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80-JB THINGS OP INTEREST to
THE PAIS SEX.
r y e Newest London Costumes—The
Fashionable Neck-A Revival of the
Figured Vell-A Few Little Stories
of Special Interest.
Taking our cue from London society,
there is a strong demand for such social
gatherings as permit of unrestrained flirta
tion, says Clara Belle in a letter to the St.
Louis Republic. A woman is at her best
when she is playing with the Are of love,
and a man is never more eloquent than
when enacting the gay deceiver. In one
respect, at least, love dillers from cham
pagne—the imitation article is more de
gbtful than the simon pure. Said Mme.
deMainteaon: “Deceive me, only deceive
me pleasantly.” This is the whole secret of
flirtation. It is pleasant deception. The
flirt of either sex is a coward. Take him
or her seriously and there is consternation
in the camp at once.
“Why, you listened to my words of love,”
exciaimed a disappointed young man to a
fair maiden.
“Ah, yes,” was the ingenious reply, "but
not until the champagne had been reached,”
“You said you loved me,” he pers.sted,
with tears in hit eyes.
‘•But that was after the waltz,” whis
pered the cruel girl. "lam always giddy
after dancing. If you had reversed ine I
i ever would have made suoh a stupid oon
fe-sion.”
Young man keep that speech in mind; It
may save you a heap of trouble. Reverse
your girl.
All women should be reversed. They re
quire it. Nature made them so. Not only
ciut you reverse them, but their words,
their meaning, too. The first woman that
was made was created dumb, but the Lord
saw his mis'.ake and gave her language to
conceal her thoughts. Search the record
and you’ll And trmt no woman evor wroto
an English grammar. She has moods of her
own,and prefers them to any you may dovise
for her. She can perform the feat of think
ing in the indicative while she speaks in the
subjunctive, and vice versa. Abovo all has
she no conception of the future, and that
man is a weak mortal who tries to put her
under bonds for good behavior. It will
only emphasize her lapses so to do. You
cau’t inn rove on the old formula. Tako
her for better or worse.
The modern man will never understand
women until he ceases to love them. You
might as well expect a parent to confess that
her child is an ugly duckling. All that men
know about women they learned in the
olden time, before we were admitted to a
voice in the household. You can’t judge of
a picture when it is hung too close to you,
or of a tune when it is ground out under
your very nose.
Pockets are luxuries undreamed of In the
ecouomy of the sheath skirt, says the New
York Hun, and yet, since uosoj havo not
gone out of fashion, handkerchiefs seem
qulto as •'"'entiai to elegant comfort as for
merly. i> .r street wear a small receptacle
has been devised on the plan of the Mar
guerite pocket, which is of the same mate
rial as the dress. It is flat at the back
w! ere it hangs against the dress and full on
the outer side, and is trimmed to correspond
with the dress decoration. Suspended from
the waist by two straps, it receives all the
numerous little articles wherewith woman
encumbers herself. French iadies have a
fad for drawing the handkerchief through
the belt, in which oase the mouchoir must
be of extreme elegance and have the name
of its owner written in diamonds across one
corner. One name suffices for many hand
kerchiefs, as it is a Kind of plaque tixed on
the linen b / a peculiar little spring, easy of
adjustment.
Another fashion revival Is that of the
ling figured face veil, which falls over the
face to the knee. It is of Chantilly or any
tine French lace, and Is to yards long aud
near.y a yard wide. It is draped around
the crown of a poke bonnet. covers the face,
and hangs straight to the knee for elegant
nfteruoon wear, just as it was worn iu the
d.tys when Lady Kose rode her white pal
frey and wrought her sampler with line
stitches.
A dear little bride in a railway car, says
Clara Belle in the New York it ress, was
like most brides in desiring to avoid iden
tification us a bride. Tho husband went out
to smoke. An old lady across ihe aisle
talked to her. “You are lately married,
my dear, I know.” she said kindly.
“O, no—we have been married a
long time,” returned the young woman
briskly.
“Ah! excuse mo. You are so young, and
you seem so happy.”
“0, we ha ye been married eight, yes,
eight years.”
“Have you any ”
“O! (blushing furiously), no!”
“Weil, well I—and I thought at first you
wore on your wedding journey.”
“O, no. My husband will tell you—here
becomes—that wo have been married eight
years. Haven’t we, George 1”
“Yes—yes, certainly,” he replied. “Do
you know, Katie, I have some of that rice
down my back yet.”
The greatest success this year of Felix,
says liolen Gibson in a London letter to tho
Aew York World, is a young lady’s tea
guwn made of gray crepe do chine, the
yolk, sleeves ana belt being of gray satin,
with rows of silver braid, between which
are towb of oblong jet beads. This forms a
very novel and effective trimming. The
skirt and front and back of waist are made
in accordion plaits. A ruffle, starting from
the waist line of the Watteau plait con
tinues over the shoulders and ends where
the belt crosses in front. If desired the
” atteau plait oan be belted in.
Of the great number of beautiful tea jack
ets and theater waists seen this week the
prettiest is made of black lace, with a Swiss
belt of lavonder satin ribbon. Outlining
the bust is a band of lavender ribbon, over
which falls a ruffle of lace, and just above
the point of the Swiss belt another band of
the same ribbon runs through a tuck of the
lace. On the inside of the sleeves, from the
shoulders to the elbow, is also a band of
ribbon. It is made go as to be worn, if de
sired, ns a low-necked waist.
A less dressy theater waist is made of
black satin, brocaded with gold tinsel stars.
A girdle, reaching to the top of the bust, is
made of heavy black lace, over which, in
wont, are four bauds of black satin ribbon
fastened on the left side with three
rosettes. A lace ruffle falls below the
hips, and one band of riobon finishes
the waist line and fastens in the back
with a rosette. The sleeves are of
brocade, trimmed la a novel manner with a
piece of lace, starting from the deep cult on
the inside seam and continuing to the shoul
dor where it is arrauged in a ruffle, which
* a lr over the top of the sleeve.
The evening dresses at Maison Jay are
marvels of beauty and elegance. Mme.
Pompadour was never arrayed in more gor-
K”°us brocades than those to be seen In the
show.rooms. The one that caught my eye
was of pearl brooade. slashed on the hips
u r ‘d in front, through which appeared a
ruffle of the finest black lace. The foot of
t.ie skirt was cut in blocks, under which
was a black lace ruffle caught at the top of
each opening with large jet stars. The
waist was trimmed in an indescribable way
with black lace and jet. the sleeves being
slashed from shoulder to elbow, showing a
lace ruffle through the slashes.
A remarkably stylish street dress for
second mourning is of rough cheviot in
bluish gray, with black stripes. The skirt
rl.o.'m on a, t , l)e . Of 058 * after the prevailing
v*^ e - t J° a nd l ce has lon S straight jacket
fronts, while the back is cut off at the waist
line with a pointod bolt of black and silver
passementerie, which ends on the hips with
s.iinle ornament. The waistooat of gray
faille fastens down the front with buttons
handsomely embroidered, as are likewise the
re vers, cuffs and collar with black and gray
Aenille. A jab tof old lace is fastened at
S**™* a belt similar to tha one
in th 6 back.
•nit H,* ibu^ 1,1 the of real dignity,
Wfc-Sfcw* o ***™* that there is
! u *7® American girl’s character that a well
bred foreigner will take simply as thev are
meant, tne constant surprises she affords
nun l . tue way of dariag escapades auy
one of which would at once destro .- his re
spect for one of his own unmarried country
women, A transatlantic marriage which
was started by a practical joke, was that of
the young minister from , who asked
his lively neighbor at a dinner how he should
make his adienx to his hostess, as she
did not speak French and his own
knowledge of English was of the slightest.
Vjuite seriously she taught him to sav,
Golly, Mrs. A., I have had a bully time;”
and he repeated the absurd and dreadful
little speech with great distinctness to bis
hostess, who at once detected the source of
the poor man’s blunder and naturally
greatly resented it Monsieur de F., how
ever, had a sense of humor and far from
harboring a grudge against the impertinent
young lady, was greatly amused by her
audacity, and thu9 in this instance began
the “wooing o’n’t.”
Odd, isn’t it, that there should be a fin
de siecle neck just as there Is mode in bon
nets, or a style in gowns, says the New
York Sun. Stranger still that the girl of
the period conforms her physical being to
the conventional idea just as she cuts her
draperies in the fashi n. Now the Jin de
siecle neck at the end of the century is not
at all what it was at the beginning, when
all the swoet girls wore low-necaed gowns
in tbe day time. Then the essential quali
fication of beauty was a sort of cushion
like plumpness. No bones or suggestion of
bones must be traceable between the round
column of the throat and the tumultuous
upheaval of the too redundant bosom.
Now the neck must have subtle expres
sion not capon plumpness, and this expres
sion depends upon—bones. To be classic illy
beautiful tbe line of the clavicle must be
visible at the base of the throat, and the
hollow just above this that averv Venus
has, and that someone has called a rest for
Cupid's kisses, must not be lost in too
abundant flesh, though the flesh be the
fairost and most dimpled ever bared to the
eyes of mortals.
There is a Jin de, siecle. bust, too. It is
small, round, low, exquisitely chaste and
beautifully modeled. The important thing
in dressing for the best expression of this
modish neck is to wear everything loose
about the bust and to have a corset either
cut entirely awav over the bust or cut very
low. The French woman grasps the ideal
of the end-of-tbe-century neck and leaves
her corset, which is made to order if the
gown worn over it costs less than a shilling
a yard, very loose at the top where it sus
tains the bust, but does not compress or
push it out of place. No matter how low
cut is the ball gown the effeot is delicate and
modest if the fullness of the breast is not
apparent.
The slender woman is the woman of the
mode. The ideal of beauty approaches
more nearly the antique standards, and we
are out-growing the notion that the loveli
ness of a womau’s neck and shoulders de
pends upon flesh alone. The anatomical
structure must be defined about the ankles,
must be guessed at the wiist, and must
show a faint line or tracery at the throat.
Too much flesh takes from tho impressive
ness of the modelling and the subtlety of
the expression of the throat aud shoulders.
I was presented some time ago with two
bottles of rare old wiue, says a writer in
the New York World. Friends came last
week who could appreciate it, and I
proposed to give them a treat. The bottles
were sent for, and amid looks which my
guests vainly tried to make unconcerned,
one was opened. Wine? Never! It was
plain, every-day, unadulterated cold tea!
Suspicion fastened upon the cook. She
came, denied, finally broke down and con
fessed that on certain occasions when her
“heart was weak” she had sampled the wine
and replaoed it with tea.
“You shall drink every drop of this tea,
now,” said I, t inking perhaps a joke
would cover the entertainment Amid the
laughter of my guests, cooked draiued the
other bottle. Before dinner the waitress
whispered to me that cook was lying in
the kitchen intoxicated. I rushed there.
It was too true. She had “doctored” but
one bottle, and I, as a punishment, hail
made her drink the other bottle of good old
wine.
“How little we realizj our daily bless
ings,’ ,said a young matron, who is rather
more thoughtful than the rest of her set —
several of whom were lunching together at
Delmomco’s, says the Now York Tribune.
“When we have pleutv of water, we simply
take it as a matter of course, but just fancy
the misery it would cause if the water sup
ply gave out. I heard the other day that
the Croton had not been so low iu years,
and that wells are going dry all over the
country. Even now, they say, it is not
very safe to drink the water that comes
through the pipes without boiling and filter
ing it. Only think of all those poor people
in the tenement bouses. What a misfort
une for them if the water supply should
become inadequate.”
“I should tnitiit they would drink vichv,”
lisped a fair convive quite seriously. The
first speaker looked rather astonished.
“Keally, Ease, 1 ’ she said, “your remark
would do as a pendant for that of the
French woman, who, when to!d that the
populace were clamoring around the bakers’
shops for bread, and that there was no
bread, exclaimed, ‘’Why don’t they give
them cake, Men?” “Weil, and why didn’t
they?” said Elise, placidly.
In a certain boarding-school dormitory,
says the New York Times, there is, as there
always is, one obliging girl who was im
posed upon by the other five occupants of
t!ie room in the way of exacting small
offices. As she had always buttons and
thread and needle convenient, and was
never in a hurry, it got to be the habit of
the room to rely upon “Sue” in every
emergency. “Do, Hue, like a dear girl,
mend this glove for me, I’m desperately
late;” or, “My darling Sue, won’t you sew
the buttons on this boot while I am doing
my hair?” and the like.
Sue was very much interested in a cer
tain churoh charity for whioh a fair was
about to be held, aud great y deplored her
lack of time at school to make anytbiug for
it, when a clever scheme occurred to her.
“Girls,” she announced one day about two
weeks ago. producing at the same time a
little box with a slit in the cover, “from
now on it’s a cent a button for shoe buttons,
5 cents a piece to mend gloves, and 10 cents
to do hair—the proceeds to go to my
fair.” The girls laughed aud warmly sec
onded the idem Sue has been so busy that
her box is rapidly filling, but she has dis
covered that she has put a premium on
laziness, and a placard has recently ap
peared in that dormitory announcing that
on and after Dec. 15, the date of the fair,
her services are not to be had “for love nor
money.”
At the reception given last Monday eve
ning by the New York Woman’s Press
Club savs the New York World, one of the
guest’s was Mrs. Le Fevre. the vegetarian.
To Mrs Le Fevre came Bede Hunt, who has
a good deal of literary ability, and a large,
well-developed appetite for juicy steaks
aud roasts.
Belle, however, believes in making herself
popular, and as soon as she was introduced
to the vegetarian she began to tell Mrs. Le
Feyre what a grand, good thing vegetarian
ism is and how “we ail eat ever so much
more than is good for us or than we need.'
“The appetite some women have,” said
Miss Hunt, warming up to her subject, “is
positively disgusting, If they could only
learn to restrain it ”
At this juncture a man approached Miss
11 '“There ara some awfully good sand
wiches in the other room,” he saik; will
? °Aud just one moment later Belle Hunt
stood with a sandwich in one hand and a
large wedge of oake in the other, while Mrs.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1891-TWELVE PAGES.
Le Fevre looked after her in a pained, hurt
way.
The prospective h istess of a small dinner
party recently found herself unexpectedly
and imperatively called from home tbe day
when the affair should come off, says the
New York Times. Countermanding mes
sages were hastily sent off, and all reached
their destination in time save one, which
was addressed to a naval officer at the
Brooklyn navy yard. No warning having
been received by him, he proceeded to get
into the picturesque and showy regalia
which Uncle Sam dictates to be full dress
in the navy, and started for his hostess’
mansion. It was on the stroke of 7 o’clock
when he reached the place, but in lieu of
lights, fair women, and hospitable cheer
he found a darkened house and no welcome.
That was bad eucugb; bnt when he left
the place, which is in the seventies, on the
west side of the nark, he found himself con
fronted with a serious problem—where
should he get his dinner? His gold lace and
glittering tinsel were much too gorgeous for
a restaurant; he would rather.be decided,
go dinnerless than face tbe battery of curi
ous looks which he kuew h;s appearance
would make, unless ho dined in tne closely
buttoned ulster which now completely cou
c -aled his finery. In tbe end he could think
of nothing better than the lunch room ad
joining the Grand Central station, and
there, standing and ulstered, he dined. And
then, as there seemed to be no place for him
to spend the evening, “where those con
founded togs would not be too conspicuous,
I had to go back aboard ship, and it was no
great satisfaction to find tbe delayed dis
patch awaiting me there when I reached it,
about 9 o’clock
PAST AND PRSSINI.
Women of To-Day are Far More Beau
tiful Than Their Grandmothers.
From the St. James Gazette.
“Yes, she’s decidedly pretty; but not half
so pretty as her mother was at her age!”
How often do we hear this remark when we
venture to praise some beauty of the present
day. It suggests an important question;
whether the standard of beauty is changing;
and if so, whether women are more or leas
beautiful then they used to be. This is a
question winch may, happily, be answered
to the entire satisfaction of the present
generation. There can be no reasonable
doubt that there is greater beauty now, and
more of it, than at auy previous time.
No woman has been more celebrated for
her beauty than Mary Queen of Hoots; but
if she were to walk unannounced into a
London drawing room to-day it is doubtful
if she would cause much remark. It is true
we can hardly realize what Mary was like;
we are not even sure of the color of her hair
or her eves. The various authentic portraits
of her are strangely dissimilar. They only
agree in this: That they all show us a face
which disappoints us. As we are uot satis
fied with a degree of beauty
whioh was enough for Mary’s con
temporaries, which sent the men
of her day off their heads, and filled her
oousin Elizabeth with deadly jealousy—the
inference is that the standard of beauty has
risen, aud the rise has probably been grad
ual and constant, each generation making a
certain advance on its predecessor. Oue
can hardly resist a conclusion of this kind
after looking over a collection of portraits
of a single family for three or four centu
ries, such as one may see in any large old
country house. The further back we go the
plainer the ancestors become, and if we ba
gin with the earliest and trace them down
to tbe present time we find them steadily
improving as we advance.
1c may bo said that this is the fault of the
old painters who did not know how to make
good likenesses. But no one has ever
looked at Holbein’s portraits of Henry
VIII., full of life and character as they
ara, without feeling that the real Henry
stands before him. And if Holbein can
give us a life-like representation of Henry,
can he be incompetent to give us any idea
of Anne Boleyn? Yet the beauty of Anne
Boleyn, as Holbein represents it—the fatal
beauty which lured Henry from his alle
giance to Catherine —is certainly not suoh
as we would rave about now. And
tho best possible proof that Holbein was
quite as able to flatter bis sitters as some
later artists is tbe fact that it was his pict
ure of Anne of Cleves which decided Henry
to wed that princiss, though the royal Blue
beard is described as fearfully “discouraged
and amazed” when she appeared before him
in person. It seems evident, therefore, that
the ideal beauty of the sixteenth
century was inferior to that of the
nineteenth, and this can only have
been duo to the absence of a higher degree
of beauty upon wiiieb to form the ideal.
There is a considerable advance in gen
eral beauty wheu we pass on to the por
traits of the next century. The ladies of
the reign of Charles L, as painted by Van
dvck, are about the first who are really
pretty according to our ideas, though the
delicate flattery of the artist In trying to
give them all a resemblance to Henrietta
Maria makes them look a little monotonous.
Judging from their portraits these ladies of
the restoration period must have been at
least as pretty as their mothers, with more
variety about their styie; the points in
which they mostly resemble each other be
-a softness and sensuousness, due to a
not unnatural rebound when the strain of
Puritan prlmuess was suddenly remove.!.
A jump of another century leads us in the
midst of those great masters who have left
us such a full audsplend and record of all that
was noble and beautiful iu the days when
George 111. was king. One’s first impres
sion on visiting a colieotion of Reynoidsts
and Gainsboroughs is that all the women of
that time must have been lovely and the
painters lucky to get such subjects. One’s
second impression, however, is apt to
be that the setters were lucky to
have suoh painters, for the real at
traction is more often ia the pictures than
in the faces. Not that there are not
plenty of beautiful faces among them, but
that beauty is by no means universal, and,
further, that there is no beauty on the can
vases of the lass century which could not be
easily matched to-day. We have only to
look at the pictures of the famous Gun
nings to be assured of this. They were de
clared by their contemporaries to be “the
handsomest women alive.” When they
went into the park they were mobbed by
curious gazers: when they wore presented
at court the other ladies attending
the drawing-room climbed upon the
chairs and tables to get a glimpse
of them. When they traveled people
sat up all night so as not to mbs see
iugjth 'ii get into their coach iu the morn
ing. We do not see any such enthusiasm
now and we are apt to think it is because
we have nothing lovely enough to be inthu
smstic about. But this is not the true ex
planation. The beauty of tbe Miss Gun
nings can certainly have lost nothing under
Reynolds’brush; yet his portraits of them
do not reveal any loveliness which we should
consider wonderful. It is not, then, that
we admire beauty lass than our forefathers
did, but that we have more of it, aud there
fore it excites us less.
As to beauty In the preseutday.it is quite
unnecessary to speak. No one who keeps
his eyes open can fail to be struck by it. It
is not merely that there aro more beauties of
tho first order than there seem ever to have
been before, but that beauty has became so
very general. Any one who wishes to test
this has only to take his stand in Piccadilly
and watch the stream of life rolling past
him in carriages and on foot; and If hedoe<
not see in one afternoon more pretty face3
than iu all the Reynoldses and Gainsbor
oughs he knows he will be verv unfortunate.
Indeed, It is hardly possible to deny that in
this matter of beauty, at least, our age has
gone a good deal ahead of all its predeces
sors.
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FROM DUNGEONS GRIM
THE WORLD’S FAI-t WILL FURNISH
ITS CHAMBER OF HORROBa
Preparations are Being: Made to Ex
hibit a Collect'o l of Instruments qf
Torture or of M lier Discipline, With
Models of Famous Prisons and Their
Cells, tbe Dungeons of the Inquisi
tion and tbe Workshops of ring
Bing—Civilization and Barbarism, the
Old and toe New, Will Meet in This
Wonderful Display.
{.Copyright i
New York, Nov. 21.—An element of the
weird and terrible will not be wanting in
the world’s fair. No great show could suc
ceed without it, for there are many people
who would rather be shocked and horrified
than be entertained in any other manner.
And this somber display at the fair will be
one of tbe most instructive of them all, for
it will show the progress which humanity
has made in the quality of mercy.
The exhibit to which I refer is now in
preparation under the direction of the Na
tional Prison Association, whi.h recently
held its convention in Pittsburg. It Is the
purpose of the association to show more
completely than was ever done iu the world
before tbe development of appliances and
methods for the treatment of criminals.
Kx-Piesident Hayes will officially open
to the public this remarkable exhibit, ami
by this act will at the same time inaugurate
the first session of the international prison
congress ever held iu America. The most
distinguished men in this field of endeavor
throughout the world will be present, and
the facilities afforded them for observation
and study will reflect credit upon the coun
try which invites them.
The idea of adding this remarkable ex
hibit to the attraction of tbe fair was first
suggested to the commissioners ly tha Rev.
Francis Milligan, now secretary of the Na
tional Pricon Association. Mr. Milligan
was known during the late unploasuutness
as the “figiting parson of Pennsylvania.’’
Most of his ouergies since that time have
been devoted to effecting improvement in
tho reformatory treatment of criminals,
and he is an authority upon all departments
of the subjeot. His idea was favorably re
ceived by the world’s fair commissioners,
and they immediately appointed aoouimit
tee, of which Oscar Craig of the Now York
State Charities Aid Association is chairman,
to devise means of placing a complete ex
hibit before tbe millions who come to see the
fair.
The first step was to secure the co-opera
tion of the national and state prison asso
ciations, and through them, of their cor
respondents in ail parts of the world, in
cluding the men who have been most
prominent in the sessions of tho inter
national prison cougress abroad. Tho
oldest of these organizations is the New
York State Prison Association, of which
the head is W. M. F. Round. From the New
Y r ork state association sprung the national,
and from that iu turn the international
cougress. In 18S2, when tho in
terest iu the national association
languished, aud it seemed to he on the
verge of dissolution. Mr. Round went to
work to rejuvenate it in a way that resulted
in prompt success. He was its secretary and
was succeeded by tbe Rev. Mr. Milligan.
They were both delegates to the interna
tional congress in Rome in 18SII, aud wbil e
there saw one of the completest exhibits of
prison cells, ancient and modern, with the
appliances of punishment and torture, that
had been made up to that time. A large
part of this collection will probably come
to America.
I have had a long conversation with Mr.
Round, in whioh he told me wbnt was
being done iu the way of research and col
lection.
“Gentlemen representing the oommiss on
ers are now making arrangements to socure
exhibits and model i from every country on
the face of the earth,” said he. “The en
deavor is to make the seai%h'‘Absolutely
exhaustive, and there is no doubt that the
result will be com nensurato with tbe great
diligence that is being employed. A build
ing especially adopted to the reeds of
this display will be sot apart by the
world’s fair commissioners. Around its
walls will stand rows of colls of every size
and variety of arrangement. Mauy of
them will be reproductions of those which
have held prisoners whose names are known
to every reader of history. The oells of the
Mamertino prison where St. Paul was oon
flned, the dismal dungoons of the inquisi
tion, the living tombs nf the Bastile, the
strange torture chambers of Oriental bar
barism, all will be reproduced with the
utmost fidelity possible.
“In each coll will be a life sii9 wax figure
showing the type < f man who once suffered
therein. These figures will be clothed in
perfect accord with the prison garb of the
country and tho time—as tho cap and mask
of the Belgians, or tho stripes which are
worn by prisoners in this country. The re
production will be made exact even to the
drinking cups and tbe plates in which food
aud ater were offered to the prisoners.
There will be large models of all the
famous prisons, showing the varying styles
of architecture, and the devices for defense
against attack from without and security
from insurrection within. Every variety
of lock and bolt will be shown, from the
massive bars and chains of old days, to the
nice mechanical devices of the present time.
The exact duplication of there places of de
tention will give the observer a chance to
judge not only the degree of physical com
fort possible under such conditions, but
t e effect likely to be produced upon tbe
mind. The tortures of the inquisition de
pended not only upou tbe persuasive power
of physical suffering, but upon the terrify
ing surroundings and the sense of helpless
ness.
“The milder punishment used in modern
prisons will be shown with perfect fidelity to
the facts. The appliances of capital punish
ment, the rope, the ax and the electric
chair, will be there for the contemplation of
the visitor.”
“What will bo done with these models
after tho fair?” I asked. “Will they go back
to tbe senders?”
“Not all of them,” he replied. “Of
course many countries will contribute col
lections which they already have, and these
must be returned, but tbe others will form
the nucleus of an American collection.
Foreign nations will in most cases furnish
their collections free of cost. For tbe rest
theexpen.e will bo from *150,000 to $200,-
000. I feel certain that this display will be
of great value. The subject of the treat
ment of the criminal clt.sses is one of the
most press.ug that dow engage the public
attention. In this exhibit will be a vast
store of inferznafi m and food for reflection
for any thoughtful person. I venture to
say that it will be much visited and that it
will do a vast deal of good.”
It is proposed to frame in wax for this
exhibit some of the men who are notable in
the history of prison work. The famous
wardens of American and foreign prisons,
and the detectives who have helped to fill
the dungeons with society’s enemies will be
on show in lifelike form if the proper ar
rangements can be made. Byrnes of Now
York, the Paris prefect of police, Lon
don’s chief and tho high officials
of Oriental lauds may be there in
effigy to terrify the beholder who has guilt
in his heart. And many a man, no doubt,
will oome to see this dark display bringing :
a secret with him, which, divulged, would
cast him Into just such a cell os he sees per
trayed before him; would makebim change
places, as it were, with those imprisoned
effigies, or even, perhaps, with that grizzly
linage standing with the rope around its
neck.
Among tbe more modem devices is a plan
for a revolving prison, where the unfortu
nate captives are somewhat like squirrels in
cages. The invention is intended to be
humane, however, and aims at nothing
more disastrous to the prisoner than the
certainty that he cannot escape. It also
claims t > absolutely proteot prison officers
from assaults of conviote. Ten cells are •
formed in a circular prison, somewhat as if
they were slices cut symmetrically from a j
cheese. The dividing wahs and tbe floors
are of iron. Ti e nuts.do wall is built around
the whole affair. W ithln it the eiacular.
Cellular contrivance revolves slowly, the
idea being that no convict can work for
any length of time on any one part of the
wall which dev ides him from liberty. The
revolution goes on only at night, ami is so
slow as to cause no and scomfort, it Is
claimed. There is a mechanism by whioh
the jailor can turn the cells around when
he wishes to release or incarcerate a pris
oner.
The New York Prison Association has
many distinguished c >rrespondents who
will do much to forward the design. There
are John Wioneruuf Hamburg, who estab
lished tbe celebrated Rube Haus; Dr.
Fohring, president of tbe tribunal of jus
tice in Hamburg aud the author of the
tramp system which has worked so well
that some day, when we are sufficiently en
lightened we may adopt it over here; M.
Ferdinand Despsrtes, secretary of the So
ciale Generate des Prisons de France; Sir
E. F. DuCane, chairman of directors of oon
vlct prisons of England; Signor Martino
Beltrani Scalia, of tho Italian cabinet, and
tbe Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Crofton, founder
of tbe Irish prison system.
There are correspondents, too, in the far
east. I saw a very interesting collection of
pictures furnished oy the Japanese corre
spondent, but dealing with methods of pun
ishment in Chinese prisons. Pleasant
devices, they are, for securing human dis
oomfort. I don’t wonder that they are not
furnished by anybody in Cbiua. They show
some methods of tying up the offenders
which are original and remarkable. If this
is a sample of what may be learned by
probing tbe secrets of this world’s prison
bouses I should thiuk it would better be
done at once.
A fearful array of old time Instruments of
torture has been preserved for many years
in Nuremburg. I have been told that an
English syndicate has made a hid for tbe
oollection for exhibition purposes, but how
ever that may be, the original or a faithful
reproduction will be on show at tho fair.
The immediate supervision of the prison
exhibit has been given to Nathaniel S. Ros
eueuu of Buffalo, a leading member of tbe
Charity Organization Society.
.Somewhat more cheerful to look upon
will be the sho * Ing of products of prison
labor. It will be very complete aud inter
esting.
The officers of the National Prison Asso-
ciation besides tho preiidont, who has al
ready been named are: Roeliff Brinker
hoff, vice president; the Rev. John L.
Milligan, secretary; Charles E. Felton of
Chicago and Dr. Roland P. Faikner of
Philadelphia, assistant secretaries; Charles
M. Josup of New York, treasurer;
L. R. Brook wav, W. M. F. Round,
John H. Patterson, Gardiner Tufts,
A. A. Brush, Francis Wayland and
R. W. MoClaughry, executive coinmitteo.
Most of the men mentioned here will be in
stantly recognized by all renders who have
taken any interest in the subject ot prison
discipline and reformatory methods. Mr.
Brookway is the originator of the famous
Elmira reformatory system. Prof.
Wayland of Ynle is one of the most dis
tinguished authorities on the subject. R. W.
McClaughry is Chicago’s chief of police,
and a most efficient officer.
David Wechsleil
PATHOS IN BIBEP.IA.
An Aged Convict Recognizes file Son
as One of His Soldier Guards.
FVoru the London Telegraph.
An interesting account of a most tragic
meeting between father and son, who, after
a long separation, descried each other
standing on different sides of the impassable
gulf that divides this world’s sheep from tke
goats, has just reached me. It occurred
near the city of Vladivostock, where the
construction of the new Siberian railway
was lately commenced in honor of the czar
owitz’s visit. Among the workmen, or
helots, whose guerdon is many stripes und
no pay, there are some thousands of the
least criminal convicts in the country.
Many of them are known to bo inuooent of
the crimes laid to their charge, while others
are being punished for acts whioh have
absolutely nothing iu common with moral
crime.
Among the latter was one hoary old man
of venerable aspeot, a native of Koorah,
who had deliberately trodden on the obaiu
of the governmental surveyor as he was
measuring the ground because ho was sus
pected ot an Intention to transfer some of
the peasants’ land to tho crown. This im
prudent act was labeled "violent resistauoe
to tue lawfully constituted authorities,"
the old roan was found guilty, and as tho
rigors of Siberia were deemed inadequate to
give this daring spirit his due, he was de-
Eorted to the more terrible island of Sag
alien. When the security of free work
men began to he felt he was taken from
there, conveyed to Siberia and pent to work
along with one of tbe convict gangs. One
day he was struck by the familiar look of
tbe soldier who, with loaded rifle, guarded
his gang, and he made bold to ask him
whence he came. To this question the
soldier, forbidden by the military rules
to enter into conversation with the con
victs, gave no reply. The old man, however,
grew more fidgety, soon ceased work alto
gether, and fixed his dark, piercing eyes oil
tho soldier. At last, unable to control him
self any longer, he pronounced a Christian
uaipa softly, calling out, “Nly dear, dear
son.” The” soldier quivered, grew pale,
with an effort comprested his lips, convul
sively clutched his gun and pulled himself
together for a moment—but it was only one
moment; the next bis emotions had com
pletely mastered him, bis hands dropped
helplessly to his sides, his rifle slipped with
a dull thud to the ground, and he himself
fell heavily without a word or a moan, os
if cut down by a scythe. The old father
threw himself on bis body, call:d him ten
derly by bis pet name and covered
with tears and kisses. Tbe other guards
and taskmasters seeing, without uncler-
Blauliug, wnat bad happened, rushoi to
the spot, surrounded the convict, who, it
was evident to them, bad felled his guard,
aud raising the buttf-ends of their guns,
prepared to dash cut bis brains. Some of
them next tried to remove him by force,
but he held tbe unconscious guard so tightly
locked in his embrace, kissing him and mut
tering to himself: “He knows mo; yes.be
knows me now, my dear boy,” that they
were powerless to separate them. At last
they were both removed on a dray to tho
hospital, and the true significance of the
scene dawned on tbe infuriated soldiers,
who were now deeply touched by what they
had witnessed. "It was,” writes my cor
respondent, "a most barrowing scene—one
that I shall remember with a shudder to my
dying day.”
The next morning tbe doctor declared
that the soldier had lost his reason, and
must be removed to a madhouse. The con
vict, on being iuforoied of this, and ordered
to begin work as usual, refused quietly at
first, then roared aud raved like a maniac,
and was at last put in a strait waistcoast
aud confined along with the other madmen.
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