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Evening star., 1896-12-12

William Morrison of Illinois, Lady Paunce-
fote and her daughters are among the
patrons OF this hair manipulation. Every
summer she goes to Marion. Mass, where
She mas cottage, at the time when the
White House caravan moves, and each
Wednesday after he arrival finds her on
her way across the bay.
If any Of her clients have a single sray
hefr whether from the essence Of time
sorrow, or any other reason, she plainly
regards the fact as confidential, and to be
ignored to mere acquaintance.
Gray hair" she says, automatically,
can be prevented many years after it
would naturally be present by massage
and brisk use of the brush"
Few Washington women have red hair The
women of classic times dyed their locks in
plood to attain the warm hue which lovers
ana friends call auburn" She Is raptur-
Gus over the exquisite auburn hair of Miss
Helen Benedict of New York, whom she
proudly serves. Apuleius' praise of Circe
whose golden hair around her sunny face
IN clusters hung" could well be applied to
MISS Herbert, daughter of the Secretary of
Afnsworths thirty requisites of perfec-
ton. which demand dark eyes, dark
some tresses and darkly fringed lids" with
other beauties might well be illustrated in
those attractions by Madame Dupuy de
LONE, wife of the Spanish minister.
Sne mas the masses of blue black hair
set against which a yellow rose or a scar
let pomegranate flower find their happiest
background. There Is much talk of a re-
vfval OF powder, gold dust and perfumad
nour, but this generation Is probably too
neat Tor such revival. A single bal poudre
each season seems to satisfy every wish
Tor return of the troublesome, un.idy az
fectatons of past centuries.
Fashion threatens the disappearance OF
| tiaras fillets and other jeweled ornaments
or the kind this season. the coronet Of
braids sutmounting the brow in their stead
This style of coiffure Is seen in perfection
at the diplomatic receptions and other large
functions as worn by Baroness de Hengel-
| muller, wife of the Austrian minister Her
hair Is profuse in quantity, red brown in
color, and she dresses ii in q regal man
ner that adds much to her distingue ap-
pearance.
The wonderful head dress of Madame
Yang Yu, wife of the Chinese minister
| with its slick pomaded elevations and de-
pressions, gay-colored artificial flowers,
| ribbons, gold and silver pins leads in &C.
centEicity, however, at the gatherings
where foreigners are present.
The wife of the japanese minister is Eu-
ropean in the arrangement and selection
of her costuming.
Madame Pom, wife of the Corean minis
ter, always caps her coarse black hair with
an ugly round hat of black satin. To such
an extent do the Chinese women carry
their fancy for head decoration that those
of the poorer classes will stick garlic,
onions and other vegetables rather than go
without.
Evening star., 1896-12-12
She Bent Her Husband.
the Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record.
Among the curious results of the recent
battle of the ballots one Of the most inter-
esting from many points of view is the
election Of Matte Hughes Cannon to the
state senate Of Utah by an immense plu-
rality over her.oppDnent, Angus NJ. Can
non. who. alassfor the future peace and
quiet Of the Cafpon. household. is the hus-
band of the se5htofess-e The advent
of Mrs Cannon Into the Utah state senate
may, however, exercise perturbing in
auence over a wider circle than that which
circumscribes the domestic realm Of Mr..
Cannon. -
The prospect of the election Of women to
the higher legislative assemblies has filled
some apparently unprejudiced observers
with alarm because Of the paralyzing effect
which it is feared their presence may have
upon debates Tho relations which nature
and usage have established between man
and woman make rudeness Impossible. Men
would be restrained from saying what they
might have to say In the manner to which
they are accustomed among themselves. 1t
would be difficult for a male debater 10 say
folly is folly II the utterer OF the remarks
open to such criticism should happen to
be q woman. Debate would cease to be
an engine for the elucidation OF funda-
mental truths. and would become mere
series Of decorous and inconclusive declar
nations.
Evening star., 1896-12-12
THE KING WAS ENRAGEp.

But When the Chef Told Him What
There Was for Dinner He subsfde,i.
From the New York Journal
There was no question but that the canni-
bal king was highly enraged. for mis- face,
distorted with passion, resembled one Of
Aubrey Beardsley's posters and his nose
ring quivered violently
He strobe up and down the imperial dug
out. his Trilby heart Hopping back and
forth as he walked, and cut savagely al the
surrounding atmosphere with a small rid
ing crop which had been presented to him
by an English gentleman who had since
gone into the interior
The king viciously punched an electric
bell.
The royal purveyor appeared and ad-
vanced on his hands and knees.
Caitin! roared the savage { chieftain
how is 1t that you dare to break my rule.
to oppose my royal will. to dfsopsy my
specific commands? How is it, | ask, that
boiled missionary appears as the cnly i'm
portant dish on my bill of fare today?"
The purveyor executed a grovel which
eclipsed all his former efforts in that direc-
ton.
The king appeared molliied. II mean
about seasoning he explained nibbling on
conversation candy. Il fear that he Will
not be exactly up to my standard-so mild
a man.
The purveyor looked relieved.
Il thought, he said, humbly, that with
ragout la French novelist"
He paused.
''Capitalr' cried the king. with undis-
guised joy, and pinning the latest button
to the lapel of his faithful servants toga,
French noveistr"
He smacked his lips In antiC ipation.
spicy? Wellr'
1t was evident that the South Sea Del
monico had scored another triumph.
Evening star., 1896-12-12

man. whom many defeats have not tanght
disbelief in the prover5ial good luck of be-
ginners. Was leaving the Loat for a week
in Spain before going on to Soo the god
dess once again. The Chicago lady was
travelling without pause TO the Riviera /
wonder whether she will play the Louis or
return IL.
In one way or another. by routes direct
OF roundabout.it is to the Riviera we all are
bound; and through the pent-up strait over
which the Lion Rock of Gibraltar crouchcs
in watch we pour like the sand through
the narrow neck of an hour,lass / do not
suppose there is such another meeting
place of all the peoples of the earth west
Of the Suez canal as is this quaint garrison
town As for fashion
Panniers-of charcoal-are much worn
by the patient donkeys that plow past the
gates toward sunset
1t is the fashion to clip the BODY Of a
horse quite bare of hair. leaving the legs
clothed, so that the animal seems standing
in golf stockings.
coarse hopsacking effects, and always
lined with white.
Bare-kneed HIghlanders, bare-shanked
Moors. bare-footed boys, and bare-headed
runners mingle in confusion; and against
a background of these picturesque eIe-
ments two figures stand outlined.
Clenr-Eyed English Girl.
There is the oriental woman with ber
shambling gait and her veil drawn over
her face, as In the biblical days. There ia
the clear-eyed English girl, whose face is
toward the future. as her sisters Is toward
the past
There is powder on the face generally.
the climate is uncertain and the drinking
water is bad. But 1t is a face good 10 look
upon and the clothing is worth more than
a glance.
Bicycle riding there is none; horseback
rldins mucn- The.Caipe hunt. over the line
N the Spanish hills, has given these fair
women sure, firm seats in the saddle MANY
OF them use reversible saddles to correct
any permanent curvature of the spine, SO
much are they afleld. The long skirt Ia mo
longer de riguer. The skirt is short and
fairly scant. clearing the boot tops. the
hat Is derby, the collar a standing choker
without the rundown points. Colors:
Black most in favor; mixed browns and
dark grays, a not uncommon concession to
the warmer sun.
may add that before leaving New York.
Where tne riding season had just begun,
noted with pleasure the growing use of the
snort-skirted riding habit. / do not think
suit again.
Good old New York; The name reminds
Tne OF the merry crew wherewith / sailed
week ago do not think | saw on shin
board novelty in coz tune save one-a
deck rug sewn into the shape of bag and
fastened over with buttons. 1t was fash
Toned out of dark brown and green plaid
cloth, and when a brown-eyed lady with a
brown beef-eater hat aloft crawled into
II and buttoned II with big tassel buttons
with fringe of the rug. she looked more
ship-shape than the other damseIs with
Wlnd-blown skirts or dragging blankets
OF course there Were girls in fascina tors
and girls IN Capuchin hoods and girls in
fuzzy wuzzy gray REFERS, but then, there
always are.
There Are Soldiers.
And there are always pretty girls where
there are soldiers. In Gibraltar there are
Evening star., 1896-12-12
EUGENE FIELD AND THE FARMER
HIS Excuse for Having Killed the
Latter's Duck

His Excuse for Having Killed the
Latter's Duck.
From the Chicago Tin es-Herald.
A Few years ago the late Eugene Field
and Stanley Waterloo went duck hunting
on Murdock lake, near st. Louis. Ducks
were rather scarce and very shy and the
TWO hunters spent the day without over
purdening their game bags. At length they
decided to separate, in the hope that each
might drive the ducks within range of the
other. Waterloo padded up the lake and
Field down.
Late In the afternoon Waterloo banged
away at a flock Of mallards and brought
one down. The wounded duck, however
was not seriously disabled, and before it
could be bagged rose and went wabbline
down the lake toward Field and dropped
within easy range of the poets gun among
number OF tame ducks which belonged 10
netghbor1ng farm house.
Field rested his gun across the bow Of
his boat and let both barrels go. The mall
lard went flying away. The tame ducks
set up a Quacking and padded ashore-all
but one. One of the farmers pets had re-
ceived it's Quietus
The farmer himself didn't like 1t, and
a1ter induig1ng In certain emphatic remarks
well calculated to impress the erring MINI
rod with the enormity of his offense be-
gan throwing stones and inviting him TO
come ashore and fight. Field padded ont
Of stones throw and began to parley, The
farmer wanted dollar for the duck,
How do you figure that?' queried the
poet.
DO you mean to deny that you killed my
duck here?" demanded the granger
That's true enough" said Field, .but
where does the responsibility really be-
long?"
II don't understand you"
why. that duck of yours was particcps
criminis; that's what 1t was"
Il don't care what you cali 1t, but want
dollar for the duck, just the same"
We'll, now, see here" insisted Field, "you
must acknowledge that your water fowl
was at least guilty of contributory negli-
gence. Instead of keeping away from me
while l was cunning Tor ducks, that mis-
guided fowl deliberately invited death by
getting right in front of my gun just as 1
was about to terminate the earthly exist
ence of a mallard.'
The farmer was dazed into silence.
TT looks to me like clear case of sui
eide. I'll wager you hadn't fed that DOOR
heart-sick, discouraged duck for a month
No wonder 1t found existence intolerable
under such circumstances. and embraced
the first opportunity to escape from a thral-
dom worse than death. I suppose I ought
to charge you with cruelty to animals and
have you arrested, but have no disposi-
ton to deal harshly with you. If you'll
pay me for the ammunition and the time
/ have wasted with you, I'm Willing to
call the matter square and you may keep
the duck"
But the farmer shook his head and fed.
Evening star., 1896-12-12
THEIR CROWN OF GLORY
How Some Washington Women Care 70,
Their Hair.
The Locks of Mrs. Cleveland and Cha,
About Those OF Cabinet and
Diplomatic People.

women, cats and BIRDS" says Nodier,
"are the creatures that waste the most
time on their toilets''-and the women of
the capital are no exception to the rule that
places them first in this regard. Some of
the members Of the official households
have given their tresses, curly and
straight, into the care of one woman,
who is colored, and a resident of this Dis
trict. Through Mrs. Bissell, wife of the
then Postmaster General, she was intro
duced into the home of the President, and
for several years has had charge of the
handsome locks of his wife.
Sir Charles Bell tells Of a woman whose
curls measured feet: Tennyson writes of
Lady Godiva, Anon she shook her head
and showered her rippled ringlets to her
knee" Mrs. Cleveland vies with the lat
ter, If she does not equal the example first
given. Her hair is superb, being glossy
brown in color fine in quality and fifty-cne
inches long. Where it is folded or braided
it shows bronzed high lights such as the
Venetian beauties Of ancient days cult
waited assiduously. History says it was no
uncommon sight in Italy of old to see the
women of rank wearing great brimmed
hats of straw. from which the crowns had
been cut. Through the openings they
WOulu uTdW tHclT luAuIldHt udir, OutSpCedu
1t wide and sit in the sunshine on their ter
races or balconies, hoping for the touches
of gold nature had stingily withheld from
them.
Mrs. Cleveland's hair waves softly On her
brow, being what the Irish call good
natured hair" and she wears 1t arranged
with great simplicity. Occasionally the
diamond side combs given her by the
President at Christmas adorn her coiffure.
but ordinarily she affects no ornament.
Mrs. Olney, wife of the Secretary of
State; Mrs. Lamont, wife Of the Secretary
Of War, her little daughters; Mrs. Perrine,
mother of Mrs Cleveland; Mrs. Thurber,
wife Of the Presidents private secretary
Mrs. Schofield. wife of Gen. Schofield,
U.S.A.; Mrs Beecher Of New York, Mrs
Evening star., 1896-12-12

w w ERE NEW Elk
in Monaco? You have
never & a m b ! e d :?
Herel Take this and
play it for me. This
is my address,
And the little old
nan with the bald
lead and the bright,
2littering eyes thrust
d. & ol d e n twenty
franc piece into the
hand of the Chicago
lady.
The G a er little
Evening star., 1896-12-12
Practfced What He Preached.

From the New York Herald
Mother-"Did you take that jam, Tom
my?"
Tommy-rm sure j don't know"
Mother-"ThCmas! Answer me-"
Tommy-"Hew can L? You told me not
TO let my left hand know what my right
hand doeth-'
Evening star., 1896-12-12
Nicely Settled.
From Household Words.

Mrs.. Messy (hobnobbins)-"My respec's,
and how's your family settled. Mrs.
Dossyf" .sNicely. thank you. mem. Sarah
and Alice il in .formatory. Bnrs besn
took In 'ome, and Joe's jined a refuge.
All. they do look after 'em well. those good
gentlemenW
Evening star., 1896-12-12
His Triumph.
rom the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal.
1T is done,'
The man who uttered these words wiped
his dripping knife while his eye cleaned
with triumph.
His exultation was but natural, for surely
no steak had ever before been Drowned so
artistically.
Evening star., 1896-12-12
lMIP PIERlAIL
HAlIR
REGEMIERA1T T(DE

No matter what the color or condition of you
HtfR-Streaky. BLEACHED or GRAY-it
can be made beautiful, glossy and natural by one
application Of
Imperial Hair Regeneration.
IL is clean. eolorIess lasting docs not contain
atom OF poisonous matter. Baths do affect II
peithsr does curling nor erimpiIg. Ipcomparabl
durability.
No. BLACK No -Chestnut-
No. Ozark Brown. No b-I.iyht Cfestnpt
No. 3-Medium Brown No. 6-God Blonde
No. Ash Blonde.
Price, 81 30 and <3 90,
Sole Manufacturers and Patentees:
Imperial Chemical Mig. Co., 2e2 Fifth ave, N Y
In Washington sold by
PAI.AIS ROYAL.
APPLICATIONS MADE AT MARLBOROUGH
PARIJORS. 1lI0 q ST NV.
cei2&262t
Evening star., 1896-12-12
Notes of Fashions as Jotted Down
on the Way.
IN AN ENGLISH HOME At GIBRALTAR
How Paris Dressmakers Conform to
the English Tastes.
r F y \ D BI S c. L T

Correspondence of The Evening Star
GIBRALTAR, December l. 1896.
Evening star., 1896-12-12

Hut When the Chef Told Hin What
There Was for Dinner He subsfded.
From the New York Journal
Evening star., 1896-12-12

And there are always pretty girls where
there are soldiers. In Gibraltar there are
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-08
A SHOT AT SILVER.
Secretary Hoke Smith Talks on the
Coinage Question.

Secretary Hoke Smith Talks on the
Coinage Question.
In an address at Atlanta, Ca, a few
days ago the secretary of the interior,
Hoke Smith, in referring to the cur
rency question took strong ground
against the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and defended the course of
the administration in financial matters.
Mr.. Smith rehearsed the uses and
functions of money and gave running
review of the history of currency in
this country. The advocates of free
coinage, he said, professed to want gold
and silver treated with equality and yet
the policy they proposed would be 100
cents worth of one in dollar, and only
so cents worth of the other. He was
not against silver. He wanted Just as
many gold and silver or paper dollars
circulated in this country as could be
kept as good as every other dollar. He
Endorsed the bimetallic policy of Thomas
Jefferson. he said, but he did not agree
with the bimetallic fallacy of Coin"
Harvey. He argued deliberately to show
that the free and unlimited coinage of
both gold and silver at the present ratio
would result in the establishment of
the silver standard and the disappear
ance of all our gold.
The tide of the population and of cap
ital was now setting toward the south
ern people, who, of all others, had occa-
sion to dread a revolution. Free coin
age would benefit no one and work vast
haddships to all, especially to the cot
ton planters of the south who have to
sell their products at gold standard
price and buy their goods at an inflated
silver standard valuation.
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THE LADIES'.

Mrs, 8. II. Watts, of New York, shot
moose in Maine the other day. This Is
the nearest to war that the new woman
has got.
Some English papers say that for .
long time the pocket-money allowance
of Princess Maud of Wales was only
five dollars month. Her mother when
a young girl had the same amount.
Mrs. Lille Pardee, who is a candi-
date for state senator in Utah, is 81
wears old, teacher of Latin and Greek
and wife of Salt Lake lawyer. Sne
says she is sure of election.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling attends 10 al
of her husbands correspondence ana
carefully guards him against would-oe
intruders. He In said to be the most
unapproachable literary man in tho
world.
Mrs ]. Stanley Brown, who was for
merly Mollie Garfield, the only daugh'
ter of the ex-president, lives in quiet
way in Washington, on Massachusetts
avenue, within very short distance OF
the house once occupied by her father.
She is the mother of three children. tho
youngest being daughter about .
month old.
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A DYING CRAZE.
Tho Decadent Delus ION of Free Silver
LoOniea.

Tho Decadent Delus ION of Free Silver
The failure of ex-Congressman Bland,
of Missouri, to command an audience of
more than one person in Savannah is
significant of the dying out of the free
silver craze at the south.
Mr.. Bland has been for many years
the most persistent and prominent
champion in congress of free and IN
dependent coinage of silver at q ratio of
sixteen to one He was the father of the
"Bland dollar" which the people re-
fused to use, but permitted to accumu-
late by the hundreds of tons in the
treasury vaults. He belongs to the
school of statesmen who disdained to
consider the worlds standard of value
and asked: what is abroad to us?" He
asserted the omnipotence Of congress
in the matter of money-making, and
insisted upon giving 100 cents of value
to so cents worth of silver by. q fat OF
that body.
Last year the voters of Missouri con-
cluded that they had had enough of Mr..
Bland and his vagary, and they left him
at home. Now he takes to the lecture
field and, in southern city of $4,000
inhabitants. in state to which Mr..
Crisp has made an appeal for the sena-
torship on the same issue, Mr.. BANDS
agent sells one ticket for lecture.
The defeat of Hardin in Kentucky
and of free-silver candidates in Illinois
and Nebraska are indications of the
same nature. Bimetallism on an in
ternational basis will come some day,
but the Missouri school of bogus money
is at low ebb.-N. Y. World.
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SOUND MONEY sAYlN os.

....Sound money, 'Old Subscriber"
does not mean free silver, though it
must be admitted that free silver is moth
ing but sound money.-Chicago Trib-
une.
1.-THE majority will agree with the
president that free silver coinage by
the United States alone would result in
evitably in silver monometallism.-
Troy Times.
Benjamin Harrison should give
the public statement of his attitude
in 1890 on the silver question. Senator
Sherman, in his book, asserts that the
Sherman law was elaborated in the SEN
ate because of the belief that Harrison
would sign the free silver bill if the SEN
ate sent it to him as it passed the House.
The ex-president should enIighten tire
people on this point.-Toledo Blade.
....Firmer than ever in his opposi-
ton to independent free coinage of sill
yer by this country, Mr. Cleveland sets
forth the dangers which silver mono
metallism would bring in its train with
great force and vigor. His argument on
this point does not at all controvert the
views of the friends of bimetallism es-
tablished by agreement of nations.
The president is dealing with present
issue. not one that the future may bring
Boston Globe:
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through my heart, and the caresses
with which she overwhelmed the little
one put me beside myself. / was
jealous-of both of them! l was sore
at having no share in the drama, at not
making n third in the bond, and re-
solved to take steps to give myself a
claim to it. Alas! / thought drearily,
the child was afraid of me; and as for
herself, / had kept her, as it were by
force, at a distance, through long
years.
One day at dinner there was pro-
found silence after a sl<irmish OF words
IA painful silence. l stared down at
the painted flowers upon the Meissen
plate before me, a quicker of anger upon
my forehead; but all the time / felt
the great eyes of 1t full upon me-and
hers, too. The rays from those four
eyes seemed to burn upon my forehead.
Suddenly the silence was broken.
"Pa-pa!" And again, louder and more
confidently, "Pa-pa!"
Istartcd. twas sitting there gazing
ut me in terror of the storm its word
| would call down. She had turned scar
let, and her lips trembled. No one but
herself could have taught him that
'papa." My heart was warm within
newly did not spring up, and with
word, a touch, cancel forever those
dreary six years? The right word at
that moment would have done it, but
l was under spell. did not say it.,
| There was no doubt that with young
curly-head a new spirit had taken pos
session, spirit which made me a
stranger in my own house. The rooms
were illumined even when the sun with
out was hidden by clouds. The faces Of
the servants, even inanimatc objects