Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 24, 1881, Page 10

: 10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, I88I—SIXTEEN PAGS. SKETCHES. SA Virginia Romance Composed of ~ Love, Silicit Whisky, and Woman. (French Women and the Part They Have Played in Their Na- tion's History, Domostic Boscotting as Practiced by Sovernl Wild Australian Tribes. Tho Pleasure Enjoyed by Hotcl Clorke in Thoir Contemplation of Nowly- Marrled People. A Woman Barker In Dingtinmtoy, and the Neat Mangor in {thick Sho Shaves Hen, Qut-of Tawn—Two Sislers--Facls About Back Hatr—Curront Pootry—Fominino Notlos, Ete, Elc. A NIGHUT-WATCH, For The Chieaga Tribune. All night ( watet and wait, Ab! ernel Fate! What sceret will tho dnwn bring to my benrt? ‘Tho sobbing of tho sen Chimes up to me— Droses of the morning burst apart! Now tong, how ton the nightt How weird tho lght From moon and paling stay nboye tho rit Abt morning spill Cor mo Thy red wine strong and Troe, Asfrom 1 yoblot fled above the brimt Tlean with heavy oyos (How atin the sklos), From the old casement Into oyrio misty Ah! sweot worn balf-atrald Mush lice some winsome mald ‘Whose dimpled chock a tovor bold hath kissed! ‘Lhe night will never gal ‘The sens dcop wo Is dumb nt last. O morning far and fatr, What seeret do you boll Shue with your key of yolt— What clean of hope—what burden of desnatr? DAKE BAUN, Aug. 2h WSL BANey Didcot GENTLEMAN GEORGT. When George Faulkner called at Col, Dy- Bart's oflice, and Cold bli he wanted to marry his Kitty, the rafned okt Colonel turned: tn ifs wrath and bade lin leave tis presence! “We ain’s got down to that,? sald he, “and you linve a anighty lot of asstirance lo ask for her’? Yet Kitty was only a little waif Col. Dy- sart had raised aga kind of waiting matd for his two daughters; she had been given no advantages In the way of cduention, but everybody in the house had made a pet and plaything of Kitty. and she was ag pretty ‘as a wild rose—Just Uie faintest color In her cheeks gave a slight suspicion of quadroon Dlood, but her beautiful brown fialr was no curlier than Fanny Dysart's, Her form was lovely; her hands and arms studies for a soulptor, and Gentleman George, as Faulk ‘ner was called, had trled by every unfair means in his power to woo and wit her, tried and fafled, and Joving her all the more for her sweet atrength and Innocence, he for- tied himself with some Virginia tnngie- foot, and walked upto tho cannon’s mouth —In other words, he blulfed tho Colonel, and Hemanded Kitty’s hand in marriage. “A loafer and a hoss-thief,” continuad the Irate Colonel, when Gentleman George sprang at hig throat like a bull-dog. “Take that back!” ho shouted. “Dm no hoss-thief no m’on’ you are, Tako—It— back,” an atlitetic shake with every word, * “Woll, well,” gasped tho eholcing Cotonel, “mebbe you ain't; but you'll allow you're a Moonshiner and & gambler,” “Oh,” siniled Gentleman George, showing Dis handsome teeth—hero was more than a suspieclon of color In Its blood—* you gamble yourself, Colonel; that's a gentlemnn’s ganiy; what's you azoln’ to do 'bort it ? and the law Is too close on a little whisky, revenoo olli- ters ninighty hard Jot. He that's all you've gotagtu me, mought us wall ut me have the Bal”? “DP lseo you — first? sald the Colonet ynartly, and the negutintions ended then and Shere, Col. Dysart was of tho old Virginia stock, ablue-blooded gentleman, poor as aehurch- mouse, and proud as Lucifer, living rexally ‘with open dagrs while he had anything, and watntaining a great family of dependunts in s gout style ns he tved Mimself, white or lack. ‘ouch one of Col. Dysart’s servants and you touched him. Me was a faithful ataward while the estate Justud, ‘That wis why he hated to give up an: She was l- mnost Tike hs own, though to had pleled her up in tho highway a squalling d-year-old, and ridden Into the: door-yard with the kick- Ing chil under his arm. “Ue transferred hor to the cook, thonce she went to tha house. Keoper; by degrees she reached Mrs. Dysart, who made her an especial pet ag long as she ‘lived, and dying, bequeathed hor to Panny, ther oldest daumhter, ;., dhe Dysart girls were good to her, but In- <different. Kitty inissed” some one to laye very wuch, ag she uid good Mrs, Dysart, and her heart went out fo the handsome fellow ewho siniled on her at barbeenes, and met her fat preacher's meatlng, and tried to entice her Joif to clandestine try: That soupcon of African Creote bload ywhich ushed hls check found Its mate In \hers; she had seen hha laughing and talking Iwith her young ladles—his tamlly was as old iand good us thelrs, if fb crossed the color Wine psomewh While she was a walt—a nobody, How good st was of iti to love hort : But, all the sume, Kitty was wide awake, and knew that, if aho bid nolthor blood nor birth to boust of, sho find a reputation, and Gentleman George was known to be wild, 60 bhe held her owa and compelled him to_ask Harher duly iu honorable niarelage. ‘ow ‘have heard what the Cotonel saids but when ‘did love ever fall in its undurtakings? Ant ‘who enme to tho rescue but romantic Loulss : Dysart the youngest daughterof the Colonel, whom Kitty had confided dn, and she planed the whole thing—an elopement, cartlage and + daly, marrig, eture a dustice, sud herself as witness, ‘Pen sho went hae aid laughed to hear her father storm, G ,, fell Unis happened the year before we went to the Planters’ House, on the Horseshoe ‘Mountain, where we had made tpn party for the season; aud we heard from Col, Dysart that Kitty had made a fool of herself, and he had sent Louse ton seminary North, tu get sume sense In her head, and he’ be —— if he'd ever help that sty Kitty, not if sho starved) And thon wo fearned that bo had dnquirod nll wine about thom, and round out that Gentiamen George wae very good to uls ttle wife—thut ho stilt eluded tho exclyewon, and gambled, but otherwise conducted bimeele properly, Detraudiug the Gayerniment was nob wueb of acre thore. Tuo peupla hud tholr own views about that, If Gvatteman Geuryo did nothing worse than disseminate the moon shincrs’ whisky, without paying the taxes, be would'nt Jose inuch in the reapuet of tho people, We had sume curtosity to seo tho tho chivairlo George and bis Kitty, and Fanny Dysart hid proniised to take us to their mountain cabiu, but souchow wu never woot, und bad nearly forgute ten tho lutention, whon ono day we atinmbled in On Shem quite accidentally, Wo were looking for wild flowers in the mountains, and nv stor came up so unexpectedly that we hurried Into the rst cabin we cuue to for shelter, Asick mun was bolatered up ina choir, and ono of tho abycst, tovelivst, most ultractive girly Thad ever seen was funnlng him withan old paltuctta bat, ‘The room was hung with starebod aud golfered muslin dresses, beautifully done Up, and ona rack above the door several rites were bung. ‘Tho gick mun was the llving lmige of Wilkes Huot, us L remember bim—pale, statuesque features, and dark curllug bale, tho embodiment of pleturesque rofluement and tu: tellect,, 1 nover suw such devotion in any wonay's face before as ahe yuzcd tuto bis palo countenance to éce If our entrance hud atartlod, lm. She looked like tho sister of ‘Tavsy or Ger trude, bending over ber Kudoiph. We did not stay long, but we came away deeply tp love with Kitty, and rathor distrust- fulof hor sick busband, ‘who wus coovulesumg from au attack of inountain fever. Wo felt that something was wrouy ana that Ueotioman Goorge uiust po very soldsh to weur g ido yold watelt and seal ring, and let Kitty take In wash- ing fram the hotol, as abe actualiy tid, for wo recognizod those benutiful [nundriad dressos. We felt that {t was the old story of man’s Bol- fishneas and woman's devotion, hut wo mado Oirsclyos ugreendle, and drew tho zontloman ont, He talked well in apite of iis vernucuiar, Qhd ho rend Shakspoure and Mra. Augusta Ryans, and gave ussoine qunint music on the banjo, and told us of hia samily and was rathor proud of the drap of anlaven in his blood, “It matches Kitty,” ho sitld faugh ingty; * come the folks somo buttermilk and » F neil hovoy, Or thoy"Il thinic you're worn out nursin’ mo,” 3 He moved a sqnre af stone in the hoarth with his etlek, sad brought out a Jug with n corn-cob stop] mrs pas ail tasted the tllolt whisky, and ho put it back, anving: : Pit yout dot Informit you're Kit’s friends; and take me alivol" . dered and Tnened pate, but wo know (his wag all mock heroism. A potty stttt on tho mountain sido was pot Ukoly to be interfered with by summer visitors, but tho paling check of the lovely young wife shower thit sho wis ever fearful of danger, and shy follower! us to the door to nek isin a sweet, imploritiy way, not tu montion to Col, Dysart’s family that stv did tho Ane starching und Irowlng for tho hotol visitors, cs George ts proud.” sho and, “and so fs the Kunnel, I nevor washod thore, and [ needa'to to now, but he's had the miuuntain feyah., Poor boy! it's took him down sol" Mer volvo was soft and flutctike; we promised whut she asked ag hor imsband ealted petulontlys “RIC doan’t stand gabblin thar) tho foval’s on aguint” Our next venture was of anothor sort. Thore was i giarrel betweon spine distillers and tho oxelsenién, and Col, Dysart wont ns peacee maker anong thon and collected a moiety of the tax money, Ho eniled at Kitty's on the way Up the mountain. and tert word that be woud bo back the next ans. at noon and would entdin~ ner with ber. Her husband was well now, and that mourning ho took hls rife and wont, out “infter gam,” ho sald. Kitty begwed him not to Interfere with any of tho excisomen, and he Promised ho would not, and bo left hor with a eureloss Kiss, Fanny und Louiso Dysart got tp the iden of a plenle to meet thelr fathor, vislt Kitty, and spend niday In the mountains at tho snme tlmo. Thore wero no dresses hung lo Kitty's eablu, though her hands had gotfered tho rites on Fanny's erlsp lawn and Louise's organdy, through the mediumof tho head waiter at the hotel. Wut thoy tiaceromoniously asked her to adinire the work, They chatted bor about her Handsome husband, and wondered where fo nd declared laughingly thoy would not ‘ome it thoy had noc expected to seo him, Dysure was hite, tnd the plealekers had tholr. spread under the monntiin pines, and Kitty mado n charming hostess, but sho was anxtoug and seemed watching and lstenin. At last Col, Dygart came riding slowly, mid with is bridle arm banging oy hie side broken by, a ritlo ball! ‘fho girls sobbed and clung to bfin, nnd naked a thottsand auestions, but itty: Holped Lin off his horse, got fin In tho house, and with tho help of others of tho party band- aged up tho broken arm, Then tho Colonel talked with white Ips and set teeth, Tho ——hihwaymen! It was tho money thoy wanted, and thoy mennt to shoot mo ke a dog. Four of them set on one man, HIE FRENCIE WOMEN, Mow much the national character has to do withthe predominant part whieh women play In Krenek soclety ts seen from tha fact that thelr Intiuenco has made Itself felt In all perlods of French listory, and) has been dn no way lmpalred by the presence of the bourgeolsie on the secne sinco 1879, ‘Lhe French wonwn sult reigns supreme In the smion, in the bureatt of the intulster, in the family, and evan in the house of business, as erstshe ruled at court. She hag not sutfer- ed, as tho men hitve, from tho hnbit of look- ing nt things as merenbstrations, She has preseryed intact her sureness of Instinet, her intultive power, and her firmness of charac- ter, beeattse, unconsclously, oboying her true nature, sho has not sacriiiced than to the ab- stract formulas of the understanding, ‘or * principles," as they are pompously styled. In polnt of fact, French women deserve to rule, for they are morally and intellectually far superlor to the men, ‘hey ara formed by nature to excel in what aro specially untional virtues—love of order, thrift, and domestic affection, Cool, calculating, and practical, they are perhaps less enstly troubled by consclentious scruples than the men, luvea quicker and surer eye for the family interest, and follow it up with more energy. hey are unsurpassed In thelr tal- ent for housekeeping, for they manage the househould with a firm snd careful hand, without constantly talking about it, like German Indies, Many of thei netially supertutend thele husband's business, which may explain the want of enterprise in french Porn woman only looks to tho profit which tes enueientictely before her: she does nob willingly venture after a distant and uneertaln gain, and has no tiste for spect tlons attendeil by any risk. A French worn Is never Mkely ‘to lack boldness nud perse- verauce in pushing her way; she fins plenty of natural common sense and has not muddled It with) principles.’ She 13 the cluyerest of mortals in turning to necomnt any natitral advantages, however slight, which shu muy possess, he Ita pretty foot ora pretty volee, She isin the highest degree ambitions, passionate, though outwardly calin and gelf-cditrolled; nover wanting in tact, elo- sunt in her dress, ndernod with a nitural grace which tt is tho syecial alm of her cducation to foster; nboye all endowed with character ant deterinination, Possessed of such qualities, ane gilded ber husband or brother or sou; she urges him forward, mikes the way sinvoth for him, unierinkes auy necessury Dusiuess which may be distasteful to him; ju short, sho first wing him bls position in life, and then belps hin to ngsurt it, ‘To tho prominent part which women play lu Franco ts lurgely due tho pecullar to: dutiey of Freueh society und politics. ‘The pi stonite pursuit of an linmediate ralu or interest: has always been charnetoristle of Fronch polloy whenever it bis not been alming at the realizu- tion of abstract [deus, And, aftoraplomb esprit, and bon sung, [tis graco, cloyorness, and vivuclty whieh make soviety what it Is. it fs tho influence of women which makes Frenvh life su pleasant, and not for the women atone. In conversation an Frouchworan ts born artist. She hus not only a natural talent for it, whieh the men have fan equal dexroe, but eho expresses horself with wt freedom and naturalness whith muke tho uvaldince of any Bubjegt univoossary; und, ue higher her pusi- Von iy goclety, the more fred and niturnl is hor conversation, Anything Hke Engiish prudery never enters hor hend; kho calls aspada a spade, nnd thinks no ture about it. Wile a Gorman or English women uses a hundred cirouiniocu- tloné aad blushes twenty tines over, a young French tidy svoaks quite simply of the thine of hur gronscata a8 of the most natirul thing in tho workd, which, after ull, itis. ‘Tho absouce of ull sensual arridrea-penséus renders rieudship be- tween porsons of ditferunt auxcs possible und o frequentin France. There aro county whore thls rolation Is apt to glide Into conn dan more close than honest; others where tr explodes In an outbrows of pagalons whereas fu France itoften Inats for years, with all the attraction which springs from difference of sex, and without degenorating into too great warmth of feoting, Although, if wo look more enh wo might find that a cool, reasoning apirit Ia cagontial to this rotation, It Is yot nim@wy tho Lost and moat pormunont lugredienty of Frouch 0. ‘Of courso, In discussing the fomato clament in Fronet soututy, L ain only speaking of marriod women, Within tho lagt twenty youra or a, It bs trag, it bas become tgual for daughters to bo dakar to bulls, which serve aga kind of markgt where & Ioan who wants to tarry cin look out for no wife without compromising binself, but the dally sochi iutercourie between girls and young mon, which ja so common in Germany, aad stitt more tn Bugland, le atrlotly forbidden in Franee. Games, readings, picutes, sicating- parties. aud private thentricila aro compara: ively rare, but, Where they’ do ocour, girls take no purtin thom, ‘Che eloseat companions ofte: do tot know each other's slater. A young mun does not care to Introduce a friend to bia family teat ho should imaging that thoy euntomplate a tater betwoon bin und one of tho daughters, walle tho friond in hfs turn does not gale to bo pregontud feat ho should appear to come as a sutior, ‘This, of colrdo, pute a sjop to nll onsy Intercourge und closer nequalntunceship bes tween young unmarried people, und glves a color, and a ground tane to Preach suciety yory diifers out from those which proyail umong Gorinanio peoples. Fronch girls bave ay little {dea of what we gail tiirtudon, with tts good and bad aldus atid consequences, us thoy bave of frieud- Ip and companionship with young men, DOMESTIC BOYCOTTING, Mr, Lorlmor Filson" once saw a man of tie Australian tribe Wangaratta full of tho ut- most distress and disgust because his mother In-law’s shudow had fallen neross his legs, He hud beon lying at the foot of an enor mons gunetree, which hid him from the old lady's view as she approached, gnd’ so the catastrophe occurred, Among the leas scrupulous savages mothers-li-law aro not absolutely boycotted, but thera mugt be no {utoliment; they aro respeotfully uddressed dn the dual or plural, Kyon so the presence of relations by marriuge (among certaln American tribes o mau must strictly boycott hiy own father-in-law) always brings a chilly constraint tuto the family circle. ‘This ia tho more jneonvenlent because & man and a hunter is bound to give much of his game to these saing relations, his -wife’s parents, ‘Lhus boycotting stops a good way short of the Irish system, which chicly exists for the opposit purposs of depriving landlords, agents, and paylng tonants of food, If & marriod pluck fellow, alded by an unmarried bb: fellow, kills kangaroo, the whole quit Boes to the fathor-Jn-faw and mother-lit-law, except tho left leg, the share of the miarriod man, and the right leg, the property of the Dnehelor Tf aamarried inant ta leks enough to spear 9 native bear, his parenty-in-law get the lett altlo and two legs, he himself obtains part of the hend, and gives his wife a. portion, while sho suppiles her sister with the car: The Hexoriations naturally have to bo eons dueted through the wife, while the hunter tnikes his own arrangements with bis own futhor and mother, When a wambat ts stain the father-in-law only gets the biekbore, and the mother-in-law suino skin. Much il-feellng fa naturally enused, wo may presume, whet it hunter is always supplying the eamp with wate bat and nover with native bear or kaggaroo, Owing to the ample and sntutary rules of Intor- eouray, however, tho mothareinstie cannot ro- proach tho brend-winner, of rather, we world any, the wambat-w + OF the faint Tho Aleuttan Istunder, anys Mr n, rtiate ing Dall, © knows nothing of what elvitized tte dons eall modesty,” yet tho bashtul creature positively blushes when he ts obliged to spenk tohis wife, or to ask her for anything to the presence of oridrs, Custom compels thuin to assume tho attitude of perfect alrangers, und ft Ja greatly to be desired that thia rile, or wmode fievtion of It, might be intradueed into dere many, where the betratheed peopte behave in company as if they were alone ina wilderness of space, ar possessed of tho secret of wt fern seed, Tho Hottentots used to have a bad chine acter for doinestic nfection, because they were never seen to speak to tholr wi Abu Hottontot is not rently cold and indiferen {sonly compelled by ‘tho law of his people to boyeatt bis wife, Tho lady may never enter her husband's room In the hut, and the husbind, as atuong tho Spartans, must nover by scent in tho ntightorhood of his wife. ATONE the Yorubas, an African tribe, this domestic boyotting 18 cneried aut with tho extromest rigor. A wot fs forbidden to speak to ber huaband, and not oven to sco him If tt can posatbly be avoided, Apparently a similir fated inong, tho carly Sanskri people, for jo wife, in tho | famous story of Urvast and Pururayas, anys to hor lord: “Never lot me see thee without thy royal gar. monts, for suot fs tho manner of women.” And when this rule is accidentally broken, Urvast uinst *aoltly and silently vanish away," WK the victims who hive looked on tho oyster! Hoolum, ‘Tho Cireassians ure cquuilly shy, Gircassian bridegroom mist not see his wl Tivo with her without the growtest mystery, tho unconverted natives of tho PI} tslinds Muy tho utmost distress of mind when ndyven- [urdue iniesionuries suggest that toro 1s 110 reat harm ina men’s Mving wider the samo root with his wife. So far do tho Mus carry this feel fing, and Bo opposit to our own are thotr dens of decoriin, that “it 1s the correct thing fora wife torin away from her husband." In this ene tha Indy boycotts her lord, and itis hls duty to try to make her return to tho famlly tent, Domestic boycotting gocs oven farther thru this umonge the Fijhiws and othor fslandors of the Paaltic. Tho young Kanaku bolts with tv wild scream into thy bush IE you ever mention tho nnine of his antiinble stator, white In FIM not only Drothera and sisters, but first cousins of opposit sexes, strictly boycott exch ouler, and Tay neithor ent together nor speak to cach other. BRIDAL COUPLES. “To watch tho newly-marricd couples who travel Is one of tho compensations of our arduous life,? sald an old hotel clerk tha other day, é “ Tlowean you toll whethor they are newly married or not?” inquired the reporter to whom this remark wus addressed. “Tell them 2” ejaculated the clerk; “Lean plek than out as easily as it they carried signs, *We are just married,” * Yes; but how 2” Well, In tho first place, thoy aro always most abundant in the fall and winter. don’t know why It is, but such Is the fact, One of tho signs of a newly-married couple Is thelr spick and span new clothes, Some- how, when people get married they generally getas many new clothes as possible, ‘Tho bride and .groom have new hats, and new trunks, and new dusters. ‘Then, again, they spend money more freely. When a man is in his honeymoon he generally feels as if he onght to begenerous. Ie has a grateful sort of spirit, and throws his woney arount ag if he wanted to show that tha world has used him well, Ie has put by his inoney for the occasion, and Is nob afraid to spend It He fg speelally anxious thatthe bride shall eat and drink of the best. fe must have a room with a private parlor, wut not up-stales: very far, and with a good view. Someries he fg a Uttle ehary of usking for those things, but When wo suggest them ho ulwnys anys “Yes.” Of course it is part of our business to suggest them, Woe consiter wo have tho same elunt to pluck a neivly-mareied couplo as an une dertakor bus to pluck bereaved relatives.” * Do they behave ditferontly from othor peo~ “Tshould—woall, yes. Tho husband ines not rinolf to the burroom or the billinrd-roon), ns the old married men do. When tho old married couple arrive, you tay ho curtaln that tho first thing the hushand does fs to take a drink or Jounge about the billierd-tables, telling his Ww that he nus gon business to netoni te “Aare newly-married people bashful?” “hut deponds. ‘ho widows and widowors do n'tinind it, but the young people nro a tittle coy. At Niagara Falls wo had most of tho now couples tuto in tho seuson, whon the rectlur Dourdors bad loft. L tive seon ag many w8 A dozen nt u thine tile bito the diuiny-room, trying: to louk as if thoy had not been minrried yester- day, but onsting furtive glances abont to soe if they were suspected, “lhe nen wero upcolally watchful lest somebody should be ogling tho brides, One day f thought wa should biyo w fight In the sinks rt A atrapplog bie fol- low from tho West, in a new suit of store clothes, sat down to the tablo with hia bride, a buxom brown-oyed beauty, She fonked so fresh and rosy that aha could uot but attenct atton- don, and shy yot it, Every gentloman in tho room tool more thin one fool at her, and she Knew it. Of courage sho did not onjeat. But tho niin began to get angry. Ho did not ke to spoak to the uride about It, beonuse sho was evidently not dlepleased. Finally he gotup and wulkod to the nearest wontlemun whom ho bud obsoryed, and said: “* Look horg, atranger, I'd like to know what yout aro staring at my wife for?" * Your wifol Allow mo tu congratulate you, my dear fellow. You havo got tho tinest wife in tho city,’ sald the gentlemun addressed, * ‘Tho fuct Is, Lthowught she wis your sister, Excuse me tf 1 was rude; but if you don't want peopla to Jook at sour wife you really must never take herout in publfy, No olfense moant, sir.” © Tho bridegroom weut buck Yo hls place, but he tenk good caro at the noxt mont to put his wife with bor fuce to the wall. : © Whiub do you think take to the now condl- tlons mont gracefully? < “Women by uladds. Tho men are alwaysd traying themselves. Thoy want to talk ubout It; thoy aro full ot the subject. Women are moro artful and have more adaptability to new circumstances, Hut, with ull tholr arts, they: van't deceive tho oll] hotel clerk, and itis yory suluam that wo don’t turn in. a fow dollars Sale to the hougy on ucgount of our knowl edu, “Another pecuiinrity of tho newly married couples who go to botels,” continusd the etork, “js that many of thom live in the eity. ‘Thoy always come equipped fur x lony Jouriey, Thoy have loft the wedatng xueste with thonnnonnued intontion of talcing a lane journey, vonspiunouds ly displaying, porbupy, tholrraitroad tickets, and have been driven by Way of the dopot ton frst clusa bote! previously selusted. 1 kuew one caso: where a bridal suupic, to nvald dotvotion, notually boueded a tralu and gtarted apparantly on a fouravy. but took ut tho next studoa a train buck tothe elty, and stopped ata hotel at fow blocks from home, Thon the wedding oe. were purinitiod to stiy at the feast un iene us thoy pleusod, without disturbing auy- jody,"” SITAVED BY A WOMAN. Acorrespondont says: At Binghamton a young won shayed mein the barbor-shop of a hotel not fur from the depot, . Stopping {ute the ruom, allured thereto by tho striped pole protruding from tha doorway, 1 saw a Dinck-eyed dlamsol, ay she soomed, of a dark skin, elthor a woll-tanned’ white woman or au Indlan girl, or possibly an all but white quadroun, Sho was applying the lithoring- brush to a ragged-bearded sun of tho Sus- auohunun for the Inst tine, and [ heard his bristles rattle under the scrapo of the steal, ‘Tho vlfect of Lis matted head resting there with her arm around it and her long sentient flngers plying the kuife was that of some woodland nymph pruning down a brush- heap In which lay a wolf, ‘The barbor hardly turned her eyes to me, without any compliment or courtesy, as if sho still appreciated the novelty of her voeu- tlon and the surprise of & young minh rover before, since erodlas' daughtur shayed Jolin the Baptist close, encounterod a female hair. cutter, Yot we must except Deillah, who sheared Sanson. well, and was not greatly more to blame therefor than Judith, who drove a clthos-pog inte Holofernes, Samson could not be persuadud to let the Philistines alone, aud was an incendiary, qd whit was wordy, put forth very. atupld Thldles and conundrims to his best friends, ‘The female barber of Binghamton dna sort of bashful way glanced toward 8 chalr, which 1 taok while watoliing her inake that pleasing usle Of thy seyte ln the dry thuothy, dy she abyyed exportly as old ‘Choe bimsels Porhaps itty Death who curricd the soytho, in which case the figure dovs not bold good. Whoo my turn cuuie who ways @ half lunce out of those amoul- dorlog urbs, saying Obie alimed tate the obalr, and the iuttered Hatterer covered me with woftyuay gud drow ber blade most muululy ly aevoss watray fastened to tho wall. not understand the sianificanee of tho sony: hi witlow Muchreel” Such nerve 1 " fect since in thy country daya our kitchen alrl boherdod tho chickens. Rho drow that r= joner’s iT vor to and fro with the skILof an exceutl wife. Sho was npparently 23 years old, lean, yet willowy, and as Esuw now, wasn freceborn quads roo, porliaps whiter, 1 Fi ‘his bi Neat tine Twas over shaved by a nly," wat f It seamed to me that a hardly audible Inugh was overhanging me. and instedd of answering she took mo by tho tl of tho nose very gently, and with skied, steely Muzors drow tho razor down ny Jawa, The contact mide mo tine. dlately resolve to by shaved no more by man It thore wasn woman tithe adjoining Ktate, bike noilulatire reaping machine driver through the buckwheat by a gypsy Mniry, the razor came onward toward the corners ot way mouth, etre eunuueticatad tha enti, desconded Inty tho neker reot, ud went up the other site of the free with tho contldence ar pues. of machinory, ‘Then my chlo was ¢ ated, Bu T could not seo the charming motivespower fit the glass, and ahe stuele wu mtik-wnite mpkin ti my throat, and put her thumb and finer around omy Adiin'’sotpplo, | Iimiment- ately (t Beene apgorent how Ryo robbed that celebrated tree, A alight stil as of nearly disappenred walnut-hilis was on tho tapering Migors ofthe barber? hor nulls lave been dye serlbed by Mr, Houcieault in the “Octoreon” instoad of the muddy and mereonary hand of tho man-barbor { wis enelasped in wires with velvet insulators, und tho picture of Priur's atbea arose: Anothor nymph among the ninny fale ‘ut mde my potter hours thelr solemn care, Heforo tho reat aneeted ntill tu stand, And watehud my oye, prove “Hon't tHekto, youngarouan, tarily. Nd 1 tlekte, air?" Yes, the general ser iny command, bald I involun- tion is ticklish, How tt to bo shaving? y husband was a barber, and ho taught Inve you any otber female barbors in Bing- hamton?" “Yea, air, one. It's spreading a little. 1 reckon there'll be plenty before long.” “ Speed tho plow! or rather the razors" 1 ox- vlaimed, No man his buen wall slaved aluce Samson. “Don't you Hike my ebayving?” Aditenite. Is (t hard work?” “No. [think very natural work for n woman, My husband raid ho would try to leave tne bis ‘business, if nothing cl4e. Some men don't like a womitn to shave thom, but Lhurdly ever lose feustomer, Day ram, sir?” She stirred up the electricity hidden in my hale, breathed onue or twice upon my temples. tonehed me with her own powder-box, and ¢harged only 15 conty for her socloty and toilet. ASE tuened the corner my late aequitintances cine upon me suddenly, and sturtod and suidt “My, but you lool: Herce.” OUT OF TOWN. ‘The Lay of the House, sitting comfort- ably on one of the balconles of a delignttul seuslds hotel, overlouking the breezy billows, is telling nother tady of another house how comforting it fs to know that sho has a good, steny Irish housemald to teave'ln charge of tho honse while the family are aut of town “or? she says, “Uridget Is no longer a young thing, but a staid, steady woran, whose filelity to duty Is remarkable’? ‘The other lady of the other house says that Bridget must be a comfort Indeed, Now, while this conversation Is going on fi the evening, by the sounding sea, another conversation fs xolng on in turn in tho best drawing-room of tha Lady of tho House, where Miss Bridget Me'Looloy {8 enter taining a few of her friends, who look with great admiration upon the clegnnes’ of her surroundings. Mr. Terence O'Flynn, who “dhrelyes oo dhray,” {3 sitting In ono of the deep-cushioned clialrs, with his foet on tho satin sofa, smoking short pipe and watching Biddy) shilng on stoylo” with evident delight, There is 1 fils partly filled witha clear, ruddy-took- ng fluld, which Mr. ‘Terence O'Flynn alps from the to time, speaking approvingly to Mss Lrliget of the quailty of the tap.) It is the bust: brandy belonging to. the Jinsband of the Lady of the House. Ile be only tt sual quantity In casu of sickness, and ‘Terence fg constining At tt siglo sitting enough to fast, through a protracted spell of illness. Biady sets the table, Misa Moiite Flanagan assisting; thore fre substantials thore, stringoly mixed with delicacies frown the storey of tho house. Mr, O'Flynn, Mr Whaberty (ately rotlrad feo tho polico forec), and Mr. Dinunts Me Js an Influential poliifelan in the * erlolt " ward, drew thelr ohuirs to the tnblo and “ fall to" without much eoremony. ‘Choy enjoy thomaclves vory heartily, ia nothing there att or faemal “about thelr festivities. They draw frequently onthe decanter to tnke tho aruelty out of tho ‘wathor,” und, as the evening weitrs on, they remembur ould -Ircland with in- erousing tenderness.’ The gatlantry of the Fay- neans and tho Laud-Louers—and the Homes Tutors, too, for the “matter of that, bedad—are duly comyismorated: "Tho bavonvss of portill- ous England {a+ trayted wid seawerum and in- dlgnation.” A little lator Mr, McCarthy. pro- poses ta enliven the fostivitles by singing a bit of asome, Pipes uve tit, and tha song {a stoned to for a while, but fs loft unthiished, beenuse Mr. Flahorty, ‘unable to resist ita seduetlya measures, bis sprung to hls fuer, and 16 dancing the “rile Guiway" step. ft fan very lively ah but, as Mr. Flaherty has improvised a shillulah out of the rod of a portlere, and is twirling Iton his thumb with wstostshisu skill, tho yarious little artictes of vortu nidjaeont thereunto are in-danger. Biddy and Miss Motile are tonuing back tn their chairs, Inughing until the tears roll down tholr ehouks, In twirling tue shillalnh Me, Plaherty aceldental- ly glyes the tip of ono end of it 1 tnate of the skull of Mr, Terence O'Flynn, a gentioman who wouldn't tuke that from hls born brother. Res fore thoro Js any thine for oxplantion. a strait and delicately-constructed gilt chile ts broken over tho head of the still dancing Fluhorty, Mis3 Bridgot. und Miss Mollie got betweon the wrathful revelers, and, after mach dillioulty, pacify thom, and they all tuka something mora out of the decanter und thon out of tho demi- John. Mr. MoCurthy, who had taken rathortoo much carly in the evenly, 1s now reposing eatmly on tho sofa, with a stump of a black pipe Inverted botwoun bis teoth and his bat rammed down over his eyes, Ho sleeps profoundly tprough the diuco,|the fight, und the revonelllu- jon. —*“and that Ia tho ronson,” vontinued the Lady of tho Houso to tho other tady of the otber house, a8 thoy lookoil ovor, the white-crested breakers, waehing on the bouch, "that ty tho ronson why [prize Bridget somueh, Shu is such & quiet, steady’ girl.” TWO SISTERS, In 1810 two sisters finished thelr course of study ina Western school, The youngest, whom we shall hero cult Saran, regarded horaclf as an altogether exceptional woman, and had brought her sqhool-fellows to think tho same, ‘Tho truth was, sho had an actlve brain, a retentive momory, in indomitable will, and great ambition. Sho decinred tho ordlnary life of women forded no scope for hor powers, Sho pursued her studies on leaving school, totally neglected all soclal and domestic du- (es, wont throveh a medica! course, and was finally admitted to practice In an Kastern city. At that thine such a career involved hard fighting on her part agalust the press, public apluion, the medioul faculty, the very touchers who Iistrugtad hor, She was quite reudy to fyht, or tongie wis sharp, her ‘pon fustle, ter wit bitter und conse, Such v contest would be justitied lf her motive had been 9 high one, as lt ts with many women who leave the beaten track, But In her ease, sho was urged on nelther by nadaaire to bolp eulfering humanity, to clovute K x, nor u¥en to Hoe ine tatont in herself: Sho simply wd notoriety. Whon sho hud gained hor profession, sho was ing pusition to becume a real helper in the world, an active, benoticont power, Lut she acttlud down {ute a hard, snreustio, selfish wou. at, no bettera dooter than the hundreds of youn, 3M, D's ob = wut her, wad with o narrower Miuuuco than most of tho wives and mothors of whut she always spoke with pitying contumpt, Sho died w your ngo, “tlrad out,” us sho said, swith Hying,? and with but ona or two trlonds to follow her to the grave. Hor eldest slater was a dull girl, cared little for books, had wo ambition, and to capecial tale ent. (Sarak used secretly to wonder why the world was filed with auch comimauplice none entities, to lead “lives of nothing, nothiug worth.) Hut sho bad an affectionate heurt, picty, common sense, fine tact, and above all, absolute unsoliishnoes, : Bho married and became tho mother of half a dozen children. They ae mon and women now, with fumilics of tholr own, Thoy aro urtists, authors, juurchants, ministors of tho Gospel Baub lito uo ‘active ourrent of strongth and good jn tha world, “Whutover any of us have dono," vald hor husband ouco, “or may do that ts rlgbt or belp- ful, comes at first from mother bere in her ehitaney corner,” Young poople starting out in tho world should romembur that it fs not the talents of a man nor ‘his profesalon, but hls motive io five, which in tho ond makes bis litogroat or noblo, or a iitseruplo failure, BACK AIR, False hale haylug come to be recognized as a necessity of the modern female existence, At muy be of Intorest to Iparn how thls con- stantly increasing want Is supplied, Live haly, bought “on foot” (to use the taghnical term uf the trade) constitutes but a small percentage of the stock In the market, as there are few women who are willluy to part with their iocks for money, and those who have superttuous locks to spare grew fower year alter year, Whou gecpnd-hand tresses we Hed ty ¥ ‘ly te furuish whes fora tow elderly ladies, agents found no dimeulty in avearing nauticieney among the peasant mnida of Auvergne and Brittany, “The press ent demand, however, arent y exceeds: the supply, and it is assorted: thal Theis alone Uses hore than all the available erop hn France, and that Marseilles (the great contre of trate in dale) deals with) Spain, tho Ortent, and the two Sleies, for forty tons av your of durk halt, of whtely she iakes up. ward of 65,000 ehiguons. anuttally. Under the name of deat hie”? are classed © con Inga’? whieh" thrifty: servint-airls —anve up the “ellppings of barbers aha ed curls, worteout switches, ete. Tho seavengers of every elty, both at home and abroad, vulio nothing short of i silver spoott among the refuse so much st snarl oF come {ngs however dirty. as it will Hl n ready sate, Suef fladings aro afterward washed with bran tnd potash, carded, alfted, elasted, and sorted, and then imine into the chenp trout curls, penons that abound inimarket. Mucl into thocheaper grades of the eces” Annually wade i Franco, of whieh enormous trade Bogland ts aaid to be the best stamens and Age Alinost ns good. Lute porte on the commerce of Swatow, Chita, ahow that a hire export trate in dead" hairy giulhored In tho strilsof barbers, sprang up in Isnt, daring, which year 1886) pauls wore ex- ported to Europe. “In isa tha exports of this refuse nrese to ILO pounds, with n commer: celal valtte of over $25,000, Tt is un intonhted fut, too, that pruper corpsesaro often despolted of thoirlir to meet this santa demind of an in creasing commerce, Shouse, thon, who sport other (han thoir own natural focks, enn hover ho sure whoethor theso are redolent of tho scpul- chre, tho gutter, or tho survant-yirl's cum, and . BEAUTY IN AMERICA, Z A Roston letter says: “Thanks to 1 more generous let, 0 freer outdoor life, and a larger ontluok, tha present generation will leave a rich herltage to posterity. It is astonishing’ to see the lmprovement in the ttman form ‘that lias accompanied tho In- ereasy of wealth in this country, Poverty muy be, and often ts, respectable; but it is the ruiti of many adne physique; and It Is matter for Jubilation that we have within our borders x large and growing class who can afford to be comfortable, Of course there Is danger of running to the other ex- treme, ‘The sleok and well-fed business man is sometimes suggestive of a gouty oll age, as fs tho buxom and robustions beauty of the waddling downager; but, on the whole, there Is a most decided betterment. And, although Himay not by in our time, wo may indulge a reasoneble hopa for a not far distant future when the tolling race of New England farmory’ wives, that snl- low, skinny, saluratus-fed sisterhood, shall bo estinet; and in.thelr places shail stand a hole, hearty, and happy: following, who live on the fat of the land, and sell only that which (Rey cannot uss them- solves; who have -timo and taste to ar- ray thomsolyes in something beside a skiniy cotton gown, and eladly mado con- cossions to fashion in the matter of coiffures who rend something beside the Bible, and, on the whole, hive alinost ay ensy at tne as thelr spouses beastof burden. ‘Take it all in all, we believe wo have good right to felicitate sinthe face of the world, over our fule women, ‘The great and overwhelmlug nuvantage that Ia belle Amerteaine possesses: ovor Lor foreign comperrs is that, although sho rovel4. 8 no ulrl, in what the Frenen catt tae head de divble, her charm dues not fade with the flucting years of youth, we are spared the horvor of seeing tho Kugiish transformation ofa delieato, high-trad loveliness tate tho som Dlaneo of a bly, tubby, and somowbat Intentpore into vonk, or the Fetytittul apectavle, aiforded by onr continental sisters, of tho shrinking and chinglig of a pretty, piquant free to the wear ened foaturea of an elderly female monkey. OF votre, Innocent, unconscious Leauty Is a thing of the past; tit wo cannot hope to regain, The young womnn of tho preacnt day knows her good points as woll as ste docs tho contents of her pocketboots, and what thoy will buy in the murket a good deal bettors but what she bas fost I Ingonlousiess aby has probably guined in practical common senso, A GERMAN SILVEK WEDDING. On this Sunday.thore was evidently some- thing unusual astlr, People clung lke swarming bees about the coors of the baker's house, Where swung the bine wooden sign, displaying the usual whito coffee-pot and lavish assortment of faney bread, painted with primitive. notlons of perspective, wreathod for the ocenslon with Inurel ant bay, as if the portly baker had just returned froma glorious militarycampalgn. Inotleed that the ladies of the party pushed bravely In at tho narrow doorway, while the goutlemen Itngered more shyly onttslde, whispering to- gether, and nuitging each other to enter first, Every one was in gala dress, and turned pleasant brown faces to greet me ns 1 on- teredt the baker’s house, which is built, as aro all the farm-hotises of North Germany (for the baker tad some Iand of his own to farm), in two parts—that Is to say, along brick-oored fall divides the living rooms, which open upon it on one side, fram the stalls for horses and cows, which are ranged on tho other, ‘The chief work of the house fs done Jn this big, open hall. The women wash thelr clothes and. tho giria cook and iron at tho slove In tho cor uer, white the cows und tho customers look on from opposit sides, for the phon. the parior, and the slooping-roome of cho fiuinily all give on the bull, “Chis arrangement aifords rire opportunl- ties for gossiping with “all tho oll woinen who took In, ostensibly to fotch In tholr daily louves: of binel bread, a yard long, dod as bard as A brickbut, Rut on this socasion a long tanle oa cuples the contro of tho bull, spread with alt sorts of untisual dellcacius, Six or eight brown, smoked hams, and as many long biue-binok sausages; plies of brend and butter and gingsr= bread? Bat cakes sprinkled with clinumon aud Bignes KyuATS CUkes full of ralsing, or—n torrle die dizer to unwary touth—Cresh cherries, with un unnatural preponderance of stones, which have w knack of Imbedding thomselyes whore thoy ara least oxpeutod, In tho soft corners of wail iwo-abnport sllca, ‘Tho tublo was gurnishod: with buge houyntets of Howers—nsters, fuschlas, and ieee beth hat. boon contributed by all the nelghbors, und accounted tor tho ganor- ally cropped apposrance of all the gardeus in. the village, SOME FEMININE PECULIARITIES. ‘There are little peculiarities Individual to the falr sex which are both curious and amusing. Why does s woman go often drop hor fan or her poekethandkerchivf ? ‘That hag puzzled many a ninsetting bratn, ‘There are Lwo reasons for the aceldent, If it may be so called for want of a better word. First, the fair erenture’s tongue rins go fast that the wagelng of the organ loosons the tension of tlie muscles of the hand; second, the fan or handkerelet fs purposoly droppud that a “horrld man” may show his gallantry in picking lt up, and ten cliances to one the Indy purposely beats hlin in that operation after ho has bent hls rheumatle Imbs in an effort to bu gallant, Sho is sutisied with the diy play of servility, Why do women, when looked at by wv imin, procoed at onus to chew their Ips or couvulslyoly press then to- gothor In tha intervals of showing? ‘That proceeds somethues from modesty, which urges thom to do something — that thoy muy divert thelr aninds from tho mnsculine impudenco or admiration, oritimny suggest thut the owner hasy very Kisgnblo mouth, the lips of whieh, bitten, will become beautifully red, or te may bo tho reault or the unpleasant foollng of a tiew set, or the osefilutory movement of un old sot, of artifiolul tecth, You need not pay any 4 Tor the show, endl Fee you take your cholco of reasons. Why ty tt that womon with fine. eyes roll thom toward {ho culling or the sky? answered, Thoy wish to look angelic, and they usually do, But, lust of all, why fs it that a woman whoav tal escort has Urged ber to eport in the foatlve aut will go into the water ankle i ‘That ty oasily deop, ive a ittle seream, and refuso to goa foot further? Hera ono is invading dolicate ground, ‘Thoro never has veen an Instance of 6 won of fino pbyvloal proportions refusing to show thom ing wet, cluging bathing sult, bue thoro are numerous instances of woinon inade up by the dressmaker who do not wish # beau to know bow muh be isto marry of whut bo oxe ternally sees, ASEA BIDE DISENCHANTMENT, A frlend of mine, anys a London corre- spondent, who has returned from accom panylng his wife toa French watoring-place, Ins reveled to me sccrets which aro calcu. lated to destroy the {)Jusions appertylning to the nymphs that sport in French waves, Ha wont with his wife to buy a bathing-iress in Paris. ‘There he discovered that beneath the ghtfitting jersey, which 1s now the fashion. able dress for the water, stays are worn, “and many other appliances to ald fy fashioning a benuteous figure. | Crumomber going with 9 lady to bathe at one of these French watering-places, We both emerged trom our respective machlucs. Nour me I saw a beatteous vislon, ler hale waa Rowing around her shoulders, hor vyes glistenod, hor cheeks were bright with color, and hor di lent beauty toa beautiful tivuro. Soon a waww ose. IL wmilssed my friend, Close by me was ® huggard femalo; her form was angular aud gcraygy; Dor pose was blue an her cheeks hollow; 9 wisp of balr, not langer than arat’s tall, was hanging from her head. Whoro Was tho gloriaus ¥isiow that hind stood by mv? A volee vaino Crom tho chattering teeth of tho hag, It was tho vision; but O, bow changed! DEAF MUTES MARRIED. A tmarringo of a novel and Intoresting char- netur took place at Reading, Pa, Inst weok, Kate 0. Miller, who has been educated dure ing tho past year Ht Philadelphia, was war- rec to Jtugh 1B. Cross, a youns business: man of Reading, Both are deat mutes, ‘The bride fs about 18, and her adliction came al- most In her tafaney through a lngerhys searlel-feyer, . ‘Iho young couple wero titres duced to each other a uninber of pens AO, ‘Tuatlly an engagement was tide, and bast week, In the presence of nainy friends, tho Rev, Mr. Nettz Joined the young vouple marriage. Tb wits fmpoasthle to” procure 0 aninister who was Hikewise a deaf mute, Three of thelr friemda, however, Mr and Mrs, Rlehards amt Charles Coelita, alive dent mutes, acted ag tishers, Shortly after tho arrival of the Rev, Mr, Neltz he took the groom alone ‘to a site room and questioned bm concerning tho marrage, ‘Thelr communication was by writing. Subseqnentiy the bride was questioned In tho sume way, .Thoy anawered quite suths> factority. ‘Tho ontira company was thon sui moned to the purlor, where the young cottplo Presuuted themselves, ‘Tho qteation usintly pat to the groom was written upon a slate by the minister, read loud, sid thon held tp 80 that tho yroom contd rend ity “Yo you tke this woman?" ete. Tho xraam rend si, yodded his herd, and wrote beneath; "Tf do.” The bride wus similarly questioned, aud after nod dmg allirmatively wrote her answer fn addell- cate and firm hand. Subsequently there was youal and instrumental musie, marry-intking, laughter, and gossip, but the young couple heard it not. They were, howover, congratys Intad in W inanner that showed the cnrnest wood wishes of tho company for their future hippi- nosy. After the razeptlon thoy lote Houding, and wilt make 0 wediliug journey of several woeks, , AN ESTHETIC WIFE. “Say, Vil toll you somothing tt you won't blow it)? was tho way one man saluted another on ‘Iwelfth street yesterday, “AL right—go nhend 1? "You wou't give It away until Tsay so?” “Not a word.” “Well, my wifo has got to be an ostheto.” | “Nop “Suro's your born. T have susnected that she was working that way for sone thine past, but ivs only within aday or two that 1 be- ene positive? “Well, that’s wonderful. Say, how docs sho act 2” ” Dangnid—very languid. Shelops around, drawls her words, writes sad poetry, and tho alght of an old ple-thy or a banged-up phroae entrances bor. Congratulate mo on iny do—l do. That 1s——" What?" Don't build hopes too faat, Bo aura you aro right, and thon youhoad, 1 labored for a whole year under tho delusion that any wife wns de- veloping Into xn estheto, aid when Teame to tale with her father he'sutd she was alwaya moro than hutt-idfot by nature. Go slow—go slaw. Tho diiterenco botweon un esthote und a foul {3 80 tnighty snnll that you can't afford to muke a mlstuke aud be plavud Inn box.” FEMININE NOTES. Onc of tho sensational pictures In tho saton ts Holl’s “Un suicide par Amour,” fn which & Parisinn girl fn pik ellk, a profuston of Inco, flesh-colored stockings, and satin slippors has placed herself across the track of an apprench- ing locumotive, Horhiead restson thorall. A pee aarelie ond pair of gtuves neo thrown aside, ‘tho Phitndelphin Mecord says that thero Is Just fa bit of romance attaching to tho capture of thu men who ran tho private mint at Vineland, N. ., and who camo near flooding the country with hv-cont pieces of their own manufacturo, Tho discovery and capture of the counterfeiters and Uolr plant waa cntirely duo toa woman. Ong of thy cofners had not boon cureful to be off with tho old love before bo was on with tho new Bi-cent pieces, and when tho woman found that hor place was irrecoverably lost she promptly put herself tn communication with tho Secrot service oltlcers and provented a fares lollition of tho currency, which but for uilght bave been inavituble. Tho London Truth remarks: The best to to whlch a woman can be putis ta be made the honost wife of sone good man, and tha Jidi- clous mothor of healthy childrun, All tho art and fearning that se onu compuss are not of 80 much value to the world as the example of n tite passed quivtly in tho oxercise of domestic du- tles and social witcousness, In, the gift to tho country of children who shail carry on the national traditions of courage and yonorosity, ol unsclfishnesa and virtuo. This, pace the emancipated, [a tho Meal iso of woman, and ‘no plotures that she can paint, no books that sho may write, no preseriptions that she can frame, equal tho worth of such no existence, By nure rlago and inntornity she completes her ows bolng and fullile hor rafson etre; iso sho secures for horself the beat kind of immortulity inthe raccan which ahe guunps ter fuipress, and whlen sho makes atill more beautiful and elvitized. An English journal saya: At Zcrmatt, Cham- ounlx, Bt. Maurice, aud such like trvarit spats tho English traveler is natunished to tind tho: principal sulon crowded with young ladica, front the nges of 16 to ‘hy rotiring to rest, tho salon or rovenge “belug probably tho only place where thoy van find accommodation for so many; and at the tables d’hOte places for eizhtuen or nw score of Anusels under tho churge of tivo Ushers—ladies, of courso—making it good denl of clatter thom solves, but imposing allonco on the rest af tho table, Buch a formidable tntlux of female at one thug necessarily ficommades solitary tray- elers, and oceuples tho attention of the wattera and other omployés to thelr detriment. These travellug ponsionanta seem to by chiolly Amor= Jean or German young ladies, who wish to im- Prove. thoi minds bE an eurly nequalntiuce with tho ugrémens aud adventures of travel. “Tn theso days of genoral retrenchment [ wouder,* says Edmund Yates in the London World, * tha€ no ono in England has thought of reviving tho fashion of deconitive wedding rings. ‘The simplo hoop of gold wus universally uduptod In the last century in order that somo check might be put upon tho luxoor those signs of swoet bondage, But an Italinn lady. tho othor day, showed mo hor weiking ring, which consisted of a row of fino cats'-oyed and dine mondd—a very relined combinatlin—and J bo- gan to wontor at tho moderation of all tho beau- tiful matrons who bave beon too long contant to put up with this ono, this last simplicity, It sbould not be. ‘That the Joweled badye will not ue quite so dlsthuguishlug ts trues ut Tam tald that tho Unmarrien man inust nol wear rind on tho wedding linger at all, Anything placed there menus marriage of betrothal,”" Porch hund-sorcens of satin are ta ho carried at tho woushore to protect the oyes from tha loro of tho sun, A pretty sut of thea muy bo mide, decorated witht hand-painting ropro- fonting tho four seasons.’ A dusign picturing balmy spring might show an othoreally inild- looking elfin gathering crocus blossomed in tha raln—one hind grasping tha towers and tho othor holding w toadstool umbretla over bis heady a “summer sehool" convention in a shady grove, of beer, buss, bullfrogs, ies, and butteriles may represent tha suminor eenson; for nn omblematio picture of tha witumn time may be painted an ear of yollow corn, 4 spray of whont heads, and a cluster of hops and seu Jet autumn leaves hanging from apex on gray garden-wall, and for tho winter season muy bo palnted a sad and solitury gyp covered with BOW, fateh (ue with envious eyes a huppy-look. ine, robln redbreast picking ayay at a branoh of holly-berrles. J Tho Vonus of Milo ls commonty regarded, In theory, us the perfection of shapelinoss in womnnin, Practically, if you were to put ber into clothes and start ber off to Lroadway, sho woukl Attraet attention by her ungainliness, und wot by her beauty, She will do well enough In atutuury, but had bettor nut get: down from hee pedestal, for she would suroly bo guyed If she atiemptud to piss ay a fashionable womun, Sho would be compolled ta wear wy thirty-two-inch corsot and No.) shoos, and would abavlutely Baye no etyle about her, Wo xo tn for curvod Mnea more than tho Ureeks did, and for greater Balleneys There ig no ude fn saying tbat tho wore right and wo aro wrong, because tat will notulter the matter, Couturics of tight lacing hove molded the civitized femate form into ite bresent hotr-gluss proportions, and it 14 enough that the men of tho period Hke it 80, ‘hose who want Vonuses inust go out among the Jndlan Byuuws for thom. The reat Vonus shape isn’t Bppreojatod in relined suctety, Tho freak that hug mado Isabolla the latest toplo is bor profor of adower to the dauguter of President Grévy. Tho old lady became quite foud of the Presidont utter bis fuvtullation, for some whiniwicul reagon—it wa auld becuwse tho shifty countryman Bad made known tu ber in royal form hig accession to the chiof maglstrucy of the Republic, [tls noticed with umusemuent tebe Is roguiur in attendance on the bulls at tho Rlyeées, and guesips with much ulfability with tho simploeminded Preaident. For this sho bas been cut" aeood deul fece Faubourg St. Gorwnuly, but as tho Joily old lady docan't caro a tap for the wocloty of women, that intordict dovan't disturb her much. Her vbarity and geod waturo endoar hor to the pour of Paris, iho ig adored oH, the Jouruallsta, wie are trout. ed with famiflar Indulgenes in ber pslatial bomo, and they do not always remember tho obligations of hospitality, She adores the Figaro, whose thinly -velled obscenities ure none too rich tlavor for ber florid Bournern blood. Que of her greatest larks fa w surprise purty to the reor ‘that journal occastonglly, after tho Opora, to sve the writers at work aud tho preascs in motion, the oventny ening with a wumptuous: banquot at bor jolly Majesty's expense, A fair young German mation was urralgnod bofore the District Court of Dortmund for steals fog 4 watch from a youthful bandicratteman of that olly, The person she bad robbed proved to be bor own ultlanoed lover, who, upon discover- tog hls toss, bad forthwith notified It te the Dorte — mont polle, WAhout tha faintest no Tho thert. tine beon committed by his eee Ese bride, Investheation resuite Hiscoree of th atoton. property at tho pawnbrakar sans whore tho daingol had pledged He form tages sum. Whot broweht to teint sti ng her guilt wit many tears and lowing that, ruinble to praise bor wedde dreet and hutng shamed ta countess hee foes erty to her fatury hushand, sie hid pura hia wateh with tho object of roullzimgn sulted amount by Its bypotinention te: emily hersett decently, 1t ls ploneant to Rinw. that the pl ouls vonfigstan wns responited 19 1110 eallant ad Hingnaninons epirit’ be tha despalted rite grim who declived that "tho prlsinen ees aud over would Ve his only tovo, and that ee would marry her owt of band It Qo dudge would congeut taset bor at Ubertye” Without mee ute’s delny, the tribunal aninilled the arralns mont, and the generous lover airried off his libe erated lurcentst In triutmph, CUI PORTRY. MALY GONH TO BOOOL. ‘Tha baby hus gon to soho); au, met Whut will tho mothor do, With never a eail to button or ping Or tlo a Httto ahoo? Thaw van she keep borself busy all day, With the iittic “hindering thing" away? Anothor basket to Ml with funch, Andther " good-bye" tony, And the mothor stands at the door to aco Mer baby march aways And turns with a algh that is halt rott ‘Anal bait a romothing akin to welots Shoe thinks of a possible future mon qiition she ehitdeon, one by one, oe Vill zo frum thole homes Gut Ante th "to hnttie with lite alone, Soria And not even the baby bu loft to cheor, ihe desouty home of that future year: Sho picks up garments here and thoro, Thrown down Ly careless hustes And tries to think how ft would seem iT nothing were displaced; If tho house were nlwass ng still as this How could sie bear tha toneliness? ’ UNTIED THE pod. ‘The swaln sat on the front door-step, ‘Tho bour of 12 had flea, The dow was chained wy fo the barn, Mor fathor was in bed. ‘Tho heiress, {11 his mind, bo'd wong So to himself he sald: “Oh, neres and bonds that Vl call mine, When her dear pa Ie dead!" Tho sceno was changed on that front step; Seduetive visions ted; ‘The dog was tearing from the Darn, Her pa wits out of bud, Tho okt man shouted, * Blok him, Bull"; ‘Tho swain whizzed wards tho gute; So dita club tho old man throw— Ttatruct bin on the pate. Ho foll hoadtong tipon tho walk, Ho felt. the canine take A wine frow off tls tinder part— A hirge tuouthful pr steak. Ha dreamed of golden pounds no mor~ Bat pound upon the beads And when that swuin would fain sit do fo wished her pn was dead, How flecting are tho Joys of man; Ah, were his feet ns tleot, Ho'd never need burbor fear of dogs, ‘Though au heiress he'd entreat, A LITTLE QUEEN, Tho Queon fs proud upon ber throne, Anil proud are her maids so fn; But the proudest Indy that over was knows 1s this little lady of mine. Aud oh! she flouts me, she touts ma! Ant spurna, add scorns, and scouts mot ‘Though Cdrop on my knees and ue for grace, ‘And bug and beseech with tho saddest face, Still ever the sume slo doubts me. She's soven by tho calondar— ah Lily's almost us tall: Thutant thiy Uttte lady's by far ‘The proudost Indy of alt] It's her sport und pleasura to tlout met “Lo spurn, and secrn, and scout mol Dut oh! [yo 0 notion it’s naught but play, Ani that, say what she will, urd felyn what she, ‘tdo well without mo! For at times, Hko a plonsant tune, a\ sweeter mood o erties bers Oh! thon sho’s sunuy as skies of June, And all her pride forsakes hor. Ol} sho chives round me go fatrlyl ObT her laugh rings out soraroly: Ob} shu conxes, aud nestles, and poors, and pres In my pugzied fave with hor two groat eyos, «And owas sho lovos we dearly. TWITTERS. Nore fs anothor attompt to deprive woman of bor rightay a malo wroteh hes got.up an inyone tion to provent tho slumming of doors. “It's sot you are, winter or summior,” sald the snappisb wife to her drunken husband, “ And it's deol you ure, summer or wiutor,” ho re plicd, with a mallolous grin. , A lady who bad quarrolod with her batd-hoads ed lover, snfd, In distulssing him, " What {8 do- Iiehtful emote Olly my friend, Is, that [have not soe Gunde of wending you back nny louks of Last. summar sho was eating green corn by gnawing it froma cob, whou her teoth became entieled with corn silk. “Oh, dear,” sald eho Impationtly, “1 wish when thoy get tho cora tude they would pull out the bustlog throuds! Jones says his wife is tho most thrifty woman ho over ktiew. * Why, sir,” ho says, “ sho hat inado ton bedspreada during tha hiat two years; mntde thom hersolf, wr, ont of the sumplus sho walleneat In ber shopping tours during that tine.” aAllwomon nro naturally afraid of a com © Madain,” sald tho oloonnirgarine deer, when she titterod a shrick at dlecovering that it was bogus butter sho was banding, * Madam, you needn't be alurmod, ‘Tho vow it was made from dy too dead to hurt you.” Thors hus beon a family jar. Come, mother, come,” says tua soneln-liw to tho old lidy, in obedience to the puet nb request of his wifo not to bo dliagrecub| let na make itup. Tssid thore was no wornn fn the world ag unborrable ne fon. are, didn’t I, at whleb you folt burt? Well 1 take it back—thore are others." A young man who lives in Austin and whose mustache i3, Tike faith, "the ovidence of thlugs for, tho subatines of things not yet seen,” called on hls prospective fathor-in-law, and gaye notice that ho datended inacrying the old gontloman’s daughtor.atun early date. “lt hud bettor take place on somo Saturdiy, so that it will not interfere with your gehool hours, sarcautloully renuirked tho old mun. Ayoung min, pile and visibly agitated, bur riudly entered a Court stroot drugature, late one Mighé last week, aud accoat ny tho elork, aut: *Glvo me an ounce of vhlurate of potash, will yon, ag yntek as you cane" Observing hts perturbation tho clerk vontured 0 Usk: “What's your hurry?" “Why, [ve been kissin, 1 our Sitnday Behool toneher since 9 o'clock and sue didn't tell mo till ton minutes age that sho way afrald she bud the diphtboria.” " Wifo, Just returned from a shopping tours “Come and see whut [yo ot for you, Huyeno. Entygeno—" Ab, Just Uke you, darling; alfuys thinklay of mel” io ndyancas ns bls wifo romovas tho wrap. ping and exposes some tina drawings from 8 nolghboriug muirblo-yard. Husband starts back and exclaims, exeltadly: *draulous, Laural whatdid you bring those things ture for?* ‘Thoughtful wifo—" Wolt, Eugene, E heard you coniplain of feohug unwell this torn ing, and { thought you'll tke to look at somo tombstone patterns,’ At.an nuotion sale of miacollancous goods the auctioneer put up a wolfskin dressing-gowo and ivited bida, An old iman inapoeted 1 slosuly, spoined to think that thora wus a bar gain In it, but. yor hu hositatud to bid. Dan's you want that?” asked ,tna auctioneer. Yes kinder," was tho reply, “That way don’t you bid and taxa tt" Weil, I've onuht beaps o things indey goods and to on,” slowly rejuin tho old nan, "and Dnes er rat took bono auye thing tuat the old woman thought was worth U 8 rive, U ot thut ‘ero robe for a sous she grub it up, putlatonu ond, chaw nt the other and call out, *Choated again: moro’ balf coe won!" ‘Chat’s tho reason I dar’u't bid! EGOTISM, For The Chicago Tribune We lay the wenry head buck on the pillow: Wo vlogs the bide, bright oyes foruye and ayes We purtund smooth uway tho goldau tresses, * Att kiss the swout mouth the lust time wo may ‘And thon, euteldo tn all the garigh sunlight, We wander worn and lone—alone alway. Tow strange that ull the world rolts on anbood rg ‘Tho hungry pat, tho dread to think or sco Into the gluoury, dark, forbidding future, Whore néyermore can rest or comfort ho. gy We turn boartstek from inirth ar care of otbol How can wo lve out Wife's uteraity? Thero tan pain to ua in other's wugntery ‘Thut no Ong xegins to stdp and feol our WO te au Hatoelti, ope a wriot-uiy lag: low caltuly to their patty Joys they x04 Norwud witikouu quibe teat yuat wo uid DUCY Our all within that grave an hour azo. |, PLALNYLELD, HI. : e a Prof, Horatordts Baking Powder: it DH. Henry, M. Dy the eolebrated facallt phyulelun of Row York, saya; ‘tuo uso of Prof. Horsfurd's | uking-Powder otfera udunirers moans for tha Introduction of u valuable ‘iy ines Juto the eystow with thy food of uvery