Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1897, Page 21

21 IN THE TREE TOPS oe A Favorite Resort for Students of the Paris Latin Quarter. NO WORRY ABOUT EXAMINATIONS How They Come Back From a Visit to “Robinson's.” —— AMONG DINERS AND DANCERS —_—_-__—_— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, Au 20, 1897. HE THE LATIN Quar tudents a: their studentge me piling noi-i nto the Bra @Harcourt laden dowr flow amd greenery it is a sign they been doing noth ouniryside. ome pil- re noisily down with strange hilarity and loving kiad- ness, gazooing on the most lizarre of e instr ts of archaic Ci olden trum es dog-headed tron whistling and xylophones tied to a brother's back, with Chinese lante the neck of every girl for identification and the general we they how! and pound the tables and engage in long disp which hat is whose, it is a sign that they have been to “Robin- s hanging from e purposes of re; when sas ing, loving, > trees of a resort is wet the Parisian ven miles from the 40 feet above the . ari in level of . where winds blow fresh and painte a most astound- ing view, long year some kenius the forest ties of tin prasccite anci 1 t oor © uck dun with prints on the sand. And Crusoe did me Popular. Latin Quarter studencs their ho pride themselves on their learn- ing—know the Listery of the place. It was forty ago, when railways were young in France. A French engin>r, after muc wine drinking over ti of getting whole trains of cars sa! snd speedily up ly @ long rising slope, had solved it to his own sati ion, and th govern- men bim te try road to th onsly j ide, tacking like a a strong breeze. the little valleys it wound in and the p of seeing from ack on them n ng from the wi su of the new line, crowded to it. The Tree Restaurant, It was then the speculator of the big trees, a little further on, saw that his time had come. In one of the gigantic relies he constructed a long flight of steps, which Ted up to three landings, one above the other, each thatched heavily against the rain, but with sides open for thé lovely view Each of these tree shelters wa ‘or a small dozen of guests. The razzle-dazzle of the coun- tryside began Beranger wrote a song of ¥ popular, “En In Coming Back imitation. as the on, to suit the needs of newer drinking rendezvous beyond the wall Most of them had faulty rhymes, for it Robin-son that rhymes with mon n revenant de Robinson, Savais mon pompon! And whether pompon had its original s ation of a cockade (and if so, of grass or wild flowers) or its present soul-saddening meaning of an independent drunk it mattered little. re were always, also, those touching nous partimes dla rue d"Melun had the ians right pronuncia the name of Friday’ 's friend and bene Modern Facilities. The old railroad, with its curves, exists no longer; in is place a fine, straight line, with its new station at the Luxembourg, = es n laborers’ the fortifications, through chen gardening, past the clustering factory villages that sully the fair land- Scape, and then on up, with never a puff at such a trifling climb. At Sceaux, the St town, there is a private lunatic : bat we do not stop. The lunatics are taken on by foot to Robinson on Thurs- day afternoons by keepers in plain dréss. zhey soon melt into the crowd and are not noticed. ‘The original old tree is still there, but it, . is lost in the shuffle. For there are. two dozen great ~ 3, and all e-restaurants. “This is the The only true original!” Mais flute, alors! The tourists only care for the original. Which gives the fullest tre, the longest ment and the shortest price? “The fent is not rich.” There is an independent railway station for “Robinson's.” Around the station are all kinds of drinking taverns, small, with immense double piazzas, imitating the tree- restaurants, some three stories high. “The Rendezvous of Scholars”—“The Sign of the Blushing Grisette!"—“The Rabbit in the Pot!"—“The Inn of Alsace-Lorraine!”—so that no motive or emotion is left unappeal- ed to, Then struggling up the hill there is a street, quite wide, quite bright with colors, very no‘sy, very gay. It 1s a street, because it is a space between two rows of houses. But the houses are not houses, only taverns. So it is no street, but only 2 road, with taverns on each side. | Were they not there—the taverns—it would bea sweet, romantic up to andj you mean?’ through the forest. visitors do not get up to the forest. Yet, they have been to Robinson’s. And En revenant de Robinson, Chacun a son pompon! No one lives at Robinson's. Besides, the student clientele, improvident and careless of the morrow, with duties to their books back in the town, and not to speak of quarrels, blows, revilings (which, to save time, are made up in reconciliations erish, flighty on the train returning), is f and eccentric; so that the ‘inn Keepers” collect money for each service as it passes. Which, reacting on the clientele, produces recklessness, abandon and excesses. In this way only is to be explained the extra’ gance of horse, mule and donkeyback rid- ing, one of the fearsome frolics of the steep hillside and darksome forest ways. Donkey Riding. The donkeys—gentle-eyed and leather- brained—are let out at a france an hour. The hill is a mile or more before its top fs reached, and all the way the riders are in full sight of the crowd,. whose object is enjoyment. On and off the beasts the charge is the same—one frane an hour: There was a bareheaded damosel safely seated in the box saddle of a rat-tailed mule, who, intelligent to the full measure years, refused to leave his spot. It Was a sp ited mule. A demure little decoy donkey, trained for this same work, was then led forward and betrayed the mule to. She Encourages Her Donkey. something like a crawl outside the gate. ‘Then the mule perceived his error. Amid the piping shrieks of the maiden and the struggles of her escort, he looked back- ward. Were it not for a club at each flank he would have found his spot again, but it was not to be. He rushed up the hill, and then turned to the wall to browse upon some tufts of grass. The girl up on the broad old Spanish saddle, as upon a cafe concert stage, was full of pantomime. There was applause. ‘The Dancing Pavilion. Half way up, where a beaten patch of ground branches out among the trees, stands Robinson in his rough coat of skins and his umbrella, as in the books, with Friday groveling naked at his feet. Above there is a plain sign giving all to under- stand that this is ‘the veritable tree of Robinson,” all others naturally being frauds and imitations. Below, on the clean- swept ground, the inevitable little tables and chairs of the French cafe are scat- tered, with a roof of canvas above to shel- ter the crowd in case of the showers so frequent in this climate. To one side there is a raised platform, where a piano is placed, with a long ‘stretch of floor for daneing. All the livelong afternoon and evening the pianist drums. steadily away at his unbroken round of ‘polkas, mazurkas, waltzes, and, in the evening, an occasional quadritie- He is balder and wiser than when he dreamed of fame in his own stu- dent days, and he purses his fat cheeks comfortably as the -young couples spin around and shake the floor, regretfully un- clasping arms from tightly held waists, as he stops them for a five minutes’ wait. “Wait, wait, young man; her waist will still be there, as round and tender, when I get my breath!” At the little tables‘ men and women’ and hildren from the little towns and country- ide around sit looking at the dancers and sip long drinks—sirups to be watered down, bitters to be wetered down and absinthe to be watered down. A Dining Party. Now make room for the millionaires! A party coming to dine in the trees! The yeung students swell and swagger! Their young ladies are both gay and proud! Mes- dames! Messieurs! It is Indeed charming! Over the rustic railing the diners can watch the dancing going on below. But the dancers cannot watch the diners going on above. It is at the very top of the tall tree, with an outlook over* the trees around. Far away rises the light purple haze which shows where the great city lies. Between he fertile fields yellow with the harvest and the parks of rich men’s residences, and villages and lone houses. In the after- noon the sun gilds all like an impression- ist picture seen from this framework of yellow tnatch and gray branches. In the night the lamp above the lovers’ heads but dimly shines upon these illuminated ones. Far away the city glares red upon the sky, and the seaitered lights between show where man goeth forth to his work in the morning even unto eventide. The snow-white cloth, the fairy table lamps, champagne as it comes gurgling, the kind smile of the old grizzled garcon, the thuds of the dancers down there where the violin wails to the piano, the Tong, tinted vista, the revolving lights of the Eiffel tower and the pressure of a soft and tiny hand combine to lull the student into ease concerning his examination. STERLING HEILIG. —— How One Physician Vaccinates. From the Nashville Banner. Dr. John B. Read, an old practitioner of fifty years’ experience, and county health officer at Tuscaloosa, Ala., made public yesterday his formula for vaccination, which, he says, he has never known to fail. The process is simple. Take a fine needle and thread with silk or cotton thread, and colsten about one-fourth of an inch of the thread with vaccine matter or virus; then draw the needle through the skin until that portion of the thread containing the virus is passed under the skin; then clip both ends of the thread, leaving the por- tion with the virus under the skin. Dr. Read says the idea originated with him in his early practice and has never been made public before. ————_+e+____ Enlightning the Foreigner. From the Indianapotis Journal. “You Americans,” ssid the intelligent foreigner, “‘are such a migratory set.” “It is ell the fault of the women,” said the native. “They want to move to some town where the exact year of their birth is not known.” “Haw!” said the intelligent foreigner, as he got out his commonplace book. ———_ ++ —____ A Friendly Suggesti From Scribner's Magazine. He (dreamily)—“By Jove! her teeth are ike stars!” 3 She—“Because they come out at night, As things are, many Indulge in one of these German adopted shower in the ARE WE UNCLEAN? Investigations by the Labor Burean Would Indicate We Are. THE PUBLIC BATHS OF EUROPE Public School Children Compelled to Bathe in Many Foreign Cities. CREEDE’S CHARACTER Tribute to.the Traits of the Late ROWANCE OF Don’t Go to Alaska Just as the succeseful litterateur dis- ‘courages young writers did this successful miner discourage ‘prospectors. “Stick to your quill,” he wrote to a friend who had asked him to buy a claim at Crip- ple Creek, “‘and you have my friendship; go Prospecting and you lose it.” After a se- vere and long illness this same friend wrote gloomily, and Creede replied: “Never give = ship; cheer up; there is much to live ‘@s well as ‘to* tc. Stuttgart’s Elaborate Bath Houses. At Stuttgart there has been established one of the most elaborate public baths in Eurepe... It eautains a yonstrous poel-for men, with 254 bath houses attached, and ‘Another for women, 300 bath houses. In this establishment one“nay enjoy almost any kind of bath known. In addition to the pools are a sun bath, cold-water cure, sepa- rate bath for dogs, hairdressing room, shampooing room, warm room, cold room, steam room, hot-air room, foot baths, rest- fng room,with couches, barber shop and res- taurant. No one could fail to feel clean and happy after taking the full course. ‘The excellent public baths of Buda-Pesth are fed by warm springs and are designed after the fashior. of the original ‘Turkish bath. Some of the baths originally built by the Turks still remain there. Floating baths are also operated here, in the Danube. aa Baths for Workingmen. jRublic, bathg-fer ‘workmen fast gain- ing popularit: mg European employers. THére*are now 300 wonkmen’s bathe*m Ger- pe A connection yith such inggitutions as EARLY - DAYS Six months ago he wrote his friend, who was then in Washington, a cheerfui letter, and it chanced to be the last: “We, too, have a baby—a little girl, and do you know that I have never known such pleasure in all my life as the pleasure of caring for this little child. I like to dress her and undress her, as little girls do with their doils.” This was the ttle girl whom he had adcpted. It seems to me that that letter alone shows that Creede’s heart was in the right place. What a loving father he might have been; what a happy home he might have made; If things had gone Just a little different. Very few people knew Creede in- timately. He avoided people. He was con- stantly ashamed of having changed his name. He exaggerated this bit of foolish- ness into a crime and brooded over it, and the bitter disappointment of his earlier life stayed in his heart and kept it sad. He Tried to Sink His Identity in the Far West. SHOWER BATH OF GERMANY INCIDENTS IN HIS CAREER (Copyright, 1897, by Cy Warman.) Written for ‘The Evening Star. J UST BEFORE The labor depart- ment has been probe ing this problem in~ dawn the train stopped at Salida to change engines and directly, with some military shops, stat Tailroad works and get a helper for the Unkind Cuts. artiing. results. It . city gas and r works, hill, It was sncow-| And so people who never knew Creede has just completed a | furtiaces, smelting works, breweries, etc. — ing, even there in | disliked him. This is especially true of Special investigation | “¥@ America pure water*fs“eyen cheapé? the valley,-and was sure to be a rough day on Poncha Pass. The train had been those who conceive it to be their duty or who think it smart to hate the rich and fortunate. Here follows a sample of the un- kind cuts that are ed at jhe unfortu- in all “eities “of the }.- world where “people who cannot afford than in- Eu , and. our philanthropists “enna” <inuy 4 ait “gifort to” expend their money quite as javishi: cleanlinés¥"as can those of thi ft <a word, bath tubs at home| The individual should be as rigidly baund ving | Bate dead: i = by sanitary"Iaws as the cose ‘We eae ts Gand, PEE Sa ae removed from Eiay 50) (0 DAMIR Aro (acvers Gin Tete oe Denver. At Colo- stitutions and bathe themselves for noth= 5 e z this earth rather a harmonious case of idiot that never aspired to anything higher than eating morphine and figuring conspicuously in divorce suits. Now, so far as I know, he had never fig- ured in a divorce court, and I make no doubt his first dose of morphine was taken upon that awful afternoon when he gave up the ship and went into his garden to le. To use the expression of an old prospect- ing partner of his, Creede was a white man, and he was liked best by those who knew him best. Among the papers and letters left by the dead prospector they found the original MS. of the -foliowing original verses, and should take time to keep clean. = THE KISSING BELL SILENT. rado Springs it had been packed. At Pueblo we picked up another sleeper, and an additional duy coach at Salida. We hit the heavy grade in two sections, and when the conductor came through, one of the passengers, who knew him, aske “Where in thunder is all the people goin’, Troop?” “Goin’ to Creede,” replied the ticket taker without looking. “Well, ef that’s all they needen go,” said the passenger playfully; “fur Creede’s” right here—he's in the smokin’ rura.”” ing or for a few pennies. Perusal of data collected by an agent of the department who has traveled abroad astride the pub- Ne bath as his special hobby justifies the fear that although we smart Yarfkees can set the old world many a good example, our European cousins, nevertheless, can give us some practical pointers anent pub- lic cleanliness. Public Baths in American Cities. Public baths accessible to the poorer classes and open the year round are found completed in only two cf our hundreds of | Old Custom Done Away With im a Galveston Passénger Station. From the Galveston Tribune. + Colonel Scott, station master of the new passenger station of the Santa Fe, is hav- ing no end of trouble educating passengers up to the modern ideas which have been in- troduced in the station. It has been a time- honored custom in this town for all of the’ sisters, cousins and aynts of a traveler to All Grocers Sell It. Cleans Everything. Made only by THE N. Kk. FAIRBANK COMPANY, 3! Chicago. St. Louis. New York. = Now, many there were upon this train | they show that he had at least one friend progressive cities—Buffalo, N. Y¥., and | follow the Soberng one into the tran an| who had never seen the founder of the | WhO remained so to the end: Boston. Philadelpata, Brookline, Mass. It should be added, how- | {his Way hall ete ere seaus tnetn famous silver camp, and some men follow- ie — — ever, that New York, Chicago and Boston a whole train that extra coaches have been | ©4 the conductor to the smoking room of = from 63 Segrens @arkay the Gay und have appropriated for such public estab- the sleeper. The door was closed and the 50 to 60 degrees at night, the same heat lshments within the past two years. In| hastily ordered out in order to provide | (O° cia. pushed against it. It yielded will be just right for our plants. some scattering cities—as Washington, for | seats for what was supposed to be an un- eee Sa abe ek ea “—Probalty gaote: knlstaies are abade fa instance, public baths are open in summer | Usual rush of travelers. They would fix | heavily, and he pushed again, and crow. ot re lames ere eriea window plants than in any o' only. But ft is claimed that the poorer | themselves as comfortably as you please, | in. A man was lying on the floor agains sre a ot Tl touch the taut string of » classes should be as clean in winter as in the door, and when he had been placed summer. Up-to-date municipal housekeep- of by chat- ttresa fn iaet= ran Gig SSTbnits eid chine [ERE Coe: pnd when be had (been pines culture. It ts, ter as pleasantly as @ May morn, until the of that the heat of the ers are agreed that free public baths are | kissing bell rang, thfee minutes before the d dirt that would pay, rion = a ng -_ ie a crowning need in all tenement house and | Starting of the train. Then a commotion ope in your breast, like the gold in A egg D the other overcrowded city districts. Authen-| would follow. Women would fall over one rota ior oe nee as it tic statistics from eighteen flourishing | another in their frantic efforts to do the re but rieh hich T am fasnilier American cities, which represent a cross | osculatory act, garnished with tears and sat w = nil The best method with wh ‘ 5 pots in a box section of the country at large, show that | hugs galore. An exodus from the train Then in unstint = na only five-sixths of their citizens have facili- | would follow, and empty coaches would Of the best-hearted man in the world. or two of sand: moss ties for washing themselves other than af- forded streams. England in the Lead. Although public baths are relics of glo- rious classical times, when mea found time to cleanse their bodies as well as improve their intellects, the general introduction pull out of the depot with a lonesome head here and there bobbing good-byes at the multitude on the depot platform. ‘The thing was a ruisance, a delusion and asnare. It-has been abolished by the Santa Fe by a gate system, which prevents any except actual passengers entering the trains, and now the good-bye kissing is done through the iron_bars of the partition ferice, Soar Tas NINETY CONVICTS EATING MELONS. equally as well.” by pail and sponge or flowing - — An Intermittent Lake. Remarkable Scene VW Georgia Field. From the Atlanta Journal. From the ¢ ville yne’s prairie, t There were ninety happy negroes wear- rge portion of the prairie is now ing the stripes of convicts in Georgia yes- with w T, but there are thousands of the modern public bath in Hurope—| 9 b2fore the passenger gets through the terday. eres around the borders ef the lake where it is now found in every progresstve | “tut the people, of at least, some of the All their happiness was caused because | which has been formed on which horses and city of any size—is sald to be due to John | peopl, do not take Kindly to the innorn, Deputy, Sheriff C. P. Trimble has a big | cattle graze. There is no way of estimat- Bull, lier in one of Ae cant ane pers tions. ney, rathe& prefer the good old heart, and also a big watermelon patch. ing the number of cattle, but th re rowness, has always believed in keeping | way, and kick vigorously at any change, Mr. Trimble’s watermelon patch is situ- y sands, d th a > clean. Public baths have been the thing | even though it be for the better. This solic siast Pipl aulitie Sinh GgGE Bin Oke eee ee in Great Britain since more than a cen- | rorning a young man showed up at the Creede and His Dog. - in East Point, and for some days a, dition. The rie, or savannah, which tury ago, when they were first introduced | depot with his mother. He saw the gate- m.an stop a troop of young girls at the gate and politely inform them that they could not enter the train without tickets. “I'll put my mother cp: that train or know why,” observed "Young man...‘tAnd Ym Here to telt youttthere ain't policemen ie dad enough in this_towi 677 di starting for tite gat poe ee There “he * sto; ;he knows ‘éman very why he stopfet politely informed him of the rule which Was made for all alike, and he gave it up with a look expr e the very foolish feeling which ot ant case over him. immaculately clean for a few cents. One | After all this bluster there were several to large free public. bath establishment in | laugh at him, and he lost no time in mak- Liverpoot-is for the exclusive use. of boys | ing his escape and fsing himself in ‘the utder fiftecn, Sixteen thousand youngsters if crowd. . 928%. 3 : sometimes bathe here in a week. By most | The kissing bell is done away with at the pot, and, thettraveling public is grad~ of the baths of this cleanly city special | Pew de rates are offered to public school children, | “lly, very gradually, learning this fact. Sate swimming clubs and other associations. _ HONESTY, IS, THE BEST. POLICY. In some establishments school boys can enjoy a warm swim in winter, for a cent. If You Are Bead -Drekei0wn Up Like a Little Man—It Helps. Mammoth Bathing Establishments. Public baths have been established in | From the Cifeftiiati Cofimerttif Tribune. Dead broke is not an accurate term. It Is 200 cities of England and Wales, and in relative. A millionaire considers himself many of Ireland and Scotland. There are said to be more club bath houses in Glas- | dead broke when he finds that he has only gow than any city in the world. In Man- |} a V in his pocket. Men of ‘less means think chester there has lately been established a they are dead broke when they can find but a quarter or a half in their pockets. tremendous public bath establishment, which cost $60,000. It contains two large | But with the mass of people who haven't See re On erone. Caste | very (mtich Waveritwhenvatitheir best edeaa isher. These are patronized by men and | DToke means that condition in which a man wemen separately. The building contains | finds himself. without a nickel in his Pockets. Pennies don’t cut any ice. Even three or four of them won’t pay a car fare, @ gymnasium, lecture hall, retiring rooms, and when a man hasn't car fare the walk waiting rooms and cafe. The typical pub- lic bath of the British is a monumental to Cumminsville at midnight seems long— awfully long. 0 structure, containing swimming pools and “That's what ailed’ me the other night,” additional private rooms equipped with tubs. As a rule, public laundries are at- said a resident of that suburb. “I didn’t have a nickel to my name—not a nick. And squad of ninety negro convicts has been working on the road that runs by the for- bidden fruit. For days the song that the poor devils would sing to the rattling of their chains was something about the in- feriority of all the fruits of the earth com- pared to the watermelon, ending with the plaintive caorus: “Oh, gimme, oh, gimme, I really wish you would, dat watermelon gro’in’ on de vine.” Yesterday their song was answered. It was raining and they could not work, and Mr. Trimble ordered Captain Duncan, who has charge of them, to turn them in and let them eat their fill. Captain Duncan knew better than turn ninety hungry con- victs right into a field of melons, for he wanted to save the vines, and he knew that they would eat vines and ail, so he selected several of the trusties and sent them up to the field with a big two-horse wagon. Those trusties what trey had to do, and if one wagen ever hada jJoad of melons that one did. When it roll- ed into camp there was ‘a kind of luib-tiat comes before a storm, only a moment. for the melon-hungry niggers to grasp the sit- uation, and then the massacre began. There were no knives to cut them up with. There were no dainty slices lik one sees in a boarding house. It was like a swarm of locust turned loose in a grain field. There was one long swish and a swush, a blur of red, a universal grunt of satisfaction and the wagon was on the Way back to the field for more. Oliver Twist wasn't in it when it came to calling for more with these hungry con- victs. When the wagon came back with 200 or 300 more the melons that had gone before had been forgotten and the second onslaught began. It was more stubborn and a little longer, but the victory was just as complete. Old negroes that had not tasted a bit of the red fruit since last year would grab a melon, give It one affectionate hug, and it really is passing out re called in Liverpool. In that city today’ men and women of all classes can take a sea-water bath in any season of the year. In winter the water jumped out of the sea, warm- ed and colt in monstrous tanks, where it may be enjoyed by any one who has eight cents in our money. Nine public baths and eighteen sheltered swimming pools is the good record-of the-mother city cf the institutton wtich we most need: Three of these establishments have at- tached to them public laundries, called “wash houses,” where inmates may have their clothes as well as their hides made estly dressed mar of middle age, medium size, with blue eyes looking out of a sad face. He had fainted, he gnessed, and then the conductor asked his name. “Creede,” said the man, and that was our first meet- ing. My interest in the man began when I iret an old comrade of his who had served with him in the Stoux wars on the plains in the “60's: After that Creede and I be- cume very good friends. He was born on a farm not far from Fort Wayne, Ind. “How cld a man is Creede?” asked the editor of the New York Sun of an ac- quaintaree during the boom days of the silver camp. ‘He's just fifty,” was the reply. “Oh, he’s a young fellow,” said the great journalist. . So, if-we measure a‘man’s life as Mr. Dana-does, he was still a young mah The Shadow on His Trail. Creede put in seven years as a scout and Indian fighter, arid’ helped with his hands to open the ‘overland route to the Rock- les. Some of his adventures have already appeared in these columns, and many have not been told. A most important event in his life was omitted at that time, an event that lost to him all the glory he had gained in the Sioux wars, and put a shadow on his trail. After the war he went back to his old home in Iowa, where he iy goes dry, the water Zoe the sink ts 0; when the outiet becomcs gor) a lak> from five to se ighteen miles long i¢ formed. When the waters of the lake sud thousands of alligators, s1 turtles r the lake and or choked akes, fish aad e left with nothing but mud for . but the saurians and find other quarters. the northern bo Su run in every direction, leaving the ground in the shape of a honeycomb. The ground is liable to give way at any time, creating a new sink, Pashing One Th’ From Printers’ Ink, “A shoemaker makes a good shoe be- cause he makes nothing else,” says Emer- son, and the idea may be taken up with advantage in almost any line of business. A merchant tailor in a town of 60,000 popu- lation made some cassocks for a few local priests. Now he is advertising himself im the Catholic papers and by circulars to the clergy of that church as a “cassock maker,” and sends hundreds of these garments all cover the United States and is kept busy the year around. At home he is simply a merchant tailor doing a good business, while his out-of-town customers know him only as a man whose particular business is making cassocks, and who, making a specialty of this feature, is to sup- ply a er cassock and at a lower price than they can get elsewhere. —ee- Don't Wear Starched Linen. tached. England and Wales have spent more than seven millions of dollars on such establishments in the past dozen years. From the St. Lozis Globe-Democrat. then let’us draw a curtain over the scene. an eal hiss The most elaborate institution of the kind | YOU bet it was. warm. So F tried to work No mortal man could tell where the nigger | Prof. Max Rubner, who lectures on hy. in Great Britain is believed to be the Ro- } the conductor. When he struck me I felt began and the melon left off. The rinds | giene af the Berlin U has pub- man Rcad bath, a parochial establishment | 1" my pockets, first one, then the other, went the same way that the meat did, and j }jshed a very interesting article on the use erected in East London, at a cost of $200,- | 2nd then looked dazed. there were enough seed swallowed to give | cf starched laundry in summer. After ex- 000. The immense poois are lined on the I had a nickel,’ I’ satd, ‘but blame me ee F ? the whole United States appendicitis if properly distributed. ‘When the last reports were received last night the wagon was still making trips to the patch, and Mr. Trimble’s melons were disappearing at the rate of avout ninety a if I know where it is.’ - “Toc thin, old man,’ said the heartless man in blue. ‘You'll have to walk a little, just for a change, as you haven't got it.’ Think of a.man getting off.a joke like that. “I walked, but not,fer. Tried another sides with white tiles and on the bottoms with white glazed brick. The second-class pool is surrounded by galleries, from which the bathing may be viewed by spectators. Floating Baths in the Seine. tensive and careful investigation he has come to the conclusion that starched linen forms a very strong obsiacle to the dis- charge of heat, and this influence becomes stronger in the sume proportion as the out- Creede’s Residence, Los Angeles, Cal. had the misfortune to fall desperately in , minute. The floating bath attracts the foreign eye | Conductor with the same racket. Didn't |ioye with his brother's sweetheart. ‘Th In spite of the recent investigation of the | side temperature s. This seems to Pi a | Work He was heartless also. I knew I'd prother triumphed, and it broke Creede's | convicts, there are at lenet wee hee prove that the starching of shirts is a in Paris. Many of these are conducte: t home lean a 4 3 in the Seine by private parties. They con- | feat pete ease ae fetta eae heart. It = his eae and = Bowes ae in the state whose condition has been very easonable custom. xa orton, = “ he jected poet, he was mai ith grief |. v1 ere were our iy heat, sist usually of floating frames bearing | of the old motto: sae it, much improved already, and there were and shame. He crossed the plains and changed his name, In the wild hope, if that might be, ‘To change his own identity. So it came about that in the spring of 1870 in the register of the Drovers’ Hotel at Pueblo he wrote his name “Nicholas C. Creede,” which till now was not his name. In a little while Creede became a well- known prospector. He was patient and persevering, and upon his trail are many prosperous mining camps, notably Mon- arch and Bonanza. These camps were call- ed after the first claim located, and if the prospector had kept that up Creede would ave been called “Holy Moses. ‘Honesty is the best of pojicy,’ I'l try it on. : “TI got on the.car.and held up my head. When the man with the badge came along said: “I’m dead broke, old man. Let me take a sneak home, will you? ,Walking’s awful hot a night like this. ; “That worked to a charm. He was the best conductor I ever saw. He knew I, was telling the truth. The others thought I was lying, and I was, but nof in the way they thought. All he said wag: “All right, old fellow. Don’t giye me away, though.” “Not on your life,’ I said. Then I curled up and slept the sleep of the just and the ninety of them who went to sleep last night swearing that “Boss Tyimble he was @ good white man,” and thinking that be- ing a convict was not so bad after all. ee. pow cabins for dressing purposes and surround- ing a perforated tank, through which the river water can freely circulate. No mat- ter how far from shore the bather ventures he never gets into deep water. Swimming pools, or “‘piscenes,” as they are caNed by the natives, are of more modern adoption in the French capital. They are erected at public expense in many parts of the city. To go further east—Vienna within the past ten years has established ten new public bath houses, and is increasing “he supply until each ward of the city shall have been sufficiently equipped with such means of keeping all of the common people the protec starched linen is very small, on account of the low temper- ature on the outside, and in summer, when we try as hard to cool off as much as pos- sible, starched linen enc ally kk the heat in. It is true enough t the ri temperature perspirati dissolve the starch, but even then it is very Cisagreeably felt. In this condition it closes up the pores of the linen and ren- ers difficult the entrance of dry air to the skin, ard it is just the fresh and dry air that gives us coolness in summer. Prof. Rubner nt with the ad- vice to of starched linen entirely THE W GARDEN. Some Excellent Advice to Amatew Plant Growers. In.a little pamphlet on Floral Culture, Miss C. H. Lippincott of Minnesota gives some valuable advice for window garden- ers. She says that the beginner usually makes the mistake of having too large a ne use d, if possible, Iso Many othe ; vintet Ithough he admits that custom clean. These consist simply of shower ee o tell the | 8musing stories have been told as to the | Collection at the start and that it is eas-| in winter, al pateetos wg Sacre age baths, hot and cold. Ha tener eatin berate cn ete naming of this claim, but, unfortunately, |fer to begin with a few easily grown] and fashion will hardly allow starched Govammuite akacer tasks: Sat ee Bee ree arthem is true. The first find here. | plants, proceeding to greater numbers and | !"e® to disappear entirely A Samoan Bathing Party. as at Monareh, proved to be one of the | choicer kinds by degrees. Miss Lippincott aa a es oer Germans have more economical and more quiinks stint €00/saten"siseee hea eee nian The Proverbs of Solomon, Jr. practical ideas concerning public baths | John Harrison Wagner in Harper's Magazine. = Panay acta en than other European cities. Their typical establishmenis of the kind as now built are simple one-story buildings, provided with “rain baths,” ss they are ‘called. German sanitarians consider shower baths to be more cleanly than tub or pool baths. Cases of disease in Berlin have been traced to the swallowing of water during recrea- tion in swimming pools. It is now urged that bethers must thoroughly wash them- selves before entering such pools, and that’ self-cleansing expectoration troughs be Placed along the sides to be used by thosé who wish to emit water from their mouths after diving. Before entering the typical German shower ‘bath, the bather soaps himself thoroughly in a closed cabin. He then enters the shower bath, and by pull- ing down a chain brings down upon hig head a shower, first of warm and after- ward of cold water. The physiological effect of the shower bath is believed to’ be less weakening than that of the plunge. Furthermore, the cleansing 1s absolutely therough, since all the dust and dirt with | which the water becomes saturated fs’ censtantly carried away and the water | continually refreshed. In the case of the tub bath, which Ameri- cars commonly indulge in, one finally bathes in dirty water, especially the work- fi lly leaves all of the By and by the visitors, one by one, re- tired to -their houses, and at about 10 o'clock, the rain by. this,time having ceased and the moon coming 6ut in all. her splen- dor, the girls suj od ‘bath. So off we started, singing, laughing’ and chattering like children just relaased from school, till down by the beacli we came-to a miniature fresh-water lagoon.?b-Each girl, as she reathed ‘the’ water’s°edg@, untwisted the lava lava, or linen wtst , that formed her only garment, an@ as dived into the pool. } bathing ‘suit ‘with ares I followed, and there in the moonligtit -wé splashed abo' and dived and sw: the girls’ wit! lithe, graceful figures nd: ing 1 looking Ife! water nymphs from #ome old pagan para- dise. After the bath ‘theagirls ran races, andi was initiated imo tee mysteries of a upon the matter of suitable soil and that amateurs are frequently discouraged be- cause they find it impossible to obtain the leaf mold so often prescribed. The truth is, says she, that any good fertile garden soil in which plants will grow outside will do for the window garden, especially if a little sand or leaf mold or street sweep- ings. be added to it to make it lighter and more porous. “Plants grown in the house are best kept in good shape by pinching the end buds of those shoots that grow too vig- crously. This is much better than allow- From Life. Retter a light purse with a certified check for $10,000 in it, thang heavy one filled with silver dollars. The heart of a fool is in his mouth; where- fore waste not thy foot upon his coat tails, but whack him upon his cheek. Look not upon the newspaper when it is yellow. A fire insurance policy in hand is worth two assignments in the bush. ———-2+___ Debts of honor are generally debts that have to be paid to keep your dishonor from coming out.—Ltife. X ¥ a CT er good soil, water at once, and put in a cool, - led place. Creede’a Cottage, Creede, Col. _ rest, but it hel the prospector. Prousbt him in oe with Re “Amateurs, as a rule, repot too often, and keep their plants in too large pots. It is of no use to give a plant fresh soil before its roots have pretty well occupied It share third Interest in the Amethyst mine. One |- Gay, in his modest showed pot. “Another point to be remembered is, that if large flower pots are used there will be more leaves than flowers. Often plants refused to blessom simply because, having so much space, their energies were bent upon forming rootlets JInats~®round: the: Soon we were all asleep, 2 } Hie'd.take advantage of: you quicker than a wink if he saw’a chance to do go.” you know that?”