The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-14

dramatic critics who talk otherwise are incapa-
BILE of approaching high art Miss Mary has
hitherto shown capacity for taking care of her
SELF but with so distinguished a champion on
the ground to aid and avenge her, it win not be
necessary for any of her fiery countrymen to go
over for that purpose
THE crime of idle and vicious gossip brought
about a very melancholy tragedy at Red Hook.
N, Y, recently. Professor w. H Brown had
been a teacher there for several months, when
some of his pupils, becoming offended at his
wife, wantonly started malicious and false
stories concerning her character These stories
was taken up by the village gossps, and, al
though without the shadow of foundation in
TRUTH they weighed so on the lady's mind that
she sought release from the unmerited shame
by killing herself Her husband, well
knowing the falsity of all such charges, was
doubly grieved over the tragic death of his wife
and he too committed suicide, the two the vic
tins of the meanest of social crimes-village
gossip. 1t is proposed to investigate the case
and put the guilt of these murders upon the par
ties who caused them. 1t is to be hoped that
the authorities will succeed in their undertaking.
1t is an evil that does harm almost beyond the
power of computation 1t is cowardly and in
famous, and deserves severest condemnation.
AND so Miss Coleridge is not married to Mr..
Adams after all, and the Egremont woman is
lying peacefully in her grave, instead of having
been resurrected and married. Newspaper
readers are Injured to many shocks and the over
throw of many cherished beliefs, but this new
fashion of following up more or less agreeable
rumor the very next day with denial of its
truth is becoming quite trying even to expe-
renced nerves Why marry Miss Coleridge at
all if she is soon to be severed from herhusband;
or why dig up the Egremont woman only to
bury her again in such unseemly haste? This
prolnptitude IN destroying the symmetry of an
attractive tale is not only distressing, but in
artistic, and the ambitious authors of these in
teresting romances should be cautioned to desist;
otherwise, the public, in order to spare its feel
ings by meeting with a subsequent retraction,
will refrain from reading the original narratives,
and thus the occupation of the sensation writer
will be gone.
MISS JULIET CoRsoN, who is known to the
public as the founder of cooking schools in this
country, is seriously i'll from a disease which has
threatened her life. There be those who will
wonder if she has not brought this on herself by
an effort to live up, or rather down. to the reel
pes in her 'ffteen-cent dinner book" but it is
more probable that her malady is caused by the
mental strain involved in the hopeless attempt
to make the art of cooking attractive and fash
ionable Women can and do learn to cook, but
only under the spur of necessity and as bur
densome duty-not as an entertaining occupa
ton. This is doubtless sad truth, but one
which the would-be domestic revolutonizer will
do well to heed and so avoid disappointment.
The enthusiast who hopes by lectures and OBJ
ject lessons to convince womankind that there
can be no lofter calling or one more productive
of personal happiness than that of cook, is
doomed to failure and sorrow and possibly ill
ness.
IT may be that Sunday is not the proper day
to think of worldly things, but when the matu-
final hapjack is fabricated, the thought will
come up why is it that, while the price of all
other domestic necessities has declined by from
so to 10 per cent. since the war, the price of but
ter land oleomargarine) has held steadily at war
rates.
AT first sight the idea of two opposing saliva
ton armies is calculated to drive the the average
citizen bald. But, on second thought, it appears
to be providential deliverance to the people, for
it may be the two will destroy each other 1t is
to be hoped they will, for the cause of Christian
ity would be greatly benefited thereby.
A New YORK writer says the Episcopalians of
that city ignoring and forgetting the old
time distinctions of high" and "low" church in
a common missionary zeal and matters of prac
teal interest This being the case it follows
that they are becoming broad church" in the
best sense.
A STEUBENvILLE. o., girl has just married
Swedish baron The father of the bride planked
down $50, 900 as a wedding gift Strangely
enough, that is the sum generally demanded by
impecunious barons.
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