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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, JANUARY 6. 1889. 6 GALLERY AND STUDIO. OF INTEEEST TO WOMEN. WALKS ABOUT THE CITY.

Observations Gathered From All Sections of Brooklyn. subject. A not very pleasant head of Christ, whom Giotto has decorated with a patent halo, inlaid with stones, forms the frontispiece. Henry Sandham persists in figure drawing, but his drawing for tho Dollard" does not show the nicety and truth that figure work demands. The free, strong sculpture of Olin Warner is shown in eight specimens of his work; photographs furnish the bases of capital drawings of war scenes, Gali lean landscape and Irish stone work, and Komble illustrates two stories.

With the Amnli i for January comes a charming print of daffodills after a picture by Victor Dangon. color being used in it with strength and purity, the yellow petals shining in a crisp, full light. A portrait study by Florence A. Francis has color and free style, but the drawing is less sound, shade too sharply Accented under the nose and the arrangement of the hair a little difficult to see through. The supplements are numerous and varied.

There is a smart charcoal sketch by Kapiu; two of Angelica Kauff man's smooth prcttincsscs are shown; a big, bold drawing of magpies and fly catchers fills a double page; several designs are copied from tho catalogue of the Architectural League Exhibition, and there arc hints to amateurs and decorators. The reading columns, which are instructive and entertaining, contain the information that George I. Seney has bought Cazin's "Les Voyagcurs;" that Benjamin Constant, in painting the portrait of John T. Martin, of this city, has out in a decorative effect in the shapo of a crimson armchair, and that Yerestehagims studio, on the edge of Paris, is toO feet long, 50 feet high and the biggest studio in existence. Professor J.

B. Whittaker is busy just now with portraits. David Neal, the American figure and portrait painter, is coming back to this country. He is practically a German citizen. The pictures accumulated by Gustavus White, of New York, are to be sold on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons at the Silo gallery.

An interesting collection of 1(0 pictures, owned by Isaac Walker, and now on view at the National Academy, will be sold at auction on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week in dickering Hall. Most of the works are American. Henry E. Abbey, the illustrator of old English poems for the Harpers, is said to be a lazy genius for months at a time, but when he becomes fairly interested in anything he goes at it "like one possessed." He draws with a quill pen and is said to hold it by the feather tip with the point far from his fingers, as if it were a brush. Carrie Carter, one of Professor Whittaker's pupils and a young painter of itiuisiial aptitude and promise, had an exhibition of her work last week in the Bible class room of the Second Baptist Church on Ainslie street.

The walls were well covered with drawings and pictures that were duly admired by many visitors. She won a prize for a crayon drawing at the Adelphi in lSKfi, and two years later received the gold medal for the best figure in oil. Thomas Moran is busy with Venetian subjects, for which he has many orders, lie is painting both iu oil and water color. A strong, green Long Island landscape is on his easel with a brook lapsing through a damp meadow in the foreground and a road winding away between an arch of dark trees iu the middle distance. His famous picture of the Mountain of the Holy Cross, in Colorado, with the gigantic transveise rifts iu the face of the peak filled with snow aiul a torrent or, indeed, good furs of any kind and plenty of them, will be in the front places of fashion, and fair women are rejoicing at the effective juxtaposition of soft dark furs with their white skins.

White minever on white satin think of the beauty of it, if a woman were sure enough of herself to wear it Russian sable tails on a tawny or yellow velvet reach the maximum of diguity and richness, and some of the self colored furs, on materials of the same shade, are delicate and fresh looking to a degree. Black fox is suitable only for the borders of trains, where its toughness enables it to withstand rough usage, and the same may be said of all the coarse furs. Fur and ostrich foathcr boas are much worn at balls and evening parties: they are becoming and said to be foes to draughts." The Silesian lace makers at Schmicdcberg, it is reported, have been commissioned to make a quantity of real lace for the bridal dress of Princess Sophie of Russia. The lace is partly to be broad volants and narrower trimmings in Venisc point. The pocket handkerchiefs are to be point gage, with the initials and royal crown of the illustrious bride.

The drawings for the laco have been supplied by the lioyal Industrial Museum at Berlin, while tho Empress Frederick has furnished the designs of the initials and crown. Importers have brought out an exquisite variety in evening nets that will be used for draping costumes during the gay season. There are a number of very new and handsome patterns seen in black brusscls net, some of the floral effects being most effective. Among the newest draperies are the embroidered silk muslins, and these come in black and all the evening tints. Some of the patterns show dainty stripes over which are silk embroidered figures in self colors.

These come in various shades and are very handsome. Brussels net, white, embroidered in gold or silver, also forms a lovely drapery." There are niaiiy charming designs in this class, one pattern being in oak leaves. Both gold and silver leaves are embroidered upon the net, and the effect is lovely. There are superb gauzes with quarter inch and narrower stripes in moire effects, outlined with specks of silver, in all colors. Another choice novelty is in cream tinted mousscline de soie with scroll and branch designs of gold thread embroidery.

A variety of patterns is shown in white Brussels not with gold or silver figures, and these form exquisite draperies for evening silk's. Those in pearl effects are also very beautiful, one piece being nearly covered with largo pearl designs and others with a small pearl figure here and there. Among the most beautiful and higldy favored of tho drapery nets are those in black brusscls net embroidered in vines, roses and buds in natural colors. One piece shows pink roses in raised work on the net, and the effect of this draped over black is lovely. The roses and buds stand out from the fabric as if carelessly dropped there by the wearer.

Another stylo shows the oak leaf embroidered in shaded silks in Autumn tints, and still another gives odd effects in silk embroidery and swinging drops in gold or silver. The same idea is carried out in steel. There are also new patterns in Chantilly llouncings, but these are not so nineh in favor as the drapery nets. A very lovely evening dress was finished last week for a young lady of this city. It was of delicate pink silk, a full round skirt covered with pink mousscline de soie embroidered, the front very effective with the addition of points formed with the narrowest kind of pink ribbons.

This material was in accordion plaits, hanging straight from the waist to the foot of the skirt. The waist in the Directoire style, draped with the moUsse line de soie, has a high standing collar and pointed rovers of pink faille, and wide sash of pink ribbons secured at the side, with long loops and sashes. Elbow sleeves of mousscline are arranged in dainty null's strapped with narrow pink ribbons. The style was very effective and dainty. A superb dress in white armure silk, brocaded in gold has the front of the skirt in plain white faille, covered with accordion plaits of white moussoline de soie covered with vines of gold.

The Directoire coat back of the brocade has the front in Empire style, tho neck cut out low and round partly filled in with a tucker of mousse line finished at the top with a small frill. A superb piece of work was the Empire belt, made to order for the gown, of gold passementerie studded with pearls. On one side this belt reached from the waist line up to the arm, crosses the front, growing narrower as it fastens under the other arm. The Queen Anne sleeves are of mousscline de soie. The effect of the whole, and style of tho dress was very beautiful.

One of the most superb dresses of the season was worn last week by Mrs. Warren from Hazel hurst ou the Hudson at the wedding of her granddaughter in this city. The petticoat was of very rich white satin brocaded with silver in ferns and roses, and over this was worn a black velvet train and corsage, the latter cut neck and elbow sleeves, trimmed fully with line point lace. The costume was exquisite, stylish in combination, fitting the form elegantly. About her throat she wore, a broad velvet ribbon pinned with a gold bar set with largo diamonds, and her handsome iron gray hair was ornamented with white ostrich tips and Her appearance was queenly.

Mrs. Beeeondorf, mother of the bride, wore a superb gown, the train of rich golden brown velvet, over a petticoat of light blue satin and faille stripe, the two stripes separated by a vine of white Bilk embroidery, while here and there were bunches of flowers embroidered in their natural tints. The sides of this petticoat had panels of the velvet, while the train bad odd shaped rovers of the brocade. Tho velvet corsage fitted superbly and was draped with point lace. Her ornaments were diamonds.

Gloves, long undressed kid of suede color, and a large bouquet of Marcchal Niel roses was carried. A superb ball dress in Miss Dauiell's trousseau was of light blue basket silk, brocaded in rich designs in white and blue satin. Tho front and girls with beaux bent on mischief were conspicuous, and older people who ought to have known better added to the pandemonium. Two young men, their countenances flushed with the excesses of a New Year celebration, marched down the aisle and took front seats. Out of their pockets protruded flasks of liquor, the New Year remembrances which came from the saloons as gifts to their patrons the st of each December.

They were admitted in common with others, though I then thought the good colored deacons would have been justified in calling in the police and handing such characters over to justice. But all things go on such occasions. A nusv, uaud woukino mati is Michael J. Dady. The people hear most about him in connection with politics, for he is a central figure in the active licpublicanism of this town: but, after all, it is in other fields that his more exacting and profitable labors are performed.

I allude to him us a contractor, in which line ho has achieved a remarkable success, due to his shrewdness, foresight and indefatigable industry. When he has a job on hand he takes personal charge of it, and when I saw him over on Fulton street. New York, the other night, superintending tho work on the change of the railroad there from horse to electric power, I was not surprised. He had a couple of hundred of Italian laborers engaged in rearranging the pavement, the electric lights enabling them to do the work almost us well as by (lay Now and then some of the men did not do just exactly as the contractor thought they ought to do, whereupon Mr. Dady got right down among them and practically illustrated what he wanted, doing it with the utmost good nature, while the men nodded and said in broken English, "All right, 3Ir.

Michael." They dropped the Dady. Michael was Italian enough for thorn. Mr. Dady remained there until far into the night, and on the following morning appeared in City Hall square as bright and rosy as ever. "MisFoitruNE.s NKVEit come singly:" "Troubles travel in It never rains but it pours." These sayings and others which signify the same thing arc gems gathered by the most sagacious searchers from the richest mines of human experience.

As gamblers say Hard luck runs in streaks." Everybody brushes against this truth occasionally, but the Hon. Hugh McLaughlin had it shoved tinder his nose and flourished in a most offensive way the other day. The scene was at the Delevau House, Albany, the time was the morning of inauguration. Mr. McLaughlin arose early and began to dress.

Ho found that the dust of the previous night's journey had rendered it necessary for him to discard the good boiled shirt he had brought from Brooklyn. lie sent out to buy a new one, and this necessitated a weary period of waiting, during which all the other Kings County men got down to breakfast ahead of their venerable chieftain. When the Albany shirt did arrive it fitted the ample form of Mr. McLaughlin no better than his famous prediction of "io.OOO majority for Cleveland in Kings County fitted the result. It was much too large.

Mr. McLaughlin had a severe mental struggle, but he preserved his outward equanimity. Even when in toiling with his boots he broke both laces he merely smiled. "When he reached the dining room lie found that his followers had breakfasted and were leaving the hotel so he called a waiter and said, "Bring me a beefsteak, some potatoes and green tea, in a hurry, please." The waiter disappeared. Mr.

McLaughlin sat still for five minutes, for the live minutes succeeding he lidgetted in his seat and looked very uneasy. At the end of that time he was plainly in a state of ebullition and when the waiter showed himself again, after an absence of minutes, the monarch of Kings County was mad enough to eat him. The servitor approached with the easy, confident air of a man who lias done his whole duty and done it well. "I am very sorry, sir," he said politely, "but we have no green peas." An amusing story is in circulation at the expense of that distinguished liepubliean statesman, the Hon. Joseph Keeve.

Mr. Keeve, about a year ago, borrowed a Long Island railroad ticket bonk, containing between twenty and thirty trip tickets, from Commissioner Kay, for one trip only "to the county farm at St. A month or more elapsed and, neither the book nor lieeve turning up, Mr. Kay sent word to the venerable ex Commissioner that tin; book was wanted. This brought Mr.

Ueuve to the Commissioners' ofiice, and. referring to the courtesy to which he was entitled as an ex Commissioner and pleading his great and growing interest in thu development of the county farm, which he desired to visit occasionally, he begged the privilege of retaining the book for an occasional "run down" to St. John laml. Commissioner Kay good naturedly consented. Since that time Mr.

Keeve has been utilizing' the privilege he obtained under these, circumstances in taking Kenubliean legislators to St. Johnland and whib there loudly criticising the work in progress, frequently referring incidentally to the present Board of Commissioners in anything but complimentary terms. His whole conduct in connection with their visits leads one to believe that, the old gentleman is laboring under the delusion that he is still a Charities Commissioner. Not considering it either necessary or worth while to inform (he Board of his intended visits he takes upon himself the authority to telegraph to Medical Superintendent Harrison notifying him that he will be down with so many guests, ordering him to have the county wagons at the railroad station to meet the train, directing that dinner be prepared for himself and friends and general!) conducting himself as though he were the proprietor of the institution. Mr.

Kceve's purpose in these matters is to secure legislation at Albany that will locate him, as a member of some county farm commission, in a comfortable berth for several years. Last Thuiisdav upon invitation of the Commissioners, Senator O'Connor was to accompany them to St. Johnland. This invitation, by the way, was given to forestall one already extended bv Mi" Keeve to the Senator. When the party met at the Flatbush avenue station Mr.

Keeve, much to the surprise of the members, was on hand. Approaching Commissioner Kay he blandly informed him that he was not going down on his (the Commissioner's) book. Then Mr. Keeve asked if he was welcome to accompany the party. Mr.

Kay, glad of the opportunity to give his former associate "a piece of his mind," took him to task in a method peculiarly Mr. Kay's own. for what ho termed Kceve's tingcntlenui nly and discourteous actions toward the Board, his remarkable behavior in forgetting that he was no more than any other private citizen, his disregard of the respect due the Commissioners and his unpardonable conduct in abusing the hospitality of the department and seriously annoying its officials, at the county farm, adding that a repetition of the annoyance would be severly rebuked. Mr. Kay concluded by informing Keeve that his presence with or absence from the party gave him no concern whatever, and that he was indifferent as to whether he accompanied him or not, but he thought it advisable for him to ask Commissioner Hynes.

Mr. Hynes was engaged at the time in conversation with Senator O'Connor. Approaching the Commissioner with an angelic smile upon his face and rubbing his hands and bowing in a deprecatory way, Mr. Keeve said: "Ami welcome to go (Silence on the part of Mr. Hynes and a continuance of his conversation with Mr.

O'Connor.) Am I welcome to go along. Commissioner?" repeated Mr. Keeve. No notice whatever was taken of this second query by either of the gentlemen. Mr.

Keeve looked up with an alarmed expression on his face. Again came the question in a louder tone. "Am I welcome to go along, Mr. Hynes The third appeal brought a reply, but it was evidently not the kind the venerable Joseph expected. Turning to him, and delivering the sentence in his severest manner, Mr.

Hynes said: 'Sir. I should think you are old enough and intelligent enough to judge from my hesitancy in replying to you whether you are welcome or not." That Mr. Keeve was both startled and pained by the reply goes without saying. Waving his arms wildly about his head and exclaiming over and over again, "All right, if I am not welcomo I won't go he rushed from the depot. The appointment of Mr.

V. A. Bavdwell, long Mr. Noycs' assistant, to he librarian of the Brooklyn Library is a gratifying tribute to a gentleman who is devoting his days and nights to tho interests of that ill supported but magnificent institution. Mr.

Bavdwell is a walking compendium of book lore and an admirable collector of published works. His scent for a good book is as keen as that of a hound on the trail and his ability to husband the resources of the library is something of vast value to it. The library owes its existence in a large measure to the devotion of such men as Mr. Noyes was and as Mr. Bard well is, and; its future must rest on this same quality until some Brooklynite adds fittingly to tho endowment of what is tho best working collection of books in tho laud.

Hasibler. has not given us an ideal administration, it has certainly erected an insurmountable harrier to a recurrence of past scandals. What would happen if the old order still prevailed can easily ho imagined. No Commissioner nominated by Mayor Cliapiu, or any other executive, could have been confirmed until the gentlemen of tho Board were enabled to get their hooks in." All this is happily done away with. Deals and kickers may occur, but they are not revealed shamelessly on the floor of the chamber, or carried out in brazen publicity.

The Mayor is no longer at the mercy of Aldermauie schemers, so far as selection of his official staff is concerned. The change in question was a stroke of genuine reform, which should entitle its authors to tho lasting gratitude of the citizens of Brooklyn. Adoption jsy the Supervisor at Largo of an aggressively reform attitude has led to the renewed discussion of his name in connection with the mayoralty canvass. Mr. James Howell, it will be remembered, graduated from the chair now occupied by air.

Quintard into that which Mr. Clnipin, by sheer weight of intellect, succeeds in holding down. Mr. Quintard was an ardent aspirant for mayoralty honors when Mr. Whitney was named a little over three years ago.

He has since been observed to cast attentive eyes on the corner of the City Hall nearest Fulton street. Perhaps he entertains the notion that he can follow in Howell's footsteps and cross Joralemon street to a higher station some time not in the remote future. But what is to become of the Hon. Alfred 0. Chapin in the mean time; The hearts of the Democratic machine leaders are said to he not very warm toward the Mayor.

But will not the stern logic of the situation compel them, after all, to accord him a renomiuation October will tell the story. Meanwhile, the IIki'uiilicaxs can bo depended upon to put their best foot forward. That is, they will choose their candidate on grounds of availability. In the current gossip the name of Colonel Andrew D. Baird is heard more frequently than any other.

Colonel Baird himself is not at all anxious to re enter the field. His canvass in 1 HS7 cost him a trifle over Suo.OOO. His adherents believe that he would have secured the office but for the secret treachery of men in his own camp. They say that they will not permit him to he sacrificed a second time. If the nomination goes to Colonel Baird again it will go unsought.

Even if it is offered I thiulc it very doubtful whether he will accept. Tut: lit; is No moke complacent gentleman in the neighborhood of the public buildings these pleasant Winter days than the new County Clerk. Captain Kaiser is keen enough of vision to perceive that holding a fat office is preferable to doing patrol duty on a stormy night in police uniform. A friend of tho captain informs me that if he had been beaten in the race with Mr. Cottier he would have accepted appointment as collector for one of the largest breweries in the.

F.asteru District. The place had already been offered him and he only awaited the receipt of tho election returns to render his decision. Speculation is ltii'i: among the city politicians relative to the probable action of President elect Harrison in regard to the four principal Federal offices here. Under President Cleveland General McLeer. the ltopublioan Postmaster, and Major Tate, the liepubliean Marshal, were permitted to serve out their terms.

By the more conservative. Kepublicans it is believed that General Harrison will follow the moderate example of his predecessor. Kadietl party men, however, hold a very different opinion. They argue that neither McLeer nor Tate was retained on reform grounds; that held over through the influence of Mr. Beecher, and that Mr.

Tate was undisturbed because of the difficulty experienced in agreeing upon his successor. F.very effort will be made by the politicians to bring about the changes as early as possible. The lir.st assault will probably be made on the office occupied by Marshal Stafford. To excuse their hasty attack some of the liepubliean leaders are accusing the maishal of grossly misusing his official powers on election day. They declare that be discriminated unfairly against Kepublicans, exerted himself to promote tho election of the Democratic nominees, and altogether indulged in a good deal of pernicious activity.

Marshal Stafford has many friends among the members of both parties. His conduct in office has usually been so courteous that the attacks upon him will occasion no little surprise. That they are being made, however, is a circumstauci which partially discloses Ihe intention of the local liepubliean leaders in the raid for the spoils. That ran official head of Collector llobert Black will fall without much delay is the general expectation. no means as certain is the determination of the succession.

There is every likelihood of a scrub race among (he many contestants. To attempt to pick the winner at this early stage would be the height of folly. Only a tyro in politics would attempt it. Some light maybe sin on Ihe subject, when the Cabinet is announced, not before. PiEMoTi: ltoniLiXiis of the next contest for the District Attorneyship are already heard.

It is seemingly taken for granted that District. Attorney Kidgwa does not aspire to a third term. Upon the is of his retirement the names most frequently heard in connection with the place are those of Thomas F. Pearsall and Captain Joiiu U. Shorter.

Mr. Kidgway's first, assistant. On the liepubliean side nothing has been decided. Fx Judge Samuel I). Morris is now a strong llciuiblican.

Wouldn't it be tunny if he should run against his present partner on the liepubliean Tin: climate of Ai.iiAN'Y is an almighty leveler. Mr. Granvill W. Harnian. ihe popular Republican politician of the Twenty tilth Ward, was amusing a party of local statesmen at the Montague street headquarters with an account of some of his personal experiences at the Slate capitol.

It. is interesting." lie said, as I joined the group, for an old rounder like myself to watch some of the new Assemblymen when they come to Albany for the first time. In his own bailiwick a Slate Assemblyman just elected isquiti: an important character. F.very one addresses him as and he expects to be treated with special consideration when he enters the Legislature. The.

green Assemblyman gets his first disappointment on the train. The conductor exaniiius his pass as he would that of an ordinary passenger and pays him even less attention. When he reaches Albany he attracts no attention, but the young does not get his final knockout until he arrives at the hotel, where, after signing the register with a grand flourish, he. is coldly informed by the clerk that ihe house is full. Then sonic drummer for a private boarding house takes him in tow.

and crushed and lost in the madding crowd he finds lodging in one of the side streets. Certainly the life of a green assemblyman is not a happy one. Anew member of the House on Saturday, who did not know where the Delevau House was. paid a haekman to drive him from the railroad station to that hostlery. The distance is about one city block." The oNi.v Feoehai.

office in this city, toward which local Kepublicans arc casting longing eyes at this early stage of the spoils hunt, is the Col lectorship of Internal Kevonue. At the present time it looks very much as if William J. Taylor, of the Nineteenth Ward, would slip into the place, despite, the efforts of Granville W. Harmau and James W. Birkett to capture it.

The combination behind Mr. Taylor is a strong one and with ex Supervisor Ernst Nathan out of the race (and it is more than likely that he will bet Taylor will be a hard man to beat. Of all the candidates for this office Mr. Granville Harmau is personally the most popular. He made an excellent record for himself while in the office of the Collector of Internal Kevcnue under a former liepubliean administration and he is indorsed for the Collector ship by many prominent Kepublicans outside of the Slate.

Watch nioiit seiivices on New Year's eve are always prolific of curious incidents. 1 was among many white folks whose curiosity led them to spend Ihe lust thirty minutes of the dying year in a prominent African Church. I am nottheonlyone who can bear witness to the ruthless manner in which religion was stripped of its reverential garb and made the subject of ridicule. Tho good old souls who instinctively shout and squirm and "brcss de I until their vocal organs give way under the tremendous pressure of the moment's excitement, do no violence to others than themselves. They are in the.

grip of "power" which lashes them into a fury that borders upon the violence of an insane person. As one pronounced Creole, her dark features partly shaded in a large sun bonnet. said to me, "Kain't tole you, chile, how it am: but dem Holy Speerit came right down froo de roof an' dc sister kain't stand it no longer. She am happy, bress de Lord!" The exuberance of feeling was no doubt genuine. Ab I discovered on that occasion, the sacrilege of religion was duo chiefly to tho white spectators.

Younfl "Will American Painters be Justly Represented in Paris One Artist Who Thinks They Will Not Receptions Are Less Frequent Tlmn Tliey Were. The Russian ns a Savage Xew Pictures. A disquieting statement has been made by one who is in a position to know what he is talking about, to the effect that there will be no American pictures at the forthcoming exposition in Paris. He speaks in this strain: "While the Argentine Kepublie has appropriated $700,000 to have its arts and industries fittingly represented in Paris, the United States Government has set apart 0,0 00. You see there is no money in the job.

Checsequakes Creek had to be provided for. The commissioner who is to represent tho artists is General Kush C. Hawkins, a man who is understood to hold American painters in slight estimation and who does not deign to give the artists any light on his methods or on the money he has to spend. We know this: that any artist who wants to contribute must do it at his own expense, and pictures sent from other cities to the jury in New York will cost their owners or painters 0 for freight and cartage a sum that many of them can't pay off hand. Then we are told that nobody is to be sent as a hanging committee.

As nearly as lean see, Mr. Hawkins is going to hang the pictures himself, though if that fact is let out, I'm afraid he'll have few to hang. The jury does not agree, and it looks as though any attempt to send good pictures to Paris would end in smoke." This is unfortunate, if it prove to be a genuine forecast, for Europeans are still inclined to regard us as a crude, half civilized people, and a good exhibition of native art in a uity like Paris snob an exhibition, indeed, as Amcricins have never given there would do more to remove this idea than all the plows and wringers and patent medicines and other uninteresting stuff that this Government will send over. Tools, carpets and sueli like are all well enough, but they do not represent the mental and a'sthetic status or progress of a people, nor are they of exhibitive consequence to the masses. Fifty people will look at a picture where but one person would stop to examine an improved pattern of coal hod.

American art ought to have a "show" in Pans this year, if it has to be sunt through the charity of wealthy patrons. There is undoubted dissatisfaction among the painters with the choice, of General Hawkins as commissioner. Thomas B. Clarke is the man who should have been chosen for thai honor. Are studio receptions falling into desuetude? There are fewer of them than usual this season and although some artists have exhibited their work individually, the big studio buildings have not been thrown open on certain days and two or three thousand of the public invited in.

These little festas are of old date in New York and were, revived eight or ten years ago with a view to luring the people that is, the buying class of poo pie back to the habit of visiting studios. It is better, of course, for the artist and for his patron to buy pictures directly from the painter, for a larger variety is shown to choose from, small changes may bo made in a canvas and the commissions are saved; but many prefer to buy of dealers; the presence of a picture in a shop is regarded by them as a guarantee of worth, and they also feel a bit timorous about invading an artist's workshop in business hours. Studio receptions did not seem to restore this pheasant practice of studio visiting and many of tho artists grumbled at the waste of time and capital involved iu a general invasion of the public. They could not work while their rooms were full and people were coming and going. They had to clean up their places a dreadful undertaking, for painters delight in the picturesqueness of disorder.

They hud, moreover, to put forth shekels, yea, many shekels for music on stringed instruments, fin lemonade, cakes, cream and coffee for the always hollow multitude; for lamps, banners, flowers and decorations: for the hire of detectives and of boys wearing buttons and misfit gloves as functionaries; for the squandering of much gas and for the engraving of invitations. In eases wheie a majority of painters in a building failed of a. sale after all this trouble and outlay they naturally objected to repetitions of the experiment, and thus studio receptions have ceased again to become general. Perhaps they might be revived on a simpler scale and with some restriction in the matter of invitations, to the advantage of those who occupy studios. A writer in the Amfriraii Mtiicin.

grows quite warm in talking about Vasili Verestchagin, who, ho says, "is a writer as well as an exhibitor of rugs. In an article in a Kussian paper he describes how two Albanians were brought info Skobeleff's camp. They were tied back to back and the cords pulled till the limbs were blue. They were left there for a whole day. while, iu presence of the Kussian sentries, the Bulgarian populace amused themselves by stoning them.

At the end of this entertainment, which was becoming monotonous, Verestchagin suggested that it would be a good thing to hang thorn, as he had never seen a man hanged. Skobeleff, who died drunk in a house of ill repute at Moscow, gladly assented, but some one, more soberly inclined, intervened, and the men were tried by court martial. As Verestchagin does not detail the subsequent proceedings the men were most likely acquitted. And Vereste.hagen comes here and tells us we need civilization. Verestchageu sketched the two poor devils bound back to back, in the interest of civilization, and now lectures to American savages." Tho Studio for October and November has a chat about the Ehrich collection of Dutch and Fhmish pictures in New Haven and prints three phototypes from them Denner's head of an old man).

Pieter Nason's portrait of a lady and Ku beus''i "Dance of Peasants." Verestchagin and his exhibition occupy several pages of reading matter' and live of his canvases are copied iu black and white; none of them war pictures. They are "The Pearl Mosque," "Christ in the Desert." "The Jews' Wailing Place, Jerusalem," "The Prophecy and "The Holy Family." The pictures of Christ, showing Him merely as a long haired Jew, without a halo and in the poor, even squalid precincts that He really inhabited, have not been received amiss in this country, as the painter feared that they would be, although they created almost a scandal in Vienna a notoriously righteous and' thin skinned town. The editor does not believt) that the Jtussiaii's pictorial crusade against war is going to amount to much. He thinks "the attempt to reform tho race by holding up a mirror to its crimes to be futile, since man is a iigiiting animal and never knew, nor ever will know, any other way of settling his qna rels, intrt which lie enters because he loves quarreling for its own sake, or of gaining bis end, but by killing those who stand in his way. Devastating jivars, plagues, famines, are necessary to brace the energies and develop tho faculties of men arid also to keep down surplus population.

The millennium is to come, wo believe, just before the final catastrophe that is to put an end to our little pepper corn of a world and for the good reiison that as soon us we have universal peace and brotherhood and the doctors and surgeons have found the microbe of every disease and the way of demicrobizing us in the lump, there will be nothing for it but to make ustcriods of our planet, or to wipe us out with one swish of a comet's tail and begin again with a clean slate." The last number of the Century has an entertaining paper by Frederic Remington on "Horses of the Plains," thai is illustrated by himself with drawings full of character, for Mr. Remington, having been a cowboy and a consort of Indians and greasers, what he, is picturing. The Spanish soldier, tji be sure, is imaginary, but ho must have been atn individual of some such aspect as the gaunt), whiskered don, equipped with lance, sword and strides the jaded mare of Old Woild fstock 'while, the brisk young colt, native bony and sniffing free air, trots by his side. Old time imouutaineers, plainsmen, Mexicans and Indianfi are shown: types that are fading into the unpictXiresqtie and uninteresting "average man." Map Hallock Foote's "Sheriff's Posse" is another pagiy in the history of the Great West a troop of armi'd men climbing a swell of plain and the moon ris'jig above a tract of utter solitude. Giotto is anoiiicr of the old masters in whom W.

J. Stillman glories and whom the multitude regards as bo Job. His faces, it is true, aro not so cloddish amtl insipid as those of certain of his conteni terries, but there are scores of living artists wlio can paint all around him in any class of New Fashions in Materials and Manufacture. Laces, Silks anil Brocades for Evening Wear. Party and Reception Dresses Irish Point and Venlse Embroideries 1889 Novelties in White Goods Drapery Nets Fm1 Trimmings.

The first month of the new year not only brings fresh novelties in laces, silks and brocades for the social season, but beautiful ideas are presented in white mulls and muslins for Summer wear, with an immense variety in embroideries of all kinds in cotton fabrics. Novel designs in profusion are laid upon tho counters of a large house, the variety, quality and beauty of patterns far exceeding any previous importation. Many of the most beautiful of these goods are direct from tho best manufacturers in Switzerland and contain more high class novelties than can be found in any of our large cities, as many exclusive styles were manufactured expressly for Brooklyn trade. There is a very large and magnificent assortment in matched Bets of cambric, nainsook and linen dTnde, from one to forty five inches wide, which are being sold at one half of the prices asked for the same class of goods at previous seasons, making the embroideries for the new season the cheapest line of thoroughly good work that has ever been offered in this country. In connection with the embroideries is a full line of real Swiss mulls and India linens matching the embroidered fabrics exact, as well as the English und French nainsooks, cambrics, Victoria and India lawns.

There is also among this season's importations fancy costume cloths, with cambric and lawn finish, at exceedingly low prices, and tine nainsooks, cambrics and India lawns at 10 and cents per yard, that wcro sold last season at 2(1 cents. Embroideries can be had from 2 cents to $5 per yard. At cents the yard is a handsome pointed edge embroidery, one and one half inches wide, in compass pattern, on an excellent quality of lawn, and at 8 cents per yard is an assortment of pretty patterns on tine mull. A most surprising bargain is offered in a full two inch embroidery on mull, with double wheel pattern and scroll work, tho stitches close, even, and designs well covered, at 1 7 cents per yard. Handsome patterns, from two to four inches; in width, run from 3 'M; to o.j cents.

The designs aro many of them new, the patterns chaste. Both open and closed effects arc produced, and each will find equal favor. There is a line of six inch fionncings on line lawn, in novel patterns, at 33 cents, and r7 cents will buy embroideries at least a quarter of a yard in width, the same grade that has usually brought per yard. A flouncing forty eight inches wide, the bottom embroidered in deep designs, above which are small cords presenting the idea of fine tucks, over which is embroidered a wide inserting and repeated until the third row is accomplished, the remainder of tho width showing small sprigs of close embroidery, is among the novelties. This same cord effect is given in connection with Irish point embroidery.

Among the novelties of importing retailers are the Empire llouncings of lire French mull or It.dia linen, sixty inches in width. Upon the bottom is a wide hem hemstitched, Above this is a wide row of embroidery, next a space of cords and then a narrower band of embroidery. The remainder of tho width is in set pieces showing various designs. They are very elegant for Empire and Watteau styles and will make gorgeous gowns for Summer wear. The prices of these fine goods run from $1.50 up.

Superb designs in Irish point embroideries arc shown in these wide flouncing. One pattern has twenty inches of solid Irish point of a suhcrh style, the remainder of the width covered with all over effects, not too close together, but strewn here and there in artistic disorder. These have matched pieces of all widths and will form a beautiful dress at comparatively small cost. Thu very finest embroideries on India mull and linen dTnde in entirely new patterns show tho most exquisitely choice designs for draperies, llouncings and trimmings at very moderate prices. A superb assortment of this class shows striped effects in point Venisc and Irish point embroideries.

This is used as draperies over plain material for the waist and sleeves; will make, beautiful jackets to be worn over silk skirts, and will be exceedingly dressy draped over a skirt of light silk. All over embroideries are offered, and more beautiful than ever. Striped and vine effects arc to be had that are very lovely. A curtain piece has vines of flowers running over it artistically arranged, and others strewn at regular spaces wilh small flowers, buds and leaves. Polka spots are also mingled with spray and scroll embroideries and a iv quite a feature among the embroidered costumes.

It would be impossible to describe one eighth of the novelties shown at a leading house of these exquisite Summer dress materials and trimmings. Another new idea is the introduction of widths and pattern effects manufactured exclusively for children's dresses. Instead of being obliged to buy llouncings for the skirts of children dresses that arc most appropriate for women, patterns now for the little ones can be had showing corded, insertion and edging effects in one width, that will form the skirt which requires no making save the one seam, and this at very low figures. Among the finest of embroideries are those in point Venisc. They arc very elegant and are manufactured in skirting, flouncing and various widths of edgings to match.

Point Venisc embroidery is something like Irish point, but more elegant, stronger and durable, will stand rougher usage. A superb piece of skirting has a deep hum, hemstitched, above which is a wide inserting of point Venisc embroidery. With this conic a drapery and trimmings to match. Another handsome lino in this class is pique embroideries which come in all widths and styles. Ladies are.

becoming very wise in this matter of Summer dress, for as soon as the holidays arc over they begin preparations for the warm weather. Buying thus early gives them first choice from among the newest fabrics, and if they make for themselves a most beautiful costume can be had for little money. Then again, from this time up to April a good seamstress can be engaged at lower prices than during what may be called the busy season, and in this way clothes for herself and family can he made at homo for about one half what it would cost to wait. There never was such extreme luxury in dress seen as at. the present time.

Tho art of clothing the female form is thoroughly studied and brilliantly carried out. The fabrics manufactured are marvels of richness, with the most superb colorings and combinations, and artistic in the strongest sense of the word are the new laces for draperies. There are numbers of women who marry rich men, and wear their magnificent clothes as a right, and we look on approvingly: perhaps envy a little, while we cannot help but admire and feel that all is as it should be, and appreciate the husband's pride in seeing his wife beautifully attired. The very humblest man takes pride in this matter, yet many have to forego this privilege if their wives have not the sense of the artistic, of which the outcome and fruit is taste. Taste, it is said, is the mind's tact," which must bo brought to bear on the sub jectof what suits a woman; what she can afford, and what will blend harmoniously with her surroundings.

Granted then that she has taste: she must also be possessed of a fairly liberal amount of pin money if she is in society and aspires to be alway well dressed. Cheap materials are to be avoided, no matter how pretty they are, and trimmings should not be used if you cannot afford to have them as good as the material your gown is made of. Buy the material for your dress first and let the etceteras take care of themselves. Let the average woman be dressed in a close fitting serge or quiet tinted wool fabiic, with a spotless linen collar and cuffs, without jewelry or gewgaws, and most husbands would say of their wives that they never looked better, unless it was when they wore a pretty white muslin trimmed with embroidery, with a rose at their throat, or a cotton gown of delicately tinted pink or blue made with simplicity. After simplicity conies freshness, which in a woman's clothes is most desirable.

To say of a woman that she always looks fresh is to pay tho highest of all compliments to her. Give her a white morning wrapper or a cotton dress and she looks shades fairer and more rosy than in a Winter gown. "Many a. woman sitting up in a white bed, with white cambric and embroidery about her, will strike one as a sweetly pretty creature who in dark clothes would never arrest our attention. It may be taken as a safe axiom that the nearer colors approach to white the more becoming tlioy aro to tho wearer and that the reaBOEl why wo see so many pretty faces in Summer aiul so few in Winter lies in the difference of dressJ' The Queen, in an article on evening dresses.

Bays; Those who have sable tails, salile borders, A Glance at Some of the Democratic Fleet that Weekly Anchor in Jefferson Hall Airtermanic Reform Badly Needed The Present System a Disappointment Wlio Will he District Attorney The fleet op Brooklyn Democratic politician!) drop anchor in Jefferson Hull on tlie first Monday in every month, ami this in the only place whore one can observe the various craft and compare their appearance. The first to arrive is usually the Arthur J. Heaney screw propeller. She is built after the Herresohoff pattern and darts in and out, like the vigorously blowing her diminutive whistle. She is of bob tail riff Iter captain is a square shouldered skipper, with brown eyes and Jeremiah whiskers, cut short enough to rob him of a prophetic appearance.

The boat is well ballasted witli pertinent objections. The Anthony Barrett pungy rides solemnly in behind the Heaney propeller. Her captain has a bullet head, a gray and cynical eye, a vest pocket edition of a Koman nose and a scornful mouth. Ho looks like an alderman in front ami a dry goods drummer behind. This sea dog is always on deck, and his favorite pastime is catching clams in a net.

The William A. Fnrey nan oi war pull's up alongside the dock. There i a bin sear her side, where the I). monitor poured hot shot into her in November, 1KS7. Her powder magazine came near blowing up on that occasion.

Her captain is both a sanguine and sanguinary man. The ill fated pilot boat Hugh McLaughlin lies just outside the: hall. She is hove to and her gray headed mariner is repairing his compass. The crew are busy sewing tiro runts in the sails made, by the terrific gale o'f November (i last while the boat was endeavoring to bring the heavily loaded brig Grover Cleveland into port. 'Die brig sank just oil' Free Trade Point and the officers and crew were compelled to buckle on Hie preservers in order to brjast the waves.

The Hi ou Me.Lxw.isus will shortly bo hauled into lie: dry dock for the purpose of having the barnacles scraped off. The bark John 1'. Adams draws so much water that she has to be poled into 1lie hall. 1 for captain takes careful soundings as he goes. There is never much noise of escaping SU am.

The corvette Alden S. Swan a daisy. She rubs her nose against the dock and keeps her stern to the rest of the licet while her captain sits on the poop deck and smokes. The three masted schooner William It. Murtha drops anchor in midstream.

Her captain is tall and distinguished looking and wears kid gloves. The, big bout William 11. Von Glahn is not present on this occasion. She is moored at Morton's Wharf, Fourteenth street and Uroadway, New York, where she is taking on a few cases of choice mer oh.mlie. The oatboat John Guilfoylc has only nue but it is always crowded with sail.

The torpedo boat 1'etev Pagan, of the Sixth Ward, i alongside the James W. Kidgway revenue rl r. The hitter craft lias a gilded wooden on her prow anil sets up high in the although well loaded aft. The John is side in. Her funnel so 'limes spouts smoke and the lack of a spark it seh makes neighboring eratt tee! thein be ill danger of a eonllagration.

The John V. McKane pirate ship is not in the hall. Kiie is cruising around outside. Her black flag Hying and she has one long gun loaded to the muzzle. Her captain stands at the bridge sca nning the horizon through a glass for a sign of the hue of battL' ship David Hill, Ovkk on one sinr.

of the hall are three craft in company. They are th" double turretcd monitors James MeCmrry, Janus (i. Tighe and James Kane. Their captains are on dock tooting salutes to one another ami grinning complacently at the rest of th: licet. These three craft always carry their own tiained pilots and cruise where they please.

They salute Hie Michael J. Coffey dispatch boat as she skims by. The excursion steamer Baldwin F. Strauss attracts attention. )lci captain keeps an awning over Ids hurricane deck to accommodate the nnny picnic parlies that embark on her.

His whistlcran be heard for miles on a ctlin nighl. The steamer Kibe II. ltjen merits notice. She is diseharg'ng a large cargo. The Scotch cutter Thistle, of which bonny John Cottier is captain, hobs and down, up pares dly undaunted by her defeat in a close race by Volunteer Kaiser.

The Patrick Hayes propeller has been freshly painted and is said to be a smart sailer. The Adolph Siinis. scow lloats Pinafore, colors. The John Delmar is a Juggins raft. The J.

Stewart Rossis a very rakish craft. Her masts will hardly go under the bridge. The John A. Quintanl lugger labors somewhat heavily and is gaudily painted. is a good deal of public sentiment bebi.nl the proposed measure of Alder manic reform Whether Senator O'Connor bill provi ling for return to the ward system becomes a law or not, (here can be no doubt that its passagi and approval i desired by a majority of citizens familiar with the work gs of the municipal govornm it.

Within recent years inch diflierlty ha been experienced in pcrsuiding substantial and representative men to serve in the Common Council. The office of Alderman, originally regarded as a high distinction, has come to he looked upon with contempt. Yet it is among the most important in alVairs. and. when adequately occupied, opens up large opportunities of public usefulness to the incumbent.

Since the cuesent law went into operation in 1 the Democratic general Aide manic ticket lias been invariably successful, with the exception of a single candidate. The exception was at the first election under the amended act. the Fall subsequent to its passage, Both parties endeavored to present strong candidates Unit year. Jt was din ing the memorable Low IIendrix Mayoralty contest. Among the lcadcis.

Democratic and Republican, the impression prevailed that reputable nominations for the Common Council would strengthen the nominees for the executive chair. In one part the otherwise excellent Democratic ticket broke down. One of the candidates was a gentleman named Omlerdonk. who in some manner had rendered nim elf obnoxious. The ao i.e.

while sitpportin the other Democrats, advised its readers to vole again Onderdonk. The result was his defeat, his successful opponent being Theodore J. Dinion. theretofore Alderman of the Kirs! Ward. Several id' the Democratic Aldermen chosen that year afterward rose to higher honors.

Mr. G.orgc Kicard Conner, since Commissioner of Cily Works, was one of them. John A. f.lnintard. now Supervisor at Large, was another.

Ilalsey Corwin, the present affable City Treasurer, was a third. At the following Aldt manie election the Republicans, suffering from the combined effects of the Woodward movement and the Callin candidacy, wen: badly demoralized. They did not come within sight of victory. When in issv Colonel Andrew D. Jiaird was induced to accept the mayoralty nomination on the Republican side, his friends were particularly desirous of presenting an acceptable list of candidates for aldermauie honors.

To their dismay, while the city convention was in session, not a single citizen of standing and influence could be induced to run. II became necessary to intrust the work of Aldermauie noniinat ion to a committee of twenty six, consisting of tic chairman uf each ward delegation. At the first meeting of the committee it. was proposed to ask the ex Mayors, supposed to be in sympathy wilh the Jiaird movement, to lead the Aldermauie struggle. Accordingly, Messrs.

V. A. Schroeder, Seth Low and John W. Hunter were approached on the subject. They all refused fo consider the proposition.

Then the committeemen exerted themselves to secure fitting substitutes. The outcome of their labors was the presentation id' a very respectable set of nominees, headed by Mr. James the popular secretary of the Hamilton Club. Notwithstanding a vigorous canvass in their behalf the Aldermauie candidates were, beaten, running considerably behind Colonel Jiaird. All the persuasion employed to induce them to accept was, therefore, thrown away.

It is a noteworthy fact that the Democratic Aldermen at Large, during the past five years, have invariably run ahead of the mayoralty candidates of that party. Witit.E PKi AirnritE l'lioM the old system of representation in the Common Council has occasioned regret, there is one change in the charter affecting the members of that body hich continues to excite general approval. I refer to the provision depriving the city fathers of power of confirmation, mid lodging it in the hands of the Mayor. The wisdom of that provision has been abundantly vindicated in its application. It has been a prolific source of good to Brooklyn.

If it roaring through a ravine in the foreview, he has i.ti'lunl ii fetiro ritis scale and linn issued the print through the publisher for the new Society of American Etcher. C. M. S. FACTS AMI HINTS.

A Xenia, man stole crape from the door of a friend. A man registered in a Kansas City hotel recont ly as from Heaven. A Norwegian savant estimates the ago of tha world at 1,000.000 years. A woman of Huntington, who is only years of age, has had nine husbands. The keeper of the Philadelphia morgue has been discharged for playing linker in the morgue.

The Victory. Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, has been renovated at a cost A man near Smithtown has courted a girl over thirty years, and nothing definite yet. The numbcrof passengers transported annually in the horse ears in Berlin is nearly 100,000,000. An experiment recently made in Scotland proves that tho tortoise can walk a mile in four hours. In one fiat in St.

Louis there are families representing nine nationallies, and all cook onions for dinner after their national custom. It is said that the prairie dogs come into Osage City, and sit around in the backdooryard until the housewives shako out the tablecloths. At a Western church fair a device forgetting up a testimonial to the pastor bore the following legend: "Drop a dollar in the slot and see tho pastor smile. Minnesota saw mills are preparing to shut down after one of the most prosperous seasons in their history. The "cut" at Minneapolis is estimated at 000, 000 feet.

A trading establishment in the Congo recently sent an order to England for a consignment of rum. And very appropriately it was added in a postscript, "Send more handcuffs." A single pair of herrings, if allowed to reproduce undisturbed for twenty years, would not only supply the whole world with abundance of food but would become inconveniently numerous. The report conies from Semfohmor, W. that sardines are so plentiful thereabouts that "enough can be caught iu a week to supply the whole United States." A London physician has a copy of tho Bible written iu shorthand, probably the only copy in the world. It is a volume of comparatively small size and the characters are exquisitely written.

There arc seven ex Speakers of the, national House, of Representatives living. They are Robert 0. Wintbrop, Nathaniel P. Banks, Galnsha A. Grow, James G.

Blaine, Samuel J. Randall, J. Warren Keifer and John 0. Carlisle. A California widow bad nlans made for a.

$50, 000 monument for her late departed, but when the lawyers got through lighting over the estate the widow was doing housework at a week for the man who designed the monument. Another courtship, conducted exclusively through the mails, has ended in marriage. The groom resides in California, whither the brido an Eastern girl, journeyed to have the knot tied. The couple met on the wedding day for tho first time. The tedious work of removing boulders and the remnants of an anciunt forest from tho bed of the Thames River still goes on.

It began seven years ago. At last accounts trees and boulders had been taken out. The latter varied in weight from one to four tons. A Rutland, family while eating dinner discovered a small tin box in the center of the hut tor. It was opened and found to contain a a "reminder to some unmarried Christian gentleman of his duty." The note was from "a girl, 18 years of age, good looking and an excellent housekeeper." David Wingrove, a marble worker of Baltimore not long since found a valuable diamond imbedded iu a big block of Italian marble and has had the gem set, without cutting, in a heavy gold ring.

Lapidaries say that, though such duds are unusual, this is by no means the first one on record. A young Syracuse lady has become so addicted to the use of cloves that her health is becoming broken, and her physician says that unless she abandons the habit she will pay the penalty with her life. She has been known to consume a quarter of a pound of cloves in a day. It is said that a Boston barber, after sixty years of steady work at his trade, has retired from business. In his long and useful career ho has shaved about noo.000 men, cut the hair of over 200,000 and has probably made 000,000, 000,000,000 statements pertaining to the weather, prize fights and base ball.

Two young Englishmen, who recently passed through Chicago on their way around tho world, informed a reporter that they have been making a collection of samples of the water of the great rivers of the world. The samples are bottled as soon as collected, ami the. bottles, duly labeled, are sent to their homes in England by express. Of the libraries of Germany, tho largest is that of Berlin, with 700,000 volumes and 15,000 manuscripts; thcD comes Dresden, 500,000 volumes and 4,000 manuscripts; Darmstadt, 380,000 volumes and manuscripts; Leip sic, tho university library 350,000 volumes and 4,000 manuscripts; and lastly, Breslau, Lim bourg and Strasbourg. one side of the skirt were draped in blue white silk muslin, elegantly embroidered in white and blue silk and blue pearl beads.

The corsage of tho brocade was pointed back and front, the neck and front of waist finished with white ostrich feather trimming. Ostrich tips and aigrette vere provided for the hair. Much has been said during the holiday season in regard to our lnrgestores employing detectives, and some women have, gone so far us to express themselves against such houses, fearing that in too close examination of goods, or in a lit of absence of mmd, they might take up an article and carry it a distance from its proper place, or to compare it with something else at another part of tho store, would involve themselves, and the wily detective would lay hands upon them, and thus they would be disgraced. This is all a mistake. At certain seasons when our large stores are crowded to tho utmost with customers, the detectives are employed to protect the people against a class of pickpockets, and themselves from shoplifters.

Indeed this class of professionals rarely have the courage to go where a good detective is employed, and the first thing they do is to find out if such is the case, and then keep away. Before merchants took this precaution scarcely a day passed without seeing an account in the daily papers of some lady having her pocket picked at such and such a dry goods house, while in the present watchful care of our merchants such a circumstance is rare. There are. however, petty thieves, women who go about from place to place picking up small things unseen by the busy clerks, for no earthly reason hut tho love of getting them for nothing, and enjoying thorn much more than if honestly paid for. This system is carried on largely among a class of women called perfectly honest and respectable.

Wc have not a merchant who would willingly prosecute such a woman or bring her to disgrace in the eyes of the world, but are in duty bound to protect themselves and patrons against such. Anv ladv, no matter bow plainly or richly she may be dressed, may walk into any one ni our large stores, nick up any article from any department, hold it iu her hand or throw it over her arm and keep it there while she goes from one part of the store to Ihe other, and will not be approached on the subject or in any way molested. Indeed, I have known of instances where ladies have left the store with such things in their hands and. upon discovering the truth, hurried hack, making all apologies. But the.

ease assumes an entirely different color if she opens her sachel and drops the article therein, or hides it under her cloak or shawl at a moment wncn she thinks no one is looking. Then. when she isahout leaving the store with the secured article and is approached by the detective, her confusion and offering to pay for the article do not any wav prove her innocent. Ladies need have no fear of getting themselves into trouble by innocently taking up goods and carrying them about our largo drv goods houses. Detectives understand human nature, and their business too well to make many blunders, and would not compromise their employers or themselves by so doing.

myself, have gone home with goods that I did not know were hanging over my arm until I came to take off my cloak: was not followed or interfered with in any way, and my case is not an exceptional one. One should feel much greater safety and protection in a house whero detectives are employed than where they are not..