Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-01-13

| fifth stirred them-all tasted the soup to test it
The Other dishes were prepared in the same
manner some. member Of the class usually
being deiegatedto do most Of the work. and the
others helping Mufnns were made In M iron
pan without nfShap. The merry students cut q
caper, howeves, during the process by plaster
Ing batter On each others damask checks. This
| created an upfoar, which the teacher had al
fair pupils also frolicked. They slipped pieces
OF ice down each others back. But through II
| all they showed q great deal Of courage and
| were notAt all afraid to put their soft white
hands INTO anything that was necessary to the
preparation OF the dishes. But there was q VERY
perceptibie tendency on the part Of all to be
socfabie. Every few minutes they would re-
treat TO corner, sit down on each others laps
put their arms around each other and have q
| good time Ito Judge from appearances) gossip.
| Ing. Then they wo MD dance back to theil
work again.
NEWSPAPER GOSSIP.
There is as much interest taken in newspa.
pers as in persons, and there has been no end oil
gossip about the dividend declared this week by
| the Tribune. Since Whitelaw Reid married into
the Mills family, the Tribune has shown wonder.
| full prosperity. A large addition was built to
| the Tribune building and now good dividend
| has been declared The old hue and CRY about
this paper being owned and controlled by jay
Gould Is no longer made, as the books show
that much more than the controlling interest IL
owned by Mr.. Reid and members Of the Mills
family.
The Morning Journal. which Is the last ven.
ture In daily journalism In this city, still lives
1t is making It's way more rapidly than a paper
whit hackneyed name which, 1t bears deserves
1t is very bright little sheet. It aims to be
sensational, and is becoming q dangerous rival
to the paper called 7suth. Many of the men
who were formerly on the staff of Truth are now
at work on the Journal. But the new paper Is
| baby yet. and may die-in fact, the odds are
very much against it.
"THE COOPERATIVE" FAILURE
Kate Field was looking over the morning
papers, when called yesterday, in her rooms at
the Victoria hotel. She wore garnet plush
dress and blue satin slippers. Her hair was in
wavy r1nglets over her forehead down to the
eyebrow line IN the Langtry fashion She was
in better mood than expected to find her, but
rot ready yet to write her confessions, as she
called them, about the affairs of the Dress As.
ISOLATION.
"This much will say" she said. "The ten
thousand dollar salary, of which 80 much has
been said, was paid to John Wales as manager
and not to me. There are some malicious peo-
PIE who keep saying over and over that this ten
Thousand dollars year was paid to me. Lie.
Mr.. Wales had entire control Of the mercantile
department and would allow no interference"
How long was he In power3"
HE succeeded in six months in using up the
capital to the amount Of $145. 000." Miss Field
replied, land ran the c. d. A into debt"
us 1t true that you advanced money to the
association"
yes, loaned it s15, 600 to stem the adverse
tide which had set in: This was while was in
Europe last summer"
us this amount now due you?"
Every penny,of it. was relying on rood
1all trade to enable the association to pay me
back the loanl Had there been a good fail trade
all debts could easily have been paid. But the
trade instead oftbeing good was bad. The re-
SUIT was that the association was forced to 90 in
to the hands of recelver-assets $244,OO liza
bllities $4,000.
Have cyou any idea what per cent will be
paid to the stockhoders?"
None in the least. 1 do not allow myself to
think Incorporation any more than can help. As
am the second, largest stakeholder in the asso-
clatlOn, am, OflcOurse, very DESTROYS that the
association may, be able to pay dollar for dollar
AS the stock will be for sale, however those
who will bid for 1t will depreciate 1t as much as
possible II
KATE FIELDS QUARTERS.
Miss Fields apartments at the Victoria are
very attractive. Some Of the coverings of the
furniture are rich oriental antiques, which Miss
Field very much admires The halls are hung
with portraits and sketches, most of them pre-
sented to her with autographs subscriptions.
one OF them is portrait Of Charles Dickens.
which was presented to her In 1868. at the time
OF the celebrated nOvelist's first visit to this
country. There is a story attached to It. Miss
Field was an enthusiastic admrer of Dickens
and sent him. while he was giving his readings
at Steinway Hal, basket Of heartsease. She
afterwards made his acquaintance and said that
she would never be able to pay him the heavy
debt which she owed him for the pleasure she
mad received from the perusal Of his works He
remarked that he would give her receipt for
the whole amount. subsequently she received
the portrait. with note written in a bold hand.
The note ran: "Receixed Of Miss Kate Field ali
the thanks she owes me and much more, with
which am better pleased than appeared TO be
III the above gloomy presentment Of my state Of
mind"
The portrait is one of the best extant Of the
sion, which the author himself recognized and
refers to in this note. Among the other por-
traits which Miss Field has in her collection ia
cray0n drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence of
himself, and also a portrait of Van DYKE by
Galnsborough She also esteems very highly a
photograph Of Sir Charles Dixie which was pre-
scented to her by him, and which has his auto
graph attached to 1t. portrait of Charles
Fechter also hangs on the wall This she re-
ceived from the hand of the actor. When this
was presented the words Remember me" were
written In ink in one corner. There is not now
IL.
which Miss Field refers to with slight sugges-
ton OF the superstition common to women.
Miss Field also has a rusty horseshoe on her
mantel shelf turned upside down to keep the
good luck in, as she says, If there is any in it.
The past two years have been far from happy
for Miss Field, and no doubt while Oh agrined by
the failure of the association, she must feel a
sense of relief in getting the great undertaking
of her shoulders. Her plans for the future are
not matured as yet. There are several things. I
believe, that she would like to do. She NAV
make journey across the continent and back
again, stopping here and there to give her pecu-
liar entertainments where she may find a good
audience. What she would most like to do
would be to 20 around the world.
ImprOvfsed Sleighs i'm San Francisco.
From the San Francisco Cali. January l..
Some $4,000 young people. born tn this city.
saw snow yesterday for the first time. The
morning was cold, but the snow melted almost
as fast as it came, and when it began to accu-
late it was full of moisture. In three hours
snow enough fell to have made good sleighine
if the ground had been frozen. Two men of adj
vanced ideas improvised sleigh, and hitchine
a horse to it drove through the streets with
great eclat to speak. The turnout was pic
turesque, though not to say pretty-that ia NOT
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