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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
RBER SHOES, An
How 0yersIOes Weaken the Calf of the
Leg.

Twenty years ago very few men wore rubber
overshOes except as protection against damp
ness. They are now quite generally worn in the
cities during the winter months 10 facilitate
walking and guard against falls on icy pave
ments, but the Cleveland Press is little skepti-
cal about them. 1t says: The people who wear
them for this purpose doubtless imagine that
their pedestrian efforts are improved thereby,
but a little observation and investigation would
show. We think, that hey are mistaken. Among
who wear them continually place too much
When the rubberS are new they answer the pur-
q short time they cease to be reliable and
become source of danger. Observation shows
that those who get the worst falls are
men with rubbeTS on their feet Taken wholly
unawares from reliance on their foot covering,
they fall with great force when they do fall, in
stead of easily subsiding TO the pavement as
does the man without rubbers who is con-
stantly on the lookout. Then the Use of these
rubbers for this purpose weakens the muscles
of the calf OF the leg and their combinations to
the ankle and foot. In the case of the man
who walks without rubbers on slippery places
= the muscles of the lower part of the leg-the
powerful gastrocnemius, the supple tibialis an
tcus, the flexible eXten>or cOmInunis digi-
forum, and the pliable extensions of the toes
are held rigid and alert, and from constant
usage are well developed and strong, making
locomotiOn practicable and safe if not always
easy, even under the most trying circuIn-
stances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
To Cure CONSUMPTION.

DENTIST HOWE IN HIS WILL RECOMMENDS THE
FREE INHALATION OF PURE AIR
From the New York sun
The will of the late DR.. John NJ. Howe, of
Passaic, has just been admitted to probate For
many years he was dentist in this city, He
leaves an estate valued at 5000, 900, Of which
$500 is given to the PaSsaic Methodist church
and the remainder to his family. His father
was a captain in the Revolutionary war; and he
bequeaths the original commission, a yellow
document signed by George Washington, to his
son, DR.. John NJ. Howe. OF this city.
A part OF the will relates curiOusly to his
health. A considerable portion is, in fact. q
treatise ON the cure OF consumption. He intro
duces the subject by saying that In S3S his life
was preserved by the free inhalation of pure
fresh air, after which time, in deep gratitude to
God. he made the subject Of correct breathing
of common air. a study. He had been i'm
pressed by observing the result of sigh on the
interior mechanism, the normal action of the
organs being reversed thereby and everything
being disarranged, while full, deep breathing
led TO q healthy development of all these or
gans. He came to the belief that by the adop-
ton of the mode of breathing referred to, tuber-
cular disease and all pulmonary consumption
could be forever annihilated. He closes the
treatise with the exclamation, Sod hasten the
dayr'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
FIVE MEALS A.DAY. Ee. 81
Why English People Are So RObuta and
ROtund.

II think the reason why English people gene
orally have rosy cheeks and f1eshy and
robust" said one of that nationality in Detroit,
"is because they know how to take care of the
inner man. They have five good meals a day,
and sometimes more. The average EnglishmSh
rises about Z o'clock. He Immediately tackles
his breakfast, which usually consists of a libe-
raj rasher of bacon-generally without pota-
toes-bread and butter and two good big rounds
OF toast. AT 1870 or II o'clock the inside
wants attention. Recourse is had by way of a
lunch to plain bread and cheese, which is gene
rally red American-and here may say that if
an American wants to see what sort Of cheese
Is made in America he must go to England to
find out-and the lunch is washed down with
two or three glasses of strong ale Remember
that this lunch is generous one. and not just
two or three crackers and mouthful of cheese,
either. When this is finished the EuglishInan
is fortified sufficiently to last until dinner
time, which is generally one O'Clock, two
hours after lunch time. The great meal of the
day is dinner, which in many households of i
middle classes lasts fully an hour. The custom
prevails in most households of having separate
and distinct courses In many parts of Eng
land suet pudding or baked dumping and
lowed by joint, then pudding Of some sort,
then cheese. During the afternoon two or three
glasses OF ale are taken just as TefrGSher. At
O'Clock 1t is tea time. w thout INDUCING in
meal is made of tea-cakes. mullins, bread and
butter and cake. Then at o'clock at night it
Is supper time. This consists OF, generally,
liberal supply of bread and cheese and ale.
been listening, Napoleon called the English a
nation of shopkeepers. If went to that ;oun-
try to do business ! would want to deal in some
thing 10 eat
ton was directed toward the anti-gastronomic
featS OF DIR. Tanner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
SHE TOOK THE GOODS.
An Innocent Rural Belle Who Got
Away Vita the Jack Pot.
From the Philndelnhia Telecranh-

Prom the Philadelphia Telegraph
A craze for draw poker has gradually devel-
oped itself in the town along the Olean division
OF the New York. Lake Erie and Western rail-
road. II has affected 1ich and poor, young and
old. Time-hunored and semi-wicked euchre
and dignihed and eIninently respectable whist
are now seldom heard Of in lively and social
gatherings Whereabouts. The fashionable card
party now involves am ante Of five cents and "a
limit OF twenty-five. society ladies can talk by
the hour about the game, for its mysteries are
10 them a. open book
Two well-i1nOwn young ladies of Oilen-first-
family ones at that, happened to meet in the
boss dry goods store Of the place the other day.
One OF them was making q purchase which only
the day before she had said she didn't think
She could afford To make. she was questioned
D. her fair companion as TO why she had
changed her mind. What followed Is on the
word OF the Store owner.
Jack called last night" said the lady who
had changed her mind, land by and by other
company came in, and after a while somebody
sa2sested little game. aud we made up a
board ante five, ten To come in. and twenty-five
limit We played till ten, and was ten cents
out, ana just felt awful. Some one said, play
one jackpot for half, and quit Everybody
agreed; There was 80 in the pot before any one
opened. Jack opened for hall. the mean
thing, and all had to draw to- was a monkey
HUsh- Wasn't that awful! Well, everybody
came in and made up nv mind wa >n Z going
to be scared. ana 50 1 chipped along Jack took
only two cards. All the rest took three.
threw mine all away and took five; Wasn't i
horrible. Jack bet half. Everybody else saw
him. / looked at my hand and raised this bet a
half more. There was 50 in the pot. Jack says:
what? on i've card draw?' / said. Yes.
Then he me and raised another half. All
the rest dropped ont, the mean things. took
another peep az my hand and raised Mr.. Jack
another half see here. Jenny he said. If il
was anyone else Id think they were givin.
me a b.ut, bat guess you've got the beating
OF me. and 50 won't invest any more. Take
the pot. opened en- three aces says lack,
showing EN- down, and drew in the money.
Wasn't il sweet in Jack to think wouldn
bluT hiIn?
Perfectly sweet" exclaimed the fair com
paniOn. What did you hoId?''
i only had ono little pair of deuces. Allie
said the innocent manipulation of the Jackpot.
wasn't il Just too lovely for anything? So
thought I'd come over and buy the goods to-day.
Isn't it a bsrg:tiU1''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
NAN BURIED ALIVE.
What His Friends Discovered when
the Coffin Was Opened.

In Fiat Creek township, in Buncombe county,
N. u, ABOUT the Goth Of last month. a young
man oy the name Of Jenkins, who had been
SICK with FEVER for several weeks was thought
TO have died. He became specifies. his flesh
was cold and clammy, and he could not be
aroused, and there appeared to be no action of
the pulse and heart. He was thought to be dead
and was prepared for burial, and 1t was noticed
at that time that there was no stiffness in any
OF the ilmbS. He was buried the day after his
supposed death, and when put in the coffin il
was remarked that he was as Timber as live
man. Inere was much talk In the neighbor-
hooa aoout the case, and the opinion was fire.
9uehuy expressed that jenkins had been bu-
t 1iea , alrS Nothing, however, done about
S removal vas and taken aate ap for
burying ground III Hen Exon
that 1t be opened lii
the body was in such contfiti
hauled 20 miles without beir
casket. The coffin was opene
establishment and horror of
body was lying face downwS
been pulled from the head in
and there were scratches of IL
the inside of the lid and sid
THESE facts caused great eXciten
Quainted personally with the fad cal
kins was In a trance, or that amin p
parently suspended, and that hesaMbsN9Aa REALLY
dead when buried, and that he rerneT 70 con
seriousness only to find himself btt{Heu ep4 23
yond help. The body was them 3ken 70 SS14
derson county and reinterred. TheHiSatx SS5aSS&3
distressed beyond measure at wliak &EESEtlS3sSS$S
criminal careieSSneSS in not beinUS5p~"SsSSSSSsS
sure jenkins was dead before he waS5tSSS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
Washington Society News.


The important part that social life plays at the
national capital is shown by the space which is
given TO society news in the daily press OF the
country. There are members of Congress who
can remember when 1t was unusual 10 see a
society item in the Washington dispatches of
the leading New York papers. Society matters
IL noticed at all, were treated in letters, and
accounts OF only very few of the chief social
events of the season found their way into print
Now, about all the receptions balls dinners
ETC.. at which wellknown people are enter
tanned appear in the public prints the day after
their occurrence.
Ali this shows that Washington life, as well
as Nashington city, is undergoing a great
change The capital is becoming the winter
nome OF rich people. Those who have attained
distinction in art, literature and science are
generally To be found where there is wealth
because where there is wealth the conditions
or He agreeable to them are generally found
Men VINO have attained prominence in public
NE, but whose political careers have closed, If
theS nave the means, frequently determine to
make Their homes at the capital. no only be-
cause their most agreeable acuuafntances are
there. but also because the scenes and sr1rround
nsS which have become familiar to them have
atiractl3n> Tor them too strong TO resist.
ashinGtOn il very different from what IL
was at the close OF the war Then il was
village, whose streets were Stunned in wet
weather ON ace9unt OF OF TIM Ine dnt mud and In dry
neither attractions nor comforts Now n is a
CITY oi elegant residences. splendid parks and
superb streets. shaded and graded as those of no
other city IN the world are Fine statuary and
grand buildings are seen everywhere The SUI
Derbs are attractive, and there are magnificent
drives OF many miles in several directions
Washington Will continue To grow in beautv
tirguished residents will Increase IT'S SoctaI
slCe viii continue To command increased atfen-
ton. The account OF Mrs. senator Blanks re-
ceptiOn Is read with a. much interest by a LARGE
class OF newspaper readers as the account of
MI Senator Blanks speech is by another class
The women all over the country get to knnw
the social stars, and they look for accounts of
the receptions balls, dresses and for the bits of
gossip a. eagerly as the men look for the pro-
ceediugS in Congress. As prominent therefore
as l. the place which Washington society news
occupies In the great daily journals of the conn
Try, II Is certain to occupy still more promi-
nent place in the near future
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
On a Wire.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
"You know liker der poys, because vhas
almost Il poy myself once he said to police
man on Randolph street yesterday. 'but
feels like it vhas my duty to complain a lee
de-"
"What is 1t now Mr.. punder?'
"Nhell. der pOys take a wire and hold him in
der water until he vas big icicle. Dey spend
two tree days to make him Shust a. natural as
life, und last night dey hang him oafrr der door
of my saloon. When comes oudt dis morning
somepody yeils at me to look oudt, und shu Jump
ten feet und almost tall to pieces
eyes
''Nhell, goes after pole to knock dot icicle
down, und in ten minutes CROWD of fifty peo-
pies vhaS on hand. Some call out to poke,
brother, poke NIT care und some falls down
und cries When break window NIT der pole.
| hit dot icicle more times ash haf har on my
hedt, but it swings und swings und doan come
down, und all der time somepody vhas laugh
ing at me-
Il See."
Il hat to gif oop und pay man two shillings
to come mid a ladder. und all der time eafery-
pody vhas calling out 'Vhel, What a Cabinet
officer dot Carl Dunder vhas, anyhow"
And what do you want of me ~
"Nhell, you ship around leedle und speak
to dose poys. Tell 'em vhas like a pOy myself,
but haf some feelings When man pays
taxes und vhas on the ward committee he feels
proud of himself und it makes his heart ache
when crowd makes fun of him und says he
vhas some Eastwood Cabinet officer for cows to
chew on"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
Saturday Smiles.

Mr.. Cleveland acts like q man who proposes
TO fry his own rabbit.-Attdnta Constitution.
Very popular novel (among otfice-hoIders
just at presentlH"Put Yourself in His Place. -
Life.
The genius who has invented an elastic
hustle for roller skating purposes should follow
1T up with a padded coat-tail arrangement for
the other sex.-BdttinaOre american.
A satisfactory servant. Lady-You have
no beaus, cousin or men to bother around. 1
hope? Servant seeking place)-Nary a won,
mum, ownly an ovid haste of a husband!
Edith: "They sat in the cleaning" means
that they occupied one chair. A cleaning
may be obtained at any fashionable furniture
store. No parlor is complete without it.-NeW
Papa, did mamma say yes to you right off
when you asked her to marry you?" Certainly
she did" why don't she say yes now Just as
quick when you ask her to do thipgs?" 'Mam-
mas hearing is not as good now, darling-thats
"Ah! you hatter me-" lisped dude to a
pretty girl with whom he was conversing.
mo, DON'T" was the reply. "You couldn't
be any fiatter than you are."-Burlington Free
Press.
Chinese servants are becoming unpopular in
California: The wages OF All Sin are too high
Philadelphia Ne,cs.
The management Of the New Orleans exposi-
Cbslrter.
Col, Robert Ingersoll is going to Europe to
spend few years He takes Dorsey with him.
True patriots both; for be it understood,
They left their country for their codntry's good
-Ne,O Hdcen Ne,Ds.
Uncle John" Well, Jimmy, have you en-
JOyed yourself o-day?" Jinimy1"No. I haven't
I've had a miserable day." Uncle John-.s Mis-
cradle day? HOw's THAR" JIMMY" Aunt
Betsey told me TO eat all the dinner / wanted:
and couldnt."-Boston Transcript
singer In a Michigan college paper an xiously
inquiries: why comes not my lover to me?"
Have you thought to chain up the dog. dear
girl?-Yals Record
General Butler declares that he is ont Of
politics, but won't own up the truth, that he
was knocked out"-Bost0a Record.
To. G. C.-Dear sir, do not insult the mue-
wumps by offering them office. They are nigh
minded and 1t would break their hearts-N, y
Graphic.
A shabbily dressed woman called upon pen.
tleman for aid, claiming that she was In a stary-
form, estimating the avordupois Of the sinner
tuous fat, and answered.: "You don't look ike
starving woman" 81 know Il {" she Whinin0lv
answered; '.Pm bloated with grief."-CHan.bersy,
Journal.
Now the merry sleigh bells Jingle
And there's not a girl that's SINGLE
But will make her lover take her out tn ride
ride, ride
And he'll sit within the cutter,
Filled with bliss he cannot utter,
With his elbow crooked around his future bride.
bride, bride.
But when she is his BRIDE
In O sleigh she'll never ride.
Or enrich the man who keeps the lfyerv-v
But at home her husband-maybe. - -
VIII gently hold the baby,
While she blthely brews the gladstone catnip
tea, tea, tea -SonserviiLe Journal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
Quits

Indeed, they have not grieved me sore,
Your faithleSSneS and your deceit;
The truth is. / was troubled more
How | should make good retreat:
Another way my heart now tends;
We can cry quits, and be good friends.
/ found you far more lovable,
Because your fickleness | saw,
For myself am changeable;
And like. you know, to like doth draw:
Thus neither needs to make amends:
We can cry quits, and be good friends.
While was monarch of your heart,
My Thoughts from you did never range;
But from my vaSsal did part,
When you your former love did change;
No penalty the change attends;
We can cry quits, and be good friends.
Farewell, Well meet again some day,
And all our fortunes we Ii relate;
Of love let's have no more to say,
lis clear were not each others fate,
Our game in pleasant fashion ends;
We can cry quits, and be good friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
Boiled Husband.

STRANGE CULINARY SCENE WITNESSED nv A
JAPANESE TOURIST.
Japan letter.
Attached to each hotel is a bath for the use OF
guests. The bath-tub and heater are combined
% that the water, once heated, must furnish
the bathing material for the whole house
Arriving at japanese hotel foot-sore and
weary you ask the landlady: "How many have
used the BATH She innocently replies: "OnIy
sishc 1on lorego the luxury of such a bath
see woman boiling her kusband-at any rate
the man l. nall Immersed In the bath while
he< might. The flames pour forth from beneath
while this contented Jap is being cooked. Per
haps, th0Hgn, TINS was only a preliminary
In the cities, but 'isr from the madding
crowds ignoble strife these simple people see
no harm In pubic bathing If it suits their con-
yenience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28

THE GOULD FAMILY.-The entire family are
soon to go on yachting trip, except George,
and they are to board the vessel at Charleston
George will stay at home and run his fathers
life. He goes nowhere of an evening. His wife
Is not in any sense woman of society She
goes somewhat with q little circle of ladies' with
whom she Is interested in the church. but Won
never hear Of her at balls or parties. The Asfors
or the Vanderbilts might send invitations to
her forever and she would not respond to them.
away from the hurry burly. Not but other
people are most delightfully."- treated whenever
as cordial, as unaffected and as well mannered
as could be desired, but they seem to not seek
publicity In any manner, much less In con.
Or wherever they are, they are as Jolly Is the
jolliest, and every one who meets them likes
them very much.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
Cardinal Manning ON Liberalism.

Speaking on the subject of "Iiberalism'' a
few days ago at Birmingham, Cardinal Man.
ming said he had no contention with the broad,
equal liberalism of that just, benign and toler-
ant race of men who had been foremost in this
country for the last eighty or one hundred
years, and who had brought upon the land a
reign of justice and eQuality-men who were
resolved to deprive no man of his freedom so
long as he did not abuse it, and to violate no
mans conscience in his religion in his duty
to himself or to his children. There was, how
ever, apparently springfng up among them an
Aggressive liberalism, borrowed rom the theo-
worst period. 1t policy not founded on
the needs and desires of the people, but upon
the abstract theories and political ideas of pa
gan republicans, filtered through the pedantry
of the French revolution. "Such liberalism"
he said, could possess itself of Christian Eng
land only by conquest worse than Scandina-
Wan or Norman"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28


Here they conner
The speaker was Lexington street store
Keeper Two young women with jaunty
airs and good clothes swept by to descend upon
the perfumery counter. There was q sort of
mournfui tone to the expression of the proprie-
tors face which astonishing to behold.
As most storekeepers would hail the coming of
the pright-faced girls with joy and pleasant
nation
inquiry. That is easy enough. They are still
at the perfumery counter. They chat and they
smile and look appealingly at the clerk. They
over tips via handkerchiefs and muffs catch
ahe sWeet-scented drops that bubble out Then
wthouy wSra and they &C.
1.-The old old story" Thus remarked the store
Keeper The young women have regular free
cologne routes Just as every old topper has his
Iree lunch route. And the lunch tray isn't
worked with any more thoroughness either.
~ was unusual year ago for Q customer to
bottles IN than ana vast time over me
and got it. Now the strange thing is when we
don't have hundred feminines o day waltzing
the acre and take q free bath, with never any
thlng more than suggestion Of purchasing.
Don imagine that these are people who cam
not afford to buy their perfumery. Young wO-
men who are known in all the fashionable cir
cles of the city have got the mania, and one Of
those whom you have just seen is the daughter
of Charles street man who pays taxes on over
$1,000 900 worth Of property: Another woman
VINO comes here to wet her handkerchief and
scent her dress once week at least is leader
In one of the most exclusive sets up town. 1t Is
humorous to see some of them disport them
selves at the counter. They uncerk every bot
tie within reach, sniff, and sniff, and sniff, till
long after all sense of smell is deadened; ask the
price OF this and the price of that; want to know
who uses the one and who the other;
where one was manufactured and where
another, whether certain odor is lasting,
whether 1T is fashionable, whether-a hundred
things, and then at the tail end over they tip
some one of the bottles, Sometimes more than
one, and take their daily bath. Stand 1t? OF
course we'stand it. How can we help it? Some
OF these folks who sponge on us for their cologne
are good customers at other counters, and it
never would do to clash with them on such a
score. Other stores are levied OH in precisely
the same way. AS told you, the pretty crea-
lures have regular free-lunch routes and they
work them with the sweetest sort of devotion.
Costly? Well rather-but not quite so costly as
1t was once. Some of the bottles on on that
counter that uncork easily are not exactly inn
ported. Yes, all the Understanding labels are
on Them, but labels, my guileless boy, are
cheaper than de cologne straight from
Paris. Ladies who really want to buy cologne
are not hurt by this bit of fiction. They know
what they want, ask for their favorite and get
it-not from the display of gilt labels on the
counter"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
How to be Attractive,

Partisan newspaper has been teaching It's
female readers chow to be attractive" Among
the rules given are the following: "Look con-
fdent and Indifferent; express yourself simply,
and with a voice as sweet as possible Be
keenly alive to everything that passes, yet ap-
pear absent-minded; know as much as possible,
yet please by asking questions. Having read
everything quote nothing; seen everything,
prise; desiring everything. ask for nothing. Be
light-hearted to preserve your beauty; be indul-
gent to attact sympathy''-and SO on. These
laws-some evidently notwithstanding laws
are laid down as absolute, with one exception
BLUSH neither for shame nor for pleasure, y
to which is added elf you can help it,"