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DOINGS OF THE FAIR SEX.
bomb things that may suit
THiilß FANCY.
How Girls Can be Pretty—Th® Art of
Sweeping—lnsurance for Women—
How to Manage a Husband—Does
Gallantry Decay?—Hiving Too Fast-
Early Autumn Fashions.
You come back to town richer in flesh,
more determined to success, says the
Ladies' Home Journal, but just wondeviug
a little bit at the way the kisaes of
the sun and the browning that
flashed from the waves have
affected your skin. There Is no use in
telling you that freckles aad sunburn are
becoming, you do not contradict yonr
brothers when they tall you this, but in
your heart you do cot believe thay quite
know.
The trouble having been stated, the rem
edy must be found First, your blood
most be gotten into a good condition by
using s tonic for it. This maybe a little
eau-de-cologne or some alcohol in the water
in which you bath your face, neck and
arms; it will have an almost instantaneous
effect, and you will be e nscious of a glow
ing, exhilarated condition.
Then a: niiht use some fine cosmetic.
Tr.ere are many perfectly harmless ones
that are more p’eisant tha.i vaseline or
ilivooii, though’botu of those are equally
good.
Drink milk twice a day, and remember
that it mus: be ordinary milk, not cream.
It :s said :o be more wnitemog to the skin
than any h. g aopiiel on the outside, and
sur. v ;t ;s a: once pleasant and houltny.
Elder flower water. lemon juice and rose
water are all simple re nodies for freckles,
ad wi!. undoubtedly remove thorn if they
are regularly used and allowed to dry on
the skin. A famoai beauty is said to keep
r.er hands white by always using the half
of a lemon in washing her hands, exactly
as she would a piece of soap, and, although
freckle- come, tl-ere is nothing so good for
the skin as sunshine. It makes the skin
flush, and a delicate rink and white is the
result. A Utile care nb ut a broad brimmed
hat and a good-sized sun umbrella will give
vou nil the good desired fr n sunshine, and
keep away its defects. Keep the sunny
sine of tho street in the winter. You know
that is the place chosen by Englishmen,
southern women an l dogs, so the friends
will look at the good skins ot all three, and
use the proverb to point n moral and adorn
a tale.
T'ae Art of Sweeping.
In sweeping take long, light strokes and
do no: u3o too heavy a broom, says Mar
garet E. Sangster in Harper's Young Peo
ple.
“Alice,” said Lois, "do you honestly think
sweepi g is harder exercise than playing
tennis?”
I hesitated. “I really don’t know. One
never thinks of hard or easy in tennis, the
game is so interesting; and then it’s outdoor
exercise, and there’s no danger of iulialiag
dust.”
“Well, for my part,” enid Marjorie, “I
like doing work that tells. There is so much
satisfaction in sowing the figures in tae car
pet coming out brightly under my broom!
Alice, what did you do to make your recep
tion room so perfectly splendiferous? Girls,
look here! You’d think this carpot had
just come out of the warehouse.”
“Motheroften tells Aunt Hetty,” said I,
“to dip the end of a broom in a pail of
water in which she has poured a litUa am
monia—a tevspoot.ful to a gallon. The
ammonia takas off the dust and refreshes
the colors wonderfully. We couldn’t keep
house without it,” I finished, rather
proudly.
“Did you bring some from home?” asked
Marjorie, looking hurt.
“Why, of courso not! I asked your
mother, and she gave me the bottle and told
me to take what I wanted.”
“A little coarse salt or some damp tea
leaves strewed over a carpet before sweep
ing adds ease to the cleansing process,” said
Mrs. Downing, appearing on the scene and
praising us for our thoroughness. “The
reason is that both the salt and the tea
leavas, being moist, keep dowu the light
looting dust, which gives more trouble
Shan tho heavier dirt. But now you wi 11 be
ill tho better for a short rest; so come into
my little snuggery and have a gossip and a
lunch, and then you may attack tho enemy
again.”
Managing a Husband.
A man wants a lot of letting alone, says
Nell Nelson in New York World. At
breakfast it is wise to be eloquently silent.
Keep still. Hold your tongue and give
him a chance to think of the work before
him. Keep still all the time when you
haven’t anything to say. People of sense
hate prattle and gabble, and a woman
should have a very sweet voice to talk for
the sake of hearing herself. Now and then
he will be cross, bothered, vexed and dis
tracted, and that is the very time of times
to invest the gold of Rilence. Perhaps he
has been snubbed or squelched (luring the
day, nnd if he is a coward he will bottle up
bis feelings just for the sake of letting them
off with a poo in the bosom of his family.
By all means keep still and givo him plenty
of time and space to recover himself. Be
business-like enough to run your bouse on
icbedulo time, and be prompt with the
meals. A hungry man is generally an ugly
man, and then is the time to be philosophical.
To kiss him at this time is to make him
crawl. Ho wants consomme, not caressing.
THe Vanderbilt Children.
Although all the members of the Vander
bilt family entertain on a magnificent scale,
ys a writer in the Ladies' Home Journal
Tor October, they never permit their child
ren to remain up late at night, are extreme
ly careful in their education, and, in a
word, are fitting them for life aa well as
any mother or father could do. It is one of
the rules In all the houses of the Vander
bilts. that the children shall go to bed early
and rise early. The little boys and girls
are up before seven o'clock in the mor, ing.
Their noises immediately take charge of
them, seo that they are properly lathed
and dressed, and then they go down to
breakfast, which is served at half-past
seven o'clock. It is an unpretentious
meal, with plenty of fresh milk, eggs, oat
meal and a bit of steak or a chop that will
add strength to their physique and color to
their cheeks. After breakfast there is an
hour of study. There Is something for these
tittle ones to do at all times during the day.
They go through their studies systemati
cally, and then about 9:30 o’clock, are
taken out for n walk. They are allowed to
romp in the streets and in the parks to their
hearts’ content. At 11 o’clock they are
brought home, a light luncheon of milk and
bread is served, after which thore are
more studies—either French, German or
drawing—then another breathing spell —it
may be horseback riding, or a drive out
through the park aud along the
country roads. Back they all coma about
4 o’clock, and there is another hour
of study, and then they are through for the
day. They are allowed to do just as they
please until tea time, when, after their meal,
they spend a pleasant hour or so with their
fathers and mothers and others who may
drop in to calk Promptly at 8 o’clock they
are all in bed to sleep soundly, and get up
the next morning and go through the same
programme. So it is not strange that all
the children of the Vanderbilt family are
further in advance of their little friends
in the matter of education. For they
study, study, study all the tints. They
are all fond of music and most of
them can play on the piano. Tbe girls are
learning to play on tbe harp, and the boys
are famous among their friends as violinists
and banjo players. If you were to see
these children on the street, you would not
for a moment susoect that titer were other
than children of parents in ordinary cir
cumstances. They make no display at
elaborate dross. The eldest of C.melius
Vanderbilt's daughters is dres*-i plainly in
little, pretty, cheap dresses without any
braid or ornamentation. She rears snug
fitting cloth jackets, and tae little cap that
sits gracefully on her bead could be dupli
cated for a couple of dollars.
Insurance for Women.
The question of insuring the lives of wo
men is exciting a great deal of interest just
now. The women claim that every priv
ilege and advantage granted to men in this
progressive age should likewise be granted
to women, says the Pittsburgh leader.
A well-known insurance agent said the
other day:
“We insure women, but we have not
I mad: it the feature that it could b* made,
j We have not sought for women as we have
; for man. On account of the physical risks
which beset women we tax her $o addi
tional for each SI,OOO of Insurance. There
is a prospectively largo business ahead for
this line of insurance, and if women agents
would work it up it would not be long until
women would meet on an equality witn
meu in the insurance business. We do n t
limit our women who insure to tho bread
winners, but we can show by our books
many women of wealth. Noitoer do wi
limit age. We have girls of 15,
and we have elderly ladies. Wo
have three young Vas ar students for
f Vj.OOO each, a'd two married women I can
recail insured for SIOO,OOO each. The addi-
tional :ax on women's insurance is retained
iu s-ime coses, because it is not generally
accosted yet that a woman’s lifo has a mone
tary value. Aud yet the woman who is a
partner in tor husband’s business, the widow
who supports her family, the daughter who
keers the wolf from the do >r, certainly has
a monetary value, and it ought to be
recognised. To remedy the evil I would
recommend good trained women agents to
handle this department. It is a field of
work not yet improved by the women
toilers of tho city, and ought to pay well.
"Single women $lO extra on every
thousand. You see young women are great
risks. Their health is not reliable. They
are apt to marry
“Or smoke cigarettes or break their
heads playing base ball or die of dissipa
tion,” interrupted a young lady in the
vicinity.
“ Well, the rate is less for mothers with
children," said the representative sooth
ingly. “We charge such onlv $5 extra a
thousand, that is, if they are women of
50 or thereabouts. Over that ago we grant
them the same privilege as mon.
Statistics show us that women
who live over 50 years of aye
are ovan better risks than men. We have
special insurance blanks for women, and
we deal with them harder than we do with
men. Her morals must bo eminently satis
factory, and her family history is closely
inquired into. Many an excellent woman,
morally and physically, has bean rejected
by our company' an account of the defi
ciencies of her family. We make no effort
to secure women, but those who apply are
courteously treated; but if they are willing
to take the extra tax, wo willingly examine
and enroll them.”
"Living Too Fast."
A fow days since a garden party was
given at "The Bi-eakors,” Mr. Cornelius
Vanderbilt's villa on the cliffs at Ochre
Point, says the Illustrated American. It
is flattering to our American senses to know
that had Mr. Vanderbilt been the descend
ant of a long race of dukes of the blood
royal, nnd his residence in the most fashion
able shire of Old England, the garden party
oauld not have been eclipsed in magnifi
cence. Along the circling rood from the
entrance to the porte coehere, at intervals
of thirty feet, were stationed the grooms of
the household, imposing but useless. At
and about the ' great hall door, awaiting
their mistresses, stood upward of a hundred
grooms, belonging to as many more per
fectly appointed equipages. The ladies
strolled ovor the beautiful lawns per
fectly and charmingly arrayed in
the daintiest toilets. To the music
of two string bands they moved
about tho lawns and gravel walks, uncon
cernedly soiling the delicate fabrics aud
laces of their costumes in the most patrician
fashion. And what is more natural, ia a
country where ail aro of the same rank in
the sight of God and law, that Mrs. Van
derbilt’s guests should feel tho equal of Mrs.
Vanderbilt,! That moans, Mrs. Vander
bilt’s millions? No one is more delighted to
admit it than Mrs. Vanderbilt herself. She
cannot help it if her guests will trail their
dresses or themselves in the dust of her car
riage wheels. No one is to blame. The
pure human nature confined In the silk-clad
carcass of a fash onaole and ambitious
dame alone is responsible, and her husband,
who is trying to get on in the world that
his wife may get, into society, suffers in
silence in the privacy of the deserted dining
room or library of his town house. Then a
twisted sheet, knees bent in prayer and a
clod to be cut down by a frightened servant
girl. A column in the newspaper, a funeral,
a friend’s exclamation: “Living too fast ”
andi Oblivion.
How Women Go Shopping.
But it is whon fair woman goes a-shop
ping that she becomes least admir
able, Bays Oscar Fay Adams, in
North American Ileview. Then her
band is raised against ove’y woman
who crosses her path. From the moment
she pushes open tbe swinging doors of the
first retail shop she enters, and lots them fly
back Into the faoo of the woman behind her,
till she reaches her home agaiu, she haß laid
herself open at every turn lo the charge of
bad manners. She has in hor progress made
tired clerks spend hours in taking down
goods simply for her amusement, when she
has not the smallest intention of purchasing
from them. She has mado audible commants
upon *‘tho stupidity and slowness of those
shopgirls.’’ She has swept oil from loaded
shop counters with her draperies
more than one easily damaged
article, which she has scorned to
pick up and replace. She has j stled
against other women aud met their indig
naut looks with a stony, not to say insolent,
stare. She has needlessly blocked the way
when others wished to pass her. She has
carried hor closed umbrella or sunshade at
an angle thut was a perpetual menace to
any woman who came near her. She has
put up her glass and stared haughtily
through it nt the gown of the woman next
her at the bargain counter. In her shrill,
penetrating voice she has discussed in the
most public places gossip reflecting m >re or
less injuriously upon other people. She has,
iu short, done very little that she should
have done, and very, very much that she
ought not to have done; yet she returns
from it all with a serennr conscience than a
media 1 val saint coming home to the convent
after a day particularly well filled with
meritorious deals. She will tell you com
placently that a man cau never learn to
shop like a woman. And man oan never be
too thankful for his inability in this direc
tion.
Does Gallantry Decay?
There is a decay of gallantry. The ladles
say so. Tbe gentlemen admit it. The news
papers lament it. This decay of gallantry
is not wholly to be lamented, savs tbe
Holyoke Transcript. Gallantry of tbo old
school was a very curious thing indeed.
It kissed a lady's hand, but refused to allow
that haud, however skillful, to make itself
useful. It worshiped womanhood, and in
sisted on keepiug its idols in a state of beg
gary, cr at least of dependence. It wrote
odes to women’s eyebrows, ail i domed them
a chance to get an education. It gave
women a shadowy homage, and denied
them all real benefits, because thoy were
only fit to be done up in lavandar.
Gallantry has been one of the
chief obstacles iu the way of the
improvement of the condition of
women. Let a woman get a position
as correspondent in a commercial house, as
reporter on a newspaper, as clerk iu a gov
ernment deportment, and unless she is a
woman of unusual sense, she is apt to expect
a gsllant treatment of her associates. Her
mistakes must be condoned, her faults pass
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1890-TWELVE PAGES.
uncorrected, because she is a woman. Or,
if she have too much sense to expect any
thing of the s rt, her gentlemen associates
will yet pu her upon this footing, an 1 pres
ently crowd her from ter place, because
“you never can correct a woman, you
know.” Now, a truly modest and earnest
woman d'Ws not des,re this sort of treat
ment. If she is a clerk, she wants to be a
c ert. She is too pr ud to ask or receive
any odds in competition. It is better, there
fore. for till independint womea, wuo nave
to carry on the struggle of life for them
selves, that the old gallantry should die or
change its form.
How Hie Mother Managed.
“You see how it is, my dear,” he said,
according to the West Shore, taking her
soft hand, which hid never done very hard
work, and patting it reassuringly; “I’m
poor—only a thousand a year, dear—and
we shall have to struggle to get along at
first—”
“I don’t mind that ia the least,” she inter
rupted, stoutly, rubbiug her cheek softly
against hie haul
‘And,” he pursued, graciously having
allowelhor interruption—"wo shall have
to come down to strict economy. But if
you can only manage as my mother dose,
wo shall pull througn nicely.”
“And how does your • mother manage,
dear t' she asked, smiling—but very happy
—at the rioti in of the inotber-iu-law crop
ping out already.
“I don’t know,” replied the lover,
radiantly, "but she always r> anages to have
everything neat nnd cheerful, and some
thing delicious to eat—and sne does it all
herself, you know 1 So that we al ways get
along beautifully, and maice both ends
meet, and father and I still have plenty of
spending money. You see when a woman
is always hiring her laundry word done,
and her gowns and bonnets made, and her
scrubbing and stove blacking done, and all
that sort of thing—why, it just walks into
a man’s income and takes his breath away!”
The young woman looked for a moment
as if her breath was Inclined for a vacation;
but she wisely concealed her dismay, and,
being one of the stout-hearted of the earth,
she determined to learn a few things of
John’s mother, so went to her for a long
visit the next day. Upon the termination
of this visit, one fine morning John received,
to his blank amazement, a little package
containing his engagement ring, accom
panied by the following letter:
I have learned how your mother “man
ages.” and I am going to explain it to you,
since you have confessed you didn’t know.
I find that she is a wife, a mother, a house
keeper. a business manager, a hired girl, a
Laundress, a seamstress, a mender and
pateher, a dairy maid, a cook, a nurse, a
kitchen gardener and a general slave for a
family of five. She works from sin the
morning until 10 at night; and I almost
wept when I kissed her hand—it was so hard
and wrinkled, and corded and unkissod.
When i saw her polishing the stove, carry
ing big buckets of water and great armfuls
of wood, often splitting tho latter,
I asked her why John didn’t do such
things for her. “John!” she repeated,
“John!”—and she sat down with a perfectly
dazed look, as if I bad asked her why the
angels didn’t come down and scrub for her.
“Why—John”—she said in a trembling, be
wildered way—“works at the office from 9
until 4 o’clock, you know, and when he
comes home be is very tired, or else—or else
—bo goes down town.” Now, I have be
come strongly imbued with tue notion that
Ido not care to tie so good a ‘manager’ as
your mother. If the wife must do all sorts
of drudgery, so must the husband; if she
must cook, ho must carry the wood; if
she muse scrub, he must carry the
water; if she mu9t make butter; he must
also milk the cows. You have allowed your
mother to do everything, and all that vou
have to say of hor is thatbho is an ‘excellent
manager.’ Ido not care for such a repu
tation, unless my husband earned the name
also; and judging from your lack of con
sideration for your mother, I am quite
sure that you are not the man I thought
you were, or one whom I would care to
marry. As the son is, the husband is, is a
safe and happy rule to follow.”
So tho letter closed, and John pondered
and he is pondering yet.
Early Autumn Fashions.
I’laids are a rampant feminine fad.
The latest complexion patohes are called
cerates.
Volvet effects are to be stylish for novel
ties in ribbons.
Large Russian net face veils are dotted
with sliver pastiles.
A gold matcn-t>ox representing a potato,
the eyes being diamonds, is new.
Bilver photograph frames set with Rhine
stones light up beautifully at night.
Girdle-shaped belts are of ooze calf
leather, finished to resemble suele kid.
Not only plaids and checks, but plain
cloths are cut on the bias for street cos
tumes.
A three-cornered bonbon-box, with the
cover etched to represent an Irish harp, is
new in silverware.
In mourning jowelry, anew style of
chatelaine has at the center a large flower
of jet to hold a watch.
Velvet, fur, silk cord netting and ostrich
feathers are introduced on the front of
richly embroidered robes.
Black tulle embroidery with jet, and
studded with torquoise, is one of the hun
dred fabrics for sleeves aud corsages.
Flounces of lace and other materials
grow iu favor, and most of the later dresses
have either a ruching, a frill, or a succession
of flounces at the foot.
The newest mantel scarfs are of surah,
with chain-stitched edges and bordered with
silk tassels aud silk crochet rings, joined
with spider-web stitches.
Enameled bangles are worn now, as well
as the stiff, fashionable gold ones; they are
just narrow bands, with ditferept colored
enamels arranged as ornamentation.
A charming novelty for young girls is
the large Pierrot collar of Genoa taco or
Irish guipure. It is quite round, fashioned
at the back or side, and comes down almost
to the waist.
New parasols to use when shopping or
traveling have a poeketbook of Russia
leather .-.trapped on the handle, and some
have the entire handle covered with tbe
fragrant leather.
Some new very fine French flannels, both
plain and fancy, are exhibited, designed
for priueess wrappers, easy gowns and tea
ms suits. Some of these show fine Arab
esques of rich colors over neutral grounds.
Many of the fall gowns will have ruch
ings of the materials around the foot of tbe
dress. These ruchings are cut ou the bias,
about three inches wide, and the edges
•frayed. The effect is very soft aud pretiy.
The fancy jacket is quite the fashion of
the day. Another model is of putty faille,
forming a plaited vest in front; the sides
and ba k are richly trimmed with brown
braiding in a large, handsome pattern, aud
edged with browu silk fringe.
As an indication of the fashions of the
future, it is said that thicker striped wool
ens, witn softened shaded effects, are being
prepared for later autumn. One iu green
and biack, and another a combination of
many colors, were most original.
The priueess dress finds increasing favor,
but it must be borne in mind that the
polonaise does not look so well under an
out-of-door jacket as a skirt which does not
opeu up the front. Yet tbe style is charm
ing wtiea no ad litioual covering is re
quired.
Green appears among the light-weight
woolens for fall wear, and indistinct c ie-ks
in faded browns, with threads of deep blues
and reds, make a serviceable and pretty
gown, not too heavy for September wear,
awl yet sufilcientlv warm to be worn late in
the fall with the jaunty reefer jacket.
New French redingotes appear, designed
for autumn teas and dinners, which have
slightly open-throated corsages, Uos frames
and slight draperies on tbe hips. There are
pointed puffs on tbe shoulders of the close
coat sleeves, feWs of silk crossing tbo waist
telow the bust, and rich lace ruffles at tbo
wrists.
I A stylish tailor-gown of silver-blue
faced cloth has a riding habit effect in the
back. The wal-eoa; and front of the dresi
are formed of pale tin-colored cam-T■ hair,
; with a deep embroidery in silver-blue silk
as a border to each, the toque, shoes and
gloves match the waistcoat, and ea suite is
'a long, very lignt boa of gray ani brown
natural ostrich feathers.
Feather bands of all colors are to be used
for trimming. High corsages will have a
feather band around tho throat and low
evening bodices will be bordered with
feathers around the neck and armholes.
Black curled ostrich bands are used on
light-colored gowns or cream, old blue,
pule pink, yellow and red. Many articles
are made wholly of feathers—vests, collars,
pelerines, stoles, cuffs and muffs.
Habit-bo licod traveling-dresses of
choose i English cheviot in mixtures of
chamois and vert de gris, princess blue and
‘‘dm:-miller” gray, cress green and doe
color, otc., are made witn Sabran veit
fronts of light kid, with jackets above
which are extra long, and have wide
pickets of tho kid trimmed with large silver
buttons, the edges finished with a lino of
silver cord. The collar and cuffs are like
wise trimmed.
A number of very handsome India cash
mere toilets are shown in New York, which
arecombined with rich striped silks that
are dotted or flocked with gold or bronze.
Dresses of these materials are made with
demi-trained princess bao.s, and jacket
fro its of the cashmere, with onlv slightly
full sleeves, skirt fronts and Fedora vests
of the striped silk. English rose and cream
color in these patterns form a verv pretty
combination, with flecks of gold and re
soda.
Trie autumns show In the shop windows is
already begun. Though it is a little early
yet for the formal openings; and there are
still some belated summer goods upon the
counters, yet the crowds of early saoppers,
that already fill the dry goods establish
ments, find plenty to attract and interest
them in new materials, new colors, and new
shapes. There is more than the usual
variety in the new autumn goods. The
plaids, that are likely to bo more prominent
than ever, are found in ail kinds of mate
rials, tbe most charactoristio of these are
*Baggy cloths that would suggest horse
blankets, but that they are so soft and light
and comfortable. The indications of the
coming fashions are rather in the way of
development from what is familiar—such
as the puffed sleeves and the big collars —
than of any startling innovation, and the
amount of artistic invention that has gone
to the fabrication of this season’s silks and
woolens must satisfy the most exacting
tastes.
CAREER OF A BILLIARD BALL.
From a Good Position in Gracefully
Drifts Downward.
From the Sew York Hail and Express,
There are a few mon or things that aro
called upon to roll into more close corners
or queer situations, than is a billiard ball.
That Is, of course, after It has become a
full-fledged billiard ball. Its career, prior
to this is, of course, rather monotonous. An
elepbunt, either in Africa or Asia, carries it
with him in his wanderings very near to bis
trunk. It is then kuowu as a tusk, and has
been the cause of same tall lying In the way
of elephant stories told by various persons,
of whom Rider Haggard is now the
foremost representative. The transi
tion from being an elephant’s tusk
to being a billiard ball in goi and standing is
not sudden. It takes time to effect it. In
the first place, it is not every tusk that is
suitable to make a billiard ball from. There
are several factories in New York city, aud
they say that it takes a good while to turn
out a perfoct hall. Tho firms here, however,
have to do but part of the work, for they
get the tusks that are of the proper quality
sent to them cut into sections, eacli section
being largo enough to allow of the turning
of a single bail out of it. Most of this ma
terial comes from Hamburg. The ivory is
so marked that tho turners here know what
part of the tusk each piece comes from, and
in this way can calculate as to the grain
and quality of the articlo.
It requires skilled labor to turn out a bill
iard ball. One-half of it is first turned, an
instrument of the finest steel being used for
the work. Then the half-turned ball is hung
up in a net and is allowed to bang there for
a year to dry. Then the second half is
turned and then conies tho polishing.
Whitening and water and a good deal of
rubbing are nec >ssary for this. It is neces
sarv in the end that tbe ball shall, to the
veriest fraction of a grain, be of a certain
weight.
It is after being placed on the billiard
table that the real life of the billiard ball
commences. There are pores in ivory, just
as there are in the epidermis. These may
close, and then, if in a hot room, tho ball
is likely to crack, or it may crack bv rea
son of concussion with other balls. During
the first stage the billiard ball may mix in
almost any society. It may gyrate under
the magic cue of a Slosson, a Schaefer, a
Vigtiaux, or some other champion, or it
may bo toyed with by fair dames in private
billiard rooms ia swell houses on Murray
Hill.
When it cracks it drops a step lower. It
is Bent to a factory and a small fraction of
a nick is shaved off from it. You next see
It in some second rate billiard room on
Sixth avenue. Finally it rolls even lower,
and into some second-hand store, and thence
inio a bowery saloon, whore “crooks”
manipulate it, to the dismay and discomfit
ure of visitors from the rural districts. The
rest is soon told. The balls become cracked,
decrepit and practically useless for the pur
pose for which they were made. Then they
are bought up by dealers, cut up and made
into smaller articles. If the worst comes to
tho worst, they can be burned and used in
the making of ivory black.
A checkered life enough is that of a bill
iard boll.
PATENTED DENTAL OPERATIONS
Dentists Hold That Instruments Alone
Should Bo Patentable.
The Central Dental Assiciation had a
meeting on Monday night in Newark, says
the Now York Sun, and W. F. Rehfuss of
Philadelphia read a paper entitled, ‘*The
J urisprudence of Dental Patents and the
Legal Interpretation of Claims of Patents
Granted for Artificial Crowns and Bridge
Work.” The author said the great number
of patents threatened the welfare of den
tistry as a liberal profession, aud would
endanger its progress. The subject of
paten; methods, he Slid, was peculiar to
dentistry of all the healing arts, aud den
tistry was of necessity forced to harbor and
submit to such degrading systems. More
than tiOO patents had been granted, uo said
for m des of operating, and the whole num
ber would exceed 1,000 if patents for instru
ments were included. The author contended
that dental operations should nor. bp pat
ented, but that instruments to perform the
operations were legitimately patentable.
His paper evoked considerable discussion,
and Dr. Stockton said that the Dental
Crown Company had patented nearly
everything pertaining to crown work, even
processes to which the company had no
right. The patents were granted, he said,
because tbo examiners were unaware that
tbe processes bad been in uso all over the
country for many years. He said that a
Dentists’ Protective Association had been
formed in Chicago ter the purpose of
guaranteeing Individual members protec
tion in the use of old methods, irrespective
of these patents. Several local dentists paid
damages to the patentees some years ago,
and have since bean working under licenses'
Since the protective ass elation his been
formed, and it is said to include nearly all
of the reputable practitioners of the country
they h ive ignored tbo claims of the tooth
crown company. They are row practising
methods which they believe tbev can sus
tain iu court
It was tbe design of the meeting to enlist
recruits in tbe protective association, and
a committee of ten, headed by Dr. Wat
kins of Montclair, was appointed to bring
the matter before tbe profession of the
country, and then before congress, that laws
may be jiassed preventing the granting of
pateaU for denial operations.
UP IN THE MOUNTAINS.
"BAB” IN A GAY PARTY IN THE
ADIRONDACK?,
Where Life Is Very Raal, People Are
Natural, and Good Health is Ram
pant—Lifo In a Fashionable Mountain
Camp— .-kyarklng and Fun—ringing
Round a Campfire and Dancing in a
Hut -A Young Man’s Dream and Its
Sequel—True Nature Reveals Itself
in God’s Own Temple, the Forest.
Bright'‘Bab's" Mountain Experience.
Is the Depths of th* Adirondack*),
Sept. IS.—Not at any of the fashionable
hotels. Dot where sad- aced invalids go
up and dreadful-looking coffins come and >wn,
but in the very heart of the Adirondacks,
where one is healthfully tired at 9 o’clock
and ready for the fray at 7, do I abide.
The house is highly priz?d, though it can
not be called palatial. It consist) of one
large room, built of good sturdy logs, hav
ing an enormous fireplace, and tho bids
built into the wall like so many shelves.
When tbe owner goes up he takes the
mattresses and blank“ts and all the belong
ings necessary for a mouataia outing, and
when he comes a.vav he can tura
the key on the houfee certain that
there is nothing to steal, for the
natives, few and far between, are
not likely to want tho bunk-like beds.
MOUNTAIN APPETITES AND EATING.
The eating is primitive, and so are tho
appetites. To eat the fish you have caught
or the game you have shot is a thousand
times more delightful than the best dinner
that ever came from the market. There is
one woman in the party who knows how to
make bread, and as there is not the slight
est danger of indigestion in this wonderful
air, she has been put to work, so that she
wishes she had never gone to cooking school;
for we have Maryland buscuits for break
fast, hot loaf bi ead for dinner, and puffy
turu-overs for supper. Fishing is at once
the delight aad work of tho day. Every
body can fish, in a way, and everybody
can’t shoot, so tbe small, fascinating voices
of womankind beg and plead to go fishing,
and, as usual, the desire is granted to them.
HOW THE ADIRONDACK GIRL DRESSES.
How does the Adirondack girl look?
Well, being an athlete, and haviDg gone np
there to have a good time, she wears, flrsc,
a suit of fiaDnal that covers her from ankles
to neck and down her arms as far as her
wrists; then the warmest of quilted siik
skirts; over this Is a heavy flannel gowa
made quite short, for she boots and
leggings, and over all a ti . ht-fitting seal
skin jacket to keep her from getting the in
tercostal rheumatism. Her gloves are warm
but loose fitting, and her shoes are heelless
and almost snaoeloss. She wears a cap, and
has in her pocket a big silk handkerchief to
tie over her ears, in case they should get
cold. Frivols do not count; anything lace
tsimmed is scorned; aud she was the mis
tress of coquetry whojbrongbt with her a col
lection of brignt-col irod silk kerchiefs that
she tied about hor head when the fire was
all aglow and everybody sat around telling
wondrous stories of adventures with gun
nnd rod I have concluded, after much
thought, that fishing is a good thing for
women. You watch your line bob and bob,
through the clear water you see the fish
dancing around the bait, and you have
got to seep quiet, else you will lose your
chance of making the biggest catch of the
season. That’s what all women want, and
sometimos it’s gotten by keeping quiet
WHERE GOING TO BED IS A CEREMONY.
Going to bod is a ceremonial involving
much time. A beautiful curtain of red
calico is swung across the room, and it is
requested that the gentlemen will please sit
with their backs to it. As they are gentle
men. they da Then comes the getting into
red flannel gowns, putting on stockings to
sleep in. and climbing into bunks. Then
the hostess, with shawls over her gown,
goes out and comas back attended by too
one maid bearing a tray on which are
numerous hot nightcaps that bavo
about them tho aroma of masculinity,
and come “with the compliments of
the gentlemen, ma’am.” Oh, they aro not
all very strong—some are not lemonade,
oi e is hot milk, and the rest aro hot if some
what weak punches. Then the men can go
to bed. I have never seen just what they
sleep in, but I am under tho impression
they don’t change their clothes until tho
next morning. We hear them kicking their
boots off, and, sad as it may s'>uud, we hear
them sighing in the night. If they weren’t
such good fellows this sighing, which hath
a prolonged whistling sound, might bo con
strued into something less romantic.
A YOUNG MAN’S MOUNTAIN DREAM.
Occasionally there was a scare, but never
much of a one. One night a young man
fell out of an upper bunk because lie wns
dead tired, and got to dreaming very hard,
and thought ho was being pursued by a bear
who wanted to hug him. All the girls
rushed out in their red flannel nightgowns
to see what was the matter, anil a pictur
esque group formed itself about the fire,
which a native tends all night, and the cu
rious ideas of this young man were dis
cussed by people muflled m shawls.
They thought how queer it was he should
dream he was hugging a bear, until a
few minutes later on he was discovered
hugging a girl who was radiant in a red
nightgown, a sealskin coat, Turkish slippers
over her woolen stockings, and a general air
of satisfaction and future punishment per
vading her. The obaperon marshaled her
forces, took the girls all back to their
bunks, but to save her soul she oouldn’t get
that crowd quiet again that night. The
young man who had tieen hugged by a bear
insisted on singing, “Love Will Find the
Way,” and the young woman to whom the
song was addressed would do nothing but
laugh, while all the rest j'oined in the
chorus. They sympathized with her so.
LOVE IN A MOUNTAIN PARTY.
No mountain party is complete unless
somebody falls in love with somebody. It
adds zest to the fishing, and it makes it
possible for the young man, if he is refused,
and wishes to do so, to shoot himself on the
spot, for there are plenty of guns about.
He has never been known to do It, probably
for this very reason; but the girl knows
about the guns, and she cries so hard, and
seeing the facility for suicide, he concludes
to live for her sake. It’s amusing, health
ful and delightful—for two weeks—this life
up in the mountains, but at the end of that
ti mo you want to come to home and civil
ization.
LONGINGS FOR THE TOWN.
One young man who has just arrived has
set three girls to packing their trunks by
singing all the songs out of the “Merry
Monarch,” and making them turn green
with envy because they didn’t know them.
They want to see Jansen, that augel boy—
naturally 1 mean an angel without wings;
they want to hear Wilson tell about being a
king with a capital Iv, and they want to see
the little pickaninnies dance. They glare at
the young man who is just come, when he
says it s the best thing he ever saw in his
life, and they set their teeth hard as they
resolve when they get back to
>iew York they will eat tho dirt on
tho pavement, they will be so glad to
soe the town. Still, thev will go home bet
ter, stronger and healthier women, and they
will have learned how much beauty there
is in life, even if it is life far nwav from the
maddtng crowd, amid the great 'temple of
God, the foroet. The mode of living may
seem a little odd at first, but wuen one
thinks of a primitive oarap meeting it be
comos quite civilized. I remember hearing
my grandmother say that at a camp meet
ing she once went to the girls all slept in
one tent and the yonng men in another, and
at night you couldn’t pass between because
all the hands were out and clasped—natur
ally in brotherly love.
SINGING HOUND A CAMPFIRE.
Up here, in the clear, good, honest air,
men forget their after-dinner stories, their
love for billiards, their desire to trot out
and sit with a iot of ether men alone, but
! everybody gathers around the fire, the men
smoke if theyfwant to, if there is anybody
that can sing, and there always is, a song
is to tne fore, and it is a song which hss a
i chorus, and everybody joins in it. Your
voice may be fituitM In your boots, or as
fine and threadlike as your golden hair, but
nevertheless you come in and do your best.
The ot er night everything went—they
sang “Annie Rooney." they sang “Nellie
illy.” they sang “Way Down upon the
Suwaneo River,” and then a man, whose
Toice is full and rich and clear, suddenly
began to sing the most beautiful thing that
Cardinal Newman ever wrote, "Lead,
Kindly Light,” and everybody came into
the chorus in a quiet sort of way, and the
eves of one or two filled with tears, and tne
trees outside, as they rustled, mode a
wonderful accompaniment, and there was
a quiet such asou.y comes when people feel
nearer to Goil, and more full of kindness
and consideration for each other.
MOUNTAIN SKYLAKINO.
Tho next night was the night the young
man from the city arrived; he had .brought
a ba jo ith him, and, among other b;au
tiful tunes, be made this request:
“Sing of lovers—sad or spoony,
Little Peach or Annie Rooney,
Ask me where I got my hat—
Got my hat—Got my hat.
Cut don't say JlcGiuty, for I draw the line at
that."
Tho banjo inspired the athletes; they
danced a ciog dauce, and then everybody
el o danced, whether they koew how or
whether they didn’t. They waltzed, they
danced cotillons, and thev finished up with
a Virgiuia reel in a manner that was simply
wild, oven the banjo joining in it and taking
the bead of the line. *
WHERE LIFE IS VERY REAL.
We are all going away to-morrow morn
ing—that dance was the last. We at e going
to ride twenty miles on a stage coach, then
all night on the train and part of the next
day. By the time we get to New York we
will all make engagements to go and hear
about the omniscient ostrich, and we will
have gotten back a little of the stiffness
that is the result of nearly 2,000 years of
education to women. But we won’t forget.
And I have an idea that when the spring
time comes, and the roses aro all nodding
“how do you do,” and the orange blossoms
are being packed in white cotton to give
their sweet greetings to the bride to be,
that there will be one or two weddings that
came from a fellow findlug out what a real
girl was the one with whom he had waltzed
and paid compliments all of one winter, and
yet whose realness he only discovered dur
ing tliat two weeks in the mountains.
PAST, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
Some things we will forget.
We will forget any disagreeable word or
act said or done.
We will forget the selfishness of other
people, if there were any, and remember
our own.
We’ll forget tho little discomforts, be
came the big comforts were so great
We’ll never forget, however, the young
man who was hugged by tbe boar, and we’U
realize fully that ho is chasing around Now
York city to got a special ring to suit tho
girl ho hugged, and who after next June ho
will have tho ineffable bliss of hugging for
the rest of his life.
But the men say that what they never
will forget is the night we sang “Load,
Kindlv Light,” for it made them realize
that women were better than they thought,
that life held out more to them, and that
sweetness aud goodness, after all. was
stronger than any other powers. So, you
see, the two weeks in the mountains taught
us all something. Don’t you wish you had
boeu in the party ? Bab.
DEATH-LIKE TRANCES.
A Number of Strange Cases of Sus
pended Animation.
From the London Standard.
There is nothing more repugnant to the
human mind than the awful possibility of a
living person being consigned to the tomb.
Nevertheless such cases have occurred, and,
unhappily, recent proofs are forthcoming
that they still occur, despite the fact that,
in most countries, precautions are now
taken to prevent premature interments. In
England, as a rule, the bodies of deceased
persons are not buried till signs of decom
position begin to manifest themselves: and
elsewhere it is enacted by law that inter
ments must not take place until three or
more days after death. Nearly three-quar
ters of a century ago a somewhat gruesome
book was published. The first section of its
formidable title, which Is too long forquota
tation in Its entirety, runs: “The danger
of premature interment is proved by many
remarkable instances of people who have re
covered after being laid out for dead, and of
others being entombed alive for wnut of
being properly examined prior to inter
ment.” And the author submits the fol
lowing grim quotation as a prelude: “To
revive nailed up in a coffin! To return to
life in darkness, distraction and despair!
The brain can scarcely contain the reflec
tion in our coolest moments.” Having thus,
at the outset, put his readers in a dread
fully uncomfortable frame of mind,
he proceeds to pile on the agony
by citing numerous well-authenti
cated cases of iiersons supposed to
be dead coming to life. Several of these
owed their restoration to consciousness to
the officiousnoss or irreverence of friends,
who, persistently declining to believe that
they were absolutely dead, forced liquor
down their throats. A chapter is devoted
to the remarkable case of “Sir Huga Ack
land of Devonshire, who, after being laid
out as a corpse, was revived by a bumber of
brandy.”
Of eases on record of a bygone time we
will only quote two, by their reason ex
ceptional peculiarity. The Hon. Mrs. God
frey, sister of the great Duke of Marlbor
ough, while preparing for chapel on Sun
day, foil down, to all appearauoe, dead. In
spite of the positive assurances of the phy
sicians, who declared her to be irrecover
ably dead, her loving husband, Col. God
frey persisted, in believing that she was
only in a trance. So she lay till the follow
ing Sunday, when exactly at the same hour
as her seizure, just as the chapel bell was
once more ringing, she awoke, She was
not aware that she had been in a state of sus
pended animation for a week, and the first
thing she did was to scold her attendants
for not waking her in time to go to church
as she had intended to do. That the resto
ration of an interred person to life
should have a romantic sequel and result in
a cause celebre seems anomalous, but such
a thing did occur in the olden time.
Two neighbors living in tbe Rue St.
Honore, Paris, who were very great friends,
had respectively a son and a daughter. The
young people were very much attached, and
would have married had not a wealthy
suitor appeared on the scene, and, with the
consent of the parents, obtained the hand
of the daughter. The young lady submitted
as Frencn girls think it r.heir duty to do in
such circumstances, and she prudently de
clined to see her first lover any more Melan
choly, however, brought on a'malady which
so benumbed her faculties that she was
thought to be dead, and was, accordingly
consigned to the grave. Her former
lover, who could not believe that
even then she was lost to him, per
suaded the grave digger to bring tho body
to his house. There he used every means to
restore animation, aud succeeded. Con
vinced that now she belouged to him. she
agreed to his proposal that they should
escape to England. Ten years afterward
tuey returned to Paris, A chance meeting
between husband aud wife convinced the
former that tho latter was still alive, though
he had buried her with becoming grief. He
claimed her for her own, the claim was
resisted; and, despite every argument to
the contrary, the judge decided in his
favor. Again the lady and her lover
sought happiness in flight, and they lived
abroad without further molestation.
Now for some recent cases. The follow
ing one was reDorted from Nevada. Mo
on Aug. 34, 1388. While the remains of
twenty-three unknown dead bodies were
l>eing removed from 1 eepwood cemetery,
m that town, “Supt. G. W. McCain dto
ooyered a body which was partially
a “ d ’. J, r °” Position, evidently
had been buried alive. The body was thl*
of an infant, probab y I year old. and w!
lying on its fare, with its legs drawn ™
and the bottom of its foot __ VP
on tbe coffin lid.” Early® 811 ” 5
February, this year, the iiri jV I
phia Press published a
vouched for by Thomas Hooper
of that city, t.ut now a resident y
York. Itisthatofaladv, thl U”
musician, who, apparently, died in
some years back K Her bdv '!
a casket and taken to the churcE,
funeral services were held. At the , -
a solemn address the minister saiand
who wished mign: take a lasi look “ “ rL
remains. Among those who went for wain
was a woman, and sue, after becd.ng
neritly over the coffin, exdaiuie.l “i 5 ?
eielids quiver!” Great excT-m-m?’f'7
lowed, but a doctor prevent ridiculed tl
suggestion declared that i,f.
aid urged immedia e interment. The ’
band, however, insisted on the amine, , ;"
cf restoratives. The wife was remove!
home, the gr ave clothes were stripped
and wuhi , four days, thanks toconUuuos
effort, she was quite well Six years aful
ner restoration to life, sne, while sirnri m.. ~
a musicale, was suddenly s-rick-u *
blindness, and blind sue still is ' vu ®
From Orenburg, in Russia, this y. ar *
very painful case has boon reported. Tw
mg the funeral of a wealthy peasant
coffin was seen to rise, and the
ceeded to get out. The affrighted t>r! ~
and mourners rau off. The “corpse” 7"T*
lowed, but the oeasauts having ~,- .
time regained courage. proceeled'”to “ tr 7
erso the ghost,” which they did so effec’uol J
with guns and pin:, .tabs that they kU
the unfortunate man, who it ,
tamed, had previously boon in a stated
coma. or
Lost February the funeral of a
woman was about to take place at A C
dna, Piedmont, when, owing to the Vp?
of the hearse, the suppo-ed dead w
aroused from the lethargy which „
take., for death. The borers in th “m,t
tery heard sounds issuing from tho
the lid was torn off and the yo*ng w
was found to he alive and conscious tbonff
in a state of great agitation ’in
bodies are interred very soon
supposed death, and a doctor in Rom® km
compiled and published statistics showing
that thousands of persons are annual
buried in a state of coma throughout F.urooi
A man named John J. O’Connor had rg
alleged, an exceedingly lucky escape
the dissecting table in The Amenity?,
St. Louis obojit Feb. 13 or 13 last He n f
supposed to I fa dead, his body was identjfoa
at the morgue by his wife. A funeral Al
lowed and it is positively asserted that ha
was ouried in Calvary cemetery. BtA
to the amazement of an W ho
knew him, he was afterward seen
wa king about as if nothing in particular
had happened to him. His own'version of
18 th * t he "'as reail v buried; that
his body was afterwards taken up and con
veyed to the dissecting room, and that the
first inemon made in his abdomen causing
blood to flow, his consciousness, which had
only been suspended, returned to him
About this case there is a good deal of mvs
?® r J -. atld attempts have been made to
hush it up, but it is not aa improbable one
for body snatching in the' interests of
surgeons is not rare m America. D-. Ken
neth Cornish, late surgeon to the British
Royal Humane Society, knows a clergy
man in Loudon who narrowly escaped in
terment in Milan four years ago while in a
state of catalepsy. He considers that (he
practice of preparing the body for burial
almost Immediately after death has
proved fatal to too chance of life pos
sessed by many a one whose friends
would made any sacrifice to
save them. Some peoplo have a morbid
dread of being buried alive, which haunts
them througn life, aud sometimes thev
devise special instructions oa tue -übject.
This was done by the late Col. Vyner of
Leaml gton Priors. who died last December
His will cont lined a bequest of £lO to his
doctor to examine him carefully after death,
for the purposo of ascertaining that he was
“really a id undoubtedly dead,” and author
ized him to use whatever means he should
think necesary in order to make himself
absolutely certain of the fact.
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