Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1897, Page 18

18 THE EVENING STAR. SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1897-24 PAGES. LIKE CONEY ISLAND Local Fairs Held All Over the French Oapital ——_-»>—_— LEAD UP 70 THE ONE AT NEOILLY They Are a Source of Great De- light to Foreigners. BARKERS AND MOUNTEBANKS Special Correspordence of The Evening Star. PARIS, July 14, 1897. EREAFTER, 80 the Paris police have just decreed, no local fairs will be tolerated within the city limits from the 1st of June until late in the fall. These fairs, of which each quarter has its own, are detested by the residents and be- loved by the tourist, who finds in them something unknown to his native land. They up with our newest and most sophisticated civilization the simpliclties of past centuries, when Montmartre had real s instead of the symbolical Moulin . with its arms revolving fiery electric lights, over which light Parisian ladies throw their caps to entice the foreigner. On Montmartre the fair begins with No- vember, ranging its shrill organ grinding, merry ounds and shows of ‘fat women and devilfish, and muitiform cheap bazaars im front of the houses of men like the painter Gerome and Francisque Sarcey and ethers known to fame, who must grin and bear the noise and dust and promiscuous gathering until the small hours of the morning for a solid month. In the springtime the last week of Lent sees the “ham and old iron fair,” which still ts its pork provisions for the time The Great Fire of thé Charity Bazzar. when once every one longed for meat after the dull weeks of fasting on onions and herring. comes the liar ‘gingerbread fair,” with removed when the first place had be- ome too sodden with human blood. Through May. little 1 quarters have their fairs on a small s Then in mid- . When the Grand Prix race brings 1 tens of thousands to Parts from foreiga puntries and the provinces, begins the eatest fair of all, unique in the world or what it has and what it has not—the of Neuilly. ‘Type of Fair People. or fair people, are the y belong to a profession, h is handed down from father to son, d you see the same faces reappearing on the platforms and before the selling booths. * government maintains a school for child » wh n. It is held in a wagon like ch form their homes; and there schoolmistr who is the daughter of one of these fair men and has graduated from the Normal School, teaches the threo R's to a score of little children born on the read from fair to fair. They are an orderly people and are s m up before the c9urt At ¥ o'clock of the warm June night the r grows alive; and the life increases adily until after midnight, when the stric lights are extinguished. They are x in festoons across the main street of an outskirt of Paris, which is It- self a smull city—for the whole length, from the gate of the Bois de Boulogne skirts, to the river Seine, two les further on. For the whole distance fair bocths, pavillons, tents, theaters, S$ (as the switchbacks are blaring merry-go-rounds are by each side. What is left of the venue in between fs for the throngs come by night to fair. ‘The Inhabitants suffer it for a month, because of the money pafd down in rent’ to their Two Cents a Chance. lity; and they take occasion of it > celebrate their @ giant illumination Meuntebunk Hunting. To fair the artist and writer went in search of types of what our forefathers, 0 also had fairs, properly termed “mountebanks.” They are those who “mount up on benches” the wonders of what sometimes to give a brief specimen and foretaste that may excite th more, and always to stir the open-mouth to tell the crowa they have to show hearers to laughter and curiosity. They are the “barkers” of the fair, and each has his own (rarely her own) little een or “bontment.” The word has spread and now the politician's speech to his electors 43 called his little boniment—which goes to prove that we have learned Shakespeare's lesson: All the world's a stage. And ell the men and women mereiy players. “The great fire of the Charity Bazaar in the Rue Jean-Goujon, with the five scenes of that tremendous catastrophe—the bomb which started the fire (this is already the popular legend) and the heroic action of the firemen!” It is a young man dressed like a Paris fireman, who calls over and over these ords. Over his eye is a black patch, to show how real is the ecer.o within, but his helmet is glittering brass, as if it had never known the smoke and flame, and his uni- form befits him neatly. With alternate arms he makes a generous, scooping gesture as if to persuade the people to enter this up-to date theater. Behind him is a per- former of a big bass drum and cymbals, who properly punctuates his speaking. From time te time other shining-helmeted firemen rush out and walk up and down the platform, between the performances. Along the walls of the tent, which serves as a theater, are painted vivid scenes of the disaster, which every Parisian still has in his mind's eye. By twos and threes they go in, hesitatingly, and then in a crowd altogether, as is the way when people are together. On a small scale it is an example An Inquisitor. of how men act in crowds—always by com- mon enthusiasm or panic—and it is this on which the “barkers” count. Trick Beauty The next booth has in immense letters, ‘Here Constanza, the most beautiful wo- man in the world, does the vanishing trick with her horse.” Of course, they cannot afford to skew for nothing the most beau- tiful woman ir the world, and so she does not appear in persen on the platform. In- stead they prove the genuineness of the rerformance by leading arourd the horse-- a sorry white nag, of uncertain age, as is also the beautiful Constanza under her paint, when you pay your ten cents and go inside. By ths way. though the fair is free, and no one need spend his sous, yet the many sights offered, each for ten or twenty cents, are sufficient to dry up the purse of the incautious. Here at a long, low shed, with shelves, on which fine porcelain of all sorts of imita- tion is stacked, two gir's are stationed. This is a “ceramic lottery.” a_chance! Messieurs, take Every number wins! Take your chance your chane But what are we to do with the dinner plate or saucer that follows our throw? With a smile we leave it to the pretty girls, just as they expected. And the lot- ‘ry proceeds. They are too chic to be aveling fair women, so we set them down as Parisiennes hircd for the occasion. Soon all our ideas of history are upset by a flaring sign announcing that within the ten-by-twelve feet tent one may see the “inauisitors” at their work of the guillo- tine. We had always thought, with the iest of the world, that the handy behead- ing instrument was introduced for the spe- cial uses of the French revolution; but now we learn that it secretly and wonderfully formed part of the stock in trade of the sory Inquisitors amid their torture cham- bers. At least here hefore us are two “‘fa- A Worthy Figure of a Venerable Man. miliars,” in long black gowns and caps, ‘ith a white cross on the shoulder. They do not look fierce, and the music of a cai- ithumpian is too close for them to speak. So they wave their hands wildly toward their show and the cn the canvas bes . AS no one an- swers thelr invitation they begin most in- quisitorial pranks like clowns, as if to per- suade that the sight of losing one’s head must be the funniest thing in the world. Old-Timers Are Thene. A few steps further on we come on a tragedy which is also full of the philosophy of life. On one side of the avenue stretches a long-continued series of tents, forming one establishment. The platform is large and long enough to lodge ‘a whole band, playing their noisy wind instruments, a monkey that chases the night moths up and down the post to which he is tied, a Hama that walks about pompously, nosing the performers, and three barkers under the electric lights. This is the menagerie of wild beasts of the family Pezon, seen by every Frenchman at some time of his life. It has been in the family now for four generations, and the second of the name stands here to draw the people, for the sake of auld lang syne; for, just across the avenue, with longer tenis and fresher paint and ‘noisier band, the “Gen- tleran Lion Tamer’ is to be found. Tt is the rivalry of the old and the new, of the cheap chic and the reliable old stand. e elder Pezon, a worthy figure of a venerable man, waves his hands and calls out husky words of invitation. He. {s dressed in sober black, and has a high hat, with straight brim—the hat of half a cen. tury ago—on his head. Many times he has barely escaped from the jaws of some one of his infurlated lions. His chief assistant fs the grandson of the one and only lion tamer, Gerard, whose hairbreadth escapes and thrilling ‘adventures in the African forests have long been the favorite reading of schoolboys the world over. But his eye wanders anxiously across the road. desire for | ‘There the “gentleman” lion tamer stands in all his glory—a stout, handsome young man, in maroon-colored dress suit and | black silk knickerbockers, with a lavish chrysanthemum at his buttonhole. He does not need to speak; he has but to show his fin-de-siecle grace. It is George Marck. who, the legend says, is really of high | family. He became knowh with his lions, | which he Is supposed to have caught by hand in African wilds, from the show which he gave at the Olympia Music Hall when all Paris was worshiping our Ameri- can Loje Fuller, and the serpentine dance | was the rage. His lion’s den rose on the | stage, containing himself, standing guard over the beasts, while Mme. Bob Walter did the serpentine dance before them. I always thought the poor animals were more afraid than the performers at.all the dazzling display of colored gauze and flash- ing lights. We go in to see the young Pezon perform with what is really a good choice of animals, and so- lose the excite- ment of first blood drawn from George Marck. It was the night when his lion chose to crunch his shoulder and lay him up for the rest of the fair. But this is the common lot, even of gentlemen, in the career. The Wrestlers’ Turn. In the middle of the fair, before a booth with a high platform along its front, the largest crowd of all is gathered. Here, be- tween their acts, the wrestlers stalk about in all the splendor of their red and blue Ughts and sweaters. Their booth inside is an amphitheater, seating perhaps 100 per- sons, with the wrestling place below. While it is filling Robin—Monsieur Robin—who is so fat that one wonders how he can enter the rirg, makes himself the barker-in-chief. He has two clowns beside him, with wnom he holds savory dialogves that dubiously amuse the crowd. The men and women, stending with mouths a-gap, attend rather to the tall, brawny form of Pons—“Inter- nationai Champton”—who is fresh from the glories of his London success. He sits in- differently by, but the great muscle of his arms work promisingly. He terminates his tights and bicycle stockings. All of these pecccastonal athletes give signs of good feeding. There is, as in former years, the champion of the north, who asks for the price of a bock for himself and Robin, whom he sees the artist sketching. There is the “Horse of the Rhone” and the ‘“Ram- part of Carcassonne.” In fact, nearly all of them are from the south, where the Graeco-Roman wrestling is said to have flourished without interruption from the time of the Romans down. The greatest of all these has just died at the age of eighty years. His name was Marseille, which still appears on the booth, and which many mistake for the city in spite of the spell- ing. Long after he was too old to enter the ring himself he did the barking, flank- ed always by a negro, who had been the crack wrestler of his troupe. “Three hundred francs to the man that will down my negro!” It is Robin who does the barking now. He holds up a bundle of clumsy boxing gloves in his hands, steps the antics of the clowns, and begins his boniment. He points out the different champions with their titles, and then demands for each some antagonist of good will “To whom the gloves?” The glove is but a symbol, for, of course, it is not used in this close struggle of men strivped naked to the waist. A voice calls out “Carcassonne!” and one of the gloves is tossed over. Presently, when the performance begir the suppesed amateur, who has thus offe ed himself. will meet in the ring with the Rampart of Carcassonne, and perhaps may down him. For, «lthough there is nearly always an agreement as to which one is to conquer, the struggle is no made-up affair. Simply a struggle of two professionals to the bitter end might result in a broken Se Fat One Wonders How He Can En- ter the Ring. spine, as happened three times to the op- ponents of une of these charapions, after which the police properly made him retire on his laurels. Finally all the champions have found their opponents, and they enter the booth followed by as many men—and women—as the place will hold. “Reserved seats, 1 franc! Front seats, 10 sous! Seats, 5 sous! STERLING HEILIG. = Sees VICTORIA AND TH! How the Queen of Enginnd Owes Her Throne to Sir Moses Montefiore. In these days of the Victoria jubilee many Stories are told about the queen-empress, and all seem to interest the public. The fact that the present lord mayor of London is a Jew reminded a story teller of the following incidents in the history of the queen, says the New York Tribune. Her father, the Duke of Kent, was a poor man, and the intimate friend of Moses Montefiore, one of the leading men in the London Jewish community.. They had tastes In common, and the Jew Mked the poor nobleman because he never asked for money, while the nobleman admired the Jew for his charity and honesty. Their friendship was never threatened by dis- cussions on political or religious topic At the time when an heir was expected in the family of the Duke of Kent, Monte- flore urged his friend to take his wife to England, so that there might be no ob- stacle in the way of the child's advancing to the throne, although there were then three lives between it and the possible little Kent. The duke confessed that his means would not permit him to do so, and Monte- fore urged his friend to allow him to at- tend to the transportation and housing of the invalid duchess. The trip was made, and the Duchess of Kent was attended by Montefiore’s family physician. His kind- ness was never forgotten by the duke, and the preferment of the Jews in England since then and the removal of obstacles which had hampered their soctal, commer- clal and political advancement have been attributed by many to the kindness of Moses Montefiore, who became lord high sheriff of London, and lived to see one of his race premier. Jews were chosen to the position of lord mayor, one of the number the father of the present incumbent, and seventy-six years after the little girl was born, on the day when the daughter of the poor duke was the central figure in the greatest demonstration in the annals of the world, a Jewish lord mayor welcomed her at the gate of her royal capital. —— Gold Mime on a Roof. From the New York Times. A little gold mine was discovered today on the roof of the assay office in Wall street. Sweepers collected all the dust and dirt found there and an assay showed that it ran above $200 a ton in gold and silver. ‘These sweepings are the preliminary steps in the verification of the accounts of B. F. Martin, melter and refiner, and Andrew Mason, superintendent of the assay office. The work is being done by a commission from Washington, consisting of Capt. T. P, Gross, W. F. Bowen and C. C. Tyler. The taking of the accounts in the assay office is for the fiscal year ending June 20. There is now on hand there $15,000,000 in gold. Of this $14,000,000 is in gold bars and the balance in coin. ‘In additfon to refining the sweepings of the roof the furnaces and fumes will be torn down and cleaned out and the mats, chimneys and floors scraped. From all of these sources considerable gold and silver will be obtained. The Only Diving Dog. From the Detroft Journal, ‘The only diving dog in the world, so far as known, is dead. He was Dash, or “Dash the Diver," as all Detroit, where he lived, knew him. His master was S. H. Ives, who taught the dog to dive by coaxing him gradually to go after stones flung in the water at increasing depths. It is re- cerded of Dash that he once fetched up a stone that had been thrown in eighteen feet of water, which is pretty good work for any diver, two or four-legged. Dash fas seven years old, a Cocker spaniel, and Ms death was due to diving, the pressure of the wster proving too much for him. He had two doctors in his last tilness. FOR MY: LADY'S DIVAN + or -é Oushions ‘That Give an Air of Luxury 1» to a Room. 3 HOW 0; OWRAIN ARTISTIC. EFFECTA Can Be Mads as Souvenirs of Sum- : rher Holidays. £ uw sd v SOME PRETTY DESIGNS Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. CLEVER YOUNG matron, who spends the long summer days in devising ways and means for the further adorn- ment of her pretty home, 1s devoting her time this sum- mer to cushions. As they are the most important item in household decoration —‘‘a room well cush- me foned is well furnish- ed” being the dictum—a description of her ckarming collection may be welcome to other housewives. Nothing gives such an air of luxury to an apartment or adds so much to one’s comfort as a good supply of cushions scattered about. All sizes and shapes are popular, though the square or round are considered in the best taste. And as to the filling, that is a matter set- tled by the depth of the pocket book. Down Is the first choice, then down and feathers mixed, feathers and curled hair next in order. A tour of the shops this month will reward one with genuine bar- gains in short lengths of silk and other materials. The selection of the covering for the cushions will, of course, depend upon the skill and taste of the maker. If one neither embroiders nor paints very Pretty effects may be obtained with plain or figured materials, but they must possess richness, attractive color, quaintness of design or some other striking characteris- lic to insure really good and artistic re- sults. ‘There are seven cushions in the young matron’s set for her divan, which has a Bagdad curtain in russet, ecru and dull blue for its cover. cushion is of thick dull silk of a russet brown hue. It is thickly powdered with snow crystals formed with small green, gold and sil- ver spangles, making @ particularly effect- ive cushion. Inter- lacing circles or any simple geometrical design may be substituted for the snow crystals. The next one has a cover of dull blue velour. The center was cut from a square of coarse ecru linen, leaving the drawn work border intact. This was ap- pliqued on the velour with tinsel thread and green and -pink floss. A heavy silk cord around the sides gives a finish to the cushion. A_ pillow covered with vivid poppy red silk has no ornamentation ex- cept three graduated ruffles, which are set on to form a guatrefoil. Another blue evshion Is made of heavy satin duchesse, and has a flight of butterflies embroidered in rich shades of golden brown, yellow and white, with black and tinsel mark- ings introduced in the wings. Around the four sides of this cushion is a puff of the blue satin laced with a gold cord. Probably the most unique pillow in the set is one of black satin, effectively or- namented with pea- cock feathers and a gold stork. The quills were carefully split and the feathers fastened to the satin with strong glue. This is a very nice piece of work, requiring deft hand- ling to prevent the glue from running on the satin. Cover with a piece of smooth manilla paper and keep under a board and weights until the feathers are dry or the satin will wrinkle. The gold bullion stork may be procured at any Japanese store. A square of coarsely woven silk, striped with red and ecru, through which threads of black, green and tinsel are mingled, was found in a shop where oriental goods are wold. It makes a truly gorgeous cushion cover. A dainty idea is carried out in a cushion of very fine smcoth ecru channois. Titmice perched on the blossoming branch- es of a cherry tree decorate this cushion. They are painted very broadly in vils and the color used very sparingly. Just a touch of blue on the heads and wings, etc., the chamois supplying the color for the birds’ bodies. The tree twigs are reddish brown and the blossoms white, with a few green leaves and buds. A pinked out ruffle of reddish brown silk sewed «round the sides for a finish. Then there is the set for Joun’s corner in the sitting room. As he is a smoker, the first cushion is dedicated to tobacco. It is of dull yellow The first art ticking, and nipes, tobacco and bunches of cigars are worked in brown, black and red, as is the motto, “The man wno smokes thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritaa.” A green duck has a bunch of nodding poppies, embroidered in their natural col- ors, and “Pleasant Dreams’ done in square, readable letters. The edges are scalloped and button-holed in red. An- other pillow is covered in dull red call- co, having a procession of solemn yellow and black Egyptians meandering over the surface. The sides are finished with a full ruffle. All of these cushions are very large and are serviceable, as the coverings may be laundered. ‘A dainty pillow, destined for a Christmas present has a cover of thick upholstery satin in the snade known as Spanish yel- low. Over it pansies in delicate purples and white are strewn and “For Thoughts” worked in purple and gold. The pansizs are em- broidered solidly, giving a very rich effect. <A full puff and a tucked ruffle of satin is put around the sides. stitgh embroidery is very ef- It is especial- for denim and the heavy Iin- ens. Bordej @yorked in scarlet and white linen floss sre suitable for hammock and knockabout pillows. The Greek key pattern and the checker board are the sim- Plest design§, for. borderss Clover, laurel and thistle filled cughions make pleasant souvenirs of -he summer holidays. Rose leaves or a hodge podge of flowers may alsa pe used. The covers may be silk or linen, and should be decorated with the flower and an appropriate motto. or IN TH E CHURCHES The services Sunday at St. James’ Prot- estant Episcopal Church, Rev. Father Clark, rector, will have an especial signifi- cance by reason of tomorrow being the feast of St. James, the Apostle, patron saint of the church. The day is to be ap- propriately observed in all the Episcopal and Catholic churches, but at St. James’ Church a solemn high mass, with music by the choir, arranged for the occasion, will mark it. ‘The general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, Mr. W. N. Multer, is spending his vacation in the mounzains of Luzerne county, Pa., and during his ab- sence the workings of the association are in charge of the assistant secretary,. Mr. Hike ministers Of the Christi Associa. e ristian : tlon of Maryland and the District of Co- Cross fective engce ly done. ly adapted lumbia held their July meeting at Jerusa- lem Harford county, the subject for the day being “Alexander Campbell. Campbell was the founder of the Church of the Disciples and his various traits of life were treated by the following Wash- ington pastors: Rev. Edward B. Bagby, pastor of the Ninth Street Church, spoke on “Campbell as a Man;” Rev. W. J. Wright of the Third Christian Church, “Campbell as a Polemic; Rev. F. D. Power, LL.D., pastor of the Vermont Ave- nue Christian Church, “Campbell's Inner Life.” There is to be another meeting in August. A ladies benevolent society is in process of organization among the members of St. Teresa's Catholic Church, and the follow- ing ladies have been appointed a commit- tee to draw up a constitution and report at the next meeting: Mesdames Shreve, Downey, Handy, Osterman and Norton. Rev. J. McLain Brown, home missionary of the Maryland conference of the Meth- odist Protestant Church, has taken up his quarters in Washington for the summer months and has started a campaign of evangelization. Mr. W. B. Millar, field secretary of the International Young Men’s Christian Asso- clation, left the city the first of this weel The pastor of Wesley Methodist Church, Rev. J. Fred. Heisse, expects to leave the 1st of August for Washington county, Md., for a four weeks’ vacation. The position of choirmaster at the Pro- Cathedral Church of St. Mark, until re- cently filled by Dr. John E. Parker, will be occupied in future, beginning with the first Sundey in September, by Prof. De Offeo Brown, who received his training in the choirs of New York city, and it is said he will at once proceed to a reorganization of the choir. Bishop Satterlee is expected to return to this country the 15th of next month, but will go immediately to his summer home at Twilight Park, Catskills, where he has a chapel in which he will conduct services during the rest of the summer. Dr. Sat- terlee is expected to return to this city in time to preach the first Sunday in October at_ the Pro-Cathedral of St. Mark. Rev. Dr. James A. Buck, the aged rector of St. Paul’s P. E. Church, Rock Creek parish, has improved sufficiently to be able to take charge of his services again, A raily has been arranged for the Luther- an Christian Endeavorers, to take place Sunday evening week at the Luther Memo- rial Church. It ts to be in the nature of a “San Francisco echo rally.” A mass meeting of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew has been arranged for the lat- ter part of this month at St. Margaret's P. E. Church, at which several addresses will be made on the coming convention of the organization. The pastor of Metropolitan M. E. Church, Rev. Hugh Johnston, D.D., has gone to Europe. Dr. Johnston expects to spend the most of his time in London at the British Museum, studying Assyriology, in which he has already attained some’ fame as a scholar. Upon his return to America Dr. Johnston will spend two weeks with his family, at their summer home near Niagara Falls, and return to Washington about the last of September. The services at Metropoll- tan Church during his absence are to be conducted by various ministers in the morning, and in the evening by the Ep- worth League. Archbishop Martinelli returned to the city this week from Plattsburg, where he formally opened the regular ses: @1 of the Catholic Summer School of Amer.ca. A recent guest at the pastoral residence of St. Paul’s Church, Rev. Father Mackin, has been the Rev. W. E. Starr, pastor of Corpus Christi Church, one of the largest parishes of Baltimore. The sixteenth annual reunion of the rall- road Young Men’s Christian Associations in this section of the country is to be held next Thursday at Harper's Ferry. The music fs to be conducted by Mr. George W. Havell of this city, and the representatives on the reunion committee from here are Messrs. George W. Wheeler and George W. Havell. Rev. E. D. Bailey will make an address. The pastor of Zion’s Lutheran Caurch, Rev. Albert Homrighaus, with his family, has left for the mountains of western Maryland, to spend the rest of the summer. A special meeting of the Lutheran Min- isters’ Association was held on Monday morning at St. Paul’s Church to consider the question of how the annual meeting of the Maryland synod in October is to be en- tertained, and also how the future sessions of the synod will be cared for. No devision was reached at this meeting, but another one is to be held, with the same object in view. The directors of the Lutheran Home for the Aged, appointed at the recent meeting of the general synod Lutherans, met on Wednesday, out at the home, near Ivy City, and elected the following officers to serve for one year: President, Rev. W. E. Parson, D.D., pastor of the Church of the Reformation; treasurer, Mr. Albert F. Fox of St. Paul’s Church, and secretary, Mr. I. C. Slater of the Church of the Reforma- tion. There is also an organization of la- dies acting in conjunction with the direc- Samuel Domer of St. Paul’s Church has purchased a country home near East Washington Heights, and is spending the summer there with his family, coming into the city on Sundays. Vesper services have been substituted at Grace Methodist Church, Rev. George V. Leech, for the regular Sunday evening ser- vice. Rev. Dr. Teunis 8S. Hamlin of the Church of the Covenant has left for his summer vacation, and will be gone until late in September. Dr. Hamlin is to spend several weeks at a number of places, and will then join his family at Nantucket. Rev. Paul A. Menzel of the Concordia German Evangelical Lutheran Church will leave the Ist of August for a two weeks’ stay on the eastern shore of Maryland. Rev. F. D. Power, LL. D., of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church of this city will speak at the meeting of the American Christian Missionary Society in Indianapo- ls _on “Home Missions.”” The Epworth League of Wesley M. E. Church has been conducting services at the jail for some time past. Among those who are active in this work are Mr. A. A. Taylor and the Misses Fowler. Rev. Charles F. Hayes, curate of the Pro-Cathedral Church of Mark, is visit- ing his family In New Jersey, and later will spend some time in the Adirondacks, re- turning to Washington in the latter part of September. Rev. Dr. George V. Leech of Grace Church expects to spend a portion of his vacation at Ocean Grove, N. J., and will be accompanied by his son, Rev. Hedding B. Leech of St. James Church, Newark, formerly of this city, who is contemplating taking the course in the Summer School of Theology, which begins there in August. The standing committee of the diocese of Washington met this week and acted fa- vorably on the election of bishops coadjutor for the dioceses of Virginia and Rhode Is- land. The committee will not probably have any more meetings until the return of the bishop. The Luther League of St. Mark’s Church, South Washington, has placed a memorial transom over the front entrance of the church, and is negotiating for the purchase of a handsome memorial window in memory of the father of the pastor of the church. Rev. George W. Lee, pastor of the Ver- mont Avenue Baptist Church, is in charge of the Liberty Baptist Church, pending the selection of a regular pastor. The congregation of Salem Baptist Church, located on Champlain avenue, have chosen a minister as successor to the Rev. S. Geriah Lamkins in the person of Rev. J._A. Edgerton, who has accepted the call. Rev. Dr. George H. Corey has left the ctty for an extended vacation. The contractor who is finishing the house of worship of thy Keller Memorial congre- gation has com leted the plastering and the ceiling, has put in the heating appa atus, and is nov putting on the finer por tions of the werk, including decorations, so that by the middie of September the church will be re. dy for dedication. Rev. J. G. Butler of the Luther Memorial Church will spend the first few days of his vacation in August at Mountain Lake Park, and later, on his way home, will stop at Harper's Ferry. The rector of the Church of the Ascen- sion, Rev. John H. Elliott, 8. T. D., is to leave next week for the mountains of west- ern Maryland and West Virginia, accom- panied by his niece, Miss Mary Barnwell Fuller of South Carolina. During his ab- sence the parochial duties will be in charge of the assistant minister, Rev. Thomas Worthington Cooke. Rev. Dr. Radcliffe is up In the mountains of Pennsylvania visiting his aged mother, who is quite ill. Yesterday evening the congregation of Shiloh Baptist Church very happily tender- ed their pastor, Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, a reception, during the course of which he re- ceived a surprise in the shape of a hand- some horse and buggy as a gift from the congregation. The council of the Church of the Refor- mation have organized by the selection of the following officers: Chairman, ex-officio, the pastor, Rev. W. E. Parson, D. D.: treasurer, A. K. Wagner; financial secre- tary, F. H, Parson; secretary of the coun- cil, J. A. Sutherland, and custodian of the church building, D. H. Yount. Officially reported, after elaborate com- petitive tests made under authority of Congress by the Chief Chemist of the United States Agri- cultural Department, Superior to all other Baking Pow. ders in Leaven- ing Strength. The most Careful Housewife will use no other. ROVAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW-YORK. FOR UP-TO-DATE WOMEN The Shirt Waist Problem That Comes Up Every Summer, What to Wear and What Not to Wea —The Number Necessary for Luxury and Comfort. Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. This Is Indeed “shirt waist time.” Those who are left to suffer in ctties wear them whenever they are obliged to go out on the hot streets, and those who are locky enough to have escaped to green fields practically live in them unless they belong to the piazza contingent and never indulge in any more energetic sport than rocking in a chair. Year hefore last there were whispers that the shirt waist was on the wane. Last year we were told its death knell had been rung. but lo, this year it appears more popular than ever. Outdoor sports have made It indispensable. Since we are to have shirt waists and yet again shirt waists Iet us give a little study to ticir proper management. Tt has bean emphasized before that no other gar- ment has been subjected to such abuse or besa worn in so slovenly a manner. The appearance of the shirt waist as we often see It Is enough to make the smart wo- man give all of hers to her maid. The shirt waist should not be overworn. In the country where it is possible to do so It is much better to wear light. pretty and inexpensive gowns, which have a dainty. summery and feminine effect, sav- ing the shirt waist for golf. tennis, bicv- cling or rowing. But for the occasional day in the city, or for those who cannot leave town. the shirt waist Is always the proper garment. For traveling a starched shirt waist is not wise if one has any distance to go. It is sifff. soils casily unless very dark In coior, loses its starch and thereupon all Its right to existence. A cool, dark, silk waist, with detachable collar and cuffs if preferred, is more suitable. Indeed, it may he laid down as a general rule that all cotton fabrics should be eschewed by the traveler. The Details Vary. The details of the shirt waist vary from year to year, and it fs regrett:ble, but true, that no matter how slender the purse shirt vaists should either be made new or be remodeled every spring. This year it was not sce difficult to do, as there was Iittle change in the yokes. One had only to make the sleeves and cuffs smaller, tuck instead of shirr the sleeve into the enff. and cut off the collar and wear detach- able whit collars and cuffs. The number of shirt w: a luxurious treatment of the question is never less than a dozen. The number ne essary for comfort and cleanliness is quite half that number. In color and material, of course, they vary. according to the taste of the wearer and the fashion of the hour. One girl. who is favored enough by fortune to be able to have hers 1 made, and of as many colors as Joseph's cont, was enamored of pink All of her waists were some shade of that gay. youthful color, and when she appeared daily, fresh and dainty, in yet another pink shirt waist, even more becoming than the iast, her choice of colors seemed a wise one. The distirction of a shirt waist lies in its freshness, its simplicity, its fit on the shoulders and fits trimness at the waist line. These four cardinal virtues should be borne in mind when donning the garment. First, its freshness. It seems incredible that well-gowned women, who have spared no pains and expense to have proper gar- | ments for various occasions, should yet not be scrupulously careful to wear ‘hem Properly. Yet such is the case. Nor is there any excuse for the woman who, though she has been obliged to consider expense, has been more lavish in her ex- penditure of time. thought and labor, and thus achieved the adjective of well- groomed. Should Always Be Fresh. Save on candy, ice cream, soda water, ear fare, embroidery, or any of the dear delights of a summer resort, but never wear a shirt waist that is not perfectly fresh, or that does not look as if it and the collar attached had just come from the laundry. It costs fifteen or twenty cents to have a shirt waist laundered, and two cents for each collar. Buy a few less bar- gains from itinerant East Indians this summer and use the money for larger laun- drv bills. The simplicity of a shirt waist depends upon the way tn which it is made and the material used. The shirt waist proper was originally intended to be of a material nearly if not quite as heavy as men’s shirtings, and simply made. ferent little tucks and frills added to dim- ity an] silk waists, and to white waists purporting to be shirt waists,-but the sim- ple, fresh waist of percale, batiste, madras, etc., is by far the most satisfactory. To secure the perfect-fitting shoulders, which add so much to these waists, one should be lucky enough to be able to have one’s outfit made by some good woman tailor, or industrious enough to get a good seamstress and good pattern, and have one’s shirt waists made at home. There | are a few shops which have exclusive de- signs and well-fitting, ready-made shirt waists, but the price one pays for these is so great that it almost justifies the tailor and costs nearly twice as much as those made at home. The trimness at the waist is a problem which can be solved in different ways. Be- sides the dart, the best tailors have a tape to shape the waist under the arms. The best device of all is a simple piece of dress belting with a buckle sewed on one end. This is buckled on over the shirt waist, and the fullness ts then adjusted, and can be pinned to the belt, though if the waist is well shaped no pinning should be neces- sary. Thus managed, fresh, well-fitted and sim- ple, with a white collar and a well-tied ribbon stock, the shirt waist becomes a powerful ally of the woman who valucs appearances, as every true woman should. MABEL BOYD. Hence These Tears. From the Chicago Post. The boy came into the house weeping, and his mother was naturally solicitous. “What's the matter, Tommy “The boy across the street hit me,” he replted. “Oh, weH, I wouldn’t cry for that,” she returned. “Show that you can be a litt!e “TI ain’t crying for that,” he retorted. “Then what are you crying for?” “He ran into the house before I could get at him.” ts necessary to | This year there are dif- | HOUSEHOLD HINTS There is nothing in the world that will arger a woman much more qui kly than to have a piece of fine ironing almost com- pleted and then have a too hot iron brown its imprint on a conspicuous place. This can usually be avoided in two ways First, be sure that the garment are well rinsed. If a suspicion of soap is left in them they will yellow more or less under the iron. ters will do more for you two “suds.” Then always have on the ironing board a folded cotton cloth on which to test your irons. If the cloth es after application of the iron, cool the iron before you put it on the garment, for even if it does not actually yellow the cloth the intense heat tends to rot it, and it will break before it ought to. After scorching just dampen the spot with cold | water and place in the sun. Keep it damp | till the spot disappears, which it will, un- less you have actually burned the fiber. Nothing will take the spot out after that j has been done. A damp cloth dipped in common soda | will brighten tinware beautifully. b briskly and dash hot water over it. If you want your stoves to look like new when come to put them up in the autumn, do not leave them to rust in th- | Cuthouse. Dip a flannel cloth in coal ofl and, full to dripping, rub lightly over evers | Part of the stove. Then throw over it a lot of old newspapers, which pin to ke Place, then put an old piece of cary a big old table cloth over that. When you come to put the stoves up you will find that they are in perfect condition, and all pin t or you need to do is to rub them off with a coal oiled rag and Dlacken. Unless you de | protect them in this damp climate, they will rust, and a rusted stove ts a stove ruined, so far as beauty is concerned. If there is nickel plate about the stove it should be polished, then wrapped in flan- nel, tied closely, Iron rust can sometimes be removed from marble by taking one part of nitric acid to twenty-five parts of water, and apy! ing carefully to the spots. After standing a few moments wipe off, and if not gone repeat the dose, Be careful of the acid, at it is ruinous to the nails and skin, and tc clothing. a des. with If you have real cream, and want sert that would make an epicure smi content, try this. Take a pint of thickest weet cresm, sweeten to taste, and u uch flavoring as you like, something cate is best, and put over the fire. Beat the whites of ten egzs to a froth with a tablespoonful of thick cream, strain it, a stir into the pint of whipped cream, w should be just at the boiling point. Stir | til all is thick like « ré, take up and strain through a hair sieve, b with a spcon or egg beater till it is cold, then tu in a dish and set in the ice box to harder It is like velvet. | A recipe for the destruction of vermin that is said by distinguished chemists to be | infallible is made of alum. It will ‘str red and bla cockroaches, ) Spiders and crawling pests which in- | fest our hous: Two pounds of alum dis- Ived in four quarts of hot water, and the stove till all alum p dissolved is the ry While | ith a la y joint vice in your clos : 4, bedsteads, p shelves and the n- try li ush over the } crevices in the fleor and the mopboards, If you suspect that they harbor vermio. If in | whitewashing a ceiling plenty of alum ts | added to the lime, it will 4 | insects at a distance. Co. will fea jthe paint which has been washed with alum water. The remedy is so simple that it will cost but little to put it into opera- | ton. If you are so unfortrnate as to get | srease on your silk gown, apply magn to the wrong side, in a thick powder, | set a moderately ‘warm iron over it, | placing a bit of blotting paper over the magnesia, Heat your new fron pots and skillets very gradually, or they will crack. It is a good plan to place such new vtensils on the back of the stove, and let them heat all day, empty, of course, and then they will be much nicer for use Mildewed linen is a hard thing to treat properly, but nothing better than soap, wit and lemon has ever been discovered. Good strong laundry soap—soft soap is best, if made of wood lye—mixed with lemon juice, aad table salt, applied to che Cicth and laid in the sun. All fruit that requires paring should be put immediately in very cold water and aliowed to remain until sufficient quantity has been prepared, to prevent the fruit from becoming discolored. When the fruit is very tender and it is desired to have it keep its shape and color, tt may be dipped quickly Into strong lemon juice, and when the syrup is made in which it is to be cooked, a little lemon juice may be added. Some use alum in hardening fruit and pickles, but that can scarcely be recommended. Paint splasnes may be removed from window glass by rubbing with a strong solution of soda, or ammonia water, and scratching with a blunt knife. Then rinse off with the same water, using elbow grease and a flannel rag. Stewed fish does not sound very inviting, but it really tastes very nice. Wash and draw the fish—it should be perfectly fresh, of course—and cut into several pieces, and put in a stew pan with water to keep ft) from burning, while it simmers for half ; an hour. Then remove the bones, season with a dash of cayenne and salt to taste. Let it boil up and skim, then stir tn | a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, mixed to a smooth paste with a heap- ing tablespoonful of flour. Add to this a little bunch of sweet marjoram, chopped or picked fine, a sprig of chopped parsley, and a teaspoonful of finely chopped onion. Cover and let it simmer for another half | hour. This is such a nice way to serve pota- toes and left-over meat. Take cold beef, mutton, veal or ham, clear from bones and gristle, season with salt, pepper, a tiny dash of nutmeg, and’a small pickle. Chop fine. Boil and mash some good white y0- tatoes, and when cool,-make a paste of them with two well-beaten eggs, and roll on the bread board with a dusting of. fiour. Cut out with a saucer, when about quarter of an inch thick. Put on half of each of these a little of the meat mixture, and turn over half the crust, like a turnover pie. Pinch the edges together, and fry a light brown in hot lard. Or you may mix a little butter with the potatoes, use only one egg, and bake the puffs in a buttered pan in the oven. To whiten your old sailor hats, scrub them with a nail brush in soapy wa‘er, ang page Not to pull out of shape. le sugpend over a sul- hur candle, in a close old barrel, f hour or two. This will whiten them tifully. Another way is te cover with a paste of sulphur and water, it dry on, then brush off. It is a Jeb, however, and the candle way