Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 412, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 4, 1893 Page: 3 of 8
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BUTLERS AND VALETS.
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and to the comfort and conve-
of modern housekeeping.
mence
But they
Where
size. variously ornamented.
stitching—that is. stitching the color
in
There are fashions in
maladies as
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matter of disease, "nerves" are
espec-
ially absorbing’ attention at present.
The Boys struck and Were Struck.
gloves I cut out
New South Wales
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having ceased to
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it would make the average American
open his eyes to see what is required
white gloves may be worn, but this
saves little in outlay, for there must
be a sufficient number of pairs on hand
to keep one pair always en route to or
from the cleaners.
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Sammy.
You don't like the
> till Patti is Peerless.
Every year or two a rival star to the
1 still incomparable Adelina Patti rises
Baths in Mexico.
Mexico has one evidence of civiliza-
tion that some other civilized coun-
Some Glaring Transgressions in styles
Noted.
New gloves show glaring transgres-
sions of conventional ideas and illus-
The Modern Nervous Debility Is Merely
a Swell Society Craze.
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linen, and despises the very details
that go t( make a perfect domestic.
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neat and thrifty-looking mamma.
suede glove ornamented with self- sleep at night, never seems to think of
a roof, though the Dyaks say that
one man
!
The Royal Baking P;Tiler is in-
dispensable to progress in cookery
owe you three cents. Here it is. name is Columbati, and she is at pres-
Newsboy, who isn’t the boy—Never ent exciting great admiration and win-
alpaca coat nor cut down his nzekties
occupy it for the
urious tastes, and hundreds of men
skins in pale but decided tints of
green, blue and violet to match the
MEN WHO SERVE IN PRIVATE
HOUSEHOLDS.
serious pride in their profession that | ‘
gives the English butler such an air
was employed in
though the presidents have owned ur situation-are pillaging and marauding our
the land, the Cleveland Plain Dealer ztizensfrom this point to the Red Lands.
k ou will direct one hundred volunteers to be
says few of them ever Knew they pos- raised for a tour of three months' duty as
lishmen we id dream of appearing in nephew of Joseph IL. has taken pos- 1
garments that were not freshly ! session of the land, which is now
(Special Order No. 102.]
OFFICE or Adjutant GESERAT.
BnIGADIER General James Smith.
Sm: Our Indian enemy are reconnoiterin’;
post-boy was but a mild indication on
the part of a young man, we consider
that modern minds may with reason
abate some of their "nervous" fears —s
to the degeneracy of the age.
Royal is undoubtedly the purest and most reliable baking
powder offered to the public.— U. S. Govt Chemist s Report.
For finest food I can use none but Royal.—A. Fortin,
Chef, White House, for Presidents Cleveland and Arthur.
make, with the shopping. mailing
and messe i ger service she will re-
quire.
During the morning he attends the
“Are the Texas Indians wild?" in-
quired Jake Hess.
“No. sir, not at present.”
“Never go on the warpath, do they ?’
“No, sir, they never make any fuss."
“I suppose that’s because you Tex-
ms know how to treat them, and
acquire the deferential de-i PRESIDENTIA L BURIAL PLOT.
FASHIONS IN DISEASE.
wages pa d ordinary men servant’s
here.
A man at the head of a great house-
ONLY ONE PRISONER.
trate the disregard which fashion has
for the old-time virtue of economy.
The long-serviceable and useful tan
gloves, which accommodated them-
selves so gracefully to all sorts and
conditions of toilet and harmonized so
agreeably with every tint and tone of
both day and evening wear, are out.
In their place has come a whole family
of bright tints and shades, blue and
red. green and violet, for the day and
reproductions of their paler shades for
when it is very wet it covers itself up
with the leaves of the pandanus, a
large fern
i dently felt ro disposition to join in the
-mile that went round the car.
THE NEWEST CLOVES.
taught to carry the multiplication
table up to forty times iorty and to
complicate matters by the introduc-
tion of fractional varts.
plan- for the day. She tells him
what guests are expected, what trains |
he must meet, what preparatics to
We are inclined to think in the
of the gloves. With very light gown
present to hand every lady to he,
carriage and every gentleman his hat
and cane. The butler’s spare moments
are occupied in lacquering his mas-
ter's boots, brushing and ironing his
clothes and supervising the household
generally.
At 5 o'clock, himself in full dress,
he serves tea in the drawing-room,
and later dresses his muster for
dinner. That is an eight-o'clock and
elaborate function in English homes.
The Americans are the least satisfac- | l" , ica
tory of the lot. It seems impossible ° ' ' 1 ’
Tiny, half-naked brown
burying ground. The land was used
posed to direct the marketing aid
inaids, and buys and arranges flowers I
and bonbons for the table. His em- I
you, and it will give you some idea
low we were forced to kill Indiens in
self-defense back in the days of the
Texas republic.”
| The following is a copy of the docu-
nent that the colonel read:
deeded one of the largest and most
eligible lots to him as president, and '
after him to the incumbents of the
presidential office. It was provided
The rule sorry for themselves." But even the
gentleman's head servant
well as in dress, and frequently the
maladies are as little new as the “lat-
est novelty” in dress, only they are
both new to our attention, and there-
fore one of special importance.
Nanga begin alia sanni ben kom. cn Newsboy, who isn’tthe boy—Never ent exciting great admiration and win-
Sondrohem no wausanni ben kom. mind, mister. Keep it fer y’r honesty, ning enthusiastic applause at the opera
dissi de.” —Good News. bouse at Valetta.
The boys in a
therefore treat them well," said the
Honorable Tim. who advocates giving
very Indian a suit of hygienic under-
lothes, a topeoat, an education and
a pension.
“It is because they are dead, sir,”
said the colonel.
“Dead!”
“Yes, sir, we killed them all. but
n every case we were able to prove
that we did it in self-defense. I have
The i mber of men who serve in
private ho iseholds as butlers and
valets has during the last decade in- e .. . . .. .
N.n . , cans of the older generation who em-
ereayed more rapidly as a Hass than , valets. They rather despise them
An} v ; wage-earners in New i ork • . , — -
i as evidences of efeminacy.
city, fays the Sun. ’ ... . , " 1 , -
--- J permit their sons to indulge such lu2X-
the other morning. He was about 10
years old an was accompanied by a
The butler is by precedent cock of 1 coPy of a document in my pocket j
the walk. and friction invariably en- hat I m about to use in some remi-
sues if a second male element is in- iscences I am writing. I ll read it to
•who has never seen an Indian out-
not only keep valets at home, but side a wild west show knows about
take their servants traveling, and as much regarding how the Indian
even to country houses about New should be treated as I know about
York. । how an orphan kangeroo should be
Those positions are pleasant and domesticated.
paying so far as labor is concerned, I _ "You have seen lots of Indians in
but it requires patience and pliancy I I exas, haven't you, colonel? said
to fulfill the duties satisfactorily. Congressman Tim Campbell.
The valet is not supposed to have I "Y es. W hen I went to Texas in
any regular hours for eating or 35 there were more Indian- there
sleeping, but snatches his refresh- than anything else, ceptin buffalo
ment between whiles when his master and jack rabbits.
“yaller boy" that waited in the din-
ing room.
In the West the groom was utterly
unknown, and even New Yorkers laid
little stress upon being served by
men. The best Knickerbocker house-
holders held that deft. light-footed
maids were quite sufficient for ele-
gance and comfort: and a coachman
old to go out evenings And such
buttons. large and conspicuous, and
stitching striking and contrasting!
The wrists, too, are piped with color,
whit? on dark, black on light gloves,
and gauntlets appear of tremendous
hjmself had a well-scrubbed, well-fed
appearance, but intense gloom over-
spread his youthful countenance. and
I he kept his hands thrust deep in the
that the land was to be used for a
school recently struck for “less
Euclid, less algebra, less caning and
more holidays.” A deputation was
appointed to interview the head mas-
ter. He received them with a cane
and then showed them the error of
their wavs. After this the rest of
the school did not need to be con-
vinced and the strike came to an
end.
George W. HOCKLEY,
Acting Adjutant General.
“What did you do with one prisoner
when you got him, colonel?" said Gen-
for this purpose for many years, until eral McMahon.
England. it became filled with graves. As the “Well, he was generally so much
Unless the family is large he is ex- village grew it became necessary to out of repair that he wouldn’t keep,
p. < ted to manage without a second open a road through the land. This but sometimes we kept him until we
man. and s majordomo without the was in the 50s. Persons were noti- had another engagement and took an-
titie. He is supposed to rise early, fied to remove their dead to another other prisoner. Then when we had a
take as thorough a tubbing as his cemetery, and the bones of those leav- bunch of them. if they weren't too
master. . d be down stairs to set the ing no relatives were taken up and much damaged to walk tied to a sad-
domestic machinery in motion. I reinterred at the expense of the town. Ue-horn, we started them for the old
As soor as the work is under way The land was used as a public com- fort at Nacogdoches.
mon until 1878, when the city began 1 "And what was done with them
using it as a park. From the widow there”
of Joseph Larwill, Nancy 1. Larwill. ' “Nothin'. Somehow they never
who is still living and is nearly 100 reached the fort.
"Some folks say.” added Colonel
Among other things he is held re-
sponsible for the weekly bills, is sup-
It Was Fortunate for the Others, Bat xa
Was Onieial.
I did not hesitate in forming the
ployer exacts that he shall purchase ppinion that ( olonel Abe J. Gaston of
every railway ticket for the family. 1 exas does not love Indians when I
look after time tables and baggage, heard him express his views regard-
attend departing guests to the depot, ing the aborigine. writes J. Armory
and never leave them until they are Knox in the New York Press,
satisfactorily settled in their coach, I The colonel was seated at an uptown
by which he stands to touch his hat hotel table surrounded by half a dozen
as the train rolls away. । men, all of whom had given expres-
It is rarely one finds rich Ameri-sion to more or less impracticable
views as to what the United States
flow a Boy Was Rendered Wretehed by
Gray Cloth Gloves.
There was a wretched boy coming
down town on a New York street car
desirable, or take the 1
Magnanimity. in the musical firmament The latest teachers.
Wall Street Broker. benevolently— of these is an Italian young lady, who
Let me see. I believe you are the was born near Bologna about twenty-
During Mon- ’angers between the three forks of the Trinity
Larwill one and Waco village.
41 . » Should they fall in with the enemy and en-
i ne place zage them they will bring in one prisoner.
the town, 1 The secretary of war relies upon their pru-
for the elbow gloves on evening’ dress
is to match the gown in color with a
boy I bought a paper of yesterday, five years ayo, and who is as beautiful
when I didn’t have any change. I as a prima cnna ought to be. Her
-of a
purposes specially provided for in
the deed it reverted back to the or-
iginal cwvner and his heirs.
is amused elsewhere. He must ba l
an expert barber, understand the use
of ironing board and tailor’s goose
and be a fair accountant, to keep a
record of small expenses. He is ex-
pected to run errands, refrain, if pos-
sible, from reading his master’s pri-
vate correspondence, know how to
sooth irritated nerves, doctor a throb-
bing head, be gossipy without famil-
iarity, be always on hand and never
obtrusive.
cold and driving rain. Every field in
which catte are turned loose should
have some rude shelter provided, how-
ever rough and hardy the stock. If
left to themselves in a state of nature
they would travel miles to some well-
known bank or thicket, which would
at least give cover against the wind.
Shut up between four hedges they are
denied alike the aid of human fore-
thought and of their own instinct
Berwick’s vignettesof old horses or
unhappy donkeys, huddled together
in driving showers on some bleak com-
mon. express a vast amount of animal
misery in an inch of woodcut. It
seems strange that no animal, except
it be the squirrel, seem, to build itself
a shelter with the express object of
keeping off the rain, which they all so
mueh dislike.
Monkeys are miserable in wet. and
could build shelters if they had the
sense to do so. “As the creatures hop
disconsolately along in the rain.”
writes Mr. Kipling in his Beast and
Man in India, "or crouch on branches
with dripping backs set against the
tree trunks as shelter from a driving
storm, they have the air of being very
creatures of 10 years and under are
MADE OVER FOR SAMMY.
government should do with the In-
dians.
“A man,” said Colonel Gaston.
female clement of society, and of the
nervous irritability of the stronger
sex. Under the light of our present
knowledge we trace the prevalence of
neurotic and hysterical conditions
quite unconsciously placed before us.
and treated very much as a matter of
course.
Bearing in mind that we live in an
age of pressure and hurry: that nerv-
ous tendencies are detected and classi-
evening hat, cr bonnet rather. since so
few hats are worn by women not too
die Begin de Woord ha wees, en die
. woord ha wees bie Godt, en Godt ha tries lack. In every citv, in nearly
wees die Woord. Die selve ha wees every town there are attractive bath-
bie God t indie Begin. Almael gut houses. However mean the town
door. announces callers and is always i ka maek door die selve; en sonder ' may be otherwise, the public bath-
niet een gal ka makek. van aimael, ■ house is pretty sure to be neat and
wot ka maek. Tae foregoing (St. I attract ive
John i. 1, ‘1 and 3) is made up of ____ . ... _
The Necessity of Providing Shelter toe
Wet Weather,
Horses and cattle never look so mis-
erable as when standing exposed to
ANIMALS IN THE BAIN.
pockets of his overcoat.
"Sammy.’ snapped out his mother
hold is satisfied with £15 a month.
.. ... , For such services a man receives
wasthes le masculine element to be | $60 w ages if he boards himself, and
found in their household. . $10 if he lives in the house. As a>
I he Frenchsommelier, is expert. rule, the feminine head of the house- I
amiable and tries faithfully to give । hold seriously objects to having
atisfaction.. But he is frequently these masculine attendants about.
cdicieSF in tne matter of bathing' and
A Sanple of Creolese.
Here is a sample of Creolese spo-
ken in the Danish West Indies: "In
orang ontang, which builds a small
platform in the trees on which to
My lady then criticises the menus
he submits for the next three meal-,
at the same time sketching her own
sponged and pressed after each wear- ’ quite valuable, after having secured
ing. W he n his master is ready to quit Haim titles from the aged widow
risc he assists at his toilet, ami. that and other heirs, claiming the county
over, descends at once to serve break-
fast.
rheir Number Has Iuereased Tea Time
Im as Many Years- What a Body- •
servant Baa to Do and
What He Geta for It.
gradingand are either sulkily indiffer-
ent or restless and impertinent. Even
a livery and buttons are unable to
subdue the national bumptiousness.
In England they have brought the
art of personal service to approach
perfection, yet only the stewards of
great establishments receive the
which has been held by every press- |
dent from James Monroe to President
Harrison, is now in litigation. Al- •
Poor Little Indians.
"Mental arithmetic" in East India
schools is a vastly more serious matter
than it is in the schools of the United
I States. The oriental mind is fertile
in the invention of catch questions,
and the multiplication table is swelled
into a mountain of difficulty by native
every few minutes. "take your hand,
and are considered quite a feature of out of your pockets directly, or ill
the present age. We ourselves are in- i whip you wh-n 1 get yon home
dined to think that modern nerves are : And Sammy would reluctantly drag
very much like their older brethren. , out a pair of hands clothed ingray
We have onlv to open th’e pages of the cloth gloves, whieh gave his digital
lighter literature of less than a een- l extremities an appearance strikingly
turv ago to read, with a mixture of like those of a kid bodied doll. Final-
amusement and contempt, of the "va- l ly he slid ms hands out of 1ns gloves
pors," "swoons" and "sobbings” of the j and left them in his pockets.
■ Sammy, said his mother, severely.
“Why ain’t you wearing your gloves?'
Dutch and Danish words. In the
Ningre-tongo of Surinam we find neo-
Latin mixed with Teutonic languages.
For instance- "Na begin da woord
ben de. da Woord ben da Gado srefi.
Da ben da nanga Gado na begin.
tied in an unhesitating and relentless
fashion, quite unknown when “vapors” j for you.
and “swooning ” seemed to be the And the unfortunate Sammy meekly
correct characteristics of “truly lady- I put on his grav gloves agam and evi-
like beings," and the broken heal of a
any one < f these capacities ten years
ago, 100 are drawing high wages to-
day as semi-ornamental attendants
upon wealthy families.
At Ne wport, Bar Harbor and other
summer enters of fashion, the social
status of a hostess is often settled by
the number of stout-limbed. broad-
shouldered, gold-laced functionaries
she is able to keep for the decoration
of her establishment.
The offices of major domoand liver-
ied funkey are of foreign importa-
tion. In the South, before the war
••very ge ntleman had what he called
his "body servant,” besides the
he goes to his employer’s apartment,
carrying ■ water and the morning
papers. These last have all been
carefully aired and dried to dissipate
any poosible odor of ink. years of age. and by the deed it is
His duties are to prepare his mas- learned that the title was made to Gaston, as he arose to leave, “that
ter s bat ay out his things, make I James Monroe, president of the United with time and patience Indians will
ready to s ave him. and then receive states, and his successors in office, be all civilized. It may be so. but in
and writ down his orders for the in trust for the people of Wayne coun- the days I speak of we had neither
day. , S tv Ohio, the land to be used as a time nor patience, but plenty of lead.
He ren i . > - from the room every burying ground, and to be converted and we gave em what we had.
article o lot hing worn the evening to no other use. purpose or occupancy I
previous, a- no well-groomed Eng- I whatever. J. Fawcett Larwill, a ‘
evening wear.
Each gown must be perfectly
matched in color for the street. and
for the reception call the only excep-
tions to the rule are the white pearl
and pale yellow tints, that are as per-
i-hable as pretty.
For theater wear comes the new dog-
of your pa's old gray pants and made
for you myself!" exclaimed Sammy's
mamma. ".lust you put them right
on. and if I catch you slipping them
into your pockets again I’ll make you
sorry. I won't make over your pa's
of lofty exclusiveness. They usually '
feel that domestic servitude is de-
sessed the property,
roe's term Joseph II.
of the founders of
I and proprietors of
Plot Held by Chief Evecutives Since
Monroe's Time.
The piece of land in Wooster,Ohio,
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