Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 9, 1887, Page 11

FINE CLOTHINC! FOR Men, Boys and Children IS OUR SPECIALTY. We Aim at Fumlsmng SUITS AND OVERGOATY EQUAL TO CUS- TOM-MADE. We are showing the best and FINEST STOCK Ever Seen in this City. Including all the Latest Novelties. Fing Furnighing Goods, AND HATS Is Complete. We have a nice Lline of UNDERWEAR, Wiich cannot be excelled. Robinson AND Garmon, Frank Ramge's 0ld Stand, 1341 Farnam-st, THE HOME OF THE PRESIDENT A Description of the White House—Habits of the Chief Exeoutive, THE FIRST LADY OF THE LAND The President's Salary—How the Moajority of Our Chief Magistrates H Struggled With Poverty ~Public Life. (Written for the Omaha Sundty Bee) In the midst of a park between the treasury and the building containing the war, state and navy departments, with the river as its rear view, Lafayette park, in which General Jackson in bronze sits upon an impassible horse, facirg it stands the white house. It 18 170 feet long, 86 feet wide, and three stories high. The first or basement story is devoted to the culinary and laundry departments. The second story contains a vast vestibule, flanked on either side by waiting rooms, ovening respectively into the east room, the green room, the red room, and the state and private din- ing rooms. rooms, devoted to oflices and private chambers for the president and his family. Overhead is an attic, surmounted by a copper roof which continually leaks. Sail up the Hudson on & summer day, and you may count twenty houses on 1ts bunks of finer architectural beauty than the white house, lifty better furnished. Yet the path to this house is strewed with many disapvointed hopes and ambitions. and a broken heart or two. Resurrect and verify the skele- tons of Webster and Clay, of Brecken- ridge and Douglas, of Greeley and Han- cock, and ask them what it is to have run and lost the race for the white house gonl, and they will tell you it 15 to sufli pair, the smart of which burns for lif T'o be a four years' tenant of this house, reat free, is to be the head of 50,000,000 people, and the only qualitications for the tei ed by the constitution ure American birth and an age of thi five fourteen of which must be actual To re August personage, nd in_his pre ence, to grasp lis hand, but little cere- mony is required. Through the open iron gates on ¥ YLVANIA and up the semi-circ blooming shrub and v UE gging, by passes' the AVE L ower plain American cltizen in_ quest of the president. Under the pil- lared porch and into the ibule hall with a pointed Je on quill in hand at one end, he walks unchallenged inel gun in hand, unmolested by any policeman. ‘The roreigner no- tices the absence of these functionaries, the American citizen never looks for their presence. His card is requested by an attendant in better clothes and with easier manners than the ordinary door servant, who disappears requesting the visitor to wait until the presidentis made aware of his presence, and so gracious is the attendant that the visitor feels at home and during the waiting interval peeps in at the east room, charmed with the grand gl chandeliers, the hes plate mirrors and the life size pitur Mrs. Washington, “dear Patsey." husband’s letters always called her. attendsnt retarns 1o inform the v that the president at that particular honr engaged; the attendent knew he would be engaged and disappeared sinply as a matter of form, for if the president were at the disposal of everyone who ealled to see him as a curiosity arithmetical caleu- ation will demcnstrate his leisure mo- ments during the presidency. To b nee the deprivation the plain American citi- zen is shown through the various colored rooms and emboldened by the liberty granted, he requests 10 see the bedrooms of the president’s private family, which request is politely denied. The plain American citizen n with other plain American citizéns body, called & delegation, from a dis- tant state, to urge the claims of some other citizen for an appointment as post- muster of a country town. At a given hour, definitely appointed by previous arrangement, the delegation, attired in new clothes bought for the oceasion, for the event will forever be a marked page in their life hstory, seek the white house, and are ushered into the private oflice of the president. A mutual introduction 18 given by the president’s pri secre- tary, with & word of explanation for the nterview. There stands the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, not half as pompous as the chief of a de- partment, not a bit better dressed, worse than thousands of men seon at any hour on Pennsylyania avenue, ordinarily with nothing extraordinary in grace or person to distinguish him from an hunsble citi zen, Then the spokesman of the delc tion begins his carefully-prepared s the work of d if from Virgit Kentucky, it is jong and solemn, with nothing left understood, s tive sometimes in north or like. the nominas if from the west, it is business- If, during its recital, the speaker, hed, hesitates, the president conld suggest the supplying word, hke the prompter at the footlights, the for the president has the self-same specch a L times before. If the delegation imagine that the lurking smiles of the president's countenance means conviction of the reasons deduced by the speaker and con- strue it into n committal favorable to the result of their errand, it 18 because the delegation ure novices in sceking prosi dential patronage. He may be thinking of a thousand things other than the sub- jeet before him and the smile is stereo- typed, only indicative of the desire to wake things pleasant all around. At the conclusion of the speech the president s the voluminous papers,petitions ndorsements, enough to per the green room, bows the delegation out amid their bearty good wishes for his health and the suceess of his administra- tion and then—reads the voluminous papers? Noj; he quietly sends them to the postmaster general, and that oflicer in due time gives the matter attention, And s0 go all communications addressed to the president soliciting office, to the secretary of the department in which the oflice is sought. On stated days, on certain hours, in order to extubit himself, to the thousands of strangers aitracted to Washington, thereby satisfying American curiosity and democracy as well as economizing time, the president appears in the east room and submits to the greatest of Amer- ican burdens, hand shaking. One by ono he grasps the hands of the crowd assem- bled, and to the idle looker-on at the show, the scene is a pantomine illustrat. ing the declaration, “All men are born free and equal.” To these informal hand-shakings no initiation is necessary, the general public is welcome; cleanly dress and good behavior are the only re- quisites for admission. Democracy wus strained to its utmost on one of these band-shaking occasions long ago, by the appearance of a cartman in overalls, with checkered jumper, and muddy boots, who gresped the president’s hand in his own honest but dirty palm before the doorkeeper could overtake him. Dur- mfi the congressional seasor from six to a dozen nightly receptions called levees are given at the whité house, the number depending on the length of the session. From tivehundred to three thousand people attend these levees, which, like the hand shaking reception to-day, are informal, the invitation being general. Each one is presented to the president, and his wife assisted by a few 1nvited friends, by In the third story are fifteen | the marshall of the district of Columbia. After THE HAND SHAKING PERFORMANCE, osts are free to wander at will through the spacious drawing rooms, their prom- enade being enlivened by the red coated Marine band, wafting on their strains, mournful memories of Gaetano Canise, the Masis and the Sardos and a_scoro of other Italian musicians who were brought over to America’s capital in the early part of the century to found musi- cal art in the orfi:mumon of a national band, and then thrown venniless on the world with the jurning discords of broken promises in their ears nstead of musie, because no appropriation was made to establisn musical art at the capital. The Washingtonian is conspicuously ahsent from these levees unless he have friends from a distance visiting him, to whom he desires to show the sights of the town. The crowds are usunll{ strangers and in their far-nway homes for months after- wards they delight mwmnf ears, tellin the wonders of a presidential leven, an how they shook hands wiih the president. Formerly at these levees refreshments were distributed to the guests, but the hospitality proved ruinous to carpets worn out by crumbs pulverized under foot und upholster stained with spilled wine and the custom was abolished, stopping quite a leak in the president’s household expens New Year's day is open house day at the president’s.” In regular turns, oflicially announced, the supreme court judges, the army and officers in full uniform, the foreign lega- tions in_court costume, senators and members, and the great American public ' call upon ~ the vresident and his household and to the music of the marine band always on hand,wish him joy and happiness to the accompani- ment of the usual hand shake. These New Yeur calls were introduced by Mrs. Dolly Madison, and have never been omitted from her day to this. The sizht of the foreign ministers dressed in the full court costumes appropriate to thc respective nations which they represent, at these gatherings, is pieturesque. On January 1, 1826, the Russian and French rs with their legations declined attending the presidental reception on account of the promiscuous crowd as- sembled, and addressed Henry Clay,then secretary of state, requesting him to ask the president to name another day on which they might call to renew the friendship of the zovernments which they represented towards the United States. John Quiney Adams, then president, de- clined the request unreasonable, which expression translated into firm dipiomatic English meant, impertinent. Thus America has survived without Rus- s1an and French assurances of friendship offered on New Year's day 1 For the performance of these plied by A HUNDRED OTHER DUTIES, the principal of which is the veto or ap- 1 of the laws when passed by both merican public up to March xl the president a salary of 2 year. In round figures that sum s 2,053,334 a month or $08.49 and a tritle over three mills a day, A goodly salary, say you, from which the president must save enough to die rich. Listen! How can he? At acostunknown to the public, he maintaina the domestic part of the white house, paying from his salary the retinue of servants from the chief 1n the kitchen to the chambermaid on the stairs. The equal of kings and emperors, he is expected to maintain the greatness of the American people as their representative, by the entertain- ment of the foreign legations stationed at the capital. State dinners form the medium of this entertainment, about a of which are given u season. No 11 affairs, these state dinners for the palate of your foreign mimsters i household zod fed over on necf wmbrosia. The wines must be the choicest, ull real, no imitation; the dishes filled with courses of culinary excellence anc the service unexceptionable. LFrom % to $1.000, according to the number gaests invited and the gencrosity of the host, each of these dinners costs, the bills of which are paid from the president’s salary. Any stint in these state enter- tainments or indeed in any item of his household expenses, while enabling the the president so economizing to save a portion of his salary has likewise sub- jected him to the reproach of the prople for meanness. Call the roll of prosidents and count the names of those dying rich multi- on the presidential salary saved. The public s OF WASHINGTON to his country, both as commander -in- chief and president, entailed only loss, but he died with $330,000. How? His marriage to the rich widow, Mrs. Custis, augumented his own wealth in 1759, £100,000, which efully invested in Ohio Tands and employed ascapital in tobaceo planting enabled him to die in 1799 the richest of all the presidents. The elder and younger Adams, than to Yunkee economy, did save something from the white house. On the very Fourth of July upon which Jefferson di Barbour, at a public celeb subseriptions to rel s poverty Mr. Rush, in the house, called atte to lus needs, Madison sought his estate, Montpelier, and the sale of a t of its land with o the oceusion required, r pressing needs gur life, but took his widow. Monroe just ¢ in Vv 0, n d humble pen. am Geuver- m exhausted rgely upon hispri sioner on his son-in-l r, in New Yor! ary and drew ins while pre sequent life at the Hermitage was a struggle against debts contracted for himself and others ording to Clay, Van Buren dispensed *'in the noble man- sion, one worthy the residence of the chict magistrate of a great people,a gen- erous and liberal hospitality.”” He ‘was shrewder thgn kson in his estimate of expenditures, and managed to die in comfortable circumstances on his own estate at Kinderhook, Neither Harrison nor Taylor lived long enough to earn the full presidential salary of $100,000, but of their successors, Tyler's early investment in western lands which doubled in value, was his main financial stay after his re- tirement, and-Fillmore 18 just a little cramped. Polk and Pierce “were com- pelled to TURN TO HARD WORK for maintenance aiter their four vears' season in the white house, and Buch- anan, well, no one has ever mquired about him, while Lincoln’s complications are best told in the tale of distress in his widow's letter begging a pension. Realizing the inadequacy of $25,000 a year for the sup- port o} the president, congress doubled the salary on March 3, 1573, dating its commencement from noon of the follow- ing day. This nicety in date was a ruse to avoid the constitutional requirement, forbidding the increase or diminntion of the president’s salary during the period of hiselection. He hiad been re-clected, and the meresse was really of salary, but his friends claimed that the period of hus second term ot offic not begin until after his inauguration, | and the increase was for another term than the one he wasserving. Analytical minds reason clo sely just twenty-four hours in the measure of time. Whether American presidents for the next hundred rs may grow rich on fifty thousand a year, the historian tell. Certainly in the past, life in the white house has not proved money making. The wife of the president is the most important personage of his household, by courte: THE FIRST LADY OF THE LAND. She is the social queen of the country, wnd her sway is despotic. She 15 in power a fewalo Jove, whose nuil is “‘the stamp of fate’ to many n scheme seeking presidential sanction through the medium s dent, and his sub- | pitiful | his own | veryclosely here; | the tale of | of her in present acdomipanied by a letter full of ce, and many a costly rou‘nded rnu Y nfl‘m nom;: poll:licnl aspirant, y telling her how beau- llf’l’ll and ht‘)‘vh’mrthfi qf‘her station she is, finds 1ts way to her presence, and in reciprocation she is expected to tell her husbaud how sadly the country needs the services of the sender. 1f she have wis- dom with her understandiug, she soon learns to grow suspicious of presents and declines them, like .Enes fearing the gift-bearing Greeks, An invitation from her is a command of obedience, taking lvracudencep( 11 others, and being a suf- icent cause fto break any engage- ment of & social nature previously made. Decline attendance at a card party at the house of the chief justice, when invited, if your inclinations suggest, send your regrets to the wife of the secretary of state, stating your inability to be pres- ent, as requested, at her dinner, and so- ciety will forgive you; but adopt a like course in return to an invitation from the first lady of the land and you commit a sin unpardonable in the social heaven. Another evidence of her power 1s her ex- emption from returning any call made upon her. Day by day during the season, from the windows of the white house the president’s wife may sce carriagesrolling along, containing the wives of supreme court justices, cabinet oflicers, congress men and foreign ministers, engaged in the duty of distributing ds, in ae- knowledgement of like favors showered upon them, and, laughing in her ¢leeve, she thanks the social law relieving her from such dreary drudgery. But for these and a hundred other socia nities the first lady is s to counterbalancing annoyances, She has no privaey in her household, for the White house is but a hotel, with ¢he American public as its guests, sou she is but the figure be- hind the footlight for a stare through the onera glass. How she talks, walks, dresses, and eats, her mcomings, and outgoings, her slightest look or gesture, all become gossip spread in the journals throughout the land, and what reality lucks in making the article sensational, invention supplies. Woe unto her if she blunders in the slightest form of social etiquette, for then the pressin opposition to her husband’s administration, deride him through her, while the ladies of the reigning cabinet ridieule her among thamselves, 'onvious of hiae position, su- perior to theirs., On the aunthovity of Justice Miller of the supreme court,most ot the presidents have been men of me- diocrity. ‘Their biographers say that most of them STRUGGLED WITIL PO for the was SITY arly youth. Happily such a condition of thin character ac- struggle, developed an oth of thought and char- acter wives were their help- mates in their early manhood learned little of the forms of court cti- quette to fit them for their future sptiere Hence the mistakes of the tirst ladies of the land have cuused forcign em dors used to court polish, to howl indi The Martha Washingtons, tisons and Harriet Lanes b n rare stars in the white bouse ment. gle ladjes listen! If covetous of the honor of being mistress of the white house, you discountenance mateimonis intentions on the part of the average man to await a president’s provosal. let us say to you incall sincerity, don’t. A four years, at bést an eight years reign is your crown surrendered to your suceessor, you pass into the world unno- ticed. and into history unknown but in ame, unless by extraordinary talents you have made yourself famous, and should your ex-prosident husband die in Iater life and leave you nothing, the in- fluence of your former position may se- cure you n government clerkship, noth- ing more. so, for the sturdiness of the quired in independen ! The missionary work of the religious tract society of London is carried on in 15 dif- ferent langua zes. Of the £,436 con ations that compose the merican' Presbyterian ehureh, no less than are reported vaeant. ‘The Revy. Clhiarles H. Spurgeon of London, said to be on the point of separating him: self from the Baptist union. There ara only three Protestant churehes on the island of Cuba—at Havana, Matinza and Cierfuego—all recently organized. ‘the Norwegian Lutberan synod has changed the location of their theological seminary trom Decorah, [a., to Minneapolis, Minn “The conference of Congrezationalists and Baptists, tor_the purpose of promoting co- operat:on and union, is to be held in London this month, Rev. Josenh Parker vrefers to preach from a pulpit rather than from A platform, On a platform, he says,a man’s legs are pain- (lull&' conspicuous, and his boots have a mean 0ok. Among the new decorations of the Metro- politan Maihodist chureh, Washington, of which Dr. Newman is still pastor, is a mural tablet eracted in memory of General Grant. Toveka, through the Commonwealth, is of- fering forty acres of land and £100,000 for the Lutheran colleze. The contestants for the college are Atchison, Topeka, Beloit and Omaha. Archbishop Rvan, of Philadelphia, will sail this mouth for Europe. He will preach the sermon on the oceasion of tl aving ot the corner-stone of the new St. Patrick’s ba- siliea in Rome, ‘There are 400 Mormon bishops in Utah, priests, 2,447 teachers and 6,554 dsacons. alt Lake City is divided into wards of eight or nine blocks each, and a bishop is put in charge of each ward, ev. John O. Foster, of Chicago, has been cted secretary of ' the association of the United States Christian commission, army aplains, and d Samaritans of the late r, north and south. lie Evangelical alllance of the United Sta sembles at Washington on_Decems- ber 8. Among the speakers will be Chief Justice Waite, Associate Justice Strong, of the supreme ' court: Bi of 'the Protestant dent Me- Cosh, of Prineceton: tor Joseph R. 1 lev, and Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist chureh. LA LS *henomenal Precocity, +'Oh, George!” eried young Mrs. Merry, running to meet her husband at the door. ir, ‘actually talk! 10 ever so many things. Come right into the pursery and hear him.” George went in, | “Now, baby," said mamma, per- | suasively, “talk some for papa. * | *How do you do, papa? " 3 baby. e 35 < B yS$ mamu **Wasn't that just as plain ber™ . George says it is and tries to think so « atically. plain ean Now say ‘I'm glad to see yon, papa.”" ““Du, da, boo, bee, boo.” cries mamma. He can Now you precious siy, ‘Are you erything! : honey bunny boy, well, papa*” ‘Koo, b, “T'her: ’r KoY { really tal de, 2o, 200." it is aid mamma, *‘Did you child of his age who could as he does? He can just say anything he wants to; can’t you, you own dear littie darhng precious, you?'’ “Goo, goo, dee, de, d " “Hear that? He says, ‘Of course I can,’ | just as plainl anybody could say it. Oh, George, it really worries me to {.uv«e | him 8o phenomenally bright. These very brilliant babies nearly always die young." . —— In another column of this issue will t found an entirely new and novel spec men of attractive advertising, It is one of the neatest ever placed in our paper, and we think our readers will be well re- paid for examining the surrosen dis- pluy letters in the advertisement of i Prickly Ash Bitters. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1887 ~TWELVE PAGES. 11 THE TEMPTATIONS OF GIRLS. Ella Wheoler on the Dangers That Threaten Young Women. THE VARIOUS ALLUREMENTS. Towns Wicked, But the Conntry Not Altogether Moral—Where ‘ents Make Mistakos—How Young Women Are Tempted. Written for the Sunday Bee by ¥lla Wheeler Wil- cor.—~Copyrighted. All my life girls have made me their confidante. When I was myself a girl, they sought me for sympathy and consolation. Since my marriage they have come to me for advice and assistance. It will be impossibie in this article to more than touch upon the various phases of temptations to which girls are sub- jected in this bad but jolly old world. In fiction and in journalism,the country 18 always represented as a place morally and physically healthful for girls. The city alone is supposed to teem with temptation for the innocent and ignorant, Without doubt the town offers more opportunities for folly and wrongdoing. Yet human nature is the same, in its varying moods, its vassions, and its weaknesses the world over; and there are phases of and causes for temptations in the rural regions unknown to the city- bred girl. _Youth is youth wherever you find it. Young blood flows swift and warm through pulsing v Young hearts long for companionship, young brains indulge in vague sweet dreams of pleas- ures yet to come. A healthful young girl can no more be content with prosaic duties, without ore day of pleasure to prighten her life, than a meadow lark can be contentin a To attend faithfully to the most commonplace tasks all day, to hear no word of praiss for her labors; and to retire at 8 o'clock on a ight evening, is little less than a turture to a girl full of sentiment and undefined longings, Yet this is the existence of hundreds of couutry girls, The parents regard an hour spent in pleasure as so much lost time. They ex- act industry and obedience from their olispring, invite no confidences, and ob- jeetto late hours or merrymakings. The young heart seethes in silent rebellion, and learns to hate 1ts lot, and lives n hope that something will happen to giv color to life. If the city idler, or the am- m hand, or the married seducer happens to tind her in that rebellions mood, why then we read 1n the news- papers an item about the *‘Strange D appearance,”’ or “Unaccountable Mesal- liance,” or “‘Shocking Depravity' of a hitherto respectable young girl. The heart-broken parents are crushed with shame and sorrow. They cannot understand why their beloved ~daughter should go astray. Ah!if they had only shown her demonstrations of their love, they had only sought to know her secret thoughts and longings, if they made an effort once a month to give her a few hours of pleasure, she need not have Zone astray. ¥ HEARTS fied with the love which only bestows food and bodily i and finds no_tender expres crave something more than “‘good care,” are never The fluttering praises of an unworthy admirer often win a foolish girl's heart, which starves in the atmosphere of un- demonstrative parvental affeetion. I personally know a case which trates this pomt. A young lady of refincment, but born with that passionate love of music, eolor, and perfume which is so dangerous toits , was compelied to live the most of lives. Her mother was a de- vout Christian, whose only command was that her daughter should attend church Sundays. Her her was a domestic tyrant who desired the lights out at 9 o'clock, and objected to his daughters entertaining company. One superb summer evening—which the full moon rendered a pallid day—she walked down the quietstreet to talk with voung lady friend over the gate, “I have been in the kitchen all day,” sai nd I am just crazy for a drive izht. {lmfisell father to take me, but he went off to bed, and told me that was where I'd better go. 1 knew couldn't sleep, so I stole off to see you.” Searcely had she ceased speaking, When u handsome stranger passed, driving a fine equipage. “On,” whispered her friend, “there 13 that handsome corimercial man again. I saw him down at the store to-d He tried to flirt with me. “L wish he would ask me to take a drive,” smid our desperate young lady. “I'would go in a minute.” 1E MAN STARED at the young ladies with bold, admiring eyes. There was something in the ex— cited, passionate face fm courage to spe and said pohtely: fora drive. 1 wish you young ladies would take pity _on a lonely teliow, and accompany me." The calmer of the two girls turned away without replying. The other hes- itated; the man saw his advantage, pressed his invitation, and despi T friend’s urgent entreaties she drove oft with the stranger. She returned in half an hour declaring sl had done a terri- ble rash thing, but that she had brol illus- of one which gave k. He lifted his hat lovely evening tihe monotony of life at least, and one need ever know.” But it was found out, of course; the stranger boasted of his conquest, and the girl’s reputation was tarnished fore ents, in the country especially, are too much afraid of praising their chil- dren. [ believe it s better to risk spoil- ing a child thanto starve it to death. have noticed that children who are freely praised for evory well perform and for every dutitul zet 1dom sorrow into their parents’ lives, Mothers are too reticent with daughters subjects of vital importance to our Curiosity to investigate the mys: terions, causes many girls to read un- healthful books, or” converse with un worthy people who excite their imagina- tions and tarnish the purity of their minds. In the country, children ramble home from school together promiscuously, and reative Natare reveals many of her mysteries to wide open young ey mothers would satisfy th E osity of young gi all these mysteries, and te: ard the wonders ‘of nature 1ce, the temptation to personal investi would be removed. City streets teem with chean opportuns ities for flirtations with unknown men who designate themselves as “muashers.” Only the silhiest or most depraved of our sex risk lives and reputations by respond ing to them. A lady 1s seldom accosted or men in the day- A nandsome young girl who earns her living by hewspaper work, which calls he ofll recently told me t never received an insinuating rasing word or ook in all her ¢ THE PROFESSION OF AN ACTRESS 18 subposed to be more fraught with temptations than other avocations, but [ ao not know _this to be true. In one of our large cities west of New York there she had or embar- reer was a young lady clerkingin a dry goods establishment at the princely sum of $4 per week. Finding this' inadequate to er personal expenses of board, washing : troubled | litetreets of New | into all sorts of business | SPECIAL SALE OF ey S Velvels At75 Cents Per Yard, This lot contains 20 orings. These goods & different styles and col- re well worth $1.50.We will close this lot Wednesday, Oct. 12th at 75c Per Yard Mail orders filled. Send for samples. Thompson, Belden & GCo. 1319 Farnam St None will be sold until day of sale. "HILL & YOUNG, 1211 and 1213 FARNAM ST. FURNITURE Carpets, Stoves, House Furnis Weekly and_Montth Pay- ments. ing Goods. RILEY & McMAHON, Real Estate and Loan Brokers, 310 South Fifteenth Street. 0115 lots in Patrick’ add, from $1,500: $400 cash down, balance to suit. Corner 3ith and Calitornin, 150x150 Soveral chean lota in S8outh Omahu Nice acres in Bontleld cheap, Some desirable trackage lots, I b ncros good trackage, cheap, Good burgaius in all parts of the oity, A tine uore in Washington Hill 'CHAS. C. SPOTSWOOD, REAIL ESTATH, 305% South 16th Street. 1 have bargains in Vacant Lots, Houses and Lots, and_Business Property, always on hand 1f you have anything to sell or teade. or wish to 3031 8OU all on N1t b T and em What shall 1 do?” she asked. “Well, you kniow what sons improve ‘their situations,” he said, and left her to consider his words. Without doubt the managers of some theatres do abuse and misuse their power. Two pitiful eases have been recited to me personally within two years. « ETTY YOUNG WOMAN, who had been deserted by her good-for- nothing dissplute husband, resolved to muke her really fine voice a means of support. After much hard study and months of constant appearance in a small part, she begeed her manager to zive her a trial in a more ambitious role. He answered her that she was capable of better things, but he refused to advance her unless she sacriticed her self-respe to him. She is still appearing in her un- important role. Another more recent case was that of a young girl searcely out of short dresses She was almost born on the stage, a has played y from her child- ispure us a lily bud, and has cleather, she complained to her r. Sh blossomed into a lovely young woman who is anxious to make a success of her L.ruh-.umm. When she asked a well- known manager to give her his influence he promised to do so on condition that she gave him her honor in return, Surely no hell fire conld be too hot for suchmen, The girl 18 an orphan, and obliged to earn hor living by the profes- gion in which she was reared. The most dangerous of all temptations is that which comes through lo I know personally one case where a young man earefully and delicately won the confidence and gratitude and love of a working girl by the most gentle of ac- tions and ‘n repetition of thoughtful kindness Then, when he had made himself necessary to her life, he gave her the alternative ot sharing his unlaw ful companionship or never seeing his face again, The girl had the strength tosend him away, but she never recovered from the shock to mind and bod Men tempt women through their vanity and affections. Women tempt men through their emotiors or their ambitions. A clever young woman was desirous of living i uxury and respectability. She wo night and day to improve herself, beeame a brilliant musician and linguist Then she threw herself in the way of man who possessed money, but” whos soeinl ambitions were balked by and ex- ceedingly commonplace and uneducated ife. I'he man made comparisons, and finally fell into the e, 'he wife was divorced, and the scheming youg woman shortly filled the vacant position. I do not believe that the Creator made an any more wicked than woman. Both sexes have the same impulses and emo- tions. Women are compelled to fight ageinst their own weaknesses, and to combat those of men, Where ten women are tempted, two only fall. Where ten men are tempted, two only stand: And yet we are called the weaker sex 1f the pe: 3 severe for men us for women, and 1f the world demanded as high morality from them, they would be as good as we are. | FOR SALE EVERYWHERE® all disenses caused by any derangement of the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels. 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