Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-22

He IL beautiful performer, and happening TO
possess face charming in line and after the
Angelic type as seen in the old masters, when
at his organ looks like rapt but muscular
St Cecilia.
Nh. wIcKHAM's BRIc-A-BRAc.
The apartments of Mr.. William c. Wickham
In the Metropolitan opera house, suite Of six
rooms, are described as q show place well
worthy OF attention Mr.. Wickham is a we'll
known collector. In the gem room of the Metro
pohtan museum is q case Of old watches and
precious things loaned by Mr. Wickham. The
special feature of his rooms is his collection
OF armor. This is used in their decoration and
ments in town.
But all bachelor quarters are not confined to
apartment houses and studio buildings. From
the humble lodging houses for gentlemen
only TO entire brown-stone dwellings they exist
IN every form. The late Allen Thorndyke Rice
at one time occupied the vice presidents
spacious house, and again the residence of Mr..
James Gordon Bennett.
AT the Osborne villa at Mamaroneck Mr.
Howell Osborne has a complete establishment,
separated from the lower part of the main
villa by the porte cochere and connected with
it by the passage-way above. In this part of
the house was the billiard-room have before
described. The kitchen was tiny but complete.
the dining-room small but very attractive, and
the sitting-room and library appropriately
robust
Other men club together, take house, and
apportion its rooms among them. There are
nests OF houses so constructed all over the
town. Not unfrequently woman is at the
head OF such proprietary clubs, as it were. who
manages the servants, attends to the table, and
laundry and pays the bills. This cooperative
housekeeping is very popular and successful
when the right sort of business-like women can
be found. But most men do not care for q
table, French breakfast being all that their
needs require until an early breakfast with a
fork. Dinner is more formal and ceremo-
NOUS occasion and its opportunities are
various.
SMOKING DEN.
Mr.. Frank Fairness, of Philadelphia, has a
smoking den that is regarded as one of the
notable rooms in the country. Philadelphia
| has several distinctions among others it is a
city of back alleys. This is not only con-
venience, in the matter of ash barrels, which
Philadelphians send out the back way. but it
allows for many pleasant eccentricities of
building. 1t is on this back alley exposure
| that Mr.. Fairness has built his smoking den.
Mr.. Fairness Is mighty hunter, and has
travelled many times to the Rocky mountains
and returned home laden with spoils. This
den is one-story high, built of cedar slabs I'M
planed and with sloping roof. Inside there
Is dado Of Embarked young cedars and a
fireplace built OF rough blocks of gness The
rafters are exposed and the beams are hung
with skins and Indian blankets. The table is
cedar slab mounted on Embarked cedar
legs, the chairs rough in form and work.
manshlp. but made easy with the skins of
buffalo and bear. The adornments of the
room are antlers of moose, elk and deer, the
horns OF the buffalo and the huntsman's arms.
One side OF the room is hung with engrav-
ings. 1t seems that man could not express
himself in more ideally virile manner than
In this room. MARY GAY HUMPHREYS.