Evening star., 1898-03-05

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young women, unaccompanied, walking un
concernedly by with music rolls in their
hands-theres a vocal academy near wher,
I'm stopping - without any apparent
thought of the probability of their being
molested In view of this. 1 suppose the
only na -ural inference is that the proba-
bility doesn't exist. And then, downtown
on Pennsylvania avenue, as late as o OF
even 10 o'clock, often see, in the cours,
of stroll, young women of perfectly OBJ.
vious responsibility hurrying along that
big thoroGg hfare-not hurrying, apparent
ly with the notion that there's any chance
of their getting into trouble but simply tC
get home. There seems to Je a complete
absence of the street corner masher in this
town. I'm bound to confess that a
spectacle young woman who. belated, is
compelled &c pass through any of the main
thorOugafares of Chicago when night Is
we'll under way, is simply out of luck. and
that's all there IS about it-for. somehow
or another, men out there don't take 1t fol
granted that respectable women are eve.
on the streets alone after nightfall under
any circumstances, and they Shar3 thii
idea in common with the masliy young
men of nearly all of the big cities An
other thing is that I've noticed any num-
ber of women at the Washington theaters
alone or In pairs. unaccompanied by any
male being what or whatsoever. That
wouldn't go in any other of the big towns
I've had experience in. either. OF course,
Chicago's the only real thing among
American municipalities, but, nevertheless,
for its size-for its size, remember-Wash
ington is just about as close to the popular
conception of Arcadia any burg I've yet
struck"
Say, places last a pretty long time iL.
this old world, after ALL don't they?
unused the young departmental stenogrs
pher who is studying history after office
hours. 1T seems sort o. queer to me
lay down book on Greek history and
then to pick up the evening paper and
read a cable dispatch with Athens on
the date line. Funny that that old town
Of Athens used to amount to such a dick.
ems Of lot SO many million years or so
ago, and Is still doing business at the same
old stand isn't 1t? l wonder what Socra-
tes. Demosthenes. Pericles. Phidas an.
the rest of that old-time push would think
of the game If they could come back here
ard have look at it row, hey? Wouldn't
it just more'n knock their eye out, we'll
l guess yes! 1 wonder IL the ducks who
come prowling and digging around the
dust heap that this town'u probably be
about three thousand years from now, will
think that we were such warm members
and hot tanaies as us folks think those
old-tlme Greek geezers were. even if they
dIi't have teleGraphs, cigarettes and the
rest of the f1xings we've got7"
Y 4 X
''Thc boys have the war fever much worse
tran men," explained clerk In the adtu-
tant generals Office of the War Depart
ment to Star reporter. 'if We can judge
from the number of letters we are now re-
ceiving from persons who want to do
Spain, as several OF them have put It. For
every letter we have received from men
We have received three from boys. They
want to enlist as trumpeters, buglers, drum
mers or anything else they can do. The
boys who live In seapor. towns incline to
the navy generally. but The boys from the
country want to do service in the army 1t
happens, however, that far as boys are
cCrcerhed We can do nothing for them. The
navy takes boys in their apprentice and
training ships. though there at all times
twenty times as many applicants there
are places for them. The army, even II on
war footing. never eniists boys under six
teen years of age. OF late years the boy
has dropped out as a drummer. for at every
post there is a band. which does away with
the necessity of drummers."
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"Originally what is now known as rock
candy" explained a confectioner to a Star
reporter, was called in the trade Gibraltar
rock Originally also 1t was the purest
kind of candy for it was crystallized sugar,
than many other grades of candy, but it is
not always strictly pure, especially the
cheaper varieties of it. The fact is, how
ever candy all the way through is prob
ably purer now than ever before, for the
reason that sugar is cheaper than ever
and is growing cheaper each year as the
various new methods for making it are
discovered. Beets furnish now as much su-
gar as cane, and the saccharine qualities
of it are equally good. The various arti-
Giles used in cheapening the manufacture
of candy some years ago are discarded
now. for sugar can be bought at a less
price than the adulterants. Nearly fifty
years ago Hawthorne. in The House of
Seven Gables, describing a small store
said: For instance, there was a glass
pickle jar filed with fragments of Gibraltar
rock; not, indeed, spliuters of the yeritable
fortress, but bits of delectable candy
Other writer's of even earlier date than
that speak of Gibraltar rock. 1t appears,
however. that the Gibraltar was finally
dropped and il became known as rock cam
dy. l have price list issued in 1s4S to
the candy trade. in which Gibraltar rock
is the name given. though after that it is
quoted as rock candy. Throughout Eng
land it Is known as Gibraltar almost eX-
ciuSiyely outside of the large cities In the
latter. as here, the Gibraltar is dropDed
and 1t is called rock candy