Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1896, Page 19

CHIC TO LOVE PARISIAN CHIC Many Phases of the Popular Mean- ing of This Term. + 10 PRODUCE A MAN OF THIS STAMP + What is Expected of One Who is Thus Characterized. SEVERE CONDITIONS e of The Even! PARIS, May 5 ARISIAN CHIC IS pleasing quality, nerally well spoken Yet in the jargon 1 to conduc way chic good breed! ing a applied to a ng off one’ hat in an e are present has so long ag. ish cu: ym." You mu to the wife of one to meet ber hur treet heavily veiled. But off and keep it off until she to put it on again if she recog- and stops to chat a moment. really ct become a st your friends i up a side must take tells you nizes you Above all, rot hat f£ you happe Darwin You mu. You st e Symbolist poets. You must love the country and take an interest in outdoor sports. in ery Day Application. t prefar five o lock tea to ab- he And in a hundred other ways m all behold that you are he last boa nd in the m i be readil s. So it the Partsian’s e mong as his own definition in the bri faces an] dai ways of Paris wo girls. These latter, in turn, in the p ° of the tourist sirl’ rt tailor-made gown a . will envy the trangers, f the fortuna if you offer to take Paris clerk who hes in I.ondon be- of his ociates. thing as natural 1 has bought a suit of clo comes chic the ¢ There may A ehic, an undefi French word stands va Anglo-Saxen mind. They say of a lady, ‘she has chic.” It means that she has an elegance which appears to be native to her and not put on with her clothes. All the other qualities which go to make her up the Parisian mind scarcely takes account of, because they are so common. The very street boy participates in them. Paris!an chic in our sense of the word means the a “le something for which ely In the a lady who deceives her | self,” and ‘an indelicacy in of your; | | | | 1 position as} nice | | able to speak of act THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. THE COUNTRY. sophistication of the most cultivated capl- tal of the world, plus natural French gay- ety, coquetry and “go.” Of course a Parisian is not really chic unless he has a footing in at least the outer rim of the modern smart set, which does not by any means refer to the aristocracy of the quarter Saint-Germain in the lump. The smart set, “Les Gens Chics” of Gyp, are very much of a mixture, where wealth plays its Important part. Next to wealth, Leauty stccratic blood, these gens chics value up-to-dateness, and many unincumbered young man has recommendet himself to them by his ability to fall into their w . Lacking such an actual entree, the young Parisian who seis up to be chic may have a number of vague acquaintances of the race track, the seaside resort and the Chic to Wear Bloomers. f . As for the ladies, cient to Know the’r names of the art of being « This is not done deceive, but be agresab! ris is the Center nt of general culture a man of this stamp is so ble that a little pretense and ‘ necessary ‘sid matters may be readily excused t.st or poet may » to be an demi or may rise None of them » you out a ten-mile celebrities they don’t > grez > foundat eis iald in : “h concerns s of Pars | tions. | n his city is the only one | to know nothing pon him pesu iy. be- his eye is single, and he does not erve two mast he is a chic Parisian, what w. is general cul ture rs to be |. Up-to-date le and smariness ot ma'se chic, nsable prelim- it not exeu: therefore, press of affa you have failed to make the acquaintance of some lady of fashion to re- mark simply “She has beautiful diamond in speaking of a book you ha A, to say “It has interesting pa A Use for Museums. if in the rea ‘0 give an example of inexpens' e the mere matter of museums. "i fferent from London—the smart people not ashamed to know the contents of ar their city’s great collecti So much so that this is not sufileient—the chic Parisian will have or pretend to have some special interest in e dy to bring out when it is necessa nceal his i nce of ome kindred sub s. A you say of Horace Vernet is tru ‘Bar- But for my part verything in the cen- the have been neglect Louvre galleries for tury Dutch master Dutch masters. The chic Par! in everything. past, he must 2 spring uke an interest everything in the “2 with the pres- ent.’ The matter of current literature and the theater alone would em to be sufhcient | to keep him sitting up—but he must also be 3 as his friends, and be able to tell yeracious anecdotes of au- h s. It is essential to be pre: t at the st nights of all impor it new pieces, and ornamental to run to the first nights of he minor play hous: He mu be seen at the fashiogabl> con S, ane take an in- prest in the conferences which critics give a And as soon as the an- he must hasten to d something to admire and to condemn. He must have political opin He must be able to explain the eastern question. He must be able to explain the South African question. He must be able to explain every- 3. AU Involves Work. In actual conversation a great deal of this may be talked through one’s hat, but the foundation knowledge of fibbing for chic- ness is in itself a liberal education, and so should be counted for righteousness. The Parisian who sets up to he chic must evidently rise early in the morning. To complicate it a great portion of his time must be taken up in three occupations, which require not only presence of mind, but presence of body as well, and cannot be shirked or pretended. To be chic he must go in for sport, he must ‘ive his club life, and he must be always showing him- self in fashionable places. *“Sport” to the Parisian means primarily horse racing, and as such it holds an im- portant place in the elegant life of the 19 capital. The grand stands and pesages of Chantilly, Longchamps and Maisons Lat- fite form unique reunion places for the chic world in this, that to be chic does not necessarily mean to be really fashionable in a social way, but only to iave certain essential qualities. Here the demi-mon- daine and the parvenu, the club adventurer and the actor, the opera dancer and the newspaper reporter meet on an equal foot- ing with the sons and daughters of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, the fashionable bourgeoise and the aristocracy of art and letters, to breathe together the air of chic- ness—for it is a world that knows its own. Fencing, riding, pigeon shooting, tennis skating and cycling rather offer opportunt- ties to acquire chic. By frequenting the schools, matches, rinks and tournaments speaking acquaintances of the right kind may be picked up, and the face of the aspirant becomes better known. And so, f general, by force of always turning up al the right time and place, even without a single introduction in the whole wide wortd of Paris, many a pushing man has worked himself into an enviable position. The chic Parisian must belong to one or more clubs, if for nothing else than to write his letters on the club paper. Noth- ing produces a better effect on the ladies. The clubman hears all the gossip,gets opin- fons on all new subjects ready-made, he can afford to look on cafe life with con- termgpt and has the best means of assuring himself that he is correctly dressed. The best-known Paris clubs are practically closed io all but the very aristocratic or the very rich, but there are others—like the Cercle Artistique et Littecaire, the Cercle des Chemins de Fer, the Union Artistique, and the Cercle National—to which entrance is not so difficult for a well- connected middle-class Parisian, and once in all his friends are likely to hear of it. Unlike the London clubs, these institutions of Paris exist very largely for gambling. Unlike them again, the smoking room chat is made up largely of risky story telling. But—unlike them a third time—no one gets drunk in a Paris club. It is not chic to get drunk in Paris. STERLING HEILIG. —._—_ AFRICA’S TERRIBLE FLY. 2 History and Habits of an Insect AU Explorers Hold in Dread. From the London Chronicle. We have been so accustomed to hear of the ravages of the tseise fly in South Africa that definite sctentific information on the subject cannot fail to be welcome. Surgeon Major Bruce, at the request of the Natal government, is investigating the habits, life, history, ete., of this terrible catt.e scourge. The fly has been well known for nearly fifty years to be in some way the cause of the e known among the Zulus as agana, a term signifying low or dep ad in spirits. The genus to which the fly be- is allied to the common blood-sucking and ix known Afri- spe all of which tsetse ap- pears to a common name. As showing » want of exact knowledge existing on the subj it is stated tha: tvers and travelers e even ioned the connection between the fly the di Th > eminent a dipterolo- sist Van der Wulp has concluded that the tsetse is not injurious, or that its ill effects are exaggerate rom Dr. Bruce's ervations it would appear that the fly viviparous, giving birth to adult lar a_most important fact hitherto unnoticed. The disease ttself, he finds, is due to the presence in the blood of en ineculated animal of a flagellated in- fusorian, a h n membrane, of its bod The apvearance he blood is. sit ture; the to twenty days, after which aematozoa may be found wimming ly among, and apparently “wo: * the corpuscles, the red-blood co or ning along one agellum at o1 eles becoming very numbers. With the pr the haematozoa incr at the time of their host's amount, in the dog, to 310,000. per millimeter of blood. s demonsirated that it is to pro: nm, but that, if allow draw blood from a dis=: ‘ass of one, they will c a to healthy animals. » disease is ably fatal in the h . ass, and dog, rhaps not nece ‘ily so in catue, i which it runs a much slower course. some preliminary experi rs to hay arked ac ing disappearance of the h z0a, reduction in temperature, and maint -nance of the red-blood corpuscles. the Same Play its Night After Night. Mary Anderson's Me When Repeated ors. Long runs, like most things, have their | good as well as becaus their bad poin Good, constant repetition so identifies one with the character impersonated that it be- comes second nature to feel and act ft. Iteration may in the end make one mechan- ical, but at least it insures a certain tech- nique, which, when inspiration fails, cues the work from crudity. Joseph Jeffer- son once told me that, in “The Rivals,” he had always gained an effect by pulling off the fingers of his gloves separately and de- liberately to accentuate certain words; but that ler inspiration he would throw technique to the winds, and have the glove eff with one jerk. Who that has ever seen his Bob can forget those brilliant green gloves and the fun he got out of them! On the other hand, the evil effects of long runs are indisputable. Prominent among them fs a general men- tal weariness which often causes one to forget the most familiar lines, and turn blankly to the prompter’s box or to some friendly actor for the words. This hap- pened to me several times, notably in “The Winter's Tale," in London, where, after playing it a hundred nights, I had to be prompted in several of Hermione’s great speeches. Edwin Booth, during the long run of “Hamlet” at his own theater, fre- quently called for the lines. An actor who was in his company told me that Booth turned to him one night, and with a lock of consternation, asked what he was to say next. His mind for the moment had be- come a blank. The actor gave him the word. Booth began the speech, faltered egain, was prompted a second time, but inding it im in a loud voice nle to continue, called out Ring down the curtain.” Many other examples -night be clted to show how weary the brain grows after cting the same part six or seven times weekly for one or two hundred consecutive nights, with only the rest of Sunday to dis- tract the mind. “Another evil is that toward the end of a long run the actor of any heavy or engrossing part is likely to feel the impersonated character ani its life slewly aispossessing his cwn. During the hundred nights of “Romeo and Juliet” at the Lyceum Theater I became so imbued with the sufferings of Juliet that [ continu- ally*spoke of them in my sleep. ——_—_+e+_ At the Whist Table. From the Chicago Record. “Louise, where does the intellectual exer- cise come in in playing whist?” “Oh, in getting other people to pay atten- tion to the gam 2 (The very latest innovation in smart cycling circles.) N. B.—The dog not only lends brilliance to equipage by his liveried presence, but guards the machine, in. the absence of his master or mistress, against that ubiquitous miscreant, the cycle thief. j a day, and if the soil begins to whiten on | Killed just as often by too much water as | by the lack of it. LAWNS AND GARDENS Some Practical Sugfestions on Sum- mer Floriculture, HOW 70 MAKE A LAWN The Kind of Grass Seed to Get and How t6 Mix It. ——_ HOW TO GROW PLANTS T IS TRUE THAT Americans with a few exceptions do not seem to take the same lively interest in the beautles of floricul- ture as a decorative means as do the householders of the old continent. This is due ng doubt to a great extent to the lack of grounds sur- rounding our homes as compared, for in- stance, with our more favored English cousins, who count their lawns by acres. They cannot favorably compare with those of London and Paris, as seen at the Crys- tal palace and the celebrated Battersea Park, near London, and the Louvre and ‘Tuileries. To Make a Lawn, The first step in the formation of a well regulated garden is the lawn. The shape of this must depend altogether upon the character and size of the grounds and space to be left for the garden prope Care shculd be taken, though, in grading t, to provide for its draining readily Leave no hollows for accumulation of wa-" ter. Drain gutters should be formed where necessary to carry off all surpius mois- Over the subsoil proper, spread at t six inches of sandy loam. ‘This loam composed of rotted leaves and sods and other rotted vegetable matter. Most all ground that has stood for any length of time undisturbed contains from four to ed six inches of loam, in a layer above the subsoil. Do not think that the addition of manures to a common subsoil or earth containing no rotted vegetation will make the r earth for a garden, for it will not. only imp the and their pa aw After the loam subsoil to the carefully temporar effect iy. soon earth, been spre: proper depth it should raked to remove all sticks 2 sto: The seed is then sown broade The following formula contains the mixture of seeds for sowing a lawn: One part Rhode three parts creeping bent parts red top bent grass 1 over the be ar Seed, ten : parts Kentucky blue grass seed, one part white clover. When and How. Buy your s to be sure and not be d sent, so as appointed in your lawn by having sown dead seed the Is are sown a rake should } ever the lawn, and then a roller to give it a smcoth and solid surface. If the are sewn in April or May a beaudful lawn can he grown by August. If the seeds are | sown deri hot months of July or} August as Saf abs should be sown with them, so that the shade of tne hardy oats will protect the tender young grass from the excessive kvat of the sun, How to Make a Garde: Now as to the girden yr There are two principal methods of starting plants, from the seed and the other from cut- s. Ir the former case the sceds are first started into life by a germinating or Prcpagating apparatus. If a germinating apparatus is unavailable 4 shallow box fill- ed with sand will answer, but the of growth will not be. so rapil. Du time the young plants the latter emp two irches of 1, a pots separated so that th circulation of sir around them must breathe through the porous sides of the pots. It is a gocd plan to put the young sprouts in sectional transplanting so that they may be removed when d without injuring the tender roots. One of the most popular forms of trar planting pots is that having its. v formed in two parts, hinged to so that when the plant is to be remove: they may be separated for and the roots thus kept intac A gre many who keep their plants alive through the winter prefer not to remo ’e them from the pots during the summer, but simply embed the pots in the earth of tie garden. If you contemplate so doing give a little care to the potting soil and the size pot em- ployed, if you would grow a_ successful plant. The soil should consist of two parts rotted sods and loamy pasture and one part rotted hops from breweries. The rotted sods can be secured by laying cut sod with their grassy sides together until the decompose. If the hops cannot ed, use rotted manure. fore using. be secur- | Sift the earth be- Plants in Pots. Now for the proper size pot to be em- ployed. Care should aiways be taken not to put a plant in too large a pot, for this is injurious. The plant should not be trans- ferred at all from a smaller to a larger pot Unless its roots are thoroughly “matted” nst the sides of the pot. It is often necessary even then to remove the sh the earth from the roots, and then replace it with fresh earth in the same pot. Do not shake the earth away from the roots, as this injures and breaks them, Do not fill your pots with the so- called “draining bottom” of charcoal, oy- ster shells, gravel, ete. This is an absurd seless proceeding, at least as porous pots are concerned. as all the drainage that is necessary is secured by the passaxe of the moisture through the porous sides of the pots. The hole in the bottom of the pot, though, should be cov- ered with a pebble to prevent the carth es- caping. Plants in pots should be watered more frequently than plants set in the beds as the evaporation and escape of moistur is more rapii. Starting Cattings. only plant and v | the needle, Of the numerous de for starting cut- tings in the garden the cone pot having an open bottom is one of the most effective. The cut branch containing the bud is buried in the earth some distance below the surface, and the lower open end of the pot placed over the bud to keep the earth from falling onto the same. The earth is then filled in about the pot, and the bud is thus protected and the branch well buried at both ends. In a short while the bud pushes up above the.top: of the pot, and the same may then be removed and the earth filled in. ; Arranging ‘the Beds. In arranging the “‘oufdcor beds care should be taken as to the proper position for the different varities of plants. A gar- den containing flowering plants should have an aspect towaril the south and east, as otherwise, generally stated, there will be no blooms, for plants do not bloom where they receive no son at all. Where the garden is in the, shade and receives sun for a very smalhpart of the day the following plants are the best: Fuchsias, pansies, forget-me-nots, «violets, lobelias, -of-the-valley, phtoxes and the like. Where the garden réreives no sun at all there can be no flowers,! and ornamental leaf plants, such as gold-and silver gera- niums, achyranthus, begénias, caladiums, centaurea and colens should be planted. Do not water the gardens more than oree the surface, it will indicate that the plants are receiving too much water. Plants are If you desire to cover summer houses or shaded walks, the most appropriate vines are grape vines, climbing roses, honeysuckles, clematis, akebia and Virginia creeper. A Hanging Fernery. A very beautiful hanging fernery for the garden or the house may be constructed as follows: First secure a porous vessel of any desired shape. A piece of wire netting is then placed flat upon a table and live moss laid upon the same with the roots upper- most. The ferns from which the stems and leaves have been removed are then laid upon the upturned moss roots and both the moss and ferns sewed to the wire netting by wire thread. The netting is then drawn up about the porous jar with the moss and ferns inside and next to the jar, and is se- cured at the top about the neck of the jar. The jar is then suspended and filled with water. In a short time the ferns will grow through the moss and netting, and after the leaves have grown wiil thoroughly con- ceal both jar and netting. The roots of the ferns are always supplied with mois- ture through the pores of the jar, and thus the principal drawback to the growing of ferns is overcome by thus providing a con- tinuous supply of moisture. All the at- tention that is necessary is to keep the jar well filled with water. Many prefer to keep their plants in the windows and upon stands in the house or on the porches dur- ing summer. ——_—_. NERVES IN MIND CURE. The Marvelous Effect of Mind on the Body. From the Literary Digest. The influence of the mind over the body as a factor in determining certain phases oz health or sickness is acknowledged by all physicians, just as they acknowledge the potency of any other agency, whether external, as exercise, or internal, as opium, aloes or any other drug. ‘They simply ob- ject to the adoption of any one of these egencies to the utter exclusion of all oth- ers, whether the favored agency be mental action, muscular movément or some special drug. So far as the action of the mind is effective, It is so through that remarkable system of nerves called the “great sym- pathetic.” The functions of these nerve and their influence in controlling the phy- ical organization 1s well set forth by Dr. A. J. Park of Chicago, in an essay on “Mind, Prayer and the Supernatural { Healing,” which he first read at a meetin ot “The Round Table” in that city. “We quete the part in which he treats of this Pparticuiar subject: “The class of nerves involyed in such de- Trangements as affect the bodily organs is the great sympathetic system, which has dots reservoirs (called ganglions) all through the human organism where nerve force and nerve currents are gencrated and stored, und by its network of fibers con- situting a telegraphic system of infinite sensibility, which dwarfs all human con- trivances and preserves a uniform and equal degree of temperature and sensibility throughout the bod: “The nerves of sen of motion occupy a tion, though clo: thetic system. Th the me: sorium ation and the nerves subordinate posi- ly allied to the sympa- nerves of sensation are which convey to the sen- sensation and impression, every ‘ant or painful, that is made upon the neous recel it a4 ¥ Hence, shield; and ery impr ed and transmitted carries from the great symp: it will appear clear, upon a at the sympathetic nervou like a monarch over the and sen: ns of ever; ng; that, as its uses and power: vital are to life, so are its normal func- tions essential to quipoise. “The absolute a > control that ympatl 1 organization is known to ever. 1 of the phenomena in the cries of manif. We are all prac: that digestion is pi the re of bad once di si the whole system feels pressing impulse, the re which lowers the Fear not on functions, but ar secretions upon sudden fright ‘art beyond re and pleas coun unnecessary the fact upon news, , and whi. frequ ently xeity in- and eretions, sends a thrill of jey t which diffuses the g every nerve fibril in the complex In v of th temical fact that the method of cure k or the Swedish mover conversation ard earnest the sensorium of fresh array of impressions nergetic rubbing of the body physiolo} it is perfectly clear how wn asm at prayer, id capillary tem, imparts rene dormant invigorates ani enables the weak and stem to thr eff effete ter, revi the cireulation, increa the heart’ nd arouses the flic! i nd vacillating Lup to the | hone ing From the London T An outery has been raised at Paris by some of those useful and indispensable ad- juncts of every respectable household, | namely, the femmes de chambre, who are or employment ial “bureau de placement, registr These Abigails or soubrettes, as the: called on the stage, have numerov ances, They complain that when the out of work they are obliged to “nter boarding houses, where they have to ply mething after the fashion of Hood's shirtmaker, and when they have toiled for a few weeks they perhaps get employment in what they term a “box,” meaning a small household, at about 30f, a month. Sometimes they enter homes kept by religious persons, who, they say, only obtain employment for them when they know the Bible by heart. Another grievance of the domestics that they are being replaced by foreigne either English or German, especially t former, owing to the fact that French ma- trons now desire that not only their ch dren, but they themselves, should learn the language of Shakespeare and Milton. Some of the tirewomen who have been abroad advise their companions to try America, where French nurses are in good request. One servant in particular, who is among those actively conducting the movement for the foundation of the special registry, re- lates that she had a splendid situation in the United States, where she earned nearly £ monthly, obtained many dollars every week by way of largesse, and lived on the fat of the land. Her dream of bliss and is prosperity was, however, cut short hy ‘he sudden death of her generous mistress, whose widowed hushand soon afterward consoled himself for his loss by marr his cook. Of course, when the cook began to assert herself in her new station the “help” from Europe had to pack up trunk and bandboxes and take a 1 home by the first liner. The new mis would only have around her pec she herself had chosen, and the « sweeps was made of all the domes. had been engaged under the old -se+—— Columbus, Behind h'm lay the gray Azove: Behind the Gate: Before him not th Before tim only ¥ sailed, ard saile ‘atil at last the bla 2 Why, now not even God would know ould T and ail my men fall dead. e very winds forget th od from thes Kk, They sailed! They stiled! Then spake the mad sea shows its tecth toni; Is his lip, he Hes in wait liftetl teeth, as if to bite! dm‘r'l, say shall we do when hope is com ‘The words leaped as a Ioaplng sword: “Sail ont sail on! sail on! and on! 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Paris Correspondence in London T “ph. F fia uae ek oa n. Sir Michael Biddulph has written a |) eg reat highly inceresting letter to M. Germain | 00 0 oy ee Bapst, the archgeologist and historical | [W005 Mf sbigearta writer, It is on the subject of the famous | 9°"! ay words, “J'y suis, J'y reste,” uttered by | A" Marshal de MacMahon in the Malakoff | C)D0r | Sens a during the Crimean campaign. The au- | PIP use | ng from hali-ounce to thenticity of the phrase has been much | See ak Boe a eae doubted of late. Tt was supposed to be | [WeNty-tou like the “Up, guards, and at them” of the | ¥& sa < ; Duke of Wellington, and a hest of other | tack. A twenty it more or less apocryphal sentences and | one and on mots handed down by picturesque but un- | There are many Finds " rupulous historlographers. M. Bapst ac-| 4 great variety of uses ordingly wrote on the subject to Gen. Sit | fp ja many adi Micnael Biddulph, and he has received an| gimp tacks. look Seat Toe ee __ | Sterers’ tacks, trunk entence, ling 20 this] socket’ sacha ‘brom. ts authority, is perfectly authe: The Brit- wnk tacks, lasting tar ish general, who was in command of the bx tagks and tac submarine telegraph service during the Within the + . closing days of the siege of Sebastopol, - of double-pointed tacks h. i states that he saw MacMahon in person 1d with the greatly incre of directing a splendid and stubbornly fought | cieectrical wires. abl o-poirte a zttack on the fort. After having watched ing Gown s t the fighting for some moments the British | pur}oses officer went up to the marshal and asked | sold in papers ar 2p him what he should report to Gen. Simp- | half weights and ter sc ut the position of the Frei troops | hts indicating th of at the Malakoff. MacMahon turned calmly kinds of tack round, and, pointing to the fort, said: “All and 30) vd goes well; you can say that I'm’ there, and that I mean to stop there.” Z —- nee *k machine WO tacks: 9 the machine width a lit How the Day Was Won. sland Piain r. quoth the chief of staff,"the Ama- | embling on the right wing and From t Sire, zons are upset Tor will make evidently intend to turn our jeft with a | vigorous charge.” “Do you mean the Amazonian wheel | put up nowadays in. tied corp: | : pul up mostly in little ps “Yes, sire, and they are a gallant sight. | Se ee ene ar ae Their wheels have ail been renickeled, and boxes and in turn in cases for #! they have donned their new ashes bloomers for the first time. do to avert the danger?” “Order out the royal sprinkling carts.” Tot thera anake the: battle ground in front of our left wing as mnddy as pos- -of-roses, What shall we A comme shing about 100 pound annual tack product of at avout 20,000 tons. all put up in p assortment of sizes an s would nu about 200,040,000, oF n four papers per capita tack 4 the Just as soon as the charging Amazons | < i-th in their new silk bloomers strike that mud j Food for Rett they will whirl about and ride back as fast as they can ped: ‘For what, si ‘or their m From the “Lam nothing to cat, in a I've got thing I've got and the 1 guards, st we advance rapidly enough to pawn is my false t and if I pawn them before they can them and bey somet ‘ 1 straight the day is ours!” can’teat it. In such an awfal And it was even so. fix in all my li Foreign Parts.—llarpir's f zar,