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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,