Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 July 1878 — Page 4

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I -U—i— —1— A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL§s W KDITOK AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRK HAUTE, JULY 20,1078

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FXB8T EDITION, on Friday Evening jhasnlaigeetMUlatlon In tbe surrounding towna, where It la sold by newsboys and

Che SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading peraon in the city, and the farm en of this Immediate yldnlty.

Every Week's lame Is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisement* appear ftv

ONE OHAEO&

THIS heated term will long be memorable as tbe "Great Hoi SpelL" _w

WE see it stated that lightning has never been known t« strike a slated roof.

WAGES are lower and tbe cost ef living higher at present in England than in this country.

IF we had a sporting column we would remark that the weather clerk won the beat this week.

PBOF. TICK has been giving his own town, St. Louis, that which Ingersoll •ays there isn't.

MOST people have kept this week where tbe thermometer is usually re ported—in the shade.

IT makes a man shiver to read to&T up ib Maine the thermometer this week has been down to 63°.

HOT as it is don't sleep in an ice bouse. A man in Chicago tbe other day went into au ice bouse to cool off, and it. killed

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ON an ayerage of nearly one a day, there has been reported a wife or husband murder, in many cases followed by suicide of tbe murderer. .• %i&i «$• *»—a &o.

PEOPLE who thought this week that tbe sun wasn't more than a mile off, will be surprised to learn that it has kept its distanoe—90,000,000 miles away.

Miss CLAKA MORRIS is again West, and received a warm welcome on her ariival at Chicago. But if she had struck St. Louis this week she would have had a warmer. feW

A NEW Gatling gun has been made which fires a thousand rounds a minute with marvelous precision. It would be an"artful dodger"that could safely stand in its range thirty seconds.

DAN RICE, the showman, Is again In bad luck. His show boat Damsel was sunk in the Missouri river, opposite Decatur, Nebraska, last week. His loss was |25,000 and no insurance.

CONEY Island, once so disreputable, Is now the popular resort for high and low from New York and Brooklyn. It is reached by four railroads and visited by from 60,000 to 100,000 every Sunday.

FRUIT is obeap and wholesome. Those who partake of it plentifully will find the effect upon the system salutary in the highest degree. Families that make fruit a principal portion of their daily diet, are almost invariably healthy. |f|

BAD for the drinkers: Dr. Ludeking, of the St. Louis dispensary says that aixty per eent. of the sunstrokes in that city had their origin In the excessive use of stimulants. But he does not advise habitual drinkers to break off suddenly in this kind of weather, but to drink moderately. fi-

IT is estimated that eight-tenths of all the lives lost by lightning have been lost under or near trees. People in town or country should avoid them during thunder storms—especially the oak, which seems to have a peculiar power of at* trading electricity, perhaps because of tbe large amount of iron which its sap so

'THERE is a "cool" wave running through the New York theatres. We read in the advertisements: "Nlblo's Garden, the coolest theatre in the city."

Gilmore's Garden, the ooolest resort in New York City." "Fifth Avenue Theatre, ooolest theatre In town." "Tony Pastor's Theatre, the coolest place of amusement in America."

HON. JOHN W. HANNA was renominated by the Republicans for Congress, at Plalnfleld last Saturday, and in bis little speech he pledged himself "by the help of God and honeet men to carry the flag to victory by 8,000 majority." He may have tbe help of the first named, but his declaration implies that there are over 3,000 honest men In his district, which is not so certain. That's a big lot of honesty (or these times., ,f

SIXTY years ago, Daniel Appleton, a pool* book agent, then recently frost England, was struggling in New York for bread and finally enabled to open a petty shop. At the same time the original Harpers were working at their presses and had hardly obtained a secure foothold. From these small beginnings arose the two greatest book booses on this continent, employing now a eapital of not lees tban 92,000,000 each.

TUB hot weather of tbe past ten days has been almost unparalleled In its steady intensity and the length of its duration. Never before wera then so many ewes of sumtroke in so short a time, dk Louis has been especially a filleted. On Ian Monday there were 7Vur jW of sunstroke In that city,

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twenty-two of ,v them proving fatal. Daring tWweek ending witli Wednesday last fhe whole number Of sunstroke* wss about S0Q, of srktak suited in death. Nothing ever experienced in that dty Nitti In other plaoee similar effects wen produced though in smaller degree. In Chicago op Tuesday there were 38 prostrations, of which six were fatal and in Milwaukee, on Wednesday a hundred cases were reported. The period will long be remembered as one of the hottest on record^

lar Indianapolis the other da^ one gambler deliberately shot and killed a follow gambler, for the alleged reason that he had won a large sum of money from the former. The murder was per fectly deliberate and cold Hooded. A general belief prevails among the people there that the murder was directly due to the frequency with which the pardoning power has been exercised of late and there is a universal demand that tbe law for-the punishment of crime be inexorably enforced. It remains to be seen how far Governor Williams will respect public sentiment hereafter in his dealings, with murderers.

A LONDON correspondent gives an interesting account of the Underground Railway, of that great city, which is an institution of astonishing magnitude. It has an entire length of about seventeen miles, and forms an irregular ellipse, with one end nesr the Tower and tbe other reaching to the extreme west of the city. In places the tunnel comes within two feet of the surface of the ground and at others plunges down fifty feet. The course of the line was mainly under tbe streets and where it ran under blocks of buildings these were demolished. This entailed heavy expenses and the cost of the original road for a little oyer eight miles was more than forty- -million dollars. The whole line hss a double track and the tunnel is a single, span or arch. In 1875 tbe number of passengers carried on the line was about seventy-five millions, or an average of 203,000 daily The present traffic is considerably larger. What a wonderful set of fellow^ those Britishers are!

OUR INDIAN WARDS. Dr. Livingston, agent for the Crow Creek Indiana, is the latest shining example of how the Great 'uFather deals with his untutored children. Living ston was appointed in 1870, and doesn't appear to have suffered from the hard times very severely in fact he has prospered right straight along, having become the owner of two cattle ranches and a hotel and acquired an interest in three silver mines. He managed the business very creditably—to his head. The hotel he supplied with food and vegetables from the agency and compelled the employee of the agency to board there. He and Ms. partners fed their private stock at the government's expense, and sold government weod to steamboats {and hay tp .the Black Qilla settlers. The ring would charge the government for bay and wood which the Indisns were compelled to put up in order to get their rations and annuities and then they would ssll

this wood

and hay a second time to steamboats and military posts. Rations and annui ties were drawn for 30Q more Indians than there were at the a£endy In these and various other ingenious ways the ring enriched Itself at the expense both of the Indiana and the government. Nor is this an isolated case. Commissioner Hayt says the neighboring agents and traders are in the same oondlUon as to dlahonesty, but having been notified of the coming storm, they have made what preparation they could to escape detection. This is a shocking state of affaire and one which it does seem the government ought to be able in some way to prevent.

CHRONIC GRUMBLING. It is getting to be tbe fhshion to talk of aummer as we do of many other thing*—as an infliction, as something to be endured with much dissatisfaction and grumbling, and got rid of, it that were possible. "How to Bear the Summer," "How to Render the 'Heated Term* Tulerable," "How to Mitigate the

Sufferings

TERRE HA-UT-E SAOTRD AY

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sioned by the Heat,** arf headings oon stantly mei with in tbe newspapers, until, instead of enjoying the warmth tbe sunshine, (be glory of summer, we make ourselvee and every one elee miserable by onr groaning and forebodings.

The great put of the discomfort experienced during the aummer arises from tbe bad habits and reckless lndul genoe in "drinks." Men drink, then fume and fret and peitpbe and drink again. Women sit in rocking chairs, eat heartily notwithstanding that they have "no appetite," and drink huge quantities of ice-water, which stofe dl geetion and increases their tendency to torpid liver and dyspepeia.

Horace Greeley said the beet wa resume specie payments is to resume tbe beet way to enjoy summer Is to enjoy it, Instead of grumbling about it and at it. People who attend to tbefr proper buslneee and are not always thinking of being thirsty rarely know how warm it is in summer or how cold in winter until the thermometer or daily paper tells them. Tbe human body ia irade to resist and endure these gradations of heat and cold without muoh suffering or looonvenienee, and, indeed, when properly prepared, with positive enjoyment.

Ice, which has always been considered so great a luxury In this country, is undoubtedly one of the greatest foes to health and consequent enjoyment, because of the profuseness and reckless­

ness with wbieh it ia used,.,. Too ipuch liquid of any Jiind weaken* dfegftfrie juices of tbe stosaacb, et thesame tlme that it adda to the labor to be performed but when the liquid to introduced Into the in an ice-cold condition the action ia paralysed—all the forces are brought to beer OQ equalising tbe temperature, and thus ttme and strength ate used, ss until this is done the natural work of transmutation cannot be performed

MEN'S GLOTHBSL

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Hot weather has a tendency to develop revolutions as well as yellow fever and other otyectionable diseases. In South America revolutions are continually breaking oat, while in the oool climaU of tbe Arctic regions they are unknown. 1%e Peruvian Colonel is constantly rising up in tbe morning and

overthrow­

ing the Government before 9:90 o'clock, but the Esquimaux Colonel never thinks of following his example. We noisy therefore, draw the conclusion that the germe of revolution loee their vitality at a temperature below zero, and tbat a heat of fully 80* is needed to quicken them into swift development.

The hot weather of the-pasttwo weeks ought to develope a revolutionary spirit smong men who writhe under the re straintsof masculine dress. They feel with unusual bitterness their inferiority to tbe other sex, and should resent more tban ever that degrading badge of inferiority—their distinctive dress. There is no doubt that women force men to wear coats and trousers because they wish to prevent the male sex from engaging in the pursuits of which women now enjoy a monopoly. To spend the day in a loose wrapper and a rocking chair to sit in the corner of a sofa In that feminine attitude which Involves, the mysterious disappearance of one foot to bare the arms and neck iu the drawing room, and to keep the head oool with a square inch .of hat and fix square feet of parasol, are occupations in which men cannot engage so long as they wear their present style of dress. There is no high spirited man, conscious of powers folly equal to those of the other sex, and longing to demonstrate their existence, wbo'does not chafe at his position of .inferiority,,and mentally protest against the tyranny which oompels him to wear a garb shutting him

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from privileges

which anroga&t woman re^eryeSjfor herself. Tbat tbe masculine drees is vastly inferior to the feminine dress as a means of protection against heat will be readily conceded. The coat, the walatooat, the collar, and the necktie form a series of folds of cloth abont the back of the neck which cause that delicate part to be irritated, and thus directly tend to develop cerebro spinal meningitis, and other dis eases little less formidable in point of syllables. Woman, on the other hand, either entirely bares her neck, or at the worst covers it With soms light material which in no way interferes with the circulation of -air. Men again, are compelled to Wear that moist exasperating of all garment*^ tbe abort sock. The sock is ft mere mockery of the stocking. It has not'strength enough to kefep its position unaided, and as it is too short to admit of the aid of garters, it is constantly drooping about tbe ankle, and, thus irritating tbe mind of the wearerat the very time when he needs to keep cool mentslly as well as physically. This course of suffering and mental excite ment is unknown to the privileged sex. Far be it from us to pry into the mysteries of nature and rashly attempt to describe the origin, character, and use of the true stocking. We know, however, that unlike the seek, It serves a useful purpose, and both knows its plftcfe add keepait. Mm

The sock" Is, liowover, a far less evil than the trouters. Tbe latter garment is sn affront to the higher degreee of the thermometer, and a clog whioh forbids the male sex to tise to an equality with theilr oppressors, X^ke tboparasltical vines which wrap stalwart trees luu their embrace and alay them, tbe trousers shut out light and air from the legs which thegr surround, and rob them of their vitality. 'Shrouded in gloom and deprived of the air, the masculine leg fades and dwindlee, and were it not that during a few brief hours st night the tog is released from confinement, it would probably soon become useless for any purpose whatever. Greatness leg haa from all antiquity been associated cloeely with national greatness and the leg can attain its proper development only in a state Of freedom. The Romans knew not trousers, and hence reached such development that they were able to oonquer tbe world. The kilted Highlander was tbe terror of Scotland until the far seeing British Government confined him in trousers, undsr tbe malign influence of which his legs wilted, and his proud spirit was broken. The hawlegged warrior of the American forests wss the bravest and noblestor savages but how pitiable is the Indian of Saratoga andNiagsrs, wtio, dem4rallsed by trousers, has sunk below the level of the backman. The abort breechee of the last 8aitory were, t* sotoe extent* a departure from the great* principle of free legs, but they permitted the use of true stockings and gave comparative freedom totbe leg below the knee, II wan this em of partially free legs that gave us Washington and his eompatriota. In an age of troosem Wasbingfcm--as pictured by painters and acnlptow could never have existed.

Were men to unite in a determined effort to oast off tbe degrading thraldom of trousers, we might reproduce with tbe ancient Roman leg, the sudent Reman virtue. The precise style of dress worn by Sclpio aqd Omar need not be servilely copied, but ail its advantages could be obtained by. a costume adapted to the ootidlUonsof modern civilisation,

and retaining tbe fundamental principle of fme legs. What the style of costume shall be like our Blue Jeans Governor, we *'leare to a more abler man." But we want treason abolished. 'And it to the skirt, or whatever the covering of the lower half of the body may be, them be edded the true stockings, and tin haied neck, man would rise from the plane of degraded slavery to that of oool and happy womanhood.

Now, while the heated term toon us, to the. time to labor for this great reform. Conventions should be held, Presidents and Secretaries appointed, reeolutions passed, and all tbe otLer agencies of reform put in motion. With the eklrt ss their banner, and with the thrilling war cry: "Free legs! Firee arms! Fkee necks!" the reformers should march victory. 'Sr.auisa* THE VOLUPTUOUS ORIENT.

Some of the "Peculiar Institutions" of die Japanese Capital. PUBLIC WOME»-rPOBLIC_ BATHS-

PUBLIC MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.

DeB. Randolph Keim, writing in the Philadelphia Pises a aeries of "Unofficial Facta and Incidents of an OfficijU Journey Among Our Consulates,'' deecribes as follows what ho saw in Teddo

From Quahwon and' the' smlies and wiles of O'Kama, we drove totbe next,: in fsot we might eay, the moet conspicuous feature of the northern part of the eapital—Yosiwara, or the court of publio women in Teddo. It may amaze the reader, but we speak from official sources, when we etate that there in thellheart of the great metropolis was a city within a city, inclosed by frails and a broad ditch, with apodal police regulations, and aet apart for the practice of such sensuous purposes aa spring from man's deepest degradation and most depraved appetitee. If Yoriwara had occupied a secluded poison of the city it would have attracted no special attention but, as the literature and work of the artisan, it indicated a train of national ideas of morality which was unique, monstrous and striking. Yosiwara covered upwards of twosquare miles, and being in the form of a parallelogram, was traversed by three main atreets, Intersected at right angles by three others. The quarter was occupied exclusively by prostitutes and their servanta, and in 1870 waa estimated to contain a population approximating ten thousand publlo women alone. This, in view of Jananese custom, was doubtless not an exaggeration, nor did this include all Yedao engaged in this Iniquitous traffic. The southern suburb was full of ho ta go ga

(literally houses

of rest), but infested by these nymphs. THE MARROW OATS. Yosiwara had but one gate, at which was stationed a strong police force and a garrison of troops. Everyone entering passed that way, and there being no other means of exit waa compelled to return by tbe same point. This gave tbe police absolute control of the section In tbe event of the orgies of its inmates swelling into riotous demonstrations. Foreigners were not permitted to enter this section at all, but we had more than our share of traveler's curiosity. By dint of per«iasion, reihforced by a few shining itglbous, we secured tbe consent ft the officers to a small guard to acoompany us a few rodswith-^ in the gate, In order to form some idea of this world of Iniquity. We took a position at the junction of the two main thoroughfares nearest by, and thence had a view in all directiona. The streeca did not present that appearance of honest industry which we had noted elsewhere they were not crowded with vehicles, and aatlrring mass of humanity moving hitber and thither in tbe divers avocations of life, sanctified by honest toil and honest purposee. Here the debauchee In drinlc and lust gave full vent to his low Instincts. As we looked up and down these extended thoroughfares we could see here aqd there groups of men and women erased with drink, with bloated fiery countenances and dishevelled dress, passing along, shouting and reeling, and often falling to the earth, unable to rise except through the drunken exertions of their maudlin companions. Tbe atreets were dean and the buildings in good style and excellent outward repair. The interiors, as far is we could carry our vision into those nearest

by,

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were fitted up with

some idea to dscoration. xxrr. Nor were we lacking in sslutions from the lumates and invitations ton cup of the national beverage. At tbtojujictare a group of notsy, stsggeriog Souroaral

ut In an appearance and were approachus. As we had no desire to encounter such a party with swords in their belts and anal in their brains, we strolled bask to the gste. Our presence hsd sttr«bted quite a crowd of carious look-

"wewere ndtsurprtsed stwtnft we had sssn when we recalled tbat woman*, in eootmen wtlh harass mcany to atic countries. In /Span had nd sodal relatione. Ledtee ware aet to thepnbHe,endwhen ootonagomiplng expedition to a friend in the dty, or traveling on the tocaldo with her lord, waa aeaied In a norimon so that she might not be eeen by the vulgar and

oovetouseye of the outer world. be eeen in public was a disgrace to the femily name. Assong the middle end laboring dassee necessity enforced different rule. Their women wen not only permitted to appear in public, hot to spend ss moch time gadding about «e the eodety trampe at home. But worse than thie, such Mecsof morality must be expected In aoountry where a father may eell his daughters for a term of prostitution without outraging every eenee of decenoy and family reputation. Girls In Japan are an article for sal* the aame as a cow or a dog, being bought or eold and transferred In accordance with tbe aame legal forma. More tban this, Kaempfer tells ue in his day, and it was still true, tbst foundlings, or anv female infant whose parents Were so disposed,

TAnff ST TBS OOVXH5MB5T And placed in government Institutions, wbenoetbey wire reared and instrudei in music and other accomplishments and then eold out In fee Or for a royalty on a compulsory life of degredstlon end sin. It was a common saying that the women reared and instructed by the government were more attractive than those of home training that tbe former were accomplished, todttating In their toilets, playing on the lute, singing and reading and conversing fluently, while those reared amid the drudgery of home were languid, dull, heavy and Ignorant. Concubinage wss legalised, but the wife and her children alone possessed rights of inheritance. And yet, with all this moustroui *tate of morality, the pbUo^,.

progenitive sense scorned largely devel oped. Tbere wsa no abasnoe of parental or filial affection. Even in the streets of wonderful Yeddo we saws burly coolie, with broad' ahonldera and mttadea like llnkeof Iron, with nothing to shield his nakedneee but a few cutaneous decorations, a piece of cotton twine and a square foot of cotton doth, promenading as proudly as an emperor, with a child more nude than himself in his

It might be that peculiar condi-

tkma of dire necessity compelled the sale of girls. Taking a charitable view thatsncn was the exception rather than the rule, we must, however, think that a state of government andjsodety which permitted audi a thing needed some radical reforms in its moral code, if not for the people now, for the unborn generation wbo, without offending, must suffer the eoneequencm of such a monstrous state of things.

IS TKBRB VIRTU* IN JAPAX. Ae every poison most have ita its antidote, there may be some compensating agencies which keep in autjection thie foul canker upon the moral eenee of the people. But in what manner we felled to warn. It might ho that eepionage and bolts and bars alone protected |pe innocent from the assaults of tbe wicked and preeerved in the family that remnant of virtue which must exist In some degree and whioh eternally exists with rare exception where woman aa a sex ie permitted to oonault her own instincts and impulses. There may be virtue in Japan, but to the eyeaof a stranger it must be a jewel prioelees. Aa we drove away from this very hell of iniquity we halted for a few momenta at one of the largoat and fineet of the publio bathing establishments. The Japanese are inveterate bathers, but rarely changing the water in the publio bathing plaoee, a point of controversy might be raised as to the,cleanliness of this sort of ablutious.

TH* BATH'HOTTSB

Halting before one of theee establishmenta we alighted and entered, giving the custodian at the entrance an iLziboo aa a subsidy for bis acquiescence. Over the double doorway were two groups of Japanese cblrography, which, beinj translated read "Entrance for men" an "Entrance for woftien." We entered by the former, and following a narrow passage way came otit Into a large room lit from overhead, and across the centre of which ran a partition oompoeed of upright pieces about aix inches apart. For a partition this was quite a success, so far aa obeerving the ablutions of the female portion Of the bathers was concerned. Tbe tub covered the entire floor, and the water wss not over six ihohes deep. On the nude'sside were three or four mlddle-sged men, as bare ss Apollo, scrubbing Sway for dear life, -entirety oblivious apparently to the juxtaposition of the nexative pole of sexual magnetism. In their domestic affairs, in the interior srrangement of thdr^household oonvenlencee, their habits, dress, and in feet, in almost everything, the JapaiMee«uggeeted the ehut your eyes and don't look" sort of honor. But as we were not subscribers to tbe Jepsneee code we put on an air of indifference, but kept an eye to tbe beautiful. Althoiigh the iria and the retina of our optical apparatus were si ways satisfactory in the performance of their functlone,on this occasion tbey were doubly called upon to serve the pressure of a dual emotional sense, that of astonishment and fesdnation. The obstruction of tbin poles six inches apart was nothing compared with the studious gaze with which we penetrated the ethereal and tranatucent space between. There were not less than a score of the sub-celestial sex on the other dde, at thdr dally ablutions. They were of divers years, from budding ten to blossomed fourteen, from the full rosedsbope of middle life to tbe sear and yel low leaf of age. They were of diverse anatomloal developments, elevation, cross-section, contour and fundament: lean, long and lank, plump, pink and pretty, well-rounded and solid, like tbe blushing mellow sides of a luscious peach, or wrinkled and flabby like soleleather dry, and eole-leather wet. Some faoea were young and fresb and others old and worn. Old age in women begina at 80 in Japan.

IK PUBIS HATUHAUSUS/

All were as nude as the moment they eevered tbdr unbillcal relations. There were no deformltlee superinduced by the calipers of Western corsete, tbe tortures of tight shoes, or tbe barbaric splendor of ostrich feathers, ribbons and atraw. All was nature pure and almple.

Having thus taken In the phvalcaf attractions of the nymphs of the batb, we turned our thoughte to tbe etbical and hydraulic features of the occasion. It can be understood tbat there was no flirting going on When we state that we were in tbe room some minutes before dor preeence wss known to the feminine portion of tbe inmates. We antidpsted a general stampede when we were noticed, as foreigoera were rarely admitted to such places, but instesd, when several of tbe youngest pointed toward us and called the attention of the rest, the group arreated thdr ablutions for a moment, looked at us, several smiled, snd sll turned, giving us the foil benefit of rear view. Prevloualy, however, wa had watched their aolutions unre etrainad, perhaps, by our presence o»i van* pssrnr OIBI of eighteen was seated On a stool, snd waa oeing artificially rubbed down by an octogenarian of toe male gender, but wearing a breech-clout. She evidently relished the titlllstion and friction tbus applied to her jplusby epidermis. At least tbe expression of the noe and eyes gave the cast of such sensation. A sepulchral old womsn, sbout tbe color of an ancient meerschaum, was enjoying a back-scratching by another old oodjsr, wbo seemed to be an adept at tbe^ business, and gave us a notion that his efforts were sppredated. There were at Icaat a dosen drapeless naiade In all attitudes, and aceuring away in everv conceivable manner, some sawing obliquely across tbdr backs with a sort of Interscspular motion with towel, one end ovur tbe right eboni«i and the other nndsr the left srnij»i, «»ocaslonally vary* log tbs action by a horisontal movement aeroas tbe lumbar regions and vertically In tbe ooneavity of tie adlpoe* developments below. Others were laying thdr feet in the splashing water or gracefully and coyly applying Urn refreebing fluid to their diversities of form and elevations from chin to toe. Tbe youngest of tbe group were having a sportive time, and wrestled and romped snd splssbed and rolled abont in all tbe shy Innocence of childhood. bAtrr oorcvA.

As we were shout to Isave, a lady of elegsnt attire, and attended by a lemale servant bearing her toilet apparatus snd another with other luxuriss of tbe bath, entered. We thought tbe lies nee of a stranger In foreign palrte would warrant ua in loitering a trifle in order to gratify a little cariowty. Our new ajrival, after giving some directions, with the assistance of her maid, began to arrange herself for tbe batb. There are many points or radiosl difference between tbe human gender*, psychologically, mentally, morally ana physically, and all In favor of tbe geutle sex. And so in tbeir geoCrai habits. A masculine disrobing for

the hath flings bis clothes in all dirsh* tions, and bounces Into tub water with au impetuosity and violebce anything but graceful. Our Lady Godiva. for suoh we will call her foiSabort, with her maid, neatly folded and laid away on doth in a clean place eac'i particle of her apparel as it was removed. First tbe silken

e6e, then the flowing gown­

like robe of purple, then the nether gar ,, ments of white, until we reach nature'# own. It is said that astronomers fro-*' quently level thdr telescopes at one star in order to see another we levdled out, dght apparently at a pretty little crea-. ture in tbe bath, but by an Obliquity of vtolon took In the other scene unobserved. Aa gently as a asphyr playing^ upon the foliage or the trees she stepped: along toward the water. Her beautiful rounded form and poetry of uotior would have been worthy of the sculpt tor*a chisel.

VKSUSATWWBATH^

Gould not have been more beautiful, With a gentle indinatlon forward, making thatdivindy shaped curvature of the body with nerleft arm extending obliquely and downward across the body, i^nd her hand poised with all the eoy innooenceof womanly delicacy, and with her right arm doaely bent, drawn across tbe emotional aeat and holding in her hand a white napkin which fell in

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ful folds in front, wss a tableau ml)

which we shall never forget, thie inter eating little eeremony

we took oocadon to follow the movements of several others who hsd finished thdr bath and were rerobing. One waa seated in front of a highly burnished metallic glass, with tbe aasiatanoe of an attendant, arranging her toilet, others were enveloping themaelves onoe more in the. hsbiliments of their eex. One young woman of a aoore of summers have completed her toilet, stood for a moment chatting with a lady friend, both laughing heartily and enjoying the subject of their conversation. Like some of our fair sex, Japanese ladies sre fond of gossip. The little woman soon left, evidently feeling A 1, to uses commercial term. She went out as quietly and modeatly as the other oame in. It is to be add as in evidence of tbe proprieties observed that the men and the women never hold any convereation with each other here, and oome and go as quietly as if theotuer were not present.

REFLECTIONS,

We must admit that tbe thirty minutes we passed in this plaoe suggested many thoughts pregnant with interest and philosophy. Can there be immodesty when there is no eense of wrong or imagining of impure things? Do not the1 lascivious touches of the modiste's art exdte theee tendeudes to excessee in mode and manners whioh do not sppear the nearer we approach nature In our drees and lives. The feverish excitements of the dsnce, bare shoulders, bodIce a la pompadour, eelskln waistes and pullback akirts are infinitely more deteriorating in tbeir influences tban tbo child-like dmplidty we have shown. A beautifully rounded ankle and a pretty foot vaguely vtotble beneath the laminated tolas of a dorm skirts would sets whole community agog at home, whilst a whole form nuae aS nature and more beautiful tban an angel would not so mnch aa attract a passing glance, in

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A WRITER IN ONB OF OUR standard medical Journals ssys: "I was cured of Dropsy in one month by using HUNT'S REMEDY." All Diseases Of tbe Kidneys. Bladder and Urinary Organs, ar» cured ty HUNT'S REMEDY.

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A CRO WFROM MICHIGAN. Detroit Free Press. Blggeet 'latere—largest apples—plumpest wheat—best grass—^whore's your old panic

Closing-Oat Prices.

HOBERG. p' ROOT & CO.,

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Have made reductions In all departments and will offer from this date all Summer Gopds at lower prices.

White corded Piquee, 5o per yard worth 80. 4-4 Percales, 7c per ysrd worth 10c. 600 ysrds Bourette Dress Goods, 8 and 10c per yard former price, 12H and 15c. 100 pieces Grey Dress Linen, 18,20,25 and 80c per yard. 275 White Crochet Bed Spreads, lsrge dse,fl.35each^, 600 Linen, Gram Cloth, Percale and Calico Suite for ladies, misses and ohilr dren at one-half former price. SUMMER SILK& i, SUMMER DRESS GOODS,

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Towels, Napkins, Doylies, Table Lluena, Craaliea, etc., at reduced prices. 100 dosen Fringed Towels, large rises* st 75c per dosen. large stse sll Linen Napkins, fl per dossn, worth fl.50.

Turkey Red Table Damask, 6oc, 75o and |1 per yard. Loom Table Linen, 25,35, 40 and 50c perjard.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO,

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For Reat.

E«OEt RKNT—THfi FINK STORE UOOM. corner Sixth and Cherry streets, 80 feel by lit feet. Can be arraoged for one, or two rfainrn of tmninon together. Also for rent, npstalis rooms, by September 1st, the most desirable in tbe city, enquire at our office, Sixth and Cberrr streets.

B. W. KOOPMAN A SOS.

For Sale.

CKJR 8ALE-OJT GOOD TERMS-BEAU-JP tlful lot* on North at It and streets, 60 by 1S3feet aho, lots on EastCnestaot ond Jmgle streets, ,J. L. HUM^STON.