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In the waiting room of the Pennsyl
vania depot the other day there waa a
middle aged man with a fresh weed on
hia hat, and quite a number of people
must have whispered to themselves that
be had lately lost the eompanion.of hia
joys and sorrows. Among those who
observed him closely was a man Of
about hia own age, who had fire or six
parcels on the seat beside him, having
evidently been doing considerable trad-
1ETWEKN MACON AND ATHENS.
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Wye*
teg. After a few minutes he' walked
over to the other and remarked;
“1 don’t mean to be sassy, but i see
you are in mourning.’*
“Yes?*
-WifeT
-Yea." * *
“How long since?”
“Jnst a week."
“Umt Here take this lemon.- con-
tiimed the questioner, as be drew one
from hia coat tail pocket
“I—I thank you, but”
“Cost me three cents, but you needn’t
worry about that You orter keep ’em
with you right along. Lost my wife
about two years ago and went to suck
ing lemons, and,rH~be bagged if Ididnt
forget all about my calamitourteamoad'
pitch a game of quoits within two weeks!
Try Ik dozen or two, and I'll bet an acre
of garden Bass agin a straw hat yonlbbe
huntin’ for number two within six
months!"—M. Quad in New York World.
To take the place
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one-try the Ball waist.
That’s, just what you can
do. You can , try it, and even
wear it for two or three
weeks, if you wish. Then, jf
you’re nojt satisfied, you cant-
return it, and get your money.
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A. G. CRAIG, Ass’t Sup’t.
“I can't help it Everybody does, and 1
am forced to do it in self defense.”
• “But my child, yon shouldn’t do
wrong because everybody else does. Yon
should obey a higher and nobler princi
ple than that"
“Well, mamma, I hadn’t thought of
it just in that way before. 1 can see
now that I have been led unwittingly
into a fault which neither right nor rea
son can sanction.”
The mother’s eyes filled with tears.
“And yon will never use slang again?”
she said, bending forward and kissing
NERVOUS?"®"
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of ideas, safely and permai
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or ulcerated throat and mo
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“Yon bet your sweet life* I won’t, ”
exclaimed the impulsive girl, and was
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Pnnleigh—I saw a well preserved man
last night
Mrs. P.—How old was he?
Pxclsigh— i didn’t ask bust. It was at
the grocer’s, and he had fallen into a
pail of jelly.—Kate Field’s Washington.
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Sweet Girl—I might wake mother np
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Tl,e Shame of It.
Customer—Why did yon take your
boy away from school?
Grocer—They were ruining him.
Why, they • were trying to teach him
that sixteen ounces make a pound!”—
Mnnsey’s Weekly.
A Calumny.
“Do the Russians really eat candle?
asked a Washington lady of the Russia::
ambassador.
“No, madam,” was the reply, “it is a
calumny, a tallow calumny, so to speak.”
—Texas Siftings.
S. M. Inmax,
A. D. Ados,
Joel Hi rt,
James T< BIX,
J. W. K.VGUSH,
T J. JllGHTOWEB,
Sfv
ATHENS
A.NNER
»UNDA\
MORNIN
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AS TO BUSINESS WOMEN.!*
SHALL THEY WEAR A DISTINGUISH
ING STYLE OF DRESS?
Writer Who Says They Are
ut Like Other Women, Dress
and All—Some Hints That W1U Bo
Useful to Workers.
{Copyright. 1881. by American Press Associa
tion.]
“What do you think of the proposal to
invent a distinctive dress for business
women? Would you wear it?*
“Oh, 1 won’t commit myself. I'll wait
and see what it is first,” was the laugh
ing reply. pT .
“Yes; there is a proverb about taking
a hone to water. I should certainly re
bel at a divided skirt.”
We wen in a down town restaurant
in New York where there are “tables
reserved for ladies,” and where hundreds
of business women take their lunch every
day—a good place to observe the charac
teristics of the species, in drees and other
A glance around the room inclines one
to believe that busteeas women are not
particularly different from other women.
Colonel Tredennis might have picked
out “the woman who supports her fam
ily on her salary and the one who buys
her ribbons with itt” but as a rule they
do not acquire any of what George Eliot
calls “epicene queerneeses,” and they ap
pear to dress in good taste and to like
pretty things when they can get them as
well as other people.
And why not? I’m sure the business
woman needs them quite as much. Her
surroundings are not generally festive,
and are often gloomy and ugly, and she
cannot take it oat in looking at other
people’s pretty things, as a saleswoman
might, since her work generally takes
her among the half of humanity that is
doomed to cropped beads, stiff collars
and derby hats.
“It strikes me,” says Prims, stirring
her chocolate, “that the light of nature
ia aa likely to dictate sensible dress to a
business woman as to any one else."
“Yee,” says Seconds, “but if they
could invent something to keep the mud
off one’s skirts, I for oneshould be grate
ful. It hasn’t been so bad this se
but do you remember last, when it rain
ed every day? How sick and tired 1
used to get brushing mud off my skirts.
I’m sure I carried home enough to make
n small form, and when 1 reflect that
real estate to this part of the city is al
most worth the gold that would cover It,
I have an undefined feeling that I ought
to be richer than 1 am.”
“But, my dear, why can’t you bold np
your dress?”
“1 don’t know why, but I can’t Some
people have a gift that way—I haven’t
And then it is such a bother u> carry a
waterproof and rubbers when it isn’t
raining that I often go without them and
ran the risk of being caught”
“Then what yon want is a rainy day
bag. Any one who has had a pair of
muddy rubbers on her hands to get
home when it has cleared up in the af
ternoon would appreciate this. The
pockets yon get with rubber cloaks are
not big or durable enough, and, oddly,
they generally come with the cheap
ones, not with the good, but these latter
commonly have a hood, which you have
probably discarded as abeurd. Take
this and rip it up, or cut it dose to the
seams, and you get a yard of striped
robber cloth to match your cloak.. Make
a bag about twelve inches squarel Put
a piece of black ribbon or silk across the
top for a finish and to put a caring in.
Put strings of cord or narrow ribbon.
When yon want to dispose of your rub
bers it is such a comfort to pop them
into thi3 and roll them up, instead of an
awkward parcel with two or three thick
nesses of paper. Ordinarily yon keep it
packed with your rubbers and cloak,
your elastic strap and some safety pins
to hold up-your dress evenly, and a
thick veil. On a threatening morning
all you have to do is to slip it over your
arm and it leaves your hands free, far
there is room to crowd in a book or par
cel. 1 hate to carry things in my hands.”
“But, pray," interrupts Tertia, “does
this remarkable bag hold your umbrella
into the bargain?”
“Not quite, but I have a chain for my
umbrella and it hangs from my belt 1
carry a small one. for, after all, an um
brella only keeps your hat dry.”
“Well, for my part 1 wouldn’t give a
fig for a waterproof. I think they are
hot in summer and cold in winter, and
clumsy always. Stormy weather is gen
erally cool enough to make an ulster
comfortable. 1 pin my skirt up under
my nlster, and my ankles are still veiled
from vulgar eyes.”
Somebody explains, speaking of elastic
straps, that they are no good if they are
loose. Three-quarters of a yard is gen
erally enough, of stout, inch elastic.
Have it well np, not down around the
knees; poll the skirt through evenly and
pin it to be flat.
- There is great comfort in an i extra
pocket or two. This sotends impossible
to people who are contented to go with
out any; but make up your mind to
have them, possible or not, and serve
notice on your dressmaker to that effect
Have pockets in your underskirts at any
rate, and you can carry your overshoes
iq these if you are a despiser of water
proofs.
By many business women sateen is
voted the drees par excellence for sum
mer wear. It is delightfully cool and
light, sheds the dust and makes up into
wonderfully pretty costumes without
being too dressy. Another material that
possibly outranks it is what was afore
time known as debeige. I suppose the
same thing is made every year with
different name. It comes in pretty
shades of gray and brown, has light,
oooi and dust shedding qualities, and,
being wool, is safer to wear in changeable
weather.
“Speaking of sateen,” says Secnnda,
who has a well developed bump of econ
omy, “tell 'em it has a strong constitu
tion. At the seaside last summer Maria
Smith fell into the Atlantic ocean in a
sateen dress, and the next morning she
wrong it out and it was as good as ever.
» ...
No, 1 believe on the whole that she only
j fell down on the edge of the bench and
got drenched, bnt the moral is the same.
There is wear in sateen.”
That is a jxiint to be considered. The
hero of “Blithesdale Romance” re
marked of the philosophers of Brook
Farm that whatever differing theories
had brought them there they had ap
parently all come with the laudable in
tention of wearing out their old clothes.
This is an economy that the business
woman cannot practice as easily as her
stay-at-home sister, nor the kindred oae
of making over old dothee to look
amaist as weel as new,” for that is
something yon must dq yourself to make
It pay. Therefore it is not an economy
not to buy good material unless you can
afford to throwaway a drees that has
frayed at the seams or become wrinkled
with a few wearings.
Nobody is speaking of doth gaiters,"
says Prima, “but I may as well remark
that they are comfortable and keep your
shoes nice. And 1 was going to make
another suggestion. You said you
found linen collars and cuffs the most
convenient neck and wrist wear?"
“Yee, but one gets awfully tired of
them. Ruchings are nicer, but they
cost a pretty penny if they are pretty
ones and always fresh.”
Well, a very good compromise is
folds of mull or dotted swiss, or some
thing of that sort, with a backing of
white or very pale ribbon. You
mmlro them up by the dozen and have
them ready t& put on like collars. But
I must be off. WJk>’s going my way?"
As we stopped to pay our checks the
young womap before us helped herself
to a toothpick and walked down the
street with it between her lipa.
«I am thankful to say," observed
Tertia, “that I haven’t seen one burine
woman in fifty do that”
M. Hxlsm Fraser Lovett.
So Mjeh the Better for Her.
A gentleman and his wife, the latter
with a six months’ old infant in her
i, were about to enter the Austin
opera house to see the performance one
light, when the doorkeeper suddenly
said:
Beg pardon, madam, but you can’t
take infants inride.”
“Very well," said the lady, “so much
the better for me. You just take care
of the little fellow till the play is over—
and, by the way, there’s the milk bottle
to case be should cry.”—Texas Siftings.
No Kxtrm Charge.
It may not be so to other cities, but in
New York there is a constant aggrega
tion of unattached women into groups
of from two to half a dozen, who hire a
flat or a house, as the case may be, and
set up a home for themselves. Rather
strangely, too, the same is trueef unat
tached men. Soores of these, too—good
looking youths of a marriageable age,
widowers of middle age, and bachelors
who never mention their age—drift to
gether into grappa, and these, too, go to
housekeeping, * independent of woman.
The difference between the housekeeping
of the two saxes when they go it alone
without the help of the other is amus
ing as well aa suggestive. The wom
en bachelors, come out strong in
brio-a-brac, Japanese and China silk
wall hangings and household decorative
art generally. "They have flower pots ip
the windows, and not seldom a sleepy
old tabby eat and canary birds. Eating
arrangements they think little about.
The ideas of the man housekeeper may
be best expreesodin the conversation
beard between two young men in a res-'
tanrant One of these had just gone to
housekeeping in a flat with three other
men. “It’s arranged this way, you see, 1
he said. “There are four of ns. Each
puts to a hundred dollars toward fur
nishing the flat. We pat a billiard table
in the back parlor and hire a coon to do
tho cooking. The first man that breaks
the contract and marries forfeits his
hundred dollars to the rest and most
leave his share of the furniture to the
flat.” The billiard table, the “coon”
and the cooking were the uppermost
ideas in the young man bachelor’s prep-
orations for housekeeping.
Have you read 1 “Dreams,” by Olive
Schreiner, this wonderful girl, Olive
Schreiner?
Men should look after their preroga
tives. In the last legislature of Wiscon
sin the chairman of the judiciary com
mittee reported adversely a measure for
enlarging the rights of women in that
state. He explained that he could not
recommend the bill, as it was contrary
to that state of subjection which nature
indicated was the proper one for woman.
Thereupon his associate members of the
legislature, even men like onto himself,
laughed him to scorn and named him
“Old-Man-Afraid-of-the-Girls.” Thus
the masculine scepter is dropping to
pieces, and men themselves seem rather
to enjoy it
Mi83 Anna W. Kelly, of Denver, was
appointed reading clerk of the Colorado
senate. She got the place because she
was the best reader among a number of
- competitors, six of whom were men.
Gertrude E. Fonda, a Vermont girl,
won a fifty dollar. prize for the best
original design by a woman for an arti
cle of furniture. Her design was that
of a bookcase in the form of a book.
! know not who wrote the words be
low, bat they are golden: “It is one of
the most deplorable symptoms of the
state of things which prevails in many
societies when, if men and women who
are not married are noticed to be united
by close ties of friendship and sympathy,
people assume at once that something is
wrong between them. That assumption
may be, and perhaps is, a natural
growth of a corrupt and immoral so
ciety, but if we are to mend matters we
must change all thaL
Yale college has received daring the
past year gifts amounting to $1,151,272.
Harriet T. Leavenworth lately bestowed
on the college $15,000. And Yale has
riot even an annex for the education of
women. Harriet T. Leavenworth, aren't
yon ashamed of yourself?
If there is one thing uglier than an
other it. is the lambrequin around the
fashionable basque this Bpring, hanging
half way down the skirt.
Helen Campbell, author of “Prisoners
of Poverty,” one of the finest, strongest
■woman souls in America, has received
the $200 prize from the American Eco
nomic association for writing the best
paper on “Women Wage Workers.” We
are glad of it.
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