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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-30
System in housekeeping.

Very few housekeepers apply business
methods to getting their work done. They
I ever stop to reason out that a large ex-
penditure here will greatly lessen expenses
there in very short time. They get into
ruts and don't try to get out, doing things
in the same way that their great grand
mothers did them, using up lots of strength
and sacrificing much of their much too
small income to their Indifferent ignorance
The proper thing for a woman to do who
finds that she has got to be general fac
totum of the house is to systematize her
duties and regulate her expenses to suit
her income.
1t is not easy to put things on such a
basis, but once there it is the easiest thing
In the world to manage, because you know
exactly to a cent how much you have to
spend and to moment how much time
certain work will take. You need never be
thrown out If your system is disturbed I'M
expectedly, because you know that for a
day or two you can lop off a few of your
recreation moments to catch up, or if extra
expense has been incurred for an unex-
pected emergency you can dispense with a
luxury or two and even things up.
In this wey you can avoid debt, and of
all the horrible Misunderstanding agents
debt is the most insidious and the most
powerful Avoid it as you would a pest
Live on bread and water, dress in calico
and walk tosthe end of your life rather
than indulge in furniture and finery that
are unpaid for. IL
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in front. With It there is a pretty wide
tie shown, which Is to be made into smart
bow with gracefully flowing ends. Above
the collar will be seen one of the prepos-
ferrous faring hats, on which flowers and
feathers are first cousins, and tulle and
velvet and ribbon hob-nob in methodical
confusion.
There is a new lace, at least there is a
lace with new name. 1t Is large mesh
ed net. and the figures are appliQued. 1t
10 soft cream color and makes remarka-
bly, effective garniture. 1t is called the
Regence lace" and as 1t costs dollars
where other laces costs cents it will not
be common this season. Duchesse lace
now comes In the popular Vandyke pat
terms, and makes remarkably pretty trim
ming. Gallons of gold gauze are gemmed
with mock jewels and are worn upon dark
street gowns by the ultra swell dressers.
For nice. sensible house dress to do
ones morning work in here is model that
should take the prize. 1t is unlined, Is
made of ten yards of print at a cost of six
cents yard, is so simple of construction
that woman who can sew a straight
seam can make 1t, and it is simply nothing
at all tc launder. 1t should escape the
floor by about two inches, and the woman
who has to oversee and perhaps do most
OF her own work will find that dress like
TINS, fastened to the skirt and capable CT
adjustment in two minutes, will be a per-
feet boon, and will keep her looking neat
and comfortable. 80
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ORIGIN OF CANARIEs.

A Shin From the Canary Islands In
trOlaced Them to Itply.
From the St. Louis Globe-Derocrat.
About $50 years ago a ship returning
from the Islands in the Atlantic, which
people then called the Fortunate Isles, but
which were undoubtedly the Canaries,
went ashore on the coast Of Italy, near
Leghorn, A cage of beautiful birds cap
tured in these islands was broken and the
birds were liberated. Through some ca
price, they did not take refuge on the
Italian mainland, but went to the Island of
Elbe, where in due time, they nested and
bred and increased In numbers. The 1tai-
ians discovered that they were admirable
singers, and began to capture them and
sell them in cages.
This gave rise to a traffic which soon
completely cleared the Island of Elbe Of
canary birds, SO that not one was left
there in q wild state. From that time the
history of the canary has been one of per-
petual imprisonment and of the transfor-
nation of his appearance and character.
He has become what may be called an ar
tificial bird. Every nation Of Europe has
produced canary of special type. In
the natural state of canaries, as they still
exist in the Canary Islands, and other At
lantic islands, the birds are Of grayish
green or greenish brown color, and are not
remarkable for beauty: but they are such
energetic singers that they have been
known to break the membrane of their
threats in pouring forth their song.
Now and then the birds are taken in a
wild state in these islands and sold for
good prices in Europe or America. But the
ordinary canary Of commerce is the off
spring of captive stock. and has been
greatly modified by breeding. Canaries,
however, have been crossed with linnets,
finches and other birds until their real race
is uncertain. Canaries are now known as
German" Trench" Belgian" Eng
lish," "Tyrolese," and so on, according to
the forms and colors that have been pro-
duced in them. The Belgian canaries are
sometimes eight inches long, and are re-
markable for the elegance OF their form
and rich orange color.
French canaries are light in color. Some
canaries which are entirely white COM
mand a high price. The Germans and Ty-
rolese on the other hand. breed more for
beauty Of song than of plumage. Many of
the birds have been trained by being kept
in the dark in the hearing of the nightin-
gales, to initiate these wonderful singers
The English bird Is more remarkable for
plumage than song. To be highly esteem
ed 1t must have a head and body of bright
orange, while its wings and tail must be
black. A single wrong Feather will dimin-
ish the value of the bird. Exhibitions Of
canaries are regularly held in the Crystal
Palace, and no canary has a chance of
winning prize unless it be properly mark
ed with black wings and tail.
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must be bay window. One Of the strictly
orthodox, five-sfded. bracketed, blinded,
in the wind below. The kitchen-but then
the kitchen in which q woman does her
own work AND spends third at least of
her time does not count. 1t may be
walls, bad-sHellfng closets and leaking
sinks. but that will not matter, for "only
the family" need ever see it. and If serv-
ants are employed, so much less does 1t
The sleeping rooms will be small, some of
them windowless-they will do for the
chiidren-and all badly ventilated. but the
porte cochere'' over the back door. imfta-
ton piazza oVer3the front and the bay
W1ndowed' double parlors will rent the
house, because it twill be elegant for en-
tertaining." What or whom?
Then the house has to be furnished.
FURNISHING. II yeH do it well and with re-
gard to comfort. costs money. But plush
sets at bargain are dear at any price.
me overweening ~desire for fashionable
furniture leads many women to buy stacks
Of the imsiiy-put-together stun on the
instrument plan. Cheap lace and jute cur
tains that look as fine as reaf' are hung
In the windows. copies of the "old mas
tiers" at a cost of 9S cents each are hung
on the walls pieces Of accent bric-a-brac
are scattered about through the house. a
piano that cost 5000 to make is secured
at maPked-down sale for 1915, half in
cash and half In installments," and so 1t
goes.
The extravaganza In renting and furnish
ing the house and in dressing to suit Its
taWdry magnifcence and the futile efforts
to get society to recognize the existence
OF the inmates cut burrows Of care on
foreheads and in hearts and successfully
rob life of all its comforts and sweetness.
Display and Desperation.
The awful pressure upon a man of mod
est means to support the shams of such a
life drives him almost to insanity at times,
and no woman can cope with such SOUL
pricking disadvantages and keep herself
sweet-tempered and companionable. es-
pecially when she knows that it is largely
her fault that they are not living in a
modest home and leading quiet. COM
Portable life among people who appreciate
them. AS my English friend said. IF we
only knew enough about comfort to be
sensible" there would be fewer wrecked
banks, decrease In suicides, increasing
faith in human honesty and a gradual rise
IN the moral tone of civilization.
But so long as we worship wealth, as
some one said recently, I'VE shall have
display and desperation; wealth and wal
lowing; enough almost nowhere, and envy
almost everywhere" Women, If they were
so minded. could work a vast change in
the extravaganza of the age and 1t is safe
to say that until they draw the line on the
display of imitation elegance there will
not be much improvement morally or fl
nancially. SONORA SARA.
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MRS. wiNCHKsTER's MANIA.
She Fears That She VIII Die II She
Stops House Building.

Stops House Building.
Frem the San Francisco Chronicle.
Mrs Winchester's house, near San Jose,
is house with a story. 1t is a mass OF
domes turrets cupolas and towers, COW
ering territory enough for a castle. 1t is
now nearly ten years since the hand
some residence was considered ready Tor
occupancy and the owner moved in. but
still the carpenters build. The sound of
hammer is never hushed and addition after
addition is always being put on. A new
one is begun whenever its predecessor
nears completion.
The reason for 1t is in Mrs. winches-
ter's belief that when the house is entire
ly finished she will die. This superstition
has resulted in the addition OF room after
room, until, although no part is more than
two stories high, the house is large enough
to shelter an army.
Mrs. winchester's last husband was the
inventor of the worid-famed Winchester
rifle, and part of the immense fortune
he made from 1t has been used to culti-
waite and beautify the farm on which the
ever-growing palace stands.
The hol Sc stands in the midst OF large
and extremely beautiful lawn. Fountains
throw their spray over figures that seem
almost human. Beautiful flowers grow
everywhere-roses lilies, trees, vines, PAM
pas grass, rare plants Of every descrip-
ton, dot the soft grass and help to make
a magnificent setting for the buildings,
which look like nothing else SO much as an
old German castle. There are many build
ings besides the house, and they, too. show
the effects OF the owners odd belief. Sum-
mer houses and Conservatives are made,
with the most picturesque pinnacies, and
there are many unexpected inches. where
groups of statuary are hidden. Even the
barns and granaries are built in LIS and
rs.
The first view OF the house fills one with
surprise. You mechanically rub your eyes
to assure yourself that the number Of the
turrets is not a delusion. they are so fan
tastic and dream-like. From every point
of view new towers appear. and one has to
make circuit Of the building to see all of
them, for every addition OF the many that
is made has one or more separate roofs,
and every roof is elongated into a tower
or rounded into a dome. Not every one
erected is sure to remain, though; the main
cupola was pulled down and rebuilt sixteen
times before it pleased the taste of the
owner
AS fast as new rooms are finished-end
they are all made with the very latest and
most modern of accessories-they are fur
nished with the utmost elegance and clos
ed. to be used hardly at all. Mrs. Win
chester and her niece live alone in the
great residence, and its doors are closed
to all but a favored few. The tap tap
tap OF the carpenters hammers never dis
turbs them in their coy and luxurious
quarters, which are as far removed from
the sound as II it were somebody else's
house that was being built.
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EARLY Grundmothers.

The record for early grandmotheriy hon.
ors appears to be held by Mrs. Ciarissa
jackson of Delaware, negress, now about
thirty-four years of age. She became a
grandmother when she was twenty-five
years old. When she was eleven years CID
she married, and a year later gave birth to
q daughter. The daughter married at
twelve years Of age. and at the age of thir-
teen had a daughter. A negro woman
living in 1888 at Chapel HILL n. c.. took a
prize in that year for being the youngest
grandmother in that state, having had a
granddaughter when she was twenty-eight
years of age. The Empress of Austria
was aged thirty-six when her first grand
child was born. Queen Victoria became
grandmother at forty and the Princess OF
Wales at forty-fve years of age.
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JESSE PoMERoY A MAN.

How the. Murderer Spends His Time In
Close Confinement.
Prom the Boston Post.
I hare been within ten feet Of Jesse Pom
eroy!
+ Immured deep In the vast gray walls of
Charlestown penitentiary, the strange,
warped human being who once bore that
name is hidden away from the sight of
man forever in living death, unknown
by the coming generation and forgotten by
the passing one..
He has a double cell, much larger than
the ordinary cell, into which the sunlight
streams, His room is neat. and he, him
self, Is the very personification of neat
wears beard. which is kept neatly trim
med He changes the style of 1t occa-
sionally 60 suit himself, and displays as
much taste ana is as well aware OF what
is becoming as the most exquisite man Of
fashion.
''iSut is he well?' I asked of the one who
gave me this information, and one who
las well as you are" was the reply,
land he looks we'll"
People say a man cannot live without
exercise. The only exercise he gets is in
his cell. walking up and down, yet no one
could possibly, be healthier than he is. So
far as l know, he has never known a sick
day, and. hesiaas been a prisoner in abso-
years. He is a great reader and student.
He speaks three different languages. He
does not want to work, but prefers his
books"
Does he seem to have any curiosity
about the outside world? ' l asked.
Yes. I presume SO, although he never
asks. He does not ask privileges: no doubt
he realizes 1t would be in vain. The only
favor he has asked of General Bridges since
he has been warden was permission to
keep the box his holiday things came in.
This favor had been granted him once be-
fore. and he used the cover to hide hole
he had dug in the wall
If lie gets a pen-knife or a spoon, the
probabilities are he will commence and
dig. The walls are so thick it is impossible
for him to escape, and no doubt he does
1t to make the prison officials uneasy, more
than anything else.
lie is remarkably good looking man. a
fire looking man, in fact. II you should
pass his cell, ignorant OF his name, you
would comment upon his appearance and
select him dis man much above the ordi-
nary"
Tt is said that either his hearing is SUI
perEaturally acute or else he is possessed
of some strange sixth sense, enabling him
TO know things that have trstnspired before
the guards themselves.
One instance Of this is related. A couple
Of years ago the prisoners We're all as
sembied in the chapel waiting the annual
announcement of the governors pardors.
Before the conyicts' cheers which greeted
the lucky ones had died out, Prison Ply
stefan Mclaughlin had occasicTr to attend
a prisoner located in the same tier as Pom
eroy. AS the doctor passed Jesse's cell he
called to the doctor, saying, so the gov
erncr has hardened two men,, and giving
their names. The doctor has never been
able to understand how Pomeroy knew
OF these names.
Not half dozen people have seen him
woman's face but his mothers since his
ipcarcera ton.
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head and divided evenly down the middle.
The two halves are braided, beginning close
back Of the ears, and then brought back
and forth across the head. making per-
fectly fiat effect that is widest from ear to
ear. The hairpins must not be in evidence,
and no comb can be worn except one of the
preposterous long ones made Of horn or
fligree silver. which our grandmothers
wore, and which were so big that they
could not be worn with the bonnets of their
day, SO when grandmamma started out
for a ''soiree" or 'ievee'' she handed her
BACKBONE to her escort, and he put it in
side of his hat band and delivered it to her
at the door of the dressing room. If your
hair is bit uneven, 1t will look scandal
lous in Dutch braids. for it will stick out
''all along the line and spoil the effect
utterly. OF course the Dutch head dress
has come in to accommodate the Dutch
bonnet, with which the doorknob knot is
decidedly at odds. The Dutch bonnet needs
something to fill it in at the back. and
nothing but the close lying bra.ds will an
swer the purpose, 1t will stimulate the In
dustry in false hair II 1t reigns long
enough.
Dutch bonnets and Dutch braids to the
contrary notwithstanding, bangs and crimps
have not gone out, and Furthermore they
will not go, because women are too sem
sible to let silly fashion add ten years to
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for a covering, but every woman feels as
though she must have something to wear
about her shoulders when she lays aside
her wraps the first bright days, and this is
Just the thing. 1t may be you have some
scraps of black velvet-or any other shade.
Piece them together in strips that will flare
a little so as to form the collar and feather
stitch with silk down the seams; then take
the lace bertha of your laid-aside winter
gown and full it around the collar, and
there you are!
The other cape is a mere nothing. It is
Just to look pretty, and 1t succeeds admir-
ably-in show window. In a gale of wind
going up the avenue over a pair of Shout
{iers it would not be so graceful. 1t is real
1y meant for evening wear to the opera or
concert or to church, perhaps, though it
would be rather a giddy garment for
church wear The foundation is stiff two
inch collar, to which is attached, Just about
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Some Noted Bread Winners.
N, tho A-a.,- Xorl, IrnSs

To parade the poverty of person once
rich and famous is in the worst possible
taste. Why should anybody gossip and
wonder if Clara Louise Kellogg does eat
a 3O-cent dinner at the Italiana Penzione?
There are some very good 30-cent dinners
in this city, and it is no disgrace to be
seen eating them. People will get down in
the world, just as people will get up. Max
Maretzek. noble in his old age. is giving
lessons for living. and eating at Little
Ders," where half a dollar goes long
way Nine. Pappenheim, once the rage Of
New York, is earning living in the same
way-teaching music. Victor Capoul, the
great tenor, failed with his conservatory
here and returned to Paris to live by his
wits. Campanini, the greatest actor of all
here in New York, and we often hear him
referred to as poor old Camp Taglia-
petra, who could command almost any
price fifteen years ago, has about twenty
pupils, who support him in pretty good
style He is Independent of managers now.
Poverty is no crime; it is. however. great
inconvenience.
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one side. but a sudden blight overlook 1t on
the other side and 1t got rolled up and
pinioned with lot of black plumes. very
arrogant plumes, too, standing straight up
in the air.. Under the rolled-up brim of
black rough straw was nesting a cluster
Scotch variety. Flirting out over the wide
brim. making it still wider, was q wide
frill of lace, which got lost under a lot Of
chiffon rosettes and rhinestone and pearl
buckle of immense size, but it found itself
on the wider side and fell down over the
ear from an edge of Jet In tho back,
where the hat took another quirk, were
another knot of chiffon. some more feath-
ers and half bushel of violets, with some
more roses and a great deal of foliage
This wonderful creation had a rubber on
1t! Now, do you suppose that elastic bands
on hats are coming back in? 1t would be
blow to the hat pin industry. but IT would
also give lacerated scalps a rest.
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HANDLES ON GIRLS.
Ingenious Device to Assist In Teach
Ing Bicycle Riding,


Ing Bicycle Riding,
Julian Ralph In Providence Journal.
Has your best girl or wife or grown-up
daughter got big handle fixed to her back
"a handle fitted to her belt and big enough
to lift her up by and carry her over
muddy crossing? No? That is queer The
best girls in Brooklyn wear such a handle
every day and find 1t very useful. You
might walk the streets for a. week and not
see one if you did not know where to look,
but could take you to great gatherings of
women and show you scores with handles.
To explain this from the beginning: The
bicycle craze RACES here and In Brooklyn
in the winter as we'll as in the summer, but
since the streets are in an impossible con-
dition for wheeling in winter, the bicycle
rooms and abandoned armories that pro-
vide room for riding under shelter In two
OF these places the people organize as clubs,
and with their friends are able to serve re-
freShments and hire attendants to wait on
the members. These attendants teach the
art of cycling, to these who wish to learn
1t. and herein comes the hardness of the
new wooden handles that now seem to be
growing out Of the girls backs.
The old way OF wrestling with a beginner
(no other term expresses the violent work
Of the first few lessohs) was for the at
tendaat to grip the saddle or seat OF the
>
while the pupil heart in throat, plunged
all over the place. The new way Is better
The girl with, a handle can now he steerei
and held up, and pushed forward and pull
ed back, just as the teacher wishes.
The invention is SO thoroughly excellent
that no one can gauge its possibilities.
How many men have wished for a handle
In dealing with women. How differently
the charming sex would be regarded today
and would have been considered in times
gone by. If it had been provided with han
dies. The ancient poets and sages could
not then have said that no man is so wise
women of the oriental half of the world
would not have been locked up like prison
ers IL they had known enough to wear
handles, and here in the west parents could
not go to the police to complain that they
have no control over their daughters, nor
could husbands throng the divorce courts
saying that their wives went wrong and
could not be dssuaded.
How could there be a better diSsuader
than a handle? This view of the subject is
wholly masculine, I admit but 1 venture
upon 1t only because the Brooklyn women
have OF their own accord put on handles.
II the men had put them ON the women
should have expected mass meetings of ad-
.vanced women to protest against the bar
barism. But since the women have adopted
the handles on purpose to be guided by
men, and since then have Entrusted them to
that soon they will wear the handles at
home for the convenience of husbands
fathers and brothers. Then we shall read
poems beginning, Put on your handle
Maud" and songs entitled Broken is the
handle, NAMES gone.
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with a big bunch of violets. and the two
front corners are caught to the throat with
violets in the same manner. To wear with
this remarkable creation is CONTINENTAL
hat of Tuscan straw, caught up with vio-
let's at one side of the 'front.' and with three
or four long-stemmed roses seeming to
grow out of the battered crown in the
back.
An odd cape that will find few wearers is
u straight piece of goods, folded in the
middle, a piece cut out for the neck and
split open down the front to get into. 1t
falls straight and plain back and front, and
has nothing over the sleeves. Sti1l another
phase of the same style puts ripple sleeve
or cape on it, and leaves 1t open under
meath. 1t is horrid. The great big heavy
golf cape Is very much in evidence for trav-
cling. The neck trimming of everything,
go&hs as well as wraps, is in the form of
Q thick ruche. You can make it of satin,
chiffon, silk or lace, but it must be at least