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DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLK.
THE ADVENT OF MLLE. AONES
CHARCOT.
The Growth of Women’s Greek Letter
Societies-He Would Beat Her Until
He Secured Her Affections—As Three
la to Five—Thumb-rings.
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New Your, Jan. 31. I was talking this
morning with Mila. Agnes Charcot, whose
private exhibitions of hypnotio power are
the latest things to set onr tongues a bus
sing. She is niece to Dr. Charcot of the
Saltpe triers, Paris, the greatest living au
thority of hypnotism, but had an English
mother. Sbe looks, accordingly, lilts a
French woman who has borrowed an Anglo-
Saxon body, being tali and having a British
breadth of shoulders, but combining with
these a clear pallor of skin, a general trim
aes3 and a brilliancy of dark eyes and hair
which do not belong to perfidious Albion.
If you see her on the street in tailor gown
and jacket, with great astrakhan collar
oomiug up about her ears, you wonder wes
ever a Londoner so Ohio or a Parisian pes
ieased of such calm, Rotten row reserve.
In a parlor, when she begins an experi
ment, you lose all sense of the international
puszle; warming to her work she is French
utterly. This spectacle is wsird.
The' young man—l have not seen her
Operate on a woman—is asked to sit, plaoe
his right hand on his left wrist and plant
both feet firmly on the floor. Sbe stands
before him, a handsome figore with no ob
servable peculiarity but a slight muscular
prominence of the eyebrows—eomethlng I
often notice in business women and others
who are oailed upon to exercise aouteness of
perception. .She does not touch him nor
snake passes bsfrre him, but looks steadily
at him, her arms at her sides On the in
stant a tremor passes through her. Her
bead bends to meet bis head. Her bands
are clinched. It would seem the nails must
pierce the skin. Her arms quiver. Her
whole body quivers with a mighty tension.
She is slightly crouched, as if to make a
spring. Her eves fasten themselves on those
other eyes. They send out white lights.
The woman is terribly alive. She is putting
into one moment the vital power of a year.
It is a frightful lashing and compelling of
the souL
It sa but for a minute. His feet draw up
from the floor. His face cornea forward to
meet her face, his eyes dilate wildly, then
they close, bis head falls.
It is only in bringing a subject out from
under hypnotic influence that Mile. Charcot
lavs hands on him. Then she uses manipu
lations behind the ears. If a subject la re
fractory while regainiug consciousness she
cuffs his ears. Some of her feats, as hypno
tising an antire stranger, whose baok is
turned to her, and who is sitting at the
other end! of the room, illustrate the dan
gerous nature of the power we are meddling
with. She is probably the strongest opera
tor of the day—curiously enough seeing that
she is the only vrorasn- -and there may be
grains of comfort in her assertion that she
cannot hypnotize a drunken person nor one
who has resolved not to be hypnotised. She
tells me sbe has confldeace in the future of
hypnotism as a curative agent, and as a
substitute for ammthetlcs in surgical opera
tions. These thiugs aside, she is our coming
sensation.
WITH A SIDS SADDLE OR ASTRIDE?
Not in open exhibition in park or boule
vard, but in those secret conclaves where
the riding of the goaf is supposed to form
part of the initiatory ceremonies.
The placing of a obapter of Kappa Kappa
Gamma at Barnard College within the past
few days calls attention to the thriving
growth of women’s Greek letter societies.
If the aspiring freshman is a Bosto
nian, bis rather, his brother or his
cousin before him belonged to Psi U; if be
is a Providence man, his chums are reck
oned with Zeta Psi; if he is a New Yorker,
he affiliate* naturally with Beta Theta
Pi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Chi Phi or Chi
Psi. Not to be outdone, the aspiring Irish
woman, from whatever section of the ooun
try, considers the bestowal of her maiden
affections on Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha
Phi or some other alphabetical agglomera
tion.
ENo fledgling fraternity has over lived to
sprout pin-feathers at Yassar under the
faculty’s frown; Greek letter eooietles do
not go at Smith or Wellesley, but in the co
educational colleges no less than seven are
maintained by the girl students, and the
accession of Bryn Nlawr and Barnard in
dicates that the newer women's colleges
may take up tho Idea. The seven "soror
itiee” have about eeveuty-flve chapters and
a membership of several thousands.
Kappa Alpha Theta is the oldest. It has
about a dozen chupters, Michigan Univer
sity, Cornell and Wesleyan being its strong
est colleges. To Eta Chapter belongs Alice
Freeman Pa.tner.
Alpha Phi is the richest. It has three
chapters, at Syracuse, Boston and North
western Universities. Alpha Chapter at
Syracuse owns a chapter bouse that vies
with some of the most beautiful buildings
of the fraternities.
Kappa Kappa Gamma is the largest and
most fully organized. It is 31 years eld,
and the planting of Beta Epsilon Chapter
at Barnard gives it twenty-six active chap
ters. Its membership is about 1,700. It
marks out its colleges into four province.,
each provinoe being represented m a grand
council, whifeh is the governing board. Bos
ton, Syracuse and Cornell universities are
its strongest eastern colleges. In the west
It is entrenched in Indiana, Wisconsin,
Northwestern Minnesota, lowa, Kansas,
Nebraska and Minnesota universities A
very strong chapter is at Bt. Lawrence
university. It has an official organ. The
Key, a handsome quarterly magazine. It
publishes a song book, has a jeweled key
for a badge, bas adopted light and dark
blue for its oolors, and in various ways lives
up to oollsge fraternity traditions.
Sigma Kappa, Alpha Beta Tau, Delta
Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta are smaller
but tefy muoh They have from one
to five chapters each and flourish mostly in
western ahapters.
WOULD MEAT HSR T7STIL RIIE DID,
Mrs. Charlette Emerson Brown is the
president of the Federation of Women’s
Clubs. She sits in a pleasant library in a
pleasant house in Orange and answers
stacks of letters. They oome from all over
the country and keep her busy several hours
every morning unfolding nd sorting them.
She is a pleasant-looking lady, and Mr.
Charlotte Emerson Brown—since we have a
Mr. Jenuess Miller why should we not ex
tend the workings of the principle—is most
benevolent looking. He pfsfwuiaa the
utmost interest in her work and sympathy
with her aims, yet when somebody asked
him what he would do if bis wife did not
love him, he said he would beat her until
she did, and the reverend gentleman's eyes
twinkled as he thought on this vigorous
method of procedure.
Hn Brown—l doubt if he has the hard
beartednets to slap at mosquitoes when they
sting, though he lives in Jersey—probably
thought it needful to guard in some way
against being called a “good soul." This, I
find, is just at present the especial griev
ance of the sex masculine. The progressive
woman walks in the paths of sweetness and
light, and lo:)ks back pityingly on grub
bing, money-getting man. Yet she recog
nises the patience of his plodding, and some
merit in his practical services and she says,
"after all, he’s a good soul.” And man re
seats this ascription of virtue. Of goodness
we are all a little ashamed. "Say that
again,” broke forth a husband and father,
“and everything between us is at an end. ”
A8 THREE IS TOFIVE.
I’ve been thinking of it for almost a fort
night, it seems to suggest conclusions. At
the annual banquet of Soroeis the women
speakers were limited to three minutes, to
men were allowed five. No woman spoke
above three minutes, no man spoke less than
ten. It’s contrary to tradition, but really
the sex feminine Is not in all respect! the
■ex talkative: a woman needs less space to
turn herself in. A man is a long time get
ting under way. He seldom recognizes be
fore be starts the necessity of a good head
of steam. His wheels creak, he coughs ard
you doubt if he’s going to go. When be
f;ste up speed lil momentum carries him a
ong way. He doesn’t have air brakes and
can’t stop without considerable warning. A
woman has said her say and is seated in half
the time it takes a man to explain that he
didn’t expect to bs called on.
As to quality, at the dinner in question,
both the best speeches aud the poorest were
made by The men held the middle
ground.
AND ON HER THUH* A RIXO.
Rings on'her fingers and bells on her toes,
she suail have music wherever she goes.
However it may be with the bells, there’s
no question cbout the rings. We load our
hands wUAAhs u, covering the Angers in
barbaric, yes, in savage prolusion. Occa
sionally pres sees a ring on a thumb, not Mr.
Edmuffdjftuwell's. She was a picturesque
woinsl Kti-k, southern-looking, one might
have Ri Might a Spaniard, or perhaps a
Creole, f noted her at Delmonloo's.
Her hair was very heavy, and its
dusky misses came low on her fore
head. Her face was vivacious, and
bar head tarn-id quickly, reminding one
of the motions of a humming bird, or of
something with a forked tongue. Bbe had
slightly projecting eyebrows aud Inegular
features. She was r.ot beautiful, but a
woman one would notice anywbere. Her
eyes wjjrstirigbt, and (he wore a dress of
black jaua dotted with bright-hued Leade.
On her-1 (run wai a clutter of snaky orchids
in paleagr#en and gold. Htr sleeves came
to the Min we, and ware more wisps of
gauze, which golden snakes kept In place,
coiling twioe and again no .ut the arms.
There was a snake in her hair. On the
fingers of her two hands she wore probably
twenty rings. On her left thumb was a
snake ring. A snake was painted on her
black gauze fan. Sbe looked iike a woman
from the tropics, out of a jungle.
MRS. TALMAOE.
Everybody knows about the Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmaga, few know muoh about his
wife. Yet sbe is a worain of unooramon
gifts and possessed of considerable talent os
a speaker. Womeu who have been mem
bers of her Bible class, which at one time
numbered over 800, speak of her with en
thusiasm. When the hour was over she
shook hands with the entire assemblage and
gave to each au instant of unhurried cor
diality. That’s a wonderful social gift, the
giving for, however, short a time, of un
divided attention. It’s almost a raolpe for
popularity, the restraint of the eye from
uneasy wanderings.
Elizabeth Dustin.
IRKEOMB HOUSEHOLD DUTIES.
Suggestions as to How They May be
Lightened.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 31.—“ What can
a woman do who hates housebould work,
and who U compelled to cook, sweep and
wash dlskee every day of every week qf
every year without a vacation or a rest of
any sort?’’
1 am positive that my readers will agree
with me that the case of this correspondent
has been most succinotly stated. Notwith
standing this fact lam very much in t lie
dark. I suppose we must accept the word
“compelled" in Its most literal sense, and
take for granted that she la speaking the
truth when she leads me to infer that there
is no earthly way of getting rid of a part, at
least, of these most disagreeable
duties. If I bad not been ac
quainted with many martyrs who
need not nave been martyrs, and with many
Marthas who considered thu sweet, passive
Marys of small aonount in the world, 1
might take with fewer grains of salt state
ment* like the above. That there nre just
such unwilling drudges, such domestic
slaves, we all know, and my soul is always
tilled with wonder to see how bravely the
molt of them wear their galling yokes. To
have to wash the same dishes, to tcrapo the
same pot* and kettles, to sweep the same old
carpets, to inash the same old potatoes day
after day, is enough to make a woman
who dislikes such work and who has a taste
for a different career sour and old before
her time. I fully aud affectionately sympa
thize with such aa environment. When to
this is added a man who feels that his wife
is in her proper place, and that no domestic
service is too hard or too monotonous, and
that to him is relegated the right to spend
his evenings where he ploases, utid to come
home when and as he pleases—that little
word “as’’ holds iu its letters anything from
a bottla of “extra dry” to a cask
of beer —then the stato of
that woman is too grievous to be borne, aud
I think I am aoquainted with on* woman
who wouldn’t try to bear it. Between the
women who think they are obliged to do
unoongeuial work limply because they have
always done it, ana the women whose
husbands spend every extra dollar that
might be used for lightening their labor in
.dissipation there is a great difference Let
the wives who have loyal husbands thank
God and taka courage aud strive iu all
sensible aud tactful ways to improve upon
their unoongeaiai surroundings. I do
think that more woman could lessen
tbeir work than now think so.
There need not be quite so much sweeping,
quite so many varieties of food cooked.
Every woman who does her own house
work should always manage to have a
lounge in olose proximity and something
nice to read lying close at hand. Half au
hour’s goad rest with ao interesting bock,
magaztae or paner for comnauy, will do
wonders in equalizing the nervous system
and resting the tired muscles. Let the
dishes go until the weariness wears off a
little. And now iu regard to cooking. An
Augusta lady asks me to say something
mar* than 1 have in the past in reference to
the Indigestible qualities of hot bread, aud
adds that the average southerner does
not feel as if he had anything lit
to eat unless there is some kind of
hot bread upon the table. In a warm, well
baked, raised biscuit er roll there seems to
me no more harm than in good, fresh
bread. The trouble with the usual biscuit is
that In order to insure lightness they are
raised from large doses of soda and cream
of tartar. Those acids and alkalies are
very hurtful, aud tha digestive apparatus,
■pinch is obliged to contend with the
fiiUff, usually breaks down en
tirety after more or less suffering.
Mauy housekeepers think it loss
work to make bread in this way, but it is a
grtat mistake. There is life and health and
Pac in good bread, and there is doatb, dis-
AA* 6 aud moral destruction in bad bread. A
Richmond gentleman suffering from caucer
-of the stomach told me lhnt hU doctor
traced the disease to the irritation and
inflammation produced by a diet of bread
ptttffs risen at the moment by means of
Cream of tartar and bi-carbonate of soda.
Z*l was extremely fond of hot bread," be
told me, “and as I never minded the green
spots on the biscuits, I ate them moruing,
•ViOon and night, aud this is tbs result.”
If one has perfect bread, tuei-e is always
something nutritious and appetizing in the
house. With a broiled steak or a chop and
. some stewed or canned fruit, one has a sensi
ble and healthful meal. Without good
bread one has no foundation to build upon.
Biscuits oan be stirred together at a mo
usent’s notice, but who ever wants to eat a
-cold soda biscuit or a loaf made from these
volatile substances! Such bread could
never by any stretch of ttao imagination be
called "the staff of life.”
The idea that has so long prevailed in
reference to the difficulty in making good
raised bread is a fallacious one, and I wish
I could convince my readers of this fact,
because out of such knowledge would come
health and all the graces. Good flour is of
course vitally necessary and a good oven is
important. But one may have thess and
the skill to combine materials, but if the
yeast is not perfectly reliable
good bread is an impossibility.
ine must know before commencing
operations that the yeast will do its work. I
cannot remember having a heavy or un
satisfactory loaf of bread or roll or biscuit
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY i, 1891-TWELVE PAGES.
in my house for years, and unless in emer
gencies the baker Is not called noon. Still,
as i have said before, I t ink that every
tired and over-worked housekeeper should
buy her bread rather than further try her
strength by making It herself. But when it
can be made at bom* it is surely a blessing.
Eleanor Kirk.
REDFIBN’S COSTUMES FOR LADIES
In the Autumn of Life.
Gone are the days of spring.
And the sun-kissel summer hours.
But the mellow, pleasant autumn days.
And their fruits, isay still be ours.
—Mary Hoxrltt.
Nrw York, Jan. 31.—These handsome
sketch** show hew some of the dowager*
are looking; the mothers and aunts and
other middle-aged relative* of the brilliant
young beauties whom the world ha* been
admiring all the winter.
Is not this stylish electric bengaline, com
bined with camel's hair a shade or two
lighter, beautiful? The front of the skirt
has a silk fringe headed by a band of the
wool stuff, which latter forms the main
part of the bodice, the sleeves and scarf
panels down tho side* of the skirt. The
vest is outlined with seal brown velvet, and
the collar and cuffs are of the tsma
In the other sketch we have a three
quarter coat for the same lady. It is of
mulberry oolored cloth, and has braided
black ornaments with just a touch of gold.
Collar and cuffs ef black marten finish, this
stylish garment, and give it that appear
ance of warmth which only fur can supply.
The toque is ef black velvet with mulberry
colored tips round the crown, and curling
over the ribbon at the back.
The best medical authorities say the
proper way to treat catarrh is to take a con
stitutional remedy, like Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
—Ad.
STERNBERG'S.
A Palace of Riches at Low Prices.
“Sternberg’s” are still doing soma very
fine figuring on profits to raduco stock, and
while “valuables” wiil always bring their
value—prices were never so low as now.
Solid Silverware.
Fine Plated Wares,
For Wedding Presents
Ladle 1 ’ Fiue Watches
For Birthday Presents,
Gold-Handled Umbrellas
For Presents,
Diamond Jewelry,
Lace Pins, Earrings,
Riugs, Charms,
Fancy Wares, Bnc-a-Brao, Onyx Cloolcsand
Stands. 31. Stern berij & Bno.,
— Ad. 158 Broughton.
Tha Winter
Has not yet gone; there will be a plenty of
cold weather yet. You must not suffer
from cold when you oan buy Underwear at
a reduction of S5 per cent, at Kohler's
Clothing Store.—Act
Neckwear, Socks, Handkerchiefs, Under
wear, Collars, Cuffs, Suspenders, have
greatly dropped in price. Collat Bros., 149
Broughton street.— Ad.
Dolls, Half Price, at Silva's.
A large etock of dressed and undressed
Bisque Jointed Dolls, Bisque Kid Body Dolls,
Wasbalie and Wax Dolls, which must, and
will be sold, if price is any inducement.
Early buyers will save money and get the
choice.
My sale at reduced prices to dose ont
retail stock still oontinuea.
Silver plated ware verv low. Rich Cut
Glassware ditto. Dinner Seta, Chamber
Sets, Tea Sets, moving lively. A good line
of Pianos, Parlor and Hall Lamps, Table
Cutlery, Brass Goods, Bisque Figures, Art
Pottery, and et ary-day furniehings. A
large lot of Toy Tea Seta. Call early and
often. J ar 8. Silva,
— Ad 140 Broughton Street.
ROUND ABOUT GOTHAM.
MI 0-WINTER GOSSIP OF THE OAY
METROPOLIS.
Southern Women in New York So
ciety—The Actresses and the Knick
erbocker*-Betting a Great Safe Doer.
What will Become of the Compositor.
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New York, Jan. 3L—Many of the most
beautiful women tu New York society
came from the south. Mrs. Harry Dew,
whose beauty is much talked about in
fashionable circles, was a Savannah girl.
Her slow, sweet grace of speech and manner
has been the cause of much heartburning
among the high-bred sisterhood of Gotham.
Her boaband is a well-known physician and
a nephew of the president of William and
Mary College.
Mrs. Dew is a slight, willowy woman,
with dark hazel eyes, auburn hair, and a
complexion like the petal of an apple blos
som. She is greatly devoted to her young
husband, and is at borne with him as much
as possible summer and winter. I remem
ber Mrs. Dr. Dew a* the lovely Bessie Mar
tin, and was first attracted to her by hear
ing her sing on* evening that pathetic song
“Douglass Tender and True." To hear her
sing it once la to carry the remembrance of
it through one’s life. Her voice bas been
highly cultivated, and is wonderfully tweet.
Trier* Is a sad romance connected with her
early girlhood. She was enged when
quite young to Jefferson Davis, Jr. , son of
the confederate president, and was to have
been married to him in a very short time,
when be was etricken down with cholera
and died in a few hours. It was a greet
blow to the young fianoee and sbe with
drew from society and the gay world for
several years. Her family were intimate
friends of the Davie family, and she was a
great favorite with them. Bessie being
the only daughter and the idol of fond
parents and broths; s— everything that
love and affection and money could do, to
take her mind from her trouble was resorted
to. They traveled with her—and after
much persuasion she again entered society.
Bne met her fate in the charming Dr. Dew
and Is as happy as mortals deserve to be here
below. Not long Ago her friend, Winnie
Davis, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis,
visited Mr*. Dew in her New York home.
thz greatest or safe doors.
On* of tha largest, if not the largest,
doors in the country was hung on the Man
hattan Savings Bank’s vault last week. It
weigns eight tons and has thirty-six bolts
that hold It when locked. This ponderous
door la so nicely balanced that a two-year
old child can open or close it. It required
the services of sixteen men, an engine and
several jaok-screws to get It in place,but the
workmanship at the shop bad been so well
done that two meu fitted and finished the
job in three hours.
It was from this bank that Jimmy Hope
and a number of his pals stole over a half
million dollars worth of United States
bonds in 1878. Hope has no chance at this
safe.
ACTRESSES DIVORCED FROM THE STAGE.
Mary Anderson Navarro will be on* of
the in st prominent guests at the balls of
tiie patriarchs and colonial dames.
Out of the somewhat considerable list of
aotresses who have married rich New York
ers not more than one or two have attained
the bliss of entering tha fashionable circle,
which make* Mary Anderson’s snccesa the
more brilliant. The best stage match here
tofore, from the society standpoint, was
that made be Annie Robe, who left Wal
laces company to marry DanieTG. Gris
wold. The Griswolds are of the inner circle
of Knickerbocker society. Miss Robe was a
Scotch girl whose mother was an actress.
There is no shadow of doubt about the posi
tion Miss Anderson has ebtained. The
Navarros are rich, of noblo extraction and
entirely au fait in society. Her husband is
conspicuous iu tho dancing set.
The sias of this climax can only be appre
ciated by those who knew Miss Anderson
personally In the first years of her career.
Reams have been written to persuade the
pubiio that her extraction and breeding
were gentle, but the fact remains that ten
years ago, and even leas, she knew next to
nothing about the manners and habits of
people with even ordinary social advan
tages. Her first photographs witness this
without any other proof. They show the
same beautiful face that has since made her
fortune, but in posture, expression, and in
the wav she carries her dress, thsy betray
lack of breeding.
It ia just ten years since I chanced to be
standing one day at the counter of a store in
Concord, N. H., when Mils Anderson—who
had playsd in tke city the night before—
and her mother entered and asked for
gloves. Mary selected some lisle thread
ones and her mother objected to them, say
ing: "Ladles don't wear lisle thread, Mary.”
The daughter hesitated, they both looked
doubtful and anxious, and after some de
bate on the point the order was changed for
kid. This incident shows hew little they
knew of the simplest of dress, and also
points out the direction of their ambition,
which has always been social rather than
artistic. Art has been to them a means and
not an end.
TYFX-BRTTIJIG MACHIHB POSSIBILITIES.
The fact that many of the great news
paper offices of the country are about to use
the new type-settisg machine indicates, te
many miads. a revolution in the production
of books and newspapers almost as great as
that made by the sewing machine in the
production of clothing. Many printers
there are who fear that the art of tvpog
raphy will be astirely swept away and that
in plaoe of human setting machines, there
will be instruments that will do doubls the
work of any man at, perhaps, one-third of
the cost.
Practical printers, those who regard ty
pography as an arr, are not enthusiastic
over the work of the machines. While it is
probably true that several of the big dailies
in the oountry intend to give the machinee
a trial in the near future, it i* equally a
fact that one great newspaper in New York
city has decided against them. The adop
tion cf the machine means the tacrifloe of
the typographical appearance of the paper.
None of the machlaes can set up more than
one kind of type, and this is In Itself a great
drawback. All the big dailiee in this city
use three, four and some of them more
kinds of type In printing the news. Then
the ability to punctuate with the ir.aoblns is
oxtremelv limited, and while this is not
necessarily imperative, it is none the less
useful. But it Is not alous in these respects
that tho machine falls below the work of
the average compositor.
Praoticnl tests have proved that they
have not even these merits, as to speed and
cheapness, which their makers claim for
them. A newspaper in this oity, which has
used the machines for some time, and which
is not beautiful, typographically. Is not
enthusiastic in support of the machines.
There is inside information to the effect
that they have not come up to anticipations
by any means, either in .point of cheapness
or speed.
Even should its adoption become possible
there will still be plenty of work for com
positors. Advertisements and market re
ports, headlines and tables of every descrip
tion will still be required to be set up by
hand. The telephone has not replaced the
telegraph operator, nor has the phono
graph or any other mechanical device of
taking notes driven the stenographer to ths
wall. It is just possible that the introduc
tion of a successful type-setting machine
would increase rather than dimtuisb the de
mand for compositors.
In the other branches of tho trade the
effect should be much the same. The idea
is incorreot that any one not having a tech
nical knowledge of the printer’s art can
operate the type-setting machine; so that if
the change should come all the compositor
will have to do to prepare himself for the
new order of things is to Item the key
board of the machine, as he did the loca
tion of the letters in the “caee” before. If
the work can be done cheaper, more books
will be published, and peopls who have
never patronized the printer before will he
forced to do so in order to comply with the
new order of things. It wossid not be sur
prising to And a compositor with bis ma
chine ia every large mercantile and banking
house and lawyer’s office in the city, where
any considerable amount of printing is to be
done.
But If this change is to come it will be by
•low degrees. Time will be given to every
one to adapt himself to tha new order of
things. In this age of progress and inven
tion nothing seems impossible, and if the
improvements on the type-setting machine
during the next few yearn keep pace with
what has been accomplished within the post
ten year*, it is more than likely that the ap
prentice in tho composing to m will be
learning the keyboard ir stead of the “case.”
Then we shall have cheaper newspapers and
books, perhaps. The P'or printers will be
pushed out of the business and only the good
men retained.
Typography will become a lost art. and
more's the pity that the “Art preservative
of all arts” should itself be supplanted by a
machine. David Weohsler.
THE GREATEST RUSSIAN.
Next to the Czar Stands Father John,
or the Greek Church.
From, the London Times.
Two jubilee celebrations have recently
attracted attention iu Russia—one the cen
tennial anniversary of the storming and
capture of the Turkish fortress of Ismail on
the Danube under Boovaron, and the other
the thirty-fifth anniversary of the entry
into the orthodox roiuistry of Father John
Sergeyoff, on* of the most remat kable and
popular men in the Russian empire. It
needs no oemmenta to explain the patriotic
outpourings of the Russians over the his
toric siege aud savage reduction of itmatl,
but of tue celebration iu honor of Father
John of Cronstadt there is muoh to relate
that ia strange and interesting.
Father Ivan, or John of Cronstadt,
known and revered in every nook and cor
ner of Russia, bat hitherto been almost en
tirely unknown to English readers; but n
circumstance just reported by the British
chaplain at Cionstadt seems to indicate
that the Christian infiuende of this remark
able priest of the Russian church has at last
found itswayeveu into the United King
dom. A short time ago a letter reached the
British clergyman at Cronstadt addressed
in English to the parish priest of that port.
It came from a correspondent in county
Kerry, Ireland, and earnestly begged for
the prayers of Father John on behalf of the
writer, who appeared to be in great distrees
of mind and body. His letter is being
translated and will be forwarded to the rev
erend pastor.
This is a curious proof of the influence and
reputation of this wonderful man, who, in the
midst of his Russian surroundings, seems to
approach aa nearly as any one perhaps
could approach io these days to the first
apostlos. He is. Indeed, a true physician of
the Gospel. His extraordinary healing
powers aud the spiritual asd bodily cures
effected by the faithful acceptance of bis
earnest consolations are attested on all sides
by many sort* and conditions ef men. To
those who believe in Father John—and
their name is legion—the age of miracles is
not yet over. Crowds press round him
whenever he leaves his humble abode, aud
are happy if they can only touch the hem
of his modest garb. Father John’s life is
one of uninterrupted and self-sacrificing
charity and Christian ministration among
the poor, the sick and needy, not, however,
refmslng his presence and prayers to the
well-to-do and rich, who send for him when
all other help fails, and nsver in vain, from
all parts of the country. He has no vast
business organization of charity and no
corybantic Christianity, like “General”
Booth, aud no religious politics, like Arch
bishop NicanOr of Odessa. Although enor
mous sums of money have passed through
his hands to the Russian poor in all direc
tions, he is still a poor mau, living in the
humblest possible way. Steamboats and
trains iu which he journeys to and fro on
his truly ohristian work are besieged with
such crowds that the police have to protect
him from their pressure.
The report of his nppearano* in any bouse
in St. Petersburg—and the news spreads
like widefire—brings throngs of poor peo
ple running madly from all the surround
ing Btreets to get within the range of his
healing presence, to receive his Diesslng, or
to implore his attendance at the sick bed of
relatives or friends.
He advocates no Impracticable Christian
theories like Tolstoi; his life is eno entirely
of good works, and his Influence for good
among the Russian manes, who have not
yet reached the state of cynical unbelief of
the lower orders in other countries, is
greater, perhaps, than any other Russian
under the czar.
The festival in his honor at
an island, mest difficult and inconvenient of
access in winter, was attended by great
crowds of people, rich and poor, who made
their way across the ice of the gulf te the
isolate!! port, from St. Petersburg and
other places. Thirty priests officiated at
the church servioe on the occasion, and
deputations from various benevolent and
othsr societies. Including even the beggars,
presented the reverend father with gifts of
silver-bound Bibles and bolr pictures. The
most touching sight of all was the gift of a
small bunch of flewers by a poor, sickly
woman with a child in her arms. An eye
witness states that the crowd and Father
John were snbved to tears. At a banquet
in the evening, at which the governor and
admiral of the port presided, paupers,
msndicatitfc and moujicks sat oheek by jowl
with ladies, officials and naval officers, to
drink to the health and long life of Father
John,
THE HYGIENIC OF CON
STIPATION AND ORDINARY
DYSPEPSIA.
Sir John Andrews, the English professor, be
lieves that in the vast majority of cases consti
pation may be successfully overcome by taking
a tcaspoouful of the genuine Imported Carlsbad
Spradel Salt, dissolved in a tumberful of water
(half a pint), oold or hot, early in the morning,
and, if necessary, on going to bed.
A. . AJjTMAYER <& CO.
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