The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1895, Page 4

q Prof. Carl Myers, the celebrated acro- g While there is a chance of success in } perienced by the reporter in focusing Published by the Press Publishing Company, $1 te @ PARK ROW, New York. W DNESVAY. JULY 24, 1895. SUBLCRIPTION TO THE EVAN.NG wORL (ncteding postage): PER MONTH..... ¢ fs PER YEAR... 83.50 ‘Vol. 36... . No. 12,301 Barered at the Post-OMce at New York as second-class @@ BRANCH OFFICES: WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction of Broad- way and Kixth ave. at B24 ot WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—125tn ot tom ave BROOKLYN—309 Washington ot PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Prese mat ot. WASHINOTON—702 14th ot. sliding, 102 Chest. GVEA HALF A MILLION PER OA}. The World's Circulation for the First Six Months of 1895, 553,813 Per vay This EXCKF! COMBINED CTRGUTATION et ten New York more specitic, i T LYGRAM, ie | ‘Fue World's Crreatation ver Pav First $11 Mow'hs of 1995 ~ 653.818 First Six Wonths of 1894 - 476.065 First Six Months of 1801 - 822 100 First 51x Months of 1883 - 26,687 Gate in One Year - - 79,708 Por Diy Gain in Four Years - 931,713 Per Diy Gain to Twelve Years $27,276 Par Day —————— Raden of THE BVENING WORLD’ Weaving the city for the het months shouki send thet address and have **THE RVENING WORLD’ mated them regularly. Addresnce @hanged as often as desired, ee BALLON: FORK R&PORTING. Baut, who furnished the balloons for “The Evening World's” experiment in Feporting the yacht races with a leased telegraph wire from 1,000 feet in midair, does not agree with the conclusions feached by the reporter. In yesterday's editions he said that the difficulty ex- his feld-giasses upon the yachts, due to the constant sway and swing of the Balloon, could be largely overcome by using guy ropes. The professor believes that in a balloon held by three ropes “fn Buch @ manner as to make it the apex of @ pyramid, there would be very little Movement. “It would be as still os a Steeple,” said the professor, but this Is probably an acronauical figure of speech. this very tempting field “The Evening World” will not abandon it. Even now the professor, with his corps of experts, fs studying the currents and the other Phenomena of the upper alr of the sea Coast with a view of reporting whether the conditions ara likely to be favorable for a series of ascents during the off- story? Why has death come to her, @ither by her own or another's hand? There is no clue to the mystery. The body Is to be kept in the Morgue till Saturday, and then if not claimed is to be buried in Potter's Field. And this will be the end of the story. Yet there 1s evidently sad history lying con- ‘cealed in the pages of the past. | If blackberrying boys had not come Across the body It might have jain there |for days undiscovered, But if a #aloon had been located on the corner of the Street, the pollce would arsuredly have found out, in their strict enforcement of Jaw, If a glass of beer hud been sold \there last Bunday “Ant-Platt sictory in Saratoga." “Stapleton defies Platt.” in the Oswego and Madson district. If these straws show which way the wind blows, 10 is 4 good breeze for the G. 0. P. THE ‘AME CRY OF BOODLE. There does not seem any very great @ifference, after all. Under the old re- gime we were constantly hearing of Prodigious echemes for the unnecessary expenditure of the people's money and of jobs and combines put up betwe the authorities and contractors, Under the present reformed rigime, similar rumore fill the air The Aqueduct Commission was a commission, and seemed to do i‘# duty. But if a loose and con- venlent political Comptroiler had been in office In place of Theodore W. Myers, the city would have been badly victim: {zed In the Aqueduct contracts. Fra were discovered of a grave character. and it was only because Comptroller Myers stood up, an immovat barrier against them, that the city was saved from heavy loss and serious danger. As it was, the old contractors fought hard, and are atill Aghting, for ‘“dam- ages” largely in excess of thelr con- tracts We now hear stories of the needless- ness of the expenditure of ten million dollars on the Jerome Park reservior and of a fight and scramble among the con- tractors for the valuable work. The name of one bidder mentioned was very much discussed at the time of the new Aqueduct scandals, and from the talk about “combines” for filling Van Cort- landt Park In connection with the new reservoir work, we might well imagine ourselves back in the old days of many rule. What does it all mean? And why is it that the old familiar names are again heard tn connection with big city con- tracts running into the millions? fairly honest Presently {t will appear to many who are now blinded by thelr own prejudices that it {» Impossible to adapt the Wymps Gup idea of Bunday to the conditions of life in a cosmopolitan city. WORK FO’ A WAR VE'BEI. Secretary Herbert Is asked to send a war vessel to Panama to guard against encroachment on our treaty rghts or| any Interference with the op»ration of the railroad consequent on the labor troubl at the Isthmus ‘There {s no disposition on the part of| our Government to Interfere with the, strike except so far as to take cure that Ur line of the Panama Railroad .# kept, open for traffic, But the political com- plications are now more serious than ever, and intrigues to muke trouble are to be apprehended, It ls very certain that the United States should be in a Be THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVBNING, JULY 24, 1805. THE BLLUW THAT CRUSHED HIM. week, THI?STY NEW YORKE—Well, Goodness! there’s only one Sunday in the thank “The Evening Wo: ietures, LULU TADOR. ‘This \s @ picture of one of the prettiest young women tn the grand stand at the Polo Grounds yesterday. She 1s not only pretty but big-hearted, for ahe patd $2 for a single score card of the Trilby- Svengali ball game for “The Evening World's" Sick Babies’ Fund, reformatory zeal. It would be a great thing If New York's Police Board would take Its “I” off the saloons long enough to attend to the proper equipment of the force. If that rawhide cannon should prove a Uncle Sam would be able to menace any possible enemy with a phenomenal cowhiding. Is the Jerome Park reservoir neces- position to promptly check any political movement threatening the neutrality of the Isthmus and to repeat If neces- sury the lesson of 18R5, ‘The request of the United States Con- sul at Colon should be promptly attend- ed to, A vessel fully equal to the occa slon should be sent to the Isthmus at once with Instructions to check any trouble without delay or cireumlocution, What shall it profit a great city, though Its police force be first in the » -elal trial races in August. It is to be hoped that it will be worth while to experiment again with the Dalloon and the special wire, Whether ft will be or will not be, “The Evening World" can promise all its readers that they will, be served in August as they Were in July, with all the news, better told, better illustrated and well in ad- vanoe of every other newspaper in the ity. A Uttle thing like being beaten in ~ Derby did not disturb Sir William Ver- mon Harcourt. He simply went and had himself returned to Parliament from ‘West Monmoyth. This is not exactly a British equivalent, however, to the American process of electing Calvin 8. Brice, of New York, to @ Senatorship for Ohio, ‘MISREPRESENTING AMERICA. Mr. Pheips Dodge, whoever he may be, goes out of his way to write to the London Timea that Chauncey M. Depew is in error when he pictures the American pople generally as in favor @f Home Rule for Ireland. The neces- Bity of politics, Mr. Dodge says, induces such a pretense, but a large majority of Our citisens and the best of them are @ecidedly adverse to Irish independence. » _ This is absurdly Incorrect. The sym- pathies of our people are with the op- Pressed under al! circumstances. Their hegrts go out to all who struggle for ) their rights. They sympathize with the Cubana, who are fighting for freedom. ‘They sympathise with Ireland because of the wrongs she has suffered from Engilsh rule for long years. Mr. Depew is rght. Americans do favor Home Rule for Ireland because it is a simple act of justice, and because our own institutions are based on that great principle and we believe our institutions are the best for all men all over the world. Nine Svengalis hypnotize! as many Writbys in a good cause at the Polo Grounds yesterday. The Bick Babies’ Fund will get @ fine boom upward as a fy it of the operation. And thus it “Will be shown how even a little nonsense Biay be sense. THE STORY OF BA*Y CUCKOO. Poor I'ttle ‘Baby Cuckoo!" Bhe was found, a slender girl, pretty, Well dressed, soft, white hands, only eighteen or nineteen, lying in the woods mear the Hudson at Two Hundredth street, with her brown eyes open to the sky, @ bullet in her head and @ pistol ) by her side, dead. In her pocket wa Rote to “Baby Cuckoo,” yellow and worm, which she had evidently carried | with her some time, had kissed perhaps 7 ‘and again before the end. 5 police say she killed herself and Ney is very likely, but whether she did or she was lured there to be the police myst clear up the ia she? What as been her enforcement of the Sunday laws, and still be behind the age in practical po- lice equipments CLOOMER GIRLS AND CORRECTIVE KICK- Ing, A bloomer girl was insulted in Pitt burg or Chicago or somewhere the other day, and a man who was at hand gave the offender @ sound extempore kicking, This ts all right, we suppor but don't you think, girls, that after you get used to bloomers you can do your own kicking? Balloon trousers are no hindrance to free and effective ure of the legs. Skirt dancers can describe long, high and swift curves with their limbs, and they are handicapped with frilled petticoats, &c, Why should not a girl in roomy bloomers be able to give a neat but artistic Krupp-gunshot Impetus to the toe of her boot, particularly when there ts an insulting specimen of the male sex in the path it traverses? A Paterson woman riding a bicycle was knocked down by @ wheelman and suffered a broken leg. The man who did the mischief rode away quickly, disregarding the Injured woman's appeal for aid. That man was @ coward and u cur, It is unfortunate that the brother- hood of wheelmen cannot know him to despise him. ‘The Vigilant was fairly and dectsively beaten, It were wiser to let It go at that and hush this talk of crowd: on the course Defeat has not robbed the Cup champion of '% of her place tn the popular esteem. It la only that times Improve and yacht-building must improve with them, White settlers in Idaho shoot down in a buneh sixteen or seventeen Bannock Indians, and now the Governor there reports that “the situation is very seri- ous.” The list of our crimes against the red men will not end till we have murdered the last one—the disgrace will never end, The pleas for Maria Barbert are ex- traordinary. Gov.Morion would be do- ing right In moving with more than the ordinary official speed in this case The girl is being too long tortured by sus- pense Will Tammany rescue the average citizen with @ keg and thus get lis birthright in November for a mess of lager? Roosevelt is making it prob- able. If there had been a police signal ana patrol-wagon serv.ce in New York drunken Jennie Brown would have been decently taken care of in Grand street last night This would have prevented the spectacle of patrolman and an acting Captain struggling with a fren- tied woman In the public street, it would also bave spared Rebecca Fream sary? Are not $6,000,000 worth of good roads more essential to New York's com fort and prosperity? Those poor Indians in Idaho are apread- tng terror these days, but when the cruel war Is over they'll be a lot of overdone Bannock: Pretty soon another Brooklyn bridge may be needed, to accommodate all the jumpers, as well as all the traveller: If Gen. Harrison tan't a candidate, Gen, John C, New and the rest of his machine workers don't know tt, Who would have belleved that Col. Waring would in take his pen in hand? We are policed too much In spots and not enough In many other spots. Brooklyn Bridge jumping has fallen to the rank of the commonplac: The metropolitan Sunday has been made a day of unrest. The Bland boom ts in line. Of course it is silver-plated, Poor ‘Baby Cuckoo!" want of Death? Police domination ts not police em- clency. What did she Discretion is nine points of sumptuary law, The Defender has thus far pleased us all. — o—_—_—_ ON VARIOUS TOPE ereigm and the Danka, jonal banks will be able to worry along Mr. Sovereixn, but there are a good miaay Knights of Labor in this country who need National bank agotes in their busi Kansas City Star Hut Did Ben Keep Shut Upt As we gaze into the biank Cleveland and 8: 49 Absoiute wasie of effort to faces of Sphing earn (he Jeason of 4 prudeat reserve, There la time to peal, saya the Pergiag, and a tine to be alleat. And the greater achievement of ihe ino is to keep the mouts shut—Chicago Post. Give 'Em a Good Name, Sop the modern bicycle the garn the sort, Th hybrid combinac skirt aud pantaiets, @ meck martyrdom of mort! Qeation, while the bicycle trousers are apparently any!*log but that to the womea who are seen wearing thein,—Schenectady Union, Ie It Night, Mr, Corbett We beg leave to call Mr Corhett's attention to the battle now going ob between Messra Harvey aad Horr in Ch and ask if he thinks It is right tnat they the bread out of an owes JaweBgdier's moULd.—Los Angeles Post, Why do those writ comtume persist tn ¢ They're u one” ng © nldeoue Beer a Delleate Mayor Sepieren, of Brooklyn, black eye by the Christaa Bnd vorers of that city. They have refused to invite him to speak AC one of thelr strawberry and ice-cream testi vals, all because he played fast and loose wits the Excise law in ine “City of Sa.oons te playing havoo with the politicians cain y It te @ deucate and dangerous iasue phia Recon. A Depressing Defeat, The Engiish ele jon is one of those depressing Aefeaia of everything which represents Liberty and progress b fom time to time remind all the humiliation of repenting in a soli- tary ceil her demonstration ef too much the world that freetou's battle Is never @ fore Bone couclualeA.—Puiladephia Pree hing Harrison it would wot bey who has Juat been reduced to on Brow @ rank of pairol- yy Bunday afternoon, fle w. and If he felt “vive over thi Teduction {9 feok, he had the werve not wo show {t, At the entrance of the Metropo'e Hote) avout & Goren men shook hands with the ex-detectiy and expressed regret at the Police Commissioners’ action, Armstrong wmiled pleusantly and sald “ie all right’ The Commtestoners think it for the good of the service. But yt thin” And he threw back bis coat, dispiaying @ ‘World’? blic service medal eo. Im the crowd that gathered in City Hail Park last Saturday to watch ‘The Evening World” Dulleting of the Vigilant-Defender yacht race were several newsboye selling extra editions of the apere Two of ung? fo aM argument as to the outcome of the coming race with Vaikyrie Uf “I'll bet eight cente de Defender beats the English guy's boat.”* sald one of the boys The other boy ransacked bis pock. ats, but could profuce only aix cents He bor- rowed two centa and deposited in tie hands of another newanoy bie stake The boy who pre 41d Wkewlse This Ia undoubtediy rat wagers made on the coming in- tornational race. He was short and rotund, His jolly face wa! amooth and boytah-looking, The lawyers who eat 4m Special Term of the Court of Common Pie; whispered as be enterod, ‘That's Col. Fellow: Ony of (he lawyers who hae @ speaking acqusint- ance with the Colonel, stepped up to the new= comer, saying: "Good moruing, Colonel, 1 hope you enjoyed your trip abroad.’ “I beg your par- don, str," was the reply. ‘You've made a mii take { am not Col. Fellowa."’ But he was An- drew Hanneman Judge Bookataver's private clerk and Col. Fellows's double The resembiat between Hanneman and the Cotonel ts 40 atriking that Intimate friends of the latter have been known to mistake the other man for him. ee We were riding uptown on the Ninth avenue "Ly"? my friend and 1, He was an ardent ad- Doyle and Sherlock Hol You that old gentleman oppoalte us? Well, he ts ® theatrical man He te fairly prosperous, un- married, and has done considerable travelling in his time He has had some business troubles lately, but te tm tne right road again. fle ts of German parentage. but hae apparently been here Alnce bis youth. How do 1 know all thin? By | duction It Le vary almple when you study {t out, Of course, It takes practice to become proficient, but there are many Hitle things which ‘© man's character, occupation, &c. ryly remarke@ that the gontleman in qui was a Park Row bookseller, located not ¥ from the Post-Office, and had been exceedingly well ever since I had known him, something over five yeara, His wife, a charming woman, often spent the afternoon at his stor: " him at nightfall. He wae— “Sorry, old man, but here's my station Good aight.” I thought my friend lived further up, Dut maybe he has moved. THE GLBANER. oe CATALDO DESERVED HIS FATE, More Letters About Maria Rarberi's Act and Penalty 1 ed. To the Editor: In the sight of God the man who betrays a woman (# her husband, and if it were so In the yea of the law we should have leas of this mur- dering done by unfortunate and often tgnorant women, The fact of a woman having a child being able to prove a certain man tho father of ft, and also that before her intimacy with said man she had been a pure woman, ought to be suMficlent to make the man her lawful husband. Men would be a Little more careful then how they Induiged themselves and a little justice would be done mankind. In regard to Marta Barberl, she did wrong tn taking bis life Should have picked hia two eyes out and left sitting 19 a corner or on top of his bootblacking eh ind for the rest of his life. He would hardly rulu any more ignorant girls, and if h 4\d the “lust of the eye’ would not trouble htm she much. A woman who falls may not lift her head up again. but Ko shame-faced to the grave, whi! tue man (a secret, If not openly) ts looked upon a4 4 aort of hero by bis friends ant mankind in keneral, because he acted like a cnr to @ woman who gave all that st this life-her good name—and he has proved un worthy the trust, While the woman ts looked down upon and the man allowed to reform ant ne for tn be received, It {s only just that men nue to bo ‘effeminate’ and low to the sense of Justice that "HK, Eamund,"* whose letter appeared in Weinesday's “Evening World," seems to pos. Lat "The Evening World’ see that Marta 1 {4 pot placed im the electric char. She should mot be; she took Cataldo's life; he took hers or her fair name, whi on 4s equally ax valu able to @ woman, AN ACTOR Her Death Would Be a Judicial Crime, To the Rditor Anent Maria Barber's crime, whatever truth there may be tn her plea, the provocation that tempted ber to her crlme was wo great that no one ex ¢ twelve phenomenal jurymen who axreed on dict of murder ip the Brat de gree Lelleves that her death would be other than & judicial crime less excusable than her own. Madrid Comico.) (From ine A dramatst waited on Wie manager with his new play. ‘Bear in mind, he said, “that the wife dies of an at- tack of apoplexy, the husband of th cholera and the lover of a fit of ind:- gestion.” ‘And ts there nobody left for the las, ene?" “No, but that is not all; I rely on ar additonal and very effective Inc.dent While the spectators are applauding (ae author the manager rushes up to the footights in great perturbation and an ounces that be haw just ded throug: the bursting of @ blood ‘* AMONG US WOMEN, ‘The new woman does not seem to be as novel @ feature among the Indians as she te among the civilised of my own race. For Mra Harriet Maxweil Converse, who went the middie of the State ast yearly dances and election and various semi- barbaric (1f you like) (estivals of the Seneca Tribes, writes: "The Seneca Indian women. who are the lawmakers for the Indian government, have given me a distinguishing honor far in ad- Vance of the position of hooutury chieftain. whi was conferred upon me in 1890. “Putting me Ia front of them’ te what the ceremony slgnifed, through which | have just passed, This means something more than a friend, a protector and shield. It menna I lead them tn batti Ae Mrs, Converse has frequently addressed logisia- tures in the interests of the Indians, she will doubtless confine her Mehiing to the Assembly Chamber and not feel the weed of douning the war paint and feather v8 Uhear that a woman architect Is going to build 4m apartment-house for children-l. e, a Mat dwelling for people who have childrea, a @ jeans of encouraging family life, 1 leara of « roof garden arrangement (9 be placed om the roof. with awnings, swings, haminocks, &¢. Eac apartment will have a large nursery in It, with Sunlight and decorations to suit the fanciful mind ader of “Grimm's Pairy Tales’ There in it for a rocking-horse, possibly, and cute little cupboards In which to pack away miniature dishes. Mother Goose will have her characters depicted in the wail paper and “All tm Wonderland’ will about the ceiling. The tenants of this house won't have to He about their children, nor sneak them in when the Janitor 1a not looking. Good idea that—eb * 8 e “Me looke so cute In sallor clothes f am gol to put him in the navy as soon aa he grows up. 1 heard a ilttle woman on @ beach hotel plazea tell that to @ friend, and she was talking about @ little chap of four, who was togged out tm lone trousers of duck and was a pocket edition of tho real satlor, and evidently her little som, She had bieached his hair with the same per- oxide that Unted her own, and his prospects for & dower of sense of the common kind were not Mattering. Bleaching a baby's hair—fancy! PRUDENCE SHAW. $a A CHEERY, SWERT Hi cLLO, Joya are short and ever fleeting, But the one I feel in meeting Vida in the sweetest one For there Is no guile nor cunning In her smile when she comes running y, aweet Little 1 know. Pretty frocke which fall to just below her knee, ‘Yet I think she Is far neater And more lovelier and sweeter ‘Than the handsomest of grown-up girls could be. When she's gone I always miss her, And I wonder which winds kiss her; And when she's near no care have I, nor woe. And although the world be droary, And my heart forlorn and weary There is left to me her cheery, sweet hello! JOHN J. M'INTYRE, Port Richmond, 8. “Lend an ear to my story of woe! I am dunned by those dobiting hounds, And I want you to lend me five pounde!” But T answered, In accents severe: “Am requested, I've lent you mine eat And I've made It a rule-I may candidly aay— That I'll never tend twice to one man in one day!""—Ally Sioper. Very Like Him, Elderly Gentleman—This 1s a remarkably good photo. of my son! Very like him, Indeed! Has he patd you for it yet? Photographer—No, sir Elderly Gentleman—Ah, very like him, In- deed, —Tit-Bita “Man Propone De Maur—And, after this very charming even- Ing, what do you propose, Comtense? Henrlette-My doar Naron, it 18 not for me to do that!—tustrated 1 Not Time to Retire, First Fair Concert Singer—1 sea Madatne Screechtelgh Is to be here to-night; I thoug' she had retired long ago Second Fair Concert Singer—Gool gracious, my ho. Why, she's only had three farewell performances yet.—Ally Sloper. Of Color, I wrote a litle sonnet, And swore that I'd be true, And praised in language tender Her smiling eyes of blue But, alas, [ woke one morning, In spirit all cast down, For 1 bad a note from her “Dear sir, my eyes are brow! oar Explaine Teacher (to © thio stanza, what ts meant by ‘he line, "The Shades of Night W Fs Scholar—The p the blinds, —Ilustrated Bite a WORLDLINGS, Herofotus saye is j@ were pulling down that Croesus was the fra ruler tw order wold coins made ‘anking 1» the largest walled city im the sorld [hte at raat 2.500 years old, The trolley hae the land of the raoha, Cairo is to have a 9) F that the poorest year cloching made of it. [tle estimated that the annual sales of Ger- toys in England amount to 2,000,000 pounds The weight of the earth Is calculated by Professor Boye at 6,32, 064,000,000, 090,000,000 tome, DRAMATIC NEWS AND NOTES. “The Seven Swabian” Henry Arthur Jones. As in all of Milloccker's operas there are charming strains in “Die Bleben Bchwaben” (The Seven Swabians), which was produced at Terrace Garden on Monday evening, While it abounds with sparkling music at various stages of the performance, this work is by no Means deunitely representative of the composer's genius. {n others of his compositions there Ie a weaith of flow- ing melodies. The ensemoles are, as & Tule, spirited, and in the hands of such & company as the Cunried-Perenczy or ®anization even “The Seven Swaiians” Must needs be fairly w success. The ren- dering on Monday evening was thor- oughly vivacious and effective through- out The presentation was far superior to that seen at the Irving Piace t'hea- tre (then tie Amberg) for one week, for the first Uime In this country, about five yeare ago, The English version given later by Mme Cottrelly, when she took hold of the old MeCaull company, was financially successful and added laurels to the pulation which that prima donna bad hard earned. The Engiish rendering was never heard in this city, however, In fuct, put for the German production referred to “The Seven Swablans" would be altogether new to New York. Bertha Pring as the Kaetchen made an imposing figure and sang with exceptional taste, Carla Englaender was v.rorous in the role of Haunele and gave a most enguging ren- auon of the part. Fe:dinand schueta eusily ied the male principais as the comic Spatzle, and Emil Sondermann in the part of Paracesus well sustained the good impreaeion which he had al- |feady made on Terrace Garden audi- ences. Tho other members of the cust | Worked hard and won hearty plaud.ts, |The Seven Swablane" will glve wa: on Thursday to another of Milloecker's clever operettas, “Poor Jonathan,” coe Charles Frohman 's a most enthusias- (le admirer of Henry Arthur Jones, the dramatist. He always had great fa.ch In Mr, Jones, two of whose dramas have made blg successes at the Empire Theatre, but gince hs last visit to the Para ient he |g stancher and more pro- use than ever in his praise of the fore- {Most of present Hogish dramatists—of his methods of work and the unques- Uonable dramatic strength that he gives to all hia plays. He says that. Mr. Jones is only beginning his most impor: tant work, and that great things may | be expected to follow what he has al- |teady done. His enthusiasm over the | dramatist is not a whit warmer than Mr, Jones's enthusiasm over the New Yo pudile, aa he has shows in several wa na ‘copy of his book, ‘The Renal cence of the English Drama," which he gave to Manager Frohman, he has writ- en this note: “Dear Mr irohman: Please accept this with my cordial recog”! yn of tne magnificnt y in which ou hay» Placed my ays before the New York public. And with my warm gratitude to you and them believe me very fa.th- fully yours, HENRY ARTHUR JONES.” The “Sphinz flop” ts the latest, and is Ukely to become fashionable at lawn | bartles this Summer. It is a very sure and sudden way for a young lady to sit dowr and, though it requires a good deal of practice, Ite usefulness cannot be doubted. The "flop," as It Is gener- aily Known, may be seen In the first act of hne Sphinx” at the Casino, when Walter Allen, as the magician-school teacher, orders the many pupils of Pteecha’s seminary to “take places" The thirty or more girls, none of whom is much below the medium height, shut up Ike telescopes, their feet drawn | under them and their legs crossed a la Turdue. They flop simultaneously and ; wth a degree of gracefulness that is astonishing. ‘This occurs three or four times, so that ample opportunity | ven’ the spectator of learning how it one. But if any one wishes to learn the operation it will take a good many. hours of assiduous train'ng and many a hard bump, before perfection has been attained, The ‘sToo Much Johnson” company leaves Thursday for San Francisco, where it follows “the Lyceum stock ' company, now playing “The Amazons” at the | A New Half Moon V of Cut G Half-moon vases are among the pret- tlest forms for table decoration, either in the exquieite eut glass or in the cheaper porcelain, They may stand at the corners of the board, or two set to make a perfect circle in the centre of lin the same way over the cardboard, te he under side of which note-paper has been glued. On the top and in the cen- tre of this little mat ts @ buttonholed ring by which to Urt it’ The cover, of course, may be removed and washed whenever this becomes necessary, the table, Small and short stemmed " = fal flowers ure the only ones which show thar Une on a Windy Day. I in these dishes, but violets, English ion the "habe been devised and put dainirs, pansies oF nasturtiums are TY ave a bron ap outrtvance which oveyl indeed. si © women wheel ride ers, It is a skirt-holder, which when Plunkets. worn makes It impossible for the skirt Take four eggs, their weight in pow- © creep or biow up, and gives the dered sugar, the same In rice, flour and butter, one teaspoon of vanilla, juice and rind of one lemon. Beat the butter to a cream, add the sui r gradually, beating wearer a feeling of security in regard to her costume, The holders are in« visible and casily adjustable, are come fortable to ride in and convenient when all the time, Then add the yolks of the Wiking without detaching trom the eggs, beaten light, then the stiff beaten Skirt. whites and sradualty the Hise, ene ond ton Sicebed, javoring. Beat this m’xture t ea Chnton shartet ts light. Pour into greased patty pans. tastes, fe fe a treat to many Bake in a moderate oven twenty min French Bloune. Pale blue chine silk, with Insertion and narrow frills of lace across tne bodice. The novel sleeves are gored to the wrist, and piped with Valenciennes lace, @ most stylish arrangement. Blueberry Cake. As the time of blueberrte 1s nigh I vouch for’ One cup of milk, 1 cup of sugar, 1 spoonful of butter, 1 cup of blueberries, 1-2 teaspoon of soda, 3 cups of pastry flour; if bread flour is used 21-2 cups are suMctent. nice tea cake; the fixed air in the ber- ries makes It light, 80 be careful not to break more than you can help when stirring them In. Have the oven as you would for any cake To Cover a Medicine Gin A goblet cover is a useful thing to set over a glass of medicine, instead of the customary and time-honored “sauco- plate," which ‘topoles off at a heavy step in the room. The modern tmprove- ment on the latter is a small, round mat, either crocheted of white split zephyr and put over @ round of card- board, or of stiff Marseillc cloth used will send a recipe for cake which I can | ‘This is a very! Use the ginger that comes in the little stone Jars; chop fine and put in a quart of water to extract flavor, Ada a cup of sugar, cook fifteen min- utes ana strain and cool, Add the juice of three lemons and two oranges for a quart of water, freeze to a mush and serve To get the clear juice of an orange cut across the grain into halves, take out the pulp with @ spoon and Squeeze It through a bit of fine clean cheese cloth. This keeps out the acrid flavor of the peel. Warm Weather Breakfant, Frult, plenty of it; whole wheat or graham bread, without butter; coffea, one cup, without cream. Occasionally on rainy or cool days, vary by having @ broiled chop, a boiled egg or a dish of well-cooked rice. To Bleach Yellowed Lace. To bleach lace, first expose it to the sunlight in soapsuds, and afterwards dry it upon a cloth, pinning the points in thelr prcper position, Then rub both sides of the lace carefully with a sponge dipped in suds made with glycerine soap, and rinse free from soap with clear water, in which a little alum has been disolved, Next pass a small quan- tity of rice water over the wrong side of the lace with a sponge, iron with care, and lastly pick out the flowers with a small ivory stick. How to Cook Rice. The house mother tn planning her chil- dren's diet will not forget that rice is deficient in natural fat; therefore, to make It a really useful art'cle of food it should be cooked with milk, butter, or, In Winter a bit of bacon. Rice should bo steamed unless it can be boiled in milk or stock, for if boiled in water it loses valuable elements In the process, | Warm Weather Luncheon, Frult, sliced bread, whole wheat ot graham, wheatena, rice or breakfast hominy, served with fruit syrup or pre- served fruit; vegetable salads. Tea or coffee, without cream, and hot. Vary by using wafers and marmalade or the ; Uke LETTERS, [This column i open to everybody who has a complaint to make, @ grievance to ventilate, ine formation to give, a subject of general in'erest to discuss oF a public service to acknowledge, and who can put the idea into leas than 100 word Long «ettera cannot be printed. } Kaldwin Theatre to large audiences. Mias Isabel Irving, the Lyceum’s 1 leading lady, has won the Pacific coast public and critica, and is receiving great praise for her acting. The John Drew company begins rehearsals at the Em- ire Theatre Monday, and Ni ‘ork in, time to follow johnson” at the Baldwin. rew as not yet reached New York, but is expected soon, | Joseph Garland, manager of Primrose and West's Minstrels, announces that the song, “And the Band Played On,” will be sung during the com-ng season by that famous organization, and by no less a star than the inimitable George Wilson. Composer Charles RB, Ward deserves the congratulations of his many friends for such a popular product.on, and It ts to be hoped that it will not be his last, a4 le @ Merry World,” which went to Chicago for an all-Summer run at the Columbia Theatre, closes its season Sat- urday and the actors come home. Be- aides the warmth of the weather the burlesque suffered this drawback, that the people of Chicago were not acquaint- ed with the plays which It travestled, eee ‘There are two characters In “The City of Pleasuré,” soon to be produced at the Empire Theatre, that are very like Henrietta and Loulse in “The Two Orphan: ut they are not s'sters, only half sisters. They run through the play, in the same ‘Interesting, heart- holding way as the two girls in “The Two Orphans,” and they will be per- onated by Elita Proctor Otis and Efe Shannon, both acknowledged to be beau- tel women. Like ‘The ‘Two Orphans,” “The City of Pleasure” Is from the French, adapted from that sovree by George’ R. Sims, author of The Lights o’ London. eee Della Fox will come in. from the country next Week, when rehearsals for her new opera will been. It is an adap tation of “Pervenche, the Flower G'rl," by J. Cheever Goodwin, and original music has been composed for it by, William Furst. Manager Nat Roth hai renamed the” plece "Pleuer de L: and the company which has all been selected to support, Miss Fox will Include many old-time favorites in the field of comic opera, Miss Fox will be- gin her second year as a star on Sept. 2 at Palmer's Theatre. a —— YE KNYGHTE OF YE WHEELF, I have a horse—a ryghte goode horse— Ant happye doe 1 feel When I doe ryde in headye course, After my evening meal (Eluding members of ye force!) My horse—yt ye a wheele! I know a mayde—e buxome mayde— Who wears ye bloomer clothes, Of my goode horse she's not afraid, Butte often on yt goes, And, eke, yt hath been sometime sayd, She's Iyghted on her nose! I'll have @ trye—a ryghte goode trye— ‘Thys buxome mayde to woo, And if a lover's knoite we tye, I know whatie I wille doe: Another ryghte goode horse I'll buye, ‘A ryghte goode horse for two: LA TOUCHE HANCOCK, Women Behind the B There are, according to recent statis- ties, 147 female bartenders in the United States. In the Unites Kingdom the bar- maid is @ feature of the wayside Inn, and is a young woman ef intelligence and rare’ sagacity. “The Barmaids' Journal” is the organ that bears spec- laily upon the scicatifie side of drink mixing and tallies up wth other work- ing girls’ Journals, of whic? this coua- try boasts several i What One Woman Must Do on $5 a Week. To the Baitor: Reading so many letters about the saving wives of workingmen, 1 wonder what some of the “uhrifty" ones will say to this: My husband earns about $60 a month. We are in @ position as caretakers, where he has no rent to pay, no coal to buy, or no light to pay for, Weare three tu family, and he has quite a number of friends that visit, and he expecta that I will always be hospitable and ask them to dinner or tea, what- ever hour {t may happen they call. He expects me also to clothe myself and take all the car rides and day's outings I may be inclined to take, all that on $5 ek. And I must add that h would scare some of the dainty eaters at th quantity he can stow away. very extravagant wife, and belleves that hundreds could do better than mo. After twenty years of married life, I have come to the conclusion that he only wanted a combination of cook and washer- woman; in fact, 1 houseworker, with the empty name of as a reward, This is from one that never did wear the ‘bloomers.”* DISHEARTENED. Emotilo Reason and Religio To the E1itor: Mr. Doane denies that we have a soul, and mod- ertly tells ue he stands with learned men. Da} win says back of the pro-to-plesm there are laws he cannot understand. auey did not deny; he did not know. Such men say matter never di then why should the consclous 1, that rule mat- ter, cane to exist? Sneer at religion; my M. D., but you cannot get away from the fact that you are a product of centurles of that emotion, and acjentifle men are recognizing the fact that reason without religion's emotion will not make the world moral. ‘The religious emotion reaches the heart of ignorant and learne fe. The Church may cover up the simplicity of Christ's doctrine with forms and ceremonies, but tt shines out Just the same for all who seek It. I refae to be compared to the animal who has no moral sense or progression, and I don't believe the arena of Rome was very civilizing a G. 1900 To the Editor: x you be kind enough to answer the ques- tion following, Im order to decide a dispute? 1 saya 1900 18 a leap year, because it can be dl- vided by 4 (four), and Ls aays tt i# not @ leap Not a Leap Year, year, because it cannot be divided by 400, which L argues {t must be, belng a century year. Which iw right? L. BT. Would You © To the Ealtor: Some time ago T saw on the stage at one of our ‘continuous performances” a man who was born without arms or hands. He was giving an exhibition of how—I was going to say handy— It w Slap or a Kick? ‘footy’? he was with his feet, via, dressing, feeding himself, @c., all with his pedal extrem- ita, Now the question ts Just this: Suppose that same fellow should would you call it a trike you with bis foot, por @ “ewitt kick? SERDY BRE, Thrai Thankful for ti Got. To the Edttor: LI that boy who signs hi Haten to a few confidential words of advi Your mother, my boy, 18 a good, kind-hearted woman, You sald enough in your letter to dem- onstrate that fact; and 1 am absolutely sure abe does not take detieht in hurting you. She has forbidden you to smoke cigarettes and to atay out after 9.20 P, M. Is there anything harah or eruel about that? It is the chidrea of auch mothers as you have who rise up and bless them for their advice amd counsel iong after they have been in their graves You stay home, my bay, if "Sore Back’ end be man enough to do what your mother asks, He thinks Tam al! and I'll guarantee she will not only atop puntehe ing you, but she will be proud of you—and you will have a great deal more respect for yourse! This is a critical period In your Mfe, and false step may wreck It, Stay right where are, and do as your mother says, and {t's @ thou- sand to one you'll come out all rixit. I would like to know such mothers as you have, I've gat one myself. If am only ten years older than you, and yet 1 thauk her for every thrashing she gave me If every mother in this city took the sam course that your mother has taken, there wou! be @ great many less drunken loafers at twemy Ing around our street corners, BF, J. dian Social Club? | To the Editor: Can any of your readers inform me if there te ® Canadian social club in this city? I understand there are about 75,000 Canadians in New York , City, It a0, should be @ Im the Coney Island Crus Sunday, To the Editor: I read in your valuable paper about the crush on the Iron Steamboat Company's pier. You caa- hot tell the sufferings of the people that were wedged in that crowd from $.90 until 11 o'civclt P. M. unless you were In the push. In the neigh borhood where I had the luck to stand, ewe women fainted, and getting them out of ‘the crowd was completely out of the question, ané the rain was just beautiful. Three boats landed at the pier, the two first, namely, Cepheus and Segacus, sailed away without taking one passea- ger aboard. The third, Cygnus, I believe, carried ail the passen eh I can tell you was above the 1. he boat landed us at we Twenty-eecond street dock at just 12.30 A. Mby aud We were glad to get home He Was Rigi To the Editor Considerable amusement was afforded the mer ri who daily take the Bath Meach 4 West End Rallroad recently, when | gentleman in a white high hat and blue serge suit suddenly jumped up and demanded that the | train be stopped at once, as he had dropped @ valui Paper. The accommodating conductar plied with his request, and the passenger ram back several hundred feet and recovered his “valuable paper.’’ When he came back puffing for wind, it was he had dropped his ‘ve ing World,” the laugh was general, and as the majority of passengers also held copies of the same paper there was no grumbling among them for the delay CHARLES H, RICHTER, fr., Fort Lowry Hotel, Bath Beach, L. L onomy in Lighting Liberty's Im- terior, To the Eiitor: Is tt not @ penny-wise, pound-foolish, poltey that necesritates the use of oll lamps instead of Clectrict:y Im Lighting the inside of the statue of Liberty? Aside from the offensive odor th: Ww Javariably present where kerosene is burned 49 Inclosed space, the infrequency of the lamps ndera the ascent and desceat of the almost per pendicular stepe absolutely dangerous, Surely such & monument of ioternational fratermity and Public Interest deservea more consideration. HARRY IRWIN, Brooklyn, N. T. Expensive Rowing in Central Parks Lake. To the Ealtor: On the lake Io Central Park two long rews of Doais are Wed up in idieness twenty-faur hour every day, because the prices are prohibitive, No exercise ie more exhilarating tham rowing, Dut the Park officials aeem to fear that the uae of boats will wear the wacer out. If you take your Siri for a row, one hour will cost you 80 eomtag two horus (aad no girl is willing to stop soomerty 41.60. If you are lucky enough to have two girly, your bill Ie $2. Why doesn't some ome bave @ spaam of common-sense and cut these priea® Ip twot Give the people @ chance. RWCREATIONS » o