San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 173, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 14, 1889 Page: 6 of 8
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Saily flight.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 141889.
nmnsABLE case.
JK — For two years I had
rheumatism so bad that
b B it disabled me for work
I cn and confined me to my
/ A bed for u whole year.
tn during which time I
could noteven raise my
s' a bands to my head and
FzCy-l 2A for 3 months could not
B r%| move myself in bedwas
Kf I 1 reduced in flesh from
m £* J lbs. Wastreat-
" V U ed by best physicians
- only to grow worse.
Finally I took Swift's Specific and soon began to
improve. After a while was at my work anu for the
past five months have been as well as I ever wus—all
from the effects of Swift's Specific.
John Ray
Jan. 8 1889. Ft. Wayne Ind.
Books on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
• Swift Specific Co. Atlanta Ga.
DIRECTORY
Cards of Reliable Business Houses Worthy
of Your Liberal Patronage.
L. V. Weathers
Diseases of women and children a specialty
Cf) Pnntc A MONTH—THE DAILY LIGHT
QU UCIUo Cheapest daily paper in Texas
A. S. Chevallier Collections a a specialty
Cinn "’LL GET YOU A NICE HOME
VIUUi Particulars addr. Box 2 San Antonio
Green Front Restaurant Fiores Stleet
SUE LEE Proprietor. Best meal for 25 cts
In theciry. 85-t>m
A ZIEMONTECK SHOEMAKER
19 Soledad street opposite the courthouse
Easy wearing shoes adapted to corns bun-
ions etc. a specialty. 67 Im
COOL. ELEGANT ROOMS
HOT AND COLD BATHS TABLE BOARD
best quality. Cars pass the doors to all parts
of the city at
550 NORTH FLORES STREET.
Hschuchard DRUGGIST
San Pedro and Acequia Streets
Drugs Chemicals Medicines Toilet Articles
Soaps Chamois Skins. Sponges. Bruenes Per
turnery etc. Physicians’ prescriptions care-
fully compounded. 488
LUCCHESE BROS.
332 and 334 east Houston street. Ladies and
gentlemen's tine shoes made to order. Cus-
tom made shoes always on hand: full line
of moccasins etc. Repairing done on short
notice. All work guaranteed. Give us a trial
61-3 LUCCHESE BROS. San Antonio.
ARATTACI I A »st. Class Bort
□MI I MLILIM &Shoe Maker
Fine custom made shoes on hand. Full stock
of all kinds of factory work at reasonable
prices. Repairing done; Ladies half sole at
50 cents Gents’ half sole <scts to $l.OO Give
us a trial. No. 225 Alamo plaza San Anto-
nio Texas. 61-3 m
\A/ A M T F D at once an Agent man or
’’“l’ I LIZ woman in every vicinity.
Profitable business. Liberal pay. All time not
necessary. Give references. Address K. H.
WOODWARD A-Co. Baltimore. Md. 2-25-tf
Charles Wittier
608 Avenue E. three blocks from the
new Post-office building.
THE MERCHANT TAILOR
Will make you a suit of clothes in
better style and guarantee a saving
of ten dollars over any first-class
tailor in town. Drop him a postal
card and he will call at your place oi
business show you samples andtake
your measure. Fit guaranteed. 723-6
NOW IS YOUR CHANCE
To secure Bargain- ip
Suits made to order.
"Vet! Lorra
The Merchant Tailor.
Offers the following bargain- in Sui's
made to order for the next
30 DAYS:
"SUIT S.
A $55 Suit for $5tV A $5O Suit for $45
“ 45 “ “ 40 “ 40 “ “ 35
35 “ “ 3U “ 30 “ “ 25
PANTS.
$lB Pants for -15 $l5 Pant- for $l2
“12 “ u 9 9 “ “ (1
at once on" the
Popular Tailor
VAL. LORRA
Slayden & Clarkson
WHOLESALE AND HETAIL DEALLHS IN
Hay Grain Produce and Salt
Nueva street near Dwyer avenue San
AuUmio Texas. Telephone 335. 525-ly
TOLD BY A LADY’S MAID.
THE STORY OF THE LIFE AND DU
TIES THAT FALL TO HER LOT.
Few American Girls Want the Position.
The French Girls Have Almost a Mo-
nopoly—With a Propensity to Gossip
They Are Discreet and Silent.
Generally among the crowds of eager ex-
cited well and badly dressed men and wo-
men who surge up and down the gangplanks
and decks of the outgoing ocean steamers are
a few simply gowned well mannered women
who quietly bid farewell to their friends do
not join in the wild hurrah and waving as
the ship swings from her pier yet stand on
the main deck just behind the wealthiest and
most prominent people and are off fora long
varied trip abroad.
They will visit Paris and London put up at
the first hotels and perhaps pay flying visits
to the German spas in company’ with our
wealthiest countrywomen. They are in fact
ladies’ maids servants if you will and in
nearly every case of any other nationality
but American. "How is thisf* 1 asked sev
eral young women of quiet social standing
who gain a livelihood by working in box and
candy factories. It would seem that for such
a position where the work is light wages
good and traveling expenses paid there would
be innumerable applicants.
“That 1 is well enough” they replied "but
one is obliged to wear a cap and apron and be
constantly at another’s beck and call so we
prefer factory life and freedom.”
WHAT THE FRENCH MAID SAYS.
U>t us see just what the maid will say for
herself and sound her opinions on the sub
ject. A little brown eyed French woman
who had lived many years in the United
States was proud and delighted to give her
ideas on the question in detail:
1 had been taught the profession of hair
dressing when quite a girl but decided I
wanted to come to America so secured a
place with an American woman as maid and
kept it for five years. Some people think it
an easy occupation and rather contemptible
on that account; but let a thoroughly expert
enced woman try and see how signally she
will fail.
Those thousand little personal wants must
be remembered and all satisfied witli a degree
of deft skill that only comes by practice.
One must beat least a clever hairdresser sew
neatly and rapidly have taste in the arrange-
ment of costumes and at times she will be
called upon to both read and write for her
mistress. She is busy from one day to an
other with merely mending lace laying fine
darns in silk stockings catching up or letting
out seams as my lady’s plump proportions
wax and wane putting toilets away in linen
and bringing outothers with the innumerable
accessories of gloves fan slippers wrap etc.
Then there is one talent 1 think indispens-
able and if not natural should by all means
be cultivated—that is the gift of good tein
[>er Be chatty if you like; it will interest
the lady as she is having her hanr briskly
brushed and her nails manicured but there
are times when one's good humor will be aw
fully strained; it is so in every profession
and ours is not an exception. But the ques-
tion of mistress and maid has been so fee
quently and carefully discussed in fiction
ami either the one or the other held in a disa
greeabie light fliat it is a pleasure to refute
all this false testimony
THEY GOSSIP A LITTLE.
As I tell you I lived five years with Mrs
L. and although there were ups and downs
my life was pleasant and comfortable. The
bouse being that of a rich woman 1 shared
in its luxuries and could hold myself a bit
above even the butler. My room on the to;
floor was carpeted curtained and warmed by
a gas stove and much of the day I spent
working for myself. I lived on the choicest
fare was given many of my clothes and so
managed to save nearly every cent of my
wages $2O a month.
Yes I met other ladies’ maids in the dress-
ing rooms at large balls and receptions and
we French women were naturally friendly
We would criticise the tallies’ gowns and
I must say did a deal of honest gossip. You
know how great a temptation if is to rake
over the coals of other folks social domes
tic and financial failures and successes. But
wo are very clannish and do battle for our
employers when any outsider begins even to
cast disparaging glances. Yoh would be sur
prised t ‘ the discreet silence of many of the.-*
maids for with a born projiensity to gossip
they will hold many family secrets that time
and again have been carelessly discussed lie
fore them. Would any maid take upon her
self the task of publishing her memoirs or
adventures as Mr Jecms Yiellowplush once
did 1 warrant sho could unfold as interesting
a tale.
Now for fsy part 1 should think Ameri
can girls of thrift and judgment would de
far better in this business than the unsatis
factory (legging away at factory work
With the fine opportunities to save her sal
ary she will at the end of two or three years
have accumulated enough money to bo inU;-
pendent and set up for herself in a small
way There aro many of the leading mo
distes milliners and hairdressers in London.
New York and Paris trim got their eai U
irainiyg as maids and now are at the head
of prosfierous houses. Then the positions
of maid and mistress are reversed and it is
often Mme. Sb and So who drives up in her
brougham and requests an audience of her
ex -bonne to plead longer time on the milli
ner’s bill that has grown out of all proportion
to her income.—New York Star.
Academic Dress at Cambridge.
Ilie important question of academical dress
has been engaging the intention of tliecuun
cil of the senate at Cambridge which seems
to preserve more curious refinements than
the sister university Persons to bo pre
sented tor degrees (oilier than honorary) are
required to wear not only a white necktie
but also bands—which have generally been
laid aside by the clergy. Another article of
what is Commonly considered clerical attire
—namely U:e cope —api>ears to lie the ortho
dox rot«“f ir university bu-ineis of docb.K. m
all Lfrultn-s but the council consi Itratelv
“iggc-t that the university should provide a
co(>i । for the use of doctors other tfiimheads
of laoultn s. as lingers court suit served tor
*u< c.-»i । • lain । it s
< >n festal in-cusioiu aIJ ( ] K*ors except those
mu*ic wi-nr M anet gowns and honk but
with a difference m the lining whicu ranges
piiwi mid cluury color to violet mid
hflht blue G-ters in musia wear a damasked
gown of cream white silk lined with satin
of a somewhat dark cherry color Pro
fessor Villiers Stanford is the proud possessor
of such a gown made about 1840 Finally it
is recommended that on ordinary occasions
the doctors in the two new faculties of science
and letters should wear the muster of arts
gown “with a slight trimming of doctor’s
lace above the armhole on the sleeve tho lace
being placed horizontally for science and
vertically for letters.”—Academy
It would take you fifty years to reach the
planet Venus even if you should travel at
the rate of sixty miles an hour and when you
got there you’d find nothing of the slightest
interest. Therefore don’t go
NAMES LOB OUR GIRLS.
HOW THE SELECTIONS HAVE BEEN
AND STILL ARE MADE.
Drawing on Biblical Characters —Ideas of
the Puritanical People of New England.
What the Anglo-Saxons Have Furnished.
A Few Samples.
“Mamma” said little blue eyed Edith
shaking her long curls and looking up with
an amusingly puzzled expression “why do
people call their little girls such d'eadful
names in those days?”
She had been reading aloud from a book.
“Dreadful names child? Why your own
mother has a ‘dreadful’ name as you would
call it. Yet I don't think Naomi is such a
dreadful name; nor is your grandmother's—
Zipporah.”
“Yes but why did you get such names
mamma? They sound so odd —so awful
odd.”
“Well Edith. I don’t know.”
And so mamma who is none other than
Mrs. Naomi the accomplished and amiable
wife of one of the shrewdest and most suc-
cessful business mep in town with a palatial
home on Michigan boulevard sat down at
her escritoire of inlaid rosewood and penned
a few inquisitive lines in tier neat old fash-
ioned handwriting E/low an attempt is
made to give a full anu unbiased answer to
her questions.
OLD BIBLE NAMES.
The resort to biblical names among the wo-
men of this land up to recent years was un-
doubtedly due to the fervent puritanical
spirit pervading our nation—or at least the
New England portion of it The male chil-
dren were given the names of Gid Testament
heroes and the girl (tables received names
that stood for types of eariy Hebraic virtue
beauty and gentleness. Thu Puritan mind of
New England had in its sternness austerity
and inflexible piety something which would
more approximate to the Ohl than to the New
Testament—which had a closer spiritual re-
lationship with the teachings and examples
of Moses than with those oi St. Paul. Hence
the Puritan's pronounced liking for those
old biblical names.
Glance over the record in prose and verse
of New England and you will find every-
where on the pages where women are men-
tioned such names as Miriam Salome Ruth
Bathsheba Rebekah Sarah Hagar Adah
Zillah Eve Rachel Leah Judith Tamar
Deborah Dinah Bilhah and even Jezebel.
And note the fact! These names many of
them with a grand meaning have too a
sonorous full toned swing in them. They are
as if made to order to fit the women who
wore them—stately rather severe in mien
with no patience with their own faults aud
no indulgence for those of others.
The years went by and other views other
manners began to find their way among the
descendants of these women. Then it was
we fell upon the evil days which gave us the
Sarah Janes the ilarv Anus the Martha
Janesand tho Samanthas and other lingual
moustrosities. Happily the rjfgn of these
names was not a long one although to this
day there are many daughters of tho land
who have survived the ‘'nominal'’ abomina-
tion thrust upon them soon after their birth.
NAMES OF THE NEW ERA.
Next in the course of events it liecame the
fashion to give girls resonant names taken
from Hie golden scriptures of the ancients.
All the shining records of ancient Greece mill
Rome even of swarthy Egypt were ransack-
ed in the search and the hoary records were
made to give up their dead so to speak to
serve the living. The dark and willing
paths of medhevai times were penetrated
nnd the result of all tills was a deluge of»such
names as Cornelia Claudia Aurelia Catulla
Mareella. Terentxi Pffcidu. Lucretia Sap-
pho Sophronisbe Psyche Phoebe Leda As-
pasia Cleopatra Leona Zenobia Isabella
Inez. No girl was considered stylish if the
name she was called by did not date back at
least a thousand year- or more. It was a
time when tlie achievements and the oivili-
zation of ancient Rome and Greece formed
more of a favorite study with the American
youth than they do now and to the reflex of
tiiis learning was doubtless duo the fact of
this profusion of ancient names.
Finally however a new era in girls’ names
arose in this country. The first traces of it
dawned in the horizon about ten years age.
This was simultaneous with the first faint in-
dication of Anglomania in this country. The
craze for wearing ulsters and d'-iving cajies
choking the nock in high stiff collars and
concealing thought in an idiom largely made
up of ‘‘lloneiiorknows'’ and "dcafc> >■ ’ af-
fected a cautious landing in New York and
Boston and thence traveled slowly very
slowly westward. It reached here only a
few years ago.
AMut the same time too the English and
their cousins across the wild waste
of water bethought them that there once
lived a race of men—the jiarent stock of their
own the Anglo-Saxon; and they
bethought them that they—rude y<dlow
haired beef gorging barbarians though they
were—had tho good taste to give their slen-
der daughters with the skin of snow eyes of
azure and hair of gold very pretty (xxitio
names. Why not dig out these forgotten
names again an I stick them on the girls of
tho latter day (armd? Why not? And ft
was done. And thus Edith e w dear it is
that you bear your own pretty l ime. Thus
it is that on that pretty tray in tlio
front hall f your mammas lieautiful homo
you m ■ so many cards with nam< s bogitunng
in Elfrida Ethel Glads- Hertha Adel-
gunda Waltruda Edgarda Aelwdha Mel-
guilds Eddnmda i.theueua u< l AdeUiydx
■—v utc.
JOHN H. BOLTON
Auctioneer Commission Merchant
24 6 and 8 West Houston Street.
Faruimre art feml Hssalioslfl Goois
1 articular attention given to outßidc sales. Corrcsponucuoe
consignments solicited. Storage clean and dry. Handles new aad
tecoad-hand house bold goods of every description.
TELEPHONE 323.
Piper & Schulthess
0 DEALERS IN 0
Metals Tin Hate Fencing wires Staples Tanners Stock Wire
Goods Agricultural implements Carriages and Buggies etc.
33 and 35 Commerce Street San Antonio Texas.
SOLE JLGE2STTS FOR
J. Thompson A Sons [limited; genuine Norwegian plows. Cultivators. Sulkv nlows etc
Freeniont Riding and Walking CultivatorsPlanters etc J P kw ‘-^. c
miL i tnO i Mf B\ Co ‘ Mowers Reapers and Binders. South Bend Chilled Plow Cos
chilled plows etc. Norwegian Plow Co. plows etc. South Bend Waggon Co farm
freight and spring waggons etc. Acme Hay Harvester Cos. hay ricker loader and rakes
Chattanooga 1 low Cos. imploved cane mills and evaporators. Perkins Wind Mill & Axe
Cos. w ind mills tanks pumps etc. Baker Wire Cos. patent steel perfect barbed wire
Cambridge Roofing Cos. iron and steel roofing. Merchant & Cos IGubert sonsl o m ami
Camaret rootling t n plate National Sheet Metal Koofing Cos. W and
metal shingles. Mica Roofing Cos. felt rooting and building paper. Ha Is Safe an Lick
company sates Union Metalic Cartridge companys cajtridges shells waffs primers etc
.U e make low prices on car load lots (’orrespondence solicited. Ca aJogues and
price lists sent on application. Resoectfully PIPER & SCHULTHFSS °
MARTIN & SCHRYVER
■ I I jy I p * FT ■
A large assortment of Oraainantal Gou. always in stock. We keep constantly on hans
large quantities of the never yet surpasses HAISCH'S BARB AND FENCii WIRE Va
are successful competitors in price and roods come and be convinced.
OFFICE :
SOUTH OF SUNSET DEPOT SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
Riverside: Restaurant
SCHULTZ & GHSE Proprs.
Thoroughly Overhauled and Cleaned Up {and
Supplied with Good Cooks and
Polite Waiters.
Corner Losoyo and Commerce Streets.
— ■ • • ■ -
{The Table Supplied with the test in tnej
MARKBT.
OYSTERS AND GAME IN SEASON
11-7-tf PF" Call and be
Porter House
MRS. R. P. TRESTER. Proprietress
[Formerly Mrs. Porter.]
8. side Military plaza San Antonio
Thte house is well and favorably known to
travelers. Situated on St. car lines to all depots
Fine rooms good table; ladies made comforta-
ble. Rates $1.50 per day. Reduction made for
weekly and monthly boarders. M-l-tlm
F. PASCHE
SHOPS AT 305 AVENUE B
First-Class CARRIAGE Paiatiaj
A SPECIALTY.
NONE BIT THE BEST: VVCEK TURKFD
OUT. CHARGES REASONALE 7-llt
PRIVATE BOARDING
NO. 9 TRAVIS STREET.
MRS. EMMA KYLE - Proprietress.
Rooms Large and Comfortable. Table flrst-
class. Hot and cold baths. Charges reason-
able. x 7-23-3 m
- A. SCHWAB -
watchmAkek and dealer in
Watches. Clocks. Jewelry
No. 11 Bth st. bet. avenue B «fc C.
Haring been a Journevman workman for
thirty year in'the largest shops mid factories
in the worldcan warrant satisfaction in every
particular or no charge will be made. Old
gold and silver bought. Prices Moderate. 12m
$76.00 to $260.00
Agents preferred who cun furnish a horse
and give their whole time t > the business.
Snare moments may be profltably employed
also. A few vacancies la towns mid cities.
H. F. JOHNSON A CO. Ibtiti Main St. lUch-
mond Va.
N. B.—Please state age and business expe-
rience. Never wind about leading stamp tor
l<. I*l JT C B .F. J. X C*. 4-40-tau
DEALER IN
SAN ANTONIO TEX.
Of all Sorts. Kinds
and Qualities.
Building Material
Of all kisaa. shapes and sizes.
BANKS AND BANKERS.
J. S. Alexander a. A. Alexander
President. Cashier.
TEXAS NATIONAL BANK
253 Commerce Street.
A general banking business transacted
Drats cn Europe. Mexican dollars and other
foreign money purchased.
iar Visitors’ register kept in our reading
room wheae stranfers in the city are invited
tolcall.
J. S. THORNTON & CO.
No. 264 W. Commerce Street
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS.
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Saloons and Bliliarn Parlors.
WM. REUTER. GEO. REUTER
Tvo Brottos Salim
The Finest Resort Id lie City
ew“ Only the best qualities of Beer Wiues
Liauors and Cigars kept.
We cater to the best custom and no
dummers or loafers wanted Pelite
attention at all times.
Hot Free Lunch .Every-Day."
From 10 to 12.
E. I. BCWSKY
Bath/ and. 1 . Shaving.'.Parlor
9 and 11 SOLEDAD ST.
TURKO-RUSSIAN VAPOR & MEDICATED
BATHS
AT AL- HOURS Also. HOT AND COLD
SHOWER BATHS
Cupping Leeching—Corns Bunions and 1Z
growing Nails Treated on Scientific principles
Manufacturer of the celebrated
Oriental Sage Tonic
ItU.-t’ A sure cure for Dandruff
2000 ACRES FINE LAND
For Sale.
All fenced good house plegity of
runuing water tine timber and gruss
only 6 miles from Main plaza; $l2 per
acre.
5-21-tf Hamblbton Hadley & Co.
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