Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — Disgraced Forever. [ARTICLE]

Disgraced Forever.

The Boston Symphony concerts have become, in a way, sacred ceremonials, at which even those not born with a muical ear must assist in becoming fashion. One Friday aftemcon the two little daughters of a certain family returned from the music hall “in a state of mind.’’ One of them was evidently scornful, and the other depressed. “What’s the matter?” asked some one. “Wasn’t the concert fine?” “The concert was all right,” said Ethel, superbly, “I don’t complain of the concert!” "Then what did go wrong’ Something, I’m sure.” “The amount of the matter is,” said the young lady, looking haughtily at her drooping sister, ’That Mildred has disgraced herself. She sneezed in the middle of the symphony!” The body of every spider contains four little masses pierced with a multitude of holes, imperceptible to the naked eye, each hole permitting the passage of a single thread; all the threads, to the number of one thousand to each mass, join together when they come out, and make the single thread with which the spider spins its web, so that what we call a spider’s thread consists of more than four thousand threads united.