Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
She SeWed On His Buttons.

Old Blummer is tight-fsted. Several
days ago he said to his wife: *Maria,
1 want you to look over that broadcloth
vest of mine and put new buttons on
it, cause I'm going to card-party to-
night"
but, Ety." answered Mrs. Blummer,
Z" I haven't any buttons to match that
vest, and"
"Thunder!" broke in Blummer, "the
idea of woman keeping house as long
as you have and pretending to be out
of buttons. By George! I blieve
you'll ask me for money to buy EN- with
next"
That evening Blummer hurried
through his supper and began array
ing himself for the oard-party.
Presently he called for the broadcloth
vest, and Mrs. Blummer, with marvel
GUS promptitude, handed it to him.
He took it, hastily unfolded it, and
then, as his eye took in his complete
appearance, he stood as one transfxed.
1t was six-button vest, and there were
six buttons on it, and the dazed optic
OF MIR. Blummer observed that the first,
or top one, was tiny shirt button, and
the next was brass army-overcoat but
ton with D. S. cleaning upon it, and
that number three was an oxydized-sil-
yer affair, and that number four was a
horn button evidently from the back of
one of the Puritan fathers coats, and
then came a suspender button, and
then, as the dazzled eyes of old Blum
mer reached the bottom buttons DO
ker chip found in Blummer's pocket
with two holes punched through THE
gave snort that made the chandelier
jingle. There is, after all, fine sense
of humor about Blummer, and he
laughed till he cried. And there won't
be any button-money grudged in that
household hereafter.-CleUela Her.
aid.
Spiritual Womanhood.
Feminine religion, as it is now I'M
derstood, is not settled state of mind
so much as an accidental exhibition of
feeling. It is due to the presence of
particular social conditions, and, when
these have ceased to be operative, it
frequently ceases to exist. And even
in the case of the strong minded women
and girls, it will be found that, how
ever great the temptation toward it.
emotional ecclesiasticism is on the de-
cline rather than the increase. If ex-
ception be taken to this view, let it be
remembered that there is going on in
England perpetual process of social
upheaval, and that there are annually
an immense number of daughters of
the middle class who acquire social
veneer of that culture which is affected
by their social betters, and who incl
dentally take up with Ritua]ism. On
the other hand, sterner occupations and
severer modes of thought attract large
percentage of young ladies, to whom
stOles and chasubles were once the
main business of existence. The wife
and mother of the upper classes, who,
ten years ago, might have been more
or less of fashionable reGgieuse, IS
now not improbably an avowed free
thinker. Liberal in politics and lati-
tudinarian in religion, she hates sacre-
dotalism and all that concern it with
an intensity worthy of Victor Hugo
himself. Thus we have two distinct
types of spiritual womanhood. The new
or the anti-ecclesiastical, may be direct
" referred to the progress which the
higher female education has made.
That education is advancing every day.
What will the religion of the woman of
the future be like? How will the con-
precautions of the Ritnalistic chnrchaa
of fashionable London be composed
twenty years hence? Or will these
churches after such an interval con-
tinue to exist?-Lo7ado7a World.