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training for a singer.
gives valuable advice
TO YOUNG GIRLS.
Tbe Prima Donna Tell* How the
Voice Should be Cultivated - The
Evolution of a Fasblon-Our Amer
oan Duchess -Women Polk and
Their Doings
(Copyright:i
New York, April 12.—Patti in a parlor,
sitting in a high-backed chair, at a conven
ient distance from a mirror, in which an oc
, asional turn of the head will enable her to
admire her red tresses: with a big bunch of
vioiets to bury her face in and one, perhaps
both of her absurd little blonde dogs on her
knee, looks like a thoroughly happy and
well conditioned woman of five or six years
less than her full age.
Th u"h she is to leave the country in a
fortnight, I have not yet seen a description
of the present appearance, ofT the stage, of
the famuns singer which would convey to a
stranger any truthful idea. Patti does not
look “young,” much less “girlish.” She is
not “beautiful.” She is a fine looking
wo.nan with a good figure fitted to a blue
cloth polonoise braided with black, and
opening over a black velvet petticoat. Her
face is mobile, and like all such animated,
expressive countenances shows lines that
cotne later or even fail to come at all to
more impassive women. She is 47; she
looks perhaps from 40 to 42.
She di esses her hair exactly as she did
ten years ago. It is curled rather looselv
in front and wound in a high coil fastened
with small gold pins. She never seems quite
unconscious of her coiffure, but gives the
brick red tresses little approving pats, as
n-bo should say, “Is not the change b -com
iag?” In truth the coloring is very uniform
and even, not patchy, but it has taken all
the beautiful sheen out of her hair, which
now looks dull and almo t wiry. The con
trast with her Spanish complexion and eyes
s not pretty.
In speech Patti is direct, frank, markedly
intelligent; she talks uncommonly well.
Sbe has not at all a stage bearing. I have
leldoiu seen an amateur who had played
once for “charity” who was not more
theatrical. 1 have never seen a Delsarte
cadent who was not more of a pose use.
Patti is unaffected.
In manner she is cordial, almost caressing;
to her dogs effusive. If one of them, siiv
Pluck with the yellow ribbon about his
neck, happens to stray into the next room
she is on her feet in an instant. “There,
darling, come back to mamma! You were
so lonesome, poor child, weren’t you, in
there all alone?” If Manrlco lies down at
her l'eet it is: “Jump into mamma’s lap,
dear; come, darling, and see mamma; there,
my pet, there 1”
Her voice is low-toned in conversation
ana pleasant. She has a very rapid, viva
cious utterance. She “chats” most charm
ingly. She impresses you as a woman who
is absolutely content, who has and who
fully and happily realizes that she has a
thoroughly good time. She says that she
has m>ide her last American tour: her plans
may alter, but her home is too pleasant to
leave, and then “you’ve all grown so Ger
man I’m afraid you don’t love me any
l more.” Here her mocking bird chirps a
cote or two. "That bird,” she says, “is so
ambitious he sings everything 1 do, but he’s
a devout Wagnerian—he screams.”
She had promised to give me, for the
benefit of the millions of young women who
imagine themselves budding prima donnas,
her views as to ho w a girl should be trained
for a singer, and if she is not to be heard
again in this country, the careful and well
considered directions of the greatest vocalist
the century has known for the cultivation
and preservation of the voice will be of
more than ordinary interest and value.
While she talked, Nicolini, big and burly,
waiked up and down, occasionally pickiug
op Pluck and again dropping him into her
arms.
“There are more good voices.” she began
'then the mocking bird was quiet, “among
-American women than among those of any
other country. I have heard manv Ameri
ca i girls who sang divinely. The success of
American singers abroad is noticeable. The
uncultivated American tone is nasal, but
the cultivated American voice is mosc mu
sical.”
“At what age should a girl begin to
ting?”
That depends on her voice entirely. Peo
ple have an idea that too early use of the
voice is hurtful, but I sang in public when
I was only 7. They gave me my doll to
carry upon the stage when I was to warble
‘Ah! non giunge.’ It is not often that a
child has a voice of such strength or com
pass, but Albani, the great contralto, was a
very little girl when she sang the difficult
roulades of Rossini, and Bosio made her
debut in opera before she was 15. The ear
lier singing is taught the better, provided
always the voice is not straiued. A giri
should not be allowed to reach after high
note - or to test the range of her voice too
severely. I was withdrawn from stage sing
i-g at 11 or 12, but St akoseh kept me at
card studv until I was 15. Thon I made my
debut in New York as Lucia. That was in
1559, and 1 have been singing since con
stantly. No. it is not true that there is any
thing abnormal in the very early develop
ment of musical gifts.”
“What kind of training would you recom
mend?”
“Hard \jrork. That’s about all there is to
P. except, of course, one must have a good
blaster who will not give false methods.”
“Is it possible for a singer to get thorough
musical training in this country?”
“I know very little about your masters.
There must be some excellent ones.”
"If a girl goes abroad should she study in
Tai is or Milan or Munich?’
“Munich!! “Now you’re swearing!”
Both hands went up iu horror. Pluck found
tis seat uncomfortable and sprang to the
floor.
‘'Germany for a singer? Never! Kor
harmony, yes. For thorough grounding in
the principles of musical composition, yes.
But for the voice, oh, no. Now if you quote
me, don’t make me say this unkiudly or
rudely, for indeed I am extremely fond of
the German opera, but I would never advise
a woman to sing in it who isn’t prepared to
sacrifice her voice for a brief triumph just
as the bee does his life when he stings. Wag
nerian music calls for a constant succession
f| f new singers. Materna has been singing
*°me time, and she siugs magnificently, but
'hat is not the rule. I never heard Leh
mann. She w as not talked of when I sang in
Germany. Wagner’s operas are not con
structed with the slightest reference to the
•0.-sibilities of the vo:c\ and his demands on
R are wildly unreasonable.
"A girl who would make a singer, pure
' r d simple, should go to Paris and put
“ r *elf under the charge of Mme. Marched,
rv? teacher of singing in the world.
1 hen she will learn something of the laws
a good voice production. Marches! trained
"ich vocalists as Gerster and Trebelli. Or
hse a student should go to Milan for a good
Itnl an master.”
ki C:i °f Wagner’s operas do you pre
' Tristan and Isolde’is beautiful. So is
ixihf-ngrlu.’ ”
••tV 10 13 ycur favorite Italian composer?”
, that I can hardly tell; but composers
wr °te for singers were Rossini, Doni
‘■ctt!. and Bellini. Think of Grisi and Cat
®“d Pasta and Persiani and Viardot
Malebran. The German opera can
*'er develop BUch finished singers. Operas
> La Somnambula’bring cut the best
ork of the best si gets. A vocalist always
. ./Flits in the brilliant finale of act 3,
•th. non giunge.’ I am very fond of
■benbe s ‘Lakme.’”
hat will be the opera of the future?’
,■ ~° knows? B u t at least it will be
■ 'gable. It is not possible to believe that
/i^hedsong.” 1 6Ver K ‘ Ve UP moludy OT
to‘rigJa7e°wC U d?” riSa 3 VoUng BiDSer
f ' ,r Gm sake of the voice is nftii
.*“ere mu3t be moderation, of
•-e, in all things, for the singer, above
I all other persons, must study intellurentlv
‘“r r, ‘. w , to keep herself well. The girl
ttanvU?£?2T / >Si " R uee,i not *r
L.. “ - n ~, te fanclt * s at the table unless
f artlcul,r 1 thiQ e happens to disagree
wuh her, or unless, indeed, she is to anoear
SV&MSS “ m °• day - 0:1 'be day of
performance it is necessary t. eat
. ‘‘ Soa - D 1S really the best food for *inge-s
*4* , made - Rar ” beef
fruit and vegetables. Pastry and sweets
are not good but are to be avoided more
lse ‘ Ufcy hurt the complexion than te
eajws they affect tne voice especially.”
herself *, mes “ay a young singer allow
. sb ® really means to succeed, no wines
at ail I don’t believe in wine, it hurts the
throat almost invariably. Some young
singers I know, are not strong, and doctors
prescribe claret for them, but it is bad
practice to drink it. For myself, l never
touch wine, I drink water, or, if I need a
in U ” Dt ’ 1 take water with a bttle whisky
“If you were interested in a girl with a
L uld yon have her 6° in forathletics
herself up physically?”
“That would be ruinous policy. The girl
who is going to take rank as a singer must
keep out of the gymnasium. She can’t
fence She can’t row. She can’t ride
horsebaci. I enjoy nothing more than
b°, rse bnck riding, and 1 ride weiL 1 used to
ride about Mt. Vernon up above here when
I was only six yea r s old. But 1 have given
up all that entirely. I never ride now. It
interferes with the firmness and evenness of
Abe voice and gives atrenvilo.
“TV Hiking is toe singer’s exercise. The
singer who has a good pair of legs must
think herself highly fortunate. I can walk
three or four hours at a good pace and I do
so frequently. I believe in regular exercise
and the best way to take it is to drive, then
leave the carriage for awhile, but let it fol
low to pick you up if you fiud yourself get
ting tired.
“If I were interested in a student I would
urge her to be careful about the sort of air
she breathes. It is very necessary to give
attention to the ventilation of one’s bed
room. It should not have a fire in it and
the air should be frequently renewed. She
should not a-sociate too closely with tobac
co users. Even the fumes of the weed are
bad for the throat.”
“How would you dress a young singer*”
“No directions are necessary except the
hint that good voices have been spoiled be
fore now by tight lacing. 1 believe in a
well made and properly fitted French corset,
but it should not be drawn closely enough
to impede free breathing and the proper ex
pansion of the lungs. Growing girls es
pecially should be careful not to practice
with htcings tightly drawn
“Everything is summed up in the advice
to take sensible care of one’s self. The
singer must g> to bad early and not allow
herself to get tired. Sue mustn't fret.
Weariness and worry tell on the voice ter
ribly. She must have as few outside cares
as possible, concentrate her efforts in a sin
gle direction, live for her art and live
happily.
"Now then, you must say that I’ve en
joyed my American tour so much, and give
my love to everybody. I have to sing in
Albert hall on May 14, and then I am going
to Craig-y-Nos to see my own little private
theater and have such a lovely time.
‘Coming back?’ O, it’s all in white and
gold and—‘going to sing here again? I’m
so much attached to it and—‘shaut you hear
mo again ?’ The opening performance will
be so pretty, and—if you really love me vet
you’d better hear me before I sail away."
Patti was to have paid $1,500 for her pas
sage and that of her suite on the City of
Paris, sailing April 23. The accident to the
fast steamer has made her anxious about
getting across iu season for her first concert
on the other side.
THE EVOLUTION OF A FASHION.
Mme. Hading says that the stage sets the
fashions. In truth fashions riso in many,
often in whimsical ways. Just about a year
ago I laid a wager that 1 could invent a
style. The stakes were a drive in the park
and a lunch at Delmonico’s. After duo
consideration, therefore, I wrote a
minute description of an imaginary,
greenery-yellery tennis girl. This
nymph of mine got herself up iu a
divided petticoat of gray-green silk, with
gray-green silk stockings cli eked with
buttercups and pig skin low sh es. Then
she put on a gray-green serge gown em
broidered thickly with buttercups about the
hem and a biouse of white serge with a
Figaro jacket lined witli buttercup yellow.
She covered her head with a soft gray-green
felt hat circled by a yellow cord, she wore
violets in her buttonhole and tied up her
racquet with gray-green and yellow rib
bons. There werr, of course, details of a
more or less thrilling nature to lend verisi
militude to an otherwise bald and uninter
esting narrative, and at toe time f flattered
rnvself that she was really “fetching.”
In fact she “took” with exchange editors.
She was clipped and credited, she was pla
giarized by fashion writers and correspond
ents, she was stolen bodily. She went into
the best company everywhere. I could not
take up a Sunday paper from May to No
vember without recognizing her aesthetic
outlines. She went abroad and appeared
in the St. James Gazette. Thon she came
home and went the rounds in Canada and
this country a second time, ticketed “An
English Girl’s Tennis Costume Extraordi
nary." I became very tired of her, and telt
it a relief when the frost killed her.
This spring I have heard of her resurrec
tion in a vague way as “a tennis champion
on Staten Island,” hut I had not given her
any serious heed until I met her face to face
at an opening. There she was in flesh and
blood, or rather in good silk and wool, in
excellent spirits and apparently quite pop
ular. It was some time, indeed, before I
got a chance to approach her closely enough
to be sure she was none other than my
tennis girl, she was so constantly sur
rounded. W hen I asked after her health I
learned that she was a most successful
model.
Presenting to the other party to the
wager undisputable evidence that the de
scriDtion of a non-existent costume had re
sulted m the natural course of events in the
materialization of that costume and in the
selling of several replicas of it by well es
tablished modistes, I enjoyed my lunch and
my drive.
THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.
Naturally “ our American duchess ” is
attracting a good deal of attention. She
cannot appear at the opera or at a theatre
without .meeting the combined stares of all
the lorgnettes and glasses available. Such
notice seems to disturb her very little. She
fingers a hunch of white roses or lilies of the
valley lying on the box rail and sits out the
evening composedly. Yesterday afternoon
I encountered her on a tour of a picture
gallery. She is not an especially pretty
womau in spite of the adulation of the
tribe of Jenkins. Jjhe represents a very
usual type of the well-bred society
woman, with brown hair, the standard
blue-gray American eyos, regular features
and somewhat ennuied expression. She is
rather above middle height aud weighs from
15 to 20 pounds less than she did when she
was plain Mrs. Hamersley. This, however,
is an improvement, rather than otherwise.
She wore a tailor gown of chocolate brown
with brown st aw capote trimmed with one
rather large vellowish-brown orchid. She
chatted with ber two compani <us with con
siderable animation, and her voice was cul
tivated and musical She is making herself
very pleasant in New \ ork, but there is a
look about her mouth and her eves which
would not impress me as belonging of right
to a woman who was especially happy in
her day and generation.
A NOVEL PROMENADE.
As spring advances and the sap begins to
run in’ our veins the woman who was born
and bred in the c mntry grows restless in
town Pathetic almost beyond telliug is
the longing of the elderly woman who tan
care no longer for the little green-blitided
white cottage, with its garden running over
with old-fashioned flowers, for the nouse
where she has spent her life and in which
her babies were born. Her son is a carpen
ter maybe or a thrifty mason or an eugiueor
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. APRIL 13, 1890-TWELVE PAGES.
on the elevated railroad. He bas brought
her to end her days with him in a snug
little fiat on the third or fourth floor of a
tenement building. His wife is very good
to her, but she is afraid of the noisy
streets and the rattle of horse oars.
She is sick with longing for the
tree that shaded her kitchen window, for
the sight of a familiar face and the pleasant
g **ip of her village neighbors. One such
white-haired, homesick soul has moved
lately iuto a huge new block of buildings,
the upper floors of which are as yet unten
antei. Every morning she climbs to the
sixth story and then wanders through the
empty, echoing rooms of tenement after
tenement for exercise, stopping at the win
dows front and back and looking off over
the city, it's a lonely, almost a weird,
promenade, but the outlook is the nearest
approach she can make to the view from
“our old South Mountain.” And so with
smoke columns, and chimney pots, and pul
ley clothes lines, she hushes her sighs for
greening grass and robins.
A DOG THAT WEARS “PANTIES.”
A little yellow terrier often attracts at
tention on Fifth avenue of a morning. It
has a pink nose, aud is accomp mied on its
airing by a coachman. These facts do not
account for the notice it receives. It is
buttoned into a yellow and brown striped
ulster, aud this garment has sleeves.
Everybody who passes stops to say, “Do
von soe that dog in ‘panties - ?’ "That dog”
is Mrs. Frank Leslie's Folette, and the ulster
is her invention.
Joaquin Miller wrote some stanzas on
“Columbus” for Mrs. Leslie to recite at the
annual benefit of Mrs. Lamadrid's 1 cent
coffee stands a few days ago. This was
Mrs. Leslie’s second appearauce “on any
stage,” and in view of her projected lecture
tour it may be stated that her first appear
ance was at the coffee stands’ benefit a year
ago when, as she afterward told the story,
her knees smote together and she struck au
attitude with one hand clutching the piano
to save herself from falling while she won
dered what was to become of a woman who
hadn’t feet left to retreat with and who
couldn’t remember one word of what she
had meant to say. After a minute she told
her an lienee her lines had been frightened
out of her and the little confession and im
promptu speech was better than a recita
tion.
A FANCY WORK EXHIBITION.
The Ladies’ New York Club ou Thursday
demonstrated the fact that oue may belong
to a club and be a lady, too. by holding a
competitive exhibition of needlework, knit
ting, crochet, macro me aid tattuig. There
were some pretty pieces displayed, but much
of the work was of the sort it is clear gain
not to do.
A WOMAN STOCK BREEDER.
One of the best steck farms on Long
Island is “The Old Brick” at Roslyn, which
is owned and managed by Mrs. S. Taber
Wallets, who is one of the most enterprising
dealers on the island.
Brooklyn now has a woman real estate
agent in the person of Miss C. Talbot, who
like Miss Agnes K. Murphy in New York
has taken up the business left by her father.
Miss Talbot has charge of several large pro
perties, Is ti commissioner of deeds, and
does a good deal of insurance business.
THE BEIDL SOCIETY.
The brilliant "Farsifat” festival is still
talked about. It would not be surprising if
Brooklyn became a sort of American Bay
reuth with Wagner festival- after the true
German style. The Heidi Society has dem
onstrated Its strong .h, and is already aspir
ing to an opera house of its own. There is
no predicting what successes may await it
in the future, for there are few women iu
the country possessed of executive ability
equal to that of Laura <'. Holloway.
Eliza Putnam Heaton.
MEDICAL SCIENCE IN CHINA.
The Language a Bar to a Knowledge
of the Methods of Other Nations.
From the New Yorle Sun.
At a meeting of the New York Academy
of Anthropology, at 9 University place, Jast
evening a paper on the “Medical and Sur
gical Science of Chi ta” was retd. It had
been sent op by Dr. E. P. Thwing, the vice
president of ttie society, who is now con
nected with a hospital in China.
The paper declared that exact science does
not exist in China, while theories and super
stitions abound. Scientific study is fet
tered by a language that is the most vague
and tedious of all tongues. It is impossible
for the Chinaman to study any other lan
guage through tue medium of his own.
The terminology of chemistry, for instance,
cannot be reproduced in Chinese. Medical
literature, such as It is, is very copio is.
Dr. Thwing expressed his amazement at the
industry of Chinese scholars in collecting
data with respect to tne human frame aud
medical material-'. He had found one
treatise ou materia medica which consisted
of forty volumes, in which 751> authorities
were quoted, ami another of sixty volumes
with 1,715 engravings. Not a square inch
of the body b it has its special name.
Treatment of disease is applied according
to the dual theory of action and reaction,
“ying” and “yang.” The pulse is the most
important part of diagnosis. Medical
studonts study a copper model of a man
which is pierced with holes indicating the
location of 149 pulses. According tj the
character cl' tnese different pulses the con
dition of the body is determined. The laud
is overridden with quacks. Anybody can
be a doctor, but there is a prescribed course
of study for “regulars.” A law prescribes
death ta any irregular doctor whose patient
dies, but this is a dead letter. The race
increases in numbers, and shows no
sign of decay in spite of the physicians and
their methods. There is no surgery, for the
Chinese believe that di3!nem,;ermeut here
causes a permanent disfigurement in the
after life. DuriDg the past half century
considerable confidence in the foreign
science has been created by the pioneer
work of European and American physi
cians. There is an unlimited field for
women physicians, for Chinese women will
suffer infinite pain before submitting to
treatment by a man. There are now sixty
mission hospitals aud eighty foreign phy
sicians in the country.
Following the essay Mr. J. Stewart Hap
per, who was born in China, made a long
and earnest defence of the Chinese, saying
that the remarkable endurance of the em
pire was due mainly to good government.
PROVES CLE VELAND, REFJSREE.
A Case That Has Dragged Along Ever
Bines Cleveland was Mayor of
Buffalo.
From the -Vein York Sun.
Buffalo, April 4.—“ Grover Cleveland,
Esq.,” was on May 19, 187!*, appointed ref
eree by u supreme court justice iu the suit
of William Baynes against the trustees of
the Buffalo state asylum for the insane.
Mr. Baynes was a contractor on the build
ing, and after he had begun work the plans
were changed, involving much additional
labor and expense. The claim was disal
lowed by the asylum authorities. It
amounted to nearly $4,000. After vain
efforts to effect a settlement Contractor
Barnes brought suit to mandamus the board
to pay him. Mr. Cleveland was appointed
referee to tane testimony. The hearings
have dragged aloug ever since, the suit
slowly progressing from time to time,
while the referee became mayor, then gov
ernor, and afterward President. Since Mr.
Cleveland’s retiromeat from the white house
most ol the testimony has been taken, the
hearings having been held in Mr. Cleve
land’s office in New York. Mr. Baynes
feared to press the matter, because he
thought it might prejudice the referee
against him, and, although bo needed the
money, was obliged to wait for the tardy
ju-tice which he finally got, in part at
least, for Referee Cleveland allowed only
*3,308 27. including interest, as the amount
due Mr. Cleveland put his fee at S2OO.
Justice Lewis yesterday confirmed the
report and rnandamu-ed the asylum people
to pay Mr. Baynes.
ROUND ABOUT GOTHAM.
THE LATEST GO3BIP OF THE GREAT
METROPOLIS.
Names to Suit Their Tastes—Russell
Harrison and the Art of Stenogra
phy-Recent Triumptn of Surgery.
{.Copyright '■
New York, April 13. —Everybody has
heard of the enterprising Mr. Lowenstein
who had his name changed to Livingstone
and blossomed in society as a member of
one of the oldest families of New York; but
few people, not lawyers, have any Idea of
the number of names whicn are annually
changed by the legislature or the courts.
Iu the year 1889, which is a fair sample,
considerably over 100 names were chauged
in New York alone. A family of Clausuitz
gers became by decree Adams, no less than
twelve Cohens became Clarks and five
Gambitskys are now happy in the more
manageable title of Bernhard. A
cose of similar import is that of
the Dzialynskis who certainly made
an improvement when they adopted
I .ewis for convenience. Frederick Herman
Hunaeus gained a doubtful advantage by
seeking 1 gal authorization of the change of
his last name to Hungus, but Ilalver Rueued
became first pronounceable to yankees as
Henry Rudh. Henry Charles Ehbeke
wanted to do as other folks do and he is now
called Smith. Sven Sveuson took the same
name; the Smiths would be booming indeed,
but Ann C. Smith had dropped Smith and
taken the name of Cary instead. The
Sabloilowsky family are hereafter to
be known as Sabel, for short, and
Herman Koch and William Kanpfer
schmidc are anglicised as Cook and Copper
smith. Due caunot but think that William
Turner Harvard’s uncle had gine back ou
him and that William Edison HowarJ,
which is the now name of the same gentle
man, has hopes of another. Messrs. Klin
kowsteiu, Kadausky and Finkusky have
made it easier for their correspondents, who
hereafter will only write to them as Kling,
Kadaneand Pinkus, and Sidney Witkowsky
conforms to phonetics as Sidney Wnite.
John Baptiste Teador Barnard Tondury
shakes oUF'more than half his head and
emerges as Bernard Teadir. The change
from rioydt to Hoyt and Schulmeyer to
Sherman shows how our German element is
becoming absorbed.
Most of the names ure change I for busi
ness reasons or for convenience or are
merely anglicised or translated, but u few
of the metamorphoses suggest a suspicion
that the owners of pleboian names thirs ed
for something which sounded bet’er and
usked the courts to help them. This may
be doing an injustice to Miss or Madame
Pneian, now known as de la Men, to the
Messrs. Merphy, now Dominick, to Air.
Finkleatein, now Mamrevo, to
Mr. Allshesky now Sherwood,
to Senator Ernesto Agra
monte y Simoni, .who has adde 1 Ignacio to
his former title, and to Mme. Kitzenback,
wqo, as Mrs. Custis, might now be tak'-u
for a relative of Martha Washington. On
the other hand, Gsorge Vere Hob irt-Phil
pott has cut off a couple of links of his long
name and is known as plain Hobart. In
general, the courts by acceding to the re
quests of those who want tneir names
changed—such requests are always granted
—have promoted economy in time, ink and
paper.
RUSSELL HARRISON’S STENOGRAPHER.
The necessity for stenographers and type
writers has grown to such an extent within
the past few years that it has openei up a
new field of labor for both men and women,
and yet there are more incompetent stanogr i
pbere and type-writers in New York to-day
than would be needed to defend the city
from an army of invasion. In common
with all other literary workers, the
writer has found 28 per cent, of the
men and women who reply to adver
tisements for stenographers and type
writers know nothing of current ovents,
hardly know how to spell and are deficient
in grammar and general knowledge. Miss
Mary F. Seymour, who is at the head of
one of the largest schools and typewriting
establishments in New York city, au ex
caelingly bright woman, by the way, said
the other day that the possibilities for
women iu this new field are practically un
limited. Then she went on to odd that there
was work enough for all who were compe
tent to do good work, but there was no
place for either mo. i or women who were
not experts, and, what is more to the point,
she added, there was nil ahunda ice of re
muneration for such talent. It is said,
however, that tne strain put upon the best
operators breaks them down in about two
years.
Nevertheless, there is plenty of talent,
such as it is, as a reference to the adver
tising columns of the daily papers will
show. Here is one that attracted some at
tention:
\ r OUNG LADY STENOGRAPHER AND
type-writer; absolutely expert; four years;
formerly stenographer to Russell li. Harrison.
This created some amusement among
Russell Harrison’s friends, for while no one
doubts that he is a clever enough young
fellow, it rather puzzled them to know how
he conld possibly get Jlfi worth of type
writing done in a week, unless ho used most
of his tune iu writiug letters to his father
advising how he should run tho government.
Young Mr. Harrison is devoting his time
to work. He is not a literary man in any
sense, nor is he as much of a hustler as
when he came to New Ycrk a year ago.
Tho club men and others who know him
never tiro of joking him about his din
ner at Windsor Castle last summer, and, as
he is extremely sensitive, it has nroved
quite auuoying to him. One of his friends
who saw the advertisement above quoted
thought it would be a good joke to have a
couple of hundred letters written, asking
him all about the young lady, how she
worked, why she left him and what she
found to occupy her time. Then twenty
five or thirty of them called at various
times during the day to make inquiries
about her, and by nightfall the young
Hoosier came to the conclusion that his
friends were guying him and he paid for
the wine.
But to return to the subject: there is some
talk of organizing a big type writing school
where young women will be thoroughly
trained and given diplomas when they have
become experts. It may interest some to
know that the pay for a male expert is from
sls to $35 per week and from $7 to $25 for
women.
THE KNIFE AS A LIKE SAVER.
A brother of a great prima donna is the
most skilful surgeon in New York. He
recently did some very delicate cutting at
one of the New York hospitals before a
small company of physicians and surgeons.
"The day has cotne,” said he in talking witii
me yesterday, “when every physician must
be thoroughly skilled m surgery if he is up
to the times. Why? Well, we have come
to rely more and more up m the knife to
perform the office of medicine, as laid down
in the books.
“Abscesses in the lungs are no longer left
to the physician; they are now tapped aid
drained by the surgeon. In all such opera
tions, and, indeed, in every case where sur
gical science is availed of. the utmost care
is necessary. The temperature of tho room,
the treatment of the patient before, during
and after the operation, are all matters of
vita! importance to the i-uccjss of tho sur
geon. Nothing is regarded as trivial.
“An operation which is now frequently
performed is the treatment of the appen
dix vermiforrnis, at a juncture of the up
per and lower intestine. This small intes
tine frequently acts as a sac, which, failing
to be discharged, becomes inflamed anil
rotten in ooneque..ce, and peritonitis de
velops. In former times, the custom was
to wait until the ninth or tenth day before
operating, and many died in consequence
or this dolay. Professor Agnew died of
this ailment about two years ago.
Now the operation is made imme
diately after the diagnosis, aud a large por
tion of the cases are saved. The method,
plainly stated, is to make an incision, ex
posing the intestines, and, aft-r the appen
dix vermiforrnis, or small intestine, is
reached to tie it up and cut it rff. Iu such
ca-ei, we frequently find that a small
absee-s has formed in the intestine. This
operation is now resorted to bv all the lead
ing surgeons at every favorable opportunity
as it affords the best chance of saving the
patient. The results are uniformly encour
aging.
“Another delicate operation is suture of
the intestines. This is performed when
they are injured by stabs or gunshot
wounds. Under the old system, tne pa
tients were iu most instances left to live or
die, and 95 per cent, did actually die, when
laparotomy was unknown. Now the belly
is opened and the wounded intestines are
sewed together. The saving of life by this
latter-day triumph of surgical skill is con
siderable, probably 50 per cent, recovering.
Extreme precaution is essential in such
cases. The slightest haste, the overlooking
of a wound or the loweriug of the tempera
ture in tile room white the patieut is ex
posed, may produce fatal results.”
“Cancer of the stomach.” said I, “is at
tracting much attention from eminent phy
sicians here and abroad, with the view of
deciding whether it is the result of a mic
robe or a cell growth. How is it regarded
by surgeons?”
“With the conflicting opinions of medical
experts we have nothing to do. Billroth,
the distinguished Viennese surgeon, is the
leading authority on the treatment of cau
cer. The first surgical attempts to treat
stomach cancer were directed
to its removal by incision; but
that method has been abandoned. We
now establish anew connection between the
stomach and the small intestine by sewing
the latter to the stomach at a point removed
from the seat of tiia eaucer, and in such a
way that tue afflicted part is left or isolated.
Nobody can get right at the cancer to treat
it surgically, of course, so it is allowed to
remain as I have explained. Tais method
relieves the patient of much of the pain anil
discomfort; although, of course, the cancer
probably stays with him as long as he livts.
"Until a comparatively rece it date lung
troubles were not treated surgically. The
first attempts at surgical treatment were
made fifty or sixty years ago, but then in
very rare cases. Now such treatment has
become an ovoryday affair in our hospitals.
We tap the chest aud apply drainage tubes.
This method was considered revolution
ary, aud was rather unpopular until a
few years ago; but its value has now
been sufficiently demonstrated. The treat
ment of throat troubles too has been prac
tically revolutionized. For tumor the
larnyx is cut cut iu severe cose'. Here,
again. Prof. Biliroth is the pioneer iu the
appl cation of surgical measures, and he has
handled some difficult cases very success
fully. The excision of the larnyx has been
performed successfully in this country also,
within a very recent date.
“Tumors and abscessess of the brain are
more frequent thun is generally supposed.
Tlie new treatment is to operate bv drain
age tubes ut once after the case has been
diagnosticated, and 1 must say it is very
successful in many cases. Numerous in
stances have arisen where the patients have
been saved, while under the old system,
deaths from this cause was inevitable. It is
a popular mistake to imagine that insanity
follows as the result of an abscess or tumor
ou the brain, however.
“Surgery has made great progress in
dealing with kidney diseases also. Htones
in the kidneys tmt were formerly left to
themselves, ultimately causing death, are
now diagnosticated and extracted. *ln these
cases the patients owe their lives to the
surgeon. Jt is not infrequent where a kidney
lias been deitroyod by disease to remove it
altogether and let the patient live with a
single kidney. Such operations are unt
, formly successful.”
ENGLISH WOMEN CRITICISED.
Eugene Field Saya Too Many of Them
Hava Big Feet and Drink Gin.
From the Chicago
London, March o.—Every American
woman who sojourns in London raises her
voice against the large and lil-fitting shoes
which sbe finds here. The natives seek to
justify tho monstrosities on the plea that
the feet should be clad loosely and stoutly.
The truth, however, is that English women
have big feet—abnormally big feet. More
over, marvelously low insteps stem to be a
characteristic of the typical English feet.
The English women are exceedingly sensi
tive upon the subject of their prodigious
pedals, and they make it a point to talk of
the propriety of wearing large boots and
shoes in order to avert corns and other simi
lar discomfitures: yet I am told by dealers in
footwear that corns and bunions are quite
as prevalent hero us elsewhere. Y'et there
havo bte i English ladies with wonderfully
small foot. O eof the famous beauti sof
the court of George IV. wore a shoe only
five inebei in length, yet she was above
medium hight and was otherwise symmet
rically proportioned. Lacing is a vice that
obtains very generally among the women
of this country; nowhere else are to b j sei n
such slender waists as are to bt found here.
Th; vice of tight lacing is practise! iu every
class of society; be she duchess or barmaid,
the native woman indulges wit i the same
persistence her vanity in this particular.
Another abominable practice that obtains
among English women is that of indulgence
in rpirituous liquors. Gin. rum and Scotch
whisky are freeiy taken by women of every
class iiere. 1 suspect that if the English
houses were better heat and there would be a
much smaller domand for liquor. As it is,
everybody drinks more or less (and gener
ally more) in order to keep warm. The
freedom with which women frequent the
taprooms Is simply shocking. It is a com
mon sight of an oveniug to see a womau
with a babe in her arms reeling in or out of
a public barroom. These wretched creat
ures belong, of course, to the lower class,
but in the so-called better classes of society
guzzling obtains to quite as considerable an
extent. It is the alcohol they have con
sumed that gives to so very many of the
swell ladies to be seen in London the
rubescent noses, the coarse, flabby cheeks,
the purple lips, and the swollen eyelids that
have come to bo regarded as essentials to a
typical English face.
LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drink.
For biliousness and constipation, take
Lemon Elixir.
For indigestion and foul stomach, take
Elixir.
For sick and nervous headaches, take
Elixir.
For sleeplessness and nervousness, take
Lemon Elixir.
For loss of appetite and debility, take
Lemon Elixir.
For fevers, chills, and malaria, take
iAimon Elixir.
Dr. Mozley's Lemon Elixir will not fail
you in any of tho above named diseases, all
of which Arise from a torpid or diseased
liver, stomach, kidneys, or bowels.
Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozley,
Atlanta, Ga.
Fifty cents and $1 per bottle at druggists.
A Prominent Minister Writes :
After ten years of great suffering from
indigestion, with great nervous prostration,
biliousness, disordered kidneys, and consti
pation, I have been cured by Dr. Mozley’s
Lemon E ixir, and am now a well man.
Rev. C. C. Davis,
Elder M. E. Cuurch (South),
No. 28 Tatnall Kt., Atlanta, Go,
From a Prominent Lady.
1 have not been able in two years to walk
or stand without suffering great pain.
Since taking Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir I
can walk half a mile without suffering the
least inconvenience.
Mrs. It H. Bloodworth.
Griffi i, Ga.— Adc.
SUBURBAN RAILWAYS.
CITY AND SDMRiAN RAILWAY
ON and after SATURDAY. April 5, 1890, the
following schedule will be run on the out
aide line:
LEAVE ARRIVE LEAVE LEAVE
CITY. CITY. ISLE OF HOPE. MONTGOMERY
10:45anij B:4oam B:lsam 7:soam
:00 p m 4:00 p m 1:35 p m 1:10 i m
Every Mondav there will be a train for Mont
gomery. leaving city at 6:50 a. m.
Every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday a
train will be run out, leaving city at 4:45 p. u
On Wednesday returning, leave Montgomery
5:-'*o p. m. and Isle of Hope 5:63 p. m.
On Saturdays and Sundays leave those points
at 5:50 p. m. and 6:15 p m.
*This train leaves half hour later on Satur
day and will be ommitted on Sunday.
GEO. W. ALLEY Bupt.
Savannah, April 4, itwo
Coast Line Railroad
Fur Cathrilrsl Omrlrry. Honawuiturc ul
Thunderbolt. tty lime. WEEK DAYS—
Trains learo Savannah 7:15 and 10 a. *.. 8, 4:30
and 6:30 p. v. learn Thunderbolt 6 and i A
u., 18:30, 3:45. 8 p a.
Saturday night's last train out 7:18 p. u.
SUNDAYS leave Savannah 8, 9. 10 and 11 a.
H., 2. 3,4, 5, ti and 7p. m. Leave Thunder
bolt 7:10. 8:8(1. 9:SO and 10:30 AM.. 19:30.2:30,
3:30.4:30,5:30 and 6:30 p. x. Trains for city leave
Bonxventure tire minutes after leaving Thun
derbolt.
Take Brouzhton street ears twenty (20) mil
utea before leaving time of trains
A. Q. DR AKE, Supb.
TYBEE.
Savannah anil Atlantic Railway.
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS (Standard Timet
Savannau daily U:.i> *:3J
Returning, leave Tybee 12: ju 5: 41
Saturday tram will leave at 7 p. u.
Family excursions every Tuesday and Friday
at reduced price. Non—Freight must be pre
paid before it will be receipted for. No ex
ceptions will be made. Ticke ton sale at J. B
Fernandez cigar store and depot ticket utllce.
Passengers are require! to purcliuse tickets,
who wish the benefit of excursion rates.
1). G. PURSE.
President and Manager.
< OTTOS COMPRESS.
MOBSE
COTTON COMPRESS,
THE most powerful and effective in the world,
exerts a pressure on the bale of 8,000,000
pounds.
EIGHTY of them have been introduced in the
last ten years, which are now compressing
OVER HALF THE AMERICAN CROP.
Several of those first erected have pressed
over ONE AND A QUARTER MILLION BALES
each. WITHOUT DEFECT OR APPRECIABLE
WEAR. Their immense weight and strength
have rendered them the ONLY DURABLE
COMPRESS In use.
Sole Owners and Patentees,
S. B. STEERS & CO.,
Cotton Exchange, New Orleans.
UQU ID GOLD.
Gold :
Heady for Instant (Jse.
WILLIAMS’ LIQUID GOLD insures tho
Rplendid effect of Solid Gold, no matter wlier*
appluui, and it can be used by the most inexpe
rienced amateur. It was employed to decorate
tlie magnificent homes of W. H.VANDEKBILT.
JAY GOULD, JUDGE HILTON, and many
other wealthy ami distinguished New Yorkers.
Jt Gila* Kraxkh, Wood, Sii.k, Mktal. Paper,
etc., equal to Gold L**af, and IaAIDIKH can
find no more charming Art Work than gilding
with Williams’ Liquid Gold.
Can:“lH’ Hair Brush in every box. PRICE sl.
Avoid trashy imitations. Sent by mail on re
cbipt op the prick. Circular free.
New York Chemical Mfo Cos., 8 K. 4th st.. N.Y.
Sold by DRUGGISTS and ART DEALERS.
HARDWARE.*
HOSE,
REELS,
SPRINKLERS,
STICKS,
TROWELS,
HOES AND RAKE3.
TILE.
GARDEN
FOR SALE BY
Edward Lovell’s Sons
inn HKOUGHTON ST.
COTTON FACTORS.
Tuomah F. Hti bbh. William S. Tikov.
STUBBS & TISON.
/
Cotton Factors,
86 BAY STREET.
SAVANNAH, - GEORGIA
Liberal advances made on consignments of
cotton.
CORN 1C ne.
CHAS. A. COX
it BARNARD ST.. SAVANNAH, GA,
—MANUFACTURER OF—
GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES
AND—
TIN ROOFING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES
Estimates for city or country work promptly
furnished.
Ageut for the celebrated Swedish Metallic
Paint.
Agent for Walter's Patent Tin Shingles,
I’LUMBBK.
l. a. McCarthy,
<L4. BARNARD STREET,
(Under Knlghtu of Pythias' Hail),
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING.
STEAM HEATING A SPECIALTY.
real estate.
5. ±C. FULTON
Real Estate and General Collecting I
Agent,
K DRAYTON STREET.
SPECIAL attention given to the collection of I
rents and the care of real estate. Patron
age respectfully solicited.
'lottery.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION \
OVER A MILLION DISTRIBUTED.
Louisiana Stale Lottery Company.
Incorporated by the Legislature, for Educa
tional and Charitable purposes, and its fran
chise made a part of the pres -nt State Consti
tution. in 187 H. hy an overwhelming popular vote.
Iu MUliiuril OKA WINGS take place
( Ju “e and December), and 11.
GRAM! SINGLE NUMBER DRAWING*
take place in each of the other ten months
of the year, and are all drawn in public, at
lbs Academy or Music. New Orleans, La.
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS
For Integrity of Its Drawings and Prompt
Payment of Prizes,
Attested a* follows:
“ lf rdn hereby certify that we supervise the
arrangements for ail the Monthly and Benu.
Annual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lot
'am and in person manage and con
troi the Drawings tKeniaeive*, ami that th*
same are conducted vHth honest y, faimeu.
ona tn good fnith toward all parties . and u*
the . Com J Hln y to ute this certificate.
Vua£Zt‘^meats'attached, i,
</ l /
Commissioners.
He the undersigned Drinks and Bankers wIH
pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana .State
Lotteries which may be presented at our couiw
tern.
H. M. \VAL.\fBIiEY, I*re. LouininnA \t.
PIEHIIE LA.VAUX. Pres. Plate Nat’l Ilk.
A. It ALUM IV Pres. New Orleans Aat’l Ilk.
L'AML KUHN. Pres. I nlou National Hank.
Grand Monthly Drawing
At the Academy of Music.NewOrleans,
Tuesday, April 15, 1890.
Capital Prize $300,000-
I Oil. WOO Tickets at #2O each; Halves jlilO|
quarters #3; Tenths *2; Twentieths g|.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 PRI7.E OK $9)0,1100 la
J gWZE OF im.A ih ;;; ".MtuS
1 PRIZE Of Du.iKW ih 50 i,1,l
1 PRIZE OF 28,000 is
2 PRIZES OF 10.000 are * a,,ln
5 PRIZES OF 6.000 are 26*000
25 PRIZES OF 1 000 are *
100 PRIZES OF 600 are Jn'niW
200 PRIZES OF 300 are * so'izn
500 PRIZES OF 200 are ]npj)of)
APPROXIMATION PKIZXS.
too Prizes of SSOO are stn ni.t
100 Prizes of 800 are ' sow
100 Prizes of 200 are 20 0)0
TKKMINAI, PRIZES.
999 l’rizcß of 100 are no my,
999 Prizes of 100 are 99,'b00
3,134 Prizes, amounting to $1,084 SOU
Note.— Tickets urawing Capital Puzos are'non
entitled to Terminal Prizes. re Doe
AGK MX WAN T EI).
. W" Fon Clun Katkh, or any further fn*
formation desired, write legibly to tho under*
signed, clearly stating your residence, with
State. County, Street and Number. More rapt.!
return mull delivery will bo augured by your
enclosing an Envelope bearing your full oddreßs.
IMPORTANT.
Address >l. A. D AUPHIN.
New Orleans, La_
or At. A. DAUPHIN. ”
Washington, f. ft.
Hy ordinary letter containing Money Order
Issued by all Express Companies, New York Ex
change, Draft or Postal Note.
Address Registered Letters Contains
ing Currency to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK.
New Orleans. La.
“It EMEMHER, that the tiayment of Prizes
Is GUARANTEED DY FOLK NATIONAL
HANKS of New Orleans, and tho Tickets am
signed by the President of an Institution whoso
chartered rights are recognized in the highest
Courts; therefore, beware of oil imitations or
anonymous schemes.”
ONE DOLLAR is the price of the smallest,
part or fraction of a Ticket IfcKLKD HA’ U(4
In any Drawing. Anything in our name offered
for less Ilian a Dollar la a swindle.
GCXI ammunition, ktl.
CALL
ANI) SEE
THE NEW
WORLD TYPEWRITER,
ONLY sls 00.
CAN LEARN TO WRITE RAPIDLY
IN A FEW DAYS,
G. S. McALPIN,
-A-G-EITT.
31 WHITAKER STREET.
JEWELRY.
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. esbouillons’, who
is also agent for the Auto
matic Typewriter, the best
made for its money. Price
SOS.
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
21 Bull Street.
MACHINERY.
McDoflongh I Ballantyae,
IRON FOUNDERS,
Machinist Boiler Makers and Blacksmith^
STATION ARY AND PORTABLE ENGINE*
VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING CORN
MILLS, SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
A GENTS for Alert and Union Injectors, the
J V simplest and most effective on the market;
Guliett Light Draft Magnolia Cotton Gin, the
best In the market.
All orders promptly attended to. Send for
Price List
MIITI' MORNING NEWS carriers rcach
J 1$ It every part of the city early. Twenty.
A A A XJ jive cents a week pays for the Daily.
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