The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-29
SOCIAL GOSSIP.


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Very little crinolette is worn by the best
dressed people
Only those who are very weary know what
a blessing rest is.
= The best English society no longer uses the
Pail Mall Gazette for bustles.
Both man and womankind belle their
nature when they are not kind,-BAILY.
Almighty God often brings forth beautiful
flowers of virtue amid the trampled weeds of
sin.
Victor Hugo defines paradise as GA coun-
try where the parties are always young and
the children always little
The names of American girls who have
married titled foreigners fill two newspaper
columns. 1t is a sad biography.
Be ready in time for church; if you do not
respect yourself sufficiently to be punctual,
respect the feelings of other people.
New York ladies wear mourning for their
dead dogs, and also indulge in black-bor-
dered note paper and cards.-Shame.
An election for a champion liar is to be
held at Giles, Arizona, and the successful
candidate is to get medal and a Serenade.
Grant that my deeds divinely done
May be appraised divinest things,
Though they may be little, every one.
j. G. Holland,
1.-THE latest thing out is magnetic bon
net" says a fashion journal. We have seen
it, in fact the owner sits right in front OF our
wife at church.
Some one SAYS that Adam had no mother
in-law. It's great pity he hadn't, Tor the
old lady would probably have got the better
of Mr. Serpant.
PATrI's most recent divorce from the
Marquis de Caux expensive affair.
The American people may expect call from
Patti to pay the bill.
The Sanitary Engineer insists on the great
danger OF having decaying wood about ones
premises, as it assists in the contraction OF
yellow and typhoid fevers.
Diversity of worship has divided the hui
nan race into seventy-two nations From
all their dogmas have selected one-Divine
Love.-Perisian, 18th Century.
Jay Gould has twenty-seven telegraph in
struments in his office. When they are all in
full operation YOU couldn't tell with your eyes
shut his office from parish sewing circle.
The man who never failed is a myth. Such
an one never lived and is never likely TO. All
success is a series OF efforts in which when
closely viewed, are seen more or less failures.
Better trust all and be deceived
And weep that trust and that deceiving.
Than doubt one heart that ii believed
Had blest ones life with true believing.
Frances A. Kemble.
Incivility is not vice of the soul, but the
effect of several viees-of vanity, ignorance
of duty. lazineSs, stupidity, distraction, con-
tempt of Others, of jealousy.--De La Bruy-
ere
An exchange says there are no humorous
women. That may be so, but when short,
fat woman wears certain costume Just be-
cause a tall thin woman looked well in it, it
is very, very funny.
woman must have a good figure to wear
the English housemaid's dress, for its plain,
straight skirt reveals all deficiencies, and to
try to conceal them with crinoline makes
the matter much worse.
The 'housemaid dress, so popular in En-
gland. is gaining ground here. 1t is good
dress, but its chief charm, simplicity, is en-
tirely lost when II Is worn over crinolette or
artificial protuberances of any kind.
SYDNEY SMITH said there were three sexes,
men, women and clergyman. Miss Cleveland
saws the world is composed of men, women
and Smiths Rose Elizabeth takes a rather
unfair advantage OF the defunct Sydney.
Judge none last; but wait and see
With hopeful pity not disdain
The depth OF the abyss may be
The msasnre of the height OF pain
And love and glory thai may raise
This soul TO God In after days.
The St. Louis Sunday Sayings has found
new national belle in young lady of the
Future Great not unknown to fame in Kan
sas City. She is said to have "a complexion
nose (which adds piquancy to the laughing
face"
The proportion of illegtim acy in Chilli is
| prodigiOuS-exceeding twenty-three per cent.
| In the United States il is less than seven per
| cent In Austria, the European country
| which approaches most nearly to Chilli in
| this particular is less than thirteen per
| cent.
| In the midst of this cose-fitting weather
| it is more or less comforting to be assured by
/ science that only one two-thousand-million
| part of the suns heat reaches the earth.
/ Anybody that doesn't believe the earth is
i getting its share should gaze into the face of
| the gentle thermometer and blush for him.
self.
A New York girl, Miss Fanny Swan. at
| tended two weddings recently, those of Miss
Sallie Marie and Miss Jessie lansing in
| thoroughly official way. At Miss Maries
/ wedding she wore a plain morning gown; an
hour and half later, at Miss Lansing's we'd
| ding she appeared dressed in white lace and
pink roses
\ cane backward About his neck was
| spotted linen handkerchief; the skirts of his
| green coat were cut away to a mathematical
point behind
| Young ladies of the present day are very
| much better offthan the maidens of the days
i OF chiyalry. 1t was very nice to sit in cold
tower and have an athlete in coat of mail
1 making fine speeches a column long, and then
/ riding off to slay some other fellow in a tilt
or tourney, but she had no lawn tennis, poor
l thing no watering place fiirtations, no rides
i by the shad shalt shea. She could do nothing
but sigh and nope, play OH the spinnet or
! work samplers. The chivalry girl hadn't half
the fun that the business girl of to-day enjoys.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND INCL.
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