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I\ CtSE OF FIRF..
tIEMBF
jmr-lSjnle Huml Grenades Tlinl
Will Quickly Extinguish Blaze.
The proverbial ounce of prevention is
worth several pounds of cure in case of
fire, find it is w. 11 to ultivate presence
of mln<i In ourselves and our children; It
is better still to take care, for one thing,
thit the clothing is mode of slow burning
fabrics.
For example, flannelette, which is used
eo extensively for night garments, is one
of the most easily inflammable of mate
rials, but it. as well as muslins, cotton
goods and tarlclans, if treated with tung
state of soda, cannot lie made to burn with
a blaze, if all garments, especially those
•worn by children, could he treated in this
way, we should not In ar of so many
deaths from the Ignition of clothing.
When a fire occurs', by splashing and
•praying burning articles with a solution
of salt and nitrate of ammonia, an incom
bustible coating is at once formed and the
fire is at once quenched.
This Is a preparation which should be
kept on hand, and is easily home-made at
trifling cost. Dissolve twenty pounds of
common salt and ten pounds of nitrate of
ammonia in seven gallons of water. Four
this into quart bottles of thin glass and
you have Are grenades at hand in ease of
need- The bottles should be tightly cork
ed and sealed to prevent evaporation, and
when there is a fire they must be thrown
Jn or near the flames, so as to break and
thus liberate Ihe gas contained, to effect
the desired result. At least two dozen of
these bottles should be ready in case of
need.
ft is well to remember that water poured
on burning oil is only fuel to the flame;
scatter flour over the oil and the blaze
will be speedily extinguished.
Salt thrown upon a fire—for instance,
If the chimney is burning—will help to
deaden the Maze, If chimney flues were
lined with vitrified drain pipes, which are
quite inexpensive, the chimney would be
absolutely fireproof. An outward cover
ing of some fireproof, rustproof, non-con
ducting jacket on the hot air pipes would
pot only be a very good precautionary
measure, but would save heat now radi
ated from the tin.
A silk handkerchief dipped In water is
the best thing to wrap about the mouth
and nostrils to prevent suffocation from
smoke; failing this, a piece of wet flan
nel or cloth will answer the purpose.
Should the smoke fill the room before
you can get to the window, wrap a blan
ket or woolen garment about you, with
the wet cloth over the face, drop on the
hands and knees and crawl to the window.
• Smoke goes first to the top of the room
and to the floor last, so that some time
is thus secured.
It is well to remember that there Is no
more danger in getting out of a high win
dow than out of one on a first floor, if
there is nerve and coo! determination to
hold on to the rope or ladder. Don’t try
to slide down, but go hand over hand,
keeping the body near the wall, and break
the slide by- scraping the f.eet along the
wall.
In removing burned clothing from a per
son, cut everything loose; there must be
no dragging or pulling. Do not try to
pave any of the clothing, but if any part
sticks to the body, let it remain and be
careful not to break any blisters.
Eleanor Livingston.
BISHOI* POTTER’S MESSAGE.
He Fully Expresses Ills Views He-
KarillnK Woman's Highest tailing.
New York, Jan. 27.—"Wifehood, mother
hood, sisterhood, the ministry of sympa
thy and love, these are woman’s sphere,"
raid Bishop Potter in answer to a question
concerning his convictions with regard to
woman’s highest calling.
( “The details of the problem as it af
fects the various duties of life,” he went
on, "embrace every possible subject, and
(done would fill volumes, but the hcait
Of the matter can be given in a word,
Ihe mainspring can be felt at a touch.
"I am glad that a great multitude cf
callings, formerly exercised only by men,
ohe now open to women. Indeed, it would
In these days be a solemn impertinence to
bid women teach and sew only, when there
ere fifty teachers and fifty seamstresses
for every vacancy in these professions.
The modern conditions of life demand
♦hat she shall fo.low other callings, and
she can do so with dignity and nobility.
If she forget not that her sphere is ev< r
the ministry of sympathy and love.
"In this time of mechanical genius, a
mechanic might be contrived whereby in
♦he sick room the regular services of the
night nurse would lie fulfilled by a man
nikin, dressed to look like a woman, con
structed and wound up to act as a nurse
and destined to perform each duty wilh
faultless accuracy. The cure could not
t>e perfected, for the essentials would i>e
lacking; the ministration of womanly love
6nd tenderness. This, whatever profession
she may follow, is woman’s divinest call
ing,
“The position of woman to-day through
out the civilized world is the result of a
reaction from the Oriental conception of
her as a chaltel or a toy. With the be
ginning of the Christian era, the first step
was taken toward the emancipation of wo
men. Christ and his apostles recognized
their gifts and emancipated them. The
Deaconess Phoebe of Cenchreae was a
type. All women have gifts which may be
useful and should be exercised outside of
the home. Here enters , a danger. As
Christian civilization has widened, and as
it has been touched by Anglo-Saxon Ideas
which involve the essential equality or
all human beings before God, woman has
stepped out of her old and narrower
sphere. The peril is lest she should for
sake it too largely, for her sphere is wife
flood. motherhood, sisterhood, the minis
try of sympathy and love.
"To some women these ministries in their
more sacred form ar.' denied by modern
conditions, and there is a tendency which
Ought to be frankly owned is disesieem
domestic cares and duties. It is on ih.u
skie that we need watchfulness. 1 hope
that woman will never forget that ihe <li
vlnest calling for her is the life and min
istry of the home. In the sanctity of the
home rests the building of character, the
Safety of the state, the triumph of right
eousness. May women prize and exercise
their highest calling?”
—Three independent sets of dynamos and
engines, says the Electrical Review, Lon
don, are required to light her majesty’s
ship Irresistible (a first-class battleship
wnicli was christened ul Chatham dock
yard on Dec. 15), and to work the electric
motor fans and the six powerful s, , rch .
lights with which the ship Is fitted Every
compartment of the vessel, except in the
double bottoms, will be lighted by incan
descent lamps, and Colomb’s lights are
fitted for use when tile dynamos are not
running. The ventilation will be secured
by means of the motor fans. There
is also to be a complete insialation of
electric bells and voice pipes, together
w ith a system of loud-speaking telephones
m various parts of the vessel. There is
a steam capstan forward, hut the after
capstan is to be worked by two electric
motors.
THE REIGN OF THE ROSE BUD.
Tin: CRIMSON TIPPED FLOWER
SLCC ESSFLIXV DOMIN ATES.
A Pink Spring InMiail <xf a Lilac,
Green or Corn Flow er 111 no One.
The Philippine* Starch lew* Mulin
In a Charming Summer Stuff—Ver
nal Temptation* In Silk and Cotton
Gliitftia m *—The Shirt Wal*t for
ISJMI I* the Novt Coquettiwh Gar
ment Ever Seen —lt 1* h Mine of
Tiny Tnokft, lln* a Yoke of a Solid
Color With tlie Old-Eumhloned
Cot time Unlit Below.
New ’York, Jan. 27.—The reitfn of the
rosebud ha* qlready commenced. Small
a* this cTimson'Vtpie<l flower is, it success
fully dominates every* new fabric for
spring wearing. Challies, organdies,
Swiss musilns, ginghams and silks are
wreathed and sreekhd, spotted and dot
ed with coquettish baby roses from tho
romantic mo - . bud to the close sheathed
liny button rose. All this, of course, goes
only to prove that we are in for a pink
spring, instead o£ a lilac, violet or corn
flower blue one. There is indeed mat
ter for a piolonged and un<leniaby thrill
ing teacup talk of coming modes already
spread forth on the counters. Abridged
information must make it known that the
favorite organdie pattern is that of a fine
rose vine in bud, and creeping over a trel
lis pattern in faint green or pale yellow.
In dimity and a beautiful new starchless
muslin called Phllipino, the prim baby rose
is placed formally inside a tiny cheek
square or regular narrow bands of green
run a bayadere or perpendicular stripes
between straight narrow trails of roses.
The cloud-like silk muslins that prom
ise to be the most fashionable summer ball
gowns have full-blown roses in two shades
of pink or in yellow and red on their
faint iMne, deep cream of lemon tinted
backgrounds, and for the Easter brides
maids these ere going to be the most fash
ionable possible habits.
Vernal Temptations.
Zephyr ginghams and piques, with dam
ask stripes or flower patterns, are going
to have the first choice in wash goods,
while all the colored cotton goods from
Scotland show small plaids in two colors,
with shirred stripes. Most interesting for
the moment, though, than these vernal
temptations is the great variety of light
weight wools that shops are showing. Em
phatical.y from Paris comes the law' that
less silk and more wool is to be typical
of the opening and the very most lovely
spring calling, driving, theater-going and
reception toilets, garden party and even
walking suits must touch a high key in
color.
A.ready we see how the leading dress
makers have their w'ork rooms full of
pale grey suits, elaborately garnished with
white panels, facings, vests and embroid
ery. At opera matinees In New York
the box holders appear in pure white
cloth suits trimmed with silver and white
lace, and flashing sequins. That is just
the beginning of a revolution in dress.
French Henrietta*.
If you ask in the shops for the new
spring things, they will show you first
of all French Henrietta cloth. That i<*
guaranteed to usurp the place of eha.lie
to a great extent. It is just as light and
cool and graceful as challle; it te no more
expensive and it wears very much better.
Its iightnets enables one to indulge in a
draped -kin without fear of weight, and
its cleanliness proves it an excellent goods
for travel use. Women who-are buying
it push aside the navy blue, olive green
and wood brown for French blue, ash grey,
widow green, biscuit pink and pale tans;
' 'fit
if- 1
A REDINGOTE GOWN FOR SHOPPING. •
tiw-y know what the future is going to
bring forth.
Shirt Waist t’orrltif’..
All the genuine vitality of the shoppers
at present is concentrated about the shirt
waist counter. If forerunning" signals
mean anything, we arc sure to wear many
white cambric and lawn shirt waists after
Easter, rather than giving them the pref
erence over the colored gingham variety.
Crisp white French cambric blouses, hav
ing the whole Fleeves and body laid in
what are called lingerie tucks, Is one pop
ular figure, and the fronts of all shirts
blouse just a little. Another favorite spe
cies turns hack small revers over the bust
from a dickey that is fine
ly tucked or is of plain
white laundered linen and these while
THE MORNING NEWS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1899.
WOMAN’S PAGE
shirts arc allowed considerable eccentric
i<y of sleeve. The stiff cuff is replaced
by one shaped to fall over the hand and
tucked shoulder cap are not uncommon.
In the? colored goods the most expensive
shirts have their white collars made of
a piece with the neckband and the collar
roils over in a continuous narrow round,
or a series of pretty leaf-like scallops as
often as not. I>?ss expensive gingham
waists are made wisely with as many as
three detachable collars. One a high
white choker, another with small broken
points of linen in a solid tone that echoes
Ihe* predominating color in the shirt, while
Ihe third is a rolling band in white.
The really sensible pique stock is com- ;
ing back again, with the difference that !
its long gingham ends are not shaped and J
NEW SPRING SHIRT WAISTS.
interlined to fold Into a four-in-hand of
Ascot knot, but are hemmed on the edge
and ties in a big breezy bowknot wiih
ends falling nearly to the waist. One
charm of this fashion is that whoever
makes her own shirt waists at home can
easily whip together her own neckties and
the laundress will have no difficulty with
peculiarities of shape. Wide spotted rib
bons. lengths of soft silk and white lawn
are all material for the new ties, and noth
ing will be considered more fitting with
a pink striped shirt waist than a tie made
of white or cream point d’esprit knotted
in a very liberal front bow.
Einen and gingham waists all show
small yokes cut in three points. The
middle one is long and narrow, to either
side of it are smaller, blunter ones, and a
line of ornamented machine stitching or
Turren boning follows the gothic points*
of the yoke that still comes forward on
the shoulder a good deal. Sleeves are
very much what they were last summer
and fit closer than ever, when they are
out on the straight masculine plan. When
the season arrives we are going to have
our quota of pique shirts, but in the in
termediate season blouses of pretty pale
cloth decorated with ribbon braid and fit
ted, even whaleboned, to the figure,
adopted indoors. Pink, blue, green and
yellow shirts are picked out in dots of a
contrasting colors and worn with tucked
lawn dickeys and any dark suitable skirt.
Travelinx an,l Shopping; Gown.,
After all, women seem to have had
enough of silk. They are showing a pre
ference for cloth ail along the line of
spring purchases. One novelty is a light
tan goods with a narrow black silk moire
stripe in It. Another spring suiting is a
check in dark blue and yellow. The check
is small and while the blue square is of
wool, the yellow one is silk, ami the waist
to go with it is a blouse of soft plain yel
low silk, under a coat of solid dark blue
cloth. There you have one of the con
quering combinations of the moment,
among those who are so lucky as to seek
Florida, California, Bermuda or the South
of France at Ihe moment.
A feature of the traveling dress ns it
Is now in its perfection, is its long coat.
Tailors turn out cloth gowns in three
jiieces—skirt, shirt and highwayman coat.
The skirt in this instance is just one of the
close-fitting affairs popular. The shirt is
silk or wool, as you please, but the coa
is the thing. It drops well nigh to the
heel, fits the body snugly clear up to the
chin, takes the hips without a wrinkle,
but below it falls in a sort of unconscious
drapery. Sometimes it closes with a fly
front and concealed buttons, all seam :
strapped, and the hem turned up a little
above the skirt's foot and straight around
In other cases it closes with a series of
handsome braid ornaments from shoulder
down, and is artistically shaped irregular
ly at the bottom, shorter in front than be
hind. Any way you please to have It, the
long coat is predominant and a necessary
part not only of the spring traveler’s
wardrobe, but belongs in that of the stay
at-homes. Under the chin such a coat
comes within two buttons of the neck,
turns back tiny notched revers and shows
a tie of gay color or a ripple of cream lace
betokening the stock and shirt beneath.
Mary Dean.
A FORT! \l3 IX OLD R AILROAD TIES.
AVh.it One lltisiness Woman Ha*
Dim, by Force uf Intelligence.
New York, Jan. 27.—The recent agita
tion in the West as to ousting women
from the business world seems rather
farcical In view of Ihe position that wo
men by sheer force of their own intelli
gent efforts are making for themselves
all along th© line. A flue example of
what one woman’s ingenuity and business
acumen has accomplished came to my ears
only the other day.
Upon the death, some years ago, of
Mrs. Clara Money’s father—one of the
many manufacturers of Grand Rapids—
his affairs were found to be In such a state
that the concern had to go into the hands
of a receiver. Mrs. tMorley, who up to
this time had had no connection with the
business, entered the factory wiih the de
termination of mastering every detail from
“glued-stock” to double entry. It was not
long before she had Ihe business in her
own hands, ar.d but a little longer before
she began to win the respect of every
business man in her especial line the coun
try over.
Almost from the start she left little of
the management to assistants, but made a
point of personally seeing the business
men with whom she had dealings. Dur
ing one of her many trips she chanced to
see lying by the roadside a pile of worn
out railroad ties. Her natural interest In
wood prompted her to go over and exam
ine them. She found that they were per
fectly sound and whole except around
those portions where spikes had been
driven. This set her to thinking. She in
terviewed some railroad companies, and
found that they were obliged to constant
ly renew these ties for no other reason
than that they became worn around the
spikes and were thus loosened. They were
then regarded as useless and burned. Mrs.
Morley had a wagon load of these dis
carded lies sent up to her factory, and
proceeded to have some hard wood plug
made of a size to be driven into these
holes. By then driving a spike through
the plug she found that the tie held ex
actly as well as when new.
She called the attention of a railroad
company to the fact, and persuaded them
to make a triel use of the repaired ties,
The results were entirely satisfactory, and
the road, quick to see what a tremendous
saving this would be, began ordering plugs
in large quantities. Other roads followed
their example, and Mrs. Morley Is now
manufacturing hard wood plugs by the
millions, and is utterly unable to keep up
with her orders. It goes wirhout saying
that the business pays her a fine dividend.
Marion Depew,
HOW TO PREVENT EARACHE.
Mother* Who Are Over Consclen.
tlou* In Cure of Children’* Enr*.
Few ailments are more common among
children than earache, and mothers,
though unconscious of the fact, are them
selves the cause of much suffering front
this painful malady In their children. In
her anxiety to have the child’s ears clean,
a mother will sometimes endeavor to re
move every particle of ear-wax from the
inner portion of the ear, and to accomplish
this to her own satisfaction will sorae
sometimes even use a hairpin, covered
with the towel, or the towei itself twisted
to a point.
The treatment is not only altogether too
harsh, but it is uneccessary and harmful
to remove all the wax. The membrane
lining of the canal of the ear contains a
treat number of little glands which se
crete this waxy substance, and the pur
pose of this is to prevent the entrance of
insects, and keep the inner ear clean. The
layers of wax dry in scales, w hich Vapidly
fall away, and remove with them any
particle of dust or other foreign matter
which may have found entrance to the
ear.
Be contented when you have made the
child’s ears clean outside and thoroughly
dry, and leave nature to attend to her
affairs in her own way. In a case of ear
ache, nothing more irritating than a few
drops of olive oil, warmed to a tempera
ture of blood heat, should ever be placed
in the ear. Nine-tenths of the earache
of childhood, and a large proportion of
the deafness of old age, is due to adenoid
growths in the throat, which may be re
moved when one is young by a very slight
operation.
Not a little danger is occasioned from
children snuffing up accidentally, or oth
erwise, articles into the nose, where they
A SPRING TRAVELING TOILET.
Ret lodged and refuse to move one way
or the other. The great danger is of the
article remaining there so long before it
Is removed as lo cause swelling and in
flammation. The following will he found
a very simple method of removing the ar
ticle: Place a thin cloth over the child's
mouth, and with your Angers close the
nostril not containing the article. Next
put your mouth to the child’s and give
two or three strong puffs, and In
nine cases out of ten the substance will
fly out.
—Publisher—“Con you turn out another
book in three weeks?”
Author—" Why so soon?"
Publisher—"lt will never do to let the
public forget you.’’—Life.
I IMPORTING PALACES.
AMERICA GRADUALLY \BSORBI\G
THE ART TREASURES OF
El ROPE.
Mr. Bprvvintl Outbid* Lord Ronebery.
He Prevented the .\oble Earl From
AeiiuiriiiK !\apileon Bonaparte**
Old l)ek—Hon. Benjamin Cable
and Our AmhaxHador to Italy, Gen
oral Draper, Have Eneh One Pnr
ehaMed Venetian Palncew to Bring
Over to Thin Country—The Minneii
Pierrepont Morgan Hold Diplomat*
as Expert Cooks,
New York, Jan. 27.—1 t was the boast of
a patriotic English woman at a lengthy
luncheon party the other day, that the
aristocracy of her country could not be
characterized as mere ornamentatal self
indulgent lilies of the field. She proudly
pointed out the Countess of Warwick as
an industrious llterateur, Lady Mary
IJoyd as the foremost linguist of her day,
the Marchioness of Granby as an artist,
and nearly a score of others who could
earn their own livings should circum
stances necessitate their practicing pro
fessions for pay.
“So could many of our New York aris
tocracy,” insisted the hostess of the occa
sion.
“There are not many of us,” she ad
mitted, “who practice our callings for
filthy lucre, but now and then, as in the
case of Mrs. Trask and Mrs. Van Rensse
laer, you will see their names signed to
some of the most important papers and
short stories in our leading magazines.
Mrs. Trask is the w’ife of one of our very
rich men, and a social light, and Mrs. Van
Rensselaer is a first authority on archi
tecture. Mrs. S. V. R. Cruger, as Julien
Gordon, earned enough on her novels to
support herself handsomely if she elected
to use her proceeds from the publishers
so, but she, like her fashionable sister au
tnors, prefers to spend her earnings In
charity.
“Mrs. Leslie Cotton Is another dancing,
dining, opera-going butterfly who could at
any time keep a pack of wolves from the
door with her mahl stick alone. She is
no amateur art lover, but the author of
some of the most effective oil portraits
ever exhibited in America, and has more
offers and orders for portraits than 6he
will ever accept, and who works at her
art as if she had the inspiration of neces
sity behind her.
“it would be a little difficult to reckon
lust how Miss Hewett would decide to
earn her bread if the opportunity arose.
She is a practical road builder, a capable
horse trainer, a proficient orchestra lead
er and a past mistress in the art of sten
ography and typewriting. She once wrote
a story and sent it under an assumed
name to one of the first magazines in the
country, and it was not only accepted
and paid for at once, but the editor wrote
asking for more manuscripts. Evidently
there is no fear of Miss Hewitt’s starving
like the poor grasshoppers In Aesop’s fa
bles.
“When Mrs. William Sloan’s bank ac
count runs very low she will be able to
earn $25 a week in any hospital as a train
ed nurse, with a diploma, and Mrs. Nicho
las Fish would hardly have to beg the em
pressarios to give her a chance with her
piano on the concert stage, if she really
needed the money. She is one of those
gifted amateurs, whose music Paderewski
loves to listen to and teach, just as Miss
May Calendar possesses a voice and a
vocal method that Maurice Grau has
frankly confessed would win her a small
fortune in grand opera.
"Two of Mrs. Pierpont Morgan’s
daughters are scientific cooks with
sheepskins attesting to their culinary at
tainments, and the finish of Parisian in
structions under Joseph, the great chef.
They decided to learn to cook because they
felt the necessity of understanding some
art that could at any time be to them of
pecuniary value, and if Miss Helen Gould's
riches ever by chance grow wings and fly
away, she is able to practice law in the
Manhattan courts. George Vanderbilt
would not have to look for a job as an
architect, if the cold wind of penury ever
blows in his direction. His sister-in-law.
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt, is a diploma’d
kindergartener, and Mrs. Dunlap Hop-
TUMOR EXPELLED.
Unqualified Success of Lydia E
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wheklock, Magno
lia, lowa, in the following letter de
scribes her recovery from a very criti"
cal condition:
“ Deab Mrs. Pinkiiam:—l have been
taking your Vegetable Compound, and
ready to sound
of a tumor.
and was a bur
den to myself. Was troubled with
smothering spells, also palpitation of
the heart and that bearing-down feel,
ing, and could not be on my feet much.
“I was growing worse all the time,
until I took your medicine.
“After taking three boxes of Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Lozenges, the tumor passed from me.
“My health has been better ever
since, can now walk quite a distance
and am troubled no more with palpita
tion of the heart or bloating. I rec
ommend your medicine to all sufferers
from female troubles.”
It is hardly reasonable to suppose
that any one can doubt the efficiency
of Mrs. Pinkham’s methods and medi
cine in the face of the tremendous vol
ume of testimony.
kins, who has lately established the fore
most school of design in New York, could
live luxuriously off the yearly profits if
anything should happen to her handsome
fortune.
“I could mention John Jacob Aslor,
George De Forest, Heber Bishop, Cass
Canfield, Miss Clews and as many more
in my set who could earn livings at
electricity, yacht designing, teaching
languages and bridge building. But I
think,” continued the hostess, a trifle tri
umphantly, "I have said enousfh to con
vince you that our New York millionaires
and millionairesses are no less serious In
their view of life and its duties than their
aristocratic brothers and sisters on the
other side.”
Ground Under the Servants’ Iron
Heel.
The bullying Parisian concierge Is
here in New York, or a creature so like
the pitiless doorkeeper of the French
apartment house, that already the unlucki
flat dweller is ground under his tyrannous
heel. It is not the resident in buildings
where flats rent for a moderate sum, and
the location is unfashionable, who knows
and suffers under this new despot, but
the inhabitant of the palatial apartment
building and apartment hotel. Now the
price of fine apartments is higher in Newr
York than any other city in the world.
On Fifth avenue it is difficult for a family
to rent a floor under less than a thousand
dollars a month. This signifies an area
about as large as a farm house attic divid
ed up into breathless little rooms with
daylight in the front and rear room only.
It is sad to relate that the New York
landlord has taken a leaf out of his for
eign brother’s book of rules. When you
rent a fine flat on Fifth avenue you mush
expect to keep your head in a hornet s
nest or your hand ever in your pocket.
It may be very gratifying to your pride
to live in a place where a splendidly ap
pareled six-footer stands on the sidewalk
to open your carriage door, another pushes
the gilt and crystal revolving stile to ad
mit you to the public hall, and a third
sweeps you into the elevatoh just as if
you were staying at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Your friends compliment you on placing I
yourself so comfortably, but you wear a I
hollow smile because nearly everything ex- I
cept the naked rooms you live in are ex- I
tras, and every one of those minions, with I
the bearing and manners of ex-nobiemen, I
are vampires with their teeth In your I
purse. I
In a Parisian apartment house you havs ■
to do with one concierge and his ruthless ■
wife. In the New York apartment house ■
you must fight a half dozen who can li'-B
erally force you to break your lease andß
move if you refuse to yield to their de-B
mands. Their demand is money, at reeu-B
lar and frequent intervals, from every ■
member of your family. If you deny their ■
claims you will find your ring at the ele-B
vator bell is not heard, your loiters are*
delayed in coming up, you open vour .lours*
yourself, visitors ore gratuitously mM"-*
formed as lo your whereabouts a: the ei ■
trance of the building, your wood and '‘‘ >J ■
arrive tardily when most needed, >' <v:r
quests for repairs have to la- M'l'Uio ■
again and again, and your private sert ■
ants are openly annoyed ami -, asu.t---
It is quite futile to complain, because
betterment comes by way or a change ” ■
hall or elevator men. They must all H
money, and so successful are tb> in
forcing their demands that t" one ;!■
dweller on Fifth avenue the ekvitor
confessed that he rarely
than s:>o a ropnttr in tips. He m . VW
that the door boy and str<- t h.>y, tl*
itor who cleans the public halls an.
janitor who distributes coal and
boy who runs the freight and *' r ’ l.jW
elevator and the house porter atv
perintendent, each and all fared ::
well. .racfß
Art Treasnrea All Coming lo n
lea. ■
The importation of forelpn anti ‘ r
our rich Americans increase?
The custom house officials wi.l f ; 1
and the bric-a-brac collectors * :
station. What with their fortune
their determination lo own " '
cur millionaires so far outbid a
tious European buyers at the ,
by and by very few of the really • '
tiques will be left on the otic r • ’ ’
exemplification of this was a r <
terestlng duel played between D ' ,
bery and Mr. Berwlnd of X<" M \IH
a desk of riflftesf inlay once used ■' maH
poleon. Lord Rosebery is a
but the American capped every ■” ,
Earl could not follow his rival. • M
luctantly let the desk go. Tll ' ' ’ r
lectors felt, as Lord RoselsD rV ,
that the Americans arc gra-; •
thing. Benjamin Cable, the "• 1 ,
Congressman, who is prepare - , U ,^B
in Washington a copy of a ra :l -'” r <H
of Ihe Louis XV period, has
rior adornment purchased a 1 ’ ■
pie of (he Louis Quinz decorate™ nft *
ice. Though he buys this gr.at (
palace, he proposes only to ’; -
of it. Ail the inside walls W! - aP p!H
fully sliced out, brought over at ,
to the Washington house. -
not experimenting: old Dutch -™’
houses, Flemish ceilings and ’’ n “ r , n
ways arc brought over who.e
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