The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1895, Page 4

(including postage): PER MONT! = gar BRANCH oFFices: WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction af Broad- way ond Sixth ave. at 224 at. WORLD HARLEM OFFICH—120th ot. and Madi. re. BROOKLYN—309 Washington st PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Inquir hot ot WASHINGTON—T02 14th ot. = Office, Pebliabed v7 the Prom Publishing Company, 6 w @ PARK ROW, Ne York. SUBSCRIPTIONS T0 THE EVENING WORLD vee Now 12,219 Botered at the Post-Offce at New York « @econd-clasa matter, 1109 Mar that Mrs. Winkemeier must have re- garded the “kid as a harmless little este fellow, and meant no more by her ca- have known that the bashfulness of a Brooklyn court attendant. to say noth- ing of the maiden modesty of the cook, would make the performance so tame and uninteresting that no jury of expe- rlenced men, who know how it is them- selves, would be able to discover in It the slightest impropriety or evidence of guilt. Indeed, the jurors seem to have formed the conclusion from the cook's innocent fondling of the court ofMc resses on the stairs than she did by the extra piece of pie she bestowed him at the dinner table. No person knows better than Lawyer Hummel the difference between the real thing and the Imitation. If the Winke- meler cook had been a Bernhardt, and could have given in a court-room such 4 stalwart representation of love-mak- ing as Sarah supplies on the stage, the result might have been different. As it | was, the cook was tame, the court officer frightened, and the jury disappointed. If Mr, Hummel ever tries such an object lesson again, It will be when he {8 coun- sel for some fair defendant in a similar sult upon HE WAS ONLY A HUSBAND. Woman suffrage Is having a fete cham- te wi FATHER KNICKERBOCKER’S DIARY. times now do a glove-buttoner or a ha’ something mor THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 2, 1895. A DAILY HINT FROM M'DOUGALL. Not Ne a Pow We Muat Make the Bent of It. —_— a F The compilation, * MW A Mei Mena That Provides ing for Every Taste--Prof. De Medect's Geometry. ‘The publication of Mark Twain's Iatest novel, aain’ Wh Stories that were afloat concerning that were made to At it for the author takes the pi plaina that he started to the “outer double-headed man, and that his other chars acters ran away with him. When the manuscript wan finished, there were two mories, a comedy aud a tragedy, Me pulled th of “The Extraordinary Twins," out by the roots, Jeaving the tragedy for publication in the mi rine. the volume published by the American Publish tng Co, of Hartford. The book 1s unique in that without being an edition de luxe, margin of every page te used to the text, ully tustrate mee Wilson,’ pute at rest the many write a sory of @ comedy, the story The comedy 1 added, as a supplement, im the very wide by clever pen and ink sketchen The Living Pictares. | THE WEEK'S NEW BOOKS, |“T* Evestne worta's” cattery of iden has been carried out in a very attract! Manner, and the artists deserve great credit for the perfect harmony of thelr work: . . . LAWRENCE MAXWELL, JR A rerien of pen and pencil sketches of the! erhig is a picture of the man who has of more than two hundred of the moat! jugt resigned the Solicitor-Generalship, nent personages in history has been pubs 4 in eight quarto volumes by Selmar Hess, eat Men and Famous Wo- hoteworthy for several reasons apart Such ® book in old time would ¢ been published In sixty-four numbers, pe nen." fro ‘* 1th value. ishing In aections @ new geometry and commen: ural arithmetic, ; = . etre, or something akin thereto, in At- a per bound, In place of thi nt method, the THE WORLD'S tanta, Ga, wh : the twenty-seventh | poy, 3615 —The new month has brought Rory seemed | oun rot E o panes, te 3 annual Convention of suffragists 18] esmechine “Piatt Serrenaer wat the AE ne ie det peat, seh, sreely | | | now in progress. that aught my eye as 1 took up favo boaters rahe s e, TaN 4 GREATEST Until yesterday nothing had happened | evening newepaper to-tay. It didn't quite mean | an BM peri AUR GUL OTT i at the Convention to create even the | that the bows had abtioatel, but tt did mean | MA a Sa, eae CIRCULATION MONTH | |sembiance of consternation in the ranks | that he ad come to vie Mayor's terme on the |, 007 00 SER Im mealon, alk name 1] Jof the male #ex, But then something | Hmporiant question of wi) Sah peaeat Ht liad. Ghoateviren. Wie, menieiant payee ot ne . a j$ [ata happen that sent a thrill right |oresnicers of aur cry Tullie Denman’ Te) wrk haw never been wurpassed In any tenis of : a - | [through every able-bodied man (hat rend eee een ee occeeey eave. the power of {Kind The lives have teen written in every 4 8} Janout it. A long-whiskered Floridan |[* 10, 'e tman met tse by men and women famous 18 eter, si9 ; ‘ | | was led to the dais and put on exhibi- Sirsa) were especially qualified for the 4 wor - LMAMNIS AL SCLSS | | tion as “Mrs, Chamberlain's husband.” | This change was demanded in the in ut teference for public and private lbrarieg, , 2 CIRCULATION FOR 3) [ithe capiitary-jawed gentleman suib-[ municipal tome rule ant in eontor thine ‘ ; |}! Jrnitted himself to inspection with splen-| home rule clause of tie new Conetiution 1) a... say geometry cannot he Improved waa 3 JANUARY, 1895, \§ |did humility, ax Barnum's bearded lady | venture to believe that neliher Of These Oo Ja superstition tasting for nearly 2.00) years i. 18) | eeneee a ee one eee! SE ae ee aise saaire of publi | THOReT whe AtWE Attempted 1 hed) to be. very : }}| [are to be no more than this when Wo- | ree ect 1 am. paricularly @lad to |MlY Itroduced of recent years in the teaching 4 |§} | man suffrage wine the day, thelr wives | ijink tat Mr Morton had some hand in shift: ]OF Keometry has greatly weakened the anctent y 1$) [are apt to mislay them, ax they some-|\ne ine tiogsn stout, ott teats me to hove for | MP*THition. Prof. Charles de Medict 14 now pubs | | pin. 8 e : inate) toroupAly erttnal ih sks eer More than Fifty Thousand | Sie Ta ‘The shitt also raises again the question of he attention of teachers The bill against the theatre hat also} now jong tha majority at Albany will endure] and all interested In the atudy of numb Mill ; : a Over Half a Million | [provides against any disturbance of “the | nis toing Jel about by the nose and mate a] Prof de Medici te the discoverer of the method proper quiet” “by any cuuse within the | soectacin of. 1 whould think the process of right=| by which the exact miuare root of surds can be control of the proprietor or manager” | aboutctacing uniter orders would ret rife] obtained for preciae work, and the new methoda = of the theatre, Ian't it possible for this | monstonous to eelf-reapecting lenleatora after af teaching geometry 48 presented in ha book provision to be applied in the case of | time see eivseameic F; the man who has «een the play before, | sasoe strong wae back in tile offre today. 1 eee 3 and who Inatsta on telling all about tt) yign 1 could insure him againat the return of| Nepal in a Himalayan State almoat unknown #o that everybody within ten feet of him | yi. qisauling rhoumatinn to the European, It les along the southern alopes MB. PLATI’S BRIBE TO REFORM. can hear? ee of the Himalay t and India, and There is no occasion for surprise at = - ~ It has been a nice bright day, growing colder. |!* called the “Gurkhas fous Land.’ Th Mr. Platt's so-called surrender in the} Hoboken's Recorder must be a queer| To-morrow will be Candiemas Day reform | British Government 4 net allow natives or % matter of the appointment of a Police] sort of « duck to let a lawyer in open | sees tts own shadow, will It get sit weeks more Lote iat to visit it, and the number of those Reorganization Commission. The prop-| court call him an “old debauchee" and | ot trom at Aibanyt 1 ba SUREGA TS LEG ART ene : ao z an be counted on one's Angers, Nominally sul ouition that this Commission should be} say that he is on the bench only to THE BOSSES DUET. servient to China, it virtually re . appointed by the Governor instead of|shield the guilty, without making any eee supremacy of Groat Britain, Wew nit ie ued the Mayor was absurd. A surrender |other defense than a fecble cry of “Ile,"| a. te weauty in the Bellow of the {at the present time es a butter acne anne upon it was inevitable. Very likely It] and permitting tt to go at that. ny Aa Invacion. Henry Ballantine, for. some time was put into the bil! expressly for the Bienes American Consul at Bombay, obtained permission Purpose of being “surrendered” when the! sph» police bills will pass without| phere in beauty in the way you've given in, [to visit the country, and has given te world time for concession came, Such tricks} amendments.” ‘Thus Senator Lexow| — your surrender was quite gractous, Mr. Platt. |the first accurate and authentic knowielge of one have been heard of. less than a week ago. “Senator Lexow Lexow's eloquence outpouring of the bravest and most hardy races on the The withdrawal of this proposition, | amends his police bills.” ‘Thus the news Kept the telephones a-roaring Indian frontier. The value of Mr. Battant while it removes an absurdity from the) of the present, Platt changes, and} And you bet he wasn't talking through bis hat: | work can hardly be overestimated. (J. Selwin reorganisation scheme, does not materi- ally improve the bills, The bi-partisan Commission feature remains, and retention and enactment Into law would be fatal to police reform. It ty not necessary to Ko to the other Lexow ix changed with him. ley, In this Ba} wouldn't be Commission it should be made to pay for lmore Hght to the public. and it should unquestionably be p San, in the sense that responsibility for {ts acts should rest upon a party organi- zation, that punishment for its misdeeds could be promptly and effectively exe- cuted at the polls. The bi-partisan idea simply eliminates have to watch him the har: you might think he was su THE REPRESENTATIVE ROWDIES. Representative Heard, of Missouri, | Gisgraced himself beyond measure by getting into a vulgar brawl on the floor | of Congress during yesterday's session. Calling a member a “lar and then dis-| playing @ readiness to engage in a low| Tough and tumble fight during a session of the House 1s about as blackguardly conduct as a member could well be gullly of, and this was just what Mr. Heard did. It is matter of congratula- tion, under the circumstances, that Mr. | Heard is one of those members of the Present Congress who were repudiated | f the report of his death, by their constituents last November. ‘The State of Missouri and the Congress | Tammany Hall should giv Parkhurst's book when it hi will, pass remarks, all might yet b It in understood that Mr. qu Breckinridge to blue grass. The crime of concealing by his retirement Mr. Heard's antagonist in the dis- reputable row was even more to blame than himself, having called the Missour- fan an “infernal scoundrel” before Mr, 4 Heard gave him the lie, and having led | not be condoned. Mr, Platt has decided that tution may be something, ev friends. ‘The Professional Woman's League ha which will hav gweneral "1 condemned the big theatre hat. There supervision of the Department, aiid {| are possibilities of better things In this Moiese a Suet Wl eal uF act than in an act of the Legislature. pad judgment. The power of this Roard rs , to Interfere should be strictly limited,| If the “1” road gets more privileges, and other accommodations The trouble about Platt ts that you Political responsibility as an element in| the most, enforcing propriety upon the Board, and Sala gaa invites corrupt deals of ateyeates Mr. Platt thinks he will draw a few When Mr. Platt surrenders this idea, More cards, after all. His “standing it will be time enough to praise his pub-| P4t” bluft did not work in the game on Ue spirit. hand souventr occasion, but we don't think it If the House could pasa a Currency | bill as easily as some of Its members ite confident of his ability to of the United Btates will be benefited | cases In @ crowded city is one that can- wathering them with dest when rendering e out Dr as another pe well. Heard was send Col, Bob Ingersoll is not alone in the | Pleasure he finds in an authentte dental small-pox the Consti- en between Really, it looks as if Gov. Morton had | a ‘m the effort to indulge in 4 “knock-out” | ajsa dune @ Mttle kicking over the ‘ on the ficor of the House of Representa- | traces. | tives. But as this antagon! was Col | d Breckinridge, of Kentucky, he could not| Does Senator Lexow also amend his| x Well disgrace himself, however much he| opinion of Dr. Parkhurst and “that) % i might insult and degrade the body | sang?” _ | which {8 compelled to recognize him as), " : 9 @ member during the short remainder of Vor @. land (of the’ tree, thie nation ts the present Congress going rather conspicuously into bonds. THAT OEJECT LES6ON. ‘New Jersey brid We thought iw deraey - it would be so Mrs.) Winkemeier has won in the suit brought | 4 At any rate there was some action in » sband for ulvorce. | : egsinet her by her husband for uivorce. | 14 wouse yesterday. The jury's sealed verdict, when opened yesterday by the Clerk of the Court, was | found to be in her favor, and « motion | 5 for & new trial on the part of the | Mis silver tongue, : a husband was promptly overruled Pleasant dreams to the New York and projectors Mr, Breckinridge was guilty of a slip And a Hoss’® way tm sometimes rather rough, Information I'm requestin Onn aubject Interesting Do you think that you've experience enought Strong, Ask the men who deal in liquors About some recent dickers— ‘They will tell you I've experience enough, Platt Are you well enough to work It Won't you watt until your ge art? Is klwaye more attractive When a Hosa ts pry and active do you think? ty hand don't Do you think you are #uM@ctently alert? | Strong To the matter thi a T have given And 1 think 1 am sufctently alert | Both— It hat is 10, be. NAS. = a GREAT MEN OF OUR OWN TIME, There are Albany whose ai king per: ty Ie reproduced here Is Wie moat famoi the a Ato, them Who has answered a ro He is furiuer distinguia Mer th mh one of | before the session 4 fro the {his mame. which are ro the cham. the tarme iF granges and ther in-| fereats (nthe Legisiature, ant most of the publi measures (hat bear ame provide for their | from existing evila. Me is @ moat ° not at all a farmer in appear the other 5 man personally ance, and {9 @ rock-ribbet Republican of the fort that Mr. Plait likes, Me ts Mfty-one years of ane | Words That Are True. “It they make up thelr minds to do n0."* says 4 It was all owing to that object lesson | This snowfall comes as a sort of en- %, 4m basement stairs endearments. When | Core to Col, Waring. the usually shrewd Abe Hummel caused | seers eee a @ court officer to stand up with the| February also knows a few things | Blonde cook of the Winkemeier house- | #vout snow. | bold, and go through the alleged love- _ making scene before the eyes of the jury,| Beware the anti-Greater New York be made o fatal edeee | He might | lobby. ‘ Ea vif nant the London Standard of the people of this coun- uy, * yh end thelr money troubles In & month" Never were Wruer words spoken. —Hart- ford Times, Tait & Sona) Platt ee 6 = = Yea, 1 made a full sur@hder ‘The boys of this generation misa much in the its) Marriage may be a fullure In xome In- When 1 found my chance was alonter toma of “Jack Adams, or, The Mutincers of the stances, but there is #till considerable To moop the pot whea you were standing pot | Ship Bounty,"’ and its place cannot be supplied glamour to It or a sexagenarian of HUt-| gong. by the story written by Rowlind A, Young, a Dative of Piteairn’s Island, which brings the hike pituation's xetting vory. mixed _ extreme and concentrate all police au-|a pride of elghteon to his arma. SS RT IGHLLbe iuvor WIINILESSS| tory of that eolony down to 1894. To the persom thority in the control of one man, ‘There a Serr ee ee Geairing the history, atatisticn and the 40. tal con map ' w Aition of the deacendan fe mnutloears, fe much to be sald in favor of Mtl 1 ian't steady going that hurts the We can bid tho rest defance— ponies austell edt it syetem, and there Is alto much (0 be) streetcar horse, tH the strain of start. | ‘That ta of couse, It you der to me Ceeariet AEE al rain Batt ean sald against it. It Is opposed to repub-)ing up again after a #udden stop. ‘The | m, an the ratio at Hean principles, It is undemocratic to Piv is the past generation read Jack Adams and pris petite undemocratic to] Platt legislator ought to know how tt Yen, U1 cultivate @ meekness Robinson Crusoe Ax & history and evide-book so centralize authority ove je ife alls himgelf by this time. For | understand your weakness to the istand, the anthor has done her work comfort of the people. In the hands of sree aire ee Pitenmenttier created he Si aan erate ie unictpal affairs to oversee. It containa many photographs of houses Pas wien ouch & system would be 10+). she toial debt of the/United Btates at SAG Fuatle scenes) oe Piteairn'g Saku. iN i tolerable; it would breed oppression, cor-| Tne total debt of the Unt sot bon tures of the principal residenta. (arite Press Fuption and blackmail beside wien | Hr close of business Jan. 31 wan $1,060.) ie nat tn 90 Publishing Co, Oakland, Cal) . that recently revealed would be insig-|QUATEIE This, too, with a lot of the Aurry down derry land, Cal, Aiflcant. It would rubject the rank and |COUNY'S able-bodied wtatesmen out very Mr Jamen Payn haw written a new novel, tn file of the Department to « despotism Pesta a Market Overt,’ which is in thorough lord and unknown even in military life. | Senator Lexow has been duplicating The Rulahee (oiBaiy? Bene SL Re prey loun leary Mes Pays date There is no reason why laws cannot) the mistake which Axsemblyman Sulzer Ridvall\ todkelineery: - ica daveattoaniens Rone Mae itiaeMadtcakld be made by which a Superintendent of | made Inst year, He toll what ho knew se ary eon ine bates toe retains, Bat Ht ba ot Police will be endowed with ample about some billy before he knew tt all. | anlar Usk Guat Horne Gd (becpabli Sacra powers, and at the same time Piatt _ Cee ee ee pelts vl Sieeras nubs. to a Board ‘There's a acience In the making of a deal, p e has a much larger wbiience In this cou and he can well afford for © try than in England, to drop the ron Vontional middle-class people of England, who a talk and think like so many automata, ant give ts something which In not ertifelal ant machine made, His stories are too intensely “respect able’ aud “worthy,"" and bia ability tn telling them {8 wasted, (J, I Lippincott Co, Phita- delphia.) A % A new edition ‘Thiers'a History of the French Revolution’ has been Issued by the J.B Lippincett Co. of Philadelphia, and by Bentley & Son, of London, which will put aside all pre- vious editions and tranalat work, Mr, Frederick Schobert has both tra lated and interpreted hia author, making his work clear with valuable notes and forty tIiustra- fon steel. Tho edition in complete in five octavo volumes of about five hundred pages famous each. ee Twelve numbers have been isnued by Macmitla 4 Co. of thelr Temple edition of Shapespeare, each play being given asa small and handy vol- with glossary and notes. It 1 printed from in two colors, crimson and black. and {s the handiest and most convenient edition ever print ee ‘The three works wo far published of the Auto- nym Library, Issued by G. P. Putnam & Sons— The Upper Berth," "Found Lost’ and The Dowtor, His Wife and the Clock’ have been koma of thelr kind, The last named is by Anna Katherine Green (Mra, Charles Rohifs) and ts intense detective story. eee Henry Abbey, who ts now living in Kingston. N. Y., has tssued the third edition of his poems, whieh contains all that he “wishes to live.”” oe 8 fourth book obtained from "The Shake. Viaye and Other Works of Lont Na: means of Dr. Orville W. tem, in th m of @ play “The Tragical History of Mary, Queen of Dr. Owen does not lack believers in his theorles and his cipher, Mut oven had he no followers, his wks could acarcely fall of Interest to the general nt of curious Literary productions, (Howard Publishing Co) The spear by Owen's cipher sy ely Year Book’ The Army and for 199% comes to hand with a great variety of statistical \and general information the armies and navies of the world. It Ie comptted by Lieut L. S Van Dozer, U. SN. RO Hamersty & o., Philadelphia.) . . Rider and Driver utes graphically the picwortal history of the Brooklyn strike, means of a series of tl and lite of Troop A Assue. by mp in the curre oe WORLDLINGS. Siatisticn nave been gathered east and weat showing the proportion of women to men in| ing her last visit, ‘They say I'm forget The Gipsy moth, whlch ie taking possession of | 2.8 8 J pearl on which is the perfect ouuine of @ man's W. Jones, of Robertson, Ky., hand. eppear, It ia valued by experta at $150. tons of the work m has fount « Seon Ubrough @ microscope even the veins at Washington, because of a disagree- ment with Attorney-General Olney. The Solicitor-General’s sa.ary 1s $7,00 a year. ———=— THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Hint There and Trae Gossip Me ce, Tales of City Life. Tam violating no conMlence when I relate that & recent. knock-out which took place within a thousand and one miles of New York had for tts fcene the Interior of an old floating beat-house The structure was connect stout ropes and not too strong a plenk walk rocked and swayed violently, at times, under surging of the crowd of spectators that watched the fight, ant the pugilisis were compelled to keep their balance as well as their wits. It was in the midst of one of the old boat-house'a most Pronounced awayings that one of the crow called 4 with the shore by It out; “Cut the ropes and give ux ‘The Last of the Hog * The laugh that arose gave sufficient evidence that everyhody present had seen the second act of the Harriganesque production to which reference wag mage. “A Uitte touch of conductors’ rheumatism,” sald the uniformed fare collector of a local sur- face railway, as I remarkel upon hie careful nursing of his right arm. The trouble waa one [had not beard of before, It was explained to me as arising from the constant raising and jerk- ing of the arm in giving the gelpman the signals SOME GIRLS AND OTHERS, To the Raitor: ‘We are two sensible young ladies, age seventoen and eighteen, pretty, dress up to date, and are fond of dancing and other pleasures, but sad to say the young men of to-day are dead gow. It only a few thought as Harry Sinclair, we Ritle would be happy and appreciate them, but they are no scarce. Harry, you are just what we ‘are looking for, so if you have a friend same as yourself, we would be pleased to make your acquaintance, TESS AND JESS. Most Girle Are Old Maids. ‘To the Ralvor: While I have been in thie city 1 have noticed that the majority of “young girl’ in New York are old maids. Why this is #0 is what puszies me. for from what I aes of them, they are very attractive and good-natured. Can it be that the Young men of New York are slow or that they are too particular, If such Is the ease, the young virls are to be pitied by those who have brains and taste enough to appreciate beauty and re- finement RAYMOND F. CAREMEN, Hage and Kisses Her, but She Don't Like Him. To the Kdltor: T have @ young gentleman friend who calls upon me almost every evening, ant thinks he has ‘& first mortgage on everything in the house tn- cluding myself, and persists in hugging and Kissing me, much to my discomfort. If I lived in the country I would have a bull dog to salute him, but ax it Is in the city It ts tmpossibl Pa says he is going to present him with a ges Dill, but I do not believe he would have sen enough to may away even then, I reader of your paper will suggest @ way of get- ting rid of the ailly bore, H. G. My Staten Island G To the Editor My girl's a Ucket agent on the Rapid Transit Hine, And sho always works till very late at night; And though I dearly love her, and hor beauty’ rerfine, must court her in blight, 1 the station, Here's the Whene'er I call to nee her, tleket box. And sido by site we'll ait to have a talk; And just an I get spoony, and my heart love echo knocks, Some one into the station-house will walk. she will leave the And oft when I with honeyed words « rosy future to stop and start. Few people realize what a continuous strain there is upon a conductor's arm In giving these signals all day, day after day. Take one trip, during which, say, two hundred passengers have got on and off. One bell to stop. two bells to start—there are six hundred of thore quick, sharp Jerke Multiply thia by one eonductor'# number of trips per day and the re- sult” may astonish, you A very amall boo fore the snow and ck in City Hall Park, be- had ail been shovelied and melted away from the walks, turned bis box down sidewise on the slight declivity near the Wweat ond of the Tweed Court-House, gave a short run, fell on the box and had a merry slide to the end of the little slope. He war on his third trip when a gray-coated policeman came along. Then the fun was over, But even the officer Rad to laugh and a bystander declared that tt beat all the sliding arrangements he ever caw, oe It," sald Oliver Sumner Teall, to the group with whom he was talking in the Fifth Avenue corridors, “Walt until Col, Waring get near the end of the year, when there {8 no money to transfer from one fund to another."* ‘All right,” responded one of the group, "Rut at any rate, he gives ua clean places to stand in while we're waiting.” To get to Farmer Dunn's new quarters, it will be mecessury for visitors to rife abrut seventeen floors in an elevator and thon walk a few min- utes. The farmer promises solemnly that re- porters who seek his rookery o' nights shall not have to walk all the way up. This makes it ture that the public will continue ite usual in- stalments of weather through the morning paper Also, that there will be no increase of heart dis- ease among newspaper men, THE GLEANER, Wedding.” oe MUSICAL JOTTINGS, ‘Those who are interested In violin lore may be pleased to note tat Yeaye's Guardagnint vi Je valued at $1,500, while Jean Gerardy’s Gu nerlus is worth $4,000, 1 Halle, who wus once Norman Neruda, radivarian that owns a 8 could not be purchased for $19,000, and Joachim has a collection valued at $100.09 Josef Hollman, the violoneeilist, wit! make his frat appearance at the Metrpoiiian Opera-House concerts to-morrow night. He will play an adagio hy Motigne; ‘*Arlequin,’” by Popper: aa arta by Bach, with quartet accompanin 4a taran fella of his own 2. These “popatar® evenings are as succesful ax ever. New Yorkers have never had @ more enjoyable arrivs of cone corte, ew Mme. Zippos Monteith announcer a eon the ¥..W. 0, Assoctation Hall, In Kast Pita street, next Thursday night. The artie's will Mere Xaver Scharwenka, plan nor Diag Ale bertini, violinist; William C. Cart, organist; Sttsa Marguerite Morrow, eon Wiliam Courtney, tenor, and Mine. Montel {. ‘The sesond ote These concerts will take place Fed. Zt | ar) Patti, the trrepressibte, dovsn't forget her Amer fean friends Bhe writes frequent teiters to this try, and very noway they are. Bhe is shor to appear at Covent Garten, London, in six oper aude performances, Ii is not dakely Cat she with come to America again, @he felt very keenly ence invariably wa her recall to show De Reuske. until abe lias departed alter Aa excess of applause upon ‘Of course, it ts more human than paint, Or love's swort tale I tell her o'er again; Or vow that she bas features like some lovely pictured satnt, She'll surely say: train! “Oh, my! Hore comes the Oh, it drives me almost craz ive to woo A pretty mald with amiling lips and eyes, Is something which In company will never, nover do, Though the maiden be the fairest ‘neath the skies. for although it's And sometimes when I hold her hand most loving- ly tn imine, And hug her with my fuzzy ulster sleeve, I forget that there are others (in my ecstacy divine) TIM sone one asks: “When will the next train leavet”’ And then [ blush and stammer, and I wish m} elt away, While my foolish head begins to madly whirl But I made thin resolution very early yenterday. “1 will do my best to find another girl.’ JOHN J. MINTYRE, Port Richmond, 8. 1, A Policeman Wants a Wife. To the Editor: I am a young man, twenty-eight years old, and on the hunt for a wife. I don't caro if ahe fe @ young mald, or an old one, rich oF poor, fat or lean. But what I do want Is one who would think well of @ good home if she got one. 1 om a policeman; therefore, 1 think my chances are poor, as we have been Lexowed to such an extent that I honestly think a respect- able girl would not have anything to do with & polleeman. Of course, we are not all of us Stamford's Pi To the Editor: “Portchestor Girl’ says the girle of Portehemer Jo not paint. T have been In Portchester several times and have xeon more young ladies with paint va thelr faces than In any other town I ever have been ip. But 1 would suggest to ‘H. C. D.."" of Krooklyn, to came to Stamford and gare at our pretty girl. ONE WHO CAN SEB PAINT, Make Him Join the Militia, To the Editor tty Paintless Girls, What rhall 1 do? I am @ young Indy of twenty, keeping company with a young man about two yearr, but he Is growing round- Mhoultered more and more every day. He will not hold his shouldere up straight. Now what am I to do? Am 1 to marry a round-shouldered fellow? 1 do love him, but do not love his shoulders, JULIA, Brooklyn, N.Y. Needed. More To the Euitor Why in it that a young man who makes the Acquaintance of « young lady and goea with her for three or four wecks finda that the young lady then imagines that he Is keeping company with her, and han no right to go with any one + Are there no young Iadies in Brooklyn who would go with @ young man for friendship ly? C. D., Brooklyn, Well Fixed. jendship Flora To the Esitor Advise me what to do. twenty, Tam a young lady of and Tam keeping company with two I am engaged to the two and 1 love them both. They both know what I have done, but neither will let me have the other, I aleo have accepted ringa from the two, FLORA, Love Under the Lamplight, To the Editor Viease let me know if it In right to make love with a girl after 10 P, M., in the street? MA. H. young men, “EV! ENING WORLD Scotchmen in New York who find their way into big citele of Caledo are in Scottiah literature, Every year then at Jones « Wood. memories, history and gamen \4 prom but perhaps De Rew he's phenomenal auc: vpnity. it Sfaavhas something te do wiih lis overweening leten tro the country go into com) tien tor The club-house in Horatio do the scene of many social affaire each for Mrs. Oscar Wilde. green chine moire, hope some Jane whose headquarters big building at 8 and 10 Horatio street is un assembling of the clans vent Caledonian ath- " reek, Mea. Oscar W! Here is @ dress just made in London Tt is of a pale infinitesimally spot- ted, and the full skirt has round the hem a drapery of black silk muslin; while the bodice is covered with chiffon, over which stretch garlands of pink roses, terminating with streamers @all- ing to the hem of the skirt. The sleeves are formed of two puifings of black silk muslin, headed with green chiffon and moire, garlands ot the roses coming over the shoulders again. Stevenson's Heroines. If ne two women were ever born alk so it may be said that no two connol seurs in woman have precisely the same taste. Mr. Archer, the London critic, for instance, {s in love with at least two or three of Stevenson's heroines. But they were the despair of Mr. Stevenson himself, A young lady, a great friend of his, once asked him why he did not cre- ate some really nice woman, “I have done my best,’ he answered, “but they turn to barmaids on my hands. How to Treat a Cold, As soon us there is the slightest symptom of a cold the sufferer should rinse the mouth frequently with some antiseptic fluid, such as a@ solution of carboile acid, and should inhale through the nose the smell of this fluid, This treatment serves to keep off the germs which are likely to cause a cold. A French physician says that when one catches cold through getting one’ wet, In addition to the treatment of the mouth and nose by disinfectants, he should plunge the feet into cold water. Ueually, he says, people have the vater as hot as they can bear it, but that Is a mistake. It Is likely to make the cold worse, When our feet have be feet | come chilled by the wet, obviously the | frst thing to be done is to make thw blood circulate properly in them, The feet should be plunged tuto cold water, even into snow, for the space of forty to fifty seconds, not more. This sends the blood flying into the inner organs, Where the temperature is very high, and, as a consequence, It gradually goes back to the feet and stops there. The circulation being thus restored, a ttle energetic rubbing of the feet will main- tain it New Exyptian Tapestry. A beautiful all-silk tapestry is shown Spotted at wide intervals with an Egyp- tian floral pattern, set upon a square shield, the motive having been dis- covered In an antique Egyptian tapestry in the South Kensington Museum. The prevailing tints in which the fabrie is produced are old gold, ceramic and sinthe green, Another beautiful tapeatey with @ pattern sultable for church pur- poses Is shown in cream and gold and blue and cream. Plain Hemetiteh, ‘This atitch enters so largely into everything that it is well to learn it. Take a piece of linen in which the threads draw easily, Fold and baste them. Draw above the edge of the fold trom four to six threads, accord- ing to the quality of the material; with a suitable needle and a finer number of cotton than would be used for sewing the same stuff, insert the needle into the edge of the fold, throw the thread to the left, take up a cluster of threads, pull them together, insert the needle into the edge of the fold and repeat. Old Coins as Ornamen Antique coins for personal adornment are regularly quoted, and those most commonly obtainable are quoted at prices varying from $2 to $150. The most valuable of these coins are those in gold of Syria, Egypt and Greece from 900 to 100 yeara B. C. Roman coins since the Christian era are quoted at from $20 to $75. To Make Cut Glass Sparkle, To keep cut glass always in a state of Sparkling beauty, requires time and care, It should be washed in warm soap- suds and then rinsed in hot, but not boiling, water. Let it stand in a pan of dry sawdust until dry, then brush with @ soft brush and rub with a piece of chamois, and the result will be well worth the trouble. Rabber Boots for Pet Dogs. The latest India rubber invention is a ; Set of tiny boots for dogs. They are high and lace up the sides, and are to | prevent the canine favorite from enter- ing the house with muddy fect, as they must be removed at the hall door. Stale Bread Made Fresh. Stale bread, if cut in slices, then lala together again, folded in a dampened napkin, slipped into paper bag and laid in a hot oven for fifteen minutes, will | Come out lke fresh bread, [7M column fe open to evergbody who has a complaint to make, a grievance to ventiiate, im formation to give, a aubject of general interest to discuss or a public service to acknowledge, and who can put the tdea into (ess than 100 word, Long bad; but if any of you girls would give me al cetters cunnot be prinal. | hance I am quite sure you would not regret it. SS AGE H. (One of the Finest), Mexica Va. Guate To the Editor ‘The air is full of visions of the threatened war between Mexico and Guatemala. Mexico appears to want to force the fight, and Is rapidly prepar- Ing herself to protect her territory trom foreign Invasion, From this we judge that Mexico wants to turn over @ new leaf, for, however anxious she appears to be to Aight Guatemala now, Just as aprious has she been to avoid a clash with “John Dull," who, against all sense of justice, and with nothing in his but his ever-grasping greed for territory—from the simple concession secured from the Mexican Government a few years ago to allow a few English luinbermen to cut eam- peche or loxwood in the southern part of Yuea tan, and the construction of huts for these same lumbermen to dwell in while the cutting lasted, has now an established English colony, well pro- tected by forts and all other means of defense (to defend herself from the Mexicans, no doubt, for all this {son Mexican soll). If Mexico wants, at last, to commence protecting her territory, let her do so, taking each invading country in ite turn, and in that case unite her efforts to thone of her brother nation, Guatemala, and fire the dy nation out frat, MEXICAN, Poorly Paid Women and Girls. To the Editor: T wish to call your attention te the labortous work and poor pay the women end girls get who are obliged to work at Jet and passementerie. ‘The work 1s most tedlous and trying to both eye- sight and nervous ‘and pays miserably. Often an entire week's work on fine net does not bring in more than $2 or $3.60. 1 also wish to enter a protest against well-to-do women, who take the work from those who really need tt, for “pin money," and extra ‘spending mone: ‘Those women do the work very poorly, as they ‘are not dependent upon it, and do it for almost nothing, taking the bread out of their worthy ele ters’ mouths and discouraging honest labor. FAIR PLAY, The Lady Ticket Agent's Cou! To the Editor Having occaston to visit Brooklyn last Sunday, Lnotived 1 paseed through the office of a ferry station that the lady agent was too much taker up with her gentlemen friends, and let the pas: sengers stand in the cold until it sulted her to wait on them. Any way, T think It am outi have those so-called ladies taking up a '# place In the ticket ofc How Ab To the Editor: T have been thinking of becoming @ figure in tome cloak house, but, as Lam not sure whether my figure is At for one. T would like to ask you Tam 36 Inches huat and 23 around the waist, and T would Itky 10 49k you what are the waxes they generally pay, and whether I should have steady employment? 1 working In a store now ax salesiady, and have prOmised to stay there uotil April. VERNA, ‘The Te! To the Editor ‘The young man who requested @ cure Grinking habit has my sincere sympathy, Five | yeara 1 was a bard drinker. In fact, 1 was rapidly becoming ® mental and physical wreck, Realizing the fact that I was killing my any of Rum, ible Ty ov the |are sure to be tn good luck. ‘The Club was| poor wife, 1 stopped suddenly. The agony and formed in 1556. It put up It own building. The suffering It cost me to stop Rubody except those membership Is large and becomingly loyal to| who have beea Im a like position can imagin ‘The very odor af spirita seamed to madden me, 1 would wake up a& night with that terrible eras ing upon me. Nothing 1 could do would bill the cursed desire, Dut fight it T had ts, an T know to 62 back and take one drink would prove my } eternal destruction. Even now, and four tong years have passed, I can feel tho desire slowly ateal upon me. Sometimes I imagine I shall go mad, Oh, if cnly our lawmakers would eme together and pass some law that would kill this infernal trame, instead of bickering over tariff laws and In- come taxes, I have heard men aay that @ mam with & strong mind could easily stop the habit by wetting hia will against it, This ig nonsense, ‘The stronger @ man‘a mind i the more powerful hold 1t takes on him, till {t becomes part of his very existence. My advice to the young man {s: Turn your face against it and fight it with all the power you possess, But don't ever get mare to matter how much you think of the girl. She cannot retorm you afier marriage. That fe will only succeed in drage EE, w rie @ mimaken Idea Y- ging bi down to « life of misery, jachelors’ Tax and the Si; ‘To the Editor: Several letters have lately appeared in “The Evening World’ humorously advocating the tax Ing of old bachelors, olf maids or children, the object in each case belng to diminish the class objected to. The writers have all grasped the (ruth that a tax, like a fine, has a repressive in- Suence, A heavy tax on bachelors would redure the number of bachelors, just as fining men for Getting drunk has @ tendency to decrease érunk- ennem. Exactly on the same principle, taxes on buildings repress the erection of bulldings (thus lessening the demand for labor and increasing Tent), and all taxes om the products of labor de- crease employment, and so reduce wages to the lowest living point. On the other hand, « large tax on unused land would force such land into use, thus immensely advancing wages and the emand for labor, and reducing rents and the cont of living. Moral: Let ua adopt the single tax aystom. EQUITY, Tailor-Made “Pomes,” To the Editor: “My DIN," the tatlor aald, “has run Too tong!’ And with @ amile ‘The youth replied, ‘Then ‘twere well done To let it stand awhile,""—Exchan, A crowd then gathered far and wie Around this youthful wit, ‘Tho tatlor with « stitch inside Was taken with « ft. wae No Taxes fo To the Editor: What im the dickens have taxes got to €e with Door people in America? Do they pay taxes? 1 was told the other day by different people that they have lived here all their days and never pald one cent tex. They pay rent, ‘tis true, but wouldn't they have to do that anyway? Who does pay the tax, I wonder? If government were to {ax real estate more I don't see how landlords vould get more rent. Would it not result. tn Poorer habitations for the masses? If so, them they do pay the taxes after all W. JEFFERY, 111 Broadway, Stella Soa To the Editor: 1 wish to study solar biology. T have Butler's. WII some one kindly name other authora on the subject. Please ask your readers to write on whet they know about the ‘influences of the stars," signe of the Zo@ac, &c. Those trashy letters about olf maids and bachelors and mak- tng fires are not worthy of your valuable paper. STELLA, Where Is Sherlock Holmes? To the Editor: Tam « cook. While cleaning chickens I found ‘© large plain gold ring in « gizzard. The ring is near a balf inch wide and fits the little finger. Tt may be worth putting im the papers; the persoa who lost the ring may read it. MOORE, 106 Schaeffer atrect, Brockiya, ‘The Cause of Its Success, To the Baitar: ‘The tesgon of ‘The World's’ grest qucsens Decause it ie tm toueh with mature: “One tomah | of wature makes all the wortd akin.‘ + SAMUELA 606 TUIrd creel, Bowetteny | “ft 4 \ ( é