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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-22

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-22
CITY ITEMS.

CITY ITEMS.
How He Does 1t.
How can Grasty sell a good lounge FOR 81. IS?
How can Grasty sell fine rug couch for els. SO?
How can Grasty sell all kinds Of furniture,
China Glass, &c. cheaper than anybody else?
Because he sells eoe,ything for cash. Is this
answer plain? GRAsrY CThe Pusher),
Double Stores, 1902 7th, bet. and Q n W.
je22-tr
Fourth-of -Julyers-TRorTs, 1902 14th st.
Do You Know That You Can Buy
All good grades of
Furniture. Carpet, Mating. Oilcloth,
Refrigerators, Sideboards,
Baby Carriages, &C.,
"Time" Payments at Bottom" Prices
From
JOHN Ridden, The Accommodation,
5I3 Seventh street northwest
I'm nj Mt lowest rricpS
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DOMESTIC CATECHISM.

Sharp Husband Hits Upon . Grand
Scheme save Trouble.
From the Boston Globe
The other day a thin, tired-looking man en-
tered the Office of printing house, and, ap-
preaching the proprietor. said:
II want to have list printed. Suppose you
write it down as tell you"
The proprietor made ready, and the man
said:
''Yes; am sure locked the front door.
Have you got that?''
Yes; but don't understand"
'Never mind; don't interrupt me till have
finished. Are you ready?"
Yes"
81 turned out the light in the bath room"
Gan right; I've got it,"
1.-The kitchen windows are fastened
"Yes"
. The dog is in the cellar"
1.-The servants are all in"
"Yes"
. The stable door is locked"
The kitten is out OF doors"
Il turned of the draushts of the range"
..No. / do not smell smoke"
Yes"
mo, the water is not running in the bath
room"
"Yes."
II do not think hear any one trying to get
into the house."
"Yes."
NO. that is not our dog barking; it's the one
next door"
"Yes"
ut is not necessary to go down and see il the
cellar door is fastened. know il ia :"
Yes"
THAT is nobody; it is only the wind rafting
the shutters"
"les"
well, 1 think that's about all You see
my wife asks me certain questions every night
Just as am getting into bed, and IL had
printed list 1 could show to her would save
lots OF trouble. Besides that. it Injuries nv
lungs to answer them. Have the lists printed
as soon as possible. please
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KNIGHTS OF THE TEA URN.
Sissy Men With Genius for Doylies, Chins
and Velvet Rugs.

Sissy Men With Genius for DOylies, China
and Velvet Rugs.
From the New York Sun.
As a contrast to the masc uline girl and her
swagger it might be perth ent to present the
sissy man and lis affecta tons. You see this
rare exotic in full bloom at those essentially
feminine ceremonies known as o'clock teas,
where nothing. sweetened and tied up with q
bow, furnishes the repast. where soft light
filters through rose-hued shades over fair faces
and astheticism revels in daintiness galore.
The sissy man has his prototype in Paris and in
London, and one of his chief characteristics is
his devotion to the married woman, partIcu-
larry il she has monster Of a husband that
| can't understand Browning and had rather
shovel coal than read Rossetti. The sissy makes
| it point to calmly ignore the husband, who
would kick him out for his impert Thence only
that he knows what a harmless little lamb he Is
and thinks it would be needlessly cruel.
He knows more about the code Of candy Civ.
| ing and the etiquette OF flowers than he does
| about the Constitution Of the United States.
He has his sweet apartments, where the foot
sinks noiselessly into velvet rugs and the walls
are draped with sigh-away tints and hung with
pre-Raphaelite etchings. He gives his dear
little teas, where the china is exquisite the
appointments elaborate and beautiful. He is
up on doylies, and knows all about linen and
silver. he persuades his married divinity to
preside at the urn and gives himself up to the
perfect ecstacy Of adoring and serving her. A
nice old lady who was invited to one Of these
teas and went early because she thought the
poor fellow wouldn't have enough spoons and
napkins or think to dust the glasses, and would
be terribly upset and hustered, looked on in
! amazement while the host made delicious
| creamed things in silver chatting dish and
apologized for the stupidity of MS servant, who
gave some one a chocolate spoon with q teacup.
And when he began telling how he had din
ner served for four every night, whether he in
vited any guests or not, and that there was the
same order OF service and quite as elaborate q
menu when he dined quite alone as when his
most honored guests we're at the feast, because
that was the proper way to train servants and
manage a household, the old lady said it posi-
| lively made her feel profane, like going to an
Ingersoll lecture and having the Bible ridi-
culed. it was SO opposed to all Christian Gus
toms and practices
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In the Paris brasserie there is no barkeeper.
In his place of master there are servants
walters. garcons-and, to use a funny French
word for these waiter girls, garconnes! They
attend strictly to their business, which ia that
OF servants. Their manners are subdued and
deferential. They are not barkeepers. The
proprietor or his representative sits busy at the
cashiers desk. He answers all questions amia-
bly,, hut he would resent it or not understand
it if any one should commence personal con-
versation. He is like bookkeeper in a shoe
shop. or q dry goods concern any other place
of legitimate business. Among the patrons no
one stands up drinking. All sit down at little
tables. Groups of friends, who are really
known to each other, come to the brasserie for
the sake OF PLAYING cards or dominoes and to
talk among themselves over their beer. He
would be bold man who should force,
or attempt to force, himself upon their
company. The solitary patron sits beside
his beer. smokes. his cigar and reads
the papers literally furnished by the man
agement. Sometimes he gets the waiter
girl to talk to him if he is very lonely, and the
man would be still holder who would interrupt
these two. Besides she is a woman, and 1t is
very different. No patron, however lonely
would think Of talking to male waiter.
So the evening passes quietly. The beer Of
Munich as also the beer of Holland, Norway
Belgium and Bohemia have in all of them q
tendency to reverie. The stomach is pleasur-
ably swollen, the nerves are gently soothed and
the body is revived by an alcohol whose per-
centage in the beer is not too high. The
Partisan begins to like the beer. which is a re-
lief from the everlasting coffee which he too
often abuses, and from the nerve-shaking
though seldom intoxicating aperitifs and Ii
queurs which he is wont at other times to
drink. STERLING HELLO.
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AFRAID TO RISK 1T,

Something That Made a Bride Hesitate to
Make q Court Room Marriage.
From the Omaha Morning wo-ld-Herald.
Among the applicants for marriage licenses
who were before Judge Eller yesterday were
Fred W. Randall and Bertic Brubaker. who had
come up from Beatrice to be joined in matri-
mony. They were both up to the requisite
age, and Mr.. walkup did not hesitate to draw
up the preliminary afidavits When he had
dotted the last i and crossed the last the
young woman, who had apparently been buried
in deep thought, remarked:
II don't believe l care to &c. married.
''You don't?" cried the startled bridegroom.
''No, guess not" and she started out
The young man followed her and they held o
brief conversation among the books and papers
of the outer Office, when Mr.. Wslkup. with
dreams Of an elopement in mind, suggested
that they might have the inner room for q
private discussion If they desired. They en-
tered and we're for some time engaged in earnest
talk, the bridegroom eXpectant arguing for all
he was worth. Finally the girl gave in and
agreed to carry the affair through and the
judge was called from the bench to fix it up
before she could again change her mind.
by thunder, il was mighty lucky and IL was
nearly unlucky that You had judge around
handy then, observed the newly married man,
as he wiped the perspiration from his brow.
"What was the natter" the clerk inquired.
"Why, there's some kind of a lawsuit going
on in there, isn't there?' indicating the direc-
ton Of the court room, from which the voices
Of attorneys in dispute were heard. 1t was
case In which one member of family living in
South Omaha was trying to get money from
another, and some vigorous family truths we're
being told. well. she had been listening to
the way they were testifying about family
troubles and it had scared her out"
1t was true. The dissension bred by mar
riage in the South Omaha family and waited
over the transom had nearly spoiled the hopes
Of another couple.
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to the same clear mountain water. This Munich
beer has had the greatest success in Paris.
There are scores of brasseries completely de-
voted to it, and some of them have also adopted
the kellnerin idea, and have. instead OF male
walters, young ladies, chosen, perhaps. as much
for their beauty as for their skill in making
charge and fetching beer. But this new habit
Is not at all confined to the output of Munich
beer. Although il is a Munich custom. it rather
Is one OF the secondary effects of the beer inva-
sion of Paris.
The ordinary waiter in every cafe, taverne and
restaurant of Paris is man. He is deft and
quick, not too good natured but very quiet in
manner. The young ladies of the brasserle ex-
pect larger tips, and get them. too, and they
also add the charm of conversation to the or
binary cafe attractions, thing, will be seen,
quite as novel as themselves. 1t is at these new
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better come ashore with me, nom. and one OF
the bows II fetch your things, and I'll take You
to q respectable tavern
The little girl nearly broke down. but with
tears in her ewes ana great sobs in her voice
she told the captain her story and begged him
TO take her. And when be 81 d that he had no
room. no place in which he could put her and
nothing to give her 10 eat. she declared that
she could sleep on deck and If they had hard
tack and water that would be enough for her.
and seeing denial still in his grim old face she
choked down her sobs and sat resolutely down
In her chair and said she would STAY, they must
take her and that was the end Of it. The cap
tain still expostulated but she said with LOFTY
air that the letter from the psymaster general
of the navy. which she had in her pocket. was
authority enough for him. and that he'd be
palc Tor the passage il that was Whist he
wanted and that with great emphasis) she was
-going-to-stay?
Then she rocked back and forth with great
spirit and as the baby began to whimper. Yes.
mother 9 darling, il is going to see Its father.
and no cruel-hesrted old sailor is going to
make it stay any longer There, there, there.
go-to-sleep. go-to-sleepr
ut was hard fight. but she won, The old
Fellow gave in grumbhngly and went below to
see about ways and means He gave her his
own bunk and rugged mp screens Tor her. and
she had presence of mind enough TO smile and
thank him warmly when he showed her the
miserable hole. and to praise the greasy bacon
brought her in the morning.
he voyage was a hard one, but she sat on
deck in her chair all day long. The few men
on board were very respectful. and the captain
ana mate made much of the baby. There was
nasty weather rounding Cape Hatteras. and at
one time they were in great danger. but the
little woman could not be made TO go below.
ADVICE, entreaues nor commands had any
erect. Stationing herself abaft the mainmast,
or somewhere on deck. she stuck out the storm.
her eyes turned always to the sou southwest,
where Jim was.
And when at last they glided behind the
oreakwster and the harbormaster's boat pat
out 10 meet them. with Jim on board. there she
stood, near the bow. her baby IN her arms. her
eyes Drumming with tears and her face trans
figured with gladness'
''She was pluckv little girl said the Judge as
Pond concluded: and luckier. too. than many
another poor wife was in those DAYS. But did
they never learn anything more about that
fellow, smith,
Yes! The husband wrote 10 a friend in the
once and the matter investigated. IL was
found to have been a most fortunate thing that
the little woman went straight to the schooner
Smith was discharged with a little extremely
plain talk from the general which resulted in
ms departure for other scenes"
'But where comes in that VIVID personal in
terest which you said you had In the story?"
asked Middlebrook
Why" said Pond, as he relighted his cigar
Il married the baby"
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where popular singers entertain the guests on
small stage or not, as NAV be. and there is the
cafe spectacle as we'll In this latter there is
not only singing, but there are also acrobatic
performance. stage dances BY skilled per-
formers, juggling. sleight OF hand and yentriIo-
Guism- There are also cafes which have n
special reputation good or bad. either bv reason
OF the character Of their frequert ers the stvle
OF furnishing. the name and hundred other
things depending on the temper OF the times. or
the special aptitudes Of the proprietor. accident
Of location and the Ike One cafe
viii be neatly empty throughou. the
day and DO most Of its trade between
The acts OF the thsater which il NAV adioin
mother may have a sporting clientage while
another is an afternoon resort upon the boule-
Yard AL furnish Refreshments adapted to the
particular trend OF their custom; but in none
Of them is beer drinking considered to be the
one thing 1eedful.
THE BRAssERIE
10 beer output, pure and simple. II furnishes
other Refreshments, but beer is the staple. Most
often IL Is owned or run in connection with
some great brewing company. For that mat
ter, brasserie means brewery. Thus, one OF the
large buildings which still remain at the exposi-
ton grounds o. 1889 is leased by O rich beer
corporation; and it has in many different rooms,
and even on the spacious porticoes in summer,
dozen free singing and variety entertainments
charge for admission is made and the patrons
prudent families who have not too much money,
obtain cheap holiday amusement out of a single
glass OF beer apiece. This is scarcely beer
crinking In Its fullest sense. The beer is of the
oid French variety. IL has noappreciable effect
upon the head, IL does not digest very quickly,
and there il no temptation to take more Of ii
than the ordinary demands OF thirst suggest
The invasion Of Paris BY beer was started
from the outside-bv the beer Of Bavaria. first
OF all. and af'srward by the beer Of Holland
and Belgium
MUNICH BEER IN PARIS
In Munich two of the sights Of that fair noun
tain town have to do with beer and water. II
b q beautiful sight to stand on the bridge and
watch the Iser flowing rapidly, torrent from
the clearest mountain springs. which leaps and
falls in cascades and whirlpools in its deep bed
through the city. 1t Is also q fine sight to stand
In the yard Of the Hof-brauerei and watch the
customers OF every class-students, merchants,
peasants, farmers. and even princes now and
then-quafin2 the most celebrated beer of
Munich, which owes no Little part Of IL merits
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JOHN sHERMAN's MANSION.

Another fine house which will BE- open next
year is Senator Sherman's marble residence
facing Franklin Park. Ispoke to Senator Sher-
man about it the other day and he told me he
expected to live in it. Said he: 81 have a
natural bent for building and suppose would
have been an architect or builder had I not
gone into public life. Ny house is rapidly APP
next fall" Since then have visited the house.
It is more than fifty feet front and about 100
feet deep. You enter wide hall in which you
could easily turn a two-horse wagon without
touching the walls. and on the right Of this is
the Senator's library and on the left are the
parlors, and back Of them the dining room.
All OF these rooms are very large and the Sena-
tors library is twenty-five feet long. In the
back Of it there is q great vault with safe
door and time lock on it for the
storing away Of papers and other valu-
ables. Senator Sherman has some Of the
most valuable correspondence in existence.
He has been in public life for nearly forty years
and his papers are full OF unwritten history.
great many Of them are now stored in the
vaults OF his library in Mansfield, which are
made in the same fireproof way that this vault
is, and 1t is probable that some Of these papers
may be brought here when this house is COM
pleted. The parlors Of the house are beauti-
fully finished and they will be frescoed in the
finest manner. The woodwork of the whole
house is OF the choicest o hard wood. Some
OF the chambers are finished in beautiful bird f.
eye maple The dining room has paneled
oak ceiling and the parlor is finished in white
satinwood. The woodwork OF the house WAS
brought from Ohio and great part Of the work
is being done there. Senator Sherman at one
time owned lumber yard and plan
ing mill and he knows all about different
kinds Of wood and the selections show
excellent taste. don't know how many rooms
there are in the house, but should Judge at
least thirty. There are at least half dozen
bath rooms, which are finished in tiles, and the
bed rooms are large and airy. 1t is a curious
thing to note that the Senator is building this
house on ground which he bought fully gen.
Grafton ago. When he was in Congress- he lived
down on street near the Capitol and when he
told Ars. Sherman he was going to buy house
facing Franklin Square she objected strongly
and thought it was away out OF the world
Franklin Square was then kind Of ball ground
and it was on the edge of the residential part Of
Washington. Since then the town has crept
up around it and two miles beyond it and the
ground has become SO valuable that you have
to carpet it with 80 bills in order to get pos
session of it. Senator Sherman first built the
house in which he now lives when be was Sec
rotary OF the Treasury and he has now torn
down the one into which he moved when he
frat came here and put this magnificent man
sion on its site. K street is one of the most
fashionable streets Of the capital, and Secretary
Carlisle lives in a brick house IN the next block
to Senator Sherman. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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ing places II il the habit Of indiscriminats con-
versation among strangers. 1t leads to bar room
friendships, to acquaintances between those
who are not equals; it promotes the objection
able treating habit SO much that it is almost
responsible for it, and 1t is a perfect example Of
the evil communication which corrupts good
manners. The American barkeeper il re-
sponsible for some Of this. He is behind his
bar. He is like king upon a throne. He Is
consulted about the physical ailments and the
domestic complications OF many OF his choicest
guests, about every matter Of politics and all
the events Of the day. You will see them
gather about him rs though he were q flower
and they were bees. He is the center of all this
proftless bar room conversation. and strangers
finish with each other the talk they had begun
with him.
TIE DIFFERENCE IN PARIS.
Every fruit grower knows that by wrapping
pears or oranges, for instance, separately in
tissue paper they are prevented from mutually
spelling each other. or-what is just as import
tant in the result-one bad apple is saved from
spelling the whole barrel In the same way en-
deavor to imagine the patrons Of an ordinary
second-class American saloon each wrapped
round in decent habit Of reserve. Then YOU
will have something much more like Paris
brasserie. Waiter girls or no waiter girls, sing
ing girls upon stage and dancing girls and
acrobatic men, snake charmers, comedians and
even fighting chickens il YOU wish them-a
young fellow can sit in their midst without any
too great danger. The real danger is where it
is possible for old hands, old drunkards, loafers
deadbests, prison birds, confidence men and
race track touts to commence their abominable
in the public bar ROOM 1t is then
that dear emula ton forces the green young
man to keep on drinking with his new-made
friends. of whose antecedents he knows moth
Ing and pride forbids that he should not seem
to be as knowing and as hardened as them
selyas
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SHE WAS BUYING STAMPS

And Discovered That the Government
Know Nothing About Business.
From Harper's Bazaar.
"How many stamps do You sell for quar-.
terri" she said to . stamp clerk ct the post Office
twenty-five one cent ones or twelve two
cent ones, mann"
"Don't you give back the odd cent changer
Certainly"
care they the Columbian stamps or the old
kind?'
81 can give you either"
Don't the old style ones come . little cheaper
now?''
mo. ma'am."
81 thought they would. They're out Of style
You know"
1.-The government receives them tho same q
the new ones in payment Of postage, and many
people prefer them"
"But their red color doesn't match SONS
styles Of envelopes" Us
II can't help that"
"Couldn't you sell me . dozen Of the old two
cent ones for Is cents7"
mo. ma am"
"Conldn't you on Friday?"
"No, ma'am."
"But that's bargain day in the storss''
Possibly, but not ct the post oface"
when u your bargain day?"
1--WE don't have any,"
mot have any bargain day? Well, never
And my husband told mo the post once wa
run on business principles. Why, you don't
know the first principles Of businssA
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Another important item in the life Of the
brasserie, which is the nearest Partisan ap-
proach to our saloon, 10 the presence Of re-
spectacle elderly men of quiet habits business
men of the locality, who hold themselves quite
as high as the corresponding class does in
America In America this quiet and well-to- do
middle class man of middle age-the man of
family and Standings seldom . bar room fire.
quenter. This is so much the case that be-
heve II Eve such men should take it into their
heads to regularly patronize any given Ameri-
can saloon, il they should enter it each evening.
sit at the table Of there should be table, and
call for beer and the evening papers, one-half
of that saloons ordinary custom would leave
IL in q week. After that the good, re-
spectacle gentlemen would be asked to quit the
place by the terrified proprietor. In Paris men
Of this class have always patronized Whatever
places pleased them, and their presence has al
WAYS acted a. another check on the thoughtlsss
and unprincipled.
All these things 20 to make the Paris brasseris
. very dineren: place from the American beer
saloon. There remains one other item yet,
perhaps the most important of them all;
this item 10 the barkeeper. The Partisan
brasserie has no barkeeper.
THERE n NO BAlkEIPER.
II there 10 one thing peculiar TO The American
salosa end quite unknown b 1arepsaa dEiAk-