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WOMAN’S WORLD.
A Few Things of Interest to the Fair
Sex.
A Queer Kind of an Entertainment.
What Annoyed «, Washington Girl.
The Queen Wae Ansrry-How To
Reduce Flesh—Women Deserting
Their Homes-How to Preserve the
Complexion—Pronunciation of Peo
ple of Different Cities—Decline of
Manners on Higher Levels—Other
Matters Worth Beading.
The London World laments a great de
cline in manners, especially on the higher
levels. Cads are met with in increasing
\ numbers on society’s upper crusts. They
are of both sexes and old as well as
5 oung. The chaperones in a London ball
room may be seen struggling for seats
like semi-rowdies. Two dowagers readily
talk across a third sitting between them.
Greediness at the supper table is revolt
ing. At the theaters vulgarity is offen
sive in the stalls and boxes. Young cads
lounge on two or three chairs when women
are forced to stand up. They remain
seated when a woman enters the room,
never open the door for her when she is
leaving and pay no heed to their language
in her presence.
This is the time of all times, says the
New York Tribune, for buying table sil
ver: prices are ver./ low—probably as low
as they will be for years to come. The’
shapes are beautiful, many of them being
reproductions of the most graceful stlyes
of the past. The cheap and ugly forms
and ornaments of fifteen years ago have
been discarded in plated ware, as well as
in sterling silver, and the most refined
styles prevail
The best silversmiths make admirable
plated ware nowadays, and there is a
great demand for it, especially by the
owners of country houses. In
suite of the fact that every
luxurious country seat of the day
has its huge silver safe, many people
think it is more conducive to ease of mind
to leave their heavy family silver in the
vaults of their city bank and to use in the
country the beautiful plated silver, which
is so substantially and handsomely made
that it lasts nearly a lifetime. It is quite
as dainty if not as valuable as the real
thing, and it is of no use to the average
intelligent burglar. It is foolish to buy
inferior plated ware. While the best
articles of the kind certainly cost a good
deal, they more than make up for the out
lay in wearing qualities.
“The art of conversation,” says a dis
tinguished writer, ‘consists in the exer
cise of two fine qualities—you must origi
nate and you must sympathize. You
must possess at the same time the habit
of communicating and the habit of listen
ing The union is rather rare, but it is
Irresistible.”
To listen sympathetically and to talk
amusingly are generally supposed to be
two distinct qualifications, seldom if ever
united in the same individual; and it
would be well for those who desire to
shine as talkers to study the golden mean
and judiciously combine both accomplish
ments.
I dreamed that Love came knocking
At your door one winter night,
While the specter trees were rocking
In a blast of savage blight.
•*O, 1 perish!” poor Love pleaded;
"Ope the door for Love s dear sake,”
But although you heard and heeded,
Still no answer would you make!
Not one word of rweet replying t
Would your haughty lips have said,
Even if Love had lain there dying.
Even if Love had lain there dead!
Then I dreamed that Love o’erruled you;
For in tenderest voice he cried:
"Nay, dear lady. I sadly fooled you.
Since 1 am not Love, but Pride.”
And you straightway oped your portals,
With a merry and welcome nod,
To that wiliest of Immortals,
To that masquerading God.
Ah, you oped your portals lightly,
Not for Love’s, but Pride’s dear sake;
Yet, O lady, if I dreamed rightly.
Love soou taught you your mistake!
—The Century.
A writer in the Boston Transcript gives
a long list of rules tending to the elucida
tion of the subject of the proper treat
ment of female house servants, from
which a few of the most significant are
culled.
Give her as good wages as you can; pay
her regularly or give her reasons why she
should wait.
Do not expect her to be a mind reader,
but tell her just what you want done.
Give her as pleasant a room as pos
sible, and let her have time to keep it
in order.
Do not talk as if your own way was the
only right way to do things.
Never allow the children to treat her
with disrespect or make her unnecessary
work.
Never reprimand her before children
or strangers.
Always say "good morning” and “good
night.”
Always sa.v “please” and “thank you”
when you ask her to do anything for you,
and insist upon the children doing the
same
A command given in an abrupt, disa
greeable tone will often make her angry
or unhappy.
If you like her, tell her so sometimes!
If she is cross or irritable, be patient
with her. She may be suffering acutely
mentally or physically.
Above all things, do not scold, blame,
or find fault with her any’ more than you
can possibly help. Nothing will discour
age her so much. She needs encourage
ment a thousand times more than she
needs discouragement.
To sum up, be as kind, patient, sympa
thetic, reasonable, considerate, and re
spectful to her as you would wish other
women to be to your own daughter if she
is ever obliged to do housework for a liv
ing.
The Princess Alix of Hesse is finding
that her coming greatness—that of a
future Empress of Russia—is already
casting long shadows before. She has
finished her course of religious education
necessary to be received into the Russian
church, and is now being instructed by a
Russian tutor to the imperial family sent
from St. Petersburg for the purpose. Her
position in court circles is much higher
ny reason of her approaching marrfage,
and recently a cordial letter from the
crur asked her what especial “act of
mercy” she would like to have “ukased”
in honor of the importont event, “the par
doning of a thousand persons” being sug
gested byway or example.
The vernacular of different localities in 1
America, says the New York Tribune, is
very marked, even among cultivated pen- |
pie. and many who flatter themselves i
that their cosmopolitan culture has quite
effaced any peculiar intonation would be
surprised if they knew how much their :
early association affects both voice and I
accen! “How curious it is.” remarked a
New York woman the other day, “that :
Mr 8.. who has lived more than half his
life away from Philadelphia and has i
mingled with the best people at home and
abroad for years, should still retain in :
pristine purity his funny little Phiia- <
deiphia twang. At home 1 had always j
thought it rather a pity that he ‘hailed' I
so unmistakably from the Quaker City;
but 1 simply loved the familiar nasal
drawl when, in the Arabian deser;, we
exchanged greetings with a passing cara
van, and I heard an exclamation from a
■ helmeted gentleman on a camel—an ex
clamation in those Chestnut-street ac-
; cents of Mr. R.”
i At a luncheon a short time ago pro
j vincialisms in America came undei' dis
cussion, and while a Baltimorean, a Phil
; adelnhian and a Chicago woman, who,
I with a few others, comprised the party,
1 I recognized the pronounced difference in
• i the accents of their Boston and New
. York friends, they each failed to hear
and would not acknowledge that their
own speech was equally local. Every one
! has heard the old test sentence for a
. Philadelphian and a Bostonian, “I fed a
bird sitting on a curbstone with a spoon,”
the difference in the pronunciation of the
words bird, stone and spoon being unmis
takable.
“You Boston people carry your clear
pronunciation rather far when you say
chick-hen for chicken,” said a Philadel
. phia lady to a descendant of the Pilgrims
at a watering place the other day.
“It is better than swallowing half your
words as you Philadelphians do,” re
torted the other. “And it is a pity,” she
added, in an aside to a friend, “that they
do not swallow the whole while they
are about it!”
Some western women try to leap the
ugly “r” wherever it ends a word. It is a
mark of early neglect that is almost im
possible to eradicate, for the reason that
those who use it are quite unconscious of
the difference. This unfortunate habit is
unhappily spreading, and is not confined
as formerly to certain localities, but
threatens to become a general American
ism.
Although we laugh at them, we are apt
to admire the soft provincialisms of the
southerners, with their “cyars” and their
’ “gyardens.” and their ignoring the vulgar
“r” altogether when they ask you to shut
the “do’ ” and pass their plates for a little
“mo’ chick’-n.” A New England accent,
pure and simple, is far from pleasant
from the lips of a pretty woman. There
is much for Americans to learn in the
way of voice culture and accent, and it is
astonishing that hardly any of the fash
ionable schools for girls recognize this
great natural defect and try to over
come it.
Eve, says the New York World, was a
blonde of the English type of beauty.
From the same source of information it
seems that “she freckled.” Being the
first edition of womanhood, her liver
presumably was all right, and so her
freckles must have been caused by the
sun. A squeeze of lemon juice, a little
milk and wild honey applied before going
to her moss-covered bed would have re
moved them.
Sun freckles can be bleached out; liver
freckles have to be burnt off, or allowed
to wear out. Liver freckles can only be
determined by their permanency.
Spring is the season for siin freckles;
the crop may be increased during the
early summer, but the chill winds of
autumn will scatter them, and those that
withstand the bleaching, cleansing breath
of winter have nothing to do with the
sun. They indicate feeble circulation,
diseased liver or a weak constitution.
Some physicians attribute them to a
superfluity of iron in the blood, either in
herited or the result of iron-tinctured
drugs, waters and foods.
The most popular freckle cures, harm
less if not remedial, to be found in the
standard books on cosmetics were in use
during Aspasia’s reign. A cure as old as
Christianity Illustrates the simple faith
of the Roman maiden to whom it was
recommended: #
“Distillation of watercress and half
the quantity of honey; apply to the freck
les night and morning until they disap
pear.”
Cure No. 2. “Juice of the milk weed,
lime juice and oil of almonds; use
abundantly for large and little freck
les.”
Cure 3. “Dissolve a little rock cam
phor in olive oil and apply as needed.”
Cure 4. “Dissolve some camphor in oil
of turpentine, perfume with attar of rose
and touch each blemish with the lotion.”
Sweet milk, sour milk, buttermilk and
cream have always been, used and are
still recommended. Applied to 'the face
as soon as the darts of Appolo appear, re
lief should be had in a night.
The use of white or light veils during
spring blows and summer suns is the
penny’s worth of prevention that out
weighs the pound of cure. A white veil
reflects the light, and is a non-conductor
of heat; a blue veil absorbs the light, and
a black veil absorbs everything—sun,
heat, dust, attention and personal sun
shine. The regular complexion veils sold
in Paris, Calcutta, Rome and the Orien
tal capitals are sun colors—straw, wheat
and corn yellow; flame white, cream and
the light tan, almond or burnt brown.
So much for the sun freckles.
The liver freckles are stubborn proofs
of internal derangement. As the youth
develops and the health improves these
brown patches will fade, and as years ad
vance disappear altogether.
A certain New York firm made a for
tune out of a freckle cure. About two
years ago the firm was dissolved, and
one of the manufacturers went to Ger
many to brighten up the bonny faces of
the Berlin girls. Now the Germans have
two strong points—-philosophy and chem
istry. The “cure” was so well adver
tised that it sold, and the sale attracted
the attention of the local authorities. A
bottle was procured for Herr Somebody,
the great little analyist to his Imperial
Majesty, and when his* report was re
ceived an order was issued for the ar
rest of the enterprising New Yorker, who
fled with the utmost precipitancy. For
the protection of its fair citizens, the im
perial magistrate posted the formula in
public places on bulletin boards under
the caption Poison and over the name of
the New York firm. Here it is:
One _ quart of water, two ounces of
glycerine and fifteen grains of corrosive
sublimate.
The preparation will remove freckles,
but the skin goes with them; it burns
like hot coals and leaves a raw, sore place.
The idea is to burn off the outer skin; if
the freckle is a sun freckle it will come off
with the skin, but if it is a liver freckle
no benefit whatever will be derived, aside
from the pain the fpolish woman deserves
to suffer. If a drop of the poison should
touch the lips or get on the eyeball, very
serious consequences might be appre
hended.
t ' ie *®®Hy truly fashionable
vioman. says Demorest’s Magazine for
September, who dresses well and knows
her hat is becoming is never a coward
about taking the sunshine in her face
when she attends country club gvmkana
races, or from the deck of a friend’s
steam yacht watches crack sloops having
a brush in Newport bay. She is glad to
take on plenty of sunburn, and never
minds freckles in the least; but she very
seriously objects to her face looking
greasy. Nothing, she believes, cad so en
tirely nullify even supreme beauty of
face, form and gown as a greasy counte
nance, the result of too much sitting in
the sun without precautions. Precautions
mean cologne and a soupcon of tbe purest
rice powder, violet scented. That these
may be handy to administer at any mo
ment. she carries three magic articles.
One is a vast white veil of chiffon, long
enough to pass around her hat and face,
cross at the back, and draw for
ward again to tie in a big bow
under her chin. If under this pro
tection she still feels herself growing
gr easy, she unscrews a flat, antique sil
ver bottle, that by delicate chains hangs
from her belt, moistens her handkerchief
with the cologne it contains, and deli
cately mops her face: then, from a tiny,
brocade, satin pouch, that matches the
prevailing tint of her gown, and that
hangs also from her belt, she draws a
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK:) MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1894.
powder puff and passes it over her face.
The result is a sweet freshness of skin
and a cooling from the heat that puts re
newed vigor into her conversation and a
complacent consciousness of well-being
into her eyes, that none could gainsay.
Some women carry a diluted kind of aro
matic ammonia in their cologne bottles,
while others carry a bottle of some flex
ible material that fits in a silver case, but
when squeezed, sends out a sweet spray
of cologne over one's face.
She was attired in the verj’ latest tailor
made suits, says the Washington Post,
and as she walked down F street with a
swinging gait more than one turned to
look at her. Her general appearance
was faultless, so the men thought. Not
so with the other sex, who seemed to find
something wrong, judging by the way
they nudged each other in passing. If
there is anything a woman hates it is to
have two fellow-women nudge each other
and smile. Such an action usually means
that something is wrong, whether in be
havior or attire it is sometimes hard to
tell. At any rate, the tailor-made girl,
certain her behavior was strictly correct,
immediately supposed it must be her per
sonal appearance.
For several squares she wondered what
could be the matter. Was it her collar?
No; it was all right. Her cravat was in
place. “Oh,” she thought, “I have for
gotten my belt.” But the belt was also
in its place. In desperation at last she
stopped a woman who was staring at her
and demanded:
“Will you please tell me what you see
to amuse you so highly?”
The woman looked at the questioner for
a moment and laughed in a cruel manner
as she said:
“You ought to see yourself. You for
got to fix your hair, didn’t you?”
A light suddenly dawned upon the un
fortunatervictim’s thinking powers. She
clapped her hands to the back of her
head and found she had forgotten to re
move the curl papers that were the chief
aids in making her short, straight hair
appear in such lovely, natural curls.
The tailor-made girl would not really
have cared so much if two of her rivals
had not passed just at that moment.
But how, you ask, could anybody walk
down F street with her hair in curl pa
pers?
The case is rather an odd one, but it
happened In this way: The young lady
in question had accepted a wager to dress
without the aid of a mirror, and to look
as well as if she had stood before a glass
for hours.
Calm in the assurance that the wager
was hers, she walked down town. We
all know the results which have led to
the adoption of the motto, “Never be
without a glass.”
For once in her life, says a London let
ter, Lady Jeune has got herself in hot
water at court, and has been subjected to
severe hauling over the coals by the
queen. It seems that her majesty and
some of her daughters made some very
fine quilt work for some charity or other
woman's department of the Chicago ex
hibition. Quite recently sketches of these
pieces of needlework appeared in some of
the ladies’ newspapers published in Lon
don, on seeing which her majesty flew
into a terrible passion. She immediately
had a letter written by her lady in wait
ing to Lady Jeune, who had had charge
of the work in question, and to whom
they had been confided, asking who had
given permission for these sketches to be
made.
Thereupon Lady Jeune wrote back to
explain that she herself had authorized
the reproduction on the ground that she
thought that it would please the people
of England to see what their sovereign’s
needlework was like. She likewise ex
pressed her most humble apologies for
having given cause for offense. Her
missive was of no avail in assuaging the
royal wrath, and a second letter, still
more irate than the first, followed from
the queen, and, according to latest ac
counts, Lady Jeune’s friend, Princess
Christian, is now using all her best efforts
tojappease the queen's anger.
Her ma jesty is very capricious in such
matters, and there is no person in the
world more quick to resent what she re
gards as presumption, or to take offense
at mere trifles. It may safely be taken
for granted that had not Sir Francis
Jeune been in possession of the lucrative
presidency of the court of divorce and of
bis knighthood he would have forfeited
by his wife’s indiscretion all prospects of
ever attaining to either the one or the
other.
At the first indication of the abdomen’s
taking upon itself a disagreeable promi
nence. says Demorest’s Magazine for Sep
tember. accompanied by a sensation of
uncomfortable fullness after eating, and
often with shortness of breath, it is ad
visable to make a slight change of diet.
Bread should be eaten very sparingly,
and only of the coarse kinds; graham is
the best. No white bread should be eaten
unless cut very thin and toasted brown.
It is best to drop all cereals, and also the
root vegetables, potatoes, turnips, car
rots, etc., and beans and Deas. Os course
sweets are tabooed, and it is well to erase
chocolate from the list of liquids. All
drinks should be taken In moderation,
but a goblet of hot water a half hour be
fore meals will hasten the cure. The only
meats that are under the ban are veal
and pork, and the latter is unfit to be
eaten at any time excepting by those
working hard at manual labor.
Eat as freely as appetite prompts of
fruits, both fresh and dried, and all green
vegetables, especially salads. Nuts and
raisins, figs and dates, ices and jellies,
can be varied for dessert, so you will miss
the harmful pastries, cakesand puddings.
An original entertainment is raging just
now for charitable purposes in New Eng
lands towns, and the flippant-minded may
try to say something funny in this con
nection. It is styled: “A Chestnut
Party and Old Maids’ Auction.” A num
ber of the prettiest young ladies are
dressed in quaint spinster style and auc
tioned off. An aristocratic church in
Pawtucket, R. 1., made quite a sum of
money and had a jolly time with one of
these auctions. With a witty auctioneer
there is a chance for fun. The highest
price paid at one party was 81.50 for a
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church prices ranged from 10 cents to 38
cents.
A clever man, says Miss Bisland, in the
New York Press, inquired of me the other
day what I thought of the wholesale
way m which women are deserting their
homes.
I confess his remark startled me no lit
tle, and I promptly demanded an explan
ation of this ugly, sweeping reflection
upon my sex. It seems he was delighted
to ride a pet hobby, and instantly gal
loped on at full speed; but what distressed
me beyond measure was to find that
when he did call a halt I was utterly un
able to refute his assertion.
He began by inquiring whether I had
observed the phenomenal growth of the
family hotel in this country. In days gone
by inns and hostelries depended upon
travelers for patronage, while in these
degenerate times their handsomest reve
nues are derived from permanent board
ers. families who live there the year
round.
H e also cited a dozen devices women
are resorting to in order to escape domes
tic responsibilities. In every large city
the biggest, newest and most popular
apartment houses are those that provide
a restaurant for lessees and agree to sup
ply cleaners and attendants. Except, he
said, for people in moderate circumstan
ces, flats arranged for the complete do
mestic menage have fallen into disfavor.
Women who give up housekeeping exact
absolute freedom from care or duty.
With bric-a-brac, pictures and ornamen
tal plants they are able to relieve the
deadly stiffness of ready furnished rooms,
and unless the lady employs a personal
maid she has nothing whatever to do with
servants. Mothers with children are
almost as well placed, as these luxurious
abodes have a separate dining room for
nurses and their charges, so that mamma
can see as little or as much of her babies
as she likes.
“Only the other day I met a clever,
charming gentleman of my acquaintance,
a hard working fellow who not only occu
pies the chair of mathematics in a col
lege, but doubles his income with liter
ary work. *We w sre it a fashionable de
ception where he looked bored to death,
and his wife, a handsome well-preserved
person, seemed to be having a very good
time. Urging me to stop and see him I
mentioned his number, when the pro
fessor turned a pair of very mournful
eyes upon me and shook his head.
“ ‘Oh, no,’ he murmured' ‘we’ve broken
up housekeeping.’
“ ‘What,’ I exclaimed, ‘given up your
beautiful library that has been my envy
so long?’
“ ‘Yes. Wife, you know, couldn't
stand the strain—servants and things
were too much for her health. She said
she would have nervous prostration
if she did not get a rest, and now we live
at a hotel.’ All this in a most dejected
tone.
“ ‘But I should think with your chil
dren,’ I began.
“ ‘Oh, yes, you are right,’ he inter
rupted. ‘lt is inconvenient for me and
the children, But it appeared to be a
desperate case, und now my wife likes
this way of living so much better she
doesn’t think she will ever keep house
again.’
“As he spoke we both looked across at
his plump, rosy partner, and I thought
my own thoughts.”
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Ocala. Fla., Aug. 18.—A posse tracked
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Lake county to within several miles east
of Belleview, where he was captured near
midnight by Tom Stark and Andy West
and taken back to Tavares.
The story we hear is that Hudson was
working for Samuel Sigler, a well to do
orange grower. A dispute arose over
some work. The negro seized a rifle
Sigler held in has hand, used it as a
club, braining Sigler by crushing his
skull. Doctors say Sigler cannot live.
A crowd of Ocala boys leave on the
midnight train to visit Camp Cooper at
St. Augustine.
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All members of the Barcelona group,
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What Rev. Dr. Talmage Saw in
Samoa.
Scenes of Battle and Shipwreck—A
Visit to the Royal Palace—“ Trade
Gin” and “Kava”—Malietoa’s Mis
sionary Flag.
(Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894.)
Apia, Samoa, July 2.—A hundred and
sixty men in the angry waters: one ship
sunk out of sight st> that not so much as a
plank or rope has since appeared: of our
three great Amercan warships lying in
the harbor, the Leipsic beached, the Tren
ton ahd Vandalia demolished; of the
three great German men-of-war the Eber
and Olga gone completely 'under: the
Adler rolled over on its side and cracking
apart amidships. Out of all the vessels
in harbor only one saved, and that be
cause it had steam up and could sail out
into the sea: three days of wreckage and
fright and horror which shook the island
• and by report of next steamer transfixed
all nations: all this a brief putting of
what an antipodean hurricane dip
for this harbor in March, 1889.
While all up and down: the beach
of this island are pieces of the
wreckage of that unparalleled tempest,
only one skeleton of a ship remains, the
“Adler,” sufficiently distinct to represent
that scene of cyclonic infernization. It is
rather unfortunate that Samoa in the
popular mind of all nations, stands as a
synonym of shipwreck, for the place is as
fine a specimen of foliage and fruitage as
the world holds. Indeed, its harbor is
the sea-captain’s anxiety. For though a
wide harbor it has only a small entrance,
and rocks in all directions toss the white
foam. The captain told us that we need
not think we were left if we saw him sail
ing out to sea, for he would do so if a
squall came up, but he would return and
take us.
After more than seven days of ocean
rolling without sight of ship or land the
Samoan islands greet you like.
A BEATIFIC VISION.
As we came on deck this morning the
waters were covered with small boats of
natives bringing specimens of coral and
all manner of flowers and fruits, ready to
sell these and transport to shore all the
passengers who chose to go. A boat be
longing to the German legation with four
stout oarsmen took us three-quarters of a
mile to the beach. From hence we went
to King Malietoa’s residence. But it is a
time of war. The king had fled to the
forest. A few nights before he was
thought to be at a village house and it was
surrounded and shot into, and the king
would have been slain if he had been
there. The whole island is in a turmoil.
We are shown the king’s rooms and his
pictures and bric-a-brac. The walls sug
gested fondness for German arid English
royalty, but I found not the face of any
American President or general. We saw
the queen, and at the invitation of the
warriors went into the guards' tent.
About fifteen dusky soldiers, each reclin
ing on a pillow of round wood, upheld by
two small supports. A more uncomfort
able pillow, it would seem to me, than
that in Bethel, from the foot of which
Jacob saw the angelics.
Each of the warriors had a gun within
reach. At their, invitation we sat down
on a mat besides those who were sitting
and in scant vocabularly talked over the
Samoan troubles. We saw one soldier
who had been shot in the foot, and he was
limping along leaning on an assistant.
Four men were killed last night in a
skirmish and another skirmish is to take
place to-night. There are natives who do
not want to pay their taxes and tfleir
various grievances have been summed up,
and a young warrior wants to get. tbe
throne and introduce the millennium. A
long continued struggle is opening. Mean
while a German and English man-of*war
is in the harbor, and an American man-of
war is expected soon. What will be tbe
result no one can prophesy. But this is
certain, this island and all the group of
islands are suffering from foreign inter
ference. It is a common saying among
the natives that first comes the mission
ary, then conies the merchant, then comes
the consul, then comes the mau-of-war,
then, Oh my!
Why should three great nations like the
English, German and American stoop to
such small business as to be watching
with anxious and expensive vigilance
these islands for fear that this or that
foreign government should get a little ad
vantage? Better
CALL HOME TOVR WARSHIPS
and leave all to the missionaries. They
will do more for the civilization of Samoa
than all the guns that ever spoke from
the sides of the world’s navies. The cap
tain of our steamer in an interesting ad
dress a few evenings ago concerning the
islands of the Pacific, declared that the
only movement toward civilization that
amounted to anything in these islands
had been made by the church. Gospel,
not gunpowder. Life, not death. Bibles,
not bullets.
The only movement that at this time
has full swing in Samoa is “trade gin.”
That maddens and embrutes, and'has
given to Samoa the unsavory and unjust
title of the “Hell of the Pacific,” The
foreign gin is helped in its work by a
domestic drink called “kava.” It is pre
pared in the following delicious way:
“There is a plant called piper methisti
cum, from the root of which the kava is
made. A young Samoan woman moved
to one of the Fiji Islands, but got tired
and resolved to return to her native isl
ands. Before starting homeward she
saw a rat, which seemed weak and thin,
eat the root of this plant, when
the rat immediately became strong
and vigorous, ana she concluded
that tbe best thing she could do for
her native land was to take this root
to her people, thst it might make them
strong and vigorous too. So it was trans
plaated. As the root of it made the rat
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sult be produced in the human race ? So
she cultivated in Samoa the piper meth
isticum, from which the kava is made.
Girls, and old men who have nothing else
to do, prepare this kava by the following
process: They take the root and chew it
until the juice fills their moutji, then
they discharge it from the mouth into a
bowl; more root is put into the mouth
and the liquid disposed of in the same
way. It has become a popular drink. It
is ordered on all occasions; at the opening
and closing of all socialities, before and
after all styles of business, it is
KAVA HERE AND KAVA THERE.
and kava everywhere. And it is cleaner
than most of the drinks of other countries,
and has in it no logwood, strychnine or
nux vomica, but pure and simple expecto
ration. I consider it as an improvement
on most strong drinks. It is said to be a
most delicious drunk. Almost visitors
try this kava and see what it tastes like
and what are its effects, but as I have
great faith in the testimony of others, I
did not taste it, believing all they said
about the pungent and grateful flavor of
this beverage of refined and delectated
spit. The kava not only appeals to the
taste, but it is said to beautify the cup
or bowl from which it is quaffed.
The bowl is not washed, but retains
the settlings of this beverage, which har
den, and come to look like exquisite enam
eling, which submits to a high polish.
Not only is the cup enameled, but the
stomach of the one who takes it becomes
also an enameling so elaborate that I am
informed that one who was in such con
dition, by sneezing violently, cracked the
enamel arid died. Instead of the burning
out of the vitals by the brandy and whisky
and wines, would it not be more esthetic'
to carry around a whole art gallery of en
ameled insides?
Tell all the Methodists that Malietoa is
a Wesleyan and a consistent follower of
the three worthies of Epworth, Susan
nah, Charles and Johu. Though his every
drop of inherited blood is warlike, this
king is a man of peace. One of his ances
tors fought back an enemy from Samoa,
and did it so well that the defeated troops
as they got bafck into their boats cheered
the Samoan king, shouting,
‘■WELL DONE, FIGHTING COCK.”
But the present king might be better
symbolized by a dove rather than a chan
ticleer. As in America, we never had but
one man who declined being President of
the United States when he knew that he
could get the office, so Malietoa is the
only man that I know of who declined to
be king, when the honor fell to him.
Again and again he preferred another for
the throne and accepted royalty only
when circumstances compelled him to do
so. There have been deeds of blood since
he took the scepter, but war is barbarism,
whether under Samoan or American or
English flag. Nearly all the great gen
erals of our American wars have been
good members of Presbyterian, or Episco
palian, or Methodist, or Baptist, or Con
gregational or Catholic churches.
Do not, therefore, sneer when I write
that Malietoa is a Wesleyan. The flag
that floats over his house is a one-starred
flag contrived by a missionary. Indeed,
the good work of the missionaries is found
wherever we go on this island. The
Bible is the chief book. There are
churches and schools. One of the group
of islands has a college of fifty-five stu
dents in preparation for the ministry.
Nearly all the inhabitants can read and
write. There are no doubt enough bad
people. Three ships of war lying for the
most time in the harbor keep the natives
familiar with the vices of more civilized
natiqps.
“the beach-combers,”
as they are called at Samoa, that is the
men who combine the work of wrecker,
pirate, thief, desperado, and agent for
the slums, are found here, but every city
that I Know of has its beach-combers, and
the poor swindled immigrants find them
more numerous at Boston, New York and
Liverpool, thsn the voyagers of the Pa
cific find them at Samoa. These islands
are more thorough Sabbath-keepers than
you will find in almost any land of all the
earth. From early morning until iate at
night on Sabbath the whole town, with
few exceptions, is given up to devotion.
At half past six on Sabbath morning,
the church bells ring, and the people put
on their best attire and assemble for
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worship. Again in mid-afternoon the
church bells ring and the people gather.
Far on into the Sunday might the Chris
■ tian songs may be heard; caught up and
sounded back from hbme to home, and
from mountain to beach. There is far
more.
SABBATH KEPT IN SAMOA
than in any town or city in America of
the same size. But this was not always
so. From what cruelty Christian civil
ization has lifted it! In olden time when
they conquered an enemy they broke his
spine. To add to the humiliation of the
defeated some of them were roasted and
eaten. When a woman was a candidate
for marriage to some chief she was seated
in the market-place for the public to de
cide whether she were tit for such mar
riage. If they decided in the negative
she was clubbed to death.
They worshipped the dog, or the eel, or
the turtle, or the lizard, or the shark. *
“Back I” cried the Christian religion to
such monstrosities of behavior and all
things changed.
The Samoans have not much upe for
clothes. I saw no fashion-plates in the
windows. A tailor would starve to death
in Samoa. Lack of complete physical in
vestiture comes not from undue economy,
not from pauperism, not from immoral
ity, but originally from the fact that on
these islands the climate is so mild the
year round that necessity does not make
inexorable .demand upon weavers and
clothiers.
But gradually calicoes and nankeens
and alpacas are coming into demand. The
Samoan somewhat substitutes tattooing,
which in some cases appears quite like a
suit of clothes. In the boat crossing from
wharf to steamer I put my hand on the
knee of a Samoan and said, “You are tat
tooed.” He replied, “Yes, that me
clothfes.” I said, “When do you have
that tattooing done?” He answered,
“Twenty years of age.” I said, “Does it
hurt?” He replied, “Oh, yes! Hurt!
Swell up!” I asked, “How long doesit
take to have that tattooing done?” He
answered, “Two months.” Indeed all
the men I noticed had been tattooed. It
is a badge of manhood. A man is
NOT RESPECTABLE UNLESS TATTOOED.
He would be thrust out of society or
not admitted. The most profitable busi
ness is that of tattooing. The artist re
tires to the bush with a few candidates
for two or three months. Every day, as
the patient can endure it, the pricking in
of the paint by needles and sharp tooth
combs, the process goes on.
The suffering is more or less great, but
one must be in the fashion, yet I suppose
in this there is no more pain than that
which men and women sutler in the mar
tyrdom of fashion through which some
peoDle go in the higher civilized life.
What tight boots with agony of corns!
What pierceing of the ear lobes for dia
mond rings! What crucifixion of stout
waists to make them of more modern
size! The tattooing is only another form
of worship at the altar of fashion—no
flinching on the part of the tattooed, no
backing out. The work done, he who
went into the bush a boy comes out a
man.
As we passed along the main street of
the island we had a crowd after us with
something to sell. To buy a flower or a
shell was greatly to reenforce the number
of the escorting party. The men are mus
cular and well" formed. The children
are beautiful. As to the women, every
nation has itp type of female beauty, and
no one of another nation is competent to
judge concerning it.
But there goes the whistle of the “Ala
meda.”. It has to sound three times and
then
OFF FOR NEW ZEALAND.
We wait for the second whistle and then
start. Over the rolling billows to the
ladder of the steamer, and up to onr old
plach on the good ship to which we again
trust our lives- What a mystery it must
be to all the innumerable creatures of the
deep. We discuss some flying fish or
see once In a voyage a spouting
whale. but we never realize that
we are being discussed by the
in habitants of an element filled with so
much life that our captain says when a
whale is wounded by its captors, it re
quires two men to keep off the sharks
while the captive is being drawn in.
What suppose you, the inhabitants of
Oceana think of this ship floating above
them, of the bow lowing through, of the
screw stirring the wave, of thejsassengrirs
bending over the railing? Every moment
as we pass on by day and night there are
thousands of ichthyolgical inquires of
“What’s that?” What do the seagulls
flying hundreds of miles from shore
think of us? What do the sharks think?
Wha tdo the whales think? What does
the octopus think? We are as great
mysteries to them as they are to us.
T. DeWitt Talmage.