Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1881, Page 12

THE CHICAGO ‘RIDGU INES: SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1I481—SIXTEEN PAGES WOMAN. | ;Two Young People Who Were “Perfectly Paralyzed" and Told About It. dome Philosophical Reflections as to Whother or Not Lovely Woman May Woo Weak Man, Interesting Pacts Ooncorning Methods of ; Dressing tho Hair in Daya That Are Past. Bophie Perowsky, tho Nihilist Woman, and the Romantic Story of Her Life. Tow a Ballimore Giri Me Onions and Thereby Discouraged Mer Lover's Tender Ad dresses, {ord Boaconsficld’s Wile—Measuring Baby—A Family Episode, French "Fun, Ete, the SORS A BABY'S ITAND. 4 O tittle hhnd! a crumpled roso-leat sweet, ;, From out the dlosgoims of 2 summer. hours 188 A frail fair petal dropped down on the sands 44 Of lfe—in golden sun and allver shower. $7 O Uttle band! within thy rosy palm Fs ae Awholo world noatles walling for your relen— ii; How will you mila when years give royal | * atrength, 37 In peace and love, or bitterness and pain? i 23% O lttto band! what treasures will you grasp? ie 31 Wont Joys lot allp with Ilngors that grow weal th [{ Heforo tifo's mysteries? What rankling thorns ‘ u and tares #) Will you sow swift? What vengoance will you : wronk? O.Uttle band! how fragile sweot you aro} { Cruurpied and niiniess-—nothing but 1 fowor's Pair dawn-kiesed petal, blown into the alr 37, Ny fragrant breozes of the fummer hours. a God keep thea white'and pure, O little hand! p, As Eis white Hlies grown in Heaven's light. sd God's tender loving keep thee strong nud true sf As deathless sturs tht sbive thro’ Winter night! Fansy Diuscout. PERVECTLY PARALYZING. On the way to Buffato two “ yorng people” got on the train somewhoreenst of Cleveland, { ‘They were going back to school, hey wero ‘ef not silly, ignorant country young people, By <2 no manner of means, ‘Chey represented sem- inary: and coftege culture, for the young.man ‘was on his way baek to Cornell. They * dropped into a seat, and talked, and the pas- “Ai soneers in the immediate vicinity Hstened to ae this highly intelivotual interchanges of puls- Ing thought and throbbing sentiment: “Say l? exelatmed the hmpetuous youth, Theard something about you?’ ale “Oh, you!” she replied, * what was it P? } Shan't tell? . i e“That's real mean! Who told you?” “Oh, Iknow,” he asserted; “it paralyzed. me. “Well, what wasit about?” : “Down there at Chatanqua, that time, Oh, {24 that paralyzed me, ‘Te-he, te-he.* * “What? she exciatined, in tones of In- tense surpriso, ns though It was the first time sho had aver heard of such nm place,—"Cha- + taugual? . “Aw, yes, you know out there with—"” “With whom? 'Te-he.? “Oh, pshaw! Te-le, te-hol” “T don’t know whit you mean.’? “Ob, uot you don't! Well, {t paralyzed me. “Well,'I don’t care, anyhow; it ain't so,” “Well, L got it pretty stralght, It Just zeal mie? “Who told you?" “You'll never tell [told you?” “No, indectl, L won't,” “Well, E got ttfrum Wil Blank, It just paralyzed me.” . “Oh, I know what you inean now. Well, what of that? ‘Tehe, tehel wn” well, a good deal of It Te-ho, te 0 v2 Why,.that was nothing, ‘Te-he, te-ho!” ~ Aww, that just paralyzed me,” 8 © Ldon’t bellove you know anything about iff It, anyhow, 'Le-he, te-hel” “Y'os, do know all about it, Just pare yzed me, 1 tell you,” ‘ * Weil whatdld he say about the other?” Jh, he told ine all about that.” “Whatalld he thing 2? * “] won't tell you.” “Oh, please do,” “AN, you're top anxious,” “Indeed, Ethink Lought to know," “You'll get mud iL tell you." (Then, uddenly remembering that he halal made ‘ex, you Will, It'll puralyze you,” “No, Cwon't get mad. Not at all,” “Ob, pshaw! Won't your" “Indeod | won't, 1 will be thunkful to you, Til do sotnethting for you some thine.” “Oh hush, you puritlyzo ito,” le sighed, ® Well, tall mo; won't your” sho plunded, “IT you ure reat sure you n't aren mind." “Tudo and induced Lwon't? Wnt did he say abo! "tcare. It ue AL “Well, ho suid ho did aralyzed * Phen, with # sudden insplmulon of gu- lite, he added)—" And dow't you forget it.” re you sure he didn't “ Hy wid hodidn’t. Oh, 1 was paralyzed. Tee he-hut ; . ni n oa Yes, Uthought you would bo,’* why ses “Ol, bucauso, 'Te-hol" * Well, why did you think so?" “Well beerusa. “Bue why? “Oh, becuuxs,” “Well, bo!"* ‘ou must hove some ronson?” nuw. It Just puratyzud me, I toll you. Atthia Intercsting polnt In the conversation tho pussenuers you. out at silver Creek to con- cealthelr emudon, ‘Tho Jester wis weeping. The mutt on the wood-box waa awenring under bis breath. ‘Tho fit passenger wie psp Inthe pi faoo, und the sad: passenger, iifting bis bunds to hace pals da anwar Fe 01 y 2 Jimmortul goda, dwellera ou high Olyinpus! ff Did Lever tn all my culloweat, duya projanu the y* Ja snered quiet of the day with such colosaul, : (yf Boaven-daring, maddentig, soul-deatroymy ime ip becllity? No, thonsund tines no; by all tho voloeloss rods tht fant tho awful wates of 7. eternul silence, nos hy thunder T never dil" 5 eneot bet pune Nite Zou aid sald Hig. woman y who Had, wu Without breuking the.doade r lock the Senate adjourned, iad oe eae} MAY WOMEN WOO? It ls generally supposed to be a dreadful Ziman. Those who air the cheay philosophy. ‘of the thne, and consider that there Is no law Bo supreme us otiquet, while they hold the Sk eupposed decrees of the omnipotent dirs, Grundy In deep reverence, seem to imagiue ‘“ithat ft is the duty of a girl to hide from her self the fact that she has a heart until some : be ‘unexceptlonavie suitor discoyera It to her, a iy ip and ardently persists that it is the one great ‘thing In the world necessary ta hig happle nesa, If she ventured to hint that she was #60 anxious for the affection of some male that she would do anything within reason to secure him for her Jord she would be ac ‘counted unmatdenly, bold, and what not; and it would, in all probability, be urged that Yehe might be expected to come toa bad end, ‘Pimnd gerve ns an awful warning to all meim- ‘bers of her sex who are Inclined to ba une Jdisciplined. Lut there Is, neverthuless, only foo wuch reason to believe that female human uature Is so weak and wayward and impervious to the concentrated wisdom of ithe ages that the emotions which lead ta Jsatrinony do not always have their origho fin the bosom ot iupassioned beaux, ew ant then, it ty solemnly recorded, fn ahucked tonca, and under the Vell of accreey, #0 7 at the terrible fuct ubtalue almost as much pub- luetty ug if it were proclaimed by thetowu-cricr, be has 4 peculiar, delicious tavor imparted to Mt, that Mrs, Brown uctuully committed the ouore Pulty of making loveta Mr, Brown, if sho did é s ; not in plain terms tovite bln to became her hue band. tis comparatively unimportant that she und ber mato nppent to be as happy and to Ke on aa well together as thoy would in all prot Witty have done ff te bud beer the first to fe the stab of Master Capid’s dart, and tind water taken the initiative ta tho courtshty. Tr scents fo be held that the only plea whleh may ap- propriately bo ueged in oxtenmuation of her con ditet i thit she rejoiced In the possession of nn abundance of pelf and a ceriale position, while Ais social atatis wie us tow ts his puree was Haht, and even this plea has to be handled with ndroltness, if tt isto necuine elfective., Indeed, at neritieal moment, when thoy have all tho de- tallsof the exceptional matter before them, thoy will not hesitate to speak In torins of with- ering scorn of tha frail fomnle who Js so much the sinve of her heart that she ts acting ns ff sho desired to bring to her fovt A man who, from pashfulness or Romo othor cause, woukl not, Keomnely, got there but for hor stimuinting intluence, Tf she falls thoy rojoley over her downtall, and feclingly declare that she will merely meet with her deserts If she degenorates Into it negicated and petulant old matt, While if she suceceds, thoy virorotal discount her telumph, on the ground that ft fs one of which any Well regulated fumale woutd be thoroughly ashamed. "Che membore of her own sex, when thes cultivute tho. power of ine trospection, ure becoming mattre, and should know how tu make excuses for her, ate invart+ ably hur most virulent critics, Evan mon, hows ever, are disposed to show her no morey, and there fs, probibly, no moro lofty and vigorous): indignant creature than the folng who feels that ho las been “angled " for, but Hatters him self beenuse ho his not been caught by the bult whieh tins been so temptlngly placed before hin, He woutd almost appear to faney that bo should, an seenuntot tho way he has escaped tho snures that have been epread for him, be Pluced on the. role of the world's heroes, It is absurd to suppose that alfection must ine evitably begin with tho tnnn, Lt t4 equally ave surd that he alone must be at liberty to wit the bolug whom ho believes to be neoossary to his Hfo's bappiness, Why, then, should a woman be dabarred from. doing ber best to stir tho sluggish. nature of tho boing whom sho hus, with tho natural pervetelty of hor sex, fallonin love with, and. who would, sho, has every renson to believe, be worthy of her? Sho may see that if she will hold out hor hand he will {ake it, but that if she gives no sign.be will pass on, and thote tives, which she tondly- thinks would bo exquistt if blended, in tho: future - He furupart. Will it not be merely clementary wisdom for her to come down from tho incom: . fortuble pedestal where all her energics and emotions aro uncomfortably cramped, on which nitifielullty hus set her. We do. not hetlove in tho popular imp ion that tho wolledireated maiden. only discovers that sho hus a heart when the rheht min usks for it. On the. contrary, we- are of the opinion that many girls tong, with alt the intensity of fresh und ardent souls, for cer talt men as consorts, when to word of love has boon whispercd in thelr cara, and when no token of aifection hax been tendered them, and not a few bevoime broken-spirited beeatse the chines of thott bright dreams boing. realized vanishes. “AL nresent a woman frequently forfeits har pos: sibility. of bliss from the elroumatance. tuat. sho, ownng to her surroundings and sense of what 18 expected of her, feign coldness which sho Is fur from feeling when the man. whom she loves, while fearing to trke tho final plunge, ovinces. sume desire to win hor favor. DRESSING ‘TIE WAIT. A book that should give the full history of the feminine headdress woult ‘be a book full of interest. Low many tong and patient re- searches its author would have to make to giveeven on gilmpse of the thousands on thousands of transformations that the natural ornament of the Iumatn skull has undergone at the bidding of taste and of capricet Our first parent, Adant, parted his halr in the middle; Eve, no doubt lazier, contented herself with letting hers full over, her shoul- ders like a voll of gold. But what changes since then! During the epoch of paganism the pricst- esses of Bacchus appeared In public with flowing tresses, while Diuna and her nymphs fre represented as knotting thelr hatr on tho top of their heads, ‘Thu colffure of the an- elent Grevk ladies, as also of the Roman dimes, was of an extreme simplicity; thes parted the hair on the top of-the head and bratded itin long plalts falling down: the shoulders, Very often they mude with these phiits n twist behind the head, which was. kopt In place by meaus of a bandelet. The Roman indies, whose slaves were counted by thousands, employed many. of these solely in dressing theirhalr. Wo to the sinves if the culifure becaine disarrauged! Patience Was not ano of tha virtues of the fashiona- bie women of those days, ‘They diverted themselves by Unrustl long: pincors. into the flesh of thelr improvised hairdressers, Ever: at thatthe the helrpin was alre: in use, for wo know that Flavin, by way.ot insulting the corpse of Cicero, trow'n Iinir- pin from her locks and thrust fe Creare the tongue of the (lustrious orator, ns though thus taikiuy venyounce for the surcusms tbat tongue bad hurled ather. ‘ho uso of bulr-powdor was also known, slice Poppor, the socontl wifo of Nero, never allowed herself to bo seen by hor Jord and master until she had first covered her Jocks with a powiler of gold, Durlug tho middle axes fashion did not-get nuy furthor thau. the pluts and bandeaux. util the Crusaders left un Oriental imprint on tho art of hairdressing. ‘Toward 1600 0 revo- Jution suddenly broke outamonsg the adios, who get tho pattern of elegance; curls became the fashion and grnoiousty shaded tho cburming features of the La Vallldros, tha Sévignés, tho Maint ue, tho Ninon de I'iuclos, und the other beauties who udorned the relign’ of Louis XIV. A little later tho pyramidal headdressus came into yoxue and row to ridlontous hights, So whstirdly tigh were they that ladles going to tho ball wero forced to kneel down in thoir car- ringes or to thrust thotr honds out of tho wine dows, In caricatures of the pertod halrdressers on tho way to the houses of thule patrous are represented as carrying Inddora upon thoir | bucks, ‘Tho Hovolution of 1780 was a terrible blow to the nrtists of my profession, and the disuso ot powder and of wigs forced thom to soustbly inodity.thalrart, it wus ut this time that a bulre dressur named Michnion Invented and brought. Mito fashlon tho practico of oxbibiting diferent atyloaof headdresses on the heads of the wax figures which still ornament tho windows of his sucovagors, ‘Tho relyus of Louis XV IIL, Charles Xw and Louis Phitivpe contelbuted nothing. to the history of hulrdrosatng, axcept fashiofie that nowndayy would be considered eccentric, With the advent of the second vimpire we on ter the domain of modern halrdressing, Béllx. Escalicr, hulrdresser to the Empress Eugénic, composed for the wedding of that soversign a coifura vonsisting of two bandeaux infront; tho one inthe Marie Stuart style, the othor roiled, beyinnling at the top of the head and falling gencofully down. the neck fn Ittle curls. his druasur of-crowned beads wus bofore avery thin, vlsu un tunovator, For many yeqrs ho cronty the new atyles, Hid professional brethren coultl not sueveet in imitating him, uud thoy em- ployed alk kinds of strateyotms to discover bis secrets. One day as be was dreasing the hulr of tho wifo of n rent dignitury of the omplro bo nureclved of these rivald who. disguised na a valet, hod ontered tho whup to spy out tho now are ju order to oimploy it on tho bead of ony of his own elfents, Félix, protending not to sea partie dreased mavanie's hoad in the moat Inughable and grotesque fashion that he cout levise. Ad soon 18 his clval bail gone nway, ho undid alt that ho had done and cunstructod- ny autuntitic and novel coltfure, As for tho rival, ho imitated with Implicit contidence what hoe bad seen, Filled with enthnsinain, ho dressed tho hulr of bis clivnt. a indy who.was to. pase tho ovuning nt the Lullerios, Mor outranca into tho Imperial, balt: noom. was the. signal, for langhter ond jestson all sides, It was tho ruin of tho une lucky balrdressor, ——— SOPINE PEROWSKY, The Czarina ts now sald to be In mortal terror leat the Nihilists should, as thoy threatenud. before the qxecution of the five, avenge on her children. the death: of Sophiv Porowsky, It would have been good policy to have made a hostage of that oxtraordinary heroine, whe is already regardad, {t appears, asamartyr by the discontented classes in Tussin, high and. low. er posthumous In- {uence and prestiga are sald to be lmmense, Although political nssnsination ls nota crime that tempts French met and women, adimira- thon fs expressed everywhere for Sophio Porowsky, of whom the pretty. Viscountess, de Ralupevilly, a leader of fashion in the Orleanist part of the Faubourg St. Germaln, was a flratcousi. ‘Tho uncle of Sophie was algo tho firat tutor of the prosant Qzar an an Inthuate friend of Murlaviel! It is whispered, too, In Aine, de Matnnoville’s drawing-room, that the Nihillst heroine was ® natural daughter of Alexander Il, Be this us niny, . she would not have joined In her 1th year the Ni- Aillats, and get out from aluxurioushoineon fh self-imposed mission, had it not been that Gen, Mouriaviel! was “the butcher of Po- Jaud" Her hand was destined by her parents to Coustuntine, the Gencral’s son, jophle recolled from the marriuge. A teacher beloved by hor was a Pollsh fadiyy av hod seen the Warsuw atrocities which Mourlavieit perpetiated Mile, Perowsky ut that dine hud wyus of sapphire, golden hair, anda com plexton of such delicacy that s rose petal only afforded a standard of comparison for it. She had w nalye, innocent, wondering, expression In hor young face, whieh con fxmed the wpplcion of her uuuvowed relation. sbip to thy CEur. Her scboolfullows called bor bebu when she was quite a bly girl Her foro> bead Was vast almost te deformity, und the mouth beaut eulty: und truly modeled, though somewhat "roge-bud," She was atthe head of her cluas always ut school, but from generosity refused to cunipelo for prizes. Her parents, when Mae, vame home, pi her to a cons the wife of the promising yous ‘euccessian of de olticlal whom they bad ‘dvetined | for ber pubbande |, whey the Quoen offured, him u.curonph “uni to pres. ‘Thon ey bat her awn She refused. ‘They continy sho Manppenred, taking 10 1 sioal) savings with her. Tater ailly tecelved, ‘They were seit ania M nid stated Diet abe was well and happy, was waitl of atender fru and apparently delicate orgnnvattion, itnever ocourred to thos Unt ehe had embraced a Ufo of the mort fearful hardship. They imagined that she had rin niuy with some: mmurried man who was keeping hor Ruditen, She was not. ‘This beautiful young: creature wan braving overy Ul to witleh povertys stricken buinanity 18 able to tstil Socialist doctrines into tho minds ‘ot penaints working-fol, She worked with her for subsistence, choosing the’ tasks which were most tikely to bring her Inte’ contact with tho socially lowest and most. burdened. with inisery. | Her propa ganda was auricular, for: she, was 1 lowevolcsd, timid gir), of hositating speech when, many Hse toned tober. The news felt fike a thunderbolt, Ovo yeurs ago, that she was aricsted by tho po- llea.tnder tho. cluirge of heading 0 Soclullstia and Dentvorntle propaganda in the southoasters provinees. Tho country of the Vola whieh she wont to stir upginaa morculal population of gypsies, Jews, Tittars, aud bybri Bho hose tha Volga-becauss tens are nore rapidly come muuntented wx the courses of rivers thin elsc~ where. A civer brings with It commerciil attr, and i'n great instrumentof exchange. Sophie; was treated with fearful harstiness, but offered jnsion Hf ate woull revent! the ecerets of tho Nihilist organization, which ald not thon stint at fegiclde, She kopt a’close mouth, For twenty four mouths she was inn cell in tha peison on tho north bank of the Neva, aud was almost frozen to death Inwinter, At the end of that period sho stood her trial, and wis banished to 0 town on. the White Sea. When she esctped and got to St, Petersburg she fell in with: Flurt- mann, of wham she beanmo tho intininte asso~ cinto, bit not the mistress, ‘Chey lived tog cthar for & few years, Sophie was supposed to hen Hasheeramati, and: a Mauahnales What un 2x- raordinury career hers was, Tho Se Petarsiung eorrespontont of tho Trib- lel stntes that sho kissed in the dock her fellows, conylets, und with quiet cheerfulness told tert to rejoice, He was told by Baranoll, the Profeat of alice, not to Jcleneaph this detail, which he has sent by luttor, Another forbidden detail wasitstatoment ipade by Michnelolt to the of- fect that ho had tnvented a balloon susceptible of being directed, and that unless: Cznr gave A eonstitution tt Ld by used against hint. Tho Volltire'a St. Pe: arg correspondent com pices Sophie for beauty, aristocratic cleganco of fien and for candor, to Hosalind ‘and Viola. vet eo could be secretive, wnd hor ruses It ayading the pollee were endles The i given by Figare’s correspondent of the manner in which ber slender Uitte feet danced fn the ale when tho execubunere string her ip to the aal- lows lns excited tho greatest horror in Paris. ‘That extraordinary artist, * Aleeste,” has taken this dance of death of Sophie's feot for tho thome of an article, tho most weird, grim, atriking, extraordinary, and, for Cznrlam, omi- nous, that f remember ever reading. Poe might have written in the same struiu 1: bo had had to treat tho.same grim subjuct. EATING ONIONS, Acouple of young girls. living Ino Baltl- more boarding-house played n mean trick on Another young and attractive malden in tho same house. They all hud same cake and wine together, and Inthe unspecting one’s giiss was poured a sual portion of tingture of nsafetidn, which, as every ono Knows, suiells liken congtomeration ,of onloys, bad egaa, deonyed vegetables, and 2 host of other things too numerous,.te niention, ‘Tho prank-playtag damsels knew. that the unhappy maid’s Charles Augustus called on Sunday, and they also knew that, while she could nut detect tho flavor of the asafetlia In the fragrant wine, nevertheless it would pro- duce to her aforesaid Charles Augustus tho imprggaton that she: had been cating onions by t6 pack, Poor, pretty, ttle unsuspect- {ng thing! She was. radinnt when she flew. to the ddor and admitted the manly form of the object of ler heart's affections; and she dit not observe, ng thoy: were locked ina close embrace, thatas his Hamat hers, draw- ing a diinple in the hack of her neck, o look on wild, untterable horror spread. over his Ineanents a dusky pallor. Hiv cut the embrace short, and thoy. wont: and took their plnees.on the cozy tete-n-tete In the corner. ‘Then she noticed that there was a far-olf troubled Jook in his eyes, and che shifted about uneasily, as if vaguely awaro that somathing was tha matter, but that ho couldu’t dutect odor, which resombied. duy-beforo-yosterday's fried oulons, and which was Ungorlny dreainily around on tho soft, warm ait. “Denrest,” naked sho, slyly, “what fs.tho mat- ter “+ Nothing, ewootheart, nothing:.that ts, noth- ing,” auswored he, ag bis gazo tlew swiftly from ono object to wnothor. “But tbore muat vo," sald sho, leaning for- ward, “You are ‘not yourself to-night. You. have something on your tind, Toll mo, dare Hing; and Bhe triad to gaze into bis face, whilo he dodged her with 4 look iu ils eyos like that of uhunted wild Least. . “My love, you are not well,” sha sald, anx- foualy,, ng sho wound bor tem nbout hig nouk and, drow big head about. unth thelr. faces nearly touched. “Wheh-hat is tho matter?" and sho tenderly sighed her anul Into toars, “Oh, great Godfrey!” ho groaned, ag the fatal simoum struck blm. " You—that, fs, l—am not feeling very well.” * But, denrest, you seomed all right when you, enn in,” she porsisted, lovingly, and thon she alghed again, and he Jumped ke 0 goaded mule and ktoked over n little table, “ Lknow.L aid,” sald be, nervousty. pleking up tho poker and abstracted! putting it in. his coatetail pocket. 1 know Edid, but in. awful bud now: I'm afeald [tayo to xo,” he con, tinued, us she lovnod over toward “him ngutn, “T think Lam golug to have the yallow-fevar," ena tmmatous,, Gane ea," said sho. “Can it bo t ee wered he, a8 ho aroso and ran tho i b his hair In an ill-diroctad, agltut> od manner. :"* Good-night, darling, Don't kisa mio,” ho continued, shuddering, “sou might taco. abe iat Eeauryey and be burst outof the room and-disnppuared. The young yirl.as eho wandorod distressed and musing out of tho room, next tackled a grult uhllodgor, who, in protty: strong. Janqunea, cone vineed ber of tho fot that shu had buen enting antous; and she discovered tho joke by. naking tho same wiris who had pluyed tho trick on her, in an nyontalng tone of. voida, If hor bronth. wad really paeeeniaey Thoy exploded with §ll- thned levity, and thon toi herall, She says now sho never wilt buvequything. to.do, with. thom igain as lang ns sho ives, and as for Churles Augustus, well— BEACONSVIELD'S WIFE. 4 Mrs, Disravll. brought to the Premler not only a.considerable fortune, but perfectcom- pantlonship. She was ten years. jis senlor, and If a passage. in. “Endymion” ts to bo trusted as nutoblographled, she relleved ihn of fully half the embarrassment of pop- why the question, ‘To her iutlucnee he al- ways largely ascribed. the success of hisafter fe. “Women will do much for you,” sald Myra to Endyinton Ferrars (Disraeli’s mask), and certain Ib is that Benjamin. Disrgeli bo- Neved Implleity that they had-done mors. for him, than all other instruments combined, ‘Truth,is strangen than fiction, and It ts. the slinply truth that Mrs, Brydges Wyllyams, of ‘Torquay, Devonshire, out of her womanis adwjration. for his genius, mada-him hels to hor catate, worth $160,000, Shu only, exacted from hin-in return his friendsiity while she lived, and-n. promise thatsheshould-restafter her death anong the Disraclisat Linghauilols Nor wil). it be forgotten. that to thé Queon’s high,personal esteem for him ha awed a se ries of fayors in. his conduct of the Govern- iment such as Victoria lias never shown to any-other of the Jong ling. of abla. statesten who have soryed as her Prime Ministers, He was all, chivalrous deference to, woman, In general, and.all. devotion. to one woman.in, parucular,, Addressing the farmers of; juak-. jughamshire at a hurvest-home festival, he called his svouse “the best wifo in Mayland,” and hy dedicated “Sybil” “to the most su yare of critics, buta perfect wife.” Atavery. turnin the road slong which wo trace its path to fame we seo stunding beside likin this enchanting figure-of a faithful: wile, serving his ambition, soothing his detente, and enters Ing with zest into his ulimnte startling Ie ne ‘Tho. atory. hos often.deen told af: hor, riding with. blm down to the, House of Commons, lying NO signs of tho sonte pain caused her by faving her thumbe severely urushed by tho cur- ciage-door, lust ber distress might unberve bin for the great speech whlub he was sbortly to de. liver. Tt well Ulustrates tha funy sympathies that Bnked them tu each other. ‘Tho vicinaxe of: Hughenden has beon Cull of touching anecdotes of thelr home felicity. Disraolt purchased: Hughbeniden Sanor from tho Norris fauily, aad Stra. Disrauli did with. if while sho ived, whe. abe pleased. ‘Pho handsome mansion was. more than half hidden by vecohes and eling, and the gardone and. conservatories ware oxcued- (ely, beautiful, dn w litte baskot-carriave, ebind wehaxgy blivk pony culled Jack, sire, Diaruett was accustomed to ride around. suo ne ber busband's beiglbers und tenuatry, with suiles tor hor soot! equals and an open hand fur thoge of pourer station, At ber lustunce Mp. Diaraull long vince built a convenient and: walle mppotited ae house in connvedon with St stichael’s Church, where they were ty. be seo knevllug toypther every Sunday wheo Parlias agent Way not in session. ‘Thuy both took a doep, {ntrost i the laborera’ faintiles on tole estate, Bad wach cottuye wasn littty model of gonvane jones and coutort, It 1s not surprising.that thls foud couple should have buen regardudes sue thing wore tan common clay by the elmplie country folk theruabouts, ‘Alter they hud passed through uearly thirty. yours of life togetbor, thirty yourg in whtah is. bolitival career bud beey & wollenigh uybroken, jofoats, there, came aay, yee ¥ ¢lined tt. bat naked hee Majesty to bestow tho: honor. upon his wife, and she accordingly be- came Vieconutess Beacananeld. A htte “over fom yenrs Tater, J December, she died, and dia world know tant what Carkyto aald of his Jeanie was truco Disractl aleog—" tho Hehe of iy Hfe is cone ot.” On foot. with i cred head, he fallowyed: her remalns-to the ery pt ofthe (ittio Church of St. Michaels, which’ bo soon after restored, and beantifed “In her gras cious memory. MEASURING ‘TILE RADY. Don't measitre the baby! ‘Thore ta an old superstition that if you do it will die before tho yenr fs out, and It’s always best to de on the safe side. Do you seo that mume written {n dead pencil on the door-castag? Well, that's where we measured the baby. If you get dowt on your knees you will be abte to rend, “dim; Just so highs? Lt wasn’t» year ago that we all came ont here,—father, mother, and tha girls,—nnd jzot down on the grass and stood him up there, Ie wasn sight to look at—all pink and white, with the softest rings of hatr and eyes like violets in the spring, and he'd laiugh amd tumble down and we'd all liugh ‘and cheer him up agatn, and Jonny lald her penell (at on hts head, and notched tho wall, and thea we wrote that to mari the spot, but ‘Pvo avished many a time since Pil never had it done, You see we had been feading some protty verses ‘bout that very tl a, nel it Just fitted Lo our baby exactly It the anni: - Wo monsurod the rlotou’ baby ‘Aatnee tho onttyzo wail ALY urow on the turgstie tt “And tho buy wns Just as tall, That was sn like our baby that I cut that yerse out. and pasted itin the blank leat of the big Dible. "Phon: Jenny sald there were more verses that sulted hhn, but after getting the full drift of tho poetry, Emost wishod wo hda't seen it, but Ptuok two moru versus and, Jot thom co wilh tho utbora: here thoy ate: Ills. oy08 werw wide ns bluo bolts, That's Mite dim oxnetly)) alain {ikon flowur aublowny ‘hav's pint agnby, mio fittio bara toot, like funny white mice, Peeped out from his snusy gown, And we thought with thrill of rapture, That yet had a tuneh of pln, When June rote oar with hor rosea . Wo'll munsuro the boy again. Now, If it had stopped thore, nsf expectod it would, Pd bave nothing to Buy, and there'd bo another imirk on the door-casing “#0 much hin. ‘er” birt—but—well, what's tho use of buat. Ing a bout the bush in this way, You see the noimatk thore, ‘nd tt wasn't nny nuperstition itterac’s Lwent té-day into the room where ho lay, all y‘ite and penceful-Hke, and so atlll Unie it wasa 5.0 to ery nnd disturb hia sleop, and £ added the rest of the poctry, that Jendy hid kept withou t knowlug why, to tho old Biblo. . sagnrod the sleepin baby Wats Hobons white 4 snuw, sé For the shining rosewood caskat: that wa ted him below, tho darkened chambor Ag one tei iine OReT To tho hight Of the alniess anyols eae on o€ Litto atm bottor than T tolla tho story’ of little Jim bottor than tte hat te aity tuore's a hush over all the house, and tho 61 is too bright, and tho birds bave. stopped sin, ing, and we can nevor nuain, mensuro the babs for he bus gane vo high.” that we can only roach hin by the golden, ladder of-death, - A PAMILY EL’ISODE, At8 o'clock tho other me'tning a wifo foa- lowed her husband down to tho gate a3 Ino was starting for down-town,, and kindly suid to him: “William, you know how sadly I ‘needa blue bunting dress,” “Yes, dear,” he remarked, “but you knew how hard up£ am. as soon wel can seo my jay clear you shall have tho cress, and 1, now.hat to boot. Be patlent, bo good, and your reward shall bo great.” Forty mtzutes after that he emerged from nrestaurant.with n big basket and n° fish- pole, bound up ihe river. Inthe basket was achicken, pickles, cake, fruit, ple,.andsa bot- tle of Hquld of 9 rial color, and herwnss just Nehting a 20-cont cigar when his wife- camo along, “What! you horat” heexclaimed., “Yos, Lwas going to the. market, Whero ate you golng,—what's In the basket?” “Lays going.te carry this fsh-polo around ton.friand on ‘delferson ayenue,” hoe mod- estly, answered, “And that basket?” “This basket—well, Lwas going to take It to.tho orphan ssylum‘as a present to the elildren, Itis.a donation from six leading eltlzons.? 1 : “William, I don’t.belleve itl” “Shit Don't talk so lowl?? “William, Lshall tak louder yet!" she ex- claimed, “LIL bet yow.are golug fishing ?* “Mnry, have L aver decelved you?” he pinintlvely, asked. “E never hive! As pesae of ay sincgrity you. can tako this baakat u sy ium yoursc: Swan Cl dou" she growmptty ropiied na sho roleeel pet le wart “y it 11), | Wi at I jc, 48 thounan way want it, he gqreval how. you stam urownd in the hot un Sho lefthim thore. Ho awatched hor tuloo tho car for homo, and then ha returned tha fah- pote and crossed the etroct- aud sald to an ac- qualntance: Tom, I'm sufforiog. with: nouralgia, and the excursion {4 off tll uext week. Tao bad, but wacan nover toll what a day’ inuy bring forth.” ‘Thore wis chicken and. pickles and othor good things on the table at dinner, hut ho never | sinilad, Evenwhen bls wife wiahed sho was an orphan, {f that was tho way thoy were fod, he || never botrayed the wloom in, his hoart. It was only arbor, ane handed, ies eho. patel, His ha 60 carefully tucked intg ‘tho basket, and be saw firled? dood fue Little ‘childrany” that io ‘Bi NCH “Mney, itds an awful thing’ fora wife to got fhe 1 tmpraauon that her bsusbagd fs 9 culd- ar Tt must be, sho repiledima she took tho-othor chicken leg. ABOUT: KISSING\ BABIES. Maternul prida ia a beouth*ul thing at a dis- tance, but-close ab hand It la narrow, aggres- slva, and sometines appalling. If it would exhaust itself In the eloquait patols of tho nucgery,—that marvelous pip20n dslect that obfusentes the Infant mind, Yor gt least six months longer than. the.mosts eriogs aid sen- sible conversation would do,— nobody could complain, ‘But tha homage. whieh young mothers pay thelr offspring dogs not in thelr minds. constitute s complete «discharge of necussary objigutigns, What they so pas- siountely give themselves they. think should le exngted from others, and thm much they take for granted without usking’ any ques- tons. As a consequence baby-lclssing invi- tations:-haye becomy mych more custonary than.is agreeable to at least the averaye mas- culino mind, Unfortunately, a baby when put by, its, materng) relative under a man's nose to. bo kisisd cannot be refused, ike n. proffered plece of ronst’ pig ora section of tripe. ‘Thy calm but highly wrought expectancy with which tis us- stuned privilege ts-offorgd, will intimitate tho stontest hvart, ‘Lhe poraon of whom this sorvicg. fé demayded may not be a Clyster- tieldin dia manners, and perhaps scprus the convantionalitigs of polite society, Ilo may even atfeot a pride.In brusqueness and a dive regard of common courtesies, but he will not refuse to kiss 8 woman's baby, ordered up on the short notice usually gjven, unless he iq wade of different ¢lay froin that which enters into tho cqmposition of the great muss of iy: minut if Hs'cowardice of powerlesness may ninke hin pugry with himself, but that faet WHI not affect tha result whew, he ts bronght fucy to face ugalu with the Saino dilsugyeo- ably axpression of moral compulsion, Tf a protest will do any good, that protest shoukk be uttered. Mothers put the public and the ir infants under too heavy tribute for thelr awwu pleasure in offerings ui AS OsCl- latory sneritices to all their friends and ac- qualitmuces these pugiy epttomes of men and-wousen, ‘Shera is ittle satisfaction In Kissing, wuless there ly. yutual yssent in the arrangsnent, elthor taclt or prpressei. When, men are called upon to klis bablea thoy do nut comply willing! » They way pre= surve Ko a xterior as plucld as a duramer lake, bust withli they are pent-up volcanos of unut- terablo ren iongtrunce, or peshaps prufanity, No man—vospodlully If bo laa bachvlor, aud of thut class thore aro & Kren inauy just “‘uow—kuows what part af o baby is iutonded Cor talselug, and dxpurlunea ‘teaches him votbing. 21° ho tries its Hips, Wey any wiolet, Ireeeponsive, and generally unsatlatncto ry; Uf tus cheuk, the clainmy polutog impact olfend bw go natural oncorrragement Lo repuut. the isporation. ‘The tutaut iy burdly wore to be conyrastuluted than tha oue who bestows those compli ments or tekcus of uaculon. Even the kigava sbeowered upon It by thy warmts of Inuternal love it neither Yodors inds prociates, mud, It may woll protest with ane Porovot Ita u afurued (dobs aval unrogulated will against ha Ving [ts tender foatures Invaded by 9 suit, uiuse'y beard, Nobody: wi iu awe of a Duby to thd extent af fuurl og to ask favors Sof it. Without any forced co adjtions in the | inatter, tho balay will be kissed (quite a3 mucb as I thelr grownrl P mcquulntanots | deali iro, and doubtiess more than | alvally goad for jj them, We moyifor aa shoitloavar’ he courtor wor ap | ail sles now customary tn the nursery circles, ar at Jonata teanafor of the initiative, and will do our lent to keep the terms of the treaty Invlokite, LONDON WORKING GIRLS, Along the cmbankinent: between Binck- frlars and Westininster the student of social selenee tay on Sunday eventng observe the most remarkable spectacie in Europe, ‘There is not aetty on the Continent, not even Vie enna, In which anything like it ean bo seont Under tho gleam of theelectric Nizhts thon sinds upon thousands of men and women are strolling, nif it Is easy to see that allot them bolong to the humblest walks of Hfe. It Is not vxaggerntion to say that thousands of young girls may bu seen wandering entirely Muprotected by any male escort, and faugh- ing, Jeering, pushing, dancing, shouting, xometines behaving in what the Freneh would call an “unqualiiied manner ‘These are the working girls of London. IIeaven help tham! An thay: nre so Ilttte consclous of thalr degradation that. they svem to tke positive delight In tt. “Do you suppose they: fre happy?” Lasked an oll Londoner, “Hap: ust ‘Thoy’re pleased as Puneh with what they call thoy’re doing wrong, Thoy're not brought upina way toknow much about the flner feollugs, Lean tetl you.” 'Thoy see imimornl- {ty albaround them, and never know any- thing else themselves, If one of thom re- mils reasombly pure ft is considered areatstroke of chance, They are ignorant as anvages of ten thousand things which fhoy ought to know for their own protection. ‘hoy winder here by the river talking some- times In language whieh pen may nol record, Lt is ensy to see that inany of hein have been yisitIng the publle houses, and by the time they reach tha parental roof’s protecting shadow soine of thom are obitvions of ox- tornal cireumstances, Large fangs of mien and boys of alt aradles, from the coarse and dangerous villain in hob-nailed shoes ta the snl city clork with his ehtateing clothes anit bis Jaron of tho counting-house, parnile the brond sidewalks, now engaged inunamatour dance with some merry party of girls, now till ing to sono othor groups in [angungo that would be insulting if thoy chaso.to consider it so, und how getting Into a sonnd onvounter nt fstientts. A Ought among tho girls is not at all uncommon, And those are the Future mothors of tho works ing elussos; thoso the erentures that must po in shop snd macket at sunriso and remain lbere untit sunsot every day excopt Bunday. And What a uso thoy make of thoie Sunday! OF vourse tho fathors and mothers, careloss and callous the tunjority of them nre, still would feel « certain compuinctton about allowing their duughtera to wander through the xtrects until long nftor inlinight, If it wore not n custom which jing becomna time-honored, Want per cent of tho working giris aro thus exposed to every dungor of a gront metropolis J de not Kuovw, but it inust be very great. Judging from tho lougunge which ove hears from these Sun- Guy promenadors on tho embankment, thoy have been touched by no moral tullucnce wiint- over, nor by nny wathetien! one, excopt that procured by a view of tho publle-bouse walls und rows of lights around Cleopatra's Noadle.” A ROUGH TRANSLATION. A young Indy moving in the most exnited social circles of Galveston, after much: toll and practices at the plano learned to play with considerable dexterity 2 plece entitled “Picnic Polka.’ It is something after the style of the celebrated “ Battle of Prague.” ‘The tistener can readily distinguish the roar of the artillery, the rattle of the musketry, the shouts of the soldiers, nnd the groans of the dying. In the “Plenic Polka” tho nolse of the wind among the trees and the Joyous enrols of the birds ure reproduced, the finale being a. thunder-shower whieh disturbs the sylvan rovelers. It happens thats country cousin isin town Just now, and the young Indy thought she would play the piece to him and hear his comment. Me is a plain, shuple-miaded youth, and dithongh not very bright, is very appreciative. She told him whut the piece was, and then proceeded to elve him the “Picnic Polka.” The first notes are rathar slow and hesitating, the idea sought to be conveyed being the solemn soll- tude ot forest, through which the gentle zophyr {not hetfer) sighs. After she got through with this preface, she asked flu if he did aot almost tinagine hhnself ina lodge in soma-vast wilderness. Ho replied that he thought nll that slowness inennt.the delay in goltlrns off, Suld he: “ There is always some darn ed cuss who: oversleeps himself and Keeps evorybody else wattlyys.” Ste did hot care to discuss the point with the ignorant felluw, 80, to conveal hor emo- tto‘as, she unce more let horself ont on the hlano. ‘The woods wero filled with music, ‘lao mocking-bird whistled us if, bla throu Would split, tue cuckoo filled tho sylvan bowors ‘aith bls repented cry, while ever and anon tho anourn{ul coolug of tho dove interrupted tho ‘matin song of tho lark, “Whore, now, £ haecy ou know what that sounis Hike?” abe sald, is abe prused. * You mean that ‘tuotlo, tootle tootle, chug, chug, chug?” You just bet 1 understand that, Many is tho time ata piente T've hoard Jt from the mouth of a demijoln or tho bungholo of a beor-key or first {mpulse was to hurl tho plano-stool at btm, tet tt passed olf, and once more she went atthe pidbo agit it was ‘tho youog man’s and inaured for doudlo its value. ‘The thunder growled, the Iyhtning flashed (from her oyes), aud tho first heavy drops ore beard upou tho lvaves, Sbo banged! aud mauled the keys at a tearful rate; peal after peul of doatenlng thun- ier porturbed tho atmosphoro ana receboed tn. still loudor reverberationa until it wound up in ouc appalling clap as a grand finalo. Thon, turn- ing tothe rwo-struck youth, sigsaid: 81 uup poe you have heard some! i like that bofores" “ You, that’s what tuo fellow with linen pants sald wuen he sat down on the custard plo." ‘Tho audience found itself alone, but bu pleked: up bis hat wud sauntercd out iuto, struct, densely unconscious that ho had said anything out of tho way. “SEND FOR MOTITER.”* “Dear mel It wasn’t enough for mo to nurse and raise a family of my own, butnow, when I am old and expect to tako'a jittle cousort here, St is all the time ‘send for mother.” And the dear old soul growls and griunbdles, but dresses herself as fast os she ean, notwithstanding, After you have trotted her off, and got her safely in your home, and sho fies around aduinistering her remedies and rebukes by turns, you fee] ensfer, It ia right now, or soon will be,—mother’s comes In slekness, no matter who Is there or how inany doctors gttarre! over your case, dvery- thing goes wrong, sowshow, until you sond for mother, 1n trouble, the first thing you think of is send for mother, But thls hag its ludicrous ag well as Its touching aspect, ‘The verdant young couple, whom the baby’s exiriordl- nary grimaces and alarming yawns, which threaten the «dislocation of “ity chin, ate sleeps, which it nosoiuplienes with its oyes hair Open, and no percentible utter of Prenth on its lips, causing the young mother to imugine it's dud thls time, and to sbriok out, “Send for mother!” in ‘topes of angulsh—this youn vouple, in the abt of tho experience with which Usree or four babies bring, ind that thoy hava pau ridicuJous and givon mother e good many rol or Bol thins, Did any eno over send for mother and sho fall to come? Mover, uuless slckucss or tho in- ‘rmitica of ago outed her, As when, in your childood, those willing feet responded to your cull, 110 thoy atill do, aud will continuo to do. aa long as they ore able, jd whon tho suns mona cotres whlch nove yet disregarded, though it will bo a banpy duy for ber, it will be a dark and sad tne for you, when God, too, will sound for your anothor, —— . 4 CHEYENNE BOBMANCE, . A young woman, who Je described as ‘one of the lovellst aud most accomplished daugh- ters of Cheyanne,” white riding through the atreets.of that lively clty a few mouths azo waa thrown violently from her horse. A Spanish lad sprang from ¢he lamp-post aguinst which he had been leaning and en- deavored to prevent the accident, but the only gssistance that hg could render was to litt the Jady from the ground and bear ber into a nelghboring house. ‘Then, sighing for further sight of the fair one, the youth re- sumed bis duty at the Jamp-post. As for the young womuu, she sustalued an annoylag injury. Lt was nothing less than the fracture of one of her front teeth. Tho delicate puan that flashed through "live within whose rosy Jubyrlath when she suiiled the soul wus lost,” was hopelesly crushed. Beauty in distress appealed to ‘art; the youny wolnan went to & dentist, who promised to search high ond low for a-penrl of the proper eize and brilllanoy, ‘The search was inade falthiully, but uot until thes luntlay aw 8 vi joaning against a lamp, post did ho Hud the coveted prise, The you gladly sold one of bis teeth for 100, offeriug all hip stock dy trade at uo sauw torus. ‘The tooth was submitted to propor treatment, gud lie pounis borveworals eppeared eee ie oe ery wing 8 re o wanse for tho abolueuts Bute wit rf Poverty" aurioul- ly. ghe would have given her boad to kuow whence came tne | th, Spaniard wade 4 fortunate “pureniue 9 ous lark, Lor’ bless you, they don't Unik | ‘| those with whom she onine In contuet, The In with his hundred dollars, and not only began to patronizo the titers tt daduleed Ina bank ace count. One evening list werk chinee throw bineininaseteet tittle party, where tho fate riler happened to he present, aud he telited ble dentaliaiyenture. When he stalled rnd potited to tho vawnnt plnee fn bis mouth the young Indy wave n litte strick. Her averot was discovered, nnd now tho Cheyentie and Denver papers ine hounce that the Spaniard will get his tooth baek at tho altar on the with of nuxt month, A SQUAW SACRIFICED. 'The Viutes are heltevers In witeheraft, and excente whiches, in the full bellef that they nro thereby performing a religous duty. In 80 doing they are no fess barbarous and su- porst{itions than the Pilgrim Fathers were, A squaw was killed for n witel last week In the Harmony Monutains, near Winnemucca, ‘The place chosen for tho execution was the | grave of a brave whom she was believed to have subjected to the Intluence of hor evil oye. ‘The Lidlians are very reticent regard- Ing’ the matter, but adinit that the sqiaw was a witel, and had, by her intluence with the ‘vil Split, enused the death of four or five then of the tribe, against whonr ale chios- tained: some grudge, ay worn who was a Bantock wit he Jey’ and, by her xpells nnd incantations, could bring’ stekness and death to i <== ‘And nny how honvonly aweot thou art Ant how devoutly: badure eee \ Bile turnod away Der lnvely tend: And with 1 langutd look that tod Afy auul, Inmurinu “Youm ReCOnL THE VESPER nun, The ovoning atar ita veaper tamp seahorse tho Weat had lit, . ‘The dusky curtains of the ni Were foltowing over It, gc : Me selzed hor waist and clay ‘And told hie talo of lovog Pt BR He called ber overy tender name, “My darting, * duck," gud “davon A tremor shook hor fair; Hor oyes begun to bla Her blood rose to a hundred, and Bho orled, "1 think—L think Ho aighod, * You thi Htivamtl'was'on this econ OV? 0?” for “Oh, 10," sho yelled: “f thin Ja crawling down my back," abug am A COND ALDCEa. . [tis not consttered the proper Boston to give a bride away, Por Uta Mr, George Frelinghuysen, son of Senator from New Jersey, 1s ita te imatrlud to Miss Ballantine, daughter of the Newark brewer of that nue, Ono son of Mr, English, tho Inte . for tho Vico-Prosittency, Tarrio pretty ey bears and @ second ts be trothed to Minnlo Kent, K . daneor, 2 aklpying-roye ‘Two little girls in white prec party to tlie tat in New sore on Wel aay, strowing dalsies along the aise, Eres careled on er lett, arin en fine te Eu, those golden-hearted natives of the fakes “ Anothor case of charivar! and st per el at Ortuimwa, where Otl¢ Day: iy ee low tho belt. Yor the work will continue t wo 00, tuo caw-teilla and things Will sonumae 6 clash, ride to falut, und the beiteg: HiLUD the pauses with cold slugs, Broom to Crown Pringa Rudolph gave to bt wedding-present of i enatciutng ttle pone oe Hage ornamented with wuld and two neu tnonly email ponies uf tho most benntiful eiape und color. This ttle equinage his heen sity pe castle where the young vale are x thoir honeymoon, pees Tho marriage of Miss Mintle Evarts Tweed Will tuko plave eutly In Sunes neorde tu tho arrangemont made betore te departure of ox-Seoretury and Mrs, Evarty Cor Paris, Tho wedding will be a quiet onv, ut the fatnily bome in Vertnont, where & murricd sister of Miss Evarts lives, It is the Intention of iho bride ang, wropsmy pruetiately autor tho wediling, to sail’; ‘or Europe joln the parcuts and sia H tho former In Paria, sett “Thore is so much marrying and givi ' marringe going on in New Yors no ae World, that any: tiie while biowins with orange dlossoins will ensily find credence und attract, Ustoners.” ‘Tho tutest of tho wedding storice ig that » couple of lovers wore recently iarriod by eablo. Ituppears that the heroing is atrades man's daugater. ‘In tying bor bonnot undor ter chin, uo ted a young tunn's heart wituin, Tho young man belonged to nn aristocratl family. When bis parents teurned of tho ores mnaking lust munth thoy sent tho culprituna European tour, Arrived In London the young wan drew upon his father for several thousands, and summoning his swuethenrt to the other end of the Hue marricd her by cable, FRESH FUN. Sorry her lof who loves two swells. It is dangerous to ask a woman Idle ques, dons when she fs adding up agrocery bill. Hanging is capital puntshinent,—especially when you’re hanglng on some good-looking glrl’s arm, “Yes, Agnes, I'm going to have a ercams colured summer silk, provided pa docsu’s veto the appropriation nin hus passed.” Debating clubs are anxlousty worrying themselves over the problem, whtich lins-the most bones, a $3 corset or a 50 cent shad? “In the bright complexion of my youth I'l; have no such word us palo,” and she reached for tho rougo-box with tho clutch of an angel, lieve that o as In league dans say It has beon tho custom of thelr tripe from tne immonorial to put auch persons to death at tho grave ot one of thelr victhius. Tho woman walked to the burying-xround perfectly reconciled to ber fate, and made no attempt to ft nway. aA few yenra ago o young squaw, nown As Suaty Jane, was pronounced a witch by the leading mon of the tribe, and sentenced tadenth. On her way to tho place of excctition she made her escape, and left the town fort white, As ho Iodinns died within a given timo after her escupe, It was thought that the Evil Spirit bad been frightened avy, and sho was pardoned and permitted to return, A LOVER OF THE PERIOD. It was night Ino Walnut street parlor, Out of doors the wind moaned and the sleet rat- tled, but within all was warnith aud cozy comfort, ‘I'he erlinson upholstery glowed tranquilly undor tho soft Jight of thenrgand, ond the fllekering rays from the ruddy grate shaped many an elfin shadow on.the carpet aud In the corners, ‘Iwo partivs, male and female, were sitting on ono sofa, ‘This sofa was dcsigned for that mumber, but to-night there were, aecldentally, on ong ent of It, nine volumes of an encyclo- eala, F Consequently the volumes were, somewhat pressed for sitting room. ‘The accupants of the other end of thesofn were Poul Flump and Miss More MeMinny- wink, Pan! was snyine, ‘Miss More, pardon my boldness, but [ must spenk. Long ago yott muat bave guussed the great feelings which— which I feel for you. Obs cannot you roturn thom—some of thom, at least? I—Tlovo you, 1 “Yaul,* eho answered softly, but firmly, “Paul, you must not talk sol Forget it, I pray ‘ou, Wo ave buth poor, und should have no tine ousO Nor pretty furniture, yor sweet carriage, nor lovely dressog, and—and all that, Forgive me, Poul, but I must have all thoso when I mnarry, nnd you cannot furnish thom.” “¥ox, I forgive you. Lido! Fact wns, IT was under fn false impression: I—cr—thought you mould supply ug all them ere things! 1 forgive yout" —— WHIO SMOULD BOW FIRST! Who stroutd bow first ? Some authorities tn- sist that a genUemou should not bow toa lady until she bows to him; -the author of the “ American Code of Manners” says that this ia all wrong: © A gentleman should always bow first to a lady, no matter whethor she re- turnsit or not; if he sees by her face that she docs not wish to return dt he can refrain from bowing the next time.” ‘This is on tho ground that a Indy, particulary no olderly one or a soctety leader, perhaps, lias so ninmny. aeguaintances that sho dees not rentemnber all tho young meu who have been presented.” This, however does not svom to settle tho question vonelusively, for it may be that the young man has quite as many vequalntances as tho judy, even if an elderly one, Ilo A Loulsvillo advortisomont runs: “Ico cream may himself, too, very Ukely be a Bacloty loud- | $1.25 por gal.” ‘That may ho the general avertye or; Jn fnet, a yvory large number of the{eadors | out thera but the young men of Chlcuyocouliat of gociety at the presont tig are of whut would haye been considured fifty yours ago 9 comparn- tlvely Immature age. Gur own opinion 13, and thus beon arrived at nftor o jong relicotion, that both persons should bow simultancousiy; perhaps in tho cugo of very near-sighted -por- gons.a itte latitude imight bo given, providing the fact of imyopla_eun .bo olenriy’ proved.by inedicul evidence, There is, however, always danger in therq oxceptions to sociat rulos, and therofore it muy be snfor for near-sighted por- sons to bow In all casos of doubt, ncoustoming themscivosto do this with uniform courtosy whothor thoy aro thomsclves recognized or not, AUBURN-IKAIRED WOMEN, Auburn-halred girls have come into fash- fon, and those who-have the reddish-goldon tresses ara tu be envied, Bleached blondes 4 are decidedly passe, and those with goldon hair are trying to turn Jt to the fashionable shade of gray,—for dark-haired brunets ingy turn thelr halr by persistent bleaching and fyeluz, but for the yellow-halred or bleached blonde there Is no hope. And, although red hair may be obtained by wegus of switchus, pulls, ad dyes, none can get the peculiarly clear complexion that usually recompanies auburn hair, In the mnvoor of bair drosaing the close, flnt se of bair dressing is tho only ‘ono suitable for the very dressy tollots that aro prophesied for the comlny seuson. Wowen with red hafr are called “rogsas," and if they havo the reddish-qolden hair that poots rave over aod artists love to palut, thoy are bewitching, espe- claity if thoy have bronze-tinted eyes. - A CHINESE BACHELOR’S RUSE, Tho following truthful anecdote of Chinese soplal life may interest and autuse our rond~ eré: A Foo-Chow carpenter, who has been ln forelgn employ for several years, discovered recently that he had saved cnough maney to Indulge In the luxury of matrimony, Though 33 yeurs of age his choico fell, on a damacl turned 14, and “for this. tender little morsel the modorntetsum of §250 was usked asa dowry, Befare the event was celebrated, the young Indy’a inamma, with trae feminine caution, employed a middleman to Inspect the bridegroom. | ‘The latter, to minke sure of hot being rejected, persunded bis brouor, who Isatleastien years younger than hingelf, to uppenr for tii, and fo paascd muster. On tho weddiug-day tho eldor brother wore a faleo gueuv and carried off bis prize, Wo are told at the little girl fs already tired of marriod Hifo, and * wants to yo hone ty bor ma.” stand it. Ayoung indy graduato may, in after years, forgot tho title of her ogsay, but sho will always remomber how ber white dress was mado ad trimmed. . ‘ *# Loait't $0 to Butnzio," a lady ts roported to have suid, @ Lam ronding fortyetive continued, stories, nnd my Hinited means would not fot mo py tho postaxa.” Tho fool yooth out in a snfibont when bo doosn't known boom from a breaker, but the wiso man plea Ge abhi ‘on tho shore, and Hirts with the girl ju a pluk dress, Thoy wore having 1 fnainily sot-to, and sho, naleou hin If thore was anytling In the part that ho would like to recall, and he hourttesly sald: “Yes; the day you frat refusod me.” Asoaside botte left hor bathing shoca banging, out of her hotel window todry,and tho next, day tho local papor announced that such a) tet had put up now awnings of an watique doe | algn.”” Ibis not eafo to argue thnt a rival of business is at hand just because your wife tins succeudo In dleposiug of your scconit-beat suit of clothes in exchange for, a great pluster-of-purls parrok with a tomnto-colored beak. A Yankoo woman recently married a Chinese Inundryman, und tn three ‘days thereafter tho unbappy Celestial appearad nt na bacbor's stop and ordi Is pigtnil to be cnt off, suyior iu uxplonatior ‘Too muchee yank.’ A hairpin isa vory usoful article toa woman, It ‘serves tho purpose of toothplok, button Dook, and halr-fastenor, but all this Is uo excuse fot doves ‘one {n your yest-pockot when yuur wila vesn’t know whore it comes from. A Indy tots something which ought’ to bare , remainad v secret with her sex. It fs that wotnnn In choosing a lover considors m goud Weal moro how the man will bo reganied by other women than whother eho loves him herself. ateumglo with tho uforceald Sniilas Peet] hagon.” “Ele nearly smothered mel" "Ane. aid you kiss bin fur hig smiothor?” asked the othor sles, nalvaly, ak aiiee A littta girl at school read this: Tho wi Heed on a timbaoy loft. ber By raja | “What did you call that word?" usked ing, toncher; “thio worl Is legacy, not Snubachy “But” satd the little girl, "iny alstor guys ly must vay linb, not lox. akin A Indy, 8 rogular shopper, who had mai untetidtate ‘Horie tumble over all the stooxtots In tho storo, objnctad that nove of, thow elt | Hae RES ae haan” mati piiy evou bad bottor apply dt tno woxt cuslar yy house." ; DIENT EON TIESS ‘A Logansport woman wants a divorce just be, ee cnuso her husband goes to bed with bls bat Batd Honry, " Rually, Maria, bootson, And now we ask, in all rengon, doe i In my heart you've tlumined a fire tho woman want a mun to go to beats ‘Which bas burnt through my broast weather with a palrof aretics and ulster on? Jen’t a bat aud a pair ol onough? jai Ww York Malu says a yound asked iy ie Hancév on tho ave of the ay whutof all thingwabo woul ka Nos | ay should givo her us a we ua F APT Cnty hay And wy shirt and my vost, And causes mo agony dire." To whtob replied haughty starke: “If Indeed to my hund you aspire, L think, sir, you'd beat y “rantd she, W ow sbice and vest, papa'a debts," aa Made like. tho dost ‘and my binis are oousli'rablybjenee a a ate ai oy boat Frou nie ove founs aoe pad taunted, raya roa And her bedekto perpen ly haunted. ‘The consequence was that tho maiden yo got to have ‘Tondor Wito—Say, lonk hore! l'vowol nN i voly’ t’ right aff. Got to Tole oid talR ty eet guni—netually pbresds iv sruto of fuel and—suel tie pear All tho TuKe. b ion ite gho thing, my dear, it" ni Fast tn ralvet akirts Will be vors much wor : dbigou gandpper the back of your dress With romorse became hoavily. taden, you're potting tio Btylo. Harned ber cove up and disd He eee at nigh Wohilo her Mu play'd » nocturge from Haydn, mere some, rotrenahnient in a fe ‘ THE REHRAUSAL. Ny ah hhnewered ngnebulant vit on, 608 j ‘There, as wo staud, and when I suy my love,” the pha pe eg MViageor mnugaer—4(nic}— mee 141 to your aldo @ trite closer, a9. Good! Now f put my arm sround your waist, Your oug to whisper * Ernest dear,” you kaow, ‘That's right, think. Ab, what {s that you aay? ‘Tho stagu directions onty say “a kies?" Let's see the book. Upon my word, you're right! Avg I took twa, which clearly was amiss, Vo glad tare culled attention to the be zory Whaazer muzavr?" Bho night py tho sad aca- Wa) A friends ee wap callege strofussiry ee Iespeat for tho learning of the pistessor, tho fulr anos silunt, wnsil one Percy ty sing upat tho soiltury star that hWite ry ayy WMT thet distance, ba eam tell whetber It # or fomalol” Wait til Lcon the book a moment—t rom tho Tyrol SNe aig For fear say treavheraus momory play mo falso, Pied Linn Pepa aang the our duo Suppose we Just run through: soeny ayaln, ghop-wiydow tn Viena, tool 1 rae “The tlon of the 3 A MOSTON OLN, T told her of a inald whose wind ‘Was tilled with twoudor tuoughts and fanoloa, A lovely veing of the kind : ‘Thoy write about jn old romances, ap by e ‘Threo ane ao. Headant did not sonsible to the perfection oF c ‘oul buy then! Mer mut mauey enoudl 10 0F ive falven weult of vlothus, set they spernotoyraph Kuowost thou,” sajd J, * thie maldon fale, they do, possoss fo having the! Whose bonuty doth my thoughts begyslo” taken, tepertanconts oot E28 Sbe answered with a dreemy alr— At an auction aale. of MACE ireaslyg iy % Wall, 1 ebould ainlle,'* aC Honor Wilda, Aw old mau inane sy im “Her chooks possess tho rogo’s huo, jy, agomed to think ttt bor Meth gn't you wane No forta is dututlor or comploter, He Duk ye be it mut No bair ao brown, a0 eycs a0 blue, - was the Foply. Sy Phote No mouth is tendcror or sweeter, take itr" Wall, 3'¥9 The favored youth who gains the hand dry goods ang a0 at Of this fair girl will uo’er rugret It." map, “and L nov With paodiat rane she added: °° And ie Cerne ptr cron tesase te hive d, chaw at thy 6 + Ob thou dear rolstress of my hoart} Ci ADF th My angell lot mo kuook Ueloru tage dapia't bid