Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — The Formal "Call" [ARTICLE]

The Formal "Call"

flatow man have foot inn to wfeWlal they bear bo port th that Browning bore of all borea fcown as Mia •formal ealL* That is a feminine institution. It is an invention el the sox, and the sex groans under its eMan smokes his Durham in e peace, while the wife and tars pay tribute to the formal call. He heart the sotio voce prayer that parties will he out, and that the matter can be dispatched with a card. He quietly notes the sigh of relief when the exhausted women return after hours of sodol distress. He observes the tax of drees incident to the affair, the bad temper it invokes, and tbn hypocrisy and total ehunce of any 2 uivalent in the way drtpieaaure for 1 this slavish adhereroe to oustom, d then dimly realises the mhaculoua felicity of his own escape from such ibrallaom, and it maybe takes comfort in the thought that the whole businesa E totally on those who have mad* pay the piper for counties* other a and whims of fashion and oaprioe. The elasticity of conscience with whiob the gentle creatures endeavor to mitigate the infliction of the formal call by convenient fibs, furnishes masculine monster some amusing food for study, and it may be doubted Whether he wotdd budge an inch to abolish the formal coll. It is diamond ft dkrnondi women annoying women. such a transaction the wise man holif loof and lets tbo dainty beiKjjerv.'te HUWcroeracßng as friend! manr. v tha hollow and artificial show as eulu ihemoalvea. It is not often Ih<«i ho ima an opportunity of keeping wt of a game in which women unary toair wits against one another instead oS against the common man. ot « i.t libuik to bo iudficiwawly *»lent and feaar tire fair prattlers discans ecwfe qib'w in a style utterly unlike (he fatwf racture* of novelista and poets, and § ke deesaft get some whohwome eaaUgbdfxf»-

Ter Arab and Bit Borsb.—Tbs Aw-biana never beat their horses; they never out their tails? they treat them gently; they speak to them and seem to Hold a discourse; they use them ao friends; they never attempt to increase their speed by the whip, or spur (hem, but in cases of great necessity. They never fix them to a stake in {he fields but suffer them to pasture at large ground their habitations; and they oqme tunning the moment they hear the #tmnd of their master's voice. In consequence of such treatment these animal* become docile and tractable in the highest degree. They resort at nigh 4 to. their tents, and lie down in the njidst of the children, without even hurting them in the slightest manner. The little boys and girls are often seen upon the body or neck of the inara, while the beasts continue inoffensive and harmless, permitting them to trfth and caress them without injury, Cauax and effect are net wa# boianeed. A man with a good cattle often make little or no effeefc