Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1892, Page 12

FACTS FOR THE FAIRER ALE « A Glowing Feminine Apostrophe to the 3 Bell Ekirt, COLONIAL DAMES CLAWING THEIR BANGS An Omaha Girl In the Thirteen Tea Party— Activity of Women partments of rent In Various De- atry—Cur- ashion Note To ears feminine the very name of “‘bell skirt!! suggests comfort, lightnoss, sym- metry and grace, No more disfiguring paniers conceal the form divice. No longer doth the weary seamstross pleat yarcs and yards of useloss fabric intotho band which encircles tho waist. Becoming} alike 10 sll is “the bell.” To those of slonder build it accentuates the curves of beauty, whilo to | thoso anuoved oy too much adipose it adds no superfluous folds, and londs a stately height. How long, wo wondor, will dame fashion al- | low us the almost unrestrioted froedom that we now enjoy of selecting what is becom- ing to our individual tastes. With what u senso of emancipation do wo look back to only a fow years ngo, when fashion’s aecree went forth unquestioned. As slaves, we bowed 1n submission, however unreasonablo ber demunds might bo. Never hus there boen n time when fomizine grace showed forth as now. We are grow- ing to realize that to be graceful we have but 10 be natural, and to be uatural wo must dis- card those articles of dress comfortable, and in poiniof comfort what can oxcel “tho bell skirt?’ Light as a feathor's woight, it falls in_graceful folds, a boon to those 1o whom _nature has denied a protty foot. Nor does it nacessarily conceal the shapely oncs of a_more fortunaie sister. For who of feminine guilo does not know the utdlity of a little backward grasp of the sewi-train, revealing, if desired, a glimpse of dainty heels, When'the rain king decides to move his beadquarters from over our fair oity, many pretty girls and stately matrons will'be seeu upon the promenade. Pictur- esque, all of them, in beauliful bats, crowned with sweet flowers and draped in fascinating veils; and matron and maid of high degroo, all ‘gowned alike, will be 1n that queen of skirts, ‘‘the bell.”’ Long live and reign “the bell.’ Grace H, . " Uneasy lics the head that wears & veai- gree. beset with the claims of dames with miilious, but whose grandfathers never dreamt of the | 3 of a single initial engraved on oue side. United States. This eloment has a number of aggressive supporters with the organi; tion, Efforts hoye been made to admit them, but failing to furnish the requisite pedigree they have beea ruled out. Tho resuit is that the Dames are vigorously assailed as exclu- sives, and high circles in Gotham are agi- tated. Iteally, if the Colonal Dames are wise they will go out of the vusiness. Itisa groat shame that they can’ keep tho Pilgrim Mothers to themselves, but there is no use trying Lo fight the Miliionaire Dames, These | &7 €8T autoplutocrats will have ancestors even if they have to skip a marriage or two to got thens. LS Some one has uncarttied the fact that Mrs, Christopher Columbus was a Miss Pale: trallo of Lisbon, tho daughter of o naviga- tor, She made many sea voyages with her father, and when he died he loft to her a very valuable collection of charts, maps and momoranda. The ussistanceand the inspir; zion wnich Mrs. Columbus became to the il- lustrious Christopher will never be told. Sve will, doubtless, bo recoznized at the ex- position in the woman’s department. . Carroll D. Wright in'the Forum pays s de- served tribute to the moral charaoter of fao- tory girls, underpaid as they are. A genera- tion or two ago some of the best young women in New England found employment in the big cotton mills and factories, and Charles Dickens was so forcibly impressed by their good standing in the community thav ho violated his rule of novor praising anything American 1o testify to their worth. On tilets for youne girla very pretty ef- feots are produced by velvet runnors through bands of colored insertion, and embroidered stripes aro made to alternate with those bor- dered with fine hemstitcing. Upon yokes of pink organdie, pale blue chambry, ecru bauste, and the like, is wrought fine need!e- work that imitates the multi-colored Porsian embroideries so popular on rich fabrics, the only differenco being that the work is exe- cuted with fast-dye cottons and not with silk floss. The patterns are almost identical— those on the cottons with those on the richer muterials, ot There is an instructive story related of a goutleman in Virginia, of scrupulous taste, who, being enamored of & young woman, rode to her home to tell his love. He took her hand in his, fixed his eyes upon it before asking it as a gift, saw the pink nails of his ideal odged with black, drooped it, said fare- well, and such is the end of his romance. [t is suggestive chapter of aisenchantment. n There are many short, stout women who do not find the seamless skirt at all becom- ing. Theso can do no bater than to ohoose the eight-gored bell skirt whose very lines give them loagth and the effect of a aegree of slenderness at least. Many have each of theseams on the front and sides overlaid with passementerie bands or velvet ribbon. Another model for stout womon 15 the close princesse redingote with slashed siarts and pen in front. IBeneath 1s the close sheath firt, but its outlining form is covered by the panel-like breadths of the polonaise. Evening shoes aroin great varioty and wust match the gown. Black shoes with paste ornaments are worn wilh white dressos. The newest decoration 15 in the form of a small diamond-shaped buokle, anw has & scrap of satin throughb itto give @ touch of color. Pale blue suggests an opal surrounded by briliants. Black patent loather shoes often have bright red rows. The daintiest shoe of all has a gold network ot the top and heel; it may ve over palo biue or pink white, the rest is of black or ‘white satin, *e One of the most unique banquets on record took place on the 13th at Mount Auburp, O., the participants beiug the graduating class of the noted Mount Auburn institute. 'The singularity of the affair consisted i the fact that there are just thirteen girls in the cluss, tho banquet was served in thirteen courses and on the thirteenth day of the month, which,horriblo to relate, happened to bo Fr day. The thirteen young ladies who have com- ploted the four years course at tho institute are: Missos [lin Bell of Glendale, O., Mao Burus of Owaha, Neb,, Rose Wallace of Lafayette, Ind., Susie Thomas of Littlo Rock, Ark., Nellio Haynes of Knoxville, ‘Tenn., Catherine Strong of Stark, Fla., Halhe Chase of Mount Auburn, Florence Deginger of Coviugton, I{y., Mary Urban of Walout Hill, Ciocinuati, Grace McLaugn- lin of Mount Auourn, Jessie Hoading of Columbus, O., Auna Coan of Mount Au- burn, and Auna Mowat of Grand Rapids, Mich, w Out of the 240,000 domestio servants in Loadon it is estimuted that 10,000 are always out of employ ment. Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote *Curfow Shall Not Ring Tonlght,” is living in California sud busy on & history of Ore- Kon. A bed quilt with 13,000 pleces in it and upon which a Coopersburg (Pa.) woman had I.lbgbnnl for years, was sold at her death for ‘That was & tesder little babe which was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bates, of giant fame and oircus renown, The little stranger welghed 233 pounds. Tne most highly vulued gi1t at the quoen of Denmark's golden wedding last week was & crown of golden wheat ears and olover bflnalll with the pennies of 100,000 school ohildren ‘The hospitable doors of the Manufacturers olup in Philadelphia have been thrown open wide to adwmit all women either related Lo, or within the olrele of friendship of, the mem- bers of that prosperous organization. The “Black Patti” bas been tho most highly colored operatic success of the season. Her “iigh D" has evokea as much surprise as adwiration, and has throwo & deep bru- notte shade over ull efforts at rivalry, ‘The first Indian woman to prepare herself for nursing by & scleutiio truluiug is Navey | are employed 1n that capacity | Titinois has been organized which prove un- | i ends, ‘I'he Colonial Dames of New York are | Cornelius of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., who has just received a diploma, Hartford training school for nurses. ‘The money order department of tho Pitts- burg postoffice, where the receipts are more | thun €2,000,000, fs exclusively in charge of Mary Steele, This is said to be the Iarvest business handled by any woman in America. Thore were 752 girls' schools veprosented at the last meeting of the Madras Native fstian _association. The OF these 8,018 ace nat aro Mohammeduns, 19,561 hs und others. tarriet A. Kotcham, ssful design for the mouument, died soon after accepiance of her plan. girl, who had studied abroad, and manifosted undoubted talent as a sculptor. Tho servant girl problem bas beo on tho Pacific coast, whera 15,000 As y is quite faint. Tho Japanese dress like Amoricons, drink like Americans, and are willing 10 vote eariy akd often if givon balf a chanc A Woman's Pharmaccutical Association of and chartered at Spriaghield for the purposo of mutual bonet:t to its members and o arrange o pharmu- coutical exhibit for the World's fair. Thoro ve Christi Hindoos, s, who made the lown soldiers’ learning of the solved apanese et tho opposition 10 them | nre fifty-threo rogistered womea pharmacists in tho statd and fifty assistants. On account of tho prevalence of intemper- anco among the wen in Holland women have been employed ut railroad switches with great success, Not an accidont has occurred sinco the women wi installed in uniquo ofice, If the procedent becomes established that a sober woman 1s a botter servant than a tipsy man, thore will be a great rovolution in the industrial world. Mrs. Grant has “finally docidod ‘that sho will not publish her memoirs of hov famous busband. Sho finally completed the manu seript about three weeks azo, aad ut her in- vitation several editors aad bublishers wore invited #h look over 1t with a view to “'the lighest bidder.” But she changed her mind at tho last moment—by tie adyice of frienas, 1tis understood—and the story of General Srant's life, as told by his widow, will not be seen by the public fov somo yoars at least. Summor Fashion Notes, Fancy combination surah, with a stripe or figure, is made into gowns. I'ho new India pink is merely the old ma geota shade groatly softened in tint. Scarts of chiffon, with embroidered or lace e worn. ‘I'icse ure knotted around the neck or under the collar. Old-fashioned oraandie muslin in new and fancitul floral patterns is one of the coolest and daintiost of summer fabrics. Short capes aro made of feathers which just cover the shoulders, formed like a pointed yoke, with stanaing collars. Tho most fashionable chinais pure whito with sealloped edges, ana nas the monogram “There are some larzo hints shown of most eccentric shapes, curving brims and floating plumes. Louis XV, and XVI fashions are quite passe. Gray undressed kid Newport tis, with stockings, gloves and parasol of the same tint, will form a_ladylike accompaniment to many summer toilets. Charming lace caps, fichus ana berthas will come in with airy summer toilots. wiil be made of cream lace flouncing deep enough to reach below the waist, Sleoveless Eton jackets aro a feature of tennis suits over shirt waists of white or vivid red surah or fancy-striped China silk. The full Erglish skirt worn last summer is tabooed, and the bell skirt is chosen. Soft and pretty lightweight silks wita a tiny dot in a single color make pretty toilots, with the bodice cut down or corselet-shaped, and completed by & vest or guimpe of surah or silkk cropon of the color of the seeding. Rea aud white striped silk sbirt waists nc- company pretty boating costumes of admiral blue pilot cloth. The skirts at the bottom are trimmed with bias bands of the clotn, piped on each side with bas folds of the striped silk. Machine made lace is so cheap that tbe poor women who make lace by hand are thrown out of employmont. But the day will return wher Honiton lace will again bo in fashion, and this will give work to many who need it. A new fancy for hat decoration is tho use of oats in such profusion as w0 _suggest the thatoh on a country cottage. The brims are ofton banked with the sprays of oats 1w all shades of greon and brown with the tips hanging over the edge. Many white dresses for summer are made up over yellow silk with wide ycllow sashes at the belt, or yellow silk girdies. Spanish yellow ribbons of elther silk or velvet are used as a garniture for cream white wool gowns or those of soft silk. A tiny importea bounot consists of a small crown of the teacup shape in black rice straw, with a roll of cherry rea velvet around the head, with a bit of old white iace in front, with two of the above mentioned peacock’s eyes standing above. Littie Eirls have some pretty little saiior hats with & diamond shaped crown of open work plaited straw ana a straight brim cov- ered with scarlet or navy blue cloth. The effect is very chic,ana the open crown makes a delightfully cool head covering. Lady—This may be tho latest style hat now, but I suppose by the time I get 1t trimmed there will be still newer styles out. Milliner—Oh, no, 1 am sure there won’t be. “There cau’t be. 1t would be impossible to got up anything uglier than this, Night dresses are made of fine striped or dottea percale, or of batiste, as well as of silic, Often & blouse affect is given to a night dress, which may have an embroidered belt. The skirt may besimply finished with a deep hem or elaborately trinimed, according to the taste. Anothor thing that will come in again is the old-fashioned emorace. There was no comfort in embracing & girl with & whale- boned bodice and a starcued dicky, besides you know you would never be forgiven if you rumpled the polished iutegrity of that shirt bosom. New Persion fabrics show olives, palms and geometrical figures on soft. beautifully colored grounds, in foule fabrics, summer camels’ bair, Himalaya wool, or vigogno, Piece-ayed foules, with Jacquard designs, are greatly favored, also diagonal stripes in relief. ‘The fashion of arranging the §front hair very elaborately {s encouraged by the new hats, which fit closely Lo the back of the head and rise clear up over the frout hair; also by the flat hat worn level on the hair and raised in front and at the back, with flowers stick- ing up perpendicularly. Foptenolle, when 90 years old, passed be- fore Mme, Helvetius without perceiving her, “Ah!" said the lady. *‘that is your gallantry, then! To pass before me without ever look- g atme!” “If I had looked at you, mad- am,” replied the old beau, *I never could have passed 3ou at all,” Blouse waists with belts all round and bodices with blouse fronts and girdies are favorite waists on importea dresses of light texture, such as crepaline, lace, veiling, challl, Tudia silk and the dainty semi-dia- phanous old-fashioved lawns and muslins that are revived by leading modistes. A D““i model 1n this style is a light stripod silk, double-breastad, with two rows of three buttons atthe waist, and tho top Hilled in square with a fichu of ‘White cniffon” with a rufiio of the same falling over the odga. The fichu is arranged over a plastron of lace, which shows in a V in front, ©One of tho newest blossoms reproduced in milliners' flowers is the American laurel, ana very protly it is, wo. Buuches of green leuves of all kinds are preferred in many in stances Lo gay blossoms, sud in some bunches of berry leaves the fruit is done in cut jet with great effect among the delicate green of the loaves. A protty hat for & young girl is of fine white straw, with curving brim and a crown pressed down Lo one side with pink heather peeping out from under it, and where it Is dented in the top is & koot of pink satin rib- bon and & buneb of hoather, and the high bows in the back are of the same riboon, with tall sprays of the fiue blossoms among th Parasols are various ln designs and 1mna terial. Chiffon is used, also lace. Black moirs with sutiu stripes is praferred by somo wommen, while the subject of handles is end- Jess. ‘Tho Dresden hanalo is haviug w rival A0 curved cocks' heads, or a stick of Seotch iir has o silver fox for a bandle. Iu fact lizards, squirrels, etc., are ali captured 1n this way by the hand. A popular traveling costume for a bride 1s that showing & skirt of soft but rough camel's bair in piaids or stripes, and with this ® plain sitk shirt waist bhaudsomely belted or girdled and an open princesse jacket with revers. Tae jacke. bas ouly oue fusteu- pupils number | She was nn Ohio ! THE OMAHA DAILY fog, and 1s silk lined and flvisbed with full siveves and a deep turn down collar connect ing with the revers on tho jacket front. The latest blouse is of the ‘‘indeplissable’ silk, or is tucked by hand or accordion plaated by machine from throat to bel:, and it hangs rather full on thy figure: but being | usually of taffeta or surab, it does not sag over as it would if of softor materialbut keeps a bouffant appearanco and is teld in by a folded ribbon belt with n large roseite. Theso sleeves are proferred unpleated, but. are full, with tight cuffs, - CONNUBIALITIES, *Tho engsgoment 1s announcod of Miss Car- olino Knox,danghter of the iate Mr. John Jay Knox, president of the Bank of tne Republie, < Kimvall, Jennie—But you can’t supvort a wife on £12 a weok, Grorge. Georzo—Teue, darling: but our Hem ulways raises its men to $12.50 when they get married. Juke (after the refasal) —f b shoot out my heart or brains. be tho brains, Why so?" no stain left on the carpet.” A pretty fancy is for bridesmaids to walk up the church aisle in diamond procession, first one, bridesmaid, they two, and a fourth alone, followed byithe bride with her fathor. It doosn’t matter so much whether or not a girl is competeat to cook, o long as her pa is rich enough to hire somebody to do it, and doesn’t have any oojections to tho man she wants to mary. Statistics «how that there are one and a half times as many unmatried men s thers arc unmarried women. Consequently every woman has a chance of sécuring a husoana and a (e ion of a husband. On Wodnesday, Juno 1, the marriuge of Mr. Henry Burden Mebowell, son of tho 0 A notion to Cora—Let it o thero'il 0O | 1ate Major Goneral MeDowoll of the United States army, und Miss Maud Appleton Puller will take vlace at noon in Kiog's chapel, Roston, Allen Totters of Marshall, Iil., and Miss Mary Jones of Brazl, Ind., figured in an eclopement last week. It did not vary in gen- eral outline from the average elopament, ex Pt that the bride is worth nearly $300,000 10 Tottars, A brilliant wedding in London last week was that of Willian Hepburn Buckles, son of Dr. Thomss Buckles of Baltimore, to Georgina Grenfell Walrond, voungest davgh ter of the late Theodore Walrond, who was connectea for several years with the British civilservico, Oue of the mnost notable of Juno weddings will bo that of Mrs. Syllie Shannon Walsh, widow of the late John A, Walshof St Lounis, and Dr. William W. Johnston of Washineton, D. C. 1t will take place late in the month at tho couaty seat of Mr. and Mrs, *Solou Humplireys at Bergén Polnt, A notably protty wedding occured Wednc day, when ‘Miss Mary Butler Green and Mr. Elisha MeCurdy Fuiton, jr. were married au Dr. John Hail’s church, New York. ‘The oride and bridesmaids were all pretiy ivls, and the bridal tavleau was unusually charm- mg. A very attractive and uovel feature were the exquisite parasols the bridesmatds carried instead of the cooventional,bouquets. They wero filled with sweet peas and caught with bows of pink satin ribbon. The chicf wedding in Now York tast week was that of Miss Julia W. Chapin, the pretty ghter of Mr., ana Mrs. Chester W. Chapin, and the Marquis Raoul de la Tour du Vitlard. It was a home wedding, solemu- ized at S o'clock Monday evening. Iho cere- mory was performod under au exquisite canopy, composed solely of white flowers, vrincipally lilies of the valley, Tuis tempor: ary chancel was arranged in the front draw- ing room, between the windows facing the street, Draperies of aclicate groon hung on either side of the white canopy wera fastened back with pink ridbons. The drawing room, finished in white and_gold, the ceiling fres- coed in the airiest, softest cloud effects, and the aisunctive flowers of the wedding veing white, brightened by a glimmer of pink in roses and ribbons, the scone was an unusually charming setting for a lovely bride. — SOME MEN OF NOTE. ‘Willlam H., the eldest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the oidest of the fourth gen- eration of the millionaire family, died sud- denly in Now York Monday at tha ugo of 22, By honest industry and toil Ferdinand Ward has accumuiated enough money for the purchase of a $25.000 farm in Connecti- cut, and way devote the remainder of his life to the cultivation ot the basswood nutieg. Georze W. Tstes, who died in Salem, Mass., on Friday, at the age of 87, was said to be the first man who over played a snare drum by oote, He ofliciated as drum major &t the funeral of President Wilham Henry Harrison, 1n 1541, General Francis A. Walker's name is said to be one of those under consideration at Washington in connection with the choice of five Jelegates to the international silver con- forenco. (Giossip says he can have the ap- pointinent 1 he' will take it. Leopold, hereditary prince of Isenburg and Birstoin, the eldest son of Charles, sovereign erman prince of Isenburg and Birstein, and Louise, archduchess of Austria, have ar- rivod in Washington, having made a tour of the United States during the past threo months, Senator Barbour was not a great man, but he said a wiseand significant thing in the last lotter that he wrote—to-wit: *“It Is exceea- ingly doubtful whother the democratic party can eloct any canaidata who may bo nomi- nated by the national convention for the presidency.” Thomas Nast, the caricaturist, says that his cartoons put an end 10 a long-continued and intimate frienasaip between himseli and Carl Shurz. These distinguished men no Jonger speak to each other, and Mr. Nast ex- presses surprise that Mr. Shurz should have been so sensitive to ridicule. John H. McCormick, one of the oldest em- ployes in the bindery of the government printing oftice, has jast died. Mr. McCor- mick was one of the men who carried Presi- dent Lincoln from ord’s theater on the night of the assassination to the house op- posite, where the martyred president breathed his last. Dr. Francis L. Galt, the old surgeon of the Alabama, and the only officer who was cap- tured by the Kearsarge after the memorable sea fight off Chervourg, has settled down as a country doctor in Loudon county, Virginia, and rides around every day with his saddle- bags just as if he had never heard a big gun or served on board a war vessel, Edwin C, McCabe, who is engineering the movement to make Oklahoma a negro state, was formerly stato auditor of Kansas, is al most 8 whité man and is sajd to bo quite in- tellectual. There are 20, nogroes now in Oklahommna, it is stated, snd 200,000 in tne sonth-organizad for the same destination, I'wo colored men in the United States senate scems @ strong probability for the near future. Congressman Weadock of Michigan, who has in his aistrict counties of the mosi ro- mantic names, is un Irishman by birth and was born in Ballygarret, County Wexford, He represents Alcona, Alvena, Arenac, Bay, Cheboygan, Clare, Emmett, Crawford, Glad- win, losco, Montmorency, Ogemaw, Oscods, Orsego, Presque Isle, Roscommon and Tus. cola coluties. The late Consul General Anderson, who died in Laverpool last week on nis way homo from Cairo, was one of l’ruu(dnu!? Harrison's earliest and closest friends. They were roommates at Miami university, and the in- timacy of youth ripened 1nto & warm and lasting attacnment. The Washington Post seys: “During the lasv duys of his residence (as & congressman) here, Mr. Andorson was a constant visitor at the white house on the most familiar terms, and thoso who knew him best were constantly touched by bis genuine love for the 1wman, as they were im- prossed by his respect and admiration for the president. His death will be a blow to Mr. Harrisou and bis family, Frederick L. Ames issaid to bo the richest man in New Kugland, ana to aspire to be the ereatest landlord in Boston, bolding in that city somo such position businesswise as tho Astors in Now York. He i taxed in tho modern Athens upon & valuation of §5,000,- 000, which is far below the market value of bis property thore. Heis a cousin of ex- Governor ‘Oliver Ames, and a nephew of Onkos Ames, and lives 1 North Easton part of the year iliful hortieulturist, posseases o rare collection of orchids, owns mugnificent paintings and tapestries, and picis up a great deal of obolce china and other precious ware. Two vases of jade, ex- hibited 1o the Boston art wuseum, and be- longing to him, cost $10,000 apiece. — - Jat, drink ana bo werry for tomorrow.” Bradycrotine will stop the beadache. Now York | Tho young & thuroughly stuck on imsolf seldom adberos 10 wuch e BEE “AS YE nm'n UNTO THESE" "“Do You Hear the Ohildren Waeping Ere the Sorro# ‘Oomes With Years?” NOBLE RESCUE.WOSRK IN NEW YO3K CITY Sowing and Waresstiag VISIt 68 the Fiv Mission HARes -1 spring of In “Halls Hall- Points Javenile o Acre' fortanate raegie’s Consin, New Youk, May 24 Bk ~In a single recent issue of ovo of the great metcopolitan dailies there were re- corded with no spaciat comment @ series of crimes committod in ona day by little boys, tha eldest scarco 15 yoars of ago. One :f these infaat criminals lay in wait fo a dark hallway for the paymaster of @ factory who [Special to T | ho knew must pass that way with the weekly wagzos it was his duty to disburse. With re- peated blows of a heavy bali stick u pon the head of his vistim, he struck him to uncon- sclousness and death, and after robbing his body of hundrods of dollars flad, A younger boy, inspired by tho flaming adventures of a youthful pirate, the hero of a dime novel, stole a vawl from a sloop lying 10 the barbor, painted bis craft black, and flying tho inky flag of Captain Kidd, staried out ou the bounding billowa of tho North river us n “wharf-rat pirate.” A thrd hopeful, who had already osefped from two ‘‘reform scheols,” being tureatened with arrest by his pavents, drow two reyolvers, and cover- ing bis father and moher vacked out of thew prosence nnd oscaped., ‘Lhis is inuocent, rosy ehildhood! Thought- ful men and women inay well look grave when confronted by the appalling increase of juvenile crima and ‘ono of tho burning ques- tions of thanour is How snall the children bo saved! IReform schools do not always re form, and police rocords show ampuutically that young delinguonts sont to prison fou potty wisdeeds as a rule cmesge hardened and ready for fresh offenses. A widely known philanthropist with whom I was dis- cussing this qaestion this morning, waxed eloquent as he doseribed the ereat work ac comphished in the past, now going on, and renching who can say to what endsof fu. turo usofuiness in tho reseuo of children from that kindergarton of crime, the stroets aud slums of “'darkest w York." “The crusade against crimo must be based as far as its work among children goes,” said ho, “on the principio that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of punisument.” Then followed a brief and vivid account of the work of the various associations whose efforts aro directed chiefly to the rescue of chilaren from vile and vicious surrounding: His enthusiasm awakened a thoughtful i terest in the bosom of your correspondent which rosulted in a sori€s of visits to the va rious institutions in aud arouna New York, where little. children who, unless suatched from tho vile 1nfiuonces of the slums must grow to swell the crimmal population, are rescued from that cruelest of destinies, & ca- veer of crime. “Holl’s Half Naturally first among these is the famous Five Points House of Inaustry, and 1t is thero I invite tho roagers of ik Ber to_ac- company me. Iorty vears ago the Five Points was known us the wickedest spot in the world; in nocorresonding area iu Lon- don or Paris was the ratio of crimo so large. Yet here were huudreds of little children ox- posed to tho terrible inliuenue of the place— born to a heritage of moral leprosy and phys- ical suffering. It was a great thought that contemplated purifying this dark spot by raising in the midsy a house of hope and help for thesoe little oney. Leaving Broadway at Worth street we plunge at once iuto the maelstrom of de- graded humanity that séethes through Chat- ham and Mutberry streets. ‘“Hells half- acre” they coll that pestileny, rezion even pow. Until tho establishment,of the mission misory and murder stalked hand-in-hand through these recsing aileys by night and day. Even the polico feared to venture alone, and were always detailed in couples to duty here. Now at least life is safe, and wo pick our way as rapidly as possible unmo- lested toward tho mission houses. Intering the new building—a large, six-storied fire- proof structure, one is struck by the abso- luto and immaculate cleanliness of the place. On the first floor is the chapel, a room 50x95 feot, with pretty frescoed ceiling and tinted walls. Here in tiers of littlo chairs ranged in amphitheater style back toward the large pipe organ, the litlle ones gather for Sunday services, On tho floor above are five large, well ventilated school rooms where the 200 children residing In the institution and many little waifs gatbersd from the neighboring streets are taught tho ordinary English branches under the joint supervision of the Board of Education, the charity commission- ers and tho trustees of the institution. A yotmore interesting schoolroom is the printing oftico on the corresponding floor of the old building, where boys and girls are taaght typesetting and press work., Here they print the Record, a little pamphiet that sets forth from :no:th to month what is zoing on in tho institution. From this little printing establishment have graduated many boys who are now earning journeymen's wages. This room is used after school bours as a reading room and study by tho larger boys residing in the institution. ‘'nere are works on botany and natural his- tory in the cases thas stand along the walls, and & largo number of blooming plants in the wide windows that form one side of the im- mense room afford practical objeet lossons in botamcal science, while a frisiy souirrel and a good sizod aquarium constitute a small but. very lively and inter- esting museum of natural Listory. Near by is tho carpenter stop, where the boys who oviaco any taste for such work—sud what boy doosn’t revel in hammers and saws and nails!—are taught the rudimests of the builder’s trade. Another fiight of staws briags us to the boys' dormitory. Here are 100 iton cots, eachi covered With a white counterpane as spotlessly clean and fresh as the tendorest mother could provide for her favorite son. Here, too, 15 the boys' wash- room, a large apartment with a long tiled bathiub in the center into which water pours from sprays on all sides. A hundred littie shelves along the wall, each allotted to one particular boy, are furnished with toothbrush, & cake of s0ap, towel and brush, for its owner’s individuual toilet. Above is the giils’ dormitory, as clean and orderly as that of the boys. On this floor, too, is a dormitory of forty beds, where homeless women aro lodged until suitablo situations aro found for them. B WWhere the Tiniest Tots Are Cared For. Then there isdne nursery, whore forty, tiny tols under the age of b flock up to you' as you enter the déor, and with a contidence that touches your hvart clamber into your arms, explors your pockets and poiition you fora “story.” “Ong motherly little figure particolarly attracts you, It isthut of a tiny girl 4 years olfd”whu hovers protect- ingly over her “littlo brother, £ years younger. He nestes as closely us possible to her sidg, aud all our blandish- ments avail not 1 coax him away or to ban- ish the_pathetic look of sadness from his great, dark oyes. These two children, re- cently rescued frow a fllthy cellar where their mother lay d¥ing, are the voungest of the soven Cornogie-ehildren. Thoir father fs @ worthless drunkard, a cousin of the millionaire of Pjvuilvg, You find it difticuli to tear yourself away from this room, bat|¥ou turn amid & cborus of *goodby,” “cotd Migain,” to the last flight of stairs that lead you up to the playroom, where in stormy weather the chilaren aro amused, A uocomfortable looking young man is vainly endeavoring to walutain order among a dotachment of thirteen boys, who aro busy washing the floor. Suck u splash- ing! Such soaping and scrubbing and sing ing ana sloppimg! 1f cleauliness be next to wodliness,saintly indeed must be this baker's dozen of merry boys, for the most searching oye fails to flud a spot or stain in their wake. We next visit the sewing rooms, whero all the garments ave made and mended for the little wearers, avd where the girls ure taugist the houggwifely art of usiug o noedle and thread. Now down another flight to the kitehen, a room 0 shinfugiy spotiess that in the vocab- ulary of the gitls who learn cooking here there's no such word as dirt. Across thocor- ridor and we Gro in the refoctory, with ils loug table spread reaay for the dinner of the 400 children who are duily fod here, It iso't exactly & Delmonico spread, but there is a generous bowl of soup, weat, potatoes snd UNDAY, MAY 29, 1892—SIXTEE PAGE Wread at each plate and the fare seoms dainty indeed to the iittie ones who eat1t Ao important room is the general bath, [t isin a wing of the old builaing and contains a circular bathtub which holds 1,700 eallons of water, Whoen children enter the institution, they do 80 through this tub. We have scarcely timo to visit the in- firmary where the children of the 1nstitution and any of the neighboring poor aro treated by eminent vhysicians and attended by care- fully tratned uurses, and wo leave tho build ing with a warm glow in our heart and & hope for the future of the enilaren whom & heiping hand has lifted up into the light of this noble refugo from tho e infuences of the streets, THE THEATERS. Omaha is to have its first prolonged season of summer opera. It has been for some years past an established fact in the cities around Omaha--Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Miu- noapolis, Kansas City and Denver—but the vouturo has never bofore been tried here. Mauager Burgess cameto the conclusion thatin view of tho groat success that the Parnam Stroet theator has had during its first season, ho could not round up in a bot- ter manner than by offering patrons o season of summer opera, to be prolongad 8o long as it shall bs profiwable. Ho secured the Dodd opora company, which has, doring the past two wooks, boen playing in St. Joseph, leavenworth anda Toveka, and from tho press of these cities it is loarned thut the company is one of unusual merit, carofully presenting the oporas selected und giving entiro satis- faction to the publie. Thoy will open their Omaha season at the Farnam stroot theater today, Sunday, May 20, with a matneo, prosenting **I'ho Chimes'of Normandy” for tho first haif of the week aud “Tha Mas- cotte" for tne last half. These will be fol- lowed by “Fra Diavolo,' “Olivette,” “Giroflo-Girofla,” “Thres Black _Cloaks,” “Hohemian Girl,” *“The Beggar Student,” “Tho Mik Tho Pirates of Penzance,” *Pinafore,” “Nanon,”_etc., two operas befng piven oach week. Miss Amy Leslio is the prima donna of the company und sho ably assisted by Helen St Clair, “Thoso two voung laaies have an_established stanging in the operatic profossion and ars prnstakiog and consclentious singers. — Mr. Mack Charles is a flne tenor singor and has made many friends in the cities alroady visited. Dan_Young is an eccentric operatic comodian widely kuown 1n the profession and he is sure 1o gain great favor with the Omaha public. Miss Leslic writes toa friend in this city that the chorus is tho strongest of any campany £he has ever beon associated with, the gentiomen of the company presént- ing 4 fino appearance and all being_ excellent singers, Sho says the girls are vretty and carry their chorus parts very effectively. *“I'io County Fair’ will be presented for the last timein Omana, the last balf of the week in Boyd’s theater. Last year the play whas presented for a wook and left au_agreo- able impression, so_thera is every reason to beliove that iv_ will prove again autractive, “Tho County Fair' 18 a series of sketches of q gland country life, and 1ts homespun should revive cheery-scenes and of days ‘“down on the farm,” Abigail Prue, the heroine, who makoes deligntful butter and love to tho shy Otis, and _ whose gddiness causes heartiest laughter, should again be a_wel- come visit “Ine County Fair” still vies with tho most 1nportant successes of the day. There are admirablo views of rural quiotude, softness and havmony in woods, trees, brooks, bluo skies aud Arcadiun loveliness generally, and there are many deft touches of New England character and hon- esty in the action of the characters. The fiual scene depicting the horse race is a very stirring bit of realism, and must be scen to be fuily described and appreciated. It is to all intents the actual start and finish of a raco, which the audienco sees intact, with galloping steed, whippng jockey and all the bustling incidents of the track. W.G. Swmytw's “Hoss and Hoss” com- pany 18 wn unusually large one for farce- comedy and numbers twenty-ive people all told. No chorus or supers in _the lot, but all clever artists. Ib issaid to bo the best singing and danciug_company on tho road. Tho engagoment is_for four nignts, at the Boyd,commencing Sunday evening,June b. Today the Iowa State pand will give two concerts at Boyd’s new theater, under the leadership of Prof. Frederick Phinney, a matineo at 2:30 this afterngon and at S this evening. The following programs will be rendored, subjeot to slight change: MATINE Selection—Tannf Waltz - Blue Dn Bric-n Selee Overta Descriptive Ple Waltz L Gt Overture- P Baritone solo—Va Natlonal air: Bucalossi 5 Suppe 3r, ¥rank C. Kendall -.By ominent Amerlcau composers EVENI Overturo—William Tell. Sy Waltz—Musikanten Lieder ... i, Kiesler Descriptiva—The Night Alati. D W Heoves Suxiphone solo, with band accompaninient., Weber Italiener in Algier. . 3 oo RossInt International COngresy..... " Bhiflip Sousa Baritone solo, with bana mpaniment—The Artist's Polka... s Mr. Frank C. Kendall, Grandimedloy of war songs, embracing the great battlo scone, Allegro Furioso, with wusketry ac- compantment. The reallstic cffects of this plece are most startling. “Till We Mect Agaln GOSSIP OF THE .. Rossint Poutner AGE. it Is reported Modjeska’s next season will be very short. Opie Read’s novel, “A Kentucky Colonel, has beon dramatized, A new Polish pianist is tho rage in London. His name is Slivinski. Henry E. Abboy and Maurice Grau are in Vienna in soarch of musical novelties. Corn Tanner will not bo soen on tho road in “Husband and Wife" next season. Joun L. Sullivan is reported to have a plan for organzing u variely sLOW next season. Jobu H. Russell of “The City Directory” and Amelia Glover woro married the other day. Miss Bessio Holtway, a former Papillion girl, is winning laurels on the New York stage. Miss Gale will sale in June for Europe returning in tlmo to begiu next season in September. Rubinstein’s opera, *‘Moses,” just finished, 15 in eight acts and will require two ovon’ ings to produce. Mr. and Mrs. Sianay Drew and their com- pany, who had been playing *Thav Girl from Mexico,” stranded in St. Louis. Charles H, Hoyt, the farce writer, has beon olected & dolegate from New Hampshire to the ropublican national convention. Another American prima donna, Miss Sedobr Rhodos of Now York, bas mado a freat hit athex debut in Florenco, ltaly. DeWolf Hopper will spend his summer va- cation in Kurops aud will sttend the interna- tional musical sud theatrical exposition at Vienna in July. Pain's “Carnival of Venico,” a spectacle on thg.order of the “Sioge of Sebastopol, will open for the summer st Vost Brighton, Now York, July 15, James T. Powers and Rachol Booth are married, They will star next season in a play to bo written by John T. McNally, au- thor of A Straight Tip. James O'Neill has written A new play for himself that be thinks will rival “Monto Cristo.” It 18 entitied *Fontanelle,” and the scene is 1nid 1 France during thle reign of Louis XV. Jonnie Yeamans will be starred in a play called *12 P, M..”" It was writton by C. B, Dillingham, New York manager of the Chi- cago ‘limes nows bureau. The comedy will bo produced in August. High toned variety performances will be & foature of the roof gardens in New York and the managers hold out the inducoment that male spectators will bo allowed to smoke and move about In comfort. Next season Roland Reod will produce & new comedy by Milton Nobles entitled “*For TRevenue Only.” Itis intended to satirize modern poiitical methods aud campaign jour- nalism, but back of it there is & love story aad a touch of pathos, The summer season New York. The spectacle of *“The Kall of Plovaa’ began last week at South beach the roof garden at the Madison Square will bo opoued on the evening of Decoration day and tho Uasino garden will follow on Wednes- day. ‘Ihe new theater at Broadway ana Thirty slghth streot, Now Yeork, to bo controlled by Houry . Abbey, will cost $350,000. It will oo s six-slory structure of luneswoue uwud is considered on 1n brick, The new playhouso will be called the Abbey theator and work upon it will begin early in 1803 An elephant has been bought for “A Night at the Circus,” and Nellio McHenry has christened it Cupid. This, with the wild man of Borneo. a horse, a dog and the clever little pickaninny will make quite » menagorie Tho next sezson, by the way, will open in this clty July 18, Lottie Collins, the Enelish musie hall sifizer who is claiming the glory of having introduced *“Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay," has made such a hit in London that her salary bas boen raised to #300 a week. and she sings the ab- surdity nightly at four music halls besidcs the Gaiety theater. The thirteenth annual tour of Augustin Daly's company begun in September last in Paris, was continucd 1n London, and after the recent New York soason was rosumed in ashington and will terminate in San Francisco, making in all tho most extonsive tour ever accomplished by any American company. Director Bertrand bad intended giving several performances of Gounod's ‘‘Romeo and Juliet” in the Paris Grand opera this summer with Joun de Reszke as Romeo, but the plan did not suocecd owing to the ' fact that the tenor damanded 5,000 francs a por- formance, whereas the manager was willing 10 give only 2,500, Tmmediately after voung Salvini's engage ment at Boston ho and Manager Willlam M Wilkison sail for Europe, and will procoed to Mme. Pattis castlo in Wales, where tho diva will produce at her own theater the new version of “Cavalleria Rusticana, her self appoaring as Santuzza and young Alex auder Slavini as Terridu. Beatrico Velion, the singer who recently achieved at tho Royal Court theater at Stock- holm what is described as “tho_greatest triumph since the days of Christine Nilsson,” is a Chicarra girl, the child of F'rench parents. Shb received her musieal tramming 1n Paris. It is snid that her -‘glorious tones" quito ‘‘entbralled the audience,” ana her beauty was “duzzling,” Frankiyn W. Leo has boen called from St. Paul by Manager David Hendorson of Chi- ©aro to help writo the book for his new ex- travaganza, “Ali Baba' Iive years ago Mr. Lo was a young newspaper scribbler at Des Moiues, barely muking a aecent living. Ho drifted 1o St. Paul, got to writing clover sketches, did a book or two and 15 now fairly launcued upon comic opera york. Just bfore sailing for Europe Mme. Patti suaid that her tour next s on will be under tho direction of Marcus Mayer, boginniog November 15 and closing April 15, 1803, embracing forty concerts, She said: *i propose to sing ballads only during this tour, avoiding heavy grand opora musio altogothor. Then 1 will show people that I can sing something vesides ‘Home, Sweot Home. " Spoaking of the time between now and her return to America, Mme. atti said: shall go from Liverpool direct to London, where Iam to give my first Albert Hall concert, Juno 11. | am to give another in July, but tho exact date of that has not vot been fixed. Then I am to give an annual Serios of fifteen coucerts in the Buglish provinces, begiuning in October, uncer the direction of Peroy Harrison, the nephew of the man wilh whom I bave given them for fifteen years. Think of that! Fifteen years under ono manager, and he is to have me for three years moro. You hear u good deal of talk about my salary in tlis country ; would you like 12 know what 1 re- coive for these concerts in tugland! 1 got £300 ($4,000) for my London concerts and £500 (#2500) for those in the province, and at each L ouly sing a cavatina and two ballads, Considering the hard work I do in Amorica and the voyage to and from, do you think there is such a discropancy between my salary in England and my salary hero! No, I don’t moan to do any other professional work than that 1 have mentioned from uow until I return for the next tour of America. I am going to travel 1n Italy and visit my father’s old home in Catauia, Sicily, which T have not seen for a long time. Of course I shall spend a good deal of time at_ my castlo, Craig-y-Nos, and 1 must be there about Christmas or the childron would think evil days had fallen upon them.” Fow people have an idea of the number of stars cradlod in tho variety business and other humblo places. Annie Pix- ley in her pgirliood days gave concerts in California, Cora Tanner was a oallet girl. Helen Barry led a march of amazons in pink tights. Rose Coghian was in L Thompsou’s. crowd of blonde bur lesquers, Pauline Hallonce drovea circus chariot. Lillian Russell won her first honors at Tony Pastor’s. The veteran Mrs. Gilbert, i her prime, was a ballet dancer; so was Agaes Booth thirty-five yoars ago. Mr McKee Rankin was a dancer in a Philade phia concert hall while in her teens, Minuio Maddern’s vocalisin was often in early years applauded in the vaudeville theaters. Patti Rosa, Mattie Vickers and Jonnie Yoamans form'a trio of variety theater graduates. Francis Wilson was onco a song-and-dance man. Lotta, in her music-hall days, sang, danced and’ picked a banjo. Nat Goodwin came from the varioty theaters; so did Den- man Thompson. Neil Burgess, Gus Wil- liams, Dan Sully, Edward Harrigan, Jeff de Angelis, Richard Golden, Frank Daniels and half a hundred others. *“T'ho Isle of Champagne,” B _comic_opera by Charles Alfred Byrno and Louis Harri- son, has just been put on in Chicago with ‘Thomas Q. Seabrooke as the star. The sceno of the story fs laid on & mythical isle, whero water is unknown and whose inhabitants’ only beverage is champagne. The king or this vineal realm is Pommery Second, & pov- erty stricken prince, whose fortunes are sua- aenly retrieved by the wreck of a steamer on the shore of the island. Among tho stores of the vessol is & largo quantity of water. ‘Phae the king procures ana sells to bis sun- jects at so much a bottle. Many quoer and laughable incidents follow tho introduction of this new liquid into uhe country. e G SHORTHAND LESSON. By F. W. Mosher. LESSON 10,—POSITION OF WORDS. By resorting to the principle which is called “position,” a majority of the vowels can be omitted and still leave the writing porfootly legible, Words are written in three positions, first, second and third. The position of a word is gencrally determined by the position of the accented vowel. Tnat is, if the aocented vowel is & first position vowel, the word 1s writton 1n the Grst posi tion; ‘or if & second position vowel, the word is rritten in the second position; if o third position vowel, tho word is written in the third position. ‘The words which have been heretofore given in the writing exercises aud illustra- tions are second position words, Words that are composed entirely of horizontal con- sounnts are writton about oue-sixth of an inh above the lino for first position; on the line for second, and underthe lino for third position. Words containing perpendicular or slanting consonants should bo written so the firsu cousonunt does ot quite touch tuo line for the first position. I'or the second posi- tion 80 it rests on the line. For the thira, so it extends through the line, 4 If the outline of & word coutains more thian two simple stroko consonauts, it Is gen- erally safo to write It in the socond position, though the leading vowel may b first or third position. "T'ho diphthong “ew” is ropresentod as illus tratod in the words cuo aud mew (line ). A light dash in the third position repre- sonts tho short sound of double 00, a5 1 Hback.” A heavy dash in the third position represents the long sound of doublo 00, s in rue’ Line 1. Sin, Line 5 Line Line soom, moek, keop, tree, trip. aue, sume, smoKe,cape, tray,drap e. New, cue, mew, cap, true, trap, Book, nook, suit, glow, day. WIITING EXEKOISE. Pack, coop, look, cab, talk, peel, mill, oak, teach, poem, dame, animage, cradle, wachor, fool, bronk, ran, jewel. Hond seli-addrossed stamped euvelope for keoy. Fire! Fire! Fire! By order of the Companie ized to sell our entire stock of we are author- Insurance Clothing FURNISHINGS, Hatgz= Gaps Boots=Shoes Slightly Damaged by SMOKE AND WATER. One Quarter Their Former Price, SALE NOW ON. The entire stock must be sold within 3o days. 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