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MAY 28. 1899. THE NEW YORK TIMES-ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. MAS OUEBAJJEE. Sorrow one wearied of his sad estate.

And finding! Pleasure! sleeping In the sun Pot oa his mantle. bargaining with Fate That she should ten of the exchange to none; Then through the cl ty gates he mads his way, i And eager 'crowds and near, I i ocked round front far 13 t- i til to grasp his garments i But some who strove gay i i i I krv I sssssssss" an a ROTUNDA IN THE UNIVERSITY CLUB. notably rood canvases hang In this room, among them a Oerlcault and a Van Dyck, The Bert of ArundeL" IYom the charter of 1866 these words are ctpedaUy worth quoting: The University dub. to be located In the City of New York, (or the purpose of the promotion of literature and art. by establishing and maintaining; a library, reading room, and gallery of art.

and by such other means as shall bo expedient and proper for such purpose." This paragraph Is much to the point, for It explains how, behind all Its social pres tig, the University Club is a club primarily o( belles-lettres, and how It Is that the second of these show rooms, the library. Is the most Important of its new home. Extreme simplicity, added to elegance of design. Is this library's keynote. It Is fln-Uhed In English, oak.

dark, sombre, dignified. A series of groined vaults makes up It construction, the suggestion conveyed being semi-Italian and classic. It might almost be library In a ducal palace in some regards. The book shelves reach up to the celling and stretch out. forming deep recesses.

Each recess has a light balcony, which is approached by a stairway, a part of the recess partition. The plan Is a novel one, and a great improvement upon the usual library stairway. Even with the celling as ret plain and the lunettes as yet unfilled, the library la a room of much quiet beauty. To add to the convenience ofthose who use It ha AtnanB.tlvA effect. in mtwv iv a partition of open columns at each end spaces off two small poome known as the "East" and "West" The same plan of construction Is made use of In the dining room above.

Here the effect Is to create two excellent little study rooms, each with its own book shelves and huge fireplace and each with its own literary specialty. Thus, the East Room, over whose fireplace Is a portrait of Francis Wey land. President of Brown from 1827 to 1855, is devoted to English and American literature, the collection including a file of The Illustrated Lon- don News from Its beginning. The portrait of Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard, hangs over the fireplace In the West Room, and here are works on travel and countries. Busts of Benjamin Franklin and Oliver Wendell Holmes stand one on each side of ihe great entrance doorway.

Within this room is now a total of 15.83" volumes, a most compact and well-chosen collection. Including much in the way of fiction and the most eLsentlal books of reference and of pure literature. So well have the librarian and the Committees of Literature and Art done their work during the past ten years that there Is hardly a volume that could be spared today. Since March, 1880, 116.500 has been pent on accessions Connecting with the library are several rooms of much Interest. The outer hall, made In copy of a Pompelan ball, has) Its waais rea paneiea witn eaaoes or state, columns of white with Pompelan brown bases, and It celling a neutral tint.

Here In low bookcases reaching from column to column are plies of bound magazines. A writing room at one side Is done in green. The magazine room, fronting on Fifth Avenue, has a barrel vault celling and walls covered with burlap, painted. Its general tone being dark green and red. The conversation room.

Just beyond, the only apartment on this floor In which talking will be allowed. Is exceedingly novel In design. Its walls are tapestried, with red figures, and nuj is a unioi wniie. duui in a semi- dlHn, Tti. capitals that are ornamented In silver.

In the dining room the self-same simple effects have been used with equal s'uocess. The apartment Is Imposing and fine, and yet there is little to It outside of Us finish of old English oak and Its celling of gold. It ts very lorty. the distance from floor to celling being thirty-four feet: and this doubtless, combined with the decorative effects of the oak. the music gallery high above, (directly over th carpet oa the floor of stone, and the dark green leather of the chairs, conjures up an Old World memory in connection with it, It ts not unlike the pictures that have been handed down of the hall of a baronial man- Shrank back, they knew not why, with sud den fear.

And there were those! best. Who set before him One peered beneath wild surprise The sombre Spirit row's eyest CHRISTIAN BURKE! Magazine. an exasperating and who gave him of their a most royal feast. Doing him homage as a kingly guest i Till, as the! music aid the mirth increased. with pis hood, and saw looking out from Sor- in Blackwood's WATER SUPPLY.

THE RUSSIAN I'll In Russia they dole water out to you In niggardly way, says a slon, and the half dozen or so portraits. of basin on the floor writer in Chambers1 Journal. Should you oe so startiingty a wash all over, you the luxury: and, as frequently went without a bath and saved my ruble. And there Is no compromising matters, as 2 nave known it done in sea side lodgings. There no sticking the University Presidents that hang upon the down, and: making aacious as to want a must pay a ruble for I am a poor man.

I and sponging yourself a general mess I of the KITCHEN IN! THB UNIVERSITY CLUB, walls rather tend to deepen this impression of dignity. ,11 These portraits picture EUphalet Nott of Union, Theodore Dwlght Woolsey of: Yale, Leonard Wood of Bowdoln, F. A. Barnard of Columbia, Mark Hopkins of! Williams, and James McCosh of Princeton. Admiral David Olascoo Farragut holds a place of honor together with these Presidents.

One of the features of this dining room 1 a fireplace and mantel brought from Italy, and said to be some hundreds of years sideboards are quaintly designed, of slabs of white veined marble, supported on the heads of grotesque golden lions. Fine heads of big game are high up on the walls. The chandeliers are curiously dec-J oratlve pieces of old bronze. Nothing in the 1 entire house Is better worth seeing than theee. i The kitchen and storerooms are most modern In appointments.

A force of four-. teen cooks and five women is already installed. The refrigerators for meats here preserve by the artificial method of cold storage, no blocks of Ice being used. The temperature can thus be changed quickly at will. On one of the mezzanine floors Just above are four private dining rooms, arranged so that they can be thrown Into one.

These are dainty apartments of Colonial trim, with old-fashioned deep-recessed windows and walls and curtains of red. By no means at an end are the rooms of the club, once the recapitulation Of these state apartments is concluded. On the entrance floor Is a cafe In American quartered oak, the panels of Its walls Venetian leather of the same tone, the style of the room being Louis XIV. There Is a billiard room containing nine tables, a pipe room, and In the basement a plunge, bowling alleys, Rus-. slan and Turkish baths.

The pipe room has a fireplace faced in Dutch tile. One of the finest of the smaller rooms Is the' Council Chamber, with its fittings of Italian walnut and nearly all Its wall space covered with mirrors. There are thirty-four bedrooms on the two bedroom floors, three of these being fitted up In suites. The others have each a bath, and some have parlors attached. All are fitted up beautifully though quietly.

Until the house's mysteries and the problems of its eight floors have been unraveled It will be a complicated building to Its members. One Interesting thing regarding It remains to be spoken of. The staircases hers are subordinated, they are pushed off to one side, and are hardly visible from the square) centre haJha It is not Intended that they shall be used to any great extent. This Is primarily an elevator club." C. C.

room: for they not give you ewer or basin In! Russia. I Over the washstand you I i Harry IrwlM, Teaareit Sow May Whose appolntmenfto the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis has been secured Uuvugb the efforts of ex-Mayor Abram 8. Hewitt and Congressman Jefferson M. Lsry. often find big bran funnel kind of arrangement, and by pushing up a button that plugs the pipe the water trickles out.

It Is disagreeable. If you are In a hurry to washyour hands for luncheon, the confounded thing runs all down your shirtsleeves said makes a pool In the elbow. Altogether, you are provoked to a frenzy of rage. HBS. FAJfNIE HUMPHREYS OA77-- NET.

Mrs. Fannie Humphreys Oaffney of New York has recently been re-elected President of the National Council of Women of the United States for a term of three years. This society was founded nine years ago, and has had as Its Presidents Miss Frances Wlllard, President and founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, and Mrs. May Wright SewaU.

The National Council represents over one million women in the United States, and la the largest organised body of women in the i.a i wsriu. i Mrs. Oaffney Is also President of the New York Society for Political Study and Is Chairman of Comparative Politics In the proposed National University at Washington, At the forthcoming convention of the International Council of Women In London, Mrs. Oaffney will speak on The Responsibility of Women as Citizens." The President of the International Council la the Countess of Aberdeen. The Countess, together with Lady Battersea, Lady Rothschild, and the Duchess of Sutherland, has arranged a number of entertainments for the foreign delegates during their stay in London, and the Lord Bishop of London will give also a garden party in their honor at Fulham Palace.

I '3 I i j. fa 1 VP in i MRS. FANNIB HUMPHREYS OAFFNEY. President of the National Council of Women of the United States..