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Biß OS THE VERANDA.
OUR ALERT CORRESPONDS Nl’3
MIDSUMMER HOIEL GO^SiP.
Tbs Interest Centered in Lively Mar
ried Women and Gay Young Wid
ows—The summer Girl’s Discussions
Range From Painting on Cbiia to the
Historic Tariff Bill—Dove a Game of
Toss and Go— Swe?t Maidens Who
Mate important Political Predic
tions—Should a Blonde Wear Blue?—
The Music il, Dramatic and Senti
mental G.r: Represented on the Ve
randa-Patriotic Bab Requests the
Secretary of the Treasury to Give
Her a I lag.
(Copyright.')
On thk IVtno, Aug. 15.—Just what the
women do and say is about the only thing
that is interesting at the summer piac s.
Man is counted as an inferior animal—nine
times out of ten his number is so small that
he is not counted at all. Of courro, there
are girls who dance, girls who play tennis,
and girls who flirt, but tho real interest is
centered iu tho lively married soman and
her boon companion, the yonug widow.
They are the women who get in one
corner of the veranda and disouss the ques
tions of the day—such questions ranging
from how to paiut on china to the tariff
bill. Nothing is too frivolous and nothing
too deep for them to attack. After two
have starter! the little talk, two or three
more will join t em, and after a while, to
ti:e consternation of the typical summer
girl, she finds a few men are drifting in
tiiat direction to hear what the women are
saying. Jmt here, tins morning, there have
been three questii ns discussed.
ARGUMENTS OS LOVE AND MAS.
The flrs was, “In love, wlio are the most
faithful, men or women!" And the argu
ment, which grew very hot, was carried on
between a young woman who wasn’t mar
ried, but who wouldn’t give a straw to go
with girls, a matron and a widow. Said
the unmarried one: “I must first announce
that I don’t believe in such a thing as love.
Affectiou, yos. Pleasant oomradaship, yos.
But when it comes to a question of faith
fulness, 1 think the things are about even—if
the woman secs somebody else she likes bet
ter, she is not goiDg to stop to consider
whether even intellectually she should be
faithful, and the man certainly will not
Love, my friend, is a game of toss and go,
and the one who goes the soonest is the one
who has gotten tho most pleasure out of it”
A round of applause met this sentiment,
and then the matron had her say. She an
nounced: “I am on the side of the women.
Once we love, we love forever, and we stick
to a man through thick and thin; wo bear
with his faults, we exaggerate his virtues,
we nurse him when he is ill, we are con
siderate of him when he is well, we want
him always by our sides, we turn to him in
our sorrows and our joys, and—” “And,”
oontmued the widow, "we let him pay our
dressmaker’s bills. For my part, I
think that causes half the trouble in life.
Not dressmakers’ bills —I don’t mean
that—but the women who are eternally
faithful. I den't mean by this that I want
any of you to be unfaithful, but this
etioking by a man through thick and thin
makes him weary, and be would be much
better satisfied if be weie occasionally al
lowed a little more rope. However, i don’t
believe that women are very fuithfu). I
don’t think they are made that way. They
are utterly lacking in sentiment, and the
cleverest of them can only assume it.
Whereas a man wiJl choke up, and his eyes
will be full of tears, and when you ask him
what is the matter he may say he would
rather not tell you, but eventually he will
let you know that he thought it was so
sweet in you to put on the frock he liked,
to pin a flower in his buttonhole, or
to have had some especial dish that pleased
him for dinner. Now you only put on the
frock because it was becoming, without a
thought of him; you pinned the rose to his
buttonhole because you h id it in your hand
and didn’t know wbat else to do with it;
and you had that special dish ordered be
cause you liked it yourself. Men are faith
ful to memories, even, and woman, lovely
woman, who has every virtue in the dic
tionary given to her. is as unfaithful as a
cat!”
Somebody said, “Oh, Catherine, how can
you say suon a thing? Didn’t you love
your husband?”
And Catherine, with a truthfulness that
was charming, beexu e it was unusual,
answered: "Yes, I suppose I did, but I
really have forgotten what it was like, and
I don’t think I ever put myself out particu
larly to please him.” Homebody sail thiß
wasn’t a suitable question to discuss before
young girls, so it stopped just there.
THE FAIR SEX ON POLITICS
And the next one taken up was: “What
do you think of the political situationT’
Every woman had an opinion on this, but
as every blessed one of them were demo
crats, there could only be a discussion about
what candidates to have. A sweet blonde
thing, dressed in a French cotton, for
which she had paid Worth $l5O, and whose
blue eyes were as innocent as a baby’s, was
the most outrageous of the whole crowd
on tho political standpoint. Said Bhe: “I
am ashamed of my party. They got in
and they had a chance to stav in, but they
were such miserable politicians and con
summate idiots, that they got out again.
Tuey are fighting over what man thav shall
put up, and it will serve them just right if
the republicans literally own the country.
For my own part I think there is only one
thoroughly good politician among them,
and that is Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland
—I believe if he came from Ohio he would
be elected, but because he comes from a
state where they breed gentlemen, and
where people know how 1 1 eat without
snorting like grampusses, 1 supp se he
won’t be elected, hut he is on my ticket,
and my four votes go for him, or else they
don’t go for anybody.”
A young woman, who looked neutral in
coloring and who was embroidering a baby’s
bib, said: “I always thought Mrs. Grover
Cleveland a rather nice person.”
At this all the men listeners roared with
laughter, and a young woman, who was em
broidering a tea cloth, grabbed her needle
viciously and said: “Let the Clevelands go
to Buzzard's Bay! My tioket is Car
lisle and Whitney—Brains and Boodle.
Mrs. Carlisle would make a Tory charming
mistress in the white hcure, because she is
so genial and kindly, auk everybody knows
what Mrs. Whitney is—one of the sweetest,
kindest women that ever lived.”
THE GIRL CHAMPIONS DANA AND WATTER
SON.
A young girl who bad listened to all this
with deep interest, said: “Well, my idea is
that some newspaper man ought to have a
show. I hear a flag on wbioh is written
‘Excel*ior,’ aud the names upon it are Dana
end Watterson.” A girl from Loulsvilie
gave a wild whoop—a kind of a rebel yell—
and tbree New York women enthusiastically
clapped, during which operation, >ne stuck
a needle in her finger. Then the dean of
this fraternity, who was a matron of about
40, announced this: “You are alotofgeeae;
if you want to aid the Democratic Darty,
why dou’t you settle o i one man, and not
all go a Hying around, choosing first one
and then another; I can’t say anything
worse than that you are acting just like the
men of your party!”
ANGELIC BLONDES.
There was silence after this, and every
body sowed diligently, and then a girl Laid:
“Do you think a blonde ought to wear
blue f” And a young woman who went in
f r art answered: “Not as a general thing.
Blue, and especially a light, biue, is inclined
to dull a blonde, particularly if her eyes are
light. She had better wear rose pinks, deep
rei* or browns, for they all will make her
skin look lily white, her eves perfectly bine,
and i ring out the gloss of her hair.” Every
body agrqed about this except the young
woman who had asked the question, and
she said she had seen a blonde baby look
like an angel in blue, and the artis'io lady
said: “Yes; so have I; but you never saw
anybody look that way except a baby or an
angel,” and she added in a slightly sarcastic
tone : “I don’t :hi k tho overage young
womau of to day is anywhere near an
angel,” and, to say the least, this wasu t
kind of her.
VERANDA FABTISIEB FAVORED ACTORS.
They were all working hard with their
needles, most of them on ant "graph table
cloth"., but not the ordinary kind, where
people just write their iianme and you work
it out in red notion. O. dear, no! This
group on the vera da "as nothing if not
original and so a musical girl had had each
friend write her favorite conn-nor, ami the
giri with dramatic designs had each one her j
favorite actor, and the politicians had their |
own candidate just in t..e center, and the
rest all around, while the women who ,
talked about love had most exquisite |
s ntiinental uuotniio.is meandering all i
over their table covers. The dramatic girl I
hud tue most omusiug cloth. Her Lest '
young man had written “ liarrigau” in the '
center, and tnen, on one side, he had drawn
a realistic sketch of the "tough girl.” An- j
other man had written “Irving,” and put a j
ocime of sleigh bells above him. Another j
one hail written "Sothern,” and then drawn
a picture of him as h- sits drinking the leer
iu’the “ilaister of Woodbarrow,” when he
declines to be a gentleman any longer.
Wilson Barrett’s name was drawn; so was
Joe Jefferson’s;so was Robson’s aud Crane’s,
and s j was dear old Stoddard’s and poor
old Fritz.
WOMEN AND PATRIOTISM.
The political banner had caused so much
discussion that it was being worked in the
national colors, red, w hite and blue, tho
candidates who it was thought would ho
likeliest to lose being done in blue, those
who wore too good to win being in pure
white, and those who, as a slangy young
woman annou ced, ’ ’would whoop it in,”
were in brilliant scarlet.
Somebody said this sort of thing made
women patriotic. Perhaps it does; that
may account for my own great lack of
patriotism. I don’t even possess an Ameri
can flag. I have a French one and an
English one, but not an American, and I
think the United States ought to give me
one with anew star on It to anoourage me iu
the time of war or elections. 1 spoke to tho
Secretary of the Treasury about it, and be
said ho wasn’t at liberty to take any
of the surplus to buy me a flag, uules-t
the question came before congress and
they made an appropriation for it. I
suppose if I had come from Ohio I would
have gotten that flag without any trouble.
Now, as my own country refuses to give me
a flag, I shall remain an unreconstructed
rebel, and shan’t feel, if the French or Eng
lish attack us, that I am called on even to
encourage pe pie lighting for the “green
graves ■ f their sires," and encouragement
goes a great way in this world.
ENCOURAGING BAB.
You know you are encouraged when you
have tried your very best to do right, and
somebody soys that you have succeeded,
and snys it with a smile.
You know you are encouraged when you
have been helping to paint the town red,
snd cultivating Tom, Dick and Harry for
the sake of getting in congress, and you get
a telegram from a man you know saying
you have gotten there.
You know you are encouraged if you nre
a womau when tho man you ore married to
tells you you are good-looking, and adds
emphasis to this announcement by giving
you money to buy a pretty frock to make
you better looking.
You know you are encouraged, no mat
ter what you are, whether you are a man
or a woman, if the sun shines, and people
smile with the sunsnine, and everybody
seems glad to sea you who happens to meet
you, 1 am judgmg you by myself, my
friend, for I am encouraged jvhen you have
a smile and a greeting for her who is called
Ba.B.
VOLCANOS VICTIMS.
People Who Have Perished in the
Molten Lava.
From the New York Recorder.
The awful death of a Brazilian traveler
who recently toppled over into the molten
lava of Vesuvius recalls the fact tbut a
number of persons are known to have per
ished in a similar way. In 1839 a merchant
of Uaeta named Lovera di Priola deliber
ately committed suicide by leaping iuto the
cruter of the mountain, in which a lake of
fire was raging, and sending up at intervals
volumes of deadly sulphurous fumes. There
never was any doubt that Di Priola iuton
tionallv sought death in Vesuvius. It was
shown afterward that he labored under a
peculiar mania. His two companions,
one a peasant guide and the other
a friend who had accompanied Di
Priola from Naples on what was sup
posed to be a mission of curiosity, both
testified that Di Priola left their side while
the air was clear and his movements could
easily be seen, ran to the very edge of the
crater and leaped, with an awful cry, into
the chasm. At the time they went with
him up the mountain they saw no signs of
mental derangement, but soon after reach
ing the top he began talking in an erratic
way about some sin he had committed, ami
the hopelessness of ever being forgiven for
it. Even this did not alarm them, as they
did not oonnect the utterances with any de
sign of suicide until he actually dashed
away and took the fatal leap. In appeared,
upon inquiry, that he had committed some
offense, or believed lie had, as nobody else
knew anythiug about it, and had brooded
over the matter until his rea-oa became un
settled. Beoomiug convinced that he was
■ ire of eternal punishment anyway he con
cluded to go to the locality by way ot Ve
suvius.
The most recent case of death in the
molten lake previous ti that of the Brasil
ian, De Silvas, was that of M. Vignes, ( on
Besancou. Vignes undoubtedly committed
suioide during the eruptions of 18(52, or, to
be precise, just before they began. He loft
bis guide and leaped into the chasm and
was never seen or heard from again. He
did not even cry A love affair is said
to have prompted Vignes to self-destruc
tion. He was only 32 years of age. At
that time there was some discussion as to
the suffering attending such a method of
suicids. The opinion generally expressed
by medical men was that the man was un
conscious from the sulphur fumes before
the awful dip into the liquid mass of meited
rock, and that Vignes had endured no pain.
A band of brigands that flourished in the
woods on the slopes of Etna in 18(58, under
the leadership of the infamous Morozzo,
used to threaten their victims with death
in the vj'cano in the event of the ransom
not being paid. Whether they ever carried
out tho threat is not known, but it is
thought possible. At loast they frequently
had prisoners in whose redemption nobody
took any interest, and the peasants have al
ways said that Morozzo sank some of them
in the bowels of Mount Etna. It is a say
ing among Italian peasants to-day who
live in that vicinity, when they hear sub
terranean rumblings, that Moroz/.o is
throwing his victims into the crater.
In the H iwatian Islands tho savage chiefs,
before the introduction of Christianity, oast
criminals into the boiling lava of Kilauea,
and this was sometimes doDe In the wav of
sacrifice, to propitiate the volcano god,
when believed to be on the eve of eruption.
Unhappily, therefore, the case of the Bra
zilian is not without a number of unhappy
precedents, both in savage and nominally
civilized countries.
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST lfi, 1891—TWELVE PAGES.
GAY CARRIE CAKELESS.
AN ADVENTURE WHICH TOOK
PLACE AT CCE4N GROVE.
An Incident of a Place That Shall be
Called Tar Barber—Sketching ea it
Mar be Done by Two People at the
Same Time—The Bohemian Young
Girl Gives Her Miss Nancy Young
Man an Opium Cigarette and Takes
Him for a Walk-Bouquets for Re
membrance at the Close of the
treason.
( Copyright .)
New York, Aug. 15—This happened at
Ocean Grove —that conscience of Asbnry
Par k. you know.
It was evening, a lovely moonlight even
ing, when the ocean was shiny and the sand
looked white in the lovely light which waß
shed by Luna and her rays. They were
seated upon the sand, Margery and Jock,
and they were talking over old times. Per
haps they were talking over new times, and
times which were to come, but that doesn’t
count now, because it has nothing to do
with the story,
It was a rather cool evening, and the
wrap which Margery bod taken with her
was thrown over both herself and Jock as
they reclined upon the sand. It was a gen
erous wrap and enveloped them from Jook’s
big tan-colored shoes almost up to the tip of
Margery’s saucy chin. Ail round them upon
tbe beach there were similar couples, and
behind them upon the broad walk people
were patrolling in groups of twos, threes
and fours, singing and talking and laugh
ing in the merriest fashion.
“Excuse me, sir,” he said, addressing one
of them, "but I must ask you to remove
that wrap. It is net allowable here for
two people to be covered by the same
shawl.”
Jock sprang to bis feot, madder than any
hattor, and Margery’s face grew as red as
the sunset that only a few hours before had
bathed the Band with its ruddy glow.
“What do you mean,” demanded Jock.
“Would you insult me!”
"Oh no-no-no,” spluttered the polioeman;
“no insult intended—nothing of that kind,
only it’s our rule, you see, not to let two
people be covered by the same shawl, and
we can’t break it even iu your case.”
And on he went.
Margery wasn’t so mad as she was
amused. But Jock was huffy all the way
through.
And then he vowed vengeance, aud it was
such a pleasant sort of vengeuce that it is
worth telling. He Insisted upon kissing
Margery then and there, and though she
took the naughty boy home at once by the
shortest route which she knew, he kissed her
at intervals of every ten steps all the way,
declaring that he was doing it to try to
spoil the roputatlou of Ooean Grove. He
said ho hoped every one in the place would
see him do it, aud that ail the summer peo
ple would go away telling what feaifullv
immoral things took place at Ocean Grove.
And bow much worse it was than at Asbury.
Margery said she would have liked it well
enough If they had been all alone, but to
have Jook acting so in the street is fearfully
embarrassing, and her only comfort was
that the next day she expected to leave for
Narragansetr, and so she didn’t care to very
much what people did think. She also said
that during the past three years she and
Jook had taken many a buggy ride, oovered
by the same lap robe, had driven in the same
cutter, covered by the same fur skin, and
had sat upon tho front seat of many a dear
little road cart with the same lap robe ca
ressingly tucked about them.
Composite pictures aro the newest crea
tions of art which are being achieved by the
seashore girls. Making them is lots of fun,
and if the result Is not alwayß entirely suc
cessful, let no one bn blamed, because it is
such lots of fun to got them up that one can
pardon the possible uncertainties in out
line which may result.
This is tbe mode of prooedure. The young
woman seats herself on a rock with a
sketch-book in hand. W itH a far-away look
in her eyes and a drawing pencil in her
haud, she makes a wavy line.
So it was by no means a lonesome scene
nor a secluded one, and that it what made
Jock and Margery all the madder when the
thing happened. As they were resting lazily
there upon the sand, with Jock kicking the
sea shells about anil leaning his head upon
one hand, and Margery poking holes down
into the cool sandy depths with her pretty
fingers, there suddenly appeared before
them a tall, burly, blue-ooated guardian of
the peace.
“That is the horizoD,” she says, “the
place where the sky and tea seem to meet.
A lovely place it must be to go upon a trip,
don’t you know!”
“Yes, a lovely place—a charming place.”
Then the young man who is seated just
behind the fair young artist takes the same
pencil in his hand and makes a few liues
with it. And then he speaks.
“And this, you see, is a ship, and it is
sailing toward that line where the sky utid
the sea seem to meet. How charming it
would be if we were in that ship, you and I.
and were sailing away on it—away off
somewhere.”
Aud then she—the young woman—makes
a few tiny marks right upon the deck of the
ship.
“This is a picture of you and me,” she
says, "sailing upon that ship, and we are
going away—away off somewhere —some
placa that we will both like —”
And so the work ot sketching goes on.
Can any one be blamed if there are a few
irregularities in the outline of a picture
which is produced under such charming cir
cumstances as this ?
As the season, that is, the seashore season,
begins to draw to a close, good-bye scenes
and farewell grae lngs are becoming every
day affairs. As usual, flowers are the
things for remembrance, and the seashore
girl tries her very best to secure a few to
give to those iu whose memory she wishes
to be cherished after the season aid the
flowers have become tilings of the past.
Very few seashore places rejoice in flower
gardens, and so a long walk must be taken
baok iuto the country, aud then permission
must be obtained from the farmer’s wife
to go into her garden and pick a little nose
gay. Sweet peas are the passing fancy of
the hour, and if the young woman can find
these, she may consider herself very fortu
nate, for they keep a long, long time, and
are so dainty that the young man to whom
she gave them must think sweet thoughts
of the giver as often as his eye falls upon
the lapel of his coat. He may take off the
coat, throw it down, wear a tennis blazer
for au hour or two, and forget that there is
such a thing iu the world as sweet peas
aud farewell words, and yet, when he gees
hack to that particular oat, even if it is
twenty-four hours later, ho will find those
dear little blossom* still sweet, bright,
pretty and fragrant. Long may the sweet
pens bloom!
There is a naughty story bold of a certain
Bohemian girl who is somewhat on the or
der of a girl bachelor. She had gone away
for the summer and for some reason that
she could not really explain to herself has
permitted the attentions of a certain young
dude in the neighborhood. In a little
while she grew tired of him, and so she
played a trick on him. She secured a cer
tain brand of cigarettes which had in them
just a touch of opium. Of course there was
not enough opium iu them to put any one
tofsleep nor yet enough to make one hila
rious. Hut to anyone unaccustomed to an
opium cigarette it was sure to have disa
greeable results.
One afternoon this naughty, naughty
girl took her dude young man out for a
walk and offered him a cigarette. He glee
fully accepted it, and, all the afternoon
long, that wicked girl led him around the
country walks and lanes, dealing him out
opium cigarettes, and even puffing at them
herself when no one waz looking. After he
bad smoked half a dozen, he began to get
sick, and in a few moment* he grew
wretchedly, wretcnedlv sick, and then ten
derly helping him back to the hotel, she
left him, hoping sne had not tired him out
with tbs long walk, aud expressing the re-
gre-t that she should have given him cigar
ettes too strong for him.
Being not altogether a Miss Nancy he was
terri dv ashamed of his downfall, and left
that girl beautifully alono ever after.
There was another story, though, of a
different nature, w hich comes all the way
from a place which shall be called Tnr
Barber. It is about an artist who was sent
up by one of the leading New Ytrk papers
to make sketches for a series of artioles.
Like all artbts he improved tbe passii g
hours, and ere he had b ea there more than
thirty minutes had succeeded in catching
the eye of several young women In the
place. A few days later the artist was
taki-g a walk with one of 1 is newly-found
friends, when to his surprise, and perhaps
chagrin, he saw c lining for him In the
most effusive manner n *New York woman
who was well acquainted with him when he
was at home. ’ Carrie Careless.
THE WATBtMELON REVIVAL.
An Interesting Relig.ous Ceremony of
Annual Recurrence.
FYom the Chicog > Tribune.
Green Cove Springs, Fla., July 23.
This town is in tbe midst of one of the most
successful watermelon revivals ever known
in the south. The unusual fervor of the ex
citement is said to be the result of the ex
ceptionally fine melon crop, which in quality
and quantity surpasses anything seen here
in recent years, lhe revival began some
three weeks ago, as soon as the quality of
the luscious yield had been proved by eat
ing, und it is now a' its height. Asa conse
quence household operations are at a com
plete standstill, and liusiuess of every kind
is se iously interfered with.
The watermelon revival Is a citro
religious event of annual recurrence in the
melon growing regions of the fir south. It
lays hold of the colored people only, and
gets Its strongest grin on the sisters, but iu
a temporal way it affect! the white residents
hardly less powerfully. Throughout the
melon season the colored sisters aud a
majority of the brethren entirely give
themselves up to ilia exquisite pleasure of
the melon and the pai i of religious con
viction that precedes the ecstasy of conver
sion, which in turn leads quickly to exalta
tion and a comatose condition. This latter
condition is next to heaven, the end sought
for; but because of the duration of these
trances or subjugation to "the power,” as it
is called here, many of the sisters are in
the present instance failing to assimilate
all of their share of this season's melon
crop. Thus Mrs. Kb kpatriok’s cook lay in
a trance for several days, and neither cooked
nor ate, and this was >v hen the melons were
at their very best. Mrs. Buddingtan’s col
ored maid was brought home in a dray at 2
o’clock in the morning aud deposited on the
kitchen floor, where she lay rigid ami with
“eyes sot," as this manifestation is termed,
until at the end of three days Mrs. Bu idlng
ton had her carried back to the church in
which she “got the power.” Mrs. Butler’s
cook got religion and rigidity early in the
revival, and, the task if fludiug a substi
tute being manifestly hopeless, the family
at once made arra geaisnts to take their
meals with a family in the same street who
are not dependent on colored servants.
Tno industry that is doing nearly all the
flourishing in the present crisis is that of the
few worldly minded negroes who own a
mule aud cart. Business is brisk for these
just now from the hour when the full moon
shows above the further oypre.s-bordorecl
shore of the St. Johns uutil tue yellow disk
fuses in the golden sky of a midsummer
morning. All the colored churches are
open twenty-four hours a day—in tho day
time for such as attain satiety of melons
early a id are prepared for the religious in
fluences long before nightfall; throughout
the night for all who come. Many who
oome to scoff remain to be carted away,
and those who have religion get it again,
and likewise have need of the mule cart. Bo
this teaming of precious and rigid human
freight begins early in the evening and goes
on until the bull-bats cease their pursuit of
nocturnal bugs.
The white residents are so seriously af
feoted by the melon revival, in consequenoe
of the impossibility of getting any service
done bv tho oolored sisters, that some of
them do not hesitate to speak impatiently of
the whole business, and to declare that tho-e
who got the most religion also collar the
most melons from the white man’s patch;
and now and then a sister who ha3 seen
many melon revivals und is thus prepared
to take a conservative view of the situation
replies: “Well, I’spects that’s so.” Allot
the white residents are looking forward
somewhat impatiently to the closing u f the
melon season and tho synchronous comple
tion of the religious work, not because they
mind the loss of a few melons, but bsoau-e
they greatly need the services of those who
at all times, barring this per.od of annual
occurrence, are faithful and valued ser
vants.
SPARKLE IN IB S WOMAN'S TALK
An Actress Indulges In a Whimsical
Bit of Dentistry.
From the New York Sun.
A tall brunette with curly black hair
walked into a drug store at Sixth avenue
aud Twenty-second street one night last
week and asked the proprietor for a quire of
note paper. This order is filled every day
in the week any number of times aud never
attracts any comment, but the proprietor
st od stock still this time and stared at the
good-looking woman iu astonishment. She
;iad smiled as she made the request, and tho
smile still played on her lips as he stared.
It disclosed two rows of white teeth. The
druggist walked around to his head clerk
suddenly.
"Perhaps there is something the matter
with my eyesight,” ha said. "Just go and
s e what’s the matter with that woman’s
teeth, will you!”
The b sad clerk got the writing paper and
studied the woman’s smile a moment as he
handed the paper to her.
“Humph! that’s odd.” he muttered.
“She’s got a diamond set in her teeth.”
Everybody who soe* tho customer is simi
larly surpristd every time she talks or
smiles. The woman is an actress who was
well known iu California, aud who is now
living near Madison square. She attracts
more attention in private than any other
actress in town, all on account of the odd
bit of dentistry to which she submitted.
Her friends say that having the diamond
set in her teeth was about the
queerest whim yet on record. The diamond
is a half-carat gem, pure white, and it is
set between the two front teeth in the up
per jaw. The gam is embedded in a gold
plugging fitted in the back of the teetn so
cleverly that the gold cannot be detested.
Its presence, of course, attracts attention to
the beauty of the actress’ teeth, and it also
imparts to even her most ordinary conver
sation a certain sparkle, which, as the
druggist remarked, you o. uldu’t find iu the
conversation of any other woman iu
town, however brigbt-witted she might be.
The actress seems to enjoy the amaze
ment that the oddly-placed jewel arouses.
She laughs at the comments of the men aud
women folks. She is a woman of about 30,
rather solidly built and dresses almost
always iu gowns of black silk, draped with
lace.
Aberdeen, O , July 91, 1801.
Messrs, T.ippman Hroe , .Savannah, da:
Desk Sirs— l bought a bottle of your P. P. P.
at Hot Springs, Ars., aud it has done me more
good than three months’ treatment at the Hot
Springs
Have you no agent in this part of the country,
or let mu know now much it will cost to get
three or six bottles from your city by express.
Respectfully Yours,
Jas. M. Newton,
—Ad, Aberdeen, Brown County, O.
Beautiful Madras and cheviot shirts only
|1 50 at Labor's. —Ad.
MRS. MCKAY'S HOME.
SPLE'.’DOTS OF NO. 0 CAKLTON
EOCrE TEHRACS.
A Macs’on Fit for Royalty—A Grand
Ballroom, a Marble Stalrciae Which
Seta Feople Talking, and Other Glo
ries.
from tbe A 'em York Recorder.
Of the American colony in London no
one is so much gossiped about, so bepraised
and slandered in turn; possibly no one is so
wealthy, and certainly i.o one lives in such
a brave show of outward magnificence as
Mrs. John W. Mackay, who is now a per
manent English resident, having acquired a
home in the famous Carlton house terrace
not surpassed in splendor even by the vast
but dull abodes of royalty.
Mrs. Mackay is a woman cast in a queenly
mold, and certain to attract homage wher
ever she may tie plaoed. Htie is of medium
bight, very dignified in manner, very gen
tle and sweet-voiced, rather pals, with soft
dark hair, always simply dre-sed and with
dark and strongly marked brows and lashes.
Tho beauty of her face lies, however, in her
eyes, which are large and full, with a gray
iris that becomes violet at times, and pupils
that dilate with emotion.
The glories of Airs. Mackay’s house are
chanted by all London. It stands in a posi
tion as unrivaled as that of Mrs. Whitney
in New York —more exceptional, in tact,
since Fifth avenue is a long street and the
terrace all too brief. The house was built
originally by the third Duke of Leinster for
his town residence, aud was sold by the
present duke to C. 11. Hanford, a million
aire, who, owing to the Argentine com
plications, was obliged to part with it after
only two years’ tenancy. Home ten months
ago Mr. Mackay bought the property for
his wife, and to it has bean removed all the
furniture, pictures aud art treasures from
her hotel in Paris.
THE INTERIOR.
Like most British mansions. No. 6 Carlton
house terrace is dull and cold of exterior,
but from the moment ths entrance doors
open one seems to step into an euchantad
world. The wide, oblong ball contains
some of the finest specimens of decorative
work in England; the oeiling is ornamented
in high relief plotted out iu blue and gold,
with crossbeams of polished oak. Upon the
walls hang a series of exquisite gobelin
tapestries of the seventeenth century, exe
cuted by Cozette. Avery fine projoctiug
fifteenth century marble ebluinevpiece oc
cupies tho center of the left-hand wall.
Opening from this hall at the far end is
Mr*. Mackay’B boudoir, or “book room,” a
little snuggery that appeals at once to tbe
heart of a litterateur. The one wide win
dow, richly draped iu somber brocades and
lace, looks out upon St. James’ park, and
placed at right angles with it Is a large
writing table which savors rather of use
than frippery, for Mrs. Mackay is the most
methodical and conscientious of correspond
ents. All about this pretty den are book
cases reaching nearly to the ceiling, well
stocked with vo.umes in all the modern
languages. Mrs. Mackay is an accomplished
linguist. One or two law chairs, an inlaid
tea table, an Oriental circular stand, and
several accessories in the way of odd tabou
rets and ottomans oomplsts the furniture.
To the left, passing from the book room
and through a door—the panels of which,
like all those on this floor, are richly inlaid
with intarsia work, the surrounds aud
architraves beiug of statuary marble deli
cately sculptured iu Raphaeiesque designs—
you come upon tho inner hall or marble
vestibule, a obartning prologue to the noble
staircase and reception rooms above. Tue
stately marble staircase with its open balus
trade riohly sculptured in fifteenth center v
designs, concerning which rumor has had
so much to say, is broken half way up by a
wide landing on oue side of which a tiny
projecting loggia overhangs the entrance
hall below.
THE ROOMS OF STATE.
The drawing-room faaes on the terraoe.
It is a long apartment, subdued in color
ing, though witu a dominant note of dull
pink. Tne walls, paneled in blue and gray,
are almost hidden by the gobelin tapestries
on one side and by the numerous pictures
adorning the other two. An easel draped
with an exquisite bit of early Italian em
broidery stands at one end holding a picture
by Van Cuyp, while side by side hang
Cabanel’s lifelike and striking portraits of
Air. and Mrs. Maokay.
Opening from this pink drawing-room is
the ballroom, measuring over SO feet in
length and 25 in width. On one side a row
of long French windows lead to a broad
baloony, from whioh a charming vista opens
out, stretobiug across 8t James Park and
Birdcage Walk, taking in Tha Mall and
ending m a dim-gray perspective of hoary
Westminster and the modern Clock Tower.
The highly polished floor Is protected by a
large velvet carpet of dull, harmonious
tones; the ceiling is paneled with
paintings in the Italian palidian
stylo of the sixteenth century;
upon . the walls are contiuued the
beautiful Cozette tapestries, scenes from
the history of Don Quixote, after Cuyp’s
celebrated designs. A grand piano, cov
ered with an Inwrought velvet cloth, stands
at one end flanked by another graceful ar
rangement of palms and ferns. The furni
ture—couches, sofas, chairs, ottomans,
fauteuils, are all covered with exquisite
antique ne dlework, ven able Louis XIV.
embroideries, and among the many \ alu
able pictures that entrance an artist soul
ore masterpieces by Rubens, Wouverman,
CJerard Dow, Teniers, Jan Steen, Bonuat
and the now famous Meissonier portrait of
Mrs. Mackay.
With suoh a home Mrs. Mackay doubt
less thinks she might be happy—were it
not for the De Bonynges I
6WAUOWSD BY A BN ASS,
A Japanese Story of a Woman-Eating
Serpent.
Prom the New York limes ,
San Francisco, Aug. 12.—The steam
ship Oceanic, whioh arrived last night from
Hongkong and Yokohama, brings copies of
a native Japanese paper called the Kokkai,
which publishes a remarkable story of a
monster serpent. It says that on the 17th
inst. a man called Neemura Taliichi, 25
years of age, went out with his wife Otora,
who was 4S, to pursue his usual avocation
of tree-cutting in Kcehltamura, Province of
Latnba. The husband anil wife sepa
rated at a place called Matsu Yama.
Shortly afterward, while engaged
felling a tree, Tahichi thought he heard his
Wife cry out. Running to the place he was
horrified to find that a huge snake, de
scribed as being three feet In circumference,
had Otora’s head in its mouth, and was en
gaged in swallowing her, despite her strug
gles. Tahichi ran off to tho hamlet and
summoned seven or eight of his neighbors,
who, when they reache 1 tho scene of the
catastrophe, found that the snake bnd swal
lowed the woman os far as her feet, and
was slowly making its way to its home.
They were too much terrified to touch
it, and it finally effected its esoape unmo
lested.
The province of Laraba is one of the m. st
desolate in Japan, and monster reptiles and
wild animals are frequently killed there.
The Sunday Morning News
Will be found regularly on sale at the fol
lowing places:
Eetill’s News Depot
Conner’s News Stand.
E. J. Kieffer's Drug Store, corner West
Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. Mullryue & Co.’s Drug Store, Went
Broad and Waldburg streets.
St. J. K. Yonge’s Drug Store, corner
Whitaker and Dully streets.
McCauley & Co.’s Drug Store, corner
New Houston and Drayton streets.
W. A. Bishop’s Drug Store, corner Hall
and Price streets. — A dn.
Piotures in groat variety ana all prices,
M. T. Taylor, ISS York street—Ad.
MILLINER T GOODS.
tail's Cit liii
SALE FOR TIE SOIIER
Open3 June 1 and will continue during the summer months.
The large stock of Straw Goods. Flowers and Trimmed
Hats will be sold at summer prices, and the complete line
in shapes and ali kinds of Millinery will be kept up to it,-j
usual excellency. Novelties will be added continual:?.
Ourcompletelines of Ribbons will oiler the usual attractions,
The Ribbon Sale will continue as heretofore. Milliners
supplied upstairs at New York prices and terras.
KROUSKOFFS
lAMiOTH MLLIHEBY.
shoes.
GLOBE
SHOE STORE
FOR THIS WEEK ONLY
We offer the balance of our stock of
Ladies’ Tan and Green
6 Width,al Si 50; Regular Price, S3.
Immense Reductions in All Kinds
and Styles of SUMMER SHOES.
Globe Shoe Store,
I 69 Broughton Street.
FI.OU K.
“Royal Lily”
Fill,
PUREST and BEST Brand on
This Market.
D. R LESTER GROCERY COMPANY,
21 Whitaker Street.
GROCER IKS.
HONEY,'
SPRING CHICKEN
FOWLS,
COUNTRY BUTTER
TO BE HAD AT
S. L. GEORGE’S,
ABERCORN AND NEW HOUSTON STS'
MEDICAL.
yrm JAPANESE
£syP—
IS#'CURE
A guaranteed Cure for Piles of whatever
kind or degree—External, Internal, Blind or
Bleeding, Itching, Chronic, Recent or Heredi
tary. SI.OO n box; 0 boxes, $5.00. Sent by
mail, prepaid, on receipt of price. We guar
antee to cure any case of Piles. Guaranteed
and sold only by
THE HKIDT DP.C3 CO.. Savannah, Qa.
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
VAN DEVEER S HOLMES’
—celebrated
/£ CRACKERS
—ARE BEST—
Trade Supplied by
Henry Solomon (S Sod.
SUMMER RESORTS,
HOTEL VENDOR
I I Centrally U All the Latest sl l
$ £ Located E Improvements. § |
Broadway & 41st St., New York.
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN
THE BRISTOL.
13 to 19 East Eleventh street, near Fifth avenue,
city; on the American and European
plan; family house; rooms; very moderate.
EDUCATIONAL.
THE AGNES SCOTT INSTITUTE,
Home School for Yoon* Ladies,
DECATUR, GA.
Six miles east of Atlanta on Georgia railroad*
Fall session comrueuccs SEPT. 3. 1891 Un
excelled for tmauty and healt'ifulne&s of locu
tion Complete inoiern buildings, thorough
equipment and all other requisites of a flrst-j
class school. Full corps of competent and ex-'
periencod teachers. Hoard and Tuition in liter
ary department $9OO per annum.
For catalogue, etc , address
H. J. WILLIAMS, Seo'y and Treas.,
Decatur, Ga.
MiMflConsemtiiry.
■ y Founded by Dr. E. Tocrj£e. *
CARL FAELTEN, Director.
Byi f 9 3 J r n s tr ucti ?n in Piano, Organ, Voice*.
BW Violin, Solfeggio. Harmony, Etc!
Class Tuition ,jo lessons, $ 10 to £3O. Private lesson*
given. Recitals, Lectures, CTO ET BT to
Choral and Orchestral Practice ■ *Tm El& pupils.i
ELOCUTION Oratory. Dramatic and Lyric]
Action, Fine Arts, Languages, Literature, Pianoi
and Organ Tuning. A comfortable LlA£| R? ‘
for Lady Students. Calendar free. ■■ VJ Blrl E.‘
Full Term Begins Kept. IC>* 1891.
FRANK W. KALE, General Manager#
Franklin Square, Boston, Mass.
Hollins institute, vihgini \.-Tbe49thj
session will open Sept. lGfch, 1691. Eclectio'
courses of study in Language*, Literature.
Science, Music. Art, Elocution, etc., are pro
vided under high standards—w ith flue facilities
and superior management. The equipment hr
ample and comforlablo. The locality 1,200 fcefc.
above the soa level, enjoys the advantages of
mineral waters, mountain scenery and aalubri
ous climate. Eight male professors and 20 ladle#
constitute the Hoard of Instruction and Gov-i
ernmnnt. CHAS. L. COCKE, Bupt.. CHAS. H.
COCKE, Hus. Mgr. P. O. Holliofe. Va.
TO)„I>AYIB SCFOOT . A Military
£3TT SI Inutitut© for Boys & YouufM* n
fßiSfl „ F\vU College Course of Study.
w ( oraplete vripsrstoiT Course.
IJ* ol Thorough course in Civil Engt
l l if noering. Full commercial course,
\ JiL r Resident Surgeon*. No charge
V w l for medical attention. Cadet Cor>
xe* #c*k * net Band. Instruction In Murid
. and Art. Practical course in Te-i
legraphy. Very low ratea. For
i 'I f- / Register, with terms and partio
l T *® I ular*. address Col. A. C. Iru\i,
U 0k * LBupt. Winston, J*.C.
vacation famous for Beauty and Health.
St. Mary's School,
RALEIGH, N. C.
The Advent Term Begins Sept. 24.
Ml. Pleasant Military Academy,
SING SING, NEW YORK.
The 57th year of this well known school be
gins on SEPTEMBER 18. All supplies pro
vided, a beautiful home ar.l every facility for
an excellent education.
Address: J. HOWE ALLEN. Principal.
Virginia Female Institute
STAUNTON, VA.*’* *BT;
The fall session opens Sept. 17,1391. Best ad
vantages in every department, with every home
comfort and a linkable care. For full particu
lars as to terms, etc., apply to the principal.
= SUBURBAN RAILWAYS.^
Tybse Schedule.
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company,
Operating the Central Railroad of Georgia.
TO TAKE EFFECT AUG. 15, 1391.
Lbavs Savannah (Standard Time) I.favb Tybes
6:00 am daily *5:00 am daily
*9:30 a m daily 7:loam daily
11:10 a m runday only *11:06 a m dailv
*9:30 p m daily 4:53 p m daily
*3:30 pm daily 5.53 p m dailv
5:00 p m daily 8:00 pm daily
6:40 p m daily 10:00 p m daily
7:30 p m daiiy
Train* marked thus* carry freight.
On family excursion days (Tuesdays and Fri
days) the rate will be for round trip, whole
tickets, 35 cents; half tickets, 20 cents
Passengers are required to purchase tickets
who wish the benefit of exoursion rales.
J. L TAYLOR, Gen. Pa* Agt.
E. T. CHARLTON, Pass. Afil
V. E. McßfiX, Gen. Supt,
