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BISMARCKS LITERARY TASTES.

The Chancellor a Student Of Greek and
Latin but Not of English.
Ladies' Home Journal.l
The Iron Chancellor is quite connois-
seur in books, and has added without very
much expense at any time to the small
library that he began to gather when q
student. BE is good Greek and Latin
scholar also, and often amuses himself by
translating from the original He is not
nearly so voluminous a reader as Mr..
Gladstone, and is not always looking
for gem or something that will
repay the perussl of stupid
chapter. He once explained to q friend
that the book must interest him at the be-
ginning, or he would have nothing to do
with it. He pays little or no attention to
English or American literature, and al
though many of the English and American
men of letters have been presented to him
he is not veil acquainted with their work.
He possesses well thumbed copy of
Whittier's poems, and likes to spend an
hour or so occasionally with the "Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table" When some great
work has appeared in either England or
America, and is translated into German,
Bismarck reads it, but it must be of sur
passing interest to engage his attention.
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PAGES TO 20.

Once, two years ago, I tried to cure myself.
1 went TO Berlin to the only hospital that
there is in Europe for malsdies Of this kind
The superintendent made me sign q paper
promising to remain 3 prisoner for three
months. Unhappily, after several weeks, I
fell back into my bad habits. But let rs
talk Of other things"
A sort Of intimacy was gradually arising
between them, and when they met again at
night in the dining room OF the hotel one
would have supposed them to be two old
friends meeting after a long separation. The
lady ate with q good appetite, ehattering
with Talbot and uttering thousand follies.
They went to 3 theatrical entertainments
Once she said, smiling: "What is your
first name?"
Talbot" he answered.
"Don't you find it tiresoms to call me
Madam all the time?"
"Not at all"
"0h, how respectful you Irishmen always
are. Russians and Americans are at their
ease Immediately. So I'm going to ask your
permission to call you Talbot, simply, and
in return, instead Of that everlasting
Madam, please give me my Christian
name, which is Mira"
Talbot felt somewhat startled By Mrs.
Relitska's tone and manner. Was she
merely affecting to treat him as q man Of
the world, or as q menial, or was there q
hidden meaning? In his perplexity he re-
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achieved, for they leave the place where
tney stood vacant when they fall, and the
world, although it may be wiser, cannot be
tne richer because they have lived.
1t Is hardly worth while, however, to fret
very much over the perversity Of those who
viii notfollow out this benign law of nature,
or too severely scold the selfish Benedicts,
or the silly, extrayagant girls who discour-
age them; tor, after all, they are only obey
ing another law of not so much nature
as destiny-one of those bits of
quiet irony with which that "Des-
tiny which shapes our ends. rough hew
them how we may" often diversiiea her
labors. Look through the history OF the
world. that is, of its civilized nations, and
you viii find every enc of them governed by
this unwritten but unehanging law; while
life is simple, the need Of population con-
fessed, and communities small, marriage
will be looked upon as desirable, and nearly
all young persons will seek, desire and ac-
complish it Life will be easy, and children
Will spring up like buttercups in June.
NATURE KNOWS BEST.
Later on capital becomes concentrated,
rich men wealthier and poor men poorer,
labor less honorable, the standard of COM
fort advanced beyond what was once the
limit of luxury, the cities grow too large to
be called communities, business takes on the
air of piracy or predatory warfare, and men
no longer profess to care much for building
up country or emulating the patriotism of
their grandsires.
Then comes the eraof Benedict Chambers;
then does destiny permit her young men to
contract their lives into selfish, cynical
bachelorhood, and her maidens to wither
upon the stem or to find themselves "voca-
ton" in the world or the convent, for she
sees this coming destiny that at this point OF
space and time there is no need of more pop
nlation, no need of pioneers, no need of
building up an already overgrown center.
She sees. too, does she not? that an effete
and overcultivated and exhausted stock is
not the one whence to take scions for her
new plantations, and she simply leaves them
to run out, struggle where they will, un-
bound and unframed, flower or fruit, and
finally die down and disappear.
Nature knows best; nature has her laws
and her intentions; and quiet though she be
in most of her ways, the combined wisdom,
determination and effort of the whole race
will not effect her methods in the least.
MRS. FRANK LESLIE.
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probably have nothing to be afraid Of The
most likely event is that before six weeks
are mp my fair client will be madly in love
with you"
This idea seemed 50 far fetched that Talbot
had an outburst of hilarity. "Yon needn't
laugh; I'm perfectly serious. That woman
has mania for marrying, and having al
ready buried two husbands, she must be
thinking about disposing ofa third. Thanks
to me, she believes you hero of romance,
and imagines that the name of Power dis
guises penniless Irish lord of high degree.
Your good bearing has done the rest
Talbot frowned. 'sThat would be the
most disagreeable thing that could happen.
1 would avoid it like the plague, even if I
had to work my passage back to Ireland"
Puzzled by his strange employee and pre-
disposed against her, Talbot studied her
during his next visit much as q naturalist
would inspect strange variety Of tigress.
Truly, she seemed q charming woman; q lit
tie inconsistent and somewhat Of coquette,
but good humored and gay. She had
travelled much, and her naturally good
memory served her well. He allowed her
to talk, as much for the pleasure of hearing
her as to keep the reserve that he had i'm
posed upon himself He would be very
courteous, but cool, for he rather suspected
the friendliness of his prospective travelling
COMPANION. Next day he found that the
gayety of Mrs. Relitska had suddenly col
lapsed. The sparkle in her eyes faded out,
the muscles Of her face contracted, and q
network of wrinkles furroved her brow and
and neck. In day she had grown ten
years older, and was once more the ex-
hausted and complaining creature whom he
had seen at his first interview. He had
known cases analogous to that Of this un-
fortunate woman. The morphine takers are
almost incurable; scarcely 30 out of 100 can
free themselves from this deadly habit As
in all such cases, this Russian woman lived
ou the drug. Six times q day she made
hypodermic injections, which alone gave
her a Fictitious and transparent energy.
Talbot felt the deepest pity as he regarded
her lying back upon the cushion and culver
ing with nervous excitement.
81 am i'll, 50 i'll, (" she moaned.
Regardless Of Tablets presence she made
an injection into her arm, and then lay back
upon the cushion with closed eyes. Five
minutes later she regsined her animation
and her brilliancy.
''You look more surprised than you did
the other day" she observed.
81 am not surprised, madam, but I pity
you with all my heart.
"AhI' she replied rather haughtily. Then
after brief silence she added gently and
with smile: sYou have good heart, my
friend. Yes, mine j. 3 terrible mania.
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QUEER NOISES In A HOTEL.
They Are Made at Night BY People with the
NfRhrmaPe.


Nightmare.
"Among the many queer experiences
gained in hotel, said the clerk of an up
town hostelry to reporter, ''are those con-
nected with guests who are subject TO night
mare, which is more common than many
people suppose. It is not uncommon for q
night in large hotel to develop several
cases OF this kind. In the stiffness Of the
early morning hours heavy groans or a
shrek may be heard sounding along the
corridor. The hall boy wakes up. rubs his
eyes and awaits to see what is coming, and
if he is new one at the business, half ex-
poets that murder is being committed.
"We had case not long ago of gentle
man here who. during the middle of the
night began pounding on his door, yelling
at the same time, Let me out, let me out.
Helpl HelpP The hallboy rushed down to
the desk, and, with the night clerk and the
porter, hurried back to the room whence
came the sounds of distress. All was quiet.
They waited awhile. then knocked. The
subject OF the nightmare came to the
door feeling very much crestfallen.
he explained that be had eaten a
too-liberal supply of deviled crab during
the previous evening, and that he had
dreamed that he was locked in one of the
immense money vaults of the Treasury,
which be had seen during his visit to the
city. HIS own cries for help had caused
him to wake. Such cases, more or less ex-
citing, are of almost nightly occurrence in
large hotel, and usually greater when the
social season is at its height. The guests
who get intoxicated are not included In this
class Of noise-makers. They form 9 separate
study alone.
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Miss Elizabeth Campbell. combination blat K
eyes and golden hair, but the effect is really
produced by the quality of the eye which
permits the dilating of the pupil until it
seems to absorb the whole iris. Her eyes
are really q clear, light gray. There is q
tinge ofsadness in the whole face that makes
one wonder what the world has in store for
the dreamy, beautiful girl.
The second debutante of the Supreme
Court circle is Miss Laura Harlan, second
daughter OF Justice Harlan. She has spent
the last two years at a fashionable school in
New York, and is a winning, lovable girl
Miss Maud Pauncefote, the eldest of the
four daughters Of the British Minister, was
presented at eourttwo seasons ago, and can
not be put with the debutantes, although
she will appear for the first time in Wash
ington. She is already popular with the
young girls who have been asked to meet
her, and will be as much liked as the
daughters of the former Minister, the Misses
West She is a sensible girl, for she likes
America and everything American. She
will assist Lady Pauncefote at the receptions
at the British L gat on.
Ihe Youngest OF Senator Donald CAM
eron's i've daughters by his first marriage
will enter society this winter. All but one
Of the others are married. The debutante,
Miss Rachel, was educated at the best prl-
vate schools, and has never been allowed to
appear in the Cameron drawing room at any,
thing but family parties, so that her debut
will be q veritable coming out"
A PRETTY BRowN-EYED MAID.
The prettiest little brown-eyed maid in
this round world is Courtenay Walthall, the
adopted daughter Of Senator Cary Walthall,
of Mississippi. She is his wile's niece and
was adopted by them when child. Miss
CourtenaY is only IL, so that her first winter
will be rather quiet one. and she will not
appear as the full-blown rose until next
season. She had q taste of society last
winter, and willful little beauty that she is,
is unwilling to wait until she reaches the
debutante age, which is Is. Her mother
has consented that she appear Informally in
her own and her friends drawing rooms
No famed professional beauty is prettier
than this little Mississippi girl. She has
the wonderful coloring of Creole, brown
skin that Aushes in waves of red as
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THE STREET CAR ROG.
There Are Times When the POrker IL Not Of
Masculine Gender.

There are Times When the Porker IL Not Of
Masculine Gender.
Washington Post.I
The street car hog is as various as the hu-
man race. Sometimes the hog has its own
way and sometimes it doesn't. 1t was on q
bobtail car. A gorgeously attired woman
with a square chin and strident voice gets
in with couple OF friends. She fills the
only vacant space. To quiet, unassuming
gentleman next her she says:
"Sir, will you kindly get me package Of
tickets?"
he pulls out of the seat into which she
had wedged him to get the tickets. She
slides along, her party squirms in, and in a
second the space the gentleman vacated is
fuller than ever. The gentleman returns
with the tickets, and asks:
elbow many out?''
To which madam replies with an air Of
concealed triumph.
"None"
And takes the package. Everybody
'catches on" and smiles or frowns, aseaeh
considers it joke or putup job.
The gentleman fails to catch the drift Of
merriment, seemingly, but hooks on to q
strap as il it were all right. Suddenly he
feels in one pocket, then In another, and
then remarks:
"Pardon me, madam, but I think you are
sitting on something that is mine"
Am I?" she asks, and rises heavily that
he may get it. He slips into the vacated
seat.
aYss, madam. You were sitting on my
seat. . - ,
Madam is paralyzed, and the passengers
L
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eyed Madge and fair Pauline, contrasting
beauties, who will set the world by its ears
Some people say Pauline is the prettier,
others say she cannot compare with
Madge. They are just 1s-these William
son beauties. Pauline is tall and slender,
with shapely head and eyes of wonderful
blue. Madge is petite and slight, with black
eyes that make her sisters blue ones for
gotten, and which look at you with an ex-
preston saucY and piquant. They belong
to family of pretty women. Their older
sister, Annette, was married month ago,
and was said to be one of the prettiest of the
years brides. The girls were in school in
Chicago last winter, and went out little
there under married sisters chaperonage.
They are great favorites in Washington,
being especially liked by Lady Pauncefote
and her daughters and other members of the
diplomatic corps. MRS. GRUNDY, JR,
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u.

Breakfast was the first meal which Talbot
Power was to eat in the same hotel where
his employer lodged. She had asked him
to meet her in the parlor at 9 o'clock, 70
be introduced to her young female cOmPan-
ion, and then take the meal together. he
was ahead of her. When she entered, ac-
companied by the girl-a typical Irish
beauty. with gray eyes, rimmed BY black
lashes, With a clear white complexion
sprinkled with few freckles. and with
demurely shy manner-she turned to intro
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she talks, eyes
iull, dark and
dreamy, nose
tip-tilted. Her
mouth is dim
Piled. and her
round chin is
like a pretty
baby's. Her
hair is dark,
and it waves
back from a
low forehead
and rose-pink
ears. She is
naive, and it
will takemany
q season 10
brush the
c hild like
beauty from
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EAaSSAe - ONNA "
Marie Antoinette
sEftka faoeshoWing
q strange combine
ton of dreaminess
and power. Her
throat is round and
soft, and her shoul-
ders slope a trife
more than those of
the modern girl.
She wears her show
.,er of golden curls
,nassed low on her
eek after that type
4 t symmetry, the
Venus of Milo. At
"a first glance, one
would think she
baI %hoN ,or-aIln0
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duce the two young persons. But before
she could utter their names they were tAem-
selves circulating them.
s'Kittyl"
Talbot
Their clasp Of hands approached closely
to an impulsiVe earess, and q kiss was ro-
luctantly left unexchanged
'sYou know each other?" Mrs. Relitaka
exclaimed.
Ever since We were two feet tall Tai
bot responded. I'VE grew up In the same
county in Ireland"
show strange a chance that should have
engaged Miss Mellish in London, TO make
the journey with me, and then you here In
Denver 70 make out the party" and there
was tone Of questioning doubt in Mrs.
Relitska's mind, as though she glimmer-
ingly fancied some plot. "Did neither Of
you know that the other was here2"
II left Mim Mellish at home in Ireland
when started fox America" said Talbot
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the drives near ex-President Clevelands
home. Washington is a city Of homely
women no longer. The new Admin
istratian has brought in new blood,
and the crop of fresh girls contains more
beauties than the famed gallery of the mad
king of Bavaria in the palace at Munich.
Verify, nature has smiled upon our states
mems daughters in this year Of our Lord,
1889, and all that art and money can do is
being done to make their appearance in the
next years social garden one of splendor, Of
sweetness, and light Thousands have
been lsYished upon their dresses. and
lying away in the jewel cases of the
Capital are diamonds by the quart,
and pearls by the peck. The dresses Of this
year will be finer than ever before, but the
girls will surpass the dresses, and the
debutantes will be brighter than the dia-
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Henry G. Davis, Of West Virginia, may al,
most be called the White House debutante-
as she will appear in Washington society
partly under the chaperonage of Mrs. Harrl-
son. She has already spent two weeks there,
and is grestly favored by the Presidents
wife. She is noble-looking young woman,
tall, with carriage Of head and shoulders
which only life Of exercise can give. Sne
is hne horsewoman, perfectly fearless and
she sits In the saddle with the ease OF an
English huntress. In coloring she is more
brunette than blonde, and her waving brown
hair is the prettiest coronet woman ever
wore. She wears no bangs, but allows her
hair to ripple back in the natural way,
braiding 1t on the neck In q heavy mass OF
shining plaits. Miss Davis is q favorite
with the Cabinet girls, many Of whom she
went to school with, and she also counts her
friends IN the select resident society.
MORE BLOSSOMS.
Miss Davis has niece almost as old as
as herself, who will appear at the capital
during the season. This is Miss Elizabeth
Elkins, daughter of Mr.. Stephen B. Elkins
by his first wife. Her entrance into Wash
ington society will be under the chaperon-
eye OF very handsome woman, Mrs. Clark
son, wife of the Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Miss Elkins has a magnificent ply
sique, and is one of the most genuinely
clever girls it is ones pleasure to meet.
Miss Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of
Ohio's new Governor, was to have been
presented in January by her mother; but,
as that is the time of her fathers inaugura-
ton, at Columbus, o., she will not appear
at the Capital until later. Much OF the
season, however, she will spend here, and
she can really be called Washington rose
bud. She is one of the few decided bru-
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Courtenay WaIthalrs face. She spent her
school days in Washington and New
Orleans, and is fitting daughter of the
Hazeltine. and the famed beauties of the
White Sulphur Springs
Miss Grace Davis, daughter Of ex-senator
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A BUD FROM MAINE.

have the friend
ly, magnetic
look Of those
that have made
her father the,
most popular of
A m e an
statesmen, and
she is especially
beautiful under
the dazzlin e
lights of the ball
roo M. Nj lss
B laine has
masses of glossy
brown b air,
which she wears
in the pictur-
esnue Catogan
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the palm to Miss Mildred, the fourth daugh-
ter, who will come out during the season.
There are two distinct types in the Fuller
family. Maud, Mary, who is now in Ber-
lin, and Pauline, who married so suddenly
in Milwaukee last March, are pronounced
hrunettes, while the other five and Melville
Weston, Jr., the young son, are all pur-
est blondes.
A BEAUTIFUL DREAM.
Miss Mildred Fuller is not only the pret-
tiest girl in her own family. but she can cas-
iIy compare with any one of the score of
debutantes. She is tall and formed after the
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girls of the coun-
try have captured
the Capital. They
walk by the hun
dreds every after
noon along PENN
sylvania avenue.
Their sweet, rosy
faces shine out
from the galleries
of the House and
the Senate, and
their stylish turn
puts make you
dizzy with ad-
miration as they
dash past you in
{he marks and in
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6tQue OdOOSdn MISS ftOFeltC6 MtttSI-
loop. On the street she dresses very quietly
and In the English fashion. Her first sea-
son dinner and reception toilets are Of the
delicate tones Of the society rosebud.
Another Cabinet bud is Miss Florence
retary Of the Treasury. She was educated
at the same school as Miss Blaine, and, like
Miss Blaine, she has seen very little of So
ciety. She is not yet 19, and her father and
mother still call her ''the child" and "Flos-
Sic" Miss Window is below medium
height She has plump figure, brown eyes
and hair, cheeks that show the color of the
rose and which develop into dimples when
she laughs or talks. Her eyes are brown,
and her nose is just the least tip-tilted
Another young lady who will make her
grst appearance on the social rostrum is Miss
Emily Proctor, the daughter of the Secre-
tarv. She is q very quiet girl, snd she re-
minds one of Priscilla, with all of that
Puritan maids drollery. Her gowns are as
modest as herself, and she looks very much,
like her father; of rather pale complexion,
her face is shaped much the same as his, and
her ewes and hair are of the same lightish
brown Of his in his younger days
SHE PLAYS THE BANJO.
The daughter Of Attorney General Miller
has the Advantage over her sister bellies in
The noipt OF musical ability. She can pick
fbe banjo with more skill than the famed
Uncle Ned of negro melody, and her sweet
soprano voice has been cultured by the best
tesohers in Indianapolis. She is great
friend Of President and Mrs. Harrison, and
she wiz probably be one Of the figures of
White House society She is the eldest
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monds and purer than the pearls. They
will be the rosebuds of the capital, the
sweetest, the prettiest, and the freshest OF
their sex.
They will come out to us from every
circle The Cabinet will give five, and we
viii get two from the Supreme Court fami-
lies, and another two from the diplomatic
corps. Two will have Senators for their
sponsors, and a bakers dozen will come
from the army, navy and resident society
circles.
So many and so fairi
The winters drawing rooms will be bas-
kets Of roses-passiOnate Jac1uemjnots,
dreamy Marechal Neils, soulful Nephetos,
and mystical La France blossoms They
have been nurtured in secret in the. hotbeds
of private schools and they are now trans
planted with their petals glowing into the
dazzling drawing rooms Of Washington.
ABUD FROM MAINE.
Harriet Stanwood Blaine, the daughter
Of the Secretary of State, heads the list A
bud of 19. For the last three years she
has been trained at Mrs. Porter's school, at
Pennington, Conn, and she bursts forth
into Washington society with her petals in
tellectually in the best Of shape. She has
her fathers quick wit and his ready repartee,
and she comes into the social flower garden
with good looks and splendid dresses. As
TO her appearance, she is of medium height,
and she carries her slender, well made form
with dignity and grace. Her face is clear
cut, and her mobile, sweet mouth is founded
on firm, clean-cut chin Her hazel eyes
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A CLUSTER OF BUDS
Soon to Unfold in the Scented
Air Of Capital Society.
YOUTH, BEAUTY. TALENT
Combined in the Persons of This
Seasons Debutantes.
FAIR GIRLS OF WASHINGTOE'S 400
YOUTH, BEAUTY. TALENT
FAIR GIRLS OF WASHINGTOK'S 400

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.l
WASHINGTON. December