Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 June 1895 — Page 6
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SMALL TALK THAT IS INDULGED IN AT A SUMMER RESORT.
8«irlng a PttsUmo—A Wom*n'i JJew»paper Clipping*—Revival of the Jersey— Ctorge Sand's Advice to Her Son—How 2tlce-Throw!ng at Weddings Originated.
IL'opyrlght, 1885J
.—A'Wr the outlook on bricks and mortar in the city, it wafi delightful to sit on the veranda, and rest one** eye« by gazing at the long, sloping, green lawn that seemed to bary itself tn the blue waters of the ocean. It was an ideal country bouse. And we women were harmonious, so that the simmer days passed pleasantly and the nights, which brought the men, were gray and joyous. Our hostess was never idle, and it was most interesting to watch the slender, white fingers that controlled the ivory needle as it flashed in and out among the red wool. She always worked in red wool. It gave a beautiful spot of color, and formed a fine background for her hands, of which she was very proud. I don't know what she made. Something either to be worn by, or sold for, the poor, but her Industry was always picturesque. All of us were busy there on th» veranda, because nowadays It is vulgar not to know how to sew. The more fashionable a woman is the better needlewoman is she, for at the very smart schools girls are invariably made mistresses of the work-basket, even if they are shy on Greek and Euclid. What a lot of unhappiness has beea worked out at the point of a needle! How much nervousness has been quieted by its monotonous, but attractive, method of working, and how curiously feminine needlework is.
THE RIGHT BOOK.
Somebody said—I think it was the girl from Boston—that she found it very difficult to get a good book nowadays. The very busy woman nodded in sympathy, and one woman dropped her work in her lap and said, "Do you know the reason why? It is because a few years ago a number of good books were written, and then their creators grew ambitious and wrote beyond themselves. There is Zangwiil—his sketches of Jewish life wero fascinating, but did he stick to what he understood and could do well? Oh, dear, no. Instead of those clever Jewish character sketches he writes an over long book about art and the Acadians, with which everybody Is bored. Look at Jerome K. Jerome—we loved his Three Men, we adored Montmorency, we lived In that Boat, we thought out bis Idle Thoughts with that dearest of Idle Fel lows, but nowadays he says he wants to do better work, which means that he wanta to go over the heads of his readers and beyond himself. That instead of sticking to his last he wants to paint realistic piotures. You don't like the comparison of a writer with a shoemaker? Well, if you worean uncomfortable shoe you would never appreciate an interesting book. Mr.Stanley Weyman's first stories bore a comparison with Du mat', and lost nothing, but the greedy publisher called for more, and he takes his old characters and put other clothes on them and presents them to the public to make their bow, but alas! they are too old to stand the weight of the new robes and they topple over. That is the trouble. As soon as a man makes a success with a book, he grows soornful of the ladder which helped him over the chasm that lay between obscurity and fame. It is the same way with magazines. One gets a prospectus that says that the ideal journal is about to appear. The first number is all your fancy painted it, full of delightful short stories, rich white plo-
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turea and having one or two serious article* to leaven the reat. And eagerly you anbaoribe. In the next number there ia one ahort story and two serlala started, only a few pictures and five heavy articles, and yon wish that magazine had never been born, I like piotures in a magazine. By the by there is a magaslne that ia devoted to pioturea, and in whioh every woman ia hoping to get. I am saving mine to have them bound, for as the photographs of wellknown people are in them, people wellknown in every station of life, they will be quite aa valuable to our grand-chil-dren as the books of beauty are to ua. One of the latter number had a charming pioture of Mrs, Burke-Roohe in, and another, a beautiful one of Melha, and my dear, they have some new process by wbiQb they turn out photographs) for this, not by the dozen pictures, not by the yard, but by the mile! As I have to buy mine, I am perfeotly honest in what I say about It, and I assu„re you it is well worth getting, and it is cheap— and aptly enough it is called 'Celebrities.' A book like that, you know, affords a lot of small talk after dinner when the men need to have subjeota suggested to them."
A VALUELESS COLLECTION.
Then she stopped for a second to breathe, and while she was doing this a girl who was working in Berlin wool and wore a thimble with a band of turquoises about it, asked "Did you ever collect newspaper clippings? Well, I have been doing it for a long while, and a man who is supposed to know everything, said that the wisest method was to put them in envelopes and after the envelopes were all full, then to make a lot of books at a time. I followed his advice, and the result is that I have envelopes full of scraps, and yesterday I thought I would look up all that I could about precious stones. The first ten' scraps had nothing historical, excepting in regard to the tomato where it first grew, The next twenty were given over to the history to the tear bottle, and the next thirty on how to get a good complexion and how to keep it. I threw the whole lot into the fire, and I made up my mind I would never collect newspaper dippings again. By the bye, I did come across one thing that was interesting. Did you know that years ago whistling was called the devil's music and is still strictly forbidden to the Jesuits. It is said the Emperor William objects very much to whistling on the street, and some people say that is because an old English servant told him of an Irish legend which asserts that every time a woman whistles the heart of the Blessed Virgin bleeds because a woman stood by and whistled as the nails were being forged that were afterwards put in the oross."
A pretty girl, who had simply been listening, said: "Well, I never heard that before still there are so many things one never hears, and while you have been talking I have been making a riddle. This is it. Why is the life of Mrs. Dash, the old coquette, like the his tory of England? You can't guess it? Oh, botherl Because it tells of the Conquest and the Reformation. Stupid? Well, I suppose it is but you couldn't do any better. Speaking of doing any better, did you ever try to please everybody? I have, and the sad result is that nobody is pleased, and I get nothing for my pains."
The best dressed woman then inquired: "Did you hear that the jersey was coming in fashion again? All the Frenoh and English papers say so, but for my part I hope it is not true. It is
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not feminine, and I consider it was very well named when Worth called it a 'cache misere,' which, badly translated, means a 'slut oover.' French women wouldn't wear them until they were elaborately trimmed and their individuality lost. By the bye, it is curious to see how women are graded indifferent countries. In America, when we say a girl is beautiful, we mean she has lovely hair, an exquisite skin, perfect feat ures, handsome eyes and a beautiful figure. A great deal is demanded. In Spain they are satisfied if a woman is coquettish and has lovely eyes. In England, if she is a good figure, has a good walk, and Is well groomed. In France, if she is perfeotly dressed and has oharmtng manners, and, personally, I think the Frenchman not only asks for, but gets the best.
Speaking of Frenchwomen, I oame across this the other day in a letter of George Sand to her son, and I thought St worth while to translate it for the benefit of my son—he is only eighteen months old now, but it won't be long before he will be 18 years—time goes so quickly In this country. This wonder ful woman said, "Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, bow to acquire without meanness. Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that you your self might have misled. Keep the hope of another life. It is there that mothers meet their sons again. Love all God's creatures. Forgive those who are illconditioned, resist those who are unjust, and devote yourself to those who are great, through their virtue." Isn't that beautiful advice? And Isn't the tie between the French mother and her oh'.!d a most lovely one? Copy it for you? With pleasure, and then yon can slip it in your needlebook,"
A RKMlNtmn OP t.TFR tS JNDtA.
At this time we «'l stopped talking, for rur bosteas, fol^wing an English fashion, bad ordered brought out to us a ga*s of cool ginger ale. This drink ia getting very popular, and although it i« usually taken alone, occasionally claret is offered with it. Ginger p'e. to I the American mind, has always b*en more or lees suggestive of the v«tf-n«
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Naturally, we all laughed at this, and somebody said it was quite time to go upstairs and take a nap, and somebody else said, "Yes, It was a good idea to freshen up a little before the men came." And somebody else said, "What a boon men are." And everybody nodded affirmatively, and when I say everybody I include
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ia being taken because it ia the fashion, or because it la a healthy drink. How ever, one may as well drift into slang about it, and annonnoe that it not only goes, bnt permeates. It is a pretty-look ing drink, and in the tall aoda glasses, with a lot of oraoked ice, suggests English life in India, and makes one feel very smart. When everybody's thirst was allayed, a girl announoed that she was going to read something. At first everybody objected, bnt when she said it was the history of the origin of rice throwing at weddings, everybody agreed to listen, for everybody, that is, every woman body, loves anything connected with a wedding.
This was what she read: "Fifteen hundred years before Christ there lived in Shanai a most famous and deyilisi) soroerer whose name was Cbao, One day a Chinese gentleman, a Mr. Pang, oame to oonsult him, and Ohao, not feeling well that day, brought in a lively tortoise to assist him, and learned that Mr. Pang, notwithstanding his long queue and his satin robe, would only live six days longer. This was sad news to the noble. Pang, but he hoped. He sought out a lady soroerer, not quite so devillBh, rejoicing in the name of Peach Blossom, and to her he told his sad tale. She consulted the stars. They told the same story, but she brought her soroery to bear upon them, and behold his days were made longer. On the evening of the seventh day Mr. Pang took a little walk and met the devilish Cbao, who was greatly mortified to find that he was alive, and moye angry still to discover that the fair Peaoh Blossom knew more sorcery than he did. So he plotted against her.
AN ORIENTAL ROMANCE^
The wily Ohao sent a messenger to her parents to ask if she were still unmarried. They said she was, He then announoed that he had a son who would like to wed her. He fooled them so that the wedding cards were out and the time set. He selected the most unluoky day in the year, when if the fair Peach Blossom ascended the red ohair, proper for a bride, a wicked bird would destroy her with his powerful beak. By the bye, I beg to say that this is not the. Dinkey Bird spoken of by Eugene Field as singing in the Amphalula tree. But the fair Peaoh Blossom said, very properly, 'Ho-ho, I do not fear this wily man I will go and outtrick him.'
So when the wedding morning oame, she ordered that all the servants and all her friends should throw rice as they walked ahead of her, for she knew that the wicked bird, being greedy, would stop to eat the rice, and so he never saw Peaoh Blossom pass, beoause he was afraid he would miss a single grain. When she arrived at Chao's house, however, there was no bridegroom but a maid was assigned to her, and the two girls entefed a beautiful room, where there was a bed of gold dressed in satin and lace, and intended for the lovely Peach Blossom. But she knew that in the night the wicked bird would come again, and so she said to the maid, 'Go t.hou to bed first.' And the maid obeyed her and went to sleep. And all night long Peaoh Blossom walked the floor, and the wicked bird came, and thinking the sleeping maid was Peach Blossom, gobbled her up. When the first rays of the sun appeared Peach Blossom fled the,house, and was met by her own true lover, Mr. Pang, and they were wed on a lucky day. But in memory of the past, rice was strewed before the bride, and all the good birds ate of it. And the wloked sorcerer was killed and quartered and drawn, and everything else that was dreadful done to him, and Mr. and Mrs. Pang lived happy ever after. And for all I know, may be living still, for nothing is Impossible in China."
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They Oct There.
There are a lot of weary women around town these days and nights, and their weariness is no marvel to these in the secret.
They are all taking bicycle and it isn't as easy as it looks. It doesn't seem possible that the maiden who skims along so gracefully on her wheel, emulating the flight of the birds, ever sat, harnessed up, in a bicycle school, with her limbs trembling, her back aching, her eyes sticking out like pouched eggs, aud a slavo driver beside her forcing her to do vrhat she knows is simply impossible docs it?
But they have all been through the experience."—Polly Pry in New York Recorder.
Women on Poltoe Forccs*
Rev. Anna H. Shaw of Barton, avu3 ppoke at the woman's confrrwsa ia Saa Francisco recently,favored having women on the police forces of large cities. "There has been one office I hare lunged for," said she* "and that is the office of policeman. What we want in Ban Fran cisco and every other city ia the country is good women on the police board. If they were there, there would not be ouethousandth part of the immorality."
Oar &w«et Taoth.
The importation cf 630,897,599 pounds of sugar into this conn try last mcath goes to show we've got a very sweet tooth a? that the Sugar trust has a most cap: ._.uos maw.—Boston Herald.
The Miifrntase of Oar Cities, "The misfortune of our cities," as the mayor of Chattanooga remarked at Cleveland the other day, "is the bad citizenship ot good citineas."—Hartford
*WILL BE BENED1CTED.
Puma Rumor Connecting the Names of Two Well Known People.
"They" say in New York that Mr. Richard Harding Davis is about to contract a very romantic marriage.
Mr. Davis is the immensely successful young author and is the idol of all the girls of Gotham. He is fine looking and very fond of himself. He is fond of another also, according to the story.
Davis ia quite a good friend of John Drew, the itctor. They are together a great deal when both happen to be in New York. Recently Davis has been missed from New York a great deal, and as his destination has always been the point where Drew was playing every Qne believed that he was visiting his old friend.
But not so. It has just cropped out that the young author was visiting Miss Maude Adams, the remarkably successful young actress, who four years ago startled the country by her excellent acting. She was then 19, and since that time has become the foremost leading lady in America. She is young, dainty, refined and full of character, aud besides being a splendid actress is a lovely young woman. "Thoy" say the wedding will occur soon.—Atlanta Constitution.
Miss May Cassatt.
One of the women who are becoming famous in art is Miss May Cassatt, an American who has lived in London and Paris for many years. A critic says of her: "If the signature upon each picture were not 'Mary Cassatt,' it is doubtful, so far as execution goes, whether any observer would suspect that the painter is a woman. Miss Cassatt's work is very seldom defiant of her sex. It has none of the 'chip on the shoulder' air, as who would say, 'I am a woman, but I can paint like a man,' that the aggressively masculine touch of Miss Beaux, for example, sometimes suggests. To all appearances, in technical attainment and achievement, Miss Cassatt is simply unconscious of her sex, and would put him who examines her work into similar mood. Her hand is quite as firm as a man's. It is a great deal bolder and more precise than that of many of her brethren at home and abroad."
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haven't any patience with women— or men, either—who go about telling unkind things of the people whose salt they have eaten, says a Washington woman. I heard Mrs. McQuirk—everybody in Washington knows Mrs. McGuirk—say something to a woman of this sort that filled me with delight. It was a well dressed woman, 'too—a woman who expressed the vulgarity which was in her in this fashion. We asked her where she had been. "Oh," said she, with an air, "I've been to Mrs. W. 's. There was a mob there—a lot of the nobodies she bribes to come to her affairs."
Mrs. McGuirk's reply was so quick it took my breath away. "What did she give you?" she said*
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Mrs. Lease on the labor Question.
Here is a sentence from the new book on labor and the money power whioh Mrs. Mary E. Lease iswritiug: "Rolling back the dark and tear stained curtains of the world's history, aud looking down the long vista of years to connect the past with the present, it becomes manifest two, great agents or factors have over euui rolled and robbed the hive of lnl
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Warden—We like to put prisoners to work at what they are used to. What is your specialty?
Prisoner—I am the champion sprinter of the world. If you give me a fair show on an opeu road, I'll do a mile in time that'll make the eyes jump out of your aead.—Brooklyn Eagle.
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OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. State of Indiana, county of Vigo. In the Circuit court, May term, i895.
No. 17,858. Volney E. Wilbur vs. Luclnda Wilbur. Divorce. Beit known, that on the Sd day of June, 1885, it was ordered by thecourttbattheclerk notify by publication said Luclnda Wllour as non-resident defendant of the pendency of this action against her.
Said defendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against her, and that the same will stand for trial September ?d, 1895, the same being September term of said court, in the year 1)95. [ska 1*1 Attest: HUGH D. ROQUET, Clerk.
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Coukty of Vioo, To T. Alkire et al. Yon are hereby notified that on the 1st day of Jul)*, 1885,1 will have the Surveyor of Viao eounty, or his lawful deputy, to establish, perpetuate or relocate,, the co'ners and lines between try land, lying in northeast quarter In seciion ft, township 13, north of range 8west, and the lands adjoining thereto. Parties concerned will meet al northwest.Coruer of the northeast quarter of section 5 13 8.
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