The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1895, Page 4

* @8 te @ PARK ROW, New York. Gncluding postage): way and Sixth ave, at 324 ot. som ave. BROOKLYN—200 Washington ot. = widaieoronra' Ma & 554,178 in JULY. Geman | 904,178 CIRCBLATION TW JULY WAS PER DAY. AREER te Be TEE hoes ers, is La . BON: ine OND ES. AD. NG | CARCOLATION FOR July, 1896 - 554,178 per day July, 1894 - 500,705 per day Jaly, 1891 ~ 841,040 per day July, 1888 - 87,669 per day 4. 8RR2TS 4554 ‘Per day. Gain tn one year ....... 53,473 | Gain in four yeams.........213,138 | Gain m twelve yeam......516,709 ie B32 COLISSERSETES BRAVO, DEFENDER! a ‘Well, the Defender ts a daisy and ) mistake. = gan do @omely afid won the Astor Cup. *~ + Gefender of the cup. ‘Work well, win or lose. Ambitious V teyrie atill professes to have the ra ““fn her pocket and counts on succ But then John Bull never bel!eves ua at least has the advantage of know. ow about what the Defender can eyrie: the Yankee wail hds been heard expressing Rnd excursion steamers on the the Valkyrie and prevent her from ing her best. Of course, there is not the sligh fear of any such interference, and wail sounds very much like opening our for an excuse and a grow! tn ¢ of the English boat's defeat. Putitshed vy the Prose Publishing Company, — SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1895. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE EVENING WORLD ‘WORLD UPTOWN OFFIOB—Junction of Broad- WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—i26th ot. and Mati- | PRILADELPHIA, PA.—Press But!ting, 102 Chest. EVENING WORLD leaving e had already shown what > @bs- can do tn light winds and smooth (waters. Yesterday she proved what she ing seaway wilh w halt gale Diowing. Phe, beat, the’ Vigilant hand- Of course, the Defender will be the She will do her yale ean be defeated unth ne finds hims beaten, and then he nets to work to find ut how it happened. The challenger while we know but little of the Val- * One good sign will not be overlooked by our yachtamen. Since the English- man has had an opportunity to Judge of boat's qualities a gentle _ hohe that the crowd of attendant hoats water in tho real races will not interfere with It will be a fair race, and if the Valkyrie tan win she will carry home the cup. Jertme by which fifteen tives were eacrt- jfced, Afteen families stricken and fit- | tesn homes made desolate shall not wo Unpunished. Not for vengeance, but for the protection of thousands of poor workingmen whose lives and limbs are at the mercy of dishonest builders, greedy owners and corrupt contractors, Cable advices informing us that Li Hung Chang is now Chancellor of the | Chinese Empire fall to tell us what kind of a jacket and how many peacock's | feathers go with the new office. FOR BELLIGERENT RIGHTS. When the South rebelled against the Unton it was a blow not for Mberty, but against liberty—an attempt not to establish a free nation, but to destroy a free nation Spain was prompt to Irecognize the belligerent rights of the |Confederacy and to ald in the attempt te overthrow a government with which {t held friendly relations ‘The Cubans are now making @ gallant struggle for freedom, ‘They are in arms hot against their own Government, but against a forelgn Government that usurps power over them, A free people must naturally sympa- thize with a people who are thus strug- gling for their rights, even when thelr cause is desperate, Why should not a free nation extend to them sympathy and recognition when they have esta’ lished themaclves as a power in the field and proved their capacity to maintain thetr provisional government against 3 They Marry on % a Week. | [the forces of their oppressors? Cuba to-day stands a better chance of winning freedom than the Southern Confederates ever stood of destroying the United States Government. Spain rushed in to accord belligerent rights to the Confederacy. Why should not the United States recognize the belligerent rights of Free Cuba? ‘When the sea got ready to give up {te dead the Inman “mystery” was solved. Why it was called a mystery is @ matter past solution. RACING ON THE STAGE Turt dramas are the rage now, and horae-racing on the stage has become |] very realistic. While legislatures and courts are fighting the regular business the mimic thing/is getting more popular than ever, The “folds” in the dramatic handicaps and steeplechases are getting larger and larger, and if the entries go on Increasing there will be no room for two-legged performers on the stage, ‘The line must be drawn somewhere, © | however, on the theatrical race track. Last season we had flying water leaps and the sham throwing of one of the Jockeys, Now we have a regular “Derby Day,” don'tcher know, with the Ep- som Downs and the London cadgera and all the accompaniments of the great cockney race. ‘The play is the “Sporting .Ducher and there are more horses on the stage than sometimes enter for the actual event. The consequence*was that last night Ed Dillgn, one of the jockeys, wax thrown as'the horses entered the stretch for “the finish,” and was trampled on by one of the animata'in the group be- hind him, Two of hia riba were broken and he had a narrow escape from death. If these horse dramas are to continue A necessary appendage to our theatres will be line of ambulances with their attendant surgeons outside the doors, no ces hi Twenty Cuban filfbusters have been €/ arrested on the Delaware's New Jersey shore, Campor, may not need those 60,000. fr troops now, ing do, BROOKLYN NO PLACE FOR 8T. ANTHONY A man thirty-five years old was ar- rested son Fulton ‘street, in Brooklyn, yesterday morning for kissing young jon, He ran up to a group took m one after another in his arms and kissed them with gluesome glee and joy- the WARREN LA RUE THOMAS ‘This is @ picture of the new Grand Master of the Knights Templars of the United States, He is a Kentuckian and has been a Mason for twenty-eight years. —— ter streets yes- was in Essex and H terday. While there may be a alip yet, you bet good guessing thaé the America Cup Lou Payn te atill sure of Platt's favor, since he atill owns his own county. ‘The saloon men will long remember that excise bargain day. Accidents will to the best equipped balloons. happen Gen. Humidity ts paigner, n unrelenting cam- Buy an Oil Stove. IN A LESSON Bo Does the Instalment Furniture Man. Bet up Housekeeping. THE WORLD: SATUKVAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1895. MATRIMONY. Isn't it Great! Out Goes Everything. Home Sweet Home, Life Not Worth Li All the Comforts of Home. ‘THE GLEANER’S BULGET. Gosstp Here, a Hint There Tales of vity LL! nt to sev ‘Der Seokadett,”? other aight. the songs or lalogu the music was excell “but , and T know the comedy must have been very funny from the hilarity of my German frien: about me, But I'll wager my Polo Ground season ticket that none of my neighbors noticed the funny anachrontem ot a Portuguese Queen of ‘the middie of the Last eentury arriving amid decorative eplendors in which ‘014 GI & eonspteuous pa A half-dozen newsboys were the centre of at- traction on Wail street this morning, and the ob- fect of thelr gathering was the capture of af ordinary yellow butterfly, such as are quite com: mon in the upper part of the city, but whieh seemed strangely out of place among thore tall, cold buildings, so different from the green felds which ite presence recalled. Business men on thetr way to the office followed with their eyes the acurrying, noley gaming, and appeared pleased when the little stranger mounted in the alr and Alsappeared over the Sub-Treasury Bullding. cee “You see that name of that feller who won one of the Pulltaer scholarships?’ exclaimed Ite tle Jack MoKever, the violiniat, the other night. “Well, that feller, he'e @ friend of mine—his brother. Not thie feller that won the scholarahip, I don't mean ts my friend, but his brother's my friend, Which struck me aa being fully tinetion of having shaken the hand that shook the hand of Sulllyas, Sald the enthusiast in the middie: ‘You will feo more pretty gitia and beautiful women More tastefully groomed In the upper Broadway shopping district of @ pleasant afternoon than anywhere tm America.” ‘'¥es,"" aad the ‘other man, who lives acrose the bri “they are Brooklyn girls, come over to do a ittl shoppin But @ chance visit to Brooklyn's shopping Glatrict @ day or two of opinton that my Brooklyn friend there were too many of “the loveliest of thelr Write {t September to-morrow. A clear course for the cup rac The Defender has quit fooling. EHDITORIALLY VIEWED. ous gusto. When the sergeant of police asked him at the station-house for an explanation of his oseulatory raid on the town he sald 1 couldn't resist the temptation; they were such pretty test | girls.” the | ‘This looks like a scheme to boom the beauty of Hrooklyn's young women, but case} We do not regard It with suspteton Anybody that rides on the Brooklyn cars in the morning and sees the thousands of girls on their way to work c&nnot he) That is certain, It is also certain that |help wondering at and admiring their oa Mt will be the greatest series of races |trim figures and attractive faces. The ever sailed on our waters, for if the| kisser spoke genuinely from his heart Defender is a daisy all concede that Vaikyrie is a peach. And the first, best and stom’ of the great events will be f as always, in “ vening World “Quay yearns to be Governor.” ought to be a difficult matter to Pennsylvania to sympathize with yearning, despite his brilliant over the sweetly named “hog comb! As fishing !s about over, the Gov Protecting Republicans tn office to tecting the Spanish butchers from to help their brother men who aro fi; . ing s0 bravely for freedom In Cuba. and guns and ammunition have seized, under the charge t) tion was being prepared against Dominion of His Majesty. fcan Government to be in. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury may that down as a sober fact. ‘The liberties of the people are @afe, to a degree. President Roo: New York streets, @ law would the reserves be called ‘to line the highways and by-way fie es they now man the side dovrs - Bundays? a Mo DELAY! ‘The work of preparing the indictments against the six persons held by the Cor- ener’s jury to be responsible for * Attorney's office. cases should go before Am all euch offenses delay | the public mind. That is “will see that most reliable vieto SEIZING CUBAN SYMPATHIZERS. ment has set to work to catch Cuban filibusters. Secretary Carlisle has turned for the moment from his business of Jpvers of freedom here who fecl disposed Twenty men have been arrested by a United States Marshal in New Jersey, | been tan expedi- the King of “This ts @ good business for the Amer- But Cuba will be free, despite a dozen Carlisies. ecides that there is no law against a ‘woman riding astride of her horse in If there were such fall of the Ireland death-trap {5 said #0 be already under way in the District- is right, ‘There should be no Grand Jury and be acted is sought ‘tm the hope that time and perhaps some " excitement will drive the matter parties, In this false reliunce. | pirig +! the | when he satd they were so pretty that he couldn't resist the temptation that lurked in their coyly bowed and cherry- colored lps. id, The wonder Is not that a few girls were Kissed yesterday morning by a man Tt! wh catasy got the best of his Judx- xatl ment, but that hundreds of them are not kisted In the same reckless and en- joyable way every morning. h “I really couldn't resist the tempta- tion,” he sald to the policeman, Of ern-|course he couldn't, But equally, of course, he should have resisted, He was arrested In Fulton street for kissing | preity Brooklyn girls. Strang: pro-| the enough, a Police Justice held him for an examl- nation as to bis sanity, Aside from the il questions Involved, wouldn't tt ght- having the chance lkiss Brooklyn girls to had falled to im. prove the opportunity? “It 18 a revolt against Gorman." Yes, and so it was a few weeks ago, But the The “Dry” Iden in New York. ‘Tost New Yorkers are a queer lot, They act: ually carry thelr "dry" teas mo far that) no sooner had the Valkyrie arrived than they rushed her into drydock.-Cleveland Press, A Real Boomer, Wileon's new tari te just a year old, and for an infant industry Jt 1s eertaloly booming. — Phitadelphia Times What Hecomes of Itt What becomes of the shopworn pi ‘the Republican party ts the party of purity when @ Boss Platt rules in the Empire Stat and @ Bows Quay compasses a new lease of power (a the Keystuae State?—Boston Globe. Important Point to Re Left. With @ yellow dog aboard both yachte the Paces for the Amert: owever they result, are ain to leave one point unaettie® anyway, Providence Journal, a 1 DIDWT FORGET HOW OLD 1 was. @ I didn’t forget Row old I waa, Do you think I'd act like I often dosst Do you think I'd swing from the froat yard gate If 1 eould remember that I wae eight? “1 It I Gidn’t forget how eoon I'4 grow To deo dig man like Uncle Joe, Do you think my pa would have to scold "Cus I didn’t do what I was told? Do you think I'd set my pa so wild An’ act so much like a little child, At T didn’t forget 1 was halt-past eight? Au’ would Miss Brown hava to keep me late? Mise Brown mld I was ‘a little dend, Au 1 didn’t know what the old thing meaned; when {t came to convention time it was a clear winning for Gorman.” These te- volts have got to be leas like the sporadic rebellions of Bouth American States before ey can result in great put tite and ting be bossed Demoer to a too-much- still i] Tt $8 caloulated that tn 19 Brooklyn will need more of a water supply than all Long Island can afford. This, in the onlinary course of events, Suppose, tn addition, that the elty across the Bridge were to have dry Sundays that year? out even on| “I would rather go down with Payn than rise without him” Thus noble 1 nd he means Lou Let him have his preference means. Down with both of “Tombs crowded prison cases had to by ever.” valt the And subsid the ence of the flood of excise cases. This is Rooseveltian reform, It took a good while, but Mayor the | strong did finally catch Mr. Caliph-of-Bagdad fever, Roosevelt's Did the New Yorks understand the playing season began in the days of August? that last the After Mayor Strong gets through um- at ball game “next Monday he the] may wish himself as {unknown as he But she said ‘twas becuz | played wo rough, Aw’ At made my ma Just cry—sure ‘nough. It 1 didn't forget, do you «pose that I Would ever act s0's her cry? And don't you spose I'd behave Just One, If 1 didn’t forget 1 was going on nine? If T could remember, don't you suppose L would take care of my Sunday clo'eat an’ w jet mad at my cousin Ben Without getting right away good agat Pa mys he belleves 1 was just bora dad, An’ Uncle Joe says that I'm “like my dad,"* An’ Aunt Low says aie don't sy; Vil ever be vetter, but mamshe ku An’ she hugs me close with a kis by Bae says, “1 forgot how old Tw. Youth » WORLD NGs, Georgia panera are t faith, of a negro at Blak: on the head by « bolt of tog, in apparent good y. Ga, who was struck hialng @ few day 49. and who, though reelving a deep gash io | bis scalp, ts now as epry as ever. Philip Johnson, of Ortela, Custer County, Neb., written back te O., stating that the carioad of prov 4 by Obioams for the starving p by & man who p pie was wid keted the proceeds, Ine ry in the auburbe of Lowell, Maas, there are Bye headstones all alike, pt the Inscriptions, The first one reads: “Firat wite @f John Smith,’* and the second, “Second wite,"* nex’? on Fulton ptreet to warrant the assump: tlon that Brooklyn's fale were in Broadway, THR G —_— —— A COMMON EXPR “Way Up in Hie Busines: ————— JOKES AS THEY Go, School Bells, On, della are at eventife, And useful on a bike, But there te one within thie towa Whose vo! do not lke, Say—bell within your little cot— High on the Please when September third arrives, Just kindly hold your tonguet —Batavia Fortnightly, Taking Happia Me (absently)—Well, can,—Ilustrated Bite He broke his vow to She truste him o'er and o'er, —Detrolt News, Would Try Them All, “Ia this where you vot to an election officer. “Yes, ma'am." “Then please cut off samples of all the tickets Mi take them home and see which I ike “Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, aaid an Ohio votrnss Where She Draws the Whene'rr we a. ine. Summer girl sat head ten't To match her modest sleeves, —Washingto 5 ‘asbingtoa Star. A REAL ROUNDER, (From &t. and 0 un watll the @fth tome, which reada]| Latest development of the Big Wheel ‘debe Smita; at rees ot last."* mania a ane 4) format, OUR WOMAK PHILOSOPHER. ‘The period of mourning, says the tatest of ad- ‘vices, ta abridged. The intensity of griet is to be Tettricted, To mourn by outward expression, long and deeply, te to be wnteshionadle, bourgeote ‘This does mot imply fess depth of feeling, or that those who are gone are sooner forgotten; but thai society 18 more highly organized, ite duties more exacting, and thst no responsible member can be tong spared fram social exercises to private af- faire Private mourning more than ever imitates that purely formal observance known as court mourn ing. An English paper called attention to th faet that the former Duchess of Manchester en- tertained @ large house party a few weeks after the Duchers theatricals three monthe after the death of the Duk husband's father. We have no gre to eet the faabfon fn grief, but the father-in-law felt shortly after that she was not ‘tiglatiag the conventions when she went to the opere ao beng Ge she sat im a rear orchestra eat, instead of'@ dex. ‘The changes jm mourning from the depths of the fret orape to ite lighter expressions gtow ‘more and more rapid, The heavy veil and deep Grapings are so quickly temeved that they seem ‘cares worth the trouble ef getting. Por this the physicians are partly responsible Nun's veiliny haa largely taken the 9) of craps, This le so simply ued thet It suggeste the nun’s habit. Th many long droping effects have as appropriate an air of mourning as the pendant branches of the willow that eymbolise gri ‘There is other sort ot dress at necestary for the earlier | aidered good looking and not « Mirt. periods of mourning. ‘hie te one more severely sultable to be worn on those business visite that must be made to the lawyer's offtve, which women frequemtiy find le one of the epeedy consequences of bereavement. Such a costume ts Purely conventional and subjecte a woman to as Uctle notice as any other street dreams would do, Mal mourning, 10 appears, 10 going out. The Idee of indicatl the dress (hat ene ie mourn- ing only half aa muo an formerly elwaye ap- praled to the humorous sensibilities, One of the mom diverting chapters in ‘lee Femmes,” by fa devoted to the gradations of from thie point of view. When thi usual @octal duties are taken up mourning (s lala aside without the interruption of the pensive charm of lavender and gray, or the attractive black and white Te 19 eatertaining at the restaurant of the Lawyers’ Club of the Cafe Savarin to eee the numbers of portly women tm deep black comfort: ably discussing beafeteak with their legal visers and washing the meal down with claret, A woman suddenly thrown into a fortune and» hungry woman down town are alike helpless creatures. In elther case ne one can be more actively wsoful than the accomplished men of law. ‘The etiquette of funerals bes attracted atten- ton, It Im recognized that me one need attend & funeral of @ person mot recognized socially. To do eo attracts attention. The other diy a woman who observes the eonventtonalitien went to a funeral of a woman on whom she bad never called. ‘The surprise at her appearance was marked, was afterwards asked by @ friend why she hi done thia, as ahe had never iecognized her in litt Aaked. “Tt wan a dtetinct menaiiiance. Tt ry alt forent thing to invite e itving woman to your Rouse and to attend her funeral when she is dead. We knew ber husband very well. He |e ‘8 capital fellow. After a few months be will be an It were, and it te desirable to te our circle, Me will appreciate my If her petticoat Range below her dress it's a ign her father loves ber best. It you can't break an apple, you'll die an olf eal. 8 bad tack te cress @ funeral procession. If It don't clear up At 11 oF 8, tt won't clear up at day. Bvery time a star falls there's @ death some where, It you coe 0 load of ompty darvela, {t's going to rein. It you me a toad of {t, but! your wish won't \t etter wiahjng. Ih picking berries be gure to throw the fret ene you find over your right shoulder tf you want to Ph yur pail. If you should eat It, you'd have no lwok at att, I you take & alige of bread or anything else your plate when you have already had eome, ‘A pure sign that eomedody is coming to your homes hungry, It the woter dolis sign Mt Ls going to reais. Put oa something new New Year's Day, and you'll haré plenty all through the year. harp things cut friendship. Pay a piece of money t0 thé person who gives you a kaite af 8 pair of wcissorg, — THOU LOVEST MBE. you must wish on me tree If you look at jay om the stove, it's Thou lorest me—by many a hidden sign ‘Thou toachest me to ghink that heart is ming, Dut though 1 see ‘The prectoua secret, silll with fond delay 1 dare not ah ther that one word to say, Thou Lvest me. Thou lovest ma, and yet—it might befall, Were 1 to stake ou one chance word my all, And urge my ples, ome ovil trap right make thee answer ''Nay”* Despite thyseth—althongh ‘Us clear os day ‘Ripe tere ah Tee tan SOME GIRLS AND OTHERS. Verse About the Foibles of the Far Sex. Te the BAitor. 1 am a young lady, ai Pros een years old, cons I generally have a good time at affaira I attend, although not often. Gentiom 7 ask permission to call, and after cart ration 1 consent, Once te all they call, although they express great delight for the privilege. Some say that it ever I want an escort to take me anywhere, by letting them ki they would be too pleased to comply with my Although very fond of Amusements, I would not stoop that low. If some kind reader would write the cause of it they would greatly oblige DELLA. ‘The Bi To the Editor: ‘Tho’ she dremes rather “swagnti And her “bike” tnelines to stags She te neat, ‘Tho’ her mien 1s very haughty, And she's just a little maughty, Ghe ia aweet. On her head o little Sxtere, A ‘fetching’ little pleture, Done im blue, Shades an eye with pleasure beaming, ‘An orb of brightness gleaming, Of similar hue, ‘Very prim her little coat Mts, And oo trim her little form site On her wheel, ‘That, in spite of our pretancen Ghe makea our wandering senses Fairly reel. Bloomers she le bent om wearing, And he doesn’t the staring Ot the crow Neither 1s she reprehensive, Gao'e not the least bit apprehensive : That they're loud. And those bloomers now, you know, ‘Lat us speak in accents low Ghe might hear— But, in motion, they astound ws, In thelr make-up they confound us, ‘They're 00 queer. Yot withal she's eo entrancing, Ag her little feet with dancing Pedals toy. ‘That we amble on beside her, ‘To see no woes betide ner, ANIL of foy. J. B TOWLA, Maw, Ore Telle Her te Pop the Question Her- seit, To the Raditor: Noticing the walla of two love-sick maiden {n the fools’ column of ‘The Bvening Wi of the 15th inst. I would say to Constance: “Don't be a clam, but put om your bloomers ‘and pop the question yourself, and if he should politely decline repeat the experiment with other fellows until you Rave succeeded in catching one You are evidently @ new woman, Constance, ant need not allow any timidity to restrain you. JOHN HENRY NO. 2, ‘West Twonty-secend street Twe T To the Editor. Honest and bright, loving the right, Frowaing on all that fe wrong; Out of the crowd, bustling and loud, They to my heart evem a song! Long shall I heep, treasured so deep, Kindly advice that they stv ‘Truth from my heart ne'er shall depart It by their counsel I Itve, Cheering my toll ‘mid the turmell, Joy of the city's wild whirls, Never I'll regret, ne'er Til forget, Two little telephone girls! JAMES JOSEPH HEALRY. She Has To the Editor, Tam a young girl and keep company with young man whom I like very much. The fault 1 can find ts T think he rinks. He tells me he te going to {t up, and when T aak him when he says, ‘When I have to;"" he means when he qets married, I would like him to give it up before that, Will some kind reader please tell me what to d MADGE Te te rightly the recent ex- perience ot New York City with the Excise law fe an argument in favor of local self-goverament Decause it {s evident that a large aumber of people who do pot approv my Mt should be enforced while it remains on the books. —Hariford Times. ——- A KEEN REPLY, A fe eatoper—Are you quick in making This is one of the new styles of hats for Autumn wear, It is a quaint, but exceedingly becoming hat of black silk beaver, recalling the riding hats of the last century, This hat ts skmply trimmed, as suits its style, with a deftly tied bow of black ribbon, through which a brown and white quill is care- Jessly thrust. Men Invented Corsets. The much maligned corset was {n- vented and first worn by men, The eariiest mention in the history of the article is by Aristophanes, who lived in the fifth century, B. C. comedies he ridicules a brother poet, who, inordinately vain of his person: beauty, was dissatisfied with the shape of his figure, which was far removed from ideal symmetry, being much too thin for his height. He therefore hit upon the plan of improving his physique by encasing his body in an under- culrass, made of little pieces of wood. The idea was imitated later on by an- other man, the Emperor Antoninus Pius, who found great diMoulty in per- suading the Roman women to follow his example. Home-m Ming-Sal One may have a fancy to fill her own bottle with smelling salts, for which keep a pint of Mquid ammonia in a strong bottle evith a glass stopper, and to it put one teaspoonful each of oil of rosemary and snglish lavender, with half as much oll of bergamot and of cloves. Have all bottles for perfumery and extracts perfectly clean and dry, rinsing lastly with alcohol, for the least drop of water may make the liquid look milky or turbid and may lead to fungus in tollet water. Perfumes should be tightly closed with glass stoppers, and kept dark and cold in well-filled bottles, not to lose quauity. Apple Charlotte. ‘With the Fall pippins, tart and juicy, just before us, apple desserts are par- ticularly seasonable. A simple and de- lclous éieh made from this fruit ts ap- ple charlotte, Peel and core six or eight In one of his | f001 cooking apples, stew them with @ Nttle sugar, and the rind of two lemons {cut thin and chopped to a pulp, or the |rinds may be grated in perhaps prefer+ ably. Line a buttered mould thickly with lady fingers, or slices cf rather Btale sponge cake, pour the apples on hot, and press them down well; puta meringue of white of egg and sugar on top, or whipped cream if preferred, and | fet away to chill, It should be served cold. A Seersucker Frock, A seersucker that is a regular glori. fication of the ordinary sorts is on the market, the puffed atripes being of silk- like brillfancy and separated from each other by bands of lace pattern open work, Dresses made up of thie are deliciously cool-looking, though, of course, they are lined all through. Indla silk is the best lining. Striped goods generally are in high favor, and while sume are seen in wide stripes, the ma- Jority are fine. The beauty of the fabrie increases with fineness of the stripes, as a rule, and some of the hair-line striped goods are especially beautiful, Mourning Stationery, Mourning stationery ts of gray paper, bordered with black, the width of this edging decreasing as time elapses; this, of course, 1s marked in black. Handsome white paper is also bordered and marked in black. For the season of half-mourn- ing an ultra-fashionable woman uses jviolet paper, bordered and marked in | Purple, while another selects silver-gray paper, edged and marked in slate bronge. The “plain embossed” marking 1s used by the exclusive, modestly ele- |want, both in and out of mourning. It 1s truly refined and lovely in effect if the die has been cut handsomely by a skilled artisan. A Pretty Flower Holder, A novel dinner-table arrangement te shown, having a slender gold frame, with glass flower holders, in smoked chrysoprace, recalling its softness and lucidity the jewel of that name, in the hape of letters, with which the word “Balve,” “Mispah’ or any appropriate motto can be formed, or the initials of the guest of honor may be spelled out in flowers, The most graceful sort of compliment or pretty sentiment may be conveyed by a hoste: Tf you have a white mohair gown, keep it for dinners until November. It is quite the stylish thing to do. Trim {t in old metal, gold or wing buttons and broad stretches of gay gilt or jew- elled galloon. You can’t imagine what an artistic house gown it makes by can- dlelight, with a few yellow roses pinned at the waist, A New Coiffure, The fashion in hairéresel changed. A waved colffure ular, but the latest mode is back hair perfectly flat to pin the little twisted nobs the hat, LETTERS. [Tide column te open to everybody whe he « eomplaint te make, @ grievance te venkiais, formation to give, a eubject of general discuss oF a public service to acknowledge, and who can put the idea inio lees than 100 words, Long letters cannot be printed.) Is Life Se Fall of Bitterness that It Is Not Worth Living? ‘To the Baitor: From youth to age our lives are sprinkled with Aisappotntmenta, troubles and vexations Th hopes and asptrations of our youth have utterly falled, and hardly one of us to-day 1s either what oF where he thought he would be. Plans have not matertalined for our be riches have not come as expected, but in thelr stead poverty, bereavement, sickness, and we @o not recognize our former self. These facte stare us in the face, and all le gloom and darkness, Our obe {hed deaires have been scattered to the w' by terrible tornadoes; trie if by magic and all warmth of regard gone. ‘What wonder then that our regents turns to hatred. When we were not in want we could Rot count our Rumerous friends, but when ink beneath the waters we stretch out our im- ploring hands In vala and no one 1s near to ren- or amistance, Changed are the feelings on ac- eount of bitter experience, and even God's prov ance seems estranged. Life's history maddens you. You feel that to be hurled anywi even out of the world, would be relief. Hours of pleasure there are none, for sorrow, with its weight of lead, makes ite stern demand. Hope, with {te chances and changes, occasionally fash; roe the ehacs, and trials aad troubles momen- tariiy end, but lie im ambush. Again the thun- der cloud bursts over you with all {ts malignant fury, and hope vanishes; the Seld is rugged again. Again You try to fling off the load of tyrannical sare and burden that triee to sink ind feel that tt ts better to hope than to Gospair, ‘The once fertile brain faite to respond to the bullding of castles im the air. We must bear our troubles alone, for who without & Mike experience can give the cheer or lend & helping hand when we need them. =F. M., Brooklyn. A Roast for Forecaster Dean, To the Eéitor: Why, ta the mame of common sense, do the People of this country, more eupeclaliy this city, tolerate the payment of a lacge salary trom the to such @ man as you term ‘Farmer for supposed weather forecasting? 1 must say, ever since the 4th of July, this year, ‘forecasting’ has been simply ridiculous on the M4 of July by predicting ex- ceptionally fair weather for the 4th—'‘not « drop of raim im sight''--and {t rained the entire day and hight. I have followed his “guesswork’* with disgust, and am confident there are others who would say te same thing if asked their opinion concerning "Farmer Dunn." In my es- timation aay olf man or woman troubled with rheumatiem cam, from their feeling, foretell the Advent of @ storm with more accuracy than our friend the ‘“Farme: OLD SUBSCRIBER. Doesn't Take Much Stock im Soul, ing discussions on the exist- ence of the soul? Those who affirm it, as well ax those who deny It, are equally right. What proof have they both of them for ‘They quote the Bible tn support of Tempective assertions, and the Bible, with « platsance worthy cf a better furnishes With irretragable arguments pro and con. them the Bible ts a kind of Pythoness whose oracles they interpret as ft anite them the bes 4 of trying to find out through other ways the perusal of the incredible legends of « people of barbarians if we really have a soul or not, they dissert ad mauseam om this or that passage of the Scriptures, supporting more or less, thelr allegations and ery: ‘‘Bureks,"” while na- tare, wader their very noses, teaches them that a arber—Oh I occasionally scrape on serine Daving © beginning, forcibly must have 08 004; therelere what they call soul, being bore js have vanished as with the body, grows with ®, dectfues with and finally dies with it, If, et its birth « Possessed the same (mtelligunce and power Teasoning and in the same degree as a ‘minded man of thirty years of age; tf we had those fancy dreams which unquestionsdly demon- strate the inseparable unton of the eo-ealled soul with the body and thelr mutual subjection; if we had not born idiots, Ineanes, murderers, savages And cannibals tm this world of eum—them, per ve & reasonable ground for bee tence Of @ soul and fits immor re hare all of thet There: of the wise te i g ‘To the Wattor: In regard to the $18 © week young men, if they have any faith in thelr sweethearts I don't see why they are oo afraid to venture inte ihe matrimonial etate. Why, if they get the right one (that = means a country 1 whe 1s mot alone sccomplished, but who can bake, cook, and do up her husband's laundry), they can get rich of of that amount. They must, of course, deny themselves, and when they are out for @ walk (car fare counts up) they must shut their eyes tight as they go by an ice-cream esloon, And it they are desirous of Posseas- {ng a home of their own the man must save bis T don't be- toget live from hand to mouth. I know that ® woman gets discouraged of trying to make o little go a good ways if she has mot her husband's help and sympathy. If instead of helping her to deny themselves useless luxuries he calls her mean and stingy, be will find she will goon stop and be as extravagant as the most of the ‘ollie are, and if she te willing to walk herself lame to save five conte, he should a44 @ve cents to it and go without js cigar. It 1s only looking out for the pennies that will you rich, for the dollars (If you have them) look out for themselves. If you are Rot willing to Geny yourself nearly everythit Dut Arict meceusltive, “don't. get married on small salary, or 1 pity ‘But Af you can get as Ym answer to Mr. Henry 8. Schendel tm your issue of Aug. 2% about getting on a cable cart There are al sides to ov but T have seen the gripma story, Mr. Schendel epeake of stopping © ea® to get on, Je he aware that a gripman is liable to arrest fer stoppii care are about forty feet long, and t twice as long as one? To clear the crossing must run about elghty feet past the crossing. Now, about 9 per cent. of the travelling publie will stop on the crossing and hall the gripman and wait Ull the cars have both passed, you to wait till th rely to the from end of the grip car. That would be all right for Mr. Schendel, but there a instance, two carloads of people waiting at other corner and pick them Sou ok the rate of three block. “per minute, re supposed to run within (hree bolcks of ene other or explain the reason why to the Superte- ed to our utmost to liable to be put beck tra list for having too much road 1D front of us, and that means about $160 deed lows to the gripman. So you see he is anxious to get aver the road for he must or the come pany has no use for hin D. GALLAGHER. ex-Grigmaa Third Avenue Raliroad, discharged Adg. 28, 1895, for Fame Bing by passengers Sowe To tbe Editor: If "Kerryman wane to know b “aowens” Iwill try oatmeal and soak it tn in, oil At until chick for three days theo nd slippery. 044 salt Ht