Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 April 1894 — Page 1

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Vol. 24.-~No. 41

ON THE QUI VIVE.

sand

dollars as

take the contract if

it was done. It is pertinent to inquire why the council always inserts in its advertisements a condition that bidders for public work shall furnish bond to enter contractor deposit certified checks as a guarantee that they will do so, if the provision is of no force. The action of the council makes it appear that the majority was determined to give the contract to Kinser, whether or no.

If every man who believes that Tom Kinser has a strong pull with the present council would, on a certain day, wear a button hole bouquet, Main street would look like a tower garden.

If you want to hear the latest tips on politics, the plaoe to get them Is at the Terre Haute House, where the people who are up on such topics congregate every night. The latest is that Ex-Mayor Jaoob C. Kolsem, being out of business, will probably be the Democratic candidate for mayor. Also that Will Penn, of the Vandalla paymaster's office, will be the candidate of the Democrats for city treasurer. _______

A policeman has been suspended for ninety days for going ont.of his district while on duty. He Bhould have gone out of town and created asensatloo that would have filled the newspapers with the story. Perhaps, then, his sentence would have been milder.

Time and tide wait for no man, and neither does a deputy sheriff. Tom jOroson, of the sheriff's foroe, went down

Prairieton, Thursday night, and yanked a man out of a revival meeting, who was under indictment for dlsturbaroligious meeting. The arrest

Uln't J»re*k up the revival, tor the Sheriff did it so neatly that before the indicted man knew what was the matter with him, he was speeding to town behind the sheriff's fast trotter.

The action of the council Tuesday IThe annual report of the Central Presnigbt in refusing to award the Ninth byterian church shows that it has been street paving contract to the lowest bid- booming both from a financial and der, the Detroit firm, when it had de- spiritual point of view. During the posited a certified check for one thou- year *2,000 more was imbed than two

Wonder why it is that when churches have any old buildings to move or sell, tney always locate them contrary to city ordinances and where they will be eyesores. When the St. Stephens people movtd their old parish homo It was placed on Main street where Its insigniiioauco as a business house was made prominent, and now the Asbury folks have followed suit. Tboold frame buildlngthat was removed from Saveuth and Poplar to make room for their new church, has been located at Fourth and Poplar, and will be converted into a business room. It WHS contrary to the lire limits ordinance, but of course thefre was no trouble in getting the consent bf the council to the violation. No wonder 8 C. Barker kicked against it He was entitled to the kick, but it did him no good. The new business mom would make an elegant location for a saloon, but of course it will not bo rented for that purpose.

Another fool girl ha« set. the scandal lovers' tongues wagging by eloping with a man old enough to be her grand father. Bessie Oatt, the pretty eighteen year old daughtei of a north Ninth street resident, skipped out Wednesday night with Zdchsrla Evans, a butcher at Third and Walnut streets, who is fifty-live years old, and married him at Greencastle. Some day the fool-killer will break loose in this community and there will be such a loss of life that the undertakers will be taxed to their utmost to bury the dead. He ought to make hts appearance before any more silly git Is have a chance to elope.

It was very generally remarked about the Terre Haute House Thursday that the delegates to the state couucil of the Royal Arcanum were men far above the average in appearance. And, it is said that they conducted the business of the council in an expeditious and intelligent manner. A Lafayette delegate wa*» the only one who evinced anything like the spirit of a kicker, snd he was sat down on. He brought before the council a complaint about his room at the hotel, whereupon the delegates almost unanimously repudiated his "kick"' and rebuked him for bringing such a matter before the council. The other delegates had uothiag but words of praise to speak of the hotel, and several reminded the l.af«iyette man that when the council met in that eliy Ja»t year the hotel ac^Acomaiodatloi»» were such as not to be Vc»Kj^rv*r"wlihv hat had been furnished in this cttjy '\v% «Vs he isVi

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guarantee that it would years before. The additions to the

awarded to it, wasj church

sense

Crawford J^lrbai.k* he firmed that the new disttftery *111 urti down and make completed and In all lability Ofwr- Hlw«n

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membership

hardly a wise thing. All things being and the congregation actively engaged equal, or nearly so, Q. V. believes that in church work, ibe reverend Mr. home contractors should be given the Hunter believes in practical business preference over outsiders. It was not) methods In church management and the award to Kinser that provokes so the good results of his work are shown much criticism as the manner in which in this report. Practical and common

Christianity

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was too indefinite to venture a prediction on that point.

will

thrive in

make any church

these days.

ABOUT WOMEN.

A woman may be very timid, but she ia never afraid to strike a bargain. A woman died in Wisconsin the other day from habitually eating tea grounds.

It is now claimed that Mrs. Lease's unpopularity in Boston was due to the fait that her dresses fitted her.

Customs officers in Port Townsend saw a woman wearing a bustle, arrested her, aud got a lot of smuggled goods.

The First National bank of Lexington, Neb., has for its president Mrs. H. H. Temple, and for vice president Miss E. A. Temple.

Kansas folks are boasting of the freedom from superstition of a sunflower state girl who has married a man of the name of Triplett. "Does higher education unfit men for domestic life?" This is the question recently debated by the girls in a college and decided in the negative.

When you tell a woman that she is cross, and she snaps out spitefully, "I ain't!" there is nothing else in the world for you to do but to apologize.

Clara Morris says that when her season is over she may leave the stage for good. She will retire without any farewells, if she resolves to retire at all.

Mrs. H. Guptil, a dressmaker, was a witness in a oaseat Grand Rapids several days ago, and refused to testify until one of the lawyers removed the gum he was chewing.

-Tfifll AV\

were numerous,

Some of the most attractive and bestdressed women in Now York are engaged in literary work, and many of them find their labors in this direction pleasant and proiitable.

In New. York thereare now twenty or more "trained janitresses" who earn $400 a year and upward. The first woman janitor

Degan

Lots of things would be different if the# were otherwise. "The green grocer is the one who trusts dead-beat customers.

A Chicago chambermaid lost her nose, iuo& the doctors-gave her a uew one by grafting the BreMt'oI1a"BTat?l£bird to-her ~jjj y0o remember the first circns fbn face. Thus the story told in the old rhyme is reversed.

her work about

two years ago. She took care of a flat house. Rhea has two new plays for the coming season. One, a comedy, is called "Elizabeth and Shakespeare," and deals with the imaginary efforts of Queen Elizabeth to rescue the great poet of the age fromv the dangers of drink. The other play 4s called "The Lion in Love,' and Is a tragedy founded on the'evqntt of the French Revolution.

In Sweden more women than men are found in the telegraph offices, and single women are admitted to all departments of the post oftioe service, except that of letter carriers. Women have the same salaries and equal positions in the telegraph and post offices in Norway and Denmark as men, and in Denmark may become

t4statiou

masters" on the rail

way, while they also figureas shortbaud writers in the Parliament.

SHORT AND SWEET.

Shaking hands—A factory lockout Complaint of the stage carpenter work and no play.

-All

A lobster cau't be styled "well red"

until it lias been Dolled.

The only wa to get a lies out of the gardrcn is to go slow but shoo'er. Spices are not as a rule noisy, but you have all heard the gingersnap.

Many a man who is a good shot in this world hopes to miss fire in the next. It does not seeni at all strange that theitfeman should have a sliding scale.

A man never knows that a woman has any old clothes until he has married r. "The bustle is a thing of the past," says a fashion exchange. It always was a little behind.

Often- the man who does not know bis own mind has escaped a very disr«»jiujt&bi© acquaintance.

A far-sighted miss of fourteen summer* has determined to marry a big Inaw for her ftrff husband and a little for the second* so that she can cut

over

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ated Then? is talk still another dts- bard times* force home the lesson of tlMv. When he walked would economy and pr^ticakacy* upon be built this ve»r he said the project tender childhood.

Thus the

BAB'S SPRING THOUGHTS

SHE CHATTERS AWAY ON THIS MOST DELIGHTFUL SEASON.

Newly Married Couples Cropping Up— How They Spend the Honeymoon In the Great City—Women Who are Not Compelled to Work Criticised by Bab. •?.

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There is no doubt that spring has oome. The certainty of its coming is not decided by the flowers, the grass, or by the blossoming of the trees. Oh, dear, no. The arrival of spring is shown in ah entirely different and much more original way. When Adam and Eve constituted everybody, and gossipped about the springing up of the various plants, the budding of the crocus in its yellow robe probably meant spring time to them, but since the growth of society, since the successors of Adam have increased, a different mode obtains. Spring is not here until the circus arrives nor until the price of quinine goes up, nor until one sees here, there and everywhere two people who look unutterably happy, and who announce by their faces, I was tempted to say by their cheeks, that they are newly married

TRULY, SPRING 18 HERB.

These are the signs and symptoms, of the arrival of spring. There is something wrong when one doesn't enjo the oireus. It seems to me that among the joys of the hereafter will be a free pass to that delightful show) whioh is largely sham, but all pleasure. Just fanoy being able to go whenever you wished to look at the elephants, inhale the perfume bf the lion, and tremble with fear at the sight of the tiger to think.what a high collar the giraffe could wear, and to feel the bliss it must be to ride on a wild and untamed steed, gowned in a pink tulle frock. Plays may come and plays may go. We may be bored to death with "Hamlet," and ^igh with weariness over the so-called faroe, but there is always something new about the circus and always something that? makes one feel as if after all. life was a pretty good thing, and thepeople in the world, especially the people who first invented circuses, are, after all, .about as desirfeble as they can be.

ever went to? I am sure it was not like the one to whioh you go to-day. In the first place, it was in a tent, and threequarters of the pleasure consisted in the delightful lear that the seats were going to break down, and that your life was, so to say, not exactly in your own hand, but resting on the honor of the carpenter, and the strength of the wood. Then you did not see everything on one' tloket, but, after having gazed at lovely colored pictures of the bearded lady, of the twin sister of Queen Victoria, and the only real native of Timbu^too who ever came to this country, and wore all his diamonds at once after having seen these things and believed that, the one pink slip of paper would give you an opportunity to view them all, then It was always a novelty to discover, that each vision meant a separate ten cents, and that not one quite came up to what expected. The bearded lady's voice, was not purely feminine the gentleman from Timbuctoo might have had onjftl his jewels, but somehow they dictt opt look as real on him as in the picture, but disappointed as you were about ail these things, Still there was a great pleasure in the smell of the sawdust, in the appearance of the ring-master, 'and in the trained dogs that made you feel happier than you had been for a year.

LIVING CHILDHOOD OVER AGAIN.

Florida, and in finding it be also discovered some other great fountain that gave him that exquisite manner which

TEKHE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 7,1894.

Personally, 1 am a great believer in the circus. The late lamented Mr. -B*rnum used to say that it was educating, but I am not exactly certain about that in fact, I don't very much care whether it is or not, but it certaiuly does make people young again. It seems to qpe as if it were the same dear elephant who ate apples when I was a small girl—I would not like to say how many years ago—who now looks out from biswaueer little eyes and seems just as hungry as if in all that time he had never absorbed any of the delightful fruit that first brought trouole into this world*. The ring-master of to-day is just as bandsome and impressive as he of the past. Surely he found the fountain of youth years ago when they stopped over in principle. There was no society in the

that they might join fehe caravan and be able to listen to his delightful requests every day. Nobody wants to look back of the scenes. That is one of the joys of the eireim sion about it. Indeed, it seems to met that if there is iri all this country*, In a&^-Adam this wide "world, a single, human bein who does not find pleasure in it, it ia cause there is something wrong wit him, mentally «hd physically. And cause I caa see the big posters from my window because as I am paying tb extra price for quinine, and could onl hear th- lands the night of theproc sion, I

kuow

that springes her$4§ec»o

thecireu* Jias come ii

Theoiext thing of interest in town are the nearly married ones. I

LOVE A BRIDE,^ ,*v $ -j. -t

and I pity a bridegroom. The average bHde of to-day who has come to New York on her wedding trip, may be fdtind any afternoon drinking soda water and holding on to the young man whose name ehe condescends to bear, as it She were afraid some other girl was gl»ing to run away with him. She walks h|m up the. street exactly as if she were exercising a puppy, and she has every-

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matching so pei fectly that if you Id not tell tiiat she had lately enttjted holy state by the glitter of her wedding ring, yon would know it be3«i U8e his gloves and hers are exactly the same shade, and his scarf is made oiit of a piece of the silk that is comitfned with the cloth in her going-away ffpek. She condescends to him as if be hid never been any place before, and siie believes that the smiles that greet her as she wsdks into the hotel dining too to, attired in a pale blue wrapper tijmmed with white laoe, are those of Approbation and not of amusement. She isfsupremely disgusted because the newljj married man has registered as "Mr. J6hn Brown and wife" rather than "Mr.: John Brown and lady," and she tells bl,m that if the people {it home see that they will know he thinks mighty little o^ her to put her down in blaok and $?hite in that way. The poor wretch may endeavor to persuade her that she h» done what is right, but she will be iilpignant for at least two hours, and the oily way he can ever bring her baok to h|fr original state of amiability will be by parading her down street, staring vnth her into shop windows, and eventually buying her a new bonnet. When ttfey go for a Walk

f- SB«f OUDDLES UP TO HIM. v'- 1

ancl ttte otbW diy, after she had advised him about the flavor of his soda water, she happened to notice that a girl was looking 9t him, and she olutched one of his hands, as if she feared he might be led astiay by one of what she calls "the picked New York women." She believes, sweet innocent, that every woman she sees envies her, and that they are all laying traps to induce the man of her heart to stray away from h^r. It is beautiful to see her in the r^ad^ng-rooip of the hotel, when she is ^rtititJfg abetter to tht^ufcople at jiomeA^ler one paragraph iias b&en writteti, she reads it aloud to him, and for the benefit of everybody around and, although he Bays he don't chink she otaght to talk so loud, she has him^for the time being under such control that he don'fc even dare say that his soul

(lis own, and command her to keep silence. I often wonder whait her next visit to New York will be but general inquiry has proven that there is no next thnt once he has gotten her home, he aever lets her come with him again but that for the next twenty years she joys io telling about that trip, and what she thought of the great city. Poor soul! ^fter all, she isn't a bride but once in her life. It is only right and just that she should be the person in power when sfie first appears as Mr. John Brown's lady.

SOCIETY S STARTING POINT.-

Next to the bride the most interesting woman in New York just now is the ^newho during Lent, has gone in for '•olid reading and lectures, and who is now experiencing a reaction, and being .frivolous. This is what a girl said to me the other day. "It is very curious, how opinions are reached, and bow ideas come about. I suppose it is because Ifcbey Come so seldom that they make an impression. During Lent I went in for reading history of the whole world, and, as I adore a preface just as I do the prologue to a play, I read that at once. The first sentence was this: 'History cannot discus* the ortgin of society.' Now, you know that is perfect nonsense. Of .course, history-can not discuss the origin of society, because there was no history ko'til. there was society, and equally, of urse, society did not originate with dam and JSve. You are looking at me iX yoa thought that society could 1st when there were only two people, cannot. It is perfect nonsense to say ghat people find happiness in each other's iety. They may flnd.it in being with bother, but not in each other's soiety. I wonder if you notice that dis* nction. If yon do, you will think as I iun forced to, that society means tneevil

garden of Eden until the serpent apTben history began. Then iiiera wiw somebody to talk things over

makes all the women and children wlsfil *witb. Up to that time Adam ,and Eve found pleasure In each other. They liked to be together,*and it was undoubtedly amusing to see things sprout, and to watch the animals wa'k around but,

Nobody ever loses his lllu^ ~t»nttl Eve met the serpent, nnd chatted with him, and then wenH back and told

what he said, and what ifbe

thought about it, there was no society. Eve, after that, probably met Lilith, was properly introduced to berf and is talklUitr grew very hitter about the weakness /Adam,, the serpent around, and waar diagrammatic and TtM& ww the beginning of hissory. Adsxn told the serpent what be knew -abo&i women as represented by Eve, although when it came to that ibe set-

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pent could give him points about the eternal feminine, and then alter that there was the general rumpus th^t made history. Don't you think it is rather stupid for historians to pay so inuoh attention to the tiresome things instead of telling about what has really made history, what has really oaused the great events?

DABBLING IN PERSONALITIES

Of course, all the occurrences of importance in life have come from the little things, and we would muob rather hear about them. We all have the same weakness. We like to know whether a great- man took chocolate or coffee whether he drank it in bed whether his dressing gown was silk or woo}, and how it was made. We are interested in knowing whether a beautiful woman wore laoe-trimmed underwear, or if she lived in the time when they did not oonsider underwear necessary, what she wore in its place, and whether she bathed in milk, or water, or whether she did not bathe at all. These things are humanity, and it is humanity that we are interested in, and that makes history. I suppose I will gel au immense deal of credit for reading that book, but I give to you my word of honor that I never got any further than that first sentence in the preface, and I have done nothing but talk about it ever since." That is one girl's experience in improving her mind during Lent.

Another one said she did not go to any- lectures except those that had stereopticon views, and her reason for this was a very proper one. "She said she could sleep while the lecturer was talking and waken up when the pictures were to be Shown. Some others profess to have learned how to sit still, and that is a great deal for the American woman, who, having most all of the virtues has yet to learn how to he perfectly calm. J. y.

WEALTHY AND SELFISH?"*"

Some of the women in the extremely fashionable set, who are joying just now in talking about how poor they are, have gone in for being very literary, and are doing something that I, for one, blame them for. Fortunately, it does not interfere with me, but it does with a great many other women who haye to earn their living by iheir pens. The other day I meta woman who has one Qf the most beautiful houses in New

man she had jtfSt stepped out of a very handsome carriage, on the box of which, when she was driving, are two men. ThiB woman was talking poverty, and announcing that she was wilting articles for the difierent newspapers on art and music, and which sold and sold well, because she signed tbem with her own name, and her name would carry (hem. If by any chance she wrete opinions that were of great worth, or that were better tban any- other living woman could write, then it might be right and proper for her to do this but as her articles are medioore, and as it is simply the name that sells them, I consider her more than simply to be blamed for taking the bread and butter from women who need it. That is, in truth, what she is doing. Sheis crowding out the oolumn and a half of matter every week and taking the money for it that would otherwise have been given— I mean both space and money—to some body who made writing her life work, and whose income from it meant life. And when I say life, I mean a place to sleep in, a something to eat and a something to wear.

Then there are other women who are

WRITING FOR THE PLEASURE OF IT,

taking no money, and who in effect are doing exactly the same thing. Liking to see her name in the papers, this type of woman sends paragraph after paragraph. article after article, and never stops to think of the harm she is doing and of the trouble she is giving to Borne one. I do earnestly wish that these women would just think a little. Women have no right to plead poverty, and to take work from tkose who need it, when they eau aflord to drive in Bwi&ll traps, 'wear swell frocks, and to live aud have their being in the most luxurious manner possible. When they do such things as these, they convince me that the worst enemy a woman can have is another woman, and yet I don't like to think that. I wish I could think that tbey do these things from ignorance. I like to think there are women who are kind and loving and good to each other, and I do believe that most want to be. "We didn't think." 80 many times this is their plea. Tbeyforget tbe^evH that is wrought by lack of thought. Tbey forget that thoughtlessness is a very poor excuse for a creature with a brain and a heart. Think it over, my dear woman think it all overj and don't, jost to gratify your own vanity, take away from the woman who ba& to esrn her living, the chance to do it. Youbave man to car® for you- Many of the women who are -worsting have to care for some man, a matt who is an invalid* or who for some reason, and God help the woman who has to work for a man who is riot 111, baa to b* cared for by the ooe who ought not to be the money-maker.

AJf ADXlftABLK CLASS Of WOMES.

The woman who works to-day is to be

Twenty-fourth

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respected. Oftenest she does good work* Oftenest she is honest and honorable. Oftenest she is punctual about paying her debts, and is much more square in money matters than the average man. Often she is working, not just merely for herself, but for somebody else. Oftenest she is at her work, whatever it may be, whether the weather be good or bad, whether her heart be light or heavy, and whether her body be weak or strong. Oftenest she doesn't want to shirk any or her responsibilities, but just once in a while she has to ask you to be a little patient with her, because, though the spirit may be very veiling, the flesh is weak and so, just for this once, if one of the workers is not quite up lo the mark, forgive her, because from a sickbed she is dictating the lines thai oome to you over the signature of BAB.

PEOPLE AND THINGS,

The number 13 cannot be found as a street number in Frankfort-on the-main The Portuguese say that no man can be a good husband who does not eat a good breakfast.

If two men who are moital enemies meet in society, tbey ignore each other if two female enemies meet, they kiss eaoh other.

Some men are so ineau aod selfish that when it beoomes necessary for them to economize their first *tep is to a^k how muob their wives can save.

An Englishman said to a Boston girl: "What do you do with all your vegetables In the United States?" She replied: "We eat all we can, aud we can what we can't."

Life has two surprises. In youth one is surprised that be kuows

much.

When be has reached matured life he is surprised that there are so many things that he doesn know.

A Kentucky judge has deoided that man who gives up his business to eourt a girl in behalf of another man gets bis pay as he goes along, and oannot sue foe compensation in money. 1

One of the evils that tends to increase ,• -jf the sum total of human unhappiness is the fact that a man who cannot sing at all often has money enough to .take lessons for the cultivation of his voloe.

In a Norwich, Conn priming office iSr Joel) ua BarAto w, acorn positor, who used.. to work side by side with Bornoe Greeley. He is able to set type, even by artificial light, in a lively fashion, though at the a 8 5

Anyone found in th^ Itreets of Russia in an inebriated state is imprisoned, and when sober is ordered to sweep the streets for a day. Well-dressed men may be seen sometimes fulfilling tbis menal office.

Max O'Rell says he lias found' only two nations where women are the leaden—France and America. In America, from the age of 18, a girl is allowed almost every liberty—she takes the rest' In France the women are not frivoloust he maintains, as is commonly supposed. They have a knowledge of their husband's business and a voice in the management of bis aflairs.

It is generally supposed that the largest farm in the world, under cultivation, is that of the Dalrymple-Grandiu company, near Fargo, N D., but it seems that an Italian of the name of Guazonl, in the province of Buenos Ayres, Argeutine Republic, had (56,720 acr£s of wheat under cultivation last year, while the Dairymple farm had only about 30,000. A few years aeo Guazoni went to the Argentine Republic from Italy as an "assisted" emigrant.

The secrets of a woman's night toilet pale before the confession of a specialist, who says that many fashionable men wear a moustache net at night—a thin piece of web which covers the Hp adornment, aud is held in plaoe by an elastic which gobs behind the head above the ears and keeps the well trained moustache from getting awry at night. All the jokes at a woman's curl papers, etc., •mj.,'go*id" the wall before the mental vision of & man in bis pajamas and moustache net.®"! *,

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Skilled music teachers in New York earn large incomes when once tbey have gained a reputation, and the best of them charge from $3 to $7 per lesson and perhaps much more if they have also some repute as composers. The composition of realty good music is, however, hardly a profitable occupation in New York. A young composer whose work is slowly obtaining recognition was informed recently tbat^song written for the piano could be put$sbed at a loss to the composer of about twelve cents per copy printed. Had be written a cheap aod popular piece of vocal music he might have hoped forsom* return.

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tm*m LICENSED TO WED. Alva M. Han a and Cora A. Gray. Augustus R. Markle and Elizabeth Blue.

Mareellu* C. Coppage and Nettle HllL, Jn». C. Farmer ana Ida X. Trons. Wm. and Pearl Z. Knight.

Sw«nDoerr

ro: W. Moon and-Aante B. diver. Onerpeck and Mary E. Rockwmxi. Geo. L. flulgrove and Clara A. Baker. Harry O. iulk*r uad Maggie E. Boland. Oeo. J. Orathwohl and Agnes Lewis.

Queen Victoria does not make so man^ speeches us Mrs. Lease, but she draws & bigger salary.