Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-03-15

mrs Jane L. StrtSsieifa ta Chicago Trtbtnnel
The tower has fallen on Mrs. Belknap. but
This is no reason for believing that she ia a
sinner above all those who dwell in Jerusa-
lem. How many women in this country
nave not been dressing above their meansY
How many have not been tempting fathers
aud husbands 10 dishonesty by their extrav-
agant demands for dress? The number ia
certainly IN The minority, and their oppo-
sites are confined 90 no locality or class fne
wives and daughters of lawyers, DOCTORS
merchants, mechanics. and laborers have
alike been straining every nerve To appear
IN gorgeous costumes, and the female MEM
beers OF preachers families have not been
decorations
Last winter Jenkins informed us that the
exemplary wife OF the renowned Beecher had
the haDdsomest cloak In Brooklyn" aud
this fact probably accounted for her persist
ent attendance on the famous trial, while n
rs 10y no means certain that Mrs. TiltSm
would have gone without that "velvet suit
and iaunty hat with white feather" Bees
Sic Turner was serene under the utmost a "a
OF cross eXamin alton because she knew Sine
was well dressed aud having her picture
AS a rule, American women for the last
ten years have gone 10 balls and receptious
public halls, theatres, churches, fairs, ba-
Zaars. and every place else TO which they
have gone, 20 show their dresses aud SEQ
what other women wore rather more than
Tor any other purpose, and the reason is that
American men. having proved their brave
~. demanded their re ward of beauty Hear
Ing false standards, they have been pleased
with barbarie display, have demanded and
received the homage OF expensive personal
1ecoratlons IN the woman they admire, and
have had the pleasure OF paying for them.
How UTICA GIRLS REACH FOR LUCK
The Utica Herald OF Friday divulges the fol-
lowing: There's pin lying on the bridge
with its point toward me. III pass IL shall
have bad luck; II pick Il up shall be
lucky, but / cannot get down 10 do IT," That
is what one OF two neat looking country
ladies remarked on Genesee street bridge
yesterday noon. The door OF the bridge was
wet and snowy, but the ladies' hesitated.
The presence of several pins in the back OF
The speakers dress was the .pullback which
prevented the lady from encouraging good
luck by lifting the piece OF metal which lay
with its point toward her. She made two
vain attempts, and finally with a sigh pass
sd on few steps, laughing as IL amused at
her folly. Just then her companion exclairn-
ed, There's another with It's point looking
me right in the face! I'll have that IL / tear
my dressi-and being shorter than the other,
by an ingenious twist she did succeed In SCI
curing the omen OF good luck, and placed ft
carefully In her dress. The other regretted
that she bad not obtained the first one"
ANEW TEMPERANCE ARGuMESr-The
Reedsburg Wis., Free Press tells this extra
ordinary story OF an old gentleman who lives
and admits that eff ft were not so we'll
voucbed for IL would be almost altogether in
credible" The old man is named William
Otis, and is now ninety two years old. He q
represented TO have been very much Indicted
20 Intoxicating liquors-'has drank enough
liquor, Sir, 10 noat q seventy four gun shin %
Many years ago he became nearly or quite
bald, and his teeth became few and far be-
tween. His eyesight failed almost entirely.
About twelve years ago be left of the habit
OF drinking LIQUOR. Since that time he h al
new set Of natural teeth all around, his
hair has come In anew, and his eyeslght has
returned, so that he is enabled 20 work regu-
larry at his trade, which is shosmsking."
The Brooklyn Argus is going to change
hands, and possibly politics, within q week
or two.-lN u Or. PitiJd Times.
~The coal miners of the Tuscarawas val
ley, Ohio, are on q strike, in consequence Of
reduction OF ten cents per ton in the price
for mining coal.