The Exeter Advocate, 1893-8-31, Page 3IN 10 NGLISR BISON,
of tip Coaviot &Mad the'
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tntiai'y Ban,
STRICT MI1,11111\1 DISCIPLINE.
N,Nsoupeo Very Inare--Ne ruse Gver Prisonere
-Prism Iteentinemlinei ttennmitimerclso
-die 'heeding en of Terseness -No riowere
-.NO 1"OUUC1 " Poise'
ENERA.LLY epeaking,
the eensational teem
which ere frequently
plitalehed with rogerd
to prison lite in the
United Stetee. Dap the
'Bannon Heraecl's Lou
close correepondente and
with icumaity nerrette acne estunithing
esseeme, or (tome wholes:to oubbreek of in-
eoutiordinetion, er eosin ourtees phese of
amiable dietiplIne, "seem to have no omen-
etterparte in Eugland. ,
say they 4 [teen)." bo have kb,counter-
parts, for if they halve them, ishe public
never hears of them Its fon the nubile
seldom, hews of anythinntnreintion to Eng -
dish prison life, and the little that comes to
sit is tinnily dlooredited by the source from
which the tales emanate.
The very feet tbat the Englioh prints
,-Tarely mention the prieons of their country,
and then, perhaps, only in cement=
with the sentence, or the release of some
motorists offender, lobate to a remerk-
-able difference bebween the management
eof plan affairs in England and
.America.
ESCAPES RAZE.
use e retabtrest three ielgista week. This
earns rather a queer eemeletion, neverthe.
fees ifs k bhe )prison rule. In fast, the
prisoner muot paws through three " etegeen
betore be peones he nthermoat luxury.
afforded by the establishment in the way of
beds and Easels. In eaoh "stage " he lama
eerie 244 good connuot marks. In the Ara
stage be mien for a month, user bis plank
bed without a Mattrees ; In the eeconei etage
he is allowed a mattress fourninhni a week;
in the third ateme hes itfive nights a week;
and when he restehee the fourth stages he is
permitted to. ideap on a matinees every
*lab.
The prisoner"s uo eco d dt raise bin
n r e
period Of enjoyetiene of the forth nage of
luxury. ,
IF HE BEHAVES nommen
Perbaps there are onanional Napes trom
English prieene nowadays bub if so, they are
,of such rare otourrence that bh,ey comma the
eoharaoter of marvels.
But of what takes piece inside the prison
• walls the publics is wholly ignorant. There
may be insubordination, but if so, no rumor
of it trickles into bbs world, As for the
discipline, there is one thing certain ; there
. Is no doubb of In strictness as oonapared with
the average method of management in the
• state pesetas of Anemic*. The English system
, le unquestionably eevere.
The English prisons are of two °lanes -
the long term ead the shorb. Senbenoes
for more than three years are expiated in
the former ; for three years or lean in the
latter. All the prisms are under the con-
trol of the national Government, and the
rulers that apply to one apply to all in
each class. Snore thab in the long berm
prisons, such as Dertmoor or Portsmouth or
C/hatnera, the discipline is even more rigid,
and the
irnsv InarviLions
• are even fewer than in the short term stab -
!Lehmann there is no great difference in the
management of the two °lease.
Unlike our own prisons, those of Ettgle.nd
aro practically out off from the outer world.
News does not penetrate them, nor does
gossip leak out. Sighbousers are never ad-
mitbed. Visitors never get beyond the
enter guard roam. And no visitiors are ad-
mitted unless they are relatives or 'friends
of a !prisoner, and even then shay are sepa-
rated from hitu by a double seti of iron
bars, bebween which warders Rhino' to pre-
vent anybhing baing passed, and to forbid
conversation on prohibited topic's. In the
abort term prisons a conviob may receive
two visitors once every three months, and
he may write one letter. In the long term
prisons these privileges are gra.ated at much
•anger internee.
he continuo in the fourth stage for idle
remainder oi his 'sentence, if not, he ie
lowered to the third, the moored or the first
"stage, according to his demerits. But he is
permitted to work his woy up again if he
choone to do so. Besides his •bed, the
equipment of hin cell °mullahs of a water
00,11, a buoket, a du wash bowl, a tOW01,
soap dish, a met teller, a wooden spoon end
e. tie pieta. He le never permitted to nos 0,
knife or fork, and what is more, he never
eats anybhing that requires the employment
of these inebrumente.
At 6 o'clock in bbs morning the prisoner
must lame his bod, make hie simple toilet,
and clam his all. His breakfast is brought
to hina at 7.30. Ali meeessore served in the
cell% FOS breeklad and supper a prisoner
in the first stage is allowed eight mimeo of
bread and as much water as, he cares to
drink. In the anoond Wage he has a pint
of grael and six ounces of bread. In the
third stage be has a pint of gruel and
eights enema of bread. Wise happy prisoner
who haa smelled the fourth stage has for
breakfast and sapper eight ounoa of bread
and a pinb of porridge, or twitte a week a
pint of come in lieu of the porridge.
At 12 onslook he dine& In the fine° stage
his
DINNER MENU
THE TALIIIS OF EN -CONVICTS
are nob always to be relied ea. On the
ether hand, the prison cede forbids any
officer making any unman -termed com-
munication oeseerning the prison or pri-
soners to any parson whatever." It is there-
=fore extremely diffieult to obtain informs -
don on whioh to ass a descripeive amount
el English prisons. Bat 1 beve, in a large
measure, overcome these diffieulties. Cer-
tain prison damn recently retired from the
•service, and now drawing pensions, have
given me ma account of their expert-
mincee, together with copes of their
" Insernotion Beaks" and the pri-
-son rules. By the conebeey of a
governer, I have been through one of the
,prisens. All the prisonere Mai been Wane -
forted to anobber establishment on the
previous day, or 1 should not have been
permitted to enter. Bub, in one way or
another, it has omen parable mo obtain the
/particulars now appended.
The onetropolf ran prison to whioh I al-
lude contains bout 1,100 pre:loners and 75
<officers, in addition to the jailor or gov-
ernor, hie deputy, the chaplains, the sum
„gooiest, etre
THE CHIEF OFFICER
ef a prison le called a governor. In most
-oases the governors are retired military or
naval officers. • Their annual salary in a
energe prison ranges from $3,250 to 0,500.
In one case it amounts bo $3,750.
The governor has aleo a free residence,
eau& so have the depaty, the tshaplains and
nhe neediest officers. The governor has
alumina control over • hie suberdinates.
'This ia a =alter of vital importance to the
discipline of the prison. The governor is
himself responsible to the Bead of Prison
t Commissioner&
• When onman enters an Euglieh prison
--under sentence, he is taken first to an aparb-
Anent where the memos and artdressee of hie
nearest relatives, on feeling them, hie
friends, are recorded. This precautionary
measure is token for the purpose of having
-.Some one to communicate wite, in the event
sof the prisoner's death or 'serious illness.
The prisoner is
reeht hetwerel Stele After the firetmentii,
wben he passim from tile primary One ot
imprisonment, he onn work at * trade if
there are workahops in the prikion$ and if
there are net ehlepth be Mut piok three
pounds of oakuna deer- roe teele Purim°
bo remains in hie cell.
51110 TRUADMILL, „
diseagresene se t is, hap noon only for
the novice who strains away •ab the useless
labor, and because he does not know the
triok of the mill,growe sick And faint and
easily " fagged.' The trick of the mill le
for the Mem to support their weight by
their bnzids, as they have to grip the rings,
the ropes or the bas, as the seese may be,
euspended above them, and then they per-
mit their legs to do se little work as
possible so long as the treadmill iss kept in
niotion.
There is u. worse kind of labor tban the
treadmill, It emulate of turning a crank..
wheal*, being heavily weighted with lead,
works very Wilily, and whioh serves no
porpoise whatever, except to record the
number of ite own revolutions. Front 8000
to 11,000 revolutions will record a &I'd
imbue. Pimping water is another form of
hard labor, nut, as this work serves some
purpose, it is not so &praising as the crank
movement,
• The prisen cello are warmed in the winter
by honveater ipee. The temperature is
taken daily. The ventilation is excellent.
The cells have an abundance of daylight
and after sonnet they are lighted by gns
until 9 p. m., when tho gas is turned off by
a controlling valve in each ward. 4
is the came from day to day, ooneisting of
about a pint and a half of 14 atiraboun ' a
gruel -like mixture composed ef Indian
meal and oatmeal in difforentparts. In the
"mond stage he dines o' Mondays on eighb
ounces of pentium and Mx ounces of bread ;
and in the third stage on three-quarters of
an ounce of fab bacon, threnquartere of a
pound ef boiled haricots beans and six
ounces of bread. While in the fourth singe
he has one ounee of fen bacon, three-
quarters of a pound of boiled haricot
beans and eight ounces of bread. The
Tuesday dinner le, ior a prisoner in the
second stage, half a pint of pea soup or
meat soup and six oilmen of broad; in the
third stage, bhree-quarters of a pint
of soup, six ounces of bread and
half a pound of patatoee ; while in
the fourth stage ib cenobite of a pint
ef soup, thresquareers of a pound ef
potatoes and six ounces of bread. On
Wednesdays tha dinner consists, in the
second Wage, of six mane of pudding and
eix ounces of bread; in the third Sage,
half a pound of pudding, half a pound of
potatoes and six ounces of bread, and in
the fourth range, three-quarters of a pound
of pudding, one pound of potatoes and one
ounces of bread. Tin Sunday dinner is the
same as Wedneedayer ; the Thursday dinner
is the same as Tuesday's; Fridamn is the
same as Monday's and, &stardom is a soap
day. The chief cook and the aesiebanb
cook are offiaere of the establishment, and
they are tenoned by prisoner&
This weekly hill of fare is not changed
throughout the year. There are no holiday
dinners, atmin many of our American pristine.
The prison time table in made up in this
way :
6 a.m.-Prisoners arise.
7.80 a.m.-Prisoners breakfast.
8 a.m.-Officers breakfast.
8.40 a.m.-Officers return to duty.
a.m.-Prowers in the chapel.
9.15 a.m.-Prisoners return to cells.
9.30 a.m.-Labor begins.
12 m. -Prisoners dine.
12.16 p.m. -Officers dine.
1,25 p.m.-Ofticers return to their duty.
1.30 p.m. -Afternoon labor begins.
5.15 p.m. -Prisoners' supper.
5.55 p.m. -Prisoners locked up for the night.
8,45 p.m -Bell for bed.
Every prisoner is allowed an hour's
THEN SEARCHED, STRippED,
-.and compelled to take is bath. The clothing
flat he wore to the priaon is put away to
„sweat the date of hie release. Ine is equipped
with a prieon suit, his entilb untwisting of a
iaaket, a waistcoat, a pair of olosennting
ettnee bre/schen long stoo.kings and thine and
et cap. He is, of Conroe, given an equipment
.of underelobhing, ot gannet ar cotton am
ecording to the swoon, and this, together
With a pooket handkerchief, he is allowed to
eabe.age once a ,seeek. Tis pucka hand-
kerchief alloWance seenul j:o be pain.
fulty meogre. After being permed by the
-medical officer the primmer la taken to
Ide cell, end by the number of this mitten
be is henceforth keewn throughout his
marled of duranoe. He becomes to all in -
ler
Is imamiest men.
• tle hat to keep hiS cell rigorously clean.
<For narrative he is allowed the aimpleet
, ossibie equipment. Hie bed ie• a broad
board liko c tieble top. in the daytime its is
turned beck against the wail ; at night its
crate on little pedeetale aboub thrcie.or our
Aachen above the floor of Ube cell. There Is
no mentos, the bed clothing emulating
only of a rug, a blanket, a pillow and a
(maple of than. Ektra coverings aro
e:tddod itt cold weather. This might; be
(called
THE BED OF FitoBATION,
for at the end of the first month the
anieenen tt no has eaten tt euffisiletits num.
.ber of good anclueb 'teethe, 18 panlitted to
There are no demonatrations of di000n.
teat, of delight or contempt on the parb of
the prisoners ; pandemonium in not repro -
400(104 ib ie often III our obato institutions ;
the hooting and wheining, the yelling and
" eancalliug," in whiola xlmerloan prionera
mem to indulge at their sweet Wino, are ex-
ercisee not prisobleed by the E1/101011 Ma-
l/11A The reason in not that the oonvict
is by sonar° more orderly or reepectful,
but that he Mums pederasty woll that he
will be immediately puelthed noordiog to
the mature of Me offcence ; he knows that
the etatuime of Perlimneue have framed the
conditioncs under which he is to spend hia
"sentence ; he knows) that the warders have
behind them the governor ; that the gover<
nor has behind him tne Priem Commieetorn
and that the Prison Oemreission has behind
it the
LAW Or THE LAND ;
thab eatainofiecer is direotly respouaible to
his superior; and that he, the oonvict, must
implicitly obey the printed rules, or take the
coneequencee. He know') that the 'Mein ef
responsibility is complete ; that he cannot
break ib ; that the werdere mat obey the
orders of the governor as implicitly as the
convict numb obey the esters of the warders,
and he knows that the duties and powers of
the governor are exactly defined. It is any
to govern a prison undertheee condition; It
is a simple meteor to preserve disoipline
In bhe load prisons the visiting jaws,
and in the convict prisons the oommiosion-
era make a periodical inepeoblen. To these
proons a prieener may report any reel
grievance. But neither the commissioner's,
nor the junkies, nor Parliament Welt ever
interferes between the governor and hie
subordinate officer& For the manage.
anent of a prieen the oominiesionere
recognize but one reeponsible percen-
tile governor -and Parliament recognizes
but one responsibility -that of the com-
mission.
I see ne reason to &ebb that the manage -
meat of the English prison is, on the
whole, quite as humane as that of the
American, and that, in many oases it is
much more responsible, moldering the end
in view. It certainly fixes responsibility
where it belongs, and only by fixing rape-
bility where it belongs oan there be real
discipline.
NOTHING JAN BE SENT IN
to the prisoners from the outside world. No
delicacies in the way of food, no pabulum
In the shape of reading matter ever gebts
within the prison gates. While under
sentence a prisoner never sea a newspe.per
or It magazine. When on good behavior he
Is aliovved a book from the prison library.
He may take one volume a week. Bat
from tide collection, works of fiction are
excluded. Of what is called religious read-
ing there is an abundant supply whioh ap-
parently far exceeds the demand. If a
prisoner desires it he may keep in hio cell a
Bible, a prayer book and hymn
book. It is nob expected that
he will sing the hymns except
•in chance To indulge in psalmody at ether
times would be an act of insubordination
punishable by a diet of bread and water
during the pleasure of the governor, for a
period net exceeding three days.
The governor alone hae the power to
award purtiehmente. The existence of the
whipping post shone that corporal plinth-
ment is still awarded in extreme cane.
But the &genie must be under the pereonal
'supervision of the surgeon, and it, like all
punishments, must be recorded in
THE PUNIsEmENT BOOK.
The prisoners are visited by magistrates
appointed for that purpose, and also by
members of • the Prison Commission and
their impactors. If any criminal.prisoner
is galley of repeated offences agamtt dis-
cipline, or of any offence which the governor
ia not by statute empowered to punish, the
oase is reported to the visiting puttees, or
to the commiesioners, who have the power
to send she offender to a punishment cell
for a considerable time., and to 'put him in
irons should the one malty the penalty.
The prisoner in England serves his sen-
tence with but the scantiest knowledge of
what is passing in the outside world. fie
Bees no newspapers. The letter which he
is occasionally permitted to receive from
some relative or friend is read before it
reaches him, and any paseage that would
be subversive of the prison discipline is
otricken out. This practice is else followed
in any letter that the prisoner may .be per-
mitted to write. No prisoner, however
"interesting." is pampered by foolish
• seribitnentsdists from Mei& or the outside
wells of his jail ; he
CAN RECEIVE NO FLOWERS,
EXERCISE 155 TBE YARD
during the day, union, of course, he is
under punishment for insabordinetion. The
asbonishing liberties of the mud aboub
whioh one reads in connetation with the
Charleetown prison are nob remotely imi-
tated here. There are no ethletto or other
games, there is no lounging, there is no con-
versation. The prisonere are taken into the
yard in batches throughout the day, the
numbers of each contingent depending upon
the area available for exert:dee. The men
march in single 'file, three yarns apart,
around a °insular course. An inner circle
of prisoners marches in an opposite direc-
tion. Four offieers, each on a little plan
form, stead close by the outer ramie in
positions which enable them always to keep
their eyes on the fans of the mon, and it
warder faces near each lino in a direction
opposite to that in which the line is moving.
SPEAKING IS FORBIDDEN.
At no nine during tits prison life is a pris-
oner permitted to speak until he biaddressed
by an officer. But, of neuron the men do
communicate with each other. No prison
'system yet devised has been able to prevent
then. Prisonera balk between their teeth,
without movine their lipe, and they com-
muntoste by telegraphic rapt. Bali it is
exbremely difncult fer the men to talk with
one another while at exercise in the yard.
They walk at such a distance from note
other that Lb usually impossible for them
to speak withouts being overheard by one of
the warden.
• On Sundays there le no exercise. Pris-
oners arise en 6.55 and brea,kfents at 7.45
At llonlock there is a service for the Roman
Is released on the previon day
Cetholio prisoners. Nine
' and at 10a service o'clock in the morning is the hour when the
CING Giats ()F rAmso
Their Career From Gutter to " Queen
of the Bali,"
RIO PRIESTESS OE THE' CRAWL
Mow the Male Dancer is leaned -UM Trials'
Tribulations and inewardemlassatie ot is
Noted Earlstau Charaeter Who Wrote
Naughty Books and Wicked Plays.
PARIS, Annie
HE Perinea dancing
gtrZ ever was and ever
will be the object of
adulation in the mind of
every well -regulated
Frenchman. Queries of
song, drama and sopiety
may come And go, but
Qneene of the Moulin
Rouge, jardin de Park,
et hoc genus wane, go on
forever. "The Queen
is dead; long live the
Queen I" is the motto of then establish -
molts, and no sooner le one merry trifler
dirspleced by matrimony, theurinattere or
death than another merrier than she bounds
into the vacant throne and wields her magto
away over the morale, or absentee of them, of
her innumere,ble admirers. Each establish-
ment has its queen and vineries at the Courb
of Terpsichore, but all bow the knee to
Yvette Guilbert, who is acknowledged to
be queen zury excellence of dancers, a verib-
able Shebe of high kicker's.
How this love of the dance permeates the
female mind of a certnin class is sarprielng.
The one ambibion of a girl who has an apti-
tude for elevating her extremities to an
abnormal , angle is to gain a position equal
to that of her ideal who is the reigning
queenet the local musio hall or dancing
saloon
FIRST BEGINNING OF THE DANCING GIRL.
NACHINDJIADE SANDWICHES.
Sliced and Buttered and Put Together
Automatically.
Sandwichea made by machinery are the
result ole labor-saving device invented by
a Parleian. Noes of bread are fed inte
guides, by which they are pained under
buttering rollers. The butter is fed to the
roller by the thrusb of a piston on a slowly.
revolving 'screw 110 keeps a box supplied
with the article, against which the rollers
revelve. The lower bread guide terminates
in a table where the bread reoeives a slice of
meat, out from a column of it by a knife in
denblymeciprooated frame. The other
bread guide drops the upper din of bread
after the meat is supplied, and the come
plated sandwich is delivered laterally by a
transverse side.
no good things to eat and drbsk, no alien,
no bric-a-brac for his cell. He is out off
from all mankind, except that erring no-
tion of it that limo for a term beneath the
same roof as himself.
You heard recently of a daohees who,
being in prbon for half a. dozen weeks, was
permibted to furnish her cell in the most
elaborate manner, to have her tables sup-
• plied with the delicacies of the season, to
receive her friends, end to lad is restful
existence apart from the other inmates of
her jail. Straightway your republican
virtue rose in pretest against this discrim-
ination in favor of it person of rank,and you
preaohed Instructive sermon about "the
unjust privileges of the aristocracy," to-
gether with a lot of pleasing nonsense whioh
has no bearing on the case. For the &ohms
weB
uNDSR CRIMINAL sENVENME,
and a dremnan who had committed an
offence shriller to here would have had
similar luxuries could he have an
forded them. The duchens had not
broken the law, hub for contempt of
court she had, on the strength of
an ancient stanaise, been "deprived ef
her liberty" as a "misdemeanant of the
flub division." Suoh offenders are, accord -
Ing to law, nob placed in it ooramon oell,
nor, exoepb that they must stay in prison
during their allotted term, are they treated
as prisoners in the neual ann. They are
merely "deprived cif their liberby," and
they ere 'permitted to have whatever
luxuries they 09.11 afford. So that the
case of the duchess was no exception to is
well-known rule whioh is constantly ap-
plied to " miedemeantants ef the first divi-
sion," to whatever "rank" in life they may
belong.
The day before a convict is discharged he
ie again seen by the prison doctor, who
makes a report upon his health. If the
sentence expires on a Sunday the prisoner
The Supelrority of Women.
How long can ib reasonably be expected
that the old custom will last in deference to
which wives are content to be known by
the surnames of their Inusbands ? All the
recent teats tend to show the superiority ef
bhe female mind to that of the male. Mr,
Alice Freeman Palmer in a recent ad.dreos
supported the 01A1100 of coeducation with the
argument that "nobhing in the world will
Mate the fooliehnees and romantic notions
club ole girl so quick as be work with yew*
men and find out how little they know."
Of course marriage has the same Oren ; but
afber a girl is married it is notate for her to
save her maiden name. If she arrives
before marriage at the sophisticated stage
thab Mrs. Palmer describes, she may very
reasonably demur to giving up a name
which she feels competenb to diebieguish for
one which will ne handicapped by ner hue-
bend'e relative inferiority. All along the
line this summer vvemen have triumphed.
In the recent assignment of general fellow-
ships by the Chicago University young
women get se disproportionate a share of
the spoils as to scandalize the authorities.
When the London Geographical Soddy
deoided in the spring to adnilt women to its
membership, the society'e action was re -
calved nee at all as evidence of the inferior-
ity of women, but purely as a new proof of
the limitations of men. Ten women passed
the Cambridge Mathematical Tripes this
year, and two of them cams out
wranglers. Three women took honors at
Oxford, at which university also honor
examinabions were this year opened to
women in three new coarsen At Louden
University Mies Ogilvie, it prodigy of
erudition from Aberdeen, paesed wibh the
highest credit the examination for the degree
of Dater of Science. At this rate, how
long will women be content will the 'sub-
stance, and abstain from grasping the
ohadow also 1 How long will Miss
Jones consent to become Mrs. Smith?
How soon will she demand a
competitive examination between Smith and
herself to determiae before marriage which
is the compelling entity, and whether it le
more meet that she shall become a Smelter
that; Smith and the ohildren shall become
Joneses 'I -Server's Weekly.
for those who prefer to attend the Chistroh
of England chapel. There is it 'jowl&
;service on Saturday morning. Al 2.30 on
Sundays there is another Heinen Catholic
mambo At 4.15 there Is supper and et 4.55
the men aro looked up for the niglat, and at
8.45 they mut go be bed. The inberval
between Sunday's suppw and Mondwyes
breakfasts is unnecessarily end absuraly
ilfoonodig,for the men go nearly 16 bouts without
In the shorb term prisms the warders are
never armed during the day, bub they aro
armed tor night dubee In the long term or
" convict prisons," as they are called, the
warders are always armed,
THE MALE PitisoNERS ARE NOT SHAVED
netvaditys, buts their hair and beards aro
clipped close. Most men would look
Ole roguen under ouch eirouninbancen
What, therefore, can be enpeobea
ces,
of the appearanof prisoners
The cleanliness of the English pitman in
ditibinctly adttiirable, its odd, therefore,
that the Minna theineelvee are nob coon
polled to Ins,ehts oftener than once a month.
There are some oaten it will be seen, in
which thcs Belton has to forego his deity
"tub.'
Nens all the plane have werkeitops itt
11 MI111
convice steps into the vvorld again as
, A FREE DIAN.
His clothing, and any property .which he
may have had with hen at the time of hie -
sentence, are reabored to him, and, if he
requires it, is "smell gratuity is given him by
that governor, so that the man may, place
himself in communication wibh his friendee
or possibly reaoh them tri person.
The peculiar oeremoniect of our American
pritions have no imitabion in England. The
governor does net make speechee 'to the
Drieeners, either when he eesumes command
or when he relinquishes in or on any other
occasion. PolitiCal influence has absolutely
nothing to do with prison empointments,
OlvIl serVide ruled govern these mentors,
e'en. to the appointments of the wardens,
who are Dewey's taken front the army and
navy reeerva. , The priecnere aro nob roan,
aged on the lines of a zoological garden or a
,nienegerfe--sightsseere aro not admitted
Melee eriy eiteinustaimee ; the prisoners
aro not put en exhibition, nor aro
exhibitionS giVen in their behalf. There are
sto leoislreS, eenoerM, nor Variety entertain-
ments 4i dietinguithed lettingen" are
never 'invited to addrese the 'Men, and
there is abselutely nothing 1181 correepande
tached, Where thine aro no shops,
Glee who show a taste for the vocation of
dancing usually commence at the age of 13
or 14 at the public ball, which is open on a
Sunday, at the Moulin de la Galata en the
summit of Montmartre, whioh they can
frequent sans facon, without,hat or bonnet.
When they have become fairly efiloient and
have grown older, they put in an appear -
IMO at the Elyse° Montmartre, where they
end by acquiring then finishing touches
that are so necessary to a person whe seeks
to disbiugnieh herself in the Armee clu
Maim& They then make an application to
be allowed to danoe before the manager at
the Moulin Rouge, and if he is satisfied
with their performance he generally gtves
them an engagement.
Bats there are also professions of the
chants& The principal one is Mille. Nini-
Petbe-en-l' Air who performa at the Castile
de Parte. She undertakes' to turn out a
passable dancer in it month, and if she then
gets her an engagement, she receives $20
tor the lecons and a present. Nini-Patte-
en-l'Air also eupplies her pupils with the
necessary petbicoate, perfumery and shoes,
with the denier's name embroidered on the
toes, which bring her in an additional
profit. ,
HER MODEST SAT,ARP.
to the Folarbil of , July, Thanksgiving
Who is "sentenced to hard labot musto if the (ihrlAttnim gacbrabl°n4 tvillah wo heE"'
etaininetton ahem' hi fib
o en, of in connection With our Anita:loan
meutoaL dure it, go on the treadmill for fee 'haute in1
t Mee IS MILITARY
2n mare e a
the morning, ail
the tetnt MitY Xelleh to the eye7 but wibis
preenee the elneWe henoMe Mere eitnnle and
the foot gees higher tben the hew;
next teiell the grand earn and at ant 'dam
burin himself, tint a starch bath sQcrk sails
him right Again. Finally he obtaine au en.
gagement, one of the conditions of neaten In
that be :nun dance te a tall nat. Those
who perform on it "stage generally repave
ball a dollar en evening, others are anemia
81a week and a cents IA dance. Whoa who
belong to the lowest category have only if
cent it dance. Ib !a immensely for them to
dance one hundred times In the couree et
the week to get ea, whioh pukka an avermu
of about amen dancers every eve:lasagne
They ean do more if they like, but when
they mooed in reaching a napoleon they
have attained the maximera. An inepectrar
takes note in a pookethook of the number
of timeeenh of them dances.
QUITE SUBSERVIENT TO HIS PARTNRre.
May Not Wear vestments
The Blehop of New Jereey hes forbidden
the women of hie church oboire
to wear vestmeniss. The vestment's
are worn by several women choirs 113
New York oity, notably St. Bartholo-
mown and Sb. George's. The long blaolt
cassocke and white cotters are rather
prosily°, while the wearing of the little cap
is, of course, 111 accordance with thoanciesnt
tradition that women must not appear with
uncovered heade in the churches. The
'strictly oorreob •conering, however'is the
band &mob the forehead, to which is fad-
ened it long black veil to be thrown back
aver the head.
Mow Wet Steam is Produced.
cavalier 8024. Thie is becanee its is all
established rule that the lady. dancer music
companione a sent in their cab and even
inbimaley ceases. In the Temple du °halts&
offer them a elites of beer, or invite there
$rer
tienTrgehuaz 1.61. eAhnIneisoa blue! omil APeeenzlirff°inrmaereinalrder711e,°:sepelYelallalell'
and they are highly indignant when their
in the figure's Inman as pastoureffe and
be the centre of atbraotion in the Oho/We
male companions attempt to excite thee
Otherwisie the two emcee live in perfect
the pristine disdain the priestess's', andel",
v
attention and applause of the spectators:.
harmony ; the lediea often give their male
to supper, like La Gonlea, who le known
to have 10,000 in the bank; but theebe
QUITO GAY LoTETIA.
Another well-known Parisian clueracter
ha.a gone over to the majority. Marfa
Uollard or as he used to be called Bina
Mario was a musioian finanoter, journalist
Owl dramatist, and a man of good.
parts and many accomplishments. Like
many other celebrities he outlived his fame
and WOO comparatively unknown to the.
modern generation. Of late years he wes
forced to leave hie beloved Paris and seek
relief in the sunny meth, but that relief
failed in the long run, and eventually het
took refuge in the Matson Dubris'well-
known privabe asylum, where he died
neglected, if not unknown, save by a few
professional friends.
nrven IN A VORTEX OF EXCITEMENT.
If ever there was a Parleian, it was Ueda
Uchard. He belonged to the gay apital
heart and imul. At ene time or the otherba
was mixed up in every pato of Paris life.
His handeome figure was to be seen every-
where -at the Bourse, behind the scene&
and in the clubs. It was he who, in con-
jimoblon with the Count d'Osmonii, another
thoroughbred Parisian, founded the Mirlt--
tons (Nub. His versatility wee almost
unequalled. Beginning his career an ea
engraver in the publishing firm of Ermine.
Indet, he left that humble employment to
study music at the Conservatoire, where- be
distingulehed himself by carrying ofF the
firat prize. He then went to Italy to coma
plate his musical education. On returning
he changed his mind and took to finance.,
which he ultimately abandoned in favor ag
literature. Here ne made himself k.newn
by several remarkable dreams and novel&
P118 dancer's eatery is generally $12 a
month for the first three months, and $20
a month afeerward ; bnb it never amounts
to more than $30 a month, unless she hap-
pens to acquire an extraordinary reputation
like La Genlou for example, who receives
$60 a month from the Moulin Rouge, or
Grille d'Egout St Raven d'Or at the Casino
de Paris, whose salary is even higher.
Report d'Or, formerly Olga, and Pauline,
now known as Le Gin, are the lett bwo sur-
vivors of the famous Bal Mabille, in the
Avenue biontaigue, whioh has long ceased
to exist.
MUST DANCE FIVE QUADRILLES.
When a dancer arrives in the evening alt
the baal where she is to perform she signs
her 11£41110 in a. book and ohanges her shoes.
She is compelled to dance en lent five
quadrilles in the mune of the evening, and
for each one that she mines she is fined
three francs. She draws her pay onoe is
fortnight. The dancer at it public ball
considers herself infinitely superior to the
other persons of her sex who frequent these
places. She works end prints "artiste" on
her card below her name, end if she happens
to be arrested by the police des mono she is
at onoe set free en establishing her identity.
This ie one of the advantages of the grand
ecart.
AFTER THE BALL HI OVER.
Web Seam is produced by any violent
commotion in the bolter. This may be
n
canoed by greeor other !warbles in
the water, or from insufficient steam space.
Those who have tested boilers with a calori-
meter to ea how motets the steam may be
have Imbed that its SheWed considerable
neettation, eornetinees periodical and often
covering a wide rauge. The dried Steam
Is produced. when the firers are beginning to
intim low, and When the fires are freshened
the montitre will be greater, as the steam
preduoed is inoreased.
Full.Grown Nantes for Adult Girls.
.The war against diminutive girl names is
still waged. A diminutive name for a girl
IS very appropriate as long RS the girl re.
meanie But a Intl -grown women
iihould hos it full grown name.-elosfon
'
Alwane Mit throeigh the eye of it needle
the end of thread whioh comae drib off the
spool end the thread will be IWO apt to 'knit
and Snarl.
Old bees yield no honey -<but imfor-
tunately the lapse • years agpears to
teem° their stinging powers w 014 tin -
in --inquarber.hour turns, with Ike tninteng In ita rigidity, and it la never relaxed' duthtntaheiL
A WIFE'S STSPERsTITIoN.
It was while he was epeculeting ab tams
Bourne, where he was considered to be one
of the cleverest operation, thab he formed
the acquaintance of Mdile. Madeleine
Brehm, the renowned &unrest, whesebeanty
was equal to her talent, and who had turned
the heads of so many admirere. He offered
her his hand and heart, and she accepted.
• them. The marriage was the talk of tan
town, and for some time it went smoothly.,
but it turned out unfortunate in the aut.
After a few months they found that they
could net agree, their tonere being diame-
trically opposed, and separation followed«.
Mdme. Bohan was very superstitious. Shit
planted two rose trees on each side of the
window -one Was supposed to repreeente
herself, and the ether her husband. Every
day she watered them with the tenderest'
oare. One day she diecievered that the roses
of her husband were fading. From than
moment she felt that this union would nen
be happy, and her fears were but too well.
realized.
What be3011108 of the dancers when the
ball is over They de one of three things.
They make the acquaintance of a gentleman
who aske them to supper; they min their
proteotor who never shows himself at the
ball ; or, to express oneself in Paris argot,
Elks s' envoient mec par Za figure.
Not far from the Place Piejalle is a V711113
shop where generally at about the hour of
midnight will be found a number of
young men in black silk caps or pot hats.
These young men are seated there dream-
ing of what young men generally dreana,
love and fortune. Semebintes the dancer
goers there. As soon as she is wit -lain the
room she glanom round, examining those
W110 are awned there. neee of them pleases
her. She makes him a sign. He rises and
joins her at the table. So soon as he is
seated the following conversation goner -
ally eneues : " Q46 rf prends 7" " CIOMMO
tot 00 book." T'CiO pas faim 2"
THE "PETIT HOMBIE " POOR BUT PLEASANT.
The gentlemen in the oa,p is generally a
little nudity°, and will not acknowledge
that he has not dined. He deolines the
offer of supper; he and the danoer drink
together, and, when the glasses have been
paid for, withdraw, and proceed 130 an hotel
whine is known by the mine of "Lis Mere
Beionnette." After an hour or two of con -
venation, the dancer, who is tired, has had
enough of her petit homme. Another of the
daneern anumements is to go, drain the
daytime, on Sundaye or Mondays, for a hop
on her own amount, ati a ball beside the
Soine, close to the Auteuil Viaduct, or to
the Mullin de la Galette, the scene of her
firet affirm ; and at both of these places the
ie able to get a beau to her liking, namely',
either in blue biome or a tall black silk
cap,
Tun DANCING MAN.
Just as Good
Perhaps I Don't you run the riek thou:glee
but alwaye buy the well -tested and sure -
pop cern ours-Putnamn Painless Com
Extractor. Sure, oafe and painless.
The Beason for the Coil.
Many of those who ought to know wonder
why the pipe leading to the steam gauge scif
it boiler has a coil in. it.. The reason in
simple. Ib is because the toil is necessary
to preserve the interior spring from contact'
with the steam, which injures the gauge,.
The coil gathers water by condensation an&
makes a seal between the air in the gauger
and the hoe steam.
"Why db you call your twins Moms -
stances,' enmities 7" " Beaman, my dean
bey, they are something over which I haven
no oentrol."--Tig-Bits.
"Von have a very poor ciroulation,” A-
wned the doctor as he held the editoeix
pulse. "Bir 1" indignantly enchanted the
editor, "my circulation is morn to. Eater
million papera per day is my circulation."
"Gladys," said Bell, "why do you have,
all those paper snakes hanging around the
parlor 0" "It's a white ribbon test," an.
mend Gladya ; "any young man who cam
act at home among all those snakes in
prebty Imre to be a temperance chap."
If there are any men belonging to organn
anima that have nob had it convention an
Chicago it is an oversights, and if proper and
timely application is niade they may be Ale
to convene even yet.
Sixth is the dancer of the softer ism. Now
for a glimpse at the male of the epsilon
Valentitele-Desome is the king of filo gang
and his physiogeonty is as well known to
Parisians en that of the Preeidellt of the
Republic. He is nothing neer° than is
genial 'waltzer, who feels quite horrified at
the eltahut ; besides he keeps horses and a
phaeton, rides in the Wood of a morning,
and when he dimities it is merely fOr hit own
pleasure. The Ordinary male performer
!generally meant his debut in ilfe as it cleric,
or shop -boy ; lens hie place anci falls baok
On his talent as a danoer for a living. Be
omnraenee0 at La dalethe and tho Elyees
Mantinertre, like the girlie, ana ileekts lo
-perfect bilnself at home in hie teens.
• LoN3 or WORM roe, LVVrta PAP.
He begins by klokiag up hie loge. At. Attie
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