Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 March 1885 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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roller

is a severe lick at the roller

skating craze. A Boston physician says

skating tends inevitably to deform

sod enlarge the feet.

fifAsTl^ayless Hanna forgotten how to saloon. ring in his own inimitable way, "Mrs. Lofty and I," tbat bis office-seeking ef forts are frowned down by the new ad ministration? vsi

THE

Sunday base ball bill was "lost"

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a hurry to get home and give his attention to the "craps." He voted this week in favor of a proposition to limit the to be erected here this spring. special session to fifteen days, while Mr Debs voted in the opposite.

of the few good things the pres

ent legislature has done is the passage of an act by which men convicted of corruptly using the suffrage frauchise are disfranchised. If the law bad been in force, and enforced, last fall, there would he considerably less votes to count next May.

of the pluckiest of the many

plucky girls of Terre Haute Is Miss Bessie Eaglesfield, who graduated from the law department of Ann Arbor University, but who since her marriage ban not been practicing law. It Is now announced that she has opened a law office at Indianapolis, the first and only female lawyer of the capital city.

Indianapolis News is now being

printed on its new Bullock press from stereotyped plates. It has put on an entire new dress and Is printed on clear white paper, making as handsome an appearance as any paper in the State. The News stands at the very bead of the evening newspapers of the country and is growing in popularity and influence constantly. I frl IJfc

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editor of the Gazette has been in

Washington this week, but not, as many thousand other Democrats, seeking an appointment. He was there attending sleeting of the Associated Press dlreo tors, j^Jg»voring to prevent the Express fromfeolng the evening dispatches. The matter wtyl perhaps come up in the Federal court^at Indianapolis before long, and if it does there will be some interesting times.

Democrats, as a general

thing, are with McDonald as against Hendricks, and when the proper time comes will lend their aid to the muss that is to be kicked up over the ignoring of "Old Saddle Bags." Hon. B.

done them by the skating rinks.

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Havens, it is understood, is solid for T. A. H., and depends upon the latter'B influence to get the postofflce. As Thomas has already been snubbed by the new postmastor general, his influence is not likely to play prominent part iu the contest.

GOVERNOR GRAY

has vetoed the mili

tary bill, and as a result militia all over the stat* are returning their arms and applying to be mustered out. It would -not be surprising if the Terre Haute oompanies should follow suit. Indiana has the most miserable militia system of any of the northern states, and should any great crisis arise, like the Cincinnati riot, her Inefficiency would coat her many thousands of dollars. It pays, even in the piping times of peace, to have a creditable militia.

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traction in

Ttorre Haute like It does in tlmost rewrd every other city In the land. A traveling man who has just returned from a trip through Ohio and Indiana says that he found the rinks to be the chief at-

every

what its sise. Last year there waa a "polo" club here which distinguished itself, but this year it is doing nothing, while the clubs ef other cities are engaged in a desperate fight for the "championship of the Northwest." The churches of Terre Haute have no reason

That J. M. San key gives up that O. P. Davis is to be the revenue collector.

That Hon. John E. Lamb is to be U. 8. District Attorney also,that he is to be Commissioner of Patents also, that he

waDts

to go to Congress again and, fin-

allyj that

John hasn't made up his mind

yet jagt what

by the committee to which it bad been applicants shortly referred, and the boys can play on the commons this summer without fear of the mighty metropolitans. r.-*.-

Representative Butz is in

he wants.

/—. .. That a couple of Normal students were expelled this week for being seen in a

Tbat Asbury is going to throw the other churches clear into the shade with her new building.

That the circus season is to open early this year, and that applicants for dead head passes will begin presenting their

That the mules on the street car line are kicking because horses are to take thfir places..

That progressive euchre is creating more stir in Terre Haute than the possible war betwe England and Russia.

Tbat an elegant new skating rink is

Tbat the attendance at the spring term of the Normal promises to be so large that much difficulty is being experienced in finding accommodations for the students.

That a man was suffocated tLis week in the mud on Main street. Tbat John

O'Reilly will not take

part in the St. Patrick's day parade for fear of an infsrnal machine being sprung on him. .y

Tbat there was not enough of the leg show in "Queen Esther" for our people to appreciate it. „.

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IS IT HYPOCRISY

Who has not met Mr. and Mrs. Affable? The people whose features are always beaming with a smile, and whose lips are ever opening to emit words of cheer and expressions of sympathy or condolence the people who are so systematically and unchangeably goodnatured and agreeable and unselfish the people upon whom the ills of this life seem scarcely to have any influence. We meet them occasionally, here and there we wonder at them we almost envy them. Bat we sometimes find thai these people sre very unpopular,— more so among the censorious than among the charitable among the ignorant than among the wise among the unfortunate than among the successful among the envious than among the contented we bear them denounced for resorting to such means to further their selfish interests their names are spoken in the same breath with the words of the dissembler and hypocrite.

The hypocrite is one who pretends to be what he is not, and these affables pretend to be general well-wishers.

They pretend that it is better to be cheerful and hopeful than gloomy and despondent. They pretend to be happy. And even though they be not all of this altogether, and all the time, they cer talnly assume a much safer and more desirable position than is that of either Mr. Surly or Mr. Scowly for there is no better way to suppress irascibility than by the cultivation of good-humor no quicker remedy for the pains of doubt than the pleasures of hope no surer prevention of melancholy than cheerfulness no more certain escape from the dominion of self than thorough interest in others. They pretend to try to do whst is more or less within the power of every person,—to develope that which Is best in themselves, at the same time they are encouraging others, by practical examples, to similar course, —and, yet, what is beyond the power of anyone who will not do and pretend.

There are those who bide their sorrows, and smother their passions, and live lives of sacrifice for the good they may do themselves and others. To charge them with hypocrisy may be human, but another and a more signifi-

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place visited, no matter Philadelphia. That is to a woman's right to dress as she pleases. Miss Mabel L. Hearne attended a ball given by the Mannerchor Society of that city wearing a black velvet evening dress certified to have been after the style of the court of London, being cut squarenecked, Lack and front. She affirms

to complain of the harm tbat is being that there was nothing about the dress to offfend the moat fastidious, yet when she went npon the floor, leaning on the arm of one of the best-known society gentlemen of the Quaker City, one of

is a queer world and we area

queer lot of people. All along this win-

night tbat theatric anamoly, Charles L.

and a band playing gold and silver in struments set with precious stones, valued at 10,000. Mr. Davis has learned that extravagant display coonte mors profitably than good acting, and proceeda

on and off the

ter many of the very best companies the directors approached and ordered have played to slim houses, but last

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Davis, with his Alvin Josltn Company decolette to satisfy the requirements of

drew an audience tbat filled the opera house. The drawing cards of this or-

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phase of the woman's rights ques

tion is about to be legally settled in

her to leave the ball, because, as be said, the corsage to her dreee was entirely too

propriety. The young lady left the hall, and the following day began suit

OUUBV* lUVUIlwiH^ w» »uw V4sanitation are Mr. Davis' fine diamonds for damages against the offldoua director

who had offended her, aud the oouit will be called upon to settle the vexed question.

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aocordingly, getting rich while patient pected to be in attendance during the merit goes in tetters. So goes the world, spring tern of the Normal, which begins oa Monday.

WHO WROTE IT Can anybody tell us who Is the author of the subjoined poem De massa ob de sheepfol',

Dat guard de sbeeofol' bin, Look out in de glromerln' meadows Whur de long iiighi rain begin— Bo he call to de hirelin' shepa'd, fill my sheep, is dey all oome In? ?v

O, den says de hirelin' sbepaM, Dt-y^B some dey"8 black ana thin, And some df-y's po'ol'wedda's, But de res' dey'u all brung in, But de res' dey's all brung

Den de massa ob de sheepfol'f *, at a he in Goe» down in degloomerin'meadows, Whar delong night rain begin— 8o he le' down de ba's ob de sheepfol', Callin' sof. Come in, Coaoein, Callin' sof, Come in, Gome in!

Den np t'ro de gloomerln' meadows, T'ro de col' night rain and win', And up t'ro de gloomeriB* rain-paf, Whar de sleet fa' ple'oin' tbin, ,.v De po' los' 8heepob de sheepfol' Dey all comes gadderin' in De po' lo' sheep ob de sheedfol' Dey all comesgadderiu'in. Without regard to the dialect this is one of the most beautiful poems in the English language. We have attributed it lo Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, of Atlanta, the author of •'Uncle Remus," but he says that it is not his. We found it wondering about the columns of the newspapers a year or two ago, and have been unable to Hscer ain either its authorship or its correct title.

We shall be grateful to any one who can supply the desired Information.—N. Y. Sun. The Sun and its readers will find the little poem in "Towhead, the story of a Girl," the second novel written by Sally Pratt Maclean, author of "Cape Cod Folks." It is on page 74. It is prefaced by the subjoined extract "One night when all the "house'was still a dark figure stole noiselessly into the room where the children lay asleep. The slowly waning light of the summer evening revealed its sorrowful attitude, the despondent

droop

of the thin, black

bands. It was Vixy. *She sat down and proceeded to sing in voice tbat crept into the children^ slumbers like a lullabv from Dreamland, no airy, though so mournful, was the strain."

WOMAN'S WORK.

["Mehitable" in Peoria Call.] I have dwelt a good many times upon the fact that, no matter in what profession a womau may -engage, there are certain feminine duties and responsibilities from which the cannot escape. I have a friend in one of the learned pro fesslons. Every morning before she goes to her office ber rooms must be "set to rights," an operation involving sweeping, dusting and bed making. There is the week's thorough cleaning, and the mending and darnipg of evenings, when the other member of the firm is solscing himself with cigar, slippers and dressing gown. Her salary will not admit of hiring these things done, even if she bad the time to hunt up somebody to do it and could put up with the slip-shod, indifferent way it would then be done. 1 sat in a friend's parlor one evening last week and listened with a good deal of interest te au animated discussion of this very topic. One woman present, who has fine school in which she teaches two hours every day, beside keeping house to perfection, reading, editing a coluttm in a weekly paper, belonging to a half-dozen clubs, ontertaining and being entertained, "gave in her experience," as our good Methodist brethren say. "I used to attempt to do the family darning and mending," she oaid, "but I have given it up. One day I went to my dress-msker's aad saw her mother sitting in her rosking chair, the time evidently hanging heavy on ber hands. She did not care for reading and could not assist her daughter, so the days seemed to her very long and dull and tiresome. It occurred to me' that she waa tbe very person to do my mending, end I questioned her, as delicately as possible, that I might find how she would receive tbe proposition, before venturing to make it. She was delighted with tbe idea, and thereafter a boy came once a week for the garments that needed repairing, and returned them iu the same manner. Her darning was as exquisite as lace work, and the patches she applied were, in their way, works of art. Her daughter said that I could not realize bow much pleasure the work gave ber mother, affording her some occupation, and the means of giving to the missionary society or other cbaiitable objects."

The experience is worth remembering and imitating. Women, in tbe future, will probably choose between a home and a profession. They will learn, if they decide upon the latter, to work at it as a man does—relieving themselves of every possible duty that does not per tain to It, and taking the time that remains over for recreation and rest. One cannot work thirteen hours out of every twenty .four snd keep a clear head and a sound body. Overwork never, pays. 1 know a wealthy manufacturer who occasionally runs his shops all night, and who sometines rises from hie sleep and repairs to his office to fill lb order. He slys tbat in the end he has never made one cent by so doing.

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are your wedding anniversaries

in chronological order: First, iron fifth, wooden tenth, tin fifteenth, crystal twentieth, china twenty-fifth, silver thirtieth, eotton thirty-fifth, linen fortieth, woolen lorty-fifth, silk fiftieth, gold seventy-fifth, diamond.

Two women in Buffalo have gone crazy over the Story told them by a fort-une-teller.

Boston girls hive organised a mutual aid matrimonlllf society. Whenever one member marries the others are assessed to set her up if housekeeping.

Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth is six-ty-one years old and has just finished her seventy-first novel. She is under contract to Robert Bonner to write for him alone) and «n demand*, sit 98,000 a year. :.s

There arrived in New York the other day twenty-five red-cheeked young women from Hungary who come to be wives for that number of young miners at Mauch Chunk. They had never Been their prospective husbands, an sgent having been sent to the old country by tbe miners to eng^pp them as wives.

Mrs. Codd, suing for divorce Ip Brooklyn from her ^econd husband, testifies that before seeking legal aavice she tried to effect a reconciliation, but he placed five pages of closely written legal cap before her and said that if she would follow the rules be bad prepared for ber government he would consider thb question of reconciliation.

A woman iu New York has just received |5,000 dsmages from a large dry goods firm in that city for false arrest as a shop-lifter. Large stores doing an extensive business are very open to pilferings, and oftentimes ladies in the perplexing details of shopping are liable to get the wrong parcel as an honest mistake, and thus be liable to humiliating and grievous Injustice but store-keep-ers with rash employes are learning that they are also liable to make very costly errors in exposing innocent parties to ignominious publicity..

REFORM BEFORE MARRIAGE.

[Mrs. Robinson in Minn. Spectator.] Yesterday my grocer was kind enough to wrap a little piece of a newspaper around the compressed yeast cake I ordered, from which, (tbe newspaper of course) I gleamed a little bit of information tbat I wish could be impressed on the mind of every girl in the land. I can not give it verbatim for the thoughtless grocer had torn off the first word or so of every line: but her? it is as nearly as I can renumber it: "A married woman appeared beroro the Supreme Court of Iowa I believe pleading for a divorce from ber husband who was an habitual drunkard but the judge refused to grant it assbe bad married bim, knowing him to be a drunkard, and told ber she should discharge faithfully the duties of a drunkard's wife which she had taken upon herself."

I know more than one sweet, pure minded young girl, who Is reoelvlng attentions from young men whom they know are la the habit of just taking a glass ol beer once in a while very seldom anything stronger.

One dear little friend iu particular I asked only the other day, if she were not afraid, the habit spoken of so lightly would grow stronger, and she would awaken some day to find herself a drunkard's wife. "Oh!" she answered sweetly and with confidence, "I mean to break him of the habit when we are married." "But," I persisted. "Why don't you break him of it now, before you are married?" "Oh I don't know. Some how I don't hardly leel as if I had a right to speak to him about anything like that yet. He might not like it, you know!" with a most fascinating blush. "Well dear," I couldn't help but say, "be very sure of one thing, he will like it a great deal better now than he will af*er you are married. If be doesn't care enough for you now to break off a habit that he knows is disagreeable to you, you may know that he never will and if he really does care for you, he will think none the less of you for ^peeking your honest sentiments."

This idea of breaking a man of drinking, swearing, tobacco using, or any Qther bad habit, after marriage, Is exploded nonsense, and It Is time tbat all girls learned the very unromantic fact by heart.

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favorite stimulants of some of the

great men of history are as follows: Bonaparte used snuff Byron's favorite drink was gin and water Pope's, strong coffee Mrs. Siddons', porter Edmund Kean's, beef tee, cold brandy W. E. Gladstone's, an egg beaten up In sherry Miss Catley's, linseed tea and Madeira. Disraeli waa fond of champagne jelly. Schiller used to sit over a table deeply impregnated with tbe smell of decaying apples. He stimulated his brain with coffee and champagne. Lord Erskine and John Kemble used opium. Wedderburne, the first Lord Ash burton, used to place a Ulster on his chest when he had to make a great speech.

PRETTY GOOD 8A VINOS. [Philadelphia Press.] They **y that President Arthur retires from the White House with not more than f7i,000.

Besides, he has hsd lots of fan.

NOT AS INTERESTING AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

Marie Wainwright as Portia in "Julius Csesar" hasn't much to do, but the way she does it is thus described In a letter from New York to the Utica Observer: "Portia's sole dramatic duty, as the play is commonly presented, is to beg her husband, Brutus, to reveal to ber the plot of Csesar's assassination. There 1m nothing in the text to indicate that she hugs him or is hugged but that is the kind of pantomime with which the scene, in this instance, was Imbued with human interest. Liuis James was tbe Brutus. He is tall and broad. There was room on his broad breast in plenty for her to lay herself in a great variety of posture, and she did it at the rate of one to about every line of the blank verse. Then, bis Roman right arm was bare, and round it, as well as his stout neck, she wound ber thin ones, like ivy embracing oak. But it was when he enfolded bet form, which he fairly squeezed into Impalpability amidst bis toga—sliding her slowly up from tbe round, where she hsd knelt to embrace iB knees, to her full heigbc, so tbat ber lips reached his in a kiss of connubial vigor—tbat the breathing of two girl critics seemed to stop. "'Doyou think that's quite proper?' said one who bad previously found some fault with tbe play. 'Ob, they are husband and wife in private life, was tbe reply. 'Well, then,' the other naively remarked, 'it isn't half so interesting.'"

WHEN A WOMAN IS HAPPIK&T. There is no period in a woman's life when Bhe is so happy as when she is being courted. Tbat aocounts for the feet that a great many allow themselves to be courted by men who have no right to do such a thing. They like the gallantries of courtship, the playful^ words of a suitor, his constant animation, his hundreds of smsll compliments, bis readiness and agility in extending his hsnd whether it is needed or not, his inspirational conversation, his self-sacrifice and unvarying devotion. Heavens, what is there tbat a man will not do when he is in love? What elso will drive him to suob lengths of brilliancy and daring? It is then that he becomes the cock-bird, puts on his most brilliant plumage, struts about iu bis greatest glory and reaches the moat beautiful perfection of his nature. He writes long letters, spends his money like a prodigal Is ready to go here, there or anywhere, rain or shlue, at the beck an 1 call of bis fair mistress wears bis beet clothes, walks with tbe eredness aud elasticity of trained athlete, smiles on all mankind and is a. being much beyond and above the common run of the race. this he i8to bhe wom-m to whom he is playing the lover. She takes him for what he seems to be—not for what be is. Perhaps he may turn out to be what be seems to be, perhaps not—generally not. Most husbands are disappointing to their wives because they immediately after marriage collapse—collapse Into mere matter-of-fact, plain, every-day m6n, who seem to think abcut as much of one.tblpg as snotber.

FASHIONS FOR TRAMPS* [By Puck.] Trousers are worn in almost any style, generally with oue sus|iender but some prefer two yards of rope.

The latest hat has tbe brim turned down and the hand removed. The color is of an off-gray tinge, but tbat its purely a matter of taste. Ventilation is provided for by perforations at the top.

Tbe hair is worn a la Oscar Wilde. It is allowed to drop on the shoulders. Some affect a bang, but this is hardly good style. It Is quite chlo to hide the ears.

Shoes, wbere any are worn, have tbin soles, and are without strings. This imparts a Bryonic appearance to tbe uppers, which is very effective.

Many gentlemen who like to go a 1' extreme wear one boot aHd one sboe but this depends entirely on their opportunities.

Stockingshave been entirely discarded by tbe creme de la chiffonnierie, and tbe feet are kept au nature!. This is very convenient as it saves much time.

Shirts are made almost entirely of flannel material. It is immaterial whether tbey will wash or not. Undershirts sometimes are worn instead, but are too close-fitting for cold weather. The flannel shirt gives greater freedom to tbe arm in raising "le growler."

Coats are of almost any color, and cord is used in place of buttons, ventilation is the main object aimed at, and this Is generally secured. It Is quite fashionable to have the garment torn in places, as it gives a negligee which is grestly to

VANITY AND GLOVES. "But to return to our first love,

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cloves," continued the volatile young who spoke with a cultivated Boston accent, and viewed tbe reporter through glasses. "Give me at any time tbe vainest of females to serve rather than a vain man. Of all created things they are the worst," said she, turned up her keen brown eyes with sn assunation of horror. "Actually tbey will want their gloves so tight that they have to rub their hands with soapstone to get them on. It is a fact, manv a time I have shortened the fingers of them. It takes a man of this type about seven times as long to decide upon snd to be fitted to a pur of gloves as any woman."

A NEW READING. [X. Y. Com. Advertiser.]

Dr. Heber Newton told bearers yesterday tbat tbe hymnal for children in tbe Sunday school of Science may be expected to give such moders rendering of old hymns ss this: "Twinkle, twinkle little star,

I dont wonder what yoa are. You're tbe cooling down of gases Hanteaed into solid maans.

WORRIED AND WORN OUT BECAUSE THEY THINK THEIR FELLOWS ,, ABE STARING AT THEM. 107H

tbe object

"You ftould think that a cross-eyed person would overcome his sensitive- fl ness," sfcld an oculist to a New Mall and Express reporter, "but he dom does. He broods over It. It grows on him. He Imagines tbat every one he meets tninks as much about it as he does, and life often looses all attraction for him. Did you ever notice a crosseyed man walk No I can tell one *u as far as I can see bim. It imparts to his gait a certain movement particular to the whole class of cross-eyed people. But it is not altogether bashfulness which causes him to avoid looking a* person square in the face. If be retain p: tbe power of sight iu each of bis crooked eyes, as is often tbe case, it would do him no good to look theordinaryway.fr, He would be very likely to miss tbe

was

"folly .comprehended, and

all he would see would be faint outlires of a pair ears or the rim of a hat. The ilaoe where the face ought to be would a dismal blank. Many bright fea- bj lures are ruined by this fearful misfortune. Some sensitive victims never pluck up courage enough to marry. They often become selfinb misanthropes, row stingy and leave a fortune for a orde of straight-eyed relatives who totally ignored tbem while tbey were alive, to fight over. Others, with that natural yearning for the love and sympathy which were almost universally denied cross-eyed men take what tbey can get in the matrimonial market. Tbey spring at the very first chance that offers. Thus often a soulful but cross

bold as a 8ewing-macbinl|g

agent. When he is courageous enonghp to look a woman obliquely in the f^cfl|.| without stammering an apology for1 having been born, he can fairly be said^J to be superior to bis misfortune. Such a man would make a heroic soldier. ,: Unfortunately there are few who can do this. The ordinary man melts under the affliction like a cake of ice under ar.: July sun. $ '•.

TAKING CARE OF THEMSELVES [Boston Letter in Kansas City Times.] Feminine Boston la attending thisS'*~^ winter "emergency lectures." Tbose6

are, no doubt, of great value. If a glrKl,^ slip down ana sprain her ankle, instead^ of being obliged to wait till some man^i

picks her up and sends ber home in a cab, she quietly takes off ber shoes and stockings, tucks her skirts on oneside.,^ and performs the necessary surgical* operation on the spot. If she feel faint' at a ball, instead of looking around for a man to whom she has been introduced, and into whose arras she can without* immodesty fall, she quietly sits down' on the nearest chair, and applies them herself. Suppose, during these beauti-5 ful snowy days she is run away with—. run away with a horse, I mean. While tbe horse is tearing along looking for a convenient lamp-post to use in breaking tbe sleigb. this Boston girl, with the coolness of Galen snd the quiet dignity of Hippocrates, selects from her bagt some liniment, one or two splints* and a number of strips of linen, and when at last she is thrown across tbe horse's back against tbe side of a house, instead of screaming or fainting she applies tbe liniment ready in ber baud, bandages^-. up the fractures and walks quietly bome^' to send one of the grooms for her hnrse.^' I believe later in the season some of the'

lectures are to be purely practical, and we shall be told bow to smile upon a mosquito so that he will refuse to molest us, or how to frown upon a wasp so tbat tbe wasp will drop dead with fright, or how to convince oneself at a moment's notice that a moiue Is more timid than a 160 pound gin, and quite unable to scale a dress, either on tbe inside or outside, unless helped by a ladder. You see there is no nonsense about these lectures the girls sre bonestly benefitted by tbem, and tbey are becoming more and more popular*

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esthetic finds himself joined to a loving but sympathetic helpmeet, whose ambition never rises above tbe kitchen or the, laundry. He loses his hopes, decends4' to the level of his mate, and what might have been a talented career is ended on a large box in front of tbe corner grocery in retailing^ neighborhood gossip. •Occasionally you find a man with sufficient strength otu mind to live down the m«lign effects of^\ strabismus and come out a victor. When$$ once a man has overcome his diffldentek: he becomes

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dinner was announced tbe host--

ess, humoring bot not admiring her guest's taste, bad a servant bring a small silk cusion to receive her dogship. With emphasis, however, the offer was declined, and on ber host's arm tbe Indy: led the company to the dining-room. where during the meal Jenniers small black bead rested upon the tablecloth, and her snapping, protest!i bark was heard every time tbe waitress approach-* or the conversation grew animated. But of couse, whst would be termed folly snd impertinent in snotber is merely eccentricity in the wife of a man who counts bis money by tbe millions.

LOVE OVERDONE.* j. [New York Graphic.] Tbe exaggerated fondness of women for pets of the canine species has mora. than once been commented upon and criticised. Dogs, as a part of outdoor life, ate worthy all admiration and devotion from either sex, but when they are elevated to tbe drawing-room and, carriage, to the arms even, of a sensible,' intelligent woman, certainly Fido is out., of his natural sbere and bis mistress is^ not adding to tbe lustre of ber womanhood. An eye-witness recently related to tbe writer the conduct in this regard of a lady well known in Washington circles, the wife, indeed of a wealthy and prominent 8enator. Callers at her very elegant residence who find ber "notat home" in the actual or social meaning of the phrase are invited to step into the drawing-room and admire four large dogs stretched upon tbe sofas. Her especial favorite, however Is a small doggie, Jennie by name, wtrfch Is rarely out of ber arms. At a dinner recently given in her honor she appeared as usoak carefully embracing Jennie a moment

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