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WOMAm 0 R L D.
A Few Tilings ol Interest to the
Fair Sex.
The Hygienic Craze in London Society.
Youths Who Are Truly English.
New Fads in Flowers -Soni9 Re
marks About Kissing— What Elderly
Ladies in Paris Are Wearing—What
Caused a Famous Divine to Change
His Text—Other Matters of General
Interest.
Many an interesting anecdote, says the
New York Tribune, is told of Dr. , a
famous divine, who has now joined the
jrreat ma ority. and none is more touching
or characteristic than one which was re
lated of him the other day by a former
member of his church. ‘‘lt was always a
great trial to the good doctor that such a
large preponderance of his congregation
consisted of fashionable people. Utterly
unworldly himself, he had an immense
contempt for the superficial life led by so
many of his parishioners, who, neverthe
less, crowded his church, rather en
joying the emotions excited by his
fierce denunciations and the frankly,
almost brutally, expressed home-truths
with which they were regaled from time
to time. It was the first Sunday in Lent,
and as Dr. ascended his pulpit and
looked over his congregation with search
ing piercing eyes, before beginning his
aermon, there was a slight stir of antici
pation in his audience. ‘We shall have a
regular tirade this morning,’ whispered
my husband; and Mrs. Midas, who was
aitting a few pews in front of me. slightly
ahrugged her velvet shoulders, as she
glanced at her nearest neighbor. There
was thunder in the air, and no one felt
surprised when in ringing tones that
filled the furthest corner of the great edi
fice the denunciatory text was given out:
‘Woe .unto you, scribes aud pharisees,
hypocrites!'
“Id the pause that followed the
atmosphere seemed more charged with
mental electricity than ever, and the
dominie was evidently just about to hurl
upon us his fiercest invectives, when a
very strange thing happened. Old T ,
the sexton, must have slumbered at his
post, for into the church and up the
broad middle aisle walked timidly but
trustfully a very little child, who, with
her poverty-stricken dress and general
appearance, presented the strongest con
trast to the richly clad assemblage.
Awake to his duties at last, the sexton
hurried after her, but the uplifted
hand of the rector motioned him
back, and on walked the little
one in utter unconsciousness, until she
reached the velvet steps of the pulpit
Itself, whore she paused, and after an in
stant s hesitation, sat comfortably down.
An indiscribable change came over the
face of the preacher, and pushing aside
the manuscript that lay before him, he
looked at us with kindly, benignant eyes.
‘Suffer little children to come unto me,’
he said, softly, ‘and forbid them not, for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven;’ and
with a demeanor whose gentleness
strongly contrasted with his late indigna
tion, he preached forgiveness and divine
love aud the charity that never faileth.”
The hygienic craze has permeated so
ciety to quite an incredible extent, says
the London Herald. It has become al
most a point of honor with us all to bo
slim! I have thought the whole matter
out, and, having watched the various
patients of the two great doctors who
have made corpulence their special study,
I have come to the conclusion that you
must, in this case, as in all others, make
jourehotce between two evils. It is a
question now of face or figure. That the
very stoutest people can deereaso their
sire b.v following strict dietetic ru.es can
not be doubted, since a duke has lost sev
enteen inches of girth and a lady lost two
or three stones in weight in two or three
months ; but 1 am sure of one thing, 1 am
sure it ages the patient, and I would re
commend any comely lady of middle age
and fair proportions to leave the cure
aloive. It is only young people just begin
ning to grow stout who really benefit by
it. If the stretched skin is no longer
lilied out it must fall into wrinkles, and
these are distressingly ugly, bhall I give
you the diet which nearly everybody has
tried, or is trying now, and which both
the great doctors recommend, with varia
tions i Here it is, copied from a diot
card:
Ba. m.—Sip throe-quarters of a pint of hot
wuter.
11-.au—Two cups of tea with nothing in it. un
less saccharin; ouo oun eof dry toast, eight
•uncos of lean meat or itsh.
11 -,-ip a tumbler of ho; water.
I :,10—Tt n o nets of lean meat or fowl, or
game, six ounces of stewed fruit.
1 3 c Tea as at breakfast, aud one or two
special biscuits.
8 p. m —Four ounces boiled fish, four to six j
ounces of lean meat, six ounces of stewed
fruit.
And you may have brandy, or whisky
and soda when you go to bod. At lunch
or dinner you may have any vegetables 1
that grow above ground—not roots; and
you may drink brandy or whisky or dry
Moselle, as advised. One doctor recom
mends particular Moselles; one doctor
recommends a particular biscuit; and if
one doctor is more fashionable because he
numbers royalties among his patients,
the other charges only four instead of
twenty five guiueas. Both allow you to
drink at meal times, which is something
of a concession. I have heard many peo
ple say that not to drink at meal times is
in itself a cure for stoutness. Several
people, among them a very pretty, smart
woman .she is a well-known countessi.
rave about the lady do'tor in Grosvenor
street, and declare that their faces, as
•well as their figures, have been improved
by a system of electrical massage. Every -
body rerommeuds exercise, and it is won
derful to see how many people do walk
nowadays.
And this, says the Boston Post, is the
conversation I heard between two Kal
cliffe college girls the other day in an
electric car They wore glasses and
looked intellectual. Said one: “The
■wind blovveth where it listeth; we hear
the sound thereof, hut cannot tell whence
it cometh, nor whither it goeth. - ’ Said
the other: "But now we know that the
wind does not blow where it listeth, but
is governed by a law; and wc can tell
whence it cometh and whither it goeth.
and how far it goes; aud since it ig not
uncommon to infer more than is proved. 1
think it is not unwise to believe in the ex
istence of more than we can see.” But I
could hardly believe what I saw.
“Flowers in general are not,” he said,
“but vioiets are worn b.v every one. They
arc more liked than ever, if that is possi
be. 1 don’t know why every one adores
them so. but they are as commonly used
as rolls for breakfast, v
‘•We have a ■• agon route up Fifth ave
nue and the ‘ashionablo siio street*,
which is cone over ever,, morning, begin
ning at 7 o'clock, and violets are left at
t) e residences with the regularity of the
milkman s mil. It is a graceful way for
a young man to send Mowers to his
sweetheart. They arc brought to her
hand fresh every morning when she
wakens.
“Wc tie them with this purple ribbon
into thick bunches for Mor <JO cents ’ he
con’inued. “and we sell them as fast as
wc can make them up. from the first
o the season in No ember till after
i-astci whin toot glow too p.cn iful
•n sms 1 aud sceutless, cvi.ry one is iio
let ui .and
“What is the correct thing or a gentle
man’s loutonniere!” 1 asked.
Those youths, says the New York Tri
bune. who are “truly English ' will be
delighted to learn that a London au
thority has given them "pointers' to the
fol.ow.n.’ effect: Walking canes should
not be t-irriod to church or business or
when making ceremonious calls; if carried
on a visit it implies a good deal of inti
macy. as if the owner were sufficiently at
home to call casually. Umbrellas should
be carefully rolled, never covered; it is
the lowest depth of ignorance of savoir
fa ire to carry an umbrella in a case The
proper way now to shake hands is to take
hold of the fingers of one's acquaintance
at the second .oint. and bestow U|>on them
one or two decisive little jerks, as
though testing their strength. The
final "g” is in great disfavor, the
present participle being fashionably
prononneed “coinin’,'’ “goin.” etc.
“Don't you know” is most correct, and
should bo pronoun ed "Don't-chi-know,"
staccato at first, and ending in a languid
urawl; tnis ejai illation, really prop -rly
spoken and accompanied with a studied
lack of animation in the expression and a
general wooden look of countenance,
shows lhat the speaker is on the topmost
crest of the social wave. Although cor
diality of manner is quite obsolete, the
up-to date young man is benevolent, and
always makes it a point to speak well of
his acquaintances, calling every man a
“good fellow” and every woman
“charmin.”’ Last, but not least, the
youth of fashion is told now to get his
hair to lie in the present approved
plastered way. First wet the hair
thoroughly, and.then wrap the head with
cloth bandages, which, when carefully
taken off. will loavo the head as sleek
and shiny as desired.
The accident, says the New York
Times, reported last week, to one of the
little Princesses Battcaberg undoubtedly
had a pronounced effect upon the Englisn
queen, who is devotedly attached to ail
the Battenberg children. Only a few
days ago one of the Loudon weeklies told
how, a day or two before, the queen was
busily looking over and signing important
state papers, using, as usual, one of her
favorite big quill pens. The youngsters
were in the room, bothering as only
youngsters can, and the ruler ou whose
dominion the sun never sets tried in vain
to get them to be off. At last they pro
posed a bargain. “Gran.” they said,
"give us each one of those lovely feathery
pens.”
The price was considered low for the
service, and it was quickly paid, and
peace and Victoria reigned together for
the rest of the morning.”
It was 7:30 o’clock one night, says the
New York Press, when I stopped at the
fashionable Broadway florist's for my
bunch of violets and a glimpse at his
floral fashions.
It is quite a fad for theater-goers to
“take in” the florist en route to the play,
and buy a posy and a boutonniere. As I
stood in the tepid air amidst a wealth of
blossoms and sweet perfumes I saw couple
after couple of fashionably dressed people
saunter in, and almost without exception
“she” selected a bunch of violets tied
with narrow violet colored satin ribbon
and “he” went away with a white carna
tion on his coat lapel.
“Are flowers as much worn by women
us a year or two ago?” I asked the man
ager, who was sorting out armsful of
magnificent American Beauty roses.
"White always after tt o'clock aud
preferably so during the day.
“Wo are reviving white camelias this
season for the buttonhole bouquet. They
have not been used for years, but are the
most elegant thing this season.”
“White carnations are good form al
ways. We put three or four blossoms to
gether with a green bit in the center or
one giant blossom.
“If a man insists on a rose, as some do
we do not use a single rose, but two or
three of the tiniest roses bunched to
gether like a rosette.”
The new rose of the season is the
“Caroline Tcstaut" (pronounced Ta to), a
lovely pink blossom a shade deeper than
the “Mortnet.” "American Beauty”
roses are still the prime favorites an j aro
as expensive as ever and the stems grow
longer each year. The “swetlor” the
florist the longer he cuts his rose stems. ’
"What is the fashionable way of send
ing flowers,” I asked. "For ordinary oc
casions." was the answer, “we send roses
in the natural state loosely gathered to
gether. Sometimes we tie them with a
rihbon, but usually they are simply
laid in a large white or pink box,
and protected with cotton and tissue pa
per.
“We sometimes send arranged baskets
of flowers, tied with ribbons, but the cor
rect ehine is a dozen American beau
ties loosely gathered togeiher, with
no adornment o but their magnif
icent foliage and stems. Jac roses
are not the rage, as they were two win
ters ago.
“We also often send boxes of similar
roses, mermets, yellow and white roses,
with pink carnations and white hya
cinths.”
Progresss and science, says the London
Sunday Sun, now propose to abolish the
kiss. Will they succeed! Without doubt
there is too much kissing done in the
world by the wrong people.
There is a vast deal of m isolating of
lips about us. Women caress each other a
great deal too promiscuously and meaning
lessly. Children are kissed too freely by
relatives, friends and strangers. 1 know
a lady who insists always on kissitig her
friends upon the lips when she meets
them. The ordeal for her friends is a
terrible one, yet not one of them has the
heart to refuse the proffered caress or to
give the cheek in place of the lips. It
seems a misfortune that the lady has not
the forethought to save her friends this
experience. Thev would love her Just
as deeply, and thank her more feeliugly,
if she pressed their hands merely aud
withheld her lips.
Parents ought to teach their children
to be chary in giving their lips Parents
themselves ought to avoid kissing infun s
on the mouth. The sweet cnecks, the
dear little soft necks, the dimpled hands,
all offer templing nooks for kisses with
out endangering the child comfort or
health. 1 have seen a father, whose
breath was vile with tobacco smoke,
press his mouth to that of a tiny infant,
never thinking that the poor baby's
lundg were being poisoned by the contact.
The kiss oa the lips was undoubtedly
first invented by lovers, and should be
consecrated to love's uses it can never be
abolished bv fashion or science while two
hearts beat, veins tingle, and pulses
throb with love's fires. To the woman
tiie kiss means more and less than it
means to the man. The woman thinks
the man who takes her lips has given his
heart; but the mau thinks only that she
who has given her lips will give herself
as well. When the woman finds her mis
take she Is disillusioned. When the man
finds his he is angry.
When tue thrill of pleasures goes out
of the kiss for two peoole, and it becomes
tt mechanical duty, love has departed.
Friendship may bind them, respect may
unite them, und sympathy render their
association sweet an i tender; but waen
lip no longer s|>eaks to lip in the wordless
eloquence of the kiss. Cupid has sheathed
his arrows and flown away.
A French doctor, says the New York
Times, urge* that we have been sleepinz
in a wrong position indefinitely. The pil
low belongs prop rly under tilt) feel, aud
not under the head To quote him. unless
the head lie low the brain is not properly
“irrivatod with blood.”
J’beii he goe ou io show bow the right
tin -it may be gradually acquired, six
weeks being a good limit for u a ting the
cbuugn without discomfort Discard the
piaow first for a few nights, then <t
wi.hout the bolster, too, there will iUi
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2',. 1834.
be a slight rise in the mattress, which
soon must be eliminated and a level posi
tion secured. Finally put the pillow at
the foot of the bed, and there you am.
One of ins argument is that if nature
had intended the bead to be raised in oc
cupying a recumbent position, the human
body wouldfliave been differently formed.
An English sculptor, says the New
York Times, has he m interviewed about
women's arms, and admits much difficulty
in securing a perfect model. He sums up
the points of such an arm as follows:
“The arm should be fully two heads long
from its insertion at the shouider to the
wrist; the upper arm large and round; a
dimpled elbow; the forearm not too fiat;
the whole diminishing in long, graceful
curves to a well-rounded wrist. A
woman's arm is rounder and tapers more
gracefully than'a man’s, owing to the
deltoid mus le coming lower down the
arm. aud all the musdes having a longer
and more gradual curve ”
Ana he says further that women should
kno v how much to move their arms.
“There is as much power of expression
in the arm as in the fai e. Sarah Bern
hardt is only one of many ins lances, es
pecially among the I reneh, Italian and
Spanish women. Her arms are certainly
out thin is of beauty on a count of their
shape; but they are decidedly so in their
movements. She knows how to manage
them, and the result is charming.”
In a clever dialogue, winch she con
tributes to the mothers and daughters
controversy in the Nineteenth Century,
Mrs. Frederic Harrison relates how a cer
tain mother, who had given her daughter
a novel to road, had pinned up the three
most interesting chapters with a bonnet
pin. This strkes us. we confess, as a very
primitive arrangement. Blacking out, ou
the ocher hand, is effective, but brutal,
for it depreciates the value of the book,
and precludes other persons, who are not
daughters, from enjoying these “interest
ing chapters.” Surely, in this mechan
ical age, it ought to be easy to discover
a patent bowdleriser, which should be
absolutely effective aud removable by any
one who is old enough to possess the
key or its equivalent. We are sure that
a small fortune would await any inventor
who is clever enough to supply this
clearly “felt want.”
The recipient of many of Queen Vic
toria's cast-off garments is Clary, a little
draper in Windsor town, says a London
letter in the New York World
Clary is the personal friend of Queen
Victoria's head-dresser. It is not a friend
ship to be despised, since to the head
dresser falls all her majesty's cast-off ap
parel. As royalty never wears the same
cap or nightdress more than once, the
head-dresser is well worth “cultivating.”
Queen Victoria has very pretty feet, de
spite her bulky, unwieldly frame. They
arc smaller and daintier than the feet
of any of her children. She always
wears an old-fashioned congress gaiter,
and her last is in the keeping of the pro
vincial bootmakers at Windsor and Bal
moral, as well as the court-maker in
London. Likewise have the provincial
drapers the block upon which is fash
ioned her majesty’s caps. This block is
made to fit her head closely, and in a
quarter of a century the style has scarce
ly varied. The caps are always made of
fine white crepe lissc. The light frame
is edged with lino white silk wire, upon
which three little crepo lisse frills are
sewed, to meet in the back two long
white streamers daintily hemstitched by
hand. The streamers fall to the waist
line. When completed the whole must
not weigh more than three ounces.
The Queen orders these caps by the do
zen. Six dozen caps generally suffice for
a single sojourn at Windsor Castle. She
took four dozen with her on her last visit
to Grasse. Six dqzen nightdresses aro
crnmpled during a Windsor visit. Neve*
is the same nightdress worn a second
time, even after laundering. Who gets
them? Ah, that's the head-dresser s se
cret. It is suspoeted that she plies a fine
trade in royal rubbish.
Give Me the Baby.
Give me the bal?y to hold, my dear
-10 hold and hug aud to love and kiss,
Ah! he will come to me. never a fear—
Come to the nest of a breast like this
As warm for him is his face wiih cheer,
Give me the baby to hold, my dear.
Trustfully yield him to ray caress.
“Bother'’' you say! What: a "bother” to
mer—
To fill up my soul with such happiness
As the love of a baby that laughs to he
Snuggled away where my heart can hear!
Give mo the baby to hold, my dear.
Ah, but his hands are Rrimed, you say,
And would soil my and clutch my
hair—
Well, what would pleasure me more, I pray.
Thai the touch aud tug of the wee hands
there?
The wee hands there, and the warm face
here—
Give me the baby to hold, my dear.
Givo me th - ' baby! 10. won't you see?
* * Somewhere, out whero the green of
the lawn
Is turning to gray and the maple tree
Is weeping Us leaves of gold upon
A little mound, with a dead rose near * *)
Givo me the baby to hold, mv dear:
—James Whitcomb Riley.
The violet is the flower of the hour, and
will hold its supremacy during ail the
Lenten season.says a writer in Demoresl's
Magazine. Luncheons at which the modest
little blootn gives the keynote of color
are a favorite divertisement, and many
unique ideas in decoration have been do
vised. At one charming affair the guests
were seated at four circular tables, each
accommodating five, and the decorations,
while carrying out the same color-scheme
were different on all. Tne drapery on all
was snowy whlto damask, individual
bonbonnieres held crystallized violets,
at every cover lava bunch of violets tied
with n: ivo satin ribt on, and a dainty
book bound in white and gold, containing
gems of thought from the best authors.
In the center of tlio table was a mound
of violets with the tiny flowers scattered
in artistically careless lines from it to
each guest's tkiuquet, as if they had been
accidentally dropped in removing it from
the mound; on another, the violets, sur
rounded by maidenhair tern, were in a
silver bowl, and mauve satin ribbon was
laid midway between the centerpiece and
the covers, tied in long-looped bows from
which tho ribbon extended in festoons to
the guesls' plates: the third had tiny
bunches of light-colored violets, all con
nected by narrow purple satin ribbon,
laid in two undulating circles, and iu the
ceuterstooda tall, slender crystal vasa
holding exquisite fers. and on the* fourtn,
from a central star on violets, a 5 pointed
star was formed of mave satin ribbon, in
the sections of which single violets were
sprinkled in most artistic disorder.
In Paris, elderly ladies, says tho New
York Tribune, are now wearing almost
exclusively velvet dresses, trimmed with
costly lace, disposed in basques, co.lara
anil sleeve sabots or frills This combi
nation is extremely becoming and stately.
A woman is never old enough to neglect
her appearance Neither is a mau. but
men do not fall into do.cdlness or un
keniptness as a ruic, as the elders of the
feminine sox sometimes do. Nothing can
be more disagreeable to the sight than a
negligee old lady. Uufor’unately, one
often aces one with the hair dragged in
the most uncompromising fashion away
from the face, brushed close to the head
aud fastened under tho cap in a little
ki.o abou. the size of a walnut at tho
back, no further attempt at any arrange
, m nut of the coiffure fining tnsdo; and
this cam*nrt>a results iu a dread
fully bald ap|H‘arn<, as the
spaces between hair aud ears aud hair
and neck see thereby rendered conspic
uously prominent. Moreover, many dear
i o it dames fail to resli.e ttiat at tneir time
I of life the neck should lie as little
j a* poss.b.e. for it is oul.v Lou frequently
| brown aud * rtuklod it would tie easy
to dispose a little lace about it, in order
to conceal the scraggy neck revealed with
too scrupulous boat-sty. Men are very
sensitive on the sub act of a companion
of the opposite sex. liking to see her well
dressed, though not conspicuous , agree
able to the eve, yet not showing any con
sciousness of being so. and "smart” in the
best sense of this much-abused word.
And sons, like husbands, are fond of be
ing able to feel proud of their mother.
While on this subject it may be added
that women over 40 should carefully avoid
beiounng too stout, a misfortune brought
generally by self-indulgence in the pleas
ures of the table, in afternoon naps, and
iria lazy neglect of daily exercise. This sort
of fat is likely to result in disease event
ually. and, as it is easily avoidable, a
word of warning may not bo amiss.
Avoid candies. Never eat pastry or but
tered toast. Prefer biscuits or dry toast
to broad whenever possible. Accustom
yourself to taking tea or coffee without
sugar Never touch jam, and if youcaisnot
do without butter, spread it as sparingly
as possib.e. Beer is fattening and in
jurious to the complexion; milk is also
fattening. Lemonade, if made from fresh
lemons, is good for the health, and tends
to reduce flesh. Growing old is always,
of course, a little tragic, especially if a
woman remains young and fresh in mind.
But she need not grow fat, coarse and
ruddy, as well as old. It is delightful to
a woman of 50 or 00 to feci that her sons
and daughters are proud of their elegant
and graceful mother, comparing her with
the dowdy, waddling, empurpled mothers
of their less fortunate friends.
The question of providing annuities for
daughters, after the English and Fren h
manner, says the New Fork Tribune, is
being discussed in Philadelphia, which
city has a large contingent of attractive
unmarried young women. It is asser.ed
that these annuities can now be had in
this country, as abroad, and it is pointed
out tha f one bought and kept up for a
term of years, and perhaps increased, se
cures comfort independence to the
daughter who does not marry.
Considering tho same topic from an
other standpoint, the Boston Home Jour
nal speaks of a society for this purpose
that has long been in operation through
out Denmark and works well and profit
ably.
The general outline of the plan, it
seerns, is that a lady who does not feel
sure that she means to be married or
wants to be married should pay an annual
premium to the central office; she re
ceives a form of policy, duly executed,
and, upon condition that she pays her an
nual premiums with regularity, she will
receive, at the age of 40, a round sum,
proportionate to the extent of her in . est
meuts and with probably certain
bonuses.”
KOCGUEFORT AND ITS CHEESE.
Made at One Place in France, but
Known Throughout the World.
From the Chicago Record.
Out of Ilooquefort, a little village of 800
souls, situated in the department of
Aveyren, Southern France the world gets
its Rocquefort cheese. If you take a
train —or better, as we did, a bike—at
Bezieres and Journey to station Tourne
mire, on the road to Clermont Ferrand,
you find yourself at the foothills of Koc
quefort. If you look up the mountain
side you will see Rocquefort perched
above some cliffs. In the mountains is a
huge cave, and in this cave all tho cheese
made in the neighborhood, as well as
much from the departments Lozere,
Herault, Gard, and Tarn, is prepared.
There is no other such cave, no such
cheese as Rocquefort, for the cave it is,
and no skill of man or woman, that gives
Rocquefort its peculiarities of tasto and
color.
A shepherd lad. so runs, the lerend.left
quite a large piece of bread and cheese,
prepared from the milk of his own gbits,
in this cavern. Returning some time af
terward he found, to his surprise, that
his cheese not only was not dried up or
rotten, but tasted better than before.
Besides, the bread crumbs left in contact
with tho cheese caused the greenish-blue
veins found now in the famous cheese.
The villagers, told of this result, tested
its truth with results very satisfactory.
As far back as 1070 Rocquefort's cheese
was famous and it is mentioned in many
ancient chronicles The worth of the
cavern to the little village will be seen in
the yearly production, upward of 10,000,-
000 pounds.
Rochefort, or Rocquefort, is prepared
from sheep's milk exclusively, and goat's
or cow’s milk may make good che ses,
but they won't make Rochefort. The
sheep are named Lazares, and originally
belong in the high tablelands, or plateaus,
which border the farm. They eat little,
are easily satisfied, and yield per capita
yearly thirty-five to forty-five ixiumis of
cheese. The lambs are not left long with
their own dams, but are either sold,
brought up ou the bottle, or by other
sheep. The sheep are milked morning
and evoning. The milk, as soon as it is
taken from the sheep, is immediately
placed over the fire and heated almost,
but never quite, up to the boiling point.
Otherwise the milk and curds are trentod
as in the preparation of other cheeses,
except that little crust crumbs of bread
are mixed with it to produce the blue
veins alluded to above. It is not true, as
sometimes urged, that this color comes
from Alpine herbs.
After the cheese is made it is put into
rooms to dry. As soon as a certain de
gree of dryuess is reached it is removed
to the cave. Here it gets those little
touches that make it Rocquefort against
all the world’s art. Why? How? No
body knows. Except this—the cave is
regular, all tho year round, in tempera
ture, and has air draughts running in it
from January to January. It is supposed
that the temperature is due to openings
into subterranean caves, and the moist
air to waters to some underground sea.
At all events, some very happy natural
combination gives the peculiar results,
aud no efforts of art have ever even
partially succeeded in attaining them, if
the temperature changed tho fermenta
tion would change; if the moisture was
more, it would make the cheese so soft
that it would not keep together, and if
less would be too dry.
The cave is owned by a joint stock com
pany. This company buys the cheese
from peasants ana farmers for 50 or 100
miles around. Of course, great care must
be taken in preparing, and only experts in
testing aro sent out to buy. The cave is
fitted up with oak shelves, on which the
cheeses are placed. In this way it has
been so utilized that 05,000 square yards
of surface have been obtained. During
the six months that it takes to make the
cheese it has to pass through many pro
cesses. First of all it must be rubbed
three days with fine salt, and as often as
the melted salt, mingling with thecheese,
makes a mass of soft matter, this is
scraped away. It is then taken to a ma
chine filled with needles and run by
steam. H re it is pricked full of little
holes, into which afterward the air of the
cave penetrates. All tho work is done by
women, who, besides bed and board, get
tiOO to tl'A'i a year. The cave is so cold
and damp that the women must wear
woolens winter and summer It is a cu
rious sight in summer to see these women
clad as one finds women clad only in north
ern latitudes in winter.
The people are clean, hospitable and
good imtured They have only u very
vague notion, however, of what the world
thin*. nt their ch‘se Ttaoy know it is
good; they prepare it because it it the
only means of prosiicrity. The I'aria
prices, however, or those of London, Chi
cago and New York, appear Ui Uiuiii ab
solutely increlibio There it a ragged
rusticity among tho hill*. The |ioople are
sunpte the p-ae -itta of Pahnume In the
time of Christ .hey take off their bait
and how tneir heads as Miiiel has told us
in hi* baautifui picture of the aogcius.
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Richard (Mer as an Employer of
Labor.
An Ostrich in Politics—An Incipient
Conflict Between Wall Street and
Chicago.
(Copyright)
Nrw York. Feb. 24.—Charges connected
with the name of Richard Croker have
heretofore been of a political nature, and
hence it is a source of surprise that news
has begun to circulate among a limited
coterie that he is the target of accusa
tions which places him in no favorable
light as an employer. As many are
aware, Mr. Croker has become noted as
the purchaser of high-priced horseflesh
on so extensive a scale that it has become
nezessary for him to maiutain an
elaborate stable with a retinue
of stable hands and atten
dants. But as an employer Rich
ard Croker has made himself infinitely
detested. In the first place he is charged
with being unreasonably tyrannical and
with paying wages that are meanly in
adequate. However, such a state of
affairs would not be sufficient to make
him more odious than many employers
were it not that he has a way of inter
fering with the personal liberties of his
men and boys in a way alleged to be
most irksome to them, to put it mildly.
A few of the boss’ former stable hands
are in New York and the tales they tell
are almost incredible, were it not lhat
there exists evidence to show that what
they say has some foundation in fact.
It would seem that Richard Croker be
came aware recently of the disaffected
condition of his stable hands, and took
measures to nip tho insubordination in
the bud. It is not easy to get at the facts
in tho case, because there have been
threats that any one who talked too freely
would soon have reason to wish he hadn't.
But enough has become known to learn
that if ever there existed a tyrant of an
employer, apart from any considerations
connected with the market price of labor,
his name is Croker. It seems likely at
present that there will be some action on
the part of a labor union to see how far
the charges against the boss are founded
on fact.
CRUELTY OF MOTHERS.
Much senseless prejudice has been
aroused against a certain New York so
ciety which protects little children
from cruelty, but some of the recent de
velopments indicate that it is at least a
blessing to some babies. It appears that
when a poor mother is neglectful of her
babe the fact is made public, but the offi
cers of the society complain that their
good work among the rich is never made
known. For instance, how many New
Yorkers heard of tho case of a society
woman who was in the habit of tying
her babe to tho chain which controlled
her pug dog. until tho society put an end
to the arrangement? Nor does anyone
hear of the society's efforts to put an end
to the traffic in various patent devices
used by well to do mothers, and which are
designed to help a baby to jump or walk.
The devices are sold because too many
mothers in Now York aro only too glad to
get rid of their babies, and yet will not
pay for a competent nurse. One patent
tool was meant to strap a baby in its bed
and to prevent it from kicking the clothes
off by binding its legs together. Another
contrivance was meant to keep a baby's
mouth open by force, and still another
was a hath tub in which a baby was im
prisoned like a prisoner in the stocks.
However, the traffic in these inhuman af
fairs is now under the ban.
Wall street is a little excited by evi
den e that the Chicago financiers are
stealing a march on them. There seems
to exist some arrangement by which the
Chicago bankers can maintain their bal
ances and their fundsmorereadily availa
ble than can the financiers in New York.
It is declared also that the Secretary of the
Treasury has more confidence in the
Chicago men than he has in tho Wall
street men. For instance, Mr. Carlisle
never accepts Wall street hospitality. He
does not eat superb dinners at the ex
pense of the Wall street men. On one of
his recent New York visits the Wall
street men arranged a fine dinner in his
honor. When all the financier guests ar
rived, there was no Mr. Carlisle, so the
dinner was eaten without the guest of
honor.
It would seem to be different in Chi
cago. Not only is the secretary alleged to
be more amenable to Chicago influence,
but it is said that those who deal with the
Chicago banks find it easier to get money.
One New York merchant told a Wall
street man recently that the Chicago
banks are passing money freely over their
counters, and seem to have plenty left for
all that. The ridicule heaped on Chicago
banks because the bond call was not
answered there as freely as it was in
New York is one of the disgruntled re
torts of the Wail streeters.
AS ASTOR OIRL.
Mrs. Coloman Drayton, the favorite
daughter of the late William Astor, in
spito of the fact that the amount she re
ceived underihis will was not phenome
nally heavy, would seem to be in poor
health. Tnis will surprise many. Mrs.
Drayton has an excellent constitution,
but the persecution she has been sub
jected to in the past two years has told
upon her health. She has been residing
iu the fine house which was long oc
cupied by young John Jacob Astor and
his wife. Her life has been exceedingly
lonely. A ride in Central Park and the
i occasional visit of a school girl friend
have been her only diversions, except for
the interest she takes in a number of poor
proteges.
Mrs. Drayton's health has not been of
the best, it is stated, lor a few months
past. She seems languid and weak. Her
old time vivacity seems to have deserted
her entirely. This fact will be a source
of regret to many- New Yorkers in humble
life as well as to members of the upper
ten. For Mrs. Dravton remains the one
member of the Astor family who has suc
ceeded in making herself liked by all
members of society, poor as well as rich.
AN OSTRICH IN POLITICS.
New York city is about the last place
in which an ostrich would lie expected to
flourish, yet recent exjieriments prove
that no better place for the development
of the bird exists. An ostrich farm on a
miniature scale is now, indeed, one of the
attractions of the city.
This fact is due to the idfluence of a
well known contractor, who owns one of
the most powerful ostriches ever tamed.
The bird has on several occasions proved
the attraction at social gatherings in the
contractor's country house, for the crea
ture is a stately biped, and those who
have seen him fed b,v his owner agree
that he will swallow anything at the con
tractor's bidding. Recently, however, he
caused his master much trouble by rais
ing a row over his meals, and witnesses
of the spectacle now tease tho bird's
master by asking whether he owns tho
ostrich or whether the ostrich owns him.
The matter has become important be
cause it is claimed that the ostrich is
really public property and should lie
placed among the other ostriches in Cen
tral park instead of being monopolized b.v
an influential contractor for his personal
edification. So the metropolis is in the
1 unique position of having an ostrich as
one of its political factors.
A roKAOITKN POWCR.
William C. Whimsy was in the Wall
street throng the o’ her <lav, but he passed
aiong unnsomi'Aid becaut 'he had not
his eyeglasses on. and without them he
looks a good IU years younger that he is
it is thought wni in New York
I that this former member of cabinet
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KEHOE’S IRON WORKS,
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~ _. .. RAILROADS.
Jacksonville,
St. Augustine
& Indian Stiver
Railway.
SCffUtKs; Time Table Sn Effect February 19th, 1894.
" SOUTH BOUND. NORTH BOUND.
“ ' NoT No. No. INo. INo. jNo2fitiNo. No, ; No. No.
s7t 23t S3 | 36* >lt ! :0|
t Jacksonville.... i..... I. (0 Soa| 2 25pi Mlp LW.Palnißeath 8 00a|..' 8 nop
A St. Augustine I JO 50a| 3 45p;7 OOp Riviera 8 13a 805 p
L St. Augustine f *4oa, 1100*1 A West Jupiter 845a 8 45p
..Hastings 9 la Hobo Sound •
.. F.ast Palatka.. | 9 37a 11 55a! Gomez 2 2
A Palatka (. |l2 Isp; ' 0““?; §Sr. g
A Tanijateot... I 1 l&p ” Eden. ° I
L San Mateo*... t f ooa, Ankona “■ *
A Ormond .Til 'a! 1 Wp L Ft. Pierce.... 30p| 750a
. Davtona 11l 22a l S2p St. Lucie 5 37p 7 57a
..PortOrango 11138a 1 ..Sebastian... 63>p 905a
..New Smyrna UOOn; 8 (Bp Melbourne— 7 12p 950a
A Lake Helent 12f5p; s;p ISJjI S'? .
.. Orange City Jit 1 lOpj 6 0o P " city Point!” ””” ” ” 1 1 13a 1 58p
r • A Titusville... i 11 50a I 2 35p
L Titusville f 12 lOp 2 45p
I I Oak Hill 12 47p 320 p
■" ".v ~T I— A New Smyrna 1 lip l 340 p
LNew Smyrna lOOon 2 02p ;
A Oak Hill 12 22p
.. Titutville I 12iOp 2 45p -v
L Titusville f 1 OOp 305 p •••- •,
A Cocoa. ° lnt 137d 3 37r> • • O.city'jiinct! TANARUS!” i'SOpT” :::::: 227 p
.. EauGallie 8 lla 4 37p .. Lake Helen -1 700 p -42 p
.. Melbourne R2oa 4 46p A New Smyrna ! 8 SOp 1 llpj 340 p
.. Sebastian 900a SSOp L Port Orange 131p' 357 p
.. St. Lucie as°a 6 37p Daytona 1 48p| 4 13p
.. Fort Pierce loot a . ... 6 45pi Ormond 2 I3p| 4 38p
.. Ankona East Palatka 345 p; 6 lOp
• Eden 8 .... 8 ASanMateot-I I 7 25p
..Jensen * L San Mateo*. f 2 30pl
..Gomez o 8 L Palatka I 3 15p| 5 Dp
.. Hoie Sound ]L Hastings I 4 06p| 6 39p
L West Jupiter... 7 OOp 7 00a A St.Aug’stine < 4 45p 7 lOp
A Riviera 7 82p 7 40a jL St. Aug'stine f 7 40a 955a115p 4 oQpi
.. W. Palm Beach 7 45p 74fra| JA Jacksonville.. 9 00ail0 45a.2 25pi 6 10pj
♦Daily! |Daily except Monday! tDally except Sunday.
Train 23makes no stops between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, or at stations between
St. Augustine and Kockledge. at which time is not shown excepting to let off passongers hold
ing tickets from points north of St. Augustine.
Service between Fort Fierce and West Jupiter is at present performed by steamers
“Santa Lucia” and “Sweeney.” Daily, except Sunday.
Ferryboat leaves West Palm Beact* (after arrival of train) for Palm Beach, Pitts Island
and other landings on Lake Worth.
Trains 500 and 501—New York and Florida Special—composed exclusively of Pullman
cars, mak*' no stops between Jacksonville and St. Augustine.
Trains 23 and 72 carry buffet parlor cars between Jacksonville and Fort Pierce.
Trains 26 and 26 carry parlor cars between St. Augustine and Rockledge.
Trains 27 and 28 carry parlor cars between Rockledge nd Fort Pierce.
'i ra .8 35 and 70 carry parlor cars between Jacksonville and St Augustine.
W. L. CRAWFORD. JOSEPH RICHARDSON.
General Superintendent. General Passenger Agent
should not be more in the public
eye just now than he seems to be. Ho is
really the most powerful man politically
in all New York, and his power is all the
greater because few really know the
foundation of it or why he has all the in
fluence that is his.
The fact is that Mr. Whitney is devot
ing all his energies not to increasing his
fortune, as has been conjectured, but to
insuring the permanency of that which
he already has. His wealth is enormous,
but his assets are not entirely of a kind
which possess what may be termed a
stable value. And this fact Mr. Whit
ney seems to realize, for he is solidfying
his investments somewhat after the man
ner of the late Jay Gould, but without
resorting to any of the tactics which
even the most sensitive labor advocate
could find fanlt with.
AN IMMORTAL BISHOP.
Bishop Potter is now the foremost pre
late of his faith living, not even excepting
the great men of the church of Kngiaud.
This fact is recognized abroad if it is not
at home, and the, tributes to his genius
paid him in Kmrland would have turned
the head of a man less sensible. The
archbishop of Canterbury made the most
flattering allusions to him in a recent ser
som. ami the other prel ties in the House
of lords have expressed themselves in
terms equally flattering. Bishop Potior
probably guards the consciences of more
money king* and queens than any single
American clergymen, for nearly all the
wealthy ami fashionable magnates belong
to his denomination, from the Aston
down
This circumstance has led to the circu
lation of a facetious rhyme aiiout the
bishop's connection with a constituency
that may yot bo troubled by somethiog
that has to do with the eye of a needle.
However the bishop seems to bear his
great responsibility fairly well.
Davit* Wscuslkh.
Cured by Prayer.
From the New York Press.
Williamsport, Pa., Feb. 18.—There was
a revival service in this city last Thurs
day night. Among those who attended
was Miss Mary Titus, pretty and 18. For
three years she has not been able to speak
above a whisper, the result of an attack
of grip. When the services were about
half over Miss Titus suddenly leaped to
her feet and startled the audience by ex
claiming: *
“Praise God, from whom all blessings
flow' He has heard my prayers and re
stored my voice.'’
The girl’s voice had, indeed, been re
stored to her, and in the special praise ser
vice, conducted by the pastor, following
this event, many were converted. Since
then the remarkable cure has been the
sole topic of conversation among churh go
ing people and everybody else in Williams
port.
Tho Congressman’s Mall.
From the Washington Post.
With the passage of the Wilson bill it
was natural to expect a great decrease of
representative mail, but it has not
proven so. The measure is in the slow
j but ruthless hands of tho Senate, and
I constituents who imagine that the big
| gest man in the home district must neces
sarily swing a powerful iuflucnco at tho
; north end of the capitol, continue to
| waste jMistage stamps and postal cards.
I Home of these missives exhort, some
1 plead, and some do both. A perusal of
| them shows that not two districts in tho
' t'nitod States want exactly tho same
i thing. It might bo correct to say that
not one hundred men in any one district
j want tlie same thing. Day after dv
I congressmen read the letters, swesr
softly, and dump them into tho waste
basket. The dorks in the post olflre arn
earning saiaarict right along, and the
trustful voter, north, east anuth and
w.-st, waits tor the response that uever
comes.