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Kappa Alpha Theta.
Last Friday night the K. P. hall was the scene of a very pleasant party given by Kappa Alpha Theta in honor of their new members Misses VanHoesen, Riggs, Hand and Churchill. The young ladies spared no efforts on their part to make the hall look pleasant and home like; and they may rest assured that their labor was not in vain. Robes and rugs were scattered about in harmonious confusion, and over all was cast the mellow light furnished by numerous piano lamps. The banquet room, where light refreshments were served during the evening, was tastefully decorated with portieres. Music was furnished by the Riverside Mandolin club and dancing was continued until a late hour.
The invited guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Webster, Mrs. A. Monroe, Mrs. J. Mortaugh, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. A. L. Lewis, Misses Farrell of Leavenworth, Branson, of Ottawa, Smith, Southard, Annie Monroe, Bick, of Topeka, Pennebaker, of Kansas City, Courts, of Kansas City, Van Hoesen, Webster, Monroe, Dailey, Russell, Sinclair, Barrett, Blaker, Towne, Simpson, Edith and May Haskell, Riggs, Hand, Howland, Walker and Howell, Messrs. Johnson, Horton, Lewis, Lamn, Neely, Brown, Challiss, Acres, cf Topeka, Russell, Will Spencer, Allen, Caldwell, Peabody, Owens, Bonebrake, Overton, Mushrush, Sherman, Morse, Nichols, Holmes, Merril, Lutz, Emmet Allen, Fullerton, Cook, Hallowell and Frank Reed.
AMUSEMENTS.
Friday, Feb. 14, Gentry's famed troupe of dogs and ponies will appear at the opera house. They give a wonderful performance.
Royce & Lansing with a bright clean, sparkling, musical comedy come Saturday the 14th, St. Valentines' day. Fine music and dancing. Mandolin orchestra, with banjo and zither. Among the new faces to be seen among the attractions of the Royce & Lansing Co., are the celebrated "Billy" and Colla Barbour, the latter a charming soubrette, who will introduce in "Tom's Vacation," her artistic and refined dancing specialties.
Baldwin & Mellville Comedy Co. full week commencing Feb. 16th,
Christmas Eve in a Vienna Hospital,
Christmas here in Austria would be no Christmas at all without a Christmas tree. In all families from rich to poor a tree is indispensable on this occasion, and in many homes the cost of the tree must exceed that of the decorations and presents together, as the latter in many cases are nothing but Christmas cakes.
Christmas Eve in a Vienna Hospital,
For days before Christmas the markets looked like great flower gardens. Trees of all sizes were on sale, and the decorations were at least very showy. Our festoons of cranberries and pop-corn were not seen here, as alas! they have no cranberries or pop-corn, but instead they used paper roses. The trees were completely covered with these flowers until they looked like immense rose bushes, and the resemblance was all the more striking as all the flowers on an individual tree were of the same color. Now and then a few banners were displayed on the finer trees, and a little tinsel or gilt.
We had an invitation to spend Christmas eve with a private family, but as the various departments of the Kraunebhaus were to each have their trees and celebration, we thought it would be more novel and instructive, if not so pleasant, to spend the evening among the patients in the hospital, and I double if any of us ever witness such a scene again.
This hospital, Allgemeines Krauenhaus, as it is called, is the largest in Vienna, and one of the largest in the world. It has beds for 2,500 patients and is always filled to overflowing. The patients as they are received are assigned to their places in the various departments according to the disease from which they are suffering, and thus every patient is treated by a specialist in his line.
Each department has an amphitheater or lecture room for the students, and here on Christmas eve the patients assembled. Those able to walk, occupied the front rows of seats, while others were brought in on stretcherers or invalid chairs. Many were too sick to leave their beds or take any interest in the festivities and their presents, if they received any, were taken to them in their wards at the close of the exercises.
The presents were procured by subscriptions of the professors, assistants and students, and I noticed that usefulness rather than beauty must have guided the purchasing committee in their selection of articles.
The children received their dolls, books and toys, according to their ages, while other patients received articles of clothing of some substantial nature. Everyone, unless not allowed such articles of food, received a plate filled with cake, fruit and candy, not any too fine, but no doubt a great treat to them.
But the patients were to us cf more interest than the tree, the presents or the music; the latter I must say was none too gay or inspiring, as several of our American party were sitting together and one happened to speak about the music and the others had not even noticed that some one was playing the organ.
We first visited the surgical department, as such patients look more interacting at any rate, as you can usually at the first glance see that something is the matter, and their external appearances are more varied. Here we saw many familiar faces of patients whom we had seen undergo their operations, and were on the road to recovery; others were late arrivals, who within the next few days were to be operated upon.
In the front row of seats sat a number of boys and girls, from two to ten years of age. The first had knee joint disease, on account of which the entire joint had been removed; the second had had a similar operation on the hip joint; the third had spinal disease and was enveloped head and body in a plaster bandage to prevent deformity; and so on until you could find a representative for nearly every joint in the body. The older patients presented another class of troubles. One man had attempted suicide by cutting his throat; another had had his entire tongue removed for cancer, and another the entire jaw for a similar disease.
People with broken arms and broken legs, and people without arms and without legs, swelled the numbers of this novel and interesting assembly.
truly a pitiful sight. He is blind, his fingers and toes have dropped off and he can feel nothing whatever. These patients are not isolated, as formerly, but live in the ward with others, and although this man has been an inmate of the Clinic over seven years and occupied a bed along side of many other patients, no one has taken the disease from him, as it is proven that if proper precautions are taken there is no danger.
The house physician opened the exercises with a few appropriate words; then they all sang; a little girl and little boy declaimed, and the little girl spoke her piece much the better of the two; then more singing; distribution of presents and the patients returned to their wards.
The feature of particular interest at the Skin Clinic was the presence of two lepers; one a girl of twenty, on whom as yet the disease has not progressed very far; the other a Greek of about forty-five, in the last stages of the disease and
Similar exercises were held at the eye, ear, skin, throat, internal medicine and all the other departments, but I will tell you only of the Skin Clinic, as the others would be simply a repetition of what I have already told.
After passing an evening among such scenes we could not help appreciating the saying, "Health is wealth," and it seemed to us as though it must be everything. W. H. NEVISON.
Discrimination in R. R. Rates,
VIENNA, Austria, Jan. 3, 1891.
The Seminary of Historical and Political Science held its regular meeting Friday afternoon with a good attendance.
Seminary of Historical and Politique held its regular meetingriday afternoon with a good attendance. Judge Humphrey read his second paper on "Discrimination in Railway Rates" during which he said: If you stop and listen to the stump orator, he will tell you that the capitalization placed on railway stock is fictitious or "watered" and to his fervid imagination all stock is watered and people pay taxes on this water. The fact is that the present capitalization of American railroads shows a cost below the average cost of the railroads of the world and that they could not be rebuilt for the amount returned. Forty-one per cent of this capital pays no interest and is practically dead while it is not improbable that dead capital will not diminish but increase. It is true that a part of the returned stock is watered but the fact that so much property is dead shows that no very large profits are made in the Unied States. Such is the abundance and grievances of capital seeking investment that watered stock cannot exist. Other roads would enter the same field and compete.
Absolute uniformity in rates is not attainable. It is a human law that there shall be no discrimination between persons in like circumstances but railroads have become the exclusive means of land transportation. They have no rival. They may compete among themselves but there are no other competitors.
It is one of the duties of a government to provide highways for the people and these highways should be for the use of all alike. Railroads not built by the government but private persons have been invested with these rights and their discriminations to different persons are the same as if the government had done the same thing.
The manifest unfairness may be shown in cases of grain. One-half to a cent per bushel is a fair profit and a discrimination in favor of one person to that amount is a gain of 100 per cent and in a short time would drive all competition from the market as illustrated by a large oil company. This causes money to flow from the pockets of the masses to the pockets of a few. Who gave the railroads this power over us?
Suppose of the two competing lines, one is shorter than the other and has better facilities for shipping. The inferior road must meet this difference and the tendency is to discriminate in favor of big shippers against smaller, which, when found out, causes the better road to depart from their tariff schedule. The man who offers one carload for shipment should have the same chance as the man offers ten carloads. In order to prevent discriminations it was provided that a tariff schedule should be posted in a public place and no advance should be made in this except after ten days notice, and three days notice should be given for a fall in rates. Under severe penalties it forbids false billing, false classification of freight and false weighing and make it a misdemeanor to induce any-carrier to discriminate in favor of any person against another.
The financial conditions of railroads would be improved if they lived up to a perfect rule. Why, then, is the law not more effectual? A shipper going to one official is dissatisfied with the charges and tries another who to secure the trade from a competing line, gives a lower rate. Both have acted in contempt of
the law. The shipper prides himself in driving a sound bargain and the official gets the trade. Both are benefited and both have an interest in keeping it quiet. The law at present is in conflict with custom, but it tends to create an increasing preponderance of public opinion against the evil. The railroad business is approaching completeness which will tend to bring transportation into a more settled state.
Mr Geo. R. Peck read a paper in University Hall Tuesday evening on "Puritanism in Old and New England."
Mount Vernon.
To the Editor of the JOURNAL:
Mrs. Grovenor and myself have today visited Mount Vernon, and while every thing there, associated as it is with the life of Washington, is interesting, I was especially interested in the building known as the servants' quarters, from the fact that it has been restored with money given by the schools of Kansas. As I do not remember ever having seen any notice of this work in your paper, I thought an account of it might interest your readers. This building is situated west of the mansion and on the north side of the flower garden. It had become very badly dilapidated, the roof was mostly gone and the walls had commenced to crumble and fall.
In the restoration of Mount Vernon most of the states are represented in the refitting and refurnishing of rooms in the mansion. New York has restored the decorations and the walls and ceiling of the banquet hall, and furnished it with rich old furniture of the style of the revolution. Massachusetts has furnished the library, etc.
When the donation from the schools of Kansas was received all of the rooms had been refitted and furnished and so it was decided to use their money in restoring the 'servants' quarters." This building is of brick about twenty feet wide and seventy-five feet in length, one story high, with an attic lighted by dormer windows. In talking with the superintendent I learned that the walls of the old building were taken down to the foundation and rebuilt of the same brick; all else of the building is new, but is an exact copy of the original as it stood in Washington's life time. The building is divided into four rooms below and the same above, by partitions running across the house, the two center rooms being much the largest. In the center of the house is a large chimney with a large old-fashioned fire-place on each side opening into the center rooms. On the west end of the building embedded in the brick wall, is a marble and slab this inscription, "Restored by the schools of Kansas 1889." The building at present is not occupied, except one of the rooms, which is used as keeping-room by one of the employees of the place. The original building was the quarters of the house servants and those employed about the grounds, but was not the house of the slaves employed on the plantation.
The work done by Kansas does not attract so much attention from visitors as that of those states that have restored and furnished rooms in the mansion, but it is of equal importance in preserving Mt. Vernon, and I am glad that our state has had a part in this good work.
As I left Mt. Vernon, walking down the path from the mansion to the boatlanding, and saw all that has been and is being done to preserve the buildings and grounds for future generations, and as I thought of the tens of thousands of visitors who come every year to this venerated spot, I could but think that Washington is still "First in the hearts of his countrymen." G. Grovenor.
Washington D. C. Fgb. 6,1891.
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