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MONEY ASD MARRIAGE.
Ylmes DaTci So Chanced That Young- Men
Can't Afford Matrimony Brlde orOlden
Tlme and Tlioie of To-Dny When Men
Are In Earnest.
nnuTTBir tor thi dispatch, i
HE code of unwritten law
regulating social matters in
"these United States" has
within the memory of man
undergone a very extensive
, revision, and "things are
not as thev used to be." In
$fcW'pZ? those good old days, which
VJhor Ifoi-oneamverygladended
before I began, the stand
ard of social life was far simpler, less expen
sive and less burdensome than is ours. The
young wife provided herself with cotton
gowns and big aprons and went into her
kitchen daily, not simplr to hold up her
skirts in one jeweled hand and daintily point
the other at this and that. She took hold of
her housekeeping literally with both hands,
and the dainty and elaborate cooking of the
ladies of that day remains unriraled by the
hired service of to-day, even though one
anbsidizes a chef at ten thousand a year and
a piano.
And this thrifty young housekeeper didn't
seed an army of servants, so that an income
of f2,000 or f3,000 supported many even of
the "best families."
But all this has changed, and nowadays
many mothers remark, as I heard one re
mark complacentlv not long ago: "My
daughter does not know whether the dress
ing is put inside of a fowl or grows there."
I am not saying that the bride ot to-day is
less commendable than the bride of 50 years
ago; she knows a great deal of w hat that
sweet creature was ignorant; she is, perhaps,
better trained to be a companion and sym
pathizer with her husband, she knows more
of the world and of human nature, and is
very likely either as wise or wiser than her
predecessor; but she is not a housewne, and
can neither perform the duties of one nor
instruct anybody else how to do them.
YOUNG MEN CAN'T AFFORD IT.
And the modern bride's deficiencies are
expensive deficiencies, so the wise man
makes provision for the future before he
burns his bridges. The trouble has gone so
far that the Toung men cannot afford to
marry. And while the natural attraction
between the sexes continues, and young men
are as eager to make love to young women as
they used to be, it is not and, poor fellows,
cannot be with the same single-minded-ness.
They still feel that they should like
to make this or that girl their wile, but they
know very well that they cannot, and that,
moreover, they must be very careful not to
commit themselves to any such course, lest
they should be held to it by tern papas and
bellicerent brothers. "What is the conse
quence ? "Why, that they go just as far as
is safe in love-making and there stop, often
times leaving the poor girl utterly bewil
dered and uncertain of their meaning.
Of course this course is not only distress
ing to the woman, but demoralizing to the
man; the honest instincts of bis heart try to
assert themselves, but are crushed down.'not
so mnch by wisdom as by cunning; the
heart grows false and the tongue frames
moving speeches significant of loneliness, of
the need of sympathy, of the charm of
meeting one who can understand, and a
thousand other pretty phrases, but it never
speaks the few plain English words that
offer all a man has and is to the woman of
bit choice.
HOW IS THE GIRL TO KNOW?
I do not suppose men, or at least every
man, is conscious of pursuing this course,
but how is a girl to know, for there are still
men who can afford, or will afford, to marry,
and whose attentions are as sincere and full
of purpose as all men's used to be in the old
time? How shall the girl know, or how
snail ner mother enow lor her, whether the
man who shows his admiration in a thousand
ways, but his intentions in none, is a gen
uine aspirant or a honey bee desirous of
storing up sweets for the dark, cold days of
life's winter, or merely a butterfly, hovering
and sipping and waving gorgeous idle wings
in the summer sunshine, but doomed to
perish in tbe first adverse wind?
"Well, there is no rule like that of two and
two make four, that cau be laid down, and
for one reason, the man often does not him
self know his intentions. Girls have changed
as well as men since the good old honest
days, and a wise man before closing any bar
gain likes to be sure of his ground, and be
fore paying down such a price as himself he
likes to know just what "value received"
means. It isn't at all a pleasant idea that a
girl is being viewed as if it were a question
of a horse or a yacht, and these dear men are
after all so transparent that they seldom can
carry through such a proceeding without be
ing discovered; but nevertheless, when a
man is discovered in this ungallant attitude
of mind, it is pretty certain proof that he has
serious intentions.
LOYAL TO HIS LADY'S NAME.
Then I think there is a certain true and
loyal tenderness in the manner of the bee
that the butterfly lacks, and a certain flavor
of respect and deference iu his attentions
and pretty speeches. Thus the marrying
man will not be likely to lead the girl who
may become his wife into questionable
frolics or risque adventures; he always feels
responsible for her good name, while the
butterfly is only thinking of his own amuse
ment. Tbe marrying man will speak of
his mothers and sisters, and, if they are
living, try to promote an acquaintance; or
if tbe mother is a dear memory he will very
likely seek sympathy from the young girl
be believes in. Alsu her family will be a
subject of interest to the man who is going
to make it his faniily-in-law, and he may be
found studying the dispositions and man
ners of its members, while the butterfly
looks upon them with unfeigned indiffer
ence, or simply, as obstacles to his flirta
tion. . These are a few of the indications which
I have observed of a man's attentions in
these conventional days, bat, after all, the
Barest touchstone is one not so easily de
fined, and that is that delicate and intuitive
perception with which most women are en
dowed, a sort ot glorified instinct, quicker,
subtler and more reliable than man's boasted
reason. She is herself interested in him,
she rarely fails to place him just about
where he belongs, and sometimes sees what
be means and what be wants before he knows
St himself.
HOW SHE ACTS.
In that case she either delicately leads
him on to say what he has to say, or as deli
cately shows him that it is useless, or if he
is simply amusing himself, she occasionally
makes him feel in the end that the amuse
ment has not all been on his side. There
are few things that make a butterfly more
.humiliated than discovering that he has
been seen through, has served as the play
thing of an idle hour to one whom he
thought he was thoroughly deceiving.
But the trouble of this Iat test is, that
girls do sot possess the essential instinct of
intuition as women do. They are at once
ttpoiimpje And too sore of their own attrac
jls.
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tions. But again, the girl cannot love so
strongly, cannot sutler so keenly, cannot be
so cashed by disappointment as the woman,
and so it remains pretty equal after all, and
both woman and girl had best try to
value themselves so highly that "his inten
tions matter very little alter all I
Mrs. Frank Leslie.
DEBDT OP A ROSE BDD.
Management of the Olomentoaa Comlnc
Oat Occasion nf a. Young Lady's Life
Society Kind nt First and Critical After
ward An Ammlne Experience.
Tis sot so long ago,
even among fashion
ables, that the intro
duction of a young
woman into society
here in America has
stood out as a matter
of isolated interest. To
the debutante herself
of course it is and must
remain an event of
paramount importance,
and her circle of rela
tives and intimate
friends are unusually
disposed to be kindly
enthusiastic, but, un
til comparatively re
cently, society at large
has taken the matter with the degree of
calmness engendered by familiarity, and
has not been shaken to the core over the
announcement that one more young girl is
emancipated from the thralldom of school.
Nowadays, however, the entrance into 'so
ciety of a daughter of the house is a matter
of considerable moment.
So far as the actual event is concerned it
may be a simple or au elaborate one, ac
cording to inclination of the family taste
and purse. Many young women enter the
social arena by way of a C o'clock tea, others
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tnougn me meuiain ui a jiu,wu uuiuiu uui
ball the etiquette prescribed in either case
is the same.
Tbe exact age for a fashionable ycung
woman to make ber bow before the world is
not set down with definitive certainty. The
best authorities agree that anywhere from
17 to SO it may happen. Before 17 she is
unadvisable, unless a bevy of girls but little
younger are crowding the debutante out of
the schoolroom, and later than 23 is perhaps
nnnecessary, except where two or three un
married sisters are still on that portion of
the social carpet allotted to tbe family. Under
these circumstances an entrance into society
may le'jud e ously delayed and without ex
planation. Debuts usually take place at
the beginning of the winter's gayety. The
post-Lenten season is so brief that a young
girl would scarcely be introduced before the
exodus to Europe begins, followed by tbe
hegira to the different summer resorts, and
society is sot massed again until the snow
flies.
announced in due time.
What the wise mamma does, however,
during the short Easter spurt, is to let the
intelligence become general along the fash
ionable line of club room and boudoir that
the coming season will find her daughter
among the debutantes, and especially will
she essay to enlist an interest in her
charge's behalf with such society leaders
whose favor or disfavor will contribute
largely to the future "bud's" success or
failure. This done she carries the embryo
belle off to Europe, if possible, for a hasty
trip, presumably to order the coming out
trousseau.
Speaking of this, by the way, it is related
of a young Hew York girl who was so ad
dicted to the purchase of garments brought
from the other side that on the occasion of
her first visit to a well known modiste in
Paris she asked thoughtlessly to be shown
some "imported wraps."
"Imported, mademoiselle!" exclaimed the
astonished Frenchwoman. "Imported from
where, please?" And then "mademoiselle"
realized that she was on their native heath.
To return to the 'etiquette of debuts.
Just before the formal event the young
woman's mother and her elder unmar-
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Borne Imported Wrapt.
ried sisters if she have them leave their
own, with their father's and brothers' catds,
for all acquaintances. Following this for
mality, alter a short interval invitations,
including the card of the debutante, are
issued for the actual coming out "func
tion," whatever that is to be tea, reception
or ball.
A WARM WELCOME.
Society is usually kind to the young
maiden about to enter its charmed circle.
It is very kind to her if she is set against a
moneyed background. In any event, it
comes graciously to welcome her, pays
her gentle deference, and altogether
reassures her with its soft and flat
tering treatment. Many a debutante,
the most of them, indeed, goes to sleep
on the night of her formal coming out,
with cheeks burning and heart fluttering
With excitement over her importance, as it
has seemed to be indicated by the homage
and plaudits of those who have crowded
about her. And there are about as many
who close their eyes after theif first essay in
society upon neutral ground with a mortify
ing sense of having been one among a large
number of others, and not an especially
prominent one, either. The ordeal for a
"bud" is not her debut, but the first few
affairs at which she assists afterward. So
ciety, which apparently rnshed at her with
open arms, has recoiled, and now stands
back coldly critical. It is then that her
novice touch upou the cogs and wheels of
fashionable machinery becomes apparent to
her, and they grate dismally, sometimes,
upon her ears.
A FAMOUS BELLE'S EXPERIENCE.
"I will never forget," said s middle-aged
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matron, whose fame as a belle during her
young ladyhood still endured, "the agony
of tbe first'dinner at which I assisted as a
full-fledged member of society. A rather
reserved appearing young man took me in,
and when we were seated 1 discovered that
mamma was a long distance away, sepa
rated from ma by a huge floral arrange
ment and a wide branching candelabrum of
blazing wax lights. AU at once I became
panic-stricken, my tongue clove to the
roof of my month, my hands grew cold
and so numb I could with difficulty unfold
my napkin. Frantically I tried to
recall some of mamma's maxims for
jnst this occasion a dinner. 'Be a good
listener,' she had told me, but my escort
was silent; 'or if you talk, try to draw out
your companion.' I glanced around for
a possible subject, and my eye fell upon a
painting on the wall opposite a race
with the hounds. 'Are you fond of hunt
ing, Mr. B ?' I hazarded. 'I never tried
it,' he said, and I replied, quite stupidly,
'Ob, I did not fcnowl' and could think of
nothing more to say. We ate our oysters
without a word, drank our soup in solemn
silence, and the fish was set down before
cither of us spoke again.
BOTH WEEE NOVICES.
Then in desperation I recalled another
of mamma's bits of advice, 'If voa are at
loss for something to talk about,
speak qnickly of the subject nearest
at hand,' and with a sudden
energy I turned to my neighbor
and blurted out, 'Do you know this is my
first dinner, and I am horribly frightened?'
Instantly he set down the glass he was rais
ing to bis lips and faced me. Whyhe
said with a smile, 'how awfully good of
youl so am L It seems he was about as
much of a novice at dinneis as 1, and he
was especially alarmed to find himself the
escort of such a self possessed young person
as he took me to be. That was a great con
solation to me afterward lhat one man at
least did not take me for the bread and but
ter miss I was."
It cannot be said, thongh, that the charac
ter of the debutante in New York society
and it is the New York debut which must
be considered, since all American circles
get their manners, as they get their fashions,
from the continent's metropolis partakes
largely of that of the traditional bread and
butter miss. She may be a trifle embar
rassed and self-conscious at times, but she
has been too carefully prepared for ber
career to be either awkward or foolish.
From the French nurse of infancy, em
ployed with a direct view to the accent of
18, through the playmates of childhood care
lully selected, looking toward the time
when she and they will meet in the social
world; at school and at home, by mother,
governess and master, it has been forever
impressed upon her mind that all her
Ber Flrit Dinner.
progress tended to one goal, the debht in
society, and naturally she is well instructed
in all that pertains to it
FROM DEBUTANTE TO BELLE.
Her knowledge is, therefore, sufficient;
she lacks only the wisdom of experience,
and she gets it speedily by intuition and
absorption rather than the passage of time.
The development of a debutante into a belle
is a most interesting process. It does not
come to every one of them to attain this lat
ter distinction; indeed, to so few that the
belles ot every season' j list of "buds" are
quickly counted.
A brilliant marriage of some sort, native
or foreign, is part of a debutante's creed.
All her teachings are toward the proper
climax of her career a wedding and she
prefers not to contemplate a modest one.
What she is rarely taught, and it Is a pity,
since even buds may bloss-m and wither on
the paren' stem, is to wear gracefully and
with Honor the coif ot bt. uatbannel
M. H. "Welch.
BITS OP FOREIGN COOKERY.
Dishes That Flenae Everybody and Can be
Made Everywhere.
IWEITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH.
Iu every country there is some special
dish tha-. is tasty, appetizing, easy to make
and one of which the materials can be found
in almost any other country. Iu Holland
you get the most delicious cheese. They
take sour milk and put it in a muslin bag
and hang it up over night. In the morning
this is a solid mass but not tough as when
boiled, as some make it. Salt and pepper
are added and a teacup of rich sweet cream
is stirred into say a quart of the curd, and
this is then eaten and not left to harden or
turn acrid and sour. Anyone can make
this, and whoever does will say they want
no more "smear case" as long "as there is
milk to be had to make this kind of.
In Nuremburg I was persuaded against
my will to try some sauerkraut, and I took
some more, and delighted Hina's soul by
asking how she cooked it It was like a
savory, pungent jelly, and begat an appe
tite even while one really needed nothing
more. She took two quarts ot sauerkraut
out of the barrel at night, dipping deep be
low the brine, and this she put in four
quarts of clear water. In the morning this
was drained off and the sauerkraut put on
the fire to simmer slowly six hours with just
enough water to keep it from bnrning, a
Einch ot pepper, tablespoonful of moist
rown sugar, a teaspoonful of caraway
seeds, and every half hour she added a
tablespoonful of clarified goose grease, and
one tablespoonful of tart cider. Let folks
laugh at sauerkraut as much as they like.
They never will again if they try this dish
once.
In Vienna what pleated me most was-the
famous schnitzel and tiny potatoes. I don't
know to this day whether the potatoes grow
that small or are cut that way artfully, but
they are just a mouthful and very sweet and
nice. The schitzel I found was prepared in
this wirfe: Oval pieces of veal without bone
about half or three-quarters of an inch
thick were moistened with milk, rolled in
flour, then in beaten yolk of egg and after
ward in powdered crackers and carefully
drooped in hot lard and fried to a deep
golden brown. Of course they are seasoned
with salt, pepper and just a suspicion of
thyme. When done they look like extra
large fried oysters, and are laid upon a nap
kin, just to drain off tbe fat, and then
served on hot plates with a necklace of po
tatoes and a breastpin of half a lemon.
Another savory, simple and economical
' dish particularly pleased me in Bnda-Pestb.
A deep dish held a greenish looking mass,
which proved to be a cabbage boiled and
served whole, and when little triangular
slices were cut out it was seen to have a
layer of finely minced meat between every
two leaves. To prepare this, one wants a
large kettle, a rather loose cabbage, and one
pound,of minced and seasoned meat to every
two of cabbage.
The cabbage is washed and plunged into
boiling salted water for 10 or 15 minutes, and
then taken out very much wilted, which
permits the deit fingers of the pretty cook to
carefully unfold and lay back every leaf,
and then a little meat is snread on each one
and it is folded back in place until all the
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PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
meat is safely spread and carefully folded
over the rest. Tapes are then tied around
the whole to keep it in place, and It is boiled
slowly for three solid hoars. The soap, or
sauce, which remains is kept for the next
day. A sauce is made with a little of this
with vinegar and flour. It is just as good
cold as hot, and, like beans, is better for
every time it is warmed .over, and is a
pretty dish to look at,
LEGGINGS ON OVERSHOES.
An Artlclo That la Eally Made, Handaomo
nnd Useful.
Albany Journal.
Bubbers and leggings combined are easily
made, and handsome when made, if you only
know how. The base of the structure shown
in the illustration is an ordinary rubber,
which mnst be somewhat larger than the
shoe over which it is to be worn, to insure its
slipping on easily without straining the
crochet work at the back.
Use fine knitting yarn of any color de
sired and medium needles. Cast on for a
child of 4 or fi years, 150 stitches; for a
grown person wearing a No. 4 shoe, abont
225 stitches. It desired that the overshoe
shall be higher, cast on coarser needles and
knit as much as desired. Overcast the knit
top closely to tbe rubber foot and run a rib
bon atound tbe leg if anything is necessary
to keep the boot top in shape.
MES. LANGTfiY STILL QUEEN.
New York Ladles Patiently Follow Her
Zntest Fads and Foibles.
New Tork Herald,
It is wonderful how Mrs. Langtry retains
a hold on feminine interest. She has been
befere the public a long time, long enongb
to have become familiar as a "twice-told
tale," but her doings, her fads, foibles and
furbelows are as much gossiped about now
as when she rose a new star on the theatric
firmament.
Every newspaper paragraph concerning
her is read by women. She first brought the
Empire gown into notice by wearing a beau
tiful one of white crepe and pearls in "The
Lady of Lyons." It was only necessary for
an announcement to made that she retired
for an hour every afternoon with her face
done up in veal to have the sale of it in
creased, while brown paper packages were
spirited into boudoirs and mysterious rites
were performed behind closed doors.
"When she is in New York her bijou resi
dence iu "West Twenty-seventh street, which
nestles in its bit of garden beyond the much
talked of iron railing, like a transplanted
English rose, is besieged by rows of curious
eyed women anxious to catch a glimpse of
ber world-renowned profile as she steps into
her tiny brougham. Even at the present
time, when it is known that the pretty
house is without a mistress, a light in an
upper window is sufficient to draw a group
of watchers. And the sale of her photo
graphs increases as the years roll on.
HOTEL STYLE OP WORK-BAG.
A Shoe-Shaped Receptacle for Dainties of
the Sewing: Oatflt.
Ladles' Home Journal.
A novel work-bag, designed especially for
holding small, dainty accessories to the sew
ing outfit, is shown in the accompanying
illustration. Old gold and white satin are
agreeable colors. For the bottom or founda
tion of the bag j slipper of old gold satin is
used, and for the bag proper, cut one piece
of white satin nin- inches wide and twenty
inces long, and another piece of a corre
sponding size from old gold sati- for the
lining. Join the edges of each piece sepa
rately, and sew up the side; join the top
edges of the old gold and white satin pieces,
and sew in a seam, then tnrr the lining in
side. This will make the facing around the
top much neater than it would be if over
banded together.
Hake a casing 1J inches from tbe top
edge of the bag, by sewing in ffro rows of
machine stitching, and run in an old gold
satin ribbon, by which the bag is to be
opened and closed. Eyelets are embroidered
around the top edge of the slipper, and a
white satin ribbon is inserted; this ribbon
should be about an inch wide, so that it can
be arranged in tiny puffs between tbe eye
lets, making a much prettier finish than if
drawn in plain. The edge of the slipper is
finished with a row of points, made of old
gold satin ribbon, and a full bow of white
satin ribbon decorates the toe. The bottom
edge of the satin bag is joined neatly to tbe
edge of the slipper, and the heel can be
either painted white or left plain as de
sired. A slipper can be shaped out ot cardboard
and a covering crocheted of silk or linen
drawn over it; the heel and sole, in this in
stance, are also covered by the crochet, and
the points around the top are formed by
fancy stitches, the remainder of the work
being done in single crochet.
ANOTHER AMERICAN PRINCESS.
Family Kecord of the Brldo of the Prince
of Monaco.
New York Snn.i
"We are always talking about American
girls who marry Princes and Dukes and
Earls and mere ordinary, everyday English
gentlemen, but how many people know that
the pretty Duchesse de Bichelieu, who has
just become Princess of Monaco, is half an
American? Her mother was a Miss Mil ten
berger, the daughter of an old family of that
name in New Orleans. She was educated
and lived in France, marrying Heine, the
banker, when she was quite a young girl.
Alice Heine and one son were torn of this
marriage. Mile. Heine married the Due de
Bichelieuat 17, and had by him two chil
dren, the present Due being about 13 years
old.
For years the Prince ot Monaco has wooed
her, and at last has had the happiness of
winning her. She looks much more like an
American than a French woman, being
small, slender and gracelul. with pure blond
hair, brown eyes and delicate, peach-like
skin peculiar to an American woman. She
makes a charming photograph, and it is a
little odd that the ardent collectors of pict
ures of aristocratic beauties here haven't
her presentment among those that find so
aay a late.
Jpffw
JJLm
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19,
WOMEN WAGE EARNERS.
How Two Girls Lost Their Position The
Decollete Dress.
IWBITTBN rOS THB SISFATCB.1
Sometimes the best of us are mean
enough to listen to conversation that is not
addressed to us. Going home one night in
an elevated train in New York, I oyer
heard two gentlemen discussing the changes
they would make in their business this
year. They were talking something about
the clerical and bookkeeping department.
One, a keen-faced North Ireland man re
marked suddenly: "There are two young
ladies at work now, but they are of no serv
ice to us. "We ought to have a man." The
other agreed with him. They finally con
cluded they would call in an expert ac
countant and bookkeeper occasionally and
pay him $10 an afternoon for his services.
They would thus get more work
for less money, and more satisfactory work
than both the girls did working
all the time. And the second man
said: "I will suggest to the young ladies
that we shall manage the work ourselves
hereafter." So two girls were thrown out
of employment to make room for a mascu
line expert, who would get $10 for an alter
noon's work. The business men were not
to blame. Tbe only ones to blame were the
girls themselves. They were inefficient.
If they had learned their business and
minded it as they shonld have done, they
themselves might have been the expert ac
countant and had $20 a day. Sloppy, halt
work is one ot tbe greatest evils those who are
trying to secure pecuniary indeoendence for
women nave to contend against.
Girls, when
you start to learn au occupation, learn every-
thing there is to be known about it. Then
ning tnere is to oe Known auout it. xnen ao
your worn In the best wav that it can be done.
Be satisfied with nothing less than this. Stick
to it faithfully, day in and day out. Then you
will never bt turned out of your place because
you are of no service to your employer.
So you want to earn $500? Then write the
essay for which tbe American Economic Asso
ciation has offered that amount as a prize.
Tbe essay is to be on the subject of women
wage earners. The essays must be sent, before
November 1, to Richard T. Ely, Secretary of
the American Economic Association, Balti
more. Md. There will bs also a second prize
of $200. Each essay must be typewritten, must
not contain over 25,000 words and must be
signed by a fictitious name. A sealed envelope
accompanying the essay will contain ths real
name and address ot the writer. Anybody may
compete. Some ot tbe points to be covered
are: The early and present condition of women
wage earners, their growth in numbers, tbe
present extent of their sphere of labor, the
evils connected with, their occupations and the
remedy for these.
Or the few women lawyers that have thns
far had good success in actual practice, Leila
Josephine Robinson, of Boston, is one of the
most highly qualified. Bho graduated in the
Boston University Law School in 1881 in the
honor list. The Massachusetts Legislature
passed an especial enabling act permitting
women to pruc'.lce, and after a proper exami
nation she was admitted to the bar. She has a
prosperous practice. One case she has in hand
Is a peculiarly important one, involving the
right to tax a mortgage on church property.
Sue has written an excellent book or two on
legal topics. Ono ts called "Law Made Easy,"
and is designed to give tbe general public in
formation such as It needs in the transaction of
daily business.
At the breakfast to Amelia B. Edwards, In
Boston, Lucy Stone told bow. In the days when
women first began to speak in public, one bitter
winter night in a New England town the
windows were opened from the outside and a
stream of Ice cold water was turned upon ber,
but this did not daunt ber, nor ston ber speech.
Once a pistol was fired at Anna Dickinson on
tbe stage, and a ball cut off a lock of her hair,
but she did not flinch a hair's breadth. There
were heroes In those days, and they were
women.
If you are In a crowded theater ana some
body cries "Fire," throw up your hands and
scream and rush toward tbe doorway. It will
help on the panic Then when you reach the
middle aisle faint and fall over. Do, especially
if you weigh 200 or 800 pounds. Nothing shows
off womanly sensibility like faiutmgin a crowd.
This will belp on the panic amazingly, and
maybe two or three persons will thus be
crushed to death who would otherwise get off
Miss Annabel Cubby Is a Michigan young
lady who Is taking the law course of three
years at Boston university. Her father Is the
ownerof vast mining properties.and Miss Curry
is studying law so as to be able to draw up her
father's contracts and attend to the.legl feat
ures of his business. This bright and pretty
law student is only 18.
The widow of General Grant is an honest
woman, anyhow. When asked whether she
preferred to have the exposition of 1892 in New
York, she answered that she really didn't know
enough about the World's Fair to give an
optnion on the subject.
A handsome society woman was telling me
the other day what she would not do if she
were a man. She said this: "If 1 wero a man
I would not expectorate In public places.
It is said that a number of Boston society
ladies are reading law with prominent attor
neys of that city, simply for the purpose of im
proving their minds.
Sorosis has discussed the charge that the
married lives of literary women are unhappy,
and decided that it Is not true.
Is it proper for a woman to wear a decollete
gown? Yes, if she has a pretty neck; other
wise not.
Eliza Abchabs Connee.
OYSTERS ARE OLD RESIDENTS.
Ben Franklin Ate Them With Relish
Known to Greeks and Rotnnns.
New York Herald.
The oyster is one of America's oldest set
tlers. His family antedates that of our most
aristocratic Puritan stock. That oysters
were eaten during the Revolution is proved
by the story that is recorded of Ben Franklin.
"When he was traveling in cold weather and
saw no vacant place at the tavern fire where
he could warm himself, the genius whose
statue adorns Printing House square cried
out the order, "Haifa peck of oysters in the
shell for my horsel" Upon this all the fire
place crowd rushed out to see a horse eat
oysters. Very soon the hostler returned and
said: "Why, sir, your horse won't eat the
oysters."
"Won't he?" said Franklin, now com
foitably seated by the fireside. "Well,
then, biing them in and cook them and I'll
eat them myBelf."
The archives of the State bordering on
the Atlantic on whose coasts oysters abound
are full of papers and documents about leg
islative and even military strife in regard to
oysters. "Indeed," says Mr. Parkinson,the
then editor of the Caterer, "it is not going
too far to say that oysters have kept the peo
ple of the several colouies and States in a
perpetual stew ever since they were first
settled."
The ancient Romans ate oysters raw with
a seasoning of vinegar, garum, oil, wine.
honey mixed with eggs, and pepper and
ahsander. They also minced them with
muscles and sea hedgehogs, stewed them
with cine almonds and various condiments
and ate them scalding hot, A celebrated
Roman epicure bnilt a fish pond, where be
kept oysters and fed them on a paste of
cooked wine and honey.
The Greeks understood the serving of raw
oysters better than modern Americans.
They were opened by a slave at the very
table in view of all the guests. Since the
Fourteenth Amendment this method is not
practicable here, but it served the purpose
of allowing them to be eaten as nearly as
possibly alive, which in spite of Thack
eray, who in jest scared an oyster eater half
to death by exclaiming, "Why, man, you've
swallowed it alive I" is a gastronomical
consideration of the first importance.
Black Evea Among Colored People.
Letter In the Atlanta Constitution.
We do not hesitate to say we seriously
doubt if there was ever a black-eyed negro.
Of course, by the term black we mean the
entire absence of all color. Mulattoes, on
account o the great contrast between their
yellow skin and dark-brown eyes, appear to
have black eyes, but put the test of light to
them and you will find them when blackest
only a very dark brown.
Dansrronv Tr'fllng.
It is not only foolisb, but dangerocs, to trifle
with constipation, indigestion, piles or liver de
ranged ent. Takethe proper remedy as soon as
possible, and avoid all danger incident to delay.
Hamburg Figs are aspecino tor these affections.
2Scents. Doie,onefig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
XIBU
1890.
BEAUTY THAT LASTS.
Shirley Dare Tells of Women Who
Are Belles at Forty-Five.
SONS PROUD OP THEIR MOTHERS.
Good Peeling For All is a Perpetual Foun
tain of Youth.
ATTRACTIONS OP NEW TORK S0CIETI
rwBrrnar ron ths dispatch.!
"We have two things to dread," frankly
confessed a handsome woman across the cof
fee service in her pretty room in tbe prettiest
hotel in the country that is to say in Phila
delphia. "The foes of good looks are adi
pose and wrinkles. A thin woman may
fascinate in spite of her slimness, if she has
flesh only to hide the outline of her bones,
like Sara Bernhardt. But when the form
grows tallowy, and that layer comes at the
back of tbe neck by which men profess to tell
a woman's age, good-by attraction! "When
you see the handwriting, the fine lines on
the face, it is a sign one's days are num
bered for pleasing, and I say when a woman
ceases to attract, she had better cease to
exist That's the way I feel about it, any
how. Ton can be useful and fill a vacant
place in society and be good to yonr family,
and all that, but then you cau do all these
things just as well and a great deal better
for being pretty. My brother doesn't think
any less of me that people seem to notice
me favorably when he goes out with me,
and it is nice and easy to get him to do what
I want, and maneuvering women have a
small chance with him, I can tell yon, when
I am around."
"My sou Is rather proud of having his
mother taken for his sister," said another
gentle creature in a natty black cloth, morn
ing dress, French and severely plain, which
set off her chestnut carls and rounded
figure. "You' won't believe I had a purple
suit made just because that boy happened
to admire a lady dressed in that color. So
I hunted up a camel's hair, a darker, rich
shade, fit for an older person like myself,
and had it turned out as stylish as it could
be contrived, with velvet hat and tea roses
in velvet, strictly within the line of my
years, lor no remarks abont frisky matrons,
if you please, and yon ought to see how the
boy likes itl He is as critical if I have a
spot on my face as if he was going to paint
my picture. Oh, it's nice to have your own
boys in love with you."
"When they can't help it," said the
hostess, with a glanco which pointed the
compliment. "One such woman is enough
to stir up a society to emulate her freshness
and good example."
REDUCES EXESH BT EUKIf VHO.
"It takes care and thought," said a pretty
matron archly. "The boys and their father
watch my weight, and if I threaten to grow
a trifle stout there is uneasiness, and I am
advised anxiously not to take chocolate or
too much dessert, and there is general relief
in the family when I return to original thin
ness. It sounds absurd, bnt when a mere
little woman keeps tbe house happy with a
few gowns and nice ways I call it cheap at
tbe pains. Don't tell any one' for the world,
but the boy" this is the way she alludes to
her son and beir "has a half-mile course
laid out down at our place on Long Island,
and nothing pleases him better than to get
me out there back of the evergreens for a
run with him on a bright morning. You
can run your flesh off quicker than you can
get rid of it any other way, and it leaves one
feeling as if you could set the bay on fire."
"That's the way a woman ought to feel,"
said au older woman, whose deep blue gown
set off a face ot rose fed and white, and
brilliant keen gray eyes made the glance
wander after her. "When I was out in the
country people used to wonder at me, and
they said, 'She goes about like a young
girl.' I asked, 'How should I go about?' I
felt light and perfectly easy in motion,
while their women went about staid, moping,
artificial, because they thought they mast
do so. I got in and out of a rockaway with
out help, while one of their women had to
have three men come to offer a hand, and
then she fell out with a puff as if she were
going to pieces.
large lungs ah advantage.
"When a woman has large lungs as we
have, she is lighter and gets around easier,
just as birds do with the air cells iu their
bones; or they are wadded with flesh about
the hips and chest with poking about their
housekeeping and breathing the fumes of so
much cookery, and sitting around and mov
ing slowly when they go about afterward.
I can get three times as much done
in the time those women can, I
don't care what it is dressing a lunch
table, or gettiug ready for a fair, or helping
my husband. I'm 65 my last birthday,
and I'm not going to turn invalid or peni
tent or turn Mrs. Gladstone this year or
next either. My husband is growing corpu
lent with sitting in the office so much and
eating good dinners, and he is going off
hunting in the Bussian Biver country,
where mountain tramps will take the
superfluous flesh off him. I want
him to look something like the man I
liked and married, and I don't want to
be left a blooming widow by apoplexy or
other fatty degeneration. When mv book
is through the press I'm going on theEdenic
diet for six months to get this snet off my
hips that intolerable boarding house fare
put on me last winter, and I'm not going
to feel more than 35 the next 20 years. I
look young because I feel young. I am
young There isn't an organ about me has
a flaw or is disordered in any way. for I
haven't taken care of myself these 40 years
for nothing, and before that my mother took
care of my health for me. I feel very much
like being happy myself and making every
body else happy, and if that's a crime I'm a
criminal of the deepest dye."
AN IDEA! WITH SIX OROW1T CHILDREN.
"You were ideal when that picture was
taken," said the youngest lady, glancing
at a photograph whose shoulders were
smooth as marble, while the face has the
studious, dreamy air of a sweet girl grad
uate. "When do you suppose that was taken?"
quietly asked the hostess.
"Why, when she was 35, 1 suppose," said
the coquette' with a naive insolence of 22.
"It was taken five years ago, with her six
grown children abont her, and nine men out
of ten would tnrn to look after her then
where one would look at us, petite."
"And the tenth?" demanded the beautv,
defiantly, flushing a little.
"The tenth would lollow her." was the
dulcet reply. "See the expression, full of
sensibility and fervor, with the look of a
musing Diana. You find that look iu the
eyes of studious women of warm hearts and
large brains, and it is a look that attracts
when complexion and toilet pall."
The beauty tossed her little head, sneered
and was offended. Amiability is one of the
gifts one learns with years. Taking the
question on facts, society is far ahead of
theories, as usual. Its homage has not all
been poured at thefeetof girlhood. To whom
did Angelo write his sonnets, and Petrarch
his, whom did Titian and "Vandyke paint,
and for whom were swords oftenest crossed,
but women at an age which wouid raise the
sneers of our boy and girl American society?
And who hold sway over the inner circle of
New York society to-day bnt women long
past girlhood, except such youth as is inher
ent and immortal?
THE BELLES OF NEW YORE.
"Our Beauty" is tbe title of affectionate
pride with which the finest men allude to
Miss Beckwith, whose dainty, patrician
loveliness still command the devotion of the
most exclusive set in New York, although
she is not far from the deadline or 40. Still
delicate, slender, with a matchless refine
ment of complexion and expression, always
quietly dressed, wearing a knot of white vio
lets or forced spring flowers in midwinter,
men turn to gaae after ber with eyta which J
say, "There is ths woman one dreams
about" Her rare physique combines the un
broken nerve, the supple slenderness which
never can grow old. If some wise band had
the care of her she would be as fair 25 years
from now as she is to-day, and fairer.
One of tbe prettiest women in New York
is Miss Constance Schaak, who outdoes all
the buds in beauty at balls or on the street
"What will you have?" ponted one of them
enviously, "oae nas had near 40 years to
grow perfect in," which, was very well for a
little girl and a beginner. After one of the
great balls at Delmonico's, ask who was the
prettiest woman, and the answer lrom man
or woman will be, "Miss Schaak was there.
How do you expect me to remember any
one else with that rose of a creature about?"
XHET HASRZ LATER.
Says the shrewdest observer of metro
politan society: "New York women marry
later than any other women In this country
not much under 30. They certainly are
more charming than the buds, of whom the
saying goes: 'In the first season they are
good to look at; in the second to dance with;
in the third to talk to.' The New York
woman at 30 is a dangerously fascinating
creature, and knows it better than anyone
else. It is wonderful how they wear." Con
trast this with a practice of unwise mothers
who marry their girls from the schoolroom,
only to have their husbands tire of them be
fore tbey fade at 30.
My dear young woman, take a line from
the New York girl's book, and don't be in
a hurry to consider your chances lost if you
have never found the "not impossible
he" even at 30. You have a good 20
years yet at your best if voa take counsel,
and 25 years to be charming and happy
in after that before you are content to
sink gracefully into decline, not eclipse. Do
not be envious, or disheartened, or im
patient, which make ugly lines in the
face; but take care of yonr health and use
your brain and your feelings. Do gentle,
kind, generous things, with or without re
turn for them. Study sincerity, and chari
table which is wise judgment on persons
and things. You won't get credit for it as
Balzac says of gratitude, that would be ex
pecting usury upon the good done; hut there
will be the freshness of hidden waters among
herbage, serenity of nerve, clearness and
steadiness of eye, and the sweet pulsing of
the blood from a warm heart, which physi
cally works its part better than a formal
one.
HYGIENIC EFFECT OY GOOD FEELING.
Literally, there is hygienic value in good
feelings which act upon the nervous system
and thence upou the other physical parts
making the only mind cure whicb has any
worth. No mystery of nature is more beau
tiful than this interdependence of our phy
sical and moral nature how the griefs and
questionings of the mind clear up if the
body is kept in repair, and the functions ol
the latter respond to the calming of the
mind by trust and resolution, whether it
feels the sunshine of happiness or not
There are many of us for whom the sun
shines but a day among months of cloud
and desolation. Defy the storm; endure
the gloom; do not desert yourself.
It was such self-mastery which aided the
women of the Bevolution to keep their
prime. The portraits of beauties of the
time of Washington's inauguration show
the highest feminine charms of wit, feeling,
heart and mind iu faces which wore their
bloom staunchly up to 50. Mrs. Jay,
daughter of Bufus King, with her black
hair and brilliant blue eyes; Mrs. Bayard,
whose pictured face it is impossible to see
and not to love: the faithful, frank wife of
Alexander Hamilton, who could have kept I
ner gauaub uusuauu iruia nis erring ways
bad she been more of a woman and less of a
model these and the bevy of Philadelphia
beauties kept their looks delightfully up to
the line of 60, and remained lovable into
age.
TWO REMARKABLE BEAUTIES.
It might have been written of them as of
the Duchess de la Yalliere, who, at 50, was
still marvelously beautiful that nature, pru
dent and wise, forces time to respect the
charms she is powerless to repeat But
she goes on from age to age, forcing her
masterpieces upon us for imitation. Many
will recall Mme. EndersdorfF, the singer,
when over 40, beautiful as an image of rose
and white parian, and Rosa Eytinge,
whether among the tapestries of her
snugly picturesque rooms or in full
sunlight, defied time more success
fully than any beauty who has
ever trod the stage. Fortune was none too
kind to either of these women; indeed, it
ssems as i those best defied years who weie
constantly stirred up to effort It depends
upon a woman herself more than upon her
advantages whether she can retain her
charms and her youth up to threescore.
Doubtless this sounds yery audacious and
immoral to staid women who believe in the
intense respectability of being rather ugly.
But my dear mesdames, is it so very im
moral to contrive that a man shall always
remain in love with his own wile?
Shirley Dabe.
0EIGIN OP THE EMPIRE.
The Dnko of Saxe-Coburs-Gotba's Testi
mony on tbe Dispute.
The London Truth.
One of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's
memorandums in bis new volume is of real
importance, as it is calculated decisively
to settle the question as to the origina
tion of the project for restoring the Ger
man Empire. Since the death of the
Emperor Frederick it has been asserted
that he, and be alone, suggested in the
first instance the restoration of the imperial
dignity, a statement which has excited con
siderable surprise, to say the least of it
The donbts which have been freely expressed
are now shown to be justified, for, so far
from the Emperor Frederick having origi
nated this idea, and Prince Bismarck having
opposed it, as has been absurdly stated, it ap
pears that in October, 1870, the Dnke of
Saxe-Coburg-Uotha sent one oi ms "mem
orandums" to Prince Bismarck, in which
he strongly advocated the Empire arrange
ment The Chancellor replied that the
Duke's ideas were precisely his own in
every particular, and that they were now in
process of realization.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who was
one of EmperorFrederick's intimate friends,
may surely be accepted as an unexception
able authority.
A MIEAGB ON TUB DESERT.
Description of the Btrnngo Scene by an
Eyewitness.
Washington Star.
But with the rising of the sun comes a I
change, for out on the desert (which a few
Imoments before was a dead white plain)
every elevation or projection is be
ginning to assume life. Lakes are
appearing where the salt lately was
the onlv covering: fences and trees
miraculously springing np; weird beings are
assuming shapes and dancing in the morn
ing air; boats are shooting here and there
over the placid lakes, and solid mountains
are spreading out or splitting open, while
sometimes low hills rise and disappear like
smoke from an explosion.
The whole is at once so strange and amus
ing that it is hard to remove our eyes even
lor an instant and for at least an hour the
laziness of the animals is allowed to go un
punished, while we forget the hardships of
desert life in the glorious privilege of behold
ing such a vision as this. But gradually.as
tbe sun rises higher, the phenomena de
crease in strangeness and beauty, and only
now and then does an inviting lake appear
through the rifes in the dust clouds. We
set our teeth bard, and for tbe time cease to
hope for anything to break the cheerlessness
of the undisturbed monotony.
Another Uae for Aluminium.
Newcastle (England) Chronicle.
Of the many uses to which aluminium
may be applied, the end is apparently not
yet It is stated that tbe cheapening of this
metal has led to the proposition to construct
arc lamps of the material, as preferable, on
account of its lightness and qualities of re
sisting rust, to iron, steel or brass, for ont-
door use.
CHAEM OF A FIGURE.
Importance Attached to the Numeral
Seven in All Ages.
ITS OCCUBRENCE IN THE BIBLE.
Traditions About the Curative Powers of
the Seventh. Son.
A SDPEESTITIOIf STILL ACCEPTJSD
rWBITTIN TOB THE DISFATCH.1
To the number seven has been ascribed by
all people in all ages some magical or
mystical quality. Several learned treatises
have been written upon the number, and
septenary combinations have been sought
everywhere and by all peaple. In tha
works of a writer of two centuries ago, wo
may read, why, in his opinion, the number
is peculiarly excellent First, he say, "it
is neither begotten nor begets," secondly, "it
is a harmonic number," thirdly, "it is a
theological number, consisting of perfec
tion" and fourthly,, "it is composed of per
fect nnmbera and participates of their
virtues."
We may find better reasons perhaps. The
reason most often quoted is its prominence
in the Bible. In tbe first place, the seven
days of creation led to a septenary division
of time to ?11 ages, and from it we get our
week of seven days. The Hebrews were im
pressed with the mystical properties of the
digit, and several of their most noted feasts
lasted for seven days. Kaaman was sent by
Elisha to wash in the river Jordan seven
times. For seven days seven priests with
seven trumpets invested Jericho, and on the
seventh day tbey compassed the city seven
times. Elijah sent his servant seven times
to Mount Carmel to look for rain. Tho
Bible tells us of the seven virtues and seven
mortal sins.
The ancients not only noted the impor
tance of seven as an astronomical period, but
connected with the seven planets the seven
metals known to them. The sonl of man at
that early day in history was supposed to be
controlled by his double septenary combina
tion. It was also an ancient belief that a
change in the body of man occurred every
seventh year, and even at this day there are
people who believe that every seven years,
likes and dislikes in edibles are transi
posed. The Koran enumerates seven heaTens")
and there is an old Bussian superstition to
the effect of the existence of seven heavens.
IT OCCURS EVERYWHERE.
The number seven is frequently employed
in the Apocalypse. In Greek antiquity we
read of the seven vise men, who were known
as Salon, Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Chilon,
Cleobulus and Periander, ot Corinth. The
story of the seven wise masters was based
npon the story that a prince's son. instruct
ed by seven sages, found on examination of
the stars that if he spoke in seven days he
would forfeit his life. Gregory of Tours re
lates a legend of tbe seven sleepers, or the
seven Christians of Ephesus, who took
refuge in a cave (luring the Christian perse
cutions under Decius. The wonders of the
world the Pyramids of Egypt, the Hang
ing Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Diana
at Ephesus, Statue of Jupiter at Athens,
the Mausoleum, the Collosusof Bhodes and
tbe Pharos of Alexandria were seven in
number. Thus firmly established in im
portance, the number seven was employed
in tbe Middle Ages in magic and witch
craft A superstition very prevalent even in the
modern ages is that unusual powers are
given by nature to the seventh son or
daughter. "It is manifest," says an old
writer, "by experience, that the seventh
male child by just order (never a girl or
wench being born between) doth heal only
by touching (through a natural gift) the
king's evil. From this it came to be be
lieved that the seventh son in unbroken suc
cession should become a physician, as ha
possessed natural gilts not accorded to other
sons. In the British Mnseum is an old
manuscript, which says: "The seventh son
is a born physician, having an intimate
knowledge of the art of curing all disorders,
and sometimes the faculty of performing
wonders by touching only." Here tho
virtue is increased by a double septenary
descent
THE FRENCH SUPERSTITION.
In France a seventh son in direct succes
sion is called a "marcou." In Orleans,
daring the present century, the following
was written concerning the marcou. "If a
man is the seventh son of his father, with
out any female intervening, he is a marcou;
he has on some parts oi bis Dooy me marc
of a fleur-de-lis, and, like the Kings of
France, he has the power of curing the
king's evil. All that is necessary to effect
a cure is that the marcou should breathe
upon the part affected, or that the tbe sufferer
should touch the mark of the fleur-de-lis.
Of all the marcous of the Orleannais, he of
Ormes is the best known and most cele
brated. Every year from 20, 30 and 40
leagues around, crowds of patients come to
visit him; but it is particularly in holy
week that his power is most efficacious; and
on the night of Good Friday, from midnight
until sunrise, the cure is certain."
A darker superstition concerning the
seventh son exists to this dav in Portugal.
It is there believed that the unfortunate
being who is the seventh male in direct
succession is in the power and control of
the Prince of Darkness, by whom he is
comnelled, on every Saturday evening, to
assume the appearance of an ass. In this
guise, and accompanied by a troop of dogs,
he is compelled to race over moor and
through village until the light of the glad
Sabbath dawns, when he may resume his
human form for a week.
THE IRISH TRADITION.
The mysterious powers possessed by a
seventh son are not preserved for future use
without some ceremony, according to Irish
tradition. At the moment of his birth the
following routine is carefully observed:
"The woman who receives him in her arms
places in his tiny hand whatever substance
she decides that he shall rub with in after
life, and she is careful not to let him touch
anything until this shall have been accorn-
Elished. If silver is to be the charm, she
as provided a 6-penny or 3-penny bit, but
as the coinage of the realm may possibly
change during his lite time, and thus render
his cure valueless, she has more likely
placed metal or salt on the table in reach of
him. Whatever substance a seventh sou
rubs with must be worn by his patients as
long as they live,
orttine tellers, clair-
voyants and their class are said to possess
greater Insight into the future when they
happen to be tbe seventh son or daughter.
That this notion is not obsolete is
apparent from an advertisement published
for some time in a Iqading metropolitan
daily paper. The first part reads: "Call
on Mme. , the greatest and most noted
clairvoyant and astrologer, the most power
ful and mystic sight in clairvoyance of the
nineteenth century; born with a three-fold
veil, genuine stventh daughter, has been
publicly tested and challenges the world.
Beveals mysteries, solves secrets, etc"
So it has been in all ages. Seven has ever
been a mysterious digit and will continue to
be to all people at all superstitious.
Artuub Wirt.
SUGGESTIVE CHINESE SLANG.
Sarcastic nnd Characteristic Expression
Which Relieve tbo Mongol Blind.
Boston Herald. 3
Some of the ordinary expressions of the
Chinese are very sarcastio and characteristic.
A blustering, harmless fellow they call a '
"paper tiger." When a man values himself
overmuch they compare him to a "rat fall
ing Into a scale and weighing itself." Over
doing a tiling they call "a hunchback mak
ing a bow." A spendthrift they compare to
a rocket which goes off at once. Those who
expend their charity on remote objects, bnt
neglect their family, are said "to hang a
lantern on a rope, which is seen afar bnt
1 Sires no light.
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