Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1897, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1897-24 PAGES. 21 SUNNING THEMSELV: ES IN TEA GOWNS. Women at Nice Who Wear Fascinat- ing Negligee. AND LOUNGE ABOUT THE TERRACES Some Timely and Seasonable Sug- gestions for Tea Gowns. 7 FASHIONS ON THE RIVIERA ——— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NICE, March 7, 1897. T HE CONSIDERA- ble proportion of in- valids among the visitors to the Rt- viera makes the study of tea gowns more or less profita- ble. The terraces on certain of the great hotels and the gar- dens and balconies of the villas become at favorable hours of the day the scenes of international e: positions of neeligees. A hooded beach cha one of the favorite theaters of ex- hibition. Such a sheltered seat under a palm tres or a hedge of roses, with a little stand ne side for a book or a tea cup, @ puffy cushion for the feet and two or three more behind the back, makes the ideal of comfort for a woman not too ill to backgrounds. A pagoda-like tent, | three or four garden chairs for furniture, is as good as a sign hung out to tell the passer that here the searcher after the picturesque is sure to tind material. One terrace of which I know is overrun great purple flowers of the bou- ainvillea. Two or three date palms hang above it, but do not keep out the early spring sunshine. On one side is an outlook over the dazzling Mediterranean, on the other a descent into a garden of myrtle and laurels. That terrace is as good as a spider's web to trap tea gowns. The files come out every day as soon as the sun is well up, to read French novels, to entertain callers, to be languidly attractive to young officers. The tea gowns that are caught are of an especial breed, for they are planned with reference to the garden hats that accom- pany them. I was noticing one this morn- ing that would not tn all latitudes be recog- nized as a tea gown. It was a loose prin- cess robe of accordion-pleated glace silk. ‘The color is hard to name: it was a pale sea green with a dash of white and shot with a pink that warmed it and gav a é brighter tone. The bodice fas’ side and turned back slight- ly at the throat with a flat square coilar of guipure, broad erough to come down upon the shoulders. The sleeves had the very small shouller puffs that belong to so many the spring dresses and were cut quite ight to the arms. The belt was a band of deep greeen velvet, with bows and long streamers in front of glace silk edged with white lHsse ruching. The hat was a large ne of green straw, turned on one side with «le and trimmed with pink vel- e feather: The wearer of ing woman of un- who was occupied with and a handsome Frenchman. Out of the Ordinary. American girl whose beauty does oO her o . but who sets Gallic teeth on edge by her free use of French words with a Yankee Doodle pronunciation, has Leen w: ued that {s to say, silk of a very auve, altmost a tint for light relieved of any such sugges road stripes of oriental bro- e and gold with which it ts of these stripes make a tteau one hangs ’ from the throat from under the i The sleeves are of silk fathered in at the wrists ©p cuffs of embroidery studded ins. and of the same em- . with a chiffon ruche to head i up about the throat, and the gir- h confines the waist at the i galon set with jewels. look odd with a hat a e Riviera; in this invalids ther correct within the hounds of the garden of a morning with its accompantment of broad hat of sun- burnt straw trimmed with white feather: This American girl, who ts well enough to the p est and newest frocks 4 from Paris, is ill over her father in a manner quite terderly reminiscent, to the looker, of the republic over the se: ey make a couple that only the United tates could produce; he handsome, white- haired, hating table d'hote dinners, longing f t town where he was rais. pretty, blonde and a victim to aging him about hotel to another in all the health resorts mourning, tion by the “For fifteen years my daughter suffered terribly with in- herited Eczema. She medical attention, was given many patent medicines, and used various external sppll- cations, but they had 20 effect whatever. given, and it prompt- ly reached the seat of the disease, 80 sound and well, her skin fs perfectly clear and pure, and she has beeg saved from SS S BBS. ts GUARANTEED PURELY VEGETABLE, i S. 8. S. was finally ‘ that she is cured what threatened to JBnd ts the only cure for deep-seated blood diseases. E D. Jen- kins, Lithonia, Ga. Books free; address Swift Specific Company, Atleats, Ge. ~INVALIDS | st-eolored canvas for a roof and a | of Europe that have titles on their hotel | registers. A Russian Idea. Another tea gown to talk about is worn by a Russian countess. It ts of green crepe de chine, accordion-pleated through- cut, gathered at the waist under a draped belt of yellow satin ribbon and worn with a bolero of yellowish guipure studded with topaz and rubies. Loose scarfes of warm red chiffon hang from the bolero almost to the ground. The sleeves come just be- | low the elbows and are mixed of dark green and red chiffon. A leader of fashion in Parts who has been displayirg the newest things in her wartirobe to us of the south for a few days past has worn among other pretty things a tea gown of embroidered crepe de chine in white, but with the design so raised that it has the appearance of being embossed. This beautiful robe is cut as a double princess gown. The under robe has a very deep border of the embroidery about the hem. The upper robe is like a long polonaise, with deep bands of embroidery edging it ail around. The bodice of the polonaise is slightly open to show the lisse front of the under gown, but the embroid- | ered strips that finish it are brought near- ly together by the telt of broad white rib- bon tying in the back with long stream- ers. The sleeves are wholly of the em- broidered crepe and are almost tight-fit- ting. A topaz belt clasp gives the only j color suggestion. Another toilet exhibited by the same lady is not quite of a tea gown order, but possesses many of the elements of the negligee. It is of a creamy yellow crepe de chine, with a blouse bodice finished in front with a cascade of lace from throat }to waist line. Atrellis of narrow biack | veivet rtbbor, buttoned with turquoise and topaz, is carried down either side of the louse, the two lines meeting at the waist and reappearing on the left side below the belt to wander down the skirt half way to the ground. Each is finished at the bot- tom by a bunch of ribbon loops and long ribbon ends. The wide sleeves stop just below the elbows. The small hat that goes with this costume is of topaz yellow lisse, trimmed with roses. Hats for Spring. Fresh-looking spring hats are appearing every day. One large one of pale yellow | straw was worn this morning for the first time in the casino. It was high crowned jand had a wide flat brim. Its trimmings wer+ blue ribbons ard white plumes. It belonged with a dress of cream-colored slace silk dashed ever go lightly with | brown and figured with forget-me-nots. The fine blue ard yellow flowers covered the waist and sleeves thickly and the skirt for about two-thirds of the distance up from the hem. The top of the skirt was of solid color; many of the spring silks are woven ; that way. The full blouse was unorna- mented except for frills of lace let in at its opening up and down the left side. The sleeves had little fullness and were finished at the wrists by lace frills and bands of blue velvet ribbon. The belt was a band of blue velvet, under which was thrust a bunch of roses. The costume as a whole was one of the best I have seen. Flower toques seem to be as popular as they were last year. One is made entirely of yellow and black passion flowers. Just at one side it has a knot of deep yellow velvet, while over the crown waves a long yellow and white osprey. Another toque in coarse violet straw has a brim of Irish | guipure. About the crown is a wreath of | Parma violets with a little folfage, finished with an aigrette of deep rose camellias. Camellias, by the way, are becoming a most fashionable flower. I noticed yester- day @ large picture hat of black straw al- most covered with white camellias. A small hat of black tulle is trimmed with a gle, large, deep red camellia rising from bows of iighter red satin. This last was sent from Paris for wear at Monte Carlo. ELLEN OSBORN. —eee_______ PECULIAR, NOT VICIOUS. When That Boy Grows Up He Will Be Safe in Any Insane Criminal Court. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Yes, Johnnie is considered a vicious boy, but he Isn't responsible for that.” “Why not?” “Because he fs peculiar.” j “In what way?" | “In a great many ways. One day his father told him to go to the store and come right back. He didn’t come, and when his | father looked for him he was playing ball ith some boys in the back lot.” indeed !"* “Yes, and that isn’t the worst of it.” “No? “He hadn’t been to the store at all!” iow strange!’ “At another time his sister said he should not eat so many pancakes; that eleven were enough for any boy.” “Weil?”* “Well, he ate thirteen!" “No. “Yes. Not long after this his Sunday school teacher cautioned him agains: the | sin of lying. The next day he broke down the clothes line and said it was Jimmie Harrigan that did it! “I want to know! “Yes, it’s a great comfort for me to re- member that if Johnnie ever gets in any trouble it will be so easy to prove that he was ‘peculiar.’ —cee—_____ A Cheering Companion. From the Detroit Free Prees. “What a small thing will keep a man | from insanity when tn solitary confine- ment,” said a prison warden recently. “I read the case of a prisoner who somehow | in solitary confinement had managed to keep his silver watch secreted on his per- son. For a time he kept up very well, and, as his crime was a terrible one, we did not feel like releasing him, but one day he be- came violent and crazy, and we finally de- clded to remove him to the hospital. In his cell we found the watch, with the main- spring broken. | It seems that as long as the watch con- tinued to tick in his ear at night he felt as if he had a companion and his dark cell did not seem so solitary. He caressed the watch fondly, talked to it and it talked to him. Hour after hour it spoke and he wa: enabled to endure the terrible loneliness, with this cheering and gossipy companion. He told me afterward that he put words to that ticking and that the watch seemed almost like a thing of life. “But one night something snapped and its voice ceased. He wound it up anxiously and still it was silent. It was like the death of something beloved, the passing away of the dearest thing on earth. Before it had been animated and full of life, with @ tongue that wagged and w: Now it was a bit of dead, lifeless metak The long hours of the night weighed upon him. Ha seemed to see st! visions. His loneli« ness was frightful. And then—the next morning they found him raving crazy.” —\_-o-+_—____ A Return Shot. From the Philadelphia Prem. “Pa, & boy called me @ son-of-a-gun to- day.” ‘So you are, you little pest! “Then, pa, you must be a pop-gun.” pe 2 TWO AMBASSADORS Something About General Porter and Colonel Hay. BOTH MEN ARE TRAINED DIPLOMATS Will Push American Business to the Front. FRESH GOSSIP AND STORY (Copyrighted, 1807, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Written for The Evening Star. WANT TO TELL I our two leading am- basadors. Col. John Hay is to be ambas- sador to Great Bri- ace Porter is to be “SSS our ambassador to France. The ambas- sadors rank far above McKinley's inaugura- tion the four ambas- sadors came into the Senate first. Then ministers followed. The dents Cleveland and McKinley when Vice President Hobart was sworn in. It will be the same way at London and Paris. Am- bassadors Hay and Porter will take prece- and they will, in fact, command as much respect as though President McKinley him- self was in their places. They go abroad as the representatives of the President him- Queen Victoria or President Faure. The English and French secretaries of state will make the first calls upon them, and thelr influence will be such that they that they both go abroad with the intention of accomplisking more than our ministers have in the past. They realize that th‘s is a business administration, and they intend business to the front. Both Hay and Por- ter are practical business men. They are both of a singularly diplomatic turn, and both have had lives which fit them for the you something about Wi\| tain, and Gen. Hor- the ministers. At ambasadors eat side by side with Presi- dence of the ministers from other countries, self, and they can confer ¢irectly with can do much for our country. I understand to do everything they can to push American places which they are now about to fill. Our New Ambassador to France. I have seen a good deal of Gen. Horaco Porter during the past three wecks. He hes Leen here in charge of the inaugural parade, and has been a part of nearly all the ceremenies connected with the intro- ducing of President McKinley to the White House. Gen. Porter is perhaps the finest- looking man of the new administration. He stands fully sfx feet in his stockings, and he ts as erect today as he was thirty- seven years ago when he graduated from West Point, one of the highest men in his class. He is broad-shouldered and deep-chested, and is so straight that a line dropped from the back of his well-prushed head would just touch the heels of his pol- ished boots. His face is a very handsome one. The forehead is high and broad, the eyes are bright and cheerful and the nose is just a little inclined to the Roman. Above all things, he impresses you as be- ing a gentleman. He keeps himself well groomed. He wears the best of clothes of the latest cut, and he has the quiet air of tke New York club man. He is now sixty years of age, but he does not look to be more then fifty. I am told that he never worries, and that he has accustomed himself to take things as they come, and do them. He says himself that he never goes in @ spasm over anything, and you can see by talking with him that he has himself well in hand. Horace Porter and General Grant. Some of Horace Porter's experiences with Gen. Grant will stand him in good stead at the court of Paris. Every one knows that he was with Grant during the war, but few appreciate that he was to a large extent the confidential adviser of Grant while he was President of the United States. Grant did not at first take to the idea of being President. When his name was proposed by his friends he hung back, ard when h> went into the White House he felt afraid of the change of life and duties. As soon as he was elected, how- ever, he sent for Gen. Porter and told him that he must come with him into the White House, and that he needed his as- sistance. “In what capacity,” said Gen. Porter. “I want you to come and take charge of things,” replied President Grant. “I have a set of clerks and secretaries here, but I don’t know them. They are not used to me. I need some one about me whom I can trust and who will see that no mis- takes are made in the carrying out of my orders. I want you to be my military secretary, and I will have the War De- partment assign you to the White House.” To this Gen. Porter assented, and became a sort of confidential adviser to Gen. Grant. He was not a private secretary nor secretary to the President, but he was associated with him in many important matters of his administration. He had a great deal to do with the fisheries com- mission of Grant's first term and also with the settlement of the Alabama claims, by which we got from Great Britain $15,- He Speaks French. In this work Gen. Porter was able to be of the more arvantage to Gen. Grant on account of his thorough knowledge of the French language. He !s a natural lngutst and he can speak French and Spanish quite as fluently as English. He can make an after-dirner speech in French, and he is noted as being one of the best after-dinner speakers of the United States, being ranked by many higher in this regard than Chauncey Depew. He is also a man of literary note. He has the degree of LL.D., and has written a number of books. This fact will add to his standing at Paris, for the French have a high respect for literary characters. His position as an army officer will elso help him, and the fact that he is a rich man is another important item. The ambassadors from other countries will spend all the way from $30,000 and upward a year in entertaining. Gen. Porter will probably do the same, although his salary is $17,500. Ho has made a ortune, you know, in rallroads and other investments. He was for years manager of the Pullman Palace Car Company and he has been the president and director of a number of the largest business enterprises of the United States. He has made some inventions which have brought him in money, and he understands our business relations in their broadest sense. Gen. Porter's business experience will at the start make him especially valuable as ambassador to France. I hap to know something about how he feels as to our business situation. He believes that an enormous increase can be.made in our for- eign commerce, and that the reciprocity feature may be so developed in connection with certain products as will be of vast advantage to this country. Both he and the President think that the national expo- sition at Paris in 1900 can be used to great advantage to us by proper American ex- hibits, and Gen. Porter ‘abroad with the idea of pushing A: industries at He telfeves aiso that the consular service eR ome etl ean be very much improved, and that our consuls should be toa large extent fhe ad- vance agents of A: in business men. They should devote thetr time to studying the foreign market-where they are located and to finding every loop hole possidle for American manufa: es to come in. Blue Blood and Brains. Just one word abogt Gen. Porter's family. You can tell a good deal about a man from his ancestors. Horace Porter has no rea- son to be ashamed)¢f his. His genco!ogical tree is a big one. (Qne of its roots ts found in John Porter, who won his spurs as a soldier at the battle of Warwick under William the Conqueror. The first Porter of this branch who.¢ame to this country was an Irishman. His name was Rovert, and he had enough money to be able to buy some land in Pennsylvanta shorily after he landed. This man was the great-grand- father of our new ambassador. His son was Andrew Porter, one of the most dis- tinguished characters of the revolution. Andrew Porter was a teacher of mathe- matics in Philadelphia in 1776. Congress made him the captain of the marines on one of the frigates, but he soon left the navy for the army. Before the revolution- ary war was over he had risen to be a colonel. At its close he retired to his farm, refusing a professorship in the University of Pennsylvania, because, as he sald, it did not look well for one who had veea com- manding men to come down to flogging boys. This man, you know, was Horace Porter's grandfather. He afterward be- came a brigadier general an4# he refused the place of Secretary of War in President Monroe's cabinet. He was a thrifty man, and thrift seems to be one of the atiributes of the Porters. This was the case with Gen. Porter's father, whose name was David Rittenhouse Porter, and who was the first man to put up anthracite furnaces at Harrisburg, and the first to engage in the manufacture of steel in this country. Our Ambassador to London. I see that Col. John Hay has already rented his house in London. He has taken one of the most expensive establishments in the most fashionable part of the city, and the dignity of the United States will be upheld without regard to cost. Colonel Hay ts also a very rich man. He has made something of a fortune himself by his liter- ary and other work, but he became a mil- licnaire when his’ father-in-law, Amasa Stone, died. Amasa Stone was a Ma: chusetts boy. He developed a great capaci- ty for railroad building. He was the super- intendent of the New Haven and Hartford railroad before he was thirty, and had shown remarkable talent as a bridge butld- er by the time he was out of his teens. When he was still: young he came out to Ghio and settled .at- Cleveland. He built the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati railroad from Cleveland to Columbus. This is now a part of the Big Four system. He buiit the Chicago.@nd Milwaukee railroad and was for a longtime manager of the Lake Shcre road. »He made a great deal of money ard when he died he left behind him a large variety of railroad and other in- terests. President ddncoin thought a great deal of Amasa Sione. He advised with him often as to railroad matters during the war, and he once offered to make Mr. Stone a brigadier genera} if he would accept such appointment. Mr. Stone, however, thought he was betjer fitted for business than for soldiering;"ind he preferred vo do his work for the: Union in a more quiet way. He-was often called to the White House and it was. probably through his visits there that’ John Hay became uc- avainted with him’ and his daughter. At any rate, Air. Hay married Miss Stone, and at her father’s death he became one of the executors of this great estate. As such he has had to deal with some of the largest business interests of the country. He has had to learn how such things are managed and today he is on this account the more fitted to-go abroad as the representative of this business administration. John Hay as a Diplomat. There ts no doubt but that John Hay will make a good ambassador to England. He had ,the advantage of President Lincoln's tutorship while he was private secretary in the White House, and Lincoln, it is now generally conceded, was one of the greatest €iplomats this country has produced. As an illustration of his diplomacy I heard the cther day of a lesson which he Is said to have given Colonel Hay when he was pri- vate secretary at the White House. A pub- Ne man of some note had acted rather offensively toward the President, and John Hay, so the story goes, told the President that he expected to write a letter, giving him a piece of his mind. “That's right,” said President Lincoln. “Do so, give it to him; write out just what you think.” John Hay did so, and he brought in the letter to the President, and read it to him. As he read Mr. Lincoln from time to time sald: “Good! good! That fixes him.” At its close Mr. Hay said: “Well, he will get the letter temorrow morning, and we will sce what he has to say in reply.” But, returned President Lincoln, “you don’t ‘intend to mail that letter! I wanted you to write it out because it helps one to ease his feelings, but you must not think of sending it. You would only make the man mad without do- ing good to yourself or the administration.” The result was the letter was never sent. This incident, if true, must have oc- curred more than a generation ago, and John Hay has since shown himself to be one of the shrewdest diplomatists of this country. He began nis diplomatic career upon leaving the White House, being first sent to Paris. Here he kept Secretary Sew- ard informed of the schemes of Maximilian and Carlotta, and enabled him to lay the plans which kept Maximilian from suc- ceeding in Mexico. I have heard it said that had it not been for Hay Mexico might have become a monarchy instead of being ne of the most thriving republics of Span- ish America. Leaving Paris Colonel Hay was next sent to Vienna as secretary of le- gation. Here he was for a long time charge d'affaires, and he served so well that later on he was sent to Spain. He has also been one of the first assistant secretaries of state, and his life since he left the White House, away back in 1865, has been largely made up of diplomatic work. Col. Hay as a Literary Man. John Hay will have the advantage of a good literary reputation abroad. Our Ht- erary men have béen our best diplomats. Washington Irving ‘was an efficient mints- ter to Spain, Bayard Taylor was one of our best ministers,to Berlin, and the man who served with perhaps the greatest rep- utation in England’ was James Russell Lowell. Col. Hay dtiring his stay in Spain wrote his book entitled “Castilian Days.” This ranks up well with the best books of travel. He brought’ the manuscript home with him in his valise, and arrived here just at the time when Bret Harte had made himself famoys by writing his “Heathen Chinee” and other poems. Col. Hay wrote and puljjighed a number of the same kind of poe the most of which are far better than’ Bret Harte’s. He en- titled them the “Pie County Ballads,” and amorg them were’ the famous poemy of “Little Breeches,” “ Bludsoe” and oth- ers. They took weff, and before he knew it he was famous ds a dialect poet. As Soon as he realized his notoriety in this respect he regretted it, for he told me once he was rather ashamed of having written “Little Breeches.” I believe he considers it below him, and that he has always prided himself on doing better work. He can, however, write poems of a high order. At the Christian Endeavor meeting here at Washington not long ago he wrote the Invocation Hymn. He is an earnest Christian, and the reading of this hymn may give you some idea of his char- acter: Breathe to our hearts the high command “Go onward and possess the land! Thou who art light shine on each soul! ‘Thou who art truth each mind control. Open our eyes aud make us see The path which leads to heaven and Thee. Gigned) JOHN Hay. Hew John Hay Wrote the Life of Linco! John Hay’s literary reputation, however, will rest more upon Lincoin’s biography than anything else. He wrote this, you know, in connection with John G. Nicolay, the two spending almost a quarter of a century in the preparation for the work. Col. Hay told me once that he and Mr. Nicolay had read more than twelve hun- ared volumes before they began ihe real work of writing, and that they had been making notes upon Lincein, off and on. for many years. When Col. Hay was writing at this life I had a chat with him about his literary metheds. He has, you know. a magnificent home here, the li- brary of which is one of the finest in Washington. This library is a luxurious place. It is walled and ceiled with oak. It has many shelves filled with books. Costly rugs cover the floor, and beau- tiful paintings look down upon you from over the bookcases. It was not here, however, that Col. Hay wrote. It _was away up in the attic, seated on a straight-back chair befere a five-dollar desk, that he penned the most of his man- uscript. He told me that he could not dic- tate, and that he considered a thousand words a good day’s work. He said that he and Nicolay planned the biography when they were in the White House, and thav they began.to make notes for it during the first administration of President Lincoln. They took down conversations and kept the incidents of White House life from day to day. Col. Hay has a diary of that time which fills three large manuscript volumes. The most interesting parts of this book have never been published. He has a vast’ amount of other material, comprising much unwritten history. He has been a man whom public men could trust, but he is so conscfentious that his private cor- respondence will probably never be given to the public. When I called upon him not long ago he told me he had no Mterary work on hand, and his life in London will be devoted, I judge, to other matters than titerature. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ———— ge A GAME YOUNG MICHIGANDER. He Surprines the Sheriff by His Femi- mine Way of Capturing a Terror. From the Detroit Free Press, He was ah old-timer who came from Ok- lahoma with a bunch of prisoners for the Detroit house of correction, and told this one while they were spinning yarns in the office: “There was a young feller kim out to us frum this state that was the durndest rust- ler I ever saw. He was slender like, had wavin’ brown hair, big eyes an’ a com- plexion that used ter make th’ giris jealous. You'd think, lookin’ at him, that he dldn’t have no muscle or sand, but them white han’s o' his’n could shut up like a stecl tra z ‘Dp an’ he had more clean grit tnan a grizzly. ‘Bout that time thar was a gang cper- atin’ in th’ territory that we war tryin’ ter bust up. Th’ leader was one of these here perlite cusses that allers 'potogizes fur shootin’ a man or runnin’ off with a wo- man. They're th’ wo'st in tn’ business. I had iwo or three depaties killed tryin’ ter make th’ capture, an’ was gettiu’ madder an’ madder ‘cause I couldn't land my man, an’ him a-sendin’ in some aggervatin’ mes. Sages purty near ev'ry day. big reward fur any- live. “Finerly I offered a body ter bring th’ feller In dead or Four days later I sce th’ funniest sight ever looked at. Up through the ter th’ jail kim th’ desp> woman on th’ same hoss. looked that way. She you could see purty much pair o’ boots. Her hat was t her face was all lit up an’ smi and knives was all missin’ an muzzle of a 44 right ahind never heerd sich laughin’ an’ ¢ - “When we had th’ robber kivered th’ wo- man jumped off an’ kicked duds in ev'ry direction. It was that thar female-lookin’ tenderfoot from Michigan. He'd dressed up that way an’ gone out a-purpose fur ter be captured. He had per-ended ter ery an’ beg, but th’ chief made ‘her’ mount, an’ then th’ little cuss jist brought him in. Th’ sang heerd a story that he was took by a woman, an’ durned ef they didn’t lynch him. Then they scattered. That thar was th’ gamest kid that ever learned to fan a trigger.” long s 9 an’ a pre Leastwise, He a it an’ lor one side an’ Yo His gun Was astra. all of a The Chattering Nuisance in Theaters. From the London Truth. What should be don? with the people who persist in talking in theaters and concert rooms? The subject !s brought up once again by a complain: from a gentleman In the country who came up to hear one of the last performances of “The Mikado” at the Savoy. After taking thr-e sialls in the best possible position, ne and his purty found themselves quite unable to attend to the GAYTON COAL The [liners Have Authorized the Washington Dealers to Take Trial Orders at THE VERY LOW PRICE, $5.25 2240 its) DELIVERED. Cheaper Than Coke, Vil or Gas. BEST DOMESTIC COAL MINED, WINTER OR SUMMER USE, For Cooking, Heating, Open Grates, Etc., Etc. Ask Your Dealer to Send You a Ton for Trial. Cut This “‘Ad.”” Out for Future Reference. STORACE YAR » POWNATAN GOAL G0., C Cor. 14th St. N.W. *Phone 620. HOUSEHOLD HINTSIBuy Gayton Coal Here is a dish called “sponge pudding,” of which southerners are very fond. Beat seven eggs till they are light as seafoam. Add six tablespoorfuls of sugar and beat fer five minutes furiously. Sift into this seven tablespoonfuls of sweet corn meal, one teaspoonful of salt, grated rind of half a lemon and its juice, freed from seeds. Stir quickly and bake in sponge cake pans, serving hot with hot sauce, or creamed butter and sugar, with nutmeg. It is a reproach to this generation of women that they know so little about the use of the needle. Needlework does not commend itself to the young women of today. They outgrew the needle about the time the “higher education” for women came into vogue. In these days of cheap ready-made garments a girl thinks she can clothe herself quite acceptably knowing kow to sew. It seems such a pity that the dainty occupation should have gone into disuse. One grows as tired of shop-made petticoats and nightdresses as one Goes of baker's bread and canned corn. They all bear just about the same relation to the original and real thing, too. The very happlest hours of a young mother’s life are those spent in setting dainty stitches in her darling’s daintier clothes, and the woman who can’t sew need never hope to have her grandchildren unroil from its silver wrappings the time-yel- lowed baby dress that “mamma wore” if grandmamma simply took two or three of “grandpappa’s hard-earned dollars” and bought the dress at a down-town* shop. The thing that gives the little garments their value in after years is the pretty sewing, the frost-like embroidery or the delicate real lace made by skilled hands of grandmother or mother. Shop-made goods are for people who live in a hurry and have not time to enjoy the home-made ar- ticle. Mothers with homes and daughters ought to accustom themselves to the real thirgs, and not depend upon the make-be- eve. Girls who go to the shop and buy their underclothes and dresses do not take the same care of those articles of attire that they wouid under different circum- stances, They argue that because those things were “cheap” they are entitled to fresh attire twice as often. “Ready-made,” “ready-cooked,” “‘ready-furnished” — and “canned delicacies” are playing sad havoc with real home life. Marry in haste and repent at leisure, is a trite old saying that augments in trath each year. It applies with equal force to beth young men and young women, but it must be confessed that parents have a much larger part in causing these unhappy marriages than they are credited with. Young people are difficult to handle be- tween the ages of fifteen and twenty-two. They are inclined to overrate their im- pertance in the household economy, and performance through the ceaseless chatter | the chicf aim of many parents Is to nip of a man and two women in neigi:boring seats. After bearing it patiently for some time, he ventured on 4 mild remonstrance, which led to a temporary cessation of the annoyance, but only temporary. It is not a pleasant thing to have to re ate with your neighbors on their behavior at a pub- lc entertainment, and for one who w venture on this course a dozen suffer in si- lence, especially if they happen to be ladies. The nuisance is generally worst in the higher-priced seats, and worst of all in the stalls, because people wh» go io the theater merely to pass away the time, and without the slightest idea of enjoying the perform- ance, are only to be found in that part of the house. I would suggest that every ueket for the stalls should bear a notice that it is only sold subject to the condition that the holder will keep quiet during the performance, and that on any complaint as to his behavior he wil! be at once re- moved. Any one annoyed by conversation would then have the remedy in his own hands. ++ It's an Ill Wind Blows Nobody Good. From the Philadelphia Press. “Has Hawkins had a legacy? He dresses and lives much better this year than last.” “No, he hasn't had any legacy, but neither has he had to buy an opera box for his wife.” 6 The School Boy’s Lent. Me and Jim, we're keepin’ Lent; Mother told us all about 1 You behave, und you repent What you Itke, you do without it. So I'm doin’ without my sums: Jim, he doesn’t learn his grammar, Every single day that comes ‘Teacher pounds us like a hammer! Kind of hard, when you repent And give up the things you're slick In. Wish the teacher would keep Lent And deny himself the lickin’! —Chicago Evening Post. ———_-e-—_____ A Terrible Vengeance. From Purch, “Well, Mr. Softley, did you revenge yor ur self on Algy since that quarrel you nad with him?’ “Yes, indeed. I ordered my man to be ‘wude to his man when he meets him.” this growing importance. Like much of the tree pruning in our beautiful parks, the nipping process is brutally done, with no care for environment, or thought of fu- ture symmetry. Quite often the child gets a rude setback that stunts Its sensibilities, and makes it self-conscious and awkward. Then the home life is not what it should be. No boy or girl is going to remain at home if that home is dull and all healthful amusement is frowned upon, because “pa and ma are too old to have such frivolity going on, or some like invalid excuse. Youth must be amused, and if it cannot be amused at home you may be sure it will seek it abroad, and often in questionable society. Interest yourself in the pursuits of your children, lead them to make you their confidant, make your friends theirs, and see that the friends they pick up out- side of your jurisdiction are fit associates for them. A stern edict that certain friends must be dropped will bring you only bad temper and a surety of broken commands. Go at the matter gently, and demonstrate the gereral wcrthlessness of the objection- able ones, and win easily that way. If you treat your yourg people as though they were reasorable human beings you will be much less Hable to drive them into marriage, which they seek in the hope of finding happiness, but most often find they have only deepened their unhappiness. Here is Napoleon’s idea of what a girl sbould learn in school and what she should know when she left school. It is oid, but as applicable today as it was a century ago. “They should be made to accustom themselves to economy and to calculate the value of things. But in general they should all be occupied during three-quar- ters of the day with needlework. They should know how to make stockings and underclothing and work embroidery. In a word, they should learn all the work that belongs to a woman. A woman on coming out of Ecouen’’—the school to which he was referring—“to take her place at the head of a little household, should know bow to make her dresses, mend the clothes of her husbard, make the baby linen of her children, procure dainties for her little family by means of the pantry portion oj her houshold duties, care for her husban and children whenever they are sick, and know how to do it like a trained nurse.” By hanging pictures low you increase the apparent height of the room. Colored pic- tures should never be hung in the hallways or on staircases unless there is @ strong light on them. In places like that pho- tegraphs, engravings or drawings in black and white are best. The center of the pic- ture, when hung, should not be much above the level of the eye. The cord on which they are hung should be as nearly invisible as possible, and wire is best of all. The wall on which you hang pictures should be of neutral tint, a shade of soft dull yellow being the best, and, if papered, the figure should be inconspicuous. Napkins should always be folded as sim- the restaurant and cafe. The goed dinner woman is one who lis- tens well and avoids the mistake of being “smart.” She must be quiet, responsive, interesting, vivacious, but she must make woman who is find that “tact” the will trade. without | | | soon as p From Berry & Co., 1249 4TH ST. N.W. "PHONE 1611 Best summer and winter fuel. Cheaper longer than coke, of? or gas. $5.25 FOR 2.240 POUNDS, DELIVERED. Tast It — that laugh. The world has troubles of tts own, and can’t stop to coddle yours. The good-humored man or woman is always welcome, but the dyspeptic or hypochon- driac is net wanted anywhere, and is con- sidered a public nutsance. An Lenten dish is called “stuffed Put six eggs in a dish of hot water e and boii them fifteen minutes. Drop in cold water to cool and loosen the shells | Cut them in haif lengihwise aft elling, take out the vols, and set the whites aside. Mash the yolks to a paste, add a table- spconful of butter, melt a teaspoonful of made mustard, a tablespoonful of pped persley, salt and a little pepper. Make in- to little balls and put back in the cavities, turning the other half over it. Press the two together, dip in beaten egg, then in breadcrumbs, and fry in smoking hot fat till a nice brown. ———. - His Wedding A uncement. From the Chicago Times-Herald. When a man gets married away from home he naturally feels it necessary te acquaint his folks with the joyful news as sible. John Liddell, the han some Englishman, who led Miss Marton Hellyer to the altar in Riverside last Sa’ urday, before a large party of fashionable: was thoroughly impressed with his duty in this respect, and so he hunted up the nearest telegraph office and set about to compose the message telling of his geod fortune. Some men would have gone tnto details to the extent of naming the bride and the time and the place, and soliciting the parental blessing. But telegraph companies ao not handle messages for nothing, no matter how felicitous they may be in U char- acter, and, as everybody knows, every ad- ditional mile traveled by the message makes it that much more profitable to the crasp- ing corporation. Inasmuch as Mr. Liddell’s home ts in Shanghai, China, he prudently refrained from committing the fault of verbosity. Of course, his people were expecting something in confirmation of what had been discussed in letters from time to time, and he found it much easier on that account vo practice brevity and economy without sacrificing the meaning of his messege. This is what he sent flashing over the wires and und: the ocean on its long journey to Shanghai: “Hurrah!” At any other time the receipt of such a telegram or cablegram by Mr. Liddell’s people might have caused them some con- cern, but the happy groom was tloroughly confident of being understood. Ile has money to “burn,” and could have cabled a full account of the wedding without cr ating any financial distress to himself. As it was, there was nothing cheap in thé message. It cost $8.10. Birds and Fashions. From the Westminster Gazette. The annual report of the Society for th Protection of Birds contains one or two in- teresting statements to which attention may be directed. With regard to the us2 of birds and feathers in personal «dornment, it is stated that “the grosser and more re- pulsive forms of this mode” are undoubted- ly less often seen now than in recent years. “It must now be generally known that the wearing of stuffed birds on hats ts rm garded with feelings of extreme disgust by a large and constantly facreasing portion of the public. And that knowledge has nc been without effect. The : birds has declined enormou: continue to offend by exiib barous ornaments as gulls, terns, parrots or paroquets, and vailous other stuffed birds, in their hats, can but excite surprise rather than admiration. * In the “lamentable passion” for wearing “ospreys,” or aigrettes of white herons’ feathers, there is, howeve-, little chang! The fact that a few of finest samy of these plumes have been sold in the Lon- don feather market at the enormous of £10 per ounce affords strong evidenc: that the white egret is still being pursued to extermination. Monkeying Wi From the San Franelsco Examiner. Mike is the name of a big monkey at the Chutes. He has a long tall, and until a few days ago had long eye teeth. He still has the tail, but the teeth are gone. After having bitten a number of people with those tusks Mike learned their utility and threatened to do more biting, so Edward Raabe, the electrician, decided that the teeth must go. He had already completely won Mike’s heart, and had taught the monkey to ride on Rover's back, to shake hands and do other things. So the trusting Mike suspected nothing when Raabe took him on his knee in the power house, and, taking a pair of nippers used in cutting wire, told him to open his mouth. In a mo- ment there was a crunch, a snap and a yell, and one of Mike's tusks was a blunt stump just even with his little incisors. The others quickly followed, alternating with yells and despairing appeals from Mike's eyes, and the prince was disarmed and disgraced. ——_+2-+—____ Lasting. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I like to cook enough to last,” remarked the young bride. “You do, you do,” groaned the devoted hubby, “no matter how little you cook. — + - Fortune's Favorite. From the Iodienapetis Journal. “Oh, how can you drink so much?” asked the Earnest Worker. “It s'prises me sometimes,” said the Hope less Case. “It's jist luck, I guess.’ i ;