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CHRISTMAS CROWDS
The Gay and Lively Throng That
Fill the Stre4ta and Stores.
IDE 81UlI OF A UUI'INM
Pictures Taken at Random From
the Passing Holiday Panorama.
MAKING HEARTS HAPPY
Chri3tmas times are certainly here. The
usy streets, the crowds with bundle-filed
rms and faces bright with expectancy
And pleasure, the store windows stuffed
with gay, beautiful and attractive articles,
E ru.4h, crush, bustle and confusion
roughout the business section, all show
that Washington has given Itself over
body anld soul to the glorious holiday sea
on and is reveling in its gladness and
plamor and gaiety. Today it began In
rnest. and all next week, until the last
ttle stocking Is hung up and the last 1t
restles, towsled head has fallen back
A Busy Spot.
9n Its pillow to get filled with Christmas
vs dreams of Kris Kringle, the panorama
l pass rapidly by In time to a merry
tune whose notes are human heart beats.
The same scenes have occurred every
ts,rweek In December since Christianity
ame fuly organized and began to win
ts battles for the betterment of the world;
and the same custom of the giving of
gifts that the wise men of the east estab
lirbed on Christ's natal morn at the hum
ble manger in Palestine has been contin
ued and enlarged upon, until' the soul Is
poor and wretched indeed which is not in
spired by the sentiment of the season.
It would be pretty hard to find such a
one in Washington, If the crowds are a
criterion, or a peep behind chamber doors
fives one evidence to go upon, for Christ
tuas presents are not confined to articles
jold in the shops by any means. Who can
tell, for Instance, the number of dainty,
ink-nailed fingers that are putting the
at embroidery stitches upon Plippers in
tended for feet that may perhaps tread In
the same life path with the tiny ones that
are tapping In time to her needle?
Work of Dainty Fingers.
Who can tell the quantity of shaving
paper holders who are now drying their
artistically painted backs In the sun pre
vious to being dispatched to youths whose
wrists have not yet learned the manage
3-ent -of A keen-bladed razor? Who can
estimate the thousand and one other varie
ties of home Inanufactured articles that
are now being made to gladden some near
Am Attractile WVindow.
ar.d d1er one on Christmas morning, and
what imagination is elastic enough to even
hint at the vast amount of love and af
stiorn worked Into the sweet remem
Lranc.'? The mere thought' of all this
he'rt work being done In the quiet of num
berl.-ss homes almost takes the breath
away axnd contemplation of the busy streets
and1 their scenes scarcely inspire wonder
after it. and such scenes there are on every
hand in the shops and out of them. Each
)'urrying passer by Is on a sentimental
journey, and they put so much of their
feeling Into their purchases that the very
bundle boys are unconscIously inspired to
whistle merry tunes as they wrap them
up.
A good place to study the people Is In
the toy department of one of the big
stores. That Is where The Star man went
this morning.
Thero was a world ef extravangancles
and nos elties and a wilderness of moderate
p rlcced and familiar things that make chil
dren happy, and the crowd that filled all
stan..ling spaco selected and purchased ao
co.rdin'g to their purses, for only the rich
can follow their Inclinations in such a
I,
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Day Me That.
p1ace as that, There were electric toys of
Intricate pattern and wonderful powers;
there were engines drawing trains of cars
arournd circular tracks and running like
cars oni real railroads; there were dolls,
with ap,tly concealed grapb'ophones, that
made them ask for mamma and papa and
Cuniln of having the stdmach ache;
there was, in a word, everything that In
genu.!y could m'anuifacture and wealth
comn.fln', and the fragile, ecstly things
were destinerd to create a few hours' up
yretri.As fun in utVwn nurseries and then
to t 'pquckly shamttereel by the darlings of
the ri h, as their more humble brethren in
the w 'rId of infantile amusement which
w uld! go to disloczation In the back yards
do wn town.
Revelalion to a WVoman.
One woman, fur-clad and silk-gowned,
and escorted by one of the smiling pro
Sriletord, swept through the place with In
do!ent elegance. She merely nodded as ex
travagance after extravagance was shown
her, and thus showed assent to its pur
chase. Suddenly something caught her
av.a nr1 transfbred iL A. glad smile broke
the- dimples n her ehesh. ad hur -p
parted with pleasure.
"Oh, I must have that for Ned," she ex
claimed. 1 remember how glad I was
when Uncle Jack mat me one years and
years ago."
It was a funny old jack-in-the-box.
ridiculously bedizened and wearing a
comical look of amazement on his taos
that had carried her back to her own child
hood, and made her lose all sense that she
was performing a perfunctory duty In buy
ing her little ones Christmas gifts. She no
longer had any taste for the new-fangled
notions. She plunged into the old-time
articles and she picked out the ugliest false
Ir
Uyndeeided.
faces, the noisiest horns, tin whistles that
fairly shrieked. for she tried them herself,
to the great amusement of the crowd, and
when she was bowed out to her carriage
she wras a changed woman, and wondered
wbA had ever made her think that chil
d-en were a nuimance. "particularly at
Qhrlstmas.'
When We Were You%g.
Another woman came In, and a man
was with her. The fur trimming on her
black coat was bald in places, and there
were worn spots on his chinchilla over
coat. She asked the price of an engine and
cars, and her lips quivered despairingly as
the heavy sum was named. Then he whis
pered to her, and her eyes brightened. A
big wooden boat painted gorgeously, and
the exact image of Noah's ark, according
to the juvenile Idea, was passed over to
the couple. Of course he had told her that
little Willie would just as soon have a boat
as a train of cars, and, besides. he could
have such fun sailing it in the bath tub
and giving tha animals a swim.
Another sweet-faced woman purchased
several simple toys, and one was a riding
stick, with an Impudent monkey's head at
the end. The observer had one once, and
he looked Into the woman's home and saw
a little fellow riding It proudly up and
down. Then he saw his little baby sister
get hold of It and suck away until all the
paint on the monkey was transferred to
her system, and he saw the doctor come,
and the silence in the household; and the3
he saw the baby outdoors again, thin and
peaked, but getting well again, and saw
the boy looking for his riding stick and
not finding It any more, just as he did
thirty years ago.
Then the thought struck the observer
that one Christmas and another he had
come Into posession of pretty nearly all
An Old Fr"ead.
the articles of moderate character that
the toy department contained. He had
carried that very gun over there; worn
that very sword hanging by It; slid down
Capitol Hill on that sled; ridden this
hobby horse, until he distracted his grand
father time and time again, and scared
the newco rmVrii eryt
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tioeuntehts and deouofterundest amei
ther whol wsingto wod. Buthswo
Swath troofdor and enjoyde iens
hesitated asee the gpadnesio of indkets
befor cihosofinidemnt,ae for thosae
iv ereanderry and dear anydy plantia
go- tlheat gftrn is n buhtnd tel s
heart made happy. A man named Dlckcns
onoc saw this panorama In hIs own dear
old London town, and went back of it to
where ali the separate pictures were, and
tho same joy and the same pathos, the
same gladness and the same gloom that he
found and drew out of their hiding places
to perpetuate for all people to come are
here In Washington today. But those who
watch It out of doors and enjoy Its pretti
ne~ only see the gladness of It and Its
high lights of Incident, for the crowds ate
lively and merry, and It any~y has a
h..avy heart he keeps It to himselL
JACK THE RIPPER
Now an Inmate of an Inane Aeylum
in London.
T1 WORK OF A IONO1AXIAC
The Story of His Crimes and His
Apprehension.
HIS IDENTITY KNOWN
reM the Philadelphia Prems.
fteculation as to the identity of "Jack
the Ripper" may still continue, but other
speculation as to when he may be appre
hended. when he may reappear in his for
mer field of industry, whether the strangler
of Denver Is the original who stirred up
London, have no longer any place in the
public mind. "Jack the Ripper" at this
moment Is an inmate of a London Insane
asylum, and has been so confined for the
past three years. The fact has been kept
quiet for some reason, probably to conceal
the man's identity, for that is known to
but very few people in London, and one of
them, Dr. Forbes Winslow. who Is the
most famous insanity expert in Great
Britain, Is responsible for having discov
ered him and having placed him where
his peculiar talent can have no oppor
tunity to display Itself.
Dr. Winaslow's Story.
But let Dr. Winslow tell his own story,
as he did to the writer of this article, one
day last summer at his private office in
a fashionable street off of Cavendish
Square.
"One morning opening my mail I re
ceived that letter," said Dr. Winslow,
pointing to a frame hanging on the wall
of his office, in which was seen half a
sheet of ordinary-aised note paper, and an
envelope, bearing a stamp and a London
postmark, addressed simply to Dr. Forbes
Winslow. The letter reads: "You will
hear of me In a few days. Jack the Rip
per." The writing Is evidently that of a
man who knows how to write, but who
has disguised his style by using his left
hand, probably. The doctor continued:
"You see when it is postmarked, which
was previous to the first intimation that
any such man as 'Jack the Ripper' existed.
I opened the letter and read it without
attaching the slightest importance to it,
or thinking for a moment It would ever
become in any way Interesting or worthy
of preservation, but as is my rather
methodical custom, I threw the letter and
its envelope with the others into a drawer
I use for the purpose and gave no further
thought to the matter until many weeks
after, when the entire city was startled by
the horrible murder of a woman and the
discovery of a line of writing on the wall,
over where the dead body was found, and
which read, 'I will give myself up when I
have killed fifteen. Jack the Ripper.'
"You will remember that a stupid police
man rubbed this writing out, but the marks
that were left were sufficiently distinct to
show upon comparing It with my letter
they were both written by the same hand.
At once upon the fact being published in
the morning papers that this murder had
been done, and the singular name of 'Jack
the Ripper' being identified with it, of
course, recalled to my mind the letter I
had received. I hunted up the letter and
went to the commissioner of police and
laid the matter before him and then I
went to the scene of the last affair and
made a comparison between the writing I
had and the hardly discernible outlines of
that which had been upon the wall.
- Would Not Aid film.
"I formulated an idea of the murders
It was sustained by later developments
and I asked the police to aid me or allow
me to co-operate with them in finding out
who the guilty party was, but for some
unaccountable and inexplicable reason,
they refused to do this. They obtained
from me all the details of my idea and
then refused to make use of them. Certain
ly I am not a detective, but my theory was
the correct one, and, while the police them
selves had no grounds upon which to work.
I felt they made a mistake in not co-oper
ating with me.
"However, time passed along and more
murders were committed, all of them
marked by the same atrocious peculiarity
and bearing indications of having been
done by a man experienced in the dissec
tion or cutting up of human bodies. There
were the evidences of an acquaintance with
the use of the knife that were unmistak
able, and while these cuttings were simply
for mutilation, yet they were made with
such a precision and clear understanding
of how they should be made that there vras
no doubt left in a physician's mind of the
acquaintance on the part of the murderer
with at leasnt the rudiments of practical
surgery.
"The sensational stories of revenge being
at the foundation of these crimes, or that
they were the pastime of some Irresponsi
ble foreigner who occasionally reached cur
shores, were all well enough to amuse the
mass.es, but those who looked Into the mat
ter understandingly realized that the mur
dered women were victims of a monoman
Iac, a man who was Insane upon this one
subject, and who had an uncontrollable
Impulse to commit murder come upon him
at more or less regular Intervals.
"One day I was called upon by a lady,
the wife of a physician in this city, and
wlho, herself, had upon~ one or two occa
sions been a patient of mine. The lady was
In grea4t distress, and I saw that her nerv
ous condition was serious; she was un
questionably laboring under great mental
excitement, and could hardly control her
s,dlf while In my office-so as to talk con
nectedly with me. Much to my surprise,
Instead of the usual conversation that
transpires between a physician and his
patient, this lady at cnce talked of the
'Jack the Ripper' murders, asked me
whether I na-1 studied them at all, what
my opinion was in the matter and whether
I had any theory as to the guilty party. I
replied to her questions as clearly as pos
sible and told her all that I had eonjectured
on the subject. I explained the theory that
I had formed, and then called her atten
tion to the letter, which just previous to
that time I had framed. At the sight of
this document she tecame still more agi
tated, and I realized there was something
on her mind she wished to make known to
me. and I endeavored by gentle and kindly
words to encourage her to do so.
Suspected Her Husband.
"Finally she, after much hesitation and
violent feeling, told me she believed her
husband to be the man who had committed
the 'Jack the Ripper' murders. At this in
formation I naturally was horrified and
astounded. I knew who her husband was,
and I knew him to be a practitioner of sup
posed responsibility, and so Incredible did
her suspicion appear to me that I thought
she herself had become crazed in some
way and this awful idea had taken posses
sion of her. I questioned her carefully on
other subjects until she had calmed down
somewhat, which the revelation of her
secret seemd to aid her in doing, and then
I asked her the reasons she had for this
belief.
"She accounted to nme the singular ac
tion of her husband at oertain periods,
how he appeared for a day or two to be
come Irresponsible and how she had finally
noticed that upon the occasions when these
murders were committed he had been ab
sent from home and had returned in such
a mental exhllarati-, followed by terrible
mental depression, thatt she felt confident
he had passed through some extraordinary
experience. There were other evidences,
she explained, and which became sugges
tive when the thought occurred to her, of
his connection with the 'Jack the Ripper'
incidents.
"nImpres,sed with what she told me and
recognizing in it a v'erification of the the
ory I had arrived st, I went to see her hus
band, and after a number of interviews
I became satisfied that the lady's suspi
cions were well foundcl. Upon every other
subject the man was thoroughly sane, but
upon this he was totally Irresponsible, he
was possessed by a congenital lnsanity,and
the appetite for blood to be satisfiedl in
this manner was growing upon him. Not
only would this growth influence him to
more frequent victims, but to an increased
number of victims at the same time, and,
had he been permitted to remain at large,
it would have been only a comparatively
short IlIma hafore two or three murders
w Nul have been .cammitted him, where
only me had b*% commi theretofr,
PlAecd In aR Asylus.
"After sattsfy" myself that the an
was responsMible cg these orimes, I tok
steps to have him placed in an asylum
where he could.#* no more mischief. He
was examined ' competent physicians
and fourd to be 4ntally unbalanced, and
then was place i, an asylum where he
now remains.
"A London hortly after the man
was locked up Ji AIned a paragraph on
the subject, an it 'doubtless would have
led to the entirersoatter being thoroughly
exploited and g4wr-to the publio, but this
it was not thoq& t desirable to do, and
at the request ?17 dbrtain parties the pa
per made no futhe* reference to the mat
ter, and as the lpalagraph in question es
caped the eye tf 'Myone who was inter
ested in the caSe' it never went any fur
ther."
Doctor Winslow- expressed himself fur
ther in regrrd to insanity generally and
says that his investigations into that un
fortunate affliction convince him that it
is largely on the increase. There are many
reasons for this excitement, buhiness diffl
culties, as they are greater now than in
former times, but primarily and. above
all the doctor feels that liquor is the foun
dation of most of the insanity prevailing
today.
WELL-READ SOVIETT GI LS.
They Are Able to Talk on l Kinds
of Subjeets.
From the New York Herald.
Besides the kindergarten, the governess
and the fashlionabli school as evolutionary
developers of the well-read girl in society,
there are no end of coaching olasses and
clubs devoted to the cult of the reigning
god of the moment, be It Browning, Ibsen,
Chaucer, Tolstol or Bellamy, all of which
help a great deal in bestowing ideas, gems
of thought and pertinent quotations which
sometimes come to mind in the most apro
pos way and make for the clever manip
ulator a reputation for wonderful origi
nalIty.
The well-read girl in society does not
flaunt or parade the wisdom she has taken
pains to acquire, for she is also well bred,
and not assertive in the least, but we see
her eye sparkle and her face glow viva
ciously when the opportunity is afforded
for her to show in an unobtrusive way
that she has passed the cocoanut stage of
her cranial development.
Gladstone finds the young girl of today
worth talking to, and quite recently one of
our own countrywomen of tender years en
gaged Herbert Spencer In an animated
conversation while awaiting the announce
ment of dinner, and compelled that able
thinker to declare that she had completely
floored him and won him over to a point of
view which he had at the outset commit
ted himself to condemning unequivocaily.
Lady Juene attributes the increasing pop
ularity of dinners over other forms of en
tertainment to the more frequent presence
of bright girls, who are wclA Informed on
the current topics of interest. In order to
get at the real meaning of what is meant
by current topics of interest, girls should
follow Mr. Howells' advice, and do their
reading In a desultory way, here a bit and
there a bit, till the little compartments of
the brain are stocked with facts about
many subjects, ranging from the abolish
ment of the house of lords to the latest
regulations of the foot ball code; from the
Westminster tribute to Lowell, to Whit
comb Riley's most recent hoosierisin; from
the Hawaiian muddle to Sargent's por
traits; from GrVgOran chants to the new
Strauss walts. ,
Mental tAthletics.
She does not neeil to be deeply read to be
what Is usually considered well read, so
far as society demands are concerned, if
she but understands what is worth while
remembering, 4nd I here Is where the
"memory class" cor'es to her rescue. The
teacher of the art of memorizing gives her
the cue to the "vorrelation of Ideas," as he
calls his method-a sort of hitching one's
mental Impression to another and giving
them some Impbrtant fact to guide them
through the metror', just as a locomotive
draws a string of cArs. The couplings are
the "correlations." -
This sort of rer.ding does, undoubtedly,
put a girl at Iem,wese. with whoever she
may happ.n to be fpr the moment, for the
touch and go Inoyement of society does
not permit converfttion-only a gay chaffli
ness of wit and huniot or the occasional
opportunity of a bon mot.
A more thorough acquaintance with sub
jects of deeper and more earnest import
will, of course, stand her in better stead
when she finds she must really converse
with some man or woman of noble achieve
ment.
Such circumstances arise when, for in
stance, a noted traveler, scientist, archae
ologist, philanthropist or man of letters Is
her father's guest' for several days, and
when the duties of secor.d hostess at the
family board inspire her with the ambition
to acquit herself not only creditably, but
so very cleverly that the visitor shall pro
nounce .her a remarkably entertaining
young woman.
THE RETIRED DURGLAR.
A Live Woman is More to Be Dreaded
Than a Ghost.
From the New York 14en.
"At 2 o'clock one morning," said the re
tired burglar, "1 wras in a godd-sized see
nd-story back bed room in a comfortable
old house in a country town in Massa
chusetts. The bed in this room was
empty, but the clothes were turned back
and the bed had evidently been occupied.
It stood in the rear corner furthest from
the door, with the headboard against the
rear wall,' and the side of the bed about
a foot or so away from the side wall. At
the foot of the bed, against the side wall,
about in the middle of that side of the
roomn and right opposite the door, stood
the bureau; between it and the footboard
itself there was a space of perhaps a foot,
maybe a foot and a half, enough for any
body to pass through comfortably.
"I stood now in front of the bureau. I
had set my lamp down on top of it, and
had just opened the top drawer when
something prompted me to look up into
the mirror. In that mirror I saw, dim, but
clear enough, the reflection of a ghost in
the hall. There was a faint light in the
hall, just a little light from a lamp stand
ing on a table near the f ont end, and by'
that light, when I turne to look, I sawd
the ghost. It was moving from the rear
of the house toward the front, along the
hail a little nearer to the side I was on
than to the other, and moving slowly, like
a stage ghost. It was tall and spare and
all n white, with something white over Its
head. It moved slowly across the door and
disappeared. After it had gone I stood
there, with my back to the bureau, staring
at the doorway.
"A moment later it reappeared, moving
now toward the rear of the house, and
this time nearer still to my side of the hall.
It was moving slowly, as before, but in
stead of passing by it turned toward my
doorway, when t came opposite to it, and
came in over te qill and moved slowly
across the roqm .straight toward me;
r.arer and nearer, gnd I couldn't move,
until something toil meI wonderd why
It hadn't come to mn before-that the ghost
was a sleep-wMker, It was a woman;
this was her room, and she was coming
back where she belonged.
"Of course, I fel t little easier then, but
I wanted to ae ay, and I thought i
should soon be able to, for I supposed, of
coe, that shqt was making for the bed,
and the idea t ht spe would do anything
but go to the front of the bed and cet in
there, like any ht human being, never
entered my head. While she was coming
a"ross the rooni, I had sort of involun
tarily hacked in.to L.hat gap between the
orner of the biureau and the footboard at
the bed. I stood there looking at her while
she was still coming straight across toward
the bureau. never doubting that she would
turn In time and go to the front of the bed,
and she did turn and move in that direc
ton, but when she got pretty near to the
other corner of the footboard from where
I was she turned again and started toward
the gap that I was standing in, evidently
with the intention of going around to the
back of the bed. between it and the wall,
and getting In on that side. That last three
or fou" feet along the footboard she seemed
to glide, as smooth as ever, but qulcker'ni
lightning, and I in the way and too scared
to move. She was awake the instant she
touched me, and screaming like a mad
woman, and I was awake then, my friend,
finally, and clawing across that bed to a
window there was at the head of it, I
cleaned that window out, blinds and all
with ne swreen f the jimmy and Jnmne=A,,~
cf i DOLLS AND TOT
Nurembeve as a Wintee Reoser
Strange Sights at the Garden.
Prem the NOw Yak Traim.
The Instant you go Into the Madm
Square Garden you smell popped corn.
That Is the wry you know you are in Old
Nuremberg. If faith be placed in this re
production, Old Nuremberg was in some
few respects singularly like new New York.
Perhaps it is the intention to imitate, In a
symbolic sort of way, what used to pans in
Old Nuremberg rather than reproduce it
exactly. They used to have humorous
ways of disposing of wrongdoers there.
There would be nothing strange about put
ting a man into a wire basket and shaking
him over a nre. At the Garden they do the
same thing with corn. The Iron Maiden of
Nuremberg got men in her clutches and
stuck them full of jagged daggers. The
young women at the Garden, having gentler
manners, when they get men In their pow
or, are content to take their money from
them in exchange for birds, or cakes, or
dolls, or wooden spoons, or monkeys or
other harmless things of the sort.
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg In the
old time stood upon a platform and amused
one another and their fellow townsmen
with their stilted songs. At the Garden the
"song and dance artist" and the "musical
eccentric" hold the stages and entertain the
people. Hans Sachs sat )n his little old
shop at his shoemaker's bench, and, with
the measured tap of his hammer, attended
at once to the feet of his customers and of
his verses. Now in the house at the Gar
den that looks like that of Hans Sachs
they exhibit and sell the products of Rus
sian cottage industries, from laces to wood
carving.
But Nuremberg was always a town of
surprises, and If the one here in the middle
of New York seems to be rather up to date
at some points, no objection should be
raised. It has a good many visitors, and
they all seem to be satisfied. The three
variety shows. all going at once, no doubt
contribute largely to this result. The one
at the 4th avenue end of the Garden was
so popular on the first night that two-thirds
of the population seemed to be crowded to
gether in front of it. The congestion inter
fered with the sale of refreshments at the
tables, and people got a bad habit of stand
ing on chairs, so that nobody behind them
could see anything. Now a barrier has
been put around the tables, so that those
who want refreshments can have them in
peace, and the rest of the crowd can group
Itself around the outside of the space. The
result is that everybody is more comfort
able and can see better. It was surprising
to note how large the attendance was at
the Garden yesterday. A show that is to
have a run of two or three weeks usually
suffers seriously from storms. but there
were plenty of people In the streets of Nu
remberg last night.
CORSET OR NO CORSETI
Views of Pra1iment Freneh Actresses
for ad Against it.
The Gaulols asks the opinion of a certain
number of prominent professional ladies
upon the use of the corset. The following
are among some of their replies:
Mile. Barret-I can do nothing better than
give you a line from "Francillon," which is
sufficiently significant: "The corset! Oh,
the horrid thing!"
Mme. Jane Hading-The corset may be a
hand of Iron or a glove of velvet. Since my
recent trip to America I am for Independ
ence.
Mine. Worms Barretta-You may say that
on principle I am against the corset. I
favor it in -ertain cases, but on condition
that it be light, shoilt, and very elastic,
something like a brace, which lightly in
closes the waist. My little three-year-old
girl will wear It that way, and If later on
she renounces the corset entirely her mam
ma will only be too glad of It.
Mile. Reichenberg-The corset Is an ordi
nary piece of feminine clothing, just like a
belt, shoes, gloves. etc. I have always worn
one, and found It very comfortable. Why
should it be regarded as the evidence of
coquetry and bad taste? But I cannot give
any particular opinion upon the subject,
because for me a corset is a thing of very
little Importance. It should be a light af
fair, inclosing the waist very gently.
Mile. Rejane-Each epoch has its exigen
cies. The corset, in my opinion, has as
much importance as the cut of the costume.
To look well, the corset Louis XV ought
to be a perfect torture. In "Sans Gene,"
on the contrary, two ribbons suffiee. I
speak for myself. In these days I favor as
little of the corset as possible, and believe
in ribbons, or braces, leaving the back and
the haunches free. French women are too
slight and too well made to have need for
even the lightest support. And in this not
one of your lady readers will contradict me.
Mlle. Sanderson-The corset, in my opin
ion, is very useful in certain cases, in socie
ty as in the theater. Speaking of the thea
ter alone, the corset should be used in roles
of the present time or in the costumes
Louis XV, as in "Manon," for example. It
is absolutely useless in antique pieces like
"Thals" and "Phryne," in which I dispense
with It entirely.
Mmne. Judic-It Is a very delicate question,
and I am not sufficiently learned to criti
cise It or to make an apology for It. Nevor
theless, if I had the great advantage, es
peclally for an artist, of remaining slight,
I would mnost assuredly follow the example
of Mmne. Tallien, who never consented to
shut her waist up In an Iron prison. For
all that, I owe to the corset a daily pleas
ure, because the bother of putting it on
every morning Is more than compensated
for, to my mind, by the pleasure of taking
If off every night.
MIle. Darlaud-Oh, pshaw! that beastly
cuirasse, fit only for a coquette! Up to her
twentieth year a young woman can do
without It. I dispense with It, and I have
adopted the little brace (brassIere) of such
reitned elegance, in white satin, set off with
Valencilennes.
MIle. Granier-For my part I don't believe
that the thing has any Importance.
Mile. Yvette Guilbert-AII women, fat and
lean alike, belittle the services rendered by
the corset, because they all pretend to be
able to dispense with It without impairing
the beauty of their figures. For my part,
I adfiit that sine I began to get a little
fat I have rarely worn one; but when I was
lean It helped me in the manufacture of a
shape, and consequently I owe some little
gratitude to the corset.
A CONJUGAL CONVERSATION.
And They Missed the Train After
All.
From the Chicago Tribume
The young Bitteraweets were going away
on a visit, and after many vicissitudes they
were In the street car on their way to the
station.
"Now, Amelia," remarked her lord, "I
hope you will learn a lesson In punctualty
from all this. You nearly made us late by
running upstairs again at the last moment."
"For the tickets which you had forgot
ten, dear."
"H'm. That was because you fancied you
smelled gas and sient me to look for It in
the vacant room where nobody had been
for six weeks."
"Well, you said that some one might have
been hidden there for days for all I knew
and they might. I have been so busy all
week making my own dress, because I
couldn't afford a dressmaker, that-"
"Well, well, keep to the subject, Amelia.
Now, we would have missed our train If my
watch had pot been In order-yours was at
the jeweler's, as usual."
ABecause you tried to regulate It, dear,
and put It out of order."
"Always some excuse. But, an I say,
punctuality Is a great virtue--now, I never
miss a train and never sit at the station
half an hour or so. You are habitually
late; you should make a habit of wind
ing and setting your watch at a certain
hour each day, say, when you go to bed."
"Yes, dear, I know. But sometimes I go
to bed q~uite early and sometimes I sit up
very late for you."~
"H'm. Here we are at the station. Walt
a minute, my dear, while I buy a cigar.
Now you will see that I have allowed just
time to get comfortably into the train.
Just give me the tickets, will you?"
"WVhy, Chauncey, I-I must have forgot
ten and left them on the bureau where they
were lying. I remembered some chocolate
creams in the upper drawer and I was
afraid the mice-"
"And for the sake of a few chocolate
creams we shall lose our train. You will
never learn-"
"What train did yes want?" queried the
gatekeeper.
"The 3:30," snapped Mr. Blttersweet.
,"Went ten minutes ago," was the cheery
reply.
"But-but my watch says 3:28 now," fal
tered Mr. Bittersweet,
"Watch is slow. Yes should wind and
set it at a cer-"
But Mr. Bittereweet was out of heying.
GEVWiCK A%qMACA020.
eaen t the notheft ta Ufe ia now
York ChuseeAw
ls the Iftw Yo A01ertia.lf
If the Rev. Dr. WilaM , Ralserd
created a sensation a year ago bW the pos
tion which he took in regard to @IaS,
what will the temperance advocates think
when they read what he said to a reporter
yesterday?
Dr. Rainsford was asked if he hod
changed his views in regard to the Uquor
business. After replying that he had not,
he made the following additional dechus
tion:
"I am in favor of opening the saloons
Sunday afternoon. I do not think it Is
right to allow a rich man to buy all the
liquor he wants A a club, and to give no
such liberty to the poor man."
There Is a bar room at the corner of 3d
avenue and 16th street which is some
times called "Rainsford's salon" and
those who hear it so spoken of infer that
It is the outcome of the suggestions made
by the preacher twelve months ago, that
it is visited by members of Dr. Rainsford's
congregation, or that he exercises some
sort of supervision over It. This is not
true, but the history of the saloon Is In
teresting, nevertheless. At first blush the
public understood that Dr. Rainsford ad
vocated the ownership of saloons by the
churches-that a bar room should be run
as an annex. He declares that he has
never advocated the churches as corpora
tions going into the liquor business. But
he regards the Aaloon as, to a large extent,
the poor man's club. The man goes there
because he likes company and his desire is
to make the drinking a mere incident. To
sell liquor Is, however, the only aim of the
barkeeper; and the place, instead of being
conducted an the plan of a social organiza
tion, has for the mainspring of its purpose
the sale of Intoxicants. Dr. Rainsford's
idea is to reverse this, and to have men of
character provide places at which liquor
can be obtained, but at which the social
features wil be emphasised and all idea of
profit be eliminate.
The so-called "Rainsford saloon" is a neat
place, well Atted up, with handsome plate
glass mirrors and cherry furniture. On the
opposite corner and much nearer St.
George's Church is an old barroom which
it has been impossible to close, because
there Is a Tammany tradition that when
a saloon is once granted a license the es
tablishment is there to stay. Dr. Rains
ford fought th cation for the license
for the new WMIX As a concession to
him the proprietors of the place gave him
a bond for s1,(U that they would not sell
to minors, and that bond is In the preach
er's possession. It is said that it also in
eludes a clause against the sale of liquor
to women. That is all the connection Dr.
Rainstord has with the saloon.
When he was asked yesterday If be had
ever taken any steps toward putting his
ideas into practice he said:
"No; I merely made the suggestion. But
It is my opinion that we shall eventually
have some application of the Guttenberg
system.
"We try to make the people feel." con
tinued Dr. Rainsford, "that St. George's
Church is trying to help them. We work
on the idea that the church is a social or
ganization, based on the teachings of the
Savior. We have club rooms and a gym
nasium, and fully fifteen hundred young
people visit the church during the week
lays, while the Sunday school numbers
more than two thousand children."
One of the novel features for attracting
people to church is that adopted by the
Rev. A. B. Wilson of the West Eighteenth
Street Methodist Church. Dr. Wilson has
two seats set asille for women who bring
ther babies. Thousands of women who
have little children tugging at their apron
strings are denied the opportunity to at
tend church, and Dr. Wilson's innovation
is for their benefit. A room Is set aside as
a nursery, and a committee of young
ladles Is In charge. If a baby behaves
himself like a Christian he can hear the
sermon. If not, he is taken Into the
nursery and given a toy to play with, or is
amused in some way, while his mother
listens to the preacher.
A special feature of the music in Dr.
Wilson's church is the children's chorus.
There are perhaps 150 of the little fellows,
ranging in size to the veriest tots, and
their music is a great attraction. There is
one boy about as high as the back of a
chair, whose singing never fails to attract
especial notice. They have a choir bal
cony to themselves.
Every Sunday Dr. Wilson prints an ad
vertisement in a newspaper whose readers
are supposed to be in greatest need of his
kind soUcitations. He announces his spe
cial features, using about as much space
as recently announced the attractions at
Buffalo Il's Wild West show. The doctor
is discriminating, not only as to the paper.
but as to the particular position of his ad
vertisement, which is placed among the
"personals." It is fairly packed with the
advertisements of young women who yearn
for the society of wealthy gentlemen
"matrimonially inclined." One may turn
from these sirens and go to hear "the New
England Queen of Song," or whoever else
happens to be the attraction at Dr. Wil
son's church.
The kiev. J. Ii. Scudder of Jersey City
makes a specialty of preaching to bicycle
riders. kie Invites all wheelmen and wheel
women to come to his church. He will
have their bikes taken care of while they
listen to the Word.
A feature of the music in the Marble Col
legiate Church Is the organ, which is a
double action, playing from both ends of
the church at the same time.
The Judson Memorial Church has quite a
large orchestra. A children's choir is an
Dther feature of the music there.
The BSroome Street Tabernacle is a place
at which great attention is given to the
music. There is a full orchestra, and the
violin, cornet, piccolo and other Instru
ments contribute their share.
In contrast to the elaborate programs of
music in other places is the scene at the
Hicksltes' church-the meeting house of
the Friends, on East 15th street and Ruth
erford place. Not a note, not a chirp, not a
sign of an organ. The good Quakers have
nio paid preacher, and unlem the spirit
moves some one to speak they worship God
In absolute silence.
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Sedative Novels,
P'rom the rLman Ipectator.
What is the kind of a novel best suited
for sedative purposes is a difficult ques
tion, .and one which cannot be fully an
swered on the present occasion. It is as
much a question of men as of books. One
man finds rest in "tendencies novel" an
other in the tale of adventure, a third In
the study of manners. As a rule, we
should say that the form of fiction best
suited for the purpose of keeping the mind
occupied, but yet not actively at work, Is
the novei which Is neither too clever nor
too stupid-the book which is In fiction
what the man of moderate views and mod
erate talents is in public life. If the story
is too clever it may p rove a stimulant In
stead of a sedative. Mr. Meredith's works,
for example, are far more likely to tire
than to rest the brain. The man who
wants to tackle "Lord Ormont and His
Aminta" must sit up to a table and put
himself menta-lly at attention. Even Mr.
Stevenson and Mr. Kipling, though so
alluring, are apt to stimulate too highly.
On the other hand, the sedative novel must
not be actively stupid. Foolishness, Ir
relev'ance, lack of coherence, bad grammar,
are irritants, which should have no place
In the novel which is meant to give rest
to the mind. The man who is made to
grind his teeth and mutter, "What Infernal
bosh!" is not getting his sedative, nor is
the woman soothed who is perpetually be
lng forced to declare that she never read
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