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The Washington critic., 1888-01-14
The GOTHAM CARAVAN
What Olive Harper Saw While
Driving on Fifth Avenue,
SCENES IN CENTRAL PARK,
Some Assertive Bonnets, Winter
Wraps ana Dresses for the
Ball Room
Special correspondence wAsmsoros cnrrc.

Special correspondence wAsmNGroN CmTtc.
New YoRK, Jan. Perhaps you
would like to see the caravan" said a
friend the other day, as she was
kindly taking me about New York in
her carriage"
81 would; but | don't exactly know
what a caravan is" | replied.
"I'll soon show you. Dan, drive
up the avenue and then through the
park" And, turning again to me,
"If you don't agree with me that it is
a caravan I'll call it something else
hereafter"
We turned into Fifth Avenue at
Fourteenth street and rode hurriedly
up toward the park, and the cara
van" had not yet come in sight.
However, at about Thirtieth street, |
began to notice first the splendid
houses, and next, as if by magic, the
street was full of carriages, coming
and going, filed with magnifcently
dressed women and with highly orna-
mental drivers.
The carriages go three abreast up
and the same down, and few go of u
walk or jog trot, and remind one ire
sistibly of Hyde park, in London.
Some Of the carriages are superb and
polished so that one can see his face
reflected in them. There are great,
high, numbering and cumbersome
things, with melancholy driver and
solemn footman, with pipe claYed
breeches and top boots, and with great
bearskin capes and hats with partly
baked pancakes stuck on the sides in
the way of ornament. There are Ian
deaus, victorias, coupes, and dog
carts, besides many more kinds OF
vehicles, each and all holding from
one to four women, and il
rather struck me as singular that
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Piedmont Air Line.
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SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOV. 81, 1887.
$50 a. m East Tennessee mail daily for
Warrenton, Gordonsvllle, Charlottesville,
Lynchburg and stations between Alexan'
dria and Lynchburg Bristol, Roanoke,
Knoxville, Rome, Calera, Montgomery and
New orleans. Pullman Sleeper Washing
ton to New orleans.
11.2i a. m. Fast mail daily for Warren
ton, Charlottesville, Gordonsvlle, stations
Chesapeake and Ohio route, Lynchburg,
Rocky Mount, Danville and stations be-
tween Lynchburg and Danyille, Green's
boro,, Raleigh, Charlotte Atlanta, Bir-
mingham, Montgomery, New Orleans,
Texas and California. Pullman sleeper
New York to Atlanta, in connection with
Pullman sleepers Atlanta to New orleans,
ham, Vicksburg and shreveport. Solid
trains Washington to Atlanta. Does not
connect for g. and o. route points sun
days.
2.35 p. m. daily, except Sunday, for Manassas,
Strasburg and intermediate stations; con-
meets at Riverton with S. V. Il, r. for Lu-
ray arriving $40 p, IN.
$50 p. m. Western express daily for Warren
ton, Gordonsyille, Charlottesville, Louis
vile, Cincinnati and summer resorts on
and near line Of Chesapeake and Ohio
route. Pullman Sleepers and solid trains
Washington to Loulsville; also for Lynch
burg, Bristol, Chattanooga, Memphis, Lit
tic Rock and all southwestern points.
Through Pullman Sleepers Washington to
IL p. m. Southern express daily for Lynch
burg Danyille, Raleigh, Asheyille, Char
lotte, Columbia, Aiken, Augusta, Atlanta,
Montgomery, New Orleans, Texas and
California. Pullman Sleepers Washing.
ton to New orleans, via Atlanta and
Montgomery. Pullman Sleepers Washing
ton to Aiken, S, c., without change.
TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND ONO d.
VISION
Leave Washington 0,12 a. m, daily, except
Sunday, and 1.15 p. m. daily, arrive Round
Hill HAS a. m. and T.21 p, m; return
ing, leave Round Hill $50 q. m daily
and 20 p, m. daily, except sunday, ar
riying Washington $50 u. m. and 800
p. m
Through trains from the South via Charlotte
Danyille and Lynohburg arrive in Wash
ington 10 a. IN. and 8 23 p. M; via East
Tennessee, Bristol and Lynchburg, at
10l5 a. m. ,and $40 p. m; via Chesa-
peake and Ohio route and Charlottesville
0iO p IN, Strasburg local 0.47 Il. m,
Tickets, sleepng-car reservation and intor-
nation. furnished and baggage checked at
office, 1900 Pennsylvania avenue, and at
PassengerStution, Pennsylvania R, r., sixth
and Il streets.
JAS. l.. TAYLOR,
General Passenger Agent,
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Of the government in maintaining and
preserving the public institutions and
property and in executing the laws where
authority can be exercised without wag-
ing war, combined with such measures
ofjusticc, moderation and forbearance as
Will disarm reasoning opposition, will be
sufficient TO secure the public safety. until
returning reflection, concurring with the
fearful experience of social evils, the i'm
cvitable fruits Of faction, shall bring the
family, which, after all, must prove their
best and happiest, ns lt undenably is their
most natural home. Tho President,
ON the one hand, will not suffer the Fed
cral authority to fall into allegiance, nor
will he on the other hand aggravate exist
ing evils by attempts at coercion, which
must assume the form Of direct war
against any of the revolutionary states"
What intelligent person living is there
any one mean. who has any knowl-
edge of the suhiect-whO does not know.
that this was precisely the ground oc
pied by President Buchaunn2 II
clearly foreshadowod, too, by Mr.
in Independence Hall, Philadclpn
his way TO Washington, February o.
when he said. "NUw, in my view OF
present aspect OF affairs, there is no nee
of bloodshcd and war. There is no ncccs-
sity for It. ! am not in favor Of such a
course; and | may say in advance that
there will be no bloodshod unless II be
forced upon the Government. The Gov
ernmcnt will not use force unless it. is
used against it, Yours uuly
HDutTIO kINg
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RAILROADS.
RAILROADS.
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The Great Pennsylvania Route.
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TO THE NORTH WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
Double Track. SpleHdtt Scenery.
steel Rails. Md0hi fcent Equipment
In EFFECT NOVEMBER 10, 1887.
Trains lodre Washington nom Station, Corner
of Siath and D Streets, as Botlows
For Pittsburg and the West, Chicago Limited
Express of Palace Sleeping Cars at O:5O
IN daily; Fast Line, O:50 a m daily TO Gin
cinnatl and 50. Louis, with sleeping cars
from Harrisburg to Cincinnati and buffet
car to st. Louis; daily, except Saturday TO
Chicago with sleeping car Altoona TO Chi
cago. Western Express at $40 p m daily,
with sleeping cars Washington to Chi.
cago and st. Louis and except Saturdays
Harrisburg to Cleveland, connecting
daily at Harrisburg with through sleep
ers for Louisville and Memphis, Pacific
Express, 1Opm m daily for Pittsburg and
the West with through sleepers TO Pitts
burg and Pittsburg to Chicago.
For Erie, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buffalo,
Niagara, 10 y m daily except saturday
with palace cars Washington to Rochester.
For williamsEort, Lock Haven and Elmira at
O:5O m daily except Sunday.
For New York and the East. 72O. o, II and
11d0 n m, 2, 40 10 and 11:20 p m, ON
Sunday, ., 1110 am, 2, $40, 10and J go
pm. Limited Express OF Pullman ParlOr
and Dining Cars 0Ho a m daily except
sunday, and 3d5 p m daily
For Boston without cnange m every day.
For Brooklyn, NY, all through trains. connect
at Jersey city with boats Of Brooklyn An
mex, affording direct transfer to Fulton
=, street; avoiding double ferriage across
New York city.
For Philadelphia, 100, o. II and LAO a M, .,
4:10, q, 10 and II 30 p m. on Sunday, 81,
1110 IN, 2, 41O, @. 10 and II: 30 IN.
Limited Express, parlor and dining cars,
040 m week days and 3:l5 p m daily.
For Baltimore 6:35, 100, o., 9:l0, 9:50, II
and 1140 IN, 1905, 2, $40, d:10, i:20,
d1o; g. a.ol $40 10 10 and u i20 IN; on syn
o, $40 10 aud 1920 pm.
For Pope's Creek Line, 100 a m and 4:10
p m daily except Sunday.
For Annapolis, 100 and o m, 1905, 400
and p m daily except Sunday. Sundays,
0am and d:10p pm.
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG
RAILWAY AND ALEXANDRIA AND
WASHINGTON RAILROAD.
For Alexandria. o, 6l5, $40, 0A7, 1857 q m,
1901 noon, 2:05, 4:25, 3, 6:01, 6:30, sos,
1905 and 11:37 pm. On Sunday at q,
ga7, 1857 m. $50, $50, 500 and
1905 y m.
Accommodation for Quantico . p m week
days.
For Richmond and the South, 6, 1857 m
-. daily and 601 p m daily except Sunday.
| Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, 6:0J,
7:05, s, 010, 1915, 1107 m, 100, 3,
1923, 6:1O 7O5, $3.50 10a2 and 1905 2
IN. OnSunday at 0:1O and 1107 a m,
| 2, 5:1O 7:O5, $3.50 and 10J2 y IN.
| Tickets and information at the office, north
| cast corner of 18th street and Pennsylvania
| avenue, and at the station, where orders can
| be left for the checking of baggage TO destina
| tien from hotels and residences.
| CHAS. Il. PUGH, j. II. WOOD,
| General Manager. G.. p. \.
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the very handsomest turnouts belong
to the Oldest and ugliest women.
Pretty or young faces are not often
seen in the caravan" as my friend
called it, but toilets are something
superb, though, to be sure, about all
you can see are the bonnets and
wraps. The bonnets are assertive,
and if you happen to look ahead of
you you are certain to he able to count
six or seven styles of trimmings above
the tops of the carriages, 50 that with
the difference in color you would think
you were in flower garden.
There is fashion, too, i'll the styles
of carriages, and one large manu-
factory sends out circular invitations
to his winter "opening," just as the
milliners do. But the new styles, /
am sorry to say, look heavy and
clumsy, aping the English mode,
and differing widely from our own
light, graceful, but strong wagons.
The pretty and cozy American two
seated buggy has disappeared, and
only here and there, some one, who
doesn't care rap for style, takes
his wife out in one, but they are
out of place in the caravan. You
may see, in following the caravan,
all the rich wives of the rich men
of New York in an hour, as your
driver wields the whip and reins
and keeps in the swim, but very
few of them are pretty, or even dis
tinguished-looking, and you feel Il
certain surprise when this one or that
one is pointed out.
At last you reach the entrance to the
park, AMI your driver comes to life
like all the rest and you begin to
move faster, and as you pass the
splendid teams with their iingling,
silver-mounted harness, and notice
the wonderful coats of arms en-
blazoned thereon, you wonder again
whether you are in republican Amer
lea or in the midst of some effete
monarchy.
One carriage wrap worn by Mrs.
Paran Stevens is of silver gray satin
with embossed plush figures, the pile
nearly half an inch long. Around the
deep band borders the bottom as well.
A handsome royal blue short wrap
was worn by q young lady who rode
with her With this she wore q
dress of dark blue cashmere and vel
vet. A muif Of blue velvet was worn,
and dark blue crush turban, with
high trimmings, with tuft of
bionzed cocks plumes standing up
straight. Wraps are long or short as
pleases the wearer, but for carriage
are nearly always of the richest mate
rial A new fad is to take opera
glasses in carriages and examine other
folks clothes more carefully than the
single eyeglass could permit, most
particularly new winter wraps.
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GouId's Costly Country Seat.

Jay Gould's country seat cost him $780,
eco IN 1850. The lawn contains % acres,
and the house has 20 rooms, including u
fine art gallery and conservatory whose
flowers are worth n quarter of a million.
Iryington is but short distance from New
York, but Gould has ne arly n square mile
ofground here and he keeps a regular
farm rs one of his amusements. He has
blooded horses, COWS and sheep, and his
chickens are of the finest kind. 1t costs
him, il is said, nearly 800 Il day to pay
the expenses of the establishment and
his taxes upon it are $1,000 year. The
salaries of the men about his town house
are almost equal to those of the clerks in
a bank, and his butler at 81, 900 gets what
many dry goods clerk would be glad
to receive. He pays his head cook 81 800,
and his housekceper gets 81 600 year, He
has hundreds OF thousands of dollars
worth ofpaintigngs upon the walls Of TN, TINS
beyond description. Correspondence Of
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
4kSslsaEzs lEsEisll
Schedule in effect Nov. 20, 1887.

Leave Washington from station corner OF
New Jersey avenue and z street.
For Chicago and Northwest, express daily
1896 a. m, $40 p. IN.
For Cincinnati and st. Louis express daily
For Pitts6urg and Cleveland, express daily
1855 a. m. and $40 y. m.
For Lexington and Local Stations, ts 40 a. m.
For Philadelphia. Newark and Wilmington,
7.30 a. m 2.35 and 6.5o p. IN. daily, ex-
press.
For intermediate points between Baltimore
and Philadelphia, 1000 a. IN. and 1915
For singerly and intermediate points, 1880
For baltimore, 500, $50, 6.4o, 7.ao, $50,
train, $50, 430 40, $50, 6.55, 6.45,
730, S.35 and 11.30 p. m Sundays,
0.3O. 7.3O, $50, 800 a. M, 1.3O. 2.35,
$50, 4.4O, $50, 300, 6.15. $50 and 11.3O
For Annapolis, e.4o and $50 a. M, 1910 and
d.30 p m. On Sundays, $50 m, 1.40 p
m. Leave Annapolis GAO $50 m, H. o5,
800. $50 p IN. Sundays, $50 m, 40
For Way Stations between Washington and
Baltimore, 800, GAO, $50 a. M, 12 10,
days, $50 am, 1.30, $50, 40, 6.45 and
11.30 IN.
For stations on the Metropoltan Branch,
1875 a IN, "S 40 a m, 40 D m, for prin-
cpal stations only; S1.1O pm and 1870
pm. son Sundays stop at all stations.
For Gaithersburg and intermediate points,
1880 m, t12.3 80 D m, "5.35, III 30 p IN.
For Boyd's and intermediate stations, II p
M, s10.00pm.
Church train leaves Washington on Sunday
only at 1;1o p. M, stopping at all sta
tions on Metropolitan Branch.
For Frederick, 49, 40 IN, 1880 p m, 10 so p
IN. Sundays, | 10 p. m.
For Hagerstown. rs 40 m and 1880 d m.
Trains arrive from Chicago daily O % q m and
5.45 p m; from Cincinnati and st. Louis
daily 600 m and 2.2J p IN; from Pitts.
burg daily z 30 m, 5.45 pm.
From Philadelphia, Chester and Wilmington,
10.45 a m, 2,20, 7.10 and $3.50 p m daily
and II 30 y. IN.
From Singerly and intermediate points north
of Baltimore, 10 a. IN. daily.
Trains leave Baltimore for Washington at
5.10, 0.25, 6.30, 100, o, 0.05, 10 a. m;
1915, 80, 3. 40. >, @, G30, 73O, $50
and IL p. m. On Sundays, ESQ, 7.20,
0.05, 10 n. M; 1.30, 1.35, 40, 3, $50,
7.30, $50 and II u. m.
tEXcopt Sunday. @Daily. sSundays only.
Baggage called for and checked at hotels
and residences ON orders left ut ticket offices,
610 and 1851 Pa. ave.
W. NJ, CLEMENTS, c. x. LORD,
Manager, Gen Pass. Agent.
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WASHINGTON Critic,
MY GRAVES.

There's n shadOwy isle i'm a mystic sea,
Where watch and weep and dream;
No baIque save mine sails over this sea,
None visit the shadowy isle but me,
TO weep where lis white graves gleam.
/ found this isle when Young Love died,
In the cold, dim long ago,
And made her grave and knelt by its
side,
And my poor, crushed heartin itsanguish
cried,
From the depth Of boundess woe.
Again came with the dust Of pride
TO weep at new-made grave
Ambition, too, | laid at her side
For they dropped and pined when Young
Love died,
For the light of life she gave.
And now my barque, with silent sail,
Wandcrs the mystic waves,
And | heed not the sunshine, and dreck not
the gale,
Nor The SIRENS song nor her victims
wall,
While guardmy island graves,
And a thousand fragments drift and ilolt,
The wrecks of the wasted years
But they push aside from the keel of my
boat,
And heed thcm not, as | dreamily float,
For my graves have beggared my tears
MARIE WmGHr.
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Twenty-Five prominent army anil navy
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EAsuInNAnLE WASTE.

us stomacher. When q necklace is
worn, however, it must be as a dog
collar. Why all these caprices no one
could tell, but some one must, in the
beginning, have been anxious to wear
all her Jewels at once and had two
necklaces besides. But be that as it
may, the woman who can show the
most originality in the disposal of her
Jewels is one of the most envied by
her sex, bless them all
OLIVE HARPER
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Party dresses would be far prettier
than they are if the wearers did not
strive so anXiously for long waist
that the effort destroys all grace and
symmetry, and the squeezed up bodies
cannot move, bend, sit or stand with
comfort, to say nothingof the unpleas-
ant effect they have upon the eyes Of
all who realize their suiferings. For
a long time / would not believe that
il was really true that women did
actually wear such barbarities, think
ing them only the workings
of an immature master Of arts,
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Chesapeake and Ohio Route.
.is;l.H

(Newport News and Mississippi Valley Coz
Schedule In effect Nov, 10, 1887.
Trains leave Union Depot, Sixth and d Sts,
1857 A. M.--FOr Newport News Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk. Daily except sun
day. Arrive in Norfolk 7,1O p, m,
1124 A. M,-For stations ON the Chesa'
peake and Ohio In Virginia, West Virginia
and Kentucky daily, except sunday,
sleeping car Clifton Forge TO Huntington.
$50 Il. Mast Western Express daily.
Solid train with Pullman Buhet sleeping
cars 10 Louisville, Pullman service 10 Gin
cinnati, 81. Louis, Memphis and New Or
leans
Ofilce, B13 Pennsylvania avenue,
II. w. FULLER,
Gen, Pass Agent,
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An American Seized in Bremen.

About three years ago George Nelson,
resident of Germany, came 20 this couu-
try to escape the draft and settled mJack-
son, Mich. In open court last fall me wa.
admitted to fun citizenship, and attic. SOC
curing passport Of Secretary Blyarj he
went to Bremen Upon his arrival lI,e
he was arrested and fined 300 mlr6. 300.
told that he must serve -four year iI H.,
army and his passports We're tasen from
him lie escaped and walked tu gul.Hy.
point, where, by the aid of his iirsJ papers
which the authorities failed tO get hy sc-
cured a passport and returned to this
country, arriving i'm Jackson Wednesday.
The matter has been reported to Secretary
BgVul
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breathe, wear shoes that have dis
tinct mode of torture for every toe
and joint, squeeze gloves on that send
the blood all out of her hands, and
then crown all by q stiff high collar
and bonnet that sometimes weighs
five pounds, and her hair-pins pull
and her veil makes her eyes tender,
but she persists in torturing herself so
as to make herself little more at
tractive. Poor little souls l pity
them.
The fashionable colors for ball
dresses for this winter are various and
can be seen in mauve, pale gold, pink,
terra Gotta, and pale blue and Nile
green. The materials range from tar
letaine to velvet, but the prettiest
material is soft cashmere combined
with moire silk in matched or con-
trasting colors; nuns yelling is also
handsome, and so is the silk warp
Henrietta cloth in tints; crepe de
chime is also very pretty and suitable,
as well as are tulle, muslin and such
diaphanous goods. Soft silks and vel
vet in light weight and colors are used,
as are striped silks in combination.
There is no limit to choice except ones
own taste and means. Sometimes the
cheapest dress is the prettiest. pre-
sent two elegant types of ball cos
tunes, which, with trifling changes,
would be suitable for any material or
person.
There is a new style Of wearing jew.
elry, and that is to divert its use as
far as possible. Necklaces are put on
as festoons across the corsage, or used
to gather up a sleeve or berthe, or
twisted among lace as jabot. Ear
rings are set as stars in the hair, two
bracelets are hung one in the other on
the edge of the waist as handker.
chief holder, brooches are pinned
on the wrists on velvet rib.
bons, and sometimes whole
row of jewels of different descrip-
tions will be fastened to the waist
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PIANOS.
0HN +. ELLIS 4 co.,

John F. ELLIS & co.,
037 Pa, ave-, near 10th ST.
The Oldest and Largest Music House in the
CITY,
Sole Agents for the Celebrated Henry +.
Miller Pianos and Mason " Iamlln organs.
Pianos and Organs for rent or for sale on
easy terms to reliable parties; also moved,
tuned and repaired by competent workmen at
moderate prices. Old instruments taken in
part payment for new. Special inducements
to Cash Customers.
Musical Instruments and Musical Merchan
disc of all kinds. The largest and most com
plete stock of sheet Music and Music Books
in the city. Your patronage respectfully So
licited. Remember the name. Remember
the number. JOHN i. ELLIS & CO.,
937 Pa. ave. near 10th st.
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Thc Now Bntton.

Buttons made of dried fresh beef blood
are mongthe trimmings used largely tins
season by dres-makors, They are made
I'm a factory near Chicago, and some 5000
or 10000 gallons of the blood Is utilized
daily. Many q woman who buys cheap
jowciry has earrings OF brooches belt
clasp on hair ornaments, or amy one of %
dozen other ornaments made ont ui lAls
dried blood She may comb her hair with
the same material and think she is using
horn or Nylmite on cciuloid. when Size
Is using only the albUmen loit ot.@ the
bulk of the blood treated has el1poA'cL 70
Suilileis IS NOT moro sinful tHau nrg.'c,-
inc a cough. For ua,y 2I gH.s you 1n
buy bottle uf lE Bull Co1sh syrup
and be saved lom death, ItyI~
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Departures From ID. and o. Station.

For Baltimore, 3, $50 $40, 7.3O, $50,
$50, a. m; 1910, 2.35, 315 as minute
trains), $50, 1.30, 4.4o, $50, 5.55, 6:45,
7.30 S.35, 11.30, p. IN. ON Sunday,
6,30, 7.30, $50, $50 a. M; 1.3O, 2.35,
800 d.I0, $50, 5.56, G.d5, s,35, 11.3o
p. m
For Annapolis, $40, $50 m, 1910,
40 m.
For Point of Rocks and Frederick, G.35, $40
IN, DO, 6.3o -. On Sunday, $40
For GalthersbRrg, 6.s5, $40, o.3O m,
1890, 40 $50 5.35, z, $40 11.20
p m. onSunday, $40 m, lilo, 5.35,
For Hagerstown-s.4o m, $50 IN daily
except Sunday.
For Chicago-1O. SO IN, 9.io m daily.
Por pittsburg-10 90 n m, s, 40 p m daily.
For Cincinnati, Louisville and st. Louis
2.3O. O.lO p m daily.