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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1894)
THE OMAHA DAILY Rll ? . CITNUAV * t > ii , . . - . . . 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEfi : SUNDAY , APRIL 20 , 18I ! ) TWENTY PAGES. SEQUEL OF A STOLEN KISS How a Philadelphia Midshipman Created n Furore Kissing a Brazilian Princess. WAS IT A SAMPLE OF BROTHERLY LOVE OITomlod Hnynltjr Would Not Accept that Vlmv C'olirtiimrtlnlrcl m n Tul > to tlic ItniKio"1 Wlinln In \Voninit'ii World. Of all the rich unwritten annals , political , social and moral , of the third and fourth de cades no tradition resting upon memory has come down to our times more replete with romantic dash , merriment and broad fun fi than the Incident of "Tho I'hlladelphlan's j' Kamous Kiss , " which Involved thrco great ( nations and nearly the whole diplomatic world , Homo with fierce , hot anger , which threatened for a while the staid and decorous Quaker City on the Delaware with the fate of Hector and old 1'rlam'n doomed city of Troy , while tlio balance of the world was convulsed with uproarious laughter. -This now almost forgotten tradition has Just been revived by an oclogcnailan through II. Sklpttlth writing In the Philadelphia Tfiiics : Claiming the old Milan's privi lege of generos ty , I will give the story of the I < | H as It came to me , partly through the gossip within the precincts of Hie Imperial palace of llra/.ll , partly through the gossip ot navai circles the year after the occurrence. Tills tempest of anger , hot and fierce , ami ot fun , loud and boisterous , was creat'd by a bright , handsome , dashing Philadelphia youth , n ( .clou of one of the oldest , most powerful nnd generally beloved Philadelphia families , who had left his native city for the first tln.o In 1829 to do his devoir as a mid shipman on the Brazilian station. Itarton , was his name , and under the Inspiration of Ills first naval uniform he , before sailing , - ' had been doing some rather loud boasting. Ills sister and a bevy of her young assoc nteH , rather disgusted at his airs , had questioned Ills ability to realize his big boasts , among Which wan his wild pledge to kiss a foreign princess before ho revisited his native city. This extravagant pledge appeared to his blxter about on a par with tiie promise of Monsieur Parades to recover from Hie enemy the captured drum , nml suggested the wager of a suit of clothes mailo by the most fashionable Chestnut street tailor against the most costly Bill ; dress In the IJUaUer City. After a year or eighteen months of In cessant watching for an opportunity to re deem his pledge , Barton at last found the object of his long search. Almost within tlio precincts of the pabicu the royal coach of state came rumbling along ono of lUo's jiarrow directs , follow oil at a short distance by a squad of mounted Hu/zars. In the coach were the two young princesses , the Bisters of the late Emperor Dom Pedio , who , then about 10 years old , WHS under the tutelage of a regent. Dai ton saw the state coach approaching and planned his auda- ' clous sclic'ine with cool and excellent Judg ment. Ho stood at a corner where the coach would probably turn , out of sight fern n moment of the lazy escort , and quicker than thought ho had , regardless of hazard end peril , rashly Jumped up behind and through the aperture behind , kissed one of the royal occupants of tlio coach. Of course the princess sci earned , because it was all done In open day In ono of the most frequented thoroughfares of I the city ot Hlo Janeiro. Having won his wager with Ills sister , Barton resumed his position at the banquet as if nothing had happened. , The amazement of the Iluzzars at such a daring and perilous action was so great as to paralyze speedy retribution , and Barton returned unmolested by the sunset boat from the palace stairs to his ship. But ho , \vas. not left long In quiet on his ship. The hot lilood of the Braganzas was up in arms , calling loudly for the death of the plebeian miscreant who had soiled the royal maiden's check with his hot plebeian breath. The regent made a demand for the delivery of the young offender , to be held to answer to the offended laws of Brazil , first upon the captain of Barton's ship , which was promptly refused , and then upon the sec retary of state at Washington. The evl- ilenco of Barton' : ) culpability left no loop hole open through which even a Phila delphia lawyer could find escape. And f Mr. Forsythe , General Jackson's secretary of state , was at his wits ends how to , avoid making an abject apology to the In censed Braganzas , the Portuguese branch * of that blue-blooded family having come Into the quarrel to rescue the family honor from u detested plebeian's audacious desecration cf the > check of their royal cousin of Brazil. As a tub to the angry Braganza whale a court martial was appointed to try Barton for his contumacious familiarity with the In sulted Brazilian princess. The sentence of .tho court was that Barton should be cashiered from a profession ho had to signally outraged , That sentence was sent by special messenger ( o tlio Brazilian regent ami our government was courteously thanked for the prompt rep- oration It had made. It was a fact , not per haps known to the Brazilian regent , that tlio sentence of the court could only take effect lifter the president's approval , and when the eentonco was laid before the president for npproval , ho scouted the Idea of stigmatizing n young gentleman for an act rash and peril ous , but too strictly In line with human .weakness to bo dishonoring. . Summoning Barton to Washington before % final action on the sentence of the court martial , the venerable president accosted llarton thus : "Did you kiss that Brazilian princess as Is charged against you ? " "I did , " was the unhesitating reply. "What prompted you to such a rash , Impudent act ? , Was she so ravlshlngly beautiful ? " "No , " replied Barton , "sho had large , lovely , almond-shaped eyes and a splendid suit of dark hair , which hung nearly to her feet In two heavy plaits , altogether a very pretty girl , seemingly In bad health , Why , Ren- oral , I have kissed the rosy checks of a hun dred pretty girls In Philadelphia and they never made halt the fusa that this tallow-faced Brazilian has , It was a momentary Impulse to win a wager I made with my sister before sailing for the coast of Brazil. And as for the enormity ot the offense I cannot sco It In that light at nil , I felt at the moment that as an Amer ican olllcer I was conferring an honor. " Turning from his handsome young subordi nate with a pleasant smile to his secretary of the navy the commander-ln-clilot of the nrmy and navy thus addressed him : "Wood- bury , I rather like the boy for his dash nnd daring nml outspoken candor. He did no jnore than you or I or any member of the cabinet would probably have done at his age end his place. Reinstate him , Woodbtiry , upon the books ot your department , making n small memorandum op | > oslte his name to the effect that he Is rather too excitable for servlco In the torrid zone. " Until ono gets a peep Into the practice ot n modern dermatologist no Idea can bo formed of the number of people who are ills- pleased with their looks , who rebel at the style of nose , car or eyebrow bestowed upon them by nature , and who will leave nothing iindono to remedy the detects. Science has mlvanced In that direction. Such strides have been made In plastic surgery that the displeased mortals may have their features changed to conform with their peculiar Ideas Dt facial beauty and to make up for nature's Shortcomings. The young girl who has a piquant little face does not object to the little upward tilt of her nose , says the New York Tribune ; In fact , she U rather proud of It , for nlio knows that Its pose adds to her attractlve- pess and emphaalzeii her qualntnuss. But to the tall woman with othcrwlso regular feat ures ami a tlrm presence the "pug noso" is u source ot annoyance and to her the modern Dermatologist Is an angel In dlxgulso. "Tho operation ot reducing the pug Is a fclmplo and almost painless ono , " said the turgcon In charge , demonstrating ono ot , thc80 cases. "A little cartilage U taken from-the tip of the upturned member , the flight wound Is dressed and ( hen a clamp > adjusted , which gives the nose a tendency In the right direction , and In a few days the change from 'pug' to straight has been perfected. Wo have had a number of these cases ; one was a tall man , an actor by pro fession , who thought his nose the greatest obstacle In his way to success. It was an What , S < 17.0O Will Buy oftTs' A PARLOIl Complete , Lovely , and tJ A f7H the envy of your neighbors. 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" "A hump on a man's back , " the doctor said , "must remain , but there Is no good reason why a man or a woman should carry a hump around on the nose " In proof of his ability to conquer this facial blemish , he showed a "before" and "after" picture of one of his patients , whoso nose , Itonian In the superlative degree , had been modified until It became a thing of beauty. Uut It Is not the Ill-shaped nose alone that has yielded to the dermatologist's art. The "lop-eared" man who discovered too latq that by pulling his cap down over his ears those members lost their shape , pro jected and made him look unlike the man nature Intended him for , has nn Instrument placed on his cars , and nfter a few weeks ho Is the lop-eared man no longer. Women whoso ears have become deforiue'd through Improper halrdresslng , are among those who come for relief , and many who were "born so" have the defect remedied. Then there ore the persons whose eyebrows meet over the nose nnd form a continuous lino. "Wo have outgrown the belief In the 'devil's Writ * and all the .superstitions which are linked to the continuous eye brow , " said the doctor , "but wo must con fess that this particular blemish gives the face a sinister expression. Now , with an electrical Instrument wo remove the super fluous liatr and change the scowling face Into ono open and frank. " Moles and birthmarks are made to disap pear under treatment , and even wrinkles which tlmo leaves are cheated and de frauded out of being , A young woman who had the habit ot corrugating her forehead by elevating the eychroww had four deep furrows across the brow which added sev eral ycarx to her ago In looks , and did nothing to enhance her beauty. She went to a dermatologist , submitted to an opera- and a smooth brow was the result. "It was not a painful operation , " the doc tor explained , "nor Is It one about the re sult ot which ( here can bo any doubt. Wo make u horizontal Incision along the fore head at Its Junction with the scalp , then another elliptical Incision Is made , and the tissue bounded by these Incisions Is dis sected out.The lips of the wound are drawn together , thus overcoming the relax ation which results In the formation of wrinkles. True , before the operation the woman were her hair brushed straight back , but now , to hide the scar , she wears a little bang , and looks years younger for the change. " Probably the strangest work done In this nature-Improving establishment Is the mak ing of dimples. In speaking of this pe culiar specialty the doctor said : "H Is some years now slnco I was first asked to muko a dimple , and was Inclined to treat the request as a Joke , till the young woman assured me that she- was serious about It and could not bo perfectly happy until she bail a dlmplo In her left cheek. She was a fine looking girl , too , and the thought of putting a knlfo Into her plump , rosy cheek was rcpellanl to me. "I reasoned and argucu with her , told her that she might be made hideous , that the operation might leave a great red scar on her face , and that she was too fair to run such chances It was of no use , she Insisted on having a dimple , as a child will on having a toy , and finally , nt her own risk and with the darkest kind of a picture before her of what might be the result , I performed the operation , and slnro then I have dissuaded no one who wants a dlmplo , because the operation was a success , UUu many of the same kind performed since. The dermatologist showed u large collec tion of ( 'photographs ' to substantiate his statements , and to convince the doubter of the fact that man can. with scientific aid , frequently Improve on natuiu. Mr. Walter Besant has taken the public Into his confidence concerning the kind of woman he considers admirable , and no ono will dispute his right to his own taste. Ho describes the lady who won his admiration carefully , says the New York World , but it Is doubtful If very many young persons will attempt to grow up In the same way. Ho says : "I have just heard that my old friend , Miss S. , an ancient lady whom so many have known for so long , has passed away. She was over 75 years of age ; she had led the most quiet possible of lives ; uho had novcr married ; she had never done any kind of work ; she had always possessed more than a sulllclency ; she was not especially nctlvo In church or parish work : she kept her charities quite to herself ; she did not belong to any nctlvo associations ; she had bcant sympathy with the aspirations of many modern dames ; she loathed the thought of notoriety ; she never wrote a novel ; she never made n speech. One would suy , per haps , that , as she Is now dead , and will bo forgotten In the course of twenty or thirty years , the world Is exactly as If she had never lived. This , however , would bo said In haste. To ono who considers n little the good lady's life can bo proved to havu pro duced most excellent fruits. To begin with , HIO was a person of considerable culture. She played very prettily without aiming at professional execution ; she composed songs which showed feeling If not power ; she wrote graceful verses to which bho sometimes fitted music ; she painted a little and sketched very tolerably. She read a great deal ot poetry , chiefly of the nobler kind ; she entertained a profound horror for that kind of poetry or Mellon that lays bare the springs and tears off the veil and de stroys the flowers of affection which belong to the ordered life and hallow It. 1'urlty and goodness were to her a part of good breeding , for she was , above all things , a gentlewoman. " Then Mr. Desant goes on to tell the value of such a woman In advancing civilization. Ho says ; "Such a woman raises the moral as well as the aesthetic standards for many a long mlle about her. She advances civilization. Wo are always tempted to think the llfo of action more useful than the llfo of leisure ) In contemplating the llfo of this gentle woman , ono Is constrained to acknowledge that they also may servo who only seem to sit apart from the struggle In dlgnltled re pose and rest. " U U fairly evident that the product ot the ladles' academy IB more to Mr. Hesant's liking than that ot tRo woman's college. downs for little girls never cease to be In teresting to those who have to make or buy them , and children require so many changes that every varying phasu of their little dresses is welcome to those who must supply the need. Their styles were never prettier , or soft , clinging material , which are so be coming to children , In greater variety. A dainty frock of white China silk , dotted with satin bird's-eye spots , and suitable for a girl of 8 years , is trimmed on the hklrt with two rows of lace Insertion over yellow satin ribbon , which also trims the rovers , and forms three bands up and down the waist both back and front. A pale green wool crepon , or cashmere if preferred , for It Is fashionable again , has a shirt cut basque , a plain waist , and turn-back rovers opening over a vest striped with white embroidery. Ono row trims the skirt and edges the col lar. . A simple little sailor costume made ol blue wool serge Is trimmed with bands , vest and collar of white silk. Square lace collars are a special feature of children's gowns , and the waists are usually full , particularly In wash materials. What electricity Is doing and will do for table decoration is foreshadowed In an ac count of a recent feast , where a dish of Jelly was Illuminated by an electric light shining through the mass. The effect of this dish , sot la flowers and protected by n silver cover till the moment of exposure , Is very striking and original. The use of minute electric batteries Is making most startling effects possible. Jewels , flowers anil food can bo lighted up In remarkable Kven the Illumination and very effective ways. nation of goldfish was possible to the wizard , Edison , who set them In a little table pond as an ornament , and , having got them to swallow tiny electric lamps connected with a dynamo by an almost invisible wire passing from the mouths' ' , they Hashed about brilliant and resplendent. The charms oflthe skirt dance grow apace. The classes an wull as the masses have bowed to Its allurdments. Society girls practice Its whirls und swirls as grace pro ducers. Matrons.1 tending towwl embonpoint work faithfully ocmilrlng lt Intricacies for the reduction df n double chin anil the two rounded lines that accompany It. The following article which appears In the Medical Ilccord stamps this engaging dance with a most desirable cachet : "Instructors and students oC the physical education of women were quick to bee that the various forms of 'skirt > dancing' which have so taken public fancy , had vuluo us gymnastic exercises. Certain modest modifications of this style ot rhythmic motion have been In troduced Into the gymnasium and with excellent results. Young people soon get tired of the Inanities of wands , wooden dumbbells , and of mechanical movements to the strumming of an asthmatic piano. The more there Is of a dance movement to calisthenics , therefore , the better the exer cise Is liked and the more useful It becomes. Tlio dancing academy could be made the best of gymnasiums If It were over properly ventilated , and the pupils were properly dressed and under Intelligent control. As this Is Impossible the most feasible thing now will bo to Inoculate our gymnasiums for girls und women with more of the dance movements. Our youth would not only gain strength , nglllty , gracefulness , and health , but would learn to distinguish what Is beau tiful In dancing movements from that which Is coarse and vulgar. " i The flrst anil only lady lawyer of India Is Miss SorablJI , a clever 1'arsee. She was in duced to study law by her desire to help her countrywomen , who are forbidden by religion and custom to receive legal ndvlco from men. The young woman won academic honors in India and afterward went to Bug- gland and studied nt Oxford , where s-lio was succcss'ul In her work and became a piotegca of the late master of llalllol. Many a time , on Sunday evenings , it Is said , when Dr. Jowett "toddled slowly Into the college con cert In the hall at the head of his party , he was 'followed ' by her lithe , graceful figure In picturesque sari the natlvo dress of Parsee women. Hcforo her return to India she worked In a solicitor's olllce In Lincoln's Inn nnd learned the practical part of u lawycrs ) work. So far her desire to practice in India has not been practically realized ; but , although she has accepted a good po.st as director of women's education In Daroda , she has by no means abandoned the cause to which , with true Oriental fatalism , she believes herself to bo dedicated. " The fact , stated the other day by a con temporary In a letter to the editor , of the writer's belief that the dally eating ot prunes Is a preventive of appendicitis , Is an Interesting one. The Tetter cited tlio record of a fruit valley in California , whoso 75,000 residents should bo In constant menace of the trouble because of the continuous fruit season and the habit of catlig seeds. Yet not one , It was repotted , has ever had a symptom of appendicitis , and the corre spondent , as lias been bald , ascribes this Immunity to dally prune eating. The gently laxative property of this fruit Is well known , and It Is probably this action' which makes It of value. Its action on the liver , too , Is beneficial , and It has besides a conblderablo nutritive excellence , making It a valuable family food. It Is a good plan to prepare flvo or ten pounds at a time , saving time and having It always ready. Let the prunes stand at least four hours in water enough to cover them ; then put on In n little cold water Just enough to keep from burning and stow very slowly , cloiPly covered. When done , and they should bo plump and tender at tills stage , add two pounds of sugar to flvo pounds of fruit , nnd leave them on the stove for per haps fifteen minutes longer. Pack In Jars and servo freely , The only woman astronomer of any Im portance on the Pacific coast Is Miss Hose O'Halloran. She Is also the only woman member of the Astronomical Society of tlio Pacific , having been nominated to the honor by Prof. Holilen. Thu San Francisco Chron icle gives a sketch of her llfo. From her earliest childhood two was attracted by as tronomy , and It was the ono study that wau always a pleasure and never a task. In appearance Miss O'llulloroti Is Interesting. She Is very small , with a well shaped head flrmly set on small shoulders , and held up with that Indescribable air that denotes character. Her eyes are gray , with circles about them that tell of watching at night , but they are very pleasant , cheerful eyes for all that. She dresses with the utmost simplicity. Miss O'Halloran was born In Carrlck-on- Sulr , Tlppcrary. Ireland. Her father wax well-to-do , and his daughter received u good education. After his death the family wealth rapidly disappeared , and the care fully raised daughter hud to think about earning a llvlne. Miss O'Halloran caino to America and began teaching , and the natur ally chose astronomy , her favorltu subject , as her specialty. She managed to keep up her Independent observations in spite of the dlfllculty of teaching all day nnd star-ga/.lng all night. Her chief dlillculty was the lack of a lilting instrument for Her work. She was at last enabled to obtain her heart' * desire. Prof. Gcorgo Davidson became In terested In her struggles , and It was by tlio help of his wlfo and himself she finally owned a four-anil-one-elglith-lnch Urashear refractor. The room where Miss O'Hnlloran and tlio telescope do their work Is lin observatory and class room combined , for she still finds It necessary to teach. In place ot pictures the observatory Is hung with maps and charts of the heavens. Jubt now she Is looking for variable stars. On every clear nlgtt she scans the heavens In the region of Scorpion. Kach night she draws a map on which the positions and magnitude ot the stars are indicated. This year she will have completed her third set of maps. From thesu she will determine what stars she sup poses to bo variable In Scorpion. On Janu ary 19 , 1S)3 ! , she observed and sketched n rapidly developing group of bpots near the sun's western limb. The return of tlio group on the eastern limb was flrst sui/n on Feb ruary 4. This group was Identified with the great February sun-spot group , so that Miss O'Halloran was one of the very earliest observers , and possibly the cntllest , which shows what can bo accomplished by Industry ; even with nothing better than a four-Inch telescope. During years ot struggle and study she has nclded to her income by writIng - Ing astronomical articles for the Sclcntlfla American and other magazines. At present Miss O'Hallo/an Is collecting material for a bopk. She expects | t to tuku years , but some day all the maps and dia grams she Is drawing will bo collected and published. Tlio strong facial resemblance which mar ried couples often acquire after living to gether u long period of years , harmonious In thought nnd feeling and subject to the same conditions In llfo , IIIIH often been com mented upon. The Photographic society ot Geneva recently took the pictures ot seventy-eight couples for an Investigation of tills biibject. The result was that In twenty-four cases the resemblance In the personal appearance of the husband anil wlfo wan greater than that of brother and sister ; in thirty cases It was equally great , and In only twenty-four was there a total absence of resemblance. An International exhibition of fine arts and electricity is to bo held In Homo from September 20 , 1S03 , to Juno 30 , 1SOO. Provident Life & Trust Co. V Samuel It. Shipley . PrcsiJcnt 'i T. Wistur Drown. . . . Vice PivhUIent AHU S , Wing.Vice Prus.aiul Actuary i Joseph Ashbrnolc , Manager of In surance Department. David fi. Alsop . Asst. Actuary ! ii Dr. Thomas \Vi.star . . 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