The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1893, Page 4

er — ee, EDWIN BOOTH’S FIRST BOW. Appeared as Tressel in Richard IT. With His Father's Spurs. Edwin Booth’s and Frank Mayo’s first speaking parts were the same— Tressel in “Richard IIL” Mayo was a failure in it in San Francisco more than thirty years ago. Edwin Booth played the part at the Boston Museum on September 10, 1849. He was then acting as companion and dresser to his father, says Warer/y Magazine, and a half hour before the play was to begin was standing in the wings of the stage where Jacob Tho- man, the prompter, was arranging some details of the play. Thoman was also east for ‘I'ressel, and annoyed at the double task im- posed upor him, turned to Edwin and urged him to take his place on the stage. The lad (he was then but six- teen) finally consented, and, dressing for the part, sought his father’s dress- ing-room, where he found the elder Booth dressed for the part of Richard and waiting for the summons of the call boy. The father surveyed the son critically for a moment and then asked abruptly: “Who was Tressel ?” “A messenger from the fields of Tewksbury.” “What was his mission ?” “To bear the news of the defeat of the King’s party.” “How did he make the journey ?” “On horseback.” «Where are the spurs ?” Glancing down the son noted their absence and said he had not thought of them. “Here, take mine.” ~* Edwin undid his father’s spurs and tied them on his boots. When his work on the stage was ended he again sought his father’s dressing-room and found him sitting seemingly in deep thought, as before. “Have you done well?” was the question that greeted him as he entered. “I think so,” was the reply. “Then give me my spurs,” and Tres- sel replaced the spurs on Gloster’s feet. It was thus that the greatest player of his time made his first bow to the public, of which in ten short years he was to become the idol. Primitive Cooking. One of the most healthful kinds of corn bread was that used in Kentucky half a century ago, when people were compelled to live on the simplest and most natural fare. Salt was worth a dollar a pound, and a “skillet” was an | article of luxury. There were three preparations of corn meal in Kentucky, all mixed alike, but baked differently ; the “corn dodger,’ the “pone,” and the “hoe cake.” As much Indian meal as is wanted, with salt and sufficient water to knead the mass. This allowed to stand about twenty minutes, so that all the meal is thoroughly moistened. Part of this is made into balls, and thrown into a pot where bacon and cabbage (er greens) are boiling. By the force of the boiling water, these little balls are seen to pop up and down, and dodge about; hence the name “dod- gers.” If now some of the same dough be formed into a flat cake, say an inch thick, and placed on the hoe, this, held over hot coals until baked brown, gives the true “hoe cake.” The remaining portion of dough is put in some iron utensil (skillet or pot) and the cover adjusted. The skillet is placed on live | coals, which are also heaped upon its iron cover, and left to stand until the mass is properly baked. taken out by turning the skillet upside down, and constitutes the original type of “pone.” The Clerk's Mistake. The woman with the solid, masterful tread stepped up to the counter of the West Fifth street family grocery and said calmly: “I bought ten pounds of toilet soap here six months ago,” says the Cincinnati Commercial Gazeite. «Yes, ma'am,” said the clerk, rub- ‘bing his hands in imaginary lather; “we keep the very best.” “But this soap that I got was full of | grit’ — “You must be mistaken, ma’am”— «Young man, I guess I know sand when I see it with my own eyes, and”— “I mean you must have got the soap at some other place, ma’am, for we never have kept any such”— “Young man, I guess I know where I buy my soap, and [”— “It is impossible, ma’am, that you got it here, for” — “Young man, I bought ten pounds of soap here six months ago, and that soap was so full of sand and grit that the boarders didn’t use it up till this morn- ing, and”— “Very sorry, ma’am but we have never” — “And I wanted to get twenty pounds more of the same identical kind, to last ‘em through the Summer; but, of course, if you hain’t got it, I'll have to ‘go some place else to”— But the clerk was around the coun- ter, had her basket in onehand and an ‘apologetic wave in the other: “Beg pardon, ma’am—how many jpounds did you say you wanted?” She Set Him Right. A confirmed old bachelor of most ex- ‘emplary habits living in his own house, recently advertised for a hired girl. He received many letters, and finally ‘selecting one which seemed to him ‘about right, he invited the writer to ‘call, and a very substantial woman of forty responded. “You see, I want a careful woman in y house,” he explained. «I understand,” she replied. “She must cook, wash and iron, clean up the house, attend to my clothes, sew on buttons, do repairing, do the marketing, attend the door, pay the bills as they come in, and kindle my fire in the morning.” “Oh,” she said, as she rose to depart, “you do not want a hired girl; what you want is a wife. Good morning,” ‘and she very politely and pleasantly walked out. ae The cake is | SULPHUR LEMONADE. A Peanut Butcher Served a Thirsty Pas- senger Severely. “When I wasaladIran away from home like a good many other boys,” re- marked a lawyer to a Chicago Journal man, “and, as it was my ambition to go railroading, I becamea peanut butcher on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, running out of Chicago. My great source of profit was lemonade, which was the chemical article. I reaped a big profit from the rounders who board- ed the train and woke upin the morn- ing with a large head and an inordinate thirst. I always placed these fellows, and when I came near them I would yell like a fiend: ‘Ice cold lemonade! Best thing in the world to quench the thirst!’ “The reckless way these fellows drank chemical lemonade was something awful to contemplate; but I suppose heir stomachs were trained to receive almost anything in the way of liquid, except water. Sometimes I would stay right by a group until my tank was empty, and well can I remember the expressions that lighted up their faces when they placed the glass against their parched lips and gratefully drank the contents and asked for more. But one day when the demand had been unusually good I jumped off the train at a station and ran to the town pump. Then when I was on the train again I put in the necessary amount of chemi- cal mixture and started through the train shouting my wares. “L approached a long, thin individual, whose eyes were not as clear as they might have been and whose hand shook as he held the morning paper and made a bluff at feeling first rate. He was the thirstiest-looking man I had seen for a long time, and I could tell that kind of people at a glance. “Lemonade, sir?’ I asked. ~ ‘Lemonade?’ he repeated. | guess I will take a glass.’ | “So I poured it out and he was so | thirsty that he drank it without taking breath, and it fairly hissed as it went down his parching throat. The next moment he was sputtering and chok- ing. | ‘For merey’s sake, boy, is there a rat pickled in that?’ he asked. «I tasted it, and then found out that 1 had filled the tank at asulphur spring. The combination of sulphur water and chemical lemonade was something aw- ful, and I shall never forget the expres- sion on his face when he took me to task.” . ‘Well, I Rapid Growth, Ten years have passed since the Loch Leven trout were introduced into jthis country, and anglers say that | they are likely to repluce the common | native brook trout. While the fisher- men who have gained their love for |angling by wading the Adirondack, Pennsylvania or New England streams, ; Where the bright red and vermilion spotted trout were abundant, feel that there is no species on the face of the globe that can compare with the American, yet the large size of the Eu- ropean species makes him welcome. The rapid growth of the brown trout, and the remarkable size that those first brought over have attained, has shown j that the fish adapt themselves to | American streams. In some brooks | where they have been introduced they | have crowded out the original speckled {uhabitants with the exception of the largest ones. With the pickerel de- ‘vastating the Adirondack lakes, and the brown trout usurping the streams, there seems no place for the brook trout. To the angler the brown trout is satisfactory. They are a vigorous fish, and play well. In point of beau- ty, however, they are far inferior to the native American trout. The small fish are excellent eating, though many claim | that the mountain trout are superior. | If the brook trout are to go, however, the brown fellows will be a welcome | substitute. The Ravages of the White Ant. The workers never venture in sight except in extreme cases. No one is ignorant of the terrible destruction these insects occasion to the works of man, threaten, they push on to their gal- leries, to the very walls of their houses. They perforate the floors, the beams, the wood-work, the furniture, respect- ing always the surface of the objects attacked in such a manner that it is ravages. They even take care to pre- vent the buildings they eat away from falling, by filling up with mortar the parts they have hollowed out. But these precautions are only employed if the place seems suitable, and if they {ntend to proiong their sojourn there. with inconceivable rapidity. They have been known in one night to pierce the whole of a table leg from top to bottom, and then the table itself, and then, still continuing to pierce their way, to descend through the opposite leg, after having devoured the contents of a trunk placed upon the table. Gained by Stratagem. Finding it impossible to see the stage while the lady in front of him wore her large hat, Jones, in his most insinuating manner, asked her to re- ‘move it. “Take off my hat!” she ex- elaimed. “Why, what impudence! Of course I won’t take off my hat.” “Very well, madam,” said the man, “I beg your pardon for asking the favor, but rather think you will.” At the end | of the act the owner of the beribboned |chump!” “Remove that hat, there!” |“Take it off! ‘ake it off!" It is quite | needless to say that the hat immediate- | ly landed in the lady’s lap. The gen- | tleman leaned toward her, thankiug her | , profusely. And the poor, imposed ; upon woman vrobably never found out that the man had put on his own silk ‘nat, and that all the horrifying yells ‘were aimed at him. Invisible to those whom they | impossible to be aware of their hidden | In the other case they destroy the wood | |and heavily trimmed structure heard | | goarse cries, such as “Take it off, you | A WIFE’S RUSE. A Crooked Mirror and a Man’s Conscience Did the Work, A St. Louis lady made a temperate man of her husband in a novel way, says the St. Paul Globe. For two or three years he was a good deal of a lark. Night after night he came home saturated. At length one night he reached home so drunk that he went to bed with his boots on. She resolved now to cure him at any cost, and soon had her plans laid. The next night he arrived home very drunk. The follow- ing morning he arose and looked in the large mirror in his room. His mouth was drawn out of shape, one cheek was a good deal higher than the other and both were swollen; one eye was popping out of his head and the other was sunken and drawn to twice its natural length; one ear sat on his neck and the other was split and stood almost on the top of his head. “Such a fiendish picture as that J never saw before,” muttered he. Then he looked at the mirror to see that it was the same*he had always used. It was the same frame and. as it was built in the wall, it could not have been changed. He called his wife into the room. “For God’s sake, Mary, what’s the matter with the mirror?” he said. “Why, nothing that I know of, dear.” «Just look in it! See!” She looked in it and declared that she didn’t see anything the matter with it. “I've got em!” shouted he, for a doctor!” The doctor arrived, pronounced it a clear case and prescribed. The hus- band was placed in his wife’s bed in an- other room and lay there a day or two. Before the physician permitted him to be out again he pledged her he would never drink again. This was five years ago and he has kept his pledge faithfully. But it is doubtful if he knows that the mirror which frightened him so was an imper- fect glass which had been pnt in the frame in place of the plate glass and that while he was lying in his wife's bedroom the plate was restored to its place. “Send The Walrus at Bay. The sea-horse or walrus is a well- known inhabitant of the Arctie seas, and has fought many valiant fights against its enemy, man, the narration of which has thrilled boy readers over and over again in their favorite tales of adventure. In Cassell’s serial edition Figuier’s Mammalia,” we find a ng some few interesting rticulars about the methods of this amphibious and carnivorous creature, and from that source we have extracted the following : “Naturally mild and inoffensive, the rus becomes very bold when it is attacked and wounded. Under such circumstances it will fight with the ut- most fury, and will show its desire for vengeance by all its actions. If on land, and consequently incapable of pursuing its enemies, its feeling of heiplessness makes it utter furious cries; it tears up the soil with its tusks and attacks everything it meets with ou its way. But to avoid being injured by it, after it is hurt, all that is neces- sary is for the hunters to keep at « respectful distance. In the sea, on the contrary, where it can display all its activity, the walrus is rather to he feared; so much the more so on ac- count of the strict union in which it lives with its fellows, who never fail te come in great numbers to help any of their companions which are threatened with danger. ‘They surround the boat, _ and try to sink it by running it through with their tusks, or capsize it by bear- ing with their whole weight upon its sides. Sometimes, indeed, they even try to board boats, much to the disgust of the sailors, who have no wish for such company. If the boats row off, they follow them for a long while, and | | only stop when they are out of sight. | The walrus has to struggle not only against man, but also against the bears | which inhabit the same latitudes. Although the white bears are provided with formidable means of attack, they do not always come out of the combat victorious. The deep wounds which | they carry away with them after their | battles with the walrus sufticiently at- | | test the valor and power of the animals | x j which they wished to make their vic- i CHRD Geouiel ge tims.” Taken at Bis Word. A lawyer who was cross-questioning | some witnesses, and had done every- thing in his power to confuse them, brusquely asked them, when other methods failed, to “speak up louder.” Tho last man called, «a burly countryman, decided that he would take the lawyer at his word, so in re- | sponse to the first question, what his name was, he replied in a voice that re- | verberated through the building: j ‘John Brown, sir-r-r-r.” “I guess you've been drinking this morning,” said the irate lawyer, stern- ly. “Yes, sir-r-r-r,” replied the witness, as though calling to a neighbor two miles distant. - “I thought so,” said the lawyer tri- umphantly. “What did you take?” “Coffee, sir-r-r-r,” shouted the wit- ness. A burst of laughter from the court- room disconcerted the lawyer for a | time, but when the merriment had sub- sided he inquired, nothing daunted: “I guess you had a little something else in your coffee, didn’t you?” “Yes, sir-r-r-r,” still came the rep! “Ah, now we're coming to it!” sai the lawyer, rubbing his hands and winking to the jury. “Now, my gool man, don’t be afraid, but speak right out and tell the jury just what you had in your coffee.” The witness filled his lungs for a ; tremendous effort, and thundered: “A sp0-0-0-on, sir-r-r-r.”” The court room, bench and bar were eonvulsed with laughter, and the ib igering lawyer lost his case. | with her knife. A QUESTION OF HONOR. In the Olden Times No Money Consider- ation Would Avail. I had just thrown down a newspaper in disgust. What had aroused my wrath was the report of a suit for dam- ages. The claim was $300,000. 3 The charge was that of meddling with a wife’s affections. his, I said to my- self, is modern civilization. Such 8 thing would not-haye been possible in any other age. Two hundred years ago the offer of money in such a case would have been an insult irreparable, says a writer in the Washington News, ‘To-day it is demanded as a right. With that there came into my head an old story. it isnow forgotten. The average modern cannot see the use of it. To his downright spiritand club- footed intellect the story is ridiculous. But here it is. One day iu 1634 the Earl of Chandos was sitting at his wine in the Red Bull tavern. ‘There were stories about the Earl and a certain Lady Leveson which it would not do to repeat. Some people have wondered a little at the indiffer- ence of Sir Robert Leveson. ‘The Earl, however, on that day at the Red Bull appeared to be entirely at his ease. But suddenly Sir Robert Leveson came in- tothe room. He walked over to the table at which the Earl was sitting and pointed to the tablecloth. “My lord,” said he, “that is a blue napkin lying there.” Lord Chandos looked up quickly and saw what he meant. “[ beg your pardon, Sir Robert, but it isa red napkin.” Sir Robert laughed. “Shall we fight upon that, Chandos ?” said he. “I will stand by my convictions,” re turned the Earl, smiling; “let us meet at sunrise.” They met and the Earl was slain by Sir Robert Leveson. To this day no- body knows a word more than what I have told. ‘The seventeenth century did not advertise its wrongs. Marriage by Capture. Among savage tribes some very strange rules of etiquette appear to govern the matrimonial relationship. Etiquette prevents a Yoruba wife from either speaking to or even seeing her husband, if it can be avoided, and the rude Aleutian islanders have the same regulation about speaking. In parts of the Fiji Islands a husband and wife, if they wish to meet, must meet in secret; a similar secrecy is or was obligatory among the Circassians, and even among the Hottentots. But the African king- dom of Futa bears off the palm in these respects, if an old traveller is to be credited, who assures us that wives there were so bashful as never to let their husbands see them without a veil for three years after their marriage. The same sort of feeling is manifest in other curious customs. Esquimaux, even in cases where the course of true love ran its smoothest | and accorded fully with parental settlements, certain old women had to be sent to drag the bride forcibly to her husband’s hut, she being obliged, un- | der the penalty of an ill name to make | as if it went against the grain, and as | if she was much ruffled at it. A Kamt- chatkan girl—and the people of Kamt- | chatka are among the rudest of the | earth—however well disposed she may | be to her future spouse, makes it a point of honor to pretend to refuse him, and the form of force on his side and of resistance on hers has in any | case to be regularly performed. And the wild tribe, the Hos of India, re- | gard it as the correct thing for a wife to run away from her husband, and to tell her friends that she neither loves him nor will ever see him again, while he in his turn is expected to display great anxiety for his loss, and when he has found his wife after diligent search to carry her home again by main force. | Society. Mrs. ‘I. Hyphen-Hyll will give a din- ner, to be followed by a dance, on the seventeenth. Mrs. Hyphen-Hyll’s resi- dence is one of the finest in the city and she moves exclusively in the most fash- ionable society. Her charming daugh- ter, Gladys Hyphen-Hyll, never eats Her grandfather. Mr. John Hill, preferred his knife to a fork, but in real breeding he was way ahead The engagement is announced of | Miss Houray Boyse to Mr. F. Eagle- beak-Browne. The Eaglebeak-Brownes attached the final e to their name nearly ten years ago, and deservedly rank high among our most fashionable families. The engagement will soon be an- nounced of the Marquis de Cherche Dot to Miss Bertha Bond, daughter of Mr. James Bond, of Idaho. The marquis isa young but partially decomposed representative of one of the old historic families of France. Mr. G. Dobbes-Flynte’s new riding boots are not entirely satisfactory, as one of them is too tight over the in- step. ‘The Dobbes-Flyntes are one of our oldest families, having held on to their money for nearly three genera- tions. es Facts About the Papacy. Leo is the 257th Pope. Twenty-four of his predecessors were Johns, iG were Gregorrys, 14 Clements, 14 Bene- dicts, 13 Innocents, 12 Leos, 9 Piuses, 9 Bonifaces, 8 Pauls, 8 Urbans, 8 Alex- anders, 10 Stephens, 6 Adrians and five each named Sextus, Nicholas, Martin and Celestine. In the earliest days of the church the prelates raised to the pontificate retai.ed their own names but the custom of adopting the name of some predecessor has obtained for some centuries. Fifteen of the Popes have been Frenchmen, 13 have been Greeks, 8 buve been Syrians, 6 have been Ger- mans, 5 Spaniards, 2 came from Africa, end 2 each from Savoy, England, Swe- den, Dalmatia, Holland, Portugal, and Crete. Since 1523 all the Popes have been chosen from among the Italian Cardinals, cathe ARS on een Amon@ the | Thos. H. Clarke. REAL ESTATE AND LOANS 606 F Street, N. W., WasHiacror, D. C ——___--» <2 —____ ———— Subscribe to and advertise 1 he Brg, THE INDUSTRIAL BUILD- ING AND SAVING CO. Loans money to buy or build homes. 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