Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1900, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1900-16 PAGES, Wonder What Mertz Jill Say Today? Our Easter Ovenitig Commenced Coday You are cordially invited and will be heartily welcomed. Buyer or sightseer, you'll catch the spirit of this bigger and better business. This is a glorious occasion gloriously inaugurated! Every eye is on us, every lip speaks of this opening event. i The broad portals of our enterprise, generosity and | Ou zeal are flung wide open. tr Prices, Defending you against high prices has long been our pleasant and profitable duty—pleasant, because of the many thousands of men who have been benefited by our low prices—profitable, because of the great aggregation of small profi its. It has been one continuous warfare this fighting down prices for fine tailoring, but we win in every engagement. The people look to us for defense—we respond quickly— one of the links in the strong chain that holds trade here is the positive knowledge the people have of the genuine money-saving we give them and the thorough reliability of all our productions. Satisfaction guaranteed with ever order, big or little. That means money back if you want it. Baltimore | (erts and ([Nerts, Makers of Made-to-Measure Garments for Men, 906 and 908 F St. Store, 6 East Baltimore St. TORY AMD DiSTaBUTING COT, | ~ Tinetu De: AMA tles. able fc I felt ia imei If you suffer from Asthma and life is thereby made a bur- den, you will be interested in the letter printed below. Tincture Amal ures Asthma. It has become famous as the only sumption, the medical report of Dr. Charles Drennen having proved that it actually does cure that terrible disease. = equally efficacious in curing Asthma, Bronchitis, La Grippe, etc. Read the following: TINCTURE AMAL is WESTMINSTE re Amal Mfg. € ar Sirs: My wife long been a sufferer fron which has given her relief fre ince taking TINCTURE ASIAL sl or Asthma. Hefore taking TINCT it my duty to let you know what I Thought of sour w TINCTUR ARE MANY INSECTS IN AUSTRALIA. Nearly Ten Thousand Spectes Discoy- ered on the Inland. From the Chicago Chronicle. Professor Darwin once described Austra- Ma the naturalists paradise, and cer- tainly it presents an ever-fresh and inex- haustible field for the study of the various branches of natural history. It Is at once the newest and oldest country in the world, abounding with forms of animal life not to be found elsewhere. The insect fauna is extremely large. The characteristics of the numerous beetles, files, wasps, butterflies, moths and other kinds of insects are so marked that European and American ex- perts at once recognize a specimen from Australia. Insects with a world-wide range are comparatively rare in New South Wales and other portions of Australia, though there are a couple of European moths, del- opela pulchella and daneis erippus, which verywhere. The distribution of insects is affected by that of plants. In the semi-tropical parts of New South Wa!es there is a semi-tropical insect fauna, but where the semi-tropical vegetation has be- come extended beyond semi-tropical geo- graphical Nmits, there are found also the usual sem{-tropical Insects. I several places t as Asthma until is nearly cured fas x at at wiht and fn RE AMAL she could not go « AMAL is purely vegetable, pleasant to take. All first-class druggists sell it. Interesting book sent free by TINCTURE AMAL MFG. CO,, 11 West German St., Balto., Md. positive cure for Can- ebruary 13, 1900, I obtained TINCTURE hree 1) JAMES D. MITCHELL, insects found associated with some particu- lar kind of plant in one locality will be met with upon some kindred form of vege- tation in another. Thus the peculiar beetles living on the leaves of the Queensland bot- tle tree are found feeding on the currajong at Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales. The Australian insect fauna is estimated at 10,000 spectes, but it is believed that the actual number is considerably greater. Of these the greatest variety is to be found in New South Wales, the sctentifle collections formed in Sydney and elsewhere being of singular attractiveness and Interest. In the Inity of streams may be found large and beautiful dragon flies, often of considera- ble size; while everywhere during the warmer months of the year the cease’ess hum of the cigale reminds the traveler of a similar insect experience in Italy. Native honey bees are plentiful In many places and are easily recognizable by their small size, being little larger than the common house fly. Mosquitoes are practically unknown in the dry interfor, but their place Is taken by the sand fly, an equally mischievous in- sect. There are spigers of all sizes, a few being poisonous, but their webs are gen- erally of a most fanciful character. The splendid appearance of some of the butter- files rivals that of the most gorgeous in- sects found in South American forests. A large butterfly known as the ornithoptera riehmondiana has wings magnificently marked with gold, green and velvet black. Most of these lovely Insects are found | the damp, moist rivers of the New South Wales coast. Much attention has been giv, character of the colonial ineeatoratee oy the Linnean Society of New South Wales, and the Macleay collection, now in the Syd- ney University, is one of the finest and most complete in existence. For those who wish to become acquainted with the Insect fauna of the colony there exist abundant facilities for reaching the most favored lo- calities, and a couple of months will suf- fice to forma collection which would con- stitute a valuable addition to any Euro- pean or American museum. ime The M er's Disappointment. From the Chicago Times-Herald. “This,” said the critic who had been hired by the great theatrical manager t plays offered for his consideration, “is the worst I have even seen,” and with that he contemptuously tossed the bundle of manu- script aside. “Great David Garrick!” exclaimed the manager, “if that is the case why do you throw it away? The worst yet ts what we want. Gather it up again and let- “Oh,” the reader interrupted, mean that kind of worst. enough!” With a sigh the great manager returned to his Sorreapendenon. z BEFORE THE CAMERA —— Some Funny Phings That Happen in a Photograph Gallery. Saas PEOPLE WHO TRY 70 LOOK PLEASANT Why the Op@rator's Life is Not a Thing of /Beauty. THE VANITY OF MANKIND Written for The Evening Star. The photographic artist's first sitter the other forenoon was a young woman with colorless hair, no eyebrows to speak of, a somewhat tarnished pink silk waist— brought to the photographic studio in a newspaper-wrapped bundle, and donned at the expense of three-quarters of an hour of time and effort in the dressing room— and quite an unbelievable number of dia- mond rings on her left hand. Her shoes were bulgy and unpolished, but she was only going to sit for a three-quarter-length picture, and so the shoes didn't make any difference. “The waist, of course, will be white in the picture,” said the operator. “Is that so?” inquired the sitter, looking quite-grieved over the information. “If I'd ha’ knowed that I'd ha’ wore somethin’ else. I thought it ’ud take just like it Is.” “But color photography has not yet been perfected,” explalged the operator. The young woman wanied a real literary picture taken, and so the artist posed her seated at an’ ornate table, in the act of ding Butler's “Analogy of Religion.” In this posture the left-hand, with all the diamond rings, didn't show up quite as well as the right. “Wait a minute,” said the young woman, and she dropped the book on the table and removed all of the rings from the fingers of her left to the fingers of her right hand. “That is immaterial,” said the photogra- ms do not show up well in pho- s—they are generally the merest in- distinet. blur: The young woman so disappointed over this that her countenance took on an expression of poignant misery, and thus she was photographed. Knew What She Wanted. The next sitter to mount to the artist's eyrfe was an elderly dowager, with an ex- tremely sharp hooked nose. I want a profyle view taken,” she said. Profeel?” said the artist, looking some- what doubtfully at the dowager’s remark- ably prominent nose. “Er—don't you—er— think a full or three-quarter view would be better? A pro: : uu know, has a ten- dency to accentuat nd exaggerate any- er—any—" “Oh, I know what you want té say, young man,” said the dowager. ‘‘You mean I've too much nose for a prof; How- ever, they're my pictures, and I'll take a profyle. If my friends don’t want a pro- fyle of me, they can get along without my picture.’ The operator, thus crushed, photographed the dowager from a “profeel” or “profyl point of view, saying afterward that there are plenty of people who sit before the camera who appear to take ghoulish glee in having their malformations of feature magnified. Too Pretty for Anything. The next subject to mount the stairs was an exceedingly dolly looking young woman, very prettily done up in a new tailor-made dress. She had ideas of her own, one of which was that she wanted to get all of the dress into the picture. “But full-length figures are very old- fashioned, and the face is necessarily made very small in them,” said the artis The young woman gazed disappointedly at the nice hang of her skirt at the bottom. “Three-quarters would be pleasing,” sug- gested the operator. “But without the hat —the hat would throw a heavy shade over your face, which I don’t think you'd like.” The young woman wore a large picture hat, and she pulled the pins out of it with manifest reluctance. She. too, looked dis- mal over the way her plans to include the hat and the dress had been gently upset by the artist, and the corners of her dolly mouth were sadly drawn down in the nega- tiv “Well, I hope I don’t break that machine o° yours the greeting of the next sit- ter, a stout, gray-haired man, as he reached the top of the stairs. A Part of His Business. The operator, of course, had to smile. is a part of the photographic artist’s busi- ness to smile when this “break the camera” witticism is hurled at him—as it Is about 7,236 times per annum—Just as it Is a part of his profession to look real gladsome an mirthful when his sitters tell hi St per cent of them do—that they'd “rather have a tooth pulled than to have a picture taken. How do you artist asked the “Oh, T don’t ed : aken Tt want to be out, middle-z Ys e—sult yourself—just hay- for my danghte your apparatus,” wheezily said the sitter, again relapsing into merrin He was as rigid as a petrified man when the photographe yed to pose him. Every muscl emed to be tense and strung to the breaking point “Just ease up a little, p operator. Whereupon the s man fell into a posture graceful and natural m cloak appear roted whi lel, and the it if he was in the act of being gar- n the shutter c The Fair Debutante. The next sitter was a tall,slender, poutish debutante, all done up in the rig in which she had made her debut, including th and white satin slippers—white satin pers, in spite of the fact that she was only going to hay -quarter picture tak She was ainied by six members of her family, all of Whom quite properly ap- peared to regard her us the most I young person on the face of the inhab: globe. The young debutante, however, looked gloomy to the last degree. “Why, Gertrude,” said one of the fussy members of her family party, “don't look so dismal, child!” “But I tell you I hate to have my pic- ture taken!” replied the young woman, pet- ishly. “And I know my hair looks dread- ful—none of you took one bit of pains with it. You all want me to look just as ugly as can be.” Then all of her retinue had to surround her and tell her that she was the beautiful- lest ever, and that her hair never looked more glo . All Of the members of the debutante's party appeared to regard the artist with great Suspicion, not to say aversion. When he made a suggestion as to the pose, they all negatived it immedi- ately, and they gazed at the operator as if they thought that he was more or less of an imposter and & counterfeit, without much knowledgé of the photographic art. “It would be simple and graceful if she were to stand with her fan suspended care- lessly from both her hands at her waist, suggested the operator, Suggestions Galore. “No, no, no!’ said all of the debutante’s party at once. “That is too conventional and common. Can't you think of anything better than that?”’.. And they all looked at the operator out of the slants of their eyes. “Well, she might sjand easily and grace- fully, with her hands clasped behind her back,” said the operator. “But that wouldn't show her gloves, and it's theatrical, anyway,’ said three of the members of the debutante’s adoring fam- i ‘Well, would not a sitting posture —' “No, indeed!” they all chimed in. “Ger- trude’s so beautifully tall that—why, there are lots of graceful poses in your show cases downstairs. One of the debutante’s adorers wanted to have her with her hands back of her head, with her eyes gazing up into infinitude. Another wanted to have her caught in the act of stroking a property dove. Another thought she'd look real lovely and modest and bashful if she were standing with her eyes cast down, gazing ‘Into the heart of a property rose. Still another thought she'd look nice and winsome if she had both of her hands held vertically beside her face. 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When the shutter dropped the debu- tante’s forehead was wrinkled In a most terrific scowl. He Jast Had to Smile. The next sitter was a small boy, under convoy of his mother. When the operator was ready the boy’s mother picked up a hair brush and began to plaster his hair down on his forehead like an Italian bar- ber’s. She yanked his head around by one of his ears, told him that if he didn’t look pleasant—“well, if you don’t look pleasant for the gentleman, you know'—said omi- nously—and the boy walked over to the chair with an expression of profound gloom on his chubby When the operator was ready to press the bulb the mother stood at one side, with a finger upraised ningly. : y, Willie, you smile—you hear me— smile Continued expression of intense sorrow on ‘ ft extdoor, do you intend to mind his mother, glowering at the xpression of acute grief still on boy's “Oh, very well, madam,” said the oper- ator. ' “Son,” addressing the bc © you going to waste your time pecking through the fence to see Washington’ kindergarten ball this year Ss features relaxed into the operator caught him. shington base ball farce i funny that I get lots of them, young old, to smiling sardonically over it, plained the operator afterward. a grin, ex- For Home Consumption. The next subject to mount the a smooth-sha representative &ress from the west. derous, ahem-ing, throat~ and he wanted a three-quarter photograph, with his right hand within his frock t, between the first and second buttons, and a roll of manuscript in his left hand. trifle Websterian, that, is it ventured the artist. I want to be photographed, reat man, and the operator in assent and took the picture in accordance with instructions. The great man put on a brainy scowl when the opera- tor was ready, like unto that of the v torious gladiator in a former impersonation of a Washington tragedian, and he looked like a frock-coated Ajax defying anybody to hand him money. “However,” said the artist, after the rep- entative had departed, “when his con- itootents see that picture they'll be con- vinced that he’s the main guy in this little old town.” Refused to Re Pretty. The next along was a dress reform lady. She would have been a pretty woman un- der normal conditions of dress and taste- fulness in fixing herself out, but she looked wooden and uninteresting in her woolly rig —rainy-day skirt, stayless waist—and her aggressively flat-heeled shoes and her nor- mally nice hair severely flattened down on her head. “Er—would it not be better if the hair were arranged a bit higher on the head— just a trifle more fluffy, you know?” sug- gested the operator. “No, it wouldn’t,” said the dress reform lady, emphatically. “I don’t believe in high coiffures or any other sillinesses of the sort. I am identified with a movement to do away with such trivialities on the part of: my sex, and— “Oh, yes, yes, I see!” hastily said the operator, and he proceeded to take a nega- tive of the dress reform lady that made her look in all respects except her fea- DOES COFFEE ACREE WiTRYOU If not, drink Grain-O—made from pure grains. A lady writes: ‘The first time I made Grain-O 1 did not like it, but after using it for one Week nothing would induce me to go back to coffee.” It nour ishes and feeds the system. The children can drink It freely with great benefit. It is the strengthening gubstance of ure grains. Get a package today from your grocer, follow the directions in making {t and you Will have a delicious and healthful table beverage fur old abd young. 15c, and 25c, Con- in He was of the pon- learing species, not?” tures like one of the squaws at a female Indian school. Would Be a Jap. Next in the order of sitters was a young woman, apparently from a local variety theater. She had driven to the photogr:- pher’s in a cab from the theater, seemingly, for she had a fierce amount of make-up cn, which looked ghastly enough under the strong glare from the skylight. Her jet black back hair was done up in that un- speakable roll that has come to be known the Tottie Coughdrop twist.” The young jan unbuttoned a long coat that fell to her heels, and there she was, in Japanese character, so far as the ornate sateen kimona went. She stuck a couple of tiny fans in her top hair and was ready Th—er—is the hair at the back arranged in—er—exact Japanese hion?” inquired the artist, surveying the young woman's rear hair. “Well, we RP ace nky enough fr nd I ain't a-z in’ t’ have the back of my head taken, anyhow.” In Evening Clothes. Then came along the inevitable young man to have his first suit of evening clothes photographed. F ought the duds along in a palpably new suit ease and donned them in the dressing room. Oh, he knew he looked just like Faversham when he mount- ed the stairs, all right. “How will you have the how will you be taken tographer. young man had his first crush hat h him, too, and he struck a Lord ude that he plainly considered al~ t too fascinating for werds. The pho- tographer smiled when he put his head un- nit—er—I m inquired the ph der the camera cloth, but he neg d the young man just as he wanted to be taken “I've often wondered,” said the artist afterward, “why they don't just send the suit down by a messenger boy and have it photographed. That would save time and trouble, don’t you think?” A Cigar Looks Wicked. i Then came a soldier from the arsenal, accompanied by a load of sior The soldier thought ple gimen- would be it about the right thing fer him t6 be sitting on the edge of a rustic gate with hi: D ed well back to show his ¢urls and a somewhat broken cigar in his mouth, of breath, however, the d him that while such a would be hing and rollicking and all that, it might not be exactly the real Epicure’s Lunch Served in a moment. An appetizing, whole- some, satisfying lunch, consisting of sardines, cheese or any other telish and Kennedy’s Long Branch a light, crisp biscuit, - thing for framing in his folks’ parlor. The artist was unable to induce the military man to abandon the cigar altogether, how- ever—the sodier insisted on holding tt In his hand or he wouldn't be photographed at all. fhere are a lot of young men,” said the operator when the soldier went out, “who think that their clutching of a cigar in a picture makes them look real—er—devilish.”” Then the operator went out to lunch. ice easy profession—no patience or anything like that required in it, is there?" Was said to the artist. “Whatever's in people in a photograph galler: rapher’s way of putting it. BS FILIPINO MOTHERS. omes out in them was the photog- Their Ruling Passion is Their Love for Their Boy Babies. Corr, of the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. She is like no one else in the world—this Filipino woman. From the white man's standpoint she is least like a woman cf any feminine creature. She will work for you, sell you things and treat you politely, but beyond that the attitude of her life, as it is presented to you, is as inscrutable as a bolted door. You can get well enough ac- quainted with her husband to detest him cordiaily, but the nature of the woman is as hard to fathom as a sheet of Chinese cor- respondence. It is never a common sight to see a mother, who believes she is alone, playing with her baby. A young native woman was making love to her first man child. The two were in the shack next to mine, but the windows were together. She had the little fellow in a corner and was kneel- ing before him in @ perfect ecstasy of moth- { erkood. highly nutritious. Good al! the time, and every time. Solid everywhere in sealed boxes only. At all grocers. NATIONAL BISCUIT CO.. The baby could not have been more than several months old, and the mother was perhaps sixteen. She would bend her body far back, with hands out- stretched, and then gradually sway closer, closer, while the baby, very noisy and happy in his diminutive way, shrank back into the corner and showed his bar> red gums. And when the mother swayed at last very near, she would snatch her naked bundle of brown babyhood and toss him into the air. And there would be great es and strangled laughter from the and low murmurings of passionate worship from the woman. Then she placed her face close to the head of her son and whispered wonderful secrets into his wee brown 2ars—thrilling secrets in a voice strangely soft and tender, such as you would not think could come from the smileless creature of the river banks. I watched, and the greatness of the mother heart was laid bare before me, and now better impressions came where false ones had been—and I remembered she was & woman. Rapt and ardently interested, I watched, lsaning witlessly out of the win- dow. The woman saw me. The sullen, im- placable stare came back. She snatched up the child and disappeared. She bathes in the river unconscious of the passing white man, but he must not s2e the woman's love for her first-born,