TIIK OIXIZKN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1011.
SELECT CULUNGS '
Men About Town and Drink.
It Is, I think; n common experience
of the man nbout town that his usso-,
ntnlno (,i rr.itm.n1 il.'lnl? l.a Hint! lllrtV I
did five or ten years ago. Oo into any
restaurant In Now York where busi
ness men congrcgntc at the lunch hour,
and you will note that n large num
ber of tables, often the majority, have
no beverage but water. As a Kcncrnl
rule the waiter will not thrust the
wine card before you with the old (hue
insistence, knowing from experience
that you probably do not want It.
Hven at dinner time In these sumo
restaurants many tables show no
wineglasses, whereas formerly they
were all but general. Moreover, it Is
distinctly the rule, even nt private
dinner parties of some formality, to
serve n single wine, following the Kng
llsh custom, whereas until recently
Now Yorkers wore notorious for "mix
ing" their drinks.
Of course I do not mean to Imply
that wines are not still served in eon
Tentlonal sequence, from cocktail and
sherry to port and liquor at formal
banquets nnd by many bons vivants,"
but I speak of the prevailing custom,
mid this assuredly has altered very de
cidedly within the Inst decade. Clear
ly, then, the temperance spirit is
abroad in metropolitan no less than In
zoral districts. Century Magazine.
London's Lock Step Fad.
Bo you know the "lock step?"
If not, says the Paris Mutln. go to
Condon nnd tako a look over the prin
cipal arteries of thnt immense capital.
In order to do the "lock step" you
Jamp from one leg to the other with
a Arm and rhythmic movement, and
you let one leg remain In the air an
instant, just like a chicken In distress
ia a pool of water. The famous "lock
step" was launched by one of the big
theaters of the capital, and since then
all the Londoners, amused by It. have
tried their best, no matter where they
find themselves, to master the secret
f Its cadence. The success of the
new fad has been such that, according
to the Matin, "professors of lock step"
hire men to go about the streets mark
ing the time of the movement and dis
tributing prospectuses bearing the ad
dress of the masters in the art of the
"lock step."
The King's Gloved Hand.
It is not generally known that King
George's custom of appearing with his
right hand gloved and the other bare
has Its origin in something more than
a mere whim of fashion. The wearing
of a glove on the right hand by a
monarch is a distinct survival of the
days when the sovereign's touch was
held to be a certain cure for all kind
of diseases, especially scrofula.
In tho days when nt certain dates
it was customary for hundreds of sick
men nnd mendicants of all kinds to bo
laid out In the courtyard of royal
palaces nwaltlng the healing touch of
the "anointed of tho Lord" monnrchs
found It necessary to wear a glove in
order to escape Infection. Thus arose
tho habit which during modern times
has passed into a mere fad of fashion,
tho significance of which has long
been forgotten by tho majority of tho
people.
An Actors' Festival.
John Manulngham, a student of the
Middle Temple In Shakespeare's time,
recorded how the Yuletldo revels of
tho law students in 1001 ended with a
play given in the great hall of the
Middle Temple. "At our feast we h-l
a play called 'Twelve Night: or. What
ie Will.' "
With actor folk Twelfth Night has
always been a favorite festival. :..1
delay, the famous comedian, when lie
died loft all his money to provide
eako and wine for the yearly celebra
tion of Twelfth Night in the green
room of tho Drury Lane theater.
Even now In Now York the leading
members of the American stage can lie
seen on tho night of Jan. G, when thov
omo together either as performers or
as spectators in the annual all star
productions of tho Twelfth Night cluti
Mary Edith Griswold In Designer.
Certain Americans Abroad.
There are Americans who live abroad
and speak of their native land In
shameful whispers. Another kind is
an explainer. He becomes fretful and
Involved in tho attempt to make It
clear to some Englishman with n cold
and fish-like eye that, as a matter of
fact, tho lynchlngs nre scattered over
a largo territory, nnd Tammany lias
nothing whatever to do with the Unit
ed States senate, and tho millionaire
does not crawl Into tho presence of Ills
wife and daughter, nnd Morgan never
an be king, nnl citizens of St. Louis
are not In danger of being hooked by
moose. After ho gets through tho
Englishman says "Really?" and tho
painful incident is closed. George
Ade's 'Mark Twain as Our Emissary"
la Century.
Three Great Danish Clans.
Tho Danish government recently
found it necessary to grant heads of
families the privilege of changing their
names If they feel so disposed without
incurring any legal costs. This Is n
necessary piece of legislation, for tho
population of Denmark is divided Into
three great clans the Hansons, tho
Petersens nnd tho Soerensens. In one
town of 25,000 Inhabitants over four
fifths bore ono or the other of these
names. Many of theso haye taken ad'
vantage " of the new law and iis
mimed more distinctive names. Lon
don Chronicle.
he Japanese
rella
Chinese F.phtodu and lis
Horrible Effect
By CLARISSA MACK IE $
Couyilglit, 1911. by American Press :
AusDciatloM. V
A whole year paused after Nelson's
return from Asia before he found him
self again treading an oriental street
and rubbing elbows with slant eyed,
blue Moused Chinese. His present po
sition in the custom house made U
necessary that lie should visit a well
known silk Importer, whose place of
business lay in tho heart of San Kran
clsoo's reconstructed Chinatown. .
Jay Nelson had been glad enough to
eliminate all memory of his last year
in China. There had been one horri
ble incident from which he had lied,
but whose shadow had lurked In the
background of his dally life since his
return to America. In broad daylight
he had laughed at the fears that pur
sued his first sleepless, fear haunted
nights. After awhile tho fear gave
place to u sense of security fostered
by the practical workaday happenings
of his busy life.
Today, however, as he passed along
Dupont street and turned into a nar
rower thoroughfare there burst upon
him the significant fact that this part
of a great city was hut a fragment of
the old eastern world after alt.
He had to pause once or twice and
Inquire his way, for the house of th"
Importer was set in the heart of the
web of streets nnd alleys. Then when
ills goal lay but a few yards ahead
there sprang Into sudden view, bob
bing along In the crowd before him, a
certain green and gold paper parasol,
tho meaning of which was all too
clear to Jay Nelson. Ho had a vague
realization that this emblem of an old
horror might have been evolved from
his own morbid fancy.
lie pressed forwnrd, eager to strelch
forlh his hand and prove that the
Japanese umbrella was a thing of air,
was an optical illusion. ISut always it
danced before him like a will-o'-tho
wisp, now showing a glint of gold and
green and then melting into a dozet
illusive lints.
Where It went there he too mint
follow until he could prove by actual
contact with its surface that it was a
creation of his fancy and not the
dreaded emblem of the White Itrother-
hood.
It drew him on down into the very
bowels of the earth.
The paper umbrella collapsed and
was cast aside, while the bearer turn
ed to confront Nelson. Then the hit
tor awolec from his trance-like state
and stared first at the strange face
that confronted him, then about the
small dungeon-like room, empty of fur
nlture and reeking with foul odors
and lighted by a single swinging ol'
lamp. Nelson's gaze came back to the
face of the Chinese, and he shivered
slightly, for the face was thnt of a
member of the dreaded order the sigi.
was written on the man's brow
Instantly Nelson whipped off hK
coat, holding it before him as a shield
and backed to the stairway leading
upward.
"Hold n moment," said the Chinese
In the Cantonese dialect; "I am not
alone."
'"Who else?" demanded Nel.-on
sharply In tho same tongue.
"The brotherhood at each stall
head they await your coming if you
contemplate flight," returned the Chi
nese imperturbably.
"What do you want with mo?"
"Command of the big. brother that
you bo brought before him for trial."
"Ho came on from nongkong to
seek mo?"
The Chinese cackled shrilly. Then
ho spat contemptuously. "The broth
erhood is everywhere. Captain Leeson
wherever there are offenders there
also will be found a tribunal of the
brotherhood."
"Why do you call me by Captain
Leeson's name?" questioned Nelson
warily.
"Recause you are he."
"Suppose I am not?"
"You are!" asserted tho man rough
ly. "The brotherhood does not make
mistakes."
"You blunder this time. I am Nel
son." Tho other laughed derisively. "I
was told you would claim that name.
Nelson died that night."
"Ah," cried Nelson suddenly, "you
are tho big brother! This is tho tri
bunal. You are alone; you thought to
fool me; see you later, Tai Lano!" He
started to leap up the stairs nnd 'then
stopped short,
Tal Lano mado no movo to arrest his
flight. He merely folded his long claw
tipped lingers Into either capacious
sleeve and smiled widely.
It was this smile that halted Nelson's
departure, tho smile and a certain hiss
ing whisper that sang down tho stair
way nnd boro warning on its breath.
Again ho turned to tho Chinese.,
"nave It over with this court of
yours! Be quick, for I havo business
to attend to mntters of Importance."
"Very good, Captain Leeson," com
mented the man cnllcd Tal Laao. "Kol-'i
low me."
ne led tho ray to a shadowy corner
nnd pushed open n door Into another
dimly lighted room. At n long table
sat seven men, three on cither side
and one nt tho end. At the farther
end of the ttihlo there stood a wide
armed emntv ehalr. Except for a low
swung lamp above the table the room
was devoid of other furnishing.
"Captain Leeson," he announced In
a low voice "on trial for betraying se
crets of the White Brothers."
"Captain Ixieson died, as you all
know," said' Nelson sternly. "I saw
hlin die, killed by your orders. Ho
died lu the street of"
"Silence!" mennccd the leader. "lie
claims to ho Nelson, the one who died
thnt night."
Tho seven nodded lu unison, but did
not remove their gaze from Nelson's
angry face.
Ho kept silence now, briefly review
ing tho strange events that had snatch
ed him from the busy streets of the
city Into ns dismal a don of murderers
as ono might hope to find along the
water front of any Chinese city.
Before his eyes there flushed, a pic
ture of his last year In China. Then
he had been In the diplomatic service
of ills country. Leeson, his friend, an
Englishman in the British employ at
Hongkong inspector of health or some
thing of thnt sort had Interested Nel
son In his establishment of n leper col
ony down lu Annm.
It was Leeson's ambition to clean
out the lepers hidden in the city, to
root them out from their places of con
cealment and transport them to the
colony where preparations had been
made for their segregation, where
their cases should be studied nnd
modern methods be employed.
It happened that the aflllcted ones
looked on the Idea of banishment with
distaste. They cared little to be herd
ed together in a foreign province far
from friends and fnmllinr scenes.
They cared nothing whatever for the
benefits that might accrue to posterity
through their segregation.
Leeson's efforts met with little suc
cess, and he brought the lnw to his
aid. Thus he gained permission to
capture the aflllcted ones, nnd so his
colony prospered for awhile. Then
there wns formed against him the so
ciety of the White Brothers, created to
protect tho lepers scattered throughout
tho city from Leeson's ngents. Each
one bore some mark of tho disease,
and they had some other emblem by
which they might be known to each
other if tho mark of tho disease was
not plain enough. And this emblem
was the green and gold paper umbrel
la, with its snaky twisting golden
dragon colling in and out of tho green
painted bamboo shoots.
Nelson remembered the first time he
had seen them that night of Leeson's
carefully planned expedition into a
suspected quarter. It was at night.
and red lanterns had lighted tho street
down its crooked length. Suddenly
there had burst upon them and the
three agents who accompanied Leeson
a hideous babel of cracked voices; a
horrible spectacle of ghastly faces; a
leprous mob that leered and jeered nt
them; that drove them point by point
toward the end of the street of lepers;
a yelling crowd that received the bul
lets from their revolvers and died
noisily; a filthy crow that tried to
touch them, that longed to render
them as loathsome as Itself.
Leeson hnd been killed, and Nelson
tried to forget the sight as the rest of
them got away. The next day he led
a party hack to the street, but it was
deserted. Even poor Leeson's body
had disappeared. After this outbreak
tho matter went under the supervi
sion of a large medical corps, nnd tho
colony at Anam was augmented by
several hundred cases. Nelson resign
ed from t lie service and went home,
sickened of the whqle dubious web of
oriental life, thankful that ho had es
caped contact that he was clean.
Now they had found liim out they
would tako their revenge for his be
trayal of their outbreak. It pleased
them to call him by Leeson's name.
As Leeson ho would probably die lu
this hole in (he ground under Pan
Francisco.
Nelson determined to force some Im
mediate action from tho men who had
Bprung up In this faraway city to call
him to uccount for his setting the
hounds of law upon their trail. All his
hideous dreams of tho past year seemed
to have been realized In tho strange
events of this day that would un
doubtedly bo ids last on earth.
It had been a strango day, and even
now, face to face with death for the
presence of these White Brothers
meant nothing less he seemed to bo
moving in u dream moro frightful than
anything his sleeping mind had con
ceived. "Fire ahead," he said recklessly;
"I'm not afraid of you. Come on,
every devil's imp of you!" ne flashed
out tho revolver ho always carried Just
as they uroso In a body and came at
him, a ghastly company with" stretch
ing, clawing Angers and fiendish eyes.
Then Jay Nelson awoke. Ho sat up
In bed, his brow dripping sweat and
his heart pounding with excitement,
for once moro ho had dreamed of tha
Japanese umbrella and the horrible
band whose emblem It was. This was
the worst dream of all, and ho mur
mured devout thanks that It had been
a dream.
Sitting there with the morning sun
shine streaming Into the room and a
fresh breeze from tho bay ruffling his
hair, Nelson saw the early newspaper
slid under his door. Eager to be in
touch with the coaunonplnces of every
day life, he fetched it and read the
headlines. After awhile, in a corner
of tho sheet, ho read thnt the nong
kong authorities were satisfied that
they had rid that city of its lepers.
Tho White Brotherhood had beeu
broken up, and most of its members
were In Anam colony. Tho leader, Tal
Lano, was dead. Captain Leeson's
death had beeu nvetiged.
Jay Nelson went forth that morning
n care free man to Interview the silk
importer In Chinatown. At last he was
emancipated from fear, no would
dream no more.
Milady's
Some people show a strango Indiffer
ence nnd lack of caro for tho nose,
which haj been correctly termed the
drawing room of the lungs, for In tills
drawing room many visitors are ush
ered, some sweet and fresh and clean
and others soiled and bedraggled, leav
ing their dusty footprints clogged with
germs behind them.
It would ho an untidy housekeeper
indeed who neglected her drawing
room. Let the rest of her house be
ever so Immaculate, If dirt Is allowed
to accumulate there the whole house
will feel its ill effects.
But how many people ever think of
spraying tho nose? It Is astonishing
when one considers what harm such
carelessness works that any person
should fall to do this.
Specialists will tell you that It Is ab
solutely essential to good health that
tho nose should bo kept clean. Yet
few noses are really clean.
The use of a pocket handkerchief Is
about all the care the average person
ever gives the nose. They then con
sider that they have done their duty
by It. Yet they could not sleep if they
had forgotten to brush their teeth.
Many people do not realize tho abso
lute necessity for cleanliness in the
nose, but once they comprehend it it
is an easy matter to purchase an
atomizer, get a prescription from n
doctor and sec that the nose Is dally
washed out. If one docs not care to
go to a physician for a regular pre
scription one can get a small glass
nose douche shaped like a duck and
use warm water with a solution of salt
in it.
To Avoid Winter Colds.
Air baths are the latest prescription
for the seeker after health. These are
positively recommended as a magic
preventive for avoiding winter colds.
At first they may seem too difficult of
accomplishment, but if one will only
try one will see how astonishing the
results are.
And tho beauty of this magic air
bath Is that it Is simplicity itself.
There is no cumbersome apparatus, no
tiresome visits of tho masseuse, no
pounding and punching of au inof
fensive body. Ono merely has to lie
still nnd allow gentle breezes to blow
upon the body.
Ono need only expose the skin, so
the enthusiasts say, to the air for fif
teen or twenty minutes, a half hour or
an hour night and morning to anni
hllnto tho horrid cold germs which nre
everywhere ready to seize upon any
ono who gets a chill and so lays her
self open to attack.
Hence the danger of drafts and wot
feet. Our usual habits give the skin
no opportunity of hardening itself.
If one would indulge In the benefi
cial air bath one must spend twenty
minutes before retiring without one's
clothing. Then in tho morning bathe
and do up the hair before covering the
skin with the day's clothing. These
measures alone constitute an effective
air bath and will lessen the sensibility
of the skin nnd liability to cold in a
few days' time.
A more elaborate way for taking the
air hath Is recommended by n noted
physician. Select the sunniest room
In tlie house. If the window is over
looked by neighboring houses place a
low screen before It. Then undress,
wrap yourself in a sheet and blanket
and He on tho floor in the sunshine.
The Beauty Waltz.
You havo heard of the old English
custom of walzing with pennies car
ried on tho head? Try that in tho
privacy of your own room. Remove
corsets and shoes, then, putting a coin
on a smooth head and humming n gay
waltz, glide to Its measures. Practice
this till you know how smoothly you
must ho gliding by tho cessation of
the necessity to stoop and pick up
your penny. The gain In health that
follows the steady practice of theso
"stunts" will equal the gain in grace.
An excellent thing It Is In a loose,
freely flowing lightweight garment to
waltz with the nrms raised, hands hold
over tho head, with tho linger tips
lightly touching. If you havo friends
desirous of making tho best of them
selves ask them to meet with you
onco a week. Banish all persons not
in the secret. Iteuiovo restricting gar
ments, including shoes. Let one of
tho number play for three minutes,
while the rest do the dancing above
described. When a second member
takes tho piano the dance for a change
may be done with bands locked bo
hind tho back. When a third turns
musician clasp the hands, but stretch
tho arms forward In a curve and
dance, alternately letting tho head
droop forward In this curve and then,
after a moment In which It Is held
erect, fall back. Another exercise can
lie made by clasping the hands at the
back of the head nnd waltzing round
the room In that pose. Do tho last
dance with the upstretched arms and
finger tips lightly touching.
Your Comb.
Combs should not bo washed with
water. This Is apt to split tho .teeth.
A stiff nailbrush Is n good thing to
keep for cleaning them. After using
the brush tako a damp cloth and wipe
between each tooth with this.
IR OF THE
What He Wanted.
"Darling."
"Well, Henry?"
"Are you going to be very busy to
night?"
"You know 1 am. This Is the night
our neighborhood literary. circle meets."
"Well, how about tomorrow after
Aoon?" "Tomorrow afternoon our bridge club
meets."
"Dear, dear! Then how about Tues
day evening?"
"Tuesday evening I'm golug to read
a paper before tho Suffragette society."
"I'm sorry. Will you be engaged on
Wednesday evening?"
"I shall. Our church missionary so
ciety holds Its annual meeting then.
I'm its president, you know."
"Uow unfortunate cr not that you
are president. It's unfortunate that
you will be engaged. Do you expect
to be at homo Thursday evening?"
"I do not, Henry. Tho AVoman's
Uplift society meets on Thursdays,
and on Friday I have promised to
serve tea at Mrs. Swellkid's muslcale.
But what Is It you want, Henry?"
"Oh, nothing! 1 merely thought if
you were going to be at home some
night soon I'd get you to sew a button
on my trousers, but perhaps I can find
a tailor to do It whoso time Isn't quite
so taken up ns yours." Detroit Free
Press.
How to Preservo House Plants.
Save all water In which meat has
been washed to water house plants. It
Is an excellent fertilizer. A dying palm
and several ferns were wonderfully
revived by $)urlng nbout a teaspoon
ful of castor oil on the soil around tha
roots.
Passion For Music,
Mrs. Bacon Did you say your hu
band has a passion for music? Mrs
Egbert Yes. Every time I sing he
flies -Into "no Yonkers Statesman
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A poor fitting and bum
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Illnck nnd White nnd Scotch.
Mrs. Blank, wife of a prom nont
minister near Boston, had In her em
ploy a recently engaged colored cWc
as- black as tho proverbial ace ol
spades. One day Mrs. Blank raid
to her:
''Matilda, I wish that you wou'd
have oatmeal quite often for br jU
fast. My husband is very fonj( of
it. Ho is Scotch, anu you know ' tt
the Scotch eat a great deal of ra.
mcal." "Oh, he's Scotch, Is he?" said Va
tilda. "Well, now, do you k: w,
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des like us."- Woman's Home Companion,
The Cnliivcrns Skull.
In a recent bulletin from the Uni
versity of California is given a su
mary of the evidence prepare 1 by
Professor J. JD. Whitney to show t t
tho famous CalaveraB skull, foun a
a miner's shaft In Bald Hill near -tavllle,
probably came from a cr.va
UBed by the Indians for burial pu."-
The Ancient Cat.
Experts have held that the so-called
"cat" of the ancient Romans and
Greeks ("allurus," the wary-tallod
one) was not a cat at all, but a kind
of weasel. The mummified Egyptian
animal, however, was a genuine cat;
even if certain peculiarities about It
teeth make' it difficult to regard it aa
a near relative of the modern domes
tic puss.
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not,
"God doesn't lover me any more,"
sobbed Mary to her mother ona dajj,
"Why, dear, God loves everybody,;
what do you mean?"
"Oh, no, He doesn't love mo, Vm
sure, for I tried Him with a daisy.'
Mstropolltan Magazine.
Form of Love-Making Barred.
Love-making on postal cards la ia
violation of the postal regulations of
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