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THE PACE THAT KILLS.
THB GBOWTH OF INTOXICATION
AMONG WOIOX.
Experts Sat That Drinking Among
Women Has Increased to an Appall
ing Kxtent—Physicians. Judge* and
Restaurant Keepers Unite in the
Opinion That the Gentler Sex is Tip
pling Too Much.
(OwrilM)
York, June 7.—One at the signifi
cant signs of the times is that women’s
work was never in so much demand as at
present. The woman of to-day stands out
a strong, striking and independent figure
in our cinuiatioti. She is working shoul
der to shoulder with men, and while, per
haps. is not hemg so well paid for her labor,
fee truth of Byron’s assertion, that time
will make all things equal, may be depended
upon in ter case.
The woman of tc-iay has her own clubs,
ter own societies. She is at work in the
bcsy districts of trade and commerce. She
is beard in the pulpit and on the platform.
She paints, and in some instances her
pictures sell for more money than those
painted by men. She is no longer a theorist
in politics, and in many places in this broad
lai-d sbe is a positive power in political con
▼enttona.
It may truthfully be said to be the golden
age for woman.
She has cast tradition to the four winds,
and is in a great many cases leading her
brother a stem cha=-e. She knows how to
light (cr the nimhie doLar, and. in a word,
may be said to have taken her proper posi
tion in our civilization.
There .* or e phase in woman’s life, how
ever, that Las received little or no attention,
sunjdy because toe facts are not generajy
known. While woman has been anding a
greet deal of good in the world, she is also
O' leg much that is wro:.g. and those who
knee the facts well are astounded at tee
canid it v of woman in crime, and the amaz
in'; predilection that a large cumber of the
weaker sex have for the bottle.
In other words, drunkenness has become
a very marked feature of life in the big
cities.
I ta e conversed wi*h a large number of
pkvsicians on this subj*ct, with restaurant
keepers, with men who bare made the
stony of *rmie their life work and all agree
tnat intoxication am .mg women is appal.-
ing.
Nor u it altogether among the lower
classes of women that this is noticeable.
Nor can it be said to prevail mate in or e
section of the country than another. It
seems to be universal.
-Some tune ago I addressed an inquiry to
a large cumb-rc of physicians, superintend
ents of police, judge* and Gibers, who are
daily brought into contact with a large
number and variety of people, and wita
one accord they agreed that drunkenness
among the gentler sex was on the increase.
Among the authorities were a score of
superintendents of police in the tig cities, a
half dozen police justices, such men as Ei
bridge T. Gerry, the b* ad of the S ciety
f r me Prever tion of Cruelty to Children,
Secretary Rounds of the Prison Re
form Association, Judge Ditty, before
whom more men and women are brought
than aay other police justice
in New York city, the superintendent of
the institution on Blackwell's Island, to
which men and women arretted for drunken
ness are taken, and Anthony Comstock, the
mowing spin' in toe Society for the bnp
preation of Vice. They all agreed t oat
women were drinking too muca and too
heavily, and a number of them added that
when a woman starts on a downward path
she seldom or never stops until she reaches
the end—the gutter. Borne of these gentle
men, among them Judge Duff y. gave it as
their opinion that the cause of this increase
in liquor drinking was idleness.
"Drunkenness among women,” said Judge
Duffy, “is more marked than a—y one
dreams of, and what is more.ia my opinion,
it tli comes from idleness. The majority of
women hare nothing to do all day wniie
tcew husbands are away attending to busi
ness, so they get together and drink and
drtns and drink. If they had work to do
they a u.d not do trds. At least, not to the
alarming extent that now prevails.”
“But how would you prevent itP I asked
him”
“If I had my way.” said he, “I would
compel every man and woman to work a
certain length of time every day. Women
have nothing to occupy ineir minds, if
they bad work to do their minds would be
clearer, they would be m better physical
health, and there would be leas drinking
than now. 1 would apply this rule to both
prince and pauper.”
T hat solution of the problem sounds very
well, hut it is not feasible, and it is not
likely to ever be applied so that tippling
may be decreased.
Only last week a woman was found hope
lessly drunk about midnight on Broadway.
She was arres ei, slept all night in a police
station, and next morning she tearfully ex
plained that she was a cousin of the great
inventor whose name is a household word
in this land. Her friends knew she was not
given to excessive use of liquor, but she had
met some ladies in the shopping district and
they had adjourned to a restaurant were a
great deal of strong liquor was disposed of
and the end was drunkenness. Her’s was not
an isolated case. There it hardly a dav
in which some woman of good iamilv and
eminent respectability is not arrested for
intoxication. It has become so much a
feature of police c ~urt life that such cases
no longer attract attention. 1 mav say
frankly, that there is but little if any limi
tation to it. Tne poor washerwomen of the
docks, with their pints of mixed ales, by
means of which they become unduly exhila
rated, and the wealthy woman of Murry Hill
who sip champagne and strong wines in the
glided cafes on upper Broadway, m,y be
pointed to as types. The one spends but a
few pennies, while the other squanders a
good many dollars. The result, intoxica
tion, is the same. There never was a time
when it was so easy for women of all classes
to obtain liquor as at present. There are
scores of pretty gilded cafes in the shop
ping district where w.mien can luacu
and get all they want to drink,
from a vermuth cocktail to raw
whisky. A good deal of this is done
openiy. Some places pretend to hide the
sale of strong drink and furnish it in the
shape of Roman punches and other decep
tive measures, but a good many do not
take the trouble to do anything of the kmd,
and it is no unusual thing for one, two, or
as many more women to sit down in some
of the fine cafes or table—l’ hote restau
rant and to drink to their heart’s content,
and they are connoisseurs in drinking, too.
It is impossible to fool them. They know
good liquor from bail and they know just
how the seductive cocktail should be made.
In a great many of the swell dressmaking
and millinery establishments the customers
are allowed to help themselves from a well
filled and choicely selected sideboard.
Occasionally you wiil find some place
where liquor is not served to women. 1
happened the other day in a restaurant on
a prominent thoroughfare up town.
It war late in the afternoon. There
were a number of women sipping lemonade,
eating ice cream and gossiping with their
neighbors. At a table or two in front of
me sat a handsome looking women with an
armful of bundles, Bbe had evidently been
oi a shopping expedition and was tired.
Hbe settled down solidly in a chair, and as
a white-apropfed servitor appioached her
*** l ? nt l**- bead over archly and whig-
P " r i m **t*rioas phrase to him. He
****** “** Lead and pointed to the proprie
tor, who was sitting at the cashier s desk.
.I* “ °** °* the rules of the place,” said
the waiter, “that no .iquor shall be served
to ibd** unaccompanied by gentlemen.”
How dare you ref me my order,” said the
**7~ *~. flushed. “You are insolent
1 ftbftli rejr /rt jron."
“tdaretodo this, madam, because I am
*!VHtfjWiXax iuy iuur jcuou*.
bj uiis tuae tne proprietor, who had
! overheard the cooversaticn. reached the
table.
“I am sorTT.” be said, "but it is the rule
of our place. " There is no reflection on you
in any way, but we will not serve liquor to
ladies who are not escorted by gentlemen.
! We would ratter lose their custom. We
had to do this id se.f-i-f'-ase. W e used to
serve liquor to women but. it got us into no
end of trouble. lam very sorry we cannot
oblige you.'’
The lady arose fcumedly, took up her
bundles and walked out.
“It would never do." said the proprietor
of tne place as be walked by my table. “We
have had enough experience w.th drunken
women here. A drunker, man is bad enough,
but a drunken woman is immea urably
worse. Of oourae, it must not be under
stood that there is any reflection upon
women who come here and wan: to drink
and are refuaed the privilege. Tne
lady who just left here is the wife of
a down-town merchant. I know him
very well, and it is none of my business
what bis wife may do, but I could not
afford to risk m y reputation here, if she
shonld drunk a little t o much. My cus
tomers are for the most part respectable
people, and it would hurt us greatly if an
ictoxica’ed woman should be seen in this
pi ace. There is no sentiment about this at
aii We take this stand for business rea-
sons. pure and simple.'’
But if there are a few places that deny
this privilege to woman sbe need not go
athirst. There are more than 10.001 sakas
in New York where liquor is sold openly
and above board. Wnen you say this the
naif has not been toll Wnen you are in
formed that there are several thousand
drug stores in New York in which liquor
can be oblai ed upon a very flimsy reason
for wanting it. not all lias been told. And
when you are i-formed that grocery stores
sell as much liquor, comparatively speak
ing, as the saloons do, tne half is not yet
told.
The keeper of any of the swell restau
rants will tell you that e me of his bat cus
tomers, so far as liquid refreshments are
reneeraed, are women: just as the druggist
will tell you that the persons who enable
him to pay bis license for the sale of liquors
are large.y woni-n, a:.d just as tne grocery
man will, if he tell yo i the truth in the mat
ter. say tnat many of his ber customers are
women who send to him for bottled liquors,
and have it put down on the charge books
as “soniries."’
Threw women walked into a restaurant
net far from Union Square only a few
rights ago. They sat at one of the tables,
but it was apparant from their order that
they were not in search of an ordinary
dinner. The were treated with the utmost
deference by the waiters, for the women
were wives of men well known in social
circles. The lunch they ordered was not
exleosiTe in one sense, tint chamragr eand
imported liquors were the important ele
ments in it Nor did one bottle or
two do, until the proprietor of the place,
who had been looking on with some uneasi
ness, for be did not know at waat t .me some
one who knew the ladiei might come in,
came to the table an i iu an undertone said
something to one of the ladies. She flushed,
be-k ned to the other ladies, paid her bill
and left the place.”
“They are ladies,’’ said the proprietor
in his broken English, “bat they make the
trouble."
Women have no opportunities to drink!
That is a mistake. They have them and
they know it
T*he ordinary reader does not know, but
it is a fact nevertheless, that the woman has
the advantage over the man in the way of
getting her tipple. The man goes about in
a very stupid way, and for that reason you
can tell a man who ranges anywhere from
a tippler to a dipsomaniac almost at
sight. The man being the coarser and
in some respects tne less secretive
animal stands up at a put lie bar and drinks
to an extant that all men may know thereof,
or he places a bulging fla-k in his pocket in
such a way that ail tne public can at once
see that he has bliss and brandy in both
possession and contemplation. Or in some
t tber cases he awakes very early in the
morning and hies himself away to the near
est lodging plac a of strong waters and as
toe cocktail steals down his throat and takes
possession of the territory to wbich it was
naturally assigned, he smiles. He smiles a
satisfied smile.
“My w.fe is at home," he says to himself,
or perhaps ti the model bartender who
serves drinks and agrees with everybody
and commits perjury about 300 times'a day
without turning a hair.
“My wife is at home,’’ he continues, “and
at just about this time she is dreaming of
me, not thinking 1 am here. She is a
dreaming now of the time when, to me the
words of Don Piatt:
“The bloom was on the alder
And toe tassel on tbs corn.
“Lord, bow we do get the best of women
sometimes," tbis indiscreet young man says.
The gentleman spoke according to the
lights by widen be’ was enlightened. He
thought he was fooling his wife. He
wasn’t. She was not thinking much of
him or of Do a Piatt’s poem. It may be
that sbe wanted her cocktail, too. But her
way of obtaining it was infinitely superior
to his. His was tae boldness of toe less
acute animal Hers was that of the woman.
It was of the order that Mother Eve herself
possessed and displayed on one oocasion
now somewhat famous.
There is another subject that goes band
in hand with tbis drinking of liquor. It is
no longer a strange thing to see women
sitting in public restaurants after a hearty
dinner surrounded by half a dozen friends
of both sexes smoking cigarettes. Such a
scene would have surprised a New Yorker
a dozen years ago. To-day it causes no
comment! The women have simply taken
a step or two in advance of their preroga
tives. What they use to do in secret they
now do openly, and this does not apply so
much to women of easy reputation as to
those of good family, and who bold their
heads high in the community.
Drunkenness among men has been a
topic of universal interest. Drunkenness
among women bids fair to become the
blight of our too rapid civilization.
The picture is not overdrawn. It is ap
palling in its suggestiveness, but as a
famous politician, now gathered to his
fathers, once remarked, "What are you
going to do about it?” Foster Coated
Too Honest for a Lawyer.
The late Clement A. Livingston, for many
years a Philadelph a merchant, was a brother
of John B. Livingston, who is now serving his
second term as president judge of the Lancas
ter court, relates the Philadelphia Inquirer. He
studied law with ThadJeus Stevens. When he
decided that he would rathe.- be a lawyer than
anything else he was a farm boy in Salisbury
township. To his letter askinz Stevens whether
he had room for a student aud what his terms
were, young Livingston received the foilowing
laconic aud characteristic reply: “Have room.
Terms, $2tW. So > e pay, some don’t.” There is
a sequel to this letter that the judge seldom
tells. Shortly after receiving Mr. Stevens' let
ter t|e farm boy and his father went to Lancas
ter. They met the lawyer on the court house
steps. He greeted them cordially and. turning
from an inspection of the young candidate for
legal honors, said to his father: “You had bet
ter take your boy back home.” “Why? ' asked
the puzzled parent. “Because,” said Stevens
in his decisive, determined way, “his face looks
to mo as though he were too infernally honest
for a lawyer."
Prince Murat to Marry $15,000,000.
Mrs. Crawford in London Truth.
Prince Murat, after being jilted by the Mary
land heiress, has fished again tor a wealthy
wife, and the news is that he is engaged to one
who has $15,000,000. She brings h r eggs to a
bad market. Th" Murals, even under the em
pire. which was their only raison d'etre, were
not held in high esteem They had all a great
talent for getting into debt, and under circum
stances which obliged the emperor jo pay or to
suffer the family nest to be fouled. Not one of
them had any parental or maternal heritage. I
remember hearing a finance minister say that
the father of the Duchesse de Moucbv had at
one time debts to the amount of £3.000,000,
wnich -were paid to avoid a scandal. Louis
Murat, the brother of the engaged widower, is
an outside broker.
Anew use has been discovered for electric
light globes in Boston. The spring birds have
found that t hey make excellent places in which
to build their nests, sheltered as is the inner
space from the winds and storms, and manv a
lively and lovely courtship may be seen almost
any day by glancing at the top of the tall poles.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1890—TWELVE PAGES.
THE LITERARY HERMIT.
THB MOUNTAIN HOME OF MB&
AMELIA E Bars.
A Woman Who Conquered Fame
After a Severs Struggle, and the
Turning Point of Whose Life Wae
an Accident— Two Great Novels
Coming.
< Copyright.}
Nxw York. June 7.—American litera
ture is bright with the names of women
who have fought the battle of life and come
off conquer.rs. Every one is familiar wita
the strange, sad story of Louisa A loot*., the
author of “Little Women," the almott
monastic career of the Perry sisters and the
struggle for recognition undergone by
these brilliant women, Mrs. Ter hone,
Jean Ingelow and Mrs. Margaret Sang
ster before fame and fortune knocked
at their doors. There is something brave
mingling wi h the pathos of their early ex -
penances. And now, sincere, thoughtful
and mellowed by the years, they do not
represent a type “whose consciences are
slaves to fame," but rather a school of au
thorship that serves as a beacon to the
younger generation of feminine writers and
that is honored and treasured on both sides
of the Atlantia
The other dnr, in the parlors of the Fifth
Avenue hotel, I met one of the most re
markable and prolific of woman authors,
Amelia E. Barr. There is probably
no woman in the United States to-day
wnose writings command so wile a circle
of readers at borne and abroad; yet. so
much of a hermit is she, that her person
ality is almost a mystery. Mrs. Barr is
probe’ lv over 50, yet sbe has all the
sprightliness of a woman of SI. Gray
eyes full of soul and dancing witu smiles,
hair just beginning to silver a hit at the
temples; a womanly woman, with a com
for lug presence and a quiet dignity that
impresses jroa at once—sbe displays la her
conversation and gesture a force of charac
ter altogether unusual One feels instantly
that such a woman cannot talk com-non
places. She wore a dark traveling dress, and
ashawlof fi.my. black lace was thrown over
her shoulders. S'e was in town only for a
day or two. for Mrs. Barr is quite a recluse
and te.dom leaves her hermitage on the top
of the Storm King mountain on the Hud
son. There in a study perched like an eyne
among “the clouds," the author of “Jan
Vedler’s Wife,” “The Daughter of Fife,”
“Tfce Bow of Orange Ribbon,” and a round
d-zen other famous novels, lives with her
daughters, happy in her literary wo k and
her social surroundings and almost w-r
--shiped by the dwellers on the mountain
who are frequent visitors at toe hermitage.
“The story of my beginning a literary
career is strange one,” toe said. “My hus
band, a clergyman, died and left me" with
two daughters to take care of. I wrote for
a number of years for the daily press and
for the weeklies. It was a hard task with
me, as it is with every one, to push up in the
iiterary world during tnose years. But 1
kept oa working faithfully, still hoping the
beet, when one day an accident came that
seemed to dash all my hopes. I fell and in
jured a limb so severely that I was confined
to my room for many weeks.
“Now, this was the turning point of my
life. During that period ot enforce! con
finement, it occurred to me tnat I could
write a story. Till then I had never
attempted such a thing. But tune hung on
my Lauds, and, besides, I needed the
money; so I set reiolutely to work, wholly
unaid-d, and in a few we ks the story of 'Jan
Velder’s Wife' was sketched in outline.
Then came the work of writing it out,
and when that was done 1 sent it to a New
York publishing house. You may believe
I was anxious until I heard from them; but
when the answer did come it was all I could
have wished. The story was accepted and
when Drought out was an instant success.
It has sine ? appeared in Europe and is quite
popular there too, 1 believe.
All this happened seven years ago. You
see it is not a very long time, yet since then
I have written fourteen other novels, every
one of which has been issued by this same
bouse, and all of which, fortunately, have
been successful.”
“Do you employ a secretary?” I asked.
“It is necessary, I suppose, in order to got
through so much materia If’
“No, I don’t,” said the lady smiling, I
am my own secretary, and what’s more, I
write all my aovels with the typewriter,
too. .My favorite hours for work are in the
morning. I frequently get up before day
light and, after drinking half a cup of
coffee and eating some fruit and a bit of
bread. I set to work. A fruit diet, I find, is
the best one to write upon. Meat and
heavy me i.s make one's mind dull and de
stroy the capacity for work. Then, after
my morning at the desk, I devote the rest
of the day to relaxation indoors or out.
After dinner and during the afternoon I
write out on my typewriter what I com
posed during the morning. Write anything
at night' No, never'.” she aided emphati
cally. “1 share none of the confidence in
gaslight as an aid to literary' labor that
some others do. I tase a nap after dinner,
go out or entertain at home in the afternoon
and evening, and I always am off to bed by
9 o’clock.”
“You have some trouble ocasionally
with literary pirates, have you notf With
those publishers who evade the copyright
law?”
“Yes; I have lost heavily at times from
that source; but it seems impossible to avoid
it. Only the other day I cabled to England
to a publisher who had stolen one of my
latest books, and who had 10,000 copies of
the pirated edition all ready for issue. I suc
ceeded in stopping him from putting them
on the market. This is an isolated instance,
and I assure you I am seldom as successful
in this respect. Another thing I may men
tion. I have given all my work to the same
publishers who produced my first book.
Many have tempted me with higher figures;
bnt 1 have stuck to the house th it stood by
me when I most needed it.” And the mo
bile face kindled with a smile.
“Have you a story in hand at present?”
“Two of them,” she replied. “I have just
finished a novel of 400 pages of my type
written copy—about 300 words to the page—
with the title: “She loved a Sailor.” It
deals with the times when the American
navy was one to be proud of. And lam
goi-g to Europe in a few days to gather
material for a novel on socialism. In
Scotland aud England I will
study the phases of what was
known as the Chartist movement. I re
member well, when it was at its hight. how
intensely earnest the people there were
about it. The socialism of to-day is an ad
vanced phase of the same idea Bellamy’s
book had a' deep interest for me, because I
have lo g wished to write about this sub
ject. My other book wiil bt> on a rather
different topic—Calvinism.”
“Anew Robert Elsmere?”
“No; not exactly. You see I come of a
family w hose members have been clergy
men for several generations back. My hus
band, too, was a minister. “Now," she
lidded, a little sadly, “all are gone except
myself, and I suppose I inherit the theologi
cal trait; but in my case it is progressive
theology and not the old style Calvinism we
used to hear preached in my childhood
days."
“A sort of exposition of the modern
creed, in its evolutionary phase—is that to
be the feature of your book f"
“Yes: I shall certainly take strong
grounds against those cruel doctrines that
were formerly inseparable from the creed
of Calvin—infant damnation and the like.
O!” she added earnestly, “I never could be
lieve that the Creator designed any of bis
creatures, mado in his own image, for fuel.
1 never believed that an infant was con
demned before it was born. Indeed 1 find
it hard to believe that there is in God’s pur
pose such a thing as damnation hereafter.
It is inc nceivable to my mind that he could
make a living soul and then condemn it.”
•HVhon do you expect to return to this
country?”
"About the end of August, I think. I
shall require till that time to gather the
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material I need, and to study injtfceir native
soil the two peculiar phases I nave inli
cated. I shall leave very toon. Won’t you
come up to Storm King and see me before
I go? Oit is beautiful, up on the mountain
top there! We are not a. it lonely, and it
is loveliest of all now ia the spring.”
As I ro-eio b;d this stiong, self-reliant
woman good-bye, I thought once more of
the long batt.i toe must have fought during
these years of widowhood—a battle that
has been crowned with success such as few
achieve. The Heimt of Storm King is yet
in her literary prime, and her active brain
and tireless pen may for many years to
come aeiight American readers who, al
though her n vels are a household word,
have hituerto known but iittle of the modest
aud retiring writer, perched in her ne.t on
the topmost pinnacle of that mountain by
the Hudson. G. H. Saxdibos.
GB ADU A TING GO WNS.
Some Beautiful Costumes Which Will
Adorn the Sweet Girl Graduate.
New York, June 7.—The sweet girl
graduate has been in a flutter of excitement
for more thau a month over her gownz.
And now the young man whose heart does
not palpitate at sight of them is not worth
trying to please. The proper thing for tha
valedictorian is a gown of white India silk.
The drapery should be full and caught up
here and there in the front with rosettes of
white ribbon. The skirt is made with
a full ruche of the silk. The bodice is
shirred and the collar cut low go as to show
just a little of the neck. The gown will
have full leg-o'-muttoa sleeves. Sbe will
not wear any jewelry or flowers. I have
seen another pretty graduating gown made
of cheese cl oth, the saade being a delicate
cream. The skirt had a deep hem, above
which were two rows of fine Swiss embroid
ery. Tbe waist was round and
shirred into a belt. On the front
of the bodice bands of the Swiss
embroidery were let in, forming a yoke. The
cloth between the embroidery is puffed. A
broad turnover collar trimmed with Valen
cia nes lace, and full sleeves with cuffs of
insertion trimmed with lace give the gown
adi es-y effect. A broad India silk sash is
the last detail. As the cheese cloth costs
only 11 cs.its a yard, and as it comes ia all
the pretty delicate snades, every girl should
lave at least one of them in her
wardrobe. They look very much like
the nun’s veilings. Here is yet an
other graduating gown, but much more
expense thau tfce one just described. It is
a Greek gon, male of white nuns’ veiling
and trimmed with key-pattern silver passe
men'erie. The side opens over a silk petti
coat, embroidered in silver. It has large
sleeves, puffed to the elbow and slashed in
front to snow a band of the silver embroid
ery. The bodice is cut in a modest V and
trimmed with the same embroidery. This
gown is to be w orn by one of the pupils at
Mrs. Reed% school, over which ex-Fresident
Cleveiaad’s sister once presided.
Isa a-a stunning gown at the racas the
other day. It was made of red India silk,
the close-fitting shirt having a deep hem,
over whica were rows of black lace inser
tion. The bodice had a full yoke of black
lace drawn into a high collar. With it was
worn a red tulle hat, with rosettes of black
lace.
Thick white dresses made of duck are to be
much worn; they are especially adapted to
the plain skirts now so common. Here is a
sm irt driving cloak intended for cool days
and just being completed at one of our lead
ing modistes for an actress. It is made of
pink cloth lined with silk, the shade being
a lovely green. The sleeves and front are
exquisitely embroidered with leaves and
flowers. It entirely euvel ps the figure and
is made very full on the shoulders.
Another pretty gown just made for New
port is an old rose cashmere and black
guipure lace. The Figaro waist is trimmed
with turnover collar of the lace, and the
vest is ma ie of the same material. A large
sash of guipure fails over an accordion
pleated front of silk from the sides of the
bodice. Some beautiful passementerie and
friDge finishes the sides. The skirt is demi
trained.
Nearly every dress I see is made with a
Figaro jacket, or else the waist is trimmed
to give the effect of one.
‘'DICKENS’ DUTCHMAN.'’
Hardly tho Abused Creature the Nov
elist Painted Him.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
It is rather a trite subject to refer to the
prisoner whom the great novelist made
famous by his pity and who afterward be
came known as “Dickens’ Dutchman,” and
yet there are features of the marvelous
manner in which he gave the lie to the
story of “Boz,” which Richard Vaux told
me, of which he is a part, which may not
be generally known. The reminder that
this man, Charles Langheimer. was one of
the prisoners with whom Dickensconve sed,
of whose condition he drew such a mournful
picture, is scarcely necessary. He compared
the little garden leading into the main cell
to a grave. “A more dejected, heart
broken, wretched creature it would be diffi
cult to imagine. I never saw such a
picture of forlorn affliction and distress of
mind,” wrote Dickens, and later on he
added: “1 never saw or heard of any kind
of misery that impressed me more than the
wretchedue.-s of this man.” What a
spectacle! This poor creature being driven
into his grave by the heartless regulations
cf the sv-tem of solitary conrinement! That
was in 1841. In 1870 Dickens died. In lsS5
diaries Langheimer was still alive. But
that is not all the tale. When the novelist
saw the German thief he was serving his
second term of imprisonment in the peni
tentiary. After that he served twelve
more, or fourteen in all, in the same institu
tion. I once saw him in the quarter ses
sions after he had been sentence 1 to a brief
imprisonment in the county prison. With
tears pouring down his cheeks he logged to
be sent back to the penitentiary, even if his
time was doublet!. His request was granted.
With Langheimer stealing was a disea-e.
Mr. Vaux tells me that at one time he could
have trusted him tocarry SI,OOO iu gold to
bank, but upon his return, if besaw a door
way open, he could not resist the tempta
tion to enter it and pick up the fipst thing he
could lay hands on. After his last impris
onment his daughter, who is married to a
very inpectable man, refused to have any
thing more to do with him. He was then
80 years of age, and without a penny. He
was given an ord-r of entrance to the alms
house. With this ia his band he entered
Mr. Vaax’s office and said: “See what I
have come to. Please don’t let me go to the
almshouse. Send me out to the prison. It
is the only good home I ever had. Please
send me back there.”
If Dickens eou’d have heard these words I
wonder what he would have said.
“Charley," said Mr. Vaux, “I don’t know
whether or not the warden can take
you in, and then, too, you are a dreadful
nuisance. But if you will promise to be
have yourself you can go out to the prison
and as* the warden if he can find room for
yon."
He presented himself and made his re
quest and pleaded earnestly that it might
be granted. Finally the good-hearted war
den said: “Well, tf you will behave your
self I guess we can find r om for you and
enough for yon to eat." The o!d man
actually leaped for joy and tore bis alms
house pass into bits, which Mr. Cassidy, the
warden, afterward collected and pasted
together, and the card is now one of the
curiosities of the big building. The next
time Mr. Vaux visited the prison he met
Lnngbeimer, who began one of his customary
complaints—similar, probably to that
which deceived Dickens—this time the
trouble being of an alleged rheumatic char
acter. Mr. Vaux jocosely seized him by
the shoulders and shook him until he
screamed. The next time they met, the old
man sad, laughingly: “Mr. Vaux, shake
all the rheumatism out of me!” Butina
few days the pains of old age, whoso mean
ing he did not understand, returned with
renewed violence, and he sent for the
warden. When Mr. Cassidy saw him in his
cell he knew that poor Langheimer’s time
had oome, and two hours later be quietly
breathed his last in the prison in which he
had spent the greater part of a prolonged
life. Solitary confinement had permitted
him to die of old age.
The Beauty and the Pansies.
At 10 o’clock one morning, says the New
York Sun, a girl thaa can safely be called
the most beautiful of all the beauties in the
Four Hnndred was walking down Fifth
avenue between two young fellows who
were both very much captivated by her
lovable charms and to them this fair maid
said that she had been searching in vain for
some pansies to wear to Mrs. So-and-So’s
daDce that evening.
“I am to wear a gown that pansies would
go beautifully with,’’ said she; “and they
are my favorite flower, too. How stupid it
is of all the florists to miss having them to
day.”
The young men deliberated for an instant,
and then offered simultaneously to secure a
bunch of pansies and send to the beauty be
fore evening.
“Oh, it is kind of both of you, I’m sure,”
said she, “but I have been to every one on
Broadway and Fifth avenue, and there isn’t
a pansy to be had. If you should get me
some you would deserve a prize.’’
“Then offer a prize,” exclaimed the young
men together.
The girl laughed and asked for a! sugges
tion. “How would a drive in my phaeton
for to-morrow do?” asked she.
“That would be bliss,” said one of the
young men, “but I think the prize ought to
be given at the dance to-night."
“Well, what do you say to an extra
waltz?”
“If you cannot be more generous I sup
pose that would be as much earthly happi
ness as we could well ask for,” was "the
reply.
“Oh, I tell yon what I’ll do,” cried the
girl, suddenly struck with a brilliant idea,
‘ ‘the one who brings the flowers to me first
shall kiss my hand.”
“Oh!” exclaimed the young men. “You
don’t mean it*”
“Yes, I do,” she replied.
“Your bare hand?” ventured one of the
suitors.
“Yes, with my glove off.”
This arrangement was agreed to, and,
bidding the girl good morning, the young
men started off upon their mission. They
separated a few blocks further on, and eacn
took a hansom cab.
At 7:30 o’clock that night a disconsolate
looking figure ascended the step 6 of the
pansy-loving beauty’s residence and asked
to see the young lady. In a few sad words
he acquainted her with the fact that he had
traversed Manhattan Island from one end
to the other uni that he had failed to find a
pansy. While relating his story the other
young man was ushered in. His face was
aglow with joyous anticipation as he ad
vanced enthusiastically to the trembling
maiden, and, wita a quick movement, threw
aside the paper covering from a huge bunch
of the most perfect velvety pansies.
“ Where—where did you get; J those?’
gasped tne unfortunate loser of the race.
“I went to Philadelphia for them, my
boy,” cried the other.
"O, how absurd!” said the girl, pleased
beyond expression at the compliment this
exertion implied.
“Wby, I would have gone,” rejoin ed the
victorious youth as he extended his hand to
receive hers, “to New Orleans if you had
only made the time limit a little longer,”
and bending over the snowy little hand lie
pressed his mouth long and warmly upon it.
“I have been compelled to go without
food or drink since leaving you,” suggested
the glowing youth, raising his eyes to the
girl’s.
“O, then you must take dinner with us.”
“1 was not thinking of that. I thought
the fast might be worth an extra prize.”
The look that he received from the oroud
beauty reas .ured him to such an extent that
be bent again and to ik at least hdf a dozeu
kisses from the beauteous maiden’s hand.
“Now, what do I get?” asked the discon
solate one.
“O, I’ll give you a boutonniere out of
these pansies,” laughed the girl.
According to all romantic laws the en
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