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WALL STREET PITFALLS.
TBOSi WHO t ET TH3M AND THOSE
WHO A3S CAUGHT.
Henry Clews Dlsclos's the Dangers of
Speculation—The Spiritualistic Me
dium in tho Stork aricet— Humbugs
and Fakirs Who Deceiva the Credu
lous and the Way 1 hey Uo It.
(Copyrtah' '
New York, March IS.— Wall street is
full of pitfalls. Some iron di;; the ■'! for
others to fall into. Frequently the scim no
is unsuccessful; sometimes Ifce diggers mis
calculate and are tripped in iheir own jdto.
Then, again, a groat many people, with the
best intentions as to promoting their own
interests, are at great pains net only to dig
deep holes, from which extraction is diffi
cult, blit also to slump into them with great
dexterity and dispatch when they are ready
fur occupancy. Tin ~o who dig for their
own ruin are inoro numerous than those
who dig for the ruin of others, and, if pos
sioie, they work with more elacnty and in
dustry.
The people who come into that domain or
share values and trafilc known as Wall
street with the implements necessary to dig
their Own tinancial pits cannot well be
classified like so many styles of soldiers of
an army: but they differ in numerous re
spects and their modes of operation are
various, and only alike in one paiticular,
which is that they are wrong, and being
wrong and acted upon in defianoe of fixed
laws they alike lead to disaster.
Quite a proportion of people who spec
ulate in shares base their orders to i heir
bankers on information, so called, that is
derived from spiritualistic “mediums.” I
do not wisn to offend auy believer in the
doctrine that the spirits of departed men
and women hover about our planet, but I
may be allowed to express my opinion that
if they do they do not make it their busi
ness or i lease re to gne joints on the
future of the stock market. This is only
an opinion. It is impossible to frame an
argument upon this topic, because all
controversy must te base 1 upon ad
mitted principles, and when we come
to the topic of the existence and
doings of departed souls we are at a loss
for admitted principles. But we can all
stand upon facts, and one fact is that
people who buy shares on spiritualistic tips
rarely oome out ahead. When they doit
is merely a chance. If the tips were really
sound they ought always to wiu. But they
often fail, and not only do the tips of this
or that medium often fail, but those of all
mediums. And this is not to be wondered
at, since flrßt, mediums, as a rule, are com
paratively illiterate and not skilled m
finance, and are utterly out in the cold ns to
the designs of the leading operators of the
market; and, second, it is a well-known
habit of this class of advivors to change
their Bdvice frequently, advising one in
quirer to buy and the next to sell, thus mak
ing it a tolerably sure thing to be right half
the time.
It may happen that the medium really
believes he or sho has a correct spiritual
message. I knew of the following instance:
A person began to buy 500 and 1,000 share
lots of a stock that bad recently taken on a
strange alacrity at sinking, on 5 tier cent,
margins. As eaoh margin wasted awav he
bought freßh lots, until he bad sunk $30,000
and was obliged to quit from sheer ex
haustion. Duiir.g this time the stock bad
hardly ever realized ut all. i said to him,
“Why do you bull this siock so persistently
when it fails all toe time?” He replied, “I
have been advised by Ko-and-So (u skillful
medium* to buy it and keep on buying, be
cause it is ultimately bound to rise, i paid
him a SI,OOO lea for his information, and
I’m only s rry my capital isn’t amjile
enough to allow me to go on.” Whereupon
he retired.
Next day Mr. So-and-so came in and
lodged un order for I.COO shares of the same
stock on a stop order of 1 per cent,, includ
ing commission. He said; "The stock will
rally for n loDg turn te-day; the spirits
bave firmlv assured me of It, Here is a
check for tho margin.” It was with great
pleasure that I saw tho remorseless stock In
which the dupe’s fortune had been engulfed
a wallow up the oonsoieuceless fee of the
humbug, who had not only persuaded him
to invest in a losing game, but bad also per
suaded himself into the same folly. The dis
embodied shades of lieorge Washington,
Alexander Hamilton, Horace Greeiay and
others showed bad judgment in bulling a
stock which withiu a few months after this
occurrence was wholly wiped out by fore
closure.
One feels very little sympathy for people
who take tips from the ethereal denizens of
the atmosphere, whose communications to
mankind emanate so pertinaciously from
dingy and cabbage-smelling Hats on Third
•nd Sixth avenues. They can, as a rule,
afford to fling away fees on humbugs for
toe privilege of losing a few thousand in
"Wall street, but a feeling of regret cannot
always be repressed at the view of tho
broken-down merchants and small, timid,
Impecunious speculators who frequent the
bucket shops, so called, in hope of gain.
These people do, Indeed, Jdig their pit
falls, since, so long as there exists a saloon
in New York where a stranger ie allowed to
ait and read the pajoers at the price of a
Blass of beer, there is no excuse for holding
down a chair in a bucket shop.
The proprietor’s game is, on the face, fair
enough; but the customer is so intent on
digging his own pit that he fails to caloulate
the factors of the game. The margin re
quired it 1 per cent and you pav one
eighth commissiun to come in and one
eighth to go out. Therefore when you lose
a dollar you lose a whole dollar; when you
win a dollar you collect 75 cents. The odds
of 100 to 75 are thus continuously against
the customer.
Again, the customer goes wholly on guess
Work. If he were to toss a copper as to
whether to buv or sell he might be right
something like half the time;
but if the odds are one
to two that a tftook will move In a given
direction, and also one to two that aguesser
will guess right, the guesser starts in with
actual odds of four to one against him. The
bucket shop customer may not he familiar
with this feature of calculus of probabilities,
but the mathematical professors lay it
down, and Mr. Proctor mentions it in hiß
treatise on gambling, and the prosperity of
the bucket shops seems to bear it out as a
fixed truth.
In some of these by-ways of finance you
esn buy one share. In otheis, where five
shires are the smallest gamble, two, three,
five sinail spectators will shaie in
a 5-sbare lot.
These facts are not stated as evidences of
depravity nor as the basis for sneers at hon
es; and laborious jooverty; they only tend
to show toat where people are unable to dig
large boles to bury themselves in they will
dig small ones.
Another pitfall on the regular stock mar
ket is tho small margin system. There are
indeed advocates of this system on the
ground that where the markot goes against
you it is better to loss 1 or 2 per cent, than
6 cr 10. And where a speculator is in
close touch with the exchange this may an
swer. On the exhaustion of Ins margin he
may remargin, or may let the stock aloue
until a proper time comes to buy in again.
But if tbe speculator has other affairs this
system it eminently a pitfall. Let him buy
iuto a stock at 75 at I per cent, margin,
which is the smallest that any reputable
broker will accept even on stop order, it
Is quite upon the cards that the Raid stock
will drop to 72 or 71, cr 70, w -bin a few
hours, or even half hours, and then rally
again to cost price or above. In such a case,
with a proper margin, be would not he in
jured, but with a slim margin he has lost
his total investment.
Asa matter of fact, men who speculate
on small margins, 2 and 3 per cent, acquire
reckless and unreasonable habits of dealing
and degenerate lntoactunl gamblers. Tnev
are aim > certain to le losers also, bccaus
tbe same odds optrate ago. list them that w o
hove seen operate against the bucket-shop
pi oyer a. Brokers’ commissions, one eighth
( each wav, must be paid, tin 1 per cent,
i margins the odds are b o to 75, u 2 per
| cent. ICO to 87 1 ,on 2 per cent. 100 to lh’;
whereas iha operator who p its up 10 per
cent, margin has only odds of 2 per couf.
against him, with u fair prospect many
ordinary cm dition cf the iiinrxet of not he
j ingsold out for want of margin. The man
i who puts up 10 per cent, usually has an
j other ID per cent, in reserve, which is al
| mest sure to carry him out in the end to a
j profit.
Guo of the neatest, deejjest. most precip-
I itous pitfalls is dug for the unwary by the
professional point-giver. King Solomon is
' re. ute l ns saying iu the Book of Proverbs,
| "Surely in vain is the net spread in the
I -ight of any bird.” The people who elide
i numerously and with alacrity into the holes
j dug fur them by the givers of points seem
to gainsay the wisdom of Solomon.
The point-giver is of Protean build.
I Sometimes he makes your acquaintance ac
-1 cidentallv, as it were. Sometimes he brings
a letter of introduction from some person
who doesn’t thoroughly know him Then,
again, be advertises. When he advertises
it is done something like one of these an
nouncements, which can te cut by the dozen
outer any Sunday newspaper of large cir
culation :
Cl i.VFIIiENTIAL CLERK to prominent opera
/ tor knows of good dividend paying stock
teat will yield good profits. Address Profits,
185, office.
V GitE.\T opportunity for making money in
stocks. I-or jiurticuiars address Active,
box 202, office
V— WANTED, party with capital to take
• advantage of my roiiab.e information on
stock market. Address (success, box 21, ———
office.
If you address either of these ingenious
gentlemen, be will call on you if he thinks
you ore worth calling upon, and
after gome conversation touching
the necessity of caution ona con
confidence on both sides, and the superior
sources of information enjoyed upon his
side, he will tell you to go nt once to your
broker and buy X, Y, Z shares. That is,
unless he has just advised some other per
son to buy X, Y , Z”u which case he will
earnestly urge you to hasten, without loss
of time, to sell X, Y, Z. As for the profits,
in all cases he is to have half the Det gain,
and ne leaves it to vour honor to let him
know waat the amount of the gain is
If ten persons act upon his advice five
will gain and five will lose. The losers he
has nothing to do with, he would prefer
not to see them; but he has the names of the
winners in his memorandum book and he
rarely fails to collect from them. This pit
foil luoks like a shallow artifice, and it is;
but a great many people slide down its
sides in the course of any given year. Else
how should the professional point-giver
tlourish as he does and have so much cash
wherewith to advertise in tbe Sunday news
papters?
(Joe of the worst, deepest, most danger
ous and must largely tumbled into of all the
pitfalls of Wall street is dug by the oper
ators themselves, ami seems to he tho result
of a vice of the human mental constitution,
which, so far as we know, is ineradicable
when once it becomes a habit. T his is the
practice of taking small profits and large
losses.
A speculator puts up 10 per cent, margin
anu buys Xj Y, Zut 75. The shares fall to
74, 72, 72 and so on. Now if be knows the
property lo be sound and really valuable,
there is no reaso i why ho should relinquish
it merely because the market price is lower
than it was. Oa the contrary, if he can af
ford it, it may he policy for him to buy an
other lot at 70, and even another lot at 05,
besides protecting bisfiist purchase.
But suppose he is merely a speculator,
whose gams proceed from turning a small
capital frequently, is it uot his plain course
of action to drop his purchase at 73 and take
chances of buying in again? Most of us
would say, “Yes, by all means.” But as a
matter of fact he will uot drop out until the
10 per cent, margin is exhausted.
But if X, Y, Z had gone up to 77 or 78,
and then shown a tendency to sag off, this
same operator would at once Lave closed
the transaction, thus showing a willingness
to gain bv twos and threes and lose bv tens.
An English novelist onoe wrote: “There
are at t: is moment 10,000 Englishmen wan
deri g homeless and penniless over the con
tinent of Europe i**cause they would not
lead trumps at the proper time!” So auy
well-informed broker can say, of bis ow n
personal knowledge and experience: "There
are thousands of American citizens who are
to-day poor because they would not cut
short their losses and let their jirofits run
OD.”
This Is also a dangerous pitfall, which men
dig for themselves: numsiy, the belief that
because a certain description of shares
mounts and mounts and i ars above pre
vious calculations of tho general market,
therefore it is desirable to buy into it after
it has mounted during a long period of days.
This belief Is almpst universal, and yet it
direetly contradicts our experience and the
laws of nature.
We know that tha higher tbe wave gets tbe
weaker it is at tha top. while its base is al
ways strong; and we also kno w that what
ever goes up has a tendency to descend
again, and that the time always comes
when the holders of any commercial prop
erty, no matter how desirable, prefer money
to property.
Bnt the majority of outside operators re
gard the market as strongest when prices
are up and weakest when prices are down,
and act accordingly; whereas those who
know base their actions on firm truth that
the market is never so weak us when it is
high, and never so stronz as when it is low:
being in fact like that ancient wrestler who,
whenever forced down by his antagonist so
that his body touched the grouud, immedi
ately received from mother earth a redouble
allowance of strength. This also is one of
those pitfalH which an inherent vice of the
human mb and continually impels sjieoulators
to dig for themselves, a species of mental
disease which, we fear, is beyond the uid of
physicians. Henry Clews.
IRISH BLOOD SAViD HER.
An Old Woman Unconscious From
Coal Gas Brought Back to Life.
from the Philadelphia Piets.
New York, March 13. —John Murphy, a
hostler, who weighs 195 pounds, to-day
saved the life of a tiO-year-old widow by the
loss of eight ounces of blood, for which he
was recompensed at the rate of 62 1 3 cents
aa ounce. Mrs. Ann Julian, the pot lent,
whose life was despaired of from suffoca
tion, is now doing nicely, and there is no
doubt of her recovery. Mrs, Julian and
her sister, Mrs. Moses Miller, aged 68, who
is also a widow, are well-to-do, and have
lived in White Plains for fifty years. Sat
urday night they were asphyxiated by coal
gas.
Both remained unoonscious all day Sun
day, but Sunday night Mrs. Miller regained
consciousness and was pronounced out of
danger. Mrs. Julian was not sofurtunate,
and the doctor determined to try the trans
fusion of blood. John Murphy agreed to
permit the operation for $5.
Eight ounces of Murphy’s blood was
drawn off into the vessel, stirred with a
I undle of small quills, and then puinjjed in
the arm of Mrs. Julian. It was ail over in
a few minutes, though it seemed hours to
Mr. Murphy. He heaved a sigh of relief
when it was over, took his $5 and went to
his day's work.
An hour aftor the infusion Mrs. Julian
began to regain consciousness, and soon she
recognized the doctor and others about her.
At night the doctor said she would recover
without doubt. Mr. Murphy was never iu
any danger. “I feel us hearty as a roach,”
said ho, “and could do it again, easy, at the
same price.”
MissSusikC. I.oseieii of Ashlaud, Cal., was
married latc'y in Newark. N. J.. lo Allon S.
Lozier of that town. The hride's father at one
time leeide 1 in Newark, and went west during
the gold fever. ! hiring the war he was with a
western regiment, and while attending the
grand army enr. moment at Denver he returned
to ms home, After leaving for home letters
urn ■ from hi* daughter fell into the hands of
..r i .ozier. owing to the similarity in the uume,
but winch were returned to the"sender. The
return' ll correspondeoc * led locominuuications
i wceo ti e young lady aid groom, all of which
culminated iu the wedding.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES.
THK GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
THE STRANGE CARESS OF A MU
NICIPAL P.k FORMER.
Seth Low, Mayer and College Presi
dent—Cometh Crinoline Amain—A
S ugrgeetiva Business—A Well-Known
Farmer—A Canadian Inveslon—Per
u< : a Gossip.
(Copyright.)
New York, March Is.— One of the most
interesting personalities in New York city
is that of Beth Low, president of Columbia
College.
Mr. Low is immensely wealthy by the
standards of twenty years ago, comfort
ably well off by those of to-day. He in
herits a fortune from his father, the late
A. A. Low. The eider Low was one of the
great tea merchants of New York iu the
days when the clipper ships of rival traders
raced with each other from Hong Kong to
bandy Hook, The Low estate owns the
great Garfield building in Brooklyn and
any quantity of other property.
Seth Low led the pioneer successful move
ment in this country for non partisanship
in municipal politics. A republican, be
was twice elected niavor of Brooklyn on
that issue, over a normal democratic ma
jority of many thousands.
In 1882-’B3 Seth Low was as likely a man
to be in turn governor, senator, perhaps
jiresidential nominee, as any man. In 1884
ho was politically wrecked oy the upheavals
of the Blaine campaign. He voted for
Blaine and Logan, nut his mugwump
friends succeeded in keeping his mouth shut
too long for his own good.
Some of the roan’s methods were per
fectly unique. He once issued a special
message to the boys, asking them not to
make bonfires on the Fourth, because of
tho danger of fire.
That message was a failure.
An experiment quite as audacious, which
suoceeded, was this. As mayor he found
that an increase in taxation was necessary.
He literally "hired a hall”—the rink, tbe
biggest auditorium, in the city, since con
secrated to prize-fights and revival meet
ings. iuvited everybody to be present, made
a brief speech explaining the situation, and
then remarked: “The meeting is ad
journed.” That was all there was to it.
Everybody was satisfied. He was the most
convincing sj eaker I ever heard, though he
attempted no oratorical flights whatever.
As president of Columbia Low is success
ful, reasonably popular with the “boys,” an
originator or new departures, a foe of fos
sils. He is 44 years old. If the “era of
good feeling” that folks talk of bos come to
stay Low may be heard of again in politics.
He has thirty good years before him, being
a fa; and comfortable fellow of long-lived
ancestry.
crinoline.
Bianohe Walsh on crinoline, mind you,
not Bianohe Walsh in crinoline.
The newly arisen dramatic star is not a
believer in hoop skirts. She walks the
streets in very mannish rig and with a
mannish, not ts say manly stride and bear
ing, shoulders up, head book, toes turned
well out anAali tbe rest of it, even to a
cane most of the time.
About criuoline Miss Walsh is emphatic.
“Sensible women,” she says, “will never
wear it. The sex has just got the use of its
legs and its muscles, to its incalculable gain
in health and happiness. You'll never get
me in a cage.”
Ido not know Miss Walsh. I know a
bird who tells me things, this among the
rest; also another thing, which is that if
crinoline comes for sure.and if other women
wear it Miss Walsh will do the same.
An bile ago, about a month, I believe—l
ventured the assertion that women are
pretty sensible and would fight off crinoline.
I've changed iny mind. I mean I’ve changed
my mind in the latter particular only.
Already the thing exists. It is reasonably
common. The soring gowns thot will Dop
into view when the sun shines again will be
faintly, delicately convex at the base.
From the slender waist'they will fall away
to the feet, not in straight lines, but just a
wee bit pyramid, don’t you know. And
tbe stiffening principle will not be steel
hoops but the real criooliue, don’t you
know; very stiff cloth or something of the
sort —I’m no hand at fashion writing.
And 100,600 people will get employment
by it; one hundred thousand. O, mercy,
no; not all making hoopekirts; most of them
making the extra yards of cloth necessary
to cover the hoops.
A BtIOOESTIVK 'BUSINESS.
About the queerest business I know any
thing about is that of a professional tug
geeter. Probably there aren’t above two
dozen of them iu the country, but they
make a pretty good thing of it.
A suggester sells ideas. He supplies ideas
for funny cartoons to Puck, Judge, Life
and other condo journals. A suggestion for
this purpose sells for $5 if it be good. The
author of it may not be able to draw a line.
The idea is all that’s wanted. He suggests,
also, ideas for advertisements, “schemes”
for newspapers to increase their circulation.
He will suggest a plot for a novel, but there
is very little sale for that kind of thing.
I know one of these suggesters. He is an
alinoßt beardless youth of perhaps 25. He
sits at his desk all day and writes out sug
gestions of all kiuds. Some of them are put
to use. some never see the light. This man
suggests on a salary paid him by a single
concern, queerly enough.
Others work on spec. A man oomes into
an office with twenty suggestions neatly
type-written. The business man sits beck
in his easy chair and says: “ I’ll take this
and this und this. The otheis I don’t
want."
I’ve known a suggestion to bring as high
a price as $25. Perhaps some may have
sold for even more. But it isn’t everybody
who has ideas to sell.
A WELL-KNOWN FARMKR.
One of the best known men in the United
States, by name, is one whose features
are know to few.
Farmer Dunn, tbe newspaper boys call
him. His official title is local forecast of
ficer, L. F. O. for short. Dunn flrßt began
predicting weather for New York as an
army officer. When the meteorological
prophets were transferred to'the agricult
ural department Dunn’s allegiance was
transferred.
This quiet and gentlemanly scientist, for
In his line he deserves the title, is a good ex
ample of what an army training can do for
a man. Among our army officers are many
men who would do honor to a professor’s
chair. Dunn delivers lectures in meteor
ology every day when it’s unusually hot or
unusually cold.
Aud the reporters always report them.
A CANADIAN INVASION.
Canada is annexing itself to these United
States piecemeal.
Tbe other day I was In a publisher’s office
when there drifted in a pretty and sensible
looking young woman, with a world of
color iu her cheeks and life and rigor in
her movements. “Canadian, I’ll bet." I
thought
Speech confirmed the diagnosis. The
Canadian accent isn’t English oxactly, but
it certainly isn’t yankee.
The girl was Madge ltoblnson of Toronto,
now of New York, already one of tbe best
authorities in the city on winter sports and
u clever writer. She struck the right winter
to oome here. There has been plenty of
snow, and every newspaper, weekly and
magazine wanted to know all about tobog
ganing, snowshoeing and the rest.
But what a lot of Canadians there are in
New York, to be sure! Wlman’s the best
known. Thousands of others ere in New
York, successful almost to man in what
ever they undertake, big, brainy fellows,
with lots of muscle and brain. New York
must be a good place to emigrate to.
Homebody once said New England was a
eo ;d place to emigrate from. How about
Cauada?
ANDREW CARNKGIB.
Threatened men, they say, live long. You
might add that they are reasonably jolly
about it. So at least Is Andrew Carnegie,
who probably gets as many crank letters es
any living mao, royalty alone excepted.
The Homestead bust, ess was a great blow
to Carnegie. He’s a good-natured little fel
low with a thin, grav beard, small twink
ling eyes, and a iund of dry Scots humor.
He is a man thoroughly in earnest. He be
lieves in himself and iu his theories. He
believes in using his money while he still
lives. To an unprecedented extent he has
done this. By tbe size of his gifts he ranks
with Girard. Cooper and Peabody. Yet he
is the best hated in the country to-day. He
doesn’t like to be hated. He is a compan
ionable man, approachable, fond of his fel
lows, democratic in Ms ways. I’ve taken a
week’s steamship voyage with him, and I
know no better teat of a man’s character
than that—nor a better chance for judg
ing it.
Mrs. Carnegie is as simple in her manner
as her husband; quite a charming woman,
In faot. though not at all beautiful. Per
haps that is the reason of the charm. Beau
tiful women are apt to be spoiled.
W henever he could manage to do so Mr.
Carnegie has always tuned bis voyage so as
to travel by the Hervia, for which steady
going old craft be lone ago oonceired an af
fectionate fondness.
The man’s Americanism is no sham.
When I crossed in the Servia in 1890 there
were on board 200 or 210 British engineers,
members of the British Iron and Steel insti
tute. They were forever engaging the little
man in argument, aud he was as ready to
defend the American accent as the Ameri
can steam engine. Tbeu alter an hour’s hot
debate he would trot off for nis tell wife—
taller than be—and ihe pnir would prome
nade up and down, the picture of domestio
felicity.
WILLIAM M. CHASE.
The most versatile of American painters
is William M. Chase. He is in appearance
the most Munichv of American painters,
with his lierco-looking beard and rakish
pose. He baints in the Munich manner his
famous park pictures, Bweet fields dressed in
living green, which the critics like better
than buyers. He paints still life like a
Frenchman. He can shoot like a Texas
cowboy. He is an with the foil. He
can discourse on the’j>htlos phy of art like a
proiessor. He is idolized by bis pupils of
the Art Students’ League. He married a
model under the most romantic circum
stances. She is as beautiful as a Venus and
a charming woman.
The first time I ever saw Chase he was in
a fight with the Brooklyn park commis
sioners, He is full of fight; when he thinks
he’s right he goes ahead, and something has
to “give.”
The studio in which this man works is
vast. It is the exhibition hall in tho central
court of the biggest studio building in New
York, and filled to the door with pictures,
armor, harness and trappings, pots, pans
and kettles generally.
What a oontrastare George lnness’ rooms,
bare, cold, absolutely uuiecorated; astfidlu
pure and simple.
GOTHAM BREVITIES.
Young Tellod’Apery, tbe 16-year old ed
itor of the Sunny Hour , is having a tre
mendous racket for a boy; nothing less than
a tour about the Mediterranean, touching
at pretty nearly all the countries bordering
thereon. He needed tha trip, being pretty
well fagged out by social as much as edi
torial demands. Women would persist in
lionizing him and hauling him out to par
ties and things. He’s a modest and well
bred lad and doesn’t seem spoiled by such
attention. By the way, Tello is “short” for
Telemaque, the French form of Telemachus.
He’s "alt Greek, half American,half French,
half Turkish and a goodly part cosmopolite,
quite a problem in fractious. His mother
is Amerioan, his father French aud they
have lived much in Tu. key and Greece.
All the papers and magazines are experi
menting with color paintiog. Ti.is is the
next great advauce in quick printing. The
typesetting machine was the last and the
stereotyping apparatus the one before that.
I understand the Recorder's wonderful new
color press is nearly ready to run.
It’s going to be auite the caper for the
"smart set” to go abroad this year rather
more than usual, to afoid' tbe world’s, fair
folks, don’t you know.
David Wechsler,
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
THE ALL-iMPORTANT QUESTION
OF EASTER ATTIRE.
Fi.-at tha Bonnet and All Ita Appur
tenances—The Gown for Thi* Occa
sion—Something About Goats—Bod
ioee That Will Freshen Old Costumes.
(Copyright.)
New York , March 18.—It is too bad that
Easier comes so early this * year. We can
scarcely feel bright anuYresti and blooming,
and wear the gay springy air that so
properly accompanies thi3 festive season,
when, only a short time before, the snow
fell fast and the wind blew keenly in our
faces, We bave not yet had time to ac
custom ourselves to the thought of soft,
balmy breezes, bright sunshine, clean,
beautiful streets, gay throngs of women
clad in fresh, spotless attire, and flowers
springing up all over in token of a changed
season. We havo held up our dresses so
long to protect them from the awful mud
which splashed from below and the teeming
raiii9 and blinding snows that fell from
above. that our arms have not
yet lost the weary feeling that has
arisen therefrom. We have kept our mack
intosh, our rubbers, our umbrella, our
stormy weather skirts, and all the other
precautions against Inclement weathsr iu a
prominent place for so long that it will be
strange to see in their stead a beautiful caw
gown, a daicty Easter bonnet, a spick and
span parasol, a pair of lovely jjaie-colored
gloves, and all tho othefi things so dear to
the heart of women in spring time, so be
fitting the fresh garb which nature also
wears. But we shall be far ahead of nat
ure this year. That young damsel has not
yet clothed herself in her new garments,
and she seems loth to prepare herself for
them. Whereas we poor mortals have not
her independence and must perforce, willy
nilly, don our smart attiro at tho appointed
time.
Bo begin to get ready, fair mala; and let
me give you a few words of advice before
you begin. Make your bonnet a go between
not too decidedly springy, nor yet a par
ticle wintry. To accomplish this you must
procure one of those dainty, new straws,
all fancifully twisted and worn so that they
scarcely look like straw. Get a very Binall
one, and it will be all tbe more appropriate.
Or, better yet, get a tiny shape, oover it
with a jewoled crown and a fancy straw
edge. Tho straw must always be of the
genuine 9traw color, that bright shade, so
like sunshine The jeweled crowns are very
baautlfh), some of them made all of
pearls, row after row, large pearls and
small pearls, running out like
the spokes of a wheel, but more
closely; some of them are gold bars and
emeralds, others are rbiDe atone and gold.
Jeweled bugs and (lies will also be quite a
feature of the comiDg hat. Some flies have
Immense wiugß and would need a large hat
to hold them. These are brilliantly colored
and produce most gorgeous effects. Even
the aigrettes have taken n new form; for
they now arise from feathers that have been
drawn into a soft roil, instead of curling as
before, and no ends are visible. One littlo
gein of a hat that will come sunnily forth
on easter day is made of yellow gauze and
has fine pearl ornaments standing in front,
dotted here and there with a rhine stone to
catch tha sun’s rays. It is a hat, uot a bon
net, but exceedingly small and lovable.
Another one that could not possibly be
resisted is made of particularly fine, open
straw, so tine and open that the jiale-hiue
sila lining shows between tbe strands, it
has graceful gold ornaments iu front and
three beautiful blue plumes. Such a pretty
combination, is it not ? All the trimming
on bats seem to have come round to tho
front. We see not even little bows and
loops at the bock of the new hats.
Another one is so pure that yon scarcely
dare touch it with the tip of your little
finger, it is a shape covered with white
gauze and pretty fold* of floe lace. In be
tween the folds, all around the edge, peep
out great turquoises that are fastened
around the brim. A straw ornament,wing
shaped, is all that it has for trimming in
front.
I could talk forever on the fascinating
bonnet question, but must regretfully pause
to take up the spring costume. There is no
use of talking—you must actually have a
considerable slant to your dress. In other
words, your breadths must all be out verv
narrow at the waist line and be allowed full
swing at the feet. At the back in particular
great fullness is disposed in plaits, so that
the dre*s may bave ample opportunity to
flare. The prettiest spring gown I have yet
seen is Havana-colored wool beugahne.
Tho skirt holds itself aloof from its wearer
most daintily, particularly at the back, aud
is plain except for three narrow
embroidered hands at the bottom, put on
rather far apart, as decreed. Tbe bodice
has an empire effeot, which is relieved at
the neck, however, Py gathered silk made
in a point. This is the way it goes: At the
neok, the gathers, formiug yoke and part of
the sides. These are cut right un in the
middle by a sharp poiut of embroidery
wuich separates the folds above from the
folds beneath. The lower folds form a wide
belt and the belt is edged by narrow em
broidery. The sleeves are exceedingly large
leg-o’-muttons, over which a pretty lace
ruffle falls even to the elbow.
The accordion plait lends itself most
charmingly to the new modes; for it can be
made to ocoupy as much space as oi.e wills,
upon occasions, and can also be drawn mod
estly together so that one would scarcely
suspect its amplitude. A pretty heliotrope
spring gown is so made, with plain side
breadth- between the accordion-plaited
back and front, At the back of the dress
there is another one of those inverted point
effects, where the accordion runs up into a
plain back, and usurps nearly a!l the space
that the plain material intended to occupy.
A rolling belt of silk goes round the waist
and two short bibs of violet crepe atop at
the shoulder seam, never getting so far as
the back. The two puffs oa each sleeve are
also plaited, but the cuffs are plain.
The new coat, if the sigus of tbe times
speak truly, will not be so long as the
winter one. It will be a rather short three
quarters, or possibly even a trifle shorter
than that. Tbe ones that have already
oome out have fancy fronts, many open all
the wa> down so as to show the "front to
advantage, aud others are caught together
at the waist. A maiden that walked the
streets a day or two ago wore one of these
self-same coats, and the front was full, of
ligh material. The coat had broad,
fanciiy cut, velvet re vers. Her gown
was a very attractive one, also, with
a pretty design embroidered all over, aud
a fancy band in a wheel pattern above a
broad black velvet baud at the fee.. She
held up her dress carefully, for toe streets
were not inviting, and showed a fresh white
petticoat beneath that was a pleasure to
look ujion, after the bedraggled silk petti
coats one sees these days. How she kept it
so spotless was a marvel, considering that it
was of a goodly length; but sue managed
it. and was repaid for her care by eliciting
numerous comments upon her neatness from
passe reby.
But you are permitted this spring to wear
a perfectly plain, tight-fitting coat, if you
so desire, that is relieved only by a velvet
yoke, and by possibly some narrow trim
ming about the edge. You may wear it
over your winter’s gown, that can be fresh
ened with new trimming at the feet, aud no
one will Le any the wiser when you step
forth on Easter with your new boucet and
gloves.
If you are unable to get an entire new out
fit for spring why do you not mako a bodice
to wear with your heavy ssirts? Here are
two which can be made with but little
trouble, and both are just as pretty as can
be. The first is the simpler, made short,
empire, reaching just to the waist. Make
it, if possible, of snot or fancy silk. It is
rather loose and full, with the fullness all
caught in irregular folds into a full silk
baud of the same material enciroling the
waist, which ties ia a short, j-tznty bow at
the side. A full, deep lace bib goes around,
particularly full over the shoulders.
The other is more complicated. The one
I saw was made of white silk, that was run
with satin stripes of first pink, then gold,
then blue. This was just loose and full
also, but was confined with a very high
crush belt of tbe same Bilk. Tbe fullness of
the belt was drawn through a thin rope
buckle of gold, fully eight inches high. A
small boiero jacket partially covered it,
edged with email bead trimming, and a laeo
collaret also hung over the silk, very short
over the shoulders, but long in front.
Eva A. Schubert.
INGENIOUB TURDS’ NESTS.
Ono of tho Most Curious structuroe ta
the Mud Hen’s Floating Home.
Prom the Christian Times.
Up in one of the river valieys not many
miles distant from Ban Diego, Cal., are
many water blackbirds, which weave
unique nests among the tules. A specimen
of unusual design which I discovered not
long since was bound about with mushes to
the uoright tulo stums, laced over, under,
iu aud out, in the most intricate manner,
until the little hasket-shuoed reoeptacle
was of the desired size. The whole was
then roofed with a second basket-shaped
structure, likewise of tule fibers,
stretched across. The entire work
manship was most perfect, and that
small canopy top proved very effect
ive in shulting off the 6un’s rays. In this
river vailey I recently made acquaintance
with the mud hen of the grebe family. I
had met her before, but never had oppor
tunity to study her, and knowledge of her
habits is exceedingly interesting, Here,
under the trees on a little laguna’s hank, I
have watched for hours as she had been
swimming, diving, splashiug, darting, flut
tering and spattering foam from her lifted
wings, aud huddling her young up on the
bank to eat grass in the sun. She has no
beauty, but those tiny oanary-colored mud
chickens, tipped with soft down, are rather
pretty.
The mud hen's nest is a weedy, reedy,
fibrous structure, composed mostly of dead,
gray ends of tules and miscellaneous mat
ter, and is usually placed far out from
shore, without anchorage, where it drifts to
and fro, cradling its eggs easily. It pre
sents to tbe eye simply the semblance of a
mass of wasting vegetation. One who
knows birds well, and who has made them
a study from these same trees on the
laguna’s bank, tells me that he has many
times waded out to search for a nert and
espied it only when sweeping away with his
hand what be supposed to be accumulated
rubbish of leaves, but that proved
the cradle’s oouuterpane, with which
the careful mother had shielded her
treasure. Here eggs, or young,
deposited on tho bottom, were usually half
submerged, the water oozing through every
interstice as through a sieve, aud no sign of
a parent bird near. Retreating to a distance,
it was often necessary to watch closely, and
through a glass, when presently the mother
grebe might be discovered sailing up
swiftly, uncovering the floating oradle and
shyly settling down to breast its contents.
When they were evidently sufficiently
warmed she covered them again carefully
with more debris and sailed away asswiftiy
among tbe water weeds.
The oriolo’s is one of the daintiest nests
found in California trees. One has been
recently built by au aesthetic couple in a
magniffeent fan palm in private grounds,
where great care is taken not to frighten
the birds away. This pensile, airy thing is
of the pale, straw-colored fibers of the
palm, and is a great beauty. Another
parent pair havo chosen a banana
leaf for a resting place. This lias been
stitched tightly aorosa from side to side
(something in ball-cover fasbiun) with palm
threads. Tho sewing implements must
have been dexterously bandied, tbeiresulc
is so trim and complete. No more cunning
sight oau tie imagined than tho heats of
tbe baby bird peering out from the lance
shaped rolls of this living nest on the green
banana tree
GLORY.OF FAIR WOMEN.
HOW TO TRIM AND DRIBS YOUR
LOCKS AND KEBP THEM OLOSSY.
Uses of a Blistered Scalp—A French
Hairdresser Discloses Some of the
Secrets of Her Art—ldeals of the
Artists.
(Copyright.)
New York, March 18.—‘‘Bat I assure
madam, it will not hart; just five little
moments, and madam will not know that
her head has been touohed with the iron.
Blistered? That ugly word! Madam thinks
it is ths torture, but I swear to madam she
will not cry out. Poof! I screamed myself
with tbe fright after I was IU with tha
fsvar, and they brought the Iron. But
when they showed to me my poor hairs all
thin end weak, I said, ‘Out, oui, scald me,
blister me, take away the skin I It is better
to die than not to have the long curls any
more." And so. os madam may believe,
they burned tbe head, and I laughed at the
hurt. Madam may see that I have my
poor little curls, so poor, so dark beside
madam’s hair of yellow. But it will die and
force madam to the wig, the hideous wig of
an old woman. Horrible I Will madam
let me say this for her? In my France
the fisher girl wears a little cap to hide her
hair. Her hair is sacre, holy I think, you
call it, aud besides the men, thoee foolish
men, they run after the girls aud whisjter
silly words if by auy accident they see the
great braids. And when the luck in the
boat is bad, and the pore and the frere can
not buy new kerchiefs or sabots for the
Haher girls at home, the little fools out off
their hair for the wretched francs one sends
from Paris. Then what avail the ke:chiefs
or the sabots after it is whispered all about
‘Jeaue has no more hair?’ The girls point
at Jeanne the fingers and the men laugh,
and because the glory is gone say rude
things. Ah! well, Jeanne, who cannot
think to know that the men love women for
hair and bright eyes, and uot for kerchief
or sabots, Jeanne has been well punished.”
And as the deft ltttle French womau with
the masses of cloudy hair touches madam’s
nerves with balmy words, her bauds stroke
madam’s tresses—the few whisps that have
survived tongs, alkali washes, modish cuts
aod hereditary baldness —with practiced
case.
The apartments are handsomely furnished,
homelike rooms. Fires burn in the grates,
the latest magazines are strewn about the
table, and wed-dressed women, whose car
riages ore known on Fiftn avenue, bend
over them swaitiog their turn in the skylit,
severely practical chamber thri ugh whose
curtains the little French woman may l>e
seen at her art. She is truly an artful per
son. White capped maids, in reality hair
dre-eers, too, who are employed to aid the
madam in nar business, pass back and
forth through the rooms;subtle penetrating
odors ot violet, heliotrope and rose subdue
pomades and tonics and was: es used for
scalp massage, while the Parisienne’s run
ning voice and cooing lies quite d:spel the
irritation with which New Yorit women of
thirty years enter these apartmeats to word
off tbe too swift approaches of age.
For it h here that scientific treatment of
the hair has t een known not only to tighten
dropping tresses and awaken lire in coma
tose bulbs, but to coax the fiber from the
he ids long bald—men’s heads, at that,
which have shown for years in the orchestra
circle bald as a billiard ball.
But the French woman’s remarks about
tbe boys, young and old, who sneak to her
rooms during hours reserved for them,
would make, as Killing says, “auother
story.” /
Their wives come earlier in the day, and
in due season are ushered into the operating
room, where the coiffure is pulled to pieces,
and various little curls, which peep so
alluringly from the Fsyche knot cr tbe
stately chignon, are ruthlessly picked out
from the scanty locks which madam
praises.
“Not long,” she murmurs, with dispar
aging eyes glancing over the switches and
front pieces of the demolished structure,
“in a few more weeks madam will find a
new growth like the fuzz on a baby's head.
It is uo miracle, O, no! The good saints In
tend ail ladies should have hair, hut the
scalp gets tired, but I rub it and aiu a doc
teur, so that tha hair must grow.”
Then the doctor seiz.es a magnifying giass
and examples every iaoh of the bead, after
which she massages it for several minntes.
Next sha ruins a lotion into the pores and an
oiutmsut down the strands of hair. Those
she carefully dries, almost hdr by hair;
other preparations make it glossy or fluffy,
as the operator sees fit, and much brushing
and str itink and singeing of split e.ids
evolve the treatment for tuat day lata a
masterly oolffure.
It i* only in serious cases that the madam
insists upon blistering s head. It is not
good policy, tweause it is certainly painful,
and extraordinary care must be taken for
many weeks. Yet there is no other way to
remove the thick cuticle from a “marble
bald spot,” and reach the living bulb be
neath. Madam swears by the virtues of
her process and vows that the madam iu
the long chair will see the results before
long. And sometimes madam does.
{lf she does not, if tbe hair vesicles are
utterly defunct and the laborious life of a
rich society woman has snapped vitality
until it cannot respond to the skillful touch
of the “masseur of the scalp,” there is an
other finely appointed suite of apartments
not a block distant where she may hetaKe
herself. “Hairdressing Parlor” is tho
legend on the card, but on the first floor one
sees only the wigs, the artificial curls, ttie
coiffure, all ready to be pinned upon the
head, which are the vivaoious French wo
man's abomination. The prize hair of a
“large, newly imported stock” is here—
poor little Jeanne’s, whose cropped bead Is
bowed now disconsolately beneath the
jibes of her oompanions. The glorious
musses of it sell lor a sum which would de
light her peasant heart with kerchief
and sabots for many a day. The
preparation of the raw material is so
careful that a woman may almost ho par
doned for covering her scraggy growth
with soft, clinging silky curls of naturally
waved gold or braids of brown, or puffs of
auburn, as mods dictates the color and the
style.
Upstairs, where one’s own looks are
lightened with scientific applications of
peroxide, or changed into a dusky bronze
with “mezzolina,” there is much discussion
as to the ooming manner of coiffure.
“We cannot say positively,” announced
a maiden whose head was a good adver
tisement for her establishment, “for we
haven’t had any direct word from the
other side. But we are pretty certain that
the hair will be worn very broad and low
down on the side of the head in puffs and
rolls.”
“Rats,” groaned a voice. “Yes, rats,"
was the reply. “And the bang will be
pointed in a long curl with side pompa
dour. Perhaps it will be parted through the
middle for another year, with a tiny bang.
Too bad the chigaon is taking the place of
the three empire puffs, one high at the
point of the head and the other two lying
against it. The regular French twist will
come egain, too, and the hair will not be
crinkled with irons, as it is now, either.
More and more will be used; with the rolls
and puffs a great many switchos will he
needed. The now style will be very ex
clusive indeed, because everybody cannot
afford to follow it.”
8o wo are going back to the ancient wads
of horse hair which made our grandmoth
ers’ heads look like padded cushions.
Wei), why not? Having just escapod
shipwreok ou the crinoline reef, we are pre
pared to graze the other enormities of fifty
years ago. Aud, moreover, wo will all
rush into the purchase or manufacture of
“rats” and pin them to our heads regard
less of their shapes. Round fares and short
faces, long faces and square faces, hatched
faces aud tubby faces, will turn toward tbe
new oolffure; as to the becoraingnesi of the
style, that will not matter much at first.
The sense of tbe eternal fitness of things is
always lost with the appearance of a novel
mode. All women cast themselves into a
single mode and come out with the Dower of
individual expression gone.
Hair, dress, manner are subdued to tha
proper relation with other women’s heir
and dress and manner. A few days ago a
group of women were standing before an
exhibition of "ideal heads” by famous
Ists. The spectators wore flying capes to
their ears, tiny bats end ooifTures. eaoh and
every one of whloh was crimped heavily
from ths nape of the neck to a tight pointed
coil at the top of tbe orown.
The heads of the ideal women were, after
all, painted, one could see, from humble
models—German peasant girts wish rirw
youthful faces, set in a mist of loose flaxen
hair, wbioh fell in uneven, airy masses on
their neoks, or was gathered into a massive
braid from beneath a gray shawl twisted
about their beads. One faoe was thot of a
young girl whoso fight brown waiving hair
was ooiled into a 'prontioe ooiffure on her
head. It was her first effort to become a
woman, perhaps; at any rate, there was a
story in the simple twists of soft tresses
Another portrait was that of a Magdalen
whose bare arms and clasped hands
gleamed through straight, wild masses of
uegleoted hair.
Her faoe was calm and tad. There was
abandonment only In the subtle suggestions
of utter forgetfulness of her sinful beauty
Besides here was a gypsy girl, whose black
locks were tightly curled and shaken down
over one cheek and a broad white brow
Beneath her headdress the straight hair au
natural betrayed itself.
An arrant little ooquette, this Romany
maid! Artists and women in the unartifi
cial walks of life have alone preserved the
secret of beauty.
WILL WIGS FIN’D FAVOR?
Powdered Hair and Peruque to Returu
With Crinoline.
From the Neuj York Homing Journal.
Baldheaded men of fashion have been
planed in an awkward position by a turn of
events iu the world of style.
Women are just recovering from the
shock produced by the necessity of their
wearing hoop skirts, a fashion already
adopted on a libsral scale in Paris a id Lon
don, where the orinoliue was revived.
Some foreigu dandy, whose identity may
some day be discovered, thought that if
beautiful women had to go back to the
fashions of a generation aud a half ago that
men should do likewise. Bo he spent some
time in thinking abo it what would bs tns
most fitting accompaniment in a masculine
way for the hoop skirt and eventually de
cided upon powdered hair.
The foreign dandy’s idea took immedi
ately. Within the last two weeks, si the
cable anuounoes, many of the most seiooc
society functions have been attended by
men with their hair liberally powdered.
But the most most important statement in
the cable is that men who have been de
prived by nature of a sufficient quantity of
hair to powder are keeping in the straight
path of fashion by wearing wigs film ny
powderad end ourled by obliging wig deal
ers.
Ward McAllister’s head entitles him to a
front seat at all spectacular shows, and for
this reason he will be forced to wear a wig
when the powdered-hair fashion gets ia
order ou this side of the Atlantic.
There are many reasons why the fashion
of powdering the hair wiil become popular
among the swagger folk.
In tue first place it improves the a; pear
ance of almost any man, especially if he
boasts of a dark mustache or dark w hiskers,
thus affording opportunity forstrikiug con
trasts.
Again, it is a fashion that will probably
be coafiried to tbo rich and powerful,
always a substantial consideration when a
new style is to be introduced, for the minute
it beourues tbe property of the common
people society urops it like a hot potato.
Another feature of the new fashion is thal
the cost of a wig makes it a luxury which
every one cannot indulge in.
There are several stores in Fourth avenue
where wigs of all kinds are sold. Hareio
fore the owners of these stores have had to
depend upon members of the theatrical pro
fession aud an occasional baldheaded maa
for a living.
One of these dealers told a Journal man
all about wigs. He said that they cost all
the way from $3 to S2OO. Of course a $2
wig would by frowDed upon by a Bowery
tramp, and is made out of ‘the kind of hair
that they stuff cheap sofas with.
Of course the members oi the Four Hun
d.ed who wear powdered wigs will liavs
them made to order. They will lie made t >
fit the head perfectly, nud '.ill : con
structed te suit the tate of the purchaser.
Hbould thi fas:.ton become va y popular
it is not improbable that while wigs will
form an important part of ibe s’cok of all
large stores, end attractive advert.seniente
will appear in the papers describing hand
some wigs for ii 92, worth SB,
Of course gentlemen like Berry Wall,
who are it ill in possession of the hair be
stowed upon them by nature, will uot he
forced to patronize the wig shop.
The speolacle of Air. Depew wearing a
wig at a big dinner will odd to the attract
ive powers which the groat after-dinner
speaker possesses, and he will ho listened to
with more respect and interest than ever.
Lord Salisbury’* House r.t the Fair.
From the London Standard.
One of the most interesting contributions
from England to the Chicago exhibition is
to be a rejiroduction of what is, perhaps,
tbs finest example in this country of six
teenth century deoorativa wood oarving.
This is the famous banqueting hall at Hat
field house, the Hertfordshire seat of the
Marquis of Salisbury. A fac simile, exaot
in everything but Bize, has Been reproduced
by Hampton & Sons of Fall Mall. Tbe is
production, jiermission to execute which
was given by Salisbury, is 40 feet
long—the original being 60—20 .eot broad
ami 23 feet high, tho whole of tbe internal
surface being constructed of beautifully
carved oak, cut from the solid block, and
shaded to the deep, rich tint of the antique
work by the process known as “fuming.’'
The Cecil coat of arms, which has
also been cut from a solid block,
and the floor, like the orig
inal, will be composed of white and black
marble. Hampton & Sons will complete
the ensemble by furnishing the hall with
chairs, tabiss and armor of the Elizabethan
period, and had, time allowed, replicas of
the tapestry at Hatfield house would have
been supplied. Ae it is, tapastry will be
used as near as possible like the original.
The fine minstrel gallery, which occupies
oae end of the hail, and the celebrated
screen which stands at the other, have been
reproduced with remarkable fidelity, and
especial care bas been taken with the softly
faded beraldio colorings which adorn tbe
walls. The ball is to bo incased (n a build
ing of wood painted to look like stone, aud
visitors to Chicago will certainly be able to
form from this reproduction a very accu
rate idea at one of ths principal rooms ia tha
stately palace at Hatfield.
The Captain Prat, which figured so conspicu
ously as a possible factor in a war with Chile
two yrara ago, bas just fallen short of its ex
pected speed ill her trial trip, says the Pbila
didobiu Press. The Prat was planned to do 18
kaots with 12,000-hors:; power. The horse
power was produced but tbo best speed for two
and abalf hours was 18.3 snots, and for six
hours 17.8 knots. The Now Yors is 8,150 tons
ami is expected te do 20 snot:; with 16,500-borsn
power. The Prat has the heavier armor, lx
inches to tbo New York's 10, and the New York
has the heavier guns, or six 8-inch to tho Prut s
fourli-inch, or 24-centimeter, which is near y
lu-inch. Tho Maine, which is almost exactly
the size cf tho IYat, or i>,(148 tons, has the same
armor, 12 Indies, bnt heavier guns, four 10 inch
guns, and is expected to make 17 knots svitn
9,000-h into power. The Maine is to cost $2.-
r 85,000; the Prat cost $2,000,000. When the
Prat was ordered the United States had one
battleship ordered of about us size, the Texas.
Within the year the Prat gets to Chile three if
r.ot four armored vessels will be in commission
in our navy mere than the equals of tile Prat,
while one. the Moutoroy, two-thirds as large,
2,548 tons, but carrying 13 inches of armor, two
l2lnch guns aud steaming 10 knots, is already
afloat on the Pacific.
“In Sorno respects the ancient Romans had
tbe liest of us. Give me an instance."
"They hadn't got to learn Latin. —Aliy
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