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part two.
H AMSTER AT TIIE P.EIM
NEW YORK SOCIETY HAS NOT DE
POSSD ITS LEADER
But tbe Social Craft Dees Not Steer as
It Once Did—The Pour Hundred
Splitting Into Pactions—The Leader
eblp of the German, the Charity Ball
and Other Momentous Matters.
Sarah Bernhardt and Sir Edwin
Arnold and the Duke of Marl
borough.
>'ew York, Nov. 31.—New York eooiety
is pulling itself together for a winter sea
son, the character of which no one risks
forecasting.
The horse show, following the chrysan
themum show, gives some idea of how the
wind was blowing, but it conveys a serious
paucity of tips. There was a big orowd at
the flower display, one of tboss autumn
orowds that ogles itself in ill-concealed
curiosity. At the horse show the jam ou
the favored nights has been bigger still.
Naturally the sprightlier set are more con
spicuous at the display of equine beauty.
Women who dote on horses do not diminish
In number. Some of the most sagacious
criticisms on the thoroughbreds are de
livered by feminine visitors, who are mean
while illustrating to the observer the latest
fads in dress.
What the winter ball rooms may have to
say on the dress question no one may pre
die, but tbe Madison .Square garden shows
Indicate most emphatically that American
women are more French than ever in their
dressing this season. Everything has a
Frenchy, an extremely chic, demeanor. On
the purely artistic side the fashions were
i ever more hideous, but it is characteristic
of the Parisian way of doing things that
tbe styles are nevertheless charming. It
took American women some time to seize
tbe French theory of a uniform tint. But
having accepted the idea they are holding
to it with a delightful tenacity. Femininity
is going to be harmonious or die ia the at
tempt. Whether the harmonies are in
Nile green or in daring and unmitigated
white, they are consistent with tbe central
and dominating idea.
One of tho feminine visitors of the horse
show was Sarah Bernhardt. Mine. Bern
hardt has been a very busy woman ever
since she reached New York, for ehe has
baan conducting rehearsals for new plays,
bbe is living at the Hoffman house. When
she goes out tho excursion is effected quietly,
though with a curtain artistic impressive
ness. At the horse show .Sarah conveyed to
me an impression of a gray luxuriance.
There was a great deal of boa about her.
She moved and spoke always like the con
summate actress that she is. Under all con
ditions she is always the incomparable Bern
hardt.
Certain society people have made efforts
to get at Mme. Bernhardt. But she seems
very shy this season. The Americans do
not talk French and they personally tire her
a good deal.
The society people have had much better
luck with Sir Edwin Arnold, who is very
good natured, and anxious to convino* the
Americans that be is not only a great poet
hut a good fellow. At a little g'athsring near
Union square the other night Sir Edwin
read and recited for nearly two hours, and
everybody aoemerl to bo delighted. Indeed,
the author of the ,l Light of Asia” bears close
Inspection in tho social sense, and as a
reader is even more Interesting to a drawing
room group than to the sort of audience
that filled the Carnegie music hall when he
first came to New York.
THE M’ALLISTER QUESTION.
The enemies of Ward McAllister—for
even leaders of society and very amiable
people have enemies—were delighted when
he fulfilled the scriptural suggestion and
wrote a book. History will associate the
time when Mr. MoAUister published his
“Society as I Have Found It” with the
time when society loft Mr. MoAUister.
But Mr. MoAUister is still at the helm.
If Le Grand Cannon or any other estima
ble gentlemen is to supersede Mr. McAUls
ter he has uot yet begun to actually do it.
To he sure the season has uot fairly opened.
But if New York Society, with a big 8,
was to have a now leader this winter it
would hove behooved him to get into har
ness before this.
The truth is, of course, that Mr. M'* Allister
lias lost his hold upon that interesting ele
ment in New York’s population which his
famous dictum limited in number to 40d.
His book undermined him. The volume has
been widely read. Curiosity guaranteed
thiß result. Probably everybody who is in
cluded in Mr. McAllister’s list perused the
production from cover to oover; and they
did not like it. Mr.-MoAUister displayed
no irreverence; ho took society aud the
picnics very seriously. But this was more un
forgivable than if ho hod turned Thackoray.
ihe Four Hundred groaned at the ridicule
heaped upon them by the revlowers and tee
■outs.” They will never forgive Mr. Mo-
AUister. He has not abdicated, and they
have not deposed him; but the old prestige
is gone. Possibly this is the last season dur
ing which he wiil lead the lists. He cannot
fail to hear the inuuendoes suggested by his
literary feat. “He is looking up items for
another book,” is w hat they say of him, if
they do not go further aud suggest that he
f? "getting something to write about in the
nunilay paper.”
hor one thiug, Mr. MoAUister is not dis
tinctly a young man, and this is counting
against him to some extent. New York
mves to honor young blood, and some
younger man will very soon get himself into
the giant’s robes and toddle forth in Mc-
Allister's shoes.
THE NEW YEAR’S BALL.
One of the evidences of waning ardor in
, attachment to Mr. McAllister is the
'Oekwardness of the movement for the New
tears ball. This New Year’s ball has
always been oneof Mr. McAllister’s hobbles.
He has tuken an imtnenso pride in it. Up
o within a few weeks he seemed to be cer
ain that all of last year’s subscribers would
ome forward again. Contrary to Mr. Mc
-vUlster’s expectations, if not to the expecta
, of other prominent social figures, all
i these subscribers have uot only not yet
me forward, but a large percentage say
they don’t intend to.
, r - McAllister is generally quoted as say
f i?, 4 11 fl have tho ball if he has to pay
t himself. But this is a rash threat. It
I Have C Found f lt’’* Proa ** ’‘ Sooiety As
1 robably the time set for tho ball is not
tw“ nMe ' Justat the New Year period
“ r ® 8,1 immense number of private
tine m. B4 ’ a 1 “ crain bling for social ntten
• The crush at this season is known to
itv hii r v, at t!l ® ma nagers of the Char
w-ird !L h 3 V ? b 2 6u , in duced to move for
ward the date of that function.
the charity ball.
eark- 6 1 ball usua Uyoccurs sometime
Ist anri au , v where between the
the J.° Vhor la *- 1“ choosing Dec.
Pressmeti.T? ag , erß 86ok to a ™id the
and!ce,. h * i’ e|£ln * with N w Year’s day
forward™“ p * or a couple of months. The
it un e,!T..'. nent . tho d*te Is slight, but
at the a<ror R deal In tho attendance
at the affair. Judging by the ticket sale.
Hjjc iHofning
which began last week, there will be no
lack of interest in an event that is always
of sooial moment in New York, and that is
always as picturesque and delightful as the
box occupants oould ask.
_ J,?? e . xc ,f* a ' J ! e reajon tor the popularity
of this ball is the popularity of the charities
which it represents. The Nursery and Child’s
uotpilal, for instance, largely supported by
this ball, is a charity dear to the hearts of
many conspicuous society women.
THS LEADERSHIP OF THE GERM A!V.
Meanwhile the younsrer scions of the so
cial nobility are struggling for the leader
ship of the german.
The electioneering has really been pictur
esque. It was said as early os the bo’in
ning of last week that Le Grand Cannon
and at least two other prominent candi
dates were out of the race. The MoAUister
set were particularly chilly toward Can
non, probably because he has been repeat
oaly alluded to os McAllister’s probable
successor in the leadership of the Four Hun
dred.
The debate then fell upon Alexander
Hadden, Amory Carhart and Louis De Uar
mendia.
A good many New Yorkers have still to
loarn who these gentlemen are. Mr. Had
den is possibly tho best known of the three,
though this is not saying much.
At tbe threat that Mr. Hadden would be
installed, the friends of De Garmendia have
discussed a special ball at which the latter
gentleman should be established as leader.
GAYETY AT TUXEDO.
The Tuxedo danoes begin a little earlier
than the dances in New York. There have
already been several balls, more or less
sumptuous, aud all of them gay enough.
The opening of George Loriliard Ronald’s
new cottage, a house warming of much dis
tinction, was followed by an exhibition of
living pictures at the Club House theater.
These living pictures were something of a
novelty, not being on the merely tableaux
vivant order.
Cotillion dancers are talking about the
new “soreen figure" at the last Tuxedo ball.
Iho plan of this figure is to place each of
tbe ladles behind a screen covered with tis
sue paper. When the signal is given the
ladies stride through tho screens like the
nymphs at the circus and lay hold upon the
first man who is In sight. Everybody seeme
ready to agree that the device is piquant iu
a certain degree. It has the flavor of some
of the Versailles entertainments of Maria
Antoinette’s day. There should be a Wat
teau design on the tissue paper, and some
body should make a flashlight photograph
of the scene at the moment when the ladles
are emerging from their biding places.
THE COMING OF THE “DOOK.”
The coming of the Duke and Duchess of
Marlborough naturally makes a little flut
ter. It would be difficult to say which is
the more ludicrous—the disgustiug de
meanor of those who fawn upou the titled
rake and his Amerioan wife or the attitude
of those who pretend to scorn the wioked
nobleman, but are dying to be thrown in
his way.
Liko Max O’Rell and Sir Edwin Arnold,
the Marlborough people choose the Brevoort
bouse for their stopping place. The Bre
voort is generally spoken of as not very
comfortable, but os awfully English. It is
on lower Fifth avenue, within sight of the
new Washington arch.
BUDS.
Buds and engagements absorb a good deal
of attention at this season.
The number of engagement announce
ments is quite bewildering. Everybody in
New York sooiety who is legally privileged
and who isn’t married already la certainly
going to take vows this winter.
Among the notable buds the daughter of
Col. and Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte naturally
takes a conspicuous rank. As everybuly
knows, Mrs. Bonaparte is a descendant of
Daniel Webster. There are other distin
guished debutante, many of them represent
ing tho older New York families. I believe
there are one or two Vanderbilt girls to
come out. The Vanderbilts, by tbe way, are
in much higher favor than they were a year
or two ago.
CHINESE CURIOS.
An interesting company of society con
noisseurs has visited anew collection of
Chinese porcelains, jade and curios at the
Fifth avenue galleries. The oollectiou was
made up by H. Ballauff, ex oounsul of Nor
way and Sweden at Tientsin, China. The
exhibition was one of the most interesting
of its kind oyer seen in the city.
DIVORCE CYNICISM.
One of the society paper cynics has been
telling of an interview with Mme. D’Albert,
the maker of divorce gowns. The inter
view was in this strain:
“I do not make dresses for all divorced
women,” she says. “I only work for those
whose trials are continued for several
days.”
“Could not a well-dressed woman,” I
asked, “produce her effect on tho jury In a
single day?”
“Impossible,” said the dressmaker.
“What the jury needs is contrast. It must
say, ‘Ah, she wore black lace yesterday; she
is in China silk to-day.” Then on the third
day the new gown moves the jurors pro
foundly, and after that they are hopelessly
gone.”
“How many dresses,” I asked, "should a
candidate for diyoroe wear at trial?”
“Just as mauy,” said Mme. D’Albert, “as
there are days occupied in its hearing. I
never knew a woman to lose her suit who
wore anew and stylish gown every day. I
never knew one to win who wore the same
gown twioe.”
“Then short trials are fatal to your sys
tem?” I observed.
“Absolutely," said Mme. D’Albert, “1
think that short divorce trials are a dis
grace to our oountry. The husband’s law
yers invariably hurry through the case in
order that the wife may not have the
chance of appealing to the jury in another
dress. What would be thought if society
scampered through a dance; and divorce is
far more fashionable than dancing.”
Matt Lamar.
Mamma (on the way home from church)— By
the by, Dolly, I didn't see you give anything in
the off itory just now.
Dolly—l hadn’t nuffln to put. mummy, dear.
Mamma—Why. my love, I gave you six-pence
tills morning. What have you done with that?
Dolly—Swallowed it, mummy, dear.— Xew
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HAPPY CARRIE CARELESS
THANKFUL FOR BABY CLEVELAND
AND OTHER THINGS.
How to Mix Up Thanksgiving Drinks.
Women Should Rejoice That There
Are Plenty of Tail-bearlog animals,
Plenty of Sealskin Coats and Plenty
of Good Times Planned for the Win
ter.
(Copyright.)
New York, Nov. 2L— The President has
reminded us that it U time to be thankful
He tells us that the year is drawing to a
close, and that many causes for content
ment and thankfulness have been given to
us. He says that the harvests have been
abundant, no calamities have befallen us,
and that peace and prosperity have pre
vailed generally. He says that fair employ
ment has been given to labor, and that
industry and oommerce have brought such
generous returns that tbe wealth of the
country has been greatly increased. He
says, moreover, that there have been no
heavy burdens and no unequal laws im
posed, and that taxes are lowor than ever.
Of courso the President ia right and it
really is time to be thaukful. To be sure,
the proclamation slips along in such a
smooth manner that it is somewhat mis
leading and makes you think for a minute
that everything has been all peace and con
tentment and fair sailing, and it Ignores the
humps and bumps and hard places in such
a calm fashion that you are led to think for
an Inßtant that after all there have been no
bard place*.
But the President is not a woman, you
know, and ho has not lived a woman’s life
during the past year, or he oould not have
said all that he did so calmly.
If be had been a woman, he could not
have stated that no calamity had befallen
the people—right in the face of the fact
that the McKinley bill has sent the prioe of
seal skin up at a grand bound, which makes
the cost so high that only tbe silver spooned
individuals can afford to have sealskin
coats.
The President hasn’t been a member of
the woman’s oommittee at the world’s fair,
that is certain, or he wouldn't have had so
much to say about peace and harmony and
tranquility.
The President hasn’t had to keep up with
the latest styles in woman’s clothing. He
hasn’t had to sew thousands of beads upon
his coat to make it fashionable, and he
hasn't had to embroider monograms on the
instep of all his stockings. Nor has he been
compelled to trim his hats with a kind of
jewel bedecked lace that took him hours and
days and even weeks to make.
He hasn’t done any of these things, don't
you know, or he wouldn’t be willing to say
that no heavy burdens have been imposed
upon tbe people. But aside from these little
inacouraoies of statement, the Thanksgiving
proclamation is raeally a very good thing
and a model of its ktud. The only fault is
that it was written by a man, and you can't
expect a man to have a thorough under
standing of things.
After all, the biggest thanks of Thanks
giving day are rendered over the good din
ner that you eat at noontime. On Thanks
fiviug day every one has dinner at noon.
t is an old custom so long established that
people would as soon tfiink of having a
Thanksgiving dinner at 6 o’clock as of serv
ing wine to the guests In a milk bottle.
The Thanksgiving dinner is served at
noon or about 1 o’clock. Sometimes, some
heroic-minded matron will dall In her pre
parations until tne hour of tho feast is post
poned until 8 o’clock, and then she thinks
herself rewarded by the semi-famished
state with which every one comes to the
table.
But the Thanksgiving feast, O! the
Thanksgiving feast! You may eat anything
and everything then. Turkeys and ohiokene
and ducks are brought on all at once, iu
reckless disregard of the proper order of
events, and spoon vegetables and fork vege
tables are served up without consideration
of eutrees or anything else—Bave that they
are there to be eaten.
At Thanksgiving time, you know, every
one is entitled to indulge iu a taste of the
cup which cheers and also inebriates If one
gets too much of it. Even the most rigidly
inclined temperance people, unless they be
utter prohibitionists, are willing at Thanks
giving time, to dip into the flowing bowl,
and let tbe cup cheer as much as it can.
Of course the Thanksgiving dinner should
begin witn a oocktail. It need not be a
strong one but it should be a good one, and
it should be brewed upon the table by tbe
fair hands of the hostess herself. If you
are from the south, you know already how
to mix as good a oocktail as ever warmed
thestomaoh and cheered the heart of a gal
lant southern cavalier. But if you live in
the chilly north or have grown up in the
west, you will be glad to learn a thing or
two about mixing the family cocktail. 80
let the southern woman be "patient, while
the northern, the eastern and the western
ones read and are benefited by a few di
rections.
It is Thanksgiving time and we are pre
paring these cocktails especially for Thanks
giving use. Therefore we won’t ask to have
them too strong. But we will make them
so that every one in the family may have a
sip, if not a good drink. The one which
deserves tho first place, by reason of its
pretty name, is oalled
CAAMPAONE COCKTAIL.
Take three lumps of sugar.
Pour over thorn about two tablespoonfuls
of Angostura bitters.
Add a piece of ice as big as an egg.
Pour a pint of champagne over the mix
ture, and stir up well.
Serve in small glasses.
The coffee cocktail is a Httlo stronger, but
for the yonnger members of the family it
may be weukened by the furthor addition
of a little ice, and it may also be served in
smaller glasses.
COFFEE COCKTAIL.
Take a bowlful of pounded ice.
Pour over it a half a gill of brandy.
Add one wineglass of port wine.
One tablespoonful fine white sugar.
Shake all together very well aud grata a
little nutmeg on top before serving.
So much for the regular cocktail
Now for the temperance drinks. They
are very nice, and if you wish to substitute
them for the stronger ones, you may do so
without criticism, for if It is done judio
iously but few will be able to detect the
fraud.
SARATOGA COCKTAIL.
Two bottles of ginger ale.
Juice of one lemon.
One tablespoon of powdered sugar.
Put a large lump of Ice in the mixture
and stir for just a second, and then remove
it before it has had time to melt.
SODA COCKTAIL.
Juice of one lemon, sprinkled with nut
meg.
Two bottles of plain soda.
Throe tablespoons of powdered sugar.
Cool quickly with ice and remove tho ice
before serving.
When you have tried these drinks, you
will be thankful that you brewed them, and
you will bo thankful to add them to the
list of good things in the family receipt
book. *
And now, my dear friends, are you not
thankful for ever so many things that
hare happened during the year? Aro you
not thankful for the little things that
have come to you, as well as for tbe big
ones i
I asked a New York girl the other ay
what she was the most tuankfui for of any
thing that had happened all the year. And
what do you suppose she said; With a
naughty little smile, and a queer little ex
pression, she said:
‘ 'I am thankful that I had throe beaux at
a time, every night of the horse show, and
that our box was one of the best ones
where everybody could see me, and 1 am
thankful that that spiteful Spriggy Brown
had only two to my three.
“What are you most thankful forf’ I
asked a matron, the yoarsof whose mutron
hood do not number more than three.
“Thankful!” the asked in a dreamy way.
“I think 1 am most thankful for tne faot
that tho top of Ned’s head isn’t any balder
than it was a year ago. I looked at it
clsosely last night, and while it isn’t very
thickly oovered, It surely isn’t any thinner
than it was last Thanksgiving.’
“For what are you most thankful?" I
asked a young woman who had been out for
a long woodland tramp with her best and
gayest young cavalier, and who had returned
laaened witu November glories of tree and
field.
“For what am I most thankful? I am
thankful, O, so thankful, I can
tell you exaotly. I have been so thaukful
all this afternoon that I do not have to stop
and consider a moment for tbat which gives
me the greatest causa for thankfulness, that
when these wioked November winds blow
my skirts nearly up to my knees they also
blow the dust into tho men’s eyes, so that
they cannot see tho dreadful display 1 am
making. Now don’t you think that that is
enough to make any girl thankful?”
Now, what have you and I to bo thankful
for? You know what your causes fur
thanksgiving are, aDd I know what mine
are. Ferbaps yours and mine are iden
tical.
I am thankful that last winter’s cloak
looks very well this winter with the ad
dition of some tails around tho bottom of it.
Thankful that the Clevelauds have named
tbe baby Ruth.
Thankful that souvenir spoons have been
invented for all sorts of gifts.
Thankful that the white shirt and blazer
have been banished for tbe season.
Thankful that we cau say as saucy
things of Rudyard Kipling as he can say
of us.
Ttiankful that there is a whole year in
which to save up to go toltbe world’s fair.
Thankful that the Keoley gold cure
makes it Impossible for a drunkard to part
with all tbe gold In his possession.
Thankful that the limit of old inatddom
has been advanced from 30 to 36 yoars.
Thankful that women have not yot got
their rights.
Thankful that women are not levied on
for the support of their male relatives.
Thankful that the horse car conductor
makes room for a woman if he possibly
can.
Thankful that women are not yet so ad
vanced tbat they have forgotten how to
love and be loved.
And finally, dear editor, I am thankful
that you are still partial 11
Carrie Careless.
THE BIG POND IN WINTER.
Bea Going is Brisk Sport In Cold
Weather.
(Copyright.)
New York, Nov. 21.—At about this
time of year the society journals announce
that everybody is home again from Europe.
This is true enough of those who went over
in the spring for tho warm season. The
summer travelers are all book by the time
election comes od. But there is another
stream of travel whose flow sets In when
the leaves begin to fall. People who go to
Europe for the winter, and who usually in
tend staying until after the close of the
Londau season in early summer, sail in
Ootober and November and December.
Then there is a large bridal contingent
for the fall and early winter. The announce
ment of a European honeymoon alwaye has
an undeniable eclat. Buch announcements
are becoming Increasingly fashionable,
though it is pretty generally admitted that
there is moredlstiuouou than comfort about
the undertaking.
An ocean trip in November or December
is, indeed, a rather chilly business. About
October reports of rough weather begin to
oome in. These reports are not cheering to
people who are packing for the trip. The
stories of last mouth were picturesquely
terrible. Lite September and Ootober this
year happened to be particularly notable
for its Atlantic blusters. Many of the
steamships came in battered. Seamen and
passengers had been knocked about a good
deal. Bulkheads were stoveu and deck
houses damaged. Novemierbas boon less
terrible, but the weather has been getting
oolder, and the natural vigor of the At
lantic winter has now set in.
Of course tho transient class of travelers
is reinforced by the very considerable num
ber of travelers—commercial men, artists,
musicians aud theatrical people, govern
ment employes and so on. Those people
take the affair vorv much for granted and
are to be watched by people who aro green
at the business and do not understand how
to make ocean life tolerable.
Wlien one of these professional travelers
starts for Europe he or she gets out an out
fit invented especially for suoh trips. Long
fur lined ulsters aud luxurious robes make
a prodigious bulk to be left at Liverpool or
Havre and taken up again on the return.
These clothing necessities, not improvised,
but obstructed specifically for this pur
pose, are accompanied by other devices for
extracting as much comfort as possible out
of the cold weather trip. In many respects
these are much the same as the outfit of
summer; but they are more so.
Tho mere amateur travelers, the honey
moon and first winter at Nice travelers are
not always so well equipped from the scien
tific point of view, but the chances of a flue
steamship outfit are better than they were
a few years ago, for the muoh traveled
American is becoming to turn particular
attar - ‘"a upon ocean-crossing fashus.
Mas- va tussian-iooking coats and sumptu
ous io-.cs are in preparation for the bitter
winds of the deok, though the chances of
tbeir being brought into uso for any con
siderable time are soon found to be limited.
Many a December passage excludes all but
a fow hardy spirits from the decks for davs
at a time.
Sometimes the little group of hardy spir
its will include a woman, a plucky, fur
imothered woman, who enjoys the excite
ment of being exceptional,uud who basks in
the undisguised admiration of the masculine
Sassengers. The exceptional woman, who
i radiant when other women are pale and
lemon hannted; who is fresh and jocund
when the other women are wishing the ship
would sink and be done with it, is inevita
bly well guarded against the dangers of a
lurch or a dash of a heavy sea. She
probably has a man at each arm, faces the
cutting wind and spray, screams delighted
ly at the struggle for a footing and has the
glow of a heroins.
All this is very romantic, but an arm
broken against the iroti rail will not beal
before the voyage is over, and is rather a
disagreeable souvenir of the trip; though
it is less ignominious than a limb broken
by the mishap of being knocked out of a
berth.
In winter, when the deck is so often icy
and infeasible for tho average, life below
takes on a more settled character. Card
parties, story telling parties, musicales, the
atrical impromptus and devices of a similar
cast fill up the hours of the passage. Tbe
members of the smaller group of passengers
, become more intimate than those of
: the larger aud more unmanageable crowd sf
I July. Even at the coldest season the most
formal people mannge to thaw a good deal
I od shipboard, though it Is a delusion that
acquaintances thus formed mean anything
on dry land. Many an ambitious beginner
in tho social world, who has made a lucky
stroke on shipboard, hobnobbing with great
success at table and elsewhere, has been
startled at a later day to find that he or she
was ruthlessly dropped os if the ship ac
quaintance had never been.
The preponderance of male travelers be
ing so great in winter, a womau is more
certain of having a good time that If she
were or. rasing at a season when the average
was Blightly the other way. This will be es
pecially so if she is a woman of an amenable
kind, If she knows how to let herself have a
good time. If she gets 111, why there is an
end of It. She simply doesn’t" oount after
that. Nobody sees much if anything of
her. She is only heard whimpering to one
of the Incorrigible stewards. One consola
tion in winter is that the stewards are a
shade lew incorrigible than in summer.
| Tbougn there are fewer of them, they are
not worked so hard, and settle down to
business in a reasonable way. It la a relief
to them not to bo compelled to travel so
often to aud from the deck.
Iu the forward quarters of tbe ship it is
another story. If winter Is an adventurous
season for the cabin it is much more so for
the steerage. On the passage toward Eu
rope there are few steerage passengers iu
winter, a mere handful on the biggest
liner*. These passengers represent various
classes. Many people not of especially
humble social position, but of aa economi
cal turn, buy their bed and equipment of
utensils at the wharf, and go to Europe in
the fo’cas’le-ltko hunks under tho forward
hatch. It is roughing it, but it is no more
like hardship than tho soaman’s lot, and has
a flavor of adventure that for some people
might be a compensation. Hteerage regula
tions are much relaxed In winter, especially
in tho trip toward Europe.
On the trip home come the emigrants at
all times of year. Naturally the winter re
presentation is much smaller than in sum
mer, but occasionally the barge office is sur
prised by a small army from err ain parts
of Europe. The emigrants, especially those
from Southern Europe, often board ship
with very insufficient clothing, and when
the vessel gets to sea are staggered
by the cold and sleet. The result
is that most of them keep below
huddle about tho stoves or steam pipes, or,
what is more likely, swathed with every
available rag in the narrow quarters of
their bunks. In summer the steerage pas
senger who yield sufficiently to conven
tionalities to wash in tbe morning aro
compelled to come on deck to do so, or at
least to get their basin of water. In winter,
of course, this would boa heroic business,
and the arrangements hnve to be consider
ably modified when the weather Is very
heavy. In the stormiest time the steerage
companiouway, generally provided with a
very steep flight of Bteps, more or less like
a ladder, is tightly closed until such times
us the weather moderates enough to render
it safe to permit anybody to oorne on deck.
In the mild weather of summer
400 or 500 steerage passengers are
once a day called on deck—all bands save
those who cuDnot get out of tbolr berths —
and one of the officers makes the rounds of
the one or more decks occupied by the emi
grants. This Is a precaution made neces
sary by the possibility of disease, aud par
ticularly to facilitate the airing of tbe
rooms. In winter this is a programme that
cannot generally be carried out. and tbe
Bteeragegets pretty stuffy before tbe voyage
is over.
Considering the rough weather often en
countered by the liners in wiuter, it is mar
velous to find the sum of damage so small,
and to be reminded that ocean travel, taken
altogether, is actually safer than travel od
land. Victor Bims.
Allscany can boast of perhaps one of the
largest hoys of ms a-re to b t mil In tbe state
of Maryland. His name is William W. VVMUig,
and h“ resides with his parents in Frosiburg.
Throughout the county he is looked on as a
giant. He was born in Baltimore at tbe corner
of Broadway and Chase streets, Dec. 27, 1874,
therefore Is a little over 10 years and 8 months
old. With his parents ho moved to Frcsburg in
March, 1876. F r the past two years he has
bten growing at the rate of one-half an inch per
me 11 In. H i nigi.t Is U feet 4k inches and he
weighs 185 pounds. He wearsa So. 7U hat and
N'>. 11 shoe. His hands meusure 18k inches
around the knuckles when closed. His
c lest measure Is 44, and his waist 41 inches. He
nas a.ways enjoyed excellent health and
possesies an appetite which would alarm most
jeoDle, as it calls for about what would satisfy
three ordinary men at each mal He lifts 860
pounds with ease, is of a happy disposition and
a 1 rest favorite with the boys of the town.
Wh. n angered he is a terror. He is tho Bon of
ex .Mayor Whitlig, a leading citizen, and Eliza
beth Wblttig, both of whom are large persons.
The father is 9 feet nineties In bight ana weighs
200 pounds. The mother is of medium hight
and weighs 220 pounds. The famllv Is well to-do
aud highly respected. Mr Whlttlg, with the
ataistance of his son, carries on a bakery and
confectionery establishment. The young giant
is still glowing.
A Childlike Confidence in
the efficacy of Carlsbad Sprudej
Salts is universal throughout
the world. Nature’s remedy for
Constipation, Gout, Rheuma
tism, Kidnev Troubles, Dia
betes, Fatty Regeneration, and
all Liver Troubles.
Our rich Americans visit
Carlsbad. The crowned heads of
Europe have been visiting this
historic spot, when in search
of health, for the past 600
years.
You can now get the samo
treatment at any drug store, in
the shape of Carlsbad Sprudel
Salts.
Not a naseating remedy.
Men and women of sedentary
habits will find life a pleasure
after taking this treatment for
one week.
The genuine have the signa.
ture of “Eisner & Menddson
Cos., Sole Agents, New York,’*
on every bottle.
VRT GOODS:
PT niT/P I M ossrs - Gustav Eckstein & Cos. will
lil K \ I close out their ehtire Stock of Cloaks
lAI.VL/ ■ and Capos at Panic Prices This Week
ECKSTEIN’S
Cloaks Almost Given Away
!10 Astrakhan Capes Given Away at $5.
10 Seal Plush Capes Given Away at $5.
10 Ladies jackets Given Away at $5
10 Long Newmarkets Given Away at $5,
The Grandest Bargains Yet.
S2O Long Capes Now Given Away at $lO.
20 Finest Jackets Given Away at $lO.
25 Plush Garments Given Away at $lO.
25 Long Capes Now Given Away at sls.
Misses’ Cloaks Half Price.
50c All Wool Tricots Must Go This Week at 39c.
60c All Wool Flannels Must Go This Week at 44c.
$1 25 Dress Goods, 54-inch wide, Go This Week at 75c,
$1 50 Dress Goods, Extra Fine, Go This Week at sl.
Slaughter of Pattern Dresses!
$lB French Robes Absolutely Slaughtered at $lO.
S2O French Robes Absolutely Slaughtered at sl2.
$25 French Robes Absolutely Slaughtered at sls.
Entire Stock of Silks and Velvets at a Sacrifice.
Cold Weather Luxuries!
$5 Extra Size Fine All Wool Blankets at $3 50.
$lO Extra Size Best All Wool Blankets at $6 50.
Crib Blankets, Carriage Blankets and Buggy Robes.
Good Clean White Cotton Filled Comfortables at 99c
FUN FOR THE CHILDREN.
Very Comical Surprise Boxes, Variety, at 25c.
Dressed and Undressed French Dolls at 25c,
Largest Line of Imported Fine Doll Babies.
New Holiday Goods to be Opened Daily.
Great Sale Begins Monday.
EIISTMIIKTEIN t ffi
DRESSMAKING.
Saniai Irtssiiig and firj Ms&
H. A. DUMAS, MANAGER.
A Big Bargain Sale of Dress Goods.
S3O DRESS ROBES down to #l9.
$25 DRESS ROBES down to sls.
$lB 50 DRESS ROBES down to li .50.
$1 50 NOVELTY DRESS GOODS at $1 15.
*1 25 NOVELTY DRESS GOODS at 95 cants.
$1 NOVELTY DRESS GOODS at 79 cants.
*1 50 All-Wool BLACK JACQUARDS at $1 10.
$1 25 All-Wool BLACK JACQUARDS at 95 oeuts.
40 Cent Double Fold CHEVIOTS at 25 oentr.
25-Cent Double Fold CHEVIOTS at 15 cents.
15-Cent Fancy BEDFORD CORDS at 11 U. cents.
10-Cent Fanoy DRESS GOODS, STRIPES and PLAIDS, at 7k cents
C-4TA FULL LINE CHEAP DRESS GOODS AT LOW PRICES.
Our DKRSSMAKING DKi > ARTM&AT, in charge of & flrst-olasi “modiste ” is rspidlr
becoming the place ol popular resort for the fashionable ladles of the oily. Correot Style
and Perfect Fit is what we guarantee in every instanoe.
kill tenting anil Dry Goods Cos.
33 Whitaker Street, Near Postoffice.
DRY UOOD9,
GUT M AN’S?
Received new iioe of Children’* White and Colored Bilk Caps, Jet Beadlngs, Gimps and
Silk Drapery Scarfs.
DON’T you WANT A NEW EVENING DRESS, FAN, HOSE OR GLOVEs?
Fancy Guaze Nets all shades, at 35a, worth 75c. a yard.
Striped Chiffon Nets at $l, worth 92 50 a yard.
Look at Our Brocaded China Silks, the latest for evening
wear.
If you want a stylish Wrap, a good Kid Glove, a'handsome
Feather Boa, and Dress Trimmings to suit any Dress,
Come To
GUTMAN’S, BKO
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