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WOMEN AS REPORTERS.
THEY SUCCEED —l3 THH GAME
WORTH THE CANDLE♦
Is the Feminine Element Doing: Good
or Harm in Newspaperdom ? A
Craze for Ecclesiastical Embroid
eries--Artists’ Alodeis-The Riding:
Coetume.
(Copyright.)
New York, April ‘36.—lf ever I write
the confessions of a newspaper woman I
•hall have to record things pleasant and un
pleasant, but I fear I shall not be able to
pet down any answer to the question, is the
feminine element doing more good or harm
by its invasion cf the sanctum.
The earlier journalistic efforts of women
were usually on a high p ane. Not many
women are now called on for such work as
was done by Margaret Fuller on the Trib
une. If Grace Greenwood were beginning
again, her articles would probably have to
take a less seriou i tone. The women who
describe Washington’s gowns and engage
ments are perhaps able to write, but thev
certainly don t write Mary Clemmer Ames’
congressional correspondence. Even Olive
Logan, who made an honest eff 'rt to get
back to legitimate criticism of public men
and measure;, was often enough forced bock
on the cabinet buds and the senators’ wives
Women’s occupation of the newsDaoer
field is a newer thing across the water than
with us, and whether it be because of this
or iu spite of it, or because of the different
tone or journalism, or the exceptional gift
of the individual, Airs. Crawford has a po
sition and an influence which we cannot
match in America. Mrs. Sullivan’s Lou
don letters during the sittings of the Par
nell commission is probably our closest re
cent parallel.
Women’s work in New York newspaper
dom has materially changed within a few
years. There is a erea: deal more of it and
much of it is exceptionally good of its kind,
but the exper.euoe of one of the best known
and most successful writers is probably a
fair example of that of many more.
“Ido very little newspaper writing now,”
she said yesterday, “ad lam tempted to go
out of it altogether. When the changed
hands I was informed that art and musical
criticism—my specialty—was net a line iu
■which the new pr iprictors cared to employ
a woman, but if I would do tea table gossip
P.nd society chatter they would pay me
well.”
Another newspaper writer, and one who
has won legitimate distinction, was amusing
me the other da>' with accounts of how she
“rircumweuts” her editor.
“He is firmly convinced,” she raid, “that
■women care for nothing but beaux and but
tons.*frivols and frills. I can’t introduce
into my Sunday page the things women
really think and talk about, but I get there
just tho same. I never say a word about
the higher education of women, but if the
collegiate alumnne have a meesing, then I
report it and it goes as a news item. I
dare not mention women’s clubs, but if
there is a club lunch, then 1 at once tuck in
uuder a display head some of the bright
speeches, judiciously interspersed with de
scriptions of the table decorations. Oh, he
thinks I’m very submissive, but he’s cir
cumvented every time the presses roll.”
At big Cooper Union meeting of the
Association of VV orking Girls’ Societies last
■week I counted no fewer than eighteen
women reporters, and idly wondered how
many of them were circumventing their
editors. Schemes for brightening the lives
of working girls may be of little conse
quence abstractly, but when some thou
sands of them hold a convention then the
■womau reporter, especially if people of
■wealth and social importance join hands
•with the toilers, sees her opportunity.
I doubt if there is a paper in New York
on which from two to a dozen women are
not “getting in space” witu more or less
regularity. The number of unattached
writers, out-of-town correep.ndents, semi
literary aspirants of every description, in
creases every season. A few women hold
responsible positions calling for the exercise
of their best powers, nearly all probably
give some attention to the art of circumven
tion, but for the most part ducats drop with
their most pleasing frequency into the pock
ets of those who set up m business as under
clothes editors, purveyors of cosmetic se
crets, interviewers of actresses and dilli
gent searchers after sensations.
The carnival of publicity through which
our society is passing as one phase of its
evolution is helped on a good deal by the
woman newspaper writer. The bulk of
small talk is written still by men, but there
are certain things which men cannot do. A
man cannot cultivate a fashionable dress
maker's acquaintance by paying her price
for an occasional visitiDg gown with a con
fident reliance on ge ting back double the
outlay by leading niadame to gossio about
the costumes in preparation for the next
eocial event in the rich Mr. So-and-So’s
private ball room. A man cannot cultivate
a lady’s acquaintance at an afternoon
tea and call on her next morning
■with a snnling “Please let me see
your engagement book for a minute or two,’
or a “IVill you tell me if you are invited to
Mrs. Brown’s, and do you happen to know
if Mrs. Jones is going and what Mrs.
Smith’s two daughters w ill wear f’ I sup
pose a man can and does, but I never
chanced to see him, pull cut a pad of writ
ing paper at a reception and follow two
prominent women aoout, standing just
■within earshot, w;.i!e he took for a daily
“peeper” (as the newsboys say, not without’
accuracy) full notes of their private conver
sation. Men can and do go into society on a
professedly social footing, while all the time
on the watch for a piquant incident or
story, but I doubt if .hey do these things as
successfully as women. It is the woman’s
tact, her nice discrimination, her instinct
which tells her just how far she can go
v liich brings her services into requisition,
■while her success recreates the demand. In
♦he struggle for existence she seas a chance
♦-> do something which falls in with the
temper of the times. She does it. she is
asked to do it again, she has made her mar
ket; if she would sell she must supply it, for
it is there that now her wares are in de
mand.
If the landlady demands her money and
a woman is weary of washing out hgr own
kerchiefs iu a hand basin, is she going to
tawk about her unsalable ideas in the
future of literature while she remembers
tbe parting words of the editor. “We’ll
t ike 1,500 to 2,000 words if you can get up
something good in the vein of your last
Funday’s article on‘Rich Women who Eat
Olives at Luncheon.” The extraordinary
■woman is going to stick to the literature, the
ordinary o: e is going to find or invent
women’who dote on radishes.
The newspaper writer wnose stock in
trade is personalities is not maliciously dis
posed toward her victims. Sometimes she
holds honestly the code of morality which
is too generally accepted among newspaper
men that there is little or nothing a news
paper hasn’t a right to know, and usually
her experience has been such as to lead her
to regard most people as seekers after
newspaper publicity. Of course she
knows that she can innocently
enough display anew single
bangle without the faintest stirring of
a wish to see it chronicled as an item. Of
course she knows that she can give a din
ner to eight or ten other professional
women in delightful Bohemian fashion at a
httle Italian restaurant without the least
dwire to get glory out of tho performance.
Ot course in a general way she knows that
five women out of six desire nothing more
than to keep ont of the new pvpe s in these
days wnon the scrubbing of skeletous forms
• regular part of spring and fall house
c.eanlng but her adventures with the sixth
woiran have m-ide her cynical
hbe remembers how, iu the innocence of
* in hpr Bala< * days to an
idol she had set on a pedestal; how she
3h. vlrtil* 0 ! 110 " 1x1 - to describe some
ot i,s virtues to the worla; how the idol
wrap; ea itself in delicacy' and . ffended
l' L*?- m a garment, and bow sh j went
feeling as if she had neglected to put
oil her shoes before approaching “shrine!
Desecrate such a sanctuary with public ad
u'ation? Never! But she remembers also
how the dav< went by and there came a
letter. Tbe idol had taken it for granted
she would know the reserve and outraged
majesty were not genuine; tho idol enclosed
money for 100 copies of the paper contain
ing the article which mus: by that time be
readv to appear. L -st the information at
hand might not have proved sufficient the
idol sent clippings of three laudatory
sketches written "by three quicker wi ted
journalists, and a couple ot photographs
taken for the occasion.
She remembers the pleasant lady' who in
her first lonely winter in the big city in
vited her to her “afternoons.” She thought
she was asked for the pie isure of her com
pany, and it never occurred to her to ga
zette the guests or to praise, in print, the
tea. One day her hostes : spoke to her of
another reporter who had “attended every
one of her receptions last winter and never
did a single thing for he .”
“Never did anything?” came the per
plexed inquiry.
“Not a line. She has access to the society
columns of the . the know.”
A little wrinkling of the forehead. then
full iltumiuation. It is the misfortune of
the society reporter that the people who
want free advertising are the ones with
who n she has frequently to deal. She learns
to know so well the woman who receives
her lying in a froth of laces on a pile of
softly tinted cushions, with shaded c indies
and langornus perfumes to bewilder and to
charm. She understands the authoress of
the erotic novel not ye brought into paying
notoriety who asks her lunch and confides
to her over dainty Sevre3 aud iridescent
glass that she is “afraid her last book
is really quite wicked.” I fear she
laughs when told of fathers of debutances
who grow black in the face of public
over the placarding in their daughters’
charms, k .owing as she doe3 not infre
quently that the pictures were obtained
in private from the paternal albums. She
sees so much of these people that it is not
aiways easy to bear in mind that they are
not usually people who have succeeded, but
people who would like to succeed. There
is so much insincerity that she sometimes
forgets toere is a great deal more sincerity.
Whether she is most creator of the craze
for publicity or m st its victim, whether
she believes with unflinching heartiness in
the word she does or whether she fully ap
preciates, as and > many successful correspon
dents, the vulg irity of personal journalism,
she doesn’t yield with oie-half the fre
quency that outsiders might suppose to the
perilous temptation to pay off grudges and
to avenge slights, she doesn’t violate a confi
dence, and she respects the desire for pri
vacy whenever you can convince her that
there exists a human being who doesu’t de
sire to see her name in the newspapers.
This is o:e ride for one set of women.
Everyb dv knows that women write the
columns of dire tions as to how to powder
your licse and how to do up your back hair.
Everybody does not know tnat the woman
who is telling you to-lay what sorts of
hairpins Mrs. Cleveland uses on Sundays,
and what kinds she prefers for Monday
afternoons, may have been wri ring yester
day about the babi s’ hospital, and may
give a hint to-morrow that will show a
soore of croubled women a possible money
making occupation. The women who
manage the charities, the woman’s ex
changes, the training schools for nurses,
the free kindergartens, know how
much they owe to newspaper women.
The woman who has a helpful plan sees
first tr.e possibility of its realization
when she can win tue ear of an intelligent
woman reporter. O.ie of the most success
ful newspaper women 1 know said to me
yesterday that she loved her work because
it gave her so many chances of doing good.
She could not give money, but she could
give words that would put up blocks of
buildings. This is the other side for an
other set of women, iu spite of which it re
man s true that the demand for articles
about what actresses eat ana what the Van
astorbilts feed their poodle dogs is too
steady to permit the work of a woman
newspaper correspondent to be considered
as opening, save iu exceptional instances a
“literary career.
CHASUBLE, ALB AND STOLE.
The most charming library I have lately
seen is hung with curtains from old confes
sionals. It belongs to a woman who loves
books and who loves embroideries. She
found tbee somewhere in Canada, in a littlo
church that was dent laden und dropping in
pieces, and she paid for them a price that
was stiff enough to go some distance on re
pairs. They're a rich crimson silk, dulled
m tint by age, and wrought with gold
thread and bullion. A lot of altar cloths
and cloaks included in a recent exbi l ition
of art objects was sold at prices plainly
indicating what a hold the crazi for
cburchly belongings has taken on women
able to indulge such costly fancies in
decoration. The laugh has gone round
for years at the expense of a lady with
more money than education, who was
said to have bought hangings in Italy
marked I. H. S. because the letters were
her father’s initials, but non there are
women in plenty daring enough to wear the
heavy laces wrought for archbishops in
their life long leisure by nuns, who grow
dim-eyed over their selt-imposed tasks till
they ould hardly distinguish the work of
their own Augers as it lay across the priests’
shoulders when the bell raug and the censor
smoked aud tho candle flame winked as the
host was elevated. The fancy for ec
clesiastical embroideries we have
borrowed from the studios. The artists
began to bring home from Italy spoils
from the vestment rooms years ago.
The secularization of the monasteries aud
nunneries threw into the market a great
store of albs, chasubles and stoles, which
cost little or nothing, but with their glow -
ing colors and rich stitchery in gold and
silver, silks and pearls, made most wonder
ful hangings and backgrounds. First one
wealt-.y woman and then another caught
the idea, aud began to buy on her summer
tours and to commission agents to be on the
lookout for fine pieces, and then the agents
themselves cornered the market and put up
the figures. Everything of the sort is
now very expensive, but if vou are
able to procure an altar cloth from* an old
cathedral to throw over the cduch in vour
drawing room the chances are that its
white silk, yellowed by time, with border
or cherubs’ heads with silken curls and ti >y
wings all in tarnished gold will win you more
admiration as a woman of resource, than
any other possible decoratton. The relig
ieuaes and the pious lay women put their
religion into their Augers. Trie silks and
6atins from the vestment chests are rich
enough to stand aloe, and tbe scroll de
signs in bullion thread that are like those
illuminating the pages of old missals are
done to last 300 years.
One well-known New York womau ha3
the mantel of her parlor decked with two
g irgoous embroidered cloaks, and these are
enough to maintain her social reputation.
Another has her receiving room curtained
with ecclesiastical cloths in reddi-h brown,
stitched with gold and green mid blue, and
a third has half the chairs of her drawing
room upholstered with the same
elaborate silken labors. The womau
who keeps up with the times is
ever on the alert for a prize in
the shape of a scrap of church em
broidery that can be turned into a table
scarf or a piece of stole that will cover a
divan cushion. Some of the best things of
this sort I have seen belong to *a woman
who, by long prowling Among dealers in
antiques in half the capitals of Europe
after them, has become a connoisseur and
amassed a famous collection, but is now un
happy because sho cannot find a house witu
just the right light in the library to display
to advantage her g.ieu hangings wrought
in blue and silver.
THE FLOWEH RIDE AND THE RIDING COS
TUME.
Now that the violets are blooming and
the sky is a vault of brilliant and unfathom
able blue, the horsewomen are out for their
flowerrides. Overthedownsof Long Island
or up the splend and roads that wind along the
banks of t e Hudson nr among the Orange
hills they gallop, and drink tea from costly
Dresden cup3 handed about under bu ldiDg
maples at noon and bring home more pleas
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1890--TWELYE PAGES.
ant recollections than posies. From a dozen
to twenty fair riders make up a party, and
sometimes they are accompanied by an
equal number of cavaliers booted and
spurred, but oftener their only escort it the
fashionable riding master.
The woman who rides has broken loose a
little from the conventional habit this
season. She wears a waistcoat in blue and
white, very probably, or English pink and
cream. Her bodice bas cutaway fronts
which may button over tbe I night colors
while cantering through the park, but
which on a flower ride she is sure to turn
back in flapping revers. Her skirt may
be black or bottle green or dark blue as
formerly, but it is quite as apt to be in one
of a dozen soft shades of gray. It is short
and scant and outlines her figure as she sits
in tbe saddle. She wears a silk hat in the
park, but an English straw when her steed
feels the grass under bis heels.
It is a matter of course that she does not
sit astride, and equally a matter of course,
in spire of the doubts of the scoffer, that the
good-looking dress reformer who bas gotten
so much notoriety through the mistaken
zoal of a reporter never had the slightest in
tent ion of scampering through the park to
set her such an example. If ever we wear
divided gowns it won’t be on horseback in
the beginning. Nevertheless, theory of
immodesty is absurd. The riding habit as
now worn is frequently more immodest in
its revelations of the figure than the
frankest bathing gown.
If the divided gown should ever material
ize for summer athletics, it is likely to be
used on the lady’s bicycle first, as aclimbing
suit for mountain excursions second, and
for horseback riding las: of all. I know a
couple of women wco use it aireadv on the
bicycle. That is, they say they do. The
bicycle rider’s position is such 'and these
particular gowns are so convenient in cut
and and aperies, that I never suspected the
bifurcation until I was informed. I have
lately seen one divided dress for Adirondack
wanderings. It is more like a zouave cos
tume tnau anything else, not at all pretty,
but perfectly seemly. We may come to
these things yet, but the rush is not impetu
ous just now. The discussion, however, has
brought out a good many admissions that
the side saddle is fit only for short excur
sions.
ARTISTS’ MODELS.
There is a flavor of romance about tjie
studios, but on no subject is more nun
senee talked than about artists’ models.
Last week the Art Student*’ League held an
exhibition. The room in which the
sketches of the life classes were exhibited
fascinated me. First, I had to acknowl
edge that the men drew from the nude con
siderably better than the women, then I
made certain that neither men nor women
had had good figures to draw from. The
female models apparently had figure* that
the average woman would take precious
good care to disguise well
with draperies. How women
with such bodies can get paid
for posing is a mystery, supposing
that good models exist at aIL In truth, the
model as she is is very different from the
model as she is supposed to bo. In the first
place she is just as modest and just as vir
tuous as any other woman. There isn’t the
lanst flavor of impr priety about her or her
calling. In the next place she needs a
thorough course of physical culture before
a literal copy of her will give you anything
beautiful. She hasn’t a go;d chest, she
doesn’t stand erectly, she needs somebody
to teach her the first priuciple3 of graceful
bearing. She is indolent, and she grows
fat easily. A set of photographs lately re
ceived from Paris, where thev get much
better models than iu New York, shows
that even there good figures to work from
are the exception and not the rule.
WOMEN AS CLERKS.
Apropos of the endless discussion of the
impoliteness of saleswoman on the one side
and their Ijw wages and long hours on the
other I have noticed a coincidence. There
are stores where no important line of pro
motion is open to wo nen, tbe heads of de
partments, buyers, etc., are nearly all men.
Tnere are stores w here responsible positions
are held oy women. I have lately begun to
notice that iu these latter I nearly always
get well treated. More than this," there is
oue store which for years I shunned because
its saleswomen were rude. I have been
there once or twice lately and found smil
lug courtesy. It so happens that two posi
tions not before filled by women have been
given to them. Is the coincidence anything
more? Is the negligence due to the lack of
ambition? Supply a stimulus, a bone, an
outlook for the future, do you get "better
saleswomen? Eliza Putnam Heaton.
NEW DESIGNED LADIES’COSTUMES
The Princess of Wales oa Horseback.
New York, April 26.—Our sketches this
week are redolent of bright, breezy, out
door life —of long delightful days oa
shaded, winding country road3, of moun
tain climbing and sea-shore rambles, and
hours spent, rod in hand, by quiet trout
streams —in fact of all those open air de
lights which are in such marked contrast
to the more artificial amusements of tbe
winter season.
A NEW RIDING HABIT.
A*oecialty, is an entirely new riding habit
made of waterproof, fancy diagonal cloth
suitable for summer wear. The bodice is
cut in quite a novel fashion, with a waist
coat of a very horsey-lookiug check Kersey
cloth in bright colors. Tbe bodice can
either button across this in the center, or
remain open all the way down, at the wish
of the wearer. The skirt fits to a nicety,
being cut on a patent safety principle, in
such a manner that it will nei her "drag”
nor “ruck up,” and can be made to wear on
any modern saddle; thus combining with
elegance the greatest comfort and security
to the wearer. This skirt is also as graceful
and comfortable for walking as riding,
being arranged to fasten up very ingeni
ously on one side. Tbe breeches or trousers
are made of silk Jersey, or material to
match the habit.
A silk bat is usually worn in the park,
but for country wear a low felt derby or
even a straw hat can be worn, tho latter
being much in vogue in England last year
for young ladies. The most approved boots
are dress Wellingtons, gloves tan dogskin.
It is not generally known that ail the
habits Redfern makes for the Princess of
Wales are made to be worn on the right
side of the horse, owing to a slight injury
that the fair equestrienne sustained to her
knee when a child at Copenhagen. Her
royal highne s has had all her daughters
taught to ride on cither side of tbe saddle,
informing Mr. Redferu that she thought it
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“REDFERN” FANCY WRAP.
The wrap illustrated is a “chi” combina
tion of velvet and lace. The sleeves are
artistically draped a ;d caught up with rich
corded ribbon?. The front is brought to a
point about an inch below the waist semi
fitting aud finishing off with jet ornaments.
The embroidery is band-worked on velvet,
making a unique addition to this wrap.
The neck can bs worn onen or closed, purely
a personal taste, filled in with a light pat
tern of lace.
REDFERN TOILETTE.
This is a delightful gown and has just
been completed. The finest broadcloth in a
lovely shade of “vieux-bleu” is used for the
chief part of the gown; the panel at the left
side of skirt, vest and sleeves are of similar
material in ivory white, elaborately braided
in the renaissance style, with fine twisted
cords, in which mingle copper, silver and
vieux-bleu. The loosely folded fronts of
bei-galorio are in the latter color, as are
also the small loose fronts, proceeding from
the under arm seam?, and just revealing
their lining of ivory white silk. The
noticeable feature of this gown is tho
narrow collar band, whicu is quite super
ceding the high-necked gowns that have
been popular so long. A Drge hat of
creamy-colored straw, trimmed with vieux
bleu ribbon and ostrich tips, is intended to
to be worn with this gown.
Redfern.
A BRICK HOUSE
OF SUITABLE WIDTH FOR A
TWENTY-FIVE-FOOT LOT.
Very Complete Accommodations, In
cluding a New and Desirable Feat
ure—A Range Room —By R. W.
Shoppell, Architect.
(Copyright by tho Aifthor.)
General Dim-nsiors—Width, through sit
ting room and ball, 22 feet 4 inches; depth,
including veranda and Tange room, 69 feet
finches. Heights of stories: Cellar, 8 feet:
first story, 9 feet 6 inches; second 'ory, 9
feet; attic 8 feet.
PERSPECTIVE.
Exterior Materials—Foundations, stone
and brick; first and second st ries, brick;
gables, shingles; roofs, dark blue slate.
Outside blinds to windows of dining room
and kitchen extension.
Interior Finish—Hard white plaster, with
plaster center* in parlor, sitting end dining
room, and hall. White pine flooring in
first and second stories; spruce flooring in
attic. White pine trim throughout. Main
stairway ash. Wain-cot in kitchen. Pict
ure moldings in principal rooms and hall
of first story. Inside folding blinds to all
windows in" main part of house. All in
terior woodwork finished in hard oiL
Colors.—Brick work cleaned down at
completion and repointed. Trim outride
doors and blinds dark green. Sashes and
ram conductors Pompeian red. Veranda
floor, seal brown. Veranda ceiling, yel
low stone color. Gable shingle? dipped in
and brush coated with brownish stain.
Accommodations. —The principal rooms
and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by
the floor plans. Cellar under whole house,
with inside and outside entrance. Two rooms
and hallway fini-hed in attic. Skylight set
in roof over hail. Width of house sui ab'e
for twentv-five-foot lot. This de-igu would
appear well as ad üble house. Back stairway
conveniently accessible from kitchen and
from dining-room to kitchen closet. C at
and hat closet under main stairway. China
dining-room. Doorway may be cut throuih
closet in dining-room. Open fireplace i.i
parlor. Range is set iu a small, well venti
lated room off the kitchen proper, which
prevents over-beating of kitchen and keeps
odors from the h use. Sliding doors be
tween parlor and sitting-room.
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CELLAR—FIRST FLOOR.
Cost $3,000, not including mantels, range,
and he ;ter. Th3 estimate is based on New
York prices for materials and labor. In
many sections of the country the cost
should be less. ■
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SECOND FLOOR—ATTIC.
Feasible Modifications—Heights of stories,
sizes of rooms, kinds of materials and c 1-
ors may be changej. Open fireplaces may
be introduced in sitting room, dining room,
and three bedrooms, or all open fireplaces
may be omitted. Sliding doors, part or all
of plumbing, part or all of side veranda,
aud attic finish, may be omitted. The one
step platform at foot of main stairway may
be omitted, thus giving more space to front
hall Two front bedrooms of second story
may be combined to form one large room.
After Twenty Years.
My wife’s a winsome wee thing.
Wed twenty years or mair,
And aye the bonnier growing, '
As baitb mine eyes declare.
’Tis love that made her bonnie,
And love that keeps her sae,
In spite o’ time and fortune.
On life's uncannie way.
Lore scares awa' the wrinkles
From off her smooth white brow,
Am duty done through good and ill
Aye keeps her conscience true—
Aad yields her happy peace of mind,
If e’er the world goes wrong,
And turns the murmur of lament
Into a cheerful song.
The kisses gather on her lips
Lise blossoms on the rose.
And kindly thoughts reflect the light
That in her bosom glows—
As wavelets hi a running stream
Reflect the noontide ray,
And sparkle with the light of heaven
When rippling on their way.
She is a winsome wee thing.
And more than twenty year
She's twined h-rself about my heart
By all tnat can eudear;
By all that can endear on earth
Foreshadowing thiugs above.
And it al my baopy soul to heaven.
Rejoicing in her love 1
Charlss Macsat.
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PURIFY
YOUR :
BLOOD
AND
DISEASE
WILL VANISH
Spring Medicine.
Nothing is so efficacious as P. P. P. for a
Spring Medicine at this season, and for toning
up. invigorating, and as a strengthener and
appetizer, take P. P. P. It throws off the
malaria, and nuts you in good condition.
P. P. P is the best Spring Medicine in the
world tor the different ailments the system is
liable to in the Soring.
P. P. P. is a sure cure for rheumatism, syphilis,
scrofula, blood poison, blotches, pimples, and
all skin and blood diseases.
Terrible blood poisoning, body covered with
sores, two bottles making the patient as lively
as a ten-year-old. Tb s is the case and testi
mony of Ja.e Hastings, traveling salesman.
Savannah, Ga.
A Marshal Saved, Life and Hair.
Monticello. Fla., Jan. 21, 18S9.
For the last eight years I have been in bad
health, suffering with malaria, rheumatism,
dyspepsia, dropsy. My digestion was bad, and
ray hair ail cuma out. In fact. I was nearly a
wrecK. I had taken ki iney and blood medicines,
which did me no good. When I began taking
P. P. P.. about three months ago, I was as weak
as a child. T have only taken fur bottles
(small size), and to-day I am a well man. and
my hair has “come again.” I cannot recom
mend P. P. P. too highly.
W. F. WARE.
Marshal Monticello, Fla.
F. C. Owens, Witness.
Dyspepsia and Indigestion
In their worst forms are cured by the use of P.
P. P. If you are debi Stated and run down, or If
you need a tonic to regain flesh and lost appe
tite, strength and vigor, take P. P P„ and you
will be st: ong and healthy. For shattered con
stitutions and lost manhoid take P. P. P.
(Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) is the
king of all medicines. P. P. P. is the greatest
blood purifler in the world. For sale by all
druggists.
Mr. Foraker, with Cornwell A Chipman of
Savannah, says he suffered weakness and gen
eral debility, being almost unable to attend to
business. Two bottles cured him and he is now
a well man. For sale by all druggists.
LIPPMAN BROS.. Proprietors,
Lippman's Block. Savannah, Ga.
MJEUICAZ*
j Some |
Children j
j Crowing |
I Too Fast |
| become listless, fretful, without ener
gy, thin and weak. But you can for-1
j tify them and build them up, by the j
1 use of
scorn
j OF PURE GQD LIVER OIL AND j
HYPOPHOSPHITES
Of Lime ajtd Soda.
1 They will take it readily, for it is al* !
J moot as palatable as milk. And it i
I 1 should be remembered that AS A PRE
VENTIVE OR CURE CF COUGHS OR COEDS, i
iii B3TM THi OLD AHD WJNQ, IT 13 <
liKEQUAII.EC. Avoid substitutions offered, j
PETERMAN'S ROACH FOOD.
THE people who have used PETERMAN’S
ROACH FOOD highly recommend it to
their friends end n ighbors. It has no equal in
the world, as it attracts th • Roaches and Water
Bugs as a food which they like better than any
thing else. They all eat it any die. Put up in
25c.. 50c. and 75c. mailable cans. Sold by all
the principal druggists in the United States
WM. PETERMAN, M’F’G CHEMIST,
Office, No. 6 East 14th street. New York.
LIPPMAN BROS.. Agents, Savanrah.
M
j j V P 3
At Wholesale by LIPPMAN BROS., Savan
nah, Ga.
pi CENTS will tay tor THE DAILY
flfa MORNING NEWS one week, delivered
/ Sto any part of the city. Send your ad
fa U dress with 25 cents to tbe Business
Office and have the paper delivered regularly.
MEDICAL.
P. P. P.
Is recommended by physicians because they
see its healthy effects all around them.
A leading physician in New York and director
of one of the large hospitals, says, Feb. Sth.
1890, he has made use of the P. P. P. sent him,
and was pleased to say P. P. P. proved effica
cious in a number of cases, and adds, it is no
more than he should have anticipated from the
satisfactory combination of such well known
drugs.
A prominentrailway superintendent of Savan
nah (name given on application) says be wa3
crippled bv a disease in lees and arms, power
less to walk or eat without assistance, having
lost the use of his limbs by rheumatism, mala
ria, dyspepsia, etc. Pnysicians here sent him to
New York, and tney returned him here, and ha
was as complete a wreck as one could be and
live. A course of P. P. P. has made him a well
mac.
P. P. P. is known among physicians in the
South for its various and wonderful cures as
the great blood purifler of the age.
Blood Poisoning
■MMO———IPIT—ISTUiirn
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Syphilis,
old s ires, pimples, blotches, scrofula", blood and
mercurial poison, and skin diseas s are eradi
cated by the use of P. P. P. Hosts of certifi
cates are in < fflee to show ti e cures in these
diseases where all other medicines have failed.
Rheumatism
Inflamatory, gout, sciatic, and its kindred
diseases, with its excruciating pains, are cured
by the wonderful bloo l cleansing properties of
P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potas
sium.)
Catarrh
Originates in scrofulous taint. P. P. P. purifies
the blood, and this prevents catarrh.
LIPPMAN BROS.,
Sole Proprietors of P. P. P..
Lippman's Block, Savannah, Ga.
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LOTTERY.
LOTTERY
OF THE PUBLIC CHARITY.
ESTABLISHED IN 1877, BY THE
MEXICAN
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
Operated Under a Twenty Years’ Contract
by the Mexican International Im
provement Company.
Grand Monthly Drawings held in the Moresque
Pavilion in the Alameda Park. City of Mexico,
and publicly conducted by Government Offi
cials appointed for the rmrpotw by the Secre
tary of the Interior and the Treasury.
Grand Semi-Annnal Drawing, May
CAPITAL PRIZE,
#120,000.
£*o,ooo Tickets at £*, £640,000.
Wholes, £8; Halves, £4; Quarters, £2;
Eighths. £l.
Club Rates: 855 Worth of Tickets for
SSO LT. S. Currency.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF 8120,000 is 8120,000
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF .10,000 is 40,000
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF 20,000 is 20,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF.. 5.000 is ... 5,000
2 PRIZES OF 2,0 fl are.... 4,000
5 I 'RIZES OF 1,000 are.... 5,000
20 PRIZES OK 500 are.... 10.000
100 PRIZES OF 200 are 20,000
880 PRIZES OF 100 are.... 38,000
529 PRIZES OF 40 are.... 21,160
APPROXIMATION FRIZES.
150 Prizes of $l2O app. to $120,000 Prize.s 18,000
150 Prizes of 100 app. to 40,000 Prize. 15,000
1?0 Prizes of 60 app. to 20,000 Prize. 9,000
799 Terminals of 840 decided by $120,000
Prize 81,960
2.289 Prizes Amounting to 8057.120
All Prizes sold In the United States full paid
In U. S. Currency.
SPECIAL FEATURES
By terms of contract the Company must de
posit the sum of all prizes included in tbe
scheme before selling a single ticket, and re
ceive the following official permit:
CERTIFICATE.—I hereby certify that the
Bank of Lonflon and Mexico has on specie!
depot! the necessary funds to guarantee tne
payment of all prizes drawn by the Loterid
de la Beneficencia Public or,
A. CASTILLO, Intervenior.
Further, the Company is required to distrib
ute 56 per cent, of the value of all the tickets la
prizes -a larger proportion than is given by any
other Lottery.
Finally, tbe number of tickets is limited to
80,000—20,000 less than are sold by othsr lot
teries using the same scheme.
For full particulars address V. DsswH
Apartado 788, City of Mexico, Mexico.
SHIPPING.
SaTannah, Beaufort and Way landing!.
THE STEAMER
“ BELLEVUE,”
Capt. T. E. BALDWIN,
TTTILL LEAVE steamer Katie's wharf every
) Y WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY at 10:30 a. m.,
landing at B'uffton on the Wednesday trip.
Returning, leave Beaufort every MONDAY and
THURSDAY' st 8 ail, landing at Bluflfton on
the Monday trip.
FARE 81 90 i ROUND TRIP.. $1 ”5
For further information apply to J. G. MED
LOCK, Agent.
mTT-p MORNING NEWS carriers reach
I l-J i-i every part of thecity early. Twenty-
XXX XJ five cents a week piys for the DaiW-
