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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUflUA * , FEBRUARY 13. 1887-TWELYE PAGES.
CONCERNING THE CARNIVALS ,
General Badeau Tells Interesting Stories of
Lenten Services in Different Lands ,
SHROVE-HOE SINGULARITIES.
The Colcbrnllons In New York
AVnMilnutort n Saintly City
Southern Catliollo Countries
Tlio Passion I'lny.
NHw Yor.ic , Fcb.lO. [ Correspondence
of the HUB. ] After us , the deluge. After
the carnival , Lent ; and fho carvlval is
coming. There are all the signs in the so
cial horizon. The ball and parties grow
thicker and faster , and In the little world
that calls Itself society in New York.peo-
plo are already beginning to count the
days ( or the nights ) before the giddy
round of pleasure will stand still ; or , as
the elder people perhaps would say. till
the tiresome treadmill of dissipation halts
for a while.
Now York , however , is very little of a
Catholic city ; there is. it is true , a largo
Catholic population , but this does not
affect the public lite of streets , or busi
ness , or shows , and the web of society Is
hardly more than crossed by the Catho
lic element. It is not Kotnanlsm that
make the carnival regarded or Lenten ob
servances noticeable. Hut in colonial
doys , the Church of England in New
York was the church ot the important
people , of the aristocracy , and the tradi
tion lingers among those who wish to ap
pear as of older family , so that many who
navn neither religion , nor famlly.aroglad
to put on the show of both by keeping fa.11
and festival far more scrupulously than
the colonists , or the Church of England
over celebrated either.
Hut besides the effect upon perhaps
half a thousand of dancing fashionables
nnd their imitators , there is no appre
ciable observance hero that n stranger
would lie struck with. The only carnival
is a kirmcss within doors , or mayhap , a
ball or two moio next week than last.
After Shrove Tuesday , tlm churches ,
Catholic and Episcopal , will be open
daily , and a few of the devout will attend
morning and evening prayer ; but a mil
lion of the inhabitants of New York will
never know one ecclesiastical season
' from tlio other.
run nr.i.ir.iors CAPITAL.
In Washington the fashionable world
marks the dillorenco more strongly than
here ! ; religion there is more the mode ;
more people go to church on week days ,
during Lent. A few even refrain , for
forty ( lays , from cards and theatres , as
well as balls , and every woman who as
pires to be considered fashionable scrupu
lously keens her spring bonnet back
till Easter Sunday. Washington , too ,
is a smaller town ; the people
who think they are the world
* ( and m Washington they arc the import
ant folk ) , live nearer together and fre
quent for the most part the same places
of worship , so that the faithful may be
counted going to their devotions ; ono
knows which women of fashion aio assid
uous , and winch young men stand at the
church doors of afternoons , waiting for
the fair penitents to appear. Hut that is
all there is of it all that any but priests
and real penitents Know. Doubtless there
nro many truly devout who are faithful
in all that a lenten season means for
such ; but these do not take high cats in
the synagogues , nor stand at the corners
of streets to bo scon of men young or
old. Then too , there is no state religion.
Government is not all'eeted by Lent or
carnival ; and in Washington that means
ft great deal The politicians , high or
low , would take the communion twice n
day to got a place or keep one. Perhaps
they would not fast ; but I appily there is
uo need to test them.
LKNT IN KNOLANU.
In England , for all its Established
Church.Lent obtains less observance from
society than hero. Dinners arc certainly
just as frequent , recontions are as numer
ous after Ash Wednesday as before ; and
if there are no balls , 'tis not from scrupu
losity , but because the great London sea
son docs not fairly begin till after Easter.
Many of the grandest houses are not open
till then , their owners preferring to re
main in the country ; * and all those who
can afford to spend but a month or two
in town , defer their visit till fashion and
polities return from their Easter holiday.
1 went to London life direct from Wash
ington , and was struck with the ignoring
of Lent by the high political and social
people of hugland. As for the carnival ,
it is unknown. Even the word is not as
com moil in England as here , and the
celebration does not exist.
There is a profound political reason for
all this an historical cause ; for fashion
often has its basis in politics : govern
ments have been upset by a necklace ,
and dynasties established by a dance.
Since the time of James II. , when tlio
Whig aristocracy overthrow the Catholic
king , protestantism has been do rigneur
in hngland , and everything thatsmaeked
of popery was as unpopular until within
n very few years , in the highest circles ,
as it still "is lower down. CJuy Fawkcs is
burned , even yet , in the streets , by the
children , and Cardinal Manning's pre
tence to outrank the English Bishops is
resented by the entire nobility. Too
strict an observance of Lent was long re
garded as indicating a leaning toward
Home ; the aristocracy frowned on fast
ing , and purposely danced when papists
prayed , and the result is seen In London
society to-day.
WIIiiR : ! KINO CAHNIVAL UEH5NS.
Ono must go to a Catholic country and
jiow-a-days to a southern ono , to find the
carnival. Paris has almost forgotten
MardI ( Iras , tiiotiirh New Orleans still
keeps up the fcto. Even at Home the
1 historical mummery and masking , the
races in the Corso , the illuminations at
St , Peter's , are fading out like the candies -
dies that every ono blow in his neigh
bor's eyes , or gone like the confetti that
every ono throw in his neighbor's face.
Still I have seen a little dash of what
looked like the older Catholicism , that
which affected the common out door oc
cupation and pleasures of the world , it
lingers still in Spain and her colonies , a
relio of other days. I was in Madrid once
during the carnival and remember the
> bnnds-of students in thiiirgay.bo.spanglcd
| .dresses , with their rod stockings and red
breeches , their rod caps and their red
. Bhoos dancing and singing in the streets
by d'iyto thoaccompanimentof castanets
nnd trumpets and tambourines , gentlo-
; men's Rons , handsome follows , asking for
' biienamuno , and making good music of
the Moorish , barbaric sort. Everybody
listened , and admired , and paid. Then ,
as soon as Lout set in , the religious cere
monies became almost a part of the life
of the population. All the women went
to church daily , and sometimes took the
won with them , of the higher sort. Thov
jot up charity concerts by day , with
I'ambiirliii or Tamborlik or some other
great singer to perform , and duchesses
in mantillas passed
THi : I.ONO IIIAJIITV IIOXKS
walking up and down the aisles like
vestrymen , each attended by her cavalier ,
some young grandee of Spain , Other
women of rank sat at the entrances and
solicited alms from all the elegant and
fashionable sinners as they passed. No-
tody , of course , could put anything IPSS
I than cold upon such tables , or into
Ij'tho ' box rattled at him by one
; ot the nobility , especially If she
was young and dark eyed and used her
F'youtn ami her eyes to plead U was
I harder for the men th-mlliocharity fairs ,
i und it made the Lenten season a period
of penance indeed for the stingy and
! impecunious if there wore many oi these
joncorts : for it was do rigueur to attend
; lieiu ; you lost caste if you staid away.
This was for thy high world. Thocom-
uou pcoplg ana the middle gort went to
the Passion Play rtncc a week nil
through Lent. 1 went too. The play
was performed In one of the largest
theatres In Madrid , crowded to the ut
most , pit and botcs and gallery. It was
a religious function , not an amusement ,
but as different ns could bo from the per
formance at the Ober Ammergnu. The
ordinary actors took different part ? , the ,
play bills were of the ordinary
sort , nnd they seemed to mo ir
reverent. The programme was headed :
FIIIST NIOIIT or
JT11E DEATH AND PASSION OFT1IE ;
; lSKDiKMKKOr"nil : < : WOULD. :
. ThcHetleemerof the World ;
; Senor Carlos Yznagn ;
The Ulossed Virgin ;
: Senorltn Mnrln Martinez ;
OKAND
Hut there was no Irreverence on the
stage , and none , intended , in the au
dience. While the play was on the at
tention was rapt. Tuo performance was
very realistic , nnd the acting at times ad
mirable. The grouping was copied ,
whenever possible , Irom the great pic
tures in the gallery at Madrid , the Mu-
rlllos , and Haplmels , and Titians , and
Velasquez , and to me , n stranger , who
had been studying them all day , it was
particularly striking to find the same
characters representcd living.brcathiug ,
human at night. The audience was
evidently familiar with tlio origi
nals , and applauded loudly when any
famous picture was transferred to the
stago. The language of sciipturowas
used almost exclusively in tlio dialogue ,
and it was very touching to rccognl/o in
the soft yet grand Castillan accents the
sacred words and passages familiar from
childhood in another tongue. I had stud
ied Spanish years before , and had a toler
able acquaintance with the idiom , but for
lack of use the facility of speech , of
course , was somewhat lost , and the tune
of the language had been a jjood deal
forgotten ; but the well-known expres
sions lightened up my memory , and the
sounds started back into sense , like sym
pathetic writing held before a lire.
As the drama went on , I became pro
foundly interested in the audience , as well
as the play. It was indeed almost a con
gregation , not an audience. When Christ
was brought out bound , and seounrod before -
fore uj all , a shudder went through the
house and the man who applied the
blows was execrated. "Fuera ! fuora ! "
ItANCl FIIOM I'lT TO OALLEIIV.
"Away with him ! away with him ! " ( tlio
very words in which the Jews preferred
Hatrabas ) and tlio moment his odious
task was over the wretch had to run trom
the stage. Judas too was greeted with
storms of hisses whenever he appeared ,
\yhilo the Ecco Homo evoked exclama
tions of pity , love and passionate rover-
CMICO on every side. At last in the cruci
fixion scene , women were sobbing aloud
all around me , and two were carried out
fainting. The sconce was represented
with a fidelity that was harrowing , but
yet with a touch-solemnity that made ono
feel that this was more than n theatrical
performance to the devout audience of
Catholics.
Still , in the entr'actes they munched
their oranges and lunched , and smoked
cigar ; the women nursed their babies in
the pit , and the men strolled about as in
other theatres , to talk , and I even heard
them swear. In the boxes the people sat
more calmly , as if they had been im
pressed by the scene. The play began at
boven and lasted till nearly two in the
morning , but few , if any , left before the
close.
I saw the same play afterward at Ha
vana , but wretchedly performed , and to
an almost empty house. The Cuban
men have no religion , either in belief or
practice , that 1 could ever perceive , and
they laughed outright at inaccuracies in
action or snecch in these who performed
the most sacred characters. Yet. there
was a touch of pathos at times , and many
of the audience were affected , though
these were only the women or foreigners.
TIIK CU1JAN CAISN1VAL ,
like all other carnivals , is no longer what
it has been ; but there is still much that
one sees hardly anywhere else in the
world. The climate makes the celebra
tion more possible and more effective.
J'he whole population is out of doors to
witness the great procession on the last
three days , beginning with the Sunday
before Ash Wednesday. The streets are
cleared , miles of chairs are placed along
the pavement , the balconies that hang
from every pretentious house are
crowded , and many gaily decorated , and
the long column ot open carriages
begins to move as soon as the day is cool
an hour , perhaps , before the sunset and
the transient twilight of tropical regions.
Many of the vehicles are crowded
with masks , sonic comic , others simply
gay , many tawdry. Years ago tlio linest
equipiijrcs in town turned out , their own
ers in them , and fell into tlio procession ;
and the show of hor&cllcsh is .still remark
able ; the harness is burnished and
decorated , anil even in 188U and 1831 ,
when 1 was in Havana , there were
women of high position in open
equipages , without their bonnets , in the
line. It was as if you should see a Ttuk-
isli woman without her veil , The cap
tain general and his wife , the Marqnesa
do Viltoria do las Tunas , drove in this
way , with mounted aides do camp escort
ing them ; and crowds of gaily dressed
horsemen abounded , their .steeds caparis
oned in brilliant colors , hangings and
jingling bells. The column counter
marched , so that every one who took part
saw the entire show.
At night there were masked balls at the
Tacon opera house , but these were not
brilliant. The domino ball at Madrid
was bolter , and neither equalled the ball
at the Pans opera house , in the carnival.
Ladies of position never are present now ,
unless Americans , determined to see all
that there is to bo seen and who run the
risk of being insulted.
LINT : , IN HAVANA ,
is very rigidly observed , All the women
are religious black and white , Spanish
and Creole. Thoyaro assiduous in their
devotions , and every afternoon 01111 may
see throngs of the fashion that is still left
in Cuba , prayimr devoutly in the two or
thrco churches that fashion affects. If
the churches are very near , the women
of all but the highest rank may walk , at
tended by servants , duennas or the men
of the family ; for no respectable Ciib.in
woman is over seen in tlio streets alone ,
and few indeed of the upper sort put
foot on a pavement , except to got in or
out of n carriage.
1 gave a dinner during ono of tlio carni
vals to the captain general of the island.
It was while 1 was tlio American repre
sentative , and I asked most of the people
of importance afterwards to meet tlio
viceroy , His wife , ( ho marquosa , had
promised to como , and had told me I
might settle the day with the general ;
so ho and I stupidly fixed on a Friday ;
I not thinking of thu rigidity of Cath-
olio rules , and his oxeolloney evidently
not bearing them continually in mind ,
for ho failed to recall them to mo. Hut
niadame , of course , interposed , and the
captain general asked mo to anto-dato
my dinner for Thur.Mluy ; the nurquosa
wished to have a pleasant ofi'ning , and
if she dined with mo Friday she
would be tantali/ed. So the day was
changedbut oven then religion threatened
to interfere ; for ono gi'eat Catholic dame ,
another marchioness , told mo , after my
cards were out , that the ladies wore nil
very much exercised ; they wanted very
much to eoiiio to mo , but Thursday was
the vigil of some saint's day and they
were afraid they must decline. Of coureo
1 protested , and urged ; it was impossible
to make another chance ; but 1 assured
them that the day had boon appointed by
the marquosa , her elf as devout a Catho-
liu as any on tlio island. Their curiosity
was great to sue how an American had
arranged his Cuban interior , and their
ocruples gave way. Thuy all came ; and
I tniet they were well shriven.
1 A1)AM liAUKAU.
DAINTY DABBLERS IN DOUGH ,
Olara Belle Finds Some Tip Toppy Girls
Among the Tin Pans.
SCHOTT , THE SADDLE SINGER.
An Ainntcnr Actress Ivenves the
Stngc Jennie , tlio "Check
Queen" Society Sees the
Sights In Masks.
NEW YOIIK. Feb. 10. [ Correspondence
of the UED. ] The gaiety of the social
season no longer runs ; it drifts. In-
dnlgcrs in fashionable frivolity have had
just about enough of dancingof amateur
acting , of winter out-door sports , and of
the opera for one season. All zest in
these things is gone ; laziness rules ; the
tired belle yawns with her jaws , no mat
ter if she resolutely Keeps her lips
together , nnd the bored beau stretches
his arms within the coulincs of his
dndlsli sphere and rattles his brain for
something to cause a change in the prevailing -
vailing dullness.
"Hai jovc , " drawled a chappie , as ho
crawled through the corridor of the Met
ropolitan between acts , "y'ought I've
seen Miss Myra's narrow escape from a
dooced dreadful accident ! She got
drow/.y as she sat in the fwont of the
biiwx , and almost foil "
"Over the rail into the parquet ! " the
listener exclaimed.
"No , no , dcah bawy , was the reply ,
"she leaned forward on the edge of her
corsage in her slconinwss she forgot
how low it was and , 'pon mo soul , if 1
hadn't caught her she'd have fallen out. "
Several tip loppy girls have not suc
cumbed to meitia , but have sought and
found a fresh means of killing time.
They have become cooks. Not at unpoet-
ical ranges In rudely prosaic kltchcn.i , of
course , but in a dainty way in their par
lors. A neat , portable gas stove and a
pet , of the finest utensils are employed.
The amateur cook does not turn her
while hands to anything so substantial
as steaks , or chops , but makes tltilly ome
lettes , French pancakes and various con
fections. She aims to dp it bewitchingly ,
for there are spectators in a half dozen or
more guests. She stirs the ingredients
with solid silver spoons in decorative
china vessels. She fries or stews the
mixtures in a hammered brass pan ; she
serves the resultant viands in exquisite
crockery ; she is helped at eyery move by
a quick , neat maid ; and what eater ,
under such pretty circumstances , can
fail to declare that he has never in his
life before tasted anything half so deli
cious ?
SHi : WILT , TI'ltN HACK.
One of our girls has decided to get out
of public focus. She i" the Miss UoWolfe
who is playing the heroines of amateur
comedy just now at our most intensely
fashionable entertainments. She is tread
ing the path that Mrs. Hrown Potter
trod , but has positively made up her
mind to turn back instead of keeping
straight on to the professional stage. She
is tiie daughter of a New York physician
and well within the lines of that portion
of society winch describes itself as
exclusive. Sim is dark , slender and
slylish , with teeth as white as her eyes
are black , and a vivacious manner. She
icallyhas talent as an actress , and she
has become the star of a scries ot enter
tainments for chanties. Hut she will
forego fame and retire at the end of the
season. "I like to act , " she said , in re
sponse to your correspondent's query ,
" .uid I wish to do all I ought to
for good benevolent enterprises ,
but I find that 1 am becom
ing quite a public character , and 1 have
no ambition of that sort. My decision to
act no more ii public after tins season is
sure and final. It is certainly no fault of
Miss Wolfe's , though it may have in
fluenced her to desert the llootlights , that
her brother Harold has lung figured at the
stage doors of theatres. It was lin who
deserted a wife to elope with Bebo Vin-
ing , the little actress whose pathetic
deatli commanded public pity two years
ago.
A OIKL OP Tiin IT.KIOD.
Who can blame a modest woman for
shrinking from a public gaze that , in
evitably , she must share with women
whoso garment hems she wouldn't like to
have swish against her own in the streets.
Just now for example one Jennie Mar
shall js gettiim a lioness' share of low
yetgcneial regard. She is about the
most successful and brazen of New
York's adventuresses. Her house of en
tertainment is remarkable for its many
rooms fitted eacii instinctirolv and
gonreously in the style of some particu
lar country. That has served as u potent
advertisement. Again , her face
is almost an exact counterpart
of the statue , Liberty Enlight
ening the World , which towers in our
harbor. Put her on a pedestal , pose her
with an uplifted torch , costume her prop
erly , turn her metaphorical brass into
real bronze and she would be a wonder
fully close counterfeit. That is not say
ing she is beautiful- The Grecian pro-
tile , so admired in statuary , with its high-
bridged straight nose and severe mouth ,
is not admirable in a live woman ; but
Jennie Marshall has boon eager to adver
tise herself by means oft. \ . She is hardly
enjoying her now notoriety , however , for
it arises Irom the theft of many thousands
of dollars in her house. The loser's iden
tity has , at this writing.bcen successfully
concealed , but that he is rich nnd inllu-
enlial is clear , else the police would not
servo him so complacently.
MNCINC l.V Till : SADDLE ,
Listlcssncss is settling down upon the
world ot fashion and riches. The beaux
and belles dance languidly , and at the
opori they are fairly somnolent. Perhaps
Anton Soliott. the stalwart German tenor ,
had observed this , So ho resolved that
his re-entrance on the stage of the Met
ropolitan , after a year's absence , should
not bo la/ily regarded. His device for
rousing the weary audience was ingon-
ions. The opera chosen for his experi
ment was "Kiouzi , " Wagner's earliest
success. It is full of imposing ell tic Is ,
and as popular in London for its scenic
otlcots as for its music or libretto. Hut it
cannot bo believed that Wagner himself
ever dreamed of iiulte such real
ism as that introduce ! by Schott
on the Metropolitan stage. The climax
of spectacle comes in the third act where
an army of warriors appears and marches
and is addrcnscd by the leader , Hien/.i ,
who comes upon the scene horseback.
The tenor * of the past have been mighty
glad to got a gentle family horse , blind
and deaf if possible , guaranteed to stand
still under tiny provocation to servo them
in this trying scene. The libretto re
quires that a battle song , omt of the gems
of the opera , shall bo sung from the sad
dle. According to tradition , when this
has been successfully accomplished , if
tlie horse is not too frisky or hasn't died
from old ago , the chief remains quietly in
the saddle while the cohorts match oil' ,
and as the curtain comes down the war
rior tenor , if ho is particularly bravo ,
just
Tl'HNS JUS HOItaK'b HEAD
to follow hid troop * , and it may bo de
pended upon that as soon as tlio curtain
is way down the chief is helped from his
perilous perch with as much speed as
possible and proceeds to thank goodness
that his lite litis again been spared. Hut
Schott it ceonis is not that kind of a war
rior. Ho is an expert horseman and feels
perfectly at homo in the saddle. And ho
thinks that a general going to battle
should lead his troop * miner than review
them , So when the army hinl marched
in upon the stage , ho astonished the
house by poiiuding in at a full wallop.
.It was 110 uucleut curt horse ho rode , uud
the cfTcct of the 'brittle song
was tremendous , ns everybody was
on the quj vivo lest the steed
should take it into hid Head to como
prancing over the foot , lights. Hut it
was a firm hand that hold the IT in nnd no
serious accident marred the cfloct. And
when the song was finished the audience
was thunderstruck to SPO' ' Schott put the
spurs to his horse , gallop furiously to the
front of the great stage , wheel to the
righl and go cantering tip tile incline to
the Roman gate and disappear through
it , waving his sword on high and tip-
parontly shouting "Como on boys" in
classical Gorman. The applause was
fipontaneons.gcncrftl amMonir continued ,
nnd SchoU's reappearance in America
was a circus and tenor success.
II' UNHLISH "KM * .
English has invaded ) the millinery
stores. Not the English goods , and Eng
lish styles , they came long since and es
tablished themselves as firmly as possible
in rivalry of French goods and styles.
Hotwccn thorn domestic invention has
little chance for recognition. Now tlio
native language is banished , and in its
place is introduced what purports to bo
English as it is spoken in tlio queen's do
minion. The young women who attend
to the wants of customers am trained In
articulating the English accent and in
using English phrases , so that now tlio
casual visitor at one certain millinery
establishment may fancy herself in Lon
don at hearing such barbarisms
as : "Fourteen ami a 'awlf , " "it is all
cent of style neow , " and "doneha kncow"
introduced at every possible pretext.
The aim is to give the impression that
the clerks are English as well as the
fabrics and in tlio majority of cases the
ruse succeeds , perhaps , though it is n
problem how much financial benclit re
sults from the innovation. Hut there are
times when the imported clerk gives
herself away , revealing the fact that she
is an importation but from a very differ
ent quarter than
TIIK HUALMS Ol COCKNIIVPOM.
Such a case was that of a girl in a
Iwonty-tliird street establishment whoso
llaxon hair , stolid face and blue eyes
gave one a strong impression of beer
g.irduns , gutturals and prot/.ols. She was
arguing a customer into tlio choice of a
bonnet. Tlio customer inclined one way ,
the London elork another , and the first
words I hoard were quite English : "Ah ,
dcon't think SPO. " Hut when the lady re
plied with some further objection , the
clerk lost her accent partially in
the excitement of barter and cxclainiod :
"Hut eet looks particularly nice
in nahsty vetferl" She could say "nahsty"
without fail , but weather betrayed her.
Another importation showed that her ed
ucation in queen's English had not been
begun parly enough when in a similar
emergency she insisted to a customer.
"This is thought vahstly well of in Lon-
nnn , yo know ; 1 niver burred the loikes
HV anybody in Lonuon . " She got no
further ; the proprietor happened to bo
standing near and caught the clerk's
eye in tlio midst of her relapse into
lingua vernacula. Alas ! poor Erin ! I
am afraid that imported clerk got her
walking papers that very night.
Kl'.W KIND OK SLUM-MINO.
The reader may bo inclined to think
that a good girl who goes'under mask to
soothe sights of a public * masquerade is
inexcusably venturesome. May be that
is so. Hut the fact remains that one ot
the most fashionable of the February di
versions is to go , in small'and well chap
eroned parties , on these exploits. It is a
new form of slumming. Some of the
yiews of life thus obtained may be valu
ably instructive , in a delcrent way , and
anyhow fashion finds the amusement
spicy.
It was 0 a. m at : i ball. Across the table
was a young man who was taking his
first lesson in metropolitan masquerade.
His partner was conscious of this fact
and was doing her utmost to ensnare
him. The poor creature thought that to
do this she must apnoar to bo endowed
with a sense of the proprieties. Accord
ingly she kept her mask on. The youn < '
man was bashfully desirous that she
should remove it , but she persisted stub
bornly , under the impression that she
was coquetting. About one per cent of
her words and actions might charitably
bo construed as coquettish ; the rest were
sui generis. Watch the scene a moment
it is perfectly proper ; that is what people
ple go to a mask ball for. "
TOHC.1IV TALK.
Young Man ( pouring out the last drops
from a wino bottle ) 'You will surely
give mo just one glance at your face ,
won't you ? "
Younjf Woman ( hitching awkwardly in
her chair ) "Not much. Let me toll you
I ain't the kind of girl to go making an
exhibition of mysolt in such a place as
thi' . 1 ain't ' no snoozor. "
Y M. ( embarrassed , disgusted , but ig
norant how to cot free ) "Perhaps an
other bottle of wino will make you more
kind.1
Y. W. ( giving him a violent push , sup
posed to bo playful ) "Oh. go 'Jong : d'ye
want tor cit me full , huh ? "
Y. M. ( painfully conscious that ho is
observed ) "Oh , I assure you , no ! I
only , er thought "
1. W. ( catchingsight of a typical tough
who passes ) : "Hello , Hill ! Hill ! Say , Hill ,
whore's ycr cars ol' fcl' ? How are
ye ? "
Hill ( shaking hands with her and glanc
ing with a wink at the young man ) :
"Wull , blow mo if you ain't doing the
peek-hole act. How's hi/ ? Seen Doll ? "
Y. W. "No , is she licie ? "
Hill. "You bet and full as a goat.
Wull , so long , "
Y W. ( complacently as Hill exits ) :
"He's the manager ( she meant the
bouncer ) of tlio Home Circle cafe. Him
an' I are great friends. Say , George , J
thought you was going to set up some
wino ? "
HCrOOLEI ) AND IIWUDDLKD.
The waiter was instantly commissioned
to procure another bottle for the bashful
maiden , and the scene proceeded in
similar stylo.
It was yet an hour and a half before the
time to bring the ball to a close when a
dazed young man , his light colored over
coat reaching not quite to the bottom of
the skirts of his under coat , approached a
gentleman in the corridor and said :
"Hog pardon , sir , but can you tell mo
the way out ? "
"Go right back the same way you came
and out ot the door by the mhror wlioro
the policeman stands , "
"Them ! Now I'vo boon round and
round this corridor six times and never
dared to try that door for fear 'twas all
mirror and I might make a fool ot myself
trying to go through it. All the other
doors led to nowhere , Thnnlc yon a
thousand times , "
And when the da/od young man got
opposite the policeman [ 10 paused to re
connoitre , Ho had forgotten directions
and was looking at the wrong door. Ho
might have stood there debating with
himself till daylight hud not the omni
present sergeant of police taken hold of
him for obstructing the pas&ngo ami put
him out. Ho went through the door as if
shot from a cannon , but when ho realized
that ho had ben assisted thus to regain
( he outer world , bo turned round to the
retreating sergeant , took oil' his hat and
said gratefully ;
"Thank you a thousand times. "
CUUIA HKLLE.
Indigestion results Irom \ partial par
alysis of tlio stomach and is the primary
cause of a very largo majority of the ills
that humanity is heir to The most agreeable -
able and ellectivo remedy ii l > r. J. 11.
McLean's Little Liver ami Kidney Pillets ,
25 cents a vial.
John W.Noiton , of'bt. Louis , \\hols ro
i.orted to bo hopelessly 111 , is one ot the most
popular managfis in the. profession , \yliun \
IiMlit'.iti'r In St. Louis was burned thousands
ot dollars \\ero sent him. Ht was luti-
mutely connected with -Mary Anuenwn'h
lust seasons of biiucei ? , aud certainly
t-jcaJlcil her tirsttc)3 | ) in tut. He Is a good
romantic actor ,
BRISBIN IN HIS BOYHOOD ,
The Genial General "Retreats" Forty
Years Before the Enemji Time.
MEMORY'S MIRTHFUL MIRROR.
Worth of tlic AVnrmliiB I'nn Cord Inn
the Itcilstond Knitting Tourna
ments llu.sklni : llccs On
Jlorseunctc to Churott.
Four HonissoN , Neb. . Fob. 11. [ Corre
spondence of the UUE.'J It is becoming
fiiMilonnbln again to write of the good
old times of Ion/ / ; ape nnd such rorulni-
scncrs cannot be otherwise than healthy
as well ns Interesting. Let mo contribute
my quota to the HKI : . Few of the younger
people of to-day know what changes have
taken plane in the manner of living
among us in the last llfty yrars. Kvun
forty years ago every family owned its
warming-nan. Theseon cold nights , be
fore retiring were lilled with hot coals
and passed up nnd down In the bed be
tween the sheets until the bed was nice
and warm and the temperature of a most
endurable nature. I have often tliouirlit
on cold winter nights the discontinuance
of the use of the old-fashionud warming-
pan was a great in stake. My father
would never sleep in a room where there
was a stove. Ho said a hot room to sleep
in was unheahny. Ho lived to a ripe old
ngc , as did nearly all of the old warming-
pan follows , but whether the warming-
pans did it or not , certain it is that our
people of to-day do not live as long as
their fathers. So obsolete has the old-fash
ioned warming-pan become taht recently
a lady from Philadelphia visiting an mint
at an old-tashioneil farm house in the
country was astonished lo sou one pro
duced. She begged permission to buy it ,
that she might add it to her parlor orna
ments at home. The old farmer's wife
positively refused to part with it audit
was not until the lady had made a silver
warming-pan for hor'aunt that bho would
part with her old one.
1111 : rAMii.Y BED OF 18(0 (
was twice as high as the bed of the
present day and usually sustained the bed
bva rope or was cordedas it as termed.
Who of us old fellows has not in his time
helped to cord a bed ? or who ot us 1ms
not been startled by the bieakiiig of a
cord or the jumping out of a cord peg
just as we werogoing to bleep ? Furnaces
or heated bed rooms in 1810 were not
common and going to bed was a
martyrdom for many. The old fashioned
beds were built high enough to admit of a
childrens' or trundle boda.-s it was called ,
in which the children wore stowed and
then pushed under the big bed. How
many of us still remember the fun of the
trundle bed. how wo snickered and how
the old folks over head scolded and
threatened to thrash us if wo did not
keep still. Nor were the scoldings al
ways conlincd to threats for occasionally
the trundle bed was unearthed and a
sound spanking administered.
There was more family silverware
forty years ago than there is now anil it
was real silver heavy and tr en nine. It
was not until many years afterwards
that plated ware as it is called came
into use' Wedding rings in those early
days were made out of " ( iiiinea" gold ,
and diamonds were almost wholly un
known except among the very rich.1
THE TAMII.Y UAO MAO
was a regular institution in every family
and all rags were saved and thrown
into the bag. When it was full they were
cut up into natrow strips and rolled into
big balls attractive to the infant eye
through their variegated colors. When
enough had been gathered to make a carpet -
pot tnoy wore taken to the local weaver
and ftiado into a ra < r carpet. Who that is
now fifty years old has not seen the
beautifully lined rag carpets of his
mother ? I remember well when they
came homo how proud we all were ana
how we admired thum. The domestic
rag carpet was certainly very beautilul
and very durable. It resembled very
closely and suggested in appearance the
popular Turkish rugs of to-day. So wo
come back to the old fashions of our
fathers and mothers. I have seen a good
rag carpet last a do/.en years or even a
generation so that in point of durability
they were fully equal to the best Turkisli
rugs and fully as nretty.
Forty years ago the spinning wheel
was an article of furniture in every
farmer's house in the land. The wool
from the sheep was often carded , rolled
into rolls and spun into yarn for the win
ter stockings and mittens and it was all
done at homo by the wives and daughters
and utton the men and boys assisted. 1
can still cast on a stocking , widen a nar
row rib , turn a heel ,
AND MAKE A 'IHL'.MI ! AND I'lNOKHS
for a mitten almost as well as I could
forty years ago. I have often surprised
my girls by showing them how to knit ,
and both stockings and mittens are still
knit at homo in my family for the chil
dren. I am sorry that the practice of
knitting at home was ever given up in
our country , for 1 certainly know of no
more delightful occupation on a winter's
evening , when the wind howls Avithout
and time hangs heavily on the girls'
hands. What fun it used to bo to run a
race at knittinc , to see who could make
the most rounds in an hour or knit the
most in a night. It was amazing how
expert some of the knitters became.
Who of oven the middle-aged men and
women of to-day have not sat and
watched the knitting needles of the old
mother or grandmother ily like lightning
through the yarn. I remember going on
one occasion with u , party of gentlemen
twenty miles to see pretty Peggy Rhodes
Knit a stocking in a single night. Knit
ting was Peggy's accomplishment and it
not only made her quite famous in the
neighborhood but brought her many ad
mirers among the young men. Knitting
at night then was a favorite amusement
in the winter time , and sleighing and
knitting parties wore all the rage. At
home , too , while the girls knit some one
would read an entertaining book aloud
or they all laughed , told stories , and at
the end played blind man's bull for
a while before going to bed. Those , too ,
wore the good old days of singing
schools , spoiling matches ,
AND JIUbKINO HBES. '
I don't know , norlm | > s 1 am an old
fogv.but 1 can't help thinking sometimes
that these amusements and recreations
were much more healthy and sensible
than many of these wo Inivo to-day. The
knitting bees , spelling bees , husking
bees have given way to the opera , card
parties , dancing and Into suppers. Hut ,
worst of all , with the disappearance ot
the old amusements haii gnno the prac
tice of reading the liiblu in the family
at night and praying before retiring. A
few blill hold to this practice , but U is
evidently fast dying out and will no
doubt in time become almost as obsolete
in the United States as the spinning
wheel or warming-pan. Surely this will
not bo a good thing and 1 am sorry to
see the humble dependence which our
forefathers put on our Heavenly Father
depart from the neoiilo.
The dinner horn of forty years ago was
almost of as much importuned as the
piano of to-day , and the art of learning
how to blow it well was quito
a musical accomplishment. Hand
some Margery lor t could almost
play "Ilomc.Sweot Homo" on her dinner
horn , and wo hoard Sallie livens calling
the men to dinner wild her horn when wo
wore live miles away on the mountains
Patty Campbell plnyt-d "Hail Columbia' '
ciilitu distinctly on the dinner horn , and
Katie GJngncli cu.ild almost turn "Ureen.
She to , la LO ,
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Parties desirous of investing , give us a
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land's Icy Mountaius."nTho dinner bell
succeeded the dinner horn about li:59.
TIIK KA.MILY C'AUUIACi :
is an invention of comparatively recent
date , and did not come into general use
until after the fifties. I still remember
when wo all used to ride on horseback to
church and parties , the ladies mounted
on. horseback behind the men. It was a
very pretty way of taking your sweet-
icart to church or a party , and gave the
girls a chance they do not havcto-day.es-
iceially if the horio was a little skittish.
"Hold on tight girls and don't got thrown
was the advice often given in those days
jy the good old mother herself. " _
The steel pen did not come into use
until after the forties. The goose quill
was used in writing up till 18,10 , and the
pen-makers and pen-menders were a
regular institution. They wont about
; ho country making and mending pens
for the farmers and merchants. The
school masters generally did tiiis and it
was quite n perquisite. They could make
uid mend the pens after their days'
school teaching was done , and "mother
the school teacher is coming to-night to
nako and mend the pens , prepare him
i bed , " was a common announcement
nmong the farmers forty years ago.
i'o make or mend a pen well was consid
ered a great accomplishment , and the
vriter worked long and patiently to ac-
juiro it. I can still make a quill pen
vith the best of thorn , and you can have
t stiff or limber just to suit your hand.
"iiLorriNi ! SAND" WAS usni )
and the blotting paper of to-day was
vholly unknown To fold a totter neatly
vas an accomplishment few possessed.
There wore then no envelopes and all
otters wore sealed with a wafer or seal-
ng wax. A careful practice in folding
uid sealing letters was taught in night
schools , and I remember a schoolmaster
who made quite a little fortune at it.
Hut those things have all parsed and gone
md sometimes I fe sl sorry it is so. Wo
ire progressing rapidly as n nation and
nany things have been invented for our
convenience which were wholly unknown
'orty or oven twenty years ago , but I
loubt if we have improved much morally
is a people. The simplicity of our fore
fathers was certainly not to bo despised ,
md they wore as happy , if not happier ,
ban wo aro. JAMIS ; S.
Dr. J. 11. McLean's Strengthening Cor
dial and Hlood Pnnlier , by its vitali/.ing
iroporties will brighten pale cheeks and
ransform a pule , haggard , disunited
woman into ono of sparkling health and
juauty$1.00 per bottle.
MUS1CAU AND JIHAMATIC.
Arthur Sullivan is said to bo comuoslima-
soiinus opera on the theme of Sulilllers
' .Mary Stimit , "
Kiiiuia Abbott's receipts were Slfi.OOO for
two weeksIn S n Francisco , and this In the
laceof advnncu sales tor I'.ittl.
Charles II. Hnjt's now skit , entitled "A
llololn the < ! round , " Batlrl/es the iiiilsiincos
of ar.illroaddopot avery siiKKUstlvo tliuiuo.
The fiiieou of Hok'luin , In her palace nt
Hriisseis , iccently heard by teluplioiin Urn
iwiforinnnre of "Faust , " at thu Pails ( Jninu
opcrn ,
W. J. Scanlnn's latest advurtlslnij sell oin
Is to claim th.it ho has Tom Moiiru'H urn
lirella and Intends to pioiwit It to dcorxo W
Chllcls. Mr.Seanlan nukes even tlio ehos
nut boughs weary.
Itlrlmn ! Mansfield will soon como Into ah-
solato possession ot some very v.dii.iblo ical
estate in ami about Hoston which has been
In tlio hands of trustees.
Verdi , It Is said , has decided that his now
opera , " ( Hello , ' Elml ! only hu performed
where the 1101 mal ( Fioiiclu iilU-h has been
adopted. This shuts out Piilhululnhla.
Tlio New VoiU Minor announces the com
pletion of Its memorial monument ! and vith
a bin film ot nearly SKW Within less
than four weeks jH.OOO was sent In by Actors ,
It Is denied that Mrs. I ) . P. Howe-re will bo
connurU-U with Hie Hooth-liarnUt c'oinp.viiy
mm MMSOII. Her manager , Mi. John d.
Ititchio , is now cnga-jud in booking time lor
her.
her.Mm" . I'atti'.s receipts average about 5\ ( 0 a
nlitht. Tlio National OIIPI.I company's ro-
cofptsaveraL'oabuutSls.OW a wwk. ; Appar
ently Paul la a "blKKcr man" than old
Thomas.
Mauilu ( iranm , who has not hern MMH of
laiti uTion ihi ) fclagc , is about to fit.ut on a tour
( it the west and noithwost under ( tin m.iii-
ngcmeiit ofTlii'oiloro UCrui't'uui and Mr. Phil
C. lira } tun.
Frank C. Uancs has been forced to rctlro
tcmpoiarllv fiom his place at the head of the
"Michael Stio.oir" : company in oidcr to ic-
cclve miMlcal treatment tor a paiulul affec
tion of the throat.
A new opeia founded on Slmkspoiro's
"The Tempest" will soon ho pioiluceil at
Hanover. The composer Is Krnst Flank , to
whom was intrusted thn completion of
GocU's "KiaueoMM d.i Itlmiiii. "
Sir Arthur Sullivan's cantata , the "Coldun
Legend , " will be lust sung in America by
tha Hoston Or.itorio society. His to bo pio-
diicod In Apnl next , with full oruhestia , und
directed by Mr. Fieuorlclc Arthur.
A comic opera by Xeller , entltloil "Tlio
Vagabond , " which lias buun a treat success
m Ueillii , ridicules olllulal lite in Russia , but
the Cermau antlioiities were obliged to sup-
in ess soveial songs leferriug to ( iuiieral Kaul-
bars.
bars.A
A singular "waul" is that of Mucstio Ca
pe ) II , ot Floienc-e , the composer ol thu new
opera , "Kvllln , " who Is anxious to linil and
engage a basso with a coarse , haisli and
hoaiso voice , lor the iccltal ot ubiief musical
monologue , on the strongly lealistlc render
ing ot which the composer stakes his success.
John Kogurs. .Minnie 1'almei's business
director , recently sunt pioposals lor horap-
pearanco In Now York city to sK dillrrcnt
manageis , ollering each onu , dilleient set of
teims. To Mr. Itogt'iV meat sinpiisoo\ury
one ot them accepted Ids oiler , and .101110
complications. Iciral and otlieilte , may
onsuu butuie the matter Is settled.
Colonel William K. ami Walter Sinn , in a
rliciilar from Itiooklyn , announce Unit "tlio
1'aiic theater stands alone champion In tlio
city nt liiooklyn to continue the pi Ices which
tend to deviate the Manilnid of thu dramatic
attinction , " and thai thn pi Ices will ho main
tained. Tliochciilar Islienilud : "Tho Lead
ing Theaterof isrooklyn to Manages. "
Ouring a recent peiformanct ) of "East
Lynno" ut tile Now Orleans Academy ot
Music by Lnnisu Hell and her co'np.iny ' , a
number other "sticks" stuck in their linen
and icmained dumb for Kctural minutes.
Dining ihn painful pause a gentleman aiosn
from ainoii ! ; the audience and exclaimed at
the top ot his vnico : "Well , av s-ome-
tldng. 1 paid to hear > on , not to look at you. "
Mrc. Annie Delimit Flnncgan's claim to
the exclusive owncishlp of the di.im.i known
as "Tho Duke's Motto1' ' has been decided in
her favor , and a now York court has granted
an Injunction icstialnlug John .StutMin and
Thomas Mouls from piodiiclng tlm play erin
in any way Interfering with her title to It.
John liiongliamlor whom iliu play was composed -
posed from a Fiench adaptation , licijiu-utlicd
thoplav to her at his death.
Tlioro Is only ono w.iy , s.ns Ilio Xnws Let
ter , In which the difam ol cstabllsliinu' a
National Conservatory ot music nnd a Na
tional School of opcr.i upon American soil
can become possible. In lids conntiy a gov
ernment subsidy for Midi a juuposo is as
vain as the deslru ot thu moth for thu star ,
anil , of course , pilvato IIILMIIS must he round
to take the plai'O of public giants. If tlio
Mackav8lbu VanilL-rbllts.tlioCoulds and the
icst ol oiirmllllonalies will only contribute
to a fund on a Milllclimtly liberal scale to
make thu interest on Its invi'stmcntsiilllclcnt
to support Ibo piojcctof American nper.i. tlio
sclieino will bo ablt * to live ; but not other-
wisp. .
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