The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-29
NOTE AND GOSSIP.


Bleak House has been again prepared for tho
stage, under the title of Move on; or, 10. the
Outcast."
The most irrefra gable proof OF woman's intel
lectua inferiorty to man lies in the fact that, up
to date, no woman humovist has yet arisen. Only
the vigorous M anly brain could have conceived
"Pecks Bad Boy"
Various medical men, pillers of the public
safety, have furnished the press with articles
teaching chow to act during the cholera" IL
tine cholera could be taught how 10 act it would
be more to the point.
Among the attractive curi0sites of recent
book nomenclature is "Suushade, Muf and
Glove" an English reprint of "Lombrele" u
popular Frenoh book; also "Mss Gilpin's Fru-
galities; or, Remnants, and 200 ways of using
them"
Kentucky housewife glories in the possess
ion of waffie-iron made by a negro blacksmith
in 1860, and which agethas not withered, 10
still turns out wafl with the date Of that year
imprinted on them; all of which is too waffle
wonderful to be true.
"Gee in the sense of "agree." is not slang, as
has been popularity supposed, but has been dis
covered to be Dorsetshire English, pure and
indebted. "My daughter don't gee with her
man" is the Dorsetshire matron's method OF
describing domestic infelicity.
Housewives plagued with black beetles will
be glad to know of an English invention for
their destruction, known as the deadly Beetle
Buster" 1t is constructed purely scientific
principles, and is worked by an air-pump which
draws the beetles from their holes by force.
Ancestors have become so popular that Lon
don gentleman, an author and geneaogist OF ex-
perience, advertises himself as prepared to I'M
dertake heraldic researches on short notice, al
moderate terms. An American would add
"Family trees grated and :ransplauted in the
latest style"
English theater-goers do not like Mary An1er-
sons walk. They complain that it is wan ting
in elasticity and freedom of movement. If the
manner IN which Mrs Langtry's talented bus
klns slapped the tragic boards is the ideal En-
glish 'waik' it is much to Miss AndeTson's
credit that she merits their dsapproval
The wIsest men unite in the belief that in
tensely intellectual women are not always the
most desirable companions. Auerbach, in son
the Heights" describes the Countess Irma, with
all her wit, grace, and beauty, as ian unspeaka-
bly, fatgueiug woman, requiring everlasting
fire-work display of mind" Pyrotechnic dis
plays ara wonderful and delightful, but an eteT-
nal fourth of July, mental or material, would
soon wear out the staunchest man. Bless the
dull day and the average woman. Each has its
niche to tll.
Foreigners who are interested in the study OF
American politics undoubtedly gained much in-
sight from the important discovery, recently
made public, that the Presidents bedroom III
the executive mansion is furnished in pigeon
egg blue. When the color Of the stripes which
gambol around the tops of his exceiiency's
socks shall have been made known the entire
plan of his administration VIII be readily de-
termined. In the political world there no
trifles. off the of Cleopatra had been lit
tie shorter it would have changed the history Of
the world"
| The Boston girl is another target for newspa-
per wit entitled to a discharge with liberal
pension. She Is not half as disagreeabIe as the
Western girl, who, having had one winter in
Boston, finds the West ''too crude" and enter
tans her circle of friends with unending infor-
nation as to the way they do things Gin the
East" The New York Mail thus libels the Mas
sachusetts maiden: "a Boston girl lest her copy
of Emerson from the suspension bridge at Nj
agara, last week, and she cried as if her cultured
| heert would break Come to find out, 1T was
borrowed volume, and she cried because she's
got to pay for it," 1t would be well If the New
York girl would read more Emerson, and less
Ouida, Rhoda BroughtoD, and The Duchess.
The eternal fitness of things is occasionally
lost sight of by the most talented writer's. The
Countess Margaret in CDR. Claudius" Is made
| to say, 81 get up at the screech of dawn" A
countess, even of pen and ink, is certainly en-
titled to the choicest words the market affords,
and the phrase quoted ia a gross insult to the
nobility and to the capabilities of the English
language. There $1,000 words in the En-
gish language, all free of taxation, vet the aver
age speaker and writer can find no other titla
for the woman-doetor than Mrs. Dr." How
does "Mr. Dr." fall upon the earl Rtdicuously, OF
course. The distinction of sex can readily be
made by giving the lady's first name, as CDR.
Martha Perkins," ETC., bnt "Mrs. Dr." this or
that ia enough to make medical and titular
angels weep.