The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-08
NOTE AND GOSSIP.

AllI.
KATE SANBoRN has a lecture on the "Spiuster
Authors of England"
RELIGION is conduct" says Matthew Arnold
and conduct is three-fourths of life"
Mrs. GLADSTONE is reported the worst-dressed
woman in England. which is saying a good deal.
Mis-. JOSEPH Cook is on the lecture platform.
Prospects are fair that the broth will be spoiled.
CHARITABLE people are trying to excuse Mrs.
Fred Douglass, On the ground of color-blind-
ness.
Tiny feather-dusters were used as favors at a
german, in Boston, recently, and half the girls
had to ask what they were.
SUNDAY evening receptions, which include
music and lively chat. are becoming a popular
feature in New York society.
THEY do say that half the diamonds worn in
Washington society are hired by congressional
ladies, who are unable to purchase them out
right.
A PHILADELPHIA woman has neatly combined
grief and business by being tattooed, as a tribute
of respect to her departed husband, who was a
tattGoed man.
A STYLISH dog is considered as indispensable
an adjunct to a New York bellies outfit as a seal
skin cloak or a handsome coupe. No girl is com
plete without one.
MADAME ADAM furnishes an attractive picture
of the Berlin woman when she described her as
without two serious ideas in her head, or two
honest thoughts in her heart"
AN article on the "Recreations Of Men, of
Letters is going the rounds of the newspapers.
The postman is a thorough man of letters, but
he does not seem to know much about recrea-
ton.
NOTHING can subdue the journalistic funny
man. He would rig his grandmother up as a
ballet girl to keep up his reputation for humor.
The Cincinnati Enquirer refers to Kentucky's
stately ''Galatea1 as Molly Ann Anderson"
A MISSISSIPPI woman, in order to amuse a
sick child, snapped an empty pistol at another
wonan's head, blowing her brains out, of course.
The chronicle failed to state whether the child
was amused, but it is to be hoped that such an
expensive entertainment was appreciatively re
ceived.
IL Talmages sermon on the "Arctic Martyrs"
he enumerates among those who shall be dis
tinguished at the last day ''the female clerk who
patiently endured the insolence of the Gus
toner, " but studiously ~neglects to mention 'the
customer who patiently endured the insolence
of the female clerk"
-" LptAa Ai"' '-N NhN0J HNAN ANN JNN -
little bit worse than any place yet heard from.
A successfully achieved 'crazy quilt in that
locality is given eight or ten lines of compli-
mentary description in the society column. As
yet no Indianapolis newspaper has engaged a
'demented bed -clothes editor but the worst is
apprehended
THE ed-sunset-invest.gatic fever has pene-
trated poetical territories, and Margaret Amelia
Dunn, whereabouts unknown, comes to the
front with o theory:
why are the sunset skies so rich and glowing?
Why is their light so deepl
Perhaps they are the artist-angels' palettes,
Mixed with Teas that seraph maidens weep"
0. Poesy! the sins that are committed in thy
name!
WHEN some inspired genius has succeeded in
inyentine the pronoun. common gender, third
person singular, which is so needed IN our Ian
guage, it is to be hoped that he can also be per-
suaded 10 manufacture q new pronoun of the
first person plural, for the sole use and behoof of
difident writer's. George D. Prentice long ago
decided that only editors, royal personages and
people with t%ape-worms could say tive" This
monopoly is very severe on modest writer's, who
cannot say Il" in print without suffering tor
lures, and the invention of an appropriate pro
noun, free for all, is an absolute necessity.
A NECESSARY article in the equipment of a
Russian soldier is what is called "a military
handkerchief. 1t is a large pocket-handker-
chief with a border representing lively battle
fields, while the middle contains cleae and accu-
rate drawings of the mechanism of all kinds of
rifles aud guns. These handkerchiefs were de-
signed by a Russian officer, and are manufac-
ured for the army at st. Petersburg. If some
s-l..J-1 III 5000 ~ III
he problem of conveying to the youth of this
rity some trifing information concerning the
late war may yet be solved. History Without
a Master. on the School Teachers Friend"
Not every man, even a veteran journalist, is
qualified by nature to make sensible Comment
on the woman question in general, or individual
woman in particular. 10 Howard, in the Boston
Herald, in an article on "Woman's Easy Time"
thus opens his mouth and puts his foot in it;
NO, l don't think the women have the best of
it. Look at EN-. See how they sweep the streets
for us. What do they leave behind! Nothing.
Fer cigar stump is caught in the trail of their
elegance. Every banana skin is joined to the
narcotic weed. All the humps Of dirt, the oozings
from carts, the refuse from restaurants. every
thing for which our streets are made the recep-
tacle, do the dear creatures with certainty catch,
as in a net, as they sail proudly by
Mr.. Towards observing eye has for once at
least misled him. The woman-who-wears-a-
trail on-thestr has not been seen for at least
five years, perhaps longer. In this respect,
woman is no longer a target for mans criticism.
The trailod dress for street wear is now Il relic
OF bar barism. make a note ont
Frances POWER CoBBE tells a story rejecting
somewhat upon 1.-THE sex" She was visiting
among the poor in Ireland, and finds IAN old
with haip &c white ac. cuoH vrbn ,do1i1ar-
ately informs us that she is ninety eight years
of age, and next time we see her corrects her
self, and believes it is eighty nine, but it is ali
tbe same, she disremembers numbers This
poor old soul, in some way, hurt her foot. and