20 f THE , PITTSBITRQ-A DISPATCH, " SUNDAY, : OCTOBERS '-19F 1390 . iF&7 ' farsyr jwjwt it tr CLARA BELLE'S CHAT. Bow the Girl In the Shop Itesemhles the Society Beauty The Adder on the Stage A New Favorite for Lovers of Dancing. rCOBRESrOXDENCi; OF THE DISPATCH.! Het Yobk, October 18. WORK girl who makes shirts, or ma chine stitched ladies" waists, la a window on Twenty-third or Fourteenth street, is as interesting in her way as the languid and lovely society girl, and is animated, as far as I can make out, by pretty much the same ambitions. "When she is intend ing to pass an evening of social delight she begins her prepara tions the morning be fore by putting her front hair up in cnrl papers. "When she appears in the work room ct 8 o'clock the young woman that worts in the chair next to her says: "Say, Mame, where you coin to-night?" The young woman questioned tosses her head, represses a satisfied smile, and cries: "Ain't going anywhere, of course. "What put such a thing in your head, 1 should like to know?" "Well," responds the other, "you've got your hair up in papers. If you ain't goin' anywhere I'll bet Jimmie's comin' up to sit with yer." Love is All Forgetful. Mame lauchs good naturedly, and shakes (her head until the crisp little papers rustle like the leaves on a tree. Throughout the day she is joyous, so joyous that when Innch time comes she can hardly stop to heat her bottle of tea on the little stove where the irons are warmed, and laughs so much at the witticisms of her companions thai she does not find time before the 1 o'clock gong strikes to eat her sandwiches and her piece o! custard pie. During the afternoon she is in a fever of impatience, and when the 6 o'clock whistles blow ontside she is out of her gingham and into her woolen waist quicker than it takes to tell it, and, with her little hood pulled over her forehead so as to conceal all the tell-tale curl papers, she threads her way swiftly alone the crowded streets over to one ot the big tenements on the east or west sides of the town. That night she goes to a dance with Jimmie. The dance is- one of those affairs given in Lyric Hall, downtown, bv "The Gentlemen's Sons" or the "Terence Murphy Shooting Clnb." Mame is not dressed in bad taste by any manner of means. She Dresbes "Well, Too. Her daily flutter through Twenty-third street, with all its opportunities for observ ing the latest importations in the show windows have put her up to a thing or two, and so her white muslin or probably tulle gown is both coquettish and neat, and her arms and the gleam of neck revealed by it are as gratifying to the gaze as any to be seen at a Kewport function of the most elaborate character. With flushed cheeks and smiling lips she dances about with her Jimmie and occasionally with her Jimmie's friend, and it is close todayiight betore she seeks her home. By that time the curling bang that has framed the face so daintily through the night is straight and limp. There will be no cnrl paper put on them again that day, however. The tired child will bury her burning face in her pillows for the space of an hour or so,and then there will come the inevitable knock on her bed room door. After a quiet toilet and a enp of tea Mame will go back to her chair in the workroom, looking pale, sad and regret ful. She is not so very unlike the fashion able girl of society, after all. A Jlachlno Made Adder. This is the real age of realism intheatrical effects. Beal water splashes in the tank drama, real fish are fried in one theater, real bull dogs bark in another, while in still another, a real billy goat chews the fake grass and wonders in what age it was mown. But now we are threatened with a bit of realism which will curdle the very blood of hot youth. We are, so saith ru mor, to see in the coming revival of "An thony and Cleopatra" an asp not a live one, to be sure, but a cunninglydevised ma chine one crawl over the drapery of Cleo patra's conch, hissing as it pursues its sinu ous course, mount upon her recumbent lorm, ,aud set his fangs in ber bosom, whiis from his ruby eyes darts electric fire. It will be something to strike an icy chill totbe very marrow ot -your bones, but it will be effective, and unless all signs fail, it will meet with a great success, for this ser pent will crawn on the bare skin of the actress. Ere it strikes it will pause and turn its head toward the audience, in order that every one may catch the evil glitter of its eyes. How is that for a melodramatic villain of an asp? New Tcrpsichorenn Favorite. The theatrical town is dancing mad, and the cry is still they come. First onr eyes were gladencd by tne sinuons picture or Carmencita, but she is already by-gone in our regard. Then came Otero, who makes up for her lack of lissome lenirth hv m-tr roundness and glorious garniture of globu lar grandeur, and she will last only briefly, ir these two daughters of Spain were wisps of hay, the donkey of gilded youth would starve to death between them. Fortunately, there is no such awful prospect, for Birdie has come. Yes, Birdie Irving has not onlr come, but she has danced and temporarily conquered. The music or ber heels has touched the heart ot the gentle New Yorker and hfaccepts Birdie as one of the family. She is a feature in an otherwise poor comic opera. Birdie arrives just in time to save us; for, as you may imagine, there would have been no "War of the Boses" if there had been a third rose of still another color. Birdie is English, and she is a blonde, a genuine blonde, while Carmencita and Otero are black as night Birdie is what is known as a skirt dancer, a far more alluring stvle than the old-fashioned ballet, or short-skirted business, for that strove to compel attention, while this aims to per suade. But Birdie doesn't dance with her feet alone. Her body has much of the won denul suppleness possessed by Carmeucita J 5' Jft 1ft i' 1 'ilfWit t-4 J ifiA WW-ZfA H 'JT y . L:f 7ulf and Otero. Only Birdie uses It differently. Her backward and side movements are not so wriggly as the Spanish dancers; they are more delicate ana persuasive. Hunting a Pretty Foot. Artists are among the worst crazed among all absurd devotees of this new lot of stage dancers. It was to one of them that I (aid, as we sat watching Otero: "Did yon ever see an artistically periect toot on a woman? "I once saw." was the replv, "a foot that was at least perfect enough to be cast for a statue without anv subsequent remodeling, I went out with B , the sculptor, a few months ago in search of a girl with handsome ieet We went to photographers and artists without success. Not a foot that was not misshapen or blemished. About a week later, I entered a tiny and tidy little store in Grand street where I Knew ex cellent draught beer was sold. The place was deserted, save for the stout German. As I entered my eye chanced to fall upon a series oi marts on tne clean, hard-wood floor. The marks had been made by a wet foot. Success at last. "Who made those foot prints on 'your floor?" I asked. "The German looked hard at the marks and then gleefully shouted: 'Vat, dose? Ty dose iss der foot brints anf my dorder. Clara.' " "By careful explanation of my reasons for being inquisitive on so delicate a subject I prevailed upon the man to ask his daugh ter if she would not allow me as an artist to look upon her bare foot in order to see if it was suitable to be used in a marble statue. He went into the room at the back of the shop, and presently returned bringing a tall ana sienaer young blonde woman with wonderfully frank eyes, fine shoulders, a delicionsly poised chin and long limbs. She was dressed as one would expect the daughter of a Grand street beer merchant to be. "The girl eyed me carefully, and then said that she was willing to show me her foot, suiting the action to the word, and thrusting it, all white and bare, from under the edge of her dress. I was amazed. It was fully as delicate and ns shapely as any thing I have ever seen on canvas! Need less to say, I made an appointment for her at my triend's studio for the following day, and she kept it." Clara Belle. FASHIONS IN MILLINERY. The Novel Conceits That are to be the Rage Daring the Fall and Early TVlnter Headgear That Will Suit the little Folks. IWUITJIX TOU THE DISFJLTCH.1 The birds of the air, the beasts ot the field and the jewels from the earth and the sea are called upon to contribute their share for the adornment of fashionable fall millinery I All materials known to the civilized world are utilized, and the beauteous headgear now constructed and displayad to the gaze of the intending purchaser are marvels of elezance, simplicity and novelty of design. S'xly-five shapes have been adopted by the Paris syndicate, and of these the browns, yellows and reds predominate. Strenuous efforts are being made by the French to in troduce the royal purple, but being a very trying shade it is is not meeting with the success that it justly merits. The royal purples are Pensees and Iris and they are the shades of blankets which Qneen Victoria presented to her illustrious grandson, Emperor "William of Germany. Turquoise has become an absolute craze in New York City and this beautiful shade of blue is produced in different materials, from the small jeweled bead to tips and made birds. Cloths, velvets, silks and shapes are embroidered in siver indgoldand tnrauoise. In shapes the large hats seem to have been lost sight of for the time being and small hats And toques in the coronet shapes are most admitted and worn by the beau monde. These exquisite dainties are growing flat ter, and what they lack in height they make up in felegance of material. A study of millinery is always attractive, but when nature in art, and birds from the Orient and the Occident are mounted in delightful pro fusion on hats and bonnets it is quite enoughto excite the admiration of at least the feminine contingent of the social world. The skin of the fleet and sure looted chamois of the Alps is prominently brought forward as one our most artistic garnitures, and certainly no material given the modiste allows greater scope for intri cate knots and folds. If any one hat can eclipse another of the same material then w will leave it to our fair readers to judge. A soft folded crown of chamois skin waz bound aronnd the lower ed?e with s. band oi bearer fur, and placed in front with widely I JJ fife fiSSSSsSSi 3 mffl&-jmfcwBiB3. Izg&-' gKgaar KsSsv &&? f'mryr' x extended jaws was a small animal's head made of the beaver fur. Sight here permit me to inform you that fur and lur neaaswm be la mode, and it will not t)e an uncommon sight to see a stylish little toque with two animals engaged In deadly combat or sitting together in perfect harmony bnd apparently enjoying each other's society.' Astrakhan, Persian lamb, otter, beaver, seal, and the soft lur of almost, any animal will be found displayed on the patterns in tended for later wear and to match the coat or wrap of the fair wearer. Black Astra khan is variously combined with turquoise blue velvet and the combination is delight ful to behold. A nobby and strikingly swell toque is of bronze leather and turquoise and gold chenille trimming. The crown is covered plain and the band around the side crown is of the bronze leather with the chenille over it and nil apsis of the kid showing through. A bunch of turquoise tips placed high at the back and falling off the lower edge of the hat completes one o' the handsomest novel ties of this season. Manufacturers have combined metallic cords and chenille to gether with surprising effects, and their luster considerably heightens the appear ance of what might be otherwise considered a somber chapeaux. Yellow and black, one of thr- mnn- Knanish combinations, IS again pushed to the front and promise return is bailed with much enthusiasm. A pretty toque of black velvet has a band of ostrich tips around the side crown and a cluster at the back, with an aigrette in lemon yellow, and a black bird at the back and the front The ties are of black velvet ribbon. A toque of great ingenuity and design is of cream flannel, embroidered in turquoise and gold beads and black velvet. The crown is loosely draped and so arranged as to form a nest in wnica sits a macs uira resting cozily. The black velvet around the bottom is laid in folds, and over this is drawn a band on gold lace and turquoise beads,and a large knot of the cream flannel in the front. This is admirablv adapted for the opera or receptions. The little ones are too often neglected bv onr milliners, and we will endeavor to give the latest styles for the benefit of the mam mas with 'darlings to clothe. Large soft felts, with drooping brims, will undoubtedly stand in the front rank, and the Turkish tez will be its companion. A large brown felt hat is trimmed in brown and salmon pink ribbon, and the odd conceit is that the trimmihg is so deltly arranged that the rib- Don lorms tne tacins in addition to tne top decoration. Each separate end is made into a bow, and after the fey is cut the bow is drawn through and attached to the under side of the brim. One immense combined bow is sewed to the top of ths crown and falls on the brim. A comfortable appearing hat Is a wide brim white felt with a row of white swan's down around the edge and a large white armurebow with fringed ends placed on the extreme edge of-the brim and giving it a stylish tilt. Another pretty hat to match a little one's wrap is a large golden brown felt witn a row ot Angora goat fnr sewed on the top of the crown of the hat and falling in endless confusion on the brim, and it is finished with a bow of golden brown. Oba Seaney, Parisian Han Milliner. PICKING THE TEETH. Bad From a Standpoint of Good Taste as "Well as Good Health. Perhaps the worst habit which is charac teristic of Americans, says a dentist in the New York Herald, is the use of the wooden toothpick at table. A wooden toothpick, or even a quill, should never be used under any cirenmstances, and surelylhe table, in company with others, is the last place where such scavengering should be tolerated. I think it equally allowable to clean the nails over the soup as to clean the teeth alter the beef. But aside from esthetic considerations, the pick does much mischief. Dr. Colson recently read a lengthv thesis on this sub ject before the South Carolina State Society, in which he made an earnest plea for the discontinuance of this habit The pick forced between the teeth presses against and irritates the gums. Above ail things never make a pick by sharpening the end of a match. Phosphor necrosis, or death of the jawbone caused by the fumes of phosphorus, is not as common now as in the past, but we must not forget the injurious effects of phosphorus on the gums. That the fnmes have penetrated the wood of the match is readily proven by chewing the wood, the taste being easily de tected. I once removed a large section of bone and two teeth from the month of a man who had contracted a habit of chewing the ends of matches, audi could attribute it to no other cause. Instead of picks waxed floss silk should be passed between the teeth after each meal. "WOMEN ADD THE CLUBS. A Great Revolution as to Fxclasivcness of the Gentlemen Now On. A veritable revolution is slowly taking place in the realms of clubdom, says the New York World. Ifi anyone had suggest ed the possibility of ladies being received in aristocratic male clubs a few years ago he would have been considered a most promis ing candidate for Bedlam. Despite this fact two of the most fashionable and exclusive clubs in New York City and one of the same character in Brooklyn make provision for the reception and entertainment of the wives and daughters of their .members. A third New York club will soon be added to the list of the clubs whichhave sanctioned the innovation, and other clubs are looking in that direction. The revolution was started by the famous Somerset Club, of Boston, that which there is no more exclusive and conservative club organization in America. WHAT WOMEN DABE DO. The Association "With the Sterner Sex That is Pleasant and Proper. Tne Old Homestead. There is a certain kind of attention to which married women are entitled, and which they may receive without provoking comment Talented, attractive women may draw around them men of intellect, wel come tbem to their homes, and make them selves the center of a cultivated circle; may show them that they take pleasure in their society, and may accept their chivalrous at tentions in a pleasaut, frank manner with out being at all flirtatious. Nature In Ahead. Surefoot Saggs Mum, would you kindly lend me a glass to shave by? Mrs. Bbarpe What on earth do you want of a glass when you have such a mug? TVallof the Hen. 'If I'm not a little more careful" said the hen as she discovered a china egg in her nest, "I shall be laying bricks next" May Smile and Smile. "A man may smile," the poet tells us true. May smile and ret may be a villain still. Still that's not stranger or even oddliecanse Tbevmostly do it when they are dressed to I It Br.)tf63fcySqiffJ!gK Ki7S3V5S3A ..j BoSStS w'jjr-'irrsfii 1L 1 IL ililisiil c-i ytfim-. wtto'j&p ftv&-s 'mmmmK.tm '-s &s!3-1mtw && mmr of THE GOOD PHYSICIAN. Shirley Dare finds Nature Clever at Patting Up Remedies. VIRTUES OP AIR AKD SUNSHINE. Stepping Lively in the Kitchen and. Toil ing Oat in the Garden. TOILET BECIPES AND HEALTH NOTES rwEITTEir rOB THB DISPATCH. 1 Sunshine and a sweet autumnal morning. Such a day as seemed to create a new world. A day when one could be ,out pruning the roses and the pear trees, cutting the sage and lavender from the garden and taking slips of the chrysanthemums and snap dragons for winter flowering. A day to range afield, hunting after ashkeys and the red aider, berries searching for blue gentians ancQhe leathery sprays of wild clematis, tying bunches of everlasting and bayberry to sweeten the house all winter. Business first and a week of such uninterrupted out door life after I promise myself. More interesting letters afford the text for this week's talk. Two-thirds of the ques tions received ask how to remove coarseness of complexion, oily noses, blackheads symptoms pointing to the same torpid func tions and want of fresh air. These cor respondents need to ponder the,advice of a celebrated physician in such cases: "Take all the exercise possible in the open air." HOW XO GET THE AIB. Pure air has more to do with muddy, thick complexions than girls are aware of. Their outdoor exercise in towns consists of a walk of an hour possibly every day, which is as if they were restricted to one half slice of bread for each meal. How this is to be improved upon so long as people will live in cities is not easy to say. lb. small towns there is no excuse for want of good air and sunlight, for every house to be healthy should stand far enough from its neighbors to have sunshine on all sides. No house should stand wherethe shadow of any building can fall upon it any part of the dav, if the occupants would have per fect health. This would insure garden ground for the women and children to work in. "We will 'never have a healthy, right thinking, kindly race until the outdoor life becomes habitual and the bouses only used for shelter. I count every hour except those of sleep that is not spent out of doors so much lost. OP COUBSE, PEOPLE LITE. The human frame adapts itself to un toward circumstances, whether in a dungeon, an office, a five-story brick dwelling wedged in a block or an Esquimax hut, but life under these conditions is as unlike vigorous, pleasant activity as the prison is unlike the south windowed room looking on a garden. I know this way of looking at things is a scandal to many nice, particular house keepers who claim to be very much gentle women, who really look on fresh air as a medicine, and honse themselves behind roller blinds and plush curtains of different qualities. They read St Paul's injunction "to be keepers in the house" instead of "keepers at borne." Sleeping with an open window savors of immortality to them. They are excessively nice, prettv behaved members of society, but one needs to follow their career through the road to its total the horrible, "nauseating, agonizing dis eases these nice women and their families die of, lingering in exemplary patience through weeks and months, if not years, of suffering which inspire disgust GOOD FAMILY DISEASES. One would die of quick fever or inflam mation of the lungs tar sooner than dropsies and diabetes, cancer and the long disgrace- mi condition wbteh precedes the peritonitis of different kinds, which are all "good family" diseases, born of superfine living and stagnant airs. We must all die, but we can save ourselves unmeasured suffering in death it we choose. The very things which render death easy frighten life. Sweet air, clean habits, well ordered food, life in the smile of the sun are these terrors or sacrifices? v To tell the truth, half the young women who write to know how they shall clear their complexions need nothing so much a s exer cise. Beyond a walk Or oocasional game of tennis our girls, whether rich or poor, do wonderfully little. The exercise a healthy woman really needs to keep ber in high con dition of body and mind equals the exercise of doing a washing every day in the weekj She is unfortunate if any disablement for bids ber to accustom herself to this force and activity. "WORK IS NECESSABY. "We were born to work to do a good deal of it in our lives, and whoever shirks the universal obligation has Nemesis on his track at once The train of disaster begins with red, rough nose, face punctured with blackheads, pasty cheeks and breath to cor respond. One never wants to sit too near a person with bad complexion, for the breath well, the less said about it the better. A turn at the jtoothbrush and a draught of some deodorizing fluid is obligatory on snch nprsnna whenever thev annear amonf bn. V manit v Some hours' exercise out of doors or in a sunny house would be the chief cure tor all these evils. "What does Edwin Cbeckley say In MS "Physical Training, a little book worth its weight in gold for the fresh, sound opinions it lays down, quite in oppo sition to the modern fads ot gymnasium training. "One yearot good exercise will do more for a woman's beauty than all the lotions and pomades that were ever in vented. Exercise seems to have a particu larly immediate effect on a woman's com plexion. I have witnessed simply marvel ous changes in the complexions, form and disposition of women under light training. I have in mind one girl who car ried herself poorly and had an unsatisfac tory complexion. In a few months a re markable change had been produced. The complexion was so clear one could scarcely credit the change." STEP LITELT ALWAYS. Don't be afraid, my dear young woman, of exercise and work, downright work, leav ing you coarse. It will render you supple if you spring to it quickly, actively, and it will prevent your gaining a 30-inch waist when you are ten years older. It will not do to step Into hard work at once or hard gymnastics, but drop your measured move ments abont the house. Practice quick getting around, not a clumsy rush, but light swiftness, a lady's alertness, not the heavy movements of a servant girl. Time yourself in everything, doing it with accomplished celerity in the briefest spice possible. In this you are only training yourself tcmrhat princes and princesses are taught I should like to see the petted darlings of common families trained to dress themselves and perform their morning duties with the brevity reuuired for an Emperor's children. American boys and girls would feel abused if the strict obedience and celerity enforced on princes were demanded of them. Yet young people with their places to make in the world need all the swiftness and strength they can acquire. LIGHT OABDEN VTOBK. Moderate outdoor exercise that is, fast while one is about it, but not prolonged to exhaustion is the best medicine for digest ive trouble, especially for the queasy stom achs left by the grip. One of tne very best exercises for this is tb;e very essential one in most gardens of picking out stones from the borders and throwing them in a heap. There is no brain wear about it but shoulders and arms come into play, and the bending and rising call the muscles of the back and ab domen into action, strengthening them and thenrgans they contain. It is valuable for reducing the girth of the waist, and better than horseback riding for contracting paunchy outlines. Here's a model of a letter, no page of tire some apology and compliment to ran over before the aching brain can take the tense of it: Will you please tell me if pumice stone will remove superfluous hair? How is It prepared for use? y . Eeadeb. This letter might have been shortened very well by several words. "Will pumice stone remove superfluous hair, and how?" Bet it js such a relief after the involuted apologies, etc., which ladies cannot write without, that I would study hours to answer questions for its writer. PPMICE FOE THE TOILET. Pumice was always part of the toilet from the days of Egyptian priests, who made it a poiat of sanctity to keep the body free from any growth of hair that might lodge un cleanness. Boman and Grecian exquisites and public men, dainty as experienced Sen ators at Washington to-day, alter the bath were scraped by the ivory sturigil or blade and smoothed by pumice till their athletic bodies were smooth as marble. Eastern nations use it at this day, shaving the armpits as women in our own country are known to do to prevent lodgment of per spiration, or else to allow of wearing very sleeveless dres'ses. Powdered pumice is sold for the toilet to smooth the hauda, and "Beadef" can experiment with a shilling's worth to her heart's content It does not kill the hair, but wears it off, and daily use whenever the face is washed may keep down superfluous growth. The best way is to re move the hair by shaving first, or a regular depilatory, and then use the pumice con stantly. USES OF AUTUMN SUN8HHTE. Mrs. A. 'Is there any process by which the face oan be bleached without harm to the skin? J am like most who have had re peated attacks of the grip, a little sallow, with loss of flesh." This sallowness from the grip is the sub ject of dailycomplaint by correspondents. The great remedy is outdoor sunshine. Every cloth weaver knows October and November are the best months of the year for bleaching, as the chemical rays of light have forcee rather than heat rays. Com plexions freely exposed to light at this period lose freckles and tan. Biliousness must be removed bv taraxa cum tonic, which is admirable for removing effects of grip. One pint fluid extract tar axacum which is common dandelion, I ex plain for the twentieth time, mixed with one ounce extract of cascara sangrada, or of tincture of rhubarb, and two ounces tincture wintergreen. Dose, one teaspoonful half way between meals. After taking this two weeks use tincture Peruvian bark and tinct ure of myrrh in separate bottles, taking one half teaspoonful of each in half a teacup of filtered water after each meal. Omit the taraxacum every fourth week. AH medi cines seem to do better for short omissions after taking constitutionally several weeks. 'v USE OP ANTISEPTICS. Antiseptics, properly given, greatly relieve the most unpleasant internal effects of last winter's plague. Among these are mvrrh, ana creosote water irom wood creosote, not that of coal. It is is well to tincture ail the water drank with either of these for days. Ten drops of the creosote water in a nmnll glass of filtered water, or half a teaspoonfnl weak tincture of myrrh are not unpleasant and they are internally healing. Fruit juice is boh anti-bilious and antiseptic, es pecially the mucilaginous pear juice pre pared by baking pears and draining them. Those ladles in Colorado and New MpnVn who have repeatedly written to know of something to protect their faces from the parching winds and dust will find this what they have been looking for. It is a complete protection to the skin, without greasiness or disfigurement To use it to advantage wash the face in warm or hot water, dry carefully and rub a bit of cerate the size of a pea into the skin, with light, brisk rubbing, till the shiny look passes and the skin has a deli cate but effective protecting film, under which the skin softens and whitens by its natural actioa when shielded from its enemies glare, wind and dust It is not a hair dressing, and should not touch the hair. Shibely Dabe. WOHEH" AHD THE IXTJTE. Health as "Well as Music to he Gotten Out of the Instrument. Trom th New York Herald. 1 The act of "filling" a Ante blowing into it necessitates lung expansion. The con tinued daily practice begets deeper and deeper inspirations, old adhesions to the chest walls are broken up and absorbed, shoulders stooping forward become thrown back, a chest contracted by the habit of too tight lacing, becomes expanded and broad ened, the blood from the more frequent and increased supply of oxygen courses in the vessels with more force. Renewed activities in construction result everywhere, nutrition is improved and bodily health invigorated. This is also true of all wind instrnments when used with discretion, but the ease with which the flute is made to speak, its size an beauty of form, adapt it more thau any other to the use of woman. Either alone or with other instruments its voice is one of sweetness, fitted alike for the parlor or the concert room. Upon it a fair uegrea oi proucieucy may oe ootainea in a comparatively short time with the expendi ture of but little labor, enough at least to make it a source of pleasure and enjoyment to the player and the hearer. The music that has been written for it includes the composition of the masters of the art sonatas, concertos, songs and dances. A varied list; enough in fact, to suit the taste and capacities of ail. None need fear, as did Minerva, the distortion of the classic lines of face or mouth if the instrument is properly used, while the grace of pose, in lorm and feature, is quite as artistio as that of violin playing and far beyond that at the piano. DIPLOMACY AHD HONESTY. There is No line Separating Them for They Both Go Together. New York Star. 1 It is true diplomacy to win the esteem and regard of the persons by whom one is sur rounded; to secure the confidence of one's employer or patron; to study people in order to learn how one may render himself most agreeable to them; to make personal sacri fices often, when one will be the gainer for them; to refrain from indulging the inclina tion to speak when, by speaking, unpleasant feeling might be caused or enmity aroused. It is not at all necessary to be hypocriti cal in order to be diplomatic honesty, reaiiy, as me mguesi uipiomaoy. .Honesty, however, does not require that vou publish to the world all your inmost feelings and convictions that if you believe a man to be an ass you absolutely must say so, no matter whether it be 'to your disadvantage or not; all that it requires in this case is simply that you do not in any way give the person reason to believe that,, in your opinion, he is not an ass. Hypocrisy and diplomaoy never should be coniounded. A hypocrite never, in the true sense, is diplomatic, for diplomacy proper regards all the future, while hypoc risy has within it the elements almost cer tain to lead to the discovery and conse quent distrust of the person employing it, at a not remote periou. A Very Correct at the Hub.l NewYorkWorld.l "Let's take the oar,'' suggested Bleecker. "Let the car take us," corrected Bunkerhill, of Boston. Miss Miss Not a Conquest. Somervllle Journal.i With respectfnl admiration That suggested fascination. The man across the horse car sat and stared across at me. Till a feeline of elation. And a sort of palpitation Of the heart resulted from bis flattering per sistency. He kept his eyes bent on me, And his adoration won me, Till ho leaned across and spoke, with an apolo getic ronsb. I Then I flushed in every feature. For lio eald thcrhorrld creatnre "Beg your pardon, ma'am, for speaking, but your breastpin's dropping oil." SOME NOTED BABIES. Gate Acts and Smart Sayings of the Capital's Tonnfj3ters. MR. SPOOLER'S MUSICAL PKODIGY. Comment on Tfce President Morton's Bald Head and Other Jokes. ADYEHTUKES OP A STirP-TAlLED CAT rcoxBEsroxDzxcx or mi dispatcs.1 Washington, October 18. mis Dames of the capi tal! Thev are the best, part of Washington so-' ciety. Amid the bori mots of blase diplo mats, the sweet noth ings of belles and beaux, and the heavy conversations of would-be statesmen, their innocent chatter shines out like dia monds, and their pret ty sayings go from mouth to mouth. Baby McKee has taken al most as much space in the papers as his grandfather, the Presi dent His wardrobe has been described. His daily habits are chronicled, and the correspondents have fol lowed him to the seashore, and have tele graped just how many splashes he has made during his morning bath. To read of him you would suppose he was the only baby in Washington, whereas there are a dozen more in the cream of Wash ington society who are fully as bright as he. Senator Cameron will not concede that there Bessie Beale. is a brighter infant anywhere than his little Martha. General Anson G. McCook has at baby that would take a prize at any baby show, and which was the wonder of Seer Park and Oakland during the past summer. I defy anyone to pick out a nicer little girl in short clothes in any part of the world than little Polly Porter, the daughter of the Census Commissioner, and I could name a score of other charming little ones whom the girls say are "just too sweet to live." A MUSICAL WONDER. Many of the Senators have bright chil dren, and Mrs. Senator Spooner has a boy who-is an infant musical prodigy. Philip Spooner is the youngest son of Senator Bpooner, of Wisconsin, and for intellieence and brightness he is unexcelled by any Senatorial boy of his age. He inherits his father's keen intellect, added to the mother wit, which physiologists affirm is an inherent quality in every man-child, and few brighter or more charming companions are to be met with in the social life of our gay capital than the justly proad mother of onr young hero. notwithstanding the dignity of his ten summers, Philip is not ashamed of his con tinued fondness for the dolls which de lighted the days of bis infancy. The sole difference between the past and present fancy is that as he advauces in years the dolls to sui: his taste must be very hand some. The ugly ones are now banished to the closet. This weakness extends also to the living child, especially if she be a girl, who, if pretty, little Phil never fails to ad mireand pet In fact, treats ber as if she was already a maiden in her teens. HE" SINGS AWAY VS. His two greatest passions are music and horseback riding. The first talent he justly inherits from his mother. It he were asked to choose which was his favorite pasttime, he would find it difficult to decide. His fondness for music, however, approaches to a passion and he will sing any length of time for the pure love ot it, in a clear soprano that easily reaches the second G above the staff. He was told the other day that the gifted soprano, Miss Sybil Sander- Ba ry Villard Dolph. son, could reach B, two notes higher. He" at once determined that he would not be excelled" and immediately struck the hie' B. His mother, however, allowed very few' repetitions of the note. One of Philip's greatest amnsementsis a large tor theatre in which he quite often gives an opera, usually with only his mother ior audience. During these entertainments he varies his Voice from the high sopraao to the deep basso to suit the separate parts, and his performance is truly entertaining. Before beginning he invariably inquires which singer his audience prefers, and if it happens to be Lehman, it Is extraordinary to note the extra fullness and dignity he can throw into his voice. If Patti, he revels in scales, trills and roulades, expressing all the purity and clearness of a bird's voice. BASEBALL AND DRESS. Like his older brothers Philip is a keen lover of baseball and while at the seaside this past summer he was manager or a nine in which game he .took an active part His pose to seonre,the proper curve on the Iuuii was lue uuiuuafciuu ui an ejcpcris in tne field. If Philip has another weakness be Wr SSM. vn IK. .. Ati m T ides hi fondness for horseback exercise it is his love of handsome dressing. He in variably inspects his mother's toilets when in evening dress, and his correct eye is quick to def'f any lack of finish or grace in drapfy and is as critical of style as any votna. He has aln a. Una ftrtistia talent wand is a good chess player. epeasing of Phil Hpooper s theater recalls the fafcy dress ball which Mr. and Mrs. JbhniB. McLean gave to their son, Beale McLean, a short time ago. Here the giildren all appeared in fancy costumes, and onejbf the brightest and prettiest was Bessie John O. Carlisle, Jr. Beale, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Beale, of this city. She was only 18 months old at the time. The toilet she wore repre sented Madame la Marquise and was made .with long court train of pinkbrocade trimmed 'with swacsdown, over a petticoat of rare old point lace which originally lormed her mother's wedding gown. BOUGH ON THE "VICE PRESIDENT. Her older brother. Carroll, who, in the character of "Bnflalo Bill," accompanied her to the ball, remarked to his mother upon their return that night: "Mamma, I do not think our Bessie has much taste. She flirted dreadfully with the ugliest old man in the Toom, and be was bald-neadea, too." upon inquiry it was learned that the ugliest old man in the room was no less a personage than the Hon. Levi P. Morton, whose fond ness for children is proverbial. Bessie her self seems to have an objection to baldness, for not long ago she remarked to her mother that she did wish grandfather would have some hair put on his head, 'cause he is so bareheaded. Ex-Speaker Carlisle feels two feet higher whenever he looks at his grandson, John G. Carlisle, Jr. The baby looks like him, and he is as bright as a button. He is only two years old, but he has an old head on young shoulders, and he promises to surpass in re partee his distinguished grandfather. ' He is a youth of decided individuality, has an opinion of his own, and puts on more dig nity than the Senator himself. He will not permit strangers to call him John, and he despises Johnny. He informs everyone that his right name is John G. Carlisle, Jr., and be always adds that his grandfather's name is John G. Carlisle, Sr. SENATOR DOLPH'S BABY. Another Senatorial baby belongs to the Dolph family. The Senator has lour boys, and the youngest, who is named Harry Vil lard, is the brightest of the lot He is, his parents sometimes fear, too bright for his age, and since he has gone to school he has lost flesh from over-study. He stands at the head of his class, and spends more time on books than play. His bright sayings are among the traditions of the Dolph family, and his father holds him up as one of the Dest products oi tne state or Uregon. Harry has a kitten which glories in the name ot Baby McKee. This kitten is the unfortunate possessor of a tail which per sists in sticking straight np in the air with out regard to cirenmstances surrounding it This weakness troubles the cat and amnses Harry. He has cut a hole in the lower panef of his chamber door in order that the cat may get through. This hole is just large enough for the cat without the tail, which persists in trying to enter with its caudal appendage in the air. Of course this is an impossibility, and Harry grows very indignant at the cat's not learning that a boat must lower its mast when going un der a bridge. The other day the cat had its usual trouble with its tail, when Harry ex claimed, "Baby McKee, I don't think you have as much sense now as when you were born. A KOBEAN BABY COailNG. Some of the most interesting babies that have ever come to Washington have been bornlwilhin the legations. Minister Knki had a charming little baby while he repre sented Japan in this country and I am now able to whisper to you the "fact that we are about to have the first Korean baby ever born to a Korean noble outside the Hermit Kingdom. Elaborate preparations are in progress at the embassy for bis coming and he will not be hung in a hood or tied to the mother's back as is done in the far East, but it will take its first lessons in life in a Chris tian way. Mrs. Ye Cha Tun has asserted her inde pendence since she came here and instead of being shut up in the back of the house as her sisters are at home, she has made calls, gone to receptions and haseven received her friends at tne legation building. She will undoubtedly receive many calls as soon as she is able to be about after her little child makes its appearance, and it may be the young person after an education Jiern will go back as a reformer to the land of his forefathers. GLAD SHE WAS ALIVE. One of the funniest children stories I have heard for a year is a description of an incident which occurred in the family of one of onr most pious statesmen the other day. Last week while thanking the Lord for the good He had done for the little ones of his family, he tnanseu mm ior tne old horse Barney which gave them such de lightful country riding; he thanked Him for their home and good dinners and be poured out his soul in thanks to God for the toys which they had. It was at this time that his little year-old daughter could con tain herself no longer. She broke into the prayer with a sigh and then clapping ecstatically, "Oh, God, don't you wish you was us?" Miss Grundy, Je. POISOK OS MUSSELS. Sewage in the "Water In Which They live Causes the Trouble. Frequent instances of mussel poisoning created a prejudice against this fish. At the suggestion of the Ministry of Marine, the French Committee on Hygiene have made an exhaustive inquiry, extending over a considerable time, and the conclusions come to are important Generally, it may Hbe stated, that tne tears entertained dt tne public are exaggerated, because simple in digestion is sometimes mistaken for specific poisoning- The attacks ot indigestion due to the eating of mussels are, indeed, some times so violent as to suggest poisoning, bnt it is necessary to distinguish between the frequent cases of indigestion ana the rare instances of poisoning. The researches of Wolff have demon strated that the toxic principle exists in the liver, and Salkowski and Brieger have suc ceeded in isolating the poison to which they give tire name of mytilotoxine. It is an alkalom similar to ptomaines and leuco mainer. According to Lustig, mussels were foundio be infested with a special bacteria in the, intestines. Sewage in the water is pointed out us the cause. A Venture in Literature. Miss Mable Fuller, adaughter of Chief Justice Fuller, has received a commission from a Chicago firm for a book of fairy tales. MONET JN CHURCHES. The Recent Criticism of the Methods Adopted by the Ladies. IT ISH'T FAIR TO CITE ST. PAUL, Men Don't Give WJHInglj Unless They Set Something in etnrn. NECESSITY. IS A BTJ5KS MA5TE8 iwnrmnr 10a thx dispatch. A reverend brother, West by name, has stirred up the sisters of the churches very considerably on their way of raising money for missionary and other purposes. Ha charges that the standard of the church is lowered by the holding of bazaars.and tea parties and ballad concerts, and the serving of ice cream and chicken salad and coflea for the purpose of making money. Ha maintains that it is not apostolic to sin? funny songs, or to recite Sbakespearaa soliloquies, or Dickens' masterpieces, or poetic gems. He asserts that Paul never made a waiter of himself by serving ice cream and cake at charity prices nor is it likely he retailed tickets for shows, or gathered in quarters at the door of bazaars and tea parties, although he earnestly solicited liberal contributions. BUT MONEY COMES HABD. The remarks by Brother West concerning Paul are probably quite true. The philoso phers tell us that human nature does not change. It is made very plain from Paul's epistles that the men of the first century were quite as given to stepping out of the narrow path to enjoy themselves on the broad way that leadeth to destruction as they are in the nineteenth. Hence it is hardly to be doubted that, like thosa of the church in 1890, they paid their par sons poorly and stinted the missionaries. They lavished "lashincs" of cash on the luxuries of life, but slipped mites or nickels into the contribution box. They loved the high seats, but were backward in paying their pew rents and left the labor for tha church, as much as possible to the Priscillas and Phcebes and Dorcases of the early church, in which they were servants and helpers. It is quite probable that Paul did not serve the ice cream at the church festivals in his time, because the blessed sisters were on hand to wait upon the beloved brethren. He does say somewEere, though, that he fed the Corinthians with milk. But even if bazaars and ballad concerts and Jestivala were not known in the apostolic church; Brother West should remember that time) have changed since Paul preached; that 'it was dishonorable for a woman' to take off her bonnet in church, or to wear her hair short, and said it was a shame for her to speak in the church. A CHITKCH WITHOUT WOMEN. Women still keep their heads covered during the services, but more for con venience than because they would be dis honored by chucking them under the seat as men do with their hats. Moreover, in view of the many good women of these days who preach and pray and sing in the church, ha would be a bold man who should teU them to keep silence,Iet alone to expect obedience. What would become Of the churches if women conducted themselves now as they were ordered to do in Paul's day. Imagine them all mum and dumb; Taney the church with all the socials substracted, the bazaars done away with, the dinners and tea parties left out, the "awfully suggestive" "ballad concerts" eliminated, the tableaux and reci tations omittedl Fancy the beloved sisters doing nothing to raise money for the missions or the orphans or the Sunday schools! Fancy the church sisters being commanded to be under obedience and told if they wanted to know anything to ask their husbands at home, for it was a shame for them to speak out in meeting! A SUBPBISE TO TBS WOBEEBS. Tet, as all these things that Brother "West so sternly condemns are women's work, it) follows that it is the women who are lower ing the standard of the church by serving ice cream and suppers and getting up enter tainments, and tbey must be held responsi ble for the degradation of the Christian Church. The sorrow of it all is, too, that the dear girls who have been doing all thesa things for Io these many years, have always imagined they were doing a good work. It is pretty hard on them to be told at this late day that they have been degrading the church they love and lowering its standard. But while Brother West goes for the sis ters and puts the blame of the worldly church socials upon their shoulders, they can hit back by shifting the responsibility to the stinginess ot the beloved brethren. If the latter furnished the money for church purposes, the sisters would cease to wear themselves out by their devices and designs to do good in this line. According to Brother West the proper thing is to abolish the debasing business by women, and collect the money from the men. IT'S THE EASIEST WAY. The trouble about this plan, however, is that most of the brethern want a quid pro quo for their dollars. They want a dinner for the dollor that goes to the heathen. They want ice cream and cake for the quarter that goes for a new library for the Sunday school. They want to hear the ballads, or see the tableaux for the money that goes to the Ladies' Aid Society. The ladies would rather get the dollars that way, too, than by begging them out and out" lint if such work is demoralizing of course they should quit it It were better to let tha church work drop if the funds are to ba raised by such bad methods. But, without conceding Brother West's charges altogether, it is plain to anybody that women are too much given io letting their zeal outrun their discretion in the mat ter of raising money for charity and church work. IT BECOMES A TAX. The Lord loveth a cheerful giver, but there are very few cheerful givers as com pared with the grumpy taxpayers, and with many these everlasting entertainments ior church purposes are looked upon as social taxes and are paid unwillingly. The de mands are too frequent and importunate. Too many of the church workers seem to think that the end justifies the means. But after the setting back Brother West has given them, it would be a good thing for some of the sisters to coolly consider this matter and see in what they have dona amiss. Ther will possibly find that there are plenty of young men and old onesi tod, by tne way who could not be persuaded to go to a church fair because they know they would be bamboozled, perhaps, out of a week's salary by fair women in their zeal for the cause they represent Such might perhaps have been in Pope's mind when he wrote: Gat money, money still! And then let virtue follow if shawIlL fc This Is the saving doctrine preached to aQ, From low St James' up to high St Paul; Bessie Bbamble. Jealous of the Flora, New York World. J Miss Bacon Is it true that yon have; broken with Mr. Painte? Miss Huron Yes, and with good cause, After his return from Africa he began tell ing people about the beautiful flora of the tropics. I must have a man's undivided love. Stanley's Love Afalxs. How many women refused, the explorer before Miss Tennant accepted him has been discussed, bnt never decided. On the au thority of Hubert Herkomer, the artist, to whom Stanley confided the secret, the num ber is given as eight Who they were is; of course, confidential. J nit Out "What a fresh morniugl" "Yes a regular dewedl"
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