Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-03-29

L
bismarck is no fayorite in France. The great
feature OF the show will be a chamber of hor-
rorS. managed with French art and American
enterprise The illustrated papers sometimes
give US pictures of murders. hanginCs ETC.
few days after the tragic events but the Eden
museum Will do the same in wax with far greater
fidelity. The managers assure the public that
| it will no more be necessary to read the dis
gushing accounts OF frightful crimes: instead
OF getting small daily dose of such news from
their morning papers they can skip all such stun
during the week and then go TO the Eden mu-
scum and see the whole record of the week :
evil d0ings made as realistic as possible. Ii on
Monday morning lunatic cuts his wife into
twenty pieces. roasts one of his children in the
kitchen range poisons another, hangs third.
and blows his own head off. the Eden museum
Will at once dispatch its artists to the spot. VIII
photograph the room and what remains of the
family in bulk or in pieces, will buy the identical
moose, bottle of poison, the knife and the revolt
yer, and do the whole thing in wax 10y next
Saturday evening down to the pools Of blood
on the floor. When a famous court case occurs
the Eden Museum will give the court room in
miniature; with Judge, Jury. prisoner and accus-
crs. In other words. the museum undertakes
for the modest sum of fifty cents to give YOU
more real information about what is going on
in the world than dozen newspapers. You
nee0n tWaSte hours in reading columns of news
paper description when you can drop in at the
Eden and come out feeling that you took part
in all the tragedies of the week yourself. The
French proprietOrs evidently believe that the
American appetite for horror is unlimited but
that we require our horrors to be dished UP in
luxurious style. So they have built really
paiatlai museum, and have been spending money
like water. That is one good feature of the
French amusement companies which. from time
to time. come over here. The panorama Of the
siege Of Yorktown. for which the French COM
pany built structure costing not less than
500 900 at Madison avenue and 59th street was
beautifully managed until the sheriff stepped in
and sold out the panorama for $3.50, while the
owners Of the land took the building. The COM
pany had taken the land for twenty years at a
ground rent of $4,000 a year. The receipts
averaged about ten dollars a day. so the COM
pany decided to- stop business. The Eden mu-
seum's expenditures will not fall far short of
half million dollars, but wax works will pay
better than pictures especially if the horrors
are sufficiently horrible and the police do not
interfere.
THE HASTINGS FAMILY IN TROUBLE.
The Commercial Advertiser was formally passed
over to Parke Goodwin this week. Among the
surprising things which have already appeared
in Its columns is an Arthur boom, not SO cordial
as Hugh Hastings might have written, but
nevertheless q boom for the President as the
next presidential candidate. The reason why
Mrs. Hugh Hastings sold the paper 20 persons
certain to clear out the numerous Hastings FAM
lily from the Commercial Is that fierce family
feud has existed for years between Mrs. Has
tings and the nephews whom Hugh Hastings
took into the business with him, When it was
discovered that she wanted to sell her stock,
the Hastings made q larger offer than Mr..
Goodwin, but the latter carried the day, and the
Hastings will have to go.
sTRAws.
Patterson, the pianist, who actually brought
suit against the Chickering's on account Of the
absurd blunder upon a Chickering hall pro-
gram, by which ne was made to figure as a
"milkman" pianist, instead OF well-Known"
pianist, has now been attacked by the Milk
men s>Association, whose useful members want
to know why Mr.. Patterson feels insulted at
being called "milkman pianist"
Henry E. Abbey Is seriously i'll. and his doc
tors tell Tim that he must rest at any cost.
Therefore he gives up all business In this coun-
try for next year. and will devote himself to
managing Mary Anderson's London season
Child play for man accustomed to having
dozen companies on his hands at the same time.
bits of English French.
From the Saturday Review.
There is an ancient and musty merry Jest
about city madam who spoke only the French
habtually used in young ladies' schools and
who rendered into English the familiar rs de
veau la fnanciere as "a smile Of the little cow
in the manner of the female f1nancier" But
this is not more startling than many other
things to be discovered by those who search the
cook-books diligently. We remember a bill OF
fare in a far western hotel in the United States
in which all the familiar dishes were translated
into unfamiliar French, the climax being reached
when ginger-snaps, the sole dessert, appeared
transmOgrihed as gateux de gingembre.
Perhaps it Is In revenge for repeated
Insults like this that the Parisians now
advertise on the windows of the cafes
on the bouleyards that Boissons Amercaines
are sold within. the only American drink partic-
ularized being a certain ''Shery Gobbler" war
ranted to warm the heart of all vagrant Ameri-
can humorists who may chance to visit Paris
while alive and I'm the flesh, In essence sherry
gobber is but little more comic than rosbif. or
than bifteck. which are recognized French forms
OF the roast beef of old England and of the beef
steak which plays second to it. Both rosbif and
bifteck are accepted by Littre, who finds for the
latter sponsor as early and as eminent as Vol
taire. And sherry gobber is not as comic as "cut-
lete" and ''tartlete," which we detected day
after day on the bill of fare Of a Cunard steamer
crossing from Liverpool to New York a few
months ago. When we drew the attention Of a
fellow-traveler to the constant recurrence of the
superfiuous at the end Of outlet and tartlet the
active and Intelligent steward, who antici-
pated our slightest wants, leant forward with a
benignant smile, and benevolently explained the
mystery.