Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1885 — Page 11

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL 8ÜNDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1885.

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; WOMAN AND HOME.

'VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST TO MOTHER EVE'S DAUGHTERS. Tyranny .f th Khos Conceit of Stationery On. Outer' Wire Cnttlnj Iree Washington Society Milksop Ftrmrr! Hath. (Minneapolis ITousehold. The Iuiury of a bath-room can b -afforded by only the comparative few who live in furnace or steam-belted dwellings. Bathing ia col 1 rooms is always dang-rous; and yet tbo farmers, mechanics and many ethers who ar able to hare few luxuries, -can affod least of all to do without the comfort and refreshment of frequent bathing after tcsorr days' works. Too first means of resting ia to make one's self clean. If mora farmers realiied this, not to many of them would leave tho harvest field or threshing machine, covered with the sweat . and dost of the day, eat a hasty uppar and sleepirg in the same soiled undergarment they haTe worn all day., They always get up tired. Why? Rettin; - consists c f two processe throwing off the effete matter cf the body and assimilating a new supply of fresh material from the bloo L Now when the farmer, or anybody else. go?s to bed ia the soiled underclothe of the day, with Lis skin coTered with a thin coating of dust and perspiration, the system can't get rid of its effete matter, becalm the pores are -closed up; whila the absorbents of the skin actually convoy back into the system tho poisoner matter once thrown oil, but which has beea allowed t remain on the skin and clothes. It should ' bo thf rule of all never to go to bed dirty. For morning bathing, cold water is the most invigoratirjg; but the tepid bath is the righ, thins for the evening, when one is tireJ. .And, unless one has a well-appointed bath- - room in a furnace -heated houe, we recom--aaend the spo ige bath an the q lickast, neat--st and most fatisfaory method. The thoughtful housewife who wanb her family to l athe often, must makj it convenient an J comfortable for them to do so. . In the ucimpr it ia a capital idea to curtain off cne corner of the woolshed for this purpose, laying down clean boards or bricks, and jLaciag at hand a plentiful supply of towels, ioap and water. In the winter cur'tain off a warm corner of the kitchen; placs - a square mat of oil cloth or bagging on the floor; ban?; on a pes a common tin bath tub -or have a large wash bowl on a corner shelf; and have ready a generous supply of towels, sponges, foap, combs, tooth and nail brushes, .and a looking glass. When not in us?, all ' these article can be hung up, out of the -way, and the curt sin drawn adde, leaving :the space free for ordinary purposss. She who proviles such a comfortabla place, and supplies all needed convenience . for bathing, will have little trouble in toaching fcer family to keep clean, and they will .find much rest and refreshment in doing so. She should also provide plenty of night-clothes for all, male and female, and see that no one wears the soiled day underclothe to sleep in. Air the night clothes by -day, and the day clothes by night. The Tyranny of the Shoe. INew York World. Largs women, said a well-known artist rand expert, must have feet that to be beautiful would be very ugly on a smaller - woman. A No. 1 boot is to a large extent a . female hallucination It is to a much larger extent, perhaps, a female curse, for those who dare not undergo its miseries grow f ooner or later to believe that they do, and re cannot burn out of them the conviction that their shoes are No. 1. Nobody but the -woman hersolf knows what tortures are undergone by the slave with a No. 2 foot who is chaired to a No. 1 shoe. Professional women who exhibit their feet are, of course, more subject to this tyranny of the shoe than other wora-n, and it may not be g3n- - erally known that there are emotional and tragic actresses who, when all o'her means -of simulating agony and awaLening pity fail, rush to the No. I boot. They put that on and a sad, far-away look of unutterable despair comes into tLeir eye, neuralgic shadows play about their mouth, their chins 'julver with unexpressed grief, their temples throb with indescribable woe. Then the pect tor j are inoved. And here it is worth while to remark, en passant, that the ballet dancer's foot, contrary to the popular notion, is not and can not be a small onjs. The development consequent upon continuous physical exercise settles th conventional idea of comeliness. A Lai. et dancer never wears a tight toot, -and when she is dancing she wears shoes which are modal? of adaptability and freedom. But nevertheless the mu-cles and ' tendons of the foot are enlarged The veins stand out, and there is a general appearance cf strength rather than of beaut v. All this tnav be obnoxious to the fastidious taste of the Greek sculptor, but thre i really mth in repugnant to good son-o in it By the ideof the ordinary society foot when bared "to the light, the ballet dancer's is a thing of twauty. There is not one society bella in ten that dares to bathe tit the seaside without Lose on. . Do vou know why? Ask the No. 1 boot. To find the classic foot ia these degenerate days we stall have to look a long way. "The peculiarity of the classic foot is the wide trap between the large toe and its neighbor. This In tho Greek foot Vas undoubtedly -caused by the thong ef the sandal thai came tip between the toes and kept them apart. Mr. Sarcny in determining the fiie points of amouei ä loo z is said to nave doubled up a ten-dollar bill compactly and inserted be tween the too? with the jocose remark that if it fell out it was the model's. And his exr erisnce is that it generally stays there until Jt is pulled. The American women as a rale have maller feet than tho English women. But this is not altogether a matter of temp?raturo. Habit ia a large raeasuro determines tie sixe of the feet, as it will of the arms, axd th Engli-J women use their feet far Art in Catting Drees. New York Express. Cutting the fashionable dresses for ladies, with all the innumerable appanages co i nected therewith, is an art indeed, and it frequently requires years to become profleient, said a prominent Broadway instructor to a reporter. I perfected 800 ladies last year. This year I may instruct as many mora Heretofore the business of cutting patterns for ladies dreeses has been confined to a fow who have year of experience. Many ladies cut their own dresses, but the work is done in a slow, Inaccurate and unscientific manner. Some guesses Lad to be made. The curves In the body, those outlines of beauty, which Iba armen t should always

nugiy nt, were toe mere ptayUiing-oi guesswork. For twenty-even years I ma le cutting a study while traveling through Ireland, and Englan i the continent of Europe. In France 1 struck upon a new method combination f squares. By it one lady in a week's tim3 can learn to cut out, without any bother about refitting, the most elaborate dress. I find the American ladies apt and decidedly of a mechanical turn of mind.1 "What claäs of scholars do you generally have!" . "Every class. Ladies who simply want to be instructed for their own benefit, and tLos6 who expect either to teach it or go into some large milinery establishment. They come from Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago.

Baltimore, and, indeed, many of the othei cities. They generally re präsent large firms, and come to l?urn the quick, simple and scientiCc method." "Will this system have any effect upon the fashion of dresiing in the United StatesP "In the end it is bound to do so. Look what it has dona for France. The Parisians set the fashions for the world. Their clothes fit them. They are cut scientifically, and are not the patterns of guesswork such as I see examples of every day in the streets here. It is easier to cut correctly than otherwise when the system is once at tained. . Conceits In Stationery and Perfumes. INew York Port. It U again tho fashion to Feal one's letters, and bangles with seals attached are anung the newest devices in fancy jewelry. As for stationery, it grows more dainty each season, and some very quaint devices are U-d to heu l fast -ionabl-j French note paper and envelopes "Papyrus," a rough-eugud stationery, underrated, is considered the best form, and when sealxi the packet looks in the best taste. But many people elect for fancy Leadings, and most ingenious are the efforts mad9 to meet modern notions in this respect. 44 Always at home" is one r of the new devices. It represents a large snail with it3 house on its back. Invitation cards show soma design suggestive of the form of entertainment a caid in one corner, a party of musician, apparently blowing great blasts of danca music from trumpets, t horns, and bugles; a dainty and aesthetic supper table, etc Note paper headed by appropriate quotations from the poets is considered passe; still it is raally mora usd than any other style of fancy stationery. There seems to be a growing partiality amou; f a-bionab!e young ladies for delicate perfumes, and, provided the extracts are of the best quality and used with uiscretion, there is nothing to be said against the liking for sweet floral orders. Following the fashion set by the princes of Wales, who it was said elected for violet, it has become customary for ladies to select a certain perfume which they individualiz3, and among a coterie of intimate friends many a dainty moucuoir has been returned to the fair lady who has lost it simply by the mute yet subtle claim to owner hip which was made through th faint suggestion of the perfume which ''hung round it still, " and was at once recognized. Sachets of scented powder are often u ed in preference to the pungent extracts many considering it more delicate and refine 1 than when used in liquid form. A novel fancy is lately shown in the formation of foundation-bands of some pleated nack ruchings, in which a little of the best sachet-powder had been introduced. The same perfume was also added to the bands of the lace rills which edged the tops of a box of Paris kid gloves of the Suede order. Orris-root perfumed with violot or heliotrope is the favorite sachet-powder. Gen. Cuiter' Wife in Dakota. lGkte-Democrat Book Review. Like most people who have gained their knowledge of Indians in that direct and practical manner, Mrs. Custer does not appear to have found much in thein or their way of life to lie admired. She grants that under certain circumstance' they can be brave, and even self-sacrificing, but they are fun i a mentally cruel and treacherous. Their enmity towards the whitp race is not only tied and deadly, but essentially barbarous. They are not content with merely killing a whita man, they delight to torture him to death by inches aEd to tear the body apart and bum it afterwards. Their treat ment of prisoners especially women, is suc'a as will not bear plain telling, an 1 of course Mrs Custer was in imminent fear always of falling into their hands. "My danger in this connection," 6he says, "was twofold. I was in peril from death or capture by the savages, and liable to be tilled by my own frien Is to reveut my capture. I had been a subject of conversation among the oflieers, being the only woman, who, as a rule, followed the regiment, and without discussing it much in my presence, the universal understanding was that any one having ma in charge in an emergency where t'aere was cloe danger of my capture should shoot me instantly." More than onco she found herself in a situation where it seemed to her this alternative would have to le executed to save her from a' worse fate than death; but fortunately she always escaped at no mor serious cost than a fright that left her limp and unconscious. After a certain experience of that kind, she says, the geaeral thought sho might rather not go with him in advance of the troops, but she insisted upon continuing to do so, not because she was so courageous, she readily admits, but because "it vras infinitely wjrse to bo left behind." imagining what may be happening to her husband. More Ugly Ornaments. London Times. . It seems that we are threatened with an invasion of very ugly little ornaments. Pigs, mice and liz.irds were bad enough, and kittens' head were not pretty, but now we are to have half-fledged chickens, and equally decollete duckhnjs of tended age. Miniature squirrels, too, are in preparation for bonnet and mufT adornment, and even little rabbits, nibbliug at green satin cabbagrjs. Those are simply grotesque, considered as "fixings" for lovely women, but I do hope that a companion rumor is untrue, which threatens to immolate poor little canaries on the same sbiine. They are, says the many-tongued, to be stuffed and mounted on twited wires, and then perched on the shoulder, or on the open bodice of a dinner dress. One lately seen carried in its poor, dear little dead beak a branch of leaves rendered in diamonds. A bunch of canaries was fastened on the skirt of ti e dress with which this was worn, so as to appear to be holdicg the folds of black lace together. Socl&I Rank and Precedence. Washington Cor. New York Sun. The war which at one time seemed to be brewing over the question of rank rnt Fiecedence among the ladies of the new administration has been postponed until next winur. uwi ha Urvantio3 nf the Leuten

kvuiuu, zsivr&m to tne lingering -ness of ex-Presi lent Grant The contending force are on the al?rt, however, and any attempt by either to dfl n the boundary lines would tj as likely to bring on a general engagement as would a smilar effort on the Afghan border by Russian or Briton. The people of the land may not b aware that at this our repu lican court there is, and has always been, alnio-t as fierce a contention as to the ord-r of precedence among the ladies of officeholder i on social occasions, and in the int?rchanga of civilities, as there is amjng thd dams of high degree who languish or saine ami I the regal splend r of the effete monarchies of the eastern hemisphere. Yet, alas, such is the cae. A venerable senator, who took hij laat in the senats h 1551. and Lecama one of its leaders said to me a few days since: "It is wonderful, sir, how some women will push others asid j in the struggle for social precedence. Why, s'r, when I cams to the senate I f ound the or.ler among oSleials, carrying with it, of coursa, thair ladias, to be as follows: 1. The president 2. The vice president.

3. Tho speaker of the house of representa tives. 4. The chief justico. 5. 'The senators. 6. The hou:e of representatives 7. The associate justices of the supreme court. 8. And last, tho cabinet ofScers. "By the Lord, sir," continued the old gentleman, warming up to his subject, "I never yielded a hair's breath of the prerogative of the senate. My wife made no first calls on those below her on tho lUt I have given you; and she never lacked first calls from them. We entertainel a grat dal, at a tim3 whan few did so, and every year of my service in th senate I gave Mrs. (his wife) Jo J, 000 a year for that puros3. But before we left Washington tLe wives of Justice McLean and Catron had uiset the social scale, and pushed themselves far ahead of allthoe who would submit to it." More Illustrious Than the llomanofls. London Truth. The late czar's wido.v aims at becoming a lodestar of intellectual and artistic celebrities. Her circle embraces a suflicient number of ladies of quality, Fenchanl Italian, to give it the air of a litt'e court. Gentlemen predominate. They treat her äs a muee of imperial pretensions and stand in nor drawing-n-om at a respectful distance, unless she shows that she wishes them to come nearer. De Lesseps, Renan, Caro, the Houssayes (father and son,) Dumas fibs, and eminent members of the Geographical society, of whicrh her brother was a benefactor in 1S7C, are among her courtiers. Her complexion is soft and fair, her figure matronly, and her manners placid. Her children, of whom she takes the most tender care, grow fast Although the eldest is only 13, he is already a young giant They are all called Jouriewsky, a name he'd by some Russians to be more illustrious than that of Romanoff. Why Girls Detest Milksops. Cor. Louisville Commercial. I heard a pretty girl once say that she had teon devotedly souqjht by young Mr. L for four years. She was fond of him and admired him for his many excellent qualities, but she finally let him gobecausa, as she put it, be never once hail the courage to even squeeze her hand. To my knowledge there never was a purer or better girl than that one, but she was too full of mercury to ever wed a man who lacked the spirit to at least squeeze her hand in a loveable way. Real women, I protest, care nothing for milk aud-water men, nor do they always worship heroes; but, as I havo sail, if any intelligent mah, with clean linen and clean teeth, will make a judicious combination of flattery and ardent devotion he can win any woman in the world who doesn't hate him for a cause in the beginning of the affair. The Fusillade of Gossip. Atchison (Kan.) Champion. Mrs. Helen I Capel has withdrawn from The Pleasantown Observer. In her valedictory she says: As the editor and business manager of a nowspaper my business is more with men than with women, and ray work, to be done successfully, must bo done as men do it If I do not follow the beaten path the business must suffer. If I do my work like a man lam made the subject of such a continual fusillade of malicious gossip tha I choose to abandon a profitable busings1! rather than bear if any longer, Stains on Linen. Philadelphia CulL The stains on linen can .be removed, but tho quick process will be very aot to destroy the fabric A slower, but botter way, is to rub the stain on both sides with yellow soap. Mix starch and cold water to a thick pata and rub it well into the linen on both sides of the stain. Spread the linen on the grass, if possible, In the sun and wind till the stain disappears. If not entirely removed in two or three days rub off the paste and renew the process, is good. Lemon juica added to the paste A Hitleou fancy. Cincinnati Enquirer.l Rambler" of St. Taul, Minn., of a barbarous fashion there: A "Lady writes thus "There seems to be a hideous fancy jut now for decorating black bonnets with white beads. The designs are evidently symbolic, perhaps they are tokens of tribes, ranging from small wreaths of flowers to birds and animals of most unnatural appoaranca. One would imagine that somebody had ben taking lessons from our Indian neighbors, did tiiey not usually exhibit ino.o taste and skilL" lllearhed lilondes Doomed. New York Star. Bleached hair is doomed, and the unfortunates who have lately acquired a prowta will be accused of bail taste and considered out of the pale of fashionable society. Reddish blonde, known as Titian red, red browns and delicate auburn are in constant demand. Black and dark browns can easily be given the desired shade, but the bleached blondes will have to shingle off their faded crop and grow a natural one, and meanwhile wear a wig or take ad vantage of the jocke ' malt. Where a Woman Kxpectt Too Much. Sonierville Journal. Woman is herself a creature of intuition, as everybody will admit, but that' no reason why she should sally out on the street with a thick drab veil drawn over her face away down to her chin and then expect every male being of her acquaintance she meets to recognize her half a block away. Philadelphia Call: A young man asks If it is unlucky to get married before breakfast No; only idiotic Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Nfo man knows quite how to make a woman happy in the widest way.

THEATRICAL WAES.

THE SIGNS OLUTION OF A COMPLETE REVIN THE PROFESSION. Bad Season Tbe Trices of the Futnr. Amateurs Claiming Iublic Notice and Iiuylng their Way. Sifting Out the Had. Special Correspondence. New York, April CO. A well-known, ex perienced theatrical manager said lately to tho writer: Yn e are now nearmg the close of a season that, to the purveyors of amusemeets, has ken the most disastrous since tho onu just prior to the war and Lad as it has teen, the next season will be even worse." "How can that bef I asked. "Was not the depression in theatrical matters this season only owing to the presidential election and the long contest following itf 'The presidential election years are always bad ones at the beginning for our business. But the election onco over a reaction takes place. Teople rush to the theatres to obtain recreation after the great political strain is relaxed, and business is so good in tho latter portion of tho season that we or enabled to recoup our losses of the earlier. But this year no such after-boom has set us on our feet again. Ono reason is the prevalence of hard times all over the country. For others, that may jass away and next year o a prosirt-'iis ono for all kin'ls of business, except ours." "And why should not that resume prosperity along with the rest of business pursuitsT' "For the reason that the theatrical profession is undergoing a complete revolution, and in the financial shipwreck that is com ing more will be lost than rescued. The causes date far back to when the sudden and sometimes almost fabulous fortunes made during the war created a love of luxury and a desire for splendor until then almost unknot n in the simple annals of the American stage. Up to tliat period playgoers bad be;n content with artistic acting the scenic surroundings r"ing of little value but the noKrrrtiijr riches were hardly cultured enough to enjoy goo 1 acting merely for its own sake; the ignorant eye bed to bo pleased and dazzled by sumptuous upholstery, magnificent costuming and spkndid mise-en-scme. This naturally ltl the managers into great exen:-, salaries of performers went up with other war prices, and. the price cf admission had to be raised. This love of and absolute demand for splendor in all the minutice of the stage havo obliged managers to keep their prices ever since up to the war standard. But the people have been growing poorer and poorer as their tastes have been more and more cultivated, until now there has come a great financial crisis, which has forced a general demand for greatly reduced prices of admission to first-class theatres. With this demand managers cannot comply and still pay the old-time exorbitant salaries to their nrti-ts and furnish the same magnificent stage apiointments which now alone please and attract the public. What, then, remains for the managers to do? Few managers have made sufficient money in the past to enable thvm to cater to the public gratuitouslyfor that is about what reduced prices mean and they must do that or closo their doors. The managers of the Union Square theatre, both of them moneyed men, after vaiuly strutting to swim against the current, at length i-oncluded to go with it, and lowered the admission to fifty cents, at the same time producing a play, "A Prisoner for Life," with as tine and costly scenic effects and 6tage appointments as was ever placed upon those boards. But even those availed little, and they relinquished the theatre. Evidently the manifest destiny of this honored temple of art is to revert to what it was originally variety show theatre. The closing of the Union Square as a regular theatre leaves but two in the whole city of New York with stock com panics, Wallack's and the Madison Square. It is to be hoped that there will always 13 enough wealthy people left in the metropolis to patronize these end prevent their mtmbliug to pieces in the general If äsh ; but een Ihis is to be doubt ed, for the world of society, once so prejudiced against and malevolent towards the theatre, has now become universally stagestruck, and private theatricals have contributed in some degree to the ruin of the, regular theatre. Society people tliink they can act so much better than trained artists that they prefer to see each other perform in the parlor to witnessing finished renditions on the stage proper. And this is a growing evil, for amateur acting has become so much the rage that their erf crmances are chronicled in the dramatic pajxrs as regularly and almost as fully as those of the professionals themselves. And, to go a little more clo-ely into this seemingly uni'iiportant item of society performers, they havo helped along at a furious rate the trouble that has been brewing ever since the war." "How is that? Society people claim that their adoption of the stage has elevated it." "Nonsense! No 'elevation' was required. Before their advent we were simply a community that lived by ourselves, caring little for the prejudice against our profession; bui their intense and remorseless love of publicity has been the means cf tearing every shred of privacy away from our lives, has deprived us of that mystery and romance which threw a glamrr over all connected with the art of acticc For twenty year3 past ever woman with much or little money who has been seized with a desire to show herself in public has bought her way into theatres." "Bought r "Yes, bought; net perhaps In tb strict sense of paying to be permitted to sqpi earthough that is oftener done than fow dime's sake I care to state but bought Jt. way into a theatre by acting for next to nothing, dressing in raiment and jewels fit for a queen aad "finding'' herself thus pushing aside really good and deserving actresses who are dependent for livelihood on their salaries, and deprived of which they struggle for existence in the utmost penury. Nor can managers be blamed for availing themselves of the services of these rich women, for with their great ret women expenses they are glad to who will costume, if they cannot act, the parts majmiflcentlj. The

overwfNsrjiug seit-conndence of your society actress enables her to sjeak the lines allotted to fcer, and that's all that can be expected of a woman who dresses like the Queea of Sbcba and gives her services Into tha bargain.'' "GivesT 'Gives, I said: for I know that many of

L those actresses play for almost incredibly small salaries when, indeed, they receive any at all." "About what do they receive weekly? "I know many of them w hose names are prominent upon the programmes who get geven doIlarS and evcn as uttde as three dollars a week. I know of ono case where a wealthy young woman, exceedingly vajj10f j:.r not veJy prepossessing appearance, gave ber services on condition of being asKigcd a part that had somethicg to say. We found she could be tins ted to speak only about a dozen bnes, but everywhere we went she invariably received such laudatory notices from the press that cne would have thought she was the star herself. Naturally the star began to complain. I thought I would look into the matter, and ascertained that her wine bills for treating persons connected with the press averaged forty dollars weekly 1 After that neither my star nor myself were surprised that tho "wondrously beautiful and remarkably talented Miss Sniflie Snooks" received such high encomiums from the discriminating critics for her twelve lines. There is a general impression that Mrs. John Hoe during her brilliant career at Wallack's, inaugurated the system of extravagant dresdng, but 'this is not the ca-e. The highest price she ever paid for the material of a dres3 was eighty' dollar, to wear as Lady Teazle. With the aid of a seamstress employed in the house Mrs. Hoey made all her stage wardro!es, and never were anything more expensive than paste jewelry. Now nothing but diamonds will do for the merest tyro. Yv'orth is the approved dressmaker, and a thousand dollars is not an extraordinary price for a single costume. How does Mrs. Hoey's molest eighty-dollar dress compare with that? But in the general revolution now going on in theatrical ranks the society actress will find her Nemesis. By society actress I do not mean only tLe well-connected woman, but all thoso who are not to the manor born." "What will bo her Nemesis?' "There will be a general sifting out of the good from the Kid in the seine of low prices. Only the competent will be retained, numbers will be reduced, and only those who really are worth their railroad fare will be kept in the combinations. These will be required to do treble the work, and the novice, or incapable amateur, will soon get sick of hard, work and no pay, and so again the ranks w ill be open only to the deserving, and in this survival of the fittest the amateur will be forced into retirement, minus bei nioiiey, and with the consciousness of hiy time thrown away." 'That is Nemesis enough, surely." "Managers foresaw at the beginning of Ibis season that they would have to get down to hard pan in the matter of exenditure, and began the fight by trying to cut down salaries. Brooks and Dickson inaugurated it, but the high-salaried actors were able to stand out, and preferred idleness to reduction. Never before have I known so many leading actors out of employment as this season. Many of them are already coming to managers' terms frr next, season. Those who will not will soon find they are no longer in demand, for the bulk of the talent in the profession lies with the men that is to say, there ait? more 'coining' actors than actresses. For the sake of the promotion, the now small fry, the 'little' people, will accept salaries that the important ones of to-day disdain, and another year or two will see an entire new crop of actors." "Is the theatre of the future to be the dime museum f ' "No. But in my opinion in a couple of seasons more there will not be a regular theatro outside of New York citj' that will ask more than fifty cants admission, except in caes of very rare attraction." "Have the dime museums and the skating rinks really hurt theatrical business so much as reported'' "Not so much as is attributed to them. People have simply gone to them because they needed amusement and had no means to pay large prices for it If they had not patronized thoso places, ktill they would not have gone to the theatres. The most surprised man in all tho 'show' bu-iness this year has been the manager of the dime museum. His attractions have hitherto consisted of 'freaks' aud 'variety performers,' and' to find himself suddenly elevated into the position of a manager offering good theatrical entertainments has surprised him into getting what is technically called the 'big head. Nor did ho seek his proud eminence. When managers of theatres all over the country found that none but the highest class of performers would tempt the public, they were forced to draw the line of demarkation strictly at those, so that second class stars and combinations, finding they could get no Mates' at the regular theatres, made a rush for the museums. They made money and spread the news; then, till ether and better 'attractions' resolved to put their pride in their pocket along with tho desired cash. TLe consequence has leen that the dime museum manager has found a long queue of applicants waiting and storming him for dates. Wasn't that enough to give him the 'big headf Ho has picked and chosen and dictated the most humiliating tfrms to the poor manager of combinat ons. For instance, the rivalry between thes museum men is so great that one will stipulate that no actor or actress who has ever appeared in the rival museum shall bo allowed to appear in his. I know of several instances. Here is on: A manager who, with his company, had been laying off a week or two for we have had t w ait our turn for getting dates notified certain ralued members of his company that he could not use their services in such a town. Demand was naturally made for a reason. 'Believe me,' the traveling manager says, I am as greatly annoyed as you are; but the manager of the museum in B. or C. has notified me that no one who has appeared at the other museum will be permitted to appear ia his rdace. and vou know you have nlaved J at the other place, So you see be mar

rightly be termed the autocrat cf the dime museum. And professional In rushing into the museums Lava naturally pushed out their forraer attractions, tie 'variety people, who in their turn have been forced into smaT.ru- places for less pay. Hordes of them l;ka the actorshave been unable to obtain any.etnplcjrment at all this winter and snffering haa been great among them. Only tho 'freaks hold their own and get good pricos but even a vigorous wee-ling out baa begun among them only undoubted 'cards' can now get a chance in a show. Circassian girls have steadily declined in 'show vuluo. Barnum has no Circassian girl this year. His 'freaks' are very choice, as be bus ihm pick of the whole world of morositiaa. Nor must it bo supposed that no refined class of people patronize the tcn-ccnt shows. At the Acadamy of Music, New Yoik, now turned into a dime show, are to be seen gentlemen in swallowtail coats and ladies as well dressed as if for the opera. Perbap tha memories of the placo have. something to do towards keeping up its styl. But it is a melancholy and pitiable indication of tha decline of the drama to see this honored temple of art, so long trodden by the great singers and actors of the whole world, now given over to cloggi.-ts, banjois-ta and a host of ether variety show people. And not only is the theatrical business undergoing a change financially, but in point of the entertainments offered to tha public. The love of tragedy, beginning witn Shakespeare's plays, is almost extinct. Tha 'old legitimate' no longer draws of itself, but requires such interpreters as Booth, Irving and Anderson to make it palatable to theati-e-goers. And to jump to the opposite extreme in show life, negro minstrelsy will before long le a thing of the past I can re memlier net many years ago that then was hardly a town of any importance in tha country but had its troupe of colored minstrels and supported it lilerally. In New York theie were s-everal settled treupes. They fell away from lack of tatrouage until only the old 'San Francisco Minstrel Troupe was left. The death of Charlie Backus dispersed that, and no one has since thought there was money enough in the business to attempt to re-establish it" "And what will be the outcome the end of all this struggle between the manager and the cnipio3-ee the public and the prices?" "Three or four years of disturbance and distress, then a gradual settling Lack into something like the earlier days of the drama. Lower price. and less display, better acting, less meretricious, flimsy show. The struggls into which tha theatrical profession is now entering will resemble a great, bloody and devastating war. Amid the heartrending carnage, we are forced to recognize that it possesses the sanguinary merit of sweeping off multitudes of Us inutiles." Celia Log ax.

THE POISON TRFE. William Blak. 1 was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my wrath did en; I was angry with my foe, I told it not my wrath did grow. And I watere 1 it in fears, Night and m rning with my tears, And I sunned It with smiles. And with soft deceitful wiles; Till it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my loa beheld it shin, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole, When the night had veiled the pola In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched leneath the trea 'I i A IoveJ YJtw. ' Chronicle "Undertones." Truth and lal-ehood are coequaL Georg Washington was phenomenal perhaps when the hatchet and cherry tree incident took place. But the more truth there is in a man the bigger his capacity for lying when ha likes to let it out The difference between a thoroughly truthful man and a big liar ia entirely in the estimate of the expediency of toe case. Some people are lucky enough to go through life without meeting with a predicament wherein it is advisable to lie. I have always believed that the man who will teal a dollar is a safe man t trust with millions. lie estimates his crime by tha amount he steals. The man who would not steal fr."0J might get away with f 1,000,000, becausj he values tho risk by the benefit he derives from ir. But after all the chances anybody getting away with ( l,OJd,000 ara very slight in San Francisco, for a few people have got away with most of the millions already. French "Liquid Rainbow." ICor. New Haven Register. Pousse-cafe ü a drink of French origin, and the name cannot well bo expressed la Eagli-u. "Pousse'' is from the verb wp:;u-.er," to push or drive out while "cafe is, of course, coffee; thus a pousse-caf e is literally a coffee-pusher. It is taken only after iinner and immeiiately follows the coffee, consequently it bears no relation whatever to the American "night-cap,w which is taken ju?t before retiring, or is the last drink of a night's carousaL In concocting a pousse cafe four cordiils are generally used curacca, chartreuse, maraschino and anisette one renting distinctly upon another and tho whole topid by bran ly, forming a beautiful combination and affording tho illusion of a draught of liquid rainbow. Vt oman's fortitude. ICLicago Ledger. Woman bless her bright eyes can endure physical suffering with more fortitude than the stionget man, and she can miss & train w.thout filling the depot with words that don't sound nice; but she can't pass a milliner's window or a hair store without stopping to feast her eyes and wondering; why she didn't come to town with a gold spoon in her mouth. Good for the Eye. Chicago Herald. A Nashville girl who Las beautiful gray eyes occasionally makes them appear blue and black by wearing hats lined with dark blua velvet and eating lumps of sugar oa which cologne has been droppVi, A novelty in Long Island farming, tha present year will be the extensive cultJva tion of peanuts as an experiment It is stated that a queen bee, during the five years of her existence, lays about 1,000, 000 eggs. About $10,000,000 worth of corsets war old in the United States last year.

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