The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-13
/, town so that he should

not feel the cnange SO keenly.
For time things went on thus, till one
day when 'the party of the second part"
awOke to the fact that he was ruined in
turn; so his carriage and horses were sold,
and now comes the most remarkable part OF
the story. Just where the average true story
would show some weak point is where this
episode in real life comes TO hitting climax.
For when the ''party of the first part
found that his devoted friend had suffered
in like manner with himself, he had the joy
of informing him that be had recovered his
former status, and in future would call for
him each morning with a carriage! Only
old, mother goose can do justice to this case:
"Here we go up, up, up,
And here we go down, down, downey."
All the time which well educated gotham
ties can spare from the eager hunt after food
and raiment, by which / mean dinners at
Delmonico's and suits made by @. ID. Happy,
tailor to the beau monde, is supposed to be
devoted to reading the literature of the day,
with occasional treats (?) like attending a
lecture by Eli Perkins. AS to what the afore-
said gOthamites read, | can only say that If
they confine themselves entirely to the peri
odicals issued in their own hamlet they
might do much worse. Only men OF leisure
can hope to do more than take very cursory
glance at the literature of their time; and,
therefore, people of little leisure ought to be
sincerely thankful for good magazines and
papers, those epitomes ofthe age. Children,
too, of whose mental tastes, if they had
any, not much account was formerly taken,
should
THANK THEIR LUCKY LITTLE STARS
That they were born at time when such
a magazine as 'St. Nicholas, published by
Scribner Il Co., is prepared for their especial
delectation. Who is there among grown up
folks who doesn't feel like heaving a retro
spective sigh over the pages of the beautiful
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his youth, and the crude specimens OF book
making for children which he calls to mind.
The holiday number of ''St. Nicholas" is
delight all the way through, from cover to
cover, and the cover, by the way, is not the
least of its beauties, with its cheerful ming
ling of scarlet and soft grey, with a dash of
black; its handsome lettering in the
illuminated style, and graceful arebisque
figures. Having absorbed sour Young
Folks" as il will still continue to do, it now
gives reproduction OF the cover Of that
popular periodical on the back of it's own
cover, and also adds all the best features of
sour Young Folks to its own original eX
cellence. Space would fail me were l to
attempt even a glance at its whole contents
but can not help calling attention TO some
OF its more striking novelties. First and
foremost is the introduction of a short,
simple French or German story in each
number, fer the instruction and convenience
of beginners in those languages; these little
stories are usually accompanied bY character
istic illustrations. But the delicious little
bits of nursery jingle especially fascinate me,
such FOR instance as the following:
"If blue birds bloomed like flowers in a row,
And never could make a sound
How would the daisies and vi0lets know
When to come out of the ground?
They would wait and wait the seasons round I:
Never a flower could on earth be found.
And what would birds and butterflies do
II the flowers had wings to fly?
Why, birds and blossoms and butterflies too,
Would stay far up in the sky;
And then the people would droop and sigh,
And all the children on earth would cry"
The picture accompanying this is charm
ing, and is done by Miss Ledyard: it shows
three little ones crying within circle of
blue birds on stems, while the flowers have
taken wing and are flying away. The tastes
Of all sizes of children are catered
for by 'St. Nicholas" and it is
not too much to say that we have
never looked upon its like before.
The January nuaber of Scribner's Month
lv is also fine and fully sustains its high re-
putation. The longest illustrated article,
"a visit to San Antonio," is the first of a
series to be entitled "Glimpses of Texas" 1t
gives very interesting account Of the town
in question, and almost makes us feel as If
so picturesque place must be foreign. A
striking poem by Stoddard, contributions by
John Hay, Bret Hart, Charles Dudley War
ner and others too numerous to mention.
fill the measure of this excellent magazine,
which to be appreciated "needs but to be
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