Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-30

A New York firm has adopted scheme
for advertising their business which appeals
to the heart of an autograph collector who
detailed the facts to me a short while ago
The firm offers a lathe valued at $500 to
the technical or mechanical school of any
university receiving the greatest number of
votes for the article in question Each uni
versity that enters the race, of course, for
wards the cards containing this fact and
request for the full name of the voter to
the various eminent men who have it as an
alma mater. These cards are in turn sent
to the lathe manufacturers, and they will
have on hand most valuable collection or
the autographs of almost every living
American celebrity, statesmen, scholars and
wealthy citizens. Our own Columbian un!-
versity is contestant for the prize, ana
has sent out cards to its scattered children
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In former years some Washington women
were in the habit of taking trip over to
Baltimore spring and fall to, do their shop
ping, but there. is one wise woman who
says she has done her last in this direction,
lured by the prospect of unlimited savings.
In telling her experience of the compare
tive cheapness and value Of the articles in
the two cities she says Baltimore simply
isn't in it, with Washington. Some years
ago." she sad, there might have been
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do better in this neighboring city, but dur
ing the past ten years Washington has
steadily improved in the matter of shops
and merchandise, while Baltimore has
either stood still or refrigerated. Just TO
mention one article to show the difference
in prices, l priced, wire hat frame over
there and was charged 40 cents Tor the
same article that can be purchased here 1or
%. In fact, found almost as great com
parison in nearly every article l wished 10
buy, and so from now ON 1 shall patron-ze
home industry and save money.
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During the lovely haZy Indian summer
weather that has characterized this autumn
little child gave as sweet and poetic
description of the atmosphere as any poet
could Looking out the window one after
noon she remarked the peculiar condition
of the ar, and turning toward her mother
sad: Mamma. it looks drowsy out OF
doors today, don't it?
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The United States has all sorts of crazes
at varying intervals, but just now it is
wrestling with brand new one, and that
is the Dutch fad. Everything is Dutch,
from women's bonnets to the table lnen
and not a household is complete without
collection of Delft china, which has entirely
superseded all other sorts in the popular
esteem. Indeed, some people think It Is all
the work of the so-called Dutch bonnet, for
that was found to be so universally becom-
ing that the promoters of public taste HE'D
them to Dutchland for further inspiration,
and now we are in danger of being flooded
with the ideas from this sturdy little king
dom Tourists abroad this summer seemed
to find Holland quite the most interesting
spot in Europe and scarcely trunk passed
through the custom house that DID not con-
tain a portrait of Queen Wilhelmlna, the
girlish ruler of the land of dykes.
In addition to the general interest there
Il, rtSTO for VOIrtT
writers. and Maeterlinck's plays and Iaar-
tens novels are being devoured and as
simulated by American bookworms TO
most surprising extent Even the gentle
art of embroidering has been affected by
the fad, ard windmills wave their arms
where flowers used to bloom, and all sorts
of quaint devices are wrought in silks by
unsuspcious maidens, who gravely tell you
''they are Dutch when you marvel at
their oddity.
A bride and groom passing through
Washington last week got even with some
of their tormentors. WHO had played in
Vulnerable wedding pranl<s upon them, in
very clever manner. 1t happened that
one of the brides attendants was a Wash
ington girl and came far us this city
with the happy pair, accompanied also by
a very ardent admirer. The newly we'd
ded pair occupied part of their journey by
carefully collecting all the rice with which
they had been showered just before their
departure from home, and when the train
stopped at the depot here, just as the I'M
sGspecting young woman was being ten
dcrly helped to alight by her escort they
returned the rice, and shifted the burden
of lately acquired matrimony on the other
pair of shoulders. OF course the Washing
ton girl could not get mad, for she had
been one of the chief insttgators in carly
Ing out the japanese rite.
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cannot do as well as men; this none but the
most hopeful of her sex denies But an
apartment house IN this city, while not
denying to its occupants the privilege of
smoking, has made it obligatory that the
women smoke elsewhere. This all grew
out of an Unforeseen accident that occurred
last week 1t seems that one of the guests
of the gentler sex was in the habit of TAX
ing her post-prandial cigarette in the pri-
vacy of her apartment, unsupported by the
other residents until a few nights ago she
dropped some of the ashes from her weed
uron the lace draperies at the windows and
set them afre. Her placid dreams of
woman's equality were disturbed by the
necessity of doing something, and doing it
quickly, so she hauled down the burning
curtain and started for the next room 10
throw 1t into some water. In the DOORWAY
hung portieres, to which the flames COM
municated themselves, ana by the time a
great hole was burnt in them and the ell
had spread itself to the rug she decided
she had better call for help, even if she had
to make confession before all the other
women in the house.
Now one of the rules of the establish
ment is: Ladies will kindly smoke out
side" and the cause of woman mas had
another setback.
Not to be too hard on the wome1, want
to give them piece OF advice l received
from the elevator man at one of the big
stores down town. Just you notice. he
said how ladies crowd into the elevators.
all trying to get in first, and even then
they won't sit down and make room for
later corners. No, they stand up, and from
the back of the say: Let me out at
the second floor. Now If they know they
are going to get out so soon, why don't
they get in last instead of first, for the last
in are the first to get out, and they
wouldn't have to push and shove like they