Evening star., 1895-09-14

| cents you can enjoy all the beauties of the
PARK IN a drive which lasts nearly an hour.
| Wheels and bloomers are more than ever
absorbing topics of conversation. Wash
inston has been called the paradise of BIZ
[, cyclists, and it having been demonstrated
tfat the fair sex can have all the reason
able pleasure they want on the wheel
without resorting to boomers the hifurcat-
ed garment is not popular here. There are
a lew cases. however, where each new ar
| rival Is got mp just a bit natter than the
| last. and heaven only knows what it por-
tends. There is story that there was a
| case of silk tights on the avenue one night
| rece1 tly. The boomers. as a rule flourish
Lest and most frequently with the friendly
| SHADES OF night But the bloomer has
,a,Ae,1 raheh ar lnsidious hold of the sex pretty
| hhch everywhere else. A good percentage
| o. the riders are so equipped; by day as
| wen as by night. Tandem riding is popu-
ear, ara none but mems wheels are used.
| some or the advanced women, who feel
| theie is no sensation they ought not 70 ex-
perience, hpve tried the bloomers ard
found them far from perfection. They -in-
| sist that the bagginess is bound to catch
| in the saddle and, on the whole the out
nj gives just as much trouble as a skirt,
anc they find many advantages in the
wear OF the latter. Fashion and wealth
are SO lar on the side of the anti-bloom-
| critics. No grand dame has yet essayed
| them except for country or mountain rid
ing. And so long as they keep off, petit
|
Two actresses were telling the other day
OF funny experiences. One plays old lady
parts because nature has been too liberal
with her In the way of f1esh and it is inn
possible nowadays to convince managers
| that one's ordinary talents for usual busi-
ness are not submerged when angles in the
feminine form become too well-developed
curves. The other plays old woman be-
cause she is over sixty and knows how,
| for she h is been doing 1t twenty years,
| ana can earn $50 a week by her old lady
manners and natural wrinkles The aim of
| her life has been to get into a company
/ whers some Difference would be paid 20
her experience and years. This summer
| she has succeeded. At the rehearsais, no
p, younger person remained seated if she had
no chair, and the men of the cast pay her
| all sorts of civil little attentions The old
| lady is delighted, and the motherly smile
she bestows on them over her gold-bowed
| spectacles is charming. And this young
| old woman and real old woman are mighty
good friends, and fond of each others COM
| pany before they start on their respective
| tours of one night stands. The younger
woman has some substantial and pretty
| widow parts, and for this she has treated
her hair to a henna bath, and has locks
red enough to keep q procession of white
| horses coming her way. Too many women
are misjudged by the color of their hair
| or its various celors in succeeding years.
III,
and If nature will not assist chemicals
| must be invoked, and as in the of this
good woman, it is her only departure from
the strict mode of life inculcated by the
sternest New England training. To hear
these two exchange stories of departed
golden locks is fun enough for day. They
were going down a slippery, hily street,
one rainy night, to the theater in Balti-
more. The younger woman had but re-
Gently recovered from a fever and was
wearing a blonde wig on her shaven pate.
They got tangled up in collision of UNI
brellaS, with some coming towards
them, and to their horror. the hat and the
| blonde wig were gone. The wire hooked
to the umbrella of the colliding party, who,
unconscious of his scalping act, was walk
ing at a brisk rate to get In out of the
rain. The friend chased after him, secur-
ed the somewhat bedraegled headgear and
restored it to its laughing cwner, who had
retired in the meanwhile to the friendly
shadows of a dark porch.
suffering mite of humanity went the
rounds of charitable homes one day last
week asking assistance for her father. Her
sorrowful tale that her father had
been in bed i'll for some weeks, and she
was trying to get money to buy him proper
food with.
What is the matter with your father?"
asked a sympathetic householder.
Hes got-something hard, / cant pro-
nounce It," replied the little supplicant
with a pathetic tremor, but it's some
thing the matter with his stomach" and
felfow-sufferer from appendicitis chipped
in cheerfully for his relief.
The members of the Brownie" family
have evidently taken in Washington in
their autumn travels judging from the
compiexions of most of the people one
sees on the streets just now. Secretary
Carlisle is one of the brownest of his kind
aud c1,a ft,a off Of h &c
ing very decidedly. In order to emphasize
the effects of the SIMS rays ne has had
his hair cut, and the result discloses to
view a well-developed halo of fair, un-
tanned flesh, which marks the limit of the
shearing. When asked if this halo indi-
Gated the increasing purity of democratic
politics or not, the Secretary declined to
commit himself. and said that at all events
it was the outcome of a very pleasant
summer.
Ex-senator Ransom seems also to have
taken on an additional brunette tint as the
product of his Mexican labors, and his in
'terest in shoe store windows and special
sales of tan Oxfords" show that the
burning cline is hard on the feet of the
present minister to the land Of Monteuzma.
The men don't have it all their way,
however. for the streets are crowded with
rosy-cheeked. ruddy lasses, whose teeth
gleam all the whittier and eyes flash more
brightly for the contrast with their brown
skins. Some of these summer filters have
dolorous tales to tell of the dearth Of
men at the resorts. One girl frankly de-
clares that her whole season was wasted,
for" she sadly walls. there was not a
single man at the hotel or on the beach
over eighteen years old, and, while boys
are nice to take you in bathing and run
errands for you, it rather lowers your dig
Eity to have to stroll with them by MOON
light. dance continuously with them and
eat their "Huyler's," hut, you see, If
did not honey them up i had no one at al,
and the other girls snap them up in double
quick, So as the next best thing to having
good time is to make the other girls
jealous, l have spent the entire summer
as a sort of 'grandmotherly' person with
lot of youngsters tumblng after me
every place 1 went"
A young housekeeper, just back from
England, says she has added several new
dishes to her menu. and one of the most
distinctively English is the vegetable mar
row. For the well-being of the uneniight-
ened it is just as well that they should not
know that this choice foreign product by
which our cousins across the pond set such
store is nothing more or less than the sum-
mer squash of our own land. The mode OF
cooking and serving is however, different.
The vegetable is cut in Slices as one does a