps on beaps of letters cer- tt its merits. The EORY ts sus- tale by ACTUAL FACTS. A lot of “Complete Flour" knowledge mailed on request. ‘Complete Flour” 1s sold in age atd barrels. Ask your grocer for trial $1. Dr. Hunter McGuire, Richmond, Vs Its value would be HAED OVERESTINA'TE.”” GG CORNWELL & SOX, 1412 Pa. SNO. H. MAGRIDER & CO., 1417 N. Fav. c. GEO. E. KEN Or ni4-2m ©. BRYAN. 1413 New York a ‘EDY & SONS, 1118 Conn. ay, Jdress— THE WHITTLE & SYDNOR ©0., RICHMOND, Va, ALL GASES OF DEAFNESS, CATARRH, ASTHMA,. BRONCHITIS And Other Lung Troubles are troat-d by me with due regard to each indl- vidual condition, no detail too small to neglect, not one remedy for everything—that is why I am successful in curing this class of diseases. Consul- tation free. Dr. Jordan, 1421 F St. N. W OMe hours, 9 toll a.m., 2 to 4:30 and 6 to 8 p.m. de14-284 Bargains in Long Hair Switches ie Formerly $5.00. 4.50. Formerly 50. 50. Formerly $10.50. First-class = ‘ttendance Hair Dressing, Shampoolne, ete. our “‘Curlette,”” for Keeping the hair in curl *S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. W. Go to Siccardi, Bargains in Hair. Genuine. bona Gide bargain prices are prevall- ing ost now. And you car select from the finest of Hair and Toilet Goods ever shown in - Washington. 7 i uth St., TSU TLA Wray, x2. U. Cor. 7thand D N.W an Dentistry. ‘The association plan (an expert for each branch). gives the highest rkill at the lowest cast, ad: in connection with cur special appliances insures Ides operations. invariably.” We shall he glad to make an esti- mate on your dental needs— gratis. of course. TF Painless Extracting, 500.; Painless Filling, 75e. up. Best Teeth, $8. S. Dental Assn., IF ALL OTHERS Fall, CONSOLT DR. CZARRA, 16 Fourth st. ne., Washington, D. 0. Specialty—All Chronic, > Diseases, Urinary Troubles, all tality restored. Sunday, 4 to 7 pw. rvous, Blood and Skin tion, Liver, Kidvey, Bladder and Piles, Vistala, Su yess a WW METHOD for permanent and quickly cure HVARE discares and Woman Complaints, Vie Hours, % to 12 a.m, to 8 p.m 0080-tf Indige Established 1861. Franklin & Co., 1227—Opticians—Pa. Ave. Glasses, Spectacles and ra Glasses, Field Complete line of Fine Ope = Fie general line of OPTICAL Goods. Oculista’ Prescriptions promptly and accurately filled. Remove to 1203 F St. January 18. 0c18-3m,14 . JAY GOULD, 421 9th st., bas everything for pa per fancy "work. Buch gay things you can efor the Christmas tree! Tinsel, “snow,” embossed scrap book _ pic- cy ee paper rim