The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1895, Page 5

TALKS WITH THE DOCTOR A@view Given te Sufferers Whese Ailments May Be Safety Treated oe teaspoonful of pure salt to warm water, and bathe the he solution at bedtime. eee me of a good remedy for itching of falling out of the bair—something week anti apply rum and quinine fe once a day, ard rub it thor- e@aghly into the scalp. eee Ovlige me by suggesting something to Improve ef my blood. My complexion te and very pale.—W. D.C. ure of muriate of iron. Take in water (through a glass jhould avoid haste in eating, masticate your food very thoroughly, and take @ powder composed of two Graine of pure pepsin and five grains of subnitrate of bismuth after each meal. 2% The pain is probably caused by in- Gigestion. or Kindly tell me what to do for excessive per epiration of my hands.—M. A. Bathe them with hot infusion of white ak bark several times a day. eee ‘Whenever I take cold it settion tm my head and I cannot breathe through my nose. Will you Kindly print a remedy that will relieve mem uO. N. ‘You may find a very good remedy tn ®@ mixture con.posed of ten grains of menthol, ten grains of eucalyptol and four ounces of bensoinol. Use it with an atomiser every hour or two, as re- quired. e ‘Will you kindly anewer the following question 1m your evening medical Ie peroxide ef hydrogen injurtous to the head when used for Femedy for constipation. —8. 1. 1. Bathe your face with very hot water at bed time, dry thoroughly and apply @ lotion of two drams of lac sul- phur, oné dram of spirit of camphor, one-half ounce of glycerine and four ounces of rose water. (2.) Take one tea- *poonful of pure sulphate of soda in a gobletful of hot water cee one hour before breakfast and a gobletful of plain bot water at bed-tim . . ‘Will you kindly tell me what I can take for an ‘eccasional billous attack?—8. R. Take a five-grain blue pill or five grains of Gray powder at night and a good dose of villacabras water before breakfast the next morning. ° Kindly tell mo what I can do to get rid of two eoft corms between the toes; they are very pain: fal.—J. P. W. Wear corn plasters to convert them {nto hard corns and then use the remedy given in “The Evening Work” of Merch 3. yee & Reader, Port Jervis.—Ask your Grugsist for some aloin, atrychnine ant Sf Twn witeauc FOOTUGATS eo We OncHegtRA. A Toucnnee rere ua Ww A FEMALE IMPERSONATOR . ONE EVENING’S SKETCHES AT THE CHINESE THEATRE IN DOYERS STREET. belladonna pills, and take one at bed- time. 2. Apply compound gall and opium ointment twice » day. . J. M., Hoboken, N. J.—You should con- uit @ physician and have your eye ex- amined. You cannot possibly treat yourself. T have a child three years of age who has a Fubning ear. Kindly tell me what I can use to cleanse the ear.—G. F. N. Use a warm, saturated solution of boric acid with an ear syringe three or four times a day. ee A. R., N. Y.—Use the remedy for cold in the head given above. eee T am troubled with constipation, which I be- Heve te due to @ liver disorder, as my com- plezion is quite yellow. Will you kindly tell me of o remedy ?—William B., N. ¥. ‘The phosphate of soda 1s usually very beneficial in such cases, Take one tea- spoonful in vichy water three times a day. . ° You will greatly oblige me by printing a rem- ey for boy of three years who is troubled with costivences, Phosphate of soda is frequently of |{ benefit in such cases. From five to ten grains should be given several times a day as required. . WHITMYER, M. D. The Purest and the ‘Strongest THE CHINESE THEATRE HERE. It Is at the Bend in Doyers Street In a Good Thi You might look in the amusement col- umns of the newspapers from the begin- ning to the end of the year; you might see every poster, from a modest single- sheeter to the gorgeous sixteen-sheeter in as many different colors, but you might just as well walk up the Bowery, under the impression that you could pluck daisies from the tracks of the to look for an announce- ment of the Chinese theatre in the or- dinary channels, It you really ‘want to go to the the: atre go to Chatham Square any night and listen until you ra crashing, tearing, smashing noise, follow it to its source, pay the American at the door -fG cents, which will admit you to a Place where you can see costumes, comedy, tragedy, tank drama and Chinese until adnignt. e theatre is at the bend in Doyers and the stage is barren of furni- ‘nd properties, but if the leading ‘worked up into a spirit of frenzy @ crashing of the four-foot cym- , desires to jump from a precipice in order to put to Might the han tasSiteT wien Bab Shouts cut. tne ears off the female impersonator, the stage Manager, promptly fushes in with & chalr d “precipice,” and the act in done. ere 18 no applause in this Chinese fhestre, Occasionally, when something humorous 1s sald on the stage, the Chi: nese mouths e audience ‘will oj Gnd’ a veries of broad Chinese gring will extend from the orchestra benches to the benches that are near the door. Then, too, if the villain talks to the fe- male impersonator In a way more sug- gestive than any American audience would tolerate, the grin becomes a le i wo on, by spasmodic wes, as the suggestiveness increases, until it becomes an Oriental guffaw, and delighted Chinese elbow each other in the ribs and gurgle In Cantonese ‘atch the point? Great, ain't 1 There is no mistaking the villain. He painted and made up for the part, hin face crossed and recrossed in the most ghastly red and white effects and with wonderful tufts of hair, like spike grass, apparently growing out from him, in spots and patches. The artists, however, are the female impersonators, who are really the high- priced members of the troupe. There ts ae 3 prohibited in this Chi- nese theatre, and the audience and the actors are on the best of terms. nese peddler moves silently up the two aisies with his curiou cigars, lichee, nuts, betel nu: ghum, and he rushes behind the scenes on occasions and sells to the actors, en SOME GIRLS AND OTHERS. Letters and Verses About Members of the Fair Sex, To the Editor: A young lady friend comes to my house once tn @ while. Every time she comes her mother | comen with What ean I do to stop her mother coming? Next Tuesday evening we are going to have a few friends at our house, among whom I would tke to have thle young lady, her mother comes that wilt turn me against her. I like her amd she seems to think me to be a good young man. In fact, ahe told my alster that tbe thought @ great deal of me. Her mother spoils the fun, SAM, Brooklyn, Triolet. To the Editor: ‘My love ts sweeter than the rose ‘That climbe the garden wall; ‘With reddest pe and perfect My love i She's three feet alx from head to toes, And except when she doth bawi, ‘My love is sweeter tham the rose ‘That climbs the garden wall, tohester Gir! White Plains joy ‘To the Editor: Portchester airle Go like to hear themselves talk, Would they know a good-looking man it they saw one? If they have seen ont ta Porte! 3 MW certainly must White Plains. A WHITE PLAINS BOY. "The Staten Island Gi T have resided Stal never saw any auch delightful as were mentioned in ‘The Evening World’ awhile ago; and as for comparing them with ladies in Boston and Philadelphia, er city. @e girle tn the country to compare with the It} 1808, GIVEN BY DR. SYMPTOMS MOST FREQUENTLY F PRESENTED BY CATARRH SUFFERERS During March All Patients P! Nominal Fee Not to Ex: Cured—Medioines Free, Great numbers of people suffer from the malian polkons of cacarrh, as from other subtle chrosle maladies, without any correct or deflnite idea of the nature of thelr affliction. The following symp- toms have been carefully arrange! by De, Cope: land, to @uable many sufferers to understand Just what it ts that ails them, Many dixenses, known under various spectiic mames, @e really of ca- tarrhal origin and nature Every part of the mu- cous membrane, the nose, throat, eyes, eam, head, lungs, stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys, ‘ud bladder, aro subjec: to disease and blight by catarth, ‘The proper course for su'lerers ts thin: ead thene symptoms carefully over, mark those that apply to your caseand bring this with you to Dr, Copetand, Ifyou live away from the city, send them by mail wnd mak for mail treatment. In either Instance, and wheiher by mall or ofttce tment, the patent may be assured of the speediont rellel and cure possible to enlightened medicine, c iat of the Head and Throat. ‘The valent form of catarrh and res} from’ nei pemdy and Inexpen ‘isthe Inthe night ove Hteh and burn STs there pate In front of head ? “tis there paln nerov the ey Js there pain In back of head ss Do you sive with tthe month open 2 Does your nose atop up towards night ‘This form of Catarrh ts the easiest to cure, Catarrh of the Bronchial Tubes, When catarrh of the head and throat Is Kea ie eatends down, the windpiye: inte th jal ties and alter Awllie Attacks. Uh Spee ean or tunus, Copelian COPELAND, aced ‘Under Treatment at a ceed $5 a Month Until desire to ge! Do You see sp its Are the eyes dull wna toad taste It in in top ory wtlte Has the perp ration n bad vdor As there pufiiens under the eye 2 Are there dark rings around the eyes?* 1. the akin pale and drs the #kin a waxy look 2" Pr Hyon have these symptoms you have Catarrh ofthe Kidneys omey Catarrh of the Liver, ‘The liver ts affected by catarrh through the iseane extending from. ‘ine stomach into the tuberin weedy atid" inexpensive cure no energy® i have ev Have you pain in the be Ts your flesh soft and flabby “bo you gutter fro Do You bays pal » theme feel If you have these sympto of the Liver Catarrh of the Stomach, Catareh of the stomach Is usually enused by swallowing polsonoue as, which drops down from the head and throat at bight Inexpensive cure by the Cope! there nausea” you have Catarrh ly and belch upc con Tight: headed? ppetite sHave you stiten ‘bo you cou ins cheesy luny st for fatty 100d ua he pain in the thro igh Worse Hight atid morning?* AVE CO AIL Up AL Hight Lo get brent ave theae have (heme aymptoms you have Catarrh Catarrh of the Kidneys. Catarth of the kidneys results { rat by taklug cold: second by overworking ine Mulneya th separating from thn blood the hor wons Phat have been ahsoroed from cutarrh, wi (iateallgeamnn. Speedy aad inexpensive cure by ap your hands and feet aw a this more noticeable in Mey cold and olamm; It of tiie young ladies of the City of rBotherly Lov even If the ladios of Boston are considered a bit trong-minded,”* they are none the less charm- ing, Outside of a number of school-marma and some ultra fashionable young women who go in for tennis and such sports, 1 fail to the “sporty’’ girly keep themselves. LRP Ww, fe where A Country Pumpkin Cut Him Ont. To the Eaitor: There is a very attractive and accomplished young lady, who lives jm my neighborhood, Many of the young men think @ great deal her (myself included), but 1 ood In of her, not because she is disagreeable—no! for she ts a very lovable girl—but because she has @ certain way of keeping men at a distance. I have been thinking @ great deal lately how I ould find enough courage to propose to her, and while I have been thinking, along comes a country pumpkin who has just got on the police force here, and who proposes, and by all accounts is accepted. Now, what should you advise me to do—go and propose to her, oF give hii a good thrashing for interfering A SAD-HEARTED FIRST WARDER. ft Should 6 To the Raltor: 1am a young girl, not unattractive, living in a suburban town on Long Island, 1 have had several eof which seemed to be the ne Give Him Upt The Capel tia Institute, 15 West 24th St., New York, Near Madison Mquare. W. H, COPELAND, M. D. E. E. GARDNER, M1. D Oice Hours~Daly, 9AM. 109 P, ML Sundays, 9 A. M. to § P. M. think I should give him up because of the dif- ference in our ages Qa bk Could a Girl Company" eeping Furtt To the Editor Would you kindly tell me wi young lady should do when keeping company? Can you frtt| Can you receive letters from other young men? VIOLA. Sarsaparilla / Is the Only True Blood Purifier In the epring It purifien the blood and drives out the Impurities which have accumulated during the winter, thus preventing sickness, Try It now. Amusements, REJANE. pings 6. Saturday 2 sine, RidANE, ‘With the Thi pany for ov my junior, sit “diferent from all the reat.” De you year with a young man one yer \eeme i ORD S Thi POWER OF GOLD | NIBLO'S..: Amusements 'HUBER’S “*s. MUS: yg ST. GREATEST st es ie yy PPE RA SK, DONNELLY ae a with it it he mene WEEK RETURN OF Ue MONARCH Primrose & West's pp MINSTR LS. MARCH AL, very Evening ant Weitienday ai lay Mat, MISS NELLIE GANTHONY, The Famous ociet« Entertainer, Who will, present her HUWOMOTS Miss | SKETCHES. rion 60c. Reserved sunt $1.00. by Bloomningdaie Brothers STAH IHtAt He. DENMAN THOMPSON OLD HOMESTEAD. |. Orte\ni ¢ per ein tolt ce Ot, Zoe TSCHERNOFF'S DOGS. LEW Chair inter Nay Coli; ant Hevatiaw. taljoer, Maron, eRnory BROADWAY AND 29TH ST. Matinee 1 Pe NEW BILL. KOSTER & piAL’s. 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A THRILLING SERIAL OF MONEY AND MYSTERY. BOUND IN GRAY AND GOLD. The Centre of One Woman's Hope and How It Turned to Ashes. "The clock striking seven in sharp, @hort notes brought the eager and on @ne side excited conference in the sloam- fag to an abrupt end. “Oh! The exclamation came from he younger of the two women sitting fm front of the fire, She rose to her feet suddenly, and there was a sound of per- turbation in her voice. "Seven o'ciock @lready! How the time has flown! Mar- geret, you are an angel to have listened to me so- patiently, I must go. I shall be very late as it Is." “You will have a hansom, Flora, won't veut” Flora, busy buttoning up her ulster and pinning on her vell, shook her head. “E always consider it a special 4! pensation from Providence that I should Ihave been attacked by what I call my @ab nervousness this particular time." She gave a ‘ittle sigh that was @0 very little it would have escaped Most people. It did not escape the wo- man opposite. “I often think of the @ays wien I used to grumble at having to go out with grannie shut up in the Drougham, and somehow the memory @f that brougham always comes back to me, Margaret, when I am packed into @f omnibus on a wet day with an extra- Gsed fat person squeesed in om my side. | 0 The irony of fate, I supposi “It was a very nice hrougham,” the ‘other woman said meditatively. She sympathy out of her voice. “Yes, to have that dear old carriage now to pack Paul in the Winter mornings and et hom go to his work in comfort! if you cannot have the old days ith their old and many com- who knows what luxuries may not le before you in the future? Just think how weil you have commence: 1, et easy Hiora Meredith answered, a little ‘And Margaret, what- to you; yes, all— have dreamed of, try. ing to do all I have d t Bg. 'e don, no! a dons, ‘ou will certainly be late ity, oe don't “make a start garet Lio} ie said hurriedly, “I You could stay and spend the evenin with m don't Fancy Paul would Tad that an agrsouble arrengement’? “It is bis busy ight; he does not really want me, bu “Oh, you need not continue, Lioyd' interrupted laughinuly ‘Good-by, dear ittle F.ora. You cannot imagine how hone lighted I am at your i a par os w: er tered a [eae RA a ee whose iness was t was careful to keep every suggestion of 8a. wasn't it? What I would give | f dimmed or spoiled, though her eyes were wet with tears, "Good-by, dear Margaret; and if you want to Nave a pleasant dream think of the hope and the happiness you have put into my y he.ping me to be w help tov others, Her husband was fortunately not come home when Flora arrived breath- i and very wet, and she was able to get Into her cozy teagown before the sound of stopping a haneom proclaimed that he was returned. She ran down- ra to help him off with his coat, and him the welcome that was 80 ap. parent, in her eyes and in the sound of er voice, Mr. Meredith was slightly cross, but he returned his wife's greeting warmly, nevertheless. “Hurry up with the dinner, Flora,” he a8 he vanished into his dressing. I had a miserab.e lunch, and I have at least four hours’ hard work be- ore me to-night. “Poor Paul,” Flora said softly. She aid all he asked in her customary pretty | ‘ay, and by and by she found herself standing In front of the dining -room fire, her eyes fixed, wi a curiosity and an eagerness that w most painful, upon | the bulky brown parcel that lay on the sideboard, having been brought home In the hansom with Paul, “If it should be there, sald to herself breath- hi then the color flashed into her interesting face and her eyes grew soft and beautiful, he thought of a certain strip of yellow paper hidden away ‘in her old jewel-case upstairs, bore an inscription that Flora the most, wonderful, the jest Inscription in the world. 1¢ was on.y an ordinary check, made payable to order, for the sum of ineas, but {t represented © whole world of hope, of success—of future fame and fortunce—to the girl to whom it had She began wondering, with, @ thrill of neryousn: mingling with her de- | Mght, how she had better tell her won- jderful news to Paul. she had kept the ret of her work from him with the wre it Gibiculty( ieete had been mo- ments when she had been almost suf- focated with the et of this secret; it was frat and on-y one she had ever a Shows that he Innocen| each | ume of their mai Will End and Win $1,000 in Gold. ch little lght and shade—it wil be better understood what a tremendous Teaponsibility had lain upon her heart when she had set herself the task to try and help to earn a few pounds to go wards the household expenses, and to y nothing of hi mpt until it had Proved itself It had been one morning nearly @ year before that the idea “had come to her. The parochial taxes came first. A inte deep, and Paul heartfelt. swearing from ad fol- Jowed next, and then the idea had burst suddenly into being. It was not born of a politery th thought, that tdea—it was hedged about wit thoughts that were some of them sor- rowful enough, for thay recalled ‘old | troubles, bitter’ words, a breach between herself ‘and her irlhgods home and something more had never been definitely exp.ained to Flora's mind, so ject Jag It waw 40 her love for ‘her husband, but which the world, “at the ‘lage, had summed up pretty correctly as a disappointment for aul Meredith, It had been, & vague con- sciousness that the comfort and luxury that had surrounded her when Paul had first met her, had played a not unimpor tant part in ihe history of their love and marriage that had helped the idea of work to formulate {tself in the girl's mind, However this may be, Flora lad se.zed on the suggestion as on a treas- ure, and had rushed off Loyd as to the only one of her friends Who could be able to, help h the idea into action. She had, of cours: failed miserably in the beginning, al- though Margaret spent many and many an hour in putting the chaos of the girl's thoughts into some definite chan- nel, and had aso drugged away at the ‘dar of mechanism, which undamentally necessary’ to the work of the pen as i! is in every other profes- sion t little by tte she improved. She ‘had ber heart tn hi rofited by her frie: d's structlo: When she had taken her first long story to a publisher, she had carried a letter | of recommendation from Margaret also. jo snot expect, anything brilliantly ood, strong cr ortginal in the stor Lioyd had written. ‘You will find Rothing of the scrts It is, however, the Kk of an edu girl with «very of telling @ story and an eharming "thoughts, erhay In and | to to Margaret | her to turn | which, if a trifle sentimental, cannot | fail to please a lar class of readers. I hope you will give the book a chance | if you possibly cw | The strip Of paper hidden away in the Jewel case had been the outcome of all | this, Ten pounds was not much to earn | for a story that had cost almost at many months to write, but to Flora it represented, as we have seen, more | than wea:th—it gave her a sense of im- portance, it brought her little nearer | Paul, intellectually speaking: She! had sometimes, frequently, Indeed, wheced at itue ¢ mp at had | been mingled in with his uffoction (for r disappol there might e been in the ma when ne lized that his mar without con sent meant a marriage thout money too, there was no question of Paul Meredith's affection for his wife). And now, this would be all changed. “He has alwaye loved me. Now he will be proud of me, to herself, andy speaking out her the girl said she shrank from et, even to obtain that measure of approtation from him which was all that Was necessary to make her happiness complete. ou look very beaming have you been d self, eh, young wom: asked lighthiy, aa they lest dinn had tea with Margare! edly e fet she ating ahd she hated her to-night; with your- r, Meredith discussed their Flora said 1 Margaret Lioyd! How fond you are! hat strong-minded old maid. Margarot--Flora paused an instant—“and you know she is not really, old, Paul. 1 don't fancy” Mar- is more than thirty-four oF five. the sort of woman who ts twisted hin tye Kit fove start have Ho Hght to call t They are a libe, on x Mr. Merodith strangled a yawn. "The art of studying the Verb=se sumre— belongs exclusively to men,” he said, when the yawn Was over. Flora was e's you think that circumstances | wife. 5 | 80. Mr. Meredith flicked the pi rat his my r little od humoredly. “Come and kiss me, and then you can wet all my things ready. I must hurry up or I sha'n’t get through with this lot,” nodding his head at, the bulky brown parcel, “till mornin| Flora’ kissed him, not. once, but several umes, and then the table was cleared, his pipe was lit and the brown col Was torn open. What is it to-night, darling?’ Flora asked, her heart quivering; “reviews aga the Oret hrough morning — I, the usual rubbi: sh, only a little more} Floss, Flora, picked the first one that came; it was pound gray and go There was a similar pook locked aw upstairs. The Utle danced before her eyes in blurred fashion; she did not dare give the book into his hand, her own Was trembling too much, ' She went and sat wi by the fire; her seat was a lit in shadowland, The lam th ita ‘oad green reach that slim pink frock, with the pile socks and the workbasket In her fap. Flora ran per 1 in and out for half a dogen times before she ized there was no diminutl of the yawn- | hole, simply because there was no wool tn the needle, She had curious Duzging nolw” in ner ears, and her | heart felt like a hard lump.’ How long it was since he had taken up the book. She had not dared to look at him, but, though her eyes were riveted on the Tibbed brown sock, two. big wo: darted and danced Up and down each | up ire in the Guest! why h xtobel t silly Christobel's 1 she chosen ne felt sure But how long ae * She gave aj at start and her darning needle ran into her hand, Something had come crashing against the fender at her feet. Something square and flat, bound tn gray, with gold letterin, beg your pardon, darling. I did not hurt you. be 20 violen 1 ho} i did not’ mean to BEC ward and picked up the book. (The fire ig the proper piace for rot of this sort,” he said, as he turned it over in hig hand, “1 can’t understand how a firm like bring themselves to publish this kind of thing, It must pay them, I suppose, though who the deuce they sei to read such twaddle beats me. Well!” flinging the book on to the table this time, “Well, that was @ bad start Let us’ hope it case of worse remains behin The pipe was replenish nd book was welll unde aul,” she said, whe: of the pain had left he are you quite just? you think you %.ught booke with more care—mor aul Meredith know my bi ly, when he spol Surprised to be really as angry as he ught to have been. he girl hac ceased darning. Seated as he was he could not see the hot patch of color that flamed on each cheek, nor the expressicn of the eyes that wer as he had ofien told her, his e she said, very, » but voice he had never hea five only 1 have lately so much about writ rite ing, and I feel’ —she brok, Paul, dear, you are so big and clever, but all the World is not like you. While you find happipess in a scientific work there ure ‘some—many, perhaps—who would find pleasure in a book like that Yes, Iam sure there would be many— any. ere must be more fools in the world, then, than even Carlyle im- agined,” Mr. Meredith al with his pipe between his teeth ex on book before him. °. “I feel so sorry wrote the stery,"" she said, almost a whisper; she was star with her back towards him. “Ni we know what hope, perhaps necessity, may not’ * husband put down his book. You always come back with ‘some erotchet when you go to largaret “Ohinkin bora for INS IN THE WORLD SUNDAY, MARCH 10. friendship. I don't want you to ur head full of the infernal rot advanced women talk—it will you. You know how I dislike Class of thing: “IT do not se that justice is vette the Flora said coldly, Mr. Meredith ‘settled fnaliy. "1 think you had better bed, my dear,” he said calmly, are ina very bad temper for reason or other, and I have not got time nor inelination to fight things she asked passione looked at her with some n amazement now, n her in such @ mood he said, more vrhit is the matter with you to-i Ww Re panpeness . Fags eld cut an instant ger, tears came with rush, and e shed on his shoulder with his about her. “Please forgive me, Paul brokenly, amt | she said, when her voice would dT chink Twill ¢ her upstairs himself and full of tenderness, but after he had her he went ‘Kk to his work with @ fr n his fac hail put an end to all intercourse with that —— woman,” he said; urged by what motive he could have explained, he took up the Poor little Flos,” he sald to bimaolt, has a thought for all. had so openly despised and through it again, perhaps some poor devil has living this sort of thi nis usual yuevn's taxes called ft @ the next mornt lora smiled sadly for one { she thought of a check hid upstairs and a heap of ¢ that lay in the kitel grate, to her was all that remains i's Thode that had been boui —the gold of a wot " Paul Meredith came for-| Lioyd. 1 think 1 shall put a stop to the | selfish ambition. “Condes. Weeki