Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-21

inc abort stories, usually borrowed bodily
from some English publication. ny the
wav. the process works both WAYS; nsVe
seen In an English newspaper once nc
tiou editor Ia the very act OF transferring
an article from Puck, pictures and all;
Now serials are freely used by oil the
cnhiishers Within the past few weeks
readers OF the Sunday papers. nave had
their choice between serials by Wiliiam
Black. Conan Doyle, Frank Stockton
Haggard, Kipling. and many lesser lgn's.
fr Ty BachelIer's master of Silence
which has been running In the Herald IL
baa a subject and method OF treatment
In which many readers would feel no In
terest. but no one who has ever specu,,
lated upon the occult forces OF the natural
human mind could lay down an install,
ment unfinished. Mr.. Bachelor had good
.T 10 publish the story in book
form. but deliberately preferred the news
paper medium as opening. for him far
wider circle of readers than any book
The mapazine people needn't fear. This
is a reading age. and there Will be plenty
Of room for them.
PRrrHEE, DON'T GROW OLD.
A good many people IN New YORK THINK
thev have mastered the secret OF eternal
voutb. or az least Of preserving youthful
appearances far past the usual date OF
crows feet and wrinkles. The secret Is
facial massage" All the queer little FUR
rows and wrinkles caused by the plows.
hsrrows horse-rakes. and other hgurs-
tive Agricultural implements of Father
Time are the result of fixity OF the
muscles. lack of elasticity, over-exerc1se
az some and total disuse Of Others. ALI
this the masseur or masseuse undertakes to
cure by kneading and rubbing and pinch
ing the skin and flesh of the cheeks, chin,
forehead, and temples by stroking the
the features a general oyerhauling. And
II works, too. Only if an amateur under
takes the Job the victim is apt to exclalm:
"Ouch You hurt
Why people should want TO take all the
meaning and character out OF their faces
in this fashion and reduce themselves 70
the likeness of smooth pretty dolls L can't
understand, but they do. Even men are
not seldom guilty of the vanity.
BACK TO NEW YORK.
Mr.. William Dean Howells decision to
return to New York to live Is not sur
prisinp. Boston still remains the best city
In the country to sell books in, but hardly to
write or publish them. II is little incon-
yenient TO have to cross two States TO get
TO ones Office, as Mr.. Howells has found.
The author of "A Modern Instance " is
thoroughly good fellow, and with scarcely
a trace of the cynicism and none. of the
snobbishness which people fancy they see
in his work He is very witty, courteous,
and communicable, and withal sincere
Socialist, who believes in nationalism in
everything, and is always ready to go as
far in its advocacy as his publishers will let
him. as those who remember Conrad
Dryfoos and Minister Peck will readily
admit. Some of the more advanced Social-
lists are inclined to find fault with Mr.
Howells for not being more bold IN his ed
vocacy, but he has family to support and,
really a man must live.
It's very easy TO call man literary
dude when you haven't seen him.
COLONEL sHEPARD's ENGLISH BUSES.
I've often wondered why no more use is
made in this country OF omnibuses with
seats on top. The Fifth-Ayenue Stage
Company runs eight on pleasant days, all
imported from England. and I've often
seen people waiting at the street-corners
while one of the oid-fashioned buses goes
by in the hope that one of the new ones
will come along next. They have the fami-
liar little spiral iron staircase on the back
platform by which ladies can mount TO
the roof easily, and there's nothing finer
than ride on top on fresh June day.
Perhaps in ten years more the guide-book
makers will advise visitors TO New York to
ride all over town on the tops OF buses
and cars, but the buses and cars Will trst
have to be built two-storied.
THE ToMBs TRANSFORMED.
One of the good old landmarks of New
York is losing some of its ancient charac-
ter. The Tombs prison has long been q
favorite with tine sight-seer as one of the
few examples of pure Egyptianesque archi-
lecture in the country. Anything but q
prison would have looked supremacy
ridiculous in this gloomy, windowless
style, but as it is a new terror Is added to
the usual consequences of wrong-doing by
the chance of being immured IN such
dark above-ground sepulchre.
However, the Tombs will never look
quite so gloomy again. An utterly Incon-
eruous but very cheerful addition of vel
low bricks is rising above its blackened
granite. As nobody ever heard of two
stored Egyptian tomb the style really had
to be abandoned, but the result is very
! peculiar.
NIB. flowers POPULARITY.
The strength which Flower is developing
In the New York canvass is surprising to
some people. The fact that Mr.. Flower
| is most popular where he is best known,
up among the farmers of Jefferson county,
is certainly not against him. The fact is
Mr.. Flower, though very wealthy, is a
plain man personally, is easily approached,
and never puts on airs.
auonor IN Whom Honorp