Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1888, Page 12

g e~ R G P~ 12 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 1% -1888.~TWELVE PAGES, - IN THE FEMININE DOMAIN. The Commonpléce Woman—Wom- an's Age. SOME OF THE CREOLE WOMEN. A Plucky Girl—Muscular and Pretty— A London Crush—The Woman of To-day— Obgection. The Commonplace Woman. Louise Phillips in Chicago Times, ‘We have read, as you know, for ages and ages, Of a willowy maiden devoid of a spine; A fabulous, prehistoric young person, Who on white of an egg acd a cracker could dine. But 1 write to younfv of a commonplace ‘woman, Wh(;‘n“uhuckinxly healthy and fearfully ut! Who docsn't have headache or nervous pros- tration— Commonplace! What could be more so than that She doesn't “do” rushes, Nor has she a scrcen with a one-legged stork; She doesn't adore lemon-ice or But Kensington cat-tails or blanc- manges, prefers pork. She hasn't_a quilt of erazy, silk_patchwork, or the tiniest bit_of crocheted macrime’ e cannot perform Beethoven's sonatas, Nor sing but the most commonplace little ay. She hasn't a gift for the art decorative, Pasting Japanese monsters on Yankeo stone jar That stands 'in the corner to wsthetic, But that grieves to the soul the old house- hold Lar. paints songbirds nor crickets on china, o be drowned every day in our tea-cups, alas! Nor forms cabbage roses of velvet, Aund naught does she know of much-ham- mered brass. She cannot write, poems that glow like a furnace, Nor sonnets as snow, For if she ¢hops up her ideas into metre, There's a rush in the ebb und a nalt in’ the flow. She doesn't belieye she was born with a mis- unromantic, commonplace look so She ribbons on pld as the Apennine's s Unless, it may be, to be happy and well; Nor does she at all understand protoplasm, And look upon women who do as u *'seil.” But there's worse to be told of this common- place womags Who l)lwns neithér'dog, nor bird, nor pet cat; They say that's she really husbund lk:mr)nunx:!uvc] What could be more 8o thun that! Now, when we all stand at the last, dread tribunal, < Where great and where smafl are assigned euch a part, May;, the angels make ooom forsthe common- place woman, " ‘Who knows naught of liteature, science or art. in love with her Woman's Ages *“What is the most intepgsting age in woman?”’ was o questionssecently dis- cussed by an artist, an ‘dfjthor and a woman of soci The artst said that he did not like to paint the portraits of those between the ages of twenty-five and forty years. Before twenty-five the face has'an expectancy which’ charms. 1t is looking forward with joyous fresh- ness and hope and is full “of i }n-umim-,n, At forty years vhe chy 8 formed, and the lines of the nance are strong fop.the painter’ but in intervening years the fac lost its expectanay, 18 apt to be indiffe) ent, and has no particular inte author differed from the art He liked to study woman between the ages of thirty and forty, They had then the experience of the world and the joyous- ness of youth. In those days they were brighteést and nost interesting. The society woman thought that it was impos- sible ‘to make general answers to the questions, as individual women differ in regard to the most attractive age. Some are most charming at sixtaywyears, while others have passed th&i¢ prime at twenty. The best answer'would be that women are always beautiful to the friends that love them. Women." The creeles cling to med idea, which somehow has almost disappeared, that simplicity of attire best benefits -youth. Even if a young girl be not pretty according to rule, there is a certain charm which renders superfluous the magnificence of costly garments. Her slender arched feet must be well shod, and her pretty hands well gloved. All her life she has been taught that the business of women is to be beautiful; which is not hers by grace must be won by works. Fate may ordain that she do the cook- ing, but those slender fingers will never reveal the work of her hands, as she dons her gloves, spread “with cold crerm, as regularly every night us she says her prayers. Her finger nails must be cut jus a au point, and the lit- little half moon at their base never sut- fers eclipse. Dear to her are fine soaps, perfumes and sweet waters, Her hair is diligently brushed and braided, and she pays special attention to her teeth, Butall her time is not spent in this culture of exterior self. She sews for the older and younger members of the family, and for very poor friends. She busies herself in works of charity, and she helps the younger children with their music and lessons. She cultivates her voice or takes up another language. English comestrippling from her tongue with a delicious accent. What would not her American girl friend speuk their own language as da she does? And when she \ys the English slang of the hour, nothing can be more droll, more incongruous, She is not aware that it is slang. How should she know, when so many of her American friends use it? Surely they should know their own language. Home-keeping virtues, t00, are hers. She kuows wherein the glory of one washerwoman’s clothes differ from the dinginess of another. he understands the washing and mending mysteries of preserves and jellies, the curative propertias of alegion of tisancs A Plucky Woman, Atlanta Constitution: The great Hulda Moore case has ended by the capitulation of the authorities to the in- teprid woman. A histo of the case i years there leud between Mus, Moore and the Gholstous, of Athens, Pa., o prominent family whose lands adjoin he She; is said to have once asked a friend to pray for her, stating that she would pray for herself after she got even with the Gholstons. The feud culminated two or three years ago in a pitched battle between Mrs. Moore, nssisted by her husband, and the Ghols- tons. This led to-protracted litigation, in which the interests of Hulda and her husband were represented by Lawyer Strickland. Mrs. Moore refused to pay the latter’s fee, considering it exorbi- tant. Mr. Strickland sued and ob- tained judgment, rs. Moore called at the lawyer's of- fice and, having been given possession of the paper, for $emporary inspection soolly pocketed it and stalked out. An Cre Harper's Bazar the old fashi officer was dispatched to her house to arrest her. Hulda declined to accom- pany him. A posse comitatus, of six men next made the attempt and sue- ceeded in securing her company, not, however, until she had fourished pistols in o manner that was just awful, | and had inflicted a wound on one of her would-be escorts. She was carried to Danielsville, but not being guarded very vigilantly, escaped and to her home. made to secure her arrvest until last Fri- day, when a detachment of four men approached the Moore mansion. *Hulda had in the meantime converted the mansion into a respectable arsenal; posting herself in the door and one of the little Moores at an upper window, she opened fire so vigorously that the entire destruction of the invading forces seemed imminent. One who had ad- vanced nearest the rampart was in- duced by consideration for his personal safety to call for r. protesting, “Don't shoot, I am your friend.” *You had better get behind a tree if youare,” quoth Hulda. The bagtle ended in the complete rout of the assailants, who, discomfited, re- tired, leaving their intended prisoner the mistress of the situation. Mr. Strickland has withdrawn his suit, and the officers have informed the plucky woman that she will not be molested in future. Muscuiar and Gritty. ew York Sun: Trouble reigns at 705 Broadws There, on the first floor Frank D. Lawson, a handsome young man and Miss Leslie, an _industrious young woman of the blonde type had toiled at the knitting business for months in_perfect harmony wsth Mr. Duclose, the so-called Adonis of the store, whose business is shirt making. Mr. Duclose received thirteen silver doliars by expr He was in a jocular mood and to Mr. Lawson he said: STl bet you these $18 you can't hold them out in’ your hund for twenty-five minutes.” Dollars are hea and the hirteen weighed nearly a pound. Mr., Lawson, in a gencrous spirit, said: “Well, T don't eare to do so, but_per- haps Miss Leslie would like to try it.” The young lady who is well endowed with muscle, promptly accepted the challenge, and taking the dollars in her vight hand, kept her eye on the clock in the rear of the store. Accord- ing to Mr. Lawson’s story Duclose after she had held the money out ten minutes pushed her arm down, saying: you can never hold out.” etting scared, son, “but I told Miss Leslie to hold up her arm again. She did so, and kept it there for twenty-seven minutes by the watch, when to Duclose’s chagrin she vocketed the money. She consid- ered she had fairly carned it, and said it would do for her Christmas.” Duclose after that never spoke as he passed Mis > hy. Before he 1ssaid to huve smiled sweeily on her. Yester- day he brought suit before Justice White to recover the money. He was re- ferred to a civil court, where he says he will push the case and get his money back. Miss Leslie is equally deter- mined that he shall not have it, andso is young Lawson, who, for tak Miss Leslie’s part, has been ¢alled hersweet- heart by Duclo: She denies the soft impeachment. “*How could he be,” she said naively to a Sun reporer, hen Mr. Law- son is nlrcm\y engaged to a young lady.” “Well, she'd 1 doubt,” said Duclose, harshly. Mr. Lawson is studying during his spare hours for the medical profession. He looks at the affair .in a . practical light, and thinks Duclose’s challenge, s0 promptly accepted by Miss Leslie in his p! ce, is the best kind of evi- dence in her favor. especially as the *‘money was up’ in her own hands. e to have him be, no A London *“Crush,” This is from a descriptive account of a *‘crush” in London: Lady Colin Camp- bell wore a_low dross of ‘peach-colored silk, or satin, with a long train. She looked extremely well as she sloywly passed up the long room with her grage- ful, gliding step. Mrs. Oscar Wilde wore & peenliarly becoming liberty witk, with a faint tracery of slender green lines on a golden ground. So faint was the artistic design that one. would have have hardly recognized it as green had not the collar and other “fixjngs,” about which Tam a little vague, been turned up with silk or velvet in this color. The d and its wearer were cturesque. A girl with ex- quis iir of a lovely amber color, with threads of purest gold shining through it here and there, possessed very pretty head. When she threw avound her neck a long, soft scarf of amber silk her hair became, if possible, prettier than before from the proximity, which seemed to brighten it as sun- shine might. The Woman of To-Day. Baltimore American: In all the his- tory of the human race woman was never so charming, never so beautiful and never so0 useful as she is to-day. She has developed with civilization and ad- vanced with progrese, until her power has penetrated every department of the world’s work. Itis dificult to find any sphere of business activity in which she is not an important factor. Langtry Objects to the Bustle, Interview in the New York Mai! do not like to see a woman now with a bustle on as big as herself, and again as straight and slim as a Puritan. Ithink it breaks the charm to see a woman play tricks with her beauty that sort of a way. More than that, T object to the bustle on general principles.” I believe in letting the material of the grown do all the disguising that it is necessary should be done. Itis the only way that will allow & woman to look well either sitting or walking. The hard ‘“‘hay- bag” is bound to keep the one who wears it either leaning back in her car- riage or chair in the most undignified attitute possible or sitting bolt upright. In either case she is going to be ex- tremely uncomfortable herself and make her misery known. The Way of the World. How soon womin begins to assert her dominion over man, exclaims a writer in the Buffalo Commercial-Advertiser. We see some time on our way down to the oftice in the early hours afond father lifting a pretty five or six year-old across the str , putting her down, giv- ing her u fond kiss and a blessing, and then she starts on her way to school. Every few steps the proud parent looks back und repeats his adieu. If heisa little remiss in this a hearty “'coo” from the f; brings him to his senses, and he turns to wave and kiss hishand, And this he will repeat until she is well out of sight! How it cheers aman up though on his way to work to remember that such a dear child is one of the hest friends he has in God’s world! How he will work, what he will bear, how much he can endure during the day when he almost fanc that lIlm hears the soft little *coo™ cheering him on and way- ing him to toil, with an -injunction to “come back as soon as you can!” Can there be anything move tender, more true than this devotion of a father for his little girl? Butas she grows, poor fellow, she grows away from him. Her heart’s tentacles are not thrown out to fusten the ties existing between parent returned | o further attempt was | ahd child. *“Another, fellow™ appears, | and if the heart-stricken father ~hesi- tates, grie rotests, why his wife smilingly tells him that it is the way of the world, that he took her from her father. * And he can't forget that; though he is not satisfied that the ap- plicant. for his daughter’s hand and heart is anything like as splendid a specimen of the masculine sex ns he who made a similar and successful applica- girl’s mother. We believe there is muny a father in Buffalo to-night who would fervently pray, if he thought rayers would do it: “‘God, keep my ittle girl from growing old. x A Woman's Invention. Brooklyn Eagle: Wiener, the Swedish I r, has reached out with both hands, under the impulsion of an inventive mind, for something that shall send her thunder- ing down the ages as the originator of a device which shall mark her asa phi- lanthropist of rare genius. Mrs, Wiener has invented what in common parlance may be termed a front leg snatcher for horses, The many deaths by accidents resulting from runaways impelled her to study the question, and she has evolved an apparatus which,she. believes, will nccomplish the prevention of runaways with mathematical certain- ty. The model of her invention, she confessed, was not entirely complete— needed a spring or two and a buckle or 80 to muke it all right. The horse she used was entively docile, being of wood, so she could not give a practical illustration of the result to be accomp- lished by her invention. It con- sists first of a saddle around the middle of the horse containing two screw eyes, through which runs a strap, beginning at the crupper, and passing through the martingale down to the back of the left fore foot, where it is fastened to a ring around the leg. The leather, she says, can be of the same color of the horse, and _so satisfy artis- tic taste. When' the horse runs away the string is pulled from the erupper end and the harse tripped up. This naturally stops him, and if he is one of a team the other horse will stop, too, objecting to doing all the running away by himself. The appliance, she suys, can be used for saddle horses, but does not explain _how the rider may keep his seat when the hovse falls. Her motive in this invention she claims to be entirely philanthropic. She does not ride on horscback or in a carriage much herself, but me that this horse’s front leg snatcher shall help those who do. ‘I am sorry,” said she, with & laugh, that 1 can’t prevent men running away and getting married without knowing what they are doing, or I would haye kept my son from mar- rying an old spinster when he might have had an heiress worth £60,000.” Correspondents' Rates. Washington Critic: The following scheduleof rates, evidently the prop- erty of some correspondent who writes letters from Washington about society ladies, has been handed to this oftice by the finder, and the owner can have iton a favorite in society. ....81 30 ving lady is beautiful and accom- ng lady looks lilke Mrs, Cleveland. 2 is @ charming hostess..... 2i is immensely wealth y is of old family ng lady wears Worth drosse ng lady reccived with Mrs. ng lady has a distmL’un'uir Yying lady has a queenly grace . 1 ng lady entertains royally. .., 05 ying lady is in the white house sct.. 5 35 At this point the schedule was torn in half. and we regret that we are unable to fill out the bill for the further edifi- cation and guidance of our readers, —— HONEY FOR THE LADIES, A fashionable woman is always in love with herself. Striped goods will continue to appear mn endless varieties. A handsome woman is a jewel;a good woman a treasure. ‘What woman? ag) ble blunders. Marbled and watered plush is much in de- mand for fancy work. A passionate woman's love is always over- shadowed by her fear. The new bengalines for spring are very soft and light in its texture. ing basques are laced with narrow bon instead of cord. New braid patterns on spring tailor gowns are marvels of artistic design. Plaids and stripes will again be worn, but more by children than grown people. Sleeves to ball dresses and other full evening toilets are suspected rather than seen. The most fashionable coiffures still demand that the hair falls rather low on the fore- head. White embroidered muslins run very much to flounces. with insertions of varying widths for their other trimmings. Embroidered muslin gowns are now in the hands of dressmakers, who are making them up for spring and summer. Surplice waists lapping over one side and forming & V opening at the neck, are in favor for house dresses of all kinds. Two young Massachusctts women have gone to Buffalo with the intention of embark- ing in the profession of dentistry. Polonaises of embroidered have apron fronts, with lapping surplice waists, and much ribbon garniture, h feather fans are vle for debutantes. Theirs should be cocks’ plumes or else plaited gauze, All the girls in Pewamo, Mich,, excepting three, have availed themselves of the glori- ous opportunity that leap year grants, Gimps, galoons and elavorate passemen- teries are still in high fashion, and form the garnitures most widely used this season. A flower costumes for fancy balls, the Margurite and Lily of the Valley are espe- cially charming and especially expensive. Round waists and shirred basques are the features on the new suits made of em- broidered muslins for the incoming scas In gloves, glace and suede are equally fashionable, with the promise of high nov- elties both in cut and color for the near fu- ture. Canary yellow point d'esprit and accessor- ies of black velvet and jet make a very effec- tive and becowming gown for a dark bru- nette. As crab net of oxidized silver with a golden crab caught lightly in the meshes is among the most unique new brooches of the season. Mrs. Don M. Dickinson has made a good impression in Washinzton. She is consid- ered handsome, and the women call her “styhsh.” ‘This may be called a ribbon season so pro- fuse is the use of ribbons for the decoration of dinner, bull and opera house and 5 o'clock tea gowns. Dove-gray and cream-white pilot cloth fab- rivs will be very much used again next sea- son and during the summer for dressy after- noon gowns. Mrs. William Gamwell, of Providence, R. L,is probably the richest woman in New Eng- land. Her fortune is estimated at 12,000,000 o §20.000,000. Dressmaking departments in large estab- lishments are already making up first com: munion and confirmation dresses for the can- didates at Baster. Elien Spellman, the oldest woman_in New Hampshire, died at the age of 104, She lived in Concord and two years ago walked four miles a day easily. Some ginghams and percales will be made into basques with vests or revers of embroid- Only one of nature's tion for the hand and heart of his little | muslin will | not considered | ery, butin the Garibaldi waist, with box at in front and shirring ofther side and across the back of the neck will be far and away better style. Parasols of gingham ane sateen now_come to match those as closely as more costly fa- brics, and are so cheap as to be within reach of the most moderate purse. Tho Season for March, just out, gives no hint in its cuts or reading matter that we are | to have any important c outlines of fashions t! For pattern robes of embroidery, shirred round waists, v ith lapping surplice front, or else a deeply-turned-down Byron collar, are preferred by the best dressmakers, Marion Harland is to be the editor of a new illustrated magazine to be called the Homemaker, the publication of which is te be begun in Netv York in Yhe autumn, Red n handkerchiefs; blue stitched, are worn with muffs in preference to the more delicate white cambric, which can scarcely touch fur without losing its purity. ‘“‘Ouida,” who is sixty years of age, wears her yellow hair flying loose and light colored decollete dresses. Sho is engaged on a new ;lulvvl which is said tobe also rather decol- ete. Tennis flannel, a mixture of wool and cot- ton, combining the advantages of both,comes in gingham effects, and is plainly made up for mountain and country wear, as well as for house wrappers., Spriggs—‘‘How much older is your sister than you, Johnny!' Johnny—*1 donno, Maud ‘uster be twenty-five years, then she was twenty, and now she ain't only eightehn., 1 guess we'll soon be twins.”” It's just awful funny to hear three or four married women in a room talking about their husbands, It's he this, he that and he every- thing, and each he of each she is the queerest he about the house each she ever saw. Old-time lawns with impossible stri more impossible flowers are fully revived, and will be made up either with flounces all over or three flounces at 'k and very deep, much wrinkled drapery in front. Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw, of Boston, daughter of Prof. Agnssiz, has for eight years sup- ported free kindergartens in the poorest quarters of Boston and Cambridge at a sonal expense of as much as 0,000, & car. A 27-year-old womrn of Maldon, England, declined at_invitation to join the Primrose league, tvith the reply that statistics of the past fifty years show that ‘“‘the marriage rate rises when a liberal government is in power. First Party- .y, Jones, who is that tall, angular and extremely thin woman talking to Bi Second Party—*‘Why, that's hi wife.” First Party—"You don't say so! ‘Well, I think if I were Bicks I would have her upholstered. Stripes of contrasting material,as gay plaid Scotch gingham, with French embroidery and silk surah in tartan hues, beside wrought mull, are, as materials for spring costumes, much newer and more stylish than either beautiful or useful. Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes is ever her husband’s faithful counselor and friend. She is one of the dearest of old ladies, and is ways on hand to welcome the many visito who come to pay their respects to her distin- guished and popular husband. Buttons have lost their identity since the rage for braiding set in and are of little im- portance, being as quiet in style as possible. The favorites are the small bullet-shaped ones, croched covered, or else still smaller flat ones, covered with black silk. There is a ladies' “New Idea Club” in Stockholm, Sweden, that proposes “‘to liber- ate women's dress from French fashion,'’ by bringing out new designs for various toilets of their own invention. Some of these are very pretty, picturesque aud practical. Mrs. Margaret Arnold, of New Holland, 0., if she lives till July 4, will be 111 years old. She quit work three years ago, is too feeble to talk, and spends most of her time in a rocking chair smoking an old clay pipe. She has been an inveterate smoker for sixty years. There are lace curtains in Robert Garrett's million-dollar Baltimore mansion which cost $200a yard. When Mrs. Garrett's dress- maker 18 short of trimming for a ball dress she takes one of these curtains, and the so- cicty reporter raphsodies over Mrs. G.'s splendid “point.” . The latest importations of bengalines for spring wear are figured in “set 'designs, printed on'grounds of the various new colors and the selvagos on one side are in block pat- terns of colors that repeat thoso of the fabric. These selvages are made to form the borders of skirts and draperies. In pretty gowns for afteroon wear, the most dressy corsage-fronts have guimps of soft silk or China_crape at the top, with vel- vet revers below it, across the chest forming anarrow vest. With such dresses the sleeves are gathered to a cuff of velvet, though these are not always full at the top. New ginghams, sateens, percale and printed cotton goods are being made up for the next season in very pretty, simple styles, with full pleated overskirts over under the draping being coffected from the ine, and given easy sweep by a slash in the overskirt on each side, showinga panel of the underskirt. Miss Kittie C. Wilkins, the horse queen of Idaho, is somewhat tall, with a high fore- head, regular features, and rather light hair, being somewhat of a blonde, Her eyes are dark and her manner very charming. Alto- gether she impresses one as a very intelli- gent young woman of about twenty-cight. She owns nearly 800 horses. In addition to the brilliant red which, es- pecially in cloth or flannel, is now so much used for children’s dresses, have been seen some equally pretty frocks made entirely of blue. A dress of sapphire blue plush is trimmed with the long-haired black lynx fur. Gray cloth gaiters that button above the knee are worn with this costume. Mrs. Livermore was recently snowed up in New Hampshire, and the heroic efforts made bya party of gentlemen in digeing her out and taking her to a train led her to say, and to say it boldly, that ‘‘American men are the best in the world.” And she adds emphati- cally: “This I will persist in declaring for- ever, even if they are tardy in giving us the ballot.” There is an effort being made just now to return to the old bow-knot method of dress- ing the hair, such as one sees in pictures of the fashions of 1821.° It is rather a trying fashion, and only young, fresh faces can stand it. All the tendency, though, is to- wards a high and extremely narrow 'effect, Vith one curled lock i the centre of the fore- head. An Towa woman thoughtfully put two dozen eggs in her nice, warm bed to keep them from freezing while she spent the after- noon and evening with a friend. Returning late at night, she disrobed and plunged in. Well the one she lifted up her voice d the cat to dash through the ror, and roused the neighbors. The eggs did not freeze. Tweeds of e description, checked, plain, and plaided cloths, and striped woolen materims in endless nay be seen in all the leading shops in sbhemes and combinations never before introduced. Dresses now made of these comfortable winter fabrics can be worn far into June with perfect comfort, and it is indispensabie that they should be made in great simplicity. The most elegant trimming for dresses is embroidery. Dresses of plain Indian cash- mere are trimmed with panels covered with embroidery, in floral or arahesque patterns. Thus a very tasteful dress is of Russian gray Indian cashmere; it is draved on the left side panel of embroidery. The pat- ents a_profusion of ~ chrysanthe- ous shades of red, orange, yel- low and cream. widow of the late May widel nown and popular nos gaged in writting his life, and aided in her interesting work if fav any letters written by him to United Ltates und such reminisce life and adventures here, before and after the Mexican war, Matter of this character will be promptly forwarded to Mrs. Reid if sent to Colonel Donn Plavte Mac-o-shee, O, ge, wife of Congressman Breckinridge, of Kentuck younger days a noted blue grass belle, and though she is the mother of grown daugh- ters she retains much of her youthful charms, and is altogether a lovable woman. Her eyes are large, brown, and humid, her thick dark hair 18 drawn carelessly back from a white forehead, over which falls a few short wavy locks, and the pallor of her complexion is accentuated by the severcly simple black she usually wears. One of the pretty combinations of the mo- ment is & gown showing a biack Lyons velvet unfierneath, made full at the back and plain and slightly gored in front. Above this is a duinty Hungartan tunic of peachvlow bebe blue, o apricot crepe de Chene, brocaded with small pale-hudd fowers. Above this is anges in the general s spring. Reid, the st. 18 en- be much | but the family made the be worn & very low cut Russian corselet of tho velvet buttoned down the back with Jewel buttons the tint of the flowers in the tunic material. - Added to this is o guimpo and full sleoves of cream colored crepe lisse or Rus- sian silk uet. There are bows of black ve vet upon each shoulder and fometimes a tiny spray of natural roses is added. A citizen of Portland, Me., was aunoyed to receive a few days before Christmas a letter from his sister in the country saying that she would send a friend, Miss Cornelin Shock, to spend the holidays with his family. It was an unusual liberty even for his sister to take, t of it, put the spare room in order, and waited for Miss Sheck. She didn't arrive on Saturday, but on Monday morning the expressman left a long box at the door. In it was Miss Cornelia Sheck, a full sized young woman made_en- tirely from the “‘shockings’ of corn. Tho face” was made of husks, carefully pierced; the hair was of corn silk; the body and limbs of stalks, and the elaborate costume was o skillful combination made entirely from the vroducts of a shock of corn. PEPPERMINT DROPS. The turtle is the messenger boy of the ani- mal creation. Turn about is fair_play. derman has been robbed. A Vienna tailor has stamped upon his bill heads a picture of the for-get-me-not. A rule for cold weather—Never try to warm yourself by an official register, 1f the old price of coal will only return all will be forgiven and no questions asked. Six kinds of water come from a Kentucky cliff, but in that state it is practically wasted. Carelessness with matches caused 620 fires in New York last year and about 1,076 matches, " A Belgian® scientist says salt is conducive to longevity. And yet some people persist in being fresh, Their is a slander afloat to the effect that the surest way to get a bill thuough the legis- lature is to accompany it with another bill. ‘There's no use trying to persuade an Arab of. the desert of Sahara to lny up something for a rainy day. They never have any there. The weather has been 80 cold in the south that the man who went to Florida to spend the winter is sorry that he didn’t wait till summer. Nothing so uncertain in life as the condi- tion of an investigated bank run by imbecile directors and an old “‘honored and trusted: cashier. If an untruth is only a day old it is called a lie: if it is a yearold it is called a false- hood, but if it is a century old it is called a legend. The coal barons are not satisfied with hav- ing the earth, they want to peddle it out to the people at the rate of two or three hun- dred per cent. An amateur actor has been shot in Missis- sippi. We are not in favor of shooting ama- teur actors. Imprisonment for life is u pun- ishment severe enough. Niagara_Landlord — You look tired an thirsty. Won't you have a glass of water. Cautious Visitor (who had read about the falls)—How much is it? A Sandusky woman has ecloped with a manufacturer of perfumes. The wronged husband says he forgives her. If she prefers an odor man to him, well and good. If George Westinghouse would invent an air brake that would stop a grocer’s bill in half its own length he would earn the grari- tude of thousands of estimable people. A man who has lived in Minnesota for ten years says that when he went there the country was peopled by reds without a white, but now there are all whites without u red. Agood habit for some people to cultivate is a habit of silence. Under some conditions a man can make more noise in the world by keeping his mouth shut than in any other way, A New Jersey_court places the price of a stolen kiss at £1.75. According to the way in which all things are regulated, the supply must be nearly equal to the demand in that state. ““That, my dear, young Mr. Haighcede re- marked to his bride, as he pointed to the majestic form of the bronze Liberty—‘‘that is the famous statue of Jersey lightning the World.” Noanan, however bad, is wholly dishonest. We know a great many who would not run in deby for nearly so many things as they do 1f they ouly had money enough to pay for some of them. Itis reported that a blizzard recently pre- vented alecture by Thomae Nast in Dakota. Blizzards that will give their attention to he; ng off lectures have indeed found their life work. They should be encouraged. Mr. Cheek, (who has just dropped in)--I owe you ten dollars, Griggs; can’t-you let me have five more to make it fifteen? 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