The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-17
WOMAN AND HOME.
STORY OF THE FAT TEXAN AND HIS
FiANCEE.
Fair Americans In Loudon-Handling of
Children - Seats for Saleswomen
Kitchen Wrinkles-Medical
Use of Eggs-Brevities.
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After dinner at my hotel l went into my
parior to read my evening paper Soon a
portly, hale, and really nice-looking gentle
man entered with travelling strapped
over his shoulder. He politely dotted his
wide-brimmed, Texan-looking hat on seeing
me. He sent his card up to some lady in
the house and dropped into the corner of
one of those low. sleep-inviting touches to
await her. He looked weary and travel
worn, bat we'll brushed and HsmarteI up
Tue room large and very quiet-the
monotonous ticking of the bronze clock was
all there was to disturb ones reveries. Tick
tack, tick, tack-ten minutes passed, and no
lady responded to his card. Tick,
tack, tick, tack-ffteen minutes passed
and no lady. l peeped over my
paper and that my nice
gentleman hal leaned his tired head back
against the downy cushions. Tick, tack,
tick tack-twenty minutes passed and still
no lady. The strangers pleasant brown
eyes close, then open with guilty start, then
close sain. l did not need to look again
for the most profound SHORES began to rend
the air.
Put tired fat man to sleep if you want
man was proficient. and snored up and
down the scales in that chromatic that only
the snorer can execute. He occasionally
dropped into a monotone which was sure to
be 'toed-off" with a terrific snort 1t was
very funny, and l was enjoying it i'm
mensely, when the door opened softly and
In came the primmest, sweetest looking
little lady, with rather scared expression
on her face. Her gentle gray eyes wan
dered all about the room and fell, at first
carelessly, OH the sound-asleep man, then on
me, and creeping up to ma in shy, pu ,sy-
like way, she said: Pardon me, but has any
gentleman been waiting here some time for
lady and gone away again" II cannot say,
positively" said, "but saw that gentleman
send his card up to SOME lady who has not
yet put in her appearance"
She looked at BIN very intently now the
awful snores were at their highest,) then
seated herself demurely AMI waited the
awakening l went on reading though full
of curiosity to see the fun out After wait
ing some time she came over on tiptoe to
me and saiI snow, what woul1 you do
/ think that man has come all the way from
TexaS to see me and yet am not sure of it,
and it would be rather embarrassing to wake
him and fini him tie wrong man" "Don't
you know him!" l asked. She looked con
fused and said: well, it's like this, you
see. We became acquainted through o
newspaper advertisement (not exactly q
matrimonial one) and have correspondent
for three years and have been engaged for
two years, and if this is he. he has come on
to marry me- l am frank, you see, but a
lady of 80 need not be diffident Now,
what would you dog "Why wake him up
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denouement of this scene.
She tip-toed over to him, but just as she
touched his shoulder with her timid finger
he gave vent to one of those tearing snorts
for he was perfect calliope i'm the bushes
that would waken the very dead in their
graves, and thereby awakened himself She
was so frightened that she jumped back half
across the room. He sprang up, and they
stood looking at each other. he trying to
rub the cobwebs out of his eyes, and she
looking very foolish, while l laughed behind
my paper to my hearts content soon,
however, felt myself "de trop,' and left
them to themselve', wondering if this meet
ing was favored with any disappointment
to either. 1t was a very unromantic en-
counter, to say the least, after three years
cour5ship.
l went to Days theatre that night where
across the house / saw seated contentedly
side ~ side, their faces beaming with
pleasure, my hale, handsome Texan very
wide awake now and his pretty, little, ripe
fancee. Joy TO them wherever they arel I
shall always feel, somehow, that l had a
hand in making that match!
Rough Handling of Children.
Lancet and Critic.l
The causes of joint diseases in childhood
are frequently obscure, but this much is Ger.
tain, that the rough handling which chill
dren receive at the hands Of ignorant pa
rents or careless nurses has much to do with
the matter Stand on any street corner and
notice how children are handled. Here
comes q lady with a 3-year-old girl; she is
walking twice as fast as she should, and the
child is over-exerting itself TO keep pace;
every time the child lags the mother gives
il a sudden and unexpected lurch, which Is
enough to throw its shoulder out, to say
nothing Of bruising the delicate structures
of the joint; gutter is reached: instead of
giving the little toddler time to get over in
its own way or properly lifting it, the
mother raises 1t from the ground by one
hand, its whole weight depending from one
upper extremity, and with spring which
twists the child's body as far around as the
joints will permit, it is landed, after q course
Of four or five feet through the air, on the
other side
Here is a girl ~ years old with baby of
year in her arms. The babe sits on the
girls arm without support to its back This
would be hard enough position to main.
tain were the girl standing still, but she is
walking rapidly, and the little one has to
gather the entire strength of its muscular
system to adapt itself to the changing bases
Of support, to say nothing of adjusting its
little body to sudden leaps and darts on the
part of its wayward nurse. Sometimes dur.
ing a sudden advance you will see a part of
the babe a foot in advance of its head and
trunk, which have to be brought up by q
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