The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1886 Page: 7 of 8
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* THE REV. DR. TALMAQE ROUNp-
v LY SCORES MODERN EX-
TRAVAGANCE.
Gay Indies of Ancient Tyre—
Graceful * Apparel Ap- 4.
proved by Nature, *
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But the Wild . Dictates of the
Goddess ot To-Day Contrary
to All Moral Law.
Men as Much - to &*fl» as Women—
l Fashionable Indeoenoy Hideous—The .
i Theater Mainly Responsible.
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Tragedies of Human Clothes—Rad. Effects
orahipers and on the Mind. ,
on Wor
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Special 16 the Kansan City Time*.
-te- Brooklyn, N. Y.r February —Rev. T.
c DsWlU Tain^ML D. D., preached tofiayln
»- the Brooklyn tai*-r*uM*l«* the sixth of fils series
j of sermons on “The Marriage Ring,” the sub-
ject being “Costume and Morals.” The open-
ing doxology was sung with an effort that can-
C | not be Imagined except by those who have
heard It In this chflrch; led on by organ and
Dr. T&hnage expounded a chapter lie Isaiah
descriptive of the social and commercial eplen*
dorAof the city of Tyre. The hymn aung was;
-- -.Before Jchovah’aawfA throac._____ ____
Ye nations bow with sacred joy.
—The text was from Isaiah 1111, 16, lt-23:
“Moreover the Lord said: Because the daugh-
ters of Zlon arc haughty and walk with stretch-
ed-forth necks aud Wanton eyes, walking and
with their feet, In tljat day the Lord. will, take
^pray the bravery of their tinkling ornaments
about~tbeir feet, ^nd their cauls, aud their
"‘1
round tires like the moon, the chains, aud the
• tuacrtPTW,* and" ttir^tnufflcrs, the bonnets, aud
the ornaments of the legs, and the headband*,
and th« taldrta, and the Mi-rlng-., th» rings,
and nose jewels, the changeable suits of ap-
parel, and the mantles, aud the wimples, and
the crisping pins, aud the glasses, and the fine
linen, and the hoods, and the veils.Follow-
ing la the sermon in full: ......?
This Is a Tyrian fashion plate.
SjfiOO years back and sets us down L____,_____
city. The procession of men and women la
l*to tbs Thames and died, doing ah a larga, ,-his family than alt the wqtM outside, and if
Scale what jou and 1 have often soon done ou they spend the evening Id describing to him
* ^ ~ * the superior wanlrolw or the family across thh
street that they cannot
man Is thrown on bis gal
family, and without
SSaIm.______......____
But men do not abstain from nJnlnery and
elaboration of skirt through any superiority of
simplicity. ^IMs only because suchja^penda^
sashes and trains three, tod hhalf yards long
do In a stock marketT And yet men are the
disciples of custom ^ust^as much as women.
Some of theta wear' boots SO tight that they
can hardly walk In the paths of righteousness,
and there are tpen who buy expensive suits of
clothes and never pay for them, and who go
through the streets ft) great stripes of color
like animated checkerboards. I say these
things because I want to show you that I am
Impartial In my discourse, and that both sexes,
In the language of the surrogate’s office,
“share and share alike.” . J*.........~'r ,
, fashionable indecency mucous.
'* Ay God may help me I am going to set forth
the evil effects of improper dress or au excess-
ive dlscipleship of costume. It Is a simple
truth that you aH know,' although the pul'plt
has not yet uttered it, that much of the woman-
ly costume of our' time Is the cause of the
temporal and eternal damnation of a multitude
of men. There Is a shamelessness among
many In what Is called high life that calls for
vehement protest The strife with many
now n<
seems to be l
near
they can come to the,
verge of Indecency without falling ov?r. The
" *' ' fl
tide of masculine profligacy will neter turn
Is a decided
back until there
womanly costume.. I am
with the officer of th<
reformation In
bouse or habilitate herself Immediately. Jt la
high time that our good and sensible women
make vehement protest agaiust fashionable
Indecency aud, [f (he women of the household
do not realize the deplorable extremes of much
of the female costume, that husbands Implead
their wives on this subject, and that fathers
restrict their daughters. The ?vnis terrific
aud overshadowing. -
THE THEATERS MAINI.T REBPONflTBLE.
I suppose the American stage is responsible
for much of' this. l .do not go to theaters, so I
must taktj1 the cvidcncc of the managers of the-
ktftbe cvtdencFof ttie managent of the-'
atersf such as Mr. John Gilbert, Mr. A. M. 1‘al-
Thcy have
ruin
mer aud Mr. Daniel K. Bandman.
recehtly told us that the crime of undress Is
blasting the theater, w hich by many; is consid-
ered a school of moral* and iudeed superior to
the church and a forerunner of the mfllenium.
Mr. Palmer says; “Tht bulk e< the perform-
line ^sslblc without flagrant^ Jm-aking the
a stage of this city, either in a theater. hall <5f
“dive” so Improper as those that dotfie s"tnc
of thu^Utwus jp recent comic opera produc-
tions.” He says In regard to the ferns!
qneBttrm wtirth
little they will
tn^Who baa been
nine years on the stage
fonnwnr: “It is uut u quesUim whether Liu-j
can sing, but just how little they will couscut
to iy*i'1lM'-ffrf. Bandman,>Who hart bcentwetftv-
nlne years on the stage and before almost all
nationalities, ways:
that the ta*T<* OT the present theal
“I unheaPAtluglr state
le present theater going peo-
ple of America BjS a body is of a coarse and
moving up and down the gay streets. It Is the
height of the fashionable season. The sensible I whi
or hou
men and women move with so much modesty
that they do ■rnkt aUrweA- «**r- attmHou; But
here come Uiebau^htgdaughtersof Jerusalem!
[hey le»n forward; they lean very__
rard; so far forward as to be unnatural—tect-
forth necks, walking ana miueiug a» they go.”
They have In most astounding style arranged
their bonnets and their .veils, and their entire
Ir veils, i
apparel, and , now go through the streets tak-
Ing more of the pavement than they are en
tltled^to, sweeping alon^ with skirts that the
• a priiJXs^' L'S!UlThatU a
That Is a princess 1
Damascus sword-maker. Look! That Is a
iarlzcs the public with such Improprieties of
a depresses the public corTWJence as
■J,
Ich they do not fulfill.
hi unions or universal swagger, attract the at- larixcs the
tention of the prophet lsalah, aud be biinga: .costume an
his camera to bear bn the scene and takes a
picture for all "the ngHt Hut where 4 that
scene! Vanished. >Vh
Streets!
el Vanished. 'NVherc are those gay
its) Vermin covered population pass
through them. Where are the hands and the
necks and the shoulders aud the feet that
•ported all that magulficcuhe! Ashes! A si tea 1
GRACEFUL APPAREL APPROVED BT MATURE.
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opening of the first wardrobe In
Its appartsl of dark green. That we should all
■riafar as I means allow ns, be beautifu!
.;, 'Waeefully tppdreled Is proved by "
_ God never made a wave but ”
golden suhlieapis, or a tree b
With blossoms, or a sky but he
•tare, or allowed even the smoke of a furnoce
to ascend but he columned and turreted and
doled EAd scrolled It Into lines of indescribable 2.
gracefulness. When I see the apple orchards
of the spring and the pageantry of the nu-
tumnal forests, I come to the conclusion that
If nature ever does join the chard), while rhe
may be a Quaker In the silence of her worship,
•he never will be a Quaker In the style of ITer
dress. Why the notches of a fern leaf! why,
when the day departs, does It let the folding
doors at heaven stay open so long, wher It
might go In to quickly! One summer mornlhg
I saw an army of a million spears, each me
adorned with a diamond of the first water—I
mean the gras* with the dew on it When the
P’-'dlg*! ‘ .....
coat on
mired the arrangemeut of a woman’s hair
’“If a woman hnvc
we should ail be elad la proved by the
— papataK;
with
and
4
; grass wuu me new on jt When the
came home hfs father not only nut a
his back, but jewelry on his hoa&t
wore a beard. Paul, tbe bachelor rpos-
not afflicted with any §entlmenu!lltj/a<L
IJ-eu-
r when
b tong
te arrangemeu
be said in his epistle,
|*a hair R is I .glory unto her.1’ There win fie
► fashion In heaven as on earth, but It will be a
different kind of fashion. It will decide the
l
Ft.
i
Kis. irs, jsws, XJssz#,
and at the sound of the timbrels wemre nil ex-
pected to fall down and worship. Her “
tm
•moke with the sacrifice of the Ixsiles and i
at 10.000 victims. In her temple four
V4-J
i to the organ loft, and from them 'retries
ra a cold drizzle ot muste; freezing cm the
>v»e unlfrebdNd
When I
ears of her worshl
and^u-th, and it
our batteries against
I come to count the victims of fashion 1 find
as many masculine as feminine. Men make an
e**v t trade ugalnst women, as though she were
thechn>f worshiper at this idolatrous shrine;
. ■ and no doubt some men In the more oonsplcu-
■t • ous part of the pew have alrea<ly cast glances
. at tbe more retired part of the js.w, their look
% * prophecy of a jfenerous distribution. My ser-
mon shall be as a^propriaty for one end ol the
____x.....— TBhezr oatarc.- The Hindoo would turn with
It puts us disgust at such ^tlilbitions, which arc sought
after and a[)[>laudcd on the stuge of this coun-
try. Our shop windows are tnU of, and the
walls covered with show cards and posters
which shnglfi be a disgrace to an -enlightened
ntry and an insult to the eye at a cultured
■commuult.,'Tr Mi. Qilberl says:1
tuition Is a disastrous one to the morals of the
community. Are these proper pictures for the
public to look at, to say nothing.Ot QTSpropriety
of- females appearing in public dft ssi d like
that! Ilia
rARLOB va, OPERA BOUFFB COeTTWKS.
I must take the testimony of tbe friends ot
the theater and the confirmation wfiteh I see ou
the board fences aud lb the Ahow windows con-
taining the pictures of the way actrnpw's dress.
I suppose those representations of orsv-htmoe
e no! ,<r’ue then
ms tl mere are
eoktumeere true, lor if they .are
those htghlv moral and reflglou
swindling the public by Inducing the .teople to
the Abealer by promtsezof spectaculff nudity
which they du not fulfill. Now all Mils famu-
to what la: Allowable and right
The parlor and drawing room are now run-
ning a race with the theater and open* bouffe.
They are now nearly neck ami neck" in the race,
the latter a little ahead, but the parlor and
drawing room are gaining
the probability is they win
pass the stand so nearly at the same Urae that
roeilunu
on the others and
soon be toen and
half of Pandemonium.*111 clap It) hands
>use o)>era Ixrnffe has beaten and life other
one-i
because
half beCa
Let
red
womanly attire.
womanly attire. I charge Christian women
neither by style of drees nor sdjnstmciff of ap-
parel to become administrative of evIL Show
t because the drawing room hai beaten,
printing press and platform and pw$it hurl
fiot anathema at the boldness ol rtuch of
I charge Chrl
dress nor adjUi
dmiulstrstive ol
»the fashion plates 9t any age
d the time of Louis XVI. of Fri
VIII. offengUnd i
?e of morals or 1mm
Uk I
»ns i
always
tlve of evil. Show
betwWm this
ranee ami Hen-
_ ___ End I will tell jouthe
type of morals or lmmerals of thkt age it that
year. No exception to It Modest tfppsrel
means a righteous people. Immodest apparel
means a contaminated and depraved
. —TRAVAOARCB AS BAD AS BOLDNESS.
It U not
and gbastly. Do you know that Arnold of the
revolution proposed to sell his country In order
to get money to support his boms wardrobe! I
declare here before God and this people that
tbe effort to keep up expensive establishments
In this country Is sending more men to tem-
poral perdition than all other causes combined.
It was this that sent prominent business men
to the watering of stodu, and life Insurance
presidents to perjured statements about their
asset* snd some of them to U>e penitentiary,
does.
color of the dress, and the population of that
country, by-a beautiful law, will wear whIH.
Ll£L SSJWoSa? ^Ckfirr°^ 19 mj to DecemWln' Ae^tt^U “du?
W»ohinf»n politicians may theoriss until tbe
w II expiration of their terms of office as to the
lectof human apparel, but the goddeki of beat wav at tmorovln* our monetarv eondltlnn
and has completely upsetonr American finanl
ccs. But, why should I go to tbess famous de-
faulting* to show what men will do In order to
keep up great home style and expensive wardj
robe, when you and I kuow scores of men who
•SS
bestwy onmprovliy our^itMWREry condition
__um end
things win be no better mitQ we learn to pat
on our hmds and backs and fact and hand#
we can'pay for. —7-'r
TOM COUNTRY DRESSED TO DEATM.
Then are clerkt In stores and banks on Rffl-
fted salaries who In the vain aUempt to keep
the wardrobe of their family as *howy s* other
Mlb
—T-T---—IMC, RflU MWCTwiB .fxpm UR TniDUV-
ters to preach about them as though they were
tlie victims of early piety ; and afteF a high
class funeral with silver bandies at the side of
their coffin of extraordinary brightness, it wfll
be found out that the undertaker Is cheated
out of hts legitimate expenses. Do not send to
lie funeral sermon of E man who
t ^ . . lifinrt out the whole truth and
tell that he wm strangled to death. Yoh are
► of one
i of
ptWEE:
BURNT OFFERINGS OT TOE MEN.
Men Ere as muoh the idolaters of fashion as
> taerffire on a different part of
of, tbe
i pride of
feel
aud
leeMnta:
Into plain language he goes tntrrertortlon and
of lalse stuck aud altlllfal penmanship
ng some one else’s name at the f.n.t of
lsauiug of I«
In writing m
a promisor)
Isory note an<l they all go down ty-
hnabnnd to the prison, the wife
LAFAYETTE IN AMERICA.
fismlDlsoonoM of Ilia Lost Visit to
the Country for Which lie
Did Ho Much,
A Washington correspondent of The
Louisville Courier-Jour nit twrifoe: Con-
gress, Ujnrning that Oen. I^afayette had
aewlug mavhiuc, the children to be taken j oxorctwod an unxious desire to visit this
cal c of by thuae w ho were toiled poor relations.
O, for some pew Blmkspeare to arise and write
the tragedy of human clothes!
country, thoj^iuiupoijtloitoj of which.his
valor, blood, and treasure wrfro so in-
atrujnuntal IiE-dchicvipg, tbe
president of the United States to asecr-
to* i*1"'" “ T‘1J S-W
agreeable for him to perform this visit,
► the first of the tragedy: A plain but
beautiful home. Euter toe newly married
pair. Enter simplicity of manner 2nd behavior.
Enter as much happiness as
In one home. Act* the secoud: Discontent
wltfi the humble home; enter envy; enter
fesloiisy, enter deflry of display; Act the third:
Enlargement of ex;>ens|('8; enter all the qaeciily
dressmakers; enter the; French milliners. Act
the fourth: The tljetop of society; enter
princes and princesses of New; York life; enter
enter every-
last, wiuu-
Mslguee; enter
; enter fiurntlia-
the sheriff; enter the creditors;
tlo»; enter the wrath of (Jod; enter the cou-
tampt Of society; enter death. Now let tha
silk curtain drop on the stage. Tbe farce is
ended and the lights are out ^
Will you forgive me if I say In tersest shape
thatsoiu&Gf-the men to this country
,av« to foree and to perjure and to swindle to
pay for their wives’ dresses!
whttUUM TUB tVlfY0 me or nqt
l Will say it
BAD EFrECTS ON WORSHIPER*.
Again, extravagant costume is distraction
to public worship. You.know vereTwell there
are a good many people who go to Hmrch just
as they go the races, to see who will come bUt
first. Men and woua u with souls to be saved
passed the hour in wondering where that man
got bis cravat or what store that women pa-
irontzes. In many of our churches tlie pre-
liminary exercises* are taken up with the dis-
cussion of wardrobes. It ls pitiable. Is ft not
Wonderful that the Lord does not strike the
meeting bouse* with llghtplng?,, What, dis-
traction of public wofshTpT Dying “men and
women, whose bodies, are soon to be turned
Into dust, yet bcTtSre three words strutting,
like peacocks. People pitting down In a pew
r taking upa hymn book, all absorbed at tha
same time in a personal array, to sing: ; i*
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, '
. -'Thy better porttcm trace; * —L—
Hbe from ttauritxa^ihlngk.
Toward hegyen. tliy native place!
I adopt the Episcopalian prayer i
‘‘Good Lord, deliver us!”
veyhtice to this conatfy In one of our na-
tional shlpn.
Gen. Lfttnyctte declined this offer of a
pnMie hhip. He soitiu^ from Havre in
the packet ship Cadmus, accompanied
bv lus son, George Washington La-
fayette, and aiTived at Ne\V York oh the
- -I6t|i of August, 1824. ftia jcecptlon to
the city was all thatFhlg heart cowid de-
sire. lie soon, proceeded on a tour
through the United Stales. Everywhere
tionalguest.” For more than a year hia
journey was a complete ovation. As he
passod through the country, every city,
village, and hamlet poured out its inhab-
itants en masse to meet him. He visited
all the states th^ii eomposingTRe utiioh.
When the time of hia departure drew
new frigate, the Ibreulywine,
nahied in honor of thar ||^Tbj,nt“-exploits
of Gen, Ijhfayrtte at th» battle of Bran-
dy wine,.. was provided by congress to
convey hjm t# Fiance, ft was deemed
appropriate that he should take linal
leave of the nation at Unseat of govern-
nient in Washjngton. President Adams
invited lilnCto pass ajew weeks In the
and say:
Extravagant eostume belittles the Intellect
has are enlarged or tbfy dwindle jost
Our mind
In proportion to the Importance of tbe subject
on which we constantly dwell. Can you imag-
Uic Rnythtngnronrdwnrfing to tbe human In-
tellect than the study of dress? I see men on
the street who, judging from thelrelRboratlon,
T think must have takes two hours to arrange
their apparel.
MENTAL RUIN CAUSED BT FASHION.
After a few vearw of that kind of absorption
which onh of Mr.Mliafcr * magnifying gUo-,o*8
will be powerful enough to make the man’s
Character visible? What will be left of a
woirion’s Intellect after giving years and years
-to the discussion of such questions? They all
land hi idiocy. I have seen , men at tbe sum-
mer watering places through fashion the mere
- “Such rxhl--| wTcck -of' 'wtrat they ocrc were.-Hallow of
cheek. Meagre of limb. Hollow at the chest.
Showing no animation save lu rushing across
a wlflin In pp]j. i^p * fai| - “
along the corrklota the same com; 4
simpered twenty years ago.
Yet, my friends, I have «ven you only the
milder phase of thia evil. It shuts* a great
multitude out of heaven. Tbe first peal of
'►Th
thunder that shook Sinai declared: “Thoi
shalt have no other gods before me,” and you
to choose between the aroddess of
wttl have
fashion and the Christian God. There are a
great many, seats in heaven and the* tore nil
easy seats, but not one-seat for the devotee of
costume. Heaven la for meek and quiet
spirits. Heaver. Is for those who think more
oN.thelr eouls than of their bodies. Why i£
von wRh ypur,Idolatry of costutffrshonklsome-
how gbt iuto heaven, you would he for putting
a French roof on* the “house of many man-
sions," and yon Would be for Introducing the
pattern^ of Butterlek’s Quarterly Dellnerator,”
, NO OHOIPR BETWEEN EX THEME*.
Give up this idolatry of fashion, or give up
heaven. What would you do standing besi
ou have traversed the twenty-Tour
stated of the great<- eo»)fed(rracy; yoo
- have bmuA-xouuivcd wij,h rajiturc hy the
survivors of your carne!sI coTfflT.i11ion*,
arms; you have been
absent parent,......by thedr
men and women of the present age; and
a rising generation, the hope of future
time, in numbers surpassing the whole
population of that day when yon fought
at the head and by the side of their
forefathers, have vied with the scanty
remnant* of that hour ot trial is tocJ*-
motions cf joy at beholding tbe f*en of
him whom they feel to be trio .common
benefactor of all. You have heard the
the eountess of Huntington, whoso Joy it was
to build chapels for the poor, or with that
Christian woman of Boston, who fed 1,000
children of the street at Fanueil ballon
„ on ^icw
Yeor'sjla^, giving out as a sort of doxology at
meeting a pair of shoes to each
one of them; or those Dorcases of modern so-
ciety who have consecrated their needles to
the Lord, and who will get eternal re
every stitch they take? O, men and women.
and who will get eternal reward for
give up the Idolatry of costume. The rivalries
and the competitions of inch a life are a stu-
pendous wretchedness. You will always find
d with
more
some otfe with brighter array
resident*! and with lav
Iff ' ' '
thing and wear It you will wish you had bought
palatial resilience afid with lavender-kid gloves
that make a tighter fit. Ahd If you bay thia
some tiling else and worn it. And the frets,of -
such a life will bring tbe crow’s feel to you?
temples before they are due, and when you
come to die you will have a miserable time.
I have seen men and women of excessive
costume die and I never shw one of them die
on a
well. The trapiJngs off, there they lay
tumbled pillow, ana there were Inst two things
that bothered them—a wasted r*
ered them—a wasted life and a com-
ing eternity. I could not pacify them, for
their body, mind and aoal had been exhausted
In the worship of costume and they could not
appreciate the gospel. When I knelt by their
bedside they were mumbling out their regrets
and saying: “Oh God! Oh Godl” Their
garments hung up in the wardrobe never again
to be seen by them. Without any exception,
so far as my memory serves me, they died
without hope and went Into eternity Unprepaid
ed.
WHAT TUB JUDGEMENT DAT WILL RHINO.
The two most ghastly dealfibeds on carth are
tho one where a mauH
and the other where a
Ing sacrificed all her
lies of delirium tremens,
BiYroman dies ifter hav- *
Ing sacrificed all her faculties of body, mind
and soul In Che worship of fiostume. ■
My friends, wo must appear In judgment to
answer for what we have wo^n on our bodies as
well as for what repentances we-have exercised I
; anil without his cane, like
' got arcane; withont
ivu rgriLiwu
tew.
like whtehaD
i snuffbox.
n of a man )
vhole truth i
■ - -SSKTTyoU _
Udl^ ‘ft?YoA,MS1Miot“
aollMV’TOiaw than It ought to hare cost. wh«
to prove his toflV wlokeil callsntries; ana Ab-
salom without Ills hair; and Marchioness Pom-
padour without her titles; and Mrs. Arnold,
the belle of Wall street, when thst was tha
center of fashion, without her fripperies ol
vesture. _•
■And In great ■
heavenly aoitotv will b« found Vj
wototha modest vail before tbe
chnnallans; and Hannah, who annually made
coat _ tor Samuel at the temple; and
sad that he offer to the fanEfl a coarjsMhanav*r looka tw.i,iTwi h.-r
u
presUleutial mansion. During fiTs~eo-
j<Wirn at the capital he visited ex-P-eesi-
tP1 nt» - Jcflorscm, jiqtl .Muuroe
at their several places of residence.
Having paid his respects to thefe ven-
erated sages, tho **nution’d guests pre-
pami to take. Tleparturo from
the midst of a gfaB'ful people. The 7th
St September, 1825, was the dav ap-
pointed for taking leave. At 12 o’clock
tho officers of the' general govern men t,
civil, military and naval, together with
the atithonttoft at Waahington, George-
oo
town and Alexandria, with multitudes
of uiiiaens npd strangers, assembled in
the president’s house. Mr. Adams then
addressed him in an appropriate speech
LIFE STUDIES^
*1
Borrowed trouble is the )mdertakar’* -
beat friend. ' ’ _
M ■ >- 1.41,
No maU enn be a thoroughly purw
Chriwtian. without tho aid of soap*-————~~
It is bidiCvod that tiu: devil take* off
hia hat whenever he meet,* a hypocrite.
Ailvertising is a good deal like mak-*
h)g love to u widow. It can'I be Over-
done. v * , ~r*-4na-‘~-)>--. 1m
4
Youean froexo up a ga* rnpin but
«M.s ■■ vuw lijf Ll^.paMp~WVl
nothing short ot martial law cau sup
press a State Legislature.
The mfifi who ni'wr gets road is sup-
posed to be a half-brothe/* ti» tfie woinam
Progress is always progress, but
....... tv
dreadful hgj-d) lo realize by Umj rmui wt
lurry uu a ballCv* mute. ' f
tries to liurry up a balky* unite.
A Vermonter sold hli$ wife the other
day for six dollars, spot cash. And yet
SQtue folks don’t believe in luek.
Thanks to the genius of Pasteur, the
mad dog no longer territius. but what
are we going to do about the eraz)Mfuilt?
-'-4f > *>Rp ootiid-GRiy-Gee-hia awn feu It*
as easily as ho can discover those at his
neighbor, how his bumpTtf jself-esleeaE
-would dwindle. - t r*
Tiie shortest route to a mfin’s heart 1*
said to be through his stomach. J in tbok
dv booh is the most relit-
case a good eoo
able marriage guide
A writer in the Arkan.saw Traveler
says that, from his boy (rood storms tmv«
alwavs been attractive tn him. No •
wonder ho,married y'*”"g
- Mark Twainims tnvetTTe.d a noielxiok
th^t will always open fit tho right place.
A pocket boo k that will not open at thw
wrong place is st.ill hrnfly needed, ' y
-»--A West-8i«le woman claims th«t her
fofet have uot been warm for livo-year*.
ltra believml that passed much ot------
her time in a Ghieago street- ota*.-r—4—?
Marriages in Russia -are said lobe
painfully quiet, buf if human nature in
that country is anything like lt'fH'In '
this, keeping house riftenvfirdis quite *—-
different matter. ;-'J ■"
A woman is still living in California)
who claims that George IV. once kissed
her. The probability is that tbe 'ola ~
lady is right nbout.it, if George overbad
the opportunity. ' ** = - A
A woman in Arizona recently ..killed a
WITd-eat witb; a broom, anti yet man
With all his wistiom and philosophy ha*,
never been able to kill the tamest kind
of a tommy with an iron boojack. ..
~’..Jfsrere-, t - *-
A lady one day sent her little boy to
n drug store tiear by after-a porww
plaster. When lie came back he hand-
ed it to her, saving: “Thia is the poor-
55TcoB!paiiiun«mjjgstnne Icouldget“ ’ *
hailed, as a ^orlg Atabriarky fair,m Berlin, the Crown
reir children—the Princess of German
Germany sold saonages
thirty-five dollars apiece as fast as she
could haul in the money. What a pearl
a helpmate like that would be to a man
in the clothing business!
• It is stud that the seoret of hapfHMfl*^-
Is never to allow the enenrie* to stair-
nfite. This will explain In some degron
the eeptano uuoyaney of soul with wiuoa
an old- hen seems to be ahjmated when
te
mingleil voices of the past, tho present.
she gets a chance to make herself at
one nni-
andthe future age joining in
yersal chorus of delight at your ap-
proach; and the. shouts of unbidden
thousands, which greeted your landing
on the'soil of freedom, have followed
every step of your way* and still re-
sound like the, rushing of many waters
from every corner of our land.”
Gen, Lafayette’s happy reply closed
with these words: -.
“God bless you, sir, and all who sur-
round iis. God bless the American
people, each of their states, find the fed-
eral government Accept this patriotic
farewell of an overflowing heart. Such
wiin>o its last throb when it ceases to
beat.” w*te
- The moment of departure at length
arrived, and having once more Dressed
the hand of Mr. Adams, he entered the
l**w »B old -Mi* -*** drewagood-.
navy, and passed’from the capital. An
immense procession aceompauied him
to the banks of the Potomac, whero
the
steamboat Mount Vernon awaited to
carry him down the river to the frigate
Brandywine. The next morning this
Brandywine. The next morning this
boat anchored in safety near the Bran-
dywine. Here Lafayette took leave Gf
dywine. Here Lafayet
the secretaries of state,
tho treasury.
ROd navy, and the guest* who had ac-
companied him from Washington, to-
gether with many military and naval
officers and eminent citlksns, who had
assembled In various crafts near the
frigate to hid him farewell.
Beer Glasses. X >
■Good morning, .1 hear that
you-are now In business for yourself, i*
RaoP*’ ; ; , .
T*Tat Jits, Thave wpncfld myself !n
to tho glass manufactory, where I have
been ao long employed. _ I am now »
partner.” jl. 1
“Jack, I am glad to hoar it; I hope
you will do well.”
r “I think we wUl. I have already
taken a large order, since I have bo-
como A rbembor of the firm—an order
for ten gross of beer glasses with han-
dles otubwn.” . -V —-J I
“Handlesft That’s sotnething now*
■ ■■ ' ^ , 11
Bray are nearly all matim
factored that way now,” |
«‘Snknnrutr*. tOOf** -
F “Yes. It la a great improvement ,pn
the old style; people can «ow oarry a
glass oft beer to their mouths without
......e contents* by the i«w of
EWh r,-. ..x-l
“Ah, 1 see. Drinker* handle the
beer for awhile, but by and by the beer
baadles them. lW(/fe J-tsr.
& I
homo in a newly made gRfdeo.
- - •»-
takes the dignity out of a man
quicker than rain would ruin a bonnet.
when compelled. to converse with- .a
woman by telephone, No man ran
stand on tits tiptoes' and ypH till his eye*
turn red, and at the same time preserve
an imposing presence.—Lige Brown, i»-
Chicago Ledger. a ' ~ •
______Interesting Widows. __
' “WhfiH I came into this office last:
May,” said Colonel McLean, Deputy
Commissioner of Pensions,, 'Tffgfe were
thirteen widows of revolutionary sol-
diers drawing pensions, and over 300 -
widows of soldiers of the war of 1812.” "
“How could that beP” ,
Just in this way; Young women who-
~-r
pension* but who Whs likely to diet
came forward and married him and
took in the pension. The revolution-
ary war closed over 100 yoars ago, and
any man who was engage;! in it would,
if nowdiving, have reached the age of
130 or thereabouts. The same thing in
principle prevails in regard to the sol-
late war. There is in re-
ality no reason why a woman who mar-
ried a soldier a‘ ter the war was over
should, draw a t ension. She took her
husband for bettor or worse, and there
> no possible construction that can
show a loss to such a woman from the
war. Under the present arrangement,1
a widow whqse husband only drew $21
while he lived Is entitled to $8
month, provided it can be showp
her husband’s death was the '
his disabilities. . It is very hard to i
a general lew that does hot seem to dot
injustice ip c rtaiii cases.” ‘
■ “What do , ou think oi tbe
tion now l .ore Congress to fncroasd
‘ ' mils to $io
the pension of widows from $8 to $1(
per month?” * - • .....
“I think it is a good and just move.
It will only cost tire Government $72,-*
ally to do this, and will do
000 annually to do this, and a
oTeat good "-^Chicago Tributu.
— ■ ......... ■-
l*-, Turtle Goun.
V* both' America and the An
up” in hermetically sealed
sent to ail parts of th* world,
msanfaetory at’Key West, in
prepares over 300,000
• i.,
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