The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-15
SOCIAL GOSSIP.
The Argosy.

The greatest good is done most quietly.
The sunniest lives have seasons of shadows.
There is steady tendency to the style of
dress OF fifty years ago.
We often sympathize with a dog when we
think of the man who owns him.
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees
may be hereSy on the other.-Pascal.
In prayer it is better to have heart with
out words than words without heart.
BOnnets and hats show a bewildering per-
plexIty of styles as the season advances.
One tender act, and how many black de-
signs, struggling within, you may crush for
ever.
Mans loftiest philosophy has never yet
made tangible cloud, or stayed the hour of
death.
1t is considered an off year in Britain when
one or more of Ellen Terry's husbands does
not demise.
Helen will probably continue to be the
favorite form of the name. Sheolen is more
modern, though.
Let us be content to work.
To do the things cam and not presume
To fret because it's little.
H. B. Browning,
1t is pitiful to have dim conceptions of
duty; more pitiful to have vulgar and bru-
tai conceptions of enjoyment.
Suffering from suggestion of the brain"
is the latest 1t takes the place of talked to
death, bored and several yawns.
Life is what we make it," and when you
make it, hearts, you want to get either
'lone hand or very good 'pard."
"Do they miss me at homer Why do
you ask such a silly question; don't you
know, dear, it's always plain Jane at home?
Life is Srt all around with zodiac of sci
ences, the contributions of men who have
persisted to add their point of light to our
Sky.
A new form of amusement is the 'mum
sociable,'' at which every one who speaks
within a certain specified time is subject to
fine.
Young man, il you think of raising a
beard, do not wait until the fall If your
girl is going out of town for the summer be-
gin now.
art, says: THE public on balls and opera
nights see greater sights than artists at their
studios"
Private letters from Paris tell of the disap-
pearance under cloud of the titled husband
of lady whose family is first and foremost
in New York.
Destiny is not
About thee, but within; thyself must make
ThySelf: the agOniZing tri0S OF thought,
These bring forth glory, bring forth destiny.
"A Washington correspondent notes that
soft hats are the prevailing style with the Of
fce-seekers at the capital and wonders why.
Well, a man doesn't need a shoe-horn to pull
soft hat on in the morning.
81 wonder, uncle" said a little girl, elf
men will ever live to be five hundred or a
thousand years old?' mo, my child that
was tried once, and the race grew so bad that
the world had to be drowned"
1t is good to be unselfish and generous,
but don't carry that too far. 1t will not do
to give yourself to be melted down for the
benefit of the tallow trade; you must know
where to find yOurself.-George Eliot.
The ST. Louis Post-Dispatch figures that a
lady can clothe herself neatly and stylishly
for So 80 True this is warm weather. but
wouldn't a costume at that figure be rather
airy-too diaphonous and decolette, as it
were?
The black is not in itself the mourning
color we have learned from the use of white
mourning by the Chinese. Still further light
is thrown en- the ques ion by the use in Lin
coin, Maine, of blue and orange collins.
The former are used for children and the lat
ter for adults
The queen of England has twenty-five
messengers constantly travelling back and
forth with precious documents and her royal
behests that can not be intrusted to the tele-
graph. While she was on the continent two
of these messengers were continually skip
ping back and forth, one being always on the
road.
Women with small and pretty feet espec-
tally the women of Chicago and Northwest,
will rejoice over the present style of very
short coulisse skirts; but the St Louis girls
need not despair, for the English women are
rejecting this style, and are even trying to
introduce the skirt that touches the pave
ment in the back for street as well as house
wear.
1t is fair to say there are Democrats and
acknowledgements and bourbons. Miss
| Clevelands book has brought samples to the
| front Her publishers have given to the pub
| lie many of the comments received by
| them. From the mass we select two. One
reads:
81 am glad it has taken the Democratic adj
ministration to bring back to the White
| House a woman of brains"
The other is:
'Do you doubt that the judgment of God
| is on this country? We have been trying to
| keep women in their places, and L, for one,
voted for Cleveland because he hadn't wife,
but it seems this sister is equal to half a
! dozen wives in the excitement she can maize.
| No more women Presidents for me- will
vote for q widower without sisters next time.
Heaven help the country if women are to
rule it,"
From the above it would seem that the
Democratic party is divided upon the wo-
man question rs well as on the tariff.
Undressing Artistically.