Evening star., 1898-05-21
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Sunday or church work, he should conduct
himself as his employers conduct them
serves, or as near so as possible. 1t is
wrong to wear morning suit out at night
or night suit out before dinner These de-
tails are important in their way. They ex-
emplify the character Of the people YOU
work for OF course when families only
have one suit of livery for their carriage
they can't complain very much If their
coachman is not always exactly in it."
y X X X
"One of the many peculiar things about
departmental life." observed an old clerk
to Star reporter, sis that the nearer the
clerks, men or women. live to the, depart
ment in which they are employed. the more
difhcuity they seem to have to get to their
offices on time in the morning. The trou-
bic Is that they seem SO sure that they will
be on hand on time that they are never In
hurry. and the result is that they are
frequently some minutes late and very sell
dom at their desks many minutes before
the clock strikes. Four-fifths of the clerks
probably resides in the city proper the
others living in the suburbs and suburban
towns The further away they live the
more ginger they put In their movements
and they can be always depended upon to-
appear at their desks some minutes before
they are actually required to be there
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Flowers can play no part in a military
funeral, the rules of army or naval buriaIs
Ger to a Star reporter. while was down
at Chickamauga recently, it was rumored
that one of the soldiers in camp there had
died Indeed it was SO printed in a local
paper. The result was that on the follow
ing day large quantity of flowers were
sent by sympathetic ladies and others with
a request that they should be placed on the
comm OF the dead soldier. Now the fact
was that no soldier had died and the off,
GERS had the flowers sent to their quarters
III there We're death in the camp the flow
ers could not be used. for they are not mil
ltary in any sense. The only thing allowed
on the coffin of soldier or sailor is flag
That has been decided to be decoration
enough, and among military men / have
never heard the slightest objection to the
custom, which has always prevailed"
40 x x X x
Some time since 1 read a paraeranb in
the Heard and Seen columns Of The Star"
SAID physician to a Star reporter. .'to
the enect that colored people rarely, If
ever were heard to sneeze. Since then I
nave given considerable attention to the
subject, and have inquired of other physf-
ci&hs as TO their experience or observations
on the question They all concur that
ShSeZiAS Is very infrequent among the col
ofed race, and some of them say il never
occurs, unless 1t is brought on By artificial
means While investigating the question
another matter came to nv arten1ion nd
lhat Is the extreme rarity of suicide among
tfat race 1t is so very rare that 1t can
De SAID that 1t never occurs. The statistics
OF suicide. which are now very carefulJyy
reported, show that the most intellectuol
races, and those who are the most subject
10 tne!r emotions, are most prone to sui
eide The Germans lead in the matter of
suicide. the French coming next. The Irish
ana tce Americans are about the same
the latter being slightly in the lead"
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AT the beginning of the present millin
cry season. said a man millner of Wash
1nston to Star writer, "the color that
was booked to be the rage for summer mar
trimming was burnt orange and the Paris
millinery models exhibited some beautiful
combinations of burnt-orange with various
shades OF red in the trimming of picture
mats Tor the warm season. The trimmers
were accordingly all set to work in copyinr
ttese models in stock hats for display. in
millinery shop windows. Then came the
Spanish trouble, and the most fashionable
We men Immediately began to frown unor
&C Inbnations of yellow and red the Span
Ism colors. III bet a big red apple that in
a day $ promenade in any city in America
you Will not see on the head of q solitary
Neman a hat trimmed with burnt-orange
ana red. From exhibiting their dislike for
Inc combination of the two coIors the wo-
men o! tnis country developed a wonderful
aI;horEence for burnt-orange, which is q
WING yellow. for any use whatsoever The
result Is that the great stocks of burnt
olanSe-trlmmed hats that were made up al
over the country in anticipation of a big
uade IN them are so much dead goods and
the tens of thousands of bolts of burnt-or-
arge ribbon that were imported by whole
sale firms, under the impres ssion-which
was correct, until this war broke out-that
II would be the only wear this season are
practically not worth the boards they are
"ouhd upon. The young women of this
country Were going to wear this year the
swell roman ribbons as sashes that be-
gan to be seen toward the close of last
summer. These Roman ribbons are almost
all of them different combinations of vel
lows and reds, and the firms that deferred
purchasing large stocks of them until the
beginning of trouble between this country
ana spain are now patting themselves on
the back
4 X Il r
"A lot of men enter the army and navy
of the United States under assumed
lanes said al official connected with the
navy bureau of information There seems
to be no particular reason why any of
them should do this, for the time has long
since passed when it was considered-well
a retrogressive step for a young man to
enter our land or sea service. The Young
fellows of good families, though, who get
into bit of trouble at home and join one
or other of our outfits very often assume
names for this purpose They generally
take top-lofty names, too though of late
years there has been queer practice on
the part of such men who wish to conceal
their identity of giving the recruiting Off
GERS the ante-nuptial names of their moth
ers Most of these young fellows, after
they have been in the service a while be-
gin to feel bit sheepish over this sailing
Under false colors, and they write to their
department asking that they be hence
forth carried the muster rolls under
their proper names. 1t is within the prov
ince of the military authorities to punish
these men for what is called fraudulent
enlistment but this Is never done The
names of the applicants are simply changed
in the records. orders are issued to the eff
feet that the changes have been made and
that's all there ever is about it."