Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-24
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". T. Mcf arlane OF Detroit at the Riggs
House yesterday. Il am very much inter-
ested in 1t because for more than ten years
could not see, and yet managed to read
| by means of raised letters l have inst
heard OF two instances of the practical
education of those who live in the darkness
that are really wonderful. Out in a small
Iowa town called Swaledale there is a
pnnd woman named Hattie Angel. who is
working on the local weekly paper setting
| type. She is an expert in the language of
the blind. and the matter TO be set up in
type is first dictated to her and she writes
II down In that. Then she goes to her case
and running her fingers over the raised
| surface of her peculiar manuscript, she
| quickly transfers the sentences to cold type.
She learned the boxes in her case very
quickly, 1t is said. and she arranges the
| type properly by feeling their hicks while
they are being raised to the stick.
Another and still more remarkable case
IN point is the recent demonstration at the
Wisconsin School for the Blind at James,
Vile, by which Lyman Pease the superin-
tendent OF the institution, has proven that
pllnd persons can be taught &c cook. This
Is not all: They have been taught also to
manage the stove perfectly and take proper
care OF all the kitchen utensils Several to-
taIy blind girls in the institution showed
themselves perfect mistresses Of the kitch-
en- and list Of the dishes recently pre-
pared by them in the school included all
KINDS or bread and cake, roasted and broil-
| ed meats, vegetables in various styles as
wen as preserves, pickles and other things
Iney depend entirely upon their extremely
uehcate sense of taste, smell and, more par-
! tlcularly, touch. / can realize their gratia-
cation at being enabled to accomplish some
thlng TO take away the full sense of their
| awful affiiction. AS i said before / was
sightless for ten years and experienced ali
the terrors of blindness and know what its
| helplessness means"
In addition to the many other accom-
nliShmQnfS w r..
Hayden Edwards one of the best equipped
men in the world he was a graceful and
expert billiard player" said Howard Sey-
mou- of New Jersey at La Normandie last
night. "A good many years ago he played
about the best game i ever saw for a
gentleman. i remember once when we
were together in Baltimore We dropped in
TO the Eutaw House one day to get out of
a passing shower. We went into the bill
lard room, and were attracted by crowd
that was gathered around one of the tables
looking at a game between a clean-cut,
sprightly. confident young man, and a
fiushed-face. heaviy-built man, who ap-
peared to be a naval officer. and who was
pretty nearly too far gone in liquor to see
a ball across the table.
"It was evident that the dapper individual
was a sharper and was engaged in fleeing
his antagonist. Edwards looked angry in
minute, but said nothing. When the game
was finished bystander handed some mon
loser looked in our direction and espied
Hayden. He gave no sign Of recognition
save the slightest sort of a wink, and then
addressed his opponent You can beat me
easy he remarked, but / can pick a man
in the room who can do the same by you.
The other Immediately expressed his will
ingness to play anybody for any amount.
and the naval officer, for such he turned out
to be, and an acquaintance of Hayden's S.
staggered about the crowd, apparently aim
lessly, and careened against Edwards. I'm
der his breath he whispered that the pro-
fesslonal had won $50 from him. and then,
out loud, he announced that he would select
this little fellow as he designated Edwards
as his champion. He can beat you for
fifty dollars he continued, with seeming
recklessness. pulling out some bills. The
money was quickly covered, and Edwards
selected his cue from the rack
The game was hundred points and Hay
den won the bank and made twenty-eigh-.
bis opponent made miscue and Hayden
exactly duplicated his run. The sharper
made few caroms and slipped up On a
draw shot. leaving the balls in the corner
whereupon my friend got them in the law
and ran the fifty-four points necessary 70
make the game Hayden put up mis- cue
without glancing at his antagonist and we
walked out. detest that drunken lout
he remarked, but hate a professional bill
hard room thief great deal more and made
up my mind to give that one a lesson The
raval man overlook US at that moment, and
IT took us two hours to get rid of him and
his exuberant gratitude"
Everybody is getting yaccinated I'M INV
way" said DR.. L. r. Randall of Phfiadei-
phia at Wormley's yesterday. land I pre-
sumo the same conditions hold good here.
Yes, the doctors reap a great harvest when
smallpox scare is abroad In the land /
dont know what vaccine points are sold
Tor by the druggists in Washington but in
riIadeiphia We get them for 10 cents
apiece. II is not only the children who re-
bel against submitting to vaccination. but
In my practice / have met scores Of men
ana women who approached the operation
with almost as much fear as they wouli
have prepared themselves to undergo an
amputation of a leg. Speaking of vaccina-
ton reminds me of something that recent
ly occurred In Germany. which is as nearly
! herioc as anything i ever heard Of Two
German physicians, who had been prose-
cutting researches into cholera recently
Vaccinated themselves with a preparation
made from cultures of the bacillus of that
AWFUL disease, and afterward swallowed
virul.nt cholera germs TO test the efI5cacy-
OF their experiment. They experienced no
evil results whatever, and afterward with
serum or their own blood. they inoculated
guinea pigs, and discovered that the ami
mails Were thus protected against cholera
Iris experiment has turned the usual sys-
TEN followed in similar researches entirely
upside down. Heretofore the guinea pig
has been the object upon which the yiruS
was first tried, but il appears that the Ger
man physicians were brave enough to offer
themselves as possible sacrifices on the
altar of advanced practical science II Won
conclude to get vaccinated, lust reynemher
those two German doctors, and don't
whimper."
There Is a commercial custom in En-
gland, as well in many Of the larger
cities of continental Europe that could be
followed, / believe, with excellent results
by the merchants and tradesmen of this
country" said Bernard White. one of the
foreign buyers for big New York dry goods
house. at the Arlington this morning.
w hen person enters shop in London for
instance, and selects an article he NAV de-
sire, no matter what IL is, and inquiries the
price, a certain sum Is stated. IL the BUYER
happens to have an account at the establish
ment and instructs statesmen to charge his
purchase to him he is politely informed that
the price OF the article is two or three pence
higher than the first-named cost This sys-
TEN is followed In all the better mercantile
establishments in the united kingdom The
credit price is invariably a few pennies
higher than the same article would be sold
for spot cash. The rea son for this is very
simple, and, / believe entirely proper
When person buys a thing for cash the
transaction is closed, and there is no fur
Their expense involved to either party
When perosn buys for credit the item
must be attended to by the bookkeeper the
services Of paid collector are brought into
reQuisition for the collection of the bill and
the running expenses of the establishment