Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1900, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900-26 PAGES. a oe, Pa 1] ti Tired and Overstrained Nerves are Given Strength and Vigor by NES CELERY COMPOUND The Spring [Medicine M. Elizabeth Messick, Emerson Institute, Mo- bile, Alabama, writes: “T was ver weak and extremely nervous. For several months I used, prescribed tonics to no avail. I declared the first dose of Paine’s Celery Compound made me feel better, and was laughed at, but the Compound brought me the ed strength, and in the fall I returned to school. “Iam now in the Home Missionary Work among the Freedmen of the South. Never one year could I have finishel without Paine’s Celery Compound. At home we have a large family and use the Compound constantly in the spring. We owe much to your medicin Paine’s Celery Compound makes nerve fibre, READING TO THE BLIND ‘The Scene as It Ought to Be. It is the afternoon reading hour at the room for the blind in the Congressional Library. One of Washington's pet philan- thropies {s this bringing of literary light before the darkened windows of these souls for whom the government of the United States has set aside this apartment. The service is one of love alone. For no other reward than the consciousness of well doing do the men and women of Wash- ington see to it that for one afternoon hour of each work day some one is present to read aloud to the sightless ones who as- semble in their corner of the library to hear the reading. Society girls steal away from the light and color of their gay world and return re- freshed with the sweet peace which comes with the doing for others. Students devote a part of the moments they refuse to value in money. Professional women and men give up some of the time too precious to be measured by the gold standard. And days to be marked with white stone are those Ace, of inting. There ha in the two years these readings have sharp lines been some such been going on. Hopkinson Smith has read there. So has Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Kate Doug Wiggin, Thomas Nelson ge and others, Jt is one of these days with which this story is concerned. Rows of chairs are filled with the men, women and children to whom the green of the earth and the blue of the sky are as one vast blackness V the glad flush 3 the welcome a friendly face, 2 now no other pictures than word pletures. There are those in the comfortable garments of the well-to-do and others in the worn and threadbare of the poor. But are one in their common afiliction. Friend r nizes friend with that instir call marvelous when blindne 1 to chairs by for whom the blindness is 1 light which ing to oung woman hrough the . which every in charge of th assembly with member knows orners of 1 sheets ut the room co which constit s reading matter of the lind. Rack of the rews of chairs ts im- niense desk covered with beadwork, wood carving and knit skppers wrought by their busy trous fingers, A screen, iewed by ¢ colored as if to be huts the too ambi- s no, where a young girl quietly If, and with her sightless & Si. Cecelia-lik chumann air audien xclaims in a chorus of s With evel shted mur- y appearance of art tones of Schumann ar » faney of the auditors n more joyous mel for during the mazurka which follows a pianissimo hum of conversation swells into a erceendo, which ceasing with the music, brought to a the reading desk in front of the plano, and prefacing her troduction a soft, warning h-sh” Friends, 1 want hi to intre , Who read to us from his writings this after- ome lines of a tion at arty or tant on s face and then lo: character wrinkl short jal request f for a favori granted ust one moi are responded to with a generous number of encores, until the afternoon sun and the hands on the big clock mark an hour past the one named for the close of the reading. 4g auther brings “P'laski x minious finish of his tournament experien loses the book and goes with the young d the storm of laughi is with a silver-ha dy in the front row, who from her blind - in the audien popular book iting to follow the h. sir, it took me yh, Mr. Page, it so funny, and you talked just like an If Miss Giffen hadn't said ft as to read J wouldn't have dark you that that it wasn't a re: been such a tre: again, reader goes from round hould: rted over over slighted satisfactor: tory handcla to be ¢ Something more tthe memory of a perfune- nd th stercotyped grecting y this audience, which has not failed to cateh every point and follow every shade of meaning, saw not on le of e of faci: the Su » blind. udience » does the If at his w nd leave, with a “By jov three-quarters of an hour late,” and a re £. rest S i 05 z sympathetic glance nerve force, restores the bodily health. ating suiva hls ence Peay ain = = — —__ Jing it over like children, and cach saying = See a eis vane e ans | ‘Kood-bye” to the young woman, who 2 SHAR Ce reetbe | miles with deep content ct the happin f her afflicted proteges. ‘The small = can see just a little, pushes the di e d groups of cha into prim row ka the nd hap) scort of z ving, &_ blind = would It, Miss Giffen, if = s nice ag thi $ An It Really Is. = %} ‘The blind audience is present, discernible if the observer is possessed of the patience to pick out its component parts from the 5 mob of chattering girls, simpering young a KES € u y Ing ASY. ¥ | women, self-assertive matrons and pink tea $| men. 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Were you ever in the north, colonel?” oy to the sentiment of their asked one when he had come back to earth. “Never, suh," replied the colonel, proudly. “And you have never been in New York city nit Is a great city, colonel.’” ‘Be if have heard, ‘suh. “Did you never think you ie would like to The colonel actually gasped and was com- pelled to take a nip of the Julep to brace himself up. “What, lve tn the north, suh?” claimed at last. “Certainly; why not?” “Why, suh.”" choked the colonel, “why, if cae you a liar there, I under- stand, suh, that can't lo @ thing go to law about it” ie vs he ex- tread and the little boy who can see just well enough to play usher for his more un- fortunate companions. But the tread of the young woman threatens to become an angry stamp, and her eyes flash as she sees her sightless charges pushed this way and that, until they turn white or grow hysterical with fear and bewilderment. The little boy, too, grows frightened, as in the pushing and crowding for desirable seats his “Ple: these chairs are for the blind," is unheeded or unheard, and he ngs With quivering lips to the young rs are filled, neatly arranged piles of ed romences and skilled handiwork hed from the table to the floor, to make impromptu dress circle seats for rows of giggling femininity While the blind girl plays, the young wo- man, by strenuous efforts, manages to un- t some of the bland matrons and their erts, and fill the chairs with the rightful cupants. The corridors outside, two of them, are packed with disgruntled and disappointed humanity, who have arrived at 2:30, the hour fixed for the reading, only to find the room elready filled with the more enterpris- ing 1:30 arrivals. Those of the blind for whom the reading is given who come late are pulled, breath- less and disheveled, through the crowd, if their escort {9 determined, or turn back dis- heartened and grieved after futile attempts to reach the door of the room dedicated to them. In the meantime the marble corridors re- verberate with the audible comments of the uninvited throng, who begrudge the wasted 41-6 cents worth of car tickets with a $1.50- reserved-seat righteous indignation. Three stout-armed male employes of the library are detailed to keep those nearest the doors from pushing -forward into the already packed little reading room. A female grenadier with iron-gray hair and cast-iron nerve clears a passage with rapid-fire shots from broadcloth-covered, aggressive elbows. “I read to the poor un- fortunate creatures one day last year, and I have a perfect right to get in,” is the war ery which echoes along her trail. She leaves bruised bones and black and blue flesh along her line of march, but she gets in, for the man at the door thinks she is with the reader, who reaches the entrance just ahead of the female grenadier. A loud murmur arises from the dis- gruntied crowd outside, whose last hope of getting in disappears with the reader as he crosses the threshold and the doors are Oeaue and barred. 6 young woman greets him ith. slightly heightened color and leads Shim through an avenue of oraned necke to the reading desk, where the introduction is rowned in @ chorus of, “Sen't he distin- Wade Say gilt Seestongendontentngetrgnesegeagentengontengentontnae Seseetondengeegentecengeng so Seatentecs Seteatee et on ATES PROPERTY ne Se ated PITT OOOO ole lolol pl aloe ltigeles ot oee cette PROP OS Streepeet Saeco oclontestocdectentectectectentedeeaheg “Watch for a Town”-Congress Heights, D. C. ~ (AC re WD ongr Building Associations of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Ric have agents here soliciting loan BIRD’S-EY E VIEW environs. sites. Choice Villa Sites, Commanding a magnificent view of Washington and Covered with beautiful shade trees, served in all their natural beauty, af- fording love.y h pre- me Lots 10c., 15c. to build at Congress Me and 25c. per sq. ft. Cash or easy montiily payments. Phis is equivalent to securing a home free, for you pay no more to the Building Association per month than you would have to pay in rent. Rapid Transit. Owing to the recent consolidation of Washington street railway Congress Heights can be reached from any part of Washington for one fare, 5 cents, or 6 tickets for 25c. See diagram showing comparative elevation. Magnificent $21,000 Brick School House, with town clock in dome. the supervision of the District Commissioners. Post Office and Churches. Streets well lighted. tion. Police Protection. Two hundred and fifty pupils, with principal, assistant and teachers, under Telephone connec- Over. 200 lots have already been sold and many more of the owners are now planning to build since the railroad facilities have been per- fected. Indications are that this property will be worth double its present For plat and full particulars apply to POST OFFICE, CONGRESS HEIGHTS Fred G. Rose, Agent, 1417 G St. N. W. guished looking? Notice that — fin shaped head,” his chin adorable How darling of him to write that f ating Red Rock,” to all of which the re: and the blind he came to read to }) the first with a hered politeness and the t s the with renewed fore hearers chuckle at the plight of the pretentiou grow sympatheticall pathos of the scen h genius makes rea? to them. 3ut “Such perfect Delsartean gestures,” “Such art in fa sion.” “What wonderful delive The reading * gush the other: er, the author makes meet the sightless audience, indiv The silver-haired old lady who for; difficulties en route as she lived in the memort of old Hanover count: the cheery-faced blind poetess, who laughed aloud all through the story of George Washington's last duel, and the blind stu- dent whose S$ gave out over his books. But the opportunity gets lost in the shuffle of simpering, hero-worshiping femininity, which surrounds the author, adoring-eyed. “Our household god, dear Mr. Page,” an- the grenadier in the tone of one made an important discovery. She d her determined way to the front. Iv we whipping a of her black “won't you autograph do. And now, dear Mr. Page, volume out of the re made skirt, , and the young wo- while Mr. Page "on cards, handker- chiefs and even ends of ribbons, ‘A momen- tary cessation of the demand for auto- graphs occasions another attempt on the author's part to greet one of the blind au- dience he had come to entertain. But a portly matron of business-like meanor blocks his intentions and lik h. “I came here expres 4 she ared, In tones weighty with selt- importance, “to get you to make an ap- pointment with my husband to photograph you. Any day at eleven—suit your con- venienc ‘The author, with a shake of the head and a politely deprecating murmur about not wanting a likeness published, essays an- other move toward the fulfillment of his original intentions. But the photographer's his coat sleeve. “He doesn't mean to sell It to the news- papers,” she declares. “He merely wants it to hang in the studio with the rest of his collection of public men. Why, we've got mous man in Washington but you.” I'm not a public man,” remon- strates the man of letters. The deepening note of impatience would bi si 2 e warned a Woman of les: s; so would the unc iously centuated angle of the square chin. But between modesty and diffidence the portly matron has yet'to learn to distinguish, and she rushes still) farther into the territory feared by angels, with “Besides, L was here the day you read Jast y and when I asked you, you promised to come.” pursued one, a fittle testily. [ don’t want to be photographed ‘and I don’t intend to be. I'm sorry if I seém rude, madam, but I must make mygelf understood." And before the photographer's wife can muster another argument, the now desper- ate author makes a speedy escape, most of the lion-hunting crowd following in a con- certed effort to teep*him in sight. The young woman and the hoy who can see just a little wait,until the corridors are sufficiently cleared to allow the safe exit of the blind in the audeince, and then escort them to the door." With the departure of the last one the young woman sinks wearily into a chair and looks around the disordered room. The little boy notes the discouraged atti- tude, and with his hand on her knee looks up into the face he loves. “You didn’t think it would be like this, did you?” he inquires, wistfully. ‘The young woman shakes her head. “And to think most of them were women,” she says, so softly that the little boy fails to distinguish the words. 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