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Every one* interested !n the bF=*<?
ta e of matrimony —end we ah are present
3j\ prospectively or reminiscently—must
have read with keen satisfaction o! the
recent decision of a Kentucky judge in a
divorce case. A gentleman, of that state.
It -seems, sued for divorce from his wife
on the grounds that she was en habitual
and incurable drunkard, but the judge re
fused to grant th* decree, arguing that
the husband had only been a widower four
months when he married the defendant,
and that “such precipitancy .n marriage
impiled a want of ordinary care in r.iak.ng
a s- iu t .cn of a w ifo.”
To every thoughtful person, says I>or
otc.y Dix in the N< w Orleans P cayune, it
will seem that a second Dauitl has- ome to
Judgment, and that he has ttt his linger
on one of the corroding rankers oi life.
It .? not unfaithfulness, nor drr k. nor
cruelty, nor chubs, nor any of the usually
i
domestic unhappiness. It is simply anl
eolcty the want cf “ord nary care in mak
ing a sele ?i -n” cf a husband or wife. Wo
men marry on the grab bag system of
taking the firs: ih.r.g they get their hands
on. and m* n—having criminated the theory
that marriage is a lottery—act uj>on the
principal that it is all luck, and there is no
use in using any judgment in picking out
a wife. Any one who ever takes the trou
ble to observe anybody eis. ‘a court-nip can
but have this impress'd upon them. There
is u lack of common sense abou: it. a kind
of halucinativn, a persistent substitution
of fancy for fact, and a m* n* r f obtuseness
ami blmdness and detet min a lion >o rush
on their fate : .at is a forcible and sorrow -
ful illustration of how lightly people de
cide the most important question of life.
One of the wonders of the world, that
no amount of repetition ever makes one
whit less remarkable, is th* fact that
people give le.-s real thougnt to marry
ing than they do to any other binding
trade. If John Brown, for instance, is
thinking of making a limited liability part
nership for five years with Tom Smith, to
carry on the grocery business, he make*
an exhaustive investigation into Smith s
character and habits. He Jinds out if he
it> honest, if he is extravagant, and U
liable to swamp the firm by reckless and
senseless expenditures, and whether he s
industrious and capable, and will do his
part towards making the venture a suc
cess. With Sally Smith, with whom he
is going to sign'a life contract, and of
whom he cannot rkl himself in five years,
or live and twenty years, without scan
dal and disgrace, no matter how unhappy
he is, he takes no such precaution. She
may have the temper of a termigant, sh*
may be idle and lazy and shiftless and
extravagant, but he does not even take
the trouble to inquire into the matter at
all. He marries her, and it turns out
badly he shoulders the blame off on Prov- j
Jdence if he is pious, and lays it on gen
eral bad luck if he isn't, and it positively
never occurs to him to attribute it to his
own lack of taking the “proper ordinary !
care in selecting a wife,’’ as the Kentucky j
judge puts it.
Judging by the standard? of common j
tense and reasonable prudence that oit
tain in everyday life, we should say that j
a man was crazy If, when he wanted a
horse to pull a heavy cotton float, he
went into the market and bought a
thoroughbred race horse. We should say
he was Imbecile if, being poor, he took
all of his money and invested it in a
piece of costly bric-a-brac that would lx? j
out of place in his dingy three-story back i
room. We think him silly who pins a '
fine diamond in a faded and shabby shirt
front. Yet that is just as much reason j
fs the average man show- in picking out
a wife. He takes something that pleases I
his eye, and never stops to consider !
whether she is going to suit him in any
other way or net. The poor man falls in .
love with the petted daughter of fashion, 1
end marries her if she is willing, and :
then he feels himself cruelly ill-used be- !
cause she doesn’t know a thing on earth j
•bout economy or work, and pines for the i
luxuries to which she has b-en accus- 1
torn* 1 all h r life. “It is this kind of
thing.” h* fries, “that makes marriage a i
faTiure.” My dear sir, not at all. She
know? now all she ever did. It war. sim- j
ply your lack o' the ordinary proper care
In making a suitable selection. There were
plenty, scores and scores of -ndustrious,
capable eirS. any one of whom would
h made the helpmeet you needed, but
yo-j passed them all—a regular kitchen
r r’* id of sc-oitlals—to pick the
ore rose that flaunted on the garden wall,
and now that you have got her ✓on h ive
i o right to w hine and cry because she ssn’t
a tah.'age.
If a man Is going to do as simn’e a
thing l y a l*ok. h*- gives soffit serious
though/ o tryh.e to flrd th* o' 1t
• r.iture in which he D most Interested. If
his taste is cultivated hi passea by with a
shudder the sen. Uk>n *1 story. with Its
ch* ap an 1 flashy sentiment and blaiant
vulgarity. He knows there wouldn’t le
a single page in the whole volume tint
wouldn’t offend hi huso ptlbi ities If he
has a romantic nature, full of the deeps
of sentiment and i -ion. he would never
dream of sclc-cting a < ook book with which
to while away the long hours of n tedious
journey. If h is inters* ly practical he
doesn’t choose a volume of poetry that al
ways seems to him si?l,v and hysterical.
Yet we are daily treated to the ectade
of men picking out a wife with less regard
to congeniality of aentiment ami taste and
opinions than if she was a hook tha*. they
could toss aside when she begun to bore
them. Gracious heavens, look about you!
Don’t you se< stately scholars married to
stupid little woman, whose narrowness and
pittineaa of vision mutt be continual Irri
tation; don’t you t-ee men whose groit
hearts cry out for love and comprehend n,
married to women whose shallow naure
contents iv. : * if iu the ordinary rounds of
domestic dudes, and cannot even under
stand any deeper need of the soul? Don’t
we see common-place men married to wo
men who are Ilk*' flnely-iuned instruments,
capable of producing the most exqusite
rru iody. yet who become, in bungling and
ignorant hands, only retirees or terrible
di i-ord? It Is all such a lot of terrible
blundering, of the wrong |*eopl< getting
hold of the wrong book*. If only the
man who liked yellow-back novels hid
gotten “Ibd Mike, the Terror of the
Plains.** if the practical man had gotten
the patent office reports, and tin* poet nad
found the Omar Khayam in the great
heap of Look; on the stall, what a pleasant
and profitable journey everyone might
bavt : and lead of yawning In ta< h oth
er’s face the whole way through.
In reality in all the wide world there
i nothing else so pitiful as the lack of
congeniality—of really having anything in
common*—that we see between so many
married i>eop.e. They live their days out
side by side, ami yet they ja re farther
apart than if oceans and continents rolkd
between. One in nante and interest, they
have no more understanding or apprecia
tion of what is best and highest in each
other than if they were creatures from
different spheres, speaking different
tongues. There are doors in each soul
thui leads to rooms to which the other
ii' vcr finds the key. All that is best and
t-weet in life—the comprehension that has
no need of words, the subtle sympathy
tha. <1 vines the unspoken thought that
trembles on the Up, the glory and the
ep.endor of that love* that makes two real
ly one* m heart—they miss. For missing
that there is uo compensation. One may
: have glory, and honor, an ) r.eh*- but the
j heart that ha, m -s*hl [* r> t comprehen
! fk>r, goes a hungry beggar to tne grave.
Thai to mar.v miss it is to be set down
i not to the fant.stie cruelty cf fate, but
to stupidity and to the man’s lack of or
dinary care en,l prudence in seeking what
he wants, and hts willingness to put up
| with a substitute. Asa matter of fact,
most rc.-n go court ng like they go shop
ping. Thfj may go Into th-* store *l—
termiued on buying a sky-blue necktie,
but anybody with the slightest powers of
| persuasion car. seil them a pair of patent
I leather snoes instead of it.
Of the re stless folly of those who get
married on short engagements nothing
need be sal!. Heaven knows those who,
m homely pnrase. "keep company” for a
long time have little enough chance to
get really acquainted. The girl sees the
man only in his company clothes ar.d corn
pant' manners. She I? primped and crimp
ed. and really too sweet and ethereal for
this world. She is sore that life will
be nothing but a bed of roses with a
man so frantically anxious for her. to do
as she piea-es. and he thinks he will
have no trouble on earth in bending such
a pliant little creature, who agrees with
h.m in everything, to his will. Under this
courtship veneer in both cases is the real
woman and the real man. with ail of the
natural and acquired and inherited tern
per, traditions and prejudices that it nev
er seems to o cur to any on*- to investi
gate before marriage, while there is sti.l
time to flee from the wrath to come.
In all good truth a whole lifetime is
inadequate for a thorough study of any
one woman’s peculiarities. and young men
contemplating rushing into matrimony, on
the strength of a thirty-day promissory
note, would do well to re l! the Ken
tucky judge's dictum that a four months'
acquaintance with a woman shows a pre
cipitancy ar.d want of ordinary and prop
er care in making a selection of a wife
that Is liable to P ad to trouble.
A great many temedies are continually
suggested for the amelioration of domes
tic life, but it seems to me that we stand
more tn need of gumption than grace in
dealing with it. The man who uses as
much judgment, discretion and common
sense in pu king out a wife as he would
iu dealing with any other important af
fair seldom has reason to regret his
choice.
• Love’s Way—
! Why do I love you, sweetheart mine?
In sooth, I cannot say.
Love came to me so stealthily
I never saw his way.
His gentle footsteps scarcely pressed
i The pathway to my heart;
I only saw- him standing there,
And knew hir’d ne'er.depart.
How* can I tell what brought him when
I know not how lie earn-?
1 only knew, ar.d bowed before
The magic of his name.
So many are more beautiful?
Ah, well, perchance Tls true;
So many are much better, dear?
Sweet, no one else is "you.”
—Haliimore American.
The various devices adopted lo serve as
a substitute for liquid perfume has nev* r
been entirely satisfactory when It comes
to the necessity of Imparling an enduring
scent to a gown. The little sliver hearts,
perforated and containing the solid pellets
of perfume, were rather ornamental than
useful, even when there were no substi
tutes for them They are still in use and
dropped into tlie deepest recesses of the
cot sage, exude a faint and not very en
during perfume. Most of the I'aris dtess
makers put into convenient places in a
gown the small bags of sachet lewder of
the scent a fretted by the wearer. Nearly
every woman, who makes an effort to
keep up with thes* novelties in daintiness,
has her set of little sachet bags to fit
worn in the corsage, even If she does no;
have them sewed iu every dress.
As the sterner sex, says the. New Tork
Tribune, is fond of remarking, women
have many curious Inconsistencies. Never
theless it must be admitted that the im
peachment is not without foundation. Taae
for instance the matter of “tipping.” The
most philanthropic and generous of wo
men even, almost invariably give motn
little tips, and if it is possible to avoid it,
never give any. At a woman’s luncheon
counter recently, one of the few exceptions
to the rule left a coin on the counter after
having paid her score.
“You have forgotten this,” said the
waitress, pushing it over to her.
“Oh, that ts my 10 per cent, tip.” return
ed the other laughingly, but without tak
ing it.
The attendant picked It up. set nte 1
doubtful what to do with it, and finally
walked over and dropped it into the firm's
cashbox. |
“Evidently lips are not common here,”
soliloquized the donor, as she watched the
proceeding. I forgot it was a women's
counter!”
”1 have never considered the matter of
tips," remarked a fashionable woman re
cently. "I always noticed my husband
gave something to the waiter when he
dined at a restaurant, hut I never inquired
wltat it was, ai.J it has so happened I
have never gone alone to surh places. Not
long ago. however, when I hml a luncheon
on, my cook fell ill, and rather than p si
roite the parly 1 transferred by entertain
ment to the Waldorf. It was quite an
elaltorate luncheon, and we had four walt
l ter*, and when l left 1 gave them a quar
i ter apiece, which 1 considered tn adequate
i lip, but I saw at once by their faces tha
I had committed an error according to
their code.
"What should I have given?” I asked my
husband afterward.
“ 'Why, a dollar at least, for such a
luncheon as that,' he answered.”
Speaking of Americans In London re
minds me that yesterday a well-known
Chicago woman came to me un<l said that
she cons.dered liondon shopkeepers are a
very unpleasant and uncivil race, of hu
man beings. I expostulated with her on
this wholesale condemnation and ankeu
her grounds for making such a remark.
Site told me that she had gone into a
smart Regent street shop in search of a
certain style of cloak which she desired
to take home with her. She had her ntind
fixed upon one variety, and was deter
mined to get that or nothing. Tire shop
women were most anx.ous to serve lief,
and brought out as many as Ilf teen or
sixteen varieties of garments for her in.
speetion. None of them, however, quite
suited her, and finally, after some con
sideration, she said that she would leave
the matter open for a few days, in order
to make up hi r mind about the purchase.
Tin young woman who had been serving
her. on hearing this, tossed her head in
a disdainful way and remarked: “Of
j . our * , that is always the way with Aim
j leans. They come in here, take up our
time, linger our goods, and then walk oft,
aft. r giving us a great deal of irouble,
without having spent u shilling in the
shop." The American woman was very
Indignant, and said site had never been
accustomed to being treated so Imperti
nently, and left the establishment in high
dudgeon. Then she came to me and asked
my opinion upon the matter.
I could but toll ihe truth, says the writer
of a !,ondon letter In the Chicago Tim- s'
He raid, and acknowledge Americans ha 1
earned for themselves this reputation In
London. When they arrive ar the flna
t>otni of decision they spend lavishly mil
well, but up IO that psychological moment
they are apt to linger most provoking y on
the very outside edge of indecision, tsho >
people in London, and. indeed, throughout
England, are proverbially polite and atten
tive. Hut also they are but hitman. An
experience of my own is an illustration or
the matter under consideration. Hirly
this season n sufficiently wealthy Am ri
tati woman came to me and said she wish
ed to purchase oome pretty and moderately
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expensive articles of underclothing for
herseif and her daughter. They had found
the attentions of foreign laundry women
rather more energetic than their own very
delicate and elaborate lingerie could com
fortably stand. Therefore they wished to
supplement their owm generous supply
with some garments that were better fitted
to rough usage. lat once said | would
be glad to assist my friends in the matter,
and look them forthwith to a very excel
lent establishment, w here they might pur
chase charming lingerie at comparatively
low prices. The young woman who waited
upon us found her customers rather diffi
cile, but as I whispered to her that they
were likely to prove more than ordinarily
remunerative customers, she gladly took a
special amount of trouble on their behalf.
After about three-quarters of an hour
sitent in exhaustive communication and
minute examination, to my horror, the
American ladies decide*! that they had seen
nothing that they cured about purchasing,
and swept om of the shop,
leaving a counter simply piled
with articles of clothing that had been
drags;*d out for ibeir benefit, gnarled over
by two exhausted .otking shopgirls, who
were simply too limp and mentally and
morally weakened to advance a word of
exp. slulatlon or entreaty. Surely tills was
anything but fair, and it is not the only
instance o: a case of the kind that hat;
come under my own immediate notice.
American- undoubted.'y expect when they
come to Lcn on to secure everything at
much cheaper rates than they do in Amer
ica. If tin y pay *lO for a petl coat in Chi
cago or New York, they exiset to be aide
to get it In 1-ondon for $5, and so on. To
come over ht re under such a delusion,
however, is a supreme misiakc. Certain
things undoubtedly are io bo bought more
cheaply here than cn your side of die wa
ter. ltut as a rule theie Is r.al y very Ut
ile difference b. tween :he pri es in Chi
cago and New York an.l In London. You
can find cheap drti smakeis here, but they
usually are very had. The good gown
builders clinrgi very fair prices for all
t hat they supply you wit in Certainly they
ale cheaper than they ate In I’aris. Rut
liondon is not a place where you can live
for ' next to nothing.” It costs quite as
much, and pcihaps more, lo “see life'
here than It and .s With you. 1 spoke of (he
prices a few minutes ago that dressmakers
charge tor gowns. The system, I think,
over here, is slightly different to that in
fore, with you. The woman who goes to a
fairly g'tod dn-ssmaker, lor instance, In
London, never buys her own mtt rial-* and
trimmings for a gown, and ihen takes It
to the modiste to tie made up. Un the
contrary, the dressmaker is r, sponsible
lor al; the trimmings, materials, linings
and ixiris and ends. You go there at.d s I, t
your sniff, and say you want a dress made
after such and such a style, with such aud
such material-*. The dressmaker then says
she can accomplish this irs It for you at
such u sum, that sum Including making,
stuff and all the odds and ends and inct
dtntals that go toward the completion of
a toil* i. It la only as a favor Ihut a ready
smart dressmaker will consent to make up
a customer's own materials, and 10 to 1
agnm-d ilie result being all that one coul!
wish for.
''Bee:'' excitedly whispered a little boy
to his mother in church, pouting to a fat
spider of targe proportions that va lets-
urely climbing the guipure bodice of n
woman sitting in the pew in front of the.
HI parent, says the New York Tribune,
gazed with fascinated repulsion at the
huge insect and tried to think how in such
a case the golden rule shou'd be inter
preted, while her small son watched Its
progress with ecstacy.
[ "It's going to crawl on her neck," he
whispered wltn joy, hoping devoutly that
| tha woman would shriek. But suddenly
i the creature changed Its course and be
-1 came entangled in some lace near the
shoulder, whereupon the boy’s mother
hesitate no longer.
"Catch hold of It in the lace. Johnny,”
she said, softly, to the little hoy. "while
; 1 tell the woman." The latter f.-.t herself
suddenly clutched on one side by an un
seen hand, while on the other. In a soft
whisper in her ear. she heard the follow
ing words: "Don't be frightened; it is only
a spider in your lace.” A spider! A wild
beast would be less alarming. The woman
started to her feet and uttered a muffied
exclamation of fright and relief as a ball
about the size of a penny fell to the door,
uncurled rapully a quantity o? long legs
and scuttled off under the next pew. The
occupant, attracted by the dis
turbance, had seen the fall of
the spider and knew it was in dan
gerous proximity to her. Rut there was no
Miss Muffot in that pew. It was a saint,
with the spirit of a martyr, who, al
though she, too, felt a feminine horror of
a spider, did not allow the Imminent dan
ger to inn Hot wjth her devotions. Catch
ing her skirts with one hand, she wound
them tightly around her. and, holding her
hymn book in iho other, she stepped, to
the great delight of the small boy, upon
a hassock, whereon, without giving a
glance to see If the enemy stormed the
citadel, she sung with fervor.
"I never In my life enjoyed church so
much!” declared the email boy upon his
return home.
The Prayer of Life—
Li ad me, (> Hod, In life’s brave early day.
While skies are clear and ail the world is
gay.
■So many hurtful blooms my vision greet!
So many paths diverge to lure ray feet
Ear from Thy peaceful, sinless road
astray.
And when the morning can no longer stay,
And songs ate mute, and noontide's fer
vent ray
Upon Iho w. ary track must fiercely beat,
Lend me, O God!
Nor leave me when the eventide shall lay
Upon life's happy fields its vapors gray—
Clasp thin my hand In Thine more close
and sweet
Than’Thou hast ever held if; and, while
fleet
The night is'falling, down the unknown
way
Lend me, O God!
—Henry J. riio.kmd. In Youth's Compan
ion.
The return of a titled American recently
to her own country hos called some at
tention to the subject of international
marriages, in which It is a.most invariably
Iho woman who brings oil the money,
while the Impecunious husband presents
only his title nnd a more or less dam
aged reputation. It seems to require no
more than a few years of residence on the
continent to harden ar.y American girl
to views on the subject of matrimony
which she could Deter be persuaded to
entertain at home. In th s country the
marriage of a young girl solely for money
is a question that Is discussed very deli
cately. Marrying for money, says the
New York Sun. is doubtless inmost ns
common here as i< is in the other coun
tr. s. but it is not a distinctly American
habit. In Europe, where marriages are
arranged wi.h greater prudence than
they are the financial feature of
every match are discussed frankly, and
settled just as any other matter of busi
ness would be. Here, the idea that she
was being married for her money would
be in.olerabie to any American girl. The
bare suggestion of such an altitude on the
part of the man she was about to marry
wou.d put an end at the last moment to
any agreement that might exist between
them.
That would be the state of mind of an
American girl in her own country. Once
she has be*a transplanted to Europe,
however, a.l the view changes immediate
ly. The negotiations preceding her mar
riage to a foreigner would, in all proba
bility. be concerned only with the finan
cial phase of the matter. The relatives
who concerned themseives in the affair,
the fiance himself, the lawyers, and every
body eise interested in the matter, would
say and do nothing but what constantly
reminded her that without her money she
would never have gotten the husband who
ts now nbout to consent to lake her.
Every preliminary step in the wedding
preparations rests on this financial basis.
Yet the American girl is r.ot shocked by
it. She quickly absorbs the foro.gn ideas
of the subject. She is willing to be looked
upon as the indispensable adjunct of some
titled lover's life and realize at the same
time that her dot is quite as indispensa
ble as she is. The betrothed might take
her dot without taking her. The reverse
of this could never happen. Y'et the Amer
ican marries cheerfully the titled foreign
er, when a similar proposition from one
of her own countrymen would be looked
upon as an insult. One case recently show
ed that this is so.
An American woman of great wealth
became engaged to an Italian Prince. Ev
erybody said that this was a love match,
even if millions were involved. Prepara
tions for the wedding progressed favora
bly up to a certain point. There they
stopped suddenly. Tug and pull as the
negotiators might, things would not ad
vance. They stuck fast at the Prince’s
inexorable demand for the full control of
his wife's fortune. They discussed the
question alone, with their relatives and
with their lawyers. By the terms of her
grandfather’s will, the great estate that
had come down to her could noth be alien
ated. Her executors in New Y’ork cabled
their positive refusal to allow any ac
tion by which the control of the estate
would pass to her husband, for she had
called in their assistance to help her sat
isfy the Prince's demands for her whole
fortune. The fiance became ill when it
became certain that the crisis was not
to be got over as she hoped it would. The
Prince, who had never been angry, but
always low-voiced, polite and considerate,
said goodbye with sincere and well-chosen
expressions of highly aristocratic regret.
Then she grew worse, and the watching
doctors never left her for weeks. The
Prince retired to one of the residences of
his sister, a Duchess and wealthy. The
breach seemed permanent, but the loss
of the millions was an awful blow. No
body had supposed that the demand to
hand them over entirely would be refus
ed. It was late to make another effort
to get them, but the reward was great.
One day the Prince’s sister, the Duchess,
came into Paris from her country house
and called at the American home. Mad
emoiselle was too ill to see anybody.
Duchesses are not in the habit of being
baffled by Americans, and she' repeated
her demands to the mademoiselle. She
became so persistent that the young wo
man's aunt came into the drawing room
to receive her.
"It distresses our family," was the list
of her conversation, "that this painful
difference should have occurred. It dis
tresses all of us. It may even make us
ridiculous before the world. My brother
will marry your niece without any pre
nuptial contract. They will marry as peo
ple do in your own country. My brother
will usk no questions, but ihe two will go
hand in hand to the altar."
This was delivered in a cordial tone, hut
without enthusiasm. It was an intimation
that this noble family would consent to
violate all Its traditions for the sake of
these Americans who were of a kind that
made the sacrifice immense. It was in
reality a trap to get tne millions that seem
ed to be lost. The oid woman was tend, r
and affectionate. But she had shrewd
comcmu sense.
"We are as regretful as you o'er this
sad affair. Mmc. la Duchesse," was her
answer, "and my [mor niece is very ill.
She is heartbroken. But lam afraid I
do not understand the offer you bring from
your brother. 1 thought that a woman's
property on her marriage became her hus
band's by* the laws of Franco. Surely' that
would be no different from the question
that has already caused us so much
trouble."
The Duchess rose from chair and looked
at her contemptuously.
"You Americans!" she oxc’nlmed, as if
that ought to explain anything. "You
know more about ihe laws of France than
I do. and my granduncle was one of its
Ifings.”
She left the room then and the marriage
proposition was never revived. To this
day, tile distress that the American felt is
dwelt on whenever her name is mentioned
and the affair discussed. She did suffer
dreadfully and it was her heart, not her
| pride that was wounded. She was ill for a
I long lime and barely recovered. The Prince
has married and the woman is wealthy.
His deserted American betrothed has told
her fritnds that her romance was ended
with that episode in her life. Her till-i]
lover tried to get compete control of her
fortune and refused to marry her unless
she gave it to him. When he could not
get it fairly, he iried to trick her into it.
An American who had gone about marry
ing her in this way would have IK-en on ob
ject of loathing to her. Hut in a foreigner,
that was different. It even seemed all
right, lovabie, adorable.
The Atchison Globe has the following
comtiw nts on ihe fair s£x:
Every engaged girl makes ihe mistake
of imagining ihat she now has him 100 se
cure to be sen nil off by her appearance in
cur.'-pupers.
If you have anything to do with a wo
man. impose on her. or she will on you.
Whenever ihe women sec anew widow
coming down the sdeet they put on a look
k Vigorous Shampoo
once every week with
Seven
Sutherland
Sisters’
J Bj Scalp Cleaner, when
I m immediately followed
’ 9 with a thorough appli
cation of the Hair Grower, will make
the hair soft, silky and luxuriant.
Unlovely hair means unhealthy hair.
These preparations strengthen as well
as cleanse and purify. They make
and keep the hair beautiful.
For men, women and children.
Sold by all druggists.
LIEBIG
Company's Extract
OF BEEF
is indispensable in the culinsry
department ol every household.
of sweet sympatl j that also takes quick
measurement of the length of her crape.
The women alf envy a certain Atchison
woman who has bluffed her husband into
the belief that she has heart disease and
is liable to drop dead if crossed in her
wishes.
When a girl has her picture taken wear
ing a dress cut very low in front she com
plicates matters by turnirg her eyes down
ward.
The complaint is made that an Atchison
girl is so interested in being a Daughter
of the King thal she forgets that she has
an earthiy father.
The average woman regards an apology
as a good deaf like a sponge and believes
that it will wipe out anything.
A woman, says the New York Times,
who says she has never from any unplea--
ant experience known what it was to have
a stomach lives almost entirely on ba
nanas. It is a taste inherited, she says,
from her father, who spent many years in
a banana country and learned there to like
them and consider them a valuable article
of food. Like his daughter, he never ex
periences those troubles which are the un
doing of so many Americans, and he also
credits it to the bananas. The first crav
ing of the daughter in the morning is for
a banana, and when she rings the bell the
maid knows what is wanted and takes a
couple of bananas to her room. These she
eats before she completes her toilet, and
goes down to breakfast to find two more
beside her plate. These, with possibly a
cub of prepared coffee, complete her
breakfast, and she thrives on the diet. She
has a pretty, soft complexion and a com
fortable plumpness. The only trouble is
that away from home there is sometimes
difficulty in obtaining bananas, and then
she suffers. This inconvenience has made
her think of breaking up the habit, but
the diet is so simple and so satisfactory
that it seems foolish to do so. Dates are
also a staple article of food with her. But
while this is well suited to her, it is not to
other members of her family. While they
are not so comfortably unconscious of that
important organ, the stomach, they are
more conscious than ever of it if they un
dertake a banana diet. A doctor says
that if bananas can be eaten, there is
nothing which gives more nutriment, but
all people cannot eat them without ill
effects.
KIPLING AS A BOY EDITOR.
Schoolmate Describes the Famous
l ulled Service College Chronicle.
The recent sale in Ixmdon of n set of
United Service College Chronicles—the
paper which Rudyard Kipling edited as a
boy—for the remarkable price of $5OO, is
onother illustration of the extraordinary
eminence to which the famous author has
risen during a comparatively short period.
The little paper in question, about 12
by 10 inches in size, was printed on four
sheets of medium weight, generally white,
but something of a pale yellow tint, and
was issued three times a year, at the end
of each school term.
Headed by the co.lege arms—a Bible and
crown between crossed swords, surrounded
with the motto, “Fear God, Honour the
King.” the front page was devoted to edi
torial matter, the rest of the paper beina
made up of the accounts of cricket and
football matches, school notices and the
poetic effusions of those very ftw who as
pired to that goal of fame.
Rudyard Kipling was colled to the edi
torship about the year 1870, and occupied
that position until he left the college, the
first number under his charge being mark
ed by an almost pathetic appeal for con
tributions, which were to receive his, the
editor's, careful attention—the boys, for
some unknown reason, having previously
seldom offered matter for publication in
the college paper.
Overruling the boy editor, there was, of
course, the censorship of the headmaster;
and on many an occasion Kipling was
heard to anathematise “Bates" for his un
sparing, though doubtless judicious, u e
of the biue pencil over the former's edi
torial work; Kipling, however, gaining
his revenge in the memorabie pen duel in
the columns of the Brideford Gasettf—
files of which paper, of that period, should
also be valuable in the eyes of the literary
curio collector.
While previous to Kipling’s editorsh p
the college paper was regarded with .it
tle interest by the boys, being mainly
composed by the masters, subsequently it
was eagerly looked for, “gigs," clever
tr.ots and verses being duly appreciated.
The issue at no time having exceeded
SCO or 400, each boy being only entitled to
one copy, some numbers must be exceed
ingly rare, those of from 1878 to 18S2 being
mainly in which Kipling’s contributions
are likely to be found.
As the majority of Kipling's school-fel
lows eventually found their way to foreign
lands—to India, where the lives of many,
in his own words, have become the “seed
of empire; to the British colonies, and the
the Far West of America, some of these
now valuable little papers may be discov
ered in most unexpected places, there be
ing probably not a few lurking on the Pa
cific coast, a number of Kipling's former
companions having settled there as ranch
crs - Mlchal'. Gifford White.
A MOST (T IMOt S It MI.WAV.
It Runs on the North Sen, mid Is
Pulled or Pushed by Horses.
The most curious railway in the world
is undoubtedly that one at the bathing re
sort, Juisl, on the North sea. The land
here Is of so strange a formation, extend
ing FO far out into the sea and making it
impossible for boats to land here, that a
peculiar device has been adopted for the
landing of passengers from ships. First
they must get into sailboats, which come
as far as the end of the railroad track,
and then the passengers get into thp cars
and are pulled to dry land by Hie hor-ei
that wade between the tracks as they pu l
the ours up on dry land. The horses aie
sometimes up to their necks in water at
high tide, but they press brave.y forward,
and at last find firmer foothold as they get
hearer to land. For years tins method ha--
been used. thougn every ivlnitr the storm t
tear up some of the track of this tvaur
railway. We wonder why they use horse•(
and don't string a trolley wire overhead to
pud the ears up, and perhaps th y will do
so, but it would be a pity to abolish this
unique horse car. where the horse has al
most to swim to do his work,
—Being Careful.—" Leonidas!” excla med
Mr. Meekton's wife, on his return from 1
journey, "I am at a loss to understand
your conduct when we storted. 1 said
good-bye to you." "Yes, Henrietta."
"Why didn’t you say good-aye in re
sponse?" "I was just about to do so. Hen
rietta. but I Chetk.d myself. I was afral 1
you would accuse me of trying to have the
last word again."—Nashvil.e Star.
THE AUTOMOBILE INN.
IT WILL BE KEPT LIKE AN OLD.
FASHIONED •COUNTRY' HOSTELRY.
A Woman Who Expects <* Open a
Model Horseless Carriage Inn Next
Summer Explains What She Be
lieves Is Needed—Jn.t ll<>, T She
Blaus to Meet the Demand—A New
nnd Bromlslug; Employment f ur
Houftekeepern.
York, Sept. 13.—" The automobile
has opened anew field for women who
have their own livings to earn," observ J
a woman the other day who proposes to i .
come the proprietor and manager of a i. .v
old-fashioned country inn. “People a
just beginning to appreciate the many ~d-vantages
vantages of this novel means of travel*
she observed, "and by next season I !*.
lieve it will not only have taken th.* pi i
of horses, but for short pleasure trips mugt
rival the palace and observation cars.
"Don't imagine I refer to our becomii ’
motormen as a profession. I mean ir.it
automobiles will so Increase the travel over
country roads that there is bound to bt 4
demand for well kept public houses. I: in
after the manner of those famous in 1 0
days of the stage coach and which are
occasionally run across in England to-d .y.
It Is as keepers of these inns that women
will find anew means of earning their liv
ing and it is just such a position as will
appeal to the old-fashioned, womanly wo
man. The one wiio looks well alur r
house, keeps a good table, attends to r
chickens and her cows and maybe fatten*
her own roasting pigs. The place I have
taken is on a mountain road, a good day s
run from L , and has quite a nice liulo
farm attached. I am having the etui 9
place put in order and the house, which,
though comparatively new, is old-fashion
ed looking, remodeled after the type ot' the
Blue Dragon, the Peacock and other fam
ous hostelries where 1 have stopped in
Great Britain. It is a large house and I
tnost entirely overrun by Virginia cree-pe ,
and while the windows are both broad a i
tall the sashes have those diamond lead t
panes we ail admire. Then, too, there are
several tall chimneys anij a number of
pecks and gables to the roof, so you s ■■
I really had a good foundation to fcrg u
wllh as far as appeuranees were concerned.
“The interior I am having chang'd. ' n*
walls and ceilings are all modeled on old.
time methods and so is the furn.lui . . ha
beds are h gh leasicred affairs with <1 tp
valances of white dirnhy, and the 1". .•
and chests of drawers til hive that cleanly
delightful odor wh'ci on!/ a bunch of io:.-
ntary and other such su- et -smelling neriii
can give.
“And by the way, perhaps I had best
tell you now before 1 torget it. In the
kitchen garden 1 have plant and a good sup
ply of herbs for lust suet purpo.-es and I
also secured several budiet of that oM
fashloned sweet rase ir.im whien our
grandmothers distilled their ros - wal- t
j and used the petals to soatH r among their
laces and lire linen. But tuv gardner n i *
me they will not grow in lips olimute. Do
you know anything about Hem’ H-re
ihe future innkeep r looked nnxi .uslv at
the writer and reoogmzmg a reply in mo
negative heaved a sigh of regret and con
tinued.
“The public rooms will be even more 1.7.9
those of the English >nns than nv bed
chambers—for 10 ted 'ho irulu, while fol
lowing foreign models in appearance f
have made those chamber* thorough)/
modern as far as ron.’tn.e i et arc ■ - 1.-
cerned. The floors of 'he public rooms wi I
be sanded and some of them at lea-l
strewn with fresh rushes cry week
"There will not be a yard of carpet in
the house and the guests may have feather
bods whenever they prefer them—the thi is
downy kind that our grandparents con
sidered so comfortable. The water works
will only be in evidence in the bath room*,
and these, though numerous, arc not o
conspicuous as to g ve their surroundings
an incongruous appearance.
"Of course, I am to have open fire-places,
big, old-fashioned ones, in every room 1.1
the house, and ill each of the wide halls.
They will constitute one of the chi. r
charms of the place and as wood is both
plentiful and cheap you may be sure them
will always be roaring fires of big .ogs
when the weather demands it.
"Ivly glass and china is plain, and wn. re
I could not secure pewter I took heavy
old-time plate engraved with the arms "f
my inn; an inn always hqs arms, y 1
- know. The kitchen is both old and new.
lit has ali modern conveniences ns *< !
j as a huge fire place, a roasting spit ai.J
j a Dutch oven.
"On the farm and in the gardens I Hi m
I raise all the vegetables, melons and frur*
I used at the inn. I take great pride In m*
! poultry and cows and assure you I have
I spared neither trouble nor expense fitting
! up my fowl-houses and dairy. The la', cr
! I am sure will interest you. It is built of
i rough stone and has a stream of wan r
i running through it. Not well water
1 pumped up and sent through pipes, -
j a clear mountain brook, over a pebb.y
1 bed that babbles as it flows and 1 trust
will always keep my dairy maid in au
amiable mood, as well as preserve tne
butter and milk at a low temperature.
"You ask why such inns have not beea
thought of before. The people who travel
in horreless carriages will belong jo 1
well-to-do class, both willing and able to
pay for such comforts v/hen making trl - 9
! through the country in their own m
chines, for business or pleasure. 1' '
will he ahout the same class as th' l -*
who, ill days gone by, Journeyed by stag*
coach, while not the very wealthiest per
haps they will be able to appreciate a.
pav for the hospitalities of such counu.
hostelries. H is anew field for women
work* rs and I believe one they will s Jd "
ly welcome.
—Golden weddings are common crouch
ill Kansas, but it is seldom that a im* n 19
found who can celetnaie the liflieih ‘ ,r * n r
versary of his to his secun
wife, as recently was Jane by B< * 1 • J
Hughes, one of ihe earliest oil mens
Atchison. In the pioneer days Hugh®**;
president of the great Overland >- -
Company of which Ben Holliday was
oral manager. His only son, Andrew • •
i Hughes, now general traffic manage' 1
ihe Denver and Bio Grande Ha h a .
married to the sister of Mrs. John J
sails.
—A Topeka man promised his w n Ui- •'
fuf.y lo name hi- new silver mine in *" '
Mexico after her. Next week she
•ihe printed letter fiends of the new nil _
lor the first time, nnd instead of the pr
ty name of Marie Louise she found
called “The Holy Terror.*’ _
0. Use the genuine
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