Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-29

supply Washington alone. But what the
unnitiated admires as sealskn Is "coney"
or electric seal'' to the practical vision.
A coney skin is the everyday clothes of q
cotton-tailed rabbit. When Invested from
its natural wearer, 1t Is dyed a seal brown
and then the omnipresent electricity comes
into play The fur side Of the skin Is
II Gated to bath after bath of electricity,
until it becomes as soft and velvety as
sealskn itself. Then dozens of the skins
are sewed together and made into a cape.
and for $2S n girl can sport q garment that
looks and feels for all the world to the
casual commoner like a twin sister Of the
$50 article that droops from the shoulders
of Madame Midas. The "toney" women,
however, appear to have eschewed fur,
except of the most elegant description, and
the most stunning dressers affect capes of
black velvet. very handsome one on F
street yesterday was q double cape, the
upper one edged with costly brown fur and
the collar mass of exquisitely wrought
designs In bead work. And II the girl who
had 1t on wanted to marry for money she
could wed the most rigorous elder in a
Shaker settlement on two days acuuaint-
ance What everybody will say now after
look divinely on creature like her!
Every day something occurs to prove
again the truth of the line, Fate moves in
mysterious way it's wonders to perform"
There is a well-known lawyer In Washing
ton who Is so nervous that he gets shocked
into chill at the noise of his own sudden
sneeze. He lives on the line of the 14th
street cable cars, and the grip has been
the source Of fearful dread to him ever
since the system was adopted. The bare
. thought Of riding In one where he would be
sure to see the blood and hear the death
agony of any luckless pedestrian who might
happen to get knocked down was sufficient
Lii
other day. however. he was tired and worn
out, but was compelled to leave the city on
an important business trip. The call was
sudden, and found him at his office unpfe-
pared as to linen and requisite toilet arti-
cles. He found he barely had time to run
out to his house, get his grip and catch the
train. He trotted for the avenue, and
along came a yellow train. The closed car
was crowded to it's capacity; his feet and
legs panied too much to stand and the only
seat to be had was on the front bench d.
rectly behind the dashboard of the grip. In
wild carelesSneSs Of consequences he took
it. Every approaching wagon made him
shudder; every newsboy scooting across
the tracks stopped his heart beating; every
clang of the bell-and Washington cable
gripmen ring theirs louder, more often and
more unnecessarily than any other Inem-
bers of their tribe in existence-every clang
of the bell to repeat, made the cold per-
spiratiOn break oVt on his backbone. He
wished he had never done it; he swore he
would never do it again-and he won't. AS
the car was whirring around 18th street
from New York avenue a man pushing a
parcel cart got his vehicle in front of it,
There was crash, an atmosphere filled
with flying spokes and broken wagon body,
a crunching of the debris under the wheels,
some emphatic expletves and a stop. With
wild bound the lawyer leaped from the
car. He didn't wait to see the amount CT
damage done or pick up possible retainer
in a suit for recovery. He hoofed 1t de-
terminedly out to his home, packed his