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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH* TU^jJAY JANUARY 26. lf»86.~TWELVE PAGES.
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Macon, Ga.
Money orders, checks, etc., should be made paya
ble to IL C. IIawsow, Manager.
One object in admitting Dakota into tho
nn'on ie to freeze out the South,
A WaanisoTos special Keys: Eleven bills
havo been introduced already looking to a
change in the civil service law. There
seems to be a strong feeling among Demo
crats and many Republicans to pruho this
beautiful system.
The anti-Mormon bill that recently passed
the Senate is of few days and will be full of
trouble when it gets into court. Still, if
Mr fc'dmunds is re-elected in Vermont, it
cannot be said to liave lived in vain.
The Philadelphia Times says: “Consid
er ng that tho solid South is still in the sad
die, there is an unusual lack of terror at
tho North." This is a mistake, the South
is no longer solid, but is at present in a
slush.
GnoROK Wk.i.iam Cuutis says: "These
parallel 1 incs of iron and of steel have
worked many miracles, of which the Unit
ed States ate the witness. But the wonder
of wonders, the greatest triumph of tho
railroad, will be tho regeneration of
Mexico.”
The Boston Advertiser says: "We are
now entering upon a year which it is con
fidently believed will show higher prices,
an increased volume of trad ' and growing
aetivityjin railway construction. It is prob-
ablo that the canso which promotes this
new vitality willKlso revive immigration.”
WtTH the Republicans on one side de
manding his reasons for turning out their
friends, and the Democrats on tho other di
mauding his reasons for keeping in their
enemies, the hour in which tho President is
to rise np und admit that nil fiesh is grass
a lems neur at hand.
“We really don’t want tho post-oifice, Bays
nn Arizona editor, but we understand a few
influential friends nro working for us. Wo
have only to say that our conception of our
duty to our country will not allow us to de
cline any office, especially a post-office. Now
let the skunk who ruAs the opposition pa
per put that in his pipe and smoke it,”
Bam Jokes admitted once that of all tho
oitlee he had visited he made less progress
in Macon than any. It is not, we trust, too
late to put this delicate compliment to the
great and good TEnEoiurH on roaord. No
city in which tho great nud good Thumbiph
circulates freely has any need for a mission
ary. Moral: It you can’t get Jones, sub
scribe for the Tei.eorath.
A Contract—Northern Prohibitionist* and
Southern Liquor Dealer*.
Recently there has been a change of cap
tains on the United States frigate Min
nesota lying in New York lmrbor, which has
caused much excitement in naval circles.
It appears that for several years past a
society of prohibitionists has been in the
hnbit <>f holding weekly meetings on the
Minnesota. This is rather s strange piece
fertile meeting of s prohibition society.
But the doings and sayings were stranger,
still.
During one of the temperance meetings
President Gibbs waxod eloquent, after mak
ing some startling assertions, suggested to
bis hearers, in a figure of speech, the feasi
bility of running the man-of-war up and
down tho river and blowing tho adjacent
rum ahops to pieces with bombshells. His
enemies aboard ship were pleased to con
strue this as piracy, maintaining that he
bad assumed comn and of the ship and
threatened the lives of law-abiding fellow-
countrymen. Tho matter was called to tho
attention of the authorities at Washington
Nothing could better illustrate the intern'
pernnee of prohibitionists than this speech
of the leader named, than perhnps a United
States vessel steaming up and down the
North rivet bombarding the city.
Little more than a week ago the charity
and generosity of the entire South wero
suddenly and severely taxed, in behalf of
A ROMANCE OE TOOMBS.
HOW ROBERT TOOMBS MADE ONE
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
The Outcast That Drifted to the Home of the
Orest Statesman slid the Treatment
lie Deceived—The Story of
Devin Sliockler.
New York World.
A New Year’s story in which old Boh
Toombs, sturdiest of Confederates and
stanncheBt ot friends, is the central figure
delighted me the other day. A Southerner,
still a partison of the old school, still filled
with the religion of State rights and seces
sion was its narrator. He was an old man,
this story steller, and he waxed earnest even
to eloquence as lie paid tribute to tho man
hood and heroism of the great Georgia fire-
eater whose memory ho seemed almost to
worship.
"About a dozen years ago”—thus my en
tertainer began—"there drifted down to
Bob Toombs’ neighborhood an old man ap
parently without a friend in the world. He
was penniless and ho was worn out; he
would do nothing for himself, and yet he
was too nroml to beg. Starvation stared
him in the face, and the poor ontcast was
fairly dying when, by the veriest sort of an
accidont, Boh Toombs stumbled on him.
Then lie was rescued; that big-hearted fel
low, with all his invective and all his out
spoken bitterness, never saw one human
being stiller n single minute that ho was
not anxious to make some sacrifice to givo
re’ief. But in the ease of this old man
ling flames that scorn light sprays of water,
and on and on he went denouncing the
South’s lenders as the South's chief foes.
Then solemnly he stopped, and suddenly,
as a score ef the foremost of his old sup
porters and closest friecds strode angrily
from the little meeting bouse in company
witli Bob Tooras and his host, upon their
ears falling tho preacher's last words—a
prophecy with only evil in it for then
who would “despoil the nation.”
wonderful that there
DOINGS OF WOMEN FOLKS.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE DISILLU-
SIONMENTS OF 5IAKRIED LIFE.
How Wives are Sointltne* to Blame—Pre
suming Too Much .in the Oblitera
tion of the iRsthetlc .Sense
in Their Ilasbtlans,
HUUIIlTlll lUIll BBVcltTY UIXIHl, Ill IJCI1H1L VI | ,« ,
the poor, exposed to a cold storm of extra-
ordinary severity. Nowhere was the call
responded to more promptly and liberally
than in the city of Augusta, the liquor deal
ers, who have been overwhelmed with vitu
peration, leading the movement.
The Chronicle, of that city, referring to
tho occasion. Hays:
"Who more promptly or more liberally
than some of our liquor dcnlers responded
to this call of distress? Gallons upon gal
lons of alcoholic stimulants were songht
and given out. Hundreds of frames racked
with pncnmonic pain and threatened with
tonsumptive fire wore warmed and strength
ened -and brought back to life by admin
istering these generous aids. Several big-
hearted “barkeepers,"if you will, gavofreo-
ly of their store; gospel men and medical
men in their rounds, administered it where
needed, and the stimulant, whleh we hnve
been told should never be used, even in
the most desperate cases, has boon relied
tipon again and again as a warm resusci
taut."
No doubt many lives wero saved, and
many sufferers made comfortable and
tlinnkftil. If “sweetened alcohol” had been
used, tho horrors and sufferings from tho
cold would hnve been intensified. The
Southern picture to all unprejudiced eyes
will look the host.
Fuurr Boston tonrist (amateur) to South
ern hotel clerk—“I say, can’t you put me in
a front room first floor?” Hotel clerk—
“No. Only room left is on fourth floor,
rear.'' Second Boston tourist, professional,
to Southern hotel clerk—“Why Colonel,
howdy-do. How's the lady and dttle ones—
well? Olnd to hear it Como join in a
‘blip”—ah, by the way, mark me a room and
Hond my traps up.” Hotel clerk to assis
tant. “Mark Maj. Brown, of Boston, to
No. tt, first floor."
Tub Tallapoosa has been plugged, puttied
and painted and hoc been ordered to sea.
The New York World says: With conaid'
erahlo foresight the navy department has
ordered, with one or two exceptions, only
bachelors to the ship, and we understand
that these gentlemen, were notified in ad
vance so that they might insure their lives be
-fora the insurance companies could know of
their destination and increase the premiums.
We ore proud to record this advanco in
naval art and will watch for the termination
of the Tallapoosa's erniso with a sympathetic
interest
It J. Burdette thus hits oil Philadelphia:
It was one of the pastor's best sermons, and
he was describing heaven. It was a place
of marvellous, matchless, transcendent
beauty, he said. All the mansions were of
red brick, with solid white shutters four
inches thick, no cornice, brass door-knobs
and white marble steps, with angels con
tinuolly scrubbing th>m through the count-
leas ages of eternity. "Eloquent preacher,
said the stranger in the deacon's pew, at the
close of the service. "Philadelphia man,
ain't he?” "Ah," stud the deacon, "some
body told yon."
Thr Millinery Trade Review contributes
a new thought to the Mormon discussion.
It declares that polygamy his received its
hardest blow from fashion. Ten years ago
Mormon women dressed tdtnply, and the
Gentile's Wife wss distinguishable by her
feathers snd ribbons. Now a change bos
come over the spirit of the times. All Utah
women strive to dress alike, and the too
much married saints, betides being hunted
by United States detectives, are oppressed
by milliners' bills of disheartening length.
The gilded youth of the East think they
cannot afford to marry one woman; how
much more most the rising sons of Bolt Lake
fear to marry many.
Confederate Societies.
Before a great while the ladies in charge
of Confederate societies will he taking action
for the celebration of Memorial Day by se
lecting orators and chaplains and making
arrangements for music and tlowora. In
thiB connection we have a suggestion to
make that is not now, hut which strikes us
as very appropriate.
It will bo conceded that the orator will
coutinuo to be a feature of Memorial Day.
We are a people given to much speaking on
great and slight provocation. It does not
lio within tho power of any mun however
great or eloquent todo justice to the Confed
erate cause in a forty-minute speech in a
graveyard.
Rut many of tho men who illustrated
these several Htates during the wnr. officers
and privates, have not a memorial of their
lives and services. Every State ought to pre
serve a record ot the men who have done
her signal service, both in justice to such
men themselves, and to those who come
after them.
Last year we noticed that North Carolina
had adopted a beautiful and useful custom
in connection with Memorial Day, Each
orator who was selected was requested to
prepare and deliver a biographical sketch of
some soldier, from private to general, who
had distinguished himself in the war. The
plan worked admirably. We think it has in
it snfficient merit to reoommend itself to tho
ladies of the Memorial Association of Geor
gia, and we should bo pleased to see it
adopted. After delivery, tho sketches
mi .lit be filed with the Historical .Society of
Georgia, hereafter to be put in print
and permanent form, as a guido
to future historians, and to become a port
of the history of the State. This work can
not bo commenced too soon. It should be
a labor of love for surviving comrades to
prepare those memorials ot men with whom
they served in the council, the camp and
the field, hut the roster of surviving com
rades is doily growing shorter. If the sug
gestion shall strike our brethren of the
press os being opportune, they may do good
work by advancing it. Georgia has a long
list of dead, to whom ahe owes something
beyond proud and regretful memories.
Bexxtob Bctleb has introduced s bill
that should have passed years ago. It au
thorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to
deliver to the proper owners any silverware,
jewelry, portraits or other articles in the
treasury, deposited in June, 1869, as prop
erty esptured by the United States forces
during the lsto war. It provides that the
set shall be advertised for one year, and
that all articles remaining in tho treasury
after two years shall lie sold at public auc
tion. It may be difficult to establish own
ership after this lapse of time, but much can
be done in the way of restoring these per
sonal and family relics. These things were
stolen, bat the probabilities are that the
original owners are dead.
attention to the stranger were ail convinced
that he had como across some special reason
prove his interest. ’What that
reason was none of us ever rightly sur
mised till a long while afterward, when,
urged by the very force of circumstances,
Bob Toombs himself told his closest
friends something of the case, while we
had in another way the chance to learn
much else than ho divulged. It was to his
own credit all that we found out, and that
it was largely the reason ho chose to be
mysterious, for there never in all the world
was a man who more detested personal
praise than he. I knew a farmer once
whom ho befriended, and the farmer pre
sumed to profess profuse thanks in public
whenever and wherever he chanced to
meet his benefactor, Toombs couldn't
stand it.. He asked the farmer to stop it,
hat the farmer looked upon this request as
only a sort of masked indorsement, and on
he streamed with his superlative adjectives
on every possible occasion. Then Toombs
brought him to order in double quick after
a fashion very much his own. He dropped
in at tho country storo whero that farmer
dealt, bought the storekeeper’s bill against
that person, and without the slightest ado
sued the offender for it and made him pay
a bill of costs. It was a sure cure.
"It doesn't matter much how Bob Toombs
came to know this feeble old man,” went
on my story-teller, coming back from the
adulatory farmer to the mysterious stranger
whoso untold sorrows so suddonly awakened
sympathy, “He didn't want for anything
after Bob Toombs discovered him; tho best
wasn’t too good for him; everything that
money eould bny for him he got; Bob
Toombs's own doctor staid by him. Bob
Toombs's own home supplied him with sick
room luxuries. Boh Toombs's own .time
was given np to him. Had that man, n
stranger and a pauper, been Bob Toombs's
own brother or his own father, not a bit
better could he have fared. It was no
wonder that wo who looked on were curi
ous-minded and mode wild gnessesover the
affair that landed ns always farther and
further from tho troth. It w.'S the general
belief that tho old man wns some old friend,
perhaps one who had been devoted in Con
federacy days. He wasn't. Instead of
being an old friend ho wns all old enemy;
instead of having stood with the south in
tho war ho had been with the north. Of all
the men on earth he won among the last
who woald have been picked out by any
body as likely to receive oonsidoration,
much less kindness, from onr very high
priest of secession.
"Levin Shockley—that was the stranger's
name—boro of a Southern father and
mother on the Dolaware-Mnrylaml penin
sula, should have been with the South in
the war, but, for the reason that deprived
us ot a good many others, he threw his lot
with New York and Pennsylvania. He waa
a Methodist parson, and what he believed
was his conscience put him against onr side.
H» was over 50 years old when the war
broke out, and had a charge somewh. re in
Virginia. In those days he could talk with
a whirlwind power all through his own con
ference and even in remote parta of the
South he waa famed for his eloquence.
Rich churches in Southern cities besought
him to come to them, but that conscience
was always standing in the way. He could
do good, ho said, among the Virginia far
mers, while perhaps his most earnest ef
fort might in another field prove hut the
vanity of tinkling oymbals. So long as he
could get the necessaries of life he shonld
heed no temptations in the way of big sala
ries. From his early manhood he hod been
a disbeliever in the institution of slavery,
liut after he necame a preaeher he main
tained tho strictest silence on that issue till
ust about the time Bob Toombs made hia
last famous secession speech in the Senate
and gave notice of his withdrawal. Then
Levin Shockley was of a sudden a changed
man. On hlsway home from Washington
Toomh stopped over Sunday with an old
family friend in Shockley's Virginia town,
and rode with the family to
Shockley's church, little dreaming
of the scene he wss to witn<
ere the morning passed. There was
almost a scowl on the preacher’s face as ho
strode into the little cabin of a
church and made hia way up the main
aisle of the pulpit He clutched a news
paper in his hand, and ao tightly did he
clinch it that not once during the opening
hymn, nor through the Scriptural reading,
nor yet while he prayed, did he relinquish
it. Had it been the prize of a lifetime not
more closely would it have been held. How
was not serious trouble. Men were hot
tempered on slavery and the rights of the
State in those days, and in that section
much was forgiven Levin Shockley; men
touched their foreheads significantly and
whispered by way of excuse for their old
friend that bo lately had suffered a grave
domestic affliction. Some gossip there waa
whose tone was not helpful to faith in
womanhood, not a matter that much inter
ested the homeward-going statesman—gos
sip, however, that did not spend its
strength in that little township for niaoy
a day thereafter, not till the visit of ToouiIib
whs the merest memory and the face of Levin
Shockley was forgotten—for forgotten it
was long ere his history faded there, a his
tory that took on an eager life when before
that eventful Sabbath night was all over
the county hail heard that the wife of the
hamlet's parson had fled with a sham-faced
lover, and that in the same night the par
son had quit the scene of his life's best en
deavor.
"Toombs never heard again of the man
who affronted him so boldly till by accident
ho fell npon him a vagrant, and dying at
his very gate. Beeanse I loved Boh Toombs,
because I know what his real nature was,
and know, too, how falsely his motives and
manner have been read, for such reason I
am glad of the chance to tell this story.
Conld a more glorious commentary be writ
ten on any heart than actions told here.
Levin Shockley’s last days were vindicative
enough of Robert Toombs against all cal-
nnray that has dared attribute nnmanlincss
to him. Have I told all? No. Levin
Shockley did not wander South without nn
incentive. The war left him a cripple and
destitute. He had not been a Union orator
only ; he shouldered a musket in good time,
and he had fought bravely, falling, 1
believe, at Gettysburg, in an onwnad
ebargo at the head of his company. And
now. finally dying from the effects of bat
tle field exposure, he had wandered away
down into Georgia- Why? you ask. Why?
To seek that recreant wife of years before.
A letter somehow had got to him from her,
she was in a Southern almshouse; her sin
had demanded heavy wages; he who had
led her into crooked paths had ended his
wickedness with brutal desertion. With no
hope—so she wrote—with no petition for
rescue she still wanted to ask forgiveness
ere the end enmo. It was a pitiful letter;
pathos was in every line, ana its mission
was fulfilled. At once and with all tho
energy of a falling life the wronged husband
started toward her whose memory needed
m his heart no resurrection. That letter was
in his hand and he lay fainting at the road
side when Bob Toombs found him,
and that strange day in the old time came
back all clearly to his remembrance. Bnt
;entle nursing did not suffice to bring back
loaltli to Levin Shockley. Ho died on
new year's day, but death was happiness.
The wife was found. She, too, was sick
tmlo death. Boh Toombs stood in tho
room when the two long and cruelly-parted
were finally mot again. He carried in with
his arms her wasted figure from his carriage
that had brought her to the dying husband,
It was not a scene to vulgarize by gazing,
nnough it is to know that there was only
joy and pence and all forgiveness there.
The old life was revived, but not for exist
ence in this world; heaven is for reunions
so sacred, so joyful, as was this on that new
year's day when Bob Toombs gave happiness
Know Thtsvxt by reading the "Science
the l)Bet medical work ever publiahed fo youn, I
and middle-aged men. *
Dr. R. O. Cotter*
Permanently located in Maeon, 126J* f
Dit-eaeefl of the eye. ear, throat and none,
ly assistant for four year* to Dr. A. W. Call
DENTISTRY—DR. S. B. BARFIELU
No. 90K Malberry Street, Macon, Geoiiu.
Office hour*— * a. m. to 6 p. xn- } |
BABYHUMORs
AS
Tits Boston Herald says: “The state din
nera at the White Hotue, surpassing even
those of President Arthur in the richnese of
the decorations snd rivalling them in the
banquet and service, mart have given an
other shock to those who expected to see
the social revolution at the capital turned
backward under s Democratic administra
tion to the tlays of cob pipes, hard cider,
cowhides and homespun'”
he prayed! How the congregation half
rose startled at his petitions! How the
hero of Georgia looked askance and showed
signs ot astonishment at the earnest plead
ing that ensued like the cry of a parent for
a loved one lost! How fall of patriotism
was every word breathed! It waa -so said
Toombs to mo himself—it was an awfnl
prayer, lint this was bnt the hint of what
was to come. Levin Shockley never before
preached as he preached that day. His text I
have forgotten; it matters little what
Scriptural passage he chose, for that paper,
tight clutched in bis hand, was the real
text—and that paper contained a report of
Bob Tombs' most recent utterances. Wen
dell PUUippt was that day in a Virginia
pnlpit; Levin Shockley had risen to a new
height; he was oratory ablaze. Ha declared
for himself openly the rankest abolitionism.
Men rose to interrupt, lint they dared not;
his word* were dynamite. He with whom
Toombs had come to church tried to pro
test against what he regarded oa not merely
inanlt, hut treason to State rights and dis
loyalty to all that waa beat and sacred to
the South. What he gained was confu
sion. * Invective bursts in a hundred thous
ands blunder., and Levin Shockley's elo
quence blazed fiercer snd fiercer, like crack-
i n all its brightest perfection to two souls.”
NEW TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Pref. Unij to Enter In Active Competition
With the Hell Monopoly.
A Chicago special says Mr. D. K.* Tripp,
Prefessor Elisha Gray’s attorney, said last
night, referring to tho now telephone com*
puny incorporated at Springfield Saturday:
“It will bo a Chicago enterprise, and the
headquarters will be here. The object is to
protect Professor Gray and promote his
case. The cupital is $10,000,000, and the
commissioners are Elisha Gray, N. 11. Ju
dith and N. E. Swnrtmont. The organiza
tion will be perfected without delay. The
local company will bo very nicely situated
carry on business, as Professor
Gray and his associates own the under
ground conduit already in, and it will not
take long to put in a complete telephone sys
tem. Sub-companies will bo organized
throughout the country on the same gener
al plan as those now in existence. What
ever results from this controversy, the peo
ple cannot help being greatly benefited by
getting a better service at cheaper rates. 1
take it that the people of this country
would be perfectly willing to have the man
who has made the laws of nature feasible to
hisw'ill, receive not only the praise and
honor, bnt financial benefit from such an
invention. In short, we intend to * prose
cute Prof. Gray’s rights through to a final
adjudication, if necessary, before the Sup
reme Court of the United Htates, and we
have ample capital to do it with.”
“If you open exchanges in Chicago and
elsewhere,” was asked, “will not the Bell
people apply for injunction?”
“It is the opinion of eminent attorneys
that, in view of the pending suit on the
port of tke government to test the validity
of the Bell patents, the United Htates
courts would not interfere if bonds were
given. We haven’t the slightest fear of the
outcome.”
What Girin* Names Mean.
Francia la "unrestrained and free;”
Bertha, "pellucid, purely bright,"
Clara, "-dear" aa the crystal tea;
Lucy, a star of radiant "light;"
• Catherne la "pure" aa mountain air;
Barbara cometh "from afar,"
Mabel ie "like a lily flair*,”
Henrietta, a soft, sweet "star."
Felicia la a "happy girl;"
Matilda la a "lady true;" ,
Margaret U a "shining pearl;"
Rebecca, "with the faithful few;"
Busan is a "lily white;" ,
Jane baa the "willow's” curve and grace;
Cecilia, dear. Is "dim of sight;"
Sophia shows "wisdom" on her face.
Constance is firm and •‘resolute;"
Grace a delicious "favor meet;"
Charlotte, ;*noble, of good repute;"
Harriet, a line "odor sweet;"
Isabella is "lady rare;"
Lucinda, "constant a* the day;"
Maria means "a lady fair;**
Abigail. "Joyful" a* the May;
Elizabeth, "an oath of trust;"
Adelina, "nice princess, proud;"
Agatha la "truly good and just;"
Leila, •% Joy by love avowed."
Jemima, "a soft sound In air;"
Carolina, "a sweet spirit hale;"
Cornelia, "harmonious and fair;"
Selina, "a sweet nightingale;"
Lydia, •% refreshing well;”
Judith, "a song of sacred praise;"
Julia, "a Jewel none excel!"
Priscilla, "ancient of days."
The Gray telephone people aeem to mean
business. They promise to atari with a
$10,000,000 capital and do business in the
citiea throughout the country generally.
They also promise a better and a cheaper
aemce than the one now rendered. They
will give bonds, if the ownera of the Bell
patent interfere, which they claim that the
United States Court will accept pending
the testing of the validity of the Bell pat
ents.
New York World.
A French artist bas painted a picture represent
ing a husband and wife taking breakfast after the
Uonevrnoon has gone down and left them to the Bo
ber realities of life. He reads the paper over a cup
of coffee; 8bo gazes out of the window and muses
over what she has come to. All explorations in ro
mantic highways .have ceased and here they are,
face to face, for heaven knows how long a time.
He is interested more In his paper than he Ib in her,
and she grows weary of talking to a man who
answers in monosyllables, or does not answer at all.
This picture tits whole myriads of people. It* very
aptness nukes one smile and say it is "good. Thin
couple bavi arrived at the point of disillusionment.
Perhaps th*y will get by and find each other inter
esting after all; iierbapa they will not. The philoso
phy of disenchantment must be wrestled with by
every man and woman who dares the dangers of
matrimony, and the happiness of a lifetime depends
l how you settle the question.
I do not say women are to blame for most of the
marital unhappiness in the world, but they are to
blame for a good share of it. Women are better
than men. as a rule: they are greater conservitor*
of the primary virtues than men are; they have
clearer consciences than men and have a stronger
religious temperament. The universal disposition
is to make all tho angel females, and if it were not
that the Bible had given ua an angel Gabriel and
others of the masculine kind there would be
> such thing as a umn augel.
But when It comes to wrestling with the question
of disillusionmeiit.upon the determination of w hich
marital happiness «o much depends, men are more
successful thau woinon, even though not so good.
The contrast between a woman who is married aud
a woman who is unmarried is greater than the con
tract Ie;iwe«*n a man who is mar. led and a man who
is uumarried. And contrast* havo very much to
do with tills subject. A husband is forever draw
ing contrast* between bis wife a* she is and as she
was. He also draw* contrast* between his wife and
other women. There is nothiug particularly sinful
in this. It is quite natural and is to be expected.
Women are too much disposed to take it for granted
that marriage means the extinction of the esthetic
sense in the husband. *It does not mean anything
of the kind. There is no reason why the (esthetic
sense shonl l not be just a* strong in a man after
he is married as before he is married. In fact it is
so. The average woman is too much disposed to
shed her plumage when she marries. The average
man Is more disposed to keep his, and make him
self proportionately more Interesting. The average
woman says when she gets married, "Thank good-
B that ( have come this far. If i* over, und I
fixed for life.” Then «he settles down. This
settling down means a 3reat deal, In it is involved
tho disenchantment, the disillusionment spoken of
above. Tr.o much is revealed. The actuality be-
comes too bad.
But ami to be In stays all my life?" says the wo
rn Not quite bo stiff and formal and reserved
and prim of attiro a* when a girl with BUitors
galore, but don't take tho veilotf entirely. Bo pleas-
ihg still, and remember that the admiration of a
husband is won in much the name way that you, as
a girl, won tho adoration of » lover. In other
words, do not sink under foot the ideality of life.
It is human to hate ah idea which we are always
struggling up to. Ah long as a wife is ideal tdie is
beloved; when she ceases to bo ideal she la either
dimply tolerated or despised. It is the ideal that
puts man to his best and greatest effort*. Tho ideal
is the model of life—it is tho onethiug that we are
always 1 endeavoring to possess. It is the halo of
every pursuit. We seek to clothe everything with
a captivating Ideality. Tho yonng girl who goes
forth for a husband is ideal. She liides the reali
ties of her existence with scrupulous and inmate
care. She sails along in the clouds, peeps out half
revealed from the mist, rises up like a nymph out
of the sea, sings like the nightingale afar off, array*
herself like tho flowers, and in as gentle and com
forting as the breath of spring. From this loftj
pinnacle she coquettes with all the world, which
means that she conceal* more than *be reveals. It
Is this half Ideal, half real sort of thing that keeps
the whole race on tho tiptoe of interest and excite
ment. It Is the something in art that the artist is
always trying to grasp. It la not the actual land
scape or face or form that ho seek* to bring out
his canvas, but these with the dress of his o
sentiment and imagination. There was never a
great picture that did not havo about it the .him
mer aud gleam of a rich ideality. There was never
a great poem that did not burn and throb with
ideality. There is the Ideal in architecture to
wards which every architect struggles. The soulp-
tor is always tryiug to got you away from tho cold,
lifeless marble to the contemplation of some
spiritual intent and meaning that is a\jovo and be
yond it. Even the gardener strlvos to find a new
and prettier flower, the liko of which he carries in
his imagination and on the pursuit of which is one
of the enjoyment* of hi* life. Thoroiaan ideal
horse, to which every other horse is compared; and
the actual horse is beautiful and valuable in pro
portion to hi* similarity to the ono wo can think of
but never see. Why not live in square houses of
stone, like the Egypt!* 11 * did, when they had come
but a little way from caverns? Why havo gables
aud turrets and things that aro not actually useful
and needful? Why put spire* on churches? Why
not ride in unpainted carriages, and why black our
shoest Why adorn and ornament anything if not
to please and cultivate tho msthetlo Benue? The esth
etic House is the ideal sense and mathcttcism Is
ideality. The girl with her fans and perfumes, her
sunny smiles, her sweet sayings, her fairy dress
and her disposition to bo happy ami make ever-
body else happy. Is the (esthetic ideal creature of
the race. Not all of theso can she retain and main
tain as a married woman, for age and many serious
cares come on apace and steal away tho poetry of
life; but there are hundreds of little coquetries she
ean preserve with which to please the one whom
she wishes to please above all others.
Ho many married women lose all pride of per
sonal appearence when in the privacy of their own
homes. The husband goea oa and dresses just as
ho did before marriage. And the matter of dress
bos much to do with the subject. It la one of the
illusions tliat we must have to make Ufa enjoyable.
But a wife says ahe la poor and cannot dress
well. Every woman is well dressed who la dressed
In good taste,and good taste descends to calico and
white apron.
Not even Carlyle in the mystifications of "Sartor
Reaartns" got down to the true philosophy of dress.
The difference betweeir clothes and no clothes at
all la not as great aa the difference between good
clothes and bad clothes, for the Utter disfigure and
distort what nature has already done. Woman can
dresa better than men. They have greater variety of
styles and colors to draw on, and fauhlon alwa<
permits them a wide range. There Is no reason wf.
a married woman of even "moderate circmnstan-
cea" should not be well dressed at home a* well as
abroad. But how manr women are there who study
the art of dressing well at homej They buy slip-
E rs, and smoking-Jarketa and studying gown* for
eir husbands while they themselves wauder about
In untidy, scare-crow neglige. Perhaps it is true
that even "rags are royal rameut when worn for
virtue'H sake/' but they ought to tfe clean—and
so ought the wearer, otherwise virtu re loses half its
charm. Many a wife U pained to observe the
waning interest in her husband without auspecting
why or how. when, in truth, the trouble is trace
able to a little negligence on her part a* to personal
appearance. Hhe assumee that he is no longer im-
pressed or influenced by the mere appearance of
things. Hhe attires the children in their best for
him to see and admire, while she herself sit* by a
spectacle of unlovely carelessness. Beloved read-
ed. do you not call up many a picture like thU
where the well-meaning and really devoted house
wife foregoes all her personal adornment in her ef
forts to adorn the other members of her family.
There is where she makes a mistake. I believe in
adornment. Adorn the house you Uve In. Build
conservatories. Have flowers on your table. Beau
tify every thing. Get as far away from the spiritless
reality of things as possible. Give the imagination
a chance. Have pictures on your walls; hang your
windows with curtains; tie ribbons on your chairs.
The asceticism of the middle ages condemned peo
ple to sit on benches and Uve in cell*. That will
not do now. The IdeaUty of mankind has bloom
ed Into thousands of new and beautiful forms of
which our forefathers never dreamed, but In which
we now take unlimited delight Woman la ths
centre of all adornment Her face ia the fairest
tiling upon which hnmaneye ever rested, and in the
building up of ths world beauUful she could not b«
neglected, nor should she neglect herself.
The cold ban been bo intense in New Or
leans that many gas meters in that city
hare been frozen. This does not seem to
dash the spirits of the Picayune, which
pithily remarks that there is no fear atxmt
the gM bills at the end of the month. They
will thaw out all right
A novel instance of the working of the
clause of the license law which prohibits
licensee within 400 feet of a public school,
wee recently witnessed in North Providence,
lie only man willing to buy a school build
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he bid $1,000 in order to get it out of the
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