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PART TWO.
BAB CHATTERS AWAY.
EVERYBODY GLADLY LIST3N3 70
HE.* BRIGHT GOSSIP
A? She Tells of the Latest Things at
Weddings, of Little Fa is Dear to
Woman’s Heart, and of Femi-.inities
as Entertaining as They Are Spark
ling—The Ominous Turquois —The
Superior Young Woman—Pun Over
a New Gime at Which Clever Peo
ple Can Play Best.
siiv York, May 9. —Y"ou are nothing
to-day if you haven’t a keou appreciation of
flowers. You must appieciate the redness
of one rose, the dead whiteness of another;
you must be able to discriminate between
Tiolets, and know to a dot the good points
of an orchid. If you are going to make a
call on some woman of whom you are fond,
you stop by the way, get' a bunch of roses, a
single orchid, or lily, whatever indeed hap
pens to be her favorite flower, and then,
when you go in, you tell her how, long be
fore the material body got there, shs was in
your heart, and you have brought her the
flower that she would have chosen.
A NEW THING AT WEDDINGS.
If you go to a wedding you carry as
beautiful a bouquet as possible, tied with
long, satin ribbons, and iu the loops are
hidden your own visiting card, with your
best wishes for the bride written upon it.
This you leave as you go go out, if it is a
house wedding; if it is a church wedding,
witn no reception after, you hold your bou
quet while you are in church, and then as
you come out, drive rapidly to the house
aud have your footman leave it
at the door. It’s a pretty custom
that works well in two ways. You
have the advantage of the ” bouquet
while you are on exuibition, so to say, and
the bride knows that you remember her
when you leave it behind you. Of course,
enormous sums are spent on these bridal
bouquets, for very large roses, orchids or ■
gardenias are used for them. The roses are
not made up stiffly, and are tied together
with broad white ribbon, while yellow or a
curious shade of green are given over to the
other flowers. If your costume happens to
be some peculiar color, with which none of
these shades harmonize, then it is permit
ted you to have any ribbon you please,
there being a prejudice, however, against
the dark shades.
THE OMINOUS TURQUOIS.
Apropos of dark colors at a wedding
being unlucky, I am reminded of an odd
superstition about the turauois and how I
saw it verified last week. A beautiful tur
quois had been given to a young lady aud
sae sent it, with a number of other jewels,
to the bank while she was to be a bird of
passige. She was taken very ill, months
went by and the jewels were never required.
A week ag > she was able to go out in the
the sunshine, and concluded to get
some of her rings, that she might
have the pleasure of looking at
them. When the turquois was taken out
of its box it had turned the most positive
green imaginable. This would not have
seemed strange if it had been an inferior
stone, but it had been bought at a world
famous shop, and an enormous price had
been given f>r it. You know the theory
that when the possessor of a turquois is in
ill health that it becomes sick, too, and
loses its colors. Now, it has been given to a
woman who is in perfect health and she is
wearing it, while everybody who knows
about it is eagerly watching to see if the
stone goes back to its heavenly hue.
THE SUPERIOR YOUNG WOMAN.
There are people who are above this sort
of thing, and the superior young woman is
one. Tell her a story ilka this and she
glares at you until you wish she could be
sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor
until she outgrew her superiority, and be
came an ordinarily inferior person. Noth
ing suits her. It she goes out for a walk
with you she refuses to look in the shop
windows at the pretty things, she declines
to see the nice babies or agreeable dogs, but
she holds her bead high up in the air and
says: “I am out for rational exercise,
and I propose to get it.” Ask her to have
some sweets and a glass of soda water,
and she says: “Thank you, no. But if you
care for it I will wait while you get it.” If
you can imagine a woman, made of flesh
and blood, waiting while you drank soda,
your imagination is extremely good. Tell
her about a novel that is immensely amus
ing, offer it to her, and she puts up her
lorgnette and calmly freezes you by saying,
“Thank you. But after all, from an in
tellectual standpoint, what will I gain from
it:’’ You don’t like to suggest it is just
I ossible a certain amount of pleasure may
come to her—for pleasure seems to her a
very frivolous and undesirable thing.
SHE DOESN’T GO TO THE THEATER,
unless she can 6ee something really improv
ing, and as far as can be discovered the
only really improving things that have
come to her are those nasty plays of Ibsen’s.
The superior young man is an absolute in
centive to sin, for she makes everybody
hate her. Asa young woman she is insuf
ferable, as a wife she makes her husband a
pitiable creature, and really the only time
when she is iu her proper position
is when she is the chief personage,
in a still wav, at a funeral. Then
the world regards her wiih coniDlacenov. I
haven’t the slightest doubt, though, that she
tells the spooks all about the examinations
she has passed and how well up she is in
Greek and Latin, and it may be that ti e
future pu isament of same people who don’t
vote the proper ticket will be to have close
acquaint mceship with the superior young
women in the uupleasant future booked for
them. Nothing more dreadful could come.
THE INSIGNIA OS' A DRY DINNER.
Have you gotten any dinner invitations
with a bit of blue ribbon tied in one corner?
That is the hostoss's way of telling that
there will be no wines served, and, really,
nfter all, it’s better to inform you of this be
forehand and to let you know that you will
have to come down to Aiollinarls
water, not having even a glass of
claret to take with your dinner,
so give you au opportunity to decline.
” hen will people understand the real mean
,!|g of temperance, and when will people
comprehend that the taking away of a glass
°f light wine and the giving a tumber of
ice water will not reform a single drunkard
and will make no end of dyspeptics? Have
}ou ever lived with anybody who had the
dyspepsia, and didn’t you feol that you
hated your kind alter a week cf it? Well,
Inis is apt to be the result if the nation is
given over to ice—l mean meltel ice in the
shape of water.
GOTHAM HAS THE BLUER.
New York is dull—inexpressibly, Insuf
ferably dulL A few dinner parlies are
heard of, more card parties, but the same
moan is made every where, that the season
bas e ,me to aa end. Why in the world
don’t New York woratm follow the fashion
of the f rench and English ones, aud when
they drive t, the park, stop tneir carnage*.
Vt out at some gi v*n spot, selected for the
!’ rjeae, aud walk for a little while? Thera
“ouli be a marvelous exhibition of pretty
w tne,i a,d line gowns. There would ha
so opportunity for people who know each
M hi-r to have a little chat, and the m noto
uu * drive round aud round would oeaaa.
'• omen from a 1 parts of the world live lo
, " Vork, consequently there are many
bsauutul ouee, and ms ,y well drsessd anas.
and this part of the park wouli grow in
time to be tue liv.ng flower garden that ail
the world would be eager to see.
NEW YORK’S NEW SMART GAMES.
Som,,times you get tire-1 of playing hearts,
sometimes you get tired of playing wnist,
you don’t often get tired of playing poker,
but once in a while it is just as well to stop,
and it has gotten to be tne fad, siuce the
smart women have taken to literature to •
get up an intellectual game. Tbs men don’t j
lisa it very much, because it causes them to
think, and a man always resents this wnen j
a woman is about. The most amusing one
is a game called “Queries ” Questions arc |
writ en on slips of paper, sufficient room be- j
ing left for theanswei s. They are all folded,
dropped into a basket, and as thoroughly
mixed as a good punch. Eanh person draws
ore, opens and reads it, writes the answer,
folds It again and drops it into the basket
Then w hoever is go id at deciphering strange
handwritings is appointed to read out loud
the result of the intellectual efforts of the
assembly. There have been same good an
swers—usually they have been stolen—but
if [Hjople can steal good things it’s much
wiser than giving original ones that are
stupid. ‘‘What is love?” is funnily enough
oftonest written by a man and answered by
a woman.
SMART REPARTEE BY CUEVER PEOPLE.
I laughed over one answer given to this
the o;her night: A bold masculine hand
bad made clear that never-ending question—
“ What is love?’’—and in a woman’s hand
writing was the auswer. “The selfish desire
on the part of a man to make one woman
unhappy,” Another that was written by a
woman was, “When is a woman at her
best?” and the auswer, from a man said,
“When she is like a salad, tender, youug
and well dressed.” Somebody was idiot
enough to write, "What is the best book
read?” a:d somebody else was impertinent
enough to answer in a bad pun, “The Scar
let Letter.” A yqung gentleman, with views
as to theosophy wrote, in a cramped hand,
“Do you think Barnum went to heaven?”
and the answer, written by a woman, was
” Why should he? be had the best show on
earth.” The thing that broke up the game
that night was the question, written by an
other inncent young man, “Should women
smoke?” and the answer, written by an
other man, was: “Not if she was my wife,
or my sister, unless she yearned for a horse
whipping afterwards.” This was discussed
to such an extent that all intellectual effor s
were given the go-by, and “gassing back”
became the order of the evening, uutil
peace was broug t about by supper. How
ever, knowing it is the vogue t > be a little
bit blue, an l to be decidedly analytical, and
that it is fashionable, ma.es the trying of
the game of queries worth while any place.
A DRUG STORE AFTER A NEW IDEA.
It’s a curious thing among the various
things women have done to earn a living,
one doesn’t hear of a woman keeping a drug
shop. Could anything bo more delightful
tha i those loveiy little boxes and jars, per
fumes and powders, stamp to sell aud tele
phones to hire, high prices—in fact, the
combination tound only in a drug shop.
You kuow, really, if any young woman
wanted to be counted a benefactor to her
race, would be proper for her to have a
drug shop and tend people, after the theory
which claims that the emo
tions can be governed by
the various medicines. Just fancy the ex
citement that would be caused in conserva
tive households. It a man came with some
medicine for the dyspepsia, and you knew
he and his wife hated each other, you would
give him something that would cause him
to adore her, and then, of course, she would
grow very fond of him. If a fast youug
man came in to get some medicine to ward
off the D. T.’s, you couid put something in it
that would make him grow saint-like, and
thirst only atter spiritual nourishment. If
a young woman appeared whose manners
were bad, whose hair was bleached, and
who was perciptibly hand-painted, and she
complainad iff a pain in her side, and
wanted a plaster for it, you could mix it in
something warranted to teach her modesty,
decency and good taste. I suppose this will
never come, but just thinking about it a
little shows the possibility of a drug shoo
with a woman at the bead of it. I don’t
kno w that I hope it will come, because I
might go to buy something, some day, and
they might put something in my medicine
that would prevent my saying wha; I
thought.
SOME THINGS WE HOPE FOR.
There are a good many things one hopes
for in this world.
It is to be hoped that the next presidential
campaign won’t be one of personal abuse.
It is to be hoped that no matter how good
a figure a woman may have she won’t
wear the skirt of her gown absolutely skin
tight.
It is to be hoped that the people that
write novels or translate them, or steal
them, will have good ones pro bono publico.
It is hoped that if men must drink
whiskey, which I doubt, that they will
select a good quality, and not give their
preference to a kind that announces its com
ing five yards ahead of the man.
it is to be hoped that the coining man
will be taught that his first duty in life is to
look after woman all the world over.
It is to be hoped that the sunshine and
the flowers and all the lovely long summer
days are going to bring pleasure to lots of
people.
It is to be hc-ied that the people who
don’t get the ph a-ure will be just as hopeful
as they can, and think of the good time
coming.
It is to be hoped that clean streets un
muzzled dogs, fresh fruit and cheap flowers
will he conspicuous in New York by their
presence.
It is to be hoped that you know that the
very best sort of hope for you and me and
the other woman comes from Bab.
GAY CARRIiS CARELESS
Cn the Vanities and Frivolities of the
Fair Sex.
( Copyright , 1691.1
New Y'ork, May 9. —We are settled now
—all of us who moved —in our new quarters.
But everything Is changed a little. The gas
in the parlor turns more easily than the old
one used to turn, and is liable to be suddenly
put out completely if one attempts to
lower its radiance a little of a Sunday even
ing, should light prove too glaring. The
boards in the hallway creak in a different
place, and the stairs so in strangely unfa
miliar late at night—so tiresome to be an
noyed thus. Tne parlor sofa is new and un
sympathetic; it is not a sofa at all, for it
has no back; it is just a white und gold
couch with a heap of new china silk pil
lows that are most uninviting and cold.
One cannot cry upon new pillows. The
dear old Sleepy Hollow chair that would
hold—Lord knows how many—has been
banished to the nurserv; and there is no
home feeling left in us. Everything Is new—
everything nut the face*. Perhaps it will
happen tnat e x>u the new belongings,
ashamed of their etlffuese and uncongenial!-
ty.will permit tbemeeives to beoome family
friends—and then Sunday evening will be
what it used to be.
Carmoneua wears a No. 2 slipper, end yet
she is a great tali girl, above the average
bigot, and not very slender.
•Do you never wear slippers in the
housr I asked her.
"Yes, when 1 wish to be comfortable—ao
comfortable that i wear a two and a half.’
And so with ue all. great artiste a* well as
every day wvioeu, e travel up -u our style
generally, but wbeu we wish to be eouifui t
SAVANNAH. UA., SUNDAY, MAY 10. 1891.
able—go comfortable—we relax, put on a
larger slipper, an easier gewu, let down our
back hair, and for a brief period enjoy the
luxury if being as large ns we real y are.
Perhaps some day way off in that lovely
time known os “sometime” it will be
tbe style to appear just as natural and
sizable as nature has made ns, find when
that vague and beautiful “sometime” comes
it will be the millenium wherein all women
will rejoice, f r the* will have the unspeak
able luxury of raveling about feeling like
human be ngs, with lungs aud other physio
logical belongings, rather than creatures of
whalebone, si eel, hooks and tape.
The girl of nerve has found a way which
she declares is most efficaci ms for securing
a seat in a horse car. I had heard of the
little plan which she is said to work, but it
was reserved for me to see it only yestei day.
It was in a Broadway car and the m-n
seated along each side of it were evidently
gentlemen, for they were well dressed, and
what I uni about to tell will show that they
were of sensitive temperament. The car
was full. There was not a seat to spare
when, at the next crossing, a young woman
entered. She was a slim girl, rather pale,
but, like her own teeth,, small and white,
yet witn plenty of nerve.
she bearded the car and came in she
glanced up and down the two rows of men.
INo one noticed her. Ail the faces wore a
stolid, preoccupied look, and those of the
men who had papers or note books Uaedv
begin to study them. Not a man budged
from his place. And now, what do you
think that gill did? Walking slowly along
the car she looked carefully at the faces of
the men until she selected her victim. Tak
ing up her stand in fro it of him she
grasped the strap by hitching her umbrella
handle iu it, and then, leaning slightly
forward, she gazed intently at tho mau’s
feet.
He at od the scrutiny for a moment, then
he looked down to see if there was anything
unusual about his boots; but no, they were
nicely b acked and in as good trim as anew
“shine” could make them. He looked up
again at the girl. Bhe was still staring hard
at his feet. Thera must be something w rong.
Uneasily he hitched about a little in the
seat, crossed one leg over another and tried
to look sideways out of the window. But
the scheme wouldn’t work, for there in
front of him stood that small bit of a girl
staring with two wide open eyes directly
down at that pair of boots. Again he
moved, this time recrossing his legs ana
selecting a now position, where he hoped
that his feet would appear less prominent
aud conspicuous. But no, there they were
looming up as aggressive ns ever, and there
in front of them stood tbe mite of a girl
absorbed in studying them. The man had
big feet, aud the girl knew this when she
selected him, and being a woman she bad
judged wiiere to hit him iu just the place
that would strike his seiisibiUtes.
It was becoming too much for him. He
could not stand it much longer. He must
move his seat or get out upon the platform.
This was really becoming too awful when
the size of his feet could attract attention
trom a woman in a street car. More and
more uneasily he hitched about, more and
more intently the girl stared, aud ere two
blocks had been traversed he got up, made
a lurch toward the door, and got out upon
the platform, where it wns two blocks more
before he recovered his equanimity and got
over feeling that all the world was wonder
ing at the s.ze of his extremities.
The little cheat of a girl meanwhile, with
the sweetest possible smile, and half-whis
pered “Thank you,” sank blissfully and
gracefully into the seat aud enjoyed her
ride home. In telling about it afterward,
she said she had worked her little game at
least three times daily for the past month,
and had always succeeded. How the man
liked it or what he thought of the unscru
pulous nature of tbe proceeding as it re
veiled itself to him in his calmer moments,
history tells not,
A Kentuckian, speaking of the northern
fashion of letting a woman hustle for her
self in public places, says that this is en
tirely'due to the demeanor of the northern
woman herself. When he is south he always
resigns his seat in a public vehicle to a
woman, and makes it his business to secure
her comfort whenever possible, regarding
tbe welfare of every woman as the special
care of every man. Iu the south the women
are dependent, confiding and helpless.
In the north they know what they want,
and they go and ge: it with a rapidity that
startles the average man. The northern
woman buys her own car tickets, checks
her baggage, gets aboard, buys a news
paper, Took* around for a seat and waits
her turn for one with all the independence
and courage of any man that can be pro
duced. She wants uo favors, and she asks
for none. This is so plainly apparent that,
as the Kentuckian says, he is half afraid lo
offer her any favors for fear she may resent
his interference; and even when he is sure
that she will not, and when she looks at him
longingly, he himself is half provoked at
the general swing of the sex here in the
nortn and would not offer her a seat any
way.
When she is north she must hustle as
northern women hustle. Aud when he is
north he will do as northern men do. Not
the slightest grain of softness is found in
his make-up for the northern woman un
accompanied by her escort. Not the slight
est grain of sternness is felt for the southern
worn in when be sees her alone. The for
mer may do the best she cun. The latter
may revel in all t e luxury which the
chance man may be able to provide for her.
All the girls are going in for health and
I athletics. They must not—they simply
mud not appear sick. They mint have a
fine color, bright eyes, glossy hair, round
elbows, and a long swinging gait that is
half a dog-trot, or somo one may be led to
think that they are not marvels of strength
and robustness.
“Dots this yellow dress make mo look
palo or sick!” asked one girl of another iu
tbe streat last week; “when the sun shines
upon m-I fancy that the yellow of my
dress mai.es my complexion appear bad.
Now notice particularly when wo coma to
the next open space between the houses, and
tell mo honestly if you think I look the least
bit sallow.”
“What shall you do with the dress, if it is
unbecoming?”
“Why, throw it away, or put it away, or
give it away, or do something else with it,
of course. I couldn’t afford, for the sake of
my position in society, to wear anything
thar. mases mo apnea- in delicate health. I
shouldn’t be invited anywhere. It wouldn’t
do at all, you know; it really wouldn’t do.
It is so out of style to bo sick or delicate or
even fradin appearance.”
Aud so the girls, to ensure tho health
which is now so necessary to their social
standing, have provided themselves with
chatelaines, upon which bang half a dozen
bjxes of gild or silver, set with jewels, and
in which is a collection of medicine, tonics,
mid more or less stimulating drugs. A
gold chatelaine, with six or seven gold bot
tl s or boxes hanging therefrom, containing
quinine capsules, warranted to hold the
pangs of la grippe at bay, digestion tab
lets, laxative loz-ngas, purgative pellets,
cough drops, silver coaled peppermint
caohous, glycerine cub s, and a variety of
tonic pills to keep the system ui general
good order.
And so. tbe girl of to-doy, besides doing
every thing else for herself, l.aa laksn the
reins of bar own physical system in bar
own bauds aud l fls defiance to tho dements
aud tbe doctors, maintaining that she
knows what is wna*. and bow to take oars
of each individual UL
Caucus Caiuclsm.
JAS.S.CLARKSOYS PUNS.
ON HIS RETURN FROM EUROPE HE ,
KLL RE-ENTER JOURNALISM.
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Perhaps He’ll Be the Horace Greeley
of the West—The Beauty Show—The
Story of a New York House—l ha
Men Who Wear Out—Noses and
Ears.
(Copyright.)
New York, May 9. —James S. Clarkson,
who has just set out for Europe apparently
in the best of spirits, undisturbed by Anna
Dickinson, “our friend the enemy, ’’ or any
thing else on this earth, is a remarkable
man. Political allies and opponents alike
prophesy that his will be a personality well
worth watohing for the next year or so. As
the president of the League of Republi
can Clubs, he will wield considera
ble power prior to tbe next national
convention of his party. The power
one understands on meeting the man. He
is still in middle life, a compact, well
rounded man, physically and mentally. He
has the diplomatic, courteous speech, tho
clear insight and quick grasp of tho trained
journalist at his best. His part in the suc
cessful campaign of 1888 bos never yet been
exaggerated. More even than Quay or
Dudley, he was the practical working head
ot the republican national committee.
Before bis departure Mr. Clarkson let fall
some words indicative of his purpose and
ambition, when he spoke of tho urgent ne
ce-sity to the Republican party of reaching
the newspaper readers of the country as
well, nt least, as the democrats now do. He
would have been giad at any time since
leaving the cabinet to secure a newspaper
foothold in New York, where the democrats
have things pretty much their own way,
but uo openings appeared, and he did not
care to be one of a half dozen in starting
anew paper in a Held already
well occupied. It is uo v/ believed
that he will settle in Chicago on his return
from Europe and will there try especially
to reach the farmers of tbe middle west
with the weekly edition of whatever paper
he controls. I think 1 know which paper
it will be. As he is au earnest republican
from conviction and a forceful writer, lie
mav yet become the Horace Greeley of tlio
west. If he does he will occupy a higher
plane in the regard of half the public at
least than any cabinet officer and most
Presidents.
THE MEN WHO WEAK OUT.
Newspaper work is usually represented as
very hard and wearing. Asa matter of
fact it isn't and it is. It all depends upon
the kind.
No work is easier, and, on the whole,
more healthful than that of the newspaper
free iance whose responsibility ends when
his day’s work is written, who keeps no otHoe
hours, sleeps care free unless he is a fool,
andffeanis a decent living. Such a inan, or
woman, certainly ought to live longer and
more happily than the harassed merchant
or lawyer.
Hut the work of the managers is simply
killing. In every great newspaper oflice Iho
managing editor, the city editor and tho
night editor have work so hard and responsi
bility eo constant that they wear out very
rapidly. It’s a standing maxim in journal
ism that a Herald night editor lasts six
months. The managing editors last a little
longer. The city editor of the Evenin'! Sun
frequently eats breakfast at 4 o’clock in the
afternoon, after his work is entirely com
pleted for the day.
John C. lteid’s retirement from the man
aging editorship of the Recorder was forced
by bis broken health. He was for years
managing editor of the Times , left it for
his health, went to Haris, London and Cali
fornia for relief, ventured back to New
York and stood it for a little over a month.
He is not an old man, but looks a feeble
one, with his bent head, stooping shoulders,
tall, gaunt frame and seamy face.
I have known of a woman who, thrown
into a place of responsibility in which
assistance was not immediately obtainable,
worked at her desk from 9 o’clock in the
morning till 12 or 1 at night, with brief in
tervals for snatching food, not for one week,
but for several in succession, turning out
several columns of “copy” for each of the
seven days of the week.
This is the pace that kills.
THE BEAUTY SHOW,
Twenty-third street, once a quiet residence
thoroughfare well up town, is heoomiug one
of the principal shopping quarters of the
city, muen of the life and bustle of Broad
way flowing into it both to east and west.
Back of Twenty-third street, naturally, is
Twenty-second, which is as quiet as the
other is noisy and crowded with crowds of
shoppers aud pavement hucksters. For
all that, the knowing ones locate on
Twenty-second street. one of the
beauty shows of the city. Many of the
great shopping stores run through the blook
and have at the rear a modest entrance for
carriage patrons, whero their coachmen can
await their pleasure without being in the
way of horse cars. Here, by watching lone
enough—l never did it; it doesn’t seem
worth while —one can see the most famous
women of the city steppitig quietly into
their carriages to be driven away—Mrs.
Cleveland, Mrs. Whitney, the young Mrs.
Asiori and Vanderbilts. Here, too, comes
Mrs. Harrison on her shopping excursions.
There are other beauty sho w* by duylignt,
Fifteenth street, near Tiffany’s, and Twen
ty-sixth street, near Delrnonico’s, the swell
tailor shops and bric-a-brao stores along
Fifth avenue, the portals of the more fash
ionable theaters just at tho closing of the
matinees, the sidewalks In front of the con
fectioners, these popularly known as “ladios’
gin mills,” by the way, because "confec
tionery” means a good deal in New York.
If there were in New York any such army
of dudes and mashers as pessimists would
have us believe, these shows of beauty en
tering and leaving her crested carriree
would have many spectators. But they
don’t, as a rule. Most of the people whom
I see appear to be minding their own busi
ness pretty successfully.
THE STORY OF A NEW YORK HOUSE.
There is a certain house upon Sixth
avenue which turns its gloomy browns tone
side to the roar and rattle of the elevated
trains which thunder by. It is high, like all
New Y'ork houses, but a low extension juts
out in the rear, and a few feet back of that
a sickly, stunted tree rises scarcely to its
level. The New Yorker who is whirled
past the house twice each working day
never notices it, except at those times when
be is piloting tome out-of-town guest On
•ueb occasions as he leaves the station st
Twenty-third street, bound down-town,
be begin* to peer out to the left,
and presently he says: "Wee that
house there; the one with the extension;
That’s wi ere Broker Hatch met his death.
Tne woman tSooville, or Hcofl-ld, or what*
ever was hsr name, lured him iu there, and
then, when caught, he ran out on the ex
tension roof and jumped foi the tree, misted
it, er.d fell flat on lb > flagstones. Hplsndid
family, bo; 1 knew him well,” Aul the
visitor cranes his neok also to see the
gloomy old piece as b# goes rsitllag past.
Few things live longer in the memory
than a waudal. i'rohabiy the story of that
house will not be forgotten until long after
It i* |WUt down.
NOSES AND EARS.
Since Chauncey M. Deoew and I had our i
noses operated upon for catarra the opera- j
tion has suddenly become very fashionable.
The thejrv of the operation is delightfully !
simple. Catarrh, say the nose surgeons, is
usually caused by stoppage of the nasal
passage by thickening ot the membrane
witniu until there is not a free channel f r
respiration. The i emedy is to out out ob
stinate lumps of cartilage with au arrange
ment of wire and pincers and to burn away
swollen obstructions with acid—which isn’t
especially painful if coooaiue is used as a
local anaesthetic. lhe doctors say that not, I
one nose in three Is even iu tolerably good
shape naturally in this country, and that
tho general health is always improved by j
this treatment.
The ear is another organ which it is quite
common to have soec ally treated nowadays.
I am speaking of men, and particularly of
lueu who use the telephone a great deal.
There cau bo little doubt that the common
use of this exasperating and much sworn at
convenience has a marked tendency to in
crease deafness. Tt is noted in most oases
which ootno to tho specialists for treatment
that theear which is most used at the tele
phone receiver is in the worst condition.
There is no doubt that men ami women
live longer and enjoy, ou the whole, hotter
health than ever before, but they certainly
do have a lot of trouble with their noses,
teeth, ears, eyes aud digestions.
WOMEN AND DOGS.
The great St. Bernard dog which was the
delight of Mrs. Howard Carroll’s life is uo
more, and great is hor sorrow at his taking
off.
No, I am not going to preich over his big
carcass a sermon on the neglect of babies
aud the petting of dogs by Now York
women, 'l’hore has been, pe: haps, enough
of suoh talk. Mrs. Carroll, at least, having
two or three extremely nice children, ex
ceptionally well looked after, to whose hap
piness tbe d< g was more necessary than to
hers, would not polpt a moral, would she.
though otherwise available for suoh gossip
ns the daughter of one wealthy man, John
H. Starin, nnd wife of another?
In spite of all that, has been said on tho
dog subjoct it is probable that tho love of
the mother more readily finds room for pets
than that of tho childless. 1 always expect
to tind children and dogs thriving together
nnd am seldom disappointed. As for cats
and parrots, they do not count.
AFRICA IN NEW YORK.
There is a bicycle store down on Warren
street which displays upou one of its walls
about as fin >a collection of beads of game
animals as bus often been mounted. These
are the BpoilH of Thomas Stevens’ Hast
African expedition, and the unfortunate
animals furnishing them are all said to have
had the iad luck to see Stevens when he
had his guu. The biggost head is
that of a two-horned rhinoceros, and
aftor it in oraer of size come .the
mounted heads of an eland, a zebra,
a rnpalia, a grantl—some of theo names are
a little wobbly in my memory—springboks
two or three, ga„jsellos, oryxes, “and many
others,” as the society reporter says. The
prettiest thing in the lo , though, is the
stuffed crowu crane, which is complete
from its long, scaly logs to its head, crowned
with a crest of slender, hair-like feathers,
and with brilliant red cheeks. All in all,
they are a very decorative lot and I don’t
wonder Air. Htevens is rather inclined to be
proud of them.
BAD HANT) WRITING.
John W. Forney, Jr., of Philadelphia,
probably enjoyed the dietiuotion in the
day* before typewriting, of turning out the
worst manuscript in the United Btatos. I
met, the other day, an oi l typo who once
took oil the copy hook iu a Philadelphia
newspaper oliiee a ‘‘take’’ of Forney’s lurid
dramatic criticism. There were, perhaps,
six printed linos spread over a page and a
half of foolscap
“I’ll be—if I’ll stay here to set up that
stuff,” said this printer, and he went west,
oven as far west as Denver. There he
staid contentedly until one day Forney
happened to visit Denver with an editorial
excursion and undertook to write up the
trip for the Denvor paper. In due time a
half dozen pages of the resulting Chinese
puzzle fell into my friend’s hands. Ho
recognized it in ati instant.
‘T left Philadelphia to got rid of that
copy, and I’ll he if I set It up in Denver,”
said the printer. So he came to New V ork
and here he is still.
BOY |3; BURDEN S4O.
On a street car bouiii|uptowu a boy ap
proached the co iductor, treading carefully,
a big bundle of unusual shape in his hand.
•‘Won’t you please stop the cari” ho said.
It is usual for buys bearine bundles or other
wise, to jumo off cars while they are at
full speed, and there was a look of inquiry
in the conductor’s eyes, to which the boy
vouchsifed this explanation: “Tliey’s fruit
and flowers worth STJ in it, and I niusn’t
smash ’em.”
“And I earn sl4 a week by working Bun
days,” said the conductor iu an awe-struck
tone.
“And I earn $1 a week,” said the boy, as
he steered bis cautious course for the side
walk. The conductor followed him with
his eyes until a building hid the precious
burden. But his only c Jinmant was, “Fare,
please. ”
PICTURES AND BEEFSTEAKS.
This has been a very disastrous season for
artists. The first day of the Academy,
which usually sells fIh.OOO worth of pictures,
to kin only $2,900. The little Salmagundi
exhibition where very beautiful work was
shown at unusually low prices by artists of
repute, sold only seven exhibits out of 129.
At least, that was the number up to the
time of my visit, next day but the last, and
no more sales were expected.
The plain fact of the matter is that the
artist’s work has been ove; dune. And just
so soon as a young artist gets a few words
of praise from the newspapers he expects
SSOO or SI,OOO for every picture be doe*.
That is a good deal of money, and will buy
a large number of very excellent beefsteaks
and rubber coats.
DE MORTUIB NIL NISI BONCM.
The late-—or possibly late —Diss Debar
will probably lie rated in people's memories,
so long an she *urvives in recollection at all,
as a coarse and unprincipled woman who ro
sorted to questionable mean* to wheedle
money from Lawyer Marsh and other peo
ple, and who was utterly devoid of any at
tributes likely to ho termed ladylike.
Yet a gentleman of wide thatrical ex
perience solemnly assures mo that trie Dias
Debar was a pleasant, modest and refined
woman—that, at l-ast, she bad always ap
peared so to him in private conversation.
No one in New York would be surprised
to tee the lady in question turning up again
at any time as big as life and as much alive
as over.
THE BANK HALL, SEASON.
The games thus far played In tho league
champioushln base ball series seem to sho w
pretty ragged playing on toe diamond, but
tbs public interest list unquestionably re
vived and the knowing ones are now looking
for a great bate ball year. The attendance
is good for so early in the season, and Will bn
better as iho day* grow warmer and work
slackens up for lbs summer. Theater intii
agsn always begin to look melancholy
when the !•* I sell season opens, and to the
“popular price msu iu particular It la little
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Ar Kissimmee Lv
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