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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24
SHOES FOR SPRINGTIME.
New Styles in French and DOngoln
Kid for Wear by Fashionable Women.

A woman's congress shoe Of the whole
foxed variety of bright dongola is produced,
says the Shoe and Leather Reporter. The
foxing at the back extends taperlng TO the
top of the shoe and at the front is tipped
with patent leather. The top is of plain
light-colored cloth. with goring to match II
in color. This is in imitation button style,
the scalloped button piece forming the
seam line against the gorng at the front.
and the extension Of the foXing to the seam
line at the back. BY this method the shoe
is simplifed as to the number of pieces re-
Quired for the top and a minimum Of seams
is obtained. With medium heel and a mar
row, rounded toe, the shoe is neat in APP
pearnce. A similar shoe is of French kid,
the difference being that the handsome
broad button piece is of this bright leather,
instead of cloth. forming a pretty contrast
to the dull black goring, instead of matching
it as in the former. sample shoe. with a
pretty name, is low cut and a comhina ton
of button and lace fasteners. of soft black
kid. Down the front Is a line of scallopod-
edge open work, to show the stocking of the
wearer The elaborate and broad button
piece has three acknowledged points, cor
responding to the three buttons. and cir
cular hole Is made below each button.
through which also the hosiery is visible
when on the foot 1t has a broad perfor-
ated heel foXing of the same material.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24

placarl has the announcement: I'VE make
the Names in Il minute \ rival eStab-
EsnmeEt has the sign: our pigs baptized
=hIle yoJ wait" on the front of the booth
Of The Great Museum of Progress is dis
played in letters of gold" Metempsycho
takes place ct every explanation What
ever this may mean. il sounds well. and
sets one TO reading the signs and listening
10 the hIranGUeS of the showmen. stand
ing On their balconies outside. The NEST
original and attractive of all these show
rlen are the wresters. strong men, boxers
and fencers from the south of France. with
their innocent brag and good nature. They
defy the public to come in and strive with
them.
bold eyes. the gymnasts bust and the
SCGrn OF laws They are surrounded with
the romance of Bohemia. Wanderers and
yagabOnds. there Is something about them
that thrills the adventurous Imagination
Of youth and touches the susceptibilities
Of Ianguishing Partisan danes. Artists
love them. for they have both beauty and
strength. They are childish IN their tastes
AMI have quick instincts OF primitive
beings. They have the pride of their art
and a feeling for beautiful poses. And
they love gigantic staSe-names and the roll
OF elOqUence. They may sometimes be
brutes. but they are always interesting
good at heart like all poor devils. a cur
ious thing about their women is the dia-
mOndS they wear in really great quanu-
ties-"the hank" as they say themselves
The spectators look on these queens Of
the fair smlingly. imagining that all these
gh,terlng jewels are but glass. In reality
they are true and Of good water; 1t is in
them that the receipts are invested and
when luck turns they can be sold or pawn
ed. The booth. IN which they live. Is on
Wheels. IL Is their home: and they are
home~ick when th-v are forced to dwell
La furnished rooms.
lortO. Italian from the Abruzzi His
ssatn at the Suillotine a few years since
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Careme, which stirs all Paris to its depths
to see the washerwomen doing their parade,
has ended with the last mask ed ball at the
opera Then comes a lull. But even be-
fore Easter the ham fair, with the sale of
salted meat. Of horses and asses at each
end of its long stretch. and of Junk, old
iron and battered bric-a-brac along its
edges. has begun the series of the fetes
Foraines- Then there Is Easter, glorious.
golden In the springtime. The ginger
bread fair has come. and the Parisians,
who are professionals in finding pleasure
AMI seek a constant change In their dis
fractions, know that to miss its rude and
crude delights would be to let slip An op-
pcrtunity for laughing curiosity
The suburban boulevard, or avenue or
open square. is broad and flat 1t is early
evening. with the long twilight of the north.
The sun sets in dust Of gold The fair
booths are in long lines. furiously painted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24

Illustrated by Young Man Who
Tried to DO a Plumbers Work.

Tried to DO Plumbers Work.
making US a Sunday afternoon call. We
were young married folk too, and, as We
four were all but strangers in the city, we
did considerable visiting among ourselves,
says q writer in the St. Louis Republic.
We had pretty well exhausted all general
topics this afternoon and were stretching
stray suggestions into conversations. We
were boarding, SO we had no domestic af-
fairs Of our own, and we had exchanged
opinions Of our respective landladies so
often that neither's grievances were of in
terest to the other. long Silence was
broken by the young huSband-tte other
veloped into grin, and finally became a
Chuckle. He had evidently thought Of
something and We all frightened with ex-
pectation.
well, what is it?' asked, and then he
told this story. His wife tried at the be-
ginning to stop him, but we would not have
1t.
Down at our place we have two rooms, &"
he said. In one Of them is Il stationary
waShstand. About a week age nay wife
imagined that she smelled sewer gas. and
upon investigation concluded that it came
up the pipe leading from the washstaad
We tried all sorts Of ways of remecying
the evil, but nothing succeeded until | pro-
cured a lot of small ',orks and fitted them
tightly In the outlets OF the basin. You
know, there are number of small holes
near the top of the basin to all the main
duct, IL necessary, In carrying Off the water
or course these had TO be filed. / had
quite time getting the right size Of ccrks,
but L persevered and vas sIcces5ful. This
was in the morning, and when ] had COM
pleted the task / went downtown. What
followed i know only from haarsly. That
has 1t that there were gathered around the
table at noon five women; there were no
men in the house. During the neal it was
noticed that drop Of water fell on the
table This called attention to the ceiling
which was darisened by moisture. There
was an immediate rush for thu, next floor
above. have never been able 20 learn
just what happened when those women
found the water running full force and the
chairs and tables all but floating How
ever. from circumstantial evidence ! Judge
that they went directly for those corks /
had put a cork in the bottom also, as We
fancied that the old rubber stopper was
loose. Wen, those corks were SO swoile n
with the water that 1t was impossible to
pull them out or drive them through. A
great deal of feminine fuss and historical
unavailing work may he Imagined here.
which finally resolved itself into q message
to the next house for help-mlsculine Ee!p
preferred. The son of the house RESPONDED.
Yes 1 suggested as he paused, what
did he dor
The young married man looked ut his
wife with a quiZZical smile. she glanced
nervously at him, grew red, hesitatei, and
then, as our attention was entirely directed
to her. she saw that some reply was ex-
pected.
WELL" she said, 1.-The first thing he did
was to turn off the water
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sausages. left over from the ham fair just
before, sausages Of Lorraine, of Aries or
StrasOurg, of the Moseile, from Savoy and the
Jura mountains. There are traders in coun-
try produce from Alsace and all the east of
France, there is cider from the Norman
orchards; and there are merchants Of hot
fried potatoes, apple fritters and old-fash-
Toned spice cakes for consumption on the
spot Its name comes from the selling of
country-made gingerbread, which Is not
very good to eat, but makes excellent nat
Lfal barometers If hung at a window where
II can show the moisture in the air, and
WI en- it is soaked in hot water 1t is an ex-
oellent poultice for boils There is also an
immense variety of homemade candy
wooden shoes, brooms and other articles of
provincial hand manufacture, much of which
is said to be really produced in Paris. There
are Hover booths. fruit booths, sales of old
iron, old books and other trumpery an
tiquities, gathered toge Their from the four
corners of France. All this makes up the
me rchandise department.
The cheapest of all this merchandise are
the songs that are hawked about at a
penny a sheet, and they form the connect
ing link with the amusements of the fair.
The people stand around the fiddler and
learn the songs which they have bought
from him. to the painfully repeated tune
which he saws out for them. With the
average Parisiaps lack of musical ear, a
pennys worth can in this way be made to
last long time.
Crazy Round of Bicycles.
with pairt, and there is no end to their
variety. Some give a double motion, a
combination of going round and round and
up and down. like a vessel laboring in a
heavy sea- 1t is two sous worth of nausea,
and the people love to tempt 1t. There Is
one merry go-round of bicycles in ring.
upon which a certain type of young ladies
love to mount and show their patent
leather slippers. They work at the pedals
furiously, with moist eyes, flushed cheeks
and parted lips. 1t is for them an esctacy
of motion and of action when, swayed by
the churning music and palpitating with
the delightful consciousness that hundreds
Of eyes regard them with lattering atten-
ton, they hear the cries: Go it, chaussettes!
Vive les bas noirsi' Faster and faster
turns the crazy round of bicycles more
furiously the grinding pedals jump The
white knees flash, and garters, rose green,
gold and blue shoot out their darling
coiors like a fireworks exhibition. Hair
pins drop, hats fly loose and flutter to the
ground like birds, the organ screeches out
Its strident waltz until the music ceases
and the bicycles are stopped, all too soon
for those who ride, and the voice of the
proprietor is heard again monotonously
"Hygienic exercise for all! Combination of
music. motion and mirth! Come ont Come
on
And 1t IS exactly as the Snowman cries.
come on, come on. For these suburban
fairs are swift show. and nobody should
stop too long. STERLING HELLO.
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CHILpRENs RIGRrx

A Phase of the Universal Prsa0>-
That Confronts soetetN
From Jenness Miller Monthis
There is no substitute Tor q genuine frss
serene, healthy, hread-and-outtsr chuoAosA
] A fine manhood or woranhood can h
built on no other foundation. ana - sur
American homes are 20 often fYisd VatN
hurry and worry. our manner % rvfns n
so keyed TO concert pitch. our plan II az
| istence so complicated. that we DRAG tbs
babies along in our wake and furcs Shsm
to our artificial standards forxee<1ns shaa
sweet flowers are slow. and wesds mako
haste"
II we must or fancy that we must lsaA
this false. too feverish Life. let rs at least
spare themi BY keeping them furevsr on
uptoe We are in danger OF producing en-
army of conventional ntue prlgA vhs
know much more than they should about
matters which are profllsss even 20 thsas
elders.
AS TO keeping children too clean for any
mortal use. suppose nothing IL more dis
aAtrous. The divine right 20 be eior;ousiy
| dirty q large portion OF the time when dirt
Is necessary consequence Of direct, use
full, friendly contact with all sorts Of Inter
! esting helpful things f. too clear 70 be
denied. The children who have 20 think
! Of their clothes before playing with ths
| dogs, digging in the sand. working IN the
/ shed. building bridge or wedding tbs
! garden never get half their legitimate en-
/ jcyment out OF life.
! have a good deal of sympathy for the
! little people during their first eight or ten
! years when they are just beginning 70
| learn LIES lessons, and when the laws
which govern them must often seem %
strange and unjust
The child has a right to q place OF bis
own, TO things of his own, TO surroundings
which have some relation to his size. his
desires and his capabilities. How should
we like to live half the time IN place
where the piano was twelve feet tail. the
door knob at an impossible height and the
mantel shelf in the sky; where every NOR
! tai thing was out Of reach except q colec-
ton OF highly interesting objects on Dress
| ing tables and bureaus. guarded. how
ever by giants three times as large ana
/ powerful as ourselves. forever saying,
/ Mustn't touch" and IL We did touch we
! should be spanked and have no other
/ symboically on the inonensive persons or
our dolls?
The child problem is merely one phase OF
| the universal problem that confronts 30
/ ciety Let the history OF domestic rule
/ tynify in little the history Of our political
/ rule: at the outset autocrauc control
where control is really needful; by and by
an incipient constitutionallsm, in which
the liberty of the subject gains recoEni-
! ton extensions of this liberty Of the sub
! ject gradually ending I'm parental abdica-
! ton"
| We must not expect children 10 be TOO
I good Intellectual and moral precocity pro-
duced by stimulation VIII be at the expense
| of the future chara cter In these matters
I the child has a right to expect examples.
/ Re lives in the senses: he can only learn
! through object lessons. can only pass from
/ the concrete examples of goodness TO .
vision of abstract perfection.
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ward distributed among the members of
ones family and friends.
Some Artfstfc Eggs.

The coloring Of the eggs In all probability
grew out Of a fancy to make the gift lDok
bright and gay, and, like all fancies, Il has
had its crescendo and dininucnio. The
height Of the fancy is marked by the eggs
which were offered on Easter to Nine. Vic
toire de France. daughter Of Louis XIV,
and which are still preserved in the library
Of Versailles on account Of the beautiful
paintings which they bear the work Of no
less artists than Lancret and Vatican. The
declension Of the fancy is found in England
today, where plain, hard-boiled eggs usual
ly form the Easter offering. In France the
natural egg Is almost done away with, and
the jeweler and confectioner supply the
sometimes valuable and always '-sweerly
pretty counterfeit With us hens eggs
colored and those made by the candy man
are about equally used. In Belgium lJvers
exchange eggs diversely colored, accom-
panied by poetical and sentimental devices
In Russia Easter eggs are a great tnsttta-
ton. From the car to the lowest Elou1ik
every one conforms thereto The populace
give and receive eggs that are simply STAIN
ed: but the aristocratic egg is q gorgeous
affair, painted and decorated with much
artistic skill. In Poland the giving Of Ens-
ter eggs is not confined simply tn friends.
Every householder and noble offers an egg
to each conner on Easter Monday. The egg
Is broken In two, and while the host IL al
lowed simply to touch his lips to the con-
tents OF his moiety, the visitor IS expected
to eat the whole of his half
The Germans, at once the most phleSraat-
lie and imaginative of people, have fringcd
the custom of giving eggs with the added
custom of bringing in the rabbit rs part OF
the Easter Offering. The custom has teen
traced back as far as a legend that If
child of simple heart watches very atten-
lively on Easter morn she may see rabbit
burst, full furred, from its egg-the only
requisite to this charming surprise beng
the simple one of first finding the rabbits
egg. Though the tracing back of the Ger
man Easter rabbit to this little fairy story
Is easy enough. 1t Is by no means so easy
to take up the tracing line from this point
and find out why the fairy story should
have been tackled on to the Christian feast.
Possibly the connection may 60 as far back
as the Scandinavian mythology. which. as
has been said embraced in its pan theon tie
fair-eyed Eostur, at whose smile all the
sleeping things of earth sprang into life.
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About Spelling.

From Jenness Miller Monthly.
That spelling is not the necessary attri-
butte of cleverness. or inability to spell the
necessary mark of a fool, is plain enough
No one who thinks for a minute or two
on the matter will fail TO remember that he
knows one or two men who cannot write
the simplest note without misspellings
and that these are by no means the most
stupid of his acquaintance, but often the
cleverest. The Duke Of Wellington, it is
notorious, could not SPELL and there have
been plenty of other men of his mental
caliber quite illiterate Some one has
lately collected list of distinguished
Frenchmen who could not spell. and heads
1t with Thlers-who. though not a genius
was certainly one of the cleverest men that
ever lived. Theirs never could manage to
spell his native language, though as a
writer he was correct enough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24

From the Philadelphia Times.
recent fad among young mothers is to
have babys first shoes made objects of
beauty and sentimental interest through
the agency of some metal preparation that
Is poured over the little shoe, causing il to
retain its shape and showing all those dear
little spots and dents so precious in the
eyes Of the fond parent. An enterprising
firm has hit upon this plan and from the
success they are making the idea proves
itself a very popular one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24
Set the Style.


Papa" said the Fiji Island maiden, as
she laid down her paper. II have Just read
that ball room dresses are daily becoming
more and more decollete. What does that
mean?'
1T means, my child" replied her grizzled
warrior father. as flush Of pride strug-
gled with the Pacific tan on mis- brow, 1T
means that, uncivilized as they call US,
We are not beyond establishing a prece-
dentv
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uneven. bumped. misShapen, like the side
shows Of an American circus wrecked by a
cyclone. Sharp doors float through the air:
sharp music beats against ones ears. The
grinding organ takes your soul by the hand
and leads IL dance to its own bawling
measure. The cry OF the hot-waffie mer-
chant. the roar OF performing lions from
the depths of their tents, mingle with the
footing of gazoos. the banging OF drums.
the ecstatic squeals of children. and the
never-endinS. breathless chatter of French
conversation. with it's battering monotone
and mincing sylIables. over all there is
mixed smell of wild animals, fried batter
cakes. burnt gunpowder, the smell of lilacs
and the flavor Of ten thousand human
bodies. The Partisan stands listening de-
Eshteily to the harangue of any show
man nearest TO him.
Cheap. but Lively.
All the Paris suburbs-once independent
towns and villages-keep up these annual
fairs. which, through famine. war and
revolution, have succeeded each other with
scarce a break from the middle ages to the
present time. The local spectacular at
fractions are swollen and maSnihed
dozen-foId by peripatetic shows and cir
cuses. whose pToprietors and performers
lead very much the same rowing life they
have eve led since the dawn of history in
Europe. During these weeks of fair-time
the gentle and prosaic residents of the
Quarters become nothing. They are
swallowed up in a maelstrom of light and
noise and smells. where every possible
kind of Pa-isian and foreigner in Paris
rubs elbovS and jOstles in a crowd so i'm
mense and so diverse. and yet So united for
the moment, that one is choked and toEsled
and hypnotizeJ. II is an atmosphere that
fairly cutters with cheap gayety. and
poisCnS one. with some strange laugh
Ing gas. wiLh the desire TO yell and dance.
There are shanties painted -ed. white and
blue. where they sell those gingerbread
pigs. on which are written in rose-colored
SUGAR every likely proper name, Jules.
Berthe Antoinette. Robert, Adele One
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That Have Gathered About This
Ancient Festival,
bow THE DAY WAS CELEBRATED
Tho Use Of the Easter Eggs If
Many Countries.
THE RABBIT IN THE EGG


HOSE OF THE
readers Of The Stal
Eho are the possess
ors Of prayer books
may find therein the
following rule: "Eas-
ter day IL always the
first Sunday after tl,s
full moon, whi-n
happens upon Oh
next after the 2i>.
day of March, and il
the full moon hac:-
pens on q Sunday,
Easter day is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24

lTH THE FIR 8 T
days of spring In
Paris every one goes
out TO the suburban
fairs. The carnival,
with its cold fogs,
seems long ago. Lent
came. with sermons
by crack Jesuit and
Dominican preachers
in I a 5 hio n a b / e
churches. and with
ladies' walking seri-
ously along in black
and violet. MI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24
4 TONIC.
Horsford's Acid Phosptat~.

Or. J. c. Wilson. Philadelphia, Ia. savri Il
have used Il a general tonic. and IN particular
IN the debility and Dyspepsia OF overworked msA.
with satisfactory resultx"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-24
EASTER IN PARIS
Everybody Visits the Gingerbread
Fair in the Suburbs.
RATHER GAUDT BUT VERY INTERESTING
The Ancient Puppet Show Of "HelI"
and Other Curiosities.
A RACE OF WRESTLERS
PARIS. March 2 1891

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-06-28
AN AWFUL MINE HORROR.
Number Killed by an Explosion In ths
Albion Coliiery Aggregates 900.

Number Killed by an Explosion In the
Albion Coiiiery Aggregates 900.
CARDIFF, June 25-The men who
nave volunteered TO search the Albion
colliery at Cilfyndt, the scene Of the
terrible explosion Of fire damp Satur-
day evening, have been at work all
day, but no further rescues have been
effected. All hope for those still in the
pit has been abandoned. The number
Of the dead will, IL is believed, reach
$50. II has been ascertained that 2s7
men and boys descended the shaft Sat
urday, and Of this number only seven.
teen have been saved.
large number Of bodies are buried
beneath the earth falls, and II has been
found impossible as yet TO extricate
them. Those not killed by the explo-
sion or crushed 10 death by the falling
earth and rock were undoubtedly
asphyxiated by the after-damp.
The bodies of those recovered who
were killed by the actual explosion,
which was terrific, were terribly mu-
ulated. In many cases arms and legs
were blown completely from the trunks.
Limbs from missing bodies have been
found In several parts Of the mine.
In one place dozen bodies were
found togethero The men had evil
IDENTIFY been overtalsen by the after
damp while endeavoring to make their
escape. The scene of the disaster has
been visited by thousands of people
form the surrounding country. There
were recovered last night eighty-six
bodies.
Late last evening the rescuing par
ties succeeded in extricating large
number of bodies Thus far l42 bodies
have been taken from the pit.
A telegram was yesterday received
from the queen. Her majesty said she
was much shocked by the sad disaster,
and expressed her deep sympathy with
the families of the dead.