asEaai THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH PAGES 9 TO 16; SECOND PftRT. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1890. GAY WATER HYMPHS Peeps at the Pretty Pittsburg Ladies "Who Are Learning to Swim at the ffatatorium. 'MORE APT THAK THEIR BROTHERS. They Float light as Cork and Glide lion? the Surface With the Grace of Mythical Mermaids. 'ELTEETS 15 THEEITEE BATHIh'G POOL Triers at SItId? ud Clever Performances That astonish the Beginners, A v rWKITTIir TOB THI DISPATCH. "WOMAN is a natural floater. She proves her claim to that honor two days in every week down at the Natatorium ou Duquesne way. "Watch her as she stands poised upon the spring ing board, ready or a dire into the swimming pool! Her whole atti tude is one of grace, even though she is just a beginner. "With arms outstretched and par tially raised, the palms of the hands tonch each other, and, with an airy leap, she makes the plunge. See how quickly her light body comes to the surface from the depths below. The pretty arms and lithe limbs strike out with that peculiar, wil lowy ease that makes poetry out of motion. Her buoyancy keeps her nearly to the top of the water, so that every stroke is discern able. A man would sink lower down, be cause of his heavier build. The ethereal form of woman, skimming almost on the surface; the feathery disturbance of the water touching her natty bathing snit with a soft fringe of spray; crystal ringlets encir cling her neck as they widen and interlink with each beat of the water; liquid drops quivering on her tresses like pendant dia monds she is a floater of exquisite beauty. they'be quicker thak the men. But of course you don't see her yourself. You must take the word of the, natatorium instructors for it alL They will tell you that since the swimming school opened their most apt pupils have been the ladies. Women learn to swim quicker than men. Not only are they light in form and sylph like in motion, bat they are pliable. They come to the water's edge periectly ignorant of how to swim. They are willing to con fess this, nay they cannot hide it. A teacher takes them in charge. If this in structor is a man they place perfect confi dence in his ability to teacb them, for he is strong and muscular, and swimming, after ; all, seems to a woman to be a part of a man's manly sports. A man is hard to teach, because he ren- erally has -ideas of properjwinuning, jnore ! or less hxed, or it He nasn t be learns very quickly to watch other swimmers rather than to submit to routine instrnctions from a practical master. It is hard for a man to handle a man in a matter ot this kind, but the woman, knowing nothing, is willing to of the water. Of course they will go down as long as they do that, and it is only by the sinking experience that they are liable to learn the most thoroughly not to do it. THE FIEST FEW STROKES. When both the arm and limb motions are taught the pupils are suddenly swung loose from the rone, and supported about the belt by the instructor. The first feeble and timid strokes are seldom successful, but in a very short time, if the subject is at all confident of his or her powers, the learner will be able to swim alone for two or three strokes. This is increased one stroke at each swim possi bly until the pnpil masters 40 feet of the pool in about 20 strokes. An expert would do it in 15 strokes. The time, of course, in which a person is able to learn to swim differs. Some ladies learn in two hours, others not fortwo weeks. Last Friday a well-known society Tielle nastered the breast-stroke in an hour, and, developing a peculiarity of holding her head straight up ont of the water, won the title among her associates of being "a per fect swan." The next stvle of swimming taught, if persons desire to learn the fancy methods, is the "side-stroke." A few Pittsburg women thus far have accomplished this. The "overarm stroke" comes next. This is quite a difficult feat for women on account of the muscular power necessary, and has not yet been taught them. Neither is it a pretty movement to look at, being used en tirely for the purpose of speed and endur ance by men. "Sculling" is a very pretty style of swimming, which some women have expressed a strong desire to learn. It in volves the principle or a screw oroueller. the -quick and oscillating heat of the water by the hands alone, or the feet alone, while the body is held almost perfectly rigid. MAKING THE TTJBIT. The pool in the Pittsburg Natatorium favors one novel class of swimming accom plishments for women. That is what is get the idea because they are learning to swim quicker than men "at the new nata torium that thev can outdo a man in a con test at the art, "She has not the powers of endurance that a man has in the water. Miss Theresa Johnston made the quickest mile ever swam by a woman. It'was in open water, and was done in 35 minutes. A mile in open water was also done by a man, J, J. HllwIA economy in mis. The Proverbial Thrift of the New England Yankee Outdone. ONE STOVE FOE A WHOLE HOUSE. French Belles Wear Ounce Eats and Sleeves Like Flour Barrels. THEODORE TILION ENJOYING LIFE The River Good Enough for Them. w One of the Utile Swimmer. The Water's a Bit Cold. learn from the letter "A" up. When they do learn they surpass the men, for the pretty reasons set forth in the foregoing. The male swimmer must always display his muscular powers. The nymph, from the very absence ot this, is distinguished for the grace and ease of motion she possesses. LACKING TS CONFIDENCE. Of course a woman makes an awful lot of fuss in learning. Bnt that is to be expected, and does not bother the teachers one bit. Joseph McCune and Jimmy Taylor are the instructors at the natatorinm. Thus far they have saved three persons from drowning in the big salt water pool there, and all three of these unfortunates were males two men and one boy. So that with all their fuss the women get along admirably as far as safety is concerned. The trouble with females generally is thev lack confidence in themselves, and fear they are in danger when they are really as far away from it as possible. Sir. McCune tells me that one of the prettiest swimmers in the school on ladies' day is constantly bewailing the fact that she cannot learn to swim, and always fears she will sink ont of sight. She swims well, but cannot bring enough confidence to bear in herself to believe that fact. In river or ocean disasters this lack of confidence in herself is forcibly shown bv woman. She will cling with a deatb-clntch to her male rescuer, when, if she only would believe, she is calculated by nature to be an easier swimmer than man, and may learn the art more readily. All women ought to learn to swim, but it would be of no use to them in emergencies unless they would also learn to exercise presence of mind. THE A, B, C'S OF IT. Girls and women of all ages come to the natatorinm to learn. The first lessons given them by Messrs. McCune and Taylor are in the arm motions of the breast stroke. Prom pulleys in the ceiling ropes drop to the water. These are fastened by means of belts around the bathing clothes to the wajsti The .roPe Js aoJntted to support the uouy ju nign enough to let the head re main out of water. Then the pupils are shown how to stretch out the arms, bringing the palms together in front of the lace. The second movement is to swing the arms back, and the third is, by a downward motion to carry them forward arain. Aft..- th Tuc son is made familiar with these exercises, the instructors go into the water and by swimming close to the surface, demonstrate the peculiar frog-like motion of the limbs. Just hero occurs the greatest difficulty with all beginners, both male and female, although in this instance again, the woman breaks herself quickest of the false motion. In swimming the body should be kept un der "the water at an angle of about 45 de grees. Xhe limbs should be spread apart, frog-like, under the water. In learning, a person's first and persistentfinclination is.to beat the legs up and down upon the surface called "turning." The pool is 67 feet long, and suppose a race was to be run for four or six lengths of it The place where one op ponent could get the advantage of another is in the turn he makes at either wall of the pool. Instructor McCune is an expert Scotch swimmer, and he showed me his method of turning. It is a strange combi nation of a push and a dive when he reaches the wall, which sends his body back through the pool with an impetus that carries him two or three yards without a stroke. He has a system about the turn, where a novice would turn to go in the other direction as best he could, losing time and strength both. The "tarn" can be readily learned by women, and would be capable of fur nishing much sport An observant lady who has patronized the hath since it was opened tells me that she tried to study the way women express them selves when they get icaied wEUe trying-to learn to swim. It is well known that when a person walking into gradually deepening water reaches a point where the water reaches up to the lungs, it will lift the body off the feet Three'women caught unawares in this fashion at the Natatorium yelled at once to be "taken home, oh." And when two of them were helped to the wall they re mained long enough to get their breath, and then floundered back into the pool. THET HAEDLT EYEB SCBEAM. Pew women scream at the natatorium. Twenty-five are noted down in this lady's memorandum as murmuring something about being "lost" One fat lady forgot herself and called lustily to bring her hus band for her; that she was going down for the last time. She then lound that the water was only four feet deep where she had lost her footing, and therefore counter manded her order, remembering that it was "iaaies aay, ana mat gentlemen were tabooed. I visited the natatorium one afternoon when probably a dozen gentlemen were swimming. Two of them were preachers who were taking their first lessons. Thev had just come out on the promenade for an airing when an expert swimmer, who I think was a mill worker, took a powerful dive from the springing-board. He had twisted himself in a peculiar manner, as though indicating, as he struck the wa'ter in what direction he intended to reappear! The preachers, joining a group of several other greenhorns, watched for the diver to come up in that corner of the pool. A full minute passed and the swimmer did not re- Collier, in 2829. These are the great inter national records. Will the growing culture of swimming in Pittsburg among both sexes beat them? Physicians welcome the new era in aquatics in Pittsburg. Thev say it will make a race of strong, healthy men and women, it Has been an art that has been neglected heretofore. Although surrounded by rivers, the city's water front has never been adapted to swimming in late years. The Allegheny is too oily as a general thin?, the Monongahela is lined with too many indnstriesand filled with an enormons amount of traffic, and the Ohio is too far away, THE PEOPLE WAITT IT. The public wants to swim. The records of the natatorinm show that On anv Sat urday fully 400 men and boys patronize the institution. The attendance averages. La dies' day two weeks witnessed the attend ance of 300 of the fairer sex. Last Tuesday found 150 in the pool. A club has been formed by 60 East End women, who hire the pool for their exclusive use two hours on Monday and Thursday mornings. Pro fessional men are taking to the fad with wonderful avidity. Doctors and lawyers especially attend in the morning. The best swimmers who go down to Jor dan's river bath boat on the Allegheny river front, just opposite the natatorium, are the big swarthy iron workers and the tiny newsboys. "Anybody that is tough and hardy physically," explains Mr. Jor dan, "can swim like a fish, and you bet the Pittsburg newsboys are at home in the water. Here we have trapeze and rings for muscular exercise as well as water Bnort" Some of the newsboys start at one end of Jordan's boathouse and skip from one trapeze to another until they miss one and fall into the water. It's better than a dive, some of them think, and such boys as "Jimmy the Tough" would langh at the idea of having an instructor, clad in bright blue trunks, to teach him "the biz." "What for we want salt water?" said one of the youngsters. "The river is good 'nuff J. AU. U1UI llbAj. fCOBBXSFOlTDKirCa OT TBI DISPATCH. Pabis, June 12. About the first familiar face I met on the Boulevard de Capucines, Paris, was Theodore Tilton. He was sit ting, with the crowd in front of the Grand Hotel, sipping his after-dinner coffee, arjd conversing in French with a gentleman and two beautiful French girls. Mr. 'Tilton has grown old, and his hair is white; but he is still the same hand some man. He is a conspicuous man any Theodore Tilton. wher6i anC, it was amusing to see the people tnrn around to look at him. When I saw him here six years ago, he had a voluptnous look as if he was surrendering himself to Epicurus and supplanting the waters of the Seine with the rich Juices from Burgundy; but now he looks spirituelle again. When I asked him about returning to America, he said: "No, I shall never go back. I love Paris, for us. ITOCH IAW WITH SAVAGES. mil 1 If :nlHi3 brings 12 cents in the cheapest Duval res taurant Sirloin beefsteaks are 30 cents a pound in every butcher's shop, and the best cuts 40 cents. Good sweet farm butter costs BO cent. ' ," m Still the people live cheap because every thing is eaten up. Americans at home waste more than they eat If people in Chicago ate as ecomically as they do in Paris, they could live twice as cheaply as they do in Paris. The first cost of provis ions in Chicago is less than half the cost in Paris. In fact any American can live cheaper in America than in Europe if he eats in America as he does here, but New York or Chicago throws away more than Paris eats. And right now I can hear some idiot in America, tooting up in a falsetto voice: "But $1 goes so much further in Europe than in America!" "res, my son, it does. It has to." NOTHING- BUT LABOB IS CHEAP. Men's clothing is no cheaper here than In America. There is no' good $3 shoe in Prance. When I showed an ordinary tailor a (25 check suit from Union Square, New York, he held up both hands in amazement. An ordinary Oxford hat which you can buy in Pittsburg lor $2 50 is marked from 12 to 15 francs here. Hack lire is cheaDer here -than in America because that represents labor. Chicago to-day is the cheapest place on this green earth for tytry luxury and necessity of life, except labor. It is the only place where a carpenter gets $3 50 a day and pays 6 cents for bacon. In Paris, the carpenter and brickmason get $1 40 a day and pays 14 cents for his bacon and 30 cents for poor steak. His cotton blouse, shoes and hat cost as much here as in Amer ica. When he comes to America, he throws away his bowl of cheap soup and hard bread and sits down to porterhouse steak, ham and eggs, pie, a good cigar and all the potatoes he wants. Cake and pie for a poor French carpenter or brickmasonl Why, they don't know the taste of them. Laboring man, blessed and thrice blessed are you in Americal LADY MONEY MAKERS. Fortunes for Society Belles in Wash ington Eeal Estate. EECEIPTS OP B0AEDIHG HOUSES. Prettj Girls Busy Clicking Out Bolls on Typewriters. Bank ICE CBEAM FOB THE WHJTB HOUSE The Economical Store. I?C "Nm M X Halag-asy Thief Fonnded Into Mincemeat Willi n-nvj Clubs. A writer in the St Louis BepuiUc thus describes the death of a thief among the Malagasy savages: The thief was chased by a mob, and finally caught in a hut All at once three powerful men of the Booroozanoo tribe emerged from tbo crowd, armed with "heavy clubs. The unarmed, wounded, faint-1 ing wrctcu sane upon nis Knees with piteous screams for mercy. But one big brute swung his club and brought it down with terrific force upon the shoulder of the kneeline thief. fi We distinctly heard the blow from our balcony and saw the blood spurt out upon the self-appointed executioner. A second and third attack speedily followed, and the poor wretch's shrieks were appalling. We saw the poor creature's limbs stretch out; bis cries changed to low moans, and it was clear that death was near at hand. Yet the inhuman savages did not cease pounding the carcass until it was a shape less mass of mangled flesh, the bones of tbe feet being tbe only ones in the whole body which were not broken. With a refinement of cruelty, the murderers refrained from striking their victim on the head and more vital parts, so as to prolong his agony. Nor was it until some time after his death that they broke open his skull for the dogs to devour his brains; that, according to the Malagasy custom, the remains might be re moved tor interment The murder was not finished until nearly 4 o'clock, and the disfigured body, from which nearly all semblance of humanity had disappeared, lay exposed to the gaze o'l thousands of Malagasy savages, including all ages and both sexes. Straw was finally strew upon the place to sop ur some of the gore, and after sunset by means of a couple of poles, the body was thrust into an ad jacent gully. AHTIQUrrS" OP THE CEITSTja. One of the Instructors. appear. They all got alarmed. Quickly they gathered around the corner, and as the seconds passed they grew excited. They looked for bubbles, and one man ran bur ridely down the steps to the water to exam ine the surface, thinking that the diver had killed himself by striking his head against the asphaltum. bottom. It was two minutes and a half, and he had not yet come up. The group was breathless with anxiety, when all of a sudden there came a loud BUJa?.lrom , eS?eme corner at the other end of the pool. The astonished group saw l V -""" '"e wau wun his hands locked across his knee, rocking with laugh ter. His dive had ended in another part of the pool than the crowd had been led to expect TVHAT EXPEBTS CAN DO. Speaking about diving, Messrs. McCune and Taylor are expert themselves at that sort of thing. McCune will dive sometimes from the springboard, and after swimming underneath the surface to the other end of the pool, will return the entire length of 67 feet under water still, and reappear at the board from which he started. Mr. Taylor, who Is only 21, ten years younger than Mc Cune, will swim under water one length of the pooh Taylor is a son of the well-known English oarsman. But, after all, Pittsburg women must not Enumerators Antedate the Christian Era, bnt Weren't Always So Inquisitive. Boston Heral a.l As the late S. S. Cox, of New York, said on February 18, 1879, in addressing the House of Bepresentatives relative to the bill authorizing the tenth census: "A census is no new thing under the sun. It antedates the Christian era. It illustrates the Chinese, Japanese, Hebraic, Grecian and Bonian civilizations." The Jewish census listed the first born and first fruits, and was at first a religious custom. Afterward it was used for fighting purposese. In Borne the period of taking the census was five years, or, as the Bomana distinctively called it a lustrum; and tbe completion of the work was celebrated as a national holiday, the day of lustration, when good citizens were rewarded and bad citizens were held sp to publio ignominy. Despite its antiquity, however, the census never reached beyond a mere enumeration or counting of the people until the United States extended its significance. Statistics themselves first entered the scientific phase in 1749, when the new science received its name and the first complete statement of its Principles by Prof. Achenwallof Gottingen. t is only during the past two generations that statistical activity touched all varieties of Unman employment and resource. When the Constitution of the United States was formed there was no Government on earth that provided in its fundamental law for taking a census. and I have a fortune large enough to enable me to lire here. I am a man without a country, but I have expatriated myself. Society has committed a crime against me. I defended myself and was beaten." I am sorry for Mr. Tilton. He believes that he has an honest grievance. To him that grievance is the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. WONDEBEUIi PEEXCH ECONOMY. I thought I saw economy up in Ireland, where a poor Killarney farmer got permis sion from a rich landlord to use a patch of bare rock, and then carried up soil enough on his back from alow bog to cover it for a crop of potatoes, and I thought I saw econ omy and Puritan, thrift once up in Connecti cut, wuttu Aseacon Diuipson came into a Litchfield butcher shop, '-and, holding out his old hat full of something or other, asked the butcher "if he wouldn't please restuff tbm lantiM Vi.o9" But the thrift and economy of the Parisian astounds me. It is no uncommon thing to see a Frenchman following a man smoking a paper cigarette to get the stub. A Cigar stub is a gold mine to this man, and a whole Pittsburg toby would cause him to sine the A Frenchman named Duval has 26 res taurants in Paris, and feeds 20.000 people daily. The debris From his tables would not make a wagon load, but even this is sold again, and alter the poor have finished with it, a poodle wonld starve on it The lights of an animal which we throw away, are as choice as sweet breads to the French man, and the dear old lame horses are not wasted; they are ground into sausage meat and Hamburg steak. THE ECONOMICAL PABIS STOVE. The economy of a French stove would hypnotize an American. The stove is about the size of an ice water tank in a Pullman car. It is loaded with two quarts of coal, the small three-inch pipe adjusted to the ABTICLES POB THE LADIES. It is only laces, gloves, embroideries and articles created by cheap labor that are cheaper herethan in America. That is, labor ischeap, while raw materials are dear. My wife, after interviewing dozens of dress makers and milliners here, from Worth to the Bon March e, tells me to-day that she can buy nothing here cheaper than in America except gloves, laces and embroid eries. Buhl furniture is no cheaper or bet ter than when made in Grand Bapids, and "Vernais Martin furniture well, the price for it is simply fabulousl Paris always runs to extremes. Now the sensation is little bonnets and big sleeves. I saw bonnets to-day no bigger than your hand. One weighed an ounce. It was sim ply a headdress built in the shape of a bon net It was made of flowers and lace. The big sleeve has no especial name. Some times it is called the "full top sleeve." It even obstructs the view in the theater. The comic papers are all caricatnring it The accompanying sketch of the little bonnet and big sleeve is done with a little exagger ation from a Kodak photographer. THE FBENCn ELETATOB. I don't believe there are twentv-five !. vators inall London. Many of the large hotels, like the Temple, expect guests to walk up four stories. On the other hand, in Paris, the elevator is becoming epidemic But such elevatorsl They are hydranlic elevators and are run without an elevator boy. As water is dear in Paris, they run at a snail's pace. Sometimes they stand still between two floors and refuse to move for an hour. They were laughing over in the Ameri can quarter by the Arch of Triumph to-day, and when I asked them what it was all about, they saia: "Why. haven't von heard? It's too nnrl. Several American young ladies and their escorts came home from Minister Beid's re ception last night, got stuck in the elevator between the third and fourth floors, and stayed there until daylight" "But why didn't the elevator boy come to their rescue?" "It was one of those French elevators that the passenger adjusts himself, and the were all ignorant as to bow to stop or go ahead. Eli Pebkins. COSTtTMEB POB SEBVAHTS. TENNYSON'S HABITS. He Often Geti Throngh Most of His Work Before the Breakfast Hoar. Towle In Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.) Like almost all authors, Tennyson does the greater part of his literary work in the morning hours, between breakfast and luncheon, and sometimes breaks the back or his work before breakfast His invariable habit is to take a long stroll before luncheon, accompanied often by a friend, and always by two of his dogs. The afternoon and evening are given up to rest and social re creations. The poet is seldom, as we have said, seen in the streets of the metropolis; but occa sionally his tall, stnrdy form, bis broad soft hat and inevitable cloak, his shaggy, grizzled shocks of hair, his deep dark eyes beneath heavy brows, and heavy gray heard, mar be seen tnrrtvungone region round about Bt Paul's. :P Little Bats and Big Sleeves. chimney and the coal lighted. After burn ing awhile the draft is shut off and the stove is wheeled around the room. The room Is warmed in sections. First it is wheeled up to the old man who throws out his fingers, then across to the old lady who embraces it, and then up to the baby. Then it is wheeled back'to the chimney, the draft opened and the fire rekindled. There are usually two chimney holes about the room. Alter one room has been treated to a fire, the stove is rolled into the hall or into another room, or taken by the handle and carried upstairs. The same stove is used in the bedroom to dress by, rolled into the breakfast room like a baby carriage, then into the sitting room. It is rnultum in parvo. It is a cookstove, fireplace and furnace. The American who burns ten tons of coal in a range, 12 tons in a furnace, and two tons in grates, is amazed when he seesa whole house in Paris warmed with one ton of coal. 'The 20 tons used by the American would warm the .Boulevard des itallens. NO SMOKE IN PABIS. Poor people in France do not warm with fire at all. They sing the "Bonlanger March," clap their bands and smother themselves in old clothes. The poor fellow who has inherited an old fnr coat is envied. Tbe coal burned isbituminons, but 4,000,000 Parisians don't make enough smoke to be visible. The air of Paris is as clear as the air In the middle of Lake Erie. The smoke in Chicago or Cincinnati one day would supply all France for a year. The smoke of Cincinnati, Cleveland or Chicago would fill a shivering Frenchman with joy, for it would suggest to him that someone was warm. Pittsburg smoke, now a thing of the past, wonld have paralyzed a Parisian. The prices of different foods in Paris are enormous. A good glass of mils: costs 10 cents, beer is 6 cents, crackers, which in New York cost 8 cents, are 20 cents; bacon which sells in Chicago wholesale at BU cents brings 14 cents, a dish ot fried potatoes I !tlr. Kemlal Innlsis on What American Girl. Would Never Submit to. Illustrated News.1 Mrs. Kendal, who is once more in Lon don, has something to say about American servants. "They dress too well," she says. Most English servants have a costao e prescribed. No girl in my house can wear a fringe, or, as they call it in the States, a bang. I tell her plainly she must part her hair, and comb it neatly back behind a cap, and she must wear an apron, and no orna ments bnt a ribbon 'round ber neck. Only a lady's-maid may wear a brooch and go without the cap, but she must wear an apron They must wear their caps at the theater too. Why, if they didn't, I would wear one myself. There must be a distinction made somehow." No one can wonder that a lady whose main life is in the stage and its traditions should incline to a picturesque makf-up in her own household. A caBte costume is certainly more picturesque than the ordi nary civilian garo, ont, wnen it reaches tbe point where it can only be maintained by compulsion, the means of compelling must be considered. Every tourist deplores the steady disappearance of costnme all tbe world over; it has vanished from Scotland, is almost extinct in Switzerland, is disap pearing in the Tyrol, and beginning to tot ter even in Japan. , Only two things can preserve it law and money. In a country where it is hard to get a good housemaid even if encumbered with a bonnet it is impossible to make it always a part of the bargain that she shonld wear a cap; nor can an employer risk the loss of a cook for the sake of a breastpin, when she lives in terror lest the cook be tempted away irom ner any aay lor a plain gold ring. THAT BElTUfl) IT. Effect of a Fatnre PapalnIawa Cordiality on a Basbfal Young Man. rWBlTIXX FOB TUX DISPATCH. 1 "Your father was exceedingly, I shonld say unusually, cordial in his manner to me, to-night," said the bashful young man, after the old gentleman had passed on up-stairs. Indeed, did he impress you so?" asked the fair creature who sat at his side. "And what do you think.he said this morning? O, it was such a jokel Guessl" "I'm sure I haven't the slightest idea." "Such a jokel He said he said that as he passed through the hail last night he was sure he heard you heard you kiss mel The i deal" "Why, er why, I never did such a thing in my li " The old gentleman will have a new son-in-law next month. Pole Swaips. COBBESFOXDEXCZ OI IHI DISPAICH.I Washington, June 21. There are lots of women in the Capital City who make money in real estate. Mrs. Patten, the wile of the California millionaire, added materially to her fortune in this way before she died, and there are a number of other society ladies who speculate in houses and lots on the sly. Not a few of the fortunes of Washington are founded on real estate, and a large part of that left by Corcoran comes from the rise of Washington property. One of the most aristocratic families in the Northwest dates its origin back to a lot which the grandfater of the high-toned young ladles of to-day owned. This grandfather was a butcher and he had a very pretty daughter whom the cook of Sir Charles Vaughn, the British Minister to the United States a decade or so ago, saw and fell in love with. When Vaughn went back to England tbe cook remained and married the daughter of the batcher. The butcher died, leaving his lot, whloh was sold at an enormous figure, and which formed the foundation of the present family's fortune. Not long ago the butcher's daughter, whose origin had, as she supposed, been for gotten, took it upon herself to criticize the admission of the daughters of a poor, but blue-blooded naval officer, into Washington society. In speaking to one of the most refined ladies ol Washington about it this batcher's daughter said: "What an idea, Mrs. Blank. I don't think we ought to ad mit these people to our circle.. Washington society is growing so common, and we really must draw the line somewhere." "Yes, Madam," replied the lady sarcastic ally; "that may be trne, bnt where shall we draw the line, at the sirloin or the tender loin?" BOAEDDfO HOUSES AND ANCESTET. This story makes me think of the board ing house women of Washington, some of whom belong to that class known as reduced gentlewomen. Not a few boast the bluest of blood, and a Congressman from Michigan told me his experiences with one of these the other day. Table board in Washington costs from $20 to $30 per month, and this Congressman wanted to gtt a good boarding place where he could run in and get his meals. He was met at the door by a gray haired old man who told him that bis wife, the lady of the house, was not at home. "But," said he, "I would inform you, sah, that this lady, sab, is a descendant of George Washington's family, sah, and she is sure to suit you, sah." My Congressional friend said he would be glad to board with so distingnished a char acter and made some inquiries about the meals. The old man to his repeated ques tions answered shortly, but always turned the conversation to tbe George Washington end of his family, until finally the Con gressman exclaimed, "I don't care a blank ety blank whether my landlady is George Washington's niece or George Washington's cook. All that I want is to have good hot rolls and oatmeal for breakfast and I want my meat cooked rare." Whether he got It or not I don't know. "'UAMUH TUfJBlSSEsSMEN'S STOMACHS. Quite a number of Washington women have made money in keeping boarders. There is one within a few blocks of the White House who owns two houses worth at least $40,000, the whole or which she has made out of Congressmen's stomachs, and I know of another who boards Government clerks and clears $2,000 a year. Another woman who is known somewhat as a tem perance advocate keeps a big hotel here and another has three houses filled with all kinds of officials from Cabinent Ministers to Treasury clerks. She has different rates ac cording to rank, and the Senator pay $25 a mouth for what the Representative gets for $22.50 and which the clerks gets tor $20. She has a negro steward and he is such a good caterer that he is said to receive $1,200 a year for his services. Furnished rooms bring verv hieh rates in Washington. You cannot get any kind of a room in the better part of the city for less than $20 per month and suits of two rooms range from $10 up to several hundred dol lars. It used to be that a Congressman had to pay at least $100 a month for any kind of rooming accommodations, but the big flats which have lately sprung up in Washington have reduced the prices of rooms and the room-renting women of the capital are not making bo much. A PBEXTT ICE CBEAM VENDEE. Quite a number of women make money here by catering, and there is a little French lady, Madam Demont, who has made a fortune by furnishing ice creams for White House dinners and who has furnished cream and confectionery for all the Presidents back to Bnchanan. She is a dark-faced little old lady with eyes as bright as those of any .business woman of France and she understands how to charge high prices and get them. Some of the prettiest girls in Washington are typewriters. They are numbered by the thousands and they are the most expert of their kind in the United States. The greater part of the typewriting of the de partments is done by" them and scores of tbem have offices and take in work from Congressmen, lobbyists, claimants and at torneys. They come from all parts of the country and I am told there are 1,500 who make a living outside of that given through the civil service by Uncle Sam. I chatted with one ol these yesterday about her busi ness. She said: THE STORY OF THE DOCTOR AND THE DETECTIVE. W KITTEN POB THE DISPATCH -BT- IDIR. IFBIIEI -IHP "WOOLP,- Author of "Who la Guilty?" SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. The narrator of the story Is a physician who has sought rest at the seashore. In the hotel near his cottage lives Mrs. Amelia Glaye, an eccentric widow, who makes him her physician. Her charming daughter. Bertha, has encaged herself to Cyril Durand. who has squandered most or his fortune, and has promised to wed another woman, who clings closely to him. One night the doctor hears a shriek. He sees a tall flgnre fn overcoat or cloak slinking away, and discovers.the body of a young woman stabbed to the heart. Taking from the body a breastpin and ring, he runs for help. Returnins.be finds the body rone, with evidence that it had been thrown into tbe sea. A piece of shoe was found there. Two servants enter a deserted cabin. Instantly their torches are dashed to the ground, and a tall figure vanishes In the darkness. In the cabin a diamond earring Is found. The body bad only plain gold earrings. Just before retir ing that night tbe doctor Is summoned by lone Grande, Mrs. Oiaye's maid, who savs her mis tress Is Ttrf nervous and wretched. She tells the doctor Mrs. Glaye went out walking in the evening alone and came back with ber dress and hands torn by briars and a diamond earring missing. Arriving, tbe doctor, to his surprise, finds Mrs. Olaye more calm than be had ever seen her. She resents the visit says she has no need for the physician, and treat the briar scratches and loss of the earring as jokes. Next day Detective Fox starts to work on tbe case, securing many clews in which are mtzed up the names of Mrs. Glaye, her daughter. Bertha Cyril Durand, Otto Morton and a mysterious Ella Constant Finally he calls on Mrs. Glaye, confessing the object of his visit She tells him Bertha is an adopted daughter. Years ago she loved a man named Glaye In Europe. He bad a rich rival. They met and Glaye was killed. Later tbe rich man died, leaving all bis property to his love providing she would marry. She bad promised Olaye to remain sinele and took his name on his death. Now she had exhausted all her own money and loved Cyril Durand. She was but 33 years old. Beside, she denies being out on the fatal night The scratches on her hand sbe says she cannot account for. She Informs the detective she Is being robbed, and from a false opening in her favorite chair takes a little Iron safe, the combination of which she thinks no one but herself could know. Jewelry and bueii papers sne naa ruissea. iuo uo.cv..e luquucs auuuta uaKerin me secret openings sue says sbe keeps it lor its history. Throughout the interview Mrs. Glaye displays remarkable coolness, CHAPTER V. I was now prepared to look np Mr. Cyril Durand, and I accordingly directed my steps toward his honse. That he was one of the guilty parties I was convinced, and henceforward until I arrested him I felt it my duty to keep him under observation. It would be throwing away my best card to ar rest him at once, for I felt sure that, free, he wouldin some way or other communi cate with his accomplices, and "Lecoq" Fox was just the kind of man to detect that little game. I walked briskly along the shore and soon reached the little cottage inhabited by Mr. Darand. I leaped up the wooden steps, and in my absorption gave the door bell a tremendous pull. Nobody answered it, and I pulled again and again. There was no re sponse, and glancing up and abont me I saw that all the windows were closed. Evidently fear had been greater than logic, and the man Durand had taken to his heels. It was an easy matter to open the blinds from the outside of the house, and this I did. To lift the window and leap into the front room was equally easy, and this act I also performed. The house was as silent as an Egyptian A "Why?" "Because the milkman didn't find him, the baker didn't find bini, and the butcher didn't find him. The house has been closed all morning." "Do yon think he has gone away for the season?" "Perhaps; hut it's a cheating of honesi poor folks, for he's run away without paying his honest debts." "Was he seen yesterday?" "Yes, and last night, too. I seen him with my own eyes when I was taking down tha swill to dump in the water." "At what time?" "At about 6 o'clock." "What was he doing?" "Sitting on the stone beyonst there." She pointed to a large rounded stone thai was half submerged at full tide. "What was he doing?" "Amusing himself by tearing up paper and watching it float on the water." "Did he speak to you?" w "Yes, told me to tell my son to call for hia money in the morning. My son you know is the milkman, but it's little money that he'll get for his last month's 31 quarts of milk." "At what time did your son call at tha house?" "At the usual time, 7 o'clock in the morn- f ing. You won't see Mr. Durand, and no M loss to you. sir." "1 "J i 'f ' mTM lISi' Ik h THE DETECTIVE CLIMBED TS THE DE3EBTED BOOM. A DISAST0U3 CENSUS. Hew David nnd Jonb Counted a Lot of Peo ple Who Died Right Away. Boston Herald. 1 It will be remembered by students of the Bible that an enumeration of the people of Judea by Joab, acting under the orders of King David, was followed by a three days' pestilence, which carried off some 70,000 of the recently counted "individuals. It was thought at the time that David and his super intendent of census, Joab, had no authority to do this thing, and the nation suffered for their supererogation. That impression flourishes to-day with all its pristine vigor in the minds of Moham medans and other Oriential peoples, and it it not altogether extinct intht. K.ll.M.n.,1 precincts of the United Statei, CLICKING- OUT APOETUNE. "Of course I like it I get more pay here than I could get in New York, Philadelphia or Chicago, and I make enongh to bny a lot now and then. was offered a $1,200 clerk ship in the Treasury a few months ago and I would not take it I can make more out side and I wonld not have my life cronnd out bytthe Government machine, nor will I let one of those smirky chiefs boss me around. I have a nnmber of Congressmen whose correspondence I attend to. Tbey come here in the morning and dictate their work in shorthand and I often go the office of a Senator or to bis committee room at the Capitol when there is a big job on hand. "Of course I get big prices for such labor and I have often reoeived a dollar an hour. Senator Stanford pays the highest prices and he often employs typewriters. Snch copying as I do I get paid for by the folio of a hundred words and the average rate paid here is 60 cents per 1,000 words. I sometimes do work for reporters and I once bad an arrangement with Amos Cummings to give him three hours every evening. He dictated directly to the typewriter and he paid me m a wees;.' Miss Gkundt, Jb. Remedy for Dysentery. An efficacious remedy for dysentery has been found by Dr. Ja&obleff, a Bussian physician, in bisulphide of carbon, largely diluted. The quantity given per day was from three grains to fire grains in half a tumbler of water or milk, with a little pep permint. First of ail, however, one or two grains of calomel were administered honrly until its effects were perceptible, and daring this time enemata containing 1 grains of sulphide of carbon' in i ounces of water jwcxe adsuautexed twioa daily. 7 fi9? S, " - -?- - &v V ' V-jif-dT.irViHir.nTsi lSritftff- ja & V ilfprfsrfTtfillsWssMilA BiBsssssssssssssssssBssssssssssssssssBBsssssssssse "-t tomb, and everywhere I saw evidences of a hasty departure; furniture in disorder; some unwashed dinner plates on the kitchen table before fleeing the occupant had hurriedly dined on potted ham, and he was not hungry, for the contents of the open can were almost untouched. The doors were locked, that is, the doors of entry, and sav ing an old blue necktie, there was not a scrap of human attire in the house; no trunk, no handbag, no comb, no toothbrush, no doubt of it now; the man had run away. and thus foolishly revealed his guilt In an absent manner I nibbled at a morsel of ham while walking from tbe kitchen into the front room. I opened the blinds to obtain more light, and then studied the fragments of paper that filled and overflowed a small straw basket To properly assort the scraps was the labor of a week. All I intended to do at that time was to see if fate favored me, by learning some words or lines of a compromising nature. I may say at once that I discovered nothing directly bearing on the crime, though I strained my eves for some two hours in the effort Never theless I fished out a few useful hints and suggestions. In the necessarily hasty study I came across three specimens of the signa ture of Ella Constant, tbe murdered woman. The poor creature evidently bored the man with ber correspondence. An ominous scrap was "Yours till death, Ella!" Most of the fragments bore tracings of fair wsman's hand: there were four or five dif ferent styles of writing, but they were all feminine tracery: That they would bear more elaborate study I was convinced, and so I wrapped every morsel in a newspaper, tied it up and brought it away with me. Leaving the house hy the window I went about seeking for some neighbor who could enlighten me as to when the missing man was last seen. Unfortunately, most of the honses were closed, the occupants having departed for good. Two houses farther down I met an old woman who was washing tbe front steps. She was performing this duty before one of the most elaborate cot tages I had yet seen in this out-of-the-way place, an attractive building in the Qneen Anne stvle. and with a kind of windmill at the back of it The owners were people of' taste, for in tht garden I saw two or three sunflowers and some hollyhocks, tbe only cultivated plants in a place given over to golden rod and asters. The sunflowers looked flabby and the hollyhocks sickly, bnt an attempt had been made to conquer the desolation of the place, and the inier tility of tbe ground. I approached the old woman, and said: "Can you tell me where Mr. Durand lives?" "The last" house yonder," she said, point ing with a very soapy hand, "bat I guess you. won't ana him," As it was near the hour when the after noon train was to arrive, I temporarily re tired from my unsuccessful qnest and went over to the station, as I expected a eouple of assistants by the 6 o'clock, express. Ther arrived in time, and one of them, I sent back: to the city on the next downward train, with tbe order not to sleep until he had dis covered the honse where a Miss Ella Con stant lived, and learned about the woman, all that it was possible to learn. Policeman Grope was clever fellow when he had a superior mind to gnide him, and I had no doubt that he wonld succeed, especially as I communicated to him certain in formation which I had obtained front the basket of torn-up letters. Tha other policeman I set to watch the) hotel, especially Mrs. Amelia Glaye, should she venture out, and whom I mi-, nutely described. I hoped by this means, among other things, to discover the where abouts of the runaway, Durand, for I had no doubt that the woman was fully ac quainted with the actions of the man. She) had lived to learn that her heart was not dead and buried with her old lover; tbe im pecunious and indifferent Durand undoubt edly knew that on her marriage she wonld come into a fortune. She clung to him from love, he to her from interest, and he would not run away without giving his accomplice) information as to his retreat A woman in love is a woman without a mask, and that the infatuated Mrs. Glaye wonld seek tha presence of the murderer was little less than a certainty in my mind. The reader has all the facts I then possessed; if his suspicions are directed to other persons I can only envy uia lurcsigut ssu wisaom. Night bad come on by this time, and I was tired and hungry. I had promised to dine with Dr. Brandt, and I had no right to keep him waiting in his hospitality, espe cially as I needed his opinion on the case of Mrs. Glaye. On reaching his cottage the good man gave me the heartiest or welcomes, and in. my absence had personally prepared the moat tempting of dinners. He keeps no servants, as he does not wish to be depend ent on "wretched human, gabbling, chat tering beings" as he calls tbem. 1 had no reason to object to the eccentricity, for X never sat down to a betUr dinner in my life; nor one better cooked. We drank our coffee and smoked our cigars in tbe sitting room, and here for the first time the doctor referred to the mnrder. I gave him full aocount of my proceedings, especially of my inter view with Mrs. Glaye. although I did not even hint at the personal history she had re lated to me. He agreed with me in regard Ing the flight of the man Durand as a great stupidity. "It is one gross confession of guilt," h said, in his peculiar English. "A womat( ia nival not that X refer to ray g,ood friend,
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