Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1896, Page 18

THE PALAIS DE GLACE. SKATING IN PARIS Features of Ice Rink Crowds in the Gay City. POPULAR SOURCE OF RECREATION Opportunities to Display Clothes and Have a Social Time. = ee FUN FOR THE CHILDREN Ss ©» an embroid- rt front and vest to ke his elegance more extraordi- This season they re even su tuting fer ine white silk vest a double- of I brocade, in deli- sage-green, olive, mauve or breasted cate tints of Thinks She Looks Russian. purple. It is unnecessary to say that these gertlemen are French. To match them yeu must have ladies in wonderful hats, in gowns of velvet trimmed with ermine, | in gowns of pink siik trimmed with fluffy | white and with furs and jewels. You ca: imagine that this deco- tative skating does not take place in the easily Likes Her Professor, eren. Outdoor skating of necessity plays a small part in the gay Mfe of Paris. Once in five years, perhaps, the river Seine will freeze, but in great broken blocks piled high, impossible and not to be thought of, even for sledding. In winters of ordinary cold the ponds and so-called lakes of the Bots de Boulogne. afford a few weeks’ sport at most. Last winter, for example, there Was ncne at all. For their ordinary skat- ug the Parisians must be content to “yatiner” indoors, and such a practice fits well with their ideals of mind and habits o¢ body. Two establishments supply the Jeng-felt want, the North Pole, which is rather popular than chic, and the Ice Pal- ace. which fs all that is aristocratic. ‘The North Pole in the afternoon is differ- ent from the North Pole at night. Its Sun- day afternoons have a peculiar character of their own. And as for the Ice Palace, it bas its mornings, afternoons and evenings, all distincly marked off from each other : middle. by the character of thase who patronize them. With the Children, The Palais de Glace is surely the place to see the best society. At 11 o'clock of any morning you will encounter here the most aristocratic of children, with their nurses. Who are all these little gentlemen and ladies, aged from eight to fifteen years— not only French, but some Americans and many English? As to the French contin- gent, y are the rich, successful people of the da here and there a sprink- Waiting for an Escort. ling of the old a everywhere, t ‘Lheir elder sis too willing! noon. But it is a delightful sight to see the pretty Paris mothers, who have crawled from their warm beds to give this pleasure to their little enes. Because, you know they do it out of pure devotion to an ideal They do not enjoy going out in the morn- ii Your Paris lady of the upper middle class desires to lie around and eat and sle The young girl, underfed to keep her slender, looks forward to this privilege of her marriage with delight. To take the slightest morning exercise is very fin de And it Is even “fast” to “tub.” Perhaps this is the reason why the Eng- h and American young girls who come to te In the Ice Palace look so much more fresh and rosy than do the French contin- gent. Let us thank God that we of Ameri- ca are clean. Perhaps the English are ‘tocracy. Like children are content to romp. ‘s come with them, but not They would prefer the after- cleaner. They certainly talk more about thcir morning “bawth.” But we take baths as well, and are a means of introducing baths in foreign lands, where baths were hitherto unknown. These sweet young American girls, who patronize the Palais de Glace enormously, are just now reveling in furs. There can be no more skating without furs than tennis without shirt waists. Their gowns are trimmed with sable, seal, astrakhan, squirrel and every ether fur, from polar bear to muskrat. apes and muffs are of the latest Young America cannot be kept down. \ It TOK A Graceful Fall. rather astoniskes some of our t hewever, to observe the liberty giv ss French young folks at Nerth Pole of a en to the unday afternoon. Their Sunday afternoon spree is one of the re- markable features of Parisian life, and is well worth studying. A Family Resort. It is a pleasant sight to watch the poor pleasure-starved jeunes filles amuse them- selves in public. Young girls of middle and lower-miad class society in Paris have such meager opportunities. Brought up In the strictest kind of hoarding schools until the age of fifteen or sixteen, they graduate to the guarded life of the Paris- A Lesson. jan speriment house to wait until a mar- riage is “arranged” for them. In these French flats dances and dinner parties are THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1896~24 7 . : vite thelr pate ‘Young men do not in- ‘There are no gay eyen> ings. When the young girl walks out it is always with her mother. Paris, the gay pnd lively, has go few things calcylated for er pleasure. How and when these Sunday matinees groge nabody seems to know® Pretentious families do not patronjse them, you may be sure. The social average is, perhaps, that of the small shopkeeper, the clerk and the lower grade of the government service. Such as they are, they are neat, bright, good tempered and of a liveliness tinged with demureness. The young girls very commonly wear their hair in two long braids down their backs. Quantities of the | school boys, up to twenty years of age, are in the milltary uniforms of their respec- tive establishments. There are good numbers of soldiers, bluff young fellows with their mothezs and their Sisters. Chance acquaintances and intro- ductions are not in order, but there is un- doubtedly a certain amount of mild fiir~ tation of a worthy kind. The refresh- ments are sirup and water, and that nam- by-pamby mild French beer that cannot even flush a baby’s face. And as the skates clink on the {ce it is to bursts of very honest family glee, The North Pole is a square rink, while the Ice Palace is a round one. The North Pole has frescoes of icebergs, gloomy mountains, polar bears, wrecked vessels and exploring parties, while the Ice Pal- ace revels in the gay scenes of the Ri- viera. The quality of the ice and its mode of prcduction is the came In each. There is no water under the ice, which causes it to be hard and unelastic. Looking closely you can see through the clear ice the iron pipes underneath, which In some manner Keep the whole floor frozen solid. The at- mosphere is ‘chilly, necessitating red-hot stoves at frequent intervals around the promenade outside<the rink. STERLL HEILIG. + —_ HEN PAWPAWS ARE RIPE. The Gol nm Fruit as Found in an Indiana Thicket. From the Independent. An ailuvial soll, coated with a deep leaf mold and somewhat silicious, is what the tree chooses to grow in; and it likes to he overshadowed. I find the best fruit matur- ing in thick woods of planc, tullp and maple on the flatlands close to brook sides. There is a damp, rich, musty smell by which, in the twilight of such a forest, you may distinguish the atmosphere dear the pawpaw. Here the woodthrush, the muse of crepuscular groves, flutes a mellow Straia at intervals, and all around chatter ground squirrels and nuthatches. On the sides near by the cypripedium, in its season, flaunts {ts rose-purple — reticule. There, too, the black hawk (Viburnumlen- tags) ‘ripens its flat, shining berries of licorice candg. Get out your bicycle for a six-mile spin into the Sugar Creek hills. - We will take tke Balhinch road and pedal diligently to- rd the Llewellen neighborhoed, just this side of which is a wood I wot of whe: imps of Asimina triloba dance down a nt jope bordering the brook called In- dian creckpa few miles from its mout And what a_ bre to through, and‘what a road of packed gravel to fly upon! Over the black fields on either hand the autumn wheat is making a thin wash of green, and the Indian corn stands in conical shocks primly ranged. Many- colored cattle wade kne deep in the third srowth of clover, while flocks of sheep snip the blue grass. Yonder is the wood. fence girde it in, wi A high barbed-wire h not an outside Bate to let us through. Well, hang up the wheels in this wayside copse and I'll show you how to beat the barbs. Take off your coat, so; hang it across the top wire beside the post, so, and now shin up the post and Scramble over where the coat covers the points, It is a trite trick, but fairly good. Bekold the sign against which we set our sinful natures: “No trespassing on this farm."” It is lettered or a board conspicu- ously nailed to a tree. Stolen fruit may be sweet, but I suggest that we go to yon man at work beside a straw rick and nego- tate with him. Now we are light-hearted. We may take all we want and welcome. Like two school- boys, away we scamper, and what a down- fall of odorous fruit we find. Long, banan: like, Lrown and yellow, the heavy custard apples almost cover the ground in some places, while a few crowded clusters still hang on the boughs. First we eat our fill; then we cram our haversacks full of the cholcest specimens. All the way back home we are fragrant and happy. We have real- ized our autumn dream. I may be crude of taste and somewhat savage—think what you will—yet the smack of a pawpaw goes through me with a mul- tiform thrill. It is sweet with all the sweets of past days and years and linger- ings and truancies. Yesterday a strong woodcock took wing near my toes in a wild custard grove, and I kad neither bow nor but, munching my savage fruit, I re- called in cne eecond each oozy cripple that I ever shot over from Canada to Florida. The twang of the bow cord, the boom of | the gun, the camp fires, and the savory ! broilings; they rushed into my brain and went tingling from heart center to outmost extremities—all on account of a pawpaw and a flushed woodcoc! > is a mingling of a hundred fine sweets and savory tangs in the juice of this rank avple, and it goes well with spit- ted. dark-fleshed game. What a manifold sauce it is for a luncheon on a mossy log beside a spring ahead! Three spitted doves of the latest summer hatching and an over- ripe pawpaw—there is a feast for the Pan of the West! But year by year this golden ambrosial fruit is disappearing. The farmer's ax whacks down all the sturdy clumps and no man plants seeds for future orchards. From Indiana to Georgia how few of the once flourishing pawpaw thickets are left for the poet and the virile man of the woods to lounge in while feasting on the savage rolls of custard —s GATHERS SKULLS FOR A LIVING. Howard Clause, a Recluse, Robs a: Indian Graveyard Nightly. From the San Francisco Call. About five and forty miles below Port- land, on the Oregon side of the Columbia, the broad expanse of water here flows without a ripple, and it is as deep and still as death. Just above this point is “Coffin Rock,’ which was the starting place to “the happy hunting ground” of the various Oregon tribes of Indians, but the high water of 1862 swept Coffin Rock of all of its deposits to the point below. Here the overflowing waters of nearly half a century ago lodged the remains of many tribes, high and dry, literally moving the last resting place of their dead, fer no Pacific coast tribe ever buried their dead below the surface of the earth. Some hedged them about with rocks, above the ground, leaving the face upward and ex- posed. Others put a bark covering over them, while others were suspended from limbs or left in the forks of trees. Time has robbed every form of its substance and left only the whitened bones and bleached skulls. Students. dentists and physicians are eager to secure these trophies for articula- tion. So great is the demand that at least one man has for years followed the hazard- ous business of gathering these skulls for the market. It is risky, for the few re- maining Indians still keep vigil over the {of the time.: Their subjects are: remains of their dead, and to be caught in the act would mean a prisoner in the re- cesses of the neighboring mountains, fol- lowed by a death of slow torture, for no quarter or mercy would be shown the victim. Stull, knowing this, Howard Clause, a re- cluse, nightly risks his life to gather these grinning, whitened skulls, and every now and then a box of large and small skulls is shipped from Portland, Oregon, to the various noted seats of medicai-and dental learning in the east. ——___+ e+. No Chinese Rate of Wages. From the Portlard Oregonian. A few years ago the comparatively few Chinese in our northwest Pacific states were te be expelled because their low scale of wages and living put our own working people at a disadvantage. We all remem- ber the uproar on this subject eight or ten years ago. 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INDICATIO OF LONGEVITY. Signs of Long Life That Can Be Read and Understood by Everybod;. From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. At a meeting of the Academy of last evening F. W. Warner spoke upon the subject of “Biometr Mr. Warner be his discussion by explaining that the sub- ject was a science treating of the m ure of life and the laws and conditions which goverh its duration. Every person,” said bh out f hi be dis- rson at n may and tell with him the physi longevity. A long-liv tinguished from a sight. In many instances a phy lock at the hand of a patient whether he will live or die. “In the vegetable as well as in ihe ani mal kingdom each life takes its characier- istics from the life from which it sprun Among these Inherited characteristic find the capacity for continuing its lif a given length of time. This capacity living we cail the inherent or potential 1 vity. Under favorable conditio: ment the individual should tential longevity. With unfavorable condi- tions this longevity may be gr de- creased, but with a favorable environm« the longevity of the person, the family or the race may be increased.” The speaker then spol ing that trees which trunks with smali limbs iny; long Ife. Animals with large short limbs have a much greater longevity than those with the opposite ch i and environ- tics. In speaking of the human rac said “Each individual inherits a potential longevity, and should live out thi - ity as uniformly as does the lowe Allowing for a the fami longevit uracy. longe animal. records will show th reached with a ions of longevity are and digestive as well Bl these or} s long and the limbs compa The person will appear tall in sitting and short in standing. The hand will have a long and somewhat heavy palm fingers. The brain will be de: shown by the orifice of the The blue hazel or brown ha showing an intermission of temper: is a favorable indication. The nos: ing large, open end free indicates large lungs. A pinched and half-closed nostril indicates small or weak lungs. “In the case of persons who have short lived parentage on one side and long: on the other side, the question more involved. It is shown in ¢ hybridizing that nature makes a supreme effort to pass the period of the shorter longevity and extend theife to the greater longevity. Any one who understands these weak and dangerous periods of life is fore- warned and forearmed. It has been ob- served that the children of long-lived par- ents mature much iater and are usually backward in their studie An instance was given of a gentleman who had indications of great lonzev He was taken from his hotel ill with yellow fever and removed to the hospital, where he was placed in a ward with six other patients. In a few days the six were buried and he was discharged. He had the same type of disease and the same treatment. His longevity carried him through. 1a con- clusion he said: “If time is money, longevity is wealth. 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Ww W W W £ eeceee WN R E SESS veral the doings of U three rs broke out in on nants of the C ed to obiain prote gentry, and as a years azo, when pinese quar tion from th result the rmin- lawless Meret Was organized 1 its organization the men who compose i: are > Chinese, as muc! of their other Tie fe when ane have a everywhere, Matte quarter are ¢ ted in a manner differ- ent from portions of the It is as mpire within itself y part of the celestial « the Chiggse police ¢ ous to tWe district as i cr opium den. h of the Six Comp: the Chinese ay is divi one or these police nember h each ts enti ship or ne eases from ¢ seven, been number the tim rd the same 4 orst highbinde ins to get offen self, the Chinese police upon nim, and when the headquarters that the high far enough, one of the regular notified ora warrant is sworn highbinder thrown in and t police FS im: forthcoming to convict him ef almost ai crime. : While no uniform is worn by lice man we rdians of the Chine: 21 cf the blouse badge on which are the init the league and the man’s number. Whenever an occasion ‘s for se 1 d man to rez stance " he id of ar ficer th aly splayed, for these men to imperil the original are growi ice of their masters. In reality the men are i n police duties, They w n espion: over their country - men. When they first became : in the Chinese quarter Chi Crow informed of th tehd of tages th to the department through the ‘They were conse provided ort of card of identification or ered ihat they themselves wher The of the y do not regard their Chinese brethren w a great deal of favor. One veteran off who ha in Chi they are as bad almost as t ves, and are neither or tead of aidir mtains that Once a week the Chinese police the consul general. It is said lo be teresting sight to see them going to big brick ¢ the consul ports. With aucues newly best blouse with many a ling on Stockton neral liv thei reet wh to make the olls 1 shave braided, and wearin they enter the port salaam and kow tow, gt account of their work of U) week. Then, with more scraping a’ bows, a cup of tea { sometimes thing stronger, they depart to resur jabor. — 202 — First-Class From the Detroit AsNenger. “What you need fs a w 2 Mr. Grumpey,” said the docto: pst persuasive tone. “I guess you'll get me there enough,” was the ungracious re: From Truth, “What do you mean bh saying that there are all the conveniences in that block of houses?” “There is a saloon at one end and a Keeley Institute at the other.” 7 EE Ne Legacy for Her. From Tid Bits, A little girl wished to prepare a gift for her saintly grandmother, and was allowed to do so unassisted. It proved to be a cardboard motto selected by herself, and bore in scarlet worsted, “Go, and sin no anore.””