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THE GIFT GIVING MIT.
BAS II FECOMK A CHRISTMAS
TIME EVIL?
Dr. Talmage Thinks Not. Robart CM’.-
yer Is Optimistic and Col. Intersoll
Tells What a Real Gift Should Be.
Christmas Is otil! in High Favor.
New You*, Deo. 19.—-The crowded city
streets are telling an old story, yet a story
that always soeir.s curiously new. Hu
manify is buying itself Christmas gifts.
The season is full of contrasts. At no sea
son of the year are tue contrasts of Ufa so
vividly illuminated as in this last month of
the twelve. This picturesqueness of Christ
mas time has tempted the descriptive genius
of painter and writer from time imme
morial The poor are pinching and
scraping in order to surprise and
delight someone who is, perhaps, pinching
and scraping to return the compliment The
rich are expending fortunes in inora pomp
ous tributes to a time-honorei soatimeut
Millions of dollars are in one way or an
other changing hands in the coarse of this
effort to express a deference for a tradition
about whioh has clnscered some of the high
est sentiments of the race.
But it has been suggested that a fashion
which has its foundations in a benevolent
and operative sentiment has become in
many respects perfunctory and insincere,
as well as extravagant and impractical. 1:
is urged that many people offer gifts lie
cause they will receive gifts in return; that
they frequently, if they do not very gen
erally, measure the ex.ent of their gift by
the value of the object exchanged; that peo
ple even with good intention spend more
money than they can afford to spend Do
cause they feel obliged to conform to a fash •
ion; that the gift giving practice has, in
deed, in more ways than one. degenerated
to a level that seriously detracts from the
simplicity and moral distinction of the fes
tival.
To ascertain whether this view was influ
encing in any serious degree the feeitug of
loyalty toward the Christmasfestivalon the
gift giving side, I have been talkiug with a
number of men, distinguished und undis
tinguished, and have discovered varying
opinions, but a decided preponderance of
favor for things as they are. Thsro were,
indeed, opiulotis somewhat adverse to the
gift giving practice as it sometimes mani
fests itself. “People cripple themselves
financially for several months by their rash
Christmas buying,” said one mun. Another
called the fashion "an annual swap." But the
general opinion favored the theory that any
evil associated with Christmas wa3 relatively
insignificant. Christmas is losing none of its
popularity.
Three distinguished men have answered
pay inquiries in this way:
COL,. IXGRRSOLL ON GIFT GIVING.
I believe in tbo festival called Christmas
—not in the celebration of the birth of any
wan, but to celebrnte the triumph of light
over darkness—the victory of the sun.
I believe in giving gifts on that day, and
a real gift should be given to those who can
not roturn it; gifts from lhe rich to the
poor, from the prosperous to the unfortu
nate, from parents to children.
There is no need of giving water to the
sea or light to the sun. Let us give to those
who need, neither asking nor expecting
return, not even asking gratitude, only ask
ing that the gift shall make the receiver
hapny—and he who gives in that way in
creases his own joy. R. G. Inokrsoll.
DR. TALMAGE’S VIEWS.
I believe in Christmas. I always have be
lieved in Christmas aud all that Christmas
stands for. It is a glorious festival, rioh in
significance to every Christian aud full of
inspiration to tho whole human race. More
over, I believe iu Santa Claus. I have never
thought that we conld spare him, and I
cannot see any reason now why we should
think him too old-fashioned to retain a
fopularity among us. Until a few years ago
always hung up ray stocking on Christ
mas eve. Long, very long after it got to be
a full-sized stocking I kept right on hang
ing it up. I can tell you that there is one
person whom I have found it hard to for
give, if, indeed, 1 ever have entirely for
given him. This is the man who first told
me that there was no such person as Hanta
Claus. It hurt me then to hear it and I re
sented it. I have resented it ever since, and
I have taken revenge by never really be
lieving that there is no such person as Santa
Claus.
This is why I do not believe that this
comfort should be taken from children.
They are entitled to this cheerful ahd com
forting illusion. They are tho better for
believing in this benevolent spirit of
Christmas time, and I have never thought
that any good oould come out of disenchant
ing them on this and so many other points.
I suppose that children at two years know
more now than thoy used to know at two
years; but are they happier or better for
this greater quantity of hard facts) I’m
afraid this is douotful. Let them have
their Santa Claus aud their fairy tales, aud
let us have our older Santa Claus and our
fairy tales of mutual good cheer and help.
Perhaps this is an old-fashioned view of
the matter, but some oldfashion9d things
are worth keeping. The old-fashioned spirit
of Christmas time seems to me one of the
things that are worth keeping. It is like
the case of the Puritau Sabbath. People
talk of the Puritan Sabbath aud the mod
ern Sabbath. It is a little xasbioua’. le to
speak with light respect of the Puritan
Sabbath, as if we had outgrown all that
and bad come into something very much
better. Well, the Puritan Sabbath seems
to me to have turned out pretty good mtn.
If the modern Sabbath oould turn out rnoro
men that were like the men turned out by
the despised Puritan Sabbath it would do
very well indeed.
If there is any danger that Christmas
giftgiving should become an evil, the
danger is so slight that I do not think it
worth worrying about. Gift-giving is a
good fashion, and is all on the side of
benevolent feeling and common helpfulness.
It has a pleasant significance. The roour
ronce of tho period when the practico be
comes general, revives the spirit of human
fellowship. It warms the hearts of men and
prepares them for a better Btart in the new
year. It is au especially welcome fashion in
the home. I hope no chaDge of ideas will
ever rob the home of this stimulous and
children of this innocent Joy. I don’t be
lieve that any change of ideas ever will. It
Is impossible to think of it.
People may some times give gifts that
they canu ,t afford to give. It is quite possi
ble to believe that in the enthusiasm of the
seasons or that in deference to some idea of
propriety, people often spend more upon
gifts than they should spend. Rut, after
all, this is erring ou tho safe side.
T. DeWitt f almaoe.
DR. COLLY ER’S OPTIJUSM.
Somebody is bilious or I should never be
•sked these questions about Christmas. You
know people get in a bilious condition at
times, when they must complain and ques
tion the utility of things, when they doubt
the desirability of this aud look askance at
toat- The oondltion not only modifies views
of life, but materially influences action.
History teaches us this agaiu and again. I
once wicked enough to Bay that if John
Calvin bad enjoyed such health as mine we
aoould never have had Calvinism.
i hen there was a kind of mental dyspepsia,
under the influence of which people loso
appetite for a good many wholesome
things. They begin to find fault with their
mental food. They begin to find fault with
things they once liked. They get tired of
liking things at all. Under this influence
they ask themselves whether enthusiasms
are not distinctly wrong, aud whether cer
tain objects of veneration and affection
should not be picked to pieces. It is then, I
think, that .they begin to ask, whether,
after all, Christmas is what it has been
cracked up to be, whether it is not obsolete,
■J™ whether, as your querry indicates, gift
giving has not lost some of its justification,
-sow, I do not believo that Christmas has
Income aa obsolete festival. Its happy in
-1 hrt h? 0 * 6 Si el,ts h%s made the world
brighter. Thu gift giving fashion was not
mt.uducedbv Christianity. It u old as
I Sa *ons, who gave it so much beauty
and senumenf. It u older than Chri-ttan
[ f ' l . Anl '* need* no justification.
: !L al v ay, S b3 ' ?a ot the opinion that
since the New Testament came into exist
ence nothing has done more toward sweet
??* g ->. an i ® ; evting human intercourse
toau the C hnstmas carol.
I like people to give me Christmas pres
ents and I like to offer gifts myself. It is a
custom I would not like to see changed. I
suppose it has been abused. But so has
kissing. This does not show that it is not
a proper practice for sensible people who
act iu the right spirit In this, as iu every
thing else, 1 thinkj that people should be
honest with each other. We should not
spend more than we can afford on Christ
mas presents. But we cften spend
more than \v© can afford, perhapi, on othar
things, and it might not boa ssrious crime
to make the error at the Christmas season.
It makes me happy to receive a gift It
makes someone else happy to receive a gift
from me. We are neither of us any richer
in a material way by reason of the inter
change. But we have increased the sum of
happiness by the thought we expended on
each other.
tV hen I hear complaiut about such feat
ures of our social life as this element of the
Christmas re ism I think of that story they
tell about the man whom SI. Peter found
standing at the cafe of heaveu. “Do vou
want to go in Tasked St. Peter. “Yes,”
answered the stranger. “Where did you
come from?” “Boston,” was the answer.
“Well," pursued St Peter, "you cau go in,
but you won’t like it.”
Robert Collyeh.
THE HURRYING WOMEN.
They Accomplish Little and Generally
Make Themselves 111.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Deo. 19.—The man
was wroth. I didn't blame him. Ho and
his wife were ahead of mo going up the
long, weary flight of steps to [the elevated
road. She was "hurrying her head off.”
That is the remark he made, and as this
crowning organ of her body was a foot or
so in advance of the rest of her anatomy,
the expression did not seam very far out of
the way.
“Great Scott,” said the aggravated hus
band as they reached the platform and bis
companion sank panting on a seat, "you do
make me so mad. It’s a nice tliiug isn’t it
to have a doctor three or {four months for
nervous prostration and then run for an
elevated train ? There is no train in i-ight,
and you could have taken your time, and
what if there had been ?”
The pale-faced, hollow-eyed woman
pressed her hands to her throbbing heart
and endeavored to make herself look as
much like a martyr as possible. This is the
way some women have, and when a hus
band is sensible and kind it is enough to
make him wish he had never been born.
This particular feminine idiot made no re
ply. The failure to do so was probably at
tributable to the lack of wind. He mav
have had a dou' le dose when they reached
homo and she had recovered her breath.
What if there had been a train which she
could have caught by running for it? That
is what the mun asked, and that is what I
want to know. She could not have saved
more than five minutes by such a fatiguing
and nerve-rasping performance, and there
was not the slightest necessity for this
economy of titno.
“What shail Ido for my wrinkles!” asks
this or that woman who suddeuly wakes up
to the consciousness that she is growing ugiy
and prematurely old. The wrinkled women
are with very few exceptions the hurrying,
scurrying, always-busy women, those who
believe in doing everything at the exact
moment, and when they are going on a trip
by train or boat start an hour before it is
necessary, and then lcse tbeir breath run
ning for every conveyance. They are not
comfortable persons to live with. To their
benighted minds repose of manner Is but
another term for laziness, and woe betide
the friend or visitor who does not meet the
cast-iron requirements of the mistress of
the establishment.
Yesterday a lady faiDted dead away in
one of our largo dry goods houses. She
wore a trained dress, heavily trimmed with
jet, a heavy and costly oloak, which also
had a train. She was buying Christmas
presents, and had been out from 10 o’oluck
in the morning till 5 o’clock in the after
noon attending to those Christmas duties.
According to the same testimony this lady
bad not had a moment's rest from her
round of social engagements for over three
wrfeks, and had only just convalesced from
a severe attack of nervous prostration.
If ever a woman deserved to be puniahod
by Illness that woman does. W hat can a
woman be thinking of to wear such a dross
ia such a time? Every human being of
imlmary sense must instinctively feel that
a costume of this kind is most unsuitable
for the purpose. A woman of good taste
could not be guilty of such vulgarity. Oae
of the most aggravating features of this
everlasting hurry and scurry is the resigna
tion of manner"wbieh the victims of It
assume when relating their laborious ex
periences to their friends. It is enough to
ruffle the temper of the archangel to listen
to these details, but we are all obliged
to. They are so proud of the
achievements that throw them Into hyster
ics, and put them to bed with nervous head
aches and displaced internal organs. What
is the matter with our women? Two-thirds,
at least, of the illness that now obtains
could be prevented if they would realize
that there is time enough for everything
that they ought to do, aud for the things
they ought not to do there should be no
time. O, the lectures that will follow this
lecture of mine. I hope I may be spared
protesting communications from the women
who wear trained skirts on shopping expe
ditions. I can bear anything els<\ but I
humbly pray to be delivered from that.
The sad accident in a Turkish bath estab
lishment in New York, where a prominent
citizen lest his life, not from tho effects of
the bath, but from arrested digestion,
should make peoplo a little more careful.
The gentleman ate a hearty tneal, aud
sought the bath very soon afterward. Not
long ago the proprietor of a large dry
goods establishment died in his own bath
tub from this cause. The physiologial
reasou for such au effect should be plain
to all who can read.
Mothers are constantly complaining of
the powders they buy for their infante. In
several iostances lately _ these little ones
have been more or less injured by poisonous
preparations. Parents cannot be too care
ful in such matters. It is much bettor to
prepare some harmless powdor at home
than to trust t o stuff we know nothing about.
The loveliest tea gowns can be made of
eilkaline, lined with a good cambric a little
darker in shade. These goods come in all
colors from the most delicate to the most
pronounced, and are 15 cents per yard. Ten
yards will make an ample dress, and if the
buyer las a little gumption aud tasto, and a
little pretty loco for the courage, the most
charming effects can be produced.
Eleanor Kirk.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Caatoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
Wic she bad Children, she gave them Castori®
Underwear, excellent, onlv 12 a suit, a
full assortment of sizes left at LaFar’s. Ad
Selling Out
Two lines of warm underwear, oheap, at
LaFar’s. — Ad.
Lyon’s flue umbrellas and Mackintosh
coats in variety of sizes at LaFar a—
Abbott's” Kast India Corn Paint cures aU
Corns, Wane aai Bunions.—sld.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES.
BAB’S CHRISTMAS CHEER.
A WOMAN’S HEART THAT 13 FULL
OF HUMAN KINDNES?.
Reveries of a r irellght-that Half of
This World of Whom So Many of Ce
Know Naujht—Houses In Which
Christmas ie But a Name—The Chil
dren of the Stage and the Newsboys.
Families in Which Are Little Domes
tic Rite—Where to Send a Christmas
Greeting—Bab’s Personal Word to
Her Readers—What to Put in a
Christmas Stocking.
(Copt/rigM 1891.1
New Yorl, Deo- 19.—Almost every
thing is ready for Christmas. The last
packages may need to have the rose-colored
papers wrapped about tbem and tbe dainty
ribbons tied, for a Christmas gift loses half
its sweetness unless it is prettily put up, but
that is all. Half wearied with the pleasant
work, one sits down to think it all over.
REVERIES OF A FIRELIGHT.
You have heard somebody say that
Christmas comes but once a year, and you
study out in the firelight what it all means,
and why it is that, even to those who do cot
believe in the divinity of the Christ-child,
there is yet a feeling at this time of the year
ttiat everybody should be more loving, and
that life itself should be full of kindness
and merriment. For a week your heart has
been overflowing with a kindly
feeling toward everybody, from tho beg
gar on the street to ’ those of your
own household; you know it’s
the atmosphere. The air is redolent with
pleasant words, with the odor of pine and
cedar, tbe shop windows are full ot toys and
trifles, the wax-berried mis lotoe is gieam
ing from the florists’ shops, and everything
is saying as plainly os it can, “Be of good
cheer.” Now, suppose you who have it
just give a thought to the ones who have
not. t> whom there has come nothing of
good cheer when the world should be full of
iu
CHILDREN OF THE STAGE.
Think of two little children you heard
about; two little childreu who night after
night dance on tbe stage dressed like little
fairies, looking as bright und dainty as pos
sible, and who so charm you that you take
your own happy brood to look at them. You
think life must be full of gladness when
they dance so merrily, and yet, when these
little ones were asked by a kindly woman
what they would like for Christinas, the
older of the two, a little 10-year-old
mother, said: “Please get our coats out of
pawn; father put them there, and it’s so
cold going home at night without any
ooat!” No coats to go home in, and your
little daughter is always warm in the fur
one that the loving kindness of one man has
made possible for her. Your little girl
doesn’t know wbat it is to shiver as she
crosses the long bridge ovor the dark river to
get home to a comfortless place and to have
the few miserable clothes that are their’s
pawned by a drunken, wretched father.
Leuvo the fire for a minute, go in and kneel
by your baby’s bed, kiss her, and say: "But
for tho grace if God that might be my
daughter.” Bo give a thought to the little
children of the stage. Honest, hard-wcok
ing little toders, whose earnings go so many
times to support those who ought to care for
them.
WHERE CHRISTMAS IS BUT A NAME.
Look m tho fire again, and yon see thero,
trooping’out of a great factory, hundreds of
children—children who have worked ever
since they can remember, whose nursery
song was the sound of those dreadful
whoels, who perhaps have mothers and
grandmothers there, to whom Sunday only
means a day to sleep, and Christmas, too
ofteo, a day when they lose onetwenty-four
hours' pay. O, yes, there are employers
who do this, who deduct for death, for sick
ness, and for holidays, so-called. Can’t
you, out of the fullness of your heart aud
your {Surse, think of these children ? Can’t
you manage to make a merry Christmas for
at least one of them? Surely you oan.
Picture books are not so expensive. You
can spare from your stock of oranges and
sweets, and to put that little girl in an en
tire new suit of clothes wouldn’t cost you 1
cent more than the favors you have on
your dinner table. You say you object to
indiscriminate charity ! O, you hard
hearted woman; you waut your name to be
published as a subscriber to some great so
ciety 1 Suppose, when the last groat day
comes your child should be refused admit
tance to heaven because her name was not
enrolle Iby the secretary who writes down
the names with a pen of pearl in a golden
book! Suppose when Christ came In the
form of a little child he had selected ex
aotly who would be the little childreu who
should come to him 1 Do you think that’s
possible? Don’t stop to think whether
charity discriminates or not, but give, give
from your plenty, and in giving, think of
the little children, who work all day long
in the factories, and whose toil never seems
to end.
THE BUSY NEWSBOY’S CHRISTMAS.
Look in the fire again, and see your own
boy, ll years old, handsome, happy, warm
and looking forward to so much joy this
week; then look at another boy, his clothes
are more or less ragged, be
is blowing in his bands to
keep them warm; he laughs, although his
poor little faoe is pinched anl blue with the
oold, but he is a good worker; be supports
himself; and he is only too huppy when tho
day is ended and his stock sold out. He
lilies to play ball and marbles as well as
doei your boy. He never lasted beautiful
ices and sweet cakes, but he knows tho de
lights ol hokey-pokey ice oream aud the
joy of ginger bread; he adores an tipple, and
he thinks if there is anything in this world
worth eating, it’s a piece of turkey with
plenty of gravy over it. He is apt to get
this at Christmas, but sometimes ho doesn’t,
so won’t you give a thought to him) You
know who I mean—the bright, cheery, hon
est little newsboy, who jumps on tbs street
car at the risk of breaking his neuk; who
didn’t even find the blizzard too cold to go
out in, and who is always ready to face
storm or sunshine with a bravery that is
unsurpas-ed. Don’t forget him in making
up your Christmas pannages. He may bo
President of the Uuited .States; ho stands a
bettor chance of it than does your hoy, for
the world is teaching him —teaching him
with kicks and knocks; though it’s hard, it’s
an educati in that makes men out of hoys.
But he isn't President just now, so think of
him in your distribution.
LIFE’S LITTLE RIFTS.
Look in the fire again. There comes up
before you somebody you love, who is far
away—somebody who labors under a mis
understanding; somebody who doesn’t
know that love, forgiveness and a warm
Christmas greeting are waiting for him in
tho east; somebody who doesn’t know or
doesn't remember that the heart of a
mother never o anges— that it always goes
out to her own child, a: and that on Christmas
eve she calls to him, “Come hack to me.”
Come back and be met with love. Come
back to your own : people. They long for
you, and they love, and at th s time of all
others they want you with them. Surely
you can’t say no. Who Is it you see there)
Some ody who made a little mistake and
was afraid to face the consequenoe of it—
somebody’s prodigal. Yours are mine.
But, wherever chat prodigal son may be,
whoever he tnay be among, I say this to
him: "Do not let the Christmas day go by
without sending one word of love to your
mother, 3he brought you into this world
with pain and anguish, just such anguish as
was borne by the mother of God; she cared
for vou when you were helpless.and moth
ers know how to forgive as only mothers
and God know. So, if you cannot come
yourself, send the loving word, if it
has to travel from the farthiest end of the
earth, and if you have to send it to my care
1 will soe that it gets to her and makes glad
her heart. Be brave enough never to forget
your mother, and be very certain that, as
surely as you forget her, so certainly will
God forget you ar.d make your life’s work
worthless.”
WHERE TO SEND A GREETING.
Look into the Are again. Thera are won
derful pictures there—there are women who
are hungry, not for tbe material things of
life, but for love and oonsl 1-ration. Tnere
are men who, toiling day in and day out,
are famishing for affeotlm and companion
ship. There are children who are repressed
and beaten down until, although their
gowns are fine and their homes are luxuri
ous, they suffer as much as th se
iu the factories or the beggars
on the street—children who send up a cry
for a mother’s love, that something th t
should come to tbem with their mother’s
milk, but some women suckle their babes,
not on tbe milk of human kindne-a but on
that of selfishness, vanity and forgetful
ness. Look at the sick and the sorrowful—
give them your Christmas greeting, for
they need it. It may be only a word you
send, but let it be a word of good cheer.
Look at tho crimiuol —inoodv, bitter, dis
graced-thinking oil the world is against
him: thinking that nobody cares whether
ho lives or dies —send him a word of hope.
Look and see all the world go by, and of
your plenty of riches and love send forth
such greeting as eaoh one needs, and then,
i ideed, will you have what we of the south
call "A good Christmas."
A WORD TO ALL MY READERS.
And now for myself, for the many words
of kindness and encouragement that have
oonoe to me sinoe I wrote my last Christ
mas letter, I do thank every one—men,
women, and, too, dear little children. If I
have said a word that has displeased you,
lam sorry for it If I have said ono that
has pleased you, lam glad. My work is my
life—l throw Into it my heart—l am not
afraid to wear it on my sleeve because,
though it may got a blow now and then,
there are so many kind people in the world
who are willing to bind up tho wound, so
many good (Samaritans glad to good me on
my way rejoicing, that the hard knocks are
of little moment Aud for the kindness,
how can I t auk you for that, there is a
lump comes in my throat and my eyes grow
full of tears, because—well, because I am so
glad. Gla l that I’ve got so many friends.
To them I do wish a merry Christmas und a
New Year full of gladue.-. It may be
weak to say it, but 1 shall be glad if even
my enemies have this, even those who have
hit me iu tbe dark, and I promise them this
as my Christmas gift that I will never hit
back unless it is in the broad dayiight, and
then I will choose somebody who is
stronger than lam to receive my blow. So
I make my best courtesy, and wisa to every
human Leing a happy time, and they’ll have
it if un intense wish, which ia always a
prayer in the sight of God, can give it to
them.
IN THE CHRISTMAS BTOCKIN J.
What are you going to put in the Christ
mas stockings? To the man you love put a
warm heart, surrounded by tne sweetest of
kisses, a id tho greatest amount of love pos
sible.
To the wo ran you love, give her the
trifles she adores, uccompauiol by an un
swerving loyalty and u doal of affection.
To tho friend of your heart, send tho
print'd words that pleoso you, tho trifles
that makes up the joys of life, and a fresh
vow of love.
To tbe little one who has enshrined itself
in your heart, give mother love, full, rich
and plentiful. Never lot It hunger for
this.
To tho pots of the family, give what they
like host, whether it agrees with thorn or
not; let them have a good time and be siok
to-morrow.
To the politician, give twelve ouncos of
honesty, mixed wi.hsixof intelligence, and
six of manliness.
To the preacher, give twelvs ounoes of
humanity, six of faith, six of charity, and
twelve of love for the world at large.
To the oook, give anew gown, tho bright
est of dollars, and the latest of cook
books.
To the people on the stage, who make
amusement for you o#d tor mo, give
what they like best—plouty of applause.
To tbe newspuper loan —well, he ;3 char
itable, he is forgiving—what does he need?
Perhaps an original idea or two and an in
crease in his salary.
Think of everybody, and give tbem what
they want, no matter whether it seems silly
t > you or not. Gratify the desire of their
heaito, and you w ill muke happy not only
the people to whom you are generous, but
you will gratify a woman who says again,
“God bless every one of you, aud make
your Christmas as merry as it can be, and
your New Year one of perpetual delight.”
and the woman? Well, she wants her wish
ro-eohoed until, after oiroliug ad around
tbe world, it comes ba-k to Bab.
WHAT CARRIE OARBLE33
Says About Lieut. Bettini and the
Dansause.
(Copyright.)
New York, Dec. 19.—A cunning little
skirt dancer who figures In “La Cigale”
was down at the Judge building tbo other
day to interview Lieut. Bettini, the young
inventor who is making anew phonograph.
Lieut. Bottini is extremely rich, talonted
and susceptible. The young dancer—she
does not like to be called a danseu9e—is ex
tremely pretty and is of English descent,
and when the two saw each othor and
fell to work talking, they were imfiensJy
pleased from the very beginning. Tho
dancer has a husbaud far away in old Eng
land, and she left him behind when sbo
came over to kick her pretty self about iu
the pretty opera, but she brought with bor
a charming accent and a lovely boyish per
sonality which bos made her a favorite
with tho young men of the town.
No word that is not of the mostebarming
description has yot been hroatbed about tho
pretty young woman, and so far in her
career she has disported h rsolf only with
those whose reputation is of the very best
and whose conduct is of the most savory.
At present a very well bred young blood
is taking her about after tho performances to
soe such part of New York lire as is going
at that time. Young Bettini heard of her
aud invited her down because he thought
that she might enjoy seeing tho maohine,
wuioh is indeed a most novel one.
The pietty girl was charmed *lt,h it; she
was perfectly delighted with it; she talked
to it. sang to it and danced to it, and tho
macro no responded most faithfully to all
except the dancing.
By some peculiar arrangement of sound
Lieut. Bettini is able to make anything talk.
That is by fixing the apparatus to a table he
can actually oauso the wood to vibrate so
that it speaks, and when the dear little
dancer had chattered awav into the phono
graph be detached tie plates, or whatever
it is that constitutes the phonograph, and
placed them upon the table.
At a touch from the hand of the talented
inventor the table broke forth into soug,
and reproduced the English accent iu a way
that was most bewitching. Even the little
giggles which ha i been irrepressible when
the girl talked into the phonograph were
given with the most startling accuracy and
with a fidelity ar.d life’ikeness which made
the audience laugh. She is a sweet little
thing, and if young New Yorkers are
quite crushed about her it is not bor
fault. It is ratnor to bo mentioned in her
favor.
Now York women are Fronchy in their
drees, but they are not too Frenohy. Even
Frenchy women will admit that it is possi
ble to carry fashions to an excess which is
not at all becoming or pretty, and they will
admit that they are apt to do this them-
Belves. New York women take French
sty ice and they take New York stylet, and
they combine them so neatly that an en
tirely new style is produced which is ex
tremely becoming.
Mrs. L site Carter is one of the few
women who understand how to dre>s. She
can take a very commonplace robe, and
putting it on in her own fashion, can make
of it a very charming. A woman who has
been admitted into the precincts of Mrs.
Carter’s dressing room in the Star theater,
where Mrs. Carter has been playing “Miss
Helyeit," quite goes iuto raptures over
the black gown dottet with yellow,
which Mrs. Carter wears when she goes to
the theater. The gown is of black cloth
and tho dot* about as large round as a 5-
<vnt niece. The dreas is made very plain
aDd very scant in front and very long and
full in the back. The neck is cut pointed
front and ha k. but the point is not too low
to be worn in the street. Round Mr*. Car
ter’s delicate waist and round tbe bust there
are drawn lines of ribbon, which terminate
in bows at the back, thus forming a very
pretty back dressing for the gown.
When Mr*. Carter arrives at her dressing
room ot 7 o’clock, she h*s oil a small bon
net of black, trimmed wi'h yellow ribbons,
and tied with yellow ribbons under the
chin. The dainty hat with the very becom
ing gowu make a very • becoming picture,
and this lady, with her peculiar red gold
hair is Just the woman who can wear such
a dress to advantage.
WASHING THEIR OWN LACES.
1 was talking with a young woman tbe
other day about the trouble that she must
have given to the loco cleaner with the lace
with which she adorns her gowns. You
know it is a lace season, aud a woman must
be constantly dressed in the dainty fabrio
in order to come up to the full requirement*
of fashion. The order is especially a trying
one for women in white, in ttiat it is so ex
pensive. To look well one must wear white
gloves, and one mut wear a quantity of
lace, and one must wear white ribbon* as
trimmings to gowns.
Glove* can lie cleaned at home, but It is
such disagreeable work on account of the
oil which :s necessary for the cleaning of
the gloves that to talk about cleaning these
articles would hardly be acceptable to any
woman who values the care of her lingers.
Hut washing lace is quite dainty work
after all if one knows how to do it
thoroughly. When it was the style to wear
plain lace that could bo done even around a
bottle, and which would thou bear rinsing
in a strong snip suds, the question was
easily settled, but now the Jace is so filmy
and so delicate that it is cot a very easy
thing to clean it
Hero is a receipe that was given to me
by a young woman who wears most charm
ing clothes, and who says that no leas
dainty a woman than the charming Mrs.
Ella Wheeler WUcix follows its prescrip
tion, acd carefully renovates all tho flue
lace with whioh she adorns herself by day
and by night.
An ordinary wins bottle is first covered
with flue flannel. Then the lace which Is
to he washed is stitched on top of the
flannel It is sewn very closely, and yet is
not stretched iu any way. It is best done
by first tacking the lace to the bottle, aud
then winding it round and round for its
whole length, then with a very large needle
one can make a lew stitches here and there,
sufliciont to hold tho lace in place.
Next, the entire bottle witli i r s lacy cov
ering should he “spatted” with a heavy
solution of some kind of good soap—any of
tho woil known brands will do. If the laoe
is very much discolored, or dirty, the bot
tle should bo filled with very hot water and
then plunged into boiling water and boiled
for a few minutes. The fllliug of the bottle
first with hot water la to guard against its
boing broken whin it is plunged Into tho
boiling liquid.
Next, the bottle should be taken out and
dipped in a very tine starch, after which it
should be rinsed iu blueing, if one wishes
to have it a pure white. Many people, how
ever, prefer that lace shall lie yellow,
and in that cate it may bo dipped in a weak
solution of coffee, or if one does not care to
bo guilty of roully coloring lace it should
not be dipped at ail, but may be left to take
on its own natural hues. Tile bottle should
now be fillod with hot water and set in the
sun for tbe lace to dry. This is the exact
recipe as it was given to me by the woman
who says she has frequently triad it anl will
vouch for its goodness.
People who are in the “know” say that it
Is quite a fad for women to practico the
household arts for their recreation, aud for
their physical development.. Rather ridiou
lous, it it not, to suppose a Fifth avsuue
belle working over a washing machine, or
ironing with a mangle, but, ri-ully, those
girls are aotually developing tbeir strength
in that way, and just incidentally poform
ing some of the necessary renovations to
their wardrobe which may be brought
about In tbe course of tho exercise.
A KINGDOM FOR A OAR.
New York has more cabs than any other
city in ttie worid—for its population. Ye;
when you want one very much on rainy
nights and holidays, you can hunt and
search and look up and down in vain. Not
a cab is to bo seen. If by obance one oomos
along you may “put up” onjits being en
gaged.
Yet if tbo Now York cab service Is so
large, bow is it that cabs are so scarce?
Why for just this reason. Ne w Yorke s all
ride —if it raius. And they all walk—if it Is
pleasant. So, on sunshiny days, the sido
walks are fairly lined with cabs, but rainy
days there isn’t ono to be had unless you are
lucky enough to be one of the early birds
and have caught the four-wheeled worm—
metaphorically speak! ig.
Thanksgiving day was tho finest exnraple
of this on record. The hotels wore filled to
overflowing with visitors for the Priuceton-
Ynie foot bail game, students from all the
colleges were packed here, there and every
where—thousands of them. Every one had
a family party with plouty of out-of-town
visitors. Tho theaters had speoial attrac
tions on the boards, and with it all tho rain
fell in sheets —and not a cab t > tie had. Next
year all the furniture vans are to lie brought
out for the accomodation of people, and
trucks, carts and dry goods wagons are to
bo within call.
You have heard of the wag who was
known to murmur at the boarding house
table “10,000,001 hairpins in tho land, yet
not enough to keep the hair out of the but
terl” Well that little old roasted chestnut
kept repeating itself over and ever iu the
mind of many a young men as he paddled
with his best girl through the liquid butter
and jumped her over the puddles, lament
ing to mmself “20 000 cabs in New York,
yet not enough to keep one girl out of the
rain.”
New York has an average of 40,000 vis
itors daily. But holiday times there are
often three times as many as that.
Carrie Careless.
MEDICAL.
| “WOKTSI A GUINEA A
1 1 In th. family are mom ofua tbo i i,f i
i | disordered aigestionlha.n most people know. ],
BEESHMS i!
1 ' mi ■ | ft mill kttf peace in a <
I: PI LLS te&iur 1 " 1E2 ::
ii'Monmoh, Impaired Digestion, Dll- ( '
i ordered JLlver, ('onHlpatlon, and '
Call Billion* and IS'ervoua DUorder* 1 |
arizing from theae cuuiei.
J Of all druggists. Price 2& cents a box. <
* New York Depot, 365 Canal St. 42 4 1
OKOCEKIK\
candy:
5-lb. Boxes Fine Mixed
Candy, 90 cents.
J.S. TYSON, JM CO,
60 BULL STREET.
GLOVE*.
Pfl radc-MariO M i
.&P.
KID GLOVES
PERFECT FITTING
THE NEWEST SHADES
THE LATEST STYLES
THE HOST DURABLE
THE BEST WORKHANSHIP.
THEREFORE
ALWAYS
SATISFACTORY
-- <*.
None genuine ur*!es* marked ‘P.aP.’
FOR SALE BY
JACKSON, METZGER A CO,
SIIOKD. )
IT
Seems to be tho order of tho
day. Every one is trying, in
some way or other, to dispose
of thoir stork in some manner
other than the usual way.
How’s this?
200 pair Kid.button, patent tips,
at $3, regular price $3 75.
250 pair Kid, button, plain toos,
at $3, regular price $4.
275 pair Kid, button, Common
Sense, at $3, regular price
$3 75.
We are trying to reduce
stock of
Winter IWmr
At very reasonable prices.
Wo carry tho finest goods
sold in Savannah.
Our specialties comprise a
beautiful array of Evening
Slippers and all widths of La
dies’, Misses’ and Children’s
Shoe?, from A to F, enabling
us to lit any foot, long or stout,
short or thin. Patronize energy
and enterprise at the
GLOBE
Shoe Store
■otua.
THE MARSHALL;
H. N. FISH’S
European Hotel and
Restaurant,
Broughton St., Savannah, Ga.
ROOMS Hoo, 75q, >1 per day, each person.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
/Centrally located on line of streot cars, offers
Y 7 pleasant south rooms, with excellent
board at moderate prices. Sewerage
and ventilation perfect, the sanitary condi
tion of the house is of the best. Corner Brough
ton and Drayton streets. Savannah, Ga.
THE PHOENIX,
Way cross, Ga.
W. M. Stewart.
veuktaiu.es fro its. etc.
FLORID Abbbsbsb
ORAWCES,
Lemons, Peanuts,
Apples, Potatoes,
Onions, Cabbage,
Cow Peas, Etc.,
Hay. Grain, Etc,
Seed Oats.
W. D. SIMKINS.
” REAL ESTATE. '
TURPENTINE LANDS,
In bodiss of from 5,000 to 30,000 acres, immedi
ately on railroads. Price, lew aud easy terms.
For particulars address
Arthur T. Williams,
FERNANDINA, FLA.
DANISL HOGAN.
CARPETS!
=====
No better or more substantial Holiday
treat than CARPETS
AT OUR PRICES.
Fine BODY BRUBSELS at sl. alwayt
•old at f l 25.
Fine BODY BRUSSELS at 90c, a barsraixt
at |l.
OUR PRICES ARE FOR
Made and Laid.
CARPETS, $1 00,
CARPETS, worth
CARPETS, $1 26.
90c CARPETS,
worth CARPETS.
$1 06. CARPETS.
CARPETS
SILK- :
=PLUSH
CAPES
Are groat purchase* on preasnt price*,
BOYS’ SUITS
Slaughtered on our Center Counter.
Plain marked prloos.
250 SMYRNA RTJQ-S.
Great variety at traveling prides.
You will find lots of arti
cles in our splendid stoclc
suitable for
CHRISTMAS
PRESENTS*
D. HOGAN.
SANITARY PLUMHLMU,
REMOVAL.
The Savannah Plumbing
Company has removed to cor
n r Drayton and Congress
streets, and is now prepared
to do work with its usual
rapidity and efficiency.
ciIINAWABE.
mmm
We have excelled all our previous effort*
In preparing for the holidays. Our IM
PORTATIONS of
Haviland & Ca’s China
Are tho prettiest we ever received, and can'
not be excelled by any house south. W®
havo a beautiful selection of Christina®
Novelties; also, a nice line of Dressing
Cases, Manicure Sets, etc., In new designs.
The best and prettiest selection of DOLLS
In the oily. Wo invite tho ladies, especially,
to call in and look at the pretty things at
WEST’S CHINA PALACE,
183 BROUGHTON ST.
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
GOOD HEALTH
Is one of the greatest blessings bestowed on
mankind. Excesses are great destroyers of
health. A little stimulant when taken In mod
eration, such as the OLD KNICKERBOCKER
RYE and OLD FASHIONED RYE WHISKIES
are preservatives. Ask your grocers for these
with our name and guarantee.
HENRY SOt-OMON & SON,
Wholesale Liquor Dealers, Savannah. Ga.
PLUMBER.
irisEj link of
GAS FIXTURES m GLOBES
L, A. MCCARTHY’S,
*6 DBAYTON
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