JTHE PJTTSBTJBG DISPATCH SUNDAY, AUQUBT 7,
POSING US ARTISTS
How Good People Make Fools
of Themselves at tho
Eoyal Academy.
IT'S TERY PBOPEB TO GO
And More Proper to Appear
Know All About the Pictures.
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GREAT KAMES OH THE CAKTAS.
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American Woman Telli Just
Then Wax to Fleue Her.
What
THE WOEK THiT MAKES IK IMPEE8BI0K
rcOKBrsroroxxcs or thx dotatch.1
Loxdojt, July 30. No one who makes
even the ilighteit pretention! to cultnre
(when one makes pretentions to cultnre one
always spells it with a big "C") would even
think of leaving London without paying a
Tisit to the Royal Academy, or at any rate
reading up on the exhibition and stontly
maintaining he had paid It a visit. The
Boyal Academy of Arts has its home in
Burlington House, where the Tery essence
of learning, as represented by the Eoyal
Astronomical Society, the Society of An
tiquaries, the Geological, the Chemical, and
and the Unman societies, is sheltered by
one root.
Now and then one or another of these so
cieties holds a reception to which learned
folk come and wonder why they give recep
tion's anyhow, and frivolous folk come and
wonder what the society is about when it
isn't holding a reception, and a great many
folk who don't wondtr or think at all come
because '"it looks well to be seen there."
Burlington House, "a fine, imposing
came that looks well on an invitation
card," as a socially ambitious little friend
musingly remarked on receiving her "bid"
to one ot these dry-as-dust receptions, is a
really handsome building surrounding a
courtyard. One steps from the life and
gaiety and, it must be admitted, the wick
edness of Piccadilly, through great gate
ways which are barred after hours by beau
tiful gates like iron lace work, across the
cobblestones of the courtyard into the quiet
and the high-pressure atmosphere of art of
the Eoyal Academy.
TIib Private Views at the Academy.
This exhibition is a part of the "season's"
life. It lasts from May until August, and
with the weather and one's health forms
one of the stock subjects of polite conver
sation. The private views at the academy
sxe very swell aflairs, indeed, calling out
the smart set, the aesthetic set, the moneyed
let (as possible buyers) and the Bohemian
let, that brilliant set which is just wicked
mough to be fascinating and clever, and
tasteful enough to retain its "good form."
A private view is a really important
social event. Fashionable women have
special gowns for it, just as they hare for
Ascot and Goodwood and Henley, and royal
garden parties, when royaltv gives garden
parties. The actresses who have a leaning
toward art, and the artists who have a lean
ing toward the drama, are present. The
critics, literary, dramatic and artistic are
there, the authors and newspaper folk, the
famous people and the "faddy people all
come under the private view net. As the
gowns tor Ascot must be very smart
end those for Henley chic, the gowns ior
the Academy must be aesthetic and artistic
eb to color and cut, and the "picture gowns"
on the floor outvie the picture gowns in the
frames. The private views are for the
artists, the academicians, and their friends,
and it is really a very pretty scene when
these well-dressed folk with an intelligent
appreciation of art, or clever assumption of
It, go about looking for their dear mends'
pictures, and pause before one to cay,
'Really, now, that's not half bad," or
"Very" much better than last year," or
" must be losing form. This doesn't
come up to the picture he sent last year."
It's Dad Form Not to Understand.
And then when a really-truly artist takes
them in tow it's beautiful to fee the "oh
dear, yes; I understand perfectly" expres
sion they hang out, while he goes into tech
nical detail. But everyone who wants to
tee the pictures doesn't go to a private
view, and consequently the eleven rooms
where the oil paintings are, being the"
rooms where the water-colors are displayed,
the black and white room, the architectural
room and the statuary rooms are every day,
during exhibiting hours, thronged with peo
ple 6bufiling and buzzing about. There are
2.000 odd works ot art in the catalogue, and
tue average cumber of visitors each day is
one to each art work.
They are people who come again and
again, artists who bring their friends, art
ists' menus who bring their friends, tour
ists from everywhere, townspeople and
ountry people. " They go about, some with
opera glasses (although the special use of
opera glasses in the small rooms, I, with
my crude practicality, couldn't divine)
some with lorgnettes, some with single
glasses, and some with no glasses at all.
Some of them look laughably sentimental
before the pictures that "tell a story," some
look still more laughably wise before the
pictures that look as it they should be re
markable lor the "technique" or the
"chiaro-oseura" or the "atmosphere," or
some equally intangible reason that they
can prattle about, for they are remarkable
for nothing else. There's a deal of mum
mery and flummery in it all, and even if
one has no appreciation of art as something
to "paw up alter," as a jolly cowboy put it,
there's plenty of human nature to be had
for the shilling admission.
Flirtations Before the ralntlng.
There's plenty of flirtation going on,
with an utter disregard to the improvement
of the mind. There are appointments made
and some clever bits of acting done by the
people who keep them, deceiving mascu
lines worrying around to find the dear girl,
and when they see her sauntering about
looking at the pictures and professing the
most lively surprise when they do come
plump before her. There's the opposite of
this in the man who doesn't care a well, I
won't mention what "for a ten-acre lot
lull of your old daubs," who says he'll meet
his wife, who does care, at a certain hour,
and who always finds her in the last room
after he his jostled and trodden on the toes
of everyone in every other room, and the
bristly way in which he approaches her
quenches the soft light of romantic pleas
ure in her eyes, and makes one wonder
what there is in the marriage ceremony
anyhow that to surely murders sympathy.
But, to get back to the two-thousand-odd
works of art, and looking at them through
the average visitor's eyes (ninety five out
of every hundred are average and come to
see the interesting pictures), it is astonish
ing to find so many artists devoting the
years they must to the study of art, and
afterward so much actual labor, thought,
hope and artistic skill to the production of
the commonplace.
A Ucflultlon of a Great Picture.
I made a quick trip through the gal
leries a comparatively quick trip, giving
three hours to the oil paintings as an ex
periment. An artist, an academician, said
to me not long ago: "There is something
more in art than producing a technically
perfect bit of work on canvas. I would as
soon make a perfect and intricate piece of
needlework as paint a picture that appealed
only to the professional eye of an artist and
required an understanding of the technique
f art to appreciate it. The picture that la
a success is the picture that holds the tnter-
I est and cannot be forgotten I"
I made mv trip with hit words In my
mind. -I didn't look at the names of the
artists. When I saw a picture that "stood
out" from the rest and caught my interest I
turned to the catalogue to see who painted
it. There were many beautiful pictures,
beautifully painted, the work of master
hands, but so commonplace, oh, so common
place, that I felt like calling a meeting of
these industrious artists of pretty, smooth,
neat, decorous thoughts, and exhorting them
to take their brains out ot the cotton wool
wrappings, and let the fresh breezes of un
hampered creativeness revive them again.
There were portraits, a mile of them, I
should say, well painted for the most part,
and Interesting, because human faces are
always interesting, but even they roused a
wiih that women could realize when the
time comes for them to stop sitting for
artists. Youth, age, and individuality are
the only things one wants fixed on canvas.
It a woman is plain and commonplace, or if
she was pretty and is commonplace no
matter if her heart is as good as gold, her
temper as sweet as sorghum Masses, and her
soul as white as a dove she oueht not to
let an artist perpetuate her commonplace
face on canvas.
Discovering Mark Twain' rorrralt.
Among the portraits there was one that
quite caught my fancy a pleasant looking
chap, one who looked as if he "thunk his
own thoughts," as Bill Nye puts it; a chap
with a tawny drooping mustache, a oorncob
pipe in his month, a pleasant, shrewd,
friendly twinkle in his eyes, a thick, curl
ing mass of tawny hair well tinged with
grav, hair that looked as if it was used to
having fingers run through it. I struck up
quite a Iriendship with this ehap. It
seemed too bad, too, to me, that he should
be hanging in a corner, second row, light
none too rood, and I was wondering where
I had seen some one like him. I got quite
puzzled about it till I bethought me to look
"at my catalogue and found it, "Mark Twain
(S. L. Clemens, Esq.) J. Carroll Beck
with." The oil paintings numbered 1,044, and
among them all I lound I'm not setting
this "I" up arrogantly, for it is but an
atom not more thane half a dozen that I
couldn't forget.
Paintings by the Urrat Artists.
After going through the galleries and
looking at the pictures that stood out from
the rest, the peaks of strength, interest and
originality above the plain of the common
place, I turned the leaves of mv catalogue
aud lound great names like Millet, Alma
Tadema, Hubert, Herkomer, Sir Frederick
Leighton and the like, names that in the
corner of a canvas stamp a work as "great"
and add ciphers on the good side of the sell
ing price", but, and with the observer lies
the fault I have no doubt, I should never
have taken a second look at them but for the
names that went with them.
Good pictures they are that have these
great names on them. "Masterly, incom
parable," an artist and a fine judge told me
they are, but it takes the connoisseur to ap
preciate them. Theyare uninteresting.
Elizabeth A. Tompkins.
AMONG THE SPIRITUALISTS.
Grance-I-abor Day at Ulr Dale Pleas for
(Toman Suffiaje Th Labor Situation
as a Woman Sees It Calamity Howlers
Proad of Their Work.
LlXY DALE,Aug. &. Special "Wednes
day was Grange-Labor Bay and Chautauqua
and adjoining counties emptied their
grangers, laborers and their sympathizers
into Lily Dale. The speakers of the day were
Bon. Mortimer "Whitehead, Hon. Robert
Schilling and Miss Kate O. Peate.
Miss Peate, who is the regular speaker
for the Knights of Labor, set forth the
wrongs of the working people in good
strong language. She asserted the right of
her sex to equal pay with men for equal
labor, and claimed for them the right to
vote. She stated that all reforms
sprane from the labor party. She
accused the press of the country of ac
cepting bribes and claimed that the Asso
ciated Press was controlled' by capitalists
who withheld the trutb from the masses.
The prime cause of strikes and riots rested,
said the speaker, in usury, that when a
man paid 1 per cent for the use of money,
he paid for all the labor required to pro
duce that money, and anything further was
extortion. She summed up her arguments
by holding that interest was usury which
was held up by an international conspiracy
among bankers.
The existing evils and corruptions of the
present relations of capital and labor were
well pointed out and were loudly ap
plauded, both by cowhides and patent
leathers, but she did not, unfortunately,
suggest the remedy.
Hon. Mortimer Whitehead, national lec
turer of the Grange, was then introduced
and made a strong plea to his "brother
farmers" to join the organization. The ex
cuse of over-production being the cause of
increasing mortgages upon farms was face
tiously dwelt upon, and the story told
of a Southern planter who learned that he
had produced so much cotton that hl wif
couldn't have a calick dress. The anomaly
of
miners lying idle with inexhaustible
stores ot coal at their feet while the city
poor shivered with cold was touched upon
and pronounced unnecessary.
Hon. Robert Schilling, the Calamity
Howler, as he termed himself, followed
with a strong argument in favor of the
Farmers' Alliance. The American Gov
ernment, said he, is in reality a monopoly
government. What can we say of the jns
tice of our laws, asked the speaker, which
will disenfranchise one-half of Its citizens.
Is it civilization that compels a woman to
obey laws she cannot make and pay taxes
she cannot dispose of? He rejoiced the
Spiritualists present by representing him
self as one of them, and declared that it
needed the feminine element in politics to
make a perfect balance.
ABT STUDENTS IH ITALY.
Too Many Americans Stake a Mistake In
Going to the Sonny and.
"Every year sends more of onr country
women to Italy to prepare, themselves for
the stage, whose qualifications of voice and
person, however flattered in America, by
no means fit them for a successful career in
that country, in which indeed their very
sex, instead of being ot some protection, as
in America, is quite the reverse," says Ex
Governor Crosby in the Xorth American He
vita. "Their position in the meanwhile is ag
gravated by their ignorance or disregard of
habits and opinions very foreign to those
they have been accustomed to at home.
From the outset they are liable to be vic
timized by being insidiously encouraged by
interested persons to pursue, at a heavy ex
pense for years, studies to fit them for the
operatic stage, only at last, after paying an
extravagant fee for a debut trial, to utterly
fail, either from absolute inability or
through the plots of jealous rivals.
"For every success there are many failures;
at the same time, when the conditions are
favorable, there is no country that has such
ereat facilities for the training of an opera
singer, and the beginning ot a successful
career. It is true there have been example!
of remarkable and praiseworthy success
under most adverse circumstance's, due en
tirely to the energy and ability displayed
by the young ladies themselves. In thus
plainly presenting the disadvantages and
trials which all must more or less meet, I
do not wish to discourage anyone from at
tempting a professional career in Italy, but
only to state the adverse facts for the con
sideration of the persons most interested."
Dlfcrrhcsa In Eentnoky.
"There has been a continued tendency to
bowel disease here this season," says G. W.
oiinen, aruggisi, wiCKlifie, Jlv., "and an
unusual demand for Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. I have
sold four bottles of it this morning. Some
remarkable cures have been efiected by it
and in all cases it has proved successful "
For salt by drug-gilts, "flrxhss
JffimSF
tCOBKXSK)inIXCI OF TH DnTPJLTCH.J
Bed Bianxet, Tex, Aug. 4. The
Eastern idea of a Texas horse is a ewe
necked, low-headed, narrow-chested, cat
hammed little beggar, with blood in his eye
and as many devils in his disposition as
there are cockle burrs in his tail.
I wish some of the people who Imagine
that droves of such little beasts are the
horses generally raised on Texas ranches,
could see Jim McQueen's Cinco. His sire
was a four-mile horse whose an
cestry ran vaguely back toward
Kentucky; and he unites with
the beauty, speed, smooth coat, good temper
and larger size of this stock the indomitable
pluck and hardihood, and the inexhaustible
bottom of his native Texas blood. Jim
traded five ponies for him when he was a
raw, slim-legged yearling, and called him
Cinco in commemoration. He is six years
old now, and has never known the feeling of
n collar. It is true that if some unin
structed outsider should insist on putting
him into harness, Cinco would probably
end by kicking the vehicle into kindling
wood, and himself clean of every scrap of
harness; bnt this would be simply a con
temptuous protest a forcible explanation
of the fact that he wasn't built to haul loads.
A Very Accomplished Animal.
Cineo is the best horse in this, a country
of good horses. His qualifications and ac
complishments are varied. He is an unap
proachable cow-horse, a finished expert in
all the horse maneuvers incident to round
ing up, roping and cutting ont; a perfect
mine of endurance and eood spirits on the
trail, and always wins all the long distance
and handicap races at the county fair. He
won his last handicap about a month ago,
under circumstances of thrilling interest to
a romance-loving frontier society.
Jim is the junior partner at the bachelor
Gillespie & McQueen sheep and cattle
ranch on Boggy Bun. Their nearest neigh
bor, five miles above, is the Austell ranch,
at Crockett's Well Miss Chummie Aus
tell, when she came out to the ranch a year
ago from some East Texas school, had as
easy a walkover of the undisputed belle
ship of the whole county as Cinco would
have in an open race against a field of cow
ponies, and without an ounce of handicap.
It was Jim, with his good looks, boyish
spirits, and what Wade Keener bitterly
styled "his blame winnin' ways," who first
gained her maiden preference, and held it
so long, in the face of so much and such
spirited, not to say desperate livalry, that
it looked as though the course of true love
might be going to run smooth once, just to
show its West Texas originality.
An TJnromantio Drifter Arrive.
But now came upon the scene the cause
of discord, misunderstanding, jealousy and
reproaches, spirited retorts and secret tears
and finally angry separation, in the person
of a sheepman, a ' drifter," from somewhere
up in the Panhandle. Spurr was a most
unromantio figure, about five or six feet in
height and three feet across, with a sort of
air ot good-fellowship about him. and eiv-
inz a vaue impression, somehow, of great
and abounding wealth.
Now a "drifting" sheepman is, generally
speaking, not very kindly taken to by cat
tlemen, or even by sheep ranchers. He is
a man who may have 10.000, 15,000 or 20,000
sheep, and grow rich off the wool and mut
ton without ever owning a foot of land. But
old man Austell and Mrs. Austell were un
deniably impressed by the atmosphere of
wealth that went about with Spurr, and
when he laid violent siege to Chummie's
affections he got more or less support from
the family even the boys, who were Jim's
special lriends, standing of! neutral. Jim,
hurt and angry, rode over to see Chummie
and demanded that she give that chump his
vamos, right straight.
It's hard for a pretty girl who knows her
power to accede gracefully and promptly to
an order like that, even Irom the man'sne
loves, and the result was an angry rupture.
Spmr Was an Acres.lre Saltor.
For some weeks they never met. and all
this time Spurr was staving at the Austell
ranch or camping close to it, pushing his
suit with Chummie; and Chummie, with the
indiscretion of the weaker sex thinking to
scare Jim into repentance allowed herself
to be drawn into a sort of promise, -which
Spurr immediately fastened upon, sent to San
Antonio for an immense diamond solitaire,
and, with the support of the old people,
hurried on the marriage, so that before she
realized where she stood, the frightened and
unhappy girl was actually putting on her
wedding dress.
And Jim?
-The season was bad, there had been no
rain for lonsr, Boggy Bun was run out, the
grass was dry as tinder and the stock was
beginning to suffer. The sheep could do
where they were a well-regulated Texas
sheep can come as near dispensing with
drinking water as a Kentucky colonel but
the cattle were rounded up and started out
on the trail for "the territory." Jim, who
usually stayed with the sheep, took charge
of the cattle this year. There was a most
uncomfortable soreness in the region of his
heart, which it seemed somewlfat to him
might be more or less worked off in the toil
of managing a herd of trail cattle, lamming
recalcitrant steers, fighting to keep the
bunch to the trail in the face ot a norther,
or struggling to prevent or to quell an in
cipient stampede.
Jim Qnlck'y Took tlie Boms Trail.
They had been out on the trail nearly a
week, and were pretty well up toward "the
State line, when Bob English rode into
their camp one evening. After supper,
when Jim's two cowboys were out riding
round the herd, getting them bedded down
for the night, Bob remarked confidentially
to Jim, "The weddin's a-comin' ofl next
Thursday. Ton done the very thing to jest
skip. She's sorry enough Goo dG od, Jim!
I thought you knew all about itl"
In two hours' time Jim was far from his
camp -and Bob's, headed for Boggy Bun on
the best pony in the saddle band aud leading
another, cursing his folly lor thinking Cinco
too good for so hard a trip. Four days later,
on a Thursday, he rode up to the ranch
house door at Boggy Eun about noon
and threw himself upon the bed without a
word, while Gillespie, equally speechless
with amazement, arose Irom his solitary
dinner and attended to the used up horses.
That evening Jim was saying to Gillespie
(an older man and a hard-headed Scotch
man), while he blacked his boots vigorously,
turned the little ranch house upside down
and dragged oat all hU own and Gillespie'!
entire wardrobe to make a suitable full dress
toilet: "Let up, John. There's no use talk
ing. I'm goin' over there an' look at her
that's all. It this is her own deal and she's
satisfied, why I'm bound to be. If it isn't
it that little old swelled up prairie dog
an' the old I oiks have sort of rustled it in on
her No, you can't go, nor Billy. I'm
just going by myself, all peacable an'
natural."
They were waiting for the preacher at the
Austell ranch he was an hour overdue.
There was a sort of strained uneasiness in
the air since Jim's unexpected arrival, de
spite his quiet manner and friendly greet
ing. He only needed one glance at Chummie's
little face; and her look of half terrified de
light would have melted a more obdurated
and injured lover. Presently some lively,
young spirit out on a porch exclaimed, "O,
let's play hide and seek; the moon's bright
a3 day."
Jim watched Chummie, and, as she crossed
a darkened entry, caught her in his arms an
instant, whispering, "Hide out at the far
side of the corral Cinco's there, hitched."
She slipped around a back way unseen,
while Jim walked boldly over in front, and
there, behind the 8-loot stockade, they met
at Cinco's head.
"You don't want him, do you, darling?"
"O no, O no, Jim!"
"Will you risk it with me and Cinco?"
"Oyes! Quick!"
"They'll follow. Where's the saddles and
bridles? I'll put vou on Eascal."
"All on the bark porch there isn't time,
anyhow O, listen!"
Two Figures on a Fljinj: Horse.
Jim lifted the little figure instantly upon
Cinco behind the saddle, swept the bridle
rein up from the snag over which it hung
and sprang into the saddle in front of her;
and her arms were round him. Even while
he wheeled Cinco at the corral gate, dashed
in, and, circling once round it, drove the
horses snorting out before them with swing
ing quirt, Jim thrilled within that encir
cling girdle, and remembered how once,
riding over from Boggy Bun, he had found
her afoot at the far end of the ranch, Rascal
having given her the slip, how he had
taken her up behind him on Cinco, and how
he had grieviously spurred aud mistreated
that unoffending and astonished friend, and
put him into a dead run, for the rare delight
of feeling those shy arms about him.
It would have been prudent to start north
and circle round to the trail, avoiding the
house. But it wouldn't have been Jim
nor it wouldn't have been Texas. When he
felt himself in that sweet clasp, so long de
sired, so barely snatched and won at last,
when it would seem lost for good, with
those frightened arms clinging about him,
the small hands locking themselves together
below his heart, Jim felt like a warrior
god.
A LonI Whoop of Defiance.
Touching Cinco with the spurs, he sprang
forward and dashed down the trail, close
ueuiuu ine string oi clattering, snorting
oauuic jjuuih, usut pasi me open :ront
door and the whole assembled company, in
the clear white light of a Texas full moon.
As they came up to the group, Jim, in a
reckless burst of unrestrainable delight and
triumph, rose in the stirrups, and, swinging
his hat, remarked in the tone of an intoxi
cated steam whistle. "Whirr ooooirpl
Wlioooirp! Whoo oo ooey!"
Translated freely this reads, "Go to Hali
fax! I have got you now! Let's see you
help yourselves!" And so the gentlemen
to whom it was addressed received it. But
Cinco accepted it as only regular, straight
out horse talk the most pressing form of
exhortation to "git" known to his tribe;
and he "got" forthwith.
The ponies scattered out and let them
pass. Several of the older and soberer ones,
pausing to question and debate a little, were
caught and saddled, and the Austell bovs
and some others followed over to Boggy
Bun. Gillespie came out and told them,
with the grim, chuckling enjoyment ot an
sober old fellow over a beloved youngster's
dashing prank, that Jim and Chummie, on
Cinco and Gillespie's West pony, bad ridden
down to be married at Del Bio and take the
morning train to Uvalde, where Jim's peo
ple live.
Jim and Chummie could afford to be mag
nanimous and say nothing to the old folks,
when we heard last week that Spurr was
living meekly at Dallas with a very ag
gressive wife and four children, that came
out from the East somewhere and rounded
up and corralled that gar butterfly.
Alice MacGowak.
Sparkling at Day and NJjjht.
The biggest diamonds in Saratoga do not
belong to any of the women who are stop
ping at the big hotels. They are the prop
erty.of the stout woman who has a cottage
on one of the streets leading up from Con
gress Hall. And she wears her gems dav
and night She has them on when the sun
is shining brightly, and later when the sun
has gone down and the stars have come oat.
Wherever she goes there goeth also the
flash and the sparkle of the big gems.
A LITTLE PABABUC.
Serlbner's Msenlne.
I made the cross myself, whose weight
Was later laid on me. .
This thought adds anguish as I toll
Up llte's steep Calvary.
To think mine own hands 'drove the nails!
I snns a merry sonjr,
And choe the heaviest wood I had
To build it Arm and strong.
If I had guessed If I had dreamed
Its weight was meant for me,
I should Iiuve built a lighter cross
To Dear up Calvary!
Anne Reeve Atdrich.
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WOMEN'S GIFT OF GAB.
Bessie Bramble Sajs History Makes
Men the Greatest Talkers.
SOCRATES WAS A GREAT GOSSIP.
Clay and Webster Fnjoyed Themselves
TeUing of Small tventJ.
SENATOR QUAX'S POLITICAL MOTTO
rwarmif tor the dispatch.i
It is rather odd that the sex most dis
tinguished for talking is most forward in
disclaiming the tendency toward loquacitv.
Letters have come to hand which assert
over and over again that women have al
ways been greatly given to talk and noted
as "chroniclers of small beer, who think
too little and who say too much."
But Is it true?
Are women the talkers of the race? Tra
dition and superstition give them the credit
of being the gossips of the universe, but
history applies to women this honor only
Incidentally. Socrates, the celebrated Greek
philosopher, comes to mind as the most re
nowned of all talkers. He talked from
Monday morning until Saturday night, and
for that matter, all day on Sunday, as there
was no Law and Order autocrats in hit day
to make him keep it holy by silence. He
"prattled without end," say the historians.
Socratat Tfaa a Great Gab.
Although the wisest and most virtuous of
pagans, he had the gift of gab, and never
neglected an opportunity to talk. He was
so full of wisdom and words "golden and
divine" that he went to the markets in the
morning to hold converse with the country
pepie"H8 Tent t0 what nowadays is
called Congress at mid-day to discourse
upon philosophy with those he esteemed
learned in the law. He sought every as
semblage, every meeting, everyplace where
he could have an opportunity to set forth
his idea as to the world's construction, and
the philosophy of living. He talked to
everybody. Old or young rich or poor.
Begardless of the Grecian bigots and the
conservatives of his day, he delighted in
breaking down their opinions and argu
ments. So great was the fascination of his
voice that those who did not want their
minds disturbed kept out of hearing of his
"siren tongue." He talked and taught as
one inspired. In fact, he-thought that divine
instruction was given to him bv supernat
ural power. As estimated by the philos
ophers and his friends and disciples,
Socrates, and not Solomon, was the wisest
of all men, but according to himself his
wisdom consisted simply in knowing the
depth ot his own ignorance.
Ha Could Oat-Talk Xantippe.
I ' the time-hoary story that Xantippe,
his wife, was a common scold, but it is
much more likely that, considering the
ability of Socrates to use his tongue, she
was the weaker vessel, judging Irom the
standpoint of to-dav, it would not be sur
prising to learn that he talked her to death.
With him always talking, it was likely
that she got very little chance to speak her
mind. He gave up the trade to which he
had been brought up, and devoted himself.
to talking and thinking. Whether the in
terview fiend existed at the time is not
clearly made out, but it appears plain that
his tongue got him into trouble, since he
was accused of teaching false doctrines, and
of corrupting the minds of the young men
of Athens. He did not, as do many of the
wise brethren of the present, commit him
self to "expressive silence."
XT- J!-J -. v-i; ... ...
" ' "ot oeiieve in tne gods then
worshipped as divine, but, like many nowa
days, "he was a living certificate of the
meanness of the community in which he
lived." He rather courted, it- would ap
pear, the martyrdom which fell to his
snare, out wouia it not nave been better to
have hada living Socrates, rather than a
H A 1L o tTr:.t- i-f , ..
ucu uuui nnu ins everlasting tongue,
he must have been a sore trial to his wife.
He was very far from handsome, according
-- --.J. .vuuu iu nuiie as a
talker, he had the courage to maintain his
views even when most obnoxious to his
hearers. He was benevolent, sweet natnred
and affectionate in his disposition. He was
careless in his dress. The little niceties
that give token of the careful mind were
lost sight of in the great thoughts that shut
out all lesser ideas.
frith His Head Among the Stan.
It is likely that he was somewhat of a
cross to Xantippe, who did not understand
him or appreciate his greatness. A philos
opher in his own house is seldom agreeable.
With his head amone the stars, it is hard
to call him down to the plain realties of
everyday life.
Carlyle had a horror of kitchen doings.
His wile stood between him and them. She
was the barrier that shielded him from
everything that was unpleasant and dis
agreeable. Beyond her the bores never got
Fond of talking as he was, he could not
bear to waste his tongue or time upon those
he deemed unworthy, or to bestow his
thoughts uselessly upon people whose un
derstanding was beneath his own. More
over, if there was talking to be done, he
wanted to do it all himself. He had no pa
tience to listen.
Horace Walpole was a famous gossip in
his day. His life and letters and memoirs
show that the business to which he devoted
himself was to talk of trifles and tell stories
concerning the people he knew to anyone
who would listen. He was what Artemus
Ward calls an "amnsin' cuss." He knew
everything about everybody in society, and
made himself popular by telling of "behind
the scenes" in families in the most interest
ing tashion. His knowledge of skeletons
in the closets of the great was extensive,
and he did not hesitate to embellish his
gossip concerning them with irills that
lacked foundation in truth.
Macau-ay Con J Talk an Arm Offi
Perhaps no man has won higher fame as
a talker than Macauley. Eminent as a his
torian and as a writer, he was even yet
more noted among his friends as a talker,
whose flow of language was apparently in
exhaustible. His quickness "of thought,
bis power of memory, his disposition to
keep his tongue going was something mar
velous. Among his chosen friends, when
there was no let or hindrance to his powers
of speech, he flowed over and "stood in the
slop," as Sidney Smith somewhere says of
him.
Smith himself, be it remarked, was a
talker of no small fame. He had stories
and jokes to fit in everywhere, but when
Macaulay got started he had little chance
of getting them intoplav. Both men were
such talkers, and so full of the richness of
eloquence that it was considered somewhat
of a misfortune when they were invited
together to the same' table. On such oc
casions one had to be quiet a great hard
ship while the other rattled away so vigor
ously that no one else could get in a word.
After a long absence irom England Sydney
Smith said that really Macaulay bad im
proved inasmuch as he now had "flashes
of silence." Stenographers were' not in
vogue in their day, hence the brilliant
gossip of those famous dinners and break
fasts is lost and forgotten. The few recorded
remaiks seem in this age to be stale and flat.
U ebtter and Cloy Contd Gossip.
Daniel Webster it is said was a famous
talker, apart from public life. With his
intimate friends, he dropped the dignity of
the statesman, and gave himself up to gos
sip and hilarity. The news ot the day
around home was as well suited to the tem
per of his mind as is the Smalltalk of the
church to the women who keep it going.
Henry Clay would have been colled a gos
sip, if he had been a woman. "Look at'the
size of his mouth"' says a critic. Did any
ont with that sort ota countenance ever
'keep his own counsel or his head shut? He
talked too mucn, or like domes u. Ularne,
he talked at the wrong time. He gave him
self away to his enemies, and they were not
slow to taka advantage.'
"Many a man's tongue shakes oat hi
I master's undoing" is a truth io plain that
the greatest wonder of the world Is tnat
men will talk so unthinkingly. A spend
thrift with his tongue is sure to come to
grief.
Women take high rank as gossips. They
are held as talking too much and thinking
too little the most of the time, bdt history
gives the palm to men as talkers, who love
"to hear themselves and will speak more in
a minute than they will stand in a month."
A Famous n oman Who Could Talk.
One woman, famous as a talker, was
Madame De StaeL Even as a child she wns
remarkable for her ability to converse with
the most famous men of her day. But her
tongue and pen were a terror to Napolean,
the conquerer of Europe. He could not
live in peace, unless she was 130 miles away
from him He cared to hear no voice but
his pwn She read him through and
through, and he knew it. He called her
"a crow" "a bird of ill omen," but while
he could suppress her in his flush of vic
tories, he had no power to control her
tongue, or silence her pen.
Somebody says that "much tongue and
much judgment seldom go together." This
is true perlmps of the gossips in general,
but many men can talk and talk, and yet
say nothing. They can give three-minute
speeches without saying a word the inter
viewer wants to hear. They can so bridle
their tongues that not a secret can escape to
make a decent item. But how few are
those who can exercise discretion in speech !
"Learn to hold your tongue," is ihe advice
of wise men all adown the ages. Quay's
political catechism summed up in -two
words is, "Don't talk." He knows the vir
tue ot silence in political matters. "Learn
to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacha
rias 40 weeks of silence," says Fuller. If
the angels could impose such silence upon
men nowadays what a relief it would be oc
casionally. Bessie Bramble.
TEEATINO BABIES IH CHINA.
Over 200,000 Small Girls Are fearly Sacri
ficed to a Celestial Joss.
Pearson's -Weetly.J
In China tens of thousands of recently
born girls among the poorer classes are
thrown oat to perish, and at Shanghai I
saw a tower formerly used to facilitate this
infanticide. It is practiced in. every part
of China, but especially in the interior and
in the Loess district.
As soon as we get many miles from the
coast, it is quite usual to see near a joss
house, or place of worship, a small stone
tower from 10 to 30 feet high, with no door,
but a hole in one side reaching into a pit in
the center. The children that parents wish
to be rid of are thrown into this hole, and
quick-lime soon consumes the lifeless little
forms.
It is said that the priests take charge of
thin cruel work. It has been estimated that
every year 200,000 female babies are bru
tally slaughtered in the empire. One China
man being interrogated about the destruc
tion of his recently-born girl, said: "The
wife cry and cry, bat kill allee same."
In every large city in China there are
asylums for the care of orphans, supported
and conducted by foreigners, who save
yearly from slaughter tens of thousands of
iemaie infants. At Hankow, which is 600
miles inland, I visited a Roman Catholio
orphanage for children that have thus been
cast out to perish. Mother Paula Vitmara,
the lady superior of the institution, in
formed me that she h&d received seven that
day, and on one day 30 were brought in.
Ot course these baa never been consigned to
a baby tower.
Sometimes tbey are found wrapped in
paper and left at the edge of the river;
sometimes they are buried alive by the
father, but while yet living are dug up by
someone else, and brought to this insti
tution. Several women are employed by
the mother superior in looking about for
the little victims.
ANALYSIS OP EBNE8T BENArl.
His Brilliant Mind Is Able to see Many Sides
to Ons Thine.
"An enchanting and multiform artist In
ideas, a curious mind implanted 'in an
amorphous body, M. Benan offers in his
writings a brilliant monument of concrete
scepticism and a complete exposition and
apology of that dilettanteism which is cer
tainly ravaging the intellectual classes of
modern France, says Theodore Child in
Harper's Magazine.
"We say "ravaging" Intentionally, be
cause great and exquisite as may be the joys
procured by dllet atiteism.they are of a non
creative and unvirile kind. Indeed, if we
had not imposed upon ourselves the imper
sonal attitude oi the compiler ofan in
ventory, we should be tempted to call atten
tion to the harmony of M. Benan's
physical and intellectual personality,
and to compare that great shapeless
body to some huge polype or anemone, ris
ing or sinking, inclining to the right or to
the lelt, as instinct or a ray of sunlight or
the hazards of a current may inspire; bat in
any case merely floating and otherwise in
capable of choosing a direction following it
"So M. Kenan s mina, tnanKs to multi
form appreciation combined with vast inat
tention, is amused and fascinated by
the many-sidedness of phenomena. It sees
at once 10 or 20 phases, and being incapable
of the eflort necessary to decide which is
the best, it sinks back into the joys of sub
marine mirage, and reflects the beautr of
things on its polychrome facets that have
the prismatic and illusory charm of sea
flowers."
THE FTJITJBE OF ELECTBICITY.
It la to DUplaee the Steam Engine and
Revolutionize Cooking.
"Since in obtaining power from fuel by
means of steam engines, upward of 90 per
cent is wasted in unused heat, while the
power obtainable for use represents scarcely
more than 10 per cent of the real value of
the fuel; under the very best conditions the
question arises whether there may not be
discoverable a plan whereby a much larger
percentage of the real value of the fuel may
be turned to account as electricity, and
through the latter as heat, light, or power,"
says Prof. Elihu Thomson, the eminent
electrical inventor and expert, in the July
Ifew England Magazine.
"This question has at present no answer.'
The subject has been alive in the minds ot
our most able engineers and inventois for
years, and some have striven hard to find a
solution to the problem. Eecords of scien
tific discovery have been earnestly ran
sacked to find some clew; or, as it were, a
guiding post to point the way for the un
certain explorer. It now appears that we
may be compelled to await some new dis
covery, some new adaptation, or some new
'generalization before the way to the much
desired solution may be found. The effect
on the general industrial and economic de
velopment in electricity which would follow
the discovery ot some not too complex
means for realizing an economy of even 40
or 50 per cent of the enemy value ot fuel is
indeed almost incalculable.
"Then truly would electricity become the
almost universal agent in the production as
well as the transmission of power. The
steam engine would go out of use almost
entirely. We shonld bum our coal, not
under steam boilers; it would be consumed
in electric generators. Our steamships
would have their machinery replaced by
such generators, and their propellers would
be turned by gigantio electrio motors, con
nected with the generators. The speed
would be increased so as to still further
shorten the time of an ocean voyage. The
uses ot electricity as a heating agent would
be vastlv extended, and it goes without
saying that our lighting would be accom
plished at much less cost."
A New FKShlon Fad.
Street car parties are the fashion at Bur
lington, Io. The hostess hires a special car
in which she and her guests make a tour of
the line, and after the ride, the party ia
served refreshments at the hostess' home.
CARRIAGE ETIQUETTE.
HofT to Get In and Oat of One and
How to Care for a Guest.
A fiULE FOR BEAUTIFUL HAIB.
Silk Handkerchiefs as Important as Fire
xscapes In a Hotel.
EATING GEEEN APPLES WITH SALT
rwBiTrxir roa thz cisrATCB.1
Carriage manners are a distinct depart,
ment ot fashionable etiquette. How to
leave and enter a carriage may seem a very
simple thing to many people, but there is,
nevertheless, a right and wrong way to per
form these movements. In some finishing
schools in New York in an upper room is
arranged a set of boxes in simulation of
carriage steps and seat, by means of which
the pupils are taught methods ot mounting
and descending. In neither case must the head
precede the feet The ducking motion is at
all times to be avoided. To put the head
out of a carriage first and then double the
body up to iollow shows a significant want
of familiarity with the vehicle ot luxorr.
Betaln a sitting position till one foot, pre
ferably the left, is on the step, then with
the other step easily down. This is simple
and natural in a victoria or brougham; more
difficult in a higher hung cart or road
wagon.
To mount a coach or drag is worse than
either. A woman shonld touch the vehicle
with one hand only while the other rests on
the shoulder of the groom or gentleman
who is assisting her. And the woman who
is accorded the high privilege of the box
seat should be careful ot her ribbons and
parasol. There should be no loose ends of
the one and the second shonld be carefully
kept away from the driver, who, managing
his four-in-hand, can be greatly annoyed by
a jostled hat from a parasol rib or a slap of
a flying ribbon across the eyes at a critical
moment. A French woman when acting
the hostess in a drive is very particular to
enter tiie carriage first, seating herself so
that her guest is at her right hand, never
failing to indicate by a phrase as, "At my
right, madam," that this is the place of
honor. The exception, of course, is when
the hostess is also driver.
The flower mufis which were occasionally
seen last season are rather more in evidence
this summer. They are made over frames
of ribbon wire lined and covered with white
silk. The flowers, usually in long sprays,
are sewed on to cover the silk. The "muff,"
so-called, is merelr an excuse for an added
ornamentation of the garden party or brides
maid costume. Sometimes the flowers are
put on close and destitute of foliage, which
gives the muff a more compact and warm
look. Often boas of flowers are worn with
them.
The summer piazza often evolves enriosi
ties in needlework. The other day, on one,
a woman was seen at work upon a pair of
pillow shams, "crazy embroidery" she
called it, with entire truth. With an in
genuity which some might think worthy a
better cause she was fitting together in
strips that were themselves composed of
bits, camples of machine embroidery on
sheer muslin. They were manufacturer's
sample got through "a friend in a store and
were thus utilized as a lartre square which
was to be edged with a ruffle ot embroidery
to cover pillows. As an economical scheme
the idea was a success: as a thing of beauty
the covers weie not to be desired.
"For years," said a woman the other day,
"I have never slept wUhout seeing that a
couple of silk handkerchiefs hung near my
toilet stand and that the bowl was half fnll
of water. When I was a young woman, uot
out of my teens, I was in a hotel which took
fire. I should have been suffocated if my
uncle, with whom I was traveling, had not
thrown a wet silk handkerchief over my
face. Thus protected I followed him through
the hall filled with choking smoke and
down the stairs to safety. I have tanght
the practice to my children aud it has be
come a habit with us all. Ton want good
big ones and they must be wetted thorough
ly; then you may, if forced, endure the
thickest smoke for a considerable time."
What promises to be a serious Impetus to
the advancement of women in the indus
trial arts is foreshadowed by the new move
on the part of the School of Applied Design
for Women. About the midille of Septem
ber at its rooms, corner Seventh avenue
and Twenty-third street, New Xork, the
school will inaugurate classes to teach
women how to make designs for wall
papers, prints, carpets and oilcloths, up
holstery materials and other manufactures
where patterns are needed. This means a
great deal to manv women and to the
country at large. Women have shown such
aptitude and skill in the work with
scant knowledge that great things are
looked for with an opportunity to acquire
technical learning.
The decoration of the library of the
woman's building at the Columbian Expo
sition has been assigned to the State of
New York. The committee reports that
Dora Wheeler Keith will contribute the
ceiling while the associated artists will be
responsible for the frieze and hangings.
The "care of little girls' hair is often
neglected by mothers very careful in other
things. Good overlooking in their child
hood days, however, is what gives to many
young women the glo.-yof a fine head of
hair. It is most unwise to trust the daily
combing to an impatient, often hurried
nurse. Hasty combing breaks the hair,
making it rough and uneven. Brush out as
much ot the tangle and mat as possible, and
separate the hair to single strands before
using the comb. It is a mistake to think
Trimmed Out in Flowers.
girls' hair should be often cut to grow
thick. It makes the hair coarser but not
thicker. Weak, thin hair is a sign of im
perfect health, and its existence should set
a mother to a careful examination of her
growing girl. She is not getting proper
food, is not sleeping enough, or in soma
way her normal vitality is not bein kept
up. It is also a mistake to wash hair too
oiten; it makes it dry and brittle.
Let the hair of growing children be un
covered and hang loosely just as much as
Eossible. The hair of the Saxony peasant
rings the highest market price; that al
ways hangs from their heads in braids from
babyhood. Perspiration is bad for the hair
and lor this reason light hats ought to b
selected for the children in warm weather.
y iiintiHiiHHHHiinumuiuibS '
A Frame for the Steam Pipes.
One of the best cleansers and strengtbenera
for thin hair with a tendencv to fall out is
rosemary tea. Pour hot water over the
leaves and let them boil for a few minutes
before straining. Apply to the roots oSthe
hair with a brush. Castor oil and quinine
in alcohol with a little rosewater is also an
excellent tonic; the oil may be omitted II
the Hair is not dry.
Toward the end of the season when
flowers and ribbon and gauze are cheap I
get up my garden hat," Said a New York
woman recently. "Not," she added, "to
wear, but to hang on my easel in the
autumn. It is a bit of effective color and
conveys a pleasurable hint of summer out
ings," which shows the deep and devious
paths the modern woman will tread for
effect
The appearance of the early harvest apple
is a time of anxiety to most mothers. Chil
dren will find and eat them in spite of al
most all watchfulness. It is, perhaps, the
best way ont of the dilemma to permit two
or three a day to be eaten under surveillance
witha sprinkle of salt This is the Southern
notion which renders them quite harmless.
Steam heat pipes in summer are a distress
to many housekeepers in their stiff un
slghtliness. Some women have shallow tin
boxes made to stand on them, in which are
drooping vines and low growing foliage
plants. A housekeeper who has used it for
two years savs only on the coldest days
does she need to pull the curtains away to
let out the heat The frame is movable
and is very easily made bv any tolerable
carpenter. Any finish desired may be given
to the wood in the way of stain or enamel
paint A white and gold one is readily ar
ranged for such an apartment. On the
shelves should be stood a few light pieces
of bric-a-brac of a character not to be in
jured by the heat.
The mania for collecting something seems
to attack most of us at one period or an
other of our lives. A young woman has a
collection of samples of all ber gowns with
date of their existence and the most dis
tinctive occasion npo-rr-whicn tuey Vere""
worn; another has gathered the thimbles of
famous women, making the goodly show of
30 after a few years' eflort; still another re
joices in 1,100 teapots of various size, de
sign and nationality, and the last heard
from boasts a collection of 1,000 pairs of
slippers. It goes withont saying they are
all small and tlUinty, but of every conceiv
able material, shape and finish.
A novel entertainment for a local charity
took place recently at Saratoga. As a
special inducement to the hotel guests, snp
posably surfeited with French cooking and
the high art of the caterer, everything, in
cluding the bread, was homemade. Women
of prominent social position contributed to
the tables, each sending her specialty. A
feature of the feast was a delicious, immense
and incomparable lemon pie.
Majigaket H. WET.CH.
fhlldran Bnrn'd U.- In a Cabin.
Lake Providence, La., Aug. L-
Three children oi Bobert Dorey", colored,
the eldest 7 years, being locked up in a
cabin while the parents went to church, set
the place afire and were burned to death.
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