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The morning call., 1892-10-23

figure, clad In an easily fitting suit OF sum-
mer gray, and note the sun burnt face and
muscular hands, and hear the still young
ish voice. | find il almost impossible to
real;Ze that | am talking TO man 20 years
of age He does not look SO much by ten
years. The choice of subject had been
left with me. and in thinking il out in the
quiet watches of the night and mindful Of
the man with whom l was TO talk, had
come 10 the conclusion that / could not do
better than attempt a comparison between
the years 1852 and the present year of
grace, 1892.
"Take for instance, the Ritualistic party
in the Church of England" said Mr..
Froude. What curious result OF my
brother HurrelPs original ideal, for it was
he, of course, who really started the high
church movement 1t arose with him out
of High Toryism. He hated change and
radicalism with virulent hate. Now you
find the Ritualist and the RAIDS are joined
together. 1t is all part of their disease
for change. Do you think my brother ever
dreamed OF Lux Mundi?"
well, but now, Mr.. Froude." said /,
"whom do you blame for this liberali.y of
thought - Tennyson, with his beautiful
trust that good shall fall, at last, far eff,
at last to ALL or Huxley of to-day. with his
tainly not Tennyson," replied Mr.. Froude,
"who has really helped to confirm and
strengthen rather than TO shake people in
the old faith. There is no touch of ma
terialism in his beautiful, deep and serious
thought. John Mill is the most serious
opponent that the orthodox have had TO
contend with In my day, and Huxley, l
think, the most faithful. A splendid man
Is Huxley, so true. so honest"
"And now to particularlze little more,
Mr.. Froude," said /. II remember once
that Cardinal Manning said to me, the
Church of England has fallen away sadly
since left her, and in reply TO that / told
him what you had once said to me, the
Church of England Is crumblng to the
ground" ''WelI," said Mr.. Froude, with
a smile, "you see We both arrived at the
same conclusion, though starting from diff
ferent points. But l think we are both
right. This tendency to liberality of thought
Is disintegrating the old old rock. which is
fast becoming heap OF sand"
We drifted then into discussion on Car
dinal Manning's curiously democratic atti-
tude toward the end of his life. Mr.. Froude
remarked upon the apparent inconsistency
of imperial Rome being Joined to free
thinking democracy in the person OF man
who had once been Tory Anglican,
"Quite incomprehensible to fle," he con-
tinued. Il remember we'll Carlyle, in !dis-
cussing democracy with ME, said. j would
gather the crowds together. / would say,
now, here on the one hand Is Judas, and on
the other Is Christ. Here is black ball
and here 10 white one, now go and VOTE
and then he shook his head snd said, When
l am gone, Ii they ever read me, they will
say / have given considerable shove
toward fierce radicalism, and | fear it's
true"
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ESTHETIC BIRDS.
Some Of Our Feathered Friends Have
Keen Sense of Beauty.



Chambers Journal.
The most remarkable instance Of estheti-
csm among birds is that exhibited by the
Australian bower birds, who build long gal
leries in which to play, adjoining them with
shells, feathers leaves, bones or any colored
or glittering object which comes In their
way. Captain Stokes described one of these
bower birds as taking a shell alternately
it through in its beak.
Lumholtz describes several OF these play
houses Of the bower birds. He says they
are always to be found "in small brush
wood, never In the open field, and in their
immediate vicinity the bird collects mass
Of different kinds of objects, especially
snail shells, which are laid In two heaps,
one at each entrance-the one being always
much larger than the other. There are fire.
quently hundreds of shells, about 800 in one
heap and thirty In the other There is
usually handful of green berries partly
inside and partly outside the bower"
In his interesting book. among Canni-
balls" LumholtZ describes a playground Of
what would appear to be different species
Of this bird, showing even greater esthetic
taste. He says:
''On the top Of the mountain / heard in
the dense scrubs the loud and uneeasing
voice OF bird. | carefully approached 1t,
sat on the ground and shot it. 1t was one
of the bower birds, with a gray and very
modest plumage and of the size of thrush.
As i picked up the bird my attention was
drawn 10 fresh covering of green leaves on
the black soil. This was the birds place Of
amusement, which beneath the dense scrubs
formed a square yard each way. the ground
having been cleared of leaves and rubbish.
ION this neatly cleared spot the bird had
laid large, fresh leaves, one by the side of the
other with considerable regularity. and
close by he sat singing, apparently ex-
tremely happy over his work. AS soon as
the leaves decay they are replaced by new
ones. On this excursion saw three such
places of amusement all near each other
and all had fresh leaves from the sane kind
OF trees, while large heap of dry, with
that the bird scrapes away the mold every
time it changes the leaves, so as TO have a
dark background. against which the green
leaves made better appearance. Can any
one doubt that this bird has the sense of
baautv op
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dresser assists her at least with his advice.
A point or V-shaped mark Is drawn down
between the shoulders. and corresponding
poipt is marked in front few Inches below
The line where the neck ana pody join then
the face and neck down to the points are
whjtened with rice powder and the cheeks
redeemed. A dab of rouge is put just in tile
middle of the lips and three gold dots
PAINTED on the under one; then the eye
brows are made as narrow as possible (some
hairs pulled out Win the tweezers II they
spread too much and carefully blackened.
The painting OF the under lip requires
that IL should be held out, lest the upper
one moisien it, and this accounts for the
cnrious way most Japsnese women pro-
trude the lower part OIL I'll, tne 81. mouth After
lady assumes light inner garment-silk if
abe is well-to-do. cotton IL she is poor
This is the same shape as her outer dress.
lint differently finished. Over IL narrow
hand is placed round the hips and lower
mart of the waist, and this Is drawn as tight
as she can endure it, as the beauty Of
woman's figure in native eyes lies in a
straight line drawn from under the arms to
the feet, the European ideal of q small
waist and large hips not according well
with the straight, severe lines of the jap
anese klmono.
Over her inner garments comes the
kimono or outside dress, which, if her hus-
hand belongs TO the nobility or gentry is
stamped with the family crest in five places.
the middle of the back. either side of the
neck in front and both sleeves. The broad
outer sash or obi is next assumed, fastened
with a handsome silk cord in the back and
a little stuffed cushion fixed under tie short
broad ends Court ladies on state occa-
sions wear long trailing robes stiffened
ronnd the bottom with roll of cotton wool |:
such robes are gorgeous with silver, gold or
silk embroidery.
If she is not going cut Of the house our
japanese belle completes her toilet by draw
ing on a pair of short white socks with
thick padded soies aud a compartment or
pocket for the great toe. If she is going
out she slips on her geta or sandals OF lac
Quered wood and fine plated straw, and she
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is dressed for the street. for she wears
neither hat bonnet nor cloak. In very cold
weather, however, a square Of silk-lined
crepe is tied over the head. This has two
little earstraps TO hold 1t firm, and it re-
Qnires some practice and considerable knack
to arrange il gracefully. If it is showing,
she wears. Instead Of her ordinary geta,
high clogs and carries a silk or paper
umbrella.
The rage that prevailed for everything
Western in spite of the reaction two or three
wears ago has left curious traces upon the
dress of the men and some very singular
anomalies are seen In the streets Of the
large cities. The greater majority Of young
men in any way connected with the Govern
ment, including q number of the civil
servants, wear coats, trousers and boots
and dress exactly like European or Amer
lean men, but by far the greater number
outside these classes have adopted sort of
compromise and wear full native costume
with the addition OF stiff black felt hat.
Sometimes pair of boots instead Of
tabi and geta is adopted. Travel
ing caps of the style known as
fore and AFT" were very fashionable
the year before last. and every second man
in Yokohama or Toxic wore one; faded
green seemed the most popular color. /
regret TO say that interruptions dealers who
have surplus OF any article do not hesitate
TO assure the unsophistcated natives that
TIE aflici6 IN question is tHc fSlS idAcsb
from Europe" In consequences OF this little
commercial PECULIARLY a short time ago one
met dignifed and e0uTtly Japanese gentle
men grayely walking about with Turkish
towels laid round their necks, the dealers
having solemnly declared 10 these gentle
men that the Turkish towel was the latest
style Of Deckwear among American and
European men OF fashion.
Sometimes the attempt to combine the
two costumes produces very remarkable
results. | think / shall never forget gen.
ileman Of n certain conservatism OF spirit.
yet with sufficient liberallty 10 modify his
native costume to some extent lie was
walking in a fashionable pat OF the city
and WAS man of considerable consequence,
but oh. his attire! TO begin at the TOD. he
wore a very faded plaid travellng-cap and
a pair of blue spectacles that made HUI
resemble a respectable owl; his coat was a
short japanese kimono Of the ordinary
native pattern, but his legs-I shall never
forgot those legs-they were clad not liz
trowsers, but in pair Of gentleInan's gray
worsted under drawers, which he wore with
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everything foreign, the cry being. Japan
for the japanese" and since then all but
lew ladies educated abroad have resumed
native costume-a great improvement, be it
observed, from an artistic point OF view,
for the carriage, figure and walk OF
the Japanese woman is as unsulted
to our style Of dress as ours is TO the
kimono. The Nih0n no Duna or japanese
lady of birth and breeding toddles or trots
and the carriage considered most aristo-
cratic requires that the head and shoulders
should be bent slightly forward; for
woman to carry herself erect and straight
is not elegant as il imparts fierce I'M
w0manly appearance 10 her. The step
shOuld be short and the geta or shoe should
scuff at every movement; to prevent stTid-
ing a cord is tied from one knee to the
other. The short step is really demanded
by the exigencies of the costume. as long,
free step would send the skirt Tapping
about either leg at every movement.
The japanese belle, either in high or low
life, takes at least one scalding-hot bath In
the day. Often she has one in the morning
and another at night. Strange 10 say, these
baths have no bad effect, though they are
usually taken so warm that the bather
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was twice married-frst. in 1S49, to Anne,
Countess Of Cromartle, who died in 1888,
and afterward, in 1889. to Mary
Caroline, daughter of the late Rev.
Richard Michel, DID,, principal Of
HEREFORD College, Oxford, aud widow Of
Arthur Kindersley Blair, Esquire, OF the
Seventy-first Highland Light Infantry. This
marriage took place at a small village in
Florida, and was az the time the occasion
of much public interest and gossip. The
Dukes chief Offices of public usefulness
were discharged in connection with the
Highland Railway Company. He was a
director of that corporation, and built
line seventeen miles in length running from
GoIspie to Helmsdale. He was also an
intimate friend of General Garibaldi, who
visited him in 1864 at Stafford House and
subsequently returned to Caprera in his pri-
vate yacht. The Dukes seats were: Dun
robin Castle. Golspie the House of Tongue.
Lairg; Trentham Hall, Staffordshire;
Lillesball. Shropshire, and Sutherland
Manor, Tarp0n Springs, Florida, u. S. A.
His rent-roll is understood not to have
fallen far short Of $4,000. The Marquis
OF Stafford. who now succeeds to the duke
dom, vas educated at Elton, has been
lieutenant in the Life Guards, member OF
Parliament for Sutherland, and Is married
daughter OF tho Earl OF Rosslyn. His pres
ent residence is at LilleshaII. Shropshire,
and he holds her Maiesty's commission as
observation-disclosures OF the Second Volunteer
Battalion OF the Seaforth HighIanders (Ross-
shire Bulls. Duke Of AlbaDy's Own) He is
also Justice of the Peace for the county of
Sutherland.
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JAPANESE BELLE.
Interesting Information OF
Her Toilet.
HOW SHE DRESSES HER HAIR
Oriental Methods Which Are Being Adopted
by the Young Women OF the West
ern World.
written for THE MoRN1se CALL

There seems to be general impression
In America that the japanese have adopted
European costumes almost universally, and
that the native kimono is almost thing of
the past. This is altogether mistake; the
adoption is not nearly so general as sup
posed. In official life. of course, European
viz. French or German--uniforms have been
in use for some time; the soldiers and Off
GERS of the army wear modern French
uniforms, and custom-house officers and the
police are also dressed according to the
French method; but outside of officialdom
foreign costume is very much the exeep-
ton. At eourt-ball about five years ago
the Empress wore full evening dress. fan.
flowers, gloves and shoes included. all
imported from Berlin. and of course court
ladies followed suit, but three years later
abouttwo ears aso-a reaction set in against
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self, and why should he cherish aHection
for beings who give him nothing but harsh
words blows and hard work?
Rightly used, kindly treated. given the
same good care as "A horse. the mule has
always shown himself kind. good-tempered,
willing, doeile and intelligent Moreover,
while he has none OF the horses graceful,
sympathetic ways If showing affection and
responding to appreciation, the mule is
capable of genuine devotion to KIND
master. Both the horse and the ass have
affectionate dispositions. and the only rea-
son the mule does not evnce such is be-
cause nothing calls it out. Jack Is not
demonstrative, but he does respond vislbly
to kind treatment He makes, moreover
an easy-paced. careful. kindly riding animal,
when we'll treated. Taken altogether he is
useful intelligent. much enduring. little
appreciated brute, whose melancholy posi-
ton is that of a dog with bad name-his
good qualities rarely mentioned, while his
bad ones are credited at their full value.
MISS RUSSELL.
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CALIFORNIA.

An ample harvest waits on win ing hands
In all methi0ks see the counterpart
OF Italy without her dover or art.
We have the Iordly Alps, the frfringed hills.
The green and golden valleys veined with rllIs,
dead Vesnyius with its smoldering fire,
tawny Tfber sweeping 10 the sea
Our seasons have the same superb attire
The same redundant wealth OF flower and tree.
Upon our peaks the same imperial dyes.
And day by day. sereDely over all.
The same successive months OF smiling skies
Conceive cross tower, a convent wall.
broken column and fallen fame,
A chain Of crumbling arches down the plain,
group OF bfown-faced children by a stream
A scarlet-skirted maiden standing near
monk. q beggar and muleIeer,
And 10, IL is 10 longer now a dream.
These are the Alps, and there the ApenEinss;
The fertile plains OF Lombardy between.
Beyond, Val dArno with its focks and vines
These granite crags are gray mouaStic shrines
Perched on the cliffs ike old, dismantled forts;
And far 10 seward can be dimly seen
The marble splendor OF Venetian courts
While one can all but hear the mournful. rhythmic
beat
or white-Ilpped waves along the sea-paved street.
chidess mother Of dead empires. We,
The latest born OF all the western lands.
In fancied kinsbp stretch our infant hands
Across the intervening seas TO thee
Thine the immortal twilight, ours the dawn
Yet we shall have our names TO canonize.
Our past 10 haunt US with its solemn eyes,
Our ruins, when this restless age Is gone.
So much for California, but here is a
fragmentary BIZ Of California = trifte
seer, this poet, General FOote; here
is a picture which you VIII some day
see standing in bronze at our capital
1t is only waiting its Tilden. Wells or may
be that little California lady who is to-day
modelling a clay head OK Cleveland in New
York. But time will erect this statue soon
or liNe, just exactly as General Foote has
fashioned il here. You can see this SAD
face now, this type Of perishlns race.
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A successfuI Fake.

1t will be remembered that when Jumbo
was originally taken from the London To-
illogical Garden, he displayed great unwilI-
ingness TO leave his companion, Alice.
Tears figured in the episode, and great COM
passion WAS excited by the evidence of the
elephants affection. A Mr.. GAYLORD. who
was with Barnum when Jumbo was bought.
says that 1t was all arranged; that Scott,lthe
keeper, who came over with Jumbo, ma
neuvered the elephant in way to give the
desired effect of feeling When it was time
for him to leave and his car was ready he
got the order to lie down. and down be
went, and the populace wspt at the thought
of the elephants unhappiness. When he
was told 10 come away he came.
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Accomplished Gnides.

That enviable woodcraft OF the Adirnn-
dack guides is peculiarly astonishing to
those unskilled in such matters when dis
played In all that pertains TO open-air cook
ing. A guide will disappear into thicket.
and come back three minutes later supplied
with two or three cretchsd saplings. Win
these. an ak and a deer knife his only in
struments. he will in five minutes more rig
up frame TO suspend the kettle over the
fire. While the kettle is boiling he will
toast great stock Of bread or broil spring
chicken. and before these have cooled he
will have brewed his coffee. Whatever he
does Is well done, and with celebrity and
apparent ease that make 1t seem mere
play.
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DO LIARS ALWAYS YAWN7
A Peculiar Trait That Seems to Naed 4,
Little Clear Examination.
Louisville Courier-Jonrnat


Little Clear Examination.
Louisville Courier-Jo urnaL
A few evenings ago half a dozen men
were sitting out in front of the Capitol Ho-
tel discussing various topics, when Judge
Yost Of the Supreme Court, in telling an
anecdote Of trial, remarked that the wit.
ness yawned and he knew he was living.
How did you knowp" was asked
"Well, sir, have seen witnesses liz and
not yawn. but l never knew one TO yawn
that he was not telling lie."
Judge Sims. the member of the I,episla-
ture from Trigg, remarked: "Yes. always
know witness is lying when he yawnsn
Senator Dave Smith said: at is almost
invariably the case"
Judge Wall. the Senator from Mason
came up and corroborated the statements
OF the others. ana just then Judge Rrent ri
the Superior Court joined the pronp "Yes"
he chimed in, when witness vawns he IL
telling lie, and be knows it," 80 -
Several other lawyers were appealed IN
and all bore out tho statements made
None, however, could explain the nhenom.
enon. Judge Yost was the ONLY ono who
had theory, and that was that when a fal.
low was swearing TO lie he could not face
the music, and his embarrassment found
EXPRESSION in yawns.
Here Is pointer to the legal fraternity NJ
the State. Two of the Judges of tbe SINE
rior Court are committed, and ali that is
necessary to impeach the evidence of Wit
ness In their minds is to show that while
giving 1t he yawned. The parenthetical
yawn may be occasionally iuterspersed with
effect in evidence submitted TO them.
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plate the velocity stipulated in the present
contracts to insure it's acceptance, when an
S-inch armor- piercing shell is used. is only
1144 feet per second. The lowest premium
above the contract price is earned by 1851
feet per second, and the middle premium by
1871 feet per second. The velocity of 100
feet per second. which was actually used, is
the contract acceptance velocity for 13. 3-inch
plate; yet, as has been seen, 10h-inch
plate withstood it in the Bethlehem trial.
The result, in brief, has been the definite
adoption of the Harvey process for all Of
the simpler shapes of the armor OF our war
ships. Any further experiments will be
only rs 10 minor details in the course of
manufacture. The increased inyulnerabiIi-
ty which has been secured by this method
of hardening will allow the armor Of the
battle-shps to be reduced to sixteen inches
if not fifteen. There would then be a saw
ing in the four great vessels of upward of
halt million. and Herewith their coal
carrying capacity could be increased and
their range of travel notably augmented.
The chief complaint made against them has
been that of deficiency in their sieaming
radius.
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cones cut the color OF boiled lobster. No
soap Is used, and tue towel, with its artistic
blue T req border, IS aheut the size OF a
table mat. After the bath our amond-eyed
beauty rnbs herself all over with little
coarse muslin bag containing rice chaff.
This is supposed to have a beneficial effect
upon the skin, and it probably does to a
certain extent, because 1t dries 1t thor
oughly. After this my lady ties two little
linen aprous round her waist slips
on a cotton bath robe and Is ready
for the shampooer or massage man
and the professional hairdresser. Massage
is always called shampooing in Japan, and
is done by blind men who go through the
streets at night ringing little handbell.
and who will either perform their duties
then or arrange to come in the morning.
When the lady is ready she comes ont OF the
bathroom in her cotton gown and kneels in
front OF the blind man with her back to him
while he rubs her with the fiat part of his
arm and the palm of his hand. Sometimes
instead Of the hand he uses q sort OF nova
bic ball in box so constructed as to admit
of the ball rolling about freely without fall
ing out 1t is claimed that the Japanese
have known of the benefits of massage for
more than thousand years. and they assert
that Western nations borrowed the idea
from them. japanese massage lacks some
thing, however, in that it is all downward;
there is no upward rubbing. which is de-
clared by European physicians to be very
important omission.
If the lady'S purse is not SO full as
she desires she or her husband can
borrow from the shampooer, paying interest
OF course, for money-lending is recognized
branch of the profession.
The next to come is the hairdresser, pro-
fessional always, for even the poorest
women do not dress their own hair. The
long. straight, rather coarse. but abundant
black locks, are thoroughly washed in warm
water and dried, then plentifully oiled with
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.
Pleasant Chat With the Famous English
Historian.


Cor New York Recorder.
A little wind-swept station; Dartmoor
stretching wild and gloomy to the rear;
long road cleaning Whitley between green
hedges. over hill and dale; an ancient coach
that Is curlously reminiscent of Colonel
Cody and the Far Wild West; and lastly.
broad. old-fashioned town; cleaning piece
Of water. wooded down to its very edge.
across which the evening shadows are tall
ing long and level.
This is KiDgsbridge, and here one takes
the little steamer that lies in waiting for
Salcombe. seven miles down the water side.
The following morning ushers in perfect
day, and by. IL e'clock l am seated with the
world-famed historian. James Anthony
Froude, in study that on one side opens
into pretty little conservatory and on the
other On to a lawn and garden that slope
down to the very edge of the sea-beaten
cliff. and from the windows of which one
obtains glimpses Of wonderful beauty,
writes Mr. Raymond Bluthwayt
A very notable figure the historian pre-
sents as he sits easily back in his armchair.
And as look at the tall, strong, well-knit