Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-17

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THE DIME MUSEUMS
There is no end TO the variety of shows offered
to the public OF New York What amuses me
most is the frantic struggle the different dime
museums keep up In rivalry Of one another. When
all natural curlosites give out they turn their at
tention to exhibitions of ordinary objects, grouped
in such way as to form an extraordinary attrac-
tion-the baby show for instance. One museum
started baby show, and they followed all through
There were white oaby shows, black baby shows,
fat baby shows and lean baby shows Then there
were cat shows, exhibitions OF herds of women,
then there were exhibitions Of alleged female
beauty. Museums followed with exhibitions of
male beauty, and now museum in Chatham street
has advertised an exhibition OF "cOlored beauty"
noticed the announcement in an evening paper
and dropped in to look at the "beauties" There
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dressed neatly and plainly. Viewed as an ex-
hlbitlon Of female beauty It is undoubtedly su-
were every shade of mullato, octoroon and quad
room. and three OF them would be pronounced
perfectly white Dy ten out of eleven. The only
thing that indicated negro blood in their veins
was the Kindness OF the hair, One noticed par
lures as clearcut and regular as any Saxon belle,
and the blush on her cheek was distinctly
ID their Many asnos Of .nt then quite
any Justice, for the feet were certainly OF
extraordinary size and the hands coarse. Their
eyes, viewed In the light OF an exhibition, were
GOOD.
hair, In the way Of beauty, was Invariably dead
failure. Taking it all in all, however, as have
beauty exhibitions in New York. 1t was this
same show that Mr. Langtry was advertised in
play-bils said he had been Imported from Eng
land at an enormous expense, and that this was
positively his only appearance in this country.
walked out on the stage, a weakened. sailow,
dif1dent and hollow.chested young man, who
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a highly melOdramatic voice. bowed and ran off.
It seems to me that this is pushing the advertis-
great many OF the humber and more gullable pa
irons OF the museum sincerely believed that that
was really the husband of the Jersey Lily.
THE ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS.
I suppose that the nation which furnishes the
least useful class OF citizens in America is the
Italian. AS far as my observation goes, and it
has been somewhat extensive, the Italians are the
only people in town who are absolutely and in
cOrrgbly useless to the city. The talk about the
Chinese falls fat when the Italians are consid-
cred. They seem to have no aspirations higher
than organ grinding. peanut vending, street clean
Ing and garbage collecting. They do work that
the citizens of no other country will do, and they
seem perfectly satisfied with it and desire nothing
better The police find them little trouble to the
city, though very quarrelsome among them
selves. The primary trouble seems to be
their ignorance. II some Of the wealthy
Italians in the city would organize schools
or take measures to teach their poor countrymen
the commonest rudiments OF the English language
something might be done. But no effort is made,
ana the result IS that the peasants who come from
Italy are Ignorant supersttiOus and lazy, and are
satisfied to remain So They refuse to teach their
themselves It requires the interference OF the
police to get their children to the italian schools
even, and almost none OF them will submit to the
little ones attending English speaking schools
This Is the reason that the children grow up to be
fully as ignorant and as far behind the age as
their parents 1t is bad that they should not
know enough to take advantage OF the many OPP
portunittes that are offered them to improve them
selves