Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1888, Page 13

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Poep Behind the Scenes at the Jap- anese Emperor. HOW HE LOOKS, ACTS AND TALKS, S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas Sts., which is a markof Japauesobeauty. The only pictures that are now procurable of he those in her old court dress, but the: LADIES. Russian blue, is'that it is equally becomin® Lo women of light or dar mplexion. The shade appears 1 broadeloth, faillo, cash- » camel's hair, vigogne, velvet, tricot, v sillcand velvet combinations, woolen and English sergo, ling to the recent patent-ofiice re- the fominine sex is playing no insignifi- part in the production of novel improve- ts. From the year 1500 —when the first t ever issued to a woman wus given to Kies for a straw weaving machine—to the present day there has been a constant in- crease in the number of women inventors, Four thousand young women in Springfield Mass., are in a quandary. The factory in which they employed will'soon move to Kan- sas City, Mo., and if they retain their posi- tions they will have to migrate with it. Otherwise a winter of idleness stures them in the face. [f they decide to go with their employers it’ would be intercsting to know what Kansas City will do with the sudden inercase in population. —_-— aid it was not propor for him to discuss uch a priva te matter of the emperor's. TIE COMING MONARCIL He chatted quite freely,however, about the crown prince. “Prince Haru,” said he, *is now nine years old, and he was proclaimed heir to thé throne about a year ago. He is sa bright, brave boy, and very fond of mili tary offairs. He 'dresses in European clothes, and his costume is that of a soldis The emperor was very much pleased the other day by having him give him a military salute wlen he met him, and Japan expects great things of him, He Walks very straight, and though dignified, 18 a thorough boy. Ho is fond of ' racing, and goos out every day somewhere. Ho likes fishing and is by no means backward in his_studies. Hegattends tho noble's school and he 1s there on the same footing as are the others. It vexes him very much when the other boys learn their lessons better than he does his, and he works so hard that he stands well up to the head of his class. flo was sent to this school in order that this vivalry might make him study the harder and he is acquiring a thorough education. He 18 now beginning to study English and he corectly informed, he 1s deeply interested in | audiences with them often last until 12 its progress, and he looks forward anxiously | o'clock. At this hour he returns to his own toward the opening of the parliament, which | room and takes his lunch, This usually con- i v takes place in 1560, sists of fish, meats, bread and wines. "He is | a fair ideaof herfeaturcs, and her face is 1IS ANCESTORS WELE GODS. a good eater and Ikes good wine.” decidedly aristocratic. *She does not,” says The mikado has the bluest blood of any A TASTE YOI LITE the court chamberlain, “paint her hm’j'l'}l)l rulor on the faco of the earth. The present | “Afeer tunch lns majesty spends some | and black lier teeth as’was the former cus- dynasty of Japan runs back to tho gods, and | time in reading the nowspupers and books. | tom of Japanese wives, and she wears now a his umperial majesty is the one hundred and | Ajlof the leading Japanese newspapers come | Straight bang of hair across her forehic "", twenty-first emperor of Japan. The Japan- | to his palace and he watches o o cur- | Hor first Buropoun costumes, so o socioty ese bave their history aud their mythology, | rent of public opinion. Many of the news. | 1ady of Tokio tells me, was ordered from and the present emperor comes from Jimmu | papers are marked, and in the caso of the | Germany, but the Germans did not feel com- Tenno, who was the first mikako, and who | forcign papers of Japan the more promi- | Petent for the task and sent her measure to ruled Japan 060 years beforo Christ was | pent articles aro translated for him, | Worth, at Paris. The clothes were made born. This man was o descondont of the sun | Articles in the New York, London and | nd shipped back to Berlin, and the German goddess, and_Mutsubito, the present empe- | Paris papers, which hayo a bearing upon | Aress-makers thero exposed them as their ror, traces his descent directly from him. | Japan, are also translated and handed to him | 2Wn, and all of the capital of Germany was Jupaneso history gives the story of cach of | 1o read, and he is especially fond of the il. | ¢alled in to inspect the clothes which the om- the 120 emperors between the two, and if you | Justrated foreign papers. The whole of such | Press of Jaban was about to wear. S\fl h an will think a moment you will soe how far | papors as Harper's Weekly and the London | 8ction would hardly be possible in the case of back 660 13. C. is. This was before Rome had | Graphic are regularly translated for the | 8 liuropean queen, and I have heard it con- become an empire. England was unknown | emperor, and he looks over the pictures and | demned with much indignation here. At even to the Komans, and hundreds of years | reads the articles relating to them in the | PresentIam told that the empress b were yet_te clapse before Cwsar penetrated | Jupanese translation. He thus keeps posted | Clothes, as far as possible, in Japan. i Gaul.” The present emperor was born at | on what is goiug on tho world over, After | & thorough little Japanese queen, and she is Kiota, November 3, 1852 He was declared | reading he takes his exercise and his dinner | auxious to do everything to advance her own heir avparent to the throne when he was | comes in the ovening, Sometimes the em- | People. The very latest thing is the plaited muslin bodice. . India cashmere in white or some light tint is a favorite cloth. Pale shades of blue are second in favor to the all-prevailing greens, A very pretty boa is made of soft green tinted flat ostrich featoers. White is, as ever, the preferred young girls’ festival wenr, Poplar green, is that ashy hue seen on the under side of a poplar leaf. Long, fingerless mitts are a novelty. They are worn with dinner gowns. British women still cling to the coat dress with its masculine angularitios. The newest bordered fabrics admit of some novel features in simple gowns. A new foreign fancy is the wearing of black net fichus in placo of veils. Cloth gowns are made up in combinations of cream white, brown, and green. Cloth walking costumes are decorated with silk braid of the same color as the cloth. ATURE. armuj ports i color for Some Kacts Concerning His Numerous Wives and a Glance at the E press—Much Interesting Information. Carp’s Letter, Toxro, Nov. 20.—[Correspondence of Ti Bee.|—I have just had a most remarkable journalistic experience. Thave interviewed the most prominent of the mikado's court chamberlains on the home life of s majesty. SINGUL 16 A PATRONESS OF CHARITY. John Connerton of Louisville, Ky., has & eight years old, and he succeeded on the Such an interview has, I believe, never been held before. it would have been impossible twenty jears ago, and twenty-five years ago, 1f successful, it would have been death to the chamberlain and imprisonment to me., At that time it was treason to name aloud the personal name of the mikado. In writing it, it was against the luw to pen the name in full and one of the strokes or lettors had to be left out. No one except the wives of the em- peror and his highest ministers ever saw his face. His divine features were never un- veiled to public gaze. Kept in the seclusion of his palace at Kiota, he was revered as o god by the people, and when he weut abroad in the city he rode in a closely curtained car drawn by bullocks, IS BACRED FEET never touched the earth, and when he died it was supposed that he would enter the com- pany of the wods. e was at this time the emperor gf Japan, but ho was only a nominal emperor, The commander-in-chief of the imperial army under the title of the Shogun administerod his affairs, and these command- ers-in-chief, who succeeded one another by hereditary descent, had for generations usurped the real authority of the govern- ment, while they thus kept the Mikado in a sortof a glass case and beld him up as a spiritual rather thun a temporal ruler. Ho had all the titles and plenty of deference. His power, however, was limited to the con- trol of his wifeand his twlve concubines, and the Shoguns kindly relieved him of all the dutios of an emperor. They managed his treasury, made the laws governed tho country and ate up the taxes, THE BIG REVOLUTION This state of things went on for hundreds of years. A feudal system grew up under it. The lords of this system became ener- vated by luxury, and the chief officers under them, about twenty years ago, organized a revolution to give back to the mikado his real power, The present emperor was then upon his throne, He was just fifteen yoars old. The revolution was successful. The Shogun was overtirown and the emperor was taken by the revolutionists to Tokio, and declared emperor in fact. This was the beginning of CHE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT in Japan. The young mikado come out of his curtained seclusion,and before the court ho promised that changes should be made in the empire; that a deliberative assembly should be formed; and that all measures shouid be decided by public opinion. He promised that impartinlity and justice should be adopted as o basis of action, and that in- tollect and learning should be sought for througheut tho world in order to establish the foundatious of the empire. It was upon this basis that the new government was founded, und sinee then thousands of Japan- @88 have boen truveling ovor the world seek ing the best of all kiuds for Japan. Swce then many of the old customs have been thrown away. Railroads, telegraphs and schools huve{wou established. Intercourse with other nations has been kept up, and e wikado rules the new Janan Tawm death of his father in 15¢ He was crowned in 1868, and was married at the age of seven- teen in 1569, HOW 1E LOOKS, His imperial majesty is now thirty-eight yearsold. [Let me tell you how he looks, He 18 taller than the average Japanecse, and his appearanco is pot half as imposing now as when he wore the rich Japanese costumes and sat cross-legged on Lis mats of state. He lhas a dark brown -au-lait complexion, and hisjeyes, which look outthrough almond slits, are of a brilliant black. His hair 1s very thick and he purts it in European style, 1t 18 combed well up from a good forehead and his majesty’s eyobrows have the decided arch which is indieative of Japanese beauty, His nose is large and inclined to flatness, 1t has the wide nostrils of the Japanese, and his majesty’s lips are thick. He is of medium size, but is inclined to stoop. which I imagine may come from tho earlier part of his life having been spent in sitting upon the floo He wears a moustache und chin whiskers and these, like those of most of his race, are thin. The court chamber- lain tells me that for the past sixteen ycars he-has worn nothing but European clothes, and he has to a large extent adopted Kuro} pean ways, His dress is that of a gencral of the army, and he takes great pride in mili tary mutfors. Ho reviews iis troops several tiwios & year and is thoroughly up in the or- ganization of his urmies. Witen he goes out to ride he is always accompanied by his im- perinl guard, and he bas lately purchased several new state carviuges which are the wonder of Tokio. MONEY BY THE MILLION. The emperior of Japan is_rich. He is al- lowed two miltion and a half dollars a year for his household department, and his privato fortune is lurge and increasing. The cham- berlain tells me that he thoroughly under- stands business matters, and that he keeps hiself well informed as to his in- vestments, Some of these are in the pub- lic lands aod roads, aud thoy are, of course, managed by men appointed by him, The bousehold department is as much a part of the Japauese governinent as is our navy or department of war a part of the United States government. 1t has to do with all matters relating to the imperial palace and to the Mikado, It prescribes the ceremonies and attends to all matt connected with the life of the emperor aud the empress. It has @& board of chamberlains, a board of cere- monies, & department which takes care of the emperor's horses, and one which has charge of the imperwal sephulchres. It coutains a bureau of nine imperial physiciaus, and I note that Prince Iwakura is grand master of the imperial kitchen and its cooking. It was at the royal household department that I held my iuterview with the cowrt chamberluin, Woe sat for two hours w*ul.!mr and chatted of the emperor's habits, “His majesty,” said he, “is & very studious man. He rises early and breakfasts at 7 or 8 o'clock. BE USES THE KNIVE AND FOIK n eating when he takes foreign food, and he adopts the chop-sticks at his Japaucse din ners. He eats at a table aund sits upon chairs, He varies his meals, sometimes taking for- eign food and sometimes Japanese, Ho is fond of meats and has & well-trained Japan 80 cook to serve them for him. It is not customary for him to eat with the ewpress, and he usually eats aloue. After breakfast is over he goes to his study, and here at 9 o'clock he receives such ministers of stato as have matters to report to him, He knows his ministers and understands the depart- wents over which whey are placed. His press dines with him and at times the litile prince, who is the heir to the throne, has a seat at the table. Both have, however, their separate establishments, The dinner i served in table d'hotel style and with all the' European accompaniments,” SOMETIIING OF A SPORT. ““What are the emperor’s favorite exer- cisest" I asked. “He is pecially fond of riding,” replied the chamberlain. *He' has about three hundred horses in the royal mews and he sits a hovse well. He has a big race track in the grounds of the new palace, and he is muchinterested in horse breeding as well as in horse racing. He attends the races in Tokio and Yokohamu, and he is very foud of watching his nobles play polo. This game is often played inside of the palace grounds, and his majesty ofton hunts deer and wild pygs on his royul preserves. He shoots well, but as a rule he prefersto watch the others hunt, A great party of nobles accomnanies him, and there are many pheasants as well as larger game, Another favorite pursuit of the emperor is duck ne ting, and there will be opportunities for this sport in the new palace grounds. The regiouns about Tokio are filled with ducks™at certain times of the year, and these are de- coyed into d ut twelve feet wide, and then caught in hand nets thrown by the nobles, November is one of the best months for this sport, and it {s not unusual for us to cateh two hundred in a day. As in other sports, the emperor prefers to look on, though he sometimes throws a net himself.” TIHE COURT KECEPTIONS, “Does he give many receptions " I asked, “Not many,” was the reply. *“He has a big reception on New Years, at which the diplomats and the Japanese officials are pres- ent. Then on the 2d of February there isa recoption in commemoration of the founda- tion of the empiro. On the #d of November is the emperor's birthday, and an imperial garden party is given in the spring and in the fall, At these receptions the guests ap pear, as a rule, in European dress and the emperor is saluted with a bow. The kneel- ing on all fours has been done away with, and the oustoms of our court are about the ame as those of the courts of Kurope, The emperor has his interpreters with him at his receptions. He speaks no language but the Japanese and has given up the study of Ger- wan, which he bogan some time ago. His dutios of state were so great that he had not time for it, and he regrets his this regurd when forelgn princes ¢ Japan, The emporor 1s a good talker. He is foua of talking with foreign potentates and grows auite —animated when princes visit him." 1 here asked as to his conversation with the people about the court and was told that they talked fre wperor, but that they were very careful in the use of their language. This was the same with the em- peror's ministers, A THOKOUGH LITTLE QUEEN. The eonversation hLere turned to the em. press and, by the way, 1 hear good words about her majesty everywhere I go. She is just about as old’ as her husband. She is a Tull head shorter than the average Awerican woman, has a slender figure, very straight and very dignitied. She upprecistes her po- sition and walks like an empress, It is uow more than o r since she adopted foreign clothes, and her jet black nair is combed in foreign style and a foreigu waterfali sits upon her shapely crown. She has u fine complex 100, moch lighter than the ordinary Japanese, wud she bus that drooping of he lower lip ¢l horse-back “Sheiis,” in the words of the court cham- berlain, “especially interested in Japancse women, and she tries to_promote their ad- vancement in every w: Sho is very charitable and she is especially the patron of the Red Cross society apd of the Tokio charity hospital. She’ offtn visits the hos- pital and her infiuence is given for the good. At the late eruption of Bandaisan she sent money at once to relieve tho sufferers from the volcano and she is especially interested in the education of the Japanese women There is o female school attended by the girls of the nobles which is known as the empress's school. She watches very closely over this and one of the pictures upon it walls consists of some pootry written by he The empress of Japan is a fine Chinese scholar and she is one of the best poets in the empire. Many of her poems have been set to music and have been used as national songs, and quite a number of them have been published in the Japanese newspapers.” HER LIFE AND HADITS, ““Tell me something of the daily life of the empress,” said L. “‘She has, replied the court chamberlain, “‘an establishment of her own and it is quite alarge one. She has her maids of honor, her private sceretaries and the ladies of ti court to deal with, Her morning is occupied by the reading and writing of letters, She attends to the supervision of her various charities through others chiefly fand in the afternoon she devotos herself w social duties. She receives at this time the wi of the ministers and the princesses who may call upon her, and if they come at the prope time these sometimes take toa with h She sometimes invites these ladies to mzet- ings to discuss matters relating to the -char- ity hospital, and she has a grand marshal and a chamberlain, She is, you know, the first empress of' thé new order of things, oven as the emperor 1s the first emperor. She wears but little jewelry, though she uas some diamond rings snd bracelets. Shoe is a fine horse back riger, and often takes a turn on one of the horses of the 1mperial stables, She wears a Europeay riding habit and sits her horse well. THE ROYAL FAMILY, ‘The emperor, the @mpress and the crown prince make up the royal family, or at least the three most important members of it. Mch of these threo have, as I said, an estab lishment of their own inside of 'the palace grounds, ‘The crown prince is heir-apparent 1o the throne. He isthe son of the emperor by Madam Yanagiwara, and not by the Ei- press Haruko, The Mikado of Japan has a right to twelve concubines in adoition to the empress, und the children of these, in case of the failure of issue by th @ right to the throne. They mate and noble, and it is to these codcubines in times past that the noblest of the o families of to-day date their origin. Very little is kuown about them outsidethe royal palace, These royal mistresses do not ap- pear at the court ceromonies, and 1 am told that each bhas her little establish ment fuside of the palace grounds. They are @ part of the constitu tion of the royal family, aud in the direc tory of Japan for this year 1 find that the emperor Las had by them nine children, though all with the exception of throe of these have died. ~ Children thus born have 0 do with their wothers, and the young prince was brought up apart. 1 asked the court chamberluin about this d of the valace. He would say uoth knows one or two words of Irench and Ger- man, which he gets off when he meets the foreign ministers: these are such words as “*bon jour” and “‘guten tag,” and they are al- ways applauded and appreciated. A PALACE WITI MODERN 1MPROVEMENTS, The royal palace of the mikado is now ap- proacking completion. It is an immense labyrinth of courts, passages and spacious apartments with mats and movable parti- tions It covors all told about eight or nine acres, and is lighted by nearly two thousand Edison electric lights, The emperor will “take possession of it in November and the r's recention will probably be one of the grandest of his reign, FRANK G. CARPENTER. e % CONNUBIALITIES, A Miss Honey, of Chicago, married a Mr. Moon, of St. Louis. Joining this couple made'a happy honeymoon, A Norwalk, Conn., wedding which was to haye taken place the other evening has been indefinitely postponed by the disappearance of the bride. Miss Rose De Chine Gouverneur of Wash- ington, and Rev. Roswell Randall Hoes, U. S.N., 'were marriea recently at the New York' Avenue Presbyterian church, The bride is the great-granddaughter of Presi- dent Monroe, and the groom is a grand nephew of President Van Buren, Aflidavits have been filed in another theat- vicul divorce case, and_the public wili soon flonded with the detail oven yoars ago Plorence St. John_ burst’ into a vlaze of popularity. Sto nhad a fresh voice, a fine form and a pretty face, with @ slight squint. She threw over her husband and married o Frenchman named Marius. Now she sues bum for divorce, and he files an answer al- leging collusion. This sort of a girl ought to make a good wifo and ber inarriage ought not be u fail ure: Miss Kitty Everest, daughtor of a millionairo of Kansas City, refused 100,000 rather than give up the man of her cholce. Her lover wus a fiue, hundsome traveiing man, displeasing to papa. A trip to Kurone did not cure her. The bribe of £100,00) could not cateh her. 8o they were married, and papa hus now only to say, “Iless you, my chiidren,” Not & thousand miles from Lewiston, Mo i8 8 young man some twenty-two or twenty three yours of age who has o symumctrical figure, handsome faco, curly hair, and, in short, is quite an Apollo. Not lonk ago he met a pretty mill girl and they fell in love, The girl was pleased, but there was one thing which cast & clond over the sunshine of her happiness. Her lover's teoth, though perfectiy sound and never kuown 10 ache, ¢ irregular, She told hiw of this und ho ded that not even in one thing should the t of nis soul feel disappointment. Ho bied bimself to o dentist and sucrificed his molurs to the causeof true love. H:now has a beautlful set of teeth, but they ara not +he gift of nature, but the haudiwork of mau. —~ - ietted for about tivree fied in the usdal w her desire 1o stop, *1'm fond of the waits," said tie, hadeed i 1 ghould think you woull have loarned it, then.” And theslence that came over the cop that all *att to meas ure it by throwing the lead we tile, min. 1pls Tu- — You have no ides how palatabl bread is when four is 85 or 8V a bavrel, corn Lily-stulk green is tho newest new shade of that ultra-fashionable color. Itisa Lght tint. _ Faus arc larger than everand are made in every concewvable varioty of color and de- sign. Rhine green is a now shade of the able tint. 1t is very effective in color. Terra cotta, mahogany und copper colors staud next in popular favor to the prevailing groens. Broche goods and damask popiilar for elegant gowns for occasions. Jet trimmings ave more popular than ever, aud are worn in every variety of new and claborate patterns. Pale gray L‘ullu flecked with steel spangles and belted with a steel cprset mukes o very effective ball gown, A new feature inevening gowns has tho bodice in two colors, Pink and green is a combination somewhat favored. A novelty in furs is the sealskin pelerine, square and short at back, and so long 1 front as to come near to the knce, Ostrich-feather fans aro mounted on poarl sholl and ivory sticks, with handles of tor- toise shell, cornelian, sandalwood or coral. Pretty trimmings for bonnet crowns are little squares of fine cloth, braided in small close-set figures, buds, Leaves, bees, fies and tars. New hairpins are exceptionally fancitul, Cupid's arrow, Mercury's wand, and St. Peter's crosier are all made to do duly as hair ornaments. Boutounieres, glove-hooks and ivory tablot cases come in dead bright aud old silver, and with other fanciful pendaits are worn dangiing from the chatelaine, T'his is a season of ostrich feathers, They are made into fans, boas and band trimmings for hats and dresses. Tips made of the swaying plumes are very populur for hats, Short wraps are mado as drossy as possible with embroidories and passementaries of jot, cord, metal lace, ribbon fringes, and “motifs,” or agraftes, glittering with 'rain fringes, The pretty K'rench breakfast caps 8o popu- 147 80106 YOArS #Z0 are being worn quite gei crally, ‘The rovival is @ popular one, os- pecidlly with young women, whether mar- ried o not. Dressy toa-gowns have silken waistconts, while other indoor frocks for dressy wear sometimes covared with silver tinse! dots and small figures. They aro fastene buttons to watch In spite of the oft-repeated assertion that long cloaks alone will be worn by fashionable women, there are innumeruble shovt wraps in yelvet, begaline, cloth, broche and plush to be scon on fashionable thorough farcs. Miss Mary Perry, o sewing g Me., has palonted a chaie for th ployes in sewing factories. The chair has an adjustable bick und is designed 10 make stoupiug shoulders and. spiual troublos less prevalent Of white dress fabr Brocades, plan or strij silks, bengatine, ottoun silk, failie, Irish poplin, embossed satin and Heéurietta cloth aroobtainable in white and make up very effectively. The great advautase of that uanvlar coler fashion- and quite light material are ceremonial 1 of Bristol, use of em there is no end. d velvets,. watered mule which chews tobacco. The Baxter family of Norwich, Conn,, found a valuable digmond ring stowed away in the interior of their Thanksgiving turkey. A cow broke into a Brooklyn oyster deal- er's establishment and devourad eight quarts of raw oysters before she was discoverad. Mocking birds in California are a dissipa- ted sct of ornithological druniards. They feed on the berrics that grow on the Chinese umbrells tree, and this sorv of food mukes them tipsy, An clevator in a New Hampshire factory stopped suddenly, the engineer having shut off the steam, and the lad who was riding on it became so frightened lest it should fall n‘hm' he was attacked with beart discase and died. In Washington territory lately a hunter jumped a fox and started in chase with his dog. During the chase a wildeat started up and headed the procession, The race came to a sudden termination, for, as the story goes, dog, cat and fox wi all Jilled b y a train as they were crossing a railroand track, Georgia hogs can beat the record of the best ostrich that ever lived. One of them in jariton was butcherod a few days since, and in the maw of the swine was found some twenty-two nails and alot of glags, supposed to have been piecos of battle, The hog was avparently hoalthy. Georgia is a land of freaks. ¢ That cat which died in Putnam, Conu., not loug ago, vcamne near making o **lrust” in fo- line architccture, “Ta animal had seven logs and two tails, being in reality one cat in front and two cats behind. Her strange de- formity enabled her to do many triciks; she was able to walk at any angle without turn- ing, und whenever the perpendicular walls were near enough together she could go up them as casily us she could walic the foor, while it was her favorite sport to climb a tin pipu to the roof of the louse. She was buried in a triangular biack walnut hox with the simple indeription: “IL," and many of the villagers attended the burial, One James McCloud, of Lodi, Wis., has & horae on his Dakota ranch for which he re- fused 2,600 fora half interest in, and for whicn he' wants 5,000, McCloud's horse is a marvel neither as a trotter nor . His supposed value lies in the fact that he has cight feot, Two horsos wore 1o bo scen at Glen Island last summer that had cight feet cach. The division begins at the pustorn or lower ond of tho shin bono, and in cach case there aro two periectly formed hoofs, oue of which is lurge and useful and the ather, about one-third tho ususl size, is wholly ornamental. All eight hoofs on ouch horse might be shod, if it was dosirable to do so, but it would bo'a wasto of four shocs 10 each horse, bocause the four exira hoofs de not come within three inches of the ground, They are possibly developments of the sup- preased toes or “splints,” The horses do not seein Lo be incommoded by too much footing. D Bouc need of ault is a living proof of tae chool of elocution. e can teacn other peoplo to act, but he has not taught himself to speak. His speech at the Mad- 1son Square matinee recently in New York beat the worst aftor-dinner attempts ev heard in Eogland. Yot it was interesting for the light it threw upon the growing havoc worked by stage fever, —-— Hosford's Acid Phosphate Imparts Renewed Strength and vigor where there has beeu huwustion,