The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1895, Page 4

Cve GED omord Published by the Press Publishing Company, 6 @ PARK ROW, New Tork. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1895. Preacher, and felt uncomfortable until the reassuring “Amen! was reached. One thing is certain: The “crookedness’ minister will never again be tnvited to disturb the Senatorial mind with his prayers, A DAINTY JUDGE. Persons who had business in the Spe: ———<—— SUBSCRIPTIONS T0 THE EVENING WORLD Batered at tho Post-Ofice at New York as eecond-class matter, lal Term of the Superior Court yeater. day and were expecting to nee the mild- ((nctuding postage mannered, amiable and courteous Judge Dugro on the bench, were somewhat an- NTH, + B00. fan faa ‘93.50 | tonished to find Judge McAdam aitting a in his place and in @ very disturbed Vol. BB ...... No. 12,218 | *tate of mind. ‘The first case was an application for final papers in naturalization, Judge McAdam reiterated his determination a g@ BRANCH oOFrices: way and Sixth ton ave, BROOKLYN—200 Washington ket ot. ‘WASHINGTON—T02 14th st. THE WORLD'S GREAT WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction sf Broad- at 824 at. WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—12th ot and Madi- rs PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Inquirer Office, 1109 Mar- not to naturallze any one, It is the bu ness of the United Staten Courts, he sald, and he ordered a court officer to tear up the applicant's papers, The next case was a divorce sult and Judge McAdam refused to hear it. He was sitting to accommodate Judge Dugro, who was ill, and he was neither going to make citizens nor to unmake husbands and wives. A judicial position would be much more pleasant than It 1s If Judges were free to preside over such trials only as they might select. But it would be hard on the litigants. As Judge McAdam was oly @ volunteer on the bench he natur- ally took more license than he would have indulged tn had he been the regu- lar Judge. But those who wanted to | cast a ballot or to cast off a wife were | compelled to march out of court and to await the recovery and return of Judge CIRCULATION MONTH ze AVERAGE WEEK-DAY CIRCULATION FOR JANUARY, 1895, 001,139 More than Fifty Thousand Over Half a Million | DON'T GIVE US TOO MUCH GOFF. There is an unpleasant persistence ut the way in which bills for Goff keep coming up at Albany. There is a Dill to raise his salary to $17,500, which ia more than double the salary of a Jus- tice of the United States Supreme Court. Another proposition is to make him per- manently the Presiding Judge of the ; criminal courts It is also proposed that the selection and control of the Grand Jury shall be placed in his hands, and of minor schemes for his exaltation, such @s the one to give him power of re- moval and appomtment over all court employees, there are a score. No one supposes that Recorder Goff is Personally directing or supporting this flerce campaign for added privileges and j pay, but he is unfortunate in his friends, If he cares for his good reputation he should take these over-ardent creatures aside at once and whisper into their ears a few facts which are known as well by him as by the general publi: Mr. Goff, in the first place, was elected | Recorder, not because he had uny| special fitness for the place, but purely ax @ reward for his public services, It| was che fattest and most comfortable i office the people had at their disposal, ff because they could for There were grave doubts then as to whether his temperament was s#utti- clently Judicial, und these doubts have not been removed by his conduct on the bench thus far. In the next place, the salary and other compensation of the office are already extravagant. Twelve thousand doliars | fs an enormous salary to pay to an officer whose only qualification is an) ability to get a majority of the votes, for the Recorder need not even be a lawyer, The two thousand dollar ul-| lowance for office rent would be called | @ steal if it were not hallowed by usage. The permission to practise law or carry on other business outside the! court ‘s @ privilege which should not be given to any judge, particularly to such & high-priced one. The scheme to erect the Recorder Into @ sort of Dictator of C inal Jurispru- dence is against all public poiicy. In no tlace 1s the single-headed commission {dea more objectionable than in the ad- ministration of criminal law. Join a Single head of the criminal courts to a} ingle-headed Police Department, and life | in New York would not be worth living for 4 man who, however innocently, in- curred the displeasure of the police. In the last place, the office of Recorder | is unnecessary and anomalous. It is a relic of the past which remains in use simply because there is no particular, reason for abolishing it. This excuse for | 3 at ace ezistence, Mr. Goff should remind his Superserviceable friends, would be r moved should still more exorbitant sal- ary or more unusual privileges be sought for the occupant of the office, EEWATORIAL CROOKEDNESS. A local preacher who delivered the pening prayer in the Albany Senate | Yemerday morning caused something of | @ sensation among the Senators by pray-| ing that “all crooked things o> made, | straight i At was a@ very proper euppilication to send up to the throne of grace, and w appropriate to the occasion end to th Place in which it was uttered, Gut from the involuntary flutter that nessel along the semi-circle it was evident that Of the Senators supposed the we the preacher to have a personal applica- tion and to be intended ar a rebuke of their own particular cro ake Ineus Senator Lexow, ‘or instance, no doubt felt applicable to the quarrel that has Occurred between himself and Dr. Park- hurst, and suspected the preacher of a reference to the crooked work that inust have Jed one or the other of the hostile parties out of the straight line cf reform Senator O'Connor was obs-rved 10 raise 4 bis hand to his neck in seeming appre- hension that something “ervcked” may have been observable in the Piatt collar. | t All the “reform” Senators who are weeking to turn the god fruits of last year's election into ashes, and all who are looking to profitable joux from the revival of the good oid lobby days, im- aginedetheir own particular crockecress to he the chookednegs aliudes to by the fonable lini ognize him as an authority and to sub- | true value, | prosperity, so that it went down with Dugro, ‘WARD M'ALLISTER’S DEATH. The unexpected death of Ward Mc- Allister last night deprives New York soclety of a member very useful to those who call themselves New York Society,” and very entertaining, al though of no particular value or utility, to the two millions or so of people forming the population of the metrop- olis. ‘To the little word of soctety the de- ceased had made himself almost indis- pensable, because he had undertaken the role of general manager. He was ready to turn his hand to anything tn the fash- and “society” chose to rec- studied even in the matter of drean, It was shrewdly suspected by many that Ward McAllister secretly laughed at the "society" he was leading by the nose, and measured Its votaries at their AULD LANG SYNE. The Metropolitan Hotel closed {ts doors at midnight last night, and be- me nothing but a historical remem- brance in the annals of the city, The Metropolitan has lived forty years and has had a memorable history. It has experienced tts ups and downs, and has been in its time a very popular house, Its career began and ended un- der capable hotel management, its first Proprietors having been the well-known Leland brothers, and {ts last the equally well-known Alen & Hiidreth. Between these landlords it has had a variety of ownerships, but {ts last management as reviving ite old-time popularity and colors flying and with Its reputation as a hotel as bright as at any time in Its history, So passes away the once famous Niblo's Garden, the scene of the Black Crook triumph, the ploneers of the skirtless drama in New York. And so closes the register of another "down- town" hostelry to tell of the march northward of (he palatial hotel life of the metropolis, NO CORRUGATED BEAUTIES HERE. A woman who fs in the business of abolishing wrinkles finds little to do here In New York, and has so few cus- tomers that tt is dificult for her to meet her billa, She says she was doing nicely In Chica: a friend advised her to transfer her wrinkle-razooing plant to this clty, where, the friend said, *he would find more wrinkles and liveller trade than in the Western me- | tropolis. | Now she sees that she made a mistake In following the friend's advice. There are plenty of wrinkles in New York, but | lanoline or electricity or face-masks or | even the police cannot subdue them, The wrink.ew that the furrow-yanker | was after are not so plentiful. Our women do not cultivate wrinkles. They have no use for Time's ridges, crows'- feet, sunken cheeks, or any of that sort | of blemish on their beauty. | Chicago Is the place for wrinkled belles should have stayed there. A woman who| has to worry over covering up the dla- mond tiara in her corsage with a nap. kin while eating griddle cakes and Ne Orleans molasses at a 7 o'clock break- fast Any can't help having wrinkles, Chicagoenne will tell you that ‘t cakes @ lot of thinking and jzuessing to live up to real society rules in her town, “It would, of course, be @ somewhat | delicate act to issue a call for a session | The old army of incapabi | fuitiment of desires which ts to be THE & DAILY BINT FROM MDOUGALL. HATE CAFICE| TemaAtT | De. Parkhurst Insists on a Hearing | by the Legisiatare, The lobby versus the people at Alb: Eublic has spoken, ‘The lobby sh have no standing and no voice, Soitettor-General Maxwe!l has resigned | hin office because of a difference with] Attorney-General O:ney, Mr. Olney has a | difference with the whole people, but refuses to resign. Nicholas If, ard Mr. Platt having both been heard from, it Is now perfectly un.) derstood that each proposes to continue in the autoc-acy line at the old stand Wel-Hai-Wel haa teen captured, but don't tell anybody about it uni you hay looked up the pronunciation of the dou- ble-hyphened Chinese naval station, “Gorman says the Senate will act.” The announcement could come from more satisfactory source. But it ts time to catch even at straws. al al | Cheerful news for workingmen from | j§| | mit to his decisions. He had more|the Lehigh Valley road this morning. Per Day. | brains than his associates. He could| The pay of engineers and firemen. has | |control the ists of invited questa at | been increased. 4 75| {fashionable dinners and balls, and in _ ==> RS Sy] this direction exercised the functions of | Now Norway's Cabinet gets exelted ee \f|the Lord Chamberlain In the British} and resigns, The only Cabinet that we Court. He decided all disputed points | know of that is sure to stick Is Cleve- a of etiquette, and his opinions were | land's, If there ts any possible trouble from which President Norton's obstinacy has saved him, this is a good time to hear of it. More bonds will he Issued, it fa sald, And after that? Why tore Sonds. And then? Some more, and so on ad lib, ‘The great lesson of the Elbe disaster: Keep the safety compartments always closed; don't walt for an emergency. Furgueson to block the Street-Cleaning Department for a day! How Fate must have amiled on striking that blow. ‘There ts A disposition to give the free Pass question precedence over reform legislation at Albany. Dr. Parkhurst's book {8 such a scorcher that It is a wonder it has not been put In asbestos binding. Another legislative week ends at Al- bany to-day, And another cipher goes on the record. A big ship like the Elbe should have had plenty of elbow room when at sea, Wart McAllister will be missed, What more could a man ask at his death? The Power of Removal bill suffers from a tampering with the switch, ‘The Charity Ball having passed off muccessfuily, soclety breathes again. ‘Take notice that the Japanese are atill marching on, FATHER K: ICKERHOCKEIUS DIARY, Jan M1, 1898, —The end of the month, Ant what have I to show for the thirty-one days of that new administration upon which the entrance was mado with auch higt Mopeat Cleaner atrects ‘and—a narrowing opportunity, In all frankness 1 must write down that that 1s about all, oe To be sure, there In in the Ma: who Is businesslike and uandican) far to doa aingle thing In the Interest . OF Ww holde the fort in mont of the departments, held im check, It is probable, by the change tn the con- dition of public sentiment, but still preventing tho wholesale work of reconstruction, reorganize orm, |and matrons, and the wrinkle-eradicator | tion and reformation eo necessary to the cause of good government. ‘The Mayor was #0 wick to-day as to be con fined to his house, His wisdom, om physi grounds, tn remaining away from that Monday night dinner at Albany 1 thus demonstrated, ‘That tt wan a wise thing In other ways for him to be absent on that occasion has never been doubted, Aa for me, while Tam well tn body, 1 fe to-night that heart sickness which te the product of hope deferred How long must I walt for that of the Republican Congress to enact | fifiment omy necessary legislation while the Demo.|"'* Met cratic Congress is still in session and THE MORNING FLAPJACK, qualified to perform the duty.” Yes, the present Congress 1s “qualified to per- form" its duty, but it won't act. It should not be understood that the call for the next Congreas is postponed out of any consideration for a Senate and House which have no consideration for the country’s welfare. The health of this great State Is tm- proving every year, The death-rate for 184 was In every 1,000 of population, AB against 19.50 tr ‘98; 20.78 In ‘92, and | 2243 In ‘OL If the rate keeps on de-| creasing this rapidly, we may be able | to abolish the grim gleaner entirely be- fore the year 2000, Illinois, too, has an antl-hih-theatre- hat bill, If somebody would only pro- pose @n anti-Kaster bonnet bill and an anti-realskin Jacket bill and an anti- diamond earrings bill, married men| would have few home worrtes left. i} ‘The ‘police pay for January ts $62,000 | more than December's. Can it be that | our pollcemen turned over new leaves at the beginning of the year and were that much better last month than the month before? The Greater New York question should not be allowed ‘o become one of the It In Making a DI jurbance in Some Family Circles. To the Editor It was with feelings of the deepest concern that I read ‘Billy Plaptack's'* touching nt of bis connubial antt-flapjack trials 1, too, alr, am partial to my morning flaptack, but, lke “B, F.."" am handicapped with a wife () who is either too delicate or too laay to axrixt me to dulge in this delictoua tent. What with the advent of the New Woman and one adverse thing or another, unless the married men of th great nation rally in a body, as one man, it ts plore than Ikely that the time-honored ins:itue Hon of the matutinal Mapjack wil soon become a thing of the past. FLAPJACK UBIQUITOUS One Woman's View of I To the Edito As a respectable woman, T have @ strong dis- like to thie morning Mapjack business, and 1 think that those strong, lasy men who a stuck on the flapjack ought to get up tn the morning and cook 1t themselves. ANTI-FLAPJACK, Waketield, N. — A Canadian View of the Strike. Every one knows that this Intolerable state of aMlaire in due entirely to the greed af the com panies, and whether the present (irookiya trol ley) sirike ts due to a real or a fancied griev- Bine persons out of ten would rejoice to see the companies thoroughly puntahed.— Kingston (O01.) News y, WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING) FEBRUARY 1 “THE ORIENT EXPRESS.” Quite unworthy of the standard of art that Augustin Daly has waved with fre- quent success before our eyes is the de- plorably trivial entertainment that offered at Daly's Theatre last night. People shrugged thelr shoulders when “A Gaiety Girl" took possession of this house. ‘They wondered. But in “A Tragedy Re- hearsed” that followed “The Orlent Ex- press" they saw @ burlesque that Lilla Clay'a Large Blondes or Wiliam Snooke’s Cetebrated Amazons’ Vaudevi'le Company might more appropriately present, It is the first time that I have ever heard “gags” in Daly's Theatre. But in this ragedy Rehearset” there are allusions to the Brooklyn trolley strike and re- marks couched in the most unlovely slang. Then Dixey does his imitation of |Irving (modified because Irving {x #0 with Daly), Miss Rehan pores as ‘Triby-Tilburina being her name—and |sings most alarmingly, while Mrs, Gilbert |does a skirt dance and a high kick. Positively I almost fell from my seat, gusping. 1t was so unexpected, and the audience was so startled. Mra, Gilbert made the bit with her kick, for it is not often that old ladiex—except in the bal- let—try to dance. Dear old Mrs, Gilbert. She ix one of the most remarkable Women on the stage, She never fails, and her mere presence is genuine nedy. T must also compliment Dixey | for his admirable work as Mr. Puff, the author, Dixey is an artist, ‘There ts no doubt about that. He ix so easy, so kraceful, so natural, and so perfectly unassuming, The Orient Express,” a farcical com- edy in three acts, by Oscar Blumen- thal and Gustay Kadelburg. adapted by F. C, Barnard, will, I fancy, meet the same faie here as in London. It deale with the trials of a suspicious wife who reads a paragraph to the effect that her husband ts travelling with a young wo- man who In supposed to be his wife, It turns out that the strange woman has purchased the signed ticket that the real wife was to have used, This mat- ter in spread over three acta, and the effort {s evident. Mfr, Barnard ts occa- sionally funny, and never slangy. He has done his work quite as well as could he expected, but “The Orient Express” [1s In too debtiltated a condition to live, Miss Rehan played the part of the aus- Picious wife In her accustomed manner, | It is always a pleasure to watch this man- ner. She costumes herself rather unbe- comingly, and when she first appeared she looked positively uncanny, But in “A Tragedy Rehearsed,” in the white gown, It Was easy to see that Miss Rehan's early unloveiiness was due to her clothes and.her coiffure, For in the final sketch she was as comely, as be- witching and as youthful as ever, No women can afford to make themselves | look ugly, and Miss Rehan should be| careful. Miss Maxine Elliot has never done better than In “The Orient Ex- press," and #he was #0 exquisite to look at that It was worth sitting through the draggy farce just to gaze at her, But I couldn't help smiling when she sald, “As a professional woman, I am of course not adverse to a littie self-adver- tixement.” It was so aprop Miss Elliot, however, has already improved. Bhe has profitel by Mr. Daly's always marvellous tuition. James Lewis wae in the cast and so was Frank Worthing, a clever young man, who Is going to make ah some day. ALAN DALB, —— BY OTHER EDITORS, Ferhaps Ro ‘The query rained by Mayor Strong's absence from Albany: Was it rheumatiam on rebelliont— Philadelphia Record, How to Refrom The way to Mo x to tmp rtlen, Improve the condition of the pube ove the morals of the public, ts to elevate the tone of public sentiment, Partien tn themselves are neither goo! nor bad, You can affect them only by operating on thelr 6on- auituent parta—Chicago Journal Would Perplex Solomon, Were Solomon alive to-day he would have a hant row to hoe against those Now York legisla~ tora who are golng to Ket around the question of forbidden railroad passes by paying heavy mile age to themselves. —Philadelphia Inquirer, Wrong: It's a Gof That's Wanted. ‘The Municipal League has asked for a Lexow Committee to look Into Philadelphia's affaira, This would ha very deslrable if could be es Wo e” Gallery of Living Pictures. AUGUST BELMONT. the pleture of the financter ‘This ts who, representing the great Roths- childs banking house, of Europe, may close a deal for the half or the whole of the forthcoming $10,000,000 bond issue, at Washington, oo THE GLEANER'S DUDGET. Goaaip Here, » Hint There ‘Tales of City Life. T heard him telling hin experience at a falr, where there was a ‘chance’ drawing on @ prize that he wanted. Slips were used, numbered from 1 to 60. The drawers paid each a number of cents, corresponding to the number on the allp drawn. ‘1 saw @ slip turned up in the box," maid the narrator, ‘and it wan No. underneath, thinking to get a smaller number, and struck 6, Then, when only two alipa were left, a fellow came along and drew one of them. It waa No, 2, and he got the prize with it, for two cente. ad Tre An organization well known in charitable ctr- cles, and yet but little heard of, ia the Shut-In Roclety. Ita objerta are stated to be ‘to relle the weariness of the alck-room by sending and Ferelving letters and other tokens of remem- brance; to help tn the hour of auffering and pi Yation; to pray for one another daily at the tw Mght hour and weekly on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, and by means of mutual study to atimu- late faith, hope, patience and courage in sufter- Ing members." There {s unobtrusive philanthropy for you. And practical, too. ele T saw Supt Roger O'Mara, of the Pittaburs | police force, in an uptown hotel the other eve ing, and he devoted over an hour to telling me how great a man our own Supt, Byrnes Is. ‘Now @on't you forget what Tsay," he remarked. | “Byrnes will live tn history long after Parkhurst | tw forgotten, ‘The one understands human nature ax it in, and the other understands human nature as It ought to be. That's the difference."* } ee Since the New York regiments came home, sev- eral Rrooklyn girl have told me that they do nothing but dream of the roldiers, Thin Is @ splendid tribute to the hoart-winning qualities: of our militia, but {t Ja rough on the Brooklyn boys, for when a girl dreams of soldiers {t means that she {# going to be “off with the old love and og with the new on T heard rome conduct Ines comparing notes. ‘Now, there's the Jay and Smith street line, sald one. ‘They run sixty care over there, and the conductors average from $25 to $30 © day in fares collected. That's emewhere about $1,500 a day to the Company. Maybe more. They could grant all thelr men aaked, and hardly make a hole in the returns They were nensible enough to see that they could afford concessions, and thelr cars have been run- ning right along. THE GLEANER. — AN ILLUSTRATED SONG, fon Prooklyn trolley WELLID BLY SATS: Tam tired of milk-and-water meetings, held by milk-and-water so-called reform clubs, which pans milk-and-water resolutions, They are merely tual admiration societies which meet to listen lena chatter, And 1 do applaud unless one member seems to be knining @ little greater notoriety than the others, and then he {s immediately pounced upon by 11a envious associates, Their alm {8 not to Detter mankind, but to gain notoriety. see ‘Thie particular milk-and-water club hee had what they called a ment reform meeting,"’ during which each miik-and-water member had the exquisite pleasure of listening to hie own volce In a carefully written and slowly read some thing of other designated as @ speech. The en- tire evening was thus devoted to their mutual enjoyment, and the meeting adjourned with only alight harm being done. . But that harm was done to the poor, God-for- faken, unfortunate tenante of the Trinity corpora- tion, of the Aators, and of many smaller Iand- lord. People who should get up and atrike blows In behalf of the poor will ait back and think the ‘admiration society will Accomplish some things. Consequently landlord- fam will go on breaking the laws of health, of the Fire Department, of the city and of humanity, utter Inability to do any good. One a pollticia 1m office and caretul of offending several men who brve they would not offend for clergymen who have rich “ weveral the world; ndlorda” among thelr congrogations; two women who have rocial friends who own tenements, and one woman who looks for patents among the ‘landlord’ class; one pernon whose claim to distinction ts based on his writing of verse, and a one solitary individual who might do some good if he could let his own particular hobbies sink from view when facing «| ferent and crying need, What ean fomult from ‘such a combination? Only harm to a cause that | needa the bravest support. eee When men and women learn to speak bravely and fearlessly what they think, humanity will be much nearer happiness and the solution of poverty and ertme. When the pubilo reaches the point that en lerrning how ai! the lawe are deed, euch in done dally by the Trinity corporation and {te like, and will then call @ meeting and say Just what they think of such doings, just what Penalties can be enforced tipon them and what they can and will do, then auch heartless corpora- tlona will take hent and the poor tenant and his children will rejoice and grow fat. co 8 e ‘That is what shou'd be done. a=. mB) and-water mujyal admiration societies for as, ‘The Trinity corporation has wilfully and boldly broken the laws of health and fire. Of the lawn of humanity they no conception, It tn too late to hold milk-and-water meetings and pass milk-and-water resolutions that are only a waste of the paper they are written upon. It is tim knowing those facts, for men who can afford it to rine up and may: ‘'This corporation or these cor- porations have broken the laws, and they shall be pantahed to the fullest extent, now and hence- forth, until they shall live up to the Jawa that ‘no poor man would dare break with tmpunity. oe T have investigated. I know. The Trinity cor- poration has and is breaking the laws of health and the fire laws, Vuniah them! Make an ex- ample of them. Then you'll have less work to do among the smaller landlords NELLIE BLY. A Compliment to Ne! Kind-hearted “clever Neltie Bl It Just takes you to oft decry Faulta and foibles! Make folke do right! Since you've been “around the ‘World,’ Lote of truths fearlessly are hurled! Your remarks are just “out of sight." IDA MONROB (one of your million admirers). | le Bly. | watch for them on the windows and | benzine and cover them completely with Blouse of pale green plaited chiffon, trimmed with a galoon in pompadour colors bordered with a narrow fringe of mink fur stitched under the edge. Household Hint Camphor piaced next to furs will make their color lighter. In blacking the kitchen stove better results are reached if the blacking is wet with coffee instead of water. Try some way of amusing your child if he cries during his bath—a cork which will bob about with every movement of the water, or an egg with the contents blown out, % Do not neglect wounds (no matter how slight) from dull or rusty instruments that might produce lockjaw. They should be immediately soaked in hot brine, and the smoke from burning Woollen rags will also prove beneficial, Carpet Beet! The Btate entomologist of Massachu- ‘tte, who has been studying the ways the buffalo carpet beetle and the of pitchy carpet beetle, a similar pest, cautions heusewives to look out for the beetles of the first-mentioned nuisance as early in the year as the months of February and March. At that time windows ellis, look over all woollen clothing not in frequent use, and ex- amine every day any pieces of red car- peting on your fioors. As is well known, the beetles are—later In the year—some- times brought into the house In flowers, and have a special liking for the blos- soms of spirea. in order to prevent the larvae from attacking carpets from the under side, eaturate the cracks with carpet paper or newspapers. The ex- posed edges of carpets are protected by washing them with a solution of corro- sive sublimate and alcohol. Sixty grains of the sublimate to a pint of alcohol ts the proportion, This remedy, which is a poison, cannot be safely used where there are little children who play on the floor, Appointed Go ment Doctor, Dr. Benson, a woman doctor, has been appointed to a Government hospital in Madras, at a salary of £800 @ year; in Melbourne the first appointment of a female inspector has been made; the offi- cial stenographer to the Danish House of Representatives is a woman; in Tow land women have been made eligible for municipal office, and the Universities of Gottingen and Upsala are now open to women, A Youthful Astronomer. There Is a little three-year-old girl way out in New Mexico who has been ab- sorbed in the starry firmament ever since she could speak at all. Every night she waiches for the ruddy planet, and when it appears, a sparkling ruby in the sapphire heavens, she cries out ecstatically, “Peek, Mr. Mars; and when she sees the moon rise throws Kisses to “Mr. Moon." Perhaps she gong to be the second Maria Mitchell. only, at the rate women are coming 1 nowadays, she may be a fortieth, To Tell Frozen Oranges. If a woman mistrusts an orange of. fered her as untouched by frost, al can decide for herself by pressing on th orange near the stem end. If it gt easily and abruptly, it has probabl been untouched by frost. Otherwise {{ will be firm about the stem end. Ofte: ® frozen and thawed orange will give way under the pressure of the thumb the stem end. Cooking by Electricity. With the cheapening of electrical a| Pliances comes more and more hope fo! the kitchen of the future, the co-ope! tive kitchen first, since these will be thi examples of all that !s most perfect in the adaptation of means to ends, and then such kitchens as must, for the time! being, remain private. Benjamin Frank- lin foremaw it all in that electric dinner given on the banks of the Schuylkill in 1749, wherein an electric spark killed the turkey which was roasted in turn by a fire kindled by another spark. All this was dim prophecy of the dinner given recently in London by the City of Lon- don Electric Lighting Company, in which electric ovens, saucepans and ket- tles were used, ajl In a temporary kiteh- en Improvised in a room next the dining. room. A hundred and twenty guests sat down to the meal, the preparation of which cost sixty units of electricity, or twopence per head, The electric kitchen at the Chicago Fair gave a similar show but Edison's experi- ments are constant as to possibilities of! cheapened production and storage, and! he prophesies the nearing abolition of that Moloch of the kitchen—the cook stove. f Almond jee. Blanch and chop very fine twent; four Jordan almonds. Press from th vinegar four tablespoonfuls of horse. tadish; add to it the yolk of one egg, half teaspoonful of salt, and the aln onds; mix well, and then stir in one] cup of whipped cream, that is, one cup after it is whipped, ne for Dry Bre: Dry pleces of bread in a cool oven; roll on the bread-board; put them in glass jar; use for the top of escalloped potato, macaroni, baked hash, and to-~ mato. —— They Never Speak as They Pass By. sure of Kelting a Lexow to conduct It; other~ wine, tt might be the play of ‘‘Hamlot with Mamlet left out.—Philadelphia Laiger. GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TIMB, PHILIP KECK. ‘A man who has served three continuous terme tm the State Assembly at Albany 19 @ veteran, Oaly | twonty of the 128 have done so, and some of these are distinguished for no other reason, — PRI Kook ure graces (his sketch of Bim, ot one of that sort, He 14 one of the mom. In Gustrious members of the Astembly, and the folks of Fution and Hamtiton County—for which he “ata fs they May In England—look to him for almost every service imaginable, Mr. Keck @ conactentious legislator, He haa a bill amends | tng the banking laws of the State, and other Im | portant measures He ia somewhere between forty and forty-five, He Isa lawyer, up at his home in |Jonastown, but 1s often taken for a preacher im |-Albany because of his partiallty for white bow | Ves and ministerial frock coat —— WORLDLING Rombast was originally cotton padding for the clothes, to make them stand out from the Agure, Out of @ family of nine at Newcastle, England, fikht are still living, The eldest t# ninety-one aps the youngest seventy-six. The average of the family Le eighty-two. ‘The Duke of Athol hi Duke of Hamilton, seventeen; the Dukes of Argyll and Bucclough, each siateen; the Marquis of Bute, Bfteen, and the Duke of Abercora, thir tera. nty-three titles; the THAT ABSORBING STRIKE, Correspondents Have Not Yet Ex- ted Their Idea: ‘Te the Balitor: The Brooklyn strike is a rather severe re- Duke to the methods by which organized wage- earners have sought to enlarge their share of the products of labor, and forcibly {Ilustrates the needs of more efficient aystems of action Defore they shall be enabled to successfully and legitimately establish thelr rights, The princi- ple trouble seems to be workingmen’s organisa- tlons remove thelr dough from the oven before 4 1m properly baked, and thereby not only lose their Dread, but bring discredit and loss of con- fidence upon themselves, too. It Is high time for the American workingman to abandon 1! strike system, discard the brick bat and blud- enlarge hie library, and, ke loyal elti- of the ballot, The & single year would ay for the erection of @ handsome labor bulld- ing in the capital city of each State of the Union, and leave « balance suMcient to dulld « the city of Washingtom that bulwarka of protection to labor and @ constant menace to it Is also important to select representatives who are known to be capable, honest, industrious and, above all, patel- otic, to the basic principles of the United States Government, YANK & American Dernictous lobbying. And eee 1 eee in “The Evening World” of Jan, 298 long letter signed "Justice." I would like to ask the | writer why he I» poor? What pay docs he get? How many children has he to keep? How much | rent does he pay? Does | by the trottey compante | per day and pay $14 rent, and keep clothed re- apectably three children, and them « good education?—John Jarvis, Bound Brook, N. J. oe e ‘The man who signs himeelf ‘Independence’? | ought to be ashamed to tell that he has mi working for him tweive and thirteen hours « day for $1 75 and $2 Wherever he may have been born, he te one of the grinders Rest assured he ie not supporting a family on moagre wages. Truly he represents a class of whom it may be said, ‘The easiest way in the world to work te with your mouth.""—Truch, oo. A trolley sweeper passed along Flushing av> nue on Jan, 29, travelling at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, throwing the snow high up on the sitew and causing the, foot Passengers to hug the wall In order to keep clear of it. Three or four policemen were on Doard, but failed to use their night sticks, and (Judges Cowing, Martine and Fitegerald.*) Election's past, and Goff is the When we meet him we only stare: There ts @ bill to make him Chief Of all our courts, "Twill come to grief. ‘Tho court attendants all are glum, By his new rules they're overcome. He sits upon his perch so high, But we'll get even by and by. cHoRUS. We never mpeak an we pass by: His plans we'll have to modify; We know he thinks he owns the town, But we will gently let him down, Senator 1. When T began, with mien sedate, The coppers to Investixate, ‘Then Parkhurst joined in the attack ‘And patted me upon the back. But now his love has changed to hat And when I try to legislate, And pase bills for police reform, ‘Ths Doctor waxes very warm. CHORUS. We never speak as we pass ty; To hin attacks 1 won't reply; I'm sick of him and all bi Our ancient ties I'l Mayor Btrone— When I was only Mayor-slect, For Thomas Platt I'd great respect, But now It Is an even toms Between us who shall be the Boss So when with him I'm asked to ding T think It wisest to decline, Let Mr, Platt hear my decree— ‘The patronage belongs to ME. cHorvs, ‘We never speak as we pase by; We dig each other on the al; ‘With him I am not dining out— TH give a8 an excuse my gout. Nad *There are others, “EVENING WORLD" GUIDE-' Clubs of New Yorke- ~The Xavier Archbishop Corrigan formally opened the house of the Xavier Club, 27 and 2% West Six- teenth street, om the evening of Jan. 27, 1891. The Club was then about » year old and had o thousand members. It ts @ Cathollo organi- zatlon, with features corresponding to those of the ¥. MC. A. Ite house haw a library, bilitard- room, music-room and card rooms, besides other apartments for general and special uses. I of the are clube within ti Drweball, general athletics, bowling, chess, tennis Rot @ milltiaman in alght to shoot dowa these breakers —J. Mack, Brooklya. bieyeling, music and the camera The Xaviers are prosperous and happy. Their house cost ‘$70,000, LETTERS, [71a column ft open to evergbody who has a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, tn Jormation to give, a eubject of general intercat to discuss or a public service to acknowledge, and who can put the iden to teas than 100 words Long letters cannot be printed, | Spiked with Home-Made Candy, To the Editor: A young lady whom I met some time ago in- vited my cousin and myself to call upon her. We went. Atter sitting and talking some time the young lady, without a fecling of compas- ‘lon, unearthed a box of candy, her own make. We took some and wriggled It down, Ot course, we said it was delicious, and she inade us| eat more, My cousin and myself were too gen- tlemanly to refure, but our actions plainly sald we wore sick of 1. At last we were forced to tell her that it was very poor, and we could eat no more of it Then she fooltsnly became angry, and we went home. When we felt in our pocketa we found that she had filled them with her beautiful (2) confections, Now, Mr. Editor, 1 Want to protest against this wholesale ailing up of fellows on home-made candy. if the girls Will feed the fellowa candy, Jet them go outside and buy something decent, SIOUX CITY, Brookiya. His Machine Doesn't Vote. To the Editor: I have made model of an tnvention to shovel up and cart away snow from a atreet at littl expense, and as it 1m self-loading and self-dump: ing, and can be managed by one or two men, I think 1t would be a useful machine for street cleaning. I have tried to show it to the Com- Missioner of Street Cleaning and to the Mayor, but have been turned away by both of them, ‘Why te it? G GUSTAVE OTTERSTEN, Indy twenty-two years of 4: Ike @ position as 4j large dry-goods store. fous to be ont tive In some I have always been anz- ut do not know how to begin. MIs Le Paid 950 to Get a Hu ‘To the Editor: 1 am a widow, and have had my name in the matrimonial oMfce on Eighth avenue for three years. I paid them $50 to find me the man that BT might love and marry. 1 received a letter trom the agency saying that through thelr many in- troductions I should have been able to find a man suitable Now, what am I to do? I should Uke to marry ome of those men or have my money back PN.Q Bait for To the Editor: Here are @ few questions for your realers to @iacuns: Would @ million dollars bi @ drop in the bucket it condition of humanity? In it the niggardiimess of nature that leaves some in want? If nature i bounteous and provides enough for all, what te ft that hae or ts taking place that causes poverty and want? If there is @ system of unequal distribution, what may be done towards an equitable i tlon in which e tng to bis ability. ‘Taxers, nything more than ed Im bettering the| ribu- Fy one may be rewarded accords POOR TOMMY Will Kill and Bury Himself, To the Editor: Diaguatod and driven to despair by being de. prived of the necessities of life, having no monoy ho friends to ald me, no employment and no ex- pectation of work, I have decided to end my life rather than steal, As I underrtond it. there auleide, and @ punishment 1s who mal Unsuccenstul aii forced to beg or wt to leave thin contrivance by which, after I have stretch myself out {n the bottom of my grave, I can pul ‘cord and let the earth fall in and bury mé Leaving this world In such @ manner, cauainj trouble to no one, not being @ public nulean shock oF disgrace to the city, I wish to know any Iaw can prevent me from carrying out purpose. HARLOW RICHMOND, Rapid Tr: To the Editor: Why go underground for rapid transit when there Is plenty of room on top? Bulld an “L’ two, three or four stories, lighted and operated by electric power, artistically and substantially constructed; the whole road floored and roofed with glans; passenger elevators from the street, nd_no amoke, soot or noise to shock the eye and ear. In my humble judgment thie would better than burrowing in the earth, J. REICHLING, Nyack-on-Hudsom, In There a Profanity Curet To the Editor: Can any reader tell me in what way I cam break @ young man that uses profane language? . BH, A Long Stretch of Thread. ‘To the Editor: In the column under the heading of ‘Worlds lings,"* in last night's paper you state that sev, million miles of thread is used in the United States in one year, I beg to differ with you, as I know of one firm alone which disposes of over ten million miles fn one year, Where do you leave the others? A READER, Probably They Speak Too Much, To the Editor: Ie lt right for « forel ladiea working under they be fined money? Why Do Stout Girls Make the Bi Wivest A friend of mine advises me to marry @ aici stout girl, welghin He says they make the truest, most devoted wives, because they have no temptations Very ilkely she will grow even otouter after marriage, and fo sane man would think of flirting with heavy, matronly looking woman, who looks as f she might smash him at the first hug. Ie that the reason why stout girls are speedily mare Fied? No long, soul-stirring courtships for tht Are men ashamed of being seen flirting wit heavy-welghts? 1 never met @ nice stout gi before, I always flirted with pretty, shapely kirla, but was afraid to marry one of them, ber cause T am jea.oun by nature, Marrying « stout kirl, T will be safe, If my friend tn right. Hope fully, JOHN CAREFUL, Ta ae The Governor Only, To the Editor: Has a Mayor the power to order martial law? It not, who has the power? READER. She Won't Wear an Opal. To the Bdltor: F I know of a very superatitious person who obe Jects to wearing an opal in any form, elther as ears rings, ring or braeclet, saying an evil attends the wearer at all times, such as sickness, accldetta, endlona troubles and finally death, I try to pore svade her that any one is Hable to be stricken down with any cf the above troubles, whether they are the owner! of an Ill-omencd opal or any other precious stone, Am I mot right? A.C. R, A Mighty Me: the Biytor \ clerk employed tn one of the largest Import- Ing houses in Now York 19 @ member of thel Thirtoenth R 4 during the past tw has been on duly. His employer, until re cently a large stockholder in one of the road whiten has had the protection of the Thirteent im Employer, 1 World, but dors thin law cover every kind of suicide? My Iea x to dig my own grave in my own lot Im @ certain cemetery, a Kegiment, and out of which tnvessment he alized a fortune, has deducted the past two weeks falar ‘tram history wea ete week, yo