Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1874, Page 5

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, 1574, THE PRINTER. s of the New Hand from jdrentare the Country. The HMiseries of Dealing with Bad Manuscript. 4 the Theatre and in the Composing- Room. Devotion to Little Games. hen old Gutenberg gotoff his first crude {des of movzLle tyre he laid the fonndation not iy of the &t of printing, but also of the print~ 1.3 beiog who is a8 indispensable to modern Lrilizasion a3 the sieam-engine or courts of jus- {ce, snd who prosents in himself s wider rango ol grater vanieey of idiosyncrasies than any ber cresture in thig world. Thiere is not in tue v st the present day o clnss of men betier misuaderstond than printers. By most peopls {perare looked upon as an_ easy-going, anti- eading ket of mortaly, who, ignoring tho wrors of yesterday and carelees of (ae TESPOIL bilities of to-morrow. live but fortbe preseut aud its pleasures. In this they ycein the main wiong, thongh it must be cou- fesed that tho slortcomings of s few evil ~sicscs among thie tybe-setting fraternity of al- B evevery place help to create an incorrect gen- eril mpteesion with regard to the body. In hstever direciion tho peculiaritics of a,printer {eod. Lowever they are sure to bo very marked, jich malics him a prominent los i which the peculiar Leut of s ixclication places him, aud which render yipa very feir subjees for & newspaper arbicle. (ue promicent feazure of the modern prinicr’s caaracter i8 HI5 CLA: 8. He poseosses this quality to an extraordinary de- gree. Tae exclusiveness of the Unions, aznd the fio0: bonds of friendebip which umte its mem- ters, are hardly excelled by the same qualities m ¢ members of 2 Free Mason, Odd Fellow, Kuight of Pythisa, or Fenian Lodge. Taeso are of course feelings which the priters hold in common, but the sources of tho wide varicty of personal pecaiiarities are as rumerous as the peculiarities themaelves. These cannot unfrequently be traced to the impres- sicns created by the copy tiat the type-setier Lsskad to reproduce in the way of business. Thas the printer who epends most of his time in tetting np dry commercial reporis aud tables becomes before very lang A CONFIBNED MELANCEOLIC, 2od in his spare time a seatcher ufter the mye- {enies of parpetnal motion, the quadrature of the circle, the tri-section of the rectaugle, Beech- ec's inaceence, or seme other uudiscovered noth- ing. The manwho rets up the origival poetry for the Surday papers becumes & vapid nenen- tiry, who is coutiuuslly amusing kis fellow- privters with mis-quotations from the poets, and who, while waiting for copy, dovotes stray winutes to ¢toring bis mind with Tupper or tho Bard of Michigaa. . Another pecubizrity which the men who com: oxe bave and bold ia eomimen, and wizch they P1Gtaing never Lo pert with, 1s au G I3 ECTNIOSTTY. They arc always hard 0y, and, were it pot that an appeal from oue printer 10 wnoiber never poes whbeuded, the numuer of LwCkilg compazitors would iu & yesr Lecome somoibiog appaliing. As it is, the Tmpecunious printer, bo ius uufor- tueate conditon the resuit of either folly or miefortune, never Tails to find ready helping s awong his brethien of the stick. the knowledge of this fraterual feeling which indices 50 TUBLY COUNITY PrILLCrS t gIve ©p the sure theugh poor thing they have got vilisge weekly newspaper aud job office to little all of mouey aud reputation among city piisters. They know well that winle at irst their efforts at self-unprovement “uy meet with a pretty geveral rebufl, thut at Izt an opening will be found, that the foreman is somewbere to be met who will afford them & Aud they know, algo. thar, although t sttempts in the city offices may not ve ~ful, yet, 1f show the will to conquer fiics of their new position, wnd to ex- e rustic epenties of tueir style of work ¥ tinsh displayed by their new iriends, Shorteomings will ve overluoked. The ous t0 A COUNTEY PLINTER 0 come to the city are always very great. In the fust place, set he type nover so sifiy, be bis proof mever ®o cleam, tho far-listant country typo mnever earts much Ligher wages than $5 or 89 a week, whil pricer's regular wages are fixed ac $21 a d if woraimg by the piece he can ran it 5or 540, Inthe nest place must be week, W clusigered Lio mtcuse anguish arising from the setiing up week afier weex of the comnry edi- tor's Ltersry produciions. It must have been sowledee of this peculiar kind of misery eced Artemus Ward 10 his: exquisit Le ui the i de Sassy to wake e evil genias of the o, the *eruel pirat,” o prefer sudden duaihs tu tho lingering toriures threat- ened of bring condemmcd for one vear to read the Canada papers, The * pirut” might have been worce off than the Americau country news- Faper t1po, Lut when it is reinembered that the Tuetic jourhalist is, nine cimes out of ten, his own Loct, that he coutrivutes fargely of criginal watter to Liy own column of iacotis, aud indalges greauy in the seutimental strain, even iu the most practical departments of hiw aper 1t in sot ditticult to couceive the ushappy siate of mind of the man who converts the copy into priuted matier. There is no cscape for bim. Ilis doom is inevitable, and a: Jast Le forms the resolve of hieing hinl to the ety and “eeking work on one of 1110 daily papers. - THE TROULLES AND CARLS which awaiz a youuy printer in a largs cits, are muaifold, and, unless be bo mado of sturdy aud lough material, mentally and physically, he will probabiy rue the day 1 which be sought for bet- der fortenes aud o fairer fate abroad. The tirat difficalty he meets with is the securing of a jub, scd this s geverally ove which Lo bLsd kot anucipated. A country printer strugghng Feek after week with rustic cdiiorial and bucolic esy in the wilus of Missour: hears of the en- #mous numier of publications issued in Chica- g0, and the idea never enters his head that the inpplv of printers in this city can ever exceed | e demand. This too often he finds out 10 iug tst, us very frequently he stribes the city at a Romeay when the composing-rooms are full, W every day sees cvery foremaun of au oflice besiged with bescechers for a job. THE FIRST THING *he printer is obliged to do when he armivesin e city, and Las made his aspiraious and inten- dons known to bis new-found buethren, is to Dzke an application to become a mewber of the Cron. Tue mext thing he had batier do is to ind 8 goitable Dboarding-iouse, aud to 1w to all comers that he means businese, 1d that what litde money be bas brougat to town will have o be expended in 3 basiness- tke way, and notamong the bummens of the Interity, many of whom keep oa the lookout [3 ccled country pliners. Woe betido tim if be fall into thew clutch! They will, while hie money laste, ezt with bim, drink with 5-cen:_cigars with him, teach bim te superiority of French carom over the obso- iete four-ball game, introduce him to keno and ¥orse, and then, when his last dollar is gone., od the sole posscssion he bas in the worid is bis modes: little trunk and a two weeks' debt to bis langlady, they will drop him incontinently. ¢ is tacn 10 an utterly desolate sud unfriecded Zndition. The bummieis bave Geserted him be- 3use he has lost his money, and an appeal © those whose couneels he hus disregarded (for & cangot o astray without warninyg from well- Mehery) g uscless, becanse Lie has lost char- Uctor. AL that is left the printer prodigal then Sa compromise with the landlady, the raising 3t his wardrobe of the means to return home, 1ad an ingloricus retreat to his old home and %ork in tre country, now more distasteful than ¥3er on account of the remembered glories of iy life. 2 If the young printer cscape this dangerhe will Pobably, by dint of perseversaca, obizin a job 030n¢ of the daily papers. Here he will mees Fub fresh troutlex, but they will ail vanigh be- re & dezermination to succeed, aud, at worst, e mads ghter by tho increased prosperity and Piozpects of a brighter desiiny which datns o him. Very frequently it bappena taat ihe Suutry printer 1 overburdened with Ti N EXCESS OF PIETY. 1o wapcrior for whom Lo worked had been v winch odd ploye. There isno sort of simllarity between tuking coals to Newcastle and introducing piety to = printing-ottice, aud it has not unseldom happenied that the rustic printer, aiter a nizht of bortor at the profamity and otherwise of the dailv-pape: newsoom, baa shaken the dust of tho place rom bin feet, and rushed howe agzain by tho earliec. train. As o general rule, how- ever, the prospect of increased worldly prosper- ity overcomes this fastidionsness, and the per- verted pietist listens to sirange oaths, and sots tipe on tho Sabbath with as zreat ense an tuough the first specimen of lithography had LO: contained the third and fourth command- ments. It is not, bowever, until ho hos beeu working for £ome time in the city newsroom that be discovers the wayx that are d: of the men who work there. Uno thing which ho suffers from in his era of iunocence is known among tise traternity as FIGURING OX TNE HOOK.™ This is 2 cant phraee meant to describe the wiles to which old ana knowing printers resort in or- der to recure the ** fattest," 1. e., most laerative, *takes." L e., pieces of copy, from the filg on which the torewau has piaced them. Tha fore- man of an oflice cuts up the copy into slips. nu:nbers them, and cach printer takes one as ho finiskies that last on hani. Now somo takes nre much “fatter ” thun others, notably, for in- stavce. adverticements, ~hort-verse poctrs, cnts, two or three line paragrapbs, iutarviews, all lead- ed matter, otc. It is quite 2 common thing for an old prioter, whea Lifting his take fre file, to glance dowa one or two undar tak find out how far down the fat taie lic information ho impaits 1o = frend, who decites to hold off uutil the solid ma ing has been disposed of. It 13 the cotrect thing then, in order to burrs up the Girrosing to mive a kindly Lint to the conniry new-comer that, if he burties up, someibing exceedingly greasy in the take line awaus hun. Il glad nt heart at tho kindness of his new friend, hurrics up accordingly, and consequently etrikes upon a folid muss of privted matter the schemes of the oldsters in tho bu: Gradually, however, his eves open to the van tricks of city printers, and day by day he falls iuto their lit wnd 1t 1reqnent not batter their wstruc: ever, the ** hook " will which, from the ili-usture of the wr utter novelty to tha ne-comer, will o hit 10 desj Bir. A Story i Lot A YOTNG city news- Ver, tiie_topinost 1 was 2 manifold murkoi- ten, ablreviated in a o, and utterly dovoid 10 poor fellow Loglvphics -l,” *pk,” wht," = w. wht,” L (L A stosa respeciively for flonr, wheat. while winter wheat, and barley, : down on the tlovr, aud burst auto tears and exeerations of thie wreich wlho had con-pi against bis £ueecss in life in 6o crael a fa: As a general rule, however, the great obsta- cles to a young countrs printer's suceess iu the city do 103 lie 1n the vews-room. Uulesy un- mistaksbly & poor priater, and utterly lacking in adeptability and the acity of catehing wrinkles on the flv, he generally makes himsell sutticrentls usefel to insare a sfeady job, and, if he takes care of bimself cuntside of tho news- room. his position inside 18 a secure one. The overwhelming cslamiir of a printer is EAD SANUSITUPT, 80 bad that it is nece: 10 stop and ponder over it, lest the prof come tack to hum black with correctious. Li.s iuvolves n loss of time, and therefore a dircel luss of moeney. To bo de- prived of a dollar a dav by reasou of ba no jesting matler. Hebee the indiguation of the “printer concerniuz thosa who write bad hands, and the number tirercof is lezion. ben confronted with au impracticable gerawl there lie paths before the compe upon riper roflection there are three. One is to curso the end of the man who did that writing, the pen be used, the ik he employed. and the semiments he expressed. A quiet, aenizl curse of five minutes, followed by the roturn of that take, and an immediato de- most diabolic; of punctustion-ma; looked a: tho b paruro from _tho the easicst thing to do. It is nth of malig- pant cymickm for the writer of the above menioned serawl to be in aud eround when tlus enrsing is going on, and to rejorce in tlie misery ne 2as wronght. Satar, ploating over & lost soul, cannot be comparet to bi The nex: courze is to i to decipher it. cal readers aid everyb: 3 to be an expert in handwritings. This course of study is seasoved with cvil words, of course, The last wav 4 to gom ths job Lendlong, and 2s the lady sulstituted *“Jerusalemn™ for every word ehe could not majte out in the letter sho wab resding, 80 he in enything which looks something like tha words bef re bim, and then waits for the proof. 1his method its it 2l with eertain #hoct-hand revoriers, who, 7 £ omit auyibi e for signs i <ombling taem, " for **hide- ete. * well, then,” The following is A FAIR SPLCIMEN of tho results of thc &lu method of setting up manuscript. The wiitnz, 1t must be ad- mitted, was & hittle *cif cilon,” aud, zs for ihe compesitor, he had no ilivmination o guide lum in hus work. This 4 wiat Lie 1¢3 up 3 Our faith s clear): ed, #od when a m: ~an no longr ia Lod i, he genrrally quictly withdraw can poseiby Jesus not o Le god, lit:argy which as lturgy nvaria et into hilia are -ith, o band on wutare delinite meRsage 1o del or whether th way mak groat jute ceive it, the Goapel of tie Lord Jo And this is what he Our faith is ciearly de Ioniger in conwelence Lol it, i draws. Nomau of Lons ot to e God, and thck sy the beyoud o que A cn no ruch safes most_dangerous dogmys, on of the old, old the sun or up: wiiet 2 man can no an 1 We whicli e musthand over unfonched We hve n de messaze to de- ther men will Uear, or whether they i erit, It mnay make Bere 2 g yrreat evil—it does Tho faithfuily receive it. the Gospel of make, to {hoso the Lord Jesus Curist. The piiuter as a rule is remarkably FOND OF ENJOYHENT, and as s general rule ho prefors it of tho most pronounced and exciting descrintion. As a gen- eral rule, he 15 & bard, a very hard, worker whilo Lo works. and the sedeutary aud close usture of his occupation leads Lim, as soon as his work is completed, to concentrate iuto the little timo left under bis control as much of jov and jollity and excitement as possivle. Hence Lo is not averse to tho exhilarating stimulant, and when he bLas partaken thereof two, or three, or more times, a8 the occasion may require or the length of purse permits. be bends Lis way to tae taro- bans or bifhard-ball as zaturally as a Grenger visitor of the Expostion tures to the agricul- tural department. Of course this is wrong; it is ‘worse, 1t 18 wicked. The thcory of the influcnce of surrounding circumstances npou senticut beings ie someshat disproved by the fsce thaé the matier which priuters are cternally setiing np has no cifect whatever upon them. The continual dropping of good advice does not wear their stony hearts. Day after day Compositor Jones sets up beauti- ful liste locals. warmng every one to beware of the gambler who lies in wait up-stairs: and proviuz mathematicaily that to win is as impos- sible as for a printer to avoid errors. Some- times these aupeals arc vwritten with great pathos, borrowed for the oceasion frow some accient xermon. but all to no effect. Jonues xets it up cheenly, and then dashes off to akeno bank. Sundav after Sunday they are pampered with tlic eream of the reigious discourses of tle dag, —the milk and Louey of the Chicago pulpis.— and vet no effect is visible. Unmundfal of the pain3 taken to improve them and lead them in the right path, they wax wrathful and assert thut the setting up of isolated fragments from wany cermons, Catbolic, Protestant, Unitarian, etc.. has & _tendencs to bestider the mind, as mixing drinks has to perplex the stomach. Thongh daily engaged in setaug up the pro- cecdings of the Loard of Trade, no printer is moved to jow that body, and, though requested in countless editorialy to co-operate, and do other big-word things, he t refuses. It soems as if his occupazion were, after all, pure- v mechanical, and all he resd elpped out of khis mind when trausferred to trpe. Thus it is that, m £pite of all thess warn- ings agaiost games, the Friter is almays de- voied to them. He i an ardent sdwirer of all games of chiznce. sud, thongh no record bas yer Deen made of aprinter who made a fortuue at any of them, perzeversnco seldom goes unro- warded, and the time may yet come Wwhen one of the boys will gloa: over tho utter and completa vanquishment of the hitherto invincible tiger. Printers are, perbaps, tke pluckiest players in tho buslaess, 'To-morrow, which is but too Jittle ALY cagoe, & may of dovout BSNITALIOGS, RO B4 caltivated simier tandenolos fn hus em- {n any gambiers mind, 1s notning to him unill ~ciiles of Chicago. tho last turn of the cards leaves him pouniless, and thea he falls back ou his philosophy. oea bowe hopiug tha the pext day will brivg him lois of fut copy, so that the foundation m 7 be laid of the wacrewithal of a sweot reveage at the end of the week. This fatal foudnes: though wids-epread, is not general with tho fra- teruity, many of whom spend their spsre Lime in far higher pursaits and more ennobliug amuxoments. ¥ AT THE BRIDEWFLL. Itis tobo expected tout the indulgence of theas fouducsses occasionaily brings the printar withiu tne clutch of the law as repre- seuted by & man with 3 blue coat, s swar, a Lludseon, and a lorking seven-shooter. It must Lo confessed that in the daily hnt of police prisoners that of priuter oc- curs much oftener than might be desired by the well-wiehory of the craft. Bat it is ouly fair to stuto tha:, inasmuch as it is guite a favonte piece of prevarication on the part of a prisoner to call himself a priuter when ho iy not such, the percoutuge as vt furih by che police lists of arresied typos is now corzect. Sull the typo does occasionally find bis way to the lock-up, theuce, aftor a troabled wu00z6 ou deal boards, to the Police Court, and thence to the Bridewoll. Here his condition is melaucholy in the extreme. The probability 1s that in the few dars preceding Lus arrest and coutinement hLe bad disposed of four or five times ay muck mouey as would bhave paid his tine and enved him tiie sudden seclusiou from public life, and the tuonght of bLis uiter impecuuiosity as red with the lavisbuess of his recent ex- peditures adas_greadly Lo Lis discomliture. At Inst ne can stand it no longer, and he drops a lin to bis moxt wtimate fiiends in the city, ac— quainting them of ius misfuriune, and beg the to raise thaumount of Wis iue, or s Lis pardon from the Mayor. 'Lhe friends meet 1 soleau concluve, aad taik overthe harduess of the case, and resolve upon prowpt action. Ecouomwy pointr to a pardon as & more masterty achicvement than the paviug of the fine, and courequently one of the uamber is deputed to call upon thie Mayor. and mate his elognent i tercession, 1he mterceder, arryed w bis Lest, calls upon His Honor, but first of all lay omts of the case befors the Mayor's o8 an old newspaper- hardly fail to listen Lo the woes of 016 of thie boys who years ago set up his localizems. ‘Fiien the venerable expressman is iuterviewed, and if tho interceder proves that he and tobe prisoner voted the People's ticket siraight lurt taud, and tuat they iuteud to do so next time, pazdon comes easily enough. Bat if ho fails Lo ccsato thedesired impression, the fine Lias to be patd, and to do this 3 levs has to be madao ou the mor= intimate fricads aud acquaint- ances of the incarcerated. 'Cais is not a dugcult matter, and a8 soon as accomplished Lhe cazed bird is set at hberty and his f: 5 ta%e hum round to Jurtice Sculiy, whn a:lmivisters tv him that most futle of covenauts, the incbriute's outh. ON THE TRAMP. Thero is one point 1 wiichi the printer is ex- celled only by tho scafaring man—his fondness and the facihty he possesses for travel. Almost every printer 10 tho connery whose knowledge of lis trade evables him to do #o lus visited s principal cities, and cau tajk with esjoyable flu- ency of the gurery ot New York, tioe elassie flavor of Bouston, the statelmess of Philzaslphia, the sbaudon of New Orlcans, tae lassitude of St. Louis, aud the utter superiority over all other Tut thiere até some priuters wito move bitber and thither over the country unceasiugly, stasiz for a few weeks only in any ose place, and it must be coufessed fraquently leaving ouly oue person to wmourn therr depariure-—their laudiady, They are commouly Lnown as “tramps.” and the ox- tent of thew perexrinations may be learned when it iy stated tiat there are at present in Chicago mps" who bave worked at the case not ouly in every city of couscquence m the United Siatee, but al~o in the principal cities of Caglund Gerwany and and. HIS WEDDED LIFE. As o promoter of the beauties and delights of marri the prisier 18 not a remsrabie suc- coss. In fact, 38 & general rule, Le s decidedly averse 10 plwting the role of a lady's man, and, were it uot that every now and then z printer is furead into watrimony with bis liudlady as the oniy means of sertiing up an outstsudg board bid, the number of marriazo-licenses issued by Gen. Lieb to printers nould be very small in- deed. When be does marry, however, bo be- comes a model busband, and’ u judicious and kind fa:ber. All tbe old follies are thrown aside, and, barring an occaswonal ipduigenco i the joys of bis bygone bucoelor days. the rost of his eareer 18 all that could be desired by the most ardent crusnder. One mvst remarkable thing abont the printer is the contrust between his peraonal sppearance wheu at and wheu ofl work. In his moments of leivure, more_especially on & specinl occasion such asthe Fourth of July, or an evening de- voted to & wisit to. the opera, the get-np of the printer i» exquisito to a pronounced de- gree. Ihs 57 silk but, biy velveteen coat, low- necked vest, lavender pancs, spoiless and glis- teninz boots, immaculate rhirt-front relieved by the most ministure of black ties. are such as wisht Le envied Ly Lesu Biammel, o porfect are they i detal and Lappy in barmony. Add to all thuy the closest of close shaves and sbe must elaboratels curled bair this side of Ab- sulom, and it will be at once seeu tuat, if heis a diszegarder of Liymen's wiles, it is altogetier s owa taalt, AT THE CASE, bowever, he preseuts a wide.y different aspeet. Tae clean shave has disappearcd, and given place to a threo dasy’ stubbie: the silk hat is replaced by the peak of an old bat secured to the brow witta pi.ce of whip-cord tied to cach ear: tho masterpicces of tho taloresque art o Loen succeeded by the shabbiest apol- ogies for clothes, and tho exquirite boots notbing but o piece of wole leatlier jept on tho fect by eome magical pro- cess of which the printer alove is master. Cindarells among the after the glones and couquests of her first night at the ball hardly avuled so great a contrast as does the prinfer i case telling of tie beauties of music he Of the printen ) it i possible to say that tbey are, if no beller, st any rate, cob , than the rame clags iu any other city. proportion o the genetal population of is |'robably larger than in any other city in the Cmon, and yot no oue ever hears of a printer getiing into ecrious troable. Ile finds Tus nay to the Lridewell occasionally, and gets oul i very frequeutls long before his time is fnisoed up, bus then lots of decent people do the sume thing. I the record of high crimes the nzme of the printer is seldom or never secn. body ever heard of = printer in Chicago break- ing into a honse, or committing bighway rob- bery or murder. At the same timo they are not a3 pious as they might be. Some vears ago the well-kuown revivalist, Hammond, while in Chicago, undertook to convert bodily the princers in ihe ditferent news-rooms whilo they wore engaged in violating the fourth com- mandment by setting type for Monday morn- ing's paper. Tue firét oflico he called at was that of the old Kepublican, befors the fire a someshat lively sheet, now, however, excinct, or rather playing the role of the dead-aiive un- der tho name of the Inter-Occan. Here the ro- ravivglist asked of the managing editor, one Joe MeCiflagh, nermission to invade the news-room of tae c-iablishment, aud convert the compos- itors. Dormission was granted, and as the great converter left the room the evil-minded manag- 1ng editor shouted the advent of the parson up the tube, ana told the foreman to ** let the bova loose.” Ifo let them loose. Wherever the par- son kuelt down to ntter prayer ho was sure to be in the rcad of somebody, and wherever he ehitted lnmself there was a typo ready with * Here, old fellow, 'vere in the road.” and a geo- tle twist of the wrist led him to’ cffect a chunge of Lesc. When this bad occurred about twenty times the rovivalist lost Lis tem- per, and rasbed fiom the room uttering words which were widaly forcign to the ordinary revivalisl tongue. Mr. Hammond did not go round thiat cvening to_tho other nows-roome as intended, and. us Lo has never attempted anuy mo:e mess-conversions of priuters swce then, 1t is enfe to presume that be writes thom down as among the utterly depraved und God-forszken of mei. THE GIRLS. Of all the mildly evil thivgs thas have been re- corded against peinters here, there is one class of comparative:y recent date whose members stand unconvicfed. They never drink, nmever play faro, never go to the Bridewell. In fact, in almoxt everrthing they present s remarkable contrant to the tvpo alrcady described. Per- haps the contrast 18 most marked in the matter of matrimony. While the ordwnary typo is care- less of, if mot actually opposed to, married hfe, this class alwsys views any prospects of its secural with the utmost favor. In fact, msnr of them indicate plainly, in s thousand un- miszakable little ways, that thes lon; for the day wheun they shall become the beiter haif of & dual existence. These are the lady prinisre, of whor overy office is happy in_the possession of one or two. As a genernl rule, the la int- ers are good, steady workers,—the only misfor- tuse in connection with them being Liat, just a8 they becoms really usetul, they suddonly dis- appear from the case, oud are secn there DO more. Their weakness for matrimony hasgot the betier of them, and in the new role of mife and mother they soon forget what knowledge ther bad picked up of 0ld Gutenberg's art, Take them for all in ail, priotors are & highly energetic. and, withal, very respectable sot of men. and & glance ot the nsmes of the promi- neut men of our city and of our county who havs begun Iife 1o a printing-otfice will convines any cue that the possibilities in frout of a yonag typo of ordivary forco of character, and the de- tenmination to succeed, are secoud to that of no other busiuess in tne land. "~ mMUSIC. The “Writer-Demagogues” Who Impede the Advent of {le Musical . HMillenaiom, Richard Grant White on Wagner and Liszt. Public opinion should be the consersatory of Art where genius or talent is encouraged and guided to a full, symmetrical development ; but it is too often a bleak moor, wherein such germs attain but a stanted growth. America coatains the same natural musical taleat as otber coun- tries,—a fact patent to all wnohave to do with its education, and one of which others may be convinced by obsorvingswho are the rising lumi- naries in the musical world. Now, while this talont may find a8 good instruction in this coun- try as in any other (I assert tlus with entire con- fidenca), Wiy dous it NEVER FULLY MATURE if it remains at home? Wy are America’s most brulliant luninaries found only smong thoso who ive in Europe ? Ihe answer is plain: In European countries, public opinion upon masical matters, being cen- tralized to a focus within the sphere of the best musicians, is 10 #uch condition thut Art-germs, feeliag its wtluence, develop like natural vege- tation in a greenhouso; while, on tho other bhand, our teachers bave no similar conservato- ry,—no such genial atmosphere and rich xoil in which toeow seed ; their planting-ground is little better thau a moor. Upon onr public opivion, the two opposing forces exerted by the true artists and the musi- cal demagogues work coustaatly ; but, in the do- centratized condition of things, little progress in one direction or the other can be seen. The in- szinets of our people incline toward the right; 0 the artistic element will ultimately prevail,— is maining ground =l the tims, but 8o slowiy that those who feel an “infinite longing” for the musical millennium often luse patience with the dema- gogues,—the teachers and writers who are musically coarse-graiued and uneducated,—who sbound and effeetively impede its advent. THE WIITLCE-DEMAGOGUE is more formidable than lue brother of the plat- form, becauso the laiter finds many skilled workmon of his cluss to expose a8 well as oppose Lim, while tue former, being generally a man of literary skill, inds scarcely any among tae artists who can measuro philological weapons with him, and su meets little opposition other than gea- eral inveetive from the few who recognize his perversity, This, however, has liitlo effect, for tho faciie writer, echooled in logical expression, with knowledge enongh of his topic to sbroud in techmicalitics, appears to the muss of reaters, who ara far better qualified to judze of a litetary effort than of a muscal philosuply, a8 a scholar altogether too stronyg for his revilers. AR, RICHARD GRANT WHITE is o brilliant writer, whese wit and_nse of lan- guage command admiration, I think it was his Pen which, some vears sinco, produced s satire upon preténiers £o the autborship of * Rock Me to Sleep, Mother,"—a Leeuer 'effusion tban which would be hard to find; His literary ex- pluits have gained him the ear of the public, znd be has of late beon addressing his constitu- ency upon the subject of mukic ; bt Wusic i to hiai av a foreign language, tle geniuy of waich he has never e ! In the June Galary he handed Wagner over to perdition. In the Septembes number he dispos- ed of Lirzt. His tirst urade called forth copsid- erable criticism, fome of wifich evidently rtung Lum, for hus second is accompanind bY a note irom the editor of the Galaxy (?), claimiug forhim & gl place as » musical eritic, aud adducing, as proof of bhis nwhe to it a commendatcry potico from the excelicnt (but very unmusical) Hev. Jobn 8. Dwiglht. Thus fortified, Mr. White Trites about Liszt with a positivencss of asser- tion which au educated masician woald hesitato to assume, even if be held Yir. W.'s general con- clusions. WIHAT THOSE CONCLUSIONS ARE mav here be secn * Tiust dreariert of composers, Franz Liazt, has probs- Dly covered more music paper wih hus writings than Siozart and Beethoren did togetiter, and in all that time bay not produced oue musical idea that is worta oue of the bittons on oue of his old v not one wlich has character enoigh, even 1n ita bid- Desw, to Le recognized as one of his: Lizzt, of whom it i8 trie to way, e Inore he writes nd the barder he warks, the more does the stony seriity of Lis mind appear ; who mpends the first part of a moscment {n aunouncing that someibing is coming that uever c snd the last 1 subsiding from a climax that oy never becn reached ; who, fiually, for crery dvud of Lix uot doue on tho plalio-stool ‘ought 1o sit on the stool of repentance. 1do not propose to defend Liszt: until an opinion worthy to oppose Theodore Thomas' 18 given us, detense is ot peeded. 3Ly hops is to thro some light upon the White snccies of musical critie. If he is pot vicions, the im- mediate subject of my remarks 13 ignorant and impertinent,” as the majority of bis critics call hun. This appears plainly enousgh in Liy ve- hement aud uncompromising mode of attack, which, 8 I have iutirnted, no ioteliigent musi cian would care to adopt agninst s person rever- enced by the musical world, who may be thus described : A #ane man of transcendent patural musical endowments, of large general education, a perfect master of the whole technique of his art, perfectly couversant with the whoio musical Iiterature, one who hias enjoyed the closest con- tact with the pgreatest musical minds that nearly half a contury has seen, and one whose mind is the Mecca of all professionalmusiciandom. That such a person bLas not, ju fifty years' writing, produced & worthy idea. is a Jstatement by the light of which we get a very £ood. but very nu- pleasant, look at ity author's mind. Mr. White states that Liszt has written * only firoworks of mouutainous difliculties,” which be wonld hardly Lave asserted bad he prepared himself for his disconrse by research such as an Lonest writer would bave thought necessary. Ile gives us bis word that the introduction of such *‘divergent keys ” as occur 1 Wagner and Liszt's music vio— lates tho laws of barmouy. To be sure, he says, in another place. that hig victim's compositions remind him of *‘sermouns i which the nentences were well put together and the language pure, but,” etc., THUS CONTRADICTING HDISELF, and saving the necessity of explaining to any one but him that the lawe of harmooy allow a sudden divergeace from mny 006 to any other. But 1t would require an nnusual #tuck of pattence to #pend time in tho cousiderat:on of the vagarics of a man who tall:s about the ** dis- cord of tue sharp seventh of the scale” (in his article ou Waguer), and npeaka of an air passing *“from the dominuot to the third of the scule.” five notes removed. For tho beoefit of thoso not versed in iechnicalities, I will explain tiaat the *‘sharp seventh of the ecale™ is noth- ing more or less than ths koj-note: and it 18 very severe upon the ecience of music to call that, or ** the” chord founded uponit, a discord : also, that the * dominunt " is five of the gcale, between whick and *tho thurd ™ there is the iuterval of a sixth in one dircction and & third in anotner, In this latter gnstance, how- ever, 8 musicinn can guess his tieaning. Mr. White quotes a musical phrase that he CAN MAKE NOTHING OF "' BUT SUNSESSE. I give the firut scction of 1t The remaining two eciioms mro bub sighily moditied repetitions of this, each pinced ata Igher.pitch than the preceding; tke three are conneeted harmonically, and tho effect (what- ever it be) 1s camulative. The thought is brilt upon this well-Enowa and anquestioned bar- monic progression: And, if such moditication of this a3 appears in the gthor illnatration 1 forbidden to Wagner, what becomes of Sebastian Bach? In the sketch made by Rzphael for his *‘ Transfizuration.” the figuves are unde, while, in the painiing, they are draped ; stich a course, I sm told, is castomary with painters. A composer, in like manner. car- ries in his mind nude_harmonic vrogressions (as in the second example above), and drapes tham according to lus fancy and the laws of,, grace (as in the first). Ao ignorant critic of a’ painting, or of & piece of music, cannot always see through the drapery, and will often condemn & pose or & proportion WHICH 18 TERFECTLY CORRECT. That the Wagner thoughs vefore s is beantifnl, 1 do not wish to prove, though I consider it so. 1 desire to show, however, that a * foreizner,” like Mr. White. woild not bo liiely to fully un- derstand it. When Mozart moditics a plhrave, be generally first gives ont the idea in its sim- plort form: thus, when the idea recurs decked out iu anticipations, suspenxions, appogiaturas, etc., the uncducatel hearer is able nore caaily to recognize it. Beethoven often does the samo thing. But succeeding writers, probably relying upon an advance in popular musical perspicacity, did less and loss of this expisuatory composi- tion, until, in Wagner. Liszt, and others, we find none of it. To appreciate the works of these latter requires a knowledze, inborn, or acquired by intense studs, of the whole nuance of music, such 2y we bave of our mother-tongue; we must Le ablo to watch tho gradations of a cliord-resolution occupyiog . whole phrase; wo most bo able to carry in the miod a half-a-dozen of thera reso'utions atonce, a8 Murphy used to play as many cames of chess Ll:mdfoided ; we mustbe sble. upon hearing but the first toue or two of an idea, to feel what is called key-relationsbip, as Azarsiz, baving given bim a single bone, could construc: tho whoie skeleton. These, tud many such 103:s, porfect- ly easy and natural to a born musician, must be done to comprehiend and follow, not Wagoer and Liszt ouly, but much of Schumaon. The musical protenders, in_sttempting to do_this, are like our echoolboys trauslating Virgil, puzzling their heads over the couuectioa of the subject liere and the predicate a dozen lines away, the verb lost aud the limiting clauses ob- etinate. Or, to nse my - “ LANGUAGE" ILLGSTRATION in & more familiar way: Sappore a tlippant Italian to go_into England, and, afier traveling about and hearing tho apeech of its people enough to become very familiar with its sound, he imagines himsell competent to criticise its writerz. He takes o volume of the native poems, roads, sud com- ments: Breathes there a man with soul so dead— “ How can aman breathe with soul? What nonsense! But, wor-o still, he intimates that tise soul can die, which is utterlv subversive of religion!” Who necer fo himself hath said *and there's no interrogation poiut atterit! A direct question without an interrogatiou-point ! Why, the man 18 ignorant of the first prineiples of ‘wrivien language!" This is my own. my native land- *“An _aseertion without the shadow of a prool.” Whose hearl hatle ne'er wutlin him burned, As home— * Who ever benrd of a beartin conflagration ? Though, to be sure. bhe beautitully illustrates his meauving by bringing to mind the imposiug speetacle of & home in flames ; siill, a good poet would never enggest the very uncomfortabie sousations of a man with a burning bouse inside of Lim." 1is footsteps he hath turned— '* Now, ‘ to tuin ’ means ‘to revolve,’ and co traly poetical writer could’ ever corsider 8 man's legs as he would a cartwhee! ;” etc. Overdrawn ? It may be ; but I sometimes sce musical enticiam, intended to be profound, that seoms to me as stupia zs that supposed above. Ouly imagiue the article upon ** Scott as = Poet " which this Ttalisa would write upon his return_home! . in iis two articles, takesthe ground v tho (though he disavows his conservatism), and is xinal only in the extremity to whicli be goes. Nothing of the spirit of song breathes through his writings, though one might justly look for it in essays 80 e'aborato upon musical subjests. His efforts to couviuce lis readers that ho is an authotity would never appear among the words of one who felt bimselfl waster of bis subject. ** Ignorant, I was not?” hLe savs, szeaking of his former criticiems; and as Marcus Antoniots Diwight tenders him the coronst of Ppresent sapience, he fails to follow an_example expecially familiar to bim, but eagerly dons it. In the preface to ** Words and Th Uses," Mr. White aarerts that ha is nn rcholsr, thoush he fairly blackgurrds (with claksical quotatiun) one of the most able critics of his book who in- clines to agico with the prefatory romark. It is to bo hoped that the samo spirit of self-dispar- azement will saon overiake him in his musical carcer, and assail him, as it should, with iniinite- Iy more sincerity. When public opinion on musical maiters is not too ready to follow whoeyer beckons to 1¢ with & magniticent ourish, native Art will at once be- gin'®o assume more satisfactory oroportions than at preseut. Freperic W. Roor. —_— Snipe on Toast—¢ Sixty Cents.”? A sojouiner in a large city, who is at the mor- ey of restaucants where you ure treated witha big bill of fare, and very little food on your plate, thas bits it off : Sutpo on toast would be almost too hearty food to faed people on who had been tloating on 8 raft three weeks, feeding on old boot-legs. Says I to the waiter: “ Give mo suipe on toast.” By-and-by bhe came in and put down some toast. and [ kept on reading abont wiat & dun- Xkes Grant was, and what a ridicuious seé every- one i3 who is running for ofhes; and 1 sas there for an bour, Then I rang the mong. The waiter on! aud says I: ** Woere in thunder is my meat Says b, “They've been on tho table more than an hour.” SaysI, * [didn't order plain toast; I wanta snive ou it." Says he, * There ia a snipe op it.” Tiien I drew closo up to tue ablo, and I saw a little black speck ou tne toxst. Says I, * You'll swear that’s a snipe 2" Says le, = Yes.” Sa7s I, “You'dmake a good linen-buyer. you Says Le, *It's 5 snipe on toast, auyhow.” Says 1, - How did it get on " Says he, * That snipe is all right. It's a full- d one, too.” Sars L “I'm glad of it. T'm glad sou told mo that's a full-vized enipa; for do you kuow, young man, when I sat out there roading [ saw a black speck on that toast, Lut I took it for a 1y, and I'm glad to be informed it's a snipc—a fall-sized suipe. Now you can take that snips away and bring me a turkey on toast. [ wanta full-sized tursev. tvo.” 1 ain’t bankering afier gnipo sinco that epi- sode. Icould bava, bluwn that snipo thro putty-blower without hurting the enipe, or the putty-blower, either. Spipe on toast msy be gane, but it's a mean game. A Mad Woman’s Crime, A shocking affair, says tho Pall Mall Gazette, is reported from Newcastle-on-Tyne. A Jew- ess, named Rebecea Lewis, abou: 40 vears of age, the wife of a lipper-maker, suddenly made an attack upou her husband as he was standing looking out of the window, and stabbed him thrice in tho neck before he could wrest the kmfe from hor. e ran for a doctor, and his wife. whom he turned out of the house, rushed into tho houze of a neighbor named Kaven, and, geizing 4 tuble-knife, arew it across ber taroat. Mrs. Raven ran for the police, but on her return she found both her own chuliren bleediag about iko weck and Mrs. Lewis standing looking on. Tho eldest child, a boy abont 2% years old, lay on his back on the floor with his throat cut, and an infaut 3 months old lav beade bim, bieeding at tho month from a wound apparcnt!s caused by the knife being thrust down his throat. Nei- ther of the wounds were severe enongh to prove instantaneously fatal, but the children are in a dangerous condition, and the infant is not ex- peeted to recover. Thu infuriated womao, after having ner own wounds dresscd, tore off the banduge and attempted to stab bersslf with a fork. She wad too weak to be removed to ihe pohiee-station, and an ofiicer swas left 1n charge of her. It is supposed that she is iusane. R o Erog and Allizator. From the Loaten Cloh. Perzone in the habit of walking along Charles street, near Beacou, ar’ familiar with tre tank w Suuw's apothecary siorc, With its nu- merozs gold-fish. which, with a monster frog, two alligators, and s turtle, formed what seemed to be a barmonions and bappy family. Dt ap- pearances in this case, 8 in so many cthers, were deceptive. The huge fiog, whose ewoll figare was 80 conspicuons at the side of the tauk towards the window, was a most voracious monster, devouring other frozs, 2s well as making daints meal off the delicate gold-fish. A fow days a30 oue of the allizators, 11 inchey long, was missing, and, after search had been made evervwhere else, it occuried to the owner of the tank to cxamine tho inside of the frog,. though i hardly secomed reasonable to nopeso that “he bad swallowed the alligator. Dut on opaning its mouth 1t was clear that this was tho case, and by puttinz _the fingers down the froz's throat the bodz of the alligator, somewhat soft- coed, but not decomposed, was brouzht ap from the unbounded stomsch of the huge croaker. e are glad fo be ablo to s:ate, for the satisfac- tion of mothers with children living in the nelghborhood, that the frog is to bo sect away, SUMMERING. Hilwaukee -The City and Its People. A Summing-Up of the Varions Watering- Places in iscensin. The Questions of Woman's Costume and Woman's Health. Spectal Correspondence of The Chicage Tribune. MiLwAURER, Sopt, 17, 1874, In this clean, prefty lake-side town, with its whitebrick buildings, wide streets, and handsome residences, I tind the nuclens from which all the Wisconsin watering-points of interest radiate; and here I write my faresell of Wisconsin, THE LAND OF PROMISE to all future generations, since ler riches of resource seem inexhaustible, acd she grows great by introspection. If Art has failed to make her abiding place bere, Naturo Las been over- lavieh, and the grand painter has spread ber colors, cunningly mixed, over acres upon acres of landscape-picture. There aro no mistakes in XNature's coloring. ‘They never contradict them- selves. Sky color, or gentian color, or loaf- green, it is always justright. All summer I have reveled in lovely, cool, shaded grosns, and strong umber shadows, and peari-grays, and opaque lizhts, and rose tints, and tremolos in color, thas are to the landscape what the trills arein music; and I am leaving it just when the, rich hues of autumn, the live colors, are fiaming out on the trees. We have had them 1n the sun- sots,—rose-red, and violet-carmine, and orange- yellow, with half-shades and parplish tints, and clond-shadows over all, fading at last into Na- ture's inimitable grav; but they do not thrill us with melancholy longing. as the fall of the leaves iu their gorgeous livery of death. The summer is over and the harvest is ended. Thou'et hearing hence thy roses ; Glad suminer, fure thee well { Thow'rt singing thy lsxt meiodies In evers wood and dell. With the first foll of the leaf, tho summer- tourists packed their trunks, paid thsir bills, and went home,—tho most of them to a climate in a more soathern latitude, which they left in timo to escape the too ardent heat of the sum- mer-solstice. They all expect to return nexi vear, and to participato in the old pleasures ; bat the future is & vista we do not care to ex- plore. e would not if wa could, Aud we could not if we would, MILWAUREE is, in point of beauty and embeliishment, the first city in the Stete. It is flaniced on one side. by Lake Michigan ; and the people who made ths place bad room enough to give each streeta proper width, and cach home a lawn or garden. Thero are parts of it that represent cnly tho social element, the home-hfe of the people; and 1 can give no idea to one who has not seen it of the beauty and cleanliness of the Landsome, cream-colored houses, built of tho far-famed Shilwaukeo brick; tho fair, smooth, green lawns, with shade-trees sud flowers in Iluxurions abundance, and decorated with artistic temples, grottoes, and rustic seats —all combining the best elements of luxury, comsort, snd esthetic cultivation. Then there are strects, leading from the rivers,—for thers are two, tho Miwaukee and Menominee,—that take one back to the quaint old streets of Que- bec or Halifax; for they emall of tar and ozkum, ancient and fish-lii aad the bales of new ropo onthe sidewalks,and the sail-cloth, and cordage, and chains, and anchors, are sugzestive of salt water, aud you expect to meet & jolly tar wich baggy trowsers aud wide collar. and a gold beud on his cap with *The Admiral” printed thereon in large lotters. Then there are the streets that take you by THE LAKE, and you catch the daehing spray in your breath, und see where, in high water, it comes plunging over all chatructions, and covers the raroad- track. and creeps up as if in search of ncher prey ; and, as far as vou look iu one direction, you see the wild breadih of water, freighted with the cumuncrce of a great country, etately sLij moving out of port, propellers stcaming n zway, litde schooners rusning wing-and-wing betore the wind, and it seems like some ald sea~ pors town, that has been heve as loug as this ocean of water has beatand throbbed on tho-e ehorea ; and we face abuus to find elegant busi- 1y ness-blucks, maguiticent hotels, aud cathe- dral-churchs, and remember that we are in_ a city poted for its cul- tivated, thoughtful people, its refined, con- servative ladies, and its bandsome, broad-chested A Miiwaukee man dovs not beliove tuas ving & woman for ner beanty is like eating rd for its sinzing. He picks out the fincst ayes, the reddest lips, the peacuiest cheoks, the straightest form, and proposes ac ouce to tho chaiming toni-cnsewble, aud renders himself nappy for a Life-ime. THE LADIES are sprightly, but Dot radical either in dress or sentunent. Thev copy the Boston women in thoir tollets; consequently they alwaps appear in good taste. They never start out lecturing, or murder nybody, or reiuse to observe the laws, or stay at home from church. They read Haxley aud Carlyle, aud nnders:and all about protoplasm, the conservation of energy, and kindred subjects. The gentlemen wear white vests, look iwiso, and stare. ‘This pecaliarity gives'them all tho appearance on the strect of | Standing for their photograpks. They can nover ropeat the expenment of Lot's wife, for thoy never look bebind them. but alwavA sterestraight abead, as if looking into futurity. Having fo- cused tho eyes, noso, and moutli into one fea- ture, they fix it upon the approaching object, and, if if bappens to be 3 wowan, she must sur- vive till ehie has passed out of range. This may boa peculiar effect of the atmosphera, but it is very noticeable to strangers who have occasion to traverso the streots. There are two very fine bookstores here. a larzo dry-goods house, a haudsome Post-Office editice, several fine baok buildivgs, and sowe railroad-oftices that do not look as if Potter laws hiad impoverikned them much ; buz the pride of Milwwikee is its_two leading Lotels,. the New- hatl House and the Plankinton. Alilvaakee has been quite & FAVORITE RESOMT FOR SUMMER-GUESTS: and one of her citizens, Mr. Shermau, couceived the idea of a special watering-placo hotel. For this purposo he leased lns rlegant home on North Point, about 2 miles from the city, and situated on & delightful clif by the lake: and parties wisbing to enjoy quict, and participate in the pleasures of a watering-place, had all tho facilizies offered them. I have not heard that it was 2 success. Indeed. but few watermg-piaces bavo becn very succersful this scaon,—ike guexts comiag lato and leaving carly, with ' dis- position_to economize not usual before the Fonic. The hotel-keepers at the diffcrent points anticipate 8 rush next year that will offsct the losses of tois. There Las not been (ho dress or gavety usmaily attendant urcn such scenes. In fact, it is hint- ed that busbands are susions that their wives ehou'd go to Western watering-n 3 I can wear what [ bave. my dear. 88 an arzument. When a wan makes a pleasure- trip, he goes alone, or with some Lindred spirits of his own; and be carries = valise containinz a cuit of clothes, aud an invoice of cig: Ho orders_the bestin the Louso Lo stayd a where he chooges, does what he pleases, dehes, hunts, swime, rows, and is segup for the rest of tho year wi he drifis homeo again. Il wifa takes three peevish children aud a reluctant purse, four truvks and eight carpei-bags, and audwiches hersell and belongings into two rooms at the hotel, for which ghe Lasto nay well, because ** women require 52 much waiting on, you kaow.” The childrea improve their time by caiching eversthing that i3 zoiry. while each letter from the atsen: husband ends emphatichl- Iy with: * Make your money go a8 far as vou can.” 28 if it had not already zoae out of eizht. But she is expected to go_home as rejuvenated as if she had bcen living out of doora, ina Bloomer cosiume, without a care in the world. Wh doesn's scine genius invent a costume that will be both CONVENTENT AND BECOUING ? All the reform drestes are lideous, and make a Woman Jook like s nondescrip: ; but surely there might te a sracefal. sensible, comfortable dress deviscd, tkat would bo ai omce pratiy nod be- coming. The narrow, round ekirt, jast clearirg the gronnd. and tied back meatly, is ooe step forward. Two licen suits. two and oce of black alpaca, of percale, one white, is aliberal wardrobe for s sammer-tour throngk the whole conntry. Add to thie one dozen lirea coliams and cully, and iz hghi-colored necatisa, and one evening-dress, with au_ occasional paat of lisht kids. anduiblon, 2nd von can do away mth the wnole Tegulia of laces, ovenirasses, flounces, and furbelows, un:il the winter scason, Tho belle of the watering-pluces this seasoa had nply one trained dress,—u black sronadine.— which shio transfor.aed with a fow flomers. Oro cveuing she wora red roses; the next, seliow oues, gloves and sashes to maich; the nest, white ones in. great ouavtities; and again, 4 combication of all the colote. Itia tho heigbt of vaigarity to burlen yourclf withan clabotats wardrobe, just to show it off Lo envions are aud Lavo the eatisfaction of knowing tha, bowever splendid your toilet may e, some onn elso will havo & finer oue,—while' you may a5 least feel as«ured of being a leader in ologaat wiaplicity. Ttis very necessary to have one suis of stroug clota, made especially for tramping m the wooas. It might boof some brizht-colored tlannel, mado with a short, narrow skirt, fastened at the waist with a belt.—the upper and lowor garment in one ; tight coat-sluoves ; a few rows of black or white braid_will do for trimming, Such a dress would be invaluable forallsummer, to Bunt, fish, 67 row in : and the fros oxerciss o Ll_:fi limbs it would permit might save a doctor's ill. It is an unfortunate fact that mear] 3 women who are found at watering. plascs e ALE OCT OF HEALTH, A unless they are our Germau sisters. *OhI® said 2 landlord to me, in a most enthusiastio manoer, -1 ik to Dave the German Iadies board with ns. ‘They aro 8o hoarty, and necd so little waiting on. They eat eversthing ot b= fore them. ‘and drink their béer openly and above toard, and aro uch good company. Wa had one lady in this house ail suramer, who bad traveled all through Europe, and was an accome plished musician, avd she wonld play till evorys body in the houso crowded at the doors to listen § but she ased to horrify some of our squeamish American Iadies by savine sudivly, v boes, if’ you please,” just a4 they mish i '3%‘ g-:é. :r yon %Jle:uc.‘ 0 phR AT iy ‘This delicacy of Lelth i8 constitution with tho American woman, and 1 doubilars thy result of over-stimulation of tho norvous powos, too much study, too much work, 100 muzh un< wholesomo play, late hours, and too little develke opment of bealthy muscle. T have noziced thig summer 8o many weak, dolicate blonae children, upon whom the ripening sun was never atlowed 10 shine for fear of tan, and whose fittla hoadd rolled unessily on their slegpless pillows night, 80 that the golden threads might rcaembg ravs of crimned sansnine. The child grows up; and s faught that small, elim waiste upd tiny fect, are tho accessories of gentld dreeding and belong to beauty. The eculptof would #ay this is a false estimata; that the Venus of Yl weara a No. 4 ehoe, or would i sie wore shocs, and bas a wmist messuring 2 inches. It is & pity to spend half a lifetime i1 tarning the carrent the wrong way. A borg rowmp i3 SURE TO DE A HEALTHOY WOXAN, If parents will let their_children play cut of doors, uurestricted by tight clothes, long batr, or fatal comulexions, they will see them devolop 1nto hearty, healthfnl, bappy women, constitnzed to bless and be blessed. I noticed, in, nesriy overy room I visited at the watorins-places, an array of drugs calcalated to disguat evon o well person. They were tonica to build up dopleted -ystems, while all around 1y the generous, life- giving forces of Natuto, ready and waiting 0 do & better and cheaper work. i bave seen one or tiwo exceptional familiey, whoss childrsn made mud-pies, and rolled about in un- rufiled and uniluted ginghams: and the oldar members did not bave mnysterious snd complis cated discases, or kecp themselves up by a regic men of moiphia and quivine, To many, this sumwmer has been their last. We cannot point them out; we kuow not over whom the great shadow droops. We only kuvw —are very sure—that, when Srweet flowers shail Lioom agaln, there are thoso wo have seen and spoken with, { mhore esa wilt bo soaied to the lizht and bloom, whose ears will be deaf to the niusicof the wood, who will a0ar that call none may dare dispazo, and rise up and follow Friecds! friends! O, shall we mect In aland of purer day, ~ ‘Where loveiy things aud meet Pass not away? En passant, let mo enumerzio THE FOINIS OF INTEUEST FOR TOURISTS in this one favored State: Geneva Lake—70 miles from Chicsgo, oz the Northwestern Railroad; a besuufal lake; bandsomo residencee, built by Chicago capitale ists; & pretry tuwn; 8 remarkable visitor durin June, cailed the Cisco,—a saall aud most delicis ous fish, that has a run of fourteen days sod then disappeara : good hotels. Wankesba—T1o kinds of mineral-water, gooé for alwoxi any Liocod-dizease: a big hotel, with colored watters ; lovely shade-trees on the stroote borders: very fashiouable. conomowuc—A circie of lakes remarkable fox their patural sceneiy; romautic 5-milo drives | 1odel landiords, aud choica accommodations. Madison—Three lak: o pretty town ; Gran- ser Governor: militar; zor’; fine Capitol buitding ~fih;)x':els first-cluss, filled with Southern. N Wide, hacdzome strects: culti. d people ; big sheet of water, and curiosi. ties. Greon Luke—A secluded gem; dark-greer lako; two good botels; wild-wood drives, ang tisbing. Spar,a—Romantic and charming scenery ; gooé muneral water ; live scople ; two nowspapera, Eikbart Lake—Tie pet of the season ; om youvgest, baby 1ake ; all smiles and dimples ; pacturesque S wiss-Coltage botel ; tiny sieamooaty and high bills, with wonderfully-lovely foliage nO toam. s Milwaukee—Good air ; big lako; 90,000 in- habiiauts ; umbragooas drives ; tip-top hotels; good socicty. ‘fhe whole State of Wis~onsin is ESSENTIALLY A HUMMER-RESORT. Oneisalways cool tuere, aud safe from mus- Quitoes ; DU 1t is easy to imagice howrcold those sparkhing watens will roll in November, and how depresing the rad rustle of the dead leaves, ang the chill emptiness of the hospitablo cottage, whose doors and windows bave stood all summes invitivgly open. **‘bere are no burdsin last year's nes ‘The German element provails hore to & very great extent. Many citizens of Cicazo left there after the Fire and came bither. Onc German firm is doing an immense business iz engraving, and occuvics an entira block, A litele distance from the centre of the town, on the Wiscounsin Central, is a magniticeut build- ing on & bigh bluff. As the great arches come in sight, one grows entlnsiastic over its castlo- hke sppearance, only to learn thatit is one of the largest breweries in Wisconswo, Phil Deat's. His elegant resideuca is near it. I have not had = disught of tho famous Milwaa- keo lager-beer, nor have I dared coufess to auy curiosity on the subject; for I have a wholesome awe of the Crusaders before me, aud » real sym- puthy for the cause of iemperance; but Iam oot sure that it would not be bettor for the women of the presont dav to drink Icss tea and coffee, «quarre] with drugs, and emulate tbeir German wistors 1n drinking beer at their meals. As it is, tome of the good temperance-champions would be muca surprised if they knew how many drama they swoliowed anaer the names of Elix- ier, Bitters, Tinctures, and other specifics. As you have a_regular correspoud-nce from this point, 1 need uot trouble you auy more with side-ixsuch, but say A SEASON-FAREWELL TO WISCONS hopinz to rezew, 1n some futuro summer, the pleasant acquaintauce of this ; for though we buve been L=llow-tourists for a neason, we must etiil be fcllow-travelers. Thiere was a old belief that, in the embers 0f zll thingy, their primordnal form exists, And cunning alclemists Conld recreate the rose with all its members rom 1ts owi dales, but without the bloom, Without the 14t perfume, Al me ! what wonder-workinz, ocrult sclence Cax th aznies in our heart once mure— Tbe rove of Youth restors ? ‘What craft of alchemy can bid dafiance To Tims and Change, and for 2 siugle hour ew this phantom fower 7 1 Ao not knorw, nor will I vainly quration Those pagea of the mystic book which bold Taestory etill untold 3 « But, without rash conjecture or ruzgestion, Turh ite st l-aves in everence aud good hesd, Tstll “ The End " I read. M. L. R s T A Question of Dreas. Tho anthor of the **Tkonglts of a Country Parson was some time a0 travehing, aod fell inzo conversation with a fellow-voyager. Find- iog him well informed and azreeable, Dr. Boyd asked him to dinoer. The gentleman beinx s tourist. and therefore wisely not burdened with a superfiatty of lugrage, presented himself n & vay smt. The - Conoiry Pazson,” on sceing fii.! guest, manifested cousiderable uneasineas, and at last plainly told his vis: bat he feared he maat postponc their dinor, inasmuch as Mr3. Boyd always expected her znests to be in ovon- ingdress. **Pray. don's meotion it,” replied the staager, *I woald nut think of intruding on Mrs. Boyd. I willleavea card forber” So ho %00k his depacturo, and the master of the hease- bola then asceriained that the angel whom bo had not entertained unawares was the Earl of Fute.