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The morning times., 1895-08-25
sPENCERIAN


SPENCERIAN
In the National Capital and throughout the
country is a household word associated
with thorough business training and 2
prosperous career.
The thirty-first scholastic year of this
popular Institution begins Monday. Sep
tember 2, 1895. Five departments, viz:
Practical business, including complete
bookkeeping course, English, rapid cal
cGlatloDs, rapid writing, moral and social
culture, DelsaFte system of expression,
cIvicS, political economy and commercial
law. Practical English, with initiatory
bookkeeping, Shorthand anu TypewFitlng,
including English; SpeuCerian Rapid Writ
ing, Mechanical and Agricultural Ora wing.
Fun corps of thoroughly trained teachers.
Location central
Spacious, brilliantly lighted handsoms
halls and claSS-rOonls. Service OF gradu-
ateS always in demand. Terms moderate,
but no competition with cheap schools.
The leading business men of Washington
were trained in this college, and send their
sons and daughters and candidates for
employment here for training
This college received from the Worlds
Columbian commission, q diploma for
Excellence OF Students Work" IN all OF
the above departments.
Office open every business day and
night, on and after Monday. August I2.
Write or call for new annual announces
meDt- MRS. SARA A. SPENCER
rsfr..al I'm d.,
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ZOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION

BUTCHERS ASSEMBLY, NO. 6, ,34l, X.
OF l., invites all members Of theCraft in the
District 10 attend meeting of the body
TO be held, 3 O'Clock this (SUndayD after
noon, at Plasterers' Hall, corner Four-and-
a-haif streetand Pennsylvania avenue. Be
sides the Initiation of new members, the
assembly viii devise means OF informing
all members and friends of organized labor
unions that Nicholas Auth has been placed
on the unfair list and that said Nicholas
Auth declares that any man working for
him who Joins the union viii beimmediately
discharged. He also tells his customers
that by placing MIN on the unfair list
the assembly is giving him gratis the biggest
advertisement he could possibly obtain.
Butchers Assembly, No. 6,35I, X. of L.,
chllsupon the public atlargenot 10 patronize
Nicholas Auth, who keeps two stands in the
Seventh street wing OF Center Market
two stands in Liberty Market, and two in
the o Street Market.
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over the city to his feeding ground on the
Eastern Shore that braces your sleep
cIogged wits into a sense OF alertness,
and when he flaps back in the early
dusk he brings with him such a sense
OF home and restrulness that You want to
be careful how YOU express yourself to
the oldest inhabitant concerning the at
fractions OF our crow.
A WOMAN OF THE TIMES.
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pretty private wedding was ceie-
brated yesterday at noon at the residence
of Mrs. Harris Ferris, No. Dl0 Rhode Island
avenue northwest, when Miss Lola Porlu
and DR.. Walter s. Ferris were married.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. j.
Russell Verbrycke, OF Gurley Memorial
Church.
The parlors were prettily decorated,
palms and potted flowers being the fea-
ture of the design. The bride wore hand
some travelling gown of Gobelin blue cloth,
with hat TO match, and carried d white
prayer book After the ceremony a wed
ding breakfast was served and later the
couple left for an extended tour through
the North.
Among those present We're Mrs. Har-
riet Ferris, mother of the groom; Miss
Annie Ferris, his sister; Miss +. H Gel
ston, Arundel, Md; Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
p Calvert, Mr.. and Mrs. Gelston, of New
York; DR.. and Mrs. j. d. Frauzoni, Mr..
and Mrs P S. Garretson, Mr.. Benjamin
d. Stalling, Mr.. II. Daley and Miss Daley,
Mrs. z. McChesney, Mr.. and Mrs. Mayer,
Mr. Ross Andrews, Miss Heller, Mrs.
Norris and Miss Elda Norris, Mrs. Eleanor
Finley. Mrs s. z. Moore, ard daughter,
Mr. Edward Mattern, Miss Hattie Rice,
Miss Annie Beck, Mr.. Charles Zieseuitz,
Mrs and Miss Helmick, Mr.. Allen Dodge,
Mr. julie Stern and others.
The presents Were numerous and hand
some.
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Miss Herbert, daughter OF the Secretary
of the Navy, has recently completed a
visit 10 the United States Minister to Rus.
sia aud Mrs Clifton Breellinrdge, at their
summer place, at Totoiky, in Finland. Miss
Herbert has now left St Petersburg for
Moscow, travelling with Mr. and Mrs Town
seud-Davis, OF Buffalo.
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1 consider it my duty TO disapprove of
sparrows, You cannot tell me anything
mean about sparrows that | don't know
already, but whenI hear people ecompla lining
that ne has driven OF every species OF our
native bird / can't help wondering what
Is wrong with the robins and wrens in the
Smithsonian GroundS-and, pray, what's
the matter with our crow? The old rookery
at Arlington is so ancient that it was
founded-according to the rubrics of the
oldest inhabitant-by the original crow
that never came back to Noah because he
preferred the Heights instead
The magnificent old grove at Arlington
is so black with feathers and so loud with
caws that an honest Englishnan-who
himself can show "A Zig thing i'll rookeries
at his Devonshire home-graciously ad-
mitted that he had seen nothing to equal
ours in all four corners OF the globe
You can set your watch by the Arlington
crow. There is an alarm clock regu-
| larity about his morning cav as he flies
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1t is the unexpected that generally hap
pens. 1t was certainly the unexpected
that happened and thereby nearly floored
one of the clerks in Il large store on the
Avenue. 1t was n well-known society
woman who did the flooring, and the way
she did it was this:
She came smiling into the store and coyly
lisped ont TO the clerk who came to meet
her that what she wanted was some white
India silk, lightly cream coIored, she eX-
piained when he paused for further instrEc-
tions.
Then the dapper young man turned his
back to haul down the entire supply OF
white and cTeam-colored India silk pos
sessed by the establishment In the mean
time the society woman had not been idle
The innocent-looking little package which
she ca fried in her arms as she entered the
store had been unrolled and the contents
carefully spread upon the counter
When the dapper young man turned
finally with a smile of triumph, holding the
last piece of India silk in his arms, ready to
deposit on the counter, the sight that met
his gaze discOuccrted him to such degree
that he fled in confusion, and sent one of
the oldest men in the establishment
to attend to the society woman, who
innoCently explained that she had brought
along her packa ge in order to exactly match
the silk q
This article brought TO match the silk by
aud which carefully spread upon the counter
had worked the young mans confusion.
was nothing more or less than white silk
lace-trimmed gown de mutt, bewitchingly
finished with ribbon bows
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Miss Margaret Edes, who went abroad in
the early summer, is now at Nauheim, in
Germany, where she has been greatly bene-
fitted by her stay at that place. Miss Edes
will return to her residence in this city
in the late autumn.
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The idea that the average society girl
leads q vain, idle, purposeless life is as far
from the truth as it is possible 10 imagine.
She is. in fact creature with a life so full
OF purpose that her uDfashionalIe sister
would faint By the way Were she called
upon to go through the curriculum that
the society girl accomplishes without a
murmur.
True, ii is all done in the name Of pleas
ure, but it is work all the same, and hard,
persistent work at that. This work is alb
solute!y necessary in order for the society
girl 10 keep up with the fads of the day,
as she must not only keep III tnnch with the
times, but she must he proficient in each
and every one of The out-of-dooT sports
now engaging the popular fancy.
The young woman VINO idles away the
summer, killing time in the hammock, is
decidedly a back number. Her ideas of the
eternal fitness of things are a long way off
from being up TO date.
The society girl has gone away beyond
the hammock stage of spending the sum
mer. she has outgrown ii long ago and
struck out in the field of sports that few
years ago were almost entirely monopo-
lized by the college contingent.
In order 10 be in the swim the society
girl must be a proficient tennis and golf
player, with a general smattering of knowl-
edge OF croquet playing thrown in She
must entirely eliminate from her COMPOST
tion the old-time fear of firearms ard be
a good shot with the pistol and rifle. she
must be thoroughly at home i'll the archery
field and must take a hand at bowlin.
with any OF the college bred men with
whom she may be thrown. The science OF
billiards and pool playing must be to her
an open letter.
As an amateur skipper she must be fitted
10 sail craft TO perfection, and last, but
by no means least, in the list Of her out-of-
door accomplishments, she must include a
thorough knowledge of handling the rib
bons of four-in-hand-
So much for the out-of-door part. Inas-
much as one cannot. however athletic their
inclinatiOns, spend all Of the time i'm the
open, it is necessary to Possess list of
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There is great hue and cry raised every
DOW and then in regard to the fact that
some society woman is suspected of or
known to have effectually floated into the
swim some of the Dewly rich contingentthat
is constantly appearing on the Washington
horizon.
What if she has? What if she does, and
will continue to do so? The same thing
can be ayerred with truth with regard to
several OF the club men well known and
popular in society. Sometimes this float
ing into the swim is done purely from q
personal liking OF the newly rich friends,
but sometimes it happens that the material
benefits accruing to the club man are quite
as substantial as that which falls to the
share of the woman who does this for d
regular moDeyed consideration.
Why the foreigners should feel themselves
called upon to raise q hue and cry in this
respect is decidedly an enigma, since the
custom, so far from being American, is
emphatically foreign one. 1t is, more
over, pre- emiDently English, and there
fore its adoption by the swell set should not
be wondered at.
There are more titled men and women
in London to the square inch who make a
regular business of floating people into
society than elsewhere upon the face of
the globe.
The practice is very usual one in Wash
ington, but it by no means always fol-
lows that when it is done here, the enolu-
ments are in so much hard cash. More
often than otherwise there is a political
end 60 the string.
There are several army and navy officers
who not only can bIt who do float families
into the swim i'll Washington society, no
only float them in but see that they stay
i'll after the floating process has been com
pleted early in the season.
There is one naval officer who is quite
proficient in this sort of thing, and who
several seasons since uShcrcd in certain
people who are now quite prominent in
the leading events of the winter He is a
very careful, shrewd, far-sceing man, and
consequently when he undertakes to accom-
pliSh anything in this respect nc invariably
succeeds. His greatest success lies in aC-
quainting himself with the list of friends
possessed by the aspirant for social honors,
This done, he carefully prepares black
list of all such as must from that time forth
be dropped IN order that the progress Of
his social debutantcs may not be hampered
with detrimentals
Should il be found in any case that the
aspirant for social honors balks or abso-
lutely refuses TO drop old friends, the naval
officer simply throws him over, drops him
then and there on the spot, since, as he eX-
plains, he cannot woTk miracles.
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indoor accomplishments. This requires
at least cursory knowledge OF embroidery,
the mastery of at least one musical instru-
ment and TO be able to dance to perfection
the last new steps introduced from time
TO time within the ballroom boundaries.
Somewhere into the twcnty-four hours
the young woman must squeeze in the time
to learn to swim, to ride the bicycle, to be
manicured, bathed and massaged, with
now and then an hour or two to be spent
at the mercy of the hair-dreseer.
If any one viii have this list of absolute
necessaries in the education of the fashion
able girl in mind and then presume to dub
her life either idle or purposeless, it will
be very dense intellect that viii keep to
any such oldtime conclusions.
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Dr. Harris, United States Commissioner
OF Education, accompanied by his wife,
is at present i'll Paris having recently ar
rived there from a visit to Rome r
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Mrs General George f. Pickett and
her niece, Miss Daueute Corhelle, and Miss
Mary Trist left to-day for the Natural
Bridge, va, to spend several weeks with
relatives Since the death of her father,
Major ] W C0Tbelle, Mrs. Pickett's
health has been seriously impaired.
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to select suitable house in which to make
their future home. They will not go to
Philadelphia to reside until some time in
October
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Gen. Fullerton, accompanied by his lit
tie daughter and sister, is spending the sea-
son at the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs. <a--
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Miss salle F Chandler, of the Pension
Office, and her sister, Miss Sue, accom-
panied by Miss Victoria Roones, are enjoy
ing trip through Northern New York and
Canada They viii not return until late
in September
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Capt. Charles A. MeKevitte, chief clerk
of the Pension Office, with his wife left
yesterday for Asbury Park. They viii
also visit other resorts before returning,
about the latter part of September.
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Miss Mary Allen and the Misses Kate and
Mary Walshe left yesterday for ten days
trip to Boston.
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MARRIED. .

FoSTER-PARKER- - On August l9,
1896, by Rev. E. ID. Bailey, w Wallace
Foster TO Jessie c Parker. both OF Wash
tngton.
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silk shirt waist, and when the day is
cool, very chic little French jacket.
She has also another extremely pretty
golf dress OF Old rose Scotch eheyiot, faint
ly checked in greep- The blouse has a yoke
that falls down far over the shoulders,
and a box plait runs down the front and
fastens by means of double rows of white
pearl buttons She always wears hshs
leather golfiug shoes.
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Mrs Daniel Lamont viii doubtless be
added 30 the list OF cyclers when the fash
ionabe world returns TO Washington for
the autumn.
For some months past Mrs. Lamont has
been giving considerable thought to the sub
ject OF learning to ride the bicycle, and as
the Secretary OF War isimbued with an idea
of the advantages to health accruing from
this exercise, it is likely that upon her re-
turn TO Washington in the autumn, Mrs.
Lamont VIII regularly take Iessonsin in orderto
perfect herself in this respect.
quite early in the spring, when the Misses
Brice were learning TO ride the wheel, they
were anxious that Mrs. Lamont shouli
join them and go out for practice up and
down Sixteenth street.
This was not done, however, but what
Mrs. Lamont did was to take few lessons
from them in the security OF her own back
yard. There, safe from the prying eyes
of The public, Mrs. Lamont was Initiated
into the mysteries of the initial process
OF learning 10 ride the wheel.
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Mr.. and Mrs. W. a. Croffutt are now in
Paris.
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Mrs. George E. Harris and Miss Clara
D. Clark VIII leaVe this morning for Bos-
ton by sea, to remain about ten days.
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Mr.. Henry c. Bell, second deputy Com
missioner of Pensions. left yesterday 10
spend a month at mis- old home in Illinois.
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Messrs w B. Pettus, George Bassett, w.
II. Myers. W. B KIopfer, A. H. Van
Dusen, j. O'C. Roberts, John Morrison,
r. L. De Puy, William Hatton, John Black
mar, and George H Getz, all of the Pension
Office, will leave today for Boston.
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Mr. Charles f. yickcry, of the Treasury
department, left yesterday to visit his
home al Kingwood, w. Va.
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Mr.. f. A. Lovy viii return from Atlantic
City on the 26th of August.
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Mr.. and Mrs. William G Mcintyre are at
Cape May They viii join their daughters
al Narragansett Pier the latter part of the
week.
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Senator Charles H Gibson is in town
for a few days.
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Mr E. G.. Crabbe, chief of the Southern
division, Pension Office, returned yester-
day from an extended trip through Michi-
gan.
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Mrs Margaret F. Ryan will leave to-day
for Watertown, n. Y. TO spend several
weeks.
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UNDERTAKINGS.

II WILLIAM LEE,
Os UNDERTAKEN
ts2 PennsElvenia avenue northwest
IiTTl class service. Phons 1885 5y4-6n,
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Worth's son has evolved an astonishing
outfit for business women to wear The
design was apparently born and bred at
the Chicago Midway" for it begins with
fez, followed down by Greek jacket;
Syrian skirt-with a glimpse of our own
giddy bloomers-Hungarian leggings and
composite boots, with English heels and
laces, but toes distinctly French This
creation is safe enough on paper, but the
day it escapes from the faShion-plate into
the trades and professions somebody will
have TO read the riot act TO keep the mob
at bay.
AS the business woman is largely an
American growth she may be counted on To
mount a platform some day and argue
FASHIONS right to uniform her status,
simply because nature has made her
live bee instead of drone She is not
specimen to be labeled; not sheep, to be
branded; nor any sort OF creature in need
of tag. As clothes go, to-day, sensible
women can dress themselves suitably for
any condition of life and it strikes me that
they do it,
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FAIR DABBLERS In STOCKS
Washington Society Women Who
Daily Watch the Market.
Mrs. Lamont l. Becoming Expert on
the RiCycle-How the New Rich
Float Into the Swim.

The warm weather has not altogether
depleted Washington OF it's society quota.
There is stin a corporaTs guard remaining
i'm the city. Willing away the summer as
best it may. Truth to tell, there are sew
eral corporaIs guards scattered bout here
and there throughout the city. This being
the case. whether actuated 10y the fellow
ship OF misery or otherwise, some half
dozen or more of these women have en-
tered upon new field of industry. The
object OF this is, of course, to materially
swell their amount OF spending money
without i'll any way materially increasing
their labors. -
The plan operated is for them to meet
morning in a certain brokers' establish
ment on one of tie leading business streets
of the city, and, after collecting all the
available funds 10 be occurred, to dabble
in stocks. Generally it happens that the
best part of the Gay is spent 10y this con
tingent OF amateur brokers bulling and
bearing the market down in tie office, so
that it has come TO look more like a recep-
ton room than an ordinary place in which
business Of Importance is transacted.
Excitement reaches feye r-heaI when
the fluctuations OF any of the popular stocks
are being watched on the bulletin board for
the sums invested are 10y no means the
smallest amounts.
There is considerably more to this stock
dabbling atfirstappears onthe surface,
inasmuch as the money so invested has been
made 10y the women Interested, through
the medium OF card playing Not long
since one Of these women cleared $3.50 on
the purchase Of teu-lollars' worth of u
certain stock
As d usual thing, however, the losses are
ineXcess of the gains, but this fact does not
deter the women from their continuance
oftheTn MIA florida billing jnstoCks.
The matter has created considerable
talk about town, ana is openly discussed
in the various clubs in the West End.
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Mr.. F. E. Camp, the organist of the AS
cension Church, has been taking a rest al
Atlantic City.
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Already the best evening newspaper
in washington-Tne Evening Times.
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Mr.. Henry T. Hutton will leave to-day
for Boston and the resorts of the Massa Z
chuSetts coast.
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Mr.. l. E. Brandebury left yesterday to
spend a few weeks among relatives in
Ohio.
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Miss Jennie v Hayden left yesterday
for northern New York, to remain several
weeks.
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Mr. George ButterfieId will leave with
the Columbia Commandery to-day for Bos
ton, where he will remain one week
From there he will go to Nantucket to
spend several days, after which he will
go 10 East Vassalhoro, Me, returning to
Washington about the middle of Septem-
ber.
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GONzAGA COLLEGE

Classical and Business courses OF stud
les Schools VIII reopen Tuesday, Septem-
Der 3. Three free scholarships open To- all
competitors win be contested for on Au-
gust %, 30, and 81 For particulars address
Rev CORNELIUS GILLESPIE, 5. j.,
President and Treasurer au22- 1mO
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Miss Nellie McMullie, of I street north
west left yesterday for a months outing
at Atlantic City.
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DIR. and Mrs. John S. Billings left the city
yesterday for visit TO their daughter,
Mrs. Bradfield Hartley, at Montclair, n. ]
Before returning to Washington they viii
make a short stay in Philadelphia in order
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Mrs Harriott o. zantzinger left yester
day for a months outing.
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The Bon Marche
314 and 3I6 7th ST. N. w.

Bayard, who met her upon her arrival
in Europe. Mrs. Hearst Will return in the
late autumn, and after spending the winter
in Washington, win start next spring upon.
a tour OF the world. The latter trip VIII
occupy three years.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Nettie Barnett TO Mr.. Toby Bush. The
wedding VIII take place September 1.
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FADS-L0CAL AND GENERAL.

One Of the most portentious questions
IN the revised catechsm of society this
sum mer is. state the name of your fad"
Don't trust 10 your money value to save
you for fashion has sounded her tocsin, and
the woman who goes to a popular resort
without her hobby might just as Well go
without her trunk. one intrepid matron
who found herself fadess off the coast of
New jersey boldly iuaugurated a society
for the prevention of cruelty to sea ser
pents.
1t was an appallingly silly idea, but so
clever has she manipulated it that already
an eminent jurist has won the frs, prize
for idiocy from a conteuding statesman,
aud the club has become-like its dubious
protege-the biggest thing u the swim.
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Miss Mary v Howland will visit Boston
during the coming week.