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Bab Relates Several Ridiculous and Ex
aggerated Incidents.
American Women Who Hevolullonicc EuKliMhuicn’s < iiMtums —Our Way of
Ltlg-htins Matches—The Unconventional Girl’s .Journey to the
Country—-A Mllltonnlrc’e Plainly Drewsetl Daughter
In n Street Car—The Overxmhrt Girl Foiled.
New York. May 25.—A1l New York has I
been laughing over the impressions of
Count Casteilane—impressions that he
claims to have gained during his two
weeks’ stay in this country. I didn't ‘
bother myself about reading them, for,
usually, I have found that impressions,
opinions or sketches of America, written
by foreigners, are great nonsense. And
life is Joo short to bore one's self with
them. The funny thing about the Castel- i
lane article is that it is a diatribe against
the almighty dollar; you would never
think the Casteilane family considered
money as worth anything. And yet their
oldest son married the daughter of a
man whose views in regard to money and |
the making of it were, to put it plainly,
so peculiar that an honest American, or
an honest Englishman, would rather not
have mingled with the blood. Not long
ago a Frenchman came to New York,
stayed seven days at a cheap hotel, and
announced that all New Yprk ladles woro
white muslin aprons when out walking,
and that all American men hired their
Clothes when they went to evening af
fairs! What sort of people did he go
among?
Then there was another—an English- |
man. Now fault-finding is in the British
bJood. They come over here, find no end '
of fault with everything, go back home, j
find no end of fault with everything
there; die and go to -xeaven and find no
end of fault with everything there, be
cause it Is their nature. An Englishman
by birth and education is a brute, but he
usually tries to tell the truth just as he.
makes a violent effort to pay his debts
of honor.
Physically, he Is the most beautiful spec
imen In the world; he knows how to put
his clothes on, and he never looks con
scious of them. Occasionally an English
man comes over here and lives. An Amer
ican woman trains him, knocks some of
the brutality out of him, and then he is I
the nearest thing to a gentleman angel
I ever met. Not long ago an English vis
itor got in a bad temper, went home and
.4® Wrcte a book. One always has to have
one’s peck of dirt, so I thought I would
have mine in one dose and read this book,
lie told one great truth. He said the
streets of New York were the filthiest In
the world; but the most surprising thing
was to hear—".in fashionable society” gen
tlemen invariably struck marches* on their
trousers! He confessed that the effect was
peculiar—"he seemed to be drawing fire
from that paj’t <Jf his body." Then to be
more positive, he announced that nobody
ever strikes matches in any other way!
And he confessed that he himself got into
’ the habit. Though since he has returned
to civilization he has not been so naughty."
He saw “a very nice (?) girl" do this, but
persuaded her mother that it was rather
dangerous. I think, any Englishman or
American woiild be charmed to meet a
nice girl like that. He also said that our
cups had no handles, and that an Eng
lishman is invariably spoken of as a
Stitts her--a something that is as abso
lutely unknown in this country as the
’ vulgarity of the man who wrote him down
a, fool.
I happened to see, at a public enter
tainment, a woman, loud and vulgar in
manner, with the stride of a man and
the voice of a fish woman. She wa <
from England, and had <'ome to write a
book on this country. She got into the
so-called literary set, met women who
never had any position In good society,
and pictured them as representing the
?’ best element In this country. She said
all American women painted, all talked
through their noses, and'that when they
wished to entertain, the hostess always
read a paper, and there was nothing to
eat or drink but stale cuke and claret
punch. I know there are some Ameri
cans who do speak with the nasal round,
but 1 think they are found only in the
extreme northeast. The western woman
has an accent and speaks a little loud
ly, but her words are distinct and well
chosen. New York women arc almost
entirely free from accent of any kind and
southern women. If they do cut their
woras a little and forget their r’s, usual
ly have sweet, low voices and use good
English. They could not only teach this
woman how to speak well and gently,
but they could remind her that the hy
brid something, with the stride of a man
and the vulgarity of a barmaid, seldom
commend* Itself to the world at largo as
a teachereither manners or morals.
Hpeaklngvff manners, the exclusive set
In New York’ is growing English io this
extent— "What I do Is right." Not long
ago I heardi of a womati who occupies
an extremely good position In society,
saying to her daughter, who objected to
getting into an open car because it was
"so common": "My dear, when wo are
there, it ceases to be common." Then,
to, they have taken to dressing as they
like for the street, old clothes are worn
out, and if they look shabby it is be
cause "we" can afford it. The funniest
thing done was by an Independent young
woman of twenty-five. She was going to
spend Sunday with a friend In the coun
try. She wanted to take a dinner gown
and a morning dress wltn her, and she
had no bag large enough to hold both, i
She sent to the laundry for a basket and
a two-handled one cajne up to her. The
dresses were folded and put in it, and
wearing one of Redfern's duck suits, she
boarded the Madison avenue car with her
basket, never looked embarrassed, never
cured what people thought, and did what I
(•*- she wished.
Not long ago I sat next to a girl whom
| 1 know slightly, the daughter of one of
| the richest men in New York and the for- ;
tunatc possessor of some millions from I
her grandfather. She had on a blue cloth j
skirt, whole and clean, but old-fashioned
in cut: a cotton blouse made before big ,
sleeves were in fashion, and an Inexpen- [
give hat. She was on her way to a hos
pital whore she is on the committee that
looks after the comfort of sick babies.
Two over-dressed women criticised her
audibly, laughed at her appearance, and
seemed to think that their rich frocks
must make them subjects of envy to her.
When she left a man sitting near them
could not resist telling them who she was, i
and I haven't the slightest doubt that ,
• they took to thinking and learned one ■
good lesson—that fine feathers do not
always make fine birds.
By the bye. one of thv most unpleasant ’
specimens of the new woman is the over- '
tmart girl. One of them met her match I
the other day. She entered a crowded .
street car: no man arose to offer his
place. Mias Too-Clever aaHed up to a
man anti yaid to him, "Oh, Mr, Brown,
did you offer me your seat? Thank you,
1 shall be ae glad to take It, for 1 am
very tired." The man got up and said;
"Why Sarah, has Mrs Jones given you
an afternoon out? And on wash day! <
You must be tired after standing at the i
tuba all morning." 1 don’t believo she nill ;
«vcr try that game again.
I I think mem arc beginning to disco'ver
I that the independent woman is too dif
fusive; she permeates most every place,
and can't be made to understand that no
body in this world is absolutely indepen-
I dent, and that we would be a very nasty, j
cocky lot if we were. The young woman i
who, like Solomon, is immensely puffed !
up, who twists her hair in a Psyche knot
which doesn’t harmonize with her pug
! nose, wears a three-cornered hat and
sleeves that look like balloons, talks in
i the street car about her club and her pa
| per and the election until you wdsh she
would dissolve, or fade away in some
fashion. It is awfully funny, but
I whenever you are asked to go to a wo
-1 man’s club, you are spoken .of as an
“invited guest,” as If guests weren’t al
ways Invited. Most of the ones that I
I have been to, as the aforesaid “invited
I guestt’ were conspicuous by the'.r noise
—every woman had an opinion of her .
own, and each had an amiable desire to ;
speak at the same time. In union there ■
was strength of voices. The member
who invited me told me that they did a '
great deal of good* I tried to find it out,
but all I could discover was that each .
bought a ticket to hear the other eloeute. i
Elocution, to my way of thinking, is a
mortal sin, and the encouraging of it by i
any club is dangerous. It is a fact that I
women as organized bodies are seldom
successful unless they have, as their mo
tive, the doing of some charitable work.
The squabbles of church societies are
, laughed at, the hospital committee is
I made a subject of mirth, b though these
I women may say mean littlw-dhings among
themselves, still they do lheir work well
I and accomplish more than double what
I men would. Ix>ok at any of the religious
institutions managed by women. Nine
times out of ten they are out of debt, near
ly or entirely self-supporting, and exquis
itely clean.
The independent woman is very startling
to the fire The idea is of
carrying her down the ladder in a long,
white nightgown, with her hair streaming
and a general limp air, which seems to
say: “You are a man; I am only a weak
, woman; take care of me.” She of the new
■ kind steps out in striped silk pajamas, and
' the gallant fireman feels that the article
j is able to take care of Itself, and he will
i look after the women and children. These
pajamas are like the masculine ones ex
cept that they are in one piece, a ribbon
holds them at the waist line, there is a
frill of lace at the neck and sleeves, eye
lets for the jeweled buttons, while the ends
of the—of the—of the pantalettes, are I
drawn around the ankles with ribbons and
frills of lace. Fancy Romeo going up a
ladder to-tell of his love to Juliet in paja
mas! Fancy the supremely feminine in
this get-up! Fancy anything you like in it,
my dear man, but if any of your woman- :
kind incline toward it, set fire to it when
it appears on the clothesline, and take '
away their pin-money.
The fashionable woman is achieving a
carriage that gives her the air of a duch
ess. The rules for it are: Shoulders
straight, head well back, eye lids droop
ing and eyes looking out from under
them as if they never saw anything so
low as the earth. It is most effective. A I
woman who carried herself this way i
showed a beautiful fan the other day at
an afternoon tea. Originally, it was a
plain, white wood one that cost fifty cents. I
Now it would fetch thousands of dollars.
On each'stick Is the name of some celeb
rity, and with the name is drawn some
thing that tells of his lifework. On one
stick, jvt below the name of Alma Ta
dema is that of Edwin Durne Jones, who,
after putting the date below his signature,
drew the head of the other artist. Tost!
and Joseffy, each have drawn a' bar of
music, while George Henchel sketched a
tiny piano and a violin. Detaille drew,
in miniature, a soldier, presumably of the ,
Legion, while George Boughton, on the
next stick, sketched the face of a beau
tiful girl. Maurice Courant drew a ma
rine and Luke Fildes gave a picture of
an Englishman, who, in point of shab
biness, compared well with Mr. Mleawber.-
George Du Maurier (he hadn’t written
Trilby then) wAs content to sign his name
in tiny letters, and so was Helen Mod
jeska. Bastien Lepage drew a tiny sketch
of himself, and the Bonaparte bee, while
Mounet Sully wrote a reminder of “Pier
rot,” and everSTT. “y else added to his au
tograph something that was specially in
dividual. Wasn’t that fan worth having?
This woman, with her dignified walk,
had taught herself something else. She re
membered what Dumas said: “No woman
should ever laugh; she may smile, for this
gives to her mouth its most ;
graceful curve." He then goes I
on to say that when a woman laughs she
makes herself ridiculous.
* People who have studied these things
agree with the French writer, and it must
be confessed that there is nothing pret
tier to seo than a woman’s lips parted in
a smile, and showing between their redness >
glistening white teeth. Who doesn’t re
member Theo’s smile? Who docs
not remember Judlc’s smile? •
But fancy if these wo- ;
men had been Japanese—and had, after
the fashion in that country, shown gilded
teeth! Or. if instead of being clear white,
they had been, after the fashion of the far
east, blackened! As a general thing, Ameri
can women have pretty teeth: but too of- I
ten their mouths are not well-shaped the
result of overindulgent mothers permitting
babies to suck their fingers. One of the
prettiest women In New York has coarse
lips, for which she blames her mother; as
I a child she was allowed to go to sleep with
i her thumb tn her mouth. Another woman
whose lips protrude just in the center, al
so blames tier mother for allowing her to
find consolation in her two forefingers. If
a child can’t be jwrsuaded into breaking
j these bad habits, then its hands should be
tied together with broad ribbons. School- '
j girls have away of biting their lower lips,
I making them supersensitive, and spoiling
the entire shape of the mouth. I speak of
this because mothers are invariably blam
ed for permitting their children to do such
things, and some mother may take to heart
I what I say about it.
It is very nice to preach to mothers,
; to tell them how they ought to make their ]
i children behave, and how they ought
I to dress them and care for them. Good
children are the exception, I regret to say,
rather than the rule. I don’t like prigs
among children, but I do like nice chil
dren. That small Boston boy who told
I ids New York cousin that the way to
; spell “fuss” was "im-brog-lio," is a little j
| too much for me. but Ido like a well
j mannered child. The small girl who look-<
I like an angel and behaves like a demon
, was met by me the other day. Her eyes
, were blue, her long curls were golden, and
; she answered to the name of "Cynthia." i
: She insisted upon having some candy, i
i She screamed for It, she kicked for it,
I she threw herself on the pavement and >
I moaned until a crowd gathered around
■ and called her mother hard-hearted, and
sympathised with that angel (?) child.
Her mother flushed but never gave in,
and after Cynthia hud cried herself
hoarse, had soiled the entire front of her
white frock, she walked away beside her
mother, conquered. And the only re- !
gret her mother had was. that the pro
fessional spanker's office was not near, j
Al the same lime, Cj nthia tn the future
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, MAY 27, 1895.
will be less of an angel and more of a
well-mannered child than if she had’tri
umphed. All mothers, however, are not.
like this one. In a large shop the other
day there, was a small child who objected
to waiting while her mothef did her shop
ping. They loft, the child having a
stronger,'will than her mother. Later on I
met them in a street car; the small imp
had eaten candy, drunk soda water and
consumed bananas until she was sick and
cross. She wouldn't sit still, and her
mother said to me. “Marie is so sensitive
that I never dare contradict her.” Marie
heard her mother say this and announced
that unless she could play with her
mother’s watch she would scream herself
into a nervous attack. She got the watch.
Now, what Marie wanted badly was to be
taught that she had three meals a day
and that she was to eat what she wanted
at those times; that when she went out
with her mother she was to behave herself,
and that the first time she threatened to
scream herself into a nervous attack she
would be permitted to do so.
I think it dreadful to frighten children,
and anyone who does it should be whipped
but I do delieve in raising children so that
they will be decent members of society
and not general nuisances. Speaking of
frightening children, there came under my
observation not long ago a young girl who
was so nervous that she scarcely knows an
hour of good health, and this nervousness
was caused by the wickedness of a nurse.
Years before, when she was a baby, this
girl's mother was called to the deathbed
of a relation. She went, leaving the chil
dren in the charge of a nurse; and there
was also a cook in the house.
The mistress said that she did not
think she would be back until the next
morning. It happened, however, that she
returned at midnight. In going upstairs
with her husband, she heard the oldest
boy, 5 years of age, and a girl of 4, crying
bitterly. In a second the mother was in
the nursery. The little tots were crouched
in a corner in their night-dresses, the
light was out and the baby wasn't visi
ble. As soon as he could, between his
sobs, the boy told this story: “Nurse and
and cook have gone out, and when baby
wouldn’t go to sleep, nurse had put her
in the cupboard and told her that if she
cried the rats would eat her, and she did
cry, and sister and I would have gone
to her, but we were afraid the rats would
eat us.” The baby was discovered uncon
scious in the cupboard, and when the doc
tor was gotten, he said she had gone
from one spasm into another as a result
of the fright, and he did not know wheth
er she would ever get over it. For a year
none of these children could be left alone
day or night, and the baby, now- this girl
of 16, has a nervous spell to-daydf she is
left alone in the dark. All that could be
done was to discharge those wicked ser
vants, and yet, I think they ought to have
been whipped and lynched. They had, of
course, counted on the mistress not com
ing back until morning, on their getting
home before her and frightening the chil
dren into silence. A man who heard this
story told—an Englishman, 42 years old,
6 feet 2 inches in hight, with the shoulders
of an athlete —said that, when he was a
boy, he was told of bogy men and ghouls
who eat up boys until even now-, although
he knew it w-as nonsense, he w-auld trem
ble in the dark if he thought of them.
All this is true. It is hoped that these
stories have adorned a tale, and it is
most earnestly trusted that they will point
a moral to people who believe that chil
dren can be governed by fright and made
to do right because of fear. It is wrong,
all wrong, on the word of Bab.
"Do you ever sell these protographs
that you keep in your show-case?’ I asked
of my friend, the photographer.
"I don’t make a. business ot it,” he re
plied. "The fact is, I got into trouble
once for selling one.”
"You see,” he continued, “it was the
picture of a very pretty girl whose father
was rich, and who moved in good society.
The fellow I sold it to used it on an ad
vertising calendar, and it made her father
mad. He sued me for $5,00*) damages, and
got a judgment. But I got the money
back all right.”
“’How sd?”
“Why, you see, the case got the girl so
much notoriety that she went on the stage
on the strength of it. Then I sued for
SIO,OOO for advertising.”—Buffalo Express.
—Tired Willie—Say, mister, kin ve give
me a nickel; I want to go up town and in
spect some of the vacant lots. Ye see it’s
this way. I read a. piece in the paper de
odder day about kind people plantin’ va
cant lots with pertaters fer de poor. And
I thought 1 would get de use o’ two or
three lots, an' have some good Christians
gimme the seed pertaters an' enough
money to hire a man ter plant them.
Goodheart—But I don’t see where you
would come in.
Tired Willie—Oh. dat's all right; I’d sell
der crop in der fall.—New York Tribune.
Acute Dyspepsia. 1
SYMPATHETIC HEART DISEASE'
OFTEN ATTENDS IT.
, Th« Modern Treatment Consists tn Re.
moving the Canoe.
(JVnm the Republican, Cedar Rapid*, lowa.)
Mrs. V. Curley who has resided in Clar
ence, lowa, for the past twenty-two years,
telh an interesting story of what she con
aiders rescue from premature death. Het
narrative is as follows:
“ For ten years prior to 1894, I was a con
•tint sufferer from acute stomach trouble.
I had all the manifold symptoms of acute
dyspepsia, and at times other troubles were
present in complication—l did not know
what it was to enjoy a meal. No matter
how careful I might be aa to the qualitv,
quantity and preparation of my food, dis
tress always followed eating. I'was despon
dent and blue. Almost to the point of in
sanity at times, and would have been glad
to die. Often and often I could not sleep.
Sympathetic heart trouble set in and time
and again I was obliged to call a doctor in
the night to relieve sudden attacks of suffo
cation which would come on without a
moment’s warning.
My troubles increased as time wore on and
I spent large sums in doctor bills, being com
pelled to have medical attendants almost
constantly. During 1892 and 1898, it was
impossible for me to retain food and water
brashes plagued me. I was reduced to a
skeleton. A consultation of physicians was
unable to determine just what did ail me.
The doctors gave us as their opinion that
the probable trouble was ulceration of the
eoats of the stomach and held out no hope
of recovery. One doctor said, “All I can do
to relieve your suffering is by the use of
opium.
Abont this time a friend of mine, Mrs.
Bymantha Smith, of Glidden, lowa, told
■tie about the case of Mrs. Thurston, of Ox
ford Junction, lowa. Thia lady said she
had been afflicted much the same as I had.
She had consulted local physicians without
relief, and had gone to Davenport for treat
ment. Giving up all hope of recovery, she
was persun< ed bv a friend to take Dr.
Williams’ Pink tills. The result was
almost magical.
1 was led to try them fmm her experience,
and before many months I felt better than
I had for a doxen years. lam now almost
free .Yom trouble, and if through some error
of diet I feel badlv, this splendid remedy
sets me right again. 1 have regained my
strength and am once more in mv usual
flesh. I sleep well and can eat without dis
tress. I have no doubt that I owe mr re
covery tn Dr. Williams’ Pink Piils. I only
wish that I had heard of them rears ago
thereby saving myself ten years of suffering
and much money."
r> r - " illiams’ Pink Pills contain all the
elements necessary to give now life and
richness to the blood and restore shattered
They are for sale by all druggists,
or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams
Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y., for
60c. per box. or six boxes for #2.50,
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
WHAT THE NEW GRAND SACHEM
SAYS OF TAMMANY’S Fl Tt’HE.
Russell Sage’s Sick Spell—Clcveland’H
Frances WlHnrtl Not Engaged—The
Burdens to Go Abroad to Live;
New York, May 23.—With rare adroit
ness that new leader of Tammany, Fred
erick Smyth, has accomplished by diplo
macy a revolution in the- organization
methods which all the power of Richard
Croker had been impotent to bring about.
The former recorder is a man of unusual
ability, as the metropolis is well aware.
Tammany under him will have a future
fully as picturesque at its past. It Is no
secret that the reform element always in
dread of the tiger views the ascendancy
of Smyth and his oplicy with more alarm
than any development has yet occasioned.
“Tammany, at least," said the new
grand sachem, in reply to questions as to
the future of the great organization, “can
now offer a practical test of the truth of'
the chief charge brought against it. You
know the organization has been pronounc
ed a mere combination of office-holders
and patronage seekers, the strength of
which was whollj- due to control over the
public treasury. Well, Tamtnany is out of
office, and certainly owes nothing to the
powers that be. If the organization holds
it own our friends, the enemy, must find a
new reason for the existence of Tammany
strength.’
“Do you expect Tammany to return to
power very soon?"
“Really, predictionstare so easy to make
and are nothing but one’s pinions stated as
facts. Tammany’s object is to be as much
in touch with the people as possible—the
popular mouthpiece. If Tamihany has
made mistakes, let it take the conse
quences. If, on the contrary, the organiza
tion makes itself recognized as an instru
ment of popular government, if It gives a
welcome to all worthy elements and comes
to be recognized as a power for good, I do
not see how it is possible for Tammany to
fail to return to power.”
“What do Tammany men think of the re
form government?”
"I can’t speak for all of them. Mr.
Strong, himself, is, I think, looked upon
as a very fair minded man. He may have
made mistakes,but then it is human to err
I think the great trouble with the element
now in possession of the city government is
its inevitable tendency to get above the
people. The class called reformers forget
in their eagerness to put experiments in
operation that they must get the people’s
indorsement first. Now, the people usually
are conservative. Our reforming friends
seem to think for some reason or other (
that they are above the people, better than*
the people. They are thus apt to get out
of sympathy with their constituents.”
The new grand sachem is by no means
likely to let the grass grow under his feet.
Already the rank and file of Tammany
have been quickened with a new life. The
torpidity immediately following the elec
tion has been succeeded by positive en
thusiasm. Recent developments in munici
pal government have slightly alarmed the
present rulers of the city. Mayor Strong
is fully as astute as his enemies, and he
has already taken measures to prevent a
repetition of the recent mistakes. He is
fond of saying that in the old Tammany
they had a tiger to deal with, and that
now they have a sphynx.
It is understoo that Rev. , Mr.
William Cleveland, who is a
brother of the President of the United
States, declined an offer to enter a New
York city pulpit several ■«g<ieks Ago, ow
ing to certain complications In his present
pastorate. Now, however, matZers are
smoothed out and a fashionable church
here has asked him to consider an offer
first made last year. Mr. Cleveland is
said to have given a qualified consent
to think the matter over, but in any
event he will not be here until the
spring of next year. But there can be no
doubt that the President's brother is a
rising man in the Presbyterian church.
His prominence as a theologian led to his
election to the Presbyterian General As
sembly, and his recent record there has
confirmed the favorable impression al
ready formed of his character and abil
ity. Men do not win fame in the church
at a bound, and Mr. Cleveland has un
doubtedly been overshadowed by his
brother Grover. Yet, in recent years he
has made a decided stir in the church
and has been invited to numerous pul
pits all over the country. Offers of this
kind, however, the pastor invariably de
clines, being of a decidedly retiring na
ture, and little likely to care for a sensa
tional fame. It will occasion rejoicing
to the Presbyterians of New York, how
ever, to learn that he will soon be among
their metropolitan pastors. It was Will
iam Cleveland, by the way, and not Gro
ver, who achieved some note in early
youth by writing fanciful tales for the
magazines, some of which attracted at
tention, although written anonymously.
The tales were poe-like in some respects,
dealing with dragons among 'the stars
that fed on the tears of the Nautilus,
and smilar fancies. But, in spite of all
the indications, the one brother became a
President and the other a pastor.
There have been two or three upheavals
in the various charities with which Miss I
Helen Gould is connected. This wealthy
young lady has lately manifested prudish
tendencies to an extraordinary degree,
and many philantrophic ladies with whom
she is associated think it would be well
were she less prone to severely moral
views. Mis* Gould, it will be remembered,
wrote a letter to the committee in charge
of the entertainment giver by a kinder
garten charity, in which she severely crit
irized some tableaux vivants. Miss Gould
also has an aversion to studies of the
nude and to certain plays dealing with
the question of sex. There have been in
dications that she will before long go ac
tively into work connected with social
parity, a somewhat new thing for her.
Her brother George is said to be dis
pleased by her indifference to social af
fairs. The fact is, that the relations be
tween the two are far from cordial. The
conviviality of her brother Howard is
likewise distasteful to her, and she ob
jected to the bottles, decanters and cig
arettes he had about him on the occasion
of his recent visit to the Irvington coun- j
try seat. But Howard Gould is a conviv- |
ial soul, and takes his bottles and cigars
with him wherever he goes, regardless |
of his sister.
It was reported about Wall street last
week that Russell Sage was quite ill—in
fact, that his symptoms were alarming,
his physician and himself. Investigation
reveakd the fact that the financier was a
sick man. but his malady did not assume
a very serious aspect. The truth seems to
be that Mr. Sage is beginning to feel the
weight of years. He never was a very
strong man physically, and he caught
quite a cold in the blustering weeks of
March, from which he suffered a long time. ■
The injuries he received at the time of the '
bomb explosion in his office wore also of a
serious character, although not much has
be“n said of them since, except in connec- ■
tkm with the man Laidlaw. Mr. Sage takes
a great deal more care of himself than for
merly, frequently staying at home and in- ■
dulging in such unwonted luxuries as an '
easy chair, a cheery glass and a visit from
his doctor. There is talk. too. of some re
ligious interests aroused in the mind pf i
Mr. Sage as his earthly career nears its
end. He has already contributed money to ;
the building of a country church.
A great deal of regret is expressed in
New York society because that beautiful
granddaughter of W. H. Vanderbilt, Miss
Sloane, will live in England permanently,
as soon'as her honeymoon is over. Young
Burden has certain interests there which
appear to render this step imperative.
They arc a very interesting couple, and are
likely to be hoard of in the social history
of Great Britain. James A. Burden, Jr.,
will hace a small-country establishment
near Cliveden, w’here William Waldorf
Astor lives. Both of these young people
arc experts in country amusements and
devoted to fox hunting. They have let
ters of introduction to all the great per
sonages of England, and both look for
ward with interest to their new home
there. Miss Sloane will be missed by the
proteges she has in New York. She has
been very active in the newsboys* chari
ties, and is known as the tenderst hearted
belle in the 399. Many anecdotes illustrat
ing this fact are current in New York.
For example, about a year ago a ragged
bootblack took refuge from a rainstorm
underneath the door of her father's house.
Miss Sloane saw him wet through and
shivering, and insisted that he be brought
inside and fed, that he be given dry
clothes. When this was done the little
chap insisted upon paying for his enter
tainment by blacking all the boots in the
house. That task was a larger one than
he dreamed of, and it was impossible for
him to undertake it, but he was brought
into the parlor and allowed to black Mr.
Burden's boots, and Miss Sloane, heiress
to millions, played the piano for him
while he did so.
The assertion that Miss Francis Wil
lard is to wed is pronounced premature.
Rumors connecting her with an English
socialist of wealth and position have been
rife for a year past. But Miss Willard
is not engaged at all. Os course, it is
quite possible that she will marry, but
those who have had opportunities of ob
serving her in New York do not think
it likely that she will give up her work
to marry any one. She loves her cause
far more ardently than she loves love.
There has been much speculation as to her
motive in leaving this country so sud
denly. She explains it by alluding to
the coming world’s temperance congress
in Rondon. Miss Willard objects to the
dime museum methods of certain tem
perance workers in the metropolis. There
was a delirium tremens object lesson given
by one of the organizations she visited.
It consisted of representations of snakes,
serpents, monsters and various crusta
ceans visible to the victims of drink. Not
a few topers had attacks of the malady
as a result of looking at these exhibits.
Miss Willard frowned upon the enter
prise, and was rather disliked by its
originators for doing so. But all things
considered, this lady is the most popular
temperance worker in the country.
David Wechsler.
AMERICANS IN LONDON.
From the New York Press.
London, May 6.—Americans are flock
ing to London, and on the registers of the
principal hotels and exchanges can be seen
the names of people well known in the
United States. At the Savoy William K.
Vanderbilt and his alter ego, J. Louis
Webb, Richard Croker and M. F. Dwyer
head the list, which is increased in num
bers by F. O. Beach, Col. and Mrs. D. S.
Brown, 11. H. Benedict, Mr. and Mrs.
Percy Chubb, Gen. C. D. Flagler, C. F.
Harmann, Mr. and Mrs. D. Miller and Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Walker. Capt. Zallnski
of pneumatic gun fame is at Morley’s ho
tel; J. A. Starr and Miss Starr are at,
Burr’s hotel, while at Low’s exchange
the following New Yorkers have regis
tered: Miss J. H. Burton, John A. Dl
lany, J. C. Harrington, W. B. Leigh,
Mrs. F. K. Lester. Edward Michael,
George F. Moody, Mrs. S. M. Moody, Miss
Stella May, Mrs. F. P. Patterson, R.
Riand, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Sidney, Miss
Marie Stuart, D. W. Thompson and Fran
cis Ward.
Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt, Miss Hewitt,
Miss Eleanor Hewitt and Erskine Hew
itt are here, and will go to the continent
later in the month.
Mabel Love has declined a liberal offer
to dance herself into it'he good graces of
America next winter. Mabel Love is a
young miss whose life has been full of
incidents that go far to drive dull care
away from newspaper readers. At the
age of 16, seven years ago, she was an un
known chorus girl in one of the numerous
comic companies in London. She chanced
to fall desperately in love with a young
man, since dead, but at that time the son
of the heir apparent to a great throne.
The girl’s passion must have been un
reciprocated, for one day London learned
that there was“such a being as Mabel Love,
it having read that she had attempted
suicide by jumping into the Thames near
Blackfriar's. She was flshed out, dried,
and, on the strength of her performance,
was made second solo dancer in the “La
Cigale” company, then playing at the
Lyric, wdth Geraldine Ulmar in the title
role. After that Miss Love rose rapidly,
until now she can demand SSOO per week
as first boy in the Chrisfmas pantomimes.
Ambassador Bayard is to be the guest
of honor at the civil service dinner to be
held on June 20.
Baby Costello, the little American dan
cer, who was prevented from earning
American dollars in New York by ex-Com
modore Gerry, has scored an unqualified
success throughout the provinces.
The English papers announce, with
gravity: “It is very probable that the
President of the United States will pay
an official visit to the President of France
next autumn.” This is an echo of the
story telling of the proposed yachting tour
of Mr. Cleveland at the expiration of his
term.
From Paris comes the news that Mlle.
Faure, the eldest daughter of the French
president, who was to have been married
next month to a French deputy, has brok
en the engagement, and has determined to
remain in single blessedness for sometime
longer.
There are rumors, constantly reiterated,
that W. T. Stead is to again become the
editor of a London paper. His return to
the ranks of daily newspaperdom will
lend pictuesqueness to London journalism,
if nothing else.
Last week the Times contained the fol
lowing under the caption of “In Memori
am:”
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, died
nobly for Greece, at Miseolonghl, April
19, 1824.
"When love who sent forgot to save
The young, the beautiful, the brave.”
Sir Walter Scott, speaking of his death,
said:
“It .is as if the sun had gone out.”
The explanation of this is that a certain
feminine admirer left a sum of money in
her will for the purpose of inserting such
a memorial notice every year until the au
thorities in Westminster abbey shall al
low the name of Byron to be inscribed
in the poet’s corner.
The most interesting happening of this
month will be the Sixteenth Royal Mili
tary tournament to be helcf at the Agri
cultural hall, Islington, from Ma>- 23 to
June 6. Its leading feature will be an
historic pageant of the Third Hussars
(King’s Own) and the Buffs (East Kent
Regiment). Beginning with 1572, the vari
ous epochs of military history will be il
lustrated by the different dresse and equip
ment of both infantry and cavalry.
News has been received here of the
death of the wealthiest man in South
America, an Irishman from County Bal-
Hnaeargy, called Don Miguel Dugan,
known In his youth as "Mickey Doogan.”
He left an estate valued at $30,000,000. On
his ranch near Buenos Ayres are 550,'X8
sheep. 200,001 cattle and 50.000 horses.
Eugei D'Albert has been appointed
court kapellmeister at Weimar, a position
once heid by Liszt
THE WOMAN
OF FASHION.
New York, May 25.—The saying “Out of
College into matrimony,” is not altogeth
er out of date, notwithstanding all the
talk about the new woman, the bachelor
girl, etc. For in spite of the warnings of
the divorce courts and the famous writers
of the time, people have away of plung
ing down the path of destruction very
much as they did in the old days when
there weren’t any new women, and the
bachelor girls were not accredited with
any of the accomplishments which they
now boast of.
To be sure, girls are growing more
sensible, and do not as a ruje buy their
wedding trousseaus while they are look
ing for a graduating dress, but there is
many a perplexed mother at this present
moment who has the task before her of
choosing Marie’s bridal gowp for her June
wedding at the same time that she is
puzzling her brains to think of an orig
inal graduating dress for Elsie. On these
two important occasions of a young wo
man’s life, however, when she wants to
look her very best, she is so hampered by
custom and consideration for other peo
ple’s feeling that she finds it difficult to
look even as well as usual. The bride
is forbidden any suspicion of decollete
and is usually dressed so elaborately as
to appear stiff and seldom looks as well
as her bridesmaids, who are permitted
more liberty in the choice of gowns. The
graduate is always assumed to be young,
and her dress must therefore be simple,
a rule which is very consoling to the
young woman who cannot afford to be
elaborate, no matter what the fashion
may be, but to the girls with rich papas
it is often very trying to appear in the
garb prescribed by custom. In many
schools the authorities have made rules
in regard to the style of dress to be
worn, but it has usually been sufficient to
appeal to the better feelings of the young
women who can afford fine gowns to
forego them for the sake of those who
cannot.
It has grown to be the custom for the
rich girls to appear in severely simple
gowns, when on the platform to deliver
their graduating theses, or to receive their
diplomas, and to have other dresses as
elaborate as they see fit for the graduat
ing balls and other fetes which are held
at commencement time. Hence the fash
ion is not so economical as it might at
first seem.
It is a curious fact whenever a
woman is called upon to go through any
important ordeal she is always robed in
white. At her birth she is wrapped in
white swaddling clothes; at her christen
ing her robe is white, when she graduates
and when she is married, she must be
dressed in white; and when she dies, her
shroud is white.
For graduating gowns the correct ma
terials are Swiss, fine lawn, organdie or
batiste. The Swiss can be bought for
about 35 cents a yard; lawn varies in
price from 20 to 40 cents a yard, and ba
tiste costs about 40 cents. Many gowns
are made up wholly without tramming,
and some are simply tucked. The tucks
look very dainty when the gown is Swiss.
Batistes are less severe when trimmed
with embroideries of the fine perforated
.variety. An embroidery front, with sleeves
of the same, is a pretty relief to an other
wise plain gown. Fine Valenciennes lace,
so much used for trimming every sort of
gown, is also allowable on the graduat
ing dress. For the dainty stuff really
belongs to the young girls, anyway, and
its use by older women is a sort of usur
pation. A white Swiss gown, with tiny
frills of either white or yellow Valen
ciennes, is an ideal graduating dress, but
care must be taken not to introduce too
many frills, lest the appearance of sim
plicity be destroyed.
The really fashionable girl graduate will
wear a plain Swiss gown, with perhaps, a
'stock collar of tucks and narrow Valenci
ennes, with little points at the sides. Her
sleeves must hang demurely from the
shoulder in godet folds, or they may be
tucked down for two or three inches, and
then swell out in a large puff, which is
again gathered or tucked in at or above
the elbow, from which the sleeve is made
tight-fitting to the wrists. Here the ef
fect on the neck may be repeated by the
addition of a lace-trimmed cuff. A stock
of satin ribbon, with a bow at the back,
is often substituted for the lace collar.
The style of waist does not vary much
from the blouse. A Swiss blouse, with
tiny tucks down the front, is very pretty.
A strip of insertion, with lace, is often
introduced on the front of a plain blouse.
Yokes are also very pretty, and by the
addition of lace and insertion are made
to look less severe than the other styles.
Skirts are plain and are seldom stiff
ened, but hang in full soft folds. They
are from five and a half to seven yards
in width at the bottom, and are cut either
circular, or are gathered around thte belt
with most of the fullness pushed back.
The linings used are percaline, glazed
linen of a light vWiety, or the same
material as the gown. The last, though
the most expensive, is yet the most de
sirable, since it does not look like a lin
ing at all, and the sheer fimy effect of
the outside is not destroyed by a stiff lin
ing shining through it.
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prevails from head to foot, may wear
white satin slippers, or Oxford ties of
white kid or suede, with white silk stock
ings. Gloves are best in their little case
at such times, but if custom requires it the
correct thing is a glace kid, with pearl
buttons —three of them. Suede gloves are
no longer in fashion for this purpose, and
will be very little worn for any occasion.
This is why they are on the bargain coun
ter at prices ranging from 69 cents to a
dollar.
Most young women arrange their hair
in the style that is becoming, without
much regard for fashion. But all who
can should part their tresses in the mid
dle, and draw them down over the tips
of the ears, to be coiled loosely at the back
of the neck. This gives the demure,
quaint appearance which is so much ad
mired. It takes a young woman of cour
age to arrange her hair this way for the
first time, but when she becomes accus
tomed to it she is loath to fix it any other
way. A pretty Washington girl, with the
courage of her convictions, arranges her
dark hair in this way, and with a daring
which few girls possess she wears two lit
tle curls at each side of her face to re
lieve the plain, severe lines at the middle
of her forehead. Her back hair is colled
as low as possible at the nape of her neck.
There are several pretty patterns in side
combs, of which the Spanish design is
newest and is generally developed in fine
cut steel, which, by the way, shows off
to great advantage in dark hair. Hair or
naments are not so lavishly used as they
were six months ago. Severe simplicity
is the reaction from the elaborate coiffure
which we have been wearing for so long.
The Psyche knot has grown too common
to retain favor in the fashionable set, and
the spring girl is patting her hair down
in various places, trying to discover a
new style that is becoming. The part still
retains its popularity, but the pompadour
is growing in favor. The hair is brushed
up over a small artificial puff, with a tiny
curl on each side to relieve the plain ef
fect, and is then arranged in a coil at
the crown of the head. The less curling
the better, in view of the approaching sea
son of perspiring weather and sea breezes.
A handsome wedding gown of Parisian
make is of white satin. The skirt falls
In the usual godets with a round train
at the back, and is trimmed around the
bottom with a drapery of mousseline de
sole knotted at Intervals of six or eight
inches. The same trimming appears on
the bodice around the yoke. A drapery
of mousseline de sole over the satin cor
sage has a box pleat back and front in
the latest approved fashion. The pleat
in front is ornamented with tiny choux,
which resemble buttons, and take the
place of the fancy buttons that are so
much used on ordinary dresses. The high
mousseline de sole collar is also trimmed
with choux. The sleeve is a double bal
loon, close fitting below the elbow. At the
waist is a satin belt fastening on the left
side with a bouquet of orange blossoms,
from which falls a long spray of the blos
soms. The veil is tulle, of course, with
its usual wreath of orange blossoms. Such
is the correct wedding dress, but in many
cases it will be varied, and made much less
elaborate by the addition of some flounces
of lace to break the severe lines of stiff
satin and pearls.
The bridesmaid at a church wedding
wears a gown of almost any style she
pleases. It usually has the l appearance of
a street gown, for she wears her hat with
it, but it is generally too elaborate for out
door wear, and should be in some light
col< > r - . Alice Amory.
TWO REMARKABLE ORIOLES.
How They Assist a Pair of Mocking
Hirds in Saving Their Home.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Macon, Ga., May 15.—Mrs. Cason, the
wife of a Oconee river planter, relates
the following interesting episode, which
we give for the benefit of your readers,
as it seems altogether unique in bird lore:
“Early this spring,” says Mrs. Cason,
“a pair of mocking birds built their nest
in a slender young elm tree just outside
my window. Before a single egg had been
laid therein, a violent wind came, toss
ing the tree hither and thither, utterly de
stroying the nest. With patient persever
ence the birds went again to work ,and
soon had the nest rebuilt in the self-same
crotch, and this time the female deposited
two eggs within. One day, but a short
time thereafter, during a pretty severe
blow of wind, I observed the two mock
ing birds in considerable commotion, and
suspected that they feared another catas
trophe to their domicile. Feeling partic
ular interest in the result of the storm
for them I kept a pretty close outlook,
and by and by saw the male bird fly
away, leaving the female sole protector
of the home. Wondering considerably at
this, and feeling an intense sympathy for
■the poor female, I went out to see if I
could not devise some way to assist her
in her distress. Before 1 arrived at any
definite plan of action, however, the male
bird came flirting back, bringing with him
a couple of orioles that I had seen from
time to time in the orchard behind the
house. Perfectly familiar as I was with
the ingenuity of the oriole, I was not
prepared for what 1 now saw this pair
accomplish. After a hurried consulta
tion with the mocking birds, the yellow
fellows began to cast about for material
with which to operate in their friends’
behalf and one of them soon found a twine
string near five feet in length, which I had
left out in the garden after twining my
sweetpeas. As soon as he lit upon it he
called his mate, and the serious difflcutly
of the rescue seemed solved, for they
went to work with a dispatch that would
have done credit to greater intelligence
than theirs is supposed to be. Each one
of the orioles grasped an end of the string
in his mouth and flew with it into the
tree, deftly looping it over the swinging
limb just above the nest. Thia done, they
took the loose end and flew with it to the
rose lattice, about three feet distant, and
soon had it bound hard and fast to the
frame, thus holding the limb securely in
position.”
—Jinklets—l want my wife to be a wo
man who thinks before she speaks.
Plunkett—Whj- don't you »ay you are *
confirmed bachelor?—Detroit Free Press
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