The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1895, Page 4

GUROCRIPTIONS 10 THE EVENING WORLD “ BAe (tnetuding postage): gallery agg ye tage << 2 D Cord Weeenat We tae Prec Pustahine Commesr, © @ PARK ROW, New York. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1895. =— B00. 83.50 «No. 12,20: “at Now York as eecond-inas matter, » he — UPIOWN OFFICH—Junetion of Broad- @ay and Bixth ave. at 320 ot. WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—125th wt and Madi. gon ave. BROOKLYW—809 Waahineton ot. PUILADELPHIA, PA.—Inquirer Office, 1100 Mar- = Bet ot. WASHINGTON—T02 14th et. FOR DECEMBER, 486,104 Per Week Day. For December, 1893, 414,253 Per Week Day. Gain Over 1893, MR. LEXOW' ‘The report of the Lexow Committee, made public last night before being pr: sented to the Senate, was twelve hours ahead of parliamentary usage and sev-) eral months behind public interest. It contained nothing that was not known Jong ago, and the reform demanded by its disclosures was effected last No- vember, Mr. Lexow's bomb was loaded with burned powder. If the Senator had aasisted in prose- euting the work of his Committee as | eMciently as he now thunders in the | index, his fame might be less over-| shadowed by that of Goff, Parkhurst and others who really did the work, not with Lexow, but in spite of Lexow. Aside from its rehash of ati sures, the report merely reg @ecrees of Mr. Platt as to police ‘re- | Tt will attract little attention and Reve no Influence upon the eltuation. STOP IT. make up its mind to aceept the situation. | 4 DAILY SINT FROM MDOUGALL. Mr. Platt te their ablest political leade His star te in the ascendant, Legislature, in the Executive Chamber, and now In the county organisation, he is supreme. The party ts under his rule, and he ts a thorough-going and unyteld- ing partisan, willing to make any bar gain for party expediency, though per- What more can strict party men want? It ts not reform—tit is Independent government what the people voted for and supposed they had secured Iai stalwart, cut and dried, practical, dick- ering Republicanism, and what more do Republican politicians expect? Mies Cissy Fitzgerald was at the Ven- smooth, placid A navy blue dress con- tained her fascinating entity, A joyous ac- n-plaited dancing dress iay mutely back of a chair, sonally honest. wreathed with flo was to wear It in the afternoon at the Academy of Music Miss Fitzgerald THE HIGH-HATLESS DRAMA. ods better to call her tte Legislature ts ex- pected to pass a law which will do away the theatre. The bill, which It was announced would be sub- does not say anything mountalnous millinery or even hint at the word hat, but It Insists that managers shall able regulations so that their patrons can witness the play “ without obstruc- tion or annoyance If this bill passes it will destroy fem!- nine interest in may provide side exhibition rooms where their hats on wire stands or shqw them off on wax eMgies of themselves, men's shaving mugs are at the barber’ and they may do everything eise in thelr power to please the dear creatures and atone for the abolishment of the high hat, but their fair patrons will not be happy or satisfied. ‘The army of high-hatters {s human. Most women wear altitudinous headgear to the thentre simply because they know {t is wrong to do so. They find pleasure in worrying the people who sit behind and just as soon as @ woman she cannot enjoy a play and worry somebody at the same time fon fee she will quit 80) was quite the adverse dect- The Massachu: realizes that ¢ he advertises her- is not as absolutely in- as her name would with big hats in adopt suit- We shail ap- e case, and, in the mean time, ask are fighting it out when in front of the enemy. the theatre. fellows are now losing their heads a sec- with Edwardes wae for America. the company. soe to Australla short ladies can hang me for that. care what happens, I sha nder Edwardes's mana all never return to * people—never wardes offered to quadru wouldn't go back. In any cas SPIES hever dance Gold continues to flow from the Treas- ment again. ury at Washington, brass maintains its pre-eminence in the left at the theatres as ‘Oh, because I You must admit that tha ‘The Galety Girl?” nt to stay in America. Don't, you think I have I've been treated e made a hit. ood reason. I like It here. every reason to do 80: The Lexow report shows the work of a master’ And the hand ts distinctly Platt’ a pity that after New York had | Lexowed the report of the proceedings had to be Platted. been @0 we! mericans were such *, that | was afraid ‘On the openitig | Ifcent danc nervous that ardly move. When For cars that are dark and promis: that are vain, the New York L” road | magnates are pecullar. learns that das long as I for the same adm! going to the theatre. the stage five years, very bottom of the everybody do: adder, of course, and went through English proviaces with one of Ed- wardes's travelling compan! sister In London Who dances much bet- ter than T do.” d-you get along well with the *The Gatety Girl’ France happily proved strong enough not to suffer disaster through Casimir- Perter's weakness, It was a happy thought of the Tene- to add public the children of ment-House playgrounds for tenement-house people recommended improvements. gestion of the Committee is that within the next three years not less than two small parks, a part of each of which shall be constructed as grounds, shall be lald out and begun in the disiiict east of the Bowery and Catharine street and south of Fourth street. There are both philanthropy and citizenly sense in this recommendation. The city that looks out for the healthy play of tts children ts taking steps to insure healthy minds in its future rulers, A MUttle more Parkhurst and a little lesa Platt in the Lexow report would bave improved it, members of | " sald Miss Fitzgera‘d, with "whe saw Chicago will have to worry along with | 4 AUER Cr nen (ney Ng only an Illinois man for Senator, after | (iat tle bit vexed about it, and But you needn't ask me 4 more about with thent forever. | telephone to Hummel" (she did not call k him if I can dance this afternoon. t that I might be stopped. if T marched down In my jae ed truce and got arrested at the sccedet in obaning a cue tothe youne Pal | Stage door, eh? didn't like 41;! Register Levy's kindness public _play- ‘The Ansembly broke the record for the nession yesterday. It passed a bill, jhim Abey) “and a fat the Academy Speaking of Platt—no, let us talk about the coming back of baseball. Mr. Platt’s political express line still doing a through busines: sedately clad the same, was ith her husband, ries" | eneee have endeared Reg the English | people. but 1 have no | 2 88 he T met Ike Thompson on Broadway the other day, Miss Minnle Seligman, ‘The Tenement-Houre Committee re- ports a gratifying growth of the bathing habit among the people of the tene- ‘There is no doubt that it ts part of the city's duty to foster the growth of this habit by providing ample public bathing facilities. vision snould be promptly made. cannot have a clean city without clean ‘Who sald the Boss was dead? Or that he was even indisposed? Mr. Brookfield discovered that he was or go doing. have a new play adapted rman—a very dif T can manage It, The hand of Lexow, but the voice of | to introduce it to New Yor! ‘And mich pro- 1 ¥;| mous bookmaker im the country. He mot only | makes @ ati book, but he possesses a fund of | 00d spirits, be | To the Fditor: | WIL some of your readers tell me what T can book | Ao to make my halr curl, other than by the ure jat the Ivy City track. He put up hie prices, and of trons? I am a spinster of thirty and my halt | the Mirst bet offered was fity cents. To a man ha Lejerer & Canary announce frerson de Angells will he starred management {of Nat Roth, dy being made for ra in which he ‘or him, by | John Sherman's Currency bill strikes | Well done, France! and a practical vein in its proposal for a popular loan. So amended forms. | as to leave further consideration of the monetary problem to a properly ap- pointed Commission, it would bridge over temporarily and and not under th vations are alres tour, and the FATHER KNICKERBOCKER’S DIARY. 17, 1998.—1'm § © suspicion. of a hea Dall that a1 tt, ta Hittle wleepy and have Sy} Ita the Old Guard nd 1 knew It would, of course, | But was I golng to let these young blooda around the present musing horror, leave Congress free to pai ater,” was produc The Opium- Brooklyn in amoking a ntpe over an | ‘open barrel filled with gunpowder. With | thousands of {die men in the streets, | with a strong force of policemen on duty and tired out, and with railroad companies trying to run their cars with new employees, the city may at any) moment be subjected to a fearful riot Indeed, there was a collision between the strikers and the police after dark last night, and one policeman was proba- bly fatally injured. ‘The strike ought to be ended. Of! what practical use 1s the Railroad Com- mission unless {t can do something to bring about a settlement? One railroad compuny has already made friendly arrangements with its old hands. Why cannot other companies be | induced to follow Its example? Why Will! ramities of late Fire Battalion Presidents of corpcrations still shut the | jresnan and Assistant Foreman Rooney Herolem is still held egard by the people, and charity is ery and liberal as It ever waa. doors against all compromise by an ar- bitrary retu ” strikers Public sentiment ought to be Invoked | to bring the threatening and perilous trouble to an end. THE NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT. ‘The election of a French President to succeed Casimir-Perier took place with- out excitement. ‘rhe World's" corre- spondent went through Paris last night, visiting the quarters where some feeling might be expected to display itself, and Teporte that there seemed to be positive: ly no Interest in the result Yet the selection of M. Felix Faure was a eurprise. It was generally sup- | posed M, Brisson would be successful M Faure is a man of some parts, 1s conservative in his republicanisin, and, like Gen. Grant, began life as u tanner He has had experience in government affairs, and his election promises wel in the di the extreme lalists. It is pleasant to find that the move- ments of the Duke of Orle they attracted any notice at all in Part excited only ridicule, Pres @ pound and thorough Repu favorite of the ex-President, M. Cast- mir-Perier, BECCEFIELD BEATEN. If it wa split up mittee | Dengue ( Heit, war y Gefeated for Chuir and Mr. award ach, Mr. ¥ Gandidite, was e it was ce ms near @ bolt and z #plit wa c be. For weeks ti have been anno field'y clection was They believed t nail of victory when 1 tO Strong to declare for thelr man. Hu they were beate nelius N. Bliss, homas, Ge ©. H, T. Collis an Lewes ue ites Jeft the hall in disgust, when Lauterbach was meade temporery ait man by a decivive vote and Bro was turned down. This means practicad politics Lauterbach is a very ab! ¢ mau strong Republican, but he is Mietr all ever, and his election was the triumpn ef the working element among the “boys.” Cornelius Van Cott, Jake Pat- “ferson, Fred Gibbs, Johnny Simpson, | George Wanmaker and other practical |in the week ly amply explained. pe sat in the front ruw and| enthusiastic over their victory. Republican party may as well town think the Knickerbocker blood wa to thelra for suck an occastont That gained my years at the expense of my staying Berkeley 1 T rather think this. country—may | priation bills an@ adjourn. oe he the pen of Charles Hannan, submitted his ried myself Just ae gayly and Wehtly ae any of pron, and then discove: them. And ['il do it again. Tt wan felt that radical reform was | necessary in the Police Department, people were hardly sweeping @ recommendation from the that In which tt 1s the commander of the | |force be called, not Superintendent, but | to Beerbohm d to his chagrin, when Tree produced um-eater in Hannan was play refused by Tree. Would hae! T etayed out to-night, to, Ia! about the Republican County Committee contest, Platt, of cours He hes grown insolent again already, Lexow Committee enongh to hear weil | night, Next morning he tenderly dropped hi | proposed that e jeered at x Oplum- ater has acquired the opium had the drug admin- medicine during a | is devoted to tell- | 1 have been surprised wi x the gentle- abit from having ‘The Duke of Orleans hae his ear) the welkin waiting for his but the faintest reached him and France seems to be doing business all right again, Just as if nothing had hap- monstration of his camp! trol of the Lexow Committee—will pul him up My only hope 1s that he will get #0 overbearing an to be actually unbearabi even auch phenomenal patience as th ple on Manhattan Island will have to give way. ing all this, end to Feurious eabine the polson, not | are hung ov Apostro- | were interested in the m: and very | rt, Elsie Ayrto! ives het @ppeara to be mo authority for putting them promise that she over the lamps, It seems to me that they never Tan't tt a selfish thing, anyway, that 8 com ee ae ii r makings he Will never ask for a he two benefits yesterday for the | Which occurred in this very city only a litte two months ago kouckle down again \n all apparent acquiescence ule of w welftsh Hoss? little woman, 1 to recognize or treat with high r Haren tea trina 1 think the storm F the Mayor's exciae ut- Gaeta vt ndun the hety Another wife-murderer ‘electric chair, cut the woman at the worst; ase It crested @ dis usston where the most harm could de done to eof lockl rei If, You wish that | and | ‘To win Miss Hattie Rose, Elsie | And when he married her at last an idiot of him: at a bad time, his one, Richard Leach, throat in a fit of jeal- Court will give weeks to ponder the popular question, “Is marriage a failure?" king himself unpleaswnt Mow he will worry wormt that im reported of the Lesow report contes mad, and murders klsie, rather than tears. ro, and his BY OTHER EDITOH French Republi soft-allppered |'Thurber to look #fter the front door, he ‘may tind his new job @ pretty #mooth The Intelligence of this day not affonl good soll in which to plant wiiipp The only bright spot in the play: v ating of Miss Ida Hammer, as ana Strong takes a Ing when he decrees that the | mpanies must Opening Wedge for Byrnes, are made in (his Legislature, Ten are engaged Upon comic operas just show-plonghs, WILL quietly drive in tur Boston Record, ppointment it occasioned to uke our Police Department, trlumphant nal Ovilaw Extant, of as had a very’ hard s. when A! Me-ta the fit-nanne: up People the Tax WI Hit Ha TO PANKHUR Philadelphia's Lexow tng. Pattison mn: RLDLINGS, we heart eer | The princip! Committee's Hi Paruisan ud haa set apar resent duty i to Perec vg and trapping piling face at Albany earlier | Labrador has 900 species of Sowortr dover 280 spectes of mo: There aro 2,000 lubater taps around and about beheading generals Monbegen Isiead, Mv. and ihey oll makii who failed to show sufficient courage , money. . “a ~ Mence These Thanks. ‘The Chinese are the combination for thet vadiock and worked Commercial Gasetio, DBAMATIO NEWS AND HOTES| “T¥* Svestns wosterw” cattery of Living Pieteres. NAT HERRESHOFF. designer of Bristol, R. I., who has gotten up one successful America’s Cup de- fender and has submitted plans for a fast sailer to meet Dunraven's new chal- lenger. Mr, Herreshoff designed the Vigilant, the Colonia, the Gloriana, the Drusilla, the Mineola and many other boats which have distinguished them- selves at home and abroad. ——_—$$——_—___. THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Gossip Here, » Hint There and True Tales of City Life. New York's lack of cheap cab accommodations has always been one of the frat things to im- press the Londoner visiting the city. It has also excited the comment of American travellers who have had the pleasure of « stay im the English metropolis, and so the matter of establishing some cheap cab system in New York has been agitated on numerous occasions ‘Thin gives a local In- terest to the news from London that there under consideration there the project of adopting aixpenny cab fares for short distances betwee the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P, M. It is argued that from the man in @ burry to keep an ap polntment two er three treats off, to the delic ly shod lady desirous of getting dry-footed to the of Regent street, there should be con- tinuous demands for cabby under the proposed special rates, ees of heart {s iIustrated A iit. | by an Incident which came to my notice a few days ago. He recelved a letter from a poor tam- came to thia country some years ago. Another man as busy as Is Mr, Levy would have tossed the letter aside. But Iam told that the Register personally visited the habitations of the Poles in Ewex and Ludlow streets, and by diligent Inquiry | whereabouts in Greenpoint. Tren he had the young man write to his parents informing thei that he was doing well, So he succeeded in making the olf folks happy. Buch bite of kindness as ter Levy to many tke enjoyn the distinction of being the most f humor that keeps nis patrons they winners of ‘losers I remember went on to Washington one year to make accustomed to handling big money thi cent pleco Ike | around nie pen sold here." Ike woon tired of the poany- ante Kame and returned to New Yor! ‘A friend of mine"woas ont set of talee teeth. | he carefully places his artificial molars in « cises of water and, at the same time, removes & heary ring from one of hie lagers and tucks {t away in his trousers pocket. He was what might be termed dilatory in retiring the other ring into the tumbler and shoved the teeth into his pocket. Then he mld things which Id cline to write dow @ number of com- mendaiory communications regarding my ‘few remarks’ on advertl transparencies which strest lamps in different parte of the city, I aid mot know 0 many people ‘The signa are, indeed, nuisances and blemishes, and as there whould be put there. THE GLEANER. eee eee, ITH THE JOKERS. Half a Dosen Products of the Humortets’ Busy Pens, John Henry Jackson had to Ag! He gloried over those | Who dida't get her; and he sald, in language strong, though neat, ‘A Rowe by any other name (than hia Would not be near a aweet, Detroit Free Prem. or, | ‘The Wreteh. | He—Woll, 1 must be off. Going to the atation |to mee: my wife's eldeat al Suv-—Dut she can find her way to wour house, He—Sne can, But if 1 meet her in public I won't have to kina her.—Lite, The Wave of Keform. Vice fa monater of such hideous mien, That to be hated, needs but to de seen; But after some reformer says ‘tle vice, | ‘Thea love of folks begin to think tt “nice, Indianapolis Jouraal, Almost a Stranger, J person who Just lett the roo a stranger here WhimslcusT alwaye know that thir an }untuchy aum Jo Ht dinner at Del'a the other mgot, aad there were [just tairieen at tad Filmsicur—Well, what happened? Wohimsicus--What happened Invited! Li ————E INKS BY THE LINKMAN, (From Ly ton Truth.) our own prejudices are principles Poverty discovereth a multitude of sing, For Marriage—wetter r than lat Fast men are frequent!y slow husbands, The New Home—A place to get cr ~ Woman— possible to get away from Oue swallow doe pot make a drunkard. For & Host—A cigar in time saves wine, America e the mother of innovation, simple slmner. OUPID CANT SEE THEN. O14 Maids Get Lost in the Shumfe, bat Don't Seem to Care. To the Réitor: ‘That our social a1 of the people is fast home life among the masses ing to pieces, ts paintaily tt requires no prophet to predict that the close of the nineteenth century will erous old maids and Jolly bachelora The principal cause of this la. mencable state of affairs is ‘Lovely Womat the world full accordion plaited, and striped with frills, crossed in the centre with silver bratd | or fancy galon; similar trimming ¢ circles the full elbow sleeves in plain with a vengeance, #0 as al- tnowt to obliterate the coming man. fashioned enough to say that when a womi sakes home duties business and professional lit own ruin and and competes the helps in her lowes the attraction of genuine I should strongly urge p: the eake of the coming 6 eration, to train thelr which fs one of the piness of the human face ao much depends fect that the majority of women In our cities who are engaged in activi are totally unfit to make good housewives. 1 al- t the mannish woma: and deeply re- and especially New York City, getting so full of them. As one of the signs may be mentioned the proposed | Bachelors’ Home tn our city. to the detriment of woman in our social life. “ BACHELOR REFORMA@R.'* ret to note the This is the picture of the noted yacht | Well, really, gitis, 1 am surprised at all this talk about old maids, You are not an old maid at fity tf you are good looking, Keep happy above ail; Jolly the boys, They do not Keep up with the times Do not forget that. I Only the other canvas, over which droops & Greek drapery in surah eilk. Belt in ruby vel- | vet, fastened at the side under a cluster of loops and ends. ful company. know how olf you are. 1m you, personal appearance, was thirty-seven my | day @ dear old bachelor of forty 1 said 1 would think It over. see 1 have waited so long I want to be sure and 1am the kind that {s not all for money, and want love in the bargain and no Givorce In my opinion young marriages are not the best. Of cou am & good-lookin, supported myself since I was twenty-three years and have looked out for my old-maid days, which, im my opinion, will be when I am Girls, T have met the boys In my t pointe in them, to marry him. make no mistake. are exceptions aya and found many hor hard to find perfection im human natur you find a fault oF two overlook it. hate the boys; I like @ Jolly good fellow. A NEW YORK OLD MAID, The Ungrammatical Old Maid. To the Kittor ‘O. H. C."" rewrite the last sen- tence in her communication of Jan. 9. trying to decipher the meaning, but jiy In Poland, begging him to find thetr son, who! are so many negatives that tense out of it. or “ola matd |:ax all old maids who write ungrammatica could not get any When you suggest taxing I would certainly ‘Tax the Old Mai ail means tax ol maida Why not? What ‘They are always chewing the| rag, gossiping and keeping company with young | folks, Why not send them to the off woman's home? I'll chip in my mite to furnish quarters for one or more, and I'm eure other young men Ship them away YOUTHFULNESS. | mood are they? always been of Indian straightness, as- think if T could curl it up tt would tend to mi | toplahing When a second man beld up @ @fty-| me more youthful and attract and there's no ‘ow disgusted, and whirling telling what the attractiveness might lead to; | je chalked up the following: "No | though I won't bulld up my hopes too soon to have them shattered tor the fortieth time! MARY EMMA. Love Knows No Age. To the Editor: ‘The lady who Is over fifty and her young man, who Is only twenty-one, I should adviae to marry, thinks there {s love enough on both aldes, It catches both olf at EXPERIENOE, Branchport, N. J. a “EVENING WORLD" | Every morning when performing hie sblutions for love knows no age. GUIDE-ROOK. New York--VIII things the Lotos ranks charming of the Ne these things are and art exhibitions and {ts dinners to the new | 4 as Whey succeed wach lke weveral other city clubs, It used to be at 147 and is now at 556 on the same old quarters it nad a some: ser club-house It respect of several its receptions | Mayors of the mi | has moved further uptown, Pitth avenue, what dissstrous has kept wart nlaces for ite members without | ration. ‘The Lotos was or- Its stated purpose was "0 pros mote soclal intercourse among journalists, artiste and members of the musical and dramatic pro- calling in @ con! wanized in 1870, your broths stead of ‘whether he ts goin means liter Hitoratire, science and fine arte’* | There (e reason to belleve the Club has 1 to this purpose, It has over 700 members phe Well of English Undedled, To the Editor: Hostexs—Almowt; he ie my busband.—Chicago of Inter Ocean World’ permit me to give bin three reasons why the language spoken by educated Americans should not be called the “American language. a) Be cause it was #poken by the English before Ameri ca was a nation cana are content to speak it Im tts purity and to call ft Eng ‘anxious to ure the ‘American language,” he goes out of h when ho uses the obj} magem' for Birmingham, ‘the best-o Though the path be dark and ch tnt not, wander Onward pressing, Walt the coming of the day | Though the clouds around theo gather, owls to pain and atrife, [brave heart—dread not the night, darkness will depart soon comes the | n thy trust hay been by love and hope torsa of the Americanisms not Hackes are neat and expre simply vulgar or ch Why, 1 wasn’ | Grieve not over friendabip Aeeting, Truthless words Romewhere on the earth are ti throb not in pain, of others we call prejudices; | Palse {fiends may pass away, true ones remain, When we mourn for friends departed— Friends we would have Whea we sorrow O'er some loved one’s ear When the world we tompest-tossed, despalr's dark wave close o'er us? we deem life's batti Sad heart—suricken The New dournalist—The journaliat it ts tm- eart—faith points above, thiese world walt those we 101 CONSTANCE M. LEVIEN. —_—_—e——-— imatio Sheck. When one reads of trains im Algeria blocked by of Arabs on ihe edge of the Mahare freuen te death tn their tents, one's prox | terious te health. 1 would also suggest that the conceived Ideas of she elmate of Africa ouller ¢ | Street-Cleaning Department assist to this by tura- How doth the little busy body Improve each Matrimony which make the women @ play- As Congressman Sibley hasn't been heard from | ‘hing and the men @ paymaster ts wrong for some daya tt may be that same one found | The world manne te more; make It move i | vrongiy, thore te aetertety:; make it teve right [iar taare: te celebatiy. four feet of snow, New French Blouse. Nymph pink crepon or canvas cloth, Hints About Goodies. Baked pastry will remain firm and crisp if it is kept in a dry kitchen closet instead of the cellar. Whites of eggs may be beaten to & stiff froth by an open window when it would be impossible in a steamy kitchen. In making custard, pumpkin or lemon ples, it Is better to partly bake the crust before adding the mixture, in order to keep the pastry from absorb- ing the moisture and becoming ‘‘sogsy.” Strips of cotton an inch wide, wet, placed around the edge of ples wi:l keep the juice in, They should be removed when the pies are first taken from the jet, oven. ‘The whites of eggs intended for cake making should never be allowed to stand during the beating process even | fecred. for a moment, as they return to a liquid dissolved in the milk. Two tablespoom state and cannot be restored, thus mak- | fuls of m ing the cake hea Delicious Quince Honey. When it ropes it 18 | Into this syrup | pack | Care of the Kars, A prominent physician says that more than half of the ear troubles from which people suffer during the cold weather can be traced to the habit of picking at \the ears with the fingernails or hairpins or some other hard substance, which tr- ritates the delicate inside of the ear. Instead of this Injurto ears should be washed out with warm | water and a little good soap, and thor. “picking,” the ougthly dried after the operation. If the ears are sensitive @ little cotton may be put In before going Into the open att, though this is apt to make them evem extremely cold weather before venturing out @ geod way to clean the ears is to wrap the corner of a towel around the finger, and with @ little cold cream carefully. wipe out the auricle. every particle of dust and will really Protect the ears from the cold, but i€ can scarcely be recommended for rege It will remove ‘ Without Exe: Elegant frosting may be made withou® eres. Take ofe cup of granuated suga®, one-fourth cup of water and one tea- spoonful of extract of lemon. Let it bolt until It will thread, then take it off the fire and beat until it ts Should be cold) with a knife dipped tm ater to make the frosting smooth: Lemon julce will whiten frosting, cranberry or strawberry jutew will color It pink, and the grated rind of An orange strained through a cloth #i§ color It yellow and glasey, Quarrets of the Decorations. A cabinet {s always an elegai of drawing-room furniture, but oe raise and bric-a-brac which {t holds must not only be handsome of their kind, they, must harmonize or contrast with the wall tints, if they are showy and of In fact, all furniture an@ ornamentation ought to be to the color of their envirome Thus, for instance, a brillian€ crimson or scarlet should never be set gainst a dull old rose or a pink Al blue quarrels with a green, unless one + | xtremely dark and one equally, Corn Brenda. One cup of sour milk, buttermilk pre= Half a teaspoonful of soda sted butter, one pint of corm. meal, to which should be added @ pinch jof sult. Make a batter of these ingres dients, and have your square tin pam Quince noney 1s delicious when proper- | Well ereased and hot. This ts very ime ly prepared. Place on the fire in a porce-|Portant. Pou lain kettle five pounds of granulated ‘Wenty minutes, serve tmmediately, sugar and a quart of water. Let it be-| Should not be allowed to stand, come @ thick syrup. done, and {tc must not be cooked too | long, or {+ will sugar. put four quinces chopped very fine. Let {t simmer for halt an hour on the of the stove, then put the honey into|all over with detached dat jelly glasses untu tt 1s wanted for use. in your batter, bake for Here In a Laundry Dag. A very pretty as we'l as useful 1 undry y a bag Is made by sewing up a plece of coarse linen 34 by 21 tnches. Work, first, isies In ong A -bone in ane Make with a deep hei reaching nearly to the dra wetting. = Shade, filled in with herring other shade. Not Modern Sensitivene: Somebody has discovered the ance of women te no plece of modern sene ® the hills, Tw although great nume mentioned, there ts ‘a wite—whosg tell their age | It is as old a the Ol4 Testament bers of women are arah, Abraham age Is recorded, LETTERS. (Thm cohann ts open to everybody who has @ complains lo make, © grievance to ventilate, iw then to gine, © ouljare general intercat to discuss OF © public cervies to acknowledge, and who OBR | merchant of agent 11 put the idea ine lose than 100 words Ler.) letters cannot be printed, } The Park Row Bandit To the Editor: Knowing your fearlessness in publishing wrongs that exist, I ask you to notice the piaint of # working girl, Is there no li to prevent such | w me trom belng obliged to contribute her hant- earned salary to the highwaymen who infest the downtown section of the city? I am a rapher, and earn $12 @ week. As I pa Park Row evenings I am accosted by beggars, who compel me to pay them tribute. For two we nightly, He demands it, and what can I do but vive the moi scene such as would follow my refusal. These men acoost women with thelr hands thrust down tn their pockets a though clutching weapons, Few women them, I thinl men were not arrested, © A BREAD-WINNER. 4 1 have paid one of these fellows 10 cents 1 It ts cheaper than causing @ uld have the courage to refuse T have often wondered why these Critic da New Topic. To the Editor: Willlam Pursell fe quite right. Tt fs high| time chite of fourteen and boya of sixteen found something more edifying tow! Kissing, courting, sitting om laps, red-haired girls (blegs them!) and all brained youths and maidens would devote thelr time and abilities to improving thelr minds in- instead of they and th start some interesting or Inatructive @iscussion in history, grammar or arithmetic, or anything sensible? See headit about than wh rubbiah, If the cate nding such ‘pap’ to the papers, r readers would benefit. Why not of this voluma, for in- nee, Why do the majority of people use the ond “it? instead of “whether?"’—o, g., “Ask if he 1s going to town to-day," In- " @c. The former ity If he is mot going, don't ask him, fp the conditional mood. Ly In reply to Mr. Backes’s letter in “*The Evening ause it in the y language. (2.) B (3.) Because a!l educated Ameri~ ithough Mr. Backes ts 90 way ty wrice English pure and simp jonable epithet “Brum- red ity in the world,’ and whose Inhabitants speak o) English as 18 spoken anywhere. Many) by the cousins of J ive, while others are y, wnd are to be deprecated. ANOTHER COUSIN (from across the pond). A Suggestion in Street-Cleaning, To the ri: ‘Anent Che discussion and consideration of the; wtregt-cleaning problem, 1 would like to suggest fa plan which I (hink would be the mea ening of lens- je coat of the work, would more quickly {ree the atrevis of snow and filth. It tw» th To pass an ordinance compelling property-own- ors, residents, merchants and agents not only to remove the sow from the sidewalk in front of their bulldings immediately after a snow fall, but, what is more important, to thoroughly clear the gutter for the apace or widin of two feet towanie the roadway, the by opening up & tree channel, wuich will carry off the refuse most effectively and purge each locality of that very element in melting snow which, all physlc.ans agree Is the most dele- fag om the water from each corner treet plug for ftteen minutes start. property the flow. rendered feasi ch morning in enter te This plan could be) first, by making tt the dug Street-Cleaniag inspectars—ot the Department—to sea Second, by making ich property-owner, resident, ible te sl ane ef eae’ instance for falling to comply with ti and, third, by giving one-halt of to any pernun, those who do not he regulation, Proper informatiog respect such erdie ; ‘The result of such measures would be cleaner street, passable croesiny mum death rate, SR ERORME je Tax Will To the Editor It 1s the people who think th jacana, ley are not f and that it {s the other fellow who te—something lke the drunken man considering everybody else. frunk—who always stand in the way of reform by injury that will be done when reformers demand cy yen Whether rich and cease their robbery, The alngle tax will so enore ! ™mously benefit the poor man by removing all tazeg from industry that the loss of his Uttle investe Ment (!n something that this or no other Govern. | ment has any right to allow him to tuvest the lana that God made for all mes te use) will be a mere bagatelle wument that was used by holders of sli the abolition of slay It ts the same are ery would rr omall Dlanter You may be very bure that singhetney occupy the same impregnable position that the the ‘widow and orphang ** and “poor man’s loss" arguments are advageed by i" opponents. Mr. NO, Tinsane should beaw in mind that stocks and bonds are based oa lang Values, and would be taxed wi which they are based are taxed. the cost of all for house-bullding would be lessened, tat the oe of bullding houses proportionately decreased, though wagce will be increased, And, as there Will be no tax on Improvements or production, the annual cost of rent and living will be reduced, I believe fully 60 per cent. R. STARK, Breckiya, ‘Graduates Are Ne Geod.” To the Editor: the values om ‘Graduate,"* T have this to may: {f he would look to his {nterest Instead of writing letters, he would newer be out of & situation; in the second place, whe the druggist employs a licensed men he expects, him to work. Put you take our college graduates of to-day, they will not rinse out @ graduate, ‘The, first thing they want to know i, “Row time do I get of for meals?” eto, If tt te they take one ai In the third place, take the business of New York, and on Third avenue alone you will find twentpe three drug stores for sale because they don't pay, Now, I am sure that I in the drug busines right, aa I have beeg York, and, a2 © gape NOT A GRADUATE, The Fund D To the Editor: T have a bet with « certain party that @ peltes: n keep a reward If he should happen te rave something of great value from burning ep from being stolen, The other party claims thet, a reward be mest forwasg A few years age Get All Buch Tipg it a policeman rece! fame to the peneton fund 4 certain person was riding s runaway horse end # policeman stopped It and saved the mas. Thay if ran gave him $6,000 for his brave eet, somebody tells me that he had to give pension fund, Is that truet Cute Little Caps, To the Editor: Why do some ladies who have muress thelr wearlng caze im the atrect? Hdlcwlous te see the girls on apa, and it ia no wonder co with severe headaches and ool murda, but I aympethise with them, men 6 nurse I would got wear o oap