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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24

believe she had just left the convent.
But she is the terror Of the good old
staid and wealthy families. for she has
fascinated their sons by the score and
has made big holes i'm the ancestral bank
accounts
she got "a wcll-known man 10 pur-
chase "a part for her at the Athenee
Comique last winter. and made a sem
sation with her graceful figure and plas-
tic poses-for of course she didn't make
any pretense of acting"
what do you mean by saying that
he purchased a. part2' / asked.
"Ah. I see you are not au courant Of
our Paris customs" was the reply.
There are several theatres I'm this city
which would close their doors to-mor-
row If parts We're not purchased by rich
men for their protegees. These women
are not satisfied with exhibiting their
charms I'm the Bots, at the Longchamps
race course. or at the seaside resorts.
They all banker more or less for stage
notoriety. To meet this demand several
theatres have been coniured into exist
once. and sometimes receive as much as
% thousand francs per night 10 permit
such and such an ambitious young iady
10 come before the public
The next pictures NJ. Liebert produced
We're those of two handsome women OF
the type usually selected I'm America 20
head the Amazon marches and spectacu-
lar entertainment MademOiselle Guyon,
the stunning "Aica" of the "Biche aux
/ Bots" one OF last winters great sue
cesses. and Lucille Sauvagct Of the thea
tire Chatalet
1.-THE former is the larger woman Of
the two" said the speaker. lin build the
perfect Greek goddess. Mile. Sauvaget,
on tho other hand. in addition TO being
q really beautiful woman. is an artistic
OF indisputable talent. who last season
made a hit that Will insure for her a bril-
liant future on the stage
The little man laid aside the photo
I graph, mopped his brow, ovor-heated as
I much by enthusiasm of the moment as
( by the condition Of the weather
Vow you shall see two typical French
soubrettes" he continued, who by rea-
son of their saucy little ways and cute
manneri ms have brought the whole local
high-collar brigade TO their knees. This
one Is la petite Tedy. Rejane's protegee.
She is only sixteen years of age. She IS
q perfect little fairy queen, OF the kind
Shakespeare must have had In mind when
ho composed his Midsummer Nights
Dream There is something witchlike in
her movements. her smiles, her laughter.
"Fiually let me speak Of IL petite Blu
cite. In many respects she is my IA
vorite for she represents my idca Of tho
typical Parisenue. physically and every
other way. Her charm above an Is
piQuarcy- exaggerated, nothing
outre. just AS free rom selt-consciOus-
ness as is possible TO conceive of. She
has been the object of veritlble chase
! ON tine part OF the usual crowd of more
] or less broken down aristocrats."
( And Pere Liebert sank into an arm
! chair and mopped his brow again.
Y. GRlBAYEDOFF
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24
After "A Chinese Wedding.

On the day following "A Chinese wedding
AT least I'm certain provinces, the bride $
youngest brother goes to inquire after
her and 20 take a present from her moth
or OF a bottle OF hair oil. This is a GUS
tom so ancient that none knows the ORR
gin thereof No further communications
take place between the bride and her
family for three months. when her moth
er sends a sedan chair and an invitation
10 visit her. II there has been neither
a birth nor a death IN her husbands or
in her mothers house for 100 days she
goes and makes n short stay at her old
home. This visit over. she cannot see
her mother again until after her first
child is born. and not then. should the
child be girl. Even then. n there has
been q death in either family the visit
cannot be made, and there have been
many instances where a mother and
daughter living very near each other have
not met for years.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24

was n sentimental patriot and KIND 90
theoretical humanitarian; but Tommy, as
Byron observed Of him. dearly loved
lord" and was just a bit of a saOb. And
Democracy did not please him.
No doubt American society m 1903 was
more disOrdered. the manners c)usher.
the politics more violent. than we can
now imagine, yet even now there Is some
thing grotesque in the rawlings OF this
dear little man against
The ills, the vices of the land where hrst
Those rebel fends that wrack the world
We're nursed.
With the exception Of "tho sacred few
whom late by Delaware's green banks be
knew" and whose manly polish and il-
lumin'd taste" alone cOnsoled him mid
the melancholy. heartless waste Moore
found only Vilcness I'm America, "the
brute made ruler and the man made
brute" and he declared he'd rather hold
his neck by doubtful tenure from Sui
tan's beck" than thus 20 live where
bastard Freedom waves her fustian Nag
The evils that he found were not even
such as time and experience might cure.
An no. tits heartless. speculative lli.
An Youths transgressions with all ages
chill:
A Glow and cold stagnatiOn into vice.
Moore was a gentle poet. but he em-
Moved all the strong language he could
muster I'm his Objurgation or this FAC
tious race o. -. 49,.
rose
From England's debtors to be Englands
foes
Who could their monarch in their purse
forget -------------
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24

After the var. says the Baltimore Amer
lean. General Robert T.. Lee. when col
lege president. was a yestryman ~ Grace
EPISCOPAL church. General fondleton
was rector and Genor Al Smith vestrymaa.
Smith was not on agreeable terms WITH
Pendleton. and complained 10 the officers
of tho church that tho cadets, among
them his own son, were DESERVING the
church OF their fathers. and that no per
suasl0n could keep them from attending
Or. Pratt's church presbyterian.
DR.. Pratt had a very beautiful daughter
Grace. and, while General Smith was
pushing his objections 10 the rector. Cen
eral Lee. with a twinkle in his eye. said
20 Smith:
General. possibly the magact which At
tracts your son IS not 80 much the DOC
tors elOquence as the doctors Grace.
The point silenced General Smith.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24

one sees the shop windows blazing with
the most brilliant hues i'm gloves Of ov-
cry description. There are reds the color
Of geraniums, and blues as deep as indi-
go. not TO mention those that are as green
as grass. Bright yellow evening gloves
yes. and day gloves too-are among the
contradictions which seem 20 delight the
soul of the Partisan. Purple and green
gloves have jewels or steel beads sewed
into the stitching on the back of the
hand is it possible that all this gor-
geousness is TO be wasted as mere show
window decorations2 No, Sister Pro-
priety you and i and all our conserva-
tive sisters will be wearing them bofore
the winter Is over. and wondering why
we never thought of IL before.
ANNIE LAURIE WOODS.
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And break allegiance hut 10 cancel debt.
and boldly proclaimed his conviction that
Columbia blasted IN her prime" was
destined 20 calamitOus decay II Is all
rather amusing as wo read it over now
and perhaps NOT worth recalling Sc
riously. No doubt MoOres Federalist
friends in Philadelphia shared his feelings
or he theiIs-and smiled ~ his picture
Of the new capital. where
-naught but woods and Jefferson they
see.
Where streets should run and sagcs ought
10 be.
And perhaps his feelings were not with
out Justification. For an that. his Ameri-
Gao record is not that of "a man who need
be especially. cOmuemOrated In the Amer
fcan caDitai to-day His harp may hang
on Taras walls and be may be apprecia-
tivelv remembered on the banks OF the
Schuylkill. but IL was just as we'll % omit
his name from the mOsaics Ia the Nation
al Library.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24
rom MOORE md AMERICL
Wen That His Name Was Omitted From
the Mnsaics in the NationnI Iihrirv.

Apropos to the leaving the name az
Thomas Moore from the list Of poets In
scribed upon the walls Of the new Con-
gressional Library in Washington The
Philadelphia Times prints the following
story:
with ali appreciation Of the Irish melo-
dies. the most of which. with much else
OF his verse, has the true lyric gift one
enrolment among the worlds great poets
il appears that he IS not among those
whose names are especially inscribed i'm
the Congressional Library. and that tie
Ancient Hibcrnians have taken umbrlge
at the omission
If the Hibernians want 10 commemorate
Moore on what may be called political
grounds. as an Irish natiOnali 80. 10 viii
become necessary TO consider his attitude
I'm American politics also and the author
OF the Poems Relating 20 America
would not cut a very fortunate rgure I'm
our particular national lie
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24
Slave Of an Improbable Habit.

Lem Brooks, a carpenter. VINO three
,,e1r, AGO fell out OF % thrd-st0ry window
OF the new Ridge building without Sc
rious injury. had another experience here
Saturday night. He rose from his bed
10 nut down a window, and fell out on
u,tthonf receiving a scratch or broken
bone. To the physician who attended
him he exclaimed.
II wish ia broke my neck This thing
OF falling out OF windows Is getting mo-
notonOus. kansas city Times.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24
The Women Of Zoar.

The girls and older women OF the queer
separatist society OF Ioar. Ohio. earn
small amounts by knitting thread laces'
which they sell 70 visitors at the motel
and thus secure little spending money
OF their own. outside OF TINS they nave
the handling OF no money. as All Pfonts
from the harvests and hotel are deposit
ed I'm the treasury
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24
Tho birds Balance Of Power.

In n recent lecture Prof Wilmer Stone,
OF Philadelphia cited many facts 20
show that birds are natures great check
on the excess OF insects, and that they
keep the balance between plants and in
sect life Ten thousand caterpillars, ~
has been estimated. could destroy every
blade OF grass on au acre OF cultivated
ground IN thirty days from the time II
is hatched an ordinary caterpillar in
creases 1000 times in bulk and the food
IL lives and grows on IS vegetable The
insect population Of q single cherry tree
infested with aphides was calculated by a
prominent eutOmolOgist az 10 less than
l2.0O0 000l The bird population Of cultiyat-
ed country districts has been estimated
at from 700 20 1900 per square mile. This
is small compared with the number OF in
sects, yet as each bird consumes hun
dreds OF insects every day the latter are
prevented from becoming the scourge
they would be but for their feathered
enemies.--Iouth's Companion.
what a singular nose the new board
er. Miss Perkins has,
Yes. she looks so much like a parrot
that didn't dare pass her the crackers"
chicago Record.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24
"Le Pere Liebert," the Famous
Photographer Of Women
Tells of their Wiles.

lie pere Liebort, as he IS Familiarity
called. IS essentially a woman's photog-
rapher. and what he does not know about
the characteristics aud the foibles OF the
gay Parisienne IS scarcely worth know
ing. Every beauty in Paris has posed
before his camera at ono time or anoth-
or. The stately. dignihed marquise OF
the Faubourg ST. German awaits her
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24

Married men who are obliged 20 get up IN
the middle OF the night with the BABY
should study the value OF the bicycles as
a means Il indoor trayel.--Roxbury Ca
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24
BRIGHT GOSSIP ABOUT THE LATEST PARIS BEAUTIES.
His Entertaining Interview
With Gribayedqoff, the
American Artist.

This is Marguerite Roessler Of the Rue
Marboeuf. This girl has just attained
her majority. yet She can boast Of hav-
ing ruin ed more men than any other
coquette on record. Phew. how she
makes tho louis dor fly She looks ike
girl OF seventeen, with her large blue
grey eyes and her peaches and cream
,compleNion; she could easily make you
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24

"Now. here We have a very different
type OF woman from the foregoing.
WOOING IN THE CHESTNUT Sc
ASON TO-DAY AND LONG AGO,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24

Liebcrt the other day. chat only q
limited number of beauties hold the pub
De attention at a time. Here I have
q set of pictures which, in my opinion,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24

turn. along with the queen of the ORA
matte or the lyric stage and the lively
vaudeville sOubrette.
TT is one peculiarly of Paris" said
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-24
NEW PARTISAN BELLIES.

present as fine a. variety of really at-
tracuve female types as you want %
see. lut they Will have TO wait until next
season for their place in The shop win
dow.
Take MademolseIo Rcney. for exam
pie. Here you have q young lady OF the
very best family. who s being run after
by "a string OF the biggest spenders in
Paris. She has the most adorable blue
eyes clear and l.mpid Ike the waters
OF a mountain spring. and hair such as
few women can boast Of A marquis
connected with one of the monarchial
families Of France and rich Hebrew
banker are rivals for her hand and at-
factons-not to mention score Of small
or fry.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-12
OLD MICHIGAN COUPLE.
Have Kept House together for
Eighty-Seven Years.
The Husband Is Over 100 Years OF Age
the Wife 1O5-Tranquil Life Hs-
tory of MT. and Mrs. Jacob
Hitler, of Elkton.

Four miles south of Elkton, Mich,
lives probably the Oldest married
couple in the United States-Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Hitler, aged 107 and 105
years, respectively. Standing about so
feet from the roadway is little frame
cabin about 15x12, with q square,
chunky chimney, evidently erected with
a view to strength and to keep out the
chill wintry blast, and in it lives the
old couple. Your correspondent re-
Gently drove over there and was invited
in by the centenarians.
In the farther corner Of the little
room which held the centenarians'
earthly belongings was an ordinary
bed, the coverings of which was spot
less and arranged with careful hands.
Neager was the furnishing, but cheer
full and clearly as by any possibility
could be expected from fresh young
couple of 20 summers. The walls were
lastly covered with clean newspapers
which had served their day as litera-
ture and were now serving a purpose
even after their day had gone. In the
center of the floor sat an ordinary cook
stove, behind which a small wood box
did duty for the daily supply of fuel.
The old gentleman was in his stock
ing feet, and insisted in doing the honors
of the house. He is not what you would
call tall man, neither is he man of
insignificant mold. Medium in height
and build, he appars as man well cal
culated to endure hardships where a
bigger man would fail. His present ap-
pearance would lead one to conclude
that Jacob Hitler in the days of his
prime was man of no mean endur-
ance. To-day, even, after his struggle
with the century, one can scarcely
credit the fact that he has conquered
the dangers of LOT years. His step is
as firm and regular as that of an aver
age man of 40. His hand is as steady as
the hand of an expert hunter. His face,
wrinkled under the hand of time, but
eyes as bright as ever. His long
partiarchal hair flows in unmixed white
ness over his aged and yet youthful
shoulders.
Time has dwelt more harshly with
the poor old lady, who, in extreme
years, sat almost helpless in the room.
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her attentions. Society is very swift
in its instincts, and if you do not be-
long to it, resists and sneers at you,
or quietly drops you. Accordingly, the
conditions and surroundings of life ar
largely what we make them. Th-> Is
the case, first of all, through our direct
influence. We are raised or lowered by
our associations. Men are generally
alike in their lower natures; it is in
the higher character that they differ.
Manners, temper, intellect aud morals
are all directly influenced by our sur
Youndings, and those who choose for
themselves friends of an inferior caste
whether of mind or manners, of NOR
ais OF of conduct-fall to the level of
their choice. AS a general thing we
reap that which we have sown. But
where it is not 50, where circumstances
over which we have no control come in,
the form of trials or joys, even these
are greatly modified by the spirit in
which they are received. Who has not
seen poverty or bereavement borne 50
heroically and cheerfully that the af-
fiicted one seemed rather an object Of
envy than Of compassion? On the other
hand, who has not seen one with every
outward advantage that earth has to
bestow rendering himself and others
miserable by fretful complaints Of
troubles too petty to deserve moments
notice? There are millions of human
beings who, but for suffering, would
never have developed an atom of affec-
ton. There are powers to be borne,
creations to be perfected, through the
ministry of pain, which could be borne
and perfected in no other way.
Our sorrows, which appear to us moth
ing but a yawning chasm or hideous
precipice, may turn out to be but the
joining or cement which binds together
the fragments of our existence into
solid whole. The dark and crooked
path, in which we have to grope our
way in doubt and fear, may be but the
curve which, in full daylight of a bright
er world, will appear to be the necessary
finish of some choice ornaments, the
inevitable span to some bright project.
The finer the nature the more flaws
will it show through the clearness of it.
The best things the most seldom seen
In their best form; same as tender
hearted and compassionate disposition
which inclines men to pity and feel
the misfortunes of others, and which
is even for its own sake incapable of
inclosing any man in misery, is of all
tempers of mind the most amiable one,
and though it never receives much
honor, is worthy of the highest. One
thing we should always remember, that
our greatest glory is not in never fall
ing, but in rising every time we do fall.
Saltwater Prison Mirror.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-12

Poor old Grandma Hitler sits patiently
in the corner, bent almost double with
her five score years and four, her old
gray head nodding in the feebleness of
her advancing life, her sightless eyes
denied the blessing of Gods fair sun
light. Even yet the old lady's hand is
soft as a silken texture.
Mr.. Hitler said he was born 1O7
years ago the goth of last October. It's
a caution. 1 never expected to live to
this age nor nothing like it. She" he
said, nodding to his helpless wife, will
be 105 next March"
II was born in jamestown, Just back
Of Kingston, Canada. l was quite a
lump of lad, about % years old, when
the war of 1872 was on. fused to carry
the poor soldiers that were wounded
in Kingston some milk to help them
along. The war about there was all
on water. When they were done fight.
ing they threw the dead overheard into
the water and brought the wounded in
Man, that was fight, sure enough"
Canada was just bio bush. The
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-12

country was new and the settlers were
Just as new and green as they could be.
The schools were few and far between
and us boys had not the same chance
as boys nowadays have"
, When asked when he left Canada his
crippled old partner broke in upon our
conversation. "The first year of the
var" she said.
The old gentleman continued: when
1 came to Michigan we first settled near
Marine City and went from there to
Emmett; then we came here. When
we reached this place together we
thought we were soon going to die.
My son would have put us up better
house, but we were satisfied with this.
Times are hard for an old pair like us,
but we have some good friends, and
things are not as bad as they might be.
81 was 90 past when we were mar
ried. She was IS past. We will be
keeping house 81 years the 25th of next
April. We don't quarrel much else we
could hardly be so long together. l
hardly ever expected to live to be as old
as Mathusaleh but have cut two teeth
lately and can see any print without
specs. Long ago used to think of dy-
ing but lately have made up my mind
never to meet it until it comes. I sew
on my own buttons without specs and
all that. We had II of q family. My
Oldest is now nearly 90 and the young
est 81. People say it looks short to look
back over the long years. Yes it does.
1t seems a good deal like yesterday
when 1 was boy running wild in the
xrOn1C'
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-12
The Glover Leaf Design.

Clover blossoms and leaves are much
the fashion, both in art needlework and
painted on china. When used in needle
work they are laid on the linen where
they are to be embroidered, with the
long stems overlapping each other, so
that they form a circle. The flowers
may be worked in white with touches oil
pale green, in pale pink and white, OF
may be of white shading into pinkish
purple. Charming and suitable borders
to the centerpieces, tea-cloths and
doilies, decorated with clover blossoms
and leaves, have trefoil edge, consist
ing Of O repeat of three scallops that are
conventionalized clover leaves.-N. Y
Post
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-12
DANGEROUS FUNNEL TRICK.
Veteran Club Man Tried 1t Twice Before
Getting Enough.


The funnel trick is an ingenious prac-
teal joke recently introduced in the
London clubs. An old gentleman,whom
we will call jeremiah Brown, was vic
timized by it recently. He sauntered
up to the club the other day and saw
two or three Of the younger members
attempting a new feat and he watched
them with interest. One Of them stuck
funnel in the top of his trousers, threw
his head back, placed shilling on his
forehead and tried to drop it in the fun
mel by slowly raising his head.
After all had failed Jerry insisted on
trying it, though all tried to persuade
him from attempting feattoo difficult
for them. The funnel was placed in the
waistband Of his trousers and he threw
back his head 10 receive the coin on his
expansive brow. At that juncture a
lug Of water was emptied into the fun
mel, and by the time Jerry had finished
dancing the jokers had vanished.
Jerry's temper improved with dry raj
ment, and the next night at the club he
started in to show a couple OF friends
the funnel trick.
TITS this way" he explained; you
put the funnel in, so, then throw your
head back, so, and-wow!"
Again Jerry was forced to change his
raiment, and he is not showing people
what he knows about the funnel trick.
London Telegraph.
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Knew whereof She Spoke.
was tall and graceful.

She was tall and graceful.
Her carriage, which was imperious,
had coat of arms on it. 1t stood at
the door. She entered the china store
and looked inquiringly abouther.
81 desire some eggshell ware" she
said.
Every sorry, madam" rejoined the ac-
commodating salesman, but we are
just out. Might I venture to suggest
Limoges, Sevres or Dresden"
Impossible" she said, with frown,
which corrugated her delicately chiseled
forehead. 81 desire to give an incu-
bator tea"
And she swept out of the store with a
noticeable frou-frou of her brOcaded
skirts.-N. Y. Herald.