Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 15, 1893, Page 13

vl LINGERING IN ALIEN LANDS Ontions Incidents of Foreign Travel and Observation. GRIEF-STRICKEN LITTLE NOBLEMAN Inhospltality of the Bretons-Wise tish Taven-Tow Artless Americans Were Worked by Irl Blarney. Loxnos, Jan. 2-—[Correspondence of Tus Bee.]—I found him all alone at a table in a snug little restatirant ot shadowy Mer- cery Lane at ancient Canterbury. He was a mite of a thing, but an old young lad, seem- ingly already broken by-all the sorrows of desolate 0id age. His attire was rich, but his back was humped, his legs were crooked and spindled, his cheeks were sunken and his eyes were crossed and queer. Tears were silently trickling down his face. I could not ent my food until T had asked him Af he was in trouble, +Oh, sir,” he said in the sweetest tones T ever heard from a boy's lips, and as if com- pletely overcome by his situation and unex pected human sympathy, “1 wish I was dead and buried!” Pressing him for fur- ther oxplanation with the hope of allaying his childish troubles, he continued in a scared, huntod way: 1 am Lord i they tell me. But I never saw my father My mother is a beautiful lady, but they only let me see her once a year, and then sho cries and I ery and it's dreadful when she goes away, “Maybe you saw Dighy minds me, and they ma with her, and say she must keep me until I am a great lord. But she drinks and beats me. She's drinking today, sir; and F'm sure hmost kil me. On, sir, do take me to wid let me be plain and rough and like all the boys T see!—Th; he is, 1 Please, please don't tell ber, sir!’ As he piteously spoke a huge mountain of flesh slid down a stairway and reeled into the room. It vas nurse Digby. Her dress was disheveled, her wrappings were upside down, her hat, a tossing sea of feathers and flowers, was very much She was more than “cheery.” She h sed the quarrelsome stage of drink into the r of bland beatitude. In a moment we fo nately got the best of her native suspic and cunning ; sho embraced me for suppositious friendliness; and v was somehow made clear that little milord had been brought down trom London, ostensibly for a “houting” and to visit the cathe dral, but in reality that nurse Digby might rvevel, with such as she, in the brave brews of fair, hop-laden Kent. Sorrows of a Young Lord “Shz'are's a dear!” she blubbered, in turn falling upon little milord in_imbecile protes tation of affection. *‘Digby’ll stan’ by a dear agin' zworld—Sho sh'will, d(hicharling, milord! A sousan' sholdiers couldn’ part ush--not hunner sousan’, phretty (hic!) dear! Gen'l'm shears me (hic) swhear it Then nurse Diehy fell in o mass upon her charge; the littlo nobleman shrieked with fright and pain: and his tormentor rolled into a com- fortable 1 beneath the table. Casting all thought of my own visit to the cathedral aside, 1 at once summoned a carri- age; got the deformed boy and nurse Digby into it; drove through the quamt old city up the winding hill to the railway station; and never left the 1ll-assorted pair until I had seen them safely in the carriage of a London- bound train, But I cau never forget that poor lad’s pleadings that 1should rescue him from the living death of his hopeless environ- ment, and his white, desperate face, as he crouched in his seat like a scourged soul, still appealing while watching the human animal, his endless tormentor, as she lay in temporary harmlessness upon the compart- ment floor. “Oh, sir, Tshall remember you if 1live to be a great lord ! were his last words that T heard as the train rolled away. The hope- less tragedy it all revealed has never left my heart;and all that sunny afternoon in old Canterbury town the brasses and eftigies of the great cathedral could only be half dis- cerned through the mists of ever gathering It your travels ever bring you along the highways and oyways of Britta never expect hospitality of the peasant peo- le. It is the only foreign land in which I have wandered on foot where the stranger, and especially the American stranger, is not welcome among lowly folk with unquestion. ing cordiality and an almost affectionate re- Nurse ke me live nurse Dighy? Cail at a roadside cottage in Brittany and ask for food and a night's shelter and the whole family will crowd into the door to ob- struct your passage. Then they will silently and sullenly look you over. Whither from? Whither bound? ‘If a foreigner they are even shrewd enough to demand your pass- port, No vagabond, deserter nor ticket-of- jeave man will they harbor. Finally assured you ace none of these, they set about bar- gaining for the last Sou they wring from you. Thofood you aretoget to the very color of the coffee is set powerfully against your money. Their own poverty, their be- wildering number of children, the lonely 40ud 1o the nearest village iun, the fact that at the mext cottage they would probably murder as well as take you in; all and much more is sot forth to make your bar- gain a hard one. So, too, the toothless old peasant hag moether, while eyeing you askance, croons to her husband a running fire of objections to the arrangement, a fow of which set you down to your faceasa villainous spy, some wretch that has cheated the gibbet, and_cortainly no less than the thief of Bretou horses who was _caught and flogged at the last horse falr at La Folgut. Story of an Umbrella, They are shrowd and canny these simple folk, and they will muke you very miserable until the price is set and paid down in hand, for they will not trust you with the sum until morning, lest your appearance belic your ability to pay, but the lugubrious trans- uction once settled, and a few sous scattered among the children, which are immediately snatched away and hidden in the farmer's strong box, the atmosphere suddenly changes. You are the guest now. All the inn-keeping politeness, suavity and attention of Puris itself are yours; and until you leave soul in the cottage puts every other duty aside to minister unto your wants and comfort. Thero is o glib-tongued raven, the pride of a cortain otherwise delightful, old-fashioned inn beside Covent Garden, London, much frequented by Americans, against which many of us who have suffered from its ill- timed speculations and maledictions possess feellugs far from a benign and friendly character, The morning ufter my first arri hostelry al at this I wished to take an early train for Brighton; und as noone stermongers and market porters, is astir in London be. fore 8 or Do'clock, I was compelled to awaken and get away without the pleasant formality of being called. Anxious to not miss my train, 1 hastily desconded to the ofice door. Here 1 found the street door ajar, but the dining room, the oftice, the reading room and apparently all the minor offices were closed and dark, and no servant whatever (‘l:uuld then be summoned by eall of voice or 1. The idea of leaving the hotel without re- porting the fact worried me. 1 began tip- toeing about in quest of somebody. This of tself impelled o feeling of guilt and dread. 1 was lute, but it occurred to me that{ musy take along my umbrella. It stood with others in the great hallway leading to the dining- room. 1 somehow felt like & oriminal when approaching that umbrella stand. 1 fairly trembled lest some suddenly appearing em- ploye should pounce upon me when in the act of abstracting my own umbrella. Scarcely had 1 got a firm hold of the handle when this fairly shrieked demand rang out beslde me “Who are youl—who are youl—who are YOU! = Ichabod Crane when pursued by the Head- less Horsoman never flow over old Pocantico bridge n, startled and dismayed, 1 plunged out of the place and into the clutches of a Southamptou street police ofticer. Ex- planations followed; 1 missed my train; but was formally introduced to the gleefully malignant raven whose station was in the hallway, where at night its cage was cov- ered with some traveler's handy rug. An Indignaut Female. That is & strange principle of human na- ture which finds witigation of our own hu- b i < st iy miliation in the om ment of others; but the same mi:s imost forgave the viclous bird for selecting us another victim ono of those particularly aggravating Amord- can fomales who prance and scold about the world as profossional -agitators.” whs big and broad and pompous figure, I am told, in the New Eng Wherever she moved she procecded in a sories of stately pauses and snorts, s if to say at you may have opportu- nity 3 who T am!* She was passing in this m the hallway to the dining-room ently impressed and curious, promptly siiouted, almost in her ears: “Who are you? -who are youl—who are Your The agita from rag th nner through The raven He Trembling back 0 agitatod ed and sk offico force and tittering guests: Who am 17 Bless me, everybody outside of this disgraceful country knows who /am! This is an outr 1 shall sce Minister Lin coln_about it Then she icall, snorted hersolf into dinner. An irresistible but_repre laughter followed the contrete died away [ noticed the raven neck to this side and that, and blinking de- murely en it gave its ugly beak a few smart raps with its claws, sent an unearthly whistle after my disappeariog country- woman, and, as it finally scttled itseif for a bit of quiet’ reflection, purred hoarsely but still softly and ruminatively Who are youP—who are youm Speaking of interesting Americans abroad reminds me of a curious ineident of my ent year's wanderings in Ireland, From wostern slope T hiad crossed the crags of Carrantuohill mountain to the Killa kes, at its eastern ase; crossed agrant Owenreach river, and, scrambling hill and heather, finally’ reached the great highway from Bantry and Glengarift called the “Prince of Wales route' from Cork to the lake region Just this magnificont road first turns yuntain side, tourists by long ar, or legs, arc given a first glimpse of the surpassing panorama, which one sweep comprehends the great mountains on either side and the watching lakes hetween the most catrancing of all views of Ki larney. itting here, rough, ragged and travel-stained, upon a ¢ of rock resting in t April day und dream fully contemplating the scene before mo when 1 was pleasantly disturbed to afters wards first know by actual expericnce the substantial rewnrds of a vagrant's life in tourist lands. A Remarkable Couple. The long car filled with tourists and a small mountain of hampers piied ahove the Swell" between the han side sets, lumbered up the southern ascent from Ken- mare, and came to its customary halt to enable tourists to enjoy the unusual prospec Among the passengers were a couple of Etonian eraduates and _an English milord and milady with their children nnd servants, all of whom were in an aggressive-defensive attitude of silent scorn toward an innocent m our own loved land atter was a little bald, nut-headed n with nt, poddy body, su polished pebble set in the end of a banana, and his good honest American wife, twice his height and four times h girth. The man was the embodiment nervou otivity and enthusiasm; woman, of adipose and and ' both, having duly paid their -booking” were placidly oblivious of the ethical injuries they had inflicted all the way from Cork upon their fellow travelers. Everybody alighted but the calm Ameri- can woman. In serene compostre she watched her side of the long car sottle nearly to the ground; but she kept her seat “Come down, Maw, do,” urged the little man, bringing into instant use a pair of field lasses, each tube of which was as large the “Lone Fisherman's” stage telescop “Maw, thisis wonderful, wonderful, wonde: ful " At the sound of these last milord winced, milady clevated her e brows, the Etonians readjusted their oye- glasses, and the servants looked dignified and erave. No; guess T'll lot well enough alone,” murmured the little man's large wife. “Maw, this is wonderful, wonderful, won- derful 1" repeated the American, sweeping the scene with his glasses, filling the 1 lish delegation wifh another series of shud- ute maje burst of ps. Asit ning its od oul YOU? —uho are the 1o swe gentlem gestin, the three words “You'll step on th: you don’t use your ey from thes long car. “Bless me, yes—wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Peasantry right here in the mountjngs. See here, Pat,” he continued addredsing me, “you good-for-nothing dyna- mite Irishmen don’t deserve this wonderful kentry, darned if you do!” “Thrue for yez, yer honor,” T replied hum- bly. “See that, with a cunuing wink to his wife. “Thinks I'm one o' them high rollers. Well, well, well! Pat, here's a—a— guess i a half-crown, or something 'r other. There, now, brace up. Go to my country. (et a c'can shirt. Be a—a—well, ‘git there! " Mountaln With a History. “God bless yer honmor!” I responded, thankinghim heartily. *‘May the top o' yer head never folly yer hair!" “Maw-—-say, Maw? Did you hear that? Irish wit, by golly! Well, well, well! Won- derful, wonderful, wonderful! Lived. long ‘round here, Pat? “Indade did 1. “Wonderful I—" The English contingent winced; the worthy man gave me another shilling; and his good wife from the tilting long car wished the little man “wouldn't make such a fuss over every poorcreature in Ireland,” “Well, well, Pat, what's the name o' that mountain?” *‘Carrantuohill's the same, sor.” “Some sort of —er—story—er—legion about it, T s'pose?” “Divil doubt that, sor. n stud there at first, sor. St. Patrick— may all the saints bliss hin carin’ for two hills, one fine mornin’ another stud beside it.” Wonderful, wonderful imed the American, down on a business card as big as his hand, while his traveling compunions writhed again. “And that furder one?” “Tore, sir. Tore bekase that'sa wild boar, an’ ye'll find ‘em there this blissed minute, with tusks on 'em the length o' yer arm, sor.” *Goodness gracious! But that is wonder- ful. Maw, did you he t ? And that mountain over there, Pat?” “Mangarton, sor. “Jess so. Kinder Dutch, hamt it? S'pose some Dutchman settled there, and garden'd itlong ago, cht Wonderful how these things stick to places! He had me there, and I should have broken down entirely if milord, with a loud guffaw in which the undergraduates joined, had not ascended the car, and with illy-suppressed snorts and indignation ordered the driver to proceed. This took my little friend from on the run; but after 'his able-bodied wife had dragged him from the ground to his seat on the long car and held him in it by one arm, he turned and gasticulating enthusiasti- cally with the other and with the field- glasses, yelled from the rapidly-disappearing vehicle: “Come to my hotel, Pat! Don't know the name. Best one anyhow. Want to0 know more about this wonderful kentry. Make it all right. Darned if 1 don't!” EnAR L. WAKEMAN ** cautioned the wife For ages.” But wan moun- wonderful!” e: writing. the same i THE PATH OF PRAYER. New Orleans Times, Among the gnarled pines of Old Jupan That shade a hill where patient crickets sing, I chanced upon a terraced path which ran Upward beneath a mystic covering. A hundred suered gates the pathway keep, Each shuped of two stralght beams and’ one WOToss, With rigid sngles mounting up the steep, Their dull red hue bepatched with anclent 10ss, At oither side, thick in the Two tlattering lines of w Small slips of pa As bant grassless mold, ite still rise beyond; per that unfold s pendant frov u mimic wand. And while 1 wondered, suddenly a name Flushed 1o me, and 1'knew the path of prayer Where Kwannon, queen of mercy, nightly 0, To read the sad petitions planted there, 1 mused upon that gentlo rac With love and pit in my b And then I knelt, wh g shudows grow, To place my suall petition with the rest. anew, e e By the time the falr_opens Chicago will have living accommodations for not less than 300,00 strangers. Connected with the exposition management is & bureau of public comfort, through the agency of which many thousands of visitors can be directed to hotels, apartments, boarding houses, fur nished rooms, etc., where they will be com™ fortably cared for at moderate prices. | An 1530 dress attracted, FROCKS ~ AND ~ FRIPPERIES " Buns"” and* Ohignons Aré Olassed in the Latter Oategory. FASHIONABLE ~ UNDERWEAR TIPS ON Why Emplire Gowns Have Gone Back to Dressmakers—Pretty Frocks from a Re- cent Trou Interesting Now York Fushion News Gossip. seau New Yomg, Jan. 18, Tne Bee.]—I asked a plump little hairdresser yesterday, “Will you kindly tell me just how you malke this peculiar and distinctly odious thing that is called a chignon?” ‘“That ees very easy, madame,” said she. “Teke all your hair—this way—and tie it two inches above the nape of the neck—this way—and then divide it in halves—this way rolling cach half outward—this way—till you can press it snugly to your head—like this—and fasten the two rolls invisibly by hairpins.” Presto, my own inoffensive locks were coiled into the despised shape, and the little hairdresser stood over me smiling “What did you do that for?” T gasped, and shook the pins out, “and what do you take up such a monstrosity for anyhow ™ There ces nothing like an object lesson, » led the hairdresser, depre catingly, it ees not so very unb ming. There must always be the change, madayne knows Yes, there must, thanks to the embodied caprices which are women. and 8o, eood people, you are weleome to my newly acquired knowledge of how to “do” the hair in a chignon If you don't fecl inclined to take up th new mode immediately, perhaps the “bun may appeal to you. The “bun’ is almost as ct as the other, and to achieve it the hair is waved in front, parted a little on one side and then coiled to ook like a bird's m’wl with very little room for the birds, You don't wear a net with it, and 3 with the chignon, This is one of the main differences, or 80 it 1003 to m Sonie other learning 1 have possessed my- n the subjectof underwear. There is an immense amount of buying of silk stuff because it is choap, because it is 1o long shionable, It never had any excuse for ex- istence outside the sensuous luxuries of the women of the half world, because the woman who is clean in soul must be clean in arments, and her clothing must not shrink rom the purging of soap and hot water, In ugly English, silk is dirty wear, and the fine cambric and muslin and lawn which have re- placed it have stronger claims upon respect, even though they be so elaborately stitched and belaced that the modern belle in he ght robe looks rather as if she were fitted out for a boudoir high t Huge square cape collars, with full lace flounces and run with broad ribbons, lead rather than follow the fashion of the day time gown. Over these immensities a little round lace collar is gathered at the throat, and lace ruffs that reach from the elbow o the wrist finish the slecves, [Correspondence of TWO BALL GOWNS. Other nightdresses are made with corselet belts, like diuner gowns, and have enormous lace fichus cascading down their fronts and coveving tham entirely. L It's almost as much work in these ad- vanced days to get one's self up for a bed toilet as for a ball. Some of the new chemises are made in the Empire style, with full turn down frills and the Empire band at the” waist. One of the latest fashions in ‘‘knickerbockers” is to have them entirely of Valencienness inser- tion, separated by narrow bands of French muslin. Another new thing is the lace skirt for the society skirt dancer. It is made of figured net, with wide lace flounces. When you wear a black stocking, if you have it a la mode, it is painted in front with roses. 1 saw this morning two such novel evening dresses that at once I begged an artist tomake me a li‘tle sketch of them for you. The were designed for one of the big Januar “functions.” Opal-tinted silk was the ma- terial of one, flushing flame red with lights of orange and paling to cold, pure pearl. The skirt wus six yards round and shorter than anything could have made it but the beginning of the materialization of the hoop skirt ghost or bogy. Its only trimmings were rows of narrow velvet ribbon of a warm pink shade, clustered at the hem, a foot up and again twelve inches above the seeond grand division The bodice joined the skirt under a deep mock belt of a dozen ribbon rows. It turned back from throat and bosom in immense pointed revers edge with Vandyck lace and ribbon borders, White crepon wa gathered across the bust under the revers in Quaker folds; and big butterfly bows of durk blue velvet were set in close succes- sion to the waist line. The immense puffed sleeves were of velvet to the elbows, and then became of a sudden so close-fitting that the long gloves came up ov them.. Have I finished? I believe so, except that there be- longed with the gown a mother of pearl fan with a dark blue velvet mount, strangely painted. FASHIONABLE UNDERWEAR, The other dress was & green white silk with the front of the skirt caught with dozens and .scores of dark green velvet bows. The pointed bodice was of green vel- vet cut very low and with a white mull chemisette set in beneath it. The sleeves were this costume’s odd feature. On each shoulder was a big round puff with a velvet ribbon to crush it in the middle and divide it into two unequal balloons. A dark green velvet ribbon was to be worn in the hair. 1 have thought sometimes I might tell of the colors and the s York's midwinter balls. At a dance at Sherry’'s the other night satin brocades with Watteau backs took part in the prom- ade with all the nonchalance imaginable. hey were always getting stepped on, of course, but they didn't seem to mind, I noted a whits tin stiff with silver em- broidery and another in white and gold with touches of vivid cherry. A third was flame- colored with black velvet to subdue it and a number were white or silver with enormous colored velvet slee The simplest frocks, and they were not the least effective, were black chiffon with jet corselets. More elaborate was a blue silk, looped with red roses, and & light gray with sleeves and bodice bands of pink velvet perhaps, the most notice of any, with its 'white skirt ruched with biue and worn with overdress of white gauze, gold spangled. The streets are so bright that if 1 could only photograph in colors I should need to do nothing but stand on & corner, snap my camera ut the procession and give you the you uffs worn at New of in pen and n electric blue at calls for a and mink edg- s striped with black velvot dors with mink ht the edge of und the waist \ silver buckle of the flaring skirt feet d and fur cloth gown this morni word about its velvet B ings. The princess froy rows of black velvet, n rucke went round the to head it and mink to the deep flounce: below was & broad velvet belt and round the bottom was & flounce two weighted A dark haired girl was a figure to look at in her velvet poke bonnet with a red rose under the brim, Her dress ack also, with a complexity of 1830 capes lined with red and flapping in the wind to show the lining A girl in green rep was pretty, with edg ings of otter running up, down and all about her. Her huge cloak was of green velvet with a huger eape, and _she wore a Rubens hat with heavy gre =LY S (=) yiuLn A STREET DRESS—TiE CHIGNON. Theee used to be trouble about getting into a carriage because skirts were so wide, The same trouble scems likely to erop out this winter about bodices. The shoulder breadth of the modish woman, take hersleeves, capes and all, is something unbelievable, Perhaps you've heard of the woman whose husband sent her new Empire frock back to the ¢ maker because it was “so absurd.” If hus bands were to act consistently on this princi ple feminine wardrobes would be stripped pretty bare A trousseau just on the edge of finishing contains a number of black dresses which areas pretty as they are, perhaps, in their present collocations unusual. One of black sillis cut in “pinafore” style, semi-fitting, and making, for a slim fizure, a graceful princess robe. It has pink velvet sleeves and pink velvet ruche about the bottom, a black chiffon frill at the low neck and a black ribbon sash above the waist Another black frock had a quaint lapelled bodice turned back with green satin covered with Oriental lace in shades of green, blac nd gold. A deep satin frill stood up about tire low neck, went down to the waist in the k and ended its existence under the sash. Two satin frills edged the skirt and the sleeves, of course, were as big as possible. LLEN OsBON Bl Don't patronize foreign can get a better one at home. Extra Dry Imperial Champagne. —— IMPIETIES wines when you Cook’s A well known Episcopal bishop from a western state was in New York a short time <o, says the World, and during his visit ran neross a young Engelish curate walking the streets footsore and weary. 1 came over to America,” he sids*qust to get a lit- tle bit of experience, don't you know, and am hoping to find’ a' small parish with a vacancy.” “Just come right along with me, said the bishop. “I am_going away out in the southwest and will give you a chance to et all the experience you want.” The young curate gladly availed Himself of the oppor- tunity and shortly afterwirds arrived at the scenc of his future labors. That very d the sheriff of a neighbpring county came in with a six-footer who was jailed on a charge of triple murder; there was a freight cc lision “up the road;” the police raided the “Half Acre:” a negro_crapshooter slashed another with a razor; there was an alarm of fire and a_suicide. To .add to the young curate’s “‘experience,” the local paper that night upologized for the lack of local news, saying that theré wasn't moch going on of a ‘sensational character and police circles were unusually quiet. But the curate will remain and thinks he has struck a field where he can do good work. An 0ld Buffalo minjster who had a living in the suburbs was visiting his parishioner when one of them, an old woman, informed him that since théy met “she’ gone through a sight o' trouble. ' Her_sister wor dead and there wor a worse job than that, the pig died all of a sudden, but it pleased *he Lord to tak’ 'im and they mun bow; they mun bow.” Then the poor old lady brightened up and “said: “But there's’ one thing, Mestur Allen, as I can say, and ought to say, the Lord's becn pretty well on my side this winter for greens.” x The Butte Inter Mountain doesn't believe in allowing its readers to puzzle over unusual abbreviations. Over a dispatch relating to 'Mgr. Satolli, which it printed the other v, it had the words “Manager Satolli" in ig black letters; and now the Butte people believe that the gentleman in question is the “manager” of His Holiness. - Bishop Nicholson of {Visconsin says .that upon one occasion, recently, 4 country pa ishioner called on” him, and, in the course of the conversation, explained his feelings in the following novel way: Wi @ you, Bishop, up our way because are so darned common.” The Bishop was staggered for a minute, but soon caught on, and would ve asked the gentleman to have some- thing if the modern bishop did those things. Among the superst{tibus natives of Bul- garia the Prophet Elijah is believed to con- trol the _elements. During heavy thunder storms the women fall on their faces and pray: “Dear Lord Elijah do not drive so fast with your fiery horses.”” EA In Scotland once a"drunken man met a clergyman chasing his runaway dog on_Sun- ay. “Tammas,” said the breathless clergy- min, “T am sorry to see you in this cond tion. but whistle for my dog; he is running " Taymas regarded the spenker with eravity and said: “Whustle? 1 may drink whisky, but I'll no whustle for ony dog on the Lord's Day?® A worthy crank distributed tracts entitled The Fires of Hell are Close at Hand” to all hivering beggars on Market street last evening, says the Philadelphia Record, Eastern Young Sunday School Teacher— Now, boys, what must we ail do to go to Heaven! Bright Boy—Die. e i You don't want a torpid liver; you don't want a bad complexion, you don’t’ want a bad breath; you donw’t want a headache. Then use Do Witt's Little lisrly Risers, the famous liftle pills, iy al A Tiny Year-0ld, There lives in Philadeiphia a tiny little girl named Katie Camphell Bryan. She was 1 year old last week, and, ‘though perfect! well and as pretty as the prettiest French doll yov. ever saw, she weighs a little less thaneleven pounds. When 10 days old s} weighed only a pound and three-quarters, and the clothes which were selected for her to wear were some that belonged to her sis- ter's wax doll. Even now she is not as big as a good sized French doll, and, though she can speak and say distinetly two or three words, and walk so fast that you would have trouble to catch her if she would run away, she could easily be carried on one of your hands. Her feet are only two inches lon, uo louger than your longest finger—and her hands are very, very tiny. She has a few teeth, which are vi and pretty, and all her to, s you may imagine, have o be made especially for her, sncn. S iutudiy Making & World-Wide Reputation, Council Bluffs, In.. Nonpariel Chamberlain Medicine Co. of Des Moines fsan lowa manufacturing institution and one in which the residents of the state look upon with pride. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has become national in reputation and is known in nearly every household in the state and throughout the great west. Its merits are becoming established in all parts of America. SUPERSTITIONS Queer Notions About Sigus of Good and | piece OF ACTORS Bad Luck. HORSESHOES, BLACK CATS AND OPALS But Many Players Are Quite Origlnal Thelr Superstitions- Atteactions at the Th ter for This Week ~Stage Gosslp. n Members of the dramatic profession are, generally speaking, move given to supersti tious ideas than persons in any other walk of life. A general superstition among stage folk is that the final scene of a play, or tag, as it is technically termed, must not be gon, till the very last rehearsal prior to the public production of the piece A ‘violation of this rule is said to tably insuve disaster. Cases are on recard where an entire company has flatly refused to rehease the tag until the last moment Sidney Rosenfeld, the playwright, in writ ing the comedy “Tmagination” did not put the final scenc on paper until the day of the very last rehearsal of the play. None of the uctors in the cast knew just how the last act ended until the final rehearsal Touy Pastor's superstition las chiefly to do with his salary list. He believes that ill luck would certainly follow if his salary list for u week were more or less than a certain sum, says the New York Sun. He makes a present of money to his players at times to bring the list up to his standard. At other times he cuts theiv sglavies when the list exceeds the amou Usually he makes equal the sum. When he puys anexcep. tionally high price to any one artist he se cures cheap performers to offse larger salary Iward Harrigan was at one tim believer in spiritualism, and it is he is not entirely out of the woods yet considered the letter M to be lucky for several seasons all his plays were names beginning with that letic gan Guards' Ball”® and ~Muddy Day At the opening of Harrigan's new theater astray black cat walked into the stage en trance. Since that time he has never al lowed the cat to leave the theater. He says the cat brought him luck, and if it ever left him he thinks disaster would follow. Itis fed with all sorts of dainties, and the man. ager says it will remain there the vest of its natural life. Joseph Jefferson is over inevi contracts which just 1id that He id to be a spiritualist and something of a believer in astrolo It is the report among actors that he always ar es for his seasons to begin when c tain lucky stars are in conjunction. 1t is also snid that he has thrown up engagements becuuse the star, according to his vations, presaged ill luck Edwin Booth had a mort fear lest some stranger should approaci him at the thea before a performance. His dressing room always clo to all save his most inti mate friends. 1t is said that he used to de clare that some stroke of misfortune always followed his meeting a stranger at ihe theater. Pauline Hall has a superstitious fear of the name Madeline. She n allows any * or chorus girl of that name to ed for her company. Itissaid that when she )¢ in comic opera her husband, ( wge B. MeC ! erary mun of small reputation to w novel, with the agreement that Miss Hall's nawe’ should appear upon the title page as author. : The novel was finished in due time and de- livered. As luck would have it the heroine of the story had been given the name of “Madeline,” which was taken as the title for the book. Miss Hall, it is reported, re- fused to even look at the manuscript and re- turned it to the w without t ks, % Billy Jerome, the comic singer and writer of popular songs, cannot sing unless he hus a common quill toothpick in his right hand, which he snaps with his thumb_as he sings He firmly believes that this toothpick helps him to sing, and_that he would break down if he were deprived of it. z Denman Thompson says that fine dressing- rooms always “queer” him. He protests that it isn‘'t a superstition, however, and says that managers who wait until their theaters are built before considering the a commodations for the players, and who then throw together a few boards for \!rm-mg roows, generally conduct a successful busi- obser first proposed munager and ancis Wilson's superstition is uniqu the extreme. 1t is said that he regards ticism of his ance as o ver omen, A This fecling originated wjth the castiga- tion he received from the ics of New York on the morning after his first appear- ance there as a star in *The Oolah. Lotta is another firm believer in spivitual- ism. She said that on the nights when her older plays are produced she can see de- ceased members of her company in the parts which they formerly played. She thinks herself a medium. Mrs. Yeamans firmly believes that Friday is her lucky d She_always signs her con- tracts on a Friday. hits on this day, too. B A peculiar superstition of Mrs. Yeamans is that it bodes ill luck unless the first person she meets after midnight on New Year's day be a colored persou. Bach year she arrange it S0 that some negress comes to her immedi- ately after the clock strikes 12, 1f a comb be dropped in Mrs. Yeamans' presence she will always step upon 1t befor allowing it to be picked up. Otherwise sh. believes bad luck would attend all persons sent. Jennié Yeamans also has a peculiar_super- She believes thirteen to be her lucky number. She says this may be so be- e there are thirteen letters in her name. likes to _have the opening night of a new play on a Friday, and also invaria- bly signs h on'that day She has a supe i for moon- stone setting when upon the stage. The moon which she has worn have acquired a reputation among comedians for bringing good luck te the persons she g them to. As aresult, Miss Yeamaus is fairly besieged by us for the During the r comet scare Champion Jim Corvett declaved that he firmly believed that the comet would strike the earth. As a reason for his belief he said that the names of the leading incidents of the year had begun with the letter “C." These were Corbett's championship vie- tories and Cleveland's election. A comet collision would be right in line, he thought Fannie Davenport thinks that birds bring misfortune to her. She never allows any of these to be about a theatel during her en gagement, Scenery with peacocks or other birds in it is always rejected. It 15 said that she fused to act in *Fedora” until her manage had un elabirate stage setting, which con tained a painting of a peacock, remodeled and the peacock eliminated Wilton Lackaye has u superstitious fond- ness for chrysanthemums. He always fears for the worst when cast in a play that does not permit the wearing of his favorite flower in his buttonhole. Della Fox has a superstitious fear of o She never wears one and will not allow one oceupying the stage with her to wear the unlucky stones. Ha,xy Kernell, the Trish comedian, always »fusg\ to undertake a part in_which could; ¢ wear a wig and cane. Deprived of these | Ssentials w0 a stage Irishman's make-up, he was helpless, Jessie Bartlett Davis, the contr had a superstitious fear of opals ev the first and last time stage, The stone was set in a thumb ring given to her by afriend. She slipped and fell breaking the setting und severely spraining her wrist, Frederick Bond never accepts the manu- script of a part where the number of iges is even. Should this be the case the part must be recopied so as to fill the odd num ber of pages. He says he has made all his hits with odd numbers, and he would not dare to risk taking an even number of pages Richard Mansfleld is said to have a super- stitious fear of sunlight. When he is gaged in writing or composing during the he always pulls _the blinds to so closely that notaray of light can penetrate bis room, and works by gaslight Charles H. Hoyt, recent'y elected to the New Hampshire legislature, was a page in that body in 1571, Mr. Hoyt was born within @ stone's throw of the state house, aud bhis she wore one on the cllan, hived a lit- | She has made all her | } | | erratic | has b | formance with usual matine he | 1to, has | r since | | Murph | dancing fa | pany, Jenuie Murphy, the dashing young | be able to announce a play that w RS t— first play, drama, was liouse, Concord ten years aro Harey Maun produced ot White's in 1898 A G more thar he was gagoed by to oxpand the afior call I'he i A o et comoedy, which was callod “A Parlor Mateh." NMann gave Hoxt, who wis then a pavagaphor on a_ Boston paper, 8400 for the job, The play has made throe men rich — 1 Hooy and eholr mager, Harey Mann—and its success was the boein ning of the most remarkable manageral snd playwrishting career known to the Amori can stage opera ath THE THE. This evening at Boyd's theater M makes his appearanc an Omuha audience for the fiest time in two years. He is still produciug the repertory of Trish plays with which the gencral public has been familiar for thistoen years, and there is no diminishing of Lis popularity THe i8 the foremost exponont of Trish comody i America today. Tonight and tomorrow night Mr. Murphy will present “The Kerry Gow," and on "Tuesday and Wednesday even ings “Shaun Rhue.” “Every time 1 sce Mr, Murphy I think botter of the Irish," a youn: English lndy said to her escort as sho wus leaving the Globe theater, Boston, the other night, while some of the laug ol by The Kerry Gow' still remady \ten her face. And she was not un quainted with the Trish character who might have uttered a like sentiment. The Irish have been the most waligned of all i To be sure, most of the projudice against them, in this country ut least, has disappeared, but there still remains some That prejudice has been hightened by the presentation on the stage of the most vi ulous and brutal pictures of Ivish life. Its almost total obliteration has been effected in 1o small measure through the same medinm that was u in strengthening it—the stage, It needed only that Irish men and women should be represented before the public faithfully that they should Iy ciated, and the need was met by \ us Joseph Murphy and by none more than him iter e d Lo br 10 only on Operatic Trish comedy will drama at the Farnam Street “O'Dowid’s Neigh a funuy edy, will open a fovr days® en the’ Sunday matinee today Neighborss' comes heralded s comedy successes of the day, The skit was originally produced in the Bijou theater, New York, where it made a splendid run The piece received a second endorsement from New York andicnces during a recent engagement at the Union Square. 1t is built on the usual lines of comedy, depending not 0 much upon its@lot us upon its laughable scenes, humerous situations, novel spocial ties und pleasing mu effcets, Owing to the fact that O’ Dowd's Neighbors™ abound n music at every turn, it has been en 1 an operatic Irish comedy, The author suid, I succeeded in bui considerable merit, id th bri dinlogue and quick action provoke c - ous laughter. - Mark Murphy. the star of the company, is well known as one of the most s ish fun, He will “Our Irish comedinn 1 me: theat Irish com wwement with “0'Dowd's one of the cal we exponents of be remembered firm of Murrs Visitors, " s A5 1S one of y and Murphy in Dive Canway, the playing the part opposite Mk, is ¢ most clever in his line, On principal parts in_the piece is the Irish woman, Hon ora Grady. impersonated by the well known vival of George Monroe in the portrayal of the stage Irish woman, Mr. Phil Mack, is said tobe very amusing in the part of the Honora Grady. Among the ladies in the company ave Miss Mamie ‘Taylor, the charming grand opera singer, who was the leading soprano with the Aborn Opera com pany last seasoni Miss Marie Cahill, late the orite of the Miss Helyett com- widow, and and amuse. many othiers who sing, dance traction at Boyd's the commencing Thursday eveuing next will be a “Nutmog Match,"the widely known comedy drama in which Anuie Lewis, o soubrette of unusual vivacity and attract- iveness, is the star. The public demand fo pastoral plays, as evineed by the phenome: ual success over a period of many years of such plays as “The Old Homestead” and “The County Fair,” led Mar Litt and Davis to believe that a new pastoral play, picturing scenes and characters in a familiar rural district, but on lines ent distinct and more striking than any pr of (hls class of plays, would me h unani- mMous approval among the great mass of the theater-going public. They sccured Mr, William ™ Haworth, whose other successful plays, among which is “Fernclift” and the naval play of *“The Ensign,” placed him in the front vank of American’ dramatists, and commissioned him o produce som thing in which the principal character should be suitable for the pe- culiav requirements of Miss Laowis, After months of careful watching of Miss Lewis' work in productions in which she made her enviable reputation earlier in her carcer, Mr. Haworth set about bis task, spurred in an enthusiastic manner, from the fact that he belieyed that the buoyant little The i ter for four nights actress would be thoroughly capable of round- | ing out in the most artist nd satisfu manner any character of the type that he might conceive. The result of the brilliant young author's work was the first on last summer of the comedy A Nutimeg Match,” and its subs 0WIL 10 Tequire i The play combines tory uggested review at this late day the sweet, rural simplicity of “The Old Homestead,” with tho more thrilling and re- alistic features of the modernized wmelo drama. The funny Anglo-Scaudinavian comedy, ‘Pete Peterson,” will shortly be presentod in this city. In these days, when the s purpose of many managers seems to be to get as much out of the public as possible without giving any adequate return, is a pleasure to come up 10 the public expectation. “Pote Peters is not altogether a new play. It was e sented last season with signal success, and this year, in a greatly improved n ‘winning golden opinions from press and public. The central figure of the pluy i of course, the delyghtfully cutertaining char: wcter of the Swedish imuigrar from tuis there is a vein of comedy, head by well known and capable which is never permitted to flag the latest songs and dances medieys, choruses and unique features have been in' troduced in the play, and judging from the opinions of newspapers elsewhere, the | is one that loversof a hearty laugh would not willingly miss This attraction will bogin - three n ient at the Farnam Street th iencing Thursday cvening, Januury Suturday od performers, Many of gnts' 19, T rieal T Tt is said that C« will go into light iews Tanner pera on No is as Mme. Patti will shortly issue a volume of veminiscences the book being cdited by M Beatty-Kingston The veteran actor, John A, ¥ gaged in the stock _company of Avenue theatet in Philadelphia In his voyage to_this country ewski brought & pi he was not practising. Mme. 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There is considerable talk again of organe {zing & permanent opera company for Chica fashioned uftor the Casiro of New York, 19 is nlso rumored that Miss Pauline Hall will, o8 through, bo placed at the head of it It 18 against Modjeska's rule to appear on Sunday and nothing but an act of charit, could induce her to, but she Lias consont to present “Mary Stuart” Jauuary 29, at the Chicago Opera Louse, for the benetit of the Si s of Narazeth, th olish Catholic cone vant of that city Fuir Rosalind™ is n charn nstantly made an object of our attention that it will bo iatereating to know that fog more than half a ceutury it was invariabl acted by young men, who i 4 feminine tones and attempted fomin weos for th opening and closing scencs and spoke an acted naturally in the acts where Rosalind on wale attire 1t Goodwin, the ¢ ast sunner's |1 r which is so au, tells of one of don experiences: 4 t to tho Lyceum Irving,” ho said, “and my attention was rather distracted by the remarks of two well deessed women in adjoining stalls. 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