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IF.TECTIVES IN HOTELS.!
taN WHO GUARD TREASURES OK
' HOST AND GUEST.
Known aa “Bouncers" by
L - j:|.nyr Youngsters The6e Officers
accelerate the Departure of Many a
Crant Sometimes They Get the
~. r ,ptl°U3" Ones Carefully Home
J ifaelr Friends They Scatter
loafing Cabmen Like Chaff Before
the Wind.
From the Chicago Tim.ee.
All the large hotels of this city hare de
t*ct;ve< who ore appointed by the chief of
oolioe at the suggestion of the managers,
'hey are paid by the hotel people and board
jnd room in the house. They sometimes
the not very elegant name of
• bouncers.” Their uses are illustrated by
the following inoident which recently oc
curred in one of the hotels. The principal
l„ or was about 60 years of age, tall, as
i*raight as an arrow, and of military ap
warance. His loog. flowing brown beard
vaJ tinged with gray, and he wore a black
tlcuch bat which had evidently seen many
waters. There was a general seediness to
ItsappareL He was a well known major
from the center of the state and meandered
Into the barroom of one ot the prominent
hotels considerably under the influence of
honor. A further "filling-up” was denied
him by the courteous dispenser of tbe
••humid goods,” who politely Informed him
that be had an "elegant competence.” At
this a half-dozen *5 notes were scattered
o rer the marble bar with the remark:
••There's yer money, gin-me a drink.”
The barkeeper, knowing from experience
that nothing was to be gained in an argu
ment with u drunken man, moved to the
other end of the bar and became as dumb
a, a cable oar conduotor at a coroner’s in
quest. No insult could have made the
major more boisterous. Down to the floor
he threw his hat; off oame his ooat, which
found a lodgment on a cuspidor. "There’s
ver money.” be yelled, as he flung across
the bar and Into tbe water tank under it a
f.Vbill. “Gimme a drink.”
By this time a stockily built gentleman of
fashionable attire appeared at the side of tho
major and entered into conversation. He
talked low and confidentially. It oould be
are:, that be was endeavoring to persuade
the major to "iet up” and believe himself.
]c was a severe task, but after balf an hour
the good Samaritan picked up tbe hat and
coat, put them on the major, gathered up
tte money, aud escorted him to the Hock
Island depot, placing him In tbe hands of
the train conductor.
The good Samaritan was the hotel de
tective.
HI 18 A USEFUL MAW.
The officer of the house is a very impor
tant person. In fact, he is indispensable to
t hotel where there are a large number of
'guests and tbousauds of outsiders passing
in and out every day.
It is the pride of tbe Chicago hotel man
to see that his guests are well taken caro of
and to see that his house is kept iu a first
class mauner, not only os to the rooms and
the table, but alsoasto the accommodations
which the guests expect in and around tbe
rotuuda, the most important of which is
that they will not have to associate with
people of a shady charaoter.
Crooks and couiidenoe men would not
ssk for a better field to operate than that of
a large first-class hotel, and were it not for
the eagle eye of the detective they would
make it their headquarters.
There is a harmless class of people who
frequent hotolg every day and are familiarly
called "bens." The larger and softer the
chair the longer they sit. Life to them
seems to mean: Sit as long as possible. If
they are fortunate enough to get a newspa
per which some guest has discarded then
they are happy, indeed. Occasionally tbev
are overcome with the heat of. tho room, or
perhaps their "nests” have become ao
seductively pleasant that they are soothed
into gentle sleep, and are dreaming of
marl) e halls, when they will receive u
vigorous shaking and be faeetiousiy re
quested to go to the desk and engage a
room. The detective is a terror to this class
of poultry.
THE CABBY AND HIS NERVE.
A olasß of people who make thoir living
from the hotel guests are tho cabmen. The
trazen cheek of the book agent or the
lightning-rod man is a small affair com
pand with the undaunted audacity of the
“cabby." He is allowed to stand across
the streets from somehotels, but stand
there he does not. He ihinks it is all right If
his horses stand thore. If he had his way he
*ould stand iu front of the olerk’s dek and
have his horses and. carriage there, too. It
is com ical to sea the (light of a swarm of
cabmen from the hotel entrance when they
| y tbe form of the house detective comiDg
down the long corridor. They are ever on
ti e alert for him, and when on his rounds
he gets to the froDt of the house "cabby” is
not there, but across the street.
One ot the duties of the detsotive is to
K) through the rooms every morning. He
keeps an account of tbe empty ones, and
notes whether the baggage in the occupied
°be is heavy or light. This procedure on
hit part is essential, for it posts him as to
who would be liable to “skip” with an un
paid account. Although there is a heavy
peu<y attached to swindling of this kind,
there are persons who consider it especially
nr art to neat a hotel.
Not a little inconvenience is cans and to the
hotel people by the carelessness of their
puests, who frequently leave their doors
snlockea, thus tempting the servants.
A safe is provided for valuables, and a coat
toom where ooats and small things may be
checked, yet these are not always taken ad
vantage of. Lost artices when reported at
the desk are given to the detective to look
cp- Oftentimes such articles have been
found by him and are already in the pos
session of the olerk, who does not give them
Jtp until the detective is satisfied that they
belong to the person claiming them. Not
tbs hast arduous of the dete.ctive’s duties is
when a guest claims that something of value
™been purloined from his room. It is
then that he is put upon his mettle and has
to show his skill all tne way up from eearcb-
| n K the attendants of tbe house to the hunt
ing of tho pawnshops.
THE CLERK’S STORY.
... Every man to his trade.” The aptness of
expression is seen in the following story
? t:ot el clerk: “I had a man come to me
' “Tone morning, saying: ‘I can’t fled tnv
ci h- * blaced it under my pillow last
~?""• as Las been my oustom for years, and
njoming it was not there.’ He was
pd to leave on an early train. I went
Ms room, searched the bed, looked under
. urned the mattresses up, and examined
„ f 001 ? thoroughly, but could find no
,-h .' Tho ,nan hurried off, leaviDg a de
!ot?' IOD t * l6 timepieoo. Wben our de
-56 made his appearance for the day I
ortned him of the loss. He went to the
•Th an< returned in about five minutes
PHI,..X M, atoh ’ ‘aying: "It was in the
I,IV’ r ‘ ot an unoomtnon thing for a de
ta'nr. e, °ort a guest about town after
i, *t night. The nature of his business
wilhk ■ ! * acquainted thoroughly
lom , * o| ty, especially Its dark side, and
rjlj. uw th * stranger within our gates is
HI h quUltlv* and wants to know some
ws * lhs doings of the class of people
,; 0 ,* r :”wake when good folks are asleep.
h thb t Weltering arm of the detective
wni.. ,? 0 knrm oan come to him and he
TU t,ierel, to be seen,
built no eectlve la usually a strong, well
w,. :; i h '* < ? n ' dressed in becoming taste, and
H ll t i a * en lor a guest ot the ho el.
he iu.. 0 19 bls own . ho goes and comes when
snitr, ’’ a,lt * from the nature of hie duties
lea,; “ h” s l> ol, *it>iUty thereof he is not the
W-roli ' P°rtant personage on the hotel’s
eve '. , Rl be carried me Job!) said he would
“An) dfie*7ie-r Ter t 0 ltee me build a fire."
og lk”L h m" Bver ’"oka at uio when I am builJ
” •“Aingtoa afar.
ABBEVILLE ANNALS.
A Wedding—A Brick Hotel in Course
of Erection.
Abbeville, Ga„ Feb. 24.—W. B. Stubbs
was married to Miss Alice Fuller yesterday
afternoon. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. T. B. Fuller,brother of the bride.
The church was beautifully decorated. The
attendents were C. W. Donaldson aud Miss
Daisy Pitman, J. E. Johnson and Miss
Mattie Sheppard, J. I. Rogers and Mj s
Fannie Ward. An elegant reception was
given at the residenoe of the bride immedi
ately after tbe ceremony, aud at 6 o’clock
the happy pair left on a bridal tour for
Wilkinson county.
Work has been commenced by Messrs.
Wells & Eliisbee on a large 3-story brick
hotel on the corner of Broad aud Main
streets. The first floors will be fitted up for
stores, of which there will be four.
A murderous assault was made on W. T.
MoAnally last night by three negroes, who,
after beating him to insensibility, robbej
him of ail tbe money in his posse ssion and
and made good their escape. Dr. A. R.
Royal dressed the wounds, and Mr. Mo-
Analiy is able to be up to-day.
A tramp printer disappeared from
this place mysteriously two days
ago. lie was suffering when last
seen from melancholia, probably
prodheed by a drunken spree. His hat.
containing two pocket knives, a maten
safe and a nickel coin, was found in the life
boat of the steamer Maggie Ball at Abbe
ville wharf late yesterday afternoon. It is
highly probable that it is a case of suicide.
A GERMAN AT THOMASVILLX.
It Was Given by Miss Olive Black
shear in Glen Arven Park.
Thomasville, Ga., Feb. 34.—Among the
great social events of this week is the brill
iant german given by Miss Olive Black
shear Monday evening at the pavilion in
beautiful Glen Arveu park. Miss Blaok
sliear Is a beautiful youug lady aud this is
her first seasoD. Mesdames Mamie Sloan
and T. E. Blackshear acted as chaperons.
The favors were distributed by Mesdames
Joseph Jergerand T. D. Winn. The gerinau
was led by Joseph Jerger and Miss Olive
BlacKshear. There were also present Misses
Bessie Blackshear, Hattie Smith, HOnorine
Mitchell, Birdie Smith, Johnnie Sloan,
Ladie Stegall, Fannie Mitchell, Annie Paine,
E. Glover, Lucille Linton, Ella Stuart,
Mattie Davis, C. Springer, Gaston, Nettie
Smith, Mec Young aud Messrs. B. H.
Wright, A. P. Wright, Jr., F. H. Smith,
Loud, A. W. Ball, J. G. Ball, C. M. Chapin.
T. D. Winn, Jameson, W. E. Thomas,
Joseph Jerger, W. H. Hammond, J. E. B.
Love, R. C. Dickinson, A. W. Stuart. B. F.
Hawkins, DeVin Finckel and P. W.
Harley.
A Cotton Fire at Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 24.—Fire to-night
burned the warehouse of S. M. Whitney
and 3.500 bales of cotton. The loss is about
875,000. It is fully covered by insurance.
Purchases of Silver.
Washington, Feb. 34.—The offers of sil
ver to the treasury department to-day ag
gregated 880,000 ounces. The amount pur
chased was 430,(500 ounces at .9110@.91375.
ENGLAND'S FUTURE KING.
Prlnoo George's Love for His Brother.
His Well-bred Blst.ers.
From Harper ’ Yount/ People.
I well remember seeing the two lads, on a
Journey from Devonshire to London many
years ago, eating their lunobeon in the rail
way oarrlago at the station. Tho luncheon
was spread out on a damask cloth laid on a
seat between the boys, and Prince George
was busy cutting up a dainty bit of game
for his elder brother, who had not been over
well, and was loaning back rather wearily
against the cushions,
I saw him years later, a tall, fine young
sailor, bronzed with travel, but bright eyed
and light hearted as over.
Tbo lads spent a great portion of their
time at Sandringham, the country seat of
the Prinoe of Wales, where so far as it is
possible formality is cast aside. Not a
peasant or a squire’s son iu the country but
knows Prince Geoigeof the merry laugh
and witty, kindly spee.ih. The three
princesses, Louise, Viotoria and Maudo,
have been taught every housewifely accom
plishment. Thoy cau "bake and brew,”
like the girl in the old ballad, "make well a
feather bed,” and few Reigravian dress
makers can tit aud fashiou a gown ns well
as the second of these sisters. Apart from
theke homely acquirements, they have, of
course, hai masters iu various branches;
inusio and the languages being specially con
sidered, since, of course, the society thoy
have in court life, at home or abroad, is
cosmopolitan.
Princess Maude, the youngest enter, is
not only the pretties; of ihe trio, but said to
be the cleverest. But she has for some
years been very delicate, and great care
has to be taken of her.
The Duobess of Fife is a woman of sound
common sense and exquisite tact. In her
new homa this quality has bean most apoar
ent, for she has been obliged to cast aside
some or the state in which she was born and
bred, and yet to hold her own as tho
prince’s daughter.
The second of the three sisters, Princess
Victoria, is an ardent lover of out of door
sports, fond of the country, never so happy
as when at Sandringham. At the house of
one cf the few intimate friends of the
young princesses I remember seeing charm
ing photograph, amateur work, of this
princess with her dogs about her. She had
evidently been out for a long ramble or
scamper, as her dress was rather "rough
and tumble,” her jacket buttoned crooked
and her sailor hat somewhat awry, but the
bright, sweet face was vary pleasant to
look upon, just as the girl herself is when
ODe sees her in the park during the sunny
London season.
All throe girls are plain likenesies of their
still beautiful mother; yet they are bonny
looking, fresh and clenr eyed, with upright
figures, well poised heads and a graooful
carriage. They have not what are called
"households" of their own. Since school
room days aro over each has a lady com
panion aud a "dresser” or maid, each her
own special apartments in Marlborough
bouse and at Sandringham, while a special
"major domo” aud a page are on duty for
the two princesses now at home. They are
their mother’s almost constant companions,
and aro very young for their years, as might
be expected from tne sheltered lives they
have led.
"Did you find out tho nationality of the
stranger who joined our party yesterday f”
asked one traveler of another in Egypt.
“Yes, I discovered he was an English
man. ’’
“How did you discover it?”
“I asked him if he knew what part of the
United States Kansas was in and he said it
was in Buffalo. Nobody but and English
man could be so ignorant of tho geography
of the United States.” —New York Press.
M. Pii3i.fr, ti e Paris executioner, has
always been a passionate violinist, practicing
early every morning, execution or otherwise.
MEDICAL.
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It lias also caused my hair to grow out
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hand full. After trying many physicians
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f 1/UlluO an( j (he poison as well.
Sf It is entirely vegetable and harmless.
§ J Treatise on Blood and Skin mailed free,
SWIFT'S SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga.
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDA Y, FEBRUARY 25,1892.
IVEARS WOMAN’S TOGS.
BTRANGE FADS OF CONTRACTOR
PIATKIEWICZ.
During Business Hours He Drinks and
Swears and Wears Trousers Like
Other Men, But His Leisure Time He
Spends In Arraying Himself In Htgb-
Heeled Shoes, Bangs, Corsets and
Other Articles of Feminine Drapery.
A Peep at H’s Wardrobe—A Strange
Man’s Strange History.
From the Chicago Tribune.
This is not aa article on spring fashions in
women's dresses. Neither is it a description
of the costume* and theatrical poses ot an
actre*s. These are commonplace. There is
nothing commonplace about tbe hero of this
sketch. He is sui generis In the broadest
sense, for he Is a man who clothes himself
iu woman’s attire by preference.
A dude, you say—a weakly, effeminate,
mincing male who lispe, and smirks, and
wishes he were a woman. By no means.
He is a strong man—a carpenter—a man
who has done manual labor almost all his
life, a man who can outclimb, out-wrestle,
out-drink, and out-run ninety-nine out of a
hundred of his neighbors. He is a Polish
carpenter and contractor in Cbioago, and
his name is Joseph Fiatkiewicz.
He is also a smart man ana a good con
tractor, who has built hundreds of stone,
brick and frame structures iu Chicago since
1880. During working hours none of bis
hundred workmen are as strong, as resolute,
as determined as he. None can strike as
hard a blow. None can climb as high or
lift as heavy a weight. He has won prizes
galore in Europe, in the rough lumbering
camps of Northern Michigan, and iu Chi
cago as well for his strength and skill. And
yet for twelve years be has spent all his
leisure moments in tbe garb
of a woman. Then he has put on
oorsets and form improvers, shaved and
powdered his face, pierced his big, red ears
and inserted in them great golden earrings.
He has spent his earnings for gaudy ball
dresses and evening wardrobes; spent his
time ami wealth in dressing himself up in
the bight of the famine fashion, in compress
ing his waist, in shortening his steps, in
whitening his hands and face, in learning
womanly grace, and, in short, in making
himself a womun with all her little grace,
poses and foibles.
like any other good fellow.
While at work he swears and drinks like
a good fellow, but as soon as he has reached
his home and donned his feminine attire he
is a changed man. He is not a man; he is a
woman—so far as dress and manners can
mike him one.
Piatktewiez lives at No. 21 Emma street,
in the heart of the Polish settlement of tbe
northwest side. His home is beautifully
fitted up in Brussels carpet, expensive rugs,
tasty pictures and ornament-), rich furni
ture and an expensive bird’s-eye maple
piano. He has been married since 1873, and
he has two good looking aud intelligent
ohildren, the elder of whom is Lena, a young
womau of lti, and the younger. Max, a
bright, healthy, vigorous boy of 12 years.
Notwithstanding the elegant furnishings
of his parlors, Fiatkiewicz spends most of
his time in bis kitchen, which is kept scrupu
lously dean. Here he was found by a re
porter for the Tribune , who was astonished
at being greeted by a woman in an elegant
silk and satin evening dress. This woman
said that she was Mr. Piatkiewicz —aud so
it was. He was dressed iu the height of
femenine fashion, with puffed sleeves, bro
caded waist with satiu front and a flowing
embroidered skirt. His ears were pierced
and set with huge, gold bow earrings;
bangle bracelets encircled his massivo
wrists and a gold breastpin set with
rubies rested coyly among the lace ruffles un
der hie carefully-shaved chin. His feet were
incased in embroidered hose aud squeezed
into a pair of high-heeled ladies’ dancing
pumps. His lips were rouged, eyebrows
penciled, and his face carefully powdered.
His head of raven black hair, slightly
tingod with gray, was completely hidden
by a blond- wig of the Langtry bang pat
tern, with |a psyche knot behind, through
which was thrust a showy metai hairpin
set with garnets.
With pride he showed his wardrobe. No
less thau twelve complete dresses—all ex
pensive—with all the appurtenances thereto,
wore laughingly shown. A gaudy white
hat, surmounted by showy flowers and
featherb—a triumph, no doubt, of Ihe mil
liner’s skill—was exhibhited with uufeigned
pride by its masculine wearer.
STRANGE HISTORY OF A STRANGE MAN.
This strange man has a history strange as
himself. It reads like a fairy tale. He was
born in Kozmin, in Prussia Poland, in 1850.
In Poland ho learned tho carpenter's trade,
and when 18 years of age he ran away lrom
home and oame to Chicago. Hera in 1868
and 1889 he worked by the day as a carpen
ter. In 1870 he went to the Lake Superior
region, where for ten years he worked as a
carpenter, woodsman, dook laborer, or any
thing else he could find to do. He had great
strength and an iron constitution and w ould
frequently work at unloading vessels or
equally severs labor sixteen hours at a
stretch. He was also a great hunter, and
mauy are the stories ho tells of desperate
encoumors with bears and other wild ani
mals. During the same days and nights
wnen Chicago w as being consumed ia Octo
bor, 187 L, a terrible forest lire laid waste
whole couuties of Michigan. In this fire
Piatkiewicz played a heroic part. He toils
how day after day he and his comrades
fought tho flames and sought to rescue the
victims. One day, he said, he and several
companions, with a team, t icked up toe
charred remains of twenty-six men, women
and eni dren in the wake of the terrible
tire. Tbe story of his marriage is so devoid
of conventional roraanco that it is actu
ally romantic. Let him tell it himself:
"After I had worked hard in Michigan
for two years,” he said, “I began to wish
for a home. So I concluded to get married.
1 wrote a letter to my mother in the old
country aud asked her to send over a girl
that I used to know at home. After a while
a letter came in which my mother told me
that the girl I warned had moved away,
but that she had sent another just as good.
When the girl got here I was iu Chicago to
meet her. She was a perfect stranger to
me, as I had never seeu or heard of her. I
asked her what her name was, and then we
went down to the Harrison street police
station and got married. That was in tne
fall of 1873. I took her back to Michigan
with me. We lived together happily a
long time In Menominee uud other towns up
there.
FIRST APPEARANCE IN FEMALE GARB.
"One day we discovered that we were
exactly the same in size and that our clothes
would fit each other. So we changed and
went out on the streets, she with my clothes
o.i and I with her's. After that we often
w ore each other’s clothes. I liked it so well
that I bought some dresses for myself and
have worn them ever siace. You ask me
why I do this and whether it does not hurt
my business. Why do other men do things
they know ore hurting their business? Why
do other men hang around saloons and get
drunk w hen they know it is ruining them?
They do it because they enjoy it. That is
their weakness and this is mine.”
Then the contractor continued tho history
of his life, and told how he returned to Chi
cago in 1880 with his wife and children,
worked as a carpenter a year and then
started in business for himself. Increase of
worldly wealth and happiness. Quite the
i averse. He told how bis wife became es
tranged, and said that she left him, leaving
the young children in his care. He said he
forgave her fyr the sake of the children,
aDd brought her back. But the home was
no longer happy, and now that the children
are old enough to care for themselves
ho said that he was going to get a divorce.
Ihe two live in tbe same house, but have
little to do with each other and rarely speak,
ihe children side with their father, though
they are greatly distressed at bis manner of
dressing, which is often the oaute of disa
greement. But thefather, with continental
ideas ot paternity, tells both his ife and
children that it Is none of their business,
that he is master of tbe house, and as long
as he provides them with a c mfortable
home they have no reason to complain.
Piatkiewicz and his queer Costumes are an
old story with the Polanders. He walks or
drives about the streets in bis fantastlo garb
without molestation ns long as he stays in
the Polish quarter. But be does not stay
there.and in contequeuce he has been three
times arrested for violating the city and
state laws against impersonating an oppo
site sex. Each time be has escaped lines
through the intervention of friendly aider
men who want his political influence, which
is by no means small. He declares that he
has been all over the city in daylight or after
dark dreased as a woman, and that his dis
guise is so perfect that It is rarely detected
by tbe most intimate friends or old em
plcyes.
RESULT OF A BREWER’S GALLANTRY.
“1 have been in every theater in town
dressed this way,” said the contractor, "and
also to Barnum's circus, and I ride in the
street cars and often men get up aud give
me their seats. One day a North iß.de
brewer, an old friend of mine, whom 1
mest every week on business, was riding in
a Milwaukee avenue car with his wife.
The car was orowded, and when I came in
the brewer arose, bowed, raised his
hat, and offered me a bis seat
I told him I was not going as far as
he and that I would rather stand. He
looked surprise and asked me how I knew
where he was going. I called him by his
first name and told him that we had been
well acquainted for years. You should
have seeu bis wife look at me! The brewer
got mad, too, and told me politely mat I
was not telling the truth. Then I stooped
down, whispered my name, and jumped off
the car. 1 never saw a more surprised mau
in my life.”
This eccentric man claims that his arrest
on each of the three occasions was due to
the influence of his enemies, who have a
a grudge against him because of his re
fusal to join a certain loan and building
association connected with tbe Polish Catho
lic church. He is a Catholic, but be says
he does not believe in mixing religion and
business. Tho first time he was arrested he
was taken to the West Chicago Avenue
station, but let off by the intervention of a
friendly tilderman. The second time
he was taken to the West North avenue
station. A fine was imposed, but he was
excused from paying it by aldermanio in
fluence. The third timo was more
serious and be is not through with it yet.
He employed a lawyer aud for three weeks
took chauges of venue from one justice to
another. Finally ho was fined by Justice
Woodman, but an appeal was taken to a
state court. Tne contractor says ha thinks
this will bo the last of it, as he has heard
nothing further from his lawyer or tho
courts. He acknowledges, however, that
the thing may come up any timo. He is
determined to fight for what he considers a
right under a constitution which ofl'erß to
all life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
He argues that that is his way of getting
happiness, and that aa long as he is peace
able aud injures uobody thereby he should
not be molested.
ORTHODOX IN OTHER RESPECTS.
Contractor Piatkiewicz is ribt a fool. Fur
from it. Aside from his peculia- foible, he
is a wide-awake, intelligent business man,
and a good contractor. He claims that he
keeps from sixty to one hundred man em
ployed the year around, and annually puts
up buildings aggregating *109,000 iu value.
Among his better buildings are a 3-story
and basement brick affair with impesidg
towers at Holt avenue and Blackhawk
street, a creditable brick building on Noble
street, near Chicago avenue; a #IO,OOO
3-story and basement brick building on
Ashland avenue near Blackhawk street; a
large building on Carpenter street, erected
for ox-Deputy Sheriff Burke, and a score of
others equally large.
A LEAP YEAR IDYL.
A Boston Tale of Flirtation, Flattery
and Matrimony.
From the Boston Herald.
The percentage of proposals by women in
1888, tbe last leap year, shows au increase ot
aimost 30 per cent, over those recorded in
1881, which goes far to prove that the gentle
sex are beginning to feel the spirit of tbo
age and throw oft’ the shackles of conven
tionality. True, there are men who say it
merely proves that they are getting desper
ate; but these scoffers are not worthy of
notice. From such are the ranks of westoru
cowboys recruited; for they fly when tho
time approaches, not dating to risk tbe
suing of lovely red lips and beseeching fern
inineeyes; not willing to share their in
come with charmers iu Redfern gowns.
Mou’s hearts have hardened, but in moit
of them there is a soft spec still susceptible
of feminine wiles. You must cot feel above
little coquettish arti, as Boston girls are too
apt to do. Roll up your eyes like a duck in
a thunder storm. You may seem to your
self a perfect idiot, but the young mart upon
whom you have designs will like it. A
single killing glance will do moro toward
making an impression upon him titan a
dozen Greek quotations accurately given.
Flatter him. The more barefaced and open
your admiration the more it will tickle his
vanity. Praise his figure. No man ever
lived who did not secretly and away down
in the bottom of his heart consider himself
rather better looking than the Aoollo Bel
vidnre.
Take him out for a walk some drei my
winter twilight when everything inclines
the mind to sentiment. Leal the convei Ra
tion poetry ward. Induce him to repeat one
of those humble efforts of his own. Once
started, there will b) no difficulty about h s
going on. He will fbcite yard-) and yurfis
of verses, telling you in each case how and
when and why they were written, and when
you leave him at his own door later on
press his hand iu sympathy, murmuring
that wheu he took up architecture he made
a great mistake. Iu losing him America
has lost her Swinburne her Moms. That
young man will droam of you all night
witn a glowing sense of his worthiness and
yours.
Now, then, you have entered the wedge.
Follow it up. Go to church every riunday—
to his church of course. Take a pew whore
you can keep your eagle eye fixed upon him.
After the sermon walk up the aisle by his
side and ask him to join you in that interest
ing promenade on Commonwealth avenue.
Hint at a walk in the afternoon. Go for
him! You will have to face the family,
which is trying, especially as papa evidently
longs to ask what your intentions are, ami
whether you can support a husband in
proper style or not. But in the glorious
cause of progress there are some sacrifice) to
be made, some unpleasant situations to live
through.
Ask him if you may speak to his father.
Mention the amount of your income. Own
up to the great aunt who was hanged for a
witch at Salem—he will like you all the
better for it. Remind him that your waist
iaonlv 24 incbes.and can be easily adapted to
ready-made clothes. Teil him you have no
expensive habiQ and asp itlesi past; that
you do not object to bis having a latch
key and keeping on with tho Somerset and
the Puritan clubs; that you will allow him
so much a year and a valet; that ho may
have his own way in everything and never
be asked a question.
There may be cold and relentless natures
that cau withstand such appeals, but they
are not many. Dear girl, if you have done
your work well, he is yours, and the May
moon will witness Jack’s hand upon your
shoulder, aad hear Jack’s sny, enraptured
murmur: “Dear Emily. lam yours!”
Thackeray says any marriageable woman
may marry any marriageable man. And
so she may—in 1893.
If you ere melancholy or down with the
blues you need Minmons Liver Regulator.
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MABRIBD COMRADES.
The Life of To-day F.ts Women to Be
Better Comrades.
From the St. Louie Republic.
What sort of a wife makes a good com
rade for a man? IVhat constitutes a com
radeship between hustai and and wife?
I will put the answer ins nutshell pres
ently, but first let us take a look around at
some w men who illustrate various phases
of that peculiar and right relation.
I know a young oman who is superin
tending her brother's sheep ranch on the
plains. Bbe is a city girl, a college gradu
ate, a refined w omen; but she mounts a
pony at daybreak frequently and rids* over
the ranges to make sure that tbe herders
move the flocks out of the night corrals be
times. That woman is an ideal comrade
for her brother; she shares bis life and
pleasures and cares.
1 know a woman iu Canada who. In true
comradeship, shared with a husband tbe
business reverses that shouldered them both
out of comfort in a greet city to begin life
anew in a two-by-six border village. She
makes tbat wretched place seem gay to him
because she fills his life with contentment and
with love of her. On one occasion she had
an awful fright and a narrow escape from
death, but she made a joke of it, because,
she says, she thought he bad had trouble
enough. A band of Indians came in his
a sence to rob the store and do murder. Bhe
ordered them out, and actually rushed tbe
leaders as if they bad been w oden cigar
signs she was shoving out. Her childish
strength, her sudden action, her mountain
moving pluck formed a combination that
was too much for the Indian mind tacom
prehend, and she wou tbe battle.
I know a women of famous blood who
lives on Murray Hill and leads a life ot pleas
ure and devotion to fashion. The last time
that I saw Iter she was debating whether to
go to that bed which had only known her
for five hours in two nights or to join her
husband in a dash on horseback through
the park. It was a short debate, and could
only end in one way, for she and her hus
band are like a bov and girl together, side
by side on horseback, at tennis, swimming,
yachting shooting, billiards and at
whatever either likes —which is an
other way of saying whatever both like.
I know a woman who is married to a Jolly
railroad official whose business depends on
a great deal of ttuyingout late o’ nights and
dining and good fellowship—as conviviality
is called. His wife goes with him and
dines with tbe boys. 1 will admit that she
is of a rare type, but she really does exist,
’and she is known to hundreds, not only
here, but In the west—a merry, healthy,
"good fellow of a woman" always. "I made
up my mind to do it,” she says, “as soon as
I found it was a part of his life, I saw that
if 1 stayed at home like other women I
would see little of him, and tbat was not
what I married him for."
I know the wife of a very famous 11 terary
man; she is most iuteut upon bringing up
her ohildren in the way she would have
them go. Yet she is her husband’s com
rade. She seems to share even his inspira
tions, and whether she has purposely edu
cated herself in his lines of study or whether,
as they would say down south, "she just
naturally likes what be likes,” I do not
know. Yet Ido kuow that she is bis guide,
philosopher and friend, that he consults her
about everything and tbat half bis reputa
tion ought to be hers. 1 have seen those
babies jeopardizing their lives and the beau
tiful furniture of that home while she sat
absorbed in the books in which she
sought to find wbat her husband needed to
know. Hors ami bis is an intellectual com
radeship, but it is perfect none the leas.
All these cases seem very unlike one an
other and yet through all of them runs the
same chord. In that chord lies the answer
to the question,‘‘What constitutes a com
radeship between a man and wife?”
It’s love; the two must be in love.
It’s a cheap wit which in every age since
love began has made out that love is dead
or moth-eaten and laid away. It isn’t. I
know plenty of homes in which if I rang
tho doer-bell aud asked "Is love In?” the
answer would be "Yes, indeed.”
I know plenty of bouses of the other sort,
of course.
There is nothing new about any sort of
comradeship. It is oftencst found betweeh
girl anil girl and man and man. Married
life, to be a success, to Impress true com
radeship, must be a succession of self-sacri
fices and adaptations on both sides until
Loth lives meet on a level.
1 see all over tho country a tendency
among women that may interfere with tbe
comiadeeblD possible in some cases, while It
offers a relief from tbe misery of misniar
riago in others. Women ate establishing
u (fairs of thoir own that take thorn out of
the current of tho livoi of their husbands.
Some have their literary coteries, others
their philanthropic work, others studies of
spec elties; still more are iuv< Iwd in social
circles which include baoholors and girls,
but leave the husbands to thoir clubs.
Ido r.ot know whether this is an up
growth of a movement or whether it is a
movement that will put (he fnir sex where
it is in certain European capitals, where
women live in a world of their own, which
dominates that of ihe men. But if there
ever was a time when true comradeship br
tweon man and women could tie nobly de
lightful it is now, when women are so much
more many-sided than in the days gone by.
“ I do not know," she said in answer to his
proposal. “I do not know what to say. If
I could be suro you care for me— —”
"Care for you? I would die for you.
Nay, I will do in ire, for dying is nothing.
After our marriage I will always let you
have the last word.”
“Pshaw?" she exclaimed, turning away
from him in anger, “that's nothirg. I would
have that anyway. —New York Tress.
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