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MOTHER GOOSE WAX WORKS.
Uow Jack of the Bran Stalk Won
His Bride.
(Copyright, 1901, by Charles Battel
Loomis.)
Running under the great city of Lon
don was a noisome, foul, dark and
terrible winding way which was called
the "Underground Railway. Through
Its choking aisles ran puffing engines,
dragging hot, dusty, smoky, dirty, un
ventilated boxes, called railway cars.
In ancient times, say at the time
that the giants Cormoran and Blunder
bore were little boys, this awful sub
terranean roadway would have been
used by business men and pleasure .
seekers who wished to get about Lon- :
don like rats. And so used to it did
the Londoners become that they were
actually proud of It. They willingly
went down the stairs that lead to it !
and they bought their tickets with
smiles on their faces, and when the
hideous chuffing locomotive came
along they stepped Into the stuffy lit
tle prisons called coaches and made
believe that they were happy until
they were released at their destina
tions.
Now, at the time at which Robin
Taylor's company was staying in Lon
don there was a Lord Mayor ruling
over the great city, whose wife was
an American, and it goes without say
ing, very beautiful. She had been
doiyn in the terrible Underground Rail
way Just once for curiosity and she
PUT THEIR HEADS DOWN AND BLEW.
had lived to reach the next station
and was then dragged out by her hus
band more dead than alive. After
that her one idea was to rid London
of this dreadful blemish.
Now, the Lord Mayor could not un
derstand her dislike to a thing that
had been running and half suffocating
people ever since he was born, but
loved his American wife very much.
Indeed, and at last he told her that
he would try to have the nuisance
abated.
The Lord Mayor and his wife had
but one child, a young lady of great
beauty, but no desire to marry. Men
had come from over sea to ask her
hand, and she had refused them in
the good old way. But she had been
FAINTED IN THE PALMS OF THE
FAITHFUL CORMORAN.
present when her mother had been
borne out of the tunnel and she cheer
fully offered to give her hand to the
man who should do away with this
terrible place or else purify it.
A few days later all London was
decorated with green and gold pla
cards bearing this announcement;
“To the Dwellers Within London:
Since my lady wife has come to the
conclusion that the Underground Rail
way is a pestilential place and fit only
for a dungeon, I have this day caused
it to be proclaimed throughout the
length and breadth of England that
whosoever will either purify it or abol
ish It altogether shall have the hand
of my daughter In marriage.
“Given under my hand and seal the
26th day of July, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
one, and In the first year of the reign
of his most gracious majesty, King
Edward Seventh.
(Signed.) "Timothy Pikestaff."
Many came from all parts of Eng
land, but when they had
seen the tunnel and smelt
the smoke they said that there was
nothing to be done.
When Jack of Beanstalk fame read
the notice he was filled with high re
solves. He had seen the beautiful
maiden, and nothing would please him
better than to marry her, leave Robin’s
company and settle near his old home
In Wales.
He said nothing about his intentions
to any one except the giants. To them
he spoke as follow’s:
“My boys. I mean to win the hand
of that beautiful girl, but I know the
English people too well to shut up the
Underground altogether. They would
not stand it at all. I believe that the
chief trouble Is the heat and smoke
and the lack of air._ I am going to ride
through it, and then I will return to
you and we will decide what 1b best
to be done.”
When the giants heard this brave
speech they both begged the young
man not to go down into the terrible
tunnel.
"What If you choked to death?” said
they. “We have been friends a long
time now; ever since we stopped being
wax figures, and if anything happened
in vou we would not know what to do.”
“Ob. nonsense," said Jaqk. "I guess
t'"i I' others can stand it, I can.”
""vt you forget," said they, "that
nu i of those that go down into it aie
English, and the English will stand
anything arey are used to.”
But nothing could dissuade the brave
lad from going down to spy out the
Underground, and when the giants
found that he could not be stopped
they both ran to the Baker street sta
tion, where he expected to come out,
so that they could revive him in case
he fainted.
He took a cab to a remote station,
and then he went down the stairs, not
1 neglecting to look at the sun, for it
might be the last time. He shuddered
when the gloomy, smoky, gassy air
smote his nostrils, and he shuddered
still more when the roaring engine, like
a beast of prey, came slithering down
the glistening tracks and stopped for
passengers. It was a hot day above
earth, and underground it was like a
blast furnace, but the brave Jack re
membered the beautiful girl and en
tered the car. Then the guard closed
the door and he was alone! Oh, how he
regretted that he had ever come down.
He opened his mouth like a hen on a
hot day and panted like a dog in mid
summer and gasped like a fish out of
water, and it seemed as if they would
never reach Baker street. When he ar
rived there, almost half dead, he stum
bled out of the Ampartment, reeking
with smoke, struggled up the steps to
the glorious light of day and fainted
in the palms of the faithful Cormoran.
After he had recovered his senses he
told the giants that he was sure that
the could free the great tunnel of
smoke if they would put their mouths
to the opening and blow.
It was no sooner suggested than it
was done. The giants took long, deep
breaths of fresh air, and then they
put their heads down the stairs and
blew. The smoke rolled before them
and came out at every station in Lon
don, and for the first time In many
years people in the trains were able
to breathe without gasping.
The Lord Mayor happened to see the
smoke coming out and he entered the
Underground and came out at the Bak
er street station.
"Who has caused this to be done?"
said he with a smile.
Jock said: “My friends the giants
did It for me, but they can not do it
forever. But I am sure that Cinderel
la’s godmother will be willing to place
at this entrance a mighty fairy bel
lows that will pump fresh air Into the
tunnel all the time. Walt and I’ll go
fetch her.”
Now .while he was gone a great
crowd of Englishmen came out of the
Underground Railway. They were, of
course, perspiring and their collars
were wilted, for It was still hot down
there, but their clothes did not smell
of smoke, and they all began to grum
ble to the Lord Mayor. One of them,
an elderly man, said: "You see, we’ve
been used to this Underground ever
since we were children, and there is
no place In London where w r e can get
so smoked up In a little time. Now,
they’ve gone and had all the smoke
pumped out, and It Isn't the same place
at all, and we don’t like it. Give us
back our smoke.”
But there were some Americans In the
number and they said, “No, no; let It be
as it is. It’s safe to travel there now.
We went through without fainting for
the first time in our lives.”
While they were shouting and wran
gling Cinderella's godmother came up.
She had in her right hand a shaft of
light and in her left hand a fairy bel
lows, not large, but powerful. She
threw the shaft
and in a moment it was as light as
day down there. She set up the fairy
bellows, and pure, sweet air began to
rush through the tunnel. I fancy there
was something coaxing in the air, for
after it was poured In those passengers
who came out of the Baker Street Sta
tion were loud In their praise of the
improvement in its condition.
As for the Lord Mayor, he telephoned
for his coach and four and bade Jack
jump in beside him and ride home to
see the young lady who was to become
him wife.
And as soon as they saw each other
they fell in love. And Just a week from
that time they were married in St.
Paul's and Cinderella. Red Riding
Hood, Goody Two Shoes and Bo Peep
were bridesmaids. And the godmbther
gave Jack a purse made of imitation
Russian leather that always had five
crowns In It, no matter how many you
might take out, so that he was able to
build a very fine castle In Wales, und
there he took hts bride. And they are
going to live happy forever after.
THE AMATEUR MAGICIAN.
Row* o Lamp Chimney May Be Turn
ed Into an Electrical Machine,
Here is a beautiful exfvrlment, and
one that never falls to excite wonder.
Of course, if you wish to amuse your
friends with your amateur magic you
must prepare all,your apparatus se
cretly; otherwise nothing you do will
surprise them.
In the little feat that Is now to be
described, for example, you have to
attend to a few details before you
make a public performance. Y'ou will
need a straight glass lamp chimney,
(not one that swells out at one end):
a bristle brush, such as is used for
cleaning lamp chimneys: a silk hand
kerchief; a piece of tinfoil; a sheet
or two of cigarette paper, and about
a foot of fine brass or iron wire. With
these simple appliances you can make
an electric machine with which you
can do things that will astonish you.
First, cut a narrow band of the toil
and paste It around the middle of the
chimney, using as little paste as will
make it stick. Then cut a strip of the
foil Just long enough to extend from
one end of the chimney, outside, to
within half an inch of the middle band,
and paste it on, lengthwise, of course
Having made sure that the silk hand
kerchief Is perfectly dry, put it over
the bristles of your brush, and then
Insert the brush, thus covered, In the
chimney.
Now hold the chimney so that your
hand may not touch ihe foil anywhere,
and rub the brush briskly back and
forth, Do this in the dark, und ever y
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1901.
time you bring the brush out of the
chimney a brilliant electric spark will
leap from one piece of foil to the
other.
For the second part of your experi
ment you fix the wire around the band
of foil in the middle of the chimney,
letting one end of it hang down, and
to this end you attach half a dozen
strips of the cigarette paper, made,
say, by cutting each sheet into four
strips. Now put the covered brush in
the other end of the chimney, not the
end with the strip of foil on It, and
when you rub the brush briskly the
pieces of paper will stand out from
each other as if they were alive,
This experiment illustrates three
principles of physics: First, that glass
becomes electrified by friction; sec
ond. that metallic substances, like foil
and wire, transmit the electricity from
a charged body (the glass) to an un
charged body, (the paper); and, third,
that bodies charged with the same
kind of electricity repel each other, for
the strips of paper fly apart when they
are charged.
TRUE CAT STORIES.
The One That Was a Villain and An
other Who Waa an Accomplished
Mind Render.
By Martha McCullough Williams.
Cats, at least some cats, are. either
prescinct or have a reasoning compre
hension of human speech-i-wltness
these two cases in point. The first con
cern# Tangle-Eye, a white kitten, sole
salvage from a litter of nine, which
grew to lusty cathood, the pet of a
young woman. Its home was a big
plantation house, where its mother had
been for years an honored and success
ful ratter. She was a big tortoise shell,
and except when there were'rats about,
the moral and pattern* of feline gentls
r.ess. Her son, who had one blue eye, ,
one yellow, was not deaf, as is common
with blue-eyed cats. Contrari-wise, he
had a wonderfully fine ear, particular
ly sensitive to the flitterings and flut
terings of fledgelings crowded out of
the nest. He would da@h from (he piaz
za at the faintest rustle of wings to
pounce upon the luckless blrdlings, and
devour them forthwith. For this his
mistress rated him soundly, and after
a while whipped him. His feelings were
deeply wounded. She was the only per
son he ever permitted to touch him.
He followed her about wherever she
went. The whipping did not char>ge
that, but evidently In revenge for It
he began, to kill chickens, plump young
things, Just sprouting pen feathers. The
killing was done openly. Sometimes,
indeed, he fetched his victims and laid
them at his mistress' feet, maiou-ing
np at her the while. This was "most
intolerable and not to be endured.”
Still she could not bear to think of
killing her pet—not even though he
showed himself a wanton murderer.
When he killed the seventh chick she
said to him, reprovingly: "Tangle-Eye,
do you know will become of you?
I shall send you to the miller—he Is
overrun with rats—and you will never
see me any more.”
Tangle-Eye trotted ofT, his tail high
and waving defiance. Next day the
wagon was sent to mill with a load
of corn. Before It started Tangle-Eye’s
mistress, who had resolved *to send
him with it, called him to feed him the
last time. He had always leaped Into
her lap, or on her shoulder, or stood
upon his hind feet to rub his head
against her knees before beginning a
meal. That morning he stopped ten
feet off, eyed her doubtfully a minute,
made a lightning seized a greedy
mouthful, darted out with it, and ran
under the house to devour It. This was
repeated three times. Then a saucer
of cream was set down for him, and
everybody left the room. He came to
lap it, but looked suspiciously over his
shoulder every little while. Notwith
standing the doors were shut on him
and his mistress went inside to make
him prisoner. She stooped to rub his
head, when he stood rigid, spit
at her, caught her finger, bit
it to the bone, and as the door
was opened at her cry of pain, dashed
out of it. and was never again seen
about the house, though for a year at
least he kept up his depredations. He
harbored in a wooded swamp, more
than a mile away, where like the thief
and ingrate he was, he made a bad end
in battle with a genuine wildcat. But
to this day his mistress is undecided
as to whether his change of conduct
was due to divination or eavesdropping.
So is another woman who talked with
a cat /doctor concerning her cat s
health, In the presence of the cat it
self. tl was a very meek animal,
thoroughly house trained, and the In
separable companion of its mistress.
Though she was too wise for inffiscrim
inate feeding, she permitted the silky
Maltese to sit upon a cricket beside her
at meal times, and receive an oc
casional harmless tit-bit from her own
plate. There had been some trifling
ailment. After the doctor had looked
the animal over, he prescribed a simple
powder, tasteless and ordorless. as far
as human senses discern. This the
cat's mistress bought, and put in very
small quantities. Inside tiny bits of raw
meat, gashed to receive it. After the
medicine was in place the bits were
roii id tight, and covered with fresh
raw meat, scraped fine. But the cat
r.osed the meat pills languidly over,
and would have none of them. Starv
ing even would not make him eat them.
That, however, was less strange than
the fact that for a whole week he re
fused to eat anything whatsoever from
the hand of his mistress, even things
taken from her plate. It was uU of six
weeks, indeed, before confidence was
fully restored.
Cats have long memories, also a taste
for something approaching histrionics.
A visitor In a country house noticed
one winter day the family cat, a very
fine animal, walking about in evident
distress. The weather was very cold—
cold enough to freeze tight all the or
dinary watering places—so It occurred
to him that the animal might be
thirsty. He called ,lt, Invited it to
perch upon his shoulder, went Into his
own room with the cat perched there,
put it down on the bed, then half filled
a basin, and was rewarded by seeing
the cat drink as though water fam
lshed. He left next day, thinking no
more of the matter. Six months later
he was again in* the house. Notwith
standing warm weather, and water in
plenty, the cat at sight of him leaped
upon his shoulder, purring and maiou
ing until he again took it upstairs, and
gave it a long drink. This performance
has been repeated at each succeeding
visit—a dozen times in all, and always
the cat shows the same delight. , •
—Would Be Draconian.—" Who was it
who said he'd ‘rather make the songs
than the laws of the country?' ” "I
don't know, but I'd rather make the
laws for the people who make the
songs nowadays.”—Philadelphia Press.
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SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
MRS. McKinley has better
HEALTH IN OHIO THAN ELSE
WHERE.
Some Interesting Faets Respecting
the Family of Secretary Hay.
Marriage Engagements in Which
People at the National Capital Are
Interested—The Vice President's
Lovely Daughter The Thing
Which Interests Minister Wn nt
the Seaside Resorts—A Princess
Who Is to Visit the United States.
Other Matters of General Interest.
Washington, Sept. 4.—The latest good
news from Canton is that Mrs. Mc-
Kinley now finds herself in better
health than at any other time since her
husband's presidency. Though so late
ly at death's door, this remarkable
woman was last week hostess at three'
dinners and a musical, and every day
receives countless callers and goes on
long drives about the country she
loves. The air and general surround
ings of the quiet Ohio home always
did agree perfectly with Mrs. McKin
ley's delicate constitution aftd peculiar
ly sensitive nature. Both the Presi
dent and the doctors are trying to pre
vail upon her- to remain there during
the rest of the presidential term. But
she refuses to listen to such a sugges
tion, preferring to face the trying cli
mate of the capital and the exhaust
ing life of the White House to being
separated from her husband.
Secretary Hay is again in his New
Hampshlie summer home, after a short
visit in Canton and Washington. Never
in robust health of recent years, he
looks now completely broken down and
seems to have aged twenty years
since the death of his only son. Dur
ing the winter, the Hay’s family oc
cupies and entertains in one of the
handsomest houses in Washington; but
at the approach of hot weather they
sensibly seek health and retirement in
the Hampshire hills. There they have
just such a home as any well-to-do
farmer might own, with' nothing pre
tentious about it. The Misses Hay.
arrayed in short skirts and shirt waists
of washable cotton, fish, ride and walk
every day, as free from "style” and
the ostentatious nonsense of swell so
ciety as any farmer’s daughters in the
land. The natural result is that they
return to the capital In splendid health
and spirts for the gay duties of the
winter, and are among the most genu
inely wholesome girls in the o'iieiul
set. Of course the family will be in
mourning the coming season and will
not entertain. Miss Helen Hav is al
ready the author of two volumes of
poetry and is now engaged on a prose
work, more ambitious than either.
The marriage of Miss Madeline Gary,
the youngest and only unmarried
daughter of ex-Postmaster General
James A. Gray, to Dr. Andrew Whit
ridge of Baltimore, is announced to
take place in November, and will be
the most important social event of the
early season, both in Baltimore and
Washington. Miss Gary, you will re
member, is one of the seven attractive
sisters who were such favorites in
Washington during her father’s term
in President McKinley’s cabinet. The
other sisters, with one exception, have
married Baltimore men. and it goes
without saying that all have made
brilliant matches. Miss Madiline is
one of the best horsewomen in Mary
land and last spring captured the cup
and blue ribbon in the ladies' class at
the Elkridge Horse Show.
Washington society is as much in
terested in the announcement of the
engagement of Senator Aldrich’s
daughter to the son of the Standard
Oil king as if they knew the young
lady personally. Although Senator
Aldrich has served so long in the coun
cils of the nation, his family has made
few acquaintances here. Miss Aba
tail. particularly, is almost a stranger
in Washington. While the Senator
has, been occupied in Congress, his
wife and daughters have usually spent
the winters in Southern resorts, coming
here only now and then for a few
days, but taking no part in social af
fairs. As to the prospective groom,
everybody seems to feel quite well ac
quainted with him, if only by repute,
though he has never visited the nation
al capital; and everybody has a good
word for the heir to three hundred mil
lions. Though young Rockefeller will
inherit one of the largest fortunes in
the world, he is said to have exceed
ingly simple tastes and habits, com
bined with unceasing industry and a
capacity for hard work which any
young fellow with his way to make In
the world might envy. Evidently Mr.
Rockefeller was endowed at his birth
with a business turn of mind, as well
as with the traditional "golden spoon.”
On leaving college he Immediately went
to work in his father's business and
learned all the details of It, from the
battorfl up. He cares nothing for the
horses, yachts and other time-killing
but expensive diversions of most mil
lionaires' sons, but takes serious and
conscientious views of the responsibili
ties attached to the vast wealth he will
one day inherit. Miss Aldrich is the
first girl to whom he has ever shown
attention. The story gqes that the in
stant he saw her for (ike first time, he
realized that he had "met his fate,”
and with characteristic straightfor
ward energy, he at once began to lay
siege to her affections. She, too, had
never before a lover, and so the ro
mance is a particularly happy one on
both sides. Just now the Aldrich fam
ily is aboard the yacht “Wild Duck”
in Newport harbor, and Miss Abby's
fiance is with her. The wedding will
take place some time this fall, at the
Aldrich home In Providence, R. I.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, the Vice Pres
ident’s eldest daughter, now complete
ly recovered from the painful operation
she lately underwent for ruolar ab
scess, seems to be remarkably well
equipped, both mentally and physical
ly, for the enviable position she Is des
tined to occupy this winter at the head
of the younger set of Washington so
ciety. She is a handsome girl, Just 18
years of age, tall, graceful and of the
pronounced blonde type. Strange to
say, she bears a marked resemblance
to her father, although there Is noth
ing of the blonde about him and the
wildest stretch of imagination could
not call him beautiful. Miss Alice has
been carefully educated, and Is Inclin
ed to bookishness rather than to so
cial gaieties. However, having had
greatness thrust upon her, along with
her honorable parent, she must make
the best of it and take her place at
the head of the brilliant cotorie of
youngs; people at the capital.
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, of
Merrimac fame, is Just now visiting
at Newport, where he is the much-hon
ored hero of the hour. Senator Keane
and Representative Lovering are also
"liens, ’ in a lesson way, at the same
resort. Senator and Mrs. Sewall, who
have been in Europe ever since Con
gress adjourned, returned to New York
last week, and went at once to their
Cape May cottage. Mr. Wu Ting Fang,
the Chinese minister, has been making
a merry round of all the popular re
sorts, every where dined and feted
amid yellow flowers and rampant dra
gons, In as near an approach to the
Chinese style as America Is capable
of. Among all the dazzling entertain
ments at which he assisted, nothing so
enchanted him as a free ride on the
"ilip flap” at .\tJunUc City. , In the
Casino at Newport the other day he
gave an impromptu talk to a group of
eager listeners on the sensations one
experiences while being "flip flaped" in
a circle through space, dependent for
one's life on an Incredible and mys
terious something called centrifugal
force. Mr. Wu compares Newport with
Atlantic City quite to the detriment
of the former. He likes the
shooting galleries, merry-go-rounds
and' good times generally
for all the world which prevail at At
lantic City, and wonders why Newport
has none of those dear delights; and
worse than all in his estimation —no
"popular-priced" hotels.. No amount of
explanation can make it clear to Mr.
Wu why the millionaires of—that re.
sort would look with horror upon a
hotel whose prices were within the
reach of ordinary humanity. If they
could have theiy way, there would be
no hotels at all within twenty miles of
that paradise of aristocratic cottagers.
A popular-priced hotel would ruin its
prestige as an ultra-fashionable cen
ter; and owing to the inns already
there, though unapproachable except
by people of large income, several of
the exclusive land owners are arrang
ing to build on new territory where
the profane foot of the hotel-guest will
never tread. At Narragansett Pier
Mr. Wu was given a dance among oth
er festivities. Whether the staid, mid
dle-aged gentleman in his silken, pet
ticoats participated. I do not know.
Perhaps he shares the views of a for
mer Chinese minister, who ,at his first
Washington ball, gazed In astonish
ment at the persipring crowd, hamper
ed by their gorgeous train and claw
hammer coats, and inquired why their
servants did not do the work for them.
"In my country," said he, "we employ
dancers to amuse us and sit at our
ease to enjoy it."
By the way, one of the most interest
ing families in Washington is that of
another Celestial, Mr. Young Chuan,
who has a beautiful summer home at
Woodley’, the suburb where the Cleve
lands used to spend the heated term.
Mr. Chang is very wealthy, and his
wife is a charming young American
woman. He was attached to the Chi
nese legation until his marriage, when
he decided to make this city his per
manent residence. His children, who
closely resemble the father—all hav
ing the Oriental slant of eye and Jet
ty hair—attend the public schools and
are among the brightest pupils.
It is announced that the Princess
Harie Ranem of Turkey will visit the
United States next month. That will
mean one of those .White House din
ners at which the guest of honor Is
bored almost to extinction, not being
able to understand a word, or to make
himself understood, even by his host.
On those dismal occasions everybody
present, from the President down,
tries to jonceal his boredom by un
ceasing smiles. Mrs. Cleveland used to
laughingly beg for a respite, "Just long
enough to change my smile.”
A daughter of former Vice President
Levi P. Morton is about to marry Into
the toppest notch of the ancient
French nobility. The engagement of
Miss Helen Morton to Count Boson de
Perigord, son of Duke de Tallyrand
and Sagan, was announced a few days
ago from London and Paris. The Mor
tons, who went abroad in the spring,
are now on the eve of. their return to
spend the autumn at Ellerslie, their
place on the Hudson. The future coun
tess is well known and much beloved
in Washington. She combines the
usual musical and linguistic accom
plishments of the up-to-date young
lady, with a taste for athletics and all
kinds of out-door sports. She spent
last winter in the south of France and
the summer in England. Her fiance is
one of the best known members of the
titled families, his full name being Paul
Louis Marie Archambauld Boson,
Count de Perogord—quite a spread for
a hotel directory. He is 34 years old,
said to be very handsome, and while
he may not succeed to his father's ti
tle, being a second son, he is sure to
inherit gr it wealth from his mother,
the Princess de Sagan. His father as
Prince de Sagan, was the arbiter of
the fashionable world of Paris, even
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One of the commonest and at the
same time most interesting wild flow
ers of midsummer is*Butter and Eggs,
whose spikes of yellow and orange
blossoms make bright the roadsides
and waste Helds from June to Octo
ber. Most appropriate is its name, for
its colors do indeed resemble those of
butter and the yolk of an egg. It is
sometimes called Eggs and Bacon, and
also Toadflax, this last from a fancied
resemblance of it's pale green, grass
like leaves to those of flax. At first
sight it seems as though these flowers
were built on a different plan to most
of those we have seen, but on looking
closely you may see all the parts of a
flower—sepals, petals, stamens, pistils,
etc., are to be found. The sepals are
very small, and they look as though
they could scarcely prevent the flower
from sliding off them, for they seem to
be holding it by the side rather than
by the base. The corolla or inner flow
er cup has a long spur or tube wherein
lies the nectar. But how are the bees
to reach It? There seems to be no en
trance to this deep cup, and some In
sects, seeing no other way, nibble lit
tle holes in the thin wall of the tube
and thus get their itolen sweets. But
there Is a proper entrance, and the
door of Butter and Eggs always opens
tQ the right kind of .visitor. The bee
before succeeding to his present title
as Duke de Talleyrand. Their home Is
one of the finest in the French capital.
PRESS PERSONALITIES.
If Society Did Not Demand These
Papers Would Not Print.
By Harriett Prescott Spofford.
Washington, Sept. 6.—There is an
unpleasant amount of complaint, In
private circles, and sometimes in print,
concerning the personalities to be found
In the modern newspaper. But if the
practice of printing personalities is an
evil there is an easy way to correct it,
and that is to show no interest in them.
The press furnishes only what people
want; and when they cease to want
personalities the press will cease to
give them.
The present writer, lodging once In
the same house with a woman who re
ported with great particularity and ac
curacy the social gossip of Washington
for several important journals in dif
ferent parts of the country, saw a let
ter this reporter received from the wife
of an eminent justice, telling her that
she was going to such a function and
would wear such a dress, with an elab
orate description, and enclosing a $lO
bill. The reporter, who measured the
honor and dignity of the press by a
high standard, sent back the money.
But the justice's lady was at the said
function and was heard to say: “Oh,
there comes that reporter! Let us get
away before she can see what we have
on!”
Another letter ran: "Dear : Miss
So and So is to visit us next week. Do
give her as pretty toilettes as you can,
so that she may send the papers home,
and let them see there what a belle she
is.” Miss So and So was .-elegated to
someone else to dress up; for this re
porter never told anything but the
truth as she saw it.
It was because people wanted her
personalities that she was Invited fre
quently to dine in state at one iorelgn
minister’s; that the carriage of the em
bassy .with its great grey horses and
gold-laced liveries was sent to take
her out after an illness, that dozens of
fine claret were presented to her, and
that a foreign minister’s beautiful wife
gave her a string of milky amber a
yard and a half long.
Another minister’s wife begged her
one day, when her own fiats came over
from Paris, to accept an exqui3ite one
of Vivot's that would have cost S4O
In New York; and at another time an
enormous box full of silk artificial flow
ers; and when the minister was given
another charge she sent for our young
reporter and told her that tvhat she
had published about them had been of
great service, and placed on her fin
ger an emerald surrounded with large
diamonds.
One day a colored lad stole some
trifles of jewelry belonging to our re
porter. The local press took the matter
up With good natured commiseration.
Presently the wife of one of the rfjuth
American ministers sent her a pin and
earrings of fine but small rubies. It
was the time when people wore short
pir.ch-beck chains big as cables, w r ith
big lockets; more than one of the peo
ple who, in public, dislike personali
ties, sent her such a chain, and of the
hugest. A charming bronze, a little and
lovely hound, came from one of the
legations; from another of them came
a fine gilt writing apparatus of great
beauty.
Nor were all these gifts from the
foreigners, by any means. A set of
most delicately carved pink coral was
presented to this society reporter by
an American lady, asking her to ac
cept them, as they had lost their value
for herself. And another persons, wife
of a prominent member of Congress,
sent her a fine gown, lined with silk,
almost unheard of at that period, and
a year or so later enclosed to her two
flfty-dollar bills, saying she had had
no time to attend to her Christmasing
or her charities that year, and wopld
our reporter kindly buy her own
Christmas gift with one of the bills,
is on of her most welcome guests and
he knows how to find his way In. He
alights on the projecting step just in
front of the orange-colored door mat;
his weight depresses this step, and be
fore him is the open door. He enters
and the door closes behind him. As he
reaches into the deep spur for his nec
tar his back brushes off the pollen
from the stamens which hang down
from the roof, and he carries this with
him when he comes out. If you would
like to have a look inside the flower
yourself, press the upper part of the
tube Just below the doorstep, between
your thumb and finger, and the door
will fly open. You will see that it looks
like a gaping mouth with a. yellow up
per lip. an orange lower lip and a yel
low chin. The upper lip is split Into
two divisions, the chin into three.
These are the five sepals, and inside
you will see the stamens and pistils,
all the parts you have found in so
many other flowers.
Begin by putting a tint of blue over
all the picture except the flowers.
When this is dry put a tint of grey
over the fence rails and a tint of green
over the grass, leaving out thp flowers
and leaves. Then paint the leaves a
tint of pale yellow over the blue to
make a light pale-green. Paint the
lower lips of the flowers deep orange
and the nf the flower light
yellow.
THERE’S MELLOWNESS TO T
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and use the other In charities.
It was the wife of one of the Presi
dents. who, on the celebration of a
private and personal anniversary, gave
her, without being requested, a place
to review the proceedings and make
notes. And it was the wife of another
who displayed to her the trousseau of
a White House bride. So much were
her personalities in demand that, when
the reporter sent a note to the first
lady In the land, asking what she was
to wear on a certain occasion, the note
received satisfactory reply.
That this same reporter was given
board at various times at leading ho
tels for the sake of having her letters
dated from those hotels, and that she
had free passes and special rates on
certain railroad, and that another one
was given the best accommodations on
steamship lines while paying for poor
er, only emphasizes the fact that the
wares they had were in demand. And
all this success, if such it should be
called, simply shows dPhat people like
these personalities well enough to pay
for them, and that when people come
to recognize their vulgarity and of
fensiveness the press, as has been said
before, will cease to deal in them.
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