The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29
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Let no false grief employ your tongue,
Nor wish the year forever young;
The flower must fade, the leaf must fall,
But one great Power ls over all;
If through the ceaseless round of charge
one changelss will appear,
Unmoved. undaunted may we range
All round the year"
CAPE COP folks are turning their swamp land
into cranberry boys.
FINE weather for "Mr Man" and his gun, but
bad for "Brer Rabbit" and "Brer Fox"
THE youngest Vanderbilt, George, is said to
be the only one of that name who ever buys q
book.
CULTURE" says Matthew Arnold, Consists
in being something rather than having some
thing"
F. MARION CRAwFoRD's latest novel, "To
Leeward," is the fourth one he has written
within a year.
AN enemy of 'the sex" says the girls carry
hand-satchels to conceal that deadly weapon,
the "powder-rag."
Poor DR.. Mary Walker is known to giddy lady
clerks in Washington as the "Tell me what it is
and I'll give it to you"
KENTUCKY man went raving crazy from
overmuch Bible study. which is not the kind of
spiritual food the average KenIuckian knows
very much about.
ANOTHER girl who mysteriously disappeared
has been found working as a domestic. Come
away softly, on tiptoe. The world lie suffering
for more such girls.
THERE is something extremely pathetic in the
report that but seven persons have been added
to the membership OF Henry Ward Beecher's
church during the past year.
"GATH" says the new Bijou Theater in New
York he's 'a fine medallion head of q female
over the STAGE" Was it the head of a hen, a COW
or q woman, Mr.. Townsend
TT ia raDnrted that thara Q 0O0 anl1epa
graduates in New YORK who cannot earn a l1v-
ing, which will comfort those who think some
of our colleges would do more good as machine
shops.
1T is singular that "The closing year" a most
beautiful poem by George D. Prentice, is found
in but few collections of American poetry. I5
is equal to and should stand beside Bryant's
'Thanatopsis."
THE literary discrimination of Eastern editors
is vislbly on the decline. The Atlantic erred in
publishing "Newporr," which is duller than dull,
and the Century's readers are similarly afflicted
in THE Average Man."
KATE KANE, the famous lady lawyer of Mil
waukee, is TO write for the Chicago papers.
Well, the Chicago papers cannot demoralize her,
and she cannot make them any worse, SO the
country accepts the situation,
A GEORGIA man lost his mind because he
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plenty of rash people all over this country
who are eagerly awaiting opportunities to ex-
pose their intellects to a similar strain.
SOME horrid man says Susan B, Anthony came
home before Christmas because there wasn't
room in England to hang up her stocking. 1t Is
q fact, however, that brainy women generally
have big feet. The other kind must have some
compensation.
EMMA ABBOTT announces that she will play
ga reformed Traviata." Wouldn't it be easier
for her to play it the old way, but have the audi
ence stuff cotton in its ears, and look at the
stage through smoked opera-glassesl Over-mod-
esty is as disgusting as immodesty.
THE average man does not have much pa
thence with the "society column" of his rows
paper. He losses his wife the paper with the
sarcastic request: "Hurry and read the society
news; I can't eat my supper until [ know wheth-
or Sal Smith has got home from Kokomo."
THE Christmas number of the London News
contains a story headed, HE loved and rode
away" This alters the popular idea of the En-
glish intellect amazingly. Most Of the trouble
in America is brought about by young men who
love and hang around the place where the girl
lives. ar
THIS is the very 'witching time o. year when
literary folks stuff themselves nigh unto burst
ing with holiday fare, and then burn the mid
night oil, groaning, and writing essays on "The
American tendency to gluttony." However, If
one fellow furnishes the theory, it is only fair
that some other fellow should supply the prac.
tice.
SKEPrICAL persons who do not believe that the
American woman has her rights are requested to
watch the streets on snowy days, when the
walking is confined to a foot-path. In such
cases, when a woman meets q man. it is inva-
riahly he who steps into the snow-drift; but
when a woman meets a woman-then comes the
tug of war.
ELLEN TERRY presented the public her full
mental stature when she wrote in response to a
request for her autograph, "Those who love me
call me Nellie" IL Is this "ie' business which
makes the modern girl appear such a weakling.
Ellen is a good name, and so is Mary, Katharine,
Nancy, or Elizabeth; but Mamie, Katie, Mamie,
and Bessie are what Professor Pygmallon Whit
fes C'Piggy" for shorty would call ''good chew
ing gum names.'' In our horror of being con-
sidered strong-minded let US not indelibly stamp
ourselves weak-minded