Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 July 1882 — Page 1

Vol. 13.—No. 4.

THE MAIL

1 A PAPER

pfo 1H Houtli 5th

NEW COURT H»L»K.

With the opening of the political campaign thin year commences once more the agitation of of building a new Court

IIthe,question

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FOR THE

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Printing nou-«e Square.

Town Talk.

mid those who think

the project a friendless bantling are sadly mistaken. Already the question is being discuasod on all sides, andmanv express a determination to vote again any candidate for Commissioner whoexpreKHfw opposition to it. The objections of a year ago are disappearing, and public sentiment leans towards a new building, provided it

can

be constructed

without bribery. So ire objected to it a year ago on the ground that it would be giving the West end too much. Now that Uncle Sum has concluded to put up a public building here, and has made an allowance of $160,000 for the pureha*" of ground and the commencement work, and as the building will be lo» 1 East of the centre of the business »rtlon of the city, such opposition to a Court House will probably disappear. Large tax payers who favor the scheme, doao on the ground that the county can afford it, and should build it as protection to the valuable rocords which won! 1 certainly be destroyed in the present building in theevent of a tire,and which could not bo replaced for twice the cost of a Court Mouse. The poor men who favor it do so in their own intorest, knowing that its construction would lo tho work of several years, and that while it continued there would 1)0 a chance of employment for them. Of course the country, or portions of it, put forward the objection that country people would derive no benefit from it, and if their brethern of the city want to law with each other, they can do so to any extent they may deem proper in the present quarters. Certainly the present building is not "a thing of Ijoauty and a joy fnrovor," to wh'.i 'he average eiti*en can point will, tin: finger of ]ri,!e.

The square which wan donated for 01111 House purposes is been vacant for years, and will probably remaiN so for years to come. If Terre Hnute had an elegant Court House and a handsome government building, her people could then I

satisfied to go abend and build

up her business interests. Then le*s Interest would centre in polities, and there would bo loss incentive to run for ofllee in the hope of disbursing the public funds in a lilieral manner among those who favor public improvements becauso there is money in it for them.

WHISKY IN POLITICS.

In all times, whisky has been a.i imjiortant factor in political campaigns. It has been assigned a duty to perform which has always been faithfully carried out. There is an element in politics which can always be won over by the party that *111 contribute most toenable it to Indulge in drinks and hem'aches. Hut this year, whisky is to cut a more Important figure In tho political campaign. It is to IJO made the issue upon which a party exjHvts to ride into power. Two years ago, about 45,000 of the voters of this State petitioned the I/Ogislature to submit to a vote of the people an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors within the State. Tho legislature adopted the amendment asked for, mcmlrrs of ln.it parties voting for It. It is not a political question, and neither party could at lord to endorse it, but one party wants to oppose it, and return to power by asserting that heir opponents favor prohibition. It is xpected that by pursuing such a course the whisky element will come to the rescue with fuuds suflicient to make a clean sweep. The vote of the State is 480,OW, in round numbers, but of them all, not more thau 80,000 are cast in tho twelve cities of the State, when1 tl.e strength of the whisky element is to be found, and outside of which there is a strong tendency to object to \eing ruled over by such an element. While the voting population at large is doubtless opposed to prohibition, and would vote down an amendment declaring for prohibition, they will, at the same time, assert their right to be heard upon the subject, nm!, it is perhaps needles toremark, they will bo heard. It is getter ully conceded in all comniunities that the traffic In liquor is one which should be csrried on under certain restrictions, and there Is no government on the face of thf earth under which its sale is not ifstrictcd lu s«ne manner. It is considered by all a sort of necessary evil, which cannot bo abolished, and which must be held in check as much as possible. In this State there la a license law, but thus far its working* have not been very successful. No one attempt* to disregard the United States law governing the

sale

of liquor, Hut more than one-

half of them disregard the Slate law, day and night, In each and all of it* pro-

MOM.

The man who pa v» bis license

promptly, and complies with the law in all its requirements will probably have a competitor within a few doors of him who runs his establishment twenty'-four hours each day and seven days each week. Right here in Terre Haute, on Sunday, ladies and children are compelled to pass these places, in full operation, on their

way

to

and from church.

Still, with ail their liberties, they want more, and

as-ert.

that the people have no

right tu be beard upon a certain question. Titeywantto rule absolutely, by refusing to submit to a fair vote a question which is not in their interest. Have they strength enough to succeed?

A CITT HOSPITAL.

About eight years ago the city Council and county Commissioners erected the present pest house, just north of the city limits, each bearing half the expense. Ttie building is a good one and is commodious. It is considered too large and expensive for the purpose for which it

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intended, the belief of medical

men being that small, cheap buildings should be used for small-pox cases and destroyed upon the disappearance of the dl*eas£. At tho present time there is a movement on foot to convert the buildin to a general hospital for the use of all patients who could bear the expense of bsing cared for there, and a committee is now endeavoring to secure it for that purpose. It Is not the intention to convert it into a money making scheme, but rather to make it a place to which those without homes or home comforts, could resort in case of sickness or accident, and whore all such would bo sure of good treatment and careful nursing. The Vigo County Medical Society will probably have charge of it, and will provide the stalT necessary to operate it. Thecitywill Iteasked to assist also tho tho Indies Aid Society. As tho county can lot carry on such an institution it will bo unable to do anything for it, further than to allow the use of its inintorest in tho building for a nominal sum. Thore is no reason why a hospital carried 011 undor such management in this city should not be a success. There are very many young men here without homes, and who could not procure suitable care at their rooms or hotels in case of sickness or accident who would be ad to ava'l themselves of the treatment offered by s.u'li a place. Societies could sei 1 unombers there, and it would l)e a gre.it assistance to the Ladies Aid Society in carrying out its work. It looks vory much as though it would really "fill a long felt want."

Nt'MBKR TWO.

"Look out for number one" Is an old saying, and in following It closely it sometimes becomes necessary to look for number two, by providing against contingencies which might arise. Tho late Democratic circus in Sul'ivan, or a portion of it, looked out for number one in selecting the head of its ticket, but failed to guard against the dissatisfaction in tho party ranks over it, which causes number two to come to tho front In the shape of a Republican judicial convention in Sullivan,noxt Monday week, to nominate a candidate for Circuit Judge. The call for the convention is a mysterious looking affair. Next fall a judge and prosecutor are both to l)e elected, but the Republicans are only going to make a fight for the first place on the ticket. Tho disaffected Democrats want tho prosecutor, but are willing to assist in eleetirg a Republican judge. If there is no opposition candidate for prosecutor, they can slaughter Davis without giving that gentleman's friends achaneo to retaliate. This Is the view some take of the situation. Others look at it differently. Tho latter say that should the Republicans nominate candidates for both positions it would be an evidence that they wanted to make a pohtieal victory of it, thereby drawing the party line (tightly, and causing the election of both the Democratic candidates. It is a beautiful fight, and has, evidently, been arranged in the Sheltou Interest. If it proceeds according to programme there will be weeping and wailing and gnashlngof teeth. This is going to be a good year for scratching—in fact thee! -thin promises to be a severe attack o: political itch. The greenbackers have endorsed a portion of two tickets, and closed the gaps from their own ranks. Those endorsed will probably be elected, and there will be a scramble over the balance. Then there is the Congressional fight, in which there is bound to be scratching both ways, although Tieree is certain of losing no ground. The election boards of this year have no easy ta*k before them, and they may commence preparations for a siege after the close of the polls on the seventh of November.

STAY AT HOME.

Stay, stay home, my heart, and rest, House-keeping heart* are happiest. For those Uiat wander the* know not where Are full of trouble ami fud of care

To stay at home to best. —{Longfellow.

AX ELECTJRi PROP ft EC T. Philadelphia Star. Before 1885, drag stores will be selling electricity by the fire cento worth.

THKRS are 7,000 homeopathic physicians in the United Statea.

Our Breakfast

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1882.

Table. 1

Even the Major came in with a sort of a hop, skip, and a jump, and said soiiiething of the delicious air, but he had a grievance. "Here's a party (lawyers are apt to talk about a 'party') always calls tbe Major-ah-ah, or Major-er-er, as if nay name was an unpronounceable Chinese tea-chest." "Ob, that's nothing. Mrs. Smith Always calls me Mias-um-um," said Miss Laura. "I ascribe it to a tremendous mind, too full for my little name." "Well, I wish your Mister-r-er-er's knew that it is a little compliment to remember folks' narties."

Said Jack: "I should think so! Worth money, too. The good-natured clerks at the Terre Haute get enormous salaries for remembering fT'rs' names and asking them if they'll have the same rooms they had when here three years ago and then they jerk the bell aud say: 'John, show th' gen'lm'u to 43 and call him at 7:46.' "I have learned one thing," said Mrs. Welby, "when I am outshopping and that's to call every clerk by his name." "Yes, tha catches them!'' sai€ Miss Laura. "That nice, curly-headed Mr. Snip confided to me that he was always on his good behavior when he thought people Knew him. A little art goes a good ways. Tell 'em you want a certain one to wait on you, and the insinuated compliment is worth money, and secures fresh butter, the newest goods, and the last bonnet. I believe even a baker would give you a fresh loaf without sticking yesterday's bakingat you, even if you forgot to specify it. Mrs. Comfort says she never sent Chub after bread, that he didn't get stylo bread, for he always forgets to say 'fresh,' and then back he goes, poor Chub." "Do you sec how lien Harrison raked Mr. Voorhees?" inquired the Major. '•Think you have got the cart before the horse," replied McEwan. "Mr. Voorhees' very sensible objections to your sham tariff reform were not met by Harrison with argument as much as by a snoerand a little buncombe, and some loss of temper. I think Mr. Harrison might lie informed that a reduction on matches, vinegar bitters and bank check stamps, lily-white and the bloom of youth, is not going to beuefitan Indiana farmer much, but I suppose he would let the eagle fly, and talk about '61, iu reply to any objections.'

Derby said "I agree with Mac. Senator Harrison answered Voorhees' pertinent remark by a sneer at his midnight pursuits, and repeated tho well-worn gush aljout the war. We have too much of this'Big Indian, me!' talk. When Daniel blows about the soldier, hit him, but when he is talking practical business, meet him like a man, on the same issue." "Yes," said the Professor. "It is the old trick of the Pogram and Lafayette Kettle orators, when in a corner, to get out of it by a well-timed allusion to the Star Spangled banner, and its remarkable habit of floating whenever the breezes blow. Voorhees himself is trying to get out of the gush into practical affairs, and though he can never fully succeed, his example is a good one. Congress Is a perfect cave of the winds, and the windiest members are some of our blessed Republicans, who never open a mouth without putting a foot in it." "That's a candid admission, Professor, aud I suppose you cannot say much in favor of the political assessments by llubbell and company." "Oh, as for that, we are all alike money must be raised. Your Indiana managers will put a spigot into the brewers. You haven't many officeholders to bleed, while we have." "Not necessary to goawa}* from home to find meanness, extortion or venality," said Derby. "It is perfectly awful how leeches are fastening upon the candidates. Every aspirant is surrounded by a ring of bummers, who are shameless in their demands for money. Mike wants to borrow a dollar to buy a ham

Dick will accept a quarter to treat a voter, and Bob must have an and this is outside of large contributions to the authorized committees. There are hundreds of voters engaged in selling themselves over and over. They area greedy gang, who fatten on bribery." "Your voters, you mean," said Mac. "Yes, ours,

Bnd

yours. I am told by

candidates on both sides that they are continually pestered by snch demands, and the worst of it is that they contixue after election there is no let-up." "Well," said the Major, "a man is foolishly weak to pay again for an office after be has once paid for it and be can very well question his own political purity if he ever gives or lends a dollar, but I do not suppose be bothers himself much by asking his conscience any questions. They have a very good law in England now, governing parliamentary elections. A detailed statement of the election expenses mast be made, and only a very small sum, which is named, can be expended. Proof of investment in loans, treating, or gifts of any kind would unseat a member, and

make him ineligible for office for ten years." "Very pretty in England," said Jack, "but we are not ao green here as to show our hands."

44Wouldn't

be very clean if you did,"

suggested McEwan. "Your committees to find out things don't find out much. Look at your Burnett case! Your Chairman seys to the witnesses: 'This here is the

Case of Ball A Co. against Burnett. Hold up your hand: "Y«u sol'm'nly swear that what you know of this case isthetrnth snd nothingbutthetruth.s'elp you God."' That is a good start, eh?" "My dear Mac, a bee in the bonnet is bard to get out. You and your friends don't want to see, won't see, and can't be made to see but one side. Mr. Burnett may not be, even with the addition of big bead-lines, a temperance tract, but that don't prove drunkenness. If you fling enough dirt, some vffll strike, and all you want is to smirch another officer's character. That is electioneering with a vengeance. I suppose the fact that this man has been an active and efficient Chief, cuts no figure. You wouldn't like to mention it, would yon and Jack tilted his coffee-cup with a determined air. "No, I wouldn't care to mention it," answered Mac. "We don't have the example. We run a respectable, clean man for Judge, for instance, and your side never allude to his character, but carefully build a wall around hitii, made of the misdeeds of his political associates, io as to hide the real man." "You know the Welsh proverb, 'tell me who you live with and I'll tell you who you are,'" interpolated the Professor. "We tell you he is an upright Christian gentleman, and you shake your head, look wise, and say, 'Oh, yes, heis now—but wait look at So-and-so—see what he has come to. What stuff!" "Restrain yourself, Mac. You know there is such a thing as real Independence in politics or newspapers. When your man puts himself into the hands of his friends, we want to fight his friends all the time and if ever a man wants to pray, 'save me from my friends,' Mr. Davis is that man."

From His Window.

I have to peep frpm this window at an eariy {four to gfet ahead of that early bird, the mail-carrier, who looks quite cheerful. Who wouldn't, with the prospect of a thousand a year before him? I know the citizen who proposed the increase of carriers will groan over the increase of jmv, and"Fairplay" (true, this is an old story), who wrote his little squib, not because he loved the carrier more, but Jones less, will rejoice to see the careworn mail-distributor smile over tho extra two hundred proposed by a liberal Congress. So will we all.

If the mail-collectors will get a thousand a year, how much should a billcollector get? It depends. For instance, the youth whose cheek of brass and native impudence fit him to storm the toughest beat in town, should be well paid. As he sallies forth, secure in the accessibility of Wall-street aid, ho can badger a woman, and threaten to sell her little household treasures secure in her ignorance, he can freely strut, glibly lie, or meanly threaten. To display his power, he can badger the dead-broke wight llat on his back knowing blood can't be got from a turnip, he harasses him from pure malice. I have iu mind an unfortunate youth, in debt, out of work, and trying to straighten up, who was hounded by a constable to desperation, to crime, and to a miserable death, as I fully believe.

You will find lawyers who detest the machinery of the law on debt. They advocate the abolition of all laws for the collectioh of debts, with their premium 011 fraud and meanness. It might be a bad day for somebody for a while, for pay in advance would be the rule.

The trouble with your brassy collector is that be considers bis victims as thieves and treats them with uniform disdain and impudence. I do not know bow be gets around the few rich ones who never pay except on compulsion. It don't do to sue old Moneybags, who is insulted by a bill—and yet don't pay it. He considers that he does a merchant or a mechanic a favor to—owe him, and swears like a pirate or scolds like a fish-wife over his yearly bills.

Speaking of collecting, from a vast fnnd of experience I recommend sooth ing syrup. Oily Gammon ia your best collector, nnless it was "old Boots." But you didn't know him. He waa a hi to-haired old saint, who wore top boots, knee-breeches, swallow-tailed coat and a powdered cue. He was a collector of bad bills. He couldn't be offended, and if the door was shut on him, would ait on the steps like a "sirup' for boon, waiting for the man to come out. Of course when Old Boots took such a position, It was a flrst-ciaiw "ad" as to the credit of the victim within. If he had any money be paid |if be could not,

there was no bully-ragging by a bully, but Boots could come around quarterly to see how business flourished. I am happy to say that the good old man died rich and respected, and not poor aud detested, like a red-nosed deputy.

Thesoothingest collector and promptest settler is said to be our amiable Sheriff. The delinquent tax-payers that be used to labor with long ago, intend to. vote for hitn. During the years that he extorted their taxes out of them by driblets, they were acquiring an affection for him. He had all the sweetness, all the lingering patience, the searching qualities, and deadly results of a sugar-coated vegetable pill. The kindness with which he promised to call again for that little balance was only excelled by the certainty of the call. He was to his clients what he is to his prisoners—a father. Not a cruel Stepp-father—oh, no, the other kind. It is said that to his unrivalled qualities as a collector he adds a feverish anxiety to get his collections into the hands of the creditors. Of course it is difficult to sympathize with such mistaken promptness, when we remember that once in a while Sheriffs go out of office with a tidy little balance—against them. But patrons of the Courts may like this, and on the strength of itthiuk Mr. Stepp will do to vote for. I should think so. We are beginning to find out :hat agents careless with accounts areas dangerous as those that are not honest. I wonder, as I look over the list of candidates, and notice the careless or ignorant on it, that there are so many rash souls willing to shoulder an office with its risks, but the proverb says, "fools rush in where angels fear to tread," so we have defaulters and unfortunate officers, etc.

It remains to be seen if investigating investigates. Rumor, with her many tongues, tells us that the former examination of the Chief of tho Fire Department was a poor job of kalsoinining. It didn't stick, neither will it wash. It merely shut the Chief's eyes. As lie couldn't soe, he thought nobody else could, and there he got left. If it is not .-.pirns, what is it?

»Si making ol spirit*, I have added to my reading-room the Medium. Fverybody ought to roud it —once. The nss cimo editors nie spirits. (Tho next bost paper in town draws the line at beer). The evidences it publishes of the return of dopartsd friends strike mo as impressive and realistic. For instance, the other night came down, or in, from the "vasty deep." He made directly for tho kitchen and got a pio and a plate. He ate the pie and showed the audience the plate. We still have the plate. Pie has slain its thousands, but now it has raised the dead. It is such simple little facts we need iu our religious literature. Little souls, vory little ones, can swallow them.

ABOUT WOMEN.

At Balla, Ireland, a woman was shot dead for daring to occupy a farm from which the former tenant had been evicted.

An ingenious New Yorker invented a bathing suit which a woman could wear without showing her form at all. Ho hasn't sold one so far this season.

It is said that tho rising generation of the Philadelphia Quaker families aro the dressiest and gayest of the city's society. Times change, and people chango.

Some real men man says: No woman ever answers a call by telephone without smoothing down her hair, working up a smile, and trying to make a good improssion on the transmitter.

A female lawyer of Milwaukee would not coase repeating questions which the Judge had ruled out, and was threatened with imprisonment for contempt. Then she went out of the room in tears, and refused to reappear in the trial..

A Mormon elder of Salt Lake has had his thirteen wives photographed, both in a group and separately. The pictures have been placed in an elegant album, and under each woman is engrossed a quotation of sentimental poetry suggestive of her best quality.

Two Michigan girls went bathing in Lake Huron, and had fun, at first, riding on a log but a wind blew them several miles from the shore, and for thirtysix hours tbey were burned by day, chilled by night, and tortured by hunger, before a boat finally picked tbem up.

An ancient colored woman named Fanny McKSnney, who baa lived in Evansville, Ind., since she obtained her freedom, baa just applied for a pension, as the only practical recompense for the loss of her second husband, who died in the war. She regards, however, as her strongest claim upon the bounty of her country, the fact that she is the mother of twenty-three children, and she ia indirectly responsible for seventy-five grandchildren. One of her daughters ia herself the mother of twenty children, and entertains remarkable expectations of beating the old lady's remarkable record.

Mail

Thirteenth Yea

CLAN A BULLS TXSTR UCTfVH

SHE ANSWERS A FEW OF THE MANT QUESTION* SKNT TO IIEU.

Nellie T.: Yon are mistaken in supposing that young women in this eit) commonly appeal iu Central i'ark o«« bicycles, or even on tricycles, though thf latter are used by little girls. However there is one exception. She mounts hewheel, which is as hi^h a one as tin length of her logs will }ei mit, ut th' Fifih-aveuuo entrance to the Park, usu ally starting out about dusk. 1 had mere glimpse of her as she whirled pas me. She had on a sort of equestriat habit, as far down as the skirt, whic» was rudimentary, and supplemented b* loose trousers, the whole costume boinjdark gray. She sat astride the bicycle, uian-fasluo:', and was managing it witk fearless sk

Eliza II. X.: "Do nice ladies go to beer gardens iu New York?" Oh, yes. and so do bad ones but that is equalh true of theatres and all places of publii amusoment. Within a fow years Neu York women have taken to boor like ba hies to milk. At no time is there les than one beer garden that can correct 1\ be described as fashionable. The first was Theodore Thomas' Central I'ark (Jar den, which failed through the multitudes' inappreciation of classical music Then came Uilmore Garden, then Roster i\: Bia then the Casino, each with its brief \'of fashion's favor. The Alcazar he current venture in this line. It the Casino re-namrd, with a stage perl irmance of operatic and Iwllet. aud is doing fairly. In August a new Casino is to be opened. The Alca/ar has had perfectly respectable countenance, and often holds quite a brilliant throng.

Simplet on This girl wan Is me to tell her "how behave bewitchingly" at garden party which she is to attend. Well, now, my dear Simpleton, if 1 could make that kind of knowledge impartable, I would put it up iu dollai packages- very tiny packages, too—and sell so many packages that I'd bo rich as Vanderbilt in a year. Why, the bovvitchingost girl in Ohio couldn't tell you how she does it. But I 11 inforn* you instead, what was tho finest dies.1worn at Mrs. Bet uont's garden part on Staten Island, a few years ago. was a short Princesse dress of creamwhitcsilk, scattered over with half-open pink roses. The skirt parted just below the pointed waist in front. Speaking ol pointed waists, the jjoints are in som cases carried to a riificulous extreme. saw a funny instance at the theatre. At ill-proportioned woman, whoso bodj was very short in proportion to hei whole length, had on a waist that pointed beforo and behind excessively. 1 noticed it whllo sho was standing, bu1 the surprl'e crime when sr.t down. Isr.i bent way up under her arms, ruyht .and 011 seating herself hehodho po iv. actually struck bottom before she did.

An exaggeration I hope I may iinyn write another fashion letter if it is. Thi points doubled up when she sat firm! in the chair. To return to the dn-ss 1 was describing, there was a pink satu petticoat, covered with white law lit.uncesand headed by pink r"--nbud with sprays of green foliage forming a fringe over tho "flounces. The eorsagi is similarly adorned with lace ano flowers.

Alice

W.: While it is true, as I wrote,

that jeweled garters are displayed in the stores, it is naturally beyond publh knowledge whether they area great deaf worn. do not personally know of 3 single i• stance yet I am told that many modest girls thus decorato their limbs. Jeweled garters aro kept In stock bv tin* jewelers, and they must, therefore, have a sale. Some ol them aro handsome and costly, Vjeing set with genuine stones. One pair on exhibition bear in each big, brilliant diamond, and the prieoie JWK). But dealers sometimes got up such things to attract attention' without ^expecting to sell them. "At all events," said a woman who was examining thle pair, "it ought to be a safe way of carrying one's diamonds." "Not so," wai her companion's reply "it would merely add a new horror to tho perils of highway robbery."

Mollie Louise: It cannot bo said thai ear rings are out of style. It is a parsing affeetation ol some girls, who wish to be considered sweet simplicity Itself, to leave the rings out of their ears, and 1 know of one who went so far as to neatly plug up the holes with wax,

ever

NOHS

conceal the evidence that her virgin ear had lH!en pierced. TT. M. X.: Oart-whcl hats die hard I have put them under the sod several times, Dutthey reappear alive and pretty well. Big ones of rough-and-ready straw, are now seen, with trimmings ol plain white mull, or

else

dotted muslin,

with a little velvet added to give tone. Immense round bats with straight brims are taken to tho country for shade, and will eertal.dy

IK?

less objoo-

tionable in landscapes than in theatres, though I don't know what the turkey# and bulls will think about the bright red oneJi.

Little I?nefoot: Black stoclungareln great demand, and must be worn by those who would le truly fashionable. You complain that theycroek frightfully, and after wearing a pair out a het dav you are left almost as black after taking them off as you were with tbem on. That makes no difference, it for fashion to order, and for

UH

to obejc.

It would be humiliating, of course, one should meet with an aeHdent, an^ on being taken to a surgeon for au arrir nutation, 1* forced to show a blacken*, extremity but consolation might todrawr. from the thought that tho stocking had, at all events, done its laM crocking on that leg. A slim snd ethereal friend !of mine was plaving lawc tennis, 'tother day. in pink slippers an* pink stockings. Her feet were small and shapelv. A deeply mashed fellow when one of them was coyly exposed put the end of his cane on a point in the elaborate embroidery, right over the bigtoe joint. He was going to spoak hi* admiration of the work, but a squeak from the girl stopped him, and the foot waa jerked away. "I didn' mean —M be began, thinking be had offendfc'l. "Oh, don't apologias," she interrupted "there's no barm done. But there might have been. Right under that rose leaf where you were putting down your stick, la the mnceat, reddest, tenderest bnnioa tbat

grew on a human fAt." Bo

waa disenchanted.