Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 May 1881 — Page 2

TH E-MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, MAY 7,1881

TWO EDITIONS

Of Mils Paper are puhll«li»*J. Thf PIRST EDITION, OJI Thursday Evening, large circulation in the surrounding where it 1* void by newsboys and *.—«••«*» Tli.- -.KCOND EDITION, on Saturday Even vtn&t Into the hand* of nearly every r- ding person in the city, and the farmew «»f inia immediate vicinity. Ev.iy Week's Leme 1*, in fact,

TWO NEW8PAPKKH,

In vlilch all Advertlaemenis appear for TH FUICF. OK ONK ISHUK.

VK.WVOE predicts heavy frosts and tm- v/ in Mar. L«et us hope he refers to the region of the North Pole.

IN New York they have found out tl»at while ladies faro littlo for !aby shows they just lotv deg shown.

.Fouit lives stood between George liurnmgliam and Lhe Inheritance of a farm at Cypress, Ark., and ho determined upon removing tbem. He had only committed ono of the contemplated murders, however, when his guilt was exposed/

AN erroneous roport has recently got into the newspapers that the widow of President Lincoln contemplated an early visit to Pau, in Southern France. Mrs. Lincoln is nf at the house of her sister in Springfield, Ills,, confined to her bed by sfckfiess. She never expects to go abroad again. She is subject to periods of great mental depression and her friends have serious apprehension about her recovery.

TIIK drama of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is now being played at the South for the lirsttimo. It is variously received. The company was driven from the stage by a shower of egg* at Oriflln, ia., and the performance was also stopped by a mob at iiriullaw, La, In most places, howvor, the audiences arc orderly but the jringH of Uncle Tom do not produce anywhere, the negroes generally ding him as a comic character, and heartily when ho gets whipped.

BAN: tivested hundreds of thousands ISlfs in ho traveling show business, that no other jerson owns a larger ftharo than himself in the new show conibinutiou known as "P. T. Ilnrnum's «rcatest Show on Earth," "The (ireat London Circus," "Sanger's lloyal British Menagerie" and "The International Allied Showa," and he has sued a Philadelphia editor and publisher for $100,000 damages for publishing "the stale slander" that ho had no interest in these shows, and had simply hired out his

TIIK Dement family \trore traveling through Arkansas in a wagon. They cauiptHi one day on top of a hill, and the father wont off to lish in a stream a mile away, leaving the wifoand two children to mind the horses and baggage. When lie returned he saw a prairie lire moving up tho hill. He hallooed to awaken Mrs. Dement and the children, for night had fallen and they were asleep. They found themselves approached on one aide by llatnos, while on the other was a precipitous rock. They endeavored to caeapo by climbing, but had reached only a little height when tho lire scorched them, and they meta horrible death in

Mglit of tho poworlcss father.

,V I A [777 I'KRSfONS. American peoplo of fashion are emulating the Europeans in devising odd and original forms ol entortainment. For several seasons lawn tennis, o'clock tea*, archery fetes and kottlodrums have lxen the rage, and this season promises to cxceod them all in gayctv. and there will be a good naturod rivalry us to who will provide the most

novel

"entertainment. Costume parties, masked promenades, tableaux vivants and high teas had already been given when tiOnt nut a stop to tho festivities, which will b© resumed with added rest after llaster. An American lady residing in l/ondon, apparently desirous to win something decidedly new in this direction, recently gave a "soap-bubble party." The guesta found a long table covered with china pipes, tied with gay colored ribbons, and dishes of warm *ap and water. They spent sometime in the childish amusement of blowing aoap bubbles, and the evening ended wltn refreshments and music.

THE NUDE DEPAliTVRK. Rochester iferald. In sneaking of the various methods of education for the young, we never hear anything said about one of tho most potent of HU in our cities, which may properly be ml led street odutition. Children IcaVn very much, in fact gain a very large proportion of their knowledge of men and things, by observation, and the deepest impressions mado upon their plastic minds are those received while they are parsing through the street*. At such timw the are greatly interested in the novel siglitsand »ouuus about them, their eve* and ears are on

lasting. It wosiM though there ought to be limit Uie eUtr.wipr of the in men.*? and highly odomi ter* which are put up wherever a space ran be found for them, throughout the city. Thev are .very attractive to the childish eve, aa they are highly colored, »nd frequently present very pleasant features Bat many of them are repmxmuti.m* of half-draped females, and •f low nlava and characterisation that If not imiooent, t*rder too closely on the vulgar tor public exhibition. It ia a ay* tern of object teaching that certainly lelMal to children, and upcannot be' on whichK restraint should bepli ty law. Such pictures aa we would allow in our houses and our homes should not be permitted upon the walla •of t»ur public suwfc*.

l»Kort.K apeak rarelewdy of "bloated aritfUwxats," aa if an aristocrat is alwav* abnof. That I* wrong. Some of the n* of U»-4ay f* mighty thin.

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CURIOSITIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY "The question is often asked,"" said an experienced photographer, "why actors and actresses take the most pleasing pictures. It is because they study the principles of art and good taste In their profession, and understand how to dress. Mereover, they usually bring a selection of veils, flowers, curls, braids, laces, and sometimes costumes, to give the photographer a choice of accessories They come when they are wholly at leisure, and are not flustered. A red faee takes black, and they know it. Then they do notload themselves down with gewgaws and haberdasheries, to show all that they have got in worldly goods. Few persons know how to dress for a picture like an actress. The beat materials for ladies to wear when about to sit for a photograph are such as will fold or drape nicely, like reps, winceys, poplias, satins, and silks. Lavender, lilac, sky blue, purple and French blue take very light, and are worse for a picture than pure white. Corn color and salmon are better. China pink, rose pink, magenta, crimson, pea green, buff, plum color, dark purple, pure yellow, Mazarine blue, navy ulue, fawn color, Quaker color, dove color, ashes of roses, and stone color show a pretty light gray in the photograph. Scarlet, claret, garnet, sea green, light orange, leather color, light Bismarck, and slate color take still darker, and are excellent col ors to photograph. Cherry, wine color, light apple green, Metternich green, dark apple green, bottle green, dark orange, golden and red brown, show nearly the same agreeable color in the picture. A black silk always looks well, and it takes well if not bedecked with ribbons and laces that will take white. Dark Bismarck and snuff brown usually take blacker than a black silk or satin, and are not easy to drape. A silk, because it has more gloss and reflets more light, usually takes liyhter than a woollen dress. Ladies with dark or brown hair should avoid contrasts in their costumes, as light substances photograph more (illicitly than dark, and

ladies with light hair should dress in something lighter than those whose hair is dark or brown. Few ladies understand how to arrange their hair so as to harmonize with the form of the head, but blindly follow the fashion, be the neck long or short or the faee narrow or broad. Abroad face appears more so if the hair is arranged low over the forehead or is parted at the side, and long neck liecoines stork like when the hair is built up high, while a few curls would make a most agreeable change in the offoct. Powdered hair gives good effect, and powder should be bestowed upon re

OLD LADY OOSSIP. Philadelphia Times.

There is much pleasure to be bad in listening to a nice old lady as she gossips of the people and customs and things of long ago as she tellia of a society that passed away ere we of this lato generation were born of the building of tho houses which were old when we were young, and of those who dwelt in tliem—the grave citizen* and their fair dames who led tho town six years back, and whose names strike upon our ears not as strange and new, but rather as awakened memories. It is pleasant, indeed, to listen to her as sho thus brings before our oyes life-likely those details of person and place which in tliemselves are trilling, yet without whick we can have nothing that approaches to a porfect picture of the

It may be a sketch of the good Bishop White—silvery-haired, graceful, serene or of that stout

the alert for everything to Ih» km or yo^derintf «p.m than are the angular heann Impawns thev sj.ruutf «p in onr own time. As umlor such 4re:»u««Un.v* tU*p and

haute

past.

Most astonishing is the dear old lady's memory! A little rambling she may be In her talk a little uncertain as to the sequenco of events, and in dates she always is hopeless at sea. But the material points of her narrative, the small facts which give it strength amd flavor and reality, never are lost. Her backgrounds may be hazy, but her portraits and groups always are clear—life-like, because they are drawn truly from life. And what matters it that a love story three scoro years old is not ticketed with the very year to which it belongs Sure thero is no place for such harsh crudities as datos in a true romance. "It was about tho year 1825 or 1830" is far less striking a lieginlng tlion "It Avas ten or rtfteen years after tho end of war." And if she is not interrupted by ill-advised inciuries as to the when and the how, she is fairlv certain in Uie long run, telling her "story in her own way, to make it coherent and clear. Sometimes she mav treat decorously af the certain doubts"and doubtful certainties of the past—with no thought of malice, yet in a fashion to make the backs of some of tho nowadays "nice" people creep awkwardly, in response to tho queer social rule that makes |one responsible for the doings or misdoings of one's grandfathers—but most times her recollections run in more placid channels and are busied only in bringing once more to light the queer, entertaining memories of the time when she was young. One of the chief charms of her story-telling is that you never know, when she is fairlv started, what she is going to tell.

Morris—last

lelphiana to wear knee*

breeches or of Father Pill more, the eccentric rector of St. Paul's or how the cows of well-to-do dtitens were pastured on the hospital lots or of how the Vaux hall Garden was raked by a mob: it may be ot»e of a hundred such stories as these that she tells, or it may be a story in which, so far aa the facta are concerned, there is nothing of interest at alt. .But eveu when her stories are commonplace, her hearers scarce will And them dull so sincere is her own interest in them, so genuine is tba zest with which they are told.

Mellowly tender and full of a sweet

fragrance'are

these gathered memories

of long ago, and very pleasant is it to listen to them a* they take form in gentle words. Thev are, in truth, but the shadows of the past and yet a heart unhardened by the world will

find them far lotter worth

f»w

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spru

the MI lulv prw-nis then, they h»ve a tingt* of true |athos.

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slime l»ru' *an

To us of a

l*:ci generation, they are memories of old, old times but* to her they are all memories of the ene glad season when alt was new—when the eyes which are grown so old and see so much that is sorrowful look en out happily upon the world and saw sit brighter, fresher, fairer than it is now, because they were Touncr. .:-A

*V.4 TARE'S SL WCE- W'.t Y. Independent.

If they do no work liquid

Saturday

FRITZ EMMETT,

HIS SMALLEST AlTDIEJfCE. PUL ING TO ONE MAS.

A reporter of theN. Y. Sun, the day, asked Joseph K. Emmetfc .what was the smallest audience he ever played to. He replied: "The smallest audience I ever had was in Columbus, Ohio. The managers had been trying to introduce matinees, but with not much success. Joe Jefferson, Denman Thompson, and some of the big stars had gone through the mill, and the audiences had been so small that they had shied and refused to take the gate. The money had been returned at the box office, and the disappointed ticket buy era had determined never again to patronize a matinee in Columbus. The afternoon business was at its lowest ebb when I struck the town. After two or three performances, the posters an nounced a matinee. I went to the the ater at 2 o'clock that afternoon and found mv company sky-larking behind the curtain in their every-day suite. I looked out in the auditorium. There was just one man in the theater. He sat clear back in the parquet. It was as much as I could do to outline him in the darkness. I went out to the box office. "Did that man pay for his ticket?" I asked. "Yes, fifty cents," the treasurer replied. "The manager told me to return him his money and close the theater." "No, you won't," I said. "Ihave never disappointed an audience when I'm sober, and I don't propose to do so now. We'll play for him. I went into the parquet, introduced myself to the man, and thanked him for his attendance. I told him that as he had thought enough of me to come and see me and pay fifty cents for the privilege, he should have as good a performance as though the house was packed. I then went behind the curtain and requested tlie company to dress. "Great Caesar, Joe," ono of them said, "you ain't going to play to that one man, are you?"

Yes Iain," I replied. "He's paid his money, and he shall have his money's worth." "Ob, the devil," broke in another member of the company. "I'll »y his fifty cents and you let him go." told them" that the performance must go on as usual, and I warned each one that any attempt to guy the audienee, or any failure to play a part in full would be the signal for a discharge-. "Well, the orchestra played an .overture and the curtain arose," Fritz continued. "I walked down to the footlights. I invited the audience to come forward and take a front seat, where ho could see and bo seen. He thanked me and settled himself in the front row. I suggested that a little generous applause thrown in where he thought the actors deserved it would serve to inspirit them and warm them to their work. He seemed to appreciate the situation and agreed to give us all the encouragement that he thought we deserved. The performance began. I don't think I over played better. I threw myself, heart and sonl, into the character, and sang the 'Lullaby' so tenderly that the entire audience was in tears. He called for an encore. I told him that we rarely gave an encore, but as this was an extraordinary occasion he should have one. He applauded liberally at times where no applause was deserved, and again failed* to applaud where applause was doservedf. At such times I called his attention to the omission, and asked whether, on reflection, he did not really think that he made a mistake. A hint was sufficient. He would clap his hands as though perfectly enchanted and shout "Bravo!" like an Italian over Safo4ni--The company paid no attention to him, but went on with the performance asregular as clock work. Between theacts, however, one or two of them evinced a disposition to go out into theauditorium and mingle with the audience. I set my face against it and they refrained. At the close of the second act the manager entered the theater.. He' had been ont for a walk. He seemed dumfounded at seeing the house brilliantly lighted, and the orchestra playing soberly to one man. But he waa more astonished when the curtain arose and the performance was resumed with as much unconcern as though there-were a thousand dollars in the house.. But he had an eye to business. He sent word to the newspaper reporters, and half a dozen of them arrived in time for the last act. No actor ever received better newspaper criticisms. Some of them wore over a column long. It turned out that the audience was the owner of a opper mine in Michigan, and very real thy. On the following night he gave the whole company a banauet at the leading hotel. He entertained us as handsomely as we had entertained him, and wc parted with mutual regrets. Just a year afterward I announced another matinee at Colombus. It was well advertised, and the house was filled to suffocation. I took in over* $1,200. My son.se of duty to that one man, who had invested the small sum of half a dollar, returned me a golden harvest.*'

THE JUDICIOUS WIFE. Ruskln. A judicious wife is always nipping off from her husband's moral nature little twigs that are growing in wrong directions. She keeps him in shape by con tinual pruning. If you say anything silly she will affectionately tell you so. If yon declare that you will do some absurd thing she will find some means of preventing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all the common sense there is in this world belongs unquestionably to women. The wisest tnings a man commonly does are those whi% his wife counsels him to do. A wife is a grand yielderof the moral

Rruning

knife. If Johnston's wife had

ved,

there would have been no hoarding up of orange peel, no touching all the posts in walking along the streets, no eating and drinking with disgusting voracitv. If Oliver Goldsmith had been marrie&he never would have worn that memorable and ridiculous coat. When ever veu find a man whom you know little* about, oddly dressed, or talking dbsnrdly, or exhibiting eccentricity oi" manner, you may 1m sure that he i» not a married man, for the corners are rounded off—the little shoots parHi awav—in married men. Wives have generally much more sense than their hnsbamis, even though they may lie clever men. The wLfes advice is like the ballast that keeps the ship steady.

WHY ARE YOU BILLWUS' Xion's HemM. Because yon have allowed your bowels to become costive, and liver torpid. I'm Kidney-Wort to prod nee a free statr of the bowels, and It will stimulate the liver to proper action, cleanse the akin of its yellowness, cure bilious

The kidney* are nature's sluice-wayj h«»dacbe. a»tl J® JJ® to waah out the debris of our constant- blood. Pniggists have it, both dry and ly changing bodies*.<p></p>VM^aS^ot^

sign* of disorder get a p-ckageof Kid-1den relief NEV- Wort and take it faithfully. It will of LYDIA ctatn the siui^-way of sand gravel or, ^theJJSJfif r?T^!u slime and M::"V bole avstsaa. S peculiar to female*. Send to Mrs. Lydia

ati bo!•:, li-mKi ana tiry, nninwu, 'VTT" fs equally e&teient fn either form. Lynn, Mass., for pamphlet*.

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nid and dry. Ptnkham, 233 Western Avenue,

fysauntered

robes of var was great tumes, inde the whole bii pushed to sj

evening mail.

LINCOLN'S FIRST LOVE

HOW A CHILD BROKE A MARRIAGE ENGAGEMENT.

His Fondness for Mary Oteens Cooled ». Because He Didn't Offer to Carry MgJicy Green's Child.,

Correspondence later-Ocean. ON THE CARS, April 16.—Ileft off just as oar host, Mr. W. G. Green, was about to relate how the match between Abraham Lincoln and Mary Owens broken off. "It was this way," said Mr. Green. "My cousin, Nancy Green, had a great, strapping baby, that she was in the nabit of lugging about with her wherever she went. Possibly^ Lincoln didn't have a passion for babies at any rate, he was not in love with this one and I remember very well that when his own son Bob was in the cradle Lincoln- used to lie on the floor reading and let the future Secretary of War split his lungs yelling to be carried about the house. If Mrs. Lincoln happened to arrive home about this time there was trouble in the family for a few minutes, but no remonstrances or appeals could ever make him a good nurse. He' would read, and, so far as appearances went, was deaf to all the infantile cries that came from his hopeful heirs. When the babies grew up a bit, and knew something, they found in their father a companion and a friend, bat thev had to look elsewhere for a nurse. "\Vell, at the time I mention, Lincoln had grown very fond of Mary Owens, and she seemed "to take quite a fancy to him. They were together a good deal, and finally, as was understood, became engaged. "One day Mary and Nancy Green were going a mile or so to a neighbor's, and Lincoln went with them. As usual, Nancy took the baby and trudged along with it, although it" was a heavy weight for her. Perhaps she expected that Lincoln would offer to shoulder the boy himself for part of the distance, and so relieve her, out if she had such expectations they were not realized, for he

his hands in his pockets and leisureby the side of Mary Owens, without a glance toward the baby. "Pretty soon Mary became cold, and answered Lincoln with short curt sentences. Then she refused to talk wiih him at all, and by the time the end of the journey was reached she fairly withered him with her glances. Lincoln did not know, or seemed not to know, what the matter was, and at last asked an explanation. "'What's up, Mary?" said he. 'You seem to bo in Dad humor.' 'Oh, no,' she replied, mockingly, 'I'm ez purring and good natored as a kitten. What is there to ruflie a body, my gracious!' 'It's 'Something I've "done, 1 suppose,' said Lincoln. 'No,T replied Mary, tartly, 'it's nothing you've dono. It's what ye hain't done, and that's what's the matter.' 'Well, what is it?' said Lincoln. 'You don't know, of course,' responded Mary, disdainfully. 'No, I'll be hanged if I do,' said Lincoln. 'Wall, I'll tell you/ said Mary. 'You've walked yer for more'n a mile with us—a great, strong feller like you—and let that woman carry a baby that weighs nigh onto forty pounds and never so much as lifted yer finger to help her. That's what ails meP 'Why, she never asked me,' said Lingafcn. 'Q, she didn't! And you hadn't politeness enough to offer to help her, but must wait to be asked.' 'Why, I never thought of it," returned Lincoln. 'I alwrfys supposed she would be afraid to let a fellow like me touch the baby for fear be might break it ar something. I'd carry a bushel of 'em for you, Mary.' 'Yea,4w«'/ said Mary, bitterly. 'Any, ilrulk_r^ 5«lid. W4«iltfi 'Vl ... ifi aji-orf you/ responded Mary. *Well, I reckon you could aak me- if you wanted them carried,' retorted Lincoln. 'I just tell you what it is, Abe Lincoln,'cried Mary, gefctiug excited, 'any man as is fit to be ai husband would have offered to a carriedthat child when he could see its mother was near ftbout tired to death.' 'And I didn't offer?' said Lincoln. 'No, you didn't,' responded Mary. 'And so I ain't fit to bea husband said Lincoln.

That's just the fact, you hain't,' said Mary. "Lincoln turned about with a laugh and didn't appear to think much more•of the mattet He treated Mary very nicely and mveh as if nothing had been said, out her yords no doubt made a serieus impression, for from that time their intimacjl began to wane and after awhile there flas a general underrtandring that the jngagement was canceled. There were no more words about the baby, I belkre, but it was the baby, after all. that£roke up the match."

THE

LARGE At IMA LS DISA PPEA Ry: jya.

l|roli Free PrewC'

The Londi Times delates that the animals distiguished for their height and bulk al gradually disappearing. Their bodie*re huge that year by year they ni increasing diflWulty in getting uoisshrupnt, and their multiplication is try slow. Kats, mice and insects are aorolific that extermination is well nig! impossible the whales, walrus, seall white bears, the common bears, wolvt lions, tigers, gorillas, the giant armad giraffes, bison,elephant, hippopotam. rhinoceros, kangaroo, turtle, croode, birds of the ostrich group, the lagnin, etc., are all threat* ened with junction. The reflection "'great noral showa" will be unknown to «r greatest, grandest children is cak* kted to east a gloom oyer the entire ununity.

If AT A FARCE Hfe when one or both are dyspepsia, changing disposition into absooaes, and making what ppy home into a pandemoob can be averted bp using ood Bitters. Prioe $1.00, its.

tormented naturally lutely might he nium.

Burdock trial «se 1

HUMAN NATURE IN THE CO UNTRYSWDRE. From the Chicago AlllsiHSO

A great plaoe "in which to study human nature is the village stoie, iuidif the minister does not nibble at the crackers, nor steal the raisins, nor sample the evaporated apples, nor allow the current talk to drift into the boundaries of the impure, be can get and and do a "sight" of good sittingon the cracker barrel once in a while. The sort of man he is who does the occasional sitting, determines the good or evil of it. And there is a deal of rest and fun to be gained around the counter of the village store. Here the crops are discussed, aud the Sunday's sermon, and the doctrine of predestination, all with equal daring here the witty sallies fly, ana here, it may be said, is settled the fate of the nation. We read in this paragraph: "The boxes and benches were a good deal cut with knives." The happiest days of all of us are notched into memory with a jack-knife. The old school house on the coi$ntry hillside—how it was hacked up You have left your mark on many a tree in the forest where you used to aaaap ont when a boy. Perhaps the bark has not yet grown over Olivia's name, ear

Ted on

some tree with exceeding care. And what companionable Sam Lawsons those idle cuts on the bench of the village store may signify. Your Sam Lawsons are not the worthless- fellaws they have been made out to be. The instinctive wisdom of nature often sits idly on a cracker-barrel. Genius and good humor incarnate and acquaintances well worth cultivating are these idle follows sometimes. Not all! the wisdom of the world—nor much of it, we had almost said—is packed away in books. The village loafer, who knows all about the ways of tho chipmunks and tbe foxes who knows the best bait and best holes for trout in the brook who can locate the bone-spavin of every horse in town, and is familiar with every bit of village gossip, can give the minister many a valuable bint and illustration aa he whittles away the slivers from, the boxes and benches of the village store. And if the preacher can. not find a chance to read Sam aud hisuompanions a short but effective sermon once in a way, he is not worthy of his vocation. It may be' that the preacher* of our time mind their booksto much and talk with sinners in a familiar, aympathetic way too little. It would Seem that if a minister could not sit down and talk in a kindly way with even the worst of menjwithout receiving mortal i&}urj^ his peoplo should put him in a glass case lest the dust of tl|ia world get into his delicate ethical machinery and ruin it. The minister misses an opportunity who does not make it a point to be about and among his people in a companionable way, even to the extent of going a fishing with Sam. Lawson or sitting among, the loafers on the boxes of the village store —at least when the mail comes in

THE.SINUOSITIES OF WASHING TON ETIQUETTE. Miss ticumty's Letter to Philadelphia Times

Senator Sherman's wife returned toiler old.reception day, Thursday, promptly after her husband again became a Senator.. During his four years' service in the-cabinet she received on Wednesdays.. Mrs. Blaine and Mrs. Sherman, have apia exchanged reception days. While Mr. Blaine was Speaker his wife received on Wednesday, and then Mr. Sherman, was a Senator, so his wife received on. Thursdays. When Mr. Sherman entered the cabinet and Mr. Blaine the Senate- their wives changed their reception days, and now that their, poslr ions-.axe again reversed, the exchange las again, been made. Both ladies laugh, merrily over the many changes in their

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ST OF FASHION. ew York Suu.

Among faihionable people the areas* ing during 1st winter was enormously expensive, lhe season was unusually gay that iSj there were evening entertainments oiai grand scale in constant succession tpd the demand for wardus and original -designs ond precedent. The coswere too expensive, and iness of society has been an extreme of costly magnificenoelthat there must be a reaction. Alreuy the current has begun to set toward simplicity. The rage for house docorajon. for bric-a-brack and for elegant flrniture has gone so far that people ak getting tired of it. and now we find tiem stripping their draw-ing-rooms of Superfluous articles once highly priced lowering the tones of their colors, »nd relieving tbem of cumbersome angings. There is always the danger tat yon may make the frame of youf picture so generous that it will distrad attention from the painting itself, pu can so crowd your rooms with jtrong and brilliant colors that dress tfem oven so beautifully, your gests vril seem mean by comparison.

osltiorua in respect to each other they undergone in Washington in igjiteen years without their friendship altering at all.

Tho ansurdity of Washingtonetiq^uette in tho matter of first calls cannot be better illustrated than by mentioning how these two ladies have"several times reversed their positions with, respect to. which should make the first call on the other. When Mr. Blaine first came here hue was a member of the House-of Representatives, and Mr. Sherman a Senator, so Mrs. Blaine had to make the first call each year on Mrs. Sherman., When Mr. Blaine became Speaker it was Mrs. Sherman's duty to call first on Mrs.. Blaino. When he ceased to be Speaker and was still a member of the House tlieoH order of things was restored. Then. Mr. Blaine went into the Senate and Mr. Sherman into the cabinet, and the order for first calls was again reversed, and now, as Mr. Blaine is in the cabinet and Mr. Sherman in the Senate, it again became Mrs. Blaine's duty to make a first call on Mrs. Sherman. This she promptly did, and Mrs. Sherman returned it on Mrs. Blaine's first reception day as the wife of a cabinet officer.

A WRETCHED LIFE.

UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEAIIS A CROWN. •u

New York Dispatch.

A letter from St. Petersburg gives a gloomy account of the new czar's life at the Castle of Gatschina, thirty miles from the capital. Before the court removed thither several hundred artisans of the Preobrajinsky regiment were sent to make necessary alterations. At midnight they assembled in the church of Gatachina, and were sworn to silence, death or Siberia, being tbe penalty of an infraction of their oath. Ten roubles were the price of each man's silence. The alterations were made in fortyeight hours. Vodki ROOM loosened tne tongues of the workmen and the following is a description of the precautions against assassination made in the palace of the car: A subterranean passage leads from tbe czar where a number of

to the stables,

rses are kept sadand nigbt. Sen ti

died an'd bridled day nels are posted at Intervals of twenty yards all around the building. The imperial bedroom has two windows protected at night by nnw-ive iron shutters, which'tan onl\^Jbe£ reached from the outride by passing through three spacious ante chambers in which are tKMted eightv Cosftacks armed to tbe teeth. They* are allowed to speak and move about in the tiflo outer rooms, but in the ball ndjointng tb czar's bedroom perfect silence is maintained. All nigbt tbe general on duty for the day sits in an easy chair, bis Cossacks sitting on a divan which runs around tbe whole room. At the general's right hand is tbe knob of an electric apparatus which rings a bell in every guara house within the palace grounds, when theemporor is aoont to retire, before abutting the door he removes tbe outer handle so no entrance can be effected until he himself personally opens the door from tbe inside. Unlike bis father, he cannot endure an armed soldier in his bed chamber. Several mines have been discovered at St. Petersburg. A quantity of dynamite was seized lost after it had been introduced into tne court yard of the palace of Gatachina, concealed in a load of hav.

Tbe czarina is seriously 01, being subject to severe nervous attacks and strange hallucinations.

I have a little girl, said Mr. Henry Dole, of this city, in a conversation, who wrs troubled with a severe lameness in her legs, pronounced by some Erysipelas by other* Rheumatism. I had tried several remedies without effect, when I was introduced to apply St. Jacobs Oil and I am happy to say tbat the use of bat one bottle cared her, and she is now able to go to school again.—Detroit Post and Tribune. juff

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Faith Rochester In American Agriculj.uri»t& §C EATING BETWKKJJ *RALST W™ This habit should always be discouraged. Three regular meals are enough for almost every one. I cannot thinkof any case where a person of average health, or a child old enough to talk plain, can habitually need more frequent meals, if these three are of good wholesome food. Eating lunches between meals is a habit easily acquired, but troublesome and unhealthful. To keep little children from acquiring this habit, see that they have plenty to eat at their regular meals—plenty of good, nourishing food. Many seem to suppose- that if the stomach is ftlled with something at a meal, especially if that something be made to "taste good," it matters little what the filling may be. People apeak of an empty stomach as the one great evil in case of delay about meals. Genuine hunger ia the real need of the body for more building material. Hunger is often fancied (more often than genuine hunger is felt) by those who havo plenty, because there is a sense of emptiness in the stomach which is kept so constantly filled as to have little chance for rest. My baby's case convinces me that eating between meals is mostiv a mere habit. He has always been well nourished. I found that he was more contented aud slept better at night when ho had good full meals—mostly sifted Graham gruel and milk, or bread and milk, after weaning for a few months—and he alwavsexpected to finish his meal lieforo heturned to anything else. Before he was* a year and a half old it was quite noticeable that he hardly over wished for any-% thing between meals, even when others around him were eating. Somo who had a theory that children should oat littleand often, felt sure that he ought to have something lietweeu meals but if they can show me a stronger, plumper (not yfant), or more rosy cheeked, healthy fel low of two yen re, I should like to seet him. (THILDKKN's ITNDKR (iAUMKNTS.

I do not know why so many people* imagino that little boys need less clothing in cool summer weather than girls do. Mothers who would never think of alllo-wing little girls to go with only ono thickness over most of the body, let little boys go through tho cool summer mornings and oveningx, and through tbosedays when they put thick clothing on themselves, with nothing under their unlined cotton trousers, porliaps with no clothing on except a waist and trousers buttoned togetner. This is well enough on very hot days nnd nights, but ail little boys ought to bo provided with-thick cotton unacrdrawora, a littlo shorter than their trousors, to woar all summer except in the hottest weather. Often ft is advisablo to put second pair either of drawers or trousors, between the inside and outside layers of clothing, unless the thin trousors are exchanged for thicker. I have seen considerable of this neglect to provide children with sufficient clothing in summer, whero there was no excuse except ignoraneo or carelessness.

FOr children of both sexes, the combined) waist and drawers is the most convenient fashion for undergarmonts. In summer it is more convenient to have them, made in two parts, buttoning together aronnd tho waist. I find it Dest to provide lone-sleeved, high-necked, thick cotton waists for tho spring ami fall amd cool summer days, and othorthinner onos with low neck and short sleeves for hot weather. This loaves no necessity for shirt or chemiso, and 'at night a night-grown is the proper1 covering. It is best to take off all of tho» [clothiing worn during the day, and givo it a«i airing at night.

I see patterns for children's waists lm the pattern books. They cannot bo so useful and healthful as tho plain waists with, sleeves either long or short. Whatever a woman must como to in the wayof absurd and unreasonable clothing, let the little girls bo as equally covered

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Opinions would differ about the real use of spices in our food. More than one family lias learned to do without.7 ices almost-entirely. A littlo now and^ en is the general rule among onlight-f ened people. Professional coolss#and teachers of cookery caution us against too free a use of spices, if wo would regard the health of our families. Igno-t rant COOKS seem to think that if a little of anything is good, more must be better. It seems to me to be with splees as with perfumes—the use has been mainly to cover up something wrong. If good materials are used in cookery, especially ood butter and sugar, there Is no need or strong seasoning. But spices are said to be good for provoking an appetite. That shows tbat something is wrong with the one who eats. So far as I have observed, a healthy person who eats regularly and temperately of plain and nourishing fare, has no need of a special pppetizer. He cannot help relishing good food well cooked, though plainly seasoned, if he has a suitable variety to supply his needs. If the appetite fails, better begin at tbe other end to mend matters. Try a little fasting, or greater moderation in eating.

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