Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1894, Page 11

TRUMPET OF DAME GRUNDY The Bweet Telephcne Girl Divulges Becrets from “'Over the Wire, GAY GADDERS DONE UP IN CHOICE SLANG Men Who Try to “Get Comle” with Central —Only Drutes and Sometimes Jay) Romance of n Portralt—Feminine ¥acts and Fashion 1t took a long time and much trouble, but at lait the reporter did personally see and talk with a telephone girl. In what exchingo she works, whether she i3 tall or whiort, light or dark, chews gum or lives in, New York the reporter will not divulge, though the information should be deemed valuabla to the Lexow committee, says the New York Hun. Why," say,” she said, after her confl dence had been won, “if I only knew men as' I meet them over the wire I would be- lieve that they are all brutes and some of them also Jay:. Why, say, they talk about our being fresh. Weil, we ain't fresh long, if we are, because you're cailed down quick by the manager or his assistant if you get fresh over the wire. But there ain’t any one got a big of salt to sprinkle on the people who talk to us. It don't seam to make any difference how much a man uses a telephone, he never seem: to get any sense in his head about it. Now, Just as likely as not you have telephoned and scolded central because they couldn't give you the number you wanted. When central has rung up a number for you, or ruog up the exchange where she is going to get that number, she couldr't do any more I she owned the telephone company. “But you sald :ome men in addition to belng brutes, which is a more or less fa- miliar fact, ere also jays. Now, just how ars they jays by telephone,” the reporter asked. Miss Hello responded: “Why, say, didn't you ever try to get comic with a telephone girl? That's what lots of men do, and they are more fun for us than pay day. I don’t mean bu:iness men down town, or any men while in their office, because they are generally talking where people can hear them. ~ But when I worked in an ex- change where we were central for a lot of residence telchones, it seemed as If every man who rang us up had nothing clse to do but to get gay."” “I remember one night when I had told & man to ‘pleuse walt' he began to get comic right away. I was on to him, and I be- gan stringing him just a little bit, you know, because the nght manager was out cf the affice and 1 had a chance to jolly him a i tle. I could tell from his tone, even be- fore he began to talk silly, that he was elone in the room, and pretty :oon he be- gan asking me about my nights oft and if 1 would like some tickets to a roof garden. Suddenly kLis voice changed and he began yelling like a cross bear, ‘Hello, I say, you central! why don't you attend to business?’ Why say, I knew what had happened just s §0on as he did that. His wife had come fnto the room, and I laughed at h.m over the telephone, and said, “Ask wifey how sha'd like to have you send me those roof garden tickets.' Bang! He hung up the recefver, and 1 knew just as well as that I was alive that he had got rattled and wes afrald his wife might hear what I sald, although we were half a mile apart. That happens lots of times. Sty, I wonder what makes 0 many men ask telephone girls what Is the color of their hair. When I Wwas In that uptown exchange I'll bet 100 different men asked me that question after they had called up central and had to wait. Its lots of fun to jolly the guys, but of course you can only do it in the smaller exchanges where there is no assistant man- ager and the manager 15 sometimes out. Of course you can keep up a jolly for some time by just making answers that seem all right to the manager If he happens to over- hear you, because he can't tell what you are answering. “Women? — Why, say, they're the sau- clest things you ever saw. If they can't get the number they want right away they begin to scream and shout and threaten, and mostly wind up by :aying that the nasty old ‘thing fsn't any good, and hang up the receiver just about the time you want to give them their number, Do we listen much? ~ Why, say, I think that's an awful foolish questi>n. Do you Buppose we heve any time to listen? On the level? Well, say, on the level then, Just because we are hello girls we are Luman beings ju:t as hard, and If it fs at night and we are not very busy and some- thing very interesting is going through, or W0 hear a voice telling some one that he ‘won't be home until late on account of be- Ang busy with the correspondence to go by ihe next steamer, and then a little later hear that same voice telling a very differ- ent sort of story (o some one else—why, say, of course we're human.' 4 And thus prattled on that Miss Hello. She was a young person of an observant nature, which makes it all the more un- fortunate for mankind that at the conclu- Blon of her story she added the remark with which she had be- gun—that if she only knew men as she met them over the wires she would }::;l::v: them all brutes and some of them too ‘‘The story of a portrait might be written With good effect If the various uses of n‘ discarded woodcut could be followed,” sald & well known woman of soclety the other day to a New York Tribune reporter. I had an experience myself that would have been funny if it had not been so very annoy- Ing. Some time ago I received a note from the edltor of a certain weekly, saying that they were publishing a serfes of portraits of prominent women, and, alluding to my ‘good works' In organizing various charities, he requested my photograph and permission to reproduce my picture in his journal. Not a little flattered, 1 chose my best pose and inclosed the photograph to him, and in the course of time a fairly creditable fikenes was published. As my photo was returned, I thought: no more about it; but a month or two later I was horrified to recelve a badly printed, common looking western paper, with my portrait in the very center of the front page, and the dreadful words In big type above it—'She polsoned her husband! “‘It seems that the print had been seen and rocognized by a friend travellng on a west- ern rallroad in a newspaper that was being read by his next neighbor. Having seen the first publication In the journal I mentioned, he at once remembered the plcture, and wishing, for my sake, to trace the cut, he invented some excuse for borrowing the paper, found the name and address of the editor, and going to his office demanded an explanation. This was furnished him without hesitation by the genlal proprietor of the =, who acknowledged that he had no idea ‘whose portrait he was using. ‘A good looking woman lKe that,’ he was pleased to say, ‘gives interest to a plzening case, and so I just stuck her in Where did I get the cut? Oh, I buy them cheap after they have been used Iif the east- ern papers. Of course well known people keep their own names, but there are gener- ally a lot of other portraits that come handy for anything that turns up. And so that lady's a friend o' yours? Well, you must have had kinder a shock when you saw she'd been a-pizening ber family!" And the wretch laughed as if it were an excellent Joke. ‘Shall 1 deny it fer you? But I guess that'd only make it worse, wouldn't it? Bet- ter leave it be, and I'll give you the woodeut, 80 that you can see that she don't cut up any more shines,’ he added facetiously.” The dwelling house of the future, con- structed on scientific and hygienic principles, will be bathtubless, says the New York Mall and Express. The porcelain lined and wine Mned and tin lined tubs of today will be wnknown. Thelr places will be taken by a tilel room, In which will be arranged shower or rain baths at various angles. These douches will supply hot, cold or tepid water at the pleasure of the bather, and the liquld will be carried Off as fast as It Is used by a spaclous drain plpe. The idea is not a new one, and wher- ©ver it has been adopted the result has been gratitying. There are three houses in Lon- don, recently completed, supplied with this method of bathing, and there is sald to be pne in Philadelphia, It ls not known whether ! the fnncvation has been made in New York— that fs, whether there is any private dwell- Ing fitted up exclusively with shower baths. There are soveral fashionable houses on Madison and Fifth avenues that have both, but it is doubtful if anywhere the tub has sen abandonod altogether. It 1s claimed for the rain bath that it is in every way superior to the method we have known since civilizaticn began, and this has been proven in many public insti- tutions. The first one ever built in America was put fn the New York Juvenile asylum. The Denilt dispensary has them, and so has the buthing cstablishment erected by the trustees of the Baron Hirsch fund at Henry and Market streets. One of the largest rain baths in the country is now in course of construction in the State Hospital for the Insane at Utica, and it is predicted that within a few years all prisons and hospitals will have adopted the system. The most enthuslastic advocate of the rain bath 1s Willlam Paul Gerhard, who has made a study of its advantages. fn the first place he says that it requires less space in the planning of a bath house, It consumes less time In application, the body of the bather jes not come in contact with solid water the mechanical and tonic effect of the de- geending stream s unquestionable, the clean ing and stimulating effects are greater than In a bath tub, less water Is required, and no time is lost in waiting for the filling of the tub in houses where the supply Is slow. These are a few of the reasons advanced, and Mr. Gerhard bases an elaborate argument upon them, maintaining his position through- out with a logie that is convincing and in- teresting. There Is a pretty flutter among the publie school teachers of San Francisco. President Hyde of the Board of Education, slgning a lot of certificates recently, was struck with the number of them bearing the diminuti sie, Ettie and Dirdie. The « 1 the worst of all. Why, just think of it,"" said the educator to a local reporter, “the teacher who signed lerself Birdie fs named Blanche. Her name {sn't Birdie at all. Now, that isn't right or dignified. Then there were Essies and Daisys and Etties galore. I don't think it 18 quite the thing. 1 spoke a year ago lo the superintendent about this, but it seems that the epidemic of pet names is spreading in. Why, just think; there is the principal of one school here whom every one calls Bessie. She is so ashamed of it now that she signs herself B. Blank. I won't give her name. It wouldn't be fair. upposo,” went on President Hyde, lift- ing up his hands in horror at the thought, “I signed myselt Freddie—Freddie Hyde,” he repeated slowly. “Imagine how that would sound! Freddie Hyde! Why, it is preposterous. And yet we see gray-haired women in the department, signing them- selves Gussie, Jennie, Jessie and Birdie. Out of all of which has come a rule pro- nibiting the use among the teachers of pet names in official designation. Investigation disclosed that one-third of the Christian names printed in the school directory are diminutives.” Annies, Maggies, Netties, Nel- lies and Carries abound, many, of them borne by married women long past their first vyouth, and, officially, they must all go. Rules affecting personal tastes and opin- fons are always unpleasant, but the pro- priety of the suggestion that educator should cease to be “Birdies” and “Essies few will question. The reaction set in in the cast some time ago, and the use of di- minutives In signatures of professional and business women is much more often omitted than employed. Tired after numerous calls to patients who had broken noses, broken heads or broken hearts, one of Director Beitler's police sur- geons was waiting the other day at a street corner in the Fourth ward for a horse car, says the Philadelphia Press. He is a martyr to cold fcet, and, as the car did not arrive, his teeth began to chatter, and he entered a near-by dry goods store and said to the proprietor: “‘Good morning, madam. May I wait in this store until my car arrives?” “Faix, an' I don't know 'bout that. I don’t want strange min In me shop. Git out!" said the woman addressed. “But my feet are cold, and, surely, in the name of charity—" “Then war-r-m thim by walkin’. out!” Git ‘Surely, madam, you don’t think T would steal anything. I could buy your store and all the rickety tenements around you and have lots of money left over,” said the sur- geon, warmly. “Steal, is it? Faix, but I'm not so sure of that,” exclaimed the critic. Just then the surgeon saw his horse car coming, and he opened fire on the woman as follows: “You infinitesimal creature of a mundane sphere, locked in the depths of your Inexhaus- tiblen, you vassal of an inflammatory oligarchy, whose word is latitudinarianism. Oterque quarterque beati quis onte ora patrum Trojae sub moenibus altis!”’ For once in her life the virago was “floored,” and she listened respectfully to the surgeon’s Latin with her mouth open. “Stay it ye wish, sur,” she said at last, in quavering tones, ‘‘but don’t swear in that way; it makes me blood cur-r-dle The surgeon fled. The woman had met her master. The kitchen ought to be the most Inter- esting room in the house and be the best furnished—in proportion, of course—and yet it is too often the case that it is the most dismal hole imaginable. Many house build- ers pay no attention to the location of the kitchen at all. They put it off in a lower dark corner, one that s too gloomy for any other purpose, and there the woman who does her own work has to spend two-thirds of her waking hours. The kitchen should be—for health’s sake, if for no other—the brightest room in the house excepting only the nursery and the room where the chil- dren sleep. It should have every conven- ience for saving labor and steps and be well ventilated. It need not be a very large room, If everything is compactly arranged in it, and it should have the walls lined with cupboards, built in the house. The sinks should not be enclosed, for if they are a bit damp they will get to smelling bad in a very short time and nothing will ever overcome it. You will find on inquiry that in old houses where the kitchen is poked oft under the back stoop and has but one window, facing on a walled-up area, or north, the people of that house had always some member of the family sick. Microbes and infection love dark Kitchens. At a recent competitive examination, held in Philadelphia for appointment of residents in the Ph'ladelphia hospital (‘Blockley”), there were eighty-four contestants, eight of whom were women. The honor of obtain- ing first rank over all other candidates has been accorded to Dr. Helen Baldwin of Con- necticut, a graduate of the Woman's Medi- cal college of the New York infirmary, class of '91. Dr. Baldwin is also a graduate of Wellesley college, and she has served as interne in the New England Hospital for Women and Children. She took the ex- amination held in Hoston in June, 1892, for admission to the Massachusetts Medical so- citey, and there also she obtained the highest mark given by the examiners. The present result in Philadelphia marks the second instance within four years where a woman has been declared “No. 1 in the Blockley examinations.” Two other women are also to serve on the newly appointed staft of residents, which numbers sixteen in all. Dr. Augusta G. Willlams of Brook- line, Mass., graduated this past month from the Woman's Medical college of Pennsyl- vania, obtained the ninth rank, while Dr. Caroline Hetrick of Pennsylvania, graduated at the same time and place as Dr. Willlams, recelved the tenth place of honor. A prominent attorney who has just re- turned from a trip through Elliott county Investigating land titles for a Loulsville syn- dicate related a story of an incident which bas since caused gossip in Elliott county, Kentucky, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It seems that James Wilson, a well-to-do farmer of Elliott county, wooed and married pretty Mary Pence some ten years ago. For a time thelr life was a gay one, but soon domestie discord prevalled. ~Matters reached such a stage that by mutual consent the couple agreed to obtain a divorce. Wilson was to apply for the decree and his wife was to make no defence. This It was believed would avold publieity, and both would se- cure the desired freedom. An attorney was employed several months ago by Wilson with Instructions to secure the divorce. During the time caused by the law’s delay in grant- ing the divorce the wife and husband met, and they were finally reconciled, and again determined to live together, So complete was their new happiness and 80 joyous their second honeymoon that neither husband nor wife thought of the pro- ceeding which had been filed for divorce. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDA , JULY 7, 1894. The lawyer, in the meantime, had recorded the divorce, and in the rush of business for- got to nform the husband of the granting of the decree. For a month Mr. and Mrs. Wilson lived together after the divorce was granted, in utter ignorance of the fact that they were not man and wife. The people gossiped, but nothing reached the ears of the couple. One day soon after the Elliott county grand jury met and indicted both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson for living together. The first inti- mation they had of theis divorce being granted was the appearance of the sheriff of Elliott county with the Indictments and bench warrants for their arrest. Mr. and Mrs. Wilon went before a mag- istrate and gave bail to appear in court. Im- mediately after giving bond they went be- re a minister and were again married. They hope that when their case is called that the charges will be dismissed when their attorney makes the statement of the delusion they labored under. profitable lesson for children to leirn early, In life is to be independent enough to wait on themselves, says the Philadelphia Times, Have nails driven low for the little hands to reach and teach them to hang up their own hats and bonnets every time they take them off. ~Teach them habits of order and neatness just as soon as they are old enough to be taught any- thing, and many needless steps will be saved. It seems perfectly natural for the average child to toss down combs, books, towels, papers, soiled aprons and dozens of other articles where they were last used, and then to turn them all over when a needed article is wanted that cannot ba found in its place. And the bad habit will de- velop surprisingly fast, unless checked very early in life. Teach the children to discern right from wrong. Teach them that if anything seems wrong to them they are not to do it, no mat- ter if people do eay it is proper, and that if it is right they must go on regardl what people say. We are, doubtless, miliar_with households where the mother “What will people say?” whenever a subject is brought up for consideration. Of course, a reasonable amount of respect ought to be paid to the rest of the world, and pub- lic opinion is often a healthful restraining power. But to take public opinion as a rule of action, and invariably be guided by it, shows a weakness and lack of will and rea- soning power. The “lady commercial” is fast becoming an institution in Birmingham, as elsewhere, says the Birmingham Mail. She Is, gener- ally speaking, quite as smart and resource- ful as her male competitor, and her sex gives her an adlitional advantage. Apart altogether from the difficulty of saying “No” to a woman, especially if young and hand- some, the more drastic methods of getting rid of unwelcome importunities are obviously out of the question when the “traveler” is of the gentler sex. And then, of course, the lady is bound to have the last word. An en- terprising member of the fraternity—or ehould 1 rather say sisterhood >—called upon a local firm the other morning. She was assured that the stock In her special line was full up. “But I should like w0 show you my samples. I'm sure yow'd like them.” ‘Not today, thank you. Besidez, we have no ac- count’ with your firm.” “I know you haven't, but you'll allow me to open one, won't you? Only a small line, for a beginning?” “No, we positively don't require anything in that way just now.” “Really! Well, good morn- ing. T'll call agin in the afternoon. Gentle- men are generally more open to reason when they have dined.'” A very “Is old age unlovel said a woman of soclety who is herself not so very young. “Yes, but it need not be so. Of course good temper and a youthful spirit go far to make it charming to look upon; but, putting these desirable qualities aside, old age is, to speak frankly, made agrecable by absolute neat- ness. “It's in the lack of this dainty neatness that too many old people offend—even some of those who have all their lives been ac- customed to refined and careful ways. They yield to the physical languor and weakness that creep on them with the creeping years, and the little efforts and exertions that beautiful neatness requires they are inclined to neglect. All the accessories of an old person’s attire should be fresh and complete, though not neccssarily expensive, and the most exact personal cleanliness should be observed. Attend to these matters and no old man or woman need be unlovely. I've seen old Quaker ladies who were as winning in their way as any sweet, rosy baby, with their spotless dress and their delicate com- plexions, their scrupulously cared for hands and their smoothly banded white hair. I should always preach to old people the prosaic and perfectly simple doctrine, ‘Be clean, be clean, be clean, if you want to remain be- loved and admired by your youngsters.' ** The widow of the late President Carnot is the daughter of M. Dupont-White, a cele- brated political economist. She brought her husband some fortune and proved to be of the greatest assistance to him in pushing his political Interests. Mme. Carnot is a woman of exceedingly refined tastes and captivating manners, clever, chatty, well informed, anx- fous to please and highly successful in soci- ety. She is an accomplished linguist, speaks English with fluency, and has a wide ac- quaintance with English literature. Her father, M. Dupont-White, was a liberal re- publican and a great admirer of the political institutions of England. Mme. Carnot's brilliant social qualities, amiable disposition and philanthropy were of Inestimable value to her husband in the promotion of his in- terests as a statesman. While Queen Victoria was In Florence there was given a first performance of an operetta, “Ethelinda,” at the Pergola. The plece met a tremendous success. It is said to be a work of art showing the spirit of a musical genius. The orchestration is said to be marvelous, and on the night of the dress rehearsal the critics many times burst into unanimous and enthusiastic applause. The judgment of the Florentine musical pub- lic has weight all over the world, and It has no scruples in expressing condemnation, even Some of Verdi's operas having been hissed in Florence. To achieve a triumph before such critics, then, means something, and a mysterious Mr. Marion, who was said to be the composer, Is not “Mr.” at all, but Lady Mildred Marion Jessup, youngest daughter of the earl of Strathmore, who married Mr. ‘Augustus Jessup of Philadelphia. Mr. Jessip wrote the libretto which Lady Miidred set to music. Like all familiar customs whose origin is lost in antiquity, the wearing of orange blossoms s accounted for in varlous ways. Among other stories is the following pretw legend from Spain, says Kate Field's Wash- InBLON. rican prince presented a Spanish king with a magnificent orange tree, who:e creamy, waxen blcssoms and wonderful fra- grance excited the admiration of the whole Sourt, Many begged in vain for a branch of the plant, but a foreign ambassador was tormented by the desire to Introduce so great ® curlosity to his native land. He had used every possible means, fair or foul, to acccmplish his purpo:e, but all his ef- forts coming to naught he gave up in de- spalr. The falr daughter of the court gardener was loved by a young artisan, but lacked the dot which the family considered neces- sary in a bride. One day, chancing to break off a spray of orange blossoms, the gardener thoughtlessly —gave it to his daugh- ter. Seeing the coveted prize In the girl's hair, the wiley ambassador promptly gave her a sum sufficient for the desired dowry, pro- vided she gave him the branch and sald nothing about it. Her marriage was soon celebrated, and on the way to the altar, in grateful remembrance of the source of a1l her happiness, she secretly broke off an- other bit of the lucky tree to adorn her halr. - x Whether the poor court gardener lost his head in consequence of the daughter's treachery the legend does not state, but many lands now know the wonderful’ tree, and ever since that wedding day orange blossoms have been considered a fitting adornment for a bride, Cards have been recelved at the Woman's College announcing the marriage of Dr, Mary V. Mitchell, physicsl director of the college, and Mr. Robert P. Green of Swarth- more, Pa. It was the third wedding in two years of lady professors in the gymna:tic Qepartment of the college, and the stu- dents and professors now have a standing Joke about the chair of physical culture be- ing fatal to the occupants who think them- selves proof sgainst affalrs of the heart, Dr. Mitchell 1s a young physician of ex- ceptional ability, and she was greatly liked at the college, Previous to her acceptance " N of the directorship of the physical depart- ment she had practiced; mpdicine for ten years at Media, P e came to the eol- lege two years ago to,fll, the vacancy caused by ‘the resignation of Dr. Alice W, Hall, who married Prof. Chapman, then of the Johns Hopkins university, and subse- quently superintendent of education in W consin, A femsle of 54, Intely A niiree at the Hack- ney Training school at Brentwood, who Is at present under repremand for (Il treat- ing a number of pauper gitls less than 14 years of age, must certalnly be credited With the possession of a wonderful fertility of invention of the art of inflicting pain. Among the acts of cruelty imputed to her are knocking the children’s heads against the wall, cutting their heads with keys, making them kneel with bare knees on the wire guards which covered the hot water pipes, thrashing them with canes and stinging nettles, forcing them to march im- perfectly clad around the dormitory with baskets containing their clothes upon their heads, administering the bastinado if they dropped either clothes or basket, and, finally, depriving them of water to drink for twenty-four hour: at a time. The eight unmarried ladies who hold office as Victoria’s maids of honor have somo privileges. They are given the pre- fix of “honorable,” and, on marrying, re- celvo from the queen the gift of £1,000. Ono or two malids of honor reside for a fort- night at a time at Windsor or Osborne, but her majesty seldoms takes more than one to Scotland, The distinctive badge worn by maids of honor iz a bow of scarlet rib- bon on the shoulder, while the ladies-in- waiting wear a white bow with the queen’s cameo portrait. The dowery of a maid of honor has been given for at least 150 years, but fs according to her majesty's pleasure, and In 1868 it was refused to one lady who engaged herself in marriage without the consent of her royal mistre:s. Fushion Hints, Black laces are fully as fashionable as thite—both edgings and insertions. The use of laces this season is unlimited. A silk dust cloak Imported from Paris has a full collarette or deep lace. “Kenmare" is the name of a wide ribbed serge to be found in light green, water blue, red, butter color, and pale gra Light suede gloves prevail for summer wear, and crean butter color, and a kind of “rosy fawn'' are the most desirable shades. Sharp Vandyke points, either small or large, are seen in nearly every sort of lace, and their decorative possibilities appear to be inexhaustible. The black satin violets of the winter and spring have been replaced for midsummer hats by white satin ones. They are massed in huge overtopping bunches. A new bathing suit Is a blouse redingote of blue serge, held at the waist with a sash of white serge, and revers of white opening over a plastron striped with blue. Cotton sateens in floral designs of pink and black are very taking, and a favorite pattern in gingham is tiny white horse- shoes dotted all over a pale blue ground. A dainty house slipper is made of heavy black eatin, which is cut away over the in- step and replaced by an insertion of jet open- work, extending to within half an inch of the pointed toe, In summer laces, circular ripples are seen on most of the net-top varleties. Insertions are provided to match nearly all the various designs which are woven elther with straight or fancy edges. Coarse brown and yellow straws trimmed with shades of deep blue are a feature of summer hats, and blue poppies are a late addition to the unnatural flower garden of millinery fame. The craze for neck bands of bright-colored velvet, with a fall of lace in front, has devel- oped into another for neck ruches, and these are made of lace, ribbon, and chiffon, box- plaited very full. Satin cloth, so fashionable) this year, comes in all possible colors, and fs said to wear forever. A pretty design shows little squares of biscuit color outlined. with pale blue silk on a black ground. ; Fashion dictates that, silyer sleeve links and studs should be worn .with colored and gold with linen shirt waists. Also, that the belt buckle, be it jeweled, silver, or gold, should be of oval shape. Striped and checked taffeta silks of exqul- site quality and luster are among the dressi- est fabrics worn this summer, and a variety of artistic combinations of color are often used to form the design. Marie Antoinette fichus of chiffon, dotted and plain muslin, net or lace, either black or white, are one of the fashionable accessories of summer dress, and the very chic ones are knotted In the back with falling ends. Dark blue tulle, or tulle of any color, is an important adjunct to headgear, no color, or any combination of colors, being too incon- gruous for the season's fancy. A purple bird, a buhch of cherries, and blue rosettes are the variety on one hat. Fans are much smaller than heretofore and the most fashionable are the pretty Empire air-givers mounted on tortoise shell sticks of yellow. ~Others are embroidered very finely with baby ribbon In Louis XV. styles and illuminated with spangles. Alpaca Is becoming more and more popu- lar, and the black gowns of it are made and trimmed with ecru lawn exquisitely embroid- cred. A heavy quality, which is very glossy, is used for coats, and another varlety has little silk stars raised on the surface. Ivy is in fashion, and entire bonnets are made of it, with little tufts of pink roses in front and back. Cyclamen color and red popples, softened with black aigrettes or feathers, are a fashionable trimming, and all ;m:s have a little droop of blossoms on the hair. ° Feminine Notes. Amelie Rives Chanler is planning a trip to the Holy Land. Miss Sibyl Sanderson lately appeared as Julict in Paris in a splendid violet gown embroidered with turquoises. Miss Blanche H. Hill is the first woman to compete for the Goddard prizes for ora- tory at Tufts college. She won the first prize in the first division. Miss Addie Larned and Miss Mary Hamil- ton of Toledo, O., who were recently ap- pointed appraisers of the estate of women of that city, are, it is claimed, the first women appointed to such an office. Rudyard Kipling seems to'have hit the nail squarely on the head in his summing up of the situation of the latter-day woman. Says he: “A woman today can do exactly what her body and soul will let her,” and she certainly can. It is now permitted in Japan that a native woman may remain single If she so choose. The mikado has recently lssued a decree to that effect. Heretofore, If found unmar- ried after a certain age, a husband was ses lected for her by law. Fashionable hostesses mwho wish to do things a little out of thestrdinary occasion- ally serve potatoes in their jackets, on an- tique-looking wooden: Tplates beautifully carved, which are fac:similes of the wooden trenchers of feudal times.) A recent English invenfidn for the nursery 1s a “patent veiled sheet.” T It is an ordinary sheet, In which a squareof gauze net Is in- serted. This is intefided to be thrown over the face of a sleepiiy infant, protecting it from flies without impedig the respiration. G. F. Watts, the pilnté¥ has been attack- ing in unmeasured langugge what he con- siders the ridiculoas iffiitation of insect form by women. He condemns, as all artists do, the lengthened Wafd¥, which has the effect of shortening thb "fower limbs and al- tering nature's beautjYul proportions. Lady Terence Blagkwodd (formerly Miss Flora Davis of New York)wore at her sister- in-law's wedding in, Parls, the other day a broad-striped black and White moire gown, The bodice of it was covered with pale blue gauze, and her large Leghorn hat was trimmed with white feathers and pale blue rosettes, Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cruger will miss this season that delightful ‘summer writing room of hers down at “Idlesse,” her lovely Long Island home . that went up In smoke last winter. A marble floor, & marble divan strewn with rugs and a playing fountain made it an ideal apartment with the ther- mometer in the nineties, Every one who has ever sung a song or played a plece of music before friends knows the agony of mind engendered by what ought to be the simple operation of “turning over,” and will appreciate the word that an English inventor—a woman, it {8 sald—has designed a small tool or attachment by which the leaves of music are kept apart and the fingers quickly inserted, Here Is food for ‘thought in propounded by a Boston woman: a question “‘What would prevent,” she asks, “if we were to have universal suffrage in Massuchusetts our distranchising the male population? Nothing in the world if we were united. There are 49,000 more women than men in this_state, and we should have it all our own way, and would soon be masters of the political situation.” Shoppers have become used to buying lee cream freezers and sealskin cloaks, carpots and dlamond rings under one roof, but live lambs are a commodity tuat heretofore has not been offered at bargain sales—as they were at a Baltimore department shop the other day. Those who bought the lanibs had to fake them away themselves, and this the eager women managed to do by grasping the little creatures in both arms. pok e bl TOLD OUT OF COURT. Entertaining Anccdotes About Members of Bench and Bar. It was “a happy accident” that made Chief Justice Richardson of New Hampshire a lawyer. His father was a farmer and intended to make his son a cultivator of the sofl. But at 16 an accident so injured one of the boy's hands as to unfit him for man- ual labor. He then determined to become a scholar. He entered Harvard college, grad- uated with high rank, taught school, studied law, and sixteen years after his admission to the bar was appointed to the highest judi- cial position in New Hampshire Judge Richardson, says Youth's Compan- fon, supplemented his native capacity, which was remarkable, by untiring mental indus- try. He studied the great works of the sages of the law, and, that he might not be a mere lawyer, read the Latin and Greek classics and the best French, Italian and Spanish authors. Natural science was also cultivated, especially botany, in which he became proficient, Like all men whom culture has broadened and made many sided, Judge Richardson was hospitable to new ideas. He had little pride of opinion, and was willing to abandon one of his own rulings if argument had con- vinced him that it was not tenable. He was unlike another judge of the state who held so0 pertinaciously to his first impressions that it was sald of him: “It {s of great importance that Judge Win- gate should form a correct opinion before he pronounced it, for after that law, reason and authority would be unavailing.” Judge Richardson’s readiness to abandon a ruling he had once made was not relished by some of the lawyers. That great lawyer, Jeremiah_Mason, was once pressing a point on the judge with his usual force. Brother Mason,” said the judge, “the im- pression of the court is in your favor.” Yes,” retorted Mason, “but I want your honor to stick!” In Illinois and some other states there Is an old law on the statute books to the effect that in ecriminal cases the jury is “judge of the law as well as the facts.” Though not often quoted, once in a while a lawyer with a desperate case makes use of it. ~ In one case the judge instructed the jury that it was to judge of the law as well as the facts, but added that it was not not judge of the law unless it was fully satisfied that it knew more law than the judge. An outrageous verdict was brought in, contrary to all instructions of the court, who felt called upon to rebuke the jury. At last_one old farmer arose: “Jedge,” said he, “‘were't we to jedge the law as well as the facts?" “Certainly,” was the response; “but I told you not to judge the law unless you were clearly satisfled that you knew the law bet- ter than I did.” “Well, jedge,” answered the farmer, as he his quid a little, “‘we considered that The young man had just been admitted to practice at the bar. He sat within the bar enclosure, speculating upon the chances of clients coming to him, by mistake or other- wise. He Hheard his name spoken and started to his feet, relates Harper's Drawer. “Mr. De Novo, the prisoner at the bar, is unable to employ counsel. Wil you defend him “‘Certainly, your honor. May I retire with him to the bar office for a few moments’ con- sultation?”" ““Yes, sir, and give him your best advice.” A chardly perceptible sneer curled his honor's lips-as he uttered these last words; but the young man did not appear to notice it. Motioning for the prisoner to follow him, he passed into the other room. The door was closed, and for ten minutes the lively clatter of many conversations filled the court room. Then the young man strolled into the room and dropped into a chair. The crier proclaimed, “Silence in the court room!” His honor gazed upon the young man and said: “Are you ready to proceed?"” Yes, your honor.” “Where's the prisoner “I really don't know.” What " I'm sure I don't know, “Mr. De Novo, will you explain what you mean by this most extraordinary conduct?” “Your honor told me to give him the best advice I could, I believe?” “Yes, sir.” “May it please the court, when I consulted him I found he was guflty, and had really no defence whatever. So, in pursuance of your honor's £o kindly meant suggestion, 1" aa- vised him to drop out of the window aL? make himself ag svarce as possible. I pre- sume, in fact 1 Know, that he followed the first part of my adviod, and I believe he wnl also observe { e rest of {L." The prisoncy that was s still at large. Some years ago, L the trial of a cause before a justice of the peace in one of the southern states, a decidedly novel legal authority was cited by one of the learned members of the bar, which wrought some slight confusion in the court room. “The court will pleasa observe,” remarked this acute counsel, with much deliberation and a most ponderous manner, “that In the case of Shylock vs Antonio, although judgment was rendered in favor of the plamntiff, yet circum:tances prevented the execution which had issued from being car- ried into effect, in spite of that fact.” “To what cause,” inquired the justice, with a face overspread with perplexity, “did tho court understand the gentleman to re- fer?” “Shylock vs Antonio, second Shakespeare, page 235, Jchneon's edition,” returned the counsel, solemnly. “The court will find there the case reported in full.” Tho court unfortunately did not, upon reflection, consider the authority quoted as quite sufficient. A refreshing sample of brevity by bench and bar occurs in a case where the great Erskino ‘appeared for the plaintiff, “who sought to reccver 10 guincas lent by him to his lady love before they parted to meet— in court. Erskine began by remarking that when love was over the laconic style of letter writing was most fitting, He then read the following letter from the de- fendant : Sir—When convenient you shall have your 10 guineas. 1 despise you. CATHARINE KEELING. Said BErskine: 1 shall prcve the hand- writing, and that is my case.” Asked Bearcroft, counsel for the defense: “Ig that all?" “Ay," quoth Erskine, “Then 1 despise you, sald Bearcroft, and Mr. Justice Buller nonsuited the plain” ift, After this one does not much marvel at this judge’s notion of paradise: “Playing whist all night and trying nisi prius cases all_day." These, by the by, were the days of short opinions a3 well as short specches. Tauntcn would sometimes advie: ““The question is worth trying.” Erskine once wrote: “The action will lie 1t the witnesses do. Counsel (to talesman)—Have you knowledge of arything in this world? Talesman—I have not. Counsel—Do you know enough to come In out of the rain? Talesman—I do not Counsel—If you were standing on a rail- roud track and an express train approached at a speed of ninety miles an hour would yourstep out of the way? Talesman—I would not. Chorus of Lawyers—Step Jury box. any right Into the A well known lawyer on elrcuit in the north _of England, curious to know how a certain, juryman arrived at his verdict, meet- ing him oue day, ventured to ask: *'Well," replied he, “I'm a plain man and I like to be fair to every one. I don't go by what the witnesses Ay, and I don't go by what the lawyers siy, and I don't go by what the judges say; but I looks at the man in the dock and 1 says, ‘He must have done something or he wouldn't be there,! so I brings 'em all in gullty,” 1GAZINES OF Uncle Sam Is the patri candidate in the line of eolored pletorial journelim. It s evidently stroagly A, P. AL fn spielt, Judging from the first nuin- ber. Issued monthly, priee - 10+ conts, Uncle Sam Publishing = Company, 714- tller bullding, Chieng June Overland conta'ng another of the yan stories, this one ealled “Amok,” reciting the luve witair of a ycung Malayan man aud girl, which ends cragicilly m the sufeide of the man by the traditional meth of his race, runuing amok, Overland Monk Publishing Company, San Francisco, In the popular natural history column of Meehun's Monthly for June is explaine how the “adder’s tongue,” cr “dog tooth violet,” pushes fts roots decp futo \he ground, why leaves vary fn outline on the same tree, and we learn ambng its varled Informaticn that the American eller, a bush in the north, mukes small trees in the south Thomas Mcehan & Sons, Germantown, Phil- adelphia. Home and Ccuntry for Juno is finoly il- lustrated. A very entertu.ning short story In_this number is entitled ““The Golden Amulet,” by Franecs Smythe, It Is a story of anclent Rome. The fntroductory arti- cle, “The Art of Music,” by Hamilton Rodier Cochrane, is delightful ‘and instruc- and the frontispiece, “The Poetry of 5 I8 an idyllfe gem. Joseph W. Kay Fast Tenth street, Now York. The Bookbuyer for June intraduces to its readers, by portrait and sketeh, the Dutch writer, Maarten Moartens, whose real name is J. M. H. Van der Poortenschwartz. A London and a Hoston letter cach convey a lively ‘string of literary chat. The ususl spread cf news, sketches, selections, criti- cism and comment, all Interspersed liber- ally with portraits and other striking illus- trations, enrich its pages. Charles Scrib- ner's Sons, New York. The Memorial day issue of Blue and Gray 18 exceptionally handsome as well as merito- rious. A Glimpse of Richmond on the James," by Louisa Howard Bruce, is pro- fusely illustrated and very interesting. The most notable paper is an open letter to Americans on "Facts and Fallacies in Fi- nance” by a writer under the nom de plume “Willlam Penn, Jr.” It is a bold attack on current theories of all schools and, being free from technical and ambiguous phraseol- ogy, will be easily understood. The Patri- otic American Company, Philadelpha. The month’s record ig, as usual, ably mir- rored in the columns of the June Review of Reviews. Our naval policy is one of the leading toples treated editorially and in con- nection a number of projects of ship canal building in relation to seaboard defense are discussed. The senate’s tarift muddle, the Great Northern railway strike and arbitra- tion, the coal miners strike, the prevalence of Coxeylsm, woman's suffrage, the temper- ance movement and news of the college world are all reviewed and English political and sozial movements come in for a share of attention. The Review of Reviews, 13 As- tor Place. New York. Consplcuous in the June number of Dona- hoe's Magazine are two articles diametri- cally opposite In character on the subject of monopoly, one entitled “The Biessings of Monopoly,” by Rev. T. A. Hendrick, presents a strong plea for the competitive system and monopoly and the other, “The Oasls of Si- wah,” exposes the power and source of mo- nopoly in a hideous light. The halo sur- rounding the name of John Brown is some- what ruthlessly dispelled in a most charm- Ing article by Catharine Frances Cavanaugh on “Harper’s Ferry and the Man Who Made it Famous.” Fine illustrations and bril- Hant short articles are liberally scattered through its pages. Donahoe's Magazine Com- pany, 611 Washington Street, Bostou. The unvelling in Central park of the Sunol statue of Columbus leads The Art Am- ateur in its June issue to complain that “an occasion such as this should surely have added luster to the cause of American art and national self-respect. Instead it but emphasized the snobbish preference among certain of our rich men for anything that is forelgn.”” A color study in the shape of a bunch of roses and a sunset entitled “The Last Glow,” by Annette Moran, accompany this number, the frontispiece of which is a portrait of a lady in renalssance costume engraved by Baude from a painting by Ba- renstein. The usual varicty of instructive contributions and notes appear. Montague Marks, 23 Union Square, New York. The influence of consclence upon the mind of a great genius is illustrated in O. B. Flower's article in the June Arena on ‘‘The Social Ideals of Victor Hugo A striking collection of data Is presented in the sympo- sium on “Child Slavery in America” by Mrs. Alvina Parsons Stevens, assistant fac- tory inspector for Illinois; Mrs. Alice L. Woodbridge and Prof. Thomas E. Will. Con- gressman Davis writes on “Hcnest and Dis- honest Money.” Mrs. Annie L. Diggs in a paper called ““A Captain of Industry’” gives a bit of recent history. “An’ Earnest Word on the New Day," by the editor, is a strenuous plea for reform through moral forces instead of violence. “The Sixth Sense and How to Develop It,” by Paul Tyner, is a most remarkable contribution to the litera- ture of physical research, and Elbert Hub- bard contributes a valuable paper on the American Protective association movement in which he poiuts out the end of this move- ment. The Arena Publishing Company, Copley Square, Boston. “Who Will Pay the Bills of Soclalism?" asks E. L. Godkin in the June Forum in the title of his article discussing the finances of proposed socialistic schemes. Mr. Godkin ralses a good scarecrow in his query, for it is hard to explain how to pay bills that have no existence. Soclalistic schemes resolve themselves invariably into a process of co- operative production and division of produce accordingly, hence there is no room for “bills.” It the total production were less than the total under present methods, why there would be less to consume and human- ity might go backward, but there would be no bills unpaid under ‘any conditions. His method of discussing the relative merits of systems is therefore under false colors, and is misleading, and the article abounding In misstatements is further propped by clever omissions. A simlilar contribution is “Farm- ers, Fallacies and Furrow: by Hon. J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agriculture, in which the writer sheds huge tears over the fact that the farmer is restricted from buy- ing in the market in which he sells. He forgets, evidently, that for every dollar sent abread he kills a dollar's worth of home mar- ket without Increasing his forelgn market a nickel's worth. It's real'y too bad Farmer- boy Morton can’t be permitted to kill the goose that lays his golden egg. The Forum Publishing Company, Union Square, New York. MAGAZINES RECEIVED. ASTRONOMY AND ASTRO-PHYSICS, Carle- ton College, Northfield, Minn. GOOD THINGS, Good ~Things Jompany, 917 Guaranty Loan Minneapolis, Minn. TWENTIETH CENTURY, New York. THE CYCLOPEDIC REVIEW OF CUR. RENT HISTORY, Garretson Cox & Co,, Buffalo, N. Y. THE CHAP-BOOK, Stone & Kimball, Chi- cago and Cambridge. THE HUMANITARIAN, 17 Gate, London, Eng. THE HARVARD GRADUATE'S MAGA- ZINE, The Harvard Graduate's Magazine association, 6 Beacon street, Boston. JENNESS MILLER MONTHLY, 114 Fifth avenue, New York City. POET-LORE, Poet-Lore Company, 196 Sum, mer street, Boston. THE IDLER, The International News Com- pany, 83 and 85 Duane street, Ncw York. THE SANITARIAN, Dr. A. N. Bell, Brook- lyn, N. Y. POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, Ginn & Co., 7-13 Tremont Place, Boston. 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