Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 January 1884 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Tovn Talk.

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ijrt*ROVKMENT8.

ID the ma^er of progress, Terre Haute 4akes a bigbrank among the cities of the •went, and t-day there Is no place io the State of Indiana which can show as rapid dn advancement as the Prairie •uJity rti the banks of the Wabash. Vin£nn/» is the oldest city in the State. In Vaet/t is the oldest settlement this side bf toe Alleghany mountains, but with /j-jyp resent population of about seven tl/ouaand it seems to have ceased to crow, and it is tiow ready to be fenced /n as one of t&e finished communities oi the country. As the capital of theStaM, XndianapoHs 'has assumed proportions which wwe never exacted Of it, and which it would never have attained under less favorable circumstances. Wtoile 1 ranksae tbe largest city in the State, ii has not that importance which it should assume. Its buildings are tine, but they by no means Vepresent the capital 3 •citizens. Most 61 tbern were erected daring the real estate excitement, and when the panic of 1873 struck the country it was found that the principal portion of the business community of capital 'rf Indiana belonged to -eastern moaey -lenders, and is their's to the permit dayi It is true the ground is nlMnhoreiand the buildings remain. It I* also true that the latter cannot be removed, but.it still remains as au established t^L't that they pay toll to 'eastern etpsttoHsts. This cannot bo said of this city. Sine® it was settled, over seventy years ago, its growth ha» been steady a ad ^permanent. At first it was slow, and until the year 1H50, it assumed but little .more than the proportions of a ViWage. 'Its businoss was nearly all tranwactPd on the west and, north sides o' the public square. Then business «ien were called to their meals by signals (from their homes some eeveu or eight squares away. At that time the H. srre Haute House was considered out in the'Country, and the Stewart House, oh the corner of Second mid Main streets, was the principal hotel in the dtjk SAs* the town grew tbe tBuntin

U36, 'On Third strict, becat»e«tbe popar hotol, and us late as 18G4, the Clark

jxinfwa. For years the National House was .closed and its dining room was used lor festivals, dances, etc. Carr's Hall and the basement of the City Sdhool building, both on Fourth street, were the only halls in tbe city which cftuld lie weed for |E theatrical purposes, and about the onjy aud beat companies which honored the town by their presence were home organisations. But since 1860 tfcegrowtb of the city has been rapid, permanent •h1 substau tial. In the year last named vary litUlfe of the business portion of the community extended east of Fourth street, .that year the Postofiioe was situated on the last mentioned street and its rpt»oval to its present location a few years later was met with violent opposition on the part of the west end merchant.*. Since 1800, when the population ocf the city was only mbout 5,000 its'growth has been very rapid,ahd its manufacturing interests have increased to an -extent which cannot be otherwise thaw most giatifyihg to the average inhabitant. Twenty yearsago the iron industries were unrepresented here nowtthey are the most important in the state, and bid fair to take the lead in the west. To-day the city is tbe largest flouring center in the state, turnip out over 2,000 barrels each day of ths y-?ar, and can boast of one mill which imnufacturou during the year just, closed 180,000 barrels. But there is one industry iu which Terre Ilaute has been on tbj decline during the past ten years.

At one time it was the leading pork packing city in the State. Twenty year. ago it boasted of about tive packing houses which cut and packed nearly 80,(300 hogs a year, while at the present time it has not a house of the kind in operation. This is due principally to the fact, that other cities which have adopted the plan of summer curing have monopolized the busitfesa and Terre Ilaute has been left oat itt tbe cold, while ..j pork houses have beeuroon verted into other lines of commerce. In 1ST0 the population had inert .^ad to over 16.0 0, and in 1880 tne ceh*us showed that it was upward of _t',000. Since the last oeoaus the inci ••.- has been greater than ever before, and the improvements have been commensurate with its growth. The building ty 1881 was the largest ever known in the history of the city up to that time. In IS8SI there was a falling off owing to the high price ot material and its scarcity, but last year there was another boonyild the improvements exceeded those of 18S1. For the present y«sr there is every indication of a prosjjierous season ft# builders are jubilant and anticipate a good business. There is every prospect of a good crop, md tbere is no doubt that the city baa prosperous times ahead of II. It la grow-

ing more rapidly than any city in the State. Its debt is small and its provisions for paying It are jftnple. Its rate of taxation is small and the valuation of its property is fair. Taken all in all the Prairie City commences the new year under the most favorable circumstances and there is no doubt that it will march forward in the same line of success which it has heretofore followed.

A Woman's Opinions.

A GIRL'S DIARY. At this time of the year many persons, and especially those who are young and sentimental, commence a diary. A very few continue faithful to the end of the year; with the vast majority the entries gradually grow shorter and less frequentand finally cease altogether. Youth finds great comfort in a diary. It is weighted down with important secrets wtiftjU it dare not reveal and cannot entirely keep. A Journal acts as an 0cape valve aud is almost indispens able, particularly to a young woman. A young man may find partial relief in sitting up very late at night and smoking out what seem to him the problems of life.

The following extracts are taken, without the change of a single word, from a young girl's diavy which accidentally came into my possession. Its charm and interest lie in the fact that it was written by a girl fourteen years old, an age when girls are supposed to be mere children, incapable of tbesenti rnentsof love /when mothers permit them all the freedom of .childhood and imagine the perils and responsibilities of young ladyhood to be several years in the future. The author of this diary was a frank, outspoken, con tiding girl and yet so great was her spride and selfcontrol that her own uiotner, affectionate and sympathetic with her children, never dreamed that her daughter entertained any feeling but that of re&pect and friendship for the man who so contemptibly trifled with her heart. Only those parts of tbejjourual are given that relate to this one subject and they need no commonT AS they tell their pathetic little story.

SBPT. lit.—To-day LA my first day at School and I thick I shall like it, as our new Professor HJ sy&ty good looking. I' only hope he is good as be is handso rm), but Iain afraid our fun is all over, for we can not' tricka on him as we

SKPT. 22,—Uear, goafl Prof. He is so kind to me. I like his teaching bet ter every day, He looks very tired. Only think, a.fevv days ago I thought him the greatest tyrant that had ever lived and to-day one of the best and kindest of. teachers.

SEIT.27.—How muoh I like Prof.-R.'s teaching. He is #o stern and yet so sweet. It seemH to mo all the girls iu the school are iu love with somebody and it amuses him to. watch theoi. Thank goodness, I've kept my heart free. Isn't it strange I have never been in love? I suppose it will come, though, and here's* for the time he it do

OCT. 17.—TWO new pupils tQ-day, such queer little fellows, good Latin scholars, they say. Their mother is a widow and Prof. R. called there last night. I heard her give him a very pressing invitation I wonder if she isn'ta^rreuw-widow.

Nov. 20.—Oh dear, how long it has been siuce I wrote in my journal. Everybody is marri|d or dead and Prof. R. brought Mary C. home from church. Alas, nothing has happened to me. I wish I would blow away in a gust of wind or anything to relieve this dull ness. I will soon be fifteen years old and I wish it were tifty. Then I would see some prospect of a change from this world to eteruit3'. Will I be happy there?

Nov. 21.—I am having so much trouble with my Ca&av, I am afraid 1 will have to give it up and then what will Prof. R*. think? That I am very ignorant. 3 don't care. OA, ye*, too. I ut) very anxious to have him think well of me. He is so good, a young man of such good morals, and then, he is a Christian. 1 do hope he will prosper and that ho will tind a good companion. Who is the lady he writes to every day Is it his sister or is it bis sweetheart? How I would love to see her, to see if she is worthy of him, O, I wish Cupid would catch the whooping cough or measles or break his bow or do something to prevent his sending these sharp little arrows that enter one's heart unawares and make such dangerous wounds which nothing can beal btlt matrimony. I guess tfmt heals them. Heigho! I think I'll go to bed.

Nov. 26. aitixt mite. Nothing ieao ple^-Ant to me when I atn weary, aa writing. My little journal is my dearest friend. To it I can tell ail my sorrows and all my Joy*. 1 know it will not betray me. Bat dare I write my «euret thoughtaand lay bare my heart? Never till now have I bad adt feeling*, such thoughts. I cannot analyse them. Such deiicioue, dreamy reveries as I indulge In lean gaa» for boors at the glowing coals and form audi beautiful aircastles, not palaoaa or mansions bat—I can

describe them. I can only wish .lould dream my existence away so calntl and peacefully. I am so young andfcexperienced. Why is it that I feel ft ld The carelessness and gayqty of iildhood it seems as if I bad never kt wn. Why do I write so, to-night I c* not tell. I have felt so Strang ly all di I did not want to speak or be xpofe to and yet, at times, there has seemed.: be such an unnatural stillness I could rdly refrain from crying out. O, can be possible I am in love? Who can exfe tin the mysterious workings of the bs -t? I am not, I will not own, that 1 as in love. In love! Witbwhom? Not'* th a man who is twice my ov/n age, ad yet, who else can it be O, how nhappy and yet how happy I am ist night! Can I ever forget it? The p« isantest evening of my wliole life.

O, how hard I tried to resist himt ut with those arms around my waist, tb se eyes looking down in mine, how cot id I? And yet—be has done the samf to others a hundred times, and thoug tit nothing of it. He has whispered^ je same sweet words in other's ears, g$in thesamegentlepressure to other'shaMS. Ah, little foolish me 1 So unacqaaist^d with the arts and temptations''o wo'Id. Years from now I will back and laugh at such a trifle. 1 did he think that Ms arms were'the that had ever ene'rcled my WAIS would undo last night if 1 could though I was so happy. I must not him. It will never, never do*.- O,?for strength to erase his image from \oy he'art 1

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Nov. 28.—I wonder if I shall get any sleighrtdea this winter? Of course I sh«ll, but if I don't I can skate. I do not hav$ to depend «pon anybody for that. Etow nioe it is 'to feel independent, I do t|a»e to depend upon anyone but I always bave to. Never mind. Some tlmfe I shall te independent—and then I Hbiaii take a'husband and where will my dependence be? But why do I think ^f a husband so soon? Well, I doai know. I am always anticipating trouble'before it comes. To-day Prtifi Ii. Baid, "Little one, did yoo get a seddt ing fo.r staying out so late with me, wifet nigh.tf" "Yes," I replied, "mamtna wa very moieh offended." "Why," said he "There was no harm in it.

Ah, there

«*,« harm in it, harm in listening to hi

He is certainly the most fascinating mau lever met. It if almost impossibly btit I iw7#r» fie know how I have loved him.

Dfki L—This afternoon a humber of

DEC*. 3. I have just returned from church. Mary C. and Mary h. had both something to tell me about JProf. R. Why oannot we girls get along without talking so much about him And I believe he knows it. I couldn't hfelp watching him in church and I kui^vv juHt what he thOqght. "Those glrls.ift'^hoir are look=ing at me and they think I have such lovely eyes and hair mustache and my figure is so good my clothes fit so well, and altogether, £&m such a 'love of a man.'" Whe® w«: were singing we came to the word and what must he do but turn around^n hts seat and see me looking fullla his face. Ob, I'm so glad I'm not a iady or I should be ashamed ol i»3*#olf |gr acting so, but then I'm notbln||' but child. Everybody says "She i» »nly a child," and it must be true, but if a «hi!d can have the heart ache lis I have it, what must woman suffer? IDA"A. HARPER.

Concluded next week.]

WOMJSMSMOKJSJiS.

The ,?/rovi«tenc6 Star says that English or Aoierican women who have traveled Itt Europe generally come home jswriyfttoted smokeie, aud find to their discomfort that they must keep their new tisie very dark indeed, or else be looKea askance by the virtuous of their sex. if they dare to smoke friendly cigarette! with their male friends they Hill find themselves ranked among the rapid women who are dangerous. Now, tbe queslfatn is, by what process do we dvUiMM^people arrive at a conclusion so atrangiplf The Chinese lady smokes from cbildli^P* and one of the elegances of be* aUw is a silken tobacco pouch. Bat what4j||ouid be said of one of our society 1 who dared to appear in public fly decorated

JDJS LADIES TO THINK OF. Lonlsviile OrnnmeRas^" J*ksburg widow baa icMaved 112.from the different orders to which

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husband belonged. Dear ladies, in face of all this can you peraist in ting at a bigb rale of speed to yonr sband when important work in tbe cyfnlge

degree

keeps tbera late at tbe

Give this matter a little serious

"JjUfe,. *HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To keep knives and forks in good condition, wash them after every meal. When a baby cries all night do not become impatient. Be thankful that it isn't twins.

To keep door-knobs clean train the children to carefully wipe their hands on the table-cloth before leaving the tablet

Jewelry may be nicely cleaned by dipping in hot, soapy water and polishing with a little white powder and a piece of chamois. It is better not to try this too often with gold watches.

Clothes-pins boiled a few minutes, and quickly dried once or twice a day, for a month, "become mote durable. Five qents' worth of clothes-pins can thus be made td last twice as long, simply by a little extra trouble and the con of a few dollars' worth of coal.

At the present market pricg of celery one hungry guest can eat about a dollar's worth without linking, and it is well, therefore, when there is only ten cents' .worth on the table to remind visitors that ceiery is mere brain food, and only those whose brains are in a very weak aud sickly condition ever crave it.

WHAT SHE CAN DO.

The gallant Robert Davis, the Millionaire editor of the Philadelphia Call enumerates a few of tile things a woman can do, and aijiong them the following:

She cata (my "No" and stick to it for all liui'. She eaii also, say "No" In such a lo\v, soft voice that it means "Yes." J'

She-can sharpen a lead pencil if you give her plenty of time and plenty of pencil.

She can dance all night in a pair of shoes two sizes too small for her and en joy every minute of time. 'r

She can pass a display window of a dry goods store without stopping—ii she is miming to catch a train.

She can walk half the night with a colicky baby iu her arms without once expressing a desire to murder the infant.

She can appreciate a kiss from her husband seventy-tive years after the mar-

rjage jej!fc«iony

worde and feeling the clasp of his hands years,* which, ^ne touch of kindness or

has taken place,

suff0r abuse aua negiwil {or

iurt$d^rati9n will drive from'her recol*

us girls went up to Prof. It's btudy a'^/^trength to attend a Sunday night sacred whom ehould we find there but Mrs. T^ fconcertr a woman who has been three tim^s married. She looked very much dii pleased when we came in. I belie she loves him. Well, he is ui agreeable than her third husband, bufl don't believe he loves her. He wouldji't love a mwried woman. One of thegfrla said to-day that she hoard be wtfuld bring back a wife after the Holidays. He is too young to marry, only twentyseven. Thirty is young enough. I am sure his wife's namo will be Mary. He loves every body by that name, Mary C., Mary L., Mary W., oli, dear, I wish my name was Marv,—not because he likes it, no indeed, but I like it myself.

cat} go to the thqf hpiip.t#ry evenJg arid tlie matinee on!pjoj|eo^^'y Bni aturday, add still possess'sufficient

She can gd td' chu|ch and afterward tell you what every wdraaa in thecougrogation had on, and in some rare instances can give a faint idea of what the text was.

She can look her husband square in the eye when he tells her some cock-and-bull story aboot being "detained at the office," without betraying in the least that she knows him to be a colossal liar,

She can rumple up $17,000 worth of dress goods to buy a spool of thread with an*order to have it delivered four miles away, in a style that will transfix the proprietor of the establishment with admiration.

She can—but what's the use! A woman can do anything- or everything, and do it well. She can do more in a minute than a man can do in an hour, and do it better. She can make tbe alleged lords of crcation bow down to her own sweet will, and they will never know it. Yes, a woman ican do everything, with but one exception she cannot climb a tree.

TRAMP life, as actually enjoyed by a man who was once a business man in New York, was described to a Rocky Mountain News reporter. The tramp's father, a New York State farmer, sent the boy to New York city, where be went into business.- Some years later the young man married his partner's wife's sister. The partner absconded with the firm's means the tramp that is fell in love witb an actress, aud ran away with ber, then b!s» wife and .children died, and his father was bankrupted, andtheson went to Chicago, but conld not get employment. He pushed on to Leadville anil got a job, but lost it, and then tramped to Denver, and there resolved to do no more work, work being, in bia view, slavery. He slid: "I don't often ask for money I've got clothes, and I get my board nobody gets much more. My phifosophy is: 'Don't worry don't fret.' What have I to get low-spirited aboui? I get the air tbfet's free and the water that's free, and eating?—well I live. I usually carry about $20 iu my pocket. Yon can't vag a man witb $20 as a visible means of support. I don't trouble anybody, I don't drink, and I never steal anything. Tbe police never trouble me, and I usually find some place to sleep."

An exchange Mates it this way: "Woman among savages is a beast of burden, in Asia she is piece of furniture, ia Europe she is a spoiled child, in America sbe is a

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7ABLEET1Q XTETTE.

DECLARATION OF ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE BY REV HENRJ WARDBEECHER.

A gentleman who sat at the table next to that at which the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was Seated in a hotel, in this city, is willing to make oath to the statement that the distinguished pastor of Plymouth church ate with his knife. Send him a copy of

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day Evening Gazette. Mr. Beecher eats with his knife on principle. The following, from the New York Ledger of some years back, gives Mr. Beecher's views on the subject, and will be read with interest at this time:

My Dear Mr. Bonner: Among all tbe declarations of liberty which American mankiud is so fond of making, it seems strange that there is no league, association, party, or other combination to defend honest men against worn-out or absurd customs

For example, will any man tell me why I am forbidden by what is called "good manners" to pour my tea into a saucer and cool it there? Much reproach has been heaped upon "stroug'' tea and coffee, which properly belongs to hot tea and cofiee. Everyone knows how much the efficient actiou of chemical agents is intensified by beat. ^Scalding tea is far worse than strong1 tea but to be both scalding and strong is an attack upon the human body which no man ought to venture who has any regard for health. But etiquette fot* bids me to cool my coffee in any other manner than by waiting. Coffee cups, iu houses where the secret of driukihg good coffee is known, should be likathe human heart, large aud deep, and in such cases the beverage will, like true affection, cool very slowly. Hence, one wbo does not wish to wait till the meal is uver befoie drinking coffee must. either cool it in his saucer or drink it hot, or wait and drink it after breakfast, and all because of tbe absurd notion that it is not good manners to pour coffee into your saucer.

The spirit of "seventy-six" ought to rise with every afflicting gulp of hotcofr foe! The custom is wanton and cruel. It-is tyranny over the inner man, carried on by force, if not by sword. count it, therefore, a duty to humanity to sfet at defiance th£ edicts of the liquid despot, hot drink. For the welfaro of mankind I refuse to burn njy mouth or sbald my stomach. In behalf of mute c!evotees!of tbe superstitions of etiquette I raise plea for the relief.

Meantime, endowed with couiag6 and armed with principle, I rejoice in pouring forth the fragrant liquid into a capacious saucer, and, before the wondering eyes to raise the beverage to tny lips. Superstition is rebuked. "Health is justified of her children.

Even more will bo shocked when I avow myself as an advocate for the rights of the knife. Now, custom has reduced it to tbe mere function of cut-

down, and a fork serves every other purpose. By practice one gains unexpected dexterity in using a fonk for purposes to which it is ill adapted. The Chinese, in like mauner, make awkward chopsticks rarely Serviceable, by practice little short of legerdemain but is that a good reason for tbe use of chop-sticks? A fork, as now made, is unfitted to pierce any morsel upon its tines, and yet they are sharp enough to afflict the tongue if carelessly used. They are split so as to be useless for liquids, and yet they are used as if they wore spoons Tbe fork compels the manipulator to poke and push and pile up the food material which tends to full back and apart it is made to pursue tbe dainty tidbits, in which often the very core ol flavor resides, around the plate in a hopeless chase, and at length a bit of bread is calleu in as an auxiliary, and thus, while tbe slim-legged fork, in one hand, is chafing a slim liquid mouthful, a wad of bread in the other goes mopping and sopping around to fohn a corner, and between the two is at length accomplished what is called genteel feeding!

Meanwhile, a broad knife is fitted for the very function which the fork refuses and the wad of bread ill performs. Tbe reasons for refusing the knife as an active feeding implement are worthy the awkward practice. "It is liable to cut the mouth" no more than tbe fork is to stick into lip or tongue.

If men ate with razors there would be some reason for avoidancp. But tableknives are blunt-edged. It is even difficult to make them cut when one tries, and when they are properly used the back of the blade will be turned to the mouth. We do not object to the fork, but we demand a restoration of tbe knife from banishment. We don desire to enforce its utc, but sucb a liberation as shall leave each one' free to u*e tbe knife for conveying food to the mouth when that is most convenient, and the fork when that is preferred. Equal rights we demand for black and white, for home born or immigrant, for rich and poor, for men and women, and for knives ana forks.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN-' THE SEXES. Noted by obeeever in the Philadelphia

Call.

Women talk for the sake of telling what they know men talk to draw out what others know.

Wben a woman becomes flurried sbe feels for a fan: wben a man becomes flurried he feels for a cigar.

Women jump at conclusions and generally bit it men reason things out logically and generally miss it.

Women always show by their actions that they generally enjoy going to church men are less demonstrative/

Some wjiben can't pass a millinery store witijolit looking in some men can't paas £%aloon withoot going in.

A woman never see a baby without wanting to run to it, a man never sees a baby without wanting to run from it.

Women love admiration, approbation, adulation, self-immolation on the part of others, and are often weak, vain, and frivolous. Ditto men.

A new feature in bouse decoration consists of drapery on brass rods across tbe fire-place ana mantel. Fire insurance companies will be interested in tbe new erase.

A STRANGE STORY.

The Cleveland Herald tells a remarkable story about a father and daughter marrying the same girl and vouches for its troth. The gentleman in tbe case is a widower with an ouly child, a daughter. Tbe widower loved his daughter, who is a handsome girl, and some years ago sept her to a boarding school in this State. Here she formed an attachment for a school chum, an attachment so deep that when she left school she determined not to be long separated from her friend. She therefore invited her chum to her home, but- ber father refused to allow her to remain, and the two schoolmares were only able to keep up their acquaintance by correspondence. One daj% as the Cleveland girl sat sewing in her cosy house, a knock came on the door, and a jauntily dressed boy, with handsome features and a pretty mustache, stepped in, took the giil In his arms and kissed her. She was surprised, but explanations followed which showed that the boy was her school friend in masquerade. Along talk ended in a resolution never to be paricd again, and a few days afterward the father lost his daughter, from whom he did not hear for some time. Thtn came a letter from an adjoining town, saying she was married and asking foTgiveness. It wasgadly granted, aud the f&ther cordially invited theui to make their home with* him. Tbe daughter bad married her schoolmate, but tbe father had not suspected and they were not to be separated. Months rolled by and, thofather had taken a deep liking to his supposed son-in-law. One day he noticed that the young fellow's clothes were shabby and he propose^ that they be renewed. Here was a dilemma. The girl-husband objected, the father insisted, explanations csme, and an inadvertent remark by the father led the pair to suspect that he ^nevV their Merest, and tears and a double confession followed. The widorer was dumfoundad, but forgave them, and now the girl husbaud is her father-in-law's wife, aVid all in tbe house Is as merry as tae bell that should have pealed at the wedding.

CLARA BELL A REFQRMER.

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LIFE'

II Eli COM MEN TSJiS ON^" "VENT AMOJtfS WOMEN."

In a letter to tb& Cincinnati Enquirer Clara Belle says that each member of hor sex lives in a tent. Her skirls maketbe canvas, and sue is her own centerpole. She carries this habitation around with her, except wheti she steps out of it to go to bed. She goes togreat trouble and expense iu embellishing its exterior, and it is usually a haudsome structure to look at. But it is hoarly devoid of, comfort for its occupant. Of late yeiivf it has generally been too small, sothata long srride -couldn't be. taken iti it, and often of such an arbitral v. esthetic*hape that one bad to 'ikhf mi 1 iAwder-U# ^y.witHTn, that it draggles and wraps intolerably, and at others it is so short that tho feel can't, be kept

it. This tent life isn't so

bad in summer, when even 6iudoor exr istence is pleusatit bhMii winter the suffering which it entails is terrible. No matter how thick it 'may be made, the cold goes under it, chillin'g tho dweller, aud nulifyiug all her efforts to keep warm.

The interested reader may ask What is house in exposing abuses and evils if I haven't a remedy to offer? Ah 1 but I have. I am going around this winter a$ warm ad 1 look. I have solved th© problem with trousers and without making a blooming guy of myself, either. They are not apologies for pantaloons,, but a good thick pair, difierent from men's only in the fact that they fit snugly from the calf downward and disappear in the tops of my gaiters. I would defy anybody aided only by such facilities of inspection as a chance flirt of the skirt afforded to see that they wore not ordiuar.y black Btockings. So' I am kept at a good temperature, and didn't rely upon my petticoats to do anything but •look attractive and respectable. They are extremely necessary for those purposes, however, for breeches of the sort am wearing are to be strictly secluded. They are intended for comfort only— not ouly in walking but aho in sitting. Their tightness at tiie ankles and looseness at the hips shape them after tho model of two spinning tops. I langb at, yet love them.

STAGE SVPPER. St. Louis Post Dispatch.

''When Clara Morris, Modjeska of Bernhardt sife down to the supper in 'Cbmilie,"'Kaid tbe manager, "a layout of real viandt and sparkling chain] agne must be provided that sometimes cost for a single performance as high as $36 to $40. Six persons* sit* at tbe table itt that scene, and wben tbe star is a pay* ing actress, like any I have mentioned, we can afford to provide a costly spread. Of course au ordinary actress won't get a $25 table in 'Camilla.' About $10 or $12 is a fair average for a single lay-out•» for this play. In Heme's 'Hearts of Oak' a very pretty supper is a feature in one of tbe acts. The dishes come on steaming hot and tbe actors sit down to the tables and eat with appetites that suggest the possibility of tneir having foregone tbe regular vesperal meal at the hotel for tbe sake of eating it on the stage. This spread Costs from $6 to $8 aperformance. In 'As.You Like It' tbe chaps who banquet in the Forest of Adden have a real meal set before them, and in dozens of other plays' palatable viands are pronged for tbe performers."

J£&£orby breeds strange fancies in the mind. Tbere ia tbe case of Robert Humphreys, of Bartow county, Georgia. He became jealous of bis wife, peered into ber bedroom, and saw what be thought was tbe bead of a man in tbe^ bed. He fired and fled. It was bis own child that be killed. He was sentenced to death, but escaped tbe day before he was to have been banged. That wss twelve years ago. Tbe otber day some Bartow'county men prospecting it Catoosa county found Humphrey*, under an a»suined name, working on a farm. He was arrested, but it was found tba be bad become hopelessly insane* an waa sent to tbe Stateasylum.

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