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MASKS AM) FACES. cmiois (I'STOIS OF SAVAGES. ADDING TERROR TO THEIR LOOKS. Mumming and Masquerading Among Un tutored People. nmSt'T^r, C01XZCT10S8 TX THF mi-secx?sro OESTIV* SIMILARITY OF CUSTOMS?HIDF.Ol'S rkACTICES OF PHESF.RVISO Ht'-MAS KEA1>S ?ASKS AND TBEIB MAKKRH. N the National museum, scattered through many cases, peering out of unexpected placc?,grin ning at mammies from Peru, leering at ele gantly costumed fig ures from Japan.squint ing at huge totem posts from the northwest coast, scowling fiercely at mild looking cross legged Buddhas. in fact making all kinds of faces at the world in general, as it is repro- | seated in the museum, ?re masks. Here is % row of Japanese theatri- { cal masks with jolly faces of shining, flesh- | tinted enamel, there a collection of wooden masks from northwest coast Indians, rudely , carved and striped and painted in many colors; J and glowering from the corner of a case a dark, forbidding, hideous mask, worn by some i savage mummer in a devil-dance in the wilds of Africa. None of these savage or barbaric . masks, whether from Africa or Polynesia. South America or Alaska, has a joyous smile or a Jolly grin on its painted countenance. Humor of a merry kind is not expressed by the savage mask-mak&r. It may be a part of his art which he never learned or which he found was not popular. The nearest he approaches to humor is grotesqneness, in giving an eccentric squint to one eye, or putting the mouth awry. Mouths sometimes are made to stretch from ear to ear. but the expression given is one of savage ferocity, like that of a snarling beast showing its teeth. The only masks that seem intended to make one laugh, and to counterfeit the face of a droll, good natured person, are some of the theatrical masks of the Japanese, who. in the Ethnologi cal BCale, are rated far above the savage, or barbarac races. With the savages marking is not a matter of merry-making. It is con- | -AYVSKS? Theatrical, liected with their most solemn ceremonies. I and is a serious business. Many of these masks are made as frightful as savage art can make them for the purpose of striking terror into the heart of the beholder. I I>r. Wm. H. l>all, who has made for the bureau of ethnology a study of the subject of masks, finds in it something more than a matter of curious interest. lie thinks that one who has thoroughly mastered it would be possessed of the keys to the greater part of the mystery which "locks from us the philosophical, relig ious, and social development of uncivilized or ?avage men. In the study, too, he has found evidence of the accession by invasion or immigration in prehistoric times from the islands of the Pacific to the western shores of America. Similarity of masks and masking customs, along geo graphic lines extending from Africa to the j North Papuan archipelago, hence to Peru, Cen tral America and Mexico, northward to New Mexico and Arizona, Oregon and the northern limit of the Thlmket country, the Aleutian Is lands. and thence to the Afttic coast among the Eskimos from Prince William sound to Point Barrow, suggests that a fashion set in Africa or in the Pacific was carried by bold navigators to the South American coast, and thence traveled by contact of one na tion or tribe with another, until it had spread from the South Pacific to the Arctic. l>r. I)all has found corroborative evidence to sustain the theory suggested by these facts in the prevalence of another fashion among sav ages over the same geographical lines, and that is the use of the labret. or plug of stone, shell, metal, or wood, worn in a hole pierced through the under lip so as to distend and distort the lip. Whether masks were first used in rude dramas or were made as shields for protecting the face is a question in which a man can have an opinion without much fear of its being proven wrong. Ethnologists think that the 1 mask was at first a shield or protection for the face, held in the hand. Prom this was derived j a covering adapted to the form of the face and supported on the head or shoulders. From such uses came masks of horrid visage, intended to inspire terror in the enemy. Masks are tamtpical ?sed in mystic rites of savages, in their games and as part of the paraphernalia of secret asso ciations. They are found buried with the dead and are sometimes made as independent object* not intended to be worn. Masks have been found in Mexico made of human skulls. with the cranium removed. These ghastly objects have been ru-hlv inlaid and furnished with eyes of pol ished stone. Such masks were plat ed, it is supposed, upon the faces of idols. There are reminders in the National museum of a prac tice that prevailed among Indians of Bolivia and the Amazon region more repulsive than the use of skull masks. In oue of the cases are two objects, each supported on a little pedestal. These look like models of human heads made of ebony or some dark substance. The heads are each about the size of a man's clenched fist, but the features are exaggerated. Long, silken Llack hair trails down from them, and in hole* bored through the lipe and the nasal septum depend strings or cords woven together. These are human heads, preserved as trophies by savage warriors. The skull bones and their con tents are ex tracted. and the fleshy parts of the head, by a long course of preparation, are reduced to dwarfish proportions an<l preserved trom de cay. Thtreisan uncanny look about these hideous relics that make* oue shudder, at least when he tinds out what the object* really trt, but among the savage people who produced them they would be highly prized and supposed to be endowed with marvelous properties. In other parts of the world the custom holds of preserving the whole or part of the human head. The Iiyshs, or bead-hunters of Borneo, and savages of the Australian wilds, place a high value on such trephiee. In Matupi island and in Sew Britain skulls painted and made more hideous by being ?applied with artificial hair, are displayed in the savage dances. The collection of masks in the museum show the great ?stent of their use among many ?avage people*, nu J the diversity of their form ^FiWt^V^RlO^ ^SKVJ W^^IOfVS /V*SK f M1SK1TTE and structure. A typical war mask, or one showing Low a shield for the face grew by evolution into a mask, is one that can be seen on a figure arr!4_vt.j jn n roit of Japanese armor, such as was worn by the warrior* of Japan in the feudal days. There is a helmet on the head, but iustead of a visor there is a separate detached plate called a innijrpo, or face-guard, drawn over the face. It is enameled in black and made to counterfeit human features. To give it a terrible look the armorer added a tierce moustache of white bristles. The soldier wnose face was thus concealed might be an extremely mild-mannered and timid man. but tlie moral effect of wearing a moustache of ?uch a frightful aspect must have been great, not only on the enemy, but on the soldier himself, who would feel that he wouid have to live up to his moustache. A war mask trom Alaska, made of wood, covers the whole head, and above it is another tu.i.-k or maskette of fright ful mien, intended to add to the height of the wearer and to give him a formidable appear ance. J iie Japanese theatrical masks are neatly made of wood and enameled. On some of them the mouth and eyes are distorted. White or black whiskers of real hair are provided on some, and in other cases representations of whiskers and eyebrows are painted 011 them. Among the ina-ks are some representing the heads of animals of various kinds. Near by is a case filled with masks from Siam. These represent countenances half human, hulf beast. Some of them are shaped lik'' dragon's heads. They are of green and gut and of elaborate workmanship, fashioned so as to go over and cover the whole head, there being a cap or head dress on top rising like a ?pir4to a point. ^ S*mtRiCA Xc*t to this collection is a black mask from Cape l'alraas. Africa, made with exaggerated and hideous features. Above the forehead, or rising trr>m it above the hetd. is a large black ring. This is the mask of the "grand devil," worn in savage rites when his satanic majesty is supposed to come forth and dance through the Tillage. The cases filled with tlie masks of the Indians of the northwest coast and Alaska attract at tention by the grotesqueliess of the masks, the greens, bines, reds, and whites, with which they are striped and the exaggeration of the features intended to give a frightful appear ances to the faces. Some of thi in receive an additional hideonsness from great shaggy heads of false hair or fiber bunched about them. One Haida mask, representing a woniHn's face, with lip distended by a labret, has movable eyes. A mask from Sitka is orna mented with a band passing across one cheek made by inlaying with bits of mother of pearl, and in the mouth disfigured by a labret is a Elate cf copper in place of teeth. These masks ave holes for the eyes, and perforations for the month. They are of soft wood, usually of cedar. Some of them have inside the mouth a little bar which the wearer takes in his teeth and thus hold* it on. Others arc bound on by means of thongs that go around the head, and some apparently are held before the face by the hands. Occasionally an elaborate mask is made with a sort of cage, framework or head dress that fits on the head. There are masks like that worn above the head of the Alaskan warrior which do not cover the face at all and which, Br. Dall calls, maskettes. Other representations of the human face, which were not made to be worn at all. he calls maskoids. Among the Makah, Thlinket and Haida Indians, of the northwest coast, musks are made for sale by one tribe to ?/yvsKs? *vwm4 MAMd INDIANS cape rvwnM EHU^-bell* indS BKiniH Columbia another, bo there is no tribal characteristic about the structure of the masks. They are painted by the purchasers to suit their own fancies, and usually adorned with the totems of the wearer. Among these Indians masks are made in two forms, one representing a human head, and the other representing a bird's head, or the head of the "thunder bird," which plays so important a part in their my thology. The medicine man has in his outfit an assortment of masks, one for each of his familiar spirits and puts them on in turn according to the power he wishes to propitiate or invoke. 8omo of these Indians, like certain Eskimos, wear masks which are decoys for seals or otters. They cover their head over with a wooden head-gear made to represent a seal's head, and then, concealing their bodies, make a cry like a seal. The animal, deceived by appearances, approaches near the hunter and is killed. A dancing m.isk from Iiella-bella, liritish Colum bia, made to represent the head of a bird, has the lower mandible movable. It is worked by a cord of sinew that passes over a little pulley. Some of the masks, representing death's heads, are made ghastly in hue by being painted with some pigment of a mouldy whiteness in appear ancc. There is a dancing mask looking like a gorgon head, provided with a waving mass of hair of coarse fiber and having at the side two wings, or doors, on which rude outlines of human figures are painted. lliestt doors swing back and forth and can jumping Jack with a string that the wearer can pulL Other masks have tuft* of eider down to represent hair. One maskette used by the Indian* in their dances has movable eyebrows. The ?? kmio* have little objects like masks, which are woru by women on their forefinger* in their dances. The Eskimo mask* are generally much ruder in construction than those made by the Haidas. 'I hey express humor Of a rode kind by elevating one eye and depresaing another, or in other way* distorting the features. The finger masks are ornamented with fringe* of deer hair or feather*, and dancing mask* worn on the face have loose wooden tongues which rattle as the wearers leap about. The Aleuts, before they came onder the influence of white settlers, had masks which were worn in man/ of their ceremonies. These manki in now found with other relics on the islands. It tu part of their old bari&l customs to place a mask over the face of the dead before the body was deposited in its rock shelter. The theory was that the mask protected the dead man from the glances of spirits on his long journey to the Aleuts' happy hunting ground. Home of the Iroquois in New York state and Canada who have not yet been educated ont of their old myths and tribal customs believe in the efficacy of the ''false faces." The "false faces'' are members of a secret order, who wear masks and engage in secret rites. They are believed to have the power of driving away pestilence or disease. Some of their masks are made of horrid aspect, with tongues VAOQU/ DolL VfriWanfiTE F7N6EK aV*3IVau\3K/L lolling ont. There is among the masks and other curious objects from among tlie Haida Indians a mannikiu or human eftigy, which, like some masks, is supposed to have power to frighten awiiy evil spirits. It is about 4 feet long Hud made of wood, and its limbs are joiuted on so they will move about. The head is large and made with an ugly countenance. This hideous figure is triced up on a pole and carried through a village. It is supposed that at its appearance any evil spirit lurking about immediately takes flight. There is another Vase tilled with curious little wooden dolls from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, all brightly colored and wearing masks and maskettes. Among the plains' Indians masks are used to somo extent. These are made frequently of the heads or skins of animals. A Sioux nu'di cine man will wear it bear's head or a buffalo head. In Mexico and Central America, among the Induttis. maskoidsof wood, stone and terra cotta were much in use. Among the ancient people, after the death of a king, a painted I NEW a vssxmr ?wmB> Yl> fRIEMDlY ISLANDS (/"VmtTTt.) mask set with jewels was put over his face. An Egyptian mummy stretched out in a case near the masks has over the face a musk of green ce ment ornamented with gold leaf. In ancient l'eru mahkoids were used in feasts and were buried with the dead. They are discov ered now in sepulchres projecting outside of the cerements of mammies. A mortuary maskoid from Peru, deposited in the museum, is rudely carved of wood and reddened with ochre. Attached to it are several appendages. The whites of the eyes are represented with pieces of white shell, aud the irides by smaller bits of mussel shell cemented on the whites. There are a number of masks from the South Seas in the museum. One from the Friendly Islands is noticeable from the peculiar distortion of the mouth made to form a bow or angle. It is of wood, the interior being slightly concave. Over the forehead are representations of rounded ears. This, with the peculiar mouth, indicates that -/MSKOifS the face, though human in its proportions, was intended to represent some animal. There are holes about the edges indicating that once feathers or fibers were pegged on to represent hair. In the New Hebrides masks are found made of cocoanut shells, which are used in the native dances. These are colored and made hideous by the insertion of boar's tusks. A maskette from New Ireland worn like a helmet and used in dances is provided with hair made of vegetable fiber and eyes are represented by opercula or "cats' eyes." In New Britain masks are worn in savage rites. Iii one of their impor tant ceremonies if the mask falls from the face of the chief actor he is killed. In the Mar quesas the natives preserve the skulls of the dead and give them a hideous appearance by putting in eyes of pearl shell. The lower jaws are fastened in their places with cords. Written for The F.vewino Star. Jack la the Pulpit. Pear Jack Is back in his pulpit again, Looking so trim and neat; In a sharipdell, where the wild harebell Anil the ferns hold converse sweet. Come tell us Jack to what sunny clime You hied, when the ice and snow Filled this little dell, and the cold rains fell, 'Till the trees were frozen through. Is thero a land where the flowers go, When through with blooming here? A spirit land,where no winds or snow Ever come? Jack, have you been there? Oh, Jack, you'd tell I'm sure, could you speak, But one thing 1 know full well. Wherever you go when the cold winds blow, Every spring you are back in the delL ?EXILV Tu CUSTOM. A Father's Vigil. From ths Terre Haute Express. chapter I. Mr. Figg?"Here's a little toy I've brought for Tommy to amuse himself with. Pigs in Clover, I believe they call it" CHAFTKB II. Tommy?"Say, paw, ain't you goin' to lemme see that puzzleP" Mr. Figg?"Go to bed) Ton ought to be in bed an hour agol" CHAPTEH ITl. Mrs. Figg?"John Figg, are yon going to tit np all uigUW" Mr. Figg?'Til be there in a minnte. I've got them all in bat one." chapte* nr. Mrs. Figg?"Have you been np all night, John Figg?" Mr. Figg?"None of your business." Tommy?"Say, paw, where'* my ptuwle?" Mr. Figg?"In the stove." The committee on transportation to the World's Sunday-school convention, to be held in London July 2 to 6, has secured the steamer Bothnia, and the entire American party will sail from New York June 19. Laura Bridgeman, made famous by Charles Dickens in his "American Notes," died yester day in the South Boston asylum, aged sixty years. She had been deaf, dumb and blind from her second year. THE STRAWBERRY SEASON. They 4*111 be Abundant and Promlw to B? Very Cheap. TH* HIOH PRICES PAIS E ABLT U? THZ SEASON?THX BERRIES BROrOHT TO WA8H15OT0M?WHERE THE BE8T BERRIE8 OROW i>*D HOW THET OATH BRED?ABOUT CAPPINO THE BERR1K&. The strawberry sea*on is nearly at its height They ought to reach their best next week and will run pretty well through June. They have been retailing this week at two quart* for 25 cents, and nest week, if the weather ia propitious for their ripening, the ruling price will paobably be much below that. The first arrivals of the season, from Florida and lower Georgia, sold at fancy prices. Senator Hurst gave a strawberry dinner early in March and paid tS a quart for some extra fine ones selected upon special order. They were brought by rail from Florida, at which place they coat the dealer to a quart by wholesale. The same grade of berries can now be had at 20 to 25 cents a quart, though those were not a whit more palatable or luscious than those selling in the market now. i he weather has not been very good for straw berries, and the result is that the season is somewhat backward. THE BRANCH STRAWBERRIES. The '"Branch" berries, as the hucksters call them, are the best now to be had. being fresher, and, consequently, more delightful to the taste. They are raised largely in the Dis trict. beyond the Eastern branch, and the out lying country adjoining. They are brought in bv wagons mostly for wholesale on Mondays, Wed nesdays and Fridays, and principally for retail on luesdays, Ihursdavs and 8aturdavs, which are the conceded important days for the general marketing of housekeepers." On the three market days the best berries are probablv to be had.at the regular market houses, on Mondavs, Wednesdays and Fridays possiblv from the hucksters who sell their fruits and berries upon the streets. The "Branch" berries are expected to be exceptionablv good this seasou while the Norfolk berries are. upon the average, somewhat below the standard, owing to the unpropitious weather and the furious wind and hail storms with which that section has been recently visited, extending over a wide area and in many instances entirely de stroying every vestige of the plants. The cool, pleasant spell in the spring, followed by the warm, vegetative weather of April and Ma v. gave the near-by berries an impetus which tfcev will ''old unless bad weather continues, anil they will clearly have the advantage as to beauty, plumpness and jueiness overall others within marketable distance. the Maryland crop. The Maryland crop, by which the prices in Washington are somewhat regulated, will be enormous, especially in the Anno Arundel sec !l0n; /rheH0 be(i8 produce their finest berries the latter part of May, and some of the varie- I ties raised in Anne Arundel, Calvert, and St -Mary s counties are said to be equal to any in the world. This section is not only nupplvin# baltimoro, but is sending train loads to New 1 ork, where they are quoted bv wholesale at less than 6 cents a quart, berri# commanding thie? cent" 411"ai t heiiig regarded us extra now strawberries ARE GATHERED. When the season fairly opens pickers, almost exclusively colored, (lock from the cities and towns to the farms of the truckers, where they are employed by tho day for tho week. They generally appear on hand ready for work Mon day morning, and disappear and return to their homes on Saturday evening. Arrived at the truck farm the transient em ployes are quartered in barns, outhouses or sheds, as the case may be. where their accom modations are. very primitive. They have their meals of bacon, potatoes, greens and bread and from dawn till twilight they bend in rows through the fields, staining their hands and clothing with the juice of the berries, which are put when gathered, into pails or small cups, and carried to the barn or -quarters " where they are culled and carefully placed in boxes?too otten with the largo tempting ones on top and the little green, hard ones at the bottom. t The colored women wear, as a rule, calico dresses and immense sun bonnets, and the men clothing of cheap material and broad-brimmed btruw hatto. THE BOXES ARE ASSORTED and packed in crates and upon reaching destination are ready to be offered in the markets to the house-wife to bo served with pulverized *ugar with good rich cream as a de sert, though many prefer them without cream or pressed into service, as it were, between layers ol pastry and eaten in the shape of short cakc. The great bulk of strawberries, however, are prepared and stored away in cans or jars for use in winter. W hen this is done in large pack ing establishments the quantitv and not qualitr is the governing feature; but 'they sell as well and are eaten with as much relish as if each berry had been carefully selected, washed and freed from sand and grit before sealing and shipping away. after TnE strawberries. Strawberries will last until July, by which time raspberries and blackberries will have be come plentiful, and the other fruits will be coming in. Some hard, knotty-looking peaches are already at hand, but show up badlv and stick nobly to the di alers who brought'them 1 here. In July, with the first early peaches I from the eastern shore of Virginia, come tho tart, piquant June apples, a pleasant relief from the cold-storage winter stock, the last efforts of which aro being gathered together for a final departure. Then come the peaches from the James, York. Rappahannock and Po tomac rivers, followed by watermelons, canta loupes. cherries, pears, grapes and huckleber ries, which cater to the palates of Washlngton ians until the frosts of autumn give relish to the succulent oyster. about CAPI'INO strawberries. It is not always pleasant and never an easy matter to cap strawberries, aud many would forego the pleasure of eating them rather than do it. By a very simple method they can be capped without mashing the berry or getting the hands badly stained. Get a pair of ordi nary pocket tweezers with broad prongs, which can be had at any hardware or drug store for 5 cents, and with them the caps can be easily extracted by simply holding the berry lightly in the left hand and pluckiug the cap with the tweezers with the right. It is neat and cleanly aud leaves tho berry in perfect condition. Written for Thk Evisiso Star. ? Stranded. A stranded wrck upon life's stormy shore, l.ies tempest tossed, And furious waves that broken bark roll o'er And all seems lost. The morn was fair: with sails of hope all set >She put to sea, A precious freight of love she bore, and yet, A wreck to be. 'Twas thought with sails like tier's and freighted so She'd safely steer. And would through every sea aud tempest go, Mo breakers fear. Ah, suddenly and unforseen a blast, Came, whelming all; There was no help, no answer to the last lieart-rending call. And there she stranded lies, her costly store Of love most rare Forsaken on that bleak and lonely shore Doth perish there! ?lis Witt C. Spraodk. Washington, D. C., May, lusu. A Drummer Outwitted. From the New York Star. "You talk about being taken in," said a drummer; "an Incident occurred during my last journey which, besides proving of interest to your readers, may serve as a caution to many. Last month I was in Chicago and hav ing reason to believe that a certain large house in the center of the city required just such stock as I had, I determined to visit it. "On arriving outside of that firm's place of business, which covered nearly half a block I noticed a stairway over which was a sign read ing: 'Entrance for Commercial Travelers.' Naturally thinking that the office of the buver was in that direction, I mounted the stairs with rising hopes. A the top was a long passage with similar signs pointing straight alongAt the end of the corridor there was a turn and more stairs, this time leading downward. The signs continued to show the way. At the bottom I opened a door with a sigh of reliof and found myself?in the street^ had simnlv walked up one stairway, through a long hall and down another stairway, to where I had started five minutes before." "If 'twere down, when 'Us down, it war. ?.n 'twere down quickly!" Is whal a when he Is contemplating taking a do*. atSS. fashioned pills. l>r. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets are tiny, sugar-?oeted granules, scarcely larger than mustard seeds. As a remedy for all derangements of the stomach, liver and bowaLi they are unequaled. ? HOME MATTERS. practical uroflRmoxi to rrDC*T?.ior* HOUSE WIVES?EVEBY-DAT HIXTS fO* TUB *OCSE hoij)?rmrcL recipes axd tubus wobth uxuuiina. Hat* asd Mtcx bare as great an aversion to the odor of chloride of lime as hunwut. A Salt* of equal parti of tar. tallow and Bait will core the wor?t case of felon. Economize Strength by sitting upon a big ?tool when wiping dishes or dressing vege tables. The Yelk cr Eoos alone is the better for in valids, and will be frequently relished wheu the white would be rejected. Mast Pbople Take Sweet Cbea* in large quantities as a cure for nervous debility. It is said to serve all the purposes of cod liver oiL Is Soke Forms of Headache a towel or a napkin wrung out of hot water?aa hot a* can be borne?aud wound around the head af fords relief. Tikt Cut-Olam Pishes for bon-bons, olives and small flowers come in sets of four; in chape, the heart, diamond, spade and club of a card suit. Whes a Coat Needs aThobouoh CLEAsnfo, apply with a sponge strong coffee to which h.u been added a few drops of aramouia and rub well with a colored woolen cloth. Whex M akin* a Cobs-Starch Puddiso, melt a lump of butter in the pudding kettle before putting the pudding into it. There will be less danger of the milk becoming scorched. Instead of Coffee-Ice or Roman Pusch at a Frenchwoman's afternoon reception the other day, the guests were handed tiniest cups of tbo wine of cocoa and celery, a well-known com pound on this side of the water. Fob Frostf.d Cake, frost with the white of one egg, one teaspoonful of cold water and suf ficient confectioners' or powdered sugar; this is a frosting that cuts easily without breaking. A Fresch Culinary Authority says that the water in which asparagus has been cooked should not be thrown away. '-With the addi tion of butter, rolled in flour, palatable season* ing and a tew sorrel leaves it makes an excel lent soup." Lemon Toast.?Take the yelks of three eggs, beat well and stir into a breakfast cupful of milk; cut some stale bread in slices and soak for a minute in the milk and egg; then fry to a delicate browu in boiling butter, squeeze over a little lemon juice and sifted sugar, and serve very hot. Cocoanut CrsTAjiD.?Boil in a kettle of hot water two tablespoonfuls of corn starch and one quart of simmering milk, yelks of four eggs, six tablespoonfuls of sugar. Boil three minutes; add, when cold, one teaspoonful of vanilla and cover top with grated cocoanut. Serve with plain cake. Summer Ssow.?Soak one-half of a box of gelatine in one-half of a pint of water one hour, add three cupfuls of boiling water, two cupful* of sugar, juice of one and one-half lemons. Set on the back of the 6tove till dissolved. Strain, beat in the whites of three eggs beaten stiff and mould. Pour sauce around. Eoos and Asparagus.?Boil the tender parts of asparagus in a little salted water; when done drain ana chop fine. Have beaten eggs as re quired. Tut the asparagus in a sauce-pan in which is melted butter, pour in the eg^s and cook three minutes, stirring to prevent burn ing. Line a Glass Dish with Slices of stale cake, cover with slices of pineapple, peeled and the '?eyes" removed, powder thickly with sugar. Pile high on the top layer sweetened creain whipped very stiffly, and place all on the iee until removed to the table. If preferred, the cream may be served on a separate dish. To Keep off Mosquitoes take a small quan tity of a 2 per cent carbolic acid solution and sprinkle sheets, coverlets, pillow and bolster on both sides, the edges of bed curtains and the vail next the bed. The face and neck may also be slightly wetted with the solution. Not a single gnat or mosquito will come near. If You Have Plenty on hand of the tin-foil used for covering tobacco or chocolate, instead of wrapping the gas fixtures with inflammable net for summer, a neat wrapping of the tin-foil around the gas brackets or pipes completely I protects them from the flies. The tin-foil clasps quite closely any pattern it is put over. Spanish Golden Foam.?Take the yelks ofsix eggs beaten with as much cold water as the six egg-shells will hold, sweeten and flavor to taste. Cook over a slow fire, but do not let it boil. When it thickeus take from the fire and let it cool. Beat when cold briskly for an hour and serve in custard cups. Lyonnaise Tripe.?Cut tripe into small i pieces, and boil 45 minutes and drain; fry one tablespoonful of chopped onion in one heaping tablespoonful of butter; do not let it become dark-colored, only yellow; add one tablespoon ful of vinegar, the tripe, a little chopped pars ley and celery; salt and pepper to suit taste; simmer five minutes and serve on toast. Cream J elly Pie.?Three eggs, three table spoonfuls of sugar, one teacup of cream, three tablespoonfuls of current (or quince) jelly, and one tablespoonful of butter. Beat the yelks and whites separately, then stir all the ingre dients together. Bake with one crust, cover with a meringue and return to the oven to brown. It is good enough without the me ringue and very rich. Dropped Eoos.?Pour two cupfuls of boiling water in a saucepan and stir in a teaspoonful of salt. Break the eggs, one at a time, into a cup and turn in, holding the edge of the cup under the water tc? prevent the egg from scattering. Or, muffin-rings may be set in the pan and the eggs slipped into them. Boil till the white sets, whicn will be about three minutes. Take up with a perforated spoon. Serve either oil a platter alone or on moistened and buttered toast. A Boiled Fowl.?After the chicken is pre pared sew it up in a wet cloth, then dust it with flour and place it on a rack in the kettle to keep the chicken from sticking. The giblets are then carefully prepared and put in the same kettle. A 4- pound chicken should be cooked an hour and a half. Put it on in hot water. It is not tiecensary to roll the chicken in the damp cloth, but it keeps it from breaking while boil ing, and tt can be more easily removed from the kettle when done. Chow Chow.?Half peck of green tomatoes, two large beads of cabbage, fifteen large onions, twenty-five cucumbers, one pint grated horse radish, half-pound white mustard seed, one ounce celery seed, fifteen or twenty small onions, white, half-teacup ground pepper, turmeric and cinnamon each. Chop the toma toes, cabbage, onions and cucumbers in small pieces and salt them dow n one night. In the morning drain off the brine and put them to soak in vinegar and water for two days, drain off again and mix in the spices. Boil one and one-half gallons of vinegar and four pounds of brown sugar together and pour over them hot. l)o this three mornings successfully. The third time mix two half-pound boxes of mustard with one-half pint of pure salad oil and add to it AMERICANO-MAN I A. The Complimentary Disease Which Eng lish Girls Are Cultivating. From Table Tslk. The adoption of foreign "fads" being by no means peculiarly an American conceit, it is with no small sense of satisfaction that the well-authenticated rumor reaches us that our fair British cousins are Americanizing to the extent of copying the most characteristic of our styles, as well as certain little eccentrici ties In speech, manner and gait. From present prospects the "craze" bids fair to equal the corresponding Anglo-mania that has prevailed with us until it is no longer a novelty. My in* form ant writes me that it is vastly amusing to see a group of native-born British maids en deavoring to look and act like the "United States gins," as they term them; and, like the majority of imitations, this one is so exagger ated one can only conclude that they have found their model npon a vaudeville stage. The freedom from restraint is innate with the average American girl; w lile the English, on the contrary, is subject to a strict course of fining from earliest infancy; the sudden at tempt, therefore, to substitute for this deco rum the natural manner and speech of her American cousin is about a* graceful a per formance as one of Barn urn's elephants would present a "pas seuL" Slang they con sider especially "chic," and the most astonish ing phrases drop from their haughtily curved lips, while they affect a swagger in their walk % swinging motion of the anus that would be deplorably uncomplimentary could we trace the least resemblance. It is stated, further, that an enterprising "down east" woman is turning the "fad" to account and is reaping a small harvest of glittering sovereigns by in structing classes of London faahionablee la the ostensible Fifth avenue gait and Murray Hill It was the woman who saw the first snake, but since then the men have attended to that sort of thing.?Latum Hour*. Accused Of Seixtsq tbe BEST CLOTHING for the least money, aud fol lowing prices will convince jroa s ?10 BUTT FOB $5 50. 818 " ? $0 25. $15 ? " $7 87. ?17 ? - $845 ? 18 " - 18.73, ? -?0 - " ?10.5a ' Pncf?rat Id all Fine Suit*, ml Itbu establiahed fact that our prices are lover than elsewhere. Children's Salt* 9tfc to $7.75. 139 Office Coat* left 18c. 85 pair Knee Pant* left 14c. 190 pair All-Wool Paula, told for 83.87, $'.:. FOB TEN DAVS ONLY. DISCOUNT STOKE, #2C 7 tli St S ?; bet. I and K. ml8-lm Halooi Oolah* IIwloo> We here preee nt a fresh Invoice, Haloo! Oolah! Haloo! "Yon pay* jour money >ud you take* your choice," Oolah! Haloo*. Oolahl Of Coata?Alpaca, with Ve?t? to match. Likewise Seersucker* at A DOLLAB a catch. Bilk*, Pongee*. and Mohairs of richest hue. And berge* Black and Gray and Blue, Ualoo! Oolah! Ualoo! Suits for men of three score and ten, Haloo'. Oolali! Haloo! From SEVEN AND A HALF until you nay "wheu," Oolah! Haloo! Oolah! The man m hi* prime can be stilted, "you bet!" Al*o the youth with apartment* to let; The boy in hi* teeu*, tbe wee chick-a-biddtea ~au "dj ke" themselves up in short or ion* breeches, lialoo! Oolah: Haloo! Now, G. A. R. boy*, don't (ret in a atew, Haloo! Uolah! lialoo! We're prepared for you with Suit* of Blue, Oolah! Haloo! Oolah! They're new, they're nice, they fit?precioe? NINE ANU A HALF uenuiiea* the Prace. V e lurmah extra button* and rinir them on. too. Thus completing the "ri*" ot tbe "Boy* iu Btue.** Haloo! Oolah! Halooi VICTOR E. ADLE3 'S 10 PER CEST CLOTHING HOUSE. 1n 927 and WJi) 7th ?t n.w. corner MaaaacUusott* ara. strictly One Price. Open Saturday* until 11 p. m. n.y'JO Our Slaughter IN MILLINERY, BEADED AND SPRING WRAJ'd. K K II M * OGO *" KSSa K K II X S N O O " J* 8 KK II N !* V ?J "ss* k k ii n N* ti na K 2 K K II N NN GOG "ha5 PPP? A I, A COO FEB P P AA L AA C C F PPP A A L A A O FK P AAA L AAA C C F ^ P A A LUX A A COO FEE _ Flrat clearimr *ale; $50,000 worth of Straw (roods. Flower* and ribbon* to lie slaughtered. Now in yc ur time while iu need of trnod*. don't fail to call at KING'S PALACE, 814 7th *t u. w. Ele?rant aud latent style*. French pattern Hat* aud Bonnet* at $2.50, $3 aud ? *>. 1-adies' Hat* in all the leading shape*. color* aud all braid* at 25c.. 3,">c.. 4!(c., 60c., 75c. aud $1. Thousand* of Childreu's aud Misses' Flowere, the grandest array of the loveliest flower* at 2l>c., 25c.. 50c., 75c. aud $1. BIBBOB8, Ten thousand dollar* worth of Bibbona, the rreateat slaughter ever witueseed, from 7c. to 50c. per yard. We advise all iu need of millinery to call atkiug'a Palace belore purchasing, it will i?y you. K K n JCN !t G<JO* ?? .SB. KK II N !f !f ? n a " E 8 KK II N N N O ?8Sm K K II NXX (1 no ? 2 K K 11 ? ?N GGO "hS8 PPP? At A COO FEE P P AA L AA C O F PPP A A L A A O FK P AAA I. AAA C O K _ P A A LLLL A A UOO F.EK _ 814 SEVENTH STREET N.W.. REMEMltER NAME AND NUMBER. my2-2m Thursday. May 23, 1889. FLOUR DOWN AGAIN. FLOUR Ha* apaiu declined in price, and, aa UHUal, Elphonro Young* Oumivuy are llie F1KST to announce the fact and to give their patron* the beueht _ _ of the loweat market rate*. MANDHELING This la au article iu which we feel that we may jtutlv take pride in JAVA offering Haviu* made the aelectiou of these food* a careful study for COFiEE. yean, we have succeeded iu l.uild'mr upa trade in GENUINE MANDHE LING JAVA COFFEE that im ajuiply wonderful, aud we are, tlieretore, re quired to make a FRESH ROAST once or twice EVERY DAY. | i > '? means no utaJe J'lT-i Aerr?ru ivr. You will never know what it ia to dnuk <Ulick/w Orffee until you have tried a GENUINE MANDHELINU JAV A. Alway* use creaui. POTATO With these (food* we lead the town. By havinir the stock from which they CHIPS. are made selected with (treat care, we have aucoeedud iu pusbiuv our aaiea of Potato Chips to such proportions as to enable us to offer them direct from the Jlrt rvrry morning ?5.68 Will buya barrel ot Choioa Patent Proceas Flour at ?LPHONZO VOUNGS COMPANY, mhSS * 428 Ninth at, n.w.. bet D aud E. Gold Dollars At 65 Cents would be no neater barrain than some of the Clothlrur bought of WSYL'8 ONE-PRICE CLOTHING BluRE, 311 7 th at ?7.60 will bur a Bine Flannel Suit, pura Indigo, aa nod aa anyauldat $10. ?8.50 will boy All-Wool Serve suite. / 97.50 S^M^utT^r $BlU,n?- M W ?9.35 ie the price of our popular Buaineaa Suite, equal to any sold at truiu (10 U> $15. ?15 will bay a beautiful Prlsce Albert auit in either black ot ecru. $2.25 will buy * pair of fine pants in black, brown, and blue diagonal or corkscrew. Not a pair of them worth 1m than ?o, aud some are worth a food deal mora. 75C. ftrythwh"' Tf*1** * *ncy **"* >1&0 TOR BOYS & . of suita at and three pieoae. OmCE OOATS 250. FOB B0Va*l^ TO 18 our line of Mite ie and Price* rhrht G. A. R. SUITS A SPECIALTY. WEYL'S OSE PRICE CLOTHIVO HOUSE, apl0-3m Sll 7TH ST. N.W. moat beauttiul Line In tbe Halted States. mJ?L NEW PUBLICATIONS. iVRIRNERS M WIBVI FOK JINK MARK* THE RFOTNMNG OF TBI ELECTRIC UJULk. KLECTRICITT IS THE STRVirE or If A*. AD Introductory Paper. By C F. Breck?tt This paper'eer*"* to iiitroluor a |* pular aerte* <4 article# un tbe imtKtl arplh-etlotia of electricity. 1? aril forth. ID * olw sod ii*m ??). eon e ??f the .-<??>?<? ?? urtbixli l?y vliiili tl>* luwrr important r!*tnitl i brainnwi tfi1 |Ti?lmwil. Ilir im which ti,. > and tbe pnuciple* Involved lb u???unuc rln Uicil ipianiiite^ such as the Volt, An i- re. ai.it Ohm terma which have lately (vim Into m?r?l uee, tliona-h u t l?i'ul?rlr ?uil??t.iiij TJi? i<nnrtfM ?u In. (lly n plained m thia article will he full) a|, iied in the re?t (4 the aenoa. which will .Win*-- ? 1itn Telnrrei h>. El<*-trie I.urhtiinr. Hoiiaehold Unm,tr. n?e illua traUotia in this iutr??lu? tory artn le eh.rn a^uie >4 the I* ?l apparel i* in a thuroioflu) <*41111|**1 (nilm i-tr* ratory. ai d lot lude a nuivlirt >1 rare i-rtra.la. SLAVERY IX AFRICA la the stib)?rt of a moat atrtklti* |?i*r br Pr^f. Tteurv Drummoiid. iW author of "Natural l<a* In tl>< st mi. b-aidew hi* other <jU?1 IVat i.' a, 1* an e*i*nenoe4 Aftr eu traveler, and antra ti.th tt< teiiae frelliur ui*'u a eulOect in vLuli hi* ta t I) veraed. N it.'1 -Vu,.. S1VKD HASH FISHING. heinr the second of the fislunir artlclee. Mr A E ?v r lliifiriue. pr*Hi<lfijt 4! till I 'aatpie lalai ?! 1 laotn* i". li, unMmiii i?tirtlinliylr ui?>n this m.ml p.>iuiar apurv. Tue iUu?trations are eaj?* iail> n. h. BUILDING AND 1/iAN AS** I ATIONH An accurate account <>( a hat thi'Se as- . istl.ns an. by Mr. * A. l inn, twy nian of i.u.i .*1 in n.i. ? bo m atiiioua to una Uoiuc, will lu*d llua paper of irreat value. rnur oiumt mamertox fnrnlahes the End Paper thi? mouth In a charu.iuir article entitled IWU Ptvartit ah<l I uturr." THE FUONTIM1U E la an orirlnal eturraviMr by Elii-i.br. Km?ilr)' fr- -u hi* ownilnuKU. accotuiwu) 1141 Eiirti l.urrouati*' |** 11^ "Veapera." OTHER ILLUSTRATED AKTU'LI >? are "Count L>*> T<? ?oy Twenty \ ,r? Ate tli<? ac.-otidandc. nolihi.tur part of Mr l.iu Si nuyh-r'a 1 ai-T, Ulu?traU*l w:th portrait*. a I "? >itr*ri ... \siiiu," an ?o uuut ot thia wrMt * ? .1.111 * u. l>> A. K. Jaca*iiy. the arUat, with iiioat unn.uij ai.i arli*UC tUuatratKii*. THE FICTIOX Include* a new Chapter of Robert I<oui* Sterenwi. ? aerial, "The Maatur of Ball an rue.' ali i an uuvaoal Htory entitled "MoualiKr NH**,ill.** Iiy Mi?? lira.! I'tin*. a>*niii|>auiirU h> l?u full ( we Uraaii^ca I y ChuaUir Lwiuia. roEMH by Manrarvt Cruahy, Mary V 1' Stauabiiry. Edith M I houiaa, Urahaiu U. Toliiaou and olhi-ra. Si CENTS k KLMbl.lt. *.l A \EAR. % CHAKLES SCUUVEC'S N>XS, It 74 < HroaJway, Krw York. I'liUlX )SALS. I >i.? i"Mls | CI i.LWI I ^ I I hi I ljUilil:ii*M?>r I-?. inr> otCoi aii-r M'? i mm < mj i tol ?:if 1?. ? Mi.j IhhH. >? 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I'mi-im. j*'-I AM<?N HSCUI K'S I>KY (i.FAMNO l.M AL 11M1M1M AM?MK Uol.hN .icm h luidit rt' a lid (iilitf' iiariiieiita t i ^11 Vilidac'l^aiietiaii I 1-jtxl ^itiiout U iiiw ri|>|^t I aditf' I v?*inuir in>??..?? -i a ?miialyjr. Hurt) Ave yem e*i* rtetmL 15? Qiukrate. OcM^ih < ailed lor aiid t ebv(-n<4. r* i 4 f|^HK FF.IHIKA KHIKU's l'Ia??~ i liouii. * d b) ^lt ^^iN \\Dt )l?^A|il> k l ah the bt-:*t iu tlieir atock. lLt> JUave ttut-qiiMl f or Mfttfitfyvhtn j.i 1 i#-?a ALX V\CHJL oAl.Mi Ms, MAbi li' Oli LUI LU u) cU a KovU iuuUTUUi* bluck. A. FISCHEtL tU i iHj ti al n.w. IIOU^EFUKMSH I N<JS. *?|>oyai. Myrin liin- mim? EVERT thlii?r! Itr -k. il riniia. <4Ian-. I uriiitur?, V\tM?d, M?-tain, J ? }si ??*. J 1 !????*. j? Hcir>. i.vfrUntiii|f le Ua. it>! UrW> ai?.Uirv>A t ra. 1 iX. aiid 'J.h: Uibl4-?ul>* Cookinu Bi- Gar A fall lice of QAB COOKING bTuVRS On baud and tor an.a. mbSl WABHIXtiTuN OA6UGHT COXTA1IT. INSURANCE* ItHE MUTl'AI. KEKERYE FI ND UEE ASH N, or N. V., haa furtiiaheu mauraiK e to ei^tit> -two th' ua and Uit-mliera duniiK |?n>t rirlit yeara. aaviny to th>-ru over aixteeu IniUloti doilara, by reduce* coat below rates chanced by level jn unuiii ci .niiamea JA? t*. M ES?T. hurt., Ii'iUUU at. li.?. i. Y. h.Muii l.ueii Aa"'t. tuLa-a.tu.th.;<ui SPKCIALTIKS. MASSAGE-INSTRVOTION IS SCIENTIEir M AS aaire. b<-8t I- un.|*iali method . to a lni:t.d num ber; terms moderate, ojijKirtunity open fur a ni.ort time. Addreaa VLbh, htar offtca myVJA St* YVHKN YOC HAVE TRIED DOCTdKK. Ml il ?T cities, and elec^-trn ltr in ram when you are ut terly deaj-erate. the H.ECTRi UMIhK will cur* } a no matter what yourdi*ea*e or mj'rupw* uyll-lmo* Ji US S w 1 fib. 0111 Eat. ?.?r. ELECTRICITY-1."? YEARS vFECIAL fKAfTICE in nervous and lunrtl .nal diaordera Malaria, and Liver troubles, hheumatiaui, Neural?ria. lnaomnia. etc , Ovarian, Lterine, and Brain l>leea*ea a *i?clalty. Hairs removed, htrtcturee j>ermanently cured. Ilk. MCHOLhON, Medical Eiectnciau, 004 12th al. &.?. ap'-!7-2iu* CoMroBT For (jtestlemes. KEQIJQEE SHIRTS. IX FIXE LTOHT-WEJOHT FLA.N blEK-AXD-WOUL MIXED, AND OF CHEVIOTS. OF THE BK8T MAKLb. SIXES 14 TO 20 INCH NECK MEASURE, AND THuROLOULV 8HRCNK BEFORE MADE LP. WE HAVE A SPECIAL SHIRT AT ?1 50 WHICH COMPARES FAVORABLY WITH LABT KEABOX'H ?2 50 GOODS. 40 DOZEN NAVY AND WHITE POLKA-DOT ALL SILK WINDSORS, FULL UXK. R6C; RKUL'LAft VALUE. 600 ACERBACH * BR0., 023 PENNSYLVANIA AVENCE. HATTERS. |niyl5-2nil OL'TFITTEM* McMcnns ELIXIR OF OPITM la ? preraratlon of the dm* by which Its tajwfcma eIIacts are rssnored. while the valuable Dialing! properttes at* retained. It paaaaaaeaall the asiaMi*. anodyne and anUaraamodn- powers nf opium, bat p4o ducee no elcknaee of the atomach. do rumiunc. mm ?4tlm>eaa. no headache. In arota it la an Invaluable remedy, and la i ?ro SCTLDIKO PA poriad I orUand, 1 leota. Moth iToof Paper I -?Iivm i. 1. Villtkll buka. 2U4 luUl at a.?k