Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-11

noticed the mishap. but her face bore not
| trace OF the slightest interest. With her
In hearing distance would not have risked
/ laughing at anything. In the cold. busi-
| ness-like voice OF the class leader she or
| dered--I could have told what It would be
before she said word-she ordered two
| OF hot tea. 1T must be hot. she said.
| And WAITER she called as he turned
away. before you bring the eggs / want
| a Scotch high ball"
That is what she said The car made q
particularly wild lurch just then. which
helped me to hide my surprise. That was
all that saved me.-Kansas City Star.
Helen Goulds law school course illus
trates another trait in her character. She
1 is careful judicious. an excellent business
ties. The misdirected fervor OF the senti-
mental girer of gifts is not hers. She is
fortunate that 1t Is not. Emotional phiian-
tn thrSpy would long ago have made her
bankrupt Her fortune. at a conservative
estimate, Is about $15. 200, 900: il she COM
piled with all the requests for money which
she receives 1t would take her something
less than two years to dispose OF 1t.
She receives about one hundred letters a
| day asking for sums which make a weekly
| total of about $4,000. She is asked to buy
vessels for sea captains to raise mortgages
| on western forms. to train the voices of
embryo PATHS on the prairies, to educate
young men for the ministry. to contribute
to ladies' aid society fairs in country vii
Herself strikingly unextravagant woman
| in matters Of dress and all personal expen-
diture, she Is asked by prospective brides
70 provide sums ranging as high as $1,000
!or their modest trousseaux. Parents write
her enthusiastic letters describing the
| charms of young Helen Miller Gould Smiths
| OF Joneses, and saying how. gratefully
nucleus for these young ladies future
| dowries will be received.
In one banner week the begging public
including, OF course, the respectable beg
gars for worthy charities as well as the
| mere preyers on unsophfsticated kindness
| asked for million and a half dolars.-
Harper's Bazaar.
| In Chicago recently Albert Newman was
arrested three times in four days for beat
| ing his wife Each offense was more seri-
Gus than the preceding one. yet there was
| no indication of resentment on the part
OF the faithful spouse at the treatment ac-
| corded her. Far from 1t. Refusing to lodge
| complaint against him, when the police
| nnaIy took matters in their own hands
| and held Newman, she hustled about sock
| Ing somebody to go his security so he would
not be subjected to the hardships of a night
In the police station. insisting that It was
just life and that you have to take 1t as It
comes. You see. it's lonesome at home
| when he isn't there she added. .'He
treats me cruelty. it's true, and I'm dread
fuily afraid of him sometimes. But when
nes nome evenings smoking and talking to
| the children everything Is all right, and IT.
| coy.
Many unique occupati for women are
| nearo or nowadays. but probably Baldwin,
iowa, has the only woman bus driver
| hotel drummer and livery stable hostIer
| girl whose Christian name is Maria, does
/ this sort of labor, and is known to ali of
| the travelling men who make this hustIing
| little town.
Maria is the daughter of the famous fat
] woman who was featured with the Barnum
show for many years and her father was
1 hay how apto
| began to go out with the show Maria was
| Obliged to shift for herself, and chose the
| occupation of livery stable hoster, as she
| was passionately fond of horses
She weighs about 80 pounds. has the
| strength OF half a dozen men, wears the
| lcotgear and headgear of man and the
| dress of woman. She always had a strong
dislike for women's work, and when sine
| began In the stable she made I'D her mind
that 1t would not be proper to dress as a
| woman, and but for the interference of her
employer would have adopted the same at
| tire as is worn by DIR. Mary Walker Her
| employer so strongly objected, however,
| that she compromised upon the headgear
and footwear of the men and retained the
dress. For time Maria curried. fed and
| cared for the horses, and by and by her
| work broadened 50 that she was sent out to
drive the drummers from town to town
Later she commenced to make the trains
| with the omnibus, and at this work she
made great success.-Chicago Inter
| Ocean.
| The richest and most expensive dress in
| the world was exhibited at the great
worlds fair at st. Louis. The gown cost
10000 and has been considered the lnost
wonderful creation of the Partisan dress
makers art. 1t was made for the famous
Empress Josephine, who. in the height of
her popularity. was perhaps the most beau
| tiful woman in the world. The gown weighs
seventy-fve pounds and has a train fifteen
feet long. 1t is made of the heaviest and
richest velvet of the choicest manufacture,
and is bordered with ermine that cost a
small fortune. The skirt, bodice and train
are studded with hard-worked golden bees
symbolic OF the Napoleonic dynasty. Taste
fully worked into the gown are many costly
jewelS.-EXchange.
Chicken Gumbo.-Fry a young, tender
chicken, after sailing, peppering and -four
ing the pieces An old hen can be used II 1t
is parboiled before 1t is fried. Save the
liquor for soup. Put the carefully Drowned
chicken in pot half filed with cold water
Slice and fry two large onions and one
quart of sliced okra with one tablespoonful
Of -four and pour into soup. Add a pinch of
red pepper and boil for three hours Serve
with dry boiled rice. Jeanette Robinson
Murphy in Florida Agriculturist.