Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1886, Page 10

WIHAT MAKES A TRUE GIRL. Trath, Patienco, Gentle and Simplicity. Earnestness THE GIRLS THAT ARE WANTED. The Girl of the To-Day, the Baby Girl and the Girl Baby—Women and Their Feet—Gossip For the La The Girls Thatare Wanted, New Y ork Te The girls that are wanted are good girls— Good from the heart to the fips; Pure as the lily is white and pure, From its heart to 1ts sweet 1ip tips, The girls that anted are home Girls that are mother’s right hand, “w'hat fathers and brothers can trust to, And the little ones understand, Girls that are fair on the hearthstone, asant when nobody ady and anxious to pleas girls that are wanted are wise girls hat know what to do aud to say: That drive with a smile or a soft word hie wrath of the houscliold away. The girls that are wanted are irls of Wiom fashion can never deceive; Who can follow whatever is pretty, And dare, what is silly, to leave, “The wirls that are wanted are eareful girls, Wiio count what a thing will cost : Wlho use with a prudent, generous liand, But see that nothing s lost. The girls that are wanted are girls with liearts They are wanted for mothers and wives; Wanted to cradle in loving arms, “The strongest and trailest of ves Tho clover, tho witty, the brilliant girl, understand; vise, loying, home girls Tiiere's a constant and steady demand. What Makes a Truo Girl, London Queen: A true girl! How much is embraced in those three words, and constitute a true girly We must not merely understand by a true irl one who is truthful, but one who en- cuvors, under whatever circumstances she me be placed, to do her duty, There is no happiness in this life without duty. A of duty always pursues us; it is omnipresent, like the deity. ‘T'he chief characterisue of a girl should be trath. “Of all the duties, the love of ruth, with faith and constancy in it, nks first and highest. Truth is God. To love God and to love trutharconer the same.” It is this quality more th any other that commands the esteem and respect and secures the confidence of others To the true girl in all her relations. daughter, sister, friend, in all her tions, in all her words, faithfulncss will be the first consideration. Faith is the root of all good works, and it is a fraittul parent of all other ‘Her word must be her bond through life.” A true girl will not make a promise and break it, nor say one thing and mean another, but will be true in word and deed. A broken promise is an untruth told. The oxcellent advice given by Polonius to Laertes in *‘Hamlet™ may well be fotllowed out by girls This above all—to thine own self be true: And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man, ‘The next attributes which hu]xl'\llwh place in the acter of vatience and gentlenes: qualitiesin every “girl’s life. nids usin extingiishing eny. ing anger, and crushing p) wuch good may be done by a gentle word or 10o) answer turneth away wr. not called upon to do great |ni|»~_:i‘ cept in rare instances, but the eve da) 1s of 'lile in the 1 appointed exercise of the n graces afford ample scope for otice of that virtue of mankind has heeome proverbal. The best ses of pat and self-denial, and the better because not chosen by our- selves, are those in which we have to bear with the tailings of those about us; to en- lect when we feel that we de- ttention, and ingratitude when we expected thanks: to bear with disap- pointments in our expectations, with in- terruptions in our retivement, with folly, intrusion, disturbance—in short whateye opposes our will, contradicts our humor Earnestness ranks next to holding a high v i | cter, for do not earnestness and nlll])]ll'II' carry all before themy Chavles Dickens tells us that there is no substitute for thorough- o, ardent, and sincere earncstness, et us bear this in mind, and whatever we have to accomplish, let us be earnest, Hand in hand with earnestness goes the Ron nce, which has perl |r1|||( ph- nr every traly great oh ance, working in the grows vith lum- and when ste: uhl) pr ticed, even by the most humble, will rarely fal of its re T'rusting in the help of others 15 of com ively hitle use, 'l'lw grandest inventions have been the diligent pursuit of y 55 Of this vi “Afalling drop sense, as ac- overcom- How x- seve & tue is scen in the prover at Inst wili eave stonc. Woare told by author that he ter than a ul bolayior form, To tender re- for the poor ble and ln-m 3 mlul true heauty a girl must by gard for the old and young and suflering in her thou tion, sympathetic to those and have an aftable and ¢ L above ali, humbleness of soul fie true givl 18 not complete without the blessing of the gift of industry. instilled with hubits of indostry ar provided for than if they en them, for there is no seienee too diflicult for industry to atts loth maketh all things diflicult, but in dustry all ustry qualifies us in all our va; es for the highest and lowest employments; it inspires us with in the performance of us dmu s, and it gives a in \ on disposition; tuno ! The nabitof constant useful oceu §5 as essential for the happiness and w being of woman as of man, ness of the body lies in health, tha the mmnd in knowledge. Without oceupation women are apt to sink into ate of listless ennui and usclesness, accompanied by sick headache and at- tacks of ' very girl ought to be u good an, and the founda tion for this has 1o be lLaid in school in vlof seven years. If we followed in the steps of the” Germuns in this re of, teaching children all Kinds of it would no dount prove more 1 to domestic hap 1.m of women has I last few ye guestion of higher edu the prominent place it de gontent to be as we a forth our strength in doing our utmost Lo clevate our standard of perfection and strive, one and all of us, to become * irls" We necd not live grand lives, Bt oo and usetul ones, o the work which falls to our 1ot most fs eonscientiously, for, as George Eliot té us. “The growing good of the world 13 urtly dependent on unhistorie aets, and rhn' things not so il with you and ht have been,is kalf owing who lived faithfully a Let us also bear in niind beautiful lines of Charles Kingsley o good, sweet waid, and Jet who wiil be clever Bo noble things, not droam them all day o , and the still holds Are wo us put ithfully u ul long, And make lfe, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet 5 Weo should all k‘llllCnVflr to live for owathing, aud begin Jife by prowising FATURI St THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ourselves all we car our fidelity by carr promised Poets give so fow records of trne and nice girls; sweot Anne Page was one. So was the heroine of “Sackling's Ballad upon a Wedding.” That must have heen a true girl indeed of whom it was snid by the poet that to know her was a liberal education—the sweetest compliment ever puid to woman o Maistre, speaking of women, It is quite at women have no_ chefs UV but,” he “they have done s thin far greater and better than ali this, for it is at their knees that upright and virtuous men and women have been trained—the me xeellent produetionsin the world,* Women accomplish their best work in the quiet seciusion of the home and fam ily by sustained effort and patient perse verance in the path of duty. The infln ence they exercise, even though it he un recorded, lives after them, and in its consequences forever The Gitl of T Castroville ( 9,) Auvil: If there is anything we know less about than we think we do it is the girl; and of this the girlis glad, for thero is nothing she hates to be known about her so bad as the teuth We along verform, and prove ng out all we g -Day. vo been acquainted with her for and watched he vranks from seen her cut the “pigeon wi and knock th wek-step’in . the back yard when she thought she had no spectators; but still we don’t know her. From the time she 18 big enough to swing on the gate and tie a ribbon i a double bow-knot she begins to loeate n sweethe and she keeps this up until he is located in th ck-yard exercising his talents dissecting stove wood She may b In\lh {ull on mathemat- ics but in ly solves the problem of putting a No. 5foot in u No. 3 shoe. She will wear out two old dresses run- mng around to lind out how to make a new one in the latest style, She will break the mlnlnll’hl-rbrnlllwr" knife making a erack to peep at strang- s when they come visiting She will greet you with the most be witching smile 1 laugh at your stupid- ness when you gonc, She will k th blocks out of the way to gef a peep at a beau,and then pass by without looking at him. € She will tatk with you two bours with- out being able to repéat a word you said, but will know how long you have worn yonr duds and how many buttons have lost their grip She will attend “chureh, listen with ab- sorbed interest to eloquent and pathets sermons, then return home and expatiate EIN" the horrible fit of Miss Snow's new asque, \'I!u will go to table, mince over delica- es with the most fastidious taste, then slip back in the Kitchen and eata raw po- tato. Shie will wear out her best pair of shoes dancing all day, then attend a ball at it and complain of being out of prac- tic She wi fully wor hand, to he of a page to her sister couldn’t read. She will be the most devout cr on carth, and hate the earth that S Grimes walks on. She will be industrious and economies tor a month, then spend he ved ribbon. She will slouch weok mm"; preg 1 spend all mght writing a_care- { letter, i the most precise Simon Suggs, then serateh tliat Old " Harry round the honse for a tions to look neat o will Mirt with all the best young men in the neighborhood, and finally marry some knotty headed Jim Crow. The Baby Girl. Lowell Vor Populi Baby gil, with dark hrown e Looking vand wise, With y hands asa dimpled feet, I wonder of what ou are thinking, swe Whes your re you looking Into the future? Tell If beantiful visions there 'y As bright as a baby’s dr Of havpy lauzliter and childhood’s blisses, Caresses, chidings and stolen kisse Of the gladsome days that will come While the baby shall to girlhood grow? should be, . 80 Onh! God grant that her future years May not be clouded with grief and tears, "Those little feet, may the y never stray In paths of sorrow and sin away. ‘The tiny hands o soft and white, May they ever be raised in the eatlse of righ “Thé dark brown eyes and spotless brow Be always as guileless and pure as now, God bless the baby Whether in jov, A home at | Not more e« \d if she gain, or perehanee through pain, t beyond gates of pear] 1d 1 ask for the baby gi The Girl Baby 1 Prose. Toledo Journal: To-morrow my baby will be my baby no longer; she is going to sehool. Her” world is about to widen, her life is about to broaden, but I, I shall lose my baby! What a short six ye they have been, They brought her « put hier on the pillow beside me; 1 put my finger near her hand and she graspoed af, Heaven came closer to me than I had hope it might. ‘The first day that 1 sat up nurse gave her to me and | held her in my arms. My own lict by! 1 wanted no past, no future; [ huppy in’ the present When she lay 'in her “cerib and followed me with her eyes, that was bliss, W hen she cooed to me! — When she stretehed out her little hands to me! Wnen sho langhed as I eame 1 her! A, God is very good to moth and I wondered why sneh joy should come to m Per- hups there was a pang of sorrow as she left of'her long clotls Yet the cunnin, Iittle fect, igure, the aimless steps, the f inul Iking, these made the changze u time of fullness for the mother, and the baby was still all my own. She has grown ineverything excent in g ting along without me ima has been the pivot around which her hife has re- voly lias come to me with her pains, he appomtments, her failures and he . In my ear she has whis. pered the wonderful “thoughts that elild. hood lives upon. No question could A 50 high or pierce such depths but 1 could answerit. No dan- uld threaten her that mamma's arms were not a safe refuge from; no hain so severe but that mamma could re- ieve it How anany hours in these si years huve we been togetl Ab, me, all e but one from this on, but huve been but one thus far. Not uny less to her than I n are the hundred heroes of stories that 1 have e for her; they seem very real, indeed, 11 e entertained her been my Scheherezade, and tales fully as imposiible as the 3 Nights,” Of "late she has wandered vay, but never so far but that s could run quickly home if her fear aroused. She hns brought with hor Ilmu;hls-' thered from other children, hm m- it to be tried in the 5 judgment and wis ceps houso” 1 often r, and she cannot take asure in the ‘“‘make beliove do. But now she 15 going school. I shall loso my baby; [ have lost her. She will leave the door with usses on her lips, and my words her ear, but she 1 come howe full of school, of comyunions and teachers. She will pass into & world where 1 am nct: whero I eun only follow at 5 diztance; and she will never wholly mine. Obh, good teacher! but oue ot fifty in your room, and Ps, i your eyes, one of the least ng. ” But, oh, she is my one ewe lamb, and heaven shines on me ot of her eyes. 1 must share my kingdom with 30u. - Your praise will oouat with ber greater than mine; your frown will be to ] MUVLY B UBIBE WIS, Uve are evies s more fearful than all wmy thundering She was a baby an honr ago, but she 18 one no longer.” I shall piek up most of the playthings and put them away. To morrow night she will look upon them with great scorn, she will be a baby no longer and she will have to put away her buby things, So I sit here pitying myself “while | press her to my heart She is full of the anticipations, but [ whisper to my aching heart--I am about 1o lose my baby Women and Their Feet. “Women who pose as models have, a rule, poorly-shaped feot,” said an art toa New York Mail and Express re porter. “If their feet are not poorly shaped they are apt to be out of propor- tion by being too small. The reason is obvious. Women are ambitious ho_have small feet and nands, and at an l‘.\rly nge they begin to wear tight shoes. The re- sult is that their fee cramped and do not grow with the other members of the body. Of course there nre some profes. sional models who began early in life and never cramped their feet with tight <hoes. Ihey have correct proportions. — I spenk generally of the mass of women who be- come models after they are eighteen years old. Women imagine |ffl||- have nece v to give them a sh. ance. A worse mistuke was \\nm.w.m.u: o large should 1 have feet in proportion; from an point of view they look better. not make them think so. A crusade ought to be waged against ring tight shoes, The tight shoe in the first place eramps the toes all to- gether until they lose shape and become frescoed with corns. The foot doesn't get the free cireulation of blood in 1t that it should have and falls behind in growtn, The big toe usually bears the the sin for tight shoes, and manages to have a large lump gather just where it joines the body of the toot.” The Ameri cans are more prone to wear tight shoes than the English women, The krench, outside of Ps are not devoted to the semi-barbarous habit either, and some of our finest models come fre the prov- inces of Franc The nobli are sup- posed to h: mall feet and “hands, but that i TONEOUs impression, as many notble s T could mention in Eng- land s their large feet, All Amcrican girls feel their m)hllllv, and hence the wish to have small feet. To produce a race of perfect-shaped women areform must be made 1n their shoes, eyen i]( /e have to substitute the ancient sanda But you Oh, Woman, Washington Critic. Oh, woman ! “Lhow who rulest the band box With a lairpin And would'st yank the lid off The ballot box Tor thine own pleasure and profit, Lead on ! In domestic matters thou art The boss, And why shouldst thou be Scepterless 111 all affairs of state? The hand that spanketh a baby It placed upon the helm, Whicl guided the governmental ship, Would Show an equa & And thou couldstlegislate e other plan by whieh the baby Could pull throngh. And some day run against its other for congress | Women make men of children. And the men unmake their maker. Which Is neither fair in faw or eq: And calls for retorm, As long as there arc 'boarding houses in the land, What's home Aud if we ura Prerogatives Yo will know how it is yoursclf “Trying to wind your wateh up With a night key, aiter election, And will kiek léss vigorously than now! Wherefore, oh, woman, Lead on My voice is still for cqual rights, And I dou’t care who knows it! Siened: Hexey W, Bram, or from Now IHamjshire. Altes Cady Stanton. S. Bunthorne Antiony, Kate Fieid, L. Devilyou Blake, Belva Lobkwood, et al! Yo nd wife and mother? nt you man’s Gossip For the Ladies, Lawrence Barrett's daughter, now a young woman in ber teens, has, in obedr cuee to her father's wishes, never seen a play or an o]n»m, he editor liberty is alw beeause liberty to survive ilant, and tiere is no woman. The Woman's Temperance Publication association received §: 0 lust r from its publications. It issues nine reriodicals aside from its leafiets and books Miss Mather's Juliet following gush from Joaquin Miller. Hear him! ““Hers is a spotless, pure and simple heart, a lily still wet with the morning dew.” Miss Henrietta Montalba is modeling L wedallion portrait bust in bas the late Mrs. George Augustus is to bo put upon her grave tralia. Catharine 'V from the Cl s pietur must be vig- blind side toa alls forth the Wauite, who graduated 0 law school 1 a quarterly mu w o Times. consid addition to legal literatur The first eandidate Brown university of the faculty e for admission to under the recent yote dmtting womer, is duate of the Providenee high school. She will pursue the study of dnuumn) solely Mrs. Ernest Ha London agen and unlmmh t, who established the for the sale of knitti from Donegal, Treland, is now in Canada with a view of found- ing markets for “her w She has spent $10,000 on this work, Miss Adeluide Detehon, the dramatic reader, appears to be the most popular of our Ameri girl ud. She was en- thusiastically ree \ London last year,and now has uvhi\-vml a marked success both in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Mlie, Sardou has given her father so many anm-hl'\ for writing plays which she could not be allowed to that he has at last taken the hint, ana his play AL codile” is guaranteed not to bring the slightest blush to the cheek of modesty. With all our boasted progress we ap- pear to have been going backwand, at least so fur as femule suflrage is con- cerned. Miss Catherine Craft, of New Jorsey, who has just celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday, says she voted for Jefferson for president. T'lie next royal marriage will be that of the Princes Elizabeth, of Saxe-W eimar, 10 the Grand Duke of 1\4'hwuhl||g‘- Schwerin. The bride-elect is upward of thirty sold, is marrying for love, and her wedding dress cost $15,000, Her chances of happiness appear to be good. It is at Iast settled t Dr, Mary Walker is not to be Miss Cleveland’s suc sor a8 editor of Literary Life. A cruel Chicago quill-driver settled the question by suggesting that as she doesn't kngw how o clothe herself sho wouid not b likely to kno w how o clothe her thoughts, Ll A Public Telephone. Chicago Hegald: A South W merchazni, who has been sorely pest wustom house oflicials using his tele- phone, grew desperate the other duy and o it of anger printed this sign ter stry A PupLic OFFICE 15 A PusLie Trusr, Bur A Pusiio TELEPHC Nuisanc Contemplating the inserviption with a great deal of satisfaction, the merchant nailed the sign near the telephone, since which time” he has suffered immunity frow the custom housc erowd. SUNDAY, THE WAYS OF THE WEDDED ‘‘Now at the Hearth We'll 8it and Let the Winter's T( mpest Beal ng and BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING: Seven Ways of rrying—What a Man Wantsa Wife For—Work of Authors’ Wives—Marry- ing the Whole Family. o My Wire, Lee O, Narris. Wiy need you care, dear wife, or heed ‘Thie passing of your early vra Wiiat thoueh the liies persede ‘T'ne springtime roses of your face? What thougl the azure of your eves Has mellowed to softer blue? i irest tints that deck the skies Arecaught trom twilight's fading hue. Why should the ripened fri grot 118 summer bloow, howe'er 8o fair? though Time should set n your hair? of the rose nic petals pressed, Nature spreads her earliest snows Above the flowers she loves the best, What care we for the vanished years, Save for the fruit their summers brought; What caro we tor onr fallen tears, Save for the rainbows on them 'wrought? Why should we mourn the joys we shared, OF see them perish with regret, Sinee on the fruit our nearts have fared, And meniory keeps tho rainbows yet What though our winter time has come, And sumner’s buds and blooms expire? Loye hath an ever radient home, And bids ns weleome to its He dywelt with us through all the spring, We shieltered him from summer's heq Now at his hearth we'll sit and sing, And let the wintry tempest beat. Does He Love Her “If T could enly h i as he used to in” our ¢ married life, that he loves me, T beli could go to work again without feeling that every- thing is such a dreary failure,” said a woman to me once, writes Emily Bouton in the Toledo Blade “You do not doubt hi asked, “0, T suppose he cares, but he never, neve tells meso,” she replied, with a pas- sionate sort of wail in the tones of her voi Wo just zo on week after week, eating and urmLu.g, ressing, working and sleeping, and thit is all there is of it Lol bin e heEwoIH HaFaRi T woOl] yass entirely out of his life, for he never seems to notice what 1do, never speaks one tender word to me any more. And yet he did care; but it was simpl a habit he had fallen into, and unl shocked 1mto a realization of what he was doing, the dayswould go on and on, and the conviction of the indifference would grow deeper and decper, until the love would go out in her hearl for aye. And then it would be too late ! I shall never forgret the glow of ple: that used to irradiate the plain, face of nman 1 knew, at some unex- pected word of fondness or enressing action from the wife he loved, whose only sin was omission from sheer eare- lessness. And then, suddenly, be folded his strong arms across the stilled heart, and his ears were deaf to her voice, and her touch had nopower to awaken him to life. Then how she regretted the lost opportunities, his is the cruel eross of life, to be Full visioned only when the ministry Of death has been fultilled, and in the place Of some dear presence is lvlll empty s What recollected services ean then i i ave been? just affection®” T 101 of cost. lded ve qlmlwl 1. the pain which *the “1. nee It1s not only thos who forget to keep t ection brightly burning 'by words and deeds. I'he gay young girl, that strong, vigor ous youth, both fuil of the luxu ing that health and_animal spir ofttimes forget the loving word, the ten der caress,to the mother whose heart hi beaten all these yenrs a full hope and pride for their future, you feel inclined to be. carele maiden and brave youth,and to giv of thought and ecare to those who ha denicd self for your sake, as she has done, remember that the coming when you will stand “full visioned’” le her still form, and thinking bitterly, if you have a heart, of the “might have been.’ And yet it isnot only young men and maidens who forget to make home hearts glad by loving words nnd ten- der actions. r is this care- lessness confined to the home circles. Friends hold 1 1o areticencee, 50 far s expression is concerned, of their kindly fecling toward each otl They o on weck after week, meeting often, conscious of the excellence of which they do not speak, full of kindness of thought, which may sometimes, when chance arises, be pul_iuto deeds, but too often letting *“'silence™ multiply when it would be o casy and o clurming (0 break and to throw them Be not chavy of loving words to dear ones, nor of pleasunt, appreciative ones to those avound you. Itis hard to tell what the influerices may be upon the fu- ture of the Iatter, even” though they be not of those whom you have gathered into your heart of heart Faith in the present good, hope for the , courage to do and dare—thes all often inspired by w chance expres- sion of kind appreciation that costs the speaker absolutely nothing. I do not mean that we should overflow with praises that wre meaningless or utter what is untruthful and misieading, but that we shall be alert and thoughtful, that no moment when kind words may be spoken shall slip by and leave them torever unsaid. We are all too prone to take things for granted, to live by each other day by day und speak of myrind things, but scldom suy the full, sweet words that would havé brought gladness to the heart and sunshine to the lite of those who may perhaps seem to have the least need of onr ministrations, The First Baby. Columbus (0.) Dispateh, Do you notice that young Eyes of blue a stache yellow? He's 50 happy that he can’t coneeal his joy, Why 1e's a daddy He's & papa He's the father of a bouneing baby boy ! What & grin expands his features As he greets his fellow ereatures When he meets theni in the morning coming down, My! How Lié slaps you! iow he He is cortainly the craziest man And he never tires of telliy What the baby weighed, or dwelling On its beauty and its rare tutelligouce. et-- We'll not tell him, ! Though we're certain rhat it's like all other babes in looks and sels ks Beven Ways of M Brooklyn Magazine: Thy separat ud distinet ways in wlich the nuptial knot may be tied, the attending expense of the different modes varying from $1 to §1,000. The least expensive, and the one seldom adopted, execept in cuses of elopement, is that afforded by the justice’s oflice. T'here a couple ecan be firmly united in the space of a minute for a small sum. It is customary for a groom to dress as he may please when the marrisge 1s to be perforined by a justice, and a dress-suit wonld be sadly out of place in the musty luw oftice. The one at advantage of fho justice. shop mar- ge is its che As some people ul;y et to being married | by s justice of the “peace, preferring the How DECEMBER sanction of the ehurch in addition to that of the law, the young people may visit a parsonage instend of a justice’s office with the same vreparation. The cere mony may be ft s imformal when performed at the ‘minister’s home, the ¢ difference being that not less than , botter still, 5 or &10, should be paid for the service, although there is no dixed sum charged. The most popular ceremony among people who do not class themselves as in ‘'soc and also among many who do, is quiet home wedding, where the bride| red in a suit of plain white or a traveling dress, and the groom in a plain black ¢ brown business suit, where only a fow friends and relatives are present. The affair is informal, perhaps & modost sip per or lunch bring served after the cor mony 18 performed, and the enfire ex- pense to the groom being covered by $20 or even less. This is the most popu wedding ceremony, and this is the way in which fully 25 per cent of young peo ple are married xtin point of favor and inexpen siveness is the informal church wedding, being similar in all things except that the service 18 verformed within the portals of the church. 1f the uaffair is strictly private the bride and groom may be un supported, or have bridesmails and groomsmen, as they ple In the lat. ter case full-dress snits should be worn, 1 sing the_expense. The “full-dress wedding,” as it may be ealled when the ceremony is parformed at home, is next in favor. borate trousseau, full-dress suits, bride and groomsmen, flow- ers in abundance, and & host of invited uests are the requisite, followed by a reeeption, feast or lunch, as the con- ing parties may desire. The scventh and ‘last, and most pop- ular, is the full-dress afftur performed in church, Among people who desire to » astir in society this is the favorit expensive, and” in many cases un- ctory What a Man Wants a Wife For. Pittsburg Dispatch: Let me join with “Mabel” in giving society women n hint usefulness. No wonder that men in Wwomen's company ao They are diszusted all, of course, but too with them. Not many are. Now, let me tell you what a man wants a wife fi In the first place to love her, and in return to be lov In the next place he wants her for @ helpmate. In case of gickness who can do more than o loving wifey When you are siek, Mr. Buchelor, a wife comes' in mighity handy. In health all are your friends, but in sick- ness none are to be depended on except your wife and mothe Tell “Bertha™ to keep on | hofekeeping It isn'ta burd knowledge to carry, even if she | do the cooking. It muakes you so inde- pendent that you don’t have fo take im- pudence from a cook, and in ¢ she caves you suddenl,y will kriow low to get your cent bite to eat. If he doesn’t think more of you for knowing that much he hasn'tany heart. Remember th: and poor to-| taken wings make would be could teil you wrning rich to-day fortune has Bertha'™ will dsend to any man, 1 some y amiteresting things about the way d in married ife,and how 1 have had to struggle along. Maybe 1 will take the notion to jot them down some da I am very proud of the part I have taken in helping my husband along. Woulda't Marry Whole Fan Pittsburg Dispateh: “Yo:ng man,’ the stern parent to the applicant for his daughter’s hand, *“‘ave you sure you can support a family “I—I wan't m—making any tions on that,”” stammered the mun; L only want the girl, you Autho: Some authors have edged their indebteness to their 1t 18 admitted by the most cynic women make excellent erities, and thei wgment 15 usueily sound. “Molicre,” d Addison, ed to read all his come s to his old heusckeeper as she sat with him at her work by the old chimney nd he could tell the success of n the theater from the recep- tion it met at hisfireside, for he obsery that the a followed the omian diled to laugh in me ‘Tom Hood had such confi *s judgment that he r and ¢ sted with her Many of his articles were - to her, and her ready memory supplied him with his references and Guotations, He frequently dictated the fivst draft of his articles, although they were v finally copied out in his pecul y n « which wi i ..m,.m.l that it was' once o by printers to teach their compositors a first iind casy lesson i reading handwriting. Mueavlay read all his articles to his sister before sending them to the press, and Anthony Trollope sumd that no person had ever read a line of his manuscript but his wife, y great advant- age in matte The most noteworthy authorship are those of Samuc ter and Anna M Land of William and Mary Howitt, Mr. and Mrs, Howitt worked together for fitty-six y and wrote not fewer than 340 volun Unlike j f “women of mind,” rged her domestic How- st hotse- calenla- young Know.” freely 'nee in his 1 and r he wre examples of joint lelp of nowledged. The hero to the front—the wite is hid- whkground. “Oftentimes,” wdell Holmes i his **Pro- bles “us I haye rene alone come den in the 5 Oliver Wi sor at the Breakfast ' n swinging on the w n that long, sharp-po'nted, black eradle, in \\Imhl love to et the great mother rock me, have seer 1 ship giide by 15t |(.< tide s if drawn by Some invisible tow- lmw- with a hundied strong arims pulling ; her sails being unfilled, her streamers s drooping, she had neither side- vheel nor sternwheel; still she moved on stately in her serene triumph as if with her own life. But I knew that on the other side of the ship, hidden bencuth 11 that swam so majestioally, a little steam-tug with a heat e and arms of iron that was buy- ging it close and dragging it bravely on d I knew that if the steam untwined her arms and left the ship it would wallow and roll about and drift nith 1d thither, and go of witn the refluent tide, no ong Andso 1 ve known nius, bigh-decked, Wide-sailed, gay-pennoned, the brav toiling arms and Lrave, warm-beating heart” of the faithful little wife thut nestled close in his shadow and clung to him so that no wind or w could part them, and dragged him against all the tide of CNMStanees, wouid soon have gone down the stream and been heard of no more, " Many authors and journalists known tousfind in their wivés and daughters nt amanuenses, who not only make good copyists, but suggestve liter- ary assistants vible is the loss of b an assistant. Sala has recently puu.u ssion to his grief at the loss of M lu. He deeclaves himself a heart-broken and desolate old man, ut terly without ambition; and he corts unl_» seems havd 1o please, advertise a lady secretary and received no fower than 435 applications, but, he udds, with @ touch of irony, “the amaunensis who is now kindly assisting me is not one of the 415, I'ne novelist, Alphonse Daudet, had dotermined to r n & bachelor, by cause he was afraid that if he made & wrong step in warriage be might dull more than one full-freig that on { icicl | & veteran | shot 1886, ~-TWELVE PAGES bcc Saxe's Beautiful l)1splay OF HOLIDAY GOODS, Before you make your purchases. Cors 15th and Farnam 8ls., Opera House Drug Store. Prices as Low as the Lowest: 50 designs in Manicure Sets, from $1 to $30 The clebrated Mrs. Cobb’s Goods a speeialty. 100 designs in Dressing cases, from $2 to §65, Beautiful Odor and Jewell Cases in plush and leather The latest designs out, in Card Cases, Purses and Port- | menies, with coin sitver trimmings. 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The appy . one, 1 is of many and was. herself, b jon proved a picture of the tia work is an att bit of blography: *She has been,” says his brother, “thy light of his heatth. the regulator of ~his work, and the d | And draweth the Lof his oftspring. counselor of his inspiration. 15 | Jie spendeth his shekels in the purchase of not a page that she has not revised, ri fine linen touched, and enlivened; ana her husband | To cover the bosom of his has borne witness to her devotion and in- | Famil Ugmlu collaboration in_ the dedica- | Yet himself is seen at the tion of *Nabob:* but she would not Wity one suspender,” tLis dedieation to appear.” Onc salihalsinltogatiier wrelclied, related, he had & sentimental and dra- matic scene with his wife, concerning which he remarked: “This seems, my dear, that has slipped out of a'nov “1t is more likely, Alphonse, reply, “to form " chapter that will slip into one.” cates of the eity opular Names of Cities, Baitimore—Monumenal City. Boston—Modern Athens; Hub of tho Unive Brooklyn—City of Churehes Chieago—Garden Cit, Cineianati—Queen Pars of Americ Clevelan Detroit—City of th Indiznapolis—Ruilr Keokuk, Ia., Louisville-—-1° Loweil—-City of Spindles. Milwaukee—Cream Caty (from t of its bricks) hville—City of Rocks ew Haven -City of Elws ew Orleans—Crescent City ew York—Gotham; Manhattan; pire City Philadelpl Brotherly Lov Pittshu Portland Rochester City. St. Lonis Sun Frane Washin tances Miss Eliza drove writ oespite her .1+| SWACOBS O], CONQUERS PAIN, ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS. City; Porkopolis; Henry George in San Francisco, San Francisco Chr It sounds strange to hear of He orge, nomi- nee for mayor of New York, and his enormous vote. Tmet the other night o man who knew nim ve intimately when, years ago, the legisliture created for him the oflice of inspector of g meters. It was nur for his benelit, and a friendly ac ry elever man, who was poo snry Georze is not rich now. Indecd, it is an open fiet that at no time has he been ) and the fight he in New York i8 all the more sug- e was chosen purely its Iabor i But lvlvm tthink he's quite aspoor as he was in San | 0O, Or even some tim y after the publicaiion of “Progress and Poverty.” When that singular book was making its little the gentleman 1 speak of met Georg the set. “By the way, Geo writing a book on pol “Yes. IUs just out.” *1 he: deal about it can 1 get a1 copies, and if you'd buy it fr me more good.” And the gentleman waited till the po- litical economist went and brought him a copy of “Progress and 1>o:. and 0 Yoars—Cured. very glad {0 pocket the mone 187 N, Chester St Bultimo Whatever 5" V& (.:-]nru\- holds on ll?: r {irY yoars [ was subject fo o : d rheumatism in my left arm and shouldor subject ol property, sod many of his Exery possiblo remedy was tried, but of old friends will be oniy too glad if he ean no avall 1 tried St Jucobs Ol muke s fortunc, They are not politieal Lo bottivs, ceonomists, und they will not ask Lim to HE divide it with them Quaker City; City of Smoky City; lron City. Forest City LN, Y. —Fiour City; Flower \Imm City, risco m ,( ity of Magnificent Dis- —_— : oth Penbody 18 still a vig- and an active philanthropist ahty-four years o, have you been cal cconomy?'’ “I have a few 1 don’t mind 1’ her n me direet. 1t will do wis W. I HEESON, Scalping the Scalper n Francisco Call: So severe have the 15 of the s AHN s been in the trag A new deserip- tion of ticket has been adopted ona num ber of eastern railroads. Jt has lately been introduced on those roads leading into Sult Lake City, and will probably be adopted before loig by the Southern” Pa citic. The ticket is divided into the usnal number of coupons, but at one end of it there is hular which must be regulated by the ticket-seile s consists of the following words printed down the end of the ticket - Malo, Seven Yoars on Cratehos. Female, Mre. Phohe Hice, 1205 Mad) Slim, Rt Louls, Mo., suffered (rom i od and shio usod crutehes. By s stion of St Jucobs OIf she tod instantaneously and G- wiletely ourcd Gardiner, Mai inro o for o 1 mi mattox Co., Va For two yes Cred with neiralgla in its most stubl id with most acuto puins in every part of the hody My phiysician had given up all hope Bt WJacobs Ol guve me instunt cusing all pains in the Tinbs 16 ce ROBERT 1 ) wora Stout, Young, Old, Middle-aged, ally ¢ Toothache ¢ Mr ¢ M tootha Jie suys THECHARLES AV clling agent punches ont the und the conductor thus has L his p. cription passenger perfeetly marked Cslightest dinger of the Wrong man or woman - What Hit Hi Herald: i stopping i burglar's flight " 1 Vraator of the Tuird P “Two wi my buat FREE FROM OF [ATES ANT SAFE. 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