The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-03-21
IN NEW YORK.
Mrs. Lenore Sherwood Writes Of
Things of Interest in
Gotham.
coRREspoNDENcE TO rnE NEws.

: In marked contrast to the sluggishness at
= tending Washington's birthday making patri
= otism in New York an emp mocking void, i
T the st. Patirck's day spirit permanating every
Q thing.
D The whole city is green in honor of Ireland
+ patriot saint; not because people in genera
r care anything about St Patrick, but becaus,
4 there is a demand for its recognition. Tn,
e fact that nothing was made of Washington
birthday demonstrates the fact that nobody
2 demanded it, that nobody cared anything
D about it.
say that it is disgrace to America tha
the great metropolis should be so dead to al
! patriotic feeling and love of country. How
ever, predict that it will not be so next year
t now that our women are working on patriot,
! lines. The wonderful patriotic meeting in
! Washington held by the Women's Council, has
J left its influence upon every citizen present
f and New York is feeling little ashamed oi
itself. Patriotism is being discussed and agi.
tated, which is half the battle, for as Emerson
says Reform is but private opinion"
The store windows along the principal streets
are perfect symphonies in green, PurCelPs ba-
kerry being one Of the most striking and at.
tactive displays. There are green bonbon
boxes, cakes with green frosting cookies with
shamrock leaves engraved, green pastics and
even green pies and doughnuts sprinkled with
green sugar.
Dry good stores display green silk and wash
goods, and yards and yards of green ribbon
and florists produce beautiful effects with
palms. potted plants and ferns tied with huge
bows Of green ribbon.
] In gt, ~
tavors dinner cards decorated with shamrock
leaves, greed paper flowers stationery and art
goods Then there are banners badges and
! flags, and souvenir pins of every possible shape
and design, all of which will be worn on
Sunday, St Patricks day.
When l think of our own Washngton's
birthday, with few dilapidated flags droop.
ing from public buildings, / am moved to
wrathful indignation.
THE ECLIPSE ON THE WATER.
Coming home on Staten Island ferry Sun.
day night, witnessed the eclipse on the wa
ter. 1t was bright, almost cloudless, night,
and the deck was crowded with passengers
eager to watch the shadow gradually creep
over the moon.
1t was amusing to hear the comments Of diff !
ferent people One man explained graphically !
to party of ladies that the eclipse was caused |
by the sun getting into the path of the moon, !
that this happened three times year and that |
once in twenty-five years the moon got into the |
path of the sun and that then there was total
eclipse Of the sun and and it was so dark in .
day time that the chickens went to roost and |
people looked at the sun through smoked
glass He was an exceedingly lucid man and
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ment by many passengers.
Another man with a very loud voice ex-
pounded the theory that these eclipses oc.
CURED at frequent intervals bat owing to
changes they were only visible to
the naked eye at changes of the season.
Then there was a bombastc man who knew
the names of all the stars ard how long it
would take the moon to be entirely obliterated
and the names Of the clouds and trade winds
an extremely disagreeable person.
People said the usual things about the sky ,
and water and the women raved over the moon
and finally some body started the air from /
Pinafore
pale moon to thee sing, bright regent of
the heaven"
Soon everybody was singing. With the blue
ky above us, the water sparkling in the half
light, the boat swaying in the stiff wind and
he shadow stealing over the moon, the whole !
fleet was brilliant.
The music rang out on the night air and was
'choed and re-echoed as other boats caught the
pirit of the song and sang back to us.
PARKHURsT AND DIXON S
DR. Parkhurst and the Rev. Thomas Dixon. $
he two famous sensational ministers in New L
FORK, are not having very smooth sailing at a
resent il
DIR. Parkhurst is being called Boss" Park C.
urst and in his zeal to manage every. "
hing and everybody has Overstepped G
imself little. The three cornered J.
ght between Pratt, Strong and Parkburst is a
osuming altogether political aspects and tC
ne reformer Parkhurst is being lost in ci
arkhurst the politician.
In his motto, Conquer or Diep the latter al
clearly Parkhurst's fate He has, also, fl
himself very materially in his atti-
lde toward women.
Last fall when he was bending every energy di
defeat Tammany he recognized that all I
forts would be fruitless without the practical 81
d and influence of woman. fu
1t was then that he issued stirring appeal
ling upon women TO come forward and help
M Their aid, their influence theirpresence, ii
eir personality was needed in the campaign nj
I'd without them nothing could be DONE The ur
omen responded, organized, worked and the
suit speaks for themselves. And now comes
MY LORD PARKHURsT ui
the Ladies Home Journal devoted TO its III
art to heart talks on pillow shams and ye
Us: I'VE are through with you, go back to az
ur holes. Woman's place is in the nursery o'
me where birth and brains naturally put Tel
r."
Look out, DR.. Parkhurst The Russian
ardOm is doomed %
WOMEN MADE UP TO ORDER. VI
There are all sorts of queer devices for sale 81 sP
the streets but yesterday saw the most "a ="
ique of ALL ~
man whose former occupation was proba ""
an auctiOneer, like that of his father and oa'
ndfather before him. had stand ON Four 'oi
nth street ON which were displayed rouge
ase paints and all sorts of toilet articles, ,
o false hair, mustaches and even eve fri
ws. m,
The man was accompanied by young Wo- moi
n, who served as an object of display for Tb
wares, and he lectured long and frequently ga,
IN her good or bad points, correcting them fire.
h powder rouge and hair to illustrate his ow
& titi
lie said; "You will observe that this is
y plain young woman with snuff colored
r. thin eye brows and no coloring. Behold 7
transformation Then he put on her wo