fffll f 'THE - JTTTSBTIRG''"DISPAT0a1'Cnro9HSEETEMBE;PTOieSM 14 5- BELLE OF THE BROBX How a Very Pretty Oarsgirl Manages to Always Look Attractive. HER COMPLEXION JOT IN DANGER. Borne of the Funny Episodes Seen by Fair Female Bargain Hunters. SCHEMES OF ACTEESSES FOR BOOMS tCOKEEBrOXDEXCE OF TOT DISPATCH.! 2fEW Xoek, August 31. HOKX'S, Boating Belle. Let that be the print for her real name, which the reader wouldn't rec ognize, anyhow, ior it is not that of a fa mously rich or fash ionable family. The Bronx is called a river, but it is only a creek, just out of town to the north ward, and some of its lazv stretches arc shaded into absolute seclusion by bordering trees and shrubbery. Our oarsgirl is a pretty creature, as gentle as any Gwendolen, yet sinewy and fctrong; and it is curious to see how she endeavors to pet the advantages or outdoor exercise with out losing her aspects of weak femininity. She has brothers who row in knitted shirts, so scant that their arms are bare to the tops of tneir shoulders, and she follows their fashion so far as to wear a sleeveless jersey waist. It lits her figure nicely, and is a clever adaptation, too, for it looks as though it didn't girt her waist in the least. 2for does it But be it known that a corset a very pliable one, yet still a corset is underneath that outer envelope. Her hands are protected from callousness and abrasions by sot gloves, which reach to her elbows. Therefore, when she drops the oars of her summer outing, and takes up the fan of her winter inning, it will be with FINGERS TAPER AS EVER, and palms as soft. Besides, she can don elbow sleeves, these August evenings, and show the most delicate of forearms. How about the bare skin betwixt shoulders and elbows, you ask? Ahl There is clever ness. She is bound to row with her biceps in view, as her brothers do, and she is proud of the muscles that raise the smooth flesh at each stroke; but she wouldn't like to ex pose, at her first autumnal ballroom reap pearance, arms as tanned as sunburn would naturally leave them. So she has obtained a recipe, in which the principal ingredients are cocoa butter, bismuth and lemon juice, for obliterating the tan in a single week. Durinr the nights of that period she will Bleep with upper arms smeared with the unguent, in order to bleach away the brown which is now one of the charms of her sight liness in a boat. But of all the sports known to women, outdoors or indoors, city or country, none is pursued with greater zest by its devotees than that of bargain hunting. And ot all the year round, now is the time for it, so far as New Xork City is concerned. The retail business is naturally dull in August, and, in order to clear out old stock to nuke room lor September's new goods, merchants seek to enliven trade by loading their bargain counters attractively. "Women come in from the near watering places to HUNT FOE BABGAIN GAME. Tourists indulge in the sport, and others to whom the saving ot money is really of account 'throng the stores. These latter frueal women are rather disdained by the former pleasurable ones, just as pot hunters are despised by true sportsmen, and. no millionaire ever got more satisfaction from hooking a 10-cent trout than a satin-bound dowager can derive from the catching of a dime bargain. She will spend a dollar in car-fares, and almost soak her old head off with perspiration, in hunting down her small game. Well, it is all right. The bargains are thus valuable to the poor, delightful to the rich, and profitable to the dealer. There is occasionally a mighty funny episode, too. In the midst of the retail shopping district is a luncheon restaurant for women. It is jammed full during the middle hours of the day. On a central counter this week are piled bargains in cakes, tarts, crullers, sandwiches and eclairs. They are "marked down," not because they are shopworn or out of fashion, but through the proprietor's desire to whoop up his trade. It is a sight to see the crowd of women around that counter, peering close at the viands, sniff ing at them, poking them with their fin gers, and treating them as though they were articles to wear rather than to swallow. They don't propose to be fooled, you know. SHE FOEGOT SOMETHING. "Are these doughnuts fresh?" an old lady asked, denting one of them with her gloved forefinger. "They're this morning's bake," the pert girl clerk replied. '"Sure?" and the bargain hunter took one up. 'Certain, ma'am," was the curt answer. "It seems rather hard," and the lady cau tiously bit it "It's a perfectly fresh cruller." "0, 1 thought 'twas a doughnut" "ifo. It might be considered hard for a doughnut, but it is soft enough for a cruller." , 'But I don't want a cruller," and the shopper laid it down. She turned away, and then the salesgirl called after her: "Madam madam don't you want your teeth?" A full set of false teeth, with a gold plate attached, were left stuck in the cruller. The lady did want them, and in a tremend ous hurry; but think of the bargain some body else might otherwise Kave found in that hunk of fried doughl As it was, I presume the restaurant man had to mark it don n still lower on account of the damage that the bite had done to it HOW BOOMS JUJE MADE. A dramatic critic showed to me one day's heap of letters that had accumulated on his desk. I had remarked to him that it was a shame how the newspapers gave publicity to the smallest doings ot actresses, and how the ladies must be annoyed bv it There fore he let me read the chance collection of missives, and among them were not less than a dozen cool requests by actresses some of them renowned, and none quite un known to lame that he should print para graphs which thev inclosed. Among these was one telling of the writer's grief at the loss of a pet dog, another narrating an acci dent by which an almost fatal dose of poison was taken, a third disclosed the constructive secrets of feminine apparel, a fourth was to give currency to a matrimonial scandal in Tolving the correspondent herself, and soon through the lot It was a revelation to me of the anxiety amounting almost to vo racity of actresses to be exploited in print Bight in the face of this knowl edge, but with the excuse that Letty Xiind and Sylvia Grey have gone back to London, there to stay for a year or two at least, I am going to tell a storv which, if they were still performing in this country, I should not write for fear of serving an advertising purpose. GOT THERE, JUST THE SAME. The London Burlesque Company, in which these gyrators made us acquainted with "skirt dancing," was at the Standard Theater. The town's contingent of addle pated mashers had deserted the comic operas snd flocked to this new allurement That degree of adulation was new to Sylvia and Ietty, whoso London vogue had been com paratively insignificant, but they did not permit themselves to be dazed by it, and the Johnnies that is the London nickname for dudes who dangle after actresses were held on from laminar approach. The tact was . .. . .; ir. ' - ..v . .. '..... ..,..33f 1 L -t, .H. . j. Ih. ' ....... t f. . - .-.' 1 ' - - r . J t Ik . I W , ."u4i btv 4. . . -. .ii .. '. 'J .Je, 'It. i" . v. ' SJKSSra-fiu,iJ V.J4 . 1I2&&UU i .iMStriliLEjik c . v W W i A-aWKlS-iff S ., . . . " . fc -. i'1'.li iJ.!t.. i. . r f J .. ,Tji .- & .. ' -4..L.. ' . SK99( that both the dansucses were already con jugally attached, and were, therefore, ineli gible to American wooing. One irrepresbi ble fellow, whose name it is best not to give, persisted until he obtained an interview with them. He was then and there in formed that it wasn't any sort of use to waste his time in seeking an acquintance, because uositivelv they would not know him. One evening, not long thereafter, the. orchestra leader was ill and absent The first violinist was to take his place in the high seat and conduct the musical portions of the burlesque. The "Johnny" had be come friendly with Fred Leslie, the come dian of the company, and it was through him, along with the expenditure of some money, that the skirt dancers were treated to AN ASTOUNDING SURPRISE. When they came out to dance they found in the temporary conductor none other than the unconquerable "Johnny" himself. Of course he may not have known anything about leading an orchestra, but he could make motions with the baton, while the well-drilled musicians played as usual, and he had the supreme satisfaction of bobbing up serenely right in front of those two Lon don charmers, where he could even talk to them while they danced, and they couldn't either sauce him back or fly from him. "And what did it lead to?" was asked of Comedian Leslie, who gave the particulars to a friend of mine, "Nothing at all, I think," was the reply. "I shouldn't have been surprised if the ladies had abandoned their policy of repul sion, in consequence of his unprecedented exnloit. but he seemed to be satisfied with that adventurous climax, and never tried to go near them again." Did it strike you that the four murderers who were hanged in the Tombs last week were all killers of women? And if so, did you speculate upon the probability of their punishment being a deterrent of brutal men who maltreat their wives and sweethearts? Cynthia Leonard is a bright and actiye feminine thcorist,as you may already know, and it occurred to her to question the four condemned brutes as to whether they were more ashamed of having slain women than if their victims had been of their own sex. She did not find them productive of theories on the subject, and had to content herself with obtaining the briefest replies. Still they are well worth publishing. MEANT AS A. COMPLIMENT. Fackenham had cut his wife's throat "I'm sorry I killed anybody," he said, "but I guess I'd be sorrier it 'twas a man, because men are of more use than women." Carolin had chopped his ostensible wife to death. "I killed nobody," he obdurately maintained, "but would I be more ashamed if I had killed a woman than a man? No, I do not think so." Nolan had shot a mat rimonial partner, and he said: "Every man oughter be polite to women. But they're exasperating.' They get killed be cause they're tormentors." Lewis was a negro. "He had jealously slain his sweet heart "I dunno exactly what you mean," he said. When it was explained that his idea of the extra atrocity of murdering a woman was desired, he remarked: "Well, I guess it's a compliment to a gal when a jealous man kills her. I ain't jokin" boss," for the questioner was a man who under took the errand; "a man don't shoot his girl unless he loves her, ,does he?" There is sentimental philosophy for you. We ought to feel complimented when men murder us. Claba Belle. BOARDED BY A SWOKDFISH. A Teasel's Crew Nearly frightened to Death by an Ocean Monster. Lcwlston Journal. He was a sailor and talked of swordfish. "Many years ago," said" he, "swordfish were a rarity. To-day I read in the paper of a vessel arriving at Portland with 20,000 pounds of swordfish. Ever had any experi ence with them, Captain?" "Yes, once. I'll give it to you," and he continued: "Blue water got distasteful to me, once on a time. A hard rub in a gale on a long trip around the Cape and a lone some welcome home made me sick. I got out of it Couldn't keep out, though, so I took one of these bobtail schooners for a load of Pictoucoal in the early days when those coal mines were first "extensively opened up at Pictou. She was a despisable craft after what I had been having, and I didn't hold far off the coast, and we was a running through Casco Bay. It was dark but starlit, and I got tired o' the deck and so I called up the mate and turned in be low. I had been down about an hour when I woke." TJp on deckwas a thumpin', and a rappin' ana a crasnin . "Hollo, Cap'n!" came back the answer, "some blanked kind of a craft has boarded us." "Call the hands!" yelled I, as I slipped into my clothes and bunted here and there. After awhile I got on deck and so did a light, and there right in the middle of the deck lay a swordfish half as longas onr craft, as it seemed to me. How his eyes shone. They looked like two junk bottles and stuck way out of his head. Everybody stood back. "Gimme room," said X, and I grabbed a caps 'an bar and moved along to his side. His old eyes glared at me as I stood at one side and drew back the bar. I was strong in those days, but I didn't know my prey. I let him have one right between the eyes with a blow that would have killed an ox. In an instant the air was full of sword fish. In two seconds he had cleared that deck of men who scrambled every way, as that monster darted here and there, crash ing and tearing and ripping. When he came to a halt e attacked him again, and for ten minutes there was the liveliest little fight between fish and man that I ever saw or heard of. He tore everything, but we laid him out In the side of the house was a huge hole where he had boarded us, the sword having stuck through my cabin. He had tried to jump over us in the night; pos sibly taking us for a big whale. "Wehad sword-fish boiled; baked; broiled; fried; stewed; steamed, smothered until I can't see a piece without it makes me weary." PED BI HIS FELINE FEIEND. t How a Hungry Dos Got His Dinner With out Stealing It Boston Conrier.j One dog story always leads to another, and he who has told one is as a matter of course expected to follow it np with a sec ond. Therefore to the story told last week the editor is constrained by immemorial custom to add the following: A lady who has a superb tawny St. Ber nard relates that at one period in his career Bruno had a warm attachment for a black cat. Puss was accustomed to sleep upon the dog's great yellow head, and the pair are described as looking very picturesque together. On one occasion the cook was more than usually busy, and haying boiled the dog's dinner and set it to cool, she forgot to give it to him. Poor hungry Bruno bore it in silence for some time, and even went to 'the unusual length of begging a little for his delayed dinner, but all to no avail. At length the cook went out of the kitchen, leaving the pot ot meat on the stool. A ser vant who was in the next room saw Bruno go up to it, put his nose over the edge, and whine hungrily, but without attempting to take anything out He evidently struggled with himself but he finally conquered the temptation, and retired to the other side of the room, where he lay down all alert to watch for the coming again of the cook. The black cat, who had seen all this, evi dently thought that the time hud now come for her to interfere. She jumped upon the stool where the pot of meat was sitting, fished out a big bone, and carrying it across the kitchen, dropped it at Bruno's feet The dog evidently felt that to hesitate any lon ger would be flying in the lace of Provi dence, and he leJl upon the bone ravenously, while puss, with the most evident conscious ness of haying done a clever thing, rubbed herself purring against his great tawny sides. All this the servant saw. and in dne time did report, to credit alike of the reputation i I I oi me oog ana oi tne cab CYCLISTS IN EUROPE. A Description of the Touring Club Rnn From Paris to Zurich. SWISS CUSTOM HOUSE OFFICERS. The American Party Makes a Display of Its Fatriotism, THE HISTORIC CASTLE OF CHILLON (CORBSSFOXDEXCX OF THE DISPATCH.I Zubich, August 17. Our party of 27 reached this hospitable city in good order yesterday afternoon, and we are comforta bly quartered at the Hotel Bellevue, with the Stars and Stripes floating above its roof. The journey hither from Paris has been made in a leisurely way and has proved one of unmixed entertainment and enjoyment throughout The landscape and scenery we have encountered, both in Trance and Swit zerland, have recalled many a fragment of memories from forgotten pictnre galleries, and wherever we have passed, both towns people and peasantry have vied in showing us invariable kindness and courtesy. To quote the expression of one of our party, "The trip from Paris to Zurich has been one continuous picnic." There was a great crowd gathered before the Hotel de la Tamise, in the Rued' Alger, to bid us good-bye, as we bade adieuto Paris a short time ago. Baron Selly and Mr. and Mrs. Wethinger, the latter two mounted on a "tandem safety," had kindly offered us their escort as lar as Fontainebleau, and quite a number of the Paris wheelmen also accompanied our calvacade to that point, making a jolly party that wheeled up at noon time at JN emours tor luncn. mount ing again at 2 B. M., with fine weather and a splendid road, we passed during the after noon, the historic "King's Tables," entered and traversed a section of the grand old forest, and reached JE'ontainebleau about 5 p. M., where we remained over the following day, Sunday, sight seeing and visiting the famous chateau. WHEELMEN ON THE BOAD. Fontainebleau was, for the time, full of infantry summoned to rifle practice, and the town was alive with concerts, carrousels, hurdy-gurdys, and all manner of holiday entertainments, so that we were not sorry to leave. Finding tne main highway closed on account of the military operations, we made a detour on leaving next morning, and afterward regaining the post-road, made a straight pull for Sens, which was reached in four hours' time. The remainder of the day was passed in visiting the historic old church and in general sight-seeing. It may be mentioned. here that the President of the Fontainebleau Bicycle Club accompanied us as far as this point, having with him a friend mounted on a tricycle. This latter gentleman furnished us the only real laugh we had had since leaving Paris, by sud denly and unaccountably taking a "header" over the roadside and landing in the ditch. From Sens, via Joigny, to Tonnere, we had a level country and fine roads, so that some six of the party, Kirk, Brinsmade, White, Shannon, Levy and Schneider, de termined to go in for a "century" run, and, in spite of a strong bead wind, they accom plished it, running back from Joignv, after lunch, to Sens, then forward again through Joigny and on to Tonnere, making a run of 10b miles in a day often hours. We passed a pleasant night and forenoon at Tonnere, chatting with many of the townspeople, who were very sociable and kind, and, alter lunch, pushed on to Mont- bard, which was reached about 6 P. m. After visiting the ruins ot the chateau and discussing an excellent dinner, our party, all ot whom felt infused with THE PAIBIOTIC SPIRIT, gathered in front of the hotel and sang "Hail Columbia," "Star Spangled Banner, and other national songs. In ten minutes' time the street was so packed with people, a swarming mass of good-natured and demon strative listeners, that it was impossible fur a vehicle to pass. Suddenly one of the party happening to call for the "Marseil laise," a citoyen mounted a cask, com menced "Allons enfants de la patrie" in the most approved style, and the immense crowd enthusiastically joined in the chorus. Then, in turn, some Frenchman in the crowd who was posted cried "Chantez Yan kee Doodle." whereupon our boys com menced the good old lainiliar strain, and it was applauded to the echo. The next morning our cavalcade went gaily out of Montbard, the bicycles pro fusely decorated with red, white and blue ribbons, and every small boy in town fol lowing us as long as his legs would carry him. We kept together, singing the na tional airs in chorus as we whizzed across the conntry,eand every one of us thinking lovingly of home. At St. Seine, where we lunched, we found the hotel dining-room profusely decorated with the Stars and Stripes and the tricolor in honor of our ar rival. A pleasant incident was a little speech by Mr. Esterbrook, who proposed the health of the President of the United States, and followed it up with some timely remarks Just at this juncture one of our party, Bosehoom, who had had a fall a few miles np the road and been obliged to come in apart, was carried in triumphantly pn the. stalwart shoulders of Higgins, Brins m'ade, Leavey and Cake, and received with a vociferous chorus of "He's a jolly good rellow." DBINKS TOK ALL. We reached the Burgundian capital, Dijon, between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, where arrangements had been made for a banquet at the Hotel de la Cloche. The room was handsomely decorated with our own and French flags, the menu and wines were excellent, and a genuine American lemonade was provided for the prohibition ist members of the party. The health of the President was drunk standing, and ap propriate speeches were made by Messrs. Hicks, Beals and Wilson. Next day we visited the museum, the cathedral, the park and other beautiful sights of the city, and in the afternoon pushed on to Dole, where we were hand somely entertained by a fellow bicyclist, formerly of Dijon, who now owns a concert hall at Dole. Next day we rode leisurely in the afternoon to Pohgny where we had a night ot horrors, with swarms of bedbugs. some of them as large as a soft-shelled crab. It is a wonder some ot them didn't try to mount the machines and ride off with them! As it was we all had to sleep on the floor with onr clothes on, and we shook off the dust of Poligny next day, vowing never to return. We lunched at Champagnole, and as it was Sunday, great crowds of sightseers" col lected about us. That afternoon we reached Norez, "coasting" down hill the entire dis tance for the last five mile's, without touch ing a foot to the pedal. Here we had our first glimpse of the glorious scenery of the Juras. Next morning we had an uphill walk of eight miles to the Swiss frontier, which we passed at Les'Bousses. SOMEWHAT OF A DUTEBENCE. Who shall explain the mysteries of Cus tom House duties? Some 4f our party were required to deposit 20 francs duty each on their bicycles, receiving therefor a receipt on which the amount would be refunded to them by the. customs office at their point of exit from Switzerland; while others of the party simply rode by the Custom House at Les Bousses, unhailed or unmolested in any way whatever. Curious people these Cus tom House officials wherever you find them. We found the Swiss roads equally good with those in France. Just after passing Fancille, a magnificent view, embracing the city and lake of Geneva and the distant Alps beyond, elicited general exclamations of surprise and delight Passing on through Gex, we reached Geneva about noon and were soon duly installed in Our quarters at the Hotel de la Foste, where we remained as guests for two days. We were hospi tably entertained at the Casino, on the tably entertained at the CasinoL on the I second evening of onr stay, by M. Brone I . i 1l chief Consul ot the Geneva bicycle fra ternity. Then came a delightful trip by steameron the placid and picturesque Lake Leman, which brought us to the historic castle of Chillon, where we spent a couple of hours inspecting the interior of that venerable pile, including the dark cellar in which Bonivard passed so many weary years of imprisonment Mr. Higgins, whose "Kodiak" Js seldom idle, used this oppor tunity to jump into a small boat and obtain a capital photograph of the cattle from the water-side. TWO THINGS BATHES HIGH. We wheeled that night, via Yilleneuve to Aigle, where we lodged, moving on next morning to Chateau d'Oex. At Gambullez, where we halted for lunch, the aubergiste gravely informed us -that his house was lo--cated 5,000 feet above the sea level, which, when we came to see our bill, was evidently intended as a. preliminary explanation of the corresponding height attained by his prices. At Chateau d'Oex, we had a beau tiful view of the moon rising above the mountains, and after a good night's rest ar rived at Thun next day in time for lunch. The road thence along the lake shore, plen tifully interspersed with tunnels, was novel and extremely picturesque, and we reached the Jungfrau Hotel, at Interlaken, with ap petites that made mine host open his eyes wide with surprise. Thence we went into Lauterbrunnen, vis ited the two cascaded, and ascended the mountains by a walk of 2 hours to Mur ren, remaining there over" Sunday. The day was rainy the first unpleasant weather we had encountered since leaving Oxford six weeks before and the party gladly availed themselves of the opportunity to re main indoors, reading, entering up their notebooks, and writing letters to their friends at home. To. morrow night we shall pass at the Falls of the Bhine, and thence go on through the Black Forest, to Strasburg, Baden-Baden, Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, Coblenz, Cologne and Rotterdam, at which latter point our party will break up, some taking ship for home, and others proceeding to different destinations on the Continent or in the Brit ish Islands. F. A. Elwell, Manager of the Cyclists' Touring Club. A TERRIER BROUGHT TO TERMS. A Story That Proves That a Doc Can Ben pon and Remember. Tooths' Companion. Mrs. E. Picton had a Skye terrier, which manifested a strong aversion to being washed. In time this aversion increased to such a degree that the servants refused to perform the ablutions, being afraid to do so on acconnt of the ferocity evinced by the dog on such occasions. Mrs. Picton herself was unwilling to undertake the office, for though the animal was passionately at tached to his mistress, such was his hor ror of the bath that even she was not safe. Threats, beating and starving were of no avail. He was determined; he would not take a bath. At last I hit upon a new device. With out curtailing his liberty in anyway, I gave him to understand, by taking no notice of him, that he had offended me. He was usually the companion of my walks, but now I refused to let him accompany me. On returning home, I took no notice of his de monstrative welcome, and if he came look ing up at me for caresses when I was en gaeed either in reading or needlework, I deliberately turned mv head aside. This state of things continued for a week or ten j j .1 r 1 1...1 3 .t.j days, and the poor animal looked wretched and forlorn. There was evidently a conflict going on within him, which told visibly on his outward appearance. Then one morning he crept quietly up to me, and gave me a look which said as plainly as words could have done, "I can stand it no longer; I submit" And submit he did, quietly and patiently, to one ot the roughest ablutions it had ever been his lot to experience. After the washing was over, he bounded to me with a joyous bark and wag of his tail, saying unmistakably, "I know all is right now." He too'k, as of right, his place by my side when I went out to walk, and retained from that time his usual joyous demeanor. When the time for the next bath came round, the old spirit of obstinacy revived, but a single look at my averted countenance was sufficient for him, and he again sub mitted without a murmur. Why should we hesitate to ascribe a reasoning faculty to an animal in which a struggle between op posing desires could thus be carried on for days together? A T0UKG TEMPERANCE LECTURER. A Child's Simple Question Causes a Drunkard to Reform. Toledo Blade. One of the best and most effective temper ance lectures I ever heard of was delivered down in South Washington last week. A bookkeeper for one of the largest hardware firms in the city has been drinking very heavily ot late, and his spree culminated on Friday night, when he turned his wife and child out ot doors, xney remained at a neighbor's house all night, and of course the entire region round abont was discussing the matter with the volubility which is cus tomary on such occasions. The next morn ing as the now sober husband was leaving his house to go to work, he was met at the gate by the 4-year-old offspring of his next-door neighbor. Looking right up into the red face of the sot, the younger said: "Mr. , did you get drunk last night, and push Mrs., and Charlie into the street?" For a moment there was silence, and the two or three bystanders who heard the childish query, expected the man to swear at the little one. Then the great big, ill smelling, but penitent drunkard, stooped down, picked np the child and kissed him on the forehead. "Yes," he said, and his voice was broken, his eyes filled to over flowing with tears, "I was drnnk, and I was a brute, but, God helping me, I never will be again." He sought his wife and child, secured forgiveness, signed a total ab stinence pledge, and now bids fair to be a good citizen. On the mantel in his parlor He yesterday placed an elaborately execu ted and beautifully framed copy of that well known passage of scriptnre: "And a little child shall lead them." CAESAR'S PROUD BOAST. His Wife Overheard It and His Pride Had a Great Fall. Scottish American.) A Scotch minister was sorely kept under by his "better half," who placed him and his friends on very short allowance. On one occasion he had a visit from an old acquaint ance and after patiently waiting ior his wife's departure she at length, as he thought, re tired for the night She had no sooner left than the hen-pecked husband exultingly ex claimed, "I am -determined to be Cassar in my own house!" and at the same time rang the bell and ordered refreshments. Just as be and his friend were beginning to enjoy themselves "my lady" (who h id overheard her unfortunate lord's boastful ejaculation) popped her head in at the door and said firmly, "Cxsar, come to bed!" Livingston De Peyster's Death Knelt Man-iAfraid-of-His-Shadow Big heap poor smoke! No hole no draw. Plonk nim, Wanital Ju4gtt , COST OF COSMETICS, Shirley Dare Treats- of a Topic In teresting to the Fair Sex. THE PfiOFIT IN FACE POWDERS. Decayed Gentlewomen Who Make Money by Preparing Face Lotions. POOR PAT FOR NEWSPAPER WORK WRITTEN roa THI DISPAICH.1 With nearly 200 letters to answer, I packed them sacredly and fled to the wilderness. Life is short, letters are long. If "man is Immortal till his work is done," as the school mottoes used to tell us, life insnrance may be dispensed with for some time to come in the present case. Whether all the homely women travel in summer and the good looking stay at home, or not, I think some thousands of the former, all freckles, eye teeth and deep leathery wrinkles have gone on the same railroads. If one-were a cosinetio Consuelo, it would be a temptation to take a van, like the qnack venders, and travel from town to town, applying freckle washes, face bleaches and wrinkle 'pastes. What hosts for a whimsical genius, and. what a mis sionary work in general? To our corres pondents at once. It is out of the question to answer all let ters which desire private reply, were time and strength given up to them. Still those wishing personal letters should at least risk stamps on the chance, for if ihe answer to their inquiries is not worth postage to them, it can't be worth taking the time for. A letter was. lately received from Ireland, im ploring directions for removing personal bjemishes, in heart-burning terms, but the evidently well educated writer quite over looked ocean postage. WOETHTT OP HEB HIEE. If people, Jimagine that authors write be cause they are good for nothing else, it will do to remind them that this may be true of a good many writing folk, but those who mate the truest success of writing are usu ally capable of making more money in com mon business. Mr. Isaac Bromley wrote the wittiest articles, political and otherwise, for the Tri&une years ago, at $5,000 a year. Times changed and the salary was reduced, a year or two, when that was thought too much. Mr. Bromley left newspaper work and tooK a railroad otnee at a salary of $10, 000, where he is considered well worth the sum. So a newspaper man told me. I know a newspaper woman, very bright and cute, whom the jealousy of unscrupulous women writers without half her talent at anything but lying, edged off the Boston press into other business, where she is able' to clear $60 a week.which is thrice more than any of her rivals are doing. Two or three women I de clined to help forward in the crowded field of newspaper work your thanks, if you please, Messieurs editors were wroth with me until they found themselves substan tially placed in other work, with three times the salary they could possibly hope for in I journalism. f . . . bo please inquire within your- selves if $10 a day is a very moderate price ior an author s time, who could make nve times as much outside of newspapers, and if a letter of advice often takes hours of study and writing, isn't that reply worth postage? BEAIj NAMES NECESSAEY. Another rule which writers soon find themselves forced to observe, is never to notice letters without the writer's real name and address. It is not remarkable that women do not wish to sign some of the silly effusions they send. Bear in mind, it is an affront to yourself to write a letter you are unwilling to sign, and nearly as mnch to re ceive it, and all sudh are quickly dropped into the waste basket. sWomenare queer about their own inter est often. For instance, one writer pathet ically deplores a disfigurement of face and person, which she fears will render her an object of dislike to the husband whom she is soon to marry. She has been minded to break off the engagement oh this acconnt, but to do so, she says, will be to break her own heart. She has found a proprietary remedy which entirely removes the defect in a most satisfactory way, but she erudges the price, and comes to me to tell her how to reach the same effect for nothing.. Now, here is a defect which is likely to cost her future happiness, and a safe remedy whose virtue she knows. Does she ever balance the two things and ask herself whether she would rather let her life's hopes and af fections go, or pay even f 100 to be withont blemish, and happy? If 'good looks and contentment with one's self and the gain of a husband are not worth a dozen bottles of depilatory, even at $3 a bottle, the price of a silk cown, they can't be worth troubling about, and I decline to spoil other-people's prohts. THE COST OP COSMETICS. The papers have had a good deal to say about the price of certain cosmetics in pro portion to the cost of material. To be con sistent, they should attack all articles sold by druggists, for it has long been one of the proverbs of trade that no business was more profitable than the sale of drugs. The story lias gone from Maine to California about the Korwood druggist near Boston who put up a lotion for a friend, charging 25 cents. "See here," says the buyer, "you needn't Epoil trade like that, if you are friends with me. The last time I had that lotion put np in town, they charged me $1.25." "I guess I won't suffer," said the druggist, dryly. "I only made 24 cents on the bottle." They say the drug trade has gone down since then and doesn't make so much money, but it is pertinent to say that the cost of bare material is usually the least item in cosmetics or medicines. People leave out the rent of buildings to manufacture and sell them in, the cost of the mere putting up, clerk hire and advertising, which often costs more than all other expenses pnt to gether. Put these things together, and a medicine or a cosmetic at $1 a bottle will be no more expensive than a sewing machine, or a hay cutter, or a pound of fine cheese. It is odd how people weekly pay charges in a dozen directions lor necessaries of life, which they GRUDGE BITTEE1,T for the essentials of refinement, which no body compels them to buy at all. The law of trade is that necessaries of food and com fort are to be sold as near cost as possible. aud profits made from luxuries which peo ple can buy or go without, as seems good, yet we are every one of us paying 8 cents a pound for the hundred weights of sugar used yearly, when the Scientific American tells us sugar can be raised at a profit in Kansas for cents a pound. Borax had been sold contentedly lor years at 8 cents per pound, when it suddenly took a jump to 20 cents, a year or two "ago. and I suppose because it is as plenty and cheap as sand in the Western tates. Copperas, the best disinfectant for family use, costs a few mills a pound, but we pay at least 8 cents. The bar soap women use ior the laundry cost more than their cosmetics in proportion to the expense to manufacture and putting on the market. Curiosity led me to look into these things lately. It is quite the thing lately for women of fashion to get their cosmetics from private hands, from some clever gentlewoman who prepares her own special recipes. Her preparations go by worth, not show. The bottles are not manufactured for her, or put, up in charming boxes. They are as likely to come in old sarsaparilla or Balad bottles, WITHOUT MUCH SATIN RIBBON tied on the corks. But the generous bottles aud tumblers, with directions in delicate handwriting, are more prized by the pos sessors than all the llmoge and engraved glass of the wholesale mixtures. You can put them into the limoge bottles and Carls bad jewel glass, you know, for yourself. A cosmetic has to be good to) sell in such a way. Butbytho time thai maker sees her. .r - w -w -v- w - -t -r - i bottles into? the express oee tie? mm&v It is hardly one of the genteeremploymesU to recommend to distressed gentlewomen this making cosmetics' , I know one lady who makes themand very- good ones, too, in the intervals of household work, 'and' ekes out a slender income, bat she prefers jelly-making for profits. Like newspapers, the cosmetic business is only profitable in a large way. ANSWEES TO COBBESPONDKSTS. J. L. E. "What IsUae benefit or massage treatment and how is It givent Is it good for the complexion?" Massage is not rubbing the body merely, as people think, but kneading and working the muscles by another person. The limbs and muscles of the trunk are grasped, pressed and moved with the same motion as Kneading bread. The effect is to stir and equalize the circulation, relieve congestion and stimulate functions. In .short, it is exerrda taken second hand, andmuch in favor with" persons wno oojeet to any personal exertion. It brightens the skin, just as rubbing does, but Its benefits are nor to be' compared with those of bodily effort where one Is not In an invalid state, and is capable of exercise. The contrac tion of our muscles by the force of one's own will and nerves is the only way to gain strength and sound circulation. Passive exercise by massage will never develop sound muscles, or prove more than a temporary stimulus. It aids the system like a crutch, and like It, is to be dispensed with whenever possible. J. V., Camden The lotion yon mention Is safe and excellent It softens the skin and. keeps off sunburn ana pimples. I don't know any Philadelphia cosmetic artists, but suppose they advertise. N P. "I like to Innlr vawnalA tlit.AVi.iivi. I got to taker I do not like powder." Eat slate pencils, chalk, clay and arsenic wafers u juu wui ue paie enough before the lool killer comes rotmdto you. To turn jour blonde hair white, try javelle water, and recent it the rest of your life. inquirer The French recipe for preventlne wrinkles is harmless. Boil the white of four eggs in half pint of jrose water, add half an ounce powdered alum and the same of sweet almond oil. beating all to a paste. It is better than benzoin recipes. To soften the skin, after using it try cacao- butter: Scents worth trom the druggist's will last a long time. To darken gray hair burn peach stones to charcoal, powder fine with twoTarts of bruiBed gall nuts, and boil in white wine. Or bruise one ounce of Call nUtS. and DUt in O. nlnt nf Btrnnio wMta wine vinegar with two ounces of Iron filings. Boil half away, strain and bottle. Use either liquid by dipping a comb In It and combing the hair till quite wet sitting in the sun bare headed half an honr after. Don't cut your hair. Read Naphey's "Physical Life ot wo man." Carrie B. Champagne will sometimes bleach the hair. To change commonplace brown bair "to a warmer tinge" infnse fresh saffron in rosemary tincture and steep the hair in it by wetting well and covering at night within oiled silk cap to prevent evaporation. Put one small handful of saffron in a pint of tincture. This is entirely safe. Daisy Deane. Don't pull out superfluous hair. Nothing is worse, as they grow again coarser. Try touching each hair with a wooden toothpick dipped in the strongest lye. taking vaie UUb til bUUUU UIB BlUU. OllliUiJSX UA2US. AN ACTOR OP LONG AGO. Talk With a Tragedian Who font oa the Stage la 1814. Philadelphia Inquirer.! "I was on the stage in 1814." Thus spoke Edwin S. Connor, the aged tragedian. As the great, deep, stage Toice rolled slowly forth those words the reporter felt like a young sapling in the presence of an overtowering oak of humanity. It was hot alone the voice that rolled. A grand old head rolled on its axis above a splendid form, erect and tall. The eyes rolled slowly, and had that fixity of expression acquired by gazing at far distant wonders in the field of thought. Heavy brows knitted a great cloud of countenance, giving shade to mental sight of things far off. The capacious, square forehead bulged with wis dom at the temples. Many clear-cut lines marked ont the features of the face, chiseled there, it seemed, by sculptors, those great dramatists whose noblest characters, acted by the famed tragedian, had left their im press on this face before the reader's eye. It was a face that sparkled with the light of humor. The corners of the month curving upward, told of virtuous living and think ing. In planetary volume this charac ter seemed to roll on around the orbit of its 80 years, the age of Edwin S. Connor. Such would have been the impression of anyone as the venerable tragedian fixed his vision on his childhood days in Philadelphia, and said: "I was on the stage in 1814." Sitting in a comfortable chair at the St. Elmo Hotel yesterday Mr. Connor went on with interesting reminiscences, fresh humor, and now and then an anecdote, as bright as the thousands he used to relate from the fund that made him famous for bis story telling. "It was down at the theater at Fourth and South streets, now turned into a dis tillery. It was in 'The Desolate Island.' There was a monkey in the play. The monkey had a great deal to do with a child. I was that child." This was the beginning of the actor's stage life. He afterward acted the greatest as well as the least of nearly all 'the characters in the classic dramas of his ceniury, and was noted for a versatility that could portray Richelieu and minstrel song and dance parts with equal ease. STRANGE ACTIONS OP ANIMALS. They Seem Able to Foretell the Coming; of an Earthquake. Youths' Companion, l The lower animals are said to be greatly terrified by earthquakes, and their excite ment beforehand is sometimes sufficient to foretell the event. No doubt they know well enough that something terrible is tak ing place. Prof. Milne, a student of vol canic phenomena, has recently given vari ous instances of their behavior at such times. During the Tokio earthquake of 1880 cats ran about the houses trying to es cape; foxes barked, and horses attempted to kick down the boards confining them in their stables. In the Lisbon earthquake of 1749 roach and other fish in a canal showed signs of confusion and fright, and fish have been known, after an earthquake, to riseto the suriace dead and dying. Most interesting ot all are the observa tions showing that animals are disturbed jnst before a shock. So well-known is this fact that, lor a while after the great Cala brian earthquake, the neighing of a horse or the cackle of a goose was sufficient to send the terrified inhabitants flying from their houses, in expectation ot another shock. Ponies have been known to prance about their stalls, pheasants to scream, and frogs to cease croaking, a short time before the earth trembled. The Japanese say that moles show their agitation by burrowing. Birds hide their heads beneath their wings, and behave in an unusual manner. Some times immense flocks of sea-birds fly inland, as If alarmed by an oceanic disturbance. Before the shock of 1885, in Chili, all the dogs are said to have escaped from the city of Talcahuano. The most probable explanation of this ap parent foreknowledge is that animals are sensitive to the slight tremors which pre cede nearly all earthquakes. Moreover, in volcanic districts poisonous gases sometimes emanate from the ground, and.animals are presumed to be unpleasantly affected by them. SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE MUSIC. A Disappointed Listener Refuses to Pay the Bloaiclan a Cent. Detroit Free Press.1 'The Italian who rnns the peanut stand at the corner of Woodward avenue and Con gress street was turning his peanut roaster the other afternoon with slow and measured hand when an old woman came to a halt and carefully observed the operation. After scrutinizing the roaster from every side she finally gave it up and remarked: "No, sir: you don't get a cent out of me for no such muaio as that! Why, I can't, catch half of any of the tuues; and it smells as if something was burning inside!" The largest and most complete stock of diamonds, watches, jewelry, silverware, clocks, bronzes, etc.. at prices below com petition, &t M. Q, Cohen's, (33 Smithfield street, v. MOffiSI?MASiEf$ y BT-A'CLMtGYMAJT. ifrmnwK jo thx nmn.l A bad weWn can easily give poisis t Satan. "; The sisehief whieh 'wet aoo caa sdo is bo wa by Safah Altbea HUL fefcs is the real eosseof the tragedy oa tie Pait slope. TTwWewf-JudgeTwfyaBdt pistol-sfcdt brpepnty Marshal ITagleT wew thelegitimatVostesmeof-her uncoatrelive! passions. . ctaa sne ue? a, a gooou there would have beeajto fatality that dvT The trots is, that we laiiaenoe of wosaan, whether fer'good-or evil, k supreme. She is the graad"s arbiter of human destiny? When she is worthy, Ae inspires the holiest, aspirations? iWbea she is unworthy, she fires the most boieteriw passions that lame below. It must be a mistake to imagine that Satan U a maa.: He.woald be much more f or mldbje as a wonJaa. Perhaps he Is both. Asr God embodies in rtWnnlt,hathfthe masculine and tne f enaiaiee nitare ("so God created man in His own image; to the image of God created He him; male and fetaale created. He them"), so Satau. as the negation of God. may embody the worst traita'of both sexes. Anyhow, the' fact remains .that In all social respects the woman is domisast Of the good we may say with Addison:. t -" " Xovellest of wbaieat heaven is In thy soul, . Beauty and virtue shlBe forever ronnd thee, " Brlxbt'nlng each other! thou art all divine. Of thebadWsiBcwithMesander: ' Of all the beasts on earih'or ies, i&e greatest to a woman, in- i-r r Wooian'sr Greatest Charm. , It 6 sometimes, said that women are laoting In individuality. Certain thinkers, Coleridge among the rest, have stoutly maintained that this Is their CTowninrxharm, ' as tastelessaesa proves the parity of water, or as transparency shows the quality of glass. The difficulty with this statement is that it is not true. For there" are all kinds and degrees of feminine. Just as there is of mascullnacharacter. What an exam ple of variety of individuality In, and all the way between the extremes marked by Miriam beat ing her timbrels, and Cleopatra applying the wasp: Cornelia showing her jewels, and Jezebel in her rage; . ..Madame Gnyon rapt in God, and',. Lucretia Borgia raging with bowl and, dagger: Semiramis on the throne -nd Florence Nightingale sweetening tne) Crimean, war witn philanthro pic deeds. Dr. Alger has well asked what group of men pan be brought together more sharply contrasted In diversity of traits and destiny than' such 'women as Eve in Eden. Mary at the Cross, Rebecca beside the well curb, Ruth amongthe corn. Joan of Arc in bat tle, Perpctnajrsmllinc on the lions in the amphl-theater. Pocahontas nnder tha shadow of the primeval woods, St Theresa in the con vent, Madame Roland on the scaffold, De 8tael sceptered with a pen, and Mrs. Fry, lavishing her existence upon outcasts? Yet these dis similar women were ornaments of their set and time. Their diversity is beyond calcula tion. The difference between men and women does not lie along tha line of individuality. We cannot say that individuality is a-plus quality in the one and minus in the other. The dif ference is to be sought, rather, in intellectual and moral directions. Men and women are two parts of one whole. It takes both to make either. He is strongest In reason and she in sentiment She t&lnks best thronghhis head, and he feels best through her heart One of the Fine Arts. Condolence Is a fine art The best school in which to study it is sympathy. Its golden rule Is, pnt yourself in his place. Often, silence is the most expressive and comforting form of condolence. After the battle of Leipzig, which decided the overthrow of Bonaparte's power, he was sitting at a window in Freiburg, his head resting on bis arm, in utter despair. Berthier, Marshal and Vice Constable of France, sat op posite to him in a similar state. Neither spoke; and officers who entered were silently ordered, by a wave of the hand, to leave the room. There are griefs which are too deep for utter ance. Speech is felt to be as Impertinent as would be the chatter of a magpie over a coffin. And so as Whittler sings: "With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come. Where, in the shsfiow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb. Ever Continuing: to Conquer. The Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs. in a recent notable utterance on "The Power of the Gospel in our National History," shows that despite the manifold and formidable opposition, Christi anity has gone on conquering and to conquer. He says: "It Is remarkable, memorable, that (he Gospel of Christ has larger and wider hold in this country now, proportionately to the population, than It had 10O years ago; in spite of the fact that we began with a distinctly skeptical tone In our most'dlstinguished public men, that we have been engaged in wide and eager political discussion, from the first honr to the present that we have had an enormous material work to do. that there has been this immense accumulation of wealth and of all means of pleasure In the country, that we have had the civil war to carry through to its conclusion, that we have been receiving multitudinous populations from all the earth, heathen and Christian, piling themselves upon us until they have seemed to overshadow and practically overwhelm the original germ of the English. Dutch. German, and Swedish population here. It is. indeed, a re markable result It shows that the Gospel of Christ is the mightiest moral force on the face of the earth. Men may not accept It They may say. "Oh, it is the religion of the man in the pulpit He believes it, perhaps: at anr rate be teaches it: but It is nothing tons." Fugitive paragraphs may rage or rattle with skeptical sneers at it Men of the world mav say, "I don't believe It at all, and therefore I don't go to cburcb, or care anything about it" But no man can read the philosophy of the history of this country in the last hundred years without admitting that here, in the Gos pel as here proclaimed, is the mightiest moral force which exists m the earth. You may call It a fancy, or a fiction, or a fable, if you choose; no matter. It Is the grandest force that has ever yet appealed to an aspiring, intelligent, energetic and courageous people; and the demonstration of it is in the history of this hundred years, r Not an Excuse for Neglect. Smallness of endowment is no excuse for neglect Everyone is born with a certain amount of latent capacity. The purpose of the discipline of life is to develop and school this capacity and direct it to wise uses. No matter whether our natural powers be greater or less, we are to make the most and best of what we have. In the parable of the talents Jesus represents the man who, having received but one talent went and buried it, as being condemned by his Lord. Why? Not because of the slenderness of bis bestowment,, but because he did not as the others did, trade with it and improve H. 'Tis a suggestive lesson, applicable always and everywhere. Our capital is health, time, opportunity, culture whatever gift wo possess. These gifts are not to be neglected. Tbey are a sacred trust Upon our use or abuse of tbem depends our character the essential and immortal part of us. When we waste or even fail to use our capital we lay up a loss. When wp dedicate it to God and to the help of man we assure for ourselves honor here and happiness forever. Good old Herbert was right when he sang: A servant with this clause Hakes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for God's laws, Makes that and. th action flue. Some Interentlus Statistics. The Year Bookof the Congregational Church will probably be published this month. The returns being all in, the following summary of the statistics is made public: Number of churches, J.5C9: number of new churches, 251: gam in number; 165; number of members, 475, (08; added on ponfession, 23.991; added by let ter, 19,012; added, total, 43,036; removed by death, 7,206; removed, total, 27,417; Increase, 18.024: baptisms, admt, 12.039; baptisms, infant, 8,328; families. 303.932: Sunday schools, mem bers, 5S0,672; bunday schools, gain. 23,931; Sun day schools, average attendance. 351,-42; Hun day schools, members joined church, 14,074; Bunday schools, benevolent contributions. 5135,294; benevolent contributions of the churches, $2,205,563; benevolent gain. $110,078, of which for foreign missions. 340,426; for education, 140,R33; for church building, S113, 072; for home missions. S446.975; for A. M. A., S157.666; for Sunday schools. 552,479: for new West, $45,817; for ministerial aid, $112,705: for other objects, $795,890; charitable legacies, paid, $561,910; home expenditures decrease, 1100,091. ' Pntilns: Honey Into a Good Work. The Sock Mountain Christian Advocate gives a full account of the contribution, by Sirs. Bishop Warren of 1100,000 to found a school of theology In connection with the Denver Uni versity, aud of a further gift of $50,000 from her son. W. 8.I111T, for the erection of a suitable' building for the school. Such giving is worthy of all praise, and, besides founding a school of theology for the Central West, the examnle ought to be a stimulus for other loyal and I wealthy Methodiata to do as these have done. J. WarWl others, to i aseanis. NQf ianntts muIvm of CoirvxBSXOK to ao Zgmgmu Iiirsu slva yon the satau nhaaHia .. First Tha wA hsavsjs. Bscood Tin wrxsasfotieara. Ttr Thasssf perdfttoB. 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