The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-17
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

SOCIAL GOSSIP.
To fret about little trouble
Only makes the trouble double.
True politenes. creates perfect ease and
freedom.
Oblivion covers millions, fame immortal
ICES but few.
man must sand erect, and not be kept
erect By others.
1t is wise man who goes fishing during
house cleaning time.
Strive not to be embarrassed, embarrass.
ment is SO embarrassing.
The spring style of boots and shoes, like
corporations have no souls.
Men are frequently like tea-the real
silergth and gol dness is not properly drawn
out of them until they have been = short
time in hot water.
1t is said that Washington officials prefer
brunette to blonde female clerks because
they don't sass back so freely.
Miss Parry enu-I was almost sorry, N I'M ma,
tt at you spoke so rudely 70 that poJr little
Mrs. wilkins.
Good people are happy. All the snsers,
ieels and cy nicism in the world only make
that simple fact the more prominent.
Kind words prevent good deal of that
pervereness which rough and imperious
Mamma-Wel, my dear, pray where is
the satisfaction OF being in the first society If
you can not snub those who are out OF it,
Life.
A dog that knows where to find bone is
wiser than q scholar who has not learned
how to make living-John S4inton's
paper.
1t is only Ia'ely that this world has been fl
TO ra,e folks in. And there are very few
1rfc "a n 10 10. ho Gn1
Patrol.
r. G. Ingersoll had rather live on earth
with the woman love, with the world full
of oable, than live 10 Heaven with nobody
but II an.
Yes" said pretty Miss Snooks as she came
beme from a party at ; M. L was deter
mined TO be the last to leave. | hate that
horrid Mrs. Blinks. SO l was resolved she
shouldn't have the pleasure Of sla adering me
after I'd gone"
The growing good of the world is partly
dependent on uphisoric acts and that
things are not SO i'll with You aud me as
they might have been, is halt owing TO the
number who lived faithfully hidden life
and rest in unvisited tombs. George Eliot.
1--WE can not all Ice heroes
Anc thrill a hemisphere
With some great daring venture,
Some deed that mocks az iesr;
But we can eli a lifetime,
With kindly acts and true,
There's always noble service
For noble souls to do.'
"a dsy that is too full usually holds many
questionable duties, bat lis first positive one
is wisely to choose what we will allow to be
crowded out. That our strength shall be IS
our day. is a promise for the days as God
sehds them and not as our pride, ambition,
or impatience makes them"
81 am positi yely opposs "a to having a choir
III the chui saio oio MRS. fiety TO her
husband, after listening to the half operate
cholrs in the days Of the apostles" NO"
sr0wltd Mr.. Plety sadly, but you know
they had other methods of torture that were
almost as bad"
Nations and individuals alike fall to ruin
when they forget God Id go into vain
ido'alries OF self and cell Qualification. The
best histories which have come Gown to us
havs been written by men who felt pro-
foundly this conviction. For one thing, aud
a rather important in such matter,
they were afraid to tell lies--J. y. Fcoude,
in Youths Companion.
Bridal journeys are unknown in Euglsnd
1t is the usual practice in the circles of the
ksn:iy and nobility for the newly welded TO
n AXE only a slight change of base. if home
is left at all, ald such change ia generally
visit 10 the home OF some intimate friend
or relative not far away. Among the mid
die and humber classes honeymoon tours
are the exception and not the rule.
A Pittsburgh philosopher says: There is
something wrong with the way in which
young II of to-day shake hands ] either
get shake which Impressss me with the
idea that the other party doesn't care
whether we shake net, or / suddenly feel
my hand grssped with vise-llke grip which
makes my back ache The young man of to.
day wants to show either his lang aidnsss or
his musc!e,"
To test the purity of water there has been
found no better or simpler way than to fill Il
c'ean pint bottle three fourths full OF the
water 10 be tasted. and dissolve in the water
half t. aspoonful of the purest sugar-loaf
or granulated will answer; cork the bottle
and place it in a warm place Tor two or three
days. II in twenty -four TO fortyeight hours
the rater becomes cloudy or milky il is IN.
1T for domestic use.
1t is as true to Gay as ever that The ruling
passion is stroI & in death. Dan Mace, the
famous driver, is reported to have given ut
telrar &c TO this metaphor W hen he found he
was nearing the end: II have turned into
the home stretch for the last heat OF my race,
and am close to the line" Similar was the
bad embarked for the last journey with
death holding the reirs: Bill" aid he, in
hoarse whisper. TO So mpsthizing comrade,
I'm on the down grade, and-I can't reach
the brake"
Miss Phoebe Copzins, the only lady deputy
marshal in the United S.ates, hss Just re.
turned to St. LOUIS from visit to Wash
ipgtoa. She was deeply impressed she
ssys, in an interview with the President,
and fell in love with Miss Cleveland or the
later she says: "Of all the occupants of
the White House whom l have known l
think Miss Cleveland is the one with the
greatest mind. / never knew Mrs. Garfield,
bat have been told, though she is most ex
cellent won an, she was not IS competent 10
be the first woman OF the land as Miss Cleye.
land"