Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1896, Page 16

16 ? THE EVENING STH, AA ud WHEN HYPNOTIZED A Luminous Atmosphere That Gathers About a Sensitive. SOKE CURIOUS PHENOMENA DESCRIBED Experiments Made in Paris and the Results. STRONG WILL IS POSITIVE UT A MAN OF THE temperament called Fe “sensitive” in a dark room. Then put a cat, or, a bird, or ome parts of flowers cn the same room. The man will see strange things after he has been in that dark room for a few hours, for the cat, or bird, or flowers will become visible to him in the da: ess. At will appear as a gray cloud on a Kkground; then he see some ach object will first th black I sit there quiet! your companion will Your hands, for exampie, sppear to him as a sray smoke, nine with its own protuberance inetinies as first surprise is past, ask your | man to detail exactly what he ile will tell you that the colors > not the same on all parts | iy; that your right hand shows . and your left hand a yellow- He will insist that there is in color between the | of your feet. He will nt side of your body and seen. “lumin. State | de Rochas in an experiment | hypnotic lethargy, this subj: ‘The extent of the luminous atmosphere around B and the force of the luminous flames which flow from his nose, ahd eyes and mouth and ears, appear different to A at different stages, depending upon the He Will See Strange Things. depth of the hypnotic sleep into which B has plunged. When the sleep is light his surrounding luminous atmosphere is very faint and shallow; but when he is thorough- ly hypnotized his luminous atmosphere is intense, and extends far away from him. ‘The colonel immersed a smali wax statue of a man in this “life” of B that was sur- rounding his body and found that when he pricked this statue with a pin, concealed from B's eyes, B cowid exactly locate the ks on his ow: You are prici are pricking my face with a @in. cclonet could not find that this sensitiveness ot B extended more than fifteen or twenty t from his body except in extraordinary es. ‘This so-called “exteriorization” and trans- fer of a man's fecling to inanimate objects has a wonderful bearing on the subject of centagion in disease. Still another bearing of the same discovery was illustrated by Col. with a mag- retized metallic crown. This magnetized crown had been originally used for the treatment of a patient in one of the hos- pitals. When subsequently placed upon the head of a-healthy subject in the state of ct showed every symptom of the’ disease from which the patient who originally wore the crown suf- fered. In other words, the “luminous ef- 2 time that un- rk room a| north pole, south pole. or three fe ys and finally by the great has, the director of the in Paris, has quite rec at these “iuminous are real and objective, and not im- | aginary. ant sta me time M them A see a tuminous or phosphor on B's b He could see besides that G's es, €ars, nostrils a: finger ends ‘e emitting a flame-like light, blue on one of the body and yellow-reddish on the Thos ig3 seemed to act like for these flames, which were dis- tinct from the coating of the skin. A glass of water was put within the radius of B's “luminous effiuvia” as described by A, who could see how far they reached. Af- ter a few minutes A reported that the water 9 different subje 1 in the same room. Let us that he could nt coating t i | The Water Hod Acquired the Same Sensitiveness. itself had become luminous, and that it re- mained so for a long while, even if removed to the other end of the reom out of reach of B's effluvia. B's sensitiveness of the skin was made to disappear by the hypnotic process; but any touch or puncture of a pin or needle on the outside edge of the phosphorescent or lumi- nous coating perceived by A’s eyes was im- mediately perceived by B. His body did not feel the prick of a needle, but the outer edge of his “luminous effluvia” several feet away from the skin had acquired this sensitive- ness lost by the body. : And here appears a wonderful fact. The water in the tumbler removed to the end of the room had acquired that same sensitive- ness. If you pinch the water with your fingers or touch it with a pin, B will scream that you pinch or prick him. But B will not feel the action if performed by a person who has no magnetic relation with him. We must conclude that the nervous sensi- tiveness of B's fiesh had been carried fur- | § ther than the surface of bis body, and com- municated to objects saturated and impreg- nated by his “luminous eflluvia;” also that the sensitiveness of those objects remained in them for a while, even when removed to a certain distance from B’s eMluvia. “The Water,” says de Rochas, “loads itself with sensitiveness as calcium does with light; and the energy received radiat¢és from it till has returned all it has received; in other till it is spent or emptied. | winter | glove: fluvia” of the sick patient had so permeated the crown that when it was placed on the head of a well man, and the man hypnotized, he caught the disease from the crown. These investigations appear to be proof positive of a theory of my own, which I have been Jed to form from resulis attained in various directions. This theo: well man with a strong will is “positiv: y that his life principal, will, or whatever you choose to call it, from his person, and flows from his : wer organs, like the long mounting up But in the , or of a hyp- . or outwa! ns of the inner fire, are so weak as rely leave the 2 of the body. ‘9, too, I may contend that the will of the hypnotizer and the will of the subject to be hypnotized struggle together. Tho stronger flame aker; what was at a’complete sur- der, and the flames of the hypnotizer’s vill find their way to the yery brain centers of the hypnotized subject. MILLINGTON MILLER, M. D. SAVED BY A GLOVE BUTTON., Moments That Were Full of Peril and Seemed Like Hours. , From the Lewiston Journal. > Hew much may depend upon a glove fastening was illustrated at one vf the Monson slate quarries in an adventure which the person concerned would not care to repeat. He was a derrick man, who stood on the brink of one of the great chasms from which the slate rock is hoisted. His duty was to catch hold of the big hook depending from the end | of the boom as it swung over the bank and attach it to the crate to be sent back into the pit. Sianding upon the very edge he reached out to catch the hook which dangled near him. It was and he wore thick buckskin ~ The hook slipped from him as he laned out, but caught into the fastening of the glove. The swing of the great beom took him off his feet in an instant | and carried him out into giddy space with his life depending on the glove’s holding fast. His whole weight was hung on that button, and there was a clear 175 feet of Space between him and the floor of rock below. The moments that passed before the boom could be swung back over the bank"seemed like hours to hitn, but he got there at last, safe and sound. ——___+ Hard to Find. From the Roxbury Gazette. Salesman—“Do you want to have your goods sent by any particular express?” Customer—“Certainly, if you can find a particular express. I can't.” se Enterprise. From The Sketch. “Ello, Sal, ‘ave yer set up on yer own? I thought you was gettin’ on so nice at the match factory.” = “Well, yes, "Liza, so I was; but ‘Sooner reign in ‘ell than serve in ‘eayen’ is my motto. ARPEREVENTY-HOUR GAGES SCIENCE IN COOKING Pauline Pry’s Investigation of the Foods We Eat. THE BOSTON PUBLIC KITCHEN ——__+—__ The Need of Such an Institution in the National Capital. BEGIN WITHSCHOOLCHILDREN (Gopyrighted, 1896, by Pauline Pry.) OU DOUBTLESS read in The Star last Saturday what your children ‘are-in the habit of eating for lunch at school. Then, if you paid any attention to the mat- ter at all, you stern ly bade your dau ter not to ist you hear of her eating any more pickles, and you told your boy you'd thrash him if you ever knew of his trading any more car tickets for pie, and then you felt your duty as a parent and a Christian was done. Praise Providence, i'm not that kind of Christian or that kind of parent. Being fully satisfied that there ts a great mis- sionary work waiting to he done among the stomachs of Washington, I have been busy the past week trying to learn how @ reasonable beginning may be made, and I trust I have gathered facts enough to at least offer a bare suggestion. ‘You may recall my relating that wher- ever furnishing a noon meal to school children has been a success the in source of supplies has beon a public kitch- en. Ihave therefore visited a public kitch- en, the New England kitchen ct Eeston, the first to be established in country and the inspiration and training school from which all others have gathered strength. What my eyes could sce and my stomach could test, I know. For fu lars I have applied to the wonian whose genius created the New Eng!and kitchen, Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel, wite of John J. Abel of Baltimore, whom 1 huve aiso visited. The New England kitchen is loc: 485 Tremont street, wh cation, I am told. This point upon which I am no author My Snteliect can grapple with and master the transcen- dental thought of Boston; I can even show a very creditable gait in kesping with the new woman of Boston, b: it comes to asserting anything that implies a knowledge of Boston streets, sufficient of the blood of the fat) country fil ters through my veins to make this ever- lastingly impossible. The Public Kitchen, But let that pass. This much I know, the New Engiand kitchen 1s so lo ed as to supply the Latin and High Schools, the Normal School and the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology with a noon meal. It is also a good depot for a constantly in- creasing clientage of working people and of well-to-do people living in apartment houses, and is a restaurant where I lived heartily and happily at an average cost of forty cents a day. A sample day’s living is as follows : Breakfast—Cracked wheat and milk, 5 cents; three fish balls, 5 cents; two rolls, 4 cents. Dinner—Tomato soup, 5 cents; beef stew, 5 cents; macaroni with cheese, 5 cents; rice pudding, 3 cents. Supper—Baked _ beans, bread, 5 cents. I must say in all truthfulness, the first sight of this kitchen took all my appetite away. This was because it paralyzed me in every part to behold Its perfectly shame- Jess way of doing business. The cooking and the cleaning are so utterly free from hing to be ashamed of that if you'll believe me, every part and process of the work done in this kitchen Is performed in full view of the public. The place ar- ranged with the kitchen proper in the re: separated from the restaurant in front orly by iow counters, from which food in bulk is_ sol Thus sitting at the restaurant table, while I ate my meals, I commanded a view of the cooking, the si ing, and the dish washing going on in the kitchen, end so admirably has the application of science and the brains of truly great women in the Kitchen overcome the horrors commonly prevailing there that I felt like an eating jady of a well-staged kitchen drama. It didn't seem possible that the shining cook- ing utensils and appliances, the immaculate sink, the orderly dish washing, were rea! features of real kitchen work, and the food I ate was almost too good to be real, My companions at table were mainly, s far as appearances told, working people. A great many children and won: who looked like seamstresses, or hard-w mothers of the middle class, came with baskets and buckets to carry food home. An idea of the variety and cost of the food thus sold may be gathered from the follow- ing price list: Foods and Prices. Beef broth for invalids, 18 cents a quart; beef stew, 12 cents a quart; soup—vege- table, tomato, pea, potato—12 cents a quart; fish or clam chowder, 16 cents a quart; pressed beef, 16 ¢ents a pound; cracked wheat, corn mush or boiled hominy, & cents a pound; creamed codfish, 8 cents a pound; mutton stew, 10 cents a pound; rice pudding, 6 cents a pint; Indian pudding, 8 5 cents; brown AF FEBRUARY “Ph cents a pint; macaroni with cheese,l2 cents a pin ealth bread, or white bread, 5 cents a@ loaf; brown bread, 10 cenis a loaf; baked beans, 14 cents a quart. This is but part of the foods to be kad on_any one day. The easily expressed characteristic of th foods as distinguished from the sup- ples of any restaurant or bake shop :s, they are made according to scientific principles They are the same day after day, just as a medicine compounded by a druggist is always the same. The quantity and the physiological effects of the chemical ele- ments contained in these foods are so pre- cisely known that Boston doctors prescribe New England kitchen beef broth for their patients as exactly as they do quinine or calomel. The medical profession has fur- ther recognized the health value of the work done byethe kitchen, so that Harvard Medical College now requires its graduates to have completed a certain prescribed course of study of cookery, according to the principles of the New England _ kitchen, where the first practice lessons of the stu- dents were given. ‘The scientific character of the kitchen is borne out in the furnishings. Charts on the wall and blocks arranged in pyramids {llus- trate the chemical composition of the hu- man body, and the nutritive properties of the food. When a miss of eleven or twelve years of age, sitting next me at the table one day, began discours‘ng to me learnedly about the proteids of the baked heans we were both eating, I experienced—with mild horror, I confess—something of the far-reaching value of the educational work accomplished by a scientific public kitchen. Two deys spent in the New England kitchen disclose many of its features, which are, however, so unique as to impress the mind .with little else than wondgr. To get the details of its Inner workings so as to present the possibilities of establishing one in Washington, I had recourse to Mrs. Abel. Not a New Woman. To me the mere fact of Mrs. Abel having brought the New England kitchen into ex- istence is a sufficient guarantee in Itself that this is an institution which will en- dure, and will be repeated in every com- munity, accordingly as the women of a com- munity are alive to the best interests of their families, and are capable of serving them., This is because Mrs. Abel is not a public character; she is not a professional wonian; she is altogether a private person— @ normal woman—identified with a family conspicuously conservative in an eminently conservative social circle. Therefore, the work she has accomplished for the public is the logical widening of an intelligent and intense home interest—the natural evolution of a mother whose thought and care for her own family are extended to include the needs ef less fortunate families, and being thus a natural growth, a reasonable activ- {ty, just as certainly embodies a true prin- ciple of social development as the self-seek- ing enterprise of the ambitious New Wo- man reformer embodies only conceit .and confusion. rom £ Mrs. Abel's comnegtion with the New England kitchen jwag as apparently acci- dental as relatioss rowing out of any- thing but short-sjehted. selfish interest commonly are. 1; j¢ Through the American Public Health Association in 18§8..Mr. Henry Lamb of Rochester, N, Yay offered a prize for the best essay on “Practjeal Sanitary and Economic Cooking, lapted to persons of moderate and small means. Seventy essays competed for this prize, which was awarded’ to one entitled “The Five Food Principfes* Illustrated by Practi-} cal Recipes,” written by Mrs. Mary Hin- man Abel. SNES Nutrient Valne of Foods. In making the award, the judges empha- sized the fact that of all the essays sub- mitted, the one selected was not only “pre- eminently the best, but was also intrinsi- cally a valuable treatise on the subject. The particular merit and original fea- ture of this treatise is in that Mrs. Abel, for the first time in the history of the de- velopment of the science of nutrition, made standard dietaries cookable. Pre- vious to this the nutrients necessary to systain Ufe had been fi ed in food mater! any ret erence whatever to the conversion of food meterial into eatables, and with Mrs. Abel originated the now | generaliy adopted method of corsidering nutrients in the forms in which they are ecoked and caten. That is, instead of prescribing so many pounds of beef and so many pounds of flour 43 the amount of proteids, carbohydrates, fats and salts a man should consume in a day, Mrs. Abel presented bills of fare for three meals a day, so combining sey- eral dishes of a menu as to make the sum total of the nutrients contained in the food materials entering into each correspond with the standard average dietary, and also come within an average cost per day Another original and remarkable feature of Mrs. Abel's essay is, it was the first American cookcry -book giving exact in structions for working with a measured heat. To this end, Mrs. Abel invented he own thermometer. ‘This is a, thermomete tube registering 300 degree: i simply fastened into a cork, the below and protected by a 3 wood. This floats on the water, and n it easy to cook at any given temperature. For testing the heat of an oven the same thermometer is used, hung in a light wire frame. Mrs. Abel was livin; had been for : her “Lamb prize es eign residence she h study of the science of nutrition, which at that time wos in its merest Infancy in this country. She also made a thorough in- vestigation of the pubiie kitchens of E rope at Berlin, Vicnna, Strasburg, Lely Munich, Paris and many other cilies, She considered them from ail sides, in the in- terest of health and economy, from the standpoint of science and of pecuniar, profit, and to obtain her facts did not he: tate day after day to tak place and her iron knife and fork among.the laboring people, e Tor the ume being arting the Public Kitchen, Returning to this country the semmer following competition for the ston M e@ was in- Lamb prize, Mrs. Ellen H. Ki troduced by the circunstanee that Mrs. Richards was ore of the commitiee of the je health awarded her y the priz ded by M and othe . Abel abandoned her plans for the six months was to spend on this rd re ‘on to make the experiment U kitchen, Mrs. Richards her, Funds necessar 2,000, were dona Mrs. Quincy A. interest in the movement was founded in that nutritious and ine available to the poor is diminishing the drink evi At the end of six months Mrs. Abel had proved the demand for a lic Kitchen in this country, and had s it. At the end of two yeu during which time the institution wa: stained by philanthroy the kitchen began to be s<if-Supporting row it is wholly independent of charity, assured financial suc I told Mrs. Abel what I had learned of the epportunity the puille schools offer the establishment of a public kitchen in Wash- ington, and I asked her to give me the benefit of her experience to that end.‘ The Fooa “Th Mrs. Abel, tell as mue her belief food made means of Needed by Wage Barnera, no place in this cointry,” said “where a public kitchen would for the social development of the whole people as It would in Washing- ton. The time seems rapidly coming in our large cities when the food eaten in the families of the poor and of the wag ning classes will not be c Is has long been the ¢ . and the need has be and by gr e is & having a m becom- ‘There si ons of t re than ing, in tima, self-support! to be some reasons why institu dare even i Europe, notwl of wages here. from general cbser the New England kit agent of the census or has small opportunity for getting into com- nication with many classes of people compared with one who has a public kitch- en for a vantage ground. “Three-fourths of our customers in Bos- ton are from what we call the working classes, and many are sewing women, who live in lodgings and eat the food furnished by the cheaper restaurants, supplemented by what they call ‘baker's stuff.’ Most frequently it ir the latter, with hich they make in their owm rooms. What I had heard of the over-use of tea the expe- rience of the kitchen pro The children of the neighborhocd, I found, drank tea, and for the rest lived largely on bak bread and cake and pickles. ‘The consump- tion of vinegar pickles among them enormous. One grocer said he sold hun- dreds cf them a day, the same child often eating four or five. : “Even among persons who keep house there is little cooking done, and the de pendence {s more and more on baker's bread and cheap cake. It is surprising in how many families no plans are made for the approaching meal until it is too late to cook anything that requires time. ‘Then, when meal time arrives, a child ig dist patched to the nea shop, the great American frying pan is whipped out, and an itl-cooked, insufficient meal is provided, that neither’ pleases the palate nor nour- ishes the body. “Moreover, the women of our people do not seem to have the inherited or acquired skill in cooking that is seen among the women of European countries, nor do we seem to know es well when we are properly nourished.,We tend too much toward sweet and condensed foods, and anything that will allay hunger for the time. When we consider in how few cases cookery in the homes of the wealthy is what it should be, it 1s to be expected that among the poor, with whom want of disposition to good cookery is allied with want of utensils skill and time, men, women and children are so badly. fed that disease and drunken- ness are inevitable. “I consider the, most, eMcient means of 8f, people in need of more ‘wisdom concerning o be Juncheons served to ed. The the labor bureau er reaching all clay better food and food and feeding, children of the public school. “This is bound to lay a broad foundation for the improvement of the public health, for when you have given a child a palatable and nutritious’ mgal once a day six days out of the week you have not only fortified his small body against exhaustion and dis- ease to that extent, hut you are training his palate so that there will arise in him a divine discontent with food that is not palatable and nutritious, and so you make him the entering, wedge of a dietary re- form in his home. A Public Kitchen in Washington. “In establishing a. public kitchen in Washington anyone would have the ad- vantage of the positive success that has been accomplished in Boston. Of course, the first thing necessary to make a begin- ning is money, and this at the outset must be charitably bestowed, not only the orig- inal investment, but until the ‘people are educated Up to the possibilities of a public kitchen it will haye to be sustained in part at least for probably two or three years by donations. I would not undertake to start a kitchen with less than $2,090, and I would want $3,000 additional as a sinking fund, to be drawn on if necessary. The greatest sources of expense are rent and service, The greatest difficulties to be encountered are securing the right kind of help and in intelligence in dealing with them. I recall [esteem unreasonable as to baffle human hy an @ case in New York of a family so wretch- edly poor the nmmther had not stitred out- side the house for several months, because lacking clothing which simple decency required. Yet their dietary being in- quired into the wcman boasted that they bought the very best meat and had it on their table three times a day. When Americans do consider their stomachs, it is chiefly with reference to the price they put into it, and accordingly as this is great, their pride is satistied and thelr consciencs at” rest, whether their digestion is so or not. The soups and stews which foreigners understand so well how to obtain satisfac- torily from cheap cuis of meat Americans riso-superior to. ‘Their attitude toward soup is that the Englishwoman described of her husband: ‘My man likes summat to bite on; he ain't much for long drinks,’ and the stew is so much of a stranger as nat- urally to be regarded with suspicion, for the reason that domestic habits of Amer- icans and their slap-dash method of cooking have not made possible the long, slow cook- ing to which meat must be subjected fe stews. The cosmopolitan character of ou American population also makes difficult the establishment of standard disaes. I recall an Irish mother who when pressed to Jndian pudding ome to her chil- pled: “My bo sa you can’t make a Yankee of hi: cia a The 1 Required. “Still we have succeeded in the New Eng- land Kitchen in establishing standard dishes—dishes that would still be stand- ard In Washington. “The requirements that we have met are these: “The cost of the material must not go beyond a certain limit he labor of making it must not be too c be nutri It must be in-a form t d and healthful. at cam be casily nd kept hot without loss of flavor. ser ‘It must suit the popular taste enough to be salable. “In ntlfic requirements of the: : hi and I work- ed weeks in the N ingland kitchen be- fore the doors were ope: The science of cook’ to the public. at which the means simply sxact weights and measurements of in- pdients obtained; all chemical changes involved in the preparation known ang considered; the chemical changes attend- ant upon the application of heat kaown and the heat under perfect control so rately measured, and th. Ufie method f result of this ch, upon anal- its health v: alth value of Sof econo: value; thus scientific re- seateh in the kitchen becomes a source of to put in the hank. = use of the kitchen as an experimént was je possible for us by giant of the Elizabeth Thompson d, and I's iy hope the limited work 1 means to accomplish may some- how, by somebody, be extended, for one thing is cortai finai step in the establishment of 4 dietaries must wait for stand- food. lue of the fool: for th® New y the m clentists in gi f the subject. health value of our food cally on its popularity. That preity weil attested we undertook we fixed sland fecal pro- ‘al, who ss of our public H that the sales were pw to Start, . en in Washington simplest and surest means to an in- nt start would be to select a manager or housekeeper, and send her to the New England kitchen in Boston to gain ex- perience. This is part of the good work the kitchen there has don all the managers of pull r started in this country, I@ has trained ns wher- 1 and is st ing to do so. This manager sheuld b a woman possessing above all other thin conscience and poise. She should also have the intelligent humility that is willing to learn ew ways, and she should have that housewifely instinct that is born in some women, and which other women seem unable by every effort to acquire. Having these requirements a teacher of cookery in the public sel: ed to manage a public kitchen, a ich an office would mean an advance in wages for her. over the manager there cientific rintendent y time to is confers wit aged in it tions in a way of a kitchen a woman of knowledge TEENCY by oceasional anal ‘dof the food 1s n ed. The word s woman would need to be law, and rvices would proba be, as in the instance of Mrs. Richard. . One thing to t zation. ‘The few authority there are connected with a kitchen, the mest certain is its success, ‘The snot need to be any beard of lady vis , in everything in the natu itution is to be avoided, permanent success, the kitch organized on business prince busine:s institutions to compete with, and must depend upon business methods for its existence e of a charity for to be a Scientific Philanthropy. “In addition to the educational and health valie and the pecuniary profits possible to be realized from a public kitchen, it offers a certain means of extending scientific philanthropy. I know the idea of scientiti philanthropy seems almost profane to many minds, but to a thoughtful person it is plain that the greatest wisdom must guide the hand that is to interfere with the pitiless but often beneficial law that ordains the survival of the fitte: To feed the hungry and clothe the naked no longer fills our duty to our fellow man; it is now no less than to extend indefuitely the knowledge and means of the healthy and Lappy life. We have advanced beyond the time wher the nobleman threw his gold to hungry peasants in the stree We have new philanthropy which aims to better a man while bettering his condition, which gives personal influence and sympathy with its alms, and it is part of this new philan- thropy to recognize that the social qu tion is largely a question of stomach. Yet, with money in hand, mission workers are unable to command such food as ought to be possible out of ie abundant raw ma- terial that this country affords, and to all these a New England kitchen means re- liable and solid help elsewhere unobtain- D1 “Having thus secured from Mrs. Abel the theory and practice of a public kitchen, in accord with this, another week, I shall he able to indicate the whole field for one in Washington, ‘or my name is not PAULINE PRY. Beyond Praise. From Punch, Roscius—“But you haven't got a word of overcoming the pride end prejudices of the { praise for any one. I should like to know American stomac! “The latter at first ems perfectly hope- less, for this pride a who you would consider a finished writer?” Criticus—“A dead one, my boy—a dead i these prejudices are | one!” 3 to be | THEY PLAY FAN TAN In the Chinese Colony Here, and’ Also Buy Lottery Tickets, HOW THEY MANAGE T0 POOL THE POLICE Advantage is Taken of the Igno- rance of Their Language. a OF GAMBLING ee HILE THE UNITED has almost put a stop to the sale of Louisiana amd other jottery tickets, and the city authorities have practically sup- pressed = gambling houses, policy and crap shooting within the city limits, the “Heathen Chinee,” “in ways that are dark and tricks that -ceeds In evading the law, in patronizing gambling houses where “fan tan” is played and lottery tickets easily obiaine The Chia and at le: the latter ge dry. EVILS se lotte: ait y has one main office neh offices in the city £ ated in some laun- The opportunity thus afforded is the Im a Fan Tan Joint. greatest curse to the Chines in effect than poli the colored popul stinct is still stronger dev . much worss y of- police, but nable to lot ome of the gambling dens and lotte: fices are recularly raided by th the wily Chinaman has so far be convit policeman that the y tickets ar Chinese alphabets. The absurdity of t tement is shown when it is known that the Chinese alphabet con- Seg i." ee S ® & ® ’ SPOeO ® he oa DD ® SD < ¢ < ¢ te lag 44% A Fan Tan Lay Out. t forty thousand characters. In have no alphabet, each character ing a word sign, as any Chinese scholar can test! The lotte semi-mont side of Penn s are generally held ling on the south nue. The manner n is known ry, although mea are of the opinion it is fairiy the owner, who kas amassed a for- nated at over $1,000,000, The lot- a bu in yivaria av in which thg numbers are d only to (he owner of the lot the Chi done tune, On 41-2 Street. tery is worked as follows: There are eighty characters on the ticket in two groups, di- vided in the midddle by a row of characters which are not used. The purchaser marks out with a brush dipped in India ink any ten of the characters he may select. The ticket seller then records the ticket in a book kept for that purpose, together with the purchaser's name and address. If the purchaser succeeds in naming all the ten numbers (or, more properly, characters) drawn, he will receive $1,000 for his ten cents. While the word “number” is used to designate the characters, in fact word plc- tures are used. The upper right-hand char- acter means heaven, others such as “Myr- lad Springs,” “Golden Garden,” ““‘TenThous- and Blessings,” “‘The Fragrant Plains,”etc. The ticket is printed in bright green, three and one-half inches square, on rather thin Chinese paper, and it seems almost incred- ible what-an immense amount of such tick- ets are sold every year. The sellings are done by no means in a secret manner, the tiny green tickets being thought by the guardians of the law to be only a Chinese advertisement, or even a “washee ticket,” and hence no attention is paid to them and they circulate freely. Probably the greatest curse to the China- men next to the lottery are the gambling shops in the city. These fairly swarm in different parts of Washington, but they are generally of small size, the principal oncs being on 41-2 street and the south side of nf Gladness Comes Wit a better understanding of the _" * transient nature of the many phys- ical ills which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of ickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the’system, which thegpleasant family laxative, Syrup of Fi prompt the ays ly removes. That is why it remedy with millions of families. and everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating the organs on whichitacts. Itis therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the genuine arti which is manufactured by the Californi: Fig Syrup Co, only, and sold by all rep- utable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, then laxa- tives or other remedies are not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one y be commended to the most skillfal physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction. the avenue. Of all of the various Chinest gambling games the one most universal] | indulged in and peculiar to that race | known as “fan tan, and approaches some What domino whi It is played as fol lows: The full pack Is dealt out until each yer has an equal number The first lays down a nine spo! the next ther lays down to the right qn Lottery Ticket. eight spot or to the left a ten spot; then the next either buil eight down by playing an to the risht or up by playing a ten > each tn turn until the pile on s finished with a king and that with an ace. The suit of the first, which is always a heart, must be followed in the right and | left piles of the same suit. If a player can- he can start a new le. He com- ying a nine of diamonds, and 4 on either side . comes the nine of ast, the nine of clubs. In all ases following suit in the piles to right and eft of the nine. The first who exhausts his ‘ds is the winner. The game. when thus is called “Pell street” and “fan pla: tan.” One of the peculiarities of this gam hat generally more betting is done ders than by the actual Hence, any number can ri the same time. The chips are bead-like and | strung above the table on a wire, mach tha rd room, probably for nting the guileless swiping the same up his vol- nous sleeves. ll of the Chinamen who tr this wa and it has b kers, Who are, at present, have made large sums of said that two b: not in the city, money. A resident of the city, who is familiar ith the extent of gambling among the Chinese, said to the writer: “Now that gambl s been alolished across the river, the law should certainly put a stop to this incesant bleeding of the laundry- men by tl nkers of the gambling dens. When a is to be made on a joint, let some English-speaking Chinaman accom- pany the o This is the way it is done in San Francisco, and the only way to gain good results. ‘The white man who ex- pects to cope with John Chinaman in sleek- ness and cunning is going to be worsted every time.” The writer will con he does not int de by saying that ad to state who the owner of this lottery is, nor who runs the various tan joints in the city, for the simple on that the highbinders might net like In other cities persons who have been more explicit In their information on such matters have sometimes died of heart failure. ~~. After the Manner of Poets, From the Indianapolis Journal. “What is that queer splotch on the face of the earth?” asked Apollo, “That?” replied Pagasus, looking down over his shoulder at the remains of the would-be poet. “That is a little thing I ed off a short time ago in a moment of ef World's Fair! 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