Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1887, Page 3

the same stove, and 13 therefore the on REAL VENTILATING 8TOVE IN THE MARKET. 2—That this stove will save from 40to 50 per tent of fuel OVER ANY STOVE IN THE MARKET, 3—That there will not be over 2to 4 degrees Qifference between floor and ceiling in & room with 13 foot ceilings, 1f heated with o Howe Ventilator. With a radiating stove it will be from 20 to 30 fegrees, WY TYRY THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1887.—~TWEL E PAGES, A REVOLUTION IN HEATING VENTILATION. Absolutely Pure Air to be breathed in your winter homes, the prime requisite of Health, Comfort and Economy. Facts and Figures Tell. Read what one of the most prominent business men of Cortland, N. Y., has to say about the HOWE VENTILATING STOVE. Mzssrs Husnarp & Buck—Gentlemen: I have never more cheerfully tes ifi!*d to the merits You adviged me last fall to put a furnace in my house, being unwilling to guarantee that a Howe Stove would warm it. | CORTLAND, NEW YORK,August 10, 1887. of anything than I do to those of the HoweVentilator But I ventured on the Howe and bought a No. 16. During the entire fall and the severe winter whichfollowed, This One Stove Located in My Sitting Room, Warmed the Entire House Upstairs and Down, except the kitchen in which was a cook stove.. The rcoms warmed on the first fioor were a parlor, 12x15; a dining room, 124x12}; sitting room, 12x12; bed room, 12x12, and a hall 6x15. Allof these rooms are 10 feet high. The rooms warmed upstairs are the same as are those below with the exception that they are nine foot high. The temperature was nearly uniform throughout all of these rooms, and all were perfectly comfortable and the windows free from frost. The second story was occupied by my son's family and the rooms had to be warm in order to be constantly in use as they were. Besides this the air was kept fresh and pure. the Howe Stove and can heartily endorse all you have ever said in its praise. Yours truly, I cannot say too much in favor of IRA W. WATKINS. F. V. ATWATER & C0., - - 1605 Howard St., Sole Agents K or the Howe Yentilating Stove. NEW YORK SOCIETY SHOCKED A Bon Ton Lunch Room Olosed for Its Wickedness. THE BELLE WITH THE RIFLE. The Dark Scance Scandal-A New Feature in Hair Dress—The Pesi- key Knot—-Clara Belle's Letter. NEwW YORK, Oct. 26.-—[Correspon- denceof the BEE.]—This is truly a mixed city. Hundreds of fine ladics were ghocked to read, the other morming, that Mayor Hewitt had closed, on ac- count of i wickedness, a restaurant where they had habitually lunched. The place was in_the regton of retail shopping, and by daylight it was a big handsome, and altogether proper oyster house, where fair shoppers were wont to appease their noon } These nice customers had no idea that at night the same premises was the resort of desperately bad folks; that it had a BRI Hbokatuotes totally unlike its sun- ight character; until they read that the mayor had refused to grant a lic to it. Yes; this is a conglomerate town. Sisters of charity have heen going to the race courses all through the season which has just closed. They did not even change the summer gaib of their order for ordinary clothes, nor in a way hide their “identity. Every day at any of the tracksnear New York they went boldly and openly through the gates. Archbishop Corrigan’s at- tention was called to the subject, but after consideration of the quéstion of propriety, he decided that the sisters might continue the practice. However, they have seen no ruces. They have simply gone on a charitable ervand. They have stopped at the entrance until the crowds of sporting men emerged, and then have :«)Hil'itud fromthe winners of bets some contributions for church benevolences. How do they know the winners? Be o the lucky ones are apt to look it. Mistakes were sometimes made, but usually the chaps whom the shrewd sisters politely accosted were those who had picked out the right horses. Our most assiduously FASHIONABLE GIRLS are not shooting their own follies, but birds as they fly; or at least they are trying to hit the winged game with rifles. Outat Tuxedo, which is the late autumn_resort of the Astor set and their selected following, gunning is the favorite sport for maidens and young matrons. Light,dainty, silver-mounted weapons are roguishly popped off, and sometimes a bird is hit. A pretty little amebag is always slung at the untress’ side, and she never returns withont something in it; but th i scandulous rumor that the dead are bought read make a good income transiently out of the fad. Well, there is humor as well as nonsense in the Tuxedo idlers. A daughter of wealth changed her name by a marriage in Europe from that of a well-known New York family to that of an intricately- spelled and almost unpronounceable for- cign one. She found that in meeting acquaintances she had to go into an ex- planation of what her new name really ooked and sounded like. So she had a self-inking pocket rubber-stamp made, with _her nume on it as ordinarily spelled, while right under the long word was a phonetic spelling of it. Now, when asked who she is since wed- lock, she whips out the stamp and im- rrhns the information succinctly on any handy serap of paper. Of “one folly often charged to them, New York girls ure not guilty. They do not make visible ado over handsome actors. No doubt these mimic heroes get love notes oceasionally, and are often b\l]){(‘l‘tt‘&] to overtures for street flirtation, but the well-bred maidens of this town do not malke fools of them- selves in exactly that manner. There was_proof of this in plenty at this week's matinee benefit of the Actors’ fund. The bill was strong enough to fashionably fill the house, and swell women abounded. Six leading acto were ushers. They included the very men—Tearle, Keldey, Bellew, Salvini, Massen, Pounds, Miller and Lethcourt —who are accounted the ‘“‘mashers” of as many theaters. They did not actually do any ushering, but stood in exquisite toilets at the heads of the aisles as exhibits of mascu- line professional beauty. The reader is expecting to read that the fond und foolish worshippers of the half-dozen ogled them, blushed at ibly spoke to them and were altogether rapturous concerning them. All wrong, 1 watched the show during the whole time of the ingress, and I de- clare it to be absolutely true that no more attention was hestowed on them than if they had been common ushers. Actresses whom they knew spoke to them, but by not so much as one side- long ‘glance did any non-professional girl betray cousciousness that they were there at all. What has become known as *“‘the dark seance” has developed into A SCANDAL at the Bijou opera house, where Annie Summerville and Louise Montague ave the principal figures in & burlesque. This is the theager long favored by the dudes, by reason of its garish exhibi- tions of burlesquers. The present play is an elaborate thing of its reprehensi- ble kind. The device of making a shift M scenes on the darkened stage, instead of lowering the curtain, is introduced. At that juncturg the space is fiull of ac- tresses and comedians, The gas is sud- denly turned away down,until no object can be d'\»tinguin{\eu at a distance of teen feet, and this murkiness lasts two minutes, when the raised lights reveal a complete change of scenery. Whether s0 caleulated by the managers or not, the interval has been turned to lively account by the dudes and the actresses, From the proscenium boxes and the front orchestra row the chappies hurriedly exchange remarks with the giddy girls behind the extin guished footlights, pass notes and flow- ers, and altogether hold a brisk “seance” of intercommunication. Under these circumstonces the prices of the advantageous seats hasgone up,and they can only be had of speculators at high figures. The flurry of it is distinctly heard by the unparticipant partof the audience, and sometimes a row is caused among the competitive admirers of the chorus and ballet girls. Neither is all serene on the stage. 1In the confusion, it is dificult to tell for whom the ad- vances are meant. Miss Somerville, o tall and statuesque beauty, and Miss Montague, the famous litagious ‘‘ten- thousand = dollar beauty,” have ex- cited theatrical and dudish cir- cles by a personal encounter. They imi to each other, but a manina lark scances,” to pass a big bouquet they fell over its owner- ship. George Schiller, a comedian in the piece, took the flowers from the remarked, “For handed them to Montague be- for her and grabbed them. was a ruction lively enough to be heard by many in the au- dience and_when the scene was again illuminated Conrad was weeping and Medora was trembling, while the torn boquet lay on the floor. The encounter is not of national importance, but it shakes the foyers tremenduously. I have been lookin at womens’ heads, and wondering what it was sticking out from under their hats behind that re- sembled the handle of u stew pan wound with hair. In a theatrethe other night there were three of these lifters stiffly stretching forth out of three female heads. On the extreme end of each knob something wiggled, and it turned out to be a lock of hair, that originally had been curled, but had become an un- pleasant looking snarl. “It s TUE PESIKEY KNOT,” suid a hair dresser to me; “will you have yours done that way?” “T will ‘pesikey’ not,” said I. But I caune on Maria studying some photographs of statuary, with a maid standing her and holding her wealth of hair twisted round a fore- finger. *{t scems to me I like the way An- dromeda has her head dressed,” said my friend. Then the fairfixer copied the antique style of the photograph. First she ed in aswitch very lightly with ’s hair, the first turn made laosely, she kept winding the mass next the head; this produced the stew-pan han- dle 50 much admired at present. Then she laid across Maria’s Parian brow a row of short curl Above this went a fimger puff that was pinned on top and pulfed out each side; next she tucked in two short, stumpy curls on the under side of the handle, halfway between the end and the head. “You want a peplum and a cestus, a aped togo and a roman forum to go with that head,” I remarked. “‘Ben has a toga that he spoke Marc Antony’s speech in, but I'd_look a guy in a dress cut that way,” said matter-of- fact Maria. “Iknow women are going to wear antique styles, togas and forums like Mary Anderson in Parthenia, but I know I could never get around in dra- peries so I shall only follow the fashion in hair.”s Then Maria erowned her mytholog- ically constructed head with a felt Sailor hat, turned up on the back and trimmed with a flight of stiff ribbon bows and a brass anchor in front, and left the house hall ancient and half modern, but wholly satisfied with her archi e, to go to see M a 1 a Looking-g heard the story of Mr. ry favorite, who, riming aracter one night, lad to die of a shotgun wound just as he had filed away the bars of his prison and was hanging by a sheet from the stone walls outside the window. Eddy had removed the bars, was dangling in mid air. The officers came on and lev- elled their muskets,but nothing went off, for the guns had no cavtridges. Eddy was no in way dismayed, but feeling that he must die to end the piece and getthe curtain down,trembled, struck the stage, rolled over and over to the footlights, gripped his stomach,gurgled, struggled, and groaned out, to account for his sud- den sickness and death; “Heavens! I have llowed the file,” and then turned over on his side, stiffened out and died of the file. If Mrs. Langtry would only gasp, *‘Oh! the curtaigring —it is choking me—I die—of—curtsin ring,” we should have some insight into the matter. But after MRS. LANGTRY as Lena Despard swallows the poison supposed tobe chloral, she grips her- self aud utters a green-apple colic yell, rolls about, gnaws the seatof a chair, chews hungrily at a table leg, tears open the front'of her dress, pulls down a window curtain, wallows in it, falls overa chair with a_trap door back to the stage where she finally dies. A simple ‘mention - of the curtain ring would be letting in light on this mys- terious death struggle. Chlorsl pro- duces a quiet sleep. In fact there isno death but the curtain ring or file demise that admits of such antics. Eddy clearly acknowledged swallowing the file. Lang- try ought to give the curtain ring credit, i{ulic and memento friends are hav- ing a fine time this week in the exhibi- tion of Henry Ward Beecher's books, paintings, engravings, rugs, ceramics, and bric-a-brac. They will all be sold by auction before long, and the friends Py 50 cents a visit to go to the art gal- eries and pore over the treasurer, tak- ing notes of such specimens in the vari- ous departments as they will want to purchase. These friends are of all de- scriptions and of both sexes. Promi- nent among them is the thin favored young man with high cheek bone and spectacles, who wears his winter-before- last overcoat, the pockets bulging with newspapers and pamphlets, He pays no attention to the pottery, and scrowls as he stumbles over a rug; and the paintings are not even glanced at. He busies himself in the large room where 2,500 hooks (joy!) are placed on shelves within his reach, (rapture!!) and many of them appear to be ready to fall to pieces with age and lack of care (perfect bliss!!! It certainly is odd that the more evi- dence a book shows in dust-caten covers and general unkemptness that its past owners never read or cared for it, the more highly the antiquarian prize it. A new building strikes horror o his soul. An instance of this came pecu- liarly under my eye while giving a cur- sory glance at the Beecher collection. Ranged on an upper shelf in a row was an eleguntly bound edition of the Latin historian, ¢ssayist, poct, and the like. There must have been thirty or more vol- umes in all, and the names of the editors on the calf covers were evidence that the utmost recent research had been embodicd in the supplementary notes. The works of Terrence were, of course, included, comprised in three volumes, The early aged antiquarian glanced with pitying contempt at the clean,com- fortable hooks on the top row, but his eyes lit up with intense delight as he reached out his lean hands and seized a dog-cared volume of clumsy shape, bound in tattered half cloth, printed in wretched type or worse paper. He turned its scar pages with greedy haste, and noted it in his memoranda as a de- sirable addition to his stock. It was an edition of Terrence a half century old, long since relegated to the shelf by the progress of philological knowledge. And there ave young ladies there, oh, yes! nice FRESH GIRLS who come 1n pairs and groups and ig- nore the books, except such broad tones as contain collections of engravings, and devote their rosy attention to the rugs and pottery. =~ One sentimental miss wanted so much to secure an ele- gant Turkish rug upon which she was Sure the venerable preacher had many times pressed his broad feet while warm- ing himself before his open fire; but she was just as sure that it would take more money than papa would allow her for a year to come, and what could she do When the holidays came, to say nothing of the bonbons and caramels and chew- ing gum during the less festive season. The young ladies ave not usually expert judges of pottery and in their in- spection of th ses they estimate their relative desirability accoyding to wble use to which they were ¢ put by Mr. Beecher. Few of ‘e any intention of buying a dollar’s worth, being drawn to the gal- leries altogether from curfosity to see at manner of matter Mr. Beecher ond of, It was just abit suggestive that two girls shmdfl puause an instant before a picture by Babcock, in which two nude female figures are represented as coming from a bath, and that one of them should whisper in surprise to the other: “I shouldn’t have thought he would have that in his house.” But it was a good picture and showed culti- ed tastc in the purchaser. CLARA BELLE. Farly Telephone Exchange Work. General Barney in Electrical World: The telephone, as we all know, was pat- ented in 1 Tt achieved its first great success at the centennial, and the se ond telephone patent was issued on Jan- uary 30, 1877, That its applicability to the purpose of inter-communication was from the fi preciated, is abundantly proved by contempory records. I myself remember being present at a lecture given by Professor Bgl at Chickering hall, New York, in~ May, 1877, where, although there was a good deal of doubt in my mind about the actual existence of a real Watson at the other end, and though the major part of the exhibition feature of the lecture consisted in waiting for Wat- son(¥) I clearly gathered from the words of Mr. Bell that in his mind the telephone was to be used as the operative instrument of just suchsystemsas we have now,and whereb; houses could be enabled to connect with the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, if desired. This impression of the lecture I have always retained with particular sharpness, by reason of the soto voce remark of a jealous English- man immediately behind me, who, upon the statement made by Prof, Bell, said with profound disregard of the rights of the letter H: *‘I suppose each ’ouse hadded to the circuit would be about one home.” He evidently meant one olim, but as he stated it, the proposition was Indisputable, The first telephone line actually built for the purpose was finished on April 4, 1877, and extended between the ol‘lce of Charles Williams, jr., at 100 Court street, Boston, and his house at Somer- ville, Mass, THE DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM. An Institution Under the Tender Oare of the State. MR. GILLESPIE'S HAPPY FAMILY. How the Deaf Are Made to Hear and the Dumb to Speak—Lip-Read- ing—A Unique Method of Singing. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” Of all charitable institutions a deaf and dumb asylum is,par excellence, the most interesting from a visitor’s point of view, and the Omaha establishment is no exception in this respect. Here the practical philanthropist or the in- quisitive seeker of novelties will alike meet with many things to arouse his enthusiasm and admiration. As one walks through the class and other rooms in the insgiuw. he cannot fail to be impressed with" 'the idea that the money applied towards the education and support of these afflicted people is spent in a worthy cause. As is generally known, the Omaha in- stitute is supported by the state, and children of parents living in Nebraska are admitted to.its privilegesfree. The first building was efécted in 1869, but as the country has setsled up it has hecome necessary from ime totime to build s s, until at the present time the institution ‘presents quite a formid- able appearance, It is with something of pride that Mr. Gillespie, the popular principal and steward of the asylum, talks of the work that has been and is being effected in the class-rooms and workshops and the casual observer will scarcely fail to note that the most alous care is exercised over the wel- fare of the young folks committed to his charge. The healthy and happy appear- ance of the inmates speaks volumes in this respect. To the_applicants for admission the only qualifications necessary are that they must be of good moral habits, be- tween the age of seven and twenty-five, of sound mind and free from contagious disease. Entering the institute the boy or girl is placed in a class for which he or she is fitted having regard to former instruction (ifany). The sign language, if not already learned by the child is the initiatory step in his education and is closely followed by a course in English and general subjects. It is worthy of note that the system of developing dormant hearing in so-called deaf mutes which is now in vogue in most of the deaf and dumb_institutions throughout the states had its origin in the Nebraska institute. It is a fact not generally known that dumbness arises from and is altogether dependent on the sense of hearing. It was accordingly argued that if the latter sense could be developed,linguistic power would follow as a matter of course. To the further- ance of this theory and the development of hearing, Mr. Gillespie and his staff applied themselves some Bix years Several methods were tried » and at first they did not meet with much success. Through long perseverence and pa- tience, however, their efforts were eventually rewarded and a system was adopted which has literally enabled the deaf to hear and the dumb to spenk. The method, of course, can only be ap- plied in cases where the patient can hear sound at the beginning. It was found that the ‘*hard of hearing” ear is susceptible in the greater measure to short sounds such as_are exemplified by the letters of the alphabet and vith these the auditory edu- cation now beging. A number of the letters being mastered and re- peated. the pupil is gradually advanced to the shorter words and so on, until a good knowledge of the English langu- age is imparted. The process is net sarily slow and requires an inexhaustable amount of patience on the part of the instructor. Once however, & word has been distinetly heard by the pupil, ar- ticulation follows in due course. It was with no small amount of interest and pleasure that the writer conversed with a number of the pupils who had origin- ally been to all intents and purposes, deaf and dumb. A further exemplification of the use- fulness of this jnstitution is to found in the lip-reading department, where children who had been able to speak before losing their hearing, aro taught to read language from the mo- tion of the lips of the person convers- ing with them, This, too, is a tedious operation, requiring the utmost atten- tion and care from the teacher, as well as a considerable amount of intelligence on the part of the scholar. Judging from the achievements of some of the little ones, however, it would appear that Mr, Gillespie and his officers have worked wonders in thisline. There are at present ninety-five chil- dren in the institute, forty-three of these being girls, The boys on enter- ing do so with the intention of learn- ing a trade, and every facility in the way of instruction is afforded them as soon as they are old and strong enough for the work, Carpentering and print- ing are the branches taught, and work- shops_for these trades are respectivel gresided over by S. E. Buckley and K. 2. Maynard. The BEE man was shown & cabinet recently constructed exclu- vely . by the. boys, which was a . very satisfactory - credential ago. be | to- the efficiency of their instructors. In the printing line, the Nebraska Mute Journal, a semi-monthly news- paper published at the institute and orinted by the boys, speaks for itself. Feiiaavorsdit doeal topics and literary subjects, and has quite a good circula- tion. The girls find congenial occupation well as instruction that is invaluable to them af- ter leaving the institute, in sewing lessons which are imparted by Miss Jen- nie McCabe. Miss M. L. Divine is the instructress’ in drawing and paint- ing, and she has some budding artists among her pupils. Singing, too, is to be ranked among the other accomplishments of the inmates. This is effected by gestures and is a beautiful exemplification of the poetr; of motion. Those who would see something unique in the way of singing should see a quintette of the children ‘“sing” the Swanee River: So far from it being a mechanical operation they enter into the spirit of the song with all the enthusiasm of a prima donna. The other teachers engaged in the institution are I. L. Reed, Maggie Watkins, Lucy Butrick, O. T. Plum and W, E. Taylor, all of whom are busily engaged at the several duties detailed to them between the hours of 8a. m. and 8 p. m. Mrs. Gillespie is the worthy matron and a prime favorite with the pupils, Every facility is afforded nent of the children. and no play, ete., ap- to the deaf mute, as well his * less afflicted brothers and sisters, and the force of the adage is fully appreciated by Mr. Gillespie and his staff. Base ball d other game: freely indulged in by the young 'uns after school hours. When the school course is over—gen- erally a period of seven years—the pu- pils are discharged. The boys go out nto the world armed with a trade, which will insure them a good living, and the girls are all adepts in househould duties as well as accomplished _scamstresses. To the bright and move _ intelligent students & university education is provided at the national college for deat and dumb, situated at Washington. Two of Mr. Gillespie's pupils are already there and he has five now in prospect. Too much credit cannot be given the management for the extreme cleanli- ness and neatness of the class play and bed rooms. Everything possible is done with a view to the alleviations of the aflictions of the inmates and ruling by kindness is the ovder of the day. FLLA W t WHLCOX. as for the amu All work plies as to 1 9 A Sketch of the Famous Lady. NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—[Correspondence |—No more unique, distinc- tive, and at the same time popular char- acter stands before the public to-day than Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Born in a Wisconsin village some thirty odd years ago, when Wisconsin was not much more than a frontier state, without influential friends or family, and without money, she made for herself a name in literature which commanded attention before she was eighteen years old. To one who knows it in detail her history readslike a fairy story. Reared on a western prairie, she is an ornament to the most brilliant circles of the metropolis. She had never seen an editor or liter- ary person and knew nothing of the methods of getting into print when, at fourteen, she read her first production to the press. The New York Mercury published the childish efforts which® were wi ten in prose and under nom-de-plume It declined the first poem she ever sent for publication, and the editor sar- | castically advised her to *‘crush her am- bition to be a_poet.” The Waverly Magazine has the honor of being the first to present the nume of Ella Wheeler to the publie. Frank Leslie sent her the first check she ever received, at seventeen years of age. From that time to the present day,she has never swerved nor faltered in the steady hard climb toward success, Sheé never sent o manuscript in her life for criticism and never asked for aid orinfluence in her literary ven- tures. During the last fiftcen years, Ella Wheeler has probably been the most | eriticized, abused,praised, misconstrued and admired woman in the literary world, ‘Without a particle of effort to create a sensation, everything she has in that time written, has had the effect of stirring up criticism. Her writings seem to be possessed of a certain something combustible in their composition,that on striking outer airinvariably rends it with more or less of an explosion. Her first published book was “Drops of Water,” a collection of juvenile tem- rance verses. These were cpude but lled with the dramatic enthusiasm which has so permeated her later work, and provoked praise and censure in pro- rtionate quantities from the contend- forces on the liquor question. ‘Shells,” a little volume now out of sprint, comes next. “Maurinne,” by many considered her finest work, and the famous ‘‘Poems of Passion,” which set the literary world on fire, followed within three years of each other. Columns' of ' abuse and’ praise items Literary in, ridiculing and volume filled country. Soma of her friends urged her to sup- press the book after its first appearance but strong in the courage of her col victions, she read the severe and un- just reviews through tears, not unmixed with smiles at sight of the golden coins which punctuated the comments of the culog] ing the latter all the papers in the critics. Many of these dollars were spent in building a home for aging parents, and much of the halo now surrounding this remarkable woman’s life, is the reflec- tion of the generous deeds of her early monied life. Milwaukee people gave her o ‘‘bene- fit” in May, 1883, when she was made the subject of a speech by a United States senator, and was presented with a china basket containing 500 in gold. Long before her happy marriage in May, 1884. with the elegant and culti- vated gentleman who brought her to the east, her name was o houschold word and she was a_ welcome guest in the best circles of the great northeast. To her rare genius were added unus- ual graces of person. She was a bril- liant and tactful talker, a good dancer, and a general favorite with old and young by reason of & peculiar current of common sense and usefulness under- lying intense enthusiasm in the good thingsof life. She possessed many faults, but she was o devoted daughter, a faithful friend, and is an idolatrous wife; all the fervor of her poctic nature is now merged into one channel. The vein of sensuousness which char- acterizes much of her poctry runs all through her personality, tastes and dis- position, but is fortunately governed and guided by strong common sense. A sybarite by nature, she can adapt her- self to any condition life may impose. L girl she brought much adverse criticism upon herself from the severe judges of the world, through too great alove of pleasure and admiration, too voluptuous and uncareful literary meth- ods, and a hasty temper. Time has cured all these faults save the latte The fair poetess is aperfect little tem- pest when aroused, which is never with- out fair cause. An eye witness to one of her late justifiable storms, said to me that she felt as if she wanted a light- ning rod about her person at that time. In one of herown poems she says: “The angel lurked under the demon in me.” Somebody has intimated that she pos- sessed ‘‘a” good deal more of the former, but the latter has been more highly cultivated.” The wife of one of Wisconsin’s mil- lionaire kings tells me that in her una- tive state tho, gifted poetess was more beloved for her personal qualities than her intellectuality, and many loved the woman who would not endorse her Since her marriage she has published but one book, “*Mal Moulle,” a nove striking and remarkable work in its way, but full of new and advanced ideas for which the public is not ready. Many a sermon will have to be preached to cover the ground “Mal Moulle has done. Her poems have noticeably improved in refinement and strength since her marriage. This is due, no doubt, to constant association with one of the ablest and most cultured critics of the day. Ella Wheeler Wilcox hasa delicate orous physique. A casual ob- would not imagine her over ght. Naturally of a joyous and happy disposition she i§ subject to peri- ods of profound melancholy. Sne dresses quietly on the street and artistically in the house. The literary circles of New York have set the seal of com- mendation upon her work and she is re- ceived with open arms in some of the most delightful social circlesin the city Hor benevolence is s us upique as he talent. A constant source of distress to her in this regard is being com- pelled by bitter lessons of exper ence to close her pocketbook before the demands of the unworthy and limit her charities to cases which she personally investigates. One of her strongest charactevistics is her deep re- iigious faith coupled with intolerance of creeds. She seldom attends church, but has the most implicit faith in prayer. Sincerity and truthfulness are her cardinal virtues. The favor of kings and princes could not tempt her to dopart from these. She is “fear- less and fearfully frank, yet gains and regains more friends than those who rely upon policy to carry them through the \\'nrh‘. Fdo not bhe- lieve in mag m, but if any one in the world ever did possess i One critic has said: * to her and almost all women.” cessful & woman, she has few if any ill- wishers, being possessed of a faculty of disarming rivalr attribute this to her sincere and ‘interested pleasure in the success of othe Mus. Wilcox lost her only child, a lovely boy, after one day of life, last May. She is now making her home in New k city, near the Central park, in a cosy little nest of rooms most artis- tically decorated, WiLLiam J. Bok. —— HOME DECORATION. Diminutive high top boots are used for waste paper holders. Tho claborately figured brass’ picture framcs are in favor this scason, Carved Swiss work in white wood make very good pi for ladies to paint and color. Cardboard articles of suitable patterns may be topped. with Balf an_cggsbell pretuly painted. . Deerskin, with spots of white and red, is PARTIES Using Howe VENTILATING Stors' E. A Todd, Park Avenue, D. J. Scldon. A L. Meigs, 1205 N, 26th §t, F. E. Collins, Cor, 21st and Spencer. Thos, C. Levoy, 3518 Jones St N. V. Loan & Trust Co., 1519 Farnam, F.R Woodrongh, 2219 Ofiio §t. Alfred Conner, Cor, 25th & Davenport §% A. Baumberger, 2113 Haruey St A F. Maye, oth §t (. L. Chaffee, 2021 §, 33d St hr , Tene. n“u“kfi'firguu 1 hsli’ni Al Avc% C, M. Eaton of Otiabia Stove Repait W'k H, L. Honse, 623 Park L h Edmund Bomb, 2111 Obio Street, And many others, jewel and other small boxes. A gilded panel with a raised figure of stork made in paper or wool or worsted is ice ornamental adjunct to the wall. Wall papers that appear light in_the stof often much more intense after being hung, owing to the reflection from the op) site wall, A pair of cheap bellows poised upon th nozzle, with the spread sides decorated an the top cut open, makes a unique waste pa) receptabie. _Cobwebs, spiders, butterflys, moths, an flies of various kinds are favorite decorations in faney articles for the boudoir and parlos this season, Long stem glass vases are to be quite “‘3 employed b queens for covering thul‘ favorite for parlors. They have alternat lines of color, and the shape and pose is a\ dacious and striking. A green glass vessel 18 bird-shaped, with feathers on head and neck in silver. stands on & mirror, and may be used to pu rings, cte., into for the night. A German tile facing for grutes shows o continuous plant and floral design in delicate] hues on a white ground, and presents the unique idea of showing' brightly plumaged birds and brilliant, rich insects. Brass fittings are popular this_season; buf as producing fires obscures the brilliancy. of the metal, it is well to bear in mind thay] brass may be kept from tarnish by a coat of] varnish composed of two ounces of shellac nine ounces of alcohol. Bouquets of flowers worked ornaments for tho wall and fi satin are made more effectiv ing “in the round,” stalks a ing completely out, while sprays and pet show behind on the curved ground in- ligh relief, Silver-mounted glassware, Doulton salad)] bowls and claret jugs are out to meet an in creasing demand for these articles. Cameo glass, which herctofore has been reserved fof purely decorative articles, is now made in pepper and sults, salad bowls and the like, with silver trimmings. Thesc articles clear) indicato the tendency to combine silver andd glass, and silver and porcelain, again in ond article. A pretty wall ornament may be made b taking a piece of Bristol board, cutting it in shield or some irregular fanciful form, and giving it a backing of thin hard wood beveled, the border painted bright vermillion. Hav oiled the snrface, lay out on it with a camel’ hair pencil seaweed previously dipped {8 ‘water, taking care to keep distinct the minute] threadlike fibers. Then take oft and lay on blotting paper, placing several sheets over i and on top of all a board. Then press, Thg seawced is then arranged on the cardboa and secured with gum arabic. d Faucy catchalls, baskets, card and papefly receivers come in all orts of shupes, mando-| lins, banjos, guitars, hats, caps, cornucop birds’ nests, and aré profusely decorated wi bright ribbon bows and bunches of artificl velvet and plush flowers, over which is fi quently thrown the web that the spiden; weaves, in circles of pale blue silk on a wir foundation, with green, red, and blue spiders engaged in'the game of the spider and the i or more frequently the butterfly and moth lvs{‘ all the gorgeous and delicate colors of tha! Lepidopters family. : — She Slid Down the Pole. . Louis Sunday Suyings: Nearl resident of St. Louis has enjoyet the sight of secing the fire departmen horses at the stroke of the alarm rung r stalls and take their re: spective places at the different vehicle to which they belong. This is a sight worth witnessing, an: one which never wears out, Peopl may see it again and again and yet a; always ready to see it again. Last Tuesiday night when the alarny struck at 9 o'clock o large crowd gath: ered around the engine house of the “Thirteens” on Eleventh street, nes) Wash, Among them was a lady name Mrs. Pipe, who lives on Thirteent! street and Olive. She was delighi with the scene, and went into ecstacis when she beheld the firemen sli down the steel pole like a flash of ligh ing and take their places. So enthusi astic was she that she expressed an! rnest and loud desire to do the acf vself. Her friends who accompanie r scemed shocked at the peculiar de of the lady, and argued the proy, priety of the act. ‘ “The idea of you, a lndy. Mh‘mptini: such a thing; "it’s nonsensical,” sai one, “Idon’t care,” cried Mrs. Pipe, “Bl can do it, and I will,” { Nobody was more amused at the reg mark than the firemen themselves. Ona or two of them suggested that the lad: be given a chance to display her agile ity. This encouraged Mrs. Pipe, who i ther a stout, well formed woman of¢ , und she at once declared herself The lady was led upstairs, an ng the pole waited for the gon, to strike. “All ready,” cried one of the fired men, seizing a hammer to strike thq1 alarm—*‘one, two, th — Ding, ding went the bell and down f:unc Mrs. Pipe, her skirts flying in the! breeze. It cannot be said that the act was well cefully executed, for Mes. Pipa ie with a thud upon the hard floon, beneath. Her face was flushed. Sha, smiled us she arose from a sitting posis tion upon the floor. “I told you I could do it,” she said, triumphantly, but usshe walked towardd her friends she limped considerably, A few moments later she discovered™ thag veely able to wulk, and had: d home. 3 she was still quita lame, and when her friends ask hem the cause of the sudden lameness sha, meekly replies, *Rheumatism,” —~- The Montana Democrat has the followings “Last week one of our friends, coming down from St. Paul, stopped over ai Winona ovew night. Being a stranger he inquired of th landlord ‘what kind of land they had back oa the praivie! ‘D—d splendid land, sir, ‘And what kind of country have you back ol the bluffy’ ‘D. splendid country, sir, ‘What do you raise mostly round herei’ ‘Wi raise hell.' ——d