Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 July 1890 — Page 3

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SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1890.

Ilcr Lifctlo Brother's Bet.

Little Tommy was entertaining one of his sister's admirers until she appeared. "Don't you come to see my sister?' he inquired. "Yes, Tommy, that's what 1 come for." "Yon like her immensely, dont yon?' "Of course 1 admire her very much. Don't you tliink she's nice/" "Well, I havo to, 'cause slie's my sister but she thumps me iretty hard sometimes. But let's see you open your mouth once. Now shut it tight till I count ten. There—I knowed you could do it!" "Why, Tommy, who said I couldn't?" "Oh, nobody butsisterl" "What did she say?" "Well, she said you hadn't sense enough to keep your mouth shut, and I bet her two big apples you had and you have, haven't you? And you'll moke her stamp up the apples, wont you?"

The young man uid not wait to see whether she would "stump up" or not.— New York Ledger.

A Sn iko Story Brought IUm Fortune.

A resident of Martinsville, Ind., named Jerry Givens, has received a letter from a rich uncle in California which indicates that the young man is likely to bo adopted and made his heir. A strange family history is recalled by this incident. There was an estrangement between the man now in California and the father of young Jerry, who is long since dead. Henry, the elder brother, drifted to the far west, and discovered the whereabouts of his young heir only through a publication which narrated a remarkable adventure in which the latter was engaged. Some time ago whilo hunting in the White river bottoms he encoxmtered a great nest of snakes. This circumstance gained wide reputation in the papers and finally caught the eye of the elder Givens.—Exchange.

An English sailor, coming up the British channel after a long journey, exclaimed: "Thank goodness, we've done with them eternal bine skies and that blinding sunshine. This taste of good old English fog puts fresh life into a fellow."

As the result of weighing 203 newly born children to determine the weight of brain, the male infant's brain weighed 51.9 ounces and the female 11.0 ounces, the weight of the brain being to the body as one to eight or thereabout.

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.FAVORITES OF THE MEN.

DO THE LORDS OP CREATION UKE THE BEST WOMEN BEST?

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Do men like thebest women best? No, they don't, and it is ons of the most remarkable things in the

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Btndy

Bame

of

the

cruder bc:: to Bee how they pride themselves upon thoir discrimination with regard to women, and how very, very, very little they know about them.

And this no doabt is one ground for the cynical, jaundiced, bitter scoffs and taunts flying about the world with re-

thing about women, these poor cynics, and they found they didn't, and instead of blaming their own stupidity they turned and rent the elusive objects of their mistaken theories.

It is very uuuoying, I grant yon, for a man to build up a flno ideai temple wherein to cnrJirine liis own image and watch the goddess of that temple sitting at the feet of her chosen lord, and then to suddenly discover that tho temple was founded upon tho "laughing sands," and in some unusual quake the whole affair tumbles down, and his image is left ignominiously stranded in the ruins!

I suppose one

xcould

lxs tempted to re­

vile the goddess who had mortified us bo sorely. No, tney don*V understand women at all, these poor dear men, and nothing vexes them more than to have this consciousness brought home to them they are so accustomed to feeling that the world runs on the lines that they have laid down that there is nothing in heaven or earth beyond or above their comprehension, and that they are, as Alexander Selkirk remarks of himself, "Lord of the fish and the brute," that, although woman is neither a fish nor a brute, they consider her as suroly tho vassal of man as either of these.

And then, when all this has been comfortably arranged and Milord Man has settled himself pleasantly upon his throne, lo and behold tho chief vassal isn't at all in tho place he had arranged for her, but has shot off in an eccentric orbit of her own and is away out of reach. "Such conduct as these" naturally annoys "the monarch of all ho surveys," and as it is impossible for him to do anything about it he vents his wrath in saying a groat deal, sometimes in the style of tho fox who thought the grapes were sour because ho couldn't reach them, and again, in tho light and flippant fashion of a majestic Intellect stooping to trifles, he flicks the woman question aside as one quite unworthy of his consideration, declaring that the habits and manners of tho ephemera who danoo for an hour above a sunny eummcr pool are more deserving of a man's attention than tho yet lighter ephemeron, woman.

One consequence of this process is that a tradition has grown up in tho mascnlino mind and is transmitted from father to son is carefully as tho unwritten laws of tho Incas to the effect that women are deceitful exceedingly, aro fair to tho eye but deadly poison to tho taste, are trivial and shallow of mind, and yet past masters in the art of hoodwinking men: that they aro at once the weakest and most formidable form of creation, and although an unhappy instinct of man's nature, but no—men dont have instincts—although the profound processes of reason show that tho world would not long continue without woman, and therefore it is noccssary that man should condone her offenses and 6eek her society, he should do so with the

fear and trembling that he

handles dynamite or introduces eloctric wires ihto his warehouses. They all are powerful agents and the Lord of Creation does not intend to oonfess any obj(-ct in liis dominion to bo too many for him. So, although quite aware that dynamite may blow him and his to the farthest limit of limbo, and electricity will most liely set his buildings on fire, and won.an will—oh, dear me, what words tan describe the indescribable ills that woman can work in his life! still he does not, and does not intend to, do without any one of the three potencies and feels quite sure that though other men have been hoisted with their own dynamite, conflagrated by their own electrics and destroyod with nameless horrors by tho woman whom they had either made or wished to make their own, tliey should escape. But just as every man trios to secure the safest form of dynamite and the txst protected electric wires would it not be supposed that he would bo very careful to secure the very best and least dangerous kind of woman?

But here the vr.unted wisdom of the Lord of Creation seems to utterly fail him, and in choosing a wife he shows no more discrimination than the child who dives into a grab bag at a fair. If there is any method at all in tlw matter it seems to operate tho wrong way, for it is very, very seldom that a man fixes his affections upon the best woman of his acquaintance, or even upon tho best woman for him.

What aro the grounds of his choice, then? What kind of women do men like better than the lest?

Well, of course, youth aiul b?auty are always sure cards, and I should be sorry indeed to lose tho pleasure I derive from contemplating them myself but wo all know that there aro beauties and beauties, and whilo some pretty faces aro as attractive and refreshing as a handful of dewy flowers others aro as monotonous as a photographed smile, and others again iis deadly sweet as nougat.

And when we come to tin matter of choosing a wife, which is of course the only very important result of men's preference of one woman over another, prettiness becomes merely a detail and not tho one nine qua non—at least, it ooght so be»omo if tho man is capable of looking before he leaps.

A good mauy men aro not, and instead

of imitating the Vicar of Wakefield, who begins bis memoirs by stating that he chose bis wife,-as Bhe did her wedding gown, not for tlio present effect, but for its promise of good wear, they end as a friend of my own did. Ho married a beauty, a sweet little Dresden shepherdess sort of thing, who one day came to me with a puckered brow to ask: "What could Tom mean, do you suppose? Last night he looked and looked into my eyes, and at last he said, 'Nothing but blue eyes—nothing more.' What should there bo more—do tell me?" "Why, nothing, dear," replied I truthfully. "They are very pretty blue eyes, and Just as pretty now as when Tom first fell in lovo with them."

But besides leanty, which is an obvious temptation to choose tho wrong woman, there aro at least a dozen other falso lights wooing this poor, short ijighted creature man to his destruction.

There is tho stylo of woman which I have studied a good deal, but thus far with no satisfactory results. She is not pretty she need not be very young sho may bo maid, wife or 'widow, although rather apt to be tho last. Sue is not very striking in any way and seldom allows herself to bo conspicuous, but in some inscrutable way sho "always gets there," if I may be allowed a bit of slang, and will never appear at any place where men do congregate without attracting them, as surely as tho candle does tho moths. Sho is not too brilliant a conversationalist—a quality which generally frightens men—but she mokes pretty speeches in a soft, low voico she has a way of lighting up her face at the approach of some favorite cavalier she sses infinite tact in harmonizing conflicting tempers and smoothing over rough places she is chameleon like in her power of adaptation to the moods or prejudices of her companion of the moment. Sho is, in fact, charming, if one can got rid of a certain uncomfortable sense of the machinery. It is a little too much like admiring Juliet, when you happen to know all about the actress' domestic and financial troubles, and, although you cordially exclaim, "How well sho does itl" you never for a moment fancy that she means what she says or is what sho appears.

Now this kind of woman is not what I call the best for a man to choose as wife, and I am always sorry when I see it done. There is, however, one safeguard for the so-easily-deceived sex the charming woman is generally quite as practical as she is charming, and doesn't resign her power over all to take up with ono unless it is very much to her advantage to do so and if she does marry she is apt to become innoxious to other women, for great prosperity has a stultifying effect, and your very wealthy woman seldom takes the trouble to charm.

Another style of women apt to attract men, and not at all the best women for them to choose as wives, are the women who pay tho coarser sex the compliment of imitating it. Happily this stylo is rather exotio with us. coming in with the Anglomania so prevalent of late, and as it is by no means adapted to the climate or to the delicate type of American femininity it iias never thriven hero as abroad.

These aro the women who boast of never being tired they rise at unearthly hours and drag their reluctant admirers with them to see sunrises and "catch morning effects," a euphemism for influenza put on short skirts and thick boots and taking alpenstocks in hand climb Mont Blanc us a morning's recreation (if that inaccessible top peak i3 ever reached it will be by one of these women) they ride at "big fences" and are "in at the death," and slash their riding habits with their whips as they loudly proclaim their own prowess in the chase tbey "take a weed" more or les3 surreptitiously they demand liquid refreshments of the most heroic nature they talk slang und venture upon expletives, as uoar profanity as they dare, for after all they ore generally thoroughly good women and would shrink from immorality with an angry kind of virtue all their own.

One cannot after all say that these attract men to their society, for they give the men no choice they forco their companionship upon them in all those sports which men have chosen to consider especially their own, and consequently in the conversation resulting from those sports. They have thus the pull over their gentler sisters of a common topic ind common occupation, and it not infrequently happen' that a man marries such a woman just because he sees her nil the time: simply a case of propinquity. They make undesirable wives, however, especially if poor, for they are as impatient of woman's self sacrifices and quiet drudgery as a man is.

I knew one such girl, and when her baby was throe months old she took it upon a yachting excursion and had a hammock slung on deck for it.

But after all, the kind of woman that men generally marry belongs to none of these classes, but is simply a nonentity. There is no faultto bo found with her she is tolerably good looking, tolerably educated, tolerably good mannered and refined, negatively moral, but quite untried by temptation her ideas of marriage limited to new clothes, wedding presents and cards with Mrs. instead of Miss upon them. She hfis never considered the question of whether Charlie and she are adapted by habits, temierament and mutual intentions to make each other happy she has never even resolved to do her beat to make him happy sho has never thought anything about it at all, and plunges into matrimony as sho would into the occan at a new b.-.thing place, without the least idea of what may lio beneath that summer sea.

That irf tho average woman chosen as his wife by the average man, and hence tho average marriage which forms tho topic of tho satirist and the cynic.

What, then, is the description of "tho best woman," who is so seldom cho^cn, do you a«k?

I havo not just now time to tell you, but you may, if you like, ro-read the quotation from the Vicar of Wakefield and draw your own inferences. 21 lis. Fii.vnk Leslie.

THE FASHIONS OF PARI5.

A novelty is seen in trimming dresses lavishly with ribbons sewn flat upon the surface of the goods in horizontal stripes. None but very slender, graceful figures can bear these.

NOVEL COSTUMES.

One costume of this style wvm recently was a white surah with dark blue ribbons in graduited widths sewn from neck to feet. A drapery of dull blue surah was slashed at tho waist line and drawn together with bows at tho bottom, and a very narrow quilling of satin ribbon of the same shade was at tho foot of the dress. The sleeves were of puffed surah with bands of ribbon at intervals, and small bows of tho same were on the shoulders. A sash belt of white held under a rosette of the same completed a lovely gown.

Another was of stone gray surah with alternate wide and narrow bands of cherry and garnet satin ribbon sewn all up the front of the skirt, on the vest, on the sleeves and around the bottom of the train. A drapery of tan colored cashmere edged with fine silk embroidery on one side finished this costume. Two very delicate and pretty promenado toilets will give an idea of the general style for such dress for warm weather. One is in lilac faille and Chene brocade,

PROMENADE COSTCMES.

lilac and white. The fore sleeve, front breadth and vest aro of the faille and the rest of the brocade. Many prefer this costume made up in sateen or chal lie. In any case parasol and bonnet trimmings must match the colors, as in that lies the principal charm. The close little chip bonnet has a spray of lilacs and lilac strings. The other robe is of a delicate gray blue with a lace underbreadth and lace revers at the neck, with a capote of lace over blue with small bunch of yellow pansies. It will be noticed that these robes aro both made without visible side forms.

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The Sorrento cushion, either square or round, is the newest and most popular just at present. The cover is done in Roman embroidery or cut work. The body of the cushion is covered with plush. Roman satin or India silk, in some rich shade of copper, old blue, olive green orange, or any tint that harmonizes with the sofa or couch. Twenty inches square is a good size for the cushion. The upper side has an extra cover of linen, cream white or ecru. The pattern on this may be a border or an all-over design. The main outline is done in a close buttonhole stitch, the outside edge being worked over a cord. This German cord in small skeins comes for the purpose and costs fifteen cents a skein.

COKXEH OK CUSHION.

The working silk may be white, gold or bronze silk Asiatic rope silk is much used. This is coarse and filto in quite fiist. Thy cross lines are put in last of linen thread, white or in color, to match the silk. The knot at tho crossing of tho threads is mado by passing the needle through a loop and drawing tightly us to secure tho center. The cut gives one corner of tho cushion cover. When the work is done it must be dampened oil tlie wrong side, laid upon flannel and pressed with a warm iron. With a pair of small sharp pointed scissors cut the material away from under the cross threads, and also from the outer edge, This leaves tho bronze siik or color beneath to show through the interstices. The end of each point is fastened by a Btrong stitch

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