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Aim TEMPERED WOMAN
A3 STUDIED ON AN APRIL. DAY
WITH GOLDEN SUN
And Scurrying Clouds—ln Her Pulses
Life Throbs Ever More and More
Restlessly and Her “Sphere" is
Growing Round and Coextensive
With the World.
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New York, April 5. —Leonora d’Este de
clared her love by kissing her fan and
throwing it to Tasso, and there is a fan
owned by a New York lady which is said
to have been bartered long years ago for a
kiss, having come in the beginning from
the imperial family of Russia. The fan col
lection cf Senor Francisco Guiu de Gal
haldn, of Barcelona, which was sold tu New
York this week at big prices and exhibited
before to break gentle hearts, contained
many specimens which a woman might
kiss or gladly buy with kisses, but which
ail the passion and poetry in the world
would hardly induce tier to throw
away. The greater number of Senor de
Gaiba:!a's fans dated from the first half of
the present century, and were of Spanish or
Italian style. Most of them had paper
in;uitits painted in water colors, and the
pierced and carved ivory sticks, enameled
and gilded, and the incised carviugs re
duced every woman who looked on them to
abject admiration and despair. One which
.lenny June seemed unable to separate her
self from had guards and sticks of irides
cent mother of pearl carved and fretted
a.' ay until it looked as cobwebby and as
l. agile as the mount of old Flemish lace,
yellow with the coquetries of a century.
Another beauty bad sticks of gold lacquer,
p lard of ebony, inlaid with incredible pa -
; nee with patterns of mother of pearl, and
mount of Spanish lace. A Chinese fan was
i : the most curious and costly construction.
’1 lie sticks were of lacquered bamboo, the
mount was painted in minute and intricate
designs and the ligures walking in that
breezy field were all iulaid, the heads in
ivory, the dresses in many colored silks.
The beautiful Kau Si. who took off her
mask at the feast of lanterns aud fluttered
it Lo and fro to cool hersoif and bide her
charms from the idle gaze of the public,
could but look with pleasure on such an
evolutiou of the toy wnich Chinese legend
says was her invention.
file ‘ 'angry flutter, the timorous flutter,
the confused flutter anil the merry flutter”
could be expressed, oh! so eloquently by
the fans with sticks of green stained and
red stained ivory with mounts of lace inser
tion, decorated witii bullion. Other fans
with souls and well calculated to express all
the varying sentiments that possess the
h -art and mind of a luxurious modern
maiden had ivory sticks with silver inlays
and mounts of dcc'aesse lace with flower
paintings iu water colors. A French la:i of
the eighteenth century showed pierced ivory
sticks with turquoise and jewel settings on
the guards. The mount was in water
colors on shagreen. Perhaps tho most
striking of all was a fan ith sticks of mot
t .ei shell, a guard of metal, covered with
plush and ornamental with gold figures iu
relief and tiny opal jeweled mirrors, and a
mount in water colors.
There was a master-work of tortoiseshell,
inerusted w ith mother of pearl and tho leaf
p tinted with Jacob’s dream, making a fan
not unlike that of Ninon dei’Euclos, uo.v
owned by the Countess of Chambord. There
w<ire exquisite lace fans, and fans in the
Min ii tsh style, and fans painted by the great
pastel painters, and Directory fans with
•arved figure work iu relief, and Watteau
paintings on satin, and testifying to lho
southern blood of him who owned it, a
fierce bull fight iu colors racing on the
edge of a fifteen inch semi-circle, behind
which ono could well imagine an olive skin,
h* avy hair, half hidden beneath the man
tiiln, and langorous dark eves kindling into
sudden lire over the real combat in the
arena, t>uch a toy at a Delsarte matinee
-tu ikes one with the sense of tho incongru
ous, but lo such base uses must come even a
Spanish fan.
A DELSARTE MATINEE.
Did you ever attend one ! The theater is
p. sea of bobbing bonnets. There are
women standing in the aisles and at the
lenr. Down in front is a man ready to
throw flowers. Thera is a bald bead sain
ing somewhere among the parqnet chairs, a
landmark in the midst of tiie waving rib
bons and tossing plumes. Somebody is talk
ing about “the speaking voice.” Her own
voice cracks drearily. She holds in her
hand something which appears to be a text
boos ou rhetoricand occasionally she ajtmres
the deep and dark blue ocean to roll on. or
pretends to some occult knowledge of the
i acent presence of Queen Mali iu our vicin
ity, or hears sounds of revelry by night
until our school days and our hacked desks,
and "teacher, teacher, I know mice
now,” come back with a sense of youth
that is quite refreshing.
By and by the curtain drops, and when it
i ;-es again there apjieurs a tali and buxom
figure with large hands and large feet, and
■ mil in a Greek gown of some thin white
s: lift’ clasped on the shoulder, leaving the
arms bare and clinging to the figure. Tho
turoat is uncovered, and a long spray of
I mster lilies is pinned from the waist to the
I o-orn. There are sandals ou the feet, the
hair is twisted in a Greek knot and filleted.
The figure sways slowly into the pose of tho
Venus Genetrix. The women catch tlieir
1 reath and applaud. Then it melts almost
l i imsibly into tho attitude of Atalanta.
Slowiy, as if man le were endowed with
!' and power of action, it becomes a Vic
tory; then a Diana, a Hebe, an Ariadne
a word is spoken, but the aim st in
- ’ slide yielding from breathing statue to
statue goes on continuously. It is a pretty
performance, aud wonderfully graceful.
Then the man down in front begins to toss
his flowers. There is a laurel w reath and
s mebody starts a subdued murmur of “put
it on.” Bbe doesn’t deck herself, but begins
to speak. Sho tells us that wo need plastic
bodies "in order that tho physical may bo
> fit expression of the spiritual.” As an
*• 1 toward the attainment, of plasticity she
‘‘lets tierself go” at the w rist, the elbow,the
elder, the neck, the waist and shakes her
different members ns if they were dish rags.
Whilfj sho is in this relaxed condition she
t rofesse* an gutire willingness to drop to
kHiier in a heap cn the carpet "if it weren’t
f, r soiling her gown.” This little feminine
l ueh wins tho heart of the last unbeliever;
somebody says enthusiastically, ‘‘She is so
womanly,” and there are more flowers.
I hen she "recomposes” herself and dances
['■'> minuet and a Spanish dance aud a Greek
dance, and finally she shows how plastic she
is by making her body say joy, grief, anger,
v urprise, and a variety of other sentiments.
Rer body speaks very eloqueutly, being
more d< eilo than that commonly owned,
u| d, she says, the correspondence between
the physical and the spiritual being per
•vid, she is prostrated hv her emotions. As
n slago display a good Delsartean exposition
II ns brotty as Carmencitas dancing, but
hiMSL Delsartean disciples are fatiguing in
private life, because they carry so much
‘ 1 the stage into the p .rlor. Sometimes,
’or . they seem to be “letting themselves go”
1 n Broadway.
A LAW SCHOOL FOR WOMEN*,
b. may surprise many people to know’
1 *at tin re has arisen in Now York a demand
a a law school for women. This demand
.perhaps a natural consequence of the
renter responsibilities thrown upon women
I >' modern legislation, married women's
1 ' party acts, t'or example, which have led
-cm lo feel the need of a better acquaint
i co with the laws by which they are gov
, ,K . ''''Judge Noah Davis suiil in oon
’ i ration the other day, that nothing had
) strongly impressed him since his return
■om t.ue bench to the bar, as the denßo ig
oranco of women in all matters in which
.eir legal rights were involved, and that
" ou “ j e j‘d Ins name very cordially to a
f ‘jr t ® aoh ‘ng woman the laws of
the laws of wills*and inherit
ances, the laws of guardianship, and other
points calculated to be useful In the man
agement of everyc ly affairs.
An association has been formed for tho
purpose of foanding a law school for
women. The object of the school will not
be to make women lawyers, though students
i who wish to graduate as modern Portias
; will not be dissuaded: but the idea is rather
! to establish lecture courses for property
j owning women, and to enable business
I w °tneu, es pec .ally typewriters and steno
graphers employed as clerks iu law offices,
to increase tneir efficiency by the acquisi
tion of practical legal knowledge.
Dr. Emily Kempiu, the first woman grad
uate from the University of Zurich ami tho
only woman lawyer in New York, has been
giving law lectures to a class of women
since last October, but the new project is to
get a basis of popular support wide enough
to win the consent of the board of regents of
the New York State University to the in
corporation of a school with a full law
faculty. There are already thirty-five ap
plications on file from wome i who wish to
lie received as students. Tile late Chancel
lor Piersou supported the project, and
Chancellor Curtis is said to be equally
favorabie.
At prevent it looks as if the plan would be
carried through. David Dudley Field,
Daniel G. Thompson and other prominent
lawyers have committed themselves to it.
Mrs. M. Louise Thomas, Dr. Marv Putnam
Jacobi, Mrs. Jenny June Croly, Miss Mary
F. Seymour, editor of the Business
11 Oman’s Journal; Mrs. Jennings Deuio
rest and a great numlier of wome 1 are
backing it. Clark Hell, the president
of the Medico Legal Society aud ex-Judge
Davis have expressed a willinguess to be
come members of the faculty.
Dr. Emily Kempin, who will be at the
head of the school, should it be started, de
livered a'parlor lecture the other day. She
is a blonde witii blue eyes and light brown
hair. She is a trifle above middle bight
and of slender figure. Her face is one of
sweetness aud intelligence, aud as her
hearers bubbled over with amusement while
she told them of the two bouquets that were
sent round to Swiss neighbors ou the birth
of a boy while one was enough to announce
a girl’s entrance into this vuia of tears, it
could be notice.! that her English vocabu
lary was full thumb her accent was
piquantly foreign. Mine. Kempin is the
wife of a Presbyterian clergyman and has
three bright children.
WOMEN’S HEROES AND MEN’S HE KOINES.
Over a cup of tea a book reviewer waxed
confidential, and gave me what he regards
as an infallible tost of an anonymous novel,
whether it be tho work of a woman or a
man. The cruci il point is tho treatment of
a hero. Heroines count for less, because
tiie woman lias become a sort of classic in
fiction, and is handled according to much
the same rules by writers, masculine
and feminine. But the man who is
describing a hero gets on terms of
familiar friendship with hiru after the
introduction, and calls him "Jones” or
“Brown,” while a woman is apt to stand on
ceremony and “Mr.” him from the first
chapter to the conclusion. A woman's hero
is nearly always a large man and she insists
ou his virile qualities. A man can conceive
a small hero and one who is not muscular,
for it is necessary to his self-re ipeet to rec
ognize in himself some heroic traits, though
he bear not the faintest resemblance to the
Vikings. But a woman revels iu bigness
aud brawn, and the admiring touches with
which she rounds out her portrait of a mmi'a
physical perfections are almost invariably
noticeable.
MISS GRACE DODGE AND THE WORKING
GIRLS’ CONVENTION.
Miss Grace H. Dodge is just now one of
the busiest women in New York, and her
cozy study is strewn withevidences that the
first convention of the associations of work
ing girls’ societies is elo-e at hand. The
New York, Boston and Brooklyn associa
tions, aud the Philadelphia New Century
Working Women’s Guild unite to hold tho
convention whose sessions will begin on
April 15, and will demonstrate the wonder
ful growth among self-supporting girls of
the club idea. Delegates are expec ed from
many of the factory to ans of New Eng
land, Pittsburg and Allegheny City, from
New Brunswick and Baltimore. There are
co-ordinated clubs in Chicago and other
western cities, but the members cannot
leave their tasks for so long a journey.
There are seventeen working girls’ soeietiei
in New York city, and tweve In Brooklvn.
The membership" m the metropolitan dis
trict is not less than 3,500.
The doings of the clubs are easily stated,
except that the whole list would be too
long. They run evening classes in branches
ranging from spelling and cooking to litera
ture, accomplishments anil language; some
of them keep up libraries, gymnasiums aud
parlors; they have women to
counsel them on health topics and two ‘‘holi
day houses” on Long Island for summer va
cations. They have H-solve clubs and Leni
n-Hand bands which v ork lor others, and
once a week in the Thirty-eighth Street
Club are held practical talks which help
the girls to make the most of themselves.
These Tuesday evenings, when the girls
meet in their own club house with Miss
Dodge are wonderfully cheery occasions.
The bright faced girls sing with shining eyes
Still believing, hoping, loving, now from day
to day,
We together through life's shadows strive to
find the way.
We believe that living holds for us no good
Greater than the glory of our womanhood.
And it is a belief in the possibilities of
womanhood that forms the club’s heart and
soul. It would do a pessimist good to see
how completely the working girls are leav
ing behind them that phase of feminine his
tory in which women were proud of being
helpless in body aud mind; they have got
pretty well through tho succeeding stage in
which they have been used to lament such
feebleness, but accept it as inevitable aud
are coming rapidly to tho higher ideal, to
the realization that it is not only as good
but as graud a thing to be a womau as to
be a man.
You will nowhere find quicker wits than
among the working girls. One evening re
cently the question was asked, what is a
club! One girl wrote instantly, her scrap
of paper folded on her knee: "A club is a
second home, a place to know yoJrself and
others, ton.’' Again, the question was:
“Toward what is onr club tending?’ And
again came the quick answers, "Toward
making bright homes aud brighter chil
dren,” “Toward energy, culture, hope,
pleasure, renewal of iuterest iu each
other.” Sorosis and the other women’s
clubs think themselves ton poor to
maintain clubhouses, but the Thirty
eighth Street Club has its own building,
lets rooms to pay its rent, and iu the even
ing the parlors fairly twinkle and sparkle
and laugh with light, as the girls who have
beea behind counters or at their looms
at bread-winning tasks all day close one
door to dull care and open another to hap
piness and kno wit- Ige. In their convention,
which will be the first of its sort ever
called, the girls will demonstrate that oue
of the finest products of nineteenth
century evolution is the eager, earnest, in
telligent working girl.
ONE OF BEECHER’S SISTERS.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker is always
an interesting figure in a drawing-room.
She is about toe only active member re
maining of fur once brilliant Beecher
family. Mrs. Honry Ward Beecher has
quite given up society, aud Mkk. Harriet
Beecher Stowe is broken mentally, though
physically well. Mrs. Hooker look® like her
brother. The outlives of tho face are the
same, and there is a strong resemblance
about the forehead and tho nose. Her
eyes are her brother’s over again, anti her
hair is now what his was before it began
to shver. It is dark and quite heavy
and she wears it in an old-fasaioned knot
pinned up with n high shell comb. Sue is
rather below medium bight, and wears
rustling black silk and a lace collar. By
her side hangs always a reticule. Bbe is
kindly, brilliant, eccentric and aggressive.
New York will not win forget how she ad
vised it to appoint women letter carriers
and p 'licenieu. fthe does not speak in pun
lie this winter, out when 1 met her the
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL (i, 18D0—TWELVE PAGES.
other day on Broadway she was stepping as
briskly as a girl of 17.
TI.E EDITOR OF THE "CHURCH UNION.”
E. B. Grannis is a name that the majority
cf readers attribute to a grave and reverend
editor with whiskers aud bushy eyebrow*.
Instead, it belongs to a sweet, taoughtfui
faced woman with blue eyes, madonna
features and soft waviug light brown hair.
Mr*. Grannis is one of the successful editors
of New York, and is a quiet, retiring, sleu
der-figured w omau who is one of the crime
movqrs in the social purity rrusai* Her
house is one of the most interesting in the
city, with its high old-fashiuned rooms, and
heavy luahogaiiy furniture. An antiquary
would revel iu ttie old paintings and engrav
ings, the cuckoo clock, theold fireplaces and
antique carvings. In spite of these sur
roundings Mrs. Grannis is a very modern
woman, and in her editorial work is a good
deal of a power. Many of the most inter
esting men and women of New York are to
t o met m her drawing rooms which are
always bright with many flowers.
ONE OF MRS. CLEVELAND’S HOBBIES.
It is the proper thing nowadays to have
a hobby, and there are these who profess to
pity the man or woman who does not jioasess
one. Bo necessary is it to ride a nag of this
order that a friend of mine, a most
estimable young man, spends nearly
ail his leisure looking into the
ladigrees and records of different hobby
hordes iu the anxious hope of finding one
that he may be able to desire to nossess
as his own. Mrs. Cleveland acquired a
hohbv on that famous southern trip with
her husband; it was so simple a thing
as relics of tho war. At Chattanooga they
are fond of displaying bits of wood in
which are lodged bullets from Lookout
mountain. They take pieces of bark con
taining bullets and work them up intj ink
stands, paper weights and ail sorts of sou
venirs. One enterprising dealer succeeded
iu selling a considerable section of a tree
trunk shot full of bullets to Mrs. Cleveland.
It is several feet long and is quite the gem
of her war collection. It is a promising road
to the favor of the pretty ex-in istress of the
white house if you show yourself familiar
with the fact that the grooved bullets,
which she assures you were picked up on
battlefields, are yankee bullets, while the
smooth ones fitted confederate rifles, and if
you prove an expert in deciphering designs
on buttons shot from old uniforms.
PATTI AT TIFFANY’S.
Patti never comes to New York without
visiting Tiffany’s and it was there I had an
opportunity to study that fatuous red hair
at short range yesterday morning, it was
pinned high on her head with little gold
pins, and to be frank with you it was Hid
eously unbecoming. She wore a large,
brown wrap aud a pretty little hat of brown
with white roses. Her figure is still grace
ful and softly rounded, and her dark Span
ish eyes have lost nothing of their fire," but
the gray hairs must have been coming with
marvelous rapidity before the great queen
of song could have consented to look so ob
viously dyed. But her face is beautiful, and
it lit up with interest over the gems. 1 ex
pect to hear it reported that La Diva is in
vesting a good part of the profits of her
tour in fine 3tones, of which she is passion
ately fond.
THE COLLEGIATE ALUMNAE.
Half a hundred girls of tho Collegiate
Alumnae sat the other day m a parlor hung
about with etchings. A slender girl in
black stood up in front of them aud told
them how tne English girls at Lady Marga
ret ball, in Oxford, go in for a “school”—as
those curious transatlantic people call a
written examination—for three hours iu the
morning and for three or more in the after
noon, tuen play tennis till dark and wish
there was time for a “good loug walk to
rest them up” for six to "eight hours more
paper work next day.
Then a brown haired girl from Cam
bridge told about her life at Newnhamand
Girton. Miss Clough, the sister of Arthur
Hugh Cltiugh, the poet, is at the head of
Newnhatu and was described as swarthy
faced, with piercing dark eyes, snowy
hair and “that manner, wnich is so Eng
lish, of perfectly self-possessed embarrass
ment.” Tho scene was thrilling when the
senate of Cambridge was convoked to de
bate the question of allowing the honors
examinations formally to women. The
girls’ friends were rallied from John
O’Groat’s to Land’s End, aud when the vote
was announced, 400 to 30, a great shout of
laughter rose from the sturdy Englishmen,
who had run post haste to catch trains, fear
ing that every ballot would be needed to
make up the slenderest majority. 'Die girls
iiad scouts posted to tell them how went the
day, and wueu the outposts came riding i.i
on horseback, fluttering white handker
chiefs in token of victory, they straightway
cleared a floor and danced aud cheered for
Cambridge and mnde ail who saw their
merriment believe that the world need not
stop wagging for fear of tho dread days
coming
When Ihe girls make Greek iambics
And the boys make currant jam.
When the good man sits serenely at the distaff
or the loom
And the good wife reads her I’lato in the quiet
of her room.
MARIE BASHKIRT.SEFF AND MME. LUMA IKE.
A chance passage in Marie Bashkirtsetf’s
curious book has considerably extended in
this country the fame of Mme. Letnaire, the
Parisian artist, and the recent exhibition in
New York of her sketches for Paul He
roieu’s novel, “Flirt,” attracted a corres
ponding amount of attention.
A clever woman artist of New York is
Jennie Brownscombe, two of whose works
were sold last week to good advantage at
one of tha large art s lies. Oue of these,
"The Welcome Caller,” is a particularly
happy study of a girl in a lattice windowed
room into which tho light pours broadly,
rising in pretty confusion to welcome "a
young man in ihe garb of years ago.
Eliza Putnam Heaton.
CRIMINALS HAVE VANITY.
Their Conscience Rarely Developed
Before They Are Caught.
Front lie London Saturday Kntieir.
Criminals are vain almost to a man, aud
to use the revolver is to amount almost with
a pound to the top of their ladder of fame.
As to conscience, they develop it sometimes
when caught, but very rarely before, the
very possession of such u monitor warning
the hesitating from a trade which nowadays
involves so often murder as an incidental in
strument of escape. Besides, the age in
fluences criminals as it influences all other
men, and “the age,” for reasons we do not
pretend fully to comprehend, is losing some
of its ancient and natural horror at murder,
and has trail ferred its dangerous wrath to
those cruelties which leave their victim
alive. This phase of feeling will pass, the
instinctive sense of right arm wrong coinclu"
ing in this case with tho permanent deter
mination of humanity to keep itself safe;
but for the moment it is powerful, aud with
criminals as with the rest.
How can burglars think murder a worse
crime than burglary, when educated men,
incapable of hurting auv created thing,talk
of parricides as victims of heredity, aud
pity tlieir “blighted lives!” Or how can
the fear of the gallows coerce them, when
they see thit a capital sentence routes the
whole nation to discussion, and great par
ties, as in tho atrocious Llpskl case, to pro
test, while the much more terrible, though
less dreaded, sentence of penal servitude for
life scarcely evokes a comment' In Texas,
it is said, men of the ueiperad - class will
commit any crime but ono with light hearts.
It takes exceptional daring evo.i ttiero to
steal a horse, for the penalty tor horse steal
ing is instant death at tne hands of the
democracy, which his no pardon for that
supreme offense against its own safety and
profits.
“Is THERB anything green about a grass
widow V
“Certainly.”
“O: vou think so. tVhat is it. please; 1 '
“The fellow that hangs around her.”— A*e-
York Herald.
ADVICE TO WOMEN.
A Few Suggestions Tha; are Well
Worth Heeding.
Brooklyn, N. Y., April s.—lt does not
seem credible, and 1 am reluctaut to make
tho statement, hut there are some women,
and apparently very liitell.gent women, if
one may judge by tbeir use of English, that
are not able to tell the difference between
the processes of inflating and emptying the
lung-. In other words, they do not know
when they draw iu the breath and when
they expel it. If these ladies bad not in
each instance confessed to more or les
physical suffering. I scarcely think 1 should
lake the trouble of answering their appeals,
for in that case the supposition would
lie that they breathed naturally, and
needed no instruction. Hrasit is out of
I he quest >n to reply |>ersoaai! v to all the e >m
municatiuns received.and taking into consid
eration that if six of my readers inform me
of their ignorance iu the above respect
there must be many more in I lie same state,
1 thought it best to try aud elucidate a
little it possible. If those who need the
special instruction will stand with their
heels moderately ami comfortably close to
gether, their toes turned outward, with the
weight of the largely upon the balls
of the feet, the abdomen drawn iu and
the head lifted, tuey will be
in tho proper position for ex
periment and iieulthful exercis-. Now with
the mouth closed, slowly lift the chest.
Tnis work is performed by tho lungs, or
more properly speaking by the breath, and
is the process of inflating or lllliug the
lungs. If the puzzled ones desire to test the
process, let them, afier they have lifted the
chest as much as they can, hold ic as long
as possible in that position. After a shore
time the chest will begin to collapse
and the breath to leak out. The lungs
are emptying themselves preparatory to
tilling and emptying again and
again, until death stops in and puts a stop
to tho whole business. < Hie correspondent
tells me she cannot lift her chest a bit
more than she has beau accustomed to in
her ordinary breathing without great pain
and a feeling of constriction at the Heart. 1
am all the tune laboring under the gravest
apprehensions in reference to those all im
portant exercises. How do I know tha’
those who suffer iri this way do not experi
ment in their corsots and are iveanug snug
dresses aud tight sleeves! 1 have no means
of knowing, for not one in tea of my cor
respondents ever tell mo anything of tlieir
costumes. So let me soy here ouce for all,
that evou these simple breathing exorcises
are not only useless under such circum
stances, as far as health aud physical de
velopment are concerned, lint they are
absolutely dangerous. And with this state
ment I absolve myself from all responsi
bility.
An excellent time to practice these
breathing exerc sos is iu the morniug after
a bath, and while one may still wear the
robe de nuit, and again at night after un
dressing. 1 dislike to give even an easing
prescription to the suffnrer from corsets and
heavy skirts, because of my anxiety to see
my sisters healthfully dressed, but the
simpletons who will lace ami llirow tlieir
bodies off equilibrium by liigh-heeled shoes,
aud their internal orgaus out of place by
dragging costumes, will c rtainlv live to
suffer longer, and lace more, by taking the
breathing exercises in their night-gowns
and bare feet every morning and evening.
I think they had better die, hut as they may
differ from me iu opinion, here is tho hint.
Many women seem to think that I am an
advocate of the ugly in dre-s. This is by no
means tbe case, iam on the contrary an
ardent admirer of tbe beautiful. A dress to be
beautiful must be artistic, and if any of my
readers can show the figure of a woman
with a pipe-stem waist and stiff, heavy
looking drapery, painted by an artist of
reputation, 1 should like to have them do so.
The ideal figures of oar modern as w’ell as
our ancient painters, are roomy as to waist,
and the drapery is always loose and flow
ing. a well-known New York society
woman called at the studio of a Parisian
portrait painter, anil after tiie business
arrangements •Were made usked for a sit
ting.
“what, this morning—in that costumer’
the artist exclaimed iu undisguised horror.
“Oh no, niadame,” he continued, “I could
never pose you in black silk and passemeti
lerie. “Ah,” with a shrug of his shoulders,
"why wilt beautiful ladies cover themselves
with those dreadful black beads, and theu,
my dear madame, pardon me, your waist is
too slight for beauty—in a picture.”
Tho little hiatus and tiie accompanying
bow and smile doubtles; saved the artist
his customer.
“But,” the lady replied, “if I have my
portrait painted it must be my lacj and my
figure that is represented. They may both
bo very ugly, but they are what nature has
given me.”
“Pardon again,” said the artist. “That
is true of your bea itiiul five, but it is M.
Worth and not Mine. Nature that lias
molded t.he figure. We will drape the last,
and make it charming enough to match tho
face.”
The above story was told me by the lady
herself, aud from that day to this she his
hated the sight of passainouterie, and has
never bine3 gloried in the possession of a
small waist. This experience in a French
studio was an object lesson iu art which she
will never forget. Tho object was herself.
It is refreshing to see that even the maga
zines most hostile to reform iu dress, are
now draping toe figures of their fashion
plates in accordance with the demand of
true art. The plea for I lie Corset is not *o
common or so arbitrary as it has hem.
Everybody with a particle of common
sense knows that for the sake of comfort,
as well as looks, there most be some garment
which shall support the bu>t, and so cover
the figure that a dress waist can be neatly
and elegantly fitted. There are several so
called corset waists which meet this de
mand. They have no steels in front to
bruise the abdomen and develop in
ternal tumors. The best are without whale
bones, for the si nple reason that whale
bones are of no use, and bend almost as moil
as worn. Some of my friends will perhaps
think that I am drawing upon my imagina
tion when 1 speak of the development of
tumors by corset steels. Indeed, this is not
so. Physicians have told me of numberless
cases which they positively knew to have
been induced by the constant pressure of
this metcl upon tiie abdomen, if any of
my readers, after thinking those matters
over, are moved to dispense with these steels
and to loosen the cornet strings, let them
bathe the stomach and übdomen every
moining and evening with alcohol and
water, vigorously rubbing these parts, in
order to induce a tteultby action.
Eleanor Kirk.
WHEN NIAGARA RAN DRY.
100 Dammed the River and No Water
Got Through to the Falls.
A New York pioneer says in the St, Louis
Globe-Democrat that on March ‘2l>, ISIS, for
a few hours scarce any water passed over
Niagara Falls. Tho winter had bran an ex
traordinarily severe one, and ice of unusual
thickness had been formed on Lake Erie.
The warm spring rains had the effect yf
loosening the congealed nia-s, and during
the day mentioned a stiff east wind drove
the ice far up into the iake. About sun
down the wind suddenly changed and blew
a heavy gale from tbe west. This turned
tiie ice in its co irse, bringing it down to the
mouth of the Niagara rive.- aud piling ir
up in a solid mass.
The force of it was so great that soon the
outlet of Lake Erie was so c nnpletelv
choked up t hat little or no water could pass.
Boon all tho water below the barrier luid
passed over tho falls, and whe:i the inhab -
itants aw.ikothe next morning a weird spec
tacle met their gazo. The roaring, tum
bling rapids above the falls were almost
obliterated, and nothing but the cold black
rock was visible everywhere. Crowds of
spectators witnessed this sigh!, and the
ba iks on either side of the river were fined
with people all dav lo g until tho ice iu the
lake was released from its position, aud tin
wall of the waters returned to their usual
course.
A LOW - COST COTTAGE
WITH SEVERAL FEASIBLE MODI
FICATIONS.
A Practical Suggestion for a Grand
Crusade Against Rum Se.lera Who
Destroy Thrltty Habits and Make It
Impossible for Workmen to Acquire
Homes By R. W. Shoppell, Archi
tect.
(Copyright by the Author.)
Fair wages and thrifty habits enable
thousands of mesdiauiis) aud laboring men
to build pretty cottages, and other thou
sands might be equally fortunate except for
the rum seller.
Every ruiu seller lays his heavy hand ou
a crowd of victims and addresses them
substantially iu this fashion: “No, you
shall not build cottages; that part of your
inoome or wages that you might save for
such a purpose must be spent for the pleas
ure of the society l afford you. 1 will
build cottages aud rent them to you so
long as you pay regularly, and patronize
the bar liberally. But rememlier business
is business; you can’t play any out-of
employmeut or sickness fakes on me;
when you can’t pav the rent, out you go
like a pack of dogs. ”
Jye \ 'M+UO'
* • ‘,,
PERSPECTIVE.
If the people of this general ion are grow
ing wiser and stronger, as acute observers
declare. It must follow that many of these
victims will extricate themselves from the
toils, but bow are we to help the rest of
them ! Oue of the host suggestions is to
arouse the powerful laboring organizations.
It is understood that Mr. Powderly lias
already given the subject much considera
tion. If tbe Knights of uabor and other
organizations enforced temperance princi
ples they would have a fight on hand that
would give them all of their oid-time im
portance. Temporarily tueir ranks would
be decimated, but hotter men would take
the plttces of seceders, and the best of
seceders would return. Their old antago
nist—capital—would join hands iu such a
fight, the whole world would applaud and
rum sellers would be doomed.
Following will be found a brief descrip
tion of the quaint and attractive cottage
design that illustrates this article:
General Dimensions—Width, 3" feet;
depth, including veranda and porch, 4(1
feet li inches.
Hights of Stories—Cellar, 0 feet ii inches;
first story, 9 feet; second story, 8 feet.
m
Porch/ II
'K.'tckeft, & TaMi - h
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN.
Exterior Materials— Foundations, stone;
first story, clapboards; second story, clap
hoards mitered at corners to produce shing
ling effect; gabies, clapboards; roofs and
dormer, shingles.
Interior Finish —Two-coat plaster, tinted
to suit owner. Maple floor in first story,
with diagonal under floor of hemlock cov
ered witn tarre l paper. Second story floor,
white pine. Interior trim, white j ine.
Stairs, ash. Chair raii in kitchen. Interior
wo si work finished with hard oil.
Colors—All clapboards and body of
panels in pediment, light brown. All trim
and framing of panelsmpeuimeut, maroou.
Outside doors, sashes, aud rain conductors,
olive. Veranda floor, tan. Veranda ceil
ing, Tuscan yellow. All shingles dipped
a:id brush coated with slate-colored stain.
Accommodations.—The principal rooms
and their sizes, closds, etc., are shown by
the floor plans. Cellar under kitchen only.
Loft over second story floored for storage
purposes. Fireplace and mantel in dining
room and in reception hall included in esti
mate. Large vera ida.
Cost—sl,Boo, not including heater and
range. The es’iumte is based oil New York
prices for materials and labor. In many
sections of tho country the cost should be
less.
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j Bod Roosi , jpjl 5: k B.d Boost. 1,
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B.d Room I
l/‘o’x i 2-0* G’ OX.S-O
SECOND FLOOR PLAN.
Feasible Modifications. Hights of
stories, sizes of rooms, materials, and colors
may be changed. Cellar may tie enlarged.
Fireplaces and maniels may be omitted.
One chimney will servo if heating annaratus
he used. Staircase hall may be partitioned
from the reception hall, anil tho stairway
rearranged. Bathroom may tie introduced
in .-ecoad story. Veranda may lie ex
tended.
To the Ladies.
There are thousands of ladies throughout
tho country whose systems are poisoned and
whose blood isluan impure condition, from
the absorption of impure matter, due to
menstrual irregularities. This class are
peculiarly h netttod by tho wonderful tonic
and blood-cleansing properties of Trickly
Ash, Poke Hoot anil Potassium—P. P. P.
Rose* and hounding health take the place
of the sickly look, the lost color and the
general wreck of the system by the use of
Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium, as
hosts of females will testify, and many
certificates are m the possession of tbe com
pany which they nave promised not to
publish, anil all prove P. P. P. a blessing to
womankind. —A dr. |
(iIBIRBAX RAILWAYS.
CUT AMI MBIRBIX BAILWAY.
OX and after FRIDAY. Nor, !*, I** 4 **, the fol
lowing sctieduli will be run on tbe uiitiklf
line:
LSAVC ARRIVE I.EAVE IJCA'I
. C *TV- city. Mt .t or Hopr vo.vruoiXßi
10:25 am v |o£m KIS%R| ' Vum
•iiOOjnn 3:oopm ]:*^pm
t.vrry Monday there w.iiheatraiu for Mont
goinery, leaving city at C ’O a. m.
, Vt *ry Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday a
tram will le run out, leaving city at 3:2> p. aj.
„ <>n Wednesday returning, have Montgomery
u: V) I*. vi. niui isle ,f Itopo 5:55 i*. M
< hi Saturdax s nud Sundays leave those points
at j:.*w) i*. >i. un 1 ti.ls p *.
* Thu tram loaves half hour later on Satur
day and will tm om runted on Kundav.
<>KO. W. ALLEY Supt,
Savannah, Nov. \ mS'J.
Coast Line Railroad
For t'athvdral <>n*terv, Bousveniure and
Ihiiiiu-rtM.ii City Mint*. WKJ&K DAYS—
Trains leave Savannah 7; 15 and 10 a. m.. 3, 4:30
ainl 6:A) i*. w. Leave TUimderbolt ban l sa.
M., 3:45. 6 p a,
Saturday uights last train out 7:15 p. *.
SUNDAYS leave Savannah 8. 9, 10 au<l 11 A.
M , 2. 3,4, 5. 6 an t 7 p. m 1/eave Thunder
bolt 7:li>, H:3o. U:3u and 10:30 a m . 13:30.2:30,
3:30.4:30,5:30and 6:30 p. x. Trains for city leave
IMnaventure ttve minutes after leaviug Thun*
derbolt.
Take Broughton at root cars twenty GW) inii
utes before leaving time of trains.
A. G. DKAKE, Supt*
TYpI
Savannah anil Atlantic Railway.
SCHEDULE OK TRAINS (Standard TimaX
Leave Kavauuau daily ‘.1:33 X:M
Returning, leave Tybee U:<lu ... Ml
Saturday train will leuvs at 7 r. u.
Family excursions every Tuesday and Friday
at reduced price. Xuti—Krmgiit must lie lUr
paid b'lore it w ill be receipted for. No ex
captious will bi made. Tickers on sale at J. 1!
Fernandez cigar store and depot ticket olflea.
Passengers are required to purchase tickets,
who wish the benetlt of excursion rates
D. U. PURSE.
President and Manager.
< OXXON ( n.\l i>Rm }
MORSE
COTTON COMPRESS,
r pHIS most powerful and effective in I ho world.
I exerts a pressure oa the bale of 6,000,000
pounds.
LIGHTY of them liavely-on introduced in the
Inst ten vears. which are now compressing
over half the American crop.
Several of those first erected have pressed
over ONE AND A OUARTER MILLION BALES
each. WITHOUT DEFECTOR APPRECIABLE
WEAR. Their immense weight and strength
have rendered them the ONLY DURABLE
COMPRESS in use.
Sole Owners and Patentees,
S. B. STEERS & CO.,
LKJI' I )> (ioi.ll.
Williams-. .
\BIUIjU .
Head a for Instant Use.
WILLIAMS’ Lignil) GOLD insures the
splendid effect of Solid Gold, no matter wiirre
applied, and it can Ik? used by rim most, iuexpe
neucvd amateur. It was employed to decorate
the magnificent homes of W. FI.VANIiKKHJLI\
JAY GOULD, .JUDGE HILTON, and many
other wealthy and .Ustinguiwlnd New Yorkers.
It. Gilo* Framed, Wood, Sji.k, Metal, Paper,
etc., ejual to Gold Leaf, and .1 iADIEM can
find no more charming: Art Work than jfildin4
with Wilmamx' Gold.
(‘aTiielH' Hair Brush in every box. PRICK sl.
AvouL tra.i'ai imitations. Sent by mailoy rk
CEtPT OP THE PRICK. Circular
Saw York iikmical Mm i ’o., and K. 4th Kt., N.Y.
Sold by PKIiGG! -TS and ART PKALKRB.
HAItJmARK.
HOSE.
REELS.
SPRINKLERS,
STICKS,
TROWELS,
HOES AND RAKES.
TILE.
FOR SALE BY
GARDEN
Edward Lovell's Sons
i~.~, j{i;otj(rira'(jjv sw.
COTTON I ACTOKs.
vTHoiiis r. SrtHUs. William 8. Tieos.
STL : BBS 1 II SON.
Cotton Factors,
BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA.
Liberal advances made on consignments of
cotton.
CORN ICK>.
CHAS, A. COX
4C BARNARD ST.. SAVANNAH.
—MAJaFACTTRIR or—
GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES
and—
UN ROOFING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES j
Intimates for city or country work promptly
furnished.
Agent for the celebrated Swedish MetaUio
Kant.
Agent for Walter’s Patent Tin Shfnglec
REAL ESTATE.
J. Jd.^IILTO>;
Real Estate and General Collecting
Agent.
DRAY TON STREET.
SPECIAL attention iriven to the collection of j
rente and the rare o£ real estate. Patron- I
ago respectfully solicited.
s j
PLUMB£K.
l a. McCarthy,|
4.4, H ARN’ARD STREET,
(Under Knights of Pythla.' Hall),
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING, !
STEAM HEATING A SPECIALTY. I
LOTTERY.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION I
OVER A MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
1
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
Incorporated by the Legislature, for Educa
tional and rhar.iable purposes. and its fran
ohl*- made a part of the pres*nt State Coi*ti
tution. in I*C.*. bv an overwhelming pooular rote.
It. MAMMOH4 OK YU take place
lme and December), And It*
GUAM) MAGLK \I\IIIKK DR \H I AG*
lake place Ici each of the other ten month*
of ilie year, and are all drawn In public, al
the Academy of Music, New Orleana, La.
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS
For Integrity of Its Drawings and Prompt
Payment of Prices.
Attested a. follows: *
"It c do herein/ certify that me supervise the
arronr/rments fa r all tU Monthly and Semn
An moil lira wing, ~f The Ornish,na State Teot
S'l Company, and in person manar/e and caa-
Irol the Hrawings Ihennelces, and that the
same are cpndwted with, hnnesty, fairness,
and in (/nod faith Inward ail parties, and we
author nr the Company to urn this rertifmat*
7uaJv7rt^nUr ,lr a in
///'s
f o.timt*,lnner,.
HV Me undersigned Hank* and Hankers miO.
pa/l all Prizes drawn in The Ixiuuiana State
lotteries which mag be presented at our coun
ters.
ft. 'f. tV ( LMSI.ItY. I'rri. Lutil.ii.na Nat. Bk.
I'IKRKK I.AXAI'X, Prr. Slate Nai’l Bk.
A. BALDWIN. Pro. V-w Orleana Nat'l Bk.
( AML KOH.\, l*rn. I nlun National Bank!
Grand Monthly Drawing
At the Academy of Music, New Orleans,
Tuesday, April 15, 1890.
Capital Prize 8300,000- 1
100,000 Ticket, at #-M> each: Halve. £10;
Duartera tjt.S; Tenth* 2; Twentieths (ft
I.IKT OF PRIZKS.
1 PRIZF. OK s3oo,Odd is KinoniMi
1 PRIZF OK 100,000 is loo'iwl
1 PRIZK OK 60,000 is soVwi'i '
I PRIZE OK Sf.OOO is . SSE
f PRIZES OF 10,(Kk) are ’
6 PRIZES OK 6,000 a™ S’oS)
!5 PRIZES OF I.OOOare
100 PRIZES OF Ni aru Fanm
W PRIZES OF 300 am . So non
600 PRIZES OF SOO ar I lntLooo
APPIIIIXIMkTION PRIZES.
100 Prize* of s.'iimaro MOOTi
100 Prize* of :laro 30 nrvi
100 Prizes of SOOare '..".11 20 000
TEKHINAI. PRIZE*.
009 Prize* of 100 are . 99.1M0
Ok- . nze* of 100 are 00.900
8.1.14 Prizes, amountinjr to .$1,054 801
Note.—Ticket* urawmg Capital Prize* are uoc
entitled to Terminal Prises. uot
AGENTS WANTED.
Ton < ‘r.ra H.itks, or anr further In
formation desired, write legibly to the under
signed, clearly stating your residence, with
state. County, Street and Ntimlier. More rapid
return mail delivery will he assured by your
enclosing an Envelope bearing your full address
IMPORTANT.
Address Al. A. IIAU’HIA,
New Orleana, La.,
or M. A. DAYHIIPr, *
\\ ashington. I). (I.
Ily ordinnry letter containing Money Order
issued by all Express Companies, New York Ex.
change, ltraft or Postal Note.
Address Registered Letters Contain
ing Currency to
NKAV ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK.
New Orleans, La.
"fIKMEMRER, that the payment of Prlr.st
Is Gl AItUYTKKI) IIY FOUR NATIONAL
HAAfiti of New Orleans, and the Tickets are
nitfned by the President of nn Institution whose
chartered rights are recognized in the hisrhesfi
Uourts: therefore. Ixtwaro of all imitations or
anonymous scheme*”
OAK DOLLAR is the price of the smallest
part or fractiou of a Ticket !84ItKD IIY L t e4
In any i)rawing. Anything in our name offered
for ics* than a Dollar is a swindle.
GUNS AMMUNITION ETC*
CALL
AND SEE
THE NEW
WORLD TYPEWRITER,
ONLY sls 00.
CAN LEARN TO WRITE RAPIDLY
IN A FEW DAYS
g. s. mTalpin,
-A-G-EHTT.
31 WHITAKER STREET.
JKWKLRY .
IF YOU WANT
A fine Gold Watch or a Dia
mond Earring or Ring, or any
kind of good Jewelry, join
the 10th club, now forming
at A. L. esbouillonb’, who
is also agent for the Auto
matic Typewriter, the best
made for its money. Price
$65.
A. L. DESBOI ILLONS,
21 Bull Street.
MACHINERY .
McDofloofl and Baliantyne,
IRON FOUNDERS,
.'lacliinisis, Boiler Maker? and Blacksmiths,
M.tM-riCITRSBg OP
stationary and portabij: evginta
VKKTIC ALAND TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS-, SUGAR MILLS and PASS.
V GENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the
simplest ana most, effective on the market;
Gullett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Giu, the
best in the market,
AU enters promptly attended to. Send for
Price List.
ftr ,T '" ls E*T for THE DAILY
J |hIU<JItMNO NEWS one weok, delivered
/. |to any part of the citr. Send your ad
fa Vilmss with 113 cent, to the Easiness
Office and have the paper delivered regularly.
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