Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-07

be better all over the country, as the sus- pense and uncertainty will be over and business men will know how to trim their sails to meet the new order of things. Said @ prominent manufacturer yesterday: ''What we want Is to get the bill out of the way in some shape or other, as 3ust as soon as we know under what act we are to do business, trade will revive and an era of modified prosperity commence. though times will not be as they were whom Amer ican industries were protected as they should be.
 QUEER PEOPLE AT CABINET RECEPTIONS.
 Wednesday last being beautiful spring day, almost as warm as day in June, l started out to make the round of calls on the ladies of the cabinet, who were holding their last receptions of the season.
 As went from place to place noticed that of the hundreds of callers at least nine-tenths were women, and the sight of a black coat was like an oasis in the desert.
 My first call was at Vice President Stew enson's, where Mre. Stevenson was receiv ing in her pretty parlors, where the crowd amounted to a jam. It was so at all the other places, and was glad to make my escape alive after two hours of small talk and social gaiety.
 o1 tuo uduy tAkukb uOtlCcu Oy lA0 "AlAo at the vari ous houses was the great oppor tunity for pickpockets and sneak thisvs among the crowd of women, where dia- monds are as plenty as flies In summer in the sugar bowl. However, you hear of very few 1osses and those only through carelessness.
 Among the callers I also noticed many peculiar features. There ia the woman who comes merely to eat and get something to drink, and you always know her, as does generally the hostess She comes when the crowd Is greatest, and never leaves her card, and seldom gives her right name. Being introduced st the door of the reception room, she shakes hands with line, with 8 smile and a pleasant "pleased to meet you," edges her way as rapidly as possible through the crowd to the dining room where coffee, ice cream and cake are generally dispensed by some two or more charming young ladies. Here this queer character remains and eats just as long as she can without attracting general notice, when she hastens away to repeat the per formance at as many houses where recep- tions are being held as she can between the hours of three to five.
 Particularly noticeable among this type of callers are three women, we'll dressed, ! ani evidently mother and two daugh- ters, who call every day and everywhere, and are well known among society people as the ''silent three," although no one | seems to know who they really are. Another type at these receptions are the | women who come to look around and to see how your house Is furnished. They | rarely leave their own cards, if they dc
 any, and are known by the way ia which they investigate every nook and corner. closely inspecting this and that piece ol furniture, handling the curtains and small
 examining photographs and even books in
 the library.
 Still another type ia the woman who
 calls to zee how the ladies are dressed, and | this class being the most numerous, are
 also the most obnoxious to the hostess and
 the ladies receiving with her. This latter
 type first shake hands with the hostess
 and then passing down the line, take uI
 their stand at point of vantage, where
 until crowded out by new corners, they
 stand with the utmost unconoern and gazt
 at the receiving party until they are able
 to tell their friends exactly what Mrs, o1
 ber of hsirpins in her hair. This typ.
 greatly embarrasses the hostess, who would
 be more than glad would these visitors
 stay at home, or at least not attend the re
 captions.
 The meanest type, however, who attend ! these receptions is the polite and gentle ! manly caller, who, when he leaves, picks out the best hat and coat in the hallway and, as he will state if found out, "Why
 it was . mistake" walks off with youl
 outer garments and leaves you in exchange
 some of his old threadbsre clothes, besides spelling your temper for any more calls during the afternoon.
 PRESIDENTS RECEPTION AND STATE DINNEE "A PRETTY DRESS
 | The two events of the week, outside o1 the usual cabinet, senatorial and congress.
 sional receptions, were the last but one oi
 the presidents receptions at the executive mansion on Saturday evening, which was, as usual, @ very brilliant affair, and the l state dinner to the justices of the supreme l court on Thursday evening.
 The state dinner, which was the third and last. was the best of the season. The decorations were in scarlet and green and the idea of 8 scarlet dinner was car rted out in the settings. Mrs. Cleveland'a gown was of black velvet made ehort, l edged with sable and looped over a petit. coat of magenta satin, also bordered with sable. Large puffs of magenta satin formed the short sleeves. The low neck bodice was made with cuirass effect of open work bullion embroidery over the | velvet Twined in the low dressed hair was a narrow black velvet ribbon finished with short standing bows. In front, held by an invisible 6lleG at the part of the hair ! on her forehead, Mrs. Cleveland wore a star of diamonds.
  Knowing the interest at present being taken in the formation of a naval reserve in the city of New Haven started out the other day to get the views of ex Com missioner of Navigation Ed ward 0 O'Brien, who has thorough knowledge of needs of navigation, on the subjsct of naval re- serves. found that he was strong ad- vocate of national naval reserve, local in character, with fixed term of enlistment, and recruited from among our shipwriRhts, naval architects, pilots, marine engineers, end citizen seamen along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes, the entire organization to be under the supervision of the secretary of the navy. Such organization should, Nr. OBrien thinks, consist of four divisions, to be known as the Division of the At lantic, tho Division of the Gulf, the Divis- ion of the Great Lakes and the Division of the Pacific.
 He proposes that the government shall place at the disposal of each division one merchant steamer 60 constructed as to be readily available as 8 war cruiser, and also ss a practice and recruiting ship, under the direction of the secretary of the navy.
 An snalysis of the naval reserve of sev- eral seaboard states shows a somewhat curious state of affairs so far as regards occupations. While there are many cleo tricians, teachers, stenographers, ,draughts- men, ,fpattern makers, clerks, lawyers, etc., there seem to be bat few who have had any experience as seamen. What service of value these men would be able to per- form on the sea in case of emerRency fs somewhat problematical, says MT. OBrien, An examination of the list of 375 names belonging to the naval brigade of the Mas: sachusetts volunteer naval militia deyelops the fact that one man had served in the revenue marine, five in the navy, four in tho merchant marine and that three had sailed in canoes, while ffty-six had been employed on yachts.
 BONA EIDE SAILORS EVIDENTLY NOT
 WANTED.
 Mr. O'Brien thinks there Is no proper in- ducemsnt for bona dds sailors to join the