Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 17, 1881, Page 11

“ #HE CHICAGO TRIBU 1nsi—s. A TEEN SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, VAGES. Ww SKETCHES. derrie's Freak, Which Resulted in Securing Her a Good Husband. qaternal Instinct Said to Be an Ex- ceedingly Scarce Article Just Now. gSapposed Tragedy at Buffalo Which Proved to Hayo Only Been an Elopemont. eo St, Louis Girls and Thoir Young Men Provide a Triple Wedding for tho Public, gne Tendoncy ‘of American Girls to Use Slang Commented Upon and Properly Rebuked. 4 Model Parlslan—The First Engagement Madamo Blano’s Funeral—Current Pootry, Etc., Etc. A LEAVE-TAKING. By Fanny Drlecott. feo J. am dead, you will not quite forgot? peer love, you will not quite forget your own Who sieops so deeatntealy, with silent lps. gnder the towers tha golu-bee, droning, sips— [ow down bonvath tho grasses tangled xrown. You will not quite forgot the loving arms qhat used to ercep and twine about your nook, Jn those sweet far-olf diys of lovo and trust? Ab! that such love should turn to verlest dust, foyond tho thrill of ery, or smile, or beck? fou will not quite forget the clinging lips Rose-red and warm with youth's own royal wine; fotnuite forgot tho kisses close and strong— AbGod! the rapture staid not over-long! ‘The worms will not much pity flesh of mine. Dear heart, when Lam dead, thro‘ all the space Of living you may tread. Ab! promise mo fometimes you'll think of ona who mutoiy .dcoame Ko dreams hbesldo tho unknown waveless streams: ‘Whose bark went out upon the shoreless sen. Afono and onriess—drifting, arifting out Benenth the sunrise glories of the Ei ‘Think of the drooping Ids that voiled tne eyos Before they opency to the vague surpriso ‘Tho King spréad for thom at the Morning Foast, Bren tho’ somo fairer hoad may lic upon Tho throbbing-passionate heart that was my own, Bn tho" some darker oyes look into yours, And sweoter lips pregs close with surceresa lures, And she bas all my kingdom—crown and throne, Ab, Jove! out there beneath the violuts, Boyond the reach of stn, and toll, and frot, ‘Willie the truest heart a man e’er won, ‘The deepest, tendurest love—unpsent—undono— Abt say, dear love, you will uot guile forget! Lake £ann, Sent. - CARRIES FREAK. “The lights flashed, muste lent Its voluptu- ous. awell, graceful “feet tripped in Joyous catlenco,, and flushed cheeks and beating hearts made stifl more attractive a scence of festive happiness. A brillant nssemblage had found itself under the hospitable roof of tho wealthiest bunker of the city, and beauty shone and wit sparkled at the qayest rounlon ofthe season. In one of the intervals of the dance a proposition was mado to vary the en- fertalnment, and was warmly received, and the question was ask , What shall it be Asvore of proposals were made, bub all coutemptnously rejected as tov childish or too tame, when the clear volce of Carrie Bar- fon rang out In joyous tones: “Let us have a wedding,” She was the reigning bello of the city and the acknowledged beauty of the surrounding euuntry, and richly did she deserve these high positions, trom her radiant loveliness of person, her high culture, and her sweetness of disposition. Everybody loved her for her many virtues and pardoned the uncensing flow of antinal spirits that would ocensfoual- ly assuihe the form of positive eccentricity. Her father bud died, lonving hor au heiress; sho was tho idol of ber mothorand the patron genius oftmifthy unontrusive churities of the town. Her presence was everywhere welcomed, and ascore of guutlamun preecnt would buve goue wild with joy Just for one look of preference frombereyes that upon tho subject of love alono wero felontiess and unpitying, “Let us bave n wedding,” she oxclaimod, A goucral outburst of approval followed those words, and many a proposal, half in earnest and Yall In jest, was made ond lnughingly declined “or evaded, until a pause ensued which deepened fato profound sitonee. . “Carrie,” oxulaimed several of her friends, “you proposed thie diversion and you'll baye to act ts tho example." - “Well, returned tho wayward boauty, “1 willnot disuppolat you, though your cowardice does not deserve ‘such & reward, and I consent tosucriiive myself for the public good,” “Who uhallhe bey" was the kenoral {nquiry. Inaninstunt twenty gentlemen sprang for= ‘Ward, cach anxious to shure the lmmolation, but wero atrested by tho Intighing command and uplifted fingor of the merry yitl: “Holdon, yontiument 1 cannot marry you all, and 1 hope that none of you will be offended atthe result of my cholco, whatever that may be, for shall avail mysolf of my teap-year Privilege, Goutlomon of the forlorn hope, Band up" Jn an instant every man was on his feat. “Now,” sald tho joyous boauty, with mock gravity, *1'll present to you wy tord and master, Step furward Mr. Henry Lverson and submit to your fate. Nay, ny, hold on, sir, aud don't be iopatients for, Mr. Harry, Wf you for ovo mu Mout think that this thing will justify you in he faintest bupe of thia position tu the future You can reauae your pluce. 1 have eclectad you from this gallant oruwd because you aro 4 Comparative stranger and from u distuat State, towhich | honr that you soon propose to returay And { dosiro you to tell our friends to Georgia that Slissuuri botda one madcap that commits uothing but follies, utters nothing but nonsense, nd hus added ouu ture tohor mul oxtravas ¥Apevs. Now, my liege lord, are you rendy?" aliuost bostite himself with Joy oven ae this ring notice, the young man took the Profered hand. 000m Now, woo will tnarry usy? continued tho Budaclous irl, her whole tace ulowlng with tho aulmution of her {imperial beauty, sudye Rucknor is in tha next room,” sug- led one of the company. Cull him in thon," sila the future bride, ‘but before he arrives I will appoint my brides- Maids and form chow in provession, Do you “Allee, and Murgaret, aud Louise seleet tho Frouwamen, and precede the happy pale in the Sider of your nomination. ‘hery, what'll do, at's wll right. Now move on.” io Judes was standisg at the ond of tho Foo and seemed tu cuter [nto the spurtas Keune y aS Any Uf tho Kay crowd aruund him, Kudafter & wiht deluy procecded with te murrince service, Tho usual questions wore asked und fuswored anid pealy of Juuwbter, which pres Yeutod the wolonin toncs of Judtoml authority ruin being noticed. ‘The ceremony wus over aa8 the dance resumed, No one left tha hoyse reegpuelt du higher epirits than the bride of tho Henry: Ivorson waa tha gun of a Wealtby Quor- Yablahter, of buch soctul position, and of ol Nel standtuy in tht State, Eis som, Henry, & ree SWentaruduuteor the Univeralty of Virwiilt, bad ven, On a Visit to bis muny relatives Iu Missourl, gid Woula leave for his homo iu the jnoruing. at wd tmade during his vielt hoats of friends y bis uniform conduct a8 @ xoutiouian, and palnea thelr respect by bis attalaments a6 4 bolar. On the murning of bis doparture ha i Ned on Judge Buckuer, who bad beew bis par+ | bot, to auy furuwell. 3 When do you leave, Harry?" asked the 2) shat! leave on the noon trals.” Sle" inquired his triead a¥es.I. What do you moan?! Don't you intend to take your wife with wy, witer" sald the startled Georgian. wits, ae gravely answered the Juduo, ‘your TO BO Was witll Just wight siles Currio Har- 12} 8d to whout you wore married by mo then, is. Kenton’s party, Ob," hauwhod Harry, that was all fun: a ‘ 7} pan De yee, Hot UD Ter a ittlo amusement, 1 jeratuos Wought you Understood ‘it, as wo all did. “Of wits not take my wite along, as I have no « Harty," solemnly interposed the magistrate, “you areca lawfully marnivd ae ie our OWS Wishop had of go home today," The young Southorner stood entranced, chained to tho apot, with eyes dilated, and his breath sus pended under tho fitiienco of aurprist. fh thy heavent™ boat length exelulmed, 1s tHe “ As true, Harry, asthe heaven you invoke.” returned tho Jide, lt Missouri ne marriage Hicenne fs required. and all that the luw asks Is proof tu tho suthsfuetion of tho minister wr of: eer nilciating that tha parties wee Of tho reqquie BIL ae, nad Chat NO Twelul tpediment exists, In thts crea 1 had personal Knowledge that the tow was satisfied, antl now ho power on orth GAN Roprate you, except ndiverce, to be geauted by a court or competént Jurisdiction, and yout know that netthor of you bas auiiclent ground for it petition th that eifect," “On Sieg abined the reaily unhappy: wilt Plo? How shinll Lever uacain? Bho will think rage, thoush, Midzey dreained of the matter ut nf hur.” ite, and you, of courao, cannot gentieinat, ral me a confed you know that f no A}. CAcepe us A ME sail “That may be as yun any." Intercupted the mingistrate, * but don't call bor Mike Curcio une Tess you wish to wlye ber In future thot term of ondearmont. Tu treth, Hnrey, bought to buve refused to solemnize this marriage, U intended tocnrry on the joke awhile und then soundly seatd you both for your trifling wih the few and your contempt for one of the htzhest orditan of ourChureh, But nad proc that you wore eminently fitted for You ‘had told me bow madly you loved that noble and beantifnl sink. Porkups 2 omrbt to have seolded you both, but who can scold that mindeap saint? Nu, Hurry, you must remate hero and try to persuade your wife to love you. On my word, my dear poy, L warinly congritue jate vou on the’ result of this silly froile, but think that you whl. fave some trouble in the maattor of her vonsent." “Well, Judge, of course ¥ shall remain hero, but what do you adviso ine to doy" suld tho bridegroom, while his cheek flushed with a hope wondrously minglod with fear, “Twill call on Carrie," revited Judge Buck- ner, “oxplain to her tho situation of things, and ask for you an interview.” Truv ‘to fis word, the magistrate called on Carric, When they were sented jn ber mother's patior he turned to her and auld to licr gravely: “Carrie, | bring you some news that porhips You may consider unwelcome,” is my mothor il?” asked the axcited girl. a ‘4 my unele, my guaridiun, well?” Yes; fortunately | have no death nowa; but { eve to yott to epeak of that wild freak of yours lust nlgnt.’* “What freak?" inquired the artless girl, in whose memury thoro Hngored very ttle trace of tho evening's fun, and certainly no trace of 1 wrong that deserved 1 scold, ™ Your marriago,” suid her friend, “What! that sham ceremony?” and the mer girl's face Ut up with rippling laughter. “ Well whut of it?" * It tg noshum marringe, Carrie, but you have bound yourself by 4 tle that tho law pronouces indissalubie,” “ Impossible!" replied tho gil. “Why, Judge, you know that it wasall jo fon, and lam sure no law, human or divine, will recognize a tie that was sitiply the creature of the merest sport. £ oxpectud a acold, butidid not expect you to look: 80 grave about it.” You remember, Carrio, that your replica to my questions were given iu words that smpficd, nus expressed, your fullest consent; that you both were of juwful age ty be usarri thet ne loyal impedimont existed, and that reully tho parties aro very well sulted. Now——" ‘Tho face of tho poor giti had flushad and pated alternately during the delivory of this address. Suddenly sprinylay to her feet, she interrupted tho olticint oxclaimed in a loud tone und with flashing “And dure you say this to lent yourself to this fraud and to this outrage upon a poor unprotected girl? You who profess to have been a tricnd of my father and wttll pra- fexs friendship for mysolf and my mother? Shame upon you, sir, shame upon your tno hood. If thesa things that you teil are truc, then you have prostituted the Jaw and your hia officeto tho basest of frauds and tho oppression of fnnucence. have done a thousand things more wild than this, and if you have not ap- proved them by your smile, you baye always klven me, when you thought I doservodit, a xentle and loving rebuke, But now! for what enuse I know not, you tinve used your authority w torture # heart that has vover Bad for you but tho purest feeling of the most affectionite fove. You have proved yourself unworthy of your High position, Is that wan—Mr. lverson—n con- federnte of yours in this.infamy? If so, tolt hin for me that‘ho fs unworthy of bis pure Inonge, that be has degraded biuself asa jyon- tloman, and that ho fas forfeited tho respect of ullhonorable people, For shame upon you both; there fs tha door, sir, take It. It ts closed forever against you and him, two such con- temptiblo forms of degraded manhood.” And before-tho nstonished ofteial could say one word in Justification or arrest herdeparture sho had left tho raom with all tho contemptuous dignity of hor majestic beauty, hen Mre. Burton returned home, and the friends of tho family had cousulted about the inatter, tho surioustioss of the situation wis ad~ ittted, and also that tho law, as icolared by Judge Bucknor, was correctly stated. His con~ duct was denounced us utterly inexplicabte aud infamous, but Carrie was quietly ndvised to innke the best of the mattor, aud that the match ‘wna one not unworthy Of her; but tho proud and deoply offendcd beauty wns obdurite. No re- monastranco nor entreaties could induce ber to soo Harry Lverson or to rend his letters, aud the ‘pene folly more madly tn love than ever, and conly alive to tho sufferings and hopes of his slogular sltuntion, still lingered around the hone of bis tdolized wife, His cruct position kept him aloof from goriaty, anu bfa so(vernpioyiment was to write impassioned Icttcrs to bis idol and to watch ber whenever sho chanced to walk abroad on somo mission of mercy. For, iiko hitueelf, Carrio bod now uo relivh for soofal pleasures, Horgayety was zon, and sto bad no thought of reintcring w circle in which she would meot with strange glances, and hear unfeollng speeches, And yot sho would not pore mit her situation to Interfere with ber charities, ‘Accompanied by u faithful domestic abo would #9 out On ench Biccussive evening for the alle~ vintion of human imisory that new scomed to have the outly claiis upot her attention, In tho meantime Harry's mothor, who bad beon duly {uformied by ber yon of bis condition, enmo ostens|biy on 4 visit to ber friends in Mts- sourl, aud vainly suught au juterview with tho offended wife. With irs. Barton sho bad no trouble, and tho Georgia mother wus exceed- ingly anxious to bring the affnir to a favorable {usiie, Hot only because she heard nothing hut rales of the girl, but alae because ber aon's jove had deepened iuto despalr and bad atfucted ‘his heatth, At lust Carrio consented to an interviow with her husband, os she underatood that ho aud bis mothor would retura to Georgia tho next tmorn- » Shesent tim word that sho would meet him alone ns sbo returned from ono of her ub- urbun charitics, but that would bo the last timo that they woutd aver mect, . At tho hour eet she met bim as polly. asit ho wag itstringor, Ho attunrpted to take hor hand, but whe withhela it, sayings * : You cau sity to ine, Mr. Iverson, what you intend to say at thatdistanco. If you attempt to Jessen it, Tabull consider it at anend, Pro- coed now, Bir.’ The poor fellow was complotoly crushed, and commenced: * Misa Carrio, I wish to sponk to you about tC Marriine at Mr, Kenton’s houss,” “Stop right thore, Sr. lyerson. § havo per- mitted, uo one to 'sponk to ime about that wrotched affnir, and will not Bear anything avout It from you. Hut ng wo shill not mevt again, 1 will suy this to you: ‘To oxpinte a snplo folly that bas beon tortured into an ine funious claim, Lhave made up niy wind to re- tire from tho world, and have mada application 40 bo onrolied us a Histor of Seroy in that Epte- copal order ia St. Luuls. IL buvo been uccopted and 1 shill onter upon my vow dutica next week, aud [ thus hope to atono fora simpla act of folly by a life dovoted to the great cause of Ganstian meroy, leayo society without A pang of regrot. I huva not told any one, not evon my mother, of iny plans, vor shall I. tell you this because tt fs somewhat In the ight ofnduty. You may mention jt or not ag you please, Dut my intention js unalterable,” « What is it, my dear?” abe sald to a little girl who bad followed hor from the cottage, “Sothur sont me with your red shawl that you forgot,” said the child. “Tell hor, darling, to keep it for my sake, tor I sha)) not neud any moro xay colors,” And gontly plucing the flashy garment on the shauliers o| tho ebild, sho turicd to pour Harry and walls “Good evening, Me. Iverson, 1 wieh you a plonzunt trip to your homo," and pa: on, ‘Tho wretcbed lovor-husbaud remalned rooted to tho spot, utterly crushed. He would hava followed ber, but ho know that abe would not Histon to him; but ho stoned in another direc- tion to scronty aftar scream of terror, and as bo turned ne saw tho pensunt girl with the whawl ati! uround her shoulders running in an agony of fright trai o mad bull, taut, irritated by the seariet coior, bud ruabed to trainplo under born ‘und hoof the wearer aud the gurment. All the ebivalry of thy youny Southorver was allane in an Instant, aod, bustening wt full speed toward tho terriiied and flying chitd, bo seized her in bis arms ald throw her over the feuce toward which she was hasteniny. St waa none too soon for the child, but bor doliverer recolvod jn side the bora of the muddoned brute, Tho furl- ous animal, not sealing tho object of bis raya, contonted himsolf with having tho helpless forin befure him, but was cusily driven off by one or two men who wore returning bomo from their work. The xereaws of thu child had reachod tho car ot Carrie also, and sbo waa Boot at the spot of the disaster, Dircoting tho men to take up tho body carefully, sho wugerly folt the pulse biting unfortunate gentlemun, und satistiod here solf that lifo was noteztinot, Thero were a Sow fbi but Currio’é handkerchief soon lon. A Milo, jonu,” sho sald to one of the'nien, “tell De. Witlams to meet mo ut once at the Contral Hotel; and do you two jake a Utter of this shawl, und Ling the body after me. Now, don't wake a fulsc atop. Now, nove gently, Carrio wag ovidently Jeasning to yuccor the unfortunate, Dr, Willams was ready, and,after a careful examination, pronounced the patient {ou dangerous condition. s “If no futernal numorrbage gots pee ho paid, “bo muy recover. Hs temperate babiteand his uthare in histaver. Hut be must bo kept Trou any oxeltetugnt. reuialn as quivt. ae posts ble, and, with Hurslay, | hope for the best. ball we tind a proper purse?” Hero, said Curric, irinly. 1 will be ble nurse; and 1 shall remain with him until bo re- caverd If God eo will it." And she quietly took her soat by the bedside. : Ina few moments Mrs. Ivoreou arrived ag* was met at tho door by Carric, who, with finger on her ip, raid ina whisper: “Ean, Carrio, of whom you have honed ro Ive, aid will posalb hi nt ne na fam ceded, Pon't say anything but go in us gently as yotrcon,” ‘Anil tha mother anil tho wify took thelr seats At opposit aldes nf tho bed, ‘Fhe Hiness was lone and accompanied hy Aeliriam. The patient renoenized nn one, but conatantiy uiuttered “Carrie, ny darling, my wife, Sho charmed te with intiuny. Ont God, co My know how T love her-Carrlet Ine amy? AC lust the crisis of bis dieordor was renehed, and Dr, Willintos announced that If the anodyne would Fesuit. ina sonind sleep, and tho patient dswake in perapiration snd eonselous, hie ‘ory Would only be nt question of thing and nirsing, ‘The two wurde took thelr urtul places at tho bedside unt watehed the result With Intenss solicttude. Toure paased and howe, hud atmost vanished, when the soft hand of Carrla detected tho slightest mofeture on the: Drow of tho sulferer. Jt continued to Increwse, HUN t broke Jorth jn copiousness, and the yn tent opening his eyes, nuw clear and plucld, exe elated * Mothor!" Tre an Juastent his hand was tn hers, ant an Ir repreasibie tuo of tears apoke the rapture of her heart and ber gratitude to Gor. Mother,” bo safd, after a fow moments’ rest, “T thought, perhaps 'T wns dreaming, tnt there wns anuthor baud of ty brow just before [ waked. | Was T dreaming, mother?" “No, Harry, you were not dreaming, Mut 1 will tell you all nuout ft when you get better.” Harry‘s recovery was rapid. No allusion was made to tho past, and only family attuirs and his return home were talked of. At lust one morning. n tap at tho door was heard, and a Indy in full black entered. | Harry’s face flushed crimson, for tho instinct of love could not be deceived, “Harry,” said the lady as, advancing to tho bed, she removed ber veil, * Harry, 1 have come to cinim you as my hustand, God ‘bas punished me, throigh yout, for my folly, and taught me. wny'duty. Livitnessed your hernic courage in waving tho tife of the poor child, and at your bedside 1 bave tearned the deep devoteduoss of our love to me, and found my path of duty, Wo wil seperate ne more, Are you willing?" A flood of gruteful tuars bedewed his cheeks as be rolsed bis attenuated arms and sobbed, “Kigs mo, my darling wife.” MATERNAL I INCT, Thore Is no superstition so common ninong ment as belief In the maternal instinct of all women, unless ft be that among women of bellet In the physical courage of all men. But this universality of the maternal instinct. fg 2 attperstition, pretty and poetic, like many other fond fancies, All the same it Js a fancy, aud natafact; and to our way of thluking the recognition of an ugly truth is better than the cherishing of a pleasant fantom, So far from belng universal, even that lowest form of maternal instinet which mukes the female andi! fight to tho death for her young Is absent from some mothers; und it would not be ditticult to put ono's hand on cor- tui well-known women tn society whu have no more feeling for tholr offspring than they would have for go many helpless kittens or puppies, Indeed, the adds would be In favor of tho beasts, ‘This isu hard saying to men, but women know that ft Is truo; aud a few of tho more stralghtfor- ward and cynical confoss It among themuclyes openly cuough. Thore are certain delicate side fysues connected with this part of the subject which would scarcely tear discussing heres those who can read between tho Ines and who know what we mean must sco that these sro to prove still more cleurty the truth of our posl- ton, and ovidence tho decline of tho muternal eburncteristic of tho present diy, If this tower manifestation {8 wenker thun it is generuily ts summed to,be, 60 much more fs thut higher ono whieh would make all women, not only kind to all children, but naturally tender to and earceul of alf girls, But tho tender mercies of tho stepmother bavo over been proverbiul, aud the dawaye done to the reputation of 9 beodless uirl usunily cames from women rather than from men, Lin this babit of slandering tho individual, whtio so irritable in ite defense of the race, the Hex 1g spectal to ttsclt, No man ‘attacks tho reputa- ton of a youth as women attuck that of a girl, The wan’ who should come into bis club und whisper about damning stories of hfs friend's young son, who should aecuse tim of ishonorable doinga, such as. would ruin tho Jud's churactor ay thoroughly as the churge of tmmodeaty, fitting with married ton, and the like, rate that of a girl, would soon pave tho room to himself, But women over tho tea-table gather wp the crumbs of ecandal with relieh and appreciation, and oven the mothers of girls ure not asbamed to belleve and repeat Kories fiyalust tholr dear friend's duughter which may ‘have no foundation in fact, aud whieh, oven if trug, thoy buye no means of proving or testing. Itly tho womut, too, who refuges to forsive the grave und undentadle Inpse, tha nbsuluto full, oven of tho yousyrest and most Jynorunt: mon ean be found to love, ruspevt, and marry u girl who In tho pust foll fiito bad bands and suf. fered where shu had sinned, ‘Tho women who would take her to thelr hourts as her mothor, pitying, consoling, rebnbilitating, might bo counted on the tngors, sluply because tho mu- ternal instinct ig nowhere, Wo Know that tho intintenance of a high standard of virtue Is purtof the womanly function in life, and that laxity awoux women would bo fatal alt round; and Wo recognizo the nead for un certain sollduri ty in the sex on thls question of chustity, and 1. certain severity of Judgmont ayuinst traltors and deserters, ‘This ts intelligible cnough as bolween woinen and womeu; but we are speaking how of gitis— of girls so young that muternal women would naturally pity und protect thein—of girls who ve oily frou Ignorance and want of protection—of itis who ave, sinned without nowledzo, And Whoso sit 1a sufliciontiy fts own punishment, | Wedonot admit into tho. arg mont tho Homes for Fallen Woron sided oves and worked by womett, These come into quite n diferent category of thoushta and feol- ings; nnd in inost cases the maternal inatinet has urpart in the actuatiug motive. We oro speniciny of the gitls ina woman's own clrele; and for thom, when disgrace falls on thom, its it ‘un appily does at Lines, we tnd but Ueto com= tls racfon, 4 always remember Et Yot we shoul thitt tne caro of a girl's conduct and the malt tonnuce of her inuovenve belong to women, wud that when a girl goes wrong gome womnn his fulled inher duty. 1f mothers, or thosa who Stand in the plice of mothers, did thelr maternal duty consulcntiously, thera would bu no sedi tions, becuusy there would be ever-eflicient pro- tection. But tho absurd doctrino that girly tay be trusted to take cura” of thomselves, fh yoguo ut the present timo, throws the burden on a wenk youn crontury who neither understands hor dunyors nor recognizes tho trat approuches of peril, and whoae own natural desire Joins in jnnocoult treachery against herself and with hor enemy. When a inother saya who can trust her dnuybtor, and forthwith wives her tho key of the fields, shy siinply ments that aho is without thls matornul tecling. know that my daugh- tor {4 fneapable of indiscretion,” sho says, with, fatuous security, and ylolds horself up to idlo- hess. and soifiat Indoleuco, whilo the girl, in the tirat bloom ot ber youth, and tho first stireing of her own devatoping Instincts, wanders off nlone, protected only by that doubtful hand of Provie donee and the honorof son towhons oll womuns hood fs fulr gume. Only when the sudden oclope- ment or moro irrotrievable sbamo becomes pile Ile and Fatent docs the tilinsy pretense of qirl- huod suilicing for its awn protection fall to the ground us thoeham it is. But with all this as ber excuse tho girl is cust olf us if sbu were the cans svlous singer, and not the innocent victim: and thy mother Js condoled with on the perveralty ut hor daughter, instead of condemned for hor own gross derollotion of duty, - ‘The whole modern theory and practice of girl- feb independance, girlish liberty, aud the neel- Jeguesa of watching and overlooking 13 due to the want of matornal instinct. Since when bas human nature changed sa much that janorant youth may be loft tu jtsolf unguarded aud tne directed?” Itty atiilde rigueur that a gir) must be chaporoned toa privute ball, whore, wnless tho tone fs singularly lux, sho cannot go fir wrong, Hut elo may go out into the crowded London streots, and by the rallway alone," and wander where she witl ucattended; und aby may lye Bich 2 Fy) of herself when sho roturne om er fanoy, ho one belng blo to vorify ordisproye. Youth fa heedless; youth {a not ulways trathful whon it nas been heed. jeag: and the kettle bolsupaco, We svo what wo desire tu seus and if it he mora conventent to aursotves that our girls should havo liberty wo give it to them, and refuse to bullevyg in te danger. Wo forget that prudence of conduct Is A thing that bas to bp Journed Hike any otbor lew- Son, and thay chastity docs not como by natura On the Fontrary, love is iking como by nature, and the nrtiielal restrictions of society aro things superimposed, to the neu of which youth must be covrced before babit, and undoritanding bave mado thon frin ana solid, All theso clemental truths are avept away in tho present cruzo for the fruedomi of xirlhoods aud those who disapprove ery aloud in tha wilderness in vain. If thero wero imore tus ternal ipetinot than thero 44, 1¢ would not bu #0 dificult as It ts fore yirl to tind quas| mother among her elders, Consors abouud; butcensors aro Not mothers; neither are these hundsomo roués of 40 or thereabouts, who tnake friends with 6 girl a8 a blind, if nota decoy-duck. Hut the maternal inutinct of care and protection and tondorncss js wanting, vvon with relatlves~ motberyon tholrown nocount; and girls lett motherless seldom tnd a real substitute for that nich they havo lost, oven among tholr mothers’ tors. i Ayoin, in tho jenlousies of women against girls wo find.a striking proat of that want of tuaternal inatinct of which wo speak. Tho must formidable enemy that # girl bus tn tho world 1b a Joalous woman old cuougt to be her mother or her yrandmiorhor, No generous allowance for youth, witb Its indifference to appearances, be~ sauso of its iynoranco of tholr nieuning, no'pily for the mistukes nade by vers Innucence; no commisoration for the punishnient to come upon folly, and tho uy de she'cannot averts ne Sho ls Jealous, with reason or without; aud the girl must be crushed, Lut, if sho bad balt tbo ‘unount of maternal instinct which popular be- lef wocords 10 wownen, Wo should buye uo girl's repute ruined by an elder womun s Joalguay, and no girl's virtue destroyed fur want of cill- Dlestmentacon, Avitia tha waAMEH OVEIpOW® frathe mother; and no we Mud it alt around. Nome women, indeed, aro Jontous of thelr awit daughters, Lenvy thea success obtained by: thotr f whemity. The want of maternal {nstinet ¢ rio furthar tian thic—stve inte depths wi tbs inuposaible for ts to Lotlew, NOT DEAD, HET ELOPED, Acorresponcont fi Bultaie writes: ‘The ulystery surrounding the disappearanes of Mrs. Lizzie Cottier, for whose supposed drowned = body Chautauqua 4.9 wag dragged, has been solved by the discovery of evidence showing that she eloped on the day Ba Was AIpposed to have met her death, Mrs, Cottler appears to have by from girl- hoot A person of somawhat angilar charac. ter. Her mother, a Mrs. Church, ded when her daughter Lizzie was only 4 years old, and the Jutler grew Inte womanhood without we aulyantngs of that training she might have reeeived lit her parent lived, She ree celvert a preliminary education tna common kehool, und then, entering tha Wollesley Fo- male College, In Stassachusetts, was yritduated with honour, Hudowed with much Independence of charneter and left Inrgely Independent on her own resou although hor father was still alive, sho determined to earna livelinoad by her own exertions, and, thorefore, after leaving cole Jeyo becaine a tencher In a school nt Warren, Va, iceting with good anecess. Among ber pecullurities of disposition was her aversion to soclets, her masculinity of tuste and thongtt, and her general indifferonce to attention or ree katd from tho upposit sex. Her friendships, ate though few, were Strougly cherished, and she made contidants while nt college of two girls who were older than herself, and with whom eho,’ Voluntarily inade the unusual and ceventrie Ogreement never tu marry. She had previously, {tL apocars, inde the enmo singular compact with unothor fudy triend fiving tn Obie, but did not for sowe reason cure ty reveal the fuct when shu mide thy vow with her two collexe-mates, She expected to xet a gltuation as teacher In Tne diunt with this Obfo friend. but, being disap> pointer, returned to’ Uuitato, after spending kome tine do Onto Jearning wood-vurving. her dusign in thus doing being tu enjoy the compan: lonshity af tho Onto lads. Cyow ber return, to “Butfalo she beeame n hourder with Mra. Cottler and her ron Alonzo Cottice, She soon won Mrs. Cottler's regard, and n trlendshin also quickly krew wp hetweet erselt and Mr. Ce tery who had, by bls own hurd work, mined a perinanent and fucrative position In buginess., The neqgualntance soon Mpened mito love on the young man's part, and after n short enmuetent, the two were married on Moy 2 fast. ‘They appurently llyed tozethor hupolly, at fenst no Gueward eign was given that their rolations were other than of the most af fectionate character. oreo weeks ano the couple arranged for au excursion on the Inkes, starting from Ruifaio by steamer. Mrs, Cottier syn complied of seusickness, Lowever, aud, on reachiug Erle, she urranged to return to Chitituuque, whild her husband continued the Journey, ns originally resolved upns, with the hope of deriving some bauellt, therefrom, bene himself in delifate health. The wile returned to thls ity by rail, and suon afterward took up her abode ata firm kept by the Hale fam ou tho shores of Chautaugia Lake, and lived there fn upparent enjoyment of ner surround- ings and without any noteworthy incident until the evening of Aug. 8 when she teft tho farm-house just before 7 o'clock, saying sho wished to get some photographie views of the Inke ut Lakewood, whither she iid sho was fun ino row-bont, Sho did not return at nicht, however, und on the following day her boat, containing some weurlng upmnirel, was found de= gerted a little distance from Gritlith'’s Point. This discovery at once lod to tho beliet that sho was either drowned or had met with roul play, nid the tke, as before atated, wis drugged, but without siccoss, Detectives were then put upon the case, and their Investigation resulted in the dlseovery that sho had eloped, ‘The clews whieh Jend to this conclusion indicate thut tho arranse= ments for ilight wero made ond carried into effect vers deity -rately. Whilo stopping ut the fale farm dirs. Cottier carried an n eorrespandonee with the Indy ln Oblo, with whom sho bud made her broken vow hever to murry, and a week betore her Might this Ohlo friend visited her at the farm. ‘The to enine to Bulfalo one day, tho friend remain ing att hotel hore, wolte: Mrs. Cottier returned to her own residence, and there packed a trunk with clotuing und trinkets, which sho brought Imck to tho furmebouse, — Means while tho, Ohlu girl want to her home also, and Mrs, Cottier, after returning to the furm, heyan i correspondence. with wnuthor femulo friend, who was one of tho two giris with whom sbo bit been intimate fn college, and win had expressed a wieh to mect her, ‘They niet at tho furm-houso and passed tho tine pleasantly: togothor until tho outset of the purparted rows ing (rin to Lakewoor, airs, Cottier appeared attired for this trip in a.geay boating vostunie, which had also uw rexembluice to a traveling dress. Diamonds twinkled In her cars and three riuge studded with diimonds shone on the Singers of ono of her hands, in whieh sto car- ried a pretty leather bay, Her friond commenter upon the diamonds, ug Ss, Cottier was never tes custoined to wenr them whon out rowing, Sto replled to tho friend's Inquiry by anying that ale wore them {n order to raise the uploion of the peoplo at Lukewood 25 to ber socia) standing and wealth. Sho put nside tho leather buy, bow= over, miymg It contained ber Jewelry, whlch sho did not belteye she would take with her, and substituted tor it a inrge basket, which Khe de- elared would bu of uxe in gathering pond ilies, Sho ulso tuok with hera tinon duster. In this duster, when it wns recovered tn the boat which she had set adrift after Jandlug, was found sume photographie views which sbe had Some blurred bundwriting was dis- covered jo buck of ove of the views, and with tho ald of a mirror ft was aseertuined to bo tho blotted reproduction of un express receipt mide by being inudvertuntly pressed on the: photograph while fresh. ‘The recelpt showed that the package tu question bid been sent to tho friet in Oho, and further Investi- gation reveuled tho fuct that it had reached its destination. Mra, Cottier bud sald nothing whutever at the farm about such a packnge, but bad taken, that means to send to Obie eueh clothing 28 bbe would bo ilkely to need after tho completion of her design to tun auy, “After sending the package: by express, bho rowed to Shnuyalde, where, stil wearing her diamonds anda man’s slouched hut, abu entered a inil- Knory store and asked to he shown a womun's bonnet, whlch sne purchused und then went away, ‘The boat she previously turned ndvift, Jeaving purt of her clothing, whleh she did not need, with the ovident design of produclug tho Dollef thut sho had been drowned, und thus de- feating uuy discovery of her Might. A TRIPLE WEDDING. ASt. Loufs papor says: Several days ngo the Republican had quite along artiele in rogurd to three marriage certifientes thathad been Issued from the Recorder's office for tho marriage of three sisters, the daughters and only daughters of Mr. Charles Bung, the druguist. ‘The marriage of the three daugh- ters took place about 10 o'clock Jast night at Liederkranz Hall, Thrtecuth and Chontenn aAvenne, two of the grooms being not only mombers of tho Liederkranz but hotonging also to the soclety’s Board of Directors. These were William Wetzler and Dr, F. W. Hermann, Myr, Welzler is the teller of tho Fourth National Bank, and fa well known Jn tho olty, particularly in the musical world, whore bo Ja recognized wa very Uno tenor singer, Wetz- Jor got tho oldest of tho dnughtora, Dr, [fer- many is quite a young mun, but ho weurs specs, and has heon around tho world and secon sights that many a bald-honded gentlo- man never suv. Tho Doctor ta a dentist, aud is thosunof Dr. Hermann, the physician. The third in this trio of gallunt young gentlemen that cuptured the beurts and‘hands of the charming young Bang sisters wus Mr. F, Walter de, Ifo fs tho kon of & canily munufucturer, aud he Is a oandy manufacturer Nimectf, Thoro's many 2 wich ‘that’s Just dying to marry x candy munu- tacturer, Thogroomsimen and bridostnaids were all handsome, ote,, 24 thoy uBt Daye been, bay “ing been selected from ubout 60) young, {nutes und gontlonen that were nixlous to cujoy tho distinction of taking 8 foadinge milo in the cores Biony Just night at tho Lisderkrang Hall. ‘Thoy ‘were Blosars, Oscar Hlebingor, Otto J, Wilhelinh, and August Walter, and the Misses Annia Telcbiann, Aunic Bang, aud Emins Walter, Tho ceremony was to kaye taken place promptly ut 0 o'vlock, Uut as single tur Finzos aro generally balf an hour bebe Umno, a triple murriaye woulda't have been fusn- fonable without being Wn hour and a ult bebind the hour aunounced for it, Llederkrang Halt hind been brilliantly itiuminated andthe plat form or stage profusely decorated with plunts and lowers. At oud side there were a dozen or moro of tha’ largest, prutuest, moet frugrant houqueta over put tuxcther by a tlorist. ‘Tavy were from frionds aod relatives, and there wero threo conspicuous above the rest, cach having the initial letier of tho frat name of the bridu and «room in inmortelics. Tholr bridal pres- euls proper were not displayed here, hut the bandsome quae brother of the threo pretty brides confided to the ieputfican reporter that thoir two parlors at home were Just chuck fib of bridal presenta, enougt to #tart built a dozen ordinary “bridal couples to Rounekcopin ant keop them ut it forton yours. Tho dt, Louls rand oreneatra was on hund, ani when tho riddl purty entered the grand hull they pluyod Mondolssvbn's grand wedding march. The brides wero all dreased allke tu white In- dion mull with iusion wullte and each wore a ioyrtle wrouth with orange blossoms, S{{sf Anna Teichman woro a pute-biue orgundy With orange blossoms; Mise Anna Bary hy palu-uinke organdy is with forget-me-notes an Lena Walter, croumetnted mull with curdiunt roses, wo. Netlog wu Bosse, dressed fu red, and Sattlo Bucsewetter, dressed in bluc—atrew roacs in the puthway of’ tho bridal procession. They arranged themselves on the platforia itt seml-oirele wround the Hey. Dr, Jouus, of the Evangelical Church, on ‘Thirteouth and Web- stor, uid the uil-linportunt ceremony was then commenced. It lasted some twenty minutes, tho pastor making 8 epevob of some longth as A rolog, und offering 4 prayer a3 4 benediction ut 8 cloga. ‘Pho cerummouy waa conduvted entiro- Yip the German language, A grand suppor = and ball followed the ceremony. und everything was oo A grand scale, and was vated a eamytete success, WOMEN ASD E Our girls have large rly Ta speech, They may even inl slang if they do so pretty, vivacloualy, and with an evidently playful Intent. We look with amused in- dilgence upon thelr overnse nnd misuse of adjectives and nilverbs. When a girl says that anything Is “!nlee’ or “awtully nice, we perfeetly tnderstand what she means and permil the phrase to piss without eritietsin, Ueeanse nice txt woman's chief adjective ot commendation, ant means excellent, pretty, good-natured, comfortalte, or amy othor of a seore of things, while “awtully” joa woman's mouth is an aitverd whose sole otter Is to intensify expression, In a word, we permit our young women, and our youn women pers mit thetnselycs, narrow ioelr yoeabulury down ton few overworked phrases, to misuse their native tongue and distort It, and general; to tak in bad English willfully rather than ligne rantly. They calf things “splendid when are not splendid, but merely kool, or pretty. Gr pleasant,’ and: deseribe bubles or bare nets us, “cunning” usually clidlng the fund when they mean that the Lables are bright und It or attritective fn kon her way, ond the bonnets becoming. Monnet, when nat © cc. ara sweet.” and heyaud this the descriptive vocabulary of the youny woman rarely extends, Inthe matter of slang tha tmmulee which rompis pretty girls to use it—for commonly it sonly pretty iris wha do oe dare this—secms to be that [king that nil humun beings have for Wwalkitg as tear as poxsible ta the ndge of preci plees, Our wirts nro not vulgar; they dread viu- warity uy tho abyss; and for that very renson they enjoy venturing perilously near jts edge, Hecciacly ng boys resolee tn walking unan nare vow Umbers at glddy bights in untinished bufld- Sit. Dies. ‘Thy only rebuke whieh girls encounter as a reault of these practices ig an oceasionnl ety. gestion that staug is vulgar, and that warning hus tho leas foreo beewuse they eee that great numbers of girls and women why are not vule witr playfully indulge (11 af ne na they them- selves do. For the overworking of adverbs and adjectives, and for thule geverd) misapplication of words aud their tieglect of niece shudes af imcaniuu, they reeelve np correction at all, but are lett ty regard the mutter as one of no conre- quence. AS a inntter of fact It ft real consequence, duige in such habits, not only to the wirls who: but to society also, uhe of the inest Uranches of evholarsiiip, Theraean be no doubt that the ear which ts Guight to tolerate the mis- tse of words ruplily loves its sensitiveness, and even its capaelty, to detect “mixuse. The enn: stuit use of “lee,” and * atyiul!” aod © sw and * splendid,” and “ cutining,” in other thin tholr proper senses and a4 substitutes forall thy other adjectives In the tanscunee, rapidly elfnces the other adjectives from the mind and biunts the sense of Ntness in tho use of words 0s meuns of accurate and forcible utterance. ‘The yirl does not forget the other word ft the Inngunse, perhaps, butabe loses the habit of tains them, and, worse stl, she gequires a hnbit of loose, Inuccurate, Incomplete expreasicn, aud with it at Uke habit of thought, 1 All this fs to be regretted on account of the tls thomsclves, but it Is stilt more nm pity: that y the Rrowth of sich hubits of mind aod speech we lose the lurgo intluence of retived women tn behalf of pure speech. Womenure the talkers ofthe world, Upon them fails the greater part of tho ats Of maintaining eoclal relations by conversation, Every drawing-room is depend> ent upon thein for iis vivacity ang spirits when- ever ion usurps this funetion he kills con- yorsntion with monolog. When n man talks inuch he Iectures, and everyboly else keeps a- lent, Ids onty.a woman who can keop conyers ention goiLg, und ean twist and turn it about, and ylvo variety to {t, and keep shop out of it. Tt isa pity that wont ou whont eo in ortant duty Is pliced, should unfit thenelves jor thefr function by acquiring habits fatal to complete atiecess in it, ft Is an especial pity that our beautiful English tongue should lose (he conservative and developing influence which arace of educated women, al talking und all priding themselves upoo thelr accurate and flexible uso of the Inuguage, would exercise. The preservation of 8 lin- guage in its purl and the systematic des velopmentof tts Hexibility, te fitness for tho expression of thought and emotion, und it power, Is no light or uniniportant matter, and the Influence which our educated women mizht exert In this direction, ff thoy wera sincerely dovated to the work, would be ns great, perlaps, ny that of ull the echools and colleges of the land. If wll our wotnen took pride in the uceu. racy of their use of words, i the correctness of thelr pronunciation, in the ricbnees of their enunciation, in the modulation of their’ yolees, iu tha right disposition of thelr uccenta, in all mutters pertatning to good Engllsh speceb, they might work a revolution, Prenehwomen buve a pride of this sort in i Ability: to use thelr mother tongue tently, Jjexibly, and well, and thair iniluctica 4 Of pure speech, both us conservators of tho old and promoters of the new, when the new is gooi, i, without doubt, fur groater thin that of the Academy. Indeed, tho Acattemy's part in this. mofter Is little inore than ta record the usage of good society, whichis nother name for tho usuge of educated Frenchwonten, A MODEL PARISIAN, A Parts ‘correspondent says: ‘The other ny there died here in Paris aman whose “taking of ? must have Veen a great joy io the many friends of one of the most lovely and disthnguished Jadies of France, Mone. de Brimont fs the widow of the Viscount uf that name, some the member of the Cham- ber of Deputies and of tho famous Jockey Ciub, ‘They lind peen separated fur some tine, and his death relieves her from all fur- ther embarrassments. Mme, Mina do Iri- wont, née Shepperd, although the daughter of an English Indy, received un excellent French education, When Louls Napoleon was a refugee In England Mrs, Shepperd was kind to hint, receiving him Into her house, and when he came into power ho did not forget lis good friends, ‘They came on to Parig to tive, and hero tho Jate Emillé de Girar- din proposed for the band of Miss Minn, but he was not accepted, Tho Viscount de Brimont ude violent love to ber. Sho married bim, and ho turned out a bad husband, She endured ovorything fora long time, but at Inst sho wan compelted todonandaseparation, Then Madama took refuge tn the house of ber’ hushand’s yls- tor, who loves ber dearly. Indeed, atl tho lute Viecount’s faintly look on her as thelr good fairy, Ste reconeltes atl hate Hetle dliterenees, pute aently aldo all thelr petty Jentobsies, and usies herself with the future Of the young wen of tho Cumily, Old Father Time hus’ respected tho honuty of this lovely lady. Sho Is of ino- dium bight, with fentires of xreat delicavy, brown eyes sparkling ike diamonds under her ng Insbes, olden hil, and feet and hands are marvels ol stiuiiness und detieata Her slippors und bose aro perfect pooms of coquatry. and noone Knows how to phice a flower on thair bosom ao woll ns xe duck, She livog In pretty roomson the ufth floor of a grand house in tho Avenue Montaigne, A diininutive groom fn fivery futroduces one to a waiting~ room prettily furnished with souvenirs of nie Ieratts friends. He disappears with one's card, nnd presently uno {x shown luto her salon, witlel iu furnished lu Turkish style. Everything ty tie wood iste, and wo cannot but oxcleinn wit Then Madame asks if one would to Inok through ber apartment the greatest favor that who could bos stow on onc, Tho invitution is cngerly accepted. The diaing-room fs Inexe, and turnished in the Eugilen fashion. Shu keops a yrood cook and her survants are models, Stany a distinguished yueat bas thie Indy dined within thie protty room, Presently wo enter the satice tumsanetorum—that i to Kay, Madnmo's bod- room. It is pung with dark-bide curtains, arid a argo bedstead atanda in ono corner with amare blo bust representing Sleup vt ite bead. Thoero aro i ereat any murble statues and bronzes (1 tho room, bitt they are nll of a sobor enst and to not recall her cuquettiah tendencies, Heblad thogo curtalns tolivt-room, Into which the profano stop of man must not vntur. Mme, do Brimont’s reputation 4 tnquestioned, Even after her separation trom ber hushagd who naod to KO occusionully to seo. hin, hoping by her intlucnes to refer hin f nfs evil wayd. 11 hile lust Hines she was a. frequent attondant ut Did bedaldo, Lou ago he adopted a young gird who has since boow his iistress. Tt ia believed that bis will will show that ho hns loft the talk Of his property to this girl, but this wilt not be a surprise to his widow, who long ance guye up all hopes of Juberiting anything, TIE FINST ENGAGEME It is pleasant to turn to one of the bright. est chupters of tho amenities of honiw after leaving tho tyrants In gloomy solitude aud consider that pleasant episode of home life, “the first engagement.’ When it 1s an arrangement that satisfies pradent papa and mania, this fs the most delightful moment of mature life, Lt makes, one young aguln to seo the happiness of two young lovers. ** All men love a lover.” ‘Tho Antroduction of a new son or daughter—that devp feollug of rest that our son or daughter {stahaye the aucorage of marringe—theso are delicious reflections, Wo forget our trials, our cankering cares; we forgut that thoy, too, must ght the same hard battle of life which we havo got nearly through, and wo seo only the Dilssfululdo of tho plotura. ft, however, Wo do not ontirely approve, It isn great duty, and ono which we owe our children, to bide from them uuy funcled antipathy to the choses one whow wo may nut wholly love, Given yood principles aud good education, Ha Sd a Sen bat at shut a Mlucgrely nttactody to Hod Lule with bis or bor a ‘OF courac, Ro mother over gaw avy wife anita good enonh for her son; no father imagines that the mar eat be horn who 1 worthy of Wis daughter, Nainetimes, without meaning It, thie fcellue will show Itself: but tt had much better ho kent wut of eight, if powiiie, Hither 9 fame should take 1 girl wholly to their hearts, and treat her ie thelr own dace ter, or they ahontd decidedly disapprove Trou the first, No iatiinted court 0 balf-hanel- ed gencrosits, ne carping eritlelsia is just or honorable, Whnt thelr kon loves her, wiser to make her his wife, shown be a very wnnnswern. bie urumont for fer bearty atoption Inte tho family, And with regard to 9 daughter's bus. band tho sane, and even greater, reapect Rhatild be shown, Tho old reprouch agaiust motherrs fu-law now rather relegnies itself to oll com edgy? Itle not beloved that they are alwasa KO detestable as the “Canpalener” in * Perden- ail Yot a mother-fn-tawshottl (et her soneein-taw severcly alone, nor dare, Decanae atte hus & very nese relationanit to him, ta interfere in tha honsohold wutho bie Or Hy Any ling Mention of the childres he enters a lacie Catnity ae the Uetrothed ot ong of tho brothers has very dificult rate co UH Unless rhe Is frank and sincere, unless she ivory enenging. eo (fe apt to he disliked by some of Hernan tho brother tins beep ayrent faverit. and aomo love ing sister ia Jealousof her, Some brother,even, nny fer} offeumed at having the affections of his inost intimate frinnd stolen away from hit; or the charins which have wort tha tover midy tot Iw appivent to the reat of tho family. ‘ N ia the time for zor bri ing. Now istho mi 1 for tha amenit ter, Aho young peo- ple remember to treat that young lady with feautlar courtesy, far sho Will never forget thelr conduct at thls perind. She is to be their sister forall tne. Hf thoy treat her with respect and cardiaitts ten to aie she wilt be a goed sister. Hut if thoy treat her with hatred, suspicion, voit distike sha will be thalr enemy ail her days—and very Tittly blaine to her (f ana ds. Itis the cruelty of tho red Indian ta trout new-comer, Intros duced under such tender eirciastunces, with upything but kindness, MMR. BLANC'S FUSERAL, Mme? Blane, of Monaco, was too suddenly ealfed away fo die in an edifying manner. ‘The Church, however, give her credit for the best intentions, and a Hlshop attended at hor obsequles to glve the absolution, It ts true that he is dependent for a Iarge income upon the bounty of the Dane famtly, the Monsfgnor in question. belay the Grand Al- monor of the Prince of Monace, All the Church could do to ease the soul ot Mme. Blane and glve to her demise the stamp of respectability, It did, and with the best pos- sible grace, It is in this pleasant way of Nuding good in’ everything that the Church leaves no room on the Continent for Exeter Hall. The Abbe Perit represented the Most Cythollc Queen Isabeltn at the funeral mars, which was celebrated by the Abbe Vidien, wha was in the Habit of confessing the decensed fady, and who mourns ber death sincerely. Sno compounded with hin for keeping the bell at Monte Carlo by Uberal donations to religious charities, and by the foundation of at Orphin House, in which thodaughtors of auichte de Sanace were made welcame every tine thoy Knocked to be admitted, sixty anal ‘up in this asylum were ranged aroun eo. whieh was balmy with the purfumes of roses tnd myrtle-tloysome, ‘These wirs were robed in white, They typitied innocence ind expreserl gratitude. Indeed, ail the cartioal virtues were represented at this traly Parisian ceremony, TAttré taught that eve! EL revolution wis by # change in morals and in manners, ni how grand guttee of roynity, episcopacy, and aristoerney at the Hine obse- qquules, that ‘no rocinl upheaval, bowever prodig: Jous. wottld now astonish me. Among the pur: #ontes ranged near tho family were the fue de Fitz Jumes and Prince de Ronan, whose father would buve Inberited tho Conde estates had not Mine. de Feucheres got hold of thow for ber- self and the Duke d’Aumale. With them was it curious mixture, of Houlevardier Journalist mnnayers of the fastest thoatres and ‘pillara of Ste monde ped ata Mine. Diane was a German with a French namy and tt strom dash of Oriental blood, whien showed ftself fn her keen pursuit of wenlth and large almagiving, Her luther was Herr Dirand, of Weluhoin, near Homburg. Me elated to ba—ns de most of tho Inhabitants of the village, whore French {3 the colloquial tongue—of South of France ortzin, ond de> seended from n victim of the edfet vf Nuntes. Mme. Bhwne was short, short of breath in spenk= ing, und used to dress herself ng Spanish wud do the fmare of tho Madonna, Sho bad n pita slon for showy Jewolry und high equaintances, and had a Gerniun way of recapitututing thoit titles tn conversation. She nlso beloved In her stu, One of her latter-day belicta was that through her son-in-law, Mofand {onaparte, Monaco would annex France, DOMESTIC ECONOMISTS. ‘The Saturday Rertew has an amusing ne count of the revent “Congress of Domestie Economists" in London: “Miss Andrews, a guardian of St, Pancras, thonght children were taught hablis of waste In the workhouse, We had tung- ined that 1b was otherwise, and that an al- most’ overstrulned econumy minde It use- fess for Oliver ‘to ask for mors” But the process of ‘pampering parochiat panpers,’ fhongh elsewhere unknown, way be familar In the Patnee of St. Paneras, It is an awful eharge that ‘pauper children are Indoctrl- nated into the habits of waste, and learn to ‘irn up their littie noses (as we suppose they: do) at wholesale hashed mutton.” Somewhat « propos des hottes, Sle Meury Cole, seeing Lady Stanley of Alderley in the room, asked Jer ‘whether she wns of opition thata child of Syenrs old might be taught habits of do- mestic economy,’ Sir Henry Colo was appre ently ‘blue-molded’ like the Irishman, for want of a discussion, He bad become recklees, and capable of putting Honwell's famous ques. tlon, atid asking lady Stanley what she would do if eho were shut up with & buby in a tower, Ludy Stanley, of Alderley, expressed an opinion that ehildzen of 3 might sufaly be lett nine. runce of domestic ceonomy, and that 4 yours of ayo was enrly enough for tition In this keience, 1h tho dark ugey of tho past fow cbfideen rend ‘Migs Edgeworth's “Waste Not, Want Not," be- fore. toy, were 6, The lesson of that evonomio treatise 19 that string ts (rere Fubstnuce, whien ean only bo obtalned from the outakle of easial Tarcels, and that you should never cut the estri of « patcel, hut ubt(e the knot and put the core in your pocket. We ean itaagine no lesson in domestic economy whieh appeals more foreltly to ehflduood, and we are stil unabld to resist tha tomptation offered to the thrifty soul by a good long viecs of string, without too many knots In it. Passing from this topla to that of the’ dress uf “eervanta and teacher, the ladies began to disenss with 9 spirit whieh imust. have umdo Sir Ti. Cote foot thut tie was not without bis rewatd. <A rhock- i ident, the appearance of w teacher in Dinek velvet dross, Was colnmented npan with emotion. Why tu cconomists alwi rane velvet and Ince ninong the deadly sins? These commodities point the moral in All economical Booka from tho days of Adaw Smnith to those of Mra. Faweett. The congress next rovorted to what indy sweetly called *the cnilaary prepe anution of food,’ An nfecthig aneedote i8 told ofa luly who wept on tusting on eye poached by hor own daughter, Perhaps this fads know hat there goes wit to the poxuhing of egus, and wis avercumne on recognizing In her daugoter 0 person Hkoly to obtain aniinence aa a humorist, But, though wo have not actually vied acatding {ug tears over theut, tho poached ogysot wi Hy ne Wordsworth sayror ‘the gratitude of man’ buye sotten left us mourning,’ and even resant+ fol. Tho yalue of the deliberations of the cons gress would, wo think, bo overstated at the price of ono well-puncbad egy. ARLES AND ITER DAUGHTERS, Arles Is tnmous for the beauty of Its daughters, ‘They aro a iine-buift race of women, and haye uo splendid manner of holiing thomsetves. Very afsttuct (raves of the Loman leglonaries who settled In Gaul are in the physlognomy and carrlago of the Arlusienne, When Lowas last ub Arles Sub-Prefeet took me throukh tha town and ita cuvironé, Ho told ime thas from the fine memorial the population was lepublican—at other Halla survival. There wore nota bine dred Honapartiat Journals daily suld there whew the Empire waa’ in existence. As soon aa 0 Demovratic organ came out in Paris it was tus manded by a turge number of. poses at Arivs, fAltuousn qa tava hae. ull aad, wal undays, Bicopy napeet, fu Y" Olls, fooay Nendaumie ileia who walk on Sunulay Jn pleturesyuo costuuied On the nail carn ood deal of moneys: apes atanio cmiploy mont fein winding tho tied from the cuvoons of allk-worns. Carriages aro ug sure fn Atrios auth Ventee, but trom 7 Thontrecuy dro nurrow, windings dark, oud payed with wile gathered along the KbOuG In diy ‘wouther, we = URYING ON THE HONNET, A Now Haye: gentlemen, whose business keeps him up jate at night, was persuaded to doa millinery errand for lis wife the other wight, and, a8 aresult, stumbled up the front stairs abguts o'clock In the morning with 1 bran-new Yonnet held under his orm in a tlasue payer, As soon ns he turned on the gas his utter hale rubbed open her cyes and Qvowslly inquireds 6 You—forgot my—bomnet, ld’ you?” “No, Ldlda't. Hero's the business. Oh, is ite? and that woman sprang Up and ripped the wrapplngs off ina fifty, and, slutting bor nightcap jute wcoruur, udiusted the uew purchuse carefully oa bor bead. " How do you fike it? It's becoming, isn't itt + Staducu,” rospuaded kor huebead, # the bon- not cortulnly is becaming, but womekow the rev mainder of your costume don’t Jive. Your ” uress, if Linas call ft auch. has too much fiam- Vurg dying nid not cnough overskirt. I think younieed a litte knife-pleating and a couple extra riffies—" ~ jorrik}—"* y (vo. that bounet has too moh color for the reat af the tout ensemble, if Lmay borrow from the Frente,” “ You fintefuls (il throw the thing ont of the Window If you don’t tell ine just bow It looks—s0 ‘at's what I'm trying to do, my dear, The bonnet looks *Immenso,’ your present ons- tume you vouldn't fail to make a biton the street, and Just ns like as not land in tho police station, J shoull think some iniiliner had hited tho nfatue of Queen Ze ju the Matte a in Zenobla fora dummy to + Ditinitany, beaten ‘odid you say? il lot you know Inn no diimmy," sind she aut on the edge of the Ded and inctured, and featured, and lect-° fired, tintit che detuded tan had been hurmed to sleep hy the monotony of hor volec., But she illdn’t take tha bonnet of. Sho went and rigged nif up in tha best dl she bad, and whort He anche In the macuiny she yas Wromounding about tha room, teying ‘the offect ing in attitudes before the mirror. Tee NOT A RELATIVE, A-certain JTartford gentiennn who had made a ttyse fertine in raitroad stocks, and se, who fil a showy establishment not ten ie mnfles from [oston, took unto himself, to console x brief whlowerhootl, a second wife. A lusly of tho nelgbborhood wont soon after tbo event to call pon the pride, nnd in the lapse of : the rather tnywing conversation, venttirerd 1 fome Indifferent remark upon Aa portrait which beg hung tipon the purlor wall. it ona of your ‘ bushand's family’ she inguired. © Woll, not tly.” the hostess unswe it was a plot- lure of his fret witw, but It wasn't a very oud Wkeners, #0 wo had the eyes changed and keep it for # faney heod.” ®: CURRENT PORTRY. Fy A KOWENY nOMANCE, ‘ “Oh, come tu the bower | have sbaded for y tho : So rang a Suir mation, as fuir as could be; And he came, with « heart welling upto the i ‘brit, And gat in the bower sho had shaded for bim, Hut he sat down, alas! on a balf-concealed nes at, 1 Whereht some tired hornets were taking their reat, : And though it was something uncommonly bic . ‘To sea those Ured hornets forget thelr fitlgue. "Tena hier to ree, as he folk where Ho rose, How ua wi a up the ground with bls new Sun- jay elutes, She marr! A Jovomotive spark He told nev bls fittle plan At the pute, out jit tho dark, Ist long ere n your hud gone, "tho Hee ft vitode nich ‘Their coupling And he wit pire was drawo ” her off his track! A FARRWELT. Maid of Athens we muse part! Your will Is strong, your temper’s tart; Anrl, woen Igo aud wheu f come, Your tongue swings ike a pendulum, lienr tny prayer before T gor Remembor "tls my last request, = .1¢ yon can an howe or ku, ‘ pit atil und let mo rest.» ot Aly thoze hanged locks nil unconfined, Mlown nhaut by every wind: Hy thee curled noae all out of Jolat, Pan futerreynon point, that tongue’s cterail tow, Cher By ay ald heart, prawit to toll What words eun iuver apeak so well, Your tonaie f¢ deel ker aad fray You pour forth words Tike one possessed; ‘ Male of Atuons, fa gone? : TR be ut petee when I'm alone. «though fly ty Tatainbul, uur steldent tones atalt fright wy sort, Can L couse to hear thee? Not ‘That touscue ts heard from enst to west; But. If va can ae Rote ar so, Ob, kup it still und tet me reat! . : FALL FOLLY. When an Ohio man told his wife that be lat Just traded for t new spring wauon, she replied, “You dunce, you! why did you get w spring: ba Wagon In the fall of tho sear? Lovo Impresses its tender iinnge on all itd ene vivoutnents, Even the scattered peauut-shells at tho front ynte, Monday morning, aro silent witnesses of ita all-embruclug sway. an there be happiness where there Is no love?” solemnly queries uu author ina book on marriuge. Not much happiness, perhaps, but if, the wirl Is nwfully rich there can be lots of fua, Av Milnols mun, with a forosicht worthy of # Detter cause, popped the question on a radroad traits, and Gow the mater ts vt toss te declda at tu while! eaunity alte Ind better commence pror ceedings in fora bracts of promlse “Do you reside in this city?" asked a masked imun of nw masked lady at a masked party the other ovening. felt sick when she said to bi, Int Jow valves * Don't bea fool, John: f know you by the wart on your thumb.” {t was his wife, Inatenetor tn la Ceres the geniles: Miss of what was Mise H.—* Sho was tho rad dies of inarrlage."” Instrictor—"Ob, 10; of urrioultur Misa 1, (looking perplexed “Why, Dot ure nis, heok pays sho was the gud dese of busbanury.” A damsel who Ilved {1 Dubuque, Was ambitious to tnarey a duques Hut ny aun ening to wou Der, She aveepted u pooner: Young fellow whose first name was Luque, : ‘Tue bride was led up tho broad uiste, ad Got up in tho most Killing stalsio, £ When usked if she'd be, Rs aA true wite ta bo _ She promptly replicd: “1 should smalste,” ‘Tho other night, when v citizen was teckontna up bis aveounts, his wife spoke to bias i tines, and recelving Mo unswer, sald: treut me cruel: J tear you no fouger fi and tho busbund and tither replied: “1 love you passionntoly, « wily, franticnily, madly; put if. vou don't bald yer Jaw til L got thesu fie ures added LM give you welip In the eye." aA lawyer, tho other day, ugly os slu and , = furnous for bis bbe nose, was enuuged In reste “ tay a deeres ef diverce bn the ground wat rhe husband bad pardoned and peeu reconciled to tha wife, After tho mune of some lawyers, he spoke of 2" apd: sine,” instead of * my a ent.” Warming up to the uceasion, be sald: * You have pretended that you wevor granted : me revoneiiadon or parion.” What, then, js the meaning of this lotter that you wrote io ou the Hith of December, and which concludes with thesw words, 'T'd like even to kiss that pretty nose of yours?” ‘hoe loud taugh mado blin fook round and stopped tho flow of bls ofo- quence, A DOUBT. oe Por ‘The Ubfeagu Trittine. bP { sometinies wonder with a restless 6udness— Only to Had my questioning {9 vain— AC ever from tho fullness of Life's muate You miss 2 single wtralts, If ever, when tho feverish day Ia slipping Down mqht's great gulf Into the waves bulow, Asiugle fulat romembeuuce stirs your pulses Of one you Used to know, With careless hand you struck a note that an- ‘ awered, +! - Cyto your tonob, then wens your hecdicsa way Mhrowh fet and loft ro qutver into silence Na ‘Tho munio of a day. ‘Hor you tho start have iit a path of glory; “ For you tow strains of mutody Wil riios And in your world you nay forget that some- ere Houeath the elreling skies, Jn some dim corner of our restless planet, A Iie fa Nowlng that oneo crossed your Own, . Whose Jight {e faded now, Whose narrowed chane . a ts whadowy and lone. And stil, When fife and carth to you are fairest, * What if you caught tho echoed “strain ugalo— Avhnt i je necd—soine hulf-uuconscious lonaiinc— Should touch your spirit then! Ab, well | know not if you clearly heard It, Or cared to know the monulng it palate hold, Or over Ja your {jest momunts cherish A retrospect of ol. And so L wonder with a rest less eadnoss— ‘Only to fund iny questioning in yain— IT over from the fullness of Jifo's muslo You mise a vingle atrain, Harrie WHITNEY. —$———— LIFE. For The Chicuge Trityine, ‘ruat which lected of yoru is now but dust—twas than uo more; ‘The wise, the beautiful, the rumt Aro dust jn a selocted stains.) , That which wo troud upon to-da! And look upon as common clay, Is boings Uist have passed away— It lived, it moved, It folt, tt thought, Aud trod on us—and wo were bought Aud sold by it, as it by us— © proud, imperious mua} “ts thus {be present trouds upon tho past, ‘And tone are first, und none ure fast. . ‘hose atows which you now despise, Porhupa, tateht cave baye forméd ayaa Might once have been # thinking bral, zee rulog's the pact, and many ayia wuge places—aud thysull mey ‘To it waut it ly now to toe. —— Puny, weak, und sickly cbildren need 3 "7 tron itera, ie mill stcoauetem, re