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WOMAN'S WORLD.
A Fei Things of Interest to the Fair
Sex.
How English Wedding Cakes Are
Built— The Color of the Queen's
Horses— How Travelers Discuss the
Affairs of Their Neighbors—Few
Women Shopkeepers in This Coun
try—The Woman Movement in New
Zealand— Some Facts About Babies.
Soma Other Matters Worth Reading.
The Herald has the following relative
to some of the secrets of the toilet:
• First of all,” said madame seating
herself upon one of the divan-like lounges,
•T must ask you not to mention my name
in your paper. I shall be pleased to tell
you anything you want to know, but I do
not think my clients would like to find
that I had been talking about them. Ido
not object to talk to you simply because I
have no secret methods. Neither 1 nor
my daughters make any pretense of turn
ing ugly women into beautiful ones, nor
do we make a mystery of our processes.
What we claim to do is to teach women
to take care of their beauty, to instruct
them in the art of making-up, where
they are in the habit of doing it; and we
ran, by the use of good cosmetics, prop
erly applied, improve the features where
the features are good, and where there is
beauty already, add to it.”
••You have a large number of clients, I
understand, madame.”
••Yes. Dozens. I might say scores.
You see very few women, indeed, know
bow to make up properly. Nine out of
ten overdo it. I teach them refinement
of taste. Of course, it is very difficult
for an inexperienced woman to make up
well. Very few women possess a true
artistic sense of color and proportion.
For example, only a few days ago a well
known young lady, moving in the best
society, came to me. What was she like?”
exclaimed madame. with a shrug of her
shoulders and a look of disgust. ••Hor
rible! Two vivid spots of rouge, hard,
and as accurately defined as if put on
with a stencil, glowed upon her cheeks—
in the wrong place,” continued madame,
with a pitying smile, "for her type of
contour. Her lips were too red (only
pale, plump, fair women should indulge
in ‘hiciscus’ red, as I call it), and spoilt
by careless outlining. Her eyes were
blackened far too much; her eyebrows
heavy and badly shaped. Too much
powder, blanc de perle; too much every
thing except art. None of that, alas!
T washed it all off,” said madame with
a laugh, •‘and told her that she would let
her maid do the making up for her, or if
she could not, then send her to me for a
few lessons. It was because I saw so
many badly made-up 'women about Paris
that five or six years ago I adopted my
present profession. Well, to resume, I
made up the young lady till she was as
lovely as she ought to be, for she is ex
ceedingly beautiful. She was delighted,
charmed. ‘Why I am positively
pretty,’ she exclaimed when 1 had fin
ished. ‘Lovely, mademoiselle. I should
rather say,’ I added. In less than a week
her maid came to take lessons, and now
mademoiselle is made up as she should be.
Oh! yes, I have numbers of ladies’ maids
who come to me for instruction, and some
young ladies who haven't maids come to
learn the art themselves.”
•‘I suppose your chief clientele, how
ever, madame. is composed of the ladies
themselves who come to be made up as
they would go to the hairdresser or mas
seuse.”
“Exactly,” replied Mine. M. “I can as
sure you that I and my daughters have a
very busy time durisig business hours—
that is, from about 9:30 till 7:30. In the
evening .we are chiefly occupied at the
residences of our lady clients making
them uo for balls or the theatre. Of
course we can only make up two clients or
so each in an evening, unless, say, three
reside in the same house or the third en
gagement is a very late one. What are
my charges, you ask? Well, from 20 to
‘26 francs, supplying the cosmetiques, and
rather less where the lady has her own,
or where two engagements are in the
same house.”
"Make-up is carried to great lengths?”
“Yes. Of course some women are al
ways made up-; others only for the even
ing or on special occasions. Some insist
upon the veins even of the bosom being
outlined with great care, when wearing
very decollete gowns, as those of the tem
ples. For myself I don’t think that promi
nent veins are at all beautiful.
•What do I think of cosmetiques? Well,
a beautiful woman is beautiful enough
without them, and, once commenced,
their use must be coutinued, that is if au
elaborate make-up is indulged in. There
are, however, a few simple things which
any one may use to improve her appear
ance without harm. These I always
recommend to young ladies. But I am
afraid they think them too simple and in
expensive to be of much use. That is not
so, however.
“For example: Should the eyebrows be
required a little darker or to appear a
little thicker, hold a saucer over the flame
of a candle or lamp, hollow side down.
Take a fine camel's hair brush. Dip it
in the lamp black accumulated, Touch
up the eyebrows carefully. Ft voila!
What could be better for a temporary
occasion? I frequently use this without
saying anything about it. Do the same
with the lashes. The effect is good, even
charming. To improve color of the lips
wet them with eau de cologne, and when
dry touch the lips with a little cream or
salve. Beetroot juice is an excellent and
innocuous substitute for rouge. Dip a
ratner thick camel s-hair brush in the
juice, then paint the cheek as desired.
\V hen quite dry tone down with a cham
ois leather, softening the edged of the
color, and dust with powder.”
It isn't always the biggest baby, says
the Commercial Advertiser, that is the
strongest nor the finest, for the firmness
of flesh and bone, with a steady if stow
mcrease in weight and bulk.'is better
than i:ny great stature or weight. Of
course children are built on different
Models, and one cannot say that a baby
should weigh just so much at such a time,
but someone has gone to the trouble of
getting some averages with which
mothers may console themselves when
“ lf> y have nothing else to think of. At
birth a boy should weigh some HW to 7
rounds, a girl somewhat less, or about (i
l<l ’ j pounds. Twins are always of lower
average weight and size than single chil
dren, although the two together weigh
more than any single baby. In liight a
j" • should measure at birth on an overage
1 ' to 111 inches; a girl some half an inch less
the range of health lying betwoen Hi and
-’ inches. The child grows with rapidity
<> iring the first year, faster than during
•my other period of the same length, so
to t . it gains about 8 inches, measuring
when twelve months old about 27 inches,
its weight being about 19 pounds.
. ‘[uring the second year it gams only 4
11 hes ° n an average, and 6 pounds in
weight, reaching a stature of 31 inches
?"d a weight of 24 [>ounds. But these
figures represent only the average, the ex
“'•me ranging between wide limits. A
t u t that is seldom taken into cousidera-
Ecui with children, witn regard to their
" eight and plumpness, is that about their
second year, when they are learning to
walk, they become thinner, not beeause
i ey deterioate in health but through the
increased exercise using up more of the
tissues loriuing the muscles of the body.
Attention, says the Now York Times,
bus been called recently lo the compara-
tively small number of women shopkeep
ers in America. They have been ruled
out in our large cities, but there is still
room for them at our summer and winter
resorts Many dp emoarg in business,
selecting stocks exactly similar to those
sold by the tradesmen who will be their
rivals. During a sojourn at a summer re
sort the writer watched eagerly every
new booth that was opened along the
promenade, and the endless succession of
curiosity shoos and Japanese bazaars was
particularly depressing when it was ne
cessary to go to the main thoroughfare,
half a mile in the olazing sun, for a spool
of cotton, a shoelace, crewels, or even
eatables, such as cake and biscuits.
Moreover, arrived at the business sec
tion, one was not sure of finding any
thing but moth-eaten worsteds, coarse
musliris, basting cotton, stale cake, and
crackers sodden with the dampness of
salt air.
At last a woman appeared on the scene
who realized that money could be made
by supplying necessities, and she made it,
her little pavilion soon becoming a place
of general resort after the bath. To day
her mail-order business alone yields a
larger mcotne than the average of her
neighbors.
Nowhere is the great woman movement j
so rampant as in New Zealand. It is ;
New Zealand that has given the world a
lady mayor in the person of Mrs. Yates. }
who rules the destinies of the township of |
Onehunga. near Auckland. Wellington
also furnishes the case of a wedding re
cently in which lovely woman asserted
her individuality. The lady went through
the marriage ceremony up to the point
where she was asked: “Wilt thou have
this man?” Here she drew up by reply
ing: "No; I won’t have him,” and she
persisted in that mood till 10 o’clock the
next morning, when, having sufficiently
vindicated her natural liberty, she con
sented to the ceremony being concluded.
This may be a case of eccentricity; but a
much wider significance must be given to
another wedding, which has beon cele
brated at Christ church under the aus
pices of the New Zealand Dress Reform
Association, says the Pall Mall
Budget. The bride, Miss Kate Walker,
and the bridegroom. Mr. J. K. Wilkinson,
had recently joined hands by publishing a
pamphlet on "Dress Reform and
What it Implies.” Not satisfied
with this achievement, they resolved
to show what the dress reform
implied by donning the reform garments
on their wedding day. The result—surely
a unique one—is shown in the cut. Thie
enterprising bride, like Strephon in
“lolauthe.” was divided into two parts as
it were, the upper part of her dress con
sisting of the conventional bride’s veil
and the lower sinking into a modified pair
of breeches. Her costume was of stone
blue begaline, with vest and revers of
whire silk, embroidered with gold. She
wore a beautiful wreath of jessamine in
stead of the time-honored orange blossom
and, although gloves were discarded, a
a lovely veil was worn—not, however,
over the face, hut thrown back
and falling in long, graceful folds
over the shoulders. The bridemaid. Miss
Nellie Walker, wore a suit of cream silk,
with a beautiful lace collar. The lady in
whose house the wedding took place,
wore a brown cashmere suit, trimmed
with handsome braid. The suits were
nearly all of the same design, neatly
fitting knickers, long coat, with revers,
and a long vest, the coat being edged with
cord to match the material. Most of the
gentlemen were in knicker costume. The
parson who united the "happy pair” pro
fessed himself in thorough sympathy with
the movement. There will certainly he
no difficulty now in deciding as to which
of the two “wears the breeks,” as the
Scot would say.
Why, asks the New York Tribune, do
so many travelers discuss their own and
their neighbors’ affairs so that every one
in the vicinity may hear, and sometimes
must hear?
In an elevated train one evening a young
woman sat beside a quiet traveler. A
young man hung by a strap before her,
and the quiet traveler heard the follow
ing:
Y. M.—But you are her friend. You
understand my position, and you have
told me how she feels. Why can’t you
explain to her?
Y. W.—lsn’t it rather late? If you
were free I might help you, but you have
made a declaration to this other girl.
Y. M.—Yes, because I thought Alice
did not care; but you say——
Y. W.— I spoke, believing you were free.
Why were you so hasty!
Y. M.—l believed that Alice was indif
ferent to me; and so, perhaps because,
misery loves company, I offered myself to
Miss X. She had been supporting her
father, a broken-down old man. He had
lust died, and she seemed nearly heart
broken.
Y. W.—And now you propose to com
plete the heart-breaking by recalling your
offer?
Y. M.— Isn’t that rather hard? Don’t
you think—
“ Fifty niuth street!” shouted the con
ductor, and the rest of the story was lost.
What was the sequel?
BEND LOW AND HARK.
Bend low and hark with ms. my dear,
How the winds sigh:
A voice is on mem that 1 fear—
It brings the by-gone days so near,
Like a soul's cry.
Those whom we bury out of sight.
How still they lie!
Beyond the reaches of the light,
Outside the realm of day and night—
Eo they not die?
Shall we unbar the long-closed door?
You. dear, or I?
Could love be what it was before
If we should call them back once more
And tney reply?
Would they life's largess claim again?
They draw too nigh.
O. winds be still: You shall not pain
My heart with that long-hushed refrain
As ( you sweep by.
The dead have had their shining day—
Why should they try
To listen to the words we say.
To breathe their blight upon our May?
Yet the winds sigh!
—Louise Chandler Moulton, in the Cosmopoli
tan.
All the queen’s horses at Windsor Cas
tle are white or gray; all that draw the
royal carriages from Buckingham Pal
ace, London, are prancing bays. She
keeps about sixty horses at Windsor
alone, having besides the grays a large
number of saddle horses and some bays
for the carriages of the ladies in waiting,
and for other retainers not members of
the royal family. The horses are sleek
and fat, not very high, but stocky, and
weigh from 1,000 to 1,100 pounds apiece.
They are fed chiefly on cracked corn and
hay. and are too fat for good driving, but
the queen prefers gentle horses, and does
not care for speed. Every day when she
is at Windsor she rides in the magnificent
park adjoining the castle; no matter
what the weather is she takes her drive.
All the horses not otherwise used are
driven daily for exercise. They do not
have box stalls, but the stalls are twice
the usual width and the horses are tied
with long chains so that they have
much freedom. The divisions between
the stalls are quite low. and the ventila
tion is perfect. The horses are bedded
with clean straw day and night. The
hay is not let down from an upper floor,
but is placed in the mangers by hand.
Everything about the stablo is scrupu
lously clean, and the place is as free from
odor as a lady’s boudoir. The royal car
riages are very roomy and heavy. They
would not be worn out in a lifetime oven
if put to constant use The harness room
is an exhibition of itself. One could
hardly believe that the harnesses were
not new, they were s i clean and glisten
ing; the trimmings are of Neither I
the queen’s horses Lor carriages are ever |
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1594.
sold; when the horses are past their prime
they are not shot, and the old carriages
are kept until they fall to pieces.
The latest word of Parisian eccentricity
is that pet dogs in Paris are now dyed to
harmonize with the prevailing tint of
their mistress' boudoir. Two shades of
violet are now the most popular coloring
for white dogs.
•‘I wondered much how the enormous
English wedding cakes, weighing into the
hundreds of pounds, were baked," com
ments a woman, “and when I was in
England this summer I asked about it.
They are baked in sections, it seems, each
section weighing sometimes forty or fifty
pounds. These sections are perfect parts
of the whole design, and fit into their
places as beautifully as pieces of cabinet
worK. Each section is cut open to see that
it is properly baked, and the incisions are
afterward covered with thick sugar and
almond icing.”
The old lady, says the New York
Tribune, who entered a train at a country
station, had an anxious face, and soon
confided to her neighbor the fact that she
had but once before been on a railroad.
The lines in her forehead appeared to
deepen as the hours went on, ana every
time the train stopped she inquired, “Is
this New York?”
“S'posin’ this train would he late.” she
said, “mebby Lyddy would think I wa'n’t
comiu'. ”
"Did you tell her which train you would
take?”
"Oh, yes; I made sure to tell her to
meet me at the New York afternoon
train. They isn’t moro’n one train, is
they?”
She was calm for a while after the
neighbor had assured her she would try
to help her find Lyddy, but presently she
remarked. “How’ll I let ’em know I want
to git off at New York?” Just then the
conductor passed and she seized him by
the coatsleeve, exclaiming, “Look here,
Mister, I’ve got to land at New York.
Won’t you please stop the train for me
when we git there’”
“All right, ma'am,” said the man
soberly.
“You’ll not forgit?”
“Trust me for that. I’ll remember,
sure.’ 1
"Thank you kindly, sir,” she answered
gratefully. “I’m much obliged.”
And the man did not smile till he had
left her.
In America, says the New York Tribune,
just now a tiara seems to be the outward
and visible sign of assured prosperity—
the seal, as it were, of financial prosperity
—but even to the fortunate ones to whom
such insignia are granted, the ordinary
choosing, discussing and deciding about
this crowning glory of the jewel-box is a
matter of becoming seriousness. The
jewelers receive such an order with rev
erence, and sometimes take months to
select suitable stones, making special de
signs, etc. So when littlq Mrs. A., who
unexpectedly inherited a large fortune
the other day. walked into the great
establishment of , saying in a matter
of-fact way that she wanted to buy a
diamond tiara, and asking to be shown
some, as if they were the ordinary stock
in trade, the clerk fairly gasped.
One of the heads of the house was sent
for, and he, in his turn, summoned an
other of his confreres for consultation.
Mrs. A. was conducted in state to one of
the little green rooms; brooches, rings,
rivieres and headpieces were brought in
for the stones; a design was chosen from
the portfolio of drawings, and then and
there the tiara was bought. “I never sold
a very important piece of jewelry in such
; off-hand fashion in all my experience be
fore,” exclaimed Mr. X., as he returned
to his office after bowing Mrs. A. out.
“She should try my receipt.” said a
trim little woman to a buxom dame who
was regarding with expanded eyes a
woman of enormous proportions prome
nading up and down the parlor of a dress
making establishment.
The buxom lady, says the New York
Herald, turned upon the trim, yet plump
little person, touched all over with the
spots of nature which makes the whole
world of women kin.
“Have you a receipt?” she asked. “Do
be a sister and tell it to me. I never saw
you before, and I may never see you
again, but if you will teach me how to
shave off about fifty pounds I’ll be your
friend in real if you ever lose friends and
fortune.”
“A year ago I was as stout as you are,”
said the other, genially, “but I took my
waist down six inches in a month. Of
course I’ll tell you.”
Two months later Mrs. Guest, the
seeker after truth, met her friends—re
assembled after the summer divergence—
at a luncheon. Mrs. Guest was literary
of inclination if not of practice, and so
were her friends. They had a Shake
speare class, read all the new novels and
attended lectures upon all intellectual
subjects. For a time the conversation
sparkled with allusions to all the fads of
the hour, including Sarah Grand and the
longer-drawn-out George Meredith and
Mrs. Ward. There was one stray refer
ence to Ibsen, but when a member of that
picked band attempted to allude to Tol
stoi she had forgotten how to pronounce
the name.
At length there came one of those sud
den and uncomfortable lulls which will
occur in even a literary luncheon. An
effervescent young woman, whose role it
was to be on the alert for such phases,
flew to the rescue.
“Dear Mrs. Guest,” she exclaimed,
with vivacity, “haven’t you grown thin?”
One corner of Mrs. Guest’s mouth
rushed up to meet an eyebrow which
simultaneously rushed down. It was a
wonderful suggestive facial contortion, a
noble symbol of mystery.
There were twelve ladies at the table.
Eleven of them possessed the volumi
nous proportions which come to even
those of intellectual aspirations when
sauntering through their middle years.
They fairly gasped as tney leaned for
ward and gazed at Mrs. Guest with
eager eyes, the eyes of hope; nay, of
rapture.
“So you have,” they exclaimed.
“Nancy Guest, what have you been doing
to yourself?”
Mrs. Guest chuckled complacently.
“Walking,” she replied.
There was one unanimous grunt of dis
belief.
“Banting.”
The nostess threatened to give her
nothing more to eat.
“I did it all in two months,” said Mrs.
Guest, helping herself to a large measure
of potato au gratin.
“But how? how?” cried the exasperated
women, scowling at the potato.
“Well, just let me tell you first how I
heard about it,” and Mrs. Guest told the
tale of the encounter at the dressmaker’s.
The ladies listened breathlessly. When
Mrs. Guest, after repeating the stranger's
affable consent to lecture upon a weighty
subject, paused abruptly, there was a mo
ment's intense, reverberating silence.
Ten Hushed faces nearly met over the
board.
Mrs. Guest raised her eyes and glanced
about mischievously, then slowly shook
her head.
There was a gasp of consternation, then
a gentle, well-bred shout of indignation.
••Nancy Guest! Do you mean to say
you won't tell us?”
“You moan, hateful, horrid woman!”
“I just won’t vote for you for our next
Shakespearean president.”
And then one and all they set upon her.
Literature was relegated to the deeps of
memory, and the excellent luncheon was
neglected even by the hostess. They
begged, they pleaded, they threatened,
they abused, they almost wept, they rose
to fury. All in vain. Mrs Guest ate a
hearty luncheon, gave them an occasional
wink or provoking smile, and once called
attention with rueful face to the fact that j
even her new gown was a crease too
large for her.
For a month Mrs. Guest was perse
cuted. She was called upon at all hours,
she was waylaid on the street; at the
Shakespearean meetings. Shakespeare
was neglected and adipose was king. At
last Mrs. Guest, rather than change her
city for another, divulged her secret.
“Well, it is simple enough.’’ she said,
balancing Shakespeare on her knee as if
he were a colicky infant. "The woman
said to me, “The whole secret of working
down the waist, and a—a—hom—the
thickness below the waist, don’t you
know, lies in exercising the arms. First
go through the swimming motions for
fifteen minutes, then raise yourself
slowly on your toes, extending the arms
above your head, and inhale
deeply. The muscles thus exer
cised work off the fat. Then
go through the arm motions with
one-pound dumb-bells. But that is
not all. She used the expression, 'the
whole secret,’ but it wasn't, as she pro
ceeded to show. Women are so inexact
in their nse of words; although those ex
ercises certainly are the principal ones,
as the swimming motion is what takes in
the waist.
"But next you want to stand up straight
and draw up the knee to the distressing
thickness. This is one of the West Point
exercises. Then sit on one chair, hook
your feet in the rung of another,
and fall slowly backward and lie on your
back and raise your legs slowly. If in
addition to this you will walk two
or three miles a day, take a cold sponge
bath and avoid starchy food—l only ate
potatoes that day to tease you—well, be
hold the result in me ”
And now that band of ambitious wo
men no longer read Shakespeare and the
current female novel, for they have not
time—but they are thin.
LETTERS SUICIDES LEAVE.
A Queer Collection o! Reasons tor
Self-Destruction.
Things Whioh Make Men Think Noth
ing in the Hereafter Can Be Worse
Than What They Endure Here.
Women Seldom Write.
From the New York Sun.
Persons whose business or inclination
has placed them in a position to become
familiar with the subject of self
destruction find an interesting study in
the letters written just before the writer
committed suicide. It is a curious fact
that although the persons intending to
make away with themselves realize that
they have only a few minutes or hours to
live, their last message is usually written
in an off-hand manner, as though the
writer was engaged iD an ordinary, every
day business transaction. It is an excep
tion when the character of the letter de
notes nervousness on the part of the
writer. Said a well-known physician of
this city, whose experience with suicides
has extended over a score of years:
“It is a surprising thing, the matter-of
fact way in which the unfortunate person
dashes off his last message on earth. It
is as though he sat down, peu in hand,
with the inward comment, 'Well, after
mature deliberation I have decided to
make way with myself, and I owe it to
humanity to leave a parting line behind
me, so here goes.’ ”
Sometimes, however, the writer goes
about his work in a more serious vein.
He appears to have weighed the question
carefully. He sits down and without a
tremor carefully puts his few last
thoughts or wishes on paper.
“I have tried to look on the bright
side,” he writes, “but my life has been a
failure, and 1 have not the courage to
begin over again.”
Then he calmly folds up the letter, puts
it in a prominent place, and kills himself.
There are some instances where the
person contemplating suicide has left a
letter apologizing for the trouble he is
making. One man, before shooting him
self. carefully removed the rug from the
floor of his room.
“In putting myself out of the way.” he
wrote. “I desire to make as little muss as
possible. You will have the trouble of
laying this rug again, but it is too ex
pensive a one to soil.”
Chief Clerk Reynolds of the coroners’
office tells the story of a man who sent a
note to the office in which he said that if
the coroner would send him the neces
sary car fare he would make away with
himself in that official’s apartments
“It will save you a lot of trouble,” he
went on, “for my body will be conven
ient.”
“We get all sorts of letters among the
suicides’ effects said Mr. Reynolds, “some
of which are written with great
care, while others are a mere scrawl, as
though the writer was in a hurry to get
it over with It is a noticeable fact that
very few women who intend to commit
suicide leave any writing behind them.
The letters are almost always written by
men. Women usually try to destroy all
proof which will lead to au identification
of their body.”
Often the letters left by a person who
has committed suicide are pathetic. A
few months ago the body of a man who
had shot himself through the head was
found in a i lump of bushes near Hudson,
N. Y. The bouy had been exposed to the
elements for a long time, and was little
more than a skeleton. Clutched in one of
the bony hands was a slip of paper upon
which was written thesingle sentence:
"Please buy me a grave.”
Another letter, found on the unidenti
fied body of a man who committed sui
cide, said:
"I cannot give my home, else my old
mother would know how I died. Please
bury me like an honest man. In my
pocket you will find ?40.”
Cornice Maker Jean Schwarz drowned
himself in the Croton reservoir in order
that his starving wife and child might
get the insurance money on his life. On
the day he committed suicide he sent his
wife a farewell letter. After telling her
how she could get the insurance money he
begged her forgiveness. The letter ended
with a prayer that what he was about to
do might keep her from want.
Many of the letters left by suicides de
clare that the writers die because they
have been disappointed in love. In a good
many instances the letters are written to
frieuds, and the name of the faithless one
is not given. Pierre Brady, a young
f renchman, who came to this city from
Philadelphia, committed suicide in his
room at the St. James hotel. During the
afternoon of the day on which ho killed
himself he went to the Hotel Martin and
wrote two letters. Each was addressed
to “Madame.” In one the writer said .
“When I first knew you, vou had just been
married, and I wished that I had been
t hat happy map.” He went on to confess
his hopeless love for “Madame,” and be
wailed the cruel misfortune that had
come into his life. There were hints that
the writer would be driven to self-de
struction because of his hopeless love.
The second letter read :,/(••
“Madanie--M.y last thoughts arobf you.
At the moment of quitting this world 1
say to you a fond adieu.”
Jt was ascertained that Brady had been
in love with the French actress, Jane
Hading.
Adolph Ijibor of White Plains shot
himself in a room at the Hotel Arthur.
This letter was found near the body:
“1 am better off dead than alive, and I
will take a ball. Tell my mother to take
it easy. There is a mat in my trunk I
made for mother. Do not take it to
heart. I am better off this earth. Mother,
Kate Tobin is the fault of my death.”
Miss Tobin had refused to marry Labor
because of his intemperate habits.
Frederick Koch, a clerk 18years old,
shot himself in the store. He wrote a
letter explaining his action while riding
in the elevated train between Tenth and
Forty-seventh streets. The letter said
that his step-grandmother had slandered
him to the girl he loved. Its ends:
“I expect to end my life with Sam’s
pistol or knife, which 1 will try to get
some wav or the other. Good-by to all,
and my darling, angel annie. whom I in
tended to make my wife someday."
William M. I-ord, a waiter who lived in
Jersey City, came to this city and engaged
a room at the Shelhourno house, where he
made elaborate plans for committing sui
cide. He wrote this note and placed it,
together with a faded flower, in an en
velope addressed to Mrs. Kate Murphy:
Sister Katie If you only knew how 1 feel
and all 1 went througn you would pit ,me It
ever you see m\ near friend. John Fordhain,
asam do all you van to get him to go hack to
his father and ne a good hov He roof to
him. Katie if he comes to look at me when I
am dead. Speak kindly to him for my sake
May tiod bless you aii this night. Keep this
bit of Bower for me. as it was given to me. I
guess i w ill have very little flowers at my
burial. Good-by. Katie, do all vou can for
for John and God will help you i am sure.
Your poor brother. William M. Lord.
After writing the letter Lord lay down
on the bed and took a dose of paris green.
Then he jumped up, rang the bell vio
lently, and shouted for an ambulauce. He
was taken to Bellevue hospital and re
covered.
On March 12 this litter was received at
the coroners’ office:
My wife is killing me. She is doing it pur
poselv. In fact her vicious temper, combined
with an equally vicious tongue, would drive
anybody lo suicide. Five female relatives of
mv wife, living in the neighborhood, are, and
have been, doing thetr best to make matters
worse. My wife is a devil: she Is driving me
to death Because of her 1 will commit sui
cide in a short time.
Adolph DICK. 101 Suffolk steet.
In my case marriage has been a decided
failure. A. 11.
On March 13 Dick went home and drank
some diluted carbolic acid. He was taken
to Bellvue hospital under arrest.
Many persons who commit suicide
leave letters which show that they were
cranks of one kind or another. The body
of a man was found in the East river. On
his person was found a bulky manuscript
containing a history of his life. The
writer said that he had been chased all
over the world by a band of invisible ene
mies, who got every one down on him by
telling wicked stories about his personal
life. Finally he had decided that the
best way out of it was to commit suicide.
Another man loft a lotter saving that
he had accidentally swallowed some dyna
mite and preferred the certainty of death
by poison to the continual risk of being
blown up the first time any one ran iiito
him. The unidentified body of a man
was found hanging from a tree near Tar
ry town. In his pocket was a letter
which read: “Every night I am visited
by the angels. lam told that there is a
harp ready for me when I dio, only I
don't know how to play the harp. As no
one will kill me, I guess I’ll have to do it
myself or someone else will get my harp.”
A few mouths ago the body of an Italian
was found in Central Park. Over *ooo in
money was found in one of his pockets.
He left a letter written in a beautiful
hand, in which he spoke of the green hills
of Italy, and the regret that he would
never see them again. Then there was a
discourse on death, which ended:
“The shade of the cypress behind the
urns of the dead will soothe me and ren
der less terrible the dream of death.’’
The body was never identified.
A majority of the letters are written by
persons who commit suicide because they
have been .in trouble. Antoine Malaus
seua, who had been a soldier in the
Frenco army, killed himself by jumping
from the root of his house into the street.
He left this letter:
“The only motive for my act is this: In
August, 1890, 1 was selected as a sharp
shooter for the shooting matches at
Lyons, given by the 100th territorial regi
ment. To this end our colonel made us
practice twice a day. We each used
forty-five cartridges at each shoot, and
the shock of the discharge of my gun
brought about a noise in my ears which
made me suffer night and day. Long ago
1 wanted to kill myself, hut because of
father, my little sister and Felix, I was
restrained from my purpose.”
Another Frenchman, Joseph Arnoux,
left this:
“Dear Friend: I kill myself because
this life is too hard for me. 1 have too
much trouble. Pardon me. I tell you
good-by. Igo to the other land, where I
expect to have better luck.”
Theodore Burckner, a German painter,
shot himself at Newport L. I. His letter
said:
I hereby notify you that I, Theodore
Burckner have taken my life, disgusted with
life. Inability to obtain employment and
lameness of the right arm are the causes.
Joseph Bernhardt of 1(578 Third avenue
shot himself. He wrote:
I am a soldier. lam going to die like a
soldier and I want to be cremated. No flow
ers This world is toll of trouble, trouble.
Michael Curtis hanged himself in his
woodshed for this reason:
I, being a sufferer from hypnotic torture,
take this method of getting rid of it The
undersigned, believing himself to have been
hypnotized by some people, either near Four
teenth street and Fourth avenue, or Fifty
ninth street and Ninth avenue, southeast cor
ner. writes this in case they drive me Insane
The headquarters of hypnotism in this city
are at 11 and 16 Fourth avenue
M. F. Curtis.
The building Curtis specified is occu
pied by the Salvation Army.
Some of the suicides leave letters in
which they explain that no one is to be
blamed for their death.
Marcello P. Delgardes, a Spaniard,
who took morphine, wrote:
Let no one be suspected or blamed for my
death it Is my own voluntary act. I poisoned
myself with morphine.
J. B Moorehead. who shot himself in a
room at 5(5 Weit Thirty-fifth street, left
this note:
Coroner. New York City—Dear Sir: I
have committed suicide as per club Please
give verdict to such effect and oblige yours
truly, J. B. M.
It was said that Moorehead belonged to
a suicide club, but Superintendent
Byrnes, who made a careful investiga
tion, came to the conclusion that there
was no such club.
A few days ago Henry Dabme, a wood
carver, shot and killed his wife and then
himself at his homo in Chicago. The po
lice found this letter in the house:
We, the undersigned, bad personally
agreed to die together as my wife and my
self are sickly and ailing, and other differ
ences. arising from all sources, we bad agreed
to take the last resort and bury us side by
side, ns we wish to be laid side by side
“Of course, the great majority of sui
cides leave no letters explaining their ac
tion,” said Mr. Reynolds. “About one in
ten or a dozen does so. When the letters
are brought to the coroner s office, we de
liver them to the friends, If they are ad
dressed. If not, they go to the board of
health with the death certificate or aro
filed away.”
“In the neighborhood of Cuba.” says a
recent visitor lo that island. In the New fork
Tribune, an oit peculiar method of securing
turtles is pursued. They train, or at least
take advantage of the instincts of a certain
species of fish. The Hen Is called by the
.Spaniards reve (meaning reversed), because
Its back Is usually taken for Its belly It has
an oval plate attached to Its head, whoso sur
face Is traversed by parallel ridges By this
plate it cau flrmly adhere to any solid body It
may choose. The boat- which go In quest of
turtles each carry a tub containing some of
these reves. When the sleeping turtles urn
keen they are cautiously approached, and a .
soon as they are judged near enough a reve is
thrown Into the sea Upon perceiving the
turtle. Its Instinct teaches It to swim right
toward it and tlx itself firmly upon the crea
ture by its sucking disk Sooner would the
reve allow itself to he pulled to pieces than
to give up Its grip. A ring which was at
tached to the tall of the fish. In which a string
was fastened, allows the Bshorman to pull in
his prize By a peculiar manipulation the
reve Is pulled off and returned to the tub to
lie ready for use again when the next turtle Is
sighted.”
RAILROADS.
PLANT SYSTEM.
Charleston & Savannah R’y. Savannah. Florida & Western R’y.
goingsouth"reTvddown] Ttme card Fitting north-read u*
15 I 5 I 2* J 5 I Isr Em. T July 29 1894 | is j n \ 6 |
9oipm 9 "uani’Lv New York . 7 .Art 1 2.3pm53aml ———
>2 us n't 11 4Uan> Lv. Philadelphia . ..Ar 104 am 345 a-
| 250 am 2 13pm Lv.... Baltimore . Ar* 20am 12 48am]
| j 4 30am 336 pm Lv Washington Ar 7 00am 11 10pm ! “
•••• | kOnara 7 llpmLv Richmond Ar. 340 am •43pm
I I 4 35pm|l2 siam|Lv Fayetteville- Arj 9 30pm|10 25am |
| Slßpm ll3kpni So7am Lv .... Charleston Ar 4 30ptm 3 Isac 12 inpml '.. .."
- ' l Lv Augusta Ar: | 1245 pm! .......
j'**•”"•' „ Beaufort Ar s tJnm 10 cMaml ... 7 7
I 4 Gpro . . . 6flßsni|Lv Yemassee Ar: 1 SOpml... iDloaml
**s£s 7 •'*"> *‘ v savannah Aril 42a m 9 30pm _ 7 00am F.7.
4 40pm HJiApm 4 35am 0-Sam Ar Je.sup. Lv 10 1 7 33tim t tsam
603 pm 1020 pm ft Ntam 10 22aui Ar ...: Waveross Lv. 9 Osam 6 10pm 3(ktam '"***
6 45nm ... 7 50am Ar Brunswick Lv 7 23Dm
1 Ham |o team - -. Ar. ... . Albany Lv l 3uam 4tipm
8 lopm i 810 am 1-30 pm l Ar Jacksonville Lv! 7(Mam 320 pm 70tipm
.!t! ani ••■ ! , ?£ pm ; Ar Valdosta Lv 352 pm 1132 pm
i i 50pm Ar Thoniasvllle Lv .... 2 30pm 9 30pm
' 4 30pm Ar Monticello Lv 11 Soain 5 30pm
J lB5 pm Ar Gainesville i.v 1035 am 6 15pm ... .
#o ” m *s'P® _••:- Ar Ocala Lv . 9 47am 4 15pm J.
350 am I 2 00pm I 5 10pm Ar Sanford Lv 1 15am 10 20am
i*?*n*. 420 pm Ar Macon Lv 1100 am 10 45pm
700 am 500 pm 855 pm Ar Montgomery Lv 7 30pm 7 18am 8 00am !!!!!!
12:5pm 305 am Ar Mobile Lv 12 20am
ftoopm ... 7 35am Ar _ New Lv 7 50pm ’’’ ’*.’’ **
. 11, 86 and 78 rondally Train 18 Imtm Kavenel dally except Sunday at
L2ft p m for ( harleston 1 rain 11 leaven < ’harleaton daily except Sunday at 8a m for Ravenel
Train 9 leaves (’harleston 7:35 a m Sundays only and arrives Savannah 11:08 a m Train II
leaves Savannah 340 p m Sundays only ami arrives Charleston 9 p in. Trains 5. 6, 9 and II
stop at all stations. ’
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE AND CONNECTIONS.
Trains 32 and 35 carry Pullman buffet sleeping cars between New York and Port Tampa
Trains 23 and 78 carry Pullman buffet sleeping cars between New York and Jacksonville
Train :<fi carries Pullman sleeping car YVayeross to Montgomery. Nashville. Louisville and
c incinniiti. Trains 5 and ft carrv Pullman Buffet sleeping cars between savannah and Oral*
Trains ft and 23 carry Pullman sleeping cars between Savannah and Jacksonville Passes,
gers for Jacksonville by train 23 can enter .sleeping car at 9 p m. Trains 15 and 36 make
close connection at Way cross, for Mobile. New Orleans and the Southwest.
Tickets sold to all poiuts and sleeping car berths secured at passenger station, and tlckel
office. 22 Hull street.
C. S. GADSDEN, R. G. FLEMING W. M. DAVIDSON
Supt C. A S. R’y Supt. S., F. A W. R’y, Gen Pass. Ageit,
l harleston. S. C Savannah. Ga Jacksonville. Fli.
THE TROPICAL TRUNK LINE, v
Jacksonville, T nmpn oriel Koy West Railway.
JOSEPH H. DURKEE, Receiver.
THE FLORIDA SOUTHERN RAILROAD CO. I
INDIAN RIVER STEAMBOAT COMPANY. IR. B. CABLE, General Manager.
JUPITER AND LAKE WORTH RAILWAY. I
. .. -SOUTH— I t7~,„ -NORftt-
S3f ?::„■? In Effect May 28. 1894. | ft,,*
HSO pm 1250 pm #OO am Lv Jacksonville Ar 630 am sou pm a2 .2
1020 pm 140 pm 1000 am Ar Green Cove Springs Lv 515 am 2 00pm 415 pm
1135 pm 230 pm 10 50 am Ar Palatka Lv 420 am 103 pm 310 pm
110 am 837 pm 12 07 pm Ar Seville Lv 303 am 11 54 am 105 pm
158 am 407 pm 12 40 pm Ar DeLeon Springs Lv 223 am 1123 am 1202 pm
4 £>P m ISP”*' ( DeLand >- Lv 10 20am
350 pm 12 86 pm Lv. f DeLand , , Ar It 30 am
am 431 pm 122 pm Ar Orange City Junction .Lv 150 am 10 56 am
.. +512 pm Ar Enterprise . .777 7.7. Lv ttOWam .7
■ ■ t 7 80 pm .. Ar Titusville Lv t 755 am 7
3*o am) a lopmi *O6 pm|Ar........... Sanford Lv UlYaml 10 2d am lO SO am
I*BB pm Ar Hawthorne Lv ....’ fiaiain T
f4O ami 6lt pm| al3pm Ar Orlando Lv~il 40 pm 9~15 am : —‘
940 am 645 pml 355 pm Ar Kissimmee Lv 10 50 pm 642 am
10 50 am] 745 pm| 505 pmAr Bartow Junction Lv 946 pm 7 55am
106 pm| 845 pml 655 pm Ar Tampa Lv 800 pm 6 30am .7777.
77FT7 00 imjt 6to puijLv Bartow Ar t 5 iTTpm t 320 pml 7... 1
tl* 20 pinlt # 10 pm Ar Arcadia Lv t 2 35 pm tIOOOam "*
tDaily except Sunuay.
Trains 35 and 32 carry through Pullman Buffet Sleepers dally between New York and
Port Tampa, connecting at Port Tampa on Mondays and Thursdays for Kev
West and Havana.
INDIAN RIVER STEAMERS are appointed to perform the following service:
Leave Titusville 7:00 a in. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for Rockledge Melbourne
and way landings. Returning, leave Melbourne at 7:00 a. m Tuesdays Thursdays anil
Saturdays
Leave Titusville for Jupiter Mondays and Thursdays at Up. m.: due Jupiter 7 n m the
following day, connecting with .1. and L. W. R y for Palm Beach and other points on Lake
Worth. Returning, leave Jupiter Wednesdays and Sundays, sa. m ; due Titusville 6 a. m
following morning. '
G. D. ACKERLY General Passenger Agent, Jacksonville, Fla
Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad Cos.
** , (90TB MERIDIAN TIME.)
Time Table in Effect Aug. 27. 1894.
NORTH BOUND. | T^ ln Tra*n | SOUTH BOUND. | T^“ 11 || T J* ln
Lv Savannah U 35 am •85 pm iLv..Savannah 6 .50 arn “4507 pm
Ar Tairfax. S. C 133 pm 1122 pm lAr Everett 733 am 850 om
Ar Augusta ;Ar Urunswlck
Ar Denmark. S. C 222 pm 12 10 am Ar Yulee 925 am 847 nm
Ar Columbia. S. C 405 pm 210 am lAr.. Fernandlna 1130 am
Ar .Spartanburg, S. C ... 810 pm jAr Callahan 925 am 7
Ar Asheville, N. C 1180 pm 'Ar Jacksonville 10 20 am 935 pm
Ar. Hot Springs, N. C.... 12 50am Ar.st. Augustine “
Ar Charlotte, N.C 830 nm 640 am lAr . Palatka ]
Ar Salisbury. N. C 949 pm 828 am lAr Lake City 11 am ~~
Ar Greensboro. N. C 1109 pm 10 06 am Ar Live Oak 12 31pm
Ar Danville. Va 12 27 am 1145 am Ar Monticello 246 pm 77
Ar Richmond. Va 620 am 450 pin Ar Tallahassee 336 pm
Ar Lynchburg. Va 218 am 200 pm jAr Chattahoochee 513 nm
Ar Charlottesville. Va 400 am 407 pm jAr River Junction 515 pm' "
Ar Washington 713 am 830 pm Ar Pensacola 1100 pm
Ar Baltimore 823 am 1135 pm Ar Mobile 305 am 7. *
Ar. Philadelphia 1046 am 300 am Ar New Orleans 735 am
Ar New York 123 pm 623 am -rxTs7—
A£ B o . at ' ln _ _ B3 LP°L-lj”.Pn‘ Ar .Galnesvl'lle .7.77.'777. Iwpm ®
N035 lvs New York . .12 16 am, N037 . 4 30pm Ar. Cedar Key 600 nm
" “ Philadelphia.. 350 am, ” . 655 pm Ar Silver Springs 236 pm *
“ “ Baltimore ... 6 31am, •• ,9 20pm Ar Ocala .... 2 51pm 300 am
“ “ Washington 1101 am, *• ,10 43 pm Ar Wildwood 353 pm 425 am
“ “ Asheville. 700 pm Ar~'T*iimrg “
“ " Columbia 125 am. “ .12 05 pm a? Winter Park g® “
No 35 ar Savannah f,lom. ” 4 40pm Ar 7. Lak “charm 7!' 777 7
No 36 ar Savannah 915 pm. No 38 11 25 am Ar TTTacoochee 504 pin ~603 ani
From Jacksonville and all points in Ar Tarpon Springs *9 00 pm
South, Middle and Western Florida and New Ar St. Petersburg . . *lO 30 pm
Orleans by the Florida Central and Penlnsu- |Ar Plant City 626 pm 780 am
lar Hallroad. lAr Tampa 720 pm 900 am
•Note—Dally except Sunday.
Vestlbuled sleepers on trains 36 and 38 via Richmond and Danville railroad be
tween 1 ampa, Jacksonville and New York, connecting with Colonial express solid train
Washington and Boston without change.
To Florida- New York sleeper on No. 37 to Tampa. No. 35 to Jacksonville.
Pullman sleeper between Jacksonville, Asheville and Hot Springs on trains3B end 35 dally.
Sleeper to New Orleans on No. 36 from Jacksonville. v
For full information apply to A. O. MAC DONELL, G. P. A., Jacksonville Fla.
N. S. PENNINGTON. Traffic Manager. Jacksonville. Fla.
All trains arrive and depart at Central railroad depot.
Tickets on sale corner Bull and Bryan streets and
D. C. ALLEN. City Ticket Agent
MEDICAL. ~
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L*4H, Uk Drucirlat tor <%sch Mlsr s Kngluh Brand in lt*d and Gold msUlUe \W
mll wlib ribbon Take no olker kind. Msfms .HubtHtusum* and Jmstasums v
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4*. in ntatnpt for i.artlfloUrs VMtlnouUl*. nnd far IjuUm,* in Uitw. br rntarn Mai*
10,000 TnUnohiiii Nam, CHICH(|T(A CMHIICAL Cos., Madlnoa
(laid bjr all L.aaal DraoirUta. PHILAUiLI'riA.Fifc
IKON FOUNOERS.
KEHOE'SH IRON ii WORKS,
V Founders, Machinists, Boiler-
.sf makers and Blacksmiths, ysmr.
kinds of repair work promptly done. Great 4HHIP
reduction in price of
liSMIsUGAR MILLS AND PANS.
KHTIWATf.B PROMPTLY KI'KNIKIIKD.
Broughton Street, from Keyuolri* to Randolph Kt. Telephone
e® JB6H, Savannah, Ga
NOVELTY IRON WORKS.
JOHN ROURK.E Sc SON
Machinists, Blacksmiths, Boilermakers and Iron end Brass
Founders, #
—Repair work of all kinds promptly atfeeded ,T
to * nd •••tlmates given. | _yfr-vC.il THjtJOf
'“'c • tSfcvlxw.J’'' |||g reduction In prices on
SUGAR MILLS AND PANS.
Mend for prices before pureliaftlnjc elsewhere.
2, 4 and 6 Bay and I, 2,3, 4, 5 and 6 River Streets, • - Savannah. Oa.
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