Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1896, Page 18

. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1896--TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. : THE STOLEN (Copyright, 1896, by the OOO PART I. My ewa poor holidays were of the scan- tiest at the time of this narration. I had enjeyed my freedom for ten days of June, but (though the period bade fair to live forever in my memory) I seemed to have been already a twelvemonth back at work upon the evening when I found Dick's let- ter awaiting me at my lodgings. “My Dear Mortimer: I am in town at last; arvived last night. Come around and smoke a pipe—tonight, if possible; I've a hundred things to tell you. Meanwitle— | if you'll believe it—I'm engaged. Yours, Dick."" My own vacation, I have said, had lasted | but ten days. As for Dick, his occupa- tion was one that permiited him a multi- tude of pleasant relaxations. Ue had a small—a very smali—private income; and, further, he wrote pretty frequently for a ber of the magazines and weekly jour- es he stopped in town for a ou saw his inttials affixed in js to little sketches of Lon- don life, as seen in the pit of a theater, in an omnibus, on the Underground— wherever, in fact, his carefully planned | eccentricities conducted him. At other | times he would give you the history cf a Saturday to Monday tramp in Kent er Surrey, or, 1, he would be right away d for a week or two would to deep sea fish- else might Now this frcm London, full of information duck shooting or whate’ have been his latest oceupati > that told of his engacer first that I had h we had certainly holidays, for I hi my return, tter writing. news he told me was le, for I also, to tell the truth, i in my ten days of freedom viable are the liberties of a mere I remained free for the pres- I nevertive. ho} to follow » before the year was out. been s a found hin and neither of of us eared e pleasant- ent, his e: In- One can do a good deal in ten day deed, I had fallen hopele: in love in less than that mmber of hours. But I felt it rather much to ask that Maud should have recognizei ard learned to reciprocate my feelings in so short a time, and so I had not spoken. All the same, I knew that it would be a crushing disap- pintment to me if she had not accom- it. Her home was at Brighton, e once told me, and she well knew my “I shall be stopping there for a few days at Christinas time,” I id. “Per- | naps I shail see “You will com call on us, won't you?” she had ‘rom that | day to this I had been wondering ly what vitation from till awaited ould extract an i The question { Found Myself Gazing at the Photo- xraph Maud Cameron. its solution, and now that f was as- red of happiness I was all the more de- termined to secure that invitation—even though I had to ask for it in plain terms, ; or ume, with an Insolence foreign y nature, that it kad been given long or Maud—I could find no words to ex- her. I put my hand into the breast- 1 of my coat, and drew out a photo- It was not a very good likeness; the hair was not dressed fn the fashion which d become famfliar to me—and that fash- fon, of a surety, was the most charming that ever occurred to the mind of ingenious woman. But stfll, the picture had enough of her to be for me the most beautiful thing in the world—save only her sweet self. I had stolen it, to teil the truth. She was stopping with the Luttrells, with whom I spent my holiday at Sandybar; and Madge Luttrell was a great favorite of She had detected or foreseen my de- to Maud, I think, even before it re- elf to me. At any rate, I knew be discreet, and, trusting to her . Thad stolen this precious photo- »h out of her album upon the morning I left Sandybar. d soon finished the meal which stood y¥ for me, and from which I had been t by Dick's note and by the emotions iting from its perusal. Then I found at and stick and my very largest pipe, et out across London to Dick's rooms. 1 in darkness and untenanted . but TE knew that he wonld not fail me. and struck a match to discé if he had left a note to me when he wo ck at 8,” it read. “Meantime, cy and a new evenson. it upon the stroke of 7, so [ lit the the Stew d_prepared to epend an hour p! The passed most hap) hook and fillea my ‘pipe. I walked across the room te take a spill from the mantel- if, and in a moment found myself &az- photograph of Maud Cameroa— the giri i loved, the girl I hoped to marry. It was In a frame of elaborately beaten silver, already somewhat tarnished by to- bal “9 smoke, and beyond a doubt was a of Dick's fiancee. Still gazing stricken with cold despair, and ng to read in her face (now that her 'y 'was revealed) some sign which should have warned me not to trust her, I observed that this was now the one and only photograph adorning his mantelshelf. Now, in the old days Dick had been some. thing of a connoisseur in female beauty. his mantel had been interesting with pic- tures of a dozen pretty dancing girls and actresses. Two or three of these were even autographed. That Maud should have usurped the place which at once sufficed for a dozen was proof positive that she was the sole mistress of his heart. And yet I could have sworn she would be- tray no trust reposed in her. I turned away from the mantel—her face looked forth upon me like a stranger’s out of that frame—and took my copy of her photo- graph from my pocket. I taid it upon the table in the full light of the lamp. It had not all her beauty; her loveliness was haif of ever-changing expression, and so must needs escape the camera. But still the pic- ture gave the lie to all the overwhelming evidence which had crushed my faith in her. For a moment I was content; he might account himself master of her love; might, ‘f it pleased him, belfeve that no man dis- puted with him the kingdom of her heart. For a moment, despite all evidence, I be- lieved that she was still true to the un- spoken fact between us; that she could not betray me. There was a sudden sound of footsteps on the stair, a hand upon the door, and (even as I thrust back her photograph Inte oo the door opened and Dick en- BY NATHANIEL DAWSON. “Hope you've not had long to wait,”*he Said. “I bad to be out for awhtie.” “Not long,” I answered. “And I—I found lenty to occupy me. And now, I sup- pese, I must congratulate you?” Dick laughed. “Do you only suppose? I am the luckiest beggar in the world. But never mind; you will see her some day, and then you will speak differently. You will etvy me—madly; for, indeed. But we'll PHOTOGRAPH, Bacheller Syndicate.) wait until you have ise you you may sa! gratulations. Here is her photograph, by the bye: a wretchedly bad one, but still not all unlike.” He moved to the mantel and handed me ber picture, inclosed in that abominable frame of his. I took it from him, and for a minute and more gazed hard upon her face. is all true,” I kept whispering to my- self. “She has betrayed me.” Dick watched me in silence, evidently convinced of my admiration; in reality I was wondering whether it would be better to tell him that we had met. Presently he broke silence. ‘‘Well?” he said, holding out his hand for the return of her photograph. “You are very lucky,” I answered, slow- ly. “She is very beautiful. ‘Aye,” he said, contentedly, “but you don't know how beautiful. That photo- There is None Like Her. You Two Must Meet Ench Other. gzaph is a libel.” He put it back upon the mantel shelf, and selected a pipe. Then he stretched himself in an easy chair. “Sit down,” he said. “{ have not heard a word of you since you went for your holi- day in June. Have you nothing to tell me? Still confirmed in your misogyny?” ‘ou mistake,” I said. “I am not a hater of the sex. I am merely not engaged.” You will laugh,” he answered, “and say I judge you by the measure of my own acts. But, upon my faith, I fancied as I came upon you that you would be telling me in 4 moment that you aiso were in my predicament. I thought you were looking at something as I entered—I thought you were Icoking at a photograph. I was de- ceived? You have nothing to tell?” He had foretold that these conjectures would amuse me, and accordingly I made shift to find a laugh. “Nothing,” I said. “Your own good for- tune makes you the well-wisher of all. And yet—has it struck you?—the fact that you have secured felicity does but darken the general prospect. There were a score who would have been mcst happy with her love, and maybe ten who already were dying for her. You are most happy, they most mis- erable.” He laughed lightly. “Yes,” he said; “I expect the other beggars are cut up. But they'll console themselves somehow, thougan there is none like her. You two must know one ancther; indeed, she is already eager for your acquaintance.” I was steeled, 1 had thought, against all that he could tell me, but upon this I well-nigh betrayed myself. Had she admitted that her fancy for me—I knew that she had come near to loving me— was dead. I could have berne my burden uncomplainingly, and might at last have forgotten. But that she should deny that it had existed—that she had even known me; this was past toleration. “Tney live at Brighton,” ued, “‘so that we are not too far away to visit them. You must come down some day with me. I want ycu to know he There are times when It were unwise to be sincere. shall be delighted,” I said, even while I reviewed the excuses upon which I should be able to rely in the event of his some day tendering a more definite invitation. Then I turned the conversation into other channels, and in a little while (somewhat to the disgust of my friend, who had mucn to tell) I left. Dick contin- PART Il. It occurred to me as I traveled” home- ward that Dick had not told me where or how he had managed to make the ac- quaintance of Mand. But. of course, he had been stopping at Sandybar and had met her (even as I had done) at the sum- mer residence of the Luttrells. I won- dered vaguely that they had never men- tioned my name to Dick, and that Madge Luttrell, my stanch ally, had not found means to warn me. And when I had reached my Icdgings I put a match to the fire. It blazed up qvickly, and as it did so I tore my treasured photograph into a hundred fragments and burned them one by one. The fire had fallen to a heap of gray ashes before I thought of bed; but in it there had been consumed the whole structure of hopes which had sustained my life, and I seemed to behold their ruins in the little heap of gray ashes. I went to beG, and for long hours lay tossing, a prey to a hundred miserable re- flections. But with the dawn I fell asleep, and a cruel fate sent me back the old dead I Tore My Treasured Photograph Into a Huadred Fragments. dream. For in my sleep methought 1 went down to Brighton and told her of my love. She had welcomed me with smiles and blushes, and when I spoke her eyes fell for a moment. I stood before her eagerly awaiting her answer, knowing full well that she would give me the reply I desired. Then she raised her eyes to zine; her Ups opened—and suddenly she 3 gone. Dick entered at the door, and she was at his side. “Mortimer, old man," he said, “I want to Introduce you to the lady who has prom- ised to be my wife.’ And thereupon, most miserable, I awoke. My Hfe throughout the weeks that fol- lowed was wretched in the extreme. For- tunately they were unusually busy at the offiee, so that I had but little time where- in to dwell upon my great misfortunes. Moreover, being thus coenietely occupied, I was not at a loss for reasonable excuses whenever Dick urged me to come more frequently to his rooms. My own deser- tlon was a thing to which I had to recon- cile myself, but for the present I would not willingly be the witness of his extreme felicity. He sent me a copy of his first bock, which came out at this time, and even there my unhappiness was cast in my face, for the thing was dedicated to “M. C.” I can’t say I read i, though I had been keen enough about it while it was still in the SE About a month passed in this man- ner, when I had a note one from Mrs. “Dear Mr. Mortimer: We have taken tickets for the Lyceum matinee on Satur- day, and three or four friends are to meet ug there. I wonder if you are free that afternoon, and would care to meet us at Charing Cross and go with us to the thea- ter. Yours very truly, “FRANCES LUTTRELL.” To be candid, the invitation pleased me. I knew that Madge would be of the party, and I counted her my friend. 1 accepted, therpfore, and on Saturday was waiting in good. time at Charing Cross. It was a miserable foggy day, and I half feared they would not come. But though their train was somewhat deJayed they presently arrived, and we took a cab along the Strand. Madge looked unusually pretty, and greeted me with a disappointing cheer- fulness. I had counted on a little sympa- thy from her, but her aspect was one of rather mischievous enjoyment. It would have been timely enough if she had held in store fer me some very delightful sur- prise. She even referred to a matter which I had hoped for a month past had escaped her observation. “I did not think that you would descend to theft,” she said. “I would have given it to you. And of course you have dis- covered your mistake?” ‘We were entering the theater as she spoke; there was a momentary press of People, and I affected not to have heard her speech. Indeed, I was not a little angry: her clumsiness was obviously intentional for I was well aware that she in no wise suffered from want of tact. A moment later we were belng shown tc our sess. “Will you take the inside seat?” said Madge, and I moved obediently to the last vacant place—next to a lady whose face was turned from me. I was just taking my seat when she turned and looked at me. She had the grace to blush—for it wat Maud Cameron—but there was no tremor 2) her voice when she spoxe a mcment er. “How do you do?” she said, politely. And in the same words I answered her. For a few moments Madge Luttrell leant forward and talked to ner. Then the orchestra began the overture, and she lean- ed back in her seat and was silent. Maud and I were in sume sort left together. I did my best to play the part that fate required of me. I cucgeled my brains for polite rothings wherewith to fill up the dreadful moments, but I could think of nothing. Presently she leaned a little nearer, and spoke to me in her soft, pretty voice. “You have nothing to say?” she said. “You may talk, you knew.” IT turned to her with a look of despera- tion. Why could she not leave me to my- self? “I had forgotten,” I said. “I must con- sratulate you—or Dick, at any rate.” “Oh!” she answered, smilingly, “you may congratulate me also, do not fear. It has happened marvelously wel I bowed. “Marvelously well!” I echoed. “Yes,” she continued; “and particularly in that you are his special friend. It is so nice for the wife when the husband's friend is nice. But why didn’t you tell him you knew the Luttrells—and me?” i stared at her, incredulous of her cruel- ty. “How could I tell him?" I said indig- nantly. “You had denied acquaintance with me, and since you had forgotten do you think I wished to remember?" I was a trifle startled at the effect of this speech. It should have silenced her, I thought; but it seemed as if I had injured hy and now a greater indignation than my own arose in her. “It is not true,” she said. “What do you mean? I saw him cnly a fortnight ago, when I returned from Sandybar, and I distinctly remember telling him that day I had met vou there. Mother did suggest that he might bring you down one Sat- urday, but of course—” I interrupted. “You only saw him a month ago? Why, ‘tis a full month since re told me you were engaged. And yet you have known him only a fortnight? Ske looked at me with a sort of pitiful amazement. “He told you he was engaged to me? Why, he's engaged to Mary, my sister. And besides, you might—" A new life entered into me; the old hi lived again. Yet I was unconvinced. She Looked at Me With a Sort of Piti- ful Amazement. shcwed me your photograph,” I said. She looked at me a moment Slowly, the bewilderment faded from her face, and it appeared she was mightily amused. “Did he tell you my name?” she asked. “He showed me your likeness, and told me you were engaged to him. I don’t re- member if he told me your name. But there was no need; I do not forget so eas- ily.” Maud chuckled—there is no other word. “You had seen the photograph before?’ she said. “I stole it out of Madge Luttrell’s ‘al- bum the day I was to leave Sandybar. I thought—’ “Surely it was a little curious to steal the photograph of a lady you had never met! For it is to Mary, my sister, that Mr. Ferguson is engaged, and it was her pho- tograph you took from Madge’s album. She is considered rather like m I was stunned with the sudden joy and with the sense of my great stupidity. I knew that her eyes were upon me, and would have given worlds to be with her, for a moment only, away from this great crowd of people. “I burnt it,” I said, “a month ago. You will give me one of your own?” She answered nothing, and at that mo- ment the curtain rose. But I was well content. —>__ FRESH EGGS FROM CHINA. They Are Ducks’ Eggs With Red Yolks and Come Coated With Mud. Ficm the Chicago Times-Herald. “Fresh eggs from China,” is a conspicu- ous sign posted in the windows of the Chi- nese stores and restaurants on Clark street. But the announcement is in Chinese char- acters. The eggs are a delicacy that come to Chicago every fal! from China. The ex- aminers’ room in the custom house has for the last two weeks been strewn with the square paper-covered boxes, wrapped with bamboo splits, which hold the consign- ments of fruits, vegetables and grocerie for the Chines2 of Chicago and the central ‘west. Not the least among the things im- ported are the duck eggs. At least 30,000 of them have passed through the custom house the last two weeks. Each egg is wrapped in a mass of black mud, that re- tains its puttylike consistency for months, evea when exposed to the air. They come in boxes holding twenty-five Chinese dozen —that is, ten. Everything that comes from China is purchased by tens. The eggs thus keep absolutely fresh. Peeling the mud coating from them, the faint blue unt of the shell is disclosed. The only difference between the eggs of an American duck and a Chinese fowl, and an unfailing mark that keeps the dealer from practicing a de- ception, is that the yolk, instead of being yellow, has a color of an American beauty Tose. Another big importation is rice prepared as a gelatinous, thread-like ~ substance, which looks most palatable. The canned goods include vegetables, mainly beans and cabbage. But the Chinese dote on salted foods and most of the cabbages come shred- ded and salted, together with beans and mushrooms, and a sea moss that resembles black wool. Shark fins and oysters are dried and salted, and salted plums are a delicacy. Lichee nuts are canned in a thick sirup, and others, dried in the husk, are packed in baskets. The nut is rot unlike the date in flavor. ————-e+_____ How He Turned Out. From Judge. African Explorer—‘How did that new missiorary turn out that was sent here last year?” King Chewbutts—That feller? wry, jas turned out to be a regular pud- eg ee A Desirable Omission. Frem the Springfield Republican. : ‘What a pity that the last three weeks of @ presidential campaign cannot be omitted! It would save us such an amount of wretchedness over the fate of the nation. IN A DENTIST CHAIR Tooth Filling a Counter Irritant to a | Weary Soul. PAULINE | PRY’S MUSINGS The Infamous Rubber Dam and the Agony It Inflicts. WOMAN LOSING HER JAW OME WOMEN when they are tired a | !y of living commit sui- elde; others get mar- — I found the counter- ; Srritant a dentist ap- plies to the misery of “a weary soul I Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. ried. I go to a dent- ist. So helpful have i il aim always to keep Poy. ,a few cavities con- #2 healed about my “FT teeth to be used as aN occasion demands. An occasion is invariably present at this season of the year—the season when a woman might go mad considering how to be respectable with $4.98 on hand and $08.04 worth of new clethes to be bought there- with. I'll tell you right here—if you haven't made the discovery yourself—respectability is eternally incompatible with everything in life but mere money. I say mere money because the instant you are wealthy and anything besides you are necessarily more or less than respectable. What is it to be respectable, anyhow? I asked a woman who is not so, and she told me with a shrug of the shoulders, “Oh, to be respectable is to wear red flannels and be very, very dull.” I asked a man no better, and he said, “To be respectable? Why, my dear, it is to be ridiculous and pay your bills before your credit is exhausted.” I asked @ woman, ultra-respectable, what respecta- bility is, and she would not answer me, but, gathering her skirts about her, went next door and told my neighbor I am not respectable to ask such questions. Well, I am not. How can one be on $4.95? I'll tell you this, though: Give me 320,000 a year and make me over so that I care more for my reputation than my character; wind me up to act so that people think well of me in spite of what I know of myself—in a word, save my good name and let both my beast and my saint go hang, then I'll be not only respectable, but happy. At the Dentist’s, But who will do this for me? therefore, is left? my dentist. “Ah, yes; this is a terrible tooth. pain you very much."! Already I care less for the vanities of life, and my sick sbul'begins to look up. “Really, your teeth are in a frightful condition. This éne may have to come out.” Here I raise.my Ebenezer. What matter to me, now that J] em neither respectable nor happy? The opportunity of a sublime agony is at ty command, and, after all, what is so intoxicating as pain? Pleasur That is well. enough for small souls and large bank accounts, but an exposed nerve, the grip of forceps on an ulcerated tootin— truly, the delirium is more perfect than love, absinthe or a new bonnet. Besides, it is cheaper. ti Do not make the mistake. however, of going to an old or unattractive dentist. To uote from a poet dentist, L. C. F. Hugo— Howeve~ good the instrument and plan, ‘Their work is only equad to the man. What He Must Ne Like. Valuable as decayed teeth and dentistry are, as an antidote to the poison that en- ters into a woman's soul when the new clothes she wants are beyond her means, the surcease from misery possible to be found in a dentist's chair depends largely on the dentist. He must be‘ handsome—the handsomer"h= is the better. He should also be masterful and wholly ufisympathet- ic. Few men are brave enough nowadays to beat a woman, and thus the twentieth cen- tury woman in her relations with men misses the greatest benefit and joy the sex can bestow upon her. These happily are hers when a dentist having her bound and sagged and utterly at his mercy, cuts into her fiesh as he pleases and does it with the kingly air of a man exercising a nat- ural prerogative. I go into a dentist's chair an opinionated, self-sufficient, grasp- ing fin de siecle creature, perfectly con- scious of my dominion over all the beasts of the field, least among which man ap- pears, and at the end of a single sitting I am as much of a mush of silly, sweet sim- plicity as the lamb Pope describes—the pa- thetic, helplessly trusting little lamb that “dicks the hand just raised to take its blced.”” After being in the chair of a properly good-looking and deliciously brutal dentist the other day until every nerve in my head had*taken an ache and opened a French ball, in the humility of my position, it oc- curred to me that possibly I might learn scmething from a man. Accordingly, I be- gan asking the dentist questions. Information and Agony. Among other odd bits of information I thus gained is that no device of dentistry has yet succeeded in stopping a woman's tongue. Cram her mouth with cotton, seal it over with a rubber dam, and she man- ages to talk anything that comes into her head, though a man in the same situation is unable to do more than groan. For this reason dentists commonly charge a bit more for treating women than for treating men. This is a secret of the profession, of course, but why should I possess a secret if not to tell it? Speaking of the rubber dam, if I uttered my honest sentiments concerning that thing, I would reverse the words and add a few letters to the dam. I know that does not sound pretty coming from a woman, but neither does it half express the wicked- ness that abomination contains. Spanish inquisitors must turn enviously in their graves if they are able to witness how superior to screws, racks and all their other comparatively innocent, old-fashioned instruments of torture is the dentists rub- ber dam. Does anybody, anywhere, un- der any circumstances, know anything more exquisitely horrible than the putting on of that thing? With what ghoulish glee the dentist, having snapped the rub- ber over the tooth, and sprung a deadly steel clamp on top of it, takes an instru- ment diabolical in tnverse proportion to its size, and relentiéssly grinds that dam, dam, dam, down into the quivering, scream- ing flesh of your gum, until he gets tired of the pleasure this affords him, when he quits, leaving’ the thing fastened in the spot it hurts’ thé’ most. Whenever any doubt enters ‘his hind whether it is still grinding on your Sorest spot, he suspends other le3ser barbarfties and presses on the steel clamp hojding the dam until the vol- ume of tears Sti ing down your cheeks satisfies him ‘that/‘tiothing worse can be hoped from it? it scarcely seem$"credible that the mon- ster Whe invshted’the dam is a hero of self-sacrifice. “‘The’ fact remains, however. Had he paterited ‘Ris invention he might have been a rfiulti-millionaire, but he choge rather to die poor ‘tind give his idea to the profession he ‘served. I think, myself, pos- sibly he dreaded the maledictions of lay posterity certain to be heaped upon a name that dared to father such a brutal idea, and so he let it go to the account of den- tists in general. But this is only my opin- fon, und you may still consider him a hero ff you Hke. What, Nothing but to go to It will ‘Woman's Jaw. earned one thing of my dentist that is of the greatest interest to women. In the Progress of the survival of the fittest we are losing ovr jaw. As our brain bulges our jaw recedes; as our intellects broaden tt ts at the expense of our jaw. Think of this, Mary Elizabeth Lease, Susan B. An- thony and all ye other advocates of the further and further advancement of wo- man. What will you. or any of the sex, be able to do in the world with your jaw all gone? That is, nevertheless, the eatastro- phe that comforts our advancing civiliza- tion. Our jaws are growing narrower, and certain ones of our teeth are going the way of the tail of the missing iink. As a result of dental deterioration, not cnly the structure of our teeth is changing, but also the anatomy of our jaw. The upper wisdom teeth of civilized nations now have commonly but two roots, whereas exhumed ancient jaws show uniformly three dis- tinct roots. The “law of economy of srowth” has further determined that these teeth shall decay readily, and in @ constant- ly increasing number of ‘nstanc2s they are Suppressed altogether. Too, the first bi- cuspid in the upper jaw is occasionally missing, and these two classes of teeth, the least useful in the set, are times with- out number having to be removed now- adays because our narrowed jaw is over- crowded by a complete set of teeth. Pleavinggerowtghivenkn? mh mh hmm mm If the new woman would do something for her jaw before It is everlastingly too late, she should chew gum. My dentist told me that, other things being equal, to- bacco chewers have better teeth than non- chewers. This is not on account of any known virtue in the weed, but because of the exercise involved. If’ Mary Blizabeth ase considers it unmanly to chew gum, she may use tobacco, but whether gum or tobacco is the material employed, the inus- cular effort expended in chewing is in the line of economic conservation, and for the future of our jaw we should chew some- thing. Why Teeth Decay. ‘The general decay of teeth would seem to indicate that the goverament has been none too early in setting Prof. Atwater to work to solve the problem of putting up the nutrients of a square meal in pili form, to be swallowed without chewing. Dr. Beers, a Montreal authority, estimates that in American und Canadian cities of 50,000 peo- ple not 100 are to be found between the ages of four and fourteen who have es- caped caries and premature loss of some of the teeth, and but for habitual recourse to dentists, the natural course of such rav- ages would be to make men and women all toothless by the time they are forty. Americas have the worst teeth on carth. This is mainly due to our cros: breeding, and our impaired nervous systems conse- quent upon our intense activity. We do not have the sort of food our teeth need, and | we do not take the time to chew what w eat. “Nobody chews his food nowaday says my dentist—“unless perforce ne lives in a Washington boarding house.” Odd, isn’t it, to think of Washington boarding tutions, serving tough meat with the noble aim of rescuing fallen humanity from the evils of dentai deterioration. of the great and good work these boarling houses are thus carrying on, my dentist tells me that “if the miller continues to im- prove the fineness of flour; if the cook Continues to improve in the art of making dishes for the palate only, and to muitip! the number of highly-seasoned, stomaci teasing compounds called ‘fancy dishes;’ the kitchen stove continues to do our chew- if we continue to dispatch our food by the watch, and, instead if insali- vating the morsel, send it down und voy of iced water or scalding coffee continue to limit our physical exe the rocking chair or to the office stool; ‘e continue to Jet, as Shakespeare say: But in spite | | meet this evening to elect officers for the | with Columbia of New York UNIVERSITY NOTES Georgetown University. Father J. Havens Richards, S. J., at- tended the sequi-centennial ceiebration of Princeton's foundation as Georgetown’s representative and returned Friday. Archbishop Reardon, in attendance upon the meeting of the hierarchy of the Catholic University, spent a day at Gcorgetown this week and a holiday was given the students in his honor. Prof. Judd and Prof. Ware are assist- ing Prof. Stiles in the biological depart- ment, and the latter is also giving a course of lectures on biology before the medical students, A moderator is to be appointed by the Fresident to preside over the mectings of the Philademic Society, the Position being vacated by the death of Mr. Boone, S. J. it is probable that he will name Prof. Devitt of the philosophical school or Prof. Shandell of the post-graduate department. The question debated at the last meeting of the society Thursday evening was: “Ke- solved, That the ection of the democratic cenvention in scoring the Supreme Court of the United States was justifiable.” The affirmative was supported by Donohue, ’# and Tremoulet, "97, while O’Donohue, and Fox, "97, upheld the negative. At the close of the discussion a popular vote was taken and favored the negativ 17 to» Dixon, “YS; Bates, 98; Gower, "OS; Alexan- der, "97, and McAleer, "9k, were elected members. The queszion for debate at the rext mecting has not been announced as yet. Mr. Farrell, 8. J., of Woodstock, has been appointed as one of the prefects of the house, vice Boone, deceased. The Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club is doing some excellent practice work, as is also the Glee Club. The law school debating society will ersuing year. A series of jcint debat- talked of, but no definite arrangements have been made. =i , fhe senior law class met Friday ing and in the elected othcers. Justice Brown of the Supreme Court will ccmmence his course of lectures cn admi' alty and maritime law Monday evening. Prof. J. J. Darlington will deliver a course of special lectures on general sub- even lurse of a lively meeting | Jects during the winter term. houses as great physiological reform insti- | In the moot court, Justice D. W. Baker rresiding, case No. was tried without a jury, and after argument by coutiscl, F. P. Des Gavenues and W. H. White for th plainuiff, and H. B. Hodge and E. B. Fox for the defendant, was taken under ad- Yisement. A decision will be han down Thursday of next week. The question in- volved is whether a set-off of the maker | Against the payee enures to the benefit of the holder, a third person, who has taken | ‘sweaty haste make the night joint iaborer | with the day,’ a thousand years hence our successors will be practically without bicus- pids and molars, and the wearing of plates or bridges will have become as common as the wearing of shoes.’ Physical Degeneracy. Decay and disappearance are by no means all, nor the worst evidences of phys- ical degeneracy our jaws exhibit. Hideous eccentricities of the formation of the jaws and of the positions of the teeth have be- come so common as to have occasioned the development of a special branch of den- tistry—dental orthopedia—the aim of which is to straighten the position of the teeth, and also to correct all deformities that ure due to a malposition of the teeth, or that can be corrected through the medium of the teeth. This is accomplished by means of various appliances — screws, springs, bands, bars—attached to the teeth when the immaturity of the bones permit then to yield most readily to the proper force, which is directed not alone to changing the position of the teeth, but to altering the shape and position of the jaws themselves The deformities thus treated are the fa. miliar ones of mismatched jaws—one small and receding, the other large and prom- inent; also of a small jaw filled with la teeth that are driven in the cramped space to appear anywhere out of line that an en- trance can be forced. These alnormalities are mainly due to the mixing of races in marriage. For physiological reasons, there- fore, if a man cares anything about the future, he does well to consider the jaw of a woman before marrying her, and some knowledge of her mother’s jaw also should guide his choice, since heredity lapsing in the girl might reproduce her mother’s characteristics in her children. Dentistry and Hypnotism. When I had asked questions eliciting all the foregoing information, my dentist sug- gestively volunteered a statement of how much he enjoys filling the teeth of one of the justices of the Supreme Court, who ai- ways goes to sleep in the chair. Then he went on to tell me that up in Boston is a dentist of exalted reputation—as if any other kind of reputation were permitted to reside in Boston!—whe makes a practice of hypnotizing all his patients. Of the seven stages of hypnotic sleep, the dentist is able to carry his victims—I mean his patients— into the fourth, that, teo, by no other means than the power of oral suggestion. That is, for instance, he telle them that pecking at an exposed nerve will not hurt, and—watch the professor, gentlemen—lo! it does not hurt. This doubtless is true. At all events it was told me by a man, and not to believe anything a man tells you— well, heaven forbid such unwomanliness should ever be charged against PAULINE PRY. ee THE PRACTICE OF LAW. The Judge Says There ix Not So Much Fun in It as There Used to Be. From the Chicago’ Record. “There's no more fun in the practice of law,” observed the judge, as he softly brushed away the film of soft ashes from the live end of his cigar. “Thirty years ago, when we used to impeach all the wit- nesses on the other side and have two or three fights every noon recess, it was worth | while to be in the profession. “I read in my old home paper yesterday that Bill Traynor was dead. There was a character. Did I ever tell you the story about him? “Bill once sat on a jury in one of my first cases. It was an assault and battery case. The trouble came up over the attempt to build a fence across a highway. ‘There were two defendants and four prosecuting witnesses. The trial was held at the home of the justice of the peace, a clap-bourded litrle house right out in a cornfield. couldn’t find twelve men in the township, 20 we agreed to a jury of six. The justice's and dictated all the rulings. “They didn’t make any case against us— my partner and I appeared for the defense but we knew the jurymen wanted their fees and they wouldn't get any if the de- fendants won. So we were net very hope- ful. “The six jurymen went out into the corn- field to deliberate. They were gone about two hours, and then brought in a verdict of guilty and fined each of the defendants $5 and corts. The jury was about to be dis- charged, when my partner jumped and said to one of the jurymen: ‘Say, who are you? I don’t remember seeing you before.’ Then the foreman spoke up and said: ‘That's all right. Bill Traynor couldn't wait. He went on home and we got Joe here to take his place.’ “That's a fact. Bill had put in a substi- tute on the jury after they got out in the ccrnfield. The justice said it was all right, anyway, so long as there was a majority of the jury present, but I got up and threatened to sue him on his bond, so he got scared and set aside the verdict and discharged our clients. “After I came on the bench Bill Traynor was up before me for stealing a steer, and I made the instructions to the jury rather favorable to him and he was acquitted. You see, I had a friendly feeling for him because he had helped me to win one of my first cases.” i Striking am Average. From the Cleveland Leader. Policeman—“Come, now, you can’t stand here any longer. You'll have to move on.” Meek man—“But I promised to meet my wife here half an hour ago.” Policeman—‘‘All right, you return in two hours from now. Then I'll give you a ‘permit to wait here till she comes.” We) for value. Cases Nos. 10 and 4 were called, but ccursel not being prepared for trial a con- uinuance was granted. A number of valuable Specimens for the museum have been received this week at the medical department. The materia medica, in charge of Prof. Lochboeler, has been refitted and a com- 4 te stock of apparatus and material put , rhe faculty and students of the medical cepartment are much pleased with the recent appointment of Mr. Joseph 8. Wall, Class °97, as resident student at Children’s Hospital, having passed highest in a com- petitive examination, held for that position. Mr. Wall was formerly junior excerne at Garfield Memorial Hospital, which position he resigned in view of the new appoint- ment. Dr. M. D'Arcy Magee, resident piysician, and Dr. J. Milion Heller, first assistant | resident physician of Garfield Memorial | Hospital, and Dr. Batley K. real. Ashford, resi- dent physician of Children’s Hospital, are all graduates of this school and the a pointment of Mr. Wall adds another eorgetown’s list of successful candidates. ‘Howard University. An anniversary meeting will fe held by the Christian Endeavor Society of the uni- Yersity at 6:30 p.m., Friday, in the chapel. The society has been im existence four st_ meeting of the college con- s Friday evening a bill was introduced in the house providing for the free and wilimited coinage of silver by the Uni States at a ratio of 16 to 1. It wi bated at the next meeting. At the mectjng of the Blackstone Club of the law department last Saturday ni. the discussion was upon the righi of officer to b make a levy on goods and chaiteis. long and soinewhat techn: was decided that a le i be di an ak into a dwelling house to After al legal batue made under it | such circumstances was invalid and void. The subject to be discussed this evening the responsibility of a hi ssaries Turnished his wife by a third pa: When she has been otherwise supplied. M. Dean, O. E. Getty and B. O. Will will maintain that the husband is liable, while L. A. Knox, T. Fuwa and 0. E. Mc- and for n: | Neill will deny. Third and fourth-year medical students are busy with clinical work at Freedman’s Hospital. Thursdays at 4 p.m. Professor Graham conducts a surgical clinic, and at 2 p.m, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saiur- days Professors O. E. Belt and Dr. W Purnell conduct a clinic on the eye and ear. Columbian University. Thursday morning at 11 o'clock all class- es were adjourned and requested to atterd a lecture before Professor Sterrett’s class in psychology, given by Dr. D. K. Shute, dean of the medical faculty. The lecture was upon “The Brain,” and was il- lustrated by numerous charts and models. Professor Johnson of the law departmen:, who haz been ill the past few weeks, is convalescing, and is expected to take up his course in common law practice next week. Professor Lee Davis Lodge will give a special course of fifteen lectures on inter- national law. No appointment has yet been made to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pro- fessor Emmott, the lecturer on Roman law. The Enosinian at its last meeting de- bated the question: “Resolved, That the fear of punishment exerts a greater in- fluence than the hope of reward.” Mr. Hays and Mr. Biscoe maintained the af- firmative, while Mr. Hobson and Mr. Stew- art upheld the negative. The C. T. M. Dramatic Club of the uni- versity held a meeting Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock and discussed various plays and readings. The senior law class will hold a meeting Friday evening next at 7:15 o'clock for the purpose of electing officers for the school year. Tonight the debating society discusses the question: “Resolved, That the United | States should begin the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.” For the affirmative are Messrs. Hillyer, Wiley and Tharin; for the negative,Messrs. Calvert, Goodheart and Bliss. Next Bat- urday the question will be: “Resolved, | That the people of the United States should indoree the Chicago platform.” (The financial plank is excluded from | the discussion.) Messrs. Green and Snod- wife stood in the doorway during the trial | 4 3 grass have the affirmative and Messrs. Garner ard Specht the negative. The ctfi- cers recently elected are J. Martin Scran- nage, presiden' David P. Moore, vice president; W. 8. Stamper, secretary; H. Favis Smith, treasurer. President Whitman will return from his New England trip Tuesday. .He was at the Princeton sesqui-centennial celebra- tion on Wcdresday. Dr. D. K. Shute will give a special lec- ture on heredity in the medical building at 6:30 o'clock next Wednesday evening. This lecture is open to visitors. Among ihe prizes given in the academy is the Cuthbert gold medal in_ history, founded’ by the late Rev. J. H. Cuthber:! D.D., antl given by Mr. Worlsey Aspinwa! It is awarded to the student attaining th highest grade on any one prescribed course in history. A Library und Reading Room Associa- tion has been formed among the academy students. The executive committee ha‘ ing in charge the library and the regu- lations governing the use thereof is as followa: Raymond Outwater, chairman; Davis F. Stakely, W. Elmer Bacon, Wes- toy B. Flint and Charles D. Fowler. A foot ball team ‘has been organized by the academy students. A. L. Hopkins is captain. Messrs. Pyne and Anthony are coaching the team in its daily practice and say they will mcke a good showing when they come to play. Catholic University. The week at the Catholic University has been one of unusual importance, the meet- ding of the board of dirsctors to select a rector, to be approved by the pope, the meeting of the archbishops and the pre- sentation of the endowment funf for the chair of Celtic languages and literature be- ing the principal events. ‘The department of sociclogy is still under Absolutely Pure. Acream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in Jeavening strength.—Latest United Slates Government Food Report, Royat Baxrxc Powprr Co., New York. the direction of Dr. Bouquillon and Dr. Rooker, Father Kerby having determined to return to Europe for another year of study before taking up the active work of instruction The lectures are well attended. Carroll D. Wright, United States com- missioner of labor, will commence his lec- tures on economics at 4:45 o'clock Novem ber Prof. W. C. Robinson is temporarily in of the department of — poiitical pending the appointment of a per- sor. ven stideuts are the law Ccpartment. Six ar enroll 24 in mast - suing their studies for the degree - tor of civil law; four are bachelurs se the mas degree; six are advances studen: the bachelor’s degree, and ten are jist commencing their legal edu- catior The beginners in the law department hav two recitations daily five days in the eek in Robinson’s elementar: ‘aw The e will be finished abou m- n they will take up E nn real property and Clark on contracts, » Institute of Technology begins this its first year of independent existence with fifteen students Regular courses are be- ing given in applied mathematics and civil engineering. ery facility is afforte practical work. National University. Prof. Wilson of the medical department has commenced his course in pr=historie anthropology. His first lecture was livered last Wednesday and dealt chtetty wita the geological periods, showing the appearance of vegetable and animal life leading vp to and preparatory to the ap- pearence of man, His next lecture will deal witn the alleged appearance of man in the tertiary or cenezoic period. Judge C. C. Cole delivered his first lec- ture in Fis course on statutory law Thurs- day evening. The classes will meet the early part of next week for the organization and cle-tion of officers. Judge J. H. Ralston has annoanced the opening of the moot court for Tuesday evening, when ca:es will be assigaed «1 d routine cuurt work commenced. Owing to the unavoidable absence Judge John Goode from the city his in criminal law has been postpoacd until the Ist of January. The patent office moot court for the trial of pateat cases held its first meeting Wed- nesday, and will meet hereafter on ‘Thurs- days. The post-graduates contemplate a ganizatior of the debating society, reor- which Was so successful last year. Bath Rooms a in Mode. From ihe New York Journal. é. Milady’s bath room has grown to be in its luxurious perfection a triumph of artis- tic cleverness. The skill of the architect is employed for special designs, and the is no limit to the decorations. es the regular tub, which ul as ornamental porcelain and silver can make it, there is a sitz bath tub with spray and sic wave attuchment, and other apparatus to suit the taste and con nce of the owner. In some instances the room is lighted by skylight or windows of stained lass in exquisite designs of water nymphs and goddesses. In many the beautiful works of art, both in fresco and oil paint- ing and statuery in marble and bron: represent a small fortune, and a loan exhi- bition of these treasures would create a profound sensation in artistic circles. With these voluptuous surroundings and the del- icate atmosphere from the perfumed wat- ers, the whole is less suggestive of the scriptural injunction, “Wash and be 2 than “Steep thy senses in luxury.” Not the most extravagant, for where one has plenty of money there is no extravagance in putting large sums of it in circulation, but the one representing the most lavish expenditure, ts probably that of Mrs. Joh Jacob Astor, while a close second is that of Mrs. George Gould. - e+ —-- 4 Curious African Fiy. From the St. Louis Republic. The most wonderful creature of the insect family is @ South African fly, called the tsetse. The bite of this fly, which is not larger than a common honey bee and of very much the same general appearance, is certain death to the horse, the ox and the dog. This being the case, it is almost im- possible to cross some of the South African deserts, because the animals used on such journeys for carrying the water supply of the party belong almost invariably to either the ox or the horse species. Livingstone, the great traveler, lost forty-three oxen on one trip from the effect of the tsetse’s bite be- fore he became aware of the acutal cause of the troubie in the herd. One remarkable feature of the bite of the tsetse is its perfect harmlessness to the hu- man family, a probing into a man's flesh by the insect's otherwise poisonous pro- boscis causing no more inconvenience than weuld the sting of a sweat bee or the bite of a mosquito. As the reader will natur: ly infer from the numerous times we ha referred to the “bite” of the t . its poi- son is not inserted by a sting, but always by the proboscis, which consists of a lancet, Well protected by two external shields. Horses, cattle and dogs bitten by the tsetse soon show symptoms of brain disor- ders, which terminate fatally within any time from an hour to ten days. Divorce and Lmprisonment. From the New York ‘fimes. A man or woman imprisoned for life is practically dead—actually dead, the law ys, as far as any outside obligations are concerned—and the husband cr wife of the prisoner, after going through a certain form, may legally marry again. Bu’, strange as it may . this is never done. “There is no record of a case where a hus- band and wife have legally separated on account ef one being imprisoned for life in this country or on the other side,” says Lawyer Abe Hummel. “If a man is a thief or a forger, his wife goes home to her fam- ily disgraced, but if he commits a crime for which he is imprisoned for life, only sympaihy for him fs felt. It ic a livi death. J have seen people who wore wic separated—as widely as could be—brought logether at such a time. The only feeling is one of ply, end then there is always 1 hop? of a pardon.” Adolph Hirschkopf, called the “King of Firebugs,” who was sentenced to imprisonment for life a few months ago, was granted permission to re- main in the Tombs a week, to give his sic- nature and consent to a religious @lvorce, according to rabbinical law, which was necessary before his wife could marry again. But the wife did not take advantage of the opportunity. ———_+e-+_______ A Thoughtfal Girt. From th» Cleveland Plain Dealer. “No wonder the pleasures of courting have declined,” said the stout youth. “Just look at the flimsiness of these modern chairs. And he pointed to a slender affair cf white bamboo, touched with gilt “You mustn't judge by appearances,” said the stout girl softly. “T've had that chair thoroughly braced with the very best of steel reds, and it is now guaranteed to stand a pressure of sixty pounds to the square inch.” Then they both sat down 4m it as a final test.