Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 July 1888 — Page 1

Vol. 19.—No. 6.

THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment

Some paper is asking if Mrs. Langtry in married. Well, it doesn't seem to make much difference whether she is or not.

It is reported that the manufacture of cigarettes in this country is increasing rapidly. Alas for the coming generation of American men.

One week Jay Gould is reported to be withdrawing Irom Wall Street and the next has him buying $11,000,000 of ocean cable. Mr. Could is a mysterious and Very busy little body.

Mrs. Belva A. Ixckwood opened her Presidential campaign last Monday in gold satin dress, with a huge boquet of roses. Now the question Is can Belva carry the masses in that kind of a rig?

There are three women in the country who can send all the letters they please without stamps. Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Garfield were grantod the frank ing priviloge for lite. It is a matter of honor, not of profit.

Mr. Cleveland is on a deep-sea fishing trip. Mr. Harrison is not near enough to the ocean to enjoy this sport but there issometblngin the compensation theory He has a new granddaughter to play with and Cleveland hasn't.

Neltborof the presidential candidates have sent out their letters of acceptance to thp cou ntry. As Mr. Cleveland was first nominated his letter should appear first and It would seem that he has had time enough to prepare it by this date

It is said that Germftii and English manufacturers find American wares so popular that they aro using American trade marks. And so it goes. Americans want things that are imported from Europe and Europeans things that are imported from America. Curious, isn't it

Tho population of the suburban towns adjacent to Chicago Is now 2M.R31, an increase fnj8,749 In two yearn. 4St$Wo]*artion that Is a more rapid growth than the city of Chicago proper. Th# fact Indicates the growing popularity of suburban residence.

If the newspapers don't lie, which thoy sometimes do, the Chinose in New York arc going to establish a club and build a club-house on a grand scale, special artists being imported from Pekln to do the decoratinR. That looks as if sorno of the Chi neve at least had made up their minds to stay here.

The retail elerks of Indlnnapolls aro making a strong effort iu bohalf of oarly closing. They want a chaneo to see their wife and children on other days Inssides Sunday. They are right. Thorels no souse in keeping stores opon fourteen hours a day hi the heat of midsummer, nor any other time. Let us be tonipernte and reasonable in all things.

The United States Court at Now York holds that a church is liable for the pen alty fixed by the alien contract law for importing an Englishman under a eon tract to preach. That is perhaps all right but tho doctrine would have much more wholrxome effect if applied to the hordes of unskilled workman rather than to professional men.

Is our great and famous—our only John L. Sullivan losing his popularity? He is now traveling with a circus and at a recent exhibition at Boston it is reported thatonly the small boys paid honor to the great slugger by going to the show. And when the small boy's weak ness for tho ring Is remembered, the fact of his attendance is a sorry »ort of tribute to the Hon. John L.

People who use gasoline stoves cannot hi too careful in regard to their management, Every now and then some terri ble accident is reported from this cause. In Indianapolis last Wednesday morn ing two women were horribly borne*!, one probably fatally, ftom one of thoso stove*. Upon lighting the fire in tho morning there was a sudden burst of flame which caught the clothes of both mother and daughter. The accident is supposed .to have been due to a leak. Watch your gasoline stoves very carefully, Indeed.

The dynamite bombs, or rather the imitation bombs found Sunday and Monday, bring disgrace upon the city inasmuch it Is thereby made known that we have here at least one fool whose efforts at Joking aro about as criminal as if he were indeed a dynamiter. No one wanted to btdteve that dynamiters had really got into onr midst and it was with great relief that it became known that tho bomb* were the work of a so-called joker. We don't know that there is any law that will reach such an offender but we do know thai there should be and that :he punishment should be confinement in an Idiot asylum.

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The Rev. Dr. Herrich Johnson, the well known Presbyterian divine of Chi cago, delivered a sermon on divorce re* cently at the Dutch Reformed Church in New York City. The reverend gentleman is thorough in his methods, and he does not make a statement until he is sure of his facts. In this lecture he gave some statistics which will be of much interest to the student of social problems. In Rhode Island and Maine the ratio of divorces to marriages is as 1 to 10 in Ohio, I to 16 in California, 1 to 7 in Chicago, 1 to 8 in Indiana, 1 to 11. In Dr. Johnson's opinion, the average throughout the country is about one divorce to every four marriages. Chicago, heretofore, has been considered the paradise for divorce seekers. But California, it seems, can take away the palm from Chicago.

The Atlanta Constitution states that natural evolution is working remarkable physical as well as psychical changes in the negroes. The facts as stated are astounding, and immensely important. They aro precisely what the laws of evolution should have lead ns to expect yet we did not expect. The Constitution says, "The negro is changing in appearance, and losing tomo of the birthmarks peculiar to the African race. The newer generation is, in this way, showing the effects of higher culture. The flat-nosed, kinkey-haired negro is passing away and becoming an unknown race. All the colored children, however dusky the hue, show the change. Among the females long hair, of that peculiarly woolly appearance, hangs in long braids of curls down their backs. Aquiline noses* with smaller mouths, and thinner lips, are the rule. The South Georgia negr# is an evidence of evolution, the survival of the fittest.

Our photographers resort to all sorts of schemes to secure a natural or easy expression from subjects they are posing. We use rattles and horns for chil- Then there's Harry Dixey

CULTIVATION OF FRETTIMO. Fretting citn be cultivated. A man has decided a certain matter at the time had he made the best decision he could, or pet haps could be made by any one. The letter is sont or the friend is gone to whom the counsel was given. Immediately, when there could be no recall, he begins to regret it. To wonder whether he should have decided the way he did or the opposite. Perhaps he mentions it to some one who knows little about it. The opinions do not agree. This way of worrying can be indulged in until the most trivial things become sources of great worries. Then the opinion of such a person is of no value, it is so undecided. Such persons spend valuable timo regretting certain actions in the past. Wo have many such to regret, and to l»e ashamed of. It Is worse than a waste of timo to worry over them. It is best to decide carefully,and then be strong enough to put It out of the thoughts as much as possible.

Worrying in children can oe, and often is, cultivated by parents and friends. A child on a train asked for a drink. The

dust to many people—getting up early, working hard all day, earr/rc jo-t enough to show how little a ciu. comfortably starve on—and if th can once in awhile take the to Ucircus, laugh in front of monkwy

cage, shiver when the lion mars, get out

Ic In the wood* onoe in a while.

dren, and have to crack jokes for the old one of the dark complexioned histrions." folks. The queerest thing yet heard of "Wasn't his first stage appearance as is the Now York photographer who pos- tho hind legs of the Evangeline heifer?" es the mouths of his female patrons be- "No ho began first as a minstrel clog fore tho camera by making them say dancer, and he was always clever in a some words over several times while the Terpsichorean way but I don't supposo picture is beinff taken. He has different be ever thought when he was springing words for different kinds of mouths. When a pleasant, bland and serene mouth is wanted he makos the woman say "bosom." If she wants a haughty hrrd dlatil%uiihed~«*tifade Of tfltmth siio

says "brush."V "Flip" makes a large he gets twt hundred and fifty a week mouth look small, and "cabbage" en- Four or five years ago ho was one of the larges tho mouth. An air of Interesting song-and-dance team, Sanford and Wil melancholy is caused by the pronuncia- son. He was a quick, studious fellow tion of "korchunk," and for an expros- and when other men in his business sion of sweotness and resignation "s'cat" wore fooling away their time, ho was Is the word. This is certainly anew and learning and progressing. Now wo see riglnal plan, but what photographer in tho result. He is one of the most popu the land would care to ask a dignified lar comedians in Amorica, and he shot and majestic lady to say "s'cat?"

water supply was exhausted. He knew it, and sa did his mother. His mother I po®« the Christy also knew they could not get any until I first organised troupe of imitation coltho next station was reached, and yetjored folks. Christy was taken by the she allowed him to whine and ask for a] characteristic darkey humor, song and drink or repeat again and again, "Moth-1 dance, and he organized the Christy er, I want a drink," until all the paseen-1 Minstrels. Among them were Dan Brygers were disturbed by it. If it is not ft

interested .. r- i! sy are only very you see nowadays they were all made of wood, and the Southern field finds, LEI XJS 1TA VE A LITTLE FUN,

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CONCERNING MINSTRELS

"BLACK-FACED" ARTISTS OP THE PAST. MK-fiT"

THE ORIGIN OF NEGRO MINSTRELSY,

WHERE THE MIN8TRK1S COMK FROM— THEIR JOKES AND BUSINESS, KTC.

The organization here this week of a big minstrel troupe and its starting upon the road—that of McNish, Ramza A Arnc —suggested our mind that an interview with an old-time minstrel, one of this company who prefers his name should not be mentioned, would afford a readable article as well as an interesting study for the sociologist. While the minstrel# are not among the highest of the disci*: pies of Thespis they are clever fellows in their ways and minstrelsy is often a step* ping-stone to more legitimate histrionic pursuits. Many brilliant lominariesof

the American stage first materialized be^M*©

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hind the footlights through the medium of burnt cork. Will you please give me the names of the most noted we asked? "Yes," said he, "and I'll begin at the top. It seems difficult to imagine the haughty and irascible Edwin Forrest as a minstrel comedian. Yet it was in that capacity that the groat tragedian first wooed the favor of the muses. Edwin Adams also made his first appearance

'chestnut' jokes, and doing song-and-dance acts thiit he was soon to win an international reputation. Then there'| Frank Wilson. They call him Feaijoft n^w." He is getti!ighigh-ton€rd', betuoi

up like a rocket. No, he won't come down like a stick, cither. He's to clever for that. Among the opera singors min strelsy has given to the stage are Wil liani Castie, Slier. Campbell, W. H. Carle ton, Goorgj Conloy, Georgo Frothingham and numerous others whose names cannot recall at this moment,-many of these would be ashamed now to admit that they ever wore burnt cork on their faces. "Where did minstresly orginate?" "There is a tradition in Philadelphia that a comedian at ono of the old play houses in that demure city was once passing through a street In the negro quarter, when he heard a colored man singing, and sarw him surrounded by an admiring crowd. The disciple of Momns drew near and heard a moke singing a ditty with the refrain: 'Every time he turned about I

He turned Jim Crow.'

accompanying his song with a funny dance. Well, the comedian gave the coon a dollar to teach him the act, and he introduced it on the stage. He wiu the first comedian to black up to imitate darkey business. It's just my luck to have forgotten his name, but he was known as Jim Crow afterward. I sup-

anti

drink it is some thing else which it is I The entertainment was a reproduction impossible for him to have at that time!

and place. Children are talked to aboui I negro songs, and the characteristic in what is going to happen and excited fori struments, such as the 'jawbone,' Addle days over it, or they are told that they the banjo. The banjos of those days are such nervous children, when to dis-

Minstrels were the

Emmett, and five or six others,

scenes from plantation life, with real

wer®

not the natty, silver-plated concern

wbo were

New York Herald. manufacture their own. Fun? Why, of course, let ns have all I "From the genuine darkey songs thc^ there is within reach. Life is as dry as I gradually adopted imitations written by

Lly, t\

inclined, used to

'white trash.' Dan Emmett wrote Dixey Land, and made -s big hit. Stephen Foster's negro melod s, which are tl most cbaiaeteristie of Af rican song*, were written for minstrels, and many «f

t|iem

for

of the old rountine of •. ar 0,8® tuinSta in a lot of new a hoy roUios over a stack of ft* wifl help to make thehumdi able. The truth is, we take seriot are too n, rheu&~*Jcand emtel -:y,a^a stirred up and ref -»kfd by a sail dOv the -,: ft it-, a look a* a gam. b»

the Christy trot 5*0* You know

Susannah, NellT

k.jctv

tool

whk*

'Long, Old TV t:

CamptownuidThe8a*v*

Christy claimed as his own

^*a«on: Olght IV a tiiiitt It stage of America negro mixistreUy."

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HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 28,1888.

fanrv, and

ed -in |f the entire tfj given, np to

"There have been great changes since those days." "Yes, sir. Before the war, a dozen i$eu was a big troupe now they ain't nothin', unless they have a stage full, 190, count 'em, and that sort of thing, ifat the "mammoth," "mastodon," and megatherium" organisation have

•wHBinenum" organization nave

{jbout had their dSy, and the beet min-

'itrel parties wiU hereafter boot medium

size. 'Where do all the minstrels oome from. How is the stage kept recruited?"

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the stage as a minstrel, and he continued in that vocation for two or three yeatis before he graduated as a fnll-fledgqd actor and his Enoch Arden caused copious tears to flow. Barney Williams talked with a plantation dialect before he used the brogue of Irish comedy, and George S. Knight disported as a darky before his Teutonic impersonations made him popular. When Joe Murphy emerged from the glow of a blacksmith's forge he donned the cork before he became a Celtic oomedian, heralded by the greenest and most patriotic of posters. he, too, was

ever, giving the credit to Sweatnam, who is the most amusing in that line.'? "Do yon like the business?" "Yes, I am devoted to it. Burnt cork and-1 are old friends. It is most agreeable when one is permanently located in a city. Travel on the road is not one delirious round of dizzy delight, especially

winter's night whon there is only ono pail for the whole company and wo have to break the ico in that to 'wash up, When sotted in a city for a season, one has a home, but traveling all the time one tee!* that the day of strolling platens have come again. There is one thing that has never been recognized in minstrelsy, and that is the number of scenes, accidents, situations and characters that the minstrel stage has given to whiteface farce and comedy. Many popular American comedies are but little moro than amplified minstrel sketches and afterpieces. People—,paragraphers particularly—are fond of crying chestnut at tho minstrel, but there aro many minstrels in the business who are close students of human nature, and who transplant to the stage bia of character that 'hold the miiTor up to nature^' and give a good clear reflection."

Then our voteran minstrel friend drifted Into a rambling conversation

Minstrels wear no linen on the stage their shirt-fronts area paper or cclluliod delusion pinned to their undershirts, and their cuffs and collars are equally fallacious. This is the only practical way of dressing for burnt-cork perfor mance, as whon a troupe of twenty or thirty performers have to "make up" at one section of looking-glass two by four inches, and "wash up" in one pail of water, tho presence of fine linen would only be an interference. Burnt cork is really lees injurious to the skin than the grease Ipnint used by actors, nd it can be removed more readily.

KEEP YOUR TEMPER.

Dr. Hutchinson in the American Mag azine says: "The prime requisite for a happy summer home is harmonious setting. When the malign influence of Sirius reigns, mental and physical strength decline with increasing heat, and for the vast majority who must face the music at home, there is no better protection than the cultivation of content. As the month passes, if its lapse be accompanied with the heat of former years, there comas an amount of nervous prostration that engenders nervous irritability and family jars and all good home influences must be invoked to keep the peace. Strive to keep your temper.

Every failure to do this only makes weaker bodily resistance to it-ease, whose infinitesimal germs float upon July heat as a cork upon water, ridy to enter every door that the temj »ture makes to Wt toft ajar. Avoid drink. I do not mean alcohoiit stimulus alone which sb- t.ld nev. V- taken except as medicine, out promtseaooa swallowing of all sorts of fluids whose only virtue that they arc '-old and wet, It is trtn that when the skin to fully open and blood sen: ni fir "ly peases through it* open pores, more wit«r if n-jeded than in

is a

quiet, reserved, and digni-

A»kAMAareMAi.»AMAMN

fied in private life. Others roisterers of the most rampant description, and cannot be funny on the stage unless

their humor is revived by alcoholic

stimnlant." "Do they usually originate their own jokes and business?" "As a rule they are not remarkable for originality or inventiveness. The co-

when we strike a'one night stand'on -a essay, arose from her bed in sloop and

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thin8

It is as difficult to deteimine where all I the negro minstrels come from as is to married to Mr. Broome.

....

popularity wanes. Some of them come fx-om good families, and are either fascinated by the business or, by reason of reverses itts-fortune's wheel, are obliged to utilize their talents to earn a living, There are good and bad minstrels, just as there are good and bad ministers. Some of those who are most amusing on

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WOALEATS 1VAYS.

A Brooklyn man got only 277 answers when he advertised for a wife.

Mrs. Garfield has given $10,000 to Gar field University, Wichita, Kansas Gail Hamilton has said that "wildness I

1"""" k"" 1"inquire

ascertain their whereabouts when their A fat girl at Ravenna, G., reduced her by^a railroad engine. Tho verdict wasr weight 67 pounds by drinking vinegar,! **av® come to his but she now finds that her atnmaeh i« so

Dut sue now nnas tnat ner stomach is so

worda sbe use8 are

it.'

Tfae

imitators. One of them will resuscitate

a joke from some back number of an al-1er'8

St. Louis Globe-Democrat is will-

lng 10

waSerayear'8

Thirty-four million slaves have been freed in tho world in the last twenty-

medians are, general! speaking, a lot of 18®ven y®ar®» an^ about the only ones

now

wiv°®

the United States.

manao or comic paper, and for years Maud Meredith, the wild and headminstrel comedians will copy and cling strong girl known in California as the fondly to that old "gag" or "wheeze" as heiress of Oakland, recently escaped from they call it. This imitative faculty is her guardians, who have been trying to shown in the style of colloquial comedy I make a lady of her since she became made familiar by Billy Sweatnam, wealthy, and were stopping at San Luis George Thatcher, Georgo Wilson, Bob Obispo with her. After a search of ten Slavin and others. There are half a doz days she was found, clad in boy's ap-1 the opinon that he died sirnpiy becauseen who claim to have originated this I parol, hoeing beans on a ranoh near Ar-1 '''8 time had come and there was no get style of comedy. The old timers, how- royo Grande. The man who gave her '1

employment states that ho never had a person who was more faithful. The danger of somnambulism Is well known. A writer in the Century tolls of apiece of good fortune coming from the habit. A young lady, troubled and anxious about a prize for which she was to compete, involving the writing of an

wrote a paper upon asuhje upon which she had not intended r^-rite when awake, and this essay so Vt for her the prize.

Prof. Lucy M. Salmon, of Vassar College, recommends instead of sending hired girls to cooking schools that tho young ladies who aro ^superintend households should, as apart of their own education, attond a domestic polytechnic institute for two years, where thoy would

anffloionf tr ftn thio n.M 4mnnwnti„J l© taught sanitary laws, physiology and street thore was a clash of elbows nudg.ufflcient «. muhi. page. Amongother ,L lng one another to take notloe of my a?topics, speaking of laundry bills, it came out that the beautiful and expansive shirt bosoms that everybody ad mires in the minstrel "first parts" area sham.

keeping. This summer story comes from San Francisco: Mlis Gertrude Hutchinsand Miss M. Smith, two women who have been viewing the mountain resorts in northern parts of tho state, arrived in Sacramento yesterday ana viewed the sights of the capital city. Thoy are accompanied by a large dog, which they call Sullivan. They carry pistols and blankets, and sleep wherever night overtakes them. Thoy now propose to travel over tho southern part of the state, with the avowed object of writing a book. They refuse to tell whence they came, but some say they are residents of San Francisco.

A woman in Chicago objocted to her

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Mrs. Ada II. Kopley editing a teiii- sade, and Monday night I was put toporanoo paper at Efllingham, 111., aixdjroutb hor faggrosivonoss has gotten her into trouble. Sho published each month a list of those seen drunk on the streets of Efliingham between tho date of each issue. One man whoso name appears in tho black list in tho last issue claims he was not drunk and had tho editor arrested. Mrs. Kepley appeared before the Justice of Peace in her own defense, but a fino of $5 was imposed upon her.

hygiene, care of tho *ick, cooking, mark-1

ramnU

was locked up to await the result of his

A WIFE'S LITTLE JOKE. She—"I'm so glad you can stay to tea. Such a joke as I'm going to have on my hu-1 tnd. He's a! ays growling about my _joking, and Jay bis mother pened to drop in and I got her to make :ne bia 't. Won't he fe 1 heap when begint 1 criticise and t!» finds out his mother 3:! ide :h her-' !f."

HAi.f a*? Hovn LA 11 tu

He—"My 1-.... you're oming an igel '. a .k, 'I l- biscuits are as' HW0 MU iMijr ei^Vehet

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. -i:' 'T.'r—ier ISai—r] There a ..?re set in hatinj

.... ncjgh»'"r on ar'--.)unt of

cooler months, *utwatc£ Is all that there hauug him ou .wouut of btoj I Icy-Inn

religion.

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SOME CURIOUS VERDICTS. The duties of those who serve on coroners juries' do not ordinarily suggest anything very funny, and yet some laughable results come from their wprk.

rt[c.ularly

the^

cannot afford." Never- i^ expected of them.

edttc"fi »™"r

do not

bn.^hUUa7yg.8wStom

that which has a game flavor. I into the ^use of'th'e death* of "A sweet girl graduate" at Heming- I f? have comuiited suiford, Neb., lectured last season on "The point, the**flwman^ing^impfy Bright Possibilities of the Broom." She "We, tho jury, find the deceased guilty made a grand hit. Last week she was IM charged.'

understand

Another jury examined a great many

witnesses in the case of & man run over

d®*:h

Clifc

pnekered up that she can't get solid food hence, he choked to death." into itand must go hungry. I A coroner's jury in the back woods of .... Missouri heard all the evidence in tho

Some one has stood by and counted case of a man killed

up and found that an average of 2,000 and brought in the following verdict words is used between a clerk and a woman buying twelve yards of calico. The

«,pleaae

charRe

in two

engine

»ilroad

whereby he could not breathe.

hy runaway team

"The jury find tho deoeased to have come to his death in the hands of a runaway team, the horses thereof being

blameless having been frightened by a dMf." It is told of an old German that he sat

stolidly and stupidly on a coroner's jury

subscription that and listened to all the evidence, pfter

there are more bald-headod women than which be walked over toward the corpse men i" thU country to-day, but the Se^oSrhl^S^^^wJrt^lSg great trouble is to secure the proofs.

remaining in bondago are the farm- deliberated three hours over the corpse

and

other jurymen in amazement affright, and cried out: "Mine Gott, shentlemen, dot man ish dead!"

A jury in a Missouri rural community

of a woman burned by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, The following verdict was then announced in writing: "jResolved, that the diszeased was burn to deth. Tho joory.

A man, supposea to be a tramp, waa found dead in the woods out west. A jury inquired into tho cause of the death ana roported as follows: "The jury does not find the dead man has been foully dealt with, and it Is of

out

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TRIED THE DRESS REFORM, [Amber In Chicago Jonrnal] I have furled my banner. 1 have succumbed to ridicule and handed in my sword. I have tried the dross-reform garment and gone back to the "flOHhpots" after the trial of ono day. I am ashamed of myself. I confess that I am a renegade and a coward but, alast I am also human. Take a tall, thin woman, robe her In tho new dress reform, and she is a sight to make the angols weep. Sunday morning I commenood my cru

iy the sous of Belial (meaning my masculine acquaintance), and returned, to draperies and bondago. I went up to camp in a light and easy garment, called a Grotclien. It was limp and trothetic. The usual dress-parade of Sunday morning is an unexciting affair, bub as I tripped llghtlv over the campus there was a thrill or deep emotion' noticeable among the men like tho wind astir in the barley. Isaac put up hi» clenched hands to imitate a npy glasH. and reeled into a chair. The Colonel paled slightly under his plumod helmet and the Second Lieutenant staggered from thesceno. Next morning I went to town. No conqueror carrying a rent battle-flag was ever moro conspicuous. Every identical friond I met reviled mo and thero was a gloom in every eye. Acquaintances of yesterday crossed to the other side of the street whon they saw me coming. As I walked up LaHallo

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eting, care of servants, sewing, princi- koore's "winged isle," where I might plos of kindergarteu, artistic housofurn- fly away and boat rest. At last 1 went ishing, domestic economy and other I around and bought a modern dress with tiling directlyooncernod in good houM-

husband carrying a revolver for fear of on at the next crossing. She was alan accident so she took it out of his lowed to stand by the unconcerned and hard hearted masculines. The sourtw looking woman observed to bet pretty safe-keeping. That afternoon she went companion in misery: 'I guess that there shopping and took the satchel with her. are no gentlemen on this car!" "We are By some mistake the contents got jarred I iu,t. f* to stand up as those hard and the revolver,J*hich had been quite Sln^wTth"'^iSLphlc S'lan^lMl forgotten, went off and seriously wound- at a young man in tho corner. "Those ed a messenger boy that happened to who can't stand should walk, or wait be passing at that moment. The woman next car." Five men thereupon

*•«Jnonce or my ap-

preach. Before night I longed for

k^^rtJ^'^Snran™

have

avoidod or derided me. You may abolish your corset, and tho world will go that far with you: you mav wear divided garments, even, and health waists, and the sons and daughters of men will smile upon and encourage you but take to full, straight skirt without draping or trimming, with a round waist, and unless you aro well proportioped and beautifulasagoddoss, they will turn and rend you.

A WOMANS DIPLOMACY. Buffalo Express. A sour-visaged, vinegar-looking woman boarded a Jersey street car last night, and as it was crowded, sho waa compelled to lean up against one of tho straps. She glared at the men, and tho men stared at her~and refused to give up a seat. A pretty young woman got

rose and exclaimed, as if with one voice,

my negLt.n

injuries, and has at last come to the con- ing woman looked sourer, as she stood elusion that her husband could have jalooe and forlorn. When a woman bekept the revolver better than she could.! diplomatic her sway i» undisputed.

The sour-look-

BAR-KEEPING OOSTLY. (Jfew York 8atuJ One of the most popular bartenders near the City Hall was asked why he did*

and two chairs and a table has gone by. Whert rthen i* a •••rV.trr-v of a fine trade f' rent i* fort iii'. a-.J the place lustbef.K'sd np ea iace, where r-oor or place w»ii do the trad© fcOtWO."!i ,':v-'i:ig.

HOB8FOBD S ACID PHO8PBATB. Make* Dalieiotu Icmonidf. A f'—• of hot or eoM ^u»d taats, will be found refiS-

1 jik

sod invigorating.