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HEW YORK GOSSIP
Left-at-Eome Husbands and
Their Ways.
BUT HIS TURN COMES, TOO
MR. SCHWAB HAS THE MONEY,
BUT NO HEALTH.
Ootharaites Have Peculiar Notions
About the Dog-Muzzling
Law.
Special Correspondence of Hie EveniDg Star.
NEW YORK. August 7, 1903.
There Is generally a method in the mad
ness of the typical New Yorker. For In
stance, New York husbands, almost as a
unit, have taken during the last two years
to sending their wives and families out or
town, to the multitudinous resorts, for the
Bummer, and remaining at home them
selves. Never before has New York been
the abode of so many voluntary grass wid
owers as it has been during the present
summer. The town is cluttered with em.
They're everywhere?on the roof gardens,
at the nearby beaches and race tracks,
swinging along the circuitous paths of
Coney's Isle, swamping the city and park
restaurants, overflowing the lounging
rooms and verandas of the road houses,
even patroling the great white lane
called Broadway. The voluntary grass
widower of New York is so easily distin
guished, too, despite his elaborate efforts to
make himself appear like one of the great
unfettered and untrammeled! If you pos
sess so much as one-half an eye, you can
see that his newly resumed jauntiness, as
of the mad. glad, sad. bad bachelor, is the
veriest clumsy bluff, that his rogueishness
of manner is just a "phony" of the real
thing, that his occasionally unnatural hilar
ity is a thing put on out of a spirit of reck
lessness born of the knowledge that it can
only last a little while longer, and that the
vein had better be worked to the end of
the tension before?well, before "the folks
come home. The illustrations in the funny
papers of the summer widower vainly bat
ting around endeavoring to make himself
imagine he is having a hot time in the ab
sence of his wife have a good deal more
truth in them than most of the alleged
comic pictures of the day possess. The
manner of the voluntary grass widower has
in it a sort of rabid protestation that he
Is having the time of his life, and the end
Is that he protests too much and enables
you to see through him too easily.
Make Good Husbands.
If there is any one thing particularly to
the credit of the typical New York man
that can be said It is that he is nearly
always a first-rate husband, despite a very
general and a very erroneous impression to
the contrary. The New York man takes
his wife to about every place that he him
self goes to?to many places, indeed, that he
' hadn't oughter" take her. He is per
petually telegraphing to his wife to meet
him down town and take dinner with him
after office hours, and then the theater to
follow. He is "giving her a good time" all
the time. He sends her candy and violets
with the same liberality with which he
bestowed these things upon her during thi
days of courtship. If he permits himsell
to lapse into infrequent Indiscretions he
never allows himself to lose sight of the
living fact that his wife Is always and
Invariably No. 1. It Is the simple fact, and
In simple Justice It must be recorded that
the average New Yorker spends more ol
his time "blowing off" his wife than, V-er
haps. the average husband In any othei
American city, and he rarely permits the
"domestic game to flatten out" or his wife
to feel that she has degenerated into the
unenviable situation of the household
drudge.
Where, then, is the method in the mad
ness of the typical New Yorker who adroit
ly contrives to send his wife out of towr
for the summer, while he himself remains
behind and "simmers and stews" in th<
great blistering city? Well, in the first
place, it gives him the chance to gain th<u
"liberty" for which all married men, nr
matter how fond they may be of theti
wives, occasionally pine, and even knowing
as most of them do. that when they do get
that "liberty" it will be a lonesome anc
grisly thing, not worth the having. Aftei
the long autumn and winter and spring lr
close and constant contact, the fellow be
gins to experience the hanker for anothe:
whizz of that "liberty." the chance to try
It just once again, even if he has the feel
lng deep down in his bosom that it wll
again prove to be no go, as It has always
proved before. And at the very outset
when he is sending his wife away, he knows
that when the separation for the summer If
all over and she returns he will be a whoi<
lot happier man and extract a more acut<
enjoyment of his domestic life than woulc
be possible were he to remain with his wile
all during the warm weather.
Poses as a Martyr.
Then, again, it enables him to pose most
heroically In his wife's view?and most
married men enjoy doing that tremendous
ly! His wife's letters are filled with sym
pathy for the "dear, good unselfish old
thing" who, on account of business, re
mains cooped up in the "hot old city," and
when the voluntary grass widower reads
these things he has a chance to swell up
and pat himself on tlie midriff and declare
unto himself. "Well. I guess I am a pretty
decent sort of a proposition, at that, and,
b'jee. It takes an appreciative woman like
my wife to give the credit that's coming
to a square man." He is thus enabled to
develop quite a cute and cunnin' feeling of
martyrdom, and can sit at the rustic table
in the park and sip his highball and get
himself into a delightful glow of self-appre
ciation. He knows, too. the foxy one; that
when the summer is over, and his wife has
returned, and the inevitable little domestic
rcraps take place, he will only have to
bestow a reproachful, wounded-antelope.
you-wrong-me-Pearline expression upon her
?and then his wife will immediately col
lapse and capitulate?"Didn't the good old
thing let me spend a glorious summer down
at tiie beach last summer while he himself
slaved like a dog in the city?" And we
guess maybe the average married man.
wherever he may abide, doesn't keenly en
Joy working a little edge like th's on his
wife! He knows that It Is bound to serve
as a sort of dam to any little reproaches
which might otherwise be coming to him
on account of occasional l>ad nights at poker,
or losings-out at the racetrack, or even
few-and-far-between lapses into rummer
Iferousneaa. He's always got It as a sort
of domestic hold-out. and what rattling
convenient things domestic hold-outs are,
on one side or on the other!
Finally, the man who unselfishly permits
the wife and family to spend the summer
out of town can always get away himself,
later on. when he feels "trlppy." If, along
In December or January or February the
hectic flush mounts to his cheeks and the
desire suffuses his system to "Jump the
reservation and make a litle war medic'ne,"
It is the easiest thing In life for him to put
on a tired, worn-out look for a couple of
days, and to hint around that his nerves
seem to be getting ;\way from him. and
then It Is up to the wife, who has had the
fine summer of It to come r!ght out and
suttgest that he'd better t:;ke a couple o?
weeks' shooting down on the Chesapeake,
or ride down the coast to Florida on the
boat, or Joggle down to take a look at what
they're doing In Washington. When. In
her grateful ardor, she absolutely Insists
upon it?well, he consents. At the end of
about a week, he usually returns home
fiom his trip, pallid and "all in," the whirl
all over, and then he has the opportunity
to exude the southerly zephyr that he has
missed lier so acutely that he couldn't poss
ible remain away any longer, and she be
lieves it?maybe.
Tn the meantime, what do the wives
themselves think of this thing of being
Sent away to the resorts for the summer
Do they dislike it? Well, there seems to
be no reason why they shou'd have to go
If they did. Do they like it? Th's how
ever, Is a futile manner of conjecture. The
Bent-away wives are not making known
their Ideas on the subject to the newspa
pers nor, indeed, to the newspaper cor
respondents. It is observable th"t many
of them are quite enthusiastic when their
husbands occasionally "run down" to see
Niem on Saturdays. It is also observable
that many are equally enthusiastic when
their husbands are departing: for tlie city
on Monday. But the woman is the Sphinx,
so what's the use?
Points on Schwab.
Tes, young Mr. Schwab was a trifle pet
ulant, all right, toward certain of the
newspaper men, on the day when it was
announced that he had retired from the
presidency of the big steel outfit. But. as
a plain matter of unvarnished fact, why
shouldn't he have been just a trifle petu
lant? Why, in fact, shouldn't he have felt
sharply impelled to give a number of them
real smarting slaps on the wrist?
No man that ever came rapidly to the
front in this country has ever been so
clouted about by the saffron sheets of
New York as this same young Mr. Schwab.
Schwab is a strong, sturdy, clean-limbed
and clean-minueti young man who, by
working like a galley slave from his twelfth
year, and with the aid of a very remark
able head full of brains, reached vast
wealth and a very great plane in lite at the
age of thirty-five. When his health went
back on him, the yellows of this town be
gan to put a standing "Why?" in big let
ters at the head of their accounts of Mr.
Schwab's condition.
When he went to Europe for a rest they
put cheap penciling sleuths on his trail,
and these underbred scribling Lecocqs
cablde a thousand imbecile yarns to this
country as to the alleged doings of Mr.
Schwab all over Europe, picturing him as
a mad man and worse.
One of them swore in one of his cabled I
fairy tales that the steel trust president I
had dropped $500,000 at the Monte Carlo
roulette tables one evening?Mr. Schwab
never wagered one-eighth of one sou
markee on the Monte Carlo games. Anoth
er of the harpies pictured Mr. Schwab as
dressing a chauffeur in the skull and cross
bones to represent Death, and then running
an automobile race with the rigged-up
Death over the south of Europe?a hop
story of the purest ray serene. They repre
sented him as saying that the canals of
Venice would never afford any fun until
they were cleaved by turbine gondolas ca
pable of reeling off thirty-five knots an
hour. In essence, they endeavored, with an
amount of enthusiasm worthy a better
cause, to make an ass before the American
and European public of as normal, healthy
minded and square American citizen as ever
spent his whole time in behaving himself
like a gentleman and attending exclusively
to his own business.
Why, then, shouldn't Mr. Schwab have
been "a trifle petulant" on that final day
of his presidency of the steel trust in his
manner of addressing an outfit comprised
largely of fellows whom he knew and recog
nized as the conscienceless louts who had
labored to portray him as a combination of
fool and blackguard for half a decade?
No Muzzles Yet.
It may be recalled that the fact was men
tioned in this correspondence a couple of
months ago that New York's dog-muzzling
law was about to go into efTect.
Well, the day came around for it to go
into effect?but it hasn't. They've tried to
put it into effect?tried strenuously and des
perately. The only result up to date is
that about 00 per cent of the dog catchers
are at the present moment propped up in
hospitals for repairs, dozens of too-previous
cops have been pounded almost to death?
and you can walk five miles through the
streets of New York any afternoon and not
| see one dog out of a thousand with a muzzle
! strapped over his features. All of which is
pleasing enough unto those who predicted
that these would be the identical results
following the attempt to put a dog-muzzling
law into effect in New York, where there
are .'00,000 owners of dogs, and all of them
ready to fight to the last gasp for their
dogs. They're willing to pay any old dog
license fee and to submit to all sorts of
badgering from the authorities as to the
rights of their dogs?but that the Jog own
ers of New York would ever submit to any
such scandalous, not to say shameless, im
position as a dog-muzzling law, sprung on
them, particularly in the middle of the fly
and flea season, was never for a moment
believed by any reflective person in this
town.
The dog owners over this way simply
set their teeth together and squared their
jaws, and said, so to speak, "Naw-we ain't
a-goin' t' put no muzzles on our mutts?
naw?naw! '
And that they haven't. Four dog catchers
attached to a pound wagon, who tried to
pick up a duly licensed dog down on De
lancy street last week were beaten into pulp
by forty men before they hud a chance to
know what was coming off. The dog was
a collie and a favorite along the block and
around the neighborhood, and the word had
been passed up and down the block that if
any dog-catching outfit tried to swipe
"Jim," the collie, then all hands along the
row were to get to the front and take a
whack at any head wearing a uniform
hat. And it happened just that way.
A strapping matron was walking along
Central Park west, leading a properly tag
ged French poodle that yet had no muz
zle on. A dog catcher's wagon came along
and from the rear of it hopped three men.
They swooped upon the poodle and essayed
to drag the dog from the woman's strap
hold. She promptly transferred the strap
holding the dog to her teeth, reached back
and grabbed two huge hatpins out of her
picture hat, and began -to stab dog catch
ers in one, two. three order as they came
along. She poked them full of hatpin
holes before they decided that they hadn't
lost any unmuzzled French poodle that
they needed In their business, and skedad
dled. feeling of themselves.
And thus it has been all over New York.
They haven't held any mass meetings over
here to protest against the (log-muzzling
ordinance, as they did in Washington, a
law-abiding town, at the time the outrage
was in force in Washington. They simply
made up their minds, unanimously and
spontaneously and as one individual, that
they were not going to muzzle their dogs,
and they have got away with it. The law
is now virtually a dead letter?the dog
catchers are too much battered up to at
tempt to resume the enforcement of it, and
the cops just won't try to enforce it?
they're on the side of the dogs.
C. L. C.
DEAD LETTER CURIOS
St. Louis Fair is to Have a
Good Showing.
A DOG AND HIS TAGS
COMIC AND TRAGIC STRANGELY
BLENDED.
If First Owners Can Prove Claim,
Articles Can Be Secured
Again.
Written for The Kvenlng SWr.
One of the most curious exhibits of the
government to be sent to the St. Louis
fair is that of the dead letter office. The
museum in connection with this institution,
located in the big post office building on
Pennsylvania avenue, will be well repre
sented, and it is not improbable that some
of the unwitting donors to the extiaordi
i nary collection may be among the visitors
to the exposition and may And their con
tributions in the dead letter office exhibit;
In the latter event the claims, if well sup
ported, will be at once recognized by the
officials of the department. It is strange
that no such claim has yet been made to
some of the articles, many quite valuable,
on the shelves of the museum.
The objects which have been sent through
the mails, destined to be seized by Uncle
Sam's postal authorities, and to find a
resting place on the shelves of the dead
letter office museum, are of the most varied
and striking description. The grotesque,
the beautiful, the tragic, the comic, the in
fernal machine and dynamite bomb of the
anarchist, and the most inane achievements
of the practical Joker, are all jumbled to
gether, as it were. One of the most start
ling things received by the post office was
a perforated tin can containing three rat
tlesnakes, very much alive and in lighting
trim. I'pon their receipt, the superintend
ent sent to the Smithsonian Institution
not far distant, for some one accustomed
to handling such reptiles to come and
chloroform them. The operation was per
formed successfully, as was thought, and
the dead snakes left in the open can under
the superintendent's desk. A couple of
days later, a lady happened to be standing
near talking to the superintendent, when
she heard a peculiar sound which she un
"Bob,"
I-ate canine post office inspector.
consciously associated with danger. She
turned her eyes to the spot from whence
the sound procteded and started in terror
as she saw a rattlesnake coiled ready to
spring. A carrier who chanced to be just
entering the room took in the situation at
a glance, and with considerable presence
of mind, threw his full mail pouch upon
the snake, and trampled upon it until some
one appeared with a poker and killed the
reptile. This one and its two companions
were put into alcohol, and are now to be
seen upon the shelves of the museum until
they shall be sent temporarily to the ex
hibit at St. Louis.
A s.uffed dog. covered with post office
tags, is a remarkable feature. This ani
mal, wTien alive, was known at every post
office in the United States, l>elng sent from
one to another on the mail cars, and duly
tugged at each. Eight years did Bob
thus act as canine post office inspector,
and. indeed, he made a very efficient one,
being an excellent ratter. When he died
he was mourned by postal employes
throughout the country, and It was deem
ed only fitting that his memory should be
perpetuated to posterity. So Ijere he is,
wearing his honors thick upon him, and
with that singularly alert and wide-awake
expression lor which he was famous in
life. m
A sledge drawn by dogs end driven by
an Indian attired in thick lurs shows how
the mails are still carried in certain sec
tions of the extreme northwest. The clerks
who open the packages in the office do so
with the utmost care, as frequently bombs
and infernal machines are ssnt : hiougl: the
malls, as is testified by several of these
THE PROFESSOR'S CHILDREN SELECTED THE READING MATTER
FOR THE SUMMER.
Cartoon by MoCutobeon.
NOW, CHILDREN, REMEMBER MY IDEA OF A PERFECT OUTINQ-AN EASY CHAIR, A LAZY TIME AND LOTS OF
OOOO BOOKS. SO BE SURE TO PUT SOME GOOD READING MATTER IN THE TRUNKS "
AH, THIS IS DELICIOUS. NOW FOR SOME OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS-HUXLEY, MACAULAY, EMERSON?ANY Of
MY OLD FRIENDS"
HERE, FATHER ARE SOME COOKS THAT WE'VE READ OURSELVES ANO WE KNOW THEY ARE RATTUN9
OOOO STORIES"
'lU? ** 'US
articles on the shelves of the museum.
Among the grewsome objects to be "noted
is a skull. Angers apd toes, together with
an car. Whether these cheerful features
are mementos of crihie. a ghastly joke, or
gifts to a medical ?tudfent, is open mat
ter for conjecture.
A casual glance at one of the sets of
shelves discloses a" confused mixture of
shirts, false teeth. skulls. starfish, lamps,
medicine, dried frnit alid various other
things which might suggest the contents
of the witches" cauldron in "Macbeth." An
amount of fanciful, if somewhat eccentric,
taste is displayed in mrfny of the objects
of art and vertu Sent, !for some incom
prehensible reason, through the mails.
There is an ornamental alligator, carrying
a gaudy parasol, a little clay doll, a vine
gar cruet of weird design and a remark
able representation of an animal the like
oi which Is totally unknown to zoologists.
Small Fourth of July firecrackers contrast
forcibly with bombs of sufficient power
to destroy a good-sized building. A load
ed revolver, half-cocked, is also seen
among the collection of deadly weapons.
It was addressed to a woman in New York.
Among other and more harmless objects,
one notes a washboard, a long-handled
mop, bunches of Easter candles, a cocoa
nut and a card upon which Is inscribed
the Lord's Prayer in fifty-two languages.
A tragic memento is a mail pouch, co"\ -
ered with blood, for the preservation o.
which a carrier in the far west sacrificed
his life in an encounter with Indians
An old Rocky mountain mail coach will
be an interesting feature of the St. Louis
exhibit. Generals Grant and Sherman and
President Arthur have ridden in this con
veyance. which has had many an exciting
Journey In the days ofthe "wlldwest.
Coming back to the articles on the
shelves and in the cases, one notices a
card containing a lock of hair cut from
the head of Guiteau, the assassin of Presi
dent Garfield. Of interest and value to
some one perhaps, is a copy of a mar
riage certificate, which declares that Sam
uel Whitehead and Jane Miller were mar
ried in the Parish Church, Manchester.
England, June 4. 1804. There are deeds of
property, musical instruments, corn pop
pers, cups and saucers, horns of animais,
? hack driver's license, a tarantula (re
ceived alive). a bottle of elixir of life sent
to a very distinguished person lnmortaliil
ness, Chinese curios, canvas needles and a
potato bug exterminator.
Home-Hade Art.
Among the remarkable artistic concep
tions is a figure of a negro parson deliver
ing a sermon from a pulpit, the whole con
structed of chicken feathers. Beneath this
conceit is a little Indian work basket sup
ported by the figure of a bear. Other con
tiguous attractions are an old and dilapi
dated boot and a beautiful flower holder of
Venetian glass.
The dead letter office receives a multitude
of articles, of which those in the museum
are representative specimens, every day in
the year. The labor involved in handling
such a mass of material is something enor
mous. Many of the articles are mailed
through Ignorance of the postal regulations
others are sent through malice or to avoid
express charges, while the remainder are
received through the carelessness of the
senders. The employes of the office have
very Ingenious methods for discovering the
presence of dutiable articles in the mail,
and it is safe to say that the majority of
such packages are confiscated either at the
mailing station or a subsequent one.
When the contraband contents are dis
covered they are sent to the dead letter
office, where every effort is made to return
them to the sender or to forward them to the
addressee, who is asked to send the proper
amount of stamps to psiy for the trans
portation.
Parcels o<" merchandise are kept for two
years, If not sooner delivered, and then
the well-known auction sale, held annually,
disposes of them to the community. Un
addressed parcels and such are found
loose in the malls received at the dead let
ter office more than six months prior to the
annual sales are included in the lot dis
posed of by auction.
Among the collection of objects in. the
museum may be noticed a miniature obe
Hsk, cut from the bark of a California red
wood. and Immediately beside It a pair of
gloves taken from the steamer Oregon after
having been In the water fourteen days.
There is a large collection of photographs
of soldiers and sailors, evidently mailed in
war times, judging from the uniforms
which all wear. Next to a picture of <t
veteran of the war of lffre is a photo of a
young man In kahkl, in the army of the
Philippines. Chinese coins, eggs, dogs, a
buck saw, a box of geological specimens, a
lemon squeezer, candle snuffers, bootjacks
of various sizes, Chinese Junks, fans, ele
gant miniatures on Ivory, hair flowers,
stuffed birds, horned toads from California,
hand mirrors, birds' nests, Indian canoes, a
miniature skeleton, a toy gondola made in
Venice, shells, watches, cheap Jewelry of
all sorts, door plates, valentines, painted
fungi, toys. Jeweled daggers, and a letter
indorsed, "If not delivered In thirty years,
return to the Farallone Island."
The collection of watches In the museum
contains every variety, from the old-fash
ioned "turnip" to the latest style, adorned
with jewels. Each of these watches Is reg
ularly wound up every morning, and all
are ticketed with the names of their re
spective owners, but none have, so far,
been claimed.
Among the more remarkable exhibits of
the Post office Department is a set of ac
count books kept by Benjamin Franklin
when he was Deputy Postmaster General
for the American colonies in 1753, the ac
counts of which are. of course, in English
money.
It should be noted that claims are often
rc-ceived by the dead letter office officials,
but these are as puzzling and apparently
devoid of reason as the unwitting dona
tions. Some persons, too, appear Inclined
to blame the post office lor their own mis
takes. or those of their correspondents, as
the following incident will testify: A few
years ago a parcel of lnf.tnt's clothing was
detained at the office. It was addressed to
a woman missionary, but was deficient in
postage, its Intended destination having
been Africa. In reply to the notice sent
her. the woman very angrily wrote a let
ter. in wi.ich, among other things, she said:
"The child for whom the garments were in
tended has not yet been eaten by cannibals,
but it has quite outgrown the clothing,
and It may be returned to the sender,
whose address I inclose."
One shelf in the museum is given over
to dolls of every size and color. There Is
also a Masonic apron, some lace, a bellows,
a steel trap and various other objects
which can only he explained In the light
of practical Jokes on the postal officials.
A sharp lookout is kept for smuggling
through the mails. About 760 sealed pack
ages are seized annually in the New York
post office alon?. In an average year, ae
carding to one authority, 25,000 unsealed
parcels are confiscated at the same office
and released on the payment of fines,
which are equivalent to the duties.
gome very ingenious methods are em
ployed for transmitting dutiable articles
without . paying duty. Not long ago
a package from Germany was found to
contain a small roll of butter. A wire
passed through it met with an obstruction,
which proved to be a tin box HUed with
diamonds. Probably a dozen silk hand
kerchiefs are found wrapped up In news
papers in every mall from China. Silk
stockings are mailed- fram France In the
same manner. An add kind of smuggling
is the sending of mushrooms by mall from
Italy. They are peculiar variety of
the dried esculent, apd. are much relished
by tlie Italians in this ppuntry.
Cool and Invigorating.
Spec In 1 Corre?pondenee of TlteEvpning Star.
CRICNEY SPRINGS, Varf August 0. 1903.
The old-time gayety of this time-famed
mountain resort, wi^i Us healing mineral
waters, nestled, as it were. 2,300 feet above
sea level on a plateau of the Alleghany
mountains. Is havirig a resumption this
summer under its new management and
ownership of Mr. R.* Dalley.
A number of guests from various states
are enjoying the beauties of Orkney. The
atmosuhere is cool and exhHaratlng. One
is never uncomfortably warm here. Danc
ing and card parties are attractive features
of entertainnr- m.
Last ?>. an enjoyable progressive euchre
wi" ' Aiid in the large drawing room of the
' jiil. Mrs. Louis Franko and Mr. Henry
S. Zimmerman of Washington being first
prize winners. Among the Washlngtonians
registered at the hotel are Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Franko. Mr. A. L. Moore, Mr. and
Mrs. Spransy and son, Mrs. F. A. Zimmer
man. Miss Agnes Zimmerman. Mr. -Henry S.
Zimmerman. Gen. and Mrs. Sinclair and
Mrs. Sinclair, jr.
Ho?"Miss Sere Is a very good young wo
man. anyway."
She?"I guess that's what accounts for
It."
He?"Accounts for what?"
She?"She says she has only been In this
world twenty-three years. I suppose the
other seven or eight have been deducted for
good behavior."?Philadelphia Press.
How a Party of Twelve
Camped Out.
A GREAT SUCCESS
JUST WHAT THEY WANTED AND
WHEN.
Recreation and Rest Under Happiest
Auspices?Example Worth
Following.
There were twelve of us. One gentleman
and his wife and two children, five and six
years of age; another gentleman and his
wife and two older children and four "un
attached" ladies.
In years past we had been surfeited with
"home comforts" In one section and an
other. We had tried the meadows, the
gaps, the mounts, the unsurpassed valleys,
the pure milk, the chickens, the fresh veg
etables, the "home-made" everything, in
such rooms as we could obtain, sometimes
comfortable and some hot as?well, just
hot, and each year two crisp one-hundred
dollar bills had been ruined; so we thought
we would change the menu and seek for
home comforts on our own hook. One day
during the summer there was an excursion
to Harper's Ferry, and two of us took it
In. We had several hours to our credit up
there, and we resolved to look the country
over for a camping ground; so we tramped
and tramped till the day was done.
Our walk resulted in locating an ideal
camping ground about seven miles from
Harper's Ferry between the Potomac river
and the railroad. It had evidently been a
camp and entrenchment during the civil
war. It was secluded, not far from the
Potomac, plenty of springs with pure,
sweet water flowing in volume enough to
run a mill, shade trees and small shrub
bery just where we wanted them, and all
the open ground we desired, all sloping
toward the river. Here we pitched our
tents, four of them, one for each family,
one for the ladies and one for the mess
room or dining room and kitchen. We
didn't look for fuel. We took along a
good sized oil stove and our wood yard
was a ten-gallon can' of oil. * The men
brought the water, carried away the re
fuse, etc., and the women did the cooking,
and with appetites such as come from an
"outing" everything was eaten and there
were no complaints at the table.
We roamed the county, found the farm
houses and bought what we needed in the
line of fresh vegetables, eggs, milk and
such fruit as ripened during our stay, some
of the small fruits being at hand and ours
for the picking.
Fish? Well, we all fished and we had
fresh fish every day If wo wanted it.
One of the ladies of the party caught a
carp that weighed about twenty-five
pounds. It required two hours to tire him
out and land him.
When It rained?
It didn't rain a single day during the
two weeks we were out and only one day
did we have a shower.
We had fun. too. We did a lot of things
"just for fun." We pitched quoits a good
deal and the ladies as well as the gentle
men enjoyed It. We played ball?not ex
actly according to the latest rules, per
haps. but altogether we won as many
games as the Washington nine ever won
in two weeks. We had hammocks and
swings: we had romps and tumbles; we
had fun and we had quiet; we rose early
and retired early and didn't care h. cent
for gas bills; we didn't have any officious
neighbors and we didn't have any gossip.
The boarding mistress was not a bit
ixfrixid -we Were too liberal -with the ougttr
or that the children would make too much
noise: no one objected to "breaking a pan
of milk" because they wanted to nave the
cream. There were "no other boarders"
and we were domiciled In "a strictly pri
vate family."
We had just about what we wanted and,
better than all, we had recreation and rest.
We did not patronize the newsstand much,
and so did not feel compelled to read the
papers. As a matter of fact, we did not
know much about what the rest of the
world was doing and, to tell the truth, we
did not care.
As far as unlimited enjoyment was con
cerned we could have lived there for
months. So when our fortnight came
around?the boys said it could not be two
weeks since we came out?we reluctantly
"folded our tents like the Arabs and silent
ly stole away."
How much did it cost us?
Well, here are the Items: Seven full
fares on the railroad, $14, and three half
fares, $8, a total of $17, the youngest two
going free; canned goods and other store
provisions, $15.25; provisions at the camp,
$16.86; boat hire, $2; transportation to camp
and return, $16; freight from Washington
to Harper's Ferry, $2, making a total of
$69.11, including railroad fares; cost for
each person, young and old, for fourteen
days, $5.76; cost of provisions for each per
son, $2.67; cost of hauling and other ex
penses per person, $1.67; cost of each per
son, exclusive of fares, $4.34.
It will be seen that the heaviest item was
the transportation to the camp, $16. It
was outrageous, but there was no competi
tion and we swallowed it. It cost eight
times as much to transport our traps seven
miles to camp as It did from Washington
eighty miles.
It was a glorious outing, and our folks
would not swap It for board at the biggest
hotel at any watering place.
Who can beat it? S. B.
Home to Their Friends.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ARUNDEL-ON-THE-BAY, Md.,
August 6, 1903.
The. Mt. Pleasant Yacht Club, on their
yacht "Reliance," arrived at Arundel-on
the-Bay Saturday evening, where they will
remain the balance of the season.
Mrs. Geo. B. Matthews and Mr. James
Matthews are spending a week at their
cottage on Point Pleasant, and have as
their guests Mr. Tyler of New London,
Conn.
Among the guests registered at the coun
try Club the last week were Mr. Elliott
Woods, superintendent of the Capitol, and
Mr. Sydney Bleber, fire marshal of the
District; also Mr. Robert Preston Shealey
of Washington and Mr. Delt Edwards of
the New York Journal.
Miss Julia Aiken, Miss King and Mr. J.
Barbour Kitch are guests of Miss Noble,
at Camp Quiet.
A euchre party was given at the Arundel
Inn Friday night. The porches were bril
liantly illuminated with Japanese lanterns
and presented a gala appearance. Besides
the guests of the inn a large number of
cottagers enjoyed the game.
The Mt. Pleasant Yacht Club gave a
sailing party to the ladles of Arundel Sat
urday night after the hop, and did not re
turn until the wee small hours of the morn
ing.
Miss Katherlne Kipp has returned from a
two weeks' visit In Roanoke. Va., and Is
at Camp Idlewild for the balance of the
season.
Miss Nellie Featherstone and Miss Ethel
Watson of Langdon are guests at .Belmont
Cottage.
Miss Dempsey is the guest of Mrs. M. I.
Weller.
There Are Fairies.
ifrvjtL th? Centmy.
TheTe arv fffiric?; elves that swing:
In a wild and ralnbuw ring
Through the air, or mount tne wing
Of a bat to courier news
To the fairy king and qufen;
Fays who stretch the giissijmer*
On which twilight hangs the dews;
Or who whisper In the cars
Of the flowers word so sweet
That their hearts are turned to mask
And to honey, things that beat
lu their veins of gold and blue;
Ouphcs that shepherd moths of dusk
Soft of wing anA-gray of hoe
Forth to pasture on tie dew.
There are falrlei?Terlly,
Verily;
For the old owl In the tre?.
Hollow tree?
He who maketh melody
For tbem tripping merrily
Told It me.
. There are falrio*?rerlly
There are fairies.
for a few minutes.
Dr. S. R. Harris, 76 Summer St. Worcester, Mass.,
says: "One of the very best things in health and in sickness,
and as a preventive of sickness. A Godsend in every fam
ily."
For Sale by All Grocers
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Table and
Kitchen.
Cooling Drinks for Summer's Thirst.
Iced drinks have been termed the "Ameri
can drink folly." And no doubt It is rank
imprudence to indulge In them simply to
please the taste and take them in too great
a bulk. The immediate effect may be pleas
ant, but may be followed by serious results.
Very cold drinks introduced into the stom
ach In the form of a deluge when one is
overheated are apt to lower the tempera
ture of the stomach and paralyze its nerves.
The large number of sweetened and fla
vored summer drinks show that the thirst
is not satisfied with ordinary Ice water or
else the taste, once pampered, craves the
tart addition of an acid, or of some quality
which will give a good imitation of the pe
culiar mellowness of genuine seltzer.
There are many gratifying and delicious
drinks which may be made at home. This
gives a certainty of the purity of the ma
terials in the mixtures and also furnishes
a very acceptable form of refreshment to
have ready to serve your guests at short
notice. I.sually the most popular summer
hostess Is she who serves the most delight
ful^ and attractive beverages.
? resh fruit beverages are to be preferred,
as these give a natural, wholesome drink
?7,h,,h? sweet and acld delightfully com
bined. rhese drinks are also more cooling
and satisfying. &
Raspberry Vinegar.
Place fine ripe, red raspberries Into a
bowl and pour over them pure cider vine
gar, allowing one quart to the same meas
ure of fruit. Allow this to stand twenty
four hours, then strain this quantity over
another quart of berries and let stand for
another day. Repeat this for four days,
then strain, make very sweet with pure
cane sugar, bottle and seal for use.
Blackberry Cordial.
Put the berries in a large stone jar and
set this inside a large vessel of water and
let cook until the berries are soft; then
strain through a cheesecloth bag. To
every part of the juice allow two table
spoonfuls each of ground cloves, mace and
allspice, and four of ground cinnamon. Tie
the spices in a cheesecloth bag so that they
may be removed when the cordial is done
Add one pound of granulated cane sugar
and boil all together for fifteen minutes
skimming well; then add one pint of be=t
brandy and set aside to cool. When cold
strain out the spices, bottle and seal.
Mulberry Shrub.
Press out the juice from fine ripe black
mulberries and allow it to stand for ten
days until it ceases to ferment, then care
fully remove all scum and pour off into a
fresh vessel and allow to stand for twenty
four hours. Again pour off. To thirteen
ounces of the juice allow one pound of best
cane sugar; heat to boiling point and then
strain through a Jelly bag, bottle and seal.
Serve In a glass half filled with cracked
Ice.
Lemon Syrup.
Express the juice from twelve lemons,
grate the rind of six and add to the juice
and allow all to stand over night; then
take six pounds of loaf sugar and make a
thick syrup; when this is cool strain In
the juice, pressing the oil from the grat
ed rind. Put into bottles .and cork tightlv
Add one tablespoonful to each glass of ice
\Cater.
Royal Spruce Beer.
Three-quarters of a pound of sugar, one
quarter of an ounce of ginger, grated rind
of two lemons and a teaspoonful of essence
of spruce. Dissolve half a cake of com
pressed yeast In half a cup of lukewarm
water and add to the mixture; allow it to
stand until it ferments, then strain and
bottle, corking tightly.
Black Currant Cup.
To each pint of black currant juice add
two quarts of weak green tea. Sweeten to
taste and cool. Serve in tall glasses with
cubes of ice.
Turkish Delight.
Grate a fine, large, ripe pineapple into a
bowl and cover with boiling water; allow
it to stand five hours, then strain off the
clear liquid and sweeten to taste and freeze
to a soft snow, serve in glasses with a
spoonful of red raspberries in the bottom
of each glass.
Raspberry Shrub.
Pick over carefully six quarts of black
raspberries, cover with pure cider vinegar,
cover the jar with a piece of fine cheese
cloth to keep out the dust and let stand
for twenty-four hours, then put in a bag and
press out all the juice. Prepare six quarts
more of the berries and put them in the
juice and allow to stand for twenty-four
hours, then squeeze out the juice and strain
through cheesecloth. Measure the juice and
to each pint allow a pound of sugar Put
??tiLUlCLuVer t^e, in & Porcelain-lined
kettle, boll rapidly for ten minutes, re
moving all scum as it rises, then bottle and
seal. One cup of the shrub to a quart of
water makes a very delicious drink.
"Unfermented Grape Juice.
Put one cup of water and ten pounds of
grapes into an agate saucepan. Heat un
til stones and pulp separate; then strain
through a jelly-bag, add sugar, heat to
boiling point, and bottle. To serve fill
glass half full of the grape Juice and fill
with ice water.
Wine Whey.
Put one pint of sweet milk in a porcelain
saucepan, set on the fire and when it boils
add white wine until it turns to curds. Boil
f,1' U,P' and 'ft the curds settle. Strain off
the liquid, add a little boiling water, and
sweeten to taste before serving.
Queen's Nectar.
Pare the thin yellow rind from three lem
ons. Add two quarts of boiling water and
two pints of granulated sugar. Stir until
all the sugar is dissolved, then cool; add
the juice of the lemons, one pound of seed
ed and chopped raisins, a few chopped figs
and six quarts of water; allow to stand
for five days, stirring twice each day; then
strain into bottles and cork tightly.
Iieiaoj^ Beer.
To one gallon of boiling water add, a
sliced lemon and a tablespoonfL'io.f. ginjeF.
scald well; cool and add half a pint or half
a cake ofr good yeast, sweeten to taste- let
stand to ferment and then strain into bot
tles, cork tightly and keep in a cool place.
Tomatoes a la Trocadero.
Chop fine two ounces of smoked dried
beef, pu^ It Into a saucepan In which you
have melted two tablespoonfuls of butter
Add one cup of tomatoes, quarter cup
grated cheese, a pinch of cinnamon, few
grains of cayenne, a few drops of onion
Juice and three eggs well beaten. Stir and
o
--Culmbacher
?Beer
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?when you're thirsty,
?when you're tired "
?or whenever you
?need a tonic.
?It's the best
?beverage there is
?and it's the only
?beverage that benefits.
_ Case of 24 pts. lor tl.ITS.
s? Delivered In unlettered wagons.
p Washington Brewery Co...
4th & I- Sts. N.E. 'Phone E. 254*
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cook to a creamy consistency and serve at
once.
Menus.
SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Iced Cherries.
Broiled Whiteflsh. Creamed Potatoes.
Twin Biscuit. Coffee.
DINNER.
Tomato Bouillon.
Roast Spring Chicken. Boiled Rice.
Stuffed Green Peppers. Green Peas.
Lettuce Salad.
Blackberry Cobbler. Fruit Sauce.
Coffee.
SUPPER.
Creamed Mushrooms on Toast.
ThJnly White Bread Buttered,
irult Salad. Cake*
English Breakfast Tea. "
MONDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit.
Cereal. Cream.
Scrambled Eggs on Toast.
Baked Potatoes.
Gems. Coffee.
LUNCH.
Creamed Chicken.
Brown Bread. Hashed Potatoe*.
Blackberries. Cake. Cocoa
DINNER.
Cream of Onion Soup.
Chicken Pie. Boiled RIc?.
Stewed Tomatoes.
Sliced Cucumbers and Green Peppers
Fruit Pie. Cheese.
Wafers. Coffee.
Cream.
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Black Caps.
Breakfast Cereal.
Fried Calf s Brains.
German Fried Potatoes.
Toast. Chocolate.
LUNCH.
Creamed Fish in Cucumber Cases.
One-egg Muffins. Fruit. Tea.
DINNER.
Vegetable Soup.
Boiled Ham. Creamed Cabbage
Potato Snow. Tomatoes Mayonnaise.
Iced Watermelon. Choese
Wafers. Coffee
Gay Mountain Life.
Special Oorrosnondence of The Kvt>nlng Star.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
Doubling Gap, Pa., August 6, 1SI03.
This charming resort is now more beauU
ful than ever before, and the professional
and social prominence of its guests adds
much toward making it the social mecca
of Pennsylvania mountain resorts this
season. Indoor amusements constantly vie
with outdoor sports in a neck and neck
race for the lead, and resemble the modern
three ring circus, in that all cannot be seen
by the mere looker on, who must chpose
whatever is most suited to his enjoyment,
and relinquish to others those pleasures
in which he cannot join.
Among the recent arrivals from Washing
ton are Miss Valeria Marshall, Miss Editb
A. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Steen.
Miss K. E. Steen. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G.
Phillips, Miss Phillips, Miss Lillian Phillips.
Jolk?"When may a knot-hole be said to
be not whole?"
Polk?"What are you talking about?"
Jolk?"The answer is: when only part
the knot is not."?Philadelphia Press.
Sympathetic.
From Punch.
Young Wifs ft-atmsr lrarvousiy)?"Ofc.
cook, I must really speak to you. Your Bai
ter is always complaining. One day it la
the soup, the second day it is the fish, ths
third day it is the joint?In fact, it's alwaya
something or other."
Cook (with feeling)?"Well, mum, I'm
truly sorry for you. It must be quite baw?
ful to live with a gentleman of that sort."

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