New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-27


see vour taeth I envy yondsr man Adam. who never
Maid you compliment 10 my hearing. 80 take
bite of this lady apple and cut your wisdom toothp
Che bit because he Bit and the rst bite was suck
Ever since 1t has been problem whether knowledge
added anything to woman.
Mahomet waa q judge of that sex and
he said they had souls. and made 1t
ON article of faith though he never ceased to adore
the beauty and affection of women. and set them
plentifuIly In Paradise But he did not think they
had the unity of mans mind, which has produced
it's greatest IN solitude and which suffers slight de-
cav by celibacy but the sou in the man forgets the
flesb by perseverance,, as in monks who guarded all
the learning Of the Middle Ages and became strong
BY abstinence Woman. with her social life omitted
| Is like vine without support. l remember when
I wss boy that the country was full OF L0mbardy
poplar trees and now they are nearly all gone' ano
what remain are like dying parasites. weedy ano
spinster-like and professor once told me 'nat ~
was because Mr. Jefferson had brought over only the
| female tree.
At tho Arion ball some of the most elaborate
dresses some Of the queenliest figures. were from
che Lorette side of lfe and the great annual Dali OF
this kind gives them their only chance 10 meet
their sex again. Their social pride starts forth.
their charms of person and sense of dress lay bold
on one holy opportunity to come back to the woriu.
It Is only one brief night, but it is that mucn Oh
recognition Then the lamps 60 out and the cap''e
goes back to her rancid palace
Gan Won understand why German, usually 81
neocefu should put in his conception OF pupic iun
TO strike his friend. roaring bis mrtn. 'reauine vi
ones aouty foot and setting his stick on anothers
cornsi That was the style ut the Dali 10 greaI eA
cont and nobody must resent 1t. Their notion
NJ bumor in art is very much the same-draWine
laughter with bludgeon and seldom able to carl
DrllCDal
onisms of their Jokes being sobriety, virtue and
religion. Methinks a good subject for Keppler
would be the quality of slops sold in this city Tor
beer where do not believe there is single glass
of pure lager brewed from New-Years to Christmas.
Glycerine tartarc acid. yeasty. smelling, sourlng
ux 1t is vet the subject of annual celebration, as II
we must substitute it for public worship. NO won
der the consumption of foreign beers made under
official inspection is increasing here and there are
now q dozen places where the beers OF Bremen, DO
hemia and Bavaria are on the tap I
ARCHITECTURE on THE AVENUE.
Going up Fifth-ave. yesterday, made study OF
some new houses. Mr.. Vanderbilt's double brown
stone block take to be pair of Roman or Pom
peian villas of the exquisite tint of New-York
brownstone. which for color is hardly eQualled in
the world but is Of slight endurance in our climate
The frequent carving of LEAKAGE aud flower on this
exterior will perhaps last generation and half.
which is the usual term Of an American fortune.
The third house of this trio in what appears to ba
an imported stone such is used In London for
cathedrals and public edfces-though it may
be an Ohio hmestone--is the gem OF New
York residences, being in substance secu-
lar Gothic building. adopted from Spanish
Flanders or the North of France. where similar
forms are seen in the town balls and sometimes IN
the courts. The Palais de Justice Mt Rouen might
have furnished every feature of this dwelliug-its
exquisite porch and balcony over the middle, with
crocbetted pinracles alongside the fairy turct and
bold dormers cut out Of the air and the spires and
louvres on the roof Gothic forms are somehow con-
sonaut to English-speakng people everywhere be-
cause, suspect. they are drawn from Nature so
closely. II you take any flower out Of my basket
aud look at 1t through microscope yOu will lind 1t
Gothic made of leaning and bending parts, and not
stiff aud angular like the Greek, where art sprang
from the simple needs and severe reason OF
man instead Of being tho lesson OF
the woods and of the boats upon the
fir-coasted seas We are Gothic too. or Germanic.-
which is nearly the same-and the smell of the pine
tree Is inherited in nostrils. house like that
have last setcbed is educator. and not often In
Europe is seen as good a Gothic study. Indeed we
are building for private houses in America the
bishops palaces hotels de vile and public courts OF
Europe, particularly of that part of Europe New
York represents in her origin the northern coasts OF
the Continent. where French and German Bohe-
milan and Savoyard melted into the Dutch nation
Yet of Dutch forms we have but few, as
we have grown out Of Dutch theOlogies.
The prettiest brick house In New-fork'
at the southwest corner Of Fifth-ave. ard
Fifty-seventh-st., is unique in Ddtch gables, ana
shows the twisted splre. The Little Church
Around the Corner" in Twenty -ninth-st.. is Dutch
as il can he Dutch insignia, the stork are IN sew
eral of the new Broadway houses Strange that the
erection of SO much of this Dutch revival should
have BEEN not Dutch. but Scotch! l cannot fud
that any of ryings stock till the last generation
was Dutch, and his financial patron, Astor. was
German, Mr. Paulding. the friend Of Irving. was
Dutch and therefore, perhaps. less free TO Garcia
ture the Dutch type. Irving's first political model
was Aaron Burr whom he went to Richmond as
newspaper correspondent to befriend and his pollt
cal patron was Martin Van Buren,. whom gossip about
Undertook used TO say, doubt to the Islander OF
a good woman, that he was Burps son. At Bladens-
burg, near Washington. where William Writ was
boru 1t was as current talk that he was the son OF
Washington. The fathers OF both Van Buren, and
Writ kept hiahwsyside taverns.
SCRAP OF FAMILY HISTORY.
Since am upon the subject OF family origin let
me present buttonhole bouquet TO Chief-Jnstice
Folger who is being talked about for the Cabi-
net. Folger comes from Geneva, New-York. at the
opposite end of the gray fnvial Seneca Lake from
Watkins Glen. The name Foiger appears in Nam
tuckst Island. where Walter Folger. Congressman
| from Massachusetts from 1917 to 1919. was born.
and he like the late Lucretia Mott. also born there
| was descendant Of Benjamin Marklins family.
Peter Foleer was ono of the FIRST settlers OF Nan
tucket, and the boss OF the island. He understood
and spoke Indian. BE had daughter Abiah FoIger
4 who married Boston soap-boiler named Franklin,
| and her fifteenth child was Benjamin Franklin.
| Lucretia Motifs mother was Folger.
Peter Folger's father. John Folger. had emigrated
| from England in 1885 and pitched on Martha's
Il U;c.vorH Thanca pafar having unarriad Mary