Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1891 — Bar-Legged Scotch Girls. [ARTICLE]

Bar-Legged Scotch Girls.

At Edinburgh tho poorer classes still do their weekly laundrying as it was done years ago. They convey their washing to the river, writes a Chicago News correspondent, dump it into large tubs and fill their tubs with water that has been heated in huge publio kettles. Then the women pull off their shoes and stockiDgs, and. holding their skirts well up about, their waists, get into the tubs and tread on the steaming linen, thereby squeezing all the dirt out of the several pieces This is so common a spectacle that the natives pay no rogard to it at all, but visitors seem to consider it one of the sights of Edinburgh, and but for the activity of tho police the riverside would be thronged every wash day with impertinant strangers. In the rural parts of Scotland young women go barefooted most of the ’year. ,On Sundays these buxom damsels may be seen proceeding to church with their shoes in hand and their stockings hung over their arms. When they reach the church-yard they sit down on tho grass, and, with more ease than modesty, proceed to don their hosen and shoon. for it would be regarded improper to eßter tho kirk without these articles of attire properly disposed. Sonora Mendonca. wife of the new Brazilian envoy to the United States, is an American woman, the daughter of a down Bast sea captain—Captain Redman, of Thomaston, Me, When her father sailed for Rio Janeiro about twenty-five years ago he took his daughter with him to keep hjm company on board his schooner A' Senor Mendonca jyaa then a young editor in the Brazilian port, and a chance introduction of the young people ripened into a romantic courtship that led to marriage, Mendonca has a son | twenty-three years old, and four daugh. - ters ranging from Eighteen to twenty* . three-years of age. I Mr*. Robert Goelet, of NeW Yoirk, ‘ has an !noonk#af S6OO a day.

The Valor of Despair. Be puffed on hit fire cent cigar, And watched Jta vapors blend, *TII stick to it!” he fiercely cried, “Unto the bitter endl” —Washington Post.