The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
SOCIAL GOSSIP,

SOCIAL GOSSIP,
Bad examples may be as profitable to vir-
tue IS good ones.-Montaisue.
The plant of happiness cannot thrive
without the air OF cheerfulness.
II is long road paved with hope between
what you expect and what you get.
1t was deserter who said: I'D rather be
coward all my life than to be a corpse 10
minutes"
The majority OF fellows who attempt to
make fun OF mother-in-law were never
blessed with one.
Quill pens are again in fashion. They are
we'll adapted tor the large. angular psnman-
chip now in favor among ladies.
A modern philosopher Gays that "women
who excite the greatest love are often ugly"
They are also generally very rich.
Marriage is the best state for man IN gen.
eraI; and every man is worse man in pro-
portion as be Is unfit for the married state.
Hope not the cuIe of sin till self Is dead;
FORGET 1t in loves service and the debt
Thou canst not pay tue angels saaA forget.
Whittier.
People who have been hiding away their
middle names for years are now bringing
them ont because somebody says they are
fashion able.
The cup OF life is filed with punch. Youth
furnishes the spirits, middle age the sugar,
and old age the acid. Ice is furnished by
the men who endorse notes.
II was only glad good morning."
AS she passed along The way;
But IL spread the mornings glory
over the li7elOng day.
The single stud in the manly shirt front
OF the swell of the period IN evening dress
hss been ordered out, and now three tiny
white linen buttons are the style again.
Prince of Wales? Yes, he wears 'eA."
Pleasure is a silken cord, composed of ex-
auisite cobwebs and floods of rich sunshine
gave it g beautiful hue. Duty is golden
rope, which once thrown over our necks.
leads us unwilling where pleasure is obliged
to follow.
A celebrated lswyer once said that the
three nest troublesome clients he ever had
were young lady who wanted to be mar.
red, married woman who wanted di-
vorce, and an old maid who didn't know
what che wanted.
Ccifures to be fashionable must be in the
form of figure eight on the top of the head.
with frizzled bangs on the forehead and in
the nape of the neck. Something in the
style of links of sausage on o fringed lamp
mat is most taking.
Money never made Q man happy vet, ner
will 1t; there is nothing in its nature to pro-
duce happiness; the more q man has the
more he v ants instead of its filling vacuum
doubles and trebles that want another way.
Benjamin Franklin.
Let no one suppose that by acting n good
part through Ifs he will escape scandal.
There will be those even who hate him for
the very qualities that ought tn procure es.
TEEN. There are some folks in the world
who are not willing that Others should be
better than themselves.
young society man, whose mind was
runDiDg on another subject, acknowledged
an evening invitation as follows: "Your
kind invitation for Thursday evening is &C.
cepted With regret" And then he lay awake
all Thursday night wondering why his hos
tess treated him so coldly.
What vast deal of time and ease that
man gains who is not troubled with the spir-
il of impertinent curiosity about others;
who let's his neighbours thoughts and be-
havior alone; who confines bis inspections
10 himself. and cares chiefly for his own duty
and conscience -Lavater.
Think not to please all men, strive as you viii.
'Twere vain impossible; Tor there remsiDeth
The man whom naught can please or satisfy
By noble effort or by full endeev0r.
OF sncn as he, set heart and Insnd st ease:
Go on thy way. and take no heed OF these,
For so twill be forever;
A writer in the Popal ar Science Monthly
says that the practice OF taking tea or coffee
by students, in order TO work st night, is
downright madness, especially when pre-
psrIpg for an examination. More than half
OF the cases OF breakdown, loss OF memory,
fainting. etc, which occur during severe ex-
aminations, and far more frequently than IS
commonly known, are due to this. Sleep is
the rest of the brain; 10 rob the brain OF its
necessary rest is cerebral suicide.
Views of what constitutes that rarest of all
blessings, true marriage, are again actively
revived in newspapers. They claim that
persons intending matrimnny should De the
exact epposites of each other in every re-
spect which seems illogical. IL stands to
reason that the truest marriage IS when the
| temperaments alone are opposite, and the
mental resemblance bet ween the two persons
as much alb SIS possible. This insures uni
| foImiiy of ssstes and ideas. without which
n a-risse, IN the highest sense, Is iRpos-
sible.
Dr.. Delaney rays If you sleep on your
right side your dreams will be old and faint
| remsmbrances; the dreams are apt TO be
childish and illogical; sleepers on the right
side also compose verses. They send them
| TO the newspapers next day. Sleepers on
| the left side dream intelligent dreams about
| recent events. So If q man wants TO dream
what his wife used TO say to hum and about
s-CC
on his right side; If he wants TO dream of
what she says to him now, he sleep on his
| left side.
When both parents have eyes Of the sans
color, eighty-eignt per cent. of the children
follow their parents in this feature, and of
the twelve per cent. born with eyes OF other
than the parental color part must be at
tributed to intermittent heredity. More fe-
males than males have black or brown eyes
in the proportion OF forty-nine to fortY-fve.
With d ;fferent-coiored eyes in the twD par
ents ifty-three per cent. of the children fol-
low their fathers in being dark eyed. aud
sixty per cent follow their mothers in being
dark ey ed-Boston Budget.
There is moral 10 the following, from the
Boston Transcript. that is worthy of consid.
Grafton: 81 should hate to be LAWYER,
remarked the grocer. and be obliged to ar
que contrary to my belief Then he pro.
ceeded TO inform the customer that the bot