The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-15
TABLE GOSSIP.

Bill Msson's on time tonight.
TABLE GOSSIP.
Gin fzzes are in style-ss usual.
The flower Of the family needs careful
looking after at this season OF the year.
A mans character is like bosrd fence
it isn't to be strengthened by white washing.
Build little fence of trust
Around to-day.
Fill the space with loving work,
And therein stay
Look not through the sheltering bars
Upon tomorrow:
God win help thee bear what comes
or JOY or sorrow.
A South Carolina Baptist church contains
in its old record the expulsion OF s. woman
FOR ''doing too mich taxing in the neigh
borhocd."
When the tale is all sin and woe
Woman doth reap what man did SOW;
But when II is all peace ana bliss
The sowing's hers, the harvest his
Brides az Saratoga wear their white satin
wedding robes in the evening, and thus
silently notify strangers that they have not
beer married long enough 20 want 70 dirt
with any one else.
There is an old proverb well worth re-
nemberiDg: "The child save nothing but
what it bss heard By the fre." If no. utter
" true, il Is suggestive Of the truth that re-.
side teachings are abiding in the characters
and lives Of children.
Q Land Of lRnosi TO thee We give
Our prayers, our hopes, our service free;
For thee thy sons shall molly live.
And at thy heed snan die Ior theai
WHITTIER.
An American on his travels was gazing
into the fiery crater of a volcano. 'D1 you
have anything like Inst in Americsf' asked
sn Englishman who stood al his side
mo" said the son of liberty, yawning, "no.
but We have p waterfall that can put it out
in ten secondsi"
More humsu, more divine than we
In truth, half human. half q vine
is woman, when good staTs agree
To temper, with their beams divine,
j. G. HOLLAND.
Pore Leo XIII. is in favor Of educating
girle-thoze Of the highest az we'll IS those Of
tee most modest social condition." He says
THAT "woman is defined to be the most pow
erful sid f. the well baing Of toe human
race but that they may be so, education of
both mind and heart is needed.
THE breach of court etiquette" SAYS the
London Life, (which permitted fair Ameri-
eau belle who bsd not been presented to
show up at the STATE Ball has not been ~
lowed t. psss without comment. a little
bird tells ne that the inAuence Of NJ. Lowell
accomplished the unhasrd-of privilege"
A vigorous old fellow IN Maine who had
lately buried his fourth vile was scc0sted by
an acquaintance, who, unaware OF DIS be-
reavement, asked: How IS your wife, Cap'n
PloEjogger2' To which the C8pa replied
with sperfecLly grave face: "Wa&l. to tell
We the ii, I am kinder out of wives Just
nsoW. "-Boston Com. Balletin.
The wife Of a respectable Southside pain
ter gave birth to girl baby On July 9, got
up, and attended 10 her work until July 20,
and then, to the satonishment Of Dr.. Wilder,
the attending physician, the dismay of the
father and the INVESTIGATION Of her lady
neighbofs, she gave birth TO another baby
this time boy.-Chicsgo Inter Ocean.
Mathew Arnold: "Wbat a man seeks
through his education is to got to know him.
self ana the world; Gad fo- this knowledge,
it is before ali things necessary that he sc-
quaint himself with the best which has bssn
thought and said IN the world; and Of this
best the classics Of Greece and Rome form
very chief portion. and the portion most en-
tirely satisfactory"
The sncients did know few things. As
to downright common sense it is not always
easy even fox this steam driven, electric
lighted snd telephone-talking nineteenth
cehtury to get ahead of them. And among
their proverbs which come around ever and
anon TO greet with fresh respect, is that IA
nous, old, curt frestina lsnte hasten slowly.
-CoDgregatlonalist.
President Lincoln never swore, says an
IL liza I'll.
roundly and 1uently. So did Stanton, Sew.
ard, Fessenden and Henry Wilson, little
when wrought up. Gen. Grant didn't swear,
neither did Gen. Garfield. Atty. General
Brewster can swear Auently in three Ian
gusges. Mr.. Hayes 5wore only in his miad.
and then only IN the absence of his wife.
Gen. Arthur is too much OF q gentleman to
swear.
A Chicago young man bet $40 that his
friend couldn't sell ten 81 gold pieces a.
seventy-fve cents each in two hours. The
other stationed himself in public place. and
in three minutes his cries had gathered a
crowd of a hundred people about him. Not
one, however, was willing TO buy. Some
guyed the young man, called him q fskir,
and wanted to know how much profit he
made. He came very nesr being arrested
for swindllng, and was glad to escape and
pay the bet.
Charles Dudley Warner remarks that
August, notwithstanding its robust name, is
q sort of fabby, watering-plsce month. at
is Fly time, il is dog. days time, it is airtatiGn
time. 1t is period of general listlessnsss
ard indecision. 1t Is said to very difficult
in August to make up the mind either to &C.
cept him or reject him. And, worse STILL it
is apt to be the latter part of the month be-
fore he makes up his mind to propose. In.