Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 228, 25 June 1911 — Page 2

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THE RICiniOT) PALLADIU3I AXD SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY JUNE 25, 1911. i

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But Berlin, Germany, Be"lieves It Has Finally Dissovered a Solution. 8peelal Cable from th International Nw 8orvle.) BY STEVEN BURNETT. Berlin, June 24. The eternal servant situation seems to be nearing a solution In Berlin. And the solution is very simple one namely, the substitution of male for female labor. Of recent years a vast increase in immigration from country to city has taken place, with the result that a capable man serrant can now be hired for from 98 to 910 a month with board. The Berlin hausfrau testiles that the new servant is infinitely superior to the old, besides lending a social glory to the household, for hitherto, men servants have almost solely been employed by noble and aristocratic, or very wealthy families. Experience hows that they do as well or better, II that the female servant does; dusting, cleaning, brushing, attending at table, even cooking in short, everything except washing and ironing gainst which the manly soul still revolts. They are far more easily satisfied, for more obliging, and far less capricious; and their sense of duty is illustrated by the fact that they will actually clean and put away the silver nd china after a party before they go to bed. They are a source of economy, too, for when in their charge china cups and saucers do not acquire the habit of automatically sliding off the tray to the ground, or vases and ornaments suddenly jumping from their places in the dead watches of the night and being found In the morning in smithereens. Nor docs this exhaust the list of tbelr superior qualities, for they do not "give notice" In fit of temper but more readily attach themselves to their masters. But no man is perfect; and the said master must be prepared for an unaccountable pallor In his whisky nd high rate of mortality among bis cigars. Germany's stage Is daily becoming more and more aristocratic. Much to the disgust of actors and actresses of lowly blood . It Is being Invaded by nobles endowed with the aristocratic "von," and even by Utled persons. . The new theater list shows fifty nobles among the beter known actors. Nearly all are men. . Most of thetltled nobles act undr , star names. Among are the blue-blooded aron Em11 von Kleydorff, Baron von Wagonhelm, Count von Lerchenthal and others. One such noble actor Is a son of Prince Bayn-Wlttgenstcln. Some of theso nobles gave considerable fortunes of their own, hence they

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ors. Tne state union recenuy paasea a resolution declaring that "The in vasion of the theater by rich actors and actresses has depressed salaries and Injured the theatrical profession." The resolution has cone no good, and now it Is announced that a daughter of a wealthy Austrian, Count Illenberg, has taken to the stage, and will shortly appear in Berlin and Dresden. Marriages of German actresses into the aristocracy are becoming common, and there are six instances of German scions of reigning families taking wives from the stage. An ingenious insurance swindle has just failed. A man called at an insurance office and said he wanted to insure the life of a certain Frau Wolff for $1,250. claiming at the seme time the customary commission. In accordance with Insurance routine, the company's inspector went to Frau Wolffs house, where he was told, he would find her with her husband, a cattle dealer at the market. The inspector thereupon arranged with the insurer to meet Frau Wolff at a restaurant and did eo. She seemed a young and healthy woman, so he sent her to the company's doctor, who declared her a suitable subject for insurance. Matters would havo taken their usual course, but a day or two later, the Insurer appeared at the company's office to pay the first premium. As he was leaving he remarked, "So the thing is settled. I mean, if anything should happen," bait here he broke off and went away. The words aroused suspicion and the inspector, on further Investigation, found that the real Frau Wolff was dying of cancer and must expire in a few days or weeks. The idea of substitution, it appeared was suggested by the real Frau Wolff's husband, who was in financial straits and thought to make money of hlB wife's death. Langfuhr, the suburb of Danzig, where the Crown Prince is to take command of the famous "Death's Head" Ziethen Hussars, is one of the three strands praised by Alexander von Humboldt as the lovllest in Europe. The other two are those of the Golden Horn of Constantinople and of the Gulf of Triest. Langfuhr is so called from the "long road" connecting it with Danzig. The distance Is only two kilometres, but the name was considered justified at a time when there were no railroads, street cars or motors. Langfuhr is as old as Danzig and has always been dotted with the villas of the rich merchants of the port; while the splendid chestnuts between the port and the suburb are only rivalled in Germany by the similar avenue extending from Hanover to Herrenhausen. In early days the number of villas was not large and the population of the place only a quarter of a century ago was less than 3,000. Today It Is 30,000 and whole streets of villas, with long and shady gardens, cover the area. Among them Is the Villa Dippe, the yellow sandstone man. 7 Rfl

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A remarkable story of how a man having lost the girl he wanted to mar-; ry, kept up the allusion that he had married her, is reported from Buda Pest. Michael Milossy, a property ownnr in Kleinpest, had for several years been in love with Malwine Marmersteln, the daughter of a merchant, noted for her beauty. Her parents were not in favor of the, match, as they considered Milossy to be very strange in his .ways. Later a bookkeeper, named Caspar, ecme on the scene, fell in love with Malwine Marmerstein. and married her. Kilossy now took rooms near the Caspars, and after a few months he seemed to have got over his disappointment. He spent the greater part of the day in his rooms into which no stranger save his landlady entered. After awhile Milossy began to receive boxes and packages from Paris These he opened himself, carefully concealing the contents from his landlady. The latter, in Jidying the room, occasionally camo across articles of woman's clothing and one day when Milossy was in another part of the house, she peeped into the room in which he spent most of hlis time, and saw Frau Gaspar sitting on the sofa. She ordered the woman to leave the house at once threatening to inform her husband. At this point Milossy appeared on the scene and began to laugh. He pointed to the sup posed Frau Gaspar. "That is a wax figure," he said, but tell no one w'aat you have seen, otherwise I will shoot myself." He explained that when he made the acquaintance of Malwine Marmerstein she gave him her photograph, from which he ordered a wax figure made. The story goes that he made love to the wax figure for a year, and when the real Freu Gaspar became a mother Kilossy ordered the figure of a child from Paris. Recently Kilo6sy had a nervous break-down, and showed signs of madness. A few days ago he began to rave and was taken to an asylum. In Berlin, as elsewhere in Germany, the custom of offering flowers for sale on an especially designated day the proceeds to go to charity, has become a craze this year. What are known as "Daisy Days" for the name of the flowers most frequently sold have been frequent. The usages of "Daisy Day" give the promoters of the charity full civil and social license to waylay any passer-by with the offer of a flower and a Yequest for alms in return. The Berlin business man going to his office has had to run a gauntlet of attractive, white-gowned, smiling, but determined young women who overlooked no chance to exert a stray ten-phennlg piece. At Potsdam there was a "Daisy Day" following the parade, Princess August Wllhelm managed It, and, with the aid of the supporting members of the royal family. ft?. If. 0 a m m

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STtJ: Ks; 5i SSSL ed, gave a twenty-mark gold piece for eacli flower he bought. A "CLOWDf WEDDING Hermit and Sculpturess Married on Mountain Top. Grand Junction, Colo., June 22. Standing before an altar of quartz and granite, carved and fashioned by the hands of the bride, on a narrow ledge one hundred feet from the ground, and reached by a trail hewn out of the solid rock by the bridegroom, Miss Beatrice Farnham, the Boston artist and sculpturess, and John Otto, eccentric hermit, prospector and trail builder, were married in the Monument National park, of which Otto has recently been appointed superintendent. It had originally been planned to hold the ceremony on the top of Independence rock, a lofty spire towering more than C00 feet in the air, the pinnacle of which no one has reached before, except Otto, who for months has been cutting steps in the side of the rock spire, but the minister balked and a compromise was effected. Before the ceremony the bride cooked the wedding feast over a camp fire, then donned her wedding gown of white satin, with long bridal veil, and made her way to the foot of the cliff where the groom, in blue serge coat and khaki trousers, awaited beside the minister who was clad in the full robes of the Episcopal clergy. Later, when the wedding gown had been exchanged for a, mountain climbing costume, the newly married pair scaled the Independence spire, and on its pinnacle, where they had planned to be wedded in the first place, repeated a marriage ceremony of their own devising. To Show It Off. "The Cross of the Legion la a won derful thing for health." "How's that?" "There's nothing like it to encourag long promenades In the park." Flie gende Blatter. Parental Blunder. "I know It's ridiculous for me to powder my face so thickly," said the dashing brunette, "but my parents named me Pearl, and I've got to live up to tbo name." Chicago Tribune. Happier Days. "My poor fallow, were you always a tramp V "No, mum. Ooct X was known as man about town,' Louisville Courier. Journal The oil product of the United States Is now several times that of the entiro world seven years a so.

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Grandmother, Jet occurs not ouly m tne cliffs on both sides of Whitby, from Robin Hood's Town to Staithes, but also a score of miles away inland. Long ago it was dug in the Cleveland hills, especially about that well known landmark, Roseberry Topping, and on the moore above Great Ayton; also in Bilsdale and Raisdale, the old jet diggings in the latter locality having been from time to time been inhabited by badgers. The jet obtained from the neighborhood of Staithes, a Cleveland fishing station, is always considered to bo of the best quality, and the yield at this point is also the most plentiful. It occurs chiefly near the base of what Is known to geologists as the "Ammonites serpentinus" (a species of St. Hilda's snakestones) zone of the bituminous Upper Lias shales, and Is generally accompanied by a natural oil. From the fact that It bears no trace of structural parts its origin is somewhat nroblemltical, and it has been variously described as a carbonaceous mineral, a kind of pet rified wood, or wood coal. There can be little doubt that it is pine or fir wood. in a high state of bitumenization. In early stages it would appear that logs of coniferous trees were water borne to some hoi low, where it lay until buried under thick, impervious layers of fine black mud, the whole decaying very slowly with generated heat as the pressure from above became more intense, casing the whole bed of deposits to dry when when they were high enough to divert the inflow. Anyhow, the substance we call jet is found Imbedded in bituminous shales, and dislodged in the form of irregular masses or pockets sometimes lenitcular. The 'largest piece of jet ever found, according to available records, measured six feet four inches by four feet five inches, weighing a trifle over eleven pound and, if I mistake not, it was sold for 9500 in the Whitby market. ' Gloomy Tunnels In Cliffs. I have recently visited several of the old jetticks Jet workings on the cliffs about Whitby. They are gloomy tunnels driven into the cliff face at different levels, sometimes periously near the wavea and nearly always difficult of access. I could see that the bituminoua Lias shale had been systematically mined at Us outcrop, the outer walla ot these tunnels being so soft aa to break: easily between one's fingsr. One bole I penetrated measured fifteen yarda from the aperture to the blank wall, at the, foot ot which lay a basin of greasy water. The. old odora ot petroleum and inflammable gaa had long eince cseaned from theso workings. Outside stood heaps of weed-grown rock and soil, the barrow men never bavins wheeled It an

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Stylish Again inch further tnan be was forced. In those jetticks which were near en ough to high-tide mark he would sim ply overturn his refuse and leave it for the sea to distribute. Prospecting for jet became, in later times at least, as much of a lottery as gold digging. Men who could rake sufficient money , together would stake it all in a lease claim, and assisted by their sons come to and from their daily toll by means of a rope thrown over the cliff face. They might labor strenuously for months without finding the smallest sign of jet; or. after hewing out tons of rock and shale they might with great excitement, come to treasure at length, only to find it brittle and soft and worth consequently not more than 50 cents a pound. Many a little band of prospectors toiled in vain until heart and hope were lost; whereas another solitary, single handed late comer would by luck go straight to heavy pockets of hard jet calculated to add considerabl to his worldly riches within a very few days. Speculators Gambled In It. Whitby, for its sizfie, became one of the most prosperous towns in England immediately after the death of the prince consort, which event put the whole nation into deep mourning. Two thousand jet designers, turners, carvers and finishers were then kept at work, some of the leading artificers earning as much a $20 per week. In the year 1856 the value of jet arti cles manufactured at Whitby was com puted at 9100,000. While engineers were busy improving the machinery needed to cope with the demand for high class goods, jet was gambled in cornered, bulled and beared by the speculators in many parts of the world. ' The fashion raged for Jet beads, buttons, necklaces, brooches, brace lets, crosses and other pendants, to say nothing of nameless and numerous trinkets and souvenirs. A great demand for these goods was created in the United States and most of the British colonies. Everybody admired the deep black velvety luster of the jet; it was so hard and textureless as to be readily treated by the artificers, and when polished with the silversmith's rouge it became magnetic. The fashion of jet outlasted the perlond of Victorian court mourning several years. It remained an article of everyday wear, and up to well within the last five and twenty years the industry kept going as many aa 1,300 persons. Then the decision, which delivered a staggering blow to the, trade came with a suddenness quite, characteristic of that fickle mistress, FashIon. Funeral mutes, black plumed hearses, huge hatbands and other badges of mourning have passed away, aa crepe and black kid gloves must do Wf M

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sooner or later. The funeral jet could c not be expected to possess the charms ot modern jewelry, which, even Inthese days are being made to suit ever purse. End of the Craze Naturally, the fair sex did not can to decorate themselves always with what were assumed to be emblems of mourning when all the world seemed gay. Society decreed that as ornaments ot jet had become far too piebian, they must be discarded by all . persons of good taste. For some lit Uo r time interior and even sprtous jet had been sent over in such quantities

from Spain that British markets were becoming overstocked, and as prices went down the craze for it did not linger long. Rather over twenty years ago Spanish vessels would unfoad large cargoes of jet in Whitby harbor by broad daylight. oXt long afterward a dealer was offered as many brooches of the Spanish product as he liked at 75 cents a dozen, whereas similar articles of the best Whitby brand could not be worked up for said for less than $2. This foreign Jet was soft and of coarse" texture; it was affected by the weather, lost Its luster t until it became little better than cannel coal, and within a few short years began to split up and crumble. So rapid was the slump alluded to that not a few Whitby merchants and Jewelers found themselves with large" stocks of valuable trinkets, carved" with the highest regard to art, thrown on their hnda. Much of this stock in trade remained until quite recent times stowed away in old garrets and lumber rooms. True, the numerous summer visitors generally purchased a few little jet souvenirs and bagatelles, such as blouse brooches and bead chains, otherwise the lathes could scarcely have been kept gotng, and ia the case jet turning would have become a lost art in England. It can not be denied that there has been a steady demand for Whitby jet during the last few years, one merchant having been able to purdchaee the .weekly output of some twenty turners. Hardly 'a week has passed without parcels of it bcin sent to various parts of the country and away to the colonies, a Let season the demand rose prodigiously enough to jubiliate the hearts of everybody interested ia this old-time Industry. Once again, ahere are industrious workmen earn ing fair wages, and it is to be hoped they will be able to satisfy alt critics with, their first-clasa work and novel designs. Although on the east stde ot the town, three or four new workshops have been opened by a local merchant, I can not find that any new apprentices are bein Initiated Into the technicalities of the work. London Correspondent Philadelphia Publlo Ledger. Some German schoolboys who, have been making a visit of a week to aa English public school at Wlmbletoa are going home disconsolate and en vioua and impressed with the easy, pleasant time English, schoolboys have in their short working hours and the, simplicity ot their tasks. a market

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