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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-24
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-24
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Smyrna times., 1877-05-02
The Art of Shifting.

We may venture to make a few sugges-
tions in behalf of those who desire to
acquire the art. If you are lawyer, when
ever the name of a very celebrated member
of the bar is mentioned, you must imme-
diately hint that that lawyer is overrated,
and that Mr.. Soand-so, of whom you must
be sure that your audience has never
heard, is really stronger man." If you
are an artist, you can say of some other
artist that he is a very good fellow, but
what pity he can't paint; or if the other
artist understands tone and you do not,
then you can say that "tone" nowadays is
tobacco" or "lamp-black." If you are a
poet, you can do nothing more to the
point, in the presence of young persons,
than to mentien in confidence, and with a
deprecatory air, that your verses on Nova
Zembla, containing that simile of the lily
and the bear, were printed six months
before Tennyson's famous ode containing
exactly the same simile. If you are a man
of science, you will gain great reputation
by merely struggling your shoulders at the
mention of some famous specialist. This
method will work admirably i'll the
medical, or in fact in any OF the learned
professions. But if you are not writer, oil
a professional man of any kind, but merely
person of taste, you can increase your
reputation by many not very costly devices
If an engraving or photograph is showr
you, cover part Of the picture with two
| fingers Of your right hand, and say that i
is very well-all but that. If it is too large
to treat in this way, stand at the prope
distance, shut one eye and hold finger o
two at arms length, first perpendicular.
and then horizontally, so as to hide nov
one and now another part of the painting
after the manner of some artists. Whei
you have done this you can either say tina
the picture is good, or that it is bad; bu
remember that you will gain most credit b
giving an opinion opposite to that whicl
you suspect is held by the persons present
If you go to public entertainment, lik
Dickens's readings, or Beethove
symphony, do not fail to report that 20
had to knock your feet against the chair I
keep awake,-although in the case OF tn
symphony be careful not to lay the blam
upon the composer, but upon whatev'
orchestra may happen to render the pieC
| that night. But if you suspect that tn
: music was particularly well rendered it wi
, be safe to declare that it was altogether tt
, we'll played, and that for your part yc
! prefer to hear Beethoven given by the -
!. Society, where Everything isn't cut ar
I dried, and something is left to the imal
/ nation. -" The old Cabinet !" Scribner J
y May.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02
The Daily Trials of an Actress.

Miss Nelson tells a San Francisco re-
porter of her life when not before her
audiences, and is doubtless quite an ac-
curate drawing of the daily routine of most
hard working actresses. She says: "My
daily life is bare and simple enough,
though it may seem smooth and pleasant
enough to one who looks at it from before
the footlights. feel sometimes as though
| would like to 20 out in the forest of
Ardcnnes, far away from this incessant
toll and trouble and study. An artist
lives life of slavery and drudgery. She
has no rest, and scarcely time to eat or
sleep. My path looks as if it were strewn
with roses, but it is rather beset with
thons. This is my daily routine: In the
morning rise between and o'clock. |
first attend to my business letters, and |
study for an hour, if not upon a part that
have in hand, upon some miscellaneous
subject; then l walk to rehersal which
lasts from two to fonr hours. This is par
ticularly trying. If the play is new to the
| company, then l have to tell them all
| about the business : and if it is not new,
my business is different from that of the
star that has proceeded me, and much
that they do has to be changed for my
convenience. 1t is very hard upon mem
bers Of the company somctimes, but it can
not be helped. The company here is one
of the best in the country, and they are
very kind and good. The rehearsal over, |
receive callers for an hour, after which
dine and take a short nap, when | have
to get ready for the evening performance.
This is the mere work; but there is the
care and annoyance besides. When | am
about to play new character, for a fort
night before the opening night | get so
nervous that | can neither eat nor sleep.
generally walk to and from the theatre for
the benefit of the air and exercise. The
evening performance once commenced, if !
am acting part whose emotions carry me
away, | enter fully into the spirit, and
think no more of myself until the curtain
falls for the last time. get warm and ex
-pcited, and take cold from the droughts
The wonder is that am not often seriously
i'll instead of merely getting those colds
from which | soon recover. The play
finished, come home in a state Of nervous
excitement, which sometimes continues
for hours and prevents my sleeping.
would like to ride or drive to the beach
but | have no opportunity. | am in love
with this State but have no chance ts
see it. return to England, and the people
say Oh, tell us about California; tells u:
about the geysers, or Yosemite, or the biz
trees and | am compelled to tell then
that | have never seen them. And this
kind of thing continues for long season
or until my summer vacation comes-ar
incessant mental and physical strain
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02
Housekeeping by Proxy.

Nothing can be done by any one who
does not care enough for the matter to take
good deal of trouble to get what he wants !;
and to those who insist so warmly that
house cannot be made pretty and attrac.
tive without money, venture to insist as
warmly that money is the least important
element in the business Taste and con-
trivance are of far more Importance than
money; and of all the attractive houses
that it has been my good fortune to see, by
far the greater number have owed their
attractiveness to the taste and to the
ingenuity of their owners rather than to
their long purses. A person with no need
to think about the cost of anything may 60
into Cotter's rooms and buy and order
right and left and give the house commits
sion to decorate and furnish, and up
holster, and fill his cabinets with cold
blue" and never spare for cost, and when
all is done, nobody who comes to visit him
shall say, " low beautiful this is ! How in
teresting! What taste you haver' but
only, "Oh, then, | see Cottier has been
with your There has simply been a
transfer of goods from one show.pl to
another.
The truth is, we are depending too much
in these days on furniture and brick-a-
brac for the ornament of our houses, and
not enough on things more permanently
interesting. We ought to seek lat least Sc
it seems to me) the individual expression
of ourselves, of our own family life, oul
own ways of living, thinking, acting, more
than the doing as other people are doing
more than the having what other people
are having. | am not in for tilt agains
fashion; fashionable people may do wha
they like; 'twere vain to say them nay
They may buy embossed brass coal-scuttle
and put them in the middle of their parlo
hearths in front of dummy fre-places
neither coal-scuttle nor fireplace eve
having been intended to be used; the,
may put china cats nursing their kitten
on their satin sofas, and enjoy their bein
; taken for real ones by old beaus ant
maiden ladies; they may put artificia
, flowers in garden-boxes in their windows
, they may do anything that comes int
, their nonsensical pretty heads, and all W
! shall have to say about it is what old Mrs
t c. said after some stylish girls ha
t been "going on" and showing off, the
y new-fangled dress and airs: "How nice
is of 'em to do SO, dear l"-Clarenee Coo
i, in Scribner for May.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02
Breaches of Trust.

Last Sunday the congregation at a
Brooklyn church was treated to vigorous
discourse upon the subject of unjust
stewardship, and generally upon defalca-
tions, the misappropriation of trust funds,
and that peculiar commercial dishonesty
which betrays confidence and destroys
mans faith in his fellowman. We do not
know that dishonesty of this kind is
specially modern; there must have been
unjust stewards in Judea to give point to
the parable But the sin is made more
common in these days by the large amount
of business transacted through corporations,
by the greater variety of mercantile transac-
tiOns, and by the almost universal credit
system upon which they are based. The
consequence is great increase In the num-
Der of those who use money unlawfully.
Nothing can be more charming than the
good intentions of the sinners, their deter
mination to make all right and to restore
the funds, which are actually pilfered,
whatever fine name may be given to the
transaction. But one who begins to filch
in this way is likely to be insolvent already
and it is we'll worth noticing that the sin
which he commits to save himself from ruin
usually accelerates the dreaded consumma-
ton.
Experience is all against such expert
ments with luck, and whoever tries them
plays with tools of an uncommOnly fine
edge. Very often, when found out, de
faulters exhibit remorse which shows
them to be persons of acute sensibility bu
if they were equally furnished with gooC
sense, they would say, "Get behind me
Satanr before they flched a dime. W.
waive the immortality of the matter, anC
beg men to consider its monstrous fatuity
Moreover, it may be useful to point out tina
society is getting to be a little out o
patience with dishonest business men, M
matter how penitent they may be after tn
denOuement. The disposition to forget an'
forgive, we notice, is becoming less. Tn
tendency is little in the other direction
Judges are not lenient any longer towar
heretofore respectable men who are caugh
thieving, and juries are disposed to convic
in spite of pleas of insanity and othe
"extenuating circumstances" If an vi
fortunate trader makes perfectly homo
able failure, paying the largest possibl
dividend in his power, and giving up to h
creditors everything, he is respected an
may have chance of retrieving his 70
tunes. Butsociety is by no means so tend'
as 1T tonce was toward those who cheat an
TINS, too, those who are tempted to fing'
alien funds should remember. Sympath
Tor the broken-down respectable man, wi
always means to pay back his plunder,
Dy no means characteristic of the presen
we cannot blame the world for this, for
has been swindled and plundered uni
patience has ceased TO be virtue, or at al
rate has ceased
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02
YOU KNOW YOU DO.

When "some ones" step comes up the walk,
Your cheeks take on a rosie hue,
And though no other hears his knock,
You hear it well-you know you do
When "some one" talks about the grain,
And bows to pa, yet looks at you,
You see his glances ah-ah! It's plain
And give them back-yOu know you do!
And though it may be very wrong
When pa is qnitc ignored for you.
You sing for him your prcttiest song,
You cunning thing-yOu know you do!
And when he talks of other girls,
Ofhateful Kate and Jennie, too,
You fling at him your auburn curlS,
You jealous thing-yOu know you do.
You keep your eye upon the clock,
And wish 'twOuld jump an hour or two,
So that your pa would cease his talk
And go to bed-you know you do.
And when the folks to bed have gone,
And left some one alone with you,
You wish the clock would stop its tongue
Or you stop it-you know you do!
He bushes deep, and looks afraid
To be thus left alone with you!
But your eyes tell there ne'er was maid
But could be woocd-yOu know they do!
You peep at some one" meath your curls
Until with love you burn him through,
And make him hate all other girls
In love for you-you know you do!
And when his arm steals round your chair
You give Il SmOthercd scream or two,
As you didn't want it there.
But oh, you do-you know you do!
You nestle closer up to him,
Your head drops on his shoulder, too,
You think it nice to have "Jim,"
You naughty thing-you know you do!
You let him kiss your blushing checks;
Somehow your lips meet his lips too;
You tempt him, silly thing, to speak,
You wicked flirt-yOu know you do!
And when he timidly doth press
His wish to make IL wife of you,
With happy heart you answer, Yes"
You darling girl you know you do!
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

A French authority recommends the use
of sawdust instead of hair in mortar to
prevent its peeling off. His own house,
exposed to prolonged storms on the sea
coast, had patches of mortar to be renewed
every spring, and after trying without effect
a number of substitutes, he found sawdust
perfectly satisfactory. twas first thoroughly
dried and sifted through an ordinary grain
sieve to remove the larger particles. The
mortar was made by mixing one part
cement, two lime, two sawdust, and five
sharp sand, the sawdust being first well
mixed dry with the cement and sand.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

The NEXT BATTLE.-Exit the carpet
bagger; enter the otIice-beggar. Six weeks
of Hayes have sufficed for the Southern
question, which has kept the country in
such turmoil for twelve years. But he has
next to deal with an evil which has cursed
the land for fifty years. 1t has been grow.
ing ever since Andrew jackson began to
reward his friends and punish his foes.
With every year it has intrenced itself
more strongly, in our party organizations,
in our political habits, and even in our
laws. A political Hercules in honesty
cannot hope to cleanse these Augean
stables in day. Can the civil service be
really reformed2 That is the question
which, above all others, will test the quail
ties of President Hayes and his advisers.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

The happiest moment in woman's life
is when She is making her wedding gar
ment; the saddest when her husband
comes home late at night and yells TO her
from the front steps to throw him out
some key holes, assorted sizes.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

A STRANGE OCCCRRENCE.--The most
strange occurrence Of the time is the
death-in.life of Miss Anne Gooddale, the
actress. 1t has not been mentioned in any
newspapers. She died three weeks ago.
Up to yesterday she was not buried. The
corpse is warm and limp, and the features
as soft and mabile as when in life. Several
doctors have examined her, and have
ordered that the body must be watched
night and day. The poor lady is evidently
come to life it is impossible to say. Not
long, ago a General in France lay in
similar condition for three months, after
which time decomposition set in, with
every indication of death, and without any
token of life at the time save the warmth
and hexibility of the body.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02
Too Much of a Good Thing.

1t is very certain that we cannot have
too little of bad thing. 1t is just as true
that we may have too much of a good
thing. Any substance with q high flavor
soon pals upon the senses if we have too
much of it. No hurgry man would care
to sit down to dinner Of confectionery.
Books made up of elegant extracts, or
newspaper squibs, or miscellaneous ancc-
dotes are rather dry reading. There are
certain excellent qualities of character
which some people have in excess. We
know a few persons whose chronic amiable-
ness is so intense as to make them repul-
sive. You do not care to see a man or a
womans face wreathed with perpetual
smiles. Others weary you by their sedate-
ness-wooden people, who mistake gravity
for virtue. Some takers offend you by
their candor and communicativeness
others by their caution and reticence.
The man who censures without discrimi-
nation is Of course nuisance; and so is he
who praises without discrimination. Even
the Bible cautions us against being Fright
eous overmuch :" and once in great while
you fall in with q sanity person, whose
interest in the next world makes him
oblivious of the duties which pertain to the
present. There are good people who give
too much good advice, and sometimes
wear out the patience of saints as we'll as
sinners. Parents may exercise too much
restraint over their children, and teachers
demand too much study Of their pupils.
As a general rule, we have too much talk
and too little action. Too many speeches
are made at public dinners, anniversaries
and meetings of all sorts. Clergymen are
expected to preach too many sermons, and
occasionally may preach too long. Law
yers are apt to traverse the universe in {
case of petty larceny. Physicians, unit
recently, gave too much medicine; bu
they are doing better now. Too man!
women try to live by needlework, and to,
many men and women try to earn some
thing by their pen.
We have too much so-called philan
thropy which, with the best intentions only
serves to aggravate the evils which it seek
to cure; and too many societies do th,
work which would be much better ant
more cheaply accomplished by few.
the percentage of receipts required by som
of these great institutions in order to keel
the machine in motion--expended il
building, salaries, agencies, and stationer
were generally understood, we are ir
clined to think that many princely be
quests now bestowed upon them would b
, directed to other uses.-Erchange.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

PRINTERS INK.-Some one has recently
discovered that the canLer-worm, a great
pest of fruit trees, can be cttectually des-
troyed by smearing printers ink on the
trunk and branches. 1t is pleasant to note
this addition to the many ways in which
printers ink is potent for the suppression
of pests.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

BEAUTIFYING GFINGER-NAILs-Th finger,
nails of fashionable French women are pro-
fessionally attended, and this is a descrip-
ton of the method of operation. First, a
sharp instrument cuts the nails, sloping
them on the side with point in the centre
then tiny pair of pincers were used to
pull off all the pieces of dry skin around
the nails, commonly call by us hangnails
then steel file was used to raise the skin
up and push it back so as to show the half
moon on the nail, which is considered a
part of its beauty; then liquid was poured
over it to bathe it; then dried, and red
pomade spread thin, rubbed off with fine
yellow powder, which caused them to shine.
1T took about half an hour, and cost the
munifcent sum of sixty cents. There are
women nail-doctors in Paris who obtain as
| high as 50 visit.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

JOSH BILLINGS ON THE HEN.-Josh Billings
talks learnedly, as follows: "The best time
to sett hen IL when the hen IL ready.
can't tell you what the best breed IL, but
the shanghigh IL the meanest. 1t costs az
much to board one az it duz stage hoss,
and you might as well try to fat a tanning
mill by running oats thru it. There aint
no profit in keepin hen for his eggs if he
laze less than once day. Hens are very
long lived if they don't contract the throat
disease; there IL a great many 60 to pot by
this molankoly disease. l kant tell exactly
how to pick out hen but the long cared
ones, kno, are the least apt to scratch up
the garden. Eggs packed in equal parts of
salt and lime water, with the other end
down, will keep from 20 to 40 years, if they
aint disturbed. Fresh beef steak is good
for hens l suppose 4 or 5 pounds a day
would be awl hen would need at first
along. l shall be happy tew advise with
you, at emmy time, on the hen question
and take it in eggs.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

Some one said to the poet Whittier a
few years ago: "Mr. Whittier, Of all your
love poems like Maud Muller best 4
twinkle came into the poets eyes. Love
poems !" said he 81 didn't know that
had written any love poems: and as for
Maud Muller | consider it very poor
DOpm" -"
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

Seven Narrow Gauge Railroads running
from Cincinnati in various directions are
commenced or projected. The hilly nature
of that region gives such roads great eco
nomical advantages, the cost being $4,000
a mile, against 100000 for the broad gauge.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

A physician says that he considers the
following prescription for purifying the
blood the best ever used. One ounce of
yellow dock, one half ounce of horseredish,
one quart hard cider. Dose, one wine
glassful four times day.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

THE PERMANENT EXHIBITION.-PreSiden
Hayes has accepted an invitation to be
present at the opening Of the Permanent
Exhibition in Philadelphia on May TO-.
The only marked change in the construc-
ton of the Main Building is in the center
Of the north side, where the high gallery
has been connected with the floor by as
cending tiers of seats, the great organ loom
ing up above them. This is stage for a
chorus of $500 voices, and in front of it
there is an audience room that will hold
5000 people. The foreign courts face the
main aisle, the structures being as a rule
the same as those used at the Centennial EX-
hibition. One of the towers is to be turned
into an Indian encampment, and close by
will be placed the old log cabin and the
New England kitchen. Another tower will
represent a German homestead, elaborately
tiled and lighted with stained glass. \
new bronze statue of the Goddess of Liberty
is to stand in the center of the Exhibition
building, and the art exhibits, including
marble and bronze statues, plaster casts,
paintings, engravings, and photographs,
are to be arranged to the south, fronting
both sides of the main transept. The
main art exhibit will be in Memorial Hall
The educational section will be very com
plete; machinery and agriculture have
not been neglected; a large space has been
reserved for the book department, and q
French crystal pavilion where foreign glass
is to be exhibited is one of the many new
features that have been introduced.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

The other day, in Western New Year, q
would-be fashionable lady called at neigh
boris in what she thought would be supper
time. Come in, said the neighhor, 1--WE
are having tableaux" I'm so glad" said
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

CURE FOR RHRUMATIsM.-Takeo one or two
strong doses of rhubarb. A single dose OF
from one to two fluid ounces of the tincture
has been found to be quite efficacious.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

The pool sellers of New York city, in
consequence of the passage by the Legisla-
ture of the bill prohibiting the prosecution
of the business in New York, have made
arrangements to move TO Jersey City, and
an exodus of the fraternity issoon expected.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

Mrs. SARAH DAvIs.-Among the callers
at the White House, one day last week, was
Mrs. Sarah Davis, who has shaken hands
with every President from Washington
down. She is ninety years of age, and
resides in Washington.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

CURE FOR CoLDs.-Boil two ounces oI
hax-seed in quart of water; when boiled
strain, add two ounces rock.candy, half
pint syrup, juice of three lemons; mix
we'll, put on the stove, let it come to boil
then take it off, and as soon as cold bottle
it; take cupful before going to bed, anG
half cupful before meals; the hotter yor
drink it the better it is.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

Mrs VIM. Vanderbilt is fortunate lady.
She has gorgeous drawing-room cars sent
all the way from Buffalo to Mobile just to
bring her back to the North. Her husband
is doing a sensible and kindly thing in
establishing library and rcadingroom in
Albany for the special benefit Of his rail
road employees.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-02

It's about time for the young man of the
period to lay aside his Ulster oyercoat and
put on pantaloons.