Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 August 1888 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

An Eastern oxchange says: "Along the coast the belle with boodle frtill outshines the belle with brains." And alas!

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does she in the interior.

It is said there area number of worn en teaching school in New York who are worth from $50,000 to $100,000. They had better step down and let some poor woman have a chance.

If it be true, as stated by physicians that bay fever is caused by inhaling the ragweed dust, why is it that our country cousins, who live in the midst of it, aro not afflicted more than city people with that aristocratic disease?

Wo are now in the midst of the county fair season again. Like the circus the county fair is of perennial interest There is a placo for these exhibitions to fill and it is pleasant to note that they are improving all the time in quality and value.

Evansville has been having a great time with the State Military Encampment this week. The attraction has drawn thousands of people to the city and it has been an excellent advertisement for Evansvlllo. Why shouldn't Terro Haute have tho Encampment noxt year.

A nntlonal convention of tho Greenback party has been called to meet in Cincinnati, on Sept. 12, to nominate Presidential candidates. And so we are to have one more tickot. Thero are only eight tickets in tho field now. The man who can't bo suited this year must be hard to please.

Look out for tho switch frog when you have occasion to cross railroad tracks. It Is a terrible man-catchor. Only re oently a young lady in Philadelphia met a sehocking death by gotting lior foot fastened In one of those traps as a train was approaching. And there have been many similar eases'"of death or maiming. Give tho switch frog a wide berth as you value j-our life and limh^

If anybody falls to be convinced that protection Is a good thing it will not be the fault of the Protective Tariff Lcaguo. That industrious organization has already sent out some 17,000,000 pages of tariff documents during tho present campaign and has millions more to send out. Apparently the only quos tlon with tho Ieague Is as to the dlges tlvo capacity of the public stomach.

Rev, George T. Dowling, pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio, and one of the most widoly known clergymen of that denomination has resigned from his paatorato and will withdraw finally from the Baptist organ {nation. Mr. Dowling leaves the church on account of its close communion tenet, to which he cannot agree. Prof. Swing of Chicago, left the Presbyterian church and another ominont Chicago divine the Methodist, because they could not subscribe to all the doctrines of their respective denominations. Thero soems to bo a growing* restiveness among the clorgy on the question of church doe trlues and a demand for greater libetal ity of opinion.

Yet a little while and the summer of "8(t" will bo paseod, and the autumn with all Its sentimental glory will be here revoking sweet but Had thoughts of fleeting pleasures which the spring time and summer presented to our fancy, and which dame nature recalls unto herself to unftold again to,God's creatures In the panorama of the seasons. There is sweetness, a sadness, a lesson in the autumn to us. The beautiful verdure and blossoms of tho spring and summer months will have faded, but In their places will be tho harvest of which they were but forerunners. With the fall the activity in the social circles Increases'. Oue sport gives away to another, the clr elo of pleasure remains unbroken and -even though the autumn bears an air of the mournfnl let it be greeted with wel come. _____

Among the funny everyday things in this town, none are more queer than to hear the impromptu toasts fired off, as the men lean against the counter, peep into the looking glass, and smack their Hps. Such expressions as "Here's to you," "Your good health'*' "Here's look tng at you," "May your shadow never grow lews old boy," "Here's to your health and that of your family," "Here's to what make* us wear old clothe*," "Another glass of coffin varnish," and scores of others equally nonsensical remarks or toasts. What would be thought of a man, while taking hit cop of coffee at the breakfast table, who should say, "Here's to you, old girl,"(his wife meaning,) or "Here"* to the health of the boy*." His family would think he had gone craay, and yet there would be much Mtuw In ft. Drinking to bad enough, without adding such wonder* fatly constructed toast*.

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General Harrison is already suffering from the unpleasant things which are said about him by opposition newspapers, and yet the campaign so far has been veVy mild so far as personalities are concerned. For the most part men and newspapers of prominence and influence have dealt with records, speeches and general principles, rather than with personalities and abuse. Doubtless Gen. Harrison is surprised that he is so bad a man as some of the opposition papers represent, but a man must get used to that when he becomes a candidate for office. And it is a hard thing to get used to when a man has been clean, decent and upright in his life.

The woman suffragists area plucky set and they need to le. IT is hard enough to get Legislatures to give them the franchise, but it is harder still to have those laws overturned by the courts. Yet that is what has just happened out in Washington Territory whose supreme court has decided that the Woman-suf-frage act passed by the Territorial Legislature a year or two ago is unconstitutional. The decision is based on the ground that the word "citizen," as used in tho act of Congress organizing the Territory, is restricted to males. Now that is "tough," but just wait till the woman-suffrage women get into Congress and on the benches of supreme courts and somebody will pay for this.

A lady in this city had occasion, last week, to visit the family of her old school-mate, whose husband is a pros porous farmer. The man is a hard worker, and loses very little time from his fields. While it is not just the thing, perhaps, under the circumstances that she should say anything about the thoughts that came from her observations, as she gives no names, no harm will como, and perhaps good. What she noticed and wants is printed in

Mail, was this: The man, hard-worker that he is, had surrounded himself with every article of mechanical skill that would lighten his individual labors.

that lighten to labors of her department.

Our exchanges are puzzled over the number of boy preachers, and evangelists, and converted drunkards. The latter class is said not to be as popular as it waa, but boy preacher* are on the increase. One paper bluntly says: "The business pays. We have known several dead ducks in business, not to mention few consummate rascals, who have dono well at it. Moat of the 'boys' are from 30 to 60 years old. They were boys once, to be sure." This is a rough way of putting It. But while there are some noble exceptions^ is probably about the truth fn general term*. What we need is business honesty and common hon eaty and less gabble about our sins in Adam, and the consequences a thousand years from now. We are suffering from a deluge of every day religion over the counter and in the counting-room.

household articles for 25 cent*" are re-

Many a rich man with overtaxed brain Mid broken-down stomach and gouty limbs would give half his fortune for the luxury of enjoy'-g a hearty meal

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On Eastern railroads an effort has been mad* to Induce all passengers to enter st rear end and go out at the front end of cars, bnt with ittdif^reat success.

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WOMEN'S CLUBS.

Women's clubs are getting to be the fashion. One was recently organized in Indianapolis called the "Prophylaeum." The "Athemeum," at Milwaukee, is the beautiful home of the "Women's Club of Wisconsin." This club, a literary and social organization, has existed for ten years, when the need of larger acoom modations was felt. Accordingly seventeen ladies, representing the wealth and culture of the city, met and formed themselves into a joint stock company, which is believed to be the only organization of the kind in the world which is composed exclusively of women. The object was stated as follows: "For the purpose of promoting the best practical methods for securing the educational, industrial, and social advancement of women, and as a center for literary, scientific, and musical culture in the city of Milwaukee, and for purchasing such real estate as may be necessary or convenient for the lawful or proper use of the members of said corporation, and for the purpose of establishing, furnishing, equipping, and managing the said building as may be deemed expedient." The capital stock of the corporation is $25,000, divided into 1,000 shares of $25 each. A handsome building was erected 45 by 85 feet, two stories with basement. The first story consists of a club parlor, or library, committee-room, etc the second story is arranged as a large as-sembly-room, with dressing rooms attached, to be rented by the stock company as a means of revenue. -svy

It is fashionable now for husbands and wives to keep seperate bedrooms, says a writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Kings and queens have set the example, and the newly coupled folks in our fash onable world are falling it. No secret is made of the custom. The nicest of our Tho I outputs of June brides will calmly show you her own dainty boudoir, and then exhibit the bedroom of her husband.

Thero was the steam threshor instead of sailed away on their honeymoon voyage

of tho old Hail the self-bindor saved hint the weary backaches drills, and double plows, and riding harrows anil all liio latest improvements had been purchased for his benefit. But she looked in vttlu for the evidences of labor Having implements in the house. There as the old style churn, with its wellorn dasher the sewing machine was there, it is truo, but it was old and had none of tho improvements in the way of hetnmers, tuckers and pleaters. The stov*e was comparatively small, and thero was an absenco of the improved appliancos to assist I he weary housewife in her work. While a new-fangled wind-mill pumped the water for the stock, tho wife hauled tho water up with an old windlass and pall—a veritable old oaken bucket that hung in the well. But why enumerate? This Is only one iustanoe. There aro scores of others in this county. Men are forgetful and women submissive. Why should the stronger and healthier of the ^tectl"vo eAuiera^. two havo All tho labor-saving implements, and the mother and more delicate branch of the family have no benefits from the advance in science and mechanical skill? A woman does not grudge the money expended for machinery in carrying on the business of the farm, and if she did it would probably make no difference and it is just that she, too, should avail herself of the helps

And the Duke of Marlborough and his bride, the beautiful Widow Hamersley,

in two staterooms. More than that, I have it from a pestively trustworthy source that on the evenlngofthe wedding,after the Clews dinner at Delmonico's, which was concluded at quarter of eleven m., the chaperone, Mrs. Cruger, and the duchess were driven in a carriage to the Hamersley mansion on Fifth avenue, and the duke, after passing some time with his friends in ordinary post prandial entertainment, sought hlsquar ters at tho Albermarlo hotel. This vcas construed as ducal politeness. The idea is that the bride mpst not be intruded upon, that she must be left to Invito her husband to call sooner or later as the fancy suits her. In ono instance the wedded couple went right away on di verse tours to meet at tho end of a week in some distant place, tho locality beiug kept a secret from their acquaintances.

Many of the amateur photographers at the summer resorts are provided with They aro slung over tho shoulder, and rest at the side some what after tho fashion that a fiold or rac ing glass is orn. Many of tho cameras are enclosed in alligator, russia and other fine leathers, and are very ornamental But they aro more deadly in tho eyes of many than a needle gun or a gatling battery. All have the instantaneous plate The pressing of a little pin takes the pi re it el a a pi it

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instrument with feelings akin to terror.

It is known that many of the amateurs are interested in securing collections and, furthermore, it may be set down as a copper-bolted fact that in these collec tious there are some mighty interesting pictures and faces.

It is reported that Thomas A. Edison the great inventor, is worth six millions, We hope he is and thrice the sum if he desires more wealth. No man will begrudge the accumulations of a man like Edison, for he has been a benefactor to the world and it is right and fitting that he should reap a rich reward. Edison has not only won money bnt an enduring fame. Few great inventors get both but he seems to be one exception.

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ceiving by return mail a literally pointed 1 concentrated thereon, and response—twenty-five needles. The|fou*ro to develop illness. Only surprising thing about it la that the Iyourself ill, and soon you will sharp who operates the scheme doesn't an invalid, send pins, as they are cheaper.

and a sound, sweet a pat nurhu Great railroad cmn enlugise twenty different riches do not always bring fc*i tineas in resorts on its line, and vary the language their train. in sucb away that each place seems the

People who are hunting for work *1- Uu^rSe'SS dom walk fast or carry lanterns. ive than heavy editorial ordnance.

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TERRE HAUTE, ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING- AUGUST 25, 18SS.

WOMEN'S WAYS.

Senator Joe Brown's wife can spend couple of hundred dollars a day without boinggrowled at.

The summer-hotel woman, with hundred dresses, usually has more ward robe than pedigree.

Mrs. George Westinghouse is credited with an income of $7,000 a month from natural gas stocks alone.

Minnesota women want a law to com pel a chap to aunounce his intentions within four weeks after paying his first visit to a girl

Mrs. Palmer, wife of tho Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois, who has always been a Presbyterian, has joined the Baptists to please her hus band.

In Topeka a woman who saw the foot of a burglar under her bed went quietly to a bureau drawer and got her revolver —and then rushed out and shrieked for the neighbors. That is the best way for any woman to use a revolver.

Amelie Rives is evidently against mothers-in-law. In her new tragedy,

'Herod and Mariammej" are the follow ing severe lines: Moth inks that Satan was a married man. And his wile's mother egged him to rebel, Seeing that heaven would not hold them both.

The latest and most original schemo for the suppression of the tramp nuisance conies from a magazine writer who, in a recent article declares that when women are brought up to habits of industry and economy, aud learn to support a husband, the nuisance will cease.

The newspaper correspondents at Long Branch are filling in their letters with assurances that Mrs. Langtry is to marry Fred Gebhard in the fall. Let us see. Isn't there something familiar about this rumor? Seems as if it were not the first time that it has been put in circulation.

Mrs. Lippiiicott, better known to the world as Grace Greenwood, says she never was out-and-out a woman suffragist, because she was afraid of being called upon to make off-hand speeches. "Then again," she said tho other day, "I had always so many irons in the fire I burned my fingers with many of them

Kate Field is nothing if not original She is coming East to deliver lectures on the virtues of California ines. She will claim tMt the solution of the tomperance question in this qbuntry lies in the sub stitution of light and cheap wines for beer and whiskey. The first step in reform is to make the wines better.

Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess of passion, has written a letter to Mrs Amelio Rives Chandler, the novelist of passion, strongly approving of the lat ter's work. Now that theso two giddy girls have gone and got married it is time for them so recognize that there are other things in this life besides love and gush.

A young woman in New York kissed her sweetheart so hard that she kissed double tooth out of his head. All the opera bouffe artists in the country are now in despair, but will devote the remainder of the off season to cultivating their osculatory muscles. Neither Em ma Abbott nor Lydia Thompson in thetr palmiest |pys, could rival the New York

The women at Bar Harbor, according to a correspondent, have adopted the following three rules to be observed in their intercourse with one another: 1st Never present a man to another woman unless forced to do so. 2nd, Do not speak to your most intimate feminine friend if you have a inanrwlth you, unless she is also provided with an escort. 3rd, No engagement made between two women shall hold good if any thing better turns up for either,

An Amerlcus (Ga.) young lady aroused the whole household at her home a few nights since, screaming and yelling that some had kissed her while she was asleep. Her father rushed in with a pistol in one band and alight in the other, but could not find the kisser at first The daughter declared that she felt the whiskers on her lips and the fellow's breath on her cheek, and it was "so/t and nice." Just then her pet kitten slipped from behind her pillow, and she tried to kill it because it waa not a man.

LITTLE SERMONS.

Good breeding shows Itself most, where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

If we knew the real reason for/many a harsh word, our sympathy would prevent even momentary anger.

The doable reward of kind words Is the happiness they cause In others and the happiness they cause in ourselves.

The great cheat and delusion set before every generation Is simply this tradition, that there is anything like real, substantial pleasure In sin.

Soar speeches often proceed from sad heart. It Is a pity to take much notice of what some sufferers say, for they will be sotry for it soon.

THOSE DREADFUL PAJPAS*' EvsasHJle Journal. Isn't it sad "to think that some children, your own, perhapa, dread Sunday because papa will be at home?

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AFTERWARD.

"Never" he vowed, "while ray life may last Can I love again. I will die unwed." "And I, too, dear, since our dream is past,

I will live single," she sobbingsaid.

A storm of farewells, of wild good-byes, He rushed from the spot like an outcast soul: She hid in a pillow her streaming eyes,

And wept with anguish beyond control Just five years afterward they two met At a venders stand in a noisy street He saw the smile he ne'er foget,

And she the eyes that were more than sweet. «0 TCatP!• 'O Hftrrr!' 1 'How well you look!

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"I stopped," he said' "Just to get a toy For my ititle girl." "I wanted a book," She softly said, "for my little boy." —{Madeline 8. Bridges.

THEY ARE JUST THE SAME.

Marriage makes no change in men, A wife observed with clouded brow My John is Just the same, I see, .As when he came a-courtiug me, For home he never would go then, And home he won't come now. —[Boston Courier.

A MA 1RIMONIAL CATECHISM. He was very practical, and in order to have everything fair and square beforehand he said: "You know, darling, I promised my mother that my wife should bo a good housekeeper, and a domestic woman. Can you cook?" "I can," she said, swallowing a great big lump in her throat.

Can you make good bread? That it is tho fundamental principle of all housekeeping." "Yes I wout into a bakery and learned how to make all kinds of broad." She added under her breath "maybe."

And can you do your own dressmaking? I am comparatively a poor man, love, and dressmaker's bills would soon bankrupt mo." "Yes," she said frankly, "I can make everything I wear, especially pattern bonnets." "You area jewel," he cried with enthusiasm, "como to my arms "Wait a minute—there's

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she said cooly. "It's my turn to ask a few questions. Can you saw wood and carry in coal?" ,.4 "Wh*, my lovo, I should hire that work done." "Can you make your coats, vests, trousers and other wearing apparel?" "But that isn't to the purpose." "Can you build a house, dig ditches, a a an "I am not a professional." *'V*i •'Neither am I. It has taken the most of my life to acquire the education and accomplishments that attached you me. But as soon as I have learned all the professions you speak I will send you my card. Au revoir, and she swept away,

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And the disconsolate young man went to the nearest drug store and bought two-for-a-quarter jCigar, with which he speedily solaced himself.

NICKNAMES OF CANDIDA TES.

QUA I ITT TITLES THAT HAVE HELPED TO FIRE THE VOTERS. The enthusiasm which greets any reference to the "Old Roman" and his red bandana is an evidence of the power of a popular nickname to arouse tho people. A candidate to whom some characteristic phrase can thus be applied has generally hnd a good chance of success, for men catch at such a phrase even though, as in many cases, it may have been given him in derision by bis enemies. The great Napoleon said that nicknames were not to be despised, and was pleased at the affectionate way in which his soldiers spoke of him as the "Little Caporal."

The Presidential election of 1828, says the Boston Globe, first showed the power of a good sobriquet. Andrew Jackson the successful candidate, was called

Old Hickory," either because of his tough qualities, or because be fed his soldiers on hickory nuts during one of his campaigns against the Indians, and his friends used this name so persistently to excite his followers that it became an important feature in the contest. 'Ola" and "little" are two of the most

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Littlo Magician" by his friends, which his enemies, who dubbed him "Whisky Van,"tried to turn into ridicule by sneering at him as "The Sweet Little Fellow." But at the next election the pe yelled themselves hoarse for "Old Tip, while the sneers at Harrison's humble origin gave rise to his titles of "LogCabin'rand "Hard Cider." The alternative refrain of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too,' and the short, slurp crispness of

Van, Van. Is a used-up man,

did much toward the election of General Harrison, and showed that the blood of the American people waa, after all, not so sluggish that it could not bestirred to its depths by a taking song.

Some of Polk's admirers called him 'Young Hickory," hrrfng in vain to excite the same feeling hlchOld Hickory had called forth, for he came near being beaten by the immense enthusiasm which the whig* bad awakened for their chief, Henry Clay, by the skillful use of his sobriquets, "The Gallant Harry of be West/' "The Young Commoner' and "The Mill Boy of the Slashes."

General Taylor was familiarly known as "old Zach" and "Old Buena Vista," but the masses liked best bis title of

Rough aud Beady." In the next camlalgu General Scott's adherents shouted *or "Old Chspultepec," a nickname which waa too long to be really effective. The same objection applied to "The Pathfinder," General Fremont's title, which also lacked the stirring ring ue-

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cessary to a popular name, •but "Fremont and Jessie" proved a guod motto to move his supporters.

In the last campaign before the war "old" and "little" were applied to two of the candidates, Lincoln being known as "Honest Old Abe" and "The Railsplitter,]' and Stephen A. Douglas as "The Little Giant." Four years later Old Abe, with the new title'as "Father Abraham," was opposed by "Little Mac/' while even the Vice-Presidential candidates were nicknamed, Johnson being nicknamed as "The Tennessee Tailor," and his opponent, Pendleton, HS "Gentleman George."

For many years after this no especial nickname was bestowed on any of the candidates. Tilden was sometimes called "The Greystone Sage," but it was not till 1884, when Blaine and Logan came to the front as tho "Plumed Knight," and "Black Jack," that the candidates had really popular titles.

THE POWER OF KINDNESS. ["Amber" in Chicago Journal.] Have you in your mind's eye as I write somebody who is especially disagreeable to you? somebody whose propinquity sets your nerves tiugling and your antagonism bubbling liko boiling wator? somebody, perhaps, who has done you injury, or rolled a stone in the way of your weary feet plodding homeward and heavenward? Let me tell you a secrot. The sure |way to kill that wretched feeling is of sot about doing that person a service of some sort, big or littlo. If it is nothing more than to pass the spoons or to see that the sugar goes their way at a crowded table, the act will break down tho ugly spirit within you, as a touch of a key breaks down tho barrier of a locked door. Try it.

What is the use in this world, whore we stay so short a time, of nurturing bitter feelings and cultivating animosities? To-morrow we shall be gone, and all our whims and tempers with ua* They will make leas show in tho world' to come than the shadows that wavered to and fro in last year's crop of leaves, inako in this year's sunshine. Is it* worth while, then, to hate ono another when all that sort of thing is so perishable, apd only lovo endures? There are\ery few enemies in this world ho implacable that sweetness and kindness will not

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I am thinking, will find any solace by and by on our death beds to remember the slights wo have put upon certain pooplo, tho unkind things wo have said of them and the fun wo liavo poked at their peculiarities. We shall lovo to remember, rather, whatever we may have said or done to llghton a way to often shadowed, orstralghton askeiti too often tangled. ___________________

GETTING MA RRIED.

HOW NICE GIRLS BEHAVE WHEN ONE OF THEIR SET MARRIES.

Evelina is engaged. Indeed, she is shortly to bo married. Her "set" of whom she is the first to take this important stop, are greatly fluttered by the approaching event, and talk it over on every possible occasion.

One of them says it is dreadful for an unknown man to come from away out Westand carryoffoneof her girls. Thoy will never see her again—never. Sho will come home to visit, probably, but a girl who is married tells "hitn" everything and has lost interest in people, and isn't the same at all and thoy may as well make up their mlndsto lo*e her, once !o: all.

Hero there is a chorus of sighs and groans, and anothor nice girl says he isn't much to look at, either sho has seen his photograph. Ho has palo oyon, and a ridiculous little mustache that she knows by his looks that his extremely proud of. Why Evelina wants him she can't imagine. Ho isn't handsome, or rich, or heroic, or anything else interesting. He Is justa commonplace young man.

Someone here timidly ventures to.reinark that Evelina is nothing very remarkable herself, and perhaps a commonplace young man will exactly suit her.

Silence follows this observation, and tho person who at length breaks it discreetly selects another branch of the inexhaustible subject: Does anybody know anything about the trousseau? It appears that they all do, but tho information possessed by one exactly agrees with that of no one else, and it is half an hour before they have sifted out tho robable truth from a mass of confiietng accounts, all given at once and very loud.

When this most important point has been debated and settled, they take another half hour to express their amusement at the idea of Evelina's actually keeping house tbey say it is nearly as absurd as to call her Mrs.

They then discuss the coming ceremony, and each gives at lengfh a description of the manner which own wedding should be conducted were she to marry. Several the girls say tbey should like to rv jutt to show their friends what a wedought to be.

One remarks that she, too, would like it, that she might demonstrate to everybody that a bride need not be pale, and can say "I will" loud enough to be heard beyond the first three rows, if she will only make up her mind beforehand to do it.

Then Evelina's marriage really takes place. She Is very pale, indeed, and too nervous to attend properly to her train.

But her friends forgave her these little errors of conduct and admit that on the whole she did very well. One of them •tep* to the station and stands oebind a pillar to see her start off with her husband for their new home, even mys afterward that she had almost forgiven her for choosfng him.

He looked as commonplace as ever, she declares only, when two people seem

pes me oiner girls will stay single long time to oome but, as to Mrs. Evelina, she wishes her good luck with all her heart.

This Is about the way nine girls behave when one of their number makes a commonplace young roan happy.

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