Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-06
nee OF The Evening star.

rHExsELvEs-AS ATHLETIC YOUNG WOMAN.
Special Correspondence OF The Evening star.
NEw loRE. Feb. T. 1892
VNHE EXCISE LEGISLATION AT AZ
l. bany threatens TO he a. bad No il can be.
The liquor dealers OF the state. who have . very
compact and powerful organization. have.
through their counsel introduced bill which
practically does away with all the restrictions
which have grown up about the business Sunday
liquor selling from O'Clock in the afternoon
to in the morning is allowed. Policemen are
forbidden to enter the saloons for evidence.
and other features intended to give full play TO
the liquor sellers are included in the measure.
There Is to be a mass meeting Of all the tenn
perance or excise reform associations held here
next monday. A very strong delegation will
DE heard IN opposition TO the bull at Albany on
next thursday. but in view Of the record ON
this question Il Is doubtful IL these protests
Will amount TO much. The air however il full
OF protests. because on more general lines the
better element in the democratic marty N arisen
IN active resentment of senator Hills rough
shod methods IN forcing the state convention.
Here. too, is the text FOR a great mass neetiny
winch Is 10 be held IN the city next week There
are some indications that senator Hill Is a little
nervous over the situation. Still there has
hothlng yet appeared IN the way of n modsa-
catioh OF ms program.
WORSE THAN A BOWL
The classic three wise men of Gotham Vim
went to sea in a bowl may be considered sane
anc systematic sailors beside the crews OF the
dumping scows. The last couple TO be reseued
nave Just spent q week IN sea in one of those
ungalnly craft l said last week that this adyen-
tufe Was worthy of one Of Clark Russells lurid
sea tales, but when two men take a weeks
cruise in a heavy mud scow. with a dav'.
provisions and milk pail of water,
Win terrible gale blowing and the
seas running literally mountains high without
chart or sail or rudder. and are.picked up le0
miles from their starting place as good as new,
though their trssty vessel WAS sinking under
Them, Clark Russell is simply not IN IL Jules
Verne might touch It OF, Stevenson or per-
maps Rider Haggard could throw in a few PIC
turesque details for artistic verisimilitnde. but
TO really do it justice would require the cbidik.
commence anu the graphic pen of that friend OF
our youth, Baron Munchausen. IL has not pre-
vlously been supposed that to be eligible for n
position IN the street-ceaning denart,nent one .
was required 10 Possess a knowledge of the
science OF navigation, but hereafter a strict
examination IN this branch will doubtless be
instituted. for nayIgators certainly need 90 be
capped.
THoRouGH-PAcED VILLAIN.
People who seldom trouble themselves 10
read the unsavory details Of a murder trial
have been following with real interest the trial
of Harris, the young medical student who has
just been convicted of deliberately poisoning
his unacknowledged girl wife. The universal
feeling seems to be that the verdict is a lust
one and that the world Will be well rid Of such
moral monster. With their usual calm i'm
partiality the experts have testified to the
most contradictory concusiohs but nothing
seems to shake the fact that this man. though %
young, has been for years a systematic villain,
planning and executing his crimes deliberately
and without remorse or shame. No one hes
heard from his lips a syllable Of pity for the
poor young girl whom he doomed to suffering
and death, hls only thought when he saw the
breath leave her body being. ''Shall I be held
responsible?" Ii has been indeed pathetic TO
see his mother faithfully beside him every day,
believing IN him as implicitly did the in
nocent young wife, and confident that no
one could truthfully say her darling son Was
murderer. 1t n difficult to believe that a man
capable OF such cold-blooded cruelty was ever
a little innocent baby in his mothers arms, or
toddling boy saying his prayers at his
mothers knee. And is II not the very irony OF
fate that but few years ago his mother before
great assemblage Of women in the Metropoi-
tan Opera House, made an address on the
proper training of children, which YVES warmly
Endorsed by Miss Frances Willard, who said
that Mrs. Harris own children were SO admir-
ably brought up that they were . living inus-
tration OF her theorles2
HE SELECTED THE WRONG vrcrrN.
The modern athletic training Of women b
the figure andcomple1ion of the athletic young
woman, not to speak of the becoming costumes
her exercises demand, but at times also IL proves
Its usefulness. The young woman who ~ she
was ascending the steps OF the elevated with
her arms full OF the results Of days shopping
felt in the pocket of her jacket q cropping hspd
was armed for just this emerDency. The pocket
contained her purse, with what was left after
her days shopping and the return ticket 10 hsr
suburban home. With the true sporting in
al< n -
ures of the chase, and dropped them In time to
grab the man 8 wrist before he could extricats
II from her pocket. She cheerfully tumbled
down stairs with him rather than loose her
grip, and arrived at the bottom still holding il
fast and calling loudly for help. Help soon
came. asd the valiant young woman kept her
purse and, let US hope, regsined her bundles
also.
THE GAS METER FrESD.
Another peril seems to be added to the man-
fold dangers of tenement house life. The luck
less inhabitants nightly expect to be burned in
their beds, to say nothing of their chances Of
having smallpox or typhus fever in the next
room. IL they escape these dangers and their
children do not sssassinate themselves by fall-
ing down the dark ana narrow stairways there
Is still the active gas meter ready to bowl them
over. One energetic meter In the basement Of
q four-story tenement on Park avenue got In
its work SO effectually on Tuesday that in one
night 1t nearly succeeded in cleaning out the
whole house. ana would have quite succeeded
had it not been interrupted by an officious jan
itor and several policemen. who smashed win
dows and skylights recklessly. The posslbili-
ties of ieaky meters and occasional suicides are
sufficient to keep dodgers on the alert.
THE sAvANrs OF THE KITCHEN.
No one who looked in at the Metropolitan
Opera House assembly rooms Tuesday night
would have fancied there was any scarcity OF
cooks in New York, in spite Of the frequent
lamentations of housekeepers to that effect
There were perfect cohorts of cooks frisking
around in as lively a manner IL they never
saw a range or heard Of q grioron. For the
annual ball Of the French cooks was in full
blast and was, as usual, pretty lively occasion.
These are no common cooks, whoare compelled
by tyrannical employers to broil the bsefsteAk
and wash the dishes and scrub the sink. These
are the pastgran masters, the true cordons
bleus, who have attained the thirty-third OF
any higher degree that may exist in
the annals Of cookery. These cooks, like
the swell modistes create" CONNECTIONS.
From the savar'n, with It's Louis Seize
decorations Of pale green and cream and
gold, Its silver services and its ineffable plata
from Delmonicos, with its glitter of wax lighta
its supercilious walters and prices soaring to
Alpine heights, from the private kitchens Of
Vanderbilts, whitneys, Astors and other per-
sons who can indulge in the luxury of keeping