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minor ranks of royalty there has been devel-
oped considerable amount OF laxity in
this respect, and there have been several in
stances in recent years where the value OF
gifts donated to members of the royal fam
lily by the queens subjects have been of
such size as TO provoke unpleasant COM
ment in the press, notably when the wild
owed Duchess OF Albany, one OF the queens
daughters-in-law, accepted from a Miss
Perciyal a costly villa fully furnished and
standing In lovely grounds at Cannes, on
the French Rivera.
Apropos of the royal wedding it may be
mentioned that the princely bridegroom is
like all sailors, exceedingly superstitious,
and not only that, but a firm believer in
supernatural appearances and in spiritual
ism. He is said to be a medium and not
even the quite considerable sums of money
which have been obtained from him by un-
scrupuious persons, who We're aware of
this peculiarity, and who traded on the
knowledge, has been in any way able to
diminish his belief in the occult.
CuriousIy enough, his tendencies in this
respect are shared by every member of
his family, and nothing can persuade the
Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Dem
mark and their children that they were
not subjected to supernatural visitations
on the occasion of their last visit to
Sweden. They were staying at the time
in the royal palace at Stockholm, which
enjoys the reputation of being haunted.
To such an extent is this the case that
after the assassination of King Gustavus
III the entire building was razed to the
ground and reconstructed, with the OBJ
ject of dislodging the supposed ghost. On
the night following the arrival OF the
Danish royalties at Stockholm their cham.
berlaiD, Count Moitke, suddenly found him.
self precipitated from his bed upon the
floor of his room, and without being able
to account in any way for the occurrence.
on the following morning Prince Chris
tiaD. who slept In a neighboring room, com.
planned of having been awakened during
the night by the noise of a scuffle at his
bedside, for which he was likewise unable
to account.
couple of evenings later Princess Lou
iSe, whose marriage to Prince Sc.iaum burg
Lippe is about to take place, was writing
letters in her salon, which was illuminated
by lamps aud a number of wax candles,
when. raising her eyes from the paper, she
caught sight of what she believed to he a
specter standing on the other side of the
table aud gazing fixedly at her.
The princess slirieked and rushed from the
room, the spook, according to her account,
darting out ahead of her. In the corridor
she swooned and was found unconscious by
attendants who had been attracted to the
place by her outcry. Some nights later
Prince Charles, tie fiance OF Princess Maud,
tall, strapping. stalwart and most manly
fellow, happened to enter dark room for
the purpose of fetching some articles for.
gotten there earlier in the day. A minute
later he rushed out, pale and trembling, de-
clariug that the room wasfull of armed men,
who had forced him to retire.
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aud may attend the charity ball in Balti-
more socially, not officially.
Miss Clara Barton is In Baltimore, and
viii give a lecture on "PhilaDthrpy". at the
Universalist Church Sunday night.
One OF the first large affairs to be given
by Senator Hill In his handsome new home
on Lafayette Square will be q dinner and
reception to Justice Peckham on his ar
rival in Washington.
Mrs. Head, Of No. 2O15 r street north west
has sent ont cards for tea December 20.
from 4 to z.
Miss Daisy Rosecrans. daughter Of Col.
and Mrs. J. A. R0secrans. Of No. 10S Nine
teenth street northwest. will be married to
Mr.. b. Walton Brown on Wednesday next
at noon.
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WALES OHWEDDlEG
Very Particular As to who Shall Make Gifts
10 Princess Maud.
Ghosts That the Young Bride May
Expect to See When United with
Prince Charles of Denmark.

The Prince of Wales has just caused it
to be publicly intimated in England that,
on the occasion OF the ma rriage Of his young
est daughter, Princess Maud, to Prince
Charles of Denmark, NJ wedding presents
will be received from people whose names
are not on the visitors list at Marlborough
house and who do not belong to the circle
of personal friends of the royal master ard
mistress of SandringtaIn. An exception viii
be made in favor of public bodies ard cor
poratiuDs, but only in the event OF their
having previously craved amid obtained per-
mission to make presenta tions TO the prin-
cess.
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The prince Is firmly determined that
there shall be no repetition of what took
place at the time OF the marriage of his
eldest daughter, the Duchess OF Fife, and of
his son, the Duke uf York, when hordcs of
pushing and vulgar nobdies sent in gifts
ranging iu value all the way from $50 Ia
$4,000 without enjoying any personal ac-
quaintance with the royal pcrsonage to
whom the gifts were addressed, and prompt
ed only by q snubbIush desire To- see their
names printed In the list OF donors of we'd
ding presents, thereby hoping Ia convey
the impression that they were un terms of
intimacy with their future king aud queen.
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a tea was given yesterday by Mrs. Burn
ham. wife of Capt. ID. K. Burnham, CON-
plimeniary to Miss Kennedy OF MISSISSIPPI;
at which music by Profs. Augustus and
Lawrence added TO the charm or the
occasion.
The ladies assisting were Mrs. c. V.
Smith. Mrs. II. G. Surgury. Mrs. Flint. Mrs
West. wife OF DR.. West. Mrs. A. c. ECd-
we'll and Mrs. H. N. Purcell. La France
roses added to the attractive rooms, their
fragrance and beauty. Among those pres
ent were: Mrs. Lamont. Mrs. Carlisle.
Senator Bacon. Gen. and Mrs. Van Vliet.
Mrs. Milliken, Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel
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Robbins. Mrs. Nash Mai. and Mrs. Cole
man. and Miss Eleanor Chester.
The social calendar for today shows:
Mrs. Woodville Rockhill. a Tea. 10 Z.
for Miss Rockhill.
Mrs. Fuller, tea, 10 Z. fer Miss Jane
Fuller.
Mrs. Robert Catlin. a tea. to Z. for
Miss Mary Catlin.
Mrs Charles Irving Wilson and Mrs. Peck.
tea, 4 TO Z.
Mr. aud Mrs. J. L. NJ Curry, a dinner
President Cleveland has been invited for
dinner December 10 by Congressman Cowan
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MARRIED.

HALL FLYNN Married at Christ Church
recfory, East Washington, D. c., on Novefn-
Der 90, 1895, by the Rev. q. F. Williams,
James W. Hall and Alice I. Flynn. It
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Some Young
Old maids
THERE ARE NO MORE BELLIES
IN THEIR TEENS.
Women of Forty Years of Age
Have Thrown Young Girls
in the Shade.

| At very smart wedding a few days
ago, it suddenly occurred to me that the
emiDeDtly lovely bride walking down the
aisle was not day over thirty years OF
age, and yet she had never been thought
of as anything but young and beauti-
| full woman, and the term .'Old maid''
| would have been as likely to be applied
| TO the man at her side as to herself; and
l could not but think how notably in this
| regard 1.-The old order changeth, giving
| place 10 new"
| Maidens who have passed their thirticth
year may now claim that they represent
| the most perfect and advanced type of
maileDhood, and look down upon girls
who marry before twenty-five as very much
| more akin 10 savages, for it is a weIi-kDown
fact that the age of marriage advances
with civilization. Among Australians
and other savages girls marry at eleven,
ten, or even nine years OF age; among semi
civilized Egyptians. Hindoos, etc, the
age is from twelve to fourteen; Southern
Europeans marry their girls between the
ages OF fifteen and eighteen, while amongst
the nations who lead modern civilization
the age is constantly rising one; from
seventeen OF eighteen, OF fifty years ago.
the average has risen TO between twenty
one and twenty-five. and does it not fol-
low by ineXorable logic that girls who
runDers OF a still higher civilization.
MATURE CHARMS.
1t is not only n fact that women marry
later in life than they used. but it is equally
true that everywhere the more mature
woman is to the fore. The young and in
experienced bud has ceased to be the reign
ing queen of the hour. She has been
forced to yield her place to the maturer
woman, the woman of cultivated minu and
t.ln
knowledge.
The tastes of men in this rega ard seems to
have undergone q complete revolution, and
instead OF fluttering about the inexperienced
dcbltante, talking pretty nothings, they
are matching their experiences, broadening
their horizon sharpening their witsin clever
conversation with some brilliant and beauti-
ful woman.
All this is only the natural result of evo-
luton. With her deeper interests, wider
outlook, enlarged syuipathies she scarcely
feels the relentless march of the years, and
with all the new light upon her physical
care and condition, she eau easily look as
young as sne feels. Rouge pots, wigs and
hair dyes have happily gone their way, and
fresh air, exercise, baths and diet have
taken their place.
PROLONGED YOUTH.
Nowadays, il women grow stout and
clumsy, or thin and faded at an early
age, it is not of necessity, but from ndif-
ference to the laws of health, or weak
self Indulgence. 1t has been so thor
Oughly demonstrated how to avoid the
haied embonpoint that often comes with
middle age, that being stout or slender
seems quite a matter OF choice.
Indeed, the most advanced exponents
of the Nut and Fruit system of diet
claim that the natural age OF man is
from l2O to 14O years, and that his best
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Secretary Hoke Smith left last evening
for Atlanta, Ia b. present at the funeral
OF the late Capt. Jackson. broiher-n-law
of Mrs. Smith. Owing TO the sad and sud-
den death of Capt. Jackson. Mrs. Smith
will take 10 active part in gay society for
"A while.
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This rule against accepting presents used
in former Gays to be very strictly observed
by the English royal family, and is SO still
by the queen herself, who Is very chary in
condescending to accept anything in the
shape Of a present from a subject or from
a foreigner of non-royal rank. But in the
The evening times., 1895-12-14
Lansburgh's Rink,
NEW YORK AVENUE,
Bet. 18th and f4th Sts-
Fresh Laid Eees.
Bet. 18th and 18th SITS

You cannot improve on a nice fresh egg-ths
trouble is to gst fresh ones We LOOK after
that Our Fancy Eggs are put up in one dozen
patent pocket boxes, and every egg Is guaran-
teed fresh, The price Is no higher than Others
ask for inferior qualities
WILKINS & COMPANY,
square Marble and Glass Stands,
Center Market
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WHITE HOUSE PROGRAM
President apd Mrs. Cleveland Will
Entertain Livery Other Thursday.
announcement of Days Upon which
the Cabinet VIII Give Dinners.
Other happenings.

State dinners and public receptions will
be given this winter on alternate Thurs1e Us
during the season by the 2 PRESIDENT and Mrs
Cleveland.
during the season by the President ant
The following list OF Cabinet dinners to
President and Mrs. Cleveland has been ar
ranged:
January Z. by Secretary and Mrs. Olney.
January l 4. by Secretary and Mrs. Car
Isle.
January 81. by Attorney General and Mrs.
Harmon.
February 4. by Postmaster General and
Mrs. Wilson.
February IL. by Secretary and Miss Her
bert.
feDruary ls. by Secretary and Mrs.
Smith.
FEBRUARY 20; by Secretary and Miss Nor
ton.
The society women of Washington are
noted for their cleverness and wit, but
amid the rush OF ga yeties at the pital few
have found time TO develop and complete
an invention which promises To be or the
greatest service TO their feiow-women.
Just now n certain tailor's shop Is the
point toward which all sInartdom is weDd-
ing its way with breatliless and excited ir-
terest 10 Judge OF the value OF no less
patentee than Mrs. Winthrop, wife OF Col.
William Winthrop, U. s. A, retired.
1t VIII be useless TO explain that no sub
iect could receive universal attention, but
one holding close relationship TO the BIZ
cycle; so the announcement that BIZ
cycling skirt combining every advantage
for mountaineering, wheeling and goifing
is the object so ardently sought will be no
surprise. Just a loop here, a luton there.
ana this dress OF the future is made to
serve for any wear.
Mrs. Winthrop is an earnest dcvotce Of
the wheel. and has reached her present sat
isfactory conclusion through difficulties
experienced in using the ordinary skirt.
Many women have suffered the same an
noyanccs in riding. but no other ia as vet
aba ndoned the delights or her friends So
cicty. and. doBning thinking cap. solved a
problem requiring geometrical decisions
nd puZZiing experimental in cloth. To brave
the cha noes oil nervous DroSi ration ana uiti-
mate failure OF purpose for the sake of
smoothing out the wrinkles from the brows
and skirts of her sister society wome n dem
onstratcs both pluck and generosity. aud
Mrs Winthrop. in her charming home next
the Army and Navy Club. IS receiving the
grateful concentrations OF her many friends
and acuuaintanccs.
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Open until 10 p. m.

0ppenheimer's, Sl4 9Th n. v.
Handkerchief
Bargains.
SIC For two Ladies Plain
White Hemstitched
Handkerchiefs, worth
1Oc pair. Bargain price,
2 for 534c.
SIC For two Gentlemen's
large size Handker-
chiefs, fast color bor-
ders, worth 1Oc each.
Bargain price, ? for 54c.
&c For two Ladies' Initial
or Fancy Bordered Hem
stitched Handkerchiefs,
linen finished, worth
12Ac apiece. Bargain
price, for &c.
&c For a very fine quality
Gentlemen's Handker-
chief, fancy borders,
warranted fast co1ors,
wor tn 20c. Bargain
Drice. &c.
l2Hc For the largest variety
of Ladies' White Linen
Hemstitched and EN-
broidered Edge Hand
kerchiefs, worth 25c.
Regular price, 12Hc.
12Hc Gentlemen's Pure Linen
Hemstitched Handker-
chiefs, extra size, worth
25c. Bargain price, 12Hc
l5c Ladies' Fine White Ini-
tial Handkerchiefs, pref
tiest goods shown, worth
25c. Bargain price, 15c.
43c Gentiemen's Pure White
japanese Silk Initial
Hemstitched- Handker-
chiefs, worth 75c. Bar
gain price, 43c.
(lnnnnhnimaP's Sll 9th n n.
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The burial Of the Fifty-Third.

Not a tear was shed, not a funeral vote,
AS its corse to the finish they hurried,
Not a soldier discharged q farewell shot
Ger the grave where the Bumbum waa
buried.
They buried 1t sharply at stroke OF noon,
The galleries watched them through it,
And some one remarked: by the Great
Horn Spoon,
We thought they would never do It."
No useless coffin inclosed it's breast
Not in sheet nor in shroud they wound It;
But it lay like beefstake taking its rest,
With the gravy all around 1t.
Few and short were the prayers they said.
And they spoke not a word of sorrow:
But they steadfastly gazed on the face or
And bitterly er thought of the morrow.
They thought as they followed its narrow
And sinoothed down it's lonely pillow
DER its head,
And they hung their harps on the Willow
Lightly they'll talk of the Bumbum that's
gone,
And DER its cold ashes upbraid It;
But 1t won't care damn IL they'll let IL
sleep on
In the grave where the people have laid it.
Slowly and sadly they laid 1t down,
From the field of it's shame, fresh and
CORY;
They carved not line and they raised not
a stone,
But left it alone in its glory.
New York Sun.
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boundary that separate her from China,
might go as far as the Yang -tse-kiang
gland could occupy Shanghai and go south
as far as the Canton river, while France,
coming north from Tonquin and holding
Canton, could annex the provinces inter-
vening.
Russia on the Yangtse. with the right to
and h ee military iI base the Siberian railroad
recently completed to Vladivostock. could in
a few years drill a million of men which
the populaticI. could spare to economical
advantage and make them as good soldiers
as any In the Eastern world. She would
Indian problems with Great Britain The
English might be able to raise as large an
army gt,n IN tn the &c fhsn 9 siberian
railway or thousands of miles of ,cotermi-
nous frontier. In the very nature OF
Russian war which would threaten the
peace of Europe.
In whatever aspect this problem is stud
led we note its gravity-Japan fighting for
a sentiment, Russia and England watching
fer the spoil. An exhausted Japan.for
"a dismantled China. for she will be
given no time to breathe and the way Is
easy for the rival European powers to do
their will upon either nation.
II ii means the destruction, or even the
dismantling of China, then history must
every other existing social political sys-
tenn wantonly o1erthrown; a nation with
whom peace is religion broken In upon
and hunted down; a people that for cent
uries have never fired a gun in anger at
tackled and ruined. Mournful have been
Chinas experiences. First, the opium war.
by which the fatal drug was forced upon
the Chinese, to their destruction. that India
might have revenue; the war of 1860, when
England and France occupied Picking and
burned the summer palace; the Russian
menace of war. only to be avoided by the
surrender of a territory as large as France;
the French invasion, which cost China her
southern provinces. And now the contest
with Japan. the end of which no one may
see. One by one her outlying dominions
have been torn from her. Siam went off
to become the prey of France; the French
seized the Tonquin province; Burr,ah Is in
English hands; Russia occupies the Knida
country and hungers for more: the Loo
Choo islands were annexed by Japan. and
Hong Kong rs under the British flag. Corea
is the last to fall Nothing remains but ths
original kingdom.
The religion of peace has cost China a
fearful penalty. VIII she at last awake
from her lethasgy and accept the appalling
burdens of what we call civilization
grinding ornaments, populations armed,
overtaxed and War-bewitched? Or must
it end in dismemberment desolation. chaos
and the ascendency of the West? This Is
the problem which comes to us with 50
much emphasis Upon its solution will de-
pend not only the fate of China and Japan,
but the repose of the Asiatic and European
world.
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Congressional Malaria.

New YORK Evening Post.
The malaria" of Congressman used to
be standing joke at Washington, but 1t
is certainly true that the amount of dis
ease and the number of deaths among
members in recent years have been out OF
all proportion to the size of the body.
There were fourteen deaths among the
members ofthe Fifty-first Congress, four
teen again among those OF the Fffty-second,
end eleven during the existence of the
present body. There is no doubt what
ever that much of the sickness and many
of the deaths are directly due to the foul
atmosphere of the. two chambers. and par
ticularly that OF the House of Representa-
tives 1t is a shocking fact that the yenti-
lators in the floor through which fresh air
is supposed to be brought largely used
as cuspidors. ''This is the only hall in the
United States ever heard Of" said men,
her the other day, where they took I'm fresh
air through q sPittoon,' ana he added that
1.-THE place smells like q bar room" There
is a committee on ventilation and acoustics
which is appointed in every Congress, but
never seems to do anything, although Ii was
announced last week that Ii is sitting every
day and expects to make report soon-too
late of course, to secure any attention. 1t
would seem as though il ought to be pos
sfble at least to abate the disgusting scandal
of Congressman using the ventilators as
spittoOnS
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enforce the garbage ordinance as inter
preted By the Supreme Court. Officers Du-
vail and Matlock were instructed to inyesti--
gate the Mill-street baby farm. and il found
there to have the place closed The month
ly bills of the department. were allowed.
The City Dispensary has expended about
s35 of its s45 appropriation for Incidental
expenses. The City Hospital has used con-
siderable from the incidental expense ac-
count Controller Trusler urges economy.
The superintendent of these two institu-
lions claim that they made their estimates
according to misunderstanding Both
asked very small appropriations for Incl
denta1s thinking certain expenditures
would come from other funds.
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A Prison Reformer.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
One of the most attractive and interested
prison reformers was Miss Fanny Hayes, of
Fremont o. the daughter of the late ex-
President Hayes. She wore glasses and
might have been mistaken for Boston
young woman who had dropped in to
Browning club meeting to discuss the beau
tiful and perennial perrlexity of the poetry
penned by the author of .sPippa Passes
But Miss Hayes is more interested in re-
forming criminals than unraveling the mean
ing of obscure poets She is a member of
thoroughly conversant with the prison meth
DDS in vogue in the Buckeye State. AS a
bcycler too she has demonstrated that
women cannot be excelled by the sterner
sex. even in the matter of exercise and out
door sport. Long before the death of her
reform.
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Douglass had no patience with negroes
who bemoaned their hard fate settled
by the color of their skin or who looked
to the interposition Of laws as their only
to preach the gospel of labor and money
making. In a lecture delivered to the ne
groes of Staunton, Va, several years ago,
ious- aspirations, but urged them not to
trust altogether to prayer, but to go to
work honestly, systematically and con-
scientiousIy. He himself, he said, had
prayed for three long years that freedom
might come to him, but it never came until
PRAYERS got down into his legs and car
ried him away He did not approve any
exodus, of the colored race from the
South, either, but said: Stay where you
are and so conduct yourselves that men
will be bound to respect you-work with
head and hards-seek to acquire knowledge
as we'll as property, and in time you may
il every negro can stand Congress, Con-
sress ought to be able to stand the negro.
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Notes of the starc

There are twenty-four educated horses in
the Bartholomew show, that comes to En-
gliSh'S Monday.
Emma Warde's new song 1.-THE Spanish
Maid has scored success. Tt is the pref
test bit or music in the 'Bullfghter.
THE Princess Bonnie has made an OPP
cratic hit at Hooley's Theater Chicago
the second act, has become a popular whist
ling melody.
1t has been noticed for some time that
Francis Wilson is not hand in glove with
certain New York critics. as the following
from the New York Recorder plainly shows ::
with pleasure genuine, not assumed, no.
ticed that Francis Alright Wilson has
bought the rights of new play. 1t is about
time he did, not only for his own but also
for the public'S good.'
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

The mission services at st. Paurs Church
continue to be well attended. Last night
was 'sThe Souls True Law of Love" To-
night the subject announced will be 1.-The
Holy Spirit and the Evil Spirit
The annual State convention of the Phi
Delta Theta Fraternity will be held this
afternoon in the Century Club rooms. Den
ison Hotel, at o'clock. A dinner will be
given in the ordinary of the Denison at S
o'clock. The alumni of tie fraternity are
invited to both affairs.
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Norton,s missing VIII Found.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March THE missing
will of the late John w. Norton was found
to-day among the papers of Judge Nc
Laughlin, the deceased actor-rnanager's at
torney. Mr.. Norton left the bulk of his
estate to his sister, Annie J. Hamilton wife
Of Isaac II. Hamilton, of jersey City. The
deceased mans 1ewelry. with the exception
of diamond ring, which is left for Will
lam III. Conner, of New York, is baqueathed
to George McManus, manager of the Grand
Opera House. to be distributed by him to
himself and the other theatrical employees.
Pierre Chouteau got Mr.. Norton's share in
the Grand Opera House, while Attorney
Mclaughlin is left his library.