Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1889 — Page 9

OURNA PAST TWO. PAGES 9 TO 12. J PRICE FIVE CENTS. INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1889--TWELVE PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS.

THE'. SUNDAY

Lav aMe the Knickerbockers With the rrince around the knees; -Tak the marbles from the pocket. All the trings. and nails, aud keys. Bay him socks instead of stockings. Or tho boy will raiso a row; Forour darling has been growing Papa's pants fit Johnnie now.

Business has been delayed by tie weather fully two weeks. We propose to make Tip for lost time by rushing things this week. To do this we will sell ELEGANT FIFTEEN and EIGHTEEN-DOLLAK SUITS FOR MEN, in Sacks and Frocks, at

Every suit is worth from S3 to 65 more. Some of these are beautiful dark, plain goods; others elegant colored imported Cheviots and Cassimeres. SPECIAL DKIVE Han dsome Teck Scarfs, worth 50 and 75c, now selling at 35c; three for 61.

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A SCIENTIFIC TEST. Look at this whwl with one eye and. then the other. If yon do not e alike with both eje you tare reason for alarm. Should ome of the ipokss appear blacker than others, you Lava Astigmatism, which, it not corrected in time, mar become irreparable. Fain in and over las eye if a symptom ot Astigmatism.

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TS WASHINGTON TERRITORY. How the Southern Confederacy Was Unloaded In That Region by Cleveland. Tacoma Ledger, March 10. If time could be taken to inspect the recoids a formidable list of appointments from the Sonth to offices in this Territory could be made, and this Territory fared no worse than other Northern Territories in this respectnot eo bad, we believe, as Wyoming, where almost every federal oftice was tilled from the South. We are able, off-hand, to note the following mistakes of Cleveland in this territory: Colonel Wood,. Indian agent, at Neah bay, a tine Ohio soldier and gentleman, was succeeded by Captain Powell, a confederate soldier from Mississippi. General Milroy. an officer of distinction in the Union army, was removed from the Simcoe agency to make a place for Colonel Barns, a confederate soldier from Kentucky, Major Breckinridge, of Kentucky, succeeded Colonel McMicken, a Union soldier, in the onice of Survevor-general. Major Watters, a Union soldier, was removed from the Colville agency to make a place for an unworthy successor in tho person of Major Guilder, a confederate soldier from one of the gulf States. Brigadier-general Gordon, of the confederate army, was appointed supervising Indian agent at Takiuia. Captain Merchant, a Texas soldier, was sent up to the Colville agency by the Department of Justice, to stop tho 6ale of liquor, and took a demijohn of whisky with him to the reservation, in violation of the law which he was appointed to enforce. General Montgomery, of' Mississippi, and General Armstrong, cf Texas, two rebel generals, were amoug the Indian inspectors in charge of affairs in the Territory. Judge Hams, a coufederate soldier from Mississippi, came to this territory booked for the onice of Governor, and would have had the appointment if he had lived. Colonel Wiggs, of Arkansas, was another ex-confederate agent of the Department of Justice sent to this Territory on special business. .Wavne Ferguson, a confederate soldier from Virginia, was appointed timber inspectoral Walla Walla, and afterwards transferred to Spokane Falls, where he now is, with another Southerner, one Sam Vincent, in the same employment. Inspector Monday, at Vancouver, is a Southerner, who came from California to succeed Colonel Prosser, a Union soldier. French, the clerk of the Indian agency at the Puyallup reservation, was a Virginian. Leslie Cullum, lately appointed collector at Port Townsend, is from Tennessee. Tho application of a Union soldier for the register's oflice, at Seattle,was rejected and John Baird, of Georgia, appointed Young Vance, of North Carolina, is one of the latest Southerners sent to the Territory, and being a Senator's 6on, was easily confirmed in the United States Land-office at Yakima. Of the postoffice inspectors for he Territory, we nave had Mason, of Virginia, now dead, and Carroll, bf Georgia, andTrentlin, of South Carolina, now in the service Miss Matthews, a clerk in the customhouse at Port Townsend, came out from Texas with a letter to Quincy A. Brooks from Senator Coke and several Texas Congressmen asking-for her the place, and Major Brooks considered the letter equivalent to an appointment. The clerk at the Colville Indian agency is a son of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, who came to the Territory with tho appointment, Mr. Carson, tho chief clerk in the Surveyor-general's onice. came from Kentucky to take that place. This we do not publish as a full list of the Southerners sent to this Territory. Thero are others whose names now escape my rec ollection, who have heldedto make the bad impression of which we have spoken. Some of the appointments are personally unobjectionable, but several of them are jnst the reverse. In general it might be said that most of them were unsuitable appointments, because their wonted ways were so different from those of tho people of the Territory. This has been especially the case with those appointed to the postal service. The Southern men, who had been accustomed to get their mail as they get their breakfast, at very irregular and uncertain hours, could not appreciate the annoyances which Northern men have felt at the irregularities and Inconveniences of this service which has disgraced the government. And not only the people of this and other Territories, who had occasion to take the most notice of these Southern appointments, but the people in'all theNorthrn States were affronted by them. They looked upon them as a sign of the aggressions of the South in the national government, which could be withstood only by a return of a Republican administration. It was a bitter thing to Democratic Union soldiers, because it provoked comments to which they could make no sincere reply. The Southerners should have realized the mistake they were leading Cleveland to make. But a greater wonder is that Vilas. Dickinson, Whitney and Kndicott did not see it. A more colossal and mischievous mistake could not have been made, even with a perverse purpose. Samuel J. Kandall had tho wisdom to say, a few years ago, that the conflict of lSrtl-Ci settled the question of Southern domination in national politics for more than one generation. But he was not believed by the most deeply concerned. The question was put to a test with a wanton disregard of consequences. It makes but little practical difference whether Cleveland and his Southern masters now think it is settled. It is not a theory, but a condition, that now confronts them. George Petrie, while cutting peat on the island of Burray. Orkney, found some curious and valuable silver coins and ornaments. Thero were twenty-hve armlets and bangles, and twenty-two neck rings of silver wire, rope pattern. The coins are of . the eleventh century.

A HOOSIER'S YIE W OF LONDON

He lias Been Thero Only a FewDays, but Has Learned a Number of Things. A Chatty Letter Which Contains No Mention of Historic Ruins, but Tells of Everyday Matters that Interest Everybody. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. London, May 22. If Mr. Max O'Bell. or other distinguished gentlemen who have stayed in America only long enough to find that New York and San Francisco are not in the same corporation, can write their impressions of that country and not bo assassinated for their misrepresentations, I think I may safely indulge a like propen- i sity. I have been loose in London a week or more, and, naturally enough, boiugof an inquiring turn of mind, have in that time learned a few things, and failed to learn a good many moro. Neither in this letter, nor in others which may hereafter be written, wiU there bo any attempt to describe the places of historical interest, which have been so often written about that subject has become older than than the rivers, into which many of them have fallen but merely an effort, in an unpretentious way, to tell about some of the many, to me, curious things here, and the differences between local customs and those with which the readers of this are moro familiar. Tome, letters descriptive of travel do not possess the contemporaneous human interest of a Patent-ofiice report. Probably the task of editing them has caused me to have such an aversion. There are a few general statements which, I suppose, in accordance with established traditions, should be made first. The ocean trip was a surprise, insomuch as the weather was as warm as June, and the sea almost as smooth as the classic waters of Broad Hippie. The principal occupations on the steamer were eating, talking about your neighbors and playing draw-poker. I was a bright and shining light in the first, a humble imitator in the second, and a howling failure-in the third. The playing of poker, as it is taught in the public schools in Indiana, doesn't seem to be as effective on the high seas as it is on the Wabash. I have read the exciting experiences of warriors on the Held of battle, and heroes of adventure, but they pale into dim insignificance as compared with my struggle with the baggage men at Liverpool. With characteristic stupidity, there is no system of checking baggage (luggage they call it here), either ou the wharf or at the railroad station. I had ten trunks, one box about as big as the transfer-car, six steamer chairs, five rugs and nine valises in my charge, and when I got them all (but one) safely at the hotel in London, I looked like "She" after the fire. It cost a small fortune to get them there, for I had to hire a man for every piece. When I finally got them piled up on a cart on the dock,' I sat triumphant on them, and proudly rode through the streets of Liverpool, an uncrowned king. When I reached the Northwestern Station I had a personal encounter with about sixty-three porters and guards, went into the swearing-room, on business, sixteen times, and called the station-master a thief in all tho languages at my command. The struggle was repeated at the Londou station, aud when we got to the hotel one traveling bag, my own, of course, was gone, "You can't lose anything in London, 6ir," said the porter. "But I have lost it," I persisted. Tho next day a Scotland Yard officer called on me. and gavo me the very gratifying information that my valiso had not only been found where it had fallen from the cab in the street, but its ownership had been traced to mo, although my name was not in it, and I had been hunted up. At the Scotland Yard there was a minuto description of everything in it, even tho number of pins in a little cushion. This is a sample of the perfection of the police system in England. 1 almost lived in a hansom cab for a week. Think of it! there are over 16,000 of these vehicles in London, and as mauy more "four wheelers" and other public conveyances. Wherever you go, night or day, they are at hand, and tho charges for them are very reasonable, one shilling twentyfour cents for any place within a radius of four miles. Tho streets, all made of either asphalt or wooden blocks, are almost as clean as a floor and as solid as granite. Nearly aU the cabs have rubber tires on their wheels, which make them noiseless and insure smooth riding. Everybody drives to the left, instead of to the right, as in America, and there is a policeman at every corner to keep people straight. In the center of each street, at the coruer, is a little stone inclosure, a half-way sta'tion, to which people run from the sidewalks, and where they wait until they can cross the remaining part of the street in safety. It is absolutely dangerous to attempt to cross many of the streets without going to these stations, so great is tho vehicle travel. Kegcnt street is the Broadway of London, and on it are hundreds of the most gorgeous and elaborate equipages I have ever seen. The Strand is the Sixth avenue, and after night is crowded from one end to the other. One half the theaters are in it. Down in "the city," as it is called, i. e., London proper, which is under the control of that Kinir Bee of all Poo-Bahs, the Lord Mayor, all the streets are like lower Broadway during business hours. There are over seven thousand streets in London, all crooked, so far as I have been able to lind out. Many of them have different names at different places along their extent, aud this causes much confusion. There are no streetcars worth mentioning, but thousands of 'busses, on the tops of which everybody, including the ladies, ride, when there is room, and underground rail way 8, dark and bad-smelliug. I would like to seo Stanley Igoe and James Whitcomb Riley set down in the heart of the city, about noon, just once, and then driven directly to an insane hospital, where they would surely be taken in a few minutes. Getting lost is not a serious matter, however, for anybody will courteously tell vou the way. and there are cabs on all sides. The big hotels especially tho Victoria, tho Metropole and the Langham are marvels in their way, and the city is absolutely tilled with apartment-houses. Only in the larger hotels is there gas and electric lights. In all the others the peopleburn candles in their rooms (charge extra), and think they are enjoying themselves. The services of chamber maids, boot-blacks, porters, etc., are all extra," in fact, if a man tells you what time it is, he will expect something for it. The "tipping" or free system which prevails here, is an outrage, pure and simple, but it is one of the cherished customs of England, and you have to abide by it. If vou want a drink in London, and a good many Americans do, a bar-maid serves it to you. The bar-maid is sul generis. She is pert. and generally "pretty, never familiar or resn," but takes any amount of chatting unconcernedly. They soon come to know what particular form of liquid damnation you indulge m, and have it served for j'ou almost before you ask for it. Drinking is about the cheapest thingyou can do in London. But one man in a thousabd drinks anything else than brandy and soda, and there is evidently no limit to the average capacity in this direction. I have not seen a drunken man since I have been here, and not one street brawl or disturbance of any kind. I suppose there are more bar-maid's in London than there are people in Indianapolis. I haven't counted them, to be sure, and with my well-known prohibition habits 1 haven't seen many of them. Every theater has from three to twelve bars connected with it. and they are by no means disreputable resorts. Besides liquors, thev serve ices, lunches, etc., and they are all quiet and orderly. The presence of a woman, even though she be aeaUng out drinks, evidently has its effects. A word or two about the theaters, in vrhich I am. of course, especially interested.

They are almost countless in number, and unexcelled in beauty of decorations and finish. Ladies and gentlemen who occupy the stalls (orchestra seats), dress circle (balcony) or boxes, which constitute the fashionable parts of the house, all go in full dress. The onDortunities for judging fe-

maio anatomv are annallin&lv unlimited. ... . -. . . . -w I have seen Wilson Barrett in "Claudi an." a Irving and Terrv in "Macbeth." Harbor Lights" (now in its fourth year consecutively at the Adelphi), "Faust Up to Date," a glittering burlesque, and "The Balloon" thus far all magnificent productions. I have carte blanche to the Globe, where Kichard Manstield is playing "Kichard III." and, in fact. to various other houses, thanks to the efforts of Henry Abbey and Marcus Mayer, who came over in tho City of New ork with us. They have leased the Gaiety Theater for eignt weeks, dividing the time between Coquelin and Hadiug, and Bernhardt George Floyd (Nat Goodwin's old manager) is also here, to arrange for the appearance of Kate Forsvth. in "The Tigress." Frank McNish ("Silence and Fun") is playing at Moore & Burgess's Minstrel Hall. The prices for seats at the theaters range from 25 cents to $2.50. according to location. There are two pieces at almost every house a farce or comedy at 7:30 o'clock and the regular play or opera at 8:30. But few people come before the latter. The music halls (variety theaters we would call them) are, many of them, as line as the theaters, and nave a great patronage. Nearly all the play-houses liave tiers of ooxes and from two to live galleries. The stage productions are very elaborate and expensive. There are more than 150 people in "Faust Up to Date," and it is a burlesque to delight the bald heads, but is patronized by the elite. Violet Cameron and Florence St. John (pronounced "Singen"), one of the cleverest women I have ever seen, are in the cast. I suppose I was introduced to a score of British bnrlesquers last night, and every mother's daughter of them wants to go to America and star. Now for a few even moro random- observations than the above. For a day or two the money here gTeatly confused me, but now I get along with it (and away with it as well) without any trouble. It is the proud claim of the Britishers that England is the fairest spot the sun shines on. That may be true, but it has not shone here more than a few minutes since we arrived. They call it delightful spring weather, but to us it is cold and disagreeable. 1 havn't been warm since I came here, but everybody says we will soon become accustomed to the climate. The English girls are generally ugly and angular. They have large hands and feet, and always have them with them. There are a great many Americans in London, and most of those we have met want to borrow money. Mr. New and his family have been received with gTeat kindness and courtesy, and are having many social attentions shown them. At last I have acquired an official title, or will have if the State Department does not interfere with it that of Viceconsul General of the United States at London. It Is better than being a dog-tight reporter on a daily paper. We couldn't get along without the London edition of the New York Herald, as it gives all the base-ball scores and other news. By the way, the recent defeats of the Indianapolis club cannot be attributed to me being with them as a "Jonah." Of course, I have been to the Tower of London, Tussand's wax-works, the Royal Palace and Westminster Abbey. There are thetombsthereof England's monarchs from the time of Edward the Conqueror. They are all still dead. George Rhodius is here, and has bought about thirty new suits of clothes. They do not cost one-half as much here as in 'America. It is a national shame and disgrace that the American minnister is not better provided for, in the way of a mansion and an adequate salary, than ho is. United States Senators Sherman, Cameron and Spoonerhave been in London this week. The iirst two came over in the steamer with us. This letter has long since outgrown its interest. When I get well settled I will try to give the readers of the Journal something that they can read without taking fas that is, if lean find it andwrito it. am still of the opinion that Indiana is in the direct line of ascension to the Celestial City, and that Indianapolis contains many of tho elect. O. R. J. KEPT OUT OF SIGHT A Capitalist Pays a Round Sum to Sequester a Valuable Competitive Invention. ritUlmrg Chronicle. "The little story you told last Saturday," said a well-known gentleman yesterday, "reminds me of another transaction by which the title to a patented invention changed hands, and the sum paid for it wai just lour times that given the young German, Snyder, for his idea in connection with the electric railway. "We have on the south side a middleaged mechanic, a man of good ideas and no little inventive genius, who conceived a Slan by which he thought he could prouce an apparatus by which he could completely revolutionize a certain line of business, and do away with the necessity for wealthy corporations to supply the publio with something that is coming to be considered one of the necessaries of life. He pondered over the matter and worked away at his models for months and years, each of the latter failing in some particular to produce the desired results; but ho had the gift of persistence, and finally success, full and complete, crowned his eilbrts. "He had worked in secret all the years he had been engaged in experimenting, having fitted up a room for tho purpose in liis own dwelling, to which no one, not even his own wife or child, was admitted. Some time after the apparatus was completed ho admitted a friend to his confidence, took him to this secret workshop, displayed the machine to him and explained its operation and results. The inventor was a poor man, but knew he had a fortune in his invention, and asked his friend's advice as to how he should proceed. He did not covet a great fortune, but would be satisfied with enough to keep him and his family in comfort and give his children a fair start in life. "He was advised to see a certain large capitalist who was heavily interested in ?, corporation in the line of invention, and did so. The latter examined the machine carefully, and without a moment's hesitation said, M'll give you 100,000 in cash fo all your right, title and claim to this thizg. with the proviso that you are to keep its invention a secret from everybody.' A iter a little hesitation the mechanic signified his acceptance of the terms offered, papers were drawn up and signed on the spot, and the machine and all drawings, pattern?, etc., connected with it were transferred to the care of the capitalist, who, you can be 6ure, keeps it carefully sequestered. "If he should manufacture and put it on the market on a commercial scale, he would render practically valueless a good many millions of dollars invested in plants throughout the United States, and throw a great many people out of what they consider permanent employment. "There is a lesson in this for the corporations engaged in the manufacture of patented devices of all sorts, and that is, they have no nre thing that some one will not strike a happy idea and get up something that will knock their product completely out of time. It is very hard now to get a monopoly in any field, and especially where the cuccess of the monopoly depends upon patented mechanical appliances. I firmly believe that some one yet will get up a cheaper and better telephone than the American-Bell instrument, and that our present system of electric lighting will prove to be crude, costly and unsatisfactory compared with one that is yet in tho womb of the future." Climates Enough at Home. Christian Register. 'Change of climate is what you need," said the high-priced physician, after he had listened to all the details of the patient' case. "Change of climate!" exclaimed the patient in surprise. "Why. man alive, I've never had anything else. Pve lived right here in New England all my life." Considerable of an Army. Boston Globe. It is said that President Harrison con templates granting a pardon to 40,000 deerters from the American army. European statesmen can no longer laugh at Uncle Sam's small military establishment. An army that, con i urnish-lO.ooo able-bodied deserters it not to be sneered at

LATEST SUMMER FASHIONS

Soft and Brilliant Gowns in Glorious Profusion for Beauty of All Kinds, And They Are by No Means so Expensive as They Look A Chapter of Advice and Sng- , gestions as to Good Looks and Cosmetics. SpedAt to the Indi&nspolls Journal New York, June 1. Dress as an art bogins to be felt instead of dress as a vanity, and French ideas and Spanish grace have a marked influence in New York streets. The women who study fashions most closely and effectively are those from theWet and South, where foreign sensibility blends with English correctness, though it seems as if any particularly striking fasuion proves to be of English origin. The dress parades of New York women Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, between 4 and 6, show such a brilliance and fertility of toilets that I prefer the sight to the matinees, Sunday, of course, till the swell people go out of town, shows the highest dress after church hours, on Fifth aud Madison avenues, when all the clever dressmakers go out to catch tho last ideas in fashion. But Sunday always seems meant for something better, and one wants a change from the rest of the week. The houseKeeping,.andthe moneymaking, and the lovemaking and dressmaking, space fox the touch which has all the fervor and grasp of these things and can make us forget them all for awhile. I like to go to Grace Church because it is so deinocratio in its costumes, the women of fortune mostly dressing like Spanish, ladies, in black, and the rest very 6imply, China silks and even satincs figuring chiefly last Sunday. Think of itl wearing a cotton sat i no dress to church, and one of the wealthiest churches in the metropolis, too. I wonder how many women in Shagbark Center would wear a cotton gown on Sundays. But I began to tell about a surprising plaid dress, out after matineo one day, a large bright plaid of orange-tan and ecru, so taking that every third man on the streets turned his head to look after it. I vowed to see the face of the woman who could wear such a gown on the street, let her be what she might, ahd started on a walking match, the plaid over a block tho start, a good walker and evidently with an object. But one can walk pretty fast at a smooth gait without 6eeming to, and eight, nine blocks 1 followed with that glowing gown in view. It was matched as only a ladies' tailor can match plaids, and the glaro taken off and the French touch added by a fringe of the two colors on tho apron drapery. Finally the costume turned in at Daly's, where Kosina Vokes is playing, and I had a sight of a fresh-faced English girl talking with a shell-pink blonde after the matinee. I have a sound impression that dress was not finished in time for the serviceI mean tho play and the basting-threads were pulled ont just in time to allow the wearer to join her friend for the park drive. One bad a good dsal more respect for her after seeing her frank, healthy, good-humored face than from a rear View of her meteoric figure. But this is a specimen of the surprising plaids which cross the. water from Trouville to Brighton, and thence to this side. There was one dress on tho way in red and navy blue handkerchief plaid oven larger than the orange-tan, but looking 3uite a contrast with it. Such dresses will o at the seaside, where the throng is brilliant, but it takes English nerve to wear thota. THE NKW JUNE GOWNS On review, just before their owners leave town, are soft andbrilUant in effects, without being gaudy, and are a standing temptation to the average fashion writer to waste the crushed pearls and rubies which she employs in her ink to such iridescence of language that one can only exclaim, with the Carlyle maid, "Oh, my, how expensive!" To compare the descriptions with the gowns disillusionizes. A. pale, proud Undine who has found her soul, but guards its secrets "well behind her closeshut lips, in a dress of the faintest, gayest, dreamiest green summer flannel at 48 cents a yard, a foam of lace falling at the throat and against the gloves of pale green, lace from the bargain sales at lO cents a yard I bought some myself, and it was pretty and the hat a scarf of gauze, held in place on the crown of yellow hair by heavy white water-lilies with golden hearts. That won't do! Green tulle and white water-lily bonnets are distinct Bowery style. No woman who has any regard for herself over puts herself in rivalry with Easter lilies or water-lilies any more, because it is a little too pretentious, like the big white ostrich plurao on the black velvet hat. You can't buy a water-lily that looks natural on anything unt cotton cambric, for love or money. Then the tall slender woman with a lot of fair hair caught with gold pins, fold on fold against her head, in a coat of rich, dark-green brocaded silk, whose every button is a fortune in itself, with its enameled medallion set in a border of old silver, and the long Louis XIV waistcoat of rare old brocade, in whose vines lurk every tint and hue that sunset shadings ever knew, so blended that they are dazzling. The skirt is scant to skimpiness, but the slender hips and lithe, shapely limbs make some exquisite changes in their swiftchanging positions that quite reconcile one to the fashion. I know all about those gold hairpins. They are hard to find in Now York at less than 25 cents a paper, and I import mine from Boston at 2 cents a paper, whence I also get all envelopes and note1 a per, verti vert-root and hot pourre. Boston is the place to buy notions and niceries of this kind. The enameled buttons aro bih $17 a dozen at Denniug's, and a third oft on Sixth avenue, but that would be a fortune to some people. One would suppose the past centuries had never worn out aTjythini: from the stock of "raro old brocade," ready to be produced on any and every occasion bv penstresses. But ladies who have the good luck to own any "rare old brocade," ladies like Mrs. Elbriage Gerry or Mrs. Eastman Johnson or Miss Fnrness, usually lend it to exhibitions and take great care of it in place of wearing it out in long waist coats. What puzzles the student of anatomy is how a woman even with a sunset-hued waistcoat can at tho ame time have slender hips and shapely limbs whose exquisito curves can be denned under a skimpy skirt. They are not usually made that way. Perhaps she was bow-legged. To borrow a base-ball expression, one can't get on to those curves in any other wa3 seemingly, but the physical development schools do remarkable things we are told. The full jeweled style of language, however, reads beautifully, to use a favorite feminine wording, is gotten up regardlessof fact or expense. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. E. D.The toilet mask will not cure piraplt j, nor is vaseline good for them, except as a dressing for raw, irritated surfaces. E. says: "I have been taking arsenical wafers since March, and they have done mo no good. So if you will tell me something to cure pimples quick, I don't care what it is." Try. first, this wash: Oneandono-half ounce powdered borax, one ounce glycerine, one quart camphor water. Mix aud wet the face with it twice a day, leaving it todryn Then wash ott in aoft water. If after using a fortnight, no relief is found, wasn tho face with strong soft soap at night and apply powdered sulphur, wet with spirits of camphor. Let the paste stay on all night, wash off next morning and rub the face with vaseline. Bathe with hot water and soap daily. To make white eyebrows a better color, wet with strong black tea frequently, say twenty times a day, and let it dry on. Nana want the quickest way of making the hands and wrists plump. Soak them in

a bowl of hot olivo oil beforo sleeping and wear loose castor gloves all niviht. In th9 middle of tho day rub hands and wnsts briskly ten minutes, first one hand a moment then the other, aud rub well witn, warm perfumed oil; soaking the Lands in warm milk also nourishes and whiten . them. Mrs. M. K. II. writes that she ha3 always had a lovely complexion till forty-two yearsofage.bat the skin now looks tanned, and the cheeks are covered with a sof S down which xis most annoying. ho has used beer as a tonic and wishes to know what will take its place. It is not singular for the complexion to change after lorty. but care will preserve its youthful fairne&s. Hot baths thrco time a week, coarse bread and cereals added to the usual fare at each meal, electricity in moderation, and unf ermented grape juico as & tonic in place of malt liquors will probably remedy tne complexion, and certainly improve the health. The clastio face-mask might remove tho down on the cheeks, otherwise a course of treatment for the removal of superfluous hair will be necessary. E. S. M. "My eyes are a very light blue, and tho lids are inflamed. Is there anything to improve them!" Vigorous exerciso to stir tho circulation will darken the color of the eyes. For tho inflammation bathe tho lids often as possible with this eye-water: Twenty grains of sulphate of zino to onehalf pint distilled water, which will be put up at any druggist's. Also take an aperient compound rhubarb pills, or compound licorice powder, for which you must ask tho druggist also. Directions for taraxacum, and charcoal have been already repeated. MissMeay has had a very clear white skin with plenty of color till tho last year, and her face is covered in part with small white spots, not as large as pimples. Is apti to eat rich food, and is inclined to grow stout, which ihe dreads. It is rather lianl to leave off all the good things to eat, and one must be careful to keep all the discharges of the system free to carry oil wastes. Use only coarso bread, pie-crust and biscuit inauo of whole meal, rati very slowly, uso no lard or sodden fried food, take acid drinks often, and work hard out of doors thrco or four hours daily, and one may cat dainty food without being harmed by it. For tho white pin-head pimples, pierce with a needle and press out tlie contents, rub tar soan on tho face and let it dry, and wash otr with hot water. Take scidlitz powders, seltzer aperient or Vichy daily for a week or ten days, using coarso food all tho time, at each meal, and a glass of grape-juice or lemonade for breakfast, ana cce if color does uot improve and flesh lessen. Let "Gratitude' pursue tho same treatment, A Header: ''What shall I do to make my faceplumpT I weigh 15, but look as if I did not weigh over 120. I eat a great deal of oat meal, etc. but it don't seem to mako any difference." Tho treatment for such cases by the schools of physical culture is to rub and work tho lower cheeks ten to twenty minutes each half-day. Bubbing them with sweet oil at nicht restores tho plumpness, when used with tho exercise, work the jaws nn and down, as if eating, with the moutn shut, ten minutes at a time. Also lift the chin as high as pos6iblo and drop it, one hundred times, at each exercise. This treatment 6hould bo kept up threo months to see any marked change Marie A., J. P. S., Blue Eyes, and a dozen others desire the shortest way of removing freckles. Try, first, poulticing the fac with a bread and milk poultice, or almond paste worn over night to soften the skin, then wash, dry and nib the lace with a freshly-cut lemon, allowing the juico to dry on the face, repeating the application of lemon as often as dry lor two hours, and the whole performance for a week. Or. mix a spoonful of best powdered mustard with enough lemon juice to make a thiclc paste, and a tea spoonful of almond oil. Mix well and apply to the face, night and. morning, till the skin smarts. In a few days the scarf-skin comes eft and tho freckles leave with it. When they disapC ear wash the face five times a day with orax water, a teaspoon ot borax to a teacup of water. Hub the face with cold cream, or sweet cream, after these applications, to relievo any irritation. Greasy faces indicate poor circulation in the rest of the skin. They demand hot baths, friction of the body daily, and aro well treated by a saturated solution o camphor in alcohol, with which the faco 6hould be frequently wet, allowing it to dry on. Also batho with the vinegarjj whir a horse radish is steeped, washing liolfwiieuT it smarts. A detersive cream which renews tho skin completely is of great ueo ia this ailment. To 6avo time, all persons desiring any article mentioned in these letters will please write me personally. It is easier to order things sent to-people than to answer the scores of letters of inquiry for business addresses, etc. I mustdecline to pass judgment on the merits of advertised cosmetics. I recommend nono but those I believe entirely safe and useful, but cannot under take to decide upon all others. Inquiries cannot bo answered "in next week's paper.' as the article is in type before such letters are received. With permission of editors, the next letter will bo entirely devoted to tho seventy letters of inqniry on cosmetics, now waiting answer. Shirley Daiu Illbllcal Science In Germany. Popular Science Monthly. I enjoyed intensely the two years I ppent at Gottmgon. I had the sense of gaining all the time exactly what I wanted. Tho pro lessors whom I "knew there seemed to mo bent on seeking a clear and comprehensive conception of the matter under study (what we call "the truth") without regard to any consevucuces whatever. I hav heard men elsewhere talk about the nobility of thatj spirit; but the only body of men whom I have ever known who really lived by it, sacrificing wealth, political distinction, church preferment, popularity or anything elso for tho truth of science, wero the professors of biblical 6ciencp in Germany. That was precisely tho rango of subjects which in this country was then, treated with a reserve in favor of tradition, which was prejudicial to everything which a scholar siould value. So far as thoso men infected me with their spirit they havo perhaps added to my usefulness but not to mv happiness. They also taught mo rigorous and pitiless methods of investigation and deduction. Their analysis was their strong point. Their negative attitudo toward the poetic element, their indifference to sentiment, even religions sentiment, was a fault, seeing that they studied the Bible as a religious book and not for philology and history only; but then method of study was nobly 6cientifie, and was worthy to rank, both for its results and its discipline, with the best of tho natural science methods. Uses of the TVbJppiug-rost. Plttuborg Chronicle. While newspaper writers hero nnd thero are rebuking Delaware for using the whip ping-post as a punishment, England is restoring lloggingfor the benefit of burclars arrested with dangerous weapons in their possession. As burglars are usually murderers at heart, and carry such weapons to kill should they deem it necessary, thero cannot be much objeciion to flogging them when caught, if, indeed, they ahould not bo punished capitally. Tho whipping - post, too, might rind a lieldof usefulness in restraining tho pernicious activity of wife beaters. Indeed, there are several crimesfor which, no adequato punishment is now prescribed. A term in the penitentiary has no terrors for some criminals. It would bo different though, if they knew that bodily pain, in the shape of a few stripes with tho cat-'o-nine-tails, well laid on. awaited them. Flogging is brutal, no doubt, but brutal crimes deserve brutal punishment. In no other way can brutes bo restrained. m m Noblo Ambition. Chicago Tribune. "Von have spent eight years in collect three at a theological school and two in the study of theosophy, and yet you do not intend to enter the ministry. May I ask what special career you aro fitting yourself fort" "1 am stndving for marriage with a Boston girl." replied the scholastic enthusiast, his voice tremulous and hi dark, melancholy ryes lighting up with an eager, aspiring gleam."

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