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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-23

ali Bahia; or. Morgiana and the Forty
Thieves is the title of the operatic ex-
travaganza TO be presented by the Ameri-
can Extravaganza Company. at English's
Opera House. tomorrow night The en-
gsgement will last for three nights. with a
matinee on Wednesday afternoon. This
production IS tho latest success of the
Chicago Opera House, and is the successor
90 such famous pieces as ''Sinbad" and the
Crystal Slipper" Indianapolis, however.
has never been visited by any of these
pieces. the organization being so large that
no engagements are play ed for less than q
week; this being the only exception. The
stage production of this spectacle is the
most elaborate and beautiful ever seen in
thiscountry, fact thatis generally con-
ceded by the critics in the cities In which
1t has been seen. and il will be given In Its
entirety here.
The ballets Of "Ali Baba" are three in
number, and are novel in both movement
and costuming. They are a Nautch
dance In the first act. demon dance in the
SECOND act, in which monstrous. fire.
breathing dragon Is instantaneously trans
formed into q score or more of dancing
sprItes. and the ballet piece de resistance of
the extravaganza. the Grand Ballet of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-23

Denver DAM of the cast: Nina Saville.
Blanche Hall and Little Hazel. . child
actress.
The latter part of the week Keep It
Dark" one of the breeZiest of the farce
comedies. will afford entertainment at the
pally because il is full of fun and PERMITS
the introduction of numerous specialties.
w. L. Bryant and Miss Lizzie Richmond,
two clever farceurs still head the company.
and with them are such performers
James Bevlns. Phil Gibbons. Alice Hanson,
good soubrette. Hattie Haynes. Minnie
Stanley and others. Features OF the
specialrIes are Miss Richmond's Telephone
Hanson's singing and dancing. The en-
gagement will begin with matinee.
Thursday afternoon. and close Saturday
night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-23

Willie Collier and his company of come
>dians will play q return engagement at the
Grand next Friday and Saturday and Sat-
urdsy matinee in the recently revised
::'Hoss and Hoss." q farce-comedy that has
always pleased large audiences here. Mr.
Collier has long been rated in theatrical
circles as among the best of farce-come-
dams. and "Hoss and Hoss.r given by this
gentleman aud his excellent company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-23

has scored a genuine hit. Golfers Judge
Willie Hoss is credited with being
one of the greatest of characterizstions,
with abundant opportunity for his crisp
drollery and inimitsble parodies. In law
yer Charlie Hoss. Charles Reeds old char
scter. Mark sullivan is said TO have
struck happy medium for the introduc-
tion of his eccentric songs and q tn raj imi-
tations. Arthur Moulton. whose clever
work for the past two seasons with this
company has made him popular. will
again be seen as Birdie Hoes, the Judge
son. Ignaclo Martinetti is among the new
members. In the cast are Louise Allen.
the kangaroo dancer; Helena Collier.
Helen Reimer. Adele harrington. Marie
Celeste and lot more. The quartet is one
of the strongest features of the company
which numbers in all twenty-one people
All the songs and specialties are new.
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of fire wood despite the fact that Washing
ton was then very largely a wooded wilder
ness. The first floor of the White House
was hardly habitable at all. The east room
was not finished for twenty years after
that John Quincy Adams, whose mother
had used ii for Il laundry and store room,
was granted $1,000 by Congress to finish
and furnish it in 1877. Mrs. Adams re-
marks in one of her letters that the people
were clamoring for an audience" but she
feared to attempt a drawing room, because
there were not lamps sufficient to light the
house properly and not enough wood could
be kept cut to heat the barns of rooms.
BY New Year day, however, Mrs. Adams
who was a woman of resolution, had COM
passed few of the difficulties She had
suite OF handsome red velvet furniture, of
which she was very proud. The only room
mt to put 1t in was the library upstairs just
above the blue parlor, and oval like it. This
room she had hastily covered with a warm
red carpet, on which enormous and inpos-
sible flowers We're cast in geometric de-
sign. The red velvet furniture was dis
posed to best advantage about the room, and
in letter to friend Mrs. Adams ex-
pressed the sentiment that the room even
then was handsome" and when finished
up properly would be very beautiful"
In this red drawing room the second Pres
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cestral tablets. They go out to the graves
and they worship the gods in the temples.
They fire of frecrackers to scare off the
bad spirits, and New Year night in China
Is good deal worse than it is in America
New Year morning finds all the shops clos
ed. The day is devoted to calling and visit
ing. Presents are given. The ladies visit
one another and carry gifts of candy As
soon as they come in each guest is served
with cup of tea, in which an almond has
been placed as an emblem of good fortune
The officials hold receptions as we do, and
the princes at Picking call upon the en-
peror and say that they hope he will reign
10000 years. These New Year festivities
are kept up for days. Presents are sent
between friends. and one of the most COM
mon presents is a cake as round as a ball
fried in oil. The Chinese watch the
weather very carefully on New Year and
on the week following it. If the first ten
days of the year are good they believe that
the whole year will be fine and that every
thing will flourish. There are lots of proph-
cts. soothsayers and gamblers, and the
whole country for the time goes wild. The
beggars are out in force. They go about
the last night of the old year with buckets
Of paste and red placards,. on which are
written good fortune and New Year
wishes. They paste these on the walls and
doors of the houses of the people who are
well to do. and come around early the next
day and beg for gift as a reward for their
printed card the night before.
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them new suit of clothes on New Year
Day, consisting often of a new waist cloth
and Turkish towel
The celebration of New Year Day is
sanctioned by the Buddhists and the Siamese
believe that the souls of those Buddhists
who have gone to purgatory come back to
earth on that day. The people pour water
out on the ground in celebration of this
and they always go to the temples and
visit the shrines. Every idol in the king
dom is bathed with perfumed water and in
cense is burned by the cord. They lay
flowers upon the idols and they weave gar
lands and put them into Buddha's hand.
The children play tricks upon one another
much the same as we do on Halloween or
April 1. They black each others faces and
push each other into the river. They have
water celebration much the same as In
Burmah and the king has a reception of
President.
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20 the light with his promises of better
fortunes, which are accepted with revels
and reJoicings. though everybody knows that
ne Is gay deceiver and that he never kept
q promise in his life
New Year receptions at the White House
are an unavoidable government function.
They are not mentioned in the Constitution
but only one President ever tried to evade
them. and he ingloriously surrendered to a
LOT or resolute women, who did not propose
10 be cheated out of the opportunity to dis
play in so conspicuous place their one
new winter gown. The Easter function for
this purpose had not yet been introduced
John Adams was President when the
White House was first thrown open to the
public for New Year reception. The
PRESIDENTS palace was only a stone shell
At that time and the Adamses had only
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Speaking Of the king. Siam has another
queer holiday, during which the king NOM
inally gives his power over to a mock king,
and the whole of Siam takes part in this
celebration. The governor of the province
sent me an invitation to 1t while 1 was in
Bangkok. and 1 watched the proceedings in
company with an Austrian prince. who was
visiting Siam at that time. There were
thousands on the streets. and the rich Siam
csc as well as the poor were out. There
were lots of royal babies. who were dressed
in nothing but diamonds. l remember enc
young prince, who had a cupful of dia-
monds upon him, and his sole dress was
these and a silver belt. He was about four
years old, and he was smoking a cigarette.
There were lots of pretty Siamese girls,
many of whom wore silk waist cloths. and
through the crowd came a number Of SIAM
csc debtors, with chains about their legs
They were going to work, and were not al
lowed to take part in the festivities. The
celebration took place in a great court near
the city market of Bangkok. We waited
about three hours before we heard the pro-
cesson. Then a noise arose like that Of a
thousand dogs with tin cans tied to their
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and girls. men and women, devote the day
to sprinkling and soaking each other. No
one has the right to get mad on this day,
and boy has the right to pour water over
his father, and the girls drop bucketfuls
from the roofs of their houses down the
backs Of their parents, and Europeans as
well as Americans are soaked. At New
Year not long ago an Englishman in a tall
plug hat arrived at Rangoon, Burmah on
New Year day. He had letters of introduce
duction and he went to present these wear
ing high silk hat. long frock coat and
light trousers. At the front door he
found four pretty Burmese girls, who told
him In their lingo they were going to throw
water over him. He thought they were
asking whether he wanted to see their
father, and he raised his hat and said
Yes" Upon this he got about four gallons
Of water and he was drenched to the skin
Another Englishman who was treated in
this way picked up the girl and dropped her
into the bath tub from whence she was get
ting the water. She was a heightened Bur-
mese girl this action was entirely contrary
to New Year etiquette, and caused, 1t is
said, the young mans social ostracism.
They Battle Their GRANDMOTHER.
The Siamese New Year Is the 9th of
March and the holidays last for five days
There is no tax on gambling at this time
and all the gambling houses of Bangkok
are opened. Thousands of these half-naked
Siamese squat about playing fan tan ana
one of the funniest customs is that the
children have of bathing their grand
mothers on New Year. The ugliest looking
old women of the world are the Siamese
The maidens are plump and bright-eyed
They are short seldom over five feet in
height hut they are straight and we'll FORM
ed. They wear nothing but a strip of cot
ton cloth a yard wide and about three yards
long, which they wind about their hips and
fasten by pulling the ends through between
the legs and tucking it into the belt at the
back. This is the dress of the common
women, and it is only the better classes who
have anything about the shoulders, the
bust ard the neck. In such a costume a
plump girl looks well, but a strawny wrin-
killed. old woman looks horrible. The Siamese
women cut their hair short. 1t grows
coarser as they grow older and 1t stands I'D
like a shoe brush all over their heads. These
grandmothers have bristles about an inch
long. They all chew the betel and long be-
fore they have grandchildren their teeth
are black and their lips are cracked and
stained. They squat around the house on
their launches doing little but smoking
cigarettes and chewing betel nuts and they
vary the putting out the smoke with the
splitting out betel juice. This betel juice is
red and it looks just like blood. The most
of the houses of Bangkok are right on the
river and the children dip up the water in
buckets and pour 1t over these old hays as
they sit on the porches in the sunshine
They act as though they loved their grand
mothers and they probably do. After they
are through pouring the water over them
they sprinkle them with perfume and DOW
der their necks and faces. They also give
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Danger of an Obscure Prescription.
From the New York Tribune

From the New York Tribune
prescription written by a well-known
physician in New York recently gave the
following directions: First day, take three
pills at intervals of an hour; second day,
take two pills at intervals of an hour; third
day, take one and then stop"
This Is certainly obscure, and as a matter
OF fact the wording OF the prescription came
near causing serious trouble. The direction
for the third day would be likely, of course
to make any one pause to consider what
was meant by the whole. but, IL that last
direction had not been given IL would have
been easy for some people to interpret the
directions as Take three pills every hour
during the first day and two pills every
hour during the second day" What was
meant, OF course was that three pills were
to be taken on the first day, one pill at
pills on the second day, one at a time with
an hour between each. and one pill only on
the third day.
But there certainly was danger in the di-
rections to people who were either not
quick to grasp a point were careless in
following the whole meaning Suppose, for
instance. some one had undertaken to read
the directions on the installment plan so
to speak-that is. suppose he had thought
Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof
and had considered that it would be time
enough to study the directions for the sec
ond day when the second day came Then
he might have taken three pills every hour
for twenty-four hours. and the coroner
could have done the rest.
But to be serious, II is desired here to i'm
press upon physicians that no room should
be left for doubt as to their meaning and
upon those who read the directions of phy-
sicians' prescriptions that they should read
the whole carefully, and then hesitate n
they are in doubt.
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twelve days different from ours. and the
pretty girls of Burmah do not celebrate
their New Year until about the LIST of
April In my trip around the world a few
years ago 1 struck a number of queer New
Year celebrations, and l find that every
nation celebrates the day differently The
people Of Burmah and Siam have the most
curious customs. The Burmans think that
spirit king at that time descends from
heaven to earth and upon the manner of
his coming depends the prosperity of the
year. The astrologers fix the time of his
appearance and they give the signal when
he has come. Then cannons are fired, guns
are shot and every man and woman in the
country makes a prayer and pours a liba ton
OF water on the ground. This is the last
night of the old year, and the next morn
ing Is to be the beginning of the New Year
holidays.
The Burmese Water Feast.
New Year In Burmah begins with a great
water feast, and the Burmese girls and wo-
men Tor this day reign supreme. l wish
could show you Burmese girl. She is as
pretty as any of her kind the world over.
She Is straight. well-formed and fine look
Ing. Her red lips are luscious, her eyes are
large. brown and velvety, and her cheeks
are the color of the cream of your own Jer-
sey cow, with a faint tinge Of red in the
center She wears but two garments one is
white saque of fine silk or cotton. which
covers the arms and bust and falls to the
waist, and the other Is a strip of silk or cot
ton of the brightest colors which is wrapped
tightly around her waist. hips and loins and
fastened with q twist at the front. 1t falls
to her feet and when she walks she kicks
her bare heels out behind, so that the only
exposure of her person is from her foot to
the knee. she wears rings in the lobes of
her ears as big around as a silver quarter,
and she smokes cigars as long as a lead
pencil and as thick as the wrist of a two
year-old baby. She has more rights in the
her American sister, and on New Year
day she Is more giddy than ever AS soon
as the day breaks she gets squirt gun
made of tin or bamboo and with a bucket of
water goes out to saturate her gentlemen
friends. No one is safe from her. and boys
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been in 1t a few weeks Lady Washing
ton and her distinguished consort had been
In the habit Of holding heavy drawing
rooms" In the Presidents mansion in New
York and later in Philadelphia. Washing
ton detested the ''mockery of a monarchy"
as he called it. but people were bound to
See him. There were society vandals even
then who stopped at nothing in their eff
forts to shake hands with the President
and to prevent callers from arriving be-
fore breakfast and at all other inoppor-
tune hours of the day. Washington at last
submitted to the ordeal of public recep-
tions. The description of the first of these
Is very funny, and 1t must be true, for Mr..
JEFFERSON wrote it with his own hand. He
says: An ante room and presence room
were provided. and when those who were
70 pay their court were assembled the Pres
ident set out, preceded by Humphreys
After passing through the ante chamber
the door OF the inner room was thrown omen
and Humphreys entered first, calling out
IN loud voice, The President OF the
United States The President was so much
disconnected by this he did not recover in
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tails rafting over the stoniest of streets
and a moment later We saw about 1000 ma
ked legs carrying 1000 half naked Siamese,
who carried banners and escorted wrin-
killed. old prince as their king. This old king
was as black as the ace of spades and his
under jaw was no thicker than your finger
He was dressed in gold and silver clothing
and he had a crown on his head that looked
like q pyramid of ice cream The people
cheered him as he came up, and he stopped
In front Of our party and wagged his thin
thing that 1 could not understand. Right
near here there was a great swing fastened
to beam across two poles about 100 feet
high. From the top Of this beam the ropes
holding the swing were hung and on the
board at its foot four naked Siamese stood.
purse of money was tied to a long bam-
boo fishing pole and fastened to one Of the
uprights. SO that the money hung about
thirty feet out from the swing The pole
was so bent that the bag of money hung
quivering from the topmost point, far out
to the side Of the swingers. The feat was
for them to get the money while the swing
was moving. They first knelt and PRAYED
to the king. and then went up and down
upon the swing until they swung .hem-
selves high up in the air and nearer and
nearer the money. At last one Of them reach
ed It. According to the rules he had to
bite 1t off with his teeth and to hold
the money in his mouth until the swing
stopped. This is no easy feat, and the REQ
pie went wild. Then four other men
money was put up, and so it went on. 1
was not able to learn just what 1t meant.
but 1 was told that it was semi-religious
in character and that 1t came from the
Brahmins.
Queer Chinese Customs.
The Chinese New Year festivities often
last for three weeks. The people prepare
for them, and the last days Of the old year
are the busiest. Every one wants money.
and the storekeepers are getting ready for
their annual settlement. All debts are ex-
pected to be paid at the end OF the old
year. and every one figures up his accounts.
The women celebrate the occasion by
cleaning house. The floors are washed the
chairs are covered with red cloth, and
strips of red paper marked with names of
good fortune, wealth and happiness are
pasted outside the front doors. The last of
the old year is celebrated with feast and
on the last night the little boys of China
run about the streets yelling out good reso-
lutions. One of their cries is that they will
sell their folly and their lazy habits to any
one who will buy, in order that they may
be wiser next year. On the last day of the
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the whole time of the levee, and when the
company was gone he said to Humphreys,
We'll. you have taken me in once, but, by
God. you shall never take me in a second
fine"
After that episode. in which the father
OF his country seems to have got the worst
of 1t. the form for receiving was changed.
but TO the last remained stiff and cere-
monious, with strong tendency to court
customs. entirely at variance with repub-
ncan institutions. The WashingtonS styled
these functions drawing rooms" When
Mrs Adams took hold of affairs in the
Wnite House she termed them "levees"
and In MI Jefferson's time they got to be
called soirees'' Now they are just plain
receptions.
The Present White House.
1t was January 1. 1901, that the Execu-
fve Mansion was arst opened to the gen.
eral public and President and Mrs. Adams,
with quaint pomp and ceremony, received
the eourtesies OF the people. At that time
only eight rooms had been completed in the
new White House. Mrs Adams found
great cause for complaint that nearly all
the wood that they had ordered cut in ad-
vance Of their arrival to feed the fire in
The yawning fireplaces had been burned
70 ory tns walls, SO that there was dearth
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Scenes That Have Enlivened the
White House Parlors.
VASHINGFON'S DRAWING ROOMS
Historic Incidents Connected With
New Year Calling.
THE ETIQUETTE OF THE DAY.


WO-FACED JANUS
again stands at the
threshold dividing
honors with the old
year and the new.
Another cycle is COM
pleted and 1893,
weighted with I'M
gratified ambitions.
thwarted hopes and
heartaches, stumbles
over the doorstep in
to the darkness as
the little king of the
new wear speeds in
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Forty-one pounds OF dynamite have been
stolen from a quarry store at Dottingen,
Wurtemburg Twenty dynamite cartridges.
one hundred and fifty blasting caps and IF
teen pounds of dynamite have been found
in a warehouse at Sanbrucken.
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How the Day is Celebrated Oh the
Other Side of the World.
WATER FEAST OF BURMAH
Siamese Children Who Battle Their
G,andmothers on New Year.
IN TU RKEY AND JAPAN


E X T NJ 0 N d A Y
will be New Y e a r
day in America. 1t
will not b e N e W
Year all over tn e
world. Nearly every
Asiatic nation has its
own calendar. T h e
New Year festivities
of the Chinese take
place during the lat
ter part of January
or the first of Febru-
airy. Russia h q 8 q
New Y ear a bOu [
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From the Detroit Free Press.
The small boy hadn't been to Sunday
school since last Christmas, and the teacher
didn't recognize him.
"Who was It," she inquired after a num-
Der of questions had been unanswered, who
said: Suffer little children to come unto
me?'"
Santa Claus" he replied with a vehe-
mence that quite unsettled the teacher
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