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BEAUTIES IN HAREMS. Mysteries Concealed in Turk ish Houses Behind the Veil. Women Whose Favorite Pas time Is the Bath— A Vivid Picture. Their Embroidery, Their Gos sip, Their Jealousies and Their Husbandj. Waists That Are Guiltless of Corsets— Their Brilliant Jewels. Olive Harper iv Tittsburg Bulletin. $/ oi^ / Et.l'LE in gen eral have an idea that Turk ish women ab solutely do noth ing that either useful or orna mental aside from the decora tion of their own persons, l>ut that is not alto gether true, as my residence of over a year in their*., ry taught me, for they are really dextious with the needle and do work which is as line as that done by the sisters ill the convents, or that or the wives of the feudal noblemen of olden times. The favorite pastime of the 1 urkish women is the bath, which bring.* to gether the wives and slaves of all the well-to-do Turks, ami it is like a picnic Of school children. These wives, most of them very — some, indeed, not ov r twelve and fourteen years old— lake their lunch alonsr, and they eat and steam, plun.e and splash, and play pranks upon each other in the wildest uiee the wnole da long. No tear of an angry husband haunts their minds, for they ar«- not expected to do anything, and their husbands v< ry rarely enter the 'harems betnre 0 o'clock. By this time they are all back, rosy and sweet from their hath; 1 At the baths there is often an old woman who lias the faculty of relating stories, aim she is eagerly likened to by the grown-up children, and the stories are generally of the •'Arabian Nights" order, full <>f genii, beautiful ladies, and charming youths and Jealous -ban f l*. Many a lesson is "given as to how to outwit the most jealous of in n through these stones— a lesson they are neither slow to learn nor pr .ict"n-e. The way they are watch d and con fined always made me t m* of tne woman who cautioned her innocent children not to put nine beans n eir noses while she was out. The magic lantern entertainments amuse these ig norant caged birds. Dancing; airls. singing and playing the lute. j>l- -yiug with the babies and occasionally quar reling with each other, take up some of their" time; the weekly bazars, and once in a while a visit to the harem of some other lurk, still leave much time on their hands that the rare calls of their husbands, the eating of weft meats or the smoking <>l c garettes can not nil. and so they (live their poor lit tle minds to fancy work. They very seldom learn how to read, or: .books would help them through', and they never make their own clothes, though they do sometimes decorate them elabo rately after others have made them. They have frames made on which Broussa embroidery is worked; and on velvet, satin, or that, beaut; fill and dura ble gauze they embroider with exquisite fineness and taste. The most of their embroidery is done in durable and ad mirably arranged colors, in subdued tones, which seem to me remarkable in women who are so fond of brilliant primary colors and ill-assorted-contrasts. They have no patterns, but work out graceful and Beautiful Fantasies, and all done with the most extreme care and fineness, requiring patience and extra good <•< e-i^nt. They work in gold and .silver threads to a great extent: an i they make cush ions for their divans, which are. stiff with the finest of cold and silver needle work. Their jackets are worked so thickly over with . gold and silver ara besques and oth'T patterns that they are almost as stiff .i- onr corsets. Their slippers are ornamented as well with gold and silver embroidery over velvet or satin, and seed pearls and fine coral and turquoise beads ar- lavishly used with beautiful effect. "They also work gold borders to their bathing wraps. 'I his is done in outline work in chain-stitch. The little Broussa neck ties are worked in the same manner, only that the tourali, or natural coat of arms, is always placed at the end with a verse from the Koran worked in gold thread at the bottom. .<f They make a very beautiful and dur able lace out of silk thread, which re sembles no lace 1 ever saw. The mesh is thick, but not heavy, and different Bowers are frequently made in relief upon it. 1 have set li a piece of this lace three yards in length a d a quarter Of a yard deep. On it ran a rose orancti, every leaf, bud and flower being made separate, and laid in relief upon it, joined firmly and yet loose. The roses were perfect fac-similes of roses with perhaps a hundred petals. Another woman I a i made in this lace work a little garden about fifteen inches square. There were the little trees about three inches high, flowers of dif ferent kinds and two or three birds, ail made of this lace and set in relief, tiny wires being run through the stems of the. flowers and trunks of the trees to keep them upright. The soft and dur able Crape Uiirt«*r«h rts, or pemhazars. as they are called, all have, around the bottom, on the bottoms of the long, loose sli eves, :iiid around the neck, an edging of the finest work I ever saw, and which renders ihe edge indestructible. '1 h se garments are left unfinished when manufactured for each to finish according to her own ia~t-.-. The Turkish women wear no other under garments, and the jacket sleeves only reach the elbow, so that these How loose below like undersleeves. They are delicately soft ami semi-transparent. The feridjees or out-door wraps look, as far as shape is concerned, about as graceful as a waterproof cloak; they are shaped like a big. loose nightgown, with loose sleeves and a long flap hang ing from the shoulders to the heels. These are usually made of black al paca or farmer's satin, but you often see them of the most brilliant colored eilk or satin. They ;»re mane without trimming for the most part, and are simply hemmed; but these ladies make narrow trimmings to go around the edges of the most exquisite daintiness in the shape of shells, diamond braids and many other ingenious shapes out of the same material as the feridjees, and not over half an inch wide, i remem ber noticing one which had a trimming made of miniature pears and leaves, which was extremely pretty. Another resembled a flight of. swallows done in dark blue satin. We might suppose that these women would take pleasure in making and em broidering their baby's clothes as do other women; but as babies are simply swathed in endless rollers, like a mum my, until they are six months old, orna ment is unnecessary. At the end of six months boy babies are put into panta loons and girls into I Loose Trousers, both being usually made of large flow ered chintz. About the only thing I ever noticed the Turkish women do for their little children was to make toys for them, and theyjnake the most crotesque-looking dogs, lions, cows, rabbits, elephants, camels and doll babies out of rags for their amusement. They never nurse their babies for fear of spoiling the shape of the bust. They are very poor mothers, as they are too ignorant them selves to understand their responsibili ties or to teach their children. They alternately slap them or caress and in dulge them just as their owu humor happens to be good or bad. The little girls are taught how to sew and embroider, how to walk gracefully and recline in the most negligenLman ner upon the divans, how to play by ear a little on a lute, and to sing their in terminable love songs. Their songs are like "Barbara Allen," "Lovely Young Caroline of Edinboro Town," "The Brown Girl," or "Gypsy Dave"— all lone and telling a whole romance to a plaintive chant. 1 never learned to speak Turkish, but 1 got so that I could seize upon the meaning of these songs. The singer al ways puts all the lite and sentiment she cvii into her music, and often sheds tears as she sings, as do her listeners. 1 have even seen one or two of them faint away at the most pathetic part. This is a very common trait among Turkish women, and I have not yet been able to decide whether it is the re sult of a weak will or extreme sensi bility, hut they taint oil every possible occasion. The Turkish women love music pas sionately, and nearly all of them can play some instrument with taste and teeiing, thouen almost always by ear. Their native music is always sad and plaintive, and often full of such a pierc ing sorrow that it is no wonder It Hritiffs Tears. They love flowers, too, and you rare ly see one without a liower in her hand when it is possible to get them, and they are fond of birds, and raise a great many themselves. Many of the Turk ish women show considerable talent in drawing and painting, though the poor things never have any chance to learn. They simply "pick it up." As I found the Turkish women— and I happened to have obtained by a fort unate circumstance, a chance to know them in their homes accorded to very ] few foreign women, and to absolutely no foreign man— they are gentle, sub missive, loving and with many natural gifts in addition to their beauty. If they were educated they would be the equal of any women in Europe. It does not seem to me that they are unhappy in their peculiar marriage re lations. They reminded me of a lot of irre sponsible young girls En a boarding school, and* the only jealousy such as might be felt of the "teacher's pet." Instead of the poisoned and vindictive murder I supposed always ready to be innicted upon each other, the worst they ever do is to pull each others hair occasionally, or box each other's ears. 1 don't think the Turkish women are really lazy or indolent, but for many reasons they appear so. The husband considers his wife as an irresponsible being, prone to mischief (and he is rarely mistaken), and all he expects or requires of her is to look pretty, be cheerful and pleasant when he is near, ana it would be a mark of disrespect for her to do anything in the way of work while he is present So these women are early taught to be Graeemlly Idle. Girls reach their majority at nine and are freauently married a year later, though not usually until fifteen. By that time all the education they get is ac quired. Instead ot being taught all the abstruse sciences, she is taught all the caressing words and gestures possible to imagine — how to walk, sit, look and speak so as to appear the most seductive in the eyes of the husband who gets her. No Turkish wife of the better class is ever expected to do any domestic labor whatever, nor to make any of the house hold linen, nor to make any garments for herself or member of the household, nor to sew any buttons on, nor, above all. to make her husband's shirts; there fore it can be seen at once that almost every source of domestic disagreement is done away with, and the TurkistJ husband never exports his wife to get on her knees and hunt for his collar button, nor scold her if the dmne»-is badly cooked; so that in many respects life in a harem is not so very bad after all. and one-tenth of a good husband is better than the whole of a bad one. But the women can decorate, em broider and sew pearls and turquoises all overanthing they want to, and they do it as a labor of love with exquisite care and delicacy of taste and finish. Their own -garments are such an odd incongruity— bare feet and legs, or socks and slippers, pantaloons of common gaudy chintz, a sbalvar or skirt of which tiie breadths are not sewed up, a tireat wad of a shawl tied about a waist guiltless of corsets, a jacket covered with gold and pearl embroidery, jewels neck faces of coral, pearls, diamonds and other precious jewels, mingled with strings of common beads, earrings, rings and bracelets four inches wide, the brilliant sorvotch above their forehead, stuck full of gay flowers and jewels, and over all the feridjee, with its shape less folds, and the beauty-giving, reta ins ana mysterious veil or yashmak, which makes of a Turkish woman at once the most ravishing and ridiculous creature in the world. Beautitul in the face as an angel, ugly and awkward, seen from behind, as a hippopotamus. ALOXE IN WILD DAKOTA. Terrible Surroundings of an Illi- noisGirl on the Oesolate Prairie. As the Sioux City passenger train came to a standstill in front of the Web ster street depot Monday morning, says the Omaha Republican, a bright, intelli gent looking young woman with a pretty, girlish face, surrounded by a mass of dark, clustering hair, descended from the platform of the rear coach. She was about the medium height and rather slight, but the natural comaliness of her form was con cealed in a sort of jacket made of on tanned sheep-skins which she wore over a dress of some dark material. Her head was covered by a jaunty little fox skin cap. while her feet were encased in coarse leather moccasins. Notwithstanding her uncouth exterior there was an air of culture and refine ment—a certain indescribable some thing about her walk and manner which spoke of better days and showed she was not in harmony with her attire. A gentleman and his wife, who live on Thirteenth street, chanced to be in the room at the time, and to them the stranger told this pitiful story— a tale so full of rare dramatic incidents as to read almost like a romance. Her name, she said, was Margaret Conner and her home was at Kockford, 111., where she had lived from child nood. Her father was dead and she had for several years supported her mother, her brother and herself by teaching in the public schools. About a year ago her mother died, and Miss Conner and her brother Willie, who was now a lad of sixteen, finding themselves alone in the world, sold their little homested and, with their worldly effects, emi grated to Dakota with a view to taking up a timberclaim and going to farming. They settled on Turtle creek, in Spink county, about twenty miles east of Ueafield. Going into a new country, and being ignorant of its ways, they found it necessary to buy many things, the need of which they had not anticipated, and they saw with alarm their little stock of money dwindling rapidly away under these repeated drains. The neighbors were kind, in their rough way, and lent willing hands to give the young people a start. A warm sod house for them selves and outhouses for the stock were built, the requisite number of trees were planted, the stubborn prairie broken and the spring sowing done. The story at this point is so full of startling incidents that it is best in Miss Conner's own words. "The crops," said she, "as every one knows, on account of the prolonged droughts in the South and West, were a total failure, ana all that we had to THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: SUNDAY MORNING AIUIJL 20, 1890.— TWENTY PAGES. show for our hard summer's work was a few bushels of corn and wheat, hardly enough to furnish ua food for the win ter. "Well, the fall dragged on into winter, and Christmas, the season of glad tidings and good cheer, found us reduced to our last bushel of grain. What we should do when that was gone was a problem beyond our power to solve. Oh. the gloom and terror of those lone winter nights, without fuel and without light. For hours and hours we would lay, huddled in each other's arms, listening to the howling of the wolves and the shrieks of the tempest as it howled about our cabin door. "About this time," she continued, her voice choking with a sob, "poor Willie took sick and died, and then it seemed as if my cup of sorrow was full to the brim, and I thought for a time I should sro mad from the very honor of my situ ation. There I was, alone with my dead brother, in the midst of a desolate Dakota prairie, without the barest necessities of life and not a friend or neighbor within ten miles. 1 clearly saw that 1 could no longer remain where I was. for to do so was to perish, and my only hope was to get to Red field, and there by interesting the railroad officials in my story obtain transportation to mv friends in Illinois. Slowly and sadly I dug a hole in the hard ground of our cabin floor and laid poor Willie away, and after kissing his sweet pale face many times I covered tlie body with the cold frosty earth and left him. "Then, collecting a few things in a little hand bas. I bade a long farewell to the home which had been the scene of so much sorrow, and started on my way to lied field in the face of a howling blizzard, but reached that place in safety. After remaining there a few days I decided to come to Omaha." MINSTREL SUPERSTITIONS. A Yellow Clarionet Hakes an Ei- ciiement in a St. Louis Theater. Tom Haley, a minstrel man, tells the Globe-Democrat: "If the audience at Pope's theater last Thursday night had known the real cause of the delay in the raising of the curtain after the signal of all ready had been given there would have been some very genuine laughter. 1 need not teil you that show people are as superstitious as gamblers. They have an abiding fairh in 'mascots' and 'Jonahs.' If business is bad the com pany begins to look around for a \lonah.' suspecting first this man and then that. But, should they find iv the orchestra a yellow clarionet, they look no further, and ten to one the company will demand his discharge. 1 have been for several months sitting in the first part as a "dummy,"' holding in my hand a cornet, which I make be lieve to play. The manager sent it out to be plated last Thursday, and when evening came 1 had no horn. In haste I ran to one of the "musical team" and asked him to loan me a cornet. A«s his instrument is a very costly and delicate one he demurred, but told me I could have anything else in his trunk. There was no time to be lost, so 1 grabbed ud the first instrument that came to hand and marched to my seat, i gave it a preliminary toot just as the curtain was about to rise, when the first part ail looked around and saw me with the un lucky clarionet in my hand. One and all they jumped to their fret, and there was a subdued tempest of pro tests. "Don't play that, Tom !'' "None of that!" "Here! here! we can't stand that!" Barney Fagan, the stage man ager, came to me and said: "1 am not superstitious about yellow clarionets, but we have been doing well and there is no use taking any chances." 1 sur rendered the clarionet and sat through the tirst part with folded arms. Browning's Daily liife. Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. Browning was able to take life quietly and easliy. He was ai>le to enjoy himself. He had tho rarest of modern possessions— the possession of ieisnre. His body servant has recently described how Mr. Browning spent his days. "He used to get up at 7 o'clock every morning and stay in his bed room till 8 o'clock. He read dur ing that time, generally French and Italian works, and he invariably ate n plate of fruit, which had been left in his room over night— strawberries or grapes by preference, oranges and other fruits in'lheir season. From 8 to 8:30 o'clock he had a bath, and X i» came down to breakfast. This took about twenty minutes, and he would then turn his chair to the fire and read the morning papers till 10 o'clock. He had the Times and Daily News in the morning and in the evening he read the Pall Mall and the weekly and fortniirhtly reviews, from 10 till Ihe spent the time in his study writing. After lunch, to which he sat down at 1 o'clock, he would go out to pay afternoon calls or to the pri vate views, frequently walking across Kensington garden. He came back at 5:30 or 6 o'clock f o dress for dinner, winch was at 7 o'clock, and he went to bed at 10:30 or It. During the season he dined out a great deal." \ Monster Tombstone. St. Louis Republic. The larirest tombstone in the world (monuments erected to distinguished persons excepted) is probably that of the late H. Scarlett, of Upso'n county, Ua. Scarlett was very wealthy, and noted lor his misanthropic ten dencies. He led the life of a hermit. Why, no one knew, but it was hinted that he was a victim of dis appointed love. Several years before his death, which occurred in the spring of ISHB. lie selected a monster bowlder, a miniature mountain of granite. lOOx 250 feet in dimensions, for a tombstone, and had it appropriately lettered by a marble cutter. A cave fitted up as a roomy tomb was excavated under the huge bowlder, Scarlett himself superintending the work. After Ins death neighbors. relatives and friends carried the remains and deposited them under the rock according to ante mortetn direciious, and to-day the mortal parts of Henry Scarlett repose under the most gigantic tombstone iv the world. Coming styles in Gowns. March Ladies' Home Journal. The question is not yet settled beyond a peradventure as to what the prevail ing styles in gowns will be. There are rumors that a little more bouffancy will be given to the skirts of summer gowns, and some ol the latest importations show tne hip paniers of a decade ago. Sleeves will be more moderate in their proportions and plainer in their out lines, a modified, reduced gigot being most favored. It is rumored also that side forms in the back will run to the shoulder in stead of the arm scie and in line of darts, there will be one seam in front also running to the shoulder. Bodice seams will be corded again on dit. Ruffles will appear in various widths, sometimes arranged iv groups up the front. Mauve and amethyst shades are ex ceedingly fashionaule, both irTtulle and light textures. Black is always fash ionable, aud many gowns have a col ored front, which is edged with flowers or a ruche 01 the color, and the color is repeated as trimmings for the neck and sleeves— a tashion which has much to recommend it. since the dress is com pletely altered by the substitution of a different color. SAFE ANI> EFFECTIVE. Braxdreth's Pills are the safest and most effective remedy tor Indiges tion, Irregularity of the Bowels. Consti pation. Biliousness, Headache, Dizzi ness, Malaria, or any disease arising from an impure state of the blood. They have been in use in this country for over fifty years, and the thousands of unimpeachable testimonials from those who have used them, and their con stantly increasing sale. ?s incontroverti ble evidence that they perform all that is claimed for them. Braxdreth's Pills are purely vege table, absolutely harmless and safe to take at any time. Sold in every drug and medicine store, either plaiu or sugar-coated. SOME MENJEVILISH When the Demon of Strong: Drink Actuates Them. Women Are by Far the Worst Sufferers From In ebriety. Broadway's Gilded Palace of Whisky and Bowery Dens. A Wife-Beater Who Will Not Soon Forget His Pun ishment. Owing to their familiarity with one remarkable phase of New York's splendor, the citizens of this town sometimes forget that we have the cost liest saloons in the world. New York | is badly equipped in pavements, but when it comes to coiner groggeries, it is ail there. People who visit the city from all quarters of the globe are as tounded at the superb manner in which the multiplicity of beer saloons are fit ted up. There is a veritable craze among the saloonkeepers to see which can ex cel his neighbor iv lavish decoration, and the end is not yet. The first boom in this direction was started in a Broadway hotel, but there ha# since been a good deal of rivalry, It is worth noting that the newer places have given up decorations in what is known as the Queen Anne and stained glass style, and are giving their attention to heavy crystal plate mirrors and the most ex tensive and mahogany and cherry carv ings. It would be pleasant, but a blamed lie, to write that the drinkers are as polished as the woodwork in their manners. Yesterday I counted no less than five little news-smls clustered in a big saloon on Park Row. and they were ten, twelve or fourteen years of age. Three were decidedly pretty and attractive children. They were larking and playing with the heavily built and beefy loafers in the saloon, and their talk in many instances showed a shocking familiarity with pro fanity and indecency. The men around the room chaffed them, and, in one or two instances, romped clumsily with them. Every time a newcomer en tered the girls flocked around him and begged him to buy their papers. It was a sort of spectacle that ousht to interest the .Society ror the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. That was by daylight in Park row, at a time and place where civility, if ever, should be found in a barroom. Of course, if you go to the Bowery for your |»ct lessons you expect to get rouirli erial. And you need never be dis oitited. A party of brute-faced, ray, inebriated men stood at a dilap ed bar in a saloon on the Bowery at "clock in the morning. While the was ringing with blasphemy, the ; door of the saloon opened, and a white-faced, frail, little woman stole in and stood to one side,gazing with great. Kblue eyes into tire face of one of drinkers, a young man with A Harsh Face. n was at that moment cursing a panion for having a different opiu ion on the subject of bull pups. Dis covering the trembling woman at his side the fellow stopped short in his ar gument and demanded what she '1 want to speak to you alone, Jim." "Well, yer qaii't," growled the man;" and now you get out o' here or I'll slug "I must speak to you, Jim," went on the woman. "I tell yer no," shouted Jim. "I must," continued the wife. The man took a step forward and swept his bis, rough hand through the air, letting it fall with a whack on the cheek of the woman, upsetting her as though she had been a child, and fol lowing up the blow with a command to get out as quick as she could get on her feet. The littie woman arose from the floor, and. drawing her hand from under her shawl, extended it toward her hus "l was only to give this to you, Jim." said she softly. "I thought you would, not want these men to see it." Jim took her hand and she opened the fingers, revealing a dimpled one dollar bill in the palm. The brutal husband pounced on the money, and then mum bled a sort of apology to his wife for having struck her. and even invited her to have a glass of beer. This she re fused, and went quietly out into the nisi lit, leaving her man in possession of the money she had earned, he cared not Such things make one feel like Dreaching total abstinence — even against the mild and foamy beer. A physician said to me: "Some men may drink without hnrm, while others should let alcohol alone. Persons who are heavy or lethargic should never touch beer — I do not mean physically, but for its mental effect. If I drink half a glass of beer at dinner nothing on earth interests me for an hour after wards but an easy chair, slippers and a quiet nap. If my wife, on the other hand, drinks a glass of beer, it sets her nesves tingling, and she wants to dress and go to the theater or a dog show. There is no telling exactly what the effect of drinking beer will be on a man, but it is always interesting to me in traveling to note the difference in the faces ot people who drink various bev erages. In the West, for instance, whisky is the staple, the men are sharp, active, nervous, lean, thin, and intense. They work night and day. They can get along with six hours' sleep, because Take a Cocktail Before breakfast, which stirs up the energy which the short hours of sleep have taken away. In Berlin, where they drink beer all the time, the men are heavy, stout and loggy. They sleep nine hours a night, and very frequently take an hour's nap in a chair in a beer garden during the day. In France, where they drink wine, the men have sallow skin and wrinkled faces. The wine has a slightly stimulating effect, but not as much a one as the whisky of our nobility in the West. The best thine for a man to drink is water. Never make any mistake about that. I am not a teetotaler, but lam able to look at the tniug clearly, and I know, as every other man of the world does, that nine-tenths of the mischief in society comes from drink. Many a woman goes wrong who would never have thought of it had it not been for the preliminary cham pagne. Besides, it is the best opinion of medical experts everywhere in the world that a man is healthier -without wines or liquors of auy sort than he is with them." There is one sort of drunkard whom everybody despises, and lie is the wife beater. Just as one of the big Boston boats threw its gang plank out over the pier on North river a weary and pale man came flying ashore considerably faster than his legs would carry him. The fact is he was assisted on his jour ney by the stout hands of several of the steamer's officers. •'Well, that brute has had a good les son," said another of the passengers, as the unfortunate man hurried up the pier, without making-ftny objection to the rough treatment he had been made the victim of. "He will never strike another woman with impunity, I guess, ;J exclaimed still another passenger. "Why, what has he done?'" asked a gentleman who had just greeted some friends that had arrived on the steamer. "lie tried to beat his wife last night," was the reply. ''The little woman was sitting with him in the cabin, lie was drunk and quarrelsome. She said something that he did not approve of, and he Struck Her iv the Face <with his fist. He was preparing to hit her again when one of the officers sprang ou him and pinioned him. With out being allowed to say a word in his defense he was rushed down into the hold of the boat and thrown into a cell called the "glory hole." He was kept there all night, and nothing was given to him but a cup of water. When the steamer was drawing in to the dock he was brought up from his prison and the officers and crew arranged themselves in two lines on the deck. The fellow was then stacted through this gauntlet, and. as he passed along, every man iv the line contributed an enthusiastic kick upon the most available part of his anatomy. A humbler or more miser able wretch it would be hard to imagine than the brave wife-beater as he sub mitted to his humiliating punisnment. I'll warrant he will not strike his wife again, not when anybody is by to see." The man who comes up before the po lice justice and gets thirty days for knocking down his wife while drunk, crawls away with a smile on his face and a determination in his heart to sup plement the exercise when he returns from his trip to the Island. But I fancy that the chap who gets a good kicking from twenty or thirty of his fellow-men is brought to a pretty stern realization of the brutality. The elastic laws of the high seas are. it seems to me, often more purifying than those of metropol itan civilization. Alas, it isn't merely by a fist stroke that women are leveledout by alcohol! 1 saw a ciii flushed by champagne at a Fifth-avenue "tea." Auabel's lovely eyes swept the room swiftly, and fin ally fixed themselves upon a young man who was hastening across the floor toward her. "Ah, how do you do this afternoon?" said the gentleman, ex tending his hand to Auabel. "This is a pleasant surprise, I assure you." Anabel niade a murmuring reply, and the two withdrew to a corner together. She was tipsy. "I don't dare to start away at once, Dicir," said Anabel when they were alone. "People might notice it. Sup pose you go first and Let Me Pick You Up a block or so away from the house. "But it's only an hour altogether that 1 see you," responded Dick warmly, "and i can't bear to leave you for one instant" "But you must," went on Anabel. "The first word of gossip that gets to mamma's ears will ruin our whole af fair. And suppose your wife should hear of it?" "I will go at once," said Dick, hastily, as though Anabel's last words had con vinced^him of the wisdom of discretion. He vanished. Five minutes afterward Anabel bade her hostess good-bye and tripped away to her curriage. At the entrance of Central park the coachman drew up his horses, ana a young man sprang through the door that Anabel held open. One more horrible example and I am done. There is one variety theater in New York where its dressing rooms are situated in a stone house just around the corner from tlie entrance of the the ater itself. This house forms part of the stage, and if the shades were not drawn over the windows strange and fascinating sights would be revealed to passers-by. In passing through the street one night, not long ago. I noticed a little knot of people, most young men aud boys, gathered on the sidewalk op posite this stage entrance with their eyes turned to a window on the second floor. Glancing up, I was met by a vis ion that was decidedly startling. A young woman, manifestly inebriated, whose name 1 will not give, was outlined against the curtainless window in a state of neglige that was more than in teresting, and as 1 halted in surprise at the sight ot her 1 was struck aghast by the realization that she was not putting clothes on her, but still taking thm off. The unfortunate and deplorable situa tion was not unrelieved by humor, for fh'ere were many impromptu wits in the assemblage that grew larger and larger each moment along the sidewalk. Just as an old gentleman, after taking a. very long look at the unconscious and tipsy actress, was hurrying across the way to tell the man at the stage door of the spec tacle that was in progress, the fair and nearly nude young lady advanced to the window and gaz^d into the street. Shading her eyes with her hands, she made out the crowd on the sidewalk be low; and then occurred one of those alarming physical convulsions that an innocent woman makes when she is struck by the consciousness that pro fane eyes are examining her. She jumped into the air, twisted spirally downward, as though she intended to sic on the floor, and then clutched wildly at the string of her window curtain. Down came the shade with a rush, and in less than ten seconds the gathering on the sidewalk had dispersed, and the free spectacular performance was a thins of the past. MONKEY AND MIRROK. How the Clever Little Animal Met His Carious Counterpart. Washington Post. If any one of a biographical turn of mind wants to have a large chunk of pure white fun he ought to go over and watch the monkeys in the Zoo. The monkeys' powers of reasoning are lim ited, but he uses what brains nature gave him for all there is in them. A gentleman recently passed in an ordi nary five-cent mirror with a tinfoil back. It fell to the lot of a long-tailed monkey witheciu points and Watteav piaits around his ears. He looked in and got j mad. It was the first time he had ever seen himself, and the imagined rival was so darned handsome that a pang of involuntarp jealousy shot through his quadrumanoiis bosom. He went on a hunt. Holding the glass* very still, he would suddenly jerk it down and look for the rival. No rival. Then he held the glass still and ducked his head quickly. The rival ducked as quickly as he did. Then he grew cunning. He Would peep slyly. The glass was allowed to glide imper ceptibly to one side. It was of no avail. Then the monkey reached one of his hairy taws stealthily up to the glass and made a sudden snatch behind jt. No game. That monkey brain was doing great worK. It was a Napoleonic monkey that was conspiring against the appari sion. It was evident that the monkey in the -glass was an active dodger— that he could not be caught by activity. He must be trapped by strategy. Placing the glass on the floor of the cage the monkey pressed it firmly to be sure nothing could be beneath it. Then he looked ; there was the other chap as large as life and as impudent as ever. He pointed a finger; so did the other. Number one grinned, chattered and frowned; likewise did number two. It was no use. It was as if a human being were confronted with indisput able evidence of a fourth dimension in space, and were trying to mentally grasp a conception of its exact signifi cance. But the ecru philosopher never said surrender. After his gray matter had rested a bit he picked up the glass and looked again. There was that same old monkey,looking very thought ful and morose. He held him a prisoner against his stomach and carefully picked the tinfoil off the back of the glass. This did not reveal the prisoner. But he was equal to the emergency. That infernal monkey, he argued, was evidently between the back and the front of the glass. He might be natter than a pancake, but there he was. A long black finger worked around to the rear of the enemy. A vicious scratch with a grimy fingernail. That did it. The monkey showed up with, a gash straight across the nose. "Anoth er! The pit of his stomach was gone. All four fingers at once. The battle looked like Kilrain after the thirty second round. Ha had him. In less than a minute that monkey, who had so foolishly invited destruction, was anni hilated. The ecru monkey had what was left of the mirror in the straw and went off in triumph to hang from the perch by the tip of his ge«-d"anne blue tail. LOOKING TO DIXIE. Homeseekers Beginning- to Turn Their Attention to Northern Alabama. The Wonderful Bluffs of Iron Ore Around the Town of Bluffton. A Company Which Proposes to Build a Manufacturing: Center There. Lots to Be Sold at Reasonable Figures and on Reasona ble Terms. To the Editor of the Globe. Hukox, S. D., April 18.— The prevail ing low prices of grain and cattle, to gether with drouth and the consequent inability of the farmer in some cases to pay the principal, and in many cases the interest on the mortgages which cover these Western farms like a mau tle, have caused the capitalist and the homeseeker to look youth in search of a field for his enterprise, his toil and his mone\. With these thoughts in mind the writer some weeks ago turned his face toward that marvelous section. Northern Alabama. The quickest and most convenient mute from this section is over the Northwestern to Chicago, the Panhaudle to Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Southern, which pierces the very center of the coal and iron region ot the South. On the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railway, on its line from Chat tanooga toSeima, twenty-six miles from Rome, Ga., and thirty-seven miles from Anniston, Ala., is located the town of Bluff tou, in Cherokee county, Alabama, the town taking its name from the won derful bluffs of solid iron ore which here tower from the valley. The town site company owns 1,200 acres of town lands, beside mineral lands which contain immense deposits of brown hematite iron ore. The ore banks, or more properly bluffs, because instead of being deposits beneath the surface they stand above it, are without an equal in the entire South. The se bluffs rise in some places to an altitude of eighty feet above the surface soil, and the only work required to mine the ore is to drill and blast it off in carload lota at a single discharge. A gentleman largely connected with the manufacture of pig iron in the South said tliat as boy and man he had been engaged in the furnace business for eighteen years, and had visited the largest deposits of iron ore in the Union, but had never seen such a massive ore bank in all his life, nor one that could compare with it in all its magnitude. The quality of this ore is being shown by the daily output of the four adjoin ing furnaces, whose ore lands lie in the same belt and adjoining the deposits of the Bluffton company; all of these fur naces bear an enviable reputation for the high grade car wheel iron which they havo been producing for the past few years; one, the iEtna, shipping its entire output to the Pullman company. Bluffton is in the same mineral region with Birmingham and Annislon. both of which have had vso marvelous a development and growth in the last half-dozen years, and is more favorably located with reference to mineral than either of them: for while the ore used at Anniston is brought from the neighborhood of Cedartown, Ga.. and that used at Birmingham is shipped from tlie immediate vicinity of Bluffton, the Blufftonites have an inexhaustible supply at their very doors and arc ship ping 100 tons per day to Chattanooga. Here, too, are inexhaustible, supplies of limestone for fluxing purposes, timber for charcoal, and the celebrated Coosa and Black Warrior coal fields for coke, thus demonstrating that pig iron can be made cheaper at Bluffton than at any other Doiut in the S'»uth. The Blutfton Company has laid out a portion of its laud into town lots, and purposes to build up a great manufact uring center for the development of its mineral property. Handsome ave nues and wide streets have been laid out, and a large force of men and teams have been employed tor weeks in grad ing and otherwise improving the town site. A bank with $50,000 capital has been organized; a rolling miil. for which the entire capital stocK of $500, --000 has been subscribed, will !>;■ built at once; an elegant and commodious hotel has been completed and furnished at a cost of $40,000. lighted with elec tricity and heated with steam ; an elec tric light plant and a w;>o!l-working es tablishment are already in operation, and a roundry and a firearms manufact uring company are assured. Several fine, brick blocks, a substantial church and many handsome residences are already completed and occupied. This sale will open on April 30, and lots will be sold at reasonable figures and ou very liberal terms. There will be no auction sale nor hurrah about the matter, and sales will be conducted quietly and on business principles. The projectors of this new town are substantial capitalists from .Maine, Mas sachusetts and New York.together with H. R. Shorter, president of the Ala bama railroad commission, and Col. Citry Wilson, an Alabama railroad mag nate. The reputation which the pro moters of this enterprise bear in their respe tive communities is a sufficient guarantee of the success of an> under taking they may have in hand. Bluffton has been selected as the site of the new university which, under the auspices of tne Methodist Episco pal churcn, is to be the lead ing educational institution of the South. 'Ihe main building, which is to be constructed of stone and brink, wi 11 be 300 feet Jong and five stories high, and withont doubt one of the finest ed ucational buildings in the country. Se lected, as Bluffton was, after several years of careful investigation by Dr. C. L. Mann, superintendent of education of the Methodist church, because of its superior advantages in climatic, sani tary and scenic- conditions, there will be drawn to it thousands of people to take advantage of this institution of learning. Here men can engage in profitable business enterprises and pro vide homes for their families. The great tide of immigration and in vestment that was formerly Westward has now fairly turned to the South, and happy will be he who toes in the van. Homes and fortunes can be made in tne next five years with less exertion and less risk than in any other section ot our country. Sectional prejudice has worn away, and Northern people are cordially welcomed and royally treated. It is confidently believed that invest ments made in Bluffton at the coming sale wili double in value within ninety days; the policy of the company will be very liberal, and free sites will be given to manufacturing enterprises wishing to locate here; the company will also take stock In any meritorious enterprise which will establish a plant at Bluffton. Excursion rates will be granted on all roads on the 22d at one fare for the round trip, good to return iv thirty days. For further particulars address the Bluffton Land, Ore and Furnace Company, or John C. Field, General Agent, Blufftoa, Ala. F. F. Smith. i st. Paul; spring ib9o. FIWCH, VANSLYCK &G0 = SPECIAL SALE OF ORIENTAL RUGS CARPETS! We make this announcement with the conviction that there has never been exhibited in St. Paul a collection of Rugs and Carpeta possessing so many choice colorings and de signs. They have just been landed, have not "been culled over, and we pronounce them, un reservedly, an unusual lot. 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