Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1894, Page 18

18 THE GRAND ARMY OF LABOR Cmaha Workingmen Interested in the New Eleotrio Etreet Lighting Franchise, COMMENT ON RECENT MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS arson’s Description of the Woeful In- nin the East— Wilson A Wid Lahor No Mr. dustrial Condi Bill Causing 1t Assembly Considerable interest is being manifested In local labor circles regarding the proposi- tion of the new electric light company to furnish light at a much lower rate than i3 now being paid, It is argued that while electric light is being furnished by private corporations the public should zurely hav the full henefit of competition and that as the bond Is absolutely good which is offered by the new company and its prices more favorable, they should be granted the con- tract without further delay. The savings on lighting, it Is argued, could be spent in public work which would give employment to Omaba's idle working people. It is also estimated that the putting in operation of the new plant would necessarily glve a large number of persons employment. This fact alone leads the laboring people to very strongly favor the granting of the fran- chise without delay, as there are now so many walking the streets looking for work. A large number of ' the members of the Omaha Central Labor unfon were gathered one evening last week at Knights of hall and a discussion of public franchis veloped the fact that Mayor Bemis had made many friends among the working people by his timely action upon the famous fifty-year gas franchise, which scemed for a time to have hypnotized a number of the council- men. The fight made by The Bee was also warmly commended and it was the consensus of opinion that The Bee had done a great thing for the working people and taxpayers i winging the concessions that were granted by the gas company. The savings gained in the gas deal it was thought could now be duplicated in the electric lighting it the council would now do its whole duty by the people and taxpayers, as the members are sworn to do. Several of those present thought that the city council would do fts duty by the people, and cited the fact that it had located the market house on Jefferson Square at the request of the working people, All were of the opinfon that the taxpayers should protest against a contract being awarded to the highest bidder and it was thought that if the people would exhibit the proper interest all would be well, Z Wilson Bill Doing It. James Carson, a prominent labor leader of Philadelphia, was in the city one day last week and gave The Bee reporter an Inter- esting Interview upon the present conditions in the manufacturing centers in the east. “'Never before in the Mstory of the country,” said Mr. Carson, “have conditions been worse tha® at present. An almost total paralysis of industry has taken place within the last nino months. Mills and factories have closed down or are running only a few hours & day; the mines, as a consequence, are doing little; the carrying trade has fallen off over one-haif ind hundreds of thousands of work. ing people are idle and almost at starva- tlos door.> r. Carson says that there is a deep- seated fecling in the cast that the causo ot the hard times is due to the uncertainty existing as to what the democratic majority Will do’ with the tarilt question. He says that If an election was to take place tomor- Tow the democrats would be defeated in every pastern state. Wages have been re- duced from one-third to onc-half and the labor organizations are seriously contem- plating the holding of a gigantic meeting at Washington, D. C., in April to protest &gainst the passage of the Wilson tarifr b, Although times aro fearfully hard it is esti- mated that over 40,000 workingmen would attend the convention. He was of the opin- ion that whatever the present congress did With the tarift bill the next congress would md:firwlu;lmll‘:m(ly republican and would e mischief o ki) f the enemies of Ameri- r. Carson gave statistics and show in the textile industries over 70 per 53..2"2% the operatives were idle, and that wages had been reduced over 22 per cent. Many work- ingmen who were paying for homes or en- deavoring o pay off obligations assumed in Dprosperous times found their source of reve. nue cut off or greatly reduced and were un- ablo to keep up their payments, causing losses, sacrifices and untold misery. The conditions in the coal roglons, which are hard in the best of times, at the present are frightful. Thousands of idlo miners are tramping over the country in search of work while the women and children aro facing starvation. The condition of tho coke workers was likowise deplorable, fally one. half being out of employment. = The steel and fron workers had also felt the effect of the hard times, and wages had been re- duced fully one-third. —These sweeping ro- ductions had greatly changed the conditions of living in the manufacturing centers; rents had como down from 25 to 50 per cent, and where one family had occupled a house, now two and three crowded into it. Prices of breadstufts and other articles had come down considerably and the cost of living had been eheapencd in genoral. nother sign of the hard times was fact that hundreds of Ttalians who had saved comfortable sums wero leaving the country and returning to their native land, where they find 1t possible with a few hundred doliars to live in idlencss and luxury. The saylng that the gates of Castle garden Swing inward, not outward, would soon bo obsolete, unless the friends of American labor were put on guard at Washington. Old 514 Knights of Labor assembly No. 5,141 of Omaha was established In the year 1886 and 15 now one of the strongest mixed assem- blies in the city. It holds regular meetings every Friday evening In Knights of Labor hall, and these meetings are always re- garded as the most Interesting of those of any asscmbly fn the city. Men of nearly all’callings of labor belong to "Old 5141, as it 1 usually called, and the discusslons cover a multitude of subjocts. All visitors to 5,141 are nvited by the master workman to’ propose a subject which they would like to hear discussed, and at no time yet has a subjoct been proposed which some of the members were not able to dis. cusa In an intelligent manner. No, 6,141 is sometimes called the “political ssem- Dbly,” us the subjects discussed are uswally of @ political nature. However that may be, it Is certain that the practice the membors have at their rogular meotings ably fits them (o discuss many subjects that are of great public interest From the Labor Oigarmakers are fghting convict labor in Ohio. Bath inum. The paper hangers are organizing at St. Louls. Thirty shoe factories are in operation St. Louls. F s Machinists have been cut 10 per cent Biddeford, Me, PAROA Ak Button workers in Massachusett: erage 83 cents a day, 3 RYRIAW Electrical’ Workers union initlation fee of $2 Toronto bookbinders are asking for an elght-hour work day. United Mino Workers of America meet at Columbus, 0., pril 10, Tho trades unlon movement be growing in Toronto. Pittsburg carpenters are trying to estab- Msh an olght-hour day. The Fall Rlver weavers have joined the Natlonal Textile union. A steel mill is running seven week at Hammond, Ind. Printers of Detroit have declared in of government telegraphs. The brewery firomen of Brooklyn Jolned the Kulghts of Labor. The strike of the Omaha tailors has been endorsed by the national union. The atrike of tho St. Louls beer drivers is tubs are now made out of alum- No. 8 has an is sald to days a tavor have to be made a national affalr by the Knights of Labor. Stonecutters at San Antonlo have won their demand for an elght-hour day. Weavers are out on a strike at New Bed- ford rather than accept a reduction. The bullding trades unions in Chicago report a largo increase In membership, Dangor, Me., workers have passed resolu- tions favoring government telegraphs Nebraska Knights of Labor will organiz mixed assemblies In the small towns. The Knights of Labor co-opera aundry at Cleveland has proved to be a success Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ National alifanco will convene at St. Louls April 9. Pittsburg stone cutters refused to accept a ction In wages without a reduction of tactories 10 per workers in_the been reduced Sewing machine at Bridgeport have cont Four thousand unfon men anti-child labor mass meeting held at more, The bakers union at Cardiff has changed the working hours of a week from elghty to sixty-three The New Haven Central a public mass meeting to discuss and the Ballot.” Striking brewers at ceived $2,650 from ory them In the fight, There 18 considerable talk of locating the general offices of the Knights of Labor In Washington, D. C. A Fall River girl cents and drew for the cent sum of 7 cents Unfon Pacific employes wil celvers in Omaha the 15th arbitrate their differences Bricklayers and stone masons at Detroit endorsed a proposed ordinance to exclude aliens from municipal work. Spinners at Fall River have doubled dues of the working members, which be paid to those who are fdle. Union collar and cuff makers of Albany protest against convicts manufacturing their line of goods in the penitentiary. Buftalo painters are demanding an eight hour work day. In response the bosses say the men must leave their union. Five thousand dollars has been dis- tributed to the unemployed members by the Spinners union at Fall River, Mass. Sixty-one union tailors in Omaha have quit work rather than accept a reduction. Only two establishments are involved. A union of the unemployed has been or- ganized at Loufsville. It received its char- ter free from the Knights of Labor. Lancaster, Pa., unions want municipal ownership of all public franchises and a minimum wage scale of §$1.50 per day of eight hours. Samuel Gompers {s editor of the American Federationist, published by the American Federation of Labor, at 14 Clinton Place, New York city. Toronto has provided work for 1,500 men at $135 a day. On the day that work started over 1,000 men were gathered around the city hall at 6 a. m. IN THE THEATERS. attended an Baitl- or unfon held “Wages re- slst St. Loufs have nized labor to weaver was fined 45 week the magnifi- the re- try to meet inst to the will A Pair of Kids,” which is to be the at- traction at the Riftecnth Street for four nights and Wednesday matinee, commenc- ing with matinee today, is now in its ninth year of success and seems to be as strong a cardtas ever. Jiles Button, the old down east Yankee with his “well, T'll be darned” and the comic whistle having become fa- miliar to theater-goers from one end of the country to the other. It is related tof Patti that at a matinee performance at the Grana opera_house, Chicago, she left her box at the end of the first act, explaining to the manager as sha passed out’ that her voice would be ruined for her evening's work at the Auditorium if she remained longer, so Irresistibly amusing id this character, ap- pear to her. At Coates’ opera house, Kansas City, a young man sitting next the aisle in the parquet jumped to his feet and fell head- long in a laughing fiv and had to be carried off in an ambulance, and at Ford’s theater, Baltimore, several years ago a lady in one of the boxes had a laughing fit and had to be taken to her carriage by friends. The present company is a strong one, including Gilbert Sarony of “‘Sinbad” and “Ali Baba' fame, John Magee, Henry Winchell and other old-time favorites. “The Idea,” which is the name of Hal- len & Hart's latest compound of jollity, will hold forth at the Boyd for four nights, be- ginning tonight. “The Idea” was introduced here for the first time last season and proved an attractive acquaintance. The elastic nature of the pleces which Hallen & Hart present will admit of the infusion of almost anything new without discord or hurt, so long as it is distinctly entertaining. These popular comedians realize their ad- vantage In this respect, and with natural cleverness, good taste and tireless energy they are constantly bringing forward and weaving together happily the light in- gredients which go to make up a snappy en- tertainment. They have the good judgment to group around themselves for the purpose of enter- tainment only clever people, and generally the very best in their particular specialties. The singing quality of their performances has been universally good, and at times conspicuous to the degree of excellance. That this agreeable feature is none the less manifest this season may be inferred from the following names, which are rated high among professional ' singers: J. Aldrich Libbey of “After the Ball” and “Two Little Girls in Blue” fame comes first. He is sald to have several new ballads which are predicted to reach as wide a popular favor. One with sensitive nerves may honestly e press the hope that this prophesy may prove false. Marguerite LaMar, late prima donna at the Manhattan opera house, New York, Is the prinefpal feminine vocalist. Among the othér important members of the company are ' Larry Dooly, Charles B Lawler, Al _ Wilson¥ Fanny Bloodgood, Carry De Mar and a couple of young misses, Edith Murray and Jennie Gro- vini, who havea dance which caught the crowd immensely in New York. Hallén & Hart themselves have a grist of humorous songs and parodies. An anvil chorus, a typewriter specialty and a Spanish gavotte will show the girls of the company in stunning garb and figure. Fresh fun, lively music, graceful dance and stim- ulaling song are always met with in the Hallen & Hart shows. It is sald this will bo the last chance to see “The Idea” in Omala, as they have in preparation a new musical venture for next season. new “The White Squadron,” the blg naval drama, comes to the Fiffeenth Strect thea- ter for four nights and Wednesday matinee. commencing next Sunday matinee. Th author of “The White Squadron” is Mr. James W. Harkins, jr., who has won a well varned reputation both as a playwright and actor. His selection of a theme for a drama was & timely one, for of the many fe tures of a government there is none, pe haps, in which the people are greater inter- ested than the navy. And while Mr. Har- Kins causes the American navy to stand forth in his play in bold relief, he has not neglected to give a graphic representation of the armed cruisers of other countries. In fact, he brings them together in congress assembled, as it were, in a grand united effort to rid the Brazillan country of its nefarious brigands. In the representation of the plece a large number of supernumer- aries are used to represent soldiers, monks and brigands. One of the atrocities inflicted on his subjects by Romanico, in the play, is the making of a Moorish slave, son of a former king, a companion to an ox. They appear on the stage yoked together. Tho company selected by Mr. Pearson f the presentation of “The White Squadron! is made up of thoroughly competent and high class artists. Mr. W. A. Whitecar, well known in this city as a handsome and capable actor, will impersonate the leading role of Victor Staunton. Miss Laura Al- mosnino plays the role of Popo Staunton, Elmer Grandin will be seen in his originai part of Santos, a Moorish slave. Other members are Frederick Lulian, John T. Burke, Robert Nell, J. Edwin Leonard, George F. Hall, Edwin_Jerome, . J. Lalor, J. J. Coleman, George F. White, B. G. Mar tin, William_'Vestal, J. W. Harmon, Miss Quil Forest, Miss Toaxlo Doagle. Mra,'E. M st The performances, of “La Belle Russe™ by Mabel Eaton and her own company at Boyd’s on Tuesday and Wednesday even- ings of this week will be a dramatie event of more than usual moment, partly from THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1894 TWENTY PAGES, tho fact that Miss Eaton Is an Omaha girl, with a_wide circle of friends and acquaint- ances here, but In a much greater degree from the fact that she has developed into an actress of great abllity, and therefore the evont will doubtless be both an artistic and soclal success, The play offered Is one of the foremost of emotional dramas and comes direct from New York city with a strong supporting company and as complete an equipment as the metropolis affords. Miss Baton’s wardrobe 1s sald to be one of the most elegant and expensive collec- tions of feminine costumes with which any American actress has ever had the artistic Inspiration and the commercial daring to dress a role. “Ten Nights in a Barroom,” which ap- pears at the Fifteenth Street theater three nights and St. Patrick’s day matinee, com- mencing March 15, will receive an enthusi- astic welcome. The company which plays n Nights dn a Barrooom” here is made up of carefully selected artists, and each one has made a_ study of his part. The “Ten Nights in a Barroom” has a moral, which is often found lacking in pleces now produced. This plece has had a longer run than any play which has ever been produced by any company on the American stage. George H. Primrose and Willlam H. West still retain the great title of the merry mon- archs of burnt cork minstrelsy, and their reputation is world-wide. Their appearance at Boyd’s theater on Sunday and Monday evenings of next week will bo welcomed by the theater-going people. The program s made up of new and interesting novelties, and the music and jokes are of the latest pattern. Mr. George H. Primrose has given much time to the designing of the first part, which, by the way, has never been thought of, and he has Invested more money in scenery and costumes than in any other two seasons. The company is made up of artists in their various parts, and a first class per- formance of minstrelsy will be given. e AYie iy OUT WEST. Captatn Jack Crawford. I sing of a country remarkably falr, Out west, Where fragrance from flowers is borne on the air, Out west, Where the sun ever sprinkles its beautiful ight, Where mosquitoes are too sympathetic to bite, And the men never stay at their clubs halt the night, Out west. ‘There’s health in the kiss of the murmur- ing breeze, Out west, There's joy in the songs of the birds in the trees, Out west, There's melody ~sweet in the mountain quail's call, Far up in the ‘shade of the pine trees tall, And death claims the man who sings “After the Ball, Out west. The girls are the prettiest creatures on earth, out west, Their beauty is distancéd alone by thelr worth, Out west, The birds sit in wonder to hear thelr sweet song, Their galt 1s strong, And they wear their shoe heels back where they belong, Out west. elastic, their muscles are The red men are not of the museum kind, Out west, The cowboys are not exhibition inclined, Out west, There ar localities christened lums, The statesmen plums, And unemployed workmen are never called “bums,” no as don’t fight for political Out west. No nickels the church basket finds on its trips, Out west, The Christians come down with their red and blue chips, Out west, The dudes wear their pants in the tops of their boots, They never indulge in gay lah-de-dah suits, Their jewelry s of the pattern that shoots, Out west. There are sixteen full pownd, ounces In every Out west, No chicory can in the coffee be found, Out west, No clothing store fakers with ‘“fire-dam- aged” stock, Try to rope In the suckers from out on the walk, The milk when assayed shows no trace of chalk, Out west. When a home is all riven with martial strife, Out west, A man never seeks for' divorce wife, from his out west, He flles to Chicago with speed of a dart, The guillotine soon cuts the fetters apart, Ang he seeks a new darling to patch up His eart, out west. For husbands young widows do mnot ad- vertise, Out west, A new one is ready when' t'other one dies, out west, And maidens who fear that as maids they'll ETow gray, Should fly to that aw Proposills would fly at them 'steen times a day, beautiful land right Clairette—What are you going to give me, papa, when I get married? Harpagon—My consent, Clairette, The buttons on the wedding dress of a mil- lionaire's daughter, recently married, were made of jewels, and cost $100 each. One of the coming swell weddings in New York will be that of Miss Edith Kip and Mr. Richard McCreary. The knot will be tied in Grace church, April 18. “Why was their engagement broken off? Did they quarrel?” “No; that was the trouble. They were both so amiable they got tired of each other." 0ld Bachelor—Do you expect to marry, or prefer to keep vour liberty, Miss Van Miss Van Sand—What a funny ques- tion. I intend to do both. Miss Louise H. Morris, the far-famed beauty and soclety belle of Baltimore, will be married to Frederick Gebhard, the equally famous club and society man of New York, on Wednesday, the 14th inst. Husband (late at dinner)—There's one thing I must say, Maria, when Jane was alive, if T were late she had things kept hot for me. Wife (sarcastically)—That's proba- bly what she's doing now, John. “Mr. Muchcoin seems very attentive to Miss Jingle; does sho know anything of him?" “No, but she will probably will have very little of his soclety after they leave here.” “So it is no love affair?’ *'Dear me, no; she Is going to marry him. It Yankee ingenuity can devise some legal provision by which American girls can marry a forelgn title without taking the man who goes with it, the recrults to the ranks of our native aristocracy will incroase in a geo- metrical progression from the time of its adoption until the titles are exhausted or the spirit of American manhood has kicked the whole thing over. “Miggs is going deucedly slow In his court- ship of Miss Alress. I suppose, though, he wants to be sure of his ground before he pro- Dposes. Tumph! If the inquiries he has been making of late about the real estate she owns are any indication I take it he wants to be sure of hers." s ds of Thought. With Cupld salary Stub E: Detroit Free Press is no object. Cynlelsm 18 one of the shadows which ex- perience casts, The heart i no philosopher. An ounce of a woman's intuition Is better than a pound of her reason. We always better ourselves by forgetting ourselves. What a flower enjoys it gives to the in color and perfume. What a girl thinks, a woman would like to do Melody is the soul of music as harmony is its body’ Give some people an ell and they'll take all the rest of the alphabet. i DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve curea ulcers, DeWilt's Witeh Hazel Salve cures piles. world VISITORS 1N THE SICK ROOM Certain Porsons Ought Never Be Pormitted to fee the Patient. BUSY BODIES WHOSE TALK IS TORTURE A Call of Inquiry at the Door In Most Cases and Ten Minutes Should r Time at the Bedsid nine Frills and Fashions. What are womanly instincts? Are they alike in all women? Do all women want to sit at home by the fire? Is every woman satisfied to limit her life to the nur: and kitchen? asks:June Croly in a re address to Sorosis, The habits of one gen- eration are the instincts of the next, and is not this staying-at-homé instinct n this generation the result of the habits of the women of thi past?, Before the patriarchial age there was a matriarchal age, whin the women attended to all the retail business ot life. We read in proverbs how the woman, after she had gathered her malds together and set them at their spinning, went forth and considered the flelds and purchased them. And because of her good judgement she was accounted a crown of glory to her husband It was a woman who organized the first squadron of ships and sent them out on a mercantile venture, The reason of this was because the men were all warriors, and the woman controlled nll social, domestic and mercantile life. There are today large num- bers of women in controlling positions in the business world, One woman there is who Is known on paper as J. Brown, and controls large home and forelgn Interests. A gentleman who had occasion to meet J. Browsw in & business way after having known the individual for many years on business paper, found that J. Brown was a very small woman at the head of a very large estab- lishment, where the only men employed were the porters, A gentleman who lec- tured to a commercial class of young men recently warned them to look out for the women, for they had come to stay. Rubles are now the most expensive kind of jewel and a very wealthy man said the other day that he was going to buy his wife a set of rubies, as he wanted some invest- ment for his money and was sick of land. His wife seemed immensely pleased with the idea, says a writer in the New York Tribune, for nothing is more exquisite than fine rubles surrounded with pure white diamonds. In respect of jewels men are as extravagant as women. A cigarette case recently made to order for a wealthy club- man was of oxidized steel and studded with diamonds of the first water. The cost of this toy was $800; and yet men laugh at women who have dlamonds Inserted in the lace of their fans, where they are certainly more appropriate than in cigarette cases! Nor does this extravagance stop at trifles that can be carried on the person of the sterner sex. There Is a well known young London ‘“exquisite” who is the happy pos- sossor of a shaggy Irish terrier, called Tim, and around the little animal's bristly neck is a gold collar with his unaristoc pellation done in red enamel and d and the young man's crest and monogram similarly executed. It is quite possible for a woman to wear too many diamonds. There are, it is true, stately dowager duchesses and magnificent marchionesses to the manor born who adorn, rather than are adorned, by the costly jewels they wear; but, on the other hand, there are faces pretty enough, but lacking that essential quality of high breeding and refinement without which a splendidly jewelled woman becomes a mere background for an osten- tatious display, her beauty being in a meas- ure obliterated by her jewels. Once upon a time there lived a woman, and the woman was lonely, so she cried to the gods: “Oh, T am very lonely. Give me some one to comfort me.” And the gods heard and were sorry for the wpman, says an eye-witness writing in the New York Recorder. And they took a beautiful human soul, perfect In evry part, and clothed it in the garments of-a man and brought it to the woman. © When the woman heard them coming she was very glad, for she said: “Now, I shall Dbe no longer lonely. . Now there will be one to keep me company.’ But when she saw the soul, she gave a great cry, and fell down as one dead. And; when she had a little re. covered, she shrieked: “Oh, take it awa. I cannot bear it! It wears an old-fashioned coat, and, behold, I see a spot of greass upon it.” Then the gods wers wroth with the woman and took the soul away and left her lonely. So the woman sat and lamented. Time passed. “Oh, ye gods!" cried again, “I_am very lonely. to comfort me."” Then the gods had compassion on ths woman, and they took a block of wood and carved out of it a beautiful human form, and dressed it in the latest fashion and gave it an eye-glass and a flower for its buttonhole, and brought it to the woman. When the woman saw it she rejoiced greatly, and she opened her arms and took it and kissed it and fondled it and was coms forted. And the woman called the figure a man, and she thought it was alive. the woman once Give me someone. A woman of the world almost invariably can effect the most rapid changes of toilet, for it is a part of her creed to dress quickly and appropriately for any function. The rus- tic beauty may require an hour or so in which to dress for & ball, may linger over her Sunday dressing until she is late for church, and may keep the other members of the family waiting whenever she is to appear in public, says a writer on the New York Tribune; milady, on the contrary, serene in the consciousness of heing perfectly attired for every occaslon, considers fifteen minutes to be an ample allowance ror the most elaborate toflet, and, if needs be, can be literally “ready in five minutes.” It is really a mark of good form, did the tardy ones but know it, and indicates a familiarity with the usuages of the world to be able to dress with rapidity and at the same time well. Young people should be taught that it s not only selfish, but bud form, to keep peo- ple waiting—for it is unhappily true that we are 5o constituted that it would trouble us more to commit any social solecism than to feel our consclence accuse us of any want of consideration to others. Some people seem to have a constitutional inability to be ready on time, and they go through life, causing more discomfort and exciting more irritability than a litle. They are placidly selfish and aggravatingly self-satisfied, while thelr victims fret and fume and lose their tempers, exciting in the cause of it all only a sort of surprised pity that they should “show 80 little self-control.” That our ancestors regarded dress with much respect we judge from old journals and letters. Hero is a description printed in Harper's Bazar of a girl's first ball dress, taken from a letter written in 1838, by a young woman of 15 to her maiden aunt “I went to the ball on the 22d and enjoyed myselt very much; I did not take any cold. We had beautiful music and an excellent supper; at least it looked nice, but I did not eat anything. I was afraid If I did I might be sick. Perbaps you would like to know how I was dressed. I bought me a bishop's-lawn dress at 70 cents a yard (it was a very nice plece), and got Miss Almira Bradley to make it. She made It Greclan bodist and of-mutton sleeves plaited down. She sald that ruffled sleeves were entirely out of fashion. I had a plece of pink gauze ribbon tied in a bow at the bot- tom of the plaits, und a plece of the same tled around my walst and tied in a bow at the point 1 hag . a pink Donna Maria scarf with a tassel at each end fastened on the left shoulder with a very small bouquet I had & new palg of white kid and a new pair_of French slippers, and a lace under- handkerchief trimmed with a narrow lace edging. 1 wore 4 thin flannel petticoat and a thick with another cambric muslin one over that. khad on a pair of worsted stockings and silk, ones over them. I had my hair curled at,the barber’ 1 had to sit still two hours tojhave it do I went to the ball at 7 o'glock and ot home at 2 Miss Sarah Hildgath was the belle; she looked very beautful; she had on a satin dress with a figurel blond over that and a blggk mantilla. Her blond dress was so long that it dragged seven or elght inches.’ | by tegal or some other ennctment barred out of a sickroom. They come at the most in- opportune moment, bustle in with a sort of hurrah, taking it for granted that their presence will be choering and beneficlal to the patfent They are breezy and bright, but unspeakably trying and exasperating. They have somewhere or other heard that one must alwaye be cheerful under such cir- | cumstances, says the New York Ledger, and, following out this idea, they are noisy to bolsterousness, and _frequently absolutely maddening to the sufferer as well as to the attendants. Most of these people are very nearly destitute of the commodity known as nerves, Never having suffered any very serious aflment in their lives they are in- capable of appreclating the tortures endured by sensitive organizations. They laugh and | chatter and possibly pat the patient on the | head or shoulder and flutter around like fussy mother-hens, When they leave it 18 not infrequently the case that the doctor has to be sent for, and finds the patient in a state of complete nervous prostration or in a condition border- Ing on hyste N There are a few simple rul always be observed in v First, and most important: Never go unless there Is excellent reason for doing so. It is often quite enough to make a call of in- quiry at the door. Do mot ask to see tho sick” person unless the intimacy distinctly warrants it, and even then be very relu tant to accept such an invitation Nine times out of ten what an invalid wants is quiet and rest and to be Jjudiciously and kindly let alone. More people have been visited into their graves than statistics have ever recorded If one must is equally import to the other extre that should ing the sick. rid noise and confusion, it nt not to swing clear over ne and be so mysterions sly and silent that the sick person is in stantly thrown into apprehension by your manner, and at once draws the conclusion that the case must be necessarily a very grave one to warrant such unusual conduct, If you are to see the invalid, some one will open the door, when you should walk in quietly and in a gentle tone exchange the compliments of the day, and express a hope that your visit will not be wearisome and that all fs going well. Having done so, if there is any matter of mutual interest it is not amiss to speak of it. If you both be- long to some society and there has been an special action or marked success in any branch of its work, it may furnish material for pleasant thoughts after your departure. Do not remain over ten minutes unless specially asked to do so, and even that time is too long if there are any symptoms of nervousness or weariness. Above all, do not talk of disagreeable things or relate any of the misfortunes or mishaps that have befallen any member of the community. A sick room is cloudy enough without bring- Ing in shadows from the outside. Studi- ously avoid recommending medicines unless there is a most excellent reason for doing so. If a physiclan is employed it Is a dis- courtesy to him to urge other remedies upon the patient. These are a few of the rules to be observed in visiting the sick. It might be said, in the words of an eminent physician of ‘the last generation: “Amend these by staying away altogether,” for, as a rule, visiting in the stck room Is productive only of evil. By all means make calls of inquiry, but never think it incumbent upon you to enter- tain sick people unless they are well ad- vanced in convalescence and your presence is earnestly desire Ex-officio, as it were, Mrs. Cleveland is. “the first lady” of the land, and by the same token Mrs. Stevenson ought to be the second, says the New York Sun. In one particular direction, however, the wife of the vice president is gecond to none She has grown young during the past year with a disregard of old Fatlier Time which savors of fmpertinence. At the inaugura- tion last March Mrs. Stevenson sat in the second row of the senate gallery, directly behind Mrs. Cleveland, and the contrast be- tween the two women was almost startling. Mrs. Stevenson looked painfully older than Mrs. Cleveland and palpably older than she wanted to look. Her face was powdercd to the whiteness of chalk and her raiment | was rich, rare, and regardless—regardless alike of cost and of what the fashion books call “suitable for middle-aged ladies.” Al- together, she wasn't quite up to the mark which. most of the spectators had set for the second lady of the land. That was a_year ago. Ten days ago the Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution met in Washington. At the first meeting a lady, who occupied a large chair in the center of the platform, rose and read an address of welcome. She was not only elegantly dressed, but well dressed. She seemed young, handsome, and thor- oughly mistress of herself and the situation. She did not even remotely suggest the stout, overdressed, bepowdered woman who sat, a year ago, in the shadow of Mrs. Cleveland's fair youth. “Who Is that?" asked the mewspaper wo- man of her neighbor. “Mrs. Stevenson,” was the reply. 1t cortainly was, and the second lady of this young country seems to be perfectly in harmony with the prevailing spirit of youth, How she has cheated time for a twelve. month! Speaking of Mrs. Stevenson and the Daughs ters, as they call themselves in conversation, ono is reminded of a funny thing which happened that first morning. The wife of the vice president has evi dently never opened the covers of her hus. baud’s authorities on parliamentary order, But she was not blind to her own' defects, s0 she supplied them quite easily by en< gaging as adviser a mild-mannered man who, nevertheless, knew all about overruling and ‘quashing and laying on the table. Th man sat at Mrs. Stevenson’s elbow, told her what to do next in all cases, and scuttled a number of ships in the shape of resolutions offered by adventurous Daughter: The first little incident of this sort was when a motion was offered by a distinguished looking woman from the Mount Vernon chap- ter. Mrs. Stevenson was standing at the time, and, without waiting for any discus- sion, asked the yeas and nays, and got them, too, before the little man or any ono else had @ chance to draw a long breath. Immediately there was a storm of opposi- tion. Then the mild parliamentarian whis- pored something to Mrs. Stevenson. She bounded in a lady-like manner with her pretty gavel and sal “The question before the congress, ladies, is the resolution. We can do one of two things with it We can elther—w an either what?" siie blandly and frankly asked, turning to the blushing parliamentarian, It was so openly done that it brought down the howse. Mrs. Stevenson laughe the little man laughed, everybody laughe and order was not restored for several min- utes. Then they laid the resolution on the table and went gayly on about thelr busi- ness Mrs credited masculing Stevenson, ho with introducing parliamentarian bodies, Mrs. Potter Palmer had her legal | henchman, who held the ball and unrolled | the red tape for the president of the board of lady managers for the World's fair. He was -always at her elbow during the meet- ings of the board. But it Is a question whether bis red tape or Mrs. Palmer's tact was of greater value In the sometimes much troubled essions of the gentle and ungentle lady managers. or, cannot be the professional into feminine r furnishes some In- hunting | A San Francisco pay formation to the effect that the red costume adopted by the English ladies last fall is about to be introduced in San Fr cisco and New York by prominent soc women. Ladies are reported to be wildly en- thuslastic over this festive change from som- bre black to bright red, and these gay “riding habits are being made in large num- bers,” In cut and style they are like the regulation costume except that there Is no cutaway for a white shirt front, the jacket being buttoned stralght up to the neck and finished with a ligh collar. The San Francisco lady who will soon appear in this brilliant habit s to a red silk hat, red chamois skin gloves, and red morocco shoes. It is possible that the costume to be adopted by the New York ladies may turn out to be a modest shade of garnet, which with black hat and gloves, would be very genteel But the California woman's method of dress s to oxaggerate ry style. It red is reputed fashionable she promptly appears in hright scarlet, with all the Nttle accessories that will make it more prominent, rather than softened. A good looking woman looks her best in the well fitted conventional babit, but_how this new inovation of color will affect her appear ance on horseback cannot be described until she 18 scen in all her gorgeousness There arg certain persons who ought to be l The first election of a woman to the office [ styfe, have taken on a more attractive form | public the limits of of mayor within empire has taken place. Mrs. Yates, the lady in question, was elected by the rate. payers of Onehunga, New Zealand, and has been duly installed. Mrs. Yates scems to have taken up the duties of her office with sublime confidence In her abilitios to dis charge them well. The retiring mayor, Dr. Esson, presented her with the gavel, and asked her to bear in mind the motto on the back of her official chair, “Be just and foar not.”” Mrs, Yates told him she did not need to be reminded of the motto, as had already carrled it into effect in her life. the British In the Laos states, quin, dwells a very prince. Otto Ehlers, the German traveler, has a good deal to say about this eminent ruler. Heo leaves the ohief cares of state to his wife. He takes interest in cooking. It I8 a pity Brillat Savarian could not have lived to visit him. He has had his throne removed Into the royal kitchen, so that he can receive visitors while he watches the preparation of his meals. His subjocts are content with his dministration. They es. pecially admire the demoeratic spirit mani« fested in the choice of a throne room. The dynasty, however, does not promise to be a long one. between Siam and Tor casy going Chine NOTES. mink or fox fur favored for re- FASHION ry narrow bands of with frills of rich lace are coption gowns: Tight fitting jackots of sealskin slan_lamb, that come to the walst fonable for wear in mild weather. ound walsts vertical rows of insertion or of Air bralds, under which a contrasting color is laid, are stylish, Bayadere stripes, except in fabrics used for frocks to be worn on informal occasions, are more chic than the perpendicular stripes. Thero are almost as many different con- Jectures as to the growing and decreasing size of the sleeve as there are sty of sleeves. A ruche trimming of inches wide bordered wit fur and plaited in triple novelty, Point do Venise retains its popularity. The creamy yellow lace is now shown in deep Van Dyke points, which are very effective upon corsage. New skirts are admirably shaped. They escape the ground, fit smoothly 88 the front and hips and have two double box plaits at the back. Gowns that are not round in the neck or en pompadour, disclosing’ the throat and neck, are becomingly finighed with a soft fold of black velvet Tibbon. Some of the inexpensive woolen goods are prettily woven mixtures of tints so carefully blended that one is left in pleasing uncer- tainty as to the actual colors. Velvet dresses are even in greater favor than they were last year for afternoon wear, espectally at weddings and receptions, though cloth continues to hold its own. Old-fashioned grass cloth is revived again. It is finer and more sheer than that of the old It comes in ecru with fine white stripes, and is cool and dainty for shirt Per fash- or made of n work mol black nar box satin two ow bands ot plaits i Silks are to be worn more than ever, these soft ones with pretty designs of bright colors on pale tinted grounds, There is, 100, a new India silk on which water will leave no trace. Tho “bow bonnet” is said to be the latest style for evening wear. Wide moire ribbon that has been wired forms this simple affair, which has no trame or band for a founda- tion. The popular crepons come in wool, silk and cotton, and are more beautiful than those of any preceding season. They are in every conceivable color and combination of colors In London the latest.wedding present for the bride is a cigaretie case. It may be silver or gold ornamented with rare gems, but the fact that it is for cigarcttes need not be disguised. Braids, which are rarely ever quite out of this season, and are now beaded and spangled and striped with moire, like more pretentious trimmings. The newly designed black garnitures are very striking. They consist of very elegant appliques for the skirt, corsage and sleeves, and for panels and inserted pieces to be laid over Vandyke points. Long narrow paste buckles are worn en- cireling half the figure at the waist, and holding the velvet crush collar at the throat or fastening the band of velvet that finishes the short puffed elbow sleeve. Light, soft shades are more fashionable for spring wlar than the pronounced hues of winter; silvery green rather than the yellow shades, and magenta with a pink cast instead of the unbecoming purple. There is a decided tendency toward wear- ing cloaks very long, whether they be of fur, cloth or fancy materials. The fact that this adds to the apparent height does not prevent very tall women from adopting it. FEMININE GOSSIP. Among female Moors birthday celebrations are unknown. A Moorish woman considers it a point of honor to be absolutely ignorant of her age. Ladies of Grand Junction, Colo., have or- ganized the Mesa Political and Soclal Scl- ence club and théy now meet once a week to discuss political economy and civil govern- ment. Miss Wilkinson, a landscape gardener of the Metropolitan Public Gardens association of London, England, Is now engaged in lay- ing out St. Mary’s park, Woolwich and V) toria Park cemetery. Princess Colonna says it is not true that Mr. Mackay paid $1,000,000 of her worthless husband's debts, although he spent large sums at different times in that direction. She goes to California to get a divorce. In Holland a woman is a_secondary con- sideration—and a poor consideration at that. No Dutch gentleman ‘hen walking on the pavement will move out of his way for a lady. 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