: i A CENTURY AGO. IWHAT PEOPLE DID AND WORE IN WASHINGTON'S TIME. —— i Entertainments, Niversions and So- cial Events In New York in TSO-Prominent Men and Women of That Day. OULD anything read more like a fairy tale than the | that | : di : \ | after inauguration in the public reception, transformtion has come over New York between time when Wash. ington in silk stock. | ings and much dig- b nity accepted the honor thrust hour. when the honor, with both feet braced. receives the man. Nothing is the same as it was then save human nature, Broadway to suggest the old Broadway! One hundred years ago men and women in gay attire themselves and women their fitting mates —chose for a promenade B adway from St. Paul's Church to the Batter) the brick-paved sidewalks, whose gm were curbed with wood, strolled the men and women whose names have made his- tory worth reading. Occasionally did the stream g north. Our own City Hall, not built deed till 1808, was so far north that cheap back of stucco was regar ied as men as brilliant as peacocks gtr mendable economy, inasmuch as o far uptows wr get for since 1658 1 “Broad Way," its continuation as cobble-stones had otherwise known Great George st Hy hed and clatter: y coaches of the unpreter lity, the the shoemaker wh fraternity.” These springs and had been Raritan on open scows, pull rope, the Delaware 2 SCOW, propelled by setting ( ity, beside ACTORS brought from rook in the ferry that wa pilot-boat, but with an oj In Washi $1 Je SCV strik ing nisphere flowers 1s dainty in its dec Tquisite se dan chair, and olored h and postilions in certainly spoke with ne of the era of Jeffersonian was to follow. Yesicle creamed - more private citizen pleasure Kers of wealth often sp horses and men in livery tl stunned the good folk Just arriving from pearl-colored Philadelphia had cen + same pearl-colored aspect | acquisition, In this ever-beautiful pageant were to be seen brave men and brillant women pames are as familiar to us as those of our people to-day. th whose There was Aaron Burr with his good wife, ten year his the mother of two children, a cool, handsome man, adored by light-hearted wor of his trifling stature for his and suspicioned by men for his un- scrupulous brilliancy ; there the boyish. looking Alexander Hamilton, high-bred charming wife, formerly Miss Schuyler; there John Jay, a pure, noble man, dressed in simpls black his hair slightly Pp ywwdered and tied at the back, H WICsS and senior nets, ‘affaires de coeur, in spit 3 with us dark-eyed, col in complexion, but wasHINGTON'S LAMP with a face of great sweetness; beside him his richly dressed, grace- ful wife, formerly Miss Livingston, daughter of the mother whose drawing- rooms brought together all that was most notable both in statesmanship and letters, Agnin, Rufus King, ‘‘the most eloquent | man in the United States,” and his bride, | who had been a Miss Alsop, and who was | remarkable for personal beauty—face oval, with a clear brunette complexion, delicately formed features, expressive blue eyes, black hair and exquisite teeth, “her motions all grace, her bearing gracious, her voice musical and her education exceptional.” With the coming of the first Adminis. | tration the remnants of the manners and hospitality and etiquette, most carefully nourished by the Loyalists, were merged into the dignity and ceremony of the wealthiest and most conservative Ameri- cans, none more insistive than President Washington himself. Washington ordered his household that it might be not only a gentleman's home, but the home of the President as well, He yielded no jot of the honor due him, standing firmly on the platform that every must be exacted in those troublous times for the office he filled. From the to the i A was notified of his el . and on the 16th started with ‘‘feclings,” the | upon him and the present | What is there left, for instance, in new | to, Along | : then began a scene with pleasurable emotion an ode of wach | “The invitation printed upon the back one verse ran along thus: Welcome, mighty chief, once more; Welcome to this grateful shore, Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow, Aims again the fatal blow. On the 24th, at the end of the marek of triumph, under clear skies that seemed to drip lowers as the clouds scatter rain, General Washington was face to face with all that awaited him. Then flew open the doors of hospitable and fashionable New York. the inauguration, that event was the sig- nal for the opening of the public flood- gates. The first rock was struck the day How to draw that line which was to give him opportunity for his duties and at the game time shock no one big with ideas of Republican simplicity was the first task set him, and he solved it by appointing Tuesday afternoons, from 3 o'clock till 4, for the reception of visits of courtesy. *‘At their first entrance they saluie me, and I them, and as many as I can I talk wrote Washington, often in great numbers, come and go, chat with each other and act as they please. What ‘pomp’ there is in all this I am unable to discover.” Yet pomp was | discovered in it and bewailed with griev- ous lamentation, York society at t Mr JHY, W touched nothin "Mrs. Hamill 4 Mrs ful bride of Miss Van Zandt, | with Wa t un each with Mrs. Van ingston and Mrs. Hamilton ant with Mrs. Maxwell. The « tired sbout 2 o'clock, joy and satisfaction aud every pleasure 1 ened by the presence of a Washi Within a week this ball eclipsed by a private one, cording to an authority, ‘‘a magn affair.” It was given by M. de Monstier, the French Mme. de Prehan, Mme. de Brehan was heard to declare of this ball that she ‘“‘had exhausted every resource to produce an worthy of France,” asad truly this little French lady, who was described by Gen- eral Armstrong as a “singular, whimsical, hysterical old woman, whose delight playing with a negro « hild and caressing a monkey,” succeeded in the wish of her heart. “Her decorations.” says Mrs Harrison, ‘‘were enchanting. People wandered about, gaining peeps of fairy land, till the quadrilles were danced, and ong May 1 in every face Minister, his clever sister, ne hostess acting entertainment bewildering in its beauty, where the red, red rose of France and the blue bells, symbolizing the color of Columbia, were blended with scarlet regimentals and uniforms of buff and blue, cerulean gauzes and floating scarfs of rosy tulle. Eight gentlemen in French and American uniforms danced with eight Indies, typifying the countries of Washing ton and Lafayette. It is rather amusing to read as a pendsat to this opening revelry that the supper, served from a long table running from end to end of the room and displayed upon shelves covering | white marble mantel-pieces, carved with the inner wall, consisted of cakes, oranges, apples, wine of all sorts, ice creams, ete. beads crowned with curls and studded and highly lighted up; and also that the | with amaranth. height of the jollity was ‘at 10 o'clock.’ ” This curious supper, unique as it is to us of to-day, is froth and airy nothing- ness compared with the less “French” re- past at & New York ball in 17689, Mm, Harrison by way of an aside quotes from an old newspaper a sample programme. w | | Privately entertained before | {i of a playing card, as was 4 common practice, ran: ‘Mrs, Johnson-—At Home wDecember 12-—An Answer—Quadrilles | at ten.’ Between ten o'ciock and the | hour of departure the following light refreshments were served in relays by | black waiters: tea, coffee, hot milk, plum, pound and queen eake, bread and butter, and toast; groen swectmeats with pre served ginger; lemonade wine: peaches, apples, ' pears, and sangaree; pyramids of red and white ice- | cream, with punch and liqueurs, ros e, | and wine | ednnamon and parfait amour; dried fruits, | almonds, raising, HGentlemen, | | to imagine what the scene of beauty and nuts and wine; finally, bon-bons, mottoes, confitures and sugar- plums. This does not conclude the list, for this was only the ‘stand-up’ supper. Last of nll eame the ‘sit-down’ supper of ‘sandwiches, .ongues, hams, chickens and | pickled oysters,’ ” | Beside this complicated feast, the sim. ple aftersoon tea and the altogether charming informal hour in the evening, when friends dropped in on friends to join in the after dinner cup of i ) They id COU, sumes a hundred new charms. of graceful women who silly attempts at glitter, make their draw- ing so attractive that the brightest, the wisest, the most powerful men and women delightee to present the name of tfriend” and be admitted, Mrs. Jay's ‘days at home” were as famous as her parties and her ceremonious dinners, of which she gave one a week and sometime two. Secretary and Mrs. Knox, a big and witty woman, gave magnificent ban rooms quets, and her home was i the intellectual and cultivat matic and fashionable.” ple made ita stranger of note immediat rival in New York, and La costly dinners every week re fruests, : Mrs. Wi: dent, was ne 3 HL § 3 $ there seem y of anythi Ot havi grandees ble wom the list 0 practically a blue New York wot A well, n and up n which was of silver years’ exile, which Mr really palatial i wir beauty, of this being shown even till to-day in th one or two examples «t notable eviieEnoe toger Morris standing It mansion, a dignity the clanging Elevated | : : Road in Harlem, and pointed out to the as the of Mme beside sightseer home ward his wife There the old Walton House in its prime, the prides of Pearl street, with ita grand mahogany of Was center the panneied wit the of staircase occupying the house, ome of the rn oak, richly carved, while other were bung with stamped leather, heavily gilded. Over the front door was cul in stone the Walton coat-of. arms, and within it was magnificiently | furnished, its gilding, carving, tap siries, carpets and gold and silver piste being the talk of the town, and were, without doubt, responsible for Mr. Walton, who was a wealthy merchant, being known familiarly as ‘Boss Walton." The Kennedy House, next door to the famous No. 1 Broadway, was another house that gave every evidence of having been planned by an artistocrat for profuse and elegant hospitality. Here wero HONS wall WANs rooms frieze of acanthus, and decorated with Immense mirrors reached from floor to ceiling, and a heavy mahogany staircase responded to the touch of lightly flying as well as martial feet. Given houses like these, it is easy gayety must have been. Imagine what a background these yellow and brown walls, the polished floors, the sconces with their twinkling candle-lights, the glittering mirrors and the unobtrusive windows must have made for the gay, soft sweeping gowns, snd the kerchiefs and the snowy necks and bare arms, and the powdered hair piled on a cushion, and the delicate feet in high-heeled buckled shoes! Dresses of India silk and satin petticoats with sacques of silk were worn by the women in those days, and the men were no less elegant in their attire of velvet, laced neckeloths and silk : ie silk stockings nnd shoes with plain silver shoe-buckles. The party gowns of the women of 1789, with a little 1aodernizing, would not do | ill for to day, though we ean never hope to approach their gorgeous brocades, Surely our belies are one after another put- | ting their hair on rolls up from their faces; | they wear simple strings of pearls their necks, decollete bodices, DARCING THE MINUET. pointed back and front, and wreaths of and : wong shoulders Our Py flowers about the wreaths in their hair have banished « scarcely touched the ’ over silk, beneath whic tiny gloves , but we have of tulle h the pointed slen- how full skirts der slippers of our great, great, great grand mothers fled in and We anterpart. thought. for the modest lit. tied beneath the ef often the out have no cf tle Puritan cap Wi in, worn : yd which must } Chan to Lh Then it to and fr its p narrow, dirty POGK the al wel CAs ead walter sy the would incipient stem the bored wooden I thi sater fit to drink, ' Boe gs laid undergrous nk how, if they would ney i H eo oO 3 ¥ mp on Chatham sires They would see the streets 0 the tea-water pi or it in front hear the arbage man ringing his bell, hi butt o nen, yet singing marvelous he went. They imney sweeps crying bake ™ with bask ‘y bread” or “hot cross buns.” as the case be Most wonderful ery all that of the milkman with his yoke, m each side of which was suspended large tin kettle of milk milk-ho!” but their a chain a DIS Cry Was ongainaiy | it degenerated into every sort of a shiriek or a whistle or a yell If it were night or touching upon dusk these good folk would meet the watch or | rattle-men and the lamplighters lighting | the puny ofl lamps that did not really | put the handy lantern to blush Then ust as like ns not, as they raised the | knocker on their doors, they would turn about and look back with pride upon their beloved New York, and they would say to themselves as they looked up to the woods by Canal street and thought what a pity it was indeed that Chatham Square was so marshy and full of malaria—will it all be the same in a hundred years! And without a doubt they were every man of them perfectly satisfied to know that it would bel—New York World. It Was Quite Warm, ! Bale Cure, the feasibilit { ter in his cabin for | clines the proffered kindness and urges his | shelter us | Seizes the | that which wanted being | himself the { jokes from the humbiler Lost In the Storm, Ons of our leading editors clipped from a leading magazine extracts from a vivid de- peription of a Western blizzard which we have taken the liberty to publish, and at the same time suggest to H, H, the proprietors of the celebrated Warner's of taking therefrom an uxtract for the introduction of one of their | tolling advertisements, The following is the | description: about | stiflly | open prairie in one of our “At the close of a dark day in January a politary horseman wends his Western tories, one of them, with true the night But he de tired borse forward, =» *#% suddenly dark, *** He decides to seek " The storm increases in ite tury The rider dismounts to warm his fast chilling limbs, **% Can scarcely Lrenthe, Blindness comes on Drowsiness steals over him. The end is near. He LR EJ dew i is lost in the biizeard.” There is no dou bewildered OVEreOmes that be is suffering Ir that the terror which traveler i» similar to s when he lsarns m an advanced Kid | poy Disease, and is informed that be is in the last stages of Bright's disease. At first he is | informed that he has a slight kidney affec Later he begins 10 foes! tired Blight Fickle appetite. Failure of the Cramp in the call of the logs Distresing DET VOUS, Hbeumatic and neuralgic pains Cocasion ally pain in the back SBeanty, dark oolored fluids, with werisation Gradual failure of strength Any of the above symptoms signify Kid pey Affection, out he is told tisat he is all right. His physician treats him for symp. toms and cals it a disease, when In reality it is but a symplom of Kidaey trouble He may be treated for Hheumatic aralgic pans, heart affection, or any other disense which he 15 most st plible 1a, patient has the eves, slight bloating of the ankles and legs His physi- may infor him that it is but the a nistion of sod of proper exer bloat continues and reaches his body nod he drog ones twice trenddae alding or Ne under ihe ins or owing + heart, and floally isin bt attack of Bright's are notified that Bright's rirvd : Wo LoL] His asks for ks to the phys an © Same et by remecy And 30 trated Kafe Cure, of the lu Kidney affection ve published the dan acts have been printed INEY LiNeRse and phys and regret He dd was ap hosp the proprietor { known as Warner's { a alight The newspapers | gers OC ine { { men dying of Gangers « advanced Ki is {riends horror maledy every as n morta y Perris rring In doctored of what it n t uniess properly treated. Sovervien Remedy for Sleeplessness, tain Henry Bass of Rome, Ga Westing? n, is worth $2 George Warner & Co, | way across the | terri. | He passes at long intervals the lone | cabin of the hardy frontiersman. | three old settlers, of whom he has inguired | the way, have warned him that a storm is i approaching, and Western hospitality, urges him to fing shel- | Two or | The sky grows | Finally the | | sion, so faras the IM i I nsrane, | |. rking | The Queer Mongolian Drama. Descriptions of playgoing in Chins and) | Japan are not uncommon, but it often | happens that the writer, not being used | to the ways of the stage, misses many in~ | teresting and amusing points. Mr. Louis | Wingfield, however, is an experienced | playgoer who knows all about the theatre, and what he has to tell us in his pew book, ‘Wanderings of a Globe Trotter,” is therefore specially diverting and in- structive. The Chinese players have not their exits and their entrances, for in- There are always many on the stage who have nothing to do with the Mr. Wingfield says. Bervaniise— stroll about the stage | placing and removing properties, and changing the labels which hang on the alls announcing ‘This wood,” or “This is a palace” conventio stance, | play, | ecoolies fis0, isa a pigtailed audience things. Thus, a risin half turn (vaguely sugge fing the act fie " | : E + getting nto + gaddie) In the character is on hor plies that eback : a crescendo of walk round, informs spectator have moved tos is told on the is supposed to be sewing the required act » ™ : and thread.” Cain - | mended. the by lently suggestive, a in his ankles for want | Would You Believe prietor of Ks to ir- | i Throst snd the exoel : t hesitate! 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