The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-12-04


BoYs WHO NEED NOT APPLY.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Father was color
/ bearer of the 18th Ohio was wounded five times
and Is lame He belongs to Mccoy POST oil TINS
/ Mamma has heart disease. and though but 16.
| know great deal about housework. ! call IL no
drudgery. love 10 read books about travels ana
wars, and delight in THE TRIBUNE and Its stories
! ] would like information about making q postal
! card album. would like correspondents, but no
! bay need write who smokes, drinks, chews or
swears, / abior such things. Love to the SluD
and THE TRIBUNE.-Alice Thompson, 30l John 81,
Columbus, o.
COUNTRY AND TOWN BOYS AND GIRLS.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: ] think where boys
and girls live farm the work Is pretty wen
/ evened up between them but where they live IN a
! city village | think the boys are more apt 10
make themselves useful by clerlling IN a store,
being GRAND boys, saving wood ana IN numerous
other ways, while the dear girls stay at home as
an ornament lin their minds to the household,
! taking lessons on the piano organ making ana
receiving calls, and playing the lady in general,
! while their mothers are at wor<.eariy ana laie,
/ trying to do the work of the family alone While
their daughters are spending their time III likeness
But in some cases think the mothers are to blame
/ for not bringing the girls up in different way;
/ My mother brough: me up TO work, and am glad
of il. see some are offering prizes Tor the best
! looking picture. When there is a reward for the
/ plauest-looSing will send mine. am the
] l7-year- old daughter of a soldier who was wounoed
in the service, but this great and glorious Govern
ment has deprived him of pension SO far. Who
will write me?-Rosa l.. Shannon, West Derby, VI.
/ A HEART BIG ENOUGH FOX ALL.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Girls, don't get
scared! i come as boy but not the enemy of
the girls. l. for one. willing to admit the girls
are as useful as the boys, and some OF them are,
/ perhaps, more useful. l don't believe all girls
think little and talk much' think e. Il. Noble
is partly right, although he exaggerates somewhat
when he says he never saw n gentleman VINO was
a smoker. L do not consider a smoker as ln'icn OF
| q gentleman non-smoker / hate the looks oil
a cigar. Whisky and tobacco are the curse OF the
land. have a warm spot in my heart for the SOL
tiier who fought and bled that his country might be
| preserved. Unto him and each of his sons and
| daughters my heart goes out. Ny father is an old
veteran having served three years in the 2lst ND
i wish all members of the q. c. would send me
their name and address, plainly written with black
ink on white paper want them for an album.
If wished, will send mine in return. If any MEM
bers of the c. c. have fathers who served IN the
2lst Ind, would like to correspond, or with as
many others will write. am III. G. Braun,
| Prescott, Kan.
WHAT DOES THE CLUB THINK OF BANGS?
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Boys, what do you
| think of girl who wears bangs? l think they
look idotc The average girl of to- day will Dance
flirt and wear bangs; leave the bulk of the work
| and burden for their mothers who make slaves OF
! themselves that their daughters may wear fine
! dresses and attend heightened seminarleS. The
| sensible girl is vastly in the minority. My father
served three years in Co. T., 18th n. \. Would
like to correspond with the members of the c C.,
| especially from the Vests. Swing Keller Port
Crane, Broome Co., n. Y.
SISTER EsTELLE WANTS TO KNOW.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: Good for you, Madge
Lee. am with YOU Style counts in this world,
| and what is worse than a dowdy-ookiDg girl.
Whistle away, girls 1t is just well to whistle
| as to sing, if you can do it well. Nothing unlady-
like about it. Harry Sutton, if You never do any
| thing worse than smoke, don't think it will affect
your standing gentleman. There seems to be
quite boom in the photo business.
What is the general opinion of the Conversation
Club about bangs? want to know If you all
think it foolish to cut ones hair off in that style?
Good luck TO the Conversation Club, and long live
! THE TRIBUSE.-From Sister Estelle.
! MOTHER READS IT ALOUD.
| DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: /, too have the
| honor of being soldiers daughter. My fathers
| name is Chauncey Stafford; he served over two
| years in the 3ith Mass; he was shot through the
! right arm, near the shoulder, at the battle of New
Market. Father had two brothers in the war; one
starved to death in Salisbury Prison, 5. G.; the
! other sick and died at New Orleans. / have
| two sisters and two brothers younger than myself.
/ am 16. We all like THE TRIBUNE, and mother
reads it aloud to us every week. should like to
| correspond with some one whose father was en-
| listed in the good cause for liberty.-Stella A.
| Stafford. Charlemont, Mass.
PRETTY Is THAT PRETTY DOES.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: think the girls
| ought to have another round-Madge Lee in par
ticular. Her nsinuation against the boys won't do
| In her advice 10 girls she says she has hearty
| contempt for those people who are gawky and
awkward, like some of the gOody -goody boys.
Now, am surprised at any of the club girls CIV
ing such advice. / should think they ought to feel
very sorry for boys who are so gawky and awS-
ward as think of nothing else but work all their
lives. i should think they would pity them, rather
than have contempt for them. She says nothing
about the gawky and awkward girls. Now, have
seen girls who pretended to know almost every
thing, yet they could not get up good, tasty meal
f When ali ers to- tells
the girls to do all they 80 prove their appear
anee; but are such boys she speaks of any more
of q nuisance than those girls who try to make a
fine appearance with curled bangs fine dresses,
dancing and a little music? Yes that fine appear
ance is what they are working for. And now girls,
to whom do you want to appear well? would
guess it was the boys for don't think you would
| take the pains to improve your looks and appear
go sweet and charming if there were boys in the
world. And if it is the boys you have reference
| TO. you had better prepare something more sub
stantial than Madge Lee recommends i'll her letter.
Beauty and style are not the surest signs OF real
good girl. think girls worth ought to be esti-
mated by the real goodness OF her heart, the gen.
her character. girl with kindly disposition
and well-balanced temper is both lovely and at
tractive. am soldiers boy, and live out here in
beautiful Nebraska. OF course we take THE TRIB-
UNE; it is impossible to do without it. VIII some
of the good-looling girls of the Club correspond
with me?-W. S. NJ, Malcolm, Lancaster Co., Neb.
| MISS TAYLOR HEARD FROM.
DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: There has been
some wondering as TO what has become of me.
| viii endeayor to explain my absence from your
| Club at Auvie, Mo-, eight miles from
a full school and an advanced one also, / am
Kept busy. have Is pupils enrolled. There are
SIX boys OF whom none are under five feet three
inches, and three girls almost large as am, and
the remainder are from y TO six must thank the
| editor for giving us a corner IN THE TRIBUNE in
response to my feeble suggestion, and must also
thank the boys and girls who have written TO me.
] could not answer all, there were very many,
and although you ali wrote very nice letters it was
! hard to choose from among you. / for another do
not like Mr.. Mobiles way of talking about u.s. but /
think we had better give him rest, for expect he
is only child, and to Judge by what he writes, a
| spoiled one at that. Thanking you all again. am
| truly yours,-Adda Ii. Taylor, Aullviiie, Mo.
PEACE, BANGS AND POWDER.
| DEAR CONVERSATION CLUB: If a l7-year-old
! compostor who can set his ii coo "ems" per 10
hours can be admitted TO your circle, allow me to
! enroll my name 10 the Club. j have been taking
great interest in reading the Club letters, and find
and know there is no other way in which a person
exhibit his embryo literary talent than by TAX
ing interest in those columns. TIE young ladies
have been taking great deal of time and space
in their talks about bangs" Bangs are
immense, and they have been in vogue since
the days of David and Goliath, they should not
be denied the American girl of the period /
have great respect for the young lady of the Pc
r1od and would get down on my knees TO buckle
| her skates; but l have one thing against her: she
Is a war party in peace and peace party in war.
That is in these days of peace and plenty she wants
to use powder. and If there is anything we 3" kids
! detcst and abhcr II Is face-powder. Young man,
did you ever belong to the George Washington
Society, and. after seeing your best girl come home
with your shoulder all white with Cream of
| Roses" or some other cosmetic, and have your
| blessed mother ask where you have been, and you
| murmur something about carrying n sack of flour
| home for poor, lame woman? You know how it
is, then. So girls, spare your powder and spare
! our best clothes. Now, IL any young lady gen.
| ticman wishes to correspond with person who
| can talk more in 10 minutes than a conference of
| Methodist ministers can in weeks session, let