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THE SC1IAKTON REPUBLICAN, TUESDAY MORNIXGr, MAY 15, 1894. y'gSSJl Pul11 wis (LSfSl AMERICAN WOMEN. 1 J'S a TYPES FOUND IN THE B2ST SO fT tyr ciety. THE CANARY BIRD FAD. MRS.

FREDERICK VANDERBILT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE IDEA. A King's Daughter's Canaries How Independent Young Women Are Raising Trick Birds to be Sold at Fancy Prices as Pets of Swelldom. Written for The Republican. Raising canary birds is one of the new things taken up by the young women of Gotham who want to earn little money without going conspicuously into the open fields of labor. The idea is said to ive originated with Mrs.

Frederick Vnniierhilt who belongs to a circle of King's Daughters at Newport; and who desired to one of her circle without in any way offering charity. "Take this pair of canary birds," said she, "and raise a little nest of tbera. Next summer I can sell them for you at a good price." The King's Daughter. sr the story goes, not only raised a "nest of birds." but taught them to perform little tricks as well so that when summer came they were trick birds ready to eat out of one's hand, or swing upou a broom splint, or come out of their cages and smg when bidden. They would even wear uniforms, and chirp vigorously when told to "speak!" These accomplished creatures brought such an excellent price that it encouraged the young trainer to try for another sea 8 n's sale with more birds and more accomplishments.

Far uo town there is a little "bird It isn't very large just one fair sized square room but it is filled with chirping families of yellow songsters; and if all goes well there will be many an accomplished canary bird introduced into the families of New York swelldom this winter; it is only wealthy people who ean afford the luxury of tlicsj exclusively raissd birds. THE CANARY FAD. It is at. present a fad among rich New Yorkers to own pet canaries. They go to a deal of trouble about it, and whenever they hear of one very accomplished they want to add it to their collection, asstamp collectors want new or autograph hunters try for a rare signature.

The people who own fine canaries are numerous, and if you walk up Fifth avenue you will see birds in their gold cages at boudoir windows; and even hopping free about the conservatories, perching upon the plants and pecking at the flowers. Miss Grace Dodge has fine canaries; so have the Gould children and the Sloaue Shepard Vanderbilt Stokes cousins have whole windows filled with them and irry their birds away for the summer bringing them back to town again in winter. One of the prettiest canaries in this country belongs to little Ruth Cleveland who has her pet hung in the nursery window in the front upper corner of the White House. Cauary Cleveland is a beautiful singer, and such an active, ambitious little creature that the presi dent's wile has had to shirr a niece of white swiss muslin across the lower part of the cage to keep him from flirting bis seed far and wide. Before the windows were closed for the winter, he scattered it down upon the White House veranda and upon the heads of visitors in the most impolite way imaginable.

Another exquisite bird belongs to Chief Justice Fuller of Washington. Still another was purchased by Madame Patti who dearly loves birds to go with her across the ocean over to the castle in Wales to be company for the famous Polly Patti, a pet of which every one has heard. In New York there is a bird store that weekly sends its agents the rounds of the fashionable quarters of the city for bird orders; but all this is irrespective of the fad for raising them for private sale. CANARY CULTURE. There are learned treatises on the raising of canary birds, but as these involve ire or less expense, and pre suppose the existence of a great deal of space for the business, a few words on bird culture as carried on by the young women who are catering to fashionable tastes will be more available.

None of these have bird houses. The must that any one has is the light sunny mom by the King's Daughter whose apartment is not over 12 feet square, yet who manages to raise a great many birds. The food is bread crumbs, hard boiled eges crumbled to powder, and chopped celery and onion, mixed sometimes with a little boiled bird seed. This is given to the young birds until they begin to fly and look out for themselves; and then they have the regular bird sjed with two or three hemp seeds d.iy, and a little smd to sharpen their feet upon and as au aid to dtgistioii. As soon a3 they are fully matured their food is varied.

Some days they have the pleasure of pecking for an hour upon a sprouted onion. Again they have a taste of lettuce, with always a third of an apple twice a week for a general tonic. Birds treated to this variety become very strong and are uioro intelligent: they reaily to leara discrimination along with a variety in food. Canary birds mate early and arc very faithful little companions for the season. It is generally ncceS3ary to partition oil the separate families, giving each about three square feet of sp.ice, or they will not thrive well.

When the mother bird is sitting it is well to keep a suuply of egg always around and also water for a fresh bath, iu she should be attacked with the bathing vagary when no one is near. It is not difficult to cause a mother canary to desert her eggs, and every inducement has to be offered to make the business of hatching varied and agreeable. When the young birds appear, it may be necessary to partition off the father bird with a wire screen where he can see his family, but not reach them, as very often he is mischievous and will make havoc of the nestlings, picking them to pieces, apparently for the pleasure of doing something unusual and without any malice toward tliem. Later, when he re joins his family, a little disli of fresh dirt may bs placed in the cago and all will enjoy the bugs and will feast upon things not discern able to any but a canary bird. As the family grows many tittle surprises may be plauned.

A baking pan may be filled with earth and scattered with grass seed. When the seed is sprouted, little supports may be stuck in the ground and a canopy of mosquito netting placed over the pan a few inches high. Into this green park a family go for a few hours recreation to hi replaced by another family next day. Buch care, with avoidance of draughts, and plenty of sand and fresh water, afford all that is needed for successful canary bird culture even if carried ou upon a large scale. PROFITS.

To raise a bird from the egg takes less than 8 mouths, at which lime he will begin to sing and be marketable and his cost will have been small, as for the first months it is not calculable at all. Birds thus "hand raised," nre superior to otheis aod readily bring $5 as the lowest sum, while they have mounted up to 5 times 5, if taught tricks. Cauipanini birds, as the best singers are called, bring fancy sums. A seedy fig, a bit of orange, or the seeds of a strawberry, are the things that are given as rewards for trick doing. A Harlem woman aims to make $30 clear upon each of her good birds.

On Staten Island is a woman who contents herself with half that sum, but she raises more birds and teaches them less. A few of the women who have gone into bird culture are selling their birds on the street corners on pleasant days where they ask a nice sum for them, and insist upon selling a bras 3 cage also, upoa which they get a commission. DECORATING WITH. CANARIES. Some of the uses to which fashionable people are putting the little songsters are as pretty as they are DoveL woman who has a suburban home is making a frieze around her dining room of the brass cages.

Another has lined her bay window from the top down to the lower pane, with the cages placed in diamond shapes. A pretty window arrangement, tried by a Philadelphia woman, was placing pots of flowers white lilies upon brackets on each side of a broad window, and banging bird cages in between the pots as if they too were flowers. The birds seem greatly to like this arrangement as the lily leaves shield them from the sun which they never enjoy in excess. A conservatory on one of the fashion able Fifties in New York has birds flying 1. tr.

i 1 1 the conservatory opens off a ballroom and is used as a promenade, nothing more ideal could be imagined. It must be stated, though, that the birds injure the plants Dy their constant mooting of the leaves, quite killing any of which they are very iona. nut, as ins plants are renewed often in this charmed spot the destruction matters not. In another New York family there are several canaries allowed the freedom of a large bay window out of which into the room they never fly. And here there is the strange sight of a great Angora cat, lying in the sun of the window, only a few feet below the birds, who do not fear him, as they have never known that she has claws.

And if Tabby knows tho flavor of birds she has never indicated the fact. These are but hints for the ways in which canaries can be used as ornaments, to show how very effective they may be made. Surely it was a brilliant idea of Mrs. Vanderbilt's, when she asked the King's Daughter if she would not enjoy raising a few choice canary birds tor private sale. Augusta Prescott, A Man's Leisure.

It it in his pleasures that a man really lives. It is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of his being. Perhaps Charles Lamb's fellow clerks thought that because his days were spent at a desk in the East India house his life was spent there too. His life was far remote from that routine of labor; built up of golden moments of respite, enriched with joys, vivified by impulses that had no filiation with his daily toil. "For the time that a man may call his own," he writes to Wordsworth, "that is bis life," The Lamb who worked in the India house and who had "no skill in figures" has passed away and is today but a shadow and a name.

The Lamb of the essays and the letters lives for us now and adds each year hi generous share to tho innocent gayety of the world. This is the Lamb who said, "Riches are chiefly ccod because they ive us time," and who sighed for a little son that he might christen him Nothing To Do and permit him to do nothing. rAgnes Kepplier in Server's. A Neat Way to Capture Rattlesnakes, To secure rattlesnakes the "mountain doctor" of Pennsylvania grasps a silk handkerchief at one corner, and allowing the other end to hang toward the serpent teases her until she strikes it with her fangs, when ho immediately raises the handkerchief from the ground, thus depriving the snake of any opportunity of disengaging herself therefrom, as tho slightly recurved fangs are hooked in the material. The "doctor" then either kills the set pent by first grasping her neck with the disengaged hand, bo as to prevent her biting him when he cuts off her head.

Should ho desire, however, to keep the snake as a curiosity or for sale, he will extract the fangs With a small piar of forceps. Science. Silhouettes of Mrs. F. Marion Crawford, the Wife of President Eliot of Harvard, the Sister of ex Secretary Whitney, Mrs, Florence Earle Coates, the Wife of tx Qovernor Willie E.

Russell, Mrs. John T. Sargent. Written for The Republican. Tbe Crawfords make a notable looking con pie.

Mr. Crawford, despite his six feet and over of easy dignity, bis pqnare, broad shoulders, piercing blue eyes, Duke of Wellington nose, very human month, and air of "race," cannot cast into the shade his queenly wife. Mrs. Crawford is tall for a woman, with a nobly proportioned figure, and an absolute and proud serenity of bearing that suggests "the purple." JShehas enormous dark eyes, a full rich mouth ruddy as tbe poppy, ronnd features, and in the heavy coils, bands and waves of ber silky hair she is worthily crowned a queen of beauty. "Queen" and "queenly" are the epithets that fall, again and again, from one's lips in speaking of this distinguished looking woman, Mrs.

Crawford's face wears not infrequently a slightly bored expression, which is forgiven her for the affability of her manner. This revealed ennui, however, a weariness that touches but scarcely clouds her face, impresses one as born of uncommon and restless intelligence. When thoroughly interested her expression becomes radiant. The sumptuous frivolity of her attire, coupled with the intellectual hauteur of ber glance when bored, flavors not a little of those gay, imperious and perfectly informed women of the city of tbe Czar those butterflies with brains, who are instinctively intolerant of all stupidity. At other times one wouid incline to associate her with the youthful and impressive matrousof ltily, for there is that about ber in carnage, coloring and in the very arrangement of her glorious hair that vividly calls to mind a certain Roman grandlady of fiction.

Did Mrs. Crawford "sit" to her husband when he drew the "Corona" of his trilogis tic uovel One thing is quite positive Mrs. Crawford is in type distinctly not "American," nor even "British." Some land beyond the channel would, to the unenlightened, seem to have pareutal claim upon this beautiful elegante of Yankee extraction. MRS. HENRY C.

DIMOCK. From November to May there lives on Thirty seventh street, but a door or two in from the bustle and traffic of Sixth avenue, the elder sister of ex Secretary Whitney, Mrs. Henry C. Dimock, often called by her friends "Mi lady Bountiful." The house is much like a dozen others in the same row; but back of the non committal "brown stone front" all is briaht, glow ing and "characteristic." Deep toned carv ings, ncn stuffs ana rugs, vivid wnnscapas of the Orient, mellow etchings aod great jars, happily placed, of kaleidoscopic chrysanthemums, unite harmoniously in a setting that suits perfectly the mistress of this home. To describe this American matron as 'well read, well lookinc, kind hearted and clear headed" is to do her faint justice.

sne is tan, lair, witn a splenoma presence. clear cut features, and long, merry eyes of a lovely myosotis color, and dresses to perfection, frequently with a "rich simplicity" unusual of the women of the times. Few are the jewels she and never does a trace of ginger bread work cheapen frock or chapeaux; modiste and couturiere find her a bit perverse. "Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy" governs her choice of fabric and occasionally the gorgeous tints of autmnn are reproduced, with consummate discretion, in the velvet and satin of her toilets. I Soldom enough may tbe fin tie siecle chronicler bestow the title "grand lady;" but Mrs.

Dimock is unquestionably always a grand lady at times a veritable Carolus Duran grand lady in appearance; the stillest oi Drocaae ana nnest. ot old point Inrnisn her no "ill akease, holiday attire." but the Dentting vesture. Gotham with its endless "make bsiieves" ana nign pressure Uvtne has never succeeded in teaching Mrs. Dimock the art of shamming. She is exactly what she seems a mgn orea woman, exquisitely siropl" and natural, who gives you a cordial bund pressure and really cares to know bow you "do." As unfoiguedly abreast the literature of the day as any Bostxn woman Mis.

Dimock is, it is true, somewhat slower to acquaint you with the fact 1 Yon make the discovery incidentally. As she sits in her pretty boudoir of a morning ber little feet, deliriously dressed, resting on a petit banc, and ber white fingers dnrting aloug a strip of crochot work, she will, now and aain. toss into the pot pourri of feminine chit chat a thought or an allusion vhicu reveals that in her leisure moments she is prety generally book in hand, and that th bok has substantial claim to merit ot some sort. So unusual is it to find an end ot thecent ury fashionable who is thorough going at her reading and on really good terms with Honore Balzac or the philosophic Spencer that one is tempted to dwell over the anomaly. On acquaintance, one inclines to believe of Mrs.

Dimock that she is really and truly happy only when givingsoraething to somebody; for she is one of those good fairies who are perpetually concocting or selecting delightful gifts for this and that friend. As a benefactress, oe it said to her everlasting credit, she does not confine ber attention to "organized charity" and the ragamuffin, but bas eyes and a helping hand for distress nearer home. George Eliot remarks; "If a rather futile pa6time, it is always an interesting one to speculate as to the probable purport of a life had the been other than it is." Now in certain details of physiognomy Mrs. Dimock's resemblance to her brother, the ex Secretary, is so striking as to have suggested the thought to mauy that had she been a man she would have had a political career. Mingling with the "merry lines" about her eyes are others that reveal more than ordinary astuteness, a quality not at nil incompatible with perfect sincerity: that length of nose which is nearly always indicative cf "leadership" is hers; a special firmness in the moulding of the 1ms.

to gether with noticeable height of cheek bone, denote great steadfastness. The better qualities of tbe statesman come not amiss, however, in the home. The sister ot a man whoso lace is per fectly familiar to all classes and conditions, Mrs. uimocK is nerseii uareiy a name to the general public. She is signally lacking iu that penchant for self exhibition characteristic of the ege, and she entertains the same aversion for the jostle and propinquities of a citv street that was so marked a trait of the Parisian graudes dames of an earlier generation.

She nearly always makes her roundf, social or charitable, in the seclusion of her carriage. MBS. FLORENCE EARLE COATES. As a special act of indulgence the writer waB taken as a very young girl to a reception given in Philadelphia at the old rooms of the "Penn Club" in honor of Madame Henri Groville; and there she met one who impressed her far more deeply than did the lit.l author of 'Dosia," with her velvet fn ck and too tight kid gloves. I was completely captivated bv a tall, woman with a luminously white fac gr.

at black eyes, and a patrician way of moving about. I was presented, and when sbrt spoke to me I was strangely stirred by a voice deep and vibrative with fee.ing. Tbat voice would have made the fortune of a tragic actress by which I do not mean at all that it was "grief charged." There wern splendid diamonds in her ears and very splendid eyes in her head; audi know I tried to decide which were more dazzling the little cut balls of crystalized carbon or those dark orbs, prismatically so beautiful and yet warm with soul. I did not then think to ask myself if 6he were beautiful, for the possessor of the splendid eyes seemed to exhale wit, sentiment and eloquence as easily as the rose does perfume or the child innocence. Her conversation was perfectly delightful and not a little bewildering.

Later on, I confided my enraptured impression of this fascinating woman to a very ancient and clever old lady; in my entbusicsm I made free use of the personal pronouns "she" and "her," quite omitting Miss Florence Earle Coates. to be more definite. ho," she broke in before I had half finished my enlogy, "you've been talking with Florence Earle Coates. She can write a fine poem, but she does not stop at that sho is one." Mrs. Coates is the very incarnation of contradiction.

The action of her life is cast along the lines of conventional routine; but the hidden and real existence of the woman is carried on miles beyond and above all material concerns, in the pure ether of the poet's realm. Sha will shut herself up with the "wide eyed muso" to round a sounet of majestic reach, or she will merge into the gay world, the laces of a duchessjabout her, precious stones at her throat and glowing ro6es on her breast, there to dazzle all listeners with her conversation, in which bon mot, persiflage, eloquence and philosophy are interwoven. She is a "tine lady," and yet her poetry is never taiuted by "flue ladyism." She is a blue stocking, but with none of the unlovely signs of bine stockincism about her. Another woman with Mrs. Coates' voice, mobile and evident histrionic instinct would have dashed away from the conventional life and sought vent for the "tempest within" in themimio world of the stage, but Mrs.

Coates is mistress of a perfectly ordered home. Mrs. Coates is a Yankee of the Yankees. On three sides she is descended from tho founders of New England, one of her ancestors being one of the five companions cf Boger Williams when he commenced the settlement of Providence. She is also a great great niece of General Anthony Wayne.

MRS. WILLIAM E. RUSSELL. Ten years ago this last winter a pretty yonng girl in a silk of changeable ground, over sprinkled with gay little blossoms, and cat square neck, whb dancing, with a joyous step, the Old Year out and the Hew. Mrs.

John Year in at a Cambridge party. This charming young person, whoso laughter bubbled up from tho lightest of hearts, whose skin rivaled that of a "Dresden Shepherdess," and whose ruddy brown hair had many a Puckish crinkle and quirk of its own, was a bit later on to occupy a conspicuous position in the social life of her State. There hovered devotedly near her, on that occasion, an extremely boyish locking youne man ou whom all eves lingered. His youthfulness and his appearance in other respects were at variance. His "cranio loglcal development." a phrenologist would certainly have styled "triumphant;" his eyes of constantly shifting hue were almost indescribable; and there was, withal, a somewhat priestly air about him; when he smiled his face bscame pleasing and expressive of great good fellowship.

Of him good "Cantabridgians" whispered to the nn enlighted: "Our new Mayor elect Mr. Willy Russell. One of tbe very youngest Mayors, you know, ever elected in the United States' He's to marry the girl with whom ho is talking Miss Margy Swan Bright as young Russell's prospects even then looked, it is highly doubtful if any one present at that feBtive New Yoar's function guessed with what incredible rapidity the clever young man wonld scale tho political ladder. Still less could one suspect that Miss Margy hia beneath ber infantile coloring and rococo frock of a by gone pattern tbat gift to preside" which has since pre eminently distinguished her. Those qualities, however, which were to make tu wife of the boyish Governor au tde.il helpmate were Inborn.

Her intimates declare ot Mrs. Kussell that an incomparable tact has alwavs fashioned ber every word and act; thut rare sort of tact, too, which springs from the desire to spare the feelings or promote the happiness of othres. It is easy to believe what is said that as a mere tot in "ankle ties" and pinafore, with a ribband fillet run through her soft anburn curls, little Margy Swan bad an extraordinary knack at making the children who came to see her have a "'good time." The adjective "lovely" describes Mrs. Russell's manner. It is mellow with good will, enlivened by good spirits, yet remote from effusiveness.

Dignified she is at all times, but in an unassertive way tbat never mounts or degenerates into tbat majestic hauteur which women prominently placed sometimes affect. To this day there is something half girl like, almost naive, in hergreetiug; but no one would, I rather fancy, venture unbidden bevond a certain point with her. Ihe beautiful Mrs. Bing. ham cf the "Republican Court" days of Philadelphia's palmiest era is still quoted as possessing just this happy turn ot manner.

The "public and private sides" are not with Mrs. Russell sharply defined: they merge in an alluring way. You meet Mrs. Rnsseli for the first time at au assembly, or you first see her at a concert or the play and you observe how admirably she carries herself; her "equipose" is perfect; her frock irreproachable; she is quite in her element in the social foreground, and "fit to be seen anywhere," as a venerable Boston gentleman said of a fascinating woman on the eve of her departure for Europe, where she was to figure as an ambassadress. And yet, you somehow feel that she is 'a good wife and mother" in the old fashioned sense; that she is not altogether unacquainted with the mysteries ot bread making and preserving; that she could, perchance, "set a patch;" that she loves to cuddle her little ones and romp with them, and that the simple home dress of off duty days becomes her just as well as the one of costlier fabrio and more modish cnt.

In short, something lurks in her face and manner that assures you she is fond of home and "handy" there. Never for a half second homely in her ways, she still is not a mere state occasion being whose gift lies solely in "presenting an appearance." The ten vears of Mrs. Russell's married life a period crowded with "official" and domestic cares, travel and gaities have dealt tenderly with her; the lovely "Dresden" coloring is intact; the eyes as clear and sparkling as ever. She evidently has thut equable temperament which, if she lived, would leave ber face "fresh colored, frank, with ne'er a trace of trouble shadowed" at 70. MRS.

JOHS T. SARGENT. It is her "day." The bell rings and she rises and goes herself, In a frock of clinging gray cashmere, to open the outer door cf her small flat. Quite as likely as not she admits simultaneously with a literary looking man of rusty coat and distrait manner a haughty mondaine wearing a wrap from Worth's edged round with silver fox and redolent of Parma violets. Or there may await her greeting a shambling individual with the wild eyes and longish hair of a mnsical celebrity or a "socialist." He is followed, perhaps, by a young "blood" in London clothes of the latost "build," or by a man with ton massive head and luminous eye of a scientist; and he by a bevy of young women somewhat showily dressed, have penciled shadows about their eyes aud an accentuated bloom upon their pretty faces.

But actress, savant, bas bleu or fashionable, it is all the same whoever comes to that door receives a kindly, even complimentary welcome. Thi3 hostess is a little woman of medium complexion, with irregular though very agreeable features and a comprehensive glance. Without beiug precisely graceful, there is an easy flexure iu her movements that almost passes for grace. Her tiny, pliant hands are covered with rings. Her nair, slightly gray, is dressed with care and fashionably: her gowns have usually a sug gestion of traus atlantio origin about them in the twist given to a bit of drapery or a bow, or in the Gallic finesse which barely reveals an undulating line of glistening jet.

It would be hard to guess her age, for time has touched her most gingerly. In reality she is rather past middle life; but she retains the activity and enthusiasm of life's spring time. "The Albert." tbe apartment house where Bhe lives half the year, is not far from lower Fifth avenue, iu a somewhat old fashioned quarter of the town, and inker parlor, during the season, on Friday afternoons, between 3 aud 6, every subject under heaven, save scandal, comes in for a share of attention. Talk of literary matters and scientific speculation, however, are inclined to predominate; and it is undoubtedly iu these fields of thought that tbe focussing genius of this salon finds her own most congenial footing. But never by any chance does she T.

Sargent. obtrude her own tastes or erudition never so much as I venture to say, bas any one caught her abusing her power as hostess to give the conveisation a dexterous turn in her own direction tnat she may air her hobbies or herself. She is without vanity, for her only vanity is gratified in the knowl edg? that for her every one is "at bis best." Her store of information must be well nigh inexhaustible, but she draws upoa it only to start, or keep, the conversational ball agoing. Other of our countrywomen have tried to transplant that exotic form of social reunion called the "salon;" but bsneath the magnetic manipulations of this truly wonderful little woman the sby flower of French leisure has managed, in rather unfriendly environment, to take root and flourish. Out of the chaos of interests centering in her drawing room no other woman alive, one is half inclined to believe, would be able to bring agreement.

This woman, with the exquisite good heart and consummate gift of hostossship, is the wiitow of one of Boston's best thinkers, the late Rev. John T. Sargent; and tho mother of Mr. Franklyn Sargent, a scholar and idealist, and successively director of the "Lyceum" and "Berkeley" Schools of Acting and of the "Theatre of Letters and Arts." As the backbone of the now defunct "Radical Club," which used to meet in her roomy parlors at "13 Chestnut street," Mrs. Sareent was rather exclusively identified with a religio iiterary set; but of later vears see has wiuenea ner social uui.auu r.JJ ft.an..l aaifl TnnflT A timB Mrs.

Sargent that no woman iu the United iUIDt IU I bas so large a circle of acquaintances both uere uuu uoroau. Mawanna F. McCanh. A NEW SCHEME OF PHILANTHROPY. It Proposes an Exchange of Commodities Written for The Republican.

At the monthly meeting of a very large and important Woman's Club, among the papers was one, giving an outliue of a proposed benevolence, which commanded general attention. 1o glance backward by way of explanation, this Woman's Club bas been instrumental iu establishing a free successful employment bureau which, lias aided a large number of people to oDtain worK. With a view of steering clear of the special difficulty of the philanthropist in other words to accomplish us mission of aiding tho poor person, without injur ing his self respect and undermining his independence, this paper offered a plan wmcu was substantially ana iu Drat, as follows: First of all, it proposed a division of cuaruaniy inclined women into classes For iustnnce: Mrs. having large means, but limited leisure, gives money. Mrs.

having no money to spare, gives worn but good clothing jurs. Having no available cash in band gives provisions, groceries and fuel Mrs. D. gives a portion of her time to instruct the poor in preparing their food properly and making tneir clothine. According to the plan each of these women would receive, in return for the money, the clothes, the provisions or the time she gives, an equivalent in labor, according to her needs.

One woman, perhaps, would accept assistance iu the kitchen in some time of extra domestic pressure; another might prefer an hour of service about the house each day in sweeoing, dusting or scmo work of like kind, titill another might desire, in return for what she gave, the labor of a laundress. woman having something to give in tbe way of money or other bounty would be requested to acquaint the bureau with the amount and kind of it, and also with the kind of labor she would like to receive iu return. Each womnu having something to give in ihe way of labor, would bo invited to let the bureau know what kind of wcrk she could perform. The bureau would then set a certain valuation upon tbe bounty and the laLor (the latter being generally paid by tie hour) and so would effect un exchange of commodities, as it were. While laying before women of he well to do this excellent plan, which could bo carried out even in snull towns to the general benefit, I should lUe to urge upon them tho fact that if tie service offered in excliange for commodities proved crude, they could scarcely confer a greater benefit upon their kiuj, than by sacrificing time and easo to improve it and render it intelligent and acceptable.

Griffith Nicholas ACCIDENT INSURANCE FOR WOMEN, Gome Difficulties In the Way of Their Realizing of HeneUts. A woman who is by no means strotg minded, in its unpleasant, popular acceptation, was talking to some friends the otbir day. "I wonder," she said, "if it will surprije you as much as it did me to find that wort en are only partially eligible to benefit by an accident insurance policy. 3 "A woman may take out such a policy in fact, she needs only to hint that she1 meditates such an act to be flooded with circulars and besieged by agents. "But the rules of the companies in i gard to a woman are fearfully and wonde fully constructed.

Suppose that a woman one of the army of self supporting women who earn their own daily bread and in many cases that of their families suppose such a woman to have an insurance policy against accident. And suppose still further that she is in some kind of a disaster, has a leg broken and is thus disabled and incapacitated for work. "Does she receive the stipulated weekly sum scheduled as tbe payment for her particular "Not a bit of it. "If she had been killed, ber surviving heirs would have profited to the extent of the policy, but so long as the breath of life can be kept in the mutilated body the woman herself gets nothing. "Two points are advanced in explanation of this course.

In the first place, it is presumed that accident insurance is only for people who are deprived of a whole or a part of their income because of injury received, and it is also presumed that women are not self supporting and that their income is not affected if they are hurt. This would imply that no one who is not a money earner would be eligible to weekly payments in case of injury. "But it isn't so. Any man is eligible, even if he never earned a cent and never will. Then, too, it certainly ought to be the case that a woman who does earn her living could have the same protection against the loss of an income because of accident as a man.

But nol She may earn thousands of dollars a year, but she is a woman, and therefore presumably not self supporting. "The second point and I want you to listen to this is that more women are injured than men. I was talking with an insurance man about this, and he admitted that there are more men hurt in tide aggregate than there are women. he said, 'women are so much more liable to "I just stared at him. 'You ho went on, 'if a car comes along, I jump right on, while a woman stands on tbe corner and just waves her I said.

'You try to Jump on the car, and you slip and go under the wheels. The woman stays iu safety on the sidewalk, waves ber umbrella wildly and puts out some man's eye with it. Tbe men both get ever so many dollars a week. The only person unhurt is the woman on whom the company declines to take "Pshaw!" and the lady looked triumphantly at her hearers, who agreed to a woman that she was quite right. New York Sun.

The Care of the Hair. The best hairdressers tell us that it is quite an easy matter to wash the hair too often and thereby destroy tho vital oils essential to its growth. The use of bay rum or any stimulants, or of borux or alkalis of any kind, is condemned by some of the authorities. One of the best things for washing the hair is the white of an egg, which is enpecially nourishing on account of the albumen which it contains. It should be rubbed thoroughly through every part of the hair and rinsed out with tepid water.

It will require repeated rinsing before the water runs clear, but not until then is the process thoroughly accomplished. When applying the white of the egg rub it in with tbo tips of the fingers, touching every part of tho scalp, and continue this vigorous manipulation of tho scalp for several minutes. Where any soap is used tho best quality of white castile is alone allowable. Some hair is so naturally dry and free from oil that a little pure vaseline should be applied after it is washed and drjsd. Other hajr possesses eqmigh natural oil in itself and does not require any such addit ion.

Where the hair has become dead or does not grow vigorously, a preparation of rum and quiuine or some of the various tonics of quinine sold by trustworthy hairdressers will be found valuable. There is an excellent one which has in it a portion of oil of neroli or the essential oil of bitter oranges as a component part. This rives a refreshing frairrnnrc nmi ea or vaiuanie tonic qualities. The hair snouiu oe cuppeu monthly. This assists the growth materially and stimulates it.

New York Tribune. LOST IN THE OPERA HOUSE. Startling Experience of Two Young Womea In Gotham's Vast Bullilinc. Two young women living on tho west sido had an experience in tho Metropolitan Opera House a few nights ago thut they nro not likely to forgei. Like a great many other music lovers in the city theso times, tho necessity of keeping a careful watch over expenditures had induced them to forego the opera, to their regret, and when a friend sent them "family circle1' tickets for one of the best pcrformnnco3 tho gift was accepted with unusual pleasure.

Arrangements were made with nn elderly gentleman, who was an old friend of their family, to meet tho young women at the close of theoporaat the Fortieth street entrance, and they enjoyed the entertainment secure in the thought that they would havo a safo escort home. When tho opera was over, however, the young women turned in the wrong direction on leaving tho gallery, and when they reaohed the entrance they found they were on the Thirty ninth street 6ide of tho building. A heavy rainstorm had set in during tho evening, they bad no umbrella, and to "ruin" their hats and dresses by running around to Fortieth street was not to bo thought of. Taking counsel together, they decided to go buck to the gallery and down the other way. They did so and found tho Fortieth street entrance closed.

Pounding on tho door brought no response, and the young ladies started back to tho gallery to go to tho other exit. Just as they reached the family cirelo again the lights were suddenly turned off, and tho frightened women wero loft in utter darkness alone in tho deserted opera house. That they were scared nearly outof their wits goes withont saying, and when one of them saw tho dim light of a lantern carried by somo ono walking across the stage away down below she was too nervous to even call out for help. Her companion, however, managed to scream loudly" enough to bo heard on tho stage, and the watchman who carried the lantern was finally made to understand that there were two distressed females in the gnllery who wanted very much to get out. Ho shouted directions to feel along the walls until thoy reached a certain door, through which they could go down stairs to the stage.

Groping their way along, the young women entered a passageway. They crept along, an inch at a time, feeling for stairway. Ono of them cmiio to adoor and turned tho knob. Tho door opened, and tho two found themselves looking in upon a party of half a dozen gentlemen sitting around a tablo enjoying a midnigh) lunch. It is hard to say whether the diners or the intruders wero tho moro astonished, but tho latter wero certainly more scared.

They wero trying to say something to explain their situation when a door on tho other side of the room opened, and in stepped the friend they had tried to meet. Ho had waited until tho I orticth street doors were closed, had hastened to tho other entrance, found that also closed, and fearing something bad happened had induced tho stago doorkeeper to let him go into tho house in search of his friendK. He was on his way to the gallery when he stepped iuto tho room and met tho young women ho was searching for. Explanations followed, and the women and their escort were soon safely out of the building, but the opera house has less attraction for two music lovers than it onco hud. New York Herald.

A lielievcr in Kmall Fees. Cyrus W. Field thinks a fee should be in exact proportion to the services rendered. A friend of his tells the following story: "I was riding with Mr. Field and he stopped at a wayside trough to give his horse a drink.

I was about to jump out and loosen the neck rein when Mr. Field beckoned to a ragged boy, who ran up and performed the service, replacing the rein when the borse bad slaked his thirst. Then Mr. Field took off one of his gloves and brought out a handful of loose change, which he extended to me. "Will you pick out three pennies, if you please?" he asked.

"I never give more than that for a small service. I think the reckless way of throw ing ten cents and a quarter to poor boys is harmful, as it leads them to expect more than their work is worth, and they do not value what they earn so easily. A penny for such a service would pay the boy; then why shonld I give him such a large sum?" New York Recorder. Story of a Contented Girl. This story is told of an eastern king.

He wanted a wife, but he wanted one with a contented disposition. lie had beeu told that a complaining woman was anything but a joy in the household, and he sought to avoid marrying any such. He set out on a journey through his kingdom, and traveled far before he found the object of his search. Finally he met a humble peasant's daughter who was said to be a womaa entirely contented with her surroundings. The king assured himself that she had no complaint whatever to make concerning her lot in lif, and a or.ee proposed to make her bis bride, when the replied, "I am sorry to have to refuse the king my hand, but since I am conteited with my present lot in life I will noi consent to change it." And tho king wai compelled to find some one a trifle less coitent.

Chicago Herald. Real I.Ifo In Dead Letter reels. Snakes are but a few among the many dangerous things that reach tl department in dead letter packages. Lve centipedes and tarantulas, horned tculs and Gila monsters contribute to t.U lost freight. Small alligators from Floida not infrequently turn up.

Among other gruesome objects similarly received net long ago was a human ear inclosed in aletter, perchance by some ruffian who had made it his trophy; nlso the scalp of an hdian woman with long black hair, and atrrin ning skull which a Philadelphia phytcian refused to receive because letter rats were charged upon it. Washington Letfr.t Tho Work of the Liver. 1 From the amount of food direcy Absorbed the veins of the stomach andtmall intestines are especially rich in prjucts which make muscles and nerves. all this region the blood, collected a special system of veins, is carried tcthe largest gland of tbe animal body he liver. This organ performs various factions, such as secreting bile and sugar, kid some that are not well understood.

blood from the liver, including this spetul current, and also that which supplies He li IHK III 1IVKI. in ail 1CIU1UI.U Ulkbbt. to the heart. New York Times. Rehuked.

cau you tell what is the matter with i husband? The Family M. I fear, madam, that be is threatened with a low fever. Mrs. F. P.

de M. Impossible, doctor. A Fitz Percy might have a high fever, but a low one Bulletin..