JaJJiyUW
qnfnrngvs!
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wanted to know was the precise area of
India in square miles. I referred him to
Whlttaker. He bad never heard of "Whit
taker. He -wanted it from my own month
and I would not tell him. Then he swerved
off jnst like the other man to details of
journalism in our own country. I ventured
to suggest that the interior economy of a
paper most concerned the people who
worked it.
"That's the very thing that interests us,'
he said.
"Have you got reporters anything like
our reporters on Indian newspapers?"
"We have not," I said, and suppressed
the "thank God" rising to my lips.
"Why haven't yon?" said he.
KIpliuS Gets Smart.
"Because they would die," I said. It
was exactlv like talking to a child a very
rude little "child. He would begin almost
every sentence with "Now, tell me some
thing about India," and would turn aim
lessly from one question to the other with
out the least continuity. I was not angry,
but keenly interested." The man was a rev
elation to'me. To his questions I returned
answers mendacious and evasive. After all
it did not really matter what I said. He
could not understand. I can only hope and
pray that none of his readers will ever see
that portentious interview. The man made
me out to be an idiot several sizes more
drivelling than my destiny intended, and
the rankness of his ignorance managed to
distort the few poor facts with which I sup
plied him into large and elaborate lies.
Then," thoughtL "the matter or Ameri
can journalism shall be looked into later
on. At present I will enjoy myself."
No man rote to tell me what were the
lions cf the place. No one volunteered any
sort of conveyance. I was absolutely alone
in this big city of white folk. By instinct
I sought refreshment and came upon a bar
room full of bid Salon pictures in which
men with hats on the back of their heads
were wolfing food from a counter.
Gets Slangy on Free Lou ch
it was the institution of the "free lunch"
I had struck. You paid for a drink and
got as ranch as you wanted to eat. For
something less than a rupee a dar man can
feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco,
even though he be a bankrupt Kemember,
this if ever you are stranded in these parts.
Later I began a vast but unsystematic ex
ploration of the streets. I asked for no
names. It was enough that the pavements
were full of white men and women, the
streets clanging with traffic and the restful
roar of a great city rang in mv ears. The
cable cars glided to all points of thecompass
at once. I took them one by one till I could
go no further. San Francisco has been
pitched down on the sand bunkers of the
Bikaneer desert. About one-fourth of it is
ground reclaimed from the tea any old
timers will tell you all about that. The re
mainder is jnst ragged, unthrifty sand hills,
to-day pegged down by houses. From an
English point of view there has not been the
least attempt at grading those hills, and in
deed you might as well try to grade the hil
locks of Sind. The cable cars have for all
practical purposes made San Francisco a
dead level.
Ho American Language.
Oliver "Wendell Holmes says that the
Yankee schoolmarm, the cider and the salt
codfish of the Eastern States are responsible
for what he calls a nasal accent. I know
better. They stole books from across the
water without paying for 'em and the snort
of delight was fixed in their nostrils forever
by a just Providence. That is why they
talk a foreign tongue to-day. "Cats is dogs,
and rabbits is dogs and so's parrots. But
this ere tortoise is an insect, so there ain't
no charge," as the old porter said. A Hindu
is a Hindu and a brother to the man who
knows his vernacular. And a Frenchman
is French because he speaks his own lan
guage. But the American has no language.
He is dialect, slang, provincialism, accent,
and so forth. Now that I have heard their
voices all the beauty of Bret Harte is being
ruined for me, because I find myself catch
ing through the roll of his rhythmical prose
the cadence of his peculiar fatherland. Get
aan American lady to read to you "How
Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar" and
see how much is, under her tongue, left of
the beaut? of the original.
But I am sorry for Bret Harte. It hap
pened this -way. A reporter asked me what
I thought of the city and I made answer
suavely that it was hallowed ground to me,
because of Bret Harte. That was true.
"Wei," said the reporter, ''Bret Harte
claims California, but California don't
claim Bret Harie. He's been so long in
England that he's quite English. Have
you seen our cracker factories or the new
offices of the Examiner?" He could not
.understand that to the outside world the
city was worth a deal less than the man. I
never intended to curse the people with a
provinciolism so vast as this.
Admits a Degree of Beanty.
Night fell over the Pacific and the white
sea fog whipped through the streets, dim
ming the splendors of the electric lights.
It is the use of this city, her men and
women folk, to parade between the hours of
8 and 10 a certain street called Kearney
street, where the finest shops are situated.
Here the click of light heels on the pave
ment is loudest, here the lights are brightest
and here the thunder of the traffic is most
overwhelming. I watched young California
and saw that it was, at least, expensively
dressed, cheerful in manner and self-asserting
in conversation. Also the women were
very fair. Perhaps 18 days aboard ship had
something to do with my unreserved admi
ration. The maidens were of generous
build, large, well groomed and attired
in raiment that even to my inexperi
enced eyes must have cost much. Kearney
street at 9 o'clock levels all distinctions of
rank as impartially as the grave. Again
and again I loitered at the heels of a couple
of resplendent beings, only to overhear,
when 1 expected the level voice of culture,
the staccato "Sez he," "Sez I" that is the
mark of the white servant girl the world
over. This was depressing because, in spite
of all that goes to the contrary, fine feathers
ought to make fine birds.
gThere was wealth unlimited wealth in
the streets, but not an accent that would not
have been dear at 50 cents. "Wherefore, re
volving in my mind that these lolk were
barbarians, I was presently enlightened and
made aware that they also were the heirs of
all ages and civilized after nlL There ap
peared be. ore me an affable straneerof pre
possessing appearance, with a blue and an
innocent eye. Addressing me by name, he
claimed to have met me in New York at the
"Windsor, and to this claim I gave a quali
fied assent. I did not remember the fact, but
since he was so certain of it, why then I
waited developments.
Picked Up for anJgnoramus.
"And what did you think of Indiana when
yon came through?" was the next question.
It revealed the mystery of pre vious acquaint
ance and one or two other things. With rep
rehensible carelessness my friend of the light
blue eye had looked up the name of his vic
tim in the hotel register, and read "India"
for Indiana.
The provincialism with which I had
cursed his people extended to himself. He
could not imagine an Englishman coming
through the States Irom west to east instead
of by the regularly ordained route. My
fear whs that in his delight in finding me so
responsive he would make remarks about
New York and the Windsor which I could
not understand. And, indeed, he ad
ventured in this direction once or twice,
asking me what I thought of such and such
streets, which from his tone I gathered to
be anything but respectable. It is trying
to talk unknown New York in almost un-"
known San Francisco. But my friend was
merciful.
He protested that I was one alter his own
heart, and pressed upon me rare and curious
drinks at more than one bar. These drinks
I accepted with gratitude, as also the cigars
with which his pockets were stored. He
would show me the life of the city. -Having
so desire to watch a weary old play again I
evaded the offer and received in lieu of the
devil's instruction much coarse flattery.
Curiously constituted is the soul of man.
Knowing how and where this man lied,
waiting idly tor the finale, I was distinctly
conscious as he bubbled compliments in nry
ear of soft thrills of gratified piide stealing
from hat rim to boot heels. I was wise,
quoth he anybody could see that with half
an eve; sagacious, versed in the ways of the
worfd, un acquaintance to be desired; oar
.
I
who had tasted the cup of life with discre
tion. . Writes Himself a Wise Man.
All this pleased me, and in a measure
numbed the suspicion that was thoroughly
aroused. Eventually the blue-eyed one
discovered, nay, insisted, that I had a taste '
for cards (.this was clumsily worked in, but
it was my fault, for in that I met him half
way and allowed him no chance of good act
ing). Hereupon I laid my head upon one (
side and simulated unholy wisdom, quoting
odds and ends of poker talk, all ludicrously
misapplied. My friend kept his counte
nance admirably, and well he might, for
five minutes later we arrived, always by
the purest of chances, at a place where we
could play cards and also frivol with Louisi
ana State Lottery tickets. Would 1 play?
"Nay," said I, for to me cards have
neither meaning nor continuity, but let us
assume that I am going -to play. How
would yon and your friends get to work.
Would yon play a straight came, or make
me drunk, or well, the fact is I'm a news
piper man, and I'd be much obliged if
you'd let me know something about bunko
steering." "
My blue eyed friend erected himself into
an obelisk of profanity. He cursed me by
his gods the right and the left bower; he
even cursed the very good cigars he had
given me. But, the storm over, he quieted
down and explained. I apologized for
causing him to waste an evening,aand we
spent a very pleasant time together.
He Accepts American Hospitality.
Next morning I had entered upon the de
ferred inheritance. There are no princes in
America at least with crowns on their
heads but a generous minded member of
some royal family received nSy letter of in
troduction. Ere the day closed I was a mem
ber of the two clubs and booked for many
engagements to dinner and party. Now,
this prince, upon whose financial operations
be continual increase, had no reason, nor
had the others, his friends, to put himself
out for the sake of one Brittnn more or less;
but he rested not till he had accomplished
all in my behalf that a mother could think
of for her debutante daughter.
Do you know the Bohemian Club of San
Francisco? They say its fame extends over
the world. It was created somewhat on the
lines of the Savage by men who wrote or
drew things, and has blossomed into most
unrepublican luxury. The ruler of the
place is an owl an owl standing upon a
skull and crossbones, showing forth grimly
the wisdom of the man of letters and the end
of his hopes for immortality. The owl
stands on the staircase, a statue four feet
high; is carved in the woodwork, flutters on
'the frescoed ceiling, is stamped on the note
paper and hangs on the walls.He is an ancient
and honorable bird. Under his wing 'twas
my privilege to meet with white men whose
lives were not chained down to the routine
of toll, who wiote magazine articles instead
of reading them hurriedly in the pauses of
office work, who painted pictures instead of
contenting themselves with cheap etchings
picked up at another man's sale of effects.
Sneers at His Hosts.
Mine were all the rights of social inter
course, craft by crait, that India, stony
hearted stepmother of collectors, has
swindled us out of. Treading soft carpets
and breathing the incense of superior cigars
I wandered irom room to room studying the
paintings in which the members of the club
had caricatured themselves, their associates
and their aims. There was a slick
French audacity about the workman
ship of these men of toil un
bending that went straight to the heart of
the beholder. And yet it was not altogether
French. A dry primness of treatment, al
most uutch, marked the difference. The
men painted as they spoke with certainty.
The club indulges in revelries which it calls
"jinks" high and low at intervals and
each of these gatherings is faithfully por
trayed in oils by hands that know their
business. In this club were no amateurs
spoiling canvas because they fancied they
could handle oils without knowledge of
shadows or anatomy no gentleman of leis
ure ruining the tempers of publishers and
an already ruined market with attempts to
write "because everybody writes something
these days."
My hosts were working or had worked for
their daily bread with pen or paint, and
their talk for the most part was of the shop
shoppy tha., is to say, delightful. They
extended a large hand of welcome and were
as brethren, and I did homage to the owl
and listened to their talk. An Indian club
about Christmas time will yield, if properly
worked, an abundant harvest of queer tales;
but at a gathering of Americans from the
uttermost ends of their own continent the
tales are large, thicker, more spinous, and
even more azure than any Indian variety.
Defending a Client.
"The prisoner is undefended, Sam," said
the Court "The square thing to do would
be for you to take him aside and do the best
you can for him." Court, jury and witness
then adjourned to the veranda, while Sam
uelson led his client aside to the Court
House cells. An hour passed ere the'law
yer returned alone. Mutely the audience
questioned. "May it p-p-pleas the
U-court," said Samnelson, "my cljent's
case is a b-b-b-bad ope a d-d-d-durned bad
one. You told me to do the b-b-best I
c-could for him, Judge, so I've jest given
him y-your b-b-bay gelding an told him to
light out for healthier c-c-climes, my
p-p-professional opinion being he'd be
hanged quicker'n h-h-hades if he dallied
here. B-by this time my client's 'bout IS
miles out yonder somewhares. That was
the b-b-best I could do for him, may it
p-p-piease the Court" The young man,
escaping punishment in lieu of the prisoner,
made his fortune ere five years.
Other voices followed, with equally won
drous tales of riata throwing in Mexico or
Arizona, of gambling at army posts in
Texas, of newspaper wars waged in godless
.Chicago (I could not help being interested,
but they were not pretty tricks), of
deaths sudden and violent in Mon
tana and Dakota, of the loves of half
breed maidens in the South and fantastic
huntings for gold in mysterious Alaska.
Above all they told the story of the building
of old San Francisco, when the "finest col
lection of humanity on, God's earth, sir,
started this town, and the'water came uo to
the foot of Market srteet" Very terrible
were some of the tales, grimly humorous the
others, and the men in broadcloth and fiae
linen who told them had played their parts
in them.
How It Impressed Trim,
"And now and again when things got too
bad they would toll the citv bell, and tha
Vigilance Committee turned out and hanged.
tne suspicions characters, a man didn't
begin to be suspected in those days till he
had committed at least one unprovoked
murder," said a calm-eyed, portly old gen
tlemen. I looked at the pictnres around
me, the noiseless, neat uniformed waiter be
hind me, the oak-ribbed ceiling above, the
velvety carpet beneath. It was hard to re
alize that even 20 years ago you could see
a man hanged with great pomp. Later on I
found reason to change my opinion. The
tales gave me a headache and set me think
ing. How in the world it was possible .to
take in even one-thousandth of this huge,
roaring, many sided continent?
And I forgot all about India for ten days
while 1 went out to dinners and watched the
social customs of the people, which are en
tirely different from our customs, and was
introduced to men of many millions. These
persons are harmless in their earlier stasres
that is to say a man worth 53,000,000 or
$4,000,000 may be a good- talker, clever,
amusing and of the world; a man with twice
that amount is to be avoided, and a
$20,000,000 man is just $20,000,000.
Take an instance. I was speaking to a news
paper man about seeing the proprietor of
his journal, as in my innocence I supposed
newspaper men occasionally did. My
friend snorted indignantly: "See him!
Great Scott Not If he happens to appear
in the office I have to associate with him;
but, thank heaven, outside of that I move
in circles where he cannot come." And yet
the first thing I have been taught to believe
is that money was everything in Americal
BTJDYAKD KlPLUtO.
The Right Way to Shine,
Boston Herald. 1
It is all righl for a man to shine in society;
but if his clothes do, it is quite a different
mailer.
LEARNING TO
DANCE
Many Years of Patient' Practice Con
tribute to a Few Hours' Pleas
ure for the Public.
BALLERINAS BEGIN AT SEVEN.
Monotonous Drudgery of Learning the Ele
mentary Motions and Their
. Combinations.
AMEBIC! BEHIND IK CHOEEGEAPBX.
A BtUit Btcetml sad fats Abtttt tfet Salaries Fail
to tit Curf&cts.
IWBOTEH FOB THE DISPATCH.
,HEN the
public
sits down in a com
fortable theater
and watches a gor
geous ballet, such
as was presented
by the "Crystal
Slipper" Company
last week, it never
thinks of the years
of patient toil on
the part of the dan
cers which have
contributed to the
e v ening's pleas
ure. It sees only
the poetry; the
hard prose is all
behind the flies.
The study for the
ballet begins at the
FtUtterto MarchtUU
tender age of 7, sometimes even earlier, and
at least five years of daily practice ar
THE BBHEABSAIi IK
necessary before the s'tudent can become a
"first line" coryphee, that is a dancer who,
though not a soloiste or prima ballerina,
dances well enough to occupy a plaoe in the
fit line of a gavotte or bourre or some
other collective dance.
The A. B. C. of It
The beginner is placed at a horizontal bar,
which she grasps with one hand, while she
is taught the elementary five positions of
the feet She practices these for two hours
dally until she acquires a thorough mastery
over the ankle joints and can rapidly change
from any one position into another. After
these elementary motions are mastered the
pupil is instructed in the five positions of
the arms. Next the elementary steps are
The Flrtt Lesson.
practiced without the aid of the bar and in
conjunction with the motions of the arms.
All this while neither foot loses touch
with the floor, but now the first five positions
are practised by one foot at a time, some six
inches above ground. The petits batiments
are quick motions of one foot from the instep
to tne neei oi tne otner. The romsams are
next on the list They consist of segments
of circles executed by one foot There are
outward and inward romsams, and those ex
ecuted in front and behind the other foot
These exercises are first practised with the
sole rubbing the ground and then about
ankle-high.
The Heal Test
All the foregoing exercises have not
moved the pupil one step from the spot
whereon she stands. The combination of
positions in quick succession which pro-
In Rtheartal Skirt.
duce a dance are taught at a comparatively
advanced stage, and only then can it be
determined whether a girl has really talent
for the ballet A good many of even the
gifted ones never rise to the choregraphlo
eminence of a prima-ballerina, but remain
always in the ranks of choriphees, as the
members of the corps de ballet are called.
The best authorities are divided on the
point of nationality. Borne, and they are in
the majority, give the palm to Italy, while
others declare that Germany produces the
best dancers. There are only two recog
nized schools of danoing, the Italian and
w
. "" " T
T?
THE PITTSBURG- DlSPATOH.
the German, though Bussia has produced
some very clever ballet material.
Comparatively few men are in the busi
ness; those who have studied the art soon
leave the ranks of ballet dancers to open
a dancing school or to assume positions as
leaders of the ballet Filibefto Marchettl.
the master of the ballet Pittsburg enjoyed
last week, began his studies at the conserva
tor in Turin, when eight years old. For
eight years he held a position at the Opera
Khediviale in Cairo, Egypt, where he had
chargeofl20balletdancers.Signor Marchettl
regrets that the ballet does not find its
proper artistic recognition in America,
where it is 'as yet considered id the light
of an accessory. Bnch a thing as an entire
piece in which dance and pantomime
express emotions and interpret the action of
the play is unknown here.
Career of a Favorite,
Fraulein Clara Qnafitz, the prima bal
lerina, made many friends in the city last
week. She was born in J3udapesth, Hun
gary, and began to danca at the age of S.
Unlike the ordinary ballet dancer, she
never danced in the line.appearlng as prima
ballerina in Piacenza, Italy; at the age of
12. She has been a prima ballerina ever
sinceappearing in all the large cities of the
world.
"How did I acquire the ability to dance
on my toes for any length "ot time?" she
laughed when I was introduced to her. "How
do people learn to excel in anything but by
hard work and constant practice."
"Do I like dancing? Why, my entire
soul is with my art," and here Miss Qualitz
went into the little rhapsodies which artists
indulge in when they possess true inspira
tions. Through the courtesy of Manager Hen
derson I was permitted to. witness a ballet
rehearsal. The curtain had descended the
night before upon a blaze of glory and light,
now the stage's cavernous depth was sparsely
lighted by stray beams from the high sky
light, that straggled through the network of
drop scenery. The musicians played with
their overcoats on, and the merry gavottes
and minuets they played sounded sadly out
of place in the deserted house. Large gray
tarpaulins covered boxes and benches, and
the usually cheery interior of the Dnquesne
Theater assumed the sombre aspect of a
church draped for a funeral.
All the Poetry Gone.
Upon the stage, bereft of its painted
visions of beautiful landscape, there stood
STREET COSTUMES.
the corps de ballet The "maestro" (Mar
chetti) with his back to the orchestra rapped
the choriphees to order by stomping his
stick upon the resounding boards. What a
spectacle they presented I Instead of the
airy fairies of the evenipg there stood an
array of young ladies in every known
variety of cloak and jacket and bonnet
Only a few of them wore the rehearsal-
Practicing a Step.
skirts which leit the ankle joints un
hampered. Occasionally the maestro inter
rupted the rehearsal to correct some of the
dancers or to give instructions to the con
ductor to omit a bar of music or add one;
once in a while he danoed a few steps, car
ried away by the music
"Is" dancing a remunerative business?"
was asked of Signorina Maccari who dances
in the first line.
"Well," she answered," it is as yon take
it In Italy we get from 250 to 350 francs
($50 to (70) a month, but living is very
much cheaper than here in America, where
salaries range irom 00 francs to 750 (100
to 5150). We pay. 65 cents in Italy for
satin slippers, which cost here 2. For 100
francs a month (520) we can room and board
there as well and even better Gian for $45 in
America, which is 125 francs more a month,"
First-class artists, like Miss Qualitz and
Miss Newman, draw, of course, much larger
salaries than ordinary dancers, some receiv
ing as high as $150 per week for their ten
minutes' work per evening.
Max de Leppmau.
STANLEY T8ED FOE CHABIXT.
Novel Flan of Some English ladies to Hake
Bazaar Attractive.
It has remained for some ladies of the
English gentry to bestow'quite a remarkable
compliment on. that much-complimented
man, Stanley, of Africa. At a bazaar
opened recently by the Countess of Wharn
cliffe at Leeds, England, the hall was ar
ranged to represent Stanley's camp at Bu
wenzori. The stage was set to show the camp
in its entirety, and was accurately compiled
from photographs taken on the spot, with
figures representing the explorer and his
chief officers. All the stalls were tents, and
tall grasses were so disposed in andaboutthem
as to produoe the effect of their being set in
the midst of tropical vegetation. A "Cafe
Zanzabar" was a side attraction of the affair.
and everyday during its week of progress a.
procession faithfully representing in every
detail Stanley's caravan on the march made
a tour of the place and posed on the stage.'
This may be a suggestion to some perplexed
committee on ideas among Amerloan charit
able workers.
THE FlY-EATISO PLAIT.
It Has little Traps by Means of Which It
Captures Its Food.
The fly-eating plant looks like moss. In
the green moss are tiny shells, like clam
shells, only thin, -green and half open.
Along the edges are green hairs like eye
lashes. A flr enters the .little shell, then
the leaves close, the fly diet, and by and by
bis body is absorbed by the plant 'lhey
grow only in South Oarolinai
HWimW itff ' n n n
SUNlJES, JANlfAfi'i' H,
RED HAIR'S ALMIGHT
Just as Good Brain Grows Under It' as
Under Any Other Color.
THE PREJUDICE ALL flONBENSE.
Empress Eugenie's Redeeming Act
Making Eed Fashionable.
Was
DECISION OF THE INSURANCE HEN
rwBiTTXir ros rax xmpatch.i
When Eugenie became Empress of France
she seemed to have little idea of any of the
duties of such a position save those of be
coming the leader of the fashions, giving
extravagant and showy entertainments,
and making an ostentatious display of piety
and devotion to the interests of her church.
Perhaps no other woman ever gave so much
attention io dress or spent so much money
in a parade of foolishness. The revelations
of her court show that she went through an
elaborate change in dressing three or four
times a day, and prided herself upon never
wearing the most costly of her gowns more
than twice. She had an allowance from
the treasury of 120,000 a month for pin
money, and yet she was hardly ever out of
debt
When the toiling peasants and working
men of France were kept poor by taxation
to support such extravagance, who can won
der that they abolished royalty, and sat up a
republic that from the heights of such
splendor Napoleon and Eugenie were de
throned and driven into exile with hardly
"a stitch to their backs." Eugenie in her
flight had not an opportunity to change her
gown three or four times . on her way to
England, but had to make her appearance
in that country in borrowed clothes.
A Story Hard to Believe. ,
If the same sort of silly women were not
parading before ns day after day, spending
money like water in the eagerness for a dis
play of dress and diamonds, luxurious liv
ing, magnificent houses and sumptuous en
tertainments that would discount Luculius,
it could hardly be believed that a woman
could be as madly foolish as Eugenie
showed herself to be. Not content with the
possession and enjoyment of all the goods
the gods provide, such women seem to be
unhappy unless they can flaunt their riches
and display their splendor so as to excite
the admiration and envy of their poorer
neighbors, regardless of the. fact Bhown In
history that no better way of inflaming the
passions of the masses and inciting revolu
tion and anarchy could be devised.
The Duchess of Marlborough once a
plain American girl testified recently that
she could not live in proper style on an in
come less than $110,000 a year. She cannot
keep out of debt on such a limited sum.
Poor womanl to what straits and close econo
mies and debts she will be reduced, since it
has been decided that she must now feel the
biting pinch of poyerty on only $90,000 a
year.
The throne of France, the lives of husband
and son, were sacrificed to the "clothes
mania," the silly vanity, the prejudices of a
woman whose mind was too narrow for any
thing save pride, ignorance, selfishness nd
the vulgar ambition for a display of
luxury and theatrical effects. It is laid that
her influence brought about
The War With Prussia,
which she was wont to allude to playfully
as "my war," until its disastrous effects so
turned the wheel of fortune that threat
ened by a mob, and with the precedent of
the ill-fated Marie Antoinette in mind she
was glad to leave France and her dresses
'and jewels behind her, and seekreiugein
England and obscurity.
As a leader of fashion, Eugenie infected
the earth with a rage for extravagant dres
sing and pompons display. How the whole
world of women wore "hoops" and "tiltera"
and torrents of "trimmings" and costliest of
gaudy apparel at her behest is well known.
The effect of her example in this respect is
not lost yet . Although her successors as the
leaders of fashion in Paris are the stars upon
the stage and the demi-monde, there are still
American women so devoted to Frenchiness
that they must have Parisian gowns, cost
what they may. Even the ladies of our
Bepublican administration are so indiffer
ent to the protection of home industries that
they pride themselves upon their Paris
gowns, and glory in having upon them the
stamp of ''Worth" to attest that they were
not made in this country.
Eugenie's Redeeming Act
But while Eugenie will go down in
history as a woman who ruined herself and
her family by her vanity, love of dress and
bijrotry in religious matters, she is to be
credited with relieving, if not removing the
old-time ridiculous onus upon red hair.
The deference shown to this superstition is
to be seen in the efforts of her friends, who
writfaabont her; when they call her hair "a
rich Tluburn," which by those who saw her
in the glory of her days as Empress, ii said
to have been "unmistakably and unmiti
gatedly red,"
However that may be, it is certainly true
that since she, in her beauty, set the fashions
in dress and adornment, the stigma of
ridicule which once made red hair a calamity
and a cross to its possessor, has-been largely
removed. This; prejudice seems to have
been founded only upon fancy and supersti
tion. Like the rage for golden hair and
powdered wigs, it may have been a mere
matter of style. Fashion is a tyrant that
sways all minds and gives beauty to every
absurdity. Fashion at present prescribes
long skirts for women, and in obedience to
this ridiculous decree millions of women are
'parading around to-day in the slop and
l.l. A !1. nt IM..mlA toll. " 1,.. Mn
I comfort, health, and risking their lives or
fear pi being called "dowdies tor lear an
inch or two shorter might stamp thdin as out
of style. "What fools we mortals be."
The Brick-Tops at School.
In the good old days agone children at
school who had red hair suffered ,a sort af
martyrdom. As "brick tops" they were
hooted and reviled and subjected to such
abuse as only the untamed barbarity of
children coma aevise.
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn
says Bobert Burns, but the inhumanity of
children to their fellows when they get
"mid" at them is cruelfv almost inconceiv
able. One bright girl i have in mind had
curls sotitterly red that they could not by
any stretch of fancy be toned down into
"auburn" or "sandy." She was studious.,
quick-witted, well-behaved, and "so smart
that she always stood high in her class, and,
as a consequence, was everlastingly held up
by the teachers as a model for the class.
For this was she taunted as a "red head,"
and her life made miserable by being dubbed
"stuck up." ,
Envy is a mean weed that grows every
where in church, and state and society.
Bat nowhere, perhaps, does it flourish more
luxuriantly than in the schools, where chil
dren have not learned to conceal their feel
ings or control their tongues , and tempers.
When pupils of talent and industry rise
nigh above their classmates and receive
praise and distinction they immediately be
come marks for detraction, abuse and ridi
cule from their fellows, who, it would seem,
rack their brains to invent opprobrious
nicknames and strain their powers of inven
tion to devise methods to make the hated
persons miserable.
TTnitonlniiAil and ltsittKA
"i
One of the brightest and besf 'of 'girls had
her school life made most unhappy by the
envy and malice of her Schoolfellows, who
displayed their jealousy by nicknaming her
"Long-tailed Blue" and by perpetually
taunting her as "a goody-goody." There
does not appear to be anythiug particularly
dreadlnl in such expressions, but behind
them there were the meanness or spite, the
thorns of envy and the sting of hatred. Not
knowing enoneh of worldly philosophy to
comprehend this cruelty as really a compli-'
atDt to an taienu ana sonny, tne sunsrea
greatly. "Pope congratulated Addison -mx
having a good'share of envy and calumny,
telling him that "to be uncensured and to
be obscure were the same thing."
But to be smart and to be a "redhead" was
enough formerly to give flame to envy and
voice and point to the approbrious name of
"brick top." with the advice thrown in to
keep their heads away irom haystacks and
out of the sight of bulls. To become an "old
maid" was the doom vindictively and unre
lentingly predicted for the "red head" by
the other girls, if she happened to go np head.
A girl who was "real smart" and a brick
top beside could not, it was supposed, find
favor with any man. But now, when red
hair is esteemed the most beautiful and be
coming for these who possess it, and is now
much more of a beanty than a calamity,
there comes a new attempt to discount it in
favor of golden blondes and brunette beau
ties. Bed Hair and Disease.
A recent accounfasserts that medical ex
aminers for life insurance companies con
sider a red-haired subject a greater risk
than others and some will refuse certificates
to all applicants who have Titian red, or
sandy locks, on the score that red-haired
people, especially women, have more deli
cate constitutions than others In general,
and are more liable to pttlmonarydiseases.
But when it is considered how many peo
ple grow gray and live to a good old age
who have been "red-heads" in their youth,
this seems' to be a conclusion not well sus
tained by facts. Plenty of cases will come
up in everybody's mind where the Titian
tresses, the auburn locks, the sandy top
knot, have faded into the silvery white of
age, with the moderation of- mind, the
sweetness of temper, the philosophical ac
ceptance of the crosses of life, that a culti
vated intelligence, a good conscience and
sound powers of reasoning insure. It may
be that the insurance men have information
and statistics to go upon to support the
statement that red-haired people are bad
subjects for Insurance, that they are more
liable to disease, and more likely to die
young than others by reason of high-strung
tantrums and fiery tempers, but it is more
than probable that these notions are due
less to science and the census than to super
stition. Why She 'Didn't Marry.
Of the origin of this prejudice against
red hair but little is known, but that it has
existed for centuries is shown by the state
ment of one of Queen Elizabeth's biogra
phers, who, in attempting to find some good
reason for her being an "old maid," says :
"It was certainly not for lack of those
charms and accomplishments that would
adorn and beautify a wife. Her person was
graceful, her stature queenly and her bear
ing noble. Her 'eyes were lively and spark
ling, her complexion was beautifully fair,
but the color of her hair was against her."
But who does not know this is all bosh;
that Elizabeth had dozens of proposals; that
she declined alliance with the royal families
oi France and other countries in Europe;
that Catharine de Medici was very anxious
to become her mother-in-law; that 'Philip of
Spain, the "tyrant of the Netherlands,"
would fain have hung np his hat in her hall
at Windsor Castle, or her palace in London,
as her husband? Moreover, in contradiction
of the insurance idea that red headed people
are liable to die young, is the fact that
Elizabeth reigned over 44 years and lived to
the allotted three score years and ten. It
must be admitted that she gave some color
to the statement that red haired women are
more quick tempered, more vehement and
irritables than others,more prone to let their
fiery pasions rise.
Wasn't Slow to Anger. ,.
She scolded the great men or her court as
if they were schoolboys. She met the Inso
lence of Essex, as Greene tells us, with a
box on the ear, she swore at her minister on
occasions, and the envoy oi Philip of Spain
wrote to his royal master, "this woman is
possessed of a hundred thousand devils,"
but she possessed to the full the love, loyalty
and admiration of her people. In society
she might be a vain coquette, but she was
the coolest and hardest of politicians at the
council board. Unlike Eugenie, she lived
simply and frugally, and her policy was
simply that of common sense.
By her political tact and diplomacy, we
are told, "she hoodwinked and outwitted
every statesman in Europe" for nearly half
a century. She could read men so well that
no sovereign of England ever had so wise
and great a Cabinet as that composed of the
councilors she selected by her quick appre
ciation of merit and character. She gave
peace and order and golden days to England
during her long reign, and, with all her
faults, showed that as to wisdom and ability
in a ruler there is no distinction of sex.
Another illustrous "red head" was
Isabella of Castile, whose sagacity, power
and capable administration of Dublio affairs
is the boast of Spam to-day. In the face of
the timidity and weakness of her councilors.
she had the enterprise and energy to assume,
tne responsiniiiiy oi tne voyage oi VyommDUS
that led to the discovery of America, and
which has filled the earth with her fame.
Intelligent and Great Brick-Tops.
Although in writing of famous women
and men, the fact of their being "red
beads" has been generally omitted, there are
enough known to show that they are not a
whit behind others in what constitutes su
perior intelligence and greatness. We-have
gone through the lives of the women ot the
White House, but none of them so far as
accounts go were "red heads," but neither
on the other hand have any of them been
'distinguished for intellectual greatness or
remarkable talents. Bnf in the domain of
letters, there are two famous "redheads"
Julia Ward Howe and Frances Willard.
Mrs. Howe's hair has faded into while and
thus plays havoc with the insurance idea,
bnt she furnishes testimony .to the fact
that brains and red hair go well together.
Miss Willard, with herjsandy loeks,is a born
leader,, a woman gifted with genius for ad
ministration, a talent for politics, and power
to sway the .multitude.
Thousands of red-haired women are in the
front ranks to-day engaged in every good
work, and these give token that it is time
for the old superstition as to red hair to be
laid out dead. Bessie Bbamblh,
SHOW AKD ELECTEIC CABS.
A New Tork Company Has so Much
Trouble li" Stops Business. i
The Fourth Avenue Bailroad Company
of New York took oft the electric cars from
its line during a recent snow, and the
officers of the-Umted Electric Traction Com
pany are 'now trying to invent some ap
pliance that will enable the cars to run
easily when snow is on the gronnd. Super
intendent Skittsays that during the recent
snow storm it was impossible to keep the
tracks, clear of snow. As soon as the
sweeper passed over the tracks wagons
would cross and throw the snow back
again.
As the electrio cars are not drawn, the
wheels simply slid round and round without
the car advancing a foot Mr. Skitt thinks
that a remedy can be found, and says that
the officers of the road were now considering
the feasibility of attaching snow brushes to
the cars in front of the wheels that will re
volve with the motion oi the car and brush
away the snow.
A HODEBU BIP VAN WIffKLB.
For Thirty-One Tears He Has Heard 2fo
Bound Save His Ouard's Footsteps.
Mew Tork TVorld-a
The .King of the Belgians has just granted
his liberty to an unfortunate man who
might well be called the modern Bip Tan
Winkle. Thirty-one years ago the mur
derer, TImmerman, was sentenced to solitary
confinement for life, and ever since then he
has existed in a cell of the penitentiary of
Antwerp, cut off from all communication
with the outside and forbidden even to talk
with his jailers.
Ko sound reached him but the steps of
the sentinel walking np and down before
his d6or. He is in total Ignorance of the
progress of civilization, and gas, telephones,
electrio light, tramways, are absolutely un
known to him. Long has he been craving
for freedom, bnt it is very likely that this
boon will lie heavily on his shoulders, so
helpless and simple-Blinded hubs become.
THEY SKIN 'EM ALUE.
A Bevolling Crime Against the Sheep
Perpetrated in Pern.
CEUEL AND HEARTLESS PEOPLE.
Tired Donkeys Stagger Under Burdens
Dntll Thej Fall Dead.
L0TE MAKING WITH 1 BEASS BAND
rcoaaisroirozscz or thx dispatch.!
Lima, Pests, Dec. 6. In common, with
other Spanish Americans the Peruvians
show a strange mixture of gentleness and
cruelty, sentimentality and heartlessness.
They are excessively polite to the minutest
detail of an exaggerated etiquette, on all
occasions at home or abroad. Their voices
are low and musical, their vivacious
gestures and profound obeisances the per
fection of grace, and their every-day man
ners such as Lord Chesterfield might have
envied.
If a lady young or old, handsome or
hideous comes into any public place where
gentlemen are congregated, instantly the
buzz of conversation ceases, every man rises
to his feetf takes off his hat and remains
standing until she has passed out or is
seated. When a funeral procession goes by,
men in their carriages, in the horse cars, on
the streets and in the doorways or balconies
of their houses, uncover and bow their heads;
and the same custom is observed-whenever
the door of a church is passed. Their defer
ence to the aged, the obedience of adults to
their parents, their tenderness to the young
and their toleration of and charity toward
the vast -army of. beggars, are beautiful to
behold and worthy of emulation.
Beggars and Highwaymen.
They will put themselves to the greatest
amount of trouble to serve a stranger, with
ouf expectation of reward; their hospitality
is unbounded, their generosity proverbial
and for a point of honor most of them will
lay down their lives. Yet the temporarily
reduced will resort to a thousand polite pre
texts to get money out of you, such, for ex
ample, as a dead friend who had recently
lost all his property and whose coffin must
be bought by subscription; won't you donate
$10 toward so charitable an object? or a tale
of woe about a poor widow and her children,
left penniless in the cold world, who are de
sirous of going to their relatives in some
distant place; surely the senora will be
hanpy to assist them? etc., etc
1 myself snbscribed small amounts from
time to time for dozens of coffins and poor
widows With i weeping families, until I
learned the little game. Even the Peru
vian highwayman will take off his hat to
you in the most deferential manner before
politely requesting your money or your life;
and if it comes to the unpleasant necessity
of forcibly taking the latter in order to
secure the former, he will crave your pardon
while plunging his dagger into your vitals;
will compliment your handsome appear
ance in death, and tarry long enough, at
whatever risk to himself, to not onlv burr
you decently, but to set up a cross over your
grave, so that future passers-by may pausen
to say prayers lor your unsnnven soul.
The Children Never Cry.
In all the months I have remained in this
country I have never seen a child whipped
and have scarcely heard one cry. The poor
est among them loves mU3io and poetry,
flowers and sentimentality, more than his
daily meat and drink) yet a vein of coldest
cruelty and utter heartlessness runs through
the best of them. This is evidenced in
many ways besides the bullfight, the cock
pit and their conduct in war. Perhaps the
most common example is in their treatment
of donkeys. No tongue can tell what those
patient and tractable little creatures are
made to endure till merciful death at last
releases them from torment, overwork and
slow starvation.
Everywhere we see pitiable examples of
beasts bearing heavy burdens upon raw and
bleeding backs, which daily press deeper
and deeper into the festerintr flesh until the
bone is laid bare, and still no attention is
paid to it, nor is the burden in any way
lightened. We see them with huge welts
criss-crossed along their backs and flanks,
raised by the merciless whip, which falls un
ceasingly, whether the poor animals travel
fast or slow. Some have their ears lopped
and broken by blows from cudgels, and
many have their nostrils silt up on each side
the hose, so that there may be "no non
sense" in the way of difficulty of breathing
and consequent loss of speed in the higher
altitudes.
Torture of the Donkeys.
The theory appears to prevail that a don
key can carry as much as can be piled upon
him, and they are generally covered from
head to tail with loads that bulge far ont on
each side; or when carrying human freight,
two men, or a couple of women, or three or
four boys bestride him at once. When
hardly able to move, eithervfrom excessive
burdens or lack ot food, his energies are
stimulated as long as possible by twisting
his stub of a tail or his sensitive ears; or by.
the boy who rides him, who selects a nice
soft spot somewhere on the animal's flank
or fore-shoulder and works away at it with
a rusty nail or scrap of iron or tin, till the
hide is worn away, the raw flesh exposed
and bleeding, and then to continue' nagging
the wound.
Not less to be pitied are the street car
mules nd horses, which are beaten inces
santly no matter how hard they pull or how
desperately they exert . themselves lash,
lash, goes the long, heavy whip over their
suffering backs, up grade -and down, from
dawn till midnight An extra man is hired
for the express purpose of whipping the ani
mals, who stands beside the driver and ap
pears to be the most industrious person in
Peru.
Skinning Sheep Alive.
The most blood-curdlingly cruel thing that
has yet come under my ooservation is the
manner in which are obtained the so-called
"pig-skins" that so commonly serve for bot
tles and casks. They are not the hides of
I pigs, but those of sheep, and, horrible to re
late, are puiieu ou me. jiving animal,
the poor sheep being actually skinned
alive, or more correctly speaking, skinned
dead, for, of course, he does not long sur
vive the operation. The modus operandi is
as follows:-
The beasts are driven, one by one, to the
appointed place and firmly tied to a stake.
Then the bide is neatly cut around the neck
and down the middle, without touching the
flesh or severing the arteries or hurting the
animal much; after which hooks are fastened
into the loosened skin, a rope being attached
to each hook; strontr men take firm grip on
the ropes and pull backward, pulling and
pulling, until the hide is torn off clean to
the tail. It is said that during this frightful
torture the cries of the poor sheep are
almost human in their expression of agony,
and that the bloody, quivering mass some
times lives several minutes. The only ex
cuse for the barbarous practice is that the
skins are much more flexible and durable
when thus taken off alive than when the
animals are dead.
A Tonthfol Lover's Sighs.
A youthful army officer, who was Intro
duced to our party by the resident consul,
has been exemplifying some of the traits of
his race in a marked manner. He was im
mediately "taken" by our Yankee young
lady, and, redoubtable warrior though he
desired to be considered, desired to surren
der unconditionally at first sight "Our
Little Colonel," as we called him, was hard
ly more than a boy, and like the rest of his
class, was a scion of, aristocraoy. It is not
uncommon to find captains in their "teens"
in the Peruvian army, and all the officers
are the sons of "first families," quite sep
arate and apart from the common soldiers,
who are half-breeds called Cholos, and the
military bands, which are mostly made up
of negroes.
He wore the usual toggery, without which
a Peruvian officer is never seen, at home and
abroad, to Wedding and funerals, "U mill
and to meeting." The persons who make
j clothes for the Peruvian army evidently ex
pect them all to grow, for the trousers are
invariably so loose and baggy that tha
"seat" appears near where the knee ought to
be and the knee midway between that mem
ber and the ankle, making the side stripes
look like black serpents. But the jackets
are so short and small, with a tendency to
ride upward, that the rear buttons which
are supposed to mark the waist-line occupy
a prominent position near the shoulder
blades.
Surreptitious Demonstrations.
The little Colonel was very demonstrative
in his love-making, so far as sighs and
"sheep's eyes" go, but found himself wo
fully hampered by the restrictions of local
etiquette. The object of his devotion could
speak but little Spanish and he not a word
of English and of course he could never see
her at all without the presence oi her
mother. But when the latter's back was
turned, as was sometimes purposely done
when a convenient mirror would renectthe
scene, he would instantly throw himself
into the attitude of the typical grand-opera
lover, with head on one side, eyes "in fine
frenzy rolling" and both hands pressed to
the region of his heart, to the infinite amuse
ment of the lookers-on.
One day he astonished us by pleasantly
remarking: "You may perhaps observe
that I show a need of washing,' but I took
cold last week and am not yet rid of it"
And then we remembered the Spanish
superstition, held in universal respect, that
it is dangerous to wash one's face and bands
during a cold, though it may last a month.
The young Colonel was not of those ple
beians who serenade their Dulcineas with
guitar or mandolin, assisted by the voice;
nothing but the full brass band would sat
isfy him when the intensity of his feelings
demanded musical expression.
The Beer Cost Too Much.
We endured it several times; but finally
were obliged to beg him to desist, on the
gronnd that we couldn't afford the expense
which will be readily understood when I
explain that the regiment band was 30 pieces
strong, every man of them addicted to beer
(which is all imported and costs 80 cents per
bottle), and that custom permits them dur
ing an evening's serenade to order what
ever they like to drink at the nearest bar,
the bill to be paid by the unfortunate per
son to whom the music is addressed.
The Sociedad Benificencia, or Benevolent
Society of Lima, which exercises a general
supervision over all the public charities,
has lately given a series of Sunday after
noon bull fights, with hired matadores and
picadores from afar, to increase their fund
from the proceeds. The bullfights of Pern
are not nearly so barbarous as those we have
witnessed in Mexico and Cuba, because
here no blinded horses are forced on the
horns of the maddened toro to be gored to
death for the delectation of spectators, and
then dragged out with entrails protruding.
But at its best, the so-called sport is cruel
enough to satisfy the most bloodthirsty, and
to sicken the unaccustomed.
The Devil Most Fay.
Hhe "Sociedad," though made np of the
strictest church people, does not scruple to
accept a share from Sunday bull fights,
from the cock pits, lottery ventures, eamb-
Jing houses and similar entertainments and
institutions, contending that it is well
to take from the devil anything
that can he captured for a worthy
cause, rather than to "let the tail go with
the hide." Here is a hint to those good
people who object to making the liquor
traffic pay a part of the burden imposed on
society in the pauperism it induces, as is
provided in the license laws, on the ground
that this is a compromise with Satan.
By the way, I have often heard in churches
here the fiuest waltz music rendered by thet
full choir in a jubilant burst of melody just
before the most solemn and impressive of
all ceremonials, the elevation of the Host
and when I mentioned the matter one day to v
a priest of my acquaintance, he said: "And
why not. pray? Why should the Prince of 1
Darkues3 have all the best and most iovfnl '
music, and the Lord of Hosts only the most
dolorous?" Faitnik B. Waed.
A BEGLHEHTAL SCAHBAL.
High Officer and a Prince or theBIoo4
Boyal in a Scrape.
WBXTTS3 rOB THX DIsrATCH.1
A great scandal hs lately taken place
in the Uhlan barracks at Stuttgart, and
which the Court is doing its utmost to keep
quiet, but a gossip from there sends me the
following details: On a dark November
evening the Colonel of the Nineteenth TJhlan
Begiment (Imperial Army) paid an unex
pected visit to the hall reserved for the
special use of the officers, in the middle of
which he saw ballet girls dancing. In the
room were several officers and six
women, and it is said that among
the whirllnz ballet dancers a prince
of the blood royal was seen.
The other officers belong to the most
notable families ot the German aristocracy;
they were all dismissed the service, notwith
standing the highest influence being used to
try and get the Emperor to relent; but he
would listen to no such thing, for the men
had brought disgrace on his well-beloved
army.
The royal Prinee was obliged to leave at
once for Vienna, so that he might make
valid the alibi in his favor. Naturally, the
officers who have suffered punishment are
very wroth with the partiality shown; but
the Colonel, to quiet them, told them to
send in a list of their debts. An endless
list was sent in, which were duly paid. It
might be asked, "Who paid them?"
MAKE THKIH VICTIMS DBTOK.
Plants That live on Insects and Frogs A
Caricature In leaves.
"Here is what I call the beer saloon,"
said a florist in the Botanical Gardens at
Washington the other day. "You see this
is shaped liked a pitcher, hangs from a long
stem and has a curved lid. Inside is a fluid
that intoxicates all insects that drink it
They are then absorbed by the plant This
other one, like a round, hollow tulip stem,
is of the same nature.
"Then, here is a big green pitcher plant
Well, frogs climb in this to drink from the
fluid at the bottom. But they can't get out,
for when they try to, a couple of sharp
horns in the lid overhead stab them in the
back.
"This on the board is what we call stag
moss. You see it grows on the side of the
house from a clump of brown leaves like a
deer's head. From it branch out four large
green prongs of leaves exactly like horns.
Of all curious plants this is about the
oddest These green leaves are spotted with
white, and you can always trace a face on
the outlines, and I call it the caricature
plant"
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