The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-02-02
Men and Women.

man sixty years of age, and protesting to
be lunatic, has been taken into custody at
Brooklyn for kissing pretty girls of sixteen. If
he is crazy, tbs folly-to be wise.
Ruskin advises girls to "dress plainly in
bright colors and the best materials" Several
Portland girls are ready and anxious to follow
this advice, and are sitting I'D nights 20 CON.
vince the old lady that if anybody knows Just
what constitutes "plain dressing, it certainly
is Ruskin.
Olive Logan's husband, having been an
pointed Consul in Wales, has thus far only
learned that there are 80, 900 words in the lam
guage, and that cwrw is the cabalistic motto
which fetches the beer. The word must tend
to produce economy in the consumption of the
national beverage.
Judge Gildersleeve has checked in New York
the new gentleman's fashion of shooting at
ladies who decline proposals of marriage by
sentencing one of the latest exhibitors to ten
years imprisonment. "This," says the Tri-
oune, will tend to discourage one of the
noblest of our national sports.''
Daniel Heyman's will has been contested in
New York, and in the course of the PROCEEDINGS
aquaint letter has been produced, the closing
paragraph of which runs thus: "Sister Louise
IS very Good Sister For Geddeng Wife For My
Brother, but she never Dry aud Get ope For
me. think Deserve "A Good Wife with
Plenty Stamps, also My Regards" This
noble sentiment of humanity has perhaps
never been more beautifully expressed.
While young lady at recent evening party
was talking about the psychological sigoifi-
canoe of Dress and maintaining that per-
sons character could, to considerable extent.
be inferred from his attire, a foppish Young
Englishman, wearing blue coat and brass
buttons, inquired, with supercilious air. what
that kind of coat indicated, to which the young
lady instantly responded, "The blue is indics
tive OF the wearet's feelngs-the brass. of his
Manners
Mile. Sarah Felix, the elder sister of Rachel
has just died at Paris, aged sixty-eight years.
she had been moderately successful actress,
leaving the stage at last to keep a perfumer's
shop, in which she acquired comfortable in-
dependence. She cultivated oysters also, off
the Normandy coast, and made a pocketful of
money thus She was as penurious as her fa-
nous sister, and it is told of them that when
they were in this country the younger and
richer sister kindly sold to her elder one of her
old bonnets for the sum Of seveuty-five cents.
Dr. Farquharson argues in the Popular Sci
ence Monthly that intellectual power is lessened
by the listlessness in which the vell-to-do
classes generally spend their lives. As to the
amount of mental work that may safely be
done, Dr. Farquharson says: $50 long as a
brain worker is able to sleep well, to eat well,
and to take fair proportion of outdoor exsr-
else, it may safely be said that it is not neces-
sary to impose any special limits on the actual
number of hours which he devotes to his
labors."
A statistical Partisan bootmaker has recently
given American ladies the distinction of having
the smallest feet by nature among their sex,
and from them he ascends in the order of
Spanish, Italians, Russians and English to the
Germans. Had Sir John Sucking lived to-day
the little feet of American bellies would have
driven him frantic for simile. The ''sun
upon an Easter day. would not have done, and
perhaps it was well that he died before this
great perplexity came upon him.
Lamar, representative, and Senator after
the 4th of March, is an exceedingly well read,
man, and one versed in the ways of courtesy.
His face is described as one that might have
come out of one of Vandyke's pictures, needing
only the setting off of wide-brimmed, plumed
hat and velvet doublet to make the uroisen-
blance complete; stronly emphasized features
heavy dark moustache, which would be
fierce if it had an upward curl, but sloping
downward is gravely romantic; pointed beard
on chin, large hazel eyes, straight hair, between
brown and black, worn so long that it falls
down over the coat collar; a lofty fore head;
form Of medium hight and well-shaped, save
for the STOPPING shoulders. Mr. Proctor Knott
is painted in even more brilliant colors. His
cheeks and nose are of a rich strawberry
tint, and his hair and moustache are as white
as snow; he is said to resemble blanc mango
and currant ielley.