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THE PHILADELPHIA TDIES, TUESDAY. MARCH IS, 1902. THE SOCIAL WORLD OF PHILADELPHIA Dougherty, Richards, and their associates had jokes applicable to the anniversary of Saint-Patrick's natal day; and. as has been the case for years past, the minstrels' celebration of the holiday was a popular success. MISS HOBHOUSE'S GREAT SOCCESS What She Has Done to Alleviate Con ditions Among Conquered Boers.

to remain on ship under supervision; that she was to hold no communication with anybody, and that she was to return on Wednesday on the next ship. She told the officer that he brought no warrant or statement of her offense. She asked him to carry a letter to Colonel Cooper and Lord Kitchener, telling them she was only going work among the refugees, but If they wouldn't allow that, would they allow her at least to get off the steamer and live quietly In Cape Town until she regained her strength, that she was too ill to move, from her very rough voyage of nearly month's duration, and that she couldn't stand a return voyage at once. WHEN SHE WAS ILL. The commandant of Cape Town answered her letter, saying that the military orders were Imperative, and that she could not SUNLIGHT AIDS HEALTH Sunshine and Fresh Air Prevent Illness.

The, preservation of health must be studied and guarded. Many delicate men and women have becpue strong as they advanced In years and noble specimens of manhood have dropped off befoie tbelr prime, due to their knowledge or Ignorance of nature's laws. There is no one thing more essential to bealtK than fresh air and sunshine. Not only for the outdoor exercise, but In the homes; especially must the llvlug rooms have sunlight and ventilation. Inactive skins, scalp troubles, poor complexions are due to sleeping In badly ventilated, dreary rooms.

It ought to be more generally- understood that one of tbe missions of the sua Is to deodorlge and purify. A beautiful snu-myth pictures the goddess, Attena, flying thrci'gh the air scattering health and healing from her outspread wings. There Is literal truth as well as poetry la fancy. The sun Is the great euemy of disease germs. Let tbe sun have a chance to do Its work In the sleeping rooms.

A prejudice In favor of having one's housework done early In the day should not beguile the mistress Into having her beds made up before they art-thoroughly aired. Th care of the beds and bedding bears most directly on the health In too many households the airing of the beds Is not worthy of the name. At the convenience of the maid or some member of the family the bedclothes are tossed off the bed and the remaking takes place at once. When tbe occupant leaves the bed every article of clothing should be removed piece by piece and placed where, the fresh, sunny air from tbe open window may circulate through the fabric. The mattress should be exposed to light: If two mattresses, the top one should be tUrown over so that the bottom one may have a ciance to cool and get the light.

In chambers having a western exposure the beds should frequently be left nnmade until the afternoon In order that the clothing may have the. full benefit of the sun No false notion of tidiness should be allowed to defeat the higher pur. pose of keeping tbe borne pure aud healtb fnl. When untjergnrments worn during the day are to be. pbt on again they should be hung loosely about the room for airing dnrlng the night; and the night robes should be aireti by day In the sun; the habit of hiding away the night clothes in dark closets, or packing them In behind the, pillows, is not to be recommended.

It Is better to exnose the garments to the light or have them cleansed THE OPTIMIST Will We Have a Sabbath In Fifty YearaT In a sermon last week the Eev. Dr. Lorl-mer, who recently went from Boston to New York, made this statement: "We live for money by day and pleasure by night. I have no fear In saying that, at the present rate at which we are living. In fifty years we will have no Sabbath." If Dr.

Lorimer really thinks so, why doesn't he change his calling. If and the thousands-of others who are trying, by preaching and teaching, to make men and women better, have only a half century more In which to work! For when there Is no Sabbath what will become of the church'; With nothing but failure In the end, why persist? But Dr. Lorimer takes too gloomy a view. Like a vast number of other folk, be surveys some great city, then speaks. He loses sight of the seventy odd millions of the nation In the three millions of New York.

But because New Yorkers or Phlladelphlans don't observe the Sabbath as they should-I do not say they don't Is It to be concluded that the nation has lout Its reverence for the day of rest? Have we come to the point where our morals, as well as our money markets, are to be regulated by Gotbom'f Go out Into this land, good Doctor. Jour, nejf from village to village and from town to town. Hear as you near the clustered homes of the seventy millions and more the morning song of the Sunday bells. See the long lines of faithful people answer their sweet summons. When the last straggler has entered the humble church, go In and hear a fine old hymn wafted upward by a hundred sincere singers.

Then listen to a plain, unpretentious discourse of help and comfort. They can't afford ten thousand dollar thrillers In the little towns. The service ended, look In oa the dinner tables of the homes. Dinner done, stroll through the green lane3 or out Into the quiet woods with the younger ones, or sit with the elders and tell and hear of days and dreams gone by. Then, when the shadows close In, let the last measure of the closing hymn be the day's benediction.

Has the Sabbath lost its sway? Go down to the ferry-slips, good Doctor. Look Into the faces of the hundred young men who each day enter the metropolis-come from all ends of the nation to win fame and fortnne. Is there no sign of the Sabbath In them, no outward mark of an Inward faith? Alas, many of them shall soon have forgotten that the day between Saturday and Monday Is Sunday! But that's the fault of New York. Judge any nation by its New York. fc Mitchell.

Darlington Co. Spring Summer Silks Genuine' India and China Silks, rich printed Liberty Satins and Printed Crepes will be the most fashionable for the coming season. These Silks are shown in a great variety of patterns and colorings, many of which were made expressly for us. Among the many attractive special offerings In the sSilk department, we call particular attention to the following: 24-ineh Crepes in Light Shades and Blaek at $1.00 pep yard. 24-ineh Blaek Figured Taffetas at 85 eents per yard Has been sold at $1.25.

Figured Peau de Cygne Colors: Black and WhiteA-Blue and White. 24 inches wide, $1 00 per yard. Black Peaa de Cygne 21 Inches wide, $1.00 per yard. 24 inches wide. $1.25 per yard.

The very best article made for a lightweight gown. Warranted to wear. LaGe Stripe Taffetas One of this season's newest novelties, 22 inches wide, $1.50. Netu Satin Faced Printed Crepe de Gherjes in all eolors $1.50 per yard. A soft, rich and elegant texture made expressly to our order and not to be had elsewhere.

Joseph G. DarlingtonCo. ACKERS Celebrated 50c Formosa Oolong Tea GEO. B. NEWTOH C0.

BEST CO Al. PROMPT DEMTEgT. Omi Mortal A uarlca VaUldln an applique of scsrlet, embroidered In white, and has a 6tnart girdle of taffeta silk in tbe same vivacious hue. If the new spring hat does not have a button It Is very apt to have a rosette. The button Is round, large and flat, snd may be made of straw, horsehair silk or velvet.

The same materials are used to make the rosettes. Maline Is also used for the latter, or ribbon. Frequently the rosette has a handsome eabochon centre. The coachman's, or the continental rosette, as It Is sometimes called. Is conspicuously In evidence.

A black and white hat of tbe continental shape seen yesterday bad no other trimming than one of these huge rosettes of black and white satin ribbon perched on the crown. One of the most graceful flowers used In the new millinery Is the geranium. A large, flat hat, very picturesque, of a delicate pink straw, has a wide, slightly-rolling brim and Just a suspicion of a crown. It Is raised from tbe head by a band of black velvet. The hat Is trimmed with two wreaths of geraniums In a lovely medley of colors ranging from white to pale pink and deepening Into a color that Is almost red.

The wreaths He gracefully on top of the brim. Around the crown Is a standing roll of black velvet ribbon, which. In the back, falls In loops and ends gracefully Intermingled with the geraniums. DISHES FRjJMJHE FRENCH WRITTEN FOR THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. BY MARTHA TAFT WtNTWORTH (Copyright.

5W2.) She Was Bitterly Opposed at Every Step by Lord Kitchener and Other Powerful Men, but Managed to Arouse the Nation. From tie San Francisco Chronicle. Tb woman of the moment In England Is Miss Hobhouse. When Lord Kitchener thought he had (rotten her most securely out of the wny the won ont against to her everlsstlng credit. Not only did she win ont against Kitchener, but against Sir John Brodrlek, Secretary of War, and most unpleasant man to oppose In anything.

Neither Kitchener nor Brodrlek love her for It, but the British public Is simply roaring Its approval of her. She went to Africa, saw an evil, came back to England, wrote about It, and made such men as Chamberlain and the Secretary of War yield to her judgment and surrender, hands down She caused the dls-handlng of the concentration camps of the Boer prisoners. No small work (or one woman to do. 'ow If there Is one thing that Lord Kitchener does hate It Is a meddling woman. And any woman who takes np anything he has said or done, or even puts her linger where his premises ate, or In any way has anything to do with him politically, that woman must be gotten out of the way.

He dislikes her as much as Napoleon disliked clever women, but so far he hasn't raid her the compliment of attention that Napoleon did. Socially, women will do, according to In every other way she will not. Most women are afraid of him. He has a terrible eye, a stern manner, an unflinching purpose and a great height. Few women would dare to argne with him.

No one of them until now dared to defy him. Miss Hobhonse was arrested for defying him, but she mastered blm. WHO MISS HOBHOUSE IS. Miss Emily Hobhouse Is a woman whose family prominence makes her a figure of Importance In England. She is a niece of Lord Arthur Hobhouse, whose title is new, but whose deeds and learning are fine, and whose family is old.

He has been a mem ber of Judicial committee of Privy Council' since 18S1; was a law member of Council of Viceroy of India for five years; was Commissioner of Endowed Schools, and member of London School Board. This uncle has written an open letter to the papers In his niece behalf and says every reasonable effort will be made to bring this case to the calm arbitrament of law. The entire family is conspicuous In the literary and ecclesiastical life of England. It Includes an M. a Bishop, an editor and a Judge of the High Court at Calcutta.

What the Government" did to Miss Hobhouse, whether accidentally or through intention, cannot go unquestioned. Miss Hobhouse went to South Africa some time ago, just as Clara Barton went to Cuba. She found the concentration camps more terrible tban any place where she had ever seen human beings suffer. She found men, women and children of the Boers there suf. fering terribly.

She did not believe, nor did she say, that this was the fault of any one man. The fault was In the system, and the systim had been decided on by Lord Kltch. ener and the Secretary of War as the best one during the condition of affairs brought about bya prolonged war. She found that, no matter how kind the Intentions of a Government or a commander toward these Boers, the condition was something fearful. sorts of terrible physical and mofal, bad arisen from the system.

She gave her entire time, money and work to relieving the evils, but found the task beyond that of one woman or any corps of nurses or Philanthropists. She made up her mind that to struggle with. She wrote and argued with Lord Kitchener, and his representative In South Africa, saying that these camps were a hideous nuisance, and that some other method should be employed at once In taking care of the people. LORD KITCHENER OBJECTED. She got no results from her work or her pleading.

Lord Kitchener was not going to have his plans upset by a woman. He believes they are all sentimentalists. He takes what they say with a barrel of salt. He knows that war Is cruel, and that while It shocks the refined nerves of a lady, there Is a great deal to be done that is barbaric If one's King and country demand success. All war Is barbaric.

There Is nothing humane about It. There Is no gentle side to It. It Is all the extreme of cruelty. And It Is no place for a woman, and the sooner she gets out the better for every one concerned. So Lord Kitchener paid no attention to Miss Emily Hobhouse.

He let her go her way, do what she wanted to do; If there was an evil she could miti gate In war she could do It If she would only leave him alone and not point out bis business to him. There Is a great gulf fixed between 1 Napoleon and Kitchener, but they were both BAM cn nnA ml i nin anA hod 4h UMU UOVJ LUC OUUIC attitude toward women. When Mme. de Stael went too far Napoleon banished her. When Miss Emily Hobhouse went too.

far Lord Kitchener had her arrested. She had gone far enough, however, to win out. Her arrest touched the button that set off the most tremendous movement of the war. Sir John Broderlck, Secretary of War for tbe Crown, announced at the Primrose League that the concentration camps In South Africa would be broken up; that the Bunibeia In all camps would be reduced; that Cape Colony would get the overflow Now that Lent Is rapidly to Its close tbe weddings for tbe Easter season have become an all-absorbing social theme. Modistes have been at their wits ends devis ing novelties In matrimonial garments and they say that some of the clothes to be worn at the many large affairs In prospect are to oe as stunning as nave, neeo seen many moons.

1 A wedding that will bind In closer ties two families as popular as they are prominent In Philadelphia will be that of Miss Louise Welghluian. the daughter of Mrs. Jones Wister, and. John Straw-bridge, which la booked for April 26. After Miss Jeffries' marriage to Albert H.

Rosengarten, which occurs on March Si, tbe yonug couple will take the delightful tourney to Honolulu nod Japan. Mrs. Reaklrt and her daughter, J(lss Mary Wllmer Reaklrt, whose wedding occurs on one of tbe early April days, have escaped the mauy anxious interrogations of Philadelphia friends by going to Atlantic City, where they will spend this week. Mrs. Henry Blddle's daughter, Miss Mary Blddle.

will be wedded to (jeorge Fltler on Monday, the thirty-first, at the bride's home In Rlverton, N. where the eenemony will be followed by a breakfast for the wedding party. A wedding In the social schedule for the 10th of April, at the Church of tbe Ascension In South Broad street, will be that of Miss Emily Pepper and Arthur H. Harker. Like every proper church ceremony this one will be followed by the usual breakfast at the home of the bride's parents, 1S Chestnut street.

At a dinner given last evening by Edward 0. Dale, at 1215 Spruce street, affalra matrimonial were the chief topics, for the two guests of honor. Miss Louisa Welglvtman aud Miss Emily Butler Blddle, will soon take very active parts In such msttcTS. The other guests were Miss Ethel Weiirhtman, Miss Sarah Gerhard. Miss Elizabeth Roberts, Charles Cburchmao, John Strawbrldge, Sydney Young and Frederick Fraley.

Old St. Peter's Church, at Third and Tine streets, will be the scene of a very pretty, though comparatively quiet, wedding on April 16, when Miss Sarah Chapman Rronsou will be united to Henry Samuel Morton. Mr. Morton being In mourning only tbe Intimate friends and Immediate relatives will be invited. Mr.

and Mrs. Ballanttne have been visiting with friends In Scranton. Mrs. Ballan-tine was 'Miss Minnie Chambers, of Philadelphia, who married Charles Lloyd, from whom she obtained a divorce to marry William Parry. The latter died shortly afterward In India, and people were not a little startled to learn that within three months after the demise of the second husband the beautiful widow had promised Mr.

Ballantlne that be should be the third one to lead her to the altar. Mr. and Mrs. Ballantlne gave a banquet to their friends In the private dining room of the Hitel Jer-inyn, at Scranton, last week, In reciprocation for courtesies extended to them. Oovers were laid for twenty-tlve.

Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Young, of Newark, are traveling with them and the party will sail for Europe early In April, where Mrs.

Ballantlne will remain for three years while her young dsughter, Marie, continues her studies In the Sacre Coeur Convent, in Paris. The Bosrd of Visitors of the House of the Holy Child will give a musical tea at the Koosevelt, Chestnut street near Nineteenth, on Wednesday, April 9, from 3.30 until 6. The proceeds will be devoted to a home for negro children. Mies Augustine Haugh-ton. Miss Josephine McCulloh, Frank Johns.

W. Warren Shaw and Miss Eliinbeth Ship-pen Swift will contribute to the musical nortlon of the programme. A comedietta. "A Happy Pair." will be given by Mrs. William Morris Meredith and Frank Johns.

Class A 2, of the Girls' High School, will give a dance at the North Broad street Drawing Room April 1. By way of advertisement they have Issued a very clever and artistic poster. In which the "Gibson Girl" takes a prominent position. Mrs Henry S. Glasser and her son, T.

Ellwood Allison, who are bow at Palm Beach, will, In a few days, Journey north ward to Washington, where they will spend Easter, after which they will return to their home, 3300 Baring street. Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton Stockton Betts, of East Mount Pleasant avenue and Cbew street. Mount Airy, who are now In the hurry of preparatlona for their European voyage, wllj spend the next two years in foreign lands.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Davis have closed their beautiful suburban home at Devon for a spring sojourn at Haddon Hall, Atlantic City. Mrs.

William S. Reyhurn and Mrs. Cofl- dlugton Belllngs, of Nineteenth and Spring Garden streets, have gone to St. Augustine, Fla. Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Roberts, of South Forty-eighth street, have returned from their trip to Jamaica. CF.RMASTOWX The class of 1902 of the Germantown Academy has sent ont Invitations for dance on Thursday evening, April at 8 o'clock, at the Alumni Hall of tbe Academy. School House lane and Greene street. The committee having charge of the dance Is composed of the following seniors: William Lamb.

Alfred H. Lea, J. Willis Rommel, F. Harold Tunnell. Fran D.

Wolf and G. Harry Woodroffe, chairman. The list of patronesses Include: Mrs. John Blakely, Mrs. James O.

Llmiaey, Mrs William T. rtrooke.Mra. Henry W. Peacock, Mr E. M.

H. Hanson. Mrs. Wm. B.

Stoever, Mrs. Samuel B. KoweD, Vfre. J. M.

Wodrolfe, Mrs James M. Podge, Mra. Jolin Rommel. Sirs Wm. Kersbaw, Mra.

Kitward Trotb. Mra. John G. Lamb, Mrs. Wm.

H. Wrbjnt. Mrs. E. T.

McCorralck. Mr. and Mrs. William Stoever. of West School House lane, gave a small "Bridge Whist" party at the Germantown Cricket Club, at Manhelm, Saturday evening.

There were three tables aud the guests Included: ft. Pearce Holton. Mrs. Samuel Carpenter, Mra. Pearcs Holton, Mr.

Earoahaw, Henry Ravmomi, Mrs. Earnansw, Mra. Henry Ravmond, Mr. Johnson, KamuDl Carpenter, Mr. Thomas.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob J. Seeds and their son, Harold Seeds, are North again, after several weeks spent In Palm Beach and Magnolia Springs. On their way home they stopped at Charleston to see tbe Exposition.

They reached Germsntown yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hslnea, of West School House lane, have taken a house In where they will go early In the season to spend the summer and early fall months.

Mrs. Green will entertain her niece, Miss Rowena Russell, of Ashlsnd, for several weeks. She will probably sfsy over for Easter week. Mrs. Theodore Fletcher Pldjeon (a at home after ha If past 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoons at her Chestnut Hill residence.

Mrs. James Lowle, of 48 Sedgwick Street, Is at bom Tuesday afternoons daring Lent, after 4 o'clock. Brown-8nellenburg. A pretty bom wedding took place at high noon yesterday, wbea Miss Minna H. Snell-enburg, of 2129 North Broad street, daugh-ter of Mrs.

Clara A. Snellenburg and the late ,1. J. Snellenburg was married to G. J.

Brown, of Chicago. Tbe ceremony was per-furmed by Rablil J. Leonard Lew. of the Keneseth Israel Synagogue, of Pittsburg, and former assistant rnhbl of the Keneseth Israel Synagogue, of this city. The brMa wore a whit panne crepe gown, with panels of Maltese lace.

She carried a small Bible and a bouquet of orange blossoms. She wss attended by her sister, Mabel Ines Snellenburg, as msld of honor. Her costume waa of white Paris uiousselln. trimmed with Valenciennes lace. Her bouquet was of Easter lilies.

There were no bridesmaids. Gcrsnn Ilynian was best man and J.isenb J. Snellenburg, Rd, a brother of tbe bride, niaaler of ceremonies. After sn extended tour Mr. and Mrs.

Brown will return to Philadelphia prior to their departure for Chicago, where thev will make their home at 4M8 Indiana avenue. Bpoxd Street Theatre. Helen Mae-Gregor acted Cecelia Loftus' former role of Kntnerine in "If I Were King," arid gave satisfaction to the large gathering in attendance, although she did not step Into the character until Saturday evening. The role makes exactions In two scenes orly; and Miss MaeGregor met these as acceptably, at least, as bad Miss Loftus, who retired from the company for the season after Saturday afternoon's perforfnnce. In other respects, the cast was unchanged, Mr.

Wilson repeating his amusing Impersonation of Louis XI. and Miss Sheldon r.er picturesque and Inspiriting embodiment of the self-sacrificing Huguette. The entertalnment-the best with which Mr. Sothern has been associated since becoming a star is in Its final week here. Chestnut Street Theatre." 'Way-Down-East" entered upon the final week of Its present local engagement.

The cast was the same as jyi last week's performances. Walnut Street Theatre. Grace George and her company repeated their well-liked performance of Mrs. Parker's new drama, "I'nder Southern Skies," with Its quaint atmosphere of the South In the mid- 70s. Its theme of tainted blood, and Its "big" situation of the erring mother's return opportunely to save, her Innocent daughter from a life "of wedded unhapplness.

Miss George Is sweot and appealing as the daughter, and has good players with ber in Frank B. Hatch, Herbert Carr, and Cuyler Hastings. The play has been staged with uncommon taste and effectiveness. The Auditorium. The entertainment offered the evening's gathering under the arbitrary title of "A Sight Avound-Town" was much better than that of a week earlier, and' gave marked pleasure.

The Cnttys, a quartette of versatile musicians, and Tom Morse, whose "shouting" of negro ditties is unique, won applause for their specialties, as did I.e Petite Adelaide no longer petite, but still graceful and supple for her pns- seul. Sol and Nat Fields Weberfleldcd and Allen Curtis Wartlelded with some suc cess; and there was applause for several of the songs. Including "Rosie" and the Strom-berg burlesque on "Tell me, pretty maiden." The Trocadero. The Dainty Duch esses returned to this theatre, and repeated the programme of their autumn visit to a targe garnering, Mouer naa replaced Letta Meredith In the chief char acter in the extravaganza, which had a vvenerneldlan application to the proceedings. Milton and Maud Woods, in their exhibition or wooaen-snoe ana aero, batic dancing; the Exposition Four, musi cians, grotesques, singers and dancers; Tenley and Slinonds.

the Celtic-dialect jes ters; the four Huntings, In the comic sketch called "A Night In the and Allen Wlghtman, In his exhibition of clay-modeling, were contributors of specialties to the olio. The women who figure as choristers In tbls entertainment are above the average In physical charm. Lyceum Theatre. Larry Smith and Mamie Champion, favorites here, were the chief contributors to the olio of the entertainment given by The London Gaiety-Girls, who are In their first local engagement of tbe season. Al Lawrence, the three Herberts, the Cralgs, and Matthews and Ashley were among the others.

"The Ladies' Turkish Bath" and "A Night at the Paris Exposition" were the respective titles of curtain-raiser and afterpiece. Nivth and Arch Museum. The fat women who have so frequently In the past contributed to the gayety of patrons of this resort were on view In the curio-hall for the delectation of the evening's throngs, and won tbe usual meed of laughter and encour-agement for their exhibition on "home-trainers." They were a grotesque lot In their tlght-fittlug costumes, and constituted a sight not duplicate In any other local entertainment of the evenlng. MaVot, the educated horse, was again on view; and Hashash. "He.

and other freaks occupied (platforms around the long ball. A new-comer, named Sandell, offered some feats In weight-lifting and muscular endurance. Charles McKeever was the chief performer down In the theatre, and was seen In a sketch called "The Handy Closet." Minnie Lee, the Deagons, and Morton and Allen were others who contributed to the miscellaneous bill there. LOVING-CUP PRESENTED TtnCJSSIE" LOFTUS She Leaves Mr, Sothern's Company to Joint Sir Henry Irving'. E.

H. Sothern and the members of the company supporting him In "If I Were King," In the Broad Street Theatre, presented Cecelia Loftus wlih a handsome sliver loving-cup Saturday afternoon, on the occasion of her final appearance as Kathe-rlne de Vauscelles In the play written by her former husband, Justin Huntley McCarthy. Her popular success In the role has beeu unqualified; and Miss Loftus Is to resume it In the autumn, when she will rejoin the Sothern forces as leading actress. Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and their company sail from New York for London next Saturday; and Miss Loftus will accompany them. She goes to London to play Marguerite In Irvlng's forthcoming revival of "Faust" a role for which she was en- been played by Miss Terry.

This will be the most distinguished position tbe little Englishwoman has had. A of Mlre a well. L. known singer of tbe London music-halls, she tn oa th "age a'nee a child. She began as a mimic, and won fame in that capacity ry ner faithful Imitations of various well-known players of England and America.

In London, she sang In Humper-dlnck's "Hansel und Gretel" and played In Stevenson and Henley's "Admiral Guinea." In this country, she has sung In "The Mascot," acted Viola under Mnd-Jeska's espionage in "Twelfth-Night," played with' the Daniel Frohman company In "Man of Forty" and "Lady Huntworth's Experiment," and as Mr. Sothern's chief actress "created the principal feminine roles in "If I Were King" and Laurence Irvlng's "Richard Lovelace." Besides, she has given short play and an operatta In the varieties; and she accepted positions with Weber and Fields and Richard Mansfield, breaking her contracts without appealing In the roles for which she was engaged. ENTERTAINMENTS TO-DAY Auditorium 2.10, 8.1ft P.M. "A MOTH Arounu-Town Brosd Street Tliestre 8.10 P.M. E.

I Were Kins" Chminut Street Oners-House 8.1.1 P.M rJii'lfcat "fs'pM l'1 480 M' Eleventh Street Opers-House 8 0S P.M. inuutiui aiiuflireiB Garrlck Thettre 8.15 Elsie De Wolfe "Tbs Wy o( the World" Glurd Avenue Theatre 8.15 P.M. Edward Hsrrlgan-' Kellly and ttie 4m Grand Opera-House 2.00, 8.00 P.M. Variety Keith's Thsstre 12 80 to 10 SO P.M. Continuous Vsrlety Lyceum Theatre 2.15,8.18 P.M.

Variety sad Extravaganza Psrk Theatre 2.1B, 8.16 P.M. "The Night Before Christmas" People's Theetre 2 15, 8.15 P.M. gnaard TbW iue votuuieer urganiei 13. MB r.M. "My liy iseir- Trocadero 2.15,8.15 P.M.

Variety and Eitraraganta Walnut Street Theatre 8.15 P.M. Grace George "Under Southern Skies" THE PL0WER8 OF HOPE Those charming little harbingers of spring, the crocuses, are peeping sbore the dull brown earth In the round, low crocks which are stood out In a row at the florists. They are abloom In white, gny yellow like materialized sunlight, tender lavender, which In the next crock may merge into deep purple, or take ona dcllcutely-varle-gated effect. The crocus1 has always been a favorite with the poets. In the language of flowers, Is signifies "Cheerfulness Hope." Accord.

Ing to one antheor, the bright little blossoma "Come he(or the iwallow dares Aad tuke the wlnda of Uarcb with beauty." The name crocus Is from a (Jreek word which signifies "thread," because their thread or filament was In such request for saffron dye. The Greeks fabled that Croon, a heaptiful youth, waa transformed into this flower, as bis lady-love, Smllax, was at the same tl rut: Into a yew-tree, leave the ship. They said if she was III she could have the military doctor. She begged for a consultation with her own doctor, who was then In Cape Town. That was denied her.

Colonel Cooper came to see her personally and told her that martial law prevailed and that she could, not be allowed to land. She saw the fllmslness of the whole thing, and that the whole martial law was directed against her and no one else. Nothing she could say or do could change the orders. She was to sail back at once. In telling of her forcible removal from the ship she says two army nurses came to take her by force from the ship and transfer her to the other vessel she was commanded to sail on.

She spoke quietly to the nurses and asked them not to lay violent hands on her, as she was III. She appealed to them not to molest a sick woman, and both nurses turned and left the room. An hour later two soldiers appeared with the military doctor. He asked ber If she would go at once. She replied she would not; that she was a free woman, too sick to be taken back on a wrrible voyage.

Ho signed to the soldiers to come forward. She appealed to theui. asking If they would like their mother treated In that way. But they had to obey. They bound ber arms with a shawl, forced ber to the deck and carried her forcibly on the deck of the other ship, on which she was twenty-four days at sea, too 111 to move.

When she got back to England and told hervstory the howl against Lord Kitchener and the Secretary of War was worse than the protest made la ber behalf In the spring. At the darkest hour came victory. "MY LADY NELL" A melodrama compounded of familiar materials, called "My Lady Nell," and writ, ten by Owen Pavis, author of several popular pieces of the kind, was acted for the first time, in the Standard Theatre, yester-day afternoon, by the company of the theatre. It was repeated In the evening, when the usual Monday-night gathering was In attendance, receiving the entertainment I with fervid enthusiasm. There were suggestions of Iiss, "Ranch 10," and numerous other old dramas of the frontier in the course of events, which had to do with a waif, a valuable mine to which she was heiress, a pair of thieves who come Into unlawful possession, a heroic young miner and an upright youug woman who eot the waif her rights, and a Chumley.

like English nobleman who in the end mar. rted the waif. "Comic relief" In the customary proportions was furnished by a Milesian couple and an amorous valet. Mr. Arvine was the hcroie miner; Miss Russell, the upright aunt of the waif; Mr.

Cofflu and Miss Pavey, the schemers; Mr. Stock-dale and Miss Oarmontelle. the comic Celts; Mr. Lewis, the nervy Englishman; Miss Granger, the Lady Nell." Miss Granger and Miss Carmontelle Interpolated songs, a fire in the mine was realistically ft forth, and the audience was delighted. "Reilly and the 400" Revived.

Edward Harrigan entered on the fourth week of his engagement in the Glrard Avenue Theatre with a revival of his great success of the early '90s, "Reilly and the 400," repeating bis amusing and comic Impersonation of the shrewd, philosophical, good-natured Irish pawnbroker. The perform, ance, In many respects, was the best given since the beginning of his engagement here. Both Miss Maddern, who again was cast In a former Mrs. i'eamans role, and Mr. Mid-dleton, who had John Wild's old part of the self-satisfied Salvador Magnus, have caught 'I" Harrtgan spirit admirably, and were f(lctor success.

Nellie caliabau was the Maggie Murphy, Emma pollock's old role, and. as had been expected, scored witn tne song mar giormes me cum forts of that young woman's home. Marie Warren went Into Dlackrace as Lizzie boun, the "bid" negress, and did well. Mr. Moore (his first appearance since Mr.

Har-rlgan's-coming), Miss Crelghton, Mr. Mo-Grane, Mr. Elton, and other favorites were In the big cast. The play has more than the usual number of catchy farahaui melodies. Variety in the Grand Opera-House.

Harry Linton and Leila Mclntyre scored the hit of the evening's entertainment In the big theatre In North Broad street, where they gave the sketch called "An Unloving Lover." Miss Mclntyre won applause, as usual, for her baby-songs. Barney Ferguson and John Mack, a pair of veterans of the varieties, bad a sketch called "The Dimple their grotesque and acrobatic foolery. Fields i and Wooley. In a "turn" of rapld-flre non-! sense-talk; Hooker and Davles, In an exhl-1 bltlon of danclntutbe Fonti-Bonl Brothers the curious lui tatlons of deep-toned Ttt coon," were ofher 'received with favor by the evening's audience, which had a meed arplsse for the Collbrls Mldgets.Wllllam nuni xjnitn. aui Modeler.

McNatnee, the other contributors to the bill. Kaufmann Bicyclists in Keith's. The only novelty In the evening's bill In Keith's Theatj was offered In the exhlbl-tion by the Kaufmann troupe of bicyclists, who came last on the long programme. Therere eight riders In the troupe, which, as a body, gives the best showing we have had since the well-remembered Elliott family appeared here on tbe high-wheel ma- c.nln('l, ceM the "safety" of these Ing, and was followed by an equally-talented aOTKS mnn riderj whlch tw0" of thrilled the aiMine with iim.vno.iort and wholly novel dash heeU-over-bead hi- i across a five-foot table. Ninth- K'ufmann's "turn" has i nr('" 'n" other performers engaged for the weli.

TIiobo th. mnnn iic.i. ers. Haines and Vldocn whr, mi. wnul(1 ntfe as funny without the OTHER OFFERINGS People's Thrathpi "Th rnint.

Organist," a four-act melodrama with a pas- ivuiimn d. urav on his popular song of similar title, was acted hers by a company headed by J. H. Wright and Frances Whltehonse. and Including J.

Wlllard, (Jeorge Wharnnck, Charles Allison, and several Juvenile singers, who rendered "The Palms," "The Holy City," snd the rest of the sacerdotal repertoire that has come Into vogue with the general public. The entertainment was received with considerable pleasure by the evening's gathering. -Park Theatrs. Hal Iteld's melodrama called "The Nlrfit Before Christmas," with Its atmosphere of rural Ohio, was acted by Elmer Grandln and the company recently sevn in his support in the People Theatre The play Is nulte as effective In Its way as the same author's "Human Hearts," which bad a period of popularity with our theatregoers. -Eleventh Rtiief.t Opera-Houbhj.

The popular songs of Irish sentiment were revived for tbe evening by Dumout's Minstrels, snd took the place of the up-to-date ballads usually rendered In Part J. It would ap-pear that a great many persons In the evening's large audience had beeu attracted by the revival; for the songs proved easily the most popular feature of the entertainment, which Included the very successful skit called "Prince Henry Visits Philadelphia," now lu the fourth week of its run. I and freshened by hanging awhile on a line In the outside air and sun. There Is vitality In sunlight. Nature opens an account with every being at the cradle and closes it at tbe coffin; we can become sumrientiy intern gent and can exercise sufficient self-control to live natnral v.

or In harmony witn na ture's laws, nature will have nothing charged up against us. consequently we shall have no suffering no settlement to make and our days will end at a good old age wftb the beautiful glow of health, ever ap parent by good, clean skins and complexion, supple, youthful bodies, minds, hearts and sdos ons. happy and youthful. Fresh air and sunshine shonld be Indulged In In every possible way conceivable. LETTERS AND ANSWERS Madam: Can you tell me of a remedy for wrinkles besides massage? Anxious.

One of the best preventatives for wrinkles Is to learn facial repose. Keep the body so well nourished that the face will share In the general well being, giving evidence to this by Its plumpness snd lack of Irregular Ity. Then It Is Important to keep the teeth In good condition, so there will be no sag glng In of the cheeks, where teeth are missing. Massage for the face is like exer cise for the body, and If used for tbe pur pose of toning up muscle It Is beneficial, All movements in massage should be up ward and outward, to lift up and strengthen the fallen muscles. Downward movements give drooping lines.

Madam: I saw an article In some one of the papers some time ago advising not to brush the hair. Will yon tell me If there Is any virtue In it, ana give a hair tonic tor inula? A. w. There Is a new theory out advising not to use the brosh on the hair, but I advocate its use at night for at least ten minutes after It has been thoroughly smoothed by a comb. Never brush tangles.

"By brushing the hair tbe scalp Is stimulated, circulation la estab. Ilshed and the natural oil Is brushed out and through tbe hair, giving It nourishment. Tbe hair tonic formula is: Resorcln, one- sixth of a drachm; castor oil, 12 drachms; spirits of wine, 6 ounces; balsam of Peru, 8 grains. Shake well and apply at night. Mrs.

P. C. R. Will you please answer tbe following questions? What shall I do with my hair? It Is becoming streaked and yellowish. How may I strengthen the eyelashes? Will glycerine cause superfluous hair? Is witch hazel harmful to tbe skin? Or almond meal? Of what value skin food to the skin, that you advise? If tbe hair Is losing Its color, massage tbe scalp, to stimulate the circulation, open the oil cells and give the hair the best of ca r.

You may strengthen the eyelashes with an application of red vasel'ne or olive oil. Glycerine will not cause superfluous hair unless tendency for It exists and the use of glycerine Is continued. It will yellow the skin, however. Witch hazel Is a vegetable astringent, and If used In moderation Is not harmful. Almond meal Is softening and whitening and Is used as a substitute for soap.

Skin food Is used in the massage to nourish and strengthen the tissues of tbe skin or to build up wasted tissue. Florence Milbourne. NOTES OF THE MODES Dame Fashion and Mother Nature have had their heads together with the result that the dainty and diaphanous fabrics for the new season are strewn with bloom and fol-lage that counterfeit the graceful forms and delicate tints of nature's own creations. A new and charming fabric Is tbe cotton Brus. sels net, the white or tinted surfa-e of which Is artistically figured with flowers.

A fascinating gown in a special exhibition of summer styles In one of tbe shops Is of pale blue net strewn with pink rosea with their foliage in tbe most delicate snd faint tones, as If the artist had seen a June rose-garden through a mist and woven his Impressions Into tba design. Another gown Is of white dotted Swiss printed with large sprays of tulips, the flowers In faint tones of pink, yellow and blue, the long, slender leaves In green, the pattern In coloring and design, bring In art nouvrau manner. Tbe not of black It still Introduced Into th color scheme of the new foulard gowns. Foulards of China blue, rose du Barry, green and other of the colors which are so artistic tbls season In these silks, are trimmed with black Cbantllly lace or black applique. Very narrow black velvet ribbon Is used.

Foulard gowns of fashionable aspect are trimmed with point Vents lace, whits Irish crochet or batiste lace. Sometimes two laces are uled together. Black Cbantllly and ecru batiste lace form a fashionable combination. Tbe prevalence of red In millinery and cuatumes Is very noticeable. A gown of coffee-colored dotted Swiss faintly flowered with bouquets of red posies Is trimmed with pipings and bands of scsrlet silk snd briar, stitching In scarlet.

A white muslin pow. dered with tiny dots In red Is trimmed with METHODIST CONFERENCE PLANS More Than One Hundred Preachers Leave Here To-Day for Columbia. At the Methodist ministers' meeting In Wesley Hall yesterday morning the prevailing topic of Interest was the annual conference that will convene In Columbia tomorrow. After the reports from the churches were read Her. Dr.

J. AV. Sayres, chairman of the railroad committee, announced that more than a hundred ministers would leave the Broad Street Station on a special train tbls afternoon. Bishop Earl Cranston, of Portland, with the four presiding elders who comprise his cabinet, held a meeting in the Methodist Episcopal Book Rooms, 1018 Arch street, yesterday morning, and decided that the programme already arranged and published would be adhered to. The following elders were present: J.

R. T. Gray, J. G. Blckerton and W.

L. McDowell. Tonight the ministers will meet In the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbia, where 8. R. Grove will discuss the results of tbe work done hy the Historical So-ciety during the year.

Noonday Service. The Rev. Dr. Charles M. Boswell, secretary of the Methodist City Missionary and Church Extension Society, yesterday addressed the noonday service at the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church, at Broad and Arch streets.

This was the first of a series of services to be held every day except Saturday during this week and next, from 12.30 to 12.55 P. M. To-day the Rev. Dr. Wallace MacMullen.

of the Park Ave-neu Church, will deliver the address. The speakers at the other meetings this week will be Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, the Rev. Joseph W. Cochran, and tbe Rev.

Dr. Kerr Boyce Tupper. The speakers at tbe meet-Ings next week will be Samuel Shaw, John Field, John E. James, M. James Gll-Ilnder and William H.

Helsler. LANKENAU TABLET UNVEILING A memorial tablet, which was provided for In tbe will of the late John D. Lankenau, will be unveiled In the Mary E. Prexel Home aud Mother House of Deaconesses, at Twenty-tlrst street and South College avenue, this afternoon, the anniversary of the birth of Mr. Lankenan.

The tablet has been Inserted In the wall of the main stairway, and bears the Inscription: "In memory of Johann Dlederloh Lankenau, native of Bremen, Germany. Born March 18, 1817. Died August 30, 1901. The Founder of tbe Mary J. Drexel Home and the Benefactor of the German Hospital." A brief service wll follow In tbe chapel, and addresses will be made.

At tbe same time the doors of the founder's room at tbe home will be opened to the public. Ashmen Accused of Theft. Benjamin Gray.of Fifty-seventh and Pearl streets, and William St. Clair, of 65 Sloan street, were before Magistrate Thornton yesterday moruing on a charge of stealing a box of cigars from the store of J. A.

rnlmer, 1120 South Forty-seventh street. St. Clair was also charged with stealing clothing valued at $400. The testimony went to show that Gray and St. Clair were ashmen, that In cleaning Palmer's cellar thev stole the cigars, that Palmer detected the theft and followed the prisoners and fouud them dividing tbe spoils.

St. Clair, it was testified, had stolen the clothing while clearing the cellar of a bouse on Thirty-second street of ashes. Gray and St. Clair were held In $400 bail each on the first charge, and St. Clair $800 bail onjthe second charge.

They were committed In default of ball, Wrecked Vessel Located and Marked. Commander T. McLean, of the United States cruiser Cincinnati, yesterday reported that the four-masted schooner sunk about eleven miles southeast of Fire Island Light In twenty-three fathoms of water has only her raisxen topmast showing. To this he nailed eight boards, eight feet long bv eight inches wide, at right angles, to mark the obstruction pending Its removal. The Cincinnati Is now cruising southward along the coast to destroy any wrecks she may And.

Forty-Ninth Street Day Nursery. Tbe Harmonle Club gave a concert last night at tbe parish bouse of the Church of the Atonement, Forty-seventh and Klngses. sing avenue, for the benefit of the Forty-ninth Street Day Nursery. The work of the Day Nursery was organized about Ave years ago witn turee cnuaren. in nursery now looks sfter fifteen to thirty each day.

Last year nearly 5,000 were cared, for. Mr. Bell Gaining Strength. Frank F. Bell, the former City Treasurer, whs Is 111 at the Nonnandle, was re- forted yesterday to he gaining In strength.

r. Mills, who has charge of the case, said he had hopes of Mr. Bell's recovery. HEART OF GOLD Look Into tb roae's heart As Its petals fall apart Wbea tbe.tr beauties sll unfold Then ysu'll sestt heart of (old, Sweetheart, la this bresat of Blot Lore for you I deep enshrine. Look wlthln-desr lore and tee The heart of gold I keep for thee.

A rote will keep Itt golden aeart Tfcoueti Its petals fall apart, As they flutter one by onj Still the golden heart glows on, Sweetheart, tbronih life. Joy and pais. Through Its sunshine and its rain Walk healil me. dear, sad ses Tim heart of gold I'll keep for thee. Luis Cooke Von Carles In Kansas City Star.

from Orange River and that Katal would i me "turn is one to ne get the overflow from the Traqsvaal, and feen 10 reattr advantage on an open plat-that the Government hoped to provide at I 'n' uon tt-clle(J "elevated stage" once permanent shelters on the coast. of three-ring circus; but the very re-Miss Hobhouse went to South Africa "frictions Imposed In Keith's In this re-merely to work as a philanthropist. She sf(ct t0 tD difficulties of the ensem-had no Intentions of meddling with political I Dle riding, In consequence, to Its at-utfalrs, or disturbing Lord Kitchener. Her tractlveness. A handsome young woman did Brioche.

Brioche Is a French paste and requires considerable care to be a success; and only those who are very fond of eggs should undertake to make It, as It hss a decided "egsy" taste. In France, It Is used ss a paste to In-close rissoles, and to make Into jelly or Jm in rolls, the paste being rolled to the required thickness, the jam added and all rolled together, securely fastened and baked. To make the brioche, take two pounds of line dry flour, and separate eight ounces of It to make the leaven: place this In a pan, dissolve one-half of a yeast cake in warm water and stir into the flour, add as much water as will be necessary to make a very stilt batter; cover with a cloth snd set In a warm place to rise for about half an hour. In the meantime mnke a hollow space In the centre of the remaining flour, snd put into It half sa ounce of salt, ss much finely sifted suftnr, and an eighth of pint of cre.iin; add one pouud of good, dry. fresh, butter cut Into small pieces: put them Into the flour, and over all pour six well beaten eces.

Work sll this with the hsnds until the whole is quite smooth. If the flour will take one or two more eggs, add them, but the paste must not he so soft as to adhere to either board or roller. When the leaven Is well risen, spread the paste out, spread the leaven over It and kneed well together. Then cut Into small portions and mix again, that the leaven may he thoroughly and equally Incorporated with the other Ingredients. Dust a cloth with, timir, wrap tbe brioche In It.

put it In a pan, snd set in a warm place: the following morning knead It afresh, snd If tbe French, form Is des'red. make Into balls of a uniform size. Hollow them out at the top by pressing the thumb Into them, brush them over with egg, and put a much smaller ball In the hollow part of each; glaze again with the yolk of egg, aud bake for half an hour In a quick oven. The brioche may also be formed Into cakes, placed on a tin. snd supported with pasteboard to prevent the flattening of the cakes.

Open French Tart. To makj tbe open lunch tart is it Is dime In France, line a round tin with a good crust, and put an extra layer around the edce. f'rlck the bottom with a fork snd hake In a quick oven. If canned fruit be used, strain the Juice from tbe fruit snd boll it ranldlv until reduced to a Terv thick syrup. Arrange the fruit nicely In the tart, and pour tbe syrup over It.

The tart Is ofttn ornamented with strips of twisted pastry being made Into a network across It. snd In some cases It Is covered with a lid of pastry, the edges Being well wetted and presesd together to prevent the syrup fronl escaping. In making an open French tsrt with ap- make a syrup with three or four ounces of susnr. half pint of wster, two Inches of thin lemon rind; boll this until reduced to hnlf Its quantity. Peel and slice your apples, and.

having removed the lemon rind, drop at once In the boiling syrup, conk until they can easily he pierced wlih a fork, tske up aud arrange them daintily In rtnas In the tart, and ponr over Just aufflolent of the syrup to cover the apples. rrMifiriira, junun Koie, tiuamon. Ju i wno displayed ber terestlnz. iu'yz" at? th.f,mt:;- 'ben i "er "reugm sne re- turned to England. There she told her friends of the terrible situation in the con- centratlon camps.

ward by the Liberal party, and finally per- suaded to put what' aht aw. heard and knew Into a pamphlet. This she did. nuv nil uruujgui. lur- I RETURNED TO THE CAMPS.

Last June Mlsa Hobhouse determined to return to these concentration camps, taking I wiin tbe Ing corps were quickly nipped In the bud by a oeremn tory refusal from the Secretary of War to allow her to go to these camps. She couldn't go without bis passport, and so the good lady's mission came to a standstill. Mr. Broderlck was said to have acted In accordance with the wishes of Lord Kitchener that this woman was simply to be kept out of the way. Miss Hobhouse decided to go to Africa as a traveler and citizen of England.

Her Intention, as she says, was to work among the starving refugees on the coast. Thousands of persons had fled to the coast.out Of the path of war, and, like most refugees, line only thing they had was life, and were 'rapidly losing that through lack of shelter and food." She thought she could probably do as much good among these people as she could In the camps. Her work was to be Just like Miss Barton's, without reference to creed sex or race. She sailed away on October for Cape Town. She went under her own name, and carried a letter to Lady Hely-Hutchlnson, whom she meant to consult as to the best method of work to employ on the coast.

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