The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-05
NOTE AND GOSSIP.


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when winds breathe sweet, unruly though
they be-"
The bicycle ranks among active temperance
agents, as only sober man can ride one
James Freeman Clarke says that the sense of
obligation is the foundation of all goodness.
New York society girls have opened new
field in the Inauguration of thread and needle
club.
Harpers Bazaar announces that the deadly
''bang7 was introduced into this country by
Lydia Thompson, in or about the year 1871.
The truly aesthetic reader will not consent to
appear before any background except that of a
pale blue damask screen, under canopy of
Jacqueminot roses.
The boy preacher has had his day, and should
'eease to be-" Sensation -mongers are hereby
notified that it is time to scare up girl preacher
from some remote district.
1t has been announced that brunettes marry
off faster than blondes. Untrue 1t was long ago
decided that blondes always marry first be-
cause they are lght-headed.
1.-THE Merry Wives of Windsor" was trans
lated into Russian by the Empress Catherine
II. aud is occasionally produced under the light
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Now the Lancet announces that indiscrim-
mate drinking of hot water is very dangerous; it
does something dreadful to the delicate mechan-
ism of the vocal organs. Singers take warning.
The Chicago Current, for March 20, contains
an article on THE Woman Who Works" which
commends the author, Mr. G. G. Matthews, to
the esteem of the entire class for which he makes
SO generous and manly plea.
1t is poor rule that won't work both ways.
The clothing stores give away base ball and
bat with every purchase; but the man who sells
base balls and bats Indignantly refuses to throw
in a suit of clothes Something ought to be
done about it.
The Boston Transcript advises women study
ing artistic drapery to take hints from the statu-
aSy in the Museum of Fine Arts The decollete
dress, now popular, is evidently hint taken
from nHde art, and if the imitation goes any
further modest people will have to take to the
woods wear binders.
The New York young woman of twenty three
who had to bring the law to bear on the old
widower of seventy who persisted in kissing her
is not entitled to any commiseration from this
quarter Any girl of that age who could not
settle such an old man with broom-stick ought
to be kept in jail herself
The proposed statue of Charles Dickens, in
London, has been abandoned, in Difference to
request in his will that he should not be so hon
Ored All now existing prominent men who OBJ
ject to being represented to future generations
attired in bronze stove pipe pantaloons are COM
PEELED to follow the example of the eminent nov
eiist, and make a will to the contrary.
Chicago hotel-keeper proposes to utilize
rOiier-skates by putting them on the walters
The difficulty will lie in finding guests who will
patiently endure being spattered with hot coffee
and other turntables and eatables while the
walters are mastering the fine art of secure and
graceful curves The prophetic eye forecasts
the day when church deacons will take up collec-
tons in this expeditions way
II is cause for national graduation that at
President Arthurs tea-drinkiHgs chin English
bread and butter is passed around. If by any
gross earelessness American bread and butter
had been circulated the effect would have been
disastrous indeed. Compared with the Anglo
maniacs who appear to regulate Eastern society
at present, a real thorough bred idiot from
Idaho or parts adjacent would be refreshing
intellectual banquet
George W. Cable, in ''Dr SEWER" outrages
the sympathies of his readers in keeping them so
long on the rack in regard to unfortunate John
Riehling and sweet Mary, his wife. This is all
the more aggravating as the story is serial,
and impatient people cannot investigate the end
ing to see that it ''comes out all right" An in
dignation meeting has been held by some of the
readers of the story and if Mr. Cable does not
relieve the poverty-strcken, unfortunate pair
very soon committee will be appointed to find
the young man permanent and lucrative employ
ment. Readers have some rights which writers
should be bound over to respect and, in this
ease, the strain on sympathy has reached point
beyond which patience cannot accompany it.
Five thousand people are reported to have
shaken hands with Governor Robinson, of
Massachusetts, at his late reception National
or State government will never reach common
sense basis until much of this public reception
nonsense is done away with. 1t is a fruitless
form and exhausts official vitality which would
be more wisely employed in doing up the chores
in the gubernatorial back yard Physical econ
omy would indorse the sentiment of Dickens's
immortal hero Il embrace you in the spirit; it
is better than shaking hands, and relegate the
public ordeal of pump-handlfng to the barbaric
days to which it belongs. Setting aside the non
sensical features of CUSTOM it establishes dan
gerous precedent Women are as much given
to miscellaneous kissing as men to wholesale
handshaking, and, in the prophesied days when
women shall become Presidents and Governors.
if these feminine officials are expected to salute
all their constituents, only good-looking women
will ever get into Office, and no end of complica
tions and misunderstanding will arise